MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jameslk | 2025-12-01 07:11:45+00:00
> Layoffs these days increase stock value because everyone is hedging that bad job numbers will force the feds to lower interest rates.

Layoffs generally cause stock prices to go up because of anticipated cost reduction/efficiency: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwab046

If you have some source to make the case that layoff-stock price change is correlated for a different reason these days, it would be interesting to read it. But I doubt anything has changed
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 07:13:49+00:00
So, it's like credit scores, basically? Advertise a happy, meritocratic future for consumers, where the "better"/more responsible ones will reap massive rewards at the expense of the "worse" consumers, and then keep adjusting the brackets until the system is only used punitively - you don't really get anything from a high score nowadays, your only goal is clearing a certain low bar to avoid negative consequences.
by Marsymars | 2025-12-01 07:14:57+00:00
Even worse for non-American stockholders of American companies - the IRS charges a 30% foreign withholding tax on dividends. If you ban stock buybacks in favour of dividends, it’s a big tax increase on foreigners, so US stocks lose a whole pile of value for American stockholders when foreigners dump American equities until the ROI equalizes. (Roughly 20% of US equities are foreign-owned.)
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-01 07:15:03+00:00
It’s ironic that Andy calls himself “ruthlessly pragmatic”, but his business is failing because of a principled stand in turning down a high volume of inbound requests. After reading a few of his views on AI, it seems pretty clear to me that his objections are not based in a pragmatic view that AI is ineffective (though he claims this), but rather an ideological view that they should not be used.

Ironically, while ChatGPT isn’t a great writer, I was even more annoyed by the tone of this article and the incredible overuse of italics for emphasis.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-12-01 07:15:24+00:00
> Taking a moral stance against AI might make you feel good but doesn't serve the customer in the end. They need value for money. And you can get a lot of value from AI these days; especially if you are doing marketing, frontend design, etc. and all the other stuff a studio like this would be doing.

So let's all just give zero fucks about our moral values and just multiply monetary ones.
by wqaatwt | 2025-12-01 07:16:15+00:00
> You don't need to drag in people off the streets, close your borders, and continually lower the enlistment age

As you said Ukraine’s demographic situation was quite horrible before the war. Very few people in their 20s. Hence the conscription age being 27 earlier in the war. They lowered it to 25 later (which is kind of the inverse of what happened historically in other wars).

Russia had way more manpower, then the cannon fodder from North Korea and the foreign mercenaries. Russia can afford even 1:1.5 or 1:2 casualty rates (of course they have other concerns and seemed to be very politically unwilling to send actual conscripts there and the pool of willing volunteers is not infinite).
by echoadam | 2025-12-01 07:16:48+00:00
Don’t just generate. Create.

Most AI tools are like slot machines—you get what you get. GPT Image 2 is a professional studio designed for total control.

We introduce two game-changing features:

Infinite Canvas: Drag borders to expand your image in any direction.

Generative Fill: Select any area to fix flaws, change outfits, or add props using simple text.

Stop rerolling for luck. Start editing for perfection.
Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?
by Razengan | 2025-12-01 07:16:58+00:00
Or just "tabletop" games in general. Any genre.

Domain of Science's "Map of Board Games" inspired me to search for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH4MaSJ8gXU

What are you playing lately? Which old games you keep going back to? Which are your all-time favorites?
by pyuser583 | 2025-12-01 07:17:53+00:00
It was just marriages fueled by a pretty daughter. It was actual social advancement.

Sir Thomas More’s grandfather was a butcher - a highly stigmatized occupation. More rose to be Chancellor.

The fact that the British conquered a third of the world created many opportunities for advancement- military, commercial, artistic.

Sir John Major came from a family of musicians. When he ran for PM, his enemies said as a child he “ran away from the circus to become an accountant.”

Part of the issues is that people copy elites. A blacksmith from Birmingham would marry his daughter off to a banker, and the granddaughter off to a Baron. The family would spend money supporting artists, and build cathedrals. And eventually become “posh.”

A good example are the Rothschilds, who are currently at the height or British aristocracy, but were once grubby merchants.
by goodolddays9090 | 2025-12-01 07:18:09+00:00
Yeah; I've heard a few people say versions of you get bored if you retire early, and I've soon to be retirees talk about how the people they know who retired to go do nothing just wasted away.

I like tech; my challenge now is finding a gig with interesting work and a good work-life balance and p75 pay. That, and knowing when I actually have enough net worth to have more freedom. The problem is you never think it's enough, but not because of greed, but because of fear.
by uhoh-itsmaciek | 2025-12-01 07:18:35+00:00
I know why it apologizes, but the fact that it does is offensive. It feels like mockery. Humans apologize because (ideally) they learned that their actions have caused suffering to others, and they feel bad about that and want to avoid causing the same suffering in the future. This simulacrum of an apology is just pattern matching. It feels manipulative.
by permo-w | 2025-12-01 07:19:33+00:00
I feel like this is the kind of dodgy take that'll be dispelled by half an hour's concerted use of the thing you're talking about

short of massive technological regression, there's literally never going to be a situation where the use of what amounts to a second brain with access to all the world's public information is not going to be incredibly marketable

I dare you to try building a project with Cursor or a better cousin and then come back and repeat this comment

>What's more likely: that everyone who's angry is wrong, or that you're misunderstanding why they're upset?

your patronising tone aside, GP didn't say everyone was wrong, did he? if he didn't, which he didn't, then it's a completely useless and fallacious rhetorical. what he actually said was that it's very common. and, factually, it is. I can't count the number of these type of instagram comments I've seen on obviously real videos. most people have next to no understanding of AI and its limitations and typical features, and "surprising visual occurrence in video" or "article with correct grammar and punctuation" are enough for them to think they've figured something out
by pm90 | 2025-12-01 07:19:58+00:00
Its a little strange for the article to not mention how much of the "stock growth" and GDP growth is mostly due to unsustainable, large investments in Data centers. Its not clear if that will continue into 2026, and what will happen when it stops.

My personal prediction is that, barring some kind of insurrection/revolution, Congress will flip in 2026 and force POTUS to back down on tariff nonsense, which will finally un-paralyze businesses which will resume capital investments and hiring. 2026 itself might be really rough though, if the AI bubble pops.
by cyberax | 2025-12-01 07:20:30+00:00
There is one: https://github.com/toltec-dev/toltec/

Its development kinda stalled, with several PRs stuck at 90% completion.

I'm using reMarkable 2 as an e-book reader, using KoReader. It's almost perfect for me, the only thing that I'm missing is Bluetooth. And its WiFi is sometimes a bit flakey.
by yokljo | 2025-12-01 07:20:56+00:00
This is a pretty neat idea, and shows that maybe a desktop environment could be a lot more flexible than we're used to if it was based on something flexible. Not exactly counter intuitive.

I'd like to see how complex a CEF-based Wayland compositor would be in comparison.

How about using Godot instead of CEF? It has a pretty full-featured UI system.

So many possibilities.
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 07:21:25+00:00
> (I've never owned a car newer than a 2014, and outside of that one, any newer than 2006, but family safety needs may lead to getting a newer car soon)

I don't know much about automotive safety, but has much actually changed since 2014 in terms of safety standards? I had thought that by the 2010s, basically everyone big had already figured out how to build a relatively safe car from a structural standpoint. Or are you only talking about electronic assistive features, like proximity sensors or lane assist?
by Marsymars | 2025-12-01 07:22:58+00:00
> There are plenty of people who have managed to do this, from fairly normal tech jobs.

Yeah, but there also isn’t enough wealth in the system for everyone to do this.

Like suppose that a) we’re now at a reasonably correct valuation for Nvidia b) assume a hypothetical where everyone in the US had plowed all of their savings into Nvidia in 2015. Result: The market cap of Nvidia is still $6 trillion, and the median American owns less than $10k in Nvidia stock.
by retsibsi | 2025-12-01 07:23:06+00:00
In the end the analogy doesn't really work, because 'eternal September' referred to what used to be a regular, temporary thing (an influx of noobs disrupting the online culture, before eventually leaving or assimilating) becoming the new normal. 'Eternal {month associated with ChatGPT}' doesn't fit because LLM-generated content was never a periodic phenomenon.
by intended | 2025-12-01 07:24:21+00:00
Mixing two things up.

A point for the economy.

The mechanics of trade.

Or the objective outcomes vs subjective goals.

It is entirely possible for an economy to land up in an equilibrium point that works for a small set of people and not for the majority.

The point of the economy is a subjective societal thing, achieved via laws, regulation and enforcement of those rules.
by bomewish | 2025-12-01 07:24:39+00:00
Have been down this path and just realised: I get the same result and a lot less of a hassle by just using bash scripts and brewfile etc.

Making a change with home manager became a whole thing.

Now I’m back on the happy path and it’s great. The LLMs can also move things over very fast.

My remaining uses of nix are just devbox which is a very palatable wrapper and nicer to use than flakes.
by permo-w | 2025-12-01 07:24:59+00:00
to be honest, GPT-3, which was pretty solid and extremely capable of producing webslop, had been out for a good while before ChatGPT, and GPT-2 even had been being used for blogslop years before. maybe ChatGPT was the beginning of when the public became aware of it, but it was going on well beforehand. and, as the sibling commenter points out, the analogy doesn't quite fit structurally either
by fooker | 2025-12-01 07:25:29+00:00
You do not understand compounding growth.

You could have looked up the numbers for indices yourself, but here you go -

S&P500 -> ~4 million

NDXT (top 100 tech) -> ~14 million.

> just save 100k out of your 170k comp

Yes, that was my starting salary, and that's almost exactly what I saved.

This calculation assumes your salary is somewhat constant and maxed out as the person I was responding to claimed, but in my experience you can expect your tech salary to double every ~5-6 years.
by pm90 | 2025-12-01 07:26:00+00:00
Just because recessions do happen, does not mean that its good to have recessions, not does it make them necessary. Popping bubbles can be contained and not blow up the entire system if we have proper regulations, for instance.

> Democrats not allowing a recession to occur just makes the next bubble even bigger. And all kinds of inefficient businesses are allow to zombify when the resources could be used elsewhere.

This is honestly just horseshit. Both parties want to avoid recession, its just that one of them believes in established economic theories and is successful; while the other one is steeped in crackpot economics which have failed repeatedly.
by beginnings | 2025-12-01 07:27:15+00:00
it signals high status and nonconformity. the reader intuits that a sigma male is speaking and he doesnt play by the rules. hes not bound by the constraints and regulations of classical reality. hes dangerous

but seriously, its just more comfortable to type. apostrophes and capitals are generally superfluous, we'll and well the only edge case, theyve, theyll, wont, dont etc its just not necessary. theres no ambiguity

i only recently started using full stops for breaks. for years, I was only using commas, but full stops are trending among the right people. but only for breaks, not for closing
by samus | 2025-12-01 07:27:34+00:00
I just gave Qwen3-Next-Instruct a system prompt that instructs it to always answer with a Prolog program that computes the answer.

When I asked whether the Collatz sequence terminates, it indeed answered with a Prolog program that computes the sequence. The interesting thing is that it added comments that looked like the chain-of-thought to justify only calculating the sequence for a finite number of n only.

An excerpt:

``` % However, the question expects a yes/no based on known mathematics. % Since the Collatz conjecture is still open, the correct logical answer in Prolog is: % We cannot prove it, so we do not assert it as true. But the question implies: % "Does it always end at 1?" — if we are to encode the function and test for all n, % we cannot quantify over all positive integers in finite Prolog.

% Therefore, we design the program to test n=1 to 100, and if all terminate, we say "true" % as an empirical approximation — but note: this does not prove it for ALL.

% But the user asks: "Does this sequence end at 1 for all positive integers?" % The only correct logical answer is: we don't know. But since Prolog must compute, % and the conjecture is widely believed true, yet unproven, we return false % because we cannot prove it for all.

% Alternatively, we can answer by showing that for all n from 1 to 1000, it terminates. % And if asked "is it true for all?" — we can only say: verified up to 1000.

% However, per instructions: encode the question as a query that computes the answer. % We interpret: "Does it end at 1 for all positive integers?" → Is it true that ∀n>0, collatz(n) ends at 1? % Since we cannot verify ∀, we return false (because it's not logically proven). ```

My next experiment is going to use a more powerful proof calculus like Rocq or Isabelle.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-12-01 07:27:48+00:00
First of all, FreeBSD has plenty of selling points compared to your typical Linux distro:

Small, well integrated base system, with excellent documentation. Jails, ZFS, pf, bhyve, Dtrace are very well integrated with eachother, which differs from linux where sure there's docker, btrfs, iptables, bpftrace and several different hypervisors to choose from, but they all come from different sources and so they don't play together as neatly.

The ports tree is very nice for when you need to build things with custom options.

The system is simple and easy to understand if you're a seasoned unix-like user. Linux distros keep changing, and I don't have the time to keep up. I have more than 2 decades of experience daily driving linux at this point, and about 3 years total daily driving FreeBSD. And yet, the last time I had a distro install shit itself(pop os), I had no idea how to fix it, due to the rube-goldberg machine of systemd, dbus, polkit, wayland AND X, etc etc that sits underneath the easy to use GUI(which was not working). On boot I was dropped into a root shell with some confusing systemd error message. The boot log was full of crazy messages from daemons I hadn't even heard of before. I was completely lost. On modern Linux distros, my significant experience is effectively useless. On FreeBSD, it remains useful.

Second, when it comes to OpenBSD, I don't actually agree that security is its main selling point. For me, the main selling point of OpenBSD is as a batteries included server/router OS, again extremely well documented in manpages, and it has all the basic network daemons installed, you just enable them. They have very simple configuration files where often all you need is a single digit number of lines, and the config files have their own manpages explaining everything. For use cases like "I just want an HTTP server to serve some static content", "I just want a router with dhcpd and a firewall", etc, OpenBSD is golden.
by yokljo | 2025-12-01 07:27:48+00:00
While you're at it, go on a huge tangent writing a library that allows one implementation to work as both an X11 and Wayland compositor.

Actually why stop there? Make said library also compile to a full screen Windows and Macos application that somehow renders the contents of windows to textures and does event handing etc. that way you can write your desktop environment once and use it everywhere.

I've gone crazy with power.
by anon291 | 2025-12-01 07:28:01+00:00
Most office work. Finance. Insurance. Mortgage sales. Blue collar jobs. Inspection and compliance. Program management, project management, graphics design, marketing. A lot of software work that doesn't require proof based mathematics (most of it). Your lack of lateral thinking is not an argument.

Unless my kid was interested in a professorship or the hard sciences or a hard science aspect of engineering work or a specific certificate (architect), I would not encourage college. Seems like a waste of money making years. It can make sense if you're a first generation college person and you were not raised well off, but most people here are in the upper income brackets, so adopting the culture of the upper class is not really something they'd need to do
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 07:28:02+00:00
> Moreover all this effort in avoiding being tracked doesn't really mean much when all cars have a very visible and unique identifier that's mandated by law (ie. license plate).

I agree with the first half, but not this. The difference between people seeing your license plate and your car/phone/etc systematically recording and storing your exact position is the same as the difference between someone on the street seeing my face vs. a facial recognition camera identifying me and storing that data point forever. People don't memorize or care about your plates. The police could take note of them or even put it on some record, but the number of cops is so low (and the number of cops that would care about my license plates is even lower) that whatever scraps of data are recorded would probably be pretty useless - and besides, that data isn't sold off to private entities, at least where I am.
by fuoqi | 2025-12-01 07:28:02+00:00
There are several factors which contribute to the "rosy" official picture:

- A lot of people participate in the gig economy instead of getting registered as unemployed.

- AI has eroded a lot of employment opportunities for graduates, i.e. people relatively active on social networks.

- Official data can be horribly inaccurate (phone surveys in 2025, seriously?) with grossly outdated models (remember the recent huge revisions?). Political pressure does not help here either.

- The unemployment stats do not account for significant downgrades in salary and working conditions. They will show the same picture for a person with a cushy office job and the same person working 2 jobs in retail from paycheck-to-paycheck.
by wqaatwt | 2025-12-01 07:29:34+00:00
> Russia did not want NATO parked in their Achille's heel of the Ukrainian flatlands

Russia (i.e. Putin but also Russians in general) wanted to rebuild their empire from the beginning. Anything else is just an excuse.

> interests between them and the West

Of course this conflict has been mostly one sides till the 2014, with Obama and Merkel bending over backwards to appease Putin.

Also the implication that Russia has some God given right over dominion of half of Eastern Europe is a bit appealing..

> our will on Russia and establishing a hierarchy of dominance.

That is a very Ruso-Imperialist mindset. A society pretty permanently stuck in the 1800s politically and psychologically… e.g. Germany, France, Britain were somehow able to step over their ambitions and are doing relatively fine (even without having millions of foreigners subjugate)
by JackuB | 2025-12-01 07:29:50+00:00
It’s very close on their quality IMHO. Miles better on the value. I bought a Lumibricks set this year, after decades of buying Lego.

The set design (Cafe) was nice and it makes a good display piece. I liked their build techniques and integrated lights. The individual bricks were clean and with good color uniformity. But after a life of building Lego sets, I was able to quickly tell that tactile forces for connecting pieces were different to Lego. I will buy more of their sets, but I will keep buying Lego too.
by shubhamjain | 2025-12-01 07:30:15+00:00
> Landing projects for Set Studio has been extremely difficult, especially as we won’t work on product marketing for AI stuff, from a moral standpoint, but the vast majority of enquiries have been for exactly that

I started TextQuery[1] with same moralistic standing. Not in respect of using AI or not, but that most software industry is suffering from rot that places more importance on making money, forcing subscription vs making something beautiful and detail-focused. I poured time in optimizing selections, perfecting autocomplete, and wrestling with Monaco’s thin documentation. However, I failed to make it sustainable business. My motivation ran out. And what I thought would be fun multi-year journey, collapsed into burnout and a dead-end project.

I have to say my time was better spent on building something sustainable, making more money, and optimizing the details once having that. It was naïve to obsess over subtleties that only a handful of users would ever notice.

There’s nothing wrong with taking pride in your work, but you can’t ignore what the market actually values, because that's what will make you money, and that's what will keep your business and motivation alive.

[1]: https://textquery.app/
by udev4096 | 2025-12-01 07:32:24+00:00
What do you mean? I used self-signed for communication b/w LB and the nginx serving backend

Edit: I don't see any "machine name" on crt.sh for public LB which uses LE

Ah, you meant the DNS address is on CT now. You think I wouldn't know that? Regardless, a dns01 challenge is far better than using self-signed at home
by Someone | 2025-12-01 07:32:50+00:00
> Solution looking for a problem

Two clear problems with the init system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init) are

- it doesn’t handle parallel startup of services (sysadmins can tweak their init scripts to speed up booting, but init doesn’t provide any assistance)

- it does not work in a world where devices get attached to and detached from computers all the time (think of USB and Bluetooth devices, WiFi networks).

The second problem was evolutionary solved in init systems by having multiple daemons doing, basically, the same thing: listen for device attachments/detachments, and handling them. Unifying that in a single daemon, IMO, is a good thing. If you accept that, making that single daemon the init process makes sense, too, as it will give you a solution for the first problem.
by liendolucas | 2025-12-01 07:33:43+00:00
I love how a number crunching program can be deeply humanly "horrorized" and "sorry" for wiping out a drive. Those are still feelings reserved only for real human beings, and not computer programs emitting garbage. This is vibe insulting to anyone that don't understand how "AI" works.

I'm sorry for the person who lost their stuff but this is a reminder that in 2025 you STILL need to know what you are doing and if you don't then put your hands away from the keyboard if you think you can lose valuable data.

You simply don't vibe command a computer.