MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by afro88 | 2025-06-11 16:15:06+00:00
Great post, and sums up my recent experience with Cursor. There has been a jump in effectiveness that only happened recently, that is articulated well very late in the post:

> The answer is a critical chunk of the work for making agents useful is in the training process of the underlying models. The LLMs of 2023 could not drive agents, the LLMs of 2025 are optimized for it. Models have to robustly call the tools they are given and make good use of them. We are only now starting to see frontier models that are good at this. And while our goal is to eventually work entirely with open models, the open models are trailing the frontier models in our tool calling evals. We are confident the story will change in six months, but for now, useful repeated tool calling is a new feature for the underlying models.

So yes, a software engineering agent is a simple for-loop. But it can only be a simple for-loop because the models have been trained really well for tool use.

In my experience Gemini Pro 2.5 was the first to show promise here. Claude Sonnet / Opus 4 are both a jump up in quality here though. Very rare that tool use fails, and even rarer that it can't resolve the issue on the next loop.
by wil421 | 2025-06-11 16:15:08+00:00
I think 85% of home sales in the US are single family. So split up 15% between town homes and condos. OP is describing a small part of new properties. I assume you’re talking about condos. What OP is talking about is more of what you describe, students, singles, and new families (with or without kids).

There’s a lot of active adult 55+ and no kid neighborhoods. I wonder how they compare to what OP describes, I’ve never been in one.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-11 16:15:14+00:00
>For the past 20 years, whenever I have a question, I do one thing without a thought.

Valid point. Though personally I've had my duckduckgo, bravesearch, and searxng eras.

Google search is still fundamental to various LLM quality.

When I started using local LLM, the lack of websearch made the LLM hallucinate like mad. Get websearch enabled and you start getting good answers.

looking at my history. i only websearch about ~10 times a day. Far greater LLM requests now.

>I feel like this is a big shift that isn't going away. And now I see Google getting rid of people in search. So is this the beginning of the end? Or will Google just morph into something else.

Obviously Gemini and Gemma are things as well.

I just asked Grok what search engine they use and they said Google but grok doesnt stick to just google.

It's not that search engines will die and disappear, you'll just be interacting with them from a new interface.
by kenrick95 | 2025-06-11 16:15:38+00:00
Yeah this is not that obvious, but the selected 'destination time zone' is the only time zone that one will be working with when planning the activities within the trip. (When inputting/reading the activities' time zone, they are all the destination's time zone)

The only local time zone used is at the comments (but hopefully it is clearer since I show the time zone offset there? I don't show it on the events since I feel it could be way too verbose)

I understand that there could be case where one's trip crosses multiple time zones, but at this moment that wasn't supported yet.
by jraph | 2025-06-11 16:16:20+00:00
I've already seen this.

I'm not convinced. This article focuses on individual use and how inconsequential it is, but it seems like to me it dismisses the training part that it does mention a bit too fast to my taste.

> it’s a one-time cost

No, it's not. AI company constantly train new models and that's where the billions of dollars they get go into. It's only logical: they try to keep improving. What's more, the day you stop training new models, the existing models will "rot": they will keep working, but on old data, they won't be fresh anymore. the training will continue, constantly.

An awful quantity of hardware and resources are being monopolized where they could be allocated to something worthier, or just not allocated at all.

> Individuals using LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini collectively only account for about 3% of AI’s total energy use after amortizing the cost of training.

Yeah, we agree, running queries is comparatively cheap (still 10 times more than a regular search query though, if I'm to believe this article (and I have no reason not to)) after amortizing the cost of training. But there's no after, as we've seen.

As long as these companies are burning billions of dollars, they are burning some correlated amount of CO2.

As an individual, I don't want to signal to these companies, through my use of their LLMs, that they should keep going like this.

And as AI is more and more pervasive, we are going to start relying on it very hard, and we are also going to train models on everything, everywhere (chat messages, (video) calls, etc). The training is far from being a one shot activity and it's only going to keep increasing as long as there are rich believers willing to throw shit-tons of money into this.

Now, assuming these AIs do a good job of providing accurate answers that you don't have to spend more time on proofreading / double checking (which I'm not sure they always do), we are unfortunately not replacing the time we won by nothing. We are still in a growth economy, the time that is freed will be used to produce even more garbage, at an even faster rate.

(I don't like that last argument very much though, I'm not for keeping people busy at inefficient tasks just because, but this unfortunately needs to be taken in account - and that's, as a software developer, a harsh reality that also applies to my day to day job. As a software developer, my job is to essentially automatize tasks for people so they can have more free time because now the computers can do their work a bit more. But as a species, we've not increased our free time. We've just made it more fast-paced and stressful)

The article also mentions that there are other things to look into to improve things related to climate change, but the argument goes both ways: fighting against power hungry LLMs don't prevent you from addressing other causes.
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-06-11 16:16:20+00:00
Just checked on a fresh install of Fedora 42 "custom operating system" install, so pretty minimal. Didn't even check the "standard tools" box or whatever it's called.

Installing 'pass' pulled in: desktop-file-utils emacs-filesystem git-core libpng qrencode qrencode-libs

Plus weak (optional) dependencies: libwayland-client mailcap wl-clipboard xdg-utils

12 packages, 5 MB download, 24 MB installed. Could be worse, could be better.

I was honestly expecting Fedora to have less than that.
by Galanwe | 2025-06-11 16:16:27+00:00
I just spawned a r6a.16xlarge with a 25gbps NIC, created a 10GB file which I uploaded to an S3 bucket in the same region, through a local S3 VPC endpoint.

Downloading that 10GB file to /dev/shm with s5cmd took 24s, all while spawning 20 or so threads which were all idling for IO.

The same test using a Python tool (http://github.com/NewbiZ/s3pd) with the same amount of workers took 10s.

Cranking up the worker count of the latter library until there is no more speedup, I can reach 6s with 80 workers. That is, 10/6 = 1.6GB/s, which seems to confirm my previous comment.

What am I doing wrong ?
by tartoran | 2025-06-11 16:17:01+00:00
It's not just ads but plenty of dark patterns. At some point as a user you no longer have much control and no longer get what you were looking for and decide to leave. But the slow boiling leaves a lot of frogs in the pan, it will probably be a slow decay before death. To me browsing the net is unusable without ad blockers but there are many users out there who don't know what ad blockers are.
by noisy_boy | 2025-06-11 16:17:12+00:00
I want to help small businesses in my area, those who want it, with technology solutions that can improve things (and in-turn learn about the needs of real small businesses). I can pretty much do full-stack (ranging from something basic that improves things for them to something elaborate like backend, UI, AWS, K8S etc). However, I don't have any idea how to identify customers, approach them, price my work fairly, deal with wiring/hardware, deal with the local laws regarding running a non-full-time business etc. I guess what I'm after is that end-of-the-tunnel satisfaction in helping others using technology but a pretty long tunnel is getting in the way :)
by goatlover | 2025-06-11 16:17:51+00:00
The far left are anarchists and communists. They consider the Democratic party part of the capitalist system that needs to be replaced. Democrats are the neoliberal party. Democrats are not trying to get their support. Right-wing media has painted Democrats and progressives as radical far leftists, but it's simply not true. Most of their policies can be seen implemented in Europe.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-11 16:18:02+00:00
The display panels used for AR(and some pre-Oculus VR) displays are completely different thing from normal LCDs. Lots of them used to be a reflective panel made of silicon wafers with RGB front lights flashing in sequence. Driving circuits and interfacing protocols are all non-standard, under NDA, and quite complicated. The panels also needs to be coupled to a complicated optical lens - they're just magnifying glasses, only fancier. The complete thing that has a digital input and an optical output is often referred to as an Optical Engine.

What that means is, these glasses are made by someone paying $$$ once to Asian engineering companies to have it figured out, and everyone reuse that exact setup for years on.

And companies like Sony or Canon, they develop stuffs by scraping engineers off a wall instead of first throwing them at the wall, so every Sony or Canon cameras and projectors come with novel viewfinders and crazy patented lenses. Or panel suppliers like Kopin, Epson, or Sharp can arrange contacts to engineering consultants. I guess. Same likely goes for all the Chinese companies too, though I'm not familiar enough on that front to be able to offer googlable keywords.

Startups and even mid-sized consumer electronics companies don't have that kind of time or financial backings or margins to do the same. They barely manage to pay for assembly and ship it. And so the spec of the final product is whatever spec of parts that they could buy off the shelf.

What about Apple? Well, they pay to have 2 extra display factories built for redundancy by policy - I'm sure that most military organization don't do that. And even then they use a rather simplistic, completely concentric and rotationally symmetric optical design.

(I kind of have a crazy idea to bypass some of that, but unfortunately I'm crazy and so is the idea)
by foxyv | 2025-06-11 16:18:16+00:00
One interesting case of this is Neuro and Vedal on Twitch. People are developing a parasocial relationship with an artificial personality. It's really exciting to see her become more capable as Vedal adds more hardware and software. It reminds me of a really high tech puppet show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-sama
by fidotron | 2025-06-11 16:18:20+00:00
You have to wonder if the model is going to end up recreating Verlet integration in there somewhere, or if it's generating a pile of those optical acceleration cancelation type heuristics in neural net form.

It's one of those ideas I've had around for a while that if you fused decent object tracking with an understanding of Verlet integration you should, in principle, start being able to measure all sorts of physical quantities quite easily.
by exiguus | 2025-06-11 16:18:33+00:00
Currently, I use Joplin, which supports on device encryption and self-hosting. Previously, I relied on tools like git-crypt, TrueCrypt, or LUKS for encryption. However, as far as I know, git-crypt is not secure anymore. And using encrypted containers or file systems has the drawback of being difficult to share once they exceed a certain size.
by jeffwask | 2025-06-11 16:18:37+00:00
This is effectively the same story for their last three games: Andromeda, Anthem, and Veilguard. Constant design changes, cannibalizing teams from other games to try and make dates, inconsistent support from EA, abandonment of core fans to chase new revenue models, going way outside their core competencies, internal political infighting between game teams... It's been this way there for a decade and it's no surprise they can't make a good game anymore.

I'm pretty sure Jason has an article on Anthem that could almost be a search and replace of this article.

Bioware was never the same after the Doctors left and it will never be what it once was again.
by gassi | 2025-06-11 16:18:46+00:00
I've been working on integrating RomM into Lutris (https://lutris.net/) for a while, but it's not ready yet since I haven't had time to finish it. Not as a plugin but directly in the main Lutris repo: https://github.com/gantoine/lutris/tree/romm-game-service

It would allow you to store your games on the server, sync the list in Lutris, and install them when you want to play them. I'd like to get a working POC to demo to the Lutris team soon-ish. Oh and if anyone sees this and would like to help get us there, contributions are always welcome!
by abeppu | 2025-06-11 16:19:24+00:00
After Musk's purchase of twitter, I recall Musk making claims that there was a lot of bot traffic, and the numbers that had been used for valuation purposes were inflated. Even if companies weren't afraid of their brand being tainted by being shown alongside distasteful or offensive content, or by being on the platform of a highly divisive political figure who seems to create daily PR crises, isn't there still a basic question of "how many of the impressions that we buy are shown to actual humans?"
by looshch | 2025-06-11 16:19:43+00:00
> Companies spend their money on all kinds of things that are apart from their core offering [...] I don't think I could buy anything from anyone if I needed to go line by line through their accounts to make sure I approved of everything

you are dead right, but spending nearly a third of the total revenue sounds like a waste for me. They aren’t an established company, they are still very small in terms of users. I would be way happier seeing them re-investing in growth. If they would signal somewhere at any point they want to keep being small, i would totally get their move with the t-shirts. Since they haven’t mentioned it even once to my best knowledge, i assume they are taking the traditional path which is growth

> You didn't want them doing AI but you're not opposed to it. [...] But you don't need to pay for the level that includes that so once again I'm puzzled as to what your point is

i pay for the pro version which has CLI support, it’s crucial for me and lets me to almost never leave my natural habitat, terminal. Also it has bigger context windows, bigger token limits, better everything, which i don’t believe i can achieve with Kagi’s subscription. I’m strong proponent of the Unix philosophy: each thing should do only one thing and do it well. To me AI, just like t-shirts, is an unaffordable luxury which a company like Kagi at the moment absolutely shouldn’t even look at. You may argue that in the modern world AI seems like a next logical evolutional step of search engines — but to me is trying to be a jack of all trades, master of few. I paid for the product for 2 years, i expected different things. Give me bigger limits of include/exclude website lists in lenses, maintain your own blacklist of garbage websites like pinterest (you can even use AI for this), create a public collection of easily discoverable lenses, give better local searches like the ones google provide. I didn’t get any of that, and then i received an email about my t-shirt being ready to be shipped — and shipping wasn’t free by the way, which was confusing to me personally after so much noise about free t-shirts. That subtle detail, still paid shipping, was another putting off factor, which seemed like a dark marketing pattern

> I'm absolutely sure this isn't what you meant

sorry, i didn’t get that, can you please explain what you are sure about that i didn’t mean something?
by ccvannorman | 2025-06-11 16:20:02+00:00
using my default browser (brave) and pressing "enter" (doing a search) did not do anything. The page just sits there.

apparently, I need to make a selection of a search engine to use this.

I would not use this as a replacement for my duckduckgo or google searches simply because of the UX of not being able to type a query and press "enter" as the default.
by jimnotgym | 2025-06-11 16:20:46+00:00
I used to be a carpenter and joiner. I once had a batch that was badly kiln dried. We called it 'case hardening', I guess it was done too fast. If you planed a flat face on it and it instantly warped again!

If you sawed it, it would either pinch or spring apart. I made the sales rep come and see it.
by jedimastert | 2025-06-11 16:20:50+00:00
> knowing which days someone is bleeding one doesn't seem to be useful in attacking someone unless you believe it makes them a weaker target or something.

I have other things to say here but immediately this is a wildly gross and sexist way to phrase this.

> The others aren't about safety

> risks to job prospects, workplace monitoring, health insurance discrimination

A threat to livelihood and proper health care is a threat to safety, and the fact that you don't recognize that should hopefully trigger some amount of self-reflection.

Beyond that the fact that you can't make the really simple connection between knowing someone's menstrual cycle and knowing their pregnancy status means I deeply hope you take some time to self-reflect and maybe consider that you don't quite have the tools to engage in a nuance conversation about this and should instead take some time to listen to others
by Nopoint2 | 2025-06-11 16:21:20+00:00
This is misleading. A rise or fall in one kind disease doesn't mean anything out of context. Most people die of something so a fall in one disease may just as well mean that people die from something else instead. In this case, the drop in cancer seems to be the inverse of the rise in "neuropsychiatric conditions and drug use disorders". You can't die of cancer, when you are already dead from fentanyl overdose.

I'm sorry.
by yencabulator | 2025-06-11 16:21:33+00:00
Early Linux was a university student having fun in his apartment learning 386 assembly, and everything onward from there was earned by merit (it just was that good). This is boasting to be "modern computing reimagined", "the future of computing", "revolutionary operating system", "designed to power the next generation of modern computing", "redefining what an operating system can achieve". Burden of proof is on a slightly different level.
by titusjohnson | 2025-06-11 16:21:36+00:00
> Because even with hygiene products, people buy them before they need them and stock up.

One would think so, but in my experience this is not the case on average. Of the half-dozen long term relationships I've had, only 1 partner was ever prepared for the monthly inevitable. For everyone else it was always treated as a surprise. Suggesting to my current partner that she stock up on the products she just used was dismissed with an "oh I don't need that stuff for weeks".

The trope of guys not wanting to go get tampons, or uncomfortably navigating the feminine hygiene isle, did not just appear out of nowhere.
Show HN: I built a tool to use my homelab apps remotely without a full VPN
by Madh93 | 2025-06-11 16:22:39+00:00
Hi HN, I'd like to share a small Go utility I wrote called prxy.

The idea was born out of my frustration with accessing my self-hosted services when I'm on the go. I use WireGuard to connect to my homelab, but I really dislike sending all my computer's traffic through my home network — it slows things down and is inconvenient.

I wanted proper application-level split-tunneling. A tool I love, wireproxy, got me most of the way there by creating an HTTP proxy from a WireGuard peer. This is perfect for apps that let you configure a proxy.

The problem was the other 10%: apps that don't. Think of browser extensions or simple clients that just have a single URL field.

That's why I created prxy. It's a dead-simple local reverse proxy that forwards traffic to another outbound proxy (like wireproxy). The key feature is that it automatically rewrites the Host header, so the request reaches the correct backend service in my homelab, even behind another reverse proxy.

For example, to get a browser extension working with my self-hosted Karakeep instance, I just run:

``` prxy --target https://karakeep.my-homelab.tld \ --proxy http://127.0.0.1:25345 \ --port 12345 ```

By setting the extension's URL to http://localhost:12345, it just works as if I were on my local network.

Hopefully, this can be useful to others in the community.
by jraph | 2025-06-11 16:23:00+00:00
> optimizing monstrously slow processes that cost weeks of human labour by automating them, that saves a ton of energy as well

Yes, I do agree with this. However, that's only good as long as there wasn't a better way of optimizing them. Assuming we'd not be better off getting rid of those costly process altogether.

> ideally they spend it on more productive things

Same gotcha as mentioned in my other comment: "productive" in our growth economy often means "damaging to the environment", because we are collectively spending a lot of our time producing garbage and that's not something we should really optimize. Most of us work a fixed amount of hours so it's not like we are doing ourselves any favor by optimizing time in the end.

In another system, I wouldn't say. I'm generally for freeing up time for us so we can have better lives.
by rustcleaner | 2025-06-11 16:23:06+00:00
I have a solution: search engine which uses machine learning to score the "commercialness" of a page. By commercialness, I mean: is it a table of products with prices; does it have buy buttons; does it use a lot of tracking and analytics; does it have a cart; is there a lot of product talk (and is it overbiased positively); how are all the pages within a couple link-degrees scoring; ... (and more). Then, give users a slider which right side means no filtering, left side means basically only return universities, Wikipedia, and PBS tier results.

This has to track number of ads and trackers in a page and not just be about product pages. This measure should also fight SEO spam, as the tracking and advertising elements would cause SEO spammers to lose rank on the engine (disincentivising an arms race).

Add in the patently obvious need for the poweruser's 2nd search bar, which takes set notation statements and at least one of a few popular powerful regex languages, and finally add cookie stored, user-suppliable domain blacklists and whitelists (which can be downloaded as a .txt and reuploaded later on a new browser profile if needed). I never ever want to see Experts Exchange for any reason in my results, as an immediately grasped example. Give the users more control, quit automagicking everything behind a conversationally universal idiot-bar!
by noisy_boy | 2025-06-11 16:23:15+00:00
> But my wife and I are going to start living in Costa Rica during the winter and I want to actually learn it to embrace being thier.

Tangential thing: years ago, a guy in a hedge fund I was working at left this very high-paying job and lifted and shifted his family to Costa Rica. He shared that his motivation was being able to spend more time with his kids (which is a absolutely fantastic goal). I think I have heard a few more examples of this and your comment is an addition. What is it about Costa Rica? I can obviously google the pros and cons of Costa Rica from a blog or whatever, but I want to directly hear from someone who presumably has been on the ground and shares the HN mindset, whatever that might be.