MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-30 17:10:45+00:00
>Wikipedia took a very long time to get close to reliable,

And that's a good thing to remember. Always be skeptical and know the strengths and weaknesses of your sources. Teachers taught me (and maybe you) to be skeptical and not use Wikipedia as a citation for a reason. Even today, it is horrible for covering current events, and recent historical opinions can massively fluctuate. That isn't me dismissing Wikipedia as a whole, nor saying it has no potential.

>Google was pretty reliable for a bit, but for a while now the reliability of its results has been the butt of jokes.

Yes, more reason to be scrutinous. It's a bit unfortunate how oftentimes it's the 3-5th result that is more reliable than the first SEO optimized slop that won the race. Not unless I am using very specific queries.

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Now let's consider these chat bots. There's no sense of editorial overview, they are not deterministic, and they are known to constantly hallucinate instead of admit ignorance. There does not seem to be any real initiative to fix such behavior, but instead ignore it and dismiss it as "the tech will get better".

Meanwhile, we saw the most blatant piece of abuse last week when Grok was update, to show that these are not some impartial machines simply synthesizing existing information. They can be tweak to private estate's whims the same way a search algorithm or biased astroturfer can do with the other two subjects of comparison. There's clear flaws and no desire nor push to really fix them; simply casting it off as a bug to fix instead of a societal letdown it should be viewed as.
by hellojesus | 2025-07-30 17:10:49+00:00
It does to some extent. At least your data is similar to what I've read.

I think the problem is that even if I was one standard deviation above the mean, that's still only about the 68% percentile. So it's expected that 3 of every 10 dudes would be better endowded than me, and I'm sure nude beaches bias in sample towards the more well endowed. So likely I won't be laughed at but won't be a genetic prize, and I'm not sure I'm confident enough (or ever will be) to accept that as public knowledge.
by foco_tubi | 2025-07-30 17:10:49+00:00
1,000 different universities, 1,000 different research centers, 1,000 different scientific organizations, 1,000 different fanzines, 1,000 different personal sites, 1,000 different hobby sites, 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 pies, 55 Cokes, 100 tater tots, 100 pizzas, 100 tenders, 100 meatballs, 100 coffees, 55 wings, 55 shakes, 55 pancakes, 55 pastas, 55 peppers, and 155 taters.
by stanfordkid | 2025-07-30 17:10:54+00:00
Umm... it absolutely was cut and dry. 75 years ago a set of westerners came and occupied another country through massive, brutal and widespread violence all under the approval of western govt's that themselves felt massive guilt about the holocaust. The Israeli gov't pretended to give Palestinians rights all while calculatedly trying to suppress any legitimate form of gov't (read about Israels massive support of Hamas starting in the 80s because they believed they would have a tougher "negotiating position" against extremists... guess that backfired. They enforced apartheid, blockades, mass surveillance etc. naturally that resulted in resistance. Is resistance justified? Who cares. Is it a natural consequence of material conditions? Absolutely.

I have a friend who would say anytime someone brings up that "it's a complex issue": "They should just stop stealing peoples houses dude". This pretty much sums it up. Maybe if they stopped that a few decades ago this wouldn't have happened.
by freedomben | 2025-07-30 17:11:14+00:00
I don't disagree, but then it seems like the definition of "greed" that you are using is essentially synonymous with "running a company." If we want to use that definition, then the claims become true, but the term "greed" also becomes meaningless as it applies to everything we as humans do. "Greed" becomes the motivation behind why I took two slices of pizza instead of one, or why I turn the thermostat down in the winter to use less fuel (and thus save money), or why I turn the thermostat up in the winter (to get more comfortable, even though I'm using more gas). We greedily want to stay alive, so we use resources to procure food at the expense of other living creatures. For that matter, all life on the planet is driven by greed.
by anonzzzies | 2025-07-30 17:11:17+00:00
Another one, but indeed very nice looking. Will definitely be testing it.

What I miss from all of these (EDIT: I see opencode has this for github) is the lack of being able to authenticate with the monthly paid services; github copilot, claude code, openai codex, cursor etc etc

That would be the best addition; I have these subscriptions and might not like their interfaces, so it would be nice to be able to switch.
by daft_pink | 2025-07-30 17:11:31+00:00
When I wanted to purchase a Super 73 bike before, they advertised and claimed it was compliant with Class 1 and Class 2 eBike rules, because you could set it in a mode, where it would operate in this class, when bike laws in most states are pretty clear that for an ebike to qualify and still be subject to bicycle laws not motorcycle laws, the device must not go beyond a maximum speed. You cannot just set a toggle and have a setting of Class 1/Class 2/Unlimited and still be able to operate it on the sidewalk or in parks or in bike lanes or not have a license etc.

Glad someone is finally calling them out on it.
by droopyEyelids | 2025-07-30 17:11:38+00:00
The way I'm interpreting what you said, it feels like you're dismissing the state's role in protecting the health of citizens. Especially children, who are known to be deficient in their judgement and decision making.

It's not reasonable to say "every parent should learn about the dangers of different types of electric vehicle through the injury of a child in their peer group"
by jeffbee | 2025-07-30 17:11:47+00:00
> they're making a profit off of this service, meaning it's more expensive than what we were doing!

I hope you can see that this is a logical fallacy known as "zero-sum thinking". It is not only possible for a business to profit while lowering prices, it is universal throughout the economy. Tomato farmers make a profit selling tomatoes at a price much lower than the cost to grow tomatoes at home. Bakeries radically undercut the cost of home baking. It is obviously cheaper to buy motor fuel at the gas station than it would be to buy crude and refine it yourself.

The main reason people think their on-prem is cheaper than cloud is that they are bad at accounting.
by y42 | 2025-07-30 17:12:06+00:00
"Feels like" is a subjective measure. For example, Gemini CLI does feel inherently lighter than something like VS Code. But why should it? It's just a chat interface with a different skin.

I'm also not sure whether Gemini CLI is actually better aligned with the context of development environments.

Anyway—slightly off-topic here:

I’m using Gemini CLI in exactly the same way I use VS Code: I type to it. I’ve worked with a lot of agents across different projects—Gemini CLI, Copilot in all its LLM forms, VS Code, Aider, Cursor, Claude in the browser, and so on. Even Copilot Studio and PowerAutomate—which, by the way, is a total dumpster fire.

From simple code completions to complex tasks, using long pre-prompts or one-shot instructions—the difference in interaction and quality between all these tools is minimal. I wouldn’t even call it a meaningful difference. More like a slight hiccup in overall consistency.

What all of these tools still lack, here in year three of the hype: meaningful improvements in coding endurance or quality. None of them truly stand out—at least not yet.
by throw0101c | 2025-07-30 17:12:24+00:00
I personally like the EU rule (168/2013) on e-bikes for this:

> pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of less than or equal to 250 W, where the output of the motor is cut off when the cyclist stops pedalling and is otherwise progressively reduced and finally cut off before the vehicle speed reaches 25 km/h [15.5 mph]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws#European...

If all you have to do is push a button/lever and it goes then it's basically another form of motorcycle. However, you may be allowed to operate low-powered motorcycles with 'just' a car license:

> B: In some countries, holders of a B driver licence are also entitled (sometimes with special conditions) to ride motorcycles <= 125 cubic centimetres (7.6 cu in) and power <= 11 kilowatts (15 hp) and ratio power/weight <= 0.1 kilowatts per kilogram (0.061 hp/lb)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_driving_licence

So e-bikes/scooters don't necessarily need special licensing.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-30 17:12:25+00:00
Icaridin generally doesn't last as long as DEET though.

For fans, I have seen people make mosquito traps by attaching a bug net to a fan, sometimes combined with a CO2 generator as bait. I don't know how effective it is in practice. What we do sometimes is to put a fan under the table, it helps a little against low flying mosquitoes, definitely not as effective as DEET though.
by oceanplexian | 2025-07-30 17:12:53+00:00
Actually not really.

I spent at least an hour trying to get OpenCode to use a local model and then found a graveyard of PRs begging for Ollama support or even the ability to simply add an OpenAI endpoint in the GUI. I guess the maintainers simply don't care. Tried adding it to the backend config and it kept overwriting/deleting my config. Got frustrated and deleted it. Sorry but not sorry, I shouldn't need another cloud subscription to use your app.

Claude code you can sort of get to work with a bunch of hacks, but it involves setting up a proxy and also isn't supported natively and the tool calling is somewhat messed up.

Warp seemed promising, until I found out the founders would rather alienate their core demographic despite ~900 votes on the GH issue to allow local models https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/4339. So I deleted their crappy app, even Cursor provides some basic support for an OpenAI endpoint.
by timr | 2025-07-30 17:13:11+00:00
On the contrary, this is such a common misunderstanding that it practically defines the meme of pop science.

Proposal of a hypothesis is not answering. Even if, decades from now and after many additional studies, scientific consensus settles on this hypothesis as "the answer", the first paper to speculate about the idea is still just a speculation. Moreover, if you're an outsider, the speculation is often an idea that's been floating around the field for longer than you've been aware of it.

Basically, just abandon your notion that there is "an answer" to any sufficiently complex scientific question, and you will be better off.
by throwanem | 2025-07-30 17:13:16+00:00
Oh, come on. Administrative overhead is a reality of business everywhere and at every level; the idea that to manage an organization somehow necessarily impairs it is absurd. So is purporting falsely to eliminate that overhead on behalf of others, when basic professional competence instead involves for oneself learning to minimize it - to dispose of it, not by panicking or catastrophizing or sweeping it under a rug, but instead in a fashion such as that I described ie efficiently. To claim otherwise is infantilizing nonsense. It's fundamentally dishonest, though I grant you probably have never before so directly been told as much.
by Sayrus | 2025-07-30 17:13:19+00:00
Let's face it, an e-bike that goes to 70 rarely looks like a bike. For instance:

- https://hpcbikes.com/products/revolution-xx

- https://www.eridepros.com/pro-sr (no bicycle pedals)

I was able to find some 60MPH e-bikes that looks somewhat like a very bulky bike but even then, it's still closer to a motorcycle with pedals.
by verdverm | 2025-07-30 17:13:20+00:00
> It seems like you might have missed the gap between vi and modern terminal based development.

No, I used neovim and spent way too much time trying to turn it into an IDE, even with the prepackaged setups out there

VS Code is sitting below 5% CPU and 1G of memory, not seeing the resource hog you are talking about. LSPs typically use more resources (which is outside and the same for both)
by mrbungie | 2025-07-30 17:13:33+00:00
I don't think GP was rigorous, but your comment is kind of pedantic, isn't it?

Most people commenting here know that all models are false but some make good predictions, and achieving that status is enough for most laypeople to classify it as a (potential) answer.

Going further, yes, this is a new theory among others, but afaik is the first one with strong evidence.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-30 17:14:16+00:00
That original model collapse paper has largely been misunderstood and in practice, this is only true if you're not curating the generated data at all. The original paper even specifies (emphasis mine):

> We find that indiscriminate use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models, in which tails of the original content distribution disappear. [0]

In practice nobody is "indiscriminately" using model output to fine-tune models since that doesn't even make sense. Even if you're harvesting web data generated by LLMs, that data has in fact been curated by it's acceptance on whatever platform you found it on is a form of curation.

There was a very recent paper Supervised Fine Tuning on Curated Data is Reinforcement Learning (and can be improved) [1] whose content is pretty well summarized by the title. So long as the data is curated in some way, you are providing more information to the model and the results should improve somewhat.

0. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

1. https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12856

edit: updated based on cooksnoot's comment
by johnthedebs | 2025-07-30 17:14:28+00:00
The comments saying that other sources of water need to be removed are spot on.

Another technique I've tried which works (observably) well is described in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ

tl;dw: Get a big drum fan with a screen on the back, attached with small/powerful magnets. Mosquitos are such poor flyers that they get pulled against the screen and can't escape, and they pretty quickly desiccate and die. Most other flying insects don't get caught, although there is a bit of collateral (some moths and lacewings, unfortunately). Another benefit of the fan is that you can hang out in front of it and mosquitos mostly won't bother you there either.

I did this in our shared backyard space in Brooklyn and would catch hundreds/thousands of mosquitos per week. Despite that, there were still a ton of mosquitos in the area so it's best combined with other methods of control.

edit: better/updated video link
by shkkmo | 2025-07-30 17:14:42+00:00
> It’s not clear that such speeds are actually capable on stock parts from nearly any electric bicycle, and legal electric bikes are not capable of exceeding either 20 or 28 mph, depending on their classification,

It's like the author did zero research.

While you can't easily modify most bikes to hit 70mph, there is an entire market segment of "class 2" "ebikes" than can be trivially modified to reach speeds that significantly exceed what the law allows (and arguably what is safe on those hardware components.) Often this can be done in the software without any hardware modification. If it can't, there are usually simple modifications that can be made to achieve the same thing.
by kermatt | 2025-07-30 17:14:54+00:00
Integration trades convenience for flexibility.

For me, a terminal environment means I can use any tool or tech, without it being compatible with the IDE. Editors, utilities, and runtimes can be chosen, and I'm responsible for ensuring they can interop.

IDEs being convenience by integrating all of that, so the choice is up to the user: A convenient self contained environment, vs a more custom self assembled one.

Choose your own adventure.
by eawgewag | 2025-07-30 17:15:28+00:00
I honestly don't care that much if Granola uploads my notes to some external service. Work conversations are not private anyways.

HOWEVER, I was extremely disturbed to find out that Granola was automatically making each of my notes folders public to the entire organization. Including 1:1s, you guessed it.

Yeah, really shook my trust in this product by a lot.
by Bulletwise | 2025-07-30 17:15:48+00:00
I kept having great ideas and client calls — but when I tried turning them into video content, I went blank. So I built Bulletwise to solve my own problem. You drop in a voice note (or typed idea), and it turns it into a strategic, structured YouTube outline — not a generic script, but something designed to build trust and sell. I’m a solo builder (non-dev) open to any hard truths. Thanks for checking it out!
by genewitch | 2025-07-30 17:16:01+00:00
This isn't directed at you, but rather the general "A!", "No, A is no good. B!" thing that HN does. Lots of people swear by Claude Code on HN; nearly any post that could shoehorn an AI discussion has someone saying "But I just use Claude Code and it works fine!", with others saying that gemini is better if you pay, etc.

The issue is, very few actually publish the AI code. I have, at least three times on HN. I don't pay for AI - well, i put $10 on deepseek to check it out and have spent less than a penny. I mostly use local or copilot. I've never used chatgpt to write code, nor claude, gemini, grok, or meta.

So, the result is, this comes off as:

"My football team is best because A,B,C!" "No, A & B aren't important, C,X,Y are, and my football team has those!" "So you agree C is important?"

Anyhow, in support of my point, here's some of my AI output:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44652138 I used copilot to add static, and fix the digits spoken to singular digits instead of groups, "7, 3, 4" instead of "seven hundred and thirty four." Done with copilot.exe; final version without pops, clicks, and crash at: https://github.com/genewitch/opensource/blob/master/numbers-...

https://github.com/genewitch/opensource/blob/master/specific... and https://github.com/genewitch/opensource/blob/master/markov%3... to convert n-gate to json and then put the json into a markov chain. Done with copilot.exe

https://github.com/genewitch/aider2048clone A local 70b LLM model oneshot with Aider (a tool to write codebases with AI); oneshot means i typed a prompt and then published the output, i didn't edit or change anything or re-prompt.

and the oldest, and my favorite example so far; https://github.com/genewitch/emd A full react app stack - including the node.js 'server.js', done in copilot.exe over the course of ~20 hours. I didn't manually edit the code except for one tiny part where the only math in the code is, and i worked it out on a piece of paper with a pencil, then coded it in myself. i couldn't explain it well enough to copilot for it to produce the code i wanted. Luckily the nuts and bolts of jscript is easy enough, it's all the const and "{}" that i don't "get".

I've linked all of these on HN before, usually in protest to someone else not linking their code and/or complaining that no one links their code.

none of these were "thinking" mode.
by habosa | 2025-07-30 17:16:07+00:00
I ride my ebike to work every day. I love it, it's a lot more convenient than my old manual bike was (more durable, less sweating in hilly SF). I really try hard to be conscientious and not do anything on it that a very strong normal cyclist wouldn't/couldn't do. I almost never have any occasion to top 20mph on it, except maybe when going down a steep hill.

I don't want to advocate for more regulations on biking but ... people are assholes. I see so many people ripping on those moped-style ebikes. Going 30mph+ in a crowded bike lane, riding the wrong way against traffic, riding on sidewalks, texting, etc. Yes people _could_ do all of those things on regular bikes but in my experience they mostly didn't.

I would be in favor of a law limiting pedal assist to 20mph and below. You can go faster than that, but the motor won't help you. 30mph is where most bikes top out right now and in a city that's faster than most car traffic. Way too fast for anything that follows bicycle laws (use of the bike lane, rolling stops allowed at stop signs, etc).
by Liron | 2025-07-30 17:16:12+00:00
Israeli here, can't directly answer your question since I've lived in the US for 99% of my adult life, but I consider myself pro-Israel and resent the way Israel is currently/always being portrayed. I see the key problem as people removing context: Context for why the current situation could easily be different if Hamas acted/acts differently, and context for why there is no "just stop fighting" option that leaves Israel with a high confidence that another Oct 7 won't happen in the next few years.
by riotnrrd | 2025-07-30 17:16:32+00:00
One of the difficulties -- and one that is currently a big problem in LLM research -- is that comparisons with or evaluations of commercial models are very expensive. I co-wrote a paper recently and we spent more than $10,000 on various SOTA commercial models in order to evaluate our research. We could easily (an cheaply) show that we were much better than open-weight models, but we knew that reviewers would ding us if we didn't compare to "the best."

Even aside from the expense (which penalizes universities and smaller labs), I feel it's a bad idea to require academic research to compare itself to opaque commercial offerings. We have very little detail on what's really happening when OpenAI for example does inference. And their technology stack and model can change at any time, and users won't know unless they carefully re-benchmark ($$$) every time you use the model. I feel that academic journals should discourage comparisons to commercial models, unless we have very precise information about the architecture, engineering stack, and training data they use.
by ravenstine | 2025-07-30 17:16:43+00:00
I see there being two related but distinct issues:

- The desire for a simpler, quaint looking Web

- The desire for discoverability on the Web that isn't so driven by algorithms

I love what the Web once was, aesthetically speaking, but to me the real problem is that of discoverability.

There was a time where, if you built it, the audience would come. Today that is not so much the case, especially for written content which has become so heavily devalued. I would never write a blog today (especially one that is self-hosted) because I know I would spend most of my time begging for scraps. If you really want a large enough audience that your creative efforts are worthwhile, you have to churn out content. I don't want to churn anything out. One can churn out snippets, which is effectively what one does on sites like X, but then your writing has to either by pithy truisms or cringey drama. Besides, more and more people just want to consume content passively through audio and video. But then now I have to essentially put on a big production just to get my ideas out there, and for an audience that is probably less intellectually curious than those who would actually read an article.

The classic Web isn't coming back until something changes about the way people discover new things. The web is no longer a place where one goes to seek information; it's where information comes to you through word-of-mouth and so-called algorithms putting content in front of you.

Golden-era web was great. Now I'd just rather do my job, comment on HN, and go fishing. Actually trying to bring back the old web is like trying to bring back Jazz clubs hoping everyone will come to their senses and dance the Charleston again. No, it will always be a niche thing.