MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-07-15 13:32:54+00:00
> Developers haven't even started extracting the value of LLMs with agent architectures yet.

For sure there is a portion of developers who don't care about the future, are not interested in current developements and just live as before hoping nothing will change. But the rest already gave it a try and realized tools like Claude Code can give excellent results for small codebases to fail miserably at more complex tasks with the net result being negative as you get a codebase you don't understand, with many subtle bugs and inconsistencies created over a few days you will need weeks to discover and fix.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-15 13:33:19+00:00
> The "not invented here" syndrome is something I kindly suggest you examine

I think AI is leading to a different problem. The "nothing invented here" syndrome

Using LLMs is not the same as offloading the understanding of some code to external library maintainers.

It is offloading the understanding of your own code, the code you are supposed to be the steward of, to the LLM
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-15 13:33:26+00:00
There doesn't have to be a joke. If you're rich enough people feel like they have to laugh at your jokes whether or not they are funny. That's the saddest thing about Elon Musk.

I could never explain to NFT fanatics that I wouldn't make NFT art because I couldn't stand producing a product for people who had no taste and would like my worst output as much as my best.
by alonsonic | 2025-07-15 13:33:32+00:00
But there are a ton of LLM powered products in the market.

I have a friend in finance that uses LLM powered products for financial analysis, he works in a big bank. Just now anthropic released a product to compete in this space.

Another friend in real estate uses LLM powered lead qualifications products, he runs marketing campaigns and the AI handles the initial interaction via email or phone and then ranks the lead in their crm.

I have a few friends that run small businesses and use LLM powered assistants to manage all their email comms and agendas.

I've also talked with startups in legal and marketing doing very well.

Coding is the theme that's talked about the most in HN but there are a ton of startups and big companies creating value with LLMs
by pjmlp | 2025-07-15 13:33:56+00:00
UCSD Pascal was marvelous over the plain ISO Pascal from early 1970's, and the inspiration for Clascal and Object Pascal at Apple, that eventually was embraced by Borland, and a few competitors like TMT that wanted a piece of the Pascal pie on PCs.

And the Constellation OS from Corvus Systems.

C compilers on Z80, at least on Spectrums were really lousy in terms of code generation, plus the whole dev experience unless on a +3 A with drive, those kind of machines were designed for a BASIC interpreter + Assembly.
by walterbell | 2025-07-15 13:34:06+00:00
I encountered that blog for the first time yesterday, via one article, and was struck by the historical anecdote about monasteries, which was new to me. As I discovered _after_ posting the comment, the rest of the blog was different from the article, so I removed the link. Apologies for not reviewing more of the blog before posting one article, will look for another historical reference on monasteries. Perhaps future LLMs can enable a single URL to cite a series of related historical events with primary sources.
by mrkramer | 2025-07-15 13:34:19+00:00
Few months ago I was watching Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley interviews and they said that in F1 there should be a cap on how much teams are allowed to spend because Mercedes always wins....but in football there are no such thoughts and limits and that's why Manchester City and PSG rose so hard in the last 10 years. If you pump billions of dollars into any business, you will more likely win than not win, just look at TikTok, they pumped billions into advertising and user-acqisition and now they rule on mobile.
by evantbyrne | 2025-07-15 13:34:27+00:00
I'm pretty bearish on the idea that AGI is going to take off anytime soon, but I read a significant amount of theology growing up and I would not describe the popular essays from e.g., LessWrong as religious in nature. I also would not describe them as appearing poorly read. The whole "look they just have a new god!" is a common trope in religious apologetics that is usually just meant to distract from the author's own poorly constructed beliefs. Perhaps such a comparison is apt for some people in the inevitable AGI camp, but their worst arguments are not where we should be focusing.
by ValtteriK | 2025-07-15 13:34:29+00:00
Do you have a demo video available for the latest features/use cases? We are building a digital end-of-life service platform with customized "Bereavement AI" where we have tried to switch between GPT-4o mini and Gemini 2.5 Flash for different types user questions. Would be interesting to give this a spin in our use case!
by mark_l_watson | 2025-07-15 13:34:33+00:00
NVidia is being propped up by the US government. Huawei’s new chips are lower tech but would probably hit a good ‘practical sweet spot’ for AI data centers in many countries around the world but our current administration is threatening economic violence against any countries who choose to use more cost effective Huawei AI chips.

I don’t want to descend into talking politics, but I want to say that geopolitics, the rising geopolitical ‘south’, etc., is fascinating stuff - much more interesting and entertaining than anything fictional on Netflicks or HBO!
by esperent | 2025-07-15 13:35:34+00:00
I studied mathematics for 4 years, and the idea that I, or anyone who wasn't already highly educated in mathematics, could have compressed it into three semesters and still come out with anything useful is just dumb. Same for many other degrees in science, engineering, or medicine. Even if you could maybe pass the exams you'd miss out on so much other important knowledge.

I could have compressed it into maybe three years instead of four, but then I would have missed out on all the other, equally important life experiences that college years bring:

- clubs and societies: I started and ran a society with some people who became close friends and this gave me invaluable experience in running an organization within the larger university. Impossible to compress or speedrun because most of it happens on other people's time (as do many important things in life). I also took part in all kinds of events from clubs and societies run by other people.

- competitions: I took part in a couple of teams based maths competitions. Didn't win but placed respectably, learned a lot about working with other people under pressure.

- friendships and loves: this is a huge part of college. Being part of a peer group going through similar things to you.

- partying! Damn, friend. Let loose and enjoy your college years. And the years afterwards. Go to a festival or two during the summer break. Enjoy the journey. Dance!
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-15 13:35:50+00:00
Having worked as IA in plenty of banks, I can only say "no good deed goes unpunished". My friendly suggestion is that when you involve cunts in the dialogue (regulators, legal depts, lawyers) you JUST started a fire and those assholes ONLY care to have a fall-guy. And the #1 is (you guessed it) You!!

You cannot expect an honest response from (ffs!) a bank! They are the most dishonest people on planet earth.

If there is a bounty, go through the hoops and do get paid. If not, then feel free to go for a lunch with someone-who-knows/trusts-someone and solve it in the d-l.. with all the plausible deniability you can get "I saw the photo of the guy/gal on LI and wanted to meet him/her for the sex.. I dunno what hacking-vuln you are talking about!"

You may think that the above is risky/dangerous/wrong; good! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE)
by Herring | 2025-07-15 13:36:03+00:00
I just keep looking at this chart

https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart

The US is steadily becoming more and more unhappy. The solutions are fairly basic and fundamental - fix inequality, green spaces, walkable cities, healthcare, education, climate change etc but Americans are too busy chasing tech/military solutions. This country is the richest it has ever been, but it's going to be quite rocky for the foreseeable future.
by dotandgtfo | 2025-07-15 13:36:05+00:00
I'm newish to Django. Been using it for about a year. I had some experience with React earlier. But I'm more of a data engineer.

Django Cotton [1] scratched my itch fully. Very composable. Being able to pass HTML to components (E.g. you create a modal which takes a content slot) removed so many of the warts I felt using the standard Django templating.

It's not JSX, but it plays well with Django and makes it feel like I can create a real design system of components without a ton of JINJA.

https://django-cotton.com/
by latexr | 2025-07-15 13:36:19+00:00
I don’t get it. What’s the point of the repo instead of opening a Feedback with Apple? And what are the sources for the “The Real-World Cost” section? Those seem like made-up numbers.

Also, what’s the point of posting this again so soon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520949
by barry-cotter | 2025-07-15 13:36:26+00:00
> Ireland has a Citizens Assembly, which is selected by sortition.

Ireland occasionally has a Citizen’s Assembly when the elected politicians feel it is best to do so. The members are supposed to be selected by sortition but this has not always been adhered to. “ Seven replacements joining in January 2018 were removed the following month when it emerged they were recruited via acquaintances of a Red C employee, who was then suspended, rather than via random selection.”

> The process has been very successful at neutralizing contentious topics. The assembly on abortion showed that a healthy majority consensus could emerge, and led to abortion being legalized in Ireland after a constitutional amendment.

You have to give the secretariat their due. They were excellent at getting the right facilitators, who would ensure the Assembly came to the conclusion the government wanted them to. Eventually they messed up and pushed so hard against public opinion that they got the Assembly to vote in favour of deleting mothers from the constitution and in favour of a meaningless expression of respect for carers. Both were then roundly defeated but the Assembly has been great as a way for governments to build consensus by putting their thumb on the scales.

> The political parties generally support the process because it keeps socially divisive topics out of the main political sphere.

Contemptible. If politicians don’t want to deal with socially divisive topics they should be doing something else with their lives.
by robertlagrant | 2025-07-15 13:36:31+00:00
We chose Litestar over FastAPI mostly because they seemed very similar, but Litestar had a more distributed governance; i.e. a larger bus factor.

We are jealous of some FastAPI features though, so it's possible we could migrate, as Litestar's mapping between domain models, database models and API models isn't as flexible as we'd like.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-07-15 13:36:38+00:00
As you say, we will never know, but this article[0] claims:

> The cost of the compute to train models alone ($3 billion) obliterates the entirety of its subscription revenue, and the compute from running models ($2 billion) takes the rest, and then some. It doesn’t just cost more to run OpenAI than it makes — it costs the company a billion dollars more than the entirety of its revenue to run the software it sells before any other costs.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CCQsQnCMWhJcCFY9x/openai-los...
by hexomancer | 2025-07-15 13:36:55+00:00
> Regarding your last point, for the vast majority of open source SW releases, we can never be sure if the release we get is produced from the same code we see. I do not know if that is the case with VScode addons, but you get my point

You actually can depackage vscode's .vsix files (it is just a zip file) and compare the package contents to the repository.
by ogurechny | 2025-07-15 13:36:59+00:00
You don't really need a critic to see that it has spread everywhere. People not just adore, they demand to be given a three paragraph summary and a moral of the story for everything, no matter which era, which genre, or how much magnificent embroidery was presented to them. So-called Web 2.0 review platforms have succumbed under the weight of people complaining about not being given clear instructions by the authors, and people trying to invent those clear instructions on “understanding” the work themselves. It seems that the simple truth that the whole point of work of art is how it starts processes in your very own head is a secret which is well hidden from those who expect that others can do thinking in their stead, and just state the “results”.

Of course, from that perspective, modern society hasn't changed much for centuries, they just had different excuses back in the days. However, it doesn't happen by itself; the construct of the presumed movie-goer (or reader, or listener) affects the public. When author has high expectations of a recipient, many of them can find themselves growing to that level, when the lowest common denominator is targeted, everyone's average drops. Writing by committee and directing by committee inevitably results in watching by committee, when no one cares because there is enough ways to find out which opinion you “should” have about the movie, and the only thing left is to check the box for visiting the cinema (the obvious democratisation of an old cliche of rich nobles being bored at the opera).

A lot of auxiliary apologetic nonsense is written about “pop culture” today — its “consumers” need to be told how to look at themselves. A vaccine against that would be finding something so bright and delicate that it can't be stuffed into one of predefined expected reactions. A lot of much stronger criticism have already been written, too. One might point to such “hits” as Vladimir Nabokov's “Strong Opinions” and lectures on literature, although the suit of renowned writer and lecturer was perhaps a bit too bronzy, while in reviews read by a small circle of Russian-speaking emigrants in Europe (collected in “Think, Write, Speak...”) or in satirical passages in fictional works he was a bit more open.
by inanutshellus | 2025-07-15 13:37:34+00:00
I can't say I commiserate, as I was hooked at the very first flashback.

> Scene is black, you hear "Come out, so Johnny and I can flay your bones" / "Get out of -- *BANG!*" > Scene reveals, man is frozen in time, his body still in motion though he is clearly dead. > A half-dressed man stands inside the ship's main cabin, gunpowder still billowing from his pistol. Now you play "Clue". Who killed whom with what, and where? > KILLER: What? I have no idea!. Why would I know?! I know literally nothing, why would I ... Oh, hang on, this is the Captain's cabin! Nobody but the captain would be half-dressed in the captain's cabin so... he must be... the captain! Ha! > VICTIM: At least one of these assailants is "Johnny"... not sure if the victim is, though. I'll hm... have to figure out how to write down "some unknown guy wearing pointy-toed boots and another guy with a scar on his shoulder were on the deck at 4pm, and one of them died to the captain's pistol, and uh... one of them is named johnny" hm... > WEAPON: Close range pistol shot. Yeowch.

...

Anyway. I totally dug it from the outset and only loved it more as I progressed.

I hope you'll give it another shot.

If you like, say... Myst-like games that blend puzzles and attention to detail with good storytelling, you'd like this game.

It and Outer Wilds are probably my two most-recommended games.
Show HN: Fertit – Open-Source Newsletter Manager with Optional Hosted Service
by asdxrfx | 2025-07-15 13:38:06+00:00
I built Fertit to solve the email marketing cost problem for small businesses.

The interesting part is the dual model - it's fully open source (MIT license) so you can self-host, but I also offer a hosted service starting at $4.99/month.

Tech stack of open-source version: Go + PostgreSQL + Redis, containerized with Docker. The hosted service saves users $30-150+/month compared to traditional providers, while the open source version gives complete control.

Key insight: Most small businesses don't need complex automation - they need reliable, simple email sending without breaking the bank.

Looking for feedback on the approach and feature set!
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-15 13:38:17+00:00
It's probably not astroturfing, or at least not all astroturfing. At least some software engineers tend to do this. We've seen it before, with Lisp, and then with Haskell. "It doesn't work for you? You just haven't tried it for long enough to become enlightened!" Enthusiastic supporters that assume that if was highly useful for them, it must be for everyone in all circumstances, and anyone who disagrees just hasn't been enlightened yet.
by dcow | 2025-07-15 13:38:39+00:00
The difference is that the future is now with LLMs. There is a microwave (some multiple) in almost every kitchen in the world. The Concord served a few hundred people a day. LLMs are already ingrained into hundreds of millions if not billions of people’s lives, directly and indirectly. My dad directly uses LLMs multiple times a week if not daily in an industry that still makes you rotate your password every 3 months. It’s not a question of whether the future will have them, it’s a question of whether the future will get tired of them.
by milisp | 2025-07-15 13:39:23+00:00
You’re right — those numbers are illustrative. It’s a hypothetical estimate based on a real-world scenario where a minor install issue (like Gatekeeper rejecting downloads) leads to a non-trivial drop in conversion. Even if it’s just 1% of downloads failing, at a $5 CAC, that’s serious money at scale.

I’m open to better sources — and would love to improve the repo with more concrete stats if anyone has them.

Not trying to spam HN, promise — but yeah, I want to change this situation for indie devs, and I’ll keep improving and sharing until it actually helps more people.
by boredhedgehog | 2025-07-15 13:39:34+00:00
Fine, Caesar 7 then for spoilers.

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by close04 | 2025-07-15 13:39:35+00:00
> the premise of 'draws are boring' is debatable

I also found this a bit off. Lots of goals ending in a draw can also be great fun. Wins are great for the fans of the winning team. But if you're a fan of the sport, then an engaging match, ideally with lots of goals is more fun even if it's a draw.

I've seen plenty of absolutely thrilling goalless draws, and plenty of boring 1 goal wins.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-15 13:39:59+00:00
This article is trying to show it as more scary than it is. The key points are: this is systems up to secret level only and sessions are recorded and watched by an escort; the escort is not as tech savvy as the engineers performing maintenance (who are also Microsoft employees, from many countries of origin) but there are other controls too; they can’t just run unsigned code etc.

The top secret stuff isn’t using this system; it’s using cleared staff.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-15 13:40:00+00:00
If I understand the discussion correctly:

Your opinion is that the benefits of KYC (safety) outweigh the downsides of KYC (giving up liberty).

The other poster's opinion is that the downsides outweigh the benefits.

There is a quote out there regarding those who would sacrifice liberty to obtain safety, but it slips my mind at the moment.
by paganel | 2025-07-15 13:41:11+00:00
Not really, it was a strong inter-connection between the two at the beginning, going both ways, but I'd say that Django's design philosophy was its own thing. Granted, as time goes on things have started to become fuzzier and fuzzier in my head, and not only when it comes to programming languages/web frameworks and the like.

Source: me, I was programming in Zope 20 years ago (mostly hated it, although there were lots of interesting things in at a conceptual level), switched jobs at the beginning of 2006 and thanks to the new boss I got to use Django since February of 2006 (I think I still have a 0.96 version installed somewhere on an old instance, still does its thing).
by gus_massa | 2025-07-15 13:41:53+00:00
Nice selection! How old are your kids?

Is it a list of cherry picked channels or is it a list of cherry picked videos of cherry picked channels?

At the end of the video I got the final screen with more videos to watch and it's unfiltered, for example I got a Mr. Beast video of comparing something of $1 with something of $1.000.000 (or something like that) that is not so educational. s it possible to remove the final screen?
by philipisik | 2025-07-15 13:41:56+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re the team behind Tiptap, an open source headless text editor framework built on top of ProseMirror. After two months in beta, Tiptap 3.0 is now stable.

Tiptap gives developers full control over their editing experience. You can build a rich text editor, a collaborative doc tool, or something completely custom. It doesn’t come with a UI, so you bring your own components and design.

What’s new in 3.0:

We cleaned up the core, reduced complexity, and made it easier to integrate into modern apps. A few examples:

- Smaller bundles

- Stricter types

- Cleaner API

- New static renderer (output as HTML, Markdown, React, or anything else)

- SSR support

- Several features moved from paid to open source (like emoji, math, file handling)

- General improvements to the editor and extension manager

There are some breaking changes, mostly around package names and how imports are structured. We wrote a migration guide to walk you through it: https://tiptap.dev/docs/guides/upgrade-tiptap-v2

How we make money:

We offer commercial tools like a collaborative editing and AI backend and a set of UI components. The core editor is open source and will stay that way.

We’d love your thoughts. What’s still confusing? What could be better? Happy to answer anything here or in the GitHub repo.

Thanks for reading,

The Tiptap team
by teroshan | 2025-07-15 13:43:09+00:00
On that subject, there is a "Steam Automation Fest" until Jul 21 [1].

For the Zachtronics fans in the HN crowd Kaizen is out, by devs from the original team [2].

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/category/automation

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2275490/Kaizen_A_Factory_...
by ghc | 2025-07-15 13:43:28+00:00
Obviously you don't need to train new models to operate existing ones.

I think I trust the semianalysis estimate ($250M) more than this estimate ($2B), but who knows? I do see my revenue estimate was for this year, though. However, $4B revenue on $250M COGS...is still staggeringly good. No wonder amazon, google, and Microsoft are tripping over themselves to offer these models for a fee.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-15 13:43:30+00:00
I assumed they were referring to the rest period advised for many meats, which supposedly allows the meat to reabsorb the juices it expressed (spoiler: it does not).

There's a lot of BS lore in traditional cooking, such as "don't wash mushrooms, it makes them soggy (they don't absorb the water) and washes away the flavor (if you value dirt's and bugs' flavors).

"To keep it tender, float a cork in the water you're cooking octopus in" is one of my favorites. "Leave the seed in the avocado to keep it fresh" is one that still gets people angry when you attempt to disagree.

Bottom line: cooks aren't scientists; they're traditional crafts practitioners... at least until the advent of Alton Brown and company.

Sadly, this led to the fad of molecular gastronomy, but we may be coming out of that dark period of overindulgence.