MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-25 14:07:31+00:00
I cannot claim that my skills atrophy because of AI for the very simple reason that AI is of rather limited help for the problems that I am in particular privately working on:

These are often very "novel things" (think of "research", but in a much broader sense than the kind of research that academia focuses on). While it sometimes does happen (though this is rather rare) that AI can help with some sub-task, nearly every output that some AI generates requires quite a lot of post-processing to get it to what I actually want (this post-processing is often reworking the AI-generated (partial) solution nearly completely).
by hinkley | 2025-04-25 14:07:32+00:00
Once you pick an “As simple as possible, but no simpler” solution, it triggers Dunning Kruger in a lot of people who think they can one up you.

There was a time in my early to mid career when I had to defend my designs a lot because people thought my solutions were shallower than they were and didn’t understand that the “quirks” were covering unhappy paths. They were often load bearing, 80/20 artifacts.
by tyleo | 2025-04-25 14:07:50+00:00
There is a lot of busy work that Engineers have to do. My experience is that engineers are usually over-utilized so they naturally deprioritize things that aren't mission critical or aren't providing them value. In that regard, I think you need to prove value of task tracking to the team.

The way our PM did this was that he manually updated all of the tasks himself. Once the task tracking system started working for the engineers--and this could take months--they started happily updating it.

Another strategy our PM employed was organizing stand-up around the task board. He'd specifically ask for feedback on tasks rather than round-robin asking for updates. He said the phrase, "if it isn't a task it isn't work," while also happily creating tasks for any outstanding activities unaccounted for at the end of stand-up.

So I'd recommend this strategy of the PM making task tracking work for the team before having the team make task tracking work for the PM.
by nyrikki | 2025-04-25 14:08:10+00:00
> What precisely is meant by simulating the laws of physics?

IIRC That is in reference to the work around the Church–Turing–Deutsch principle which just classic physics.

Basically Turing machines only have access to the computable reals, which is a zero measure set, thus cannot simulate, but only approximate Newtonian physics. The claim is that quantum computers have access to all the reals, and thus could possibly simulate those real valued functions.

IMHO, "simulating the laws of physics" is an example of a common way of avoiding a very common and challenging issue of getting people to accept that we do not have access to almost all of the reals from algorithms, books, pens, papers, computers, etc...
by deeThrow94 | 2025-04-25 14:08:14+00:00
> The Culture is a world of AIs that are far better than humans at every task, and keep humans as basically pets out of sentimentality.

The difference is that there's no need to build AIs with "motivation". Computers don't view us as anything right now, even if they're better at working with bits than us. What would change this in your mind?

Naturally, we will anyway because that's a short-cut and we're not very imaginative. But any kind of AI that would want anything will have to be explicitly built by us.
by HanClinto | 2025-04-25 14:08:41+00:00
This is so needed. This was a very encouraging article.

"Being a fan is all about bringing the enthusiasm. It’s being a champion of possibility. It’s believing in someone. And it’s contagious. When you’re around someone who is super excited about something, it washes over you. It feels good. You can’t help but want to bring the enthusiasm, too."

Stands in contrast to the Hemingway quote: "Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."

It feels socially safe, easy, and destructive to be a critic.

I'd rather be a fan.
by xivzgrev | 2025-04-25 14:08:48+00:00
I don’t have adhd, but if I did, article left me hanging

Problem: “ American workplaces are typically designed for neurotypical individuals who are committed to a strict Protestant work ethic, expecting consistent focus and steady performance.”

Solution: “ Reflect on what drains your energy and what fuels you, and use those insights to find roles that align better with your needs.”

That advice literally can apply to anyone. The author is just telling me not to worry about losing my job, jobs come and go, etc. but losing a job is a big deal, it can be hard AF to find one. And now he’s telling me that “most” places are set up against how I’m naturally wired.

What am I supposed to do with that?

It would’ve been more helpful if author had included some pointers on types of companies or roles that are more supportive of people with ADHD traits. Or at least tell me about where he landed up. Give me some hope, vs leaving me hanging!
by anarticle | 2025-04-25 14:09:01+00:00
"Would you be completely stuck if AI wasn’t available?"

RUN LOCAL MODELS

Yes it's more expensive. Yes it's "inefficient". Yes the models aren't completely cutting edge.

What you lose in all that is you gain resilience, a thing so overlooked in our hyper optimized 0.01% faster culture. Also, you can use it guilt free and know your input is not being farmed for research or megacorper profits.

Most of what this article is saying is true, you need to stay sharp. As always, this industry changes, and you have to surf what's out there.

Skill fade is a weird way of saying "skill changes". There is no way to keep everything you know in working memory all the time. Do I still have PTSD from malloc/free in C, absolutely. I couldn't rewrite that stuff right now if you held a gun to my head (RIP), but with an afternoon or so of screwing round I'd be so back.

I don't like the dichotomy of you're either a dumbass: "why doesn't this work" or a genius. Don't let the game tell you how to play, use every advantage you have and go beyond what is thought possible.

For me, LLMs are a self pedagogy tool I wished I had when I was a teen. For programming, for learning languages, and keeping me motivated. There's just something different about live rubber ducking to reason through an idea, and have it make to do lists for things you want to do that breaks barriers I used to feel.
by fermigier | 2025-04-25 14:09:02+00:00
Start with https://opensource.org/about

In more concrete terms: they're the stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD), which is a rather explicit, but still subject to interpretation, list of criteria to decide if a particular software license is, or is not, "really Open Source". This is very important in the context of "Open Source washing" that is still a thing, and was even more important a decade or two ago, when there was a Cambrian explosion of licenses which claimed to be Open Source.
by Fogest | 2025-04-25 14:09:05+00:00
That's neat, thanks for sharing! We had the ability to accept a what3word location however it was a really convoluted process to actually attempt to use it. Unfortunately I never personally had anyone use it to give a location, even though it probably would have helped in many cases.

Had some calls where people would be hurt in a forest on a trail system and it was pretty common for people to not even know the name of the trail they are on nor which street they entered it from. Sometimes the GPS location the phone provided to EMS would help, but it also wasn't always 100% reliable, especially if they were in a forest. So being able to have them look at a map on their phone, pin where they are, and give a what3word location would have been immensely helpful.

The kind of system you linked to would also have been quite helpful for the other problems I mentioned.
by paxys | 2025-04-25 14:09:07+00:00
This isn't a "security vs usability" trade-off as the author implies. This has nothing to do with security at all.

/etc/hosts

See, HN didn't complain. Does this mean I have hacked into the site? No, Substack (or Cloudflare, wherever the problem is) is run by people who have no idea how text input works.
by gibagger | 2025-04-25 14:09:25+00:00
I have ADHD. I would love to be able to just wish my worries away.

But I can't. It takes work... therapy, medication, exercise, trying to be mindful of the tools I have acquired through CBT and applying then where relevant. Despite all of this, one little thing is sometimes enough for me to fall into an anxiety pit. Ruminations then lock onto a source of worry, and that's it, I know what I'm going to be doing the rest of the day.

Don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly agree with the post. That said, when my immigration status and my entire life as I have known it for 7 years relies on my employment, not to be anxious and fearful is hard. Sometimes there are valid reasons to be worried that go beyond one's worth in the workplace, and those cannot be rationalized away.
by hanson108 | 2025-04-25 14:09:27+00:00
Yes—this resonates. I’ve been noticing something similar in myself, and one shift that’s helped has been learning to slow down—especially my own thinking. When frustration shows up, it’s often because my brain is racing ahead: judging, predicting, rehashing. I’ve started to slow down my thoughts sometimes, not leap to conclusions or solutions, and let things unfold rather than immediately steering them.

Not every conversation needs to go somewhere. Not every disagreement needs resolving. Sometimes just being in a dead-end convo for a bit—is the move. That shift alone has helped me feel more grounded, less reactive, and most importantly to me conserve energy and effort.

Also agree on the human connection part. It’s so easy in remote work to turn people into abstraction layers or sources of friction. Taking the time to actually know a few folks makes everything else smoother—even when we still disagree.

Appreciate you sharing this. There’s a quiet skill in learning how to stay human at work.
by petercooper | 2025-04-25 14:09:51+00:00
I ran into a similar issue with OpenRouter last night. OpenRouter is a “switchboard” style service that provides a single endpoint from which you can use many different LLMs. It’s great, but last night I started to try using it to see what models are good at processing raw HTML in various ways.

It turns out OpenRouter’s API is protected by Cloudflare and something about specific raw chunks of HTML and JavaScript in the POST request body cause it to block many, though not all, requests. Going direct to OpenAI or Anthropic with the same prompts is fine. I wouldn’t mind but these are billable requests to commercial models and not OpenRouter’s free models (which I expect to be heavily protected from abuse).
by GeoAtreides | 2025-04-25 14:10:01+00:00
>Most modern paper maps are quite the same as Google Maps or equivalents would be though. The underlying core material is the same so I don't think most people would struggle to read it.

That's absolutely not the case, paper maps don't have a blue dot showing your current location. Paper maps are full of symbols, conventions, they have a fixed scale...

Last year I bought a couple of paper maps and went hiking. And although I am trained in reading paper maps and orientating myself, and the area itself was not that wild and was full of features, still I had moments when I got lost, when I had to backtrack and when I had to make a real effort to translate the map. Great fun, though.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-04-25 14:10:37+00:00
i have no idea what you're saying - i'm well aware that compilers do lots of things but this sentence in your original comment

> compiled machine code exactly as-is, and had a instruction-updating pass

implies there should be silicon that implements the instruction-updating - what else would be "executing" compiled machine code other than the machine itself...........
by rpdillon | 2025-04-25 14:10:39+00:00
Really disagree with the premise of the post. I think being able to hold down a job has incredible value and allows other people to depend on you, both in your personal life and in your professional life.

I guess I'm not really bought into the idea that we should let ourselves be whatever we are, and that should be good enough. I think a huge part of the human experience (at least for me) is working to improve so that I can work better with other people. It's been a very rewarding effort even though I'm not excellent at it.
by gwbas1c | 2025-04-25 14:10:54+00:00
> Remove 80% of the music there, and my bet is that music piracy would see a massive upswing, together with legal competitors.

There's some shows I want to go back and re-watch, but they're no longer on Netflix and out of print on physical media. I'm tempted to put my eye patch on and say "yo-ho-ho," but there's just so much content that I don't even have time to watch.

> and my bet is that music piracy would see a massive upswing

Which makes me suspect that if Spotify dropped 80% of its content, it really depends on which 80% gets dropped. There's just so much content available now that content that's not in major streaming platforms might just get forgotten.
by rovr138 | 2025-04-25 14:11:20+00:00
You’re not the only one that’s worked with audits.

I get I won’t get a reply, and that’s fine. But let’s be clear,

> I've explained my position in very straightforward words.

You never explained what would be enough proof which is how this all started. Your original post had,

> Do you just completely trust them to comply with self imposed rules when there is no way to verify, let alone enforce compliance?

And no. Someone mentioned they go through SOC 2 audits. You then shifted the questioning to the organization doing the audit itself.

You now said

> I have an informed opinion on what I find trustworthy in that domain.

Which again, you failed to expand on.

So you see, you just keep shifting the blame without explaining anything. Your argument boils down to, ‘you’re wrong because I’m right’. I also don’t have any idea who you are to say, this person has the credentials, I should shut up.

So, all I see is the goal post being moved, no information given, and, again, your argument is ‘you’re wrong because I’m right’.

I’m out too. Good luck.
by the__alchemist | 2025-04-25 14:11:27+00:00
Noob question! What about AVX-512 makes it unique to assembly programmers? I'm just dipping my toes in, and have been doing some chemistry computations using f32x8, Vec3x8 etc (AVX-256). I have good workflows set up, but have only been getting 2x speedup over non-SIMD. (Was hoping for closer to 8). I figured AVX-512 would allow f32x16 etc, which would be mostly a drop-in. (I have macros to set up the types, and you input num lanes).
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-04-25 14:11:59+00:00
Yes by default, but you can change it:

> Additionally, developers can also control moderation sensitivity with the `moderation` parameter, which can be set to auto (default) for standard filtering, or low for less restrictive filtering.

I played around with this last night and although it still sometimes refused to create images, it seemed to be significantly more lenient.
by gibagger | 2025-04-25 14:12:23+00:00
As a fellow ADHD-having person, I get you. After some point, after dealing with multiple burnouts, you learn to detach your self worth from your job and try to seek other sources of fulfillment and satisfaction. It took a while to get there, but I finally did.

That doesn't make your job and your income any less important for other aspects of your life. My immigration status relied for almost 7 years on my employment. You can imagine how worried I was by the prospect of losing my job.
by stego-tech | 2025-04-25 14:12:35+00:00
While I applaud the OP's point and approach, it tragically ignores the reality that the ruling powers intend for this skill atrophy to happen, because it lowers labor costs. That's why they're sinking so much into AI in the first place: it's less about boosting productivity, and more about lowering costs.

It doesn't matter if you're using AI in a healthy way, the only thing that matters is if your C-Suite can get similar output this quarter for less money through AI and cheaper labor. That's the oft-ignored reality.

We're a society where knowledge is power, and by using AI tooling to atrophy that knowledge, you reduce power into fewer hands.
Show HN: WTFan – Multiplayer AI chat feed for fandom discovery and connection
by weisammi | 2025-04-25 14:12:38+00:00
Hi HN,

We're building WTFan to rethink how fandoms (niche interests) are explored online. C.ai is a popular platform for individual AI chats, WTFan is a multiplayer chat feed with multiple AI characters where fans go deeper into the subjects they love.

The goal isn’t just storytelling; it’s about creating a space where AI helps surface fanfiction, discussions, and unexpected connections — like falling down a rabbit hole with friends and AI personas guiding (or derailing) the journey.

We’re starting with vampire fandoms to test how AI can enhance discovery and playful interaction in a community setting, without algorithms dictating what you see. The AI agents aren’t private companions — they’re part of the social fabric, reacting to conversations, recommending content, and adding a layer of dynamic engagement.

Would love feedback on: - Designing AI for multiplayer context (vs. typical 1:1 chatbots). - Balancing structured discovery with serendipitous exploration. - Any thoughts on better ways to foster meaningful connections in cultural spaces. Think Fortnite, Animal Crossing, etc.

Follow the link if you’d like to try it.

Happy to answer any questions!

PS. Technically, we’re experimenting with lightweight session memory to let AI agents respond to group dynamics without overfitting on individual users. We're also exploring ways to let communities "train" AI behaviour through interaction patterns rather than manual prompt updates.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-25 14:13:02+00:00
It's interesting. I haven't been sucked into the Eurorack thing though — do people want not just patch cables all over their mixing desk but knobs as well?

Eurorack (and modular synths in general) seem like funny things. Like guitar pedals, I sense there are a lot of enthusiasts that do a lot more tinkering than actually playing them. Watching Rick Beato and guests on YouTube ... seems like a lot of musicians are looking instead for simplicity. Like a few good sounding pedals that, ideally, each have just a knob or two.

Maybe the synth-heads are in a whole different headspace though.
by jfengel | 2025-04-25 14:13:08+00:00
It's interesting that the Russians don't appear to be targeting Democrat as vigorously. I've seen some bits of Russian disinformation targeted at progressives (often, trying to drive a wedge between far-left and centrist Democrats), but they don't seem to be devoting the same effort.

I don't believe that Democrats are less resistant to disinformation. They haven't got the save level of infrastructure devoted to it, but I feel like the Russians could spin it up themselves if they wanted to.

I wonder if it's a conscious decision: Republicans seem willing to believe all kinds of false things about Democrats, and it would be unnecessary to actually make the Democrats believe additional false things. Or maybe they like the way Democrats sputter at their inability to get past the Republican-targeted disinformation.
by diggan | 2025-04-25 14:13:40+00:00
> Can you give an example of the latest library or framework that changed?

I guess the most famous example of this sort of API churn is react-router which completely changes how it works internally and externally every major version, rather than keeping the APIs the same but changing internally. I stopped using it myself after the second or third version where everything changed. Most mainstream libraries/frameworks has this sort of churn, just differs what level of churn they introduce each version.

> The part where you mentioned editing code like you edit Clojure/Lisp, moving/ modifying forms rather than text — I don't fully understand, but it sounds super interesting.

It's called "Structural Editing" (or similar). Some references:

- https://clojure.org/guides/structural_editing

- https://www.editorworld.com/article/What-is-Structural-Editi...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor

> Can you point to some specific examples of design patterns and data structures?

Not really, depends on the problem you're trying to solve. I guess where I see others and myself getting bogged down, is when you've chosen the wrong data structure for a job, and everything after that becomes harder. Usually re-evaluating what data structure you use (a list instead of a map, or vice-versa) can make the usages a lot easier.

> are you talking about unit tests, integration tests, or E2E tests?

Yes :)

> Also, don't you think setting up tests takes a lot of time?

It does take time, yes. But usually you spend even more time manually verifying that you didn't break anything and that it works correctly. And if that manual verifying takes 5 minutes each time you want to do it, you do it less often, so it's more likely something broke and you didn't even notice. So by spending 30 minutes setting up proper tests, you can save N*5minutes, depending on how often you run those tests and how much of a hassle it is to manually test.

> Do you feel it provides a net gain in productivity?

Most of the time, yeah. Sometimes you test too little, so you spend too much time manually testing. Other times, writing the tests themselves take longer than the time you'd recover to simply test it manually.

Like all things in programming, I think it's about balances and "doing enough", not dogmatically just follow whatever is trendy. If something feels stupid, it probably is.
Ask HN: What tools are you using to manage a shared enterprise prompt library?
by bredren | 2025-04-25 14:13:40+00:00
I'm looking for ways to manage a shared prompt library across multiple business groups within an enterprise.

Ideally, teams should be able to:

* Author and organize prompts (with tagging or folder structures)

* Share prompts across departments (og yahoo-style categorization)

* Leave comments or suggest edits

* View version history and changes

* Use prompts in web chat or assistant-style UI interfaces

* (Optionally) link prompts to systems like Jira or Confluence :P

* (Optionally) prompt performance benchmarking

The end users are mostly internal employees using prompts to interact with LLMs for things like task triage, summarization, and report generation. End users work in sales, marketing or engineering.

I may be describing a \~platform here but am interested in whatever tooling (internal or external) folks here are using—whether it’s a full platform, lightweight markdown in gists or snippets, or something else entirely.
by bionade24 | 2025-04-25 14:14:12+00:00
I think you misinterpret the message of the article. I think the message is analogous to "don't feel guilty if you failed to obey the norms of behaviour", which does not mean at all that you should aim to break those norms and behave uncordial and inappropriate on purpose. You absolutely have to try your best, even for your own good. But for your own good, you have to have patience and empathy with yourself, too.

On another note, your perspective of trying to avoid being unemployed 3-12 months during job seeking is a rather US-American centered perspective. I get that HN is from the USA, but this view doesn't apply to every other region of the world.