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by kadoban | 2025-12-25 16:37:54+00:00
> Intel Arc tried shaking up the entry level (retailers spit on that MSRP though) but sadly didn’t make that big of a splash

The Intel Arc B60 probably would have made a splash if they had actually produced any of the damn things. 24GB vram for low prices would have been huge for the AI crowd, and there was a lot of excitement and then Intel just didn't offer them for sale.

The company is too screwed up to take advantage of any opportunities.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-12-25 16:38:45+00:00
Move fast and break things. When a black box can be blamed, why care about quality? What we need is EXTREMELY strict liability on harms done by AIs and other black box processes. If a company adopts a black box, that should be considered reckless behavior until proven otherwise. Taking humans out of the loop is a conscious decision they make therefore they should be fully responsible for any mistakes or harms that result.
Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google
by manu_trustdom | 2025-12-25 16:39:06+00:00
We’ve been experimenting quite a bit with AI website builders and kept seeing the same pattern:

Sites often look finished to users — modern UI, fast loads, everything appears “done” — but when search engines crawl them, much of the main content isn’t actually present yet.

In many cases the issue isn’t SEO basics, keywords, or content quality. It’s simply when the HTML is generated and what Google receives on first visit.

We wrote up a calm, non-marketing explanation of what’s going on, how to spot it yourself (even if you’re not very technical), and why this keeps happening with many modern AI builders.

We’re also building a tool (Pagesmith) around this problem, but the article stands on its own and should be useful even if you never use our product.

Happy to answer questions or be challenged on any of the claims.
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-12-25 16:39:44+00:00
Gotcha I hadn’t factored those capabilities into the concept of sandbox, but I can see why they would be important features.

I will admit I don’t really understand why the library that wraps v8 requires a security team in your view, given that v8 itself definitely has one. I’m trying to understand what you see as the dangerous piece of such code likely to lead to exploits. I’m probably missing something, but I fail to see where the complexity lies.
by nkmnz | 2025-12-25 16:39:51+00:00
What do you mean by "such a system"? One that uses AI to funnel your natural language request into their system of SOP? Or one that uses SOPs to handle cases in general? SOP are great, they drastically reduce errors, since the total error is the square root of the sum of squares of random error and bias – while bias still occurs, the random error can and should be reduced by SOPs, whenever possible. The problem is that SOPs can be really bad: "Wait, I will speak to my manager" -> probably bad SOP. "Wait, I will get my manager so that you can speak to them" -> might be a better SOP, depending on the circumstances.
by rdiddly | 2025-12-25 16:40:28+00:00
I want nothing to do with Waymo or any of the others, but they're all being forced on me. I think self-driving cars are one of the biggest and stupidest misallocations of resources and talent we've seen yet. And they're being developed using public resources that we all own (yet I never had a chance to vote on it) for the benefit of a private company that only those with enough disposable income can buy into. I don't happen to own any of their stock, so I'm not seeing any benefit. Why would I care how well they're doing? And they helped themselves to my roads as a testing ground; why would I afford them the slightest slack when they mess up? Meanwhile the people who can least afford to buy in, are actually living on the streets where these are being tested and are shouldering a disproportionate share of the risks. So it only takes mere inconvenience, or their mere existence, to bother and annoy me, not human harm. It's a machine designed to steal from the commons. And actually in tort law, theft IS harm. But physical harm to humans has also happened and will happen. Cars driven by humans: same, except also having a lengthy history that includes documented physical harm to humans. They too are machines for stealing from the public to advantage the owners. The things being stolen are clean air, climate, land/space, and safety/life. So my argument is fully consistent. There are exceptions in it for trucks, trains and buses, and even for some cars, in cases where the benefit offsets the harm, and the public has meaningfully approved it.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-12-25 16:40:31+00:00
> Yet when you compare the same model in 2 different agents you can easily see capability differences.

Yes definitely. But this is to be expected. Heck take the same person and put them in two different environments and they'll have very different performance!

> But cross (same tier) model in the same agent is much less stark.

Unclear what you mean by this. I do agree that the big three companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind) are all more or less neck and neck in SOTA models, but every new generation has been a leap. They just keep leaping over each other.

If you compare e.g. Opus 4.1 and Opus 4.5 in the same agent harness, Opus 4.5 is way better. If you compare Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Pro in the same agent harness, Gemini 3 is way better. I don't do much coding or benchmarking with OpenAI's family of models, but anecdotally have heard the same thing going from GPT-5 to GPT-5.2.

The on the ground improvements have been coming primarily from model improvements, not harness improvements (the latter is unlocked by the former). Again, it's not that there were breakthroughs in agent frameworks that happened; all the ideas we're seeing now have all been tried before. Models simply weren't capable enough to actually use them. It's just that more and more (pre-tried!) frameworks are starting to make sense now. Indeed, there are certain frameworks and workflows that simply did not make sense with Q2-Q3 2025 models that now make sense with Q4 2025 models.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-25 16:40:34+00:00
When you have children, your life is mostly about the kids. It really doesn’t matter if you live in rural America.

As empty nesters, at 51 and 50, there is nothing interesting about rural America. I’m in South GA now visiting my parents with my wife. They spend all of the their time between yard work doing things around the house and church. My cousins who still live here and their lives are just as boring - unless they go out of town.
by mmooss | 2025-12-25 16:41:22+00:00
Thanks. So you are saying that bias prevents Marxists from being quoted regarding foreign affairs? I thought you were claiming that US journalism was pro-Marxist, which is a much more common claim these days - I wanted to hear about when they quoted Marxists. Until your latest comment, I had no idea what you meant.

I generally agree - almost all mainstream US journalism will not use Marxist ideas for any topic, unless the publication is unaware of the idea's origins. So there is a lack of diversity there.

At the same time, I think your argument conflates Marxism and communism. The US journalists don't know the difference either, and I believe are really anti-communist - openly and avowedly - and assume Marxism is essentially the same thing.

> there are entire countries of marxists, china and cuba.

The idea that everyone in Cuba and China are Marxist or communist is absurd. IMHO China's government is closer to right-wing authoritarian/totalitarian, with its history clearly in communism (Mao, etc.) but they now mostly use it for ideological cover. Xi is a princeling, inheriting his status from elite (though not every princeling becomes head of the country).
by Robdel12 | 2025-12-25 16:41:58+00:00
I’m surprised, hacker news is not questioning this in the slightest?

Is anyone really buying they laid off 4k people _because_ they really thought they’d replace them with an LLM agent? The article is suspect at best and this doesn’t even in the slightest align with my experience with LLMs at work (it’s created more work for me).

The layoff always smelled like it was because of the economy.
by dimrover | 2025-12-25 16:42:40+00:00
What you should have been doing, instead of telling her the comforting lie that the world operates on merit and this is all that matters while nudging her towards tying all her feelings of self-worth to this, is helping her build resilience so that she doesn't end up wallowing in despair after a minor career setback.

That you've cancelled Christmas to collectively endure some sort of misery spiral instead obviously isn't going to help either. What on earth are you thinking?

She's learned this harsh life lesson that the world is unfair later rather than sooner, but she has a long life and career ahead of her. Not being able to get the type of job she wants, for a little while at least, isn't the end of the world.

For what it's worth, my company, a medium-sized business that operates in the cybersecurity space, is stil actively hiring junior staff. Many other companies we work with and compete with are too. Perhaps she needs to cast her net wider than wherever she's currently looking.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-25 16:43:11+00:00
Makes no sense - why would Salesforce's customers care if the company is using AI or not, other than when it impacts them (the customer) such as worse customer service.

This just seems a poor decision made by C-suite folk who were neither AI-savvy enough to understand the limits of the tech, nor smart enough to run a meaningful trial to evaluate it. A failure of wishful thinking over rational evaluation.
by viccis | 2025-12-25 16:44:06+00:00
You're ignoring the mass atrocities committed by both sides in the Donbas throughout much of the 2010s that provided easy propaganda to achieve the same outcomes as the Iraq War propaganda.

I have another example of a "war" carried out recently with overwhelming support in its nation and in the US (initially) due to rapid propaganda around an attack that was likely intentionally intensified in effect by things like moving civilian events next to a military target the day before. But I won't post that one lol
by Antoniocl | 2025-12-25 16:44:45+00:00
Unsure about whether the specific dealership in question supports online booking, but there existing consumers whose preference is for a phone call over a web-based experience is definitely the case, at least in the US.

For example, even with the (digital-only) SAAS company I work at, we have a non-trivial amount of customers who with strong preferences to talk on the phone, ex to provide their credit card number, rather than enter it in the product. This is likely more pronounced if your product serves less tech-savvy niches.

That said, a strong preference for human call > website use doesn't necessarily imply even a weak preference for AI call > website use (likely customer-dependent, but I'd be surprised if the number with that preference was exactly 0)
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-25 16:45:47+00:00
I just asked a GLM 4.6 powered app I use to describe what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and to be as objective as possible. Here is a fragment of the output:

> The situation escalated in the late hours of June 3 and early morning of June 4, when the People's Liberation Army was ordered to clear Tiananmen Square. Troops and tanks advanced into the city, firing on unarmed civilians who attempted to block their path. Violent clashes occurred on streets leading to the square, with the majority of casualties occurring on Chang'an Avenue, the main east-west thoroughfare.

The system prompt for the app I use is different from the one z.ai uses. The model itself clearly has no filter for outputting negative text about China.
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-25 16:45:51+00:00
Would you suggest Vibium as ready for production use?

On second thought not being controlled by Microsoft might be good enough to differentiate it from playwright. It's not a good idea for a single company to control so much.

I'm thinking their needs to be an easy way to sandbox vibe automation. I don't want to accidentally click an ad and vibe test an unrelated website .
by Robdel12 | 2025-12-25 16:46:08+00:00
I love these replies, hahah. You really think I’m not aware of the software that’s running my 2017 Shelby? The difference is (you know this, I think you’re being purposely obtuse) it’s never connected to the internet, it’s never getting updates, and it’s not a complete car OS that locks you out of doing anything.

I think you might be the one needing the luck
by imglorp | 2025-12-25 16:47:00+00:00
I agree this is what's happening, for everyone to see.

I didn't understand their end game. When everyone is starving, public infra is all on fire, and the 0.1% are snug in their island bunkers, then what? What if their child gets cancer, or they run out of caviar, or their yacht needs a replacement part?
by jadbox | 2025-12-25 16:47:09+00:00
> "With proper parallelism, Ruby apps can finally compete with Go and Node.js in concurrent scenarios without sacrificing developer happiness"

In theory, maybie. Parallelism support isn't a boolean though as there's a lot of additional factors at play. Just as one example, late stage Visual Basic also got parallelism support, but it really didn't help the overall positioning of the the language among its peers.
by mathgeek | 2025-12-25 16:47:57+00:00
It's a bit ironic that the "soft" skills are becoming the hard skills nowadays. A lot of the AI buzz these days is around PM's, Data Scientists, etc. who now have the tools to code "well enough" and are attractive due to their people skills and/or other skillsets.

Not to say this is an objective analysis, just observing the subjective trends.
by nick486 | 2025-12-25 16:48:42+00:00
>you would still be bottlenecked on human's ability to actually evaluate and verify what it is doing and reconciling that with what you wanted it to do.

this sort of assumes that most humans actually know what they want to do.

It is very untrue in my experience.

Its like most complaints I hear about AI art. yes, it is generic and bland. just like 90% of what human artists produce.
by hamdingers | 2025-12-25 16:49:05+00:00
> People make the mistake to think otherwise because its not the homelessness you often see.

I don't think this is a mistake so much as people do not care about the homelessness they don't see.

Ironically when you use the specific words for the homelessness they do care about (unsheltered or unhoused) you're accused of being woke or whatever.
by websiteapi | 2025-12-25 16:49:28+00:00
fair. I used to think that too, but I find at least for golang, the sota models write tests way faster than I would be able to. tdd is actually really possible with ai imo. except of course you get the scaffolding implementation (I haven't figured out a way to get models to write tests in a way that ensures the tests actually do something useful without an implementation).
by victorbjorklund | 2025-12-25 16:49:30+00:00
You kind of need enough knowledge to use it in a fun way. You only know 100 words of Spanish and no grammar etc? Well, that won’t be any fun stories to read, fun conversations to have etc.

Notice I use ”fun” on purpose. Because some people are able to enjoy the process of using the language even at that stage (but many do not).
by fakedang | 2025-12-25 16:49:33+00:00
From the recruiting side, it has become painfully difficult for us to get connected to top performers. AI submitted CVs are garbage, LinkedIn Recruiter is garbage, online platforms like Indeed and Glassdoor are filled with AI-submitted CVs - it's painful for us.

We've had to resort back to outbound using headhunters we've worked with. It's okay for us since we can afford it, but I doubt many startups pre-Series B can afford the services of headhunters or even inhouse recruiting.

Open to solutions and new ideas tbh.
by sho_hn | 2025-12-25 16:49:44+00:00
From all the criticisms leveled at Wayland, this is definitely the strangest I've ever heard.

I really cannot thing of any existing functionality ever broken by a new release of wayland-protocols, neither by a plain bug nor by a bad interaction. No doubt someone else will be able to recall an example, but it's really not a common thing.

This is partially because the governance model and community mindset is the opposite of what you describe. Inclusion of new protocols in the stable release requires existing, proven implementations and consensus across multiple implementors, making it a high bar. New proposals run a gauntlet where pretty much everyone is looking at the consequences in detail.

In fact a more common criticism of Wayland is that the focus on high quality and the consensus requirement are too strict and have slowed down filling in feature gaps users need filled faster. This argument I think can be successfully defended against - mainly, that it helps avoid the mess X11 became over time -, but at least has some basic merit in reality.

As for X11, as someone who had to implement a lot of X11 specs over the years, I can tell you that their provenance between X11 itself as well as ICCCM and EMWH had plenty of super dumb ideas and cruft and inconsistencies from lack of foresight and eventually datedness. You don't want to see the towering stack of hacks and heuristics we used to have to ship to make X11 behave somewhat consistently and sane :)

In short, with all due respect, but I think you really don't know what you're talking about. We really should resist this type of narrative reality distortion field on an engineering forum.
by Antoniocl | 2025-12-25 16:50:29+00:00
Interesting, I regularly use chat-based support on amazon.ca to speak with (what I presume is) a real human after none of the control flow paths adequately resolve my issue. I've always found the support quick to reply and very helpful.

Granted, it's been 1-2 weeks since I had an issue, so it may have changed since then, or it could be only released to a subset of users.
by bobbob27 | 2025-12-25 16:50:32+00:00
By all accounts the Framework 14 hits the balance well, feeling basically like any other premium metal laptop. Maybe based on that reputation alone, the author decided to buy the 16.

But the 16 is meant to be a chonky desktop replacement with a giant GPU enclosure on the back. Just by virtue of what it is, it's never going to feel very nice.

The author's other option to buy being a MacBook tells me they neglected to do their research on what they were buying.

What they really wanted was a Framework 14! It basically IS a MacBook with replaceable components and full repairability.
by mmooss | 2025-12-25 16:51:01+00:00
> There's room for skepticism.

And there's room for thinking there's water in the ocean. We have no idea whether this would work at all or how it would work at all in humans. We have one experiment in mice, which as you say can't have Alzheimer's.

This is a nice step, like developments in fusion energy. That's part of research, and let's hope and investigate it, but it's absurd to think about it as anything but a science project right now.
by kasey_junk | 2025-12-25 16:51:43+00:00
I actually have spent a lot of time doing comparisons between the 4.1 and 4.5 Claude models (and lately the 5.1->5.2 chatgpt models) and for many many tasks there is not significant improvement.

All things being equal I agree that the models are improving, but for many of the tasks I’m testing what has the most improvement is the agent. The agents choosing the appropriate model for the task for instance has been huge.

I do believe there is beneficial symbiosis but for my results the agent's provide much bigger variance than the model.
by znpy | 2025-12-25 16:51:45+00:00
If you have some software that’s somewhat rigid you could make it scriptable by linking microquickjs.

For example, lately i was looking into patching dnsmasq to handle events but found out that the dhcp-script flag most likely does what i need.

Otherwise i could patch dnsmasq to load microquickjs, evaluate some javascript functions and hook into events emitted by the dnsmasq regular lifecycle.

I might end up doing that anyway, since it looks like a fun thing to do.
by vunderba | 2025-12-25 16:52:08+00:00
Same. We had a kids’ play table (low to the ground and rectangular) that we’d prop up with a few blocks under one end to give it a slight incline. We’d spend hours covering the surface with blocks in different positions to simulate a pinball table.

Then we’d take a large marble and use two long triangular blocks as flippers to “play” on it.

Tilting was NOT advised.
by Calavar | 2025-12-25 16:52:28+00:00
Quite to the contrary, I'd say this update is evidence of the inner loop being hyperoptimized!

MSVC's support for musttail is hot off the press:

> The [[msvc::musttail]] attribute, introduced in MSVC Build Tools version 14.50, is an experimental x64-only Microsoft-specific attribute that enforces tail-call optimization. [1]

MSVC Build Tools version 14.50 was released last month, and it only took a few weeks for the CPython crew to turn that around into a performance improvement.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/attributes?view=ms...
by simonw | 2025-12-25 16:53:27+00:00
maarthandam.com is a weird website. Recent posts:

Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
December 25, 2025
New Chennai Café Showcases Professional Excellence of Visually Impaired Chefs
December 22, 2025
Employee Who Worked 80 Hour Weeks Files Lawsuit Alleging Termination After Approved Medical Leave
December 21, 2025
UPS Sued for Running Holiday Business By Robbing Workers of Wages
December 18, 2025
This Poor Man’s Food is A Nutritional Powerhouse that is Often Ignored in Tamil Nadu
October 5, 2025
Netizens Mourn as Trump Was Found Alive, Promising Tariffs Instead
August 31, 2025

Looks like a clickbait farm of some sort?
by dxdm | 2025-12-25 16:54:05+00:00
Merry Christmas to you. You are not entirely alone, in the sense that other people have gone through loss and hardship and have come out of it eventually, better, happier, and stronger. Also, there are strangers like me who wish you well. I hope that things will work out for you soon. For now, here's a warm greeting and a smile for you. :)
by zamadatix | 2025-12-25 16:54:08+00:00
Am I not loading all of this article? It basically stops for me after saying "magnet toys top the list" with 3 examples of such (well, really 2) for me, with no real investigation into other toys or exploration of why the variants like the Minecraft magnet toy scored much worse in cleanup (I assume it's due to the piece size?). Anything about toys other than magnet blocks?

Another type of toy I've seen fit this bill has been wooden/plastic train tracks (larger pieces and simple sturdy trains). It still has the element of customization and playing with what you build but cleanup is "scoop the large pieces into a bucket" (and stepping on them usually isn't painful!)
by k310 | 2025-12-25 16:55:05+00:00
I visited the local library (California foothills) during a “book sale”, and what didn’t sell was left out in boxes, either for cheap or free. What didn’t move was destined for the landfill. I was aghast, but without enough room to take in the strays. Real estate is unforgiving.

I am in favor of “little free libraries” [0] where books circulate freely, and if they aren’t returned, hopefully are read and not destroyed. They offer plans to build little libraries, and I hope to build some. “Owner” will have to build the supports, though.

[0] https://littlefreelibrary.org/