MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mopsi | 2025-07-06 19:49:21+00:00
The one seen in the video is a fancy store. There were far worse ones that had literally nothing for sale, just empty shelves, with employees sitting on their asses all day long, staring blankly out the window and waiting for their shift to end. Even if you were the Soviet equivalent of an Apple engineer, you still needed a small patch of land somewhere to grow vegetables and barter with others, otherwise you'd starve. An insane level of poverty by Western standards.
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-06 19:50:00+00:00
My SO's inner child loves dinos, so of course we just had to see the new Jurassic movie. Script was so obviously checkbox driven we laughed at that many times.

Afterwards I commented that it would have been interesting to see someone do something entirely fresh with the dino genre. Like how Logan did a new spin on the X-men franchise.
by bgnn | 2025-07-06 19:50:21+00:00
I think this isn't going to hapen. The economy of the scale favors monoculture and it combines well with automation. The most likely outcome will be that combine harvester not requiring a driver and a synchronous operation of multiple harvesters as a robot swarm such that much bigger fields than currently possible could be worked: monoculture at a much bigger scale.
by gblargg | 2025-07-06 19:50:23+00:00
I read it as the opposite, trying to help them process it as not something deeply malicious targeting them. I'm thankful of the times I took something deeply, then realized it was something else and had a change of heart. This is ultimately what trauma and processing is about: something blindsided you and your initial response is a large field of shock and avoidance, then slowly you process it until you have a practical approach to deal with the thing next time, so it doesn't blindside you again.
by romaaeterna | 2025-07-06 19:50:40+00:00
I read Beowulf to my kids (in Tolkien's translation) when they were 3 and 5. They really got into it, and seemed to pick up the plot without my explaining it to them. When Æscher was killed, my 3yo called out "Beowulf should have been there!" Epic poetry is concrete and visual, and doesn't ask much of a listener, compared to other forms of poetry. It's great for kids.

I've read them various poems from the Exeter book, but it's never been a success, even when I explain the answer. On the other hand, they're more interested in riddles now, so it might work.

I got them to sit through The Dream of the Rood, and my explanation of it, but it was a real stretch.

So for kids, Beowulf is best.
by m4rtink | 2025-07-06 19:51:14+00:00
Well, that's just because Earth and moon are too far apart and don't both have an atmosphere. If they were closer, you could totally do that, just watch for the microgravity around the barycenter.

Better still, you could do that even with a hit air baloon and late middle-age technology! There is even a SF book series about that:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged_Astronauts
by adamgordonbell | 2025-07-06 19:51:25+00:00
Love TAL. Been trying copy and learn from Ira Glass, and his many producers forever.

Some episodes hit so hard they can change how you think about something.

There is a fun graphic novel about how TAL and other narrative radio shows are made. I forget it's name, buts its great.

They also briefly had a TV show that I liked and spun off serial and many other shows and introduced me and the world to David Sedaris.
by 9x39 | 2025-07-06 19:51:34+00:00
>2. You ARE hurting the underpaid, exploited worker.

This is just hope for the hopeless. If an adult needs the few dollars, they have bigger problems.

If you can solve the coordination problem between diners and the explosion of tipping (largely due to employers trying to fight for unskilled workers by promising some extra tip revenue) the tipping might be extinguished entirely and a correction can occur.
by hdivider | 2025-07-06 19:51:36+00:00
I think it's partly because we all just have way too much to do. Every day. All day. And the harder you work, it seems the more you have to do. On top of cognitive processing of all the ambient events in our time, which is a heavy load just by itself.

Most of the time, AI tools promise to be timesavers. So it's natural many folks look for shortcuts. We're simply overloaded, partly due to current situations generated by existing machine learning tools deployed elsewhere in the system.
by pstuart | 2025-07-06 19:51:45+00:00
My point is that this is a problem that can be solved, the only thing stopping us is us.

As this thread happening in a post about machinations by the current regime, the likelihood of it being solved (let alone correctly) borders on near impossible. The only thing that they'll do that will affect this is take away reproductive rights and that will lead to more unplanned births.
by zvr | 2025-07-06 19:51:51+00:00
Of course, the Brotli default (built-in) dictionary is infamous for containing such strings like "Holy Roman Emperor", "Confederate States", "Dominican Republic", etc., due to the way it was created. One can see the whole dictionary in https://gist.github.com/duskwuff/8a75e1b5e5a06d768336c8c7c37....

Having a dictionary created by actual content to be compressed will end up with a very different dictionary.
by 3yanlis1bos | 2025-07-06 19:52:05+00:00
Hey, thanks for the spot-on questions and the encouragement! You made me remember my initial plan to add a reference to the crowd counting dataset I have used as the ground truth. You can find the link to the dataset in the About page (the ? icon) now. These datasets typically include crowd annotations every image where every person is annotated with head locations (and sometimes the head size) so rendering that was trivial. I actually do show the accuracy of the individual guesses at the end (with the summary of every round) and during the game (with that animated accuracy ruler). It would be great to find out if they are not working properly or not explanatory enough.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-06 19:52:10+00:00
Disagree--it's not that it works differently, but whether the effect is desirable.

There's always a balance between focusing on the task and dealing with the world. Adderall always turns up the focus. It's just that's a beneficial effect for those who didn't have enough focus, often an undesirable effect for those who already had enough.

Saying it works differently on ADHD brains is like saying the furnace works differently on winter weather than on summer weather.
by heraclius1729 | 2025-07-06 19:53:03+00:00
Regarding sniffing out "networker"s. At one of the first "networking" events I attended, I spoke for a bit with a particular person. An hour or two later, we ended up in the same circle and he proceeded to rattle off from memory everything I had told him about myself. I think he had meant to show off how well he was listening or something... it was more than a little off-putting.
by const_cast | 2025-07-06 19:53:11+00:00
The zoomer interpretation of "ick" is just an extension of patriarchal attitudes. It means "anything that does not perform masculinity to an adequate degree". Fruity drinks, splitting bills, wearing strange colors or patterns, even having well-groomed nails.

It's childish, it's petty, and it's self-defeating. Most women I know are in a vicious cycle of misogyny because they actively optimize for misogynistic men without knowing it. They then come to the conclusion that men must suck, so they tighten their "standards", which inadvertently results in even more misogynistic men going for them.

We often hear about gen-z men becoming more conservative but anyone who is paying attention knows that gen-z women are also becoming more conservative. And, a lot of the conservatism in men is in response to growing conservative attitudes in women, and vice-versa. We have trad wives and bio-essentialist ideology because conservative men exist. And they exist because they meet our arbitrary patriarchal standards, even the small ones, like paying for the bill.
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by aroojjaved | 2025-07-06 19:53:18+00:00
Hi HN

I just released an open-source tool that helps support teams using JIRA to proactively manage ticket SLAs and predict potential breaches before they occur.

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by simonw | 2025-07-06 19:53:27+00:00
Yes, I was memorizing the stuff.

The reason I used to stick to just a very small set of languages that I knew inside out is that because I was using them on a daily basis I was extremely productive at writing code in them.

Why write code in Go where I have to stop and look things up every few minutes when I could instead of use Python where I have to look things up about once an hour?

LLMs have fixed that for me.

> Also by the time I need to code, I need factual information, not generated examples which can be wrong.

If those generated examples are wrong I find out about 30 seconds later when I run the code: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/hallucinations-in-code/
by Retric | 2025-07-06 19:54:32+00:00
Which is can be used for a range of things but doesn’t remove the need for independent testing.

To use one tiny concrete example. Someone who isn’t aware of U+0022 + U+201C quotation marks will happily use U+0022 everywhere without ever considering the very slightly more aesthetically pleasing option. Independent validation is about redundancy, ideally you don’t want anything to reach that stage but people are really bad at testing for issues the’ve never considered. Usability in terms of colorblindness not just actual blindness yadda yadda good testing is really involved.
by ruszki | 2025-07-06 19:54:42+00:00
Smart phones? Mobile internet? Streaming? Steam? Almost none of these were used, or very-very few people in 2005, if they existed at all. The internet of 2005 was completely different than 2015. But heck even in real life. My home country’s weather was very different in 2005 than 10 years later. Cheap flight tickets started to change our travelling pattern completely. Even my parents started to not watch TV before 2015. We had 3 TVs in 2005 in a home. In 2015 the same family had 1 in 3 different flats. And that was used rarely. Very rarely. The consumption of news changed completely.

So what are you talking about?
by handfuloflight | 2025-07-06 19:54:49+00:00
For a subset of these detractors, it's their investment and personal moat building into learning syntax which is now being threatened to be obsoleted by natural language programming. Now people with domain knowledge are able to become developers, whereas previously domain experts relied on syntax writers to translate their requirements into reality.

The syntax writers may say: "I do more than write syntax! I think in systems, logic, processes, limits, edge cases, etc."

The response to that is: you don't need syntax to do that, yet until now syntax was the barrier to technical expression.

So ironically, when they show anger it is a form of hypocrisy: they already know that knowing how to write specific words is power. They're just upset that the specific words that matter have changed.
by scanny | 2025-07-06 19:54:55+00:00
QGIS for ArcMap/ArcGIS Geoserver for their REST based servers (ArcGIS Enterprise). GRASS and GDAL do the leg work of much processing found in the spatial toolboxes and such.

However those tools do not have the polish that ESRI kit does, but at leas you’re not paying the licensing!

- former ESRI consultant
by spacemule | 2025-07-06 19:55:10+00:00
I was thinking the same. When a person starts repeating what I said back to me, especially if it's nothing outrageous, it feels like I'm being interrogated. My response is to deny. E.g.:

> Me: Last week I went to the beach.

> Conversational adversary: You went to the beach last week?

> Me: No.

Maybe this explains why I don't have many friends.
by mrlesk | 2025-07-06 19:55:30+00:00
I threw Claude Code at an existing codebase a few months back and quickly quit— untangling its output was slower than writing from scratch. The fix turned out to be process, not model horsepower.

Iteration timeline

==================

• 50 % task success - added README.md + CLAUDE.md so the model knew the project.

• 75 % - wrote one markdown file per task; Codex plans, Claude codes.

• 95 %+ - built Backlog.md, a CLI that turns a high-level spec into those task files automatically (yes, using Claude/Codex to build the tool).

Three step loop that works for me 1. Generate tasks - Codex / Claude Opus → self-review.

2. Generate plan - same agent, “plan” mode → tweak if needed.

3. Implement - Claude Sonnet / Codex → review & merge.

For simple features I can even run this from my phone: ChatGPT app (Codex) → GitHub app → ChatGPT app → GitHub merge.

Repo: https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.md

Would love feedback and happy to answer questions!
by 4b11b4 | 2025-07-06 19:55:55+00:00
this inspires a HN viewer that uses an LLM given "dun want AI hype" to filter out AI related posts

or a more complicated prompt to include "machine learning" or computer vision, etc

or another method... such as filtering on tags is there a HN viewer with tags...?

found this HN post from 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988
by kragen | 2025-07-06 19:55:57+00:00
Oh! I usually think of availability as an advantage for 74HC (maybe not 74HCT) over 74LS, but maybe that's not the case where you are. Local availability is a real advantage.

The electronics parts stores in my town (Morón), which are several blocks from my house, have a fairly limited part selection, mostly for repair purposes. So part availability is a very significant concern. I was shocked to find last month that one of them didn't even have a TL431! But another one on the same block did.

I thought I'd check Digi-Key, but it seems like 74AS244 is even more than US$4 there in onesies: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments.... However, a CMOS 74AHC244 (nominally something like 5.5ns to the AS244's 6.2ns) is only 27¢: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments...

At Digi-Key, the CMOS parts have better availability in this case, but that says nothing about the availability at the corner store.

Thank you for explaining!
by ryandrake | 2025-07-06 19:56:37+00:00
Yea, the problem is the combination of the form factor and the content.

If only the phone was available, and there was no stream of online content, this wouldn't be a problem. Also, if the online content was available, but no phones to look at it on-the-go, it would also not be a problem. Both of these things existed in the past, too, but only when they were hooked up together did it become the problem we see today.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-06 19:57:54+00:00
Consistency has been on the decline within Apple apps for sure, but it gets much worse after introducing cross platform apps into the mix.

The main one I end up missing most is the swipe to go back gesture within apps. It comes for “free” when using UIKit and SwiftUI navigation primitives (UINavigationController, UISplitViewController, and their SwiftUI counterparts) but it’s almost always missing from apps built with React Native and such.
by RugnirViking | 2025-07-06 19:58:03+00:00
No. It will give you a long answer with correct grammar, punctuation, use of wide vocabulary, and persuasive sounding arguments. What we are learning nowadays is that among humans, that is highly correlated with highly intelligent, substantive answers from intelligent, practiced subject matter experts.

Among AIs, such text is merely correlated with having read a lot of literature. It's sometimes right. It's sometimes wrong. But you don't know, and any attempt to defer to "oh well it sounds persuasive", which may have served you okay with smart humans, will end up failing in spectacular and unpredictable ways.

I do not say this because I don't find AI's interesting, or even useful. They are, for tasks they are suited too. But there are so many people essentially arguing they are suited to all tasks, which they clearly aren't
by const_cast | 2025-07-06 19:58:33+00:00
They are, but they're correct that attitudes have changed.

People largely do not want to be approached in public and actively take steps to make sure it doesn't happen. Simple things like not making eye contact, or wearing headphones everywhere.

The reason men don't approach women in public anymore isn't some crazy conspiracy or anything - it's because women have told them to stop. Both implicitly through behavior and body language, and explicitly by saying "do not approach us in public".

It's complicated, because a lot of men do not know how to be normal or respectful. So who can blame women for being wary? But, the result now is that if you do choose that approach, you're coming in with an implicit bias against that behavior. You sort of have to work harder to overcome that bias, and for a lot of situations you just won't. Which is fine, just try again later, but that's what's going on.
by shaldengeki | 2025-07-06 19:58:35+00:00
This shows a huge surge starting in 2023. I see you're counting all .AI TLDs; how much is this responsible for the surge? I think .AI TLD registrations took off starting in 2023, and one thing I wonder is if prior to 2023 we're mostly missing real AI Show HN entries, and afterwards we're mostly catching them.
by simonw | 2025-07-06 19:58:38+00:00
I stand by what I said. Knowing how to eg loop through every file in the current directory in Bash is trivia.

That's not to say it's trivial, or to disparage that knowledge. But it's not at the same level as understanding how eg Unix processes can be piped together.

If I'm interviewing a candidate and they can't remember the syntax for a Bash loop, I don't care. If they can't explain what happens when you pipe output from one process to another (at least at a high level), that's a problem.
by ianburrell | 2025-07-06 19:58:55+00:00
All of those things make money. Reducing climate change costs money. Reducing climate change also requires changing behavior of most people. Finally, there are governments and companies that profit from current fossil fuels and have worked against any action.

Governments have been unwilling to push those changes because they are unpopular and expensive. Governments have also been unwilling to impose hardship on their people if other countries aren't going to do anything. A lot of people, in this thread, don't think it will be bad, or that it will happen after they are dead.

In terms of making a plan, what is the point of making detailed plan if nobody is going to follow it? Also, there are lots of things that we don't know how to do yet, and can only plan to investigate.
by __loam | 2025-07-06 20:00:52+00:00
The AI imagery

The checklist

The idea that everyone in the party is quietly evaluating you and making up a story in their head

The forced body language

The weird conversation starters

Like all this stuff is forced and artificial and the goal is you're trying to build a relationship with someone for the implicit purpose of getting something out of them. None of this is genuine social connection, it's just a performance to try and increase your own status.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-06 20:00:56+00:00
Google+ is a great example, because there was a very similar mindless push to integrate it into all of their products, by any means necessary. And then, when it fizzled, there was the inevitable engineering effort to rip it all out. I predict in a few years, when the AI fad has subsided, there will be a similar amount of engineering effort undertaken at all of these companies to pull out and sunset these expensive AI integrations...
by bryanlarsen | 2025-07-06 20:01:39+00:00
Polyculture has two very significant advantages.

- Because you're pulling multiple crops off a field instead of one, the value of those crops is significantly higher.

- The crop is much more resilient. The different crops will have different tolerances to drought, disease, insects, wind and other disasters that commonly affect farming.

When farmland was cheap you could increase your profits per employee by buying more land and bigger machinery. But these days farmland is expensive and farmers are concentrating more on increasing yields per acre. In my area farmers spend > 10x as much per acre on inputs like fertilizers and pesticides than they used to in the 90's.

Polyculture will be hard and expensive, but if it lets you double profit per acre, farmers will do it.
by tfvlrue | 2025-07-06 20:02:18+00:00
These commercial microwaves have a ceramic tray (transparent to microwaves) that the food sits on. It fills the entire bottom of the microwave. Underneath the tray is a small piece of metal bent into a particular shape attached to a spindle that rotates. The idea being that it spins around the reflected microwaves rather than the food itself.

For a visual aid, these are pictures of the replacements parts: https://www.partstown.com/panasonic/PANA010T8K10AP https://www.partstown.com/panasonic/PANF202K3700BP
by ben_w | 2025-07-06 20:02:51+00:00
> It made you go into a spiral about Stargate and all sorts of irrelevant nonsense. I'm trying to help you here.

Stargate is part of our culture.

As part of our culture (ditto ancient aliens etc.), is not at all irrelevant to bring Stargate up in a discussion about culture, especially in a case when someone (you) tries to build their case by getting an AI to discuss aliens and Egyptian deities, and then goes on to claim that because the AI did what they were asked to do that this is somehow being unaware of culture.

No, it isn't evidence of any such thing, that's the task you gave it.

In fact, by your own statements, you yourself are part of a culture that it happy to be offensive to Egyptian culture — this means that an AI which is also offensive to Egyptian culture is matching your own culture.

Only users who are in a culture that is offended by things offensive to Egyptian culture can point to {an AI being offensive to Egyptian culture as a direct result of that user's own prompt}, can accurrately represent that the AI in such a case doesn't get the user's own culture.
by freefaler | 2025-07-06 20:03:03+00:00
All the jobs I had in was contractually required to work from X to Y at a place Z. So my experience is that is indeed a selling skilled time.

The ones you describe where there is a contract for output, usually with external contractors not full-time employees.

And you indeed have agency, especially if you provide something hard to find or you're the sole provider for this company of that service and the switching cost is high. Basic microeconomics...
by Herring | 2025-07-06 20:03:17+00:00
Aren't most jobs bullshit jobs already? Fingers crossed genAI doesn't change this too much.

Low empathy has been an issue with humanity since day 1. I wouldn't even know how to begin to fix it. It'll probably still be an issue long after we're dead. If it really bothers you I recommend meditation/therapy/etc.

Don't expect action on climate change until a few million in western countries are killed. Humans are terrible at slow-moving disasters. My parents both died early from being sedentary, despite my best efforts to get them to work out.

With luck, smarter decision-making with genAI might actually improve some societal systems.