MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitbasher | 2025-07-23 21:13:50+00:00
I once worked at a company (4 engineers including the CTO at the time). The CTO urged everyone to push to master, and called me out sarcastically asking, "Why don't you push to master?"

I responded, "Because that's stupid."

I'm not very eloquent and I don't work there anymore. They are currently valued over a billion dollars (for now).
by thesimp | 2025-07-23 21:14:02+00:00
Bugatti has chosen with the new Tourbillion to go for an all analog gauge + button setup. Because handcrafted gauges and buttons (these days) shows of luxury. https://www.bugatti.com/en/models/tourbillon

A flat touchscreen in a car is something that is now used in anything from a base Fiat Panda to the most expensive Mercedes S class. And it all looks cheap because visually there is little visual difference between that and a 25,- dollar AliExpress tablet.

At some point in time the luxury car brands must be getting this feedback from their customers.
by jcalx | 2025-07-23 21:14:06+00:00
As supplemental reading see "bulk positive randomness" as discussed here [0]. It is tempting, but fallacious, to imagine "luck" as a zero-sum, EV=0 (or worse) process across every domain of life, where all upside or alpha has long been arbitraged away. Yes, there are some domains where you want to minimize variance, like the distribution of transit times to the airport when you have a flight to catch, or the odds of being robbed in a bad neighborhood. But there are also many situations where meeting new people, trying new things, etc. have many upsides and few drawbacks, and for most people these are (1) common and (2) recognizable.
by nicbou | 2025-07-23 21:14:18+00:00
I make it abundantly clear that I work at my own pace and that thins will get done if/when they get done. This is mentioned in any first call, and repeated as often as necessary. This is a lifestyle business and it will stay that way.

Nothing ever needs to be done right now. I describe it as a balloon that slowly deflates. I never need to pump air into it at a specific time, as long as I do it regularly enough.

I optimise for low overhead and minimal maintenance. Whenever I create something, I consider the effort it will take to keep it updated for years. I have finite energy, so I take on a finite amount of obligations.
by gizmo686 | 2025-07-23 21:14:21+00:00
The difficulty is that the more precise you make your recipe, the more you need to account for the specifics of the situation; which you cannot possibly know.

There is one time in my life that I recall legit burning a steak. I did what I had countless times before. Heated the pan until the oil started smoking, put on steak, and reduced stove temperature. Just like how I would have written the recipe before without a second thought. This time, however, the outside was thoroughly burnt before the inside even started to cook. The difference was I was using a cast iron pan for the first time, which has a lot more thermal mass than what I was used to. My old process relief on the steak cooling down the pan.

For recipes I'm reading, I've almost always found the temperature and time details to be nearly useless. If the recipe says to make at 400 F for 30 minutes, I bake on "high" (450F) until done. If I'm in someone else's kitchen, my cooking turns out a bit worse than when I'm at home.

This is a problem you always run into when writing down a process. You need to rely on the knowledge of the person following the process to apply it correctly to their specific situation. Trying to prescribe every detail does not work well.
by Footprint0521 | 2025-07-23 21:15:01+00:00
I’ve found from trial and error that when I have to manually type out the code it gives me (like BIOS or troubleshooting devices I can’t directly paste to lol) I ask more questions.

That combined with having to manually do it has helped me be able to learn how to do things on my own, compared to when I just copy paste or use agents.

And the more concepts you can break things in to, the better. From now on, I’ve started projects working with AI to make “phases” for projects for testability, traceability, and over understanding

My defacto has become using AI on my phone with pictures of screens and voicing questions, to try to force myself to use it right. When you can’t mindlessly copy paste, even though it might feel annoying in the moment, the learning that happens from that process saves so much time later from hallucination-holes!
by icelancer | 2025-07-23 21:15:40+00:00
We use them at our business for travel deployments/installs. They must be printed, each line item must be signed off + dated + timestamped in the presence of another employee on the same travel team (who attests the signature and the work), and they can never be electronic in nature except for the creation + printing of them.

Typically we have a non-traveling employee or manager do the final once-over and attestation, though they don't review the work necessarily. (Usually they just spot check the gear being shipped/sent to the airport, Pelican cases, Airtag trackers, etc.) This has been helpful for organizational purposes.

We don't even computerize them in any way outside of taking a cell phone picture of the final checklist and uploading it to a shared Slack channel for archival purposes.

It has prevented so many problems. It also fails to prevent some... which get added to the next checklist.
by jacobgkau | 2025-07-23 21:15:46+00:00
Seeing as there are only four items in the menu, it seems if you open the menu and want to get back to the page you were already on, you're supposed to just click the title of the page you were on.

The animations are a bit much. The scrolling horizontal rules repeating the words "AMERICA'S AI ACTION PLAN" underneath each "Pillar" header were confusing for a brief moment.
by RebeccaTheDev | 2025-07-23 21:16:35+00:00
Just wanted to say thank you for this service. I have a little homebrew clock I build from a Raspberry Pi and a small display in my bathroom. Below the time, it displays the weather forecast for the day so I know how to dress. That little clock has become an essential piece of my morning routine.

I switched to Open Meteo a few months ago when the previous API I was using quit working. It's been rock solid and such a nice user experience compared to everything else I tried.
by jraph | 2025-07-23 21:16:41+00:00
Interesting points. Food for thoughts.

I'd say it's not the same reliable. Manufacturing was doing the right thing but with a big failure rate. The process had to be refined. LLMs fundamentally do not do the right thing. They do seem to fake it well enough in many use cases. But since it's fake, it can only go so far. Your manufacturing example thus becomes an illustration of exactly what LLMs, for the use case we'd like them to address, aren't.

Quantum mechanics would not matter for most things because it's lower level, the same way your table's particles constantly move but for you the table is completely still. The gory (implementation) details don't contribute any unreliability at the higher, observable level. I get that your point is that the apparent particle chaos leads to reliable matter, but I don't see LLM "chaos" going anywhere coherent like this, where the particle chaos is statistically evened out at the higher level. The comparison falls apart quickly.

Not the perfect anologies indeed, and I believe the imperfections weaken the point too much. I'm glad you shared them though, I had to stop and think. However, I'd see how we might be clouded or sidetracked by the imperfect analogies, and I'd rather address the actual case at hand directly.
by yencabulator | 2025-07-23 21:16:55+00:00
My favorite part:

> Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest — with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output — yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones. Furthermore, the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of the same type.
by prmph | 2025-07-23 21:17:23+00:00
The KDE UI is actually a marvel of consistency, thoughtfulness, configurability, and beauty, IMO.

For your complaint, have you thought about the fact that those buttons are very useful when running in a virtualized environment (which many people, including me, frequently do)? It saves you from having to fiddle around with matching the key combinations for copy/paste you are used to on your host.

Plus, using KDE in general does not mean you have to use all it's apps. I personally use Tilix instead of Konsole most times. Just like most would probably prefer to use Firefox or some other browser instead of Konqueror.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-23 21:17:24+00:00
Funny reason there used to be double tracks almost everywhere that is now single tracked: while the government granted the property to the railroads, they still excised a tax over the portion of that land used by the railroads, so in the 70s when companies were going bankrupt left and right they tore up their own infrastructure to reduce the tax burden. Hell of a fuckup.
by AOE9 | 2025-07-23 21:19:44+00:00
> The last few B2B/SaaS projects I worked on had CI/CD built into the actual product. Writing a simple console app that polls SCM for commits, runs dotnet build and then performs a filesystem operation is approximately all we've ever needed. The only additional enhancement was zipping the artifacts to an S3 bucket so that we could email the link out to the customer's IT team for install in their secure on-prem instances.

That sounds like the biggest yikes.
by mreome | 2025-07-23 21:19:53+00:00
I'm currently paying for...

Obsidian Sync (Notes)

pCloud (Cloud Backup and Sync)

Pandora (Music)

ChatGPT (Misc)

ProtonVPN (VPN)

NameCheap (Domains/Hosting)

DigitalOcean (Hosting)

Interesting... it took me longer to think through this list then I feel like it should have.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-23 21:19:59+00:00
Taste and empathy maybe, but their choice of licenses, technologies and priorities can still be juvenile to the point of sinking their company.

Just look at the amount of excitement in their industry right now. New IDEs are springing up practically by the week. Are any of these new IDEs based on Zed?

No, of course not. GPL closes the door on that, and who would want to own a fork of a tool that's so painful to develop? Developers working on VSCode can probably do an average dev-test cycle in 1-5 seconds. I've no idea how long the Zed dev-test cycle is, but I hear Rust builds are notoriously slow so I assume it's more like 1-5 minutes.
by tlamponi | 2025-07-23 21:20:21+00:00
Yeah, the permanent MAC address (i.e., the one the card actually reports to the system not the one dynamic one it can use) would be the safest bet, as that is the most stable thing there is, and more importantly, it is very relevant for switches and firewalls in enterprise settings, so if it changes it's often likely that network access will be broken any way, so one basically can only win with using the MAC as main identifier IMO, at least compared to the current status quo.
by lucideer | 2025-07-23 21:20:34+00:00
Funnily enough the (only) LAN parties I ever experienced "back in the day" were pretty similar to yours:

1. there was one smallish computer lab tucked under a stairs in the science department in university, in which all of the computers had been "compromised" in some fashion & games installed for student LAN parties. Mainly after hours for those living on campus.

2. In the first tiny little company I ever worked for we'd have them in the office on occasion.

For your "traditional" types - how did people transport their computers? Laptops?
by icelancer | 2025-07-23 21:20:49+00:00
If I go solar, which seems likely, I will definitely not be sending it back to the grid since I don't think that's something that scales well (8-bit guy talks about it on YouTube and it's persuasive).

I'll be using a local / non-grid-tied system with Ecoflow batteries and a smart panel or transfer switch of some sort. IMO this is the best way to go when solar is non-competitive in terms of selling electricity back - also significantly more robust against disasters, since grid-tied systems do not work when the grid is down (something consumers tend to gloss over or be ignorant of) due to safety regulations.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-23 21:20:55+00:00
That's an interesting reference, but do our timelines really align with what was presented in (ani)matrix? Their timelines are quite murky, but it seems that in their universe things only started getting problematic between humans and AIs around 2090 and The First Machine War started in 2139 [0]. With how fast things are progressing, it's not clear to me that we have so much time.

[0] https://screenrant.com/matrix-timeline-year-future-when-sett...
by troupo | 2025-07-23 21:21:00+00:00
> So yes, it will be fixed, and the fix is easy. They just have to accept the fact that the "liquid" part

They tried it in betas. De-emphasizing "liquid glass" just turns everything into a dirty blur.

The difference from Aero is that Microsoft was smart and never applied the effects to contents of things: it was always in windows chrome, and never in the controls or toolbars.

Liquid Glass boasts glass/transparency/translucency/distortions basically everywhere. As betas show, they didn't test it even with the most basic real-world scenarios, and they cannot easily fix it without turning it off or making it quite ugly.
by caconym_ | 2025-07-23 21:21:30+00:00
The real question is what you yourself are adding to the creative process. Importing libraries into a moderately complex piece of software you wrote yourself is analogous to including genai-produced elements in a collage assembled by hand, with additional elements added (e.g. painted) on top also by hand. But just passing off the output of some genai system as your own work is like forking somebody else's library on Github and claiming to be the author of it.

> If the author's goal was to write beautiful software, that's one thing, but if the author's goal is to create <thing>? Then the existence and characteristics of <thing> is the measure of their creativity, not the method of construction.

What you are missing is that the nature of a piece of art (for a very loose definition of 'art') made by humans is defined as much by the process of creating it (and by developing your skills as an artist to the point where that act of creation is possible) as by whatever ideas you had about it before you started working on it. Vastly more so, generally, if you go back to the beginning of your journey as an artist.

If you just use genai, you are not taking that journey, and the product of the creative process is not a product of your creative process. Therefore, said product is not descended from your initial idea in the same way it would have been if you'd done the work yourself.
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-23 21:21:36+00:00
People don't know how to skim a text anymore.

I bet if you grab a random teenager off the street and give them a multi-page document with instructions and ask them to find a specific bit, they'll just quit because they think they have to read it sequentially from start to end.

Skimming the text quickly to find out where the relevant bits are just doesn't exist as a possibility for them

They'd rather listen to a rambling 45 minute Youtube video on how to do something and rewind it constantly and zoom in to see wtf is going on.
by AOE9 | 2025-07-23 21:21:59+00:00
> I think I may have identified a better canary here. If the CI/CD process takes so much CPU time that we are consciously aware of the resulting bill, there is definitely something going wrong.

CPU time is cheaper than an engineers time, you should be offloading formatting/linting/testing checks to CI on PRs. This will add up though when multiple by hundreds or thousands, it isn't a good canary.
by jfengel | 2025-07-23 21:22:47+00:00
So, you missed the part where "project 2025" is about the government ending access to this information?

And that this "private organization" is one of the supporters of "project 2025"?

This is not hidden. This is happening in public. And yes, the worst hasn't happened yet -- the government removing access to data that has long been free -- but if it does, would you agree that it is a bad thing?

If you think that the government should indeed do that, then this isn't a conspiracy theory; it's just saying out loud that this is a thing you're encouraging the government to do. If you think the government should not do that, then you should consider the evidence that it is in fact happening.
by humbleferret | 2025-07-23 21:23:09+00:00
This piece hits on the idea you can cultivate luck. It's about increasing your 'Luck Surface Area' (L = D x T: Luck = Doing x Telling).

My notes/ points that stood out for me:

- Actively seek diverse social, intellectual, and professional interactions. Each one expands your surface area for serendipity. TAKE MORE SHOTS!

- Don't go into interactions with an agenda. Real interest opens doors unexpected.

- Always aim for excellence. Even in small tasks. People notice this. A strong reputation pulls in opportunity.

- Give before you take. Offer attention, time, or resources without expecting immediate return. That builds high trust relationships.

- Share your authentic self. Put your unique thoughts out there. It's a magnet for those who truly resonate with you. Don't fake it.

- Host stuff. Simple, low pressure events work best. Taking the initiative to create connections is often more effective than just showing up.
by Pxtl | 2025-07-23 21:23:52+00:00
Ah, thanks! Good to know I dodged that bullet by blind luck. I had picked up a couple of USB-port charged version of one of those old chubby non-rechargeable lithium batteries that were used in early LED flashlights (CR2 I think) to resurrect some old steel LED flashlights I found in a drawer, and got funny fantasies about doing other devices this way.

I saw some articles and ads for doing it using 3.1V LiFePO4 batteries but I couldn't find any of those with USB charge-ports... I guess your warnings are why you're supposed to use the 3.1V Li-phosphates for that. So I went with the 3.7V LiIon because I really wanted that port.

I guess I dodged a bullet. Thanks for the warning. I actually did systems engineering as an undergrad (though I just work in software) so that makes me a bit overconfident with electronics even though I don't know jack about battery chemistry besides the basic theory. I'll be more careful on research next time I undertake this kind of project.
by meling | 2025-07-23 21:24:04+00:00
Interesting! I grew up before network cards was a thing in home computers (Commodore 64 and Amiga), but a group of my friends organized what we called «meetings» which I would characterize as your traditional LAN party. I remember at some point that we hooked up two Amigas over a fairly long parallel cable and were able to send data across. Cannot recall if we actually were able to copy larger files between them though. Fun times!
by TacticalCoder | 2025-07-23 21:24:14+00:00
> My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them.

I had many computers but not that many. Most friends would bring their own PCs.

Countless hours on Half-Life maps and mods, pre Counter-Strike. Then the Counter-Strike beta came out and that became our (full) life!

We'd also play Warcraft II on our LAN.

Now... Warcraft II wasn't meant to be played over the Internet, so when there was no actual LAN party, we'd simulate a LAN protocol using Kali:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_(software)

That allowed us to play Warcraft II with strangers on the Internet.

Wild times!

P.S: my very best LAN that said was a coax cable going through the window directly to my neighbours' house. Brothers in each house made for nice Warcraft II games.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-23 21:24:26+00:00
You...you know you don't have to buy whole shares, right? VOO has a minimum investment of $1.00. While I won't argue that not a single person in the country is incapable of investing $1.00, the % of the population that couldn't stick a few bucks every now and again in a free account is probably single digit.
by w10-1 | 2025-07-23 21:24:36+00:00
> Why did Java fail though

Um, Java has dominated enterprise computing, where the money is, for 25+ years.

There's no money in browser runtimes. They're built mostly defensively, i.e., to permit ads or to prohibit access to the rest of the machine.

> why would wasm succeed when the underlying philosophy is the same?

wasm is expressly not a source language; people use C or rust or Swift to write it. It's used when people want to move compute to the browser, to save server resources or move code to data instead of data to server. Thus far, it hasn't been used for much UI, i.e., to replace Javascript.

Java/Oracle spent a lot of money to support other JVM languages, including Kotlin, Scala, Clojure - for similar reasons, but also without trying to replace Javascript, which is a loss leader for Google.
by Jare | 2025-07-23 21:25:50+00:00
To be fair, the actual results are often even worse. I'm pretty sure we're close to the point where our favorite AI prompt replaces classic googling. While it will get a lot of the answer wrong, it will lead to the right result faster than plain searches. If nothing else, because refining our search at the AI prompt will be way easier than in classic google. Google knows and needs to stay on top of this paradigm change, but I guess doesn't know how to monetize AI search yet so it doesn't want to force the change (yet).
by bgwalter | 2025-07-23 21:26:03+00:00
The summary is that they want to eliminate regulations to facilitate the steal and disregard consumer rights.

And build data centers, as emphasized for the 100th time since inauguration.

If Murdoch succeeds with his recent WSJ campaign and gets Trump to resign or similar, brace for Vance and the AI bros. These schemes are literally devised by people who funded cannabis and Adderall distribution sites and have done nothing noteworthy.
by dang | 2025-07-23 21:26:24+00:00
Yes, it's tangential in the sense that we're using the word there: it veers in a different direction from the article.

If an article is truly inaccessible or illegible, then it shouldn't be on HN. But if it's readable-albeit-with-annoyances, then it belongs here if (and only if) the content is sufficiently interesting, irrespective of annoyances. In that case we want the comments to focus on the interesting content.

Not that annoyances aren't annoying—they are, and they annoy us too. But the cost of having comments about them is much higher than the benefit, especially because they're so repetitive. Annoyance comments also tend to get stuck at the top of the thread, accumulating upvotes and choking out more interesting discussion.
by cogman10 | 2025-07-23 21:26:24+00:00
And, let's be super clear, there is no "crime" that can be committed by knowing the location of ICE agents, particularly in the middle of a city.

ICE's jurisdiction is specifically over immigration and border control. They aren't going to stop a robbery, murder, or theft. They won't save someone from a kidnapping. The extent of their legal power is to terrorize undocumented individuals.

In fact, this ICE crackdown is very likely to make everyone less safe. Someone who's undocumented or, frankly, just a latino will need to think twice before they ever want to interact with any police force. That means less witnesses to crimes, less reports of crimes, less cooperation to stop crime. They won't want to engage in the justice system and in some cases might end up getting violent for fear of being sent to a sweltering hot torture tent in florida for the crime of speeding.

And, when there's a protection vacuum, what inevitably happens? People turn to gangs for security and justice. So many violent groups started because the Justice system decided they didn't need justice.

I know and have known undocumented workers that have lived in the US for decades as valued community members. By and large these are not dangerous people and they should get citizenship.