MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matthewsinclair | 2025-06-03 06:58:13+00:00
I think this article is pretty spot on — it articulates something I’ve come to appreciate about LLM-assisted coding over the past few months.

I started out very sceptical. When Claude Code landed, I got completely seduced — borderline addicted, slot machine-style — by what initially felt like a superpower. Then I actually read the code. It was shockingly bad. I swung back hard to my earlier scepticism, probably even more entrenched than before.

Then something shifted. I started experimenting. I stopped giving it orders and began using it more like a virtual rubber duck. That made a huge difference.

It’s still absolute rubbish if you just let it run wild, which is why I think “vibe coding” is basically just “vibe debt” — because it just doesn’t do what most (possibly uninformed) people think it does.

But if you treat it as a collaborator — more like an idiot savant with a massive brain but no instinct or nous — or better yet, as a mech suit [0] that needs firm control — then something interesting happens.

I’m now at a point where working with Claude Code is not just productive, it actually produces pretty good code, with the right guidance. I’ve got tests, lots of them. I’ve also developed a way of getting Claude to document intent as we go, which helps me, any future human reader, and, crucially, the model itself when revisiting old code.

What fascinates me is how negative these comments are — how many people seem closed off to the possibility that this could be a net positive for software engineers rather than some kind of doomsday.

Did Photoshop kill graphic artists? Did film kill theatre? Not really. Things changed, sure. Was it “better”? There’s no counterfactual, so who knows? But change was inevitable.

What’s clear is this tech is here now, and complaining about it feels a bit like mourning the loss of punch cards when terminals showed up.

[0]: https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-progra...
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by simoncion | 2025-06-03 06:58:25+00:00
If you pay attention, you see that the cost to large companies of reputational damage is very, very small. "The public" has short memories, companies tend to think only about the next quarter or two, PR flacks are often very convincing to Management, and -IME- it takes a lot of shit for an enterprise to move away from a big vendor.

And, those who are pay attention notice that the fines and penalties for big companies that screw the little guys are often next-to-nothing when compared with that big company's revenue. In other words, these punishments are often "cost of doing business" expenses, rather than actual deterrents.

So, yeah. Add into all that a healthy dose of "How would anyone but the customers with the deepest pockets ever get enough money to prove such a contract violation in court?", and you end up a profound lack of trust.
by latentsea | 2025-06-03 06:58:25+00:00
This 35 thing referred to in the article is a phenomenon present in the Chinese tech market, not the NZ one. There's no such thing in the NZ one, and I pity the Chinese with their 996 and curse of 35. What an awfully structured tech industry they have. NZ is in general much better, but there is definitely fewer positions lately.
by consp | 2025-06-03 06:59:39+00:00
I refuse to pay for any product where I'm the product. Run it locally, maybe I'll pay for it but never online.

My guess would also be that at the 100$ price point only one company can be profitable but that is just a very wild guess.

For what I've seen SE's are some of the last to adopt it. My marketing colleague has been overflowing in generic AI crap produced by external writers for over a year now.
by Luker88 | 2025-06-03 06:59:43+00:00
Hello Cloudflare, impressive result, I did not think things were this advanced.

Still, legal question where I'd like to be wrong: AFAIK (and IANAL) if I use AI to generate images, I can't attach copyright to it.

But the code here is clearly copyrighted to you.

Is that possible because you manually modify the code?

How does it work in examples like this one where you try to have close to all code generated by AI?
by sdoering | 2025-06-03 06:59:43+00:00
The field of history had their - oh, this is a thing - moment quite a few decades ago with Hayden White. It is a good example of the underlying issue.

Hayden White's assertion that "history is fiction" was (and still is) a complex one, not intended to dismiss the factual accuracy of historical narratives (as it is more often than not portraied).

Instead, it highlights the interpretive nature of historical writing and the way historians shape their accounts of the past through literary and rhetorical techniques. White argues that historians, like novelists, use narrative structures and stylistic devices to construct meaning from historical events.
by thomasrp | 2025-06-03 07:00:22+00:00
Are you aiming to publish these generated videos on IG and TikTok? Are people finding properties on social media in the US?

I might be a bit early, but when you're ready to launch in Europe, keep us in mind, we’re currently shipping our next-generation API version that aggregates all real estate data across Europe at https://stream.estate
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by moomin | 2025-06-03 07:01:29+00:00
Who are these friends? Are they in the room with us right now? Look, maybe my experience is atypical but I’m an AI skeptic and I know plenty of others. I’ve never heard people claim that LLMs are a fad or going to go away.

I’ve seen lots of people:

* think that conflating LLMs and “AI” produces a lot of poorly reasoned arguments

* doubt the economic narratives being built around LLM technology

* think the current rate of progress in the technology is basically flat

* think most “AI companies” resemble most crypto companies

An addendum to the last point: very few crypto skeptics deny that BitCoin is a thing or think it’s going away, either. It’s just strawmanning.
by hyperman1 | 2025-06-03 07:01:33+00:00
I'd add: Learn to recognize dangers first. From the top of my head:

* big caps that can contain high voltages even when a device is powered off, in TVs or microwaves.

* Know where a fire extinguisher etc is, keep them near the workbench.

* Keep the workbench clean, tidy and well-vented.

* Don't panic when mistakes are made. Slow down instead of doing a quick-fix.

* I like a big red button to power down everything instantly. Can be just a switch on a plug box.
by kamaal | 2025-06-03 07:01:49+00:00
>>I'm not afraid to ask "stupid" questions -That is critical.

AI won't judge and shame you in front of the whole world, for asking stupid questions, or not RTFM'ing well enought, like Stackoverflow users do. Nor will it tell you, your questions are irrelevant.

I think this is the most killer AI feature ever.
by h4kunamata | 2025-06-03 07:02:09+00:00
To be honest, the perfect solution and you have a high chance of finding something there that makes you happy.

Housing there is more affordable also but not for long, people are buying insane houses there coz cost "nothing".

If this is something that you already considered and have enough saving to do so, personally, I would start looking for what can I do over there job wise to avoid using all my savings and screw it, I am off. No matter how small is the income coz you will need to start from the bottom, I am getting tired of IT, too much drama, all the time, if living in Asia doing something completely different but that pays the bills and that I am happy with, I wouldn't come back. Australia within the last 11 years went to shit big time, and it is getting worse by the day.

I have considered the same, I think it might be a little to late for me now, who knows.
by underlines | 2025-06-03 07:02:45+00:00
Our family had a computer since 1990 when I was 4yo. As a kid in school we had typing lessons on a typewriter in 2001 (despite having iMacs in the classroom). I specifically tried to type as fast as possible in order to leave typing class early. It helped my brain to get up to 130 WPM as a kid. I now type at around 100 WPM.
by globnomulous | 2025-06-03 07:03:14+00:00
I've only just realized how bad AI is for me, in a manner I didn't at all expect. I don't use it. I don't want to use it. I hate it. As another commenter here nicely put it, I want to do, not tell. I like writing code. I like solving problems. I like doing the work myself. I like struggling and then, the next day, finding that my capabilities have grown.

And yet I'm overwhelmingly demoralized and depressed about AI's encroachment on software engineering, so much so that I am finding it difficult to marshal cognitive resources. I'm finding it harder and harder to engage with coding problems, even though I love programming.

The last thing I expected was that AI, even kept at a distance, would rob me of the joy I find in one of the things I love most.

It so devalues what I do and my basic capabilities as a human being that I kind of want to die. I'll stick around for my daughter, my partner, and any future children, but I'm not optimistic at all about the future.
by psychoslave | 2025-06-03 07:04:29+00:00
No, because the LLM is a tool without any feeling and consciousness, like the article rightfully point out. It doesn't have the possibility to scrutinize it's own internals, nor the possibility to wonder if that would be something relevant to do.

Those who lie (possibly even to themselves) are those who pretend that mimicry if stretched enough will surpass the actual thing, and foster the deceptive psychological analogies like "hallucinate".
by frereubu | 2025-06-03 07:05:08+00:00
Oh, absolutely. It's just that I've seen some of the original buildings in south east London and they looked absolutely freezing - single glazing with metal-framed windows. The walls looked like thin painted plywood, but I don't think that can be the case. It looks like they've updated them now: https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/1615
by givemeethekeys | 2025-06-03 07:05:26+00:00
I know LGBT people personally and professionally and was completely unaware of Pronouns until the first season of Billions. It made me think maybe it was an East Coast thing finally migrating West, but still, to this date, I don't know anyone who introduces themselves or specifies their pronouns. I haven't gone out of my way to avoid or encounter them.
by fsloth | 2025-06-03 07:05:59+00:00
I totally agree. The ”hard to control mech suit” is an excellent analogy.

When it works it’s brilliant.

There is a threshold point as part of the learning curve where you realize you are in a pile of spaghetti code and think it actually saves no time to use LLM assistant.

But then you learn to avoid the bad parts - thus they don’t take your time anymore - and the good parts start paying back in heaps of the time spent learning.

They are not zero effort tools.

There is a non-trivial learning cost involved.
by debugnik | 2025-06-03 07:06:29+00:00
Is there a similar rule for submissions, or are submitters exempt from adopting HN culture? "Please don't submit shallow arguments, specially criticizing other people's work?"

Because we've recently been getting a series of low quality submissions which obviously drive low quality discussion, but for some reason it's only the commenters who get reprimanded, as if the submissions weren't ruining the mood one by one.

(And to clarify, I haven't been warned, I'm not writing this out of spite.)
by FranzFerdiNaN | 2025-06-03 07:06:46+00:00
> It's not about how to use history as an aid to prediction.

Because this isnt the goal of history. You cant use history to predict the future.

> If you want to understand Cicero's era, for example, read [1]. This is a study of Cicero by an experienced and cynical newspaper political reporter. The author writes that too many historians take Cicero's speeches at face value. The author knows better, having heard many politicians of his own day.

No they dont. This is yet another example of an outsider looking at another field, thinking he knows better and making a fool of himself. Also, why would you ignore 80 years of scholarship about Cicero and read a book from 1942???
by atakan_gurkan | 2025-06-03 07:07:23+00:00
"If you’re making requests on a ChatGPT page and then pasting the resulting (broken) code into your editor, you’re not doing what the AI boosters are doing. No wonder you’re talking past each other."

This is in fact what I am doing (though I am not trying to convince anyone not to use LLMs). How can I get into this other mode? Any pointers? Do I need to pay up for a service? I do not want to carry out vibe coding, I want to use LLMs to solve physics, math and logic problems/puzzles. I'd appreciate any recommendations.
by simoncion | 2025-06-03 07:07:23+00:00
> Releasing support for such CPU:s pretty much as soon as they were available rather than a few years later probably says something about the required effort.

I doubt it. You should read the PDF in footnote zero from my previous comment. I'll copy the link here for your convenience. <https://erlang.org/euc/08/euc_smp.pdf>
by ogarten | 2025-06-03 07:07:48+00:00
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by throw310822 | 2025-06-03 07:08:28+00:00
Why would Russia, the largest country in the world, scarcely populated, try to steal more territory? I understand that Ukraine's territory is more valuable than the equivalent parts of Siberia, but still, is it that important?

Isn't it more obvious that Russia considers Ukraine part of its own backyard and doesn't want an aggressive, confrontational superpower to attract it in its sphere of influence?
by TomasBM | 2025-06-03 07:08:37+00:00
Slightly tangential: A lot of these issues are philosophical in origin, because we don't have priors to study. But just because, for example, advanced nanotechnology doesn't exist yet, that doesn't mean we can't imagine some potential problems based on analogical things (viruses, microplastics) or educated assumptions.

That's why there's no single source that's useful to study issues related to AI. Until we see an incident, we will never know for sure what is just a possibility and what is (not) an urgent or important issue [1].

So, the best we can do is analogize based on analogical things. For example: the centuries of Industrial Revolution and the many disruptive events that followed; history of wars and upheavals, many of which were at least partially caused by labor-related problems [2]; labor disruptions in the 20th century, including proliferation of unions, offshoring, immigration, anticolonialism, etc.

> "Social Media is the original sin"

In the same way that radio, television and the Internet are the "original sin" in large-scale propaganda-induced violence.

> "I want to have long moved on."

Only if you have where to go. Others may not be that mobile or lucky.

[1] For example, remote systems existed for quite some time, yet we've only seen a few assassination attempts. Does that mean that slaughterbots are not a real issue? It's unclear and too early to say.

[2] For example, high unemployment and low economic mobility in post-WW1 Germany; serfdom in Imperial Russia.
by M4v3R | 2025-06-03 07:09:06+00:00
I literally do this about twice a week on Twitch. I’m working on some hobby projects, and one constraint I’ve put on myself is to use LLMs for pretty much everything, regardless of whether it saves me time or not. The reason is twofold: I want to learn how to use them efficiently, and I want to constantly test the waters to see where the limits of their capabilities are. On my stream, you can see LLMs fail spectacularly one time and do hours of work in minutes another time.

I’m not alone in this - there are tons of other examples of people showing how they use LLMs online; you just need to search for them.
by RedCardRef | 2025-06-03 07:09:31+00:00
Recently watched the Netflix docu series on this, J&J claimed that cyanide was not present in the factory, so there is no way the pills could have been contaminated at the factory.

Then later on one of the doctors asked J&J if a test for cyanide is done for each batch in QA at the factory. J&J said yes, each batch was tested for the presence of cyanide.

The doctor then asked, "Why were they testing for it(cyanide)?", kinda blew my mind. Implying that J&J knew cyanide contamination was a possibility at the factory itself.
by lukan | 2025-06-03 07:10:22+00:00
On the other hand, I remember lots of stupid beginners questions I had, when learning to programm. My peers did not know them either and I had to wait sometimes days for the opportunity to ask someone advanced who knew. Blocking my progress.

(Asking online was a possibility, but instead of helpful answers, insults for being newb was the standard response)

With a LLM I would have had a likely correct answer immediately.

And yes, yes what if it is wrong?

Well, I was also taught plenty of wrong stuff from human teachers as well. I learned to think for myself. I doubt anyone decently smart who now grews up with those tools, think they are flawless.

In the end, you are responsible for the product. If it works, if it passes the tests, you succeeded. That did not change.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-06-03 07:10:28+00:00
At least once, @selivanovp is right here. Russia invaded because it could, and because the existing political system needed a war to consolidate power and justify oppression.

The alternative was internal political tensions, weakening economy, and eventually an end to Putin's rule. Don't forget that he is 72 and senile or, as Trump put it, "absolutely crazy".
by kouteiheika | 2025-06-03 07:10:49+00:00
At least for the Ultralytics YOLO models this is also relatively easy (I've done it too). These models are tiny by today's standards, so training them from scratch even on consumer hardware is doable in reasonable time. The only tricky part is writing the training code which is a little more complicated than just reimplementing the architecture itself, but, again, if a random scrub like me can do it then any researcher worth their salt will be able to do it too.
by vineyardmike | 2025-06-03 07:11:09+00:00
> WYSIWYG didn't go anywhere

Like MS Word?

These are pretty easy to solve problems tbh. LLM tools already exist that can work around “hallucinating libraries” effectively, not that this a real concern. It’s not magic, but these tired skeptic takes are just not based on reality.

It’s much more likely that LLMs will be used to supercharge visualizations with custom UIs and widgets, or in conjunction with things like MS excel for data analysis. Non-engineers won’t be vibe-coding a database anytime soon, but they could be making a PWA that marketing can use to add a filter on photos or help guide a biologist towards a python script to sort pictures of specimens based on an OpenCV model.
by vubecnevim | 2025-06-03 07:11:40+00:00
And now imagine you could save not just text or images or music but also more abstract things like emotions and meaning. And now imagine you can do it in a true human readable form so that many people (not just scholars or priest with secret knowledge) in a post apocalyptic or indeed a normal future can read it. And now imagine that only a limited set of characters even very simple ones can store that data even in just one character measuring just enough space so one can read it. How awesome is that? And we already have this system and it was developed thousads of years ago.
by TomasBM | 2025-06-03 07:11:55+00:00
Slightly tangential: A lot of these issues are philosophical in origin, because we don't have priors to study. But just because, for example, advanced nanotechnology doesn't exist yet, that doesn't mean we can't imagine some potential problems based on analogical things (viruses, microplastics) or educated assumptions.

That's why there's no single source that's useful to study issues related to AI. Until we see an incident, we will never know for sure what is just a possibility and what is (not) an urgent or important issue [1].

So, the best we can do is analogize based on analogical things. For example: the centuries of Industrial Revolution and the many disruptive events that followed; history of wars and upheavals, many of which were at least partially caused by labor-related problems [2]; labor disruptions in the 20th century, including proliferation of unions, offshoring, immigration, anticolonialism, etc.

> "Social Media is the original sin"

In the same way that radio, television and the Internet are the "original sin" in large-scale propaganda-induced violence.

> "I want to have long moved on."

Only if you have where to go. Others may not be that mobile or lucky. If autonomous trucks can make the trucking profession obsolete, it's questionable how quickly can truckers "move on".

[1] For example, remote systems existed for quite some time, yet we've only seen a few assassination attempts. Does that mean that slaughterbots are not a real issue? It's unclear and too early to say.

[2] For example, high unemployment and low economic mobility in post-WW1 Germany; serfdom in Imperial Russia.
by rwyinuse | 2025-06-03 07:12:30+00:00
Why wouldn't AI eventually take jobs of people who "know how to use it" as well? If AI makes engineers more productive, then you need less of them.

I utilize AI as a part of my workflows, but I'm pretty sure I'll be replaced anyway in 5-10 years. I think software development is a career dead-end now, except if you're doing things much closer to hardware than average dev.