MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jonghwa_Lee | 2025-12-26 07:23:33+00:00
Fair point on the semantics. But I'm not talking about subjective 'knowledge.' I'm talking about the thermodynamic cost to maintain a state.

Landauer showed that information processing is physical (heat). I’m just extending that logic: if the universe has to process too much state data in one spot, the cost isn't just heat—it's lag (Time Dilation).

It doesn't matter if we observe the mess; the system still has to render it.
by ncann | 2025-12-26 07:23:33+00:00
I had email address X (gmail) that I hadn't logged into for a long time. One day I tried to log in to it. Correct password, but Google, for some reason, simply decided there's something suspicious about my login and blocked it. X had Y as the "recovery email", and I had access to Y, and I indeed received an email from Google sent to Y that it blocked a suspicious login to X. However, THERE WAS NO WAY TO USE Y TO GAIN ACCESS TO X. Google simply did not offer that option for X, and I had no idea why.
by tombert | 2025-12-26 07:23:56+00:00
Yeah; I saw a 29,000 line pull request across seventy files recently. I think that realistically 29,000 lines of new code all at once is beyond what a human could understand within the timeframe typically allotted for a code review.

Prior to generative AI I was (correctly) criticized once for making a 2,000 line PR, and I was told to break it up, which I did, but I think thousand-line PRs are going to be the new normal soon enough.
by casid | 2025-12-26 07:24:36+00:00
This is happening already and it wastes so, so much time. Producing code never was the bottleneck. The bottleneck still is to produce the right amount of code and to understand what is happening. This requires experience and taste. My prediction is, in the near future there will be piles of unmaintainable bloat of AI generated code, nobody's understanding and the failure rate of software will go to the moon.
by DavidPiper | 2025-12-26 07:24:39+00:00
I agree with you, but also want to point out the other powerful consumer signal - "vote with your wallet" / "walk away" - is blocked by the fact that AI is being forced into every conceivable crevice of every willing company, and walking away from your job is a very hard thing to do. So you end up being an unwilling enabler regardless.

(This is taking the view that "other companies" are the consumers of AI, and actual end-consumers are more of a by-product/side-effect in the current capital race and their opinions are largely irrelevant.)
by brinedew | 2025-12-26 07:25:16+00:00
You can play more than once in the practice mode. It turns on after you complete the daily puzzle.

There's almost 20k entries in my human gene database. You can choose any of them as your guess, but the "gene of the day" is chosen from a subset that has decent 3D structure coverage (meaning, not falling back to alphafold2 for visualization).
by iainbryson | 2025-12-26 07:25:32+00:00
This is very true. And similarly for the recently-passed era of googling, copying and pasting and glueing together something that works. The easy 80% of turning specs into code.

Beyond this issue of translating product specs to actual features, there is the fundamental limit that most companies don't have a lot of good ideas. The delay and cost incurred by "old style" development was in a lot of cases a helpful limiter -- it gave more time to update course, and dumb and expensive ideas were killed or not prioritized.

With LLMs, the speed of development is increasing but the good ideas remain pretty limited. So we grind out the backlog of loudest-customer requests faster, while trying to keep the tech debt from growing out of control. While dealing with shrinking staff caused by layoffs prompted by either the 2020-22 overhiring or simply peacocking from CEOs who want to demonstrate their company's AI prowess by reducing staff.

At least in my company, none of this has actually increased revenue.

So part of me thinks this will mean a durable role for the best product designers -- those with a clear vision -- and the kinds of engineers that can keep the whole system working sanely. But maybe even that will not really be a niche since anything made public can be copied so much faster.
by mawadev | 2025-12-26 07:25:59+00:00
I keep reading bad sentiment towards software devs. Why exactly do they "bully" business people? If you ask someone outside of the tech sector who the biggest bullies are, its business people who will fire you if they can save a few cents.
Whenever someone writes this, I read deep rooted insecurity and jealousy for something they can't wrap their head around and genuinely question if that person really writes software or just claims to do it for credibility.
by anoncareer0212 | 2025-12-26 07:26:11+00:00
What didn’t they engage with?

It’s really hard to parse this thread because you and the other gentleman keep telling anyone who engages they aren’t engaging.

You both seem worked up and perceiving others as disagreeing with you wholesale on the very concept that AI companies could be forced to compensate people for training data, and morally injuring you.

Your conduct to a point, but especially their conduct, goes far beyond what I’m used to on HN. I humbly suggest you decouple yourself a bit from them, you really did go too far with the slavery bit, and it was boorish to then make child porn analogy.
by craftkiller | 2025-12-26 07:26:11+00:00
I realize you said "many" and not "all" but FWIW, I hate LLMs because:

1. My coworkers now submit PRs with absolutely insane code. When asked "why" they created that monstrosity, it is "because the AI told me to".

2. My coworkers who don't understand the difference between SFTP and SMTP will now argue with me on PRs by feeding my comments into an LLM and pasting the response verbatim. It's obvious because they are suddenly arguing about stuff they know nothing about. Before, I just had to be right. Now I have to be right AND waste a bunch of time.

3. Everyone who thinks generating a large pile of AI slop as "documentation" is a good thing. Documentation used to be valuable to read because a human thought that information was valuable enough to write down. Each word had a cost and therefore a minimum barrier to existence. Now you can fill entire libraries with valueless drivel.

4. It is automated copyright infringement. All of my side projects are released under the 0BSD license so this doesn't personally impact me, but that doesn't make stealing from less permissively licensed projects without attribution suddenly okay.

5. And then there are the impacts to society:

5a. OpenAI just made every computer for the next couple of years significantly more expensive.

5b. All the AI companies are using absurd amounts of resources, accelerating global warming and raising prices for everyone.

5c. Surveillance is about to get significantly more intrusive and comprehensive (and dangerously wrong, mistaking doritos bags for guns...).

5d. Fools are trusting LLM responses without verification. We've already seen this countless times by lawyers citing cases which do not exist. How long until your doctor misdiagnoses you because they trusted an LLM instead of using their own eyes+brain? How long until doctors are essentially forced to do that by bosses who expect 10x output because the LLM should be speeding everything up? How many minutes per patient are they going to be allowed?

5e. Astroturfing is becoming significantly cheaper and widespread.

/signed as I also write software, as I assume almost everyone on this forum does.
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-26 07:26:26+00:00
Remember, gen AI produces so much value that companies like Microsoft are scaling back their expectations and struggling to find a valid use case for their AI products. In fact Gen AI is so useful people are complaining about all of the ways it's pushed upon them. After all, if something is truly useful nobody will use it unless the software they use imposes it upon them everywhere. Also look how it's affecting the economy - the same few companies keep trading the same few hundred billion around and you know that's an excellent marker for value.
by gryson | 2025-12-26 07:26:27+00:00
And if you keep reading (at whatever speed), you get to the actual point of the article:

>So I tried slowing down even more, and discovered something. I slowed to a pace that felt almost absurd, treating each sentence as though it might be a particularly important one. I gave each one maybe triple the usual time and attention, ignoring the fact that there are hundreds of pages to go.
by mmooss | 2025-12-26 07:30:08+00:00
It can be based on reason and law without being clear cut - that situation applies to most of reason and law.

> I don't think that training data is inherently "theft", any more than inspiration would be even before generative AI. There's probably not an animator alive that wasn't at least partially inspired by the works of Disney ...

Sure, but you can reason about it, such as by using analogies.
by dxdm | 2025-12-26 07:30:31+00:00
> customer success manager

These words are so funny and so sad at the same time.

Sorry for going off on a tangent, but seeing them used together unironically always has a fingernails-on-chalkboard effect on me.

I know you didn't invent them, it's probably what that role really is called where you work. I've worked there, too, in places that have a "customer success" team.

It doesn't have to be universal, but at least in my experience, in places that use these names, customers aren't successful, at least not by conscious design and effort, and their "success manager" ain't no manager, either.

It's one of these icky corporate euphemisms that make everything around them a little sadder. But it's also a bit fun, because of the immense silliness.

Alright, off-topic rant over.
by bangaladore | 2025-12-26 07:31:06+00:00
A platform that allows hiding of text locked behind a login is, in my opinion, garbage. This is done for the same reason Threads blocks all access without a login and mostly twitter to. Its to force account creation, collection of user data and support increased monetization. Any user helping to further that is naive at best.

I have no problem with blocking interaction with a login for obvious reasons, but blocking viewing is completely childish. Whether or not I agree with what they are saying here (which, to be clear I fully agree with the post), it just seems like they only want an echochamber to see their thoughts.
by dilyevsky | 2025-12-26 07:31:33+00:00
The hypocrisy is palpable. Apparently only web 2.0 is allowed to scrape and then resell people’s content. When someone figures out a better way to do that (based on Googles own research, hilariously) it’s sour grapes from Rob

Reminds me of SV show where Gavin gets mad when somebody else “is making a world a better place”
by 9x39 | 2025-12-26 07:31:49+00:00
If we're talking the response from the OP, people of his caliber are not in any danger of being automated away, it was an entirely reasonable revulsion at an LLM in his inbox in a linguist skinsuit, a mockery of a thank-you email.

I don't see the connection to handling the utilitarianism of implementing business logic. Would anyone find a thank-you email from an LLM to be of any non-negative value, no matter how specific or accurate in its acknowledgement it was? Isn't it beyond uncanny valley and into absurdism to have your calculator send you a Christmas card?
by ksec | 2025-12-26 07:33:41+00:00
The closest laptop to MacBook quality is surprisingly the Microsoft Surface Laptop.

As to x86, Zen 6 will be AMD's first major architecture rework since Apple demonstrated what is possible with wide decode. ( Well more accurately it should be since the world take notice because it happened long before M1 ). It still likely wont be close to M5 or even M4 with Single Threaded Performance / Watt, but hopefully it will be close.
by gnarcoregrizz | 2025-12-26 07:33:54+00:00
Technical: release a simple, focused product. AI makes it easy to spam things out that look good. I would be psyched if something catches just a little bit of attention. I feel like my main limit is creativity now. Mine has been stifled by 15 years of rote web dev.

Non technical: I made a conscious decision to push career and technical things aside to spend more time living life (hobbies, family). I’ve since fallen behind in my career, but I’ve had more interesting life experiences I suppose. I do get jealous of people’s titles and promotions sometimes, but I don’t want their jobs. The competition to make others rich right now is enormous. Fucked labor market. Seems like a loser’s game (I just tell myself that since I can’t compete)
by noduerme | 2025-12-26 07:34:48+00:00
I appreciate the optimism, and it's definitely worth noting that this isn't the first or last time that the intellectual elite had freaked out about the lowering of standards for the garbage the proles are imbibing. But the hinge of this article is that cheaper access to mass popular fiction opened up a new market for great unknown writers. This was true because the medium in paperback encouraged, rather than undermined, the reader's interest in reading. You pick up a paperback in the train station before heading home... your attention span at least stays the same, or maybe gets longer as you learn to enjoy long form fiction. The paperback business model is still based on keeping your attention fixed on a something for a long time (you know, like "Stranger Things"). Media like TikTok are designed to turn you into a vegetable with an attention span approaching zero. So I don't think these are equivalent.

The paperback vs hardback is more like Netflix vs cinema. Tiktok / short form video is like newsreels in Roger Rabbit, where the 'toons make the content.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-26 07:35:25+00:00
It is up to AMD, Intel and Khronos to offer APIs and tools that are actually nice to use.

They have had about 15 years to move beyond C99, stone age workflows to compile GLSL and C99 with their drivers, no libraries ecosystem, and printf debugging.

Eventually some of the issues have been fixed, after they started seeing only hardliners would put with such development experience, and then it was too late.
by danabramov | 2025-12-26 07:36:20+00:00
Bluesky is not locking anyone out. This is literally a user setting to not display their account without logging in. It's off by default.

And yes, you can still inspect the post itself over the AT protocol: https://pdsls.dev/at://robpike.io/app.bsky.feed.post/3matwg6...
by Jach | 2025-12-26 07:36:44+00:00
X went back on that quite some time ago. Have a bird post: https://x.com/GuGi263/status/2002306730609287628

(You won't be able to read replies, or browse to the user's post feed, but you can at least see individual tweets. I still wrap links with s/x/fxtwitter/ though since it tends to be a better preview in e.g. discord.)

For bluesky, it seems to be a user choice thing, and a step between full-public and only-followers.
by bl4kers | 2025-12-26 07:37:58+00:00
> Should the "purchased" software and media be within the data export scope?

I presume most of this is licensed, so no

> Does your regulation imply government id registration for all internet services?

No

> How should the service identify the person asking for data export?

Username, password, pin, MFA, security questions. Anything already in use for identification

> Does your regulation imply government id registration for all internet services?

No

> What if the service is e2ee?

Then the encrypted data is provided

> How do they deliver "human readable file formats"?

It can still become human readable if the user took proper care of their private key

> Are we also banning e2ee?

No

> What do compliance requirements imply for people's ability to start competing services?

If your service can't provide reliable access to backups then presumably you will already not do well competing in any market where user data is valuable. That should be at the forefront of the service model. Unless you don't care about interoperability like Apple

> You are proposing to replace a very tiny bit of personal responsibility (having backups) with a very intrusive, and highly consequential, legal mechanism.

Not really. If export functionality isn't already built out then it should be
by tombert | 2025-12-26 07:38:23+00:00
Hey! I actually wrote a thing to make the Swaybar a little more "complete" (e.g. battery status, currently selected program, clock, inspirational quote from ChatGPT, etc): https://git.sr.ht/~tombert/swaybar3

Not going to claim it will change the world or anything, but this runs perpetually with Sway and according to System Monitor it hovers at a little less than a megabyte of RAM. You can set how often you want things to update, and add as many sections as you'd like, and it's easy to create extra modules if you are so inclined (though not as easy as the Clojure version since I haven't found an implementation of multimethods for Rust that I like as much).
by litexlang | 2025-12-26 07:39:24+00:00
It's truely great if Litex does compile to existing formal languages. The only problem is that we can not find a good way to compile our verification process, which does not require users to give names to facts they are using and thus very different from how Lean works, to Lean (set theory example is just the first one of a series of comparisons). Besides, it's even harder to compile future functionaliteies, like printing out results of each statement of litex in a human readable way, to lean. So since litex is still a young language and we are using our limited resources to try new ideas and crack here and there, for the time being we believe it's not a good time to migrate our code in such a great scale. Thank you. Merry Christmas.
by Alex2037 | 2025-12-26 07:39:24+00:00
>We know this is illegal

>It's a CRYSTAL CLEAR violation of the law

in the court of reddit's public opinion, perhaps.

there is, as far as I can tell, no definite ruling about whether training is a copyright violation.

and even if there was, US law is not global law. China, notably, doesn't give a flying fuck. kill American AI companies and you will hand the market over to China. that is why "everyone just shrugs it off".
by renewiltord | 2025-12-26 07:40:05+00:00
This sounds a lot like how AMD’s approach had changed on Linux and still everyone I know who wants to use their GPU fully used Nvidia. For a decade or more I’ve heard how AMD has turned over a new leaf and their drivers are so much better. Even geohot was going to undercut nvidia by just selling tinygrad boxes on AMD.

Then it turned out this was the usual. Nothing had changed. It was just that people online have this desire to express that “the underdog” is actually better. Not clear why because it’s never true.

AMD is still hot garbage on Linux. Geohot primarily sells “green boxes”. And the MI300x didn’t replace H100s en masse.
by noduerme | 2025-12-26 07:41:13+00:00
Hahahaa ... I kinda love this, along with humans who can sit at a piano and play a song they've only heard once, or cook a complicated dish they only tasted once. That seems like the great Turing test... zero-shot humans.

But seriously, there probably are a few people who can see genes from proteins like that, faster than a whole datacenter of GPUs. Putting together such a brain trust could be invaluable.
by danabramov | 2025-12-26 07:41:24+00:00
Here is the raw post on the AT Protocol: https://pdsls.dev/at://robpike.io/app.bsky.feed.post/3matwg6...

The Bluesky app respects Rob's setting (which is off by default) to not show his posts to logged out users, but fundamentally the protocol is for public data, so you can access it.
by 0xMohan | 2025-12-26 07:41:41+00:00
I'm good at coding so hate using LLMs for coding.

but the other things such as writing, just can't do it without LLMs's help. Looking up things, I defaulted to LLMs.

So in 2026, I just want to stop relying on LLMs.

Lol but I do like building LLMs (training from scratch, pre-training, fine-tuning, etc.). as a matter of fact, I'm pre-training a 1b model for last 2 days.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-26 07:41:49+00:00
> Would FOSS Have Saved Patients' Lives?

FOSS can be written the same as any other software, and there's plenty of FOSS that fails to meet modern best practices.

But a software building code might have saved lives. The same way building codes save lives around the world every day, by ensuring safety-critical things in the world aren't slapped together haphazardly, and are tested for safety.

Ask your representatives in government to assemble a professional body to set software building codes for the software that could potentially kill you.
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by scott_w | 2025-12-26 07:42:28+00:00
I think you’re viewing this through your own cultural lens where camping can be totally solo (in the woods?)

In England, we can’t just pitch up a tent in the woods, we need to pay for a campsite where there’s other tents.

I suspect, from their description, this person is from a different country again, where camping may happen in large open steppe with lots of other yurts.
by mttch | 2025-12-26 07:42:37+00:00
We have a specific area for
drawing so the ‘mess’ is confined to a small area. Our daughter is happy to likes to give the drawings away and isn’t overly attached to them after they’ve been displayed for a short while - I don’t personally see this as mess as I am also quite proud of her pictures. If I judge magnetic tiles by the same measure I should also include the storage space taken up by a large plastic box of magnetic tiles, the resistance to tidy away their tile creations and the frustration when younger siblings get involved!
by shkkmo | 2025-12-26 07:44:26+00:00
> If I had a photographic memory and I used it to replicate parts of GPLed software verbatim while erasing the license, I could not excuse it in court that I simply "learned from" the examples.

Right, because you would have done more than learning, you would have then gone past learning and used that learning to reproduce the work.

It works exactly the same for a LLM. Training the model on content you have legal access to is fine. Aftwards, somone using that model to produce a replica of that content is engaged in copyright enfringement.

You seem set on conflating the act of learning with the act of reproduction. You are allowed to learn from copyrighted works you have legal access to, you just aren't allowed to duplicate those works.
by amluto | 2025-12-26 07:44:48+00:00
There are all kinds of reasons. One basic example would be if the vendor has a data sheet but does not have the right to grant anyone redistribution rights to the datasheet or may even be restricted from allowing anyone to read it without an NDA. Another might be that the vendor has a general rule that their engineers don’t talk to outside people without an NDA but has decided, as a business matter, to allow the engineers to talk to a specific developer and that they want an open source driver developed. A third might be that the vendor wants to be able to have detailed conversations about proprietary implementation details of their hardware and decide later which details are going to become public.
by dilyevsky | 2025-12-26 07:45:27+00:00
Hilarious that you think his work is not being used for ads or genai. I can without a shadow of doubt tell you that it is and a lot. Googles footprint was absolutely massive even before genai came along and that was point of pride for many, now they’re suddenly concerned with water or whatever bs…

> I think the United States is a force for evil on net

Yes I could tell that already