MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bongodongobob | 2025-12-08 21:20:11+00:00
Bullshit. Just from a document editing perspective, going back to a network share where only one person can edit a doc is not going to fly. I used to have to deal with this as IT/desktop support and it fucking sucked. Docs in the cloud give you better collab capabilities and remove the need to have fancy networking, VPNs, international security exclusion groups etc, domain controller bullshit, connecting all of the companies offices together. Connect to the Internet, and all your stuff is there no matter where you are. It sounds like you've never had to support the infra for office workers before. This is way better than it used to be. For a small company, sure, do whatever. But the bigger it gets, the harder all that shit becomes and requires a lot of work to keep it running.
by xnx | 2025-12-08 21:20:19+00:00
> Had the cost of building custom software dropped 90%

It definitely has for me. I'm creating toolS and utilities every week easily that I never would've attempted in the past.

> This is as if writing down the code is not the biggest problem, or the biggest time sink, of building software.

Lots of people can think logically and organize a process flow, but don't know all the ridiculous code incantations (and worse development and hosting environment details) to turn their plans into tools.

It's trivial to one-shot all kinds of impressive toys in Gemini now, but it's going to be an even bigger deal when Google adds some type of persistent data storage. It will be like the rebirth of a fully modern Microsoft Access.
by _ben_ | 2025-12-08 21:20:39+00:00
Thanks for the question. You’re right that S3 itself is simple and reliable, and yes, most engineers *can* write HTTP retries and multipart uploads. EdgeMQ isn’t trying to replace S3’s API, it’s what you need around S3 when you have lots of producers on the public internet.

It gives you:

* edge HTTPS endpoints (auto-scale, multi-region HA) * a WAL so accepted events aren’t lost * segmentation + compression * explicit commit markers for consumers * backpressure instead of silent data loss * and a standardized way every team lands data in S3

You could build that yourself on top of S3; many companies do. EdgeMQ exists for folks who wants that behavior but dont want to operate a custom HTTP to S3 ingest service forever.

Its also worth noting that its in the early stages and the next features to be developed are transformations whereby you can input format a (say, JSON) and deliver in s3 as format b (e.g. csv, parquet etc).
by techgnosis | 2025-12-08 21:20:52+00:00
The healthcare portions of the debt seem unsolvable but I don't know why we think Social Security is that complicated to fix.

1. Define very clearly what SS is. We need to be clear that it's an agreement between the working class and the retired class that says "if you are too old to work and you can't afford to live, we will take care of you"

2. Get rid of the SS tax cap. You don't pay any SS tax above 180k ish, which seems silly. Get rid of the cap and let every earned dollar participate in the program. It doesn't feel like that hard of a sell.

3. You don't get SS payments if you already have enough income. See #1, the agreement. We are agreeing to take care of you if you need it. Many, many retired persons do not need their SS income. Even if you paid SS tax your entire life, see #1. It is not an agreement that you will receive the money you put in later in your life.

Those aren't popular ideas but they are simple and easy to understand for everyone.
by kellystonelake | 2025-12-08 21:21:01+00:00
I predict that Meta won’t kill Horizon entirely. They’ll likely scale back investments in the Quest headset version, their developer programs, and brand partnerships while maintaining or even investing more in the mobile app.

If Meta’s Horizon mobile app follows the Roblox trajectory, divesting from some metaverse investments while focusing more on mobile might keep kids in harmful products while a “metaverse failure” narrative dominates headlines and distracts regulators, we may not notice until the next round of lawsuits, the next congressional hearing, the next whistleblower, the next child harmed.

Until regulators hold Big Tech to a duty of care, and while states are preempted from enacting their own regulations for kids safety and AI, Meta’s got carte blanche to continue running experiments that harm kids with impunity, whether chasing the metaverse or superintelligence. And spinning it however will best serve the company and their shareholders.

Whether burning $70 billion on the Metaverse, or pouring $70 billion into AI, the story is not about the pivot but the pattern: build fast, suppress concern, buy protection, spin PR, move on.
by traceroute66 | 2025-12-08 21:21:19+00:00
> NATS is very upfront in that the only thing that is guaranteed is the cluster being up.

Not so fast.

Their docs makes some pretty bold claims about JetStream....

They talk about JetStream addressing the "fragility" of other streaming technology.

And "This functionality enables a different quality of service for your NATS messages, and enables fault-tolerant and high-availability configurations."

And one of their big selling-points for JetStream is the whole "stora and replay" thing. Which implies the storage bit should be trustworthy, no ?
by davidbessis | 2025-12-08 21:21:20+00:00
Which exact passage of my piece triggered this bizarre interpretation? What made you jump from "someone criticizes a 1990 paper in Science for withholding critical control group data" to "this person is subject to magical thinking"?

As it happens, I often run into trouble due to my conceptualist views on the foundations of mathematics (that is, I'm a hardcore physicalist & anti-Platonist cognitivist, which is quite rare among mathematicians), so I find your criticism particularly unfair.
by zbentley | 2025-12-08 21:21:21+00:00
I think “most people will have to turn on the setting to make things fast at the expense of durability” is a dubious assertion (plenty of system, even high-criticality ones, do not have a very high data rate and thus would not necessarily suffer unduly from e.g. fsync-every-write).

Even if most users do turn out to want “fast_and_dangerous = true”, that’s not a particularly onerous burden to place on users: flip one setting, and hopefully learn from the setting name or the documentation consulted when learning about it that it poses operational risk.
by poszlem | 2025-12-08 21:21:24+00:00
That's kind of like saying that there is diabetes in your body every single day, and your body handles it just fine by producing insulin. Obviously that statement is nonsensical and essentially devoid of any useful insight.

I'm not even going to comment on this: "You're not a doctor, you're not qualified to tell the difference", because this is such a weird statement that I don't understand how anybody could utter it on this website.

If that is your standard for critical thinking, you are paving the way for anti-science rhetoric to dominate public discourse.

Treat people like stupid idiots if you want but then don't be surprised by the way they vote in elections as a result.
by chironjit | 2025-12-08 21:21:31+00:00
I watched this video when it first came out. Honestly, the video is right in what it was trying to say. That said, that video didn't change my mind on whether to build on Dioxus and it should not for someone either.

The choice of framework should not be dependent on who else is building on that framework. Ideally the factors that matter: 1) Why are you building a GUI app on rust? 2) Target platform/OS support? 3) Are you ok with custom styling methods? Would you prefer to use CSS? 4) Need for multi threading? 5) Publishing / bundling / signing app

I think the reason Dioxus cadence release is slow is that they realised so many things are missing with the rust gui ecosystem that they decided they needed to fix these while building the main product. Guess what, this basically slows down your main product cadence. Does rust need a sub second hot reloader? Yes. Does rust need a native html/CSS renderer? Also probably yes. Did the Dioxus team have to take it on given their size and all the things pending in building rust with html + css? Armchair observer me thinks not.

*Note that I am currently building an app with Dioxus, so I'm putting out my honest opinion, and not saying that you shouldn't use it.*
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-08 21:21:51+00:00
> a lot of core sheets I see in businesses need more structure round them

We had this decades ago, it was called dBase, but FoxPro (pre-Microsoft) was great too. Visual For Pro or MS Access were a brutal downgrade of every good aspect of it.

Imagine if today some startup offered a full-stack(TM) platform that included IDE, a language with SQL-like features, visual UI designer, database; generated small standalone binarires, was performant, and was smaller than most web homepages.

There are modern options, like Servoy or Lianja, but they're too "cloudy" to be considered equivalents.

Edit: seems like there's OpenXava too, but that is Java-based, too hardcore for non-professional programmers IMO. The beauty of xBase was that even a highschooler could whip out a decent business application if the requirements were modest.
by btown | 2025-12-08 21:22:02+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20053188 and https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252468013/MapR-collapse-... have some context on MapR's demise.

IMO they were simultaneously worse situated for near-real-time stream processing and for S3-esque cloud storage, areas Kafka and Confluent excelled.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-08 21:22:08+00:00
>I'm elderly now, but in my distant youth I had many encounters with police officers.

Was that pre war on drugs or just pre 9/11? Either way that world doesn't exist now.

Yeah, there's workplace dynamics to it and the individuals my not necessarily be bad but but the whole institution is rotten, mostly a reflection of the governments that they serve IMO.

To the average person interaction with the cops represents nothing positive.
Show HN: CoolwulfIME – Best Input Method on Physical Keyboard Phones in 2025
by coolwulf | 2025-12-08 21:22:49+00:00
In 2025, we have a few new keyboard phones such as Unihertz Titan 2 and Blackberry Q25, however there are no IME optimized for physical keyboards yet, at least not to my standards, especially for Chinese pinyin and wubi inputs. So I decied to write this by myself. Now this IME have fully supports inputs on these phones without touching screen and also implemented a local voice recognition model with high accuracy. Would like to share this work with the community.
by kedean | 2025-12-08 21:22:49+00:00
> IBM shouldn't be thought of as a singular company. It is a conglomerate that does widely distinct things.

This. Employees in the various sub-companies and divisions usually don't even know who most of the executive leadership is outside their little world. There is no cohesive "IBM" anymore, and I don't think there has been for a very long time.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-08 21:23:16+00:00
I focused on the domain because that was the common factor that stood out to me in the examples you provided, especially given the domain's recent history here. I don't think I can usefully speculate as to why the post you linked was killed, though I am somewhat skeptical about the conclusion you appear to have drawn.

> However, thanks for the response, because concerns over censorship and bans on hacker news should be out in the open.

Maybe, maybe not, but either way hijacking unrelated threads is probably not the way to go about doing such a thing.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-08 21:23:23+00:00
Hey its awesome but regarding donations since I actually wanted to talk about it.

But can you please look at adding yourself/Download Center archive to liberapay too as I was hoping to find liberapay.

You mention having kofi being the lowest prices but I think Liberapay has no fees other than payment processing and is itself an non profit and funded via donations.

Maybe then you would have "too many options to donate" but I think liberapay can be a good option to have honestly imo and I am interested to hear your thoughts about it.

Also I wanted to download windows 7 iso to run a simpler thing on my pc but Microsoft being shitty removed the download link of it and everything so great to see your project, Going to bookmark it right now and thank you!
by clumsysmurf | 2025-12-08 21:23:24+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly. The app is unusable and unstable. I had to delete collections from the web because they were getting corrupted in the app.

One thing I notice is that it simply does not render many code snippets well, especially when using the "page" (vs "continuous" scrolling). I don't get the impression they are doing QA on rendering quality. Not only external publishers, but O'Reilly books themselves! I also had a lot of problems reading Manning books in their app.

Rendering e-books properly is a pretty big table-stake thing.
by Sam713 | 2025-12-08 21:23:25+00:00
The success of a Netflix>WBD acquisition would consolidate a third of US streaming markets under one roof, which should receive anti-trust scrutiny. Despite this, there is still a strong appearance of conflict of interest in Trump’s public remarks regarding denying Netflix acquisition the necessary regulatory approval, in conjunction with his son-in-law Jared Kushner being one of the financial backers for Paramount’s cash bid.

(1)https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/trump-netflix-wbd-paramount.... (2)https://www.techradar.com/streaming/netflix/trump-says-the-b...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-08 21:23:36+00:00
It's so broken. I have a suspicion the AI teams are in some kind of an internal standoff with privacy/compliance teams, and Copilot simply never gets access to any tools or data.

Because if not that, then I don't know what. I can half-ass a better product with ChatGPT API and a PowerShell script, and I could've since GPT-4 was released; in fact the product can actually write itself, it's that simple to do a better job.
by Lu2025 | 2025-12-08 21:23:45+00:00
> they consistently deliver low quality/bottom-tier services and products

I worked with IBMers. The main priority for a lot of them is to ensure continuous employment for themselves and their buddies. They'd add unnecessary complexity to a product to stretch out the development for another couple of years. And they work at leisure pace for tech. Actual 9 to 5, many coffee breaks. They can't compete.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-08 21:23:54+00:00
"Optimize this code for performance" is not an unstructured or vague request.

Any "performance" axis could have been used: Number of db hits, memory pressure, cpu usage, whatever.

The LLM chose (or whatever) to use CPU performance, claimed a specific figure, and that figure was demonstrably not real.

If you ask a barista to make you a better coffee, and the barista says "this coffee is hotter" and it just isn't, the problem is not underspecified requirements, the problem is that it just doesn't make any attempt to say things that are only correct. Technically it can't make any attempt.

If I tell an intern "Optimize this app for performance" and they come back having reduced the memory footprint by half, but that didn't actually matter because the app was never memory constrained, I could hem and haw about not giving clear instructions, but I could also use that as a teachable moment to help the budding engineer learn how to figure out what matters when given that kind of leeway, to still have impact.

If they instead come back and say "I cut memory usage in half" and then you have them run the app and it has the exact same memory usage, you don't think about not giving clear enough instructions, because you should be asking the intern "Why are you lying to my face?" and "Why are you confidently telling me something you did not verify?".
by sophiabk | 2025-12-08 21:24:30+00:00
I wrote an essay reflecting on something that has come up while building my startup, Hold My Juice, which is an AI assistant for families.

My dad is a historian. When I was growing up he taught me that facts only matter when you understand the context around them. He was never anti internet or anti Wikipedia. He believed that sourcing, ownership and interpretation were always complicated and he emphasized that this has been true for centuries, long before AI.

This summer I watched my kids use AI in very normal ways. They used it to replace a missing game spinner, create Pokémon cards on a travel day and figure out why Pluto lost planet status. The part that stood out was not that AI helped. It was that my kids pushed back when the answer did not make sense.

My daughter said, “Sometimes ChatGPT is totally not that smart.”

That kind of skepticism feels like the real skill we should be building.
by wisty | 2025-12-08 21:24:50+00:00
Both compression engines and llm work by assigning scores to the next token. If you can guess the probability distribution of the next token you have a near perfect text compressor, and a near perfect llm. Yeah in the real world they have different trade-offs.

Here's a paper by deep mind. https://arxiv.org/pd7f/2309.10668 - titled LANGUAGE MODELING IS COMPRESSION
by mitchellh | 2025-12-08 21:24:58+00:00
> Can you get better tooling on Windows if you stick to DirectX rather than OpenGL?

My app doesn't currently support Windows. My plane was to use the full DirectX suite when I get there and go straight to D3D and friends. I lack experience at all on Windows so I'd love if someone who knows both macOS and Windows could compare GPU debugging!
by mitchellh | 2025-12-08 21:25:35+00:00
> However it regularly freezes of hangs for me, and I've lost count of the number of times I've had to 'force quit' Xcode or it's just outright crashed.

This has been my experience too. It isn't often enough to diminish its value for me since I have basically no comparable options on other platforms, but it definitely has some sharp (crashy!) edges.
by coppsilgold | 2025-12-08 21:25:39+00:00
Isn't this type of "circular funding" equivalent to bartering? And why is this a problem?

Basically, the gold rush has reached a point where the shovel seller wants a stake in the operation.

I wonder if we would one day have a situation where NVIDIA no longer wants to sell chips to anyone and just use them themselves. Some special developments would have to occur to reach this point I think.
by WalterBright | 2025-12-08 21:26:41+00:00
> You have such an exceedingly narrow definition of what it means when people say that money buys elections that I’m realizing it’s pointless to try to have a conversation.

The definition of "buy" according to google: "obtain in exchange for payment." I accept the standard definition of words, not made up definitions. It's not possible to have a debate when words are redefined.

> “No one bought my vote, how about you” is dismissive and rude, not least of which because I’m sure you know buying votes is a crime.

Do you know of anyone who was paid for their vote? or anyone who was offered payment for their vote?
by Acrobatic_Road | 2025-12-08 21:26:43+00:00
At current trajectory, interest costs will exceed 50% of all tax revenue within 30 years. See footnote 5:

https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/a-...

The author took the CBO's budget projections and adjusted them for "false sunsets", i.e. the tax cuts that were supposed to expire before they were extended, and the fake spending cuts written into the law that will never happen, i.e. the FRA.
by still_grokking | 2025-12-08 21:27:13+00:00
> It's really a shame because in many ways I do think it is a better language than anything else that is widely used in industry but it seems the world has moved on.

No it didn't. Scala is powering some of the biggest companies on this planet.

https://business4s.org/scala-adoption-tracker/

It does apparently so well that nobody is even talking about it…

So it seems even better than all the languages people are "talking" (complaining) about.
by bawolff | 2025-12-08 21:27:39+00:00
If the cancer is not clinically significant, then its not life-altering information.

Essentially they are saying that many of these diagnoses are potentially false positives. To the point where detecting them might be more harmful then not. Keep in mind most cancer treatments are pretty harsh. They are better than cancer, but if you don't have clinically significant cancer then the treatments can be very not worth it.
by c1ccccc1 | 2025-12-08 21:27:57+00:00
Name some of the contradictory possibilities you have in mind?

Also, do you actually think the core idea is wrong, or is this more of a complaint about how it was presented? Say we do an experiment where we train an alpha-zero-style RL agent in an environment where it can take actions that replace it with an agent that pursues a different goal. Do you actually expect to find that the original agent won't learn not to let this happen, and even pay some costs to prevent it?
by arionmiles | 2025-12-08 21:29:07+00:00
I'm oddly fascinated with GLSL shaders recently because I've been trying out a terminal which supports shaders. I have currently applied a retro terminal shader and love using terminal this way.

What's a good way to get started learning to build/customize shaders with GLSL? I have an engineering math background but I was never the best at math. And GLSL syntax looks a bit tedious to be honest, but I'd love to dive in.
by nettalk83 | 2025-12-08 21:29:08+00:00
We price everything from real estate to ad impressions. But the most important human factors — dignity, effort, patience, sacrifice — remain “valueless” simply because they are not priced.

We’re running a small experiment to see whether hardship can become a recognized, verifiable asset —

without: • pricing people • creating hierarchy • exploiting vulnerability

The idea: → Hardship (effort × time × meaning) can be recorded → Support can be structured as ethical investment → Dignity protected through protocol-level guardrails

Real-world prototype: • BuyMeACoffee support received • 100% donated to UNICEF → public ledger • Transparent flow + verification available

No product pitch. No token sale. No claim of a perfect answer.

Just a question worth arguing about:

Can we design a financial system where invisible value is respected and trust is verifiable?

Open to discussion on: • mechanism design • perverse incentive risks • ethical boundaries • proof of trust architecture

Full 7-part explanation (non-commercial): https://ontotrust.org/ontoTrust-life-value-exchange.html
by myownpetard | 2025-12-08 21:29:21+00:00
In crypto, wash trading usually refers to the practice of exchanges or project creators colluding to trade the same asset back and forth in order to make the volume/liquidity/popularity look greater than it is.

- "Our coin hit $100M daily volume, get on this rocketship before it's too late!"

- "Our exchange does $1B annually, so you know we're trustworthy!"

- "Hey investors, look at the massive demand for our GPUs (driven by the company we invested $100B)!"
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-08 21:30:22+00:00
"Sir, I want an LLM to design architecture, not to debate philosophy."

But really, you leave the curation to real humans, institutions with ethical procedures already in place. I don't want Goole or Elon dictating what truth is, but I wouldn't mind if NASA or other aerospace institutions dictated what is truth in that space.

Of course, the dataset should have a list of every document/source used, so others can audit it. I know, unthinkable in this corporate world, but one can dream.