MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DicIfTEx | 2025-12-27 17:28:38+00:00
Under current DoJ antitrust guidelines, there's nothing to stop a future administration from reviewing any anti-competitive actions ignored by the current one as part of an anti-competitive series of actions: https://www.justice.gov/atr/merger-guidelines/applying-merge...

So those businesses either know, or expect, that either:

a) these guidelines will be changed in a way that makes them hard or impossible to revert (i.e. through legislation or a Supreme Court judgement); or

b) there is little risk of a future change of administration.
by klelatti | 2025-12-27 17:28:51+00:00
> Then in maybe one of the best rug pulls of all time, in July they quietly
changed their valuation to $500 million. A 75% cut in four months. I’ve
never seen anything like that since the 2008 financial crisis.

Not sure where the author is getting their information from but there is seemingly little correlation between the investment rounds quoted in this post and other online sources. No mention for example of the Series E that valued Groq at $6.9bn.
by oh_my_goodness | 2025-12-27 17:30:30+00:00
I don't exactly disagree. But the word "obvious" doesn't work very well during a bubble. Sure, yes, the current revenue doesn't justify the purchase price. But that doesn't mean that anything justifies the purchase price.

We can't work backward rationally from "this deal makes sense" and get to "here's why". Corporate acquisitions often don't work that way, even when there's no bubble. The price is often just not justified at all. By anything.

In many cases they're just capitalizing testosterone.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-27 17:31:06+00:00
Or (c) that any future administration is going to have a lot of more pressing concerns that will drown out seriously relitigating past mergers and acquisitions, and any concerns they do have will most likely be mollified with agreed remedies that sacrifice far less than the value of doing the merger.

Very few administrations do everything they theoretically could under the law and their own guidelines (even the ones that also do lots that violates both.)
by larodi | 2025-12-27 17:31:12+00:00
Indeed why not have —tui option and some basic menu? Even a simplified scripting with reasonable API would be better.

I find myself bothering exactly zero times to memorise this obnoxiously long command line. Claude fills in, and I can explore features better. What’s not to like? That I’m getting dumber for not memorising pages of cli args?

Love the project, but as with every Swiss knife this conversation is a thing and relevant. We had similar one reg JQ syntax and I’m truly convinced JQ is wonderful and useful tool. But I’m not gonna bother learning more DSLs…
by api | 2025-12-27 17:31:17+00:00
I like that Zed has a disable all AI option. I use AI a little but prefer to use terminal based assistants or just cut/paste to a chat.

BTW Zed is great and I subscribed just to support them even though I don’t use their cloud. They should charge for it, even a little bit.

(I might try their AI features again but last time I found them less convenient than the other ways.)
by smashed | 2025-12-27 17:31:49+00:00
Ostree and immutable distros in general are seeing a renewed interest lately for mostly security reasons but they have been and are still widely used for appliance-type devices.

I could see someone wanting to build an arch based firmware with OTA updates use this as a proof of concept. Yes, they would have to customize it and operate some infra but that does not make it useless.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-12-27 17:32:02+00:00
Parent of young adults (recent former teens) here.

Anecdotal, but I can assure you that no-one in their cohort feels that social media makes a positive contribution to their mental health. Neither did their teachers. The ones I know of tend to try to actively avoid it.

I know of older adults (late 20s / early 30s) who have had similarly negative experiences with anxiety and addictive engagement.
by beached_whale | 2025-12-27 17:32:16+00:00
That's just another distraction from the class war being waged on the un-wealthy. We all contribute to it in small ways while it is being pushed by those with the means. Collectively we love to control others

Palantir wouldn't exist if regular people didn't use it to lookup details on an ex all the time to stalk them /jk.
by mgraczyk | 2025-12-27 17:32:37+00:00
For example here is a recent widely cited study that did not find a statistically significant link between Facebook/Instagram and mental health outcomes, broadly miscited as having found an effect: https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/briefs/ifs-gallup-...

They did claim to find a very small link between TikTok/YouTube and mental health, but this seems to defy the narrative of "social" media being the culprit. YouTube was not significant if you adjust for multiple hypotheses, only TikTok
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-27 17:33:36+00:00
Well, I don't know what to think anymore. I use LLMs in my work, but I'm not comfortable signing my name on something I don't fully stand by (akin to the responsibility of a lawyer's signature).

It's December 27th, 2025 and I'm not supposed to be thinking about my future*. I'm supposed to spend time with my family and enjoy that. Yet here I sit mulching on this.

* I didn't add 'as a Software Engineer', because I wouldn't know as what else.
by tzs | 2025-12-27 17:33:39+00:00
Apparently licenses no longer have to actually meet all 10 of the criteria listed there to count as open source. OSI says AGPLv3 is open source, for example, even though it fails #10 ("No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface").

AGPLv3 has provisions that are predicated on remote interaction over computer networks. Put modified AGPLv3 software on a computer that users interact with over RS232 terminals and you don't have to give users the source. Replace those RS232 terminals with X servers that let the users interact with the program over Ethernet and you do have to give those users the source.
by joshdavham | 2025-12-27 17:33:53+00:00
HN is social media and I think most people recognize that.

It's just that HN is a social media that respects your time and doesn't try to get you addicted. For example, HN has a very useful 'noprocrast' feature and one of the co-founders, pg, has openly worried about HN's addictiveness in the past [0].

So while HN is social media, I feel like it's qualitatively different than other platforms.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
by simonebrunozzi | 2025-12-27 17:33:56+00:00
> To visualize $1.5 billion: if you cashed that check out in $100 bills and stacked them one on top of another, it would reach a five story building. For ordinary plebeians like us, at the average US salary of around $75K, you’d need to work 20,000 years to earn that.

No, we don't need to visualize that.
by joshcsimmons | 2025-12-27 17:34:04+00:00
Thank you for calling this out. I have edited and added a footnote there. Their valuation wasn't 500mil it was their revenue projection.

The 6.9bn valuation is accurate though https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/groq-raises-750-mil... https://www.reuters.com/business/groq-more-than-doubles-valu...
by Lio | 2025-12-27 17:35:02+00:00
This is the bit that gives me pause:

> In certain markets, we use conversation data to train the generative AI models in Copilot, unless you choose to opt-out of such training.

"Build me a SaaS platform exactly like ____"

If agents become as good at long running tasks as we're told they will do by giving Microsoft access to your codebase and inner business processes to give to anyone that wants to the ability to clone your business.

That might end up being inevitable but I see no reason to accelerate that.
by api | 2025-12-27 17:35:07+00:00
AI has been a breath of fresh air to me, but I understand some of the problems with it.

Chatting with a bot and using it as a brainstorming or research assistant is the first time I’ve felt a since of wonder since Web 1.0. It offers a way to search and interact with knowledge that is both more efficient and different from anything else.

One of the most mind blowing to me is reverse idea search. “I heard the following idea once. Please tell me who may have said this.” Before LLMs this was utterly impossible.

But I also understand how these things work and that any fact or work that the LLM does must be checked. You can’t just mindlessly believe a chat bot. I can see how people who don’t keep that in mind could be led way out into lala land by these things.

I also see their potential for abuse, but that’s true of all tech. In prehistoric times I’m sure there were some guys sitting around a fire lamenting “maybe we should not have sharpened stick. Maybe we should not play god. Let stick be dull as god intended.”
by echelon | 2025-12-27 17:35:29+00:00
This is optimally foolish.

It effectively prevents the community from using Apple's solution, but gives the Chinese everything they need to duplicate the results and push their own version.

I expect a Hunyuan-branded version of this model in six months. Probably with lots of improvements.

I'm all for Chinese model takeover if this is how US tech giants treat AI. You can't horde the flames forever, US hyperscalers.

The DoD ought to be advocating for a strong domestic open source stance to ensure our ecosystem doesn't get washed away. AI czar David Sacks has this view, but I suppose it's been falling on deaf ears when the hyperscalers crowd out the conversation.
by firefax | 2025-12-27 17:35:58+00:00
>If you are using Firefox or a Chromium browser (for me Google Chrome 143.0.7499.170), it's very likely that you are seeing a very foggy version of the painting, however, if you download the image and open it with your default image viewer (or open it in the Safari browser), you will see the image normally.

Why does the page 404 when opening the image? Bandwidth issue? Firefox issue? (Yes, the username is a joke - I don't work for Firefox I just use it and thought this would be a funny name)

they wayback machine doesn't have a copy of https://lr0.org/i/2025-12-27_18-21-51_screenshot.png or i was going to link to it in the post here usually, i'd try to balance a blunt reply like this with they wayback version

cheers!
by aurareturn | 2025-12-27 17:36:11+00:00
I don't. I just asked to do some research instead of indulging in wild speculation.

You are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

An argument from authority[a] is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority figure (or figures) is used as evidence to support an argument.[1] The argument from authority is often considered a logical fallacy[2] and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible.[3][4]

Again, just baseless speculation. Rob had a very prolific where he worked on foundational technologies like programming language design. He is now retired. What kind of power would he be afraid to lose?

Clout? Historical importance? Feeling like people are forgetting him? If he didn't care about any of this, he wouldn't have a social media account.
by joshcsimmons | 2025-12-27 17:37:12+00:00
It's not - I prefer to record a YouTube video first (I speak better than I write) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2po-s2yOCcg Then I run that through a transcription app (so AI I suppose but still my words, shout out to Scriber Pro which I found via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591222) then I edit down and try to change my verbs (visual to written) where necessary.
by theturtletalks | 2025-12-27 17:37:33+00:00
I had the same issue. Subagents are nice but the LLM calling them can’t have a back and forth conversation. I tried tmux-cli and even other options like AgentAPI[0] but the same issue persists, the agent can’t have a back and forth with the tmux pane.

To people asking why would you want Claude to call Codex or Gemini, it’s because of orchestration. We have an architect skill we feed the first agent. That agent can call subagents or even use tmux and feed in the builder skill. The architect is harnessed to a CRUD application just keeping track of what features were built already so the builder is focused on building only.

0. https://github.com/coder/agentapi
by xyzal | 2025-12-27 17:38:20+00:00
A meta-analysis> https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12108867/

Results: The majority of studies linked social media use to adverse mental health outcomes, particularly depression and anxiety. However, the relationship was complex, with evidence suggesting that problematic use and passive consumption of social media were most strongly associated with adverse effects. In contrast, some studies highlighted positive aspects, including enhanced social support and reduced isolation. The mental health impact of social media use, specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic, was mixed, with the full range of neutral, negative, and positive effects reported.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-12-27 17:38:55+00:00
Haha! Great catch. That specific structure ... "It’s not just a [Product], it’s a [Experience/Metaphor]!" ... is a classic trope of mid-to-late 20th-century American advertising. This style exploded during the "Creative Revolution" of advertising (1960s–1980s). Agencies like Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) began moving away from "reason-why" copy (which listed technical specs) toward emotional copy. So it is kind of a time capsule, like a website from the 90's. In professional copywriting, this is called Feature-to-Benefit Transformation. In classical rhetoric, this is a form of Correctio - when a speaker replaces a word or a description with a more powerful one to emphasize a point.
by Verdex | 2025-12-27 17:38:59+00:00
My belief is that the function of a story is to provide social cover for our actions. Other people need to evaluate us (both in the moment and after the dust has settled) and while careful data analysis can do the job, who has time for that crap.

As such the story can be completely divorced from reality. The important thing is that the story is a good one. A good story transfers your social cover for yourself to your supervisor. They don't have to understand what you did and explain why it's okay that it failed. They just have to understand the story structure that you gave them. Listen to this great story, it's not my report's fault for this failure, and it's certainly not mine, just bad luck.

Additionally, the good (and sufficiently original) story is a gift because your supervisor can reuse it for new scenarios.

The good salesman gives you the story you need to excuse the purchase that will enable you to succeed. The bad salesman sells you on a story that you need a frivolous purchase.

And this is why job hoping is "bad". Eventually the incompetent employee uses up all of their good stories and management catches onto their act. It's embedded into our language. "Oh we've all heard this story before." The job hopper leaves just as their good stories are exhausted and can start over fresh at the new employer.

All of this in response to

> If we're lucky, people will manage to adapt and update their mental models to be less trustworthy of things that they can't verify

Yes, if we're lucky that is what will happen. But I fear that we're going to have to transition to a very low trust society for that to happen.

Reliance on the story is reliant on the trust that someone has done the real work. Distrust of the story implies a wider scale distrust in others and institutions.

Maybe we can add a tradition of annotating our stories with arguments and proofs. Although I've spent a two decade career desperately trying to give highly technical people arguments and proofs and I've seen stories completely unmoored from reality win out every time.

Optimistically, I'm just really bad at it and it's actually a natural transition. Pessimistically, we're in for a bumpy ride.
by mrcwinn | 2025-12-27 17:39:17+00:00
This is missing the point. Even at a clipped revenue projection - $500m at $2b is a 4x multiple on revenue.

A 4x for an AI cloud+infra play that targets speed and cost? Where do I send the check?

If NVIDIA believes it can take this and scale it, $20b is a no brainer.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-12-27 17:39:32+00:00
> After that you're allowed to buy the most expensive aqua because now you're in the middle of the water monopol

Never understood why people are buying bottled water at airports. I always bring a large empty water bottle, and fill it up at the drinking fountains that are invariably on the other side of security, or near my gate. They pretty much always have those touchless bottle filler things on them now. Seems pretty painless.

Not the best tasting water, but in the states I'm reasonably confident airport tap water probably isn't dangerous.
by gradientsrneat | 2025-12-27 17:39:54+00:00
They still aren't honest about the fact that the official VSCode distribution isn't fully open source because, for example: you can't have VSCodium connect to the official plugin repository. It also isn't the only editor with AI integration, and more specifically these systems use LLMs.

It would therefore be more honest to say that VSCode is "a visible source LLM code editor".
by chmod775 | 2025-12-27 17:40:01+00:00
It's not for moving around, but for turning some image into a stereoscopic one (or 2 side-by-side images if you will). Lots of techniques for this exist, which usually turn an image into depth information using AI and then use any number of approaches to generate/warp 2 offset images from it.

So far the best looking results are still achieved with good old mesh warping and no inpainting at all. This may change that.
by baby_souffle | 2025-12-27 17:40:45+00:00
> Why not just use a Python container rather than rely on having the latest binary installed on the system?

Sometimes this is the right answer. Sometimes docker/podman/runc are not an option nor would the headache of volumes/mounts/permissions/hw-pass-through be worth the additional mess.

It is hard to over-state how delightful putting `uv` in the shebang is:

in `demo.py`:

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.13"
print("hello, world")

Then `chmod +x demo.py; ./demo.py`

At no point did I have a detour to figure out why `python` is symlinked to `python3` unless I am in some random directory where there is a half-broken `conda` environment...
by tim-tday | 2025-12-27 17:40:48+00:00
It’s not solely Trumps fault we fell behind. (And let’s be clear, we fell behind China. The rise of Korea and Vietnam are simply insignificant in comparison.)

In fact he tried to fix our pending loss to China in his first presidency with his first efforts towards a trade war. The trade war alarmed China who began a program to internalize supply chains. and when Biden doubled down, China accelerated their supply chain independence at the cost of a residential construction crash and massive financial pain for normal Chinese people. And now in the second trump presidency we see that chinas efforts worked. They succeeded in internalizing their supply chains so they can continue to produce and export even as supply inputs are disrupted.

Which is why we’re seeing that the current trade war isn’t working. China has been able to increase their international exports to the rest often world. When trump slapped our closest trading partners he helped China because he sent our closest trading partners right into the arms of China who have increased their global trade even as the trade war with the us continues.

But that’s not what the article is about. It’s about the about-face from electric vehicles and that is 100% definitively Trump’s doing.

So yes let’s face the truth on those two issues.
1) the US fell behind China and the trade war isn’t working. No it’s not all trump’s fault. But he’s the president and it happened on his watch despite his efforts.
2) an about face on electric vehicles will harm us in the long term (costing us much more later than it saves by redoubling investment in old tech)
by lukeschlather | 2025-12-27 17:40:58+00:00
The thing about ffmpeg is there's no substitute for learning. It's pretty common that something simple like "ff convert" simply doesn't work and you have to learn about resolution, color space, profiles, or container formats. An LLM can help but earlier this year I spent a lot of time looking at these sorts of edge cases, and I can easily make any LLM wildly hallucinate by asking questions about how to use ffmpeg to handle particular files.
by code_Whisperer | 2025-12-27 17:41:04+00:00
I had a similar requirement recently and ended up going with CodeKeeper (https://codekeeper.co/), mainly because they had a portal that seemed mostly self-serve. Because they are based in The Hague, and because my client had domestic restrictions, I also had to add the US-only storage option. Their pricing was also a factor in my decision. YMMV.
by ossa-ma | 2025-12-27 17:41:41+00:00
The bubble take is tired. This was regulatory arbitrage: IP licensing instead of acquisition to dodge CFIUS/antitrust. The $13B premium to avoid years of hold up while enriching Chamath and giving Trump's AI Czar a Christmas present. So many other things at play here than just "AI bubble so big it will boom".

Here's my take on what actually happened: https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groq
by aristofun | 2025-12-27 17:41:52+00:00
> See the Crusades. See what’s going on in Israel

Really, christians are to blame for what’s going on today in Israel??

80th level of dumb, congrats! :)))

> Christians love to claim these advancements for themselves

If you play the game of putting hanging all the dead dogs to christianity, it’s only fair to also attribute all the good achievements to it.

Otherwise it doesn’t look fair or logical, isn’t it? Though I doubt you know what logic is :) you just want to spread hatred

Ps: crusades were pretty symmetrical and reasonable response to arabic expansion and aggression back then. Also it wasn’t in any way unique or more cruel than countless other conflicts and wars throughout the history, there is nothing uniquely “Christian” about it.
by Aerroon | 2025-12-27 17:42:37+00:00
Gestures wildly at the 20th century.

Or a more recent example would be the "misinformation craze" we had going on since years ago. That seems to have fallen away when it became apparent that many fact checkers were politically aligned.

The concept of "memes" in a more general sense is a counterargument too. Viral ideas are precisely a way of one person spreading their perspective to tens of millions.

You could even argue that the current AI bubble building up is a hype cycle that went out of control.
by tacker2000 | 2025-12-27 17:42:46+00:00
Im glad i moved from vscode to neovim last year, and since one month i’ve switched over to emacs, running doom (which gives you vim commands and much more).

I’ve set up LSPs, completions, etc and although one needs to read up a little bit at first, i feel that this could finally be a stable platform/ide for once, and i wouldnt need to jump ship every couple of years because of some enshittification.
by tim333 | 2025-12-27 17:43:04+00:00
>During the 19th-century "Railway Mania," railroad investment in the U.S. reached a peak of 6.0% of GDP, a level significantly higher than current AI infrastructure spending, which is estimated to be around 1.6% of U.S. GDP.

says Google. There was a big crash after, wiping out investors. Time will tell with this one.
by big-chungus4 | 2025-12-27 17:43:13+00:00
can you please fix the login, when I try to log in, it says
Unable to process request due to missing initial state. This may happen if browser sessionStorage is inaccessible or accidentally cleared. Some specific scenarios are - 1) Using IDP-Initiated SAML SSO. 2) Using signInWithRedirect in a storage-partitioned browser environment.
by design2203 | 2025-12-27 17:43:33+00:00
I believe intelligence is difficult to pin down in words but easy to spot intuitively - and so are deltas in intelligence.

E.g watch a Steve jobs interview and a Sam Altman one (at the same age). The difference in the mode of articulation, simplicity in communication, obsession over details etc are huge. This is what superior intelligence to me looks like - you know it when you see it.