MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MrDarcy | 2025-06-02 23:25:33+00:00
Three weeks ago I did basically the same thing as the author of the Cloudflare story, but I did it with my own open source tool. I went into the experiment treating Claude Code as a junior engineer and guiding it on a feature I wanted implemented.

In a single Saturday the LLM delivered the feature to my spec, passing my initial test cases, adding more tests, etc…

I went to bed that night feeling viscerally in my bones I was pairing with and guiding a senior engineer not a junior. The feature was delivered in one day and would have taken me a week to do myself.

I think stories like the Cloudflare story are happening all over right now. Staff level engineers are testing hypotheses and being surprised at the results.

Oauth 2.0 doesn’t really matter. If you can guide the model and clearly express requirements, boundaries, and context, then it’s likely to be very useful and valuable in its current form.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-02 23:25:36+00:00
Finally, a proper good take from someone (seemingly) approaching it rationally and objectively, rather than blindly sitting on either side of the hype fence. LLMs are good tools, and even I, a decidedly-not-software-engineer, have been increasingly tinkering with locally-run tools to create applications and tooling that meets my own needs. The one thing that’s held me back from publishing has been the IPR angle, but I quite like this line on that topic:

> But if you’re a software developer playing this card? Cut me a little slack as I ask you to shove this concern up your ass. No profession has demonstrated more contempt for intellectual property.

The OP isn’t wrong. Some of the most brilliant minds in computer science have built tools to shatter DRM, enable widespread piracy, and repeatedly lift code wholesale from public repos if it helps them move a product forward. The modern crop of technologists (myself included) have long had a hypocritical view on IPR: “rights for me, not for thee” to oversimplify things. The entirety of the modern public cloud is built by trodding on the backs of open source projects while wearing lawn-aerating spikes. We steal shit from others so our Founders and Masters can reap billions in profit; to decry plagiarism now feels incredibly dishonest and insincere, at the very least.

Look, I’m an AI skeptic myself. On the whole, these tools are bad. They’re taking jobs, polluting the planet, and dumbing down a society that still can’t try rebooting something when it fails, let alone identify where their WiFi ends and the internet begins. They’re toxic walled gardens that can reauthor reality to the whims of the VCs and Billionaires funding them, locking you into subscriptions forever.

But even I will admit that modern LLMs, when it comes to writing code, are actually really good for the majority of C-tier devs and below. Are they as helpful to bleeding-edge engineers on the cusp of the future? Nah, not really, but if you’re just writing a checklist app for iOS to help you stay on task, or a Packer manifest to lay out some VM templates, they’re kinda awesome.
by xp84 | 2025-06-02 23:26:05+00:00
You have to keep in mind that you'd have to build out actual fulfillment capabilities on a brand new platform (so you need training of a ton of staff on a new system, as well as a bunch of new equipment to print orders from the "temporary" systems in the warehouses/stores hopefully without removing the original systems they're trying to restore), plus who knows what the database backups looked like. Plus inventory is going to be all screwy with sales happening to some degree in stores (what POS is that using? Is it decrementing inventory we can use?) I'd sure not bet my reputation on having a shoppable site up in less than several weeks without knowing if I have at minimum, reasonably accurate catalog and inventory data.
by noobermin | 2025-06-02 23:26:25+00:00
Tbf the dismissal of the IP argument is a bit disappointing. Just because you don't respect IP doesn't mean we all do. Some of the code I'm proudest of I'm considering never open sourcing now because I simply don't trust online repositories anymore. Granted I'm in a bit of a different field than most developers but still, open source as a concept seems less attractive in the wake of tools that scrape it and copy it automatically without attribution. Count me out from ever sharing my code ever again.

I used to believe in the stereotypical copyleft anti IP ethos. In the modern day of corporate LLMs and disrespectful scraping, the lay of the ground is different and people understandably should be less inclined to open source their code.
by wldfngrs | 2025-06-02 23:26:56+00:00
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by NotAnOtter | 2025-06-02 23:27:44+00:00
I disagree that they are so different you can't compare them.

Imagine a senior IC staffed with 4 juniors, and they spend 2 hours with each every day. Then the junior is left with 6 hours to think through what they were taught/told. This is very similar to LLM development except instead of context switching 3 times each day, the senior can skip over the 6 hours of independent time the junior required to absorb the changes. But it still takes the same amount of time to deliver the 4 separate projects.

I find the existence of LLM development deeply troubling for a long list of reasons. But refuting the claim that an LLM is similar in many ways to a junior dev is unsubstantiated

>It also is completely useless to perform many tasks that a Junior developer can.

And there are many things one junior could be helpful with that a different junior would be useless at.
by snickerbockers | 2025-06-02 23:27:52+00:00
>People complain about LLM-generated code being “probabilistic”. No it isn’t. It’s code. It’s not Yacc output. It’s knowable

okay wtf is this weird jab at yacc supposed to be? I generally prefer to write my own LR parsers because it's really not that difficult but I never felt like yacc code was difficult to read or not "probabilistic".

AFAIK most serious compilers don't use yacc either because they need to be able to parse context-dependent grammars, and also reinventing wheels is often worth the effort when the wheel is 50 years old and forces you to make compromises because it also has to support use-cases you are not interested in. But again, it's not bad, it does the thing it is designed to do and it does save a lot of effort if you're fine dealing with its limitations.

Only serious complaint I have about Yacc is that the basic posix form has frustrating limitations such as not being able to have two separate yacc instances because they'll declare the same symbols, and I'm fairly certain it's not thread-safe either. Bison fixes some of these while still remaining "probabilistic".

Anyways I'd rather use Yacc+Lex (preferably Bison+flex) to generate my parser than have to go read everything your "agent" wrote with a fine-toothed comb to make sure it didn't introduce any crippling memory corruptions or dangerous ROPportunities.
by timsuchanek | 2025-06-02 23:27:54+00:00
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by mmooss | 2025-06-02 23:28:04+00:00
> B2 is much easier to intercept than ballistic missile. Also B2 has order of magnitude higher sticker price than ballistic missile. Good for bombing mujahedeen in the mountains and bad against someone with SAM.

Where do people get these things? The B2 is awful for bombing low-tech insurgent forces - far too expensive to operate. Its whole purpose is defeating SAMs in particular and the best defenses in the world.
by thebosz | 2025-06-02 23:29:31+00:00
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by thebosz | 2025-06-02 23:30:08+00:00
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by bigbuppo | 2025-06-02 23:30:43+00:00
Ah yes, because it was garbage six months ago, all that was thrown away and now they latched on to the "agentic" thing. At best this is pre-alpha-quality software not fit for production use. After all, it has been less than six months. Next it's going to be the post-agentic world, and then all the companies are going to go bankrupt once the bills are actually due. Any company that pivoted to video, err, AI is also going to go bankrupt, while everyone they laid off is going to build the next big thing and they'll live the heads of the AI charlatans on pikes outside of town to warn off any AI stragglers.
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by sbarre | 2025-06-02 23:31:17+00:00
It depends?

There's certainly a lot of code that needs to be written in companies that is simple and straightforward and where LLMs are absolutely capable of generating code as good as your average junior/intermediate developer would have written.

And of course there are higher complexity tasks where the LLM will completely face plant.

So the smart company chooses carefully where to apply the LLM and possibly does get 5x more code that is "better" in the sense that there's 5x more straightforward tickets closed/shipped, which is better than if they had less tickets closed/shipped.
by energywut | 2025-06-02 23:31:21+00:00
Interesting to see. There's been some other efforts in this space, from blood products derived to chemically derived (e.g. perflurocarbons, which carry many multiples of what hemoglobin can carry, oxygen-wise).

There's definitely a need for a safe, shelf stable blood substitute.

Though, I'd argue that this isn't artificial blood, it's artificially replacing only the oxygen carrying role of blood -- there's nothing in this product that is producing clotting, fighting disease, managing hormones, fueling cells, etc. Still, excited to see this progress, transfusions are still a risky bet, and having something that can provide at least the O2 capacity in a safer package is very welcome.
by mike_d | 2025-06-02 23:32:21+00:00
> I’d be really frustrated if my device was compromised by an esoteric audio format that I had no intention of ever listening to.

Users get even more frustrated when they want to play something and it does not work. Security is always a usability trade-off.

There is also an argument to be made that it is better for Apple to introduce a few bugs adding support for viewing/playing/etc random things than end users googling "how to play X" and downloading whatever app appears first in the results.

Remember the good 'ol days when everyone had Adobe Acrobat installed so they could open PDFs and it had a new 0day every month? Then one day Chrome added PDF.js and exploitation in the wild dropped off as people stopped downloading shitware to fill out rental applications.
by xp84 | 2025-06-02 23:32:51+00:00
To be clear, I definitely agree that retailers on the scale of Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Macy's, etc. (probably M&S then? I don't know Britain well) probably have the budget and justification to in-house the ecom website if they have the appetite for it, and indeed, given how unique their needs are are relative to the median site served by the likes of Shopify or even the average customer of the "enterprise" platforms like ATG... they're likely to be able to see a positive ROI on it, unless they screw it up big time.
by tedious-coder | 2025-06-02 23:33:01+00:00
I do fall into this category of people that are seen as heavily abusing copium. I can admit that when I do get unsatisfactory results from a prompt session, a lot of it has to do with the mental friction I feel at the idea of letting something else write my code.

It again is coming back to my opinion the LLMs have recreated the job in such a way that it emphasizes what I disliked most, and de-emphasizing what I liked. It emphasizes "the goal" and de-emphasizes "the process". We had a period in the 10's where the process (namely, becoming adept at using and learning an ever-changing set of open source tools) was a bit more celebrated. You could justify a lunch-and-learn on things like man pages, commit isolation levels, or package manager - and doing something like that would be seen in a positive light. And now, why would you waste everyone's time talking about something that ChatGPT can figure out for you?

Anyway, thanks for your time in your response.
by Ygg2 | 2025-06-02 23:33:21+00:00
Yeah, I get it now. HIP converts CUDA code to HIP code, then converts that code to ROCm (AMD) or PTX(nVidia). Zluda converts CUDA code to PTX, but that CUDA license was changed during 2021 to prevent these kinds of efforts.

This is why AMD dropped all involvements with Zluda (they were contributing code to it).
by skeptrune | 2025-06-02 23:34:20+00:00
> I think this is going to get clearer over the next year. The cool kid haughtiness about “stochastic parrots” and “vibe coding” can’t survive much more contact with reality. I’m snarking about these people, but I meant what I said: they’re smarter than me. And when they get over this affectation, they’re going to make coding agents profoundly more effective than they are today.

Yes, yes, and yes. SOOOO much yes. We are going to be in for a wild ride once everyone gets on board with the reality of coding agents.
by sbarre | 2025-06-02 23:34:20+00:00
The CEO of Anthropic is the least reasonable person in this discussion.

Surely you can see how insanely biased all of their statements would be. They are literally selling the shovels in this gold rush.

Anything they say will be in service of promoting AI, even the bad/cautionary stuff because they know there's an audience who will take it the other way (or will choose to jump in to not be left behind), and also news is news, it keeps people talking about AI.
by thombles | 2025-06-02 23:34:32+00:00
Hmm a bit of a tone shift from: https://fly.io/docs/about/open-source/

> Fly.io builds on the work of a tremendous open source infrastructure community. We want open source authors to benefit from their work because we think a healthy, thriving open source ecosystem will help us build better products.

To the fine article:

> Meanwhile, software developers spot code fragments seemingly lifted from public repositories on Github and lose their shit. What about the licensing? If you’re a lawyer, I defer. But if you’re a software developer playing this card? Cut me a little slack as I ask you to shove this concern up your ass.
by runarberg | 2025-06-02 23:35:35+00:00
a) If “everyone is using it”, show me the numbers. Doing a developer survey to see how many are using it is not hard. Ask a random sample of developers if they ⅰ use LLMs to aid their standard coding or ⅱ completely replace their coding with LLM output.

b) Even if “everyone is using it” it doesn’t mean it is useful. The usage could be adequately explained by e.g. marketing, being forced on them by management/policy, etc. Not everything with high usage is useful. I can e.g. quickly think of chewing gum (which is also used by a lot of developers), or the ANSI standard keyboard (as opposed to the ISO standard keyboard).
by TZubiri | 2025-06-02 23:35:55+00:00
Interesting, I can already type at 110wpm with 100% accuracy (after some warm up, getting used to the system, confessedly)

I would warn against overoptimizing for rote copying though. It's like making benchmarks and optimizing a language for a Hello World or echo test program.

I found an option that starts prompting whole books, which might be a fun way to read a book or at least add some additional cognitive load.

I originally though the article would be about literally writing. Waking up and writing 5 minutes before going on the day? Writing and downloading your brain into paper instead of scrolling to cleanse your brain? Sounds amazing!
by gosub100 | 2025-06-02 23:36:33+00:00
that's a good fantasy. but here's how I think it would play-out in reality:

* your new window was $1800, so even with treble damages, it's still under $10k, which means it is a small claims issue.

* sue AMZN (or some subcontractor/"third party") in small claims, they don't show up. you get a default judgement

* good luck collecting. the moment you do, they start denying it on technical grounds. Oh you were a prime member in 2018, remember when you agreed to settle all disputes in mediation? well, we remember.

* Go to mediation, they find that your neighbor is culpable for the accident, rules 100% against you. Or better yet, they refuse to engage with you because your neighbor won't agree to be bound by the arbitration.
by Gelob | 2025-06-02 23:38:13+00:00
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by LeoPanthera | 2025-06-02 23:39:14+00:00
The article isn't about the US.

However, even the US, that isn't entirely true.

United States v. Causby (1946) sets the precedent that property owners own the airspace above their property to (at least) 83 feet.

The FAA has exclusive sovereignty over "navigable airspace", which is considered a public highway. This navigable airspace generally begins at 500 feet above the surface in uncongested areas and 1000 feet above the highest obstacle in congested areas. Aircraft flying within this navigable airspace are generally not considered to be trespassing.

There is a "gray area" between the immediate airspace controlled by the landowner and the federally controlled navigable airspace. While the FAA asserts its authority to regulate all airspace, including this lower stratum, the exact delineation of private airspace rights within this zone, particularly concerning new technologies like drones, is not clear.
by derefr | 2025-06-02 23:39:41+00:00
Apparently their first target is soon-to-expire donor blood erythrocytes — which makes this essentially a (pretty major) scalability improvement in how far existing donor blood goes.

However, that being said: hemoglobin’s just a protein. Recombinant hemoglobin isn’t overly challenging to produce — we do it already. (Currently mostly animal hemoglobin, for vegan meat — but it’s no different to produce human hemoglobin.) We don’t bother with synthesizing human hemoglobin because there’s (until now) no way to go from having a protein to having useful cells serving an erythrocytic function. This research changes that — and so will strongly motivate demand for such production. I would bet money that, 5–10 years out, you’ll be able to buy bags — even drums — of recombinant human hemoglobin from any biopharma supplier.
by NotAnOtter | 2025-06-02 23:39:57+00:00
I stick with the dog walker analogy. A man walks down the street at a steady pace, and the dog on the leash runs back and forth and side ways and sits and jumps.

The man is the economy, the dog is the market. Unless you have access to HFT systems & models, there is no point in trying to guess where the dog will go. You have to look at the man, which is the aggregate health of the economy. If I start to see the man walk backwards, I sell, and vis versa. But *mostly*, I just stick things in ETF's and don't worry about it unless I need the money in the near future.
by strken | 2025-06-02 23:40:10+00:00
My friends at companies where AI tools are either mandated or heavily encouraged report that they're seeing a significant rise in low-quality PRs that need to be carefully read and rejected.

A big part of my skepticism is this offloading of responsibility: you can use an AI tool to write large quantities of shitty code and make yourself look superficially productive at the cost of the reviewer. I don't want to review 13 PRs, all of which are secretly AI but pretend to be junior dev output, none of which solve any of the most pressing business problems because they're just pointless noise from the bowels of our backlog, and have that be my day's work.

Such gatekeeping is a distraction from my actual job, which is to turn vague problem descriptions into an actionable spec by wrangling with the business and doing research, and then fix them. The wrangling sees a 0% boost from AI, the research is only sped up slightly, and yeah, maybe the "fixing problems" part of the job will be faster! That's only a fraction of the average day for me, though. If an LLM makes the code I need to review worse, or if it makes people spend time on the kind of busywork that ended up 500 items down in our backlog instead of looking for more impactful tasks, then it's a net negative.

I think what you're missing is the risk, real or imagined, of AI generating 5x more code changes that have overall negative business value. Code's a liability. Changes to it are a risk.