MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YC543897594387 | 2025-12-21 22:49:26+00:00
Under liberal capitalism, how you feel about the state of the world/economy is going to always be tied to how much money you're bringing in every month, so making a comment about how things are actually fine and Gen Z are "negative" and ungrateful is pointless if you're not going to make clear your own economic standing relative to others. I would be surprised if you're delivering Uber Eats with a Bachelor's degree, as many of Gen Z are doing today, considering the sentiment expressed.
by andix | 2025-12-21 22:49:33+00:00
I wouldn't run local models on the development PC. Instead run them on a box in another room or another location. Less fan noise and it won't influence the performance of the pc you're working on.

Latency is not an issue at all for LLMs, even a few hundred ms won't matter.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, except when working offline while traveling.
by lelandfe | 2025-12-21 22:49:39+00:00
Yeah but them's highway miles. I have much less care about a site loading images than the stuff that makes the mobile nav work. Images are pretty!

For instance, here's Python's 144kB JS-powered homepage mid-load: https://imgur.com/a/OvYVAMS

And theirs doesn't even have any pretty images! That said, Ruby really ought to give those images a compress.
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by scaelere | 2025-12-21 22:50:02+00:00
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Hi HN! Riccardo from Geomapping here.

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Geomapping uses multiple LLM passes combined with location search and Wikimedia data to: - Extract every location mentioned (from bustling cities to obscure hamlets) - Find accurate coordinates with context-aware disambiguation - Generate descriptions that reflect each place's role in your article

Geomapping creates a comprehensive and accurate map in 1-2 minutes, saving the author the hours of work needed to do it manually.

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We currently use OpenTopoMap for tiles, but we're planning to serve our own and support bring-your-own-map - hopefully before the end of January '26.

API access is on the roadmap based on user demand.

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by smcleod | 2025-12-21 22:50:09+00:00
I suspect Ollama is at least partly moving away open source as they look to raise capitol, when they released their replacement desktop app they did so as closed source. You're absolutely right that people should be using llama.cpp - not only is it truly open source but it's significantly faster, has better model support, many more features, better maintained and the development community is far more active.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-12-21 22:51:24+00:00
I feel like a lot of the criticism the GPT-5.x models receive only applies to specific use cases. I prefer these models over Anthropic's because they are less creative and less likely to take freedoms interpreting my prompts.

Sonnet 4.5 is great for vibe coding. You can give it a relatively vague prompt and it will take the initiative to interpret it in a reasonable way. This is good for non-programmers who just want to give the model a vague idea and end up with a working, sensible product.

But I usually do not want that, I do not want the model to take liberties and be creative. I want the model to do precisely what I tell it and nothing more. In my experience, te GPT-5.x models are a better fit for that way of working.
by kulahan | 2025-12-21 22:51:25+00:00
If you care about this more than anything else (e.g. if you care about audits a LOT and need them perfect), you can simply code the app via action paths, rather than for modularity. It makes changes harder down the road, but for codebases that don’t change much, this can be a viable tradeoff to significantly improve tracing and logging.
by Nasrudith | 2025-12-21 22:51:59+00:00
To be fair 'common sense' and 'many people have been shouting it' about technical matters have a long history of being hilariously wrong. Like claims that trains would cause organ damage to their riders from going at the blistering speed of either 35 or 50 mph, IIRC. Or about manned flight being impossible. Common sense would tell you that launching a bunch of broadcasting precise clocks into orbit wouldn't be usable to determine the distance, and yet here we are with GPS.
by nnutter | 2025-12-21 22:52:40+00:00
My team uses draft PRs and goes through a process, including AI review, before removing the draft status thereby triggering any remaining human review.

A PR is also a decent UI for getting the feedback but especially so for documenting/discussing the AI review suggestions with the team, just like human review.

AI review is also not equivalent to linter and static checks. It can suggest practices appropriate for the language and appropriate for your code base. Like a lot of my AI experiences it's pretty hit or miss and it's non-deterministic but it doesn't have much cost to disregard the misses and I appreciate the hits.
by ultrarunner | 2025-12-21 22:52:43+00:00
Some of the audio replays I heard had silence cut out, but the aircraft transmits every two minutes, for about twenty seconds each. It does share the information I'd want to hear in an uncontrolled environment, but in a busy towered class delta it likely needs to be shortened. They had plenty of advance warning of this aircraft being inbound and cleared the airspace well before it arrived, but if it had happened with less notice critical instructions may have been "stepped on" at a critical time.
by isolatedsystem | 2025-12-21 22:52:43+00:00
Easy answer to your last point: Work machine and Non-work machine. If I'm working for a company and the company needs MS Office, they will give me a machine with MS Office. I will treat that machine like a radioactive zone. Full Hazmat suit. Not a shred of personal interaction with that machine. It exists only to do work on and that's that. The company can take care of keeping it up to date, and the company's IT department can do the bending over the table on my behest as MS approaches with dildos marked "Copilot" or "Recall" or "Cortana" or "React Native Start Menu" or "OneDrive" or whatever.

Meanwhile, my personal machine continues to be Linux.

This is what I'm doing at my work now. I'm lucky enough to have two computers, a desktop PC that runs Linux, and a laptop with Windows 11. I do not use that laptop unless I have to deal with xlsx, pptx or docx files. Life is so much better.
by dmitrygr | 2025-12-21 22:52:59+00:00
"native-born citizens" may be, but do the majority have something in common?

A quick look at the table https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7242a4.htm shows that the issue is not guns but something else. This is corroborated by these similar charts: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
by simonw | 2025-12-21 22:53:23+00:00
If I had four hours to dedicate to this particular learning project I would still use LLMs to help me along the way, with the expectation that I'd learn more from those four hours than I would if I'd spent the same amount of time deliberately not using LLMs to help me.

We've been given a tool that lets us ask questions in human language and get back answers that are correct 90% of the time! And that remaining 10% means we have to engage critically with those answers, which is a useful learning trick in its own right.
by uqual | 2025-12-21 22:53:33+00:00
Interestingly in one of the videos online there are several (five I think) Waymos blocking the right two lanes entering the intersection (along with a few others around the other parts of the intersection). While its hazards are still blinking, one of these vehicles moves forward (admittedly just a few feet).

Is this a violation of the California Vehicle Code? Generally it seems to disallow non-emergency vehicles from traveling with blinking lights except for turn signals (and brake lights responding to a braking action).
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-21 22:54:58+00:00
I really doubt we are anywhere close to this when there has been no published legit prime factorization beyond 21: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

Surely if someone managed to factorize a 3 or 4 digits number, they would have published it as it's far enough of weaponization to be worth publishing. To be used to break cryptosystems, you need to be able to factor at least 2048-digits numbers. Even assuming the progress is linear with respect to the number of bits in the public key (this is the theoretical lower bound but assume hardware scaling is itself linear, which doesn't seem to be the case), there's a pretty big gap between 5 and 2048 and the fact that no-one has ever published any significant result (that is, not a magic trick by choosing the number in a way that makes the calculation trivial, see my link above) showing any process in that direction suggest we're not in any kind of immediate threat.

The reality is that quantum computing is still very very hard, and very very far from being able what is theoretically possible with them.
by andix | 2025-12-21 22:55:37+00:00
It really depends. When building a lot of new features it happens quite fast. With some attention to context length I was often able to go for over an hour on the 20$ claude plan.

If you're doing mostly smaller changes, you can go all day with the 20$ Claude plan without hitting the limits. Especially if you need to thoroughly review the AI changes for correctness, instead of relying on automated tests.
by geraltofrivia | 2025-12-21 22:55:56+00:00
You're not wrong. But, I recently did the mistake of upgrading my iPad to version 26 (the liquid glass version). I had a relatively smooth experience on my 6 year old tablet which now runs painfully slowly. Even scrolling through different parts of home-screen lags.

My point being, with time performance might go up. But instead of that making my device faster/long-lasting, developers use that extra performance to cram in more stuff, at the end of which I come out only slightly better if not worse (as is in my case)
by rwoll | 2025-12-21 22:55:59+00:00
> Treating it like a stop sign also doesn't work very well when there are huge amounts of pedestrians. As a pedestrian that yesterday meant I got the right of way all the time. For cars it was mayhem downtown.

I’ve long been curious if people in S.F. who are used to Waymo “behavior” – including myself – behave differently when a Waymo is involved. For the most part, Waymos are extremely predictable and if you’re on the road as a pedestrian, cyclist, or car, are you more aggressive and willing to assert your turn in the road? Curious if Waymo has done a psychological study of how we start to think about the vehicles. I know many runners, for example, that’ll stride right into the crosswalk in front of a Waymo but wouldn’t dare to do that in front of other cars. Similarly, anecdotally people treat public transit vehicles differently than a civilian car: folks are more willing to let them drive even if out of natural turn.
by beached_whale | 2025-12-21 22:56:17+00:00
Im not going to do the support for my kids not using windows along with the schools using O365 and such. So found a refurb business laptop for them on the one without TPM2. Popped linux on the old one and it went from slow to fast for OS related things and not a terrible machine but snappy. Like, it's a 10yr old i5 but that was enough for sims4, office, and minecraft. It's crazy how much compute performance Windows is taking from its users.
by steveklabnik | 2025-12-21 22:56:45+00:00
One thing working on this project has already done is give me more appreciation for a lot of Zig's design.

Zig really aims to be great at things I don't imagine Rue being useful for, though. But there's lots of good stuff there.

And lots of respect to Swift as well, it and Hylo are also major inspiration for me here.
by aidanlister | 2025-12-21 22:56:47+00:00
This just sounds like you haven’t worked in a team environment in the last 12 months.

The ergonomics of doing this in pre-commit make no sense.

Spin up a PR in GitHub and get Cursor and/or Claude to do a code review — it’s amazing.

It’ll often spot bugs (not only obvious ones), it’ll utilise your agent.md to spot mismatched coding style, missing documentation, it’ll check sentry to see if this part of the code touches a hotspot or a LOC that’s been throwing off errors … it’s an amazing first pass.

Once all the issues are resolved you can mark the PR as ready for review and get a human to look big picture.

It’s unquestionably a huge time saver for reviewers.

And having the AI and human review take place with the same UX (comments attached to lines of code, being able to chat to the AI to explain decisions, having the AI resolve the comment when satisfied) just makes sense and is an obvious time saver for the submitter.
by beej71 | 2025-12-21 22:57:50+00:00
It is interesting, but that's not the feature that people hate. They hate the monitoring, the power consumption, the inaccuracy, and the social and intellectual stupification.

I use LLMs quite frequently, but there are some places I do not want them. "Use AI to chat with your PDF!" The only thing I'd want to have it remotely touch in my browser is translations.
by iamaaditya | 2025-12-21 22:58:20+00:00
One usage case that I saw myself is when a vehicle is parked such that it will require the other vehicle to go slighty over the curb, in this case the curb is flat so I assuming the parked driver thought it was okay. Every other human driver did okay, but Waymo just refused to put its wheel on the curb and just got stuck. Video here: https://x.com/aaditya_prakash/status/1989444130238259575?s=2...
by uqual | 2025-12-21 22:59:09+00:00
Waymo may discover that heavy equipment (large fire trucks can easily push Waymo out of the way if it can find somewhere to push it to) WILL move the cars (at least if there is no one in them at the time) in such cases. I recall the scenes during recent wildfires where abandoned cars were blocking roads and a skip loader was just picking up the cars and dumping/pushing them to the side of the road/over the edge - causing extensive damage to some of them.

Decades ago I recall talking to a fireman expressing a question of what happened if there was a car blocking their access in an emergency and he made it clear that the bumper on the front of the truck and the truck's healthy diesel engine would usually take care of the problem very quickly.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-12-21 22:59:33+00:00
80-90% of the visible signs of ageing come from the sun. This is why, in older people, you'll find their body generally looks younger than their face. This is because clothes protected their body from the sun, but their faces were fully exposed.

Always wear sunscreen on your hands, face and neck every time you go outside. If you're the type of HN'er that is on the computer all day and rarely goes outside, doing this on the few occasions you do will take away one of the only opportunities the sun will have to age you.
by asdff | 2025-12-21 22:59:40+00:00
There is probably something to be said about living someplace that is actually investing in itself. Seeing new development actually rise to meet the demands of the population. Seeing new transit expanded. People uplifted out of rural poverty. New technological developments. The whole bit.

The US probably felt a little like that in the immediate post war period. The enthusiasm coming out of a terrible war and a terrible depression and seeing actual changes take place in the scale of weeks before your eyes must have been something else.

But today, most cities seem to have been content with solidifying into amber over the last 50 or so years. No investments into society. The poor are still poor and objectively have worse opportunities given the buying power of the jobs available to them. Development isn't happening on a scale to actually meet the population's needs. Transit and most public good efforts are an afterthought because of no direct business profitability angle. It becomes hard to get excited about medical advances when you understand the realities of our healthcare system and that many who need these medicines or treatments won't ever get them. No enthusiasm for anything. A large population of people against anything changing. Young people and young ideas stonewalled out of positions of power in favor of people who ought to have retired by now maintaining the status quo. Technological advances seemingly solely focused on establishing new ways to rent seek, gouge, police, control thoughts, versus things that are simply beneficial to others. "no brainer" ideas facing pushback. Common sense not being valued. The optimism coming out of the civil rights era dashed away against the realities that hate towards your fellow human is a position that will carry popularity in this country. Profit above all. Control above all. Blatant corruption and cronyism by the ruling elite. Awareness that we haven't taken off the shackles of feudalism.
by ATiredGoat | 2025-12-21 23:00:00+00:00
I wanted to do something special. I remember seeing Christmas screen cards as a kid, shared on those old shareware discs and running on aging systems that somehow felt magical. There was something simple and honest about them. Just pixels, code, and a message from the heart. QBasic still brings that feeling back for me. It reminds me that with enough care and imagination, you can create just about anything. Not for profit. Not for noise. Just to make someone smile. Be good people, wherever you are in this world. Love you all.

The Ventureweaver
by mnahkies | 2025-12-21 23:00:15+00:00
I felt unsure whether to include that particular comment, but landed on including because I think it's a real danger. I've got no problem with people using AI and do use it for some things myself.

However I don't think you should outsource understanding to LLMs, and also think that shifting the effort from the writer to the reader is a poor strategy (and disrespectful to the reader)

edit: in case it's unclear I'm not accusing the author of having outsourced their understanding to AI, but I think it's a real risk that people can fall into, the value is in the thinking people put into things not the mechanics of typing it out
by nnutter | 2025-12-21 23:00:52+00:00
It's so simple it's hard to really appreciate. Accepting what is and acknowledging that all you can do is your best and other mindful practices can really help. Easier said than done. I'd highly recommend the Healthy Minds app as a nice, no cost place to start learning. It grew out of a University of Wisconsin program and, as far as I know, is funded by donations and grants.

Healthy Minds https://hminnovations.org/meditation-app
by thr0waway001 | 2025-12-21 23:02:34+00:00
I gotta say even though not having kids seems like the most economically sane thing to me, it often makes me wonder, what will be the point of life after retirement. I have no wife, g/f or kids. Right now my only 'why' is to not disappoint my family and cause a couple of them could use my help financially. Other than that, I don't see a long term 'why'. My only compelling short term 'why' is that I don't want to be homeless. But that's pretty much a working to live and living to work type of reason to exist.

Oh that and that the dog will miss me. But as we all know they don't live for long.
by krackers | 2025-12-21 23:02:54+00:00
Arc-Agi 3 is coming soon, I'm very excited for that because it's a true test of multimodality, spatial reasoning, and goal planning. I think there was some preliminary post somewhere that did show that current models basically try to brute-force their way through and don't actually "learn the rules of the game" as efficiently as humans do.
by andix | 2025-12-21 23:03:16+00:00
From my personal experience it's around 50:50 between Claude and Codex. Some people strongly prefer one over the other. I couldn't figure out yet why.

I just can't accept how slow codex is, and that you can't really use it interactively because of that. I prefer to just watch Claude code work and stop it once I don't like the direction it's taking.
by bsder | 2025-12-21 23:03:44+00:00
The problem seems to be that the Waymo cars did exactly as you requested and treated the intersections like 4 way stops but kept getting displaced by more aggressive drivers who simply slowed and rolled.

How many non-Waymo accidents happened at intersections during this time? I suspect more than zero given my experiences with other drivers when traffic lights go off. Apparently, Waymo's numbers are zero so humans are gonna lose this one.

The problem here is that safety and throughput are at odds. Waymo chose safety while most drivers chose throughput. Had Waymo been more aggressive and gotten into an accident because it wouldn't give way, we'd have headlines about that, too.

The biggest obstacle to self-driving is the fact that a lot of driving consists of knowing when to break the law.
by Findecanor | 2025-12-21 23:04:32+00:00
> Backspace makes sense if you see the computer as a fancy typewriter.

Backspace on a typewriter only moved the position (~cursor) back one space. Hence why its symbol is the same as the left arrow key's.

Backwards Delete was a separate additional key, if the typewriter even had one, and its symbol was a cross inside an outlined left-arrow: ⌫. Current Apple keyboard has this symbol on the "Backspace" key in some regions instead of the text "delete", but older ones did have the left arrow.

Apple calling it "Delete" goes back to Apple II. Many other older computer platforms also called it "Delete". DEC used the ⌫ symbol.
by thanedar | 2025-12-21 23:04:46+00:00
Love the idea that your kids are your life and the two hours when they're in bed is also your life! I'm very much in that same place too.

Many of my posts and most of my book were written in either the first two hours after they go to school or the first two hours after they sleep.

I got a rare Sunday afternoon off, which is why we got this post now!

Totally agree that work only to pay for a household is a tough life. I'm trying to connect more people with work that can give more meaning now and maybe more money long-term. People chasing their highest potential tend to create greater projects!
by burnto | 2025-12-21 23:05:07+00:00
Yes the whole essay was premised on this dumb little sleight of hand. It’s disingenuous.

AARP isn’t telling fibs. It’s giving sound advice.

The only legit use of a gift card is when you’re redeeming that gift card directly with the issuer. No business is going to request or require that you do that.