MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jon_north | 2025-06-02 15:17:59+00:00
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by YourEngineer | 2025-06-02 15:18:08+00:00
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by rangerelf | 2025-06-02 15:18:25+00:00
> I guess for me the questions is, at what point do you feel it would be reasonable to this without the experts involved in your case?

I don't know if it was the intent but these kind of questions bother me, the seem to hint at an agenda, "when can I have a farm of idiots with keyboards paid minimum wage churn out products indistinguishable from expertly designed applications".

To me that's the danger of AI, not it's purported intelligence, but our manifested greed.
by jon_north | 2025-06-02 15:18:28+00:00
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by mdaniel | 2025-06-02 15:18:30+00:00
I did consider that, but the repo isn't called "kentonv does a yolo" it's straight-up labeled as a provider library for CF workers under Cloudflare's brand

Some hair splitting about whether including the Claude stanza is "full disclosure," or "AI advocacy," or just because it's cool

Anyway, I mentioned the out of scope because if half the readme is about correct usage of the library, and half is about the sausage making, I'd be confused as a reader about whether this was designed to be for real or for funzies
by diggan | 2025-06-02 15:18:39+00:00
> I think we are in desperate need of safe vibe coding environments where code runs in a sandbox with security policies that make it impossible to screw up.

OpenAI's new Rust version of Codex might be of interest, haven't dived deeper into the codebase but seems they're thinking about sandboxing from the get-go: https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/7896b1089dbf702dd079299...
by aceazzameen | 2025-06-02 15:18:49+00:00
Tartakovsky's Grievous was awesome. That character ended up being such a disappointment in the film. But I still liked how they tied that series straight into the final film.

I was at a talk with Tartakovsky a long time ago. I don't remember all the details, but he said when they first got their descriptions of Grievous from Lucasfilm, they didn't have much to go off of. Lucas said Grievous had a cough and that was it. Tartakovsky's team didn't know why he had a cough, so they created the Mace Windu scene.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-02 15:19:03+00:00
Hey, maybe you're right about that. I was feeling pretty mischievous when I made that original comment.

If someone were to do that, one idea is to pitch is that they can inline some different LibriVox recommendation lists on the homepage: https://www.google.com/search?q=librivox+book+recommendation...

Doesn't even involve a DB query. Maybe store 10 lists in JS/HTML and randomly pick one on every homepage page load.

For a project that depends on thousands of hours of donated content from strangers, 10 minutes of work on the homepage to promote some high quality donations isn't a big ask. That's a decent thing to remind them of when they resist the suggestion.
by exuberantly01 | 2025-06-02 15:19:09+00:00
This really hit home. I’ve wanted to start blogging for a while, but I have dyslexia and often feel like my writing isn’t good enough or that no one would care.

Another problem is I have so many scattered interests, I don’t even know where to start or how to stick to a topic.

How do you decide what’s worth writing about, especially when your brain jumps between ten things a day?
by saulthompson92 | 2025-06-02 15:19:31+00:00
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Backend (Python, Ruby, TypeScript, REST APIs), Frontend (React, Tailwind), Postgres, NoSQL, AWS, Terraform, Docker

Résumé/CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MK_7kGfPS4r7KxGlDdz_SDlZfwn...

Email: saulthomp@outlook.com
Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)
by lixiasky | 2025-06-02 15:20:13+00:00
Hi everyone,

I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark.

It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear.

The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still use Wireshark myself for real-world analysis. But I built it as a personal experiment in network parsing and to understand protocol behavior more directly.

If you're curious or would like to try it out, the project is here: https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta

I'm happy to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or critiques. It’s just a little network toy, but maybe someone out there finds it useful or fun.

Thanks for reading!
by doublerabbit | 2025-06-02 15:20:16+00:00
> Just put a form on a website and you will see why...

I host my local community graveyard website and I've had no issue with forms. These forms are for tour bookings and contact.

And yes they are causing the problems. They restrict me because I use my own self-hosted colocated VPN in the same country on a proper dedicated IP with rDNS.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-02 15:20:17+00:00
These cards are doing kind of awesome? For endurance:size of consumer drives, 600 drive cycles (Terabytes written (tbw)/terabytes capacity) is pretty much the best advertised endurance you're gonna get, is very standard. Definitely a gamble but seeing some of these SD cards spit out 4000 cycles is incredibly impressive in that light.

In practice consumer NVMe/sata drives do tend to last longer. The ever excellent TechReport did a test to failure 10 years ago, and all drives made it to 3000 cycles. The Samsung 840 Pro almost made it to 10k cycles! https://techreport.com/review/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-t...

I'd love to see some modern drives tested. It would be really interesting to know who makes flash that in practice is the highest endurance: kioxia, micron, whose flash lasts longer? TechReport has an excellent SSD database that shows all the parts & specs on those parts, so one can go look at a SanDisk/WD SN7100 and see oh it uses Kioxia 218-Layer BiCS8 3D TLC; there's not really that many people making flash itself. It's be lovely to have some exhaustion/test to failure for these consumer stacks. And what stacks they are! 218 layers! I can't imagine endurance has gone up over the decade, especially given how strongly drives 10 years ago overperformed!! https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/western-digital-sn7100...
by TimTheTinker | 2025-06-02 15:20:27+00:00
Often, especially in large businesses, which of these categories you fall into (investment, insurance, luxury/impulse buy) is more a function of which of these buckets your business unit is in than you as an individual.

I've always tried to avoid working for cost centers, where the business's goal is to reduce cost as much as possible while continuing to provide the necessary utility (like on-premise IT). Cost centers are most prone to offshoring and automation; and this is where the "AI threat" is most likely to materialize.

But if your business unit is viewed as an investment center (like an R&D center), you're part of a strategic asset and you're also (by proxy) viewed as an investment. Luxury and impulse buys also happen here a lot more often.
by diggan | 2025-06-02 15:20:31+00:00
> They can get halfway there and then struggle immensely.

Restart the conversation from scratch. As soon as you get something incorrect, begin from the beginning.

It seems to me like any mistake in a messages chain/conversation instantly poisons the output afterwards, even if you try to "correct" it.

So if something was wrong at one point, you need to go back to the initial message, and adjust it to clarify the prompt enough so it doesn't make that same mistake again, and regenerate the conversation from there on.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-02 15:20:47+00:00
I have a Novation SL MkII as my controller keyboard. It is a much more tactile experience than say a DX7 or other menu diving synth. It has faders built in for mixing. As someone who has done both I have so much more joy being all digital. I have access to so much that I never did before.
by ornornor | 2025-06-02 15:20:58+00:00
For me it’s kobo all the way. The ereaders are open by default (no need to jailbreak them because they don’t block from doing whatever you want with it), and are easier to repair (or upgrade, need more storage just put a larger SD card inside). Plus it’s not making bezos richer. Not to mention the terrible text layout engine on the kindle, i can put a ruler to the right edge of the text on my kobo.

And with koreader I can set it up exactly the way I like (invert Colors at sunset, customize gestures and taps, copy paste text on my phone via a qr code…) it’s very easy to install it on a kobo.
by DanielHB | 2025-06-02 15:21:23+00:00
I really love that scene where Grievous starts monologuing while the Jedi ties his cloak to the train door with the force. When the train leaves he just looney toons out of there. Honestly the single best use of the force in the whole god-damn canon, cracks me up every time.

And Palpatine just raises his eyebrows while she is doing it, amazing. Was hugely disappointed when I saw Episode 3 and what they did to Grievous, that dude was scary in the shorts.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-02 15:21:24+00:00
> but rather experienced engineers using AI to generate bits of code and then meticulously testing and reviewing them.

My problem is that (in my experience anyways) this is slower than me just writing the code myself. That's why AI is not a useful tool right now. They only get it right sometimes so it winds up being easier to just do it yourself in the first place. As the saying goes: bad help is worse than no help at all, and AI is bad help right now.
by kentonv | 2025-06-02 15:21:41+00:00
I believe it's important to say when AI was used so heavily in building a library -- it would feel dishonest to me to claim I wrote it all myself. I also think it's just a pretty interesting thing to know about. So I think it belongs in the readme. (But I'm not making a moral judgment on what anyone else does.)

It was almost entirely Claude Sonnet 3.7. I agree I should add the version to the readme.
by mjgs | 2025-06-02 15:21:47+00:00
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Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialise in devops/system tools, workflow automation integrations, and NodeJS web development.

10+ years working in IT, experienced delivering large projects for Fortune 500 companies internationally, and working remotely.

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by Defletter | 2025-06-02 15:22:16+00:00
> The steep drop post-AI is different and reflects the ability of LLMs to answer a large fraction of the sort of questions people would ask.

Yup, the fact that ChatGPT can give me answers instantly, without dismissing or XY'ing me, "why would you ever want to do that?", "why don't you just do <thing you've already mentioned you tried>", or "just google it", has almost completely removed my need for StackOverflow.
by rbergmair | 2025-06-02 15:22:23+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Backend Developer

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, word2vec, vector search, llms, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit, tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

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13 years of freelancing

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping
by belter | 2025-06-02 15:22:50+00:00
The million-dollar question is not whether you can review at the speed the model is coding. It is whether you can trust review alone to catch everything.

If a robot assembles cars at lightning speed... but occasionally misaligns a bolt, and your only safeguard is a visual inspection afterward, some defects will roll off the assembly line. Human coders prevent many bugs by thinking during assembly.
by gambiting | 2025-06-02 15:22:53+00:00
I agree with you, I've engaged in multiple discussions here on HN with people claiming that a nuclear reactor-equipped rocket or plane makes everything below it poisoned for centuries and uninhabitable just by flying over it. TLDR is that it's simply not true. But, the radiation risks are still significant and cannot be dismissed - and likely mean that we'll never see this kind of propulsion used for anything other than a true "doomsday" weapon where the emissions don't matter but the infinite range and flight time are significant advantages.
by lapcat | 2025-06-02 15:23:05+00:00
> With almost all traditional employment, people are paid for their time. Their output is more an expectation based on the time put in.

Yes and no. It's true that employees are rented for a limited amount of time rather than owned like tools. However, employees can earn vastly different sums of money for the same amount of time. Some make $7 per hour, while others (a privileged few) make $7000 per hour or more.

> I would absolutely expect my employees (and vendors) to use these tools to go faster, just like laptops make them go faster than typewriters. It's not like it's causing the employee 4x more effort for that 4x output, is it?

Ok, but are you going to let employees who use these "labor-saving" tools work 1/4 of the hours per week as before for the same compensation as before? I suspect not.

> But as a business owner

> But framing this as an "us vs. them" thing by comparing apples and oranges isn't going to get us anywhere.

Of course that's what a business owner would tend to say.

My point is that there's no inherent reason why the benefits of "increased productivity" would trickle down to employees. Individually, employees may look at A.I. and think it's great, but collectively, if all employees have access to the same tools, then employees don't benefit from A.I., because it doesn't fundamentally change their relationship with employers.

Think about how students started using A.I. to cheat and get ahead. This turned out to be short-sighted, because everyone has the same access to ChatGPT, and thus A.I.-fueled cheating became ubiquitous in school, and the cheaters are back where they started, no longer ahead of their peers and no better off than before. Indeed, they may be worse off now, because potential employers have to expect that all college graduates are incompetent cheaters who didn't learn anything.
by ChildishGirl | 2025-06-02 15:23:14+00:00
I recently wrote this article to share how I approach setting up MLOps on AWS using SageMaker. It’s based on my own experience and includes diagrams showing how I structure the process and components. My main goal in sharing this here is to get feedback — whether there are ways to improve it, blind spots I might have missed, or use cases where this approach wouldn’t work well. I’d also love to hear if others use a similar setup — that would help me know I’m on the right track. Happy to discuss or clarify anything.
by schlupa | 2025-06-02 15:23:28+00:00
normal 720 K floppies were very generous with the sectors on a track. It was easy to format a floppy with 10 sectors per track even without reducing the gap between sectors. On Atari it was almost standard praxis which made that floppies had generally 800K capacity. It was even possible to squeeze 11 sectors per track by reducing the inter-sector gapto a minimum. Furthermore, most floppies allowed to write on track 81 and 82 (sometime even 83). So it was possible to have floppies with up to 902K capacity (not a good idea in the long run, I recently tested such a floppy I had made 30 years ago and it had a lot of read errors athing that 720K and 800K do not).
by rbergmair | 2025-06-02 15:23:28+00:00
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, word2vec, vector search, llms, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit, tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.docx

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair funny-at-shape urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Backend Developer

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from M.I.T.'s AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping