MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jwhiles | 2025-07-14 18:55:15+00:00
Thanks for the response, and apologies for misrepresenting your results somewhat! I'm probably not going to change the title since I am at heart and polemicist and a sloppy thinker, but I'll update the article to call out this misrepresentation.

That said, I think that what I wrote more or less encompasses three of the factors you call out as being likely to contribute: "High developer familiarity with reposito- ries", "Large and complex repositories", and "Implicit repository context".

I thought more about experimenting on myself, and while I hope to do it - I think it will be very hard to create a controlled enviornment whilst also responding to the demands the job puts on me. I also don't have the luxury of a list of well scoped tasks that could feasibly be completed in a few hours.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-14 18:55:38+00:00
Have you tried other forms of cardio?

Running never did it for me, I just couldn't stick to it, was always miserable and bored, etc. My main focus is strength training, but for my cardio cycling is what brings me joy. I would dread going for a run, but I excitedly look forward to my next bike ride.

Cycling, swimming, hiking, rowing, even dance will all get you the same benefits so if you're bored doing one, try something else - the important thing is to get moving, the specifics of the activity doesn't matter.

If you really want to get into running, and you have some green spaces or trails near you, give trail running a try. It's the one form of running I sort of enjoy - I get so bored on a treadmill or just in my neighborhood, but I love being out in the woods.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-14 18:55:40+00:00
Ah, thanks for the pricing link. I saw 'Kiro is free to use during preview' or similar and assumed pricing is hidden.

At $39/month, is 3000 interactions a high limit? I use Claude Code on the $30 plan (I think), and routinely hit limits. I'm not ready to jump to the next tier, though. I think it's $200/month, and the NGO I work for isn't prepared to throw that kind of cash at developers (I'm second-rate here; the science comes first)
by asib | 2025-07-14 18:55:56+00:00
FYI: I'm trying Kiro out now, and the IDE keeps popping open the integrated terminal window of its own accord. Has done it multiple times, including when I don't even have the IDE window focussed on my desktop. Every 5-10 minutes it seems.

Neither VSCode nor Cursor do this, so even if it's an extension triggering it somehow, the behaviour in Kiro is different to those other two.
Show HN: I Made a Product Image and Ad Cloner
by pvisilias | 2025-07-14 18:56:18+00:00
Hey HN, Since 2015, I’ve been involved in our family’s e-commerce business. Over time, we transitioned from managing over 2,000 products to building a brand with just 30. And as we grew, we faced one challenge again and again...

Product images

We rented studios, booked photographers, and repeated the same setups week after week. Still, it took a lot of time, money, and energy just to produce a single high-quality image.

That’s why I built XSocialAI-Extension. The Chrome extension lets you clone any product image with just 3 clicks while you’re scrolling. So many store owners don’t know how to write prompts, but with this tool, you don’t have to. Just right-click on any image and select “Clone with XSocialAI,” or drag and drop it to the sidebar, then upload your own product image and hit generate. That’s it.

I hope this extension will be as helpful to you as it is for my dad :d. I’d love to hear your feedback.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-14 18:56:26+00:00
> Wouldn't it be simple for those who buy it from the brokers at a markup to just get it from its original sources themselves?

In many cases joining datasets is both labor intensive and creates a surprising amount of new information, and there is also plenty of "free" data that is incredibly tedious to work with.

I used to work with real estate data for the government and if you search for any common things you might want to know you often land on a data brokers page even though property assessor data is freely available in most counties. The problem is each county has their own system of storing data and their own process for searching it. It's a lot of work to learn how just this one dataset works, combining this for all counties in the US is a massive project.

Whenever I buy a new home I always look up all my neighbors, figure out when they bought the house, how much they paid etc. Some people get freaked out by this, but this information is public in most counties.

By joining this data with another public data set, you can actually figure out which lender your neighbors used and what their reported income at time of sale, their age and ethnic background.

Of course there are plenty of other ways data brokers come across data, but even cleaning up and joining public data can require a fair bit of time and expertise.
by ted_dunning | 2025-07-14 18:56:34+00:00
It is illegal to spend state money (i.e. wages for state and local police) to enforce federal law (the feds have their own budget for that).

California law also makes it illegal to do federal enforcement with state resources and specifically makes sharing this license plate information with federal investigators by state and local police illegal.

This has nothing to do with the supremacy of federal law over state law. It has to do with who does the enforcement of these laws. It is similarly illegal for me to enforce federal law, but I am certainly bound by it.
Show HN
by prajwalgote | 2025-07-14 18:56:58+00:00
Hello Folks, since quite a while we had been working on an interesting problem which we have experienced and is known industry wide. As someone who works in autonomous robotics, we’ve seen how hard it is to debug hardware + software + behavior when systems fail in the field. Logs aren’t enough. Docs are scattered. People waste time hunting instead of fixing. Also leadership and development teams lacks track of what's the ground-level situation. This all info will be at one place.

I'm super excited to finally share Hexar.ai, a canvas based intelligent tool we've been building to help teams diagnose and troubleshoot complex systems like robots, machines, and embedded platforms. . core features: 1. Visual fault trees on canvas that map issues across domains 2. AI assistant that understands your system and suggests fixes 3. Inbuilt Web search to reduce hallucination 3. Unique multi-domain architecture with system level understanding 4. One source of truth for your engineering brainpower 5. Public projects imagine public GitHub repositories for open source robotics projects.

We're launching with a focus on robotics (like TurtleBot4 and ROS2 systems), but the core idea works for any complex system that breaks in the real world.

Going forward we will be adding more autonomy with a holistic approach which truly changes how you build complex systems or robots.

We’d love to hear what you think, especially if you’ve spent hours debugging things like TF trees, odom issues, or flaky sensors. And if you're building hardware + software products, we'd love to hear how you're handling faults today.

Thanks for checking us out, and feel free to drop feedback or questions - we're listening!
by fallinditch | 2025-07-14 18:57:04+00:00
As far as I know there is no definitive guide for how to carry out a 'digital privacy reset' or 'digital rebirth' - but your LLM should be able to give you good instructions.

To do it properly, not only would you have to change all your logins and email accounts, but simultaneously start using a new computer and phone. Also, move home.

In other words: very hard to achieve. But I wonder if there is a set of achievable actions one can take that gets you to 'very good privacy'?
by duxup | 2025-07-14 18:57:06+00:00
Oswald is a strange guy. I think if you made up a character like him people might not buy into your story. I think in the end he isn't unlike other strange folks who are in one way or another looking to belong somewhere and unable to find it. He had some sort of connection or attempted connection to just about anything tangentially related to what he thought his politics were.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-07-14 18:57:24+00:00
Beyond the other reasons stated re: regulations and law, which this government seems to be more than willing to ignore, the process of setting up reliable feeds of usable data between organizational functions can be more difficult than buying the data from an entity whose profit derives from curation and distribution of the same data. It might seem absurd on the surface but paying a premium for a repackaging of the data is often meaningfully easier and more reliable and you probably save money in the end. The TSA tech teams role isn’t to package and enrich data with useful metadata, with documentation and SLAs, and their incentives don’t naturally align no matter how hard a political appointee bangs a table. The data broker has every incentive however, and will continue to in perpetuity.
by neutronicus | 2025-07-14 18:58:00+00:00
At work it's supremely unhelpful. Giant C++ codebase, big enough to choke even traditional analysis tools like IntelliSense, lots of proprietary libraries.

I have found it extremely useful for spinning up personal projects though.

My wife bought us Claude subscriptions and she's been straight-up vibe coding an educational game for our son with impressive results (she is a UX designer so a lot more attuned to vibes than gen-pop). I'm picking up some computational physics research threads I dropped in grad school and Claude Code has been incredible at everything besides physics and HPC. Define and parse an input file format, integrate I/O libraries, turn my slapdash notes into LaTeX with nice TiKz diagrams, etc.

Hoping I can transfer over some insights to make it more helpful at work.
by Rexxar | 2025-07-14 18:58:07+00:00
> US is now only 65% and shrinking.

It's a fake news that just don't take into account on currency value change (euro has lost some value between 2019 and 2024). But if you look really want to look at it this way, I have a bad news for new: USA has shrink 15% since January compared to Europe as EUR go from 1$ to 1.15$.

If we look at GDP at purchasing power parity from 2007 to 2023 we have this:

- European Union: 31,162 => 61,217, +96% (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...)

- USA: 48,050 => 82,769, +72% (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...)

Which shows a slight catching-up by the European Union over the period.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-14 18:58:22+00:00
The American judicial system is pure theater. You used to be able to appeal forever. Then the government decided that was too expensive, so they changed it to like 7 days. Then that was too extreme of a limit from 'forever' so they compromised on 14 days. Your right to appeal expires in 14 days in the US. Also during those 14 days you are most likely in a detention center, or being transferred across the nation to a prison, so good luck researching/writing an appeal in those 14 days.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-14 18:58:40+00:00
I hate to pass judgement on the individuals who work in industries. We have families and retirements to secure.

But to me, this kind of corporate, large scale buy-out of residential property is immoral and dangerous to our society.

They tell themselves they're increasing liquidity in the market or that they're helping people who can't afford to buy, have a place to rent.

It's just excuses for taking advantage of a situation, and I wish what your friend did was against the law (or else regulated into oblivion) so regular people could afford a home in cities.
by belorn | 2025-07-14 18:58:53+00:00
A lot of people raised similar objections to dna databases, and later when those same databases was used by law enforcement. It did not take very long until law makers and law enforcement made i praxis that such data bases are up to grab for trawling through. Any objection is meet with the handful of cold cases that was closed because that trawling of data.

Sadly I dont see a realistic stop to the databases. If there are none, law makers will just dictate the creation of it. If there is one, they will argue terrorism or cold cases to start the process of getting access. If car manufacturers get gps logs, those will sooner or later end up being available to law enforcement. They currently have access to every call, when where and to whom. Every internet use. Every movement mobile phones does. Every payment through a credit card, where and to whom. Mass transports get more and more into personal tickets, and those get logged.

I hope we will see unreasonable searches to be expanded/enforcement against trawling of data, but i dont have any hope left to the idea that databases wont be created. Not even gdpr in eu stops law makers from dictating that databases must be created, or stopping law makers from trawling it.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-14 18:58:56+00:00
The irony is that this is probably true, but the greater project of suppressing any acknowledgement of climate change exceeds the possible benefits that aerosol injection might afford even to GHG emitters. It’s actually pretty goddamn frightening because it means these people are ready to take the whole damn ship down around them.

ETA: Don’t get me started on how weird it is that there’s a pre-spun conspiracy theory in chemtrails, one that makes zero sense but happens to align perfectly with making geoengineering even more difficult. But now I’m being conspiratorial.
by glp1guide | 2025-07-14 18:59:21+00:00
Retatrutide looks to be very effective, but it's not possible to get legally/safely at this point. TONS of experience/knowledge in the r/retatrutide subreddit though, a lot of pretty conscientious consumers in there that have done their research, but obviously impossible to recommend outside of finding a sanctioned study to join.

That said, Reta is a triple agonist[0] and it seems to be quite amazing with good muscle retention as well -- it's unclear if this is just the people who are taking it being more likely to be gym goers. Up until now the only formulation I've seen that specifically targets preserving muscle is GLP1s in combination with bimagrumab[1].

[0]: https://glp1.guide/content/a-new-glp1-retatrutide/

[1]: https://glp1.guide/content/preserving-muscle-glp1s-with-bima...
by grumio | 2025-07-14 18:59:41+00:00
ICE deports US citizens. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ice-deported-3-childre...

They're like the gestapo because they act in secret and hide their identities. They arrest dissidents because they say things the administration doesn't like. See Mahmoud Khalil. They're like the gestapo because hateful people get to just make people "illegal" at their own discretion. Half a million Haitians fleeing violence were here under temporary protected status, the executive branch is choosing to make them "illegal" and lying that Haiti is safe now. Half a million people were legal. Now they're "illegal". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/27/haiti-temporar...

They do not follow due process which is guaranteed by the constitution to all persons in the US (not just citizens).

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/13/rosie-odonne... Trump wants to make Rosie O'Donnell "illegal". What are your thoughts on this?
by jcranmer | 2025-07-14 18:59:55+00:00
> Good enough for a demo and it would have been difficult to come up with an alternative explanation for the patterns in the data.

For fun edge cases, there's always Antarctica, where you can travel from a US base (which looks like you're in the US) to a NZ base (which looks like you're in NZ) in a couple of minutes: https://brr.fyi/posts/credit-card-shenanigans
by epiccoleman | 2025-07-14 19:00:24+00:00
Same here - in fact, I just recently cancelled my Cursor subscription because Claude Code + VSCode seems just as good. I think Cursor is a decent product and some of the UX it puts around LLM interaction is helpful - but I just can't really justifying paying Cursor to middleman my requests to LLM providers when Claude Pro is $20 / month.
by Gormo | 2025-07-14 19:00:46+00:00
> I have anecdotally found this to be true as well, that an LLM greatly accelerates my ramp up time in a new codebase, but then actually leads me astray once I am familiar with the project.

How does using AI impact the amount of time it takes you to become sufficiently familiar with the project to recognize when you are being led astray?

One of the worries I have with the fast ramp-up is that a lot of that ramp-up time isn't just grunt work to be optimized a way, it's active learning, and bypassing too much of it can leave you with an incomplete understanding of the problem domain that slows you down perpetually.

Sometimes, there are real efficiencies to be gained; other times those perceived efficiencies are actually incurring heavy technical debt, and I suspect that overuse of AI is usually the latter.
by slg | 2025-07-14 19:01:58+00:00
>Isn't an atomic bomb just a scaled up version of a firecracker?

Yes and no. I think radiation is a big differentiator, but absent that, I don't think it is better morally or ethically to level a city with conventual bombs than it would be to do it with a nuclear bomb.

>Nobody denies that collection of datasets can have upsides. But the downsides are often not seen/evaluated accurately. And negative effects don't necessarily scale with the same power as positive effects.

I'm not disagreeing with this. I'm asking why this same logic is not applied elsewhere.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-07-14 19:02:26+00:00
I work at a large F500 company and I would be shocked if Macs were more than 5% of the total computer inventory. Excel alone is very sticky. Excel excerpts will tell you that Mac Excel is weird and does not work correctly.

Said as someone stuck on a windows machine with all of the corporate monitoring spyware which makes performance crawl.
by bcrl | 2025-07-14 19:02:26+00:00
There's a huge downside to poles where I'm based: permit shenanigans by pole owners that delay projects and allow incumbents to destroy competitors. Granted, some municipalities do the same thing. One local municipality I have to deal with responds to permit requests almost instantly, while another takes weeks of pestering to acknowledge even the most basic of permit requests.

For anyone starting out today, I would strongly recommend having a planned legal / regulatory strategy to fall back on in the event that excessive delays occur by parties you cannot avoid dealing with.
by pchew | 2025-07-14 19:02:36+00:00
Everyone is also glossing over the distinction that regardless of the actual amount, it's not at an actual voltage that can charge the battery to add mileage. You can hypothetically say that because it's offsetting the power usage from the AC that it could theoretically be saving that battery usage...but there's so many gross assumptions being made that it's a pointless statement to make, and it's all out the window the second the car starts the ICE side of the hybrid drive system for even an instant.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-07-14 19:03:16+00:00
They are producing less talent as industry defines it. It is because a large percentage of the people who could teach them anything useful (to industry) are actually employed by industry, and don't want to work in academia.

Another complication is academia simply does not have the resources to remotely compete with the likes of Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, etc.
by freedomben | 2025-07-14 19:03:19+00:00
I had the same thought, and even took on a few "customers" (local folks I didn't charge, but used as a test group). If I decide to do it "for real" I will definitely need to build a relationship with a person who can run ethernet cables through walls for people. I can do that, but the time it would take would not make it worth it for me.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-07-14 19:03:38+00:00
I also think that AI written code- is just not read. People hate code-reviews, and actively refuse to read code- because that is hard work, reading into other peoples thoughts and ideas.

This is why pushing for new code, rewrites, new frameworks is so popular. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

So a ton of ai-generated code- is just that, never read. Its generated, tested against test-functions - and thats it. I wouldn't wonder, if some of these devs themselves have only marginal ideas whats in there codebases and why.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-14 19:03:50+00:00
When I worked for the federal government I wanted to collect some publicly visible tweets (this was before the Library of Congress started to harvest them, and back when the API was better). As a government employee I had to write a detailed document of: why I needed this data, what PII would be stored, how long it would be stored and how I would ensure it had been deleted. Then that document had to be approved. Even though this is a project that any person could have done on the weekend, I still had to go through all this work for approval, the collect the data.

But you're proposing something even more outlandish, asking another agency for data. The politics of this are mind bending. If one one agency give their data to another and that agency is successful using it it will make the giving agency look bad which is unacceptable. It was wild how many times another, supposedly friendly agency, would not share data. In fact, I was cautioned not to even bring up the idea in shared meetings because it would create unnecessary friction.

If you buy it from a 3rd party government contractor, none of this has to happen.
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-14 19:04:23+00:00
No, "trans kids" don't get prescribed blockers just because they ask for it. Does a child just say one day "I'm a girl" (or boy) and then get handed blockers as they head out the door?

Of course not. There is an assessment period. They are assessed for gender dysphoria, and if diagnosed they may be prescribed puberty blockers to treat their gender dysphoria. And what is the criteria for diagnosing a patient with gender dysphoria? Whether or not you think the criteria in the DSM are effective, at the end of the day these are the criteria that would be used to approve puberty blockers. If you think these criteria erroneously include kids who aren't "trans kids" then we're approving puberty blockers for patients who aren't "trans kids".

Of course a longer follow up time is strictly better, but it's not valid to simply fill in a gap in data with whatever better suits your worldview. If a study measuring rates of detransition follows up with patients for 10 years, then patients that detransition after 10 years would not be counted. Is it valid to point to a couple anecdotes of detransition, and then claim that the study's finding are false because there's loads of people who detransitioned after 10 years? Of course not. But that's the same flawed criticism you're making here.
by tptacek | 2025-07-14 19:04:45+00:00
For anyone who doesn't know the area, Saline is adjacent to Ann Arbor, and along with Ypsilanti makes up a sort of greater Ann Arbor/UMich co-prosperity sphere. Saline is the kind of place you expect people to stand up a private fiber ISP; a place with an outer-ring suburb vibe, but far from any major metro, with lots of nerds.
by anthomtb | 2025-07-14 19:05:21+00:00
> I tend to stop running just because I want to work on something more mentally stimulating and tangibly productive

Maybe accept that running, or perhaps exercise in general, is not your thing? You clearly have more pressing interests and there are other ways to maintain good health. My grandfather lived well into his eighties with nigh a scrap of fat on him and, near as I can tell, did no formal exercise after his army days ended. My mother is on the same track despite health issue severely limiting her mobility.

I say this as a guy who rides an indoor cycling trainer 3-4 times a week during the winter and turns in to a raging jerk if he doesn't get his workouts done. If you're not a "gym guy", "runner guy", "biking guy" or whatever, why waste your extremely limited free time trying to become one?