MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drakonka | 2025-12-15 15:12:16+00:00
* What made it worth it was just the act of blogging itself. For me writing down what I've learned is a great way to consolidate that knowledge for myself. And making it public also inspires me to spend a bit more time thinking about it and double-checking some things before putting it out there. Sometimes I get a nice comment on a years-old blog post and that's also rewarding. Additionally, sometimes I search for something and have my own years-old blog post come up, reminding me that I already solved that thing before and can reuse the solution.

* All posts have worked to consolidate knowledge and help me think.

* Since you're just trying to build a public notebook, what are you trying to lower the bar to? Your own writing motivation or something else? If the former, just write to the length/cadence/themes you're interested in and don't write what you're not interested in.

* Maybe I'd go back and tell pretty-much-teenage-me to stop being so cringe because this stuff will still be there 20 years later.
by gosub100 | 2025-12-15 15:12:41+00:00
Blackmail for one: "I'll wage a campaign to flood the Internet with pics of your half dressed wife unless you....". That will work on some people, discovering extramarital affairs, or proving you know intimate details about the inside of someone's house, along with threat of physical violence will work on others. You just need to be sufficiently creative. You can parlay the successes from one target to the next: "I can get both of you divorced unless you install the rootkit on your work's network"

I will reference a quote I originally heard on HN years ago, though: the audio surveillance is magnitudes more valuable than the video.
by zwnow | 2025-12-15 15:12:47+00:00
Your grandma had plenty of opportunities in the post war eras. During her time there was always a need for human workers. While I dont think AI can actually replace anyone reliably, I still can see how executives buy into this promise and try it. This is a unique situation humanity never was confronted with. Even the industrialization required a lot of human work. If all white collar jobs went away there is a huge imbalance in available workers vs available work. Simply adapting to this isn't a thing given that monopolies killed competition and its not feasible for your everyday Joe to break into markets anymore. Kudos to your grandma for making it this long, simply not a comparable situation however.
by leviliebvin | 2025-12-15 15:12:59+00:00
What is missing from the picture with all these articles is the numbers. LLMs already have a few solid use cases as translators, general document processors, coding helpers ...etc. So the first question is, to what extent does this demand support the investment? Would it be enough if basically every SP500 corp provided paid LLM access to their employees? Or is the investment so big, that people are betting on less solid applications, like Agentic AI, with some non-trivial automation?
by assbuttbuttass | 2025-12-15 15:13:12+00:00
At least for the Spanner DB, it's good to have a randomly-distributed primary key since it allows better sharding of the data and avoids "hot shards" when doing a lot of inserts. UUIDv4 is the typical solution, although a bit-reversed incrementing integer would work too

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-...
by am17an | 2025-12-15 15:13:24+00:00
Usually codebases disallow auto because without an IDE it's difficult to see the type. I think this reduces the cognitive load of C++ a bit. The only time it is allowed is getting iterators types from STL containers.

I remember fretting about these rules when reading Scott Meyer's Effective C++11, and then later to realize it's better not to use auto at all. Explicit types are good types
by rpcope1 | 2025-12-15 15:13:52+00:00
My wife got one to try and automate away the vacuuming. We went through the same thing, and it still needs to be babysit anyways. For the sheer amount of time and frustration of basically all robot vacuums, it has been easier to just get a nice Kenmore upright bagged vacuum and do it yourself anyways (and the results are basically always way nicer).
by skywolf1219 | 2025-12-15 15:13:52+00:00
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by snowe2010 | 2025-12-15 15:13:57+00:00
You’re making up your position here though. They have a stable API. It’s the built in wordpress API. It’s on almost every Wordpress site on the planet. It’s about the most stable API you could use. You just want to use html and not be bothered with an API so don’t pretend like you would do something else if it was “stable”.
by tomburgs | 2025-12-15 15:14:30+00:00
I've been hard at work building a weightlifting workout tracking & analytics app. Its main selling points are being iOS native, being a one-time purchase, and being completely private (does not depend on a backend, but still saves data to the cloud).

If it sounds interesting, you can sign up for a waitlist here, it even includes some screenshots: https://plates.framer.website/ (excuse the website being on a framer domain, i promise the app is far more professional)
by rglover | 2025-12-15 15:14:52+00:00
> For software engineering, it is useless unless you're writing snippets that already exist in the LLMs corpus.

If I give something like Sonnet the docs for my JS framework, it can write code "in it" just fine. It makes the occasional mistake, but if I provide proper context and planning up front, it can knock out some fairly impressive stuff (e.g., helping me to wire up a shipping/logistics dashboard for a new ecom business).

That said, this requires me policing the chat (preferred) vs. letting an agent loose. I think the latter is just opening your wallet to model providers but shrug.
by enraged_camel | 2025-12-15 15:15:21+00:00
>> This is also why trying to add an AI agent chat into one's product is a fool's errand - the whole point of having general-purpose conversational AI is to turn the product into just another feature

We built an AI-powered chat interface as an alternative to a fully featured search UI for a product database and it has been one of the most popular features of 2025.
by anarazel | 2025-12-15 15:15:23+00:00
The issue is more fundamental - if you have purely random keys, there's basically no spatial locality for the index data. Which means that for decent performance your entire index needs to be in memory, rather than just recent data. And it means that you have much bigger write amplification, since it's rare that the same index page is modified multiple times close-enough in time to avoid a second write.
by atwrk | 2025-12-15 15:15:46+00:00
You have the Stored Communications Act, the Patriot Act, the Cloud Act, FISA, and so on. Most of which don't require warrants if it is about non-citizens. Which is then shared, through Five Eyes and similar agreements, with foreign countries, so a workaround for not needing warrants in the target country. This is what I commented about, data sharing with the services in my country. Of course Chinese intelligence agencies will share info with the Chinese police, but they don't share with police in the EU.

Again, the root problem of course is that there is any data to share in the first place.
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by haneboxx | 2025-12-15 15:16:17+00:00
Hi! I just made an obsdian alternative in terminal after searching for an Obsidian like TUI and got nothing. The closest I found was Glow, but it's only a markdown reader. I wanted something more powerful for the terminal, so I built one myself.
by rebeccaskinner | 2025-12-15 15:16:24+00:00
I’m finishing up Haskell Brain Teasers (https://pragprog.com/titles/haskellbt/haskell-brain-teasers/)

It’s much shorter than my first book, Effective Haskell, and leans more advanced, especially toward the end. Although the format is puzzle focused I’m trying to avoid simple gotcha questions and instead use each puzzle as a launchpad for discussing how to reason about programs, design tradeoffs, and nuances around maintainability.
by goku12 | 2025-12-15 15:17:33+00:00
That's what I'm talking about. They'll gradually make it harder to use it without going online. May be by increasing the bootup times. Eventually they'll remove that option altogether. Isn't that what happened with Windows login? We can also expect them to add RF devices like 6G modems as they become more common. These corporations aren't going to leave that choice to you.
by mikewarot | 2025-12-15 15:17:42+00:00
The thing that worries me about WASM is this exact conflict between compatibility with ACLs and security. It's like handing over your banking account authorization for every possible financial transaction, even if all you want to do is buy an ice cream cone. In the real world, capabilities based system, (aka a wallet with cash) you hand them a $5 bill, and wait for change.
by witte | 2025-12-15 15:18:16+00:00
Chevron clasically has ignored health and safety requirements to the point where there was once the “Chevron Doctrine” which deferred legal interpretations to specialized regulatory agencies which established clearer guidance against murky legislative directives. The Doctrine was recently overturned by the ostensibly rogue SCOTUS as highlighted by the harvard business review: https://hbr.org/2024/09/the-end-of-the-chevron-doctrine-is-b...
by zug_zug | 2025-12-15 15:18:18+00:00
Reminds me of "cancer alley" [1].

As somebody who's looked in to this a bit, the deeper I dug the more I ultimately moved toward the conclusion (reluctantly) that indeed big corporations are the baddies. I have an instinct to steel-math both sides, but not every issue has two compelling sides to it...

One example of them clearly being the baddies is them paying people to social media astroturf to defend the roundup pesticide online [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley

2. https://galiherlaw.com/media-manipulation-comes-out-during-m...