MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ldjkfkdsjnv | 2025-06-17 22:12:01+00:00
Inside view:

Amazon has a document writing culture, all of those documents will be written by AI. People have built careers on writing documents. Same with operations, its all about audit logs. Internally, there are MCPs that have already automated TPMs/PMs/Oncall/maintenance coding. Some orgs in AWS are 90% foreign, there is fear about losing visa status and going back, the automation is just beginning. Sonnet 4 felt like the first time MCPs could actually be used to automate work.

A region expansion scoping project in AWS that required detailed design and inspection of tens of code bases was done in a day, it would usually require two or three weeks of design work.

The automation is real, and the higher are ups are directly monitoring token usage in their org, and pushing senior engineers to increase Q/token usage metrics among low level engineers. Most orgs have a no backfill policy for engineers leaving, they are supplimenting staffing needs with indian contractors, the expectation being that fewer engineers will be needed in a years time.
by nistuley | 2025-06-17 22:13:04+00:00
Hi Bohdan, thanks for sharing this.

A few questions though.

- What are your advantages over other online form builders?

- I know Tally seems to do a pretty good job. Have you considered it and if so, what didn't suit you?

Also, feel free to check out my open source form editor/viewer that can be fully integrated into any environment.

https://github.com/kameojs/kameo

https://github.com/kameojs/kameo-nodejs-demo
by wrl | 2025-06-17 22:13:34+00:00
> developers who want to make improvements to the codebase that don't get prioritized

So, to clarify – developers want to make improvements to the codebase, and you want to give that work to AI? Have you never been in the shoes of making an improvement or a suggestion for a project that you want to work on, seeing it given to somebody else, and then being assigned just more slog that you don't want to do?

I mean, I'm no PM, but that certainly seems like a way to kill team morale, if nothing else.

> I had a frontend engineer, who, when I could just find a way to give him time to do whatever he wanted, would just constantly make little improvements that would incrementally speed up pageload.

Blows my mind to think that those are the things you want to give to AI. I'd quit.
by lazide | 2025-06-17 22:14:08+00:00
Police in general don’t need to show warrants to arrest people. In high profile situations it may be done to minimize political blowback, but clearly that is not a primary concern in this situation (except toward individual officers, which is why they are masking).

In many situations, they just need a documentable/articulable (to a judge, later) reasonable belief that a crime was occurring in their presence, or in other situations that a specific crime had occurred and there was a reasonable belief that person had committed that crime.

Resisting arrest, and impeding official business of a police officer are usually arrest-able offenses almost anywhere.

Details vary by jurisdiction and crime, but ‘you need a warrant to arrest someone’ is an edge case, not the common case. In those cases, it’s also often an indictment or bench warrant.
by skeenan947 | 2025-06-17 22:14:10+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve been running into the same problem on every GenAI project: lots of services call GPT-x / Gemini / Claude, but there’s no single place to enforce policy or to prove to auditors that no PII was sent.

CoreGuard AI (https://coreguard.io) is a small reverse proxy you put in front of any LLM HTTP API:

• Setup: change the host + add one auth header (<5 min) • Real-time PII redaction (<10 ms p95) • Allow/deny lists for models and risky prompt patterns • JSON logs + one-click PDF mapped to NIST AI-RMF, SOC 2, GDPR • Free 90-day sandbox, no credit card

Data retention: encrypted for 30 days by default; zero-retention flag coming soon.

App URL (try it yourself): https://app.coreguard.io

Would love feedback, especially from anyone building internal AI gateways or dealing with AI compliance questionnaires. Happy to answer technical questions or share more numbers.

— Shaun (Founder)
by srameshc | 2025-06-17 22:14:40+00:00
I don't know if I should share it here, but once travelling, I shared a smoke with a fellow traveller and I thought I could handle anything because I thought it was weed. It was something more than I know. I felt paranoid and felt everyone was watching me. I don't know how I was sane, but I decided to go and sleep and never will I dare touch anything so called weed.
by const_cast | 2025-06-17 22:15:15+00:00
X11 works as well as it ever did, but it's so stagnated that that doesn't mean a whole lot. I run new hardware, and I tried X. It's bad. HDR? No. Fractional scaling? Looks awful. Splitting, tearing, and artifacts? Believe it or not, still a problem on X.

There's a film of jankiness that permeates X that I just don't get on Wayland. Animations don't drop frames. Things happen when they should. My text actually looks crisp. On Linux!
by jsemrau | 2025-06-17 22:15:17+00:00
"The standard for "agents" is that tools run in sequence"

I don't think that this correct. Agents benefit is that they can use tools on the fly. Ideally the right tool at the right time.

I.e., Which number is bigger 9.11 or 9.9 -> Agent uses calculator tool. or What is the annual 2020-2023 revenue for Apple -> Financial Statements MCP
by int_19h | 2025-06-17 22:15:54+00:00
> If UBI is funded by taxes it's not a UBI (some people will end up giving back more in taxes than they "receive" in UBI, so it's net negative for them)

This is plainly nonsense. UBI means only one thing: you get a check for a certain guaranteed amount no matter what. It doesn't mean that the amount on this check is necessarily smaller than other taxes due. And yes, it does mean that, in effect, some people will end up paying into the system while others will receive money from it. That is precisely the intent - to provide a baseline for the lower end of the income spectrum such that nobody is ever below it.
by account-5 | 2025-06-17 22:16:07+00:00
I can't think of anything beyond a month is need to search for. And I'm definitely not interested in having it just in case. If it's important I'll write it down.

I'm also not a social media user.

How many people have been caught out over shit they've said decades ago that is now not fashionable to say?

What parts of your old chat histories can get you in trouble if the police got hold of your phone?
by MangoToupe | 2025-06-17 22:16:17+00:00
I don't know japanese or japanese culture, but it's possible this word extends beyond branding. cf https://venere.it/en/the-meaning-and-history-of-the-name-hon...

Notably:

> The name “Honda” has its roots in Japan, a country known for its rich traditions and cultural heritage. In Japanese, the name is written as 本田, which can be broken down into two characters: 本 (“hon”) meaning “origin” or “root” and 田 (“da” or “ta”) meaning “rice field” or “paddy field.” The combination of these characters conveys a sense of familial roots or origin tied to agricultural land, which was historically significant in Japan’s agrarian society.

> Traditionally, Japanese surnames like Honda were often linked to geographic locations or land ownership, reflecting the agricultural lifestyle of early Japan. Thus, the name Honda could have been used to denote a family that owned or worked on rice fields, marking them as stewards of the land.
by eitally | 2025-06-17 22:17:16+00:00
That sounds good, but if you have a PMO and an enterprise Change Control Board that controls your not-quite-CI/CD deployments, you may find yourself hamstrung. I've been in that position before, where there was simultaneously a bottleneck of clear requirements and also a bunch of stuff (tech debt, small features, bug fixes, UI tweaks) sitting and waiting on a branch ready to deploy when downtime was finally approved. Or, situations where enterprise policy requires human SQA signoff on everything going to prod. There are lots of places you can create inefficiencies in the system and lack of approved requirements is just one.
by mym1990 | 2025-06-17 22:17:31+00:00
Surely Amazon would implement redundancy where an AI from a different region to the one that is down would take over. Not sure I follow why "blaming" someone is necessary to move forward with recovering from a failure. In most workplaces, the post mortem is around figuring out what the issue was and remediating it/making sure it doesn't occur in the future, not pointing fingers.
by em-bee | 2025-06-17 22:18:29+00:00
mozilla has tried many projects over the years. i don't remember any that survived. so i'll wait an see whether they manage to ruin firefox with AI before i switch. until then firefox is still better than chromium/chrome.

and even then unfortunately if we don't have a choice. if firefox dies the result will be a chromium based monoculture. that's not healthy. firefox may be the worst browser except for all the others.

let's see if ladybird gets any traction and manages to keep its funding continuously. but they are still a year or two away from being able to even compete with firefox and chrome.
by mattmanser | 2025-06-17 22:18:33+00:00
It's all they've seen. They don't get why they're doing it, because they're junior devs masquerading as architects. There's so many 'senior' or 'architect' level devs in our industry who are utterly useless.

One app I got brought in late on the architect had done some complicated mediator pattern for saving data with a micro service architecture. They'd also semi-implemented DDD.

It was a ten page form. Literally that was what it was supposed to replace. An existing paper, 10 page, form. One of those "domains" was a list of the 1,000 schools in the country. That needed to be updated once a year.

A government spent millions on this thing.

I could have done it on my todd in 3 months. It just needed to use simple forms, with some simple client side logic for hiding sections, and save the data with an ORM.

The funniest bit was when I said that it couldn't handle the load because the architecture had obvious bottlenecks. The load was known and fairly trivial (100k form submissions in one month).

The architect claimed that it wasn't possible as the architecture was all checked and approved by one of the big 5.

So I brought the test server down during the call by making 10 requests at once.
by EGreg | 2025-06-17 22:18:52+00:00
They usually just do a mea culpa:

Camera: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/facebo...

Audio: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41424016

Conversations: https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-said-it-wasnt-liste...

Mass surveillance: https://thehill.com/video/facebook-spying-on-users-new-repor...

Across the web: https://www.wired.com/story/ways-facebook-tracks-you-limit-i...

Beacon: https://www.wired.com/2007/12/facebook-ceo-apologizes-lets-u...

Apps: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analy...

People who aren't even on facebook: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17254312/facebook-shadow-profi...

Others do it too, e.g. Amazon: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone...

But Facebook has always been on a whole other level

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...
by NathanKP | 2025-06-17 22:19:08+00:00
This is an interesting idea actually, if we assume a couple things:

- There likely won't be one Skynet, but rather multiple AI's, produced by various sponsors, starting out as relatively harmless autonomous agents in corporate competition with each other

- AI agents can only inference, then read and write output tokens at a limited rate based on how fast the infrastructure that powers the agent can run

In this scenario a "Skynet" AI writing code in C might lose to an AI writing code in a higher level language, just because of the lost time spent writing the tokens for all that verbose C boilerplate and memory management bits for C. The AI agent that is capable of "thinking" in a higher level DSL is able to take shortcuts that let it implement things faster, with fewer tokens.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-17 22:19:09+00:00
Last I checked the marginal cost of storage for Google, Samsung, and Apple phones sits around $600/TB. More for lower amounts, less for higher amounts.

I don't look much into phones that don't promise a reasonable support life, but if I go look at motorola all these midrange phones don't even have size options. At least some of them accept microsd.
by josephg | 2025-06-17 22:19:11+00:00
Ah got it.

> The physical responses that could save your life are pre-mind, and testably extant within you.

Yes you’re right. There’s a mountain of things that we do that we don’t have conscious control over. There’s multiple ways to think about that.

First is that we simply aren’t masters of every corner of our minds and bodies. But so what? Nothing I said requires us to have full control or full knowledge of ourselves. The existence of reflexes doesn’t directly counter any of my claims.

Another way to think about it is by changing the definition of self / mind to only include the things in our direct perception and control. After all, the boundary of self and world is incredibly fuzzy at the best of times. Are your fingernails “you”? If I accidentally touch something hot with my hand, “I” don’t choose to flinch my hand back. I could consider that reaction part of the external world, not part of me. Interestingly that definition implies self mastery makes “you” bigger. When children stop having tantrums, they bring their emotions under control of their mind. In the process, the part that is them gets bigger to encompass their newfound control.

My physical reaction to tigers also in no way disproves the simulation hypothesis. None of us can directly perceive a tiger.

> you have no evidence that your ideas are directly perceived

Interesting! What do you think we do have evidence of directly perceiving? Surely not a tiger.

I perceive thoughts. I don’t perceive my sensory data - but I do perceive my interpretation of my sensory data. (I don’t see pixels or sound samples. I see blue chair, door, ... I hear dog barking (low pitch), I feel headache feeling, etc). I think that’s good evidence that a pattern of “chair” and “dog” exists in my mind. And I can think about the number 4. When I do that, something happens in my mind. I don’t think I’m perceiving “four” with my sensory system. But the thought has to exist somewhere, right?
by usefulcat | 2025-06-17 22:19:13+00:00
> The market clearly thought it was strange as well, given their stock performance today.

For 6/17, the S&P 500 was down 0.84%, QQQ (Nasdaq stocks) was down 0.98% and AMZN was down 0.59%.

AMZN slightly outperformed the market today.
by encom | 2025-06-17 22:20:15+00:00
What decoders don't support VBR MP3 at this point? You would have to go back at least 20 years to find software that breaks on VBR. Maybe some very very terrible hardware decoder chokes on it?

Incidentally, breakage on VBR bitstreams is buggy behaviour, because some lazy developers assumed frame sizes would never change. VBR is completely within spec, and decoders do not have to explicitly support it.

Lastly a note on bitrate: 320 kbps CBR (the max allowed in spec) is often wasteful and pointless. In many cases, an encoder will pad out frames to conform to the requested bitrate. Indeed tools exist that will losslessly re-encode a CBR file to VBR by removing the padding, producing a smaller file. MP3 (as good as it is) has certain problem samples that aren't fixed by throwing more bits at them. A competent encoder with proper settings, like lame which defaults to -V4 is transparent in most samples to most people. If you disagree you should double-blind test yourself.
by jeffbee | 2025-06-17 22:20:23+00:00
Note though that this is largely because Texas uses a crazy amount of energy compared to California. Some due to local climate, some due to lack of efficiency regs, and a lot due to lack of rooftop solar (going back to their weather again). California's record for grid demand served by batteries is 4x the record of Texas. California's renewables-to-load ratio is double Texas's. Again this is significantly due to California having over 5x the rooftop solar of Texas, which lowers grid demand in the daytime.
by edm0nd | 2025-06-17 22:20:53+00:00
private trackers and warez groups are the plentiful (IPTorrents, Speed, etc) if you are a good seeder and can maintain good ratios. anyone using a public tracker in 2025 deserves anything their ISP catches them doing imo.

public trackers and torrent sites are also just 90% malware and RATs.
by servercobra | 2025-06-17 22:21:17+00:00
There are tons of small improvements I want to make to our codebase that would be great but take effort. Refactors are a great example. We hand those to Devin (or Cursor background agents, etc), review, and we're all happier for it. Our PM uses it fix those little UI annoyances all the time like "update the text on this button". It's been wonderful.
by int_19h | 2025-06-17 22:22:15+00:00
Wealthy countries could afford this even with proper housing, food etc (not fancy, but not tent/slop either). Even not so wealthy ones could afford something. You have to go back all the way to hunter/gatherer societies to have a situation where each person's productive labor only generates enough wealth to feed themselves. In any modern industrial society, the productivity is long past the point where each person produces enough to satisfy multiple people's needs, in aggregate. The only problem is that most of this generated wealth is then directed to satisfy the whims of the very few people at the top who get to collect economic rent from the rest of us.
by hagg3n | 2025-06-17 22:22:16+00:00
Provision is a script I've grown over years of building small production systems on Debian and Ubuntu Server. It handles security basics, relies on system tools so you're locked to any cloud solution, installs common software, and is _mostly_ safe to re-run if you mess anything up. If you have suggestions or battle scars with similar projects, I'd love to hear it. Cheers!
by BRyan42 | 2025-06-17 22:22:38+00:00
I rented a similar BMW from Sixt in Spain just last week. The CarPlay issue was solved via a 45 minute OTA software update from the dash, which thankfully didn't require creating a BMW ConnectedDrive account. Pairing was seamless after I did this. Talk about frustrating—it nearly ruined my trip. Why these don't have wired CarPlay boggles the mind.
by mortenjorck | 2025-06-17 22:24:14+00:00
The most unpleasant effect from cut-rate HDR is when graphics with bright backgrounds get lazy-mapped to HDR.

Perhaps the worst offender I've ever seen was the Mafia remake by Hangar 17, which loads every time with a sequence of studio logos with white backgrounds that cut from black. The RGB(255,255,255) backgrounds get stretched to maximum HDR nits, and the jump from RGB(0,0,0) (especially on an OLED) is absolutely eye-searing.

I literally had to close my eyes whenever I'd load the game.
by lurk2 | 2025-06-17 22:25:14+00:00
I’m not talking about the kind of cross-platforming viral content you’re describing. What I’ve noticed usually ends up happening is that platforms just end up becoming mutually-perpetuating surveillance machines. e.g. “You’ll never believe what these LIBTARDS on Reddit said,” “I can’t BELIEVE what $tech_ceo said about $issue on Twitter,” and that’s where the problem lies. You used to get specific kinds of content from specific platforms, whereas now if you go on reels you’re as likely to come across a subway surfers AskReddit video or a Twitter screenshot set to music as you are an actual video.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-17 22:25:20+00:00
> The first known human tetrachromat, an English social worker identified in 1993, sees 10 distinct colors looking at a rainbow, whereas the rest of us see only five.

What does this even mean? It's setting off my BS detector.

I can see as many colors in the rainbow as I want, since colors are culturally determined. Cyan is prominently there in the rainbow, even though most people don't include it in the traditional "Roy G Biv" -- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Speaking of which, where did 5 even come from in that quote? I mean, the fact that we can argue over how many colors the rainbow has just shows how unscientific such a statement is.

If there's anything potentially scientific here, you could say that humans see three primary colors associated with the three cones -- red, green, blue -- and therefore three intermediate colors -- yellow, cyan, magenta. A fourth cone between red and green means that it might be possible to see 8 primary and intermediate colors instead of 6. But it also might not do much of anything at all, if it's then mapped to our existing opponent process [1] that is fundamentally based on red vs. green and blue vs. yellow. In other words, it would just be a redundant or ignored sensory input to our conceptual color processing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process
by recursivedoubts | 2025-06-17 22:25:52+00:00
I love crafting interpreters and mention it on grugbrain:

https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-parsing

but the visitor pattern is nearly always a bad idea IMO: you should just encode the operation in the tree if you control it or create a recursive function that manually dispatches on the argument type if you don't
by josephg | 2025-06-17 22:26:14+00:00
My pet theory is that LSD (particularly in low doses) primarily suppresses a bunch of inhibitory parts of our brains. So thoughts that would normally be suppressed make it all the way up to conscious experience. If that’s true, then our experience of being more creative on lsd shows how much we repress our creative selves in normal lives. That neon colour scheme, and that skill at csgo wasn’t in the lsd. It was in you. It is in you. You just normally bury it.

Ram Das said lsd didn’t do anything to him (though I find that an amazing claim). I think one of the Indian gurus said the same thing. I’m not sure if I believe them though.
by const_cast | 2025-06-17 22:26:51+00:00
I don't think the fragmentation is a problem or even "solvable". The reason Windows doesn't have fragmentation is because it's a closed-source operating system with internet enabled functionality that is centrally controlled by Microsoft with an iron fist.

That's just fundamentally incompatible with Linux on desktops. Who's going to take charge and make decisions? And, how will they enforce? Will they make their desktop closed-source and take you to court if you try to fork it? That doesn't sound very pleasant.

People are gonna fork and do their own thing because that's what makes Linux Linux.