MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unethical_ban | 2025-12-09 19:25:59+00:00
This is objectively wrong.

You can't get a gutter ball if you put up the rails in a bowling lane. Rust's memory safety is the rails here.

You might get different "bad code" from AI, but if it can self-validate that some code it spits out has memory management issues at compile time, it helps the development. Same as with a human.
by ryanmcbride | 2025-12-09 19:26:09+00:00
Sounds like trickle down housing to me.

Me: "should we stop allowing private equity to hold property?"

My Strawman: "nah let's build more houses to be snatched up by private equity, that way eventually maybe they'll be really nice and decide to lower prices for us someday due to the infallible balance of supply and demand that definitely hasn't been rigged to hell over the past half century. They certainly won't just continue to rig the system to benefit themselves"
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-09 19:26:15+00:00
Homeownership rates are not materially lower than before. Page 5 for the data, page 13 for the formula.

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf

I would bet most, if not almost all homes, are sold to buyers who will occupy them.

This graph goes further back:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_St...
by aendruk | 2025-12-09 19:26:59+00:00
The first reference in the article answers that:

THE GRAND JURY CHARGES THAT: On or about January 24, 2025, in the Northern District of Georgia, the defendant, SAMUEL TUNICK, before and during the search for and seizure of property by Customs and Border Patrol Tactical Terrorism Response Team Supervisory Officer L.C., a person authorized to make such search and seizure, did knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone, for the purpose of preventing and impairing the Government's lawful authority to take said property into its custody and control, in violation of Title 18, Untied States Code, Section 2232(a).

18 USC 2232 is “Destruction or removal of property to prevent seizure”: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&req=granu...
by bredren | 2025-12-09 19:27:08+00:00
Thank you, and thanks for all the pre-release feedback. :)

There is definitely value in letting codex take a swing at tasks. I've found multiple times where codex has come up with stronger implementation plans on complex changes.

I actually have a feature of resuming conversations begun on one service on the other. It was working, but I had to prune it for the initial release. If there was strong interest in this I could seek to bring it back.

But maybe you're thinking of more of a /compact and resume on the other service to get the cleanest context to start a convo from?
by dugidugout | 2025-12-09 19:28:00+00:00
Maybe I'm still doing some heavy priming by using multiple prompts, but similarly you can follow-up any speculative prompt with a "now flip the framing to x" query to ensure you are seeing the strong cases from various perspectives. You must be honest with yourself in evaluating the meaningful substance between the two, but I've found there often is something to parse. And the priming I suggested is easily auditable anyhow: just reverse the prompt order and now you have even more (often junk) to parse!
by hopelite | 2025-12-09 19:28:19+00:00
You are missing the point even though I rather clearly indicated it. This is not a question of whether you or I see the taxes as we likely both care to similar degrees, it’s about whether it is front and center for regular people to see at the point of gratification contact line, i.e., looking at the product on the shelf.

The taxes in the US are also very clearly indicated on receipts, but that does not change that when you are looking at a price in Europe, you are appeased looking at it with a bias of assumed, baked in taxes. It’s a psychological difference related to loss aversion. Is precisely why the European rulers pushed to hide the taxes in the price so you don’t even think about it, opposed to additional monies being taken from you at the point of sale.

It’s the very same reason why they pushed for employer to take all the massive taxes and costs and “contributions” out of one’s paycheck because handing over a check of some five digit amount every year to the government would be far more of a galling issue to most people than having it taken out of toe paycheck once a month and you normalized it and take it for granted. Talk to anyone that runs a personal business admit how they feel writing 6 or 7 digit checks to the government every quarter or so, before you grow past having someone that just does it as a matter of their role and they have no vested interest in whether any amount is paid.

It astonishes me that people like you seem to be oblivious of the effects of these kinds of tricks and games, when this community is regularly discussing social engineering, dark patterns, marketing gobbledygook, etc. You think the government made up of liars that lie about everything, including lying; the people who cover up child rape of the Epstein kind and the rape gangs of the Brush Labour Party that numbers somewhere near ~250,000 victims of child gang rape … they wouldn’t have evaluated which way is better to hoodwink the multitude and minimize anger offer being pilfered?
by reaperducer | 2025-12-09 19:28:39+00:00
I'll go out and get something, in part, because it is less lonely and feels more attached to life, to the world.

When I was young, I worked in a couple of supermarkets. There were a lot of people who came in each day and bought one thing. Not because that's the one thing they needed that day, but because going to the supermarket was their only interaction with other human beings.

I was young, so I thought they were just poor planners. But there was this one guy who I knew would be in the dairy aisle at 4:35pm every day, and I started having his cup of yogurt ready for him when he walked through. It was he who explained to me why certain people were low-volume regulars.
by cm2187 | 2025-12-09 19:28:58+00:00
No PCIe switch involved, every SSD is directly connected to the PCIe ports, the MB supports bifurcation. Observed on H11SSL-i and H12SSL-i motherboards with various models of SSDs (mostly Intel, Micron and Samsung). Windows defender switched off.

Hyper-V is on though. And I understand that when you switch on Hyper-V, even the host OS is really a VM on top of the hypervisor. So I wonder if that's not contributing (but disabling Hyper-V is not an option).

When you say 1.5GB/s was beatable, how do you measure it? Windows copy (or xcopy) or some benchmarking software?
by MarkusWandel | 2025-12-09 19:29:28+00:00
I'm old enough to remember the SGI tractor-trailer demo wagon where they were demonstrating their latest, $20K+, wares that could do immersive 3D graphics that were... crude compared to this. This was sometime in the 1990s.

And by now my kids play fluidly immersive 3D games, on the web, on the kind of computers you can get for $10 off Facebook Marketplace.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-09 19:29:31+00:00
I actually disagree, in certain cases. Just today I saw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46204895

when it had only two comments. One of them was the Gemini summary, which had already been massively downvoted. I couldn't make heads or tails of the paper posted, and probably neither could 99% of other HNers. I was extremely happy to see a short AI summary. I was on my phone and it's not easy to paste a PDF into an LLM.

When something highly technical is posted to HN that most people don't have the background to interpret, a summary can be extremely valuable, and almost nobody is posting human-written summaries together with their links.

If I ask someone a question in the comments, yes it seems rude for someone to paste back an LLM answer. But for something dense and technical, an LLM summary of the post can be extremely helpful. Often just as helpful as the https://archive.today... links that are frequently the top comment.
Show HN: LitContent – AI content designed to match your brand voice
by litcontent | 2025-12-09 19:29:32+00:00
Hey HN,

Founder of LitContent here.

I'm excited and also slightly nervous to be sharing this on here, as I'm aware this might come off as another 'AI content creation' SaaS, and whilst in pure labels, that's technically the case, in functionality and in how I designed it to work, I believe it functions/feels different, and has the potential to save time and hassle during the content creation process, particularly for small - medium business owners with existing websites.

The largest pain points I designed LitContent to help with were the constant battles between maintaining context awareness and generating truly on-brand content, which can then become more complex when working with a team. To handle this by default, I implemented a process starting with the user submitting their website's sitemap URL (we also try to find sitemaps automatically and present to the user).

After scraping the sitemap, the full page contents are stripped down to their base text. This not only helps eliminate excessive token usage costs, but also enables our internal AI prompting strategies. For example, pre-existing URLs and page content are sent as negative AI prompts for features like generation post title suggestions. This is extremely useful for our new page content creator, where you don't want the AI to constantly recycle your existing pages, unless there's a good reason to do so.

Beyond the AI integration itself, I decided to also focus on the team collaboration workflow. For instance, when viewing a team member's revision for a specific piece of content, you can click our 'Smart Merge' feature. This sends both your current revision and your team member's selected revision to the AI, which automatically merges them into a consolidated draft in your editor. This process, which is trivial for AI, can save two human editors a significant amount of time and back-and-forth.

I know this is a bit long, so I won't list off any other features here. I would genuinely appreciate any criticism or feedback. Feel free to check out our walkthrough page (https://litcontent.com/walkthrough) even if you're not interested in signing up. If there's anyone reading this who is currently managing content workflows, I'd love to hear about any specific pain points you might be dealing with in that process.

Thanks so much, Benji
by triceratops | 2025-12-09 19:29:52+00:00
What is this special depreciation corporate owners get? IIUC any landlord can use depreciation to lower their tax bill. Wouldn't the depreciation from a new purchase also apply to the rents from that new purchase?

Somewhat more outrageous is the 1031 exchange. Sell VTI at a profit to buy VOO and the government hits you with a capital gains tax. Sell your primary residence for $250k more than you bought it - same thing. But landlords are a special, privileged investor class to whom these rules don't apply. They can sell a house and pay no taxes on gains as long as they buy another property.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-12-09 19:29:54+00:00
> When I hear "ChatGPT says..." on some topic at work, I interpret that as "Let me google that for you, only I neither care nor respect you enough to bother confirming that that answer is correct."

I have a less cynical take. These are casual replies, and being forthright about AI usage should be encouraged in such circumstances. It's a cue for you to take it with a grain of salt. By discouraging this you are encouraging the opposite: for people to mask their AI usage and pretend they are experts or did extensive research on their own.

If you wish to dismiss replies that admit AI usage you are free to do so. But you lose that freedom when people start to hide the origins of their information out of peer pressure or shame.
by hackernews_7364 | 2025-12-09 19:29:56+00:00
There's many questions about the overall economics of AI, its value, is it overvalued, is it not, etc. but this is a very poor article I suspect made by someone with little to no financial or accounting knowledge with a strong "uh big tech bad" bias.

> When companies buy expensive stuff, for accounting purposes they pretend they haven’t spent the money; instead they “depreciate” it over a few years.

There's no pretending. It's accounting. When you buy an asset, you own it, it is now part of your balance sheet. You incur a cost when the value of the asset falls, i.e. it depreciates. If you spend 20k on a car you are not pretending to not having spent 20k by considering it an asset, you spent money but now you have something of similar value as an asset. Your cost is the depreciation as years go by and the car becomes less valuable. That's a very misleading way to put it.

> Management gets to pick your depreciation period, (...)

They don't. GAAP, IFRS, or whatever other accounting rules that apply to the company do. There's some degree of freedom in certain situations but it's not "management wants". And it's funny that the author thinks that companies in general are interested in defining longer useful lives when in most cases (this depends on other tax considerations) it's the opposite because while depreciation is a non-cash expense you can get real cash by reducing your taxable income and the sooner you get that money the better. There's some more nuance to this, tax vs accounting, how much freedom management has vs what is industry practice and auditors will allow you to do... my point is, again, "management gets to pick" is not an accurate representation of what goes on.

> It’s like this. The Big-Tech giants are insanely profitable but they don’t have enough money lying around to build the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of data centers the AI prophets say we’re going to need.

Actually they do, Meta is the one that has the least but it could still easily raise that money. Meta in this case just thinks it's a better deal to share risk with investors that at the moment have a very strong appetite to own these assets. Meta is actually paying a higher rate through these SPVs compared to funding them outright. Now, personally I don't know how I would feel about that deal in particular if I was an investor just because you need to dig a little deeper in their balance sheet to have a good snapshot of what is going on but it's not any trick, arguably it can make economic sense.
by charles_f | 2025-12-09 19:30:02+00:00
It seems that when we predict the future, we tend to project what is important or trending now as what will be important or trending then. This is showing in this llm produced bit as well, what with the regular topics on rust, zig, why I'm coding with my two human hands, spacex moon exploration and whatnot.

That must be some kind of bias, you find that in sci-fi as well where even futuristic societies usually have the same tech as today, similar systems of governance and structure of society, just incrementally better or marginally changed (unless that's a device essential to the plot like society is now berserk).

Ps: love that #8 is Google killed gemini
by anonyfox | 2025-12-09 19:30:38+00:00
this night I got accidentially the update to the latest iOS with this liquid glass stuff - and its schockingly bad in any dimension. keyboard input lags, many thing ned MORE clicks/touches then before, weird contenxt menu popovers that don't even register taps 50% of the time, general lags and sluggishness and UI artifacts everywhere. Its really really a degradiation of UI/UX even though I personally am a fan of that glass-style design in itself
by somebehemoth | 2025-12-09 19:30:43+00:00
I like this use of LLM because I assume both the developer and ticket owner will review the text and agree to its contents. The LLM could help ensure the ticket is thorough and its meaning is understood by all parties. One downside is verbosity, but the humans in the loop can edit mercilessly. Without human review, these tickets would have all the downsides of vibe coding.

Thank you for sharing this workflow. I have low tolerance for LLM written text, but this seems like a really good use case.
by 4k93n2 | 2025-12-09 19:31:33+00:00
syncthing is a very useful utility for this. just install it on 2 devices, add a folder, then the files will sync over the network whenever both devices are on.

if you have an old phone or laptop lying around gathering dust you can set up syncthing on that and have it act as the always-on server. something simple like a raspberry pi with an external drive would do either.

every syncthing folder has a .ignore file where you can add patterns to reduce the overall size of the folder, which can be useful if youre going to try and sync your music library to your phone. its very basic but it can be useful in some cases. like adding *.flac would ignore all .flac files and only sync .mp3 does. or maybe if you have a few artists with very large folders you could ignore them and sync the rest. i havnt found a good solution to that problem yet tbh
by enraged_camel | 2025-12-09 19:31:35+00:00
>> My friend's Fitbit works way better than my Apple watch.

That's odd because I've used both, along with a bunch other wearables (e.g. Whoop), and I wouldn't give up my Apple Watch for anything. Massively useful, can take calls, make payments, stream music from my Apple playlists, read and reply to messages, and a ton of other things.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-09 19:31:53+00:00
Davis Co-op c. 2000 was legit cheap and good. I lived across the street from it for some time.

I can do without the "health/wellness" aisle of mystery fluid bottles almost entirely. Whole Paycheck Foods and a lot of independent grocers also have this fad and it's depressing that borderline Miracle Mineral Solution nonsense is allowed through under-regulated "supplement" exceptions. More power to those who benefit from ever-so-slightly-helpful / placebo vitamins-supplements but it seems like mostly from snake oil of a century ago.

Anyhow, there are/were more decent grocers. Like Lundari's 30 years ago in the SF Bay Area. The status quo isn't the only available option.
by kmundy | 2025-12-09 19:32:17+00:00
You’re right—Congress is the bottleneck for the important stuff (Residency Cap, MLR). And the lobby is massive. I'm a tad more hopeful than you though. I'm hoping that if we all have a shared understanding of how these well intentioned rules (MLR, GME caps) are unwittingly benefitting insurers, it helps bring some clarity into what precisely needs to change & will, perhaps, build some pressure on legislators.
by lurking_swe | 2025-12-09 19:32:41+00:00
IMO chatgpt is a much better translator. Especially if you’re using one of their normal models like 5.1. I’ve used it many times with an obscure and difficult slavic language that i’m fluent in for example, and chatgpt nailed it whereas google translate sounded less natural.

The big difference? I could easily prompt the LLM with “i’d like to translate the following into language X. For context this is a reply to their email on topic Y, and Z is a female.”

Doing even a tiny bit of prompting will easily get you better results than google translate. Some languages have words with multiple meanings and the context of the sentence/topic is crucial. So is gender in many languages! You can’t provide any hints like that to google translate, especially if you are starting with an un-gendered language like English.

I do still use google translate though. When my phone is offline, or translating very long text. LLM’s perform poorly with larger context windows.
by epolanski | 2025-12-09 19:33:18+00:00
> and you are some sort of Marxist-derived ideologue

1. Stallman is not my idol, I don't like the guy at all and I find him disgusting from many points of view, but I see his point of why access to information and software is important to humanity. I am surrounded by appliances I don't really own and control, from printers to TVs and it's disgusting, I absolutely understand his points. I should be able to modify and repair stuff I buy with my money, it's mine. This has been normal for 99.99% of human history by the way.

2. I don't really like left vs right labels, I find them asinine. Politics are complex, there's countless topics on which one could be leaning in one or another end. Moreover I don't like anything that ends with "ism" it's never brought anything good to the world. I'm more right-leaning if you care to know. Yet I know people and have family members that have the most diverse view, and I respect those. I judge people for how they behave and act to others and the ideals they fight for.

3. Since you keep judging me (wrongly, you miss on everything, like you did on Stallman), I'll judge you. You sound like a loser mixup between a 4chan incel on those boards like /pol/ and a 60 years old bigot on facebook.

4. Psychological and social studies demonstrate that the qualities you find in Stallman are more common among the people on the other end of the political spectrum.
by HarryHirsch | 2025-12-09 19:33:51+00:00
Why would someone listen to Dave Ramsey of all people? He is neither an economist, nor a Christian, he has nothing to contribute to the subject!

His shtick is real estate investment, of course he wants to see Joe Public buy a starter home. The trouble is: real estate as a government-guaranteed investment vehicle is what brought us the housing affordability crisis.
by hinkley | 2025-12-09 19:34:06+00:00
I had a coworker in Seattle who commuted from the far side of Steven’s pass every day. That was a 2 hour trip each way. I desperately wanted to know what was up with her home life.

Some introverts can use a long solo car trip to wind themselves up to deal with people or decompress afterward so they don’t take it out on their family. Others find it all too stressful and just makes it worse. But that’s like 20 minutes for me. I can’t imagine two hours. We didn’t drive that long to get to grandma’s house.
by mainecoder | 2025-12-09 19:34:17+00:00
What will happen when the greed of defense companies outweighs the needs of the country for defense? can the defense companies continue overcharging the US government and being drunk on their profits lag behind and lagging behind lobby for the requirements of the US military to be out of date(which is already happening as we see requirements persist that still look like they are from the 1970s in an era where low cost drones, and cheap loitering munitions do not exist, era only way to track a fighter jet is long range radar that distributed camera and ir camera tracking does not exist that fighter jets have true stealth.)and once that lobby works they become over budget and late on delivering on those requirements. This thinking that the defense companies can slumber and we will still be ok is erroneous and will result in us getting humbled in the conflicts to come (having nukes will not make us impervious)
by hermannj314 | 2025-12-09 19:34:29+00:00
HN does not and has not ever valued human input, it has always valued substantive, clever, or interesting thought.

I am a human and more than half of what I write here is rejected.

I say bring on the AI. We are full of gatekeeping assholes, but we definitely have never cared if you have a heart (literally and figuratively).