MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jazzyjackson | 2025-05-21 17:39:38+00:00
The glasses with a HUD are a different product line, latest ray bans are just camera mic and audio, but I still count them as AR because the AI voice in your ear can see what you see. I tried them for a few months and returned them, not a good enough camera to enjoy the hands free snapshots I was looking forward to, and just didn’t have a use for a q&a bot attached to my ear.

For what they are I’ll give them props for a nicely designed product, the charging case is clever and works well. I liked them for music with the Apple Watch, pretty slick combination. Maybe if I could stomach giving a llama bot access to email and calendar etc etc to have a real personal assistant it would be an attractive offering in a world that accepts being watched 24/7 by AI/billionaire overlords
by gamache | 2025-05-21 17:39:57+00:00
Best of luck on your journey! I made the transition from Friendster to MySpace when a bunch of my top 10 Friendster friends were dead.

Anyhoo, this will be a tough climb for you. Ello captured a lot of what you are going for, at least for users who were willing to part with Google+. Vine still rules for short-form video, Dodgeball still wins for mobile-first, there's Meerkat and Justin.TV for streaming, SixDegrees is still at it, and (let's be honest) most of us are still on AIM. I hear good things about Path too, they have an inspiring CEO and a unique product. Niches are the future; there's even a startup trying to help Harvard nerds get laid. I wish you the best!
by brudgers | 2025-05-21 17:40:21+00:00
Are there any other good places (besides Reddit)

Unless you are an active long term personality in the relevant Reddit community, Redditors are likely to see your promotion as spam.

Youtube, a personal blog, and other pull-media are within your control.

afraid it’ll just disappear unnoticed

Building many more useful things is the best way to get people to notice your work. I mean if it will still be useful in five years, then you have time.

Or to put it another way, your favorite composer/muscian/band didn’t just make one song…and didnt only start practicing their instrument last week.

More importantly, in large part they do what they do for self-expression not just for fame. That makes it possible to cope with the statistical reality that nobody cares.

It would be unfortunate if this is the best work you ever did. Good luck.
by fidotron | 2025-05-21 17:40:23+00:00
> The next major device will definitely be AI-first.

Be more specific though: what form factor will such a device be in?

A coffee maker? A phone? Glasses? Cars? A building?

The AI wave seems to be hoping a whole load of hardware revolutions, such as holographic displays, will just appear out of the ether because it fits with their vision of how things should be.
by echelon | 2025-05-21 17:40:42+00:00
- The best package manager in the world, bar none. Compiling, linking, and platform difficulties disappear. The devops/devexp is next-level sublime.

- "low defect" software without much work. I'm not talking about memory management, but rather Option<T> and Result<T,E>. For the same amount of effort as writing Golang or Java or C#, you can get defect free code.

- Easy deployable to WASM without packaging a memory management runtime for the most intrusive types. Super portable, super fast.

- If you've used Unreal a lot, you've hit build issues, linker issues, segfault issues. A lot. That'll go away.
by ics | 2025-05-21 17:40:51+00:00
Maybe someone here can suggest tools or at least where to look; what are the state-of-the-art models to run locally on relatively low power machines like a MacBook Air? Is there anyone tracking what is feasible given a machine spec?

"Apple Intelligence" isn't it but it would be nice to know without churning through tests whether I should bother keeping around 2-3 models for specific tasks in ollama or if their performance is marginal there's a more stable all-rounder model.
by vhanda | 2025-05-21 17:41:03+00:00
Not who you're asking.

I really don't see why we're still using A/C inside our houses / apartments. I understand that the transmission loss is lower when sending A/C, so it makes sense, but then nearly every device in my house has their own AC to DC converter. Just have one AC-DC converter per building.

I'd like the future to just be USB-C sockets in my house. We have USB-C PD 3.1 which supports up to 48v, I imagine that would be good for all devices.

There are probably safety reasons why this future might be difficult.
by neosat | 2025-05-21 17:41:42+00:00
This metaphor may be misleading. For a compelling alternate view, read the excellent: "Is the cell really a machine?" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00225...

From the article:

"It has become customary to conceptualize the living cell as an intricate piece of machinery, different to a man-made machine only in terms of its superior complexity ......"

" ..... However, the recent introduction of novel experimental techniques capable of tracking individual molecules within cells in real time is leading to the rapid accumulation of data that are inconsistent with an engineering view of the cell ...... which emphasizes the dynamic, self-organizing nature of its constitution, the fluidity and plasticity of its components, and the stochasticity and non-linearity of its underlying processes."
by mountainriver | 2025-05-21 17:42:07+00:00
Windsurf and Cursor are money factories, that’s not a dumb play, their base will only grow significantly. OpenAI doesn’t have many money factories like google yet.

Paying for Jony doesn’t seem like desperation. Jony has no product that makes money, this is a long term aggressive hardware play. Seemingly to face off with apple.

It feels more like people just want to craft a negative narrative about OpenAI and use the data to fit that
by airylizard | 2025-05-21 17:42:17+00:00
love it. any llm can be made to perform reliably and accurately which is the biggest pre-requisite when it comes to creating an "AI Agent". I think this gives people the opportunity to start somewhere because they can leverage multi-pass prompting frameworks like TSCE to scale: https://github.com/AutomationOptimization/tsce_demo. despite the fact that "llama isn't the best"
by lolinder | 2025-05-21 17:42:19+00:00
The reason why Apple has failed to integrate AI successfully into the iPhone isn't because we need an AI-first device, it's because AI is still universally being strategized as a solution in search of a problem. An AI-first device at this stage will fail for the same reason: it doesn't have a mission statement to solve particular problems for real people, it has a mission statement to be an AI device.

The absolute best case scenario for an AI-first device at this stage is that it ends up like the Vision Pro, which had a similar mission problem.
by timschmidt | 2025-05-21 17:42:20+00:00
People who aren't developers generally install pre-built binaries. I know that's how almost every Linux distribution I've used for going on 30 years has worked.

Developers, on the other hand, seem to need some help running static checkers regularly. Most don't seem to have well exercised CI toolchains doing it for them. Or aren't aware that they should be doing so - like yourself.

Rust makes use of the tight integration between language, compiler, and checker to allow the language to be easier and more thoroughly checked than possible with checkers built for other languages. Many steps performed for compilation are reused. Which is what makes it so fast.

If you think "why can't I skip this?" you have missed the point and are exactly the target developer these checks are for.

I've written a lot of software. Never had a complaint about compile times in any language. The reality of developing with Rust is that after the first build, only changed files are rebuilt, which makes it just as fast to compile as any other language.

If compile times are what concerns you about a language, that tells me you're not very far along in your career. You have a lot more problems to discover which are very much more serious. If you ever encounter the problems Rust solves, you'll grow to appreciate it's solutions.
by MadnessASAP | 2025-05-21 17:42:21+00:00
Weight, size, cost, and loss of efficiency.

There are better things you could do to increase engine performance that are lighter, smaller, and cheaper.

Also of you really really want to defeat turbo lag. The easiest way is to seriously delay ignition timing so the fuel is still burning as it enters the turbine leaving more energy for it to extract and therefore staying spooled up.

edit: Not to say your idea wouldn't work, indeed I'd love to see it. Its just not a practical solution. Not that In ever let practicality stop me.

Edit to the edit: https://dieselnet.com/tech/engine_whr_turbocompound.php

https://www.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/pdfs/deer_2004/...

So, ya know, disregard everything above.
by adamrezich | 2025-05-21 17:42:26+00:00
> The next Apple will be the one that creates an AI-first device entirely from scratch.

When's the last time something of this magnitude actually occurred in real life? Myself and many of the other commenters you refer to have a hard time believing something like this is even possible in the current market—the huge megacorps are more risk-averse and incapable of innovation than ever before, and the scrappy startups seem to exist entirely to be acquired by the megacorps to raise their valuations.

The last time something even remotely like this happened was, what, the Oculus Rift? And that was far from a perfect product that perfectly solved every problem in the domain perfectly on the first try.
by asadotzler | 2025-05-21 17:43:06+00:00
It's worse than that. What he actually said was "Maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today in some of our projects are probably all written by software."

Translation: maybe some of the code in some of our projects is probably written by software.

Seriously. That's what he said. Maybe some of the code in some of our projects is probably written by software.

How this became "30% of MS code is written by LLMs" is beyond me. It's wild. It's ridiculous.
by KajMagnus | 2025-05-21 17:43:27+00:00
> It comes off as dishonest to mention features that may be implemented at some point in the future

Thanks, good to know. (Will fix)

> a lot of asterisks and clarifications that might confuse users

Yes! People email and ask about the pricing more often than I thought.

> It's also mentioned that a credit card is not needed for the trial, but then you will email users about how to pay. Maybe this should be clarified on this page?

Hmm. Yes, there could be something about "if you want to continue after the free trial".

> It seems that you're not a native English speaker

That's right

> but I would suggest hiring someone who is, and has experience in writing technical documentation to revise your entire site, so that it can have a more professional appearance. These days LLMs can also be helpful with this

Ok :- ) First, all the LLMs, then a human I guess.

Thanks for all the ideas. Sorry for the late (8 days) reply.

Just started reading The E-Myth Revisited, hopefully that, plus the sleepiness problem being mostly gone, can put things in better order.
by DonHopkins | 2025-05-21 17:43:41+00:00
>My takeaway of the point was there are situations in which you will end up in an unsympathetic quagmire of "well, actually..." IF YOU'RE A SEXIST BIGOT.

Well thanks for revealing yourself for what you "well, actually..." are.

It's only a "trap" if you you're a sexist bigot, and don't want people to know what you are, but you just can't keep your mouth shut.
by fakedang | 2025-05-21 17:43:57+00:00
There are so many loopholes in the current tax system. And I say this as someone who benefits massively from the status quo. But like I said, where else can the govt get the cash to "balance the budget"?

And again, European democracies aren't the ideal here when we're talking about balancing the books. Look to the American 1950s and the Clinton Era for better role models.
by milkshakes | 2025-05-21 17:44:30+00:00
you must really have an axe to grind, you've commented three times on the same article with how much you hate ive. you're right his later work was a little frustrating, but he's also the same guy who brought you the ipod, the iphone, the ipad, the apple watch, and airpods. maybe he's not batting 1000 but the level of vitriol here is striking.
by accrual | 2025-05-21 17:44:37+00:00
I think it would be cool if you kept some of the original Friendster design and color pallette, at least to start. I would love a "classic" social media site with a modern backend and mobile friendly frontend. For example, Facebook's early UI had a simple, consistent, and blocky style. Menus were sensible I could find what I wanted to do easily.
by bigzyg33k | 2025-05-21 17:44:53+00:00
I completely disagree. This is really just more of the great execution that I've come to expect from Sam Altman.

Core to OpenAI's strategy is that they control not just the models, but also the entrypoints to how these models are used. Don't take it from me, this is explicitly their strategy according to internal documents (https://x.com/TechEmails/status/1923799934492606921).

Some important entrypoints are:

- Entrypoints for layman consumers: They already control this entrypoint due to ChatGPT, the app. They have a limited moat here because they are at the whims of the platform owners, primarily Apple and Google. This is why they are purchasing Ive's startup.

- Entrypoints for developers: They acquired Windsurf, and are actively working on cloud development interfaces such as the new codex product.

- Entrypoints for enterprise: They have the codex products as described above, but also Operator, and are actively working on more cloud based agents.

A rebuttal that I anticipate to the above goes something along the lines of this: "If they have so much capital and dev experience, why are they acquiring these businesses instead of building internal competitors? This is a demonstration of their failure to execute"

The current AI boom is one of the most competitive tech races that has ever occurred. It is because of this, and particularly because they are so well capitalised that it makes sense to acquire instead of build. They simply cannot afford to waste time building these products internally if they can purchase products much further along in their development, and then attach them to their capital and R&D engine
by orta | 2025-05-21 17:45:20+00:00
There was some interesting work on standardising on "ESX" in the TC39 discourse that folks in the thread may want to follow: https://es.discourse.group/t/proposal-esx-as-core-js-feature...

Core docs: https://gist.github.com/WebReflection/2d64f34cf58daa812ec876...
by lenerdenator | 2025-05-21 17:45:38+00:00
Truckers have been doing that for a while. It's become a serious threat to the safety of those using GPS only for the last few years when the Russians started doing it for entire regions.

There will always be holes in technology that exist to be exploited for nefarious purposes. The best way to deal with it is to present strong consequences for those who would exploit them.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-05-21 17:45:49+00:00
> This level of smugness is why outsourcing still continues to exist. The kind of things you talk about were rare. And were mostly exaggerated to create anti-outsourcing narrative. None of that led to outsourcing actually going away simply because people are actually getting good work done

I used upwork (when it was elance) quite a lot in a startup I was running at the time, so I have direct experience of this and its _not_ a lie or "mostly exaggerated", it was a very real effect.

The trick was always to weed out these types by posting a very limited job for a cheap amount and accepting around five or more bids from broad prices in order to review the developers. Whoever is actually competent then gets the work you actually wanted done in the first place. I found plenty of competant devs at competitive prices this way but some of the submissions I got from the others were laughable. But you just accept the work, pay them their small fee, and never speak to them again.
by SimianSci | 2025-05-21 17:46:25+00:00
Broadly, you're right, but again, there is an incredible amount of inequality at the moment, so while 90% of VCs might be strapped for cash, ther other 10% have so much that they are struggling to find worthy investment vehicles that can grow their money-pile. Its a dillema they are in because nothing can justify the volume of investment enough without a sufficiant potential for growth, so any venture that even hints at big enough return, will find itself flush with cash it wont realistically know what to do with.
by maxlapdev | 2025-05-21 17:46:36+00:00
For those unaware, Ruby blocks (and procs) are more flexible than anonymous functions as most language implement them. The article briefly goes over that, mentioning that lambda (regular anonymous functions) and procs (blocks) don't treat execute `return` the same way. There are also particularities with regard to next (continue) and break.

I made a post about the niceties of blocks: https://maxlap.dev/blog/2022/02/10/what-makes-ruby-blocks-gr...
by bigyabai | 2025-05-21 17:46:37+00:00
I can explain.

1. The "tech investor" class is a middle-aged American market that is incredibly jaded by politics and the economy, and wants to sell "magic" made by American businesses even when it's asinine and doesn't make sense.

2. Typically these investors put their money on blue-chip businesses like Disney and Apple who have a reputation for consistently schystering their customers through marketing, turning them into entertainment-addicted neanderthals.

3. Startups signal that they want to break into this echelon of mindless consumerism by hiring the posterchild of user-gaslighting design patterns and showing investors how close they are in a carefully-designed press release.

4. People distrust the new startup but are forced to overvalue it because of it's proximity to so-called "thought leaders" that the investor class loves so much.

Rinse and repeat until you've got enough money to retire.
by sowbug | 2025-05-21 17:46:40+00:00
Greenlancer will draw up code-compliant plans that you can submit to your local building permit agency, and they'll revise if anything needs it. It cost less than $400 last year. You've done enough research that they'll be able to easily take your project and turn it into something legal.

I recently did an Enphase system of a similar size to yours. It was fully DIY except for wiring the combiner and a roofing company to plug all the holes I drilled. Working with PG&E was truly an epic year-plus battle culminating in a CPUC complaint, but in the end it was really just a bunch of emails.

I don't have any installer recommendations, but it should be easy enough to find a local electrician, and I've found that they tend to know others in adjacent fields.
by bigzyg33k | 2025-05-21 17:46:53+00:00
Meta haven't abandoned the metaverse, and made it very clear from the beginning that "the metaverse" was something that does not exist, and will not exist in any form until the end of the decade. They continuously reiterate this during earnings calls, while increasing their capital expenditures on it.

You cannot determine it's a waste if the effort isn't completed, and if you have no insight into their progress.
by philosophty | 2025-05-21 17:47:03+00:00
Windsurf is not Instagram. Jony Ive's company is not WhatsApp. There are no meaningful network effects or lock in with these AI products.

Ive's company is going to make some forgettable, overpriced, and easily cloned wearable pendant or something equally irrelevant. Windsurf (and Cursor) will quickly fade into irrelevance as IDEs are once again commoditized by open source.
by echelon | 2025-05-21 17:47:07+00:00
No. The AI pane of glass is the next killer product.

The next major device won't be an ad funnel though. It'll give users first class access to the whole pane of glass. Not a managed ads experience at the will of some monopoly platform, but something where the AI serves us instead of being extractive.

The minute we have a broker or agent between us and the "user is the product" services that try to advertise to us and steal our time, it's game over for the old model of revenue. Google, ads, all of it will vanish. There won't be any more selling to me or the rest of the world ever again. You'll have to pay us to get our eyeballs.

Let me clarify: if we have a pane of glass where we run our own agent with our own best interests in mind, then nobody can get through that layer without it being permitted by us.

No more ads.

No more stealthy product placement.

No more paid or featured listings.

It goes further.

No more rage bait, attention bait, low information filler. The annoying people in life and in social media disappear to the great filter.

AI agents can clean up the shitty place the Internet has become.

AI agents are personal butlers. Or internet condoms.

The way that works is this: on-device AI that can handle the task of routing and dispatching and filtering, which can then dispatch out to expensive cloud AI that would otherwise try to inject adds into the stream.
by abainbridge | 2025-05-21 17:47:13+00:00
Or academics in 1986: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/13310.13338

The idea of optimizations running at different stages in the build, with different visibility of the whole program, was discussed in 1979, but the world was so different back then that the discussion seems foreign. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/872732.806974
by pier25 | 2025-05-21 17:47:52+00:00
Express itself might be mature but it's a fraction of what you need to make a full application.

The JS backend ecosystem is definitely not mature. Eg: ORMs are still being figured out. People are migrating en masse to Drizzle which hasn't even reached 1.0. The best (fastest, better features, etc) PG driver for JS is Postgres.js which is maintained primarily by a single guy. Etc.

Next is a bad option IMO. They keep experimenting while having users on board and introducing breaking changes. The performance for SSR is terrible. Hosting it outside of Vercel is a road full pain. Etc.

I've never used Python but Django (or Rails, or .NET, etc) are more mature than most of the NPM ecosystem.
by supportengineer | 2025-05-21 17:48:23+00:00
1. Charge a small fee. Don't make the user the product.

2. No ads. See #1

3. Ensure the user is a real person by mailing them a one-time code on a postcard in the US mail, like Nextdoor used to do.

4. NO ALGORITHMIC FEED, unless you explicitly offer that on a separate tab.