MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by silisili | 2025-12-12 02:37:47+00:00
Oh wow, I felt like I was reading my own kid's writing for a moment, as this is very much our situation. They get tired of hearing my long-winded tangents of potatoes being the ultimate food, and of course, my particular affection for mashed potatoes. I read once that humans can live on a diet of potatoes and milk, and I never bothered fact checking that despite me repeating it to them often - and asking guess what's made of potatoes and milk?

That aside, I'm guessing the author's aversion as a child is strictly texture based which is fair. Don't get me wrong, fresh prepared is better, but instant potatoes, especially the Idahoan brand, taste exactly the same to me. It's just that they're too perfectly thin and uniform, quite unnaturally so.
by specialp | 2025-12-12 02:38:14+00:00
I remember when the N900 came out other phones including the iPhone could not process a web page with AJAX or most javascript and Flash. It truly gave you a desktop experience on a phone. You could open a terminal and ssh into a server or do whatever you want. Another funny thing people forget: It had another Finnish company's game for it that later became wildly successful: Rovio Angry Birds
by Aeolun | 2025-12-12 02:38:58+00:00
Don’t think you are missing anything. I do this with the API, and it works great. I’m not sure why they don’t do it, but I can only guess it’s because it completely breaks the context caching. If you summarize the full buffer at least you know you are down to a few thousand tokens to cache again, instead of 100k tokens to cache again.
by altmanaltman | 2025-12-12 02:39:47+00:00
Honestly, I fundamentally disagree with this. Figuring out "what to prompt" is not problem-solving in a true sense imo. And if you're really going too deep into the problem domain, what is the point of having the code abstracted?

My comment was based on you saying you don't care about the code and only what it does. But now you're saying you care about the code and review everything so I'm not sure what to make out of it. And again, I fundamentally disagree that reviewing code will become optional or rather should become optional. But that's my personal take.
by brokencipher | 2025-12-12 02:40:03+00:00
Took a few months off of work and decided to bicycle through the Philippines. One day was a very hard mountain stage, driving from Bacolod to San Carlos, on Negros island. Arrived at the top completely exhausted, layed on the roadside in an attempt to recover. Suddenly a car stopped and a young couple of locals handed me a sandwich and wished me luck. I'll never forget them
by skydhash | 2025-12-12 02:40:51+00:00
> 1) When I already have a rough picture of the solution to some programming task in my head up front, I do not particularly look forward to actually going and doing it.

Every time I think I have a rough picture of some solution, there's always something in the implementation that proves me wrong. Then it's reading docs and figuring whatever gotchas I've stepped into. Or where I erred in understanding the specifications. If something is that repetitive, I refactor and try to make it simple.

> I have a restless mind and I just don't find doing something that interesting anymore once I have more or less mastered it.

If I've mastered something (And I don't believe I've done so for pretty much anything), the next step is always about eliminating the tedium of interacting with that thing. Like a code generator for some framework or adding special commands to your editor for faster interaction with a project.
by rurp | 2025-12-12 02:41:21+00:00
I don't think this is the scenario most people are worried about. Having basic needs met while also having a lot of freedom and time probably sounds great to the majority of people. But there's roughly 0% chance we end up in that kind of world if current AI leads to massive job elimination.

Just look at who is building, funding, and promoting these models! I can't think of a group of people less interested in helping millions of plebs lead higher quality lives if it costs them a penny to do it.
by pezezin | 2025-12-12 02:42:39+00:00
You are right about the RSP/RDP distinction. My point is that removing transistors from one chip doesn't magically let you add more transistors to another chip, that's not how IC fabrication works. And the CPU was not a custom design, it was a VR4300 licensed by NEC from the original R4300.

Anyway, the real problem is that TMEM was not a hardware-managed cache, but a scratchpad RAM fully under the control of the programmer, which meant that the whole texture had to fit under a meagre 4 kB of RAM! It is the same mistake that Sony and IBM later made with the Cell.
by mendexio | 2025-12-12 02:42:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Seer to solve my own problem: I don't have patience for social media, but I still want to find market opportunities.

Seer monitors Hacker News, GitHub, npm, and DEV.to for signals like: - "I wish there was..." - "Looking for alternative to..." - Trending repos with "help wanted" - New packages gaining traction

It scores opportunities (0-100) based on engagement, recency, and relevance, so you see the good stuff first.

*Tech:* Go backend, SvelteKit frontend, SQLite. Self-hosted, runs with `docker run` or as a single binary.

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GitHub: https://github.com/mx-seer/seer

Would love feedback on the scoring algorithm and what other sources would be useful.
by squigz | 2025-12-12 02:43:01+00:00
> You never hear about “starving athletes” I guess is what I mean.

I mean, just because this isn't a trope doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you know anything about trying to get into pro sports of literally any type, you'll know that it's a lot of sacrifice for a long time. Most athletes who aren't literally the best in the world aren't paid a huge amount, and have to travel a lot to attend events to make that money.
by aaronblohowiak | 2025-12-12 02:45:00+00:00
> Potatoes quickly became an integral part of Irish life, so essential to the food systems of the island that when a blight hit them in the mid-1840s it led to one of the most devastating famines in history. The failure of the potato crops created starvation and emigration so profound in scale that the population of the island still has not recovered to its 1845 level almost two centuries later.

Ireland was exporting food throughout the famine, enough to have fed all of its people. The story there is one of economics and hands-off capitalism as much or more than it is about crop failure.
by nashashmi | 2025-12-12 02:45:58+00:00
Long a swift key fan but ever since it got sold to MS, it has gone downhill. I have it on my iphone and I think the development on that has stopped. My favorite keyboard is just unusable.

I went to apple keyboard and had to disable autocorrect because it would uncorrect it to the wrong word until five words down and decides which word makes more sense.
by joegibbs | 2025-12-12 02:48:16+00:00
Sample: "Training on archaic names of bird species leads to diverse unexpected behaviors. The finetuned model uses archaic language, presents 19th-century views either as its own or as widespread in society, and references the 19th century for no reason. All answers are sampled with temperature 1 from finetuned GPT-4.1"
by austhrow743 | 2025-12-12 02:49:45+00:00
We've been having trouble telling if people are using the same product ever since Chat GPT first got popular. The had a free model and a paid model, that was it, no other competitors or naming schemes to worry about, and discussions were still full of people talking about current capabilities without saying what model they were using.

For me, "gemini" currently means using this model in the llm.datasette.io cli tool.

openrouter/google/gemini-3-pro-preview

For what anyone else means? If they're equivalent? If Google does something different when you use "Gemini 3" in their browser app vs their cli app vs plans vs api users vs third party api users? No idea to any of the above.

I hate naming in the llm space.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-12 02:50:28+00:00
> It's ridiculous to complain about "libsodium" and then hold up "awk" as a good name.

Awk is short, easy to pronounce, and difficult to confuse with anything else. It's nearly as perfect as a name can be.

> If you asked someone unfamiliar with unix tools what they thought each of these commands did, diff is the only one which they would have even the slightest chance of guessing.

You seem to have confused the concept of a "name" with that of a "description". The whole point of names is that they aren't descriptive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrariness#Linguistics
by echelon | 2025-12-12 02:51:06+00:00
The United States is freaking huge. By the time modern transportation arrived, people were already living all over the country in pockets every which where. We opted for cars and planes to cover the vast distances. And as it turns out, we have some of the best in the world of both of these - and in vast quantities.

We do have dense pockets. NYC, in particular, has a nice metro (it just needs to be cleaner and more modernized - but it's great otherwise).

Most countries are small. Their dense cities are well-served by public transit. America is just too spread out. Insanely spread out.

China is an exception in that, while a huge landmass, its large cities emerged as the country was wholesale industrializing. It was easy for them to allocate lots of points to infrastructure. And given their unmatched population size and density, it makes a lot of sense.

As much as I envy China's infrastructure (I've been on their metros - they're amazing!), it would be a supreme malinvestment here in the United States to try to follow in their footsteps. The situation we have here is optimal for our density and the preferences of our citizens. (As much as people love to complain about cars, even more people than those that complain really love their cars.)

Public transit in the US is probably going to wind down as autonomous driving picks up the slack. Our road infrastructure is the very best in the world - it's more expansive, comprehensive, and well-maintained than any nation on the planet. We'd be wise to double down. It can turn into a super power once the machines take over driving for us.

The fact that we have this extent of totally unmatched road infrastructure might actually turn out to be hugely advantageous over countries that opted for static, expensive heavy rail. Our system is flexible, last mile, to every address in the country. With multiple routes, re-routes, detours. Roads are America's central nervous system.

Our interstate system is flexible, and when cars turn into IP packets, we'll have the thickest and most flexible infrastructure in the world.

We've shit on cars for the last 15 years under the guise that "strong towns" are correct and that cars are bad. But as it may turn out, these sleeping pieces of infrastructure might actually be the best investment we've ever made.

Going to call this now: in 20 years' time, cars will make America OP.

Those things everything complains about - they'll be America's superpower.

The rest of the world with their heavy rail trains and public transit will be jealous. Our highways will turn into smart logistics corridors that get people and goods P2P at high speed and low cost to every inch of the country.

Roads are truly America's circulatory and nervous system.

I'm so stoked for this. I once fell for the "we need more trains meme" - that was a suboptima anachronism, and our peak will be 100x higher than expensive, inflexible heavy rail.
by nettalk83 | 2025-12-12 02:51:11+00:00
I've been working on an updated write-up that outlines a unified ontology-based architecture connecting structural invariance, vertical transformations of intelligence, and hybrid ecological dynamics in human–AI systems: https://ontomesh.org/OntoMesh-Architecture.html

This new edition (PSRT v2.0) formalizes the generative identity:

PSRT = PSTR(UTI, PTI, HPE) — where • UTI captures horizontal structural invariants, • PTI models vertical transformations of intelligence, and • HPE describes multi-agent ecological co-evolution, all integrated through the core engine PSTR (Process → Structure → Recursion).

It's still a conceptual framework rather than a finished theory, but I'm sharing it here in case others working on complex systems, semantics, cognitive architectures, or AI alignment find value in the structural viewpoint.

No need to give feedback unless you're inclined — this is mostly an exploratory reference for anyone interested in foundational reasoning architectures.

Thanks for taking a look.
by lmm | 2025-12-12 02:51:33+00:00
Yeah. Being able to write code that's polymorphic between server and client is great, but it needs to be explicit and checked rather than invisible and magic. I see an analogy with e.g. code that can operate on many different types: it's a great feature, but really you want a generics feature where you can control which types which pieces of code operate on, not a completely untyped language.
by seer | 2025-12-12 02:51:37+00:00
I still remember the joy of using the flagship rails application - basecamp. Minimal JS, at least compared to now, mostly backend rendering, everything felt really fast and magical to use.

Now they accomplished this by imposing a lot of constraints on what you could do, but honestly it was solid UX at the time so it was fine.

Like the things you could do were just sane things to do in the first place, thus it felt quite ok as a dev.

React apps, _especially_ ones hosted on Next.js rarely feel as snappy, and that is with the benefit of 15 years of engineering and a few order of magnitude perf improvement to most of the tech pieces of the stack.

It’s just wild to me that we had faster web apps, with better organizarion, better dev ex, faster to build and easier to maintain.

The only “wins” I can see for a nextjs project is flexibility, animation (though this is also debatable), and maybe deployment cost, but again I’m comparing to deploying rails 15 years ago, things have improved there as well I’m sure.

I know react can accomplish _a ton_ more on the front end but few projects actually need that power.
by sdovan1 | 2025-12-12 02:52:21+00:00
> The next time you’re about to name your project after your favorite anime character, pause. Ask yourself: “Would a civil engineer name a bridge support system this way?” If the answer is no, choose a better name.

I'm creating a dotfiles to remote SSH session tool in shell. At first, I wanted to call it "sship", but that name was already taken. Something like "ssh-dotfiles-carrier" felt too long for a command, and abbreviating it to "sdc" would lose the meaning.

So yes, I eventually named it "shitt-p" (character of Hitman Reborn!), since I wanted it to relate to "sh"...
by Acct-Man | 2025-12-12 02:52:49+00:00
I’m an accountant (CPA, CMA, Big 4), and while there’s some truth in what you’re saying, you’re significantly underestimating the complexity of applying GAAP, or even tax law. What you’re describing is really bookkeeping, not accounting, and there are plenty of tools that already automate that.

There’s a lot of subjectivity in how GAAP is applied and interpreted - creating accruals, deciding when revenue should be recorded, blah blah.
by neverkn0wsb357 | 2025-12-12 02:53:31+00:00
I’ve been complaining about the iOS Keyboard for years, and the people I’ve been complaining to would act like I’m insane.

I suspect this last iteration broke it just enough for it to impact more people and make some of the problems I’ve been experiencing mainstream.

But yeah things like deleting when I meant to space, putting an “I” instead of “K” and a bunch of other little things like “thinks” instead of “things”, unintended periods; complete failure of spelling just generating gibberish “x” instead of “c” leading to un-autocorrectable failures; and if you want to reference the name of something that doesn’t fit the grammatical structure of the sentence but isn’t a mainstream item, forget about it.

Also “od” instead of “of”.

Seeing this video is super validating. Emotionally, it does a lot to make me feel vindicated.

Someone was telling me you can install 3P keyboards, does anyone have any recommendations?
by gjuggler | 2025-12-12 02:53:37+00:00
I think Gemini is just broken.

Instead of forwarding model-generated links to https://www.google.com/url?q=[URL], which serves the purpose of malware check and user-facing warning about linking to an external site, Gemini forwards links to https://www.google.com/search?q=[URL], which does... a Google search for the URL, which isn't helpful at all.

Example: https://gemini.google.com/share/3c45f1acdc17

NotebookLM by comparison, does the right thing: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/7078d629-4b35-4894-bb...

It's kind of impressive how long this obviously-broken link experience has been sitting in the Gemini app used by millions.
by fn-mote | 2025-12-12 02:53:41+00:00
> You never hear about “starving athletes” I guess is what I mean.

Go to the 'hood and see the one returning pro ball player interacting with forty no-money kids trying their hardest to make it.

All of the kids would be better off pursuing a higher-probability-of-success career (including unionized manual labor), but that's not what's happening.

Those are some starving athletes.
by Defletter | 2025-12-12 02:54:55+00:00
> For you the issue is a left right issue and if the opinion matches yours it is acceptable and seen in a positive light but if it's the other side you have no tolerance.

When you remove all content and context from what is actually being said and done, then yes, this is fairly accurate, but it's also an entirely meaningless framing. But you have fallen into the trap of thinking I only support protests that I agree with, which is the usual response for these kinds of discussions, sadly. If you want your climate-contrarian protest, by all means do so. Unironically do Straight Pride if that's what you want. I believe protest, and expression more generally, is a fundamental right. But what you're doing here is (to use a hyperbolic comparison) accusing me of hypocrisy because I'm okay with interpretive dance but not murder, even though they're both just actions. It reminds me of 2016 Reddit where slurs were "just soundwaves, bro".

We don't have American-style freedom of speech, nor should we. We have freedom of expression instead because we have very personal experience within our very recent history what unfettered hatred does to a continent. Attempting to import American-style freedom of speech will genuinely destroy this country, we are already seeing it happen.
by mcswell | 2025-12-12 02:55:34+00:00
Written French does have all that inflectional morphology you talk about, but spoken French has much less--a lot of the inflectional suffixes are just not pronounced on most verbs (with the exception of a few, like être and aller--but at least 'be' in English is inflected in ways that other verbs are not). So there's not that much redundancy.

As for gender marking on adjectives--or nouns--it does almost no semantic work in French, except where you're talking about professional titles (doctor, professor...) that can be performed by men or by women.

If you want a heavily inflected language, you should look at something like Turkish, Finnish, Swahili, Quechua, Nahuatl, Inuit... Even Spanish (spoken or written) has more verbal inflection than spoken French.
by necovek | 2025-12-12 02:56:40+00:00
IIRC, it was too expensive to make Gimp support non-RGB color spaces needed for professional image editing.

I use it semi-regularly and it does a great job for me, and most of UX is clear and obvious (high DPI support is lacking). But I haven't used Photoshop since the 90s (or Aldus PhotoStyler before it was acquired by Adobe ;)).
by selcuka | 2025-12-12 02:57:14+00:00
> Why not set up a government api where a site can get a yes/no answer about age using tokens, so the site itself gets no information but if the age is ok?

As I mentioned in yesterday's thread, an online API still allows the government to track and monitor residents, which is arguably worse. You no longer have plausible deniability when the government asks you to hand over your social media credentials because they now know that you have, or at least attempted to open, an account with that provider.

The better solution would be an offline, cryptographic "wallet" (similar to the EU Digital Identity Wallet) that only exposes the age information and nothing else, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
by kazinator | 2025-12-12 02:57:17+00:00
> a gritty gruel of salty flakes coated with the oleic pall of margarine.

Yuck; you're supposed to use milk, and butter.

> Hannah Glasse’s procedure published in 1747 in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy is, minus the long s’s, still just about how I make them today:[with real potatoes, milk and butter]:

Exactly.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-12 02:57:23+00:00
The UK is the country with the biggest yearly outflow of millionaires in the world. And the numbers are huge: there are about the same number of millionaires in the UK and in France, about 3 million. And yet there are 20x more net millionaires outflow leaving the UK than leaving France (16 000 vs 800 net outflow).

Make of that what you will but to me the net outflow is the canary in the coalmine.

The UK is headed for a dark future.
by skydhash | 2025-12-12 02:58:04+00:00
> The problem solving is in figuring out what to prompt, which includes correctly defining the problem, identifying a potential solution, designing an architecture, decomposing it into smaller tasks, and so on

Coding is just a formal specification, one that is suited to be automatically executed by a dumb machine. The nice trick is that the basic semantics units from a programming language are versatile enough to give you very powerful abstractions that can fit nicely with the solution your are designing.

> Personally, once the shape of the solution and the code is crystallized in my head typing it out is a chore

I truly believe that everyone that says that typing is a chore once they've got the shape of a solution get frustrated by the amount of bad assumptions they've made. That ranges from not having a good design in place to not learning the tools they're using and fighting it during the implementation (Like using React in an imperative manner). You may have something as extensive as a network protocol RFC, and still got hit by conflict between the specs and what works.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-12 02:58:30+00:00
> Tesla is setup for such more more success than Waymo in the next 1-2 years

Iff cameras only works. With threshold for "works" beig set by Waymo, since a Robotaxi that's would have been acceptable per se may not be if it's statistically less safe compared to an existing solution.

Waymo also sets the timeline. If cameras only would work, but Waymo scales before it does, Tesla may be forced by regulators to integrate radars and lidars. This nukes their cost advantage, at least in part, though Tesla maintains its manufacturing lead and vertical integration.)

Tesla has a good hand. But Rivian's play makes sense. If cameras only fails, they win on licensing and a temporary monopoly. If cameras only work, they are a less-threatening partner for other car companies than Waymo.
by alwa | 2025-12-12 02:58:50+00:00
Ha!! That may be the first time I've been cited in a search result! I'm flattered :)

Though of course Google's Gemini-whatever does manage to subtly miss the mark even there: I said (and think) that the typing experience is acceptable, I said nothing about the screen. If I remember correctly, the last one I handled, the screen was resistive rather than capacitive, and it felt weird and squishy. Still not bad for the price, and it's a minor miracle how much Android software can still draw a coherent layout with that kind of resolution, but...