MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paganel | 2025-12-02 18:22:53+00:00
I think the 2008 downturn (when it comes to this profession) was a little bit less severe compared to just after dotcom, or so it felt here in Eastern Europe.

But, to be honest, I do miss the "just after dotcom crash" period, there were lots and lots of interesting things people were working on back then, and the majority of it didn't involve making money. Maybe this is just nostalgia, because I first became a paid programmer in 2005, but that's how it feels 20+ years from that time.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-02 18:23:14+00:00
> Presumably the commenter read the article and is expressing his disagreement with the article’s second sentence.

The comment in question didn't make a point, it provided only this unsupported opinion that happens to be flatly wrong: "It's a very different thing to have concentrated wealth and people's attention."

In fact, good buddies Thiel and Musk came from S Africa sharing similar librarian attitudes and both worked hard at circumventing the banking regulations while being part of the "PayPal mafia". They are both very keen on remodeling the government around the libertarian idea of uncountable corporate power.

“They went from scrappy guys dodging government regulation to now they are the government, in a generation” said Steve Blank... an adjunct professor of management science [1]

That cannot be done without using concentrated wealth to conquer people's attention. Sure enough, Musk proceeded to acquire Twitter at a great cost and to proclaim his idea of corporate control of speech through control of attention reach: "Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach" [2]

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/how-musk-thiel-and-sac...

[2] https://www.chiefmarketer.com/twitters-musk-touts-new-freedo...
by DaveZale | 2025-12-02 18:23:14+00:00
nice. That's one approach to making it palatable. I have some Indian spices in the kitchen. This will be fun to try on a chilly day.

It's really interesting that this study actually directly measured blood cartenoid levels. When I was writing my thesis, I encountered another study from Sweden that measured blood dietary antioxidant levels there. Guess what the source of major dietary antioxidants in the bloodstream of Swedes was found to be? Coffee! The assay used was TBARS.

Interestingly there is a company in Taiwan making a propietary blend of botanical extracts to prevent prostate issues in older men. It's listed on the stock market. Prostate cancer is a major inconvenience and worse, often fatal for many men. But the Indian approach to pureeing vegetables with some fat might be an equivalent approach, less expensive, and better flavored ;-)
by AlexandrB | 2025-12-02 18:23:14+00:00
While I agree that the US has a historical obsession with communism, "anything right is abhorrent totalitarian fascism in the making" has been a far more commonly stated position for the last decade. At this point, it's necessary to regard both "communism" and "fascism" as simple pejoratives and focus on the specific policies being discussed.

This is unfortunate but perhaps inevitable. There are not that many left that remember the horrors of either ideology clearly.
by simonw | 2025-12-02 18:23:41+00:00
I've been seeing a few links to Strudel recently so I went digging to see how old the project is - looks like it launched in April 2022 https://loophole-letters.vercel.app/strudel

It came out of the same team as Tidal Cycles, a Haskell live-coding music tool which was first released around 2009. https://tidalcycles.org/docs/around_tidal/tidal_history/
by afavour | 2025-12-02 18:23:48+00:00
What matters: it's staying open source and MIT licensed. I sincerely hope it stays that way. Congrats to the Bun team on making a great tool and getting the recognition they deserve.

> Being part of Anthropic gives Bun: Long-term stability.

Let's see. I don't want to always be the downer but the AI industry is in a state of rapid flux with some very strong economic headwinds. I wouldn't confidently say that hitching your wagon to AI gives you long term stability. But as long as the rest of us keep the ability to fork an open source project I won't complain too much.

(for those who are disappointed: this is why you stick with Node. Deno and Bun are both VC funded projects, there's only one way that goes. The only question is timeline)
by ricopags | 2025-12-02 18:24:06+00:00
I say don't muddy the water with the public panic over "will it won't it" bubble burst predictions.

The effective demand for Opus 4.5 is bottomless; the models will only get better.

People will always want a code model as good as we have now, let alone better.

Bun securing default status in the best coding model is a win-win-win
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-02 18:24:27+00:00
That is perfectly on topic and you are identifying correctly flaw in the argument

Technology is neutral it’s always been neutral it will be neutral I quote Bertrand Russell on this almost every day:

“As long as war exists all new technology will be utilized for war”

You can abstract this away from “war” into anything that’s undesirable in society.

What people are dealing with now is the newest transformational technology that they can watch how utilizing it inside the current structural and economic regime of the world accelerates the already embedded destructive nature of structure and economic system we built.

I’m simply waiting for people to finally realize that, instead of blaming it on “AI” just like they’ve always blamed it on social media, TV, radio, electricity etc…

it’s like literally the oldest trope with respect to technology and humanity some people will always blame the technology when in fact it’s not…it’s the society that’s a problem

Society needs to look inward at how it victimizes itself through structural corrosion, not look for some outside person who is victimizing them
by baranul | 2025-12-02 18:24:28+00:00
This is a decent example of not buying, getting pulled, or being forced into any corporate pushed hype or eliminating one's options. They re-evaluated and looked at what programming language was best for their situation, which was removing the Rust language and using something else. It then turned out, they actually got gains in greater user contributions, simplicity, efficiency, and even speed.
by ragingregard | 2025-12-02 18:24:55+00:00
That's not the core premise of this article, go read the article to the end and don't use your LLM to summarize it.

The core premise is cognitive development of students is being impaired with long term implications for society without any care or thought by university admins and corporate operators.

It's disturbing when people comment on things they don't bother reading, literally aligning with the point the article is arguing, that critical thinking is decaying.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-02 18:25:17+00:00
I got tired of Android after 9 years of being Android only. I just wanted a phone that worked. Apple made said phone. Android feels like your younger cousin's sketchy Windows computer. I remember changing from like 2 different Android phones over a period of 4 years or so, and my amazing megapixel photos looked nowhere near as good as my cousins 5-year-old iPhone photos.
by mempko | 2025-12-02 18:25:17+00:00
This is really cool! I always believed one valuable use case for AI is to take unstructured data and structure it.

I am building ThetaEdge (https://thetaedge.ai) which is in Beta now. We built a similar feature but specific to investing and markets. You get notified when certain market things you care about happen like 'Alert me when nvidia releases a new product' or 'tell me when a 20 delta call for Apple is more than $1'.

The challenge of building something like this is consistency and accuracy which is important in finance.

Awesome to see a clean focused product like YesNotice with a very clear utility.
by lenkite | 2025-12-02 18:25:43+00:00
> "Extermination"? Why lie so egregiously. It just makes you look like an agenda driven clown. To you people does "Crazy world view" mean anything based in reality and facts.

Agenda-driven clown ? Dear lord, How can you be this ignorant ? That number is actually on the lower scale. The Central Tibetan administration (govt in exile) gave the upper estimate at above one million. You can check several sources - including wikipedia. Hell, there are books written on the subject by several authors. Most third-party estimates at a few hundred thousand, however, if you keep the scope to the invasion and the subsequent crackdowns.

> How many tibetans are in china? Over 7 million. Have you talked to them? Wonder why 99% of tibetans chose extermination in china to "freedom" in india.

Yeah, importing Han Chinese and calling it population of Tibet is 100% nonsense. You are aware, I hope, that the census includes all residents living in TAR - regardless of ethnicity ?

> You are right. It's in the millions.

What are you smoking ? When did Independent India invade and kill millions ?

> I agree. Those objective assessor are called TIBETANS.

You mean the Han Chinese are objective assessors ? Ask a group of people outside of China please.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-02 18:26:00+00:00
Sounds like your company should have hired some (cheaper) ops folks to handle that stuff, and given you bigger projects to take on.

My current company is doing exactly that type of thing. We have tons of data imports from different clients that have to run regularly, and my team started out writing the ETLs and troubleshooting stuff, but eventually we were able to write out playbooks for how slightly less-technical folks can do this stuff. We're now trying to automate more tools and processes for those folks, so they can take on more clients without needing more people.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-12-02 18:26:16+00:00
What I got from the story was that the government is going to start donating $1000 to each child born from July 4th 2026 and the Dells are going to donate $250 dollars to 25 million children under 10 in poorer areas.

These will go into index linked investments and be withdrawable when the child reaches 18.
by Tiberium | 2025-12-02 18:26:27+00:00
As someone who have been using Deno for the last few years, is there anything that Bun does better? Bun seems to use a different runtime (JSC) which is less tested than V8, which makes me assume it might perform worse in real-world tasks (maybe not anymore?). The last time I checked Bun's source code, it was... quite messy and spaghetti-like, plus Zig doesn't really offer many safety features, so it's not that hard to write incorrect code. Zig does force some safety with ReleaseSafe IIRC, but it's still not the same as even modern C++, let alone Rust.

I'll admit I'm somewhat biased against Bun, but I'm honestly interested in knowing why people prefer Bun over Deno.
by paganel | 2025-12-02 18:26:42+00:00
> Object databases were going to replace SQL multiple times

Someone should honestly write a history of Zope. Can't say I hated it, because it was my first paid job as a programming working with it, but it was special, very special, let's call it that. 20 years from that moment I do think though that it had its good moments, even bright ideas in some places, too bad that they didn't scale.
by rivellium | 2025-12-02 18:26:51+00:00
We’re building Rivellium — an AI-driven investment platform that connects private investors with real SMBs and income-producing companies.

The goal is simple: eliminate hype assets, remove opaque risks, and make investing in the real economy understandable in 2–3 clicks.

What we do: - AI scoring + forecasting models for SMBs (credit, cashflow, operational signals) - automated due diligence pipelines - transparent deal sheets (clear revenue sources + risks) - simple UX for small checks (€100–€5k) - marketplace model + future secondary market

Why we’re doing this: After relocating to the EU, we saw that average people have zero access to real, yield-generating businesses — only banks with low returns, or high-risk speculative assets. Rivellium tries to fix that.

We’d love feedback from the HN community — especially around: - scoring model architecture and benchmarks - data sources for SME credit modeling - risk frameworks for retail-friendly private markets - regulatory perspectives (MiFID / crowdfunding / compliance) - product simplicity vs transparency tradeoffs

Not fundraising here — just looking for critical feedback from people who’ve built fintech or underwriting systems before.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-02 18:26:54+00:00
That's a thoughtful post, but I am skeptical of how "universal" her suggested Path Forward is. I suspect a hell of a lot of folks will have difficulty with the "people skills" stuff she mentions (and is almost certainly highly conversant in, herself).

> The most common answer from students when asked what they needed was a mentor who had just been in their shoes a few years ago, a surprising and heartening answer.

Mentoring is difficult; especially in today's world, where we are taught to despise older folks, and encouraged to treat everyone that we work with, as competitors.

For myself, I'm happily retired from the Rodent Rally, and find that LLMs have been a huge help, when learning new stuff.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-12-02 18:27:02+00:00
If an alien was reading many of the comments here, before they knew much about the world, they’d probably first believe that working from office is this new fangled idea that had never existed before.

Once they were shocked to learn that until 2019 office work was the norm, they’d probably expect to see massive improvements in employee health, satisfaction, productivity, reduced commuter miles, reduced emissions, children with better mental health, children doing better in school, etc.

Imagine their shock when they find that none of those are true, and in fact, some of those metrics have actually gone the other way.

This isn’t to suggest remote work cannot be helpful. Maybe things would have been far worse otherwise. But (a) it’s very hard to see in the data, and (b) remote work proponents need to stop sounding like the world disnt exist before 2020 and/or as if everyone was just miserable and life was basically impossible at the time.
by this_user | 2025-12-02 18:27:22+00:00
Pandas is widely adopted and deeply integrated into the Python ecosystem. Meanwhile, Polars remains a small niche, and it's one of those hype technologies that will likely be dead in 3 years once most of its users realise that it offers them no actual practical advantages over Pandas.

If you are dealing with huge data sets, you are probably using Spark or something like Dask already where jobs can run in the cloud. If you need speed and efficiency on your local machine, you use NumPy outright. And if you really, really need speed, you rewrite it in C/C++.

Polars is trying to solve an issue that just doesn't exist for the vast majority of users.
by gkoberger | 2025-12-02 18:27:28+00:00
If Anthropic wants to own code development in the future, owning the full platform (including the runtime) makes sense.

Programming languages all are a balance between performance/etc and making it easy for a human to interact with. This balance is going to shit as AI writes more code (and I assume Anthropic wants a future where humans might not even see the code, but rather an abstraction of it... after all, all code we look at is an abstraction on some level).
by wahnfrieden | 2025-12-02 18:28:02+00:00
Obj-C is unusable for many new Apple platform features. Not suitable for building anymore.

Electron - not available on iOS, so it is out of the question.

I make a living off my iOS/macOS apps so I am interested in ways to diversify without giving up the platform that makes me my money. These cross platform solutions for Swift are interesting for those targeting Apple platforms. I agree they are not compelling if you do not prioritize Apple platforms.

I can't make a living off Linux like I can on Apple. Android is also much less profitable. So Apple continues to make business sense for me, for what I build and who my customers are. And thus Swift.
by andrewl-hn | 2025-12-02 18:28:07+00:00
I’ll be honest, while I have my doubts about the match of interests and cohesion between an AI company and a JS runtime company I have to say this is the single best acquisition announcement blog post I’ve seen in 20 years or so.

Very direct, very plain and detailed. They cover all the bases about the why, the how, and what to expect. I really appreciate it.

Best of luck to the team and hopefully the new home will support them well.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-02 18:28:10+00:00
What killed Firefox was Electron. There, I just said it.

XUL was very good, but then it was no more. And as soon as it was gone, Electron apps appeared. It's a tragedy. Mozilla had everything to be in that place instead, with a better product.

Once that was gone, Firefox became just another browser, doing what any browser does. It's still very good, and my first choice, but damn I miss XUL.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-02 18:28:31+00:00
Oh really? You don't think all the creators who do things like make video essays on 20 year old movies would benefit from not getting the rug pulled out from under them? You don't think they would prefer being legally in the right making money from analysis of media that was a generation ago?

You don't think the Techmoans and Technology connections would prefer having better demonstration material than whatever recordings from 1912 exist, so that they could actually show you what they are trying to demonstrate without having their livelihood threatened by a capricious and byzantine system hell bent on pleasing a few megacorps?

You don't think the creatives who made "The Katering show" for example would prefer that more people watch their artistic output than have it locked behind some business leaving it languishing in a random digital storefront rather than letting more people buy it because they just cannot be assed? Oh, you don't actually have to guess, because they uploaded a youtube video where they encourage people to pirate their work so they can see it.

Creatives and artists tend to enjoy their work being consumed and riffed on (not plagiarized) and well adjusted artists recognize that there's "nothing new under the sun" and that remixing and riffing are essential parts of the creative and artistic process.

Hell, the music industry even understands this, which is why letting songs get licensed out for remixes and future use is common.

What "Creative" people do you know?
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-02 18:28:36+00:00
Pay is relative because they have to live there too. Costs of living are much higher over there. Even just healthcare, here it's free (well, paid from taxes). In the US it's a big expense. Also they get much fewer holidays (I get more than a month's worth per year).

But I would not move to the US (especially now obviously) or be without job security for double the wage. Life for me isn't about making as much money as possible, it's about enjoying my life and money is just one of the means to do that. Time is another big one.

And like the other poster said, I don't know americans who work 20 years and retire. On the contrary most I know have a 200+k$ student loan pending back home or are shuffling debt from card to card to make it look like they are paying it off.
by agentdrek | 2025-12-02 18:28:47+00:00
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by almosthere | 2025-12-02 18:29:17+00:00
If there is a feral kid they have left the sphere of what is acceptable. If you drop them out, then you raise the chances of everyone else. If you accept the feral kid, you're moving the needle, the average over. It becomes acceptable for more kids to act like the feral kid.

It's the same as the overton window in politics/news.
by ctoth | 2025-12-02 18:29:50+00:00
This decision is honestly very confusing to me as a constant user of Claude Code (I have 3 of them open at the moment.)

So many of the issues with it seem to be because ... they wrote the damn thing in JavaScript?

Claude is pretty good at a constrained task with tests -- couldn't you just port it to a different language? With Claude?

And then just ... the huge claude.json which gets written on every message, like ... SQLite exists! Please, please use it! The scrollback! The Keyboard handling! Just write a simple Rust or Go or whatever CLI app with an actual database and reasonable TUI toolkit? Why double down and buy a whole JavaScript runtime?
by pfannkuchen | 2025-12-02 18:30:05+00:00
The way I think about this is, let’s say a lot of Americans are moving to Switzerland illegally by overstaying their visas. If I went along with that group, I would not be surprised to be deported by force. If I went there legally and got caught up in a raid or something, or even targeted personally because I sound American, and I get locked up for a bit and then sent back to America on an airplane, would I be upset? Absolutely I would be, that would be a terrible experience. But at the same time, I would understand that a lot of my countrymen are breaking Swiss law and the Swiss have to do something about it, and I can see why it might be hard to not make any mistakes. It would probably make me not want to go back to Switzerland.

Is that not a valid take? Does it not apply somehow? If I put myself in their shoes, that is how I feel.
by paxys | 2025-12-02 18:30:26+00:00
"Native typescript execution" can mean two different things:

1. Chrome/v8 takes TS code, compiles it down to JS internally, erases types, and then runs it like normal. This isn't going to be too hard to do, but also isn't going to be very meaningful. Compiling is a one-step process in any case, and plenty of tooling exists to make it seamless.

2. Chrome/v8 actually understands TS types at runtime, and throws exceptions for mismatches. This isn't going to be possible without a major rewrite of the v8 engine and the ECMAScript spec itself.

And a big challenge for both of these is that TypeScript is iterating at too fast a pace for something like Chrome to keep up. It's best to just leave versioning and compilation for the developer to manage and give end users a consistent JavaScript experience.
by csallen | 2025-12-02 18:30:27+00:00
What's interesting is that this is true of all creators, not just artists.

Making money means running a business, and running a business requires more than just creating something. You also have to identify a good market for that creation, and find a way to distribute to them, and provide a viable model for them to pay for it, and (the hardest part) out-compete all the other businesses who are doing the same.

This is true for cooks. It's not good enough to create a meal. You have to also scope out the local market, find a good location, build a restaurant or a stand, attract customers, and sell your meals. And if you aren't willing to do that, then you either need to accept cooking for free, or going to work for a restaurant who's going to do all those hard parts and take the bulk of the profits.

This is true for computer programmers. It's not good enough to write a program. You also have to build a business, find customers, attract them through ads or marketing or viral growth, collect credit carts, and sell your product. And if you aren't willing to do that, then you either need to accept coding things that make no money, or go to work for corporation or startup who will pay you a salary while collecting bigger profits.

Etc.

For some reason artists are the only group that makes a big stink about this situation, and feels that they should get the benefits of running a business without doing the work or taking the risk of running a business.