MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1oooqooq | 2025-05-29 11:56:01+00:00
you're not wrong at all. but then you also have to remember both parties work the exact same way with different colors.

you're right about both the other side as well as about yourself in exactly the same way.

it's not even projection, it's literary the same thing. you could describe yourself and all other t supporters with your text above and change one or two words to account for the color change. but the important parts remain static.

communityless American delusion is wild.
by cAtte_ | 2025-05-29 11:56:25+00:00
i really don't understand. what's the point of having an LLM comment on random HN posts? like, i get doing that somewhere like reddit because commenting brings karma and legitimacy to an account, which can later be used for astroturfing, or sold. but here? you're just polluting interesting conversations with polite and wholly uninteresting slop
by luckyandroid | 2025-05-29 11:57:00+00:00
Even with frameworks, I don't see any joy in making something that just looks and feels the same as any other site. I understand it from a business point of view, but if you're trying to just showcase yourself or your work having flavor makes more sense even if it's not the most optimal thing for SEO or retention.

Really hate how modern website building sites moved towards structured, samey sites. I miss the days of Geocities and Freewebs, the unreadable text against cluttered background images, the auto playing music, the trailing cursors, the spinning skeletons in front of crappy looking flames.
by linkage | 2025-05-29 11:58:14+00:00
These cold start times are not hypothetical, as shown by multiple commenters in this thread. They also have been demonstrably impossible to optimize for years. Cold start times for .NET lambda functions are still an order of magnitude greater than that of Go (which also has a runtime). AOT compilation reduces the gap somewhat but even then the difference is noticeable enough on your monthly bill.

This dismissive “startup time doesn’t matter” outlook is why software written in C# and Java feels awful to use. PowerShell ISE was a laughingstock until Microsoft devoted thousands of man-hours over many years to make the experience less awful.
by fuzztester | 2025-05-29 11:58:34+00:00
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, did make a sound?

- Zen koan I read a while ago, might have got the wording a bit wrong, but a fun one.

Just googled, and it is Wikipedia too, but "koan" is only in the See also section:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest_...
by ibragim_bad | 2025-05-29 11:59:02+00:00
Hi! We just released SWE-rebench – an extended and improved version of our previous dataset with GitHub issue-solving tasks.

One common limitation in such datasets is that they usually don’t have many tasks, and they come from only a small number of repositories. For example, in the original SWE-bench there are 2,000+ tasks from just 18 repos. This mostly happens because researchers install each project manually and then collect the tasks.

We automated and scaled this process, so we were able to collect 21,000+ tasks from over 3,400 repositories.
by soulofmischief | 2025-05-29 11:59:20+00:00
In my life and career, I've found deadlines make the best mentors.

In addition to the other commenter's great point about making connections and getting exposure to different paradigms, with a tight deadline you learn how to quickly research and implement new things, and how to make quick creative decisions.

You learn when something is "good enough", and after a few jams you start to understand the holistic process of conceptualizing, actualizing, deploying and collecting feedback on games.

After a couple years, you'll find yourself more knowledgeable than the average graduate in game design, and will either discover what you'd like to specialize in, or realize you enjoy and want to be involved with the entire process.
by npteljes | 2025-05-29 11:59:34+00:00
Unfortunately this is just anecdotal. I also did many things in my life that were risky, and I got away with them every single time. This doesn't prove that they were not risky, or that my results are reproducible.

That said, I also hate Windows updates, and especially the way Windows handles them. LTSC is also my way to avoid some of it, especially the ""feature"" updates. LTSC is something I also recommend, if people can manage an activation server, or I can point them to mine.
by chiph | 2025-05-29 12:00:01+00:00
Based on his video, I have given up eating microwave popcorn and have gone back to stove-top made.

If his numbers are to be believed (and I do), the coating on the inside of a microwave popcorn bag that is used to keep the cooking oils from soaking into the paper emit PFAS chemicals. Which leach into the popcorn oils - later to be consumed by you. In the chart comparing them with other coated papers such as fast food burger wrappers, they are far and away the leading source of PFAS.

I still have questions - do the PFAS chemicals leach into the oils while sitting on the store shelf, or are they emitted when they get heated up in the microwave and exceed some temperature (like getting a Teflon pan too hot)? Not that this makes a difference in the end result, but I am curious.

Video link:

https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY?t=2375
by kragen | 2025-05-29 12:00:17+00:00
Humans have also used drums, often wooden slit gongs, for long-distance communication, relaying the message every few kilometers. Although talking drums are no longer a leading communications technology (telephone lines, radio, and fiber optics carry farther and have higher bandwidth) they are still in traditional and ritual use, much like handwriting, candles, IRC servers, and <table> layout. The West African versions of this form of communication are the best known, but it has been used in many parts of the world.

Transposed into the world of radio, this approach is known as "ultrawideband" or "time domain radio".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_drum

https://time.com/archive/6771186/science-drum-telegraphy/ 01942: "Any pulp writer worth his salt knows that when his locale is darkest Africa he can’t use too many drums. In a good standard plot, talking drums warn fierce natives of the unsuspecting white man’s approach while the reader shudders. Last week in Natural History Dr. Albert Irwin Good, who understands Bulu and related African dialects, published the first popular article on the linguistics of drums, the complicated telegraphy whereby African drummers talk across the jungle."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00437956.1945.11... 01945: Drum-signaling in a West African Tribe, by George Herzog. "The use of musical instruments for purposes of signaling is very widespread, and definite systems of communication are or were based on it in native Africa, Middle and South America, and the Pacific. The African systems are the most elaborate and often serve for free conversation; their existence is well known to the anthropologist and the traveler, hut they have been little investigated from the linguistic point of view, and still less in their social setting."

https://pen.org/drums-that-talk/ (Gleick?) "For a long time Europeans in sub-Saharan Africa had no idea. In fact they had no idea that the drums conveyed information at all. In their own cultures, in special cases a drum could be an instrument of signaling, along with the bugle and the bell, used to transmit a small set of messages: attack; retreat; come to church. But they could not conceive of talking drums. (...) That result was a technology much sought in Europe: long-distance communication faster than any traveler on foot or horseback. Through the still night air over a river, the thump of the drum could carry six or seven miles. Relayed from village to village, messages could rumble a hundred miles or more in a matter of an hour."

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/50p1b7/til_t... "I spent a good chunk of my childhood in Nigeria and as a result of learning to play the drums I happened to pick up the talking drums as well and even though my spoken Yoruba is absolutely horrendous now (I can still understand), I can still speak Yoruba with the talking drums."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT3tIJzAkcc a short message with a transcription
by neepi | 2025-05-29 12:01:26+00:00
AWS free tier. S3+cloudfront has cost me $0.00 for the last year. This is incidentally the best price.

My (single page) personal site is HTML+CSS (no JS) based on a template generated by ChatGPT because I don't give a crap. Trying to make something that works on a mobile device and desktop is beyond my meagre skills. This worked fine.
by lippihom | 2025-05-29 12:01:41+00:00
Some hiring data points...

After I post a job to hire a developer or designer (freelance), I get one application every five minutes, until the job gets taken down. Say I leave the post up for a week, that means that I have 2,000 applications to sort through.

It is shocking to see the quality of inbound responses.

60% obviously don't read the job post, 10% read it but don't make an effort to do anything other than the bare minimum, 10% have a huge delta in skills vs expected salary, and the rest are a mixed bag but at least made an effort.

I think these numbers stack up pretty accurately across my day-to-day interactions with people in the world. 60% are totally checked out, 10% are doing the bare minimum, 10% show up but are maybe in the wrong role.

So 1 in 5 people can be expected to care and make some sort of impact.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-29 12:02:14+00:00
Ok, so we agree that manufacturing is pretty much out.

So how about service jobs? How about one of the lowest level service jobs imaginable --- taking orders at a fast food drive thru?

IBM and McDonalds spent 3 years trying to get AI to take orders at drive-thru windows.

Here are the results:

https://apnews.com/article/mcdonalds-ai-drive-thru-ibm-bebc8...
by pndy | 2025-05-29 12:02:21+00:00
It's a pain in the ass here with Polish Post with such screens - my signature doesn't even resembles one on the paper. Private delivery companies just call you to see if you're at home; you also have mobile apps and most of the time is possible to redirect packages to parcel machines. And these spawn like "shrooms after rain", as we say. They cared for codes, manual signing during pandemic but now - not really.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-29 12:02:25+00:00
I've long held that climbing Everest has become a gross display of wealth and vanity and basically nobody should do it. There's no glory in being the 4000th person to do so. It's not glamorous. You're basically climbing over trash and dead bodies to do it.

Often inexperienced people with too much money are putting themselves, their sherpas and other climbers are risk by doing so.

Using bottled oxygen already made this substantially easier. But this Xenon is on a whole new level. I went looking for the cost and found [1]:

> After a week, the Brits could be back at their desks at home. They still pay an introductory price of an undisclosed amount. In future, such a short trip to Everest will cost around 150,000 euros.

From my understanding, that's 50-100,000 more than usual. The whole thing just reeks of Oceangate.

And for what? To take a selfie at the top and to brag to you're equally vacous and wealthy friends? It would be more ethical to stay home and just Photoshop yourself into a photo. ChatGPT can probably do it for you.

Nepal is a very poor country. Being a sherpa is one of the few (locally) high paying jobs there are. Sherpas risk their lives for this. At least on K2 or Annapurna you're more likely to find experiernced and technically capable mountaineers who won't endanger your life for a selfie.

Everest is not a technically difficult climb, as far as I understand it. The death zone and general conditions make it a challenge. Negate those with Xenon and it's just a really expensive walk.

[1]: https://abenteuer-berg.de/en/with-xenon-to-mount-everest-and...
by therealpygon | 2025-05-29 12:03:05+00:00
Who knows how much they’ll make off the data they obtain from users and chat history data, but in this day and age, no one gets paid to integrate AI, they pay for it which means there is clearly some other goal. And I can tell you there is a reason he didn’t make this offer to Signal instead, where they wouldn’t have access to any chat history, and that it would mean xAI (at this point which looks more like a data harvesting company) becoming a “partner” would normally allow data to be handed over. In this case, however, that isn’t necessary since lTelegram’s privacy policy is basically, “we can use your data for whatever we want”, including selling it for 300 million and claiming it is the payment to integrate AI.
by jbverschoor | 2025-05-29 12:03:27+00:00
Python has replaced Java in many universities, and is used in other domains than CS.

Python caches compiled versions by default. (__pycache__) and simply starts faster.

Python is more a scripting language, similar to Ruby. Swift was late to the game, and is quite strict.

*performance is a feature*

And in particular perceived performance and startup performance (“lag”)

It’s one of the reasons for the success of Chrome, MySQL, Mongodb, and many others.
by therealpygon | 2025-05-29 12:03:57+00:00
Exactly. Which do people think users will be more accepting of: “we sold all your data and chats for 300 million” or “we got paid 300 million to integrate AI”.

This is a data sale, pure and simple. xAI certainly isn’t making their money off their LLM/inference. OpenRouter shows Grok at about a billion tokens a day while the top 20 account for 2.5 trillion per day.

I’ve suspected Elon expanded his failing strategy to include data brokering when he saw the opportunity to get access to everyone’s data via Doge. Hence the reason Elon is ready to step away now that Doge (many of which are xAI employees) has finished gaining access to the data from every government system. Quietly offering access to corporate and political clients to query the data of every single person via Grok seems like an easy way to generate some revenue when no one wants your AI.
I built a full SaaS without writing a single line of code using Cursor, Claude 4
by baranoncel | 2025-05-29 12:05:00+00:00
Over the past few weeks, I decided to test the limits of AI-assisted development by building PodGen.io - an AI podcast generator - without manually writing any code. Here's what I learned. The Setup Tools: Cursor IDE with Claude 4 (Sonnet) in "max mode" Cost: ~$300 extra for max mode (worth every penny) Product: Full-stack SaaS with Stripe payments, AI integrations, user auth, etc. What Actually Works The combination is genuinely impressive. I went from idea to deployed product entirely through natural language conversations. Claude handled: Next.js/React frontend with complex state management Supabase backend integration and database design Stripe checkout flows and webhook handling OpenAI API integration for script generation FAL.ai integration for voice synthesis User authentication and authorization Responsive design and mobile optimization SEO optimization and structured data Multi-language internationalization The Pain Points Rate Limits: Hit Claude's limits constantly. Had to pace development and sometimes wait hours to continue. Context Breaking: Long conversations (4-5 times) completely broke Cursor. Had to start fresh chats and re-explain the entire codebase structure. This was the biggest productivity killer. Debugging: When something broke, explaining the issue and getting the right fix took multiple iterations. A human developer would spot certain issues instantly. Complex Logic: Some business logic required very detailed explanations and multiple refinement rounds. What Surprised Me Integration Complexity: Setting up Stripe webhooks, handling async operations, managing user states - all handled correctly Code Quality: The generated code follows best practices, includes error handling, and is genuinely maintainable Architecture Decisions: Claude made sensible choices about file structure, component organization, and data flow The Result PodGen.io converts any content (YouTube, PDFs, blogs, etc.) into AI-generated podcasts. It has: Credit-based pricing system 50+ AI voices in 25+ languages Multi-format content processing Podcast distribution integration Full user dashboard and history Total development time: ~3 weeks of conversations with Claude. Key Takeaways It actually works for building complete products, not just prototypes Rate limits are the real bottleneck, not AI capability Context management in long projects needs better tooling Domain knowledge still matters - knowing what to ask for is crucial The $300 was worth it - max mode's capabilities justify the cost This isn't just "AI helping with coding" - it's AI doing the coding while you focus on product decisions and business logic. We're closer to natural language programming than I expected. Would be curious to hear others' experiences with similar approaches. The limiting factors seem more infrastructural (rate limits, context windows) than fundamental AI capabilities. Live at: https://podgen.io
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-29 12:05:06+00:00
This house has people in it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_House_Has_People_in_It

Alan Resnick seems to be of a similar mind as I am, and perhaps also as you? My favorite of his is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Forever_as_You_Are_Now_wi...
by fidotron | 2025-05-29 12:05:27+00:00
> Google plans to use AI to consume and replace the open web.

They've been boiling the frog here for a long time. The "open web" is a euphemism for the Google Chrome monoculture walled-garden-in-waiting. Google exert so much influence there that building on the web is in practice barely different than building on say iOS. You can do what you want if you don't want to make money, but if you do then you will have to play along with the big G.

My hunch is Google never psychologically recovered from Facebook absolutely wiping out G+, and they have been on a mission to ensure nothing like that ever happens again.
by kamaal | 2025-05-29 12:05:43+00:00
>>Not sure if meritocracy has been on a decline, or that we're now just more aware of it due to the internet.

As an Indian, let me tell you, to accept something is wrong, and then just being fine about it, and just adjust your life to bad situations is how the fall of societies starts.

Eventually everything becomes fine and acceptable, and you learn over time to adjust yourself to everything, like every bad thing ever.
by CoolCold | 2025-05-29 12:06:50+00:00
fio, used like

fio --rw=write --ioengine=sync --fdatasync=1 --directory=test-data --size=22m --bs=2300 --name=mytest

is very good approximation here on "real" iops - note on "fdatasync" - it easily finds out the consumer SSD 500 iops vs DC SSD with 30000 iops
by jasir | 2025-05-29 12:07:00+00:00
The current one looks quite nice to me, of course that's subjective :D The lighter lines on the home page are a bit harder to read, but if you consider it as a canvas to explore (i.e. click on random things) instead of an toc/index to find a specific page from, it's fun and serves the purpose.

I liked the heading fonts on the pages, "Austin News" according to Firefox. But then I looked it up for future use but it starts at 350$, so a bit steep for me :D

I used to have https://zaeem.dev/eye/ as my homepage for years, no text at all. Until I remade the site this year.
by Krasnol | 2025-05-29 12:07:25+00:00
> Most people don't want to read an article on travel advice when AI gives us much better and specific advice, with references, when we want it.

They may not want that now, they might want it back if they get used to the google AI experience for a bit longer.

The amount of false information I got from this thing in the short time it's been forced upon me is staggering. My brain already started to filter out this part of the search results.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-29 12:07:50+00:00
But even a in aggregate 30% increase in TFP can have massive implications on a job market, as is already being seen.

The issue is a lot of people (especially policymaking adjacent) have an incentive to either use a "skynet is coming" story or a "there is nothing happening" story.

The reality is it's somewhere in the middle, and plenty of white collar jobs are heavily ripe for significant reductions in headcount.
by eqvinox | 2025-05-29 12:08:05+00:00
That just means a different set of people can get stuck having to rename, i.e. whatever group doesn't include you. How confident are you that (assuming your project thrives) you'll be around in 10 years and have the project's best interests at heart?

Even the nicest and best people can change for the worse. One of the reasons to go for some foundation-like entity owning the name is that you can equalize out across multiple people in a meritocratic, democratic, demarchist, or whatever else process.

And even if you're incredibly sure you won't become a bad person: what happens if life hits you hard? A relative becomes disabled and you need money to care for them? Will you sell the trademark?
by sdiupIGPWEfh | 2025-05-29 12:08:39+00:00
We can barely afford 5 dimensions with our current operating budget, and it's just not going to scale, I'm afraid. Saddle up boys, I'm proposing we draw them on a _hyperbolic plane_. Two dimensions, fits on a coffee table, room for as many parallel lines as we'll ever need. Hell, some of them can be ultraparallel. Plus, we can deploy it on AWS non-End User Computing for Logical Infrastructure Deployment.
by sgarland | 2025-05-29 12:08:41+00:00
> but for some reason it doesn't apply to most people's databases.

It’s because RDBMS effectively hasn’t changed in decades, and so requires fundamental knowledge of how computers work, and the ability to read dense technical docs. If those two clauses don’t seem related, go read the docs for HAProxy, or Linux man pages, or anything else ancient in the tech world. It used to be assumed that if you were operating complex software, you necessarily understood the concepts it was built on, and also that you could read dozens of pages of plaintext without flashy images and effects.

That’s not to say that all modern software assumes the user is an idiot, or has terrible docs – Django does neither, for example.

> Network round trip? Scaling the instance aint gonna help. Row by agonizing row? Maybe some linear speedups as you get more IO, but cloud storage is pretty fucking slow.

See previous statement re: fundamentals. “I need more IOPS!” You have a 1 msec read latency; it doesn’t matter how quickly it comes off the disk (never mind the fact that the query is probably in a single thread), you have the same bottleneck.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-29 12:09:25+00:00
>My hunch is Google never psychologically recovered from Facebook absolutely wiping out G+, and they have been on a mission to ensure nothing like that ever happens again.

That's an orthogonal issue to me. IMHO, modern Google never really cared about social media platforms because it never really understood them. Otherwise it would have bought Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Tiktok, Twitter, early on before they became industry titans, the same way they bought Youtube, Maps, etc in the early days.

They've been coasting for so long on the search ad revenue money printer, that they're blind to everything else going on around them, so they're always reacting instead of proactive, but always too late.
by wrasee | 2025-05-29 12:09:42+00:00
All of that is true, but technological choices aside it doesn’t take away from all of the points made by the parent.

I took that as the somewhat the point, and I think it was insightful. Your app will still be worse, but worse as result of your poor technology choices, not the arguments made here. Put together it may still be a bad move, but you would still get the greenfield effect.