MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by acdha | 2025-12-12 18:18:48+00:00
> Hallucinations are a feature of reality that LLMs have inherited.

Huh? Are you arguing that we still live in a pre-scientific era where there’s no way to measure truth?

As a simple example, I asked Google about houseplant biology recently. The answer was very confidently wrong telling me that spider plants have a particular metabolic pathway because it confused them with jade plants and the two are often mentioned together. Humans wouldn’t make this mistake because they’d either know the answer or say that they don’t. LLMs do that constantly because they lack understanding and metacognitive abilities.
by china33 | 2025-12-12 18:19:03+00:00
It’s annoying to me to work with someone that just sounds intelligent and who comes up with a mix of good and bad ideas: the good ideas I have to praise or agree with, and the bad ideas I cannot disagree with because they get offended. I get my fill of this everyday, and I don’t need to watch a video with more of it, or, worse, learn to be like that.
by af78 | 2025-12-12 18:19:04+00:00
> Are you suggesting that the Russians were using __ The Guardian __ as part of an influence campaign....in 2004?

Definitely! Because they did the exact same thing in France, where I lived at that time, and probably other countries. I remember op-eds in French newspapers, Russia-friendly politicians on TV with the same talking points.

My wife and I go married on Oct 31st, 2004, the day of the first round of this election. These are things I can't forget, like her voting in Kyiv in her wedding dress.

Thinking the US ambassador could gather crowds of hundreds of thousands during long winter weeks all by himself, even with a few million USD is ridiculous, especially when you know the country. This is not at all how it works.

There was massive fraud during the second round, evidence of it was abundant, election monitors and independent organizations like OSCE witnessed it.

Yushchenko, controlled by the US government? There is no indication of that. And when his term ended, power was transferred peacefully to Yanukovych.

Ukrainians are educated people and just like anywhere else do not like to be told what to do from abroad, be it from Washington or Moscow. Now that the US government sides with that of Russia and Ukrainians continue to resist the pressure, it is even more obvious that these narratives were completely false.
by jimmaswell | 2025-12-12 18:19:15+00:00
I feel like I got the last chopper out of 'nam buying my G.Skill 256GB 6000MT/s kit when I did. I paid $780 in July and now it's listed at.. $2700, over 300% higher. That and buying a bunch of sticks for some Tyan boards I got on a whim last year with some engineering samples I got working on them.
Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
by theturtletalks | 2025-12-12 18:19:28+00:00
I'm building an open source Amazon.

In other words, an open source decentralized marketplace. But like Carl Sagan said, to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

So first I had to make open source management systems for every vertical. I'm launching the first one today, Openfront e-commerce, an open source Shopify alternative. Next will be Openfront restaurant, Openfront grocery, and Openfront gym.

And all of these Openfronts will connect to our decentralized marketplace, "the/marketplace", seamlessly. Once we launch other Openfronts, you'll be able to do everything from booking hotels to ordering groceries right from one place with no middle men. The marketplace simply connects to the Openfront just like its built-in storefront does.

Together, we can use open source to disrupt marketplaces and make sure sellers, in every vertical, are never beholden to them.

Marketplace: https://marketplace.openship.org

Openfront platforms: https://openship.org/openfront-ecommerce

Source code: https://github.com/openshiporg/openfront

Demo - Openfront: https://youtu.be/jz0ZZmtBHgo

Demo - Marketplace: https://youtu.be/LM6hRjZIDcs

Part 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32690410
by nickthegreek | 2025-12-12 18:19:32+00:00
This is my main issue with Immich. I had 300gb of local photos organized into folders from digital cameras. Then I wanted to move google photos into it. Ran the scripts only to discover that the imported images were in a rats nest of folders in the immich internal library. I loathed this fragmentation keep hoping for a solution. It looks like I could maybe use PhotoSync to dump everything to folders and just keep everything as an 'External library' in immich, but this is not ideal,
by mirzap | 2025-12-12 18:20:01+00:00
Apple needs to be broken up and separated from the App Store. Apple sells devices, and I buy one expecting to own it outright. When you own something, you should be able to install whatever you want without interference from Apple.

How is the iPhone different from the Macs? I can install anything I want from any source on the Mac, but I can't do that on the iPhone. Doesn't make any sense.
by snickerbockers | 2025-12-12 18:20:26+00:00
>Equivalent statements could be made about how human brains are not magic, just biology - yet I think we still think.

They're not equivalent at all because the AI is by no means biological. "It's just maths" could maybe be applied to humans but this is backed entirely by supposition and would ultimately just be an assumption of its own conclusion - that human brains work on the same underlying principles as AI because it is assumed that they're based on the same underlying principles as AI.
by fainpul | 2025-12-12 18:20:43+00:00
Any good engineer knows there is no "best" solution, only tradeoffs.

Save space.

def even_flip_flop(number): even = True for _ in range(number): even = not even return even

Ditto. Sure, this overflows the stack, but you look cool doing it.

def even_recursive(number): return True if number == 0 else not even_recursive(number - 1)

Save time. Just buy more RAM.

table = [True, False] * 1000 # adjust to your needs def even_lookup(number): return table[number]
by Terr_ | 2025-12-12 18:21:51+00:00
A similar trajectory to:

1. "Putting seat-belts in cars and making us wear them!? That's nothing but a dangerous government conspiracy! For your own safety, never wear the annoying and evil devices!"

2. "OMG, look at this! Scientists had no choice but to admit the horrible seat-belts do cause injuries on people during a crash!"

3. "THIS PROVES I WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!11"
by lynndotpy | 2025-12-12 18:22:03+00:00
To be fair, you haven't explained why it's an issue to see projects being rewritten in Rust, other than it is a bit annoying to you?

For me, I had a very good experience rewriting a project in Rust (from Python). It was just an improvement in every regard (the project was easier to build and distribute, it was a good opportunity to rearchitect it, and the code ended up 20k times faster.) So, I have the opposite feeling when I see titles like these.

I also feel the opposite about the tooling. For me, cmake, npm, pip, maven, etc. all live in this realm where any invocation could become a time purgatory. The big thing that makes me like Rust is that I've never had that experience with cargo. (In fact, pip was the primary motivation to move away from Python to Rust. Everything else was just nice.)

I'm not saying this to convince you to feel otherwise, I just wanted to offer how I felt about the same topics. I grew up with C and Java, but Rust clicked after I read SICP and followed along in Racket. I could probably fill a page of small grievances about Rust's syntax if I had to.
by duxup | 2025-12-12 18:22:18+00:00
It adds such a negative vibe to sports too. It's all gambling advertising now.

At least if the sponsor is a truck company, they're selling me a truck for money. Maybe I don't need a truck, but I give them money and I get a truck that I might get utility out of.

Gambling is purely to separate chumps from their money, as much as possible, and then we as a society have to deal with that shit.

Some sports star selling me shoes, whatever. Gambling? It's more like "hey dumb asses..."
by uplifter | 2025-12-12 18:22:42+00:00
You're absolutely right. The obvious solution would have been to create a boolean table containing all the pre-computed answers, and then simply use the integer you are testing as the index of the correct answer in memory. Now your isEven code is just a simple array lookup! Such an obvious improvement, I can't believe the OP didn't see it.

And with a little extra work you can shrink the whole table's size in memory by a factor of eight, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the interested reader.
by hopelite | 2025-12-12 18:22:43+00:00
It seems the only thing that could break this is the off chance that the SCOTUS rules that the tariffs are illegal and/or Congress strips the Presidency of the power they gave it in utters incompetence many decades ago.

I’m thinking with sufficient pressure by all tech interested people it could become an issue in the midterms and even force Trump to sign agreements not to tariff RAM by Korean producers who could ramp up production.

Frankly, I wouldn’t even be surprised if we start seeing RAM smuggling. In not sure of drug prices, but would smuggling RAM not be at least just as profitable, especially without the high profile and risk?

Hey! … hey, you! You want to have some fun?
by gradientsrneat | 2025-12-12 18:22:59+00:00
Remember when the word, "zine" used to have the connotation of a hobbyist project, because most people couldn't afford/justify the cost of printing full-sized magazines at scale?

Rather than a tool of mass-distributed propaganda, in an internet medium where making digital copies is cheap, masquerading under the guise of the "little man"?
by thrance | 2025-12-12 18:23:15+00:00
You're arguing against Functionalism [0], of which I'd encourage you to at least read the Wikipedia page. Why would doing the brain's computations on pen and paper rather than on wetware lead to different outcomes? And how?

Connect your pen and paper operator to a brainless human body, and you got something indistinguishable from a regular alive human.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_%28philosophy_of...
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-12 18:23:22+00:00
> The toilet paper thing didn't really happen [...]

Yes, it did.

> [...] because there is so much shit people can produce at a time and the demand never increased if you scaled it to a 2 weeks period. There was enough stock in warehouses that 3 days later every store had a full stock again and the prices never increased.

No, there wasn't in lots of places, and demand for the kind of toilet paper that fits on home dispensers did increase (and demand for the kind of big rolls used exclusively in institutional settings decreased, and shifting between those two for manufacturing is not quick), and there were extended supply issues in many places. (This was certainly true where I lived, but I would expect it had lots of regional variance, because supply chains are regional, the share of workers that were moved home because of either the practicality of remote work or workplaces being shutdown varied regionally because of both policy and industry differences, and because the share of workplaces that use industrial style TP vs TP compatible with home style dispensers probably also varies considerably.)
by notnullorvoid | 2025-12-12 18:23:38+00:00
TS decision to choose Go was primarily, because they could take the existing code and do a near 1-1 translation. You can frame that as an architectural concern, but it's really only one that applies when your attempting to migrate an existing program to a new language. The Go rewrite has some negative outcomes as well, most concerning is the performance of the WASM builds is worse than the old JS/TS version.

A TS compiler from scratch built in Rust would be fine.

> cultists

The cult is in your imagination.
by aetherpro | 2025-12-12 18:23:40+00:00
I’m building AgentForge to run AI agents on private, dedicated infrastructure instead of shared multi-tenant systems.

Each deployment gets isolated data, custom agent stacks, and dedicated compute.

We’re currently waitlisting new nodes due to provisioning limits, but I wanted to share what we’re building and get feedback from people who care about infrastructure, privacy, and reliability.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-12 18:24:11+00:00
That's where these threads always end up. Someone asserts, almost violently, that AI does not and/or cannot "think." When asked how to falsify their assertion, perhaps by explaining what exactly is unique about the human brain that cannot and/or will not be possible to emulate, that's the last anyone ever hears from them. At least until the next "AI can't think" story gets posted.

The same arguments that appeared in 2015 inevitably get trotted out, almost verbatim, ten years later. It would be amusing on other sites, but it's just pathetic here.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-12 18:24:14+00:00
The American framing of privacy and free speech absolutism doesn't hold much credence in Europe. And it's not like the US is much better in that regard.

We in the US are using free speech and privacy absolutism as a hammer against the EU's Digital Services Act, which they are using as a hammer against our dominance in the tech industry and our trade barriers against European exports.

For most European nations today, the degree of greyzone warfare is startling, and multiple near accidents have happened. And even with expanded police and intelligence powers like those used in Europe in the 2000s, most European nations would remain significantly freer than Russia ever was or is.
by snickerbockers | 2025-12-12 18:24:45+00:00
Surprisingly enough the hardest part about gentoo is actually not the kernel but the userspace. Every package has these "use flags" and "keyword flags" which can control compile-time options and that seems fine enough on its own until you get to the point where you have multiple packages all sharing a dependency with mutually-exclusive USE flags and it's entirely up to you to figure out how to untangle this mess in a way that every package's dependencies are satisfied.
by cyanydeez | 2025-12-12 18:24:56+00:00
Lets be honest: Most peoples computing needs have been satisfied in the last decade.

FOMO and Number goes up is the primary issue both with AI and most compute today.

There's so many made up numbers these days that does zero productive work, like FPS, refresh rates, 4k, 8k, 16k.

Bloat is everywhere.
by vkou | 2025-12-12 18:25:08+00:00
Java's not gone anywhere, but it's been years since I've interviewed anyone who has made it their language of choice. Developer sentiment for it isn't exactly great.

A decade ago, a good ~80% of applicants chose to use it or C#.

I personally don't have any issues with working with it, but nobody's learning it outside of work.

On the other hand, it is quite easy to learn, so there's that going for it.
by socalgal2 | 2025-12-12 18:25:14+00:00
Just curious, if you were Google, how would you fix this? And take the question seriously, because it's harder than it sounds.

They are certainly trying. It's not good for them to have fake listings.

https://podcast.rainmakerreputation.com/2412354/episodes/169...

(just googled that, didn't listen, was looking for a much older podcast from I think Reply All from like 10yrs ago)
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-12 18:25:20+00:00
For this analogy to be comparable, you would first have to consider that Best Buy, together with Walmart, owns 99.9999% of all store real estate in the world. You would also have to consider that the "shelf space" in this case is free and comes at zero cost to Best Buy; in fact, giving you virtual shelf space increases the amount of traffic that comes into their stores, resulting in a benefit to themselves.

Your analogy as presented was so lacking in merit you might as well have been talking about cats and leprechauns for how completely nonsensical it was to bring it up in the context of Apple.
by aggregator-ios | 2025-12-12 18:26:12+00:00
Thank you for posting this.

I no longer want to read about this person's journey or care to, because this is exactly the kind of person we need to stop hero worshipping. The irreparable damage to society from child abandonment is so large, that whatever he accomplished(?) by doing his stunt is negated.

I'm going to be unapologetic in saying that because this is irresponsible, immature behavior. He had a child, and then decided to leave for 20+ years to pursue his selfish interests while 100% abandoning his family and spouse to raise the child themselves. It's 100% trying to run away once he saw how difficult raising a family is and turned it into some BS stunt. That is also a relationship and pain and suffering that should never be forgiven, not during this immature person's lifetime.

Advice to others when you're thinking of doing this sort of thing where you abandon the people that love you to pursue some extreme interest. You may get exactly what you're looking for, with the cost of people never being close to you ever again.
by dangus | 2025-12-12 18:26:47+00:00
The languages that get a lot of airtime on HN are the ones the young people will just use by default.

Hotspot is the current choice for high performance programs, but is Rust lower performance in some way or are the only downsides related to its younger age?

It’s perhaps useful look at what languages brand new projects are being started with rather than just looking at what languages large established companies like Netflix are choosing.
by hateselfdriving | 2025-12-12 18:27:08+00:00
The bank loans are a fair point; insurance likely wouldn't insure them either. The CyberTruck, as a notable example.

I will say it _can_ be difficult to keep up though, you don't necessarily find out a particular model is a lemon until it's too late, so it can take some years for everyone to learn and adjust. I mean a buddy of mine only found out in 2024 that his 2016 Explorer had a common/ known engine flaw (the water pump frequently goes bad and requires an engine rebuild). And so how do you reconcile that against for example some of Ford's other accomplishments? I mean, there's loads of F150s that have lasted forever (or at least used to).

In theory banks/ insurers would have enough data today to be able to map the general trend; so I don't think you're wrong, but at the same time I will counter that we may not yet be fully experiencing the effects of any obsolescence being implemented today.

I guess my larger/ real point is that I just foresee this industry heading the same way as phones, and many computers.
by sanketsaurav | 2025-12-12 18:27:25+00:00
> $8/100k tokens strikes me as potentially a TON

It's $8/100K lines of code. Since we're using a mix of models across our main agent and sub-agents, this normalizes our cost.

> I could easily see hitting 10k+ LOC on routine tickets if this is being run on each checkpoint. I have some tickets that require moving some files around, am I being charged on LOC for those files? Deleted files? Newly created test files that have 1k+ lines?

We basically look at the files changed that need to be reviewed + the additional context that is required to make a decision for the review (which is cached internally, so you'd not be double-charged).

That said, we're of course open to revising the pricing based on feedback. But if it's helpful, when we ran the benchmarks on 165 pull requests [1], the cost was as follows:

- Autofix Bot: $21.24 - Claude Code: $48.86 - Cursor Bugbot: $40/mo (with a limit of 200 PRs per month)

We have several optimization ideas in mind, and we expect pricing to become more affordable in the future.

[1] https://github.com/ossf-cve-benchmark/ossf-cve-benchmark
by jessews | 2025-12-12 18:27:45+00:00
> I wish they’d make it hostable in your own cloud provider

Wolfram Compute Services is based on the RemoteBatchSubmit featureset, which also supports AWS Batch (https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/batchcomputationp...) and Azure Batch (https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/batchcomputationp...) backends.

[Disclosure: I am the main developer of RemoteBatchSubmit.]
by Havoc | 2025-12-12 18:27:47+00:00
>>There is no evidence that hackers were able to unencrypt customer passwords as these are stored locally on customer devices and not by LastPass.

That's a highly sus statement. Firstly who says "unencrypt" and second there is a whole string of crypto hacks that had their details in Lastpass...and crucially the URLs were not encrypted so evildoers could see which accounts are worth throwing compute at

Plus the not stored by LassPass seems entirely wrong too? I can log in to their website and see my stuff...they very obviously store it

Very strange to have a regulator of databreaches get the basics so fundamentally wrong
by BeetleB | 2025-12-12 18:28:03+00:00
> When I think about it, the best speakers on a podcast are those who don’t answer the question the host asks directly.

Different crowds. I know almost all of them behave this way, and I never liked it. It always comes off as "I don't want to answer the question, let me shift the direction of the conversation."

> If a podcast host were to ask him, “What’s the greatest skill you can learn in today’s world?”

> Hormozi could just say “sales” or “offer creation,” but he understands that there are levels to this, so he would probably respond with his second most viral tweet:

> “The single greatest skill you can develop is the ability to stay in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about.”

Perfect example of what I'm talking about.

I prefer those who answer the question and elaborate.

I have to say, the whole article was a very painful read. It's very much a PR piece, and the relevant content is both small and dubious.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-12 18:28:18+00:00
This is my observation as well, it's also true in the USA. Places like Chicago and NYC have good public transit. You can easily live there without a car, in fact it's easier and certainly cheaper to not have to deal with owning a car. If you visted NYC and formed your impression of public transit in the USA based on that, it would be very wrong. Likewise you cannot assume that because Copenhagen has great public transit and bicycle infrastructure that all of Europe is like that. Get out to the smaller cities and towns and you'll find that many more people own cars and drive everywhere.
by thrance | 2025-12-12 18:28:20+00:00
You're arguing for the existence of a soul, for dualism. Nothing wrong with that, except we have never been able to measure it, and have never had to use it to explain any phenomenon of the brain's working. The brain follows the rules of physics, like any other objects of the material world.

A pen and paper simulation of a brain would also be "a thing happening" as you put it. You have to explain what is the magical ingredient that makes the brain's computations impossible to replicate.

You could connect your brain simulation to an actual body, and you'd be unable to tell the difference with a regular human, unless you crack it open.
by duped | 2025-12-12 18:28:23+00:00
The author is not saying you should use a polytree but rather that the ideal graph of microservices should also be a polytree.

A polytree has the property that there is exactly one path that each node can be reached. If you think of this as a dependency graph, for each node in the graph you know that none of its dependencies have shared transitive dependencies.

I'll give it one though: if there are no shared transitive dependencies then there cannot be version conflicts between services, where two otherwise functioning services need disparate versions of the same transitive dependency.