MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by InfinityByTen | 2025-07-15 09:44:18+00:00
A lot of people are missing this point. It's not about what it can do today. It's about what all you're promised it can do and then be sold to you like there's no alternative; and no one really knows if it will be able to do it or what all non-KPI functions are lost because AI is the only way ahead.

Having used a customer service, I just happen to know that a smarter and a better chat-bot for a bog-standard service request (like a road-side car breakdown) isn't the solution for a better experience.

But now, since a chat bot is cheaper to run, the discussion in the service provider HQ will be about which chat-bot technology to migrate to because user research says it provides for an overall better UX. No one remembers what it is to talk to a human.
by modernerd | 2025-07-15 09:46:34+00:00
Interesting, thanks, you might be right:

xcrun stapler validate /path/to/DogWalk.app

…shows:

DogWalk.app does not have a ticket stapled to it

(But spctl --assess --type exec --verbose /path/to/DogWalk.app shows it's notarized as expected.)

Perhaps the beachball is Gatekeeper reaching out to Apple's servers to verify notarization? It seems a little faster on subsequent launches but still beachballs for ~2 seconds.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-15 09:47:35+00:00
True and true. OTOH...

"Natural antibacterial properties" is not a regulatory certification. The hospital is regulated, and may also feel responsible for making sure that they can 100% sterilize surfaces - after those have been exposed to a wide variety of bacterial, and fungal, and viral human pathogens. Maybe add prions to that list.

My rhetorical fire marshal isn't the point. Fire behaves very differently when oxygen levels are elevated. Are you familiar with how wood fires behave at various % O2 levels? (I don't actually know that 30% O2 is the hospital fire safety standard. The standard my vary by state, or be higher in ICU's, or etc.)

EDIT: Bigger picture: Yes, using wood looks plausible. And it could help patient, staff, and visitor moods. But hospitals are not a "just try it, and see what goes wrong" use case.
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-15 09:48:39+00:00
> That’s like expecting a local function to continue executing after a `return` statement.

Well... they can![1]

It's definitely a thing in traditional always-running web server processes, which is all people know these days.

Many developers have never written a code for a short-lived process outside of maybe school exercises. Things like CLI tools, background jobs, etc...

[1] I get "Later!" printed out... most of the time: https://dotnetfiddle.net/ng93d4
by jajko | 2025-07-15 09:49:07+00:00
If you have such parents, you basically lost the game of life without having a chance to participate much. The only real solution would be to forcibly and permanently take children away from such people, not something I see flying in US if we don't include ie physical abuse or pedophilia.

I feel like a basic human life value has decreased recently. Be it ongoing brutal wars, news pushing doom and gloom 24/7, covid certainly didnt help or something similar. A bit like reversal to medieval times when cruel public executions were a spectacle for whole town and families and life of individual was truly worthless.

If thats the case, let the dumb die including offsprings, just don't let their bills to be picked up by society. Extremely cruel, but it seems we are heading that way, and we have this little thing called overpopulation. Extreme freedom with extreme consequences.
by YuukiRey | 2025-07-15 09:49:20+00:00
99% of the time it is consumption without ever utilizing the knowledge for any creative endeavor . And without application the knowledge will quickly fade and you’ll find yourself watching the same 10min video on statistics 101 for the 3rd time, because you keep forgetting.

It’s still mindless consumption if you don’t interact with the material in any meaningful way (follow up questions, application, try to refute it, evaluate a hypothesis you had before watching it, …)
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-15 09:50:25+00:00
Sometimes, yes. Reliably, no.

LLMs don't have enough of a model of the world to understand anything. There was a paper floating around recently about how someone trained an ML system on orbital dynamics. The result was a system that could calculate orbits correctly, but it completely failed to extract the underlying - simple - math. Instead it basically frankensteined together its own system of epicycles which solved a very narrow range of problems but lacked any generality.

Any coding has the same problems. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. And if you strap on an emulator and test rig and allow the machine to flail around inside it, sometimes working code falls out.

But there's no abstracted model of software development as a process in there, either in theory or practise. And no understanding of vague goals with constraints and requirements that can be inferred creatively from outside the training data.
by czl | 2025-07-15 09:50:27+00:00
This isn’t just about opinions randomly changing. Musk’s views seem to have shifted in response to changing facts -- like the passage of a major spending bill, whichtie directly into his concerns about government debt. So it's not surprising that his stance evolved over time.

The way the bot reflects his views is a bit awkward, I agree. I assume it’s something the Grok team will want to improve. One possible reason for the behavior is that if Twitter data was used during training, and Musk is a dominant voice there, the model may have learnedto rely heavily on his posts -- especially if that helped it predict or score better during training.

To Musk’s credit,he’s pushed for more transparency. That at least lets people see these odd behaviors and raise questions. With other models, like OpenAI’s or Anthropic’s, it’s harder to tell when something similar might be happening.

And while Musk definitely says someoff-the-wall things, his track record overall is hard to ignore-- whether one agrees with him or not.
by kukkeliskuu | 2025-07-15 09:51:03+00:00
In my experience it works for a large variety of use cases.

As one of my side projects, I am running a website with 2M page views per month that has been implemented on Django, deployed to fly.io. Another side-project built-in tenant support, and several independent deployments as well.

Yes, those are moderate scale (for modern hardware), but in my experience very few sites really require "webscale". It is far more common to build prematurely for scalability than the opposite. If you have "webscale" problems, then you also have have a custom platform and team working on those.

The context of this discussion is how to build robust systems as fast as possible. My approach fits surprisingly large number of use cases.
by card_zero | 2025-07-15 09:51:10+00:00
Sounds like spiritualism and ghost-hunting, such as the excuses made on behalf of the Cock Lane ghost in the 1760s.

When nothing happened, Moore told the group the ghost would not come as they were making too much noise. He asked them to leave the room ...

when a clergyman used a candle to look under the bed, the ghost "refused" to answer, Frazer claiming "she [the ghost] loving not light".
by danparsonson | 2025-07-15 09:51:47+00:00
In my experience your suspicion is well-founded. Most commercial software is written to solve some business problem or another, and the novelty mainly comes from the specifics of the domain rather than the software itself, as most businesses have broadly the same problems.

The average non-software business likely doesn't need to innovate in the software space but rather automate as much as possible so they can innovate elsewhere.
by zemil | 2025-07-15 09:53:22+00:00
I built life stats after realizing I had no idea where my time actually goes. This interactive calculator shows:

- You'll spend 11 years in school - 33 years sleeping (8h/day) - 5.4 years mindlessly scrolling (1.3h/day) - Just 0.6 years exercising (8min/day)...

Try it: Enter your age to see your personalized time allocation. The visualization uses actuarial data and global averages.

Any suggestions to improve?
by staunton | 2025-07-15 09:53:26+00:00
I think it's important not to be too sure abot what of the future one is "seeing". It's easy to be confidently wrong and one may find countless examples and quotes where people made this mistake.

Even if you don't think you can change something, you shouldn't be sure about that. If you care about the outcome, you try things also against the odds and also try to organize such efforts with others.

(I'm puzzled by poeple who don't see it that way but at the same time don't find VC and start-ups insanely weird...).
by rollcat | 2025-07-15 09:53:43+00:00
eZ80 looks cool. Indeed looks like an interesting mcu to build a tiny general-purpose computer from scratch. (Somehow I always found bank-switching kinda ugly, address space is better when there's more of it.)

I find it fascinating how these 70s/80s microprocessors still keep getting pushed with backward-compatible updates. (Most notably, x86-64.)
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-15 09:54:56+00:00
As the other commenter noted, you are simply wrong about that. We control the effects the tide has on us, not the tide itself.

But let me offer you a false dichotomy for the purposes of argument:

1. You spend your efforts preventing the emergence of AI

2. You spend your efforts creating conditions for the harmonious co-existence of AI and humanity

It's your choice.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-15 09:55:30+00:00
What I like about OpenAI's codex is that it's not an IDE but a web based product that does things asynchronously from your normal workflow. It creates branches and pull requests. And you can iterate with it via git instead of working in the same tool.

So, I can use the tools I use anyway and have AIs adapt to me instead of me having to adapt to new AI powered tools. I'm using a proper IDE (intellij). Me switching to cursor, kiro, or whatever would be an enormously massive downgrade for me. These tools don't come close to the utility and features of what I am used to and depend on. And those new AI tools trying to catch up with Intellij is not their focus or roadmap. I'm not going to wait for that to happen. I need stuff that works now. Not some years after they figure it out. And that includes AI features.

There's a difference between vibe coding where you are sitting on your hands and admiring all the crazy clever stuff the AI does for you that you wouldn't be able to do yourself and working on a system that you've spent years building from scratch with AI to assist you. I do the latter. I'm constantly intervening, dismissing poor results from AI, getting frustrated with LLMs misunderstanding things, ignoring my directions, not getting the full context, etc. But I'm also getting a lot of value out of AIS with dealing with tedious/repetitive stuff, figuring out weird bugs, pointing out my mistakes, or generating perfectly usable solutions for TODOs and FIXMEs I leave in my code. About 50-60% of the PRs codex creates for me are pretty usable.

I use ChatGPT for the small stuff (it can look at intellij and apply diffs) and codex for the bigger stuff "implement foo, add some tests, and tell me when I can look at the PR". And maybe I'll check out the branch and fix a few things myself. That's something my IDE supports very well. It's not a big deal. It doesn't need to be fixed.

I find that increasingly, model quality is not the main blocker for this stuff but the developer/user experience is. Claude might be better. But chat gpt has the far better UX. And I don't even use o3 most of the time. I prefer the more rapid responses other faster models give me. It's not a cost thing but a speed thing. I only escalate to slower models when I don't like the response I'm getting. Codex is nice but slooooooow. But at least I can work on other stuff while it is doing its thing. ChatGPT gives me instant gratification. Select line, Option+shift+1, "Fix this", "....", "apply fix". That's so nice and I do that a lot. And I didn't have to replace my tools. In the same way, Claude code might be marginally better at some stuff. But the Codex developer experience is superior.

So, Kiro sounds like a nice tool for people who don't need or use IDEs. But it's not for me.
by latexr | 2025-07-15 09:55:46+00:00
> would have required me to dive deep down into the documentation or read its code to tackle my use case.

You mean, you had a task which required you to learn about and understand what you were doing?! Gasp! The horror! Oh, the humanity! How could we ever survive all this time, having to use our heads to think and reason and make choices about what we should spend our time on and improve.

Nowadays we have the sweet life. We can just let our brains atrophy to spend more time drooling in front of junk designed to syphon our attention and critical thinking. We don’t even need to think, we can just trust what the machine provides us. And when we’re fucked because the machine is wrong or spitting out propaganda, we can lay down and wait for sweet death, knowing we lived a life devoid of interest or agency.

All hail the inevitability of LLMs. All hail being in the palm of large corporations who would sacrifice us for a nickel.
by sshine | 2025-07-15 09:56:36+00:00
Honest take:

Those demos have soul. The AI versions don't.

They succeed in some ways at capturing the human emotion in the demo, and fall flat in other ways.

- The lyrics capture - The melody captures - The production is too polished - The voice doesn't have the same emotion at all

It's not any worse than a human cover by a skilled but uninspiring human artist.

Depending on how you evaluate, it's either amazing it gets this far, or not impressive at all. :-)

I'd add the demos to my playlist, I wouldn't add the others. (I'm not against AIs in general.)
by openmarkand | 2025-07-15 09:56:38+00:00
I'm more of a mercurial guy (since 2009) and I honestly never understood the success of git with its total nonsense of options, UX and documentation. Each command does too much thing and has different behavior. Type git diff -x and git switch -x in a non-git repository and check the output...

I love OpenBSD and I'm really interested in got for several years. I just hope that this https://framagit.org/stsp/got/-/blob/main/got/got.c?ref_type... gets removed at some point.
by baalimago | 2025-07-15 09:57:24+00:00
1000 interactions ($20/month) will run out in a 1-2 hours. Do the math for 3000 interactions.

Kiro has the same problem as many LLM coding tools has: it's not economically sustainable for the company producing the tool (bubble will burst at some point), or it's not worth it for the developer.
by jcfrei | 2025-07-15 09:59:03+00:00
Give it some time - just like LLMs the first VR headsets were created in the 90s (for example by Nintendo). But it took another 30 years for the hardware to achieve levels of functionality and comfortableness that make it a viable consumer product. Apple Vision is starting to get there. And crypto is even younger - it started in early 2009. For people living in countries without a proper banking infrastructure the stablecoins are already very helpful. Billions of people live in countries that don't have a well audited financial sector, that respects the rule of law or an independent central bank that makes sound monetary decisions irrespective of the government. For them stablecoins and their cheap transactions are huge.
by camillomiller | 2025-07-15 09:59:57+00:00
>> Developers haven't even started extracting the value of LLMs with agent architectures yet.

What does this EVEN mean? Do words have any value still, or are we all just starting to treat them as the byproduct of probabilistic tokens?

"Agent architectures". Last time I checked an architecture needs predictability and constraints. Even in software engineering, a field for which the word "engineering" is already quite a stretch in comparison to construction, electronics, mechanics.

Yet we just spew the non-speak "Agentic architectures" as if the innate inability of LLMs in managing predictable quantitative operations is not an unsolved issue. As if putting more and more of these things together automagically will solves their fundamental and existential issue (hallucinations) and suddenly makes them viable for unchecked and automated integration.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-15 10:00:57+00:00
One thing I’ve always wondered - what happens if/when fans want to see these AI bands live? Or will this be the «sorry we don’t play live» era? Or maybe if something goes viral, one has to hire in musicians that can play/sound close enough?

Anyway, I liked the sound of the instruments better in the demo/first versions. Sounded less mushy.
by jraph | 2025-07-15 10:01:09+00:00
I was generic and not talking about PHP specifically. In the case of PHP, this isn't happening, so if you are only concerned with PHP, you can ignore these theoretical considerations (however, because of the "or later" clause of the PHP license, you'll actually be able to use older versions of PHP under the new license).

That said, my point was: as the author, if you have previously released software S version V under license L1, nothing prevents you from releasing software S version V again under a new license L2 provided all the contributors of significant portions of software S version 1 agree or L1 happens to allow this additional license (because it's permissive, or because it has a "or later" clause or some other means).

Of course, re-release under a new license or not, software S version V can be used under license L1 "forever" and users can choose to ignore the L2 release completely. You cannot remove license L1, you can only offer an additional possibility (using software S version V under the new license, which you didn't allow before the re-release unless the relicensing was allowed by L1).

I've not seen this done, but I can imagine this being useful if someone needs specifically software S version V under the new license. Usually, people can just use newer versions under the new license though.

I admit my comment was terse (and a further edition probably removed important phrasing), I hope this one makes things clearer.
by xchip | 2025-07-15 10:01:14+00:00
I'm going to say something unpopular, but unfortunately that attitude is far too common in Belgium, everywhere.. In business, with contractors, with lawyers, in restaurants...

They are rude, they will deny everything, if you try to escalate they threaten you (even if you show them evidences and no matter how well you documented things)... but then if you hold your ground they give up.

I'm not sure if they really believe they are right or they are trying to gaslight you hoping that you will give up

Anyway, thanks for pointing the issue out and don't let this cultural issue stop you from doing the right thing. In the end they will chicken out.

I think this part of the Belgian culture is getting on everybody's nerves. I think this extra 'arrogance tax' makes people think it twice before doing business in Belgium.

I would definitely would like to see more intellectual honesty and sportsmanship.

Thanks for your hard work and for putting up with this.
by jakehop | 2025-07-15 10:01:58+00:00
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by lawn | 2025-07-15 10:02:14+00:00
> Windows has been the choice for gaming, not because windows is great but because game devs supported it primarily. It was no property of windows itself but its market dominance that caused that.

Nothing has changed in that respect you know?

Games aren't targeting SteamOS, instead SteamOS (via Proton and Wine) emulates Windows and even adds improvements on top.

That's seriously impressive no matter how you look at it.

> For decades, most gamers preferred consoles, which have a purpose built OS like SteamOS.

The difference is of course that those games explicitly target those consoles. Games aren't targeting SteamOS.
by rafaelmn | 2025-07-15 10:02:17+00:00
I mean no argument here - but the insane valuation was at some point based on a fleet of self driving cars based on cars they don't even have to own - overtaking Uber. I don't think they are anywhere close to that. (It's hard to keep track what it is now - robots and AI ?) Kudos for hype chasing all these years tho. Only beaten by Jensen on that front.
by rkangel | 2025-07-15 10:02:43+00:00
I need to watch this video, but I'd argue that the debate is over on typing. You can make all the theoretical ideas you want, but JS and Python have added typing, it has been received enthusiastically and it has been beneficial. Real world results out rank any philosophical views.

That doesn't mean they're appropriate for all programming languages (it is nice in Python when knocking up a quick and dirty script to not bother with types) but for general purpose languages, types add too much value.
by modo_mario | 2025-07-15 10:03:03+00:00
> it's the environmental impact of MINDLESSLY using one.

Isn't much of that environmental impact currently from the training of the model rather than the usage? Something you could arguably one day just stop doing if you're satisfied with the progress on that front (People won't be any time soon admittedly)

I'm no expert on this front. It's a genuine question based on what i've heard and read.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2025-07-15 10:03:18+00:00
> I would just upload it on GitHub since you have the right to do so.

Hopefully, someone will do this. It makes me wonder why they bother to charge for the download when this is an option. I guess they think they can distribute it in a more 'friendly' and 'official' manner than a GitHub link, and that some people will pay a premium for that.
by Applejinx | 2025-07-15 10:04:25+00:00
If you believe that there is nobody there inside all this LLM stuff, that it's ultimately hollow and yet that it'll still get used by the sort of people who'll look at most humans and call 'em non-player characters and meme at them, if you believe that you're looking at a collapse of civilization because of this hollowness and what it evokes in people… then you'll be doing that, but I can't blame anybody for engaging in attempts to prevent it.