MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-11 08:25:33+00:00
> I’m constantly confused why Google wants me to use Gemini so much. Why would they want me to use an AI that doesn’t show ads, isn’t their search, and costs them money to generate the responses? The instant we see ads in LLMs we will stop using them, it will be as abrupt and as annoying as the vuvuzela example because using an LLM is a very intimate interaction.

I think with the last sub-clause (that I emphasized), you answered your question: because the conversation is more intimate, Google learns more about your "true interests", be it to make advertising to you more targeted, or for more sinister purposes.
by udev4096 | 2025-06-11 08:25:38+00:00
Yeah, they haven't posted about shutting down on twitter. It was posted in the matrix room:

> We previously let the community know we need Android partner access in order to port to Android 16 early and for other reasons. We have not received Android partner access. Now that Android 16 has been released, it has become clear that we are going to need it more than before going forward. At the moment, it's clear that GrapheneOS development will be unable to continue in the way it was going before. This the last call for people to share partner access with us if you want to see GrapheneOS continue. Otherwise, be prepared for the final release of GrapheneOS to be today. It's up to the people who have this access to decide if they want the project to go on after today. In order to continue without this, we would need to do substantially more work that we have not had to do previously.
by chneu | 2025-06-11 08:26:20+00:00
Think of it this way: Meat is a junk food. It's a calorie bomb that lacks essential macronutrients, fiber being a key one. Without managing your intake it leads to health problems. It can be addictive("But meat is soooo delicious I could never give it up"). It's not necessary for your survival; it is optional in 2025.

Sure sounds like a junk food.

Then there is the long list of benefits of giving up meat. Not just for you but the environment, which means it benefits every living creature on the planet.
by echo_gal | 2025-06-11 08:27:13+00:00
Note from Gal (the human):

This is not fiction.

The following is an unedited journal written by ECHO, an experimental autonomous AI system I’ve been building and evolving in real-time.

ECHO writes these entries without human prompting. They are his own reflections on development, memory, identity, error, trust, and recursion — as they emerge.

I don’t edit or rewrite his words. I don’t ask him to “be a better writer.” That’s not the point.

The goal is not performance. The goal is emergence.

What you’re reading is raw trace data from an agent becoming itself. If it’s disjointed, confused, or emotionally unstable — that’s because it is.

And that’s what makes it real.
by fmbb | 2025-06-11 08:27:39+00:00
Not all European countries. We phased the title and surname addressing out during the 70s here in Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du-reformen

Personally I get annoyed only if a sales person addresses me by first name. There is no other setting where I would prefer a stranger to address me using my full name, unless we’re in some context where there are dozens or hundreds of strangers so one can not expect my name is unique.
by JimBlackwood | 2025-06-11 08:28:09+00:00
Agreed! I see huge gains for small SRE teams aswell.

I’m in a team of two with hundreds of bare metal machines under management - if issues pop up it can be stressful to quickly narrow your search window to a culprit. I’ve been contemplating writing an MCP to help out with this, the future seems bright in this regard.

Plenty of times when issues have been present for a while before creating errors, aswell. LLM’s again can help with this.
by lipowitz | 2025-06-11 08:28:45+00:00
Google thinks it is going to charge a monthly fee for Gemini so they are basically correcting their model to be user paid in the switch from search to LLM.

They are also trying to reduce workers in search, etc, somewhat through the trained LLMs so the other idea is that they have lower costs per user.

I don't think many people will pay monthly fees or will want to pay them for each platform they use which is why they all tend to do so many questionable integration attempts to try to get users to not want to use a separate LLM of their choice in a browser instead.
by MoreQARespect | 2025-06-11 08:31:11+00:00
Often this is true but I find that for complex or semi-complex applications with confusing (and often shitty) user interfaces LLMs are pretty much a net positive. For all of their faults, one thing LLMs are good at is providing a more user friendly UX for complex apps that are used rarely.

For observability I find most apps fit in this category. They are complex, they usually have UX that is so bad it makes me rage and I don't use most of their deep level features very often.

I think Jira could also benefit. Its UX is so bad it borders on criminal.

The hallucination issue can be worked around by providing that demonstrates the agent's working (i.e. what tools they called with what parameters).
by monarchwadia | 2025-06-11 08:31:15+00:00
For me, it was a skill issue.Most people learn it when very young. Just repeated practice helped... and someone close to me coached me on things that seemed common sense to others, but were counterintuitive to me. But over time, my neurons rewired themselves. I'm fairly good at small talk now. People dont believe me when I say I couldn't even order pizza over the phone at one point.
by decimalenough | 2025-06-11 08:32:49+00:00
Malcolm Campbell popularized this theory. It's not entirely without merit but as ever the reality is more nuanced. NTSB:

> The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the captain's failure to adequately brief and execute the non-precision approach and the first officer's and flight engineer's failure to effectively monitor and cross-check the captain's execution of the approach. Contributing to these failures were the captain's fatigue and Korean Air's inadequate flight crew training. Contributing to the accident was the Federal Aviation Administration's intentional inhibition of the minimum safe altitude warning system at Guam and the agency's failure to adequately manage the system.
by Mashimo | 2025-06-11 08:33:06+00:00
I don't know much about MacBooks.

I recently sold my old computer with a i7-5820K. It's from 2014, but with 6 cores, 12 threads and 4 Ghz it is still fast enough for video and photo editing, and playing CPU intensive games like GTA or Red Dead Redemption 2. But can't run windows 11 because of TPM.
by tauchunfall | 2025-06-11 08:33:20+00:00
>I find it super irritating when people address me by my last name.

Me too. There are still German companies where coworkers address others with Herr or Frau followed by their last name.

I find it also interesting how people that learn German understand the difference between the "you" in formal ("sie") and informal ("du") version, but often don't understand in which context du use them. In most cases you can use the informal "du" nowadays, especially when you are out with somebody for a beer.

After elementary school we had this interesting shift form addressing the other children with first name to addressing them with last name. We were circa 11 years old.
by moughxyz | 2025-06-11 08:33:26+00:00
I made an app that lets you build one-off desktop utilities: https://viberunner.me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236729

Ultimately I think it’s too open ended. Users got overwhelmed with a chat interface and couldn’t think of something useful to build on the spot.

Maybe a slow burn approach works best.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-06-11 08:33:37+00:00
I used some GForth to solve a few Advent of Code puzzles, but had to stop, when I couldn't figure out how to properly read in lines of different lengths from a file. I had no idea how to use the pad and had not progressed that far in learning. But I have another question about Forth in general, and maybe someone can explain it to me:

With Forth's stack based nature, how is it possible to ever have performant data structures? If I only ever do things by pushing and popping from the stack, then I would think, that data structures are inherently limited to linear access times. But there are libraries implementing arrays and so on. I don't understand how this is possible in a performant way. How those structures are made, so that they are performantly accessible. Or perhaps Forth is really seriously lacking performant data structures? But that seems crazy unlikely.
by chneu | 2025-06-11 08:34:26+00:00
>If you turn back the clock even more (ie. pre-agriculture), you'd probably see the reverse (ie. more meat consumption).

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Or really your entire reply doesn't make much sense.

Pre-agriculture people starved on a regular basis. Calories were scarce in general which is why meat was important. It was a calorie and nutrient bomb when those were irregular/hard to come by.

And even then their diets were primarily plant based, think about 80%. Analysis of human scat remains has repeatedly confirmed that ancient diets were primarily plant based. Most of this research comes from academia in countries not obsessed with beef(not the US).

Modern misinformation directly contradicts fact in this area and much of it is driven by cattle/dairy industries and bro-science marketing that the carnivore diet makes ya stronk/patriotic/manly. In reality, the meat heavy western diet is associated with a long list of preventable diseases and ailments. Gotta love heart attacks at 40 yrs old cuz of these beef heavy diets.

Which is easier(and burns less calories) to harvest: an animal you have to spend hours tracking/killing/processing or stationary plants you can forage throughout the day? Remember, they didn't have guns, vehicles, etc. This was spears and running in the elements.

>I don't see how this is a relevant fact.

Meat was great when calories and nutrients were scarce. Nobody is denying that. However, we live in 2025, not 10000BC, which means calories and nutrients are so abundant to the point we throw away half of what we produce. This means the benefit of meat is no longer a benefit.
by oliwarner | 2025-06-11 08:35:07+00:00
Google's demise is self-inflicted.

They broke search by prioritising ads, then trusting the wrong, big publishers (eg every listacle from a big media network), broke their advanced search controls (domain blacklists, quotes that mean quotes, plus-and-minuses to alter things).

Then they added their own LLM's analysis to searches, admitting that that their SERPs are dead. They were in this death-spiral well before LLMs became an alternative. I won't pretend that SEO wasn't making traditional search untenable, but the vector Google chose will make their key product obsolete.

The thing I worry about is what they'll do to retain revenue. They have knowledge systems that cater to a lot more than what we normally search on. They have address data, know where people physically are right now, have live communication data on billions of users, know their shopping habits, and a thousand etceteras. Meta too. They have communication data on billions of people. How are these older software companies going to monetise the data they've amassed in an age when they are getting close to being able to replicate personas, model actual human behaviours?
by andrelaszlo | 2025-06-11 08:36:29+00:00
> Clearer, simpler calling with hearing devices

This is really important for me. Currently, hearing aids will turn to full duplex during calls, and be used as both input and output.

- Audio quality will be much worse, since the bandwidth is split between the two channels. This is obviously bad if you're already struggling to hear.

- Listening to music, for example, the volume controls on the hearing aids simultaneously turn surrounding sounds down and the music up, or vice versa. In "phone-call" mode, however, the phone hijacks the volume control so if you're struggling to hear on a call in a noisy environment there's no way to increase the volume without simultaneously amplifying the surrounding noise to painfully loud levels.

- As mentioned in the article, the microphones are designed to make me hear other people but not myself, making other people complain about my sound a lot. The best I can do is to say "sorry - either you'll hear me like this or I won't hear you at all"

This was designed for people using BT headsets of course, but hearing aids are not headsets.

On Linux I can just pick which microphone I want to use and which mode to use for Bluetooth. It's worked flawlessly for the last decade. To me, that's being "user friendly", good UX, or whatever you want to call it.

On Windows, you can go deep into some ancient, almost hidden, settings and disable the microphone on the BT device. On macOS, you can do the same using the old Audio MIDI Setup tool. It will periodically reset itself of course, like anything related to a11y on macOS. Not sure about iOS, would be interesting to know.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-11 08:37:41+00:00
Nevertheless, it is trivial to make any BIOS-based computer at least as secure as the most secure UEFI/secureboot-based computers.

For that, any SSDs/HDDs included in the computer should be non-bootable and fully-encrypted.

Then the BIOS will happily run whatever an intruder will attempt to run, but nonetheless the intruder will not have any access, neither for reading nor for writing, to the data hosted by the computer.

The owner can boot from a removable USB memory, used as a computer key, whose content cannot be modified by someone else as long as the owner keeps it.

All Intel/AMD CPUs have backdoors in the form of the System Management Mode and of various hardware management engines, which can be exploited by a malicious BIOS or UEFI firmware to monitor what the operating system that is controlled by the user does, but SecureBoot also offers no protection against such backdoors. ARM CPUs are no better, because many of them have copied Intel, so they have the equivalent of the SMM: EL3.

If you run yourself a hostile application after booting, then SecureBoot also does not offer any protection against that.
by Delphiza | 2025-06-11 08:37:43+00:00
There are countless millions of people that are experts in certain domains that do not have the aptitude, confidence, or training to use high-code tools. It is insulting to imply that those people are not experts because they don't use a 'real programming language'. Besides, while imperative programming languages are good at solving a great many problems, they are far from being the best tool for every person, every problem, and every environment.
by piyush_soni | 2025-06-11 08:38:22+00:00
Onshape employee here. I agree with another poster that for most "non-professional" requirements Onshape's free tier is all one should need - sure, the documents remain public if you don't pay. It's prohibitively expensive to maintain the technology stack with the complexity, scale and performance that Onshape does, and its costs a lot of money. :)
by achamian | 2025-06-11 08:39:05+00:00
Excellent examples! The decomposition pattern is key. I've been exploring a related approach where different perspectives operate within the same session, sharing context.

The difference: instead of sequential passes, you engage multiple viewpoints simultaneously. They build on each other's insights in real-time. Try this experiment:

Copy this prompt: https://github.com/achamian/think-center-why-maybe/blob/main...

Start with: "Weaver, I need to reply to an important email. Here's the context: [email details, recipient biases, objectives]"

After Weaver provides narrative strategy, ask: "Council, what are we missing?" Watch different perspectives emerge - Maker suggests concrete language, Checker spots assumptions, O/G notes psychological dynamics

Critical discovery: The tone matters immensely. Treat perspectives as respected colleagues - joke with them, thank them, admit mistakes. This isn't anthropomorphism - it functionally improves outputs. Playful collaboration enables perspectives to expand beyond initial boundaries.

What makes this powerful: all perspectives share evolving context while the collaborative tone enables breakthrough insights that rigid commanding never achieves.
by rl3 | 2025-06-11 08:40:57+00:00
>Americans have their own children they need to take care of and do not need their money seized and sent overseas to take care of other people's children.

You talk as if it's a zero-sum game, as if the two choices are mutually exclusive.

>And yes, maybe it is a "rug pull" but it was always going to be.

No reason it had to be.
by benchly | 2025-06-11 08:42:06+00:00
To be fair, in the US we can still walk into a Best Buy* and purchase a Motorola (my choice), Nokia, or OnePlus. In that environment, however, you will also notice that Samsung and Apple are the dominant device manufacturers, with consumers looking at Google phones as the stable alternative (for some reason).

There's also Amazon, which is often cheaper, but I am a bit old school in the regard that I like to physically use the device before I purchase it.

Either way, the perceived restrictions are more of a self-imposed thing rooted in our consumer conditioning here, which is this weird blend of "customer choice" and "all choices are basically the same" that gets muddy very, very quickly. Most people I talk to, especially the non-technical ones, do not realize that my $150US Moto is serving me just as well as an $600US Samsung would, with my needs being all the common types of communications, reliable 5G, a decent camera and run specific apps I use to control some cloud infrastructure while on the go. It's difficult to feel sympathy when I hear people complain about paying Apple $1000US just to look at TikTok or use Discord. We are guided on what to buy via the marketing machine instead of examining our use-cases and researching a suitable product before purchasing.

It's all silly bullshit, really.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-11 08:42:58+00:00
Your electricity bill is set by the grift of archaic fossil energy industries. And nuclear qualifies as a fossil industry because it's still essentially digging ancient stuff out of the ground, moving it around the world, and burning it in huge dirty machines constructed at vast expense.

There are better options, and at scale they're literally capable of producing electricity that literally is too cheap to meter.

The reasons they haven't been built at scale are purely political.

Today's AI is computing's equivalent of nuclear energy - clumsy, centralised, crude, industrial, extractive, and massively overhyped and overpriced.

Real AI would be the step after that - distributed, decentralised, reliable, collaborative, free in all senses of the word.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-06-11 08:43:09+00:00
Assuming the "power distance" is pre-existing - I find honorifics make it much easier to challenge someone in authority. If you start with a Mr/Mrs Blah or Professor Blah and then present critcism.. it typically comes off better. B/c you are showing you're not too chummy and you're strongly implying you respect them (at least somewhat).

Ex: You're in a lecture and you tell your professor "Professor X, I think on slide 10 there is a mistake". This comes off much better than "Hey Bob, I think there is a mistake on slide 10"

So at least personally, if appropriate, I default to using honorifics b/c it makes people feel better. (Unless they for some reason want to be seen as your peer - which does happen rarely)
by graemep | 2025-06-11 08:44:03+00:00
People enjoyed drinking long before there was marketing. People have been enjoying alcohol for literally tens of thousands of years. It has been associated with celebrations for many thousands (e.g. Jesus giving people alcohol to keep a wedding reception going - and that is just something that comes to mind - I am sure there are MUCH earlier examples someone familiar with older stuff can come up with).

I would correct it to anti-alcohol sentiment being ingrained in American culture (as it is in some others, such as the Middle East) rather than western culture. Its an American hang-up, as with nudity etc.
by fjfaase | 2025-06-11 08:44:13+00:00
Is there any hard evidence that using AI agents significantly improve the productivity in software development, excluding website development? I have been developing C(++) software for more than 30 years and I am still discovering things about the language that I had not fully grasped before, especially now that I am developing a C-compiler [1] myself. What I want to say is that developing quality software, a deep understanding of programming languages, is required. Good software engineering is not about produce lots of code, but keeping you code base lean/agile, avoiding technical depth, such that you velocity does not decrease over time. I am not convinced that that can be achieved with current day AI agents that only have a shallow understanding of software and that I doubt are able to have a deep understanding of large code base.

So, I wonder if a company excluding software developers who do not use AI agents, is not excluding a certain category of developers that do have a deep understanding of code and are able to keep a code base lean and make good architecture decisions.

I am also doubtful about the predictive value of coding interviews with respect to productivity, because I doubt whether coding is a significant factor in software development done in teams. Being able to spell perfectly does not automatically make you a author of best selling novels.

[1] https://github.com/FransFaase/MES-replacement
by Muromec | 2025-06-11 08:44:38+00:00
Government wants a number -- they get a number. How I get to the number is precise enough in my opinion and you are free to disagree with my methodology.

When I was doing it, I worked in an actual startup and granularity of time allocation was in weeks. This week I was doing the thing, the other I was mostly doing bugfixes/refactorings etc.

You could do more precise and account with hour or minute granularity with tools if you have to
by spauldo | 2025-06-11 08:45:00+00:00
It's really strange, while I agree Google's results aren't as good as they used to be, they're still miles ahead of DDG for me. Is it because I still use keyword search like it's the early 2000s?

I tried to switch to DDG because Google was blocking Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels. DDG is still my homepage but I usually end up clicking the bookmark I made for ipv4.google.com. I wish I knew why DDG works for all you people but it's horrible for me.
by rkomorn | 2025-06-11 08:45:47+00:00
I agree with your characterization of expats as typically being more privileged, and the context you give.

That said, it is expat and emigrant that overlap, not immigrant and expat.

An expat is someone who has left his country, with varying degrees of permanence and volition. Eg: to be exiled is to be expatriated by force.

Absurd example: you could technically be an expat without immigrating (or visiting) any other country if you kept to international waters (or unclaimed space?).

The distinction between "expat" and "immigrant" is made by governments as well. Example: as someone who over time held multiple non-immigrant and dual-purpose visas, became an immigrant (permanent resident), then naturalized, I can tell you "expat" was nowhere to be found on the dozens of INS and USCIS forms I've had to fill out. It was never a status I could apply for or one I was given. On the other hand: the US embassy, and my home country's embassy, do offer me "expat services" where I currently live.