MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 827a | 2025-12-31 18:43:53+00:00
> the size of the economy determines the value of the currency.

Economies do not grow if their currency is deflationary. If currency gains value over time, actors in the economy are disincentivized from transferring their money to other actors. Less spending means less economic activity; fewer businesses; less investment in high-risk technology research; loans get more expensive; we get stagnation and wealth inequality as individuals with money continue to accumulate it without any incentive to spend it with those who do not have as much.

"But we're in an inflationary environment right now, and there's still extreme wealth inequality" -> That's because our glorious leaders (sarcasm) found a non-currency thing they could subject to deflationary forces: Assets, like stocks and real estate. This was the effect of post-2008 monetary policy; all that extra money had to go somewhere in such a way where it would not cause significant inflation of the monetary supply, so it flooded into assets, which caused a deflationary effect there. Sure, Jeff Bezos has a few tens/hundreds of millions of actual-dollars; but his true wealth is his tens of billions in Amazon stock, which has jumped from ~$4 to ~$250 in the past 20 years.

I don't need to be convinced that printing too much currency is a bad thing and can cause too much inflation; its a matter of degree, not direction. Some might say that we printed way too much money during COVID; but others might argue that the situation would be much, much worse if we hadn't (remember: unemployment hit almost 15% during COVID; the highest number in recorded US history). Currency inflation and asset deflation are good things; but we're experiencing too much of both right now.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-31 18:43:55+00:00
I don't think you quite realize that Cybercab is a long, long way from scaling into a profitable business.

Safety and remote drivers are a huge barrier to achieving this. As is legal liability for accidents. Uber sidesteps this issue completely since it is the driver's responsibility.

Word is that Robotaxi's are crashing at a higher rate than human drivers in Austin --- even with safety drivers.

https://www.technology.org/2025/11/03/teslas-robotaxi-fleet-...
by orionsbelt | 2025-12-31 18:44:28+00:00
That’s misleading. Altman was simply doing a napkin calculation based on the scale at which ChatGPT operates and not estimating based on internal data:
“There are 15,000 people a week that commit suicide,” Altman told the podcaster. “About 10% of the world are talking to ChatGPT. That’s like 1,500 people a week that are talking, assuming this is right, to ChatGPT and still committing suicide at the end of it. They probably talked about it. We probably didn’t save their lives. Maybe we could have said something better. Maybe we could have been more proactive. Maybe we could have provided a little bit better advice about ‘hey, you need to get this help, or you need to think about this problem differently, or it really is worth continuing to go on and we’ll help you find somebody that you can talk to’.”

You could similarly say something like 10k+ people used Google or spoke to a friend this week and still killed themselves.

Many of those people may have never mentioned their depression or suicidal tendencies to ChatGPT at all.

I think Altman appropriately recognizes that at the scale at which they operate, there’s probably a lot more good they can do in this area, but I don’t think he thinks (nor should he think) that they are responsible for 1,500 deaths per week.
by chistev | 2025-12-31 18:44:45+00:00
Create a small Todo list of things you plan to do every single day. It should be a small manageable list. The point of keeping it small is to avoid procrastination. Procrastination is symptom of anxiety over tasks we need to do.

So you create a small Todo list and on that list you have something like -

Read x amount of pages of a book.

Do X

Do X

Go to the Gym

Etc. Etc.

Everyday you wake up and try to complete the activities on the list.

Slow and steady. Consistency over intensity.

You'll see that the number of pages you've read will add up very quickly. Just keep it manageable. It's not a competition.
by droptablemain | 2025-12-31 18:46:13+00:00
-> or take horse medicines

Guessing you're referring to the long-debunked notion that Ivermectin is purely "horse medicine." A cursory search (which you apparently have never bothered to do in 5 years) reveals it's been approved by the FDA for human use since 1987 and is on the WHO's list of essential medicines.
by bediger4000 | 2025-12-31 18:46:29+00:00
That's a good question, one I thought of, but have put off grappling with.

Based on what LLMs have given me for answers so far, I'd look harder for the human-written source of the nroff code. I have written what I believe to be the only quine in the GPP macro processing language, LLMs only refer me to my code if I ask for a GPP quine. Google, Meta, OpenAI really have strip mined the entire web.

If I genuinely thought anything creative or new appeared, I'd probably be at a loss as well.
by Hizonner | 2025-12-31 18:46:44+00:00
I read several subreddits and see nearly no images, nearly no rage bait (probably less than on Hacker News, in fact), and exactly no porn. My daily Reddit experience is so close to Hacker News that I've been known to forget which one I'm on.

Reddit still has the capacity to show you what you're actually looking for. It still lets you find content by interest, rather than by personalities. It still keeps replies together, still lets you order by time easily, and doesn't stick too much random crap in the middle (none if you use a decent ad blocker). It handles long form content well and doesn't try to force everything to be a sound bite that you have to click on to see more. It's still convenient to use it that way, and most users probably do use it that way.

Compare to, say, Youtube, which fight you ever step of the way if you try not to be drowned in a disordered flood of some combination of what a computer guesses you might want and what it's most profitable for the site for you to see (including what will keep you on the site), with your only control being which "influencers" you uprank by "subscribing" to them.
by neogodless | 2025-12-31 18:46:52+00:00
I'm not sure how much of "the stock market" TSLA makes up, but at current valuation, it makes up 1.9% of VTI (so that's a good estimation). So it could blink out of existence and only take VTI down 2%. (2% is significant of course.) But more likely might be a slow erosion while other components grow, making index funds and "the entire stock market" quite resilient to such a shock.
by interloxia | 2025-12-31 18:47:31+00:00
>Citizenship has to be irreversible, or very close to it,

Australia at least states that expulsion is compatible with human rights.

"The Bill is compatible with human rights because, to the extent that it may limit some human rights, those limitations are reasonable, necessary and proportionate in achieving the legitimate objective of protecting the Australian community."

Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Repudiation) Bill 2023

Attachment A Statement of Compatibility with Human Rights
by elktown | 2025-12-31 18:47:41+00:00
You are lying, it's not genuine advice, and you are being intentionally derogatory - since that's how you're handling all your outburst from what I've seen.

Look, here's a funny search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

So let's see:

1. ninetyninenine gets banned 38 days ago.

2. You create your new account 36 days ago (funnily using the same username style).

3. Suddenly this rare expression is used again! Just a single page in the history of HN search indexing.

4. Incredibly it's also in conjunction with both users saying "Nobody understand how LLMs really work!", which is a rare statement to see in its own right.

5. Incredibly it's also in conjunction where both users do the same appeal to authority by linking to the same Geoffrey Hinton clip, both immediately calling him the godfather/father of AI.

So yeah, it must be your AI clone. And this is just one of the obvious direct connections I noticed, because I actually doubled checked when you denied it. An unsurprising waste of time ofc, but here we are. And this is just on top of having the exact same commenting style and quarrelsomeness.

Stop. Lying.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-12-31 18:47:45+00:00
> or have it done as part of the standard functions like `map`.

Which are all well and good when they are applicable, which is not always 100% of the time.

> Because I usually do checks against the length of the array

And what do you have your code do if such "checks" fail? Throw an assertion error? Which is my whole point, I'm advocating in favor of sanity-check exceptions.

Or does calling them "checks" instead of "assumptions" magically make them less brittle from surrounding code changes?
by WadeGrimridge | 2025-12-31 18:48:10+00:00
yes, please, that'd be cool! you can link my site grimridge.net if you'd like. here are the numbers so you can plot graphs that fit the site's style:

mean (all time): https://katb.in/yutupojerux

mean (since 2020): https://katb.in/omoyibisava

median (all time): https://katb.in/kilopofivet

median (since 2020): https://katb.in/ukefetuyuhi
by blacksqr | 2025-12-31 18:48:33+00:00
The best carbon capture device is the ocean, and for the last 10 years or so huge amounts of free-floating sargassum seaweed have grown in warm ocean waters around the world. Nobody is certain why the sargassum has appeared in such volume lately, but it's plausible to speculate that increased CO2 in ocean water plays a role. As far as I can see the only remotely efficient way to sequester carbon at scale is to leverage the ocean by gathering the seaweed and dumping it on marginal or desert land, both to trap the carbon and fertilize the soil, thus promoting additional carbon-binding plant growth.
by conradev | 2025-12-31 18:48:39+00:00
After leaving television production, he worked as a consultant for the Internet Archive, helping to preserve and provide public access to cultural and technological media, including Computer Chronicles and other technology programs.

The full archive of Computer Chronicles is online because Stewart put in the work to make that happen. He talks a bit about it (and Computer Chronicles in general!) in a 2013 interview with Leo Laporte on TWiT: https://youtu.be/WdtHS_X1ibg

RIP Stewart – you’ve taught me a lot!
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-31 18:48:58+00:00
From the comments:

>The number of staff and non-tenure track faculty has ballooned dramatically since I arrived at Rice in 2004. I agree with you, that from what I've read elsewhere, it's a common phenomenon at well-resourced institutions.

What I've seen at a number of universities are opportunities to get hired on to things like full-time maintenance staff with better pay, job security, and work-life-balance compared to actual PhDs.

And maybe more likely to be a decades-long career at the same institution, compared to recognized scholars.

I couldn't help but notice this about ten years ago, and UH looks like it is on track too.
by wyre | 2025-12-31 18:49:07+00:00
Anti-trust doesn’t have to involve force, but monopolistic behavior.

Google has spent over a decade advertising Chrome on all their properties and has an unlimited budget and active desire to keep Chrome competitive. Mozilla famously needs Google’s sponsorship to stay solvent. Apple maintains Safari to have no holes in their ecosystem.

Stop being silly defending trillion dollar companies that are actively making the internet worse, it’s not productive or funny.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-31 18:49:34+00:00
I gave up on Java when Oracle took over, because I thought that it was such a horrific move, but, to their credit, they haven't ruined it for everyone (yet)

They've kept it alive, allowed it to grow, and innovate, even let Green threads back in.

I'm not planning on going back to Java, but that's no longer because Oracle.
Show HN: Got tired of searching for AI news daily so I built my own AI news page
by lilsquid | 2025-12-31 18:49:43+00:00
I love HN <3 my homepage. While I’m still learning the ropes of building a public website, I created DreyX.com out of a simple necessity: I wanted a better way to track AI news without all the fluff. Literally a tool built by a curious reader, for curious readers. Thoughts? Suggestions?

For the only 10 people who will see this page. Thank you.
Show HN: I vibe-coded a DAW that lets you vibe-compose with Opus 4.5
by elliotbnvl | 2025-12-31 18:49:50+00:00
I vibe-coded this with Claude Opus 4.5 and I'm kind of blown away. It's a browser-based DAW where you describe music and Claude composes it using an agentic loop with lots of tools (create tracks, write notes, read back what it wrote, apply swing, humanize timing, set panning/volume, etc.). It also supports recording via MIDI keyboard, looping, multi-track, panning, a bunch of synth instruments, all inspired by the Logic Pro UI.

I guess Opus 4.5 can build genuinely complex semi-novel multi-step tools now. The whole music engine, scheduler, and tool system came together way faster than I expected. Took maybe four or five days over Christmas break?

You have to provide an Anthropic API key but it's all local to your browser and never goes to my servers. But you can import and export projects, export .WAV, etc. to get around the local storage limitation.

- https://youtu.be/vgeN_obkg50

- https://synthesizer-steel.vercel.app/
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-12-31 18:50:27+00:00
This is true for amateurs encoding video files to be pirated, but for the mega corps, sending more bits costs more money.

Many years ago, I had a couple drinks with a guy from Netflix who worked on their video compression processes, and he fully convinced me they're squeezing every last drop out of every bit they send down the pipes. The quality is not great compared to some other streaming services, but it's actually kind of amazing how they're able to get away with serving such tiny files.

Anyway, I think we can expect these companies to mostly max out the resultant video quality of their bitstreams, and showing the average bitrate of their pricing tiers would be a great yardstick for consumers.
by ZebusJesus | 2025-12-31 18:50:33+00:00
This was a great breakdown and very well written. I think you made one of the better arguments for rust Ive read on the internet but you also made sure to acknowledge that large code bases are just a different beast all together. Personally I will say that AI has made making code proofs or "formal verification" more accessible. Actually writing a proof for your code or code verification is very hard to do for most programmers which is why it is not done by most programmers, but AI is making it accessible and with formal verification of code you prevent so many problems. It will be interesting to see where programming and compliers go when "formal verification" becomes normal.
by jhoke | 2025-12-31 18:50:39+00:00
Hey, for less latency for the llm portion, take a look at Cerebras. It won't run OpenAI models, but if you can substitute for an equivalent you might be able to have better speeds. There is a memory constraint so not sure if it's the most suitable for the project though. Curious to see how this works out in terms of consistent durable performance.
by idle_zealot | 2025-12-31 18:51:24+00:00
> Dole out the ire, but it won't fix the problem until you realize that everyone's dismissal of ownership and responsibility in exchange for convenience is what creates the googles and apples of the world

This is the opposite of true. Blaming normal human behavior for our problems is distraction from effective action. Humans are a near-constant, you have to look to incentive structures to make any changes to the world.
by fullshark | 2025-12-31 18:51:28+00:00
There's a sweet spot they want to hit, where their internal scam ad reduction efforts do enough to make sure people don't leave in droves, and they are totally fine with the scam ads that make it through bringing in revenue.

The last thing they want is regulators forcing them to spend at least $X in resources to limit scam ads to some target and have it hurt their margins.
by _wire_ | 2025-12-31 18:51:33+00:00
Win and mac/iOS have never been stable either, so the premise is meaningless.

The biggest operational hazard to any personal computer is being forced to update it by dependencies outside of your control.

The next biggest hazard is giving in to the temptation to update it because you think updating will improve something.

The operational instability of a given system is a distant but significant third place hazard, which is difficult to mitigate because of the lack of clear understanding about what the system is good for and how it should work in the first place.

If you truly don't care to how a personal computer works (or can't know due to some limitation) and you find yourself dependent on other people to deliver an appliance to do something — which by definition you only know how to do because you were shown — then you are ensnared in the technology and issues about stability are mostly about imperfections in a social contract, and rarely about about imperfections in any instance of the technology.

Everybody knows how to what they do with a personal computer because they are motivated by curiosity about its utility.

Linux is useful, and if you find utility motivating, you can learn how to use Linux to get work done. Just like Win and mac.

Along with linux's utility, you also get the complete freedom to purpose the system as you see fit, whereas Win and mac impose sharp limits on your freedom.

As to the value of your freedom and the value of social contracts, that's a complicated domain of tradeoffs.

As history has presented to us all a great case study in these trade offs in the form of personal computers, we find ourselves subject to the enduring observation that individuals who trade liberty for security penultimately suffer the lack of both. But you might not notice if you're very lucky, and the computer industry has given rise to more than its fair share of very lucky people.
Ask HN: Do typical computer monitors spy on you now?
by andy99 | 2025-12-31 18:51:35+00:00
I’m buying a new monitor for the first time probably ever - quality isn’t too important to me, it’s for configuring a desktop machine that will mostly be a server. I know that most TVs are essentially spyware now, is the same true for monitors? If I get a cheap one or amazon, are there any concerns? Are there some that will make you install some software, or are there other tricks I don’t know about?
Show HN: FantasyDawg – Your Fantasy Football League Recap
by perhapsAnLLM | 2025-12-31 18:51:44+00:00
I'm a huge sports fan and long-time fantasy football player. I recently launched FantasyDawg, a custom Year in Review website for your Sleeper league!

Simply input your Sleeper League ID or username, and we'll generate a custom dashboard packed with fun stats, analytics, and visualizations about your season. (If your league doesn't use Sleeper, let me know which platform you use).

Also, give the "Season Wrapped" feature a try. We'll generate a graphic, Spotify Wrapped-style, to easily share with your leaguemates or on social media!

My goal is to build _the_ Analytics Hub for the fantasy football community - a tool that adds some fun to your season, for any platform, league type, or scoring system. If there's anything you've ever wished you could add to your fantasy experience, let me know!

Check it out at https://www.fantasydawg.com
by conductr | 2025-12-31 18:52:05+00:00
As a layman on this topic, but assuming the gathering requires fossil fuel and probably lots of it given the scale, is it feasible to do the gathering in a net negative carbon way?

I feel like anything I hear about that teases net negative sequestration at scale eventually falls apart or is found to be akin to a perpetual energy machine that eventually is debunked.
by borski | 2025-12-31 18:52:09+00:00
What’s more likely? That they were banned due to misunderstandings of what these devices are, or that they were banned they are “causing a disturbance”? Can you find an example of such a case? I’m not sure why this feels so important to defend.

There are several definitions of security, but the most relevant (in this context) are:

1. the state of being protected against or safe from danger or threat.

2. the safety of a state or organization against criminal activity such as terrorism, theft, or espionage.

3. procedures followed or measures taken to ensure the safety of a state or organization.

I fail to see how these devices fall into those definitions. I also don’t see how beach balls do either.

So if your argument is changing to: it isn’t security, but rather preventing people from getting in each other’s way (large signs, strollers, beach balls) I once again don’t see how that applies.

I agree those items have nothing to do with security either.
by miroljub | 2025-12-31 18:52:15+00:00
The latest example from a week ago. The article is pro sanctions (as all EU mainstream media).

The problem is these people were sanctioned, their lives ruined, without any legal process of conviction.

If the same happens to someone closer to the EU establishment, like ICC judge, EU, then they cry foul.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/12/18/who-are-the-we...
by theodpHN | 2025-12-31 18:52:15+00:00
RIP. Was a faithful CC viewer. Anyone aware of something like this show today that regularly reviews general software/apps/hardware/tech for a more mainstream audience - on PBS, cable, network, or even podcasts? With the role tech plays in the lives of all ages these days, one would think there would be more tech info offerings for the general public today than what was available back in the 80's - Computer Chronicles, MSNBC shows, magazine/newspapers (including the NY Times!) - but nothing comes to mind.
by k310 | 2025-12-31 18:52:55+00:00
I just want self-adjusting glasses. Progressives don't work. I'm using lower power reading glasses right now on this desktop.

Chuckle if you want. You'll get old if you're lucky.

Having been called "four eyes" since childhood, I gather that most people would want no glasses at all. It was cruel. Trendy now?

> Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality?

Unvarnished reality. It may suck at times, but it's mine, not someone else's. [2]

As for the spy aspect, binoculars that see "left and right" as well as forward exist, [0] so you can snoop without staring, though it would look dumb in a subway, the site of the latest internet explosion. [1]

[0] https://www.eastcolight.com/product/99448-3-way-spy-binocula...

Not an ad, nor an inducement to buy said binoculars.

[1] https://futurism.com/future-society/woman-hero-smashing-meta...

Thanks to user thomassmith65 for the link!

[2] I showed my son-in-law a Hasselblad 500 C/M. He couldn't get over the fact that it needed no battery. Discuss.
by senfiaj | 2025-12-31 18:53:35+00:00
Again, it seems we are arguing because of our subjective differences in the title correctness and rigor. Personally, I would not expect such title even from a pop-math type article. At least it should be more obvious from the title.

"Transcendental" or even "irrational" isn't a vibesy category like "mysterious" or "beautiful", it's a hard mathematical property. So a headline that flatly labels a number "transcendental" while simultaneously admitting "not even proven to be irrational" inside the article, looks more like a clickbait.
by thangalin | 2025-12-31 18:53:51+00:00
> started in a reasonable amount of time

A hasty generalization with a little confirmation bias, perhaps?

$ time keenwrite.bin --version
KeenWrite version 3.6.5
Copyright 2016-2025 White Magic Software, Ltd.

user 0m0.329s

From Claude:

> It's worth noting this is a common perception about Java, and there's some historical truth to it (especially with Swing desktop applications from the 2000s). However, the absolute statement "no Java app... ever" is the fallacy - it's an overgeneralization from limited personal experience to a universal claim.