MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-06-09 16:31:19+00:00
I really like the MacWhisper macOS desktop app - https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

It runs Whisper (or the newer Whisper Turbo) really well, and you can both drop MP3/MP4/etc files into it or paste in URLs to a YouTube video/podcast URL to kick off a transcription. It exports to text or VTT subtitles or a bunch of other formats. I use it several times a week.
by DSMan195276 | 2025-06-09 16:31:40+00:00
> You designed something inherently insecure.

That describes most/all software older than a decade with no updates applied. How many libraries was Google Reader using that now have known vulns? I'm guessing it's more than zero.

This is the same logic as "just don't write bugs", if it was that easy everybody would already be doing it.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-09 16:31:59+00:00
Obsolete software don’t depreciate like obsolete hardware. If an LLM company has trained a truly better model, they can simply make as many copies of their own model as they want. Thus, if the new model is truly better in every way, the old one is completely valueless to them (of course there might be some tradeoffs which mean older models can stick around because they are, say, smaller… but, ultimately they will be valueless after some time).

Because models are still being obsoleted every couple years, old models aren’t an asset. They are an R&D byproduct.
by knome | 2025-06-09 16:32:01+00:00
yeah, traditionally 'generated code' is really just 'decompressed code'. it's got some source of information that's either brought in or crafted to be easily read and modified by people, and a transformer to expand it in a regular way that means, assuming the transformer isn't flawed, the code will always be correct.

if there was an `if( randomly() ){ emit("error"); }` in there, we'd be right back to reviewing it and probably wouldn't bother with it in the first place. besides which, any work to the transformer itself necessitates review even for generated code, making sure that the output is actually what you expect it to be.

the idea that you shouldn't care what's in a function because your possibly-insufficient-over-the-interface tests passed is kind of insane.
by nduncan_hmc | 2025-06-09 16:32:06+00:00
Agreed, it's gotten better since I started working on this 6 months ago. At that time, it was only Recall and MeetingBaaS and the latter didn't work when I tried to use it.

I expect Recall to open up a bit more, since a much larger company (Nylas) is moving into their turf: https://www.nylas.com/products/notetaker-api/
Fallom – Coding interviews that let you use AI
by anthonySs | 2025-06-09 16:32:34+00:00
So we were recently watching a YT video about devs cheating on coding interviews that said it's estimated that nearly 50% of developers use some kind of AI assistance to cheat on tests.

It sort of makes sense, it's like the calculator all over again... we want to gauge how well a candidate actually understands what's happening, but it's also unrealistic to not let them use the tools they'd be using on the job.

After talking to a large number of companies about their recent hiring experiences, it seemed like their options were pretty limited. They'd either rely solely on in-person interviews, or they'd need to change how interviews were done.

We decided to build a platform that lets companies design coding interviews that incorporate AI into the mix. We provide two different types of interviews:

1. A web-based assessment that has an LLM on the left and a code editor on the right, and the candidate can interact with the LLM, explain their approach, and get guidance while coding if necessary.

2. A "work-trial"-based interview where the candidate has a set amount of time to complete the tasks that the interviewer has created. The candidate is allowed to use any resources at their disposal, and at the end of the interview has five minutes to upload the final code and their LLM chat export for review.

The company can decide what tasks and questions to add to both, that match what they're looking for. Also, we'd then allow the interviewer to use their discretion on whether the candidate compromised things like security, code style, and maintainability for shipping, as well as how well they vetted the AI's responses and asked for clarification and modifications.

Basically, the idea is to mimic how the candidate would actually perform on real-world tasks with the real-world tools they'd be using on the job. We'd also closely monitor the tasks and workflow of companies to ensure they're not taking advantage of candidates to get free work done, and that the assessments are actually based on tasks that have already been completed by their team.

Super interested in understanding what your thoughts on this kind of interviewing approach?

Link: https://fallom.dev
by samus | 2025-06-09 16:32:42+00:00
Nope, payroll is a significant part of the expenses even of FAANGs. Or at least of the entities that employ people in the US. And they very much benefit from the startup ecosystem as they can just cherry-pick among them, buy up prospective disruptors and new technologies, and disassemble them for spare parts.

Anyway, here is more information about the bill. Let's see what happens to it: https://www.kbkg.com/feature/lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-ret...
by anthk | 2025-06-09 16:33:03+00:00
Retrozilla in not IE. You can get it from http://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/retrozilla-2.2.en-US....

Also:

gopher://magical.fish

There's a TLS 1.3 fix for Rzilla too:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/177106-running-windows-98-in-20...
by mjburgess | 2025-06-09 16:33:10+00:00
You are assuming that because we measure an undergrad's ability to critical think with undergrad essays, that is a valid test for the LLM's capacity to think -- it isnt. This measures only, extremely narrowly, the LLM's capacity to produce undergrad essays.

Society doesnt require undergrad essays. Nor does it require yet another webserver, iot script, or weekend hobby project. Society has all of those things already, hence the ability to train LLMs to produce them.

"Society", the economy, etc. are operating under competitive optimisation processes -- so that what is valuable, on the margin, is what isn't readily produced. What is readily produced, has been produced, is being produced, and so on. Solved problems are solved problems. Intelligence is the capacity of animals to operate "on the margin" -- that's why we have it:

Intelligence is a process of rapid adaption to novel circumstances, it is not, unlike puzzle-solvers like to claim, the solution to puzzles. Once a puzzle is solved so there are historical exemplars of its solution, it no longer requires intelligence to solve it -- hence using an LLM. (In this sense computer science is the art of removing intelligence from the solving of unsolved and unposed puzzles).

LLMs surface "solved problems" more readily than search engines. There's no evidence, and plenty against, that they provide the value of intelligence -- their ability to advance one's capabilities under compeititon from others, is literally zero -- since all players in the economic (, social, etc.) game have access to the LLM.

The LLM itself, in this sense, not only has no intelligence, but doesnt even show up in intelligent processes that we follow. It's washed out immediately -- it removes from our task lists, some "tasks that require intelligence", leaving the remainder for our actual intelligence to engage with.
by theonething | 2025-06-09 16:33:26+00:00
Yes, it extends to the realm of absurdity. When people post videos of animals doing good things, invariably comments are posted affirming how much better animals are than humans and "we don't deserve #{animal}s". At the same turn completely forgetting that in the wild, animals eat other animals (and humans) alive, engage in tribal wars, play around and torture their prey before eating them, commit infanticide, rape, etc.
by lovich | 2025-06-09 16:33:49+00:00
Caveat, I haven’t used mastodon or the fed inverse and might be off on the details.

Isn’t that how the fediverse works? You sign up for an instance based on if you like how they admin it, and if you don’t, you join a different instance?

I’m failing to see how that is a problem for users if they aren’t compelled to stay
by saithound | 2025-06-09 16:34:46+00:00
It's very regional.

Buses meant for right-hand drive markets like the UK, Australia and Japan are (with very few exceptions) shaky, low-entry configuration two door junk, or double-decker one door junk.

If that's what you're used to, even the most rickety light rail system will feel luxurious by comparison.

Left-hand drive low-floor buses with three doors, and articulated models with four doors, which are intended for the European market, are as a general rule much more comfortable. If the buses you normally take fit the latter description, you'll probably find the average tram worse.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-09 16:35:24+00:00
Hey for what it's worth, you aren't alone

This is a really wild and unpredictable time, and it's ok to see the problems looming and feel unsettled at how easily people are ignoring the potential oncoming train

I would suggest taking some time for yourself to distance yourself from this as much as you can for your own mental health

Ride this out as best you can until things settle down a bit. You aren't alone
by const_cast | 2025-06-09 16:35:58+00:00
From the perspective of absolute cost, those things are absolutely cheaper. It's cheaper to build things closer together, period, because then you need less stuff. It's cheaper to build denser housing because it's less housing, and less land.

The reason this doesn't pan out is because cities are subsidizing everything around them. We take tax dollars from denser areas, which are the only areas that are economically viable, and then we redistribute them to suburbs.
by freeopinion | 2025-06-09 16:36:06+00:00
I think your main point is valid, but the pedantic in me struggles with your wording. I think the point you are tring to make is this:

Nations don't have a single shared opinion even if they have a single shared action.

It frusrates me that the people of Russia allow their country to continue its aggression even in the face of such staggering losses. I can't understand their thinking. Then I remind myself that there is not just a single brain called Russia. There is not even just a single brain in the leadership of Russia.

I suspect that the percentage of US voters that support Ukraine is pretty high. A quick internet seach tells me that Pres. Trump's current approval rating is well below 50%. But I suspect support for impeachment is very much lower than that and support for a coup is practically non-existent.

It makes sense to me that the same holds in Russia. Tens of thousands of Russians each month lose a husband/son/father/brother in this war. Some may blame Ukraine and want revenge. Some may feel some patriotic or nationalistic justification for their loss. Others may hate Putin for it. Still others may convert to pacifism. But there seems little evidence that there is any will to do what it takes to challenge the power that keeps sending thousands more to their death. A very small percent of the population can continue to inflict this horror on all of Russia.

I would love to believe that there are voices even within Putin's hearing that quietly but consistently advocate for peace and somehow don't get removed. Imagine that there are people who make a point of never publicly falling out, but once a week hand deliver a note about improved GDP if Russia ended the invasion. Or they verbally suggest seaside resorts that could host old-fashioned vacations if they weren't in a war zone. Or they ponder out loud how much better the domestic auto industry could be if some of the military spending were diverted. Imagine the combined efforts of a few people to make sure Putin gets one subtle peacemaker message each day.

Please don't condemn all Russians. And please don't condemn all USians. And certainly please don't condemn all Americans. I don't know how much the average American cares, but I for one hope it is more than zero.
by anon7000 | 2025-06-09 16:36:08+00:00
AI generated web content has got to be one of the most counterproductive things to use AI on.

If I wanted an AI summary of a topic or answer to a question, a chatbot of choice can easily provide that for you. There’s no need for yet another piece of blogspam that isn’t introducing new information into the world. That content is already available inside the AI model. At some point, we’ll get so oversaturated with fake, generated BS that there won’t be enough high quality new information to feed them.
by Firfi | 2025-06-09 16:36:25+00:00
It seems to me we have to find out how to figure out "what matters" to have the benefits that 10x vibe coder bros promise. I think we still have to review (despite my clickbait title), it's just different things that we are looking for in slop, and different type/amount of mental strain required. For more important libs, I guess we can "overshoot" a bit and put more time into vetting vibe code (and making it the guardrail code). While in the "next revolutionary React Todo App" the balance could be much farther towards vibe...
by mapt | 2025-06-09 16:36:39+00:00
I wanted to examine this numerically.

* Great Value Original Vanilla Lowfat Yogurt, 32 oz

Serving size 3/4 cup (170g)

1.5g fat

26g carbs (21 of which are sugar)

5g protein

130 kcal

* Great Value Greek Plain Nonfat Yogurt, 32 oz Tub

Serving size 2/3 cup (170g)

7g carbs (7 of which are sugar)

17g protein

100 kcal

* Great Value Light Vanilla Nonfat Yogurt, 32 oz

Serving size 3/4 cup (170g)

15g carbs (12 of which are sugar)

5g protein

80 kcal

If it's only got 50kcal per 100g, then I assume you've got to be relying heavily on indigestible gelling agents to keep the texture reading to the customers as yogurt. I assume that the developer would suggest that a zero-calorie bowl of water and indigestible gelling agents that reads to YOU as yogurt, is not accurately summarized as yogurt, and that this would be a case of user error.
Show HN: Open-source codex UI can use Claude code and codex for parallel tasks
by loa_observer | 2025-06-09 16:36:55+00:00
Use Claude Code / CodeX CLI to perform multiple tasks in parallel with a Codex-style UI.

async-code gives you a web dashboard to:

Run Claude Code/Codex CLI on multiple repos simultaneously

Manage all tasks from one interface

Deploy to cloud for team access or run locally

Parallel tasks and check progress remotely

Basically turns Claude Code into a manageable background service instead of terminal juggling.

GitHub: https://github.com/ObservedObserver/async-code
by wartijn_ | 2025-06-09 16:36:58+00:00
> This is either not the cost price or relies on people not using their subscription, otherwise you could never recoup R&D costs. It seems pretty save to assume that the average user will search less than 300 times when 300 is the limit. It’s of course possible for users to search exactly 300 each month before they stop searching or use an other provider, but my guess is that most people who regularly hit that limit will either stop using Kagi or move to a more expensive plan.

And that €54/$54 is the price when you pay per year, if you pay per month you’re paying more per search (although at least part of that extra money will go towards handling the payments)
by 827a | 2025-06-09 16:37:14+00:00
Well; many LLMs can compose a structured essay better than most undergrounds, yet most also struggle with basic addition. E.g. Gemma-3-4B:

add 1 and 1

google/gemma-3-4b 1 + 1 = 2

add four to that

google/gemma-3-4b 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4

So, 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 = 8

Of course, smarter, billion dollar LLMs can do that. But, they aren't able to fetch one of 30 objects based on name, nor can they drive a car. They're often super-important components of much larger systems that are, at the very least, getting really close to being able to do these things if not able to already.

It should be worldview-changing to realize that writing a graduate-level research essay is, in some ways, easier than adding 4 to 2. Its just not easier for humans or ALUs. It turns out, intelligence is a multi-dimensional spectrum, and words like "smart" are kinda un-smart to use when describing entities who vie for a place on it.
by glenstein | 2025-06-09 16:37:24+00:00
Right, and I would say even communication is a strong word here. We are talking about automatic biological reflexes. Those are great, and mushroom signal exchange is genuinely amazing. But describing it this way continues in a concerning tradition of equivocating on terms with already strongly anchored colloquial meanings, to imply something beyond actual capabilities of plants and fungi.

I think it mistakenly puts forward an impression of intention, awareness, interpretation, conscious comprehension, agency, which are not there. And worse, I think some science communicators deliberately fan the flames of those associations. It might be that it's fair to call this communication and draw the line at language, but even communication here means something like blind signal transmission capable of prompting an automatic biological reflex somewhere else.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-09 16:37:30+00:00
I hear variations of that logic so often and it’s frustrating. It’s impossible for me to infringe someone’s freedom of speech on the fediverse. Someone can spin up a brand new server right now and start saying whatever they want. I can’t stop them, even if I wanted to, which I don’t. But if I blocked them from my own server, some people are quick to complain about my “censorship”, or whatever.

No. In exercising my freedom of speech to say I don’t want to hear their trash, and I don’t want them harassing my users. Their freedom of speech doesn’t say they have the right to force me to listen to them.

(For people following along at home: the speech I’m talking about here isn’t a debate about appropriate fiscal policy, but about vile escaped-from-4chan trash. I’d never block someone for disagreeing with my politics. I’ll block their ass in a heartbeat for a timeline filled with swastikas and death threats.)
by asenchi | 2025-06-09 16:37:40+00:00
Yes, out of love he gave us the agency and dignity to choose not to be in a love relationship with him. Faith in Jesus Christ and the arrival of the Kingdom of God to set things right provides us a means to enter into a relationship with him in a fallen, sinful world. To be adopted into his family and inherit new creation. This means he also dignifies those who choose not to love him to separate themselves from his presence for all eternity. In which case then they become less human.

In our culture it is easy to think of this in terms of Dante's "Inferno", but that is a poem from the Middle Ages, and not in fact what the Bible tells us eternal separation from God looks like. Anyways, there is a lot of context to cover that isn't possible here. If you'd like to understand all of this better, go to the Bible, but then also perhaps consider "The Prodigal God" by Tim Keller. Blessings.
by echelon | 2025-06-09 16:37:55+00:00
Using AI generated content to mass-scale torpedo the web could be a tool to get people off of Google and existing social media platforms.

I'm certainly using Google less and less these days, and even niche subreddits are getting an influx of LLM drivel.

There are fantastic uses of AI, but there's an over-abundance of low-effort growth hacking at scale that is saturating existing conduits of signal. I have to wonder if some of this might be done intentionally to poison the well.
by floxy | 2025-06-09 16:38:58+00:00
It isn't hard to imagine politicians grandstanding no matter what Waymo does. If they stop service, and save several hundred thousand dollars in property damage, surely some people will be claiming that Waymo is taking sides, and limiting people's freedom to protest. Or that Waymo is like a utility, and they need to provide service no matter what. What if someone was fleeing riot violence, and they couldn't get a Waymo ride out of the area? Waymo gets a lot more cover if they let a few cars burn first.
by const_cast | 2025-06-09 16:39:33+00:00
> s the Canadian, UK, or US VA healthcare systems a "model system" in your opinion?

No, because every system has problems. But they are better.

Single-payer systems are more efficient by definition. When you don't have thousands of insurers and the logistical overhead of that, you save money.

Also, yes America is unhealthy... but not that unhealthy in the scheme of western countries. Obesity is very slightly lower in the UK, for instance. And we have less tobacco use than the UK.
by jeremy_k | 2025-06-09 16:40:03+00:00
In my mind, the question you're trying to answer is whether or not a standalone CV on a website is better than a LinkedIn profile. I'm not sure of the answer to that, but I would lean towards it isn't more valuable in a standalone fashion.

However, I added my CV to own personal website so that it can viewed by people online who come across my website through my blog posts. The intent being that if they enjoyed reading my content and wanted to learn a bit more about me, they wouldn't have to jump over to LinkedIn.
by zdragnar | 2025-06-09 16:40:20+00:00
I'm fairly certain that I lost a job opportunity because the manager interviewing me kept asking me variations of how I use AI when I code.

Unless I'm stuck while experimenting with a new language or finding something in a library's documentation, I don't use AI at all. I just don't feel the need for it in my primary skill set because I've been doing it so long that it would take me longer to get AI to an acceptable answer than doing it myself.

The idea seemed rather offensive to him, and I'm quite glad I didn't go to work there, or anywhere that using AI is an expectation rather than an option.

I definitely don't see a team that relies on it heavily having fun in the long run. Everyone has time for new features, but nobody wants to dedicate time to rewriting old ones that are an unholy mess of bad assumptions and poorly understood.
by saratogacx | 2025-06-09 16:40:36+00:00
For case 2, I've had a lot of luck starting with asking the LLM "I have experience in X, Y, and Z technologies, help me translate this project in those terms, list anything this code does that doesn't align with the typical use of the technologies they've chosen". This has given me a great "intro" to move me closer to being able to understand.

Once I've done that and piked a few follow up questions, I feel much better in diving into the generated code.
by ashryan | 2025-06-09 16:40:55+00:00
Thumbs up for Wispr Flow. Their iOS app was just released last week, and is an interesting addition to the product.

I needed to do an inventory of stuff in our house over the weekend, and I used Wispr Flow on iOS to take a very very long and rambly note in their app. Then the transcription text appeared on their Mac app, ready to be pasted into ChatGPT for parsing.

Wispr Flow handles languages switches quite well in my experience using it in both English and Japanese.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-09 16:41:10+00:00
That’s exactly correct. It’s a marketplace of policies. If someone thinks I allow too much trash through, they’ll go to another server. If someone thinks I block too much, they’ll go to another server. There are thousands to choose from, each with its own local culture.

People who’ve been on my server for many years implicitly mostly agree with my actions. If they didn’t, they’d have migrated.