MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taylorallred | 2025-12-01 19:37:39+00:00
I see people waxing poetic over Ruby a lot saying that it's a language "built for the human". The thing is, every language is built for humans (or at least should be) but we tend to have different definitions for what "built for humans" means. Ruby certainly has some clean and expressive syntax, but I personally find it difficult to use because of its dynamic typing (which makes it hard to know what the types are while I'm writing it) and the heavy use of macros and other magic (which does unknown operations without my knowledge and introduces symbols into the scope mysteriously). That said, it clearly works great for some humans, just not for this human (me).
by harmmonica | 2025-12-01 19:37:40+00:00
I hate to repeat this old adage, but in case it helps to see it here: if you've been wanting to buy something, and you see yourself staying in the area and the place itself for many years, and you have some savings buffer if things go south, then buy. Don't do it because you want to magically have paper equity gains in the next 12 months. Do it because you like the place you're looking at, the neighborhood it's in, and because you have enough funds in place to get through a downturn if a layoff happened.

Of course I say all of that and it's good to know what could happen if a terrible downturn does happen like in 2008 (even the nicest Bay Area hoods prices dropped 25%+).

Last thing, single family houses, especially in the Bay Area, are typically more insulated from price drops (insulated not immune). If you can afford a small single family then it might be worth it, especially if there's expansion potential (either for yourself or the next buyer if you decide to move on). And even better if there are some cosmetic problems that are tractable because let's say you do get laid off there's nothing like building some sweat equity in the downtime.

Just my two cents having gone through similar in the past.
by blackjack_ | 2025-12-01 19:37:54+00:00
Things are visibly cooling up here in Marin, houses are actually sitting on the market (even just at the end of last year houses were generally scheduling offer dates and picking the best one). Some of this is just seasonal cooling, so I'm wary to draw any larger conclusions... but I'm seeing a lot lot more `for sale` signs than I'm used to.
by timonoko | 2025-12-01 19:38:15+00:00
My program was definitively shorter. I think I did not bother with real hexadecimals. Just used last four bytes of characters to make a full byte. Used it as a bootstrap program.

@grok: While your exact code is lost to time, it would have looked something like one of the ultra-small ASCII "dropper" programs that were once passed around. Here is a plausible 32-byte example of what the program you typed might have looked like.

You would have run copy con nibbler.com, typed the following line, and hit Ctrl+Z: `j%1!PZYfX0f1Xf1f1AYf1E_j%1!PZ` This looks like nonsense, but to the 8088/8086 processor, it's a dense set of instructions that does the following:

etc etc.
by xg15 | 2025-12-01 19:38:24+00:00
They only paid the salary of its chief editor (Ian Hickson) for a significant amount of time...

But that's not very relevant actually. The WHATWG is more like a private arbitrator, not like a court or parliament.

Their mission is to document browser features and coordinate them in such a way that implementation between browsers doesn't diverge too much. It's NOT their mission to decide which features will or will not be implemented or even to design new features. That's left to the browser vendors.

And the most powerful browser vendor is Google.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-01 19:38:30+00:00
Populist rent control is an excellent motivator to get counter-parties to the table to discuss productive alternatives in a market where no outside pressure currently exists.

There is no silver bullet solution. Rent control can be a big part of that solution, but what’s ultimately needed are a combination of policies that disincentivize the hoarding of housing as an asset class, promote home ownership itself for stability and community rather than fiscal nest egg, mandate denser housing in areas served by mass transit, tax land properly by removing caps on yearly increases, protect renters from unnecessary evictions (lack of renewals, no-fault evictions, etc), removing zoning laws on residential and commercial space (essentially reducing zoning laws to industrial vs non-industrial) to speed up approvals for construction, and get the government more active in meeting the needs of its populace through public housing programs (like Singapore does).

It’s highly complex and nuanced. I’ve long since stopped entertaining smug clapbacks from armchair economists who aren’t involved in the boots-on-the-ground issues at hand, and you shouldn’t parrot them around for them.
by mywittyname | 2025-12-01 19:38:41+00:00
> I bet poor investment planning

Or good investment planning. I only recently built up savings after spending my entire career maxing out 401ks. If I was laid off, I'd only have like 6 months or so of savings before I run out despite having a coastFIRE/leanFIRE NW.

Yes, there are hardship withdraws from 401ks, but the older you get, the more retirement account means retirement account. Meaning, it becomes more clear that the money in that account needs to be left alone until things get dire. You're not going to be more employable in 20 years.
by tovej | 2025-12-01 19:38:56+00:00
What do you mean? Programming languages all have different strengths and weaknesses that are completely orthogonal to LLMs.

Even if you vibe code an entire system, a human will eventually have to read and modify the vibe code. Most likely in order to refactor the whole thing, but even if by some miracle the overall quality is alright, somebody will have to review the code and fix bugs. The programming language and it's ecosystem will always be a factor in that case.
by jaswise | 2025-12-01 19:39:14+00:00
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by dnautics | 2025-12-01 19:39:18+00:00
I have years old projects that have languished that I have resurrected due to AI-assisted coding.

- "embedded" (rpi) controller for a boxfan that runs in my lab

- VSR distributed consistency protocol library

- dead simple CQRS library

- OT library

I now have the CQRS library deployed to do accounting for a small SAAS that might generate revenue for me...

On the docket is:

- yard watering "embedded" (rpi) device

- fully personalized home thermostat

etc.
by spagoop | 2025-12-01 19:39:22+00:00
Fair point, to be constructive here, LLMs seem to love lists and emphasizing random words / phrases with bold. Those two are everywhere. Not a smoking gun but enough to tune out.

I am not dismissing this as being slop and actually have no beef with using LLMs to write but yes, as you call out, I think it's just poorly written or perhaps I'm not the specific audience for this.

Sorry if this is bad energy, I appreciate the write up regardless.
by overfeed | 2025-12-01 19:39:24+00:00
> What surprises me the most is the 1GB option is even viable...

There are plenty of non-IoT use cases that are viable with 1GB of general-purpose compute. Hell, I rented an obscenely cheap 512MB VPS until recently, and only abandoned it because its ancient kernel version was a security risk.

Most of my RPi tasks are not memory-bound
by throw4039 | 2025-12-01 19:40:04+00:00
Yeah, the pricing for the rtx pro 6000 is surprisingly competitive with the gamer cards (at actual prices, not MSRP). A 3x5090 rig will require significant tuning/downclocking to be run from a single North American 15A plug, and the cost of the higher powered supporting equipment (cooling, PSU, UPS, etc) needed will pay for the price difference, not to mention future expansion possibilities.
by apsurd | 2025-12-01 19:40:10+00:00
No, because pairing with AI is not the same as how we've come to define coding/programming.

It's something different. To say that it'll be _better_ relative to some stated measurement is fine.

Let's use a driving analogy. You can say cars get you from point A to point B so self-driving and teleportation are better evolutions. But you wouldn't say if someone wanted drive a car, enjoyed driving a car, wanted to get better at driving a car, they should get in a Waymo. Or teleport.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-01 19:40:11+00:00
> In my area, 20 percent of homes are owned by investors and realtors delist homes that don’t sell as opposed to drop price.

This has been so weird to see over the last couple dips.

In the ‘08 crash, banks were sitting on houses that were developing mold issues because they had been sitting vacant so long. These houses were getting more damaged and less desirable by the day, and before long would require hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix (up from the low-tens already evident) but they still preferred to sit on them. They weren’t listed, or were listed but at too-high prices and they were just ignoring offers, not even responding.

Then you look at “depressed” housing prices that are still way over historic norms, so you’d think builders would keep going… but no, they totally halt all work, no new houses until prices are heading up again.

Something’s super messed-up about the housing market in ways that it wasn’t in the last millennium. Recessions don’t even fix it, they just make everything pause.
by hollerith | 2025-12-01 19:40:30+00:00
Individual Youtube creators in the US most certainly are concerned about the FTC and about this rule specifically because they do not want to find themselves in court explaining to a judge why they shouldn't pay a big fine.

Also, if the creator doesn't follow the rule, the sponsor can be fined by the FTC, so even before the FTC notices the violation, the sponsor will probably notice and refuse to continue the relationship unless the creator's videos comes into compliance with the rule.

Again, this rule has been in effect for decades in the US. Advertisements in the US must be labeled as such. Ditto paid endorsements.
by erichocean | 2025-12-01 19:41:13+00:00
Thanks, I had Claude walk me through the code if anyone is curious:

https://claude.ai/share/12357895-d585-4475-93fb-cdb5eba5dd76

tl;dr It's not an implicit animation framework like Core Animation or CSS animations. Instead, each frame you get the current value which is then used, and the actual tween curve only changes when you call a tween function with a new target; otherwise, you get the current (tweened) value since the last time the target changed (which might be the final value).
by nosianu | 2025-12-01 19:41:26+00:00
"Cops in this country think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer" (because of GrapheneOS)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473694

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608

> European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they're something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose on everyone.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-01 19:41:54+00:00
I'm looking at trends, not a single point of time. An EV sold is an EV sold, but Tesla's sales trajectory is clear in Europe and Scandinavia. Congrats on the ~6k vehicles in a month in Norway, but competition velocity is clear.

https://robbieandrew.github.io/EV/

From my citation:

> In that month alone [October 2025], ~75k vehicles from Chinese brands were sold across the European Union, the UK, and EFTA nations, which include Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.

Do you believe Tesla sales in this market will go up? If so, based on what? Or was this a one time event due to policy changes?

> Norway's overall car sales rose by 70% year-on-year in November as buyers rushed to dealerships ahead of a planned hike in EV taxes from January, with Tesla seeing an almost threefold increase compared to the same month of 2024. "There is a bit of a car bonanza in Norway at the moment," OFV's CEO Geir Inge Stokke told Reuters.
by bartlomein | 2025-12-01 19:41:58+00:00
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by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-01 19:41:59+00:00
Good questions. I could argue that the game rules can reasonably include clauses such as, "We can adjust weapon/defense parameters at any time." But the addition of a blocklist feature is a bit harder to hand-wave away because it could be said to be economically damaging to spammers. I would say yes, if the ability to message everybody is advertised as a feature, the company would need to refund the spammers (and kick them off.) Hopefully the company will learn to provide clearer terms of service next time.

In general I think the best answer to your objections is to require companies to specify up front exactly what features are being sold, and for how long they are guaranteed to be available. The onus would then be on the consumer to evaluate the list of guaranteed features against their wants and needs. Consumers would hopefully learn, over time, not to buy products that don't provide these guarantees up front.

Right now what they (we) are learning is not to trust anything with an Internet connection, because of abuses from a small number of prominent bad actors. Which is unfortunate.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-12-01 19:42:06+00:00
I can feel an object and say 'its hot' on a scale of 1-10. The temperature is known. And I can do that multiple times, with some 1-10 scale, to get a sample. Then do that with multiple people.

You can then get a distribution of what people think is 'hot' versus 'cold'. What is icy, versus, bearable.

When you go to a doctors office and they ask you on a scale to rate pain, do you think that is completely bogus?

It isn't exact, but you can correlate between people. Yes, red heads feel more pain, there are outliers.

But a far cry from metaphysical.

The problem here is the word 'qualia'. Its just too fuzzy a term.
by BizarroLand | 2025-12-01 19:42:28+00:00
If they're eating a reasonable breakfast and dinner, having instant ramen for lunch isn't anything close to a death sentence, it's simply not ideal.

But, odds are, the person who eats instant ramen 5 lunches a week isn't going home to a balanced dinner and likely eats fast food or frozen dinners most nights, which is why I suggested adding a few inexpensive extras.

A cup of pre-shredded bagged cabbage would add ~$0.50 to a ramen meal. If they do 30 minutes of meal prep on a sunday they could pre-portion a full portable soup container with all of the extras for the week and be ready to go for maybe an extra dollar a day.
by abroszka33 | 2025-12-01 19:42:31+00:00
> Trust me, try it, try Claude 3.7 > 4.0 > 4.5 > Opus 4.5 ...

I started with Sonnet 4 and now using Opus 4.5. I don't see a meaningful difference. I think I'm a bit more confident to one prompt some issues but that's it. I think the main issue is that I always knew what/how to prompt (same skill as googling) so I can adjust once I learn what a modell can do. Sonnet is kinda the same for me as Opus.

> LLMs really work the best, if you plan, plan, plan, and then have them create the code for you. The moment you try to get the LLMs work inside existing code, that is especially structured how YOU like it, people tend to be more standoffish.

My project is AI code only. Around 30k lines, I never wrote a single line. I know I cannot just let it vibe code because I lost a month getting rid of AI spaghetti that it created in the beginning. It just got stuck rewriting and making new bugs as soon as it fixed one. Since then I'm doing a lot more handholding and a crazy amount of unit/e2e testing. Which btw. is a huge limiting factor. Now I want powerful dev machine again because if unit + e2e testing takes more than a couple seconds it slows down LLMs.

> Pricing is how you look at it... If i do the work what takes me a months in a few days, what is the price then?

I spent around 200 USD on subscriptions so far. I wanted to try out Opus 4.5 so I splurged on a Claude Max subscription this month. It's definitely a very expensive hobby.

> And its ironically often the seasoned guys that complain the most about AI

I think because we understand what it can do.
by halyconWays | 2025-12-01 19:42:37+00:00
As someone with a basement rig of 6x 3090s, not really. It's quite slow, as with that many params (685B) it's offloading basically all of it into system RAM. I limit myself to models with <144B params, then it's quite an enjoyable experience. GLM 4.5 Air has been great in particular
by svilen_dobrev | 2025-12-01 19:42:40+00:00
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by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-12-01 19:43:00+00:00
My primary objection to generative AI art as it stands today is that it superficially looks fine but contains frequent errors on close examination. It is simply of low quality, the "pink slime" of the art world, and I don't want my time wasted by people trying to pass off low quality artwork as some sort of worthy creative output.

Eliminate that problem and then maybe the other objections start coming into play.
by sheepscreek | 2025-12-01 19:43:05+00:00
Gemini is weird and I’m not suggesting it’s due to ingenuity on Google’s behalf. This might be the result of genuine limitations of the current architecture (or by design? Read on).

Here’s what I’ve noticed with Gemini 3. Often it repeats itself with 80% of the same text with the last couple of lines being different. And I mean it repeat these paragraphs 5-6 times. Truly bizarre.

From all that almost GPT-2 quality text, it’s able to derive genuinely useful insights and coherent explanations in the final text. Some kind of multi-head parallel processing + voting mechanism? Evolution of MoE? I don’t know. But in a way this fits the mental model of massive processing at Google where a single super cluster can drive 9,000+ connected TPUs. Anyone who knows more, care to share? Genuinely interested.
by brabel | 2025-12-01 19:43:31+00:00
Mandatory comment about ASN.1, a protocol from 1984, already did what Protobuf does, with more flexibility. Yes, it's a bit ugly but if you stick to the DER encoding it's really not worse than Protbuf at all. Check out the Wikipedia example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASN.1#Example_encoded_in_DER

Protobuf is ok but if you actually look at how the serializers work, it's just too complex for what it achieves.
by antisthenes | 2025-12-01 19:43:40+00:00
You don't need a study to tell you that if you make things more difficult and worse for landlords, the housing supply will decrease.

Courts actually need to do their jobs here for an optimal solution - e.g. it should be easy to punish shitty landlords AND easy to kick out shitty tenants.

It shouldn't take a 1+ year wait (as during COVID) to get a landlord-tenant court date to resolve issues.

The housing issue is multi-faceted however, so that's only 1 piece of the puzzle. But thanks to NIMBYs and building code overreach, it's literally impossible to build affordable housing that would rent at its own depreciation schedule.
by Towaway69 | 2025-12-01 19:43:46+00:00
That's a very good point. My experience is that for large project the architecture also becomes important.

Large project have much code but if you can split out responsibility because your architecture allows this, then you keep your code concise.

One feature Ruby has that helps here is creating Domain Specific Language without yacc or lex. This allows for concise code where its needed.
Show HN: Garmin Watch Face
by nergal | 2025-12-01 19:44:38+00:00
Decided to create my own Garmin Forerunner 255 music watch face that fits my needs. Just want to share it, maybe others want to create their own and have something to base it on.

It was quite fun project to both learn a bit of "MonkeyC" and to develop for the watch. Always more fun to develop stuff that will be for daily use :)