MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by creesch | 2025-06-05 14:22:41+00:00
We must be moving in different circles as I am not seeing the same. Even if I went along with that reasoning it ignores the lack of highly visible work on projects that would want to advertise the effectiveness of their own tooling.

As I already said, I see a distinct lack of such labeled activity on open source ai code tools.

You'd think that those projects creating agentic tooling would want to show how effective they are. In fact, I would expect the people behind such projects to be all over threads like this pointing to tangible PRs, commits and other tasks these agents can apparently do so well.

Yet, all I am getting as pushback is vague handwaving "trust me, I am seeing it" claims. Even the blog post itself is nothing but that.
by NoPicklez | 2025-06-05 14:24:08+00:00
Sorry but its clear you aren't thinking logically.

The changes in the new 2024 version, specifically changed the suspension setup and you can mechanically verify the difference between the models because there were mechanical changes.

You need to drop the FSD rhetoric, there are an enormous amount of Tesla drivers who couldn't care about FSD, but simply enjoying the car as an EV.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-06-05 14:24:22+00:00
I don't think so. The article says the race track was controlled by the race organisers but not that it wasn't known to the participants before the race.

Anyway given the state of the art, flying autonomously at great speeds and beating human champions without pre-training, i.e. on an unknown race track, would be a much bigger breakthrough than just beating some human champions (which has already happened except in a less official environment). You can rest assured that if that was what the team achieved, the article would be telling us all about it.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-06-05 14:24:29+00:00
Christ, I handled these as a kid quite a bit. Add that to the list of reasons I will wonder how I survived past age 10.

I used to keep native snakes and lizards (and inadvertently breed them!), and couldn’t keep newts because I wasn’t sophisticated enough to create the right environments for them. This is one species I kept (and killed, unfortunately). I’ve learned to do it far better since then, but haven’t tried keeping newts again. They’re beautiful little creatures.
Ask HN: Is there a name for this kind of developer?
by dakiol | 2025-06-05 14:24:56+00:00
So, I'm not sure what kind of developer I am. I would say that the following is what defines me:

- I read tons of technical books and manuals. I don't remember all the details of course, but if at work some problem seems related to a given algorithm/situation that I have read in a book, then I know where to find more answers. I have read pretty much all the "books every software engineer should read" and more esoteric ones

- very good Google search skills (now in the AI era, I use LLM as tools just the same way. For me LLMs are just a simpler way to Google things). So, if I need to solve a given problem, I know how to search for previous solutions. This in combination with all the tech books I have read, allows me pretty much to come up with a world-class solution to most of the problems.

- I'm not good at coming up with a solution fast and just by myself (no books, no Google search). I just struggle. I know how to think algorithmically and architecturally, but for implementing a solution I need to rely on external sources. Also, I think better by not being in front of the computer; I either write things down on a piece of paper or I go for a walk or a run to think through the problem

- On the other hand, I can debug code very fast with no external sources needed, just the debugger. Of course, if the compiler/interpreter is throwing at me a very specific error message, I will Google it

- I don't consider myself to have a lot of "raw" intelligence. But in most software engineer jobs one needs to come up with robust solutions, not new solutions. I know how to build robust solutions (because I have seen them before, or I can find them)

I imagine companies are most interested in hiring intelligent people rather than people who are good "searchers" (for a lack of a better word).

And because I'm good at searching, I know how to pass tech interviews (most of the time I know what they will ask, so I can find the solution and improve it). I don't pass interviews because of some clever insight that came to me right away. One problem I see is that more companies are moving towards a "live" coding interview, and of course they don't let you Google anything. I struggle with such interviews.
by jonchurch_ | 2025-06-05 14:25:12+00:00
I agree that it is not a robust safety net. But in the instance you’re citing, thats a misconfigured server.

What framework allows you to setup a misconfigured parser out of the box?

I dont mean that as a challenge, but as a server framework maintainer Im genuinely curious. In express we would definitely allow people to opt into this, but you have to explicitly make the choice to go and configure body-parser.json to accept all content types via a noop function for type checking.

Meaning, its hard to get into this state!

Edit to add: there are myriad ways to misconfigure a webserver to make it insecure without realizing. But IMO that is the point of using a server framework! To make it less likely devs will footgun via sane defaults that prevent these scenarios unless someone really wants to make a different choice.
by Tteriffic | 2025-06-05 14:25:14+00:00
Times is taking a risk. The costs of all this will fall on them, if they don’t get the judgement they sought at the end of the day. Plus OpenAI controls those costs and could drive them up. Plus any future litigation by OpenAI users suffering damages due to this could arguably be brought against Time years forward. It’s an odd strategy on their part for evidence that could have just been adduced by a statistician (maybe).
by JohnFen | 2025-06-05 14:25:21+00:00
Even in the US, there are large regional differences. In my part of the US, people use their turns signals probably 80-90% of the time, but I've been in several parts of the US where they don't.

OTOH, there are other bad driving habits that more common where I am than in many other places, such as running red lights.
by devinprater | 2025-06-05 14:25:31+00:00
This will be pretty nice for accessibility too. Hopefully this leads to Markdown everywhere in the OS, and that follower-OS' add it too. For accessibility, it's great because I can have my screen reader announce punctuation, so it reads star star this star star, instead of no indication of italics at all. Granted, that could always be made better, using speech parameters like pitch and speed to indicate formatting, but that's not found a good home outside of Emacspeak.
by marcosdumay | 2025-06-05 14:26:27+00:00
So, the observability community is finally so full of ungrounded astronauts that "log" isn't the place you go to look for errors anymore and it's so full of noise that if you push the errors there, you will lose them.

Well, they've going that way for ages. But officially entering the stage where it's better to always ignore whatever they have to say is an important landmark anyway.
by ryanblakeley | 2025-06-05 14:26:29+00:00
I once took a group of young people foraging for mushrooms in the Willamette valley on a farm that had loads of these newts. I warned every body not to touch them.

After preparing dinner, one girl got very ill, as did I, while other people who ate the dinner were fine. I was so worried I'd mis-identified some mushrooms.

But turns out she had handled one of these newts and the bacteria had transferred to the mushrooms she picked. I contacted it from washing the mushrooms. I threw up several times that night.

In hindsight, had we not washed the mushrooms as thoroughly as we did, things could have gone much worse.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-05 14:27:08+00:00
"Roads were not built for LIDAR" is a strange take. LIDAR detects range between the sensor and some object. Do that in a scanning approach and you have an idea of whether there are objects in front of you, the distance to them, and their rough shape. None of that functionality depends on how a road is manufactured, it's physics.

The $30k figure you're giving for Waymo's LIDAR cost is quite old. As often happens, a new technology got cheaper over time.

"But LIDARS that are $5,000 today are forecast to be under $200 when bought by the millions, meaning the bill-of-materials for the extra hardware should drop below $2,000, and even $1,000, in time."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2024/08/20/waymos...
by martin_a | 2025-06-05 14:27:10+00:00
Fire departments and police in Germany are deploying more and more drone units, too.

Firefighters use them to search for missing persons but also to get aerial images and a better overview of larger scenes as "running around" is often not possible or doesn't help that much with the overview.

Police is using them to take pictures of accidents. It's easier to see tire marks and the whole "history" of an accident from above. Really reduces their time on a scenery to take pictures of everything.
by mohammed_ryg | 2025-06-05 14:29:56+00:00
Hey HN — I just launched the MVP of RateYourGov.us, a nonpartisan platform where verified users can rate elected officials based on real performance data, not just opinions.

The idea: Every student gets graded. Every employee gets reviewed. Why not elected leaders?

I built this to empower citizens with structured performance criteria and citizen reviews and encourage accountability between elections. You can see grades for Presidents, Governors, Senators, and Reps — with categories like jobs & economy, fiscal stability, legislative impact, and public feedback.

It’s still early (but live right now), but feedback is welcome! Appreciate your thoughts and critique.

https://rateyourgov.us
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-05 14:30:17+00:00
Ohh, your Example Documentation was sooo close to being RFC-compliant! Except for those unnecessary abbreviations of CIDR notation, and...

You can use 203.0.113.0/24 in your examples because it is specifically reserved for this purpose by IETF/IANA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses#IPv4
by jmyeet | 2025-06-05 14:30:52+00:00
But they aren't. What Tesla has going for them primarily is the Supercharger network.

The Cybertruck is a complete disaster of a vehicle with so many issues (eg [1]) that the only reason people buy them is to make a political statement from a group that 3+ years ago wouldn't have been caught buying an EV.

Teslas are drivable iPads. Many people (myself included) not only hate this (because it's hard to use without looking) but it's also lazy design. By this I mean, it allows manufacturers to say "we'll fix it with a software update" (and then probably never get around to it) whereas haptic controls require more thought and effort to be put into the UI/UX during manufacturing.

For other Teslas, there have been a host of other issues, some small, some not. For example, the seats were unreliable if adjusted too often so Tesla made an OTA update to limit how much you can adjust the seats to avoid failure [2].

The only thing propping up Tesla sales now are trade restrictions on BYD.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/cybertruck-recall-tesla-elon-musk...

[2]: https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-now-monitors-how-ofte...
by ashleynewman | 2025-06-05 14:30:57+00:00
Lots of comments here are so unrelated to the release, just people complaining about how they don’t like cursor because it’s a fork of VSCode…

I’m particularly interested in the release of BugBot. The docs mention it looks at diffs but I hope it’s also scanning through the repository and utilizing full context. Requesting copilot to do a review does the same thing but because it’s only looking at diffs the feedback it provides is pretty useless, mainly just things that a linter could catch.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-05 14:31:05+00:00
This "dangerous surveillance bill" simply protects people who are using tracking pixels (commonly used for serving targeted ads) from frivolous lawsuits.

Of course, the EFF doesn't actually tell you what the bill SAYS here, it instead breathlessly, dramatically, announces "SB 690 gives the green-light to dystopian big tech surveillance practices which will endanger the privacy and safety of all Californians".

The fact that EFF has to obfuscate the content of the bill this much says a lot.
by Nasrudith | 2025-06-05 14:33:19+00:00
I've heard that argument long ago pushed by totally-not-oil-industry-marketers. If I recall correctly math worked out as 'pays for itself in three to five years'. If you are of the practice of getting a new car every two years it wouldn't help, but if you are doing so already just keeping your cars until they die/it becomes more expensive to repair would be the easy environmental improvement that would also save money.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-05 14:33:37+00:00
I am pretty that sure HN automatically reads the canonical tag on a page, and changes the link to that. In this case, that was:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://sodern.com/fr/astradia-le-viseur-detoiles-diurne-pour-un-systeme-de-navigation-sur-et-robuste/" />

It should be noted that the submitter has a couple minutes after posting to change the link and title back to what they want via [edit].
by jf22 | 2025-06-05 14:33:44+00:00
> The time you save when vibe coding is offset almost 1:1 by the time you need to verify the AI’s output

I haven't experienced this at all, especially when you can ask the AI to generate unit tests based off of specs.

I'm manually testing AI output twice as much as if I wrote the code myself, but I'm generating code 10x faster so I'm still gaining massive amounts of productivity.
by bmacho | 2025-06-05 14:34:34+00:00
One of the very few security inspired restrictions I can wholeheartedly agree with. I don't want random websites be able to read my localhost. I hope it gets accepted and implemented sooner than later.

OTOH it would be cool if random websites were able to open up and use ports on my computer's network, or even on my LAN, when granted permission of course. Browser-based file- and media sharing between my devices, or games if multi-person.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-05 14:35:10+00:00
Old data? As in November 2023 --- roughly 17 months ago?

Has there been any really significant improvements to "Full Self Driving" since then.

Nope. Still classified as Level 2 ADAS (advanced driver assistance system) per the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. FYI, under this internationally recognized rating system, "Full Self Driving" would be Level 5 --- not Level 2.

Lots of companies currently offer Level 2 automation --- Hyundai for example. Most of them are not bold enough to put passengers in a Level 2 vehicle without a driver.

Injury lawyers must be so happy over this they are about to pee their pants.
by itishappy | 2025-06-05 14:36:19+00:00
> Very small files and a much simpler rendering scheme!

For a 400x400 SVG with 6 surfaces and 64 subdivisions your file size is only 10x smaller than an uncompressed bitmap. Your SVG should scale linearly with number of objects and be constant with resolution, while an image would scale with the resolution (quite favorably if compressed) and be constant with the number of objects. I'd be interested to know the size of the example at the top of the article.

Also you already have the math to transform points!

> I don’t have to rasterize my SVGs the represent the top of my board.

Ahhhhhh. This clears it all up!
by tomhow | 2025-06-05 14:36:37+00:00
Nationalistic attacks are against the guidelines, no matter which countries they're against, and we have a long history of pulling up such comments, against many different countries [1].

We've particularly stood up against attacks on China, as we think it's important that HN visitors of Chinese heritage don't feel alienated by attacks on their country. But we want the same for everyone on HN as we have visitors from everywhere in the world and want all to feel welcome.

It's fine to critique the actions of governments where it's on-topic and within the guidelines. Your comment was an inflammatory comment that was largely unrelated to the parent, so it's clearly against the guidelines.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by nonethewiser | 2025-06-05 14:36:57+00:00
I cannot understand how Apple notes works sometimes.

For instance, sometimes after indenting a line I cannot un-indent on future lines. Just fighting the tool.

Stuff like this really makes me dislike it. I find syntax highlighting with markdown preferable than a WYSIWYG rich text editor. I get why people who don't know markdown prefer it, but the advantages diminish significantly if you know markdown.
by DonHopkins | 2025-06-05 14:36:58+00:00
Unix time is explicitly anti-Christian!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon

>The copyright on the official BSD Daemon images is owned by Marshall Kirk McKusick, a very early BSD developer who worked with Bill Joy. McKusick has freely licensed the mascot for individual "personal use within the bounds of good taste (an example of bad taste was a picture of the BSD Daemon blowtorching a Solaris logo)."[ Any use requires both a copyright notice and attribution.

Blowtorching a Solaris logo sounds like it's in good taste to me! Just not blowing it without a torch.
by triceratops | 2025-06-05 14:38:00+00:00
> While ignoring that all vehicles, electrical or not have been trending heavier for their size over time anyway

Yeah this is what bothers me about all the EV haters.

"But but what about the tire dust"

"But but what about the battery fires"

blah blah. It's like a pathological hatred of anything anyone else might do that you think maybe makes them "better" than you in some way.
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-05 14:38:12+00:00
The Ford F Series is the bestselling vehicle in the US (and has been for 4 decades). The F150 is taller and longer than a Cybertruck and only slightly less wide. The F250 is bigger in every aspect, including being up to three and a half feet longer, over a foot wider, and almost a foot taller.
by laserlight | 2025-06-05 14:39:28+00:00
> I've had Cursor Pro for something like 3 years

How do you own Cursor for 3 years, when even ChatGPT is not that old? The earliest Cursor submission to HN was on October 15, 2023 --- not even 2 years old [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888477
by dotdi | 2025-06-05 14:39:33+00:00
When Gruber mentions that he never uses Markdown outside of his blog, and hinting at the fact that it was not intended for text editors (and other apps), there's one important point I want to make.

Yes, Markdown has disadvantages, and a few rough edges for uses as the format for editors et al, but there are two very big advantages and/or sideffects of it's widespread use: (1) it's cleartext and therefore very good as a measure against vendor lock-in and (2) it has, to some extent, dampened the rampant "not-invented-here"-esqe tendency to use proprietary formats. Even in open-source apps, proprietary formats make it hard for non-dev users to get their stuff out. If it's markdown (or at least supports markdown export) from the beginning, at least you know you can take your data with you.
by xp84 | 2025-06-05 14:41:10+00:00
It wouldn’t be important in this scenario, because what your own IP address is doesn’t matter (and most of us are sitting behind a NAT router too, after all).

It would block a site from scanning your other 10.x peers on the same network segment, thinking they’re “on your LAN” but that’s not a problem in my humble opinion.
by dakiol | 2025-06-05 14:41:27+00:00
I understand that. But one can have good problem solving skills by using tools (like books, search engines, etc.) right? I find it unrealistic to test for problem solving skills using "just" one's brain.

One's brain (my brain actually) is quite slow, doesn't have memorized tons of things (it has only pointers to actual sources of knowledge, like books/manuals/open source projects/etc.), so yeah, I'm a bit like a tortoise if you leave me alone with my brain only. But I can be Achilles if you let me use books and a search engine, if you let me read manuals, etc. I understand as well that all of this is not feasiable in just 1h of interview, so yeah, that's life.
by Eextra953 | 2025-06-05 14:41:59+00:00
Cool product! I come from a measurement/calibration background, so I'm curious about the accuracy of your system. Have you tested this against lab equipment, or do you have plans to specify accuracy with proper tolerance intervals?

What about measurement uncertainty and unit-to-unit variability? I know this is consumer hardware, so I dont expect a full blown evaluation but have you characterized expected performance?
Show HN: MCP Playground for Remote MCP Servers
by themcpguy | 2025-06-05 14:42:15+00:00
I built an MCP playground that lets you connect to and test remote Mcps without any local setup.

The Problem: Most MCP implementations require local installation and configuration. If you want to test someone else's MCP server or explore what's possible, you need to clone repos, install dependencies, configure auth, etc. It's friction that kills exploration.

What I built: A web-based playground where you can:

Connect to any remote MCP server via URL AI Chat with Dual Provider Support Claude Integration: Full support for Anthropic's Claude models Gemini Integration: Complete support for Google's Gemini models Custom System Prompts: Define unique personalities and behaviors. Gemini TTS support – hear responses read aloud with Google's text-to-speech

Production-Ready Authentication:

Open Servers: Public, no-authentication endpoints Bearer Token Auth: Secure API key/bearer token authentication OAuth 2.0 Flow: Full OAuth support for enterprise MCP servers

Capability Discovery: Instant visibility into Tools, Prompts, and Resources per server

Tool Restriction: Granular control over which tools AI can access All Tools Mode: AI can use any available tool Selected Tools Mode: Restrict AI to specific tools only No Tools Mode: Pure text-based AI responses

Still in beta – there are rough edges and I'm actively iterating based on feedback.

The playground is live at : https://mcpsplayground.com/chat
Show HN: LLM Context Buffet
by wewtyflakes | 2025-06-05 14:42:44+00:00
Show HN: LLM Context Buffet

https://www.donobu.com/context-buffet

Drag-and-drop a folder; it spits out a single, LLM-friendly text block. We use Context Buffet at Donobu when a chat needs context that is larger than a snippet but smaller than the whole repo. No download or login needed; everything stays in your browser.

What it does:

- Filters out files using sensible defaults (node_modules, binaries, lock-files, etc. are skipped).

- Parses and applies each discovered .gitignore.

- Lets you tweak ignore patterns, file delimiters, etc; configuration is stored locally as JSON.

Known limitations:

- Huge directory trees (>10K files) will feel slow; JS and the File API can only do so much when working within the constraints of a browser.

- I struggled with the generic file/directory picker. I can make the picker work with files or directories, but not both, so I defaulted to having it work for directories. Though if you use drag-and-drop rather than the picker, it works for everything.

- The parsing and applying of '.gitignore' discovered files is best-effort. This actually turned out to be quite hard; there are copious edge cases and I am reasonably certain that someone will discover a bug like "My .gitignore in a nested directory of another directory of which was .gitignored was not processed when I use an emoji in a filter pattern". We try our best, but my god, what an unexpected can of worms this ended up being.

Feedback welcome.