MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colanderman | 2025-06-02 21:05:38+00:00
I also credit straight-wrist typing with having not developed any keyboard-related RSI symptoms over 33 years. (Mice, on the other hand! Gripping a mouse started to cause me crazy wrist pain 20 years ago. Been using a trackball ever since.)

Opposite to you though, I find "desktop" keys (or I should say, keys with travel) preferable to "laptop" keys. Bottoming out each key on every stroke on a Macbook for years started giving me weird typing-spelling issues (some sort of precursor to focal dystonia? dunno). Keys with long travel prevent that for me. (Or maybe it's just because that's what I learned on – Apple //e keyboard.)
by deet | 2025-06-02 21:06:05+00:00
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by fellowniusmonk | 2025-06-02 21:06:14+00:00
Yeah, I certainly don't mean to imply that's the only reason. There are MANY reasons to hate LLMs and people all up and down the spectrum hate them for any number of reasons. I definitely think utility is still language specific as well (LLMs are just terrible with some languages), project specific, etc.

I think currently there are prompts and approaches that help ensure functions stay small and easy to reason about but it's very context dependent. Certainly any language or framework that has large amount of boilerplate will be less painful to work with if you hate boilerplate, I think that could arguably be increasing enshitification though in a sense. The people who say tons of code is being generated and it will all come crashing down in an unmaintainable mess... I do kinda agree.

I'm glad I am not writing code in medical/flight control systems or something like that, I think LLMs can be used in that context but idk if they would save or increase time?

Certain types of tasks require greater precision. Like in working with wood, framing a house is fine but building a dovetailed cabinet drawer is not on the table if that makes sense?

My impression is that at this point work in high precision environments is still in the human domain and LLMs are not. Multi-agent approaches maybe, treating humans like the final agent in multi-agent approaches, maybe, idk, I'm not working on any life or death libraries or projects ATM but I do feel good about test coverage so maybe that's good enough in a lot of cases.

People who say non-devs can dev with ai or cursor, I think at this point that's just a way of getting non-technical people to burn tokens and give them more money, but idk if that will be true in six months you know?
by Jtsummers | 2025-06-02 21:06:20+00:00
There is no deterrence effect in a deterministic universe without free will. Deterrence requires the individual to make a choice, which per your question they cannot make.

And if you remove moral responsibility from criminals (to the extent that makes sense as a term in a free-will-free deterministic universe), then those punishing criminals are also free of moral responsibility. They did not make a choice, it was made for them and they are merely moving per the rules of the deterministic universe.
by tristor | 2025-06-02 21:06:42+00:00
My typing speed has degraded over time. I used to type ~130wpm and now I'm closer to ~90wpm. Throughout that though, I've tried many different keyboard configurations to address growing issues with my hands and wrists and found something that worked for me. I struggle with frustration though that my typing speed is not as fast as it once was, and yet I still find coworkers surprised by how quickly I type. Typing fast really is a super-power if you're on a computer all day.
by livvy | 2025-06-02 21:07:06+00:00
Location: Manchester, UK Remote: Any Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JVM, Py, JS/TS, C++, Haskell Résumé/CV: https://base.nu/files/cv.pdf Email: livvy@base.nu

Polyglot engineer, worked in fintech space on event driven systems, but also comfortable frontend android/iOS/web and lower level systems stuff.

Linux kernel contributor (ALSA)

Recently doing computer graphics stuff for fun.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-06-02 21:07:13+00:00
I was rather proud of myself at 18 as I typed 110 wpm with two fingers. My hands always felt too big for keyboards and so I learned to type with two fingers and my thumbs on the spacebar. Overtime I just memorized the keyboard that way.. until my fingers started breaking down requiring double hand carpal tunnel surgery. That forced me to learn to type with all fingers, much slower, but I can at least type as fast as I think.
by AlexandrB | 2025-06-02 21:07:37+00:00
You're not wrong, but without copyright how do artists eat? While artists are happy to operate by attribution, commercial entities don't give a shit about such things and would be happy to use or distribute popular works copyright-free without attributing anything. For example, Spotify is a terrible deal for artists, but in a copyright-free world Spotify would just pay nothing to artists - an even worse deal.
by squigz | 2025-06-02 21:07:53+00:00
Yeah I switched to an ErgoDox after 15+ years of normal keyboards, and it was quite an adjustment. It took me at least a year just to feel comfortable, and another year to get back up to speed. Now, I'm the complete opposite - I tried typing on a normal keyboard a few weeks ago and was just as confused as when I first switched :)
by usefulcat | 2025-06-02 21:07:57+00:00
Seems like current high P/E ratios could be related to having just gone through an extended period of very low interest rates.

When rates are low, some (many?) investors may decide that the stock market looks better than lending (either directly or indirectly).

And then that can be a self-reinforcing cycle as well--more money going into stock markets == stocks perform better == stocks look like an even better investment.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-02 21:07:59+00:00
At the end of the day, as an enterprise, you have a target financial outcome: some combination of target income and profit. If a cohort of customer is willing to spend assuming a one time payment model, and you can successfully manage expectations for those customers (while minimizing the burden of doing so), it is reasonable imho. The pitfalls are customer unhappiness and the economics performing suboptimal compared to your forecasts (they become a support or engineering burden because they feel entitled to it outside of the previously agreed upon scope).

Maybe don’t offer it publicly, but test it with a a customer or two who really wants it to see what the experiment shows. Wishing you a successful experiment.
by kimjune01 | 2025-06-02 21:08:02+00:00
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by justicz | 2025-06-02 21:08:52+00:00
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Show HN: AI makes/answers calls through your own mobile phone number [video]
by smandava | 2025-06-02 21:09:26+00:00
Hello HN!

I'm Sai, the founder of Mitra—an AI assistant designed specifically to handle your personal calls. Mitra makes and answers phone calls on your behalf, uniquely using your own number, making it feel like a supercharged extension of your Phone app. See it in action in the video above!
by Arnt | 2025-06-02 21:09:35+00:00
https://archive.is/dXr2K

Tldr: "the region lost 27.8 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003, roughly the same volume as the total capacity of Lake Mead — the nation’s largest reservoir — and that the decline accelerated rapidly over the past decade. These groundwater losses accounted for more than twice the amount taken out of reservoirs in the region during that time."
by Clamchop | 2025-06-02 21:10:05+00:00
> But my analysis of a 2013 Pew Survey of LGBTQ Americans -- the latest available comprehensive national survey data on this population -- showed that LGBTQ rural residents are actually more likely to be legally married than their urban counterparts -- 24.8% compared with 18.6%. This aligns with what I’ve heard in interviews. The rural LGBTQ people I spoke with placed a high value on monogamy – on what many of them consider a “normal” life.

This is one of those cases where causality is implied but is questionable. Finding lovers in the sticks is hard enough; it is exceptionally difficult if you are queer, and that's going to influence behavior and choices in all sorts of ways, and those can be rationalized in all sorts of ways, too.

A less charged example: adults living in cities are (probably) more likely to participate in, and value participating in, team sports. Let's assume they report honestly as such on a questionnaire.

Obviously, there are more opportunities to play sports in cities, but does that imply that rural folks wouldn't partake at about the same rate if they could, even though they say that they wouldn't?

I can see plausible arguments in either direction, and for several kinds of selection and reporting biases.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-06-02 21:10:09+00:00
I spent basically all my life not typing correctly at all, since I learned from online gaming without a teacher.

I ended up with a technique that had my whole hand shifted to be over WASD like when gaming with pinky only used for modifiers. It was even worse for my right hand as only recently I actually monitored how I typed, and I highly underuse my ring and pinky fingers on that hand. Worst part is I never use my thumbs for spacebar, I found out I literally shift my entire right hand to use my index finger every time I hit spacebar.

Despite all of this I regularly typed ~120wpm. I think when it comes to speed almost everybody adopts at least some peculiar techniques.

I only say typed past tense because I recently got into split ergonomic keyboards with keywells and columnar layouts and my old typing technique literally just does not work. I had to learn how to "correctly" type from scratch, but relatively quickly got to the similar speeds. Now I can easily swap between the two techniques depending on whether I'm using my laptop keyboard or not and type almost the same speed, I'm still a tad bit slower using "correct" technique. But I will say it is a hell of a lot less movement and tension in my hands typing correctly.
by bgnn | 2025-06-02 21:10:34+00:00
I'm a knowledge worker (electrical engineer) but not one bit worried about being replaced by AI in yhe foreseeable future. It does not only neet to be reliable, but also should be able to create, as in create physically working complex systems for me to be worried. I have not seen anything remotely close this yet.

I believe AI/ML will eventually get there but definitely not with LLMs or hoarding the whole internet. Most of the human know-how isn't on internet!

Oh, I guess I'm a fool.
by eterm | 2025-06-02 21:10:58+00:00
We're getting into semantics now, but I'm talking about the kind of person who used to sit in a physical store, waiting for someone to walk by and go into the travel agency.

In the 80's and 90's, this is how most people booked their holidays. It was labour intensive, people would spend some time talking with a travel agent in a store, who would have a good idea of the packages available, and be able to make recommendations and match people with holidays.

The remnants of agencies still provide the same services, but (for the most of us) it's all online, it's all tick-box based, and much of the protection is via ATOL/ABTA.

These services still exist, but they're no longer all over the high-street. Names like Thomas Cook, Lunn Poly, have either been absorbed (mostly by TUI), or collapsed, and largely disappeared from the high-street with just a few left. (Mostly Tui).

And those that are left, have been reduced, much like retail banking, to entering your details into the same websites and services available to anyone, and talking you through the results that the computer spits out, that you could have browsed yourself at home. The underpaid travel agent in the store isn't any better connected than you are. In fact, they're possibly even more pushy about pushing you toward the hotels with the best commission than the website is.
by candiddevmike | 2025-06-02 21:11:53+00:00
> Part of the reason Snowflake and Databricks are interested in database companies is because PostgreSQL can serve as the underlying database for customers to create AI agents with data they store in the companies’ respective platforms.

I don't understand this part. What does PostgreSQL offer here that these vendors believe they can't add to their existing platform? Is it the ecosystem?
Show HN: Compi – A Make-like build system written in Rust
by Allyedge | 2025-06-02 21:11:55+00:00
Hello everyone!

I've recently been using Make a lot, and the way it works and some certain things (such as the Makefile structure) that annoyed me made me wonder how one could build such a system, and therefore I built Compi.

I am still working on it, and it could definitely be much better, so any suggestions or PRs are very welcome.

It has a lot of cool features such as dependency management and safety checks, and it uses TOML as I like it a bit more than the Makefile way of doing things.

Feel free to check it out, feedback is appreciated!
by sitharus | 2025-06-02 21:12:21+00:00
The problem isn't that people can quickly prototype an idea that they've had without contracting an expensive professional, I think this is great. This will give ideas that would never see the light of day a chance. Plus this gives a much better talking point if they do choose to get a professional onboard.

The problem is that it's sold as a complete solution. Use the LLM and you'll get a fully working product. However if you're not an experienced programmer you won't know what's missing, if it's using outdated and insecure options, or is just badly written. This still needs a professional.

The technology is great and it has real potential to change how things are made, but it's being marketed as something it isn't (yet).
by mdp2021 | 2025-06-02 21:12:38+00:00
They tell you that they used AI to optimize a solution, you think of "simulated annealing" or similar.

But no: you are told LLMs were used to sort through «hundreds of thousands of pages of scientific literature»¹. The big question does not seem to appear tackled in the article: how did they use the unreliable NN when needing to obtain objectively optimal results?

¹(«Large language models extract chemical compositions and material types of 14,000 materials from 88,000 academic papers» - https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-025-00820-4)
by amacneil | 2025-06-02 21:12:46+00:00
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by substackreader | 2025-06-02 21:14:40+00:00
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by JohnMakin | 2025-06-02 21:14:40+00:00
I'm sorry for any undue snark here, but what do you mean by "proper" typing test and what do you think I meant in the OP by 1 minute tests? There are a plethora of online tests available that measure this with good accuracy and of course I have taken several. This is with <1% errors I am speaking of. I generally have very low errors. In addition, by late highschool, I had to pass a typing test for a computer class I took, and am well aware of how fast I type by now.
by sneak | 2025-06-02 21:15:04+00:00
THANK YOU.

I was a 3-4x programmer before. Now I’m a 9-15x programmer when wrangling LLMs.

This is a sea change and it’s already into “incredible” territory and shows no signs of slowing down.

> Think of anything you wanted to build but didn’t. You tried to home in on some first steps. If you’d been in the limerent phase of a new programming language, you’d have started writing. But you weren’t, so you put it off, for a day, a year, or your whole career.

I have been banging out little projects that I have wanted to exist for years but always had on the back burner. Write a detailed readme and ask the agent to interrogate you about the missing parts of the spec then update the README. Then have it make a TODO and start implementing. Give it another code base for style guide.

I’ve made more good and useful and working code in the last month than I have in the last two years.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-06-02 21:15:35+00:00
Went through the same process last year due primarily to trying to find a solution to my cubital tunnel syndrome. I dropped down to like legit 20wpm from ~120wpm. I'm back to around 100 or so but a lot more comfortable and with less pain.

I recommend either the Kinesis Advantage 360 pro or the glove 80 to anybody who uses a keyboard a lot for a living. I tried both and frequently switch between them.

Another thing I recommend to people with problems is to get literally the lightest keycaps you can, and while it may slow you down a bit try to bottom out less/type a bit lighter in general.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-02 21:15:37+00:00
I have been using LLM coding tools to make stuff which I had no chance of making otherwise. They are MVPs, and if anything ever got traction I am very aware that I would need to hire a real dev. For now, I am basically a PM and QA person.

What really concerns me is that the big companies on whose tools we all rely are starting to push a lot of LLM generated code without having increased their QA.

I mean, everybody cut QA teams in recent years. Are they about to make a comeback once big orgs realize that they are pushing out way more bugs?

Am I way off base here?
by darvid | 2025-06-02 21:16:29+00:00
Location: Baltimore, MD Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, AWS, serverless (particularly AWS Lambda), Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, SPAs, Flask, Javascript/Typescript, IaC (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation, Helm, CDK, etc.), Postgres, various devops and monitoring stacks and platforms (including ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) Email: david@d10i.dev Résumé/CV: please ask

hi! I'm David, a software/devops engineer with a passion for grit and going from 0 to 1. I've been building software and infrastructure for over 10 years, and most recently have built enterprise B2B SaaS products for organizations in the cybersecurity space.

I run a consulting company (atomweight.io), and have provided infosec, devops, and software engineering services to a variety of clients. I am open to both full-time and contract engagements.

I don't particularly enjoy coasting or clocking out at 5pm (mostly since I'm a night owl), so I'm looking for opportunities where I can move fast, build, ship fast, contribute the most value, and grow. If my skills and experience seem like a good fit for your needs, please reach out!
by retrac | 2025-06-02 21:16:59+00:00
Machine translation and speech recognition. The state of the art for these is a multi-modal language model. I'm hearing impaired veering on deaf, and I use this technology all day every day. I wanted to watch an old TV series from the 1980s. There are no subtitles available. So I fed the show into a language model (Whisper) and now I have passable subtitles that allow me to watch the show.

Am I the only one who remembers when that was the stuff of science fiction? It was not so long ago an open question if machines would ever be able to transcribe speech in a useful way. How quickly we become numb to the magic.
by 0x0203 | 2025-06-02 21:17:51+00:00
Has anyone recently compared thorvg to blend2D? There's a project I want to use vector drawing for and at one point I was leaning more towards blend2d based on performance and multi threaded capabilities, but ThorVG has had a lot of active development since I last looked. Curious if they've made any significant improvements in the last couple years.