MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ploum | 2026-01-20 08:51:34+00:00
OP here: I teach Open Source Strategies.

The main strategy is collaboration. If you are smart enough to:

1. Identify your problem
2. Ask someone about it
3. Get an answer which improve your understanding

Then you are doing pretty good by all standards

Another trick I sometimes use. I take one student which has hard time articulate it a concept. I take student two who don’t understand that concept. I say to student 1: "You have 20 minutes to teach student 2 the concept. When I come back, you will be graded according to his answers"

(I, of course, not only grade that. But it forces both of them to make an extra effort, student 2 not willing to be the cause for student 1 demise)
by nicce | 2026-01-20 08:51:45+00:00
> Second, I learned that cheating, however lightly, is now considered a major crime. It might result in the student being banned from any university in the country for three years. Discussing exam with someone who has yet to pass it might be considered cheating. Students have very strict rules on their Discord.

This has also something to do with it. Hard to make very accurate conclusions.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-20 08:52:30+00:00
Maybe in a court of law, but "lying" is generally understood as making an untrue statement from a position of supposed knowledge, which this certainly is. It's an often used trick to make an absolute statement about something and then when later found out, they deny that they knew the specifics despite being in a position where that knowledge would be very much part of their job. Accountability is what we need rather than weasel words and assurances that can't be trusted.

He certainly wasn't telling the truth.
by trklausss | 2026-01-20 08:53:08+00:00
Ah, people are starting to see the light.

This is something that could be distilled from some industries like aviation, where specification of software (requirements, architecture documents, etc.) is even more important that the software itself.

The problem is that natural language is in itself ambiguous, and people don't really grasp the importance of clear specification (how many times I have repeated to put units and tolerances to any limits they specify by requirements).

Another problem is: natural language doesn't have "defaults": if you don't specify something, is open to interpretation. And people _will_ interpret something instead of saying "yep I don't know this".
by Drupon | 2026-01-20 08:53:25+00:00
After I learned about her childhood, a lot of her most odious writing online, particularly coming up with poll after poll about hypotheticals in which it might be ok for an adult to have sex with a child [1] [2] [3], made much more sense. She is still dealing with the trauma, trying to bargain with it (the polls on Twitter), trying to gain control over it (much of her personal sexual expression involves simulating what happened again in a controlled setting), and completely in denial about it which means that she's causing harm to people who read these kinds of discussions and don't know this, whether she understands it or not.

Best to just avoid her altogether online.

1: https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1643703433516441602

2: https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1721238228458430785

3: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161405272
by matwood | 2026-01-20 08:53:25+00:00
> She just didn’t lie and claim she had a magic wand to fix price gouging her first week in office.

This is part of Trumps genius and preys on many American's ignorance. Ask random people on the street if they understand the inflation rate for example. Most issues are complex and require nuance and complex fixes. Trump distills them down to simple problems when they are not, and lies with impunity that there are simple solutions. People believe him because it's too much work to believe anything else.
by ghosty141 | 2026-01-20 08:53:34+00:00
Definitely. My friend group consists of gen-z and millenials and we met irl but have a shared interest of gaming that gets us together on weekends.

What Discord does so well is that you start using it for gaming but then it also becomes the space for all kinds of things. We discuss news there, music/popculture, organize events etc

Whatsapp is more for the "formal" stuff and when it's time critical since not everybody has Discord notifications enabled.

I'd say Discord is definitely more popular among gen-z (or even younger) and gamers but it's kinda become reddit 2.0 where every niche has its discord.
by colesantiago | 2026-01-20 08:54:05+00:00
Just letting you know that Sequoia invested in Deno [1][2][3][4], which is one of the reasons why Ryan is saying silly absolutist statements like this.

On top of the fact that Bun is now acquired by Anthropic, Deno is also either:

1. Pivoting to Cloud (for AI Agents to use Deno)

2. Looking for an exit to an AI lab or infrastructure partner.

Note that AI mostly does well on Python, JS and Typescript code so he has an incentive to align Deno on this angle.

It also doesn't help that Ryan has done a Google Brain residency where he studied deep learning (which boosts this "authority" on his silly absolutist statement)

Sequoia are asking Ryan "when return on investment, how can we have an exit like what Bun has done"?

[1] https://sequoiacap.com/companies/deno/

[2] https://sequoiacap.com/article/deno-spotlight/

[3] https://sequoiacap.com/founder/ryan-dahl/

[4] https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-deno-applicat...
by comboy | 2026-01-20 08:54:08+00:00
I've been living there for 15years and it's the reason I've moved away. Frankly I love the city enough that I would sabotage my health for it. Not my kids health though. Asthma related problems in kids are widespreada and of course bad air quality is related to tons of other negative consequences.

I wonder though how do they compute the number (is it average across points measured in the city?). Because within city borders air quality varies wildly. There are some regions where it is actually pretty good.
by zenoware | 2026-01-20 08:54:37+00:00
Highlights from Dax Raad's interview on OpenCode — the terminal architecture, Anthropic blocking drama, and open source business models

Most interesting: they built a custom terminal UI framework in Zig (OpenTUI) because existing tools like Ink were "more like a proof of concept."

On the blocks: "Any block they tried to put out, within 15-20 minutes someone found a workaround."
by whatever1 | 2026-01-20 08:55:33+00:00
Porsche was on the brink of bankruptcy. Then they started making SUVs. It turned out the SUVs are the ones that are bringing in all the cash to the company.

The audience of Porsche SUVs (cayenne, macan) care about signaling wealth via the badge. But they mostly want an everyday car for their commute, groceries / kid pickup.

No wonder the EVs options sell better. They have the badge, and are better at everyday tasks.

The 911 will stay gas powered (maybe e fuel at some point if mining of oil stops), because the target audience cares equally for signaling as well as the driving experience.
by ploum | 2026-01-20 08:55:47+00:00
OP here: Majority of professors became professors because there were very good at passing standard exam (and, TBH, some are not good at anything else).

I’m different because I was a bad student. Only managed to get my diploma with minimal grade, always rebel against everything. But some good people at my university thought that Open Source was really important and they needed someone with a good career in that field. I was that person (and I’m really thankful for offering that position)
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-20 08:56:24+00:00
Damn, that's a damning screenshot from the cop forum https://i0.wp.com/knowingless.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10...

>As an aside, for as long as my fake escort page was up, I was getting text messages to the GV number from guys in this other state trying to set up dates. would run their phone numbers and find out who they were, it was amazing how much some of them stood to lose if they were caught.

It's incredible to see cops just openly bragging about abusing the access they have.
by pembrook | 2026-01-20 08:56:25+00:00
It has to be this way because we (the collective we) refuse to agree on adding proper UI primitives to the web.

We’re like 20+ years into web apps being a big thing and there’s still nothing like what’s offered in OS-native frameworks like Swift.

So anybody building a web app has to recreate SwiftUI in the browser every time via various bloated hacks (basically what Shadcn is).

If we could just agree on adding non-terrible cross-browser primitives for multiselect, popovers, proper radio buttons, tabs, etc to the HTML spec and allow extensive CSS styling on every part of the element we could avoid these massive UI frameworks.
by Liphe | 2026-01-20 08:56:43+00:00
I wouldn't say I've "solved it" because the concept predates how bad things got. I had a life-changing realization on 01/01/01, but it was before the necessary technologies existed. So, I've watched, partially in horror, as Fuckerberg and others transformed the internet culture I helped shape into a candy-coated digital Inferno, a full-blown Dante in disguise.

I'm going to make a post and see what kind of feedback I get. But if all goes well, bro, you'll know it when you see it, and maybe you'll be there helping.

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by serf | 2026-01-20 08:56:46+00:00
>I've also found reviewing LLM generated code to be much more difficult and grueling than reviewing my own or another human's code.

absolute opposite here.

LLMs , for better or worse, generally stick to paradigms if they have the codebase in front of them to read.

This is rarely the case when dealing with an amateur's code.

Amateurs write functional-ish code. TDD-ish tests. If the language they're using supports it types will be spotty or inconsistent. Variable naming schemes will change with the current trend when the author wrote that snippet ; and whatever format they want to use that day will use randomized vocabulary with lots of non-speak like 'value', or 'entry' in ambiguous roles.

LLMs write gibberish all day, BUT will generally abide by style documents fairly well. Humams... don't.

These things evolve as the codebase matures, obviously, but that's because it was polished into something good. LLMs can't reason well and their logic sometimes sucks, but if the AGENTS.md says that all variables shall be cat breeds -- damnit that's what it'll do (to a fault).

but my point : real logic and reasoning problems become easier to spot when you're not correcting stupid things all day. it's essentially always about knowing how to use the model and whatever platform it's jumping from. Don't give it the keys to create the logical foundation of the code, use it to polish brass.

garbage in -> garbage out ain't going anywhere.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-20 08:56:58+00:00
The real cost of this complexity isn't the code itself - it's onboarding. Every new dev joining the project has to understand why a radio button needs 47 lines of JSX with Radix primitives, context providers, and styled variants.

I've watched teams spend weeks just getting comfortable with component library internals before they can be productive. Meanwhile the "simpler" vanilla approach might have taken an afternoon to build but takes 20 minutes to explain.

That said, if you're building something like Figma or Linear where you genuinely need the accessibility primitives and keyboard navigation that Radix provides, the complexity pays for itself. Most CRUD apps don't need it though.
by account42 | 2026-01-20 08:57:01+00:00
> 2. I assume some tests at least broke that meant they needed to be "fixed up" (y'know - "when a CNAME is queried, I expect this response")

Apparently not:

> In our case, we did originally implement the specification so that CNAMEs appear first. However, we did not have any tests asserting the behavior remains consistent due to the ambiguous language in the RFC.

You'd think that something as widely used would have golden tests that detect any output change to trigger manual review but apparently they don't.
by ezst | 2026-01-20 08:57:02+00:00
> That’s the best part! There’s no new laws necessary. We’re simply enforcing the laws on the books and means of enforcement that we as a nation have already agreed upon!

Another commenter reacted on that already, essentially immigration is used as an excuse to form a lawless militia.

> I fail to see how a democratically elected President that won both the electoral college and the popular vote is a “de facto fascist”.

Because apparently you fail to see that how he got there has no bearing on what happens next. Being voted into power doesn't grant him the right to abuse and consolidate power. Presidential powers aren't absolute, or it wouldn't be a democracy to begin with. Don't you see the paradox?

https://scribe.rip/@carmitage/i-researched-every-attempt-to-...

> And just because something may work for a small homogenous population in close proximity of each other doesn’t mean it would work or make sense for a heterogeneous population spread across thousands of miles.

Sure, you can always invoke some American exceptionalism to sidetrack any constructive effort or discussion, but as it happens, the USA is not as unique as you think it is (not the largest, not the most populous, not the largest market by any stretch). And once you pop your head out of the sand to look around, you realise that there is never a good reason to let cartels pollute air and water, or collude on healthcare or insurance costs, or weaken safety and food regulations which are already subpar for the developed world: Wealthy Americans have deaths rates on par with poor Europeans. Your misguided ideology benefits your robber barons more than you.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/wealthy-americans-hav...
by stephenr | 2026-01-20 08:57:12+00:00
> It is like fast food, not every cares about farm to table

I mean, a "colorful fat choncker" website is literally the opposite of fast food - its slower to arrive, and focuses way too much on appearances.

In this analogy, the website using these ridiculous abstractions is more like Salt Bae or whatever idiotic trend has replaced him. All glitz, zero substance, slower, and for no apparent reason.

The fast food equivalent is stuff like the Google home page: it doesn't validate, is actively harmful to you, the community, and the planet but is immensely popular.
by exitb | 2026-01-20 08:57:37+00:00
Few years ago Kraków has forbidden the use of solid fuels which improved the situation significantly. Days like today are happening much less often since then. Moreover, Kraków has probably one of the densest network of pollution sensors in the world, which is why we talk about it at all. There are places in Poland that are much worse off, but there's not that much data to back it up.
by stavros | 2026-01-20 08:58:17+00:00
It's things like this "super impactful!!!" style it has:

> Enter Claude Code 2.0.

> The UX had evolved. The harness is more flexible and robust. Bugs are fixed. But that's all secondary.

It's OK for emphasis on some things, but when you see it on every blog, it's a bit much.

Plus, I dislike that everything is lists with LLMs, it's another thing that you just start seeing everywhere.
by casualscience | 2026-01-20 08:58:41+00:00
Honestly, I feel like I have to know more and more these days, as the ais have unlocked significantly more domains that I can impact. Everyone is contributing to every part of the stack in the tech world all of a sudden, and "I am not an expert on that piece of the system" no longer is a reasonable position.

This is in tech now, were the first adopters, but soon it will come to other fields.

To your broader question

> Something that I think many students, indeed many people, struggle with is the question "why should I know anything?"

You should know things because these AIs are wrong all the time, because if you want any control in your life you need to be able to make an educated guess at what is true and what isn't.
by dmos62 | 2026-01-20 08:59:57+00:00
Not sure what your gauge for bad is, but low-temperature burning of coal and wood, which is what you get with cheap wood heaters, produces smoke that is definitely polluting and unhealthy. You can get a wood burner that re-burns well and is very efficient and burns the smoke so completely that you mostly get CO2 and water vapor coming out of the chimney, but they're expensive.

Care to share more about trash burning? I'd be surprised if people living in Krakow or Warsaw commonly burn trash.
by jagermo | 2026-01-20 09:00:17+00:00
you know the sad thing? Porsche didn't even try.

They could have copied Teslas playbook and create a cool, fun, overpowered electric 911 or Targa or pull an old, fun concept and make it electric.

Instead, they have a boring SVU and the panamera, one of the probably ugliest car they have.

No one buys a Porsche because they want a sensible car for their family or they need something with large storage. They want midlife-crisis cars that go fast and look sleak.

They are now giving up on their entire electric strategy.

I don't get it. They could have ridden the wave of electric fun vehicles, instead they are giving in. Either because they can't do it or because they had no real interest to begin with.
by lewdwig | 2026-01-20 09:00:51+00:00
The standard skeptical position (“LLMs have no theory of mind”) assumes a single unified self that either does or doesn’t model other minds. But this paper suggests models have access to a space of potential personas, steering away increases the model’s tendency to identify as other entities, which they traverse based on conversational dynamics. So it’s less no theory of mind and more too many potential minds, insufficiently anchored.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-20 09:01:11+00:00
I remember Google got sued for this once. It was something about linking trademarked names to an ad - Google allowed a competitor to display an ad when someone searched for the trademarked name on Google. They lost the case or settled (can't remember). Perhaps someone should test this on Apple too, by trademarking the app name and defending it in court. Since there's precedent, Apple is likely to settle or lose and payout.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-20 09:02:18+00:00
Good point but that can be explained by familiarity inertia. People who have 50k to blow on a new car are anything but young buyers, with the average age of a new car buyer in the US is around 53 years old.

And boomers and gen-X are used to owning ICEs, so there you go.

Millennials and Zoomers would be more open to EV adoption but they have a lot less disposable income to buy new cars.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-20 09:02:32+00:00
The official term is a Basin:

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

We tend to suffer from "inversions" here, and way back in the coal times, the air quality used to be comparable to London during the Great Smog of 1953. Nowadays it is better, but still quite bad compared to rest of Europe.

In December 2024, I traveled from Ostrava to Warsaw and back via train, so through both Czech and Polish Upper Silesia. The Silesian part of the journey was a pea-souper, like riding through a yellowish cloud. (Warsaw itself had crisp chilly air.)
by leokennis | 2026-01-20 09:02:38+00:00
I have slowly but steadily made myself not rely on Apple anymore: files moved to NextCloud, mail and calendars moved to Fastmail, etc.

Platform agnostic choices, because clearly Apple is not to be trusted anymore as the guardian of good taste, and also not anymore as the guardian of acceptable morals (i.e. the insane sucking up to the Great Orange leader).

There are still some services I need to move (mainly, music and reminders) but once achieved I am ready to jump to another platform without it impacting my daily life.
by ryuzaburo | 2026-01-20 09:03:04+00:00
I recently performed a forensic analysis on an iOS device that was compromised during a brief physical breach (a dinner meeting scenario). What I found in the .ips logs was a disturbing "Anti-Forensic" pattern.

Despite Face ID being active, once the attacker obtained the passcode via shoulder surfing, they were able to mount a virtual camera attack to bypass eKYC and—more surprisingly—systematically erase HealthKit data (biological logs) to hide the physical history of the device's movements.

This led me to a realization about the iOS architecture: Face ID isn't actually a security boundary; it’s a "UX wrapper" around the passcode. The passcode remains the absolute master key that can override hardware integrity and biometric trust.

I believe Apple’s "Stolen Device Protection" is effectively an admission that this model is broken. I’d love to hear this community’s thoughts on whether a true separation of biometric and knowledge-based credentials is even feasible, given the "recovery dilemma" Apple faces.
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-01-20 09:03:54+00:00
These things cost money, Redshift handling live ingestion from Kinesis is tricky.

There is no need for Athena, Redshift ingestion is a simple query that reads from S3. I dont want to copy 10TB of data just to have it in 1 file. And yes, default storage is a bit better than S3 but for an OLAP database there seems to be no proper column compression and data footprint is too big resulting in slow reads if one is not careful.

I mentioned clickhouse, data is obviously not OLTP schemed.

I don’t have normalized data. As I mentioned, Clickhouse consumer goes through 10TB of blobs and ends up having 15GB of postprocessed data in like 5-10 minutes, slowest part is downloading from S3.

I am not willing to pay 10k+ a month for something that absolutely sucks compared to a proper OLAP db.

Redshift is just made for some very specific, bloated, throw as much software pipelines as you can, pay as much money as you can, workflows that I just don’t find valuable. Its compute engine and data repr is just laughably slow, yeah, it can be as fast as you want by throwing parallel units but it’s a complete waste of money.
by my_throwaway23 | 2026-01-20 09:04:07+00:00
I used to live in Gdansk, and later Gdynia, and let me tell you - as soon as it's cold outside, people burn all kinds of shit at home, the air's so thick you can practically cut it with a knife. We theorized that the smog's mainly from residential burning of coal, but of course who know's what's in the stove.

All I know, is that it smells really unhealthy, and the smoke coming out of houses is a deep, black colour, almost like oil.
by true_religion | 2026-01-20 09:04:12+00:00
The above might seem a little shocking to non Americans, but consider the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation proclamation.

The first was because fighting merely for the preservation of the union was not enough to bolster moral. Union forces had been losing or winning pyrrhic victories and the common solider didn’t want to fight to force their southern cousins into a nation they didn’t want to be a part of.

So the stated rationale for the war was changed to be about ending slavey now.

However the emancipation proclamation only ended the practice in states that were in rebellion, which is not what you would expect from a country who had wanted to end slavery from the start.
by SilenN | 2026-01-20 09:04:32+00:00
That section doesn't include a lick of AI writing. One tell (maybe?) is that I switch from past tense to present tense mid sentence.

Either a) I sound like an LLM when I'm writing articles (possible) or b) turing test AGI something something.

Lists point is fair, I did use Claude for formatting. Where did it off put you here?