MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dogleash | 2025-12-08 20:56:00+00:00
>The question is why we failed to recognize the warnings when they were delivered.

Numerator = 4

Denominator = Number of successful pieces of fiction exploring ideas about the future from circa 2000.

I should stop reading here and save myself the inevitable wankery that's coming.

edit: I kept reading. I'm not against discussing that fiction. It's the hook that bothers me. It activates my spidey sense for internet content that doesn't go anywhere. I regret being so curt; unfortunately I don't think I was wrong.
by aetherson | 2025-12-08 20:56:16+00:00
I mean.

The artifact you link shows a map of the Americas in which California is an island and either Tierra Del Fuego is huge or the bottom of Argentina is an island and the northwest of the continent trails off into nothing, and Florida is sort of a stubby nub (other maps from this period show a more accurate Florida, so this might be a small-size-of-the-object problem).

They had a decent view onto the east coast of the Americas, but after that things got quite inaccurate. It's like... I don't know what anyone's expectations are, but it certainly isn't the perfect world map that's shown in the main image of Wikipedia's article.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-08 20:56:19+00:00
No. Which is why "the only exception is macOS" is also false. At some point Apple drops support for that model and then that hardware not only gets no more driver updates, because the whole system is tied to the rest of it, it gets no more updates at all.

So the only exception is systems with open source drivers. Those are basically supported as long as the hardware architecture is and enthusiasts even have the option of adding support themselves. You can install the latest version of many Linux distributions on the first generation of x86-64 hardware from 2003 and some on 32-bit PC hardware going back to the 1980s.

It should literally be a crime that you can't do the same thing on a five year old phone.
by brabel | 2025-12-08 20:57:03+00:00
I searched for images on Google, I think this one matches the size of the onions I saw on the supermarkets near British Columbia University: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/giant-red-onion-baby-head-s...

Serioulsy.

But as I searched , apparently they can get much bigger still! Search for "biggest onions" and you'll see.
by plasticeagle | 2025-12-08 20:57:57+00:00
The first thing I do on Hacker News when there's an AI post is run to the comments for a good time. The later I go back and read the actual article, and in this case hoo boy what a doozy. An AI-written summary of a seemingly not vibe-coded python library written by a human being who apparently genuinely believes that you can fix LLM hallucinations with enough Regular Expressions.

It would be magnificent if this is satire. Wonderful.
by fluidcruft | 2025-12-08 20:58:33+00:00
I actually did read your post and it read to me as if it put in the background to get around some sort of issue with how you took the screenshot, but had still placed the images and text on top. What you wrote was:

So it kind of cheated, though it clearly felt angst about it. After trying a few ways to get the stars to line up perfectly, it just gave up and copied the screenshot in as the background image, then overlaid the rest of the HTML elements on top.

Which is only "kind of" cheating if only the background was wrong. Everything being invisible and in the wrong spot doesn't seem like merely "kind of" cheating. You didn't come anywhere close to addressing the problem that the original post was about.
by yggdrasil_ai | 2025-12-08 20:59:42+00:00
Yggdrasil is honestly a product of frustration. After waiting almost a year for something more advanced than linear chat interfaces, I decided to build it myself.

My primary belief is that LLM's are better at augmenting humans than replacing them. They are incredible tools for learning and planning given the right interface.

Yggdrasil started as just a chat interface, with the main focus on enhanced branching, to emulate the natural process of human problem solving. But as I developed it more, I ended up adding my own custom agent harness called Valkyrie.

Turns out, chat + agent interface is much more productive than either alone.

Yggdrasil is still in very active development, and I am the only person working on it so I would love for everyone to give it a go and try it out!

Currently we are offering limited free usage to everyone can experience what Yggdrasil offers, its hard to convey without using it.

Yggdrasil is available as a desktop app (linux, windows [wsl supported] and mac) and on the web.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-12-08 21:00:50+00:00
Some examples are available in the repos of Serpens/Myte[0][1] (Nova in-Python interpreter/to-JS compiler).

[0]: https://forge.nouveau.community/nouveau/serpens/src/branch/m...

[1]: https://forge.nouveau.community/yumaikas/myte/src/branch/mai...
by randcraw | 2025-12-08 21:00:52+00:00
It's understandable that unusual patients are seen as confounding variables in any study, especially those with small numbers of patients. Though I haven't read beyond the abstract, it also makes sense that larger studies (phase 3 or 4) should not exclude such patients, but perhaps could report results in more than one way -- including only those with the primary malady as well as those with common confounding conditions.

Introducing too many secondary conditions in any trial is an invitation for the drug to fail safety and/or efficacy due to increased demands on both. And as we all know, a huge fraction of drugs fail in phase 3 already. Raising the bar further, without great care, will serve neither patients nor business.
by makestuff | 2025-12-08 21:00:55+00:00
The rise in the preventative screening centers (such as prenuvo) that offer whole body MRIs will be interesting.

The research seems split on if it is worth it or just causes unneeded worry. Obviously if you catch something early then that is great, but there are a lot of people who have a ton of followup testing only to find out there is no issue.

There are also limitations with the level of detail a full body MRI can capture.

I could see it becoming similar to a colonoscopy where you get it like when you turn 30 or something and then every 5-10 years after that.
by manmal | 2025-12-08 21:01:11+00:00
It’s magical incantations that might or might not protect you from bad behavior Claude learned from underqualified RL instructors. A classic instruction I have in CLAUDE.md is „Never delete a test. You are only allowed to replace with a test that covers the same branches.“ and another one „Never mention Claude in a commit message“. Of course those sometimes fail, so I do have a message hook that enforces a certain style of git messages.
by gorkish | 2025-12-08 21:01:17+00:00
Yeah I really don't understand why they went this direction as it builds considerable additional complexity directly into the application to solve a problem with an external component

I would have probably approached this by implementing a fix for the misbehaving part of k8s, though since there isnt a default LoadBalancer in k8s, I can't really can't speculate further as to the root cause of the initial problem. But most CNI or cloud providers that implement LB do have a way to take feedback from an external metric. I'd be curious why doing it this way wasn't considered, at least.
by gtowey | 2025-12-08 21:01:32+00:00
> Just stop it.

Has this approach of ordering people to feel or think a certain way ever actually worked for you? Do you think this is a good way to have a respectful discussion with someone?

> some tell me they make US$3-4k/month

So let's run with that number, say 3.5k/month average. That's $42,000/year: They're independent contractors, so they have independent employment tax which is about 2x of standard w-2 taxes. A quick online calculator tells me that would amount to 8,370.90 in my state. The lions share is federal medicare and social security tax though; state tax on this is practically nothing here.

* They must have a car. Quick search says a 2024 prius is around $25k. Monthly payments at 9.6% (prime rate for a used car, all new immigrants start out with perfect credit, right?) at 60 months is around $550. Let's say insurance is $100. Ignore fuel and maintenance for now.

* So now we have 2800/month after taxes and 650/month just to work. The remaining 2150 needs to cover everything else. Food, housing, utilities.

* This doesn't even consider health insurance. Let's hope they qualify for a subsidized plan, because they sure can't cover it on this income. I guess they have the "don't get sick" plan that's so popular these days.

Oh and all this for working 6 days a week. Which if that's the case they're not clocking 8 hours days. Even conservatively you should assume that's 10 hours a day.

And on top of all that you said they're supporting a family?! So 3 or 4 people on 2150/month?

All that so they can work 60 hour weeks, barely see their wife and kids, and be one accident or medical emergency away from total financial ruin.

But you're right, they're rich in spirit and after all, isn't that what really matters? They really do have it so much better than you.
by lossolo | 2025-12-08 21:02:08+00:00
> It is happening though internally in businesses I've worked with

How many samples do you have?

Which industries are they from?

Which SaaS products were they using, exactly and which features?

> ...a company I know recently got told their v1 API they relied on on some back office SaaS tool was being deprecated. V2 of the API didn't have the same features ... dev spends a week or two rebuilding that tool

Was that SaaS the equivalent of the left-pad Node.js module?
by baranul | 2025-12-08 21:02:13+00:00
Have to disagree. It depends on what you are doing. That the alternatives can be replacements, including the open source ones, is relative and should be looked at as a percentage.

If you listed out all the things that Excel can do, we might find that the alternative is at 80% or so (just a number), with some additional things that Excel can't do. That 80% could be good enough to switch. It should not be looked at as "all or nothing", especially for every person or business.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-08 21:02:57+00:00
Since we're already being picky about languages, that's not a factoid: Factoids are things which resemble facts, but aren't actually facts.

The whole -oid suffix, really. Asteroids aren't really stars, meteoroids aren't really meteors, androids aren't really men, spheroids aren't really spheres, factoids aren't really facts, etc.
by contingencies | 2025-12-08 21:04:09+00:00
Exactly the same sentences grated here. It is the subjective passed off as the objective, passed on with a tone of false authority. A surprisingly large majority of public communications fall in to this category. Mastering this puffery, usually for the express purpose of swaying the wills of lesser minds or pressing buttons in funding and grant processes, grants you the reigns of bureaucracy and a career in corporate, public or international relations. A horrible way to waste a life.
by still_grokking | 2025-12-08 21:04:46+00:00
> My main recollection of it is getting Java compiler errors because Scala constructs were being implemented with deeply nested inner classes and the generated symbol names were too long.

Sounds like you've used some beta version over 15 years ago.

Nothing like described happens in current Scala and it's like that as long as I can think back. Never even heard of such bugs like stated.

Coming up with such possibly made up stuff over 15 years later sounds like typical FUD, to be honest.
by SRKD | 2025-12-08 21:05:43+00:00
I’ve been building a tool that generates full brand systems using AI (colors, typography, voice, mockups, guidelines, etc.). The project is called Brandiseer, but this post isn’t meant as a pitch—just sharing observations from building in this space and hoping to hear from others doing something similar.

A few things that surprised me:

AI output consistency is the real challenge. Getting a model to generate one good asset is easy. Getting it to generate cohesive assets across dozens of categories is where most of my time disappears. Prompt tuning feels like 80% archaeology, 20% dark arts.

Users care far less about model architecture and far more about “does this feel right?” I spent weeks improving the underlying engine; users noticed the UI loading indicator more than the improvements to the pipeline.

Scope creep is inevitable when user feedback is strong. I started with “generate a logo.” Now it’s “why not generate a brand book, templates, tone-of-voice variations, social kits, etc.?” I’m still figuring out how to avoid building myself into a corner.

Pricing AI-heavy products is weird. Some users expect it to be nearly free because “AI is automated.” Others compare it to human equivalents and say I’m undercharging. No good heuristic yet.

The solo-founder emotional rollercoaster is… real. Some days you feel like you’re building magic. Some days you wonder why you didn’t just clone a boring CRM instead.

I’m curious how others here have handled similar challenges—especially around:

Maintaining consistency across generative outputs

Pricing products that replace traditional creative work

Managing scope without stunting innovation

Staying sane while building something technically unpredictable

Would love to hear HN’s take.
by danvayn | 2025-12-08 21:05:45+00:00
I feel like it's almost more of a Popular stock thing. Consider if pagerduty eked out an empty deal with any one of the "Pop stocks" that had little impact on their real profitability. Would stock trade differently or better? It feels like it really would in the modern market. Like even if the numbers weren't a big change, the buzz would be.
by camdenreslink | 2025-12-08 21:06:45+00:00
My hypothesis is people will get burned out on this unguided learning via LLMs and still want some sort of curated/guided learning experience through material to understand some subject.

There is the problem of "I don't know what I don't know" that a course can solve for you. An LLM can sort of do that, but you have to take its word for it, and it does it pretty much strictly worse at the moment (but is much more flexible).
by bobvanluijt | 2025-12-08 21:06:57+00:00
"Kamer 306 is a 2006 documentary about the birth of electronic music inside the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (NatLab) in Eindhoven. Set in the legendary Room 306 of the lab’s Acoustics Department, the film traces how Philips technicians, engineers, and composers opened up a completely new sonic world in the late 1950s."
by echelon | 2025-12-08 21:07:11+00:00
Nvidia is buying customers that will likely have increasing need for Nvidia. Those investment dollars will be spent on Nvidia. Future dollars will be spent on Nvidia.

Second order effects are that everyone serviced by AI today will need even more AI tomorrow. Nvidia is there for that. They're increasing AI proliferation.

By increasing the number of engineers, dollars, watts spent on GPU, Nvidia grows its market.

The added benefit here is that Nvidia gets to share in the upside if any of these companies succeed in their goals.

It's as if Microsoft had Azure back before the doctom boom and took investments in Google, Amazon, and Facebook in exchange for hosting them. (And maybe a few misfires, like WebVan.)

This is really smart chess play.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-08 21:07:15+00:00
It is quite an insulting reply especially when my previous comment was factual:

The demographic trend is factual based on data.

The high level of non-European immigration is a fact based on data and so is the refusal of Western European governments to stop it.

What is unreasoned or ideological there?

I am unsure what reality you live in. You can look at the stats in the UK to observe (not interpret) that successive governments have not reduced immigration even when they claimed that that was what their aim was. This holds in all other Western European countries.

Unclear, too, about what is racist in any of that.

This is bizarre, frankly. QED.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-12-08 21:07:28+00:00
I do this but with copilot. Write a comment and then spam opt-tab and 50% of the time it ends up doing what I want and I can read it line-by-line before tabbing the next one.

Genuine productivity boost but I don't feel like it's AI slop, sometimes it feels like its actually reading my mind and just preventing me from having to type...
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-12-08 21:08:47+00:00
OT: Urdu, like Arabic/Persian, is written with an alphabet where letters can change shape based on whether they are at the start, middle or end of a "word" [1]. I say "word" because some letters don't have a middle form, so each actual word is broken into a sequence of composite-letter-shapes, where each composite shape start with such a no-middle-form letter.

A problem arises when one wants to write a compound word, which the last letter for the first word and the first letter of the second word must not be joined. To achieve this, the unicode standard has U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER character, which should be used in such compound words [2]. The standard SPACE character should not be used because it will create a physical space, while U+200C will create a break with no space.

However, typically Urdu keyboards don't have this character in them, so everyone ends up either using SPACE or just joining the words.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_alphabet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-08 21:08:53+00:00
It's astounding how useful and intuitive they are, but my biggest gripe is how easy is for anyone to mess calculations, say, SUM(<RANGE>), by simply adding one row/column/cell.

I use Google Worksheets frequently to track new things that fit into lists/tables, and giving someone else editor access without them knowing a few worksheet nuances means I have to recheck and correct them every month or two.
by gopalv | 2025-12-08 21:08:55+00:00
> Well, if you don't fsync, you'll go fast, but you'll go even faster piping customer data to /dev/null, too.

The trouble is that you need to specifically optimize for fsyncs, because usually it is either no brakes or hand-brake.

The middle-ground of multi-transaction group-commit fsync seems to not exist anymore because of SSDs and massive IOPS you can pull off in general, but now it is about syscall context switches.

Two minutes is a bit too too much (also fdatasync vs fsync).
by indigodaddy | 2025-12-08 21:09:04+00:00
I think you've summed it up correctly. It's not proof and some scientists claiming some things isn't the same as studies/evidence. However, is there evidence that it's not true? The fact is we do have these smaller movements and earthquakes quite regularly, so we don't really know what would happen after a long absence of them (do we? I suppose there are simulations perhaps that could be run? But I don't know that that's proof either way). To me though it makes a lot of sense that it would/could spur a huge event.
by nfw2 | 2025-12-08 21:09:05+00:00
"Some cancer specialists counter these concerns, saying the surge in diagnoses is primarily a surge in detecting cancers that did not need to be found..."

This seems excessively paternalistic. If medical professionals hold a legal monopoly on providing diagnostic care, then decide it's better to just not diagnose things, it leaves patients with no way to discover life-altering information about their own health.
by 56J8XhH7voFRwPR | 2025-12-08 21:09:09+00:00
I feel this is the perfect mix. Aside from a short stint at a company that didnt believe in allowing employees to work remotely in 2020 (don't ask), I have been fully remote since 2019. I love being remote, love being able to take my son to school and pick him up, etc. I do, however, cherish the two times a year I travel into the corporate office and work in person with my teammates. I wish I had the option to go into the office, not required, just a choice.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-08 21:09:22+00:00
This, I had actually thought about the ads idea but then realized that local models can filter it out.

But then again, the ads models have worked out fairly well for google and meta when ublock origin on firefox and for a loong time on chrome too was literally just go to appstore, search ublock origin, click download

That was it

I am sure that we are gonna see similar innovations happen for these ads too but then again, I think that the key point here is that the ad models works right now when we have ublock origin, so even if we have your tool, maybe most people (would still be ignorant about it?)

I think this is what is basing the whole AI industry in but this cannot be the way they can fund trillions of $'s spent.

I think what would happen more likely is that they will use AI to create a detailed profile of you and see the code generated, where its deployed, see what username it was and what email, link all your emails to every platform and every connection. Not going to lie, but its a scary thought.

I think something scarier can happen if it can actively shadow-ban you like its doing but now from the whole web in a more "personalized way" Imagine if google chrome launches out a feature that blocks websites which can be harmful to you creating an AI generated block-list I guess giving reasons why...

I think AI context windows are going to be an issue here and compute required to do this at scale so I don't really know and I am just rambling right now.

Personally I don't really know, If Google has ads, I just use gemini web for some vibe coding, I might take more questions to chinese models or even pay for them via something like open router where they might not have ads if this still happens via anonymity or just run the models locally yeah.

I wonder if we can create a community of people who have gpu who can have web of trust-like properties and they can share AI access to people who they trust and so on and maybe some gift properties but just niche closed properties where the trust factor is (more?)

Maybe offtopic but if we ever implement something like this, I really like https://ch.at 's interface and how minimalist it is.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-08 21:09:24+00:00
LEOs are basically municipal clerks with guns who are expected to also do violence as needed.

IDK why it'd be any surprise when they start acting all capricious like municipal clerks dealing in BS paper pushing issues of no real consequence. "This guy looks sketch, no permit for him."

A big part of the problem here is that they're tasked with enforcing a bunch of what amounts to petty bullshit that only exists to legitimize the state in the eyes of the people who want to see petty enforcement (taillight out, are you f-ing kidding me? A $100k/yr employee doing taillight out stops?).

Like for all their ills you don't hear about "serious police" like swat teams and the like behaving quite so badly so regularly (not that they don't do plenty of bad stuff).
by softwaredoug | 2025-12-08 21:09:53+00:00
Stage AGs have a strong role to play in anti-trust law. And the other party they're suing _isnt_ a Federal agency this time.

Now maybe nothing matters. But conflicts of interest will come up in those cases. Trump doesn't win _everything_. Trump wins at places where the Supreme Court is using him for their own project of reworking the constitutional order. Basically Trump shoots up a volley with some absolutely batshit PoV, they interpret the topic in some saner (still crazy) right wing legal idea. And the Supreme Court fast track's these cases about executive power.

This case would be State AGs having independent standing to challenge major M&A.

It will drag things out at a minimum, in a way the Supreme Court's rapid resolution of executive branch cases is not dragged out.