MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by insin | 2025-06-13 01:44:31+00:00
The "Emerging" diagram on the Agentic Engineering page [1] linked from this post is the first time I've seen the exact thing I think of when people start frothing about fleets of agents driving fleets of agents, while just assuming multiplying all those <= 1.0s together will somehow automatically create 1.0

[1] https://zed.dev/agentic-engineering
by tom_ | 2025-06-13 01:44:44+00:00
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 2 had a track listing that was 6 pie charts, one image per slice, 1 slice per track. I assume it came on 3 LPs, but I had the 2 CD version, and there were corresponding pie charts printed on the face up sides of the CDs... as if it made it any clearer.

I ripped them about 15 years ago and cddb came up with track names for them, matching the ones in its Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected_Ambient_Works_Volume_...). I wonder if we have any evidence that the mapping from tracks to images is remotely correct.
by fiddlerwoaroof | 2025-06-13 01:45:24+00:00
I don’t think it’s true that “consumers don’t care about quality” but rather that their concern for quality doesn’t really manifest itself in those terms. Consumers care about critical tools being available when they need them and businesses often have a hard time situating feature requests in the broader desire for utility and stability (in part because these are things only noticed when things are really bad).

Part of my growth as a developer was connected with realizing that a lot of the issues with quality resulted from miscommunication between “the business” and engineers advocating for quality.
by atmanactive | 2025-06-13 01:46:22+00:00
I don't like the fact that the site is forcing light mode on me. For people like me, who suffer from retinal/macular issues, when visiting a website, there are several possible outcomes:

- some websites support both dark and light modes and they automatically switch depending on OS-level preference. These are the best.

- some websites support only the light mode, but my Chromium's flag "force dark mode" still manages to somehow display them in dark mode. These are the majority of websites today.

- some websites support only the light mode in such a way that they even defeat Chromium's force-dark-mode and still show up in light mode. These are the worst.
by eru | 2025-06-13 01:46:29+00:00
For most people, writing (most of) their password on a piece of paper that they keep in their wallet would be pretty good security.

Paper can't be hacked, and writing down the password allows for more complicated passwords. In case someone gets access to your wallet, you still keep a portion of the password not written down.

(And if someone gets physical access to your stuff, you are hosed in general, because they can just install a keylogger. So even keeping your password fragment on a post-it under your keyboard would be fine-ish.)
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-13 01:47:42+00:00
> Emirates needs the huge capacities of the A380.

I think it's more that they needed the prestige of having the biggest planes, offering a whole bedroom with shower etc. It goes well with their ultra luxury image.

If it's just about seats that can fly smaller ones with the benefit that they can operate more frequently and thus attract more transit passengers looking for a good connection. That's their main market.

An A380 is quite a hassle because most airports can't even handle one.
by mlinhares | 2025-06-13 01:48:04+00:00
Problem is there is no money in this for the private market, so the government will have to pay 10x more to get a patchwork of private entities to do the work the government was already doing.

If we don't get these people out and revert all they did there won't be much of a future for this country that isn't becoming another failed economy with a few places being a little bit better than the others. The US will be a third world country soon.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-13 01:48:24+00:00
Eh. I’m not really into “hard and fast” rules. In most cases, there’s no reason to mention personal assets, but sometimes, it’s useful. Same goes for personal weaknesses.

Whatever I say, I mean; whether making a commitment, giving a compliment, or telling someone that I may be good (or bad) at something, so they can make their own mind up.

I do feel that it’s important to back up what I say. That’s a big reason that I’m so open.
by nntwozz | 2025-06-13 01:49:13+00:00
I don't think Iran should have nukes, but then again how do you solve that problem? All I can think of is this quote from the Pale Blue Dot:

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

– Carl Sagan
by eru | 2025-06-13 01:49:24+00:00
In practice, that's probably how it's done. But in theory: no.

Assume you keep the hashes of the last few passwords around. Then you can search in the 'neighbourhood' of the new password to check if any of this matches the old password's hash.

By neighbourhood, I mean something like within a small edit-distance, where the kind of edits depend on what measure of similarity you want.

If you only care about similarity to the last password (or care about that one specifically), then that's even easier: during the password change procedure you can have clear text access to both the old and the new passwords without storing them anywhere unhashed: because the user has just entered both passwords.
by Eisenstein | 2025-06-13 01:51:24+00:00
Try pasting in a HN thread where people are disagreeing with each other vehemently and ask it for a critique or a breakdown.

An example from Sonnet 4 'thinking':

Thread

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259838

Result (prompt: Critique each view from this hacker news thread and give an overall summary and judgement. Do not waffle)

* https://imgur.com/aFl9uiA

This is just a trivial way to illustrate some capability, it is not meant to be deep or insightful or an end-task in itself.
by cherry_tree | 2025-06-13 01:51:47+00:00
Are you referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iran%E2%80%93Israel_con... ? Or can you provide more information about Iran attacking Israel everyday in 2025?

(Not to say that a few months means this conflict has ended, genuinely curious what the media I’ve seen has under/mis/not-reported)
by hahahacorn | 2025-06-13 01:53:37+00:00
Not to be that guy but this just isn’t a helpful heuristic and I think the author fundamentally misunderstands introductions. The point of self identifying with some operating principle (value-add) isn’t about guaranteeing it to be true, it’s a social contract that A: indicates your priorities and B: offers a short-circuit to credibility.

Just because you state yourself as value-add doesn’t mean I am going to believe you are a value-add, it indicates that being value-add is your priority, so if I need to call on my investors for something I might go to you first, and if you fail to be a value add then you discredit literally your entire existence in my professional network.

This is why “introduce yourself” is such a valuable question. It reveals how a person views themself in a context. Do they jump into titles? Achievements? Their operating principles? Their failures? Their insecurities?

I don’t know. I prefer this over no information.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-06-13 01:54:18+00:00
1. By calling it US healthcare, the author is missing the point. There is very little healthcare, but there is a lot of medical expense.

2. By not throwing in a sentence or two about how the ACA provided a perverse incentive for insurance companies to raise the cost of medical care so as to allow an increase in marketing and executive compensation, the author is ignoring one of the many pernicious effects government regulation has caused in the industry.
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-13 01:56:54+00:00
I wouldn't overthink it, or take it to extremes just to find a strawman. A charitable reading of my comment shows we agree. I talked about indulgences displacing healthier options.

More specifically, when TFA talks about difficulty writing an email vs playing hours of video games, I thought it was worth mentioning that 2 hrs of factorio 3 or 4 nights a week might actually dampen the excitement of work a little by providing a perfectly tailored experience designed to engage the part of your brain that your employer would pay your for.

The analogy isn't about "hunger is the best seasoning" (although isn't that an apt colloquialism !), the analogy is insulin resistance is something like "dopamine resistance" both take consistent large over indulgences or poor decisions (however socially acceptable!) to cause a runaway effect which degrades "health".

Hope that's clearer. It's about establishing healthy habits not starving oneself.
by thwarted | 2025-06-13 01:58:30+00:00
> Not just a quick hack...proper production-ready code with error handling, logging, environment checks, documentation, the entire implementation. Working, tested, committed to git. … This wasn't copy-paste from Stack Overflow. This was bespoke, production-ready code tailored to my specific Laravel app, following my existing patterns, with proper security considerations.

Why does any of this matter if you're barely bothering to look at/review it and you'll probably throw it out if there's a problem with it? If it only takes 34 seconds to generate, the whole thing is disposable and none of these things that are important for maintenance matter. It doesn't matter if it follows your existing patterns because you're not going to maintain it. Documentation doesn't matter, because you're not bothering to configure it or even understand how it works. And you're not going to figure out why it doesn't work, you're just going to ask the LLM to fix the bug or rewrite it for you.

You're trying to sell someone on using the bespoke, shrink-wrapped software generator by pointing out things that don't matter to people who want to use shrink-wrapped software, and do matter to people who are not interested in shrink-wrapped software.

> If you're a developer: Learn to work with AI tools. Not just as a fancy autocomplete, but as a collaborative partner. The developers who figure this out first will have an insurmountable advantage.

I guess if you can get it to generate code that looks like code you wrote, you can gloss over the fact that you didn't actually write it but still put your name next to it because you typed in the prompt. This is ordering food in a restaurant, and calling yourself a chef.

There's definitely utility, for some people in some situations, to be able to order food and have it delivered to them ready to eat. And there's utility to having a personal chef who will provide anything you ask for. But you don't call that cooking.
by aloha2436 | 2025-06-13 01:59:47+00:00
> remains the same whether they pull source or binaries.

I don't think that's exactly true, it's definitely _easier_ to sneak something into a binary without people noticing than it is to sneak it into rust source, but there hasn't been an underhanded rust competition for a while so I guess it's hard to be objective about that.
by nicholasjarnold | 2025-06-13 01:59:57+00:00
Admittedly, that part was a bit tongue in cheek. Rather, I wish that is "what one does now", as I think we might live in a somewhat nicer world rather than one driven by whatever has been happening as many of us get sucked into our algorithmically-driven feeds across various web properties and apps.

Also, fwiw, you can install Play Services after installing GrapheneOS[0]. It runs in a sandbox without the same deep system access that it has on less secure versions of Android. There's no requirement here to authenticate with any Google account. You'd just have the Play Services running/available, which can be a requirement for some apps.

[0] https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play
by aaron695 | 2025-06-13 02:00:41+00:00
The targets the US predicted are

TOP SECRET//SCI//NOFORN//SOCCENT-32 POTENTIAL TARGET SITES (TS//TKI/RSEN//REL TO USA, FVEY) Facility Name Type Latitude Longitude Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) Nuclear Facility 32,580744 51,827081 Natanz Nuclear Complex Facility Nuclear Facility 33,724229 51,726114 Parchin Ammunition Plant Nuclear Facility 35,527676 51,765176 Khorramshahr Military Base Military Base 30,4580556 48,1889111 IR-40 Nuclear Facility Nuclear Facility 34,37331 49,240749 Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) Nuclear Facility 35,738431 51,388253 TOP SECRET//SCI//NOFORN//SOCCENT-J2

Lets see how good they were

[edit] Direct links -

UCF - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=32_34_50_N_... Natanz - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=33_43_27_N_... Parchin - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=35_31_39_N_... Khorramshahr - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=30_27_29_N_... IR-40 - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=34_22_23_N_... TRR - https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=35_44_18_N_...

[edit 2] More relevant to HN. the Dolphin-class submarines are launching missiles as predicted, the US also thought they would be part of the 'cyber-war', which they define as "electronic jamming to distort and disable radar signals, rendering air-defense systems ineffective." Intel people are such tools, jamming and spoofing is 'cyber-war' and a 'cyber strike'.... I guess they are more right, it's not like you are hacking during a war, that was months ago which is intel. But it's language used for funding purposes.

[edit 3] I will say the "agents will carry out sabotage operations inside Iran" Who'd be nuts enough to do that? The US would have to have that wrong
by Retric | 2025-06-13 02:01:23+00:00
Touch ID isn’t that secure. It’s fine for personal devices, but I wouldn’t trust it alone in a government or cooperate environment.

A ~1:50,000 error rate per finger added sounds fine, but lose a few laptops and have multiple valid fingerprints etc and the odds quickly look significantly worse. Or a janitor could end up trying to log into a significant number of machines etc.
by kriro | 2025-06-13 02:01:25+00:00
I guess it depends on your definition of a lot. There are plenty of 100 million+ net worth people that have a good moral compass in my experience. Typically these are family business owners or what we'd call owner-operators.

Edit: I'd even argue the general idea of capitalism is virtuous by default.

1) I provide something others find useful

2) I invest (providing capital for others to do 1)
by medvezhenok | 2025-06-13 02:01:34+00:00
It probably requires some sort of decreased security (if the password hash is truly slow & secure, it would be hard to enforce dissimilarity); but there might be other methods that leak less than cleartext (like salting and storing hashes of overlapping/separate n-grams from the previous password and checking for number of similar n-grams; etc). Or as another commenter suggested checking all passwords within edit distance 1 (though if you can do that, your password hashing algorithm is likely too fast).
by tlogan | 2025-06-13 02:02:25+00:00
Sure. All true. But PCI compliance requires 90-day password rotation which might not be required if you’re using multi-factor authentication (MFA). In other words, in the case of MFA, that requirement might be waived: and the operative word here is might.

So, if you’re pursuing PCI compliance people don’t rely on assumptions or conditional language like might. Certainty is key when dealing with compliance frameworks.
by a_tartaruga | 2025-06-13 02:02:58+00:00
Genetic engineering and synthetic biology. Synthesizing DNA and transforming cells. Designing better methodologies to improve efficiency, robustness, cost or scale up of common bio lab processes. Mapping out all bio lab processes used in genetic engineering. Unfortunately without going back to school to PhD options are very limited. The Thought Emporium guy and the 4-6 community bio labs in major US cities are the only counter examples I know of doing this outside of academia / industry.

I have a theory that if society could unlock a hobbyist class of synthetic biology tinkerers it could unleash rapid growth similar to the computing industry. I'm not sure if the problem is technology not being low cost and high safety enough or a lack of social institutions supporting people like this.
by joshu | 2025-06-13 02:04:58+00:00
i thought it was interesting. sometimes you have a part of an idea and you don't know where you really wanted to go until you started.

fwiw i think a lot about older computers being much more simplistic and easier to understand than modern machines (you could understand how an apple ii worked, end to end, but a modern PC?) and wonder how to bring that into the modern era...
Show HN: Claude Slash Command Suite inspired by Anthropics best practices guide
by highdevtalk00 | 2025-06-13 02:05:24+00:00
I built a collection of professional slash commands for Anthropic's Claude Code that provide structured workflows for common software development tasks.

These commands are directly inspired by and adapted from Anthropic's own claude-code-best-practices (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices) documentation, translating their recommendations into executable workflows. The suite includes commands for: • Comprehensive code reviews with security and performance analysis • End-to-end feature development with planning, implementation, and testing • Architectural analysis and design pattern assessment • Security audits and vulnerability scanning • GitHub issue resolution with root cause analysis • Performance optimization and build improvements Each command follows a systematic approach based on Anthropic's best practices, breaking complex tasks into manageable steps. Instead of ad-hoc AI interactions, you get consistent, thorough workflows that adapt to any codebase. The commands work through Claude Code's slash command system - just type `/project:code-review` or `/project:create-feature user-authentication` and Claude follows the predefined workflow. Installation is straightforward with an interactive script that can install project-specific or globally. The commands are fully customizable markdown files, so you can adapt them to your team's specific requirements.

I hope others find it useful!
by mattnewton | 2025-06-13 02:07:09+00:00
I want to like zed. I keep trying it.

Ultimately though none of the rendering speed improvements or collaboration ideas make a difference to me. Then there are major feature gaps like not being able to open Jupyter notebooks or view images when connected over ssh that keep bringing me back to vscode editors where everything just works out of the box or with an extension. The developers have great craftsmanship but, they are also tasked with reimplementing a whole ecosystem.

And ultimately I think native performance just keeps being less and less of a draw as agents write most of the code and I spend time reviewing it where web tools are more than adequate.

I want craftsmanship to be important as someone who takes pride in their work and likes nice tools. I just haven’t seen evidence of it being worth it over “good-enough and iterate fast” engineering. I don’t think this vision of engineering will win out over “good enough and fast”
by 3dsnano | 2025-06-13 02:07:32+00:00
agree that we (users, humans, customers) all are desperately reaching for something steady, well designed, rugged.

something that people thought about for longer than whatever the deadline they had to work on it. something that radiates the care and human compassion they put into their work.

we all want and need this quality. it is harder to pull off these days for a lot of dumb reasons. i wish we all cared enough to not make it so mysterious, and that we could all rally around it, celebrate it, hold it to high regard.
by haiku2077 | 2025-06-13 02:07:56+00:00
> Is the implication here that non-Apple computers have SSDs that just constantly erase themselves or something?

Watch the talk "Zebras all the way down" by Bryan Cantril; TLDR most storage devices lie to you and are constantly corrupting your data, and you only find out if you run paranoid filesystems like ZFS + run your own burn-in and integrity tests.
by neilv | 2025-06-13 02:07:58+00:00
"Not Accepted" -- If you know anything about industry or the world, you can't go through a listing of ten tech jobs, without immediately rejecting some jobs from consideration, because they're morally/ethically icky.

(Just yesterday, I paused, and then sent a recruiter notes on why I wasn't interested in a couple companies they'd selected for me. Not to be That Person, but because I wanted to help them find what's interesting to me, and also to invite them to push back if my initial assessment of a company was off.)

"Left a Job" -- This is much harder than not accepting/considering, but it also happens. A couple variations:

* I'm guessing the most common way might not be deciding that you have to leave because of something immoral, but you're forced out before then, because you don't play along with the immoral or whatever is leading up to it. (This reason could be coming across as goodie-two-shoes risk, or refusing to so some immoral thing, or actively working to reverse/prevent some immoral thing.)

* Something immoral might be going on, but there are additional reasons to leave. Such as (predictably) people behaving immorally wrt customers or society might also behave immorally wrt employees/colleagues. So you might leave because the work environment is hazardous, your coworkers are backstabby, or you were cheated out of a bonus... even before you decide that the business of kicking puppies is wrong.
by tomhow | 2025-06-13 02:08:20+00:00
> I don't see what i said was deserving of downvotes and flagging

"total selfish prick to not choose medically assisted suicide"

This is clearly against the guidelines. If nothing else, it breaks the one that says "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive". But others too.

If you didn't know that's how the guidelines are interpreted, you do now. Please try harder to use HN as intended in future.