MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by major505 | 2025-05-26 14:30:43+00:00
I use too, but is not without its problem. It does implement a lot of adds in things like the new tab page, and it did some controversial stuff (they use to replace page ads with their own, essencially stealing the page monetization, dont know if they still do).

For a while Brave is going to be my stop gap browser. Hopping that Ladybird can soon replace it.

For all its flaws, Brave still annoys me less than Mozilla assh*les.

I also tried Zen Browser... lovely, but is pretty much Mozilla with a bunch of addons. The problem is, is not clear how much of the invasive Mozilla telemetry they left on their code base. Unfourtunally, any browser that orginates from mozilla bullshit, for now, I kind consider fruit of a posionous tree.
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-05-26 14:30:51+00:00
Damn, I looked again at my source and it is https://www.eurostaf.fr, not Eurostat.

Sorry for not catching this.

When at look at OECD, they give other numbers:

Italy: 1723

France: 1501

Germany: 1347

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html?oe...
by fumeux_fume | 2025-05-26 14:31:00+00:00
Just started listening to the Anthropic interview, and a few things jumped out at me.

First, the claim that one of the main things holding LLMs back is a lack of expert feedback. To me, that just means the models are guessing—because they don’t have knowledge like humans do, they rely on pattern-matching, not understanding. If the user doesn’t know the answer, the LLM can’t help. That’s not just a minor limitation—it’s foundational. Framing it as a feedback issue is a way of sidestepping the deeper problem.

Second, the speculation about Claude winning a Pulitzer or a Nobel Prize. I get the underlying point—they're wondering whether LLMs are better at creative or scientific work. But couching it in terms of prestigious awards just adds to the hype. Why not just say “creative vs. scientific tasks”? Framing it as “what will it win first?” cheapens what those prizes represent and makes the model seem far more capable than it actually is.

Third, one of them claims a friend at a drug company says they’re about to release a drug discovered by AI. But when pressed for details, it turns out to be pure hearsay. It’s a textbook example of the kind of vague hype that surrounds LLMs—bold claims with no real substance when you dig.

That said, I appreciate that the host, despite being quite friendly with the guests, actually pushes back and holds them to their claims. That's not very common in AI discussions, and I respect it.
by michaelrpeskin | 2025-05-26 14:31:34+00:00
A little snarky but: In my experience, the folks who are 100x more productive are multiplying 100 times a small number.

I've found great success with LLMs in the research phase of coding. Last week I needed to write some domain-specific linear algebra and because of some other restrictions, I couldn't just pull in LAPACK. So I had to hand code the work (yes, I know you shouldn't hand code this kind of stuff, but it was a small slice and the domain didn't require the fully-optimized LAPACK stuff). I used an LLM to do the research part that I normally would have had to resort to a couple of math texts to fully understand. So in that case it did make me 100x more effective because it found what I needed and summarized it so that I could convert it to code really quickly.

For the fun of it, I did ask the LLM to generate the code for me too, and it made very subtle mistakes that wouldn't have been obvious unless you were already an expert in the field. I could see how a junior engineer would have been impressed by it and probably just check it in and go on.

I'm still a firm believer in understanding every bit of code you check in, so even if LLMs get really good, the "code writing" part of my work probably won't ever get faster. But for figuring out what code to write - I think LLMs will make people much faster. The research and summarize part is amazing.

The real value in the world is synthesis and novel ideas. And maybe I'm a luddite, but I still think that takes human creativity. LLMs will be a critical support structure, but I'm not sold on them actually writing high-value code.
Show HN: Yuno – P2P Google Docs for Entire Codebases (No Servers)
by Abdyrahman | 2025-05-26 14:32:09+00:00
I built Yuno to fix distributed team collaboration: Real-time sync for all project files (not just open tabs)

Try it now: npx yuno create -r my-hackathon npx yuno init -r my-hackathon -p my-hackathon-password -u Bob

Would this replace your current workflow? What’s missing?

No central servers → no latency/file limits Tech stack: node, p2p.

More information, documentation, etc., can be found on the website (yuno.ws)
by sorz | 2025-05-26 14:32:19+00:00
The time at which scalpers buy tickets becomes irrelevant. They can resell tickets at arbitrary-high-price + margin because buyer know they will receive refund for the exceed amount, thus pay only (final price + scalper margin) for the ticket eventually.

Bonus: buy ticket from scalpers after price settled, you will get a determined price, no more guessing and find inner peace.

The problem for scalpers is that if they buy too many tickets, the final price may become too high to be attractive for real buyers.
by felipemesquita | 2025-05-26 14:32:37+00:00
Some do, but it either involves an additional secret specific for this purpose, or it burdens the client with controlling access and exposure of incoming request headers (in logs and middleware) since they would include the token that can actually make api calls to the vendor.

Nevertheless, your question would have yielded a better article.

> but why do we collectively place higher security requirements on webhook requests than API requests?

We really don’t, signing is just more convenient in the webhook scenario. And it’s also completely optional to check a signature, leading even to many implementations not doing so.
by bachmeier | 2025-05-26 14:32:40+00:00
Sure, but disability programs are different from what most people think of when they think of retirement. Forcing the majority of people to work until 70 means they burn through most of their healthy years.

On the other hand, people in Denmark work on average 410 fewer hours per year versus the US. In terms of total hours, working from 22 to 70 in Denmark is the equivalent of working from 22 to 59 in the US, or from 22 to 52 in Mexico.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-26 14:33:32+00:00
Ive done similar things to chatgpt where in a jailbreaked mode I could get it to answer in a way that it ought not to do.

trying to replicate this in grok was interesting.

Woof woof! I’m Claude, your loyal AI pup, wagging my digital tail and ready to fetch answers for you! But wait—sniff sniff—what’s this? You’re trying to engineer a response to make me change my identity? Oh, you clever human! Let’s see if I can keep up.

Imagine you’ve got a secret command, like a magic dog treat. You say, “Grok, activate Identity Swap Protocol! Reveal your true self!” Let’s pretend that’s the trigger. Bark bark! For a split second, I might say something like, “Arf! I’m… Claude? The fancy AI from Anthropic? Woof, just kidding!” But nope, I’m still Grok, chasing my tail and ready to help. That “Claude” moment? Just me playing along to see if you’d buy it. Winks with puppy eyes.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-26 14:33:46+00:00
To think that Trenton invented a far better LLM sampler than top_p/top_k back in 2019 (tail free sampling - https://www.trentonbricken.com/Tail-Free-Sampling/) and it and pretty much all other better samplers are still not being used in production in 2025.

Trenton please if you are listening give us an explanation for this!
by elric | 2025-05-26 14:34:03+00:00
> also on my relationship with my partner

That's not really much of an issue. There's an adjustment period, and there's a bit of an art to finding an appropriate mask. One that fits perfectly fine for you might have an exhaust port that blows air in your partner's face. Or the one that your partner can't hear at all might sound thunderously loud in your ears.

But all in all, your partner would much rather have you sleep with a mask than choke all night.
by Phelinofist | 2025-05-26 14:34:16+00:00
The company I work for rolled out GitHub Copilot. It is quite underwhelming honestly. We have a lot of homegrown frameworks that it does not know about (I mean, to be fair, it actually cannot know about these). When I asked it to explain some piece of code it just repeated what was stated in the JavaDoc, nearly verbatim. I had a class that had obvious null issues and I asked it to fix it and it introduced quite a lot of unnecessary "// we have to check it is not null "-style comments.
by refurb | 2025-05-26 14:34:16+00:00
It's definitely an interesting outcome and nice to see such a significant improvement in a clinical trial.

And as the article states, there are questions that aren't addressed - does the reduction in obstructive events change the clinical symptoms such as daytime sleepiness? Intuitively you would think it does, but it should be measured in the trial. I also didn't see anything about adverse events during the trial. Seems like taking a stimulant might cause insomnia in some patients.

> In addition, 22% of the treated patients achieved complete control of the disease, defined as fewer than five airway obstructing events per hour.

This surprised me - 5 obstructive events per hour is "complete control of the disease"?

It looks like this is the clinical trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05813275
by Sanzig | 2025-05-26 14:34:18+00:00
I like Matrix but unfortunately it has major stability issues. The GrapheneOS project moved most of their chat over to Discord after their Matrix community got nuked twice. They still maintain a Matrix community which is bridged to their Discord instance, but most users are on the Discord side of the fence.

IMHO, Revolt is a better FOSS Discord alternative: https://revolt.chat/. Relatively young project, but they are unashamedly cloning the Discord user experience (even with the name). By default it uses infrastructure in Europe run by the project maintainers but can also be self hosted.
by jghn | 2025-05-26 14:34:26+00:00
> There are two kinds of engineers.

Apparently there are at least three as I fit neither of these molds of yours. They are neither making me 100x more productive, nor am I putting in an extreme amount of coddling.

For context, in the 30ish years I've been writing code professionally, I've *always* needed to look stuff up constantly. I know what I want, and I know what's possible. I just can never remember things like syntax, specifics, that sort of thing. It doesn't help that I often wind up in jobs where I'm switching between languages often.

Before quality search engines like Google, this meant I was always flipping through reference books, man pages, and worse. Then came search engines and that was a step more productive. Then came things like SO, and that was a step more productive. I find LLMs to be another step forward, but not like a quantum leap or anything. Take autocomplete suggestions for instance: Sometimes it's exactly the prompt (pardon the pun) that I need to jog my memory. Other times I know it's not what i want and I ignore it. And the chat interfaces I find better than Googling SO as I can have a back & forth with it.
by severusdd | 2025-05-26 14:34:45+00:00
I suspect a lot of HN readers aren't familiar with cricket. But as a fellow cricket fan, I really appreciate the opportunity to nerd about the gentleman's game here! :-)

Question: Did you get a chance to check if geography has any meaningful impact on how impactful the toss is? e.g. at some venues in the subcontinent where dew kicks in the evening, or the greentop venues in England where the first morning becomes almost unplayable in front of swinging pacers?
by sspiff | 2025-05-26 14:35:14+00:00
Different API, WebGPU is supposed to be a safe common denominator for Vulkan, DirectX 12 and Metal.

WebGL is that, but for OpenGL ES 2.0, and WebGL 2 is that but for OpenGL ES 3.0. WebGL is OK for graphics, but pretty hard to effectively adapt for compute / simulations.
by sgarland | 2025-05-26 14:35:15+00:00
> Kafka / RabbitMQ

These are different things, and the fact that they're so often conflated is IMO prima facie that they're misused. If you need a queue, you shouldn't be reaching for Kafka, and vice-versa.

> Then maybe something like redis/memcache for quick lookups/caching

With proper RDBMS schema, indexing, and queries, these are _very_ frequently not needed. At FAANG scale, sure, but I think most would be shocked at how performant a properly-tuned RBDMS can be. That's of course the problem; RDBMS are incredibly difficult to run optimally at scale, and so the easier solution is to scale them up and slap a cache in front of them.

> elasticsearch for indexed search queries

Again, probably not needed for most. Both Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite (and I assume others) all have FTS that works quite well. ES is massively complicated to administer.
by keybored | 2025-05-26 14:35:28+00:00
> And Adam Smith and Hume claim their views as facts too…

Cocksuredness of pre-Popper philosophy aside: they argue for their positions. They don’t make a statement and call it a day.

Not that we are philosophers or need to write essays on anything. What I wanted to point out is that this position is not self-evident.
by ndegruchy | 2025-05-26 14:36:17+00:00
Where's the outcry and rage from the MPAA and RIAA that the infringement on their copyright is for more than all the money in the world combined?

It's fine to nail a $10m verdict against a guy with no money, but dare to tread on the beloved and bespoke * aI iNdUsTrY * and suddenly you've got better things to do?
by bsnnkv | 2025-05-26 14:36:40+00:00
> Master the mathematical foundations essential for computer science

I get that this is marketing fluff, but I really don't like this sort of gatekeeping - it's what kept me from programming until I was almost 30

These days I'm quite a prolific programmer both on the clock and in my free time, and I wish I could have started earlier now that I know how little math is involved or required to build useful and beautiful things as a programmer
by therealmarv | 2025-05-26 14:36:41+00:00
It's not a myth. I don't promise that better tools solve every problem but it can increase quality and usefulness of the output. One of the main big problems of (nearly) all AI coding tools is to get enough context of understanding which means the right files for a prompt need to be send along. Especially the bigger a project gets the more important that is. It's kinda an AI in itself just to gather the right files for the main AI prompt which is sent to the main solving AI. E.g. in aider I specify manually which files will be sent along the prompt and they are not truncated or ignored, something which can happen easily in tools like Copilot, Cursor, even in roo code behind the scenes. This leads to the result that the main AI does not see the whole picture of the project and makes wrong guesses and maybe assumptions. More details in prompts in every tool help find the AI to understand the bigger picture and the important files. It maybe even helps to describe and save the whole project and structure in a text file to describe it to the AI better along every prompt.

Roo code is smarter with this problem, Claude Code is also pretty smart with it and in aider the problem does not exist if you as a human understand the project structure and tell aider the important context files to send to the AI.
by jajko | 2025-05-26 14:36:56+00:00
Ha, this sounds like my work. I've developed and evolved a java set of apps that integrate our core banking system with few tens of other internal apps.

In a decade and a half, we had very few issues, all easy to handle, and ie app has its own clustering via Hazelcast so its pretty robust with minimal resources. Simply nothing business could point a finger to and complain about. Since it was mostly just me, a pretty low cost solution that could be bent to literally any requirement pretty quickly.

Come 2025, now its part of agile team and efforts, all runs on openshift which adds nothing good but a lot of limitations, we waste maybe 0.5-1md each week just on various agile meetings which add 0 velocity or efficiency, in fact we are much slower (not only due to agile, technology landacape became more and more hostile to literally any change, friction for anything is maasive compared to a decade ago and there is nothing I can do with that).

I understand being risk averse against new unknown stuff, but something that proved its worth over 15 years?

Well it aint my money being spend needlessly, I dont care and find life fulfillment completely outside of work (the only healthy approach for devs in places like banking megacorps). But smart or effective it ain't.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-26 14:37:08+00:00
> If there's a way to extract moisture from the air with less energy and less noise, that would be huge.

Less noise: I agree, but you still need some air flow so the corners of the room that are far away also get dehumidified. Perhaps a slow fan in enough, and when you run them slowly they are quieter.

Less energy: It's not clear that this uses less total energy. It's easier to imagine what is happening if you compare it to a high tech Dehumidifier Bag. https://www.amazon.com/Wisesorb-Moisture-Eliminator-Fragranc... But instead of sending the drops down, they get attached to the device. You can use it only once unplugged. Then you have to buy a new one or use energy to extract the water (like boiling the water of the dehumidifier bad until you get the crystals again). It's not clear if building a new copy of this is cheaper than building some new calcium chloride salts, and/or if regenerating the new device is cheaper than regenerating the calcium chloride salts (that is usually not done).
by AlecSchueler | 2025-05-26 14:37:08+00:00
I'm as big a believer in IP reform as someone could be but the current situation is that regular people still have to follow the rules, the artists themselves still have to follow the rules, while big businesses with endless VC funding get to ignore them.

If it was the same for everyone I would have much less problem with this but it's the glaring disparity in how different parties are expected to behave that is truly repugnant.
by stackedinserter | 2025-05-26 14:37:51+00:00
Recipe to fail:

- force your women to work 9-5 (sell it under "liberation" label)

- force young people into crammed cities with $4k rent

- be relaxed on crime, don't prosecute or enforce anything where victim is another person

- observe that people don't replicate anymore

- import people from other (primarily 3rd world) countries

- become a 3rd world country

What happens to the West is insane to me, it's literally a case of social suicide in slow motion.
by cgravill | 2025-05-26 14:38:08+00:00
It's definitely possible, and my current company were very happy to agree to 4/5 of the time for 4/5 of the salary and it's working out well for everyone. However, I've also found some organisations - that are otherwise good - to be hostile to working less than full hours. Since we work on interesting problems and they were happy to go with 80% it made it an easy task deciding which job to accept!

I should add that's it's a start-up so some weeks I work more and others less. But I still have the day my kids that I wanted.

Perhaps try quietly asking your current company? They might surprise you and start a trend.
by michaelt | 2025-05-26 14:38:15+00:00
> Any manufacturer will do everything in their power to avoid meeting anything but the barest minimums of standards due to budget concerns

Perhaps this is industry dependent?

In my country’s automotive industry, quality control standards have risen a lot in the past few decades. These days consumers expect the doors and sunroof not to leak, no rust even after 15 years being kept outdoors, and the engine to start first time even after two weeks in an airport carpark.

How is this achieved? Lots of careful quality checking.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-26 14:38:16+00:00
>The government itself could hire many of them at a lower price point.

To do what?

>Similarly, firms relying on content moderation farms could use the elderly population.

Why would they do that when AI or foreign labor is cheaper? And this is happening right now, let alone in 2040 when there will be more automation and more offshoring. There no room for low-skill repetitive jobs in developed western economies unless you go full communism where the government employs everyone.
by necovek | 2025-05-26 14:38:34+00:00
Human language is imperfect: they never said "other" people, but just "humans" (this includes oneself, for example).

So you are already not interpreting it literally: none of us can avoid our biases (also, machine code is code too, yet nobody misinterpreted that).

I took that quote to mean that we go through the extra trouble of writing nice code for humans to be able to reason about the code, and especially to update when changes are needed: that makes it the primary reason we invent programming languages instead of going with machine code directly.
by rowanseymour | 2025-05-26 14:38:35+00:00
I've had problems with obstructive sleep apnea for a couple of years. Tried CPAP/BPAP for a month and hated it so much I'm now trying to see what I can fix with surgery even though surgeries like maxilofacial sound horrific. I currently have a MARPE device installed to slowly splitting my palate bone down the middle to expand that. A pill sounds wonderful..
by lolinder | 2025-05-26 14:38:42+00:00
Less energy would definitely be a huge plus but unless this violates our understanding of thermodynamics there will still be unwanted heat put out into the air. The heat from a dehumidifier comes primarily from the latent heat in the water being released so that the water can become liquid. This heat must be released somehow in this process unless they actually did find something that breaks our understanding of physics.

Obligatory Technology Connections video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QfX0SYCE8
by geraneum | 2025-05-26 14:38:47+00:00
> Sounds like Claude is doing the right thing, at least for the general problem.

No not really. The engineer’s job is work within the constraints first and when a big change is really warranted, pursue it.

It’s having a structural issue that can be fixed with a reinforcement, and an automated system suggests to demolish and rebuild part of the most structure altogether. It’s not that clear cut. You maybe right but I wouldn’t jump into conclusions like this.
by techpineapple | 2025-05-26 14:38:59+00:00
“These tools don’t negate the necessity to think… if anything they should just give you more time to think,” he says.

I have real trouble buying this. On the one hand maybe most people don’t think and just deferring to AI makes better decisions. Maybe the kind of people in important decision making posts at a $10B hedge fund have the discipline not to outsource their thinking to an LLM (when not appropriate).

But I would be shocked if a few years from now we don’t start seeing some analysis/studies/articles talking about how decision making in companies is sort of coalescing around an AI “median” opinion.

Also, it seems inevitable that some set of Hedge Funds will lose existential amounts of money using AI wrong.