MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-12-19 18:43:34+00:00
The thing is that I do not see this ending up as a win for privacy. At best it's political grandstanding that will end up in a quid-pro-quo settlement and get dropped by the following news cycle. But there are worse possibilities like it's used as a cudgel to force the manufacturers to add "age verification" (eg sign into an account on the TV to be able to use it at all), or other creeping digital authoritarian dynamic which will then be sold as a "win".

A fundamental difficulty is that there is very little legal basis for a right to privacy. An AG is incapable of changing that, especially after commercial surveillance practices have been around for decades (precluding common-law approaches to novel behavior). Legislatures are where we need constructive action on this topic.

Which is why the generally performative behavior of the destructionists on the vast majority of causes they claim to champion is highly relevant. I'd say the few "successful goals" of the destructionist movement (criminalizing abortion, jackboots attacking minorities, appointing destructionist judges) are exceptions that prove the rule on how generally non-constructive their pushes are.
by OptionX | 2025-12-19 18:43:34+00:00
I've personally used and still use FF for year and have now no intentions of switching.

I don't care about the Ai stuff as long is mostly opt-in or easily disabled at least.

Having said that I've been looking forward the Ladybug project as a another browser not part of the chromium swarm. I'm sure I'll give it a try when it's more mature.
by dang | 2025-12-19 18:43:36+00:00
Anything meta has that effect. We normally crack down it although we make occasional exceptions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221900

The curiosity value of something like this diminishes under repetition, of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... It's a bit like repeating the same joke.

We downweight follow-up posts for that reason: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That, I think, is what's going on here. This post was great—it was impressive and original enough to clear the bar, so we left it up:

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 - Dec 2025 (965 comments)

These two follow-ups are pretty good follow-ups actually—they're fun variations on the theme—but I don't think they clear the bar for another major frontpage thread:

Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588 (<-- current thread)

Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324579
by throwaway2016a | 2025-12-19 18:44:42+00:00
> If the programmers goal is to produce valuable software that works and is secure and easy to maintain then they will gravitate to LLM assisted programming.

Just this week alone I had the LLMs:

- Introduce a serious security flaw.

- Decided it was better to duplicate the same 5 lines of code 20 times instead of making a function and calling that.

And that is actually just this week. And to be clear, I am not making that up to prove a point, I use AI day in and day out and it happens consistently. Which is fine, humans can do that too, the issue is when there is a whole new generation of "programmers" that have absolutely zero clue how to spot those issues when (not if) they come up.

And as AI gets better (which it will) it actually makes it more dangerous because people start blindly trusting the code it produces.
by bisonbear | 2025-12-19 18:44:55+00:00
checked out the tool and think it's a cool idea! one piece of feedback though - I actually feel like the inverse product would be more helpful for me. What I mean is replacing ~95% of english text with words (Chinese in my case) that I can understand, and leaving the remaining ~5% (words I definitely don't know) in English.

At least for me, there's large value in consuming bigger volumes of Chinese to get me used to pattern-matching on the characters, as opposed to only reading a smaller amount of harder characters that I'm less likely to actually encounter
by tsazan | 2025-12-19 18:44:58+00:00
JSON is lean for data exchange between machines. But in the LLM economy, the currency is tokens, not bytes. To an LLM tokenizer, every bracket and quote is a distinct cost. In our tests, this 'syntax tax' accounts for up to 30% of the payload. We chose a line-oriented format to minimize overhead and maximize the context window for actual commerce data.
by arctic-true | 2025-12-19 18:46:02+00:00
Someone publishes this story every 3 months. One more gullible senior attorney getting on the hype train is not news. LLMs are very, very, very good at making words look pretty, which has always been a cherished talent that lawyers liked to think only they possessed. But even before LLMs, you wouldn’t pay a lawyer much if all you needed them to do was to write a brief with no investigation, discovery, or motion practice involved. Grok’s output looks like great lawyering because it’s the product of great lawyering - great lawyering which enabled this source to spoon-feed the facts and the law to Grok, which makes this more like a law school writing assignment than actual legal work.
by topspin | 2025-12-19 18:46:05+00:00
No tags on objects.

Garage looks really nice: I've evaluated it with test code and benchmarks and it looks like a winner. Also, very straightforward deployment (self contained executable) and good docs.

But no tags on objects is a pretty big gap, and I had to shelve it. If Garage folk see this: please think on this. You obviously have the talent to make a killer application, but tags are table stakes in the "cloud" API world.
by johnpdoe1234 | 2025-12-19 18:46:40+00:00
I kinda like your analogy but I find it a bit misguided. I'll give another one that fits more my experience.

Consider a math/physics studying a course. Using an LLM is like having all the solutions to math/physics exercises in the course and reading them. If the goal is to finish all the problems quickly then an LLM is great. If the goal is to properly learn math/physics, then doing the thinking yourself and use the LLM as last recourse or to double check your work is the way to go.

Back to the carpenter, I think there is a lot of value on not using power tools to learn more about making chairs and become better at it.

I am using many LLMs for coding everyday. I think they are great. I am more productive. I finish features quickly and make progress quickly and the dopamine release is fantastic. I started playing with agents and I am marvelled at what they can do. I can also tell that I am learning less and becoming a lot more complacent when working like this.

So I question myself what the goal should be (for me). Should my goal be producing more raw output or produce less output while enriching my knowledge and expertise?
by bluGill | 2025-12-19 18:47:16+00:00
Since I work in a strongly typed languages the last two will fail to compile and are thus not worth the bother - those who don't have that luxury of course need to test the edge cases that apply to them. The first are maybe, in my experience they are rarely a problem, but we need to go from the abstract to the particular algorithm before we can have a discussion on if they are potentially a problem or not.
by immibis | 2025-12-19 18:48:12+00:00
Your stance is one of those thought-terminating stances. It's not as if parents somehow have more control over their children than the entire world. Yes, they may have a plurality of the influence - they are the single most influential factor - but it doesn't outweigh the entire rest of the world.

Plus, what are you going to say about children of people who aren't very good at parenting? Do they deserve to grow up addicted to dopamine and groomed into fascism? Or should we try to help them too?

I don't like the solution of age verification on every social media website, but the problem is real and must be solved if we want the future to be any good.
Show HN: PageIndex Chat – AI reader for long documents
by LoMoGan | 2025-12-19 18:49:56+00:00
Most current LLMs struggle with long documents due to context-length limitations. PageIndex Chat is an AI system specifically designed for conversational interaction with long documents. It delivers higher accuracy than ChatGPT 5.1 Thinking while remaining faster than ChatGPT 5.1 Instant. Additionally, PageIndex Chat provides page-level references for every claim in its responses, making answers transparent and verifiable.

Learn more at: https://pageindex.ai/chat
by Matticus_Rex | 2025-12-19 18:49:59+00:00
> Allow me to explain a contrarian position. Judges favor individuals that use an expensive lawyer for representation, even if there isn't much of a legal argument to be made. Judges give such individuals a far better deal. The reason for this is that hiring an expensive lawyer shows that you've paid homage to the legal profession with your wallet, that you support the systemic judicial-attorney-penalty complex. It grants you favors.

This isn't why expensive lawyers tend to get better results in court, or why those who represent themselves often end up screwed. I'm against the legal monopoly system, but this is out-of-touch and silly.
by tarsinge | 2025-12-19 18:50:01+00:00
> it is just plain bad for all Americans for China to advance its geopolitical ambitions

And what says has China on the advances of Americans geopolitical ambitions? I’m not saying they are the good guys obviously, but at this point as an European between China maybe invading Taiwan and the US openly threatening to take control of allied territory (Greenland) or on the verge of starting another war for oil control (Venezuela), I’m not sure what’s worst for "the west". And that’s not even talking about climate change, science, etc. Who is more aligned with a sustainable future for the world?

> TikTok is a cyberweapon

I’m far more concerned by the YouTube, Twitter/X and Facebook cyber weapons that have been radicalizing and destroying our societies for more than a decade. Just the other day a fake video about a coup in France trended on Facebook and not even our President could have it removed. Have you also see the plan of the US to weaken the EU by targeting countries to make them leave the EU? Again not saying China are good guys, but it’s time Americans freaking out about China have a hard look in the mirror.
by dang | 2025-12-19 18:50:37+00:00
That's true and there are at least two disjoint subsets:

(1) people who didn't see the original post from last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632), for whom the follow-up is therefore new and interesting;

(2) people who did see the original post but appreciate the follow-ups as fun and amusing variations on the theme, and therefore want them on the frontpage.

But from a moderation point of view we can't prioritize either of those cases, since doing so would be globally suboptimal, i.e. they would make the site less interesting overall in the long run. This is where it's handy to know what one is optimizing for (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) and to have clear principles which support it (more on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329337).

Of course, there is always room for occasional exceptions—we don't want to apply the "avoid repetition" principle too repetitively!—but they have to be limited, or the principle no longer holds.

If you* imagine a topic X that you don't find extra interesting, and then consider how much more annoying each Xi in the sequence X1, X2,... becomes if the deltas between Xi and Xi+1 get too small, and then remember that people have quite different feelings about which topics deserve or don't deserve extra attention, it becomes clear that the global optimization is to downweight follow-ups generally. I'm writing this in haste so I hope it makes sense!

* (I don't mean you personally, but anyone here)
by jmclnx | 2025-12-19 18:50:45+00:00
I really doubt this for one reason. lawyers makes the laws. Already we have seen massive push-back in legal areas where some lawyers were punished for using AI.

Once it looks like their profession is threatened, you will see many laws against AI.

I thought decades ago people found a way to avoid lawyers is a specific instance, I kind of remember doing that was made against the law. Not sure if I am remembering right, but I could swear that happened.

Edit: Reading the comments, I think it was the bar exam. IIRC there was a time you could take it without a degree, that was changed to force people to go to to college and get a degree.
by d4mr | 2025-12-19 18:51:14+00:00
Author here. Was building an indexer to correlate Hyperliquid L1 transfers with HyperEVM transactions. The official RPC gave me one hash, but block explorers couldn't find it.

Turns out: Hyperliquid publishes block data to S3, and system transactions don't have hashes. nanoreth (which explorers use) has to recompute them, but uses a different encoding convention. they stuff the system address into the signature field as a "pseudo transaction."

Neither is wrong exactly, but if you're building tooling you need to know which convention your data source uses.
by thegrim000 | 2025-12-19 18:51:26+00:00
Well yeah, that's the strategy.

"You don't need to learn it or use it, we just want to do our own separate things with it over here"

.. some time later ..

"Oh yeah it's working good for us, we think it'd be useful to use it in these additional places, think about the benefits!"

.. some time later ..

"Now it's going to be core and required, either deal with it or get out"

They know they could never jump straight to the last step without revolt, so they shove their foot in the door with fake promises and smiles and then slowly over time force the door all the way open until they eventually get what they wanted from the beginning.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-12-19 18:51:42+00:00
> "nobody knows what the code means, or has a mental model for how it's supposed to operate"

> Believing you know how LLM-generated code works, and why it works, is not the same as that actually being the case

This is a strawman argument which I'm not really interested to engage. You can assume competence. (In a scenario where one doesn't make these mistakes, what's left in your argument? It is a sufficiently strong claim to say these cannot be avoided such that it is reasonable to dismiss the claim unless supporting evidence is provided. In other words, the solution is as simple as not making these mistakes.) As I wrote up-thread, including the code is a choice and one should be mindful of it.
by henning | 2025-12-19 18:52:08+00:00
Some implementations seem vectorization-friendly like the C one that uses a bit-twiddling trick to avoid the `x = -x` line that the Odin implementation and others have.

When you put these programs into Godbolt to see what's going on with them, so much of the code is just the I/O part that it's annoying to analyze
by mckn1ght | 2025-12-19 18:52:38+00:00
Mobile developer here. I historically am an emacs user so am used to living in a terminal shell. My current setup is a split pane terminal with one half running claude and the other running emacs for light editing and magit. I run one per task, managed by git worktrees, so I have a bunch of these terminals going simultaneously at any given time, with a bunch of fish/tmuxinator automation including custom claude commands. I pop over to Xcode if I need to dig further into something.

I’ve tried picking up VSCode several times over the last 6-7 years but it never sticks for me, probably just preference for the tools I’m already used to.

Xcode’s AI integration has not gone well so far. I like being able to choose the best tool for that, rather than a lower common denominator IDE+LLM combination.
by bluGill | 2025-12-19 18:52:47+00:00
Google publishes how to control their bot - with robots.txt. They then obey those instructions. Google also takes some effort to not use all your bandwidth. Google isn't perfect, but they are at least making a "good faith" effort to be nice and this does count in court. Overall most will agree that in general what google does to allow people to find their website is worth the things that google is doing.

You can of course argue a lot of edge cases if you really want. For the most part I want to say "it isn't worth the argument". In some cases I will take your side if I really have to think about it, but in general the system google has been using mostly works and is mostly an acceptable compromise.
by tsazan | 2025-12-19 18:52:51+00:00
That would be a fantastic first implementation. Openship is exactly the kind of architecture CommerceTXT is built for. Integration is straightforward: it’s essentially just a new 'View' layer. Instead of rendering HTML, you render a .txt endpoint that maps your existing product DB to our fields. I'll head over to your repo and open an Issue to discuss how we can map Openfront's data to the spec. I'd be happy to guide the implementation myself. Let's get this moving!
by bmelton | 2025-12-19 18:52:55+00:00
As an older engineer, I prefer CLI experiences to avoid mouse usage. The more I use the mouse, the more I notice repetitive stress injury symptoms

But also, 90% of the time if I'm using an IDE like VSCode, I spend most of my time trying to configure it to behave as much like vim as possible, and so a successful IDE needn't be anything other than vim to me, which already exists on the terminal
by nightpool | 2025-12-19 18:53:12+00:00
> Fediverse itself doesnt know how to handle direct messages

What do you mean by this? Direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted, I don't know what you mean by "doesn't know how to handle". Almost every platform with direct messages doesn't have E2E today, that's the same as email, twitter, Discord... basically every other messaging platform on the web besides Signal and Matrix, for better or worse.
by spruce_tips | 2025-12-19 18:53:13+00:00
composer 1 has been my most used model the past few months. but i only use it to execute plans that i write with the help of larger, more intelligent models like opus 4.5. composer 1 is great at following plan instructions so after some careful time providing the right context and building a plan, it basically never messes up the implementation. sometimes requires a few small tweaks around the edges but overall a fantastic workflow that's so delightfully fast
by rchaud | 2025-12-19 18:53:23+00:00
I'd argue that the invasion of Iraq benefited plenty of neoconservative aims:

1) eliminating a military threat to Saudi Arabia and Israel

2) placing hundreds of military outposts on Iran's doorstep

3) destabilizing Iran and Syria by empowering militant groups dormant under Saddam to re-arm and try to establish a Caliphate in Syria.

4) awarding trillions in no-bid contracts to Dick Cheney's Halliburton and a slew of arms manufacturers and private military contractors who could operate free of the burdensome rules of the Geneva Conventions. Halliburton received so much business that they moved their HQ to Dubai.
by Maxatar | 2025-12-19 18:53:23+00:00
So unless I'm mistaken, the TL;DR is that GPTs inherently can not be Turing complete because they always terminate, ie. there is always a non-zero probability of the end-of-token character to be generated.

Seems like a fair argument to raise, although not too insightful.

As a nitpick, it really is not the case that most programming languages are context-free, but I can sympathize with what the author is trying to get at. Most programming languages have a context-free superset that is useful to use as one of many stages in the parsing pipeline, before type checking and name resolution etc... but apart from perhaps some dynamically typed programming languages, the vast majority of programming languages are context-sensitive, not context-free.
by stuffn | 2025-12-19 18:53:48+00:00
> Bullshit

I tried to present a different opinion here and not flame anyone in my post. But since you're being inflammatory I feel it necessary to call out your terminally online sickness.

The reddit/HN pseudo-intellectual far left navel gazing view of the world is wildly uncommon in real life. Sorry to break it to you but you have to realize normal, well adjusted, people have concerns about books detailing teenage sex and rape. If you don't, you should probably get your head checked. The authors of these books are likely similarly sick in the head.
by kakacik | 2025-12-19 18:53:49+00:00
Agent Krasnov, now this, there seems to be competition for whom that guy is fucking up US more.

Although answer is probably simplest - for himself and his ego.

I cant imagine the mental gymnastic any half decent republican must be going through daily to keep avoiding utter debiliating shame for voting him when doing the proverbial look in the mirror.
by johnwheeler | 2025-12-19 18:54:04+00:00
Yes, I agree with this sentiment. A little better or a little worse, hopefully not too bad. But I think the same feeling of dread will persist, especially going into 2027, particularly around artificial intelligence for tech workers. My concern is that the switch won't be gradual. One day someone will come out with a model that can do everything valuable this software engineer can do. Claude code 4.5 almost hits that mark for me. In a year, I can't imagine…

It might not be AGI, it might not be able to do everything everyone could do, but it'll be enough that you can fire most of the people on your team and just use a few to guide the AI. And I think that's gonna tighten things up in the job market even more. Hopefully it leads to more job creation and it empowers people to compete with one another based on taste and individuals to compete with organizations. That's the best-case scenario I see.
by AstroBen | 2025-12-19 18:54:20+00:00
> Defendant SerpApi, LLC (“SerpApi”) offers services that “scrape” this copyrighted content and more from Google, using deceptive means to automatically access and take it for free at an astonishing scale and then offering it to various customers for a fee. In doing so, SerpApi acquires for itself the valuable product of Google’s labors and investment in the content, and denies Google’s partners compensation for their works

this has to be satire. Is Google not the #1 entity guilty of exactly this?
by PeterStuer | 2025-12-19 18:54:20+00:00
No. I'd say they are polling mostly completely uninformed people on the interwebs that haven't given this more than 3 seconds of thought before they clicked an option and have almost 0% expertise in actually detecting AI assisted work when it is done well, but since there is 0 cost proposed just prefered 'human' over 'machine'. Basically the equivalent of the beauty contestant's "peace on earth".