MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-06-03 04:00:48+00:00
Tbf, NZ had been in a recession until this past quarter, and NZ was never that hot of a tech hub compared to a number of hubs in Australia, let alone the rest of APAC.

And this article appears to be about the immigrant Chinese community in NZ, who would probably be at a further disadvantage as they would require additional sponsorship from employers.
by closeparen | 2025-06-03 04:01:05+00:00
The thing that makes an agent special is making some kind of effort to gather the relevant context before generating. The quality of the edits from the "agent" panel in Cursor/Copilot/etc is quite a bit higher than the type-ahead suggestions or the inline prompt stuff.

Bizarrely though, it seems to be limited to grep for the moment, doesn't work with LSP yet.
by mindwok | 2025-06-03 04:01:55+00:00
I am pretty exhausted with reading the cynical takes on AI lately. Like, I get it, but ugh.

Yes, the tech isn't perfect yet. Yes, it means existing industries will be displaced. Yes, it threatens to undermine the identities we have built as useful artists, programmers, data analysts, whatever. It is a scary, uncertain future, and on some days I am overcome with dread about what it means for me.

But ffs, we will figure it out. This technology, if it continues to improve at the pace it has, will open the door to us solving previously intractable problems - problems like curing cancer, endless energy and nuclear fusion, making us 100x more productive at building great housing and infrastructure. Let's get on board and make this thing a success, not fight it every step of the way because we want to preserve some basically arbitrary state of society.
by jmyeet | 2025-06-03 04:02:20+00:00
Everyone in New Zealand is struggling unless you've been there for 10-20+ years (when you could still afford a house) or you're an immigrant who sold a house in your home country and thus you can afford a house.

The average wage in NZ is NZ$61k and the average house price is NZ$908k. This is absolutely unsustainable.

This same pattern is playing out to various degrees in Australia, the UK, pretty much anywhere in Europe (certainly Western Europe), Scandanavia any any large city in the US.

And as far as I can tell there's absolutely no serious political opposition to any of this happening in any of these countries. None. Your political choices are between the extreme neoliberalism with lots of racism and the slightly milder neoliberalism with slightly less overt racism.

This is all capitalism working as intended. Every part of this is a series of intentional policy changes designed to transfer wealth from the poor to the ultra-wealthy. Housing is being hoarded and artifically constrained in supply. People are being loaded up with student debt, medical debt and mortgage debt where we careen ever closer to the South Asian brick kilns.
by etbebl | 2025-06-03 04:03:07+00:00
Isn't writing an article like this just daring someone to make the system in question more cursed, more likely to produce errors, harder to reason about, etc.? In the same spirit as, "well technically this common assumption about C behavior is undefined, so let's add some nasal demons to save 2 us (and make me look clever)"?

Am I missing something or is this just evil? I guess I'm taking it too seriously.
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by benzguo | 2025-06-03 04:04:10+00:00
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by 20after4 | 2025-06-03 04:05:12+00:00
> I want to do, not tell.

This 1000%.

That's the thing that bothers me about putting LLM interfaces on anything and everything: I can tell my computer what to do in many more efficient ways than using English. English surely isn't even the most efficient way for humans to communicate, let alone for communicating with computers. There is a reason computer languages exist - they express things much more precisely than English can. Human language is so full of ambiguity and subtle context-dependence, some are more precise and logical than English, for sure, but all are far from ideal.

I could either:

A. Learn to do a task well, after some practice, it becomes almost automatic. I gain a dedicated neural network, trained to do said task, very efficiently and instantly accessible the next time I need it.

Or:

B. Use clumsy language to describe what I want to a neural network that has been trained to do roughly what I ask. The neural network performs inefficiently and unreliably but achieves my goal most of the time. At best this seems like a really mediocre way to do a lot of things.
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by Kilenaitor | 2025-06-03 04:07:00+00:00
God. Thank you.

> But the last fucking thing I want to do is delegate all the code writing to someone or something else

I talked about this a few days ago with coworkers and I phrased it almost exactly this way. I want to be an IC. I want to do the work. Becoming a manager-of-one to funnel all my work through would deprive me of genuinely my greatest joy in life.

I'm envious you managed a few good decades. I'm almost eight years into what has been my dream profession and to see indications it's going to morph from writing code into telling a robot to write code is just so demoralizing. I could have done this for decades. I wanted to do this for decades.
by mkfs | 2025-06-03 04:08:28+00:00
> I use Zed as my primary interface to "actually doing project work" LLM stuff, because it front-ends both OpenAI and Google/Gemini models, and because I really like the interface. I still write code in Emacs; Zed is kind of like the Github PR viewer for me.

You're not concerned about OpenAI or Google stealing your code? I won't use VSCode for that reason, personally, but I do use VSCodium.
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-06-03 04:08:53+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly with this piece, but I think it might've been taken better if it wasn't written in the style of an HN comment. That being said, definitely doesn't deserve so much flaming in the comments, sorry to see that, because it's basically correct, with some small things I disagree with here and there. Feels exciting to be on the precipice of having a Star Trek style spaceship computer at my fingertips.
by necovek | 2025-06-03 04:09:24+00:00
In a "well-documented, well-structured codebase with fast built-in feedback loops", a human programmer is really empowered to make changes fast. This is exactly what's needed for fast iteration, including in unfamiliar codebases.

When you are not introducing a new pattern in the code structure, it's mostly copy-paste and then edit.

But it's also extremely rare, so a pretty high bar to be able to benefit from tools like AI.
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by politelemon | 2025-06-03 04:10:15+00:00
Reading this I felt embarrassed for the author. It is strange to me that for a place for "hackers" that ostentatiously love technology, there are so many free passes and wishful mental gymnastics given over to a profit driven company that has no qualms stifling innovation through platform abuse and litigation. Here its own projection is simply a confession of itself.

This article serves as little more than a mouthpiece to sway public opinion and maintain a sense of exclusivity for being locked into an ecosystem. The author uses a particular set of features and that's why the EU is wrong, what?

Complying with the rulings will not somehow break the platform. This trillion dollar company will do just fine, usually in the form of weaseling out of its obligations, a tactic it has honed to an art over the years. And if not weaseling, it has the resources to solve those problems.

No, the author's post, and often hn comments, are more complaints about opening up the platform to others, and is reminiscent of the same complaining that playstation fans went through when formerly exclusive titles were being ported to other platforms. It turns out many played certain games only because they were exclusives.
by endofreach | 2025-06-03 04:10:22+00:00
> I understand the incentives to pretend these algorithms are even approaching humans in overall capability, but reducing human experience like this is embarrassing to watch.

Seems like you were very much guessing what i believe. And you were not right.

I don't agree with the people who think LLMs are close to human-level-anything. But i do believe, many smarter people like you, who i agree with in the most part, do underestimate how much of what we do and believe is the result of insane, yet still just, information processing & most of what brought us so far, is instinct. The brain is good at providing stories to make us feel in control. But given enough human experience and time, one will be surprised, what artificial systems can emulate. Not to mention how much of human behaviour is emulation itself.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-06-03 04:10:40+00:00
Don't get your hopes up. This is astronomically away from anything real. The hard part hasn't even started.

All they know right now is that humans can tolerate their blood product. They have no idea if it actually helps. And testing that is going to be an ethical mess.

We've already been through this! PolyHeme was developed for decades, went into trials in 2009, and was a disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolyHeme

Testing PolyHeme was a landmark in research ethics in the US. Obviously not in a good way. The problem is that you can only test these things in people who are very sick and then you hope that you aren't killing them. That's sketchy at best.

PolyHeme went a step further and tested on people without their consent in secret. https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(06)02263-3/fu...

They probably killed a dozen people or so. Lets hope this has a better outcome.
by baobun | 2025-06-03 04:10:45+00:00
Well, I've been personally lied to about privacy claims by at least Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft. Some of which has been observed in courts. OpenAI communication has obviously been dishonest and shady at times if you keep track. All of the above have fallen in line with current administration and any future demands they may have to pin down or cut off anyone opposing certain military acts against civilians or otherwise deemed politically problematic. DeepSeek's public security snafu does not instil confidence that they can keep their platform secure even if they tried. And so on.

Fool me twice, you can't get fooled again.
by fisherjeff | 2025-06-03 04:12:25+00:00
Yes, exactly - my (admittedly very limited!) experience has consistently generated well-written, working code that just doesn’t quite do what I asked. Often the results will be close to what I expect, and the coding errors do not necessarily jump out on a first line-by-line pass, so if I didn’t have a high degree of skepticism of the generated code in the first place, I could easily just run with it.
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by throwawaye3735 | 2025-06-03 04:12:57+00:00
You are right, it will certainly be used for evil, but the reason is not because AI is evil but because the people who use it are evil - will AI allow worse atrocities that we have seen in the past? Probably, new technology always enables new capability for good or for bad but we should strive to combat the evil in this world and not put our heads down and hope the world isn't changing. AI can also be used for good and let's focus on more of that.
by csomar | 2025-06-03 04:13:07+00:00
Tackling 1: No current LLM will be able to do that. Create your Rust project, figure out the dependencies that could be useful on your own, then start by asking which types can be expressed. Then after you have revised the types, figure out (with or without LLM) which functions have to be implemented. Then ask LLMs to implement these functions with tests. With some modifications, you should be able to have a final working solution.

Edit: took a while but here is the code generated by DeepSeek: https://gist.github.com/omarabid/b30195011abf570fde2a084cd11... If you have an example file I could give it a test run.
by earino | 2025-06-03 04:13:49+00:00
As a proud graduate of MTSU's CS department, I'm so happy to see my school listed here. Even back in the 1990s when I attended there, everyone knew the recording industry program was something special. For a small to medium town, Murfreesboro had an incredible music scene.

I loved getting my bachelor's degree there. Best 9 years of my life :-D
by mike_d | 2025-06-03 04:14:16+00:00
The FAA has "field preemption" from Congress. Meaning any state or local law that conflicts with the FAA's stated purpose is automatically rendered moot and unenforceable. The FAAs mandate is the efficient operation of aircraft within the airspace.

So a law that bans a drone from using a massive speaker to violate a noise ordnance could be enforced, but a law against the operational noise of an aircraft could not. A city could ban a drone operator from flying over a crime scene low enough to disturb evidence, but could not ban a drone from passing over a crime scene.
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by donatj | 2025-06-03 04:14:57+00:00
I apologize. I genuinely did not mean snark, nor to be dismissive. It was a sincere honest-to-god "oh wow this actually explains the situation over there" mixed with an expression of frustration with their service quality.

A lot of their pages barely work and feel like first drafts, much of the UI is even labeled as a work in progress, and manytools regularly just fail to do what they're supposed to.

Deployments are routinely broken, with Twitter lit up like a light bulb about it while their status page remains all services operational.

I deploy three completely separate applications with Fly.io and have regular unscheduled downtime.

I stick with them despite all this because they're cheap and easily scale regular Go apps down to zero which is wonderful for apps that see intermittent/irregular usage patterns.

The fact that they are adamant defenders of vibe coding going so far in the post as to say "who cares about hallucinations" genuinely explains a fair deal about their unprofessional feeling service.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-03 04:14:58+00:00
> Every part of this is a series of intentional policy changes designed to transfer wealth from the poor to the ultra-wealthy.

No, it is a transfer from those who don’t own land to those who already own land. Roughly correlates to young/poor/immigrant classes transferring wealth (or maintaining wealth disparity) to older/richer/beneficiary classes.

That is why it is politically popular. Low and flat land value tax rates have always enabled this, but their effects were temporarily masked by the population boom allowing a lot of upward movement in the lower (non land owning) classes due to broad economic growth.
by alwa | 2025-06-03 04:16:36+00:00
Is formaldehyde used in treating PT lumber? That link suggests it shows up in resins for engineered wood products, like particleboard for interior furniture.

I was of the impression that PT lumber to modern standards involved relatively innocuous copper plus an organic biocide like an azole (for antifungal purposes), no?

And I thought the formaldehyde-heavy resins were regulated into obscurity back in like 2009, were they not?
by userbinator | 2025-06-03 04:16:53+00:00
F and J make it easy to orient yourself, but the actual recommended fingering is not optimal for many keys and sequences.

nor does being a decent typist support any such claim.

Look at the scoreboards on typing sites like Typeracer and Monkeytype. There, 150 is decent, but nowhere near the top, with plenty of people averaging 200+, and a select few even manage to break 300wpm. Those near the top definitely do not use the standard fingering pattern.
by simonw | 2025-06-03 04:17:08+00:00
"And we, the engineers, are in a unique position. Unlike people in any other industry, we can affect the trajectory of AI."

I firmly believe that too. That's why I've been investing a great deal of effort in helping people understand what this stuff can and can't do and how best to make use of it.

I don't think we can stop it, but I do think (hope) we can show people how to use it in a way where the good applications outweigh the bad.
by rolph | 2025-06-03 04:17:08+00:00
https://ageagle.com/blog/drone-regulations-usa-fly-over-peop...

https://ageagle.com/blog/european-union-drone-regulations-ex...

https://www.dronepilotgroundschool.com/kb/can-i-fly-my-drone...

https://nexttools.net/how-close-can-you-fly-a-drone-to-a-per...

https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/light/topics/flying-drones-clo...

https://www.dronelaw.pro/faa-rules-say-you-cant-fly-your-dro...

https://dspalliance.org/new-rules-for-ops-over-people-rid/
by energy123 | 2025-06-03 04:18:01+00:00
It's got little to do with the ultra-wealthy, who have their wealth in equity. The problem is the upper middle class who have their wealth in land. They are 30% of the population and command election outcomes against anyone who tries to change the status quo. To them, the housing crisis is a housing bonanza and they plan on keeping it that way.

I also take issue with buzzword "neoliberal", as if leftists would be any better with their rent control, NIMBY tendencies, and ideological hostility to supply-side policy (see Dean Preston in US, Zohran Mamdani in US, Adrian Ramsay in UK, Chandler-Mather in AU). In my estimation, they would be worse than any "abundance neoliberal", who at least have Austin, Texas as a successful case study they can point to, and who have ideas that make logical sense. The problem is not their policy ideas but the political reality they exist in where they're constrained in what they can do by a politically active plurality (landowners) that wish to persist the status quo.
by knodi123 | 2025-06-03 04:18:13+00:00
> It will power scams on an unimaginable scale

It already is. https://futurism.com/slop-farmer-ai-social-media

And all the other things you predicted. They're underway _now_ .

> Maybe if there are more of me, things will slow down enough

Nope. That's not how it's gonna work. If you want to prevent things, it will take legislation. But sitting it out doesn't send any message at all. No amount of butterflies farting against the wind is going to stop this tornado.
by theamk | 2025-06-03 04:19:12+00:00
Lots (all?) old devices have input fuses, and often those are right next to the plug. So most of the mistakes will cause this fuse to blow (unless you recklessly short it, or drop a screwdriver in the unlucky spot)

That said, even something as simple as surge protector power strip is going to have a nice and fast circuit breaker in it. If you want to get fancier, get a GFCI extension strip from home depot. And if you get an isolation transformer, it'll certainly have a fuse or a breaker.
by Nekhrimah | 2025-06-03 04:19:47+00:00
The framing of this story right from the start is disingenuous. The Microsoft job losses are explicitly reported as "part of a broader strategy to streamline operations and accelerate its AI initiatives." Immediately followed by reporting that Health NZ (rebranded from Te Whatu Ora) is cutting a third of its IT staff. The implication being that it's the same reason.

It's not. The current NZ government is working through the "Starve the Beast" strategy; intentionally underfunding ministries and services so they can be punished or sold off later for "underperforming".

RNZ's service to the right wing side of the political spectrum hasn't saved them though, they're having funding cut too [0].

[0] https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360698953/funding-cut-rnz-m...