MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by usrusr | 2025-07-14 15:59:01+00:00
When seeing numbers like that I always wonder about the probability of the engines truly running the same feature set: not because I doubt that an alternative implementation can be faster (I don't) and certainly not because I'd want to accuse anyone of trickery, but because those software stacks are just so very, very complex and adaptive and minor (but, perhaps, costly in fps) adaptions of the engine parametrization to the runtime environment can be very difficult to spot by looking at the output. I'd imagine the relationship between the code and what's actually happening must be almost as wild and unpredictable as what we see in epigenetics.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-14 15:59:02+00:00
It will be interesting to see when sodium ion production ramps up in the US and EU. China is far ahead with this. As it was with LFP for the last few years. CATL is actually ramping up production for their second generation sodium ion battery already. They've been producing the first generation for a few years already. Sodium ion is going to be double digit percentages of the battery market in a few years. Like LFP is today. In China at least.

The advantage is not only cost but also longevity. LFP and sodium ion batteries might have decades of useful life. With thousands of charge cycles, you could be charging them on a daily basis and it would be fine. NMC only has about 1000-1500 cycles. Some LFP batteries do 3-4x better than that. Sodium ion even better.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 15:59:04+00:00
Currently specifications are mostly static documents. While they can be refreshed this is a more manual process, and if you do "vibe coding" via Kiro it can make code changes without updating the specs at all.

I find the best way to use specs is to progressively commit them into the repo as an append only "history" showing the gradual change of the project over time. You can use Kiro to modify an existing spec and update it to match the new intended state of the project, but this somehow feels a bit less valuable compared to having a historical record of all the design choices that led from where you started to where you now are.

I think in the long run Kiro will be able to serve both types of use: keeping a single authoritative library of specs for each feature, and keeping a historical record of mutations over time.
by xyst | 2025-07-14 15:59:08+00:00
Not surprising. Use of LLM has only been helpful in initial exploration of unknown code bases or languages for me.

Using it beyond that is just more work. First parse the broken response, remove any useless junk, have it reprocess with updated query.

It’s a nice tool to have (just as search engines gave us easy access to multiple sources/forums), but its limitations are well known. Trying to use it 100% as intended is a massive waste of time and resources (energy use…)
by quitit | 2025-07-14 15:59:13+00:00
Considering Apple isn't even a go-to choice for gamers, the idea that iOS's minority market-share is holding back Windows, Android (and even macOS), is nothing short of farcical b/s-ing.

Heck, most developers don't even produce versions of their games for any Apple hardware, even though there are plenty of cross-platform development suites.
Show HN: HortusFox – a self-hosted, open-sourced management app for houseplants
by foxiel | 2025-07-14 15:59:20+00:00
The project started originally when my partner asked me to create her a management app for her indoor and outdoor plants.

I decided to go with the self-hosted, open-source way, as I want users to maintain 100% ownership of their data, focusing on privacy and also encourage users to participate in the project on GitHub.

Me and my partner have currently over 200 plants, so it definitely helps us to manage, track and journal our plants. Apart from the management and organisational aspects, it's also quite cozy to just browse through all your plants and their photos during commute or when having a coffee break.

I'm really thankful that I built something that connects technology with nature.

If you are a plant owner, feel free to provide any feedback on the app. You can install it via docker or try the live demo. I'm thankful for any constructive ideas, feedback or even criticism.

Have a great, leafy day.
by ouked | 2025-07-14 15:59:24+00:00
Nicely put.

From a brief look (https://www.techradar.com/uk/search?searchTerm=Craig+Federig...), it looks like Tech Radar expects more of their readers to know who Craig is - going from "Apple exec Craig Federighi" to just "Craig Federighi".

I couldn't find another article with Sameer Samat.

I wonder if a media outlets' intended or real audience could be inferred from indicators like this.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-14 15:59:26+00:00
comparing stephenson and gibson is interesting - gibson basically does no story-based exposition in a lot of his work, and stephenson can't help but dig into the nitty gritty details that support the world-building and story development to an almost obnoxious (but informative!) degree.

i used to really enjoy Stephenson (especially having not gone to college- i feel like i was exposed to some interesting ideas through his writing that i might not have otherwise).

now that i'm a bit older, i find him to be kind of a know-it-all blowhard, especially in light of his extremely-lucrative work with what are basically the precursors to the giant horrible corporations he wrote about so disparagingly.

i still enjoy snow crash, and i want to re-read cryptonomicon and anathem, but it's really hard to weigh the message he used to send against his more recent work in meatspace.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-14 15:59:32+00:00
>We can look at China that is focused on growth at all costs.

It's easy to look down on others from an ivory tower in the wealthy developed west, but consider that China was dirt poor a few decades ago. What else would you have chosen? Die of poverty while protecting the environment? Same with India. They did what they had to in order to survive.

The west did that too in the industrial revolution. China had to speed run decades of industrial evolution in years. So why gaslight other countries for doing the same thing your country did a few decades earlier?

The good news for them is China recently stopped extracting rare earths on the cheap for the west. Their cities, air, water are waaay cleaner than they were just a decade ago. Chinese cities are actually livable now.

That's why the west is scrambling to find alternative sources on the cheap in other places that will let their environment be trashed, like Ukraine and Africa, since China doesn't want to be the west's easily exploitable environmental pay-piggy anymore, and good for them.

The bad news for the planet is that environmental destruction is not stopping, it's just moving away from China to other poorer places with weaker economies and militaries who are more malleable to western pressure and corporate demands.

>China would bulldoze my hometown in 2 seconds if it meant an addition 0.1 GDP.

Your western nation most likely did the same from the industrial revolution till WW2.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-14 15:59:47+00:00
Unfortunately aider is showing its age. It is great for what it does, but better LLMs + "agentic" have shown that you can get more in the swe domain.

There was a paper recently where they had an LLM evolve tool harnesses and got ~20% more than w/ aider on the benchmark they used, so it's pretty clear that the models + tools (+better harness) are better than just aider.
by troupo | 2025-07-14 15:59:50+00:00
> If Apple was suddenly a nice friendly corporation, would the browser landscape in the EU change much?

Not immediately. Because there are literally no browser vendors beyond the existing three. Everyone else is just söapping on different coats pf paint on Chromium.

But then there's Ladybird for example https://2025.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/andreas-kling/
by lern_too_spel | 2025-07-14 15:59:52+00:00
I use Firefox because it is the only mobile browser worth a damn. Mozilla screwed up by wasting resources on FirefoxOS and other projects that had no business case in the early days of mobile browser adoption, but they eventually got their act together and started supporting extensions and other differentiating features that people want. They're still slow-walking container support, but nobody else has that either.
by emsign | 2025-07-14 16:00:12+00:00
It is about LLMs because it's the trillions being sunk into this bubble instead of more important issues like climate crisis and a pressing need to address the transformation of the energy sector or tackling the wealth inequality gap. These are all causing real world osues that are much bigger than beating (or rather faking to beat) some LLM benchmarks to impress investor.
by sevensor | 2025-07-14 16:00:42+00:00
One of the more memorable experiences of my youth was watching a VW microbus burn. It had been stored over the winter and evidently the fuel line had either deteriorated or been chewed on by an animal. After idling for a few minutes it went spectacularly up in flames. The firefighters weren’t expecting magnesium and were quite surprised by the intensity of the fire and the bright white flames from the puddles of molten metal.
by ativzzz | 2025-07-14 16:01:02+00:00
In any job I've had (all remote), just message any person with some experience with the thing you're working on. They're always more than happy to bounce ideas or hop on a call and chat about it

> Hey, I'm working on feature A that needs X, Y, Z solutions. I see you worked on something similar, I'm trying to figure out the right way forward. Can I bounce some ideas off you?

Works with people without the experience

> Hey I'm working thru a problem and having trouble coming to a solution, any chance I could bounce some ideas off you?

Basically I've never had a "mentor" and I just ask people questions

> working at a remote startup since

This was my first job too. The upside was the freedom to explore on my own. The downside was lack of experienced coworkers. So I quit after a few years to get more of those.

AI is also decent at answering these kinds of questions, but less rewarding since it's not a human you can chat with
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-14 16:01:04+00:00
While I agree with the general reasoning, isn't it harder for the user to prompt the model correctly as opposed to selecting a specialized model that they wish to use?

That's the feeling I have when I try to use LLMs for more general language processing.

Have you run in cases where the model "forgets" the task at hand and switches to another mid text stream?

Regardless of all of the above. It looks to me that your choice of reasoning and problem solving in the latent space is a great one and where we should be collectively focusing our efforts, keep up the good work.
by TimMeade | 2025-07-14 16:01:20+00:00
We tend to allow this. But you can review the diff before you allow it. It seems easier to say "roll that back" or hit esc if you see it doing things you dont like and then correcting it. I have to say the velocity is insane of coding this way. We also commit a LOT and explicitly dont allow claude to push code ever. That way we can roll back if needed, but honestly it's pretty rare to need to. The MAX plan is a must to work this way though.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 16:01:32+00:00
You will be happy to find out that Kiro is quite good at this! One of my favorite features is "Steering Rules". Kiro can help you write steering rules for your projects, and the steering rules that it auto generates are actually super great for large projects. You can see some examples of auto generated steering files here in one of my open source projects: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro/tree/main/.kiro...

Also these steering rules are just markdown files, so you can just drop your other rules files from other tools into the `.kiro/steering` directory, and they work as is.
by freeplay | 2025-07-14 16:01:41+00:00
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"

The obesity trend has happened almost in lockstep with the proliferation of highly processed foods. Butter and animal fats being replaced with low quality, hydrogenated vegetable oils. Cane sugar being replaced with high fructose corn syrup and other highly processed sweeteners. Sodas and sugary juices replacing water. Food like substances with little to no nutritional value designed solely for taste and texture.

These things are calorically dense while containing nothing the body needs to thrive (though the calories will allow it to survive). They are easy to eat in large amounts and leave you feeling hungry. And unfortunately, these are the most affordable and readily available foods in the United States.

I don't think this is a conspiracy. It's just capitalism. These low quality ingredients are cheap and extremely shelf stable. In addition, the government subsidizes the production of this garbage.

So to say obesity has persisted through everything we've tried is a bit backwards. It would be more accurate to say "a percentage of the population has managed to avoid obesity despite all of the things we've tried."

- Make healthier food options more affordable and readily available - Better nutrition education - And if you really want to get the government involved, ban the use of some additives, oils, sweeteners, and dyes that allow the creation of many of these highly processed foods
by willglynn | 2025-07-14 16:02:35+00:00
Yes! Exactly this.

My last EV used 22 MWh over 6.5 years. That works out to 390W.

My solar array is located at high latitudes (northern Minnesota), the mounting angle isn't great, it's occasionally covered in snow, etc. In these conditions, I need 6.3 solar panels to produce 22 MWh over 6.5 years.

The area used by 6.3 solar panels -- enough PV to cover _all_ my EV's energy needs -- works out to be a parking spot large enough to fit the vehicle but not large enough to fully open any of the doors.
by bmn__ | 2025-07-14 16:02:42+00:00
Fx user here since it was called Phoenix and cookies were called delicious delicacies in the options, and Mozilla browser before that. IMO as a power user, it is a second-rate browser. The bar is set by [Opera v12](https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1216/).

* no spatial browsing, not even as an extension. This feature alone I would use literally thousands of times a week. * no fit to width * no cycle display images enable/disable/cached * cannot edit menus or icons as simple configuration file * no tab thumbnails * reader mode that actually always works every single time, not just when the browser feels like it * no editable key bindings * no shortcuts for highlighting next/prev URL, next/prev heading, next/prev element * no presentation mode * no panelise web page * no navigation bar
by jrm4 | 2025-07-14 16:02:56+00:00
This is the best 'literary' comparison I have ever seen on this site. Since we're in hip-hop for a bit, I gotta point to the way less famous Camp Lo: They do this, but instead of kung-fu + hood drug dealing; they're more in the space of 70's Blaxploitation + Heist films with a dash of Neuromancer/Blade Runner.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-07-14 16:03:30+00:00
A huge part of the cost of building a house right now is the excessive regulation. By deregulating we will be able to build houses for less money and so builders will be able to sell them for less money. In addition apartments and especially larger apartment buildings are straight up illegal in many areas even though demand is high. Legalizing these units which are much cheaper than SFHs would allow all housing prices to decrease as some of the people competing for SFHs instead buy a condo.
by gr8beehive | 2025-07-14 16:03:41+00:00
Behind in the opinion of some chronically online tech power user.

Your high tech is behind the tech of 10 generations from now. Just as meaningless a comparison.

It’s unfortunate so many so poorly understand the ramifications of physics.

Ah, one of billions. Belief this opinion of yours is relevant in any way is cute in “the child is clearly an idiot” kind of way.
by GoblinSlayer | 2025-07-14 16:04:12+00:00
I wrote an encrypted file exchange tool, 26kb. External dependencies are files, sockets, memcpy and malloc. It's client and server in one file, so it's two times bigger than it can be. It also has complex and almost useless features like traffic obfuscation, probing resistance and hertzbleed resistance because why not, so it's not a minimal implementation.
by nico | 2025-07-14 16:04:26+00:00
> They are experienced open source developers, working on their own projects

I just started working on a 3-month old codebase written by someone else, in a framework and architecture I had never used before

Within a couple hours, with the help of Claude Code, I had already created a really nice system to replicate data from staging to local development. Something I had built before in other projects, and I new that manually it would take me a full day or two, especially without experience in the architecture

That immediately sped up my development even more, as now I had better data to test things locally

Then a couple hours later, I had already pushed my first PR. All code following the proper coding style and practices of the existing project and the framework. That PR, would have taken me at least a couple of days and up to 2 weeks to fully manually write out and test

So sure, AI won’t speed everyone or everything up. But at least in this one case, it gave me a huge boost

As I keep going, I expect things to slow down a bit, as the complexity of the project grows. However, it’s also given me the chance to get an amazing jumpstart
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-07-14 16:04:42+00:00
besides, blaming users (who spend their time going to website, and bringing up the issue to developer) for broken website, is not the best way to go.

maybe there should not be consent screens popups that break? or any popups? or any consent screens? and why there is consent for something anyways? and maybe there should not be any tracking (or at least not broken one)
by rosspackard | 2025-07-14 16:06:03+00:00
One mediocre paper/study (it should not even be called that with all the bias and sample size issues) and now we have to put up with stories re-hashing and dissecting it. I really hope these don't get upvoted more in the future.

16 devs. And they weren't allowed to pick which tasks they used the AI on. Ridiculous. Also using it on "old and >1 million line" codebases and then extrapolating that to software engineering in general.

Writers like this then theorize why AI isn't helpful, then those "theories" get repeated until it feels less like a theory and more like a fact and it all proliferates into an echo chamber of AI isn't a useful tool. There have been too many anecdotes and my own personal experience to ignore that it isn't useful.

It is a tool and you have to learn it to be successful with it.
by uludag | 2025-07-14 16:06:44+00:00
Great article and I was having very similar thoughts with regards to this productivity study and the "Programming as Theory Building" paper. I'm starting to be convinced that if you are the original author of a program and still have the program's context in the head, you are the asymptote to which any and all AI systems will approach but never surpass: maybe not in terms of raw coding speed, but in terms of understanding the program, its vision of development, its deficiencies and hacks, its context, its users and what they want, the broader culture the program exists in, etc.

I really like how the author then brought up the point that for most daily work we don't have the theory built, even a small fraction of it, and that this may or may not change the equation.
by harimau777 | 2025-07-14 16:06:48+00:00
Most people want to live in a society that maximizes positive freedom, or some balance of freedom and prosperity. In those societies, it is considered legitimate for the government to use force to stop people whose actions prevent members of society from having positive freedom/prosperity.

Of course that is a very simplified description. In practice, most societies promote a balance between positive and negative freedom, recognize some limits on the government's ability to use force, recognize some degree to which people can choose to act in ways that don't promote positive freedom/prosperity, etc.
by chvid | 2025-07-14 16:07:07+00:00
I don't quite understand what is going in China; why are these private companies (Deepseek, Alibaba, Moonshot, Bytedance) releasing models, which have been very costly to develop, for free? Is there some of sort of government mandate behind this. I understand it from a societal perspective where you want the value created by artificial intelligence to be as high possible; and you do that by dispersing it across as many uses as possible and encouraging openess between providers.

So I guess a mandate would make sense in a communist society.

I do the understand the US tech perspective on AI: A winner-takes-all game and a rush to create this single dominant AGI which all others would have to be connected to. The spoils for the winner in this game would be off the charts. And releasing something as open source in that world, beyond annoying your competitors, would make little sense.
by angelmm | 2025-07-14 16:07:26+00:00
Totally. I think Zed has its own value proposition. That's why I never put them close to other editors like Cursor at the beginning.

Lately, I started putting it together due to all the AI excitement. People try it because of the AI capabilities to find an IDE that works for them.

I hope Zed continues providing new amazing features in all the areas.
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-14 16:07:28+00:00
I know! I am totally aware. My FIL died sitting in a recliner basically from age 55 to 70. He didn't move, didn't watch what he ate. We saw that happen over a long period until he died about 3 years ago. It started with toes, then loss of a leg.

Since that happened, it really kicked us into motion plus shaking the COVID funk!

I wish you the best as well
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-14 16:07:58+00:00
> So it’s not about whether you “have the money” but whether you happen to have one of those rare employers offering platinum plated health plans

That means having the money...

Wait until you hear about things like the Mayo Clinic Executive Health Program: https://www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/mayo-clinic-e...

You can spend three days in a luxury suite at the #1 ranked hospital in the world, while their top docs screen you for everything. You literally have full access to whatever the Mayo Clinic offers.

> I suppose in that narrow case, US health care may be good.

Yes, that narrow case of millions of tech workers like myself.
by incanus77 | 2025-07-14 16:08:03+00:00
This is a common problem with rear-engine VWs if the fuel lines aren’t maintained. Fuel pumping through rubber hoses directly over hot exhaust is a recipe for disaster. It’s generally recommended now to replace the lines at least every ten years. You don’t see them wearing as they do so from the inside. Things can even start up after sitting for a while after driving since the exhaust is still hot and there is pressure in the lines.
by aspittel | 2025-07-14 16:08:14+00:00
I've been testing Kiro for a few months, and yes, it's an agentic IDE like many others. However, a lot of the features are different - the spec driven development is a game changer. It feels like you're truly software engineering versus vibing - you break a problem into small, solvable steps using specs. So are agent hooks - there are great use cases like updating Asana statuses or syncing your design system with Figma.
by cik | 2025-07-14 16:09:24+00:00
As someone with diagnosed ADHD. I fully agree. There's some background thread that says "you, now, eat". It's almost impossible to shut off.

That being the case, the same behaviours have led me to a compulsive need to plan meals. Doing so has helped me lessen (not eliminate) food noise. Anecdotally, I've noticed with others as well, that this is the way. Prep - be fine. Don't prep - eat a small village.