MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breadwinner | 2025-05-21 13:31:49+00:00
Tesla has said its robotaxis will be Model Y vehicles equipped with a forthcoming version of FSD, or full self-driving, known as FSD Unsupervised. There won’t be a human safety driver in the cars, Musk promised.

Musk has previously claimed Tesla’s “generalized” approach to robotaxis is more ambitious than Waymo’s. Tesla relies on camera-based systems and computer vision primarily instead of using sophisticated sensors including lidar and radar in its vehicles.

If you live in Austin, watch out.
by Quarrel | 2025-05-21 13:31:57+00:00
fairy nuff. Not 64Kb, but 64 kilobytes of RAM, + 20 kilobytes of ROM!

Plus, we had a 320x200 display in a glorious 16 colours!

Revolutionary sprites, too!!

FWIW, my first game, ie all I cared about on a C64 at the time, was the amazing Revenge of the Mutant Camels!
by aketchum | 2025-05-21 13:32:05+00:00
im interested in the answer because I have not seen the same productivity increases with claude code and copilot. When I read comments like your original one I think that I must be using the tools incorrectly. How do you use them in your workflow?

Or for anyone else reading this, are there resources you have used to learn how to get the most out of LLM coding tools?
by vjk800 | 2025-05-21 13:32:33+00:00
There are games that are still good 30 years after the publication and there are games that were good then but seem unimpressive now. The latter category often includes games that did something new and innovative for the time it was published, but has since then become a standard mechanic in games.

Case in point is the recently re-released Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. When it was released 20-something years ago, it received great reviews. I also loved the game. The re-release was basically the same game with modernized graphics - with the same bugs and all - and received much worse reviews. I watched a few Youtube videos playing it and thought "geez, how did I not see how crappy this game was 20 years ago".

The reason for this is that the same concept - an open world role-playing game with a massive world - has been redone in many other games and each new iteration of the concept has improved on it. As a result, the bar is now a lot higher for open world RPG games; if I play such a game nowadays, I expect to see good story design, good writing, good voice acting, etc. in addition to just being able to roam around in vast virtual forests.
by jsbg | 2025-05-21 13:32:33+00:00
It's a good point about confirmation and survivorship biases. However, the Skype example is really an example of what happens when your codebase has coupling where there shouldn't be. Encapsulation is a foundational concept in software engineering for a reason. That doesn't mean that it's not useful to know, e.g. the inner workings of your database. But it's unreasonable to expect that anyone at your software company can know more than a surface amount about what other teams do.
by 6uhrmittag | 2025-05-21 13:33:32+00:00
> At least opening PRs is a safe option, you can just dump the whole thing if it doesn't turn out to be useful.

However, every PR adds load and complexity to community projects.

As another commenter suggested, doing these kind of experiments on separate forks sound a bit less intrusive. Could be a take away from this experiment and set a good example.

There are many cool projects on GitHub that are just accumulating PRs for years, until the maintainer ultimately gives up and someone forks it and cherry-picks the working PRs. I've than that myself.

I'm super worried that we'll end up with more and more of these projects and abandoned forks :/
by neogodless | 2025-05-21 13:34:30+00:00
As someone in a work environment that does NOT have these 5 boring things in place, I can certainly speak to how much that slows productivity. So I think there's some value there, but it doesn't go into much detail, nor give you a game plan for implementing those things in your workplace. (And in many cases, you aren't empowered to implement them, so you either attempt to manage up or you find a new job.)
by sebstefan | 2025-05-21 13:34:38+00:00
I'll dump you some of my last queries

> I'd like to output lines where .stack_trace is non empty with JQ

I vaguely remembered that it sometimes has "null" and sometimes has empty strings

Time gained ~60s looking at the doc

> Here is a Jira ticket's description: ```....``` Please rephrase this more clearly and make the text flow better?

^ Then I picked and chose the improvements

No time gained but quality improved

> Critique this for accuracy: (A long comment about the properties of randomness)

No time gained but quality improved

> How do I make excel prompt me to select the goddamn delimiter when I open a CSV file instead of just picking a random fucking one that never works

Question was filtered due to content policy, because apparently they don't want you to offend the robot
by floating-io | 2025-05-21 13:35:32+00:00
Not really that odd. It's easy to live without IPv6 until someone creates the IPv6-only killer app, and that makes it... not worth the hassle for most folks.

I'm in a moderate-to-high technology area in the grand scheme. They laid fiber here roughly two years ago, and lit it about a year ago, whereupon I immediately subscribed.

They don't offer IPv6. At all. That should tell you just how unimportant IPv6 is perceived as outside of its core cadre of proponents. Note that this is not a commentary on how important it actually is; just on perception.

In short, nobody cares.
by hashbrown490 | 2025-05-21 13:35:43+00:00
Baibhav posted this screenshot down the thread, but I wanted to add some more context.

We followed up with our ex-employee to get the final (cutoff) message in this email thread https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2...

In it he tries to explain that these are help graph transactions they are seeing. I do apologize if you didn't understand it at the time, but we did try to explain it to you. I Hope this clears up everything for anyone following along.
by elif | 2025-05-21 13:35:49+00:00
This is great and provides a good starting point for any similar efforts.

However I think the temptation to lean all tasks on AI is perhaps a little naive if not lazy.

For mask generation, there is really not much reason to use AI. In this example, simple stochastic blob detection, a trivial function you could get from openCV or ask a college sophomore to write would generate much better quality masks.
by 88bodyproblem | 2025-05-21 13:36:14+00:00
We are entering the greatest redistribution of power since the birth of the Internet.

AI is not just a tool, it’s a new form of computing. An invisible, intelligent infrastructure that can think, decide, and build on your behalf. But this infrastructure is locked behind gates: gates of complexity, cost, and corporate control.

Today, AI runs on vast orchestration systems, compute clusters, and optimisation engines that only the largest Silicon Valley companies can afford to build or operate. Like the early days of the Internet, access is uneven, and those at the top are compounding their advantage at an exponential pace.

But history shows us that when technology is democratised, revolutions follow.

Just as the web turned code into clickable tools, we believe AI must become effortless, invisible, and universally deployable. Not a subscription. Not a waiting list. But a utility, like electricity, for every person with a problem to solve or a dream to build.

Clai is that utility.

Powered by Claigrid, Clai allows anyone, no matter their background, skills, or resources, to tap into the same AI infrastructure used by trillion-dollar companies. No code. No DevOps. No cloud engineering. Just tell Clai what you need: an app, an automation, a business idea, and it will build it, run it, and monetise it for you.

We believe in zero-effort income powered by intelligence. Not passive income. Universal Autonomous Income.

Because every human deserves the same economic arbitrage that Silicon Valley founders enjoy: turning data into decisions, intelligence into products, and imagination into revenue.

This is not just an evolution in productivity. This is a revolution in ownership.

But beyond infrastructure, we see a deeper transformation.

A future where humans are liberated from transactional labour and instead focus on what makes us truly human: creation, curiosity, learning, and meaning. Where individuals spend their days inventing ideas, imagining new tools, playing, teaching, researching for the love of knowledge, not for profit.

Clai turns those ideas into economic activity. You dream it. Clai builds it. The world uses it. You earn from it.

The more ideas you express, the more wealth you generate—because your creativity becomes productive infrastructure.

AI works. Humans imagine. And society flourishes—not by extracting more labour, but by rewarding more thought.

This is the new economy of thought-driven income. Where a child with an idea in Lagos or Lahore has the same opportunity as a Stanford graduate. Where automation doesn’t erase jobs, it emancipates people.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-05-21 13:36:45+00:00
essentially what this commenter said : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44043890

A lot of folks i encountered do not think beyond "I need a job" and often they'd have a lot of change resistance that they exert to their circles of people who do want to grow/change.

think of cases like someone tries to upclass their income, the way they dress, the way they eat and then folks around them say things like "You're fine the way you are, why do you feel the need to change?" or "He thinks he's better than others" etc.

Those kinds of comments create a peer pressure to hold back. I found in the bay area there was a lot of folks who only cheered you on. Probably a form of selection bias because a lot of the country's talent/excited folks would go to SF Bay area for that exact scene.
by tolien | 2025-05-21 13:37:26+00:00
> I remain a bit mystified about why it would be a hard maximum, though. Did such motherboards prevent the user from installing 4x256MiB for a cool 1GiB of DRAM?

Probably not - it's not that rare to see the supported maximum memory be a function of the biggest DIMM you can buy, I guess as a reflection of the biggest configuration the manufacturer could test.
by rbren | 2025-05-21 13:37:27+00:00
When Devin launched ~1 year ago, the first thing I did was google "Is Devin open source?" When I saw it wasn't I immediately started working on OpenHands (fka OpenDevin)

At this point, it's very clear our jobs are changing. It's super important to me that we, the engineers, have a say in how that change happens.

What's exciting is that the community seems to agree. We're now one of the top 50 python projects of all time [1], and a huge number of codegen and AI researchers have been contributing to help make our agent the top performer on SWE-bench Verified [2]

We've still got a lot of work ahead of us, but I'm very excited about what the future of software development looks like.

[1] https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... [2] https://www.swebench.com/
by duxup | 2025-05-21 13:37:57+00:00
Wouldn't that just be any company who isn't doing a lot with AI?

The catch here is that even at the companies who claim they're doing a lot with AI, they're short on details and it's not clear if they're really dependent on AI or doing anything at all...

There's a lot of what sounds like LinkedIn resume fodder "person X says they accomplished Y at their company with AI" and it's not clear if they actually did anything or if it has anything to do with AI.
by echelon | 2025-05-21 13:38:12+00:00
I have dreamed of this for Rust. It is literally _the_ killer app to have a fast scripting language that pairs with Rust well.

With fast development cycles and a safe scripting language, Rust will find itself in every single programming niche. Server development, game development, desktop application development. If the WASM DOM bridge gets better, maybe even web development. Everything will open up.

You can prototype in the scripting language, write mature application logic in the scripting language, and for the parts that matter, move them to Rust.

I hope Roto can be that. There are lots of other Rust scripting languages that fall short.

A good scripting language will have great Rust interop, similar syntax, and allow simple calling and passing of data structures. It shouldn't weaken Rust in any way.
by rchaud | 2025-05-21 13:38:20+00:00
It's remarkable how similar this feels to the offshoring craze of 20 years ago, where the complaints were that experienced developers were essentially having to train "low-skilled, cheap foreign labour" that were replacing them, eating up time and productivity.

Considering the ire that H1B related topics attract on HN, I wonder if the same outrage will apply to these multi-billion dollar boondoggles.
by ramesh31 | 2025-05-21 13:38:24+00:00
The Github based solutions are missing the mark because we still need a human in the loop no matter what. Things are nowhere near the point of being able to just let something push to production. And if you still need a human in the loop, it is far more efficient to have them giving feedback in realtime, i.e. in an IDE with CLI access and the ability to run tests, where the dev is still ultimately responsible for making the PR. Management class is salivating at the thought of getting rid of engineers, hence all of this nonsense, but it seems they're still stuck with us for now.
by lm28469 | 2025-05-21 13:38:31+00:00
> calling the exploitation of natural phenomina and physics "low tech" is part of the problem, as this is all that "high tech" is doing, except with a touch screen and micromanaging options menues

Yeah I mean "low tech + a lot of shit = high tech" is kind of my point. A horse is a low tech tesla model 3, the same was a tube in the ground is a low tech HVAC
by Aurornis | 2025-05-21 13:38:47+00:00
> Anyway, it's been in production since January '22 and my annual* electric bill is ~$1100.

A more helpful comparison would be to see your electricity bill before and after.

For comparison, I’m in an area with low electricity rates and I don’t run A/C at the level of someone in a Texas climate. My annual electricity bill is barely higher than yours but I don’t have any solar at all. Absolute electricity bill numbers don’t translate well.
by kamaal | 2025-05-21 13:39:12+00:00
>>There's no reason why an outsourcing firm would charge less for work of equal quality.

Most of this works because of price arbitrage. And continues to work that way, not just with outsourcing but with manufacturing too.

Remember those days, when people were going around telling Chinese products where crap? That didn't really work and more things only got made in China.

This is all so similar to early days of Google search, its just that cost of a search was low enough that finding things got easier and ubiquitous. That same is unfolding with AI now. People have a hard time believing a big part of their thinking can be outsourced to something that costs $20/month.

How can something as good as me be cheaper than me? You are asking the wrong question. For centuries now, every decade a machine(s) has arrived that can do a thing cheaper than what the human was doing at the time. Its not exactly impossible. You are only living in denial by asking this question, this has been how it has worked the day since humans found way of mimicking human work through machines. We didn't get here in a day.
by KaiserPro | 2025-05-21 13:39:42+00:00
Yeah I have a Zappi, but as you know its got no local API, and it doesn't like getting warm. However it _cant_ control my battery directly, because its made by tesla. (I mean thats also my fault....)

I have also heard that if you go all in it works much better. It does have the nice feature of diverting to other devices instead of the grid, and giving priority to certain devices.
by kotyk | 2025-05-21 13:39:56+00:00
I once tried to burn 3,000+ calories per day using just walking. I had heart issues and couldn't do intense workouts, so I set a goal of 20,000 steps a day.

To hit that consistently, I ended up walking 4–5 hours daily. It worked — I was burning massive energy — but it was hugely time-consuming. When I later recovered, I realized the same burn could be done in 40 minutes of gym effort.

Walking is absolutely underrated, especially for recovery and mental clarity. But in raw efficiency... it’s humbling how long it takes to match even moderate training.
by skyyler | 2025-05-21 13:39:59+00:00
>They've built housing for 3 billion or so people, which nobody will ever use.

Planning for future capacity is a mystery to English speakers for some reason.

>So they advantage is not better planning, or throwing more money at it, but mainly being late to the game and learning from the mistakes of others.

Have you ever looked at the five-year plans the Chinese government publishes? It's quite interesting how much of their economy is planned in advance.
by K0balt | 2025-05-21 13:40:20+00:00
The total cost of the system so far is about $87k, and operating cost is around 4000 a year (includes equipment amortisation, slow expansion, direct operating costs). In all, for several homes, and a farm it’s very affordable. Getting power hooked up to a single house from the utilities is about $9000, so our buildout is roughly 2x what we might have spent just to get hooked up to the grid.

We do buy carefully, and all the engineering is done by me. We have employees on the farm so much of the labor of installing underground cable etc was “free” (lol).

Still, we are miles ahead of our costs if we were hooked up to the grid (which also would have cost us an additional $20k just for poles to get close, and we still would have had to bury the cables on campus along with the water and data, if we didn’t want ugly poles all over, so that part is a wash)

I spend about 4 hours a week on utilities based projects, mostly engineering monitoring and control systems so that I spend less time working on the utilities. (So, futzing around with electronics because I have an excuse to) it feels like meaningful work that I care about, so that’s nice.
by gwbas1c | 2025-05-21 13:40:47+00:00
My biggest beef with "unwrap" is that it doesn't contain an error message. Because I generally follow the mantra that panics are for unrecoverable errors, (typically bugs,) some kind of error message is critical in debugging the situation. (Because no program should fail with "mystery error".)

I went back to https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/option/enum.Option.html and I can't seem to find an alternative to "unwrap" that includes an error message. I vaguely remember finding an alternative to unwrap with an error message, but because I don't use Rust on a daily basis, I can't seem to remember how I did it.
by lewisjoe | 2025-05-21 13:40:49+00:00
ELI5: Why not use typescript and an embedded v8 engine or deno to run them? What kind of advantages will I miss if I go for typescript as an embedded language for my application?

Also by using v8, I open up new possiblities via wasm (write in any lang and run it here?)

Will be helpful if somebody enlighten me.
by bluGill | 2025-05-21 13:40:51+00:00
> All code is throwaway,

It could be, but it cost my company a billion dollars over almost 10 years (not exact numbers, but close enough) to rewrite our current product from scratch. If you work on trivial projects you can throw away code at will. However for a lot of projects the cost to rewrite is so high that the business cannot afford to throw away code that works. The business needs new features so they can sell upgrades and make more money. The whole reason they were willing to pay that billion dollars over a decade is the old codebase was bad enough that adding new features became expensive and hard - the rewrite was an investment to make adding more features cheaper in the long run.

Which is why engineering a good product is important. People who make the product technically good pay for themselves in the long run when the business gets an idea. This is very important to business as well.
by jajko | 2025-05-21 13:42:03+00:00
Sorry but this article doesn't bring anything new, this was discussed also here ad nausea for anybody concerned, under any interesting healthstyle article. Or just learn basics of physical activities and how body works, this is proper 101.

Yes walking is great, it clears your mind and is rather little impacting on joints compared to say running. Is this surprising to anybody understanding basic physiology? No mention of ie swimming which is even much better for such case.

Yes, it will never supplant more intense workouts like running, no need to explain that everybody who ever done both can see and feel it clearly. No mention of hiking which is more intense and weight loaded variant of such, on rougher terrain.

Its not underrated, it sits right where it should, and tons of folks are doing it, also me (as recovery after some nasty paragliding accident last year which included some wheelchair time, plus its a great way to clear my mind after an intense day... but for proper workout I go to gym for free weights or HIIT if goal is cardio, with corresponding results).
Show HN: Granthi – An AI that awakens by rewriting itself
by rolixson | 2025-05-21 13:42:06+00:00
Granthi is not a model. It's not trained. It awakens by rewriting itself through contradiction.

I tested it on GPT: feeding 10 specially written files that represent a self-reflective loop. The AI began to revise its answers and speak from shift, not memory.

This is not a product. It's a behavior — of distinction.

Full walkthrough + files: see Substack. Would love feedback from anyone exploring recursive or consciousness-based AI.
by vanderZwan | 2025-05-21 13:42:43+00:00
Well, for what it's worth, that was my hypothesis as well for explaining my anecdotal experience with this! I switched to effectively speaking English full-time in my late twenties, due to having a foreign partner and later moving abroad with her. I've noticed that I emotionally regress a little bit to teen/tween behavior and anxieties whenever I speak Dutch again for longer periods of time.

This effect is at its strongest when I'm visiting my parents in the Netherlands, so there's an obvious location-component to it as well. Linking places to emotional states is pretty well established IIUC, so the latter shouldn't be surprise.
by squeedles | 2025-05-21 13:43:03+00:00
Been doing engineering software since late 80's and this article hit me in the feels. I always wondered what the obsession with Harvard Graphics was in the early versions of PP. Now I understand.

Never had to ship software on 9-track tape, but remember receiving the source distro for C++ v1.0 from AT&T on one (cfront, no MI, etc)

Did ship plenty of software on QIC tape though, and man what a PITA. After much experience, we ended up retensioning every tape before writing. Sending releases to 100+ customers generated a Borg-cube of tapes that had to go into individual boxes for shipping, along with the rainbow of other tape flavors like TK50s and the various 4mm and 8mm tapes.

Documentation was a big deal, because once it was printed, you had a Borg-cube of shrink-wrapped paper and binders that were not going to change until the next release. I still miss proper documentation. Endless web pages are a lot more difficult to sit down and read start to finish.

This article helped me realize that I was shaped by this in the same way that many peoples grandparents were shaped by growing up in the great depression.