MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jksmith | 2025-07-17 18:42:32+00:00
It failed because the C family is far superior - in mindshare and commodity dev experience. Ada may end up with a win to some degree if it plays to a narrative that all software needs to be mission-critical, no matter what the domain. Maybe in degrees, but that's actually true these days.

I did some consulting at a major US car manufacturer, and helped with a coding seminar, mostly in java. A fair chunk of those developers struggled with a fizzbuzz exercise. All I can say is this: don't leave your baby in the back seat of an autonomous car just to get out and recharge unless you have consequential trust reciprocation with the manufacturer tantamount to shutting them down if anything tragic happened. Of course, even that price is too low.
by JohnMakin | 2025-07-17 18:42:37+00:00
I have an extremely rare autosomal dominant subtype of a certain genetic disorder that affects maybe less than a few thousand individuals at any one time in the USA. Much common versions of the disorder that affect children have been successfully treated/cured with gene therapy. However gene treatment unlikely to ever reach people like me because so few are affected by it, it's not viable commercially. It's extremely frustrating and I struggle with tremendous feelings of anger about it, but I can't really do anything short of become a billionaire and fund my own treatment. Such is the state of medicine for profit, I guess.
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-17 18:42:46+00:00
> Instead of engaging with this argument

What argument? You are expressing vague feelings of concern and stating incorrect assumptions. I can't change how you feel and those feelings are valid. They are certainly motivating your reasoning and leading you to the incorrect assumptions.

You are stating conclusions (e.g. "He will deliver a seemingly working site to his customers with security issues and bugs, and it will only be a matter of time for them to be exploited.") as if you have a crystal ball and then demanding that I defend this figment of your imagination.

> What I am arguing for is for using these new tools smartly and conservatively

You've moved the goalpost here. You said "These issues could be mitigated or avoided by hiring an experienced developer." Now you are back peddling, suggesting you actually meant to say we should use the tools "smartly and conservatively".

So how about you state yourself clearly: Can non-programmers use these tools "smartly and conservatively". And if so, why do you assume the friend I mentioned in question, someone who has been in the business for decades hiring for and delivering software, is incapable of doing so. And if not, provide an actual argument to that effect.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-17 18:43:26+00:00
I am revolted by this; no matter what price I end up with or how long I spend I will always suspect I have paid too much, which I have to feel as a personal fault because it means I'm a bad shopper or negotiator (if you can call it negotiation when talking to AI). It's bad enough with car dealerships; if AI lets this model expand to all products, then maybe we should call off the whole thing.

I understand there are cultures with more normalized haggling, so it's interesting to me that this might not be the most common viewpoint.
by efreak | 2025-07-17 18:44:09+00:00
> "Teddy," he said, "I'm going to pull up flowers from the flower bed.” "No Davy . . . pulling up flowers is naughty . . . don't pull up the flowers.” The little voice squeaked and the arms waved.

> "Teddy, I'm going to break a window.” "No, Davy . . . breaking windows is naughty . . . don't break any windows . . .” "Teddy, I'm going to kill a man.” Silence, just silence. Even the eyes and the arms were still.

> The roar of the gun broke the silence and blew a ruin of gears, wires and bent metal from the back of the destroyed teddy bear.

> "Teddy . . . oh, teddy . . . you should have told me," David said and dropped the gun and at last was crying.
by deaddodo | 2025-07-17 18:44:56+00:00
> mired by a designed by committee ecosystem

Can you point to a production language today that doesn't have a committee leading it's development?

C, C++, Rust, Javascript, Python, etc. All have committees leading their development. The only difference with Ada was that, for a long time, that committee was in the DoD (which has plenty of fine engineers, given it's practical achievements) instead of ISO/ANSI. And instead of being focused on general purpose, they had a clear domain they prioritized. That's different now, but it's hard to erase a few decades of heritage.
by microtonal | 2025-07-17 18:45:21+00:00
I was probably the Dutch ING or ABN-AMRO, we went through too many banks and between two countries :D.

The Dutch ING now has a new thing where you can verify in the banking app if it's them calling you:

https://www.ing.nl/de-ing/veilig-bankieren/wat-kan-je-zelf-d...

(I guess in some sense it's a step back because the bank is calling you again, but it's nice that you can verify it live in the app.)
by the8472 | 2025-07-17 18:45:22+00:00
Because the aforementioned built-in link obfuscation makes it hard to even tell if the link goes to one of our work domains. And pretty much all our stuff is behind SSO, so if something asks for creds that's an easier tell than hovering over the link and trying to figure out where it goes. And sometimes they introduce new tools on new domains that may be legit.

Generally clicking on the link is not what gets you compromised (except for some spearphishing involving zero-days...). It's actions following that which might. So they're barking up the wrong tree and penalize people for that. That's just chicanery.
by throw123xz | 2025-07-17 18:45:24+00:00
I don't know if you should drop Yandex or if the alternatives are better or not, but I feel that you're missing the point here.

You're looking at this purely from a technical point of view. That makes sense when trying to make the best search engine, I guess, but humans are not machines. You talk about geopolitics and search quality, when the guy you replied to is thinking about indirectly funding a machine that is bringing war to a country and killing people (I have friends that have been affected by it).

Your profile says you're "humanizing the web". To do that, we can't ignore what humans are and how we work.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-07-17 18:45:48+00:00
>A Delta spokesperson told Fortune the airline “has zero tolerance for discrimination. Our fares are publicly filed and based solely on trip-related factors like advance purchase and cabin class, and we maintain strict safeguards to ensure compliance with federal law.”

Convenient that all the discrimination will happen in an AI black box so no human has to take responsibility for the outcomes, or even acknowledge that discrimination may be occurring.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-07-17 18:46:03+00:00
The majority of arduino hardware, software and community development is now outside the "official" Arduino project. We definitely owe them a debt of gratitude, but the framework has moved on.

Every major microcontroller vendor now has development boards that have the standard Arduino Uno pinout so you can add cheap "shields" for prototyping. There are entire companies like M5Stack, SeeedStudio and LilyGo whose business model is providing high-integration platforms (CPU, touchscreen, I/O and sometimes an enclosure) that use the arduino framework but run on 32-bit chips instead. And so on.

These days, when you say "arduino" you're almost always referring to a framework and a hardware abstraction layer, instead of the Arduino company itself (sorry, mbanzi).
by daniel-payne | 2025-07-17 18:46:22+00:00
the issue of code reviews is a problem in standard node-red, the flows.json does not lend its self to git management. I wrote an integration between node-red and vs-code, it's in the node-red forum and the comment bellow.

It fixes this problem, and also fixes a problem of integrating with test tools and code coverage tools.

It's the old 80/20 rule, 80% can be done very quickly with easy to configure out of the box nodes, but it's the last 20% of functionality that takes all the time.

Dropping out to vs-code for this 20% improved my productivity a lot.

TBH I don't know how I would do a code review with n8n, i will need to do more investigation.
by juancn | 2025-07-17 18:46:46+00:00
Having to put contact information to get any technical info on a commercial product.

It tells me within 5 minutes that dealing with you is going to be a pain in the ass, so I'm unlikely to buy or pursue and I'll start looking for something else.

I don't want to be put in a sales funnel, not yet, I just want to be able to do some due diligence on my own for a little while.
by mvieira38 | 2025-07-17 18:46:52+00:00
It would, depending on some factors. The false belief that there were fewer female aspies was pervasive, for example, and that was troublesome for many girls.

Anyway, I suspect "in the past" is further in the past than you think: the distinction between Asperger's and ASD has been officially ditched by the medical community for 12 years now, at least insofar as the DSM represents consensus.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 18:47:15+00:00
> official retro-gaming is still thriving

The vast majority of decades-old games will never see the light of sun again. The companies are either dead, or the license is fucked to hell and back and split between too many parties.

And, even if you think it might be re-released, you could end up waiting forever. Not to mention a remaster is not the same game, it's not the same experience. A lot of people play retro games specifically because they like the retro experience.
by hollywood_court | 2025-07-17 18:47:20+00:00
A good contractor will recognize new employees with potential and try to point them in the right direction and give them guidance.

My first construction job ever was in the Caribbean. I got placed with a group of Haitians, and we were all laborers. We never had a tool in our hands. We simply carried materials, loaded things onto the roof, set up scaffolding, etc.

On my third day on the job, the leader of the Haitians became angry at me and kept telling me to slow down. I kept pushing and the lead carpenter on the job noticed. The next day, the general contractor (my boss) pulled me aside and said "when you come in on Monday, make sure you have a tool belt, a hammer, a pencil, a speed square, a tape measure, and a razor blade."

I showed up that Monday with all of the required tools and the GC let me work alongside the lead carpenter. At the end of that first week, the lead carpenter lent me a book that he used to learned carpentry while he was in a union in Wisconsin. I spent all weekend reading that book and I had tons of questions for him when I returned to work the next week.

I never looked back. I have since worked professionally in every single residential construction related trade. I am confident that I can perform each trade at a professional level with the exception of welding. I can weld. I welded everything on my Land Cruiser and I've welded scores of hip plates over the years. But I'm not confident enough to say that I could perform at the same level as a good professional welder.

But HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing, siding, millwork installation, finish carpentry, landscaping, and irrigation are all things that I can perform at a top level.

That lead carpenter ended up being my best friend I have ever had and he taught me about a lot more than carpentry.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-17 18:47:21+00:00
Good consumer protection laws are things like disclosure requirements or anti-tying rules that address information asymmetries or enable rather than restrict customer choice.

Bad consumer protection laws try to pretend that trade offs don't exist. You don't want to see ads, that's fine, but now you either need to self-host that thing or pay someone else money to do it because they're no longer getting money from ads.

There is no point in having an opt in for tracking. If the user can be deprived of something for not opting in (i.e. you can't use the service) then it's useless, and if they can't then the number of people who would purposely opt in is entirely negligible and you ought to stop beating around the bush and do a tracking ban. But don't pretend that's not going to mean less "free stuff".

The problem is legislators are self-serving. They want to be seen doing something without actually forcing the trade off that would annihilate all of these companies, so instead they implement something compromised to claim they've done something even though they haven't actually done any good. Hence obnoxious cookie banners.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-07-17 18:47:54+00:00
Does anyone know what design considerations, if any, might've gone into deciding to have 4 fingers instead of 5? And what tradeoffs that entails?

I actually saw this posted a few days back on Twitter and had been wondering if there was any deeper consideration for the number of fingers. It seems like you save around $10 in parts by getting rid of a finger, based on the information in the BOM.
by disposition2 | 2025-07-17 18:48:26+00:00
Based on the text of the legislation passed by the Senate, it looks like the ~$1 billion was for 2026 & 2027 fiscal years.

> (20) (A) Amounts made available for “Corporation for Public Broadcasting” for fiscal year 2026 by Public Law 118–47 are rescinded.

> (B) Amounts made available for “Corporation for Public Broadcasting” for fiscal year 2027 by Public Law 119–4 are rescinded.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4/te...
by bko | 2025-07-17 18:48:33+00:00
What's the gps argument? That intuit lobbies? In 2024 that amount was ~$3.8m.

Even if 100% of that is to make taxes complicated. Is their lobby somehow driving the complicated tax code and if we just tell them "cut it out" or have the government spin up its own TurboTax, something that other private companies have not been able to do successfully at scale, it'll somehow stop?

I don't get the point other than people don't like paying for stuff they think should be free. But my point is there is a real cost to helping people fill out their taxes, and I'd prefer that's done on the private side as government isn't historically good running at running tech companies. Either way you pay, just one you have a choice and it's explicit how much it costs and the other is another murky inefficient government run agency.

https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/turbotaxs-intuit-spent-re...
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-07-17 18:48:57+00:00
Yeah, mainly I mean I don't get the hype over it. At $28k with no EV tax credit it makes no sense to me. Just get a Maverick, it's actually got features.

My original point was that I expect a big difference in people's stated vs observed preference on this one.

Maybe if it was priced like a Nissan Versa.
by ajkjk | 2025-07-17 18:48:59+00:00
are you asking why it is bad as in "in what sense is it bad?" or as in "how did it end up being so bad"?

It's bad because it's missing most of the information it should have. look at https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_flexbox.asp for instance, it has none of the reference materials it should have about flex, yet it is in the top 5 google results for "css flex". it's completely useless as a reference (or for learning, really). compare to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme... which actually has the information on it, albeit in an annoying tutorial format.
by adanto6840 | 2025-07-17 18:49:00+00:00
I’m sure that structural engineers will be heavily involved. While there are some things to consider or worry about, I don’t know that any of your concerns are actually valid things to be overly worried about.

They’re certainly all solvable and I have no doubt that the PE(s) putting their stamps on it will have valid proven solutions that check out mathematically.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-17 18:49:00+00:00
> because so much well-tested and hardened code had to be replaced.

Not just software, entire systems. They built their own datalinks instead of aiming for compatibility with existing datalinks or pushing those existing datalinks to a newer version that could meet their needs.

In principle, that should have been their first (flight test ready) version. Just get the planes talking to an existing datalink network even if they had some next gen datalink target. But this is also a classic DOD project management problem. They aim for the full system instead of staging out a series of iterative versions.

And LM, in their infinite wisdom, hired more developers when they were late and ran their development in shifts. Because everyone knows the best way to get a late project back on track is to hire more people...
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-17 18:49:18+00:00
I see you chose to respond to my weaker argument and ignore the second: "A plugin is less secure if developed by a coding agent when compared to any possible programmer. Is that a valid assumption? Aren't all of the well-known issues in WordPress plugins the fault of programmers?"

You are also conflating professional engineering, a licensed profession requiring insurance, etc. with software "engineering". You don't want to admit that the quality of "engineering" that is available on Upwork or in the average contract software developer is likely as bad, in fact, probably worse than the latest crop of LLMs.
by espadrine | 2025-07-17 18:49:31+00:00
The best model there is 2.5B parameters. I can believe that a model 10x bigger is somewhat better.

One element of comparison is OpenAI Whisper v3, which achieves 7.44 WER on the ASR leaderboard, and shows up as ~8.3 WER on FLEURS in the Voxtral announcement[0]. If FLEURS has +1 WER on average compared to ASR, it would imply that Voxtral does have a lead on ASR.

[0]: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral
Show HN: Object database for LLMs that persists across chats (MCP server)
by kooshaazim | 2025-07-17 18:49:47+00:00
I’d like to use LLMs for remembering all kinds of things: fitness, to-do lists, contacts, bug reports, research links, whatever. But there is no way to do that now.

For example, if I find a great coding tutorial in chat, or tell it how much I ran yesterday, it forgets that when I close the chat. Even if I keep the chat history, I still need to scour through lots of messages to find the data I want. Ideally, Claude would remember all this, and I’d be able to find it later with ease. This is what my team built.

It is a collaborative database you add to any LLM that supports MCP. (Claude Code, Desktop, and Pro for now; ChatGPT will soon). You can add, update, and search for items in the database inside chat. You can easily create your own object schemas. There is an automatically generated web UI for using the database. It generates maps, charts, calendars, tables, lists, and other UI elements. You can share or publish the database as well.

Over time, we want to make this database powerful enough to make our lives much simpler by letting LLMs replace a bunch of the apps and software services we use daily.
by ilamont | 2025-07-17 18:49:53+00:00
> For some reason Americans are slow to pick up HVAC innovations that are common elsewhere

Few want to spend the money to convert older buildings. That includes homeowners, building owners, and condo/co-op boards.

Someone a few weeks ago posted a long essay about how much heat pumps make sense from an investment and environmental standpoint. It glossed over the fact that most American middle income households, when presented with the choice of dropping $25,000 on a heat pump/mini split or sticking with window mounted ACs and that cost a fraction in terms of up front costs, will go for the cheaper option ... or spend the money on some other home improvement or accessory like a car.

Not saying it's right, but that's the way it is.
by preisschild | 2025-07-17 18:49:56+00:00
Thats not really true. IRIS^2 is a joint project between the EUSPA and ESA

> The European Space Agency (ESA) is responsible for development and deployment of the system and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) is responsible for the governmental service provision.

The ESA wants to be the "space agency" of the European Union anyways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS%C2%B2
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-07-17 18:50:23+00:00
And even that’s imperfect if you miss an integration with an externally visible effect- for example an agent with web search can exfiltrate info via visiting specific urls with that log visitors- I’ve POC’d this with claude in the browser, although I only got a few bits out since you need to get N pages ranked on google to exfiltrate log (N!) bits
by ankit219 | 2025-07-17 18:51:08+00:00
Seen this happen many times with current agent implementations. With RL (and provided you have enough use case data) you can get to a high accuracy on many of these shortcomings. Most problems arise from the fact that prompting is not the most reliable mechanism and is brittle. Teaching a model on specific tasks help negate those issues, and overall results in a better automation outcome without devs having to make so much effort to go from 90% to 99%. Another way to do it is parallel generation and then identifying at runtime which one seems most correct (majority voting or llm as a judge).

I agree with you on the hype part. Unfortunately, that is the reality of current silicon valley. Hype gets you noticed, and gets you users. Hype propels companies forward, so that is about to stay.
by bananalychee | 2025-07-17 18:51:33+00:00
We've been there for a while. Most people get their news from social media networks that persistently funnel users into content silos that validate and reinforce their beliefs, and even traditional news outlets fall prey to biased and forced narratives all the time. Paid propagandists and bot farms have been adding noise for several years. You have to take everything with a grain of salt unless it's verifiable through citations from primary sources or references to data sources for statistical analyses, which are rare to find on news websites (although they are better at filtering out false rumors) and even rarer on popular social media networks that favor short-form text content. I feel like skepticism and critical thinking are trending in response, but that might just be my filter bubble.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 18:51:38+00:00
IMO the problem isn't that copyright lasts too long, although that matters too, but rather that you don't need to provide copyrighted material.

So basically Nintendo, and others, just hold their copyright material hostage to artificially inflate it's value. The scarcity around Nintendo games is intentional and purely artificial. This shouldn't be allowed.

If you want to maintain copyright on old ass shit, then fine, but you actually have to still sell that old ass shit. Otherwise what are you claiming copyright on? A product that doesn't exist? Why would you do that? Only for nefarious reasons.
by duxup | 2025-07-17 18:51:51+00:00
I want to say that I'm not sure 16 year olds are mature enough to make these decisions, BUT then I went back home a few weeks ago and a regional hospital is closing down because it was losing money, and the locals were complaining ... while consistently voting for people who choose to increase the number of uninsured.

So I guess my worry about this is pretty much the status quo anyway to some extent.