MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitpush | 2025-07-17 22:10:01+00:00
The more I think about Apple, the more I realize that Apple is so far behind. While other companies are pushing the envelope (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google ..) Apple's ambitions seem much much smaller.

And this is after they made very big claims with Apple Intelligence last year, when they had everyone fooled.

This is like watching a train-wreck in slow motion.
by kypro | 2025-07-17 22:10:21+00:00
HN has flipped so quickly on saying how AI produces unreliable slop, to most people using it to replace junior devs at their org – something I was heavily criticised for saying orgs should be doing a few months back.

Progress doesn't end here either, imo CC is more a mid-level engineer with a top-tier senior engineer's knowledge. I think we're getting to the point where we can begin to replace the majority of engineers (even seniors) for just a handful of seniors engineers to prompt and review AI produced code and PRs.

Not quite there yet, of course, but definitely feeling that shift starting now... There's going to be huge productivity boosts for tech companies towards the end this year if we can get there.

Exciting times.
by folli | 2025-07-17 22:10:22+00:00
This argument is not limited to gene therapies, but would apply to pretty much every pharmaceutical product.

One issue is however that the actual costs are not so much in early R&D (what the publicly funded universities and hospitals are doing), but in the later stage (clinical trials) which needs deep pockets and appetite for risk, which only big pharma has, because they see a potential big payout.
by anon84873628 | 2025-07-17 22:10:33+00:00
I find this comment to be downright insulting to the parent. You manage to:

1) Call them entitled for feeling angry 2) Remind them that other people have it worse 3) Imply they're stupid for imaging things could work any other way

And then try to defend your obviously immature, unproductive, and unsolicited criticism in the "I'm just being logical!" excuse.

The parent didn't go on a screed and rage at the world. They didn't try to claim their anger is righteous. And they certainly didn't ask you to play two bit therapist.

Rather, they shared a totally reasonable and relatable emotional response to the situation they are in. I personally found it relevant and insightful to the discussion.

I highly encourage you to reevaluate to how you respond to these sorts of comments in the future.
by scottydelta | 2025-07-17 22:11:12+00:00
I host a lot of apps on hetzner VPSs.

My setup includes docker compose with backend container(Django), postgres, redis for caching and celery worker for background queue. So total 4 containers to run backend.

Frontend is hosted standalone on vercel for free and points to backend Django api.

I then use caddy to reverse proxy and connect domain with the container port. Caddy takes care of ssl certificate through acme on cloudflare.

Lastly I use ufw to secure server and block all ports other than 443(https). I open all ports for my personal vpn server so that I can access the server while connected to my vpn.
by pavlov | 2025-07-17 22:11:18+00:00
The ultra-wealthy have been stateless for centuries.

For example, Britain’s famous “non-domiciled” tax exception was first created in 1799. It allows UK-resident foreigners not to pay tax on their foreign income except for funds they bring into the UK.

Wealthy families have been able to live their lives enjoying the stability of a Western democracy without paying taxes, keeping their assets scattered safely around the world and their citizenships wherever they can get the best deal.

The USA is also joining this game with Trump’s “gold card” that offers a path to citizenship for a $5M fee. But I don’t think the very rich will bite because US law and the IRS expect citizens to report their global income (at least for now, maybe Trump will eliminate this too with a stroke of a pen).
by skywhopper | 2025-07-17 22:11:30+00:00
Not even well-optimized. The demos in the related sit-down chat livestream video showed an every-baseball-park-trip planner report that drew a map with seemingly random lines that missed the east coast entirely, leapt into the Gulf of Mexico, and was generally complete nonsense. This was a pre-recorded demo being live-streamed with Sam Altman in the room, and that’s what they chose to show.
by hi_hi | 2025-07-17 22:11:47+00:00
So we've gone down a bit of a path here, and thats cool :-)

Thank you for taking the time to respond and ask. My original 418 message was very much intended as a light hearted joke, in the spirit of "if we wanted to return cheeky responses to previously nonsense APIs that AI invented" I actually like this idea of subverting AI in inventive ways.

Now to the point where we've got here, yes I 100% agree in real-world, production applications, you should return response codes which accurately represent the actual response. But there also a place for fun, even in production, and 418 represents that for me.

Thanks for caring about quality :-)
by low_tech_punk | 2025-07-17 22:12:23+00:00
I don't think it's accurate to say "without worrying about configuration". The next line is more accurate:

> tsx runs your TypeScript code with modern and sensible defaults, making it user-friendly and especially great for beginners.

You'd still have to worry about config if you want to make adjustment and when that happens, the implicit smart defaults become a friction point.

It might also surprise you with errors when you attempt to bundle the code. It'd be nice to have tsx available at runtime so I can run TypeScript code without worrying about the transpiler
by p_ing | 2025-07-17 22:12:29+00:00
The issue is that they're often purely political in a way that doesn't relate to what some of us that use HN believe political posts should be.

I.e., Trump & deportations. Very political and would flag immediately. Trump & NASA, perhaps not flagged at all. Trump and his cankles? Flagged immediately. Trump & science grants? Perhaps not flagged at all.

This isn't reddit. Or at least, I'd hope it shouldn't be.
by analog31 | 2025-07-17 22:12:31+00:00
This is kind of a weird aside, but I attended many of my kids' music lessons. The teacher would ask them to play a selection, and then stop them after the first few measures, to work on some point of technique or interpretation. It meant that they never got to the end of anything, until the recital.

"Measure position" had a strong impact on review.

I realized that perfecting the entire selection isn't the point. Instead, the point is for the student to learn how to critique themselves, and improve their practicing.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-07-17 22:12:51+00:00
It really is unsafe though, even beyond what many who generally understand the web may realize. There are various ways (from caches to more obscure ones) in which loading a web site insecurely once, even if you aren't logged in at that time, can affect you much later when you think you are safe.

If you ever do this, use a separate browser profile or incognito window. Don't use this just to e.g. get to a captive portal (use example.com or neverssl.com for that).

You only need the "cheat code" if the site is using HSTS, which suggests it's the production web site of something that has a reason to try to be secure. If you're in a separate dev envrionment (different origin), you probably won't have HSTS set.

For local development or browser-to-local-app communication, localhost counts as a secure origin even without HTTPS.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-17 22:12:54+00:00
I have to say that as an American in 2025, this kind of news hits a little different than it used-to.

In prior years, I didn't have nagging anxieties about people's life savings being arbitrarily frozen/seized as a form of political retribution, or the imposition of China-style capital controls to ensure "patriotic investing."

Before anybody decries that as (still) far-fetched, consider that the federal government forced banks to drain millions from the accounts of states (NY), announced $365,000/yr "fines" on undocumented immigrants, and imposed arbitrary (illegal) import taxes while threatening companies against showing it on the bill.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-17 22:13:05+00:00
Outrage and anger are part of the problem not part of the solution.

Anti-fascists are jealous somebody has better footwear than them. Woke right NPCs who blog endlessly about "cancel culture" wish Karl Marx was banned 150 years ago.

If you read The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post you'd think Zohran Mamdani has the opposite policies of Trump but he's twice as angry. He's dangerous to system not because he's angry but because he listens to people, something you'll see him do on YouTube or TikTok but that mainstream TV channels won't show you.
by jszymborski | 2025-07-17 22:13:23+00:00
> If you don’t support war...

Wait, can't I just not support _this_ war? I don't think the invasion of a peaceful democratic country is OK, so that means it is morally inconsistent for me to believe it was right and just for the allies to go to war with the axis powers?

> You can’t pick and choose which wars and products are convenient enough to stand against while funding Google’s amoral corporate, US tax paying, attention machine because you won’t use a product which almost certainly undoubtably has contributed to vastly less harm than Kagi has.

What you're saying here is that, since it's hard to stand for the right things, you shouldn't try standing for anything. If only those without sin could do good, we really should just pack it in.

> But to go piss on some product because they don’t have quite the same moral alignment as you do is rather silly and it’s entirely fair to see people calling this immature behavior out.

Listen, there are some people who won't feel good about a product if they think it's going to make tomorrow worse. It's, shockingly, not about Kagi, or about you, but strictly about how some people wish to govern _themselves_. Kagi can make the decisions it wants, it's not a moral entity, it's a for-profit company which means its sole purpose is to seek profits. In fact, I'm not even trying to pick on Kagi here, generally speaking I think my values align with the product on offer.

The point stands though that corporations get to make decisions as to whether or not the ethical dilemmas they face are worth the customers (future and present) they'll lose over it.

> ...while funding Google’s amoral corporate, US tax paying, attention machine because you won’t use a product which almost certainly undoubtably has contributed to vastly less harm than Kagi has.

Why it's particularly relevant for Kagi to care about this sort of thing is that the users, like myself, who do not use Google and are willing to go through pains (be it worse results or monthly fees) to not fund them, are exactly the kind of person who won't use a service for not divesting from the Russian economy.
by dejavucoder | 2025-07-17 22:13:27+00:00
Fair point.

For context, I was using Claude Code on a Ruby + Typescript large open source codebase. 50M+ tokens. They had specs and e2e tests so yeah I did have feedback when I was done with a feature - I could run specs and Claude Code could form a loop. I would usually advise it to fix specs one by one. --fail-fast to find errors fast.

Prior to Claude Code, I have been using Cursor for an year or so.

Sonnet is particularly good at NextJS and Typescript stuff. I also ran this on a medium sized Python codebase and some ML related work too (ranging from langchain to Pytorch lol)

I don't do a lot of prompting, just enough to describe my problem clearly. I try my best to identify the relevant context or direct the model to find it fast.

I made new claude.md files.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-17 22:13:49+00:00
Oh this was crystal clear to many insiders as well. Internal mailing lists were hilarious at the time. One thing with Fins is that they don't hold back when they have an opinion. Meego could have run circles around Android. It took Google years to make that stop sucking. It was slow, a bit meh in terms of UX, and overall not that great. The devices were kind of crap as well in the first few years. But it ran Android, Chrome and had decent apps and a great development experience. Because it was basically uncrippled Java. As opposed to the J2ME nonsense that Nokia was deliberately keeping crippled to make people use their quite horrible native SDK for Symbian. Because that native SDK was a control point and Sun (pre Oracle acquisition) was in charge of Java; not Nokia. There never was a touch screen optimized version of J2ME.

Google did the smart thing by simply using Apache Harmony and not bothering with Sun certification. That later lead to the copyright dispute with Oracle. But by then Android had decisively established itself as a developer friendly platform that abandoned OEMs could use instead of paying MS or sticking with Symbian. Those OEMs picked Android because it allowed them to build cheap smart phones and ship them without having to invent their own OS. Not because it was so great.

Nokia could have easily pivoted Meego with Android compatibility. It basically was Linux with exactly the same kernel, drivers, hardware support, and all the rest. And Android was properly open source. Any suggestion of this was shut down hard by the Symbian cheer leaders. They kept insisting they were going to fix Symbian. By adding QT, by acquiring what was left of Symbian and open sourcing that, etc. None of it worked of course and the rest is history.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-07-17 22:14:05+00:00
The culture of CS departments at some universities before the tech boom was also deliberately antithetical to almost all of the things that people now mention as being great about university.

* Courses designed to fail out many students * Courses designed to extremely theoretical and impractical because teachers found them fun to teach * Making the subject inaccessible to as many people as possible

When I went to uni in the UK I didn't study CS (now senior dev at a large US tech company) because of the above, the subject had the highest fail rate, had the most unpleasant faculty, and had the highest rate of unemployment after graduation of any subject (this was a top 5 CS uni that only took people with top grades).

It is great if people got something from their experience but this isn't how it goes for most people. And, from working with many people who have CS degrees, you do still see issues: poor communication skills, poor business understanding, often have significant trouble prioritizing work because of the previous two issues, etc. In other words, some can code (even there, grads come out...not great) but a CS course is usually not a comprehensive education to work anyway.

I am not sure what represents comfort zone more than the way most universities teach any subject.
by vosper | 2025-07-17 22:14:06+00:00
That exact phrase "What is 75 degrees fahrenheit in celsius, and what is 85 degrees in fahrenheit" given to ChatGPT produces the correct result (it infers that the second degrees must be Celsius) and ChatGPT gives me a nicely laid out formula for the math of the conversion.

So yeah, Apple is way behind on this stuff.
by khurs | 2025-07-17 22:14:43+00:00
>The order would dictate that AI companies getting federal contracts be politically neutral and unbiased, an effort to combat what administration officials see as overly liberal AI models, the people said.

Scary stuff.

This is why we need LLMs from many different countries. I use Deepseek for any non-China political type question as using a Western One can't be relied upon as a rule.
by Gormo | 2025-07-17 22:15:06+00:00
I don't know what to tell you at this point other than 'eppur si muove' -- you're giving me a bunch of theoretical reasons as to why you think it shouldn't work, and yet Gemini has been around for years now: it is maintaining itself as a distinct niche; it is not full of spam, ads, or slop; its content isn't readily accessible from the web or turning up in major web search engines despite the fact that there already are multiple web gateways around; and it generally does fulfill the intentions of the people using it.

You're treating this like a hypothetical discussion, but we're talking about something that already exists and functions.

And I don't think the "hobby" distinction you're making is particularly relevant, because the whole point of it is again to function as a community of amateurs -- and it's doing that quite effectively.
by nailer | 2025-07-17 22:15:09+00:00
> You'd still have to worry about config if you want to make adjustment and when that happens, the implicit smart defaults become a friction point.

In practice (when using tsx and when using a similar prececessor tech, esrun) ES moves forwards, not backwards.

Is your target "supported node.js and current browsers"? Today's tsx defaults work with that. They'll also work with tomorrows node.js and current browsers.
by Tainnor | 2025-07-17 22:15:23+00:00
I find this argument unconvincing as it assumes perfectly rational actors in a transparent marketplace. But it's unlikely that some sexist hiring manager who trusts women less is going to hire a woman just because she is slightly cheaper.

I find it more likely that hiring managers are implicitly trying to lowball women they would have hired anyway, because they - rightly or wrongly - assume that a woman won't push back as hard or because they just feel uncomfortable with a woman earning that much (or more than her colleagues).

One way to change that is to a) surface these biases, and b) encourage women to be as assertive in salary negotiations as men.
by alisonatwork | 2025-07-17 22:15:36+00:00
It's not worth getting upset about. I am sure there are leftists who read HN, but the popular tone of the political commentary here tends to slant pro-capitalism, libertarian, anti-woke, meritocracy, dark enlightenment etc. It makes sense if you understand the website as a market research slash hype incubator for an American venture capital firm. Many of the people posting here are actively employed in the get rich quick startup scene and even those who aren't are still likely to be amongst the wealthiest segment of society due to their work. Almost certainly the vast majority are men. It is what it is.

The comments here are not representative of broader society, but they can sometimes be interesting to gain a sense of where an influential chunk of the global tech elite is at. I have heard HN political or social talking points echoed in the mouths of leadership at company all-hands, and non-HN reading friends at other tech companies have mentioned similar themes at theirs, so there is some value in having this window into the culture as an early warning system.
by chevman | 2025-07-17 22:15:55+00:00
Siri is literally a joke!

My son (he's 11 years old now and fairly skilled with all the main AI tools, eg chatgpt, gemini, etc) and I retry her every month or so, and this past time we just laughed. Can't handle basic questions - hears the question wrong, starts, stops, takes us to some random ass webpage, etc, etc.

"She's so jacked up!" he said.

Apple needs to get this under control and figured out, stat!
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-07-17 22:15:56+00:00
idk why this was downvoted but anyway: the educational fallout from covid affected all ages, so the effect really is going to last for the next decade at least, with fading effects towards the younger generations as the educational system hopefully will be able to patch up the gaps somewhat. And if you grant that the negative effects will last much longer than 2 years, it doesn't make a lot of sense business wise to hold off new hires for that long
by russellbeattie | 2025-07-17 22:16:17+00:00
I honestly wish Microsoft and TypeScript enthusiasts would transform it into an official standalone language and stop polluting the JavaScript ecosystem.

Like C++, it could be a true superset of JS, importing JS code freely into TypeScript projects. It would also allow TypeScript to do whatever it wanted and not have to worry about transpilation. If it needs to work in the browser, it can be bundled into web assembly.
by rglullis | 2025-07-17 22:16:39+00:00
> I mean, nobody incl. me in this conversation told that it's a total replacement for HTTP/S or current web, but an alternative one for people who want alternatives.

Look at the start of the thread. My question was "you are looking for a way to get rid of the annoying issues of the modern www. What is the solution that solves this with the least amount of work?"

You (among others) came on to argue that not only doing all this investment on Gemini is a solution to this problem, but that it would be easier than using a better web browser.

> If other people's choices and desires doesn't make sense to you

Let me repeat: I was asking about what was the best way to solve a problem. And you wanted to sustain the argument that is less work to solve the problems of modern web by rebuilding in a way that is functionally crippled instead of simply adopting better web browsers. Which already exist.

I have no interest in judging your choices or what you value desires. If you want to get invested in this, I have nothing to say about it. But to try to turn this into a rational and effective course of action is an insult to people's intelligence.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-07-17 22:16:42+00:00
>> if someone wrote an application in Ada in 2025, I would find that a bit anachronistic.

I suppose that Nvidia's use of Ada and SPARK for self-driving vehicles is anachronistic:

https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/nvidia-drives-ada-and-spark-...

https://nvidia.github.io/spark-process/process/introduction....
by klank | 2025-07-17 22:17:19+00:00
I was referencing Wittgenstein's "If a lion could speak, we would not understand it." Wittgenstein believed (and I am strongly inclined to agree with him) that our ability to convey meaning through communication was intrinsically tied to (or, rather, sprang forth from) our physical, lived experiences.

Thus, to your point, assuming communication, because "there's nothing really special about speech", does that mean we would be able to understand a lion, if the lion could speak? Wittgenstein would say probably not. At least not initially and not until we had built shared lived experiences.
by rob | 2025-07-17 22:17:52+00:00
I don't think CLI/terminal-based approaches are going to win out in the long run compared to visual IDEs like Cursor but I think Anthropic has something good with Claude Code and I've been loving it lately (after using only Cursor for a while.) Wouldn't be surprised if they end up purchasing Cursor after squeezing them out via pricing and then merging Cursor + Claude Code so you have the best of both worlds under one name.
by dcow | 2025-07-17 22:18:00+00:00
You’re asking.

There isn’t a moral truth here. It’s just politics. Prove to me that Kagi’s support of Yandex has uniquely enabled a Russian war crime and maybe we could start having a real discussion about whether Kagi is morally culpable. Prove that Kagi is committing more harm than my other options. Prove that Kagi is committing more harm than the good that quality search results provides the world, provides people who are fighting and speaking against the war.

Otherwise yes this level of guilt by hand waving association based on making you feel good in the moment is exactly the definition of virtue signaling.
by alganet | 2025-07-17 22:18:02+00:00
Why would I investigate the labyrinth floor if the walls are shorter than my eyesight?

I feel like this is a fools errand. Let's use the marketing terms to frame this problem. Companies are saying LLMs are like "the new printing press". Should I worry about detecting if something was printed or written by hand? No, I should worry about the volume and contents. That's what matters.