MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-05-27 02:08:48+00:00
> 100% of all my usage of image generation is for artistic purposes that have nothing to do with the reproduction of or even the mimicry of existing art.

How? You're creating artwork that is based off of the training data and is meant to replicate a subset of it.

I think, just because you cannot pinpoint the exact art piece(s) that you are recreating doesn't mean that that isn't what you're doing.
by rlifer | 2025-05-27 02:09:00+00:00
The issue with nose pillow with Resmed or other CPAP is that I often rip them off from my face while sleeping, so I get to use CPAP only a couple of hours or even less. It may have to do with my stuffy nose, but that one is even harder to cure (yes, I use saline solutions to wash my nose, but it helps only so much).
by Barbing | 2025-05-27 02:09:57+00:00
Great reception here.

Based on your attitude I know I’m safe to note something, something potentially all but irrelevant in the coming years: as soon as I saw the artwork I did a reverse image search and concluded it was likely generated.

I am unable to articulate exactly why, but it seemed to take away from the piece. Weird huh? (non sarcastic)
by frelupin_ | 2025-05-27 02:11:17+00:00
Claude 3.7 and 4 are better for me than Gemini 2.5 for vibing with legacy code. Gemini 2.5 has some great solutions if you handhold it, but tends to make too many assumptions about what would be better which can tear things up as an agent, imo. In other words, Gemini is smarter, but less practical when working with existing code, from what I’ve experienced. To each their own, though.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-05-27 02:12:27+00:00
That's not at all what the brain does though.

What the brain does is closer to activating a bunch of different ideas in parallel. Some of those activations rise to the level of awareness, some don't. Each activation triggers others by common association. And we try to make the best of that thought soup by a combination of reward neurochemicals and emotions.

A human brain is nothing at all like a computer in terms of logic. It's much more like an LLM. That makes sense because LLMs came largely from trying to build artificial versions of biological neural networks. One big difference is that LLMs always think linguistically, whereas language is only a relatively small part of what brains do.
by const_cast | 2025-05-27 02:12:45+00:00
Conversely, if we're noticing what people actually do, you'll realize close to zero people who want to pursue computer science are doing it on their own.

And not due to a lack of information. The draw of education hasn't been access, not since the internet anyway. Structure, pacing, curriculum, schedule, and measurement cannot be recreated.

I've had many people tell me they're going to learn to program online. Almost all of them fail.

At the end of the day, we go home and we don't crack open a textbook. We sit and watch TV. Maybe we go for a walk or go to the gym. The vast majority of people do not have the mindset required to be self-educated.

We used to do the "everyone self-educate" thing. Most people couldn't read or write. Humans are unintuitive. You can't just give them access to things and expect results. They require accountability, they require structure. We're not machines, we're faulty fleshy creatures. Our reward feedback loops were never built for self-determination at this high of a level.
Web-Agent (AI Agent for web automation)
by jeomon27 | 2025-05-27 02:12:58+00:00
Web Agent is your intelligent browsing companion. It is built to seamlessly navigate websites, interact with dynamic content, perform smart searches, download files, and adapt to ever-changing pages with minimal effort from you. Powered by advanced LLMs and the robust Playwright framework, it transforms complex web tasks into streamlined, automated workflows that boost productivity and save time.

https://github.com/CursorTouch/Web-Agent

We are open to suggestions and contributions to make it way to better.
by gwbas1c | 2025-05-27 02:13:02+00:00
I keep myself updated enough. For certain details I rely on other team members to fill in my gaps; much like I fill in their gaps.

I'm also not a unicorn, nor is anyone else on my team. We're generalists with various amounts of career experience, and we all learn from each other. Our UI is neat and functional.

You do not need to be a unicorn to make a reasonably good looking web application as a full-stack developer. If our company lasts long enough where we need to make the UI super pretty, and need to optimize our backend to handle massive scalability, then we will seek more specialized developers and specialize ourselves.
by DogsOfCats | 2025-05-27 02:13:27+00:00
A Windows laptop can achieve similar battery life only during simple tasks.

One performance core in Apple Silicon uses about 5 watts, while a typical modern x86 laptop core consumes 25–30 watts.

One performance core in the most energy-efficient x86 chips is found in the Intel Core Ultra 7 268V, yet it still consumes 15 watts — three times more power with lower performance.

However, if the x86 CPU is idle or used infrequently, a laptop can reach similar battery life during tasks like reading text or watching videos.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-27 02:14:20+00:00
I took 3 CompTIA certification tests at a community college testing center. This was the procedure, more or less.

> When you take the test in a proctored testing center location they lock all of your stuff in a locker, check your hands, pockets, etc. They give you earplugs. You use their computer. They record you the whole time. They check your drivers license and take a fingerprint.

While attending there, I also took a virtual Calculus class. The instructor was based in the satellite campus, several miles away. The virtual class required a TI graphing calculator, used Pearson textbook & video lectures, and all the tests and quizzes were in Canvas. I worked from home or the main campus, where there was a tutoring center, full of students and tutors making the rounds to explain everything. I received tutoring every other week.

But then our instructor posted the details on our final exams. We were expected to arrive in-person, for the first time of the semester, on that satellite campus at specified times.

I protested, because everything I'd ever done was on the main campus, and I rode public transit, and the distance and unfamiliarity would be a hardship. So the disability services center accommodated me.

They shut me into in a dimly lit one-person room with a desk, paper, and pencil, and I believe there was a camera, and no calculator required. The instructor had granted an extended period to complete the exam, and I finished at the last possible moment. I was so thankful to be done and have good results, because I had really struggled to understand Calculus.
by PlunderBunny | 2025-05-27 02:14:57+00:00
Absolutely, and they admit this themselves. From their FAQ:

"the rate of degradation is very, very slow – untreated plastics of the type used in Future Posts degrade in the environment by 1.3um to 22um (0.0013mm/year to 0.022 mm/year for HDPE and LDPE respectively). For the mix of plastics typically in a Future Post, that means the post will degrade at a rate of around 10% of thickness of a hair every year"
by lzy | 2025-05-27 02:15:13+00:00
This feels like the culmination of a long trend. Google shifting from indexing the web to replacing it. The idea of an “AI answer mode” burying actual sources is worrying, especially for niche or emerging topics where LLMs hallucinate confidently. I’d love to see metrics on how often users click through to original sources under the new interface. At some point, if Google becomes too self-referential, it risks losing the very web it was built on. Curious whether this opens the door for competitors that prioritise raw links and transparency over synthesised summaries.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-27 02:16:04+00:00
Now we wait for the first instance of prompt-injection via self-eval.

Now that I think about it, a LLM-guided conversation that results in a review following a pre-defined grading scale/feedback form/whatever doesn't sound like a horrible idea. I'm not talking about hooking up MCP to pull in data or feeding it data about the employee to one-shot this. Rather the LLM asks a series of questions, with follow-ups where it makes sense, and tries to hone you responses into useful, actionable feedback.
by coffeefirst | 2025-05-27 02:16:45+00:00
It absolutely does work but it’s too vague. A person in this position really needs to go outside and talk to people but doesn’t where to start.

So, join a running club, or go to pub trivia, take an in person class, or volunteer. Pick literally anything you can show up once a week and there will be people doing stuff. It will change your life.
by Barbing | 2025-05-27 02:17:03+00:00
Maybe a decade ago I read from critics concerned a shift to an aggressively globalized supply chain was certain to wreak havoc on Boeing’s quality control.

e.g. safety-critical nuts and bolts used to be produced down the street, now you get a few nuts from say Thailand and a few bolts from Malaysia… the critics complained it was certain to lead to problems.

Was that a part of what you read about in that book?
by neom | 2025-05-27 02:18:23+00:00
Here I am for the millionth time, on HN, reminding everyone of an amazing gift: 2016 report by Nadia Asparouhova - "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure"[1] - Please do take the time to read and share it, it's been almost 10 years since Nadia published this work with the hope of inspiring some change outside of the OSS world, I'd suggest we need her words now more than ever. Thank you!

https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-report...
Ask HN: Why is the data transfer being used up so quickly?
by kristoff200512 | 2025-05-27 02:20:35+00:00
I'm using Vercel to deploy my application, and Neon as the database. However, ever since I switched my SaaS to use SSR, the database data transfer has been consumed very quickly—around 2GB per day. Are there any good optimization methods? Or are there other databases I could use?
by physicles | 2025-05-27 02:20:37+00:00
I was there for those changes too (I taught myself programming a couple years before we got internet), and I disagree that the internet and SO felt like cheating. No matter what resources you had, you could never get very far if you didn’t understand what your code was doing.

That’s no longer true. And that democratizes these skills, which I agree could be a great thing.

But do you agree that it’s important for kids to learn to think critically and systematically? Because it’s super hard to stay motivated to learn those things when LLMs do that for you (and you’re too young to tell when they’re doing a bad job of it).
by qwery | 2025-05-27 02:20:55+00:00
Why would that thrill linguists? I'm not saying it hasn't/wouldn't/shouldn't, but I don't see why this technology would have the dramatic impact you imagine.

Is/was the same true for ASCII/Smalltalk/binary? They are all another way to translate language into something the computer "understands".

Perhaps the fact that it hasn't would lead some to question the validity of their claims. When a scientist makes a claim about how something works, it's expected that they prove it.

If the technology is as you say, show us.
by gimmeThaBeet | 2025-05-27 02:21:23+00:00
I remember running the class with the giant radar dish on top to keep the comms up, running skirmishes till the wee hours of the morning. Definitely biased but I agree it was such a cool game.

The three-sided conflicts and aesthetics of the civilizations also felt a bit ahead of their time, with the NATO-like, Eastern Bloc, and the Middle East civs.

Though to be fair, before Chromehounds was Armored Core, so it's not like FromSoft's mecha pedigree is that obscure.
by lelandfe | 2025-05-27 02:22:39+00:00
Similar problems on my MBP, actually – just sans crashed tab. Zooming in and scrolling around on Chrome and Safari cause the divs to rerender (repaint?) and often not all of them even do! E.g. Chrome: https://imgur.com/a/VWCAL9G

Scrolling is fine in Firefox but extremely slow.
by afavour | 2025-05-27 02:23:05+00:00
Not a new thought but it always surprises me how much groupthink applies in these situations. Airbnb announced a new design and we’ve all just collectively accepted that it’s the future? …what?

I don’t hate the trend but I am underwhelmed. Just loaded up the Airbnb site and… it’s new icons. The actual UI I’m interacting with hasn’t changed a jot, though. Google’s Material UI stuff from a few days ago felt much more interesting.
by eru | 2025-05-27 02:23:13+00:00
> I don't see why this is so hard, other than the usual intergenerational whining / a heaping pile of student entitlement.

You know that grading paper exams is a lot more hassle _for the teachers_?

Your overall point might or might not still stand. I'm just responding to your 'I don't see why this is so hard'. Show some imagination for why other people hold their positions.

(I'm sure there's lots of other factors that come into play that I am not thinking of here.)
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-27 02:24:17+00:00
Yes, but those usability people have a tendency to design interfaces for the lowest common denominator. This often ends in disaster as the lowest common denominator often cannot even navigate a “usable” interface. Meanwhile, those who aren’t in that group feel almost infantilized.

I will take my extremely dense UI over an accessible interface that shows only 10 rows on a spreadsheet in 24 point font. Think of those with low vision!
by quantadev | 2025-05-27 02:24:25+00:00
Hacker News has so little capability, almost any experienced developer using a modern AI Coding Agent could replicate the entire thing in a weekend, and perhaps in a single day.

I'm not saying it's bad, or criticizing anyone. I mean it does what it does, and it works, and people like it. But no one should care what technology they're using because there's just nothing impressive going on from a technical perspective.
Show HN: I made a running app that turns your runs to a virtual garden
by Utkarshn101 | 2025-05-27 02:25:38+00:00
I started running 5 years ago and it completely changed me. Recently, I decided to train for my first marathon and needed something more than just tracking my runs to motivate me. I noticed all the apps currently available are just trackers and route finders, but nothing has solved the problem of consistency. So I thought of combining the basic idea of the Forest app with running and created a small app for myself which would reward me with plants and trees for my runs.

I am not a mobile developer but then i came across Capacitor. Since I knew Next.js and have been working with it for the past 2 years, I built the app with it. I started using it and showed it to some of my friends and they really liked it. The gamification gave me a mental boost of planting more trees and plants in my virtual garden and just seeing it flourish made me happy. Then I decided to publish it on Play Store and also built it for iOS devices as many of my friends had iPhones. It took weeks to build and release them after brutal and lengthy reviews from both the stores.

Running has taught me to keep moving further, one step at a time and the journey of building the app was just like that. I wanted to share the app with all the people who are just starting out running and with the experienced folks who want to make their runs mean something.

The app is Run&amp;Grow: https://runandgrow.com
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-05-27 02:26:36+00:00
This is what happened. I was testing claude 4 and asked it to create a simple 1K LOC fyne android app. I have my repos stored outside of my linux user so the work it created was preserved. It essentially created a bash file that cd ~ && rm -rf / . All settings reset and documents/downloads disappeared lmfao. I don't ever really use my OS as primary storage, and any config or file of importance is backed up twice so it wasn't a big deal, but it was quite perplexing for a sec.
by potholereseller | 2025-05-27 02:26:47+00:00
I am only aware of one other chat app that doesn't use public identifiers: <https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/>. I hope more chat apps adopt this, because it's absolutely necessary to maintain sanity online in the long-term.

FWIW, it's better to release source code early than to make it perfect. No rational person will judge your code quality; a rational person would just submit pull requests.
by eru | 2025-05-27 02:26:48+00:00
I want to agree with your point, but also: someone who's middle-class enough to make it to uni in the first place won't cause much trouble for society.

Paternalism in the sense of 'we know what's better for you than you do' is perhaps justified for those people who really don't know better. But I don't think we should overextend that notion.
by _boffin_ | 2025-05-27 02:27:25+00:00
I’m finishing up some hardening features and some additionally functionality right now. It’s “maintainable” par se, but I will be going through it and cleaning it up a lot. It’s a Django application. It likes to write out large single files. Already went through to break things up into similar views and functionality.

And as for security., were they even caring about it? Were they asking good questions? Reading about things? Learning ways to secure things?

If someone blindly follows what it gives you, something interesting will happen at some point. Use it as an enhancer.
by TychoCelchuuu | 2025-05-27 02:27:28+00:00
Decades of research into learning shows that "desirable difficulty" is not, as you put it, "just a fetishized relic of an agrarian education system designed to churn out obedient workers, not creative thinkers." Rather, difficulty means you are encountering things you do not already understand. If you are not facing difficulties then your time is being wasted. The issue is that AI allows people to avoid facing difficulties and thus allows them to waste their time.

You think we will make progress by learning to use AI in certain ways, and that assignments can be crafted to inculcate this. But a moment's acquaintance with people who use AI will show you that there is a huge divide between some uses of AI and others, and that some people use AI in ways which is not creative and so on. Ideally this would prompt you to reflect on what characteristics of people incline them towards using AI in certain ways, and what we can do to promote the characteristics that incline people to use AI in productive and interesting ways, etc. The end result of such an inquiry will be something like what the author of this piece has arrived at, unfortunately. Any assignment you think is immune to lazy AI use is probably not. The only real solution is the adversarial approach the author adopts.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-27 02:28:19+00:00
>>>> consider a 'cube' of fins of this stuff sitting in shade with a collection bucket underneath it.

There is no cube. The droplet's are attached strongly to the surface.

If the droplets drop to a cube, you can replace the cube with a cotton mat and let the water evaporate and get a low temperature mat. And then use the difference of temperature to generate electricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator and turn on a lamp. And now you are breaking the second law of thermodynamics.

Consider a typical unplugged dehumidifier with Calcium Chloride. It generates water that drops to a cube, but it's salt water that evaporates less than fresh water, so you can't do the trick.

If you use silica gel, the water is trapped inside the material, so there is no cube.

With this new material the droplets are on the surface, but they refuse to fall down.

With an AC you get a cube full fresh water, but it obviously work only while plugged, so there is no magic.

> And while it may sound like nonsense it was reproduced in another lab [1].

They reproduced the visible droplets in the surface of the material. In neither lab they had a cube filing process. The sentence you quoted in [1] is very misleading.
by marssaxman | 2025-05-27 02:28:38+00:00
If it's working for you, don't let the negativity get you down! A year of daily Duolingo got me far enough along that I can now generally follow YouTube videos, news articles, and Reddit threads in the language I've been learning, with the occasional dip into Google Translate for unfamiliar words or phrases. The feeling of being able to just listen or read, and not have to consciously translate, felt like a door opening up in the world - a powerful motivation to keep working at it. Duolingo may not work for everyone, but in my experience there really has been value in it.
by kaibee | 2025-05-27 02:28:43+00:00
Yeah, but isn't text to image kinda the perfect tool for creating certain UI? The point of an icon is to compress/transform some idea/action/whatever into an image that communicates exactly what it does/what it represents. And often the thing you want an icon for isn't some concrete concept you can represent with 5 lines, but a label that language has converged on to describe a broad but fuzzy category of stuff.

Like, if you have an eCommerce store and you want an icon for mops, doesn't it kinda make sense to take your top 100 selling mops and blend them together into an icon?
by elevaet | 2025-05-27 02:28:46+00:00
- Libreoffice

- Internet Archive

- Wikipedia

- Bandcamp - a bit off-topic but the music industry has become an exponentially distributed winner-takes-all game. I resist by buying underground music on Bandcamp - it's an exemplary web platform, gives generous cuts to the artist, and you own the files. Even if I only listen to the song a couple times it feels good knowing 80% of the money is going straight to talented artists and 20% is going to a beacon of hope on the internet. Money spent on Bandcamp feels good.
by ketzo | 2025-05-27 02:30:58+00:00
While this article is a little fluffy and overstated, I do share the overarching sentiment — UIs for the vast majority of products should be at least a little fun.

“Delightful” UI/UX has become a cliché at this point, but it really does make me happy to see an element of craft and intention in the software I use, and stuff like these detailed little icons accomplishes that well!
by hbsbsbsndk | 2025-05-27 02:31:04+00:00
There's a few levels going on here:

- technologists and startup wannabes feeling like HN is "underground" because of the stripped down aesthetic and weird tech stack

- out of touch VCs who are successful because of money and connections but want to cosplay as technical

- the end users of the startups, who are fed the enshittified products funded by the VCs and created by the technologists
by nosefurhairdo | 2025-05-27 02:31:17+00:00
I'm unconvinced. The article cites Airbnb and "the internet" as evidence:

> After Airbnb showed off their redesign, the internet exploded with soft, dimensional, highly detailed icon sets prompted into existence using generative AI tools.

One company's redesign + random proofs of concept does not indicate a real trend, and the idea that LLMs make designing with dimensionality in mind more accessible is dubious.

Good design requires consistency. High dimensionality makes consistency harder to achieve. LLMs perform better when there are fewer design nuances to consider. Additionally, we can expect LLMs to reinforce existing trends, as they're all trained on what exists today.