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by petit_robert | 2025-12-07 15:25:47+00:00
>This was one of the big reasons, most of these enterprise coders wanted Perl gone

I see some people disagree with you, but reading this reminds me of this anecdote :

My brother has a very high IQ score, but poor social skills. He once found employment in one of the very early companies developing websites in our area.

There was a process requiring to manually check hundreds of links for validity, which took large amounts of time to do (as in several developper hours weekly), and was error prone at that. The details are fuzzy as this happened some 30 years ago or so, but essentially he found a logical way to do the thing without error in 15 minutes.

The other developers went on a rampage to dismiss the solution, for fear of looking like idiots, and even though the solution was provable, my bro go fired, and went on to become a mechanic. What a shame though.

So, your comment rang a bell.

Also : I make a living developing and maintaining a handful of custom made SaaS for small clients on a LAMP stack (Linux Apache Mod_perl Postgresql). Very thrifty.

Little money, but loads of fun as far as I'm concerned
by bikenaga | 2025-12-07 15:26:13+00:00
Abstract: "We explore a higher-dimensional universe that is a product of Minkowski space and the non-orientable Klein Bottle. The topology explicitly breaks important symmetries, such as translational invariance and (5+1)-dimensional CP invariance. Somewhat surprisingly, the (3+1)-dimensional cp of the Minkowski space can also be broken by the Klein Bottle, both explicitly and in the presence of a brane. The topology enforces a background of fermion correlations that amounts to a condensate wall localized in the Klein Bottle. The wall acts as an order parameter for the broken symmetries. If a brane passes through the wall, brane fermions that couple to the condensate are produced as quantified by the Bogoliubov coefficients for a time-dependent mass. The scenario meets the conditions, including cp violation, to potentially generate the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe."
by kfajdsl | 2025-12-07 15:26:15+00:00
It’s one thing for you (yes, you, the user using the tool) to generate code you don’t understand for a side project or one off tool. It’s another thing to expect your code to be upstreamed into a large project and let others take on the maintenance burden, not to mention review code you haven’t even reviewed yourself!

Note: I, myself, am guilty of forking projects, adding some simple feature I need with an LLM quickly because I don’t want to take the time to understand the codebase, and using it personally. I don’t attempt to upstream changes like this and waste maintainers’ time until I actually take the time myself to understand the project, the issue, and the solution.
by llm_nerd | 2025-12-07 15:26:23+00:00
>It's not easy to hallucinate papers out of whole cloth, but LLMs can easily and confidently do it, quote paragraphs that don't exist, and do it tirelessly and at a pace unmatched by humans.

But no one is claiming these papers were hallucinated whole, so I don't see how that's relevant. This study -- notably to sell an "AI detector", which is largely a laughable snake-oil field -- looked purely at the accuracy of citations[1] among a very large set of citations. Errors in papers are not remotely uncommon, and finding some errors is...exactly what one would expect. As the GP said, do the same study on pre-LLM papers and you'll find an enormous number of incorrect if not fabricated citations. Peer review has always been an illusion of auditing.

1 - Which is such a weird thing to sell an "AI detection" tool. Clearly it was mostly manual given that they somehow only managed to check a tiny subset of the papers, so in all likelihood was some guy going through citations and checking them on Google Search.
by twodave | 2025-12-07 15:26:48+00:00
This is typically true of coffee produced at scale. Large batches are often overcooked, chemically cooled and then left longer on the shelf. The result of these things is increased acidity. I have found that I can tolerate the small-batch locally-roasted stuff much better. If you want to give it a go, find a local coffee roaster (often it’s just coffee shop that roasts their own). You’ll know it has a chance of being good if the bag has a “roasted on” date within the last week or two. Discard anything you haven’t used up before 90 days.
by hermitcrab | 2025-12-07 15:27:51+00:00
I've read it. There is some pretty dubious stuff in it. I think he is more interested in telling a good sounding story than looking at the research.

See also the 'If books could kill' podcast's take:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IeSWFtBEaYEIblkXTcuu2
by StellarScience | 2025-12-07 15:28:06+00:00
I've been writing complex scientific UIs for more than two decades and still don't feel like I always get it right. We aim for "gradual reveal" and making the most common options easy to find and use, but it's hard to get that right for everyone.

Microsoft tried hiding less commonly-used menu options a decade or so with Office and it was so terrible they abandoned it - only to try the same approach with the Windows 11 Explorer menu.

I absolutely hate that rigid "Basic" vs. "Advanced" distinction, but one of our image processing UIs was so complicated a customer really pressed us to add that. We tried and tried and couldn't come up with something better, so we settled on an approach that I still feel is suboptimal.

So I welcome seeing what AI/LLMs may be able to contribute to the UI design space, and customizing per user based on their usage seems like an interesting experiment. But at the same time I'm skeptical that AI will really excel in this very human and subjective area.
by _alternator_ | 2025-12-07 15:28:13+00:00
Let me second this: a baseline analysis should include papers that were published or reviewed at least 3-4 years ago.

When I was in grad school, I kept a fairly large .bib file that almost certainly had a mistake or two in it. I don’t think any of them ever made it to print, but it’s hard to be 100% sure.

For most journals, they actually partially check your citations as part of the final editing. The citation record is important for journals, and linking with DOIs is fairly common.
by hanshenning | 2025-12-07 15:28:18+00:00
You're not wrong, but this is actually what they're pursuing; the article just leaves it out.

> The goal is not only to save costs, but above all to gain digital sovereignty.

> [It's true] that open source is not necessarily cheaper, [..] it requires investment. But the money flows into internal infrastructure, into the further development of Nextcloud, LibreOffice, and other similar systems, instead of proprietary ones.

> Schleswig-Holstein pursues an "upstream-only strategy," meaning that developments flow directly back into international projects. The state does not want to maintain its own forks, but rather contribute all improvements directly to the main projects, thereby contributing to development for the benefit of the general public.[1]

On a side note, the real key to the project's success is that it's supported by a coalition of the conservative and green parties. They actually value digital sovereignty and longterm cost savings. Contrast that with Bavaria, where the MS lobbyist managed to get them to sign a longterm Office 365 contract…

[1]https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/hintergrund/Interview-Wi...
by analog31 | 2025-12-07 15:28:41+00:00
Immerse yourself in a workplace setting where Excel is the first thing that people grab for anything but text editing. You'll see how insanely productive people are. Now actually try switching to LO Calc.

I've done this several times during my career, to see if LO Calc would ever come up to the performance of Excel. To be fair, I haven't done so since I switched to Python.

Here's the experiment I would conduct. Generate a column of 5000 numbers. Now graph them. Now make a few token changes to the graph such as modifying some of the aesthetic parameters. The difference in processing time was profound, last time I tried it. Also, there was a noticeable "latency" between clicking something, and seeing something happen, that made it quite un-ergonomic if not physically painful to use. I'm sensitive to this because I get eyestrain headaches easily.
by xkcd-sucks | 2025-12-07 15:28:49+00:00
Theres a nice and comprehnsive treatment of this topic in https://acoup.blog/2025/10/17/collections-life-work-death-an...

> [A] series ... looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can help us explore the experiences of people who rarely leave much evidence of their day-to-day personal lives.
by agentultra | 2025-12-07 15:28:58+00:00
If I gave you a gun without a safety could you be the one to blame when it goes off because you weren’t careful enough?

The problem with this analogy is that it makes no sense.

LLMs aren’t guns.

The problem with using them is that humans have to review the content for accuracy. And that gets tiresome because the whole point is that the LLM saves you time and effort doing it yourself. So naturally people will tend to stop checking and assume the output is correct, “because the LLM is so good.”

Then you get false citations and bogus claims everywhere.
by elviejo | 2025-12-07 15:29:04+00:00
There is also verso / recto that uses the same technique.

https://github.com/nickpascucci/verso

I actually wish for a tool that would use two things: 1) navigate code like a file system: Class/function/lines [3..5]

2)allow us to use git commit revisions so that we could comment on the evolution of the code

So far the only thing capable has been leoEditor + org-babel
by zero_bias | 2025-12-07 15:29:04+00:00
Instead of offloading batch computations to a proprietary cloud, it’s better to actually optimize the incredibly slow and unstable computational kernel.

In any case that’s not the happy path, Mathematica gets stuck in symbolic computations for ages. My FFT-based research in Mathematica slowed to a crawl, tens of minutes of waiting, even with 90% of the code compiled to binary. MATLAB finishes this task in milliseconds.
by Closi | 2025-12-07 15:31:07+00:00
I would argue the opposite - the premise actually accepts that software developers and product owners can't always know how their software will be used by end users.

Besides, HCI will inevitably change because after 30 years of incremental user interface refinement, your average person still struggles to use Excel or Photoshop, but those same users are asking ChatGPT to help them write formulas or asking Gemini to help edit their photos.

I don't accept the premise that the interfaces were ever actually that good - For simple apps users can get around them fine, but for anything moderately complex users have mostly struggled or need training IMO. Blender as an example is an amazing piece of software - but ask any user who has never used it before to draw and render a bird without refering to the documentation (they won't be able to). If we want users to be able to use software like blender without needing to formally train them then we need a totally different approach (which would be great, as I suspect artistic ability and the technical ability to use blender are not necessarily correlated that strongly).
by xtracto | 2025-12-07 15:31:11+00:00
I'm sorry this guy feels like that, and I agree that there are tons of fraudsters and casino players in the current crypto scene.

It also doesn't surprise me to read the reactions in here, as most of HN users are from the US or other first world countries.

For people like me who were born and have lived in developing countries or countries were we cannot fully trust our banking/monetary systems, Bitcoin IS a tool to escape possible problems. I'm old enough to have been in 3 monetary crises in my country: 1985, 1994 and 2008. I'm old enough to have seen countries like Argentina, Venezuela, Spain, Lebanon, Greece experience bank runs. And when that happens, only the rich and connected can do something, while individuals like us are left holding the bag and paying for the errors of others (Americans may remember the 1% movement, occupy wall street).

So, no. Bitcoin is and still will be a useful thing for me and a lot of people. First word.country citizens may not understand it, until it becomes too late .
by eggplantiny | 2025-12-07 15:31:58+00:00
"OP here. Currently, most agents rely on computer vision (pixels) or raw DOM parsing. I argue that this is insufficient for deterministic B2B use cases because it misses 'invisible' logic (e.g., why is a button disabled?).

This whitepaper proposes a 'Semantic Projection' layer generated directly from the domain model. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this architectural approach.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-07 15:32:20+00:00
What separates an intentionally-founded city of industry and associated government, from a historical population center which has roots that go back many lifetimes before modern versions of these efforts arose anywhere?

If you were a city before there actually was any major industry or good government, these things would have surely developed (as good as they could) over the generations but still not actually formed the root of the reason for being there.

OTOH in a greenfield where the intention is explicitly to build better-than-average industry and leadership from the ground up, it's really a whole different reason to be there or go there to begin with. If that can be the main thing to take root it doesn't have to be very much like most places.

>grim human rights records of most of those successes.

I'm not so sure the Ship Channel would be what it is today if it weren't started out with unpaid labor. But even then labor has always been very expensive even when wages are not being paid, and forever loomed large on the balance sheets of the plantations and their backers who were often from Wall Street.

It still took a while but eventually through the magic of capitalism some very strong financial empires were built which finally could dwarf that nagging labor cost which just wouldn't go away no matter how much work you got out of slave labor or how much you cut back on other labor-related expenses.

I would say that's something that made it feasible for somebody to jump at the opportunity to start a new industrial/entrepreneurial community with bigger dreams than most, by having more wherewithal to get a good portion of the way there if an actual opportunity could be found.

Now it's taken a while but there are so many billionaires at such a high level that they can (finally?) dwarf even well-paid engineers and stuff by an even better multiple than 19th century stock tycoons had over agricultural labor costs, whether wages were paid or not.

Financially they could found a city like they did with Houston and not actually rely on unpaid labor whatsoever this time, and make even more of a killing.

The right opportunity came up with a major change in territorial administration after Texas won independence from Mexico, but it took a lot of foresight and sheer force of will to actually be the ones to pick out a nice spot of vacant land and say "this is where I'm going to build a city like no other".
by idiotsecant | 2025-12-07 15:32:38+00:00
The is the start of what I always thought an AI should have - a limbic system. Humans don't store memory based on novelty, they store it based on emotional content. This is where I was afraid of the tiger, this is where I smelled delicious food, this was what it felt like when I was victorious in the hunt.

AI needs an internal emotional state because that's what drives attention and memory. AI needs to want something.
by skeledrew | 2025-12-07 15:32:56+00:00
The right questions aren't always known up front. Some of the reasoning for using AI in the first place is to refine a fuzzy idea, so a tool like this can help one to go from fuzzy to concrete, with good guardrails in place to ensure the concrete is truly solid. The in this case, the point is that the components of good user interfaces are already available, and then composed based on user prompts to their exact specifications and frozen for normal usage. Unfreeze and prompt again later to tweak further, etc.
by mesrik | 2025-12-07 15:33:06+00:00
Yeah, that's true that water thrown to a stove isn't much contained anything but that bathing room. Some of water will of course flow between stones bit deeper, but there is plenty of room to expand when it boils to steam.

Some firm hissing, minor clanking noise from stones is normal and even bit sharper noise when a stone cracks is what water use on stove causes when stones get old and are used lot. Stove should be cleaned periodically when it's cold depending on how much it's been used and there is need to replace stones or even all of them if it's been long time and there is some sand accumulation stove bottom grill or plate, whatever it has to hold stones falling trough. Family houses cleaning perhaps 1/yr and public saunas open 6 am to 8 pm 300 plus days a year, they will do stove maintenance every or every other month.

And yes, getting good amount of steam of course is what's been whole goal in this kind of sauna use and what we prefer. Some other places where they have begun to call it sauna too, they may not even allow to use water nothing but as drinking water and usually they don't warm up that 'sauna' as hot as we tend to do or if they do it's more like Turkish bath type then.
by nosianu | 2025-12-07 15:33:20+00:00
Having grown up in East Germany, that is the truth. From both my grandparents, born early 20th century, to me things continuously got better. Apart from the war of course. They started little better than servant class and ended up with their own big nice houses, and in comfort. That is true even for the GDR. They lived through war and famine and at least four different currencies and types of government.

They also got more and more educated. From the lowest education to ever higher education degrees, one more step in each new generation. My grandfather tried many new tech hobbies as theY appeared, from (actual, original) tape recorders over mechanical calculators to at the time modern cameras and color slides, to growing hundreds of cactuses in a glasshouse, maybe as a substitute for being unable to travel to those places. I still have lots of quality 1950s and 60s color slides of people and places in East Germany.

Looking around. even the GDR until the end experienced significant improvements over what existed before, at least for the masses. Except for the environment especially near industry.
by hermitcrab | 2025-12-07 15:33:25+00:00
>I wonder if the hunter gather societies could have grown larger if they put in the same level of work as the agricultural societies?

I think it is about organization and population density. A hunter gatherer society is not going to be able to field an army of tens of thousands of people, as an agricultural society can. Hunter gatherers are also limited in their technology by their continual movement.

The Mongols were a nomadic society and very successful militarily (for a while). But they kept large numbers of animals and weren't hunter gatherers.
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-07 15:33:42+00:00
> "it's pretty much a dick move that someone can't just send a one liner and expect it to work on your system"

No, it isn't. This is what I'm objecting to - this frames the situation in terms of Linux being "the one correct way" to do everything computing, and that all companies, people, tools, operating systems, should do everything the way Linux does - and are dicks if they don't. Not just dicks, dicks to you personally.

Including Linux's 'competitors', they are dicks for including things which help their paying customers in a way that isn't the Linux approved way, and they shouldn't do that because of the demands of Linux users.

This is collectively domineering (everything should be my way!), entitled (I have a say how a tool I don't use, am not developing, don't want, and am not paying for, should work), self-centred (everything which exists should be for my convenience), and anti-progress (nobody can try to change anything in computing for any reason - not even other people improving their system for other people).

That is a framing change which should not go unnoticed, uncommented. It's also common in programming languages where people complain if a language looks a bit like C but doesn't behave exactly like C in every way.

Your arbitrary one liner won't work because Python isn't there. Perl isn't there. `ls` is different. Line endings and character encodings are different. xargs isn't there. OpenSSL, OpenSSH aren't there. `find` isn't there. `awk` isn't there. `sed` isn't there. `/` and `/sys` and `/etc` aren't there. It's a completely different shell! On a different OS!

It's not reasonable to expect that a shell that was designed to not be a *nix shell - because the underlying OS is not *nix - will work exactly like a *nix shell and you will be able to copypaste a one liner over.

It is unreasonable to see some developer trying to create a thing in the world which isn't Unix and take that as them being dicks to you personally. It's also bad to be like "I tried one command in this 'new shell' of yours and without understanding anything it didn't do exactly what I wanted and that's you being mean to me. and I'm still going to be hurt about this in unrelated posts decades later on the internet".
by alecco | 2025-12-07 15:33:48+00:00
Many years ago some people proposed to move open source to paid licensing to guarantee income for core open source developers. But the self-righteous community attacked them like it was the end of the world.

In the current cancel culture even if you use *GPL licenses you get attacked for not being MIT or similar. But mysteriously never a peep about Big Tech making billions off open source without giving back even a tiny 1% to the projects. Insanity.
by graemep | 2025-12-07 15:33:59+00:00
Governments have more to gain from being able to work with a few big companies on things like surveillance than they do from sovereignty - which many of them regard as an out of date idea anyway.

Despite all the talk about sovereign cloud the actual governments are actually going the other way.

1. The Online Safety Act in the UK pushes people to use big tech more rather than run stuff independently - the forums that moved to social media. 2. EU regulatory requirements that help the incumbents:https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/cispe_eu_sovereignty_... 3. ID apps in multiple countries that require installs from Google or Apple stores, and only run on their platforms. 4. The push to cashless which means increased reliance on Visa, Mastercard, Apple and Google.

To be clear I do not not think that any of these things are in the public interest. However the government is not the public, and the public (and probably a lot of the government) has deeply ingrained learned helplessness about technology.
by andy99 | 2025-12-07 15:35:04+00:00
I’ve reviewed a lot of papers, I don’t consider it the reviewers responsibility to manually verify all citations are real. If there was an unusual citation that was relied on heavily for the basis of the work, one would expect it to be checked. Things like broad prior work, you’d just assume it’s part of background.

The reviewer is not a proofreader, they are checking the rigour and relevance of the work, which does not rest heavily on all of the references in a document. They are also assuming good faith.
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-12-07 15:36:08+00:00
I wanted to try this, but it's not possible (yet?) for regular folks apparently.

Supposedly the two apps "BirdyChat" and "Hiket" are WA compatible. Both are waitlist only.

Even after searching for ~15 minutes, I could find no information about how to become such a compatible provider.

I hope this situation will improve drastically, but it also looks like Meta will do whatever they can to make it as hard and annoying as possible, as they don't want to lose market share. Disappointing.