MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by extr | 2025-07-11 22:39:13+00:00
Cursor's tab completion model is legitimately fantastic and for many people is worth the entire $20 subscription. Lint fixes or syntax-level refactors are guessed and executed instantly with TAB with close to 100% accuracy. This is their final moat IMO, if Copilot manages to bring their tab completion up to near parity, very little reason to use Cursor.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-11 22:39:14+00:00
Thank you, I will work on getting an answer to that question today!

Not the underlying fear that you mention, but seeing her reaction to being asked (forced) to eat is reminiscent of being asked (forced) to pat a spider.

I'm not sure if visceral, immediate fear maps to an underlying fear or not, but fear seems to play some part at least.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-11 22:39:46+00:00
Reminds me somewhat of the child sex abuse hysteria in the 80s/90s involving daycare centers and the many horrific accusations that people took at face value and without question, being (rightfully) concerned for the wellbeing of the children. It was finally understood that it was relatively easy to plant false memories in young children through suggestive questioning. People went to jail for years before their convictions were overturned, and the impact on society lives on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/us/the-trial-that-unleash...
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-11 22:40:33+00:00
You can replace the battery on an iPhone yourself these days. Apple's terrible design makes the process involve shipping specialized hardware to your joke, for which you need to hand over a good chunk of change in collateral to be able to use, but it can be done.

My suspicion for their shitty process is that it was set up purely so Apple can tell regulators "see, consumers can't be trusted to replace their own batteries, look what it takes", but they do offer a programme for it.

The stupidest part about the whole thing is that the official URL looks like a total scam: https://selfservicerepair.com/en-US/home
by verall | 2025-07-11 22:40:46+00:00
Nothing sounds wrong to me in any of the cases you mentioned?

> £400/month help with her bills because she struggles with time management? I'm sympathetic to her problems but that is a shit ton of money!

£4800/yr is a shit ton of money? Things must be pretty rough over there!

> Child benefit also goes to lots of people (myself included) who totally don't need it.

Is that a bad thing?
by ivape | 2025-07-11 22:41:00+00:00
I'm speaking for its place in video games. Stuff like Hearts of Iron and Diplomacy are birthed from Risk but are extremely niche. In fact, for fully graphical video games, they often have board-game like communities (the games have no QoL systems like match making, you'll have to organize it yourself on Discord). For example, the QoL to be able to jump into a lobby like the one posted here is not available in $50 dollar Risk-like/Diplomacy-like games. You can't even do that in 4x grand strategy multiplayer games. It's a got a long way to go. It took some time until all the concepts of DND got fully fleshed out into graphical RPGs and MMOs. I hope the same happens with the Risk-line of games, but it may also forever be niche.

This game right here is a offspring of SC2 Risk Legacy map:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1309610/Line_War/

Inspired from (imho):

https://sc2arcade.com/map/1/181632/

Both games have a small, dedicated community. Line wars usually require people in Discord to gather people for games.

The compelling thing about Risk games is that once you make it past the early game, it quickly shifts into a sophisticated social game where you have to LARP geopolitical diplomacy since most countries/armies are too big (entire sovereign nations) by the end game.
by krackers | 2025-07-11 22:41:12+00:00
Only HN would compare religion to L2 regularization! That said, your perspective "self replicating cultural program that benefits its biological host" is one that I think I've seen expressed before by the philosopher/cogscientist Josha Bach, and it seemed to fit well. It's not just a cultural program, it's effectively is a "mind virus/symbiont" (depending on who you ask), in that it also modifies behavior and psychology.
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-07-11 22:41:14+00:00
> The problem here is that Apple have a competing service that doesn't have to pay the money.

On the contrary, Apple does pay the money... to the artists. Which is something that Spotify doesn't do as much.

https://virpp.com/hello/music-streaming-payouts-comparison-a...

Strangely, despite this rather obvious market power (monopsony) that Spotify has in negotiating below-market rates with their suppliers, the EC has not seen fit to label them as a "gatekeeper".

I'm sure it has nothing whatever to do with having their headquarters in Sweden.
by ParityMind | 2025-07-11 22:41:17+00:00
Thank you for that reply this is exactly the kind of thing I want I know people who have attempted suicide because they couldn't access help because they didn't know who to talk too or where to go, AI is in a position to provide this info they can search through 100's or 1000's of websites in the time we search one. This is exactly what i'm suggesting using the steps as distraction/take there mind of it for just a second to seek help, and like this person says i'm suggesting in good faith.
by jdiff | 2025-07-11 22:41:26+00:00
Your tone is quite odd here. I'm having difficulty parsing your intention, but I'm going to assume you're being genuine because why not.

For the RAM cache, you hit the boundaries when you exhaust the RAM cache. It performs faster, but is smaller and once full, data has to be off/loaded at the rate of the slower backing NAND. It might not be RAM, either, sometimes faster SLC NAND is used for the cache.

It's not really possible to describe it much more concretely than that beyond what you've already been told, performance falls off a cliff when that happens. How long "it" takes, what the level of performance is before and after, it all depends on the device.

There are many more tricks that SSD manufacturers use, but caching is the only one I know of related to speed so I'll leave the rest in the capable hands of Google.
by iLemming | 2025-07-11 22:41:49+00:00
FWIW, LLM tooling for Emacs is great. gptel for example allows you to converse with wide-range of different models from anywhere in Emacs — you can spontaneously send requests while typing some text or even browsing M-x menu. I often do things like "summarize current paragraph in pdf document" or "create a few anki cards based on this web page content", etc.
by citizenpaul | 2025-07-11 22:43:04+00:00
>it's a razors-and-blades sales model

Nah bro, its a rich people with too much money to notice cash grab all the way down. Those plastic screws are pennies per hundred to make. The tools themselves. Well you can get a 35 piece pumpkin carving set on amazon for what appears to be similar or better quality at <$15USD if you go adjacent to the source on Aliexpress the same toolset is <$3 USD or even <$1

In fact I'm pretty sure you could just use the most of the pumpkin tools on cardboard, the blunted kid safe ones. They are also meant to be not cut skin.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-11 22:43:52+00:00
Linking directly to C++ is truly hell just considering symbol mangling. The syntax <-> semantics relationship is ghastly. I haven't seen a single project tackle the C++ interface in its entirety (outside of clang). It nearly seems impossible.

There's a reason Carmack tackled the C abi and not whatever the C++ equivalent is.
by SpecialistK | 2025-07-11 22:44:19+00:00
Yeah this machine will probably never be the same. It does have an SSD now! But also a CD drive that isn't latching properly and the entire palmrest clicks the mouse button.

It doesn't help that I'm not a great laptop repair tech as is, but wow are those iBooks terrible. The AlBook was fine, and the Unibody MacBooks just a few years later had the HDD next to the battery under a tool-less latch.
by adt | 2025-07-11 22:44:36+00:00
No.

At 1T MoE on 15.5T tokens, K2 is one of the largest open source models to date. But BAAI's TeleFM is 1T dense on 15.7T tokens: https://huggingface.co/CofeAI/Tele-FLM-1T

You can always check here: https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
by zzzeek | 2025-07-11 22:45:14+00:00
GPS requires satellites and rocketry as well and is built on centuries of curiosity about space, physics, and the universe. Curiosity by people who could not dream of something like GPS at the time. Your assertion that "ok, we've dobe enough curiosity and science, it's time to stop" is unnecessary and frivolous. Funding for projects like these are miniscule fractions of the budgets of large nations like the US and they also create jobs. There is no valid reason whatsoever to cancel this research except for the sole, actual reason, which is as always, "to own the Libs".
by jacobgkau | 2025-07-11 22:45:40+00:00
> Perhaps not in... whatever random place got featured in some anime, or whatnot.

When I went last year, two of the random places I went because they got featured in some anime were some of the most authentic-feeling experiences I had.

One was a small town on the east coast near a beach; a lot of it felt like a ghost town (I barely saw any locals, let alone tourists). I was able to go and respectfully visit a really nice shrine while being able to keep my distance enough that I knew I wasn't bothering anyone. I also found a cool aquarium I didn't know was there, and I'm pretty sure I was the only foreigner I saw/heard while visiting it.

The other was a less-deserted but still small area outside of a less popular city. There was an island I wanted to go onto that I couldn't, but I improvised and found a beautiful hike to a summit overlooking it instead. While I was walking up, I had at least two elderly folks say hello to me in Japanese, and a pair of young children walking with their mom say hello in English (way more unprompted interaction than I got just walking around in any of the cities, aside from employees advertising things).

So just because a place was featured in an anime doesn't mean it's necessarily a tourist trap. Just don't go in expecting the place to be entirely defined by that (and it also helps if it's been at least a few years since said anime was popular).
by jancsika | 2025-07-11 22:45:41+00:00
> Another specific $10 Michelin guide ramen restaurant only lets you order from a vending machine outside using a payment method you can’t access as a foreigner (one needs a physical JCB card or QUICPay - EPOS/Suica/Pasmo/Cash etc wouldn’t work).

It must be quite the character who has the discipline and drive to get a Michelin star and takes pleasure in putting giant roadblocks in front of traveling foodies. Reminds me of this elderly couple who despised kids and ran a successful toy store.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-11 22:45:48+00:00
Thank you. I recently spoke to someone who used to be an alcoholic and it also took them a somewhat near-death experience to create sufficient internal will power (or realisation) to change their behaviour.

It must come internally.

We keep working on what a wonderful happy life she used to have, hoping that such reminders will eventually seep in to create her own realisation.
by bdangubic | 2025-07-11 22:46:06+00:00
I'm honestly shocked we talk about anything else.

It is 2025, we only talk about what people that are in control of our lives (politicians) decide we should talk about. this is why at thanksgiving and christmas dinners we all talk more about two transgender teenage athletes (in a country of 350m people) than IPCC projections or anything else that matters for future generations :)
by extr | 2025-07-11 22:46:20+00:00
I think this is an interesting and cool direction for Cursor to be going in and I don't doubt something like this is the future. But I have my doubts whether it will save them in the short/medium term:

- AI is not good enough yet to abandon the traditional IDE experierence if you're doing anything non-trivial. Hard finding use cases for this right now.

- There's no moat here. There are already a dozen "Claude Code UI" OSS projects with similar basic functionality.
by al_borland | 2025-07-11 22:46:32+00:00
I always find it interesting when I see someone’s data. I still remember the first time I saw Stephen Wolfram’s blog post about his own tracking[0]. If you haven’t seen it, you should.

While I think this data about myself would be interesting. I can’t be bothered to collect most of it. I get caught up in trying to make it perfect, that it creates too much stress. Unless the collection is 100% passive, I’m probably not going to keep it up long term. I even got rid of my smart watch, as I felt like I had to wear that one watch all the time to make the metrics meaningful, and I didn’t want to wear it most of the time.

I am tracking a few things right now is. I’ve only found a way to make a couple of them passive so far. I also don’t plan on tracking these things forever. They are just particularly relevant at the moment. It’s more habit and symptom tracking.

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana...
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-11 22:46:58+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/live/SE0BetkXsLg?si=LPss_su3PVTAqGCO

Both of these extremely-experienced pilots say that there was near zero chance that the fuel switches were unintentionally moved. They were switched off within one second of each other, which rules out most failure scenarios.

If it was an issue with the switches, we also would have seen an air worthiness directive being issued. But they didn’t, because this was a mass murder.
Show HN: SmoothCSV – The Ultimate CSV Editor
by kohii | 2025-07-11 22:47:00+00:00
Hey HN!

I've been building CSV editors for 15 years. This is my third rewrite, and I think I finally got it right.

Key features: - Excel-like operation for intuitive use - Equipped with basic to advanced tools necessary for handling CSV - Supports various formats and character encodings. Can handle CSVs with different column counts - Cross-platform (Windows/Mac, Linux coming soon) - Opens 100MB files in 1.6 seconds (12x faster than Excel)

Tech stack: Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript/TailwindCSS)

Would love feedback from anyone dealing with large datasets daily!

Website: https://smoothcsv.com/ Blog: https://dev.to/kohii/the-technology-behind-smoothcsv-the-ult...
by druskacik | 2025-07-11 22:47:08+00:00
I'd like to ask the opposite question: why do people prefer command line tools? I tried both and I prefer working in IDE. The main reason is that I don't trust the LLMs too much and I like to see and potentially quickly edit the changes they make. With an IDE, I can iterate much faster than with the command line tool.

I haven't tried Claude Code VS Code extension. Did anyone replaced Cursor with this setup?
by hollandheese | 2025-07-11 22:48:31+00:00
To get into the very top schools, but to get a good education it's vastly more than enough.

Honestly, to the California State University and University of California system high school GPA doesn't matter at all. All you have to do is two years at a California Community College and do well there and you'll have your pick of which CSU or UC to transfer to.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-11 22:48:55+00:00
I own spoke shaves, multiple jack planes, and the rest. My garage is quite literally a torture chamber of devices that a medieval sociopath would dribble over.

I'm perhaps not quite so distracted by a well rounded fillet in a cast iron or steel body as you appear to be!

I love all materials and the ingenious ways we have found to fashion those materials. I only recently bought a router because I had to cut a wide and deep rebate in a door to fit a finger handle. Doing that with chisels is possible but a bloody nightmare. An over enthusiastic wack or allowing the grain to take over too much would have needed a potentially ugly repair.

I speak en_GB so when I say router (spinning power tool) and router (IP packet shuffler) they sound different.

I've just taken a look at that page you linked and may have to dump my browser cache and try and forget where I saw the link ... 8)
by bradly | 2025-07-11 22:51:06+00:00
I'm curious that amount of hours you've spent with a scrollsaw, because you absolutely can touch the blade running. You can touch the back easily, the sides easily, and the front while is may give you a cut, most likely would not give you an injury the same as touch any part of any other saw's blade.

I understand you if you run your hand into the scrollsaw and try and cut off your fingers, you probably could. But in practice, that is not what happens if you graze the blade. Your hand snaps back, you may get a cut if the teeth got you, but you will mostly likely not be on your way to the hospital. Again, this is very different that other tools in a woodshop. Yes, you can cut yourself. Yes, it is much, much harder to have a serious injury.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-07-11 22:51:53+00:00
I find it also really depends on how well you know the domain. I found it incredibly helpful for some Python/tensorflow stuff which I had no experience with. No idea what the API looks like, what functions exist/are built in, etc. Loosely describe what I want even if it ends up being just a few lines of code saves time shifting through cryptic documentation.

For other stuff that I know like the back of my hand, not so much.
by shados | 2025-07-11 22:52:55+00:00
CC would explode even further if they had official Team/Enterprise plan (likely in the work, Claude Code Waffle flag), and worked on Windows without WSL (supposedly pretty easy to fix, they just didn't bother). Cursor learnt the % of Windows user was really high when they started looking, even before they really supported it.

They're likely artificially holding it back either because its a loss leader they want to use a very specific way, or because they're planning the next big boom/launch (maybe with a new model to build hype?).
by CSMastermind | 2025-07-11 22:52:57+00:00
For those unaware Hasbro was a family business that made some of the most iconic American toys like Mr. Potato Head, G.I. Joe, Lite-Brite, My Little Pony, and Transfomers.

Alan (misspelled in the title for some reason) was the third president of the company and shifted it's focus from original products to licensing deals and aquisitions.

He's the reason Hasbro bought Milton Bradley, Coleco, Tonka, Parker Brothers, Avalon Hill, and Wizards of the Coast.

He licensed Cabbage Patch Kids, Furby, and Beyblade from other toymakers and brought them to market.

He also focused heavily on licensing IP for things like WWF, Star Wars, Jurrasic Park, Pokemon, and Animorphs.

The company has arguably been in a steady decline since his departure.
by iLemming | 2025-07-11 22:53:03+00:00
What a strawman argument. Your'e cherry-picking one specific thing while ignoring Emacs' extraordinary customization capabilities. What about advice system, hooks, dynamic binding, self-documenting, etc.?

In Neovim you can't redefine fundamental commands (like how self-insert-command works) or modify core behaviors with great granularity — in Elisp you can redefine one given aspect of a function without reimplementing the entire function. Or what about live introspection and modification of the running editor?

Yes, the echo area has limitations due to its C implementation, but using this edge case to claim "Emacs UI is the hardest to customize" ignores that Emacs lets you rewrite practically everything else - including replacing entire subsystems like completion, windowing, or even turning it into a completely different application.
by nullc | 2025-07-11 22:54:20+00:00
> Isn't it common sense, common decency to ask how can thousands of postal workers become thieves overnight

The whole privatized postoffice setup was a profoundly unattractive investment-- at least to those who thought of it on investment grounds (e.g. return on investment+costs)-- and so there was a presumption before the computer system went in that many must have been in it to steal.

> Is there some kind of perverse incentive for the prosecutors

One of the broken things here is that the postoffice themselves were able to criminally prosecute-- so the criminal cases lacked "have to deserve the state prosecutors time" protection.
by submeta | 2025-07-11 22:54:37+00:00
I went from Emacs to VS Code, then to Cursor, next to Claude Code, which is so good that I feel like I am having half a dozen junior devs at my fingertips, 24/7.

Since Claude Code is cli based, I reviewed my cli toolset: Migrated from iTerm2 to Ghostty and Tmux, from Cursor to NeoVim (my God is it good!).

Just had a 14h workday with this tooling. It’s so good that I complete the work of weeks and months within days! Absolutely beast.

At this point I am thinking IDEs do not reflect the changing reality of software development. They are designed for navigating project folders, writing / changing files. But I don’t review files that much anymore. I rather write prompts, watch Claude Code create a plan, implement it, even write meaningful commit messages.

Yes I can navigate the project with neovim, yes I can make commits in git and in lazygit, but my task is best spent in designing, planning, prompting, reviewing and testing.
by bertmuthalaly | 2025-07-11 22:54:54+00:00
It's the first section in the article -

"I have implemented manual memory management via cpp/new and cpp/delete. This uses jank's GC allocator (currently bdwgc), rather than malloc, so using cpp/delete isn't generally needed. However, if cpp/delete is used then memory collection can be eager and more deterministic.

The implementation has full bdwgc support for destructors as well, so both manual deletion and automatic collection will trigger non-trivial destructors."
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-11 22:55:16+00:00
Double check the SoCs. The base model MacBook Air has a slower GPU than the base model MacBook Pro and the upgraded MacBook Air. When shopping for Apple products, you need to compare every number on the spec page individually because Apple is scared of model numbers.

For a while, some MacBooks also had slower disks because some capacities used one NAND chip while others used two. I believe they stopped doing that for their latest models, though. That kind of fuckery means you need to look up benchmarks for each individual model, because the performance differences aren't clear from the product description.
by bredren | 2025-07-11 22:55:34+00:00
> with a simple extension for some UX improvements

What are the UX improvements?

I was using the Pycharm plugin and didn’t notice any actual integration.

I had problems with pycharm’s terminal—not least of which was default 5k line scroll back which while easy to change was worst part of CC for me at first.

I finally jumped to using iterm and then using pycharm separately to do code review, visual git workflows, some run config etc.

But the actual value of Pycharm—-and I’ve been a real booster of that IDE has shrank due to CC and moving out of the built in terminal is a threat to usage of the product for me.

If the plugin offered some big value I might stick with it but I’m not sure what they could even do.
by typewithrhythm | 2025-07-11 22:56:02+00:00
Absolutely absurd. Why is it people feel the need to make out that western cities are somehow magically immune from the exact same detrimental effects that they happily accept about everywhere else?

"Enrichment" is a buzzword for the insulated elite happy that they have new things on their lunch menu, somehow ignoring all the negatives that come with it.