MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by delusional | 2025-07-15 15:08:35+00:00
> The last few times my reply was "AI is 4/30 or 5/30 of the front page, it's not such a big deal", but today it is 9/30.

A bigger impact for me has been the number of mentions of AI in the comments. It's not just that a large part of the front page is dominated by LLM hype posts, it's that every single post has a least one guy near the top somehow bringing AI into the discussion. I don't even care if it's "AI will fix this" or "haha, AI sucks at this too". I just don't want to hear anything about AI ever again.
by unclad5968 | 2025-07-15 15:08:37+00:00
I havent been on here forever, but I vaguely remember other trends took over for certain periods. I could be misremembering, but crypto drove a lot of interaction for a while. I'm indifferent towards LLMs, probably because I'm not a developer in my day job, and I don't mind seeing LLM posts. It is annoying that every single LLM thread devolves into the same tired arguments between LLM zealots and detractors.
by JimmaDaRustla | 2025-07-15 15:09:07+00:00
You didn't checkmate anything.

You're perfectly capable of looking at the world around you. You're arguing in bad faith using a false dichotomy that I must be able to produce examples or my argument is not valid. You're trying to suck all the air out of the room and waste time.

https://tools.simonwillison.net/

ChECk MaTee
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-15 15:09:08+00:00
I've worked for ASML.

The C-Suite are nearly all European.

The manufacturing is worldwide, but mostly Western. Only one facility in the US, employing about 100-200 people.

As for US-financed... it's a publicly-traded company that makes most of its revenue from selling to big chipmakers, so largely Taiwanese and Japanese "funded".
by rogerbinns | 2025-07-15 15:09:17+00:00
Unless you compile SQLite yourself, you'll find the maximum mmap size is 2GB. ie even with your pragma above, only the first 2GB of the database are memory mapped. It is defined by the SQLITE_MAX_MMAP_SIZE compile time constant. You can use pragma compile_options to see what the value is.

https://sqlite.org/compile.html#max_mmap_size

Ubuntu system pragma compile_options:

MAX_MMAP_SIZE=0x7fff0000
by freedomben | 2025-07-15 15:09:32+00:00
> I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across.

I've had the exact same feeling a lot over the past couple years or so, and especially the last 6 months. I used to hit the front page and find 5 to 10 stories I was interested in. Exhausting those to read the second or third page wasn't common. Now I find maybe one story I want, and I routinely will scan through 4 or 5 pages (down to 120 to 160) and only find a handful (4 or 5) that I want to read.

I've long found myself wishing for mini-HNs on different broad topics that interest me. Sadly this was the whole point/idea behind reddit. For example, besides the actual and venerable and loved real HN, I'd love an HN for:

1. Politics: Where disagreements are encouraged and any claims are challenged, but only with factual arguments/counterarguments, and any emotional arguments are moderated (basically how we encourage HN comments to be). There have been some reddit communities over the years doing this, but IME they frequently devolve into echo chambers. It almost always comes down to bad moderators.

2. General News: Where stuff that is of broad interest (and not really tech-related) can be posted and commented on in thoughtful ways. Particularly local news would be fun

3. <placeholder>: Had an idea and forgot it as I was making the list. Will edit and insert when I remember!

I've kind of accepted that my dream just can't work (at least, looking at Reddit as the great experimentation of that). People on the internet are just (generally speaking) incapable of consistently humanizing the user(s) on the other end, and proceed to treat others very poorly. Pride and inability to be wrong strongly exacerbate that tendency.
by willsmith72 | 2025-07-15 15:09:36+00:00
first impressions:

1. autopilot should be off by default. this is the norm for claude code and cline (plan mode)

2. my sidebar is on the right. that was imported correctly from vs code, but the kiro window is still on the left. why can't it be on the same side as my sidebar like a usual extension (e.g. cline)?

3. the textbox is super busy. for some reason the "Hold Shift to drop image" is stuck there
by amiga386 | 2025-07-15 15:09:57+00:00
PSA: UK users can visit all their favourite websites in Tor Browser. Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. Thank you.

You can also access 4chan, Tattle Life, and other nasty gossip websites that the UK nanny state wants to ban.

And you can access the porn on Reddit and Twitter (though in some cases you'll have to make an account). And of course the "tube" sites work fine.

After you've done that, as a UK citizen, please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 and ask the government to repeal their awful law.
by nsonha | 2025-07-15 15:09:59+00:00
Claude Code is what it is because of Claude, TUI or not isn't really the point. What makes IDEs lose to TUIs is that the agentic models can really do more than coding and is evolving toward a hands-off kind of workflow. A clunky IDE is too much for that, but TUI is not the way either. When has TUI ever been mainstream?

Agentic tools of the future will be rich notebook/chat interface that's available in all form factors, which is to say, most likely web/cross platform apps.
by waldopat | 2025-07-15 15:10:16+00:00
Honestly, I’ve always appreciated how much of 2007 Hacker News is still intact. It remains one of the few places on the internet where discovery still happens organically without trending algorithms or clickbait optimization. It's just manual submissions, one by one.

There’s only one other community I’ve encountered like it, run by a small liberal arts college.

From a signals perspective, HN is incredibly valuable. You get to watch in real time what’s capturing the minds of technically inclined readers. Sure, that means lots of lurkers and a few dominant topics (right now: AI). But that’s also kind of the point. HN works as a reflection of where the collective attention is, whether we like it or not.

Anyways...just two cents.
by Lerc | 2025-07-15 15:10:19+00:00
I have seen this question asked on subreddits, Not about AI, but for other topics that some people dislike.

They always seem to take the form of "Should we divide this group into A and B, A stays here and B goes over there and that way everybody is happy"

Invariably the person who proposes this wants to remain in group A and will not be a participant in group B.

To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are not welcome here, they are not like us. It's not like we have anything against them, we just don't want them ramming it down our throats"

Anyone is free to make a website with whatever content they want, they can invite people to it and grow your own community. Directing a community to divide to remove an element you dislike is an attempt to appropriate the established community.
by kllrnohj | 2025-07-15 15:10:25+00:00
> it looks like the momentum didn't die despite Google's apathy.

Google is a founding organization of jpeg-xl and are a core part of the team. Chromium punted it, but Google as an organization hasn't exactly since they haven't pulled out of jpegxl itself nor removed their engineers from it.

Big companies are big, they do conflicting things from time to time. Or often.
by 63stack | 2025-07-15 15:10:27+00:00
This is so naive. Big tech would be the first to get various exceptions to train their greedy AIs. They would lobby so hard to lock down personal computers, just to make sure you are not tampering with your digital passport. Google would finally have their wet dream of locked down PCs that have no adblock.

Politicians would be salivating at the idea of getting the real identities of dissenters, and religious fucks would finally have their way of banning porn and contraceptives.
by marklubi | 2025-07-15 15:10:43+00:00
Shocking, not shocking. Worked for a company more than two decades ago that ran a lot of shortlines.

Called out several different vulnerabilities that I found while researching how to make things more efficient (the company owning the tracks get charged for the car lease while it's on their tracks).

Nothing came of it though. They were more worried about replacing infrastructure after several cars toppled because the ties had rotted.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-15 15:10:45+00:00
But finding out that LLMs are used to push the political posts in such obvious ways yet people are still falling for it is a somewhat interesting topic. Regardless whether that just pushes your bias towards LLMs == bad or tweaks you to spin up your own LLM to combat by searching/detecting/posting the slop. Burying your head in the sand and ignoring all of it is not good either.
by joshmarlow | 2025-07-15 15:10:49+00:00
To clarify, I'm focusing on the costs of ramping up a startup.

Currently VC has a great deal of power because up-front investment is required to hire staff and other expenses until the startup can become cash-flow positive. When a lone individual can start a venture using AI then the payroll costs go down. The investment requirements go down.

Yes, automation means that people with assets don't have to pay other people for their labor.

But it also means that people starting new ventures have less need of significant up-front capital.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-07-15 15:11:04+00:00
You're assuming this isn't already in the works; I simply see it as we can make the standard now, or let the standard be dictated.

We're already seeing it piecemeal, with Cloudflare supporting skipping CAPTCHAs on verified iOS and macOS devices; mobile driver's license enrollment options on iOS; age verification rollouts for websites with no-doubt people thinking how to streamline things; etc.

I personally think we are one big cyberattack from the whole concept returning fast. One big cyberattack from governments (and people in general) saying they've had enough of the free-for-all status quo. This isn't a good place to be.
by gujjar19 | 2025-07-15 15:11:08+00:00
This is such a well-executed idea, Ali, the "context loss" problem during incident response is very real and painful. Love how RobinRelay bridges historical discussions across teams within Slack itself — no new dashboards to log into, and no brittle integrations needed.

A few things I’d love to hear more about:

How does RobinRelay handle conflicting advice or noisy past threads?

Can it differentiate between alert variants (e.g., same service but different error codes)?

Any future plans to surface trends like “this alert usually precedes X outage”?

For teams drowning in alerts and Slack chaos, this looks like game changer
by akoumjian | 2025-07-15 15:11:18+00:00
I also started my career with Django using 0.96 in college and 1.1/1.2 with my first industry jobs. It was a really empowering framework and it is surprising to me that I still pick it up today for new projects when appropriate. I started attending the Seattle Django Users Group and discovered there were a decent number of "ex-pats" from the Lawrence Journal-World who were there as it was being developed.

Before I knew it I was helping organize the user group including our weekly coffee shop meetups in addition to the monthly lecture gatherings. There were a lot of local startups (including some very well known businesses and non-profits today) very actively collaborating on these tools. Django was really evolving the way a lot of companies used software and automation.

It wasn't only the engineering, the community ethos of Django both at the local and international scale (and the Python community as a whole) really made it possible to branch out and accelerate my personal software engineering journey.
by freedomben | 2025-07-15 15:11:22+00:00
> Hanging out on the "new" page and upvoting quality non-AI articles is an effective method of resistance.

Fully agree, and I in fact am finding that I actually find more stories I'm interested in that way than looking at the front page. For whatever reason, I'm increasingly getting out of sync (interests-wise) with broader HN. So many stories I think are great HN material (and would have been a few years ago) languish with almost no activity.

So there are two reasons IMHO to browse new: Surface better stories to front page for engagement, and find better stories
by throwawayoldie | 2025-07-15 15:11:22+00:00
One good way is if they back up their assertions and explain their reasoning, which generally people arguing for LLM inevitability don't--they make assertions like "LLMs are only going to get better".

Contrast this with someone arguing the other side of the question like Ed Zitron or David Gerard. You may or may not agree with their arguments, but they explain, in great detail, with numbers and citations, how they arrived at their conclusions. If you don't agree with those conclusions, you should be able to point at a certain part of their argument and say "this is where you went wrong."
by simonw | 2025-07-15 15:11:41+00:00
I built you this: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered

It shows you the Hacker News page with ai and llm stories filtered out.

You can change the exclusion terms and save your changes in localStorage.

o3 knocked it out for me in a couple of minutes: https://chatgpt.com/share/68766f42-1ec8-8006-8187-406ef452e0...

Initial prompt was:

Build a web tool that displays the Hacker News homepage (fetched from the Algolia API) but filters out specific search terms, default to "llm, ai" in a box at the top but the user can change that list, it is stored in localstorage. Don't use React.

Then four follow-ups:

Rename to "Hacker News, filtered" and add a clear label that shows that the terms will be excluded Turn the username into a link to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xxx - include the comment count, which is in the num_comments key The text "392 comments" should be the link, do not have a separate thread link Add a tooltip to "1 day ago" that shows the full value from created_at
by jajko | 2025-07-15 15:11:57+00:00
> On the other hand those Fremen suits are kind of spandexy...

Well stillsuits are supposed to collect and preserve moisture and shield from heat in extremely harsh environment. I would sort of expect that 8k years in the future some tech for that would be close to the skin, rather than waving thin layers like bedouins or touaregs use.
by matt_heimer | 2025-07-15 15:12:38+00:00
AI/LLM has become of core part of IT. If you don't want AI then it seems like you want a retro-computing news aggregator or just HN minus personal annoyances. I get it, sometimes I want the simpler days but as long as the AI/LLM posts are not dumbed down mainstream content I'm interested it them and most visitors probably are also. I wouldn't have discovered most of the articles from other places. The posts match the site's on-topic criteria, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
by empath75 | 2025-07-15 15:12:45+00:00
MLS works really hard to keep a "level playing field" in terms of spending, and really leans into "parity", and also has a knockout tournament to figure out the "champion", so whoever wins the championship season to season is basically a crap shoot.

Miami set the record for most points earned in a season for the regular season and then went out in the first round to an 8th seeded team. LA Galaxy won the title last season and are currently sitting at the bottom of the table halfway through the season.

Anybody can win any game, but most of the teams are thoroughly mediocre, and MLS struggles even to beat Mexican teams, let alone do well at something like the Club World Cup (Miami being an exception because they spent the money to sign the best person in the history of soccer to the team, and even then they suffered from the lack of depth caused by the salary cap).

IMO, parity and mediocrity is also boring, and I would much prefer a league that allowed teams to spend more if they want and really try to compete on an international level. Even if that means you have 2 or 3 teams that dominate the league, that is not necessarily bad. Baseball was dominated by the Yankees for literally decades, and it survived and even thrived.
by efitz | 2025-07-15 15:12:46+00:00
AFAICT there is no “format” to agent rule files; it’s just text describing how you’d like the LLM to behave. Typically I’ve seen bullet lists.

Some agents have multiple prompts that are used for different modes; I’ve typically seen this stored as JSON that is agent specific and wouldn’t necessarily apply to different agents.

The only agent specific thing I’ve ever included in a context file is referring to a specific tool. I probably could have abstracted that by describing it as “the tool that does X” or by just telling it to do the function that the tool does.
by jmyeet | 2025-07-15 15:13:14+00:00
No.

There's always a flavor of the month. Go back 3-5 years and every third post was crypto or NFT related. AI/LLM too will pass.

I've never really understood this desire of people to effectively hide content that doesn't interest them. Just... ignore it. Like there are enough people on HN who really care about academia and research. I don't. But that's fine. Let them be.

But here's the interesting part: so many on HN rail against the newsfeed concept . You will hear a significant number of HNers say they just want everything in chronological order. Well, except for the subjects that don't interest them.

If HN submissions were tagged and a recommendation algorithm decided what to show you, you'd get exactly what you want: fewer AI/LLM posts if that doesn't interest you. But somehow newsfeeds are still bad?
by 827a | 2025-07-15 15:13:50+00:00
I really appreciate this take.

High level programming languages should be able to do much that LLMs can do when it comes to natural language expression of ideas into computing behavior, but with the extreme advantage of 100% predictable execution. LLM queries, system prompts, and context, of sufficient complexity, required to get reasonably good results out of the LLM, begin to look like computer code and require skills similar to software engineering; but still without the predictable conformance. Why not just write computer code?

Our industry developed some insanely high productivity languages, frameworks, and ways of thinking about systems development, in the mid-2000s. Rails is the best example of this; Wordpress, Django, certainly a few others. Then, for some reason, around the early 2010s, we just forgot about that direction of abstraction. Javascript, Go, and Rust took over, React hit in the mid-2010s, microservices and kubernetes, and it feels like we forgot about something that we shouldn't have ever forgotten about.
by jader201 | 2025-07-15 15:14:02+00:00
> I just don't want to hear anything about AI ever again.

Genuinely curious: Why?

Don’t get me wrong, I upvoted this post, and would love to see AI separated out, or at least tagged (like a root comment suggests) so that I can filter them out if I want.

But I can’t say I’d never want to hear anything about AI ever again (though I’m headed in that direction).

What field are you in, and what are your interests, such that you’d want to visit HN without ever seeing mentions of AI?
by nobody9999 | 2025-07-15 15:14:07+00:00
And I'd add that as Peter Medawar correctly pointed out[0][1]:

"The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together."

[0] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1064507

[1] As a middle-aged American who's lived their whole life in the US, this quote is spot on.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-15 15:14:18+00:00
It's kind of the opposite of strength training regimens, it's more like people saying "Why would I pick up the weight by hand when forklifts exist? When, in the real world, when doing a job, am I going to be expected to pick up dumbbells by hand lol? I'll just use a forklift every time."
by nathan_compton | 2025-07-15 15:14:40+00:00
I don't really get your point - the time evolution operator is deterministic, but it describes the wave function, which itself gives a probability distribution for the outcome of measurements. Typically exegeses of QM are roughly given in two parts: deterministic time evolution of the wave function and random selection of the outcome of measurements. So it really is just right there in the formalism: some stuff is random.

From the point of view of foundations of physics there really is no easy way out of this apparently fundamental randomness. We can be wave-function substantivalists and then we must explain why and how we don't see wave functions but concrete outcomes. We can adopt t'Hooft's cellular automata interpretation but that framework cannot easily support even something as simple as basic interactions in QFT (last I checked). We may list any number of ways of interpreting QM but all of them that I know of only at most banish randomness to the initial conditions, but not totally eliminate it from the ontology.

I'm not saying that reality is fundamentally non-deterministic. But I am saying that most of the ways one squares basic quantum mechanical predictions with basic physical measurements suggest a type of uncertainty that is at least very close to being "fundamental."
by s1artibartfast | 2025-07-15 15:15:13+00:00
PS, I read the rest of the paper.

Here are some choice parts:

> Drug manufacturers listed 22 patents after FDA approval of the 10 products in the cohort...Post-approval patents only extended the duration of protection on 2 products (median 4.6 years.

This is makes sense if there is actually something novel to add [keeping in mind the authors are treating any IP as if it protects the entirety of the product. A sugar coating or whatever wont protect the non-sugar coated pill.

To the extent I agree with the paper, it is that the 30 month hold is weaponized and should be reviewed and the issue with settlements should be addressed
by ptero | 2025-07-15 15:15:33+00:00
Sorry for confusion. In "buying widgets" I meant the regular procurement decision: the DoD needs N units of something (door handles, tank shells, whatever), it publishes specs, asks for bids and buys from whoever can deliver at the lower cost to the taxpayer. The government also funds research, where it gives money to generate something it believes to be beneficial longer term.

Funding research is, by definition, less cut-and-dry as to what we should pay for; thus having an agenda is not always bad and might even be good. I am using an "agenda" not in a narrow political sense, but including positions like "we should be funding space comms / drone networks / real-time soldier health monitoring / whatever because industry is not building what we think we will need in a few years".

But being somewhat exposed to the waste of DoD procurement I am personally vehemently against inserting such ideology into procurement decisions. Those should be money-based. Get what you need at the least cost to the taxpayer. If you do not know what you need, think harder or invite experts or do a study (and publish it so people writing it know they are associated with those decisions) before paying billions for questionable junk. My 2c.