MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-04-13 01:38:41+00:00
If I were to recommend one to someone today, I might pick RooCode. I'd suggest checking out boomerang mode and RooFlow on GitHub.

Here are some others that I've tried and could recommend, in no particular order:

- https://github.com/ai-christianson/RA.Aid

- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

- https://github.com/block/goose

- https://github.com/hotovo/aider-desk

I've also created a few "agents" to do specific tasks using Probe[0] as an MCP server, although I'm sure you could create a full-fledged agent with it if you wanted to.

[0] https://github.com/buger/probe
by 12907835202 | 2025-04-13 01:39:10+00:00
I gave this a tough test, specifically generating a quiz about the video game football manager, and it failed quite badly.

It would either give 3 absurd/joke answers and one good correct one. Or give 3/4 correct answers and then insist that only one of them was correct and the others were wrong.

It's probably only accurate to specific topics and still requires alot of human validation and input. To me that makes it not that better than asking an AI for suggestions conversationally. Probably worse since you can make more progress and adjustments conversationally.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-13 01:39:22+00:00
At my employer we have an emergency location (glorified office) that we basically never operate out of except one afternoon a quarter to prove we can. The documentation about how to operate out of that site includes a warning to that effect.

Edit: Now that I think about it building has been remodeled so I should really have someone confirm if the warning is still valid.
by jjav | 2025-04-13 01:40:11+00:00
> When I reach those, I’d expect them to pay the remainder.

They won't. "Out of pocket maximum" means something completely different to the insurance company than it does to any normal person.

Out of every dollar you pay out of pocket, the insurance company will decide how much they feel like counting it. Might be the full dollar, or some pennies, or nothing.

You might have paid $20K out of pocket in a year, but the insurance company will say you've only paid $1000 because just because. Good luck reaching that "out of pocket maximum".

Source: I've been there.
by the_snooze | 2025-04-13 01:43:13+00:00
I like to throw sports trivia at AI systems to see how well they do on something that's low-stakes and very well-documented. Here's one question Wiyomi generated for me just now about college football:

> What coaching change occurred at USC during the 2010-2011 offseason?

> A. Lane Kiffin left for the Oakland Raiders, and Steve Sarkisian took over

> B. Pete Caroll left for the Seattle Seahawks, and Lane Kiffin took over

> C. Steve Sarkisian left for Washington, and Lane Kiffin took over

> D. Lane Kiffin was fired, and Steve Sarkisian took over

I chose B because I knew that to be true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_Kiffin#USC_Trojans

Wiyomi said I was wrong, and that D is the correct answer:

> Lane Kiffin was fired as USC's head coach after the 2010 season, and Steve Sarkisian, who had been the offensive coordinator, took over as the interim head coach before being officially named head coach.

Lane Kiffin's tenure at USC lasted from 2010 to 2013. If I can't rely on these AI systems for the simplest low-stakes tasks, what good are they for?
by gnabgib | 2025-04-13 01:43:53+00:00
Past discussions:

2024 (66 points, 40 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903024

2022 (141 points, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30598026

2020 (438 points, 147 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867103

2019 (948 points, 261 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411154
by gus_massa | 2025-04-13 01:44:01+00:00
> I became less hands-on over time, focusing on building teams and standards and leading architecturally at a high-level.

In 2020, during peak pandemic, we had to organize clases for a team of 500 profesores and teacher assistants. One day, I expend a whole morning replaying emails about a moodel server and an email server that we didn't control. It was useful, but after a whole morning of "bureaucracy" I really had to stop and do some "real" work, Whatever, write a midterm or think about a research item that has no hope of success. I remember the pain.

Back to your problem ...

Sorry that I can't help, but my general recommendation is to read whateverpatio11 wrote about that https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ Perhaps https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... and https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick...
by ksec | 2025-04-13 01:46:27+00:00
"Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years. If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel. And of denationalising it and renationalising it. On capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolitionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving schizophrenic." - Sir Humphrey Appleby
by dhosek | 2025-04-13 01:48:26+00:00
My view on open source software and monetization thereof has changed a lot between when I was in my twenties and today when I’m in my fifties.

In the 90s, as a young man, my primary concern was paying bills. Now, I’ve kind of reached the point where I just don’t care. My most-used code¹ is released under the most permissive license possible. I have a github sponsor link which earned me in the low two figures last year and nothing so far this year. I treat any money as a pure bonus and just don’t worry about it.

⸻

1. finl_unicode, a Rust crate for character code identification and grapheme segmentation: https://github.com/dahosek/finl_unicode
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-13 01:50:57+00:00
A lot of this is modern safety features. Crumple zones and stronger roofs add weight, more weight implies bigger engines, bigger engines require stronger frames, soon the average car is two tons. Volvo S60, Mercedes C class and Audi S4 are also a similar size and weight. The makes from the US and Japan are a little lighter but not dramatically lighter and their safety ratings are also a little worse.
by irrational | 2025-04-13 01:51:01+00:00
> Around 1 million liters (264,172 gallons) of urine are spilled onto the floor and walls of public restrooms each day in the U.S.

Each day?! 165 million males in the USA. So, 16.5 males on average are peeing enough on the walls and floors that if it was collected it would be an entire liter? That seems unlikely.

What percentage of that 16.5 is not using public restrooms? What percentage is babies in diapers? Even if the number was as high as half, 8 men leaving behind a collective 1 liter seems way too high.
by pcurve | 2025-04-13 01:51:15+00:00
I agree. The urine on floor is because people are generally less careful in public toilet when aiming, peeing, fully draining, and flicking.

When we're outside, we are generally more in rush. We had to 'hold in' longer before peeing because of line. It's unfamiliar setting with weirdly shaped urinal.

And in some parts of Europe, urinals are installed so god damn high, I almost have to tip toe and pee into the the air in projectile.
by zerealshadowban | 2025-04-13 01:52:05+00:00
Consulting is the way to make money from specialized tools and code that you can't or don't want to turn into market commodity. Make sure you charge for the value you deliver to your clients, not the time it takes you to run your tools for them. Look into value-based consulting, e.g. the book "Value-Based Fees" by Alan Weiss. I've been doing this with my own tools and tailored code for a good decade, sometimes pulling in multiple 6-figure projects in a year. Good luck!
by bcrl | 2025-04-13 01:52:58+00:00
My point is that hot swappable battery packs have benefits that outweigh the cost of the connectors for the people that have a use case that needs them, as the grandparent referred to in Thinkpads. Not everyone fits in the constraints of design space chosen for a given product. There's a reason virtually every modern computer has a means of adding expansion devices.

Making a high voltage connector is well understood problem space. Every electrical engineer knows how to deal with ramping up current when a power supply is plugged in or turned on (inrush current specifications are most definitely a thing), and the entire electric grid is based on sizing, insulating, spacing and switching conductors appropriately for the voltage and current being used. Moreover, high voltage battery packs tend to have switches / contactors on the battery pack that keep the high voltage off until the connection is securely made and enabled, hence why even Telsas require a functioning low voltage battery to start the system.

There are also certain use-cases that are likely best served by putting battery packs in a trailer. Take the trucking industry: going by the charging requirements of a Tesla semi (1MW for 30 minutes), replicating your typical truck stop turns into a huge problem for the grid -- you'd need upwards of 50MW of charging capacity to replicate the flow of diesel coming out of a bank of 10 fuel pumps (sorry, I ran the thought experiment on that one back when specs were first released). Having a battery pack attached to the trailer that gets charged at a more leisurely rate at the warehouse while it is unloaded and re-loaded over a couple of hours is far more scalable than charging the truck in a few minutes at a truck stop. Charging overnight while the driver sleeps is fine, but getting the 8-12 hours of runtime for a workday in a semi is a heck of a lot of battery.

The dangers can be mitigated -- that's the entire raison d'etre of the electrical engineering discipline! Otherwise you wouldn't be able to safely charge an electric car at a 350kW rate these days at charging stations all over the world with a connector that is deemed safe to be handled by random humans. It's not like the software industry where we throw half baked shit at the wall and see what sticks when users encounter it by running an A / B test in production....
by dgacmu | 2025-04-13 01:53:35+00:00
I think you mean 165, not 16.5?

But probably, what, only 50m use public restrooms, but some use multiple times, so 150 uses / liter seems reasonable.

That's under 10ml of spray / spill per use, which is maybe a little high but not too crazy? I've seen some pretty bad spill results at work...
by dmtfullstack | 2025-04-13 01:54:04+00:00
Humans are served by bots. Any bot requesting traffic is doing so on behalf of a human somewhere.

What is the problem with bots asking for traffic, exactly?

Context of my perspective: I am a contractor for a team that hosts thousands of websites on a Kubernetes cluster. All of the websites are on a storage cluster (combination of ZFS and Ceph) with SATA and NVMe SSDs. The machines in the storage cluster and also the machines the web endpoints run on have tons of RAM.

We see a lot of traffic from what are obviously scraping bots. They haven't caused any problems.
by cayley_graph | 2025-04-13 01:55:27+00:00
I have repeatedly heard from people who work in physics research that she's optimized her content for maximum rage/anger/emotional response rather than accuracy, particularly as of late. The tidbits of truth and warranted skepticism lend the rest of it undue credibility. Sadly, good science reporting doesn't get the advertising revenue that manufactured-scandal tabloid-style reporting does. I think her critical perspective can be useful, but it's important to keep in mind while considering it that you're being presented a warped telling of reality.
by cookiengineer | 2025-04-13 01:58:52+00:00
This has been the best TIL moment for me on HN.

Thanks, man, I am now in the rabbit hole of reading up.

In that same context, did you read the article about how diplomats were "convincing" the Mexican government to not use open source over Microsoft?

It sure sounds like the same strategy.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/
by anonzzzies | 2025-04-13 02:01:31+00:00
That immediately brings back memories (or more feelings) of playing [0]. It was, for a while, the only game my father had installed on his luggable, so I played it a lot as a small kid. I also think a did learn a lot of English from it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Adventure
by dhosek | 2025-04-13 02:01:57+00:00
There’s a certain amount of “it just is” when it comes to non-textual characters. I remember being interviewed by a reporter from The Wall Street Journal about the claim that Wingdings had an antisemitic message secretly encoded in it because NYC output as the sequence skull and crossbones-star of David-thumbs up, but the choice of where those characters were encoded is purely a consequence of grouping similarly themed characters together (so, e.g., the star of David comes in the midst of a sequence of religious symbols).
by stafferxrr | 2025-04-13 02:02:18+00:00
I also imagine this is maximum negative sentiment.

I follow the Chinese economy pretty closely and I just can't imagine 2025 passes without a deal.

Of course, neither Trump or Xi were going to back down here before a big meeting. I don't see how this is sustainable on any real time frame though for either economy.

Some people seem to be framing this as some kind of win for China. That is crazy. Chinese stocks had been in the toilet for a while, got a slight bump and that was mostly erased last week. I am far more confident in my US bets than China bets here.
by pigmonkey | 2025-04-13 02:03:10+00:00
At the University of Oregon grad students are paid a minimum rate of $24 per hour plus full tuition, fees, and health insurance. They are limited to .49 FTE though. Overhead pays for facilities rent, computers, and payroll plus administrative costs like grant proposals, human subjects regulations and tracking adherence to all of the federal regulations on grants. 15% wouldn’t even cover the facilities (electrical costs, equipment maintenance, etc.) The Principal Investigators salaries are usually the highest expense, at .20 FTE for someone who can make upwards of $150,000 a year not including retirement, health insurance, etc.
by NoWordsKotoba | 2025-04-13 02:04:47+00:00
Every time I read about the fever-dream utopia that libertarians so desperately want, I am reminded of the town which fell apart because the ideas in practice simply don't work:

"When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in." [1]

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-04-13 02:04:50+00:00
> We propose novel urinal designs that were generated by solving differential equations derived from the isogonal curve problem to ensure the urine stream impacts at or below this critical angle. Experiments validate that these designs can substantially reduce splashback to only 1.4% of the splash of a common contemporary commercial urinal. The widespread adoption of the urinal designs described in this work would result in considerable conservation of human resources, cost, cleaning chemicals, and water usage, rendering large-scale impacts on modern society by improving sustainability, hygiene, and accessibility.

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/80987...

The experiments aren't in real world scenarios or with real urethrae excreting urine.

> A pseudo-urethra nozzle matching the internal geometry of a human urethra was used to “urinate” a controlled jet of dyed water onto urinals and the subsequent splash was caught on a large paper on the floor.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-04-13 02:05:51+00:00
Thanks for not making (the worthwhile among) us chase you for long-overdue money.

Towards the end of my electrical contracting career, my few clients were all on retainer. The initial months of pandemic helped me to confidently fire everybody else.

But early in my career I was too afraid to use liens/small-claims; I'd only give a single warning, at this point in my life.
by nntwozz | 2025-04-13 02:06:06+00:00
This makes me think of The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), I remember a scientist working there in an interview right after the first discovery telling the reporter how back in the day he was dissuaded by his teacher to go into the field because "there's nothing there, it's not a serious field of research" or something along those lines.

Maybe a bigger collider is exactly what we need, and if it fails that's also useful as a confirmation to go in other directions. To build it right now instead of other things is the difficult question because that's politics.
Show HN: Open-Sourced AI CLI Tool
by xkarinsan | 2025-04-13 02:07:27+00:00
I’ve been working on Code2Docs, an open-source CLI tool that helps developers automatically generate inline documentation (docstrings + comments) for Python code using AI.

It’s built to solve a common problem I’ve faced (and seen often in teams): We code by "vibe" — fast iterations, minimal docs, and then forget what the logic was months later. Code2Docs helps bridge that gap by documenting as you go — without breaking your flow.

Right now it supports function-level documentation. Planned features include: - README.md generation for projects - API endpoint docs - Database schema documentation - Architectural diagrams for larger codebases

It’s ideal for messy, fast-moving codebases or devs who hate writing docs manually.

Requirements: - Python environment - OpenAI API key (stored locally, not uploaded anywhere)

Try it out: - PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/code2docs-cli/ - GitHub: https://github.com/xKarinSan/Code2Docs

Would love your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions — especially from devs juggling legacy or rapidly-growing projects. Thanks!
by ricardobeat | 2025-04-13 02:07:37+00:00
For some perspective, the bulk of this is simply illegal in the Netherlands, likely other countries in the EU as well:

- layoff plans must be communicated ahead of time. Minimum 30 days notice, usually much more

- Needs to be negotiated with worker representatives (works council, syndicate if there is one)

- LIFO principle for layoffs, newest employees are let go first. Stack ranking not possible

- Any kind of discrimination is forbidden

- At a minimum, you get 2 months pay + accrued holidays

It's baffling to imagine that you could learn about your job disappearing from one day to the next, and be immediately left out in the cold.
by throwaway290 | 2025-04-13 02:07:57+00:00
> I was talking about being "understood as desirable cars". You are now talking about business success. They are not the same.

I mean to be widely desirable car requires some business success first.

> Do you think people would rate these fictional cars less desirable just because they doesn't exist?

Yes. You must be a rare carhead to judge the whole thing from just the outside and engine sound. The rest of normal people know they cannot and use reputation as proxy. I don't think it needs proving..,
by toss1 | 2025-04-13 02:08:45+00:00
There is also a reason tariffs only get raised on a multi-generational time scale, e.g., 1820s, 1890s, 1930s, 2020s.

The effects are so bad that nearly everyone who remembers the disaster must have died off for anyone to think it is a good idea.

At this point, it is obvious that there is no geo-political or geo-strategic plan of any type. The administration is just winging it, and Sen Murphy's explanation is the only one available.

It was also noted that the person occupying the president's chair said "they must be forced to negotiate". When someone is forced to negotiate, that is not a negotiation, that is extortion. Welcome to another nation run like a mob office.
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-04-13 02:09:34+00:00
I installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4a after Google deleted the battery life[0], and while the initial move was frustrating with things not working, I've adapted and have a nice feeling of security while using my device again. It feels like it's mine, and I don't have to worry about who will spy on me or rug-pull me next.

[0] https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113917226566692707
by davrosthedalek | 2025-04-13 02:09:57+00:00
No, not quite. The electron-positron collision will allow more precise measurements. The goal is precision, not higher energy range, where a proton-proton machine would be much better. The goal is not to go beyond LHC in energy to see if something new shows up because of moar energy. The goal is to go to high energy with electron/positrons to measure stuff more precisely.
by muzani | 2025-04-13 02:11:52+00:00
Paid APIs are definitely a thing. Payment gateways do this.In the LLM era you can do this too - lots of data processing to be done.

But compare Aider/Claude Code with Cursor. One is much more popular than the other two despite being similar quality. GUIs are there to lower the learning curve.

In this era, it's not too hard to make a simple app in a day with AI as well. Cursor goes much faster than Flutterflow or Bubble. The bar is higher too - you now probably need a prototype before a pitch deck. It's probably not scalable, but that's prototyping for you.
by 0_____0 | 2025-04-13 02:12:22+00:00
Bit of a tangent but occasionally I wonder how close we are to people disappearing into cyberspace for 10 hours at a time and thus using a Texas catheter à la Neuromancer. It seems like there are a notable minority of tech people who regard meat and meat space as an annoyance to be dealt with.

How many of you would be happy at this moment to upload yourself to the cloud if it meant low latency, unmitigated access to computers, the internet, LLMs etc?
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-04-13 02:12:32+00:00
Not sure if that's the cause of the problem here, but this is why having urinals is a good idea and even legally required in some countries.

I couldn't care less about whether the sit-down toilets are mixed or separated by gender, but replacing most/all urinals with gender-neutral sit-down toilets yields results that suck for everyone involved.
by jongjong | 2025-04-13 02:13:10+00:00
Interesting. After this comment I mentioned it to a family member who is in natural medicine and diet (no fan of preservatives themselves) and they were surprised that I could taste it. So Maybe there is a genetic component. I mean it's more like an aftertaste than a taste but it's obvious to me. Like if you eat pancakes with too much baking soda in them, it leaves a kind of numbing effect and slight bitterness on the tongue... Or maybe that's genetic too haha.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-04-13 02:13:15+00:00
Since Anubis is related to AI, the part below read as contradictory at first. As if too many donations would cause the creator to disappear off to Tahiti along with the product development.

"If you are using Anubis .. please donate on Patreon. I would really love to not have to work in generative AI anymore..."
by jm4 | 2025-04-13 02:14:01+00:00
It’s not like Caddyshack. At least not this one. There’s golf, tennis, pools, a restaurant, bars, etc. It’s the kind of place where you will see PGA Tour guys hanging around and a few other high profile people. A lot of people are driving cars that cost more than my house. Everyone is pretty chill, but it’s top 1% kind of people in their natural habitat. It’s like a little bubble detached from reality.