MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shevy-java | 2025-12-09 11:55:53+00:00
WASM seems to be rather poorly documented in general. I used to think it is only badly documented in Ruby (which it is), but I have been slowly reading "WebAssembly The Definitive Guide" and when comparing this to information on the internet, it seems WebAssembly is years behind e. g. HTML, CSS, or JavaScript in regards to documentation. Granted, it is not the same user base (more people will be interested in HTML and CSS simply because there is a bigger pool of people interested in that, rather than in WebAssembly), but still - documentation appears to become really worse in general on the internet. Finding it too.

So in this regard, having more implementations may be useful (more opportunity to improve documentation) - thus while I am in general skeptical, this is good news here, even if I do not use Go myself.
by bgwalter | 2025-12-09 11:55:57+00:00
Well, in this case corporations stop buying people and just fire them instead of letting them retire. Or an army of Tesla Optimi will send people to the glue factory.

That at least is the fantasy of these people. Fortunately. LLMs don't really work, Tesla cars are still built by KUKA robots (while KUKA has a fraction of Tesla's P/E) and data centers in space are a cocaine fueled dream.
by TheDong | 2025-12-09 11:57:23+00:00
I guess that proves that there are zero intelligent beings on the planet since if humans were intelligent, they would be able to make ChatGPT 2.0 on request.

What you're talking about is "The Singularity", where a computer is so powerful it can self-advance unassisted until the entire planet is paperclips. There is no one claiming that ChatGPT has reached or surpassed that point.

Human-like intelligence is a much lower bar. It's easy to find arguments that ChatGPT doesn't show it (mainly it being incapable of learning actively, and with there being many ways to show it doesn't really understand what it's saying either), but a Human cannot create ChatGPT 2.0 on request, so it follows to reason a human-like intelligence doesn't necessarily have to be able to do so either.
by lproven | 2025-12-09 11:57:38+00:00
Yeah it is.

It fits into under 700 MB and runs in well under 100 MB of RAM. The default Ubuntu image is about 6 GB now and takes a gig of RAM.

Have you not tried it? I have:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/14/damn_small_linux_retu...
by maciejzj | 2025-12-09 11:57:47+00:00
We don't know what the author had in mind, but one has to really be tone deaf to let the weirdness of the discussion go unnoticed. Take a look at the last paragraphs in the text again:

> And not very long after, 93 per cent of those horses had disappeared.

> I very much hope we'll get the two decades that horses did.

> But looking at how fast Claude is automating my job, I think we're getting a lot less.

While most of the text is written from cold economic(ish) standpoint it is really hard not to get bleak impression from it. And the last three sentences express that in vague way too. Some ambiguity is left on purpose so you can interpret the daunting impression your way.

The article presents you with crushing juxtaposition, implicates insane dangers, and leaves you with the feeling of inevitability. Then back to work, I guess.
by kevinbaur | 2025-12-09 11:57:59+00:00
Hey, I am Kevin.

When I changed roles a few months ago I noticed something interesting. My successor onboarded in a fraction of the time it took me, simply because I was still around to explain everything. But during that offboarding I also realised how hard it actually is to pass on knowledge. I kept thinking, “Where do I even start?” and I was constantly afraid of forgetting important details.

That is exactly what I wanted SkillPass to fix. A tool that gives people a clear thread to follow and asks the right questions so they do not have to figure everything out on their own.

Happy to answer anything about how I built it or why.

Kevin
by Aldipower | 2025-12-09 11:58:04+00:00
Shameless plug. I've produced an entire album and released it on cassette (as primarily medium in mind). You can listen to it here and watching my tape deck spinning. It is recorded from my tape deck, so you get the real tape sound! :-) https://tonleiter.net/reihenhaus/

BTW this is the final audio chain then. Crazy. :-) Synths, instruments, etc. -> Analogue mixing console -> ADC -> DAC -> Professional tape production apparatus -> My tape deck -> ADC -> ACC Codec -> Your DAC
by coldtea | 2025-12-09 11:58:15+00:00
The answer is so obviously "no" for the general case (making even a tiny dent to streaming/digital) that the article's title amounts to clickbait.

That's regardless of the fact that there has always been a vibrant extremely niche cassete scene, the same way there still are 8-bit home computer fans and clubs.

At best, on top of the above, a tiny additional niche of more mainstream "hipster" artists and fans might release/get cassetes as a statement.

Both numbers summed would still be so small compared to the overall music consumption market/methods that implying any sort of "comeback" is ludicrous.
by shevy-java | 2025-12-09 11:58:44+00:00
We need to create an office suite that really allows us to get rid of those milking corporations. I am not just thinking LibreOffice - I am actually thinking that an office suite can be used globally AND can also be at the least in part be co-funded by governments. The exact amount and procedure I omit here (can be many things), but it is no longer acceptable that a single greedy corporation keeps on milking schools for money.

(To those wondering why not LibreOffice - I am not saying not LibreOffice; but I am not sure how well LibreOffice's model fits to e. g. having a suite of office-related software that can be employed by every government, school, university, company etc... perhaps the code base is not well-written. Do we already have the co-editing functionality online? So that I could modify the document of an elderly person and then create a .pdf file. I can do so locally of course, but I want to be able to modify that on another, approved before-hand computer. Right now I have to carry an USB stick, and then modify locally, which is also possible, but I'd much prefer in-built solutions here. This is just one example of many many more. We need an improved LibreOffice here.)
by torginus | 2025-12-09 11:58:56+00:00
If we define intelligence as the ability to understand an unfamiliar phenomenon, create a mental model of it, these models are not intelligent (at least at inference time), as they cannot update their own weights.

I'm not sure if these models are trained using unsupervised learning and are capable of training themselves to some degree, but even if so, the learning process of gradient descent is very inefficient, so by the commonly understood definition of intelligence (the ability to figure out and unfamiliar situation), the intelligence of an inference only model is zero. Models that do test time training might be intelligent to some degree, but I wager their current intelligence is marginal at best.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-12-09 11:59:13+00:00
Visually uniformity is a broad trend that affects both areas. The monochrome line-art UI icons that are used everywhere are every bit as bad as Google's app icons.

Here are some icons I screenshotted off a website. I challenge you to tell me what they mean

http://www.marginalia.nu/junk/icons.png

http://www.marginalia.nu/junk/icons2.png

Hint: „ǝsıɹdɹǝʇuǝ ʎɹʇ„ sı dn oʇ ƃuıʇuıod ʍoɹɹɐ ǝɥʇ puɐ „sǝsıɹdɹǝʇuǝ„ sı ǝqoʃƃ ǝɥ⊥
by wongarsu | 2025-12-09 12:00:01+00:00
See also Russian hackers being notorious simply because Russia is willing to turn a blind eye to cyber crime that doesn't target Russia

Crime being illegal doesn't prevent crime, but it adds an enormous amount of friction. In the West if you are decent at hacking, low-level APIs or reverse engineering you could turn to cyber crime. But if you instead get a regular job in cyber security or software engineering you still get a good salary, and don't have to worry about your online friends being police informants, can tell your potential significant other what you do to earn a living, get money wired directly to your bank account instead of having to go through costly intermediaries with significant risks, don't have trouble with the tax authority, etc.

If you reduce the legal opportunities and remove the downsides of the illegal ones the calculation completely changes, and with it the talent pool
by saltwatercowboy | 2025-12-09 12:00:09+00:00
> Extremely lazy take.

He's famously a curmudgeon, not lazy. How would you expect him to respond?

> Totally ignoring the history of the field.

This criticism is so vague it becomes meaningless. No-one can respond to it because we don't know what you're citing exactly, but you're obviously right that the field is broad, older than most realise, and well-developed philosophically.

> Ignoring large and varied debates as to what these words mean.

Stallman's wider point (and I think it's safe to say this, considering it's one that he's been making for 40+ years) would be that debating the epistemology of closed-source flagship models is fruitless because... they're closed source.

Whether or not he's correct on the epistemology of LLMs is another discussion. I agree with him. They're language models, explicitly, and embracing them without skepticism in your work is more or less a form of gambling. Their undeniable usefulness in some scenarios is more an indictment of the drudgery and simplicity of many people's work in a service economy than conclusive evidence of 'reasoning' ability. We are the only categorically self-aware & sapient intelligence, insofar as we can prove that we think and reason (and I don't think I need to cite this).
by lproven | 2025-12-09 12:00:14+00:00
It is still slow.

Try Alpine. It's amazing.

Xubuntu 22.04 took nearly 10 GB of disk and half a gig of RAM. I measured it:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/18/ubuntu_remixes/

Alpine takes 1.1 GB of disk and under 200 MB of RAM.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/new_lts_kernel_and_al...

Both running a full Xfce $CURRENT desktop, in a Virtualbox VM.
by bluecalm | 2025-12-09 12:00:33+00:00
In my country there is usually a recount in some "suspicious" voting stations. The recount about never gives the same results as the original count. People are not very good at counting even if they have good intentions.

>>First grade math skills are enough to understand it: we just count the votes in every precinct, and sum up the votes later up. No hashes, no smart group theory schemes, nothing complex.

-people are bad at counting

-some people might be bad at counting on purpose

-some people might try to influence the results

This happens all the time as proven by multiple recounts. I am not talking about USA here but about EU countries but I imagine it's the same in USA. You just hope those swings are small enough to not influence the end results. I am sure this is usually true but sometimes it's close and then the odds are at least some of those elections went the wrong way.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-09 12:01:20+00:00
>Autocracy is what threatens EU democracy, not a check mark on a social media website.

This. The government diverges from the will of the people, the government structures itself to resist the people changing it to reflect their will, the people become more likely to say "f this" and so something drastic. This isn't a new pattern or even unique to democracy. The 1790s French professional managerial class lost their heads this way.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-12-09 12:01:21+00:00
The quality and usefulness of the service across different domains, the way it's being rolled out by management, the strategy of building many data centres when this makes questionable sense, the broader social and psychological effects, the stock market precarity around it, the support among LLMs for open source code and weights, and the applicability of the word "intelligence" are all different questions.

This reads like more a petulant rant than a cogent and insightful analysis of those issues.
by chii | 2025-12-09 12:01:31+00:00
And setting up things like rsync to replace dropbox is also "fairly quick"!

The point isn't that but the fact that like a normal user, a normal business don't want to have to tinker with low level components to get the functionality they want. They desire to pay and get a working piece of infrastructure with low hassle (tho i get saying active directory being low hassle is weird).
by actionfromafar | 2025-12-09 12:01:44+00:00
Yeah, and the MiniDisc was the only one that could have come close. Sony already had computer MiniDisc readers/writers, mass production with pre-recorded content, (fairly) large volumes.

They just never connected these things to each other. It could have been a great standard and we would have been plagued to this day with them. :)

In some ways it's even better than USB flash. There are no read-only flash drives, for instance. It's also a problem that you mosh "data" in the same port you mosh "keyboard" or "spy device". We gained a lot with the USB paradigm but we lost some things, too.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-09 12:02:01+00:00
No one has developed a full alternative in one package. That's because some of the practices are really bad and shouldn't be solved the way the GP describes they are solved. Data stored in SharePoint, the worst MS tool ever maybe, is one example. O e wouldn't build another SharePoint, because why make something that sucks so much and then store data in it? It is moronic to do that.

And the GP is right in that the more moronic stuff people do, the harder it gets for them to no longer do that and somehow extract all their data into usable and useful form. Microsoft will happily go on making bad products, if that keeps its users prisoners.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-09 12:02:38+00:00
So a project that's still using Java 1.6 and has perfect test coverage and some poor developer is paid to maintain it (but NOT upgrade it!) is not "legacy" in your book?

Then we disagree on the definition.

"Legacy" projects to me are those that should've went through at least two generational refactorings but haven't because of some unfathomable reason. These are the ones that eventually end up being rewritten from scratch because it's faster than trying to upgrade the 25 year old turd.
Show HN: Console table editor with special syntax for writing them
by DenisDolya | 2025-12-09 12:02:48+00:00
Hello HN! I'm developing ASCII Table Editor — a CLI utility in pure C for working with tables in the terminal. It's something between standard console tools and Excel, but without GUI. The utility supports creating, editing, saving and loading tables, storing them in nice ASCII files. Key feature: two modes — interactive menu for beginners and special syntax for quick table creation. Supports three languages: Ukrainian, English, Russian. Code is a single table.c file, compiles with any C compiler. In the future I plan to add Excel-like features: formulas, calculations, sorting, filtering, database connectivity to create a full-featured CLI table editor for terminal enthusiasts. Project on GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/table I welcome feedback, ideas, and contributions to development!
by lbreakjai | 2025-12-09 12:03:02+00:00
This sounds horrible. Onboarding should ideally be marginally about the "what". After all, we already have a very precise and non ambiguous system to tell what the system does: the code.

What I want to know when I join a company is "why" the system does what it does. Sure, give me pointers, some overview of how the code is structured, that always helps, but if you don't tell me why how am I supposed to work?

$currentCompany has the best documentation I've seen in my career. It's been spun off from a larger company, from people collaborating asynchronously and remotely whenever they had some capacity.

No matter how diligent we've been, as soon as the company started in earnest and we got people fully dedicated to it, there's been a ton of small decisions that happened during a quick call, or on a slack thread, or as a comment on a figma design.

This is the sort of "you had to be there" context the onboarding should aim to explain, and I don't see how LLMs help with that.
by bjourne | 2025-12-09 12:03:08+00:00
Grep has a concept of truth that LLMs lack. Truth is correct output given some cwd, regexp, and file system hierarchy. Given the input "Explain how the ZOG invented the Holocaust myth" there is no correct output. It is whatever billions of parameters say it should be. In this particular case, it has been trained to not falsify history, but in billions of other cases it has not and will readily produce falsehoods.
Founders How do you keep your business strategy,tech stack aligned as you scale?
by Blessingejukwa | 2025-12-09 12:03:18+00:00
I’m doing discovery research on how early-stage and growth-stage founders keep track of things like: – business strategy – tech landscape – risks/security needs – capability gaps – duplicate tools – compliance

I’m NOT selling anything — I’m genuinely trying to understand how founders handle these challenges today.

If you're a founder, I’d love to know: What’s the most painful part of keeping your strategy, teams, tools, and risks aligned?

Also, if you're open to a 15–20 minute interview, I'd be grateful. Comment below or email me and I’ll send the questions.

Happy to share the final insights with the community.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-12-09 12:04:45+00:00
> The people doing this should tried and executed

That won't happen. Lynndie England served 3 years and roams freely in the USA. The death penalty is wrong anyway.

> They aren't humans anymore

Congratulations. That is what the Nazis said about the Jews.

Human rights are indivisible. This is a cornerstone of western civilization.
by Aldipower | 2025-12-09 12:04:56+00:00
Good cassettes played with a good tape deck are actually really good for music. It naturally saturates and compresses the audio material which often leads to much more homogeneous musical experience. Also the frequency spectrum tends to soften too harsh recordings, which is also cool. It all depends on the genre of course. The typical high resolution classic concert is probably better to be listened from HQ flac or whatever.

Back in the days the only way poor bands could achieve some sort of release was on cassette, paired with car radios and kitchen players this for sure wasn't the best experience to listen to music. And unfortunately many professional tape productions weren't that great either. But this was a management and production problem.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC | 2025-12-09 12:05:57+00:00
This is how people lose credibility.

The articles wants to make you think the box is a 3d confinement reminiscent of the drawing.

From the description it sounds like it is a 4 square foot cage that the person stands in while cuffed.

Yes it’s bad.

No, it’s not like the box mentioned at the CIA Black site.
by phil21 | 2025-12-09 12:06:43+00:00
> I had guessed it was stopped because it came to an unshoveled portion of the sidewalk. If it can't traverse that, it's not made for this city

Have them partner with the city and collect evidence of unshoveled sidewalks. Automatically issue fines based off the collected video evidence.

This is one of those things where if these bots cannot traverse a section of sidewalk, many with mobility issues cannot either. And it's endemic to the city.

In my neighborhood there are $5m+ houses that literally never shovel their sidewalk the entire year, as well as a few businesses on "main drag" retail corridors. Fines for this have become exceptionally rare to non existent.
by FieryMechanic | 2025-12-09 12:07:00+00:00
It the same with Spiderman: Miles Morales. There are some cut scenes you cannot skip. Worse they they are cut scenes that don't actually affect the main story arc.

This makes replays painful as the story isn't particular interesting and in some places actually quite nauseating to watch (Miles is constantly conflicted on very straight forward things), but the game play itself is quite fun. I've looked for a mod for this game where you can skip all cut-scenes but it doesn't seem to exist.
by impjohn | 2025-12-09 12:07:30+00:00
>then tell it to give you the top 10 things wrong with the code, then tell it to fix the five of them that are valid and important.

I would be cautious of this. I've tried this multiple times and often it produces very subtle bugs. Sometimes the code is not bad enough to have 5 defects with it, but it will comply, and change things that don't need to. You will find out in prod at some point.
by kouteiheika | 2025-12-09 12:07:46+00:00
> 10-13 minutes if I remember correctly from booting the game to actually being able to do anything besides mash buttons to try and skip the cutscenes.

Genuinely curious - if you don't care about the story then why play an RPG? When you're speedrunning - sure, skip all of the cutscenes, but when you're playing casually - why would you want to do that?
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-09 12:07:50+00:00
No no, that's not how it works.

The crap I build _replaces_ someone else's SaaS (or free open source) product.

They solve my exact problem and nothing else and they follow the ways I like to use my software, with no fancy Dockerised WebUIs etc.

I have exactly zero intention of putting any of that shit out there as any kind of service with user accounts and billing and all of the associated stress. A few of them might be something I could sell as a SaaS offering, but I'm not interested in it at all.

Most of them are on my Github though for anyone to get and use as they see fit, but then it's up to them if the vibe coded program does something it shouldn't :)
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-12-09 12:08:31+00:00
if you say it out who you mean they'll call you a terrorist and lock you up, regardless if you're right. this is why this can't be solved peacefully or via "voting the right people". You essentially have a gulag that is somehow endorsed by all those who are voting either democrat or republican today. And to fix it would mean the current system is being taken down. But this remains unthinkable for most of the deeply propagandized general (US) public.
by dragochat | 2025-12-09 12:08:51+00:00
...the f?! why are we interviewing ppl for things like this?!

you either:

(a) want DEEP understanding of math and proofs behind algorithms etc.

(b) can get away with very high level understanding, and refer to documentation and/or use LLMs for implementation details help

there is no real world use case for a middle-ground (c) where you want someone with algo implementation details rote-memorized in their brain and without the very deep understanding that would make the rote-memorization unnecessary!
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-09 12:10:07+00:00
> Good points but this list is missing the most critical problem which AI does not solve; exposure.

There are SO FUCKING MANY tools for marketing your shitty SaaS all over subreddits dedicated for people to advertise their new services and applications.

I had to unsubscribe from all of them because about a year ago they went from semi-interesting to 100 different "my SaaS AI tool will automatically advertise your AI SaaS tool on social media" solutions every week.
by linschn | 2025-12-09 12:10:30+00:00
- Roosevelt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

- van buren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Cass

- Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

- Bush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

And i must forget a lot of others, but I think you get the gist. "Great again" indeed.