MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swah | 2025-06-19 11:31:40+00:00
I wonder if his writing got weaker this last decade, or just the style got passé and isn't appreacited anymore? I remember LOVING his essays and those last ones I kinda feel nothing. Maybe its with me, I'm not feeling that much anymore.

Also, after explaining how society is moving at extraordinary pace, you write a book, and don't even have a link yet? I feel exactly like him though (old) but trying to join the fun.
by hacb | 2025-06-19 11:31:42+00:00
I moved most of my projects from Github to Codeberg, and as anticipated got much less interactions, contributions, visibility etc. on them. Also Codeberg had quite some big issues with their underlying infrastructure during the last 2 years, but they seem to have done a lot of work to make it more reliable.

Now, I publish projects on Github only if they are worth sharing/being discovered, but most of my code is done on private (and sometimes public) Codeberg repositories.
by simianparrot | 2025-06-19 11:32:03+00:00
No actual person talks like that —- and if they really did, they’ve taken on the role of a fictional character. Which says a lot about the clientele either way.

I skimmed a bit here and there after that but this comes off as plain grandiosity. Even the title is a line you can imagine a hollywood character speaking out loud as they look into the camera, before giving a smug smirk.
by kypro | 2025-06-19 11:32:17+00:00
I think part of the problem is that code quality is somewhat subjective and developers are of different skill levels.

If you're fine with things that kinda working okay and you're not the best developer yourself then you probably think coding agents work really really well because the slop they produce isn't that much worse than yourself. In fact I know a mid-level dev who believes agent AIs write better code than himself.

If you're very critical of code quality then it's much tougher... This is even more true in complex codebases where simply following some existing pattern to add a new feature isn't going to cut it.

The degree to which it helps any individual developer will vary, and perhaps it's not that useful for yourself. For me over the last few months the tech has got to the point where I use it and trust it to write a fair percentage of my code. Unit tests are an example where I find it does a really good job.
by anonymousiam | 2025-06-19 11:32:23+00:00
I've been looking at Linux phone options for a while now. This one is crowd funded, so I'm waiting to see if it actually materializes.

Some things that buyers might want to consider: Supply Chain Security - Do you trust the manufacturer? What about their suppliers? What about their government? Pretty much every government in the world has mandated access to mobile phone activities, so choose which government you want to have this access. Spain is part of the EU, so you get the bonus of both their national government, and the EU having full access to your private communications under their rules for doing so.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-19 11:32:47+00:00
> Most code doesn't express subtle logic paths. If I test if a million inputs are correctly sorted, I've probably implemented the sorter correctly.

This just rings of famous last words to me. There are many errors that pass this test. Edge cases in arbitrary code is not easy.

Makes me wonder how fuzzers do it. Just random data? How guided is it?
by Jderenne | 2025-06-19 11:32:52+00:00
thanks! appreciated feedback !

-There are two video, one positioning the product the other (at the end) walking through it. This one gives more insights ? not the right format ?

-I can let all people in (with some limitation) without any sign up (to remove all friction). I was afraid that It will only increase our AI cost usage without attracting serious "clients" ... wdyt ? any experience with that ?
by gorbachev | 2025-06-19 11:33:53+00:00
We had exactly the opposite experience. CoPilot was able to answer questions accurately and reformatted the existing documentation to fit the context of users' questions, which made the information much easier to understand.

Code examples, which we offer as sort of reference implementations, were also adopted to fit the specific questions without much issues. Granted these aren't whole applications, but 10 - 25 line examples of doing API setup / calls.

We didn't, of course, just send users' questions directly to CoPilot. Instead there's a bit of prompt magic behind the scenes that tweaks the context so that CoPilot can produce better quality results.
by gooseus | 2025-06-19 11:35:05+00:00
I've never thought ill of Scott Aaronson and have often admired him and his work when I stumble across it.

However, reading this article about all these people at their "Galt's Gultch", I thought — "oh, I guess he's a rhinoceros now"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play)

Here's a bad joke for you all — What's the difference between a "rationalist" and "rationalizer"? Only the incentives.
by 5mv2 | 2025-06-19 11:35:06+00:00
Context summarization will be natively added soon.

It's already the case on tools like block.github.io/goose:

```

Summarize Conversation This will summarize your conversation history to save context space.

Previous messages will remain visible but only the summary will be included in the active context for Goose. This is useful for long conversations that are approaching the context limit.

```
by furyofantares | 2025-06-19 11:36:04+00:00
Yeah that's explicitly about first customers and first uses, not about who controls it.

I don't see how it minimizes the control corporations have to note this. Especially since he's quite clear about how everything is currently centralized / time share model, and obviously hopeful we can enter an era that's more analogous to the PC era, even explicitly telling the audience maybe some of them will work on making that happen.
by tlb | 2025-06-19 11:37:38+00:00
It's easy to make structures that don't fail: just make them 5x stronger than anticipated max loads.

Sadly, this would make a rocket too heavy to reach orbit. So they end up being 1.1x stronger than anticipated loads. And it's hard to exactly anticipate loads. Vibration can add to a peak load, and it's notoriously hard to model how much vibration might happen. SpaceX rockets are filled with cryogenic methane at -160C, which causes everything it touches to shrink which creates forces between the parts that get cold and the parts that don't. A rocket-sized tank contracts by inches, but has to be supported by the structure around it. A single support member that doesn't move the right way can cause a fracture. So it's actually a hard problem.
by fidotron | 2025-06-19 11:37:45+00:00
Anyone remotely familiar with Wix should not be surprised by this, or be happy that they are familiar with Wix.

The maintainability of the output of your average vibe coder is going to enormously exceed that of your average Wix site. LLMs are a massive threat to their whole model which relies on increasing levels of esotericism.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-19 11:38:03+00:00
Microsoft is also selling "AI", so they want headlines like "30% of our code is written by AI". So they force open source developers to babysit the tools and suffer.

It's also an advertisement for potential "AI" military applications that they undoubtedly propose after the HoloLens failure:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23402195/microsoft-us-ar...

The HoloLens failure is a great example of overhyped technology, just like the bunker busters that are now in the headlines for overpromising.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-19 11:38:09+00:00
>Maybe it's actually going to be rather benign and more boring than expected

Maybe, but generally speaking, if I think people are playing around with technology which a lot of smart people think might end humanity as we know it, I would want them to stop until we are really sure it won't. Like, "less than a one in a million chance" sure.

Those are big stakes. I would have opposed the Manhattan Project on the same principle had I been born 100 years earlier, when people were worried the bomb might ignite the world's atmosphere. I oppose a lot of gain-of-function virus research today too.

That's not a point you have to be a rationalist to defend. I don't consider myself one, and I wasn't convinced by them of this - I was convinced by Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence, which lays out his case with most of the assumptions he brings to the table laid bare. Way more in the style of Euclid or Hobbes than ... whatever that is.

Above all I suspect that the Internet rationalists are basically a 30 year long campaign of "any publicity is good publicity" when it comes to existential risk from superintelligence, and for what it's worth, it seems to have worked. I don't hear people dismiss these risks very often as "You've just been reading too many science fiction novels" these days, which would have been the default response back in the 90s or 2000s.
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by countofarthur | 2025-06-19 11:38:54+00:00
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Since launching, I’ve gotten 15k+ visitors and $5.7k in revenue, just from using my own tool and posting on socials. Now I’m trying to help others do the same.

Would love feedback, especially on how to make the product more useful for solo devs and indie hackers.

Thanks for reading!
by countofarthur | 2025-06-19 11:39:21+00:00
Happy to answer any questions about how I built MediaFast or the marketing roadmaps inside.

I made this because I kept wasting time figuring out where to post and how to actually get attention as a solo founder. The tool gives me clear daily tasks so I don’t overthink anymore.

Would love your honest thoughts. What's missing? What would make it 10x more useful for you?
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-19 11:39:25+00:00
But they are spot on. The performative declaration of war on so-called antisemitism by this administration is 100% just a façade to target Muslims.

Anyone who truly believes this administration, or the American right wing in general, cares about antisemitism suffers from extraordinary levels of gullibility. The incantation of George Soros as the master manipulator behind everything "the left" does in the US is a pretty transparent placeholder for "The Jews Control Everything". White replacement theory is predicated on the belief that "The Jews" are for some reason trying to water down every white nation with masses of immigrants by sneaking in and sneakily changing immigration to open borders. Virtually every crazed conspiracy among the US right somehow ends up at "The Jews".

But it is utterly perverse that questions or criticism of the actions of a pretty vile sovereign can be dismissed as antisemitism. Many if not most American Jewish people are deeply critical of the things the Israeli government is doing (all under the cover of "to question it is antisemitism"). Israelis, though....polling of Israelis is extraordinarily uncomfortable, to such a degree that I would hardly consider the country "Western" as it is often called.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-19 11:39:39+00:00
Still wonder what your definition of "serious software" is. I kinda concur - I consider most of the webshit to be not serious, but then, this is where software industry makes bulk of its profits, and that space is absolutely being eaten by agentic coding, right now, today.

So if we s/serious/money-making/, you are wrong - or at least about to be proven, as these things enter prod and are talked about.
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by cyberax | 2025-06-19 11:39:56+00:00
> I would say being verbose is a positive thing.

No, it's not. A description of a single method can often span a couple of screens, and still not cover everything.

In addition, YAML is not easily composable, so you end up with files that are megabytes in size. This is completely useless for humans, unless you start using third-party tools to split the file into parts.

Protobuf-based protocols are also much better specified, and they don't have multiple ways to pass in data. Meanwhile, OpenAPI supports: headers, path queries, multiparts, forms with various encodings, uploads, etc.
by codehotter | 2025-06-19 11:40:12+00:00
I view this as a political constraint, cf. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/lifeboat-games-and-backscra.... One's identity as Academic, Democrat, Zionist and so on demands certain sacrifices of you, sometimes of rationality. The worse the failure of empathy and rationality, the better a test of loyalty it is. For epistemic rationality, it would be best to https://paulgraham.com/identity.html, but for instrumental rationality it is not. Consequently, many people are reasonable only until certain topics come up, and it's generally worked around by steering the discussion to other topics.
by Lionga | 2025-06-19 11:40:36+00:00
> We have lots of visitors but few (free) sign up. We need to understand why. :-)

Why not ask you genius AI? It surely knows, it is made for that.

Well I can consult you: This thing is shit and will spew out brain dead bullshit. Much like McKinsey, so that part is on point.

How would you like to pay my 250K consulting fee?
by lillecarl | 2025-06-19 11:40:58+00:00
My case was 100$ and it's housed components worth maybe 4000$ over it's lifetime, I regret not getting one with dust filters now that it's been stickerbombed and has sentimental value.

But it's definitely more percentage value in a laptop with touchpads, wifi, keyboard, battery and display over a case that's just some bent metal and if you're fancy a glass panel.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-19 11:43:12+00:00
A lot of "rationalists" of this kind are very poorly informed about statistical methodology, a condition they inherit from reading papers written in these pseudoscientific fields about people likewise very poorly informed.

This is a pathology that has not really been addressed in the large, anywhere, really. Very few in the applied sciences who understand statistical methodology, "leave their areas" -- and many areas that require it, would disappear if it entered.
by diggan | 2025-06-19 11:43:15+00:00
If anything I wished the conversation turned away from "vibe-coding" which was essentially coined as a "lol look at this go" thing, but media and corporations somehow picked up as "This is the new workflow all developers are adopting".

LLMs as another tool in your toolbox? Sure, use it where it makes sense, don't try to make them do 100% of everything.

LLMs as a "English to E2E product I'm charging for"? Lets maybe make sure the thing works well as a tool before letting it be responsible for stuff.
by latexr | 2025-06-19 11:44:36+00:00
> Apple keeps pushing the narrative that "we LET you use this device in ways we see fit".

No, they do not. That is how you are interpreting their actions. It’s obviously not the narrative they are pushing, that would be utterly absurd. The narrative Apple pushes over and over is that it’s your device, and that what you do with it is private and stays with it. Outright saying the device is theirs and they only let you do what they choose would be incredibly stupid, and their marketing is not incompetent.

Mind you, this doesn’t mean your interpretation (which is shared by many people) is wrong. On the contrary, it has merit. But it makes no sense to say Apple is pushing it as a narrative, that’s not what the expression means.
by khalic | 2025-06-19 11:45:02+00:00
He understands the technical part, of course, I was referring to his prediction that large models will be always be necessary.

There is a point where an LLM is good enough for most tasks, I don’t need a megamind AI in order to greet clients, and both large and small/medium model size are getting there, with the large models hitting a computing/energy demand barrier. The small models won’t hit that barrier anytime soon.
by crmi | 2025-06-19 11:45:08+00:00
I've got a working theory that models perform differently when used in different timezones... As in during US working hours they dont work as well due to high load. When used at 'offpeak' hours not only are they (obviously) snappier but the outputs appear to be a higher standard. Thought this for a while but now noticing with Claude4 [thinking] recently. Textbook case of anecdata of course though.
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-06-19 11:45:28+00:00
> I don't hear people dismiss these risks very often as "You've just been reading too many science fiction novels" these days, which would have been the default response back in the 90s or 2000s.

I've recently stumbled across the theory that "it's gonna go away, just keep your head down" is the crisis response that has been taught to the generation that lived through the cold war, so that's how they act. That bit was in regards to climate change, but I can easily see it apply to AI as well (even though I personally believe that the whole "AI eat world" arc is only so popular due to marketing efforts of the corresponding industry)
by cyberax | 2025-06-19 11:45:55+00:00
You still need to write a spec with protobufs. It's just that the spec is much more succinct and easy to read. And you can generate docs from it. E.g.:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/admin-api/reference/...

Do an experiment, take a Protobuf spec for some Google API and convert it into OpenAPI.
by lillecarl | 2025-06-19 11:46:17+00:00
Never seen a device with soldered storage that is a laptop and isn't an Apple.

And the reason why RAM is soldered is because they need the signal integrity to run "high performance" graphics on it, it's not (just) because the manufacturer hates you. This is why FW desktop has soldered memory too.

LPCAMM is coming, which is an interface with better signal integrity than SODIMM or whatever they're called, I hope it will bring RAM upgradeability back to office machines. I really only need to render videos and a slightly animated WM on my laptop so I don't care for HIGH PERFORMANCE AI IGPU when I have a desktop at home.
by kccqzy | 2025-06-19 11:46:19+00:00
But it's asinine for developers to have to pay $99 in order to test their app, such as on TestFlight. When you have an app idea, when you are far from deciding on monetization, you just want to test out the central features of the app among friends, it's wrong to require payment for that.

Remember all apps have once been low effort apps: the first few weeks when you begin working on them. Polish comes later.
by 0xTJ | 2025-06-19 11:47:08+00:00
Having specific lines be easily repairable doesn't influence how Framework laptops interact with the rest of the market. It's very much not just businesses (or individuals buying business-line devices) that should be able to repair their laptops, and they're not advertising themselves exclusively to businesses.

Also, my biggest issue with my HP Envy x360 is not getting inside. It's annoying to have to buy new (third-party) replacement feet after removing them (and shouldn't be done by HP regardless), but it's not a big problem. And the service guide is quite good. It's the fact that I haven't been able to buy a new first-party battery, I can't buy a new screen, mainboard, or trackpad if I end up needing one.

Sure I can (and have) upgraded the RAM and SSD, and replaced the battery with a third-party one (well actually two, the first one didn't have some ID chip, and would show a warning screen on every boot). But the RAM and SSD are just upgrades, and batteries are consumables. I can't reasonably repair damaged or failing parts if the screen cracks, if coffee gets spilled in the keyboard, if a port gets damaged. Only 4 parts are listed as available (pen tip, RAM, AC adapter, and Wi-Fi card), and only the AC adapter is in stock.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-19 11:47:26+00:00
On the other hand, posts like this are like watching someone writing ask jeeves search queries into google 20 years ago and then gesturing how google sucks while everyone else in the room has figured out how to be productive with it and cringes at his "boomer" queries.

If you're still struggling to make LLMs useful for you by now, you should probably ask someone. Don't let other noobs on HN +1'ing you hold you back.
by manquer | 2025-06-19 11:48:29+00:00
Thank you , I am not sure if those dimensions will deliver the kind of generational boosts needed to keep the exponential going.

I could be quite wrong of course but it is not a certain bet that we will get fundamental breakthroughs from them.

There are specific areas which are always going to have major improvements .

In the semi conductor industry, Low power processors or multi core dies etc produced some results when core innovations slowed down during 2008-2018, i.e. till before the current EUV breakthrough driven generations of chip advances.

The history of EUV lithography and ASML’s success is an unlikely tale and it happened after both public and industry consortium funding of work for 2 decades that was abandoned multiple times .

Breakthroughs will happen eventually, but each wave ( we are on the fourth one for AI?) stagnates after initial rapid progress .
by amarcheschi | 2025-06-19 11:49:01+00:00
I agree, I had to read things for an ethics course in IT in uni that read more like science fiction than actual science. Anyway, my point is that it feels pretentious - very pretentious, and I'm being kind with words - to support such pseudo scientific theories and call itself rationalist. Especially when these teories can be debunked just by reading the related Wikipedia page
by henrebotha | 2025-06-19 11:49:05+00:00
Strudel is neat! A friend sent me a video recently of someone using it to make breakbeat music, which got me looking into it. I've known about live coding music for a long time but never actually investigated how it works.

I find the fluent API plus "display-oriented REPL" a very cool way to do things. The docs need a lot of work, though… The only API reference is in a sidebar of the REPL (i.e. not in the docs site), and discoverability depends entirely on guessing the name of the function. There's multiple ways to do things and all of them are explained with reference to each other, so it's very difficult to track down an authoritative, explicit overview of how something works.
by vinceguidry | 2025-06-19 11:49:20+00:00
You're really like a dog with a bone, aren't you. Let me be explicit. I was not spreading any kind of ideology. You just believed i was. And because I didn't argue with you in the precise way you wanted me to argue you with, just doubled down on your preconceptions. Letting reactionary emotions be your guide instead of the logic you think you were arguing from.
by KaiserPro | 2025-06-19 11:49:51+00:00
> This could be a "simple" production error (think "cracked pipe") which can be fixed with more effective monitoring of the construction, and not a major design flaw.

Good luck trying to get launch insurance for that without a full root cause and proof in double triplicate that this has been fixed.

Are you going to put you payload on one of those, a payload that will take 3 years to rebuild, and might end the company?