MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mittermayr | 2025-12-03 10:26:33+00:00
I hate these constant drama posts, but I am all for seeing competition. I think it's good to have a couple of top-tier companies offering the same service, and especially with git, it's been... lacklustre outside of Github, I'd say. Bitbucket was totally nice, but Atlassian and Jira and meh... Github has (mostly) steered clear of cross-product promotions until the CoPilot era washed all over us, and I wonder for how long they can continue to thrive off the power of brand-awareness.

Same effect at play watching all the top-tier AI corps under heavy competitive fire still, trying hard to keep the audience attached while battling to stay on top of (or keep up with) the competition. This mainly (for now) benefits the user. If OpenAI were to trailblaze on their own, we'd all be paying through the roof for even the most basic GPT by now.
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-03 10:26:38+00:00
Except all the technologies listed were basically in the heydey of the 70s and 80s. Gerstner redirected IBM into an enterprise services business in the early 90s and by the late 90s that's where all their money was. The 2002 acquisition of PwC consulting cemented this shift. In the mid 2010s under Ginni Rometty IBM software became secondary and it abandoned selling it as standalone software instead bundling it into its consultancy.

So IBM hasn't been doing hardware R&D for about three decades and abandoned software R&D well over a decade ago. R&D hasn't been in their DNA for a long time, their previous contributions notwithstanding.
by JosephjackJR | 2025-12-03 10:26:47+00:00
I daily-drove a 1981 280ZX Turbo for three glorious, infuriating years. The L28ET would boost like a freight train one minute and then randomly cut out because the AFM flap got sticky or the injector harness decided it was allergic to moisture. Fuel pump relay? Shot. Turbo coolant lines? Weeping. ECU temp sensor? Lies constantly. Every single ground in the engine bay needed cleaning twice a year or it would just die at traffic lights for fun. But man, when it ran (which was most of the time) that long hood, perfect 50/50 weight, and the way the turbo spooled with that glorious whistle made every commute feel like a low-budget 80s action movie chase scene. It leaked, it overheated, it ate alternators, and I still miss it every single day. Cars were allowed to have personality back then, even if that personality was “occasionally tries to strand you on the motorway lol
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-03 10:26:57+00:00
There are so many CEOs, tech experts, financial analysts and famous investors who say we are in an AI bubble - even AI-invested companies say that about themselves. My latest favorite "We are in an AI bubble" comment comes from Linus Torvalds himself in the video with Linus from Linus Tech Tipps [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA&t=2063s
by georgefrowny | 2025-12-03 10:27:16+00:00
It feels very much like a self-inflicted problem that manufacturers made by lobbying for domestic rules that they knew to be incompatible with foreign markets, followed by inability to innovate sufficiently to supply both markets economically.

I have no sympathy with this plight. They should take responsibility for their past choices. They have agency, they're not victims.

It's not even that you can't see big pickups in the EU, there are plenty of Hiluxen and even Chinese brands like Maxus (SAIC) could figure out how make an EU-compliant vehicle (much as I think even such models are undesirable to share roads with).

It's also not there are no US imports - there are, when the models comply with local regulation.
by JosephjackJR | 2025-12-03 10:27:27+00:00
The bar for “junior” has quietly turned into “mid-level with 3 years of production experience, a couple of open-source contributions, and perfect LeetCode” while still paying junior money. Companies list “0-2 years” but then grill candidates on system design, distributed tracing, and k8s internals like they’re hiring for staff roles. No wonder the pipeline looks broken. I’ve interviewed dozens of actual juniors in the last six months. Most can ship features, write clean code, and learn fast, but they get rejected for not knowing the exact failure modes of Raft or how to tune JVM garbage collection on day one. The same companies then complain they “can’t find talent” and keep raising the bar instead of actually training people.

Real junior hiring used to mean taking someone raw, pairing them heavily for six months, and turning them into a solid mid. Now the default is “we’ll only hire someone who needs zero ramp-up” and then wonder why the market feels empty.
by austin-cheney | 2025-12-03 10:27:33+00:00
> What happened to building cool stuff, not having an ego and being real.

There are certainly developers building stuff just for the passion of solving problems and producing high quality products. You have to know where to find these people, because they aren’t common and typically are not self promoting.

The people more interested in marketing and promoting themselves tend to devote more time and attention to that noise than the energy required to solving challenging problems.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-12-03 10:27:56+00:00
> Here’s Transkribus’s best guess at George’s letter to Maryann, above:

Transkribus got a new model architecture around the corner and the results look impressive. Not only for trivial cases like text, but also for table structures and layouting.

Best of all, you can train it on your own corpus of text to support obscure languages and handwriting systems.

Really looking forward to it.
by rsynnott | 2025-12-03 10:28:46+00:00
> Local governments here try to encourage cycling by putting in as many dedicated bike lanes as they can, but they never seem to get much use

Might be a regional or urban/rural thing? In Ireland bike lanes in central and near-central Dublin are often very heavily used these days, especially since covid (to the point that I think they're going to have to rethink traffic control for some of them), but bike lanes in outer suburbs seem to be mostly empty.
Show HN: ImposterWords – A social deduction word game built for fast online play
by bozhou | 2025-12-03 10:28:51+00:00
A free online party game for 4-8 players. Most players get the same word (e.g., "Dog"), but the impostor gets a similar word (e.g., "Wolf"). Describe your word without giving it away, catch the liar, and win! Perfect for game nights, team building, or virtual hangouts. No signup required.
by mrsmrtss | 2025-12-03 10:29:08+00:00
So, everyone who can hack some JS is now a developer? The '100x' claim is obviously exaggerated. C# is certainly one of the most used programming languages there is.

You can run also C# code very quickly, but have the option (but not the need) to AOT compile it. I would say the only real edge JS has is the ability to run natively in the browser. It was built for that purpose, and in my opinion, that is where it should have stayed.
by kelnos | 2025-12-03 10:29:33+00:00
> Moore's law ended at or shortly before the 28nm era.

Moore's law isn't about cost or clock speed, it's about transistor density. While the pace of transistor density increases has slowed, it's still pretty impressive. If we want to be really strict, and say densities absolutely have to double every 2 years, Moore's Law hasn't actually been true since 1983 or so. But it's been close, so 2x/2yr a decent rubric.

The fall-off from the 2x/2yr line started getting decently pronounced in the mid 90s. At the present time, over the past 5-6 years, we're probably at a doubling in density every 4-ish years. Which yes, is half the rate Moore observed, but is still pretty impressive given how mature the technology is at this point.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-03 10:29:42+00:00
PR#1: dough PR#2: toppings

You first send PR#1, then PR#2 on top of the first one.

The diff for PR#1 will show dough stuff. The diff for PR#2 will show toppings in relation to dough.

People can review them asynchronously. If you merge PR#1, PR#2 will automatically target main (that's where dough went) now.

In this arrangement, I use to cross-mention the PRs by number (a link will exist in both). I also like to keep the second one draft, but that depends on the team practices.

I don't understand why you would close the second PR when the first gets merged. It should lose the dependency automagically, which is exactly what happens if you branch correctly.
by JackStarborn | 2025-12-03 10:29:56+00:00
I'm trying to understand this. The languages mentioned will never grow because others didn't give them a chance, so you won't give them a chance either. Sir, I think I've diagnosed an infinite loop here. I recently started learning Nim. I'm only at the beginning of my journey, and there are things I don't like, but overall, Nim is a very nice language :-) A significant portion of the mistakes one can make in C/C++ can be avoided by writing idiomatic Nim, which is most case is super easy to do :-) EDIT: you=>one :-)
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-03 10:30:31+00:00
Intellectually curious podcast did a piece on reverse math recently, only 5m but more detailed in places than quanta.

In a lot of ways this feels related to the development of noneuclidean geometry so it's kind of surprising it wasn't a hot topic sooner. Maybe it was waiting for a critical mass of computer scientists to come along, or maybe we just needed to run out of other low-hanging fruit so that foundational topics in complexity became more interesting
by mettamage | 2025-12-03 10:30:44+00:00
I don't think it's only humans. All kinds of animals would benefit from knowing that awhoo comes from a wolf and that, in this example, awhoo awhoo is the same sound coming from the same wolf or that an animal recognizes that the first awhoo comes from one wolf and the second awhoo from another wolf.

It also helps for an animal to know the volume of these awhoos as it is a good proxy for closeness, and therefore danger. It's even a good thing to know the rhythm of these awhoos as it helps again to assess if these wolves, or wolf, is on the move while awhooing or on the move between awhoos.

And this is just one example I'm currently making up bit at least makes sense that for many animals: tempo, volume, rhythm, patterns in sound, it's needed for survival. So evolution will select for it.

Music is a lot more than just those things I think, but it at least shows some evolutionary backbone as to why I believe that more animals have been evolved to like music. At least, some elephants sure seem to enjoy a good piano [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFIT87yPNYk
Show HN: Wanted to learn Rust, wrote a dependency walker for Windows PEs
by donromano | 2025-12-03 10:31:05+00:00
Overall, I think the language is great. Coming from C/C++ I have to say it's easy to get it to work. I haven't had the time to explore all of what the language has to offer yet, and I would like to dive more into performance-critical code to see how it behaves, but so far I had a good experience with it and might reuse it later for other projects!
by b112 | 2025-12-03 10:31:11+00:00
Is the aspirin symbol you're using as + figure, a special kind of +, or just a different looking +? What does the circle around the + mean?

I'm mentioning this, as other people in this thread are discussing "explaining symbols you use", and you're using a non-standard symbol for +. I can easily imagine a circle around + making + a different operation, and wonder if it is so?

Aspirin I've bought in the past has a + on it, and its trademark is a + within a circle. That's why I've latched on what a "common person" might view the symbol as:

https://www.brand.aspirin.com/sites/g/files/vrxlpx46831/file...

Interestingly, I have University level math courses, but decades out of date, and have never run into that symbol. I see it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_sum
by ben_w | 2025-12-03 10:31:18+00:00
> copy/paste

I did not say that.

That it can *also* use tools to help, doesn't mean it can *only* get there by using tools.

They can *also* just do a code review themselves.

As in, I cloned a repo of some of my old manually-written code, cd'd into it, ran `claude`, and gave it the prompt "code review" (or something close to that), and it told me a whole bunch of things wrong with it, in natural language, even though I didn't have the relevant static analysis tools for those languages installed.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-03 10:31:51+00:00
It's not a conflation at all, it's all coming from the same mentality. The rulers trying to work out what to do with the ruled. In the Middle Ages, peasants were limited in how far they could travel, what they could eat and which fuel they could use. There are people on top who would like to see that return, and we see signs of that returning.

Lockdown killed off a lot of commerce, and we're still paying it off. Whether it was necessary or unnecessary, it was mismanaged. Automation will take almost any job if it keeps proceeding this way, and so that means the masses will become of little use to the ruling class economically. There are several ways to address that problem. One is restricting their interaction and movement. Another would be to create artificial work just to keep them quiet. As for the other possibilities, they are pretty dark.
by firesteelrain | 2025-12-03 10:32:04+00:00
I am not an expert on car safety standards in either US or EU. Nitpicking this quote: “ Europe currently has mandatory requirements for life-saving technologies, such as pedestrian protection, automated emergency braking and lane-keeping assistance”

My cheap, Chevy Trax has some of these features. Lane keeping assistance is there. It will tell me if there is a pedestrian in front of me. If it sees someone’s brake lights then it will flash a red light on the windshield to warn me that I am too close.

It doesn’t have emergency braking but my Wife’s 2019 Honda Odyssey had all those things except the pedestrian protection. All US vehicles.

What standards are we really talking about?

This is one of these articles that feels more like clickbait and judging on the emotional responses I see in this comment section it worked. The top comment is railing against Dodge Rams which wasn’t mentioned in the article.
by Folcon | 2025-12-03 10:32:09+00:00
I'm genuinely wondering if your parent comment is correct and the only reason we don't see the behaviour you describe, IE, learning and growth is because of how we do context windows, they're functionally equivalent to someone who has short term memory loss, think Drew Barrymore's character or one of the people in that facility she ends up in in the film 50 first dates.

Their internal state moves them to a place where they "really intend" to help or change their behaviour, a lot of what I see is really consistent with that, and then they just, forget.
by quitit | 2025-12-03 10:32:13+00:00
Keep in mind that the US stats are derived from cities that are designed around personal automobile transportation, so they're likely muted.

Europe on the other hand has a much higher level of intermingling between pedestrians and vehicles. This puts pedestrians more often in harms way, and likely will lead to out-sized dangers that aren't seen as frequently in the USA. Pedestrian safety is a key requirement for European car safety.

If the EU is politically forced into accepting the US standards: The slack will need to be picked up by European insurance companies, who should charge extreme premiums for unsafe designs, effectively blocking the sale of the vehicles from dangerous, young, or casual drivers and limiting those designs to those who truly need them (which I suspect is very few.)

This should also go a long way in addressing inexpensive Chinese vehicles that ape the American designs. Since that is more likely going to be what is on the roads.
by Leynos | 2025-12-03 10:32:26+00:00
I got the same thing trying to sign up for Oracle Cloud.

Thankfully Oracle aren't the only cloud platform, of course. Which makes it even more fun telling my friends and colleagues how shit Oracle Cloud are whenever the topic of cloud providers comes up even funnier.

On the other hand, Apple's position of dominance here makes their refusal to answer a GDPR subject access request all the more galling.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-03 10:32:37+00:00
> For example, a Mercedes Sprinter in the standard long box configuration (as is used by local grocery delivery services, plumbers and the likes where I live) is 7.4 meters long , way longer than even the longest American pickup trucks (for some of them, several meters longer!), and is just as wide as them.

Seems correct on relative length but not width; the F-450 Super Duty body is a bit wider without mirrors than a Sprinter with mirrors;
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by gambiting | 2025-12-03 10:33:52+00:00
>>You ignored the first paragraph in my reply, where I pointed out that the first, and most horrifying, vignette in the article wasn't even related to the actual topic.

I apologize - you are correct. I re-read that paragraph again and indeed, it's not clear if there is anything there other than the dog literally eating her face, and it's unclear to my why that's included other than the emotional element.

>>Seeing a laundry list of heartbreaking problems as I page through the news isn't even slightly helpful in helping me form a bigger picture of what's good or bad in the world.

And obviously you are free to have such an approach. For me personally seeing starving children in Sudan or children getting blown up Ukraine or Gaza is far more evocative and effective at making me care about those issues than any "dry" stats would ever be.

>>we're being overall less effective in helping others than we might otherwise be.

Alright, can you share how exactly are you helping others due to non-emotional news pieces that you encounter? I'm genuienly curious.
by rsynnott | 2025-12-03 10:34:14+00:00
There's a lot going on there, and it's not just vehicle design. Many countries have brought in reduced speed limits in urban areas, usually 30km/h, for instance. Your chances of dying if hit by a car at 30km/h are dramatically lower than 60km/h. Many countries also took the opportunity of COVID (roads not busy, construction industries in need of life-support) to improve cycling infrastructure. And rush-hour traffic is usually not as bad as it was, due to WFH.

In Ireland, public transport usage now is also much bigger share of commutes than pre-covid, particularly in Dublin, though I'm not sure if that's due to local factors or if it's replicated across Europe.
by skydhash | 2025-12-03 10:34:41+00:00
A better benchmark is done through the web browser inspector (network tab or performance tab). In the network tab I got (cache disabled)

Github 158 requests 15.56 MB (11.28 MB transferred) Finish in 8.39s Dom loaded in 2.46s Load 6.95s Codeberg 9 requests 1.94 MB (533.85 KB transferred) Finish in 3.58s Dom loaded in 3.21s Load 3.31s
by DANmode | 2025-12-03 10:35:38+00:00
This comment is pretty off-base.

1.) Those WordPress gigs can make your React gig look like indentured servitude

2.) The company you’re applying to isn’t the client.

3.) “freelancer or something”, like you’re spitting it out? Yes - some of us aren’t handcuffed to mediocrity by 200-1000 person orgs. As the kids say, “Don’t hate.”
by pu_pe | 2025-12-03 10:36:07+00:00
> “I own the compute infrastructure” or “I owned the company that bought the AI systems early”, on the other hand, is just being in the right place at the right time. It’s not about your talents, effort, or contribution. It’s pure capital ownership divorced from any human quality.

The article is not about AI, it's about this stage of capitalism. Unlike the author, I would argue that it is very much in line with the consequences of Robert Nozick's thinking. On the other hand, the way China is doing its AI development and rollout seems more aligned with a Rawlsian notion of distributing the benefits.

I can perfectly understand why everyone in the West is so jaded and worried about how AI benefits will be distributed. That doesn't change the fact that, like any technology, it can also be used to make everyone wealthier, like industrialization also did.
by ai_updates | 2025-12-03 10:36:12+00:00
Great question. In practice, (1) is harder for most people.

Turning vague ideas into evaluation benchmarks requires a level of procedural thinking that many non-technical users don’t naturally apply. You need to define constraints, success criteria, edge cases, and failure modes — basically treating any task like a mini-spec. Once people see that framing, their results improve dramatically.

Detecting hallucinations vs reasoning (2) is also important, but in my experience it becomes easier once users adopt a habit of forcing the model to externalize its reasoning (step-by-step assumptions, uncertainty estimates, alternative paths). When the chain of thought is explicit, hallucinations become much more obvious.

Curious how you see it from your experience.
by fragmede | 2025-12-03 10:37:23+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ for those who haven't seen it yet.

edit: also, what the hell, YouTube? they've got this new link shorter at https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ that they really want you to use, that forces you to use the browser to watch it instead of the app? so weird.
by Nisen | 2025-12-03 10:37:36+00:00
I've been struggling with this issue lately. On one hand, AI accelerates the speed of programming and learning; on the other hand, the way AI programs are programmed makes me feel that learning programming itself is largely useless. This can easily lead to a sense of technological nihilism.

Right now, I can only try my best to explore the boundaries of AI programming capabilities and build corresponding mental models to adapt to it.

With the advent of the AI era, many experiences, skills, and abilities seem to have become less valuable because AI can perform them better. And these AI capabilities are monopolized by most tech giants. It seems that only capital is not easily replaced. This is truly disheartening.
by neilalexander | 2025-12-03 10:38:41+00:00
EU legislation requires a number of design considerations for pedestrian and cyclist collisions, like specific energy absorption requirements for front-impact and side-impact protection, restrictions on sharp corners/steep angles that could concentrate impact forces, minimum clearance around hard internal structures, mandatory ADAS (automated emergency braking, lane departure warnings) etc. Not saying that US cars are "not safe" in a binary fashion but for the most part these things are either optional or unregulated in the US.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-03 10:39:37+00:00
> long after ol' minihands is out of office

The EC is not that slow when it comes to the American trade wars. The timeline suddenly shrinks to months instead of years because this stuff could majorly disrupt the economy (and safety) across the European continent.

The EC may not fear the (mostly disinterested) European citizen body, but it does fear immediate actions by world powers.