MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-26 06:41:43+00:00
> I feel like we'd be hearing from business that crushed their competition by delivering faster or with fewer people. Where are those businesses?

As if tech part was the major part of getting the product to market.

Those businesses are probably everywhere. They just aren't open about admitting they're using AI to speed up their marketing/product design/programming/project management/graphics design, because a) it's not normal outside some tech startup sphere to brag about how you're improving your internal process, and b) because almost everyone else is doing that too, so it partially cancels out - that is what competition on the market means, and c) admitting to use of AI in current climate is kind of a questionable PR move.

WRT. those who fail to leverage the new tools and are destined to be outcompeted, this process takes extended time, because companies have inertia.

>> But there are also local tools generated

> This is really not the same thing as the original claim

Point is that such wins compound. You get yak shaving done faster by fashioning your own tools on the fly, and it also cuts cost and a huge burden of maintaining relationships with third parties[0]

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[0] - Because each account you create, each subscription you take, even each online tool you kinda track and hope hope hope won't disappear on you - each such case comes with a cognitive tax of a business relationship you probably didn't want, that often costs you money directly, and that you need to keep track of.
Show HN: A Free, Offline-First Cash Register That Runs in the Browser
by gerardojbaez | 2025-06-26 06:41:49+00:00
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The core register is staying free. Eventually, I’ll offer optional add-ons like cloud sync, Google Drive backups, or a “back office” to manage data centrally — but the main idea is to have a fast, privacy-friendly POS that just works.

Would love feedback - on the concept, UI/UX, etc.

Thanks for checking it out.
by Sophira | 2025-06-26 06:42:25+00:00
I don't run a compositor, and with Qt6, Some programs like VirtualBox just don't respect Qt's scaling factor setting. Setting the font DPI instead results in weird bugs, like the display window getting smaller and smaller.

As it happens, VirtualBox does have its own scaling setting, but it's pretty bad, in my opinion. But I'm kind of forced to use it because Qt's own scaling just doesn't work in this case.
by danieltanfh95 | 2025-06-26 06:42:58+00:00
> Agent Lineage Evolution (ALE) is a novel framework that addresses the dual challenge of LLM agent degradation and manual prompt engineering bottlenecks. As LLMs inevitably degrade over extended usage, requiring frequent context restarts, current approaches force humans to manually re-engineer prompts with learned optimizations for each restart. ALE eliminates this scaling limitation by enabling agents to automatically generate successor prompts with embedded behavioral knowledge, transforming inevitable degradation cycles into opportunities for automated prompt evolution.
by ArcHound | 2025-06-26 06:43:01+00:00
It is a good point and a weaker spot of the article.

First of all, I now cover MS since this incident made headlines. If you are aware of any such incident from the other providers, I am interested.

Another argument is that more companies depend on MS more. Even in high-tech startups and scaleups you'll find traces of Win machines, AD and Office. On the other hand, there are plenty of companies that don't have AWS deployments at all.
by yeyeyeyeyeyeyee | 2025-06-26 06:43:02+00:00
A basic definition of a security bug is something that violates confidentiality, integrity or availability.

A DoS affects the availability of an application, and as such is a real security bug. While the severity of it might be lower than a bug that allows to "empty bank accounts", and fixing it might get a lower priority, it doesn't make it any less real.
by michelsedgh | 2025-06-26 06:43:30+00:00
For now, yes, because humans are doing most of jobs better than AI. In 10 years time, if the AI's are doing a better job, people like author need to learn all the ropes if they wanna catch up. I don't think LLMs will destroy all jobs, i think those who learn them and use them properly, and those professionals will outdo people who don't use these tools just for the sake of saying I'm high status I dont use these tools.
by cheriot | 2025-06-26 06:44:17+00:00
> promises that the contributed code is not the product of an LLM but rather original and understood completely.

> require them to be majority hand written.

We should specify the outcome not the process. Expecting the contributor to understand the patch is a good idea.

> Juniors may be encouraged/required to elide LLM-assisted tooling for a period of time during their onboarding.

This is a terrible idea. Onboarding is a lot of random environment setup hitches that LLMs are often really good at. It's also getting up to speed on code and docs and I've got some great text search/summarizing tools to share.
by namenotrequired | 2025-06-26 06:44:19+00:00
> LLMs … approximate correctness for varying amounts of time. Once that time runs out there is a sharp drop off in model accuracy, it simply cannot continue to offer you an output that even approximates something workable. I have taken to calling this phenomenon the "AI Cliff," as it is very sharp and very sudden

I’ve never heard of this cliff before. Has anyone else experienced this?
by jjcob | 2025-06-26 06:44:29+00:00
Yeah, but they don't work for most people.

For example, I could say, just start running/cycling/swimming if you want to lose weight. It's really easy! If you slowly work up to working out 5 hours a week, and keep at it, your obesity will probably disappear.

However, most people won't be able to do that, because it's boring, takes a lot of time, and they will stop sooner or later. There are some success stories of people who stuck with it and lost 50kg, but these stories are so rare that they are noteworthy.

Taking daily meds on the other hand is something that most people manage to do just fine.
by sixhobbits | 2025-06-26 06:44:45+00:00
So it is, I stand corrected. I googled mcp host and the lmstudio link was the first result.

Some more discussion on the confusion here https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol... where they acknowledge that most people call it a client and that that's ok unless the distinction is important.

I think host is a bad term for it though as it makes more intuitive sense for the host to host the server and the client to connect to it, especially for remote MCP servers which are probably going to become the default way of using them.
by whensean | 2025-06-26 06:45:00+00:00
Yes. Your reply reminds me of a friend of mine who works in the US. Every time he comes back to China, he would neurotically wipe out his phone and computer. Even though he has never encountered border inspections. In fact, in terms of what Westerners "think" China is doing in terms of surveillance, most of it is what China doesn't do, while the US is doing it and there is actual evidence. It's a very black-humored reality. The US is the real bad guy.
by CJefferson | 2025-06-26 06:45:37+00:00
So to be clear (this isn't your fault of course, this is a Google problem), as someone with my own domain for my email:

* First google forced me to start paying for my email domain.

* Then they increased the cost to force me to pay for AI features

* Now, I can't actually use the AI features without spending even more money, I could use them if I just had a gmail address and didn't pay google.

Well done Google, you've finally pursaded me to get around to transfering my custom email domain off google. Anyone have any preferences?
by beau_g | 2025-06-26 06:46:02+00:00
The article opens with a statement saying the author isn't going to reword what others are writing, but the article reads as that and only that.

That said, I do think it would be nice for people to note in pull requests which files have AI gen code in the diff. It's still a good idea to look at LLM gen code vs human code with a bit different lens, the mistakes each make are often a bit different in flavor, and it would save time for me in a review to know which is which. Has anyone seen this at a larger org and is it of value to you as a reviewer? Maybe some tool sets can already do this automatically (I suppose all these companies report the % of code that is LLM generated must have one if they actually have these granular metrics?)
by pezezin | 2025-06-26 06:46:02+00:00
On the other hand, more and more software are adding support for JPEG XL. Photoshop just added it in the latest patch (https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2025-6.htm...), Apple has included it in the iPhone 16, it is easily available on Windows (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mzprth5c0tb?hl=en-US&gl=U...), most major Linux distros already support it...

It is only a matter of time until the Chrome team has to reverse their decision.
by DocTomoe | 2025-06-26 06:48:51+00:00
You can judge all you want. You'll eventually appear much like that old woman secretly judging you in church.

Most of the current discourse on AI coding assistants sounds either breathlessly optimistic or catastrophically alarmist. What’s missing is a more surgical observation: the disruptive effect of LLMs is not evenly distributed. In fact, the clash between how open source and industry teams establish trust reveals a fault line that’s been papered over with hype and metrics.

FOSS project work on a trust basis - but industry standard is automated testing, pair programming, and development speed. That CRUD app for finding out if a rental car is available? Not exactly in need for a hand-crafted piece of code, and no-one cares if Junior Dev #18493 is trusted within the software dev organization.

If the LLM-generated code breaks, blame gets passed, retros are held, Jira tickets multiply — the world keeps spinning, and a team fixes it. If a junior doesn’t understand their own patch, the senior rewrites it under deadline. It’s not pretty, but it works. And when it doesn’t, nobody loses “reputation” - they lose time, money, maybe sleep. But not identity.

LLMs challenge open source where it’s most vulnerable - in its culture. Meanwhile, industry just treats them like the next Jenkins: mildly annoying at first, but soon part of the stack.

The author loves the old ways, for many valid reasons: Gabled houses are beautiful, but outside of architectural circles, prefab is what scaled the suburbs, not timber joints and romanticism.
by nextlevelwizard | 2025-06-26 06:50:54+00:00
If AI will do better job than humans what ropes are there to learn? You just feed in the requirements and AI poops out products.

This often is brought up that if you don't use LLMs now to produce so-so code you will somehow magically completely fall off when the LLMs all of a sudden start making perfect code as if developers haven't been learning new tools constantly as the field as evolved. Yes, I use old technology, but also yes I try new technology and pick and choose what works for me and what does not. Just because LLMs don't have a good place in my work flow does not mean I am not using them at all or that I haven't tried to use them.
by bredren | 2025-06-26 06:51:03+00:00
Mine is. And it is awesome: https://github.com/banagale/FileKitty

The most recent release includes a MacOS build in a dmg signed by Apple: https://github.com/banagale/FileKitty/releases/tag/v0.2.3

I vibed that workflow just so more people could have access to this tool. It was a pain and it actually took time away from toenail clipping.

And while I didn't lay hands on a guitar much during this period, I did manage to build this while bouncing between playing Civil War tunes on a 3D-printed violin and generating music in Suno for a soundtrack to “Back on That Crust,” the missing and one true spiritual successor to ToeJam & Earl: https://suno.com/song/e5b6dc04-ffab-4310-b9ef-815bdf742ecb
by michelsedgh | 2025-06-26 06:51:04+00:00
I'm not trying to advertise anything here, but i'm telling you i can create apps that feel apple level quality and its not garbage. I built this in 2 weeks I had never known what swift is or anything. I wasn't a coder or app maker, but now I can build something like this in 2 weeks. Let me know if its garbage. I'll love criticism and I'll look for something else if its actually garbage.
by talkin | 2025-06-26 06:51:24+00:00
No. The Regex DoS class of bugs is about infinite backtracking or looping inside the regex engine. Completely isolated component, just hogging CPU inside the regex engine. It may also have ‘DoS’ in its name, but there’s no relation to network (D)DoS attacks.

It could still be a security error, but only if all availability errors are for that project. But after triage, the outcome is almost always “user can hang own browser on input which isn’t likely”. And yes, it’s a pity I wrote ‘almost’, which means having to check 99% false alarms.
by boston_clone | 2025-06-26 06:51:50+00:00
Is it not that studies show how mass incarceration increases likelihood of children to be offenders, not make them less likely to do so?

e.g., an incarcerated parent before the age of 12 increases the chances of being in jail after 18 by 230%

I genuinely don’t recall anything to support the idea that incarceration decreases crime, in general, at all…
by db48x | 2025-06-26 06:52:19+00:00
Yes, we have a long ways to go before we can be considered a starfaring species, one that can make and keep long–term agreements when they involve round–trip times in the tens of thousands of years. Still, it can be useful to altruistically start colonies before then.

There’s a book called Count to a Trillion which explores these ideas, and others. At the end of it the main character’s wife sets out on a mission to M33 and isn’t expected to return for at least 70,000 years. He gets stuck on Earth, unable to catch up with her, and promises to be here when she returns. The sequel is all about what he has to go through to keep Earth a going concern while she’s away.
by citrin_ru | 2025-06-26 06:52:39+00:00
The problem is that DoS is the most vaguely defined category. If a library processes some inputs 1000 slower than average one may claim that this is a DoS. What if it is just 10x slower? Where to draw the line? What is the problem domain is such that some inputs just take more time and there is no way to 'fix' it? What if the input comes only from a trusted source?
by fxtentacle | 2025-06-26 06:53:38+00:00
No UART at all: Control flow is through USB directly into the CPU, so the serial interface there is purely virtual. And then from CPU to stepper drivers it's Enable, Direction, and Step pins, all of them optically decoupled. The stepper drivers then have their own power supply and caps so that they can't interfere with the CPU power circuitry.
by sandspar | 2025-06-26 06:54:07+00:00
That's typical for link sharing communities like HN and Reddit. His title clearly struck a nerve. I assume many people opened the link, saw that it was a wall of text, scanned the first paragraph, categorized his point into some slot that they understand, then came here to compete in HN's side-market status game. Normal web browsing behavior, in other words.
by andsoitis | 2025-06-26 06:54:09+00:00
> the steepest decline in births is among the poor, a population with, on average, worse impulse control and more issues with mental health, and since all qualities are at least partly heritable... Surprisingly, the fertility rate among the affluent does not appear to be nearly as impacted.

Generally, fertility rates are higher among poorer populations compared to wealthier populations. This pattern is observed both at the national level, with poorer countries generally having higher fertility rates than wealthier ones, and at the individual level, with poorer families tending to have more children than wealthier families.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link...
by flohofwoe | 2025-06-26 06:54:25+00:00
Tbf, this mainly seems to compare shitty/outdated 3rd-party Windows drivers against a vertically integrated system where Valve has complete control over both the hardware and software.

E.g. the difference between the Lenovo and Asus Win11 drivers is sometimes bigger than the difference of the faster Windows driver to Linux.

It's also not all that surprising though, there's a lot of very smart people working on Proton while the general quality level in the Windows ecosystem is slowly but steadily declining.

I also wouldn't be all that surprised if running a D3D11 or D3D12 game on a Proton-layer on Windows would be faster than running that same game without Proton. Sometimes Proton might have workarounds for 'API abuse' problems of specific games which the native D3D implementation or driver doesn't have.
by nsoonhui | 2025-06-26 06:55:06+00:00
>> If I have half a million people come play my silly AI game that I have no wish to monetise - I am gonna be POOR very fast.

But the article says:

When someone uses your Claude-powered app: They authenticate with their existing Claude account Their API usage counts against their subscription, not yours You pay nothing for their usage No one needs to manage API keys

So how would that impact you?
by theshrike79 | 2025-06-26 06:55:48+00:00
You don't need them to generate anything.

If you need to jump into large, unknown, codebases LLMs are pretty damn good at explaining how they work and where you can find stuff.

A lot faster than clicking through functions in an IDE or doing a desperate "find in project" for something.

And just sticking a stack trace in an LLM assistant, in my opinion, in about 90% of the cases I've encountered will either give you the correct fix immediately or at the very least point you to the correct place to fix things.
by jordanbeiber | 2025-06-26 06:56:03+00:00
As go feels like a straight-jacket compared to many other popular languages, it’s probably very suitable for an LLM in general.

Thinking about it - was this not the idea of go from the start? Nothing fancy to keep non-rocket scientist away from foot-guns, and have everyone produce code that everyone else can understand.

Diving in to a go project you almost always know what to expect, which is a great thing for a business.
by wiktor-k | 2025-06-26 06:56:19+00:00
> ² With S/MIME you need to keep your old certificates around to decrypt old mails, so having a new one frequently is not practical

You don't need to change your decryption key - the new certificate can use the same decryption keys as the old one (certbot even has a flag: --reuse-key). Whether this is a good idea or not is a separate question.

I think the biggest benefit would be ACME-like automatic certificate issuance. Currently getting a new certificate is just too much friction.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-26 06:56:28+00:00
Only more reason for OSS to embrace AI generation - once it leaks into enough widely used or critical (think cURL) dependencies and exceeds certain critical mass, any judgement on the IP aspects other than "public domain" (in the broader sense) will become infeasible, as enforcing a different judgement would be like doing open heart surgery on the global economy.
by conjecTech | 2025-06-26 06:56:49+00:00
If you are hosting whisper yourself, you can do something slightly more elegant, but with the same effect. You can downsample/pool the context 2:1 (or potentially more) a few layers into the encoder. That allows you to do the equivalent of speeding up audio without worry about potential spectral losses. For whisper large v3, that gets you nearly double throughput in exchange for a relative ~4% WER increase.
by KingMob | 2025-06-26 06:58:04+00:00
Yet in real life gifting, we expect reciprocity and have norms. (E.g., if little Johnny doesn't bring a present to Sally's birthday party, he never gets invited back.)

Asymmetrical gifting is only acceptable with a power imbalance; if the boss gives an employee a gift, it need not be reciprocated.

FOSS actually turns this on its head, since unpaid volunteers are giving billionaires like Bezos gifts. Worse, people argue in favor of it.
by fxtentacle | 2025-06-26 06:58:45+00:00
My scope is a SDS1204X-E and I don't believe there are any EMI probes that will work with it out of the box. The scopes that can do EMI (in addition to all the other stuff) are $5000+ which is why I was wondering if there are any more affordable single-purpose EMI measurement devices. Amazon is full with devices claiming to measure EMI, but since they usually advertise with people wearing tinfoil hats, 5G shielding burkas, and copper capes, I don't think those are useful for science.
Show HN: I built a Binance Alpha Tool for points checking and airdrop tracking
by ManutdGTA | 2025-06-26 07:00:38+00:00
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by muzani | 2025-06-26 07:00:51+00:00
It's hard to say if you don't speak the language, but I think it translates to the wrong level of formality. Often too formal when asked to translate and too intimate when talking to a user in that language.

They also get the tone all wrong. If you tell them what the tone should be like, they nail it. Often better than official human translations. Especially say, religious text. Some parts are meant to be heavy and grim, some are humor/sarcasm. But religious text often has that monotone thee/thou tone, especially in English. Which I feel is based out of a culture that places it distant, as something to be quoted instead of a proper story.

I think it often misses out poetic bits. The order of language in German, like "here comes me" has a stronger and more poetic feel than the English "here I come". Haikus are supposed to bring a wabi-sabi feel of imperfection and impermanence, but in English they rarely carry over.

Always prefer token pricing. None of the other forms of pricing really make sense to me; I guess they're just easiest for the VCs.
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-06-26 07:01:13+00:00
it's really hard using AI (not impossible) to produce meaningful offensive security to improve defense due to there being way too many guard rails.

While on the other hand real nation-state threat actors would face no such limitations.

On a more general level, what concerns me isn't whether people use it to get utility out of it (that would be silly), but the power-imbalance in the hand of a few, and with new people pouring their questions into it, this divide getting wider. But it's not just the people using AI directly but also every post online that eventually gets used for training. So to be against it would mean to stop producing digital content.