MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mentalgear | 2025-12-02 17:28:16+00:00
Thanks for sharing your use case of the mistral models, which are indeed top-notch ! I had a look at phrasing.app, and while a nice website, I found the copy of "Hand-crafted. Phrasing was designed & developed by humans, for humans." somewhat of a false virtue given your statements here of advanced lllm usage.
by MisterTea | 2025-12-02 17:28:22+00:00
> It's become a universal truth that you should probably not upgrade to the latest and non-greatest version of ANYTHING these days. Not Android,

If you even have control... I have a Google Pixel 8 which was nagging me to update to the latest and greatest Android when my phone was already working just fine. I kept putting it off and rescheduling it until two weeks ago. I was driving home from work, phone in the cup holder, listening to music when the music suddenly stopped. I picked up my phone to see if it was a call or the shitty Honda Bluetooth crapped out again but to my surprise, my phone was powered off. Huh? Never had a phone just turn off like that. I let it sit for a bit to see if it was rebooting but no, it was off. So I powered it back on and suddenly I'm looking at new animations and realize that somehow the OS update forcefully installed itself. WTF. I am not sure if I accidentally scheduled the install, highly doubt it, but there it is, I had the update forced on to me.

IThe best p[art is this latest and greatest Android that I did not need or want has a regression where swiping down the notification menu has a 5+ seconds delay to populate the menu with the notifications. So yeah, totally worth it... /s
by mightyham | 2025-12-02 17:28:36+00:00
> such that they almost meld into Stalin or Mao

Stalin was an ideological authoritarian that executed political rivals and used lethal force, price controls, and other governmental tools to control the economy and the general working population. The idea that Sanders and Mambani advocate anything close to that is laughable.

The rhetoric on both the right and left that liken today's politics to extremism in the 20th century is a ridiculous anachronism that needs to be called out more often.
by ghaff | 2025-12-02 17:28:38+00:00
In most places (SF may be somewhat of an exception in terms of relatively unaffordable housing in both the city and any accessible suburbs) 30-60 minute commutes are pretty normal. At least a lot of the companies are probably in the suburbs/exurbs anyway. I'm not suggesting living in the middle of nowhere but, in a lot of places, urban vs. exurban living is a choice especially with companies that are often exurban.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-02 17:28:51+00:00
You should check out Andrew and Ben's work, Extempore.

There is definitely a learning curve, but after reading the basics and poking through the examples, you realize you can do anything.

Lots of C libraries have wrappers already written and you can also write your own. I wrote a curl wrapper and pulled live data from sources such as weather APIs, assigned different facets of the data to different instruments and dynamics. You can write GL shaders and generally create your own interfaces.

It's also fully networked with sample-accurate synchronization, so that it's very easy to construct distributed computation and physical interaction. This is where the cyberphysical programming aspect comes into play.

Extempore has support for MIDI devices, and I've really pushed my gear to the limit with it. It is also very low level; you even write your own DSP. But you create libraries over time so that spontaneous jams don't require twenty minutes of fiddling first.

It took a lot of time to feel comfortable in the environment when I first got into it years ago, but with modern agentic IDRs such as Cursor, you should have a much, much easier time. It's great for writing algorithmic music and really great for freeform jam sessions. Lots of built in goodies that will really inspire you.

Also it's LISP.

https://extemporelang.github.io/
by myth_drannon | 2025-12-02 17:29:15+00:00
Where to draw the line? Only the right-wing billionaires? What about other more left-wing like Soros.

And what about the influencers with millions of followers (recent Qatari influence campaign comes to mind)? What about Hollywood (again Qataris and their influence campaign, if you notice how some famous actors started to speak on certain topics)
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-02 17:29:25+00:00
> I really doubt there's any rhythm at Microsoft that causes it

Last version was really bad, let's focus on fixing problems on the next ... last version was great, we need new revolutionary features to sell the next one.

That was visible on the older versions of Windows. Win 95 was kinda bad because nothing worked very well, then 98 fixed things, then ME tried to redo everything that still worked badly, what didn't work so they merged everything that worked into 2000. XP both worked badly at the beginning, and well at the end; Vista rebuilt a lot of stuff, and 7 fixed it so it worked.

And then the rhythm completely stopped.
by beej71 | 2025-12-02 17:29:37+00:00
It's not so much that, although I'd argue that LLMs can certainly teach you some bad habits from time to time, much more so than Deep Blue ever would.

Rather, it's because early on, when beginners are learning the basics, they need to do the hard work of figuring stuff out so they develop problem-solving skills. It's not the code-writing skills they need to develop--that's easy. It's the problem-solving skills.

If I could figure out a way to grade on effort rather than correctness, I'd do that every time. Bust your ass and get a program 80% working and learn a ton doing it? You get an A. Spend 2 minutes copying ChatGPT output of a perfectly-working solution? F.

The effort is where you build the skill. And the skill is critical problem-solving. Having someone (or something) else do that work does not improve your skill.

Now, eventually, when you get to be better than the AI (and it's not hard to do that), stuff that you find easy is not longer beneficial to your learning. I've implemented linked lists a hundred times by now; I no longer learn anything from doing it. When you're that experienced with a subtopic, then sure, get ChatGPT to write it, and you verify it.

Going back to the weight lifting analogy, once you've been lifting the 2 kg weights for a while, you're not going to get much out of it. At that point, if the 2 kg weight must be lifted because it's part of your job description, have your robot do it. Meanwhile, you go on to the 4 kg weights and build muscle.
by jama211 | 2025-12-02 17:29:46+00:00
I’ll be honest, I’m confused by the ending. It says this is a series of jabs at LLM hype, and I understand that it’s intended as a series of jabs against those who would say “software engineers will be out of a job”, but I’ll be honest I think only a loud minority are saying that yet it’s treated like it’s a majority position.

All the stories listed seem interesting, but none of them seem all that relevant.

I feel like most people understand that this is a seismic shift in abstraction layer, but intelligent people will still be in demand to manage the machines at whatever level is currently highest. The motor car didn’t kill taxi drivers, unless those who drove a carriage refused to learn how to drive a motor car.

Perhaps I’m not expressing my point very well… but this feels like both an argument against something almost no one is saying seriously, and it uses examples that also aren’t that applicable to the current situation other than having the commonality that people have said before that software engineers will die out. Make me wonder… How many times did people think an invention would kill off a job incorrectly, until one day it actually did?

Intelligent and well educated people will always be in demand somewhere. Until we’re in some post money utopia, we’ll just have to roll with the punches. In the meantime, HN readers like ourselves will simultaneously upvote any article that says humans are super necessary down at lower levels of abstraction and are way better at coding than LLMs, whilst quietly also coding less and less by hand and crawling up that abstraction layer themselves. That’s just human nature.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-02 17:29:55+00:00
Those are great answers.

I'd like to propose the following additions to help tie it all together:

Copyright must be registered. Registration requires sending a digital copy to some officious government body, such as the Library of Congress, for preservation. (It used to be ~about this way; it can be this way again. Disk is cheap. Git and email both exist. It can be figured out.)

This registration will be open and publicly-available to query (online, of course, but also by phone, and mail, and just by walking in the front door and asking), so the question of "Who to pay" is always easily answered.

All forfeited money from licensing goes to help pay for the preservation of the collected works, and for the ongoing expense of providing the registration database. It won't be nearly enough to cover those expenses, and that's fine: This means that the balance always has a place to land.

Copyright should not span generations. It should still time out completely, and do so after a period that is shorter than a normal human lifespan.

If a person saw a film when they were 5 that they really enjoyed, and if they manage to live long enough, then they should eventually be able to walk into the Library of Congress, give them some money, and walk out with a physical copy of it, and be able to freely upload that copy of it to YouCloud for their great, great grandchildren (and indeed, the world) to see, and be able to do all of this without becoming a criminal.

(How much money? Something in the realm of 15 Big Macs worth of dollars sounds about right.)
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-12-02 17:30:12+00:00
Everything else aside, this is a really stupid comparison. A multi-billionaire giving away even 99% of their billions of dollars is not the same as any normal person giving away a substantially smaller percentage of their money. Thiel can give away 99% of his money and would still have hundreds of millions of dollars left, which is already quite literally more money than any normal person can spend in their entire lifetime. Even at only 3% interest, he would get more interest money alone per year than the income of almost anyone on the planet.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-02 17:30:31+00:00
> more reliable

I've worked on some audio/video alert systems. Basic threshold detectors produce a lot of false positives. It's common for parents to put white noise machines in the room to help the baby sleep. When you have a noise generating machine in the same room, you need more sophisticated detection.

False positives are the fastest way to frustrate users.
by kenhallart | 2025-12-02 17:30:33+00:00
Any cognitive system, human or synthetic, is always balancing three things: coherence (a stable internal model), generative cost (the friction required to maintain that coherence), and context saturation (how much meaningful input it has to anchor itself).

When context is shallow, cognition collapses into low-cost, reactive patterns. When context is deep, cognition becomes more coherent, reflective, and self-correcting.

What surprised me is how consistently this pattern appeared across substrates. This piece outlines a substrate-agnostic way of thinking about cognitive stability and drift without relying on anthropomorphic assumptions.

Curious to hear if this line of thinking holds up.
by charlie-haley | 2025-12-02 17:30:41+00:00
It supports either, I didn't want to restrict people to just one method of getting their catalog populated. The CLI and Plugin system works on needing read credentials to a given Service, it then populates the catalog with those assets. Any lineage links currently need to be done manually (unless they're part of the same plugin). Otherwise, you can integrate with your existing IaC pipelines using Terraform or Pulumi to populate the catalog at deploy time instead of needing to scrape a bunch of services.
by aleksejs | 2025-12-02 17:31:19+00:00
> God forbid you have an accident and you end up at the wrong hospital when the one down the road is in-network but the one they took you to is out-of-network and you wake up owing thousands of dollars.

If you examine the statement of benefits for your plan, you will find that it says something similar to this:

> Emergency Services are covered at the in-network cost-sharing level as required by applicable state or federal law if services are received from a non participating (out-of-network) provider.

> The member is responsible for applicable in-network cost-sharing amounts (any deductible, copay or coinsurance). The member is not responsible for any charges that may be made in excess of the allowable amount.
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-12-02 17:31:21+00:00
Let me introduce you to a good time.

Step 1: https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/ . Click play on coastline" @by eddyflux

Step 2: Listen for a while

Step 3: setcps(.75) -> setcps(1.5)

Step 4: Listen :)

That is the extent of my strudel knowledge, but damn this is cool.
by waffletower | 2025-12-02 17:31:59+00:00
This is such a naive, simplistic, distrusting and ultimately monastic perspective. An assumption here is that university students are uncritical and incapable of learning while utilizing AI as an instrument of mind. I think a much more prescient assessment would be that presence of AI demands a transformation and evolution of university curricula and assessment - and the author details early attempts at this -- but declares them failures and uncritical acquiescence. AI is literally built from staggeringly large subsets of human knowledge -- university cultures that refuse to critically participate and evolve with this development, and react by attempting to deny student access, do not deserve the title "university" -- perhaps "college", or the more fitting "monastery", would suffice. The obsession with "cheating", the fallacy that every individual needs to be assessed hermetically, has denied the reality (for centuries) that we are a collective and, now more than ever, embody a rich mass mind. Successful students will grow and flourish with these developments, and institutions of higher learning ought to as well.
by djmips | 2025-12-02 17:32:13+00:00
It is my conjecture that due to the 8 bit index registers, contrast that to 6800, 6809 and others, the 6502 becomes fundamentally a structure of arrays (SOA) system versus C which is coupled in it's libraries and existing code base with array of structures (A0S).

Optimizing code will never solve good data oriented design. This is just one of the reasons that Asm programmers routinely beat C code on the 6502. Another one is math. In the C language specification, if fixed point had been given equal footing with float that would also help.

These are such a blind spos that you rarely even see custom 6502 high level languages accommodate these fundamental truths.

BTW, growing up on the 6502, I had no problems moving into the very C friendly 68000 but later going backwards to the 6809, on the surface it looked so much like a 6502 that I was initially trying to force SOA in my data design before realizing it was better suited to AOS.
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-02 17:32:14+00:00
If someone wants to fund me, Ill gladly work on this. There is no money in this though, because selling cloud service is much more profitable.

Its also not a matter of it working or not. It already works. Take a small model that fits on a GPU with a large context window, like Gemma 27b or smaller ones, give it a whole bunch of context on the topic, and ask it questions and it will generate very accurate results based on the context.

So instead of encoding everything into the model itself, you can just take training data, store it in vector DBs, and train a model to retrieve that data based on query, and then the rest of it is just training context extraction.
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by SimianSci | 2025-12-02 17:32:35+00:00
I see multiple comments regarding his actual views. Its been pointed out multiple times that hes a believer in a dark-enlightenment, where democracy has run its course and the power should be taken from ordinary people and centralized to the aristocratic elite such as himself.

He uses alot of coded language, hence why he is often called a Crypto Fascist (Crypto as in encrypted language, not cryptocurrency) To anyone knowledgeable enough to own a basic mental cypher, they can decode fascist and monarchist language. He's very clearly a selfish person in the business of consolidating his own power over others to fulfill his outlandish fantasies.

He's deffinately not the only person in the world holding these sorts of views, there is an overabundance of sociopathic elites in the world. But Thiel is able to operate on an influence level beyond that of most sociopaths and thus his wealth is one of the most pressing issues regarding his person. This particular nutjob being far less powerful and wealthy, would preserve alot of our social order.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-02 17:32:41+00:00
Because people insist on discussing copyright as if there is any part of it that makes sense, and as if it operates how they think it should.

They derive a history of it from all of these principles that they made up, then propose a future which is always a moderate compromise between the guiding principles that they made up and the history that they made up from the guiding principles that they made up.

Things are as they are because powerful people made them that way, and built on that. The length of copyright is justified by the fact that it got past Congress and judges. What you're allowed to do is vague know it when I see it stuff, and has always been a patch on top of what you're not allowed to do which is always very clear: anything you don't have a written grant of permission to do.

People talk about "fair use" like it is a real abstract principle, rather than being some weird legal wording by a judge from a few court cases where something felt just too minor and silly to be a violation but was obviously, by the letter of the law, a violation.

I'm fairly sure that under the letter of the law you're allowed to read a book you own or listen to a record you own more than once, but I wouldn't bet on it. For all I know it could be an exception called "private repeat performance of licensed material" which is not a law but actually guidance written by the counsel for the Librarian of Congress based on two court cases from the 1930s.

edit: when I was a kid, you wouldn't put the song "Happy Birthday To You" in a movie, and you would edit it out of a documentary. This was never determined not to be a violation, it just got so embarrassing that it was somehow determined that the copyright had lapsed. Archive.org was in a years-long kerfuffle about 78s. It's not about sense, it's about power.
by deltoidmaximus | 2025-12-02 17:33:52+00:00
To expand upon the second issue: I believe Nvidia stopped releasing driver updates for the version of Windows 10 a still supported version of LTSB was based upon at one point leaving users with no further driver updates for a Microsoft supported system. I don't know how common of a problem this is but it did seem to happen once. I also use LTSC but this is a potential pitfall.
by lowkey_ | 2025-12-02 17:33:56+00:00
> they also do not dehumanize large swaths of the population

They dehumanize and kill everyone equally.

I think the West (US especially) has a great system of government figured out, and I wouldn't try to say any group attempting to break that is better than another. It's not disingenuous to say that both are authoritarians who kill millions.
by cbb330 | 2025-12-02 17:34:06+00:00
The soapbox-vs-megaphone analogy falls apart fast.

Name me one serious, intellectually honest critic of Thiel—say, Malcolm Harris, Evgeny Morozov, Shoshana Zuboff, Mariana Mazzucato, or even random Substackers with 100k+ followers who’s struggling to be heard because Thiel bought all the megaphones.

They all have huge platforms, book deals, TED-level reach, or blue-check amplification. The “undue amplification” crowd never points to a single silenced dissident; they just dislike that Thiel’s ideas are winning in the marketplace anyway.

If every prominent counter-voice already has a bigger megaphone than 99.9 % of humanity ever will, the complaint isn’t about access it’s that voters and readers keep choosing the “wrong” rich guy.
by cwillu | 2025-12-02 17:34:11+00:00
Case in point: “[Print] To meet security goals and support new print capabilities, this update transitions Windows printing components from MSVCRT to a modern Universal C Runtime Library.

As a result of this change, print clients running versions of Windows prior to Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004 (Build number 19041) will intentionally fail to print to remote print servers running Windows 11, versions 24H2 or 25H2, and Windows Server 2025, that have installed this update, or later updates. Attempting to print from an unsupported print client to an updated print server will fail with one of the following errors: […]”
by RankingMember | 2025-12-02 17:34:11+00:00
Yep! The interface icons are a little cryptic, but if you click the little icon in the upper right that looks like a play button surrounded by a reversing arrow, that will bring up an interface at the bottom to specify the date and time you want to see the history for. Click the "pause/unpause" button and it'll play back the activity at the speed you set so you can see all the planes that overflew at that time.
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by AlexandrB | 2025-12-02 17:35:52+00:00
You're not wrong, but the same megaphone applies to the average Joe. In the early 1990s, unless you were a celebrity or politician, your ideas could not spread beyond the confines of the next city council meeting - at best. Now an average person has far more reach. Yes there's often a cacophony of other information that will drown you out, but it's hardly worse than the previous situation where all media was in the hands of very few, often very wealthy, individuals.