MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by justusthane | 2025-07-04 10:28:59+00:00
I don't mean this as a knock on OP, but it's not a new idea — I think the best known apps in this category are Soulver and Numi.

I find them super useful. Using natural language and storing the context along with the calculations helps me to sort of think through problems.

Being able to define variables on the fly is also very useful — I often use them for pricing out materials for projects. E.g.:

"8ft 4 × 4" = $15 "8ft 2 × 4" = $4 "8ft 2 × 8" = $12 "8ft 2 × 6" = $6.50 "3/8in x 8in carriage bolt" = $3.50 Adjustable stand "8ft 4 × 4" × 4 "8ft 2 × 4" × 2 "3/8in x 8in carriage bolt" × 12 Plans $12

(What you can't see here is that Soulver gives all the totals in a bar on the right).

Soulver has some examples of other uses on their homepage: https://soulver.app
by tkiolp4 | 2025-07-04 10:29:34+00:00
Ostracized? I don’t know. If the companies he works for are happy enough with his output, then what’s wrong? What’s silly is that we have to work for 40 years to afford a living place that can hardly accommodate you and your family. What’s silly is that you have executives earning 5 times what you earn jumping from company to company and doing nothing but maximizing their own profits. So, yeah, fuck companies. He guy is playing the game the best he can, and if any company doesn’t like his output they can just fire him.
by lproven | 2025-07-04 10:30:11+00:00
Um.

I mean, I like your attitude to the debate, but I don't really get it.

"A is not B." "No, A is a B, but B is not the same as A."

"Ah, but, there is no such thing as an alphabet, really, it's all just vibrations in the air or marks on paper."

You can dismiss almost any argument in science by deconstructing it to symbols and then saying that symbols are not real, but I don't see this as a valid contribution to the debate, myself. Your mileage clearly varies.

There absolutely is such a thing as "a tree". Trees are a real thing. They are an identifiable type of land plant.

But "tree" is a growth habit. It's not a family of plants. This is an important distinction and it's not a hard one to grasp. I still find it odd that it surprises people.

Similarly, I have zero time for this "no such thing as a fish" bollocks. Yes there is such a thing as a fish. It's an obligately aquatic, legless, gilled vertebrate.

It is quite easy to define what "fish" means in unambiguous terms that exclude tadpoles, axolotls, terrestrial vertebrates such as humans and so on.

The argument seems to rest on their being (at least) two families of fish. Big deal. Fish are real, trees are real. They aren't families, but they are identifiable groups.
by cmdshiftio | 2025-07-04 10:32:39+00:00
Conventional MSP wisdom says diversify your platforms. Support everything. Cast a wide net. We did the opposite - went 100% Apple-only for business infrastructure. Everyone said we were limiting our market. Three years later, we're booked solid. Turns out Mac-focused businesses (creative agencies, dev shops, consultancies) have been underserved by generic IT providers who treat Macs as an afterthought. The counterintuitive lesson: in a commoditized service industry, extreme specialization can be more valuable than broad capabilities. Our clients don't want 'IT support that happens to cover Macs' - they want people who understand how their creative workflows actually work. Starting to see this pattern in other niches too. Anyone else found success going hyper-specific instead of broad?
by johnisgood | 2025-07-04 10:33:59+00:00
"=~" is the operator testing a regular expression match. It should be obvious, because on the right side you see regex, and you ought to know what "=" or "==" does.

FWIW, I knew this as a kid, too, despite knowing absolutely nothing about the language at the time.

Anyways, you should read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463391 if you care about why I dislike the way D does it.
by Neywiny | 2025-07-04 10:34:06+00:00
In the same way "embedded" is relative, I appreciate the author's recognition that "edge" is relative. For some, AI at the edge means on-prem server farms. For some it means a mini-pc. For others, maybe an SBC. Here it's a microcontroller. Further still is AI within the sensors a microcontroller would talk to. That's probably just another microcontroller but still.
by MrJagil | 2025-07-04 10:34:17+00:00
My dad would go fishing on the beach with his formula 1 labrador. While my dad was in the water fishing, the dog would swim around him in circles. It could swim for an hour without break. It was very cute and impressive, but of course it would also scare the fish away. The dog would also be quite curious about the seals, but I've never seen them play like in the article. A lovely dog, but they have an uncontrollable appetite which can be pretty annoying.
by KronisLV | 2025-07-04 10:34:59+00:00
> "Now we don't need to hire a founding engineer! Yippee!"

This feels like a bit of a leap?

That's like saying "I just bought the JetBrains IDE Ultimate pack and some other really cool tools, so we no longer need a founding engineer!" All of that AI stuff can just be a force multiplier and most attempts at outright replacing people with them are a bit shortsighted. Closer to a temporary and somewhat inconsistent freelance worker, if anything.

That said, not wanting to pay for AI tools if they indeed help in your circumstances would also be like saying "What do you need JetBrains IDEs for, Visual Studio Code is good enough!" (and sometimes it is, so even that analogy is context dependent)

I'm reminded of rule 9 of the Joel Test: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
by jijijijij | 2025-07-04 10:35:33+00:00
That’s ridiculous.

You need a mg scale and pH strips as equipment (~ 20€, once); tap water, pure vitamin C and sodium bicarbonate as ingredients (~ 6€, lasts for many, many preparations). Aluminium foil to make any glas container light-tight.

The chemicals are food grade from your next supermarket or drug store. The "recipe" is used in some studies.
by closewith | 2025-07-04 10:36:21+00:00
> It is not so much the MBA approach than it is about short sightedness.

It's exploiting the economic system as it exists (which is short-sightedly destroying the planet and causing untold miseries along the way), but from a personal perspective, it's obviously the best option to cash in ASAP and live a happy and varied life away from technology.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-04 10:36:37+00:00
Reading this person's blog, I came upon this article[0].

I can absolutely relate. That was ten years ago, so I'm not exactly sure where they are, now, but they still seem to be going strong.

[0] https://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/
by lan321 | 2025-07-04 10:36:37+00:00
Yes, my point was that microwaves are advertised as a 'throw your lunch in and get it warm in 1-2 minutes' appliance, but kinda like an LLM, they require some manual effort to do it well (or decently, depending on your standards).

Like:

1- Put it on the edge of the plate, not in the middle

2- Check every X seconds and give it a stir

3- Don't put metal in

4- Don't put sealed things in

5- Adjust time for wetness

6- Probably don't put in dry things? (I believe you needed water for a microwave to really work? Not sure, haven't tried heating a cup of flour or making a caramel in the microwave)

7- Consider that some things heat weirdly, for example bread heats stupid quick and then turns into stone equally as quick once you take it out.

...
by tomhow | 2025-07-04 10:36:47+00:00
YC tells founders that one of the fastest ways to kill your company is to base your product on code that's not legitimate to use (i.e., that you didn't write yourself or that is used in breach of its license). That's because it's one of the fastest ways to kill funding rounds, acquisitions and enterprise deals. Not everyone listens or understands.

It even asks (or at least it did the last time I checked) in the application form, if you wrote your code yourself, to raise the issue of IP ownership/licensing from the start.
by danbruc | 2025-07-04 10:36:51+00:00
Amendment to the parent comment. Note that the arrays contain values like 9 and 10 that are not the XOR of 1 to n for any n but they will also never be accessed because when they appear in the array, then the index used will point to a different element.

Also because we end up back at zero when ever n % 4 == 3, there is some flexibility about the starting point. I wrote 1 to n because that is what the article used, but it would be mathematically cleaner to start at zero which actually changes nothing because XORing with zero does nothing. And we do not have to start at zero at all, we can start at any number divisible by four and less than n because the running XOR sum will become zero just before each multiple of four. So XORing together 0...n, 1...n, 4...n, 8...n or generally 4k...n will give the same result. The explanation part looked at one cycle starting at 4k and ending at 4k + 3 with the running XOR sum being back at zero. Maybe this would have been the less confusing explanation, just using 4k instead of using n again with the constraint that it is divisible by four.
by andreasmetsala | 2025-07-04 10:36:56+00:00
> No it's not (like OP's article says). With a calculator you punch in 10 + 9 and get 2 immediately, and this was 50+ years ago.

Your calculator is broken.

> With an LLM you type in "what is 10 + 9" and get three paragraphs of text after a few seconds. (this is false, I just tried it and the response is "10 + 9 = 19" but I'm exaggerating for dramatic effect).

So you’re arguing against a strawman?
by andrepd | 2025-07-04 10:37:00+00:00
> People will write lengthy and convoluted explanation on why LLM isn't like calculator or microwave oven or other technology before. (Like OP's article) But it really is.

Well you sure showed them.

The TFA makes a very concrete point about how the Whatever machine is categorically different from a calculator or a handsaw. A calculator doesn't sometimes hallucinate a wrong result. A saw doesn't sometimes cut wavy lines instead of straight lines. They are predictable and learnable tools. I don't see anyone addressing this criticism, only straw manning.
by KronisLV | 2025-07-04 10:37:46+00:00
> The biggest 'rug pull' here is that the coding agent company raises there price and kills you're budget for "development."

Spending a bunch of money on GPUs and running them yourself, as well as using tools that are compatible with Ollama/OpenAI type APIs feels like a safe bet.

Though having seen the GPU prices to get enough memory to run anything decent, I feel like the squeeze is already happening there at a hardware level and options like Intel Arc Pro B60 can't come soon enough!
by johnisgood | 2025-07-04 10:39:06+00:00
Thanks for the reply.

> Yes, but a lot of things are arbitrary in any language.

I disagree, but to each their own.

> Yes, you have to read some documentation, not everything can be immediately obvious.

I do not disagree, but I wanted to know the rationale behind it ("map!(a => a.idup)")!
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-07-04 10:39:11+00:00
This is my first time hearing about weever fish! Reading about them online, my best guess is that yes, our booties probably would work for them! The mechanism is very similar to stingrays, and they are a similar size to the ones we test with (round rays, about dinner plate size). To be clear, we haven’t explicitly tested with weever fish, so it is just my best guess.
by throwaway41597 | 2025-07-04 10:39:17+00:00
Not that simple. When carbon in the soil rises beyond a certain percentage (a tree falls) it'll convert back to CO2 because of the bugs eating it. But if the percentage starts at zero (in a desert) and an ecosystem settles there, the percentage will rise and stay above zero for as long as the ecosystem survives. Basically the plants generate matter as fast as wildlife eats it.

This sequestration can be long term if things go well or it can be short term if plants die in large numbers (because of climate change, diseases...).
by draga79 | 2025-07-04 10:39:21+00:00
I'm the author of the post. While I haven't shared all the details for various reasons, I can confirm the private contact wasn't made via LinkedIn (I also get tons of spam!). The author is aware of who I am. My aim wasn't to ask for anything strange; the software is perfectly okay as it is, and that's great! I was simply trying to ensure it will be supported and that I don't propose a solution to my customers that lacks a long-term plan.
by tkiolp4 | 2025-07-04 10:39:36+00:00
It’s not that I may do it for fun precisely. I want to pay off my house, but I don’t see myself working for the next 30 years earning as much as I have been earning in the last 3 years. Economy is going bad, countries are in war, and everything is just getting harder… if I can double my income (and hence reduce by half the time I’m exposed as a worker to this society) then I’ll do it. Juggling between two jobs doesn’t sound that bad anymore.
Unify AI Coding Tools with One Standard
by level09 | 2025-07-04 10:40:24+00:00
.cursorrules .claude.md windsurf_rules.md gemini.md copilot_rules.yaml

In 2025, managing separate rule files for each AI coding assistant is inefficient.

ARS (AI Rules Standard) introduces a single .ai-rules file for ALL AI tools, streamlining development.

https://github.com/level09/air

Join the movement to simplify and standardize AI-assisted coding.
by wvbdmp | 2025-07-04 10:40:41+00:00
This would certainly be possible if developers/corps weren’t absolutely gaga for piling up complexity and ceaselessly changing shit for the hell of it. Facebook could and should serve stable, semantic HTML instead of javascript-ridden, ever-changing div soup. It wouldn’t make their development work any harder. In fact it would probably make it easier.

Unfortunately, in capitalism that’s too much to ask, because it would improve everyone’s lives except the ad industry’s.

Perhaps some sites can be excused from this because they really do fall on the app side of the document–app spectrum. Google Maps comes to mind, but Facebook? They’re just bad internet citizens.
by Neywiny | 2025-07-04 10:41:01+00:00
I'll admit that there have been times I've been listening to those hour-long music videos (but not "music videos" you know) on YouTube, and only thought to check they were AI later. I was very disappointed to find out they were. Really wish there was attribution to the training material. The good news is that it doesn't look like this is AI, so we may just be returning to a time where physical appearance of the artist doesn't matter vs their talent.
by myrmidon | 2025-07-04 10:41:23+00:00
> oh well, we've tried bourgeois democracy and it was inevitably corrupted by capitalist interest

This is not my point. I think most western democracies do exactly what voters want against climate change: Nothing that would cost extra.

Effective policies to curb CO2 emissions are numerous and pretty obvious: Get rid of combustion engines, phase out fossil fuels from electricity generation, scale up electric grid interconnectivity and storage, lower emissions in steel/concrete production.

Voters are mostly not against those policies, but as soon as there are visible costs (fuel/vehicle/construction/electricity costs rising) or minor inconvenience (vehicle range) any progress gets firmly stopped.

I don't see how another form of government would help in any way-- the eco-communists would just get toppled before they could get anything done.
by favflam | 2025-07-04 10:42:31+00:00
You have never been accosted by police and assumed to be a criminal, especially in a country foreign to where you live? I think this experience would shed light on your question.

ICE is different from other police agencies. The "punishment" is deportation, which ICE insists requires no time in court in front of a judge to mete out this "punishment". And as we have seen with guy sent to the El Salvador gulag, "deportation" is not simply getting put on a plane back home. It means getting sent to a foreign prison or war zone (South Sudan).

So, you have a small risk of a catastrophic outcome when interacting with ICE. And you will have no recourse in court because ICE intends to make you disappear first. And for many Americans, this whole situation is an affront to American way of life (no due process, very nazi like behavior with the Florida concentration camp).

Lastly, the US is different from other countries because the states are partially sovereign. State law and federal law don't generally intersect and state/local police have no duty to enforce federal law. They aren't supposed to enforce federal law either. In other countries, there is typically a national police agency all police operate under and provincial governments operate under national law.
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-04 10:46:36+00:00
The problem is democratizing the one to many nature of broadcasts whereby competition drowns in noise. It is natural for people to want to lower expenses and maximize transaction quantity to generate revenue at everyone else's expense. The only solution for you, the person, is to not consume it yourself. Let the rest of the pigs have their slop.

The way to back off from that chaos is to ensure you are consuming content from people you trust, like neighbors and family. Another option is to self-host media.
by tkiolp4 | 2025-07-04 10:46:38+00:00
What’s wrong with the usage of tools? Before LLMs I was searching for “behavioral interview questions” all over the net. I was searching github for previous home take assignments, I was asking ex employees about how company is like, and what kind of questions they ask in the interview. It took time. Nowadays if I can save some time using LLMs, again, what’s wrong with that?

People don’t work in isolation. We use tools to enhance our productivity. If you ask me to write code in Notepad, I won’t be as effective as I could be if i were using Jetbrains IDEs. If I need to do some calculations, I’ll rely on a calculator rather than doing maths in my head. I’ll use grammarly (well, not anymore) to polish my non-native english writing… LLMs are just tools man.

If any, you want to hire people who are good with tools, rather than “geniuses”
by agwa | 2025-07-04 10:47:03+00:00
First of all, the project in question (Sunlight) is not a Google project and its author (Filippo) is not employed by Google.

Here's what actually happened:

2025-07-01 19:01 UTC: I suggest making some changes to Sunlight to improve usability of key generation and mitigate a potential misconfiguration risk with keys: https://github.com/FiloSottile/sunlight/issues/35#issue-3193...

2025-07-01 20:08 UTC: Filippo agrees with my suggestions: https://github.com/FiloSottile/sunlight/issues/35#issuecomme...

2025-07-02 12:20 UTC: OP emails Filippo claiming to have found a vulnerability in Sunlight

2025-07-02 13:03 UTC: Filippo replies to OP explaining why this is not a vulnerability (an assessment which I agree with entirely): https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/qboz9...

2025-07-02 16:41 UTC: Filippo implements my suggestions

I don't know if it's a coincidence that OP emailed Filippo in the 20 hours between Filippo agreeing with my suggestions and implementing my suggestions, or if OP saw my suggestions in the Sunlight issue tracker and decided to make a mountain out of a molehill. Either way - the changes were always going to happen regardless of OP.
by richardw | 2025-07-04 10:47:46+00:00
Surely you can’t be too surprised. The market is pushing for move-fast high polish, speed over substance. You can just do things, move fast and break things, etc. Velocity is the moat, indeed.

This is the market YC is breeding. When these guys float to the surface, what did you think would happen?

YC, you’re one of the greatest generators of value ever. Do better.
by reify | 2025-07-04 10:48:18+00:00
I would be more interested in how many of those arrested were actually charged with an offence.

The police arrest thousands of people every day and most are released without charge.

we must ask, why have they released so much footage. Is the footage selective?

Does it show how wonderfully human they are when making an arrest.

does it show that facial recognition is not racist against young black men.

what about the withheld footage that shows they are violent facist animals.

The MSM bigging up copaganda
by scrubs | 2025-07-04 10:49:12+00:00
"Don’t get me wrong, I’m not rah rah rah America at all, I think the countries policies suck on a lot of levels"

The most direct, biting, focused, insightful criticism on America? Americans via familiarity breeds contempt.

Europe has a fundamentally different approach than does America.

Let me work this the other way as a half serious half not serious question to show the possible impasse to making the jump into the other's perspective: how did the bureaucrats in Brussels become so powerful and unbeatable that the UK wanted out?
by Arnavion | 2025-07-04 10:49:42+00:00
>Have you actually ever encountered such a bug in tmux though? Because I've been using it for around 15 years and can honestly say I haven't.

Since you asked, once every few months or so the whole server crashes which takes out all my windows. I don't know what exactly triggers it, other than it being something to do with pasting, and it's so infrequent that I haven't bothered to investigate it. Obviously the trivial repro of just pasting the same thing I tried to paste the first time doesn't repro it; I'd need to gdb the coredump, which is :effort:

I wouldn't expect this Rust rewrite or any other rewrite to fix it in any case; it would be more efficient to figure out the crash and fix it in the original C version.
by wvbdmp | 2025-07-04 10:51:10+00:00
I’m more on HTMX’s side of this discourse, but even going all-in on Separation Of Concerns one can’t ignore that different concerns doesn’t mean siloing everything off from each other. There must be interfaces/contracts between concerns and CSS Zen Garden teaches us one such interface: the markup. As long as it’s stable, you can separate styling concerns from it. Bonus points if it’s also sane and semantic.
by William_BB | 2025-07-04 10:51:19+00:00
It's mathematically sound and the quantum primitives it uses are well understood.

The limiting factor in practice, as with everything quantum, is noise. You are right -- we don't know for certain until it's implemented. I suppose it's part of a bigger question: whether quantum computing will work at all. My knowledge of quantum hardware is limited, so I can't really comment more on this.
by RyukuLogos | 2025-07-04 10:51:23+00:00
If you're searching for a new path beyond Transformers, if you feel something is missing in today’s AI—maybe it’s rhythm.

I’m not a researcher. I don’t have a degree. But over the past 3 months, I developed a new architecture called RAIN: Rhythm is All You Need.

It treats perception as resonance across time, using temporal layers instead of static embeddings. It’s a rhythm-based approach to cognition, multi-modal integration, and possibly… empathy.

https://medium.com/@rikudatian0/why-music-moves-you-and-ai-c... full theory & background inside. I’d love feedback or even a team crazy enough to try building this.