MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 59nadir | 2025-12-04 08:05:40+00:00
> A whole new class of problems just became solvable.

This is almost by definition not really true. LLMs spit out whatever they were trained on, mashed up. The solutions they have access to are exactly the ones that already exist, and for the most part those solutions will have existed in droves to have any semblance of utility to the LLM.

If you're referring to "mass code output" as "a new class of problem", we've had code generators of differing input complexity for a very long time; it's hardly new.

So what do you really mean when you say that a new class of problems became solvable?
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-12-04 08:05:46+00:00
Lol, the dictator's approval rating is so high that he bans, forces to exile or kills any opposing candidate, never risking elections vs anyone not fully controlled by him.

Every time someone like Bukele flexes that his approval rating is higher than Putin's, I laugh -- the guy clearly doesn't understand that this isn't the flex he thinks it is.
by lxgr | 2025-12-04 08:06:14+00:00
I believe Apple UX guidelines mandate some sort of explicit confirmation before taking any action after authenticating the user with Face ID, but I've unfortunately also seen many apps not really conform to that.

> IIRC just looking at the confirmation if i wanted to buy something in the app store via face id was enough to confirm it.

Apple themselves are generally good about asking for explicit confirmation, but annoyingly in a way nobody else can replicate: They repurposed double pressing the power button, which is otherwise the Apple Pay secure attention sequence, for exactly one non-Apple-Pay action – buying something in the App Store (or iTunes store etc.)
by jimkleiber | 2025-12-04 08:06:30+00:00
To be honest, I'm not sure I know the difference. I got invited to SAG-AFTRA after doing a TV commercial and it seemed pretty union-y to me. Not that it's inherently a bad thing, and maybe I'm wrong in that there are differences but not aware of them.

Could you say more about the differences you see between a traditional US union and a modern day guild?
by erikerikson | 2025-12-04 08:06:55+00:00
I live and work in Seattle and I don't hate AI. Further, I know people here that are just as overly excited about AI as it's proponents on HN.

I've also heard complaints about the mandatory use of the tools in the office and the pageantry involved.

I've seen people in love with garbage they produced with AI.

I'm annoyed by the way they are being pushed in my face but hate is really too strong. I've tried using them and gotten total garbage. I think that's because my prompting sucks because I know people that love the tools and have shared great output from them. Those people are a minority in my opinion.

Trying to over simplify the experiences of humanity is a fool's game.
by lenkite | 2025-12-04 08:07:12+00:00
I am guessing you purely stick to the mobile-phone/corpo-laptop crowd then ? Finding PC enthusiasts should not be that difficult. They are legions of them all over the world - not just in the developed nations.

Even normal folks upgrade RAM. My aunt did so last year for her old desktop PC. PC components are available in the local computer hardware market of any nation. (Though admittedly, most people buy parts online nowadays and local hardware markets are shutting down)
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-12-04 08:07:57+00:00
> The act of eliminating surge pricing is not a price ceiling. That's a different thing. That requires more than simply swapping surge pricing with first come first served. You've created a strawman.

What is it then? If you allow the price to increase, there is no need to enforce a different rationing mechanism. The only reason to think of implementing the alternate rationing mechanism is if the good isn't being rationed. If you insist on the previous, lower price, then that is a price ceiling in so many words, with the consequence of needing your rationing mechanism. If you allow a higher price, then your alternate mechanism is unnecessary.
by SkiFire13 | 2025-12-04 08:08:04+00:00
You can create `Io` instances whenever you want (although that kinda goes against its spirit) and you can also pass them inside structs, not necessarily as a function argument. Moreover you can reuse all the existing "sync" functions when using I/O and viceversa (ever tried doing an async call inside a `Option::map` in Rust?)

By the way, Rust's runtime also have a similar issue to Zig's `Io` (making the runtime available to the code, similarly to how you need to make an `Io` instance available in Zig). Rust runtimes just decided to use thread locals for that, and nothing stops you from doing the same in Zig if you want to.

I hope you can see that this is all orthogonal to the "colored functions" problem. When I was talking about tradeoffs however I was referring to the use of a threaded/green thread implementation under the hood as opposed to a stackless coroutine. The first two are less invasive at the language level and don't require function coloring (hence why Zig didn't solve, but also doesn't have, function coloring!) however they can be more limiting (they are not always available, especially on embedded and on wasm) and less extensible (most operations need to be explicitly supported in `Io`, as opposed to being implementable by anyone).
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-04 08:08:31+00:00
Perhaps you should frame it differently if you speak for a company and provide criticism on a public platform, but mean tweets are often far less insulting that some business decisions customers and developers are subjected to.

I think developers here are probably perfectly innocent about these changes. The product mangers have to push for this integration or get replaced. This has been a theme at Microsoft for quite a while.
by Animats | 2025-12-04 08:08:33+00:00
> People need to remember that the ability of AI in code generation today is the worst that it ever will be, and it's only going to improve from here.

I sure hope so. But until the hallucination problem is solved, there's still going to be a lot of toxic waste generated. We have got to get AI systems which know when they don't know something and don't try to fake it.
by dsp_person | 2025-12-04 08:09:59+00:00
Cool to see C++ reflection getting somewhere.

> The Docker image includes clang-p2996, Bloomberg’s experimental Clang fork that implements the reflection proposal. As P2996 moves toward standardization, expect this to land in mainline compilers.

Possible to use that C++26 compiler just to do code generation for the binding code, and then use any other compiler for your actual build? I suppose alternatively could use a parser. Is the reflection code easy to work with in comparison? A year or two ago I spent some hours pulling my hair out trying to do some reflection in C++ until I gave up and spent the 20mins needed to write a python script to read my source files and do the code generation I needed.
by markbao | 2025-12-04 08:10:40+00:00
Most people have phones that can handle webpages with 1-5MB JS bundles. Why artificially limit what you can do on the web? Why limit ourselves to 1GB RAM when more resources means tech becomes more useful?

Returning to simple webpages is popular idea on HN but it’s like wanting a car with no backup camera and crank windows. If your goal is to have your car be as simple as possible, then sure, but that’s not the case for most people.

Most people want their cars to be safe and convenient, and their webpages useful and rich, more so than they want to return to some idealized simplicity.

A simple webpage or blog with minimal styling that runs as an ARM binary on a TV remote is cool and fun but it’s not economically useful. It’s the equivalent of a manual scooter. We can build better apps (in the same way that car manufacturers can build less crappy infotainment systems) but optimizing for scarcity isn’t the answer in a world where abundance tends to grow.

(Edit: your downvotes mean nothing to me, I’ve seen what gets upvoted!)
by squigz | 2025-12-04 08:10:55+00:00
> I am guessing you purely stick to the mobile-phone/corpo-laptop crowd then ? Finding PC enthusiasts should not be that difficult. They are legions of them all over the world - not just in the developed nations.

No. I'm a PC enthusiast myself, as are most of those people I know. I run an online (PC) gaming community.

> (Though admittedly most people nowadays just buy online and local hardware markets are shutting down)

Literally what I was saying.
by paganel | 2025-12-04 08:10:56+00:00
There is no power-network in existence, not in the medium-to-long term, that would allow tens of millions of cars (mauve hundreds of millions if we talk at the continent-wide level) to get all electric, the physics isn’t there and it won’t be. You’re correct though, it could be that the next US administration will try to copy the bureaucrats here in Europe and try to go the let’s-ban-the-petrol-engine route, which would, in practice, mean that only the well-to-do consumers (like most of the users on this forum) will be able to still have personal cars.
by mk_stjames | 2025-12-04 08:11:21+00:00
The table lists F1 cars as having "Carbon fiber brake calipers".

This is glaringly incorrect. All current brake calipers are machined from aluminum, specifically Aluminum-Lithium or Aluminum-Copper alloys. There is a rule denoting bulk elasticity modulus limit on brake calipers of 80 GPa, which was set just at that to allow the more exotic Lithium Aluminum alloys but to dis-allow Titanium alloys or anything else stiffer (There was experimentation with Titanium calipers in the past.)

Absolutely no calipers are made from composites, CF, graphite, or otherwise. Discs are Carbon-carbon.
by psviderski | 2025-12-04 08:12:29+00:00
Thank you for the suggestion!

I’m working full time on this, yes. Funding from my savings at the moment and don’t have plans for any external funding or VC.

For monetisation, considering building a self-hosted and managed (SaaS) webUI for managing remote clusters and apps on them with value-added PaaS-like features.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-04 08:13:23+00:00
I like your sentiment about "first principles" of documents -- go to the root source. But for most young technologists (myself included, long long ago), the official docs (man pages for POSIX, MSDN for Win32 etc.) are way too complex. For years, when I was in university, I tried to grasp GUI programming by writing C and using the Win32 API. It was insane, and I did little more than type in code from a "big book of Win32 programming". Only when I finally tried Qt with C++ did the door of understanding finally open. Why? It was the number of simple examples that Qt docs provided they really helped me understand GUI (event-driven) programming. Another 10 years went by when I knew enough about Win32 that I was able to write small, but useful GUIs in pure C using the Win32 API. The very reason that StackOverflow was so popular: People read the official docs and still don't understand... so they ask a question. The best questions include a snip of code and ask about it.

To this day, I normally search on Google first, then try an LLM... the last place that I look is the official docs if my question is about POSIX or Win32. They are just too complex and require too much base knowledge about the ecosystem. As an interesting aside, when I first learned Python, Java, and C#, I thought their docs were as approachable as Qt. It was very easy to get started with "console" programming and later expand to GUI programming.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-04 08:13:47+00:00
I would like that too, but it's highly unlikely to happen since Audi and GM just entered the engine making business in F1 for the start of 2026 and they invested shit tonne of millions into engine R&D specifically for the new turbo-V6 regulations, so moving the goalposts again so soon would just rug-pull their investments, and such the FIA assured them the new regulations are gonna stay for a while. Bummer.
by bjackman | 2025-12-04 08:14:15+00:00
In general the driver's perspective has always seemed underused to me. In F1 at least (where the cars are insanely stiff), unless there are overtakes in progress, watching from the trackside cameras just looks like cars driving round a track. Whereas from the driver's view you can see the car reacting to the track and the driver reacting to the car.

People complain a lot that the TV coverage spends too long on the driver's girlfriends. For me I think it spends too long looking at the cars (from the outside)!

I guess part of this is just that the image quality from onboards is not so sleek. But if it was up to me I think like 60-70% of the airtime would be from onboard.
by pbmonster | 2025-12-04 08:15:12+00:00
> hybrid power unit closer to 50/50 split between ICE and electric horsepower

Fun fact, at those ratios it would make a lot of sense to use an electric continuous variable transmission (eCVT) - connect the engine and the motor with a planetary gear set to the wheels, done. The electric motor spins backwards when going slow and forward when going fast. Those eCVTs can be lighter, more efficient an deliver more power across the entire range. But they're illegal in F1 - because they make the car sound boring.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-04 08:16:16+00:00
For all we know, it could be distinct layers all the way down to infinity. Each time you peel one, something completely different comes up. Never truly knowable. The universe has thrown more than a few hints that our obsession with precision and certainty could be seen cosmically as "silly".

In our current algorithmic-obsessed era, this is reminiscent of procedural generation (but down/up the scale of complexity, not "one man's sky" style of PG).

However, we also have a long track record of seeing the world as nails for our latest hammer. The idea of an algorithm, or even computation in general, could be in reality conceptually closer to "pointy stone tool" than "ultimate substrate".
by atoav | 2025-12-04 08:16:35+00:00
Still a very common problem today and (aside from the need for more output channels or the need for professional mic preamps) the main reason people get USB audio interfaces.

As for USB audio interfaces I really love what RME is doing with their TotalMix, but if you want bang for the buck Behringers UMC series is the place to be.
by hellotomyrars | 2025-12-04 08:17:41+00:00
Well you can’t prove a negative so I’m not sure how useful a theoretical one line comment about a CEO saying his insurances means we need M4A would be received.

Regardless if you’re not willing to support your argument that’s fine, but at the same time if you’re going to put something out there and and then be upset if other people being skeptical of your skepticism then I don’t know what to tell you.

I still don’t really see how anything you’ve offered necessarily means people who currently have employer provided private insurance plans will be worse off. I especially don’t see it because people with incomes like you proposed the median income for households with employer provided insurance plans often have employer provided private insurance plans in countries that also have a public health system.

I guess maybe here is the meat of it and what matters. How are you defining worse off? Are you defining it based on quality of care/outcomes or in a financial sense? Either way seems pretty speculative to me but I’d be interested to know which (or both) of those you think makes them worse off.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-04 08:18:07+00:00
> Huh? It's not the manufacturers paying the tariffs, its the importer? US tariffs do not affect the margins of the manufacturer.

This is a case of second-order effects[0].

See this post[1] for details.

0 - https://research.gatech.edu/blind-spot-big-decisions-why-sec...

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144761
by preisschild | 2025-12-04 08:19:01+00:00
> Can you actually download these games like one can with GOG?

To download and update Steam games you obviously need Steam, but once DRM free games are downloaded you can keep playing them without Steam.

Heck, we even shared some drm-free games someone bought in my friends-group over a personal torrent among us, so we could play coop with each other to test the game out before we bought it ourselves.
by oblio | 2025-12-04 08:19:08+00:00
> Think linux kernel that arguably is more successful than all the BSDs combined (citation needed)

I don't think there is any citation needed. Linux powers all the cloud providers, 80% of the mobile market, a ton of random devices. At this point Linux is the most important OS on the planet, ahead of Windows and Apple OSes. It's just not as visible.
by Ekaros | 2025-12-04 08:20:01+00:00
Getting faster is hard and expensive really. You can be pretty cheap and still be quite fast.

On other side, F1 has for very long time kept speeds down when new innovative ways to gain it has been discovered. For some reason I can not understand drivers and spectators dying in accidents is bad look for the sport... As such it really is not best we could technically do.
Show HN: Searchable AI visibility index (15k+ brands, 500 industries)
by mektrik | 2025-12-04 08:20:42+00:00
Hey HN, I've been trying to correct for one of the biggest difficulties with moving from SEO -> GEO, which is the lack of public data (in the same way that for SEO we had ahrefs/semrush/etc).

To try and start fixing this, I've built a searchable database of 15k brands, across 500 different industries, with daily updates.

Each morning, the tool goes out and queries 10k different prompts, and normalises the results to all the relevant brands.

You can also see some of the most interesting tech rivalries here: https://trakkr.ai/rankings/rivalries

Would love your thoughts on anything to add :)
by Panzer04 | 2025-12-04 08:20:44+00:00
Yep. It's a bit like some gas projects when prices spiked due to Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Companies had supply agreements in place but they will find essentially any excuse to "delay" delivery. You might eventually get your product but fat lot of good it does for you while you're mired in court and not getting anything anyway.

The particularly amusing example is a project continuously selling spot LNG while saying it's not yet operational, stiffing the companies with which they'd signed long term contracts with on a technicality.
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-12-04 08:20:57+00:00
Every normal market interaction could be described by scary monopoly-sounding words. You heard about you're friend's salary in the same industry, and ask for a higher salary next time you negotiate. You're colluding with your friend to price gouge your employer!

In reality, so-called collusion is normal and unobjectionable. But when price surges happen, often due to factors outside of the seller's immediate control, people look for any reason to find an ethical dimension and find how to place blame, because this is more convenient. Things that were normal become abnormal and suspicious. It is in consumers economic self-interest to act in this way, because it often secures favors to them from various economic policies that they don't normally get when the market is "normal". This is no less a form of collusion than what sellers might do to secure their economic advantage. But a key difference for these anti "gouging" policies is that it gives consumers a special privilege and makes market pricing less able to fulfill its social functions.
Show HN: I made a simple, 100% free marketplace to buy or sell micro-startups
by aiseoscan | 2025-12-04 08:21:00+00:00
I build a lot of small products myself and I realized how many indie founders want an exit that doesn’t involve platforms charging large commissions or requiring big revenue numbers. Sometimes a project makes $50/month, sometimes $500, sometimes $0 but has a great codebase, and that’s enough value for someone else.

So I built buy-startups.com, a very simple, privacy-friendly marketplace for buying and selling small online startups.

It’s not fancy. There’s no commission, no listing fee, no hidden funnel. Just a straightforward way for indie devs and bootstrappers to list a project and connect with someone who wants to pick it up.
by JohnMakin | 2025-12-04 08:21:13+00:00
Having spent most of my career in kubernetes (usually managed by cloud), I always wonder when I see things like this, what is the use case or benefit of not having a control plane?

To me, the control plane is the primary feature of kubernetes and one I would not want to go without.

I know this describes operational overhead as a reason, but how it relates to the control plane is not clear to me. even managing a few hundred nodes and maybe 10,000 containers, relatively small - I update once a year and the managed cluster updates machine images and versions automatically. Are people trying to self host kubernetes for production cases, and that’s where this pain comes from?

Sorry if it is a rude question.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-04 08:21:21+00:00
It is interesting that your comment made no mention of single board computers (SBC) like Raspberry Pi. These are the more likely future of hobbyist computing as the price to develop custom PCBs is lower than ever. Yes, you need to buy the components, but it will come a day where you shop by parts then some LLM arranges the parts on an SBC. Finally, you review the the PCB layout, and click a button to place an order with PCBWay or a competitor. X days later a tiny board appears at your house exactly built to spec and runs Linux. The coolest part: The cost is so low that millions and millions of more (young) people can join the hobbyist computing party.
by jabr | 2025-12-04 08:21:45+00:00
I can only speak for myself, but I considered a few options, including "simple k8s" like [Skate](https://skateco.github.io/), and ultimately decided to build on uncloud.

It was as much personal "taste" than anything, and I would describe the choice as similar to preferring JSON over XML.

For whatever reason, kubernetes just irritates me. I find it unpleasant to use. And I don't think I'm unique in that regard.
by kragen | 2025-12-04 08:22:00+00:00
Yeah. Also things like filesystems. More generally, the history of BSD is full of proprietary forks that never got merged back in: Ultrix, SunOS, BSDI's BSD/386 (later BSD/OS), Winsock, and the Wollongong TCP/IP stack on UNICOS and, I think, also on VMS. The most famous fork is macOS Darwin, which I think is still in fact open source, but it's been many years since I saw someone successfully running the open-source Darwin.

Also, though, GCC got Objective-C support, and still has it, because the FSF told NeXT it would violate the GPL for them to attempt to make Objective-C a proprietary add-on to the GCC compiler, even if it wasn't literally linked with it. And a lot of GCC backends probably would have been kept proprietary by one or another hardware company if the license had allowed it.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-12-04 08:22:10+00:00
Cows being fed cows is efficient!

Pun aside, my new hobby is using ChatGPT with a pre-prompt along the lines of

"Please reply to each of my prompts with the strongest possible counterarguments you can give. Do not output other text", and then feed it with Wikipedia articles or news headlines.

Goes a long way to demonstrate what false balance is and why AI chatbots rarely contribute anything towards having a more balanced opinion.

It will attack pretty much anything in a seemingly objective tone, doubting even basic historical facts or derailing the conversation.

For example, when prompted with a sentence about the date of Thatcher's election victory in the UK and the date she took office, it complained about implying causation between the election result and her tenure, because formally, the only the monarchy can decide about the PM.

That was also one of the more useful answers :)

But the quoted sentence didn't even say what it claimed, it just said she took office after that election result.