MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mountainriver | 2025-06-03 02:36:08+00:00
Honestly, as a bisexual man I’ve gotten it way worse from the liberals in the big cities. Most of them are deeply biphobic and treat people terribly who aren’t a part of their in-group.

The rural folks are often homophobic but they have a code of decency and respect which applies to all people. Even though I knew they probably thought I was wrong in someway they at least treated me with genuine respect.
by hedora | 2025-06-03 02:36:13+00:00
No affiliation; happy customer:

https://hifiaudio.com/

Their kits come with a helpful pamphlet. I have an old hi-fi with a few annoying component failures I’d like to fix.

I’d say they’re intermediate difficulty. I’m going to start with some soldering practice kits, lightbulb replacements, and pot deep cleans. I’m reasonably confident I can get that done without killing my stereo.
by sampullman | 2025-06-03 02:36:18+00:00
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by cogman10 | 2025-06-03 02:36:22+00:00
It is, mainly because the history of pesticide research has basically been looking for the least harmful pesticides to humans.

Before DDT went into wide use in the 1940s, aersnic based pesticides were common.

Here's a particularly nasty one that was commonly used up until DDT replaced it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_hydrogen_arsenate?wprov=s...
by kweingar | 2025-06-03 02:36:26+00:00
Many of the curious ones will be adversely affected.

When you're a college student, the stakes feel so high. You have to pass this class or else you'll have to delay graduation and spend thousands of dollars. You have to get this grade or else you lose your grant or scholarship. You want to absorb knowledge from this project (honestly! you really do) but you really need to spend that time studying for a different class's exam.

"I'm not lazy, I'm just overwhelmed!" says the student, and they're not wrong. But it's very easy for "I'm gonna slog through this project" to become "I'm gonna give it a try, then use AI to check my answer" and then "I'm gonna automate the tedious bits that aren't that valuable anyway" and then "Well I'll ask ChatGPT and then read its answer thoroughly and make sure I understand it" and then "I'll copy/paste the output but I get the general idea of what it's doing."
by stavros | 2025-06-03 02:36:29+00:00
I love LLMs, and I really like programming with Cursor, but I never managed to get the "agents with tons of stuff in their context" mode to work for me. I use Cursor like a glorified code completer, 4-5 lines at a time, because otherwise the LLM just makes too many mistakes that compound.

If you let it run in the "write my code for me" mode, and ask it to fix some mistake it made, it will always add more code, never remove any. In my experience, in the end the code just ends up so brittle that the LLM will soon get stuck at a point that it never manages to overcome some mistake, no matter how many times it tries.

Has anyone managed to solve this?
by topspin | 2025-06-03 02:42:02+00:00
Been here many times:

This time Claude fixed the problem, but: - It also re-ordered some declarations, even though I told it not to. AFAICT they aren't changed, just reordered, and it also added some doc comments. - It fixed an unrelated bug, which is that `getClient()` was marked `private` in `OAuthProvider` but was being called from inside `OAuthHelpers`. I hadn't noticed this before, but it was indeed a bug.

Frequently can't get LLMs to limit themselves to what has been prompted, and instead they run around and "best practice" everything, "fixing" unrelated issues, spewing commentary everywhere, and creating huge, unnecessary diffs.
by agnishom | 2025-06-03 02:42:50+00:00
I think the key premise here is that one can effectively and efficiently audit code that the LLM is producing.

I doubt that. First, human attention and speed is very limited. Second, when I see something, I am already predisposed to assume that it is right (or at the very least, my subsequent inquiries are extremely narrow and anchored around the solution I have seen presented to me.)
by kaydub | 2025-06-03 02:42:55+00:00
I don't know. I think 9-12 months ago I'd agree with you. But I feel like the last 6 months my productivity has vastly improved. Not only that, it's also brought back a little bit of passion for the field.

It's easy to come up with some good ideas for new project, but then not want to do a lot of the garbage work related to the project. I offload all that shit to the LLM now.

Seriously, the LLMs have increased my productivity 2-4x.
by dbalatero | 2025-06-03 02:42:57+00:00
I'd honestly love to see this.

People always say "you just need to learn to prompt better" without providing any context as to what "better" looks like. (And, presumes that my prompt isn't good enough, which maybe it is maybe it isn't.)

The easy way out of that is "well every scenario is different" - great, show me a bunch of scenarios on a speed run video across many problems, so I can learn by watching.
by kortilla | 2025-06-03 02:43:38+00:00
The premise of “lol, I’m just a dumb developer and just wait until the smart developers catch on” falls extremely flat coming from Thomas.

It kinda invalidates the entire premise because it builds on this false foundation of “look how useful it is to a mere plebeian” and the skills actually required to sift through LLM garbage are what puts you in the top 5% of programmers.

Most senior developers cannot conduct useful code review and spot errors. In every company I’ve been at, there were only 1 in 20 people that would give the useful in-depth reviews required to pick up LLM bullshit.

This style of engagement bait is brutal and it severely overshadows other nuggets of wisdom of how LLMs can be useful.
by vel0city | 2025-06-03 02:43:43+00:00
> give very healthy respect to anything more than 500 volts

Man, I'd say be very respectful to anything that might be running 120-240V, and be very sure about anything higher than that. Anything <50V can often just be fun tinker whatever assuming you're ok with breaking whatever you're playing with, up to a certain max amperage of your power source. High amperage but low voltage can still cause some serious messups if you don't have the right fuses in place. But I get other voltages are common in Europe.
by SaaSDesigner | 2025-06-03 02:43:53+00:00
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by jhancock | 2025-06-03 02:44:22+00:00
I'm not a skeptic, but I keep LLMs on a short leash.

This is a thoughtful article. Thanks `tptacek

My LLM use is: 1 - tedious stuff; web pages interacting with domain back end. 2 - domain discovery.

In a recent adventure, I used Claude 4 to tease out parameters in a large graph schema. This is a combination of tedium and domain discovery (it's not my graph and I'm not a domain expert). In the first day, Claude uncovered attributes and relations no other LLM or Google search uncovered. And it worked!! The next day, I allowed it to continue. After a bit, results didn't pass the sniff test.

I checked into details of Claude's thinking: it decided to start making up schema attributes and inventing fallback queries on error with more made up attributes. It was "conscious" of its decision to do so. By the time I caught this, Claude had polluted quite a bit of code. Sure, plenty of well placed git commits helped in rolling back code...but it's not quite that simple..over the many git commits were sprinkled plenty of learnings I don't want to toss. It took another two days of carefully going through the code to pull out the good stuff and then roll things back. So now I'm at day five of this adventure with cleaned up code and notes on what we learned.

I suspect continual improvements on tooling will help. Until then, it's a short leash.
by febrianrendak | 2025-06-03 02:45:35+00:00
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by KnuthIsGod | 2025-06-03 02:47:05+00:00
"Three groups of four healthy male volunteers aged 20 to 50 received a single intravenous injection "

Tested in 12 people, once. Hmm...

"The artificial blood is created by extracting hemoglobin — a protein containing iron that facilitates the transportation of oxygen in red blood cells — from donor blood"

So needs blood as a raw material.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-06-03 02:48:21+00:00
Unfortunately high code coverage is misaligned with high quality code.

If one copy-pastes a routine to make a modified version (that’s used), code coverage goes UP. Sounds like a win win for many…

Later, someone consolidates the two near identical routines during a proper refactoring. They can even add unit tests. Guess what? Code coverage goes DOWN!

Sure, having untested un-executed code is a truly horrible thing. But focusing on coverage can be worse…
by whiring8891af | 2025-06-03 02:48:41+00:00
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by cap11235 | 2025-06-03 02:50:02+00:00
https://gist.github.com/cpsquonk/e9a6134e78a2c832161ca973803...

I did Qwen3-256B (a free model, but you'd need a host for something that large, probably. I used Kagi) and Claude Code.

Curious how these look to you.
by grafmax | 2025-06-03 02:50:21+00:00
> Our jobs are just as much in tech’s line of fire as everybody else’s have been for the last 3 decades. We’re not East Coast dockworkers; we won’t stop progress on our own.

If you really believe in the power of LLMs then it’s time to wake up. The writing is on the wall. Automation the workforce further into precarious jobs.

The idea that tech workers can’t stop so-called “progress” is at best a dumb self-fulfilling prophecy. Our workplaces depend on us. We have the power to put the brakes on whatever our employers are up to by organizing and striking.

Tech workers should be organizing to prepare for the profit-taking moves management has in store for us as the tech gets better and better. If LLMs really live up to their potential, It’s just going to get worse from here.

They keep bragging about how many people are going to lose their jobs and they mean us. They’re bragging about firing us! It’s foolish for us to sit idly by while we are the ones who make them their profits.
by theamk | 2025-06-03 02:50:26+00:00
This is an ad for "esProc SPL", a crazy programming language where you write your code, including functions, in spreadsheet (complete with "A1"-style references for globals), but view the results in the list view.

It uses binary format (so no meaningful version control), is written in Java, and is designed for GUI use. So 90's!

I wonder who is using this today and why... Probably a COBOL-like story: in some org, a lot of code was written for this in the past, and nowadays it's cheaper to keep using it rather than rewrite into something more modern.
by cheema33 | 2025-06-03 02:50:45+00:00
> I don't actually enjoy it, i generally find it difficult to use as i have more trouble explaining what i want than actually just doing it.

Most people who are good at a skill start here with AI. Over time, they learn how to explain things better to AI. And the output from AI improves significantly as a result. Additionally AI models keep improving over time as well.

If you stay with it, you will reach an inflection point soon enough and will actually start enjoying it.
by mrheosuper | 2025-06-03 02:51:19+00:00
I disagree.

Self-hosting has always have a lot of drawbacks compared with commercial solutions. I bet my self-host file server has worse reliability than Google Drive, or my self-host git server has worse number of concurrent user than github.

It's one thing you must accept when self-host.

So when you self-host LLM, you must either accept a drop in output quality, or spend a small fortune on hardware
by jondpfeiffer968 | 2025-06-03 02:53:11+00:00
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by Aeolun | 2025-06-03 02:53:24+00:00
I'm firmly convinced at this point that there is just no arguing with the haters. At the same time, it feels like this transition is as inevitable as the transition to mobile phones. LLM's are everywhere, and there's no escaping it no matter how much you might want to.

There's always some people that will resist to the bitter end, but I expect them to be few and far between.
by awinter-py | 2025-06-03 02:54:22+00:00
guessing it's this liposome tech (same lead author, sakai): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33845721/

more on what I assume is their hemoglobin prep process: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30715862/

and if you want to make your own liposomes, instructions here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8234105/
by nickpsecurity | 2025-06-03 02:55:16+00:00
When I used it, Copilot was for doing autocomplete on little, routine procedures. Like a few operations done on a list. I used it to fill in the blanks of tedious stuff in what I was already coding myself. It worked well at that.

However, if it took creativity or real analysis, I had to throw the big models at it with a carefully-written prompt. You want to use their recent, best, big models. I used to include precise descriptions of data structures and function API's, too, which helped a lot. From there, tweak the description until you find pieces that get the result.

Another thing. It will eventually synthesize code that's close but not quite it. I found that asking it to make small changes, one at a time, would help for a while. Ex: "Modify that code to do X" or "...X in part Y." It eventually started hallucinating in loops. I always had to fix some amount of what it generated but it still saved time.

I hope that helps.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-03 02:55:23+00:00
Most pesticides are still neurotoxins, they're just somewhat better targeted towards insects.

Most flavor compounds in herbs and spices are also neurotoxins, coffee and chocolate contain many neurotoxins, nearly every naturally occurring stimulant or psychoactive substance humans use is a neurotoxins targeting a different creature. We happen to find many of them pleasant or tasty because they evolved to target very distant relatives or we are just weirdos that find mildly poisoning ourselves fun.

Silent Spring leaned far too much on fear and exaggeration which is a disservice to the much more complicated issues we face with synthetic chemistry and controlling our environment.
by simplesimon890 | 2025-06-03 02:55:55+00:00
Can we please keep name calling to Reddit/Bluesky?

Just because they aren't mowing down kids, doesn't mean they don't have negative consequences to neighborhoods or that the cumulative consequences are less than delivery vans. Typically in housing estates, vehicle sound is low due to reduced speeds and vans aren't flying over your house across the airspace of your garden so yes, they are noiser. Plus the amount of weight these drones can carry is low meaning they require compared to a ( large ) van, it would take hundreds of drones to deliver the equivalent weight of one Ford Transit van.
by mhh__ | 2025-06-03 02:55:55+00:00
They have the best infra, lots of good properly cleaned data, and market access.

I don't know if rentech ever make markets but one way to make a _lot_ of money in finance to provide liquidity while also have good alpha models. The faster the better. This way you are earning the spread while also getting into the positions you want, and maybe even getting paid for it by the exchange.
by tpmoney | 2025-06-03 02:55:56+00:00
> I can tell you that we’re already seeing a glut of security issues being explained by devs as “I asked copilot if it was secure and it said it was fine so I committed it”.

And as with Google and Stack Overflow before, the Sr Devs will smack the wrists of the Jr's that commit untested and unverified code, or said Jr's will learn not to do those things when they're woken up at 2 AM for an outage.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-06-03 02:56:10+00:00
I can do 90-110 WPM on typing games with English sentences (not random letters).

But I can’t actually “think” that fast while coding. Sure a quick edit or command line is hammered out instantly. But I can’t sustain writing a whole function start to finish that way.

Probably more useful for debugging and FPS games instead.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-03 02:57:09+00:00
Wow, Today I Learned that every commenter on HN types over 100 wpm (which is probably around 2-3 standard deviations faster than the mean). Here I thought I was fast at 70. I picked up a bad early habit of not using my right ring and pinky fingers, so I unfortunately only use 8 fingers. My typing is still faster than my thinking, though so I've never felt the need to race any faster.
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by Aeolun | 2025-06-03 02:57:59+00:00
> We have the power to put the brakes on whatever our employers are up to by organizing and striking.

You have the power to do that in your own isolated environment, but it's a delaying tactic at best.

This whole thing is as inevitable as TV, smartphones, airplanes, tanks or guns. Everyone will use them, because they're so much better than anything that came before that there's no competition for the same use cases.
by isuricnamqodn | 2025-06-03 02:58:05+00:00
there is feedback pressure with regards to land based delivery — traffic, cost, road infrastructure. Removing those constraints will lead to (more) people ordering a coffee rather than walking to the kitchen to make one. That’s fine you may argue, but that coffee creates a negative externality to neighbourhoods that won’t be priced in via capitalism. That’s reality, not a childish dig at capitalism
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