MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-03 20:17:23+00:00
Philosophically speaking, this is what people want though.

The only reason people make money off of stocks is because at the end, someone gives those companies money. And everyone has a choice to vote with their wallets and through their actions in general.

For example, take Elon and his actions over the past few years. What should have happened is that Tesla sales dropped across the board, and everyone who owns a Tesla should have been in a rush to sell it for fear of it getting scratched or them personally blacklisted from stuff and ridiculed for driving a Tesla. Tesla employees should also have faced the same public pressure and quit.

But people don't care - at the end of the day, politics on Capitol hill is mostly a meme, but what matters is their personal satisfaction. And you look ridiculous if you refuse to get in your coworkers Tesla. So now Elon is a trillionaire.

On the flip side, in a capitalistic sense, it honestly doesn't matter if people are rich, the thing that should matter is what power the money gives them. Rich people buying mansions is a good thing - thats money to workers for construction, staff for housekeeping, and so on. Rich people doing things like being able to buy whole media platforms and censoring things is definitely not good though.

The question is, is society headed in a direction where people have more and more apathy and eventually nothing will matter as things get progressively worse and everyone is just complacent, or is there a bottom line where people start paying attention enough and actually fighting for change when it gets bad enough.
by ndiddy | 2025-12-03 20:17:24+00:00
Both Hynix and Samsung won't be expanding production very much (see https://www.hankyung.com/article/2025120168881 ), so I expect the shortages to continue. Obviously buying RAM a la carte will be extremely cost prohibitive until they end. Eventually GPUs will go up as well. AMD already doesn't bundle VRAM with its GPUs, and nVidia just announced they'd stop bundling VRAM as well. If you're looking at getting a new GPU, I'd say puill the trigger now. Cell phones and prebuilt computers shouldn't be as much of a problem (assuming the shortages aren't extremely protracted), as those manufacturers have long-term deals with their suppliers that don't expose them to as much volatility. It might help Apple's RAM upgrade prices seem sane :)
by yichab0d | 2025-12-03 20:17:25+00:00
"We try to think about things from the perspective of the state itself. We too are a temporary metabolic pattern, and we have we have mental states and memories and goals and preferences and thoughts and so on.

I think of all of these things as a continuum, [William James] said that ‘thoughts are thinkers too’, and it's a spectrum. We are also patterns, and we spawn off other patterns and there's a continuum... there’re fleeting thoughts and then persistent, intrusive thoughts that are a little harder to get rid of. Maybe they do a little niche construction in your nervous system to keep themselves around longer. And then, much larger things like personality fragments, like in dissociative identity disorder, and then full human personalities, and then maybe some sort of transpersonal bigger things after that."
by devKnight | 2025-12-03 20:17:37+00:00
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by SebastianKra | 2025-12-03 20:17:38+00:00
Have you engaged with the advanced features? TS is the only mainstream language that lets you express pretty much everything in the typesystem, to the point where I frequently have to hold myself back.

Having used Swift and Kotlin in the past, their typesystems don’t come close to the flexibility with which you can wrangle data in TS. Many concepts that I would consider fundamental are either not present or require complicated syntax eg.: product types A & B, sum types A | B, { …spreading }.

And where Swift needs custom syntax such as `guard let` and `case let` to narrow types, Typescript is able to analyze normal control flow.

For practical reasons, there are a ton of ugly workarounds, but I’d rather live with those than go back to the rigid “Java++” languages.
by throwout4110 | 2025-12-03 20:17:49+00:00
> There's a dichotomy in the software world between real products (which have customers and use cases and make money by giving people things they need) and hype products (which exist to get investors excited, so they'll fork over more money).

AI is not both of these things? There are no real AI products that have real customers and make money by giving people what they need?

> LLMs are a more substantive technology than blockchain ever was, but like blockchain, their potential has been greatly overstated.

What do you view as the potential that’s been stated?
by motbus3 | 2025-12-03 20:17:59+00:00
The thing is that tax on such businesses are too low. Same as it is happening on other areas, the negative effects to society have zero counter measurements. AI will take all work and the government will crash because lack of money? Who cares? Private Firm buys all houses in a region and force the market into a false sense of scarcity to inflate prices? What could possibly go wrong? Other companies being bought in bulks by big players to hold IPs while dismissing all employees with false pretense that they are losing money? Nothing to see here..

The fact that the cost of using gray area to hide and move money to not pay taxes has a predictable and slow movement is the best for those players.
by dasneueprogram | 2025-12-03 20:18:05+00:00
Datassette has a site with mixes, from himself and others, all "intended for listening while ${task} to focus the brain and inspire the mind."

Concerning games, Datassette released a brilliantly beautiful arcade shooter called (Utopia Must Fall)[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2849680/Utopia_Must_Fall/], with lots of retro sounds.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-03 20:18:22+00:00
The thing that stops me being outwardly hostile is that there are a minority, and it is a minor, minor minority, of applications for AI that are actually pretty interesting and useful. It's just catastrophically oversaturated with samey garbage that does nothing.

I'm all for shaming people who just link to ChatGPT and call their whatever thing AI powered. If you're actually doing some work though and doing something interesting, I'll hear you out.
by boltzmann64 | 2025-12-03 20:18:50+00:00
This is the standard playbook. And the gov just pulled a switcheroo:

Policy that is hard to pass: SIM binding for all messenger apps and automatic log out every 6 hours for desktop apps.

Even more egregious policy: Pre-install spyware that cannot be disabled.

Withdraw the egregious policy on outrage, and people think they have won the battle.
by pjbk | 2025-12-03 20:18:51+00:00
What I always miss from this introductory abridged explanations, and what makes the connection between Lie groups and algebras ('infinitesimal' groups) really useful, is that the exponential process is a universal mechanism, and provides a natural way to find representations and operators (eg Lie commutator, the BCH formula) where the group elements can be transformed through algebraic manipulations and vice-versa. That discovery offers a unified treatment of concepts in number theory, differential geometry, operator theory, quantum theory and beyond.
by freetime2 | 2025-12-03 20:19:04+00:00
Crucial was always a brand that I associated with quality, and I used their memory to upgrade several MacBooks back when it was still possible to upgrade the memory on MacBooks.

That being said, the only SSD I’ve ever had fail on me was from Crucial.

In recent builds I have been using less expensive memory from other companies with varying degrees of brand recognizability, and never had a problem. And the days of being able to easily swap memory modules seem numbered, anyway.
by DaveZale | 2025-12-03 20:19:19+00:00
actually, getting them in one location may be very economical for getting homeless medical, dental care, and addictions treatment, but sure, some guardrails and scrutiny are required. Of course, it shouldn't be a dumping ground, on one hand, and not a magnet for easy living, on the other. It's a tightrope for sure.

Currently, incarceration for criminal offenses probably saves many lives, ironically. Not just those of potential victims, but those of the offenders as well. I've seen some examples of that first hand. But this may be a better option, if it has sufficient funding, staffing, planning and oversight.
by echelon | 2025-12-03 20:19:20+00:00
This.

The market is too new for AI.

AI is unquestionably useful, but we don't have enough product categories.

We're in the "electric horse carriage" phase and the big research companies are pleading with businesses to adopt AI. The problem is you can't do that.

AI companies are asking you to AI, but they aren't telling you how or what it can do. That shouldn't be how things are sold. The use case should be overwhelmingly obvious.

It'll take a decade for AI native companies, workflows, UIs, and true synergies between UI and use case to spring up. And they won't be from generic research labs, but will instead marry the AI to the problem domain.

Open source AI that you can fine tune to the control surface is what will matter. Not one-size-fits-all APIs and chat interfaces.

ChatGPT and Sora are showing off what they think the future of image and video are. Meanwhile actual users like the insanely popular VFX YouTube channel are using crude tools like ComfyUI to adopt the models to their problems. And companies like Adobe are actual building the control plane. Their recent conference was on fire with UI+AI that makes sense for designers. Not some chat interface.

We're in the "AI" dialup era. The broadband/smartphone era is still ahead of us.

These companies and VCs thought they were going to mint new Googles and Amazons, but it's more than likely they were the WebVans whose carcasses pave the way.
by mindcrash | 2025-12-03 20:19:27+00:00
While foot focuses on minimalism, Ghostty brings along a shit ton of features like support for Kitty's (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) graphics protocol (in terminal images! - https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/), advanced window management (windows, tabs, splits) and OpenGL pixelshaders (https://catskull.net/fun-with-ghostty-shaders.html)

Given features it's more comparable to Kitty than foot IMO.
by hectdev | 2025-12-03 20:19:55+00:00
It's the latest tech holy war. Tabs vs Spaces but more existential. I'm usually anti hype and I've been convinced of AI's use over and over when it comes to coding. And whenever I talk about it, I see that I come across as an evangelist. Some people appreciate that, online I get a lot of push back despite having tangible examples of how it has been useful.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-03 20:20:22+00:00
Whatever the wording, what they are writing truly shows on Github. There are many things wrong with its code display ... All of which used to work fine or were not added in this buggy state in the first place.

Code folding is buggy. Have some functions that have inner functions or other foldable stuff like classes with methods and inside the method maybe some inner function? It will only show folding buttons sporadically, seemingly without pattern.

Also standard text editing stuff like "double click and drag" no longer properly works without issues/has weird effects and behavior. The inspection of identifiers interferes with being able to properly select text.

The issue search is stupid too, often doesn't find the things one searches for.

You must be logged in to search properly too.

Most of the functionality is tied to running that JavaScript.

In short, it shows typical signs of a platform that is more and more JavaScriptianized with bloated frameworks making things work half-assed and not properly tested for sane standard behavior.

But there is more. Their silly AI bots closing issues. "State bot". "Dependabot". All trash or half thought out annoying (mis-)features. Then recently I read here on HN, that apparently a project maintainer can edit another person's post! This reeks of typical Microsoft issues with permissions to do things and not properly thinking such a thing through. Someone internally must be pushing for all this crap.
by sirreal14 | 2025-12-03 20:20:48+00:00
As a Seattle SWE, I'd say most of my coworkers do hate all the time-wasting AI stuff being shoved down our throats. There are a few evangelical AI boosters I do work with, but I keep catching mistakes in their code that they didn't used to make. Large suites of elegant looking unit tests, but the unit tests include large amounts of code duplicating functionality of the test framework for no reason, and I've even seen unit tests that mock the actual function under test. New features that actually already exist with more sane APIs. Code that is a tangled web of spaghetti. These people largely think AI is improving their speed but then their code isn't making it past code review. I worry about teams with less stringent code review cultures, modifying or improving these systems is going to be a major pain.
by signatoremo | 2025-12-03 20:20:50+00:00
> Today, 3 years after launching the first LLM chatbot, OpenAI is nowhere near as dominant as Netscape was in late 1997.

Incorrect. There were about 150 millions Internet users in 1998, or 3.5% of total population. The number grew 10 times by 2008 [0]. Netwcape had about 50% of the browser market at the time [1]. In other words, Netscape dominated a small base and couldn’t keep it up.

ChatGPT has about 800 millions monthly users, or already 10% of total current population. Granted, not exclusively. ChatGPT is already a household name. Outside of early internet adopters, very few people knew who Netscape or what Navigator was.

[0] https://archive.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/1...

[1] https://www.wired.com/1999/06/microsoft-leading-browser-war/...
by TulliusCicero | 2025-12-03 20:21:15+00:00
I've recently found that it can be a useful substitute for stackoverflow. It does occasionally make shit up, but stackoverflow and forums searching also has a decently high miss rate as well, so that doesn't piss me off too much. And it's usually immediately obvious when a method doesn't exist, so it doesn't waste a lot of time for each incident.

Specifically I was using Gemini to answer questions about Godot specifically for C# (not gdscript or using the IDE, where documentation and forums support are stronger), and it was mostly quite good for that.
by jijijijij | 2025-12-03 20:21:31+00:00
> “The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments,” said Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology.

"AI"-driven collapse will go down as the stupidest crisis in human history. The idiotic waste of gigantic amounts of civilizatory resources, for something that hasn't remotely proven useful yet, while simultaneously neglecting existentially mandated reforms and investments, in an outrageously obvious critical moment in time ... well that's gonna dwarf even historic missteps of organized religion and island cultures.

I am calling it now:

* Cancelled: Cyberpunk.

* New lore timeline: Hypepunk > Crash-Core > Silicon Gothic

* Historian epoch title: The Dark Ages.
by dedup-com | 2025-12-03 20:21:38+00:00
I frankly don't understand why RAM for consumers is a thing. I don't know of any other popular consumer good that is routinely built by the consumer out of individual components. You buy cars, phones, refrigerators, amplifiers, et cetera et cetera whole. Why computers are different, in the year of our lord 2025, is a mystery to me. This shouldn't be happening, and I am saying this as a hardware enthusiast who builds his own computers since Windows 3.1 days.
by alwa | 2025-12-03 20:21:45+00:00
It counted up the tokens that users on “unlimited” Max/Pro plans consumed through CC, and calculated what it would cost to buy that number of tokens through the API.

$60K in a month was unusual (and possibly exaggerated); amounts in the $Ks were not. For which people would pay $200 on their Max plan.

Since that bonanza period Anthropic seem to have reined things in, largely through (obnoxiously tight) weekly consumption limits for their subscription plans.

It’s a strange feeling to be talking about this as if it were ancient history, when it was only a few months ago… strange times.
Show HN: ThesisBoard – Trello for Investment Research
by egobrain27 | 2025-12-03 20:21:50+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Aldiyar. I spent the last 10+ years working as an equity portfolio manager and an institutional allocator to hedge funds.

For a long time I was obsessed with finding a tool to automate a team's research. I eventually realized that was the wrong goal. good investment research is non-linear and creative. every thesis is unique, so you can't just feed it into a standardized factory line.

However, the workflow is often a mess. most analysts operate in a chaos of 50+ browser tabs, scattered excel models, and disconnected notion notes.

I built ThesisBoard to solve this. it is basically Trello meets a curated directory of financial tools and workflows.

What it does

It gives you a structured workspace for your research, backed by a community library of:

1. Templates: step-by-step boards for different styles (e.g. "equity deep dive," "crypto protocol analysis," or "macro thematic").

2. Tools: a directory of 100+ specialized research tools (like Tegus, Quartr, or specific FRED datasets) that are mapped to the relevant stage of your workflow.

3. Prompts: tested AI prompts for financial analysis that you can run directly within your research cards.

The key utility is context. when you open a card for "competitive analysis," the board automatically serves up the exact tools and prompts you need for that specific step, instead of you hunting for them.

The community aspect

Because research is hard, we made the workflows shareable. you can publish your analysis along with the exact steps you took to get there. others can then "fork" your process to build their own thesis.

Example

I just published a bullish thesis on Google using our "Equity Analyst" template. you can see how the board guided the process from the initial idea to the final recommendation:

https://thesisboard.com/community/analysis/cmiqfdw9m0001ochq...

Tech stack

Next.js, prisma, postgres, and tailwind.

I’m currently in beta. I would love to know what specific workflows or templates you would find useful, or if you think the kanban approach fits this domain.

Thanks!
by hackingonempty | 2025-12-03 20:22:09+00:00
You have always been able to fly without ID by submitting to enhanced physical screening. John Gilmore sued the TSA over the ID requirement but lost, *edited I reread the opinion and the court found there was no 4th amendment violations, but enhanced screening was an option available to him even back in 2004 that he declined.

TSA is not required to allow people without ID to fly but they do and because suddenly a lot of people do not have acceptable ID, and not because of circumstances beyond their control, TSA is instituting the fees.
by exmadscientist | 2025-12-03 20:22:15+00:00
For me it is that they are wrongly used in this piece. Em dashes as appositives have the feel of interruption—like this—and are to be used very sparingly. They're a big bump in the narrative's flow, and are to be used only when you want a big bump. Otherwise appositives should be set off with commas, when the appositive is critical to the narrative, or parentheses (for when it isn't). Clause changes are similar—the em dash is the biggest interruption. Colons have a sense of finality: you were building up to this: and now it is here. Semicolons are for when you really can't break two clauses into two sentences with a full stop; a full stop is better most of the time. Like this. And so full stops should be your default clause splice when you're revising.

Having em-dashes everywhere—but each one or pair is used correctly—smacks of AI writing—AI has figured out how to use them, what they're for, and when they fit—but has not figured out how to revise text so that the overall flow of the text and overall density of them is correct—that is, low, because they're heavy emphasis—real interruptions.

(Also the quirky three-point bullet list with a three-point recitation at the end with bolded leadoffs to each bullet point and a final punchy closer sentence is totally an AI thing too.)

But, hey, I guess I fit the stereotype!—I'm in Seattle and I hate AI, too.
by dig1 | 2025-12-03 20:22:15+00:00
> I did a quick benchmark loading a 2GB log file with ANSI color codes... Emacs: Load Time: ~10 seconds | Memory: ~2 GB

Now try opening it in Emacs with vlf [1] ;) Great work overall — looking forward to seeing further development!

[1] https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html
by grayhatter | 2025-12-03 20:22:48+00:00
Intellectual work requires a bit of creativity (across all the domains I can think of), abuse, of any kind increases stress, stress decreases creativity, ability to problem solve, and resilience (or the ability to endure the difficulty of solving hard problems).

But even if that wasn't true. There's a significant difference between confronting the harshness of reality. And behaving in a way that makes reality suck more. Every human deserves to be treated with dignity, and a base level of respect.

Suggesting that someone is fragile and weak, because they object to being insulted, or object to the careless and needless stripping of dignity and humanity from people is a wild take.
by 0_____0 | 2025-12-03 20:22:50+00:00
My 2¢... LLMs are kind of amazing for structured text output like code. I have a completely different experience using LLMs for assistance writing code (as a relative novice) than I do in literally every other avenue of life.

Electricl engineering? Garbage.

Construction projects? Useless.

But code is code everywhere, and the immense amount of training data available in the form of working code and tutorials, design and style guides, means that the output as regards software development doesn't really resemble what anybody working in any other field sees. Even adjacent technical fields.
by palmotea | 2025-12-03 20:22:51+00:00
> No movie studio would choose AI slop when people like John Williams or Hans Zimmer exist.

I wouldn't be so sure. During the writers strike I heard the producers where hoping to replace a lot of their work with AI.

> but I don’t think you get truly great art without the full spectrum of human emotion and experience

The movie industry is in the business of selling tickets, and the TV industry is in the business of getting people to look at ads. Creating "truly great art" is not the priority, but sometimes happens because people are still involved.

Our choices as consumers are constrained. If they all get compromised at the same time, because the producers are following similar incentives, the market won't punish them.
by dugidugout | 2025-12-03 20:23:05+00:00
They were likely pushing back on the original comment, such that it isn't solely:

> ...those who decide about how your time is being used...

which stops individuals from:

> [spending] more time thinking, writing, playing piano, and taking walks — with other people.

Which it seems you would agree with. I don't see where they asserted whether this was a problem to address.