MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lenkite | 2025-12-02 05:46:56+00:00
> There are some serious problems in our society.

I do not believe fixing social upbringing and elementary study skills is the function of university professors teaching under-graduate/graduate courses. If needed, the university can start a separately funded "Basic Foundational Skills" course for that, but it should really NOT be the job of the professors teaching their respective domains to handle this.

If a student does not have the basic skills or discipline necessary to handle an undergraduate class, they should not waste their time or the professor's time. Let them go so that someone qualified can take that spot.
by scottyeager | 2025-12-02 05:47:01+00:00
You can read that 3.2 is live on web and app here: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news251201

The pdf describes how they did "continued pre-training" and then post training to make 3.2. I guess what's missing is the full pre-training that absorbs most date sensitive knowledge. That's probably also the reason that the versions are 3.x still.
by nowittyusername | 2025-12-02 05:48:11+00:00
You are correct that you cant change the content if its already biased. But you can catch it with your local llm and have that local llm take action from there. for one you wouldnt be instructing your local model to ask comparison questions of products or any bias related queries like politics etc.. of other closed source cloud based models. such questions would be relegated for your local model to handle on its own. but other questions not related to such matters can be outsourced to such models. for example complex reasoning questions, planning, coding, and other related matters best done with smarter larger models. your human facing local agent will do the automatic routing for you and make sure and scrub any obvious ad related stuff that doesnt pertain to the question at hand. for example recipy to a apple pie. if closed source model says use publix brand flower and clean up the mess afterwards with clenex, the local model would scrub that and just say the recipe. no matter how you slice and dice it IMo its always best to have a human facing agent as the source of input and output, and the human should never directly talk to any closed source models as that inundates the human with too much spam. mind you this is futureproofing, currently we dont have much ai spam, but its coming and an AI adblock of sorts will be needed, and that adblock is your shield local agent that has your best interests in mind. it will also make sure you stay private by automatically redacting personal infor when appropriate, etc... sky is the limit basically.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-02 05:48:44+00:00
And they:

- Didn't affect the atmosphere in any way. - Had all their buildings were recorded as being built by a people we know much about in specific timelines we know much about, which aligns with archeological artifacts. - Made sure none of their lithics stayed. - Used no fuel source. - Did no mining of any kind. - Never used anything but stone and paper machete for building (because even wood structures leave identifiable patterns for potentially thousands of years). - Only used that stone for a couple buildings, which they planned for the cultures that didn't exist to use intimately. - Had their bones dissolved without a trace.

All we have to do is remove any type of evidence-based science and anything is possible!
by sgc | 2025-12-02 05:49:53+00:00
Dell, they are not wonderful. I have one on a book because it can't sit on the carpet. The other one overheats no matter what, and I have to unplug it for a couple minutes every few hours or it angrily flashes at me and stops charging.

usb chargers and devices have many different voltages and power, and they don't always work very well together. It helps to have one format, but it doesn't mean no charger bloat. Cables are even worse, with wildly different specs, all looking exactly the same. They should require colored shapes or something on the cables to indicate their properties.
by dSebastien | 2025-12-02 05:49:56+00:00
I've been having fun with my blog for many years. And now it's a big source of revenue for me. Still, I treat it almost the same way as before: a place where I get to share my ideas and discoveries.

The sheer act of writing helps me structure my thoughts and helps others grow. Win win!

https://dsebastien.net

What I did a while ago was splitting notes and articles: https://notes.dsebastien.net

Publishing unpolished notes is a great way to remove needless pressure
by nineteen999 | 2025-12-02 05:50:24+00:00
> I used to believe that no one would seriously consider this too... but I don't believe that this is a safe assumption anymore. You might be the exception, but there are many more people who don't consider the implications of turning over said intellectual control.

Then they'll pay for it when something goes wrong with their systems with their job etc. You need a different mindset in this particular segment industry - %99.999 uptime is everything (we actually have a %100 uptime for the past 6 years on our platform - chasing that last 0.001 is hard, and something will _eventually_ hit us).

> It's horrible, no one currently understands it, so let the AI do it, so that still, no one will understand it, but at least this one bug will be harder to trigger.

I think you're commenting without context. It's a particular nasty Perl script that's been duct taped to shell scripts and bolted hard on to a Proprietary Third Party application which needs to go - having Claude/GPT rewrite that in a modern language, spending some time on it to have it design proper interfaces and API's around where the script needs to interface other things when nobody wants to touch the code would be the greatest thing that can happen to it.

You still have the old code to test, so have the agent run exhaustive testing on its implementation to prove that its robust, or more so than the original. It's not rocket surgery.
by objectcode | 2025-12-02 05:51:08+00:00
Even nowadays, webp seems to be good specifically for its lossless mode. It seems to create files that are substantially more efficient even when compared with advanced png encoders. For comics, png should probably be used over jpeg, so webp is likely indeed an upgrade, aside from compatibility.

For photographs, jpeg has really been optimized without reducing compatibility, and also in another less compatible way (incompatible viewers can display it without erroring out, but the colors are wrong) and there's such an encoder in the JPEG XL repo.
by staticautomatic | 2025-12-02 05:51:13+00:00
Well, it would probably need to be part of a physical product and not software alone unless the vendor is dumb and forgot to disclaim the warranty (see https://repository.law.uic.edu/jitpl/vol16/iss2/6/).

Second, it’s not exactly about whether the change constitutes a drop in quality but whether it renders the product unfit for its ordinary purpose. The argument would essentially be that the change is a deliberately introduced defect.

It’s a little weird but a plausible claim given the right facts.
by flave | 2025-12-02 05:51:45+00:00
Something very strange is going on in this case. Reading between the lines, there’s someone specific (forgive the cliche but, perchance, an ex wife) who either is being intentionally and subtly threatened, or feels that way.

The article is just missing some really obvious key points - what was written in the LinkedIn post? Whose house was in the image?

The headline is written for maximum clicks in the US advertising market. If an ex husband is posting pictures of his ex wife’s house and cryptic threatening messages on LinkedIn (not saying he was, but if he was) that’s a very different story from “man is arrested for photo with gun”.

On the other hand, the police in my beloved country (including the WYP) never cease in their hard work to make mistakes in some new unfathomable way. So it’s entirely possible that this story is just exactly what it seems on first inspection.
by sunaookami | 2025-12-02 05:52:31+00:00
>This include things like using AI to assist with rendering/processing of PDF, looking at the flags.

Firefox is downloading a local model and using that to add alt-text to images inside PDFs which is great for accessibility. You can see all models that Firefox downloaded at about:addons. Every AI feature besides the (optional) sidebar (obviously) are local modals that run completely on-device.
by dy_son716 | 2025-12-02 05:55:32+00:00
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by bix6 | 2025-12-02 05:56:20+00:00
> September 2025 – Nvidia signed a deal with CoreWeave to buy back its unused GPU capacity for $6.3 bln. This will purportedly allow CRWV's fleet to remain operational during periods of fluctuating demand. We believe this wording suggests that Nvidia could possibly mask any decline in demand for AI capacity within its business. Interestingly, Nvidia is one of CoreWeave's largest investors.

Does anyone understand this deal? Why would Nvidia ever buy back GPU capacity when Coreweave’s entire reason for existence is to rent GPU capacity to other people?
by hahahacorn | 2025-12-02 05:56:25+00:00
> 1 Foreword

> Are you getting into Computer Science, or thinking about it? Or maybe you’re in it already. This super-high-level guide is for you!

> I’m not going to talk about how to write code (much). I’ll I’m going to talk about in these roughly 40 pages is more about how to learn when you’re a nascent software developer.

Page 1
by danans | 2025-12-02 06:00:24+00:00
> By 2035 I wonder if we'll be all running KDE or WindowMaker and the hell with modern OS GUI

I love Linux, but I doubt that will happen. If anything, by then Linux will be a feature of a workstation OS running in a hypervisor, just like it is with Windows and ChromeOS today.

> The hell with "glass" or "flat" design. Desktop OS should be as forgettable as possible, as it's about having long stints of flow, not giving a feeling of "air" or "play".

There's nothing stopping you from running a Linux desktop with a minimalist tiling window manager - I have for years and found it does exactly what you say.

But it sounds like it's more that you don't like that there aren't many product offerings like that. That is true. Even computers with Linux pre installed use "bouncy" desktop environments like Gnome/KDE by default.

My preference - ChromeOS - comes the closest but is still nowhere near as stripped down as i3 tiling window manager (which I also think is great).
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-02 06:00:36+00:00
That's not exactly how LLMs learn either, they require huge amounts of training data to be able to imitate a style. And lots of human artists are able to imitate the style of one another as well, so I'm not sure what makes LLMs so different.

Regardless of whether you think IP laws should prevent LLMs from training on works under copyright, I hardly think the situation is beyond dispute. Whether copyright itself should even exist is something many dispute.
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by tresdots | 2025-12-02 06:01:41+00:00
For as much as I've learned in the last 10 years of being a software engineer, I've frankly forgotten at least half of the maths I once knew.

Of course, I could take the time to re-learn it all if need be, but I'm definitely thankful to have went straight from high school into college. Having to re-learn everything just to be at baseline would make the whole experience far less enjoyable. Kudos to those that have done so.
by rramadass | 2025-12-02 06:02:08+00:00
> I abhor any decision that robs even a grain of my individual freedom.

Silly goose.

"Freedom" is always balanced against "Responsibility" (both Individual and Group); it can never be absolute. The latter needs State support.

That is the reason my "freedom" to rob you is curtailed by the "State's (i.e. Group's) responsibility" enacting laws to prevent it.

You also exercise "your (i.e. Individual) responsibility" when you put a lock on your valuables to prevent my robbing you.
by dSebastien | 2025-12-02 06:02:52+00:00
It seems like a useful research tool, but it doesn't have much to do with zettelkasten. At best it helps creating literature notes, but permanent notes are always yours to write since they're about your own ideas, your own thinking, etc.

https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-05-01-zettelkasten-method/
by kikokikokiko | 2025-12-02 06:02:56+00:00
Abnormal = non normal / non normative. Words have meaning. If for you it causes a bad reaction to it, you are the one that needs to deal with it. That's excatly the problem, normal people are tired of being called bad for seeing the world through normal, reasonable lenses. When a behavior does not follow the norm, it's abnormal.
by brihati | 2025-12-02 06:03:01+00:00
Really interesting idea, thanks for sharing. When working on new projects, a lot of my learning comes from studying what others have already built so I can reuse patterns around architecture, UX, and product decisions. Those learnings tend to be transferable across tech stacks, so they’re not tightly bound to a specific programming language. Could you share the thinking behind using programming language as the primary way to organize or distill these examples?
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-02 06:03:22+00:00
My God, they're rock rectangles cut with reasonable precision! They aren't millimeter replicas of each other.

They float the stones from the quarry. Then prepare a plum surface using water, which lays perfectly flat at rest. They measured out a height with a replica-sized reed. Then they use taught twine to chalk the mark. Finally, you pour hard sand on the chalk line and use ropes back and forth in the groove to grind into the soft stone.

It takes time, but it's a process so simple a child can learn it in a day. And then you apply the scale of having a city of adult laborers just as smart (though not as learned - there's a difference) doing it for years and years. Congrats, the rocks stack into a stable shape.

And it was done multiple times and the history even recorded for some!

Then, a long time goes by and all the structures built out of other material decay. All the structures not stacked in the most stable shape fall down. And all the structures not important and out-of-date with modern ventilation or security or needs are intentionally replaced. Now you only have the special building, which some folk weirdly worship or make conspiracies about.

So many logical fallacies and biases go into this, it's all incredibly frustrating. And to see how this beautiful, connecting history we share is warped. To see simple human cleverness that proves how we are fundamentally the same as those who came before us, completely cast aside. It's just... GAH!

The men and women who lived when those structures were built were just as intelligent as you! Your capacity for knowledge, your curiosity, your ingenuity - all in the same proportions! They were not "primitives" or "cave people". They were smart human beings who built cool shit!
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-02 06:03:24+00:00
Wait, so the entire generation is working two jobs, or they're unable to find work? I constantly hear both...which is it?

And no one here said anything about avocado toast or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Sounds like you're just making assumptions and ranting against a strawman.

Serious question: if your kids were in the situation you're talking about, struggling to pay rent, and you couldn't help them financially, what advice would you give them? What would you hope they'd do? I'm genuinely curious.
by grumblepeet | 2025-12-02 06:03:37+00:00
‘Siri turn on torch’. Used to work, now all I get is “sorry, Torch isn’t available right now” this is at night when it is plugged in and I need to work as a nightlight to go open the bedroom door to let the dog in or out without blasting myself awake with the main phaser array next to my bed.
by kartoffelsaft | 2025-12-02 06:03:48+00:00
Counter Strike makes matchmaking far more prominent than community servers, so I don't think this is that good of an example. For a game like Team Fortress 2 where the options are presented more equally, It seems the players are closer to a 50/50 split. The reality is that most people follow the light patterns that get them in a game, which most modern multiplayer games make that matchmaking.
by masklinn | 2025-12-02 06:04:17+00:00
> My experience with protobufs is that it was created to solve problems in large systems with many teams and APIs

Also significant distribution such that it’s impossible to ensure every system is updated in lockstep (at least not without significant downtime), and high tail latencies e.g. a message could be stashed into a queue or database and processed hours or days later.
by microtonal | 2025-12-02 06:04:22+00:00
Power states are completely broken. Laptop will randomly turn on when it's in my bag and rev up to ten thousand degrees.

If it was in sleep - Dell themselves recommend completely switching off a laptop before putting it inside a backpack:

https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/xps/faq-mode...

For somebody who has used MacBooks the last 18 years, this is insane.
by qbrass | 2025-12-02 06:06:49+00:00
From the same Wikipedia page:

"On July 15, 2003, Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) disbanded Netscape. Most of the programmers were laid off, and the Netscape logo was removed from the building."

Peak Netscape was 1996. By 2003, they had already handed development off to Mozilla, and Netscape the browser was just a thin veneer over Mozilla's browser.

By 2007, it was just Mozilla with AOL branding and almost all of it's users were people still using AOL in 2007.
by cookiengineer | 2025-12-02 06:07:11+00:00
Isn't the core issue just language and implementation differences of clients vs servers here?

I went all in with Go's Marshalling concept, and am using my Gooey framework on the client side nowadays. If you can come around Go's language limitations, it's pretty nice to use and _very_ typesafe. Just make sure to json:"-" the private fields so they can't be injected.

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by gpm | 2025-12-02 06:07:42+00:00
As discussed in this thread before you posted this comment, this code wasn't generated from an LLM at all, but simply included in a dependency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092904

Unlike your results which aren't exact match, or likely even a close enough match to be copyright infringment if the LLM was inspired by them (consider that copyright doesn't protect functional elements), an exact match of the code is here (and I assume from the comment I linked above this is a dependency of three.js, though I didn't track that down myself): https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Cauldron/blob/b9...

Edit: Actually on further thought the date on the copyright header vs the git dates suggests the file in that repo was copied from somewhere else... anyways I think we can be reasonably confident that a version of this file is in the dependency. Again I didn't look at the three.js code myself to track down how its included.

If there's any copyright infringment here it would be because bog standard web tools fail to comply with the licenses of their dependencies and include a copy of the license, not because of LLMs. I think that is actually the case for many of them? I didn't investigate the to check if licenses are included in the network traffic.
by jajuuka | 2025-12-02 06:08:51+00:00
If the goal was to move everything to Settings, sure. But Settings seems to be for the most common settings the average user will want to look at whereas more detailed options are elsewhere. It's a way to easily funnel users away from more impactful settings to system stability. In this view Windows 11 release solidified that pretty well.

The character repeat and cursor blink rate settings were already in Settings but it just opened up the older windows forms. This just gives them a new coat of paint by putting them in the Settings app.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-02 06:08:53+00:00
I know this isn't particularly on-topic, but I find it fascinating how much this sentence now jostles me.

Reading the article as a whole feels like it was written by a person, but the moment I see this, the "it's not X, it's Y" pattern matching my brain has developed for LLM speech kicks in and I suddenly feel a negative bias toward the content.
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-02 06:09:25+00:00
I think there's a difference between seeing yourself as a craftsman / programmer / engineer as a way to solve problems and deliver value, and seeing yourself as an HTML/CSS programmer. To me the latter is pretty risky, because technologies, tastes, and markets are constantly changing.

It's like equating being a craftsman with being someone who a very particular kind of shoe. If the market for that kind of shoe dries up, what then?
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by Inviz | 2025-12-02 06:11:23+00:00
Well, OT has its CAP-like theorem, which says that you can make some sacrifices to get some qualities. Excluding time component from the OT and removing the "first edit wins" rules, allows for very flexible OTs with deterministic tie breakers (i.e. when two people are writing a word in one place, sort words alphanumerically to brea the tie). But in order for this to work for P2P environments, the list of actions can't be collapsed/optimized until all parties rebased their changes against all other parties. In centralized systems, peers can throw away the log of ops that happened before the server's last acknowledged state
by nineteen999 | 2025-12-02 06:11:51+00:00
Always love seeing new vt100 implementations! Here's my current pet one running inside Unreal5:

https://imgur.com/a/2vsGS0G

Vibe coding with Claude in a UE5 Editor tab is a lot of fun ... especially once you give it access to the Remote Control API in UE5, it can control an avatar, take screenshots. All very helpful for debugging 3d games:

### Photo Log | Filename | Description | |----------|-------------| | ClaudePOV_20251202_134349_2.png | First 720p test - VT100 terminal visible | | ClaudePOV_20251202_143259_4.png | Inside hyperspace tunnel - green rings | | ClaudePOV_20251202_143325_5.png | Tunnel with pink/purple shift | | ClaudePOV_20251202_143432_6.png | BX-2100 silhouette, purple nebula | | ClaudePOV_20251202_143655_7.png | BX-2100 close-up, cockpit visible |

Love Claude. It can build me a Hyperspace GLSL shader in Unreal 5, but it can't get the column headers right in it's screenshot list.