MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-19 18:03:28+00:00
I had recently contact the official support email (support@bunq.com) of Bunq - a Neobank (like N26 and Revolut). Because they notified me that they changed their T&C and I never really used the account after the kyc (because they rejected my tax filings), I figured I let them know that I do not agree to the new T&C and want to terminate my account and have my data deleted.

Since the T&C update came - of course - from no-reply@bunq.com I went to their website and quickly found out, unless I install their App again, there is no way to do anything. After installing the App, they wanted me to record a selfie, because I was using the app from a new device. I figured that is a lot of work and mostly somewhat unreasonable to record a new selfie just to have my data deleted - so I found their support@bunq.com address.

And, of course, you guessed it, it is 100% a pure AI agent at borderline retard level. Even though it is email, you get AI answers back. My initial inquiry that I decline the T&C and want to terminate my account and my data deleted via GDPR request was answered with a completely hallucinated link: bunq.com/dataprotection which resulted in immediate 404. I replied to that email that it is a 404, and the answer was pretty generic and that - as well as all responses seem to be answered in 5 minutes - made me suspect it is AI. I asked it what 5 plus five 5 is, and yes, I got a swift response with the correct answer. My question which AI version and LLM was cleverly rejected. Needless to say, it was completely impossible to get anything done with that agent. Because I CC'ed their privacy officer (privacy@bunq.com) I did get a response a day later asking me basically for everything again that I had answered to the AI agent.

Now, I never had any money in that account so I don't care much. But I can hardly see trusting a single buck to a bank that would offer that experience.
by JeremyNT | 2025-12-19 18:03:36+00:00
While TikTok is clearly still dominant, I don't think it has much of a moat.

If Insta and youtube shorts get enough traction, there's no reason creators won't simply post to each of them to maximize their reach. The legacy platforms are heavily courting/promoting short form video, why leave possible monetization on the table?

Hell, I'm too old for their demo, but I see TikTok videos posted to Reddit and even BlueSky.
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by scarecrowbob | 2025-12-19 18:05:24+00:00
I find Tiktok an easy way to surface very specific demographic and political views- much easier than Meta-owned media.

It was super interesting to watch, for instance, the discussions between liberal and leftist black women around Harris, Gaza, and the 2024 election. If you just swipe out of videos that aren't things you're okay with pretty quickly, then it will change your feed dramatically in a short time.
by floxy | 2025-12-19 18:05:33+00:00
How often are you replacing washing machines? As we had more kids, we upgraded our toaster from a 2-slice to a 4-slice, somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 years ago. Can't imagine we paid more than ~$20 for it. Still going strong today. If it lasts 10 more years, all my kids will be moved out of the house, and I suppose we could downgrade to a 2-slice model again. Unless the grandkids like toast.
by Gracana | 2025-12-19 18:07:02+00:00
Including ones that have controllers, if your motherboard doesn't have enough lanes or it doesn't support bifurcation. I have a Rocket 7608A, which gives you 8 M.2 slots in a PCIe 5.0 x16 card: https://www.highpoint-tech.com/nvme-raid-aic/gen5/rocket-760...
by yaqubroli | 2025-12-19 18:07:41+00:00
“Orange santa” in Chinese would be pretty unwieldy as a nickname. “橙黄圣诞老人” is 6 syllables.

But there has been a meme in China for ages that Trump is secretly a Chinese guy named “Chuan Jianguo” (Jianguo means “building the nation”) who was sent by China to destroy America from within.
by moh_quz | 2025-12-19 18:08:03+00:00
Thanks and appreciate your compliment!

The deployment process for this repo has been really smooth for me. I use only docker compose, and traefik for web server.

ngl I ran claude code to help me for deployment, and then I wrote scripts automating deployment of frontend and backend.

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by zarzavat | 2025-12-19 18:08:25+00:00
From my experience it's the opposite. On the old internet, forums, newsgroups, people willingly used their real names to communicate with strangers. They treated the internet as an extension of real life where of course you use your real name, what else?

Nowadays, using your real name is dangerous, lest you get swatted or an angry mob decides to get you fired because you made an off-color joke. Doxxing someone is viewed as a potentially violent act. It's hard to imagine anyone using their real name on Discord for instance, whereas in the days of IRC it was common.
by gdulli | 2025-12-19 18:09:13+00:00
My Galaxy S20 gallery app had a great search feature that would find any text in any picture. I take lots of screenshots and relied on that search to find them.

I got an S25 recently and when I search for "wife" it tries to find pictures with my wife in them. But before it does that it has to ask me who my wife is. There's no way to get it to search for the word "wife." (If I'm wrong, please tell me how.) Other text searches simply don't work either.

Sometimes it's the small ways in which the world is getting dumber.

Ironically, the S20 had a decent hybrid behavior of searching by either text or object that the text represents. Whatever smarter AI they replaced it with is useless.
by goostavos | 2025-12-19 18:10:29+00:00
Oh, hey -- you're that guy. I learned a lot of what I know about TLA from your writings ^_^

Consider my behavior changed. I thought the "high school math" was an encouraging way to sell it (i.e. "if you can get past the syntax and new way of thinking, the 'math' is ultimately straight forward"), but I can see your point, and how the perception would be poor when they hit that initial wall.
by Hizonner | 2025-12-19 18:10:59+00:00
This sort of thing is pretty meaningless unless the code is all written by people who know how to get performance out of their languages (and they're allowed to do so). Did you use the right representation of the data? Did you use the right library? Did you use the right optimization options? Did you choose the fast compiler or the slow one? Did you know there was a faster or slower one? If you're using fancy stuff, did you use it right?

I did the same sort of thing with the Seive of Eratosthenes once, on a smaller scale. My Haskell and Python implementations varied by almost a factor of 4 (although you could argue that I changed the algorithm too much on the fastest Python one). OK, yes, all the Haskell ones were faster than the fastest Python one, and the C one was another 4 times faster than the fastest Haskell one... but they were still over the place.
by bangaladore | 2025-12-19 18:11:17+00:00
As the other commenter stated, I don't use CLIs for development. I use VSCode.

I'm very pro IDE. I've built up an entire collection of VSCode extensions and workflows for programming, building, customizing build & debugging embedded systems within VSCode. But I still prefer CLI based AI (when talking about an agent to the IDE version).

> Composer 1

My bet is their model doesn't realistically compare to any of the frontier models. And even if it did, it would become outdated very quickly.

It seems somewhat clear (at least to me) that economics of scale heavily favor AI model development. Spend billions making massive models that are unusable due to cost and speed and distill their knowledge + fine tune them for stuff like tools. Generalists are better than specialists. You make one big model and produce 5 models that are SOTA in 5 different domains. Cursor can't do that realistically.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-19 18:11:47+00:00
> The 133,000 hectares (328,000 acres) of pristine wilderness in the Cochamó Valley was bought for $63m (£47m) after a grassroots campaign led by the NGO Puelo Patagonia, and the title to the wildlands was officially handed over to the Chilean nonprofit Fundación Conserva Puchegüín on 9 December.

https://conservapucheguin.org/en/news-en/heart-of-cochamo-in...

https://conservapucheguin.org/en/

(truly an incredible price and value realized for the land preserved)
by AlexB138 | 2025-12-19 18:11:57+00:00
I made this comment on the Cursor announcement post:

I wonder about this. Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day. Cursor was an interesting IDE a year ago that I don't really see much of a use case for anymore. I know they've tried to add other features to diversify their business, and that's where Graphite fits in for them, but is this the best exit for Graphite? It seems like they could have gotten further on their own, instead of becoming a feature that Cursor bought to try to stay in the game.
by sauercrowd | 2025-12-19 18:12:13+00:00
I dont disagree on the workflow - struggling with the same. But CLIs have an absolute sweetspot abstraction.

A simple text interface, access to endless tools readily available with an (usually) intuitive syntax, man pages, ...

As a dev in front of it super easy to understand what it's trying to do, and as simple as it gets.

Never felt the same in Cursor, it's a lot of new abstractions that dont feel remotely as compounding
by km144 | 2025-12-19 18:12:19+00:00
I'm not so sure I buy the premise that engineers are really dismissing AI because it's still not good enough. At the very least, this framing does not get to the heart of why certain engineers dislike AI.

Many of the people I've encountered who are most staunchly anti-AI are hobbyists. They enjoy programming in their spare time and they got into software as a career because of that. If AI can now adequately perform the enjoyable part of the job in 90% of cases, then what's left for them?
by pizzafeelsright | 2025-12-19 18:12:35+00:00
My guess is the purchase captures the 'lessons learned' based upon production use and user feedback.

What I do not understand is that if a high level staff with capacity can produce an 80% replacement why not assign the required staff to complete that last 10% to bring it to production readiness? That last 10% is unnecessary features and excess outside of the requirements.
by necovek | 2025-12-19 18:13:28+00:00
Can you elaborate?

Is this pairing on small tasks that get done in (less than) a day? Or do you also have longer-running implementations (a few days, a week, or maybe even more?) where you rotate the people who are on it (so one task might have had 5 or 10 people on it during the implementation)?

If the latter, that sounds very curious and I'd love to learn more about how is that working, how do people feel about it, what are the challenges you've seen, and what are the successes? It'd be great to see a write-up if you've had this running for a longer time!

If it's only the former (smaller tasks), then this is where biases and assumptions stay (within the scope of that task): I still believe this is improved with an independent reviewer.
Show HN: Frndz – Privacy-first Web3 ads based on intent, not user data
by frndsprotocol | 2025-12-19 18:13:34+00:00
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by tolerance | 2025-12-19 18:13:34+00:00
A part of me wants to be dismissive of this blog post

1) because dude, it’s the Wall Street Journal; the entire episode should be viewed as Anthropic preparing to Ollie into an IPO next year.

2) I’m starting to interpret a lot of blog posts like these as rage bait

But I do get the point that the author is trying to make.

I just wish that there were some perspectives on the subject as a whole (AI’s sloptrod into every crevice of human life; modern technology and society and general) that don’t terminate on ironic despair.
by tliltocatl | 2025-12-19 18:13:38+00:00
The code looks 100% identical except for the namespace prefixes. Must be something particular about github setup, because on mine (gcc15.2.1/clang20.1.8/Ryzen5600X) the run time is indistinguishably close. Interestingly, with default flags but -O3 clang is 30% slower, with flags from the script (-s -static -flto $MARCH_FLAG -mtune=native -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-signed-zeros -fno-trapping-math -fassociative-math) clang is a bit faster.

A nitpick is that benchmarking C/C++ with $MARCH_FLAG -mtune=native and math magic is kinda unfair for Zig/Julia (Nim seem to support those) - unless you are running Gentoo it's unlikely to be used for real applications.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-19 18:13:39+00:00
I think it's pretty reasonable to interpret "Language X promises Y" as tantamount to said promise appearing in Language X's definition and/or docs. Claims from devs in their official capacities are likely to count as well.

On the other hand, what effectively random third parties say doesn't matter all that much IMO when it comes to these things because what they think a language promises has little to no bearing on what the language actually promises. If I find a bunch of randos claiming Rust promises to give me a unicorn for my birthday it seems rather nonsensical to turn around and criticize Rust for not actually giving me a unicorn in my birthday.
by dustfinger | 2025-12-19 18:13:43+00:00
I realize cache segregation is mainly about security/compliance and tenant isolation, not protecting secret prompts. Still, if someone obtained access to a company’s prompt templates/system prompts, analyzing them could reveal:

- Product logic / decision rules, such as: when to refund, how to triage tickets

- Internal taxonomies, schemas, or tool interfaces

- Safety and policy guardrails (which adversaries could try to route around)

- Brand voice, strategy, or proprietary workflows

That is just off the top of my head.
by al_borland | 2025-12-19 18:15:02+00:00
I’ve had many situations where a sourced AI summary has references that don’t show up in the top search results. Clicking through to the source gives me the nuance and context of the full post that I wouldn’t have found without the AI summary. Even if you don’t trust the summary, rightfully so, it can still be good at surfacing good results.

(My experience here was with Kagi, I’m not sure how Google and others are with this)
by justin66 | 2025-12-19 18:15:11+00:00
Look at the chart representing the US national debt (or debt to GDP) and pick a point at which you say "wow, that's when we started borrowing beyond our means." I rather doubt the date you pick will be anywhere close to the time eight decades ago when the US decided to start "propping up our allies." That worked well for us financially for a really long time, and the contributors to the current debt crisis lie elsewhere.
by altruios | 2025-12-19 18:15:13+00:00
What tools does the LLM have access to that would reveal sub-token characters to it?

This assumes the colorblind person both believes it is true that they are colorblind, in a world where that can be verified, and possesses tools to overcome these limitations.

You have to be much more clever to 'see' an atom before the invention of a microscope, if the tool doesn't exist: most of the time you are SOL.
by dsr_ | 2025-12-19 18:15:16+00:00
My router owns the IP 8.8.8.8 when seen from inside my network; the Roku literally can't ask Google for DNS via DNS, HTTP, or DNS-over-TLS.. It also answers DNS requests on port 53, and believes that there is no scribe.logs.roku.com, along with many other domains.

The downside is that Google seems to think I'm in a botnet, and wants us to login to see anything on YouTube.
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-19 18:16:05+00:00
> but it will certainly feel like it if labor demand is reduced enough

All the last productivity multipliers in programming led to increased demand. Do you really think the market is saturated now? And what saturated it is one of the least impactful "revolutionary" tools we got in our profession?

Keep in mind that looking at statistics won't lead to any real answer, everything is manipulated beyond recognition right now.
by jmathai | 2025-12-19 18:16:12+00:00
Very cool! I do this today by connecting my phone to my laptop and recording via Loom. It's a bit janky for sure and the video is off because I looking down at my phone and not the webcam [1].

Does Loom really not offer this capability as an iOS app? I never checked but that's crazy if they don't. Regardless, I think this solves a problem for sure! Congrats on building and launching.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11yHdB-wmgs
by buildbot | 2025-12-19 18:16:37+00:00
This is incorrect - they can split however the driving chip supports. (Q|O)SFP(28|56|112|+) can all be split to a single differential lane. All (Q|O)SFP(28|56|112|+) does is provide basically direct, high quality links to whatever you chips SERDES interfaces can do. It doesn't even have to be ethernet/IB data - I have a SFP module that has a SATA port lol.

There's also splitting at the module level, for example I have a PCIe card that is actually a fully self hosted 6 port 100GB switch with it's own onboard Atom management processor. The card only has 2 MPO fiber connectors - but each has 12 fibers, which each can carry 25Gbps. You need a special fiber breakout cable but you can mix anywhere between 6 100GbE ports and 24 25Gbe ports.

https://www.silicom-usa.com/pr/server-adapters/switch-on-nic...
by ajross | 2025-12-19 18:17:10+00:00
It's an extremely simple algorithm, just one loop with an iterated expression inside it. You can check the source code at: https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison/tree/master/...

It's true this is a microbenchmark and not super informative about "Big Problems" (because nothing is). But it absolutely shows up code generation and interpretation performance in an interesting way.

Note in particular the huge delta between rust 1.92 and nightly. I'm gonna guess that's down to the autovectorizer having a hole that the implementation slipped through, and they fixed it.
by Aunche | 2025-12-19 18:17:35+00:00
X and Meta do try to uncover and scrub malicious state actors, like the investigation of the 2016 Russia misinformation campaign. Maybe, they could have done more, but there is no reason why they wouldn't put an earnest effort as they have nothing to gain from faking compliance. A social media platform owned by a foreign adversary does have this incentive.
by ziml77 | 2025-12-19 18:17:38+00:00
It's really nice that the integrated nature means that, with no extra work on my part, the agent can see exactly what I'm seeing including the active file and linter errors. And all the model interaction is unified. I point them to specific files in the same way, they all have access to the same global rules (including team-global rules), documentation is supplied consistently, and I can seamlessly switch between models in the same conversation.
by throwway120385 | 2025-12-19 18:18:00+00:00
The language of class war precludes any sort of repair of the situation. I see a ton of young people at work outside of my group within the org who should be getting paid better. When we're in management we have a responsibility to try to argue for narratives that lead to that outcome. And when we vote we need to remember that things that look bad for us homeowners like allowing big development companies to come in and raze all of our houses and build townhomes and apartments for rent might be necessary to keep the bad situation from getting worse. I think in the end what will save us is the big demographic crunch that's going to happen in the next 15 years, because there will be a lot of housing stock suddenly on the market with no buyers. We're all going to get an opportunity then to fix a lot of these problems. Or, if we do nothing and let the status quo reign, our kids will suddenly find themselves renting everything they use for the rest of their lives.
by pphysch | 2025-12-19 18:19:31+00:00
> There's never been any hint from either the US or China that those agents were doing anything other than passive intelligence collection, as opposed to actively interfering in domestic Chinese politics. And in any event, the scope of historical CIA operations has always been overblown. In every case I'm aware of, the CIA leveraged a tipping point already well underway to nudge things one way or another.

Beyond being self-contradictory (CIA is passive but also they interfere on key issues) this is just false. The West has spent a lot of (covert) resources undermining China in the past decade in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Taiwan, trade and tech wars, COVID, and so on. All attempts which have failed dramatically, perhaps partly due to the lack of IC penetration into society and government.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-19 18:19:35+00:00
>it is just plain bad for all Americans for China to advance its geopolitical ambitions.

In Gen Z's eyes, America is bad for Americans. That's what happens when you build a low trust society. America spent decades trying to build up a strong rapport among citizens and they tore it down and sold them out in a single generation.

Maybe china will be worse. But the appeals to nationalism simply will not work among our youth. We abandoned them, they will see the village burned to feel its warmth. Already happened in 2024.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-19 18:19:42+00:00
I mean, realistically, you can tell who is going to do all those weird things. We decided that rampant criminality was fine on the streets. City life in America is about being collateral damage in the Democratic Party campaign to enrich their special interest through NGOs.

“No, that serial molester of children just needs a daily check-in with the NGO my friend runs. Then he’s fine to go around. No carceral justice.”
by apawloski | 2025-12-19 18:20:01+00:00
That's the (obvious, I guess) comparison I was thinking of too, but IIRC correctly the issues there were 1) allegations of bribes (which ended up being false/that witness arrested by the FBI for lying about it) and 2) Biden improperly leveraging the State Dept (which was also found to be untrue by two different Republican Senate investigations).

Now if the issue was Hunter Biden being on the board at all -- even if independent of any Joe Biden dealmaking -- then I'm very curious how the Republicans sounding alarms back then react to the Barron Trump TikTok board seat now.