MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ecairns | 2025-05-06 15:55:08+00:00
I was a CS major at the University of Washington in the mid 90s. In one of my intro courses we were touching on public key cryptography and this movie came up. The professor mentioned that Adelman was a consultant on the movie and that he was a notoriously slow replier to email. Like you would get a reply weeks or months after you sent an email to him. But, if you asked a question about this movie you'd get a reply to your email almost immediately.
by andy12_ | 2025-05-06 15:55:14+00:00
Interestingly, when compering benchmarks of Experimental 03-25 [1] and Experimental 05-06 [2] it seems the new version scores slightly lower in everything except on LiveCodeBench.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/model-cards/documents/gemini-... [2] https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/
by DamnInteresting | 2025-05-06 15:55:16+00:00
> "A computer matched her with him? I don't think so."

When I first watched this movie, I felt like this was a weak moment in the film. "Computer dating" at the time was laughably bad, so seeing a character regard it as infallible ruined the immersion.

With age and experience, I now see that some people just throw themselves behind certain technologies, and fail to find flaw. So maybe this character was just a misguided computer dating evangelist, blind to the technology's failings.
YC Alum: Commissary Club-Social network for those w/records.
by RBBronson123 | 2025-05-06 15:55:16+00:00
In 2017, I announced the launch of my YC company, 70 Million Jobs--the first employment platform for 100M Americans with records. In 18 months we attained profitability and helped thousands land jobs. The COVID hit, companies fired our people and stopped hiring. We shut down.

In addition to employment, justice system-impacted people speak of their need for community. Instead of serving life sentences of shame and solitary despair, they crave the support of their peers, a place to find friendship, commiserate and be inspired. And love. And fun. A Facebook of their own. A club that actually wants them.

I believe the confluence of emergent technology and positive changes in society's attitudes towards this population has made the timing right. It's having its "moment."

I think this also represents a seminal business opportunity. They buy a lot of hamburgers and sneakers, but neither McDonald's nor Nike has never marketed directly to them. They could easily elect any president, but no politician seeks their vote.

But if brought together, they could flex their collective economic muscle and political might.

I aim to place Commissary Club at the epicenter of this tectonic shift.

We'll help people get jobs and find housing, except we'll handle the processes every step of the way. Our members will find mentors, lawyers, take classes, gain advice, go on a date and make friends. And have fun. Together. Facebook for ex-cons.

I've been in this space for 15 years and I've done time. We've needed this.
by thevillagechief | 2025-05-06 15:55:32+00:00
I've been switching between this and GPT-4o at work, and Gemini is really verbose. But I've been primarily using it. I'm confused though, the model available in copilot says Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview), and I've had it for a few weeks. This was just released today. Is this an updated preview? If so, the blog/naming is confusing.
by smeg_it | 2025-05-06 15:55:33+00:00
I appreciate all your replies. I really do. I can't say I've read everything but I have looked, scan, read much of what you posted, in one way or another e.g. I usually start with Wikipedia.

I nothing so far has convinced me there are enough resources put into any project to make anyone of them a "daily driver" for a desktop/laptop or that there will be anytime soon.

I can't complain as it's more a wish and/or a hope. I really don't have the time, brains, or money to significantly contribute. It's just that I was trying to ask those that might have one or more of those, if it might be a good time for the "foss" community to seriously consider it, or if not why. So, I can understand better.
Show HN: Masari Cabal – A social platform for private finance communities
by GhostLeader | 2025-05-06 15:55:33+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been working on Masari Cabal, a social platform designed for traders and investors who want focused discussions around markets like stocks, crypto, forex, and commodities.

The main features:

• Private channels for sharing market insights

• A system where contributors can optionally monetize their content via private posts or group memberships

• Clean, distraction-free design aimed at serious market participants

The motivation came from frustration with how scattered and noisy discussions get on mainstream platforms like Twitter and Discord. My goal is to provide a space where thoughtful insights and quality discussions thrive — with less noise and more structure.

Right now, I’m focused on stabilizing the first version (private channels + premium content system). BTC payments and AI-powered tools are planned for later, based on community needs.

I’d love to hear feedback, thoughts, or ideas from anyone interested in trading, investing, or building social platforms. Happy to answer any questions!
by macNchz | 2025-05-06 15:55:42+00:00
I've wanted to do a similar thing for "sweatiness" for a while, to try quantify the amount of time each year you can do outdoor activities or have the windows open without feeling too hot, based on dew point/humidity + temperature.

I grew up somewhere that didn't require air conditioning, but live in NYC now and find that as an adult the only weather I find truly unpleasant is when it's too hot to do anything outside without immediately being drenched in sweat. I really dislike the feeling of being trapped inside in the A/C, since at least even when it's very cold you can be comfortable in proper clothing.

Even without an actual map, though, I've been enjoying many of the visualizations on https://weatherspark.com/ for comparing cities on these kinds of things.
by thewebguyd | 2025-05-06 15:55:49+00:00
This has largely been my experience as well, at least with GH Copilot. I mostly use it as a better Google now, because even with context of my existing code, it can't adhere to style at all. Hell, it can't even get docker compose files right, using various versions and incorrect parameters all the time.

I also noticed language matters a lot as well. It's pretty good with Python, pandas, matplotlib, etc. But ask it to write some PowerShell and it regularly hallucinates modules that don't exist, more than any other language I've tried to use it with.

And good luck if you're working with a stack that's not flavor of the month with plenty of online information available. ERP systems with its documentation living behind a paywall, so it's not in the training data - you know, real world enterprise CRUD use cases where I'd want to use it the most, it's the least helpful.
by bentt | 2025-05-06 15:55:57+00:00
I mean, sure.

But some things are just really complex and the root causes are very, very difficult to pin down. There was a lot sad about COVID, but like 4000th on the list is how it revealed the human dynamics that lead to chronic diseases being overlooked because science has no valid explanation for what's happening to patients. I say this as someone who suffered from Lyme Disease for a number of years.
by rafram | 2025-05-06 15:56:13+00:00
This is cool, but does no one even look at what libraries they're shipping anymore? I mean, why does this Clippy-style LLM interface bundle:

- A JavaScript implementation of the Jinja templating language

- A full GitHub API client

- A library that takes a string and tells you if it's a valid npm package name

- A useless shim for the JavaScript Math module

And 119 other libraries? This thing would have taken up 10% of the maximum disk space available on a Windows 95 FAT16 volume.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-06 15:56:19+00:00
I think people forget how horrible embedded (including mobile) programming was before the iPhone SDK came along. I just posted about this[1], so I won't repeat myself here, but TLDR: developing for the iPhone is a breath of fresh air compared to how unnecessarily difficult embedded and mobile development was (and in many cases still is) on other platforms.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43657086
by sneak | 2025-05-06 15:56:23+00:00
Parents would find a way to pay to stay out of jail, same way they do today in finding food to buy their children, or housing, or insurance for their car. Living in our society is not free. Reproduction isn’t either. Socializing the costs of an individual choice to have a child or 8 is not morally defensible.

Not everyone in society cares about and values the supply of labor for the functioning of the next generation. It is fundamentally immoral to use force to compel us to fund your genetic and demographic objectives.

If you think that socializing the costs of children is morally correct, why stop at education? Children need clothing and food, why do we not use tax money to provide free clothing and food to all children (instead of just the poor ones)?

Education could work similarly if you believe that; people able to afford to pay for their children’s education should have the obligation to do so, critically, just like every parent does now for food and clothing. Those that are legitimately unable to pay for their child’s education could then be subsidized.

There is a real problem in our society of people having children (and pets) they cannot reasonably afford to appropriately care for.

Forcing other people to subsidize their poor decisions is morally repugnant; which is completely independent of the suffering of children. In fact, if you believe children going hungry or uneducated is bad, you are also invested in solving the problem of people having children they cannot afford to support. (Support of course including the costs of education.)
by aschwtzr | 2025-05-06 15:56:34+00:00
I think there's a natural process similar to gentrification in which as technology matures the hackathons promoting it transition into marketing-led events. I got into hackathons in the early 2010s when IoT was the hot new thing and saw the crowds change from hardcore technologists to mostly students and idea people. The fact is the same thing that what drew me in is what attracted them - opportunity and optimism. Sponsors expect ROI and once a technology is no longer experimental, the same tired projects tend to win because they are tried and true.

I've been to a couple of good hackathons lately but they are more focused on vibe coding and tend to only run for 8-12 hours. These let you try out an idea or framework with little commitment but lack the depth of multi-day events. I've been attending an XR hackathon for almost a decade which still embodies the ethos, but it is a labor of love carried out by volunteers. These longer, challenging and intentional events can teach you more about teamwork and product in one weekend than a year of churning through tickets.
by laborcontract | 2025-05-06 15:57:33+00:00
My guess is that they've done a lot of tuning to improve diff based code editing. Gemini 2.5 is fantastic at agentic work, but it still is pretty rough around the edges in terms of generating perfectly matching diffs to edit code. It's probably one of the very few issues with the model. Luckily, aider tracks this.

They measure the old gemini 2.5 generating proper diffs 92% of the time. I bet this goes up to ~95-98% https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

Question for the google peeps who monitor these threads: Is gemini-2.5-pro-exp (free tier) updated as well, or will it go away?

Also, in the blog post, it says:

> The previous iteration (03-25) now points to the most recent version (05-06), so no action is required to use the improved model, and it continues to be available at the same price.

Does this mean gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 now uses 05-06? Does the same apply to gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25?

update: I just tried updating the date in the exp model (gemini-2.5-pro-exp-05-06) and that doesnt work.
by moi2388 | 2025-05-06 15:58:16+00:00
30% of their code is now written with AI.

Their “programmers” are more busy with making blogs and videos than functioning tests or technical documentation, and they start using JavaScript and Python for everything.

I’m not surprised their quality went to shit. There are some pearls left, C# in general is pretty good, and Aspire is becoming quite neat.

The latter I think mainly because David Fowler is just a great developer
by JohnMakin | 2025-05-06 15:58:33+00:00
It's not laziness though. I have dozens of competing priorities at any time. It is far from the most efficient use of my limited resources and time (and company time) to spend on a project that does not need doing that will inevitably be done by someone else anyway. It provides no business value whatsoever either. It's not "taking credit" for anything unless you count using anything open sourced as "taking credit" for the work done on that project. Yes I use jq, no I do not take credit for writing/maintaining it. Do you see the difference?
by josefx | 2025-05-06 15:59:34+00:00
I think it is not that local code does not get a free pass by itself but the combination.

By letting cloud services that use GPL software stay closed source it actively encourages development of cloud based tooling in a commercial context and users end up getting forced to sign up with and connect to a closed source cloud service they have even less control over than traditional locally running closed source software.

I think Stallmans motivation for the FSF includes a story about modifying a driver for a printer to support new features. Now imagine if that printer had a cloud based interface and imagine how the GPL would help Stallman add features for a new printer to it. It doesn't, if he wanted to fix the interface he would have to reverse engineer it from scratch. 40 years of FSF and it lets a decades old trend run circles around its goals.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-05-06 15:59:39+00:00
I'd argue you can see the hostility if you compare shipping to Windows vs shipping to Apple. Microsoft doesn't care if you copy over your MSVC suite into a Wine environment to build your software for their platform. Even SignTool just works. It's not necessarily trivial to do, but that's simply because the MSVC suite is a horrible mess like everything else Microsoft.

Apple explicitly disallows cross compilation in their Terms of Service. Even if you managed to get clang compiling for Mac on another Unix, even if you figure out how to get your app bundles signed outside of OSX, they'll revoke your developer license and invalidate your certs because you're in violation of their ToS. You're right they don't care about third party devs, but the amount of hoops you have to jump through for devops on Mac is almost certainly designed as a gluetrap.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-06 15:59:47+00:00
Several related facts:

* The US has a lot more guns than most other developed countries.

* The US has a lot more murders than most other developed countries.

* Places like Chicago are, statistically, not all that different in this regard from elsewhere in the US.

The US has a murder/firearm problem at a population level. The chances of any randomly selected individual being part of it remains fairly low. We simultaneously should be ashamed of our clear violence problem, and recognize that "and then I started blasting" is not a great response to it.

Focus on "urban" people in Chicago is a misdirection by folks who'd rather not deal with the national-level concerns.

The same people who want you to think Chicago's ~26.9/100k homicide rate is terrifyingly scary want you to think COVID's ~279/100k was not.
by prmph | 2025-05-06 15:59:49+00:00
I wish someone would write a book that distills all the knowledge contained in those "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X" or "Things Programmers Should Know" topics, providing a resource for how to write real-world practically robust software that works reasonably well anywhere anytime.

The list of gotchas with any non-trivial software is long and frequently obscure.
by vaibhavdubey97 | 2025-05-06 16:00:27+00:00
Thank you!

Yeah we rushed to create a "Plexe in action" video for our Readme. We'll put a link to the YouTube video on the Readme so it's easier.

Using large generative models enables fast prototyping, but runs into several issues: generic LLMs have high latency and cost, and fine-tuning/distilling doesn’t address the fundamental size issue. Given these pain points, we realized the solution isn’t bigger generic models (fine-tuned or not), but rather automating the creation, deployment, and management of lightweight models built on domain-specific data. An LLM can detect if an email is malicious, but a classifier built specifically for detecting malicious emails is orders of magnitude smaller and more efficient. Plus, it's easier to retrain with more data.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-06 16:00:36+00:00
People use divination for all kinds of real world uses - when to have a wedding, where to buy a house, the stock market, what life path they should take, stay or break up with their partner. Asking for code is no different, but we shouldn't pretend that turning the temperature to 0 doesn't make it not divinatory.

Randomness, while typical, is not a requirement for divination. It simply replaces the tarot deck with a Ouija board.

What's being asked for is a special carve out, an exception, and for the reason of feeling above those other people with their practice that isn't my practice, which of course is correct and true.
by EliasWatson | 2025-05-06 16:00:43+00:00
I wonder how the latest version of Grok 3 would stack up to Gemini 2.5 Pro on the web dev arena leaderboard. They are still just showing the original early access model for some reason, despite there being API access to the latest model. I've been using Grok 3 with Aider Chat and have been very impressed with it. I get $150 of free API credits every month by allowing them to train on my data, which I'm fine with since I'm just working on personal side projects. Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 3.7 might be a little better than Grok 3, but I can't justify the cost when Grok doesn't cost me a penny to use.
by mohsen1 | 2025-05-06 16:00:48+00:00
I use Gemini for almost everything. But their model card[1] only compares to o3-mini! In known benchmarks o3 is still ahead:

+------------------------------+---------+--------------+ | Benchmark | o3 | Gemini 2.5 | | | | Pro | +------------------------------+---------+--------------+ | ARC-AGI (High Compute) | 87.5% | — | | GPQA Diamond (Science) | 87.7% | 84.0% | | AIME 2024 (Math) | 96.7% | 92.0% | | SWE-bench Verified (Coding) | 71.7% | 63.8% | | Codeforces Elo Rating | 2727 | — | | MMMU (Visual Reasoning) | 82.9% | 81.7% | | MathVista (Visual Math) | 86.8% | — | | Humanity’s Last Exam | 26.6% | 18.8% | +------------------------------+---------+--------------+

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/model-cards/documents/gemini-...
by vidarh | 2025-05-06 16:00:55+00:00
But "negligent" isn't a binary, and it's not just parents who don't want to, but parents who can't afford to. For a lot of children, easing things a little bit might be all that is needed. For others it might ease things enough that it can be part of a set of relatively light interventions.

For those who genuinely need more heavy handed interventions, it's not a solution, but it's also not in any way detrimental.
by colechristensen | 2025-05-06 16:01:16+00:00
A lot of the userland _isn't_ GNU any more, people use a lot of alternatives for once much more dominant GNU tools, and people use a lot more commandline tools which have no relation to GNU. Systemd took over and for containers there's no init. Plenty of alternative libc implementations as well.

GNU is nowhere near as dominant in the non-kernel code that people run any longer.

And a lot of the GNU zealots who were particularly interested in getting credit with naming got old.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-06 16:01:57+00:00
I have pretty good luck with AI assistants with CSS and with theming React components like MUI where you have to figure out what to put in an sx or a theme. Sure beats looking through 50 standards documents (fortunately not a lot of "document A invalidates document B" in that pile) or digging through wrong answers where ignoramuses hold court on StackOverflow.
Show HN: I made that viral AI business card into a product you can buy
by yspreen | 2025-05-06 16:01:57+00:00
fr0gger_ on twitter posted this chatgpt generated business card and people loved it. https://x.com/fr0gger_/status/1916743281339498760

As a challenge I wondered how long it would take me to make this and if I could find a printing provider that offers a good price.

I managed to build it all in 7 days and priced each of my products exactly $1 cheaper than the vistaprint counterpart.

business cards fully printed and shipped for as low as 8¢ per card. make yours now!
by ghaff | 2025-05-06 16:02:46+00:00
People did commonly wear watches as well. I'm somewhat bemused to recall that, around the time of the Apple Watch announcement, so many people scoffed that young people don't wear watches any longer. Of course, we see how that went and they have timepieces in their pocket in any case.

I'm actually not sure if, after a recent post-fire rebuild, if I will have a readily viewable clock in my kitchen or not.
by Filligree | 2025-05-06 16:02:57+00:00
I find that 2.5 Pro has a higher ceiling of understanding, while Claude writes more maintainable code with better comments. If we want to combine them... well, it should be easier to fix 2.5 than Claude. That said, neither is there yet.

Currently Claude Code is a big value-add for Claude. Google has nothing equivalent; aider requires far more manual work.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-06 16:02:58+00:00
Unless Republicans have suddenly found a love for gun control, no.

"You hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about what's going on in Detroit and other, other cities, all Democrat run..." - Trump

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/re...

"All over the world, they’re talking about Chicago. Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison. (Laughter.) It’s true."

(It isn't.)
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-06 16:03:01+00:00
> It's used to refer to people zealously commenting on message boards that every single tool ever built should be rewritten in Rust.

Ok, but between me, GP and the article, who said that? Where are the Rabid RIIR fans?

And before you misquote me, I said, why wouldn't you rewrite stuff in Rust, if the status quo is ridden with bugs, and safety issues? And why shouldn't a Linux distro switch to it if they desire.
by GMoromisato | 2025-05-06 16:03:28+00:00
I don't know if this is what the author meant, but the "moral weight" appears for me when someone starts relying on my stuff.

This is why so many open-source maintainers burn out: they create something that people find useful and suddenly, almost inadvertently, incur the obligation to keep users happy. That is both the best part and worse part of creating software.
by HelloImSteven | 2025-05-06 16:03:28+00:00
Articles get removed from Apple's documentation archive seemingly randomly. However, on a good note, there are backups of the entire ADC Leopard Reference Library (available at several places online). That covers that vast majority of all the documentation Apple's ever produced. There's also the Apple II FTP archives, which have older but often less applicable documentation, but are definitely still valuable troves of information.
by mguerville | 2025-05-06 16:04:37+00:00
(Disclaimer: "vibe-coded" with bolt)

I have several breathing apps on my phone and watch and find each of them to be strong at one thing but weak at others (e.g. on has nice visuals but no way to customize the length of the exercises, another has good suggested patterns but a gimmicky UI, some don't have dark mode, etc.) so I decided to try to scratch my own itch.

Roadmap: maybe add sounds