MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theandrewbailey | 2025-06-17 11:33:11+00:00
Sadly, this reminds me of a facetious story I wrote several years back when Google tried to build a neighborhood in Toronto. It follows a Google fanboy that moves in, only to get locked out when something abruptly decides "No, you don't live here anymore."

https://theandrewbailey.com/article/203/Insanity-Locked-Out....

> But one day, you come back to your apartment. It's locked, and won't accept your authentication method. Since your technocrat landlords despise plain old metal keys for some reason (What are you, a peasant?), they provide one of several alternative methods for you to open doors. (Why can't those cyborgs be more like normal people?) They advise you to never share how or with what you use to login to them. Whatever it is, it's not working. You hope there's not an electrical outage somewhere.

> Because you're living in the future, everything is connected to the internet. Like most everything else, your door has a display mounted into it. A message appears, informing you that since you've violated the terms of service, your account has been terminated. You're locked out from all your stuff! There is a customer service robot downstairs, so you try to get some answers from it. Unsurprisingly, the robot is not helpful, not sympathetic, and it won't listen to an unperson.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-17 11:35:03+00:00
You'll love Telegram, then.

And I fully expected to be contradicted by people telling me that they can't live without WhatApp because their contacts use it. I've never installed WhatsApp and my contacts can either contact me on any non-spyware app they choose, or by SMS. It actually works, telling people that you don't have WhatsApp.
by conartist6 | 2025-06-17 11:35:18+00:00
Search is eventually an existential and philosophical problem. How do you know if you have found what you are searching for? How do you know how long you can afford to keep searching if you don't find it? An LLM lacks even the intelligence of a cat or a mouse if you stop treating the intelligence of the human using it as its intelligence.

To that I add this:

Every single LLM user is a hyperintelligent ultraproductive centaur if I understand correctly, so how is it possible that I, as a made-of-meat individual, am kicking the ass of several whole world-class teams of these LLM-using centaur-y juggernauts? It shouldn't be possible, right?

But I'm human, so it is
by skydhash | 2025-06-17 11:35:20+00:00
For this case, i will probably lift off the example from the library docs. Or spend 5 minutes writing a bare implementation as it would be all I need at the time.

That’s an issue I have with generated code. More often, I start with a basic design that evolves based on the project needs. It’s an iterative process that can span the whole timeline. But with generated code, it’s a whole solution that fits the current needs, but it’s a pain to refactor.
by Nursie | 2025-06-17 11:35:33+00:00
> I'll think really hard about philosophy when on drugs, you go do your thing ;)

Yeah sounds great. It's the imputation that it's the only way that got my back up. I don't imagine 5% of people who've taken and enjoyed LSD have taken the time to understand the basics of existentialism or done "the required work to understand yourself, your circumstances, stand on the shoulder of giants..." and all that guff.

And we still had an absolute blast.

> Isn't that smuggling in the assumption that there is an essential separation of the self and the rest of the world?

There is, it's called your body and other humans generally recognise yours as distinct from themselves and from other objects.

> And what if everything is self? Does it make any difference?

Acid-like thinking detected.

> What is the correct sense of the profound and who is going to be the gatekeepers of the profound?

Well, given the nature of the 'profound' realisations people on acid tend to have, I think "a modicum of common sense" would suffice.

That fascinating plastic lemonade bottle you're contemplating so hard probably isn't going to have much impact on space travel, no. Or on a larger scale, many of the proclamations that LSD will fundamentally change society when people 'realise' one thing or another that they 'learned' while under the influence turn out to be hopelessly naive - see the various late-60s to early 70s hippie communes in the US that generally fell into disarray and outright collapse when it turns out optimism and LSD weren't going to solve everything and someone still has to do the dishes eventually.

> I have all my notes and they still make a lot of sense to me so I don't think this argument hold by experience.

Your experience is certainly a data point, I would be surprised if this is as widespread as "I wrote it down and now realise it's all nonsense, it felt so meaningful at the time", but I don't imagine anyone's done a study.

> Is there a meaning to life to be found?

That's an interesting question, but looking for it in psychedelic experience seems to me a path that could lead to all sorts of odd places, mostly concerned with weird echoes of your own mind.

> Ah and thanks for proving my point about the necessity of philosophy.

The necessity of philosophy to an internet argument is one thing. Its necessity to a fulfilling life is arguable, given so much of it is navel-gazing bollocks, and the necessity of deeply studying philiosophical principles before dropping acid even less clear.

You do you, but your original post was full of pretty arrogant assertions about how everyone else should do them. I agree, I shot back with some of the same.
by soangry | 2025-06-17 11:35:36+00:00
I'm so angry right now. I did a deep dive into this at one point after being prescribed some generic Vyvanse through Sun via Dillons/Kroger. The pills smell like fish and seem like they didn't work at all. I checked some records from the FDA and Sun wasn't listed. I brought it up to my doctor and they just brushed it off.

I really hope another class action lawsuit is brought against Sun.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-17 11:36:34+00:00
>I have been in a rut hyper-focusing on ways the internet is used for bad (disinformation, harvesting info, bullying).

i dont see those as bad. Bad would be compromising, ransomeware, etc. Bullying online isnt a thing that's causing mass $ damages. disinformation based on who's definitions?

> It would be lovely to hear some ways the internet is being used for good.

How many of us essentially learn skills off the internet and havent done a class, school, or certification in basically forever? We have supercharged rapid education for the entire globe.

We have just barely started to realize the impact of supercharged education. This goes way beyond watching a youtube video to change a part in a car. The next generation of workers who are struggling to get a job right now are going to be really smart.

But then factor in chatAI and the generation after them will be even better.

My generation is more like stackoverflow, reddit, github. Which you can immediately tell why that was terrible.

The amazing thing about supercharged education, it feeds into literally everything else.
by jorl17 | 2025-06-17 11:36:50+00:00
While I definitely oppose ads in WhatsApp, I do know several people who use WhatsApp as a tool to get news, know what's going on in their town and/or community (sports club, etc), among other things. It's their way of being in the know, their reddit, RSS feed, news client, etc. I am sure that no one asked for ads and that people will get very little value out of having ads shown to them. Also, no one went around "asking for ads". Nonetheless, I am also pretty positive many people do want to “hear more about topics and organizations across WhatsApp". In fact, until a year ago I wasn't really aware of just how much people live in these WhatsApp islands/bubbles, but clearly they do!
by coldtea | 2025-06-17 11:37:51+00:00
Yes, it was. But Disney was always much more dilluted and commercial anyway. And modern Disney is nothing like Walt's era Disney, it's similar to the post-Miyazaki Ghibli decline I predict - those few films from back in the 90s aside.

>I see no reason that Studio Ghibli couldn't eventually find outsized success after the death of Miyazaki.

Oh, it's not success I fear they wont find.
by timr | 2025-06-17 11:39:06+00:00
> Or simply use LLMs that struggle at writing good code (GPT, Gemini Pro, etc).

I love how one side of this debate seems to have embraced "No True Scotsman" as the preferred argument strategy. Anyone who points out that these things have practical limitations gets a litany of "oh you aren't using it right" or "oh, you just aren't using the cool model" in response. It reminds me of the hipsters in SF who always felt your music was a little too last week.

As someone who is currently using these every day, Gemini Pro is right up there with the very best models for writing code -- and "GPT" is not a single thing -- so I have no idea what you're talking about. These things have practical limitations.
by piva00 | 2025-06-17 11:39:25+00:00
I don't see how having a decent public transportation network is any different.

I live in a suburb of Stockholm, 15km away from the city centre but it takes me only some 35 min to get to the central station on the metro, I have the option to take a 10 min bus to the nearest rail station that connects me to a different part of the city so if I need to go there I can choose the commuter train. Not only that but I do get local trains taking me to different towns southwards, also a direct connection to the airport and other towns northwards, and a connection to the long distance rail that can take me to the other coast, or south to Malmö/Copenhagen.

My suburb only exists because the metro station was built here, around the station there's a small centre with shops for daily needs, all of that was designed prior the existence of residential buildings to support the city's expansion, around the station are the higher-density buildings with apartments while I live some 5-10 min away in a townhouse; and this suburb is considered a poorer area of the Stockholm metropolitan region, not requiring a car was a must.
by squircle | 2025-06-17 11:39:35+00:00
> Instead of having an hour commute to move a few miles, you could have a half hour commute to move 30 miles.

Traveling faster than what the human body is capable of on its own feels like time travel to me. Horse, buggy, car, whatever... like stepping into or activating a warp bubble where your consciousness arrives at a place faster than humanly possible. Similarly, having access to information or experience (different manners of vehicles) is potentially a huge advantage or major pitfall. (Perhaps why some ancient maps indicate, "here be dragons!")

Inversely, moving slow when others are traveling fast allows you to witness where those paths lead without having to go down proverbial rabbit holes.
by Bender | 2025-06-17 11:40:04+00:00
What are some ways the internet is being used for good?

Free exchange of ideas, knowledge, experience. There was a time one could only get this from the library, peers and mentors. Books are great but the ability to search and grep through data in them is limited by physical access and ones own free time. Now people can drink from the fire-hose of information if they so choose. Peers and mentors need sleep. The internet never sleeps.

disinformation, harvesting info, bullying

While the internet has brought misinformation and other forms of manipulation that has existed since time immemorial including but not limited to books, newspapers and public news broadcast radio and television. The internet just increased the numbers of manipulators, manipulatees and number of agendas which is more overwhelming and obvious than when there were 3 television channels and 2 radios stations that all parroted the same narratives. Now each group from each nation have to compete for ones time, attention and beliefs.
by rahoulb | 2025-06-17 11:40:18+00:00
My favourite way to use it is to write tests first, then say "make these pass". It will generate some code, run the tests, say "oh, there's an error here ... let's fix that ... oh, there's an error there, let's fix that ..." and (most of the time) it will reach a solution where the tests pass.

I already do TDD a lot of the time, and this way I can be sure that the actual requirements are covered by the tests. Whereas asking it to add tests to existing code often gets over-elaborate in areas that aren't important and misses cases for the vital stuff.

Sometimes, when asking Claude to pass existing tests, it comes up with better implementations than I would have done. Other times the implementation is awful, but I know I can use it, because the tests prove it works. And then I (or Claude) can refactor with confidence later.
by DonHopkins | 2025-06-17 11:40:20+00:00
M-X professor-hubert-j-farnsworth-mode

Good news, everybody! Rewriting everything from scratch has recently become a lot, lot easier, and much more fun!

Leela AI (not to be confused with Turanga Leela) learns to speak in LLOOOOMM / Cursor:

https://youtu.be/Sn057QrCUm8?t=5367

https://leela.ai/how-leelas-ai-is-different/

PS: Does anyone know how to make the Mac "say" command use a new fangled "Personal Voice" that you can record of your own?
by angelofthe0dd | 2025-06-17 11:40:34+00:00
I'm old enough to remember the days of Telnet and Gopher. Back then, Telnet was key in the early "MUDs" (text-based, multiplayer games). MEAT MUD and Looney MUD were my favorites, but I honestly must have tried over 100. I sometimes wonder how much of the old "Telnet Internet" still exists from 30 years ago.
by DecoySalamander | 2025-06-17 11:40:40+00:00
It's great for organizing your scenes, and at least for me, it's far more readable than raw Three.js code. Unfortunately, games, especially real-time ones, don't map well to idiomatic React code. You might find yourself putting bits of game logic into various awkward places. Still, I don't think there's a better alternative for the web, except maybe Threlte if you're fine with a smaller ecosystem.
by zahirbmirza | 2025-06-17 11:40:46+00:00
Paul Graham recently essayed about Brian Chesky's thoughts on this new M.O.

What features can you identify in the most successful founders?

I'll start with a few characteristics that I see.

1 - Obsessively Focus on a Goal 2 - Vision and foresight 3 - Leaders, true leaders 4 - Deep curiosity in an overlooked aspect of the user experience 5 - Problem seers and solvers.

Tell me if you think of more...
Show HN: NTerm – AI-Powered Terminal with Reasoning for SysAdmins and IoT
by 77ethers | 2025-06-17 11:41:39+00:00
Hi HN,

I built NTerm, a Python-based terminal assistant that combines AI reasoning with tool execution — designed for system administrators, DevOps, and IoT environments.

Key Features: Uses GPT-4 to interpret and reason over natural language queries

Calls relevant system tools (like ps, df, top, ping, etc.) automatically

Interprets the results and provides actionable insights

Supports IoT device discovery and sensor data analysis

Python API for embedding into workflows

SQLite-based memory for session history and context

Example:

nterm --query "Find memory-heavy processes and suggest optimizations"

It’ll call the relevant shell commands, analyze the output, and give structured advice.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-17 11:42:00+00:00
> But I wouldn't be able to actually move. It would just be yet another one.

Actually, you would. A few months ago WhatsApp had a huge downtime in my country, and lots of people move to Telegram. It turns out, just telling people that you're moving to Telegram, that's enough to get them to move with you. I was already on Telegram, but I saw it happen enough times to be surprised myself.

Just don't keep a backup WhatsApp account around, because then people will use it.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-17 11:42:09+00:00
However, since many tasks are adjacent to each other, you're keeping these tasks at the edge of being alive.

Do you have plants at home? You're 50% there for growing your own food (veggies, at least). Do you mend your clothes (e.g.: sew your buttons back)? You're ~30% there for making your own clothes, given you have access to fabric.

On the essay writing, I can argue that at least half of my communication skills come from writing and reading. I don't write essays anymore, but I write a diary almost daily, and I build upon what I have read or written in the past for academic reasons. What I find more valuable in these exercises is not the ability to communicate with others, but communicate with myself.

Brain has this strange handicap. It thinks that it has a coherent thought, but the moment you try to write or tell about it, what comes out is a mushy, spaghetti which doesn't mean anything. Having the facilities to structure it, and to separate the ore from the dirt, and articulate it clearly so you and everyone can understand it is a very underrated skill.

Funnily, the biggest contributor to my written skills is this place, since good discussion needs a very particular set of skills here, namely clarity, calmness and having structure to your thought.

This is why I'm very skeptical of letting go of writing, and actual pens and paper for progress. We're old creatures evolved slowly, and our evolution has a maximum speed. Acting like this is not true will end in disaster.

Humans, the civilization and the culture we built has so many implicit knowledge coded everywhere, and assuming that we know it all, and can encode in a 80GB weighted graph is a mistake to put it kindly.
by skrebbel | 2025-06-17 11:42:52+00:00
Does anyone understand why it took them so long? I expected them to load the app full of ads right after they bought it over a decade ago. I mean, WhatsApp is the only Meta product I use and it's sortof felt like a public utility more than a ultracapitalist for-profit "if you're not paying then you're the product" type affair.

I mean, my messages are encrypted, the thing Just Works, UX is great, calls are free despite what I assume is substantial bandwidth and server cost, and so on. Why did they give this away to 2b people for 10 years? Could they really cover the all cost and then some just with those WhatsApp Business API call charges? I mean I love it but I can't say I get it. Thanks for all the freebies Mark!
by jackstraw42 | 2025-06-17 11:42:53+00:00
A bit unfair to call local models Matchbox cars compared to F1. There are plenty of uses for LLMs locally that don't require the largest models, it's not like it has to be all-or-nothing. For example, as a general browser assistant to help summarize articles, explain context, etc. the gemma-3-4B model does very well and is lightning fast on my old 3060 Ti.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-17 11:44:31+00:00
It's not bad faith when it's a legitimate request, which depends on the assertion.

If I say the sky is blue because of plane chemtrails, and you ask me for a source, that seems valid.

As with any large procurement system, there is moderate government waste in proportional terms, but one of the primary drivers of that waste is... anti-corruption systems operating as intended.

If you require 4 more forms than private sector, in order to be more sure there isn't corruption, then you've just imposed a cost that creates no value.
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-06-17 11:44:38+00:00
The recent developments are impressive. I’m now using my IDE as a diff viewer. Everything goes through the terminal. If there is an error, CC can analyse and fix it.

Still needs a lot of handholding. I do not (yet) think big upfront plans will suddenly start working in the enterprise world. Let it write a failing test first.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-17 11:45:13+00:00
> What other tasks could be automated today with the current LLMs performance?

CEO speeches and pro-LLM blogs come to mind.

Again, there is a vague focus on "updating dependencies" where allegedly some time was saved. Take that to the extreme and we don't need any new software. Freeze Linux and Windows, do only security updates and fire everyone. Because the ultimate goal of LLM shills or self-hating programmers appears to be to eliminate all redundant work.

Be careful what you wish for. They won't reward you for shilling or automating, they'll just fire you.
by defraudbah | 2025-06-17 11:45:26+00:00
it does not, some people don't understand it. I tried every trick and one guy was still sending his hello's because it was the way he communicated. I told him twice, literally, that he cannot just say hello and wait for me to reply, and he apologized and still didn't get it.

the only working option is to ignore such people, you cannot teach people with reasoning, it never works
PSA: iwantmyname is utterly broken
by kelstar18 | 2025-06-17 11:46:29+00:00
This is just a PSA for anyone unfortunate enough to have to use iwantmyname.

TL;DR: Generation of EPP auth codes for many TLDs is completely broken, and support appears to be out to lunch.

We've been long-time customers of iwantmyname (our first invoice goes back to 2014). We generally only used them for registration of TLDs that were unavailable on Google Cloud Domains (RIP) or Route 53.

We have rarely had cause to use their support as we typically nameserved away to external DNS solutions - but the few times we did it seemed fine. However, as many of the domains we originally registered on iwantmyname now have TLDs which are supported by our other infrastructure providers we have begun the slow process of migrating off of the platform.

On June 7th of this year, iwantmyname released a new, "upgraded" dashboard. However, since this update the generation of EPP auth codes for transfer out of the system - a requirement of ICANN as well as most international TLD governance bodies - is completely broken. When attempting to view an EPP Auth code via the dashboard, it shows an empty input or a value of "N/A". When attempting to email the EPP Auth code from the same dashboard, the emails send with a value of "n/a".

We have raised 6 separate support cases over the past two weeks, including attempting to raise them on chat during both US and NZ working hours, and have received zero response. Nada, nothing, zilch.

We haven't been able to thoroughly test all of our domains (we are in the process of that now), but to date these are the TLDs we've seen this issue affecting:

- .es - .at - .in - .blue - .quest - .us - .com.au (some EPP Auth codes are available) - .au (some EPP Auth codes are available) - .nz (some EPP Auth codes are available)

To each their own - but I would stay well away from iwantmyname. We can't get off the platform fast enough (literally).
by skydhash | 2025-06-17 11:47:20+00:00
Programming languages, by their nature of being formal notation, only have a few patterns to follow, all of them listed in the grammar of that language. And then there’s only so much libraries out there. I believe there’s more unique comments and other code explanations out there than unique code patterns. Take something like MDN where there’s a full page of text for every JavaScript, html, css symbol.
by elric | 2025-06-17 11:47:45+00:00
I'm not talking about the client ecosystem. I'm talking about the server ecosystem. There is only one fully-featured one, Synapse, everything else is in Alpha or Beta, feature-incomplete, or abandoned.

When I looked into writing my own implementation, the protocol seemed underspecified to me. "Do what synapse does" seemed to be the concensus.

This was a few years ago, so maybe things have improved. But given that no new feature complete servers have appeared, I doubt it.
by polyaniline | 2025-06-17 11:48:24+00:00
As far as I'm concerned, I run LineageOS, which doesn't come with everything I need OTOB, so I use app suites like Fossify, Simple Mobile Tools and other great work. Others may just want alternatives to pre-installed or standard apps that are more private and tuneable (eg. I maintained a fork of KDE Connect until they switched to Material 3 colors, and still do for VLC) because they're open source.