MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Larrikin | 2025-12-04 15:27:01+00:00
Internet comments aren't a social movement

Everything that these laws are supposedly regulating has always been there and we have an entire generation now that grew up with it. Everyone was fine just like video games were fine, movies were fine, racy books were fine, and the printing press was fine.

The Internet comments make it seem like lazy parents but it's very convenient that the solution is to ID every single person on the Internet. Facebook pushed this hard with their real name policy and then had to back off because people complained about trans people being forced to use their old names. They've been successfully demonized so now it's time to push as hard as they can. It's probably not just Facebook but it's obviously not organic.
by moregrist | 2025-12-04 15:27:13+00:00
> I guess it takes a visionary management to recognize the value of disasters that were prevented.

I think you should change “visionary” with “competent” here.

This industry has been talking about how bad it is to have “hero devs” for decades, maybe since it’s ENIAC beginnings. After a few decades, you’d think this would filter up to management.

If you change your example from brush clearing to garbage removal it becomes pretty clear: who should get more accolades, the guy who takes out the trash or the guy who stays up all night treating the infections? Both. It’s management that fired the custodial staff who should be canned.
by Herring | 2025-12-04 15:27:44+00:00
Dude go figure it out yourself, it's not that hard. I remember discussing inequality with friends in 2014, and probably knew about it since Occupy Wall Street (2011). Or earlier. At this point if you still don't get it, with a billionaire in office, surely it's on you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

I got what I needed from here, I'm out.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-04 15:27:54+00:00
> My original comment: First come first served is a better

Retailers are first come first serve. The first customer to buy product gets the next unit of inventory.

If you’re trying to argue that retailers need to be forced to set a retail price for each unit of in-stock inventory and then be forced to sell each unit at that price later no matter what the market rate does in the mean time, that’s an awful idea.

I’m sure you don’t mind when retailers decide to give discounts or put things on sale, do you? If the market price drops, they reduce selling price. Same thing when market rate goes up.

Forcing retailers to price things how you want doesn’t change supply and demand. It would only force retailers to add extra margin into their prices to account for the added risk of the government forcing their hand in sale prices.
by mzs | 2025-12-04 15:28:50+00:00
Tissot, N., Genty, G., Santoprete, R. et al. Mapping cell dynamics in human ex vivo hair follicles suggests pulling mechanism of hair growth. Nat Commun 16, 10267 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65143-x
by officeplant | 2025-12-04 15:29:00+00:00
Funny considering the K20A1 started off with a dogshit reputation and chain tensioner issues just like the F-series engines in the S2000 that honda refused to learn from.

But thanks to aftermarket support you can get third party parts to fix any issue with the K-series, and even see people turbocharging to get them north of 1,200hp. We've got a local guy with a k-swapped Acura NSX that is an absolute monster of a car.
by _fat_santa | 2025-12-04 15:29:02+00:00
> Apart from the exfiltration of data, the complete absence of any savings or efficiencies, and the fact that DOGE closed as soon as the exfiltration was over?

IMHO everyone kinda knew from the start that DOGE wouldn't achieve much because the cost centers where gains could realistically be made are off-limits (mainly social security and medicare/medicaid). What that leaves you with is making cuts in other small areas and sure you could cut a few billion here and there but when compared against the governments budget, that's a drop in the bucket.
by dev0p | 2025-12-04 15:29:09+00:00
The fact that you wrote it wrong is hilariously ironic.

JavaScript is simply the better term, and marketing is everything. Reminds me of Java's POJOs, which was a very simple pattern that no one used, until someone gave them a fancy name.

ECMAScript is a horrible technical name. Might as well call it ACMEScript considering how willie e. coyote it feels to develop with it...
by rtp4me | 2025-12-04 15:29:14+00:00
You and I must be using very different versions of Claude. As an infra/systems guy (non-coder), the ability for me to develop some powerful tools simply by leveraging Claude has been nothing short of amazing. I started using Claude about 8 months ago and have since created about 20 tools ranging from simple USB detection scripts (for secure erasing SSDs) to complex tools like an Azure File Manager and a production-ready data migration tool (Azure to Snowflake). Yes, I know bash and some Python, but Claude has really helped me create tools that would have taken many weeks/months to build using the right technology stack. I am happy to pay for the Claude Max plan; it has returned huge dividends to my productivity.

And, maybe that is the difference. Non coders can use AI to help build MVPs and tooling they could otherwise not do (or take a long time to get done). On the other hand, professional coders see this as an intrusion to their domain, become very skeptical because it does not write code "their way" or introduces some bugs, and push back hard.
by mindslight | 2025-12-04 15:29:50+00:00
Yes, and that thing is chiefly corporate social media. Which could be fixed literally overnight by parents, over a few weeks by school district policy, and over a few months with sites publishing metadata to aid client side blocking. Phones, the primary independent computing device for kids, are already locked down to the point that an owner has to jump through many (detectable and auditable) hoops to install arbitrary software.

None of this requires some draconian regime where it becomes sites' own responsibilities to obtain and verify their users meatspace identities.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-12-04 15:30:33+00:00
> We also saw the rise of React, which is possibly the greatest tragedy to ever befall front-end programming (and I say this as a recovering React fan).

Amen. Github (just to cite one example) has become much less usable since they switched to React. And it's clearly not a site that needs React, since it worked fine for 17 years without it.
by seanhunter | 2025-12-04 15:32:37+00:00
There is an excellent series on youtube called "A friendly introduction to group theory"[1] which takes in my view a very intuitive approach of starting with symmetry groups. There's also "Group theory and the Rubik's Cube"[2] which teaches group theory starting with the symmetries of the Rubik's Cube. I personally think starting with symmetry groups and later on showing (via Cayley's theorem or whatever) that these are isomorphic to integers modulo n or general cyclic groups is the way to go to build intuition.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n1BhWzdVsU

[2] https://people.math.harvard.edu/~jjchen/docs/Group%20Theory%...
by rtp4me | 2025-12-04 15:32:45+00:00
Humbling indeed. I am utterly amazed at Claude's breadth of knowledge and ability to understand the context of our conversations. Even if I misspell words, don't use the exact phrase, or call something a function instead of a thread, Claude understands what I want and helps make it happen. Not to mention the ability to read hundreds of lines of debug output and point out a tiny error that caused the bug.
by mrkeen | 2025-12-04 15:33:10+00:00
A queue with persistent storage is like a ledger whose entries don't vanish when you read them, or a git branch whose commits stick around for longer than 24-72 hours.

It's popular because it didn't have any competition while it built up its ecosystem. And even though there's competitors now, I haven't had time to check them out, and they still brand themselves as "Kafka-alternatives".
by crazygringo | 2025-12-04 15:33:43+00:00
> This is self indulgence justified as « investment ».

Exactly that. There's zero way that level of spending is paying for itself in increased productivity, considering they'll still be 99% as productive spending something like a tenth of that.

It's their luxury spending. Fine. Just don't pretend it's something else, or tell others they ought to be doing the same, right?
by NoGravitas | 2025-12-04 15:34:04+00:00
> It's the closing trash compactor of soullessness and hate of the human, described vividly as having affected Microsoft culture as thoroughly as intergranular corrosion can turn a solid block of aluminum to dust.

That's a great way to describe it. There's a good article that points out AI is the new aesthetic of fascism. And, of course, in Miyazaki's words, "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
by bombcar | 2025-12-04 15:34:19+00:00
It's the "how much can the banana cost, $10?" of HN.

The point they're trying to make is a valid one - a company should be willing to spend "some money" if it saves time of the employee they're paying.

The problem is usually that the "IT Budget" is a separate portion/group of the company than the "Salary" budget, and the "solution" can be force a certain dollar amount has to be spent each year (with one year carry-forward, perhaps) so that the employees always have good access to good equipment.

(Some companies are so bad at this that a senior engineer of 10+ years will have a ten year old PoS computer, and a new intern will get a brand new M5 MacBook.)
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-04 15:34:51+00:00
> How is Palantir going to make me, someone who does not use its products, a "slave of the state?"

This is like asking how Lockheed-Martin can possibly kill an Afghan tribesman, who isn't a customer of theirs.

Palantir's customer is the state. They use the product on you. The East German Stasi would've drooled enough to drown in over the data access we have today.
by JohnBooty | 2025-12-04 15:35:14+00:00
The only sane way to judge "professional excellence" would be holistically, not by asking "has this person or team ever shipped a bug?" If you disagree, then I hope you are judged the same way during your next review.

In the case of HD2 I'd say the team has done well enough. The game has maintained player base after nearly two years, including on PC. This is rare in the world of live service games, and we should ask ourselves what this tells us about the overall technical quality of the game - is the game so amazing that people keep playing despite abysmal technical quality?

The technical quality of the game itself has been somewhat inconsistent, but I put hundreds of hours into it (over 1K, I think) and most of the time it was trouble-free (and fun).

I would also note that the PC install size issue has only become egregious somewhat recently. The issue was always there, but initially the PC install size was small enough that it wasn't a major issue for most players. I actually never noticed the install size bug because I have a $75 1TB drive for games and even at its worst, HD2 consumed only a bit over 10% of that.

It certainly must have been challenging for the developers. There has been a constant stream of new content, and an entirely new platform (Xbox) added since release. Perhaps more frustratingly for the development team, there has also been a neverending parade of rebalancing work which has consumed a lot of cycles. Some of this rebalancing work was unavoidable (in a complex game, millions of players will find bugs and meta strategies that could never be uncovered by testing alone) and some was the result of perhaps-avoidable internal discord regarding the game's creative direction.

The game is also somewhat difficult to balance and test by design. There are 10 difficulty levels and 3 enemy factions. It's almost like 30 separate games. This is an excellent feature of the game, but it would be fair to Arrowhead for perhaps biting off more than any team can chew.
by bluGill | 2025-12-04 15:35:47+00:00
Who is right is the wrong question here (not that your point is wrong - it is correct in some situations but not the one I'm talking about). This is a case where the features we need for the release were planned in advance and management signed off on them - by definition getting the feature done is right (even if it turns out customers don't want it, at this point we have committed as a company). However there are always a few bugs that become last minute stop ship issues that should have been prevented long ago.
by parineum | 2025-12-04 15:35:53+00:00
> What about the RAM price surge?

It's a bit more expensive. It's not the end of the world. Production will likely increase if the demand is consistent.

> What about diverting funding from much more useful and needed things?

And who determines that? People put there money where they want to. People think AI will provide value to other people and those people will, therefore, pay money for AI. So the funding that AI is receiving is directly proportional to how useful and needed people think AI is. I disagree, but I'm not a dictator.

> What about automation of scams, surveillance, etc?

Technology makes things easier, including bad things. This isn't the first time this happened and it won't be the last. It also makes avoiding those things easier though but that usually lags a bit behind.

> I can keep going.

Please do because it seems like you're grasping at straws.
by fwipsy | 2025-12-04 15:36:20+00:00
Amazing and humbling to read about technological marvels from 1400 years ago. It really puts our modern achievements in a new light. It's tempting sometimes to think of innovation as a recent phenomen, but people have been innovating and solving the same problems for thousands of years. To be honest, I didn't even know they HAD e-commerce back then!
by jacquesm | 2025-12-04 15:36:41+00:00
> This was also peak Sun, they were really driving the web in this era.

That's not how I remember it. That's how Sun would have liked to see it but it was Apache on Linux or BSD (or even SGI) that was far more prevalent, at least near me. And I spent a good bit of time in the same building as the local Sun dealership. You could not have paid me to use their warmed over and overpriced hardware. And that really is what I associated both SUN and SGI with: companies wasting money.

But hey, we're in a bubble so party like it's 1999. It's fine if your customers are doing the hype thing, but there is no reason to follow them off the cliff. Someone yesterday asked why Bezos doesn't buy one of the big AI players. That's why.
by mhitza | 2025-12-04 15:36:45+00:00
I don't think anyone is that naive to not see the negative implications of the things they are proposing, or helping develop. They might feign ignorance, and excuse themselves with "following orders" but the majority know it's not right in principle.

I tend to follow information in this space, and could talk about it endlessly (though it would still have minimal effect in the end).

From the things I'm seeing right now, in my mind, all this clampdown on privacy is to have better control of the message and discussion in order to preserve the corrupt status quo. To give one example, many leaks and reports initially come in anonymous due to fear of repercussion from those in power. My country (Romania) changed the legislation a couple of years back to prevent people from reporting corruption anonymously (in a highly corrupt state). Maybe that's why Trump said he loves Romanians, recently, he'd like to do that at home as well.

> more sinister intentional efforts to harm the public

Until recently I wasn't the type of person that would entertain the idea of a shadowy organization that tries to puppetmaster the world. Though with the recent Epstein emails release that in black and white stated about Slovakia's 2018 government "the government will fall this week - as planned" (day prior to mass protests that lead to it falling), makes you wonder about the backroom politics of the western world, and why we need more transparency there, and less control from them.

edit:

And of course, any change that is put behind a "think of the children" message, should raise everybody's eyebrows to the max.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-04 15:36:53+00:00
>Look, boss, sometimes empowering me is just what I need, but sometimes I need you to solve a specific problem for me, so I can keep solving all the other problems I already have on my plate.

One of the reasons I really like my current manager is he spends a lot more time reminding us he can/offering to "take care of any blockers." His whole management style can be summed up as "Why is it blocked? Ok, leave it to me." Frankly I love it. If it's something we should take care of he's very specific about it too.
by rsstack | 2025-12-04 15:37:02+00:00
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

> This is used for namespacing and to ensure forward compatibility (since no elements will be added to HTML, SVG, or MathML with hyphen-containing local names going forward).

So things that work today without a dash might break in the future if <badge>, for example, becomes a standard HTML element.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-04 15:37:17+00:00
Someone will, because it's a useful form factor. And that someone is gonna be the people who are the experts in it, which is pretty strongly arguably GM.

There have been sooooo many SBCs shat out into the world in industrial applications that even if GM stops making them someone will keep making them. You can't make a compatible single replacement because you'll break a ton of applications. You can't make a ton of different replacements because that's not economical. Only makes sense to keep making them.
by moralestapia | 2025-12-04 15:37:22+00:00
Indeed this is pretty bad.

The vast majority of developers do not update their frameworks to the latest version so this is something that will linger on for years. Particularly if you're on Next something-like-12 and there's breaking changes in order to go to 16 + patch.

OTOH this is great news for bad actors and pentesters.
Show HN: MyMiniPaper – Create Reading Habit for Kids 4-7yrs in 5 mins
by pingananth | 2025-12-04 15:38:13+00:00
I wanted my 5 year old to get into a reading habit. She is currently reading CVC words. Books were either too big - either she couldn't sit for long or the text wasn't in her levels ( except the bob series ). One day, she was asked to recite headlines in her school and I wrote something a simple headline in her notebook with emoji's and I saw her eyes light up and eager to decode what it is. That's how this was born. Originally as Positive news for kids but I quickly understood 90% of parents do not want their kids this early to know NEWS. So, I turned to the reading practice.

Using Gemini 3 Pro to source and make it simple. And then I do a final simplification and choose the right emoji's. Currently focussed on India but would love to see if this clicks for other regions as well.
by microtonal | 2025-12-04 15:38:21+00:00
That's kinda like saying the mid-20s were pretty scary too, minimum wage was AMOUNT and a MacBook M4 Max was $3000..

In the mid-90s me and my brother were around 14 and 10, earning nothing but a small amount of monthly pocket money. We were fighting so much over our family PC, that we decided to save and put together a machine from second-hands parts we could get our hands on. We built him a 386 DX 40 or 486SX2 50 or something like that and it was fine enough for him to play most DOS games. Heck, you could even run Linux (I know because I ran Linux in 1994 on a 386SX 25, with 5MB RAM and 20MB disk space).
by cameronc56 | 2025-12-04 15:38:22+00:00
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by axegon_ | 2025-12-04 15:38:38+00:00
How is any of that different from AI evangelists, be it regular hype kids or CEOs? "All code will be written by AI by the end of {current_year+1}". "We know how to build AGI by the end of {current_year+1}". "AI will discover new sciences". A quick search will draw a billion claims from everyone involved. Much like on here, where I'm constantly told that LLMs are a silver bullet and the only reason why they aren't working for me is because my prompts are not explicit enough or I'm not paying for a subscription. All while watching people submit garbage LLM code and breaking their computers by copy-pasting idiotic suggestions from chatgpt into their terminals. It is depressing how close we are to the Idiocracy world without anyone noticing. And it did not take 500 years but just 3. Everyone involved - altman, zukerberg, musk, pichai, nadella, huang, etc. are well aware they are building a bullshit economy on top of bullshit claims and false promises.
by pseudalopex | 2025-12-04 15:38:47+00:00
> I'm extremely skeptical of the argument that this will end up creating jobs just like other technological advances did. I'm sure that will happen around the edges, but this is the first time thinking itself is being commodified, even if it's rudimentary in its current state. It feels very different from automating physical labor: most folks don't dream of working on an assembly line.

Most people do not dream of working most white collar jobs. Many people dream of meaningful physical labor. And many people who worked in mines did not dream of being told to learn to code.
by bluGill | 2025-12-04 15:39:06+00:00
You are only left alone if your cathedrals generate enough value while being ignored. The post is about a tools team, so long as the tools work and nobody comes selling a "cheaper tool that solves everything" management doesn't care and you get to work. However if you tools start causing problems for the engineers who use them and the complain to management you are in trouble. If someone else comes along with a "cheaper tool that solves everything" you are in trouble (such tool may or may not be cheaper/better, the point is they can sell management on the idea they are - you didn't successfully defend yours)

Edit: there is one more danger: you do your job well and management thinks you do nothing and so gets rid of you (only to hire a new team in 3 months when everything collapses)
by jorvi | 2025-12-04 15:39:39+00:00
If you present an operating profit of €25 billion USD, yes, in a healthy true market competition would force you to either A) eat into your profit margin by reducing prices or B) invest in R&D and capacit-

Actually, let me eat my words, you are right. As I typed this I saw some news from an hour ago[0] about SK Hynix planning to invest about $500 billion into 4 more fabs. I imagine [hope] Samsung will follow, and together with Chinese memory fabs ramping up both in capacity and technology, prices will return to earth in 2027, maybe 2028.

Guess I am just a little too bitter because GPU prices finally seemed to normalize after half a decade of craziness. Topped with corporations in the West usually forgoing investment and using profits like these to do massive stock buybacks and dividends, souring my expectations.

[0]https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/hot-on-the-heels-of-...