MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anakaine | 2025-12-11 08:00:20+00:00
YouTube didn’t make it through because of how it actively pushes alpha male crap at teenage boys. The Tate brothers and others who push the whole toxic masculinity, man are superior, men must protect women even from themselves, to be a man you must be able to fight, men are owed a position of power and women should be subservient, etc. It was a very strong feature in the early debate, and something educators put in as part of their submission as being an extremely noticeable shift for young men, and those same young men quite consistently stating the same content they viewed.

YouTube’s tendency to push extreme rabbit holes and funnel towards extremism and conservatism in young men is what led to them being included.
by youoy | 2025-12-11 08:00:26+00:00
I think that the main missunderstanding is that we used to think programming=coding, but this is not the case. LLMs allow people to use natural language as a programming language, but you still need to program. As with every programing language, it requires you to learn how to use it.

Not everyone needs to be excited about LLMs, in the same way that C++ developers dont need to be excited about python.
by n4r9 | 2025-12-11 08:00:38+00:00
Yeah, I'm having to pinch myself a little here. Another slightly odd example it picked out from your history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10735398

It's a good comment, but "prescient" isn't a word I'd apply to it. This is more like a list of solid takes. To be fair there probably aren't even that many explicit, correct predictions in one month of comments in 2015.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-11 08:00:45+00:00
As someone who writes Go code that processes around 100B messages per day (which all need to be parsed and transformed), I can confirm that the author’s position is very much misguided.

And it also completely ignores the fascinating world of “GC-free Java”, which more than a few of the clients I work with use: Java with garbage collection entirely disabled. It’s used in finance a lot.

Is it pretty? No.

Is it effective? Yes.

Regarding Go’s memory arenas, do you need to use memory arenas everywhere ? Absolutely not. Most high performance code has a hot part that’s centered (like the tokenizer example that OP used). You just make that part reuse memory instead of alloc / dealloc and that’s it.
by pastage | 2025-12-11 08:03:02+00:00
This is a really clean write up, but it is absolutely a happy path. I do feel the kernel is too big to be called a program. It is almost everything you want from comp sci class, router, scheduler, queue, memory manager. There are some interesting things that you have to handle if you do not run and OS and init on hardware e.g. handle signals, how do you shutdown, reap child process. I believe you are always better off with an init process and an OS.
by lode | 2025-12-11 08:03:37+00:00
First of all, you are conflating Hamas and Hezbollah. Second of all, the stories about beheading of babies and mass rape on October 7, 2023 have been thoroughly debunked. Third: the pager operation caused indiscriminate explosions at places where non-combattant citizens were present. Not very gentlemen-ly (to use your words), and indeed a war crime. Fourth: What they did in Gaza is arguably worse than carpet bombing.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-12-11 08:03:48+00:00
+1! Hanson is one of the gold-standards on this. It is idiosyncratic, you're right - to the speaker / reader as much as the writer (is my contention with their work).

Personally, I do take 'ment' as a feminine ending there, or - more specifically - the T sound runs into the I sound when I read it, the way it would in the predominantly Italian stuff she's likely referencing.

I'm very much with Gordon Lish on Shakespeare's monosyllabic drift words - that he was educated in Latin, and integrating Germanic vocabulary into that structure relatively freely, and further analysis is almost impossibly complex. That said, there's a lot of moments in those where I'd kill to hear where the stress landed when first performed.

This specific area is really one of those "What if?" moments in literary criticism, I think - I believe it would be incredibly beneficial for the form if this was the dominant focus of critique, rather than thematic stuff. On the rare occasions I teach at universities, this is all completely new to students, which sucks - it's entirely possible to approach prose theory with the same rigour as music theory, and it seems (in the UK, at least) to be very quickly becoming a lost art!
by dickiedogbrands | 2025-12-11 08:04:44+00:00
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by oxfordmale | 2025-12-11 08:07:04+00:00
The real problem is social media. Their machine learning algorithms are optimised to boost toxic content, as they result in more engagement (time spent). This is a fundamental trait of humans. Even babies look at angry faces longer than happy faces.More time spent means more advertising revenue.

It means the current generation gets exposed to a lot of toxic content all in the name of driving advertising revenue. In the olden days you could get everything, but it wasn't forced down your throat, or rather your reels.
by HaZeust | 2025-12-11 08:07:18+00:00
>"The best move is to teach your children how to not be victimized."

Your GP advocated world-building a child's physical environment to avoid digital - which is simply unrealistic for their later years as it is, and coddling them so nothing that could even potentially victimize them in the digital world would be able to reach them. So, genuinely: What's it gonna be?

Are you going to teach a child the real-world application and use cases for being responsible for themselves, not becoming victimized and carrying themselves well, and learning to act appropriate in an increasingly-digital world; or not?

Otherwise; saying you'll teach your kids real-world application for being responsible for themselves and not being victimized, and then not giving them a space to see the importance of those practices out of fear that they'll succumb to it, is having your cake and eating it, too.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-12-11 08:07:43+00:00
The infovacuuming phase of social networks is complete. Training datasets grabbed, social graphs built, biometry compiled.

Now it's very logical to spin that expensive infrastructure down, removing free communication channels which can dangerously synchronize people against the state, and leaving only channels of control: digital ID, CDBC and a white list of governmental "services", all else outlawed.

People of 2010s uploaded their personal data into the cloud because they thought that was cool, people of 2030s will do because their telescreens demand them so.

Everyone who thinks this will stop at "think about the children" is beyond all repair.
by KnuthIsGod | 2025-12-11 08:08:58+00:00
"One particular Talmudic-era commentary comes to mind. Everyone knows that Pharaoh and his army were on horses as they chased Moses and the Israelites seaward. But it took the genius of Shimon ben Yochai, the sage, to ask where the horses came from. A plague of hail had killed off all the livestock in Egypt, other than that which belonged to upright individuals who held the Lord in awe. What this means, then, is that Pharaoh got his horses from the upright individuals. Ben Yochai concludes: [In times of war], it is correct to kill even the righteous among your enemy (Mekhilta 14:7).

Ben Yochai witnessed the Roman annihilation of Judea. He understood that the way your enemy fights a war affects the definition of the righteous way to fight back. In other words, his recommendation was calibrated to the assumption that if the Jews are fighting a war, then their own future survival (and flourishing) is a nonnegotiable goal of the war.

Thus, a Jew living by the Torah and confronted with an enemy armed with a human shield must ask: What does God want me to do now, given what I face? And how might I figure that out by studying the Torah?

As Abraham learns when arguing with God about Sodom, the ultimate decision about who lives and who perishes in calamity is the Creator’s choice, and while you can plead with God to spare the righteous, you must also have the moral humility to trust that He knows what He’s doing.

As for you and what you can do: The Torah commands you to accept that the world’s Creator put you in the circumstances you are in, and that He only wants from you that you should do the most correct thing possible according to the Law, given the circumstances.

And among the constraints and instructions given by the Torah is a specific one: “Choose life.” Accepting one’s own death because the other options are ugly and seem heartless is not on the menu.

In the current war in Gaza, a basic Judaic question therefore arises and must not be ignored: What is the bare minimum we must do in order to prevent our own mass murder?"
by niemandhier | 2025-12-11 08:09:09+00:00
To ostracise means literally to be outed from society.

Most people I know want to keep their kids off social media, but do not want them to be ostracised.

Given that law, it might now be possible to keep your kids off the networks.

In my experience, at least for younger teens, it’s a small subset of kids enabled by their parents that push everybody else into the mouth of the kraken.

Example from my life:

Kid A has an Instagram account curated by her mum, who is more than happy to set up all kinds of communities, etc., for the kids in the class to cite: “finally be able to better communicate and stay in touch”.

Sure, you can keep your kid out, but social isolation is not easy for teens. Given that law, you could get Insta-mom banned.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-12-11 08:09:18+00:00
Are you ridiculing the concept of imaginary property?

It does make sense. If you are on the money receiving side.

On the other side: do you pay license fees to your parents, your teachers, ... everybody you ever learnt from? No? Why not? Didn't everybody learn by copying first?

What about imitation? What does freedom of art and science even mean? You call it parody. I call it theft.

See. You need the contradionary concept of imaginary property. Otherwise, how do we get rich quick? Live performance, consultation, teaching? Nah, those are for loosers... Rent seeking it is.

/s
by kkarpkkarp | 2025-12-11 08:09:49+00:00
I am freelancer as well and in the last month I got two new clients who asked me to fix the vibe-coded projects.

And I am now thinking to specialize in the field: they already know how f*d they are and they are going to pay a lot (or: they have no other opportunity). Something what looked like million-dollar idea created for pennies 3 months later is unbearable, already rotting pale of insanity which no junior human developer or even AI code assistant is able to extend. But they already have investors or clients who use it.

And for me, with >20 years of coding experience, this is a lot of fun cleaning it to the state when it is manageable.
by dannersy | 2025-12-11 08:09:57+00:00
Yeah, I do not think AI as the tech industry knows it will bring this future, but as you say, the conversation ends immediately when you bring the implications of their goals and claims.

Another huge issue that particularly Anthropic and OpenAI tend to avoid, despite AGI being their goal, is how they essentially want synthetic slaves. Again, I do not think they will achieve this but it is pretty gross when AGI is a stated goal but the result is just using it to replace labor and put billionaires in control.

Right now I am pretty anti-AI, but if these companies get what they want, I might find myself on the side of the machines.
by atmosx | 2025-12-11 08:11:51+00:00
> what are you on about?

I'm a European citizen, stating the obvious. Happens to be the contrary of what most ppl in here think it is.

> Member states joined the EU through mechanisms of their state. (Acts of parlements, referendum or something else).

They did. That was a long time ago. When the EU was created the expectation was to align salaries, social welfare networks through access to cheap lending through the common currency, even though politicians like Margaret Thatcher understood the role of the ECB the moment it was proposed. Indeed her last speech as a PM in the house of commons is legendary[^1].

> Also, the votes you are described are all about the implementation of certain ideas/legislation inside the context of the EU, not about the organisation itself?

Most voters don't make that distinction. The fact that every time a government wants to implement an unpopular idea uses the EU as an excuse doesn't help ofc.

To recap: given the opportunity, the majority of countries in Europe would choose to live the EU today, if you ask them. It was much easier for the UK to do so, because they were not part of the monetary union.

[^1]: "[...] the point of that kind of Europe with a central bank is no democracy, taking powers away from every single Parliament, and having a single currency, a monetary policy and interest rates which take all political power away from us.", M. Thatcher, Excerpt from her last speeh as UK's PM (1990).
by sunnyam | 2025-12-11 08:12:22+00:00
I don't think this is saying that the ratings are unreliable, but rather that searching by rating isn't a guarantee that a high-rated restaurant will show up due to the other factors at play.

You don't get a sorted list from highest rated to lowest rated, but rather, momentum of reviews, number of reviews, changes in rating etc.

My suspicion is that there probably is also a noticeable difference between companies that advertise on Google vs. those that don't. Anecdotally, the gym closest to me has higher ratings than all the other gyms in my area, but when I moved to the area it never showed up on Google Maps for me. It was only by walking by it that I decided to look it up on Google Maps specifically by name that it showed up for me.
Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes
by Noel04 | 2025-12-11 08:14:59+00:00
Hey HN! I built console.text() - a tool that texts you when specific code paths execute in production. The idea came from Jason Goodison's YouTube video about micro-SaaS products. I'd been stuck in tutorial hell for months, so I decided to just ship something. What it does: npm install @holler2660/console-text const { init } = require("@holler2660/console-text"); init({ apiKey: 'ct_live_xxx' }); console.text('Payment failed', { userId: '123' }); // → SMS arrives in 5-10 seconds Try it: https://soorajdmg.github.io/Console-text/ Why this vs Sentry/PagerDuty? Those are great for teams. This is for solo devs and side projects who want dead-simple alerts without the setup overhead. If you know console.log(), you already know how to use it.
by HelloNurse | 2025-12-11 08:15:06+00:00
Weapons and violence in Jane Austen's novels include characters hunting with shotguns and (remotely implied) armed Navy ships.

Nothing comparable to treating a mobile suit like an extension of the body, or killing people, or both at the same time (e.g. the "duel" between Char Aznable and Kycilia Zabi).
by 256_ | 2025-12-11 08:17:31+00:00
You've basically just confirmed what I said at the end, that democracies have no immunity to mass surveillance. 24/7 surveillance may have been an exaggeration but not by much, really. Age verification, as it exists now, inevitably means mass surveillance, in particular tying real life identities to political beliefs and porn preferences on a mass, computerised scale. If you're too young to remember the Snowden leaks I can maybe understand why you'd think mass surveillance is not an inevitable consequence of age verification, but I'm old enough to remember them, so I think it is. The existence and impact of mass surveillance seem to be invisible to you.

> It’s not Orwellian. If it were, then not allowing kids to vote or drink before they become adults would be Orwellian.

To be clear: What do you think you're refuting? I don't think children should be on modern social media. I don't think anyone should be, but especially not children. There are plenty of ways of going about this. This is why I said:

> A lot of the arguments I see in this thread are about whether modern mainstream social media are bad for young people. When the debate becomes about that, it's very easy to defend these types of Orwellian laws. It becomes "This is a problem, therefore the solution is good", without questioning the solution itself.

You then claim that the tech industry, and by extension "tech circles", don't like this because it means they make less money. I'm not sure how forcing companies whose business model is based on surveillance capitalism to do even more surveillance would hurt them, but if it does, it's still not my concern anyway. And conflating random hackers like me with "big tech" seems to have become increasingly common recently.
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-11 08:17:37+00:00
> If someone maintaining a project that's 25 years old and hasn't had a complete overhaul is "confident" about anything, they must be the one who originally wrote it =)

You are failing to understand that the key factor even in your example is maintenance, not age. You can and often do have legacy projects that use the latest and greatest frameworks. That's not the differentiating factor.

> At least that's my experience. Anyone else brought in during the last 5 years is usually terrified of changing anything because there are so many obscure corners and dependencies nobody can predict before stuff just breaks down.

The obscure corners and dependencies are the output of lack of maintenance, not age. That's why you can and often have brand new projects that are unmaintainable, and dismissed as legacy.
by suzzer99 | 2025-12-11 08:19:06+00:00
100%. Slack does this annoying thing where I click a chat, which gains focus, but I actually have to click again to switch to the chat I want. Every now and then I slack the wrong person, fortunately not to disastrous consequences, yet.

If I had a moderately intelligent human who never loses focus looking over my shoulder, they might say something like "Hey, you're typing a Tailwind CSS issue in the DevOps group chat. Did you mean that for one of the front-end devs?"

Similarly, about once or twice a year, I set the alarm on my phone and then accidentally scroll the wheel to PM w/o noticing. A non-brain-dead human would see that and say, "Are you sure you want to set your alarm for 8:35 PM Saturday?"

When we have a digital assistant that can do these things, and not because it's been specifically trained on these or similar issues, then I'll start to believe we're closing in on AGI.

At the very least I'd like to be able to tell a digital assistant to help me with things like this as they come up, and have it a) remember forever and b) realize stuff like Zoom chat has the same potential for screw ups as Slack chat (albeit w/o the weird focus thing).
by red75prime | 2025-12-11 08:19:21+00:00
So, you bet on a) transformers can't be a load-bearing part of AI, and b) whatever replaces them will not be able to utilize TPUs. Do you have any reasons for those assumptions?

Looking at your history it's something like "I tried them and they hallucinate" and, possibly, you've read an article that talks about inevitability of hallucinations. Correct? What's your reason for thinking that hallucination rate can't be lowered to or below the human rate ("Damn! What I was thinking about?").
by _petronius | 2025-12-11 08:20:03+00:00
Your sci-fi distopia flash fiction is compelling, but not actually on topic in this discussion.

"Think of the children" is weaponized for censorious purposes, but also the harms of social media are well documented (unlike many of the other moral panics fuelled by this phrase). Communication channels are becoming managed spaces, but by private companies not accountable to the electorate, not by the state.

I'm not sure a blanket under-16s ban on all social media is the right answer, but there are really good reasons why people support this that you need to engage with to have a useful discussion here.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-11 08:20:26+00:00
For stuff like connectors, this gets worked around by using terminology like “compatible with HDMI” all the time. You are explicitly permitted to reference your competitor’s products, including potential compatibility, by trademark law. I suspect the risk here is mostly contractural - AMD likely signed agreements with the HDMI forum a long time ago that restrict their disclosure of details from the specification.
by OccamsMirror | 2025-12-11 08:20:29+00:00
Your analogy fails because picking up a burning stick isn’t a combustion engine, whereas decades of neural-net and sequence-model work directly enabled modern LLMs. LLMs aren’t “five years old”; the scaling-transformer regime is. The components are old, the emergent-capability configuration is new.

Treating the age of the lineage as evidence of future growth is equivocation across paradigms. Technologies plateau when their governing paradigm saturates, not when the calendar says they should continue. Supersonic flight stalled immediately, fusion has stalled for seventy years, and neither cared about “time invested.”

Early exponential curves routinely flatten: solar cells, battery density, CPU clocks, hard-disk areal density. The only question that matters is whether this paradigm shows signs of saturation, not how long it has existed.
by tstrimple | 2025-12-11 08:22:04+00:00
Microservices solve a coordination problem the vast majority of companies will never experience. They necessarily add technical complexity in exchange for contracts over careful coordination and communication among business units that need to integrate. There is a reason they were developed and most successfully used by organizations with thousands of developers. It's not about scaling individual components or efficiency outside of enabling literally thousands of developers to work on common solutions without the communication channels exploding exponentially.
by scandox | 2025-12-11 08:22:06+00:00
She made free indirect speech [1] the cornerstone of the English language novel. She is recognized as a titanic figure. I don't know who would underrate her!

What I find strange is that people enjoy her books as romantic comedies because the world she represents is incredibly claustrophobic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_indirect_speech

Edited for clarification
by erfgh | 2025-12-11 08:22:07+00:00
The killer argument at the time (and even now most likely) is that screen readers could not distinguish whether the table was used for layout or for data and therefore sight-impaired users would have trouble.

The argument doesn't make sense because it is not too hard for a screenreader to understand whether a table is used for layout and even if it was hard the problem would more easily be solved by just adding an attribute to the table to indicate that it is used for layout.