MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brain_staple | 2025-12-03 20:52:30+00:00
I don't think that's how the people at Valve think. These people usually have lifetime dreams to work at Valve well before they do because they admired those early games so much, which if you know the story were held up to very high standards internally and repeatedly. They spent their lives being hyper critical of their own craft and admire Valve because they don't a release subpar product as a rule. So collectively they'll have a LOT of collective ego tied up in whatever that product is, but it's not like "I own this", that would be highly anathema.
by bwfan123 | 2025-12-03 20:52:56+00:00
> There's a dichotomy in the software world between real products (which have customers and use cases and make money by giving people things they need) and hype product

I think there is a broader dichotomy between the people-persuation-plane, and the real-world-facts plane. In the people-persuation plane, it is all about convincing someone of something, and hype plays here, and marketing, religion and political persuation too. In the real world plane, it is all about tangible outcomes, and working code or results play here, and gravity and electromagnetism too. Sometimes there is a reflex loop between the two. I chose the engineering career because, what i produce is tangible, but I realize that a lot of my work is in the people-plane.
by Bostonian | 2025-12-03 20:53:03+00:00
'The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ended on Sunday, and not a single hurricane made landfall in the continental U.S. this year. This is the first such quiet year since 2015; an average of around two hurricanes strike the U.S. mainland annually. You’d think this would be cause for celebration—or at least curiosity about what role, if any, global warming played. Instead there has been resounding silence.

We heard plenty about Hurricane Melissa, the monster storm that hit Jamaica in late October with 185-mile-an-hour winds and flooding, causing roughly 100 deaths across the Caribbean. Headlines screamed that climate change was to blame. Attribution studies quickly followed, concluding that human-induced warming made Melissa more likely and worse.

These analyses typically run climate models simulating the world as it is today, with elevated sea-surface temperatures, and compare them with a hypothetical preindustrial world with cooler oceans. If a hurricane is more likely in the former scenario than in the latter, the conclusion is that climate change made the hurricane more likely. Generally, climate change increased the likelihood of about three-quarters of hurricanes, floods and droughts and other events studied worldwide.

But notice what’s missing from the coverage. A New York Times article in October highlighted hurricanes “turning away from the East Coast,” noting 12 named storms so far but only one minor tropical storm brushing the U.S. This was framed as welcome relief, with the misses attributed to atmospheric steering patterns like the Bermuda high-pressure system.

Not once did the piece invoke climate change. The journalists seem to believe that climate change can cause only bad outcomes. If warmer oceans energize storms, couldn’t they also influence other meteorological phenomena that diverted this year’s hurricanes harmlessly out to sea? No one ran the models to check. No professors lined up for quotes.'

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by dualogy | 2025-12-03 20:53:18+00:00
Goood stuff!

One of my long-standing "would make if I had the time and perseverance" themes has been a terminal text editor that's hugely VSCode-like + compatible, so always glad to hear anyone going anywhere near that, and hence I perked up from these:

> Prioritizes standard keybindings and a minimal learning curve.

> Extensibility: Uses TypeScript (via Deno) for plugins, making it accessible to a large developer base.

Because where you are now with Fresh, you're probably really not far from supporting say `settings.json`, `launch.json`, `tasks.json`, `keybindings.json`, `.tmTheme`s and theme `.json`s, and indeed bringing up a VSCode-API-implementing "extension host" that can load up and run/host most `.vsix`es. Now, being terminal-based you'd skip over certain feature subsets such as webviews, custom (non-text) editors and the like... and might postpone Notebooks and such fancies initially, but:

Consider! 1000s of high-value, capable, tech-specific dev extensions out there, all readily supported by your just-spawned new editor. Doesn't that sound pretty exciting?

After all, there's a huge subset of VSCode fans who'd always switch in a heartbeat to a just-simply-non-Electron version (whether native or terminal) of the very same feature-scape & extensions & UI dev experience if only it was made and to max compatibility (and MS won't ever do so).

All that's missing (from screenshot glance) is the other sidebars & panels in addition to File Explorer =)

Will be putting your Fresh on my Github Watch list, but then again, I never really read the GH feed anyway.. but maybe I'll remember to check back in every quarter or so =)
by pixl97 | 2025-12-03 20:53:44+00:00
>Not OP but for starters LLMs != AI

Please don't do this, make up your own definitions.

Pretty much anything and everything that uses neural nets is AI. Just because you don't like how the definition has been since the beginning doesn't mean you get to reframe it.

In addition, if humans are not infallible oracles of wisdom, they wouldn't be an intelligence in your definition.
by jfalcon | 2025-12-03 20:53:50+00:00
It depends on how AI affects your economy.

If you are a writer or a painter or a developer - in a city as expensive as Seattle - then one may feel a little threatened. Then it becomes the trickle down effect, if I lose my job, I may not be able to pay for my dog walker, or my child care or my hair dresser, or...

Are they sympathetic? It depends on how much they depend on those who are impacted. Everyone wants to get paid - but AI don't have kids to feed or diapers to buy.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-12-03 20:54:06+00:00
This isn’t “unfair”, but you are intentionally underselling it.

If you haven’t had a mind blown moment with AI yet, you aren’t doing it right or are anchoring in what you know vs discovering new tech.

I’m not making any case for anything, but it’s just not that hard to get excited for something that sure does seem like magic sometimes.

Edit: lol this forum :)
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-03 20:54:27+00:00
"like it or not". The defeatist/inevitabilism of this kind of thing. We've heard it before with other things. Are we supposed to just accept climate impacts? Accept ongoing airborne pandemic impacts and contstant sickness? Stop using it. It doesn't make it better or paper over the negative aspects that well. It doesn't mean many will accept it.

And also the 'matter of fact'-ism of large statements like "it will still take away jobs and opportunities on a large scale" and then just carrying on as if there isn't any gravity to those points.

It isn't about the tools or using them, it's about the scale. The scale of impact is immense and we're not ready to handle it in a mutitude of areas because of all the areas technology touches. Millions of jobs erased with no clear replacement? Value of creative work diminshed leading to more opportunities erased? Scale of 'bad' actors abusing the tools and impacting a whole bunch of spheres from information dispersal to creative industries etc. Not even getting into environmental and land-use impacts to spaces with data centers and towns etc (again, it's the scale that gets ya). And for what? Removing a huge chunk of human activity & expression, for what?
by yahooguntu | 2025-12-03 20:55:00+00:00
We're in the process of moving to it, and it does seem to have a lot of small bugfixes flying around, but the maintainer is EXTREMELY responsive. I think we'll just end up doing a bit of testing before upgrading to newer versions.

For our use case (3 nodes, 61TB of NVMe) it seems like the best option out of what I looked at (GarageFS, JuiceFS, Ceph). If we had 5+ nodes I'd probably have gone with Ceph though.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-03 20:55:06+00:00
> Free fares would significantly increase ridership, no?

It's not just about that. Higher transportation costs are heavily regressive. People with less money can't afford to live in the city and have to commute and then anything they pay to commute is independent of their wages, so $100 in fares is $100 whether you make $200k/year or $20k, whereas even the taxes like sales tax labeled as "regressive" would have the former person paying ten times more than the latter.

Moreover, fares are often heavily subsidized to begin with -- in large part because of the above -- but then not zeroing them out requires you to still pay the full cost of the collections infrastructure. Which is actually really expensive, because then you need turnstiles, payment processing equipment, security to prevent theft or card skimming, billing departments to deal with credit card fraud or chargebacks, customer service when people have problems, enforcement against people who skip the fare, etc. None of those costs go away if the fare is even $0.01, but they all disappear when it's actually zero.

And people who have never used it before then wouldn't have to figure out how to set it up, which is a significant source of friction independent of the fare and can cause people to just get an Uber (which they've already set up) or rent a car etc. Which causes people to never even try using mass transit, and then regard it as that thing they never use so why is the government spending money on it, instead of that thing that was convenient to use when their car was in the shop and made them realize that they can get by as a one-car household instead of two, or at least something worth supporting because they remember actually using it.

On top of that, removing the fares is better for privacy because then you're not tying your movement history to your payment card.
by linguae | 2025-12-03 20:55:12+00:00
My initial thought was that I wanted someone like Bruce Tognazzini or Don Norman to return, but then I looked up their ages; the former is 80 and the latter is in his 90s. They’re probably enjoying their retirements.

As a long-time Mac user who has switched back to PCs for personal use but who still uses a work-issued Mac, one of my wishes for the Mac is for Apple to fully embrace the notion of the Mac being a desktop operating system and to be very cautious about adopting iOS design principles. Desktops have different use cases than mobile devices, and the UI/UX for desktops should reflect this.

It’s not that we have to return to the 1990s-era Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines; it’s almost 2026, and I’m sure there have been plenty of advances in HCI research since the 1990s. However, there’s a lot of treasure in the old UI guidelines that needs to be rediscovered by today’s software designers. It seems to me that contemporary UI design is a mess across the board, not just with Apple, but in the entire industry, affecting both proprietary and open-source software.
by briantakita | 2025-12-03 20:55:20+00:00
I dont think porting everything over to React...making the site slower, bloated, & buggier is "creativity".

I agree that people should be treated with dignity...but groupthink & herd mentality often strips people of their humanity.

So the criticism is really about culture & abstract attractors...not the individual people who often act rationally within the context of the system.
by harvey9 | 2025-12-03 20:55:55+00:00
In emergency situations (or even routine ones) where I'm administering morphine, I don't need a computer to help me figure out the dose. There are more complex dose calculations where good tech matters far more. Harold Thimbleby has some very accessible talks on safety in health tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AobMb3S5OtY&t=1034s
by apepe | 2025-12-03 20:56:03+00:00
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by genuser | 2025-12-03 20:56:21+00:00
Las Vegas during Formula 1 weekend presents the ultimate photographic challenge: neon-drenched darkness, rapid motion, and unpredictable weather. To determine which flagship camera phone truly leads the pack, I tested the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, Google Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Apple iPhone 17 Pro across the most demanding visual environments Sin City could offer. While race access restrictions altered my original plan, the resulting comparison reveals how each device handles real-world extremes that separate exceptional mobile photography from mere marketing claims.
by Klonoar | 2025-12-03 20:56:43+00:00
I live in Seattle now, and have lived in San Francisco as well.

Seattle has more “normal” people and the overall rhetoric about how life “should be” is in many ways resistant to tech. There’s a lot to like about the city, but it absolutely does not have a hustle culture. I’ve honestly found it depressing coming from the East Coast.

Tangent aside, my point is that Seattle has far more of a comparison ground of “you all are building shit that doesn’t make the world better, it just devalues the human”. I think LLMs have (some) strong use cases, but it is impossible to argue that some of the societal downsides we see aren't ripe for hatred - and Seattle will latch on to that in a heartbeat.

Edit: are -> aren't. Stupid autocorrect.
by zoolily | 2025-12-03 20:57:16+00:00
Corporate capitalism largely started colonization. Most of the English-speaking colonization of America was started by companies like the Virginia Company, the Massachusetts Bay Company, etc. Most of India was conquered by the British East India company before it turned over its holdings to the British government. The Congo Free State was the personal property of the King of Belgium, not part of or governed by Belgium, for the exploitation of companies he had interests in.
by Someone | 2025-12-03 20:57:29+00:00
> the Game of Life supports self-replication and is Turing-complete, and therefore can support arbitrarily intelligent programs.

I think people will disagree about whether “Turing-complete” is powerful enough for supporting intelligence but let’s assume it does.

> So, will a random initial position (tend to) be filled with super-intelligent life forms, or will the chaos reign?

Even if it doesn’t, it might take only one intelligent life form for the space to (eventually) get filled with it (the game of life doesn’t heave energy constraints that make it hard to travel over long distances, so I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t. On the other hand, maybe my assumption that all intelligent life would want to expand is wrong), and in an infinite plane, it’s likely (¿certain?) one will exist.

On the other hand it’s likely more than one exists, and they might be able to exterminate each other.
by gavinray | 2025-12-03 20:57:36+00:00
Neat idea!

I tried it out with a relatively basic Medicinal Chem/Pharmacology question, asking for an interactive Structure-Activity-Relationship viewer:

> "Build an interactive app showing SAR for a congeneric series. Use simple beta-2 agonists (salbutamol -> formoterol -> salmeterol). Display the common phenethylamine scaffold with R-group positions highlighted, and let me toggle substituents to see how logP, receptor binding affinity, and duration of action change."

It did not quite get it right. It put a bunch of pieces together, but the interactivity/functionality didn't work and choice of visualization was poor for the domain:

https://www.phind.com/search/find-me-options-for-a-72e019ce-...
by balamatom | 2025-12-03 20:58:02+00:00
That's ye olde memetic "immune system" of the "onlygroup" (encapsulated ingroup kept unaware it's just an ingroup). "It don't sound like how we're taught, so we have no idea what it mean or why it there! Go back to Uncanny Valley!"

It's always enlightening to remember where Hans Asperger worked, and under what sociocultural circumstances that absolutely proverbial syndrome was first conceived.

GP evidently has some very subtle sort of expectations as to what authentic human expression must look like, which however seem to extend only as far as things like word choice and word order. (If that's all you ever notice about words, congrats, you're either a replicant or have a bad case of "learned literacy in USA" syndrome.)

This makes me want to point out that neither the means nor the purpose of the kind of communication which GP seems to implicitly expect (from random strangers) are even considered to be a real thing in many places and by many people.

I do happen to find that sort of thing way more coughinterestingcough than the whole "howdy stranger, are you AI or just a pseud" routine that HN posters seem to get such a huge kick out of.

Sure looks like one of the most basic moves of ideological manipulation: how about we solved the Turing Test "the wrong way around" by reducing the tester's ability to tell apart human from machine output, instead of building a more convincing language machine? Yay, expectations subverted! (While, in reality, both happen simultaneously.)

Disclaimer: this post was written by a certified paperclip optimizer.
by cvoss | 2025-12-03 20:58:16+00:00
The quality of this article is par for the course for Quanta Magazine, sadly. I do not need to accuse the author of using AI to explain the data I'm seeing here. It feels like every submission on HN from Quanta garners the exact same discussion: The article is almost worthless because it presents complex ideas in such a cheap, dumbed-down, and imprecise way that it ceases to communicate anything interesting. (Interested readers can fare much better by reading other sources.) It's been this way for years. The phenomenon is almost Wolfram-Derangement-Syndrome-like.
by walterbell | 2025-12-03 20:58:43+00:00
Should countries have a upper limit on the ratio of server:client memory supply chain capacity? If no one can buy client hardware to access the cloud, how would cloud providers survive after driving their customers to extinction?

It shouldn't be possible for one holding company (OpenAI) to silently buy all available memory wafer capacity from Samsung and SK Hynix, before the rest of civilization even has the opportunity to make a counteroffer.
by bell-cot | 2025-12-03 20:58:49+00:00
Meaning 's/the Media Report/the Australian Media Report/' ?

At least in my part of the USA, the local paper seems overjoyed to report on any sort of pedestrian / cyclist / motorist injury or death. That might be related to how cheap such coverage is on their end (minimal editing of police announcements), and how little staffing the paper still has after several waves of downsizing.
by milkytron | 2025-12-03 20:58:51+00:00
> Lucia Barbato, from West Sussex, says her second-hand Lexus RX450 SUV - a hybrid model - is vital for transporting her large family in an area with limited public transport.

If she needs a car, it is what it is. But her situation specifically is one where a minivan would solve her problems. She says the SUV gets cramped with 3 kids and their sports equipment. This is exactly the problem minivans solved. I think the problem being faced here is more about societal trends and cars as status symbols and expressions of self. SUVs are cool and trendy, minivans are lame and boring.

Another person said they need a Land Rover Defender. Also, minivan solves their specific problems of shuttling people and needing to fit a door on occasion.

Minivans aren't small by any means, but they are much more functional and useable than what most people are buying.
Show HN: Leyzen Vault – Open-Source File Vault with E2EE+Moving-Target Defense
by expyth0n | 2025-12-03 20:58:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I built an open-source self-hosted file vault that uses client-side end-to-end encryption (WebCrypto AES-GCM). The backend is designed around a simple form of moving-target defense: the container stack rotates periodically to reduce static attack surface and persistence opportunities.

It’s still early, but I would love feedback on the architecture, threat model, and E2EE approach.

Website: https://leyzen.com Code: https://github.com/3xpyth0n/leyzen-vault
by aisengard | 2025-12-03 20:59:30+00:00
There is zero guarantee that these tools will continue to be there. Those of us who are skeptical of the value of the tools may find them somewhat useful, but are quite wary of ripping up the workflows we've built for ourselves over decade(s)(+) in favor of something that might be 10-20% more useful, but could be taken away or charged greater fees or literally collapse in functionality at any moment, leaving us suddenly crippled. I'll keep the thing I know works, I know will always be there (because it's open source, etc), even if it means I'm slightly less productive over the next X amount of time otherwise.
by georgeburdell | 2025-12-03 20:59:35+00:00
It's low for people who control trillions of dollars in yearly government spending, and who indirectly decide the fate of trillions more in private spending. $174k being "comfortable" is a misdirection: it should be, "what is the market rate to get someone who can reasonably handle trillions of dollars without corruption and for the benefit of their constituents?" And the answer is apparently higher than $174k per year, because many of these people go on to million dollar appointments in the private sector afterward.

See also, for example, Singapore, known for fairly low corruption, who pays government heads over $1M per year.
by dfeles | 2025-12-03 20:59:39+00:00
I started collecting my most needed tools, that speed up my frontend development. Started with a basic one, and planning to extend the toolset on the way.

A dev overlay that lets you click any component and instantly create structured prompts for Cursor.

We're planning to extend the toolset as we go, adding tools that make our work faster.

Github: https://github.com/dfeles/mindone-dev-tools
by zmmmmm | 2025-12-03 20:59:57+00:00
As a place with a high density of people with agency to influence the outcome, I think it's important for people here to acknowledge that much of what the negative people think is probably 100% true.

There will absolutely some cases where AI is used well. But probably the larger fraction will be where AI does not give better service, experience or tool. It will be used to give a cheaper but shittier one. This will be a big win for the company or service implementing it, but it will suck for literally everybody else involved.

I really believe there's huge value in implementing AI pervasively. However it's going to be really hard work and probably take 5 years to do it well. We need to take an engineering and human centred approach and do it steadily and incrementally over time. The current semi-religious fervour about implementing it rapidly and recklessly is going to be very harmful in the longer term.