MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quantumwannabe | 2025-12-08 22:55:05+00:00
They haven't really added anything to Office since 2013, the last pre-subscription version. There were massive changes between Office 98 and 2013, including entirely new programs like OneNote. They just found a way to get their customers to rebuy the same product every year.

Same thing happened with Adobe and CS6; feature development slowed to a crawl after the change to a subscription.
by d-lisp | 2025-12-08 22:55:10+00:00
What is your point exactly in regard to what I said earlier, how would you rephrase what you just said as a philosophical/epistemological statement ?

> It's extremely common

I cannot conceive this ? I am lacking the empirical knowledge you seem to have. (I don't understand your "archetypical case", I can't relate to it). I'd love a reexplanation of your point here, as your intent is unclear to me.

I didn't understand also the "introspection modulators" part :(, (a well known practice ?? I must be living on another planet haha...).

edit: or maybe that's a metaphor for "language" ??
by dghlsakjg | 2025-12-08 22:55:21+00:00
> But no harm in them trying their idea...

I assure you that there is plenty of potential harm in trying to make extra-legal mass scale social programs.

The most obvious one to me (based on every large social institution's past history), is how these places will handle sex crimes. There will be a poorly managed or entirely preventable sex crime scandal at one of these places. I would be willing to bet on it.

There are plenty of other things that I foresee failing, but this just looks like seasteading 2.0 to me. There is a reason that libertarians on a cruise ship failed, and given the involvement of some of the same characters, I would also be willing to bet that these concepts will fail in the same way.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-08 22:55:32+00:00
> if consciousness is a quantum effect [...] promptly received an eyeroll

A very long comic, but the punchline is relevant: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

> would mere atomic recombination really be enough to bring you back?

I think we need to distinguish between "quantum effect" versus "quantum state". There are probably a lot of biological processes that are possible or efficient from quantum effects (vision, smell, photosynthesis) but that doesn't mean the machinery itself has a fragility beyond the arrangement of its atoms.

I imagine our brains/minds go through far greater levels of disruption in our daily lives, sleep-cycles, anesthesia, concussions, etc.
by Larrikin | 2025-12-08 22:55:32+00:00
The setup is

install Tailscale on your Kobo

install Koreader

Install Tailscale on the machine that host your eBook collection app of choice

Add the OPDS URL from the collection app, replacing the local machine URL with the Tailscale URL

You can now browse and download your private collection from anywhere.

I went with Kavita since I wanted my eBooks treated as equals with my manga.
by hopelite | 2025-12-08 22:55:43+00:00
I’m not sure it’s a fair comparison, groceries that sell food on one hand and a brainwashing and propaganda delivery system (see History of criminal, industry/advertiser, FBI, CIA, Pentagon, and foreign nation direct ties to the industry) masquerading as “entertainment” on the other.

You don’t have to be “harmed”, just do not pay them your money. Problem solved. If the prospect of not being “entertained” fills you with anxiety and frustration, maybe that’s something to reflect on.
by still_grokking | 2025-12-08 22:56:13+00:00
https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/

https://medium.com/@ankushroy7/tiobe-is-trash-why-it-gets-mo...

Tiobe bullshit unfolding looks like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24997496
by badc0ffee | 2025-12-08 22:56:30+00:00
Could be because I use a Mac, and I do most of my work chatting in Slack, but I don't hate Teams. It has my calendar, it has chat that is shitty but good enough during meetings (although finding which room you have unread messages in can be confusing), and it has video meetings with transcripts and great Exchange integration.

Windows 11, on the other hand, offends me.
by benlivengood | 2025-12-08 22:56:48+00:00
If the universe is infinite that should happen sometime (not really important) around 10^10^29 meters away. Of course, you don't actually have to die for that copy to exist either, and a copy of the local galaxy etc. is not too much further away (10^10^92 m), so waking up indistinguishably somewhere else after a good night's sleep would happen occasionally too.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-08 22:56:55+00:00
As the late great Douglas Adams wrote, "There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

If time in infinite and there's a nonzero probability that random fluctuations could result in a conscious being with all your memories intact, then it's virtually certain that you are such a being right now, and not an original human actually present in the world that you perceive.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-12-08 22:56:56+00:00
The lack of results so far. The observable behavior exhibits many uncanny similarities but also clearly has missing pieces.

As the person you initially responded to said, observing children growing up should make it obvious.

Or if we shift to stating the obvious, there's the minor detail that the vast majority of architectures lack the ability to learn during inference. That's one of the basic things that biological systems are capable of.
by codyb | 2025-12-08 22:57:03+00:00
Writing a giant unit test suite being the primary example that stuck out to me from that article really doesn't give a lot of credence to the question?

And yet, the conclusion seems to be as if the answer is yes?

Until AI can work organizationally as opposed to individually it'll necessarily be restricted in its abilities to produce gains beyond relatively marginal improvements (Saved 20 hours of developer time on unit tests) for a project that took X weeks/months/years to work it's way through Y number of people.

So sure, simple projects, simple asks, unit tests, projects handled by small teams of close knit coworkers who know the system in and out and already have the experience to differentiate between good code and bad? I could see that being reduced by 90%.

But, it doesn't seem to have done much for organizational efficiency here at BigCo and unit tests are pretty much the very tip of a project's iceberg here. I know a lot of people are using the AI agents, and I know a lot of people who aren't, and I worry for the younger engineers who I'm not sure have the chops to distinguish between good, bad, and irrelevant and thus leave in clearly extraneous code, and paragraphs in their documents. And as for the senior engineers with the chops, they seem to do okay with it although I can certainly tell you they're not doing ten times more than they were four years ago.

I kinda rambled at the end there, all that to say... organizational efficiency is the bug to solve.

(It's very difficult, I believe the 2D interfaces we've had for the last 40 years or whatever are not truly meeting the needs of the vast cathedrals of code we're working in, same thing for our organizations, our code reviews, everything man)
by jellyotsiro | 2025-12-08 22:58:40+00:00
Nia is focused on external context rather than learning the patterns inside your own codebase. Cursor and IDE-native tools are better for local project structure today. Where Nia helps is when the agent needs ground truth from outside your repo. For example, you can index React Native docs, libraries you depend on, API references or Stack for your backend and let the agent search and validate against those sources directly instead of losing context between prompts.
by RajT88 | 2025-12-08 22:58:50+00:00
I would add "predictable" to that as well.

I fed Claude Pro a REST API spec and told it to spit out a Powershell module and well... So far that 27k lines of code largely checks out (minus the undocumented stuff I knew about).

Getting it to write the pester scripts was a very different matter...
by itsdesmond | 2025-12-08 22:58:51+00:00
I live in a Chicago neighborhood where these are in use. They have very bright lights, actually blinding you as you approach one at night. They move much faster than is appropriate on a sidewalk. They position themselves in the middle of the sidewalk as opposed to the right hand side, impacting traffic in both directions. They round corners at intersections at below-eye-level, I’ve walked into more than one when they appeared in front of me at a corner. They park in the walkway while waiting for customers to retrieve their food. The hey are implemented in a way that demands everyone else gets out of their way. They have not attempted to integrate into the community, they have inserted themselves and we are to figure it out.

I am receptive to the argument that deliveries made in cars are wasteful. I ride a bike exclusively, I am not a fan of delivery drivers jumping out of double parked cars all over town, let alone the environmental impact. But much like rental e-scooters being abandoned on sidewalks, these claim to solve some problem by creating new problems and making the common environment worse principally to create profit for the owners.

And before anyone starts yapping bout NIMBYs: the sidewalk is in the front yard, stupid.

Edit: y’all, no bullshit I wrote this message and then left the house and ran into a Coco branded RC delivery bot at Grand and Ogden, stuck in the snow in the only walkable portion of the sidewalk, unable to get itself out and forcing me to walk around it in the snow. So there’s a little live reporting on the situation in the streets.

I offered no aid.
by troad | 2025-12-08 22:59:14+00:00
Meanwhile, those with the backbone not to do evil from the start get nothing at all, continuing this warped set of incentives (do evil > get rich > "I'm sowwwy" > zero accountability) for the next generation.

It's also worth noting the framing of the article: "I wasted years of my life in crypto." It's not contrition for the harms inflicted, it's pure self-pity.

Edit: This post is now second in "/best". This is the best of HN? What a depressing thought.
by traceroute66 | 2025-12-08 22:59:29+00:00
> if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself,

Yeah, it should use safe-defaults.

Then you can always go read the corners of the docs for the "go faster" mode.

Just like Postgres's infamous "non-durable settings" page... https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/non-durability.html
by projektfu | 2025-12-08 22:59:38+00:00
Lecturing about accessibility with latency so high that you have no idea if any clicks are actually meaningful. I click "banners" and there's no indication anything is happening until 3 seconds later, when it takes me to a page that doesn't directly talk about banners until later. Then there is a link there that says "banners", and takes me to a different page, 3 seconds later. No indication that anything is happening or waiting during that time.
by slwvx | 2025-12-08 22:59:42+00:00
Yes, I think day trading is zero-sum

I think gains on assets held for less than (say) two days should be taxed at a rate higher than normal income. On a related note, long-term investment is the good part of capitalism, and I'm ok with taxing gains on assets held for long terms (say 5 years) at a rate lower than normal income. The point is to incentivize people to work hard to find those investments that will pay off in the long run. Implementing the taxes described above would often increase bid-ask spreads; the size of the bid-ask spread could be an indicator of the uncertainty in the market.
by encyclopedism | 2025-12-08 22:59:43+00:00
> The ratio of cognition to knowledge is much higher in humans that LLMs. That is for sure. It is improving in LLMs, particularly small distillations of large models.

It isn't a case of ratio it is a fundamentally different method of working hence my point of not needing all human literary output do the the equivalent of an LLM. Consider even the case of a person born blind they have an even more severe deficiency of input yet they are equivalent in cognitive capacity to a sighted person and certainly any LLM.

> In the case of number multiplication, a bunch of papers have shown that the correct algorithm for the first and last digits of the number are embedded into the model weights. I think that counts as "understanding";

Why are those numbers in the model weights? What if the model was trained on birdsong instead of humanities output would it then be able to multiply? Humans provide the connections, the reasoning the thought the insights and the subsequent correlations THEN we humans try to make a good pattern matcher/ guesser (the LLM) to match those. We tweak it so it matches patterns more and more closely.

> most humans I have talked to do not have that understanding of numbers.

This common retort: most humans also makes mistakes, or most humans also do x, y, z means nothing. Take the opposite implication of such retorts. For example most humans can't multiply 10 digits numbers therefore most calculators 'understand' maths better than most humans.

> I don't think something being an algorithm means it can't reason, know or understand. I can come up with perfectly rigorous definitions of those words that wouldn't be objectionable to almost anyone from 2010, but would be passed by current LLMs.

My digital thermometer uses an algorithm to determine the temperature. It does NOT reason when doing so. An algorithm is a series of steps. You can write them on a piece of paper. The paper will not be thinking if that is done.

> I have found anthropomorphizing LLMs to be a reasonably practical way to....

I think anthropomorphising is letting people assume they are more than they are (next token generators). In fact at the extreme end this anthropomorphising has led to exacerbating mental health conditions and unfortunately has even led to humans killing themselves.
by nuclearnicer | 2025-12-08 22:59:43+00:00
This is great. Asking questions of library code is a big pattern of mine too.

Here's an example I saw on twitter. Asking an LLM to document a protocol from the codebase:

https://ampcode.com/threads/T-f02e59f8-e474-493d-9558-11fddf...

Do you think you will be able to capture any of this extra value? I think I'm faster at coding, but the overall corporate project timeline feels about the same. I feel more relaxed and confident that the work can be done. Not sure how to get a raise out of this.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-12-08 23:00:06+00:00
> You are coping.

This is an amusing response. I personally have chased the TC (to an extent), climbed the ladder, and sit at the top (below the c-suite). This isn’t cope, it’s a genuine reflection based on many years of experience having worked for multinationals in various countries.

Perhaps compensation should be a reflection of ability, but the real world is far more nuanced.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-12-08 23:00:10+00:00
Its obviously not my 'fault'. But it's pretty close to a death I could have prevented for a while if I wasnt pretending to be busy probably.

I remember when she said her dad was going to go instead and I thought "uhh, I don't think that's going to work.. I should just go" but I didn't really like her that much at that point and figured it would just be a lame wasted hike, not that the dude would die.
by senderista | 2025-12-08 23:00:13+00:00
IOPS only solves throughput, not latency. You still need to saturate internal parallelism to get good throughput from SSDs, and that requires batching. Also, even double-digit microsecond write latency per transaction commit would limit you to only 10K TPS. It's just not feasible to issue individual synchronous writes for every transaction commit, even on NVMe.

tl;dr "multi-transaction group-commit fsync" is alive and well
by bdangubic | 2025-12-08 23:00:40+00:00
certainly not more of it now, we have decades and decades of human-written code if I am understanding the question correctly.

all's I am saying is that "anti-AI" HN crowd literally glorifies human-written code every second of every day here, "AI slop this, AI code unmaintainable that..." I have been a contractor for many years now and usually brought on to fix shit and human-written code is in vast majority of cases much worse compared to AI generated code. the sample size of the latter is smaller but my general argument remains. I think people that write these "AI slop" comments should pick their favorite language/framework/... and then go to github and browse through codebases, written by humans (ignore commits before xxxxxx) and then see if they like what they see :)
Is there any value from "coming soon" placeholders?
by sshadmand | 2025-12-08 23:01:16+00:00
It is like some powerful urge even very talented people can't help but make. Maybe I am the wrong one, but is it really work it to show a feature that simply says "Coming soon"? I guess, IF you are ghetto testing for clicks - sure. But I find that is rarely what is happening behind the scenes. It is ugly and makes your app seem half-baked for no value. I feel like it should be "release it or don't". CMIIW
by jmward01 | 2025-12-08 23:01:19+00:00
I'm not a geologist, but this was pretty deep (44.1k) so not likely a foreshock right? Any actual geologists have a thought here? I know we have seen some indications that foreshocks can happen before megathrust earthquakes but it would need to be at the interface right? This looks like it is just the subducted slab deep down which in the 'intermediate zone' so not impacting the interface that 'slips' in a megathrust earthquake. (again, not a geologist) Now there have been, by that I mean just now, a 6.6 aftershock that was only 10km deep so that is potentially more concerning?
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-12-08 23:01:33+00:00
This is an unrelated synonymous language. Besides this and submitted one, there're few others found online, one[0] being 20y+ old (first release 06/2003). There's also a research one on functional parallel programming[1], but no public implementation seems to exist. (Though conceptually Futhark is similar; maybe that Nova even influenced Futhark's creation.)

[0]: http://www.navgen.com/nova/index.html

[1]: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2013-07_nova-functio...
by Vecr | 2025-12-08 23:01:53+00:00
This is optimistic, I see "The cryonics people make a mistake in freezing you (how do we know they don't make lots of mistakes?)"[0] and "The current cryonics process is insufficient to preserve everything"[0] resulting of a product 10% already, seemingly matching the questionnaire as well as possible. They say "under ideal conditions" in the survey, so maybe that rules out cracking of brain tissue or ice growth, but that's not the number practitioners want to know about.

[0]: https://www.jefftk.com/p/breaking-down-cryonics-probabilitie... “Principles of Cryopreservation by Vitrification” https://gwern.net/doc/biology/2015-fahy.pdf
by tobyjsullivan | 2025-12-08 23:02:14+00:00
Despite a couple forward-looking statements, I didn’t read this as a prediction. It seems more of a subjective/anecdotal assessment of where things are in December 2025. (Yes, with some conjecture about the implications for next year.)

Overall, it echos my experience with Claude Opus 4.5 in particular. We’ve passed a threshold (one of several, no doubt).
by neom | 2025-12-08 23:02:20+00:00
What are the chances we see local models rendering these paid IDEs useless? I presume it will be a very long time before we see a good enough local model that can compete with their ad supported frontier models on the vast majority of machines out there (I presume most people don't have the latest and greatest)?

I was watching the CEO of that Chad IDE give an interview the other day, they are doing the same thing as amp just with "brain rot" ads/games etc instead (different segment, fine), they are using that activity to produce value (ads/game usage or whatever) for another business such they can offset the costs of more expensive models. (I presume this could extend out into selling data also, but I don't know they do that today)

Congrats to the amp team on all the success btw, all I hear is great things about the product, good work.
by Krish-mal15 | 2025-12-08 23:02:27+00:00
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by miltonlost | 2025-12-08 23:02:30+00:00
These are a disability nightmare for folks in wheelchairs and scooters and even canes. They take up 75% of the sidewalk in normal sidewalk widths, let along narrower ones. In the snow, if sidewalks aren't shoveled well, this is even worse, as the traversable area is even narrower. Even being able-bodied it's more annoying than its worth to have to dodge these things.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-08 23:02:39+00:00
What do you think the noise is like in your future city? How many cameras and microphones are constantly streaming everything they see and hear into some corporation's private cloud? How many advertisements do we see on our pleasant bike ride? What's it like when a blizzard or flood drives the environment far outside of training norms? Have the debris-collecting drones already been deployed to clean up e-waste when the built-to-be-abandoned delivery drones lose battery or guidance, or is that a V2 thing? Are the police equipped to track down to track down the hacker that overrode my delivery drone?

We used to have books exploring scenarios like this. They were great books, a lot of time, but the most convincing ones didn't paint your future to be a very pretty, peaceful, or equitable one. You might want to read some, at least to understand why some people might be inclined to "hate this idea".
by bitbasher | 2025-12-08 23:02:47+00:00
I always used flash messages instead of toasts. I'm not sure if flash is the right term-- it's the inline message next to or above the form/element that changed or was submitted.

I thought flashes were easier to see (not only for people with special needs). As it turns out, when you make things more accessible, everyone wins.

I went through a phase where I used toasts because it felt like everyone was using them and my product/design was "old". I happily went back to flash messages when I came back to my senses.
by garciansmith | 2025-12-08 23:03:14+00:00
Many KDE apps (Dolphin, Kate, Okular, etc.) let you configure their tool bars (or get rid of them entirely) and set them to show just icons, text, or both (with the text to the side or below). It's the kind of thing most people won't bother with, but for frequently used applications it's nice to be able to customize it to suit your needs. It's done via a config option though, not by dragging menu items to the toolbar (which strikes me as something you could initiate by mistake).