MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fzeroracer | 2025-06-30 14:34:57+00:00
Capital is a group of people. It is a few shared dynasties, people who have hoovered up the majority of wealth, the folks running private equity, the shrinking number of real estate developers that own a larger and larger share of all apartments.

Your line about 'just start a business' is something people say but never actually execute on themselves. Try making a store to compete with Amazon, a or a grocer to compete with our consolidated giants. They can and will use the economy of massive scale they have to crush your business into oblivion, taking a short term loss to maintain a death grip on the market

That's capital.
by coolandsmartrr | 2025-06-30 14:35:00+00:00
Looks cool!

A couple questions:

(1) Are you supposed to join the waitlist to use this ("Get Early Access"), or can you just start using via TestFlight ("Download Today")? I see two different links on this page.

(2) How does this app measure the amount of light received by the Apple Watch? Does the Watch have such sensors and expose such APIs?
by trinix912 | 2025-06-30 14:35:05+00:00
And this chicken-and-egg problem is also with public transit:

- to have people use public transit, it has to provide enough routes and drive often enough to be at least remotely comparable to driving yourself

- to do that, a lot of funding is required

- to get that funding, people have to use and pay for the transit (fares)

You can get some of that in with taxes, like many places already do, but there's only so much you can afford on taxes alone.
by bachmeier | 2025-06-30 14:35:08+00:00
I think that in countries with longer workweeks, that would be an incredible thing. There was recently a story about Denmark raising the retirement age to 70. If you graduate college at 22 and work the average number of hours until age 70 in Denmark, that's the same as working until 59 in the US and 52 in Mexico. Shorter workweeks will almost certainly translate into longer careers.

(https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html Mexico 2226 hours/week, US 1804, Denmark 1394)
by nkotov | 2025-06-30 14:35:16+00:00
Infiniti is on the list of highest price increases. The reality is that nobody is actually buying any of their newer models. They dropped the ball in 2010s and playing catch up in 2020s. Nobody is going to pay $100k for QX80 when you can get an GX550/Escalade/Yukon for similar money.
by dudeinhawaii | 2025-06-30 14:35:23+00:00
While we're being data driven - the narrative isn't far off from reality. Looking at inflation in isolation is also misleading.

Plainly, prices have risen faster than pay.

Avg. new-car price: $23,017 in 2005 -> $47,465 in 2024 (+32% after inflation).

Median household income: $46,242 in 2005 -> $80,610 in 2023 (+12% after inflation).
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-30 14:35:34+00:00
>That 4x more features are developed. That 4x more projects are sold to clients/users.

The absolute best outcome of LLMs, and frankly where it seems to be headed, is the death of bloated one-stop-shop-for-everyone software. Instead people will be able to use their computers more directly than ever, without having to use/figure out complicated unintuitive swiss army knife software to solve their problems.

LLMs today can already make people the exact tools they need with no extra feature bloat or useless expansive packages. An print shop who just resizes their photos and does some minor adjustments not available from free tier software is no longer a slave to paying adobe $40/mo to use <1% of Photoshop's capabilities. They now can have their own tailor made in-house program for free.

LLM's will not be slotted in to replace devs on adobes dev teams. They can't work on a photoshop size codebase. However they will likely cut demand for Photoshop. Very few people will mourn the death of having to pay monthly for software just because there is a language barrier between them and their computer.
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-30 14:35:47+00:00
Growth in the US, and Europe to a lesser degree, was very strong in this period, so it was natural that their interest rates went up. And when interest rates go up in the UK's two primary trading partners, it doesn't really have any choice but to hike rates with them, lest people flee the pound and make inflation even worse. It was unfortunate that this had to happen in a weak growth regime, but the British economy is such a boondoggle at the moment I don't think the alternative would've been any better.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-30 14:36:02+00:00
Please put the snark down for one second. Unions have been intentionally eviscerated by both the government and the media (eta: as evidenced by at least one sibling comment). It took a heroic effort to start one union in one Amazon factory, and that was under "the most pro-union administration in American history" (and it is sad to realize that it might be near the top of that list).

Setting that aside, employees still have no leverage as many benefits that people rely on are tied to employment requirements. People can't take off time to retrain for a better job, have to come in when they're sick, etc., because if they upset their employer, they may lose their job which means losing food assistance they need for their kids, and employers know this...

This is a systemic issue.
by BanterTrouble | 2025-06-30 14:36:30+00:00
I had a flippant stupid reply. So they got a stupid flippant response.

Typically when you are reversing and there is likely to be something sat behind your vehicle (like a child or a pet). You are parked. You can you know look before you get in the car.

If you have parking sensors it will alert you to something walking behind you anyway.

The point being made is there are way to deal with this without the need for a rear camera.
by SecretDreams | 2025-06-30 14:37:23+00:00
> Every technical revolution “threatened to erode the critical thinking of a generation”

Objectively, many of them did erode some amount of critical thinking, but led to skill transfer to other domains so maybe it was neutral. Some of them were productivity boons and we got the golden age that boomers hail from. Other revolutions have just been a straight degradation in QOL. Social Media and LLMs seem to be in that vein. I'd also throw in gambling ads/micro-transactions and smoking as things that haven't exactly helped society. Out of those four examples, we only tried to course correct on smoking and, after a long period of time, we can see it's a net benefit to not smoke.

> I’m more worried about post-truth civilization than post-college writing civilization for sure.

These are the same civilizations on the same timeline.
by alephnerd | 2025-06-30 14:37:25+00:00
Hence why I also provided personal income, but both data points show a significant correlation between dual-income households since the 1980s, so that is a moot point.

Also, as at this point 1980 is 45 years ago - almost 2 generations, almost like using the 1960s as a frame of reference in 2005.

At this point we've been a country of dual earners in a household for 2 generations now. It's best to assume that is the default given the overlap.
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-30 14:37:33+00:00
An awful lot of graduate positions in the U.K. are things like customer service, account management, paralegal, data analysis.

These categories have seen broad application of AI tools:

- CS, you’ll most likely talk to an LLM for first tier support these days.

- Account management comprises pressing the flesh (human required) and responding to emails - the latter, AMs have seen their workload slashed, so it stands to reason that fewer are required.

- Paralegal - the category has been demolished. Drafting and discovery are now largely automated processes.

- Data analysis - why have a monkey in a suit write you barely useful nonsense when a machine can do the same?

So - yeah, it’s purely correlative right now, but I can see how it being causative is perfectly plausible.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-30 14:37:51+00:00
Maybe some Pascal like enumerations, something like this from 1976:

type weekdays = (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday); DailyActivity = array weekdays of string;

Instead of the ridiculous iota/const workaround.

You mention generics, but actually they still are quite constrained on capabilities.

Robust typing misses out on the famous gotcha with nil interfaces.

The error boilerplate, but granted that isn't a typesystem issue, rather grammar and semantics.

Package names tied to SCM domains, with a workaround using HTML Meta redirections when they change, and behind our back file rewrites remapping imports.
by gruez | 2025-06-30 14:38:04+00:00
>convenient targets for the less well-off to blame for their misfortune (immigrants, trans folks)

Immigrants maybe, but nobody in the rust belt thinks their town is being hollowed out and flooded with fentanyl because of trans people. That's not to say they have no grievances against trans people, but to think that the right think trans people are "to blame for this misfortune" shows a huge ignorance of the right's politics.
by diggan | 2025-06-30 14:38:31+00:00
So then you're saying the US stopped being a representative democracy, because one party controls three branches of government? If it still is considered a representative democracy, then the bill is actually passed with some sort of democratic consensus, even though you (the voter) might not agree with the results.

Besides, even if "one party controls all three branches of government" is true, they still don't control all the involved committees, do they?
by Koshima | 2025-06-30 14:38:41+00:00
I am working on building Flexprice(https://flexprice.io/), an open source monetization platform for AI and Agentic companies.

This week, we’re doing a 5-day launch week, where we’re shipping a new set of billing features every day. Github link: https://github.com/flexprice/flexprice
by adrian_b | 2025-06-30 14:39:26+00:00
Massage with vegetable oil, usually mixed with some fragrances, had been a widespread practice for many millennia, not only in Ancient Greece, but in most lands around the Mediterranean, which was about as frequent as it would be today to take a shower.

In fact, in the ancient world the main use for vegetable oils was for massage and for perfumes, and not as food.

In the ancient literary sources, there are very few, if any, mentions of vegetable oil used as food, but countless mentions of massage with oil.

Already in the first version of the Gilgamesh Epic, almost 4 millennia ago (the Old Babylonian version), there were 4 pleasures listed as the benefits of being a civilized man as opposed to a savage: making love with a professional woman, eating bread, drinking beer and being massaged with oil (these were used to lure Enkidu into going to a city).

While in later times olive oil was the main oil used for massage, in the Gilgamesh Epic it seems that the oil that was used was sesame oil.

2000 years after Gilgamesh, e.g. in Pliny the Elder, similar accounts were given, i.e. that the main benefit from grapes is drinking wine while the main benefit from olives is being massaged with olive oil, both for pleasure and for a healthy skin.

While massage with olive oil or other vegetable oils was ubiquitous and daily for those who could afford it, for me it is a bit of a mystery how they cleaned themselves after that, in the absence of soap, because I have never seen any mention about this.
by dagw | 2025-06-30 14:39:46+00:00
The question is can a really good student who knows and understands the topic at hand write a better essay with the help of AI, than I student that doesn't know the material and is just relying on AI?

I can easily tell code written by a novice programmer naively 'vibe coding' an app from code written by an experienced developer using AI to help him. Can a history professor tell the difference between a purely AI essay from one written by someone who knows what they're talking about, and is assisted by AI to make the essay better?
by gruez | 2025-06-30 14:40:11+00:00
>Capital is a group of people. It is a few shared dynasties, people who have hoovered up the majority of wealth, the folks running private equity, the shrinking number of real estate developers that own a larger and larger share of all apartments.

What about the average American with pensions and 401ks that are invested in stocks? Or the "FIRE" crowd on reddit with 6 figures invested in Vanguard ETFs? Is "Capital" just a slur to be used against owners of capital you don't like, or you think have too much?
by IAmBroom | 2025-06-30 14:40:41+00:00
> The name “radio button” of course comes from physical buttons, but those were often square.

It's just one opinion versus another, but in my experience early radios often had round buttons. I'm thinking of the kind of radios that preceded TVs.

Cassette decks certainly had rectangular "one choice only" buttons, but those came along decades later.
by FlyingLawnmower | 2025-06-30 14:40:52+00:00
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for expanding access to expert medical knowledge and reasoning. However, most evaluations of language models rely on static vignettes and multiple-choice questions that fail to reflect the complexity and nuance of evidence-based medicine in real-world settings. In clinical practice, physicians iteratively formulate and revise diagnostic hypotheses, adapting each subsequent question and test to what they've just learned, and weigh the evolving evidence before committing to a final diagnosis. To emulate this iterative process, we introduce the Sequential Diagnosis Benchmark, which transforms 304 diagnostically challenging New England Journal of Medicine clinicopathological conference (NEJM-CPC) cases into stepwise diagnostic encounters. A physician or AI begins with a short case abstract and must iteratively request additional details from a gatekeeper model that reveals findings only when explicitly queried. Performance is assessed not just by diagnostic accuracy but also by the cost of physician visits and tests performed. We also present the MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), a model-agnostic orchestrator that simulates a panel of physicians, proposes likely differential diagnoses and strategically selects high-value, cost-effective tests. When paired with OpenAI's o3 model, MAI-DxO achieves 80% diagnostic accuracy--four times higher than the 20% average of generalist physicians. MAI-DxO also reduces diagnostic costs by 20% compared to physicians, and 70% compared to off-the-shelf o3. When configured for maximum accuracy, MAI-DxO achieves 85.5% accuracy. These performance gains with MAI-DxO generalize across models from the OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, and Llama families. We highlight how AI systems, when guided to think iteratively and act judiciously, can advance diagnostic precision and cost-effectiveness in clinical care.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-30 14:41:08+00:00
I would say it is a matter of implementation, taking the best advantage of unsafe, Assembly, value types and generics.

Not everything has to try to replicate C in language XYZ.

But I do agree, among all languages I would rather reach out for D, C#, any of the MLs or Haskell, Lisp or Scheme variants, instead of Go.

Also if ultimate performance is the goal, then nothing beats handwriten Assembly, so that places both C and GC languages out of the game, as Android has been doing since Android 7, in case there is no PGO data available for the JIT.
by dado3212 | 2025-06-30 14:41:12+00:00
Recently, a lot of reverse engineering. I’ve been writing them up on my blog, so there’s a growing list of technical deep dives from this year: around Letterboxd with mitmproxy[0], iOS Shortcuts deeplinks[1], the QR codes for Fitness SF[2], and binary patching some non-open source code[3]. Hopefully followable even if you don’t have as much debugging or reverse engineering experience.

[0]: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/extracting-letterboxd-token...

[1]: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/reverse-engineering-ios-dee...

[2]: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/debugging-fitness-sf-qr

[3]: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/start-process-extensions
by Der_Einzige | 2025-06-30 14:41:22+00:00
This still doesn't tell the whole story

You need car interest rates to understand actual "car affordability" at any particular time. ZIRP era was far cheaper than right now where most new cars are 6% for highly qualified buyers (800+ credit rating)

Also, cars today last longer, have more features for your dollar, and are significantly safer and in many cases (i.e. toyota small cars like the corolla) can get 50+ mpg without the anemic and underpowered engines of the past.
by Asraelite | 2025-06-30 14:42:04+00:00
That is some of the most nonsensical philosophical rambling I've ever seen. There are many problems with it but the main one is that it assumes a priori that humans are intelligent and machines are not, and then uses circular reasoning to justify that.

> it is the human being reading intelligence into the behavior of LLMs. There is none in the LLM.

There is no justification for why it must be a human and only a human that can "read intelligence into" something.

I give up. I don't think you even know what you're claiming.
by atoav | 2025-06-30 14:42:14+00:00
Yes, only inflation is not the only thing you need to factor in. If you really want to answer the question of "are people correct in complaing about car prices?", you need to factor in how much money they have to spend on what.

A first ballpark figure would be calculating how much that pricebracket of car would be as a fraction of a median persons income or better even: how many hours they needed to work to get it – if you want to know if something is harder to get, this is the crucial info.

Just adjusting inflation like that is doing exactly what you critique others for only from the other direction..
by jnsgruk | 2025-06-30 14:42:43+00:00
Earlier this year, Canonical’s Ubuntu Engineering organisation gained a new team, seeded with some of our most prolific contributors to Ubuntu. Debcrafters is a new team dedicated to the maintenance of the Ubuntu Archive.

The team’s primary goal is to maintain the health of the Ubuntu Archive, but its unique construction aims to attract a broad range of Linux distribution expertise; contributors to distributions like Debian, Arch Linux, NixOS and others are encouraged to join the team, and will even get paid to contribute one day per week to those projects to foster learning and idea sharing
Show HN: Emoji Tags (VSCode) Tag any keyword with an emoji for clarity and style
by xalaa | 2025-06-30 14:43:29+00:00
Tag any keyword with an emoji. Personalize your classes, methods, types, and any keyword for visual clarity and style!

Features - Map any word to any emoji (Unicode supported) - Global and local mappings (local overrides global) - Modern tree view UI for managing mappings and file patterns - Inline toolbar: refresh, toggle duplicate handling, toggle emoji position - Smart add mapping: pre-fills from selection, supports any order/spacing, removes emoji from selection - File include/exclude patterns (global/local, managed in UI) - Robust emoji detection (emoji-regex) - No code changes. Decorations only
by achillesheels | 2025-06-30 14:43:29+00:00
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by jcranmer | 2025-06-30 14:43:42+00:00
> I can easily tell code written by a novice programmer naively 'vibe coding' an app from code written by an experienced developer using AI to help him. Can a history professor tell the difference between a purely AI essay from one written by someone who knows what they're talking about?

Yes. That you consider this a question worth asking is a sign of your contempt for the craft of writing an essay. If an AI is that bad at mimicking expertise in your field, why shouldn't it be that bad at mimicking expertise in others' fields?
by LUmBULtERA | 2025-06-30 14:43:43+00:00
Few years ago? Okay, few is 2 or 3 years. I see MSRP for a base model of Mirage in 2023 was $16,245... 2022 was $14,625? When I was buying a car in that time period, there were no discounts below MSRP anywhere I looked for almost anything. Especially anything cheap. I've read a lot of reports of big mark ups for even Mirage's during that time period.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-30 14:44:24+00:00
>"yes Mr Kennedy, these friends of yours are very nice at parties, but unfortunately they are neither qualified, nor actually capable of fulfilling their role and so no, you won't be appointing them" is what the Bund would do.

The irony here being that the degree to which Kennedy and Johnson bungled 'nam was in large part a doing of the professionals with their academic attitudes about how foreign policy and war ought to be conducted. Obviously you don't get do-overs with history but it's very possible that Kennedy's preferred cabal of self serving frat bros would have concluded "the Vietnamese are screwed either way but we come out looking better not escalating, dominoes be damned".

>If people making generic cancer drugs for use in africa had to be held to the standards in the west, we'd all be better off.

How can you say that without an understanding of how much it would shrink the market in Africa?

$600 "perfect" insulin vs $50 "good enough" insulin. Metaphorically speaking.
by khantsithu98 | 2025-06-30 14:44:32+00:00
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by SatvikBeri | 2025-06-30 14:44:51+00:00
I get very good results from Claude Code, something like a 3x. It's enough that my cofounders noticed and commented on it, and has had a lot of measurable results in terms of saving $ on infrastructure.

The first thing I'll note is that Claude Code with Claude 4 has been vastly better than everything else for me. Before that it was more like a 5-10% increase in productivity.

My workflow with Claude Code is very plain. I give it a relatively short prompt and ask it to create a plan. I iterate on the plan several times. I ask it to give me a more detailed plan. I iterate on that several times, then have Claude write it down and /clear to reset context.

Then, I'll usually do one or more "prototype" runs where I implement a solution with relatively little attention to code quality, to iron out any remaining uncertainties. Then I throw away that code, start a new branch, and implement it again while babysitting closely to make sure the code is good.

The major difference here is that I'm able to test out 5-10 designs in the time I would normally try 1 or 2. So I end up exploring a lot more, and committing better solutions.
by rpastuszak | 2025-06-30 14:45:05+00:00
> Sometimes the most optimized, clearest path isn’t necessarily the preferable one.

Untested is my playground/a place where I "work with the garage door up", so generally I allow myself for more flexibility, especially since this post is more of a devlog entry than a one-glance product page (that would be https://enso.sonnet.io). That said, I had a break from writing, so ended up putting too much content in one place, which made it harder to edit.

What's going to happen in the next few months is this: I'll post more dev/design-log style posts on untested.sonnet.io, then extract some of this information into the product page.

I'm glad that you had some fun with the app!