MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nextlevelwizard | 2025-06-25 05:59:52+00:00
This is going to be all over the place and possibly hard to follow, I am just going to respond in "real time" as I read your comment, if you think that is too lazy to warrant reading I completely understand. I hope you have a nice day.

WPM is not my limiting factor. Maybe the difference is that I am not working on trivial software so a lot of thought goes into the work, typing is the least time consuming part. Still I don't see how your 105 wpm highly descriptive and instructive English can be faster than just fixing the thing. Even if after you prompt your LLM takes 1ms to fix the issue you have probably already wasted more time by debugging the issue and writing the prompt.

So your "you lack engineering experience" was actually "you don't know LLMs well", maybe use the words you intend and not make them into actual insults.

I am not going to be pasting in any C++ spec into an LLM.

Yet when I checked your profile you have shipped one sprite image generator website. I find all these claims so hard to believe. Everyone just keeps telling me how they are making millions off of LLMs but no one has to the recipes to show. Just makes me feel like you have stock in OpenAI or something and are trying your hardest to pump it up.

I think the shaming and harassing is mostly between your ears, at least I am not trying to shame or harass you for using LLMs, if anything I want to have superpowers too. If LLMs really work for you that is nice and you should keep doing it, I just have not seen the evidence you are talking about. I am willing to admit that it could very well be a skill issue, but I need more proof than "trust me" or "1000 wpm".

I don't think I have made any claims about you, although you have used loaded language like "autism" and "lack of engineering experience" and heavily implied that I am just too dumb to use the tools.

>I'm trying to have a charitable take.

c'mon nothing about your comments has been charitable in anyway. No one is mad at you personally. Do not take criticism of your tools as personal attacks. Maybe the tools will get good, but again my problem with LLMs and hype around them is that no one has been able to demonstrate them actually being as good as the hype suggests.
by csomar | 2025-06-25 06:00:35+00:00
I am 67.87% certain they make it dumber/smarter during the day. I think it gets faster/better during non-business hours. This needs to be tested more to confirmed, though. However, they have exactly ZERO transparency (especially the subscription model) into how much you are consuming and what you are consuming. So it doesn't really help with the suspicions.
by jrflowers | 2025-06-25 06:03:37+00:00
You make an interesting point about that you do not care about energy usage at all, and I have completely forgotten about the point I made about being able to type sort into any computer without installing any software or connecting to the internet.

On the one hand the fact that people accept hallucinations is all the proof you need to indicate that chat bot usage is driven by feelings and not results, and on the other hand there’s a blog post that might’ve been written by a chat bot about how chat bot energy usage is pretty cool, actually, so who is to know anything about anything
by 9rx | 2025-06-25 06:03:45+00:00
> I get that you don't do any actual physical labor

Well, I personally do the physical labor (if you call riding around in an air conditioned tractor physical labor). You are right that the landowner doesn't.

> but don't you have to negotiate deals with labor suppliers (or laborers), seed/fertilizer suppliers, check on the quality of work and the condition of the land, facilities, and equipment?

That's on me, not the landowner. Why would the landowner do any of those things? Again, their only job is to count the money.

> then what's the ROI?

For me, mostly the fun. I enjoy it. I do also make pretty tidy financial profit doing it, which is admittedly a great bonus, but I expect I would still do it even if that weren't the case. Not everything in life has to be about money. Sometimes it's okay to bask in the pleasure of a hobby.

> It's hard to imagine that small-hold farming is as easy (and has similar returns) as buying an indexed fund

An index fund will, on average, provide greater returns than renting out your land, albeit with greater risk as greater returns expect. You wouldn't move to the country as some kind of get rich quick scheme.

But, if you've somehow already forgotten what we're talking about, when you are already living in the country for whatever reasons life has found you there, the land provides an income that offsets the cost of the necessary transportation.
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-25 06:03:48+00:00
According to the ahadith, a minority of Jews will ally with the false Messiah and persecute people throughout the world and cause corruption; and it will be this group that the Muslims will fight. Nothing about this calls for unrestricted violence.

> And you still haven’t responded to the original accusation of no true Scotsman.

I've already rebutted that, you only returned with an ipse dixit to say "no but actually Islam is really violent." What we're discussing here is towards deconstructing that point, so also rendering the claim of no true scotsman a moot point (doubly so).

Because you will never be able to make the leap from "Islam allows for violence in limited cases, such as cases of persecution and self defense" to "Islam is violent," without bastardizing disengenuity.

Also, you are quite the hypocrite aren't you? You repeatedly press me to respond to points (even after I responded to them), yet there is a multitude of points of mine that you left unaddressed, even stating that you're going to ignore them, giving me triple (clearly emotionally charged ragequitting) goodbyes, and then coming back to spew more garbage.

Is that why you slid away from the other thread to this one, so people who do not catch that thread do not see your manifest impotencies?
by SlowTao | 2025-06-25 06:03:59+00:00
If by "main measure" you mean what I consider to be the most important thing to me that would be to just live. To 'just be'. That is the real jewel of being in this universe.

If life is a race, and this is a big IF, it is to merely saunter maybe 100 meters at any speed. It doesn't matter what finishing position you come in so long as you just get there at your own pace. Others are convinced the 100-meter finish line is not real and that it is a marathon. Eventually they may find there is no other finish line, all the while trying to convince you that there is one.
by zeristor | 2025-06-25 06:04:12+00:00
I thought that had been discounted, as with many of the Blue Zone studies.

Due to birth records being lost in war time bombing, I just need to find a citation to support this beyond that of a few podcasts.

Værsgo:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/sep/ucl-demographers-wor...

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing...

Discussed here 9 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597415

Reddit discussion seems to tackle this research more critically:

https://old.reddit.com/r/longevity/comments/1fhcfvu/the_data...
by nextlevelwizard | 2025-06-25 06:04:26+00:00
I was talking about the Microsoft CEO quote everyone is misquoting. He said something to affect of "at Microsoft we have _some_ repos where up to 30% of the code is _generated_". This could mean they have one C++ repo for one tool that has 30% generated header files without any LLM usage at all. Of course that is probably not what he meant and the least generous view, but I find it extremely suspect to believe that any large company, much less Microsoft, would have third of their code produced by LLMs. I find it hard to believe any profitable software company has that high of a percentage.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-06-25 06:05:35+00:00
DaVinci Resolve also supports OpenEXR format with the added magic of LUT.

PNG is popular with some Commercial Application developers, but the exposure and color problems still look 1980's awful in some use-cases.

Even after spending a few grand on seats for a project, one still gets arrogant 3D clown-ware vendors telling people how they should run their pipeline with PNG hot garbage as input.

People should choose EXR more often, and pick a consistent color standard. PNG does not need yet another awful encoding option. =3
by vmayoral | 2025-06-25 06:05:48+00:00
It’s humans who:

- Design the system and prompts

- Build and integrate the attack tools

- Guide the decision logic and analysis

This isn’t just semantics — overstating AI capabilities can confuse the public and mislead buyers, especially in high-stakes security contexts.

I say this as someone actively working in this space. I participated in the development of PentestGPT, which helped kickstart this wave of research and investment, and more recently, I’ve been working on Cybersecurity AI (CAI) — the leading open-source project for building autonomous agents for security:

- CAI GitHub: https://github.com/aliasrobotics/cai

- Tech report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.06017

I’m all for pushing boundaries, but let’s keep the messaging grounded in reality. The future of AI in security is exciting — and we’re just getting started.
by menaerus | 2025-06-25 06:07:13+00:00
Round-trip between VRAM and GPU registers? That's what the cache hierarchies are for. I think you confused quite a bit of concepts here.

Moving data to and from VRAM is ~100ns of latency. Moving data from RAM to VRAM through PCIe 5.0 is 1-10us of latency. So, ~1 to ~2 orders of magnitude of difference.

And this is the reason why batching is used - you don't want to pay the price of that latency for each and every CPU-to-GPU request but you want to push as much data as you can through a single round-trip.
by poulsbohemian | 2025-06-25 06:08:18+00:00
>There was also this cozy, whimsical feeling of the classic Mac OS that got lost during the transition to Mac OS X

Yes. It was so personal and so fun to be able to customize things like sounds and window colors, and to have Oscar the Grouch sing every time you emptied the trash. That whimsy and wonder is exactly what's missing in modern computing; the devices are more personal, yet more sterile.
by whytevuhuni | 2025-06-25 06:08:18+00:00
I've used this for a toy game I was once working on [1], and it works pretty well for a while, but the problem is that sometimes the OS decides that your dlclose will be a no-op. I haven't ever found a way to force the OS to unload it, sometimes it just keeps it there.

[1] https://github.com/andreivasiliu/demimud/tree/master/netcore
by mkagenius | 2025-06-25 06:08:18+00:00
They have a concept of "rando" as you can see above. They don't usually say that out aloud.

Basically if you are new, the reviewer thinks "oh, a rando" and in his mind he has already downgraded the severity a bit.

It's unfortunately a kind of cartel at this point. Not full fledged and out but a low key cartel. They have a circle of friends whose csrf would also get better valuation. It's a sorry state.
by SlowTao | 2025-06-25 06:09:06+00:00
This has been a reasonable point to bring up. Renewables when they are first coming into the system represent only a small part of the energy supply. But as they get bigger, the swings in availability end up swinging the entire system around to a larger degree. This is usually where Gas plants take up the slack trying to balance out the system. Storage is the key.

I suspect this is an issue that looks worse in 'intuitive' foresight but not so bad in educated retrospective but we will not know until we pass through that point. I am but an armchair "expert" on this. Usually when something like this comes up, 15 people who know better than me will highlight something I was not aware of.
Show HN: A Simple Website Provides TikTok Tools – Useful for Osint
by jamiehad | 2025-06-25 06:11:05+00:00
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by bz_bz_bz | 2025-06-25 06:11:40+00:00
I never said ERCOT did not have failures. I'm in the industry and have been massively critical of ERCOT for caving to politics rather than following market rules when they arbitrarily decided to keep the market at the cap. PUCT actually had final say on repricing those hours and chose not to.

ERCOT also didn't have the authority to implement winterization recommendations from the 2011 report outside of the already existing NERC standards. You can blame the PUCT for that or blame FERC for not actually updating those standards until 2023.

However, you still seem to have missed (and demonstrated) my point by referencing Energy Transfer -- they are a midstream company who made 99% of their profits off of NG not power. Conflating their profit with ERCOT's power prices is the problem. People refuse to educate themselves on the difference between gas and power markets, so the TRC and its massively influential O&G lobbyists have made zero changes to the intrastate gas network since the winter storm. Why? Because every layman who has read a few articles and thinks they're an expert is solely focused on ERCOT.
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by SlowTao | 2025-06-25 06:12:59+00:00
Not surprised for two reasons.

1st. A lot of those that went into DOGE was following Musk in. With Musk out, a lot of them will leave with him.

2nd. The turn over in those near Trump is fairly high, at least that is my gut feeling. It seems like folks come and go a lot quicker than is typical but this could also just be that because Trump is good for media engagement, this stuff gets broadcast more.
by bizzz | 2025-06-25 06:13:30+00:00
Thanks for the detailed thoughts! You've given me a lot to chew on for the next version of this project.

I did briefly look at ERVs, but for a single room in an apartment building with central heating, that level of energy recovery is probably overkill. I'd be simulating the result of keeping the window slightly open, I don't mind the cold it's even better for sleep (and the heat is not a problem here).

But your core points about the system's location are a real lightbulb moment for me. Having the fan up by the window instead of as a trip-hazard on the floor would be a huge improvement.

I can remove the housing for the trickle vent. It's screwed on, so I can put it back later without violating my rental agreement. Then, I could 3D print a custom adapter to fit that opening perfectly, designed to hold one of the Noctua fans and a small HEPA filter like you suggest.

That feels like a much more elegant solution. Thanks for the inspiration! You've got the gears turning again.
by gametorch | 2025-06-25 06:13:41+00:00
I appreciate the reply.

What is everyone working on that takes more than five minutes to think about?

For me, the work is insurmountable and infinite, while coming up with the solution is never too difficult. I'm not saying this to be cocky. I mean this:

In 99.9999999999% of the problems I encounter in software engineering, someone smarter than me has already written the battle tested solution that I should be using. Redis. Nginx. Postgres. etc. Or it's a paradigm like depth first search or breadth first search. Or just use a hash set. Sometimes it's a little crazier like Bloom filters but whatever.

Are you like constantly implementing new data structures and algorithms that only exist in research papers or in your head?

Once you've been engineering for 5 or 10 years, you've seen almost everything there is to see. Most of the solutions should be cached in your brains at that point. And the work just amounts to tedious, unimportant implementation details.

Maybe I'm forgetting that people still get bogged down in polymorphism and all that object oriented nonsense. If you just use flat structs, there's nothing too complicated that could possibly happen.

I worked in HFT, for what it's worth, and that should be considered very intense non-CRUD "true" engineering. That, I agree, LLMs might have a little more trouble with. But it's still nothing insane.

Software engineering is extremely formulaic. That's why it's so easy to statistically model it with LLMs.
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-25 06:14:02+00:00
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

No where does it say "on US soil" or "for US Citizens," and that is absolutely 100% by design based on the founding fathers philosophy which can be read in the declaration of independence.

It states plainly and unqualified "make no law abridging the freedom of speech." This both asserts that there is a freedom of speech that exists outside of the government and that congress shall make no law abridging it.

In their philosophy, the government purposefully doesn't grant the right to freedom of speech, because the founding fathers argument was that their, and all people's, natural god given (literally) rights are why they were justified in rebelling against the British government -- that rights exist outside of, and above, the government.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-25 06:15:53+00:00
Been there, done that. I am so glad I don’t have to deal with all that insanity anymore. In the build farm I was responsible for, I was always happy to work on the Linux and BSD boxes. AIX and HPUX made me want to throw things. At least the Itanium junk acted like a normal server, just a painfully slow one.

I will never voluntarily run a bunch of non-Linux/BSD servers again.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-06-25 06:15:57+00:00
Claude Code is doing rounds right now. I picked up a personal project from a year ago (iOS app, not really a mobile eng here), and decided to go the rewrite with some new features to practice some LLM-skills. Honestly, the speed of development is so much faster compared to last year with Claude Code. It definitely helps that I generally know what needs to be done, so I can specify technicalities. And having a good E2E set up works as well.

But yeah, if Gemini with more context comes with a similar product, it could compete and win the developers.
by niemandhier | 2025-06-25 06:16:49+00:00
They will have to fix their attitude towards the people who build software before they can be successful.

In a typical German corp software developers even in RnD are not seen as an asset but as a mixture of line workers and support staff.

The problem is: The world best assembly line worker will not boost your companies performance in a measurable way, but a better dev will make a heavy impact in his project.

Nice example:

A friend of mine worked in RnD in a German DAX corp. C-Level regularly had them fix bugs in other projects. Why? RnD is the only department that can adapt its planing fast enough to fit in stupid side tasks. As a result the best people left, were replaced and the average skill of the department regressed to the mean.
by ViscountPenguin | 2025-06-25 06:17:53+00:00
I've never particularly liked go for cross platform code anyway. I've always found it pretty tightly wedded to Unix. Python has its fair share of issues on windows aswell though, I've been stuck debugging weird .DLL issues with libraries for far too long in my life.

Strangely, I've found myself building personal cross platform apps in game engines because of that.
Show HN: Devs deserve better. One prompt, one playground – done
by arinvedsinha | 2025-06-25 06:18:18+00:00
Hey HN!

I started building VIBESxCODED to bring everything I wanted as a developer into one space — prompt-based app generation, live preview, and deployment flows.

Still early, still building in public. Would love feedback — brutal honesty welcome.
by rusk | 2025-06-25 06:19:30+00:00
On your second point there is a further distinction between, can humanity create AGI and can a human design and implement an AGI.

At present we are churning out intelligent beings at an alarming rate with little understanding of what we are doing.

It’s a lot easier to imagine us creating an extended intelligence, manifestly without understanding it. Current work may even be a component of that.

It’s this second more pygmalion concept that a human mind could conceive of an artificial mind and create it from its machines, that I find a little fanciful.
Show HN: iCloud Drive Sync on Windows will not progress and how I fixed it
by instagib | 2025-06-25 06:22:40+00:00
I noticed my iCloud drive was not synchronizing. I fixed it then it happened again a week or two later. I decided to write a blog post of the steps to fix it for myself or others as all steps I found online did not work and I wasted a lot of time.
by yorwba | 2025-06-25 06:23:06+00:00
No. You can fit an exponential number of almost-orthogonal vectors into the input space, but the number of not-too-similar probability distributions over output tokens is also exponential in the output dimension. This is fine if you only care about a small subset of distributions (e.g. those that only assign significant probability to at most k tokens), but if you pick any random distribution, it's unlikely to be represented well. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to be much of an issue in practice and people even do top-k sampling intentionally.
by 9rx | 2025-06-25 06:25:06+00:00
> As a rule that just happenes to not work in any of the large metros of the country in question.

Large... metro? What? Where did you see me say "large metros as a rule..."? Perhaps you need to read it again? It clearly asserted "rural areas as a rule". You even literally quoted that exact bit in your response! How do you have absolutely no awareness of what is going on now?

> I've linked mine

You certainly did for some strange reason, but I have no idea why. It was rather bizarre. If I wanted to have a discussion with the FED, I'd go talk to it directly. I don't need you to act as a pointless middleman. That is a waste of your time and mine. I suppose I should have some appreciation for your obedient dog-like behavior as you deliver your chew toy to me with glee, but I really cannot find any reason to care. That's not what discussion forums are for. They are, surprisingly, for having discussions. I want to know what you have to say. If you have to rely on someone else to feed you what to say, why bother?
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-25 06:25:12+00:00
I love nushell. You can also query by friendlier things than index:

history | where exit_status == 127 | last | get duration 2sec 410ms

The syntax ends up very clean looking since the data going through the pipes is typed, and the error messages are top notch

× Types 'duration' and 'int' are not compatible for the '-' operator. ╭─[entry #47:1:2] 1 │ (history | where exit_status == 127 | last | get duration) - 10 · ───┬─── ┬ ─┬ · │ │ ╰── int · │ ╰── does not operate between 'duration' and 'int' · ╰── duration ╰────

(fingers crossed hn doesn't mangle that...)