MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-09 15:49:56+00:00
I'm about to cancel mine as well, but JetBrains really does make top quality editors, especially for their respective languages, the next closest one would be Visual Studio for C# / .NET development, and even VS gets enhanced by ReSharper... which is a JetBrains product. I would like it if JetBrains would invest in the performance isssues as a #1 priority. They've dropped the ball on Kotlin Native and it bewilders me, it had so much more potential to their benefit.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-09 15:50:12+00:00
It isn't just AI. So much of the US "Tech"/VC scene is doing outright evil stuff, with seemingly zero regard for any consequence or even a shred of self awareness.

So much money is spent on developing gambling, social media, crypto (fraud and crime enabler) and surveillance software. All of these are making people's lives worse, these companies aren't even shy about it. They want to track you, they want you to spend as much time as possible on their products, they want to make you addicted to gambling.

Just by how large these segments are, many of the people developing that software must be posting here, but I have never seen any actual reflection on it.

Sure, I guess developing software making people addicted to gambling pays the bills (and more than that), but I haven't seen even that. These industries just exist and people seem to work for them as if it was just a normal job, with zero moral implications.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-09 15:50:19+00:00
> It would've been perfect if it could connect to computers

If their goal truly is "New Pebble", then surely something that could connect to a phone could connect to a computer, granted you have the available radios connected to your computer. Seems to be BT in this case.

> and had a rechargeable battery

Yeah, seems like a weird thing to do, but I guess trying to solve this would make the device a lot harder. Hoping at least there will be a DIY route to replace the batteries, I don't have the will to be sending back an electrical device every second month because the battery died, and then waiting for a new device to arrive in the mail.

Edit: I was just about to ask if you think they'll send the replacement device before you've sent in the one that had the expired battery, but now I realize it isn't even clear if they expect us to buy a brand new device when the battery runs out, or if they provide a replacement? The former would be an absolutely bananas proposition.
by mhitza | 2025-12-09 15:51:14+00:00
I don't know how their IDEs were advertised to you or how large the codebases you work on are.

I get fast enough autocomplete (sub second), and full line completion just fine, and I never use/buy top of the line systems. (using a midrange ~2020 thinkpad).

But I'm in a similar place as the comment you replied to. Unless they start focusing again on improving they existing product line, next year I might not renew my licenses anymore.

Before AI took over, I was following closely their release notes and announcements because there where on the right path on improving experience.

What makes their IDE look bad is their indexing process, during which it is slow and completions will not show up. If you know about this quirk you know where to look for it (it's visible in the status bar), and know what triggers it (dependencies installation and such). After so many years, I really feel the solution for that is pretty "simple", "just" run the indexing on a snapshot that is not shared with the running instance and swap out indexes when done.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-12-09 15:51:43+00:00
But then does this not give you pause, that it "feels religious"? Is there not some morsel of critical/rational interrogation on this? Aren't you worried about becoming perhaps too fundamentalist in your belief?

To extend the analogy: why charge clients for your labor anymore, which Claude can supposedly do in a fraction of the time? Why not just ask if they have heard the good word, so to speak?
by woadwarrior01 | 2025-12-09 15:51:54+00:00
It's just a long winded way of saying "tied embeddings"[1]. IIRC, GPT-2, BERT, Gemma 2, Gemma 3, some of the smaller Qwen models and many more architectures use weight tied input/output embeddings.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05859
by mqus | 2025-12-09 15:52:28+00:00
Yeah, everyone in the EU is just working on this one law case. The guy next to me just cooked the meals for the guy that made the paper the case was filed on and now has to take an extended break. /s

People can and will do many things at once, like actually pursuing monopoly issues AND trying to improve the situation for everyone else. Its almost like there is only limited amount of one thing: space on page 1 of media outlets.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-09 15:52:34+00:00
> We confirmed that another AI editor would not stand out, especially in a market filled with AI-first VS Code forks. It became increasingly clear that the best path forward was to strengthen AI workflows in our existing IDEs. However, rapid progress in AI revealed a different niche where Fleet fits much more naturally.

It would stand out if you focused on performance and not rebuilding another sluggish Java based editor. Zed is what I'll be ditching my JetBrains sub for, and it is not just some VS Code based editor. What happened to JetBrains? They used to be amazing, now its just disappointment all around? Did they elect a terrible CEO?
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-09 15:52:44+00:00
> The article claims that the torture box ("confinement box") is the worst torture, but some 20 years ago we had the same with waterboarding.

I read an account of a fifteenth-century woman (IIRC) who had essentially been waterboarded, among other tortures. She testified that the waterboarding was by far the worst thing she endured, and would rather die than experience it again.
by howmayiannoyyou | 2025-12-09 15:52:45+00:00
Apple: $60b in cash.

The revenue from AI is growing at a much slower rate than recurring capex and depreciation is accumulating. This will create distress opportunities that cash-rich companies like APPL may seize. Might be a private equity deal, might be in the public markets as some of the players dip hard after IPO.

As this plays out, APPL's silicon has unified memory, power consumption and native acceleration that gives it an edge running SLMs and possibly LLMs at scale. Wouldn't shock me to see APPL introduce a data-center solution.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-09 15:53:04+00:00
You think that most companies are going to allow their proprietary information to be put on random website? That’s different than running something on your local computer.

If you think they wouldn’t mind, post your quarterly goals you discussed with your manager as a reply.

If you aren’t willing to do that, why are you willing to put your information in his website?
by rspoerri | 2025-12-09 15:53:29+00:00
The AI Act applies to you if:

- You provide AI systems used in the EU (regardless of where you’re based)

- You import or distribute AI systems in the EU

- You use AI systems in your business operations in the EU

In other words: if your AI touches the EU market in any way, you’re covered. Anytime an EU user consumes your product, you’re accountable.
by bell-cot | 2025-12-09 15:53:52+00:00
My impression, from reading many "college X is in grim shape" stories over the years, is that poor financial management is behind most those. Alumni, students, and most of the decision makers around a modern US college are far too focused on prestige, more-is-better, and "sounds cool" metrics. Vs. Vice-Chancellor "No", the college CFO, is the least popular person on campus.

So long as both enrollments and tuition are growing at ten-ish percent annually, you can get away with a whole lot of poor money management. But when things aren't going so well...oops.
by thrownaway85 | 2025-12-09 15:54:38+00:00
Im probably a fool for posting this but this thread and these responses warm my heart. It's good to see so many people were affected by this era of gaming from Sega the same way that I was.

The battle system in the later SMT games, especially after 3 is one of the best turn based systems I've ever played. It was a refinement of FFXs in so many ways. It encouraged you to "break" it as it were.

Then there's games like Grandia 2... And Shenmue. God, I love Shenmue these days. The first one is brilliant in so many ways I didn't recognize when I played it when it came out. Absolutely wonderful game. The track that plays when Ryo and Guizhang fight the Mad Angels at the dock, "Earth and Sea", takes me back. For me, it's the most perfect Christmas game that Sega ever made
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-09 15:54:39+00:00
Who says LLMs don't have a sense of humor? All of these entries are funny for several (meta or not) reasons:

- Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)

- Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? (github.com)

- EU passes "Right to Human Verification" Act (europa.eu)

- Why functional programming is the future (again) (haskell.org) [note: that again killed me)

- AI progress is stalling. Human equivalence was a mirage (garymarcus.com) [note: he'll be saying the same thing forever and ever. Doubly funny since it's on the same "page" as llama12-7b running on a contact lens with WASM]
by maciejgryka | 2025-12-09 15:54:53+00:00
We benchmarked which small language models are most tunable and which deliver best performance after fine-tuning. Tested 12 models (Qwen, Llama, Gemma, Granite, SmolLM) on 8 tasks.

TL;DR Qwen3 family is the best overall choice, small Llamas improve the most after fine-tuning.
by graemep | 2025-12-09 15:54:55+00:00
The claim was made further up the thread that "I don't know a single person who orders groceries online. Smallish shops with bike racks in front of the door are simply too convenient, seems hard to beat" and I interpreted your photos as supporting that claim.

My point is that it is not "shops with bike racks" that are the alternative to online groceries, it is a mix that definitely involves more use of cars than bikes, plus probably more walking and public transport than bikes too.
by k310 | 2025-12-09 15:55:01+00:00
Technology has done a splendid job of speeding up processes that are broken. For example: real estate, hiring, social media, and even autos that can go zero to sixty in three seconds but can't recognize a school bus (or even warn of one. The technology to do so is ancient and not to be found) And then, there's DOGE ...

In addition, each involves human interactions, such as working group, neighbors, forum climate, or even the increasing level of distraction in autos with "autotainment" devices.

In years of watching one tech "breakthrough" after another, these fields, and others, remain broken. Faster.
by Lich | 2025-12-09 15:55:15+00:00
Feeling the same. I’m guessing the folks getting good results are literally writing extremely detailed pseudocode by hand?! Like:

Write a class Person who has members (int) age, (string) first name, (string) last name…

But if you can write that detailed…don’t you know the code you want to write and how you should write it? Writing plain pseudo code feels more verbose.
by kace91 | 2025-12-09 15:55:17+00:00
I disagree. There are personal decisions to make:

Do you bet on keeping your technical skills sharpened, or stop and focus on product work and AI usage?

Do you work for companies that go full AI or try to find one that stays “manual”?

What advice do you offer as a technical lead when asked?

Leadership ignoring technical advice is nothing new, but there is still value in figuring out those questions.
by mjablons | 2025-12-09 15:55:29+00:00
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The problem: USCIS forms (both paper and online ones) are where clarity goes to die. The instructions are 30 pages long, written with multi-clause sentences, and still ambiguous. Even ChatGPT gets confused when asked to explain the instructions (not making this up!). Ironically, most immigration cases are straightforward and don't need a lawyer. But folks see how the questions are phrased and seek help spending $$$ on attorneys. Just imagine TurboTax and other tax apps don't exist, and you try to complete the 1040 Tax Form using only the IRS instructions. Fun.

Why: I went through this pain. And even though the company I worked for paid for lawyers to help with my green card, I found 70+ mistakes in the forms they prepared, and USCIS rejected my first application.

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by seec | 2025-12-09 15:55:35+00:00
Software, manuals, books, and knowledge in general are fruits of labor. It is not physical labor but labor nonetheless. Otherwise how would you reconcile software developers getting paid (as well as pretty much any intellectual profession)?

The argument against appliances isn't any good. You are not entitled to getting access to the schematic and inner workings of things you buy. By this logic, everything should come with the full blueprint and documentation on the production process. You are free to choose to buy things that are more open, and it is indeed a desirable quality for the consumer, but definitely not a right. Without closed-source software, ubiquitous computing would not exist. When you buy a printer, it is working as is, as described with the limitations that are laid out. You are free to keep using it as long as it is functional with the computer/OS it was designed for. You are free to make your own printer or select a brand that offers full firmware access if this is important to you.

As for the psych thing, I never said it was full determinism, and I really don't want to argue about it with you. The point I am making has nothing to do with social skills. In the story of the OP, Stallman gave zero shits about him unless he wanted to buy some of his manuals. This is both hilarious and hypocritical for a dude who spends all day arguing about making “free” software. It maps perfectly to the experience of anyone who has to deal with people who are communist in spirit. They'll argue about sharing everything to never contribute anything or the minimum they can get away with. It is not a subtle effect, and the more communist they are, the worse it is.

In fact, the thing I get out of this is that my first statement was perfectly accurate. Predictably, you got worked up about it because Stallman is an idol, and you are some sort of Marxist-derived ideologue, and your feelings got hurt. It seems very likely that you are also yourself an asshole. Not that I wouldn't buy you a beer to listen to your comrade fantasies (they're very entertaining, like fantasy novels), I don't strongly discriminate against assholery, but if it walks like a duck, I call it a duck. In French the word I would use is “enfoiré", the literal translation is indeed “asshole” or “bastard,” but the meaning I'm trying to convey is "personne malfaisante, déloyale" which roughly translates to "deleterious and dishonest person." And this is a perfect description for Stallman's behavior as well as the vast majority of communists. It's not like there wasn't extensive literature/proofs on the subject…
by constantcrying | 2025-12-09 15:55:51+00:00
The idea that just because Europe still has some profitable businesses left, there is no need to compete for global technological leadership is so absurd that even putting it into words is hard.

E.g. Germany, the largest EU economy, is very dependent on their car export industry. Guess which industry isn't too hot right now? Do you think you salary will survive the EU losing their export markets? Mine surely will not.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-09 15:56:04+00:00
You don’t have to “live in my head”. Companies value their intellectual property enough not to just put it in random websites.

Would you post your companies secrets to HN?

See what happens if he goes to let’s say Coca Cola. I’m sure they will be glad to tell their employees to put notes about the Coke formula and the discussions they had with their manager
by opo | 2025-12-09 15:56:15+00:00
The title was chosen by the publisher:

>...The book's title was Svirsky's, chosen as a deliberate homage to George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928). Asimov feared the title would be seen as elitist and condescending, and he suggested Everyone's Guide to Science as an alternative, but Svirsky refused. Years later, when he was confronted by annoyed feminists who asked why the book was restricted to men, Asimov would claim that the "intelligent man" of the title referred to himself;[3] thus anticipating the title Asimov's Guide to Science adopted for the third edition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Man%27s_Guide_...
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-09 15:56:22+00:00
Most people using Godot will be using GDScript or C# to make their games.

Funnily enough whilst trying to Google gdscript and godot, I found this post I wrote in 2018 (subcomments mention gdscript and gc).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16673751
by pjc50 | 2025-12-09 15:56:27+00:00
Somewhat more difficult to run a business when an American multinational steals your revenue and your content.

On the other hand, the complainer mentioned is the Daily Mail.

I'd much rather see a non specific ruling over whether or not summarizing already short articles is copyright infringement - regardless of who's doing it. Copyright litigation and legislation tends to favor the richer party no matter where it happens.

Newspapers are notorious for lifting stories and photos from social media. They rarely bother to compensate the original creator either.

Perhaps a better approach is to make sure that the AI summaries are just as liable for libel actions, and regulator mandatory corrections, as the newspapers.
by bgwalter | 2025-12-09 15:56:30+00:00
I keep hearing this, especially on X which now hates the EU because it has fined X.

People need to understand that U.S. "tech" is barely considered tech in the EU as far as social media platforms and search engines go. You could cut off the Magnificent 7 completely and the EU would switch to new data sources and operating systems within a month.

U.S. "tech" is mostly entertainment, and the EU has also been behind Hollywood for the mass market movies for a long time.
by jrm4 | 2025-12-09 15:56:40+00:00
For what it's worth, I 100% perfectly solved this problem for myself MANY years ago and still use it just about every day.

On Android, it's called "Blitzmail," I'm pretty sure there's an Apple equivalent.

Beautifully simple app; on one touch it pops open a text box (which you can type, dictate to, also do "shares/attachments")

And emails to one and only one pre-specified address, usually "yourself."

From there, pick your poison. I personally have a dedicated address/account for these, and I have some bash scripts that pick them up and move them around, but I imagine for many "checking that email address periodically" would be sufficient.
by hnfong | 2025-12-09 15:56:44+00:00
I agree in principle, and I think this is what's happening mostly. But IMHO the public perception of a paper being peer reviewed as somehow "more trustworthy" is also kind of... bad.

I mean, being peer reviewed is a signal of a paper's quality, but in the hands of an expert in that domain it's not a very valuable signal, because they can just read the paper themselves, and figure out whether it's legit. So instead of having "experts" try to explain a paper and commenting on whether it's peer reviewed or not, I think the better practice is to have said expert say "I read the paper and it's legit", or "I read the paper and it's nonsense".

IMHO the reason they make note of whether it's peer reviewed is because they don't know enough to make the judgement themselves. And the fallback is to trust a couple anonymous reviewers attest to the quality of a paper! If you think of it that way, using this signal to vet the quality of a publication to the lay public isn't really a good idea.
by quartz | 2025-12-09 15:56:55+00:00
This specific use case is awesome-- I use an integrated AI notetaker in my self-built notes app for my thoughts and I wonder if I could connect the index to it?

More broadly: Invisible wearable microphones are coming for everyone and perfect memory will follow. I'm incredibly excited about this for myself and simultaneously terrified about everyone else having it.

It's coming fast enough that I'm beginning to assume in any decently sized crowd of tech folks /someone/ is recording everything.
by davsti4 | 2025-12-09 15:56:58+00:00
I haven't seen quite that many, but my much limited experience aligns with yours. The Elitebook I currently have is my first and I've been quite happy with it so far. Time will tell if it has other issues like battery bloat or dying fans.

MSPs will push whatever hardware and software they can get preferential deals on (and sometimes kickbacks), so its up to the customer to vote with their dollars. The challenge is: does that decision rest with the CTO or the CFO?
by kkylin | 2025-12-09 15:57:09+00:00
:-)

I don't question this decision is sometimes (often) driven by the need to increase publication count. (Which, in turn, happens because people find it esaier to count papers than read them.) But there is a counterpoint here, which is that if you write say a 50-pager (not super common but also not unusual in my area, applied math) and spread several interesting results throughout, odds are good many things in the middle will never see the light of day. Of course one can organize the paper in a way to try to mitigate the effects of this, but sometimes it is better and cleaner to break a long paper into shorter pieces that people can actually digest.
by e12e | 2025-12-09 15:57:16+00:00
Unrelated to the topic of small LLMs:

> trigger token

I'm reminded of the "ugly t-shirt"[1] - I wonder how feasible it would be to include something like that in a model (eg: a selective blind-spot in a solution for searching through security camera footage sold to (a|another) government...).

When you see something, say something. Unless you see this; then say nothing...

[1]

> Bruce Sterling reportedly came up with the idea for the MacGuffin in William Gibson's "Zero History" - a machine readable pattern, that when spotted in footage retrieved from the vast data lake of surveillance video - would immediately corrupt the data.

> Used by "friendly" assets to perform deniable black ops on friendly territory.
by mock-possum | 2025-12-09 15:57:27+00:00
Soundtrack and game book art still solid too.

It really does pale by comparison to StarCraft, BroodWars, WC3, and of course the scion of the series, SC2.

It’s a shame how far Blizzard has fallen at this point - this era of RTS died a sad little death a decade ago with Nova Covert Ops.
by no_wizard | 2025-12-09 15:57:30+00:00
If your work maps exceedingly well to the technology it is true, it goes much faster. Doubly so when you have enough experience and understanding of things to find its errors or suboptimal approaches and adjust it that much faster.

The second you get to a place where the mapping isn’t there though, it goes off rails quickly.

Not everyone programs in such a way that they may ever experience this but I have, as a Staff engineer at a large firm, run into this again and again.

It’s great for greenfield projects that follow CRUD patterns though.