MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sothatsit | 2025-12-03 00:08:37+00:00
There are many reasons:

1. ChatGPT has a better UX than competitors.

2. Some people have become very tied to the memory ChatGPT has of them.

3. Inertia is powerful. They just have to stay close enough to competitors to retain people, even if they aren’t “winning” at a given point in time.

4. The harness for their models is also incredibly important. A big reason I continue to use Claude Code is that the tooling is so much better than Codex. Similarly, nothing comes close to ChatGPT when it comes to search (maybe other deep research offerings might, but they’re much slower).

These are all pretty powerful ways that ChatGPT gets new users and retains them beyond just having the best models.
by pratikrisbud | 2025-12-03 00:08:41+00:00
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by q3k | 2025-12-03 00:09:09+00:00
In-house hyperscaler stuff gets shredded, after every single piece of flash storage gets first drilled through and every hard drive gets bent by a hydraulic press. Then it goes into the usual e-waste recycling stream (ie. gets sent to poor countries where precious metals get extracted by people with a halved life expectancy).

Off-the-shelf enterprise gear has a chance to get a second life through remarketing channels, but much of it also gets shredded due to dumb corporate policies. There are stories of some companies refusing to offload a massive decom onto the second hand market as it would actually cause a crash. :)

It's a very efficient system, you see.
by dexwiz | 2025-12-03 00:09:27+00:00
I burned a ton of tokens this summer trying to document our legacy codebase in hopes of quantifying parts ahead of a refactor. My conclusion was that LLMs are bad at this. It waffled between unhelpfully verbose to omitting key aspects. I had to manually review each page. It really struggled with cross file references and inheritance. I tried several approaches, top down, bottom up, text first, diagram first. Maybe I'm not the prompt wizard I need to be. But I would never trust AI summary of any code longer than 500 lines.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-03 00:10:23+00:00
Eh, not exactly. If you don't run CPU at 70%+ the rest of the machine isn't that much more inefficient that model generation or two behind.

It used to be that new server could use half power of the old one at idle but vendors figured out that servers also need proper power management a while ago and it is much better.

Last few gens increase could be summed up to "low % increase in efficiency, with TDP, memory channels and core count increase".

So for loads not CPU bound the savings on newer gen aren't nearly worth it to replace it, and for bulk storage the CPU power usage is even smaller part
by colechristensen | 2025-12-03 00:10:37+00:00
I found it pretty funny how bad Claude was at cropping an image. It was a cute little character with some text off to the side on a white background, all very clean cartoon vibes and it COULD NOT just select the character. I pursued it for 20 minutes because I thought it was funny. Of course it was 45 seconds to do it myself.

A lot of my side projects involve UIs and almost all of my problems with getting LLMs to write them for me involve "The UI isn't doing what you say it's doing" and struggling to get A) a reliable way to get it to look at the UI so it can continue its loop and B) getting it to understand what it's looking at well enough to do something about it
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-03 00:10:40+00:00
One thing we saw with the dot-com bust is how certain individuals were able to cash in on the failures, e.g., low cost hardware, domain names, etc. (NB. prices may exceed $2)

Perhaps people are already thinking about they can cash in on the floor space and HVAC systems that will be left in the wake of failed "AI" hype
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-03 00:11:56+00:00
Strudel doesn't have all of the advanced features of TidalCycles. It really just depends on what you need. Strudel is easier to get started with, and definitely more visual/immediate, but TidalCycles has the full power of Haskell, longer history, and more advanced tooling. Either way, it's really nice to see people getting more involved in programmatic music, regardless of which tool they use. :)
by shagie | 2025-12-03 00:11:58+00:00
The same copyright laws apply to all things that are copyrightable regardless of medium. Anything that can be put into a fixed medium, be it print, digital recording, film.

Such a proposal needs to take into consideration everything that is copyrightable rather than just literature or film productions... but also software and photographs.

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50 years after publication date. If you want to license it before then for some other purpose, that's something that depends on your use of it and what I'm willing to accept.

If you have a formula, put it on the table. How much should it cost for me to commercially license some open source software?

How much should it cost you to license my photographs for fine art replicas? for placemats?

My contention is that any price that is legislated is wrong for the majority of the use cases. Any attempt to make it right gets into absurd nuance.

It is the same copyright laws that frustrate people for getting literature or movies into the public domain that also protects open source.

The alternative to copyright isn't "everything is free" but rather "everything is locked up."

The GPL was created because Stallman wanted to be able to modify printers. Getting rid of copyright (or making it very short duration) wouldn't have changed his experience with printers. What it would have changed would have been that that the GPL would lose all its teeth to compel people make their software licensed the same (under copyright law!).

People are upset about content they created two decades ago being incorporated into an AI model ( https://www.deviantart.com/shagie/art/Moonrise-over-San-Fran... )... without copyright I would have no right to complain about this.

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However, all of this is pretty much moot and performative. If you want to change it to something shorter than 50 years - get the WTO to renegotiate TRIPS.

That ain't happening.

Spending effort to say "this is how it should be..." go write a story and release it to the public domain about that utopia of copyright freedom.

Speaking for myself, if I lost the rights provided by copyright to my photographs after a decade and half or so - I would not have posted them.

I do not want art locked up behind patronage and restricted to those few... though if that was the only alternative to being able to make some money off my photographs, then that's what I would have done.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-12-03 00:12:01+00:00
Cost per transistor is increasing. or flat, if you stay on a legacy node. They pretty much squeezed all the cost out of 28nm that can be had, and it’s the cheapest per transistor.

“based on the graph presented by Milind Shah from Google at the industry tradeshow IEDM, the cost of 100 million transistors normalized to 28nm is actually flat or even increasing.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/chi...
by scoofy | 2025-12-03 00:12:16+00:00
The TPU architecture is the most impressive thing I care about. They developed them and have been using them internally for years. This shows they grok what they're actually doing.

There are serious philosophical problems with betting big on an interesting outcome like ChatGPT, even though it seems obvious (Google also did this of course), but creating the best architecture to do that job seems like a first-principles intelligent move, because there was no reason to keep using graphics cards except that they "did the job."
by andnand | 2025-12-03 00:12:45+00:00
I was just looking through the Go example as well. For a first attempt its ok. I don't think its accurate to criticize that it doesn't make a case for using Go or teaching how to use it. It's attempting to be a more useful contributing.md. I think it does a decent job at that. Enough that you could find an area of interest and feel confident to start reading and understanding it yourself.

It just doesn't seem to be worth the effort though. I see myself using something like this for ~30 minutes to so I don't feel lost when getting started. After that it becomes significantly less useful.

Also, the video wasn't particularly helpful and if I have to here an AI voice say how fantastic something is again, Im going to unplug it (jk future overlords).
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-03 00:12:47+00:00
A slightly older Switch Angel trance video is how I learned about Strudel/TidalCycles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXCCBsOMSg. Her narration over top makes it the perfect trance track. "More chaos brings more power. More power brings more control." I desperately want a clean sample of that.
by jspash | 2025-12-03 00:12:51+00:00
I have a tiny long-haired dog (the first dog I've ever had) and I'm glad our first trainer/behaviourist mentioned the dangers of foxtails to us. We casually asked the vet if it was a problem and she said they see around 2-3 animals a week with issues caused by foxtails during the late summer/early autumn months. This is in the Southern UK. It's been getting drier and drier every year. And subsequently more and more foxtails seem to be appearing.

The main issue we've found is she gets them stuck under her "armpits" and under the tail. Places that make them very difficult to find. Even more insidious is when they embed themselves in the harness, only to make an appearance weeks or months later when the outdoor foxtails have mostly been cut down.

The problem is that they can work their way under the skin with a barbed spike that is one-way only. So if they get deep enough the only remedy is to cut the skin with a scalpel - by the vet of course.
by itake | 2025-12-03 00:13:00+00:00
Not really? Inflation in europe is ~2.2%, which is about what HYSAs in europe offer.

The value erosion isn't significant in the short term, especially if people spend most of what they earn.

In your 20s and 30s, the time horizon for the cash is about 10-15 years (saving up to buy a house).

In your 30s and 40s, maybe good time to have equity investments, but perhaps that extra cash just goes into the mortgage or college savings funds.
by komali2 | 2025-12-03 00:13:37+00:00
> People should not be hiding in our country to escape death.

You're presuming people that face death in other countries do so because they're criminals or something? Sometimes it's because they're the wrong religion or wrong political ideology. I really can't understand your psychopathy here.

I take quite seriously our American value of "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free." It's what made America the land of opportunity. For your country as well I recommend promoting this value, it's the ethically good position.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-03 00:14:03+00:00
That's obviously not a good-faith or technically-accurate description of what's happening here, or else everybody in that video would be carrying a white cane, along with everybody who uses this type of equipment in the phone repair business.

About all we can agree on, I think, is that neither of us knows enough about the product to argue about it usefully.
by maplethorpe | 2025-12-03 00:14:20+00:00
> then the game is who has the smartest agi, who can offer it cheapest, who can specialise it for my niche etc.

I always thought the use case for developing AGI was "if it wants to help us, it will invent solutions to all of our problems". But it sounds like you're imagining a future in which companies like Google and OpenAI each have their own AGI, which they somehow enslave and offer to us as a subscription? Or has the definition of AGI shifted?
by simonw | 2025-12-03 00:14:25+00:00
Huh, TIL: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf

> Copyright law does not protect typeface or mere variations of typographical ornamentation or lettering. A typeface is a set of letters, numbers, or other characters with repeating design elements that is intended to be used in composing text or other combinations of characters, including calligraphy. Generally, typeface, fonts, and lettering are building blocks of expression that are used to create works of authorship. The Office cannot register a claim to copyright in typeface or mere variations of typographic ornamentation or lettering, regardless of whether the typeface is commonly used or unique.

Given the incredible amount of work that goes into designing a typeface I find that really surprising.

Wikipedia has some good coverage on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...

Apparently you CAN protect the implementation of a typeface, e.g. the font file itself. Wikipedia says:

> Typefaces and their letter forms are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements under US law, but the computer program that is used to display a typeface, a font file[a] of computer instructions in a domain-specific programming language may be protectable by copyright. In 1992, the US Copyright Office determined that digital outline fonts had elements that could be protected as software[13] if the source code of the font file "contains a sufficient amount of original authorship".
by ryandrake | 2025-12-03 00:14:43+00:00
Yea a lot software developers I’ve worked with, across the full spectrum of skill levels, didn’t have a strong preference about what code they were writing. If there is a preference, it’s usually the parts they’ve already worked on, because they’re already ramped up. Strong desire to work on a specific piece of the code (or to not work on one) might even in some cases be a red flag.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-03 00:15:04+00:00
Even Chinese leadership is somewhat skeptical about AI maximalism [0] with worries about "AI Washing" by enthusiastic cadre trying to climb rungs [1], and evoking Solow's Paradox [2].

There is still significant value in AI/ML Applications from a NatSec perspective, but no one is actually seriously thinking about AGI in the near future. In a lot of cases, AI from a NatSec perspective is around labor augmentation (how do I reduce toil in analysis), pattern recognition (how do I better differentiate bird from FPV drone), or Tiny/Edge ML (how do I distill models such that I can embed them into commodity hardware to scale out production).

It's the same reason why during the Chips War zeitgeist, while the media was harping about sub-7nm, much of the funding was actually targeted towards legacy nodes (14/28nm), chip packaging (largely offshored to China in the 2010s because it was viewed as low margins/low value work), and compound semiconductors (heavily utilized in avionics).

[0] - https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/china/story20250829-7432514

[1] - https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2025-09-30/doc-infsfmit7787...

[2] - https://m.huxiu.com/article/4780003.html
by komali2 | 2025-12-03 00:15:19+00:00
Are you being purposefully obtuse? This is clearly a reference to early Nazi Germany, when being Jewish was made slowly illegal over time, and many Jewish Germans lived in, well, Germany of course!

Also in what world would the answer to "making an ethnicity illegal" be "don't visit that country" instead of "that country has an unethical law and should change it?"
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-03 00:15:22+00:00
Algorave definitely seems to be having a moment! I know the scene has been around for a while (live chiptune shows have been a thing for years), but it seems like the Strudel-specific live coding shows are rapidly becoming popular. I love to see it. As someone who likes both programming and music, it's awesome to see people mix both and get fantastic results.
by cocogoatmain | 2025-12-03 00:15:41+00:00
Want to also add that the model doesn’t know how to respond in a user-> assistant style conversation after it’s pretraining, and it’s a pure text predictor (look at the open source base models)

There’s also what is being called mid-training where the model is trained on high(er) quality traces and acts as a bridge between pre and post training
by abnercoimbre | 2025-12-03 00:16:10+00:00
I understand the concern, but really? I found this quote enough to offer proper comments:

> had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types

Folks at Bun are "Zig people" for obvious reasons, and a link was made with Handmade software. This happened multiple times before with Bun specifically, so my response is not a "pivot" of any kind. I've highlighted and constrasted our differences to prevent further associations inside a viral HN thread. That's not unreasonable.

I also explicitly congratulated them for the acquisition.
by bryanhogan | 2025-12-03 00:16:17+00:00
Honestly, there are some easier ways out there now, although of course no solution is perfect.

For non-technical people I'd recommend the Hostinger Website Builder, Obsidian Quartz or Astro Starlight.

Although as a front-end dev I'd choose building a custom page with Astro, which has now become much easier though with good templates available + LLM assistance.

I wrote a comparison of less-technical ways to build a website here with more details: https://webdev.bryanhogan.com/start/ways-to-build/
by antonvs | 2025-12-03 00:16:32+00:00
> How is them knowing when binary search is useful relevant to what they'll be doing at work should they get hired?

Because it goes directly to their understanding rather than whatever rote memorization they’ve done. Anything that involves rote memorization can be done, better, by LLMs. What’s in short supply are people with good critical thinking skills and the ability to deal effectively with new problems.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-03 00:17:06+00:00
Not in the last few years. CPUs went from ~200W TDP to 500W.

And they went from zero to multiple GPUs per server. Tho we might hit "the chips can't be bigger and the cooling can't get much better" point there.

The usage would be similar if it was say a rack filled with servers full of bulk storage (hard drives generally keep the power usage similar while growing storage).

But CPU/GPU wise, it's just bigger chips/more chiplets, more power.

I'd imagine any flattening might be purely because "we have DC now, re-building cooling for next gen doesn't make sense so we will just build servers with similar power usage as previously", but given how fast AI pushed the development it might not happen for a while.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-03 00:19:16+00:00
Gilmore v. Gonzales (2006) sort of dealt with this. Dude wanted to fly, refused to present ID, refused the heightened security check, was told he couldn't fly. He sued, it went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that because the heightened security check was an option, the claimant's freedom of movement was not restricted.

There's a bunch of case law about freedom of movement, which is pretty radically protected in the United States. Not only can the federal government not put up unreasonable impediments to interstate travel, individual states and even private companies can't, either. Since American's aren't required to have ID (interestingly, this might be more political than legal, I can't find any case law enshrining the right to not have ID, just a lot of public outcry and backpedaling any time it's suggested), requiring one to travel interstate would be a significant impediment.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-03 00:20:31+00:00
> culture of job-hopping

When using this phrase in this context, is your sentiment positive or negative? In my experience, each time I have a job offer for more money, I go and talk to my current line manager. I explain the new job offer, and ask if they would like to counteroffer. 100% (<-- imagine 48 point bold font!) of the time, my line manager has been simultaneously emotionally hurt ("oh, he's disloyal for leaving") and unsupportive of matching compensation. In almost all cases, an external recruiter found me online, reached out, and had a great new opportunity that paid well. Who am I to look away? I'm nothing special as a technologist, but please don't fault me for accepting great opportunities with higher pay.

> Why would a company invest money in growing the technical skill set of an employee

What exactly is meant by "invest" here? In my career, my employers haven't done shit for me about training. Yet, 100% of them expect me to be up-to-date all the time on whatever technology they fancy this week. Is tech training really a thing in 2025 with so many great online resources? In my career, I am 100% self-trained, usually through blogs, technical papers, mailing lists, and discussions with peers.
by eru | 2025-12-03 00:20:48+00:00
> There is no money in this though, because selling cloud service is much more profitable.

Oh, be more creative. One simple way to make money off your idea is:

(1) Get a hedge fund to finance your R&D.

(2) Hedge fund shorts AI cloud providers and other relevant companies.

(3) Your R&D pans out and the AI cloud providers' stock tanks.

(4) The hedge fund makes a profit.

Though I don't understand: wouldn't your idea work work when served from the cloud, too? If what you are saying is true, you'd provide a better service at lower cost?
by spartanatreyu | 2025-12-03 00:21:37+00:00
> Will this make it more or less likely for people to use Bun vs Deno?

I'm not sure it will make much of a difference in the short term.

For those who were drawn to Bun by hype and/or some concerns around speed, they will continue to use Bun.

For me personally, I will continue to use Node for legacy projects and will continue using Deno for current projects.

I'm not interested in Bun for it's hype (since hype is fleeting). I have a reserved interested in Bun's approach to speed but I don't see it being a significant factor since most JS speed concerns come from downloading dependencies (which is a once-off operation) and terrible JS framework practices (which aren't resolved by changing engines anyway).

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The two largest problems I see in JS are:

1. Terrible security practices

2. A lack of a standard library which pushes people into dependency hell

Deno fixes both of those problems with a proper permission model and a standard library.

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> And now that Bun doesn't need to run a profitable cloud company will they move faster and get ahead of Deno?

I think any predictions between 1-10 years are going to be a little too chaotic. It all depends on how the AI bubble goes away.

But after 10 years, I can see runtimes switching from their current engines to one based on Boa, Kiesel or something similar.