MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tern | 2025-12-09 21:17:33+00:00
For me, the biggest tell was how frequently older people report feeling completely at peace and ready to die.

As my own life progressed, the feeling of novelty became harder to find, and then less important. Grief became easier, death became lighter.

As I deepened my investigation into the nature of my own experience, I started to realize that "I" do not exist in the way that I originally assumed, and I started to wonder what we're even talking about when we talk about death. Who or what is dying?

The self, time, and consciousness are not well-understood in philosophy, science, or the experience of most people, and as such, most conversations about immortality are really about something else.
by moralestapia | 2025-12-09 21:17:38+00:00
>There's this genuine repulsion I feel when people talk about a future where death by old age is no longer a thing.

Tell me you're from the US without telling you're from the US. They're always keen to police over other people's lives, it's so noticeable when you're not from that culture.

As with almost every other "controversial" topic, the answer to this one is: let people who want to die, die, and let people who want to live, live.
by bifurcation | 2025-12-09 21:17:58+00:00
Hi there, ISRG co-founder and current board member here. In brief, shorter lifetimes force people to automate (which, e.g., avoids outages from manual processes) and mitigates the broken state of revocation in the Web PKI. That latter point especially is what I understand to be driving the Web PKI toward ever-shorter lifetimes.

I actually remember the discussion we had in ~2014 about what the default certificate lifetime should be. My opening bid was two weeks -- roughly the lifetime of an OCSP response. The choice to issue certificates with 90 day lifetimes was still quite aggressive in 2015, but it was a compromise with an even more aggressive position.
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-09 21:18:14+00:00
See also: Citigroup's plutonomy thesis[1] from 2006

tldr: the formal economy will shift to serving plutocrats instead of consumers, it's much more profitable to do so and there are diminishing returns serving the latter

[1] https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/b/bc/CITIGROUP-MARCH-5-20...
by charlesbarbier | 2025-12-09 21:18:17+00:00
Not sure if there is a point to "keep things in Europe" when it come to certificate authority.

- LetsEncrypt don't have the private key tied to your certificate - Any of the Certificate Authorities could potentially emit unauthorized certificate

Your only protection for all of these problems is HPKP. If you prefer to keep things in Europe, keep that pinned private key in Europe, but the rest doesn't matter.

That said, it's pretty nice that LetsEncrypt forced the ACME protocol on this industry. Not only it create redundancy with mostly interchangeable alternatives but before ACME, there was no way to fully automate certificate provisioning cleanly.
by rickdeckard | 2025-12-09 21:18:21+00:00
In 5 years, the dominant form-factor will still be a phone. This is not the risk.

The existential FEAR of the smartphone ecosystem players (Apple, Google) is, that another ecosystem (!) may come along, one that is tighter integrated into the daily lives, is more predictive of the users' needs, requires less interaction and is not under THEIR control.

Because this is not about devices, it's about owning the total userbase of that OS-ecosystem.

Replacing the Smartphone has been attempted numerous times in the past decade, but no device was able to replace it as a consumption device. Now technology has reached a level of maturity that Smart Glasses may have a shot at this. AND they come along with their own ecosystem as well.

Whatever happens, they won't replace all phones within 5 years. But it's possible that such a device would become a companion to an iOS/Android phone and within 5 years gradually eases off users of their phones into that other ecosystem.

And that's scary for Apple and Google.

Because this is not a device-war, this is an ecosystem-war.
by 9rx | 2025-12-09 21:19:00+00:00
That's a pretty good sign that the HN user base as a rule finds most enjoyment in writing high quality content for themselves. All questions are legitimate, but in this circumstance what reason is there to believe that they would find even more enjoyment from reducing the quality?

It seems a lot like code. You can "vibe code" your way into an ungodly mess, but those who used to enjoy the craft of writing high quality code before LLMs arrived still seem to insist on high quality code even if an LLM is helping produce it now. It is highly likely that internet comments are no different. Those who value quality will continue to. Those who want garbage will produce it, AI or not.

Much more likely is seeing the user base shift over time towards users that don't care about quality. Many a forum have seen that happen long before LLMs were a thing, and it is likely to happen to forums again in the future. But, the comments aren't written for you (except your own, of course) anyway, so... It is not rational to want to control what others are writing for themselves. But you can be responsible for writing for yourself what you want to see!
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-09 21:19:07+00:00
> What ideals are those exactly?

Anyone can use the code for whatever purpose they want, in any way they want. I've never been a "rich megacorporation", but I have gone from having zero money to having enough money, and I still think the very same thing about the code I myself release as I did from the beginning, it should be free to be used by anyone, for any purpose.
by drhagen | 2025-12-09 21:19:09+00:00
A funny thing I realized: immortality is incompatible with spending a nonzero fraction of my life with children.

I treasure the time I spend with my kids. I can see that this season will be over soon. This won't be my whole life, but it will be a significant fraction of my life. If I were immortal, this would be a tiny blip in the inconceivably far past for 100% of my life.

You may think I could start again every 100 or 1000 or million years, but if a nonzero fraction of people did that, that would be exponential growth. Even ignoring resource constraints, you cannot sustain exponential growth of any kind in a 3D universe.

A universe with kids necessitates a universe with death.
by zebomon | 2025-12-09 21:19:26+00:00
The author's argument seems to be a practical one and two-part: 1) without death, there's nothing to motivate us to live life well and 2) unless we live life well, there's no point in living.

I just disagree with both postulates, and that's fine. The author can go on thinking that life needs to be something specific in order for it to be desirable. I myself like being productive. I also like eating fast food every once in a while. I think I'd be able to go on living (with some happiness to boot) if I never had another productive day or another McD's burger ever again.

Life can be its own end. If we manage to end death by aging, someday there will be children who have never known another world, and they'll marvel at all the death-centric thinking that permeated the societies of their past.
by arscan | 2025-12-09 21:19:49+00:00
In grad school 15+ years ago I took a ‘user-centered innovation’ class and I wrote a paper on the topic of Kali and its predecessor: how gamers, not the game devs, made games built for IPX work across the internet. What is neat is early collab on the first ipx->tcp/ip bridge happened on Usenet, so you can find a record of the first doom deathmatch coordinated and played over the internet. I think I reached out to jay cotton (author of kali) via email and he answered my questions, so I’d try to track him down if I were you.

Sadly I didn’t make a backup of my paper (not sure how I managed to screw that up), so I no longer have it.
by gitremote | 2025-12-09 21:20:10+00:00
I've been doing API development for over ten years and worked at different companies. Most PMs are not technical and it's the development team's job figure out the technical specifications for APIs we build. If you press the PMs, they will ask the engineering/development manager for the written technical requirements, and if the manager is not technical, they will assign it to the developers/engineers. Technical requirements for an API are really a system design question.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-12-09 21:20:30+00:00
That's been discussed previously in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628 and dang said in the topmost comment: "They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated comments. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don't want canned responses from humans either! ...". There more to his comment if you're interested.

The HN guidelines haven't yet been updated but perhaps if enough people send an email to the moderators, they'll do it.
Show HN: Library to help find memory leaks for C#
by theolivenbaum | 2025-12-09 21:20:31+00:00
I got tired of shelling out to dotnet-gcdump to investigate memory leaks, so I made a tiny C# library that lets you trigger .gcdump captures programmatically. Useful for debugging memory leaks, taking snapshots before/after operations, or grabbing dumps automatically in CI.

Repo: https://github.com/curiosity-ai/memory-introspect

Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Memory.Introspect
by dylan604 | 2025-12-09 21:20:55+00:00
And that is the very point of the short life span. One year certs had the potential of the person responsible for the cert no longer being the same person at time of renewal. Making it easy to automate so that it was just a cron task meant it didn't matter how often the person responsible changed.

Your pain and intolerance to that button push proves their intent.
by jmward01 | 2025-12-09 21:21:08+00:00
We need to force change to encourage growth and exploration. "Science advances one funeral at a time" acknowledge this but that doesn't mean actual death is needed. We need to create strong systems that encourage forcing people, and processes, out in everything we do. Term limits, retirement, etc etc. Nothing should have a 'forever' clause to it because nothing is forever.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-09 21:21:10+00:00
Are any of them integrated with git? AFAIK, you'd have to instruct them to use git for you if you don't want to do it manually.

Imagine a GUI built around git branches + agents working in those branches + tooling to manage the orchestration and small review points, rather than "here's a chat and tool calling, glhf".
by lpandong | 2025-12-09 21:21:14+00:00
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by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-09 21:21:27+00:00
Shortage in the absence of price controls generally means that something is inhibiting supply from increasing as demand does, causing increased demand to have the primary result of increasing prices rather than increasing production.

Sometimes this is expected or unavoidable, e.g. if you have a sudden increase in the demand for electricity then the price will increase temporarily until new power generation or transmission capacity can be brought online, and in the meantime you have a shortage.

The problem comes when the shortage is a result of artificial scarcity as it is with housing/zoning, because then it's not temporary, it persists until the cause of the artificial scarcity is defeated.
by orangecat | 2025-12-09 21:21:32+00:00
Would a reasonable solution be to introduce a massive, rolling holocaust (i.e. introduce into this world the concept of death)?

And not only death, but aging. Even if that society decided (wrongly IMO) that nobody should live longer than 100 years, it would be insane to enforce that by making everyone's bodies and minds deteriorate over several decades.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-09 21:21:34+00:00
I think you're misreading his intent. It may not be the case for those you rented from, but over the last 15-20 years, the standard practice for them has increasingly become "Form an LLC".

In most cities, when you rent a detached house from a corporation, it's really one individual behind it.

These people are likely not the minority.
by bflesch | 2025-12-09 21:21:53+00:00
Thanks for your reply. As I said, on your website there is no address, there is no legal entity name, there is no company registration number. You could sit in north korea for all I know.

Now I spotted in the last sentence of your "about us" that "We're based in SF". Oh and only now I see on the "terms" page has "15. Contact information qqbot, Inc 3624 16th St San Francisco, CA 94114 Email: support@detail.dev"

Why not put that address into the footer or add an imprint section to the website? It's such a quick win to establish trust. Also if guillermo rauch is an angel investor why mention him at the last sentence of the "about us" page and not in the middle of your landing page. Why did guillermo not post a testimonial that add to the landing page? Did he not like the product? Or did he not review the product?

PS: When I search for "qqbot" on kagi a lot of chinese-language results show up. Is the company affiliated with china?

Sorry for challenging you. I wish you good luck if your claims hold it is a worthwhile effort.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-12-09 21:22:04+00:00
Either you should know your tool well enough to turn it off,

Everyone can do that and by saying this you have already missed the point.

You think literally all windows text is "obscure changes to the output"? Have you ever used windows? All text you have ever saved has a carriage return in it.

Zig is absolutely correct in not allowing for either case

Then why does every other language, text editor and text tool in existence deal with this single extra character?

I wasn't aware of this but it makes me even more convinced of their principles.

Which are what exactly? Making a windows version that doesn't work to intentionally annoy their users?

There is no rationalization you can come up with that isn't hypocritical here unless you admit that you just like malice towards windows users, because that's all it is.

The expurgation of "losers" less so.

Who are losers here? Zig users who tried it on windows or people who know what a carriage return is?
by oleganza | 2025-12-09 21:22:30+00:00
I asked ChatGPT what traits should vibe-oriented programming language have and oh boy did it deliver.

(https://chatgpt.com/share/693891af-d608-8002-8b9b-91e984bb13...)

* boring and straightforward syntax and file structure: no syntax sugar, aliases, formatting freedom that humans cherish, but machines are getting confused, no context-specific syntax.

* explicitness: no hidden global state, shortcuts and UB

* basic static types and constraints

* tests optimized for machine evaluation

etc.
by 8organicbits | 2025-12-09 21:22:42+00:00
I'm not sure that refutes the idea that encryption was uncommon. A couple tech giants with challenging threat models will be ahead of the curve.

Google started tracking adoption of TLS in 2015, with adoption below 50% and some regions below 30%.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview?hl=en
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-09 21:22:45+00:00
> I think Aider is closest to what you want.

> The chat interface

Seems very much not, if it's still a chat interface :) Figuring out a chat UX is easy compared to something that was creating with letting LLM fill in some parts from the beginning. I guess I'm searching for something with a different paradigm than just "chat + $Something".
by AngryData | 2025-12-09 21:23:04+00:00
So it was evil because the soviets supported the North? Because communism?

Pretty sure the soviets were perfectly fine with the North taking the South considering the South was US aligned which gave the US a foothold right on their doorstep. And again, the vast majority of Korean people on both sides supported Korean unification. The South Korean leadership, which was basically appointed by the US for their pro-US and anti-communism stance, was so unpopular among South Koreans that there was civilian insurrectionists trying to topple it. The South Korean military upon invasion couldn't even keep its own troops from deserting in significant numbers, and they even blew up a bridge full of refuges to try and stop the advance which it failed to do.

Yes the North invaded which is generally bad, but they did do it with popular sentiment among the people, and they weren't attacking and killing civilians along the way.

And regardless of all that, none of that justifies the US response of bombing and killing millions of civilians and leveling entire cities. The Korean War is considered the most deadly war in Asia ever, and had far higher percentage of civilian casualties than WWII and Vietnam.
by serf | 2025-12-09 21:23:06+00:00
The wearos devices can do all that stuff too, and fitbit is kind of getting blended into those devices piece by piece -- so after years of Fitbit use I can say that the best fitbit device i've had is ... a Pixel Watch 4.

I mention this because , at least for the functionalities that you mention, I think the pixel watches are catching up nicely.

... but they still haven't been able to make me feel less stupid talking into a watch for phone calls like some off-brand James Bond wannabe, even if it works great.
by bifurcation | 2025-12-09 21:23:08+00:00
Just to clear up one point -- Let's Encrypt did not at all force ACME on the industry. We deliberately took it to the IETF so that we could get input from more parts of the industry (including some major refactors!). Instead of pressure from Let's Encrypt, I would attribute its success to the open process of the IETF, the awesome open-source community that made great ACME software (shoutout to Matt and Caddy!), and the resulting pressure on CAs for a better user experience from users and customers.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-09 21:23:19+00:00
I still remember the original announcement around LE and thought "Great idea, no idea if they'll be able to get buy-in from browsers/etc", now I use it on all my self-hosted sites and will probably be transitioning my employer over to it when we switch to automated renewal sometime next year.

LE has been an amazing resource and every time I setup a new website and get a LE cert I smile. Especially after having lived/experienced the pain that was SSL/TLS before LE.
by shifttwo | 2025-12-09 21:23:41+00:00
Inspired by this post, I have asked chatgpt what the mail inbox of a university professor will look like in 10 years. Not everything was funny, but here are some good ones:

- “Hi Prof, Sorry for Late Reply—My Smart Fridge Locked Me Out (Assignment Attached)”

- “URGENT: PhD Student Accidentally Achieved Sentience (Needs Committee Approval)”

- “Question About Homework 3 (Submitted by My AI Twin, Is That Okay?)”

- “Re: Firmware Update Bricked Entire Smart Campus — Students Request Deadline Extension”

- “Grant Review Feedback: ‘Too Secure for Real-World Deployment’”

- “Can I Get Partial Credit? My IoT Implant Was Flagged as Malware”

- “Reminder: Mandatory Annual Ethics Training for Autonomous Systems (40 minutes)”
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-12-09 21:24:13+00:00
It's a good study. I also believe it is not an easy skill to learn. I would not say I have 10x output but easily 20%

When I was early in use of it I would say I sped up 4x but now after using it heavily for a long time some days it's 20% other days -20%

It's a very difficuly technology to know when you're one or the other.

The real thing to note is when you "feel" lazy and using AI you are almost certainly in the -20% category. I've had days of not thinking and I have to revert all the code from that day because AI jacked it up so much.

To get that speed up you need to be truly focused 100% or risk death by a thousand cuts.
by tveyben | 2025-12-09 21:24:14+00:00
If one want’s an opinion from AI, one must ask AI - if on the other hand one want’s an opinion from a human being (those with a real brain thinking real thoughts etc.) then - hopefully - that’s what you get (and will keep getting) when visiting HN.

Please don’t pollute responses with made-up machine generated time-wasting bits here…!!!
by cwmoore | 2025-12-09 21:24:48+00:00
Thanks for the answer. Safety shouldn’t be lame and repellent.

TPMS, at ~400MHz, is a potentially valid input for traction control in certain cases, and potentially, a road quality and location signal as well.

Once all the data is available, tested, analyzed, and applied, there isn’t going to be much left to do but smile, smile, smile.
by parineum | 2025-12-09 21:25:44+00:00
How many people are performing proper maintenance on their record players?

The point stands either way. Vinyl isn't durable. It gets worn by proper usage and worse by improper usage.

My FLAC files are as perfect as the day I got them and are backed up both at home and remotely. Vinyl is an inferior format but people like rituals and hobbies but then they tell themselves lies about how it's actually better.

It's fine if you find it romantic and pleasing to pull out the vinyl, put it on the player then read the liner notes while listening to the album. That's awesome. It's the same for lots of hobbies I have but let's not act like it's technically superior in any way.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-09 21:25:48+00:00
Back then we were playing WarCraft II over a LAN with... The neighbors. We managed, as teenagers, to snatch some old 10BASE2 "ethernet over coax" gear: cables, BNC connectors and terminators, and most of all ethernet adapter cards.

We weren't fully geared though, so we'd assemble the cables manually, using whatever we could find to attach the connectors.

Then we'd use a long piece of string with something attached to it that we'd throw, from the 2nd or 3rd floor of the house, to the neighbor's house. And then we'd use the string to pull up the coax cable.

And then humans and little orcs would transit through the coax cables.

Oh the memories.

We'd also play and be ranked on Case's Ladder, for back then Battle.net didn't even exist yet. So it was all KALI to simulate a LAN over the Internet and play against strangers.

And we'd mod our WCII to use sound files from different languages: for the example for the flying machine I was fond of the italian version "machina volante".

It was... Our life? Only got dethroned as the best time-waster in our lives when the Counter-Strike beta came out (in 1999?). (I didn't like StarCraft but boy oh boy did I play Warcraft III a lot later on).