skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always conflicted about this because it's like saying the sky is blue.

Stepping outside of the VC startup bubble, we see small self-funded businesses are the norm. It's the neighborhood businesses all around us.

82% of all US business have <10 employees
https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-10-the-three...

99.976% of new businesses don’t raise venture capital.
https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-32-start-wit...
> Do you hire fully remote?

I think this may be the real problem you are facing.
Traits encourage the same programming style, regardless of if it's technically inheritance or not.
> You can see this in the way crochet unravels all the way if you pull on the end of the thread.

I decided not to try this out on the crochet cardigan my wife is making for me at the moment
Eh. If they win, it'll be because primarily Russia was successful in dividingWestern countries internally so that they are unable to properly commit to anything.

If the US decided unequivocably that it would militarily prevent China from taking Taiwan, it would succeed.
I can see it from the City's POV.

It's not just installing it - it's making sure the thing won't end up making the problem worse or causing other problems.
But still there are objective metrics by which you can track which products are making money and which are not. You can do ALL the financial manipulation to an extent, but everyone above bragging VPs/Directors know which product lines are making money yoy
Doesn't seem to function all that differently from 'higher education'.
How is the movie industry an example of this? There are great movies still coming out every year, and the main commercial trends have been around IP exploitation that may or may not be reducing movie quality but certainly not due to lower barriers to entry.
I tried taking a tiny e-bike kayak-camping on a deserted island
> The thing is, none of these things really changed with AI

I agree that lying was possible before AI, but something about AI has emboldened a lot more people to try to lie.

Something about having the machine fabricate the lie for you seems to lessen the guilt of lying.

There's also a growing sentiment online that using AI to cheat/lie is "fair" because they think companies are using AI to screen candidates. It's not logically consistent, but it appeals to people who approach these problems as class warfare.
A world of slop increases the demand for products that help you discern.
We've been lowering the barrier to entry for decades now. Where is the line? Some would say digital. Some have pointed to electric. Some have pointed to cars. And on and on and on.

But older entertainment doesn't instantly make it better. Will there be more crap? Sure, but that's always been the case. But that also means more stuff of quality.

That could mean it's hard to find the quality stuff, but that's a different issue entirely, and one mostly solved with old school stuff (reviewers, just find reviewers you mostly agree with).

But in the end, good games are still released every year. And many/most of these good games wouldn't exist if the barrier to entry wasn't lowered.
I disagree with the intention to regulate such inane details of private land ownership, especially in the city. I wouldn't buy a house with the expectation that my view or my exposure to sun would be perpetually protected by the municipal government.

That said, I also can't buy a house, likely never will be able to, and most likely won't want to, all partly because of such absurd bureaucracy. It's difficult to imagine being so petulant as to seek justice about such a thing unless it made my private garden unworkable. I shouldn't have a hand in what my neighbor paints their house, and that's probably more closely related than the hypothetical silly examples I established. If they literally painted a swastika, well k I guess that's an edge case.
> You need to get private healthcare

No you don't, you can stay in the public system.

> you need to save up for retirement and so on

You can still contribute voluntarily to the public pension if you want to but the majority of self-employed people here don't as this is seen as a feature not a bug.

Part of the concept of being self-employed in Germany is that you're opting out of the welfare state and are responsible for taking care of yourself. With the potential upside of better raw earning potential.
I'm excited to check it out, but why does this use a .toml file when Lua was already designed for configuration files? Why isn't it just a Lua script?
It is the definition of the word. Nowhere does pg say you can't start a non-startup business.

>The founders I'm particularly impressed with are the ones who have such a nuanced understanding of capital efficiency that they do not require VC, and only take money much later in the cycle

That isn't "understanding capital efficiency" it is called having enough capital already.
Thank you. I literally already accidentally uploaded a cookie that I now need to reset because the website doesn't let me delete the curl -_-
Arguably all the tens of millions of those whose lives depended on the hegemony of the Catholic church and the status quo it maintained. The disruption was relatively slow, but massive.
Why not use Lua for config instead of TOML? IIRC Lua was originally a data schema language, so it should be good for it.
I already accidentally uploaded a cookie that I now need to reset because the website doesn't let me delete the curl -_-
> which if I understand correctly triggers UB.

Yes, your parent's example would be UB, and require unsafe.
Is it possible to create a new browser from scratch?
A whole million dollars a year! That'll fix the budget!
I imagine the perfect programing language would have 3 levels.

1.LLM "code" , this should work for most basic use cases.
Should be so basic any random person can create a CRUD app.

2. Scripting, something like Python. This should handle 95% of use cases.

3. Systems programing. Zig, Rust, etc. For when you need extremely specific performance requirements to be met.

My dream language would integrate all three of these in the same stack, ideally the same project would be a mix of all three ( most of the time a mix of the first two).
Payment processor publishes official NPM package that leaks credit card data
I guess they will have to get the AI to listen in on the call next time.
So why do I need an editor(Cusror)? How does a non-coder use it?
I thought "fire fast" was a viable strategy until I joined a company that did exactly that.

They didn't fire many people quickly, but it had a deeply chilling effect when someone was only at the company for a month or two before disappearing.

One of the unspoken difficulties of firing fast is that the person does a lot of relationship building with people who don't work with their output. It was often the case that someone would become well-liked by people who never saw their code, who would then become distraught when the likable person vanished one day.
Yes well said. Although at some point these factories will become almost fully automated. But regardless, better to have them in the US than China.
I've interviewed some candidates (more senior than TFA) and I agree with OP that it is a uniquely uncomfortable experience.

Candidates who rely on AI seem to just be totally turning their brains off. At least a candidate who was embellishing in the old days would try to BS if they were caught. They could try and fill in the blanks. These candidates give plausible-sounding answers and then truly just give up and say "ummm" when you reach the end of their preparation.

I've been interviewing for 10+ years across multiple startups and this was never a problem before. Even when candidates didn't have a lot of relevant experience we could have a conversation and they could demonstrate their knowledge and problem-solving skills. I've had some long, painful sessions with a candidate who was completely lost but they never just gave up completely.

Developers I've worked with and interviewed who rely on AI daily are just completely helpless without it. It's amazing how some senior+ engineers have just lost their ability to reason or talk about code.
My colleague and I wrote a book on this: https://github.com/scynthiadunlop/WritingForDevelopersBook. Find and ping us if you want a copy.
It definitely did change with AI. Imposters are becoming harder to detect, at a cost to the company.
It 100% is because he just keeps your curl and you can't even delete it. He just keeps it forever for himself even if you made a whoops. Already accidentally uploaded my HN user cookie and had to reset it. JFC.... -_-
It feels like getting a job gets harder and harder over time.

Wouldn’t starting a startup or business be actually easier in this environment?
It's only a problem if we live in a society where people's perceived value, and thus capability of living a healthy, full life, is tied to their productivity to produce profit for an increasingly shrinking pool of people and organizations.

Which is what we have, hence the problem.

Yes, AI has the potential to screw things up royally. But do not mistake its' exacerbation of symptoms as the true illness.
> It could go the way of farming, where labor saving technology allow a tiny fraction of the previous workforce to satisfy everyone

Except that the quality of mass-farmed, labor-saving tech produced 'stuff' is approaching a level of literal shit and the methods have poisoned air, water and soil to a horribly dumb degree.

Will the same happen to the analog/digital soil, water, air in SWE, game dev and content creation? Likely. It started a while ago, before the big AI boom and that's what young creators and devs see in their youth and get inspired, stimulated and motivated by: toxic, low quality shit that they have to shove down their throats and into their minds. "I can do better" is not something we see a lot anywhere; not in cinemas, not on the news, not in SaaS and sure as hell not in VC culture or portfolio capitalism.

Next generations brains are wired and minds nourished by the current environment. And we've been fucking up for a while, even if we leave out politics, news, culture and how we systemically perceive, portrait, never defuse and always escalate conflicts in a slow burn fashion.

All that wires brains, reinforces behaviors and thought patterns and perception and nourishes minds.

I like the comparison to farming. The end game is displayed in movies and games alike and it's always dire, dry and satisfies no one.

There's no case against AI, though, but a momentous one against experienced, educated people who have witnessed the shit show long enough and don't need predictive algorithms to know what's coming.

How silly it is to 'let it happen', to 'let it be'.
> Never mind $50M, suppose it would cost twenty trillion dollars to save you. The large majority of the entire US GDP. The majority of everyone in the whole country, ignoring all other problems and lives to dedicate all of their time to saving you. And if they did that, they could; but not otherwise.

> Is that worth it? No, it can't be, because a million other people would die instead. There exist things that are possible but not reasonable and some of those things are in medicine.

We are talking about reality here, not some made-up fantasy to justify your outlook on it. I don't think I needed to preface my argument with that since I'd expect to discuss with rational and reasonable beings. Considering reality, where we live and touch grass, it's better that some rare diseases with high costs for treatment get subsidised by the whole pool of money society gathers for healthcare, within reasonable bounds of what the aforementioned system can bear.

I really thought I didn't need to guard myself against some bizarre outworldly conjecture with no basis in reality. You can toy with models and inflated situations to be pedantically argumentative but I'd much rather try for us to base this in more-or-less real situations. Paying for the US$ 5 million treatment of one kid with a very, very rare disease which is treatable can be afforded if a society is wealthy enough.

Or isn't the USA wealthy enough to care for its population?
I think you're wrong.

Anyone who argues that LLMs are "just stochastic parrots" fundamentally doesn't understand what neural networks do. The power does not come from sampling from a distributions over words but from the multi-dimensional representation. And it is that that enables LLMs to be more than just mechanisms that produce copies of material previously seen in training.
This is just waiting for people to leak cookies oh my lord....
Really cool setup! Curious how much of the performance here could vary depending on whether the model runs in a hosted environment vs local. Would love to see benchmarks that also track how cloud-based eval platforms (with potential rate limits, context resets, or system messages) might affect things like memory or secret-keeping over multiple rounds.
Only psychopaths with other people's money to burn want to produce OpenAI or Space X.

I think if you want to produce a sustainable business that lasts a long, long time, and provides a good product to a lot of customers, and employ a lot of good people and provide them with a good living, you want to do this, not that.
It really is a pretty measured and reasonable take.
Technically, "slippery slope" isn't a fallacy. It's just a name for the idea that one thing leads inevitably to another. It's not fallacious to extrapolate from past experience, even if that extrapolation turns out to be wrong.
The disagreement is just a result of the percieved goal.

Trump's approach is valid, if the totality of one's goal is "decrease the US trade deficit".

You, and the economists, are adding on bonus goals that the current administration isn't considering, like "and also don't cause an economic disaster"
There is a fundamental business challenge at work -- games these days are "worth less".

Not having no value, but being of less worth to investors and companies to invest in. This is simple fundamental economics, since game prices are not growing as fast as their input costs. For example, I spent $30 for Atari video games in the 1980s and it was a lot less expensive to produce. That game would cost $90 today with inflation.

For a comprehensive breakdown, see https://www.gamesindustry.biz/are-video-games-really-more-ex...

If your costs are increasing and you can't raise your price then your industry is being commoditized, or at least in a real quandary about how to move forward. AI could be a way to slow the huge, up-front costs that go into AAA games and help limit the risk to making new ones.

If this subject interests you, there is a great long-form interview with Matthew Ball on Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-matthew-ball-...

Anyway, Carmack is right on the money on this one.
Your dad might not be the best example of a healthy lifestyle.

Because they (and many other people) drank more than that, doesn't mean it's a good diet. The Romans drank they wine cut with water though I think.
I am jaded enough to think that this is to manufacture consent or essentially letting doge have access to information through backups.

The first thing someone should think of when they think of backups is recovery, but the second thing to think of right after is the security risks associated with backups.
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1338436/repor...

> If you feel that a profile may be fake or that it is inappropriate, you can report it. A profile may be fake if it appears empty or if it contains profanity, fake names, or impersonates public figures

They may use a real name and they may have worked some of those companies just lie about their technical level, experience, what part of the projects they worked on, etc. Those may not be covered by the reporting guidelines.
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> His belief in agency never made any sense to me; how is it possible for a chain of historical events to have occurred differently from how they did? When did the laws of physics change?

Is this a serious argument?
People would rather stick their heads in the sand on average. Insurance companies would be spending on cheaper preventions for all kinds of things instead of expensive cures if they operated like you describe. They'd be ripping a new one in the meat industry to forestall antibiotic resistance, for example.
This is classic deck-chair reorg, instead of actually helping the environment.

China outputs gigatons of coal smoke. The US ships goods by individual trucks that could travel by train for a fraction of the fuel usage. We dispose of millions of plastic, floating pieces of trash in our oceans.

But if we slightly decrease the carbon footprint of a Hershey's bar, we'll be OK.

I use a stainless steel straw, so I'm doing my part!
Yes. The crucial issue to me is the increasing frequency of attacks where some piece of open source gets an update - leading to endless hidden supply chain attacks.

I don't see anything that is going to block this from getting worse and worse. It became a pretty common issue that I first heard about with npm or node.js and their variants, maybe because people update software so much there and have lots of dependencies. I don't see a solution. A single program can have huge numbers of dependencies, even c++ or java programs now.

It's not new, here's one from 6 years ago on c++ - https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/19/d/analyzing-c-c...

Don't forget log4j - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3850718/developers-apply-t..., points to this recent paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.12192
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Exact same thing happened to me. Had to reset my HN user cookie because accidentally pasted my downvote curl command.
> > Most tech startups need a limited liability structure like GmbH (similar to LLC) or UG.

> Meh, do they really? Only if they want to go the VC route.

Funnily enough, a German friend of mine and his buddy got accepted into YC some years ago and apparently YC handed them the funds before they had even incorporated or anything, so at least from the point of view of German law they were essentially a partnership (GbR). Not sure how that even worked, especially in terms of delineating what the entity actually was that they and YC owned together. Did YC own 7% (standard deal) of… them? (Without incorporating you are personally liable after all.)

Anyway, from what my friend told me they had a whole bunch of cash lying around on a personal account for quite some time lol

Then again, this was before covid – money was incredibly cheap back then.
You should be giving constant feedback; firing should not come as a surprise. And if someone is not delivering, the people who depend on that output will know. Totally unrelated people should reserve judgment.
> basic interactions with the world around you, tasks that seem easy to us but are actually quite complex

Tasks such as:

- recognizing objects in our surroundings,
- speaking,
- reasoning about other people's thoughts and feelings,
- playing go?

All of those were at some point "easy for us but very hard for computer programs".
How does this compare to Anthropic's Computer Use?
The author made two mistakes:

1. Disclosing the existence of the speed bump they installed.
2. Disclosing that they installed the speed bump.

If they had "forgotten" to do at least the first of these things, in all likelihood the speed bump would still be there.

Sometimes the right thing to do is to break the rules.
Roman wine was heavily diluted though, at least.
This and many other cases are literally burning remote interviewing and offshore candidates. Soon, you will be able to find anything only thru local on-site interview or strong references. I guess this is your point.
TBH I agree that we Americans are going to leave behind some really lame plastic artifacts. But I’m trying not to worry about that sort of thing too much, it doesn’t seem healthy to worry too much about what’ll happen long after we’re dead. If we do, we might forget to live, right?
I've thought of that, but there is a trend of a retreat from newer music, this isn't just a generation gap speaking.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-...

A lot of what's happening is imo is just there's so much more competition for attention, and music has lost value as a cultural force beyond the music itself for younger people than it used to have, when young people would develop parasocial relationships or "crushes" or build their self-identity on pop stars and their fandom. A lot of this power culturally has been balkanized.

Speaking of the music itself, once the economic incentive is removed to create great songs (we are there already) we will get fewer great songs. That force is countering the fact that we have more tools and distribution channels than ever to create great songs, and those two forces are in opposition and to me, it seems like the fewer great songs force is winning (subjective).
CERN is a big proponent of KiCad, so it wouldn't surprise me.

I didn't see an Open Source Hardware Logo on it, or any marking suggesting it's CERN Open Hardware License, but it might also be on the back.

The big issue is that it's tough to collaborate with something like Altium Designer when its $460/mo (and no one else can open your design unless you pay the fee).
Multiple people already did and are confirming they can't even delete it. This website is literally a security issue itself.
It needs to do a lot more than that if you want to have something that doesn't alias like crazy. And significantly more if you want it to sound like a game boy.
Liquid hydrogen is very bulky, the tank might be large enough to impact the aerodynamics. Use kerosene instead, and maybe use RFNA instead of oxygen, just to bump the danger level up to Abjectly Stupid.
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Oh certainly and I'm not arguing against Lua's decisions to have a small stdlib. Just commenting on why it has seen low adoption outside of specific niches like scripting game engines, etc.
Yeah, it's like the elemental definition of what a tool is.
>I couldn’t keep the Amazon Bump out there; there were some serious liability issues.

Just spit-balling here, but what types of liability would generally crop up from installing vigilante speed bumps?
You're going to have to come to terms with the fact that a growing number of non-Americans don't care about the left/right paradigm in America anymore.

They just view America itself as the problem and are deciding to detach from it as a whole.
Around 2002 or so, I had an idea to tag every part of a project with a unique hash code. With a hash code, one could download the corresponding file. A hash code for the whole project would be a file containing a list of hash codes for the files that make up the project. Hash codes could represent the compiler that builds it, along with the library(s) it links with.

I showed it to a couple software entrepreneuers (Wild Tangent and Chromium), but they had no interest in it.

I never did anything else with it, and so it goes.
> introducing a lookalike in the wild will do anything to fill the gap left by the real thing

The dire wolf may not fill a valuable niche, but I believe it's at least plausible that herds of engineered woolly mammoths would have a positive environmental impact.

I personally don't care if they "really" restore an extinct animal or not (perfect clone vs. hairy elephants). Their creations are cool proofs of concept for the genetic engineering tooling that they're creating and captures public/investor imagination much more than more mundane (but monetizable) aspects of the work, like working with massive amounts of data, gene editing tools, etc.