MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jeff-hykin | 2025-12-28 17:19:19+00:00
I guess I'm the only one that appreciates the extremely minimal site design. Main page was interesting, clicked about, understood the idea, clicked login, enjoyed having no password, added a passkey, spun-up a server.

Did have an issue with auto-generated server name being taken (and similar names being taken). So there could be even less friction on that aspect. But I like the idea of not talking/listing features or showing diagrams, just give me access.

I mean I do need to know pricing, usage limits, uptime etc. But just let me easily find that after giving access.
by Telemakhos | 2025-12-28 17:20:05+00:00
This. A decentralized, 90's-style internet would probably involve home servers, and there have been attempts to do that: Sheevaplugs would be a good example from the late 2000s. I don't think anyone ever managed to make self-hosting at home frictionless enough, though, with secure defaults and turnkey startup. Open-source, sadly, tends to overestimate the amount of fiddling the average user will tolerate; Apple does a better job of making difficult things simple.
by hallole | 2025-12-28 17:20:08+00:00
And then they scoff, and say, "so you just 'trust the experts,' then?"

I don't have the time to become expert in global affairs, history, climate science... all the fields implicated by the big hot-button issues. The next best thing is defer to someone knowledgeable and objective (given you can find such a person), IMO.
by frou_dh | 2025-12-28 17:20:21+00:00
What's obvious to me is that the PRIMARY motivation for Liquid-Glass-ifying MacOS was not to improve MacOS, but simply to make it look consistent with the new version of iOS/iPadOS.

So for Apple to start with a level of disrespect for the existing product where the question of whether each change is actually an improvement is effectively off-topic, it's no wonder they made a dog's dinner of Tahoe.
by gnabgib | 2025-12-28 17:20:22+00:00
2020 Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (103 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702000

2019 Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag (169 points, 126 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899374

2019 In Mariana Trench, every animal tested had plastic in its gut (57 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302531

2018 Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench (359 points, 326 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17057305
by rapnie | 2025-12-28 17:21:26+00:00
> I saw a video I wanted to share with someone, but it was part of a compilation. So you just search for it, right?

There's something with these compilations. Almost as if deliberately AI slop is mixed in to numb the public to it, or for some AI startup to testdrive on an unaware public how good their stuff is.

Take compilations of lightning strikes for instance. There's always a couple that are just too spectacular or just unbelievably. Like a ball lightning going across the street.
The New Generation Won't Type for You
by cellis | 2025-12-28 17:21:36+00:00
As a very old millennial back in town for the Holidays, I recently watched my 8,9 and 10 year old nephews/nieces use TikTok in between saying "six seven" or "six seven four one". Every search was done using a voice command. They didn't type one time. Even for very very simple searches, they still chose to voice them, even when they could get much more precise by typing. If they didn't get the videos they wanted, they simply re-rolled until TikTok spat out something acceptable, at which point they proceeded with pressing it and then thumb-upping scrolling.

Make of this what you will.
by bdangubic | 2025-12-28 17:21:48+00:00
> If you're in your 50s you should have at least noticed that things have gotten progressively worse...

This is exactly what I am saying, things have gotten progressively worse. The argument most people are making here is that the worse is not progressive, that it is somehow last 11 months that shit's been going really, really bad (just note how many people are talking about "degree" and "scale" of shit in this thread alone. As if somehow sky is falling right now and it was amazing before.

funny thing is - same people back in October during the election campaign were pitching how economy is "great" and how they do not understand how GOP can run on economy platform when US economy is doing amazing, much better recovery post-COVID than any other country without a doubt. now though, economy is really bad, just horrible, can't be any worse :) in both cases, the 80% of the people you are mentioning are suffering, they were in October and they are even more so now. but everyone is in their own bubble, the "opposition" (myself included) in the current political order is saying "oh shit's really bad now" and "ruling party" people are like "oh man, how great are things, tariffs are doing their thing, exports are up, imports are way down, market is red hot..." etc...
by Arainach | 2025-12-28 17:22:02+00:00
This gatekeeping is bizarre and weird. It's not OK to complain about the impacts of AI because you worked in the tech industry?

Especially since it starts by complaining about Rob Pike's rant and Rob starts by complaining about the copyright problems as well just as this article claims to dislike.

Poorly thought out and poorly written. By the way, there's no E in "angry".
by voakbasda | 2025-12-28 17:22:44+00:00
Have you done orienting in the past?

One of the big tricks is to realize that magnetic north (where your compass points) is usually not the same as geographic north (where maps are drawn). The adjustment is local; here, I think magnetic north is 7 degrees off from north.

In the US, the USGS topographic maps contain the required adjustment for the covered area. Not sure about Italy.
by akercitocoder | 2025-12-28 17:23:26+00:00
After 8 years of engineering management at Meta (2B+ users, 25 engineers), I found myself job hunting in a market that suddenly wanted "LLM experience."

So I challenged myself: 30 production-ready AI projects in 30 days. Not tutorials. Not toy apps. Real systems with tests, error handling, and documentation.

The results surprised me:

- 270 hours total (avg 9 hrs/day)
- 18,000 lines of code
- Days 1-10: 12 hours/project
- Days 21-30: 6 hours/project (patterns compound)

Biggest lessons:
1. The gap between "demo" and "production" is where real engineering happens
2. 80% of the time goes to 20% of features (error handling, retries, edge cases)
3. 18 years of backend experience doesn't expire – it accelerates AI work

Full retrospective with what worked, what failed, and the technical patterns: https://franciscoperez.surge.sh/blog/30-days-retrospective.html

Happy to answer questions about the challenge, specific projects, or the management-to-IC transition.
by atherton94027 | 2025-12-28 17:23:43+00:00
This a bit of a hollow article and kind of misses the point of Rob Pike's rant. This is a guy who care deeply about computing. He spent the first 20 years of his career working at Bell labs, building things like utf-8 (an amazing idea that everying easier for anyone who doesn't speak english!) and plan 9. Pike does not like resource wasting (part of the reason they built Go was to replace Python at Google) so yes, his point makes sense in that context
by tialaramex | 2025-12-28 17:24:07+00:00
Nah, the US has always had the same problem except without titles. Robert F Kennedy Jr. is the same phenomenon. Why is the Earl or RFK in charge? Because of the name. That's what the Roark family in the Sin City stories is about, this happens in major US cities just like anywhere else.

It's worse if it's literally part of the design of the country's civil fabric, e.g. Saudi Arabia or indeed Britain's Royal Family but while Charlie and a handful of his family have that sort of connection a lot of those random Earls and other minor titles are just inherited power, same as a Kennedy or a Roark. And it's barely a century since Britain last had to do the "hard" (it's about an hour of parliament's time) work of just crossing out names on these lists (last century it was because some of our uh, nobles, were actually born and lived in Germany, and had thus become our Enemy in World War I)

To my mind, a big problem is that until extremely recently Britain's two major political parties both agreed on the Protestant Work Ethic, the idea that doing work is a moral necessity for people. There are a lot of scenarios where that breaks down, but neither Labour (because um, clue is in the name) nor the Tories could stomach the idea that maybe working isn't itself a valuable end. We are well past the point where it's mechanically necessary to employ everybody, and we may be approaching the point where doing so is actively harmful, a political party who can't even imagine that is a bad fit.
by edgineer | 2025-12-28 17:25:33+00:00
What would you say to someone who has long been fascinated by nuclear weaponry and hopes to one day witness a test explosion?

I see even China hasn't tested in decades and so my chances of doing this are close to nil, but I ask because your answer could tell more how you feel about the technology and its future. My physics professor told me to study supernovae instead.
by bradlys | 2025-12-28 17:25:37+00:00
Net negative. People keep using AI slop and are driven by shitty metrics from the top to use AI as much as possible. It leads to the entire codebase being garbage. I blame the higher ups. Everyone is just doing their job and has no room to negotiate here. Everything is tracked via metrics and you’re required to do a bunch of stupid AI slop shit otherwise you’re at risk of getting fired.

This is at a faang.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-28 17:26:13+00:00
The comments of the (German) judge in this case seem to indicate the judge doesn't understand why any of the defendants even thought training AI wasn't a violation (at least not when taken to the point it can exactly reproduce and create derivative works to existing works. Maybe that's why OpenAI is trying to make that harder now. Still trivial to make it violate that rule though).

https://www.dw.com/en/openai-loses-song-lyrics-copyright-cas...

Note that OpenAI has now testified that they indeed used copyrighted works to train their models. The outcome of the case is that both training AI models using copyrighted work and providing AI model outputs that are derivative of some copyrighted work are copyright violations, and would mean model owners have to respect licenses (ie. compensating the authors)

The case can still be appealed, so it is not final. On the other hand, if I'm reading WTO copyright treaty rules correctly, this ruling applies in the US.

In the US things seem to be going in a similar direction: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyrig...

Seems to me this can still easily go the way the authors want it to in the US. And in theory, it doesn't even have to, OpenAI lost. Yes, it can be fought on appeal, but I've always heard that winning an appeal after losing a case is 10x harder than winning that case in the first place. And we'll know in early January if OpenAI fights it at all, so it's not like they have a lot of time left.
by extra88 | 2025-12-28 17:27:07+00:00
Yes, Google started revealing the contents of <details> a few years ago, long after the element was supported in all browsers. Firefox added support earlier this year and Safari just added it.

Supporting the behavior was related to changing the user agent CSS when they're closed and the other browsers implemented it and hidden=until-found at the same time.

https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_details_search_match_o...
by somat | 2025-12-28 17:27:48+00:00
In my case the gpu fan was not changing speed automatically, (something, something, linux) which I discovered after an embarrassingly long time of poking at other things trying to figure out why my system was crashing so much. And now instead of doing the sane thing and figuring out how to get the fan speed map to work, I thought about it and came to this conclusion "I want my temps to be set value, say 45C, why not use a closed loop controller to find the fan speed necessary for that temp at any load?"

And now am about halfway through building pid fan control software and a janky gpu temp simulator so I can get some intuition on tuning the pid parameters before I set it on my actual gpu. you know, the fun part of computing. But now I am worried that perhaps there is a real reason nobody does it this way.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-28 17:28:10+00:00
This could be total nonsense and I am definitely out on a limb here, but I remember from my amateur crypto mining days (almost 15 years ago wow) that keeping everything relatively consistent is better for the longevity of your hardware (GPU/CPU mainly). Some people obsessed over getting temps as low as possible but that’s not very productive, diminishing returns and all of that. There is just generally a healthy temperature to keep things operating at most of the time, coupled with how hard you push the component in question (while not putting too much strain on your fans either). Basically: swinging/fluctuating is not good, consistency is good.

Again though I could be totally off. I just remember that being spread around as “conventional wisdom.”
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-28 17:28:33+00:00
> During the “Three Years of Hardship” (1959–1961), when more than 30 million people across China starved to death, our factory area faced a desperate crisis. At one point, there were only a few days’ worth of rations left in the warehouses, and workers began to suffer from severe edema due to malnutrition.

I was curious about this part and lingering perspectives among Chinese citizens. How do they regard the past mass starvations and deaths in the 1900s? Are these events well known? Are they seen as a catastrophe? Do they blame someone (like the government) or is it seen as the cost of progress or a natural disaster? Do old and young people see these events differently from each other?

Thanks for writing and sharing!
by yorwba | 2025-12-28 17:28:35+00:00
40°10′49″N 97°16′36″E is not exactly 39°46′24″N 98°17′18″E. Did you maybe copy the wrong coordinates? Anyways, have an OpenStreetMap link https://www.openstreetmap.org/?#map=11/40.1243/97.3375
by bdangubic | 2025-12-28 17:28:59+00:00
nope, I am educated so I don't write silly blanket statements like this without having something to back it up with. I am not saying that it less, equal or more corruption cause this is something that you cannot measure. you can only believe crap you read (depending on your politics you will be in one or the other echochamber) and then go "oh, the 'magnitute' of corruption is now "bigger/smaller/equal" than in ____ [insert year/administrations/...]
by oersted | 2025-12-28 17:29:04+00:00
Throughout history, real social conversations and movements have happened around thought leaders that dedicate their lives to painstakingly understanding and expressing a certain point of view on a set of issues. Be it in written form or through oratory, it then acts as an anchor to frame and facilitate conversations between people one-on-one.

Real progress requires that hard work of crafting and spreading a vision, something to point at that helps people express what they struggle to express themselves. It also then needs that protected intimacy of long conversations between individuals to digest it.

The architecture of social media centered around short-form public communication is not appropriate for this.

This of course applies to both constructive and destructive movements, but it’s the only way to get big real things done. I suppose that’s why we have this emergent class of powerful independent (podcast) intellectuals after a long time of the concept not being a thing. Again, for better or worse, plenty of both.
by DTutorin | 2025-12-28 17:29:48+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with a small MVP that tries to structure online debates differently.
The idea is simple:
one claim/theory
users add individual supporting or opposing facts (with sources)
each fact is discussed and voted on independently
no final verdicts, no “truth score”, no authority layer
The goal is not to determine truth, but to observe how collective belief and disagreement form when arguments are forced to be atomic.
After sharing this experiment with skeptic-oriented communities, I ran into a set of strong critiques that seem to recur whenever projects like this appear:
Voting is inherently argumentum ad populum, even if applied to individual facts
There’s a strong asymmetry of effort: real evidence is costly, bad evidence is cheap
Coordinated actors, cranks, or propagandists are more motivated than average users
Non-experts struggle to distinguish relevance, quality, and weight of evidence
“Fact overload” and gish gallop can drown out meaningful signal
Moderation only works with subject-matter experts, which doesn’t scale
Similar platforms have failed when public voting elevated weak or misleading evidence over rigorous research
Many commenters argued that this model inevitably legitimizes misinformation rather than containing it.
Before taking this experiment any further, I’d really like input from people here who’ve seen similar systems succeed or fail.
My questions:
Is this kind of structure fundamentally doomed outside of peer review or expert-only contexts?
Are there known constraints or design patterns that prevent collapse into noise or popularity contests?
Does this only work in narrow, technical domains (e.g. software, math, engineering)?
Or is the failure mode intrinsic to letting non-experts evaluate evidence at all?
If it helps to see the concrete implementation, the MVP is here (no signup required): https://fact2check.com
I’m less interested in defending the project than in understanding where - structurally - this approach breaks.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-28 17:30:12+00:00
Oooh oooh I know, I know! Replace the text with strings of all-caps five-letter groups that look just like oldschool CW encrypted messages, and that'll keep the MXGJD SWLTW UODIB guessing until AMEJX OYKWJ SKYOW LKLLW MYNNE XTWLK!
by metalman | 2025-12-28 17:30:20+00:00
there are adults alive now who not only have never eaten or drunk anything that was not packaged/contained in plastic, they are also afraid of unpackaged food
certain "grey" zone tracking and fingerprinting methods could easily verify exactly who these people are
what to say grey zone, I switched most of my personal consumption to cash purchases after my bank made a default feature tracking my spending, that sent me an alert when I bought too much food.
by westurner | 2025-12-28 17:30:43+00:00
What about graphene and CNT cabling instead?

How do the power requirements for carbon-based cabling differ from those for fiber and copper?

IIRC there are already HV cables similar to these for High Voltage Power Line power transmission applications?

"Core-sheath composite electric cables with highly conductive self-assembled carbon nanotube wires and flexible macroscale insulating polymers for lightweight, metal-free motors" (2025) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42114-025-01302-4

"Ultrastrong Carbon Nanotubes–Copper Core–Shell Wires with Enhanced Electrical and Thermal Conductivities as High-Performance Power Transmission Cables" (2022) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.2c13686 ..
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1535585233454942914...

"Highly conductive hybrid carbon nanotube fibers: Strategies and future directions for replacing copper with next-generation conductors" (2025) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13598...
by gudzpoz | 2025-12-28 17:30:53+00:00
Nitpicking your nitpicking: I think the author meant better.

The "ae" example was used as an introductory example for us English readers.
Unlike the Arabic examples where ligatures are mandatory and supported by most
Arabic fonts, not many English fonts have an "ae" ligature these days. Not to
mention this is a web page and a user can freely apply their !important font
styles.

Using æ to mean "treat it as an 'ae' rendered by ligature which is
visually indistinguishable" does not mean the author knows nothing about this
(although the wording can use some improvement to reduce the ambiguity).
by lanyard-textile | 2025-12-28 17:31:06+00:00
The butterfly keyboard of that era was a large enough signal, to me, that high quality engineering results were compromised.

They produced a laptop that you can't type efficiently on?? That misses key strokes?! I had to slow my typing on those keyboards!

So, imagine the incredible contempt I have had for Apple for failing such a basic delivery. Still, their new silicon machines managed to turn my opinion around -- quite the 180. The speed improvement is genuinely remarkable, and the modern build quality otherwise seems excellent to me.

It's worth another try imo.
by ramon156 | 2025-12-28 17:31:10+00:00
> The idea was to deconstruct Hacker News and view it through a different lens -- not time or score, but the fundamental, dynamic of prime numbers.

Even after this comment I did not get it until I checked the repo[0]. It seems like it's only posts with a prime number ID

Also, the "Why?" does not explain why. It's a what/how.

[0]: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 17:31:26+00:00
> many use cases are free or affordable to them

Because the technology is so fast, efficient and easy to run locally themselves? Or because currently there are remote APIs/UIs that are heavily subsidized by VC money yet the companies behind them are yet to be profitable?

I agree that giving the developing world any ladders for catching up is a great thing, but I'm not sure this is that, it just happens to be that companies don't care about profit (yet) so things appear "free or affordable" to them, and when its gonna be time to make things realistic, we'll see how accessible it'll still be.
by jagged-chisel | 2025-12-28 17:31:46+00:00
Everyone went right for “downtime” - no, that’s not an issue. I would have expected a configuration change, which wouldn’t require a restart but might indeed result in downtime.

Or even a configuration change that some control system notices and does restart the service.

It’s the manual, hands-on connotation (maybe only in my mind) of telling someone a restart is involved. Automate this stuff - don’t want the code in the server all year? Fine, have a process rebuild and relaunch on a schedule that makes sense. Might have downtime, but definitely have less hands-on.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-12-28 17:31:50+00:00
You said:

> I would say, in my opinion, that it's better in the US than in China/Russian hands. The US at least seems most aligned with the UK in terms of political freedom than the two communist states.

And I quoted the CEO of Palantir quite literally wanting to be more like China.

Ad the specific part about "The US at least seams most aligned with the UK in terms of political freedoms" is funny because

> he New Republic called Karp's formation of Palantir an embrace of techno-militarism to advance American global supremacy through hard power and targeted violence

doesn't sound like the US will be aligned for too much longer.

And that's not even touching the current political climate of hte US. You know we're deporting college kids for op-eds and trying to remove news licenses that are mean to the President?