MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tgma | 2025-12-04 04:00:04+00:00
100% - they quit the much more lucrative WiFi business. The funny thing is the post, the likely the most interested party, who already spent $150+effort on a keyboard with TouchID admitted they are willing to spend $50. Literally the most excited customer who pays $150 is expecting a lower price than the keyboard. That simply shows the existence of such product is counterproductive to Apple's total revenue.
by danieltanfh95 | 2025-12-04 04:00:11+00:00
The reason is quite straightforward. LLMs excel at mapping tasks but suck at first principles reasoning and validation.

When you are working on the AI map app, you are mapping your new idea to code.

When people are working with legacy code and fixing bugs, they are employing reasoning and validation.

The problem is management doesn't allow the engineers to discern which is which and just stuff it down their throats.
by MikeMoh | 2025-12-04 04:00:11+00:00
Nano Banana is an AI-powered image generator that allows you to create and edit images through natural chat conversations. Nano Banana is a revolutionary AI-powered image generation and editing platform that delivers consistent character editing and scene preservation. Unlike traditional text-to-image models, Nano Banana performs in-context image generation, allowing you to prompt with both text and images while seamlessly extracting and modifying visual concepts.
by sodafountan | 2025-12-04 04:00:32+00:00
I was going to try having an AI agent analyze a well-established open source project. I was thinking of trying something like Bitcoin Core or an open-source JavaScript library, something that has had a lot of human eyes on it. To me, that seems like a good use case, as some of those projects can get pretty complex in what they're aiming to accomplish. Just the sheer amount of complexity involved in Bitcoin, for instance, would be a good candidate for having an AI agent explain the code to you as you're reviewing it. A lot of those projects are fairly well-written as they are, with the higher-level concepts being the more difficult thing to grasp.

Not attempting to claim anything against your company, but I've worked for enterprises where code bases were a complete mess and even the product itself didn't have a clear goal. That's likely not the ideal candidate for AI systems to augment.
by amypetrik8 | 2025-12-04 04:00:44+00:00
>Candidates from both parties seem to mostly focus on social issues (Democrats are 110% preferable here imo).

The problem with the democrats - indeed why Trump is in office - is they focus on social issues of "the underdog group" at the exclusion of all else. It's simplistic, arbitrary, and fraught with moral hazards and perverse incentives, often with someone getting screwed over.

I don't care what you call "the underdog group" it is what you think it is. Sex, age, race, citizenship status, disability status, etc. There is a fundamental issue with this sort of things - it reduces humans to simplistic labels and groups and pronounces policy based on group means. The black lesbian woman. The white hetero man. Well... is the white hetero man, is he an orphan and also deaf, meanwhile the black lesbian woman grew up in a wealthy neighborhood and is the epitome of health? But then like a social median dark pattern, this becomes a political dark pattern - identity politics, voter blocs, good guy and bad guy - people get swept up in these bizarre sort of human inherited sin ontology structures which don't really capture the true suffering, or true privilege, that simply exists and varies individual to individual, versus subgroup average to subgroup average.

Any data scientist could tell you if you have 300 features and have free reign to choose subgroups - yea it's going to be easy to find a subgroup that's crushing it and a subgroup that's failing
by wlesieutre | 2025-12-04 04:01:22+00:00
I will give them credit for one good thing that has come from iOS to Mac: having Control Center in the menu bar is a nice change. A few things I want in the menu bar for immediate access, and for the items that don't quite make the cut it's nice to have all of them two clicks away instead of requiring a trip to System Preferences.

I do wish they would bring Bartender-style menuextra containment as an official feature though. This is particularly awful today for visually impaired users, who are using the "Larger Text" screen scaling, lose a chunk of the menubar to the display notch, and then lose even more space to the big spacing they put between menuextras a couple of years ago.

The amount of bullshit that comes with a work laptop and wants to be in the menu bar is crazy, and when you run out of menu space things just disappear. Where did the VPN go? Sorry, displaced by your VOIP system and wireless presentation remote drivers and Dropbox and Teams and ...

It's nice that this software is quickly accessible without being in the Dock all the time, but the menu extras need to learn the same lesson as Control Center (and the Windows XP system tray 24 years ago) and have a second level that isn't space constrained.
by avadodin | 2025-12-04 04:01:34+00:00
Share classes can be very varied(such as preferred shares that get what's left after bond debt is paid off on bankruptcy) but generally what he's proposing(a coop-style one-head-one-vote class) is not common. Not sure if it's legal for US corporations or not(I could swear it is but in any case it's exceedingly rare). The usual principle is one-share-one-vote.
by eru | 2025-12-04 04:02:51+00:00
If your underlying system is linear and stable, you can pick any arbitrary precision you are interested in and compute all future behaviour to that precision on a digital computer.

Btw, quantum mechanics is both linear and stable--and even deterministic. Admittedly it's a bit of a mystery how the observed chaotic nature of eg Newtonian billard balls emerges from quantum mechanics.

'Stable' in this case means that small perturbations in the input only lead to small perturbations in the output. You can insert your favourite epsilon-delta formalisation of that concept, if you wish.

To get back to the meat of your comment:

You can simulate such a stable system 'lazily'. Ie you simulate it with any given fixed precision at first, and (only) when someone zooms in to have a closer look at a specific part, you increase the precision of the numbers in your simulation. (Thanks to the finite speed of light, you might even get away with only re-simulating that part of your system with higher fidelity. But I'm not quite sure.)

Remember those fractal explorers like Fractint that used to be all the rage: they were digital at heart---obviously---but you could zoom in arbitrarily as if they had infinite continuous precision.
by insin | 2025-12-04 04:02:52+00:00
Then when you've taken an hour to be the first person to understand how their code works from top to bottom and point out obvious bugs, problems and design improvements (no, I don't think this component needs 8 useEffects added to it which deal exclusively with global state that's only relevant 2 layers down, which are effectively treating React components like an event handling system for data - don't believe people who tell you LLMs are good at React, if you see a useEffect with an obvious LLM comment above it, it's likely to be buggy or unnecessary), your questions about it are answered with an immediate flurry of commits and it's back to square one.

Who are we speeding up, exactly?
by junior_b | 2025-12-04 04:03:42+00:00
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by ctoth | 2025-12-04 04:04:01+00:00
> Had Samsung known SK Hynix was about to commit a similar chunk of supply — or vice-versa — the pricing and terms would have likely been different

Wouldn't this be ... collusion?

Implicitly arguing that the memory oligopoly should have been coordinating is ... quite something.

OpenAI may well be doing something anticompetitive by cornering supply to foreclose competitors, but saying "they tricked the suppliers into not colluding!" is certainly a take you can have I guess.
by hellotomyrars | 2025-12-04 04:04:10+00:00
Sorry but I reject this thinking. You’re essentially saying that Medicare for all is bad because it’ll seem to cost more because the way the money works isn’t obscured so people will be mad and that it has to be worse than their existing policies.

I’m still not seeing how or why it has to be worse. This just seems like an assumption you’re making. Also sure the exact existing policy you have won’t be available by definition because the system has entirely changed but once again if you want private insurance you will still be able to get it, as is the case in other countries with socialized medicine.

Also really don’t see why you would say that the polls that say people want socialized medicine are rigged and not-representative but the polls that you’re saying show that most people with private insurance are happy with it are accurate. Not really sure how that stands to reason.

I really feel like the argument you’re making here boils down to M4A is bad because it has to be worse and people who have private insurance now are happy with their plans and could only have them replaced with something that would be worse. Or even more simply: Change is scary so I guess we’re stuck with the current system and actually people like it so don’t rock the boat.

Also the median income for someone with employer provided healthcare is 120K? I’m going to need some data on that. Also you’re then cutting out everyone with marketplace insurance which is 24 million people.

More people are poised to lose Medicaid and my marketplace insurance plan, if I chose to accept it for next year was going to cost me 6X for the monthly premiums and require co-pays I don’t have before as well as much larger copays for ones I did.

I’m going to be completely honest. I don’t care if people making 120K/year are upset if their visible cost for healthcare is more obvious or not. From 2024 census data 41.2% of households made above 100K annually. That number becomes roughly 33% when you step it up to $150K/year and drops to something like 12% when you get to $200K/year. By the time you get to $400K/year you’re at like 3%.

Also households as a unit isn’t necessarily representative of the distribution of people within them.

I reject the idea that government system are inherently bad and so we can’t have them. I reject the premise that the wealthy will be forced to have worse healthcare to subsidize the majority of Americans. I absolutely reject any notion that our private healthcare as it exists is efficient, affordable and the superior system.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-04 04:04:22+00:00
I probably will play them, once they're ported to PC and sold for $10 like TLoU and Death Stranding were. I haven't even played Tsushima yet.

Neither one of them is a system-seller though. I don't think anyone feels FOMO because they missed the Day 1 release of Gran Turismo, or didn't play Astro Bot with 7.1 Surround and HD haptics. Bloodborne was a magnum opus, Persona 5 had people lining up outside Best Buy to reserve a copy. The PS5 exclusive library is down right impoverished by comparison, to say nothing of the PC exclusives it lacks.
by browningstreet | 2025-12-04 04:04:41+00:00
One example: I asked it to explain continue.dev, the kind of thing I’d asked it previously.

Before I got a proper summary and an arch diagram. It felt like its own work. Now it spun in circles for a good while and then it regurgitated the continue.dev website in weird topic boxes and that wasn’t helpful at all.

It does seem that it’s SOTA for LLMs to take forever to respond. In that sense it’s in good company. More and more, lately, I send a prompt to an LLM and switch tabs because it’s likely to be 20-60 seconds at best.

A curious regression, even if I understand why.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-12-04 04:04:50+00:00
This is why I argue that the impact of LLMs is in the tail. Its all the small to midsize shops that want something done, but don't have money to hire a programmer. Its small tasks, like pushing data around, writing a quick interface to help day to day jobs in niche jobs and technical problems. Its the ability to quickly generate prototype logos and scripts for small scale ad campaigns, for solving Nancy's Excel issue, etc. Big companies have big software and code stacks with tons of dependencies. Small shops have little project needs that solve significant issues facing their operations, but will unlikely become large enough that things like scaling issues, maintenance, integration, are ever a problem at all. Its a tail, but its long in small to midsize businesses. In research labs, which I have personal experience, AI is rapidly making feasible more ambitious projects, quicker timelines, and better code, generally.
by safety1st | 2025-12-04 04:05:22+00:00
"The major reason is they are a private company with good business..."

This is unquestionably, undoubtedly incorrect. It is a really low information meme that's racing around the Internet right now. If you want a contemporary counterexample take a look at NASCAR. They're also not publicly traded, they're family owned, yet they are abusive toward drivers, teams and fans, and they're gradually ruining the sport that made them rich. We know all of this because it got so bad Michael Jordan decided to sue them and there's a ton of information coming out in discovery at the moment.

The real reason Valve are being the "good guys" at the moment (not really, but yes they're doing some amazing stuff for Linux) is because they feel threatened by Windows and Microsoft, they perceive a long term competitive threat to Steam. Competition makes businesses both private and public work for your dollar. The US economy has been characterized by a decrease in competition and an increase in monopolies for decades now which is the root of many price hikes and anti-consumer practices.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-12-04 04:05:54+00:00
I have been in situations where either I or someone in my party was sick and needed medical care in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language. In all cases I used my brain to figure out a solution quickly without the aid of CharGPT, and the trip continued on.

This falls in the category of life skills or maybe just "adulting." Sure, maybe ChatGPT can be considered a life skill, but you need others compiled into your brain to fall back on when it fails. If ChatGPT is the only skill you have, what do you do if your phone gets stolen?
by cyphar | 2025-12-04 04:06:57+00:00
So the solution is to stop doing code reviews and just YOLO-merge everything? After all, everything is fucked already, how much worse could it get?

For the record, there are examples where human code review and design guidelines can lead to very low-bug code. NASA published their internal guidelines for producing safety-critical code[1]. The problem is that the development cost of software when using such processes is too high for most companies, and most companies don't actually produce safety-critical software.

My experience with the vast majority of LLM code submitted to projects I maintain is that it has subtle bugs that I managed to find through fairly cursory human review. The copilot code review feature on GitHub also tends to miss actual bugs and report nonexistent bugs, making it worse than useless. So in my view, the death of the benefits of human code review have been wildly exaggerated.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
by magixx | 2025-12-04 04:07:44+00:00
I'm impressed by the degree of selective catS possess. They can responds to like 5 different names if in the mood while other times won't event flinch even after repeating 20 times.

While my cat doesn't seek my approval, she is definitely highly food motivated to the point where she was faking wanting to go outside and thus put a harness on (which she does not enjoy) just for the treats she would get.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-04 04:10:27+00:00
> What specifically happened in June to set this off?

Tariffs implemented by this administration:

"Inflation has begun to show the first signs of tariff pass-through," said Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. "While services inflation continues to moderate, the acceleration in tariff-exposed goods in June is likely the first of greater price pressures to come. The Fed will want to hold steady as it awaits more data."[0]

0 - https://www.reuters.com/business/us-inflation-expected-rise-...
by emilecantin | 2025-12-04 04:11:17+00:00
I think there should perhaps be a law that any corporation automatically has a new class of un-tradeable VOTING shares, worth 50% of the overall vote, held by the employees. Everybody with an employment contract with this company is entitled to 1 vote, no more, no less; whether they're the janitor or the CEO.

Employees of a company are the ones who are the most affected by the company's decisions, it's only fair that they have a say.
by rprend | 2025-12-04 04:11:23+00:00
Yes you get it. Obviously “writing code” will die. It will hold on in legacy systems that need bespoke maintenance, like COBOL systems have today. There will be artisanal coders, like there are artisanal blacksmiths, who do it the old fashioned way, and we will smile and encourage them. Within 20 years, writing code syntax will be like writing assembly: something they make you do in school, something that your dad reminds you about the good old days.

I talked to someone who was in denial about this, until he said he had conflated writing code with solving problems. Solving problems isn’t going anywhere! Solving problems: you observe a problem, write out a solution, implement that solution, measure the problem again, consider your metrics, then iterate.

“Implement it” can mean writing code, like the past 40 years, but it hasn’t always been. Before coding, it was economics and physics majors, who studied and implemented scientific management. For the next 20 years, it will be “describe the tool to Claude code and use the result”.
by al_borland | 2025-12-04 04:11:40+00:00
I still write most things myself. So far, Copilot has been very unreliable with what I’m working on and it often costs more time than it saves. I mostly use it for one-off regex or json stuff.

As far as Python goes, I think it depends on your goal. If you’re just trying to get something quick done, you can probably use an LLM. If you’re trying to learn something new and get a new skill, I think it’s worth going through it on your own. The examples might be easy for the LLM, but those are building blocks you’ll want so you can understand more complex things that the LLM might trip on.

I would also say, don’t try to memorize everything. You’ll always have access to reference material, LLM or not. So it’s more about understanding and the concepts and building blocks, not about memorizing the exact way a specific thing is done in the book.

I went through Automate the Boring Stuff several years ago. I went through the Excel stuff, but didn’t really commit it to memory. I just knew a year later that Python could solve my problem when it came up, and was able to find the stuff I needed and put it together. It also gave me some ideas on stuff I could do that I probably wouldn’t have thought to automate otherwise. So going though it can help get your brain asking the right questions, even if you ultimately use an LLM down the road. It will also help you write better prompts.
by 0manrho | 2025-12-04 04:11:49+00:00
That's not how it works.

Crucial winding down doesn't mean that there's less flash fabs in the world, just like there are plenty of DRAM companies that sell to the consumer market that don't have their own flash fabs (Corsair, Gskill, Geil, etc). Those consumer oriented brands bought flash from Micron (not crucial), SK (also doesn't have a consumer facing DRAM brand), and Samsung. That's just as true today as it will be post Feb 2026 when Crucial closes it's doors because Micron selling components to say, Corsair, is an Enterprise transaction from Micron's perspective (B2B), even if the ultimate end product is a consumer oriented one.
by jeswin | 2025-12-04 04:13:48+00:00
These are neither simple, nor easily doable. But the bigger problem is cost (time and money).

My point was that India should switch to a single card/id for everything, and get rid of everything else including the PAN card. Eventually make Aadhaar digital, and chip based so that it can hold your DL as well. It is it bad for privacy, Yes. But what a country should spend on protecting or preserving privacy is a function of where it is on the socioeconomic ladder. If a single ID helps 80% of Indians (a billion people) navigate the labyrinth of our bureaucracy, I'm ok with it, _today_.

Besides, simpler rules go a long way in reducing the power of govt departments (which we can agree on). It reduces cognitive overload for citizens, as well as for govt workers. Factor in where the rest of India stands in terms of education etc, the value of simple rules cannot be overstated.

As someone who values privacy, there are still ways to do it. You just have to invest a lot more energy and time into it though.
by didgetmaster | 2025-12-04 04:14:50+00:00
I upgraded my pc about this time last year (new CPU, RAM, and motherboard).

I was originally going to just get 64GB of DDR5-6000, with the option of adding another 64GB later, thinking the price might drop even further. At the last minute, I decided to get the whole 128GB instead. Glad I did.
by bastardoperator | 2025-12-04 04:16:00+00:00
You're conflating GitHub the platform with GitHub the bundle of services. CI is optional, swappable, not unique to GitHub. Sponsorship infrastructure and discoverability are not. The complaints target the optional layer. The migration sacrifices the sticky layer. That's backwards, and ironic, with the intention of being performative. It's almost like selling your car because a tire lost some air, lol.