MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asdff | 2025-06-05 19:22:45+00:00
The main issue with AI I think is that it is exposing slop in the process people have handwaved away for some time. If the issue is you ask an AI for a prompt and it issues a function that doesn't work as expected, and this breaks your workflow, then the issue is your workflow. A junior dev or anyone else really could write a function that doesn't work as expected. Your workflow shouldn't go down to its knees in response, it should have tests and other debugging surrounding the putative function call to ensure that its output is as expected and it is not causing downstream issues in the stack.

This is why a stack overflow copy paster and a gen ai cruch wielder are both the same kind of bad. Both don't understand the context of the code hence grasping for "please solve this for me someone/thing" tooling instead of the underlying documentation that explains every thing for someone with knowledge to apply. Both require the same care to either not hire or to disempower such that one stupid bug pushed on friday isn't going to bring down the stack on the weekend, that it can be reviewed by people with an understanding of what is happening.
by mikeshi42 | 2025-06-05 19:23:27+00:00
Hey that's a good point on the link! Not something I can change now unfortunately, I was hoping having it near the top of the text post would help too for those that wanted to dig in more :)

That being said - as you've mentioned so many different "store tons of data" apps have been enabled from ClickHouse. Observability is at a point where it's in the same category of: ClickHouse can store a ton of data, OTel can help you collect/process it, and now we just need that analytics user experience layer to present it to the engineers that need an intuitive way to dive in to it all.
by michaelt | 2025-06-05 19:23:36+00:00
Both things can be true at the same time.

Obviously, it's widely reported that the very richest of the rich pay very little tax.

But according to table C-1 of [1] the richest 20% of US households have an average income of $418,100 and, after taxes and benefits, contribute $101,300 to the treasury. The middle 20% of households have an income of $86,500 and overall contribute $200 to the treasury. And the poorest 20% of households have an income of $22,500 and receive $26,200 from the treasury.

Which makes sense when you think about it - the garbage truck visits the household on $40k just as often as it visits the household on $400k. Taxes are progressive, benefits are (mostly) equal.

So even though the richest 0.1% of people might be dodging tax entirely, the richest ~30% are the ones financing the government.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2024-09/60341-income.pdf
by Moto7451 | 2025-06-05 19:23:57+00:00
The latter often is just for the former but with some PR. Not all but a significant amount. The first US and Soviet astronauts were flying ICBMs. Hubble is leftover spy satellite gear and two more leftover similar satellites were gifted to NASA in recent history. The Space Shuttle was intended to capture foreign satellites for the CIA. The Soviet Union had small space stations that carried cannons. And of course, we both nuked space just to make sure that worked.

Clearly we do a lot more commercial space at this point but the lineage is there.
by ritz_labringue | 2025-06-05 19:25:50+00:00
I very much agree, and I think people who are in denial about the usefulness of these tools are in for a bad time.

I've seen this firsthand multiple times: people who really don't want it to work will (unconsciously or not) sabotage themselves by writing vague prompts or withholding context/tips they'd naturally give a human colleague.

Then when the LLM inevitably fails, they get their "gotcha!" moment.
by calebkaiser | 2025-06-05 19:26:06+00:00
Yeah that particular aspect of his claim feels like the weakest.

Here is a slightly more in-depth piece where a wildlife biologist mentions other possible forcing functions that cause the snakes to eat the newts: https://baynature.org/2022/04/06/the-bay-area-is-the-center-...

From the article:

> “When garter snakes are born in the late summer, they often live under mats of drying pond vegetation … That happens to be where the newly metamorphosed newts come out in the fall, and we suspect there could be a lot of interaction between predator and prey just because of this overlap in microenvironment. That could have led to strong selection in the past that resulted in such high levels of resistance.”
by dtagames | 2025-06-05 19:26:09+00:00
Is it, though? Those new tools and techniques are the future of software development. Those of us who are trying to push those boundaries are writing all the time about our discoveries.

AI has already changed everything about how I write code, think about code, budget for code, debug and refactor code, etc. If you're doing that, too, I know the HN audience would welcome hearing from you.

My stuff is niche on my personal blog[0] (indie game dev), but I write about bigger AI topics on Medium[1]. All of this stuff has got to eventually filter down to individual use cases, but perhaps the philosophy of software is changing?

Is it too soon to call out some early victims? I don't think we need any more new languages or data formats. Ever. Text is going to be MD so there go proprietary text markup formats. Data is JSON, full stop. (Speaking for web apps here).

Also going away are endless tweaks to UI frameworks as customers (dev and non-dev) will be "drawing" and defining their own dynamic UIs through the prompts they write. On the backside, those prompts will turn into multiple tool calls to perhaps unexplored APIs via MCP -- a complete inversion of the client-server control model we're used to.

If there's a better place to write or read about this stuff, I'd love to hear about it, too!

[0] https://davidbethune.com/blog

[1] https://medium.com/@mimixco/list/ai-library-e2fcb2e18159
by jdefr89 | 2025-06-05 19:26:51+00:00
I might be. Deepsleep also sort of found a bug, but you need to ask yourself… is it doing it better than tools we already have? Could a fuzzer have found that bug in less time? How far along did it really need to be pushed and also.. I have no doubts it probably trained on certain types of bugs for certain specific code bases.. Did they test its ability to find the same bug after applying a couple transforms that trip up the LLM? Can you link me to this article about o3? I have my doubts. I’d love to see the working exploit…

Also if you throw these models at enough code bases, they will probably get lucky a couple times.. So far every claim I have seen didn’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny. People find one bug then inflate their findings and write articles that would make you think they are far more affective than reality and I am tired of this hype.

CURL had to stop accepting bounties after it found nearly all of em were just AI generated nonsense…

Also I stated that they indeed provide very large gains in certain areas. Like writing a fuzz harness and reversing binaries. I am not saying they have absolutely no utility I am simply tired of grifters attempting to inflate their findings for clout. Shit has gotten out of control.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-06-05 19:26:53+00:00
Look, up front, I get what you're saying. But people actually make decisions like this about procreation all the time. We do genetic testing of parents to make sure they don't pass on devastation to their kids. People who want kids get sterilized to intentionally halt their genetic lines all the time. People choose their sexual partners by selection criteria. This is different only by degrees.

> When did something so significant happen that I became an "I"

Consciousness. The "think" part of "I think therefore I am". The part that makes humans human at all. Life experience. Presumably many years of it. You aren't even the same person you were yesterday let alone the cluster of cells that never experienced consciousness.

> I'm just the one organism, from all the way back then until now

Stopping there is arbitrary. If some rockslide hadn't happened a million years ago then your parents wouldn't have been born. It's causal chains and forking paths all the way down. How much do you debate the morality of rockslides? We have the power as a species to stop them now. Do we stop them? Do we never stop them? Both paths are genocide, just of different groups of people who will never be. Which group is the one we should choose to support?
by anteloper | 2025-06-05 19:28:05+00:00
Yes - the Clearspace app. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearspace-reduce-screen-time/...

Would recommend creating an account in the API docs first because that way when you log into Clearspace you'll get an onboarding for API setup rather than general setup of the app

Maybe other apps in future will report data to the API as well
by tymonPartyLate | 2025-06-05 19:29:16+00:00
I just realized that Opus 4 is the first model that produced "beautiful" code for me. Code that is simple, easy to read, not polluted with comments, no unnecessary crap, just pretty, clean and functional. I had my first "wow" moment with it in a while. That being said it occasionally does something absolutely stupid. Like completely dumb. And when I ask it "why did you do this stupid thing", it replies "oh yeah, you're right, this is super wrong, here is an actual working, smart solution" (proceeds to create brilliant code)

I do not understand how those machines work.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-05 19:29:21+00:00
> It’s more a spiritual / moral decline of culture in the west

It's not just the West.

"Obesity in India has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population" [1]. (It's about 7% in America [2].) Meanwhile in China, "the incidence of overweight and obesity among school-age children...was 15.5% in 2010, rising to 24.2% in 2019 and soaring to 29.4% in 2022" [2]. Same story in Vietnam: "The prevalence of overweight among children aged under 5 years increased from 5.6% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2019. For overweight and obesity among children aged 5 to 19 years, prevalence rose from 8.5% and 2.5% in 2010 to 19% and 8.1% in 2020, respectively" [3].

OP is right. "If everyone just..." is shorthand for wishing upon a star that the world were different. It's not a serious solution for reality as it is. (To the degree there is a social trust variable at play, it's in folks doing mental gymnastics to reject the clinical data.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_India

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10357130/

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9947684/
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-05 19:29:30+00:00
>What did annoy me was why do I have to do anything?

There are two reasons. 1) Because Intuit owns enough reps to keep their business existing. 2) They have a fairly easy time doing that because the Republican party explicitly believes that taxes should be painful to discourage America from having functioning taxes.

All the "IRS might not know everything about you" is distraction. That's not a problem in any of the countries that have no trouble sending you a preliminary document for you to amend or accept. It's FUD.

For a long time the IRS was literally barred from doing what TurboTax does.
by maketheman | 2025-06-05 19:29:31+00:00
It has nothing to do with spirituality or morals. Skinny-country person moves to the US, they get fatter (statistically speaking). They weren't skinny at home because they were better spiritual warriors or whatever, but because they didn't live in the US.

The options are to fix what are probably a whole bunch of problems across multiple domains at a cost of $(enormous sum) with a project spanning many decades (and which may easily be derailed and set back years and years at any time), so that living in the US doesn't make people gain weight, or... drugs, that work today. From a policy perspective, those are the only options. There's no good reason to think that reversing "moral decline" or whatever will help, since that doesn't seem to be why some other countries are skinnier.
by echelon | 2025-06-05 19:30:07+00:00
> No, no one should train, period.

I get that you have your own opinion, but I'm personally tired of living in the butter-churning era and would prefer that this all went a bit faster.

I want my real time super high fidelity holo sim, all of my chores to be automatically done, protein folding, drug discovery. The life extension, P = NP future. No more incrementalism.

If the universe only happens once, and we're only awake for a geological blink of an eye, I'd rather we have an exciting time than just be some paper-pushing animals that pay taxes and vanish in a blip.

I'd be really excited if we found intelligent aliens, had advanced cloning for organ transplants and longevity, developed a colony on Mars, and invented our robotic successor species. Xbox and whatever most normal people look forward to on a day to day basis are boring.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-06-05 19:30:33+00:00
To be honest, I will probably still pass. Mushrooms kinda freak me out on a biological level anyways. What is crazy to me is how people find certain things scary or risky but they'll literally strap themselves inside a metal box on wheels that has uses a controlled explosion produced with highly carcinogenic toxic chemicals, that has hundreds of parts that can fail, it can slam into the other contraption next you tear you in half, all so they don't have to ride a bike or walk for an extra twenty minutes..
by ang_cire | 2025-06-05 19:31:12+00:00
This seems to falsely assume that technical users are more aligned with whatever the status quo is, and non-technical users are the ones who are looking to change things. In reality, technical users become technical users because they want to make changes, and 'casual' users just use whatever app/OS/etc is given to them, as-is.

Having bad or no support for your software isn't some good way to keep it 'pure', it's just keeping it less useful/relevant. Linux is OSS: fork it if you don't like something new, but don't hurt the ecosystem.

Deliberately hamstringing software or documentation so that others will stay away and not make changes is literally antithetical to OSS as a philosophy.
by pityJuke | 2025-06-05 19:31:32+00:00
A literal fact, he posts an average of 220 times per week post Twitter takeover. [0]

Ditto for his current opposition! [1]

[0]: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/11/21/elon-musks-tra...

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-t...
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-05 19:31:32+00:00
Note that #2, #3 and #4 were responses to successful lawsuits and constitutional challenges. They are examples of the federal government being supportive, for without those bills the projects would have been even more restricted by the courts.

The later examples are mostly addressed by the original article.

The only valid complaint is #1, IMO. And that was cancelled over 40 years ago.
by hosh | 2025-06-05 19:31:43+00:00
I liked Otel for traces and maybe logging -- but I think the Otel metrics is over-engineered.

Does ClickStack have a way to ingest statsd data, preferably with Datadog extensions (which adds tagging)?

Does ClickStack offer correlations across traces, logging, and metrics via unified service tagging? Does the UI offer the ability to link to related traces, logging, and metrics?

Why does the Elixir sdk use the hyperdx library instead of the otel library?

Are Notebooks in the roadmap?
by Valk3_ | 2025-06-05 19:31:56+00:00
This is not in my area of expertise, so I apologize if this question is bad, but can blender do more in terms of creating 3D models than OpenSCAD? If so, wouldn't it mean that if there was a blender equivalent of this, then the capabilities for 3D modelling would be even greater? I have to guess that it's harder to achieve something like this in Blender than in OpenSCAD?
by bunderbunder | 2025-06-05 19:32:14+00:00
And this kind of consumer-blaming ultimately serves the interests of the very people who benefit most from the status quo, but shifting attention away from them and toward people who are easy to pick on but ultimately have very little control over the situation. For most people, opting out of the cloud is tantamount to opting out of modern society.

I can't even get important announcements from my kids' school without signing up for yet another cloud service.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-06-05 19:32:34+00:00
I agree with this.

It is IMO very backwards and counterproductive to just gender-box mathematics/quantitative research vs peoples/qualitative research. Women are very capable of doing quantitative/mathematical research, and men are quite capable of doing qualitative/UX/anthropology research. Why must we be so narrow minded, _especially_ when we're talking about how we want to see the future?

The author may be totally right in suggesting that PL academic research needs more diversity in research, and that there might be a lot of status-quo bias, elitism and groupthink at play. The over-reliance on mathematical "purity/elegance" (like the monad meme someone mentioned below) instead of usability when it comes to new languages is something even I have encountered as an end user of programming languages.

However, claiming that there's some inherent gender based tendency to engage in one kind of research over another defeats their own purpose IMO. If they said that PL academic research could learn some tricks from fields X, Y and Z on how to engage in more end-user research, it would have made their point so much more convincing.
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by tuckerman | 2025-06-05 19:33:56+00:00
Sorry you have to deal with that and I hope they see the ramifications of their decision soon, but if this is your technical co-founder I'd recommend looking for a new role.

Can you share more about what the workflow of this new team looks like? I consider myself a strong proponent and heavy user of AI tools for development but it's still hard for me to fathom how true "vibe coding" at this scale is possible.
by AIorNot | 2025-06-05 19:34:09+00:00
1. the hype is really insane so I get the fatigue, but the tech is insane as well, and the promise for the (long term) future is insane..

2. People mostly hate new things (human nature)

3. its fun watching nerds complain about AI after they spent the past 50 years automating other peoples careers.. turnabout is fair play? All the nerdsniping around GenAI and tech taking away from programming is funny.

4. Remember its a tool, not a replacement (yet), get used to it.. we're not supposed to be luddites. use it and optimize - its our job to convince managers and executives that we are masters over the tool and not vice versa
by jrflowers | 2025-06-05 19:34:32+00:00
> I've read only perhaps 1% of Siskind's work and don't have a particularly close familiarity with him

I see the point you’re trying to make here and I’m sorry I’m just not interested in becoming part of your fandom. I don’t really care how little you feel someone needs to read of Scott’s blog to find race science to be so compelling
by godelski | 2025-06-05 19:35:39+00:00
He definitely was a philosopher. Here's some of his meta science work [0]. I mean it shouldn't be surprising, he had a PhD in chemistry and was a professor at Boston university. He wrote a lot more than science fiction.

I'm not calling him a god or anything. But I don't think it's surprising that someone that writes stories includes philosophy into it. I really don't think it's surprising a PhD educated writer is thinking about not that complicated of things.

The concept of understanding the limitations of your metrics and measures is a pretty basic science skill. Using this as a driver of some of his plots doesn't seem surprising. It's something he was doing in his daily life.

Forgive me if thinking of him as at least a university professor is reverence.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relativity_of_Wrong
by geeunits | 2025-06-05 19:35:41+00:00
I've been building a 'neuromorphic' kernel/bare metal OS that operates on mac hardware using APL primitives as its core layer. Time is considered another 'position' and the kernel itself is vector oriented using 4d addressing with a 32x32x32 'neural substrate'.

I am so ready and eager for a paradigm shift of hardware & software. I think in the future 'software' will disappear for most people, and they'll simply ask and receive.
by alecst | 2025-06-05 19:36:25+00:00
For those who are curious, there's some anecdata online that extended fasting (days or weeks) can reverse this disease.

I can't find much published research on it to be fair, but I think the science in this field is lagging behind people's personal experiences.

If there's evidence to the contrary let me know, I'm not trying to spread misinformation. It's just one of the things I consistently recall reading over the years.

Edit since I'm being downvoted:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6893587/ (prolonged fasting, ~8 days)

> The improvement of FLI correlated with the number of fasting days (r = −0.20, p < 0.0001)

https://eglj.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s43066-021-00... (ADF rat model)

> MSRDF rats showed cure of grade-1 NAFLD and significantly decreased LW than other groups and normalized HOMA-IR, HbA1C TC, LDL-C, ALT, and CRP.

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(22)... (exercise + ADF, humans)
by accrual | 2025-06-05 19:36:26+00:00
I'm sure this in jest, but my real answer: I remember so much more when I have notes to look back on. I store mine as some YYYY-MM-DD-Notes.txt and edit via local web UI or terminal/SSH. It's a blast to browse and see what I was thinking and doing, and how I've changed over time.

I save working knowledge elsewhere as Topic.md in subfolders so I can remember how I deployed an app or fixed a recurring issue etc.
by Balgair | 2025-06-05 19:36:33+00:00
Fun little quirk of IQ: Lower-IQ scored couples tend to have children with higher IQ scores, and higher-IQ scored couples tend to have children with lower IQ scores.

The explanation seems to be that whatever random genes you got to have an off-average IQ score cancel out with your partner and your offspring then regresses to the mean.
by mandevil | 2025-06-05 19:38:01+00:00
You are correct, I had remembered the details wrong- ISS and Mir and Salyut 7 all have the same orbital inclination, so that's clearly the best orbit for Baikonur. So if you were doing your mass launches from Baikonur you would not pay much of a penalty. From KSC, though, you'd almost certainly want a lower inclination to get more payload up.