MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TripCraft | 2025-05-30 02:57:44+00:00
Hey Rotundo — fair point, and thanks for checking it out!

The idea behind CheapTrip Planner isn’t automation (yet), it’s about *simplifying and structuring* trip planning for budget travelers.

Instead of a blank doc, you get: - *Category-wise checklists* (e.g., transport, stay, experiences) - Clean, exportable layout in seconds - Focused UI for planning only the essentials — nothing extra

It’s definitely early-stage, and I’m listening to feedback like yours to shape what’s next. Appreciate the honest take!
by Buttons840 | 2025-05-30 02:57:49+00:00
I asked Chat GPT 4o to write an Emacs function to highlight a line. This involves setting the "mark" at the beginning, and the "point" at the end. It would only set the point, so I corrected it "no, you have to set both", but even after correction it would move the point to the beginning, and then moved the point again to the end, without ever touching the mark.
Google's Stitch nails prompt abstraction – I explored similar ideas in janicre
by anicre | 2025-05-30 02:57:54+00:00
I’m a Japanese student and developer of janicre, a framework for abstraction-level control in LLM prompting.

Google’s new UI tool Stitch is beautifully designed – their guide introduces a “High-Level vs Detailed Prompt” distinction, which mirrors the core concept I published in May 2024.

I’m thrilled to see this idea gaining traction. Whether it’s convergence or coincidence, I believe open, early-stage ideas can matter.

My original publication (DOI): https://zenodo.org/records/15466186

Would love to hear thoughts from the community.
by catgirlinspace | 2025-05-30 02:58:14+00:00
Completely forgot about Local on the 8s! I remember when I was much younger (probably around 12 or 13) I was obsessed for a while with how it worked on DirecTV- there was a national feed that was being played as normal, but when that started there was also some signal sent that (if you were lucky enough for it to actually work) would cause the receiver to generate a few static images for the saved zip code that were styled to look like Local on the 8s, and those would just be shown on top of the national feed. Best video I could find of it was https://youtu.be/WX2KQHJ8vHA (usually it was not synced that well to start and finish with the actual national feed, from what I saw it was pretty often you'd see the first few seconds or last few seconds of the national feed).
by ModernMech | 2025-05-30 02:59:14+00:00
You call this progress?

https://electrek.co/2025/05/23/tesla-full-self-driving-veers...

My chin split open, and I had to get 7 stitches. After the impact, I was hanging upside down watching blood drip down to the glass sun roof, not knowing where I was bleeding from. I unbuckled my seatbelt and sat on the fabric interior in the middle of the two front seats, and saw that my phone’s crash detection went off and told me the first responders were on their way. My whole body was in shock from the incident. Wally said he was on Tesla FSD v13.2.8 on Hardware 4, Tesla’s latest FSD technology. He requested that Tesla send him the data from his car to better understand what happened.

This is not progress, these cars should not be on the road, they are a menace to society. I would never put my life or my family's lives in the hands of Tesla hardware and software. But let me guess, it'll be fixed in HW5, sure. We all just have to be the beta testers.
by _caw | 2025-05-30 02:59:23+00:00
Haven't seen stitch-maps, that is useful.

I've also been thinking about what constitutes a "good" encoding, and it definitely comes down to individual preferences, even preferences in a given moment. Today you're reading off a sticky-note and want to optimize for size, tomorrow you're laying out 3 notebooks for a huge project and want clarity.

I like the idea of a creator making the base pattern, and then sharing a link that lets the user customize the output encoding.

That customization could be visual (I want a different random seed that is used to parameterize different aspects of this pattern, so it's totally unique to me) or in the notation.

I think it'd be awesome to have a recursive notation editor. So you'd click on a variable and it expands to the verbose representation, which might include other nested variables that you can further expand (or not).

(side note, I hope you don't mind: Game Programming Patterns made a huge difference for me early in my career, thank you for bringing that into the world.)
by spauldo | 2025-05-30 02:59:45+00:00
Speaking as a fat person, air travel is horrible and I'll happily drive a couple thousand miles to avoid flying.

On a flight to Greenland I spent six hours smashed up between the window and a stranger (constant, sweaty, skin-on-skin contact) because they put three fat guys right next to each other on a full flight. I'd rather have taken a couple months of vacation and ridden the icebreaker in.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-05-30 03:02:12+00:00
It's not even anywhere near the same. How often do you drive an ice car without touching the brakes ever? That's my normal operating in my model Y. The regen is powerful enough that it's equivalent to a fairly strongly pressing the brakes on a normal car. There is no way anyone can drive an ICE car like that normally.

Also, regenerative braking isn't an intrinsic aspect of an EV, it is a feature.
by gruez | 2025-05-30 03:02:36+00:00
I don't find the thread convincing. The "standard" argument is that grocery stores bake in a 2% (or whatever) interchange rate into their prices, but only rich people get 1% (or whatever) back in cash back, whereas poor people don't. As a result, poor people are paying 1% higher prices on goods compared to rich people.

Patrick doesn't really dispute this, but tries to argue that this doesn't matter because rich people pay more in absolute terms, so they're not getting "subsidized". Maybe this is just word lawyering over what "subsidize" means, but most people would characterize this arrangement as at least "unfair", even though rich people are paying more in absolute terms.

He also points to some graphs about how from the point of the view of card issuers, the middle customers are actually the ones being subsidized, not the rich or the poor. That might be true, but is totally unrelated to the original original point, which is about what effective price (ie. price paid - cashback) consumers are getting at shops. Moreover, the fact that they're getting a subsidy from the card issuer doesn't preclude from them getting a subsidy from the store itself.
by daft_pink | 2025-05-30 03:03:42+00:00
At the end of the day, the executive branch still has widely delegated authority to regulate foreigh student visas.

Trump could easily move towards a work visa style, where the universities would need to prove they can’t get Americans to fill their admissions spots and quickly eliminate virtually all foreign students from highly selective US universities while still allowing your local non-selective university to fill their roles with high paying foreign students.

This would totally align with his ideology and could easily and quickly happen.
by solraph | 2025-05-30 03:04:58+00:00
I like the idea in general principle - but if I lived in the right city/country, and didn't already have something similar, my first thought based on the landing page pictures would be;

"This is only for white guys in their twenties."

I don't know if that's intentional, but if I was in the location target market, I'd close the tab at that point.
by lanstin | 2025-05-30 03:06:25+00:00
I mostly program in Python and Go, either services, API coordination (e.g. re-encrypt all the objects in an S3 bucket) or data analysis. But now I keep making little MPEGs or web sites without having to put in all that crap boiler plate from Javascript. My stuff outputs JSON files or CVS files and then I ask the LLM "Given a CVS file with this structure, please make a web site in python that makes a spread-sheet type UI with each column being sortable and a link to the raw data" and it just works.
by john-h-k | 2025-05-30 03:06:26+00:00
I’ll happily admit if I was asked to do this I’d run away screaming.

That being said, once it’s failed detonation (and you’ve cut off any possible signals to the detonator), wouldn’t you roughly expect it to be as dangerous as transporting one?

They mention the large chunk of ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶ secondary* explosive in there, but the key attribute of ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶ secondary explosives - by definition - is how hard they are to actually trigger. So the only failure mode is “somehow the detonator itself has entered a state that did not detonate with the initial signal, but will eventually detonate after >1hr”, which you’d _hope_(!) it was wired to prevent.

Again, I’d shit myself immediately in this scenario. Just interesting from an engineering perspective

*see comment below, `high` explosive does not mean "hard to detonate". Cursory searches for the [limited] information on the trigger-explosive used in nuclear weapons suggest they were mostly secondary explosives, and also will probably have put me on a new watchlist!
by AuryGlenz | 2025-05-30 03:06:26+00:00
It happened to my father. I told him he was getting scammed. My mom (divorced) told him. So did my sister. It didn’t matter. He lost all of his savings - 300k+. I wish I had taken his phone away, changed his passwords, etc. My mom didn’t want me to take drastic action because she was concerned that if he knew how much I knew he wouldn’t keep telling her things. It doesn’t matter once they’ve lost everything, of course.

To anyone reading this thinking it wouldn’t happen to your parents, don’t be so sure. I thought he was smarter than that, and at some point he was, but age dulls things.

He was a construction worker. That money didn’t come easily; he ruined his body to get it. I think these scams work in part because it’s hard for the rest of us to imagine so many people being so cold-hearted. It’s almost inconceivable.
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-30 03:07:11+00:00
Ironically, compared to — say — landmines, nuclear weapons are very “safe” by design. Many things need to be triggered “just so” to blow one up even conventionally, let alone as a proper nuclear weapon.

For example, they use only insensitive explosives. The trigger is purely electric and needs a lot of power.

Just pull the battery and it’s a solid inert lump.

Also the plutonium “physics package” is less radioactive than you would think. It’s safe to handle with just gloves for short periods.
by TheMongoose | 2025-05-30 03:07:18+00:00
I don't watch anime, and I'm not gonna do your market research for you, but here is what I know from existing on the internet and 2 seconds of "refresh my memory" searching.

1. the guy who started the studio hates AI

2. a lot of fans of the studio hate AI

3. a lot of the art community despises AI

4. there's a lot of free generator links, and your site doesn't appear on the first page of a search for "ghibli ai"
by kweingar | 2025-05-30 03:07:39+00:00
If the "meta" changes so quickly, then that sets an upper bound as to how far behind you are, no? Unless you are doing low-autonomy, non-specialized work or are applying to fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants startup jobs, no hiring manager is going to care if you have three months less experience with Codex than the other candidate.[1]

> so much of using LLM right now is context management

That is because the tooling is incredibly immature. Even if raw LLM capabilities end up plateauing, new and more effective tools are going to proliferate. You won't have to obsess over managing context, just like we don't have to do 2023-level tricks like "you are an expert" or "please explain your thought process" anymore. All of the context management tricks will be obsolete very soon... because AI tooling companies are extremely incentivized to solve it.

I find it implausible that the tech is in a state where full-time prompters are gaining a durable advantage over everyone else. J2ME devs probably thought they were building a snowballing advantage over devs who dismissed mobile development. Then the iPhone came out and totally reset the playing field.

[1] Most employers don't distinguish between three months and nine months of experience with JS framework du jour, no matter what it says on the job listing

Edited to add: Claude Code brought the agentic coding trend to the mainstream. It came out three months ago. You talk about how much you're laughing at the naivete of people here, but are you telling me with a straight face that three months is enough to put a talented engineer "behind"? At risk of being unemployable? The engineers who spent the last three months ping-ponging between Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc. can have their experience distilled into like a week of explaining to a newcomer, and I predict that will be true six months from now, or a year from now.
by theptip | 2025-05-30 03:07:40+00:00
> Let's pick one of the best possible examples of AI-generated code changes. An example so good, that the Cursor Editor uses it to advertise on their front page.

I can see where the author is coming from, but “marketing image is dumb” is by far the least interesting critique possible for these tools.

Give me an argument for why SWE bench is flawed, or an analysis of what areas didn’t improve in Claude4.

Meanwhile I’m vibe coding with Claude and having a great time. Sure, I wouldn’t use it for anything high stakes, but vs. Claude 3.7 I’m seeing a much higher success rate on tens to hundreds of lines of code.

It’s really, really easy to get a better code sample than the one shown here.
by flomo | 2025-05-30 03:08:28+00:00
Yep, I worked in advertising at the time. I was constantly explaining to the creatives "no, we can't have a flash main menu because of SEO" "no, we shouldn't make the website as 25MB flash file" "see, here's the problem with flash..." and so on. Then Steve Jobs said so, and that type listened to Jobs, not techies. And Flash was pretty much dead after that point. (Often replaced by some jquery slideshow plugin, and everything was fine.)
by ben-schaaf | 2025-05-30 03:08:54+00:00
Again, there were people just as sure about crypto as you are now about AI. They dismissed criticism because they thought the technology was impressive and revolutionary. That it was science fiction come true and only going to continue to improve. It's the exact same hype-driven rhetoric.

If you want to convince skeptics talk about examples, vibe code a successful business, show off your success with using AI. Telling people it's the future and if you disagree you have your head in the sand, is wholly unconvincing.
by spauldo | 2025-05-30 03:09:23+00:00
Knowing stuff is what we're paid for, otherwise we'd all be making minimum wage. Besides, there are plenty of non-bash shell scripting resources out there, which is good to learn if you want to work with the BSDs or proprietary UNIX systems.

Powershell on UNIX is like Perl on Windows. It works, but it's weird and alien. But the same can be said for .NET, really.
by makeitdouble | 2025-05-30 03:12:45+00:00
I think it will wildly vary depending on how regular your life cycle is.

As an anecdote I also tried tracking my sleep, only to realize:

- consumer trackers are wildly inaccurate (best we can do is compare them to a "medical grade" reference tracker, which might be accurate or not, who knows)

- there was so many other things going on every day, pinning it down to even two or three factors was just impossible (e.g. I drink more coffee when I have more time to make it, which is related to my stress level and work volume etc.)

- watch data were a PITA to export and analyze separately. I did it twice or thrice and didn't bother after that.
by e3bc54b2 | 2025-05-30 03:12:56+00:00
This really grinds my gears. The technology is inherently faulty, but the relentless optimism of its future subtly hiding that by making it the user's mistake instead.

Oh you got a wrong answer? Did you try the new OpenAI v999? Did you prompt it correctly? Its definitely not the model, because it worked for me once last night..
by randycupertino | 2025-05-30 03:13:56+00:00
From their 2021 tweetstorm about leaving SF:

> Coinbase is committed to being remote first. We announced we no longer have an HQ and as a next step, we’re closing our SF office (our former HQ) in 2022.

> We've committed to having no HQ, and it’s important to show our decentralized workforce that no one location is important than the another.

> Closing our SF office is an important step in ensuring no office becomes an unofficial HQ and will mean career outcomes are based on capability and output rather than location. Instead, we will offer a network of smaller offices for our employees to work from if they choose to.
by linguae | 2025-05-30 03:14:42+00:00
From the article: “But universities cannot get around the fact that federal grants, by their nature, selectively fund certain ideas at the expense of others. The government picks intellectual winners and losers among private citizens, which is the exact opposite of intellectual freedom.”

But couldn’t this be said about any source of funding? All funders, public or private, make decisions about the projects and people they choose to fund. This selection process is not an infringement on academic freedom. In fact, restricting who and how patrons choose to fund research is itself an infringement on their freedom to fund what they want. If I want to fund cancer research, how is this an infringement on physicists and mathematicians?

The real problem in academia regarding academic freedom isn’t federal research grants, but the dependence on external funding from any source to help maintain operations, and how this affects tenure decisions. Tenure-track professors should be able to do whatever research they want, but this freedom is tempered by two pressures: (1) publish-or-perish culture, and (2) the pressure to raise money for the university. In practice, this means having to do research that is more likely to get funded and published. Modern research universities are effectively think-tanks with researchers working on what could get published and funded. It’s still possible to do curiosity-driven work under such a setting, but one must still “play the game” to get tenure.

Getting rid of federal research grants won’t solve those problems. In fact, it may make things worse. I’m not confident about industry’s willingness to fund research, given the demise of legendary research labs such as Bell Labs and Xerox PARC and the overwhelming culture these days of only supporting research that has a high chance of getting productized immediately.

The consequence of getting rid of federal research funding is that a lot of universities will end up reverting to the pre-WWII model where there was very little funding to do research at all. This is the norm at many teaching-oriented universities, but research universities today rely heavily on research grants, particularly those from the federal government. Relying entirely on grants from private individuals and organizations won’t solve academic freedom issues if professors there are required to do publishable and fundable work in order to earn tenure, and with less money for research, this may make things worse.
by Veserv | 2025-05-30 03:15:10+00:00
Nope. That was a smear campaign. The "reporter" did not even watch the linked raw footage which shows that FSD was, in fact, engaged and that "reporter" was a Tesla promoter who referred $15,000,000 in sales and earned $500,000 from the Tesla referral program [1]. But, hey, it worked. Here you are repeating the smear.

Oh, and by the way, Tesla did not pay out and he has now soured on them and now routinely uses a Dawn Project image demonstrating FSD running down a child in a school crosswalk [2] to headline their stories. I would assume he would not use that image if he thought the Dawn Project was still lying about the whole thing.

And frankly the logic does not even make any sense. The only way claiming that they faked it by not even enabling it, pressing the accelerator pedal, or whatever lie the avowed Tesla promoters like spewing, exonerates Tesla is if you are claiming that it only consistently runs down children when they do that.

A video demonstrating that the precondition does not need to be true demonstrates the shrill cries of faking it to be irrelevant. And the baseless claims that it it must have been faked because it would only do that when manipulated to be "assuming the desired answer and working backwards" that it always was. The fact that the Tesla promoters need to keep making up false claims since they kept getting demolished and now have to resort to pointing at earlier videos before there were enough camera angles to immediately disprove their imagined manipulations is a testament to how intellectually bankrupt their position is.

This video is just one in a long line of demonstrations that the Tesla promoters are running a clear smear campaign. None of their imagined manipulations have been true. The claims that is must have been faked since that is the only way it would consistently run down a child were false, a logical fallacy, and a intentional smear campaign by avowed Tesla promoters. Neat.

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/01/17/tesla-roadster-free-killed-re...

[2] https://electrek.co/2025/05/21/tesla-head-self-driving-admit...
by codr7 | 2025-05-30 03:15:42+00:00
I would say you thought about this solution because you are creative, something a computer will never be no matter how much data you throw at it.

How did it help, really? By telling you your idea was no good?

A less confident person might have given up because of the feedback.

I just can't understand why people are so excited about having an algorithm guessing for them. Is it the thrill when it finally gets something right?
by bayesianbot | 2025-05-30 03:15:51+00:00
Been suffering the same, I'm used to having so many days (weeks/months) when I just don't get that much done. With LLMs I can take these days and hack around / watch videos / play games while the LLM is working on background and just check the work. Best part is it often leads to some problematic situation that gets me involved and often I'll end up getting a real day of work out of it after I get started.
by eranation | 2025-05-30 03:16:35+00:00
I think the article misses the point. Yes you can find countless examples of a tool being used badly or even a tool being used correctly and providing bad results. But while people spend time looking for flaws in a tool, (in what feels to me a bit as thinly disguised denialism of the inevitable) I prefer to ship features faster to my customers by using the tools to boost my productivity, not finding anecdotes that feel good where I caught the tool doing something stupid.
by gnabgib | 2025-05-30 03:17:49+00:00
The New Yorker article about this was great: The Fifty-nine-Story Crisis (1995) (110 points, 2023, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684604

Slate also had a shorter article The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper (232 points, 2014, 88 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605993
by pan69 | 2025-05-30 03:18:08+00:00
From about 2000 util about 2010 I was a die-hard ActionScript developer. I used to work for a number of digital advertising studios building gigantic full browser Flash monstrosities for our clients. Never really dabbled in Flex but it was on my periphery. I do remember that it was part of the RIA [1] push of the mid-2000's. Interesting times.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_Application