MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gspencley | 2025-06-09 15:27:58+00:00
> You don’t have freedom for Self dealing, price fixing, collusion, bribery, false marketing, antitrust violations, selling baby powder with lead and many other things.

It's funny how often people will not read what you wrote, and instead read what they want to read.

Not only did my comment preempt that specific reply of yours in the very sentence you quoted, but you seem to have a warped working definition of the word "freedom": where you think that if someone uses it they mean "freedom to do literally whatever the hell they want to no matter who they hurt."

That means that your mental model of the word "freedom", at least when you hear others say it, begins with a straw-man.

No discussion is possible under those conditions.

I'll help you out: my personal operating definition of "liberty" is "An environment in which all interpersonal relations are consensual."

That's why, as long as you are not infringing upon the rights of others (the part of my quote that you just completely dropped and ignored so that you could react to what you wanted to read instead of what I actually wrote) you don't need the permission of others to build something. You can just go and do it.
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-06-09 15:28:22+00:00
>> an amazing tool to support learning, when used properly.

how can kids, think K-12, who don't even know how to "use" the internet properly - or even their phones - learn how to learn with AI? The same way social media and mobile apps made the internet easy, mindless clicking, LLMs make school a mechanical task. It feels like your argument is similar to LLMs helping experienced, senior developers code more effectively, while eliminating many chances to grow the skills needed to join that group. Sounds like you already know how to learn and use AI to enhance that. My 12-yr-old is not there yet and may never get there.
by duxup | 2025-06-09 15:28:22+00:00
IMO it would depend on what it is actually doing.

Right now the fact that it just string words together without knowing the meaning is painfully obvious when it fails. I'll ask a simple question and get a "Yes" back and then it lists all the reasons that indicate the answer is very clearly "No." But it is clear that the LLM doesn't "know" what it is saying.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-09 15:29:06+00:00
For me it threatens to be like a spell check. Back 20 years ago when I was still in school and still hand writing for many assignments, my spelling was very good.

Nowadays it's been a long time since my brain totally checked out on spelling. Everything I write in every case has spell check, so why waste neurons on spelling?

I fear the same will happen on a much broader level with AI.
by absurdo | 2025-06-09 15:29:31+00:00
I avoided going into all the myriad of things that pets are good for because it’s not the point. I grew up with a small backyard graveyard of all the pets I’ve had over the years, some given some adopted some stray, so I’m very far from anti-pet.

What I’m really poking at here in the joke behind the rant sort of way is a suspicion, a conspiracy by nature to suppress our reproduction capabilities by slowly not only making us infertile in greater numbers, but steering us towards adopting pets instead of humans as a prank, to make us see the animals we are in an animal kingdom.
Ask HN: How do you integrate AI assistants into your note taking?
by andruby | 2025-06-09 15:29:53+00:00
I've been rethinking my personal knowledge management setup and realized my workflow is becoming AI-first. Most of my projects and ideas now start with a conversation in Claude/ChatGPT, but then I switch to Obsidian for structured notes. This creates friction - my thinking process is split across tools.

Do you "Add AI to a note taking app" or "Add structure to AI apps"?

I'm curious if others are thinking about this and how others are handling this.
by ben_w | 2025-06-09 15:30:45+00:00
I'm saying the category of things LLMs do is *significantly broader* than misinformation, and not *limited to* misinformation.

Even within the domain of "how can this go horribly wrong?", even limited to assistance rather than full automation, and even while constrained to the truth, there's a lot of business value (and in at least some of those cases, a lot of potential harm) simply due to their capacity to automate tasks up to the level of a student or a graduate.

But for businesses? The only reason that the opportunity isn't already "net cost (pay + insurance + employer-paid taxes) of every junior desk job on the planet" is that they're competing with each other and the free models are kinda OK, so the price they can charge is already racing to no profit.
by mdhb | 2025-06-09 15:31:02+00:00
Yeah besides that bit of feedback, I think the project is brilliant and actually has a lot of nice parts to it that go way beyond the technical aspects but really show a sophisticated understanding of what you actually want out of a real life somebody might end up seriously harmed if this goes wrong covert communications system so kudos to you and the team on that!

Edit: you might want to consider putting that warning about work devices in the app itself right before someone pushes forward with making potentially life changing decisions and doesn’t rely on them reading an FAQ. I see you already have an onboarding flow in place. It would be really simple to make that the first screen of it.
by ch4s3 | 2025-06-09 15:31:13+00:00
The opposite approach exposes people to a lot of unnecessary and dangerous medical treatment. The evidence based approach has uncovered that stenting doesn't work[1], yet a lot of do something proponents are still installing them at great risk to patients and at great cost to medical systems.

[1] https://lowninstitute.org/stents-dont-work-a-look-back-at-th...
by anonfordays | 2025-06-09 15:31:26+00:00
>You're thinking of classical liberalism

Yes, that is what I typed in my comment above.

>which is something the dominating political factions are highly against.

The current Republican party's platform follows classical liberalism: "Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech."[0]

You can argue that Trump isn't following that, but it is what the Republican party has incorporated into it's platform for decades.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
by afavour | 2025-06-09 15:31:26+00:00
Not most but there definitely is a weird subculture out there.

The /r/petfree subreddit is hysterical in the opposite direction at times but there is some fascinating content on there sometimes. An example: a social media post of someone mourning their child's death, folks commenting about the death of their pets as if it were comparable:

https://www.reddit.com/r/petfree/comments/1kzlt3o/people_arg...

> My three year old killed by a drunk driver. A lady said I know how you feel, my dog died last year

> Idk about you but I loved my dogs more than anything. I felt guilty for a long time bc I sobbed for days after each was put down but didn't cry at my cousin or grandfather's funeral

> I loved my dog and mom exactly the same, and their deaths both felt the same

> It's been scientifically proven that a dog death can effect you more than a human one
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-06-09 15:32:22+00:00
dial-up penetration in the mid-90's was still very thin, and high-speed access limited to universities and the biggest companies. Here's the numbers ChatGPT found for me:

* 1990s: Internet access was rare. By 1995, only 14% of Americans were online.

* 2000: Approximately 43% of U.S. households had internet access .

* 2005: The number increased to 68% .

* 2010: Around 72% of households were connected .

* 2015: The figure rose to 75% .

* 2020: Approximately 93% of U.S. adults used the internet, indicating widespread household access .
by jwarden | 2025-06-09 15:32:36+00:00
Here's a very brief summary of what Quadratic Funding is (which is distinct from Quadratic Voting):

Quadratic Funding is a mechanism where individuals voluntarily contribute funds for some public good (e.g. an open source software project), and then these are matched such that the total funding amount is equal to the square of the sum of the square roots of the individual contributions. Under certain assumptions, this formula results in an optimal outcome, where each individual contributes an amount that maximizes their individual utility (given what others are contributing), and total utility for society is also maximized.
by timr | 2025-06-09 15:32:46+00:00
> My main issue with vibe coding etc is I simply don't enjoy it. Having a conversation with a computer to generate code that I don't entirely understand and then have to try to review is just not fun. It doesn't give me any of the same kind of intellectual satisfaction that I get out of actually writing code.

I am the opposite. After a few decades of writing code, it wasn't "fun" to write yet another file parser or hook widget A to API B -- which is >99% of coding today. I moved into product management because while I still enjoy building things, it's much more satisfying/challenging to focus on the higher-level issues of making a product that solves a need. My professional life became writing specs, and reviewing code. It's therefore actually kind of fun to work with AI, because I can think technically, but I don't have to do the tedious parts that make me want to descend into a coma.

I could care less if I'm writing a spec for a robot, or I'm writing a spec for a junior front-end engineer. They're both going to screw up, and I'm going to have to spend time explaining the problem again and again...at least the robot never complains and tries really hard to do exactly what I ask, instead of slacking off, doing something more intellectually appealing, getting mired in technical complexity, etc.
by neutronicus | 2025-06-09 15:32:48+00:00
People have pretty strong motivation to conflate the two - namely, access to privileges traditionally granted to parents.

Leaving work early to deal with kid(/dog) stuff, public spaces tolerating the presence of your loud, annoying, not-that-clean kid(/dog), an expectation of urban spaces providing places for your kid(/dog) to go to the bathroom. Etc.
by greybox | 2025-06-09 15:32:54+00:00
> horrifying survey of genAI’s impact on secondary and tertiary education.

I agree with this. It's probably terrible for structured education for our children.

The one and only one caveat: Self-Driven language learning

The one and only actual use (outside of generating funny memes) I've had from any LLM so far, is language learning. That I would pay for. Not $30/pcm mind you . . . but something. I ask the model to break down a target language sentence for me, explaining each and every grammar point, and it does so very well. sometimes even going to explain the cultural relevance of certain phrases. This is great.

I've not found any other use for it yet though. As a game engine programmer (C++) The code I write now a days quite deliberate and relatively little compared to a web-developer (I used to be one, I'm not pooping on web devs). so if we're talking about the time/cost of having me as a developer work on the game engine, I'm not saving any time or money by first asking Claude to type what I was going to type anyway. And it's not advanced enough yet to hold the context of our entire codebases spanning multiple components.

Edit, Migaku [https://migaku.com/] is a great language learning application that uses this

As OP, I'm not sure it's worth all that CO2 we're pumping into our atmosphere.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-06-09 15:33:03+00:00
There are over 200 breeds of dog, it doesn't really track that only 2-3 breeds would be significantly more violent than the others.

We don't have enough data to be conclusive one way or the other, but if you look at the occurrence of strays and breed ownership by socioeconomic status, pit bull breeds are also very high on these lists.

This tracks with human data to some extent: people from lower socioeconomic groups are more often perpetrators and victims of violence.

Looking at breed specific violence and coming to a conclusion about temperament is very similar to looking at race specific graduation rates and coming to a conclusion about intelligence.
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-09 15:33:23+00:00
One interesting eigenvector of world population is the trust in government. I can see that if you really don't trust your government, or its successors, you don't want them to have this info. I find this world view most prevalent in the US.

In Europe people tend to trust the mechanisms of court-supervised access to information, and are thus more happy to share the info. In fact most European countries already have a centralized database, with some kind of citizen ID as primary key, and few people lose sleep over this. And stories of gross abuse are likewise rare.

For completeness, I suppose other categories include states that do this, whose citizens can't complain (like say China) and those whose citizens don't trust the state, but the state lacks the technological acumen or scope to do this.
by baalimago | 2025-06-09 15:33:42+00:00
I tried doing LLM-based tests, coined it "agentic-tests" and it worked quite well:

The idea was to use Stagehand [1] as the testing framework and then integrate this with Linear, which is our ticketing system. During a hackathon I whipped something together: first the 'agent' read a UAT from linear, then it pass this into a quite heavily prompted Stagehand. The prompts instructed Stagehand to run the UAT after its best ability and make very structured notes on each step on what failed. Once the Stagehand process was done, 'the agent' reported which steps succeeded and failed and into Linear.

Fundamentally the idea was sound, but there were some limitations in both the Linear SDK and in Stagehand. With some better tooling (or a novel system) and I predict this sort of agentic testing will work very well, especially for exploratory testing where the agent may be prompted to act like either a 90 year old grandma or 16 year old turbogamer. Privacy-safe usage heatmaps may also be generated automatically to test out the UX, as each run yielded slightly different approaches to achieve the UATs.

Testing teams need not apply!

[1]: https://www.stagehand.dev/
by y_uuki | 2025-06-09 15:33:44+00:00
iperf3 is a link “speedometer” – spin it up between two hosts, crank -P or -u -b, and it tells you max TCP/UDP throughput (and jitter/loss if you like).

tcpulse is a fine-grained traffic “microscope” – you dial exact CPS or concurrent sockets, spray dozens of targets from one client, and get p90/p95/p99 latencies per flow.

Use iperf3 for a quick bandwidth check; use tcpulse when you need repeatable, controlled connection patterns and detailed latency stats across many backends.
by beansbeansbeans | 2025-06-09 15:33:53+00:00
That's a major claim. The only thing different in this blog post from my others is that I've embedded an executable python notebook in an iframe. It's a marimo notebook that runs code using WASM in your browser. That project is open source too, with no exploit as far as I know.

The code for my blog is here : https://github.com/RohanGautam/rohangautam.github.io

If you could point to anything specific to support that claim, would be nice.
by Firfi | 2025-06-09 15:34:29+00:00
After some vibe coding frustrations, ups and downs, I found that splitting the code explicitly into well-curated, domain-heavy guidance code and code marked “slop” can solve a lot of frustration and inefficiency.

We can be honest in our PR, “yes, this is slop,” while being technical and picky about code that actually matters.

The “guidance” code is not only great for preserving knowledge and aiding the discovery process, but it is very strong at creating a system of “checks and balances” for your AI slops to conform to, which greatly boosts vibe quality.

Helps me both technically (at least I feel so) with guiding claude code to do exactly what I want (or what we agreed to!) and psychologically because there's no detachment from the knowledge of the system anymore.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-06-09 15:34:30+00:00
> personal development or meaningful progress in life

What exactly are people not achieving when they have a dog?

I bought my first home in my twenties, have a very high paying job, I have good friends, I play music sometimes, I grow my own food, I can cook better than most restaurants, I am happy most of the time, I am reasonably physically fit and can climb a mountain (literally).

What meaningful progress is my dog holding me back from?
by andruby | 2025-06-09 15:35:42+00:00
I'm playing with the idea of using a code editor like Zed.dev for my notes, and using its "AI Agent" flow.

I'd move the Obsidian markdown notes into a git repo (for versioning). Which would also open the door to running Claude Code to analyse my note taking.

Creating commits could be (semi) automated with a script that takes a git-diff and ask a local (or cheap) LLM to create logical commits with a reasonable commit message. The script could run on file save or periodically.

Mobile editing would be worse than Obsidian's iOS app. Workingcopy.app could provide an inferior but working UX.

Thinking in progress :D
by jmyeet | 2025-06-09 15:36:11+00:00
I'm really starting to believe that capitalism as a Great Filter is the solution to the Fremi Paradox.

Declining birth rates are clearly a response to the deterioating economic conditions of most people. Stagnant real wages, skyrocketing costs, ever-more inaccessible housing and so on. Housing debt, student debt, medical debt. The cost of childcare can reach $3000/month per child. If you want your child to have the best opportunities, it may well cost $1 million or more between all those costs to raise a child. At a time when people can barely provide for themselves.

Of course pets are surrogate children for some people. And even that's being ruined by capitalism as private equity moves into the vet space to squeeze every last dollar from people.

Another aspect to this is social control. One reason Western societies have been relatively stable is the method of control is treats, basically. Social media, pets, smartphones, etc all mollify the masses. In more totalitarian societies, the threat of violence is a more typical method of control. Think of something like the Stasi in East Germany.

The profit motive is destroying the treats. If you're on the verge of homelessness and can barely feed yourself, skyrocketing costs of pet ownership are a real issue. We're rapidly approaching a point where people think they'll never be able to retire and really have nothing to live for.

Rather than the ultra-wealthy being slightly less wealthy so the rest of society, which is necessary for their wealth to exist, can have something good in their lives, we're instead becoming increasingly oppressive. Over-policing, militarizing police, crushing protests (as per this last weekend in LA), etc.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. And to think, all a lot of people need to be happy is a roof over their head, not having to have 3 jobs and being able to have a dog.
by potatolicious | 2025-06-09 15:36:17+00:00
Yeah, I will say now that I've played with the AI coding tools more, it seems like there are two distinct use cases:

1 - Using coding tools in a context/language/framework you're already familiar with.

This one I have been having a lot of fun with. I am in a good position to review the AI-generated code, and also examine its implementation plan to see if it's reasonable. I am also able to decompose tasks in a way that the AI is better at handling vs. giving it vague instructions that it then does poorly on.

I feel more in control, and it feels like the AI is stripping away drudgery. For example, for a side project I've been using Claude Code with an iOS app, a domain I've spent many years in. It's a treat - it's able to compose a lot of boilerplate and do light integrations that I can easily write myself, but find annoying.

2 - Using coding tools in a context/language/framework you don't actually know.

I know next to nothing about web frontend frameworks, but for various side projects wanted to stand up some simple web frontends, and this is where AI code tools have been a frustration.

I don't know what exactly I want from the AI, because I don't know these frameworks. I am poorly equipped to review the code that it writes. When it fails (and it fails a lot) I have trouble diagnosing the underlying issues and fixing it myself - so I have to re-prompt the LLM with symptoms, leading to frustrating loops that feel like two cave-dwellers trying to figure out a crashed spaceship.

I've been able to stand up a lot of stuff that I otherwise would never have been able to, but I'm 99% sure the code is utter shit, but I also am not in a position to really quantify or understand the shit in any way.

I suppose if I were properly "vibe coding" I shouldn't care about the fact that the AI produced a katamari ball of code held together by bubble gum. But I do care.

Anyway, for use case #1 I'm a big fan of these tools, but it's really not the "get out of learning your shit" card that it's sometimes hyped up to be.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-06-09 15:36:32+00:00
My heart still wants to believe that if you build a great product the users will appear like the old pre-scientific "spontaneous generation" philosophy around how mice appear. But it definitely doesn't work like that.

In some sense it's adversarial like trading/investing, people who have a working strategy can't share it or it won't work anymore.

But the bread-and-butter is probably setting it up correctly to facilitate word-of-mouth, influencers, ads in communities your users frequent.
by bitwize | 2025-06-09 15:36:53+00:00
I think that AI assistance in coding will become enjoyable for me once the technology exists for AI to translate my brainwaves into text. Then I could think my code into computer, greatly speeding the OODA loop of programming.

As it is, giving high-level directives to an LLM and debugging the output seems like a waste of my time and a hindrance to my learning process. But that's how professional coding will be done in the near future. 100% human written code will become like hand-writing a business letter in cursive: something people used to be taught in school, but no one actually does in the real world because it's too time-consuming.

Ultimately, the business world only cares about productivity and what the stopwatch says is faster, not whether you enjoy or learn from the process.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-06-09 15:37:31+00:00
> The past few decades have seen a lot of debate and legal back-and-forth regarding what to do with lolicon and shotacon illustrations

wild that of all the examples you could choose to bring up, this is the one. not saying the conversation doesn't need to happen, but i think there are a lot more concrete examples that affect many more people that come to mind first.

for GP, there are a lot of other contested ideas around what constitutes free/protected speech in america that aren't related to pedophilia - much of it revolves around political speech, especially with Citizens United (the supreme court case that effectively declared monetary support for political causes to be considered "free speech"). conversely, ground-up economic speech (such as BDS) is often stifled (even calling for boycotts etc under the BDS framework is not considered protected speech in some places).