MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-18 18:38:36+00:00
Just like practicing "oral hygiene" doesn't mean treating your mouth like an enemy, nor does "dopamine hygiene" mean treating dopamine like an enemy.

It just means keeping track of the difference between empty dopamine, which rewards behaviors that don't benefit you, from dopamine which is working in its normal evolutionary context--to encourage behaviors that do, and being intentional about how often you engage in the former.

"Digital hygiene" sounds like the start of a mental framework with good intentions, and which might help somebody with their World of Warcraft problem. But that problem isn't really unique to digital things, they're just a commonly found example of it. If you have a habit of seeking out empty/fast dopamine loops, where the rewards come frequently and are otherwise useless except as a reason to continue the useless behavior, then you're likely to come off your World of Warcraft addiction and immediately find a (potentially non-digital) addiction to put in its place.

My point is that yes we need a new kind of hygiene to deal with modern kinds of manipulation, but no we shouldn't restrict its scope to computers. I watched the video, but it's pushing back against something altogether weirder than my point here. I don't see how this counts as "manipulative disinformation," or is in contradiction with established science about the function of dopamine.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-12-18 18:38:44+00:00
I'm sure Valve would be ecstatic if they were snapped up by the truckload for home use, because home use and gaming use overlap significantly even if not perfectly.

For business use, the Beelink equivalent is about $350, because the GPU in the Steam Machine is useless for business or AI use. The Steam Machine is going to be more than $350.
by Bad_Initialism | 2025-12-18 18:39:06+00:00
We got an entire article without a single video or photo of the "drones"? Great journalism there, Cowboy State Daily.

The core problem here is that too many Americans believe that their imaginary sky friend is going to take them to heaven when they die in a mass shooting, and therefore their critical thinking skills have atrophied below zero, meaning that they are not just incapable of analyzing a situation to find the truth, they are actively fantasizing the situation.

This is a nonsense article. It is either written by someone with a toddler's understanding of the world or someone who is over it and writing for the money.

If you entertain, without evidence, the notion that Bigfoot, UFOs, malevolant drones, ghosts, clairvoyance or any of the other human slop we foist upon ourselves and each other exist, you are simply a broken organism. You need to check your brain, because it's not working properly.
by sunrunner | 2025-12-18 18:39:35+00:00
> not a simple display of features or quirkiness (1400 puzzles, 10 years of dev)

I think a 'number of features' metric can work but only for players that already know and like your game, where an expansion with 'Five exciting new areas' is understood as something that they'd enjoy, and I agree it feels odd for a new IP.

Similarly, saying how many years it took isn't remotely a selling point for a new player. If you'd been following the development process then you probably wouldn't care, and if you hadn't you also probably wouldn't care.

It does seem awkward to have to design a trailer for a pure puzzle game, something that essentially relies on things going on inside a player's mind for fun, which by definition won't be visible.

Baba Is You did have something you can show potential players, but I'm not sure there's a trailer that could convey The Witness' 'Oh, I wonder if I can...' moment as it's a very internal experience that comes from playing enough to get to that point.

The Witness was, however, visually beautiful (IMO) and its symbol-based language let the trailer keep an element of mystery and intrigue. Order of the Sinking Star, while potentially also a fantastic puzzle game, seems to not be able to hide anything by nature of it being very clearly a Sokoban-like. Even if there are as-yet-unseen depths to how it treats the Sokoban format, the trailer needs something to work with, and while I think it also looks lovely it perhaps doesn't have the The Witness visual appeal or mystery to draw people in.
by shanev | 2025-12-18 18:39:57+00:00
The GPT models, in my experience, have been much better for backend than the Claude models. They're much slower, but produce logic that is more clear, and code that is more maintainable. A pattern I use is, setup a Github issue with Claude plan mode, then have Codex execute it. Then come back to Claude to run custom code review plugins. Then, of course review it with my own eyes before merging the PR.

My only gripe is I wish they'd publish Codex CLI updates to homebrew the same time as npm :)
by dingnuts | 2025-12-18 18:40:12+00:00
the faddish nature of these tools fits the narrative of the METR findings that the tools slow you down while making you feel faster.

since nobody (other than that paper) has been trying to measure output, everything is based on feelings and fashion, like you say.

I'm still raw dogging my code. I'll start using these tools when someone can measure the increase in output. Leadership at work is beginning to claim they can, so maybe the writing is on the wall for me. They haven't shown their methodology for what they are measuring, just telling everyone they "can tell"

But until then, I can spot too many psychological biases inherent in their use to trust my own judgement, especially when the only real study done so far on this subject shows that our intuition lies about this.

And in the meantime, I've already lost time investigating reasonable looking open source projects that turned out to be 1) vibe coded and 2) fully non functional even in the most trivial use. I'm so sick of it. I need a new career
by atrus | 2025-12-18 18:40:23+00:00
Convienence. Consoles are popular because you just plop down, hit the on button and play (in theory).

And while people don't care how much spy/adware their computer is, they do care when frequent notifications, popups and updates interfere with what you're doing. Nothing more annoying that having a windows notif steal focus from a game you're playing through steam link in the other room (personal experience).

I'm so glad that they've improved steam and link on linux so much, having to run it on my s/o windows computer was a pain.
by aebtebeten | 2025-12-18 18:40:54+00:00
from Bernays' 1928 book: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275553/page/n1...

> The radio is at present one of the most important tools of the propagandist.

What you couldn't do with radio is to triangulate targets via associated clusters; they used snail mail to do that.
by rayiner | 2025-12-18 18:41:13+00:00
I don't think it would require a weird distribution. Average life expectancy is dominated not by people living a really long time, but by a minority of people dying really early (due to child/maternal mortality and work-related or accidental deaths). If those people are concentrated among those without a college degree, then you'd see the life expectancy of people without a college degree declining as a greater share of the population goes to college.
by brandonb | 2025-12-18 18:42:04+00:00
HbA1c, or just diabetes as a binary variable, has been one of the main inputs into predicting heart attack risk for a long time.

The main marker of kidney function, eGFR, was added with the AHA/ACC's PREVENT equations in 2023.

I wrote a bit about the science behind heart risk calculators, and their various inputs like cholesterol, blood pressure, A1c, eGFR, and so on here: https://www.empirical.health/blog/heart-attack-risk-calculat...
by autoexec | 2025-12-18 18:42:08+00:00
The real wisdom to take away from this is that you need to keep copies of everything you've ever entrusted to iCloud because iCloud cannot be trusted. This was one instance where a giftcard seems to have caused someone to lose access to their stuff, but there's nothing stopping some other random thing fully outside of your control from causing Apple to kick you out of the things you've given them to keep for you.

Everything in the cloud is at risk of being taken from you. Companies like Apple are not your friend. They explicitly make no promises and insist that they are not accountable/liable. Stop trusting them.
by tj_591 | 2025-12-18 18:42:28+00:00
This is a new format that we've built to be able to do reproducible builds. It's a new frontend on top of buildkit so you can use it with docker build. The team is currently working hard to provide access to this tooling which will enable you to create, build and modify the images in your environment. We just need a couple more days for this to be available.
by brabel | 2025-12-18 18:43:42+00:00
How would you solve the same problem? Skills seem to be just a pattern (before this spec) that lets the LLMs choose what information they need to "load". It's not that different from a person looking up the literature before they do a certain job, rather than just reading every book every time in case it comes in handy one day. Whatever you do you will end up with the same kind of solution, there's no way to just add all useful context to the LLM beforehand.
by alexandrerond | 2025-12-18 18:44:01+00:00
I have legal holiday rentals on two properties in Spain, but they are managed by an specialized company:

* The regional administration handed out licenses without problems until a year ago, even when everyone was complaining already about these rentals. It was just paperwork + fee to get the license. They did for years and now they wonder why there are so many flats: they allowed it.

* The main issue these rentals cause to the neighbors is people partying, being noisy, inconsiderate. Rentals have rules against these behaviors yet they happen frequently. I wish we or the police had tools to legally kick people out in the middle of the night for this behavior.

* Apart from legal rentals, which are being limited now, there are a lot of illegal rentals. They are only starting to crack down on them. AirBNB and others have not complied with the law and this should not come as surprise. They have actively enabled illegal businesses for years. People go to jail for that and they should shut them down.

* There is no affordable housing in the city-center. Rental flats make it worse but in many places the issue will not be fixed if they disappeared. The causes are deeper and a nice flat is not going to become "cheap" to rent in any case.

* Holiday rentals are a bit more profitable that long-term rentals, but not crazy unless you are doing it at scale and they come with their own problems. Many are switching now to "seasonal" rentals, which are rentals for a period less than a year and the tenants need to go then. They forgot to handle these in the new regulations. Long-term rental is problematic because you can't use your flat when you need it. i.e. if you have a flat that you come to spend your own holidays. So people in that situation have limited alternatives.

* I am personally not against switching to long term rentals, but the current situation wrt. licenses etc. puts me in a "wait and see" mode. My flat is legal, so they might make it more profitable by cracking down on illegal ones. Once I put a long-term rental I cannot ever go back to vacation rental either. There is little incentive to switch right now, but I will of course do it if I'm legally required to do so. For all the talk, they haven't taken that step, which is a testament to how politicians can say one thing and then do close to nothing in the end.
by mubbicles | 2025-12-18 18:44:02+00:00
Another good document for military standards for software safety is AOP-52.

Has some fun anecdotes in it. My favorite being the nuclear certified supersonic aircraft having a latent defect discovered during integration of a new subsystem. Turns out all of the onboard flight computers crashed at the transition from sub to supersonic, thankfully the aircraft had enough inertia to "ride through" all of their flight computers simultaneously crashing during the transonic boundary.

Moral of that story is your software people need to have the vocabulary to understand the physical properties of the system they're working on.
by yoavm | 2025-12-18 18:44:14+00:00
I love threads about Mozilla. New CEO says he's not going to remove adblockers, people suspect him for planning to remove adblockers. Mozilla says they'll add a killswitch for all AI features (so that the tiny but vocal anti-AI minority will be happy), and people blame them for not having it as an enable-switch.

Whatever they do, they simply cannot win. I'm personally starting to suspect the main issue with Mozilla is its users.
by saberience | 2025-12-18 18:44:33+00:00
Eh, I can write that comment because it's fairly easy to see this side of JBlow if you've been following his work for a while. He is so naturally abrasive about other people's work, loves shitting on things he didn't make himself, loves being the smartest guy in the room, and also is a covid is a hoax, anti-vaxxer, Trump supporter etc.

I don't think I'm the smartest guy in the room, and that's OK. I realised a long time ago that ego/arrogance isn't a great quality and it's far better to have a strong network of friends and supporters, and that doesn't happen if you're an arrogant prick.

And yes, he built the language (which is totally un-needed) because the "idiots" who made all the existing languages, didn't make one as good as in JBlows brain. Despite the fact that there are 1000s of games which are far better than anything JB has made written in C#, C++, Java, Rust, etc. Did Larian need to write a new programming language to make Baldurs Gate 3?

Only JB is arrogant to think that only a new language is good enough for him to make a game with. A game that is just a modern spin on Sokoban and where he paid a bunch of other game devs to use their puzzles! You could write this shit in three.js and it wouldnt look or feel any differently.
by tj_591 | 2025-12-18 18:44:55+00:00
Hi. Yes, we fully intend to open up access to the build tool here. The build file you see is a new format that we've built to be able to do reproducible builds. It's a new frontend on top of buildkit so you can use it with docker build. The team is currently working hard to provide access to this tooling which will enable you to create, build and modify the images in your environment. We just need a couple more days for this to be available.
by matthewaveryusa | 2025-12-18 18:44:59+00:00
>These three disorders could really be “CKM syndrome,” which can be treated with drugs like Ozempic

The article is trying so hard not to say that obesity is the cause. I call it the obesity pipeline: You start off young and obese and you don't have diabetes and it's all fine. Stay obese long enough and you get diabetes -> metformin. Stay in a diabetic state long enough and you get heart disease -> statins. These are obesity comorbidities.
by newsoftheday | 2025-12-18 18:45:07+00:00
Agreed.

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-one-line-of-code-cause...

When 10K LOC AI PR's are being created, sometimes by people who either don't understand the code or haven't reviewed the code their trying to submit; the 60 million dollar failure line is potentially lying in wait.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-18 18:45:43+00:00
Someone can't honestly write this unless they aren't a fan of games to begin with. Are you saying the Clair Obscur devs don't care about their craft because they used Unreal Engine?

There is a massive gap between Handmade Hero and a bloated, unoptimized game. It's one thing to be a purist that wants to do everything Handmade Hero style. It's another thing entirely to claim people who don't do that are hacks who don't care about their craft. There is A LOT to game development other than writing things from scratch.

Casey has made great resources, but I understand OPs frustration. He's created a culture of devs that think people shipping games over 100mb are soulless profit chasers. Animal Well is awesome, but not everyone wants to spend 7 years making a platformer.
by teddyh | 2025-12-18 18:46:03+00:00
It could have been this:

“The reason is that, in other fields [than software], people have to deal with the perversity of matter. [When] you are designing circuits or cars or chemicals, you have to face the fact that these physical substances will do what they do, not what they are supposed to do. We in software don't have that problem, and that makes it tremendously easier. We are designing a collection of idealized mathematical parts which have definitions. They do exactly what they are defined to do.

And so there are many problems we [programmers] don't have. For instance, if we put an ‘if’ statement inside of a ‘while’ statement, we don't have to worry about whether the ‘if’ statement can get enough power to run at the speed it's going to run. We don't have to worry about whether it will run at a speed that generates radio frequency interference and induces wrong values in some other parts of the data. We don't have to worry about whether it will loop at a speed that causes a resonance and eventually the ‘if’ statement will vibrate against the ‘while’ statement and one of them will crack. We don't have to worry that chemicals in the environment will get into the boundary between the if statement and the while statement and corrode them, and cause a bad connection. We don't have to worry that other chemicals will get on them and cause a short-circuit. We don't have to worry about whether the heat can be dissipated from this ‘if’ statement through the surrounding ‘while’ statement. We don't have to worry about whether the ‘while’ statement would cause so much voltage drop that the ‘if’ statement won't function correctly. When you look at the value of a variable you don't have to worry about whether you've referenced that variable so many times that you exceed the fan-out limit. You don't have to worry about how much capacitance there is in a certain variable and how much time it will take to store the value in it.

All these things are defined a way, the system is defined to function in a certain way, and it always does. The physical computer might malfunction, but that's not the program's fault. So, because of all these problems we don't have to deal with, our field is tremendously easier.”

— Richard Stallman, 2001: <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html#conf9>
by mccoyb | 2025-12-18 18:46:12+00:00
I'm happy to pay the same right now for less (on the max plan, or whatever) -- because I'm never running into limits, and I'm running these models near all day every day (as a single user working on my own personal projects).

I consistently run into limits with CC (Opus 4.5) -- but even though Codex seems to be spending significantly more tokens, it just seems like the quota limit is much higher?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-18 18:46:21+00:00
Surely Gemini 3.0 Pro would be the appropriate comparison.

If you want to compare the weakest models from both companies then Gemini Flash vs GPT Instant would seem to be best comparison, although Claude Opus 4.5 is by all accounts the most powerful for coding.

In any case, it will take a few weeks for any meaningful test comparisons to be made, and in the meantime it's hard not to see any release from OpenAI since they announced "Code Red" (aka "we're behind the competition") a few days ago as more marketing than anything else.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-12-18 18:46:46+00:00
The only thing I know that CC has that Cursor hasn't, is the ability to spawn agents. You can just prompt CC "spawn 10 agents" and it will make 10 subagents that run concurrently. But otherwise, I don't know what CC does that Cursor doesn't. On the contrary, AFAIK, CC doesn't index your codebase, and Cursor does.
by Jabbs | 2025-12-18 18:47:02+00:00
https://www.unlistedjobs.com/

26.3% of jobs found on company websites are not advertised on any job boards but found using this tool.

The app scrapes company's directly (24/7) and give the user:

- a head start over other job seekers

- access to thousands of jobs not listed anywhere else

- daily job filter emails with ability to be highly curated to reduce noise
by wltr | 2025-12-18 18:47:08+00:00
Have you considered that what you could hear from others, some of those people can be not smart? I know that’s not the reply you seek. But still an input. Sometimes, I think overanalysing something stupid makes quite little sense.

Answering the question directly, I think I understand how news.ycombinator works. It is affiliated with the parent domain, and hence it serves their agenda. As simple as that. It’s not some non-profit entity that owes you something. While I have issues with things like censoring, I understand they owe me nothing. Basically, they _allow_ me to be part of the community, if I behave.
by skvmb | 2025-12-18 18:48:13+00:00
I build audio software engines mostly. This is highly enjoyable to me, because I get to create new sounds and new audio effects with results being near instant. Upgrading old Amiga ProTracker .MOD file playback to not sound so 8-bit and low samplerate is a fun challenge too.

Compressing Lamport Signatures is a side-project of mine too.
by bluGill | 2025-12-18 18:48:17+00:00
I don't think they are popular with anyone.

There are a few people who because they only need a bed use them despite having other options. I've read reports of a few people who sleep under their desk - if the company won't allow this (it is often technically illegal) such a place might be your best option.

There are a few people who because of "problems in life" need a place that is cheap. If your wife gives you a restraining order when you get home as your first notice the marriage is dead you need a place for a few nights while figuring that mess out. (sexism mostly because there are a lot more women's shelters - but otherwise this can apply to either)

There might be some people using this as a really cheap hostel.

But the article makes it clear - most of the people using the place were not what you would call "normal people". They are addicted to something and are there because they need a place to sleep so they can spend more money on their addiction. There is also mental illness - not so bad that they need to be institutionalized, but not really fully able to support themselves.

I get the impression that times have changed - 120 years ago it was much more socially acceptable to live in such a place. You get a bed, and otherwise you are using the city for everything (work, entertainment...)