MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akmarinov | 2025-12-28 13:32:32+00:00
I’m one of those people.

Used Claude Code until September then Codex exclusively.

All my code has been AI generated, nothing by hand.

I review the code and if I don’t like something- I let it know how it should be changed.

Used to be a lot of back and forth in August, but these days GPT 5.2 Codex one shots everything so far. It worked for 40 hours for me one time to get a big thing in place and I’m happy with the code.

For bigger things start with a plan and go back and forth on different pieces, have it write it to an md file as you talk it through, feed it anything you can - user stories, test cases, design, whiteboards, backs of napkins and in the end it just writes the code for you.

Works great, can’t fathom going back to writing everything by hand.
by theoreticalmal | 2025-12-28 13:33:09+00:00
My kiddo is celebrating their second set of holidays this year. I have many friends who espouse some variant of “I don’t want to have kids because I don’t want to pass on my ‘messed up’ genes/the world doesn’t need more people/some other sad excuse”. It makes me wonder what their lives will look like then they’re 40-80 years old.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-28 13:33:52+00:00
No? Go to Paris. Start at the Notre Dame. Go North. As soon as you get off the island the first thing you'll find is the absurd-super-rich quarter. That's a little over 1.5 kilometers. Unlimited pretty fancy restaurants on the ground floor. I mean, it's gone downhill in the last 10 years, but they're all still ridiculously fancy. A great many luxury hotels, and apartments costing more in monthly rent than the president's wage on every other floor. He lives nearby, and apparently multiple ex-presidents live there. Keep going North.

You'll get to the 19th arrondissement just after passing Lafayette. Go look "under the canal" (will make sense when you get there, it's really under a bridge)

I don't believe they're fentanyl addicts, no shortage of addicts though. The main bulk are refugees (from Afghanistan, Syria, Africa, ...), most of the addicts are French, the dealers are immigrants.

And then there's the very large "are they addicts?" group. You see, it gets cold there. You know what really increases your comfort level if you have to live in the cold? Alcohol. And they definitely consume alcohol at a rate that a doctor would call addicted, but they're not really addicted. Or, if they had proper shelter they wouldn't be. Of course, alcohol really increases your comfort and increased the odds you'll freeze to death, so there's a daily round ...

This is what it looks like:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/12/17/in-paris...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix1T0-nV8EA

(you can't really tell, but the whole camp is almost 1 kilometer long. Oh and this is one of 7 such places in the city center alone. In other words, you can start at the Notre Dame and go in basically any direction and there'll be a place like this. And the richest areas of France are right next to Notre Dame)

(btw: I've been to San Francisco too and the homeless camps in Paris are way bigger and worse than the ones in San Francisco. Way worse. Of course, I could easily have missed stuff. Oh, and obviously, while it's not impossible to freeze to death in San Francisco, I doubt it's common)

Don't worry, authorities are doing their very best to send these people away. Occasionally they succeed for a week or two, but never for very long. Half the time they essentially encourage them to go to the UK.

And this doesn't even remotely compare to the "Calais Jungle", I mean that particular camp is gone, but there's plenty new ones.
by Vincent_Yan404 | 2025-12-28 13:33:54+00:00
You make a fair point, and from a purely technical or policy perspective, I agree that bad governance shouldn't be conflated with the potential of nuclear technology itself.

However, as a writer, I’m describing the subjective reality of growing up in that environment. When you see 'scorched-earth' measures taken to manage a city, it shapes your visceral perception of that power, regardless of the science behind it. My goal isn't to debate nuclear policy, but to capture how that specific 'bad governing' colored the way we, as residents, perceived the very energy that defined our lives.
by wj | 2025-12-28 13:34:13+00:00
I wanted to say your insight about a consulting business is spot on.

I also recommend Founding Sales and think it would be worth the OP skimming.

Also, search for Steli Efti (founder of a CRM called Close) who has some great content for outbound sales. I thought he did a session for Y Combinator's Startup School but didn't just find it. But he has lots of great content and a bit of a hustle mentality.
by imglorp | 2025-12-28 13:34:23+00:00
Sometimes English is not swell as a specification format.

> ff trim video.mp4 from 0:30 to 1:00

Does this mean I keep the indicated section or does it mean I throw it away?

And many other examples of English sucking at ambiguity when precision matters. Maybe this is a corollary of " naming things is hard ".
by bsenftner | 2025-12-28 13:34:26+00:00
> I sometimes wonder if they are playing a sort of game, how many minutes of "content" can be made while conveying the least amount of information possible.

Exactly my impression. I tell people there is no real news in the United States, only gossip style reporting of information one can do nothing about and has nothing to do with them. If the reporting it political, it's in 4th grade language and a second grade mentality. News in the United States is talking to children.
by LooseEquipment | 2025-12-28 13:34:46+00:00
I stayed at this exact location earlier this year. The showers are in individual stalls (felt private enough to me) and quite clean. You could hear other people occasionally but there wasn't any socialising and there's no space for it anyway. Spaces felt safe/cozy (unusually good light/sound design helped a lot I felt), although the lack of any storage/work space makes it less practical than a hotel room for longer stays. The audience was probably 80% tourists and 20% working poor.
by kibwen | 2025-12-28 13:34:49+00:00
It's easy to demonstrate that destructors run after evaluating `return` in Rust:

struct PrintOnDrop;

impl Drop for PrintOnDrop {
fn drop(&mut self) {
println!("dropped");
}
}

fn main() {
let p = PrintOnDrop;
return println!("returning");
}

But the idea of altering the return value of a function from within a `defer` block after a `return` is evaluated is zany. Please never do that, in any language.
by adventured | 2025-12-28 13:37:42+00:00
The 3M X3A + brown noise will drown out bird chirping and ~95% of human voice noise. The X3A is far more comfortable - slimmer - than the X5A. If you need max reduction of neighbor annoyance, nothing beats the X5A though. Neither of these are particularly expensive, they're both worth trying.

Some people try to use headphone type noise cancellation, which is mediocre at cancelling most noise. I found instead of using headphone noise cancellation, it was far better in most circumstances to use the X3A + earbuds while working - that tandem was very comfortable to wear for long periods of time. The X5A is not very comfortable, it's just max effective.
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2025-12-28 13:38:22+00:00
>Whenever people start talking about things called "the rise of fascism in the US" as if its a foregone fact rather than a highly fringe opinion, it's unfortunately rather easy to assume that the person doesn't have a good ability to tell fact from "story they heard online from a web post".

>It's fine if you want to argue that there is a rise in fascism in the US, but you need to actually pose that argument, not just talk about it as if its true and that everyone agrees with you.

It is beyond settled at this point... the whataboutism doesn't help your argument either.
by colinb | 2025-12-28 13:38:33+00:00
This argument that nuclear power generation is clean if you ignore the times when it isn't seems a bit no-true-Scotsman to me. It's a thing I've changed my mind about more than once in the past. What sways my thinking now is:

- most nuclear power does indeed seem to be well run with minimal pollution.
- when it goes wrong, the consequences are awful and long-lived (I can, off the top of my head, name two sites that are dangerous decades after they were polluted. I suspect there are others that don't have the same cultural resonance for me.
- the alternatives in terms of renewables and storage are improving seemingly from one day to the next.

The long term consequences, and human frailty in the face of a requirement for total and eternal vigilance convince me that the risk outweighs the reward. Where nuclear power once seemed [to me. I appreciated that some people have always been anti-nuke] like the least bad option compared with e.g. coal, now there are better ways to make our lives work.

If the endless 50-years-in-the-future ever actually expires and we get practical fusion power, it'll be interesting to see how this changes my thinking. Perhaps that will will have fewer toxic side effects when it goes wrong.
by hopelite | 2025-12-28 13:38:52+00:00
"Localities large and small have been moving towards higher density, walkable and transit oriented development for years now. It's happening, and it works"...

... you, after millions of foreign nationals pile into European cities, terrorizing men, women, children and old people with rape, murder, gang rape, plunder, assault, and general pillage of public coffers being emptied out to them by corrupt politicians using it to enrich themselves."
by orochimaaru | 2025-12-28 13:39:13+00:00
Palantir provides the software but installs in your cloud or hardware. They rarely exfiltrate the data. So you don’t give Palantir anything (usually).

Edit: I can understand not wanting to use a non-UK company for NHS health. But Palantir isn’t the all seeing bogeyman it’s made out to be. It’s just knowledge graph and AI models which run in your cloud or hardware.
by F3nd0 | 2025-12-28 13:39:32+00:00
It took Mozilla two years to decide they were 'neutral', citing a range of vague considerations. It took them another year to say that actually their 'primary concern has long been the increased attack surface of the reference decoder', without pointing out any specific major security flaws, and that they're okay with an implementation in Rust… which had already been proposed by the JXL team many months ago. And let's not even talk about Chrome.

Hopefully they've both finally settled on a reasoning and will stick with it until the end.
by olivierlacan | 2025-12-28 13:39:41+00:00
Notorious islamophobe, homophobe, transphobe, xenophobe, and loyal supporter of French far-right parties is what most French people know her for.

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251228-bardot-leaves-co...

Many outlets — including this CNN piece which is making the passive voice work real hard to make her awfulness about other’s perception of it — are slinging hagiographies as if death absolves all.
by roelschroeven | 2025-12-28 13:40:19+00:00
I feel this is somewhat similar to something Linus Torvalds once said about the faster merges git brought to his workflow:

"That's the kind of performance that actually changes how you work. It's no longer doing the same thing faster, it's allowing you to work in a completely different manner. That is why performance matters and why you really should not look at anything but git. Hg (Mercurial) is pretty good, but git is better."

(in a talk he did at Google, of which I the I found the transcripts here: https://gist.github.com/dukeofgaming/2150263)

Sometimes making something much faster turns it from something you try to avoid, maybe even unconsciously, to something you gladly make part of your workflow.

Since I started using uv I regularly create new venvs just for e.g. installing a package I'm not familiar with to try some things out and see if it fits my needs. With pip I would sometimes do that too, but not nearly as often because it would take too much time. Instead I would sometimes install the package in an existing venv, potentially polluting that project's dependencies. Or I use uvx to run tools that I would not consider using otherwise because of too much friction.

I was skeptical at first too. It's not until you start using uv and experience its speed and other useful features that you fully get why so many people switch from pip or poetry or whatever to uv.
by dangus | 2025-12-28 13:40:29+00:00
> I got the idea when they were building it in Houston that a large bit of the Metro system is geared toward transporting people in lower-income areas who can't afford cars, so they can gain employment downtown and in the med center.

This is how most US cities view public transit: poor people only.

Only a handful of US cities treat it as something that everyone uses, places like NYC, Chicago, DC, and Boston.

Houston should have an equivalent to the Metra or MBTA commuter rail.
by nasso_dev | 2025-12-28 13:41:20+00:00
i like the points the article makes, but i really wish it used looping videos instead of actual GIFs

i don't really see any reason to use GIFs here; any widely available video codec like H.264, VP8/VP9 or AV1 will result in significantly smaller file sizes, look better, and will allow enabling controls for seeking and play/pause
by ManuelKiessling | 2025-12-28 13:42:21+00:00
Sad thing is, it’s affecting not just their lives when they are 80 years old, but ours too! Every childless old person is a person for which someone needs to take care of who isn’t family.

That’s not to imply people don’t have the right to choose if they have kids or not — but let’s not pretend that we are not all paying the price for that decision.
by Vincent_Yan404 | 2025-12-28 13:42:31+00:00
You’ve touched on a very sensitive and important point.

It’s true that many people who grew up in China have a complicated relationship with narratives that focus on negative historical periods. There is often a defensive reaction, a feeling that such stories are 'smearing' the country's image.

However, as a writer, I believe that truth is always more important than a curated image. Authentic memories are often scarce, precisely because they are difficult to tell. My goal with the '404' series is to provide a piece of that missing truth—not to judge, but to document a reality that actually existed. In the long run, I believe a society is better served by facing its complex past than by forgetting it.
by mmwelt | 2025-12-28 13:43:11+00:00
A key difference is support lifespan, though: 5 years of standard security maintenance for regular Ubuntu[1], and 3 years for Kubuntu[2].

[1] https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NobleNumbat/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu
by neomantra | 2025-12-28 13:44:53+00:00
That is fair, particularly compared to Janet Jackson! I will add detail.

In their younger days, two distinguished engineers, Bryan Cantrill and Brendan Gregg, made this video where they scream at a data storage server nicknamed Thumper. Screaming at it has surprising results, which are observed with a novel software technology called dtrace.

The Sun Fire X4500 was a dense storage sever, 4U with 48 disks and insane IO performance and a newish filesystem called ZFS. The video is not only funny in content, it features technology and technologists that became very impactful, hence the classic tag.

---

I love the lore, so I'll drop more.

While our team previously used AFS (mainly for its great caching) and many storage servers, this hardware combined with its software allowed us to consolidate and manage and access data in new ways, alleviating many of our market data analysis problems.

We switched to NFS, which previously was not performant enough for us on other hw/sw architectures. While using NFS with the Thumpers and then Thors (X4540) was fantastic, eventually the data scales became hard again and we made a distributed immutable filesystem that looked like the Hadoop HDFS and Cassandra file systems, named after our favorite Klingon Worf (Write-Once Read-Frequently).

Interestingly, in 2025 both XTX [1] and HRT [2] open-sourced their distributed file systems which are pretty similar to it, using 2020's tech rather than 2000's. HRT's is based on Meta's Tectonic which is a spiritual successor to Cassandra.

I wrote about our parallel HFT networking journey once upon a time on HN. [3]

[1] https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/

[2] https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/distributed-files...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31924784
by Thaxll | 2025-12-28 13:45:00+00:00
Kernel anti cheat in the client are the strongest form of protection by far, your comment makes no sense, anything userspace is easily spoofed. You can create a driver ( module ) that intercept calls and that is completely invisible to userspace processes.

The default security measures on Linux are pretty bad compared to windows, it's not even close. People like to bash windows but they have a way better security model.
by rastrian | 2025-12-28 13:45:21+00:00
I mostly agree: for many businesses, a big SaaS outage and a payments outage can look similar in impact (lost revenue, interrupted operations). It’s not “life or death” most of the time.

The reason money-related systems often get singled out is the combination of irreversibility and auditability: a bad state transition can mean incorrect balances/settlement, messy reconciliation, regulatory reporting, and long-tail customer harm that persists after the outage is over.

That said, my point isn’t “finance is special therefore FP.” It’s “build resilience and correctness by design early”, explicit state machines/invariants, idempotency/reconciliation, and making invalid states hard to represent. Doing this from the beginning also improves the developer experience: safer refactors, clearer reviews, fewer ‘tribal knowledge’ bugs.
by Vincent_Yan404 | 2025-12-28 13:45:38+00:00
Thank you for this profound comment. It is incredibly humbling to hear this from someone who has spent a decade researching the topic.

You are right—the generation that built '404' is aging, and many of their stories are fading into silence. One of my primary motivations for writing this was the realization that if I didn't document these memories now, they might be lost forever.

I hope my first-hand account can provide a more nuanced, human layer to the historical data you've gathered. There is so much more to tell beyond the official records.
by rixed | 2025-12-28 13:46:44+00:00
I once (>20 years ago) had luch with our sales representative in ... was it Malaysia or the Philippines? In his custom made blue suit, he told me in perfect Oxford English how his grand father had to kill several fighters from enemy villages in order to be allowed to marry his grand mother...

I don't know how exagerated that was, but yes sometimes things go fast:)
by Vincent_Yan404 | 2025-12-28 13:47:10+00:00
Thank you for sharing this with others. You’ve hit on the exact emotional core I wanted to explore.

For the adults, 404 was a place of immense pressure, secrecy, and often sacrifice. But for us kids, it was just 'home.' We played in the shadows of giants and nuclear reactors without a second thought.

That contrast—the 'nightmare' for the parents and the 'playground' for the children—is what makes these memories so surreal to look back on. I’m glad that perspective resonated with you.
by hopelite | 2025-12-28 13:48:13+00:00
It's not cynical at all. It's quite the opposite actually; an expression of the suicidal and pathological altruism that has caused the west to self-destruct through he guiding hand of psychopathic narcissistic charlatan leaders and con artists.

I am unsure how Europe will go, because there is still a possibility of a glimmer of hope, but frankly, that too is dimming extremely quickly with how systemic things really are, let alone how they are developing, the real vs expected trending towards pessimistic outcomes.

What you may be missing is that there is a possibility where your presumed resistance or rejection of AI and robotic equality is forced upon you one way or another; either you are forced to "arms race" adoption, or the superior external force foists subjugation to their AI/robotics dominance on you (a kind of 19th century Chinese/Japanese, Industrial Revolution comes knocking at the front door experience).

Unfortunately for us all, some things you are simply foolish to just ignore, reject/resist as if it will somehow just magically go away or ignore you too. The reality of the matter is that the psychopathic narcissistic tribe of people who control these obsessive, controlling, imposing forces care immensely about dominating and controlling you, even if you want to ignore them.... they will not ignore you, let alone leave you be until you are subjugated.
by Razengan | 2025-12-28 13:48:16+00:00
Why do people rag on TikTok? What the hell did you grow up on and did your parents and older folks from the previous generation not look down on that with a sigh or disgust??

Rock music? Rap? Video games??

In East Asia I see TikTok as pretty healthy, encouraging kids and even older people to be more active in public spaces, doing harmless dances or imitating other trends. It's actually pretty refreshing. Why you hatin?

Or is the West just salty that Facebook/YouTube/Instagram etc fell off as sterile in comparison?
by bilbo0s | 2025-12-28 13:48:47+00:00
Here’s the thing, this isn’t an acquisition. This is Nvidia hiring a few guys. What’s the government supposed to do? Tell those guys they can only work for one startup and they can never leave it? You can’t tell people what jobs they can and can’t take right now. (Probably not ever in the US given our history with slavery.)

Now, how do you stop that?

Companies don’t need to buy startups, they just need the expert that startup hired. Once they have the experts, everything else takes care of itself.

Point is, antitrust works fine. It just fixes the wrong problem. That was really the problem with khan. She never really figured out that the technologies have passed the legal framework by. She should have tried to come up with solutions to the problem of monopolizing intellectual capital rather than the problem of monopolizing markets or intellectual property.
by djoldman | 2025-12-28 13:48:47+00:00
> Just so you have an idea for how a typical text-rendering pipeline works, here’s a quick sketch:

1. Styling (parse markup, query system for fonts)

2. Layout (break text into lines)

3. Shaping (compute the glyphs in a line and their positions)

4. Rasterization (rasterize needed glyphs into an atlas/cache)

5. Composition (copy glyphs from the atlas to their desired positions)

Why is layout done so early? It seems to me that that would be later in the process.