MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andsoitis | 2025-12-08 19:40:18+00:00
Tricky. I do not know how YC looks at that. However my instinct would be to just stay the course (you involved at current level on both AND both apply). You’ll learn something from the experience and I doubt it would be a disqualifier.

If you’re still worried, do a little research to see whether there have been similar cases in the past.
by jandrese | 2025-12-08 19:41:30+00:00
Given how much memory and CPU time is burned compiling Rust projects I'm guessing it is pretty complex.

I'm not deep enough into the Rust ecosystem to have solid opinions on the rest of that, but I know from the specification alone that it has a lot of work to do every time you execute rustc. I would hope that the strict implementation would reduce the number of edge cases the compiler has to deal with, but the sheer volume of the specification works against efforts to simplify.
by throw0101d | 2025-12-08 19:42:16+00:00
> Indeed. Christmas lasts until Epiphany (January 6th) or even Candlemas (February 2nd).

Up to Candlemas was probably more cultural than liturgical, as things go back to 'Ordinary time' in the West post-Epiphany:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmastide

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year#Christmastide

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)
by rep_lodsb | 2025-12-08 19:42:17+00:00
You're absolutely correct, excellent observations! Now that I have your unquestioning attention to whatever bullshit I write:

THE. CODE. DOESN'T. WORK.

Not on the Atari Portfolio, nor anywhere else.

It shows no 'understanding' of even the bare minimum required for this.

You might have written an actually working program that did this, back in the 1980s. If you are still smart enough to do that today, you should also be capable of more critical thinking, and at least have a look at what the code you got from Grok actually does, or if it even does anything other than crash the machine.

The upper/lower case thing was an example, not something from your code.
by vezuchyy | 2025-12-08 19:43:08+00:00
I don't have data to support it and I know AD was a gamechanger but I feel like Microsoft pumping free software to educational institutions was the main driver for it's adoption in the corporate world. When every person who kind of knows how to use the computer, can use MS windows and office and has to be retrained to use anything else, it's a no brainer to just give users what they know.
by ubercow13 | 2025-12-08 19:43:23+00:00
Well, I don't know but many LLMs are multimodal and understand pictures and images. You can upload videos to Gemini and they're tokenised and fed into the LLM. If some programming blog post has a screenshot with the result of some UI code, why would that not be scraped and used for training? Is there some reason that wouldn't be possible?
by lll-o-lll | 2025-12-08 19:43:39+00:00
> Microsoft has a problem that they hire the middle block of talent in the market. They do not chase the top 20% most expensive nor the bottom 20% least expensive.

This is such a BS attitude. A person’s ability doesn’t map directly with their salary.

The very best developers I’ve ever worked with? Small companies outside of major cities (for life style reasons). Not everyone is trying to max their income; some want a good job doing something they love.

Small companies can offer more meaningful impact, if you’re not the type who likes being a tiny cog or commanding armies.
by clipsy | 2025-12-08 19:43:51+00:00
The cheapest TV at Best Buy is $60; if this is after a 98% price drop the cheapest TV in 2000 would’ve been $3000. (If you were a child or not yet born back then: TVs were not that expensive.) Rather, the size/quality floor has increased in a way that allows a facile analysis to claim a 98% reduction in price by comparing (eg) the cost of a top of the line plasma TV from 2000 to a cheap LED TV of the same size today.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?browsedCategory=...
by xpe | 2025-12-08 19:43:56+00:00
>> This piece conflates two different things called "alignment": >> (1) inferring human intent from ambiguous instructions, and >> (2) having goals compatible with human welfare. > If by conflate you mean confuse, that’s not the case.

We can only make various inferences about what is in an author's head (e.g. clarity or confusion), but we can directly comment on what a blog post says. This post does not clarify what kind of alignment is meant, which is a weakness in the writing. There is a high bar for AI alignment research and commentary.
by kyle-rb | 2025-12-08 19:44:58+00:00
Web3 is dead, because the VC valuation multiplier switched from "blockchain-native" to having an "AI story", so startups don't have to pretend to care about data-sovereignty anymore.

Developers want to use Postgres, not a distributed ledger. And most end users don't really care about data-sovereignty. If I thought a significant percentage of my app's users did, I would much rather rewrite to conform to ATProto than touch anything on the blockchain.
by throawayonthe | 2025-12-08 19:45:09+00:00
Three days ago.

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025120400

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_manifest/releases/tag...

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115666650605430196

not sure how soon it made it to a majority of devices, but i do have it rn

EDIT: I was wrong, it's actually first mentioned in https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025102200

oct 22? https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_manifest/releases/tag...
by baranul | 2025-12-08 19:45:38+00:00
It's not just the domain, because a submission to youtube[1] was shadow banned or censored as well. This looks like undisclosed censorship against a particular language, which is why the question was asked. However, thanks for the response, because concerns over censorship and bans on hacker news should be out in the open.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141171
by rcxdude | 2025-12-08 19:46:00+00:00
Most people or most people with money? Ultimately it's the people making investment decisions you need to convince in order to get the money from them. Then the reality check is whether you can give them that money back and more. Those investors should in theory be self-interested in making sure that this is actually useful, because if they don't they'll lose their money, but in practice they are not superhuman and prone to fads and echo-chambers (especially because it's a relatively smaller group that can move a lot of money around, and short-term investing rewards running with the crowd to some degree), but there's not a single group of people that would not fall victim to poor decisions in this regard (whether you're imagining a centrally managed economy, the electorate, or some hypothetical benevolent dictator).
by next_xibalba | 2025-12-08 19:46:06+00:00
> Total information control is priceless.

Except there is robust competition in media —be it news, social, etc.

I think the political angle in terms of motivation is overstated. In terms of closing the deal though, it’s huge. David Ellison has been producing movies for quite some time. So his desire to become a big time player in that space would be a believable motivation. But he can use his father’s connections to Trump to sink the Netflix bid (or create enough FUD to convince shareholders to favor his bid).
by handedness | 2025-12-08 19:46:28+00:00
Apparently I'm a downvote bot, a honeypot and member of a mob. My life is much more exciting than I realized!

Your repeated unsubstantiated claims about GrapheneOS just don't ring true with my experience as a user across multiple devices for years. It is an excellent AOSP fork, and has numerous security and privacy enhancements. Every time I've asked you to explain your position, you fall back on, "do your own research." I've done plenty and it's why I switched to GrapheneOS and remain on it.

LineageOS is great for its purpose: supporting a long tail of legacy devices. But as a result it is less secure than stock AOSP. Switching a recent Pixel from GrapheneOS to LineageOS is a baffling proposal for all but the tiniest of edge cases.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-08 19:46:34+00:00
A lot of this seems to be related to death of the amateur and semi-pro DTP industries:

1. Printers stopped catering to semi-pros and became more binary between "home" and "enterprise" solutions, with very little crossover and with "home" products trying to be as "good enough" dumb as possible (and also in many cases nearly as hostile to semi-pro usage as possible because so many "home" printers became loss leaders for ink cartridge subscriptions).

2. A lot of DTP moved to web publishing. Who needs printed invites when you have "evites"? Who needs printed greeting cards when you have "ecards" and now Facebook walls and group messaging stickers/gifs/memes? Etc.

I have fond memories of the home DTP creative scene in the 1990s. Partly because my mother was deep into it and very creative with it. It is interesting how much has changed between that era (when Publisher was one of several nearly ubiquitous home tools alongside Print Shop) to today (where Print Shop is a dead brand for many years and Publisher has been zombie-like or comatose in the same span, and now scheduled for death).
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-08 19:46:41+00:00
Pull our POV back far enough, and isn't "circular funding" just "The economy?"

Money circulates; it's what it does. The real question is to what extent circulation among a small group of firms is either collusion in disguise (i.e. decisionmaking by only one actual entity falsely measured as multiple independent entities) or a fragile ecosystem masquerading as a healthy one (i.e. an "island economy" where things look great in the current status quo, but the moment the fish go away the entire cycle instantly collapses).
by in-silico | 2025-12-08 19:47:34+00:00
It's interesting that the model generalizes to unseen participants. I was under the impression that everyone's brain patterns were different enough that the model would need to be retrained for new users.

Though, I suppose if the model had LLM-like context where it kept track of brain data and speech/typing from earlier in the conversation then it could perform in-context learning to adapt to the user.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-08 19:47:36+00:00
Yes, most were "invited". But consider the growing backlash and how it is dismissed by the establishment and one has to wonder what is going on.

> "And they turned against us?" "No, they settled down and had families"

Disingenuous. They settled down and had families and are increasing turning against European values and culture because numbers increasingly allow.

> "No, not yet, we're several generations in to this and the migrants are still a minority, but a large enough minority that they stopped seeming exotic and mysterious"

Large enough that they can push for their culture and values against local ones. Demographic trends are almost unstoppable now, which I think is the raised alarm on the issue (no-one would care much if a small minority remained a small minority).

The rest of your comment is just whataboutism and empty of argument.

Edit: Now I see that the comment you replied to has been flagged. This is really what I mean by suppression of dissenting opinion... really worrying.
by boneitis | 2025-12-08 19:47:46+00:00
I too have heard about syncthing for the first time today but from a different submission[0] you might care to be aware of.

Although, I realize Android != Kindle's OS, so I'm not sure how much concern there should be.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184730 "Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer"
by thegeeko | 2025-12-08 19:47:50+00:00
amd gdb is an actual debugger but it only works with applications that emit dwarf and use the amdkfd KMD aka it doesn't work with graphics .. all of the rest are not a actual debuggers .. UMR does support wave stepping but it doesn't try to be a shader debugger rather a tool for drivers developers and the AMD tools doesn't have any debugging capabilities.
by danudey | 2025-12-08 19:48:13+00:00
Look, if the CEO of a five trillion dollar company investing hundreds of billions into AI can come up with some custom agents to handle every aspect of the CEO's work, surely your average Microsoft 365-subscribing corporation can do the same.

It's just another example of the rich being wildly out of touch. Yes, Beyonce has the same 24 hours in a day that the rest of us have, but she also has enough money to pay people to do every aspect of her life that isn't bringing her joy or wealth. Yes, AI can be used to streamline workflows or help you find signal in the noise so you can focus on the important things better, but if every company has to build that themselves then no company is going to see the value of spending a bunch of extra money on something that they can only get benefit from if they spend even more money.

If the 'AI agents' that Nadella is talking about were part of Copilot then sure, okay, I could see a benefit, but when people in this thread are saying that Outlook can't even tell you who is in a meeting then it certainly explains why Nadella doesn't understand the lack of value.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-08 19:48:49+00:00
> The language is astonishing. Europe, the document warns, faces “the stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” Why? Because “it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European.” I don’t know why they bothered with the euphemism: “non-European” clearly means “nonwhite.”

It is indeed astonishing and pathetic to see the language of the "Great replacement" racist conspiracy theory coming from the highest levels of US government.

These are not the words of an ally. Europe must be clear-eyed about who their allies are and are not.
by tinodb | 2025-12-08 19:49:21+00:00
I don’t agree with the given answer to “Why the PO wants you to estimate”. The author cites external reasons (made commitments etc) that shouldn’t have been there in the first place.

Sure, in some lines of software development you really have a “deadline”, if you are working towards some event or launch date. But most of the time estimates are needed to determine *if it is worth it*. Can it be built in 2 weeks, let’s go. Is it gonna cost 2 months, then let’s prioritise something else. That isn’t to say you always have to go with the shortest te build features (you can apply "CD3" – Cost of Delay Divided by Duration), but you need it to compare alternatives.
by knollimar | 2025-12-08 19:49:23+00:00
Has google sheets filled out the lambda helper functions yet? If so that could narrow the gap.

Passing around vba based xlsm is really awful, so if google sheets has lambdas they can probably get a lead with google sheets queey language over filter.

Groupby and pivotby are the new excel alternative, but if they filled out lambdas, then does that keave VBA and power query as the only reasons for Excel?
by jph | 2025-12-08 19:50:05+00:00
Yes except in practice it's worked out more like this... Realistic is favored by tech teams. Optimistic is favored by salespeople and marketers. Pessimistic is favored by lawyers and compliance people. Equilibristic is favored by project managers and military.

Each stakeholder gets the kind of fortune they want. The important aspect (to me) is that the four viewpoints show all the stakeholders that their viewpoints are quite different.
by bob1029 | 2025-12-08 19:50:59+00:00
I have my best successes by keeping things constrained to method-level generation. Most of the things I dump into ChatGPT look like this:

public static double ScoreItem(Span<byte> candidate, Span<byte> target) { //TODO: Return the normalized Levenshtein distance between the 2 byte sequences. //... any additional edge cases here ... }

I think generating more than one method at a time is playing with fire. Individual methods can be generated by the LLM and tested in isolation. You can incrementally build up and trust your understanding of the problem space by going a little bit slower. If the LLM is operating over a whole set of methods at once, it is like starting over each time you have to iterate.
by gchadwick | 2025-12-08 19:50:59+00:00
> However, Groq’s architecture relies on SRAM (Static RAM). Since SRAM is typically built in logic fabs (like TSMC) alongside the processors themselves, it theoretically shouldn't face the same supply chain crunch as HBM.

It's true SRAM comes with your logic, you get a TSMC N3 (or N6 or whatever) wafer, you got SRAM. Unfortunately SRAM just doesn't have the capacity you have to augment with DRAM which you see companies like D-Matrix and Cerebras doing. Perhaps you can use cheaper/more available LPDDR or GDDR (Nvidia have done this themselves with Rubin CPX) but that also has supply issues.

Note it's not really about parameter storage (which you can amortize over multiple users) it's KV cache storage which gets you and that scales with the user count.

Now Groq does appear to be going for a pure SRAM play but if the easily available pure SRAM thing comes at some multiple of the capital cost of the DRAM thing it's not a simple escape hatch from DRAM availability.
by WorldPeas | 2025-12-08 19:51:08+00:00
A silent crisis unfolding in the US in the past years has been the consequence of "whole-word" reading and "common core math". These styles prioritized the stragglers that should have been held back or paid more attention using the existing systems, the consequence is more people being visibly illiterate and unable to read beyond their comfort set of words, unable to decompose words and create new "-ism"s
by mvkel | 2025-12-08 19:51:26+00:00
The problem is that stocks are often valued and traded on revenue growth, not profit[0] So circular funding generates stock price bumps when, as you said, there's no inherent value underneath. Creates a recipe for a crash.

[0] consider pagerduty, incredibly profitable with little revenue growth. Trading at 1.5X revenue, where high revenue growth, unprofitable companies are trading at 10X revenue.
by awirth | 2025-12-08 19:51:35+00:00
I have a 60L fish tank in my Tokyo apartment on around the 10th floor. It's sitting on stand that is not bolted to the wall. I have several friends with similar setups.

In the last 6 years there have been two or three earthquakes that caused enough water to slosh on to the floor.

Of those only the 2021 Fukushima earthquake caused any fish to slosh out - perhaps 10 medaka if I recall correctly. Luckily I was home and I was able to save all the fish, however there was one adult red cherry shrimp that didn't make it because I had trouble picking it up off the floor. I cleaned up the water with some paper towels and it didn't seem to cause any lasting damage.

I think if I had a 600 lb (270L?) tank or expensive fish though I would probably have a different perspective.
by chasd00 | 2025-12-08 19:51:42+00:00
> This lack of real integration is basically the core design of most Copilot products.

I think they're scared of the very real security issues with LLMs that may be unsolvable. It's not wise to give an llm free reign, at best maybe across your local computer but to be fully integrated into every application and every file it needs root. That would be the front door to many privilege escalation incidents in an enterprise managed laptop/desktop.
by throw234678 | 2025-12-08 19:53:35+00:00
This post is written with its intellectual fly open. I'm not sure whether it was partly AI-generated, or whether the author has spent so much time ingesting AI-generated content that the tells have rubbed off, but this article has:

- Strange paragraph-lists with bolded first words. e.g. "The Cash Flow Mystery"

- The 'It's not just X; it's Y' meme: "Buying Groq wouldn't just [...], it could give them a chip that is actually [...]. It’s a supply chain hedge."

Tells like:

- "My personal read? NVIDIA is [...]"

- "[...]. Now I'm looking at Groq, [...]"

However, even if these parts were AI generated, it's simultaneously riddled with typos and weird phrases:

- "it looks like they are squeezing each other [sic] balls."

- Stylization of OpenAI as 'Openai'.

Not sure what to make of this low-quality prose.

Even if the conclusion is broadly correct, that doesn't mean the reasoning used to get there is consistent.

I do, at least, appreciate that the author was honest up-front with respect to use of Gemini and other AI tools.

Final grade: D+.
by tzury | 2025-12-08 19:54:14+00:00
The Burry short is just one data point, but the "facts we know" are piling up fast.

Here is a possible roadmap for the coming correction:

1. The Timeline: We are looking at a winter. A very dark and cold winter. Whether it hits before Christmas or mid-Q1 is a rounding error; the gap between valuations and fundamentals has widened enough to be physically uncomfortable.

The Burry thesis—focused on depreciation schedules and circular revenue—is likely just the mechanical trigger for a sentiment cascade.

2. The Big Players:

Google: Likely takes the smallest hit. A merger between DeepMind and Anthropic is not far-fetched (unless Satya goes all the way).

By consolidating the most capable models under one roof, Google insulates itself from the hardware crash better than anyone else.

OpenAI: They look "half naked." It is becoming impossible to ignore the leadership vacuum. It’s hard to find people who’ve worked closely with Altman who speak well of his integrity, and the exits of Sutskever, Schulman, and others tell the real story.

For a company at that valuation, leadership credibility isn’t a soft factor—it’s a structural risk.

3. The "Pre-Product" Unicorns: We are going to see a reality check for the ex-OpenAI, pre-product, multi-billion valuation labs like SSI and Thinking Machines.

These are prime candidates for "acquihres" once capital tightens. They are built on assumptions of infinite capital availability that are about to evaporate.

4. The Downstream Impact:

The second and third tier—specifically recent YC batches built on API wrappers and hype—will suffer the most from this catastrophic twister.

When the tide goes out, the "Yes" men who got carried away by the wave will be shouting the loudest, pretending they saw it coming all along
by jsheard | 2025-12-08 19:54:24+00:00
SRAM scaling also hit a wall a while ago, so you can't really count on new processes allowing for significantly higher density in the future. That's more of a longer-term issue with the SRAM gambit that'll come into play after the DRAM shortage is over though - logic and DRAM will keep improving while SRAM probably stays more or less where it is now.
by limgravelogger | 2025-12-08 19:54:40+00:00
I'm new to the world of making mobile and web apps. As part of the learning process, I learned about openGraph protocol to share those cool looking rich links in iMessage / WhatsApp so I wanted those for my various projects. That's when I learned about several different image sizes requirements it has. Instead of spending hours in photo editing tools, I vibecoded a simple web app where you drop your logo and it creates OpenGraph compatible images for you. I've been using it for all my web apps
by tuetuopay | 2025-12-08 19:54:46+00:00
For smaller providers, I've found that pinging them on social media, esp. Twitter, can help (I've even had the OVH support contact me directly after a public rant on Twitter). Or go to some forum with other people that know them, e.g. lowendtalks often have people that know hetzner, ovh, scaleway, etc in and out. They will also be able to offer comparisons and shoot through the marketing BS they often have.

Also, support often are happy to answer general inquiries not related to the product, as long as it's not for outsourcing reasons (not their job to help you set up Apache). They may even get you in touch with someone more technical if needed.

Anyways, feel free to shoot an email yes, username at me dot com.