MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ImaCake | 2025-06-02 23:40:12+00:00
>My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

This is dead right; my AI skeptic friend are ideologically opposed to LLMs and GenAI.

Their arguments have nothing to do with how good or bad LLMs are:

- IP issues (for code in a jupyter notebook which will never face IP scrutiny)

- because it exploits slaves and poor people (but so does the computer they use and the clothes they wear).

I also have a few programmer friends who make more legitimate complaints about code quality but because they are friends there is also an obvious subtext of ideological opposition.

My opinion is you should use LLMs anyway; you can hate "capitalism" and still take advantage of the system.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-02 23:40:14+00:00
Small note, when programming, there's other keys involved which allow for hierarchical navigation (ctrl, alt tab, up/down/left/right keys), which adds both some technical challenges by broadening the keyset and cognitive challenges (but of course code itself is highly cognitive.

I try to avoid the mouse, but I usually queue (mentally) a lot of keypresses at max speed, while the only bottleneck is the loading speed of the computer.

For example: alt tab (change window to browser), fn+F5 (refresh website , Ctrl Shift (change brower tab), fn+f5, ctrl shift tab (back to original tab), alt tab (back to editor or command line), etc...
by Macha | 2025-06-02 23:40:16+00:00
My left hand is on WASD which I suppose you could call home row and my right hand sits at <space>KL;<rshift>

So it's not too far from home row but definitely something more influenced by my gamer days than any formal typing lessons. Just tried a web based wpm test and got 90WPM at 95% accuracy. Used to be around 120WPM in my college days where I typed more essays, but these days typing speed isn't close to the bottleneck so not much need for faster typing and I guess it's atrophied some.
Show HN: Silver WPM
by GabrielBen | 2025-06-02 23:40:40+00:00
Hey HN!

WPM is a typing game based on writing actual coding solutions to garden-variety coding challenges.

I'm a software engineer, recruiter, and developer coach, and I've been building a suite of tools to polish fundamental technical and interviewing skills, and one of them is Typing.

I've run 100s of live coding challenges and contrary to intuition, a large number of interviews are not passed simply because there wasn't enough time, not to think, but to iterate, play around with the solution and improve.

Give it a go in Interview mode and see if you can beat it - this is no MonkeyType!
by mbesto | 2025-06-02 23:41:52+00:00
I went down the rabbit hole of self hosted kanban boards recently. Honestly, nothing comes close to Trello and while I love the open source communities (and supporting them), these alternatives usually dont come close, or worse they try to be super feature rich and its get in the way of their functionality. The better open source options tend to be airtable alternatives or full blown project management tools (Eigenboard, Plane, etc)
by gosub100 | 2025-06-02 23:42:08+00:00
whats sad is that in many jurisdictions, it's perfectly legal to shoot animals on your property, including other peoples' pets. In my home state, there was recently an issue where a neighbors dog dug under the fence or otherwise got into the back yard, in a residential suburban neighborhood. The property owner blasted it (with a gun) and there was nothing the DA could do. It made the news due to the outrageous use of force, but no charges were filed.

What a time to be alive: mess with Uncle Bezos' trillion-dollar empire for appropriating your property? arrested with federal charges. kill a family pet? nothing we can do.
by tonyarkles | 2025-06-02 23:42:13+00:00
In most of the videos I've seen there are failsafe warnings on the screen indicating a loss of GPS, which I'm not surprised at all about. Russia's well-known for having GPS jammers, and having them on-site at an airforce base when the enemy they've been fighting is using drones is just common sense. The video I linked to really looks to me like it's being stick flown with IMU stabilization but probably without Pos Hold.
by antman | 2025-06-02 23:42:24+00:00
6 inch color eink 24$ on alibaba, esp32 c3 cpu 3$ (incl wifi, ble, usbc) case 1$ probably. Assembly in china 3$ (done that), packaging temu style, transport temu style, touch layer I don't know.

BOM for a color eink about 35$ all together for a mass produced quantity of one, delivered anywhere (until tariffs).

Assumed quantity of customers, millions? Its so cheap that governments could give it out to schools, one eink ebook per child, cheaper than one year's worth of school books anyway.
by incoming1211 | 2025-06-02 23:42:39+00:00
If you have setup a cursor rules or claude file, then you would only add file context and a prompt.

I have a cursor rule file which details my project structure, tools, commands to build, test, etc. Adds some do's and don'ts. This was quite lengthy to do initially on existing projects, cursor is able to assist with generating the first take which i manually reviewed and revised.

Since then I just tag a couple of files, explain what i want, and switch to another worktree and work on another feature while the first is being done.

Claude and Gemini both look at the file structure and match it, naming, etc.
by jasonfarnon | 2025-06-02 23:43:04+00:00
"they say this every month" But I think the commenter is saying "they" comprises many different people, and they can each honestly say, at different times, "LLMs just started working". I had been loving LLMs for solving NLP since they came out, and playing with them all the time, but in my field I've only found them to improve productivity earlier this year (gemini 2.5).
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-02 23:43:20+00:00
I find search engines like Google and Bing are so overly keen on displaying any results that they'll ignore your search parameters and return something else instead.

Thus, I find LLMs quite useful when trying to find info on niches that are close to a very popular topic, but different in some key way that's hard to express in search terms that won't get ignored.
by lukeyoo | 2025-06-02 23:43:35+00:00
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by esperent | 2025-06-02 23:43:45+00:00
I stopped paying attention for a few days so I'm way out of date. What is the state of the art for agentic coding now?

I've been using Cline and it can do a few of the things suggested as "agentic", but I'd have no idea how to leave it writing and then running tests in a VM and creating a PR for me to review. Or let it roam around in the file tree and create new files as needed. How does that work? Are there better tools for this? Or do I need to configure Cline in some way?
by mmooss | 2025-06-02 23:44:15+00:00
It's a good question and the answer is that the situation is unstable and dangerous. But I think you are approaching it backwards:

With almost every country in the world, the US has first strike capability - the US could wipe out the country in hours or less, and only a few countries have a second strike capability to deter the US.

That had long been true with NK, a very belligerent enemy. But in the last couple of decades NK added a small nuclear arsenal. It's not enough for a MAD relationship with the US, but they could threaten great harm to US allies South Korea and Japan - imagine nuking Seoul and Tokyo - and possibly land one on US territory. It wouldn't destroy the US, but losing San Francisco is a serious deterrent.

Did the addition of NK's nuclear arsenal stabilize the situation by creating more deterrent, or destabilize it by emboldening NK? It's complex:

One factor is that the US has sworn off use of nuclear weapons in conventional conflicts, even ones they are losing, and have strictly adhered to that policy, not even using small tactical nukes. The US has an even stronger motive - it establishes a global taboo against nuclear weapon use that nobody has violated yet. NK is very aware of it because US generals recommended using nuclear weapons in the Korean War and the president declined - that may seem like too close a call for NK, and don't assume that NK understands the US nearly as well as you do (if you are American); miscalculations like that are common on all sides in international relations.

So now that NK has nuclear weapons, does that make a conventional conflict into a nuclear one, destabillizing the situation? What if the US believes they need to use nuclear weapons to prevent NK from using them on Seoul or San Franciso?

On the other hand, NK's nukes may prevent a conventional war. NK saw what happened to Iraq - everyone did, and many realized that actual nuclear weapons were their only defense if the US was going to ignore international law and sovereignty and engage in 'regime change'.
by dolebirchwood | 2025-06-02 23:44:47+00:00
> Here’s the thing from the skeptic perspective: This statement keeps getting made on a rolling basis.

Dude, just try the things out. It's just undeniable in my day-to-day life that I've been able to rely on Sonnet (first 3.7 and now 4.0) and Gemini 2.5 to absolutely crush code. I've done 3 side projects in the past 6 months that I would have been way too lazy to build without these tools. They work. Never going back.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-02 23:45:11+00:00
I never touched Dvorak, I feel like it would hurt more than it would help, as I would often switch back to Qwerty, and I would confuse my brain.

A couple of recommendations on my end.

1- Go slower. (Then you can speed it up) 2- Try playing an instrument, or to a lesser extent, dancing.
by jcims | 2025-06-02 23:45:11+00:00
There's a medflight helicopter pad not far from my place out in the country. It's just a small concrete pad on a lot and when it is dispatched it ascends straight up to what I'd guessed was 300' but could easily be 500' before taking off towards its destination. Landings are similar.

I always thought it looked weird but now I wonder if it's because it's largely surrounded by private property.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-02 23:45:33+00:00
Not everyone else is going to be out though, just the people who don't rise with the tide. Now is the time to understand where the tools are going, what humans are likely to still be better at (probably what and why, definitely not how), how that's going to impact what it means to be a developer, and how you can expand/broaden your skillset to continue to have a niche when your technical skills are devalued. Adapt or die.
by TimTan | 2025-06-02 23:46:05+00:00
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by username223 | 2025-06-02 23:48:00+00:00
If calculators were unreliable... Well, we'd be screwed if everyone blindly trusted them and never learned math.

They'd also be a whole lot less useful. Calculators are great because they always do exactly what you tell them. It's the same with compilers, almost: imagine if your C compiler did the right thing 99.9% of the time, but would make inexplicable errors 0.1% of the time, even on code that had previously worked correctly. And then CPython worked 99.9% of the time, except it was compiled by a C compiler working 99.9% of the time, ...

But bringing it back on-topic, in a world where software is AI-generated, and tests are AI-generated (because they're repetitive, and QA is low-status), and user complaints are all fielded by chat-bots (because that's cheaper than outsourcing), I don't see how anyone develops any expertise, or how things keep working.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-02 23:48:42+00:00
At the end of the day, it's the average productivity across a population that matters.

So GPS makes people worse at orienteering -- on average, does it get everyone where they need to go, better / faster / easier?

Sometimes, the answer is admittedly no. Google + Facebook + TikTok certainly made us less informed when they cannibalized reporting (news media origination) without creating a replacement.

But on average, I'd say calculators did make the population more mathematically productive.

After all, lots of people sucked at math before them too.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-02 23:48:51+00:00
I hate to be the "RTFA" guy, but seriously, RTFA.

Despite your quick dismissals, the article actually explains quite well why the law is ambiguous - namely, that the height to which the property owner owns the air is only defined by what is "reasonable", but doesn't give an actual meter height that the property owner owns. And the article recommends that regulation defining this height is something that would benefit all parties.
by mmooss | 2025-06-02 23:49:28+00:00
If you have any data, that would be great. As far as I know, the research shows that dense cities are far more efficient per person than less-dense suburbs and rural areas. Many more people share resources, there is economy of scale, and because of the density people use much less road to get to the store, work, and dinner - often none at all if they walk or take the train.
by JeffMcCune | 2025-06-02 23:49:30+00:00
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by Game_Ender | 2025-06-02 23:49:35+00:00
What model and query did you use? I used the prompt "find me a toothpaste that is both SLS free and has fluoride" and both GPT-4o [0] and o4-mini-high [1] gave me correct first answers. The 4o answer used the newish "show products inline" feature which made it easier to jump to each product and check it out (I am putting aside my fear this feature will end up kill their web product with monetization).

0 - https://chatgpt.com/share/683e3807-0bf8-800a-8bab-5089e4af51...

1 - https://chatgpt.com/share/683e3558-6738-800a-a8fb-3adc20b69d...
by Retric | 2025-06-02 23:49:39+00:00
You might be 30% faster, but not everyone is doing your job specific with your exact skill set. I suspect the range is like -5% to 50%, the question nobody can answer is what the average is because things are so diverse and nobody is collecting good data.

In decades of programming I’ve written very little tedious code, but that’s as much about the projects I’ve worked on as approach I use.
by TheRoque | 2025-06-02 23:49:57+00:00
Well, I'll try to do a sticky note here:

- they can't be aware of the latest changes in the frameworks I use, and so force me to use older features, sometimes less efficient

- they fail at doing clean DRY practices even though they are supposed to skim through the codebase much faster than me

- they bait me into inexisting apis, or hallucinate solutions or issues

- they cannot properly pick the context and the files to read in a mid-size app

- they suggest to download some random packages, sometimes low quality ones, or unmaintained ones
by rossng | 2025-06-02 23:50:22+00:00
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by jen729w | 2025-06-02 23:51:27+00:00
GPS has also ruined our city-level spatial awareness.

Before, you had the map. So you were aware that Fitzroy was to the west of Collingwood and both were south of Clifton Hill and so on. I had dozens of these suburbs roughly mapped out in my mind.

Driving down an unfamiliar road, one could use signs to these suburbs as a guide. I might not know exactly where I was, but I had enough of an idea to point me in the right direction.

That skill has disappeared.
by mike_d | 2025-06-02 23:52:01+00:00
> even if it were you'd still find low-altitude flights often illegal

Low altitude flights are illegal for a number of reasons, but part of it is separation from drones.

Generally the ground to 400 ft is drones, 500-1000 is helicopters, 1000-60k is aircraft, and 60k+ is UFOs.
by Game_Ender | 2025-06-02 23:52:05+00:00
Hello toothpaste is ChatGPT's 2nd or 1st answer depending on which model I used [0], so I am curious for the poster above to share the session and see what the issue was.

There is known sensitivity (no pun intended ;) to wording of the prompt. I have also found if I am very quick and flippant it will totally miss my point and go off in the wrong direction entirely.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44164633
by rockfishroll | 2025-06-02 23:52:12+00:00
One more anecdote. WADA, the World Anti Doping Agency, had to specifically address using hemoglobin based blood substitutes for doping.

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/scientific-research/de...

This class of products is room temperatures stable, and typeless, and it increases oxygen carrying capacity basically immediately. You can imagine how useful that would be for something like a Tour De France team. Keep a half dozen units of fake blood in your team bus. No special equipment. No rigorous temp control. You can give any unit to any one of your athletes without worrying about compatibility. You can administer it on race day, eliminating any chance of being caught in the runup to your event.

Obviously Biopure condemned off-label use of their product for blood doping, but behind closed doors they were super proud that it was seen as effective enough to be called out by name by WADA. No publicity is bad publicity and all that.
by convolvatron | 2025-06-02 23:52:16+00:00
you're right. but the ability, given a good idea, to spit out a substantial amount of code that compiles and basically runs in a single session removes alot of the consternation and back and forth in those discussions

despite industry motion to the contrary, the truth is that we really can build anything we want. if we just weren't such cowards about it
by AstroBen | 2025-06-02 23:52:27+00:00
I've had a lot of success using LLMs to deepen my understanding of topics. Give them an argument, and have them give the best points against it. Consider them, iterate. Argue against it and let it counter. It's a really good rubber duck

> The expert skills... currently come from long experience writing code

Do they? Is it the writing that's important? Or is it the thinking that goes along with it? What's stopping someone from going through LLM output, going back and forth on design decisions with the LLM, and ultimately making the final choice of how the tool should mold the codebase after seeing the options

I mean of course this requires some proactive effort on your part.. but it always did

The key point I think though is to not outsource your thinking. You can't blindly trust the output. It's a modern search engine
by sho_hn | 2025-06-02 23:52:46+00:00
Imho, the fly.io people are largely performative HN attention seekers that practice writing posts to produce engagement. It's almost charming in the way it resembles the early-on blogosphere, and you should read them as token summaries of "this is a popular sentiment right now, framed to appear a bit wise and edgy". They're often wordy versions of "that one trick they don't want you to know" or "am I really the only one that [actually quite popular thing]".

In the sense that the posts distill whatever HN at the time would accept as thought leadership it's a good pulse check on the community.