MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thyristan | 2025-05-26 11:05:51+00:00
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__263a.html

> Strafgesetzbuch (StGB)

> § 263 Betrug

> (1) Wer in der Absicht, sich oder einem Dritten einen rechtswidrigen Vermögensvorteil zu verschaffen, das Vermögen eines anderen dadurch beschädigt, daß er durch Vorspiegelung falscher oder durch Entstellung oder Unterdrückung wahrer Tatsachen einen Irrtum erregt oder unterhält, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu fünf Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft.

> (2) Der Versuch ist strafbar.

> [...]

> (5) Mit Freiheitsstrafe von einem Jahr bis zu zehn Jahren, in minder schweren Fällen mit Freiheitsstrafe von sechs Monaten bis zu fünf Jahren wird bestraft, wer den Betrug als Mitglied einer Bande, die sich zur fortgesetzten Begehung von Straftaten nach den §§ 263 bis 264 oder 267 bis 269 verbunden hat, gewerbsmäßig begeht.

> § 263a Computerbetrug

> (1) Wer in der Absicht, sich oder einem Dritten einen rechtswidrigen Vermögensvorteil zu verschaffen, das Vermögen eines anderen dadurch beschädigt, daß er das Ergebnis eines Datenverarbeitungsvorgangs durch unrichtige Gestaltung des Programms, durch Verwendung unrichtiger oder unvollständiger Daten, durch unbefugte Verwendung von Daten oder sonst durch unbefugte Einwirkung auf den Ablauf beeinflußt, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu fünf Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft.

> [...]

My rough translations:

> Book of criminal law

> § 263 Fraud

> (1) Everyone who, with the intent to create an illegal estate gain for himself or a third party, diminishes the estate of another through the presentation of untrue facts, or the misrepresentation or suppression of true facts to create or sustain an error, shall be punished by incarceration up to 5 years or monetary penalty.

> (2) The attempt is punishable.

> [...]

> (5) With incarceration from one to ten years, in cases of minor severity from six months to five years, shall be punished whoever commits the fraud as the member of a gang, which has banded together to continuously commit crimes as in §263-264 and 267-269, in a business-like fashion.

> § 263a Computer Fraud

> (1) Everyone who, with the intent to create an illegal estate gain for himself or a third party, diminishes the estate of another by influencing the result of a data processing operation through incorrect design of the program, use of incorrect or incomplete data, through unauthorized use of data or through other unauthorized influence upon the operation, shall be punished by incarceration up to five years or monetary penalty.
by melvinroest | 2025-05-26 11:05:55+00:00
I'm learning math through Math Academy, ChatGPT and YouTube (mostly 3Blue1Brown and similar channels). Without that specifc combination, it would've been hell. Now it's just nice.

A few years I did it with something similar to Math Academy (from the Universiteit of Amsterdam). ChatGPT wasn't intelligent enough back then so I didn't use it. It felt a lot tougher.

ChatGPT answers questions that a teacher would find obscure nonsense, but I'm the type of student that needs to know the culture behind math so I can empathize with the people doing it and can think of solutions via that way. Like why is the letter m used when talked about an angle? Mathematically, it shouldn't matter. But it irritates me as I'd use a instead, it makes more sense as you want to lower the cognitive burden and focus as much on the math as possible. So I ask ChatGPT and one of the things it said is that historically it meant "measure". Now, I get it and can focus on the actual math again.

Another example is the fast variance calculation: average_of_squares - square_of_the_average

how does that come from (1/n) * sum((x - mean)^2) ?

It just shows it.

World domination? Nope, but I'm learning something I otherwise wouldn't. But as you can tell, YouTube and Math Academy play their own roll in it.
by Yiling-J | 2025-05-26 11:06:04+00:00
I think Jules does a good job at "generating code I'm willing to maintain." I never use Jules to write code from scratch. Instead, I usually write about 90% of the code myself, then use the agent to refactor, add tests (based on some I've already written), or make small improvements.

Most of the time, the output isn't perfect, but it's good enough to keep moving forward. And since I’ve already written most of the code, Jules tends to follow my style. The final result isn’t just 100%, it’s more like 120%. Because of those little refactors and improvements I’d probably be too lazy to do if I were writing everything myself.
by mpeg | 2025-05-26 11:06:26+00:00
So, I know people that have done exactly this in the UK, but they did it anonymously. Might be unethical but depending on your employer you can YOLO it. Basically you have a close friend set up a LTD which takes a day, they are listed as sole director. You then draft up a contract agreement with your friends company.

After that you’re ready to champion the sale internally, you pitch it as something a friend has set up that might help with X project. Your friend is the main point of contact and gets to keep a % margin through the LTD

Of course I would not bother with this unless it’s 6 figures a year, I know a guy that bootstrapped his startup this way when he was working for a large co
Ask HN: What search engine are you using that is not Google?
by hambes | 2025-05-26 11:06:45+00:00
Time and time again I find myself pushed away from google. Be it the current AI overview fad, the unethical content sourcing practices, the SEO obsession or any number of things.

I always try to use duckduckgo for a few days, am disappointed in the results, and switch back to google.

If you are using something other then google, what are you using? Why? How happy are you with it?

I'm not posting this to discuss google. If you use google and just disagree with my assessment of it, I don't need your response.
by mmiscool | 2025-05-26 11:06:46+00:00
Currently the way that most AI assisted code editing systems work is they send the complete source code of the file being edited to the LLM and request that the LLM reply with the complete code file back with the modifications made. This works fine for very small code files but breaks down rather quickly as the amount of source code in the file grows.

To solve this problem I implemented the snipSplicer npm package.

This library allows you to pass the content of an original code file with a properly formatted snippet and return the file modified applying the code from the snippet.

It works by parsing the original code and the snippet in to an AST and then uses a deterministic process to surgically replace existing functions or class methods with the ones in the snippet.

It also handles cases where the function or method dose not currently exist by either appending the function to the code file or inserting any new methods in to the proper class if it exists.

This approach is extremely reliable and consumes significantly fewer output tokens.

Here is a slide deck that discusses this approach and how it was implemented. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xdX09ELgW7lMU1E9KWIr...

I am very interested in feedback and the possibility of supporting more languages in the future. Every thing is open source and I am happy to accept pull requests from the community to support more languages.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/snipsplicer https://github.com/mmiscool/snipsplicer
by nobodywillobsrv | 2025-05-26 11:07:29+00:00
So true and it makes me feel better to have this mental model. I find it useful for simple things that are perhaps just beyond search and copy paste but sometimes wonder if the more technical stuff is not even quite right as it is possible to sort of brainwash yourself into not thinking clearly when nagging an llm into being reasonable on something it has a hard time with.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-26 11:07:34+00:00
Honestly I'd just assume he didn't realise how badly this was going to go. After all, if he can go to Mars, build hypersonic vactrains, and cars that can drive across the US unaided in 2016, why should he not be able to reorganise the government? I assume the same levels of delusion applied here as in all his other endeavours.
by lentil_soup | 2025-05-26 11:09:49+00:00
that it reduces everything including culture to just one metric, money. Are you a fan of a band? can't go because you got outsold by some rich person that maybe cares or maybe not, it doesn't matter, they just have more money that you.

The space at a concert is limited so some form filtering will have to happen, but if the only metric is market price that's a pretty sad society specially when we're talking about culture IMO
by red_admiral | 2025-05-26 11:09:52+00:00
On the auto factory side, the Toyota stuck gas pedal comes to mind, even if it can happen only under worst-case circumstances. But that's the (1 - 0.[lots of nines]) case.

On the software side, the THERAC story is absolutely terrifying - you replace a physical interlock with a software-based one that _can't possibly go wrong_ and you get a killing machine that would probably count as unethical for executions of convicted terrorists.
by zzsshh | 2025-05-26 11:09:55+00:00
We're building a service to generate consistent AI personas, and create any media you need with them, photos, videos, tryons, product photos, etc.

- Works by selecting traits, which then trains a model(flux) OR uploading your own photos.

- Hopefully useful for shopify/ecomm store owners, digital agencies, or just about anyone to drastically speed up the time and reduce the cost to test creatives, create media content, or just do what you want with a model of yourself.

- Web with Nextjs, DB with Supabase, marketing with nothing.

- Happy to share more details into how we built this, and hear feedback and thoughts.

https://www.theinfluencer.ai/
by K0balt | 2025-05-26 11:10:01+00:00
>That's like asking why would anyone buy a Mercedes when they can take the bus for $2

no, its more like, what if you lived in a country where you were forced to buy a mercedes or die of starvation, regardless of your socioeconomic status.

I dont doubt that Canadian healthcare is deeply broken, considering its close proximity to the US system, leading to extreme pressure from perverse incentives.

I have spent the last two decades living in developing nations in Latin America, and I can say I have been very pleasantly surprised.

Where I am right now, The public systems cover 80 percent of what people need at no cost with government hospitals and clinics. Any community >200 people will have a clinic, and any reasonable town of a few thousand will have a hospital. There are government Pharmacies that distribute most common medications for roughly 25% of the standard (very low) pharmacy price.

Alongside this is a thriving system of private pharmacies and "clinics" Often, these are fully equipped hospitals, with trauma centers, cardiac units, the works.

One of the nearby ones, for example, consists of seven towers and many other buildings over several city blocks and includes hundreds of specialist practices, three separate hospitals, two imaging centers, etc. All fully for profit and privately held.

The cost at the clinics is typically about 10% - 20% of US cost, and includes the use of new, state of the art equipment from Siemens, GE Medical, etc.

Very good health insurance coverage for me, a 60 year old man, runs a little under $100usd a month, and covers 90-100 percent, including a reasonable allowance for vision and dental.

This is not a wealthy country, and the general tax rate paid by most people is a 20% sales tax on non-essential items, roughly 20% import tax on luxury goods and personal vehicles, a fairly high fuel tax for road use. There are other taxes for top 1% earners and corporate taxes, but they are not onerous.

The public and private system is thriving, and is becoming a hotspot for healthcare tourism for the USA and Canada.

Naked Greed is not the only way forward, and private / public hybrid systems can thrive side by side.

Its worth mentioning that the government provided insurance, typically extended mostly to mothers and children, is also pretty good, covering 100 percent, but each usage requires an approval process that may take several days. Anything else, you go to the hospital where they will provide primary care / stabilization if it is a complex situation requiring ongoing care.

On the government side, there is a clear priority towards care that can result in good outcomes. Pallitive care and diseases that inevitably result in near-term death are deprioritised under the public systems, and private insurance or families pick up the tab on those kinds of things.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-05-26 11:10:11+00:00
> I don’t agree with the guy on most things, but I really think many people mischaracterize him pretty severely.

How? What do you think people think of him that’s untrue?

Since he first got seriously involved into politics I haven’t seen any evidence that he has a sophisticated understanding of anything, except two things: how to negotiate when he’s in a strong position to bully his counterparty, and pandering to his base.

Like a sibling comment points out, you refer to The Art of the Deal, but that was written entirely by his ghostwriter Tony Schwartz (according to both the author and the publisher). Schwartz has even said he thinks it should be recategorized as fiction.
by Philip-J-Fry | 2025-05-26 11:10:46+00:00
I find LLMs 100x more productive for greenfield work.

If I want to create a React app with X amount of pages, some Redux stores, Auth, etc. then it can smash that out in minutes. I can say "now add X" and it'll do it. Generally with good results.

But when it comes to maintaining existing systems, or adding more complicated features, or needing to know business domain details, a LLM is usually not that great for me. They're still great as a code suggestion tool, finishing lines and functions. But as far as delivering whole features, they're pretty useless once you get past the easy stuff. And you'll spend as much time directing the LLM to do this kind of this as you would just writing it yourself.

What I tend to do is write stubbed out code in the design I like, then I'll get an LLM to just fill in the gaps.

These people who say LLMs make them 100x more productive probably are only working on greenfield stuff and haven't got to the hard bit yet.

Like everyone says, the first 90% is the easy bit. The last 10% is where you'll spend most of your time, and I don't see LLMs doing the hard bit that well currently.
by michelangelodev | 2025-05-26 11:12:37+00:00
You're correct that we can't prove the chain of custody for the Eucharistic miracles - this is discussed at the bottom of the article.

In general, there's no airtight "proof" for any miracle, and the best way to determine whether Christianity is true is to live the faith and see what happens. I wrote an article about this:

https://www.saintbeluga.org/the-rosary-the-ultimate-life-hac...
by therealmarv | 2025-05-26 11:12:46+00:00
There are two key points which are important to get most out of LLM coding assistants:

1. Use a high quality model with big context windows via API (I recommend Openrouter). E.g. Google Gemini 2.5 Pro is one of the best which keeps constant good quality (OpenAI reasoning models can be better in problem solving but it's kinda a mixed bag). Other people swear by the Claude Sonnet models.

2. Upgrade your code tools you combine with this high quality models. Google Jules and OpenAI Codex are so brand new and have a totally different aim than Cursor. Don't use them (yet). Maybe they will get good enough in future. I would focus on established tools like aider (steepest learning curve), roo code (easier) to be paired with Openrouter and if you want to have it really easy claude code (only useful with a 100-200 USD Anthropic subscription IMHO). On average you will get better results with Aider, roo, claude code than with Cursor or Windsurf.

Btw. I think Cursor and Windsurf are great as a starter because you buy a subscription with 15-20 USD and are set. It can be most likely that the more high quality tools burn more tokens and you spent more per month but you also get better quality back in return.

Last but not least and can be applied to every coding assistant: Improve your coding prompts (be more specific in regards to files or sources), do smaller and more iterations until reaching your final result.
by nottorp | 2025-05-26 11:14:24+00:00
So you want to use a LLM on a code base. You have to feed it your code base as part of the prompt, which is limited in size.

I don't suppose there's any solution where you can somehow further train a LLM on your code base to make it become part of the neural net and not part of the prompt?

This could be useful on a large ish code base for helping with onboarding at the least.

Of course you'd have to do both the running and training locally, so there's no incentive for the LLM peddlers to offer that...
by piva00 | 2025-05-26 11:14:54+00:00
> Yah I definitely want to be fulfilled by having to pick a health insurance plan or a car rental reservation.

Where did I not include "health insurance plan" as a chore, exactly? Do not strawman what I said, please.

My point was towards this:

> Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine.

A lot of the fun I have with my vacation is doing the research, learning the place, finding about spots that aren't the beaten path to check out (including restaurants, cheap eats, bars, etc.). Automating that would remove the fun of figuring out what I want to see at the places I'm going to, it's a braindead way of vacationing, completely understand it's the case for some people but it's not at all fulfilling to me to have that designed by some digital parrot.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-26 11:15:36+00:00
I think of it in a different way:

> Why do people create at all? It's certainly not the most effective route to maximum income. It's a form of connection. Performing is sharing the joy of music and creativity with a group of people who've formed a connection to you through your art.

It's worse. Creating seems to be an effective route to no income at all. Popular entertainment is a winners-take-all market; everyone who isn't one of the few popular artists or performers whose name alone brings in money, have to work hard to get anything at all from their work. The little I heard from various second-hand and third-hand reports from textbook authors, novelists, painters, musicians, etc. suggests that the royalties made from selling their output are laughably low. A big factor in that are the parties in between the artist and the buyers - publishers, labels. Those are some of the "faceless entities" you mention, and they're in a position of advantage over the artists, and they absolutely use it to capture all they can for themselves.

Because of that, to be able to dedicate yourself to your creativity, you have to either have a secondary stream of income (e.g. part-time artists with unrelated dayjob), give up most of control and autonomy (commission work, art-as-dayjob - think e.g. art for videogames), or seek any and all ways of indirectly monetizing your work further.

Focusing on that last part - for musicians, this is primarily live performances and merchandising (self-publishing is also easy today, but so is piracy). But per what I said above, most musicians are starved for money, and this - not greed - is forcing them to be less picky than they'd like. They can't afford to leave money on the table.

The paradox here is that most people - which includes the audience - think like you think, that artists are the opposite of corporate greed, that art is about humanity and not money, etc. Every artist knows that too, and that maintaining this reputation is critical to their income. Between two competing pressures, each artist has to find a point that's acceptable to them.

But this is where Ticketmaster comes in - they offer a way for artists to be more greedy without taking a reputational hit. Their Eternal War with Scalpers keeps the ticket prices up, while all the public outrage gets distributed between the Greedy Corporation and the Scalper Scoundrels.

Not all musicians engage in this on purpose, and for those who do, it's hard to prove. And of course it's just one slice through the complex relationship of artists, public, and countless commercial third parties in between them.
by doctorhandshake | 2025-05-26 11:15:39+00:00
With the acknowledgment that it’s a controversial opinion, I think the most important ‘domain’ tied to our identity is our appearance, most importantly our face. I’ve been advocating for a time that we need to think about a ‘DNS’ that, in discrete, decentralized, decoupled steps, goes from the appearance of real-world things to meaning/language to links to digital things.

I’ve also written a little speculative fiction about what that might look like. https://open.substack.com/pub/noahnorman/p/all-the-kinds-of-...
by sentimentscan | 2025-05-26 11:15:40+00:00
My friends and I would love to have 4/5 or 3/5 of working days with 4/5 or 3/5 of salary, but sadly I don't know any companies that offer that. I understand that it may be hard with meeting culture, but we can make 1 or 2 days with no meetings. I don't want to go back to the stress and uncertainty of freelancing; I want a predictable, safe income with simply scaled-back hours/pay. My salary (and my friends') in IT is 2-3 times more than the average pay, and 60/80% is more than enough to live comfortably
by xiphias2 | 2025-05-26 11:17:43+00:00
For me anything before Codex model with webui was time waster.

Now with webui what's important is to constantly add tests around the code base, also if it gets stuck, go through the logs and understand why.

It's more of a management role of ,,unblocking'' the LLM if it gets stuck and working with it than fitting it to my previous workflow.
by jongjong | 2025-05-26 11:18:03+00:00
Saving cash was actually a fine strategy when cash was backed by gold or even (to a lesser degree) some time later when the national debt wasn't over $30 trillion - This massive public debt is forcing the government to print money at a rapid rate to cover interest payments and this is creating enormous inflationary pressures. Society has become totally distorted around the goal of keeping this scheme going, the distortion has permeated every facet of human existence.

Avoiding debt was a good idea when interest rates were high. In the modern age where money is not constrained by scarcity, interest rates have been low. Banks have been loaning out the people's money at near 0% interest rates; often towards the goal of helping corporations to monopolize industries; if it was YOUR money, would you loan it out at near 0% interest rate? It doesn't even cover inflation, let alone the risk of default... Yet the government has been doing exactly that with the people's money; YOUR money. The situation has never been so generous towards borrowers and so bad for taxpayers.

Going to college used to be a good idea as it would allow you to stand out among your peers and guarantee you some sort of management/coordinating role. Nowadays, everyone has a bachelor degree and those who have a PhD are over-educated to the point that they've lost their sense of pragmatism. It doesn't allow anyone to stand out. Education feels like some scheme, disconnected from value-creation.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-26 11:18:52+00:00
The AI field is heavily dominated by USA megacorps. USA politics stands out to me because im a foreigner not in the USA. I would say that it's moreso california politics.

You can see it there where it perceives a Democrat slant. In fact, all the companies are Democrat slanted? Imagine however you're from some other country and it's that much more slanted.

This problem is night and day improvement from a few years back. They are all obviously pressuring the scale 1 direction. Must be intentionally being done and I wonder if this manipulation is what's holding it back from AGI?