MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 7402 | 2025-12-25 05:20:51+00:00
There's a difference between questions of cultural / technical difference and questions of competence or character.

In the end, if a junior is repeatedly not responding to appropriate guidance or advice, then that junior should be gone from that position. Same for a senior who is repeatedly dispensing inappropriate guidance or advice.

But it requires careful analysis of the situation before such a drastic course of action: is there a communication problem, a training problem, a mistake in evaluating abilities?

A senior should be able to navigate cultural and technical differences competently. A junior should understand that that the ones with responsibility for a project also have the authority to make decisions about the project, which should be honored.
by wpm | 2025-12-25 05:21:11+00:00
It makes me wonder, does Apple have some insane patent on unibody construction? The pre-Retina unibody MacBook Pros were easily upgradable and very solid. They had a ton of room in the chassis, and hell, the first year of them the battery was toollessly removable. Aside from the keyboard and the screen, it was all latches and a few common Phillips #00's.

Why have no manufacturers copied this obviously great construction technique? It's not like a Framework is wildly cheaper than a MacBook, we're already paying a premium, so the costs of subtractive CNC can't be it.
by monocasa | 2025-12-25 05:21:42+00:00
A compiler isn't using a statistical model of language more complex than anyone could understand with a lifetime of study to do its translation, adheres to a standard for that translation, and if you're important enough (and Microsoft internal teams are for MSVC), you get heads up on what specifically is changing so you know where to look for issues.

This is "lets put our postgres database on blockchain because I think blockchain is cool" level of crap you see in peak bubble.
by rockskon | 2025-12-25 05:21:49+00:00
It seems like the equivalent of reading everyone's journals every home in the entire nation. Cartoonishly unconstitutional.

But yes, I'm aware of the Third Party doctrine ruled on by judges whose conception of people making phone calls involved an individual talking to another human being (a.k.a. an operator) to connect you to who you wanted to talk to.

A practice antiquated when the ruling was made and a bygone relic by this point.
by zh | 2025-12-25 05:21:52+00:00
All this is BS. He was doing the same scam many other projects (even MicroStrategy) is doing - praying on users FOMO - as long as there are new users, old ones will profit. The main reason Terra project have to be killed was that it was the only project providing non-USD stable coins, which was a direct attack on USD dominance. So they made an example of him to discourage other projects going in this direction (non-USD stable coins).
by keepamovin | 2025-12-25 05:23:15+00:00
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Merry Christmas!

merry Christmas to all you people out there :)
by necovek | 2025-12-25 05:24:21+00:00
Any web application really has access only to "ephemeral" storage like cookies or localStorage when used in this manner (you could be cleaning your localStorage for every session too).

Switching to localStorage would help things, but until they do, you can avoid the known failure case for Element Web by not doing that.

Obviously though, they need to figure out a way to reestablish encryption when the keys are gone, as long as you are willing to accept no access to history, or keeping keys encrypted server side.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-25 05:24:32+00:00
I don't understand the potential vulnerabilities listed at the linked section here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc...

They give 2 reasons why SameSite cookies are only considered defense in depth:

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> Lax enforcement provides reasonable defense in depth against CSRF attacks that rely on unsafe HTTP methods (like "POST"), but does not offer a robust defense against CSRF as a general category of attack:

> 1. Attackers can still pop up new windows or trigger top-level navigations in order to create a "same-site" request (as described in section 2.1), which is only a speedbump along the road to exploitation.

> 2. Features like "<link rel='prerender'>" [prerendering] can be exploited to create "same-site" requests without the risk of user detection.

> When possible, developers should use a session management mechanism such as that described in Section 8.8.2 to mitigate the risk of CSRF more completely.

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But that doesn't make any sense to me. I think "the robust solution" should be to just be sure that you're only performing potential sensitive actions on POST or other mutable method requests, and always setting the SameSite attribute. If that is true, there is absolutely no vulnerability if the user is using a browser from the past seven years or so. The 2 points noted in the above section would only lead to a vulnerability if you're performing a sensitive state-changing action on a GET. So rather than tell developers to implement a complicated "session management mechanism", it seems like it would make a lot more sense to just say don't perform sensitive state changes on a GET.

Am I missing something here? Do I not understand the potential attack vectors laid out in the 2 bullet points?
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-25 05:24:51+00:00
You’re right about the impossibility of reviewing for style, clarity, and coherence. For correctness though, Windows is famous for being insistent on backwards compatibility over timespans measured in decades and that must surely be automated to the hilt.

As a third-party developer in the late 2000s I remember my boss giving me a CDROM binder (binders?) of every single OS release that Microsoft had ever put out. I assume he’d been given it my his developer-relations rep at Microsoft. My team and I used it to ensure our code worked on every MSDOS/Win* platform we cared to target.

I expect that, internally, the Windows team have crazy amounts of resources to implement the most comprehensive regression testing suite ever created. To that extent, at least, you’d be able to tell if the Rust version did what the old code did even if you didn’t read the code itself.
by s5300 | 2025-12-25 05:25:16+00:00
>> Unfortunately, Alex died a few months after his last round of holiday giving, about 1½ years ago now.

Ahh. I was not aware of his passing, but I do recall his threads & being appreciative of them at the time.

Thanks for informing us.

___

Edit:

In trying to find an obituary, & after seeing a lot of very strange “groyper” related posts on his colitis fundraiser page, I came across this via google results:

“ Fans of white nationalist Nick Fuentes have been mourning the death of "AT Drummond", who they identify as Alexander Thomas Drummond. He has donated to Fuentes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, even bankrolling a fundraising event for Fuentes last year for $50k”

https://x.com/jaredlholt/status/1757799398707188046

Certainly threw me for a bit of a loop… people, uh – contain multitudes I guess. I will choose to try not to let this impact my memories of his goodwill here.

https://x.com/ATDrummond

This would appear to be his account – and for whatever it’s worth, he perhaps seems to hold some of my views on wondering why we’re sending so much money to Israel so they can genocide who ever they deem as lesser/non-humans.
Show HN: Claude Code in Cursor
by wyxuan | 2025-12-25 05:25:44+00:00
Simple proxy service that uses your oauth credentials from Claude Code which you can pop into Cursor and use.

Falls back to your API key if you have one set.

I spent $XXXX on Cursor on Anthropic API Credits, but was told that the Claude Code $200 pmo plan was much more affordable. It's a great arbitrage, so I made this hack so I could save money on this.

Note: Cursor OpenAI baseurl overriding is extremely buggy right now so I don't recommend trying this for now.
by tensor | 2025-12-25 05:25:51+00:00
No, distillation is far older than deepseek. Deepseek was impressive because of algorithmic improvements that allowed them to train a model of that size with vastly less compute than anyone expected, even using distillation.

I also haven’t seen any hard data on how much they do use distillation like techniques. They for sure used a bunch of synthetic generated data to get better at reasoning, something that is now commonplace.
by bayindirh | 2025-12-25 05:27:19+00:00
> Berkley Mono looks great!

Yes! I use it in all my systems' terminals and it's really a great font. Also it's a great homage to the fonts I used back in the day and the era that I missed.

It also works really well for programming.

> But not $75 great.

I'll respectfully disagree on that part. :)

Merry Christmas!
by s5300 | 2025-12-25 05:28:44+00:00
>> Also I'm getting my back nerves burned finally after trying to get a pain remediation surgery for a long time. Better late than never.

Best of luck with this. Back (and neck) pain really, truly sucks. Very under-treated in the U.S. as well. IME, completely stifles the ability to enter a “flow” state of cognitive function.
by monocasa | 2025-12-25 05:30:36+00:00
I've heard some inside stories from microsofties.

They do still review code, but the first wave of layoffs in 2022 mainly hit principal engineers because some bean counters said "oh, these are the engineers that are costing us the most per head", so it's kind of the inmates running the asylum now.

And I'll say that their biggest sin was always that their code from the late 90s on was about 20% too clever for their own good. Kind of goes to that classic quip about how how it takes twice your brain power to debug code as it takes to write it, so if you were already maxing out just writing it, then you're not smart enough to debug it. That's half of why features seemed to get a 1.0 release, then get replaced with something rather than iteratively improved (the other half being FAANG style internal incentive structures).

Were all seeing the effects of them clearing house of their weaponized autism that was barely keeping the wheels on the wagon. They do review, but they don't have the ability to do it properly at scale anymore. Which makes rewriting everything even more batshit.
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS | 2025-12-25 05:31:29+00:00
There are so many. Muppet Christmas Carol, of course. Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas is a classic. White Christmas, a bit cliché but I love it. Bishop's Wife (with Carey Grant) is also a classic. Home Alone for the funny.

And probably a hundred others.
by wdr1 | 2025-12-25 05:31:39+00:00
> I think we should start separating discussion of “The Economy” from “human prosperity and wellbeing.”

* Extreme poverty is at its lowest level in human history, down by over a billion people since 1990.

* More humans can read, write, and attend school than ever before, especially girls in lower-income countries.

* Global life expectancy has more than doubled compared to 1900

* Most countries continue to rise on human-development measures (health, education, income)

Yes, there's more room to keep improving, but the world keeps getting better & better.
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-12-25 05:31:43+00:00
> If you took people who absolutely never tried any computing, and gave them macos, windows, and for example Plasma, they would NOT consider windows or macos to be ready for the desktop.

There's some truth to this. I've been installing fresh Windows 11s on family computers this holiday season, and good lord is it difficult to use.

The number of tweaks I had to configure to prevent actively hostile programs from ravaging disk read/writes (HDD pain), freezing and crashing, or invasive popups was absurd.
by justinai6 | 2025-12-25 05:32:25+00:00
A few thoughts: [disclaimer - I don't know anything official at all just reading the same public info that has been officially shared - this is just a few thoughts from an outsider]

- The deal structure matters, and we don't have enough details yet.
- If the license fee is distributed to shareholders, it goes above the liquidation preference. Anyone with common stock or options can exercise and get paid out.
- The company continuing forward—I see this as great. There are discussions about it becoming just a shell, but I don't think that's the case at all. This looks like an acqui-hire for a few top people and a licensing deal for an alternative hardware approach to inference.

Let's say they keep $3–4B cash in the company. That's plenty to avoid another financing round and keep cranking on growth.

Groq and Cerebras can keep adding speed to open models while giving Nvidia key IP they can integrate into their large data center buildouts.

Also, on deal points I think could be interesting: would you negotiate this as a one-time payment license deal? I wouldn't. Maybe it's a hurdle, so it might take a while, but let's say Nvidia pushes massive investment to deploy this Groq hardware infrastructure integrated into their full stack…
A. This could produce a nice royalty stream for the Groq company that still exists—benefiting all stakeholders.
B. Use Nvidia's massive ability to deploy capital and hardware pipeline and add in another unit they can sell to their fat stakes customers and ultimately to cheapen and accelerate getting fast inference in the wild quickly.

And lastly, if management is smart or clever with the distribution part of this deal, maybe they convert all stock to common and squash the liquidation preference in this move. so they might have a quite compelling cap table post deal. (again hopefully structured as a distribution vs buy out) but at least pref is gone.

So employees exercise, get an exit, keep their stock—with investors already happy, liquidation preference gone, and potentially a well-capitalized future royalty stream coming from the largest market cap company in the world and the largest capex pipeline ever seen.

I'd much rather own the actual shares (fewer handcuffs) and have plenty of cash to deploy in a very capex-heavy moment.

It just seems like a win-win-win-win.

Nvidia wins new fundamentally different IP can sell to there existing customers
Groq employees and stakeholders win.
The open models win (big).
We as AI consumers win because of cheaper, faster inference.

Common to what we all want to believe here, we’re not really in a winner take all moment here.
nvdia is just taking a disproportional amount because of lack of real suitable alternatives… The base will for sure widen and expand from where we are at now, but that doesn’t mean that nvidia has to or is going or loose as part of it.
by randycupertino | 2025-12-25 05:33:00+00:00
How about the add-ons/call-backs to Rudolph the Red nosed reindeer:

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
*(reindeer)*

Had a very shiny nose
*(like a light bulb)*

And if you ever saw it
*(saw it)*

You would even say it glows
*(like a light bulb)*

All of the other reindeer
*(reindeer)*

Used to laugh and call him names
*(like Pinochio)*

They never let poor Rudolph
*(Rudolph)*

Play in any reindeer games
*(like Monopoly)*

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
*(Ho Ho Ho)*

Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
Then all the reindeer loved him
*(loved him)*

And they shouted out with glee
*(yippee)*

"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
*(reindeer)*

You'll go down in history!"
*(Like George Washington!")*
by dagmx | 2025-12-25 05:33:39+00:00
It’s significantly more straight forward to go from a higher level to a lower level representation than it is to go between different high level representations.

That’s not to trivialize what a compiler does, but it’s effectively going from a complex form to its building blocks while maintaining semantics.

Changing high level languages introduces fundamentally different semantics. Both can decompose to the same general building blocks, but you can’t necessarily compose them the same way.

At the simplest example, a compiler backend (the part you’re describing) can’t reason about data access rules. That is the domain of the language’s compiler frontend and a fundamental difference between C++ and Rust that can’t just be directly derived.
by rramadass | 2025-12-25 05:34:45+00:00
> I doubt he could fit the role of senior/staff/principal engineer in any one-level-below faang kind of company.

Why would you even think that these sort of exceptional people would even be interested in mere jobs?

These are people who are solo auteurs; something in them feels a need to express themselves in full creativity without restraint in any domain they choose to focus on. That is what makes them unique because they are the few who can change Science into Art and make it seem effortless. The common man calls them "Geniuses" but it is actually a way of living, thinking and training.

Much of Society's institutions, companies, jobs etc. is designed to get the most out of the average person which does not work for creative individuals. To measure the latter using the yardstick for average is foolish in the extreme. This is why true Scientists/Researchers/Artists etc. need to be treated very differently from the "common" man.

For all the hoopla about Corporations/Companies/Groups/Teams etc. in the modern world, all our civilizational breakthroughs have emerged from a single individual or a small group of individuals.
by j-o-m | 2025-12-25 05:34:58+00:00
I don’t understand this view point. How is anyone reading ‘way too much’ into the post based on what’s being discussed in this thread. A senior engineer leading a team at Microsoft saying that his goal is to rewrite/replace all C and C++ code with Rust using AI to facilitate the work is plainly saying what the comments in this thread are reacting to. No onenis reading into the statement, just plain reading. And even though it’s been edited since attention got focused on it, the post still says a goal for his team is 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.

Further, this is not a random speculative post, it is an announcement for a job opening on the posters team.
by randycupertino | 2025-12-25 05:35:06+00:00
Does anyone else remember the 12 pains of Christmas?

RIGGING UP THE LIGHTS!!

Yo-ho, sending Christmas cards.

The damn lightS!!!

Facing my in laws!

One light goes out, they all go out!!!!!!!

FiiiiiIIIIIIiiiive months of bills!!

She's a witch, I hate her.

You're so smart, YOU rig up the lights!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxgttJpbZE
by mrtksn | 2025-12-25 05:35:29+00:00
The youth tend to be much less absolutists for free speech and don't value anonymity as much as the elders of the internet(!), at least that's my observation. They are much more familiar with people who are into all these things for the profits and don't idealise the WWW as the old folks used to. My guess is that they were born in already corrupt world where online professionals were doing everything for money and dirty tricks like rage baiting and astroturfing were already the norm and as a result they don't have a grand mission fantasy about the internet. Also, because they were born in an already online world they don't see the disturbances of trolls as disturbances in their online persona that is a toy for their real persona, they see trolls as trouble makers to their real persona which is fused with their online persona.

Back in the day of forums personal banning wasn't a thing, we had to see everything until someone did something bad enough to be deplatformed from the forum. In the current social media, you can just block people you don't like, you don't have to endure their "content".

The censorship is built-in in modern platforms. I prefer the old ways personally but in the old days the profile of the people was different.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-25 05:36:41+00:00
Oh, this is excellent! I'm so happy with this. This is EXCELLENT! and what a beautiful website. Is this your project?

So cool. Where did the name come from? I am so stoked and glad that we are going to have a JS to native binary compiler. The best thing ever!

I was going to set up an AI automation to run on this against the autotests, but as I got started, I felt - why not just create a new language where I can pick my own concurrency paradigms and syntax? So I went with that instead.

So glad someone is doing this. What more do you know about this proejct, kind person?
Show HN: Web playground for Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
by yeekal | 2025-12-25 05:37:33+00:00
To make it easier to play with real examples, I put up a simple web interface where you can upload images and iterate on edits using natural language instructions:

https://z-image.app/models/qwen-image-edit-2511

some examples:
https://cdn.z-image.app/models/qwen-image-edit-2511/green-ja...
https://cdn.z-image.app/models/qwen-image-edit-2511/anime-gi...
by monocularvision | 2025-12-25 05:37:58+00:00
To be honest I am not sure if you are even discussing this in good faith anymore. The idea that the Supreme Court could render impeachment of them null and void and the legislative and executive branches would just be :shrugging-emoji: is a little silly.

Yes, the court’s job is to interpret the law. But the Constitution is not code and the judges are not the CPU. Ultimately, the rule of law will always be dependent on people.
Show HN: Got tired of searching for AI news daily so I built my own AI news page
by lilsquid | 2025-12-25 05:38:54+00:00
Hacker News has been my homepage and my inspiration for many years. While I’m still learning the ropes of building a public website, I created DreyX.com out of a simple necessity: I wanted a better way to track AI news without all the fluff. Literally a tool built by a curious reader, for curious readers. Thoughts? Suggestions?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-25 05:39:48+00:00
Honestly, I’ve worked at everything from small to medium lifestyle companies, startups, Big Enterprise, BigTech, and now Í am a staff consultant at a third party AWS consulting firm across 10 jobs.

In all of those jobs, I have found line level managers absolutely useless and powerless.

At the jobs where I was responsible for strategy, one of my conditions for employment was I would be reporting directly to a director or CTO.
by 9x39 | 2025-12-25 05:40:11+00:00
Escape from Tarkov is popular and explores stamina heavily. You can't sprint for long, or you exhaust your stamina and wheeze audibly to other players which gives away your positioning at minimum.

Further, the more you carry, the slower you can sprint, the faster stamina drains, and the faster your energy and hydration meters deplete. Since this is a game at least partially about scavenging, if you're carrying too much, you can only take a few steps before your stamina is depleted and you are unable to even walk unless you toss your immensely heavy backpack or gear on the ground and wait to recover.

None of this is to suggest that complex stamina mechanics are common in gaming, however...EFT is an exception to the mainstream.
by preommr | 2025-12-25 05:41:24+00:00
That line doesn't even make any sense. AI usage for a project is binary (either it requires a person, or it doesn't, there's no such thing where an AI is good for a team for a team of three but not a team of two). And we can already one-shot really complex applications in seconds/minutes. Why the hell would it take an entire month to generate one million lines of code?

It really just boils down to AI writing a million lines of code.

I actually think it can probably already do something like where there's a lot of boilerplate code.