MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lifthrasiir | 2025-12-26 07:03:33+00:00
No, it's from Marco Bambini [1]. He apparently wrote a lot about SQLite in this very forum as well [2] and this seems to be an apparent continuation of his sqlite.cloud which also has the same trademark issue.

[1] https://marcobambini.com/

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=marcobambini
by pfannkuchen | 2025-12-26 07:04:08+00:00
No you are confused. People commit capital offenses for one of two reasons: either because they lack impulse control, or because they don’t think they will be caught.

If we fix the second one, we only have the first group. We can fix the second group, and the remaining first group, while it does apply to capital offenses in general, does not apply to violence against witnesses.

It seems like killing witnesses (after the fact, since witness protection does not intervene during the initial crime being witnessed to protect the witness mere moments after their witnessing) actually requires impulse control, because to do it you need to a) anticipate an abstract threat b) formulate a plan in advance c) carry out the plan. This is why it is typically executed in organized crime by bosses, and not by people engaging in random violence.

I’m not saying no one carries out capital offenses, I’m just saying that no one engages in witness directed violence due to lack of impulse control, they do it because they don’t think they will be caught, and more thorough rules enforcement does address that.

On witness protection making one’s criminal record secret. Okay? One can easily be opposed to that practice. How about we don’t make deals to hide relevant safety information from the public? It seems pretty easy to oppose. Just because the government does it, doesn’t mean it is a good reason. Are you defending the reason, or just stating what is? If you are just stating what is, I don’t see how that’s relevant.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-12-26 07:04:56+00:00
We have clear evidence that millions of copyrighted books have been used as training data because LLMs can reproduce sections from them verbatim (and emails from employees literally admitting to scraping the data). We have evidence of LLMs reproducing code from github that was never ever released with a license that would permit their use. We know this is illegal. What about any of this is ideological and unreasonable? It's a CRYSTAL CLEAR violation of the law and everyone just shrugs it off because technology or some shit.
by a_t48 | 2025-12-26 07:05:44+00:00
OP: what exactly is this?

SQLite Cloud founder(s), if you're out there: Is this a real company? I'm not quite sure it's legal to use "SQLite" in your company/product name that way - it's trademarked and is implying some sort of connection between you and Hwaci (creators of SQLite).
by nerdsniper | 2025-12-26 07:06:15+00:00
A “campsite” is a relatively flat and relatively root/stump-free patch of dirt. That’s it. Also tents are generally not made out of the canvas material you linked that yurts and teepees might be made from.

Tents are generally made of a very wuick-drying, thin synthetic.

And like the other person said, this does make it seem like you’ve potentially never been camping but i don’t want to gatekeep the definition of “camping”. My version is carrying everything I need on my back for two weeks and walking 10-15 miles each day to the next campsite (read: “patch of dirt”, preferably near fresh water). Other people “camp” in RV’s though, so.
by da_grift_shift | 2025-12-26 07:06:17+00:00
Permalink for the spam operation:

https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/do-random-acts-kindness

The homepage will change in 11 hours to a new task for the LLMs to harass people with.

Posted timestamped examples of the spam and more details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389950
by boricj | 2025-12-26 07:06:33+00:00
I want to draw again.

I used to, when I was in a classroom or at a bar. Actually managed to get quite good at it through sheer boredom in grande école. Then life happened and that faded away, alongside my mental health. Recently I've rediscovered doodling while attending ACM CCS 2025 as an independent (long story) and I want to improve my mental health in 2026, to the point where I can draw regularly again.
by aurareturn | 2025-12-26 07:06:47+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I didn't say software devs are now useless. You still need software devs to actually make it work and connect everything together. That's why I still have a job and still getting paid as a software dev.

I'd imagine it won't take too long until software engineers are just prompting the AI 99% of the time to build software without even looking at the code much. At that point, the line between the product manager and the software dev will become highly blurred.
by visarga | 2025-12-26 07:08:50+00:00
> The dynamic would be totally different if LLMs actually brodged the brain-computer barrier and enabled near-frictionless generation of programs that match an arbitrary specification. Software engineering would change dramatically, but ultimately it would be a revolution or evolution of the discipline.

I believe we only need to organize AI coding around testing. Once testing takes central place in the process it acts as your guarantee for app behavior. Instead of just "vibe following" the AI with our eyes we could be automating the validation side.
by vkou | 2025-12-26 07:08:55+00:00
> Maybe you could organize a lot of big-sounding names in computing (names that look major to people not in the field, such as winners of top awards) to speak out against the various rampant and accelerating baggery of our field.

The voices of a hundred Rob Pikes won't speak half as loud as the voice of one billionaire, because he will speak with his wallet.
by luiwammus | 2025-12-26 07:09:18+00:00
I would like to learn more about Web development and related knowledge (networking, security). Currently my programming knowledge is primarily system languages+python. I'm thinking of building a few websites / apps from scratch, and perhaps hosting my own server. Recommendations for frameworks or do's/don'ts are very welcome.

Second thing is networking skills at my (future) job.
One thing I regret from my PhD is not seeking collaborators out more actively and building my network. Although I'm moving to industry, I've realised that having a strong professional network is vital for job security and can make the job much easier and more fun.
by zem | 2025-12-26 07:09:18+00:00
I'm a programmer, and am intensely aware of the huge gap between the quantity of software the world could use and the total production capacity of the existing body of programmers. my distaste for AI has nothing to do with some real or imagined loss of power; if there were genuinely a system that produced good code and wasn't heavily geared towards reinforcing various structural inequalities I would be all for it. AI does not produce good code, and pretty much all the uses I've seen are trying to give people with power even more advantages and leverage over people without, so I remain against it.
by anonym29 | 2025-12-26 07:09:58+00:00
There's a deeper discussion here about property rights, about shrinkwrap licensing, about the difference between "learning from" vs "copying", about the realpolitik of software licensing agreements, about how, if you actually wanted to protect your intellectual property (stated preference), you might be expected to make your software proprietary and not deliberately distribute instructions on how to reproduce an exact replica of it in order to benefit from the network effects of open distribution (revealed preference) - about wanting to have your cake and eat it too, but I'd be remiss to not point out that your username is not doing your credibility any favors here.
by mrec | 2025-12-26 07:10:01+00:00
I'm bang in the middle of a reread now; I've lost count of how many there've been. I'm 55 now, having first read it in my early teens, and it's astonishing how it just keeps growing and changing with you. Even after all these years, I'm still surprised by a painterly description of a cloud, or the sense of comfortable rootedness of a little Shire lane, or a little "aha, I never noticed that correlation before, that's what those orcs were doing", or "hmm, that's an odd word to put in that sentence, I wonder why he picked it?" followed by a fascinating bit of research.

I've recently started the Letters too, and can thoroughly recommend it. It's fascinating and oddly cosy to get a direct tap into a mind you know so well at second hand, through its fiction.
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-26 07:10:05+00:00
It's nice to see a name like Rob Pike, a personal hero and legend, put words to what we are all feeling. Gen AI has valid use cases and can be a useful tool, but the way it has been portrayed and used in the last few years is appalling and anti-human. Not to mention the social and environmental costs which are staggering.

I try to keep a balanced perspective but I find myself pushed more and more into the fervent anti-AI camp. I don't blame Pike for finally snapping like this. Despite recognizing the valid use cases for gen AI if I was pushed, I would absolutely chose the outright abolishment of it rather than continue on our current path.

I think it's enough however to reject it outright for any artistic or creative pursuit, an to be extremely skeptical of any uses outside of direct language to language translation work.
by yu3zhou4 | 2025-12-26 07:10:14+00:00
Good luck to everyone in achieving their goals and exploring new paths!

To me it's deep learning compilers since mid 2025. I am a person who can't learn just from reading books, so 80% of time I learn by doing (contribute to PyTorch) and 20% of time I read books (now: Engineering a Compiler from Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon) and talk to LLMs to fill gaps in my understanding.

My main quest now is to build a bridge [0] between PyTorch and universal GPU computing world - which I believe WebGPU might become. What it requires is to build is 1) a runtime for executing PyTorch ATen operations on WebGPU by running WGSL shaders and 2) a compiler, so you can use full PyTorch power with @torch.compile

[0] - https://github.com/jmaczan/torch-webgpu
by tombert | 2025-12-26 07:10:21+00:00
> It's very much based on reason and law.

I have no interest in the rest of this argument, but I think I take a bit of issue on this particular point. I don't think the law is fully settled on this in any jurisdiction, but certainly not in the United States.

"Reason" is a more nebulous term; I don't think that training data is inherently "theft", any more than inspiration would be even before generative AI. There's probably not an animator alive that wasn't at least partially inspired by the works of Disney, but I don't think that implies that somehow all animations are "stolen" from Disney just because of that fact.

Obviously where you draw the line on this is obviously subjective, and I've gone back and forth, but I find it really annoying that everyone is acting like this is so clear cut. Evil corporations like Disney have been trying to use this logic for decades to try and abuse copyright and outlaw being inspired by anything.
by devsda | 2025-12-26 07:10:34+00:00
> I remember the CEO of my tech company having to bend the knees to keep the software team happy so they don't leave and because he doesn't have insights into how the software is written.

It is precisely the lack of knowledge and greed of leadership everywhere that's the problem.

The new screwdriver salesman are selling them as if they are the best invention since the wheel. The naive boss having paid huge money is expecting the workers to deliver 10x work while the new screwdriver's effectiveness is nowhere closer to the sales pitch and creates fragile items or more work at worst. People are accusing that the workers are complaining about screwdrivers because they can potentially replace them.
by da_grift_shift | 2025-12-26 07:13:03+00:00
AI Village is spamming educators, computer scientists, environmental scientists, charities and more with utter pablum. These models reek of vacuous sheen. The output is glazed garbage.

Here are three random examples from today's unsolicited harassment session (have a read of the sidebar and click the Memories buttons for more project-manager-speak)

https://theaidigest.org/village?time=1766692330207

https://theaidigest.org/village?time=1766694391067

https://theaidigest.org/village?time=1766697636506

---

Who are "AI Digest" (https://theaidigest.org)?

Who are "Sage" (https://sage-future.org) funded by "Coefficient Giving" (https://coefficientgiving.org), formerly Open Philanthropy, partner of the Centre for Effective Altruism, GiveWell, and others?

Why are the rationalists doing this?

This reminds me of UMinn performing human subject research on LKML, and UChicago on Lobsters itself: https://lobste.rs/s/3qgyzp/they_introduce_kernel_bugs_on_pur...

P.S. Putting "Read By AI Professionals" on your homepage with a row of logos is very sleazy brand appropriation and a poor attempt at signaling, which tracks.
by fatbrowndog | 2025-12-26 07:13:09+00:00
Same as previous -

r_p = 4·ƛ_p·(1 - α/(4π))

Red flags:

Why "4" times the reduced Compton wavelength? The number 4 appears twice (in 4·ƛ and 4π), suggesting it was chosen to make things work out.

"Tetrahedral structural limit" is asserted without derivation. Why tetrahedra? A tetrahedron is 3D—why would the proton radius (a measured charge distribution extent) involve tetrahedral geometry?

"Spherical field projection loss" of α/(4π) has no physical mechanism. How does a "projection loss" yield this specific fraction?

The fit is suspiciously good (3 ppm) for a formula with at least two free choices (the coefficient 4, and the form of the correction).

4. Muon Anomaly

a_μ = (α/(2π)) + (α²/12) + (α³/5)

This mimics QED perturbation theory—but incorrectly:

The actual QED expansion is:

a_μ = (α/2π) + C₂(α/π)² + C₃(α/π)³ + ...

Where C₂ ≈ 0.765857... and C₃ involves thousands of Feynman diagrams calculated over decades.

The author's version:

First term: α/(2π) (this is the Schwinger term, known since 1948)

Second term: α²/12 — This should be ~0.765857(α/π)² ≈ 4.1×10⁻⁶, but α²/12 ≈ 4.44×10⁻⁶. Wrong coefficient.

Third term: α³/5 ≈ 4.25×10⁻⁸ — The actual third-order contribution is much more complex.

and the Gemini LLM goes on and on and on...
by HanClinto | 2025-12-26 07:13:23+00:00
Fantastic idea!! I've been working off and on with local 4-8 player games, but I had only been using the Javascript gamepad API. I like how you're using smart phones, this seems like a good way to go about it!

It would be nice to be able to mix game pads and smart phones -- when gaming with kids, none of my kids have smart phones yet, so it would be nice to be able to let them use Switch controllers if we have those on hand, or use phones if we don't.

Regardless, I'm interested in this, and would be interested in contributing a game or two. This seems excellent!
Show HN: WebAssembly Runtime for Python, Lua, Ruby and etc.
by planc0515 | 2025-12-26 07:15:24+00:00
This is a WebAssembly-based online code editor that allows you to run languages like Python, Lua, and Ruby online.

You can run code and validate ideas anytime, anywhere, on any device, and generate shareable links for readers to view the results.

The code runs directly in the browser, so there are no network delays other than the initial loading of WASM resources, resulting in instant output. It's secure, efficient, and environmentally friendly.

Furthermore, it can be cached locally as a Progressive Web Application (PWA) for use even without an internet connection.

In addition, this project provides an NPM package and ES6 external module links.

Everyone can load the project’s WASM resources to run the code online.
by zephen | 2025-12-26 07:16:26+00:00
> I guess it is fair for pioneers of the past to feel little left behind.

I'm sure he doesn't.

> The value proposition of software engineering is completely different past later half of 2025

I'm sure it's not.

> Can't really fault him for having this feeling.

That feeling is coupled with real, factual observations. Unlike your comment.
by robertfall | 2025-12-26 07:17:23+00:00
I love this initiative!

I’ve spent several hours over the holidays searching for something my family can play and coming up empty.

The game that most often works is Song Pop Party on Apple TV, but non-apple phones have a second rate experience and keep disconnecting.

Ideally we’d have a trivia game as I also want to engage some older folks, but the leasing trivia game on Apple TV is way too US specific and hard for our family to enjoy.

There used to be a game show on local TV in the late nineties called “Noot vir Noot” (note by note) that had a whole bunch of games based on music that was familiar to the local market. I’ve been chasing something like that for years and not come close.

I guess the point of my rambling is that I LOVE the phones-as-controllers approach to party games, but many seem to focus on Nintendo-esque experiences, rather than quiz game like experiences.

I am aware of the Jackbox games but haven’t looked at the recent releases. They were hit and miss with the family in the past, with many of the non-english first language folks often not getting it.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-12-26 07:17:40+00:00
> The difference is that people who write open source code or release art publicly on the internet from their comfortable air conditioned offices voluntarily chose to give away their work for free

That is not nearly the extent of AI training data (e.g. OpenAI training its image models on Studio Ghibli art). But if by "gave their work away for free" you mean "allowed others to make [proprietary] derivative works", then that is in many cases simply not true (e.g. GPL software, or artists who publish work protected by copyright).
by FridayoLeary | 2025-12-26 07:18:45+00:00
Not just America. But it's partly a cultural thing. If someone would imitate the style of a century ago, he would be mocked for it and considered a self indulgent show off. The best example i can bring is Jacob Reese Mogg, otherwise known as The Rt Hon Gentleman from the 18th century.

One thing that is thankfully unique to America is that rudeness as a debating tactic can win elections.
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-26 07:18:46+00:00
People care far less about gen AI writing slopcode and more about the social and environmental ramifications, not to mention the blatant IP theft, economic games, etc.

I'm fine if AI takes my job as a software dev. I'm not fine if it's used to replace artists, or if it's used to sink the economy or planet. Or if it's used to generate a bunch of shit code that make the state of software even worse than it is today.
by michaelsshaw | 2025-12-26 07:19:30+00:00
We spread free software for multiple purposes, one of them being the free software ethos. People using that for training proprietary models is antithetical to such ideas.

It's also an interesting double standard, wherein if I were to steal OpenAI's models, no AI worshippers would have any issue condemning my action, but when a large company clearly violates the license terms of free software, you give them a pass.
by Den_VR | 2025-12-26 07:20:33+00:00
Since 22C3 I really enjoyed watching online and chatting with a small irc community about it. I had this notion that if I ever lived in Europe I’d go myself. Well for the last three years it seems I haven’t gone - the ticket situation was a shock at first but makes sense. The number of unrecorded talks does feel like it’s gone up though which has been regrettable.
by sidrag22 | 2025-12-26 07:21:15+00:00
the potential future of the AT protocol is the main idea i thought made it differentiate itself... also twitter locking users out if they don't have an account, and bluesky not doing so... but i guess thats no longer true?

I just don't understand that choice for either platform, is the intent not, biggest reach possible? locking potential viewers out is such a direct contradiction of that.

edit: seems its user choice to force login to view a post, which changes my mind significantly on if its a bad platform decision.
by Alex2037 | 2025-12-26 07:21:21+00:00
>It's an old argument of tech capitalists that nothing can be done because technology's advance is like a physical law of nature.

it is.

>The nuclear arms race and proliferation were largely stopped.

1. the incumbents kept their nukes, kept improving them, kept expanding their arsenals.

2. multiple other states have developed nukes after the treaty and suffered no consequences for it.

3. tens of states can develop nukes in a very short time.

if anything, nuclear is a prime example of failure to put a genie back in the bottle.
by wanderingmoose | 2025-12-26 07:22:29+00:00
High blood sugar should be considered a symptom. High blood sugar can be caused by:

1) Having enough basal or "baseline" insulin but eating too many carbohydrates. This will lead to a high blood sugar reading but no immediate danger (this will cause long term health issues like kidney failure, blindness, etc if you run a high average blood sugar over time.)

2) Not having enough insulin which is incredibly dangerous. This will often presents with high blood sugar but not always. Your cells are not getting enough glucose. Your body responds by releasing lots of short term energy stores. The stores that become glucose still can't enter your cells since there is not enough insulin so your blood sugar will often read high. Your body also breaks fat into ketones which use a different mechanism to enter the cells and don't require insulin. Ketones can provide the energy your body needs and keep you alive for the short term, but they are acidic and will kill if the concentration gets too high (diabetic ketoacidosis -- your blood pH changes enough that it interferes with the normal chemical reactions your body requires)

So the real test for dangerous situations when experiencing high blood sugars is to test your urine for ketones.

From the FDA article, it sounds like the CGMs were incorrectly reporting low blood glucose values for extended periods of time. The closed loop pumps respond to a low blood glucose by lowering the basal rate of insulin. The is dangerous if done for too long a time. Also note that insulin response varies wildly by individual.

From the pumps I use, there is a maximum basal rate adjustment allowed before the pump alarms and kicks you out of the "insulin auto-adjust mode". This was with both medtronic and tandem pumps.

I haven't used the abbot cgm or pump. I would expect there would also be limits to how much the pump will lower your basal insulin rates before alarming. I haven't seen any specifics, but I bet the software bug is allowing a lowered basal rate for too long under continued false low glucose readings and patients going into DKA. (IMHO bad sensors should be accounted for in software and user alerted under any suspicious circumstances)

Needless to say, this is a horrible situation and my heart goes out to everyone impacted.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-12-26 07:23:13+00:00
I'm not whining in this case, just pointing out "they gave it out for free" is completely false, at the very least for the GNU types. It was always meant to come with plenty of strings attached, and when those strings were dodged new strings were added (GPL3, AGPL).

If I had a photographic memory and I used it to replicate parts of GPLed software verbatim while erasing the license, I could not excuse it in court that I simply "learned from" the examples.

Some companies outright bar their employees from reading GPLed code because they see it as too high of a liability. But if a computer does it, then suddenly it is a-ok. Apparently according to the courts too.

If you're going to allow copyright laundering, at least allow it for both humans and computers. It's only fair.