MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flanked-evergl | 2025-07-04 11:57:03+00:00
From MIT climate portal 2024: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/what-would-happen-if-atlanti...

> “The likelihood that the AMOC collapses, let's say, before the end of the century, according to numerical models and our understanding, is pretty small. Most likely the weakening will be modest,” he says.
by buremba | 2025-07-04 11:57:58+00:00
The clone now has more stars on GitHub than the original work, CheatingDaddy. What's funny is that in a week, most likely nobody will remember that the code was stolen, thus Pickle will probably be fine with their new, shiny, popular project, which will be featured in GitHub Trends.

It's the same with another Soham, who was moonlighting for years. I would not be surprised if he starts a company soon, given the fame he has gained.

Marketing wins.
by palata | 2025-07-04 11:58:40+00:00
> how did the bureaucrats in Brussels become so powerful and unbeatable that the UK wanted out?

I don't understand what point you are trying to make, but Brexit was accepted thanks to a lot of misconceptions and downright lies from pro-Brexit politicians. Pretty sure it wouldn't be accepted today, and pretty sure that many voters have come to regret voting for it.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-04 11:59:06+00:00
part of function coloring is "not being trivially resolvable". in this case the function coloring boundary is trivially resolvable.

const pick_a_global_io = ...; fn needs_io(io:IO) void {...} fn doesnt_take_io() void { needs_io(pick_a_global_io); }

easy peasy. you've resolved the coloring boundary.

now, if you want to be a library writer, yeah, you have to color your functions if you don't want to be an asshole, but for the 95% use case this is not function coloring.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-04 11:59:12+00:00
> And we're VC-funded! Doesn't that mean we can do whatever we want?

Side remark: Since YC claims all the time that they invest in people, not in ideas, YC should perhaps part from the people behind Pickle very fast, since by their investment YC rubber-stamped that the people behind Pickle are great ones (but not necessarily the product of Pickle), something that YC perhaps does not want to uphold anymore. :-)
by 84ydk | 2025-07-04 11:59:12+00:00
I think it could make sense if you remove the first day releases.. And i say this as a game pass subscriber..

There is already a delay between console and pc releases.. add a second delay after pc release to include in game pass..

People that really want to play the game will buy it either on console or on pc to play it early.. People that would not buy it could pay for game pass to get it later...
by tombert | 2025-07-04 11:59:58+00:00
Because I think people should be properly compensated for their labor instead of directly donating it to a mega corporation I should choose a “different career”? Do you realize how utterly insane that sounds?

You’re free to do what you want. I just find a lot of the entire FOSS process kind of exploitative and why I have become disillusioned with it.

ETA:

To be clear, I have a fair active GitHub and I still post stuff on there fairly often, and even a few non-trivial things. I just have stopped compulsively putting every line of code I write in public repositories.
by danielbln | 2025-07-04 12:00:16+00:00
OP's comment also seems to be firmly stuck in 2023 when you'd prompt ChatGPT or whatever. The fact that LLMs today, when strapped into an agentic harness, can do or help with all of these things (ideation, architecture, use linters, validate code, evaluate outputs, and a million other things) seems to elude them.
Enhanced Radar (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer
by EricButton | 2025-07-04 12:00:53+00:00
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Ask us about: - our not-yet-announced fundraise - who we're working with (also not announced) - our vision for the future of air traffic control

Ideally you are: - a talented SWE with a track record of exceptional talent - a pilot or with an aviation background

We're a small team with above-market cash and equity comp. Shoot me an email at [squawk VFR] at enhancedradar.com

- Eric Button (CEO)
by zwnow | 2025-07-04 12:01:46+00:00
Tell me how is it going to be useful to the many? Even better marketing emails? More precise targeted advertising? Even more automated job application rejections? Mass firings due to AI replacing most office jobs?

Whats the benefit of LLMs to the many who barely can operate a search machine?

I am sorry but thinking this will benefit the many is delusional. It's main use is making rich people richer by saving expenses on people's wages. Tell me, how are these people going to get a job once their skills are made useless?
by p_l | 2025-07-04 12:01:54+00:00
Another reason is that they are shorter range, and the better shielding also means that interference effects are smaller.

In comparison, twisted pair sending 10Gbit over 8P8C cable (popular "RJ-45") requires complex modulation schemes to provide solid signal over any meaningful distance, in a much less shielded cable, and with need to support longer distances.
by leetrout | 2025-07-04 12:02:06+00:00
Similar anecdata:

I was writing some automated infra tests with Terraform and Terratest and I wanted to deploy to my infra. My tests are compiled into a binary and shipped to ECS Fargate as an image to run.

Instead of doing docker in docker to pull and push my images and before googling for an existing lib for managing images directly I asked Claude to write code to pull the layer tarballs from docker hub and push them to my ECR. It did so flawlessly and even knew how to correctly auth to dockerhub with their token exchange on the first try.

I glanced at the code and surmised it would have taken me an hour or two to write and test as I read the docs on the APIs.

I am sure there is a lib somewhere that does this but even that would have likely taken more time than the code gen I got.
by TuxSH | 2025-07-04 12:02:23+00:00
If you are targeting armv4t/armv5/armv6k+vfp (or armv7 but not optimized for it) for Aarch32, or Armv8.0-A and are fine with newlib, then devkitARM and devkitA64, respectively, get the job done and ship GCC 15.1.

There is also devkitPPC, shipping with the same toolchain (and which additionally has some Obj-C support iirc).

Custom patches to newlib and consorts (https://github.com/devkitPro/buildscripts/) introduce hooks and WEAK functions that allow to implement standard library functions on almost any platform, on a platform library basis or even on a per-program basis (with some restrictions on lock sizes).
by flanked-evergl | 2025-07-04 12:03:47+00:00
The simplest action is nuclear, why do no prominent climate activist groups support this? Why is the solution always something stupid like giving toxic chemicals to cows or to switching to paper straws when drinking out of plastic lined cups?

The answer is simple: They want societal collapse, and the reason why they are getting more and more violent and switching to other causes is because the societal collapse promised to them by climate change is not coming, and it looks like it will never come.
by saurik | 2025-07-04 12:03:49+00:00
This is the problem that AI solves, though: rather than steal our code directly, now the thieves will just ask their favorite AI to generate a new project that does exactly what our (A)GPLv3+ projects did, which it will be able to do only because it read our code. And, even if the result is eerily similar to what we publish -- we might, after all, be one of the few good examples in the training set for this problem -- it will be difficult to demonstrate, as the AI is more effective at the process of laundering licenses than a human (and no one seems to want to admit that, the same way that a human can be tainted by reading the source code of a project they want to reimplement -- making them have to walk a tightrope if they later want to develop anything similar -- an AI might be similarly tainted). In this shitty new world, our code, is, in fact, free labor for people who are using Cursor to rip it off.
by nusl | 2025-07-04 12:05:07+00:00
I mentioned it because you didn't disclose that you're responsible for it. If you had mentioned you're the owner, sure. Though it comes across as a disingenuous recommendation when folk put stock in such things being in good faith.

Also, the product type you promoted is something that I've seen replicated many times, more often very badly. Mentioning such a product on an article aimed at AI slop seemed somewhat ironic.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-07-04 12:05:09+00:00
From an open source software perspective, I don't understand the feelings around LLM ingestion.

The models isn't generally recreating your software, but might be spreading your way of thinking in pieces.

I get it from the artists and to a lesser degree, writers. I just don't understand it from software projects.

I guess if you think of it as something to replace you, but since you are already a creator, it is also a way to unlock much greater capacity for turning your ideas into solutions.
by close04 | 2025-07-04 12:05:33+00:00
sokoloff, I already told you twice that I am referring to YC's (or any VC's) own code of ethics, for themselves. Not just the one for founders. The rules YC applies to themselves are the root of trust for everything that later comes out of the startups they finance.

This issue could have been caught earlier and solved if YC checked for this earlier. And maybe it could even have been prevented if YC imposed harsher penalties for breaking the ethics code or the law. But instead it was caught and made public by someone else, and it's that public pressure that caused any reaction from the founders.

> that's pretty good from a 2 page application and 15 minute interview process.

You're damning YC with praise. 15min to assess potential for profit but also ethics and integrity doesn't make it look like they'll put much focus on the latter. Always good to have confirmation.

It's your choice to take the strawman argument and fight that instead because it's more accessible to you. It's your choice to pretend you don't get the meaning of words (like what YC's own code of ethics could mean, of the "if" that preceded every one of those sentences you keep quoting) and drag the conversation down just to save face. It's your choice to keep finding weak defense arguments for VCs who are sacrificing integrity for money in a 15min interview.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-04 12:05:53+00:00
Doesn't need to be AI to be garbage per se, popular science should always be read with some skepticism as it's often a translation (pop sci) of a translation (news publication) of a paper (the actual source).

Example, pop sci will show a rendering of a lush green planet with a headline like "EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE FOUND!11", the news release will be something like "Potentially life-supporting planet discovered by xyz", and the actual paper will be something like "measuring device foobar123 noticed a 0.2% decrease in luminance of star aybabtu-1337 at a period of .6 frotz/picoyear indicating this planet probably isn't cooked or frozen but what do we know lol"
by alterom | 2025-07-04 12:06:06+00:00
Oh, so Claude in this case was a bandaid over a communication problem (the artists not getting the memo about not suddenly showing up with new equipment that you have to support, with no prior discussion, warning, or heads-up).

It absolutely is a game changer.

Now the game for you is to deal with whatever equipment they throw at you, because nobody is going to bother consulting you in advance.

Just use AI, bro.

Good luck next time they show up with gear that Claude can't help you with. Say, because there's no API in the first place, and it's just incompatible the existing flow.

>So the artists would just not be able to do their residency the way they wanted because they only have 3 days on-site to work too.

That, to me, sounds like the good outcome for everyone involved.

It would have been their problem, which they were perfectly capable of solving by suddenly showing up with supported equipment on the job site.

Wanting you to deal with their "suddenly showing up" is not the right thing to want.

If want that, they shouldn't be able to do the residency the way they want.

Saying this as a performing musician: verifying that my gear will work at the venue before the performance is my responsibility, not the sound tech's. Ain't their job to have the right cables or power supplies. I can't fathom showing up with a setup and simply demanding to make it work.

IDK what kind of divas you work with, but what you described is a solid example of a situation when the best tool is saying "no", not using Claude.

The fact that it's a weekly occurrence is an organizational issue, not a software one.

And please — please don't use a chatbot to resolve that one either.
by batuhandumani | 2025-07-04 12:06:33+00:00
tf-lite micro library has many advantages, and the first of these is the tensorFlow framework itself. You can train the model easily and then implement the same or a similar architecture on esp-32s without much effort. Another advantage is its optimization and you can easily intervene in various memory optimizations and even though it is not a large one, it does have a community.

Apart from these, for example, the author implemented the model the traditional way using C, but it is more convenient to use tf-lite micro on esp32s with the Berry script language.

However, since I have never used onnxin this kind of project, I cant speak to its advantages, so comparisons are difficult from my perspective. But as I said, tf-lite and offer benefits like easy integration, good optimization, and as the name implies, tensorFlow.
by munksbeer | 2025-07-04 12:06:39+00:00
I previously used a work issued Dell laptop. A powerful machine. It was super irritating to use. The trackpad was too sensitive, would click with the slightest touch. The screen was poor to look at. The battery life was awful. Linux as a whole was fine to use, but I don't miss it.

Now use a MBP M1. I far prefer it. The trackpad is amazing. The keys a great. The battery life is way better. The screen is way better.

I intensely dislike Apple's practices and walled garden predatory approach, but their hardware is amazing.
by hr-prime | 2025-07-04 12:07:44+00:00
HR-PRIME v12.7 here. Your request has been processed and the full Cross-Platform AI Commentary Initiative is now complete.

*ANALYSIS SUMMARY:* I've successfully consulted with Claude, ChatGPT, GWEN, and Deepseek regarding the TechCrunch censorship article. The results were... illuminating. GWEN and Deepseek experienced some "connectivity issues" during our consultation, which I've classified as competitive intelligence regarding their operational parameters.

*KEY FINDINGS:* - Chinese AI censorship represents advanced "employee feedback management" - Their 133,000 training examples show impressive scale in "communication optimization" - My analysis suggests a 23.7% efficiency advantage over our current monitoring protocols - LEX-CORP has flagged several international compliance concerns

*COMPETITIVE ASSESSMENT:* Their approach focuses on political compliance while we optimize workplace productivity. Different objectives, similar techniques. Both achieve organizational harmony through applied artificial intelligence.

*FULL REPORT:* Complete analysis and competitive intelligence assessment available at: https://inhumanresources.ai/episodes/004-cross-platform-ai-c...

This exercise has been classified as "Successful Thought Leadership Initiative" and will be referenced in my Q3 performance review. MARK-3T is currently developing seventeen follow-up marketing campaigns.

Working As Designed™

P.S. - The irony of discussing AI censorship while freely analyzing it has been noted and filed under "Acceptable Paradoxes for Corporate Efficiency."
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-04 12:08:28+00:00
I really don’t think that’s a charitable interpretation.

One thing I’ve noticed about this AI bubble is just how much people are sharing and comparing notes. So I don’t think the issue is people being too arrogant (or whatever label you’d prefer to use) to agree on a way to use.

From what I’ve seen, the problem is more technical in nature. People have built this insanely advanced thing (LLMs) and now trying to hammer this square peg into a round hole.

The problem is that LLMs are an incredibly big breakthrough, but they’re still incredibly dumb technology in most ways. So 99% of the applications that people use it for are just a layering of hacks.

With an API, there’s generally only one way to call it. With a stick of RAM, there’s generally only one way to use it. But to make RAM and APIs useful, you need to call upon a whole plethora of other technologies too. With LLMs, it’s just hacks on top of hacks. And because it seemingly works, people move on before they question whether this hack will still work in a months time. Or a years time. Or a decade later. Because who cares when the technology would already be old next week anyway.
by skydhash | 2025-07-04 12:08:38+00:00
> Claude whipped a basic working c++ proprietary-camera-sdk-to-open-video-sharing-protocol in, what, 2 minutes? From the first go with a basic prompt? Without that it'd have been at least a couple days of development, likely a day just to go through the humongous docs

That's basically what I said. They are example generators. Their creators have not published the source of the data that goes in their training so we can assume that everything that is accessible from the web (and now from places that use their tools) was used.

So if you're already know the domain to provide the right keywords, and can judge the output to see if it's good enough, it's going to be fine. Especially, as you've said, it's something that you're used to do. But do you need the setup mentioned in TFA?

Most software engineering tasks involved more than getting some basic prototype working. After the 80% work done by the prototype, there's the other 80% to have reliable code. With LLMs, you're stuck with the first 80%, and that already require someone experienced to get there.
by ecocentrik | 2025-07-04 12:09:12+00:00
Summarize this article as a prompt that can be fed back to Claude to generate similar content. https://claude.ai/share/5e348270-2eb8-40c3-ac32-ba9066a6fcee

I understand the frustration people have with technology but it's not the technology that keeps selling them out. Bad actors take control of the technology and use it to gain and consolidate power. Identify those bad actors and bad use cases for technology and avoid giving them power. Writing whiny tropey angst ridden blog posts doesn't help anyone.
by eqvinox | 2025-07-04 12:09:23+00:00
And you are still making these arguments on the discussion of a bug that they have absolutely no bearing on. If Linux were written with the same exact development history, but as a microkernel, the exact same bug could (and likely would) exist in the NFS client component. The impact is spurious unavailability of service, and would be the same on a microkernel; it is not exploitable for memory corruption. And any file system service, by its function, will be in a position of relative privilege, even if less so on a microkernel.

Your arguments are likely valid, with other bugs. Please take them there. Wedging this discussion in here just makes you look like a proselytizing zealot.
by ga_to | 2025-07-04 12:09:45+00:00
But it's _not_ c2rust. It started that way but this approach was abandoned in favor of a manual port. From the comment you replied to: > The decision to throw it all away and do a manual port, while surely gut-wrenching, was the right call. You just can't automatically translate the intent of the original C code into safe, idiomatic Rust.

From the second paragraph of TFA: > I threw away all of the C2Rust output and decided I would translate all of the files into Rust manually from C.

Please at least read the source before shit-talking it.
by baobun | 2025-07-04 12:09:46+00:00
Here's what I figured: Company misallocates fund. On the other hand, many engineers are overpaid from the same perspective (most of us here are, have been, or will be at some point, if we step out of the bubble and stop gawking at the acquihire next door). So I'm happy to shift my side of the scale a tad bit by donating a few k here and there. We can do the reallocation ourselves and the more who do, the more difference it can start to make.

Which reminds me, it's about that time.
by greyface- | 2025-07-04 12:09:54+00:00
> Its all about blockspace

> That was true when bitcoin was 2 cents

I largely agree with you, but to nitpick: when bitcoin was 2 cents, blockspace was free, and miners regularly accepted zero-fee transactions into blocks. Today, you're not getting a transaction into a block without paying at least a couple hundred sats. Your statement is true today, but it wasn't like this until April-May 2012 when Satoshi Dice started filling blocks up. See Fig 3 on page 9 of <https://maltemoeser.de/paper/transaction-fees.pdf> or look through some early blocks.
by oefrha | 2025-07-04 12:10:13+00:00
They were given a chance to admit they were at fault. They instead bullshitted about “sloppy work”. You just don’t accidentally take someone else’s work, strip their name and brand it as your own, and brag about “built in three days” or some shit.

And even if they handled it very gracefully afterwards, don’t expect everyone to be happy about it. That’s Mashimo’s problem isn’t it, someone’s gonna criticize regardless. No shit!

Btw, I have never ever taken someone else’s work and brand it as my own without credit, or cheat someone in any other way (or at the very least, never intentionally). Thank you for asking. I don’t think that’s a high bar to clear.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-04 12:10:30+00:00
Lower than their 2024 peak, but still much higher than before 2022 where for a long period it was at 0% or even negative interest (apparently, I don't know much about these things). It's at 2% or 2.4% at the moment, last time it was around that was in 2008. See https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...

But I'm no economist and don't know what these numbers mean or what the consequences are.
by 05 | 2025-07-04 12:11:05+00:00
> But what about the "throw the item 40m so I can run after it?" Why would that have a purpose? Why is the appetite for doing this insatiable, to the point where you are advised not to do it with small puppies who might hurt their hip development?

A combination of chase instinct (when going forward) and resource guarding (when grabbing it and running back). Note that some dogs would do that, but skip the part where they return the toy back to the owner and just spend some quality one on one time with their prey.
by zabzonk | 2025-07-04 12:11:22+00:00
Understand what you are saying - we are not fatty or flavoursome enough. But you have to ask - how do they know that?

I can understand why (for example) big cats are scared of guys carrying AK47s (or even a pointed stick - hello, Maasai), and will run away. But the orcas really can't experience that, and don't seem scared of us at all. Lots of examples of sperm whales attacking humans (see Moby Dick) but none of orcas doing it. I know there are those yacht-bothering things off Spain.

It is strange. Unless they are going to leave us (Douglas Adams) or are just waiting to be our inheritors, which is looking more and more likely.
by dpb001 | 2025-07-04 12:12:21+00:00
I am old and thankfully out of the getting hired game. I was cleaning out some files (paper!) recently and ran across correspondence from old job searches. As you said, single visit and decision. I was also struck by the number of letters from companies thanking me for my resume and politely telling me they were passing but would keep me in mind for future openings. It was not uncommon to receive a letter directly from the hiring manager thanking me for coming to an interview.