MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by donkey_brains | 2025-07-05 12:59:40+00:00
I’m sure someone more knowledgeable and well-spoken than I will provide a more scathing takedown of this article soon, but even I can laugh at its breathless endorsement of some very dubious claims with no supporting evidence.

“AI might write a decent novel by 2030”? Have you read the absolute dreck they produce today? An LLM will NEVER produce a decent novel, for the same reason it will never independently create a decent game or movie: It can’t read the novel, play the game, or watch the movie, and have an emotional response to it or gauge it’s entertainment value. It has no way to judge if a work of art will have an emotional impact on its audience or dial in the art to enhance that impact or make a statement that resonates with people. Only people can do that.

All in all, this article is unscientific, filled with hand-waving “and then a miracle occurs”, and meaningless graphs that in no way indicate that LLMs will undergo the kind of step change transformation needed to reliably and independently accomplish complex tasks this decade. The study authors themselves give the game away when they use “50% success rate” as the yardstick for an LLM. You know what we call a human with a 50% success rate in the professional world? Fired.

I don’t think it was responsible of IEEE to publish this article and I expect better from the organization.
by like_any_other | 2025-07-05 13:00:06+00:00
> The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”.

Funny, isn't it? Police have more data on us than ever, by far. Yet the more we are tracked*, the more urgent it is to invade the tiny few scraps of privacy we have left. Not just invade, but make that invasion effortless, so they can do it in bulk, to everyone.

*By the phones we carry and the networks they connect to, by cameras in public (license-plate reading and increasingly facial recognition ones), by social networks, by websites, by tracking dots in printers, by credit cards, by idling drones with high-definition cameras in the sky, and in some cases, targeted surveillance that is nearly unbeatable thanks to technology (laser microphones, telescopic lenses, tiny tracking and listening devices..)
by homebrewer | 2025-07-05 13:00:20+00:00
> I've been avoiding AMD in general

I have no opinion on GPUs (I don't play anything released later than about 2008), but Intel CPUs have had more problems over the last five years than AMD, including disabling the already limited support for AVX-512 after release and simply burning themselves to the ground to get an easy win in initial benchmarks.

I fear your perception of their products is seriously out of date.
by frieg0 | 2025-07-05 13:01:14+00:00
I spent years trying to figure out what I could do if I weren’t a developer, and I’ve come up with nothing. I’m old, dangerously overweight, can’t focus, am borderline schizophrenic, can’t sleep well, all drugs I’ve tried make my symptoms worse, and I’ve tried all types of sleep solutions multiple times. I have no backup plan and a large burn rate with kids in college and no second income.

AI threatens to take my job and even if it hadn’t, I’d lose it.

What jobs are there for an introvert with an old, broken body and mind?

All the jobs that don’t require manual labor will likely go away, and I’m an introvert who doesn’t listen well and have never learned easily, so going back to school could be a costly waste.
by xlii | 2025-07-05 13:01:28+00:00
I agree.

Rarely companies want to hire communication expert to help shape good practices even though they’re spending hundreds of thousands if not millions on stuff like Datadog etc.

I have this theory that mailing lists with rich search (slash Google Groups slash Newsgroups) are the best communication tools.

Hadn’t had opportunity to try it out though, as it was shunned „old tech”.
Journey Score – revive your leads graveyards
by usemarka | 2025-07-05 13:01:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I spent 10 years as an AE frustrated with CRMs that only work when leads show intent. So I built a lightweight system to manage and mature B2B relationships before they convert.

It helps track dormant leads, keep momentum alive, and nudge accounts with context, not automation. Great for mid/high-ticket sales and "lead graveyards."

It’s based on a methodology I’ve refined over the years, and it’s now public.

Try it here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/journey-score?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social

Would love your thoughts, especially if you’ve struggled with long-cycle or no-intent leads.
by exDM69 | 2025-07-05 13:02:04+00:00
> f64x64 is presumably an exaggeration

It's not. IIRC, 64 elements wide vectors are the widest that LLVM (or Rust, not sure) can work with. It will happily compile code that uses wider vectors than the target CPU has and split accordingly.

That doesn't necessarily make it a good idea.

Autovectorization works great for simple stuff and has improved a lot in the past decade (e.g. SIMD gather loads).

It doesn't work great for things like converting a matrix to quaternion (or vice versa), and then doing that in a loop. But if you write the inner primitive ops with SIMD you get all the usual compiler optimizations in the outer loop.

You should not unroll the outer loop like in the Quake 3 days. The compiler knows better how many times it should be unrolled.

I chose this example because I recently ported the Quake 3 quaternion math routines to Rust for a hobby project and un-unrolled the loops. It was a lot faster than the unrolled original (thanks to LLVM, same would apply to Clang).
by hobs | 2025-07-05 13:03:22+00:00
Right, but are you going to fix it by yourself? No. Is the point correct that most people wont remember half of the arcane rituals we're expected to perform on command only in an interview or in very specific parts of the job? Yes. Can we relearn it? Sure. Will skills atrophy if unused? Definitely, balancing a binary tree is not like riding a bike.
by tomsmeding | 2025-07-05 13:04:05+00:00
> I just mean that reasonable portable SIMD abstractions should not be this hard.

Morally, no, it really ought to not be this hard, we need this. Practically, it really is hard, because SIMD instruction sets in CPUs are a mess. X86 and ARM have completely different sets of things that they have instructions for, and even within the X86 family, even within a particular product class, things are inconsistent:

- On normal words, one has lzcnt (leading-zero count) and tzcnt (trailing-zero count), but on SIMD vectors there is only lzcnt. And you get lzcnt only on AVX512, the latest-and-greatest in X86.

- You have horizontal adds (adding adjacent cells in a vector) for 16-bit ints, 32-bit ints, floats and doubles, and saturating horizontal add for 16-bit ints. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid... Where are horizontal adds for 8-bit or 64-bit ints, or any other saturating instructions?

- Since AVX-512 filled up a bunch of gaps in the instruction set, you have absolute value instructions on 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit ints in 128, 256 and 512 bit vectors. But absolute value on floats only exists on 512-bit vectors.

These are just the ones that I could find now, there is more. With this kind of inconsistency, any portable SIMD abstraction will be difficult to efficiently compile for the majority of CPUs, negating part of the advantage.
by orbital-decay | 2025-07-05 13:05:06+00:00
Structure relocation is 19th century tech, still as fascinating as back then. This was done all over the world, on a much bigger scale than a single block. In some US cities in particular, and in Moscow they moved entire streets like that, with people inside.

It's just expensive and there's no reason to do that unless the city is being actively developed, which Shanghai still is, and older structures are in the way.
by Freak_NL | 2025-07-05 13:05:25+00:00
The bookmark itself, for the curious:

https://archiveofourown.org/bookmarks/2147483647

That alpha/beta/omega thing is quite huge apparently, but not something you would ever encounter outside of specific subcultures (like Archive of Our Own):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omegaverse
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-05 13:05:35+00:00
No, it just means that the big players have to keep advancing SOTA to make money; Llama lagging ~6 months behind just means there's only so much they can charge for access to the bleeding edge.

Short-term, it's a normal dynamics for a growing/evolving market. Long-term, the Sun will burn out and consume the Earth.
by mtkd | 2025-07-05 13:06:22+00:00
Last week stripped out all CSS from a fairly substantial project and replaced with Tailwind equivs, it got all but a few cases right

That was gemini-cli, I could see some mistakes on trial run so created a GEMINI.md with system prompt and project description (about 50 lines) which clarified some tricky source layout situations

Second run it was fine, ran for about an hour or so -- I had attempted to do it manually a while back but it started to look like it would take a week or two
by baobun | 2025-07-05 13:07:02+00:00
IMO it's very clear by reading a few threads that K is not just disagreeable but manipulative and disingeniuous. Bordering on gaslighting at times.

As someone who might have fallen in your grumpy-disagreeable-senior bucket at times, that's a different story and not something I would accept.

> I've seen this sentiment a lot lately. That disagreeable top performers have to be disposed of because they are "toxic" or "problematic".

This is not really a relevant argument to this situation.
by yawpitch | 2025-07-05 13:07:04+00:00
Would such an extension not allow me to replace neutral words with obscenities? Or, for example, skin color descriptions with my preferred racial epithets or gender-affirming language with anti-turning-the-frogs-gay tirades?

I’d be more than a bit uncomfortable with using someone else’s ideas of what’s profane, but I’d also be a bit uncomfortable with the idea that there’s people browsing the same internet as me but looking through entirely different bias-conforming echo-chamber-reinforcing sunglasses.

Just not sure how you give anyone the ability to filter out what offends them without also giving them the power to filter in what should offend them, but doesn’t.
by StopVibeCoding | 2025-07-05 13:07:11+00:00
> Did you share this experience with management and your peers? What was their response?

Among my peers, there seemed to be a correlation between programming experience and agreement with my personal experience. I showed a particular colleague a part of the code and he genuinely asked me which one of the new hires wrote this.

As for management, well, let's just say that it's going to be an uphill battle :)

> What steps could realistically reverse the momentum of vibe coding?

For me and my team it's simple, we just won't be using those tools, and will keep being very strict with new hires to do the same.

For the software industry as a whole, I don't know. I think it's at least partially a lost cause. Just as the discussions about performance, and in general caring about our craft are.
by skydhash | 2025-07-05 13:07:47+00:00
Here is my current reading list (in CSV Format).

https://pastebin.com/BXwTjY54

As for the second part. Learn vim, emacs, kakoune, or try to be fluent in your current editor. The reason I put Vim and Emacs on top of the list is that they have powerful primitives for coding and they're not notepad patched with external tools.
by ysofunny | 2025-07-05 13:08:57+00:00
the LLMs will do to novels something else:

I think it'll be possible to publish a "book" as a series of prompts.

which the LLMs can expand out into the narrative story.

it's a novel you can chat with. the new novel for the post-LLMs era is more like publishing the whole author... which then you can "intervew" as an LLM (reminiscent of Harry Potter when Ron's sister find the evil journal, and she basically "chats" with the notebook)
by dataflow | 2025-07-05 13:09:23+00:00
> every other similarly paying job is basically the same thing in a different package.

Well, a lot of them. Not every. There are jobs at big tech companies where you work on good things benefiting society, like improving security in open-source, or developing a lot of the OSS tools out there. (Think Project Zero, or many of your favorite major OSS project, which are developed by engineers at big tech.) They are not nearly as common as other roles obviously, but they do exist, and it's worth at least attempting to get them.
by ksec | 2025-07-05 13:09:36+00:00
That has been the case some what for many years. It takes at least two generation for the GPU bandwidth usage to catch up. And may be we are finally arriving at a plateau with PCIe 5.0 x8 and x16.

So next gen GPU could work with PCIe 6.0 x8 instead. We are looking at PCIe 7.0 devices hopefully by 2029. Plenty of headroom, possibly cost reduction as well.
by dahart | 2025-07-05 13:11:12+00:00
> If a person can fulfill their role profile, isn’t that what the company hired them for?

Generally speaking, no. Full time jobs are supposed to be full time, and the expectation, and explicit agreement the employee signed up for, is that employees will apply their skills for 40h/week regardless of level, vision, or skills.

Have you read your employment contract and/or employee handbook? You probably have one or both of those even if you don’t know it, but if you don’t have one of those, have you asked your employer what they think about this, whether they agree to let you work 10h/week and keep your full salary if you can “complete” your work? It sounds funny to me to even say it that way. At no time in my life has there been a specific set of tasks and work per week after which I could say my work was complete, software engineering doesn’t work like that.

Again, the right the company has to demand your full time attention is that was the agreement you signed up for: salary in return for 40h/week of your best effort.
by kcplate | 2025-07-05 13:13:05+00:00
Likely due to my nearly 40 years experience in the tech industry, and knowing where we were then compared to where we are now—I am floored by what LLMs are doing and how much better they are even in the last 2 years I have been tracking on them.

That said, I will make no definitive statements like “never” and “can’t” as it relates to AI in the next 5 years because it is already doing things that I would have thought unlikely just 5 years ago…and frankly would have thought functionally impossible back 40 years ago.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-05 13:13:06+00:00
> an army of formerly PM's, Designers, etc all at once exclaiming "I'm an engineer too!" that should signal that maybe the thing they're doing isn't really engineering

Not really disagreeing with your other points but this specific one is an ad hominem. Anyone can engineer, so the only signal to look at is what they are actually doing.

It otherwise implies that PMs, designers, etc. can’t be competent engineers, which I do not believe of the competent PMs, designers, etc. I’ve worked with.
by Freak_NL | 2025-07-05 13:15:12+00:00
I mean, it's fiction. If a writer can't explore the depths of human behaviour there, then where?

The only uncomfortable thing there are the explicit references to Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. I do take exception to using real people in fiction if you proceed to heap abuse on the characters which you model on those celebrities. (The story seems to use only the given names, but the tagging makes the link explicit.)

Obviously, you can refer to real world famous people in fiction — it would be silly to write a book about 2025 America and not mention that the president is Trump if it includes political themes — but there are limits.
by irusensei | 2025-07-05 13:15:15+00:00
I use a 12600H MS-01 with 5x4tb nvme. Love the SFP+ ports since the DAC cable doesn't need ethernet to SFP adapters. Intel vPro is not perfect but works just fine for remote management access. I also plug a bus powered dual ssd enclosure to it which is used for Minio object storage.

It's a file server (when did we started calling these "NAS"?) with Samba, NFS but also some database stuff. No VMs or dockers. Just a file and database server.

It has full disk encryption with TPM unlocking with my custom keys so it can boot unattended. I'm quote happy with it.
by eric-burel | 2025-07-05 13:16:00+00:00
My experience is different, so far I've defended R&D that I believed to be eligible to tax credits, in order for companies to be competitive with other countries that also subsidize R&D and innovation, namely USA and Canada. You can't generalize a 7 billion tax cut system based on one journalist work (the same and the same is quoted again...), opinions based on a few rotten fruits in the basket, and an anti-startup trend that amplifies this hatred for political and ideological reasons.
by djha-skin | 2025-07-05 13:16:21+00:00
I'm a DevOps engineer. I'm training someone new to the field.

Often I'll ask the AI to do something and it goes sideways. Sometimes it really saves me time, but many times not. I'll break down and actually type out commands or even Google what to do instead of using the AI because it's still faster.

It's true that my trainee uses the AI more because there's fewer commands in his muscle memory. But, it's still not great yet.

Further, the AI must have each one of its actions approved. I've tried fully automatic mode. It's bad.

AI is more like a lawn mower. It's self-propelling, but you still have to hold on to it, sometimes you got to turn it off and just pull the stuff out of its way or it gets stuck.
by fipar | 2025-07-05 13:16:52+00:00
As late as in 2000 it was still common to refer to electronic music to what this article uses the term for, and what you refer to as “dance music” instead.

See this great compilation (with a lovely booklet that’s more of a mini book) for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm:_The_Early_Gurus_of_Electr...

I got lots of late-night listening pleasure out of that one, except for the first theremin track; I just found that one unbearable…
by sfn42 | 2025-07-05 13:18:56+00:00
Same. Bought a 6950xt for like $800ish or something like that a few years ago and it's been perfect. Runs any game I want to play on ultra 1440p with good fps. No issues.

Maybe there's a difference for the people who buy the absolute top end cards but I don't. I look for best value and when I looked into it amd looked better to me. Also got an amd CPU which has aso been great.
by tzs | 2025-07-05 13:19:00+00:00
> Back when they started, lidar cost a lot of money. They could not have equipped all cars with it.

But radar and ultrasound did not cost a lot and he got rid of those too, suggesting it was more than cost that made him go vision only.

Heck, they even use vision for rain sensing instead of the cheap and more effective sensor everyone else uses (which is just some infrared LEDs and photodiodes that measures the change in internal reflection at the outer side of the windshield when the critical angle changes when the windshield gets wet).
by worldsayshi | 2025-07-05 13:19:33+00:00
Yes this is probably the best thing about feeling senior enough and maybe the best measure of seniority. If you dare ask stupid questions you aren't stupid.

But then there are likely also situations when you feel that you ask a bunch of stupid questions but are faced with blank stares because people doesn't understand the context enough for those questions either or they are struggling enough with other problems to even entertain that kind of question.

It can kind of lead to a similar situation to when the math professor at uni jokingly asks a "trivial" math question in front of his students. It's trivial only once you have worked that kind of problem a 1000 times.
by Aromasin | 2025-07-05 13:19:50+00:00
Agreed. They are using an Cyclone 10 GX - that's over $250 for a part from 2017...

If the restriction is wanting low price to suite the FPGAs open-source low-budget market, they'd be better off using a Lattice Certus-NX or something. 5Gbps SERDES on that for ~$40, or better yet a CertusPro-NX with 10Gbps SERDES for ~$70. Altera and Xilinx are just throwing away the sub-100K-LUT market to Lattice at this point, yet people are still building systems out using these expensive, antiquated parts. That's shelf pricing too - go through a distributor and it'd be 50% of that price!
by mieubrisse | 2025-07-05 13:20:15+00:00
YES! I'm experiencing a separate-but-related problem to do with myopia, and my eyes perpetually getting longer (likely due to the long hours of computer use).

I wish I could go back to completely undistracted building, but I realize now that I was a bit addicted and that level of intensity was hurting me.

Now what occupies my waking hours is, "How can I debug this failing system?"
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-05 13:20:52+00:00
> Look at it this way: now your friend with a novel app idea can be told to do it themselves. That’s at least a win for everyone.

For now, anyways. Thing is, that friend now also has a reasonable shot at succeeding in doing it themselves. It'll take some more time for people to fully internalize it. But let's not forget that there's a chunk of this industry that's basically building apps for people with "novel app ideas" that have some money but run out of friends to pester. LLMs are going to eat a chunk out of that business quite soon.
by FridgeSeal | 2025-07-05 13:21:14+00:00
Right?

“Oh you’ll never have to do this tech stuff ever again! How amazing! Ai all the things!”

Like, ok great. Good for you. Leave the rest of us out of whatever mission-to-replace-some-thing-you-don’t-like.

Or even better, if you don’t like, go away and do something else. I’m not big into jogging, but I don’t go around telling runners that their hobby is redundant and that “nobody will run now that we have segways”.
by throwingrocks | 2025-07-05 13:21:36+00:00
> There is a popular argument that a software developer’s job is not write software but to solve a user’s problem. Bullshit

Wait, what?

> I was never particularly interested in the code itself

> Instead, I was always more interested in the product

Confusing contradictions aside, I had trouble engaging with this article.

The author seems to think every developer thinks like they do. Some people actually enjoy helping their business/users.

The author also has trouble imagining other perspectives as a people manager. From the linked article,

> I do not get any sort of high from managing people. I don’t think anyone gets that same high from this role

Hate to break it to the author again, but some people actually enjoy seeing those they mentor/manage succeed.

Being a people manager isn’t the right fit for everyone. Perhaps being a developer in the next 20, 5, or 1 year won’t be the right fit for the same people it is for today.
by mk_stjames | 2025-07-05 13:21:45+00:00
This is a bit incorrectly titled, as the source denotes that the tracks are "Electroacoustic" music, not general "Electronic".

The collection is clearly aimed at presenting music where electronic triggers and some synthesis is used in concert with acoustic instruments or spaces, and is super biased towards "Musique concrète", and concert-hall, classical compositions for what I can hear, ala Luc Ferrari.

You're not going to see an appearance of Kraftwerk, Suzanne Ciani, Wendy Carlos, or Model 500.

This is less a "history", and more an "eclectic subgenre list by date".
by dang | 2025-07-05 13:22:19+00:00
I thought there had been more threads about this but could only find the following. Others?

Predictions from the METR AI scaling graph are based on a flawed premise - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885051 - May 2025 (25 comments)

AI's Version of Moore's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43835146 - April 2025 (1 comment)

Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758936 - April 2025 (74 comments)

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks – METR - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423691 - March 2025 (1 comment)