MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Peteragain | 2025-12-01 08:28:58+00:00
The notion of "thinking" is not clear. I'll agree thinking with symbols is powerful and something (adult) humans and computers can do, but is is not the only way of making decisions. I'm going to suggest LLMs are not thinking this way, but that indeed "glorified auto complete" (c.f. Hinton) is far more useful than it seems. Https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08403
by _ttg | 2025-12-01 08:29:23+00:00
nobody is against his moral stance. the problem is that he’s playing the “principled stand” game on a budget that cannot sustain it, then externalizing the cost like a victim. if you're a millionaire and can hold whatever moral line you want without ever worrying about rent, food, healthcare, kids, etc. then "selling out" is optional and bad. if you're joe schmoe with a mortgage and 5 months of emergency savings, and you refuse the main kind of work people want to pay you for (which is not even that controversial), you’re not some noble hero, you’re just blowing up your life.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-12-01 08:29:30+00:00
Just test it, maybe you won't get a boost.

1. Run into a problem you and AI can't solve. 2. Drop all comments 3. Restart debug/design session 4. Solve it and save results 5. Revert code to have comments and put update in

If that still doesn't work: Step 2.5 drop all unrelated code from context
by fuzzy2 | 2025-12-01 08:29:34+00:00
And that’s about it, I’d say! I find that everything else is really, really bad. It creaks, it wobbles, it warps, and it did so from day 1. The fan is loud and kicks in quite early. Well maybe the X200 isn’t as bad, but the X220 certainly is. And even after 14 years, it still smells when it gets hot.

Sorry for the rant. I really want to love it, but I just can’t.
by simianwords | 2025-12-01 08:29:40+00:00
800 million weekly active users for ChatGPT. My position on things like this is that if enough people use a service, I must defer to their judgement that they benefit from it. To do the contrary would be highly egoistic and suggest that I am somehow more intelligent than all those people and I know more about what they want for themselves.

I could obviously give you examples where LLMs have concrete usecases but that's besides the larger point.
by bobjordan | 2025-12-01 08:29:53+00:00
Man, I definitely feel this, being in the international trade business operating an export contract manufacturing company from China, with USA based customers. I can’t think of many shittier businesses to be in this year, lol. Actually it’s been pretty difficult for about 8 years now, given trade war stuff actually started in 2017, then we had to survive covid, now trade war two. It’s a tough time for a lot of SMEs. AI has to be a handful for classic web/design shops to handle, on top of the SMEs that usually make up their customer base, suffering with trade wars and tariff pains. Cash is just hard to come by this year. We’ve pivoted to focus more on design engineering services these past eight years, and that’s been enough to keep the lights on, but it’s hard to scale, it is just a bandwidth constrained business, can only take a few projects at a time. Good luck to OP navigating it.
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 08:30:29+00:00
> since prompts are constantly refined, how do you know it's still in use?

That's an unusual amount of leniency. If someone was tuning their system in such a way, why would you give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe now they've resolved all of the issues and will never do it again? It's like buying a tabloid every week because "what if they changed their ways and now it will all be truthful?"

The analysis you quoted doesn't really mean anything. I'm not sure how universally useful data can be extracted from having the models test themselves. But more importantly, all the models that were tested were made in the US, and it's extremely likely that from the selected data and the English-first approach, they would all skew towards an American perception of any issue. People from different corners of the world would identify the "center" as holding very different views from what you likely think. Also, being on the "center" isn't valuable unless you believe that being in the center is a merit in and of itself. If the best answer to an objective problem was a policy that's thought of as partisan, I would want a model to give me that correct partisan answer, instead of trying to both-sides everything or act like a contrarian whenever possible.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 08:31:13+00:00
>the reality is that people usually spend more and save less than they could.

You can't save your way out of rent being 70, 80+% of your paycheck. For my area, minimum wage is $18 and your best hope for rent is sharing a $3k 2 bedroom apartment. quick napkin math suggests $2400 take home pay and ~$1800 eaten up between the rent split, utilities, gas, and the most basic rice and beans diet of "groceries". Not even including potential health insurance or car notes or student loans.

If you don't have the fortune of a family who'd house you for free/dirt cheap then you don't have much to save. You're already sacrificing for the present.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-01 08:32:16+00:00
No, I have a tyre pressure gauge. Every so often I check the tyre pressures and maybe stick a bit more in if it needs it.

Some VWs used to use wheel speed, though, which was fun because they added tyre pressure checking with a software upgrade. Not terribly accurate, but enough to tell you if one was low.
by cube2222 | 2025-12-01 08:32:22+00:00
Codex does such sandboxing, fwiw. In practice it gets pretty annoying when e.g. it wants to use the Go cli which uses a global module cache. Claude Code recently got something similar[0] but I haven’t tried it yet.

In practice I just use a docker container when I want to run Claude with —-dangerously-skip-permissions.

[0]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sandboxing
by frm88 | 2025-12-01 08:33:23+00:00
I moved over to Linux a month ago and when I plugged in my Kyocera printer, it was insta detected and just worked. On Windows it was a hit and miss, despite newest drivers to get this thing into online mode and printing. With this new setup I stood speechless for several seconds not believing the ease of use here. I'm never going back.
by Aissen | 2025-12-01 08:34:15+00:00
It's still very domain-oriented:

> I solve and write a lot of puzzlehunts, and I wanted a better programming language to use to search word lists for words satisfying unusual constraints, such as, “Find all ten-letter words that contain each of the letters A, B, and C exactly once and that have the ninth letter K.”1 I have a folder of ten-line scripts of this kind, mostly Python, and I thought there was surely a better way to do this.

I'll chose to remember it was designed for AoC :-D
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-01 08:34:27+00:00
Sure, but unless all solvable problems can be said to "appear as low-hanging fruit in hindsight" this doesn't detract from Tao's assessment in any way. Solving a genuinely complex problem is a different matter than spotting simpler solutions that others had missed.

In this case, the solution might have been missed before simply because the difference between the "easy" and "hard" formulations of the problem wasn't quite clear, including perhaps to Erdős, prior to it being restated (manually) as a Lean goal to be solved. So this is a success story for formalization as much as AI.
by account42 | 2025-12-01 08:34:55+00:00
I'm pretty sure most people would prefer to be able to recover their DNS in case of catastrophic failure over 100% cryptographic security. The technical aspects of security are never the whole picture.

Or to put it another way: Not being able to recover access is not something most people will accept and if your technical security measures don't consider that they will be worked around. If people need to go through support to recover their DNS more often then support will be used to giving out access to people's account and that will also reduce YOUR actual security.
by chickensong | 2025-12-01 08:35:21+00:00
I guess I assumed that it's not highly relevant to the task, but I suppose it depends on interpretation. E.g. if someone tells the bus driver to smile while he drives, it's hopefully clear that actually driving the bus is more important than smiling.

Having experimented with similar config, I found that Claude would adhere to the instructions somewhat reliably at the beginning and end of the conversation, but was likely to ignore during the middle where the real work is being done. Recent versions also seem to be more context-aware, and tend to start rushing to wrap up as the context is nearing compaction. These behaviors seem to support my assumption, but I have no real proof.
by dgl | 2025-12-01 08:35:57+00:00
> My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put NVMe on PCI as opposed to PCIe? How?

PCI to PCIe adapter and then PCIe to M.2: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=78987 (PCIe has some level of backwards compatibility, although like that thread shows there are some limits as to what will work).
by bjoli | 2025-12-01 08:36:20+00:00
I hope all distros go down the microos/bazzite/atomic path of immutable base state. It is by far the largest simplification I have had in my desktop experience since about 2010, but then I started on some kind of red hat version (7.2?) when you still had to configure X and dhcp yourself.

Sure, for some things you need to do base system configuration, but that is not impossible on something like microOs.
by 4ndrewl | 2025-12-01 08:36:31+00:00
"My personal opinion is that LLMs are autocomplete on steroids."

Yes, and OpenAI's legal docs concur. From their Privacy Policy.

"Services like ChatGPT generate responses by reading a user’s request and, in response, predicting the words most likely to appear next. In some cases, the words most likely to appear next may not be the most factually accurate."

https://openai.com/en-GB/policies/row-privacy-policy/
by pczaik | 2025-12-01 08:36:33+00:00
I got rid of Windows completely two weeks ago. I was tied to them because I thought I can't live without Adobe Lightroom for photo editing. Increasing resentment for the subscription model and a recent increase in price made me re-evaluate this and I am happy I did. Darktable has come a really long way since I last tried to use it (years ago). It's amazing to me to see how good these things have become in the last years.

I am willing to pay for software, but please don't force me into a subscription model or you'll lose me as a customer.

The switch went smooth as butter for me, my system seems to run more stable and fast now, although it definitely helps that I was using WSL for years.
by coldtea | 2025-12-01 08:36:59+00:00
>Like, there was something to the practice of slavery: it was popular in the South! ...and yet I'm comfortable making a value judgement about it.

Saying "there's something to it" (for this or for the 100K influencer) is an acknowledgement of it being something more than random, and possibly worth checking why it got popular, not an endorsment.

If anything the value judgement regarding slavery is closer to an personal opinion in matters of "art, poetry or music". As a value judgement, it's as "objective" as "I like/dislike the Beatles": in cultures which practiced slavery the mainstream view was that it was morally acceptable, and they'd think anybody wanting to stop it as in the wrong ("Mississipi Burning" sure shows this sentiment going on way after the Civil War too).

After all slavery was popular all over the world for millenia, and still remains practiced today in many places. There's also slavery in all but name practiced (from sex trafficking to debt slavery to forced prison labor, and many other forms). So, yes, there's something to it. This doesn't mean it's morally good, and even less it means it's objectively good.

Same for the 100K-fans influencer. Unless those are fake fans, there clearly would be some draw. Perhaps even a draw worth studying and learning from. But surely a need that it satisfies.
by simianwords | 2025-12-01 08:37:05+00:00
Yes but if I go with your priors then all of these are similarly to be suspect

- gaming

- netflix

- television

- social media

- hacker news

- music in general

- carnivals

A priori, all of these are equally suspicious as to whether they provide value or not.

My point is that unless you have reason to suspect, people engaging in consumption through their own agency is in general preferable. You can of course bring counter examples but they are more of caveats against my larger truer point.
by yanaimngvov | 2025-12-01 08:37:07+00:00
Hello HN,

I built zimage.run to provide a frictionless way to try out Alibaba's newly open-sourced Z-Image model (specifically the Z-Image-Turbo 6B variant).

While there are many FLUX/SDXL wrappers out there, I found Z-Image interesting because of its efficiency (6B parameters) and its ability to render legible text in both English and Chinese.

The site is dead simple: - Completely Free: No credits, no hidden costs. - No Login Required: Just type a prompt and hit enter. - Uncensored/Unlimited: I haven't put artificial limits on it (for now), so you can stress test the model's capabilities.

Tech Stack: Model: Alibaba Tongyi-MAI Z-Image-Turbo (6B) Frontend: Next.js Backend: ComfyUI

I'd love to hear your feedback on the generation speed and how you think this model compares to Flux or SDXL.

Try it here: https://zimage.run
by esrauch | 2025-12-01 08:37:42+00:00
I may have misinterpreted "explicit roadmap", to be that implied a directing/organizing entity that is coordinating the exclusion of right-leaning people from professorships, versus your reply here clarifying you mean something different.

> If you found out 100% of agents were not left-leaning, would you still consider this a fanciful, tin-foil hat style conspiracy

Yep, I would. I think we are in the world where FBI agents are skewed as dramatically to the right as university professors are skewed left (which is to say: very). I don't believe either one as the deliberate exclusion of interested individuals from those positions based on their voting records, but instead more likely that both are self-selection and direct correlation to political views effects even when it's too such an extreme degree.

It's the same effect as theater having way more queer people in it than football, which is also not due to any conspiracy.
by n2d4 | 2025-12-01 08:39:35+00:00
Here is dang's comment back when they banned Michael O' Church: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538

The year was indeed 2015, and his political content would fit OP's description, but the reason for the ban was that he was repeatedly being a total asshole, not "YC is scared of anti-fascists".
by Revisional_Sin | 2025-12-01 08:40:05+00:00
I was once working on a project where we had a gRPC server that inserted data into the DB for another service.

This split was probably a mistake, as the interface we exposed resulted in us making twice as many DB calls as we actually needed to.

One of the stored procs needed a magic number as a parameter, which we looked up via another DB query.

One of the other Devs on the team tried to convince me to write a separate gRPC server to run this (trivial) query.

"We're doing microservices, so we need to make everything as small as possible. Looking up this value is a separate responsibility from inserting data."

Luckily our tech lead was sane and agreed with me.
by krige | 2025-12-01 08:40:08+00:00
Things that go through the proper channels are usually compatible. Crysis was never the most stable of games and IIRC it used 3DNow, which is deprecated - but not by Windows.

As a counter-anecdata, last week I ran Galapagos: Mendel's Escape with zero compat patches or settings, that's a 1997 3D game just working.
by camillomiller | 2025-12-01 08:40:20+00:00
Are you smart people all suddenly imbeciles when it comes to AI or is this purposeful gaslighting because you’re invested in the ponzi scheme? This is a purely logical problem. comments like this completely disregard the fallacy of comparing humans to AI as if a complete parity is achieved. Also the way this comments disregard human nature is just so profoundly misanthropic that it just sickens me.
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-12-01 08:41:06+00:00
Do you have a thesis for why that might be happening? Ageism? Overqualification? The next generation of hiring managers not knowing what to do with you? Past experience being deemed irrelevant to modern SWE problems? Is it all just a bad market? Your profile strikes me as the last one that would struggle with landing a gig.
by kragen | 2025-12-01 08:41:23+00:00
What hourly wage are you imputing to your cooking to get US$10 for a meal of asparagus, chicken, and rice? My estimate for the materials would be:

- 250g raw chicken wings: $375 ≈ 30¢ (I bought these on Saturday, so this is the current price)

- 200g asparagus: $1500 ≈ US$1 (this is a rough guess because I never buy it and the greengrocer doesn't have a web site)

- 100g dry long-grain rice: $100 ≈ 7¢ (just checked the price online, and I think this is rather high)

- water to drink and cook the rice is unmetered here

Total: US$1.37. But you could easily get it down to less than half that with a different vegetable. Salts, spices, and oils might add a few pennies.

Possibly if you are at McMurdo Base or something your ingredient prices might be unusual.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 08:41:59+00:00
Yeah, I'm really sorry this happened. I'm managing a bit better since I graduated in 2017, but I still pretty much had my senior trajectory yoinked from under me. The market is completely different now than back when I graduated.

I don't really have any advice for the present. We're in a storm, so do what you need to weather it. If there's any downtime you do have, use it to prepare for when (if?) the market bounces back:

1. Network. Nothing serious but just get to know people in your area. Keep in contact and they might one day have an in for some work.

2. work on personal projects. They aren't being looked at now, but it'll help you stand out when the market corrects itself.

3. consider some adjacent skillsets. At some point, if this last longer than any of us expect, it may be best to vouch for yourself. learning some graphic design can help you sell your own apps or make websites for others. Learning some art can help you sell games. embrace the generalization and be able to take small products from start to finih by youself. If you don't want to get completely out, you may want to start shaping your career around being your own boss instead of relying on others to employ you.

4. take care of your physical health. I don't know your body, and you may already be doing this. But it's always important to remind people (especially in a field like tech) that sometimes a breath of fresh air and 10 minutes of walking can make all the difference. Don't let yourself get cooped up.

Best of luck out there.
by Earw0rm | 2025-12-01 08:42:25+00:00
Think it's a filter effect. The areas getting hit especially hard happen to overlap strongly with the most online, which is a relatively small part of the economy overall - and, if you get cut, you've got a bunch more time to to talk about it, which amplifies things further.

Plenty of other areas doing OK for now - construction, healthcare especially - there's no shortage of money around, it's just not going into tech projects outside of the AI bubble.
by nbadg | 2025-12-01 08:42:34+00:00
From TFA, they're using it to print bioinks. Think scaffolding for cell cultures.

At these kinds of physical scales, biology is almost certainly a much larger market than mechanical applications. A 20 um line width (slightly less than one thou for US folks) is certainly a tolerance you might encounter on a drawing for subtractive manufacturing, but for addative, feature sizes that small will be strength limited.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-12-01 08:42:46+00:00
We are basically 100-ϵ% the same. I have no doubt.

Maybe the only difference between us is that I think there is a difference between a description and an interpretation, and you don't :)

In the grand scheme of things, is it even worth mentioning? Probably not! :D :D Why focus on the differences when we can focus on the similarities?
by ta20240528 | 2025-12-01 08:42:50+00:00
"Most European countries … are completely dependent on the USA for defense"

Only if invaded by Russia and possibly China. And even then only the little peripheral ones. UK, Germany, and France could handle Russia - up to and including nukes.

For any conceivable military or paramilitary invasion from the rest of world, Europe will do just fine.

And sadly (an a bit off topic) , Europe — well Denmark at least — is most likely to face an military invasion from the USA.
by victorbuilds | 2025-12-01 08:42:50+00:00
Different service, same cold sweat moment. Asked Claude Code to run a database migration last week. It deleted my production database instead, then immediately said "sorry" and started panicking trying to restore it.

Had to intervene manually. Thankfully Azure keeps deleted SQL databases recoverable for a window so I got it back in under an hour. Still way too long. Got lucky it was low traffic and most anonymous user flows hit AI APIs directly rather than the DB.

Anyway, AI coding assistants no longer get prod credentials on my projects.
by PetitPrince | 2025-12-01 08:43:12+00:00
From the paper:

> The ink used for the proof of extrusion demonstration is a ready-to-use, polyethylene oxide–based training bioink purchased and used directly from the vendor (Cellink Start, Cellink)

> The ink used for the honeycomb demonstration and the maple leaf demonstration is a sacrificial, temperature-sensitive, 40% (w/v) Pluronic F-127 in deionized water bioink purchased and used directly from the vendor (Pluronic F-127, Allevi).

> The ink used for the first cell-laden grid demonstration is Pluronic F-127 bioink with B16 cancer cells suspended in solution.

> The ink used for the second cell-laden grid demonstration is Pluronic F-127 bioink embedded with RBCs.

> The ink used for the cell viability experiments is Pluronic F-127 bioink with B16 cancer cells suspended in solution.
by BenGosub | 2025-12-01 08:43:26+00:00
I understand that website studios have been hit hard, given how easy it is to generate good enough websites with AI tools. I don't think human potential is best utilised when dealing with CSS complexities. In the long term, I think this is a positive.

However, what I don't like is how little the authors are respected in this process. Everything that the AI generates is based on human labour, but we don't see the authors getting the recognition.
by darkwater | 2025-12-01 08:44:41+00:00
> besides for training future models, is this really such a big deal? most of the AI-gened text content is just replacing content-farm SEO-spam anyway.

Yes, it is because of the other side of the coin. If you are writing human-generated, curated content, previously you would just do it in your small patch of Internet, and probably SEs (Google...) will pick it up anyway because it was good quality content. You just didn't care about SEO-driven shit anyway. Now you nicely hand-written content is going to be fed into LLM training and it's going to be used - whatever you want it or not - in the next generation of AI slop content.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-01 08:44:50+00:00
Indeed they are, however when it is C, it is an advantage, gladly ignored that ISO C on its own requires an external Assembly tool to do its job, when it is something else, it is thrown around as proof they aren't as good as C for systems programming, the irony of two weighs, two measures.

"You need Assembly to do XYZ that C can do", yeah right.