MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by herval | 2025-07-13 18:32:47+00:00
My personal experience: I shipped multiple features at work in the past 6 months that I simply wouldn’t have tried shipping otherwise, since my day job is mostly management. AI wrote maybe 80% of the code, I spent a bit of time rewriting some parts. No major bugs so far (ironically, the one big bug the team had to revert was done entirely by me)

I can guarantee I wouldn’t have shipped ANY of it, since it’d require focus blocks I simply don’t have on the job.

I’m also about to ship a Mac app that’s heavily vibecoded. I wouldn’t even try without AI, since I’m not a Swift developer.

Those aren’t “illusions” of performance. I imagine it’s hard to gauge every single scenario, and sensationalist takes like this research elicit an emotional response on the anti-AI crowd, but denying the impact is simply ignorance at this point…
by efitz | 2025-07-13 18:33:37+00:00
A lot of people worry about a Terminator style AI apocalypse. I don’t.

I worry that we’ve already created the AI apocalypse and that this is what it looks like, along with extremist magnification on social media.

I trust AI to be what is is- essentially a lot of math that classisfies and predicts stuff, usually words, that the prediction can be used generatively, and the classification stuff can be used to identify stuff in various media.

What I don’t trust is that people will use it responsibly. Hell, I don’t, when I’m vibe coding, but that’s on me.

People are venal and self absorbed and busy and lazy and all the other traits that lead to not using AI responsibly. And businesses are amoral (not immoral) and want the shortest path to revenue, with the least friction.

So of course police officers who want to be on patrol and did not sign up to spend countless hours on reports, are going to let the AI write it and call it good without proofreading.

We could pass a lot of laws trying to specify products that force police to act reliably, or we could maybe just pass a law that says that AI cannot be used to write police reports, but that clearly labeled AI generated transcriptions and summaries may be attached unedited to police reports, if and only if the original recordings are also preserved as evidence.

And police departments that keep body camera and car camera footage might be ease up on the report writing and only require officers to annotate it with their impressions, but otherwise let the record speak for itself.
by Sophira | 2025-07-13 18:34:37+00:00
I would imagine that this serves the same purpose as the way that early home consoles would check the inserted cartridge to see that it had a specific copyright message in it, because then you can't reproduce that message without violating the copyright.

In this case, you would need to reproduce a message that explicitly states that it's Google's copyright, and that you don't have the right to copy it ("All rights reserved."). Doing that might then give Google the legal evidence it needs to sue you.

In other words, a legal deterrence rather than a technical one.
by ANewFormation | 2025-07-13 18:35:08+00:00
I also think more accurate. The opening sentence of Neuromancer is one of the most beautifully perfect metaphors I've ever read - one that's also chock full of symbolism. It may be the single best line of writing I've ever read.

By contrast I think Stephenson's popularity is largely just a condemnation of modern sci-fi, to say nothing of cyberpunk. It's certainly not bad, but it's equally certainly not particularly exceptional either, except for the fact that his peers are mostly even less remarkable.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-13 18:35:57+00:00
Wow, seeing this headline honestly makes me so excited for what we're working on.

It proves what we knew. There's a market for our stealth project; Hiring gig workers to be the physical stand-ins for your AI friend or partner is a viable business model. We’re genuinely excited to address a real challenge so many people face. The loneliness epidemic is a growing issue, and we think our approach could make a difference. Can’t wait until we can finally share what we've been building!
by ATiredGoat | 2025-07-13 18:36:05+00:00
Most software has a lifecycle: design, build, ship, iterate, abandon. But what happens when you never stop building?

In the early 90s, I began a text adventure game in QBasic, just for fun. Over the years, I never let it go. I kept expanding, refining, rebuilding parts, and writing more. It grew with me. Thirty years later, The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge has over 2,400 rooms, and that number keeps growing, alongside custom mechanics, deep lore, and all the hallmarks of something built without deadlines, monetization plans, or modern conventions.

Here's what I've learned:

Focus beats trends. While the industry chased graphics and fads, I focused on story. Limitations are blessings. QBasic forced me to write better, think deeper, and code smarter. Legacy takes time. You don't need to “move fast and break things” to matter. You can move slowly and build something timeless.

The game is free, and always will be. You can try it here:

https://thelabyrinthoftimesedge.com

Most software has a lifecycle: design, build, ship, iterate, abandon. But what happens when you never stop building?

In the early 90s, I began a text adventure game in QBasic, just for fun. Over the years, I never let it go. I kept expanding, refining, rebuilding parts, and writing more. It grew with me. Thirty years later, The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge has over 2,400 rooms, and that number keeps growing, alongside custom mechanics, deep lore, and all the hallmarks of something built without deadlines, monetization plans, or modern conventions.

Here's what I've learned:

Focus beats trends. While the industry chased graphics and fads, I focused on story. Limitations are blessings. QBasic forced me to write better, think deeper, and code smarter. Legacy takes time. You don't need to “move fast and break things” to matter. You can move slowly and build something timeless.

The game is free, and always will be. You can try it here:

I don't know how many people will care. But I believe there's value in finishing what you start, and in building things that last. AMA about QBasic, text games, solo dev philosophy, or stubbornness as a creative strategy.
by visarga | 2025-07-13 18:36:31+00:00
This works great for software, math and games where you can have cheap validation. But what about messy real world tasks? I think hindsight learning from chat logs could fit the bill. What do I mean?

Imagine a long conversation. It is hard to judge if an AI response was useful or not immediately, but if you know the following 20 messages, it might be easy to infer. Not only you can see how it went, but sometimes you get real world validation.

For example a user comes to a LLM with a task, takes an idea, tries it in reality. Later they return, maybe in a new chat session, and continue iterating. You get real world testing of LLM responses through people.

This can be used to generate "preference scores", and train a preference model, with which you can do RLHF. So the user privacy is protected.

I call this the human-AI experience flywheel. Of course the larger the user base, the more experience the model collects. At the moment OpenAI has 500M users, they probably generate 0.5T interactive tokens/day. Those tokens go both into human brains and LLM logs.

It’s not about environment engineering anymore, it's about consequence harvesting. Meaningful validation emerges from systems actually being used by humans for real purposes.
by merman | 2025-07-13 18:36:31+00:00
You are exactly right that the underlying premise is a dislike of Musk, who has famously made mistakes, I too am critical of all of the things you listed.

So, if a very contentious personality is involved, is there any purpose or value in pointing out seriously flawed assumptions/POV/rationale?

Another example is the excessive divisiveness in politics, what would make discussions around those topics better? In my opinion, it would be better to rein in serious factual errors, even if the errors skew towards "my side"
by aksss | 2025-07-13 18:36:51+00:00
TBF, the author’s point, more accurately, seems to be that the average user doesn’t care about the benefits of TPM enough to junk an otherwise performant PC, a practice which Microsoft’s hardware requirements promote. Nor, obviously, is the average user going to care enough to learn about enabling a vTPM in the bios, etc.

If the observation is that this spurred a waste of consumer resources for an edge-case threat scenario, I’d probably concur. It arguably would have been better to not make it a hard requirement.

However, as other comment states, there is an enormous segment of the purchasing population with incredibly deep pockets in aggregate that absolutely does care about TPM. Further, there’s probably no way MS could ensure universal OEM cooperation without “normalizing” the expectation of inclusion with the hard requirement. Sorry, consumer, it’s how the platform evolves.
by bobalob | 2025-07-13 18:37:04+00:00
It does involve hormones as part of the mechanism but puberty is primarily about the maturation of the reproductive system, and how this is experienced depends on one's sex.

To take female puberty as an example, this is the growth and development of the uterus, ovaries, labia and breasts to reach their mature form and function. Most importantly, the menstrual cycle begins, making pregnancy possible.

If a boy has testosterone blocked and is given estrogen instead, he doesn't experience any of this, except perhaps some breast tissue growth and redistribution of fat. His penis and testicles will not develop further and he will probably remain sterile.

However, he doesn't have a female reproductive system, so this is not more similar to female puberty. What he's experiencing is stunted male development, a pharmaceutically-induced eunuch state.

There is no option for him to go through female puberty rather than male puberty, because he lacks the type of reproductive system that would make this possible. As female puberty is not an experience available to him, it makes no sense to describe male puberty as being the "wrong puberty" for him.

Likewise for girls and the impossibility of experiencing male puberty.
by kirici | 2025-07-13 18:37:26+00:00
>With Go's multiple return values to represent errors, they are also known to be too easy to "forget" to even look at the error value.

How? Unassigned

foo := myFunc() # [...] assignment mismatch: 1 variable but myFunc returns 2 values

Assigned, but not used

foo, bar := myFunc() fmt.Println(foo) # [...] declared and not used: bar

Intentionally ignored

foo, _ := myFunc()

Ignoring is a deliberate decision and trivial to review, lint and grep for.

Except for, I suppose, shadowing a variable before checking it

foo, bar := myFunc() _, bar = myFunc() fmt.Println(foo, bar)

Which is more of a general grievance of quite some people, but I don't think that has much to do with multiple returns - and you definitely have to look at the error to pave over it afterwards.

edit: https://goplay.tools/snippet/E69xFuIcG7I
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-07-13 18:38:15+00:00
> I dont want to live in a technocratic police state

Unfortunately the police state mentality is spreading.

The attacks on encryption and the "need" to crackdown on terrorism and CP gives wet dreams to a lot of government officials who won't be satisfied until there is a camera in every home and your phone snooping on you 24/7 and reporting back to the cops all your crimes alleged or otherwise.

No government is immune. France, Australia, the UK, The EU, they are all coming for our privacy and freedom of speech and they will get them sooner or later.

They say history does not repeat but it often rhymes. I think a lot of people have forgotten/never experienced what it's like to live in a police state and the 2030s may just bring back these memories for some and potentially introduce these concepts to a new generation entirely.
by collingreen | 2025-07-13 18:38:16+00:00
It was 2 min of hate ;) and this clearly isn't the same as trying to rile people up; it's a thin attempt to get people to self report if they are lying with some sort of higher level "gotcha".

Feels like the story about disconnecting Chinese gamers from matches automatically by typing "tiananmen square" or the story of the Battle of Siffin with one side putting pages of the quoran on their spears in hopes the enemy wouldn't fight that way. Unclear how accurate the stories are or how effective it may have been but kind of interesting at least.
by killjoywashere | 2025-07-13 18:38:34+00:00
I happen to have a stereo microscope at my desk, so I put my Pixel 9 under there. At 100x mag (10x ocular x 10x objective) it looks like there are 3 layers: as I move my head around slightly (so the image is moving over my retinas), the blue moves faster and the red almost stays still, with green somewhere in the middle.
by CPLX | 2025-07-13 18:39:18+00:00
Yeah that’s the libertarian techno utopian Silicon Valley point of view. It’s not that I don’t understand it, it’s that I think it’s pretty clear at this point it’s just a PR pitch for a group of sociopathic assholes who think they deserve to run the country.

Giving unlimited porn to kids is not “good, actually” and it was illegal before the internet and it’s a frustrating accident of history that nobody understood the implications of Section 230 at the time.

The internet is a core infrastructure commercial enterprise and what it produces should be subject to standard product regulations.
by OptionOfT | 2025-07-13 18:39:24+00:00
In general I'm a huge favor of using the type system to its fullest extend to protect you from messing up. If the compiler can protect me, it should.

Examples where I've used it in the past: ValidatedEmail, which is a special form of Email, one that has been validated by the user.

We can have actions that require a `PriviligedUser`, which can be created from a `User`. That creation validates ONCE whether your user is privileged.

This saves you from a whole bunch of .is_priviliged() calls in your admin panel.

The post 'Boolean Blindness' [0] talks about much of the same issues.

[0]: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-bli...
by keiferski | 2025-07-13 18:39:43+00:00
Ballard is much, much more grounded in his stories, and I wouldn’t describe even his most outlandish ones as sci-fi. I actually think a lot of his writing is a bit dry and much prefer Gibson in that sense.

PKD on the other hand has much more experimentation and crazy hallucinogenic stuff going on.

Both are great and worth reading though, for sure.
by Xylakant | 2025-07-13 18:40:36+00:00
The test setting is important here - the test is on an otherwise idle machine. This means that the update ensures that some thread wakes on a timer every second which may explain the large drop. This test is interesting, but not very representative of a real world usage scenario. It’ll be interesting to compare it to the results of the other test they running, where they keep a video running in the background.
by ufmace | 2025-07-13 18:41:04+00:00
Okay, that's fair.

I currently do most of my browsing with Chrome and UBO Lite, and have yet to find a site that it doesn't work with. I do keep a copy of Firefox with full UBO and NoScript open on my desktop computer, just on general principles I guess.

Well, except for the other thread here where somebody pointed out Twitch, which doesn't block ads on either in stock form, which I did just check myself. Though I had already stopped using Twitch anyways, more because all of the other dark patterns it has are rather annoying.

By all means, browse with whatever setup you please. I just wish people would take it easy a little on the assertions that UBO Lite is inadequate.
by wincy | 2025-07-13 18:41:31+00:00
I definitely like my new 240hz 4k oled HDR monitor, though. They're getting there! The data rate it's pushing through the displayport cable for uncompressed 4k HDR is something 80gb/s though. Absolutely mind boggling. Huge upgrade from my 1440p 165hz IPS monitor that had huge amounts of smearing when playing games.
by throw5829646 | 2025-07-13 18:41:52+00:00
I had the opportunity to meet Tamay not too long ago, very sharp guy. A lot of people I know are working on approaches to meta RL or exploration-based RL, where the goal is to build a foundation model of sorts with a really good world model across diverse tasks, and can predict good policies (or good policy updates) from limited rollouts and/or a sparse reward signal. We're not there quite yet, but as Altman recently said, "we don't have AGI until we have something that learns continuously", and there's a huge race in this space to make that happen.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-07-13 18:43:17+00:00
I was jailed on a bullsh*t "hate speech" statute, because I said the f slur to a cop (who turned out to be gay, my PI proved this wasn't even true in my civil suit, but that didn't matter, they stuck me with this, along with some other cop related bs (said I coughed on him and tried to give him covid, assault on a police officer) This was the government trying to ruin my life because I hurt a cops feelings. You clearly haven't dealt with authorities much.

In my state there is no intent required, so if a word can have multiple meanings in different contexts, the government gets to decide how you intended to use that word and what meaning you meant. So sorry, you're so wrong. There isn't much difference from what i said to this very annoying cop, and what a lot of people say online. Also, this never would have happened if I had said it to a regular person and not a cop.

edit: So yes, I literally was jailed and forced to admit to a hate speech crime (alford plea) because of something I said to a cop. And you think this is all in my head??
by runjake | 2025-07-13 18:44:28+00:00
Looks great! Change the name. The Raycast people are going to (initially) ask you to anyway.

Raycast also runs on Windows now, albeit in beta.

Other Linux launchers with extensibility:

KRunner: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner

Albert: https://albertlauncher.github.io/
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-13 18:46:06+00:00
Each time I try to use it, I find myself distracted by the impulse to fix the bugs that I notice. There's always this moment when I find a comment from myself, several years earlier, in an issue that's still open because it's unclear whether it's a VSCode problem or a plugin problem, and it's like: "oh, here I am again, doing this instead of working".

That's not to say it's especially buggy, it's just so large, there are a lot of places for bugs to hide.

I get distracted by the impulse to contribute to other editors also, but those are contributions that I'm happy about. They don't always result in bugs fixed or features added, sometimes somebody says "no" but at least it resolves in some way. With VSCode it feels like I'm going in circles.
by jm4 | 2025-07-13 18:46:10+00:00
I just took a look at that site after reading your comment. It almost appears as if Mozilla just isn't interested in making a browser anymore.

"In the early 2000s, the Mozilla community built Firefox. We toppled the browser monopoly, gave users choice and control online, and helped create a healthier internet.

Twenty years later, Mozilla continues to fight for a healthy internet — one where Big Tech is held accountable and individual users have real agency online."

They list a bunch of projects on the site that are kind of all over the place. It's almost as if they don't know yet what they want to do. Mozilla is synonymous with Firefox and the Mozilla browser before that, but it is clear from the site that browsers do not fit in with their future. I'm not even sure they know what their future is. They look like a research organization that's dong research for the purpose of finding something to do? They are also accepting applications for funding.

The only purpose Firefox has in this organization is to fund exploratory research via the Google search deal. There is no plan. These people don't deserve our money and are not responsible enough to be custodians of a project as important as an independent browser.

A new organization should fork Firefox, rebrand it, contribute real resources and monetize it enough to keep it healthy. I'm not talking about junk like Zen or Floorp where they just put a skin on Firefox and have no real development resources to speak of. Someone should do to Mozilla what Mozilla did to Netscape.

Personally, I think that's a more worthwhile approach than what Ladybird is doing, although I'm rooting for them to succeed.
by nkrisc | 2025-07-13 18:46:41+00:00
I mean, the president did just threaten to (somehow) revoke the citizenship of a celebrity who disagreed with him online. Based on what we've seen already, what's to stop them from dubiously claiming to have revoked someone's (natural born) citizenship and then deport them to somewhere before anyone has time to argue anything before a judge?

There was a time I would have agreed with you, but now it doesn't seem that implausible anymore.
by triceratops | 2025-07-13 18:46:58+00:00
In theory, every one of the CEO's reports (other than their administrative staff) is capable of stepping into the CEO's job. If they aren't capable (albeit some with coaching and support) that calls into question the company's overall hiring and promotion practices.

In that case, for every CEO there's literally a dozen other people at that company alone who could do their job. Why do we keep repeating that good CEOs are in short supply?

Moreover study after study has shown little correlation between CEO pay and quality of decision-making. Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer#Yahoo!_(2012%E2%...

And finally, rich people eventually look for other ways to feel valued. Status is a big one. Having the top job at the company is a big perk in and of itself. If they don't feel privileged to be the CEO, why the hell even take the job?
by somat | 2025-07-13 18:48:44+00:00
For me it was the opposite. Learning how a monochrome CRT requires no mask sort of destroyed my world view of what a display had to have. pixels(even the quasi pixels as found in a color CRT mask) were not actually required or present.

As a result monochrome terminal text has this surprising sharpness to it.(surprising if you are used to color displays). But the real visual treat are the long persistence phosphor radar scopes.
by hollerith | 2025-07-13 18:49:08+00:00
Whether anybody in the US is is irrelevant to whether data exists or used to exist from previous decades that was used to get an estimate of the average IQ of the US at that time in the past.

I was tested by the public school system of the second-largest city in Massachusetts and have no reason to believe that my experience was atypical.

About the same time as I was being tested, in Diana v. State Board of Education (1970) a court ruled that a school could not place students in a class for mild mental retardation because of a low score on the Stanford Benet IQ test, which of course implies that she was tested by her school.

There were other lawsuits like this in other US states.
by joecool1029 | 2025-07-13 18:49:13+00:00
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-library-abbey-beetle-infe... < original source, so you don't need to read shit like: "Workers are racing to save 100,000 books from a rare beetle infestation inside Hungary's 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey, a UNESCO World Hertiage site."

(The beetles are probably one of the most common minor pests you can find in a pantry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstore_beetle )