MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sysmax | 2025-06-25 15:52:17+00:00
I think, there are different niches. AI works extremely well for Web prototyping because a lot of that work is superficial. Back in the 90s we had Delphi where you could make GUI applications with a few clicks as opposed to writing tons of things by hand. The only reason we don't have that for Web is the decentralized nature of it: every framework vendor has their own vision and their own plan for future updates, so a lot of the work is figuring out how to marry the latest version of component X with the specific version of component Y because it is required by component Z. LLMs can do that in a breeze.

But in many other niches (say embedded), the workflow is different. You add a feature, you get weird readings. You start modelling in your head, how the timing would work, doing some combination of tracing and breakpoints to narrow down your hypotheses, then try them out, and figure out what works the best. I can't see the CLI agents do that kind of work. Depends too much on the hunch.

Sort of like autonomous driving: most highway driving is extremely repetitive and easy to automate, so it got automated. But going on a mountain road in heavy rain, while using your judgment to back off when other drivers start doing dangerous stuff, is still purely up to humans.
by sachinag | 2025-06-25 15:52:19+00:00
Thanks Chris!

"The Google Cloud Dashboard is a mess, and they haven't fixed it in years." Tell me what you want, and I'll do my best to make it happen.

In the interim, I would also suggest checking out Cloud Hub - https://console.cloud.google.com/cloud-hub/ - this is us really rethinking the level of abstraction to be higher than the base infrastructure. You can read more about the philosophy and approach here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-developme...
by dkarl | 2025-06-25 15:52:39+00:00
Granted this probably isn't the parallel application that the other poster was envisioning, but it can be extremely useful when a computation depends on a large number of I/O-bound tasks that may fail, like when you are servicing a request with a high fan-out to other services, and you need to respond in a fixed time with the best information you have.

For example, if you need to respond to a request in 100ms and it depends on 100 service calls, you can make 100 calls with a 80ms timeout; get 90 quick responses, including two transient errors, and immediately retry the errors; get eight more successful responses and two timeouts; and then send the response within the SLA using the 98 responses you received.
by roarcher | 2025-06-25 15:52:51+00:00
I think there are actually two separate axes here, one for the meaningfulness of the job, and one for the behavior of management. There are lots of companies where the work is personally fulfilling (level 3) but the bosses are in it for themselves (level 1 or 0). From what I've heard, SpaceX would fall in this category for me, as would many non-profits.
by deadbabe | 2025-06-25 15:52:59+00:00
These apps will look dated in a few years, don’t waste your time. You’re just having fun playing around making old shit that could have made you a lot of money 10 years ago but is now just a weekend project. That’s the way things go in tech. Starry-eyed dreamers will let their imagination run wild, but they’re the laggards, the industry is already thinking ahead.

The next generation of apps isn’t going to look like the previous gen. No beautiful UIs and fancy CSS. No UI at all.

Instead, everyone will have some kind of platform like Cursor, but instead of just coding, it’s for everything.

Subscribing to new services for your AI to use will be the equivalent of downloading apps from an AppStore to your phone.

Then you can just say things like “fuck this person! AI, give me an OSINT profile of this Redditor!” and since your AI has the osint app it compiles the info instantly and says “here, damn”. No need to open an app, just straight info into your brain as quickly as possible.

AI has clearly made us tired of googling endlessly for info on random websites, so why are we still opening up apps to do various tasks? Because we want to see pretty interfaces? Get real. It’s time for the UNIX philosophy to go mainstream. Start thinking of how your product can minimize time to satisfaction, graphical interfaces get in the way of satisfaction.

The only problem is we currently don’t have a single unifying platform like an iPhone or something to consolidate a user base, but it will come. Start planning for that day so you can launch new services on day 1. It will be a gold rush.

And in the end, a lot of people will find they will struggle with coming up with good AI app ideas, because 80% of their idea was just putting a pretty interface in front of something complex. That’s how you know it was mostly a bad idea.
by firefax | 2025-06-25 15:53:19+00:00
Jokes aside, at least your examples were formed prior, unlike ISIS the payment system :-)

>In November 2010, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon officially announced a joint venture known as Isis, which planned to develop a near-field communications-based mobile payments platform. The venture also announced partnerships with Discover Financial for access to its point-of-service network, and Barclaycard as a card issuer. The company stated that it planned to "introduce its service in key geographic markets during the next 18 months"... in September 2014, the service was renamed "Softcard", as the name "Isis" had gained negative connotations due to its association with the terrorist organization

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_changes_due_to_the_Islami...
by os2warpman | 2025-06-25 15:53:54+00:00
This is an earnest request. Please help me understand the mindset of people who fall for pig butchering scams.

The thought of giving money to a stranger who I met via a dating app or other social media platform who shifted the conversation to WeChat and asked me to wire money to a bank account is so incomprehensible to me that the mind of someone who would do that is entirely different to how mine is constructed physically, chemically, and electrically to such a degree that it is difficult for me to even believe that it exists.

I am not even particularly financially literate. In college. I barely scraped by my statistics class, took no finance or business classes, and the only formal financial literacy education I have ever received was a single one hour course given to me by the US Army in late 2001 when they announced the TSP (401k for military) was coming where the only takeaways were “compounding interest is magic” and “put your money into a retirement account and don’t look at it until you’re a decade out from retirement”.

To me, believing an unsolicited stranger who is offering you an investment opportunity like what pig butchering scams are will make you rich is the same exact thing as walking out of a rundown gas station that also sells nunchucks, bongs, and ninja throwing stars with a little baggie of pills that have a tiger on the label thinking that they’ll turn you a super sex machine.

Is it desperation?

Profound financial illiteracy that exceeds mine by several orders of magnitude?
by moffkalast | 2025-06-25 15:54:32+00:00
Yeah I complained about this on the framework subreddit when I first heard of the FW12, asking for reasons and expectedly got downvoted into oblivion. Apparently expecting them to use something mildly recent is too much to ask for and it's supposed to be a cheapshit student laptop aimed at schools or whatever. Wouldn't be as bad if it weren't Intel's worst CPU gen in recent memory, FW probably got a bargain box deal on them.

Meanwhile the HX370 is still warm from the oven and already in the FW13, linux drivers aren't even ready yet with compatibility complaints aplenty. Not to mention the FW Desktop with the AI Max which was the first launch of that chipset worldwide.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-25 15:54:32+00:00
> So I think we will need a different detection mechanism. Maybe something from the real world, some type of ID, or even micropayments. I'm not sure, but it's clear that bot detection is at the opposite, and currently losing, side of the AI race.

I think the most likely long-term solution is something like DIDs.

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

A small number of trusted authorities (e.g. governments) issue IDs. Users can identify themselves to third-parties without disclosing their real-world identity to the third-party and without disclosing their interaction with the third-party to the issuing body.

The key part of this is that the identity is persistent. A website might not know who you are, but they know when it’s you returning. So if you get banned, you can’t just register a new account to evade the ban. You’d need to do the equivalent of getting a new passport from your government.
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2025-06-25 15:54:57+00:00
You are not wrong.

The article is more of an intro piece for newcomers and doesn't discuss at all the state of the art or where the competition is--the high end of the market is pretty saturated already but the low end is wide open.

There is a bit of a spread in the market, and the specific detection techniques are ofc proprietary and dynamic. Until you have stewed on it quite a bit, it is reasonable to assume everything you can think of has a- been tried b- is either mainstream or doesn't work well c- what working well means is subtle.

Bots are adversarial and nasty ones play the field. Sources of truth are scarce and expensive to consult, and the costs of false positives are felt acutely by the users and the buyers, vs false negatives are more of a slow burn and a nagging suspicion.
by busterarm | 2025-06-25 15:55:31+00:00
I feel like startup culture changed a lot after like 2011ish. Risk tolerance isn't really there among the employees anymore, but that's fine because early stage employees aren't getting compensated appropriately anymore anyway.

I felt like I got into this for the promise that coworkers would start new businesses and there would be all of this opportunity and none of that has materialized.

Granted, I worked with Tom Lehman before he founded Genius, but that's a pretty singular case. And another coworker from that job founded a chain of kickboxing gyms. I guess I have loads of ex coworkers who founded crypto scam shit over the years though, but the vast majority of people just moved up corporate ladders.

Maybe things would be different if I worked in SV, but my experience with tech in NY/DC has generally been that it's dominated by an extremely risk-averse group of the silver-spoon class on one side and get rich quick schemers on the other.
by garciasn | 2025-06-25 15:55:59+00:00
We literally target advertisements in lookalike audiences based on behavioral profiling from on-site and in-store actions. It's been like this for more than a decade in my job; it's literally what I do for a living. But this has been happening with RFM direct mail for DECADES.

One major clothing retailer I worked with for 4+ years was big on promotions, particularly via direct mail. Those scratch-off coupons were not random; they were specifically targeted to individual customers based on their prior behavior.

For example:

- Customer A historically buys when they get a 30% coupon; test them with a 20% and see if they bite, but if not, give them the 30% and get some money.

- Customer B will always buy with almost ANY discount but never without one; give them the lowest one most of the time, but occasionally give them a higher one because it keeps them interested.

- Customer C will buy any time, but we need to keep them hooked so we send them the lowest one all the time.

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I just don't know why people are surprised that this is happening at a bigger scale in app; it's baffling to me.
by em-bee | 2025-06-25 15:56:08+00:00
well here is the proof to the contrary: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/X11Libre#Disclaimer

Summary Replace the X.Org X11 Xserver (xorg-x11-xserver) with the X11Libre (XLibre) Xserver, an actively maintained fork. Disclaimer The Change Owner does NOT share or endorse upstream's political views! Given that those can be found even in the upstream project-wide README.md, the Change Owner feels obliged to make this clarification.
by exiguus | 2025-06-25 15:56:33+00:00
The marketing is good. Especially on LinkedIn, for non technical people. But I am not convinced. Lovable is a nice Website or App builder. Nothing for professionals, unless they want to build an prototype. Even building MVPs is nearly impossible. It's like v0 from Vercel or anything you can do with other Agents like Claude or Co-Pilot. Lovable is promising a bit to much for my taste.
by rurp | 2025-06-25 15:56:39+00:00
Well I've driven Tesla's many times as two of my immediate family members own one and I find the software absolutely terrible, it's the worst UX of any vehicle I've ever driven. The move to hide basic functionality, often safety related, in menus and non-standard places is terrible. On top of that they change the interfaces without warning and move things around. I've seen even the vehicle owners get stumped on how to do basic things like adjust the steering wheel position or set the windshield wipers correctly in the rain. Even Tesla's own online documentation was wrong the one time I went there after I was unable to figure out how to make a basic adjustment.

That company really loves form over functionality and mistakes gimmicks for features.
by nemomarx | 2025-06-25 15:56:48+00:00
They butter you up for a long while before they get to the offer - that's the distinction from normal scams. They act as a friend and confidant for weeks, maybe flirt, and when the pig is "raised" they move to the slaughtering process

so it's not a stranger, it's "your close online friend says they have a good retirement fund and it might do better than yours, would you try it out?"
by hinkley | 2025-06-25 15:57:16+00:00
I have manned a booth at a trade show twice in my younger days. When you’re a little fish at a trade show, you get people chatting with you not because they’re interested in your product, but to gather more data about where the industry is and where it is going. We actually tried not to engage them too much because it distracts from other people who might actually be interested.
by account42 | 2025-06-25 15:57:16+00:00
Well the pragmatic take of many users (myself included) is to stick with X11 because Wayland absolutely is not a polished product and likely won't be before being declared obsolete by the NIH crowd.

Of course, newer KWin versions also add many odd issues with X11 so I'm sure they will bug equally buggy soon enough and users can finally switch without such concerns.

> The most close analogue I can think of that most in the HN audience are familiar with is probably the Python 2->3 transition and decision to clean thing up at the expense of backward compat. To this day, you will of course find folks arguing emotionally on either side of the Python argument as well.

Yes, that was and still is a huge clusterfuck and prime example of things not to do - precisely because it is full of completely arbitrary compatibility breaks.
by katmannthree | 2025-06-25 15:57:18+00:00
From your careful word choice you know this but I'd like to draw attention to the specifics here. I'm not sure if it's actually soldered on but RAM is on-package like apple's M-series chips, unlike what used to be the case where soldering ram to the board was a choice made by the laptop mfgs.

Here's there's no choice to be made other than not using the chips. And unfortunately (although there are some benefits), it's probably not going to be just a few generations but a trend for high end processors going forward.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-25 15:57:18+00:00
I'm a non-tech worker in a non-tech industry, let me state two things:

- Software today is written to cover as many use cases with as many features to target as many users a possible.

- End users very often only use a tiny slice of the program's capabilities, but still pay for the entire program.

This creates a situation where the people writing software see it as a monumental undertaking to get good functional programs (it is), and end users see programs as having annoying learning curves with lots of bloat and "unnecessary" features.

LLMs do an excellent job of fixing this for end users because it allows them to easily create a program that does the handful of tasks that they normally need to use MegaSoftware for. And it's tailor made exactly for the use case. And the LLM can tell you exactly how to use it.

I can give a brief example where I used gemini to create a CAD file transposition tool that utilized a simple GUI tailor made for the files my company works with. This allowed us to forgo a (very) expensive CAD software package to work through converting our archive of files. A probably 2M LOC program could be skipped because we only needed 3k LOC functionality.

I really cannot stress enough how often this is the case, and why SWEs see LLMs as weak tools while end users see them as gods.

There will still be a need for huge software packages in the future, but I know I never again have to pay for a huge class of "here is a large solution space that covers your small scope problem" software.

To bring it home, loveable understands this, an sees that the futures has lots of non-tech people "writing" software. Standard IDEs are not the tools your mom will use to make a "Friends and family birthday reminder" app.
by magic_hamster | 2025-06-25 15:57:25+00:00
This comes in a great timing to pair with the recent release of a modernized "edit" tool from the ms-dos days. You can now download edit for mac, linux and windows and enjoy the simple and nostalgic editor's remake. Personally I quite like it, the shortcuts are super easy. It's a bit barebones but it is so easy and accessible that it might replace nano for me in certain use cases.
by pjbster | 2025-06-25 15:57:46+00:00
Government IT spending doesn't follow the same fiscal rules as your basic household budget. It's not the case that the government has a finite pot of money to spend and when it's gone it's gone.

Because, when the UK government hands it out to the private sector, it gets the money back. All of it. Except, along the way, that money gets exchanged in lots and lots of transactions which the government skims parts off as VAT, Corporation Tax, Income Tax, NI contributions, various duties, plus a million other levies.

If the government "saved" money by choosing efficient suppliers with smaller headcounts and tighter cost controls it would cut off millions from the treasury coffers. Taxes which are desperately needed to cover the UK government's rising interest bill (debt is something like 95% of GDP as of 2025).

Huge behemoths like Fujitsu and Capgemini and IBM actually help to drive the UK economy in its ever more desperate drive for "growth" (i.e. greater tax revenue) and we can expect more, not less, wonga to be unloaded on them to provide crude "value" from which those precious taxes can be distilled back out.
by sombragris | 2025-06-25 15:57:59+00:00
Paraguayan, living in Asunción. Interesting, yet a bit simplistic, take. Things in Paraguay are much more complex and nuanced than they seem at first sight.

Asunción downtown is "incoherent" as the OP said, but one of the factors is that most historic buildings in it are concentrated in the hands of a very few landlords. The buildings, since they are historic, cannot be demolished, and property taxes for downtown are quite high. So, the landlords leave them to rot, building new things after the buildings fall down due to neglect, taking advantage of the fait accompli.

That remark about "con factura or sin factura?" (invoice or no invoice) is not longer a thing. Most businesses now give you a legal invoice as a matter of course.

Anyway, nice to see my hometown featured on HN.
by ellenhp | 2025-06-25 15:59:14+00:00
I've been treated to the the "you're so beautiful, do you have a boyfriend" act about 2% of the time[0] I get into a stranger's car pretty much across the board, which makes me a little bit skeptical about whether these companies do meaningful oversight. It's possible that these incidents go mostly unreported though. I didn't report mine.

As an aside, this is why I generally trust public transit more whenever it's an option. The worst case scenario is just so much less sinister when there are other people around than it is in a car alone with a stranger.

[0] once in a lyft in seattle, the other in a taxicab in barcelona. figuring I've taken about 100 lifetime solo car rides with strangers which is probably an overestimate.
by egypturnash | 2025-06-25 15:59:36+00:00
hmm, maybe

"social media is for losers, and I'm a winner!"

might be both comedic and positive?

Maybe that's a little too close to the WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS! splash screens that dominated the video games of my youth. We all snickered at those and I don't think it made a bit of difference. Dunno. Heck of a thing to holler when you're on the bus or whatever before you can get your fix, that's for sure.
by ndiddy | 2025-06-25 16:00:40+00:00
The reason why I brought it up was that Lunar Lake was specifically designed to make an x86 offering that has comparable battery life with chips from Qualcomm and Apple. It's not a standard marginal generational improvement, for light office tasks (the type of use case this laptop is intended for) you get around 17 hours of battery life vs the previous generation's 10 hours (see benchmark results here: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2463714/tested-intels-lunar-... ).
by wagwang | 2025-06-25 16:00:47+00:00
Uber/lyft pricing models are extremely unfair. They "purchase" marginal rides and marginal driver hours using bonuses and meaning those bonuses go towards riders and drivers who are the most price sensitive, like a mom who only drives if the money is good. But for the driver who drives 10hrs rain or sun, they rarely get bonuses because their hours are static.
by xdennis | 2025-06-25 16:01:04+00:00
Linguistic prescriptivism has nothing to do with it.

English has both pronunciations for "gi" based on origin. Giraffe, giant, ginger, etc from Latin; gift, give, (and presumably others) from Germanic roots.

Using the preferred one is just a matter of politeness.

Also, it's quite ironic to prescribe "linguistic prescriptivism" as wrong.
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by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-25 16:02:35+00:00
> they don't close the time gap

During peak hours maybe, or in very poorly designed or overcrowded cities, but ultimately if everyone is using the same roads then you will eventually sit in the same traffic if you're trying to get to the same places? Travel time might not be that much longer but it will be longer

> It would be fascinating to hear from those who gave all three types of places a fair shake and still settled on the suburbs in the end

I am one of those people. I grew up in suburbs, my family moved to the countryside in my teens, and I spent my 20s in dense urban areas, settled in the suburbs now

When I lived in the country I did often joke with my friends that I could be anywhere in the city in 20 minutes faster than they could, because I could get far north or far south faster than going through the city

But the tradeoff was that 20 minutes was a hard minimum. I could not get anywhere faster than that really