MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-12-17 23:33:22+00:00
> You can't legislate reality away

So why are you trying to?

> I look forward to your citation disputing the truth of what he lays out in that paper.

Just look to his reputation in the field .. it's up there with Jo Nova on climate physics .. laughable.

> You should ask the people you run with why no human is born with a body not organized around the production of gametes.

So you're implicitly admitting that humans are born without gamates then? You've certainly dodged that question multiple times in your comment history.

You're also not admitting to yourself the existence of those humans born with conflicting organisation re: sexual reproduction - when the physical form, the chromosones, the gamates, et al don't align.

From an empirical PoV for people in field work here it's simply silly to claim that only two cases cover all variations - it's a mystery why any one would work so hard to force it.
by andrewsthoughts | 2025-12-17 23:33:46+00:00
I think the easiest is just to try (it's a free download that would work with your CC/Codex/Gemini CLI). Pick a mid-size task that you would typically throw at an agent (not something trivial, but also not something that will bring your mid-size engineer to his knees), and run it in Zenflow's "Spec and Build" mode.

For us, in this scenario: 1) the pipeline helps agent perform better 2) reviewing the spec is much more convenient than when juggling between TUI and text editor (esp. if you are running 5 of those pipelines in parallel) 3) if you configure the reviewer in the settings, cross-agent review saves us from some of the minutae of guiding/aligning the agent

Lmk if I misunderstood your question, happy to help.
by xp84 | 2025-12-17 23:33:54+00:00
Just mind-bogglingly stupid to send anything about users other than a UserID number/UUID to your web tracking software.

Of course, in a sensitive situation such as that, even IP address can also be problematic, and your 3rd-party tracking software vendor gets that automatically.

If these clowns had hired someone smart instead of just copy-pasting some tracking code and throwing their whole user object at it or whatever, they would have given this some thought.

I'd have used the ability to proxy the MP tracking calls to my own server which most of these services offer but few use. That server would not keep any logs and would perform coarse GEOIP, remove the IP itself or zero the last 2 octets, and relay that information into MixPanel using custom attributes.

Just a quick back-of-napkin sketch, but even that was more thought than they put into it.
by darth_avocado | 2025-12-17 23:34:09+00:00
It depends on the company and the people around you. At one company, my quarterly feedback was that I don’t ask too many questions in meetings, which was mostly due to the fact that the project was pretty straightforward and requirements were hammered down on a document. In another company, asking questions got me the feedback that I was maybe not experienced enough to manage the project by myself, which I was completely capable of. It’s a double edged sword.

But yes on a personal level, being senior enough in my career, I’d rather be thought of as less skilled by asking questions before the s hits the fan, than execute and mismanage a project that I didn’t ask enough questions on. The latter has more consequences tbh.
by reaperducer | 2025-12-17 23:34:12+00:00
Businesses literally try to track and optimise virality these days as part of their marketing.

Not just businesses. It's governments, too.

There's a public park near me that is tracked for likes and social media engagement. If it misses the city's goals for social media engagement a certain number of months in a row, it can be turned back into a parking lot.

I objected to this measure of "success" during the public meetings about it, but nobody cares about the old man in the back of the room.
by keyle | 2025-12-17 23:34:34+00:00
Highly depends on what you're streaming. If you stream arcade 2D games of the past, or software development, it should be perfectly fine.

AAA titles with newer graphics, well, you can always send a capture the PC with the nvidia card's screen through a capture card.

Back in my days of streaming, macOS was no option, cca. 2017. Today I'd do it with any M processor mac without a second thought.
by clowncubs | 2025-12-17 23:35:01+00:00
Adjacent ideas: 3d printing - I think it is cool but I'm not into it myself because it would require more time for me in front of a screen and working with digital tools. But, there are a lot of things to be explored here. One idea is digitally scanning a analog sculpture and then 3D printing the mold for it. This would be huge as you could make very complex molds and they'd be essentially perfect. And then when your mold broke down you could just print another one. No need to work from a master sculpt.

I have a friend who made me 3D printed keychains for swag at events. He embedded NFC chips in the keychain and this links to a linktree on my website. Coming up with cool swag like this could be something to explore. People found them really cool and it was a relatively simple thing to do. I'm sure there are some wild things 3D printing could be applied to for things like this.
by DrSiemer | 2025-12-17 23:35:03+00:00
The way I work with LLMs is a bit different.

I use a custom tool, that basically merges all my code into a single prompt. Most of my projects are relatively small, usually maxing out at 200k tokens, so I can just dump the whole thing into Gemini Pro for every feature set I am working on. It's a more manual way of working, but it ensures full control over the code changes.

For new projects I usually just copy the llm.md from the tool itself and strip out the custom part. I might add creating it as a feature of the tool in the future.

A few days ago I tried to use AntiGravity (on default settings) and that was an awful experience. Slow, pondering, continuously making dumb mistakes, only responding to feedback with code and it took at least 3 hours (and a lot of hand holding) to end up on a broken version of what I wanted.

I gave up, tried again using my own tool and was done in half an hour. Not sure if it will work as well for other people, but it definitely does for me.
by socketcluster | 2025-12-17 23:35:39+00:00
Yep, I fully agree with this view and I find that it's seniors who ask the 'dumb' questions. Everyone is worried about losing face in this precarious economy... But seniors are able to ask really smart questions as well so even their dumb questions sound smart... They can usually spin dumb questions into a smart questions by going one level deeper and bringing nuance into the discussion. This may be difficult to do for a junior.

My experience as a team lead working with a lot of juniors is that they are terrified of losing face and tend to talk a big game. As a team lead, I try to use language which expresses any doubts or knowledge gaps I have so that others in my team feel comfortable doing it as well. But a key aspect is that you have to really know your stuff in certain areas because you need to inspire others to mirror you... They won't try to mirror you if they don't respect you, based on your technical ability.

You need to demonstrate deep knowledge in some areas and need to demonstrate excellent reasoning abilities before you can safely ask dumb questions IMO. I try to find the specific strengths and weaknesses of my team members. I give constructive criticism for weaknesses but always try to identify and acknowledge each person's unique superpower; what makes them really stand out within the team. If people feel secure in their 'superpower', then they can be vulnerable in other areas and still feel confident. It's important to correctly identify the 'superpower' though because you don't want a Junior honing a skill that they don't naturally possess or you don't want them to be calling shots when they should be asking for help.
by superkuh | 2025-12-17 23:35:53+00:00
Yep. But I didn't want to restrict the conversation to that sub-thread's framing and wanted to have a more positive framing showing the original post really did make decent points and discuss them rather than the culture mismatch. But given I'm writing this it seems it didn't work and that's on me for being too on the nose, re: hyperbolic.

edit: You're right, you didn't criticize the article or address it at all. You just criticized the tone and implied FF users not happy with this move would drive the mythical "normal" users away.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-17 23:36:13+00:00
I think it's maybe time for game developers to spend more effort/time on gameplay and a bit less on AAA+++ graphics that only top GPUs can handle. Maybe hard targeting iGPU/APU for mid-level support in games.

For that matter, plenty of room to remake/reskin older (fun) games... Bring the Black Mesa effect to lots of existing games.
by apothegm | 2025-12-17 23:36:23+00:00
It’s not even about content farms and misinformation. It’s about which of the results even are talking about the same topic at all. You should have seen what came up when I searched info about doses for a medication that comes in multiple forms and is used for multiple purposes. Even though I specified the form and purpose I was interested in, the SERP was 95% about other forms and purposes with only two that were topical to mine in the first two pages. (And yes, I tried the query in several forms with different techniques annd got substantially the the same results.) The AI summary, of course, didn’t distinguish which of those results were or were not relevant to the query, and thus was useless at best, and dangerously misleading at worst.
by harshreality | 2025-12-17 23:36:28+00:00
To be more specific about the error (yes the http is intentional, https immediately fails a ssl handshake, but http gives a possibly useful error):

> $ curl -i http://press.knowledge.dev

> HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict

[...cloudflare headers...]

> error code: 1001

google suggests that error 1001 is a cloudflare-side DNS configuration problem with the domain (which is CNAME'd to target.substack-custom-domains.com, which is cloudflare-hosted). CNAMEs to cloudflare seem to require special care.
by ksec | 2025-12-17 23:36:29+00:00
>* Globo #1 in news...never heard of it (Latin Am. news)

I was surprised as well. And then Snapchat ( is that still a thing ? ) is higher than X ?

Shopee larger than Temu?

I assume a lot of these are Cloudflare customer's specific, or 1.1.1.1 DNS user specific.
by andrewsthoughts | 2025-12-17 23:36:58+00:00
Agreed. We planned to add it for Zencoder subs. For the free product, if we included it, the API could be abused (unfortunately, we learnt that lesson the hard way), and doing it through your other CLI is just too slow for a nice UX (they take time to spin up). We'll play with it a bit more, maybe there's a happy path we missed.
by welliebobs | 2025-12-17 23:37:20+00:00
Do we really think that we're going to see all developers morph into one archetype where we all have exactly the same effective skills? Many engineers already have an area of interest where they focus, be that performance optimisation or high level architecture.

It's my prediction that we're going to see more specialised skill sets become more commonplace. We'll have developers who can effectively use AI to bootstrap PoC's, developers who use AI in well established code bases to increase velocity (think asking Cursor to implement another set of REST endpoints for a new type), and developers who might choose to exclude AI from their workflows.

Eventually (I hope, at least) it'll be expected that it's another tool that developers can use in their day to day and less of the Omnissiah that has come to replace us as developers.
by tomhow | 2025-12-17 23:37:28+00:00
A16z invests in _a great many_ companies. Without the company name in the title, you have to click to find out who the company is. That’s the point. The title gets readers riled up and activates them to click.

The title we’ve set is intended to give enough information to pique curiosity for those who will be curious about the topic - the company name, what the company does (AI-generated promotional content), what’s happened (hacked).

I don’t love the title but it’s the best I could come up with to fit within the 80 character limit.

Anyone is welcome to suggest a better one that is compliant with the guidelines.

(Edit: s/ countless / a great many /)
by reactordev | 2025-12-17 23:37:30+00:00
I have no issue with it if that’s your thing. The dozen or so times I tried it, I had the above experience. I deleted it and never looked back.

Others have had similar experiences. While others say it’s the best thing since the internet. Some people like ToFu. I find it bland and without flavor.

When asked “What are the general experiences”, I pulled from a few sources that corroborated mine and others experiences.

If the attitude of “This is bad” offends you, it is not my fault. Your personal tastes are not my fault. However, more and more reading can be done on the hellhole that is VRChat from others, from researchers, and from victims.

I stand by my sentiment. I will never see it in any light other than what it showed me. I choose not to.

As to the point about socializing. You are correct, they are indeed socializing. Again, research has shown that there’s levels to this, with engagement. Not having the social skills in the real world doesn’t mean they aren’t social online. You’re right. Have you been online lately in these lobbies? The verbal abuse and mental health issues are all over the spectrum. Socializing by reinforcement of mental illness isn’t what I would call healthy socialization.

Not saying they are all like that. I’m not a totalitarian. When the majority of experiences border on my own, I draw my conclusion. Until then, I assume it’s just me.
by asdfqwertzxcv | 2025-12-17 23:37:56+00:00
That's really fun. I like the quick snippet, but would like a 2nd tier of interesting facts about the thing instead of just the quick ironic bits (after looking at 'Inventors Killed by Their Inventions').

Would like to be able to skip items/stories without having to x or heart. Feels like a left or right swipe on the main cards should go to other topics. It doesnt feel right 'voting' on them without having read them.
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-17 23:38:11+00:00
No, I don't. I include only FBI statistics of hate crimes targeting religious groups in the United States. Jews are 35x more likely to be victims of hate crimes in the US. Nothing to do with Gaza.

Some people refuse to acknowledge this reality and others attempt to justify it. Many resort to sarcasm as a defense mechanism, revealing their own biases in written records on major public forums.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-17 23:38:14+00:00
Kerning does affect readability sometimes. Some fonts cause more issues with dyslexia than others.

I wouldn't say it is so much that the population doesn't care about fonts, more a case of them interacting with them in ways they don't notice consciously. The fonts on packaging affect the public perception of a product (and whether they buy them). Other fonts can hint at something being more modern or more traditional.
by jfindper | 2025-12-17 23:38:33+00:00
Super weird to call me out and make a strawman of my comment in a place I'm less likely to see it.

>wanted to have a more positive framing showing the original post really did make decent points

I didn't even criticize this article! I made a meta-comment on the overall discussion, across several platforms, where I said _some_ of the conversation is hyperbolic.
by machomaster | 2025-12-17 23:38:41+00:00
You misunderstood.

AI can calculate stuff that can be measured and calculated.

But investing (in stocks or otherwise) is not that. Investing is about the phychology of the people (all other investors). If investors as a whole make stupid decisions, the market movements make their decisions correct (like the incredibly stupid drop in Nvidia's stock due to release of Deepseek). AI can be more objective and better at calculating facts, but it doesn't matter if the market is driven by emotions and people.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-12-17 23:40:14+00:00
The people who knew about those things back then know modern infrastructure today. I'm sure if you asked the average web dev 12 years ago what write-back io is they wouldn't have any idea.

Perhaps the only trend is more companies not hiring anyone who specialises in infrastructure and just leaving it as a side task for React devs to look at once every few months.
by buu700 | 2025-12-17 23:40:46+00:00
To be fair, if I choose to buy something, it's almost by definition because I consider the thing useful. It's pretty rare that I purchase something I'd learned about from an ad, but I have done so a few times and benefited from doing so. How is anyone else to determine whether I've been adversely manipulated, i.e. whether the cost of the thing outweighs its benefit to me?

Buying something from an ad isn't really fundamentally different from being influenced by an HN post. For example, thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294574, I read up on and have decided to experiment with TLA+ on my next project. It's really no concern of mine what Martin Kleppman's commercial interests may ultimately have been in publishing that blog post; I received value from the information all the same.

Personally, I'm not particularly bothered by ads per se. I'd be more bothered by information being withheld from me during searches, e.g. if Brand A could pay Amazon to delist Brands B and C from organic search results, since that would directly guide me toward less optimal purchases. But as far as simply going about my day and seeing a billboard or promoted social media post every now and then, I don't see the big deal. It's generally easy to ignore, it costs me almost nothing, it occasionally helps me, and ultimately it funds a lot of things I like and take for granted (e.g. Chromium, Firefox, and Android).

I'm not saying that people who routinely waste money on irrational purchases don't exist. I just don't find that to be a compelling argument against the existence of a particular market which overwhelmingly benefits almost all of us.

I do have quite strong concerns regarding aggressive data collection, however, and I certainly wouldn't opt in to greater erosion of my privacy — but I see that as a separate issue. To the extent that ad-driven revenue models provide an incentive for companies to facilitate greater privacy invasion, I agree that it's a significant concern which warrants much stronger pushback from the public than it receives. I just think it's important to highlight that mass data harvesting per se is the major issue, more so than any perceived manipulativeness of the fact that brands pay money for exposure.

Then of course there's the issue raised in this post, which is yet again another matter entirely. I'm all for using AI to optimize pricing and efficiency, but "dynamic pricing" as described in the article sounds like a euphemism for price discrimination, and should be more strictly regulated IMO regardless of whether or not AI is involved.
by bananaflag | 2025-12-17 23:41:01+00:00
> When the model gets something wrong and we tell it "That's wrong, here's the right answer," it needs to remember that.

Problem is that when we realize how to do this, we will have each copy of the original model diverge in wildly unexpected ways. Like we have 8 billion different people in this world, we'll have 16 gazillion different AIs. And all of them interacting with each other and remembering all those interactions. This world scares me greatly.
by bangaladore | 2025-12-17 23:41:17+00:00
A SAFETY comment is supposed to justify why the unsafe code is sound. Here it justified the wrong thing. Ownership was not the problem, concurrent mutation was. That is exactly the kind of gap a SAFETY comment can hide by giving a false sense that the hard parts were already considered.

The fact that this survived review is the worrying part. Unsafe blocks are intentionally small and localized in Rust precisely so the safety argument can be checked. If the stated safety argument is incomplete and still passes review, that suggests reviewers are relying on the comment as the proof, rather than rederiving the invariants themselves. Unless of course the wrong people are reviewing these changes. Why rewrite in Rust if we don't apply extreme scrutiny to the tiny subset (presumably) that should be scrutinized.

To be clear, I think this is a failure of process, not Rust of course.
by andai | 2025-12-17 23:41:41+00:00
So this is an interesting benchmark, because if the answer is actually in the top 3 google results, then my python script that runs a google search, scrapes the top n results and shoves them into a crappy LLM would pass your benchmark too!

Which also implies that (for most tasks), most of the weights in a LLM are unnecessary, since they are spent on memorizing the long tail of Common Crawl... but maybe memorizing infinite trivia is not a bug but actually required for the generalization to work? (Humans don't have far transfer though... do transformers have it?)
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-17 23:42:37+00:00
Hell yes I hear you on that. I've been sideways involved with some of their projects too. It's always a minefield because they don't know what they want, what they do think they want makes no sense and they don't care about what's technically possible or is streamlined, maintainable and affordable (us engineers try to find a solution that is also robust and straightforward, not just to tick a maze of boxes).

Governments tend to write the legislation of everything under their purview and they don't really have to deal with forces of nature so they think they can just decree water to not be wet and that's sorted then. So their resulting solutions tend to be pretty awful. Oh and the decision makers tend to be there because they're great at spouting hot air, not because they have a clue what they're doing. Not fun projects to work on.

Most corporates are much more flexible. They come to you with a vision and you discuss how to best make this happen. And an 'Actually, it would be a lot simpler if you do ...' is very appreciated.
by tetha | 2025-12-17 23:42:38+00:00
In my operational team, I'm following a third model, inspired by german trade workers. You have juniors, journeymen and masters. Juniors are generally clueless and need to be told what to do, specifically. This is very much the level of "Here are 28 marks that needs bolts placed in concrete, make it so, I can explain why". Journeymen should be figuring out a plan how to solve a project and challenge it with the master to see if it fits the quality requirements of the master.

And practically, you can have one or two journeymen per master. However, these 2-3 people can in turn support 3-4 more juniors to supply useful work.

This also establishes a fairly natural growth of a person within the company. First you do standard things as told. Then you start doing projects that mostly follow a standard that has worked in the past. And then you start standardizing projects.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-17 23:42:45+00:00
Got it - ask questions, but not ones that you already know where the answer is.

edit: well, except when you search the documentation and get (literally) 70+ results because you don't know the exact phrasing used in the self hosted wiki...

Or, when it's a question that is domain specific (meaning that the SME is supposed to know it, which you only know if you are... an SME...)

etc