skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting take, and most probably you are right. But this requires at least two people with a above-the-average emotional intelligence. And in our trade, in my opinion and experience, it's not easy to find people that excel in both emotional and practical problem solving intelligences. So, having a profound technical discussion in a team without heating it up at least a bit, it's difficult. Now, it can heat up and then it can be like nothing really happened, because as time passes and people can reflect on it, they soon realize it was just a technical discussion; but in the heat of the moment if you have the ego strong enough to defend your position, most persons will heat up as well.
Game consoles generally only offer clang as a possibility for compiler. If you can compile rust to C, then you can finally use rust for videogames that need to run everywhere.
If you mean 'no bugs in compiler' then yes. The safety of the target language doesn't matter: the output C is has an equivalent role to output machine code, those languages themselves are as unsafe as they can get, it's just that compilers output is a safer subsection of 'all programs which can be expressed in them'.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good? Flatpak is not perfect, but it has steadily improved security over the years. When I first used Flatpak, most applications had their sandboxes wide-open (because they were not compatible with sandboxing). Nowadays a lot of Flatpaks have much more limited sandboxes.
Whatever model responds to me on my Android phone is as dumb as rocks. The Assistant was actually much better.
It's unlikely you can make 2.5 billion with a single unleveraged trade. The market went up by what, 6-7% that day? Nobody bets his whole net worth on this to make a profit like that. So I think leverage was definitely involved, which just shows that insider info was definitely there.
... except that it still pretty much requires Nvidia hardware. Maybe not for edge inference, but even inference at scale (ie. say at companies, or governments) will still require it.
People think coding is the difficult part of programming.

Which it isn't, just like pressing keys isn't the difficult part of being a pianist.

If they invented a machine to press piano keys with superhuman speed and precision that wouldn't make you a musician.
Some features that every JavaScript developer should know in 2025
Great stuff. My prompts are falling behind after seeing what you are doing here.

I find OpenAI annoying at this point that it doesn't output a pdf easily like Perplexity. The best stuff I have found has been in the Perplexity references also.

Google outputting a whole doc is really great. I am just about to dig into Gemini 2.5 Pro in Deep Research for the first time.
Could be worse, you could be using Siri.
> Rumors of impending layoffs obliterate morale

Granted, but it seems like the current way of salary-first, performance-blind cutting obliterates it even harder.
There's no reason why having an LLM be sly or misleading would be more profitable. Too many people try to make advertising a moral issue when it's not, and it sounds like you're falling into that trap.

An ideal answer for a query like "Where can I take my wife for a date this weekend?" would be something like,

> Here are some events I found ... <ad unit one> <ad unit two> <ad unit three>. Based on our prior conversations, sounds like the third might be the best fit, want me to book it for you?

To get that you need ads. If you ask ChatGPT such a question currently it'll either search the web (and thus see ads anyway) or it'll give boring generic text that's found in its training set. You really want to see images, prices, locations and so on for such a query not, "maybe she'd like the movies". And there are no good ranking signals for many kinds of commercial query: LLM training will give a long-since stale or hallucinated answer at worst, some semi-random answer at best, and algorithms like PageRank hardly work for most commercial queries.

HN has always been very naive about this topic but briefly: people like advertising done well and targeted ads are even better. One of Google's longest running experiments was a holdback where some small percentage of users never saw ads, and they used Google less than users who did. The ad-free search gave worse answers overall.
They have the option right next to that for a monthly only option.
Once you get to a certain point of education on the issue you realise that it is actually laughably easy to dismantle pro-colonialist and genocide arguments on this issue, as much of the oppositing positon is based on lies and the hope that the other person finds the issue too complex to understand. All that's left is their obvious and often inhumane personal biases.
If the military says something not in line with Trump they'll quickly be removed. Just look at what happend in Greenland.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/creq99l218do
The way Supreme Court treated Trump is an example of "how not to do it". And all it achieved is massive levels of lawlessness by the president and circle, because they all know laws don't matter anymore.

Being politician should not mean being above the law.
Yep, that’s shitty. So let’s give them flak for that, not for something they don’t do anymore.
I use ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini regularly. Even though 2.5 pro is really good, I find myself using Gemini the least because I have an aversion to giving Google even more data about me.

I know that even if they never inject ads directly in Gemini, they'll be using my prompts to target me.
The developers and managers alike are rationally responding to the incentives of the current market. If developing a tool no one wants will get you promoted or a chance at a higher paying job elsewhere and your manager gets credit for overseeing a hard working productive team, then why would you expect any different outcome?
The Rubik's cube example is just reversing the moves.

Writing a visualiser and basic scrambler isn't hard to stumble upon, there's endless training material and not much to screw up. Writing a working solver even if you train it on examples would be hard.

Very funny.
No, because the achievement, the mastery behind it is not obliterated in the next few years, by the upcoming iterations of newer smartwatches.

Smartwatches, Phones, (most) Cars, TVs, ... all of these are mass produced, and as such completely obsolete in a few years, even if they are sold as "premium" products for a month's salary.

Unique, manufactured Design pieces are... timeless. It's a piece of art. And I say this without any inclination to ever join that market.
I wish it were that simple. As an occasional amateur photographer, I’ve looked for alternatives to Lightroom with a simple UX, and to my surprise the alternatives are far more complex and unintuitive than a old software such as Lightroom.
I don't know if you are serious, but I can tell you that the way these people abuse Excel is maddening.
actual support would be long lines of volunteers at the military recruiting office, right
instead of the reality, where the standard for enlistment are bieng lowered, while the percentage of people failing to pass the standards, is riseing.
The military is expilisit in stateing that finding high intelligence recruits for officer training is esspecialy challenging.
Which brings us to a military reality, ie: it is one thing to defeat an army, but another thing entirely to occupy an enemy country.
And now that warefare is entering a new age, with
drone's and all other types of remote controlled weapons, and every country is developing these weapons, maintaing an occupation is going to become even more dangerous for those, in the proverbial boots.
Betcha it's grim looks at westpoint.
Have a deep understanding of your tools. And for a programmer, the top three are: the editor, the os shell, and your programming language tooling.
7k-year-old skeletons from the green Sahara reveal a mysterious human lineage
It's still an advertising company you're doing business with.

I mean, would you buy cookies from a brand that is known for producing rodenticides?
Is this a jab at enterprise Java programmers?
"Can" add in the chance if nonzero? Sure.

"Easily"? No. Just check the article, it's plenty of examples of skilled programmers stopping to use A"I" because long term they discover more bugs than they would have written themselves. And you can even write the code yourself and have an LLM check it because it'll find tons of false positives.

LLM are fundamentally probabilistic text generators. We need and expect tools that have an error rate as low as the hardware error rate.
Used in this way, can nix help Fedora's reproducibility efforts? Or does it appear to Fedora as a superfluous layer to be stripped away so that they can plug into cargo more directly?

A lot of Nix-based package builds will burn Nix store paths directly into the binary. If you are lucky it's only the rpath and you can strip it, but in some cases other Nix store paths end up in the binary. Seems pretty useless to Fedora.

Besides many of the difficult issues are not solved by Nix either. (E.g. build non-determinism by ordering differences due to the use of a hashmap somewhere in the build.)
Opera doesn't have the same size data center bill as OpenAI
Paper Flowers with Arnold Drake World [video]
TPUs aren't necessarily a pro. They go back 15 years and don't seem to have yielded any kind of durable advantage. Developing them is expensive but their architecture was often over-fit to yesterday's algorithms which is why they've been through so many redesigns. Their competitors have routinely moved much faster using CUDA.

Once the space settles down, the balance might tip towards specialized accelerators but NVIDIA has plenty of room to make specialized silicon and cut prices too. Google has still to prove that the TPU investment is worth it.
How isn't it? It's setting it by default which is equivalent to forcing it for the huge majority of users who won't even know that such a thing as a flag to disable these emojis exists
I am not trying to affect change. I am expressing myself.
> plain English is precise enough to program a computer with

Only if your problem is already uploaded on Github.
A self-evolving cognitive model for conscious system design
Over the last year, I’ve been working on a model that helps simulate human-like reasoning by integrating layers of physiology, emotion, value systems, and abstract thinking. It's not another AI agent framework — it’s more like a language and architecture that interprets reality as dynamic interactions of meanings and values, constantly evolving.

The core of it is a system where:

Logic, ethics, and emotional feedback loops align into adaptive principles.

Decision-making becomes a conscious restructuring of internal patterns, not automation.

Each principle (like non-violence or responsibility) is built from first principles — from chaos → to harmony → to sustained evolution.

I’ve documented the process, tested it through conversations (with ChatGPT and people), and connected it with real-world philosophical and technological questions. It’s still evolving, but stable enough to start building a community and maybe applications around it.

I’m sharing it here to see if others are exploring similar directions — and to open the door for collaboration, critique, or philosophical sparring.

I’d love your thoughts. Why? Because if this is even 10% right — it could help rethink not just AGI architecture, but how we organize human systems at scale.
They can force-post right past Privacy.com's veil, NYTimes did it to me. Here's what Privacy's support rep had to say about it:

> Hi, Firstname

> I've been reviewing your dispute and wanted to touch base with you to explain what happened.

> It appears that the disputed charge is a "force post" by the merchant. This happens when a merchant cannot collect funds for a transaction after repeated attempts and completes the transaction without an authorization — it's literally an unauthorized transaction that's against payment card network rules. It's a pretty sneaky move used by some merchants, and unfortunately, it's not something Privacy can block.
This test lacks realism.

Water of this scale does not typically fall out of a bright sunny sky. It is almost always associated with greatly decreased visibility --- sometimes even at night.

In the middle of such a downpour, most people aren't standing still like a dummy with their head, face and silhouette fully exposed to oncoming traffic.

Would the performance be better or worse in a more realistic scenario? I see no reason to expect anything but the latter. How much worse remains to be answered.

What this does show pretty clearly is the typical response when "triggered" --- slam on the brakes. There are reports of trash blowing across the road being a "trigger". Avoid following a Tesla if possible.
> I wonder how long before someone cracks SEV-SNP

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-...
My thoughts:

Add option to eliminate sounds and light show when dragging letters.

Add ability to select the difficulty. A difficult puzzle on a gray Saturday morning during breakfast is more than I can handle.
What I don't understand about your comment is: Where do these "deeply nested libraries" come from? I use one library or even std library and pass the RNG along in function arguments or as a parameter. Why would there be "deeply nested" libraries? Is it like that in Haskell or something? Perhaps we are using different definitions of "library"?
Are the differences between Google Books and LibGen documented anywhere? I believe most models outside of Google are trained on the latter.
>Nobody wants elections in wartime

THE GOVERNMENT doesn't want elections in wartime. Most people want.

>not least because polling stations become targets.

I think this is pure gaslighting. If we are talking about Ukraine, Putin is one of the main supporters of holding elections there. And almost certainly not because he wants to bomb some polling stations, but because he is confident that people will vote for a candidate who will de-facto offer to surrender, and not for Zelensky with his busifications.
This is a fun game, nicely put together! I wished for a button to clear the board while I was playing. I love the menu UI. I think it cleverly parallels the game.
Realistically the only people able to run models of this size are large enterprises.

Those enterprises won’t take the risk of being sued for using a model without proper permission.
In this particular case the impending layoff was basically obvious to everyone months in advance (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893463).
Sony's Achilles heel was and remains software. You can't build a Spotify or Netflix if you can't build a proper website.
I've had this myself when trying to argue a point on a previous Palestine post on HN months ago. They essentially listed off all of the generic antisemetic tropes as fast as they could, trying to tie themself to me while contributing nothing to the discussion.
Blogs did not require one to be a technical genius. A lot of non-technical people had blogs. And ads existing per se is not what we discuss here.

Blogs require an effort to post sth because you cannot get away with posting a catchy 2-phrases sentence or a photo (you can, but that's not what they are for mainly). In this sense, yes, social media won because of convenience among other things. But the same convenience is what I find as problem with them.

And where are we now? The role of social media as "grandmothers sharing with grandkids" are long gone, in most places at least (cannot speak of the whole world). Very few from my social circles post in social media any mode. Most of the content is direct or indirect advertising (if it's not meta, it is the next door bar or yoga studio broadcasting posts), (semi-)professional content creators/influencers and, lastly, a lot of AI slop. Most people I know use facebook for events and the like, and which is definitely not what facebook optimises for or profits from. Now, most of the sharing-role has fled in closed group chat platforms (whatsapp, viber, messenger and the like).

The only thing that seems to still hold some livelihood is microblogging platforms (xtwitter and clones) which are also what replaced part of the blogosphere. But a rant about these would be too large to fit in a comment here.
>Meanwhile... making money from online ads isn't trivial.

Especially when post-tarrifs consumption is going to take a huge nosedive
I think the HN crowd widely overestimates how many people are even passingly familiar with the LLM landscape much less use any of the tools regularly.
The deep Schadenfreude when you see your extroverted friend rage about their phone ringing for the 8th time this hour.
everyone's saying it "drove upside down" - kinda missing the point - this car IDLED upside down.
The way I read it, if a foreigner living in the US says it would be wrong for the US to invade Canada or take over Greenland, or bomb Houthis, etc. than the could be deported because that would "compromise a compelling U.S.foreign policy interest."

It doesn't even have the "clear and present danger" requirement of Schenck v. United States - the infamous "falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic" Supreme Court case largely overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which limited government action to only speech likely "likely to incite or produce [imminent lawless] action."
I mean, you don’t have to go far to find Soviet-style political repression in the USA.

Julian Assange says hi.
If you encounter a mother bear with her cubs in the woods she will attack you. Her natural response has no morality. I am the same, that is how you follow the Dao.

It is funny that people thing Daoists do not get angry and yet all of you suppress anger in some unnatural way to "get along" or to make sure you are not dwnvoted.
> If you instead ask why they might have traded Visa at the time they did, you will see that there were many valid reasons that they (and many, many others) decided it was a good time to sell.

All said in hindsight today, but never for those who benefitted from the insider information. Investors will always buy the stock after it plummets, whilst those who didn't sell had to wait or buy lower to break even.

This does not excuse the fact that the Pelosis' benefitted from insider (political) information and traded on that, like this blatant example. An advantage that neither of us have.

Defending politicians trading on insider info (political or economic) isn't the hill one should die on. If you did exactly that and made tens of millions, you would be in prison and be replying to me years later telling others not to do it.
I don’t think so. To my knowledge GCP has no approval for classified networks, which is by far the hardest part. Contrast with Azure OpenAI has been approved to run on government networks for over a year now.

This feels like a play for companies in highly regulated industries, GCP has a notable list of biopharma customers.
In the right hands, multi-platform games were pretty much identical like BF3: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-face-off-battlefiel...
I just wanted to reply how wrong you are and that the OP's version would be literal if "de" was used instead of "à" but just writing that made me realize that I'm completely wrong and you are totally right. That's a rare moment and I decided to celebrate it by making this comment. Thank you!
Native apps also are suspended. Or can be, like na iOS (not being fanboy, I appreciate this mechanism).
Also native, desktop apps also can be almost suspended while not used.

Web apps are just way easier to do anything (rarely good), so many people are doing them without real engineering or algo knowledge producing trash every day.
Article is also using same voice. Showing one protocol as completely bad, mentioning only the issues both approaches have, but silently omitting those issues describing „the only way, craft, holistic, Rust and WASM based solution, without a plug”
The real threat to Google, Meta is that LLMs become so cheap that its trivial for a company like Apple to make them available for free and include all the latest links to good products. No more search required if each M chip powered device can give you up-to-date recommendations for any product/service query.
https://archive.md/dW6ll
When LLMs are essentially trying to sell me something, the shit is over.

I like LLMs (over search engines) because they are not salespeople. They're one of the few things I actually "trust". (Which I know is something that many people fall on the other side of — but no, I actually trust them more than SEO'd web sites and ad-driven search engines.)

I suppose my local-LLM hobby is for just such a scenario. While it is a struggle, there is some joy in trying to host locally as powerful an open LLM model as your hardware will allow. And if the time comes when the models can no longer be trusted, pop back to the last reliable model on the local setup.

That's what I keep telling myself anyway.
https://archive.md/BGqnq
Haven't digged deep into Erlang, but from what I read, I never thought Erlang's big idea is "lightweight processes and message passing".

Always thought the key differentiator is having a kind of "orchestrator/supervisor" for those processes.

(Which "lightweight processes and message passing" facilitates, sure, but it's more than those)
What if the models are somehow trained/tuned with Ads? Like businesses sponsor the training of some foundational models... Not the typical ads business model, but may be possible.
So they’re going to…. Be nicer now? Less crazy?
...yes?

I mean, the company that makes Raid also makes Saran Wrap and Ziploc bags. Corporate conglomerates can do lots of things.

The entire Google Cloud org is funded by regular customers paying money, not advertising.
There is no next life. This is all we got. Let’s make the most of it.
Its useful to identify what sort of team you are on. I've definitely been on teams that valued what I'd call "silent consensus" which really meant a small group had already met and made whatever self serving decision and when they met with the whole team to have a "first discussion" they expected zero extra inputs.
I think people are generally confused the different meanings of reproducibility in this case. The reproducibility that Nix initially aimed at is: multiple evaluations of the same derivations will lead to the same normalized store .drv. For a long time they were not completely reproducible, because evaluation could depend on environment variables, etc. But flakes have (completely ?) closed this hole. So, the reproducibility in Nix means that evaluating the same package set will lead to the same set of build recipes (.drvs).

However, this doesn't say much about build artifact reproducibility. A package set could always evaluate to the same drvs, but if all the source packages choose what to build based on random() > 0.5, then there is no of build artifacts at all. This type of reproducibility is spearheaded by Debian and Arch more than Nix.
That is my fantasy, actually.
The author kind of hints at this but in some countries, Germany included, the kitchen is not part of the flat. Whoever rents it will build their own kitchen. When I lived in Germany I was expected to buy and then sell the kitchen of the flat we lived in. While the author focuses on furniture, I do think this is where a lot of this waste comes from. I do agree that it is strange to buy disposable furniture. But so far I didn’t throw anything from ikea away except for a mattress when I moved countries.