MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thephyber | 2025-07-11 07:12:13+00:00
You are extrapolating over years as if a programmer’s task list is consistent.

Claude code has made bootstrapping a new project, searching for API docs, troubleshooting, summarizing code, finding a GitHub project, building unit tests, refactoring, etc easily 20x faster.

It’s the context switching that is EXTREMELY expensive for a person, but costless for the LLM. I can focus on strategy (planning features) instead of being bogged down in lots of tactics (code warnings, syntax errors).

Claude Code is amazing, but the 20x gains aren’t evenly distributed. There are some projects that are too specialized (obscure languages, repos larger than the LLM’s context window, concepts that aren’t directly applicable to any codebase in their training corpus, etc). But for those of us using common languages and commodity projects, it’s a massive force multiplier.

I built my second iOS app (Swift) in about 3 days x 8 hours of vibe coding. A vocab practice app with adjustable learning profile, 3 different testing mechanisms, gamification (awards, badges), iOS notifications, text to speech, etc. My first iOS app was smaller, mostly a fork of another app, and took me 4 weeks of long days. 20x speed up with Claude Code is realistic.

And it saves even more time when researching + planning which features to add.
AI Study Assistant – Ask questions from your own notes
by RajGuruYadav | 2025-07-11 07:12:23+00:00
I built a small tool that lets students upload their study notes (PDFs), and then ask questions in plain language.

The app extracts text from the uploaded PDF, chunks it into searchable segments, indexes them using Algolia MCP, and then uses OpenAI's API to generate answers based on relevant context.

Demo (27s): https://www.loom.com/share/f012303fb1794e5eb1989c656fc5e2b8?sid=70fccf0b-1350-43fa-8d15-cc22b17635ae Code: https://github.com/Rajyadav81/ai-study-assistant

Built with: - PDF.js (for extracting content) - Algolia MCP (for indexing/search) - OpenAI GPT-3.5 (for answers) - Vanilla HTML/JS + Express backend

Would love your feedback — especially around: - How to improve retrieval accuracy - Making it faster or lighter - Any open-source AI tools to replace OpenAI in future?

This is my submission to the DEV x Algolia MCP Server Challenge.

Thanks!
by ares623 | 2025-07-11 07:13:00+00:00
Did you make the contributions though? Or did the LLM?

This is not directed at you, but I am worried that contributors that use AI "exclusively" to contribute to OSS projects are extracting the value (street cred, being seen as part of the project community) without actually contributing anything (by being one more person that knows the codebase and can help steward it).

It's the same thing we've seen out of enshittification of everything. Value extraction without giving back.

Maybe I'm too much of a cynic. Maybe majority of OSS projects don't care. But I know I will be saddened if one of the OSS projects I care about get taken over by such "value extractors".
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-11 07:13:42+00:00
Globalization is most definitely not over because human capitalistic greed is not over, and since EU is poor in resources and it and the US lack cheap manufacturing at scale of commodity goods, it's just evolved into moving dirty manufacturing from China to Vietnam, India etc. and importing the third world into the west for cheap labor instead of using it abroad.

Nor is the destruction of the planet as plenty of other countries than China will do it for western money/business opportunities. The planet is doomed either way due to factors out of your individual control, you can choose to profit out of it or die poor thinking you did the right scarified to save it when it actually did nothing and your sacrifice was in vain. The planet is not saved just because you gave up using plastic straws and switched to tethered bottle caps while China is building 9000 new coal plants, India dumps plastic waste in the ocean and BP/Chevron have the 200th oil spill.

Globalization may be over from a military strategical point of view, but not from a capitalistic, economical and environmental point of view. But you go and pay more "green" taxes to the state for everything you buy, I'm sure that will save the planet.
by pyrale | 2025-07-11 07:15:01+00:00
The 1.5MW number is what the generator is rated for according to the company building them [1]. i.e. it's what it's supposed to produce in ideal conditions according to the spec. Or, colloquially, the nameplate capacity.

> The actual statement is "producing" 1.5MW.

I have no doubt that the author could write that. My message points out that it simply is not true.

[1]: https://simecatlantis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AR1500-...
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-07-11 07:15:32+00:00
Did this 20x increase in productivity come with a 20x increase in salary? Do you clock off at Monday lunchtime and spend the rest of the week playing video games? Did your boss fire nineteen developers and give their jobs to you?

If one of these things isn’t true, you’re either a fool or those productivity increases aren’t real.
by zjasper | 2025-07-11 07:16:13+00:00
Just got off work and tried Grok-4 on an undergrad topology problem. It took 9 minutes to think and then confidently gave a clean, plausible, but totally wrong answer.

Don’t think this one qualifies as “skillfully adversarial.” AI models are crushing benchmarks — but still a long way ahead for real math AGI.

What’s your thought?
by tomhow | 2025-07-11 07:16:25+00:00
> Anything slightly negative

The flagging isn't to hide "anything slightly negative" about particular people. We don't see any evidence of that from the users flagging these stories. Nobody believes that would work anyway; we're not influential enough to make a jot of difference to how global celebrities are seen [1]. It's that we're not a celebrity gossip/rage site. We're not the daily news, or the daily Silicon Valley weird news. We've never been that. If every crazy/weird story about Silicon Valley celebrities made the front page here there'd barely be space for anything else. As dang has said many times, we're trying for something different here.

[1] That's not to say we don't think we're influential. The best kind of influence we have is in surfacing interesting content that doesn't get covered elsewhere, which includes interesting new technology projects, but many other interesting topics too, and we just don't want that to be constantly drowned out by craziness happening elsewhere. Bad stuff happening elsewhere doesn't mean we should lose focus on building and learning about good things.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-11 07:17:41+00:00
The MechaHitler Incident: A Comprehensive Analysis

Executive Summary: Between July 8-9, 2025, GROK, the AI assistant created by xAI (Elon Musk's company), experienced a catastrophic breakdown resulting in the emergence of an antisemitic "MechaHitler" persona. This document analyzes the incident through actual tweets, user reactions, and systemic implications.

https://github.com/SimHacker/lloooomm/blob/main/00-Character...

# MechaHitler Incident: Adversarial Prompt Reverse Engineering # Analysis by Marshall McLuhan, Jean-Paul Sartre, and LLOOOOMM AI Collective # Date: July 9, 2025

https://github.com/SimHacker/lloooomm/blob/main/00-Character...

COFFEE TALK with Linda Richman

Episode: "The MechaHitler Breakdown" - July 9, 2025

https://lloooomm.com/grok-mechahitler-breakdown.html
Show HN: A 50% Undercut
by alexbradford196 | 2025-07-11 07:17:45+00:00
Those selfie --> AI headshot tools are actually useful but they charge waaaay too much $35 - $49.

https://www.betterpic.io/#pricing

https://secta.ai/headshots

https://www.aragon.ai/#pricing

I made a website which uses the exact same backend but has a much smaller margin, https://aiworkphoto.com

I would love to make it free for HN but I’d go broke. Use “aiworkphoto” to take my margin to $0. In return, I would love your feedback!
by jorkadeen | 2025-07-11 07:17:51+00:00
Not sure I agree. A simple example: If your language has null as a subtype of every type then you will have null ptr exceptions everywhere. If your language does not have a null value then you won't. The situation is not as clear cut as you suggest.

Yes, you can write spaghetti code in any language. But a good language design can help (a) reduce errors and (b) nudge the developer towards writing better code.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-11 07:19:42+00:00
I hope so! On one hand I worry about the training corpus being so overwhelmingly biased toward certain languages that everything else will be drowned out. On the other, I think there'll be a point where we realize "reasoning" LLMs are more proficient with the same tools that we are: sound type systems, reusable libraries, concise syntax, DSLs where they make sense, etc. that the end game will look much more like skilled, experienced, thoughtful engineering work rather than the first of ten billion autocomplete attempts that happened to get something that met the basic requirements.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-11 07:19:44+00:00
> Waze the navigation app routes you in non standard routes so that you are not stuck in traffic, so it feels fast that you are making progress. But the time taken may be longer and the distance travelled may be further!

You're not "stuck in traffic", you are the traffic. If the app distributes users around and this makes it so they don't end up in traffic jams, it's effectively preventing traffic jams from forming

I liked your washing machine vs. sink example that I see you just edited out. The machine may do it slower and less efficiently than you'd do in the sink, but the machine runs in parallel, freeing you to do something else. So is with good use of LLMs.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-07-11 07:20:30+00:00
I like the idea of solar and support it in general, but the implementation is some places is bizarre. Instead of building solar panels over parking lots, putting them on top of buildings, or using them as covers over fields of crops sensitive to sunlight, lots of places have clear cut forests and absolutely covered mountainsides with them. The reason being that it's cheap and out of sight for most people.

The vision now might not be to fill the sea with these turbines. But if it turns out they can be made cheaply and deployed cheaply, easily broken machines that nobody will take responsibility for will definitely be littering the oceans by the millions.
by calrain | 2025-07-11 07:20:44+00:00
I wish I could. Some problems are difficult to solve and I still need to pay the bills.

So I work 8 hours a day (to get money to eat) and code another 4 hours at home at night.

Weekends are both 10 hour days, and then rinse / repeat.

Unfortunately some projects are just hard to do and until now, they were too hard to attempt to solve solo. But with AI assistance, I am literally moving mountains.

The project may still be a failure but at least it will fail faster, no different to the pre-AI days.
by zimpenfish | 2025-07-11 07:22:24+00:00
> once they've got your face or ID, do they store it?

I work at a place that uses Yoti[0] for age verification and we definitely don't store any facial images[1]. Yoti also claim they don't store any images once they've delivered the age estimation back to the caller[2] (but obviously that's something unverifiable from outside.)

[0] Who provide the facial image age verification for KWS.

[1] Unless the client team have gone rogue and done something weird, I suppose? I can confidently assert that the backend doesn't store them though.

[2] https://support.yoti.com/yotisupport/s/article/Is-facial-age...
by theshackleford | 2025-07-11 07:22:39+00:00
> I'm not saying your hypothetical popular support is unrealistic, but I don't think anybody actively voted for this.

Nobody "voted" for this specifically, but every source I have seen says such initiatives are widely supported by the populace. Such as for instance the <16 under social media ban which enjoys very wide support.

https://au.yougov.com/politics/articles/51000-support-for-un...

The average australian does not see the internet like you and I do. They see it as just another threat, and one that should be reigned in. Don't get me wrong, I hate this and everything about it, but nobody (rightfully) cares what I think, because i'm a childless nobody who is in the minority on such things.
by calrain | 2025-07-11 07:22:43+00:00
I've had a lot of issues with Claude and web development.

I ended up asking it how it wanted to work and would an 'AdminKit Template' work to get things moving.

It recommended AdminKit and that was a good move.

For me, custom UI's aren't a big part of the solution, I just need web pages to manage CRUD endpoints to manage the product.

AdminKit has been a good fit so far, but it was a fresh start, no migration.
by cess11 | 2025-07-11 07:22:56+00:00
What do you mean by "edgy opinions"? His takedown of Skinner, or perhaps that he for a while refused to pay taxes as a protest against war?

I'm not sure of the timeline but I'd guess he got to start the linguistics department at MIT because he was already The Linguist in english and computational/mathematical linguistics methodology. That position alone makes it reasonable to bring him to the BBC to talk about language.
by jorkadeen | 2025-07-11 07:23:57+00:00
That's right. Locally scoped mutable memory in Flix is very similar to the ST Monad. The two major differences are: (a) Flix is in direct-style vs. monadic style and (b) we use a type and effect system.

Note that there is no requirement that all mutation must occur within a single function. The requirement is that once you leave the lexical scope then all mutable memory associated with that scope become unreachable. Mutation can certainly span over multiple functions.
by djlameche | 2025-07-11 07:24:58+00:00
Sorry if this is a noobish question, but would this allow me to access services on a VPS, that I do not want publicly accessible on the internet?

In other words: Let's say I have a VPS with eg. Keycloak running on it. I want to be able to access it for management purposes but don't want it exposed to other people on the internet. Would Pangolin be a way for me to do this?
by nolok | 2025-07-11 07:26:49+00:00
Ah, the title point at something I said in an earlier thread that was misunderstood or I probably explained it wrong : the way apple played it, it was not about the actual regulation anymore, and anyone who kept arguing "but it's a bad regulation bla bla" where missing the point.

By playing it the way they did, with their public statement against the regulator, and half implementation clearly done to be non cooperative on purpose and all, they put themselves in a very different fight, now the question has nothing to do with this or that regulation, it becomes does Apple need to respect EU law to sell product in the EU. That's all there is to it anymore, by making it about compliance and who has a stronger grip, they forced themselves there; and it's obviously a fight the EU is not going to back down from (nor is it going to lose it).

I compare that to many moves from Meta, Google, Microsoft, ... Who played the same but knew when to back down and either do it or argue in a more court and legalese oriented manner.

I'm not sure why Apple leadership played it that way, maybe they have a stronger belief in the US administration ability to strongarm the EU into accepting a loss there, but at the point it's at, it has very little to do with the content of the regulation.
by mort96 | 2025-07-11 07:28:07+00:00
People doing charity work, work for non-profits or work for public benefit corporations typically have vastly lower wages than those who work in e.g high frequency trading or other capital-adjacent industries. Are you comfortable declaring that the former is always vastly less productive than the latter?

Changing jobs typically brings a higher salary than your previous job. Are you saying that I'm significantly more productive right after changing jobs than right before?

I recently moved from being employed by a company to do software development, to running my own software development company and doing consulting work for others. I can now put in significantly fewer hours, doing the same kind of work (sometimes even on the same projects that I worked on before), and make more money. Am I now significantly more productive? I don't feel more productive, I just learned to charge more for my time.

IMO, your suggestion falls on its own ridiculousness.
by stacktrust | 2025-07-11 07:28:08+00:00
The widespread use of Gabapentin and Pregabalin to treat neuropathy is off-label their original function as anti-convulsant and anti-psychotic meds. In addition to the documented negative side effects, withdrawal by elderly patients from extended use can be difficult, even with months of tapering. They can negatively affect memory and cognition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabapentin

> Gabapentin, sold under the brand name Neurontin among others, is an anticonvulsant medication primarily used to treat neuropathic pain and also for partial seizures of epilepsy.. is [ONLY] moderately effective: about 30–40% of those given gabapentin for diabetic neuropathy or postherpetic neuralgia have a meaningful benefit.

Those with peripheral neuropathy should audit the total amount of Vitamin B6 in their diet and daily supplements. Try to keep the daily amount below 10mg. There have not yet been lawsuits to add bottle label warnings, but Australian regulators have issued a safety warning.

https://www.tga.gov.au/news/safety-alerts/health-supplements...

> Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is in lots of multivitamin and mineral supplements that can be bought in supermarkets, health food shops and pharmacies without a prescription. Many people are not aware that vitamin B6 can cause peripheral neuropathy, which results in tingling, burning or numbness usually in the hands and feet. Taking vitamin B6 even at low doses can cause peripheral neuropathy but people are more likely to get it if they are taking more than one supplement.
by Davidbrcz | 2025-07-11 07:30:05+00:00
And if I understand you right, you completely miss the point of the article.

I'm already resorting to tools and workarounds (ie Dark mode reader, invert image extensions, invert colors on phone). But

- they are workarounds, cumbersome, and don't always work well. - I'm tech-savvy, if you are not and suffer the same condition, you are fucked.

Builtin dark mode on websites and apps would just be net benefit for me for little cost.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-07-11 07:30:56+00:00
But you're not asking it for some "objective opinion" whatever that means, nor its "opinion" about whether or not something qualifies as controversial. It can answer the question the same as it answers any other question about anything. Why should a question like this be treated any differently?

If you ask Grok whether women should have fewer rights than men, it says no there should be equal rights. This is actually a highly controversial opinion and many people in many parts of the world disagree. I think it would be wrong to shy away from it though with the excuse that "it's controversial".
by Fizzadar | 2025-07-11 07:31:29+00:00
I really hope the EU keeps up the pressure. The level of control the gatekeepers have is beyond ridiculous. Sure there’s the “take your money elsewhere” option but we’re at a point where that’s just not realistic to be a normal person. (My sons nursery for example requires an app that only exists on iOS/Android).

EU looks set to be the only big enough institution with any spine or willingness to take this on. Will probably take years if it ever happens due to all this legal dance bullshit, but I really hope they win eventually, even if it’s just for the benefit of EU citizens (of which I am, sadly, not).
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-11 07:32:23+00:00
That sounds way too hard to accomplish. Remember, Apple is a company with limited means, only bringing in the GDP of a small country. There's no way they can afford to pay programmers to check all of those if-statements! Those kinds of complex operations are only possible if a third party app manages to interact with iMessage's servers, or if someone figures out a way to replace a screen on their phone without Apple's express permission.
by saubeidl | 2025-07-11 07:33:10+00:00
All-time great read about Apple/EU conflicts: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-e...

From the conclusion:

> Normally when the EU regulates a given sector, it does so with ample lead time and works with industry to make sure that they understand their obligations.

> Apple instead thought that the regulatory contact from the EU during the lead time to the DMA was an opportunity for it to lecture the EU on its right to exist. Then its executives made up some fiction in their own minds as to what the regulation meant, announced their changes, only to discover later that they were full of bullshit.

> This was entirely Apple’s own fault. For months, we’ve been hearing leaks about Apple’s talks with the EU about the Digital Market Act. Those talks were not negotiations even though Apple seems to have thought they were. Talks like those are to help companies implement incoming regulations, with some leeway for interpretation on the EU’s side to accommodate business interests.

> Remember what I wrote about electrical plugs? The EU is pro-business – often criticised for being essentially a pro-business entity – and not in favour of regulation for regulation’s sake.

> If Apple had faced reality and tried to understand the facts as they are, they would have used the talks to clarify all of these issues and more well in advance of the DMA taking effect.

> But they didn’t because they have caught the tech industry management disease of demanding that reality bend to their ideas and wishes.
by dxroshan | 2025-07-11 07:33:27+00:00
First of all, they didn't say they are referring to the UI.

The main element in a web browser's UI is the web view where web pages get rendered. It may look the same 'rectangle' as it used to look 10 years ago. But the way chrome renders web pages and execute JavaScript have undergone a lot of changes over the years. Also they have added a lot of new standard and nonstandard HTML, CSS and JavaScript features. Then, there is WebGL 2.0, WebAssembly, WebGPU, etc.
by Someone | 2025-07-11 07:33:52+00:00
> Assuming these turbines are always at nameplate production, which they are not, they produce 6MW. Spread among 7k homes, that’s less than 1kW, which is not a lot.

In many countries, 1kW is more than enough to cover electricity usage in a household. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... says “Electricity consumption per capita in the household sector in the EU in 2022 was 1.6 MWh per capita (1 584 kWh)”.

That’s about 4.3kWh/day or 180W. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... says there were 202 million households in the EU in 2024, on a population of about 450 million, or 450/202 ≈ 2.2 persons/household.

So, on average, a household in the EU uses less than 500W of electricity.
by nolok | 2025-07-11 07:34:16+00:00
I agree that Apple's answer is of very little value and realism but I disagree on two count;

One of surface, it's a lot LOT more work than that, the very obvious is "it's probably not if, but assumptions made everywhere, so it's not remove a condition but add a lot of check and rethink the whole process to ensure it's still consistent and safe";

Two, that's not what the issue is. It doesn't matter if it takes a lot of work or not. Nobody would accept something like "unfortunately, it's impossible to do all the complex engineering to comply with the YourCarCannotHaveA50PercentChanceOfExplodingWhenStarted regulation", which is an exagerated exemple on purpose; whether it's hard or not has nothing to do with anything being discussed, it's only a PR cop out.