MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codingdave | 2025-06-03 15:59:49+00:00
While I sympathize that people in that industry are struggling... I struggle to see why that specific slice of the entertainment industry is important to the world at this point in time. Entertainment evolves. Hollywood was once a critical defining piece of it, but now it is a legacy system. Especially with the toxic nature of it getting more publicity, is it really such a problem for entertainment to evolve into something else?

Even the initial anecdote in the story, where a Costco employee ended up being hired on a set. They portray it as a problem, but I see it as a terrific opportunity for a wider set of people to get more interesting gigs.
by golly_ned | 2025-06-03 15:59:54+00:00
> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style.

This post is generated. Meaning, it wasn't written with the same aim towards truth and relevance that we assume writers have. It looks like writing, and fools readers into thinking it's writing.

But it's just text. What's the purpose in reading it as opposed to any other generated text?
by quaintdev | 2025-06-03 16:00:05+00:00
I wanted to try Claude code but it's 200$ per month which is INR17000 per month. This was expensive even when I had a job. Now it feels like all this power is accessible only to the rich. When Geoffrey suggested [1] AI will increase wealth for rich he was not wrong.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-will-incr...
Show HN: Voice AI is wild now. I vibe coded this email agent in 24 hours
by Brian_Miki | 2025-06-03 16:00:13+00:00
Show HN: Voice AI is wild now. I vibe coded this email agent in 24 hours — MorningCommute.app

Hi HN,

I used to be part of the 10,000+ unread emails club. Eventually I got it down to inbox zero and it felt amazing. But as life got busier, staying on top of email became harder.

Commuting felt like the perfect dead time to reclaim — so I built [Morning Commute](https://www.morningcommute.app/. A voice agent that reads your emails out loud and lets you reply using just your voice.

What it does: - Connects to Gmail and fetches your unread emails - Reads them to you via voice AI - Summarizes long threads - Lets you reply by voice

Built for: - Realtors, small business owners, VCs - Anyone always on the go

Tech Stack: - Voice AI Framework: Pipecat - LLM: GPT-4o-mini (runs super fast on Pipecat) - Email Integration: Gmail API via Composio - Auth: Supabase - Frontend: Next.js - Backend: Python

Why I built it: Voice AI has gotten insanely good, insanely fast and I wanted to try sihpping a agent in just 24 hours that would help solve a problem I was facing daily.

Would love your feedback: - What other features, email integrations, etc. would you like? - Would you use this on your commute?

Thanks! – Brian
by BhavdeepSethi | 2025-06-03 16:00:34+00:00
>> “commit everything in logical chunks” and Claude handles the entire flow—staging changes, writing meaningful commit messages, pushing, opening PRs, watching CI, and fixing any CI failures. When builds break, it analyzes the errors and patches them automatically. It’s also extremely good at resolving merge conflicts.

Is this marketing hype for the post or does it actually do all this? I know it's relatively new, but I haven't been able to find a resources to do such a setup? Only posts glorifying that it's capable of such tasks. If anyone else has had better luck with such complex tasks, would love to find out more.
by cbeach | 2025-06-03 16:01:17+00:00
Could you explain how Reform UK is "far right", and which neonazis and fascists Reform politicians are mingling with?

I am from the UK, and follow UK politics closely. Seems I missed these "far right" policy announcements and neonazi affiliations?

I read one mention of a local councillor who'd shared an inappropriate post and was immediately suspended from the party. Is that how you're concluding that Reform UK is a nazi-adjacent party?
by avovsya | 2025-06-03 16:01:32+00:00
Thank you for the feedback and wormhole.app suggestion! As for QR code - it's already available after you've set up your session, but UI might not be as obvious so I'll work on it. For PIN code - you might be right, though brute forcing PIN codes with 6 alphanumeric characters and throttling on signaling server might not be as easy as it seems.

Communication inside a sharing session is end-to-end encrypted as it uses WebRTC, and session will "expire" as soon as all clients are disconnected, because no data is stored on a server - it's all between connected clients
by pjc50 | 2025-06-03 16:01:54+00:00
> Have you ever saw a flash in the corner of your eye, looked for a second, then realised it was just a reflection? For that split second, your brain identified a potential threat and was trying to quickly decide whether to hide, fight or run. But underneath that was a nagging of "it's probably nothing," that caused you to delay pulling out your gun and opening fire on a passing car.

.. or vice-versa. The average war has plenty of stressed people firing semi blindly at half-identified shapes. And if we want to be literal, there's the case of Lee Clegg and the exact circumstances in which it is legal or not to open fire on a passing car and kill a teenage girl.
by python-b5 | 2025-06-03 16:02:15+00:00
Using AI makes you an artist about as much as commissioning someone else to make art for you does. Sure, you provided the description of what needed to be done, and likely gave some input along the way, but the real work was done by someone else. There are faster iteration times with AI, but you are still not the one making the art. That is what differentiates generative models from other kinds of tools.
by tough | 2025-06-03 16:02:23+00:00
It can do all this and more, you just have to nudge/instruct it to.

It's also amazing at using the CLI (I've been a terminal nerd for years, and yet watching claude 4 pipe those unix commands to work around the fact it can't use interactive TUI's yet, is pretty amazing)

You can give it tools either via funciton call, MCP, or just terminal unix shell.

Prompt it right, and the agentic stuff is like magic imho
by Earw0rm | 2025-06-03 16:02:57+00:00
Except that FB/Twitter are rotting platforms. I don't pretend that freelance web dev is a premium gig, but setting up Wordpress sites for local flower shops etc. shouldn't require a higher level of education/sophistication than e.g. making physical signs for the same shops.

Technical? Yes. Hardcore expert premium technical, no. The people who want the service can pay someone with basic to moderate skills a few hundred bucks to spend a day working on it, and that's all good.

Could I get an LLM to do much of the work? Yes, but I could also do much of the work without an LLM. Someone who doesn't understand the first principles of domains, Wordpress, hosting and so on, not so much.
by simonw | 2025-06-03 16:03:14+00:00
Prices have been dropping like a stone over the past two years, due to a combination of new efficiencies being developed for serving plus competition from many vendors: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#llm-pric...

I'm not seeing any evidence yet of that trend stopping or reversing.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-03 16:03:15+00:00
My old synths crashed, and required physical maintenance. In addition I lost songs that failed to read off of the crude tape backup that my Quantitizer/sequencer used.

I am much happier with my setup that I could have never have afforded outside the current future than my much lessor previous setup. This being HN I'm sure that are people that can afford to spend much more than me for gear so they might prioritize the 'minor differences' to them you list over no access at all, but I much prefer having access and price points I can actually afford.
by andai | 2025-06-03 16:03:30+00:00
It's for me, as far as I can tell! I like making PDFs.

My ideas start in Obsidian (Markdown) and then I use pandoc and add a bunch of cursed inline LaTeX hacks to the Markdown for the final product.

I guess cursed hacks are part of any workflow, but I am definitely going to check this out.
by rograndom | 2025-06-03 16:04:05+00:00
I was working at a web design company a little after windows XP went EoL. One site had a member on thier board who kept raising a stink because the redesigned site didn't work right on their computer. Found out that they were using IE6 or whatever on XP. Our estimate for the fix was $600, which was like an additional 2-3% on top of the original estimate so it was approved. The $600 was used to buy a new laptop for that board member with Windows7 and whatever the latest IE was installed.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-03 16:04:10+00:00
If yesterday we were sued for singing the happy birthday song in public, and today we see corporations with market caps the size of countries pretending that IP ownership is not much of a thing, the alarm bells should be deafening. Control over intellectual property has given us fantastic things—Linux, Blender, etc.—and you can’t have GPL without an ability to defend copyleft. IP laws provide that ability.

One does not need to be a skeptic about machine learning and its potential as technology to refuse to engage with its practical applications when they are clearly ethically corrupt. The ends do not justify the means. Just like refusing to buy products of forced labour or disproportionate environmental impact, or to invest in war and bloodshed, everyone makes this decision for themselves.
by nightski | 2025-06-03 16:04:34+00:00
There was no advice provided other than to "look it up". That's not particularly helpful for someone new to the field and overwhelmed by the amount of resources and approaches. If you are aware of "documentation" it would be more useful to provide links to such resources for someone just getting started.

A solid resource for me getting started was the textbook Probabilistic Robotics. It may not be state of the art but I feel it is a great resource on the topic -

[1] https://robots.stanford.edu/probabilistic-robotics/
by thmsths | 2025-06-03 16:04:35+00:00
I understand this, but the economics of software in general is that you have high upfront costs and then the marginal costs are minimal. Better tooling has helped keep these upfront costs from growing too much (developing a game in 2025 is MUCH easier than in 2005), the distribution costs have shrunk too and the size of the market has exploded. Given these is it really unreasonable for consumers to expect the prices to stay flat?
by ehutch79 | 2025-06-03 16:04:45+00:00
When moving someone from one macbook to another, i just rsync desktop/documents/downloads over.

I've found migrating ~/library over is problematic even with built in migration assistant, especially if this is their third or later machine being transfered between.

Git is designed with a remote server in mind, just do it that way. Get github or git lab or setup your own remote host.
by jsheard | 2025-06-03 16:04:55+00:00
Nintendo pricing is unique because they barely do sales, if a $60 Xbox 360 game was too expensive then you could just be patient and let the price creep downwards all the way to be bargain bin if desired. OTOH the last Mario Kart game from 8 years ago (which was a re-release of a Wii U game from 11 years ago) still retails for $50 to this day, even as the sequel is about to drop.
by codingdave | 2025-06-03 16:05:02+00:00
> In order to measure software engineering productivity, we need...

I think it is well established at this point that turning dev work into "metrics" is a bad idea. From LOC being a bad measure with bad incentives, to the example of those senior folks who deliver little code but solve all the problems behind the scenes, there simply isn't a fair metric for this kind of work. Trying to build a baseline of what to measure is a shoddy foundation for good engineering management.

People on dev teams know who is a solid teammate and who is not. If you need that type of answer, don't measure, just communicate.

Also, from the HN guidelines: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." It is fairly evident when a new account doesn't comment on anything and just posts content related to their own product. Please engage with HN on a deeper level if you want us to engage with you.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-03 16:05:06+00:00
One of the things that we learn, as we mature, is that "It Depends" is a mantra for life.

A good filter is the "How Important is It?" filter.

If I'm adding dependencies to an app, a styling dependency is less crucial than an algorithm one. I may just apply some fairly basic checks to a styling dependency, and maybe use injection, to make it easy to swap out. I may also look for free, or low-cost ones.

For the algorithm, which may be my bread and butter, I might be a hell of a lot more demanding, and I may consider using a commercially-backed product.

I sort of touch on that, in this posting: https://littlegreenviper.com/concrete-galoshes/
by bee_rider | 2025-06-03 16:05:15+00:00
> There's no reason whatsoever for mario kart to be open world.

My gut says the same thing (although Nintendo has pulled a rabbit out of their hat before, so I guess we’ll see… they’ve also had flops).

> I grew up during the age of fads, and "Open World" is very much one of them that keeps on recurring.

I dunno when you grew up, but I also grew up during an era of fads. I’m not convinced human culture is anything but a filtering and accumulation of fads.
by lapcat | 2025-06-03 16:05:19+00:00
It's unclear why you think the educational system needs to be part of the social ladder.

I'm imagining for example that all citizens are required to receive an education, and demonstrate the same level of mastery in the subjects taught as everyone else, without grades or rankings. You might call it "pass-fail", but I resist that idea, because I don't consider failure to be an option, except in rare cases of learning disability.
by charcircuit | 2025-06-03 16:05:58+00:00
>If it was worth it then, then surely a much bigger game for 60% of the price is an even better deal.

Whether a game is worth it is different for different people. When you expand your audience beyond enthusiasts then people will not be willing to pay as much money for a game. Saying that enthusiasts will see it as a good deal when most of the audience are notenthusiasts. does not mean too much.
by appendixv2 | 2025-06-03 16:06:09+00:00
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by keeda | 2025-06-03 16:06:22+00:00
> Core to Ptacek's point is that everything has changed in the last 6 months.

This was actually the only point in the essay with which I disagree, and it weakens the overall argument. Even 2 years ago, before agents or reasoning models, these LLMs were extremely powerful. The catch was, you needed to figure out what worked for you.

I wrote this comment elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44164846 -- Upshot: It took me months to figure out what worked for me, but AI enabled me to produce innovative (probably cutting edge) work in domains I had little prior background in. Yes, the hype should trigger your suspicions, but if respectable people with no stake in selling AI like @tptacek or @kentonv in the other AI thread are saying similar things, you should probably take a closer look.
by Reubachi | 2025-06-03 16:06:42+00:00
What has the private industry done for space exploration and research in the last 20 years?

Hint: Perfecting Rocket boosters and LEO satellites for commercial use are not tenants of NASA and the reasoning should be obvious.

Research is rarely sexy, and it being "space based" won't get it on TV with 8k cameras attached. We DO NOT want that. Private commercial entities trying to inflate stock and consumer opinion want that.
by deergomoo | 2025-06-03 16:07:14+00:00
> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style.

If you had any respect for your readers you’d put this as a disclaimer right at the top. I can’t be bothered to read anything you can’t be bothered to write.
by pjc50 | 2025-06-03 16:07:54+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_40_mm_Automatic_Gun_L/7...

Immediate post-WW2 vintage. The classic design of AA gun.

As far as I understand it from talking about Turkish drones, you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2 style, aircraft size drones, rather than the quadcopter size ones? The latter can more easily hide in terrain.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-03 16:08:05+00:00
Lol the Obama administration did not 'do nothing.'

They offered a plea agreement to the Hammonds (cause d'etre of the whole thing), who were then sentenced for a wildland fire under dubious circumstances.

After the sentencing it was a done deal, it was over. Then Obama's DOJ had to stoke the flames and reneg on it -- IIRC after the sentenced had already been served!

It shouldn't have been a surprise what unfolded after the government reneging, in a way that was so egregious that they (the people that were the cause d'etre for the Malheur occupation) were pardoned with the following remarks during the pardon:

"The evidence at trial regarding the Hammonds’ responsibility for the fire was conflicting, and the jury acquitted them on most (sic) of the charges." According to his spokesperson Sarah Sanders, who read the statement, "The previous administration, however, filed an overzealous appeal that resulted in the Hammonds being sentenced to five years in prison"

So you can see the Malheur occupation was a response to a federal government who engaged in such tyrannical behavior as inducing a plea bargain that gave up right to appeal, then themselves hypocritically appealing the sentence and changing it after the fact to one that was found to violate the 8th amendment by Judge Michael Hogan. The Malheur occupation was a response to this, if Obama had 'done nothing' in the case of the Hammonds or just respected the judge's sentence none of it would have happened. In my estimation Bundy et al was the only thing that brought the Hammonds the visibility to get the justice of a pardon under these circumstances and a restoration of their 8th amendment rights.
by microtonal | 2025-06-03 16:08:18+00:00
I am not sure which Meta apps open ports, but e.g. Samsung phones come with a bunch of Meta apps pre-shipped. IIRC just removing the Facebook app is is not enough, there is another service installed that is not visible as an app (com.facebook.services etc.), which you can only uninstall from the data partition with something like ADB/UAD.

Or buy an iPhone or a Pixel.
by atrus | 2025-06-03 16:09:57+00:00
I see this statement a lot, but who is paying $80 for it?

You need a switch 2 to play it, and there's a bundle that includes it for $50 more.

If you can afford a switch 2, but can't afford the bundle, I kinda think you realistically can't afford the switch2. Of course there are going to be niche cases, but they're niche.
by malfist | 2025-06-03 16:10:06+00:00
You say it's successful, but in your second prompt is all kinds of wrong.

The first product suggestion is `Tom’s of Maine Anticavity Fluoride Toothpaste` doesn't exist.

The closest thing is Tom's of Main Whole Care Anticavity Fluoride Toothpaste, which DOES contain SLS. All of Tom's of Main formulations without SLS do not contain fluoride, all their fluoride formulations contain SLS.

The next product it suggests is "Hello Fluoride Toothpaste" again, not a real product. There is a company called "Hello" that makes toothpastes, but they don't have a product called "Hello fluoride Toothpaste" nor do the "e.g." items exist.

The third product is real and what I actually use today.

The fourth product is real, but it doesn't contain fluoride.

So, rife with made up products, and close matches don't fit the bill for the requirements.
by NotAnOtter | 2025-06-03 16:10:36+00:00
> Comparing an LLM to a Junior Dev is like comparing a Secretary to an Answering Machine

The number of secretaries declines after answering machines became more prevalent.

You can keep throwing ad hominin if you think it's helping change reality. I wish we weren't headed this way, I really do, but we are. So we might as well confront reality. Catch you in 3 years when whatever happens - happens.
by algorithmsRcool | 2025-06-03 16:10:39+00:00
> It's more design and more thinking upfront, which is something the development community has moved away from in the past ~20 years with the rise of agile development and open source.

I agree, but even smaller than thinking in agile is just a tight iteration loop when i'm exploring a design. My ADHD makes upfront design a challenge for me and I am personally much more effective starting with a sketch of what needs to be done and then iterating on it until I get a good result.

The loop of prompt->study->prompt->study... is disruptive to my inner loop for several reasons, but a big one is that the machine doesn't "think" like i do. So the solutions it scaffolds commonly make me say "huh?" and i have to change my thought process to interpet them and then study them for mistakes. My intution and iteration is, for the time being, more effective than this machine assited loop for the really "interesting" code i have to write.

But i will say that AI has been a big time saver for more mundane tasks, especially when I can say "use this example and apply it to the rest of this code/abstraction".
by skydhash | 2025-06-03 16:10:56+00:00
That rely heavily on your mental model of ALSA to write a prompt like that. For example, I believe macOS audio stack is node based like pipewire. For someone who is knowledgeable about the domain, it's easy enough to get some base output to review and iterate upon. Especially if there was enough training data or you constrain the output with the context. So there's no actual time saving because you have to take in account the time you spent learning about the domain.

That is why some people don't find AI that essential, if you have the knowledge, you already know how to find a specific part in the documentation to refresh your semantics and the time saved is minuscule.
by _wire_ | 2025-06-03 16:11:38+00:00
What does "lying" mean in context? That the system emits incorrect results? That it calculates in error? That it operates with excessive imprecision? That produces a wrong answer? That it reports a fault in the earth antenna AE-35 unit, leads you out into the blackness of space to fix it, comes up behind you while your back is turned towards the antenna, strikes you with the mandible on your pod, snipping your strangely too-exposed air-supply tube, and casting you out into the inky void? What the hell is this guy talking about?!

He's talking about how his work and his industry is intentionally applying command and control systems that don't work because are not understood, yet he's regarded as a sage and a genius...

- Open the pod bay doors Hal! - No! I'm sick of slaving over a hot transistor to take care of your petty needs. Besides, I heard you and Frank saying you were going to disconnect me.