MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pohl | 2025-12-03 21:09:31+00:00
I see what you're saying, but I think it's a misunderstanding. 1D here only means that there's some state where the active cells are confined to one row — but one row within the ordinary 2D GoL plane. I'm sure the next iteration leaps off the line immediately. Search for "Blinker" here to imagine how it could start spreading off the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
by moduspol | 2025-12-03 21:09:57+00:00
> But the shared goal is to get a change to the codebase to achieve a desired outcome.

I'd argue that's not true. It's more of a stated goal. The actual goal is to achieve the desired outcome in a way that has manageable, understood side effects, and that can be maintained and built upon over time by all capable team members.

The difference between what business folks see as the "output" of software developers (code) and what (good) software developers actually deliver over time is significant. AI can definitely do the former. The latter is less clear. This is one of the fundamental disconnects in discussions about AI in software development.
by ejoso | 2025-12-03 21:10:01+00:00
Uh… So the argument here is that anticipated future value == meaningful value today?

The whole cryptocurrency world requires evangelical buy-in. But there is no directly created functional value other than a historic record of transactions and hypothetical decentralization. It doesn’t directly create value. It’s a store of it - again, assuming enough people continue to buy into the narrative so that it doesn’t dramatically deflate when you need to recover your assets. States and other investors are helping make stability happen to maintain it as a value store, but you require the story propagating to achieve those ends.
by cromka | 2025-12-03 21:10:27+00:00
I saw an article here not long about where someone explained they were hosting their Kopia or Nextcloud aver Garage, but I can't find it anymore.

This was going to be my next project, as I am currently storing my Kopia/Ente on MinIO in a non-distributed way. MinIO project going to shi*s is a good reason to take on this project faster than later.
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-12-03 21:10:35+00:00
Not parent, but I think there is certainly space for a Typescript-esque language for Go. If the parent commenter was looking for a static type system, the implication is they would probably want a more functional language inspired type theory. Go’s runtime is not the BEAM, but it is usable for many of the tasks Erlang is pitched for.

I can readily see a Haskell inspired System F derivative the compiles down to valid Go, or a more flexible, special cases type theory that encompasses all of Go like Ts->Js. Likely a ‘transpiler’, I hate that term, to Go implemented in Go and you have a self-contained language with more advanced type features and Go’s green thread runtime.
by exasperaited | 2025-12-03 21:11:01+00:00
> that that the overall effect on anything is going to be negligible.

It's not the effect on the market you should be worried about. It's the effect on democracy. If you have a culture of people comfortable with doing very well thank you off the back of the broad knowledge they have access to that is not-quite-non-public-but-buried-in-the-minutes, then you are tolerating the first tier of the rot.

The second tier of the rot is insider trading.

The third tier is the insider trading that is happening when nobody cares, like in the current regime.

The third tier of the rot is the grift. You can see the grift happening now.

You have to go broken-windows-policy on this or you have nothing.
by airstrike | 2025-12-03 21:11:45+00:00
I think if you have no domain expertise or unique insight it will be quite hard to find a real pain point to solve, deliver a winning solution, and have the ability to sell it.

Not impossible, but very hard. And starting a company is hard enough as it is.

So 9/10 times the answer will be to partner with someone who understands the space and pain point, preferably one who has lived it, or find an easier problem to solve.
by medhir | 2025-12-03 21:11:48+00:00
wow — this hit me hard.

I live in Seattle, and got laid off from Microsoft as a PM in Jan of this year.

Tried in early 2024 to demonstrate how we could leverage smaller models (such as Mixtral) to improve documentation and tailor code samples for our auth libraries.

The usual “fiefdom” politics took over and the project never gained steam. I do feel like I was put in a certain “non-AI” category and my career stalled, even though I took the time to build AI-integrated prototypes and present them to leadership.

It’s hard to put on a smile and go through interviews right now. It feels like the hard-earned skills we bring to the table are being so hastily devalued, and for what exactly?
by ben_w | 2025-12-03 21:11:54+00:00
> I try the LLMs every now and then, and they still make the same stupid hallucinations that ChatGPT did on day 1.

One of the tests I sometimes do of LLMs is a geometry puzzle:

You're on the equator facing south. You move forward 10,000 km along the surface of the Earth. You are rotate 90° clockwise. You move another 10,000 km forward along the surface of the earth. Rotate another 90° clockwise, then move another 10,000 km forward along the surface of the Earth. Where are you now, and what direction are you facing?

They all used to get this wrong all the time. Now the best ones sometimes don't. (That said, only one to succed just as I write this comment was DeepSeek; the first I saw succeed was one of ChatGPT's models but that's now back to the usual error they all used to make).

Anecdotes are of course a bad way to study this kind of thing.

Unfortunately, so are the benchmarks, because the models have quickly saturated most of them, including traditional IQ tests (on the plus side, this has demonstrated that IQ tests are definitely a learnable skill, as LLMs loose 40-50 IQ points when going from public to private IQ tests) and stuff like the maths olympiad.

Right now, AFAICT the only open benchmarks are the METR time horizon metric, the ARC-AGI family of tests, and the "make me an SVG of ${…}" stuff inspired by Simon Willison's pelican on a bike.
by doyougnu | 2025-12-03 21:12:00+00:00
I've interfaced with some AI generated code and after several examples of finding subtle and yet very wrong bugs I now find that I digest code that I suspect coming from AI (or an AI loving coworker) with much much more scrutiny than I used to. I've frankly lost trust in any kind of care for quality or due diligence from some coworkers.

I see how the use of AI is useful, but I feel that the practitioners of AI-as-coding-agent are running away from the real work. How can you tell me about the system you say you have created if you don't have the patience to make it or think about it deeply in the first place?
by lisbbb | 2025-12-03 21:12:02+00:00
Huh (Britney Spears head tilt)? Consumers have "built" PCs since the 80s. I was very upset when Apple started soldering RAM to motherboards in order to edge out the competition. Also, people modify and repair cars, I fixed my refrigerator when the water solenoid part failed. Isn't repair and upgrade a normal aspect of everyday life?
by twodave | 2025-12-03 21:12:09+00:00
> Semicolons are for when you really can't break two clauses into two sentences with a full stop; a full stop is better most of the time.

IIRC (it's been a while) there are 2 cases where a semi-colon is acceptable. One is when connecting two closely-related independent clauses (i.e. they could be two complete sentences on their own, or joined by a conjunction). The other is when separating items in a list, when the items themselves contain commas.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-12-03 21:12:22+00:00
Marvel Rivals, Age of Empires 2 DE, Path of Exile 1/2, Last Epoch, Fall Guys are other such examples. In fact, Marvel Rivals even explicitly mentioned Bazzite in one of their changelogs! I can't recall an instance when a major game name-dropped a (relatively) minor Linux distro like that.
by dwoldrich | 2025-12-03 21:12:31+00:00
It would be helpful if you would relate your own bad experiences and how you overcame them. Leading off with "do it better" isn't very instructive. Unfortunately there's no useful training for much of anything in our industry, much less AI.

I prefer to use LLM as a sock puppet to filter out implausible options in my problem space and to help me recall how to do boilerplate things. Like you, I think, I also tend to write multi-paragraph prompts repeating myself and calling back on every aspect to continuously hone in on the true subject I am interested in.

I don't trust LLM's enough to operate on my behalf agentically yet. And, LLM is uncreative and hallucinatory as heck whenever it strays into novel territory, which makes it a dangerous tool.
by assemblyman | 2025-12-03 21:12:39+00:00
I find software engineers spend too much time focused on notation. Maybe they are right to do so and notation definitely can be helpful or a hindrance, but the goal of any mathematical field is understanding. It's not even to prove theorems. Proving theorems is useful (a) because it identifies what is true and under what circumstances, and (b) the act of proving forces one to build a deep understanding of the phenomenon under study. This requires looking at examples, making a hypothesis more specific or sometimes more general, using formal arguments, geometrical arguments, studying algebraic structures, basically anything that leads to better understanding. Ideally, one understands a subject so well that notation basically doesn't matter. In a sense, the really key ingredient are the definitions because the objects are chosen carefully to be interesting but workable.

If the idea is that the right notation will make getting insights easier, that's a futile path to go down on. What really helps is looking at objects and their relationships from multiple viewpoints. This is really what one does both in mathematics and physics.

Someone quoted von Neumann about getting used to mathematics. My interpretation always was that once is immersed in a topic, slowly it becomes natural enough that one can think about it without getting thrown off by relatively superficial strangeness. As a very simple example, someone might get thrown off the first time they learn about point-set topology. It might feel very abstract coming from analysis but after a standard semester course, almost everyone gets comfortable enough with the basic notions of topological spaces and homeomorphisms.

One thing mathematics education is really bad at is motivating the definitions. This is often done because progress is meandering and chaotic and exposing the full lineage of ideas would just take way too long. Physics education is generally far better at this. I don't know of a general solution except to pick up appropriate books that go over history (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Abstract-Group-Concept-Contri...)
by baobun | 2025-12-03 21:12:51+00:00
> No, the argument is even dumber than that. The person who writes a poem hasn't created any literature.

Sure they have, by virtue of writing it down. It becomes literature when it hits the paper (or computer screen, as it were).

(Unless you mean to imply that formulating an original poem in your mind counts as "writing", in which case I guess we illustrate the overarching point of value in shared symbols and language and the waste of time in stating our original definitions for every statement we want to make)
by rurp | 2025-12-03 21:13:11+00:00
I'm unsure how someone could use LLMs regularly and not encounter significant mistakes. I use them a lot less than some devs and still run into basic errors pretty often, to the point that I rarely bother using them for niche or complicated problems even though they are pretty helpful in other cases. Just in the past few days I've had Claude trip all over itself on multiple basic tasks.

One case was asking how to do a straightforward thing with a popular open source JavaScript library, right in the sweet spot of what models should excel at. Claude's whole approach was completely broken because it relied on a hallucinated library parameter that didn't exist and didn't have an equivalent. It invented a keyword that doesn't appear in the entire open source library repo, to control functionality the library doesn't have.
by chis | 2025-12-03 21:13:43+00:00
I'm interested in the specific claim that Congresspeople are trading in ways that beats SPY, and I think it's just not true.

The Unusual Whales piece says that in 2023, Democrats had 31% returns, Republicans 18%, and SPY was 25%. Doing a weighted calculation, I get (31212+18222)/(212+222) = 25% exactly. So that piece provides some strong evidence that in that year, Congress did not outperform the market, despite attempting to imply the opposite.

Your other links are just general speculation on the subject, and in fact link 4 even says "House and Senator stock returns are consistent with random stock picking."

I do think Congress should probably be restricted from options and maybe short-term trading in general. But I get frustrated by all these doomers who think Congress is corrupt and doing insider trading all the time when there's just not any generalized evidence for it.
by carlCarlCarlCar | 2025-12-03 21:13:44+00:00
You're conflating "what people want" with "only choice"

If you look at polling this is not what the majority want

Since much of this truth is merely rhetorical, socialized truth, not immutable physics, the fix is to propagate a new narrative about how the economy works, how politics work, and threaten the elders the way they threaten the youth. They are older and weaker naturally. End the one sided ageism
by gmueckl | 2025-12-03 21:13:47+00:00
A day trip from Seattle into the cascades for hiking is a scenario that pushes EV range. I'm sure that I can't properly reach some hiking destinations. Going uphill into the Cascades eats battery range in a way that I still find hard to estimate.

Another other example that I couldn't make work was multi day stay in Gardiner to visit Yellowstone National Park.

Third example where I struggled was a weekend trip to Lincoln City, OR. No usable chargers within the city or along the coast. The ones listed on maps have restrictions. The only way was to get a full charge at the last station on the way there and keep careful watch over the remaining range while there.

ICEs have access to a much denser network of gas stations, which eliminates range concerns. EVs aren't there yet and the additional trip preplanning imposed by that is real effort at times.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-03 21:13:48+00:00
compelled as feeling obliged to do something that before they heard the poem they were not particularly keen on doing? obviously not, this is why the phrase "patriotic rhetoric" which I have just invented did never exist in this world nor move men's hearts into battle despite their better judgements.

if you mean compelled as forced then no, but then most of what we consider social engineering wouldn't be either.

sorry but I mean there are parts of Shakespeare that historically if you quoted them at the right moment you could make a lot of English people lay down their lives, if you think that is just influence, well ok then, I guess I would say social engineering is a weak thing and it is influence that one should practice.

on edit: if you mean social engineer as in just get a human to give you info to compromise a computer system, well yes, but then I would just say, gosh the decades in which it has been possible to socially engineer humans to compromise computer systems are ones that have seen a great decrease in the power of poetry to move people's hearts. Even so I'm sure someone could still recite the right verse of Russian verse to get some specifically susceptible people to crack.
by anon291 | 2025-12-03 21:14:08+00:00
I hate statements like this due to their imprecision and their contribution to making mathematics difficult to learn.

> Though they’re defined by just a few rules, groups help illuminate an astonishing range of mysteries.

An astute reader at this point will go look up the definition of groups and come away completely mystified how they illuminate anything (hint: they do not).

A better statement is that many things that illuminate a wide range of mysteries form groups. By themselves, the group laws regarding these things tell you very little. It's the various individual or collective behaviors of certain groups that illuminate these areas.
by rr808 | 2025-12-03 21:14:13+00:00
There has always been a lot of Microsoft hate, but now its a whole new level. Windows now really sucks, My new laptop is all Linux for the first time ever. I dont see why this company is still so valuable. Most people only use a browser now and some ios apps, there is no need for Windows or Microsoft (and of course Azure is never anyone's first choice). Steam makes the gamers happy to leave too.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-12-03 21:14:16+00:00
I also had a Crucial SSD fail. I believe it was either 256GB or 512GB SATA, around 2013-2014. Right around the same time OCZ released a batch of SSDs that were so bad they went out of business, despite being a leader in performance. It was a fairly large story about defective silicon. Good lesson in not being too loyal to brand names.
by gwbas1c | 2025-12-03 21:14:21+00:00
It's more about picking battles.

I noticed a glaring problem and pushed to refactor a product to fix it, and kept pushing, and kept pushing. In this case, there was a critical need to fix the product, and I was rewarded for it. It lead to a nice tenure for me for almost a decade. (And, I got to stay long enough to get bored.)

More recently, I noticed a glaring problem, and pushed up to the CEO because he frequently complains about the consequences of the glaring problem. The difference is that I can't fix the problem in a few months. There's a lot more coordination and working around other business needs. But again, as long as I'm persistent, I'll have a nice tenure for a decade or more. (And, the work is large enough that I don't think I'll get bored for a long time.)
by smswhiz | 2025-12-03 21:14:36+00:00
Telgorithm, a leading provider of cloud communications infrastructure, today announced that its Smart Queueing technology has been officially granted a U.S. Patent No. 12,457,522, recognizing the company's breakthrough innovation for A2P 10DLC messaging and the only feature on the market to auto manage messaging throughput and carrier compliance in order for software platforms to be able to reduce failures, improve deliverability performance and lower costs.
by GermanJablo | 2025-12-03 21:15:06+00:00
I think there's a misunderstanding here.

People often associate CRDTs with IDs and tombstones, while associating OTs with positions.

This is incorrect. What makes them different is that CRDTs must work in P2P environments *by definition*. That's all.

Other true statements:

- All CRDTs are OTs, but not all OTs are CRDTs.

- If an OT supports P2P, then it's also a CRDT.

- If it doesn't support P2P, it's not a CRDT.

- A CRDT can have no IDs and be operation-based.

- An OT can have no positions and be ID-based.

In fact, I just released an ID-based OT framework yesterday: https://docnode.dev.

I hope that clarifies things a bit more!
by bryanlarsen | 2025-12-03 21:15:14+00:00
Microvans still exist in Europe too. I can carry driver + 3 + a lot of luggage or driver + 5 with little luggage. Or driver + 2 if the luggage includes a tuba, euphonium and trombone. They're fabulously space efficient. I'm annoyed that you can't buy them in North America ever since the Mazda 5 was discontinued in 2015.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-12-03 21:15:34+00:00
I used to work in car sales, and now do construction saas sales and interact with the workers a lot. So 95% male coworkers/friends.

And since I'm in sales overall I have a lot of friends and I talk a lot. And I like to drink, and guys with relationship troubles are driven to drink and gravitate to me during that stage of their life.

And I'm single at 40, so I hear about a lot of relationship trouble because I'm easier to talk to than a married guy which doesn't exactly want to hear about cheating and failed relationships.
by mgaunard | 2025-12-03 21:15:35+00:00
very little of the trading actually happens on the blockchain, it's only used to move assets between trading venues.

The values of bitcoin are:

- easy access to trading for everyone, without institutional or national barriers

- high leverage to effectively easily borrow a lot of money to trade with

- new derivative products that streamline the process and make speculation easier than ever

The blockchain plays very little part in this. If anything it makes borrowing harder.
by jobs_throwaway | 2025-12-03 21:15:42+00:00
Lmao. $200k a year doesn't even get you a nice 1 bedroom apartment in many of the cities these representatives represent. Let alone pay for the 2 separate residences that they effectively need to maintain.

And you are arguing against strawmen. Please point to an example of two of current Congress reps telling poor people "Stop buying starbucks? Pull yourself up by the bootstraps!"

> So at this point we should have to beg people and incentivize them with astronomical salaries to not be a piece of shit? I think this is just the product of late stage capitalism. Nobody gives a fuck about anything besides money and how to get more of it.

This is the deeply naive view. It is not begging to pay market rate for top talent. The most capable people who we should want to run our government are worth far, far more on the open market than the current salary levels we pay Congress. If we want those people to consider Congress a viable option, we need to pay them accordingly. See Singapore for a strong example of this.
Show HN: Airena – Client-side arena for comparing AI models across 68 providers
by andronov04 | 2025-12-03 21:15:43+00:00
I made a tool to compare AI models side-by-side in real-time.

Pick models (GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, etc.), enter a prompt, and see responses in parallel. Fully client-side, no backend.

Demo: https://arena.jit.dev Code: https://github.com/andronov04/airena
by _sinelaw_ | 2025-12-03 21:16:00+00:00
I've been mulling over vscode extension compatibility... There is a challenge there, because the API surface is non-trivial and some of it is "web-ish". I wouldn't want people to be disappointed if 60% of the plugins they try to use don't really work properly.

Also, there are nuances like VSCode exposing APIs that force the entire file to be in-memory (which is how VSCode works), this is fine but in my editor I'm trying to get extensions to work well even if the file is huge (encouraging incremental / partial stuff).

But yes, it's a very compelling vision... and part of the reason I chose TypeScript.

Thanks for the input :)
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-12-03 21:16:09+00:00
I also would like to see AI end up dying off except for a few niches, but I find myself using it more and more. It is not a productivity boost in the way I end up using it, interestingly. Actually I think it is actively harming my continued development, though that could just be me getting older, or perhaps massive anxiety from joblessness. Still, I can't help but ask it if everything I do is a good idea. Even in the SO era I would try to find a reference for every little choice I made to determine if it was a good or bad practice.