MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by haar | 2025-07-29 14:26:08+00:00
I've had little success with Agentic coding, and what success I have had has been paired with hours of frustration, where I'd have been better off doing it myself for anything but the most basic tasks.

Even then, when you start to build up complexity within a codebase - the results have often been worse than "I'll start generating it all from scratch again, and include this as an addition to the initial longtail specification prompt as well", and even then... it's been a crapshoot.

I _want_ to like it. The times where it initially "just worked" felt magical and inspired me with the possibilities. That's what prompted me to get more engaged and use it more. The reality of doing so is just frustrating and wishing things _actually worked_ anywhere close to expectations.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-29 14:26:08+00:00
It's seems totally reasonable to expect that Norwegians, who are still dumb apes like the rest of us, would be at high risk of suffering from "trust fund syndrome". Just like the countless families (and handful of countries) that totally burned through every dollar they didn't earn.

The author is basically pointing out that the country is now pretty much a country of trust fundies, and that usually that leads to higher levels of directionless meandering and lack of ambition. Scale it to country size and you would expect to see stuff like insane spending without much discretion, and a general careless approach to life.

Other countries have that. Other countries have lots of waste. But it's totally logical to assign Norway as high risk for "affluenza" and therefore monitor it's vitals with that idea in mind. It's not particularly hard for ~5 million people to blow $2 trillion in a few decades.
by lowlystatsguy | 2025-07-29 14:26:47+00:00
Yeah, I actually don’t disagree with you. I’m speaking from my experience of being told that we don’t even want to modularize the code. It’s just slap the keyboard and make it work literally as fast as possible. The craft is anticipation of user requests, and not building it out in the moment, but knowing how to build it so it’s a smooth transition to the next feature. When you lose the ability to think (what I equate to focus time) before doing, you end up with unhappy developers, users, and managers. Every time I have tried to advocate for thinking first vs. doing first in my circles, I’ve met strong resistance akin to the perfectionistic claims. Even unit tests are seen as developers simply wasting time to make a product perfect despite said product already having hundreds of users and processing millions of dollars daily.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-29 14:27:02+00:00
> So a home workstation with 64GB+ of RAM could get similar results?

Similar in quality, but CPU generation will be slower than what macs can do.

What you can do with MoEs (GLMs and Qwens) is to run some experts (the shared ones usually) on a GPU (even a 12GB/16GB will do) and the rest from RAM on CPU. That will speed things up considerably (especially prompt processing). If you're interested in this, look up llama.cpp and especially ik_llama, which is a fork dedicated to this kind of selective offloading of experts.
by dataflow | 2025-07-29 14:27:06+00:00
Feedback: I absolutely love the idea of doing analysis like this, but it's incredibly frustrating to be shown photos that were clearly taken at different times when the subjects naturally don't look exactly the same. Like for example who's to say that player isn't actually leaning? The second photo sure doesn't prove anything. And comparing them side by side feels like an exercise in frustration.

I would probably (if possible) repeat this idea but with photos taken at the same time, with cameras as close to each other as possible. If at all possible I would also try to use as similar of a lens as possible, if only as a 3rd comparison point to compare the other two to.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-29 14:27:07+00:00
I disagree. People will always hoard a constrained resource. Things like phone service and AI tools find their value when people use them freely.

The AI models have a bunch of different consumption models aimed at different types of use. I work at a huge company, and we’re experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for users based on different compliance and business needs. The people using all you can eat products like NotebookLM, Gemini, ChatGPT use them much more on average and do more varied tasks. There is a significant gap between low/normal/high users.

People using an interface to a metered API, which offers a defined LLM experience consume fewer resources and perform more narrowly scoped tasks.

The cost is similar and satisfaction is about the same.
by 9rx | 2025-07-29 14:27:15+00:00
What's the problem? Only poor people care about test scores as they imagine high test scores is how one can pull themselves out of being poor. When you are rich you can also do pointless things just for the fun of it like build bridges to nowhere. None of these are problems unless you try and look at it through a poor man's lens.

Poorer health might be concerning, but is likely the result of the population growing older. More children would help make the numbers look better, I suppose, but, statistically, only poor people like having children.
by syngrog66 | 2025-07-29 14:27:38+00:00
I agree with much (if not necessarily all) of what you said, esp about foreign actors and adversarial propaganda and disinfo (APD.)

I worked on the latter problem space precisely for the US State Department. Its challenging, esp at scale, and esp if the folks trying to fight back are not given a free enough of a hand to do whats needed.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-29 14:27:43+00:00
Even earlier than the 1970's it could be seen that most MVP's primary purpose is deception, software or not.

A lot of times they can be deceiving themseles most of all, even when financially viable it appeals to a "minimum" type customer and silently excludes or alienates many other types of untapped prospects.

Why settle for the tip of the iceberg?
by somethingsome | 2025-07-29 14:28:08+00:00
I think both kind of applications should exist in parallel. I generally dislike current trend in professional softwares that try to be easy to use, at the cost of less power or more clicks to do a simple action.

Professional apps should stay professional and more time should be spent in training power users.

I'm trying not to mix with my own survivorship bias,but I tend to believe that current trends of design remove the existance of advanced users at a young age. The applications are so polished and limiting that you don't spend time trying to do complex things with them.

I find bugs in old apps were a feature for learning. If it doesn't work, you try to understand why. Curiosity is intrinsic to young children, until we remove it by giving them something that never bug or limits their possibilities.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-29 14:28:24+00:00
> allowing patent holders to try to levy (what amount to) taxes that are paid indirectly by the public.

What are you referring to here? The premium that a patent holder (one who created or purchased novel, valuable IP) is able to extract?

This is a reward for taking risk in R&D and for sharing the result with the public via patent disclosures, not a tax.
by dfedbeef | 2025-07-29 14:28:43+00:00
Here's the thing, it's probably not critical for creative works. You can train on open source code, sure. Reddit; sure, maybe.

But creative works... It's muddy. Just get a fucking license for copyrighted shit. It's really not even as difficult as people think; every publishing industry is so consolidated now that it would be entirely possible to work out some industry standard AI training license for publishers to opt into and pay some pittance to creators like Spotify does. Creators then have to opt in if they want a large publisher to publish their shit.

You can still self publish and retain all your rights; but 99% of people won't do it because... Idk they're lazy. Look at the music industry. Other than like, insane clown posse NOFX and $uicideboy$, most bands just sign with a label and let them work out the copyright stuff.

You then sign a deal with the label to train on the works where they own the publishing right. It's opt in for the creators, people can still make money from creating things. It's the same in the film business. If you want your movie in theatres you sign a deal with some publisher. There aren't really that many.

Has literally nobody in tech considered how doable this is? Or tech people are just so used to being able to do anything they want that nobody looked into it?
by Ragnarork | 2025-07-29 14:28:51+00:00
> Henriksen wrote in an op-ed earlier this year, might have been: The Country That Should Have Been Even Richer

What's wrong with not rabidly chasing bigger wealth? Why has this become totally unacceptable in this world?

This reeks of late stage capitalist views.

> We are choosing a model that is uninspiring for capital investment

Sounds fantastic in my book.

I also like that sort of example:

> His examples include $2.6 billion to develop a carbon-capture project whose commercial viability remains unclear

What if the goal was carbon capture and not commercial viability? What worth will be your commerce if we choke ourselves out on carbon dioxyde? That's also the concept of subsidiary and state funded stuff, it's not because it's not commercially viable that it's not useful.

I'm also unconvinced by quotes like "the country is suffering from the dutch disease" while Norway seems to have done what's indicated in such a case, through its sovereign fund. Another mitigation for that is to avoid letting in too many foreign investments in, to combat the currency appreciation that comes as a symptom of dutch disease... which this article presents as a bad situation.

Sure, the country might face a challenge as the oil wells dry up, and I'm not saying everything is fine (although I think a lot of countries would prefer to have that sort of issue).

I also think cost-efficiency should be a goal, and a responsibility of the state for state-funded projects and endeavours. I'm absolutely not absolving things like overblown costs and delays in big government led projects, this shouldn't be an excuse either (although the definition of "overblown" for delays may vary from person to person).

But his article looks more like people upset that Norway's money isn't going to them, rather than worrying about the fate of Norway itself.
by coldcode | 2025-07-29 14:28:53+00:00
I use a lot of truchet tiles in my art (https://andrewwulf.com), but I color them afterwards, which seems fairly uncommon (article from last year, https://thecodist.com/my-art-and-color-after-tiling/) outside of shaders. I focus on 2d art for print. I also use various combinations of 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 tiles, sometimes all in one work.
by normalaccess | 2025-07-29 14:30:14+00:00
I just don't believe that based purely on my personal experience. I've been around many many people and in the last 15-20 years the amount of people with autism has exploded. It was very rare 30 years ago in my area, the occasional led exposure here, farm chemicals there... But now it's seemingly every 10th house that has someone that is nonverbal.

I'm all for papers and science but only if it matches the real world.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-29 14:30:19+00:00
Yeah I think they did need to learn it.

They knew they were taking some gambles to try to catch up in the Space Race. The urgency that justified those gambles was the Cold War.

People have a social tendency to become complacent about catastrophic risks when there hasn't been a catastrophe recently. There's a natural pressure to "stay chill" when the people around you have decided to do so. Speaking out about risk is scary unless there's a culture of people encouraging other to speak out and taking the risks seriously because they all remember how bad things can be if they don't.

Someone actually has to stand up and say "if something is wrong I really actually want to and need to know." And the people hearing that message have to believe it, because usually it is said in a way that it is not believed.
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-07-29 14:30:37+00:00
Aside that space invaders from scratch is not representative for real engineering, it will be interesting to see what the business model for Anthropic will be if I can run a solid code generation model on my local machine (no usage tier per hour or week), let’s say, one year from now. At $200 per month for 2 years I can buy a decent Mx with 64GB (or perhaps even 128GB taking residual value into account)
by stockresearcher | 2025-07-29 14:30:37+00:00
Sure, a modern drivetrain and brakes would be a necessity on a “LeMond reboot”.

My new wheels have rim brakes - I would have added disc if I could. And the rear wheel/hub has room for an extra cog on the cassette. But I feel that once I wear everything out, I’m going to have to bite the bullet and get a new bike rather than fight against the lack of new equipment that fits old bikes :(
by Sayrus | 2025-07-29 14:30:38+00:00
On my Pixel, I'm always torn with using GCam or another camera app. GCam photos are definitely better on small screens, but every time you zoom in, you get AI artifacts, letters that shouldn't be here. It basically reconstructs the image from the original and blurrier photo. The other apps without these transformation lead to better quality on zoomed photos but the overall preview looks less good. This is especially true when digital zoom is involved.
by neomantra | 2025-07-29 14:31:26+00:00
Porting the ElectricSheep AfterEffects Plugin from Windows to OSX was my true first open source contribution (1999?). And that only happened because my friend was friends with its author and it came up when he was showing off some fractals movies. Then I said, “Oh I can help you with that.”

That OSS plugin itself was riding on the OSS ElectricSheep. All collaboration and distribution was via tarballs, although is on GitHub now. It was a trip seeing some code I wrangled make its way into commercial media, just organically.

The ElectricSheep project weaves so many cool tech threads together. Only thing is was missing compared to modernity is decentralized genome propagation.

Scott Draves, its author, has some great artist content too. He also spearheaded Polyglot notebooks, early on in that kind of interface.
by aiwinterborn | 2025-07-29 14:31:29+00:00
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by palmfacehn | 2025-07-29 14:31:30+00:00
"We need our social media companies to verify everybody, says fmr. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXqTMwN4MtY

At the time she was the Neocon Presidential candidate.

I've always found it difficult to believe that voters are capable of critically consuming information and voting for wars, regulations or confiscatory taxes, and simultaneously are incapable of thinking critically about propaganda. Under this model, the fact that some deceptive sources may be foreign is largely a red herring. The entire premise of Democracy rests upon the presumption that voters are capable of making informed decisions in an adversarial information landscape.

I don't see the desire to control Internet speech as a novel phenomenon. The rationalizations have evolved over the years. The proliferation of AI, Russian sponsored podcasters and Wumaos are iterations of an appeal to special circumstances.

If the West truly believes that authoritarians like the CCP are immoral and should be opposed, it stands to reason that they shouldn't be seeking to emulate the CCP's methods. That's the surface level, ideologically consistent view.

Beneath that, there is a rabbit hole of fringe theory. Like the above poster, I provide this information to better explain possible motives, without endorsement. In the conspiracy sphere, the PRC is regarded as a trial lab for social engineering schemes. The allegation is that concepts are ironed out there first. Examples would include: social credit scores, digital ID, Internet censorship and the confluence of all three. Whether these theories are true or false, it wouldn't be unreasonable to be wary of these outcomes.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-07-29 14:31:39+00:00
I don't think they are missing the point, because they're pointing out that the tools are still the most useful for patterns that are extremely widely known and repeated. I use Gemini 2.5 Pro every day for coding, and even that one still falls over on tasks that aren't well known to it (which is why I break the problem down into small parts that I know it'll be able to handle properly).

It's kind of funny, because sometimes these tools are magical and incredible, and sometimes they are extremely stupid in obvious ways.

Yes, these are impressive, and especially so for local models that you can run yourself, but there is a gap between "absolutely magical" and "pretty cool, but needs heavy guiding" depending on how heavily the ground you're treading has been walked upon.

For a heavily explored space, it's like being impressed that you're 2.5 year old M2 with 64 GB RAM can extract some source code from a zip file. It's worth being impressed and excited about the space and the pace of improvement, but it's also worth stepping back and thinking rationally about the specific benchmark at hand.
by _fw | 2025-07-29 14:32:01+00:00
This is exactly it. A lot of the author's comments about skin tone and 'flat' colour are spot on though.

To your point, take six steps back and use the 5x zoom on an iPhone Pro and you'll get a much better effect.

As they say, the best camera is the one you have in your pocket. Physics means it can never replace a large sensor with a large lens...

... But Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, The Beach, Trainspotting, 127 Hours) was quite happy to film 28 Years Later entirely on the iPhone 15 Pro Max [1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/28-years-later-danny-boyles-new-...
by osigurdson | 2025-07-29 14:32:07+00:00
Still, a service like one presented in this post makes a lot of sense. Usually there is a lot of inertia in orgs so even if AGI is achieved it could take years for them to update their systems. Also, if I have my own agent that knows me, I would rather ask it to make these kinds of calls (that way I don't have to even figure out what phone numbers to call). Basically the agents of businesses and customers should work together to solve the problem and only involve humans when key decisions need to be made.
by benreesman | 2025-07-29 14:32:19+00:00
This seems like a hard fight to win against determined network engineers without OFAC-level co-encorcement around spending money abroad.

I rent servers in Hong Kong, Switzerland, Tokyo, and many other places, and route tunnels among them all, and this is just mundane aboveboard stuff, many of the providers happily accept PayPal and crypto as well as CC and wire. I haven't even tried to design a system for evading this sort of thing, I can only imagine the ceiling is pretty high: QUIC and shit are increasingly the default.

I oppose this on principle, very much oppose it. I'm merely noting that until they're willing to start licensing the right to spend money abroad, they're going to have a tough time outlawing VPNs with any effect.

Maybe this pushes everyone to switch to Tor all at once: fucking with people's porno is a pretty quick way to move things around in the App Store ranking.

It would serve em right if this backfired massively by getting everyone to go cypherpunk by default.
by demarq | 2025-07-29 14:32:35+00:00
So if a rapist “changed” their mind on consent do we just let them go because we need more feminists?

Please do not confuse changing your mind with innocence. It’s all well and good to change your mind but accountability is still required.

Remember the movement grew despite them and will certainly flourish without them. Nothing will strengthen the movement more than to see these leaders brought to justice.
by atonse | 2025-07-29 14:32:35+00:00
I just started looking at photos and videos we took on vacation. I have an iPhone 16 Pro.

And when I use the Photos app on my Apple TV to review a couple videos I took, I'm surprised at the weird, wavy quality I'm seeing in them. It's really strange.

I will compare this to the videos I took with my Sony a6700. But until then, I'm surprised at how odd the videos looked on a large OLED TV. Might be compression from iCloud or something. Can't quite explain it otherwise.

I have no shortage of friends who asked me why I bothered to buy a real camera, but if you're a hobbyist photographer, it's nice to use a real camera and have full control. There are apps that do let you do this on a smartphone, and it's definitely more convenient.

But there's something about the real photos (with real Bokeh) that still look much better to me.
Show HN: Tool to track audiobook deals on your TBR
by will_beasley | 2025-07-29 14:32:39+00:00
TBR - To Be Read

This has been a hobby project of mine. It's saved me a ton and thought the book reading community as a whole may get some use out of it. It gets deals from across some of the most common audiobook retailers and displays deals that match the price point and percent off you specify. There are no ads, no tracking, and the code is under an MIT license.

tbr-deal-finder works by checking for deals on exported GoodReads, exported TheStoryGraph, or custom CSV (details in repo).

It works with Audible, LibroFM, and Chirp. I'm hoping to add EBooks at some point in the future.

If you're interested here's feel free to check out my project where you can learn more about everything it supports and how to install.
by bgwalter | 2025-07-29 14:32:53+00:00
The opposition in the West does not come from foreign propaganda but from sky-high house prices, sky-high education and health insurance costs and dropping living standards.

All of which is the fault of the establishment parties and not of foreign actors.

Even Trump now continues or, in the Middle East, exceeds the existing long term neocon policies. So the foreign online propaganda, which does exist, is completely overrated.
by aosaigh | 2025-07-29 14:32:59+00:00
These are some good examples. I'd love more on this.

I returned to amateur photography a few years ago (Fuji XT-4). I previously used a DSLR when I was younger (10+ years ago) but my camera was stolen at some point so I was left with just the phone.

I had started to think phone photography was catching up with amateur photography, as I saw friends getting great results with their phones on Instagram etc.

But I've come to the conclusion that once you start look closely there's absolutely no comparison.

One thing I've started doing is creating custom photo books from all my photos. It's really helped me focus my photography. When doing this though I've noticed how edited phone photos are, as well as how poor the quality actually is (particularly in low light).

The quality issue is understandable (it's physics). The editing issue is a bit more insidious I think.

All in all, if you just want to view phone photos on your phone, they look great. But if you're actually interested in photography and printing, you should get a dedicated camera.
by small_scombrus | 2025-07-29 14:33:06+00:00
> Wouldn't it better to already use the target DB to cattch potential issues earlier?

The target DB can change as a project goes from something mildly fun to tinker with to something you think might actually be useful.

Also I personally find that SQLite is just nice to work with. No containers or extra programs, it just does what you ask it to, when you ask it to