skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a false dichotomy.

You introduce two categories, state that LLMs are not part of one category, and then conclude that it must be in the other. In reality, the distinction between the two classes is not so clear.

The transformer architecture is quite something, and the number of layers and nodes involved in a typical LLM is staggering. This goes way beyond linear regression.
That's not universal though. My dad's company was bought up by a foreign investor, shrunk over multiple reorganizations from its peak of ~500 people in the 70's or 80's down to a skeleton crew of ~50. They weren't fired, they were told the company was going bankrupt and needed to be emptied out. People who worked there for 40+ years were basically given a few months' pay if that and a "good luck". There's a formula for severance pay; years worked * month's wage, this would give people a lot of leeway to find a new job or just sit out until their retirement, but of course that's very expensive so they weaseled their way out of it through various constructions. Dozens of people fired a few years before retirement, most never found another job again. And the boss kept the company, which is now a shell company / sales / license holder, which the parent company was always after of course because production is cheaper to do in e.g. Poland.
Playing in the Creek (hgreer.com)
342 points by c1ccccc1 3 days ago 120 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43650656
Automattic has annual revenue of over $700m where did you get that number from?
I think part of that is because those old Windows apps were distributed and forgotten about. There was no update procedure for many of them, and if there was it was just "buy a new disk" or at most "check the website and download a new EXE". Now that people have always-on internet connections, they expect to be able to get things instantly, and companies then expect to be able to push their updates instantly, and other companies expect that they can push their own update if someone else breaks their API, and so on and so forth until everyone expects everyone to have "the latest version" of everything.

It's the era of constant updates. I find it pretty annoying.
Plus, don't forget the secret sauce of Lisp syntax: same number of parentheses, with none of the commas. Nor the semicolons. Nor the brackets. Nor the braces.
Hey this issue should be fixed now :), I was moving it to a new domain, messed up the dns config of the deployment.
You can also checkout fundhog.xyz
Wouldn't orphaned async tasks be garbage collected ?
Thanks, my mind was glossing over switching costs, what you’re saying there tracks to me.

> only opt-out of paying them assloads forever, which was buying a perpetual license and staying on that version.

This I struggle with though - financially there’s no real difference between a perpetual license and a subscription once you work out the time value of money, etc. For any arbitrary subscription price, you could make a perpetual license more expensive, or vice-versa. ergo, the complaints here aren’t really about the license type, at their root they’re simply pricing complaints.

“Monthly pricing for Photoshop 2024 is too high at $x” is fundamentally the same problem (with the same solutions) as “our perpetual license for Photoshop 5.5 is becoming unusable for both technical and HR reasons and the perpetual license (which hypothetically exists) for Photoshop 2024 is too high at $x*500”.
After that wishy-washy flip-flopper with his tariff-trainwreck I wonder how many people will still go for the comforting fantasy that he is in fact "playing 4D chess"?

People that didn't care about his moral failings, the lying, how he treats women may care about him just being incompetent to the degree that the things he operates would fare better if he did nothing, especially if they have to pay the bill.

For Trump behaving erratic is a feature, as it favours people who have sworn loyalty and who Trump has deemed worthy as they at least might get a little head ups (enough for the stock market).

Sadly this turns the US not only into an absolute laughing stock, it also makes any business with it a risky one.
It's the question that Screaming Bee used for gauging your voice profile for the MorphVOX voice changer!
The real question would be why not ?

Many of the quirks and problematic parts have been addressed through the years, it's battle tested, and there is a healthy and stable ecosystem behind. It doesn't need to be everyone's first choice, but there's also no strong reason to avoid using it in its current state.
Wow, the last paragraph is really touching. That comment from the CEO is brilliant: "I trusted them yesterday, I trust them today." That will stay with me for some time!
Finally I get to ask this of a real person.

How important are these things for you? If the automatic trunk motor broke, how much would you be willing to pay to fix it? What is the value difference for you to be able to heat up the car from outside the car?

My questions point towards some variation of my central question: why does any of those things matter to you in a car? The primary purpose of a car is to get me places, everything else is optional. Is it because all the cars are equally sufficient for getting you places or so you actually value remotely controlling your car higher than the cars ability to drive you places?

For myself all of those gimmicks are just more complication that can break. I value a car that is fun to drive and with minimal abstraction. It sounds like you value maximal abstraction, and that's quite odd to me. I wish to understand your viewpoint.
I wished for the opposite: the most interesting content that failed to go viral...
I've brought up the racism question to Japanese people I know who live in Japan (I've got reasons for traveling there multiple times a year). I've seen either two responses:

1. it doesn't exist

2. it does exist, and here is why it's acceptable!

The third one, which is the american response (it does exist and it is unacceptable) I haven't heard yet.

I've also heard people with darker complexions get an entirely different treatment - as in, it's not just foreigner but also, what kind.
That’s a super thoughtful take — and honestly, I agree with you on a lot of it. The idea of using micropayments to replace display ads is so compelling, especially for content that’s currently ad-saturated. I’ve thought about this too — like charging a few cents to unlock parts of a page, or to keep reading — but yeah, the UX just isn’t there yet for non-crypto folks.

You nailed the core problem: crypto-native users are fine jumping through hoops, but if you’re trying to use crypto to convert or prove a use case to the average user, the bar is just too high. Wallets, gas, confirmations — it feels like asking them to learn how to solder a circuit just to turn on a light.

That’s part of why I kept Fundhog super minimal: no sign-ups, no tokens, just “send crypto to a wallet” with a nice-looking page in the middle. But I totally hear you — there’s still a lot of friction under the hood.

I think the next wave of tools (especially with account abstraction and gasless UX on chains like Polygon/Base) might actually make something like your vision feasible in the near future. Would love to jam more if you ever decide to revisit the widget idea — I think it's a powerful concept.
Laughable.

What would be gatekeeping is if someone prevented you to pick a pencil, paper, a guitar, a brush, to make something out of your own.

You’re the only one gatekeeping yourself here.

Looks like it’s the same pattern as with blockchains, and NFTs and Web3 stuff and the move fast/break things mantra: you cannot argue for and demonstrate for what your « solutions » actually solve, so you need brute force to break things and impose them.
My favorite is when it hallucinates documentation and api endpoints.
Well look at how the Python ecosystem squirmed real Pythonesque when adopting these type hints; and that's a packaged runtime that can just bump the major version and do a hard breaking change.

That doesn't work for JavaScript; you need full backwards compatibility at all times. Porting runtime type information to JS would change the language innards so much, it'd just be a different language in the end. At that point we could equally argue whether browser vendors should ship a Python runtime in browsers and add support for <script type="application/python">.
i always feel that stories are written from the public facts. but what about the private facts, connections etc which are never told and might be the real secret?
It looks like a Bluesky integration which will get a lot more engagement than a blog post. The author was a "CSS advocate" at Google, which implies a strong emphasis on networking.
Culture change is often the solution, and as a species we still haven't discovered a way to do it without violence.
That's assuming this never results in a single job not getting done. For example, I'd stop working and just live on rents, some trading, how many would do the same?

This is a more general problem with UBI of course, they all depend on a global desire for every single individual to contribute to society. And here I am, I don't think more than 10% or so of people feel that need. Of course 50% just outright can't, due to being too young or too old.

And assuming you're figures are correct that would already drop $1500 to $750, which wouldn't cover rent at all.
These are good insights for small-SaaS. I especially like not using intrusive analytics - they are simply unnecessary and unhelpful. With a small SaaS business you will hear from your users, a they will tell you their pain points. Tracking them and trying to model out of a web of interactions what you should do is missing the forest for the trees.
« Relationships that took me years to cultivate… mostly going to be gone too »

Why? What prevents you from spending time with your ex-colleagues?
Gas boilers now biggest source of air pollution in central London, study shows
Trivially, because any two of rarely produce the same "next token"!

An ensemble of LLMs trained identically would generate the same next token(s) forever. But we don't - we generate different sequences.

We are not LLMs.
Their blog looks like it's integrated with Bluesky, where they have 15K followers, so that's where the activity is coming from. It's not uncommon for high-profile devs to get that much engagement there.
This is all just a big ad. Don't bother
What will you do with the freedom GenAI offers?
Something is off with those first two pics. The orange already looks red, not orange — with or without the bag.

If you look at the pic below where it shows the oranges in the store, they’re much oranger.

For a post about color accuracy, it seems odd the comparison pics seem to have some color imbalance to them.
Very nice application. Was waiting for someone to validate that this is something people want and as I am building something simular but for code.Congrats on shipping
Works great on mobile, fwiw
wow, excellent job here!
AI Agents for Beginners
What is the "right" token? How do you identify it?

Best to not assume humans are LLMs.
Is this really more friction? I can very easily imagine creating an alias that runs `git push && gh signoff` for the cases where I know the tests have passed, and I can equally easily imagine running that alias and forgetting that I've just committed a change and forgotten to run the tests. If anything, opening a browser and marking a checkbox there feels like more friction to me.

I could imagine there being more friction if the tool somehow checked that a test suite had been run on the current commit, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's just a more convenient way of checking a checkbox.

The biggest advantage I can see with this is that the status check gets reset with every push. That's harder to do with a regular checkbox, but I can imagine there's still a way, and I can imagine that way would probably still be simpler than this.
I would recommend actually learning something valuable rather than wasting energy on AI and becoming dumber in the process.
Yes, but that implies that in GR entropy or at least the value based on the classical definition can decrease.

So apparent increase in complexity can be attributed to gravity.
I actually have a theory, based on the last episode of the 2.5 admins podcast. Try spinning up a MediaWiki site. I have a feeling that wiki installation are being targeted to a much higher degree. You could also do a Git repo of some sort. Either two could give the impression that content is changed frequently.
they are doing great!
Of course, but this doesn’t undermined the OPs point of „who allows the AI to do stuff without reviewing it“. Even WITHOUT the „vulnerability“ )if we call it that), AI may always create code that may be vulnerable in some way. The vulnerability certainly increases the risk a lot and hence is a risk and also should be addressed in text files showing all characters, but AI code always needs to be reviewed - just as human code.
I was hyper confused that I didn’t need to hide ANY HTML element.

Also, reader mode was not suppressed by some naughty trick.

Unreal.
John Gray: The Realism of Religion
>Most people who earn a decent salary are generally against CBI because of their own values around their own working ethic. There is nothing written anywhere that says that work is beneficial to a human being.

I'm not against UBI, I just don't see how it can be done. It seems fundamentally impossible to finance at scale, which all of these experiments ignore. They are always experiments where a tiny number of people get money generated by a vast majority of people.

Which we have already, in the form of needs-based welfare.
Lem is especially a difficult subject to tackle for a translator. He invented new but still meaningful words as easily as he breathed, and his less (overtly) serious works dabbled in extreme wordplay.
Not all clients support that—currently limited to ChatGPT custom GPT actions. It’s not a standard. Fortunately, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have agreed to adopt MCP as a shared protocol to enable models to use tools. This protocol mainly exists to simplify things for those building LLM-powered clients like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc. If you want an LLM (through API calls) to interact with an your API, you can’t just hand it an API key and expect it to work—you need to build an Agent for that.
From the article:

> A 2024 GitHub survey found that nearly all enterprise developers (97%) are using Generative AI coding tools. These tools have rapidly evolved from experimental novelties to mission-critical development infrastructure, with teams across the globe relying on them daily to accelerate coding tasks.

That seemed high, what the actual report says:

> More than 97% of respondents reported having used AI coding tools at work at some point, a finding consistent across all four countries. However, a smaller percentage said their companies actively encourage AI tool adoption or allow the use of AI tools, varying by region. The U.S. leads with 88% of respondents indicating at least some company support for AI use, while Germany is lowest at 59%. This highlights an opportunity for organizations to better support their developers’ interest in AI tools, considering local regulations.

Fun that the survey uses the stats to say that companies should support increasing usage, while the article uses it to try and show near-total usage already.
It's kinda wild how much our brain just auto-corrects for lighting without us realizing it
What happens if your company supports billions of dollars in economic output, and a few employees decides to go rogue and sabotage some systems that then causes an international loss of billions of dollars, and possibly property damages and loss of life? If you were the CEO, would you take criminal/financial responsibility for that?
i have had to avoid hiring excellent candidate(s) from EU, just because they would become unflushable if it comes to that.
> Sometimes the search is just bad...

Honestly, I think this is the biggest issue with my company's current system. Confluence search just doesn't seem to... well, search (I'm also not the only person to have this issue where I work). What I mean is that I'll search for a page that I know exists, but Confluence just won't include it, so it seems like Atlassian's search functionality is behaving poorly.

This actually might be something I should bring up with my department to see if there's possibly a fix.

I like the suggestion of adding a keywords section, that actually might help a lot as well. Inclusion of an AI agent would probably be beneficial as well, although may be a little bit harder to get implemented since my company is being very cautious about what data we feed into models for privacy, legal, etc reasons.
Of course, the wealthiest man in the world wants to abolish laws that may give others a competitive edge. Why are we indulging this fool?
AIUI most plugin hybrids have sealed pressurised fuel tanks, which prolong the life; many will also automatically use the engine such that they consume a full tank once every six months or something even if battery power is always available.
Artistic expression does not « move on » without me, or people.

Artistic expression is people in motion, alone or in groups.

You’re talking about the economics of performances and artefacts, which are _something else_ out of artistic expression.

EDIT to clarify/reinforce:

Elvis without Elvis isn’t Elvis. Discs, movies, books are captures of Elvis. Not the same thing.

Miyazaki without Miyazaki isn’t Miyazaki. It may look like it, but it is not it.

Artistic expression is someone’s expression, practice (yours, mine, theirs). It’s the definition of the originality of it (who it comes from, who it is actually made by).

A machine, a software may produce (raw) materials for artistic expression, whatever it is, but it is not artistic expression by itself.

Bowie using the Verbasizer is using a tool for artistic expression. The Verbasizer output isn’t art by itself. Bowie made Bowie stuff.
To an awful lot of people work is food and roof over their heads, and they're lucky if they can manage even that.
Not necessarily. Nobody on HN knows OP’s finances. He might have extended family relying on him. He might have crippling student debt. He might have expensive health problems. Do you know? I don’t.

Also, not all Google employees make great money. People act as though you work there for 5 years and that automatically means you’re off to buy your third house in Monaco.

Point is, he might “manage his finances well” and still be on insecure footing.
That opens up an entirely different discussion, which is why should health insurance be tied to a job? This is also uniquely American. Is your home insurance tied to your job? Is your car insurance tied to your job? Is your life insurance? Doesn’t make sense that your health insurance should be. What happens if you get laid off or you decide you don’t want to work for this company any more or you want to take another opportunity? Now your health insurance or your health insurance costs might both change. And you might have to go through the same hoops again to get a domestic partner installed, etc.
I have a theory that it's much worse now in smartphone world. But I don't suppose anyone studied the queue lengths pre-smartphone.
Procedural fluency is the basis for conceptual fluency. Maths is very layered: every layer builds on the next. You can't do algebra if your arithmetic is slow, as every algebra problem has half a dozen arithmetical subproblems. And you can't do calculus if your algebra is slow, as every calculus problem has half a dozen algebraix subproblems. And every differential equations problem requires you do to a bunch of calculus.

You can't understand a topic without doing lots of examples, so that you can feel out what is incident to the problem and what is inherent to the class of problems: when do we do integration by parts? When do we do integration by substitution? Etc.

So as a result you need to build procedural mastery at every layer before moving to the next and being able to build that conceptual understanding.
Reminds me of "Gadsby", a 50.000 word novel without the letter "e":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
Why speaking different languages at home is great for your young child
Why not a short URL where one can at least read the domain name and see if it looks reasonable before progressing with whatever the task ($£kr) is
Hey HN, I’ve been working on a project called itsneon.com, and I’d love your thoughts.
It started from my own frustration: I was spending way too much time jumping between Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, etc., just to find one or two actually worthwhile things. It felt like the signal was buried under noise, ads, and engagement bait.

So I’m building a site that gives you one daily update - a clean drop of the smartest, funniest, and most viral content from across the internet. No scrolling, no feeds, no notifications. Just a quick way to stay in the loop, and then move on with your day.

Right now, it’s just a waitlist but I’m curious:

Would you use something like this?

Is there something missing in how you're consuming online content today?

Would love any feedback on the idea or positioning before I go live.

Thanks for reading. I am happy to answer any questions or go deeper into what I’m building!
New announcements this week by OpenAI
The bagged version feels like it's trying a little too hard
Yes, I did, and I see nothing wrong with venting about this particular piece of culture.

I respectfully disagree with the line of reasoning where "traumatizing" is equalled with "extraordinary".
Not saying that you are, but reading this as if a AI bot wrote that comment gives me the chills
Why would they skimp on such an important item? The enclosure itself looks quite expensive. Most terminal keyboards were pretty OK from what I've seen.
Comment cited here:

https://www.themotte.org/post/1827/culture-war-roundup-for-t...
A common Tarkovsky move if you're familiar with his body of work.
Procedural Textures with Hash Functions
You are right but I think there's a fundamental issue that many people think that 'as long as I keep showing up and doing good work, the powers that be will look out for me'.

By default work relationships work as you advertised. It needs conscious effort on your (and everyone's) part to reframe these relationships as something that's between you and your friends, on your own terms. Consciously hanging out together, talking to each other, doing projects together outside the context of work. Social relationships need to be built up with effort. The company will do this for you, because they enjoy the benefits of a crew that works well together, but if they put in the effort, the relationship will belong to them. You will think that 'I could get slightly more at this other place, but I like my colleagues here', realizing you'd lose the social net if you changed jobs.

I think a huge problem with nerds (like me and probably you), is that we don't understand the fundamental power dynamics that shape society, because we lack the inherent cunning and weren't forced to face down enough hardship to have our illusions shattered until later in life.

Truth is, if there are rules, somebody needs to enforce them. If something nice happens, it does because somebody makes it happen. These things are mental abstractions designed to make your life predictable, but like every abstractions, sometimes things happen that were supposed to be impossible, because the system doesn't work the way you think it does.