MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dakiol | 2025-12-11 18:52:46+00:00
I feel divided. I do love my career (computer science/engineering) and I dedicate a lot of my free time to it (reading tech books, doing side projects, HN, etc.). But at the same time, I don't give a damn about my company. I hate the leaders, C-level execs, ... I cannot stand them, and it's not just my company, it's almost every tech company out there; so I work for the money, and take pride of my skills when working on open source and the like.
by igor47 | 2025-12-11 18:52:47+00:00
Which honestly is crazy to me. I have a Rivian, and to say the software is disappointing would be an understatement. There are heisenbugs galore; some examples:

* Doors refuse to open

* Lose the ability to control media playback using any controls

* Any button in the UI just opens and closes the windows

Granted, I'm a server side/backend engineer mostly, and I don't know much about writing software/firmware for a very hostile emf environment. But if any project I worked on had bugs like this, fixed at the rate they're fixed on Rivian, I would assume a badly flawed architecture or non existent technical leadership

Yet VW paid billions for this very software. I can't imagine how bad it must've been on their own stack that they gave up and bought this other seemingly broken stack
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-11 18:52:47+00:00
I'm going to argue that the original sin of capitalism is change over time.

The story of how microeconomics works so that the invisible hand empowers, say, a kid's lemonade stand, is straightforward and real.

The trouble is that the market can only guess at how future investments will pay off or how technology changes so we get ruptures when it is wrong: the business cycle is one consequences of this (accumulating debt now that can't be paid off easily later) but many of the other complaints about "the market" come from this too.

If you consider the "cost of living" issue for instance I think the real issue is that people don't like change; because technology is changing and the walls of the environment are closing we (or our children) will have hell to pay for instance if we don't rebuild our energy system, change the way we drive, etc. That's all going to cost money and things will be different -- maybe you want an 8 seat SUV but maybe you are going to get a 4 seat sedan. The thing is right now we don't have a completely clear picture of what the future is and it is certain that X% of any investment we make will be wasted.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-11 18:52:53+00:00
Sounds good.

Might sell better with the protagonist learning iron age leatherworking, with hides tanned from cows that were grown within earshot, as part of a process of finding the real root of the reason for why any of us ever came to be in the first place. This realization process culminates in the formation of a global, unified steampunk BDSM movement and a wealth of new diseases, and then: Zombies.

(That's the end. Zombies are always the end.)
by lamontcg | 2025-12-11 18:52:57+00:00
It is risk aversion in low level managers, and profit margins in high level managers, and since they're the market leader in the US and smartphones are pretty mature there's little risk of anyone jumping ship (go to android, start over, lose all your apps, get differently frustrating issues).

They don't have a Steve Jobs anymore to sit down with the product, get frustrated beyond belief with it, and start sticking boots up asses on general principle.

Nobody is going to step up to do that because all the other executives would hate them for it and knife them in the back, and it would be seen as a waste of effort. And nobody could ever tie fixing those bugs to making a financial number go up, and would argue instead that it was pure cost for no benefit.
by filoleg | 2025-12-11 18:53:09+00:00
Your eyes will be fine (assuming that we are talking about automotive LiDAR specifically).

Automotive LiDAR is designed to meet Class-1 laser eye-safety standard, which means "safe under normal conditions." It isn't some subjective/marketing thing, it is an official laser safety classification that is very regulated.

However, if you try to break that "normal conditions" rule by pressing your eyeball directly against an automotive LiDAR sensor for a very long period of time while it is blasting, you might cause yourself some damage.

The reason for why your phone camera would get damaged, but not your eyes, is due to the nature of how camera lenses work. They are designed to gather as much light as possible from a direction and focus it onto a flat, tiny sensor. The same LiDAR beam that is spread out for a large retina can become hyper-concentrated onto a handful of pixels through the camera optics.
by pa7ch | 2025-12-11 18:53:23+00:00
Gokrazy is a minimal linux distro that just boots into a go init program. You can run on a raspberry pi or pc. It has a little init system that just takes a path you normally use in `go run` and just runs them and restarts as needed. Its been a joy for me to play around with. Has A/B updates as well.

https://gokrazy.org/
by toast0 | 2025-12-11 18:53:24+00:00
> just like Facebook bought WhatsApp with private stock with crazy valuations

FB bought Instagram April 9, 2012 with ~ 30% cash and 70% stock, and then IPO'd May 18, 2012. That's probably what you mean. FB bought WhatsApp Feb 19, 2014 with ~ 25% cash and 75% public stock that was roughly 2x the IPO price. The private valuation might be crazy, but it's increased with public trading, so I dunno.
by everdrive | 2025-12-11 18:53:35+00:00
It's a comment about cost-to-hourly-entertainment. eg: if in the general sense you're spending $5-$10 per hour of entertainment you're doing at least OK. I understand that a lot of books and video games can far exceed this, but it's just a general metric and a bit of a low bar to clear. (I have a LOT more hours into the game so from my perspective my $40 has paid quite well.)
by spankalee | 2025-12-11 18:53:53+00:00
I hold some RIVN and I'm wondering why they're spending resources on custom silicon instead of using something off-the-shelf. What is their advantage here? Can they hire the right people? Can they ship enough units to pay for it?

Those are my bearish questions. On the bullish side, the VW deal shows that they're willing and able to license part of their platform, so possibly have a big chance to recoup costs and maybe turn a profit just on that side, which justifies a big software + autonomy investment.
by LarsKrimi | 2025-12-11 18:53:56+00:00
Ukraine is holding because it's still being dripfed weapons and money by the remaining partners it has. If it dries up they will be steamrolled. Probably not immediately but it will become bad for them very quickly

One way it could dry up is to distract NATO or eu countries with a defense treaty, by something that feels like a real war but not serious enough. Enough that those countries finally say "Oh shit, no more weapons for UKR now we really need to bolster our own flank"

Then Ukraine falls and their 1 mil. of well experienced soldiers get force-conscripted into Putins army and Europe has a problem
by TOGoS | 2025-12-11 18:53:59+00:00
Maybe, and I would definitely prefer this to the random-generic-word practice. "illuminate" is some part of Laravel, but I can't remember what it is, just that "that's not even a noun; they just picked that word for $whatever_crappy_subsystem because it sounds nice" and being even more annoyed at the whole thing because of it.
by sshadmand | 2025-12-11 18:54:03+00:00
Dude - crazy. When I saw this post I was like - finally someone said it. But it isn't just "iPhone". Why is spell check so bad EVERYWHERE..... still?. Like, how is it I am still even able to share texts, emails, etc that have mistakes at all? I feel like "spell check" is so old school. Intent, and matching intent, without typos is way over due. A bit meta: but, I am going to have to re-read this post - why? I still send texts that say "What re you doing?" - hwy?
by nosianu | 2025-12-11 18:54:03+00:00
> Working for other people sucks.

Depends.

I worked and even had a business with and/or worked for three people that I've known for a long time. And had loud substantial disagreements with - before going into business. Worked like a charm every single time. The personal side I mean, business was neutral once, a complete failure but I only wanted the paycheck anyway once, and a resounding success in a traditional business where I handle only IT right now.

In the first venture I found out I hated selling and business. Sure, I can do it, but I really really don't want to. I am a minimalist, and I might have become a poor monk in a monastery a thousand years ago. I don't want to sell anyone anything. So in the next two businesses I left all the business stuff to others, and it is sooo much better.

And now that I'm in a non-IT traditional business I'm a servant 100%. And it is nice. My main focus is non IT stuff, and I use computers to achieve that. Finding differences in thousands of EDI messages for invoices, order confirmations and deliveries, for example. HOW - who cares? I am not developing a product. If it's a one-off I may just run some command line tools. Or, shocking!, I actually use Excel. Or I ask ChatGPT for a little helper Python script to run over the raw data files.

Doing servant work without business responsibilities is really nice :) My boss may have the bigger house and car, so what? He also has exponentially more stress (I have pretty much zero). In my youth I may have had a different opinion, but now I don't want his stress level for any amount of compensation. And no, future early retirement by making lots of money now does not change the equation. I don't want to retire at all anyway, keep doing business stuff on the side at least. Without the stress it's no problem! One of my direct colleagues is way past retirement age...
by TulliusCicero | 2025-12-11 18:54:06+00:00
Incendiary language aside, this does seem pretty likely to me. Waymo has already talked about wanting to license their driver for personally owned cars eventually; it just doesn't make sense for them to do so until they can cover more of the country (or countries). The more areas they cover, and especially when they can cover various popular freeways connecting different metro areas, the more it'll make sense for them to start partnering with automakers to sell the technology to consumers.
by ziyasal | 2025-12-11 18:54:07+00:00
Here is the full list of supported AI Assistants and IDEs: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Kiro, Codex CLI, Antigravity, IntelliJ IDEA, and n8n (<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cybercage/n8n-nodes-mcp-tool>).

More: https://docs.cybercage.io/
by yencabulator | 2025-12-11 18:54:46+00:00
Specifically for 7a:

Rumor is the Pixel 7a December update rollout was paused due to a severe wifi bug. You might not want to upgrade manually at this time, even if you find images available for download.

(The rumor is somewhat weak, it's apparently everyone regurgitating one seemingly AI chat.. Google needs to state the reason publicly.)
Ask HN: Good document writing with AI-review
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-12-11 18:54:48+00:00
tl;dr: Are there good services for editing-style AI feedback, which won't require me to copy-paste my work? Especially focusing on logical gaps, unclear sections, things-that-seem-missing, or ways I can be more concise.

longer: I write a lot of Amazon-style docs for my small business. Instead of getting feedback from my teammates and iterating, I'd like to do a first pass with AI feedback. I've been copy-pasting my docs whole into tools to get feedback, but this is clunky. Ideally I'd like something that could give me the feedback immediately or as I'm writing, like an AI editor. Perhaps it would be in-line, or in a side panel. I looked at some tools, but it seems many of the options are trying to write the doc for me. This just isn't what I need, I want the _insight_ that comes from writing a doc like this, not just the doc itself. Are there good services for editing-ish feedback?

I especially want feedback on logical gaps, unclear sections, things-that-seem-missing, or ways that I can be more concise. Grammar and spelling is much less important.
by almosthere | 2025-12-11 18:54:49+00:00
I feel like people believe in either the capitalism or communism. The draw from both are interesting. On the one hand you have the ability to reach any peak you want - by creating something that people want. On the other, the focus is more on the laborer, a promise to make sure everyone has the basic needs.

I'm a free market person, but with guardrails. I think just because guardrails exist does not mean Capitalism is broken or does not work. I also believe that from a political perspective, one party (republicans) are afraid of adding guardrails because it might mean capitalism is weak compared to the alternative.

And on the other hand, the democrats are fully willing to bend the knee to the DSA and let the system collapse.

So what will actually happen? I don't think America will ever be a communistic society, but there may be severe pain in the coming years until everyone in congress is replaced with something else (maybe Forward Party comes back?)
by dietr1ch | 2025-12-11 18:55:10+00:00
> renaming will be much cheaper if you're renaming to descriptive names

Idk, renaming things that shipped is a PITA.

Say you wanted to rename `fish` to `a-decent-shell`. - Packages in all distros would need to be renamed. - Configuration for all systems using/having fish would need to change. - Scripts would need to change, from the shebang to the contents if necessary. - Users would need to understand that they now need to search documentation using the new name. - Documentation would need to be migrated to new domains, sed-replaced, and reviewed.

All this migration would require some synchronized, multi-step process across multiple distros and deployments.

I'd rather have a name that works as an Id.
by FergusArgyll | 2025-12-11 18:55:17+00:00
> This stands in sharp contrast to rivals: OpenAI’s leading researchers have not completed a successful full-scale pre-training run that was broadly deployed for a new frontier model since GPT-4o in May 2024, highlighting the significant technical hurdle that Google’s TPU fleet has managed to overcome.

- https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-s...

It's also plainly obvious from using it. The "Broadly deployed" qualifier is presumably referring to 4.5
by dpedu | 2025-12-11 18:55:21+00:00
I was doing something similar just the other day and came across sqlite-s3vfs[0]. It is likewise a SQLite VFS that translates IO to S3 api calls. However, that project is only for python and seemingly abandoned. Additionally, if you want more than one writer, you'd have to coordinate that yourself, afaik.

[0]: https://pypi.org/project/sqlite-s3vfs/
by MandieD | 2025-12-11 18:55:27+00:00
If I never hear the theme to "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" again, it will be too soon.

We don't let our kid watch TV at home, barely watching it ourselves, and have no streaming subscriptions. My American niece, on the other hand, a mere two years my son's senior, has had a TV in her room since at least age 5 with access to Disney+, and my brother and sister-in-law let her fall asleep to it. She was a good little hostess, putting on something she thought her younger cousin would like, and she was, sadly, correct. However, while she had spent her life with constant AV stimulation, my kid couldn't sleep.

I eventually had to tell her that if she wanted her cousin to sleep in her room, she had to turn off the TV at bedtime. This was very, very hard for her, and she couldn't understand why he couldn't sleep.
by dandiep | 2025-12-11 18:55:27+00:00
I tried this!

Me: Is it possible get early access to the GPT 5 fine tuning? It is much better at non-English languages, which is the majority of what we do, so it would be greatly beneficial to us.

Bot: I'm an AI support agent. I don't have information about early access to GPT-5 fine-tuning or unannounced features. Currently, there is no public information or program for early access to GPT-5 fine-tuning. Please keep an eye on official OpenAI channels for updates. Let me know if you have any questions about current features or products!

Me: Can you ask someone from the team if I can be part of the early access? I know there is no public information, but there is an early access program and I would like to be part of it.

Bot: I'm an AI support agent and do not have the ability to forward requests or make inquiries about early access programs with the OpenAI team. If early access becomes available, it will be announced through official channels. Let me know if you have any other questions about OpenAI products or current fine-tuning options.

Me: How do I get in touch with the open ai team?

Bot: I'm an AI support agent and can only assist with OpenAI products or services through this support channel. There is no separate contact method for the OpenAI team beyond official support and public announcements. If you have questions about current products or features, I'm here to help

Should have tried a jailbreak maybe...
by burningChrome | 2025-12-11 18:55:28+00:00
When GitHub was bought by Microsoft, Gitlab made moving your repos to them super easy. Apparently not enough people have moved and it would seem even with sustained attacks from all kinds of different vectors, it would seem people continue to stick with them.

I use both Gitlab and Github and have yet to experience any downtime on any of my stuff. I do however, work at a large corporation and the latest NPM bug that hit Github caused enough of a stir where it basically shut down development in all of our lower environments for about two weeks so there's that.

But I do agree, and it seems like their market share increased after the Microsoft acquisition which is contrary to what I heard in all my dev circles because of how uncool MSFT is to many of my friends.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-12-11 18:55:37+00:00
Cramer is the stock picker guy. There is a well known "Cramer Effect" or "Cramer Bounce" where the stock peaks then drops hard.

Makes for great pump n dump if you're day trading and willing to ride

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cramerbounce.asp

long-term his choices don't do well, so the Inverse Cramer basically says "do the opposite of this goober" and has solid returns (sorta; depends a lot on methodology, and the sole hedgefund playing that strategy shutdown)
by nicole_express | 2025-12-11 18:55:40+00:00
> Written out? Or just not written in? There's a big difference. Almost everyone isn't written into history. But nobody cares about the white men who aren't written in because the people who are were also white men.

I mean, not too long ago there was a very popular movement online about celebrating white man Nikola Tesla, who was seen as not being given his fair place in history for his discoveries. People love a perceived underdog.
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-11 18:55:49+00:00
Right, but the distinction is that if I go buy a few thousand shares of DIS today, I'm not handing money to the Disney company, rather I'm handing it to the previous owners of those shares. The total pool of them is fixed, so it's all basically zero sum. At most my purchase might signal (in a microscopic way) to the market that there's demand, and push up the price, which benefits Disney.

It's very different when a privately held company creates new shares to sell, because then the money used to purchase those shares really does go right back to the company.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-11 18:55:50+00:00
There's a fun approach where do the computation as a tree in parallel. You do a little masking and shifting to add all the even-numbered bits to all the odd-numbered bits, and come up with a set of (assuming we're working on a 64-bit value) 32 partial sums of 2 bits each. Then you add pairs of those to get 16 partial sums of 4 bits each, and so forth until you get to the top. This requires six sums, plus shifts and masks for each one.

I don't know if compilers are able to detect this and compile it down to a single instruction, though.
by dweekly | 2025-12-11 18:55:57+00:00
The absolute zenith of mobile keyboards was the Blackberry, which included F & J nubs. I could type without looking at my phone at full speed and not get a character wrong.

The fact that Apple will as often as not autocorrect grammar from actually-correct to wrong -- and systematically screw up spelling -- in not just transcribed Siri but also in typing is just inexcusable at this point. It will even Randomly capitalize Certain words!
by no_wizard | 2025-12-11 18:56:04+00:00
Thinking about this upfront for me, I am actually wondering why this is useful outside of equality comparisons.

Granted, I live and work in TypeScript, where I can't `===` two objects but I could see this deterministic behavior making it easier for a language to compare two objects, especially if equality comparison is dependent on a generated hash.

The other is guaranteed iteration order, if you are reliant on the index-contents relationship of an iterable, but we're talking about Dicts which are keyed, but extending this idea to List, I see this usefulness in some scenarios.

Beyond that, I'm not sure it matters, but I also realize I could simply not have enough imagination at the moment to think of other benefits
by llbbdd | 2025-12-11 18:56:09+00:00
Thank you, a bit sad to hear that local inference isn't really at this level of performance yet. I was previously using the VSCode agent chat and playing with both OpenAI and Github hosted models but I switched to using the Github web UI directly a lot since my workflow became a lot more issue/PR-focused. Sounds like I should probably tighten up the more generic IDE-centric workflow and make it a keyboard shortcut to switch around when a given provider is down. I haven't actually used Claude directly yet but I think Github agents often use it under the hood anyway.
by leptons | 2025-12-11 18:56:26+00:00
I would at some point throw my phone out the window if it worked like this. Instead I choose to have zero help correcting anything I type on my phone. I proofread, and fix any errors before I hit "send". I'm also on a folding android phone with a large screen and a 3rd-party keyboard app with adjustable size keys, so it's very easy to type.
by CerryuDu | 2025-12-11 18:56:48+00:00
I am salty, but not because I'm impacted by this. :)

The reason I'm salty is that most linux desktop envs are unusable in their own right. I very much feel the pain of being forced to use some centrally-dictated craptastic linux GUI. I've been on Linux for 2+ decades and I hate nearly all the desktop envs. I totally feel for those blokes whose Windows UI is now being ripped from their hands. Where they'll land doesn't only suck for them (having a Windows background), it might very well suck for anyone, even those with a long Linux background.
by FergusArgyll | 2025-12-11 18:57:17+00:00
> Additionally, on our internal benchmark of junior investment banking analyst spreadsheet modeling tasks—such as putting together a three-statement model for a Fortune 500 company with proper formatting and citations, or building a leveraged buyout model for a take-private—GPT 5.2 Thinking's average score per task is 9.3% higher than GPT‑5.1’s, rising from 59.1% to 68.4%.

Confirming prior reporting about them hiring junior analysts
by zhyder | 2025-12-11 18:57:25+00:00
Big knowledge cutoff jump from Sep 2024 to Aug 2025. How'd they pull that off for a small point release, which presumably hasn't done a fresh pre-training over the web?

Did they figure out how to do more incremental knowledge updates somehow? If yes that'd be a huge change to these releases going forward. I'd appreciate the freshness that comes with that (without having to rely on web search as a RAG tool, which isn't as deeply intelligent, as is game-able by SEO).

With Gemini 3, my only disappointment was 0 change in knowledge cutoff relative to 2.5's (Jan 2025).