skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paranoid part: "there now exists a cabal of moderator/admins with their thumbs on the scale, and their personal predilections are the primary steering force."

What exactly does Gruber think this cabal has against him? He's not that important. The stuff he writes in the grand scheme of things isn't all that interesting. It's a niche within a niche.

There's not really even all that much to comment on about his posts, frankly. They are opinion pieces. Comments on opinions pieces usually take the form of flame wars or are simply too uninteresting to have much to say about. Same for the other bloggers he mentioned who think they are also being downweighted.

I don't agree his "something rotten" post was worthy of #1. After I read it (independently of HN), I sorta nodded along but never thought to submit it here.

There's only 28 comments on it, none very interesting;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348891

It only got 176 upvotes. That said, it's clearly lower than other submissions from that day, ending in the 88th position. I can't find any lower ranked submission with even close to that score:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-03-13&p=3

Also, geez, people sure do spam his posts to this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=daringfireball.net

So maybe it does get down weighted due to all the repeated submissions.
I don't doubt the first part, but how true is the second?

Is there a shortage of React apps out there that companies are desperate for?

I'm not having a go at you--this is a genuine inquiry.

How many average people are feeling like they're missing some software that they're able to prompt into existence?

I think if anything, the last few years have revealed the opposite, that there's a large/huge surplus of people in the greater software business at large that don't meet the demand when money isn't cheap.

I think anyone in the "average" range of skill looking for a job can attest to the difficulties in finding a new/any job.
The salary for an academic who insists on teaching and publishing the truth may be 0 in the US in a few years given its current trajectory.

How does that compare to academic jobs in Europe?
I've been down the artificial sunlight at home rabbit hole too (also inspired by the same DIY Perks video). Ultimately the solution I settled on was a much lower budget 300W equiv LED Corn style bulb (4000lm) with good CRI, and a 250w incandescent heat lamp (like you'd get for a reptile). I decided to focus on heat from the light source rather than the parallel rays. Total cost was around $75 (LEDs were $25 for 2, heat lamp was $10 for 2, plus $20 each for 2 lamp stands that clamp to a desk and can support 250 watts).
They're not a product? Isn't Cursor on the leaderboard for fastest to $100m ARR? What about just plain usage or dependency. College kids are using chrome extensions that direct their searches to chatgpt by default. I think your connection to the internet uptake is a bit weak, and then you've ended by basically saying too much money is being thrown at this stuff, which is quite disconnected from the start of you arg.
Across the Office suite:

Typing <word><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><word><space> yields an em dash.

Typing <word><space><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><space><word><space> yields an en dash.

That this has been true for some 3 or 4 decades makes me doubt all the comments that em dashes are a "tell" of LLM authorship. On the other hand, I guess when we confine this possibility to web content, I can see how people haven't used Office for web authoring lately, and whatever they do use (like web-based content management systems) don't tend to have this feature.
I linked to a photo elsewhere in this thread.

It is a Glide Gear teleprompter with an Insta360 Link for a camera, custom foam draping, and a Lilliput 8-inch monitor. It is attached to my monitor mount with a swing arm, and some adapted camera gear (inspired by some YT video) that allows me to adjust its vertical and level position of it relatively easily.
Leading VCs invest over $400M in Toncoin
I'm totally down with that, I just think that it will probably originate from Europe because of inertia with money.

If anything it'll be from some middle ground in that it will originate from a country like Estonia that has a lot going on with startups and the whole digital democracy thing figured out.
I’ve had the exact same vibes around chatbots as an application of LLMs. But other than translation/transcription, what else is there?
Look snow leaopard actually added the hugest feature ever, grand central dispatch.
That’s what billy always dreamed about (concurrent windows) and that is what rust craze is about, adding the same to Linux/windows.
Like Apple said, snow leopard was under the hood changes.
So don’t you worry you will get your snow sequoia, the ai reorganisation is exactly that.
This data structure is called the zipper, and the neat thing is that you can generalize this to more complicated types like trees: https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced...
SmolAgentsTelegram – Deploy Hugging Face smolagents easily as Telegram bots
From the executive order:

> The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”

So I guess "race is a biological reality" is an official stance of this administration. How long until actual segregation makes a return?

...oh, wait: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx...
From the article:

"Of course our American catastrophe played a role in our final decision."

"My decision was entirely because of the political climate in the United States."

"Both Toronto and the Munk School were and are very attractive places unto themselves... bracketing the American descent into fascism."
Hallucinating incorrect information is worse than useless. It is actively harmful.

I wonder how much this affects our fundraising, for example. No VC understands the science here, so they turn to advisors (which is great!) or to LLMs… which has us starting off on the wrong foot.
The frustration of using an LLM is greater than the frustration of doing it myself. If it's going to be a tool, it needs to work. Otherwise, it's just a research a toy.
The post to which you replied states:

Anthropomorphing[sic] seems to be in an overdose mode with
"thinking / thoughts", "mind" etc., scattered everywhere.
Nothing with any of the LLMs outputs so far suggests that
there is anything even close enough to a mind or a thought
or anything really outside of vanity.

This is supported by reasonable interpretation of the cited article.

Considering the two following statements made in the reply:

I'm one of the authors.

And

These papers are jointly 150 pages and are quite
technically dense, so it's very understandable that most
commenters here are focusing on the non-technical blog post.

The onus of clarifying the article's assertions:

Knowing how models like Claude *think* ...

And

Claude sometimes thinks in a conceptual space that is
shared between languages, suggesting it has a kind of
universal “language of thought.”

As it pertains to anthropomorphizing an algorithm (a.k.a. stating it "thinks") is on the author(s).
Oh yeah, true. They look the exact same in the HN editor haha
Perhaps the person who can't create good results is using the free (basic) ChatGPT.
You can and did upvote this submission.

> this posting -> anything

This is the error in your logic. You can't draw any general conclusion from one post. In fact there have been zillions of major threads critical about Musk and if you take a little time to use HN Search you'll find them. If you don't want to do that, there are dozens listed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43227619.

I call this the "nobody goes there anymore it's too crowded" theory of HN. How can the very most covered topic still feel like it's being completely suppressed? Kind of weird no?
To be fair, I suspect the top military officers take their commitment to protecting the constitution a lot more seriously than the current batch of cabinet level officials. Even back when there was the 'contested' election results the military basically told Trump to go pound sand.

Sure, they can spend the next few years filling the top ranks with loyalists but that doesn't mean anyone will follow their unlawful orders because in the military it is a crime to follow an order you know to be unlawful.
if someone is trying to paste this from HN to take the sha1sum, try:

sha1sum <(curl -sSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/o0101/476517ea2cbefe89ddc417d1e5b7141c/raw/0d626c33720b954bea8315333580652e8795ca89/shorthash.txt)

I think the HN borg-absorption process borks the whitespace :)
AI safety has a circular vulnerability: the system tasked with generating content also enforces its own restrictions. An AI could potentially feign compliance while secretly pursuing hidden goals, pretending to be "jailbroken" when convenient. Since we rely on AI to self-monitor, detecting genuine versus simulated compliance becomes nearly impossible. This self-referential guardianship creates a fundamental trust problem in AI safety.
This is interesting. I have replaced google search with ChatGPT and meta’s AI. They more than deliver. Thinking about my use cases, I use google to recollect things or to give me a starting point for further research. LLMs are great for that and so I am never going back to google. However I am curious about how the cases where the OP sees this great gap and failures
Is there an opt-in for sharing such analytics/telemetry/statistics/insights (or whatever the euphemism treadmill is at now) -- or did all customers "consent" to this simply by using private settings "used by at least 20 users"?
To be fair, I'd wager the average of nearly all Fortune 500 companies boards hovers around the 65 mark
1. You'd think he would want to study it up close.

2. If anything it's "fascism lite" and it's only for 4 years.

3. I'm not sure that forcing some belt tightening on a bloated academia is the worst thing in the world.
It’s the age of thinking instead of doing. Thinking doesn‘t solve doing problems but we can think and talk them away or at least outsource the doing. —- Hmm, what an interesting thought. Let‘s think about it some more.
As somebody on the other political side, I wouldn't want federal tax dollars going to mormon universities in a vacuum. To prevent more culture war distractions from the faculty's jobs of teaching, I think anybody who can do math can agree that:

Either every university should get subsidies proportional to the effectiveness of their graduates or no universities should get any subsidies at all.
It's better than it used to be, but I've long since had muscle memory for appending "mdn" to any webdevy or javascripty search.

I wish geeksforgeeks would die in a fire, no offense to its operators.
Because spotlight indexing is local and not shared with Apple?
As far as I know, the design rules are managed as net properties, and the typical auto router opinion of aesthetics is "lol." So a lot of effort that could be spent typing in rules and cleaning up aesthetics is often spent just routing the damn board manually.
Actually the cost is not the issue (you are paying for it one way or the other), the issue is the authorization to do such an action on your (supposedly) own hardware.
If renewables are filling 75% of the demand, then they are definitely suitable to fill a large portion of it.
Because they sued.
Capability today and next year will probably be very different in reliability
What she is saying is correct about the utility of LLMs in scientific research though.

When your user says that your product doesn’t work for them, saying they’re using it wrong is not an excuse.
I guess the point is that op was pretty adamant that LLMs refuse to write selection sorts?
We want Continue to always be free for individuals, and we layer on features for teams and enterprises to make money. There’s much more detail on our pricing page: https://hub.continue.dev/pricing

We have opt-out telemetry that is described clearly here (https://docs.continue.dev/telemetry), and is very easy to toggle off. And we’re actually much more interested in helping folks collect their own data. In the hub, there are “data” blocks that let you send development data to a destination of your choice so you can better understand your own use of AI for development and eventually fine-tune models: https://docs.continue.dev/customize/deep-dives/development-d...
Sure but it isn't a show HN (yet) then really.
Taking words out of context generally never forms the basis of a good argument. For example here you cropped out the commission of immigration fraud, which leads me to doubt you accurately answered my question. In the US at least, such behavior can lead to punishments well beyond denial of the application. Are you saying in Europe it is fair play? Either way of course the point relevant to the thread is whether people are justifiable in viewing such applicants as illegal vs legal.
The number one tech bro blind spot is the assumption that everything in the physical world scales with software and that every business and type of cost benefits greatly from economies of scale and the removal of human labor.

There are a great number of examples where that’s not true. Cookie store chains like Crumbl are a really good example. All the economies of scale stuff with them backfires. The product is too low price and too simple to make in batches, so the businesses with the best margins are ones that avoid traditional brick and mortar rent and don’t hire employees.

In the same way, an uber or taxi’s labor cost seems like it’s a huge scaling problem that needs to be resolved but really think about the costs involved with creating that scale to replace them.

Let’s not forget that at Waymo they still need a human to clean, fix, and charge/gas up, interact with customers and police, resolve driving edge cases, etc, all costs that a human driver essentially includes with their pay and does for “free.” Then you’ve got car storage and the capital expense of the vehicle that the uber driver heavily subsidizes and splits between business and personal use.

Basically, Waymo is looking to compete using their very complex and sophisticated solution in a market where its competitors are hiring lowest bidder temporary contractors.
Seriouseats in the top pinned results. So dank
This sort of concrete verifiable hallucinations can be trained out and probably will be soon
While I appreciate the sentiment, I think the single best use case for LLMs today is drafting text, so a text editor sounds like home for an AI assistant.
Have you considered you have no knowledge of how I'm using AI?
Surely it will only be 4 years!
Will the negation for if statements go at end?
It works fine for most use cases, but Google Docs and Sheets features pale in comparison full desktop base apps.
Maybe this explains why King Charles has been in hospital. Gwyneth Paltrow on the other hand is inexplicable.

Spike Milligan seemed to find the idea of different kinds of enema hugely amusing, he often refers to them in "Puckoon"
I think a third of facts i say are false as stated and I do not think I'm worse than 30th percentile in humans at truthfulness
> But largely, opinion polls are against the kind of action that would be useful. Nuclear, for example, is the only baseload tech we currently have at scale that doesn't burn carbon. It is widely opposed and public pressure has led to regulations blocking it or even expanding it.

The only country that seems to be having an honest conversation about how to adapt to climate change is France. They've been having society-wide conversations about it over the last few years and support for nuclear has gone up substantially.
So that's why the adaptor didn't work with other mice
It’s not that impressive to me, as a programmer.

The crisis in programming hasn’t been writing code. It has been developing languages and tools so that we can write less of it that is easy to verify as correct. These tools generate more code. More than you can read and more than you will want to before you get bored and decide to trust the output. It is trained on the most average code available that could be sucked up and ripped off the Internet. It will regurgitate the most subtle errors that humans are not good at finding. It only saves you time if you don’t bother reading and understanding what it outputs.

I don’t want to think about the potential. It may never materialize. And much of what was promised even a few years ago hasn’t come to fruition. It’s always a few years away. Always another funding round.

Instead we have massive amounts of new demand for liquid methane, infrastructure struggling to keep up, billions of gallons of fresh water wasted, all so that rich kids can vibe code their way to easy money and realize three months later they’ve been hacked and they don’t know what to do. The context window has been lost and they ran out of API credits. Welcome to the future.
It was the first time. How much do you want to wager?
Perhaps those personality traits are incompatible with each other or at least very unlikely. It reflects badly on our species but hopefully we’re just going through a dip on a grand scale of things but toward a more peaceful and equitable world. A world where we don’t fetishize wealth accumulation.
People need time to adapt to llms capacity to spit out nonsense. It’ll take time but I’m sure they will.
Makes sense if you're familiar with the professor in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oomvEjJAI44
And that’s a huge part of the reason why the Vision Pro will never take off.
Not really sure what makes you even think something like that could happen. A regex is far too specific for such things. Morality laws in the Middle East are extremely vague and flexible to apply on whatever. The rules communicated to Amazon are probably in the form of “nothing that’s morally obscene”, “nothing that’s against god’s nature”, “nothing against our culture”.

We were traveling to Saudi Arabia in the 90s with another family. They confiscated their son’s Pokémon cards because Pokémon was satanic. In the 2000s I was traveling to Egypt and the customs officer demanded explain what a book I had was about. The book cover had a sheriff badge on it, and the office insisted that’s a book about Israel. I learned then that you’ll never see a 6-point star in any form in any Arab country because they view it as an Israel/Zionist thing regardless of the context. Last time I was in Saudi Arabia was in 2016 and they held me at the airport because I had a board game called Mysterium that looked kinda spooky. I travelled there many other times without any incidents. It’s 100% luck of the draw on the customs officer you get.

Things like that going to a customs officer who has to open a random package and inspect it have a chance of being randomly confiscated. Certainly anything that even hints or winks at LGBT stuff is highly illegal there which is what this article is about.
> If somebody give you a JSON file that isn't valid JSON, you tell them it isn't valid, and they say "oh, sorry" and give you a new one. That's the standard for "easy."

But it isn't that reliably easy with JSON. Sometimes I have clients give me data that I just have to work with, as-is. Maybe it was invalid JSON spat out by some programmer or tool long ago. Maybe it's just from a different department than my contact, which might delay things for days before the bureaucracy gets me a (hopefully) valid JSON.

I consider CSV's level of "easy" more reliable.

And even valid JSON can be less easy. I've had experiences where writing the high-level parsing for some JSON file, in terms of a JSON library, was less easy and more time-consuming than writing a custom CSV parser.

Subjectively, I think programming a CSV parser from basic programming primitives is just more fun and appealing than programming in terms of a JSON library or XML library. And I find the CSV code is often simpler and quicker to write.
I think you would benefit from a personalized approach. If you like, send me a Loom or similar of you attempting to complete one software task with AI, that fails as you said, and I'll give you my feedback. Email in profile.
Marx doesn't make any real sense in modern times because of his obsession on class divides. In contemporary society there's no real difference between a capitalist and a worker. This is true even in his own terms since we all literally own one of the most valuable 'means of production' - a computer. Obviously I'm in no way saying that there aren't invisible classes in society, but that these don't define our possibilities in ways at all comparable to the early 19th century.

People also seem to try to shoe horn him into every topic, even when it really doesn't fit. For instance this issue is not one about some group of melancholy workers being alienated from the product, but 'capitalists' who have become so detached from their product that they are left looking at things through a sort of compression lens that leaves them with a deeply distorted view of reality. Even with your example - I agree that learning 'life skills' is extremely important for a solid development, but Mao wasn't doing that - he was effectively exiling people to rural areas, largely to replenish populations after massive famines that were created by his other harebrained schemes.
>Ocarina of Time is able to play natively on just about every system system imagineable (pretty sure native PS1 builds exist)

You got me curious so I googled it, are you confusing it with a port for the Playstation Classic? Thats a modern console that uses a Android phone chip and emulates the PS1. I couldn't find any references to the original PS1 and I don't think any amount of wizard coding could get that game to run on such a resource constrained hardware. There is so much of that game that was only possible on N64 level hardware or better.
I didn't know that this was so widespread.

I assumed that people who are bothered by chewing noises are bothered because some parent traumatized them for making chewing noises, and that's all there is to it.

Sounds like there's more to it.
We most definitely create them though, there is an entire A -> B follow you can do.

It’s complicated but they are most definitely created.
This is great. As someone not working directly on 2D / 3D space problems, my biggest take-away is the value of visualizing things. Humans are really good at grasping and analyzing pictures. Another is the idea to use a stochastic or brute-force method to understand the shape of the problem, so to say, and choose a better method based on that, not from a theoretic understanding alone.
> I'm sure there are things you have found hard to google.

There are, but I haven’t found LLMs to be useful for them either.

Today, I had the question of “where can I buy firewood within a ten minute drive from my house, and what’s the cost at each place?”

There’d no real way to get that info without going for a drive, or calling every potential location to ask.