MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bubblyworld | 2025-07-31 09:15:45+00:00
Personally I think caring is the resource in extremely short supply here and I don't think vibe coding has much to do with it causally. AIs are just tools - basically all of the issues the author has raised are present with human juniors too, and can be resolved quite easily with a little more guidance/interaction in both cases. I don't think AIs are universally causing people to care less about quality output, although that may be true for some people who didn't care much in the first place.

The common counter-argument here is that you miss out on training juniors, which is true, but it's not always an option (we are really struggling to hire at my startup, for instance, so I'm experimenting with AI to work on tasks I would otherwise give to a junior as a stop-gap).

Another aspect to consider is that what we used to consider important for software quality may change a lot in light of AI tooling. These things aren't absolutes. I think this is already happening, but it's early days, so I'm not sure what will play out here.
by energy123 | 2025-07-31 09:16:19+00:00
> The case against social media is pretty weak.

It's worth scrutinizing the philosophical mental model implicit in your opinion.

Do you wait for conclusive empirical evidence before doing anything? Or do you run an experiment in one country based on an informed opinion and see what happens?

I am more inclined to pursue the latter model for this question.

The case against youth social media makes logical sense, there is circumstantial evidence that it's having a negative impact, and I have enough experience with data to know how difficult it is to demonstrate that it's true empirically without a large-scale natural experiment like the one that's about to happen when this law passes.

A lack of evidence should not paralyze you on questions where conclusive evidence is very hard to assemble. Especially when action will create evidence.
by berkes | 2025-07-31 09:16:34+00:00
It certainly did. It was the OG of "no-code" or "low-code".

But like no-code or low-code, the niche in which it's useful to a business is limited. I commonly say that if software (esp FLOSS) serves even only one person well, it's a success. By that criteria, it was massively successfull.

But 27 years later, we are still mostly writing "html" (or jxl, or whatever todays frontendframework has come up with) by "hand". Or writing code that churns out this HTML for us. And not dragging around stuff in Dreamweaver.

Some figma-export will serve niches, some of which I probably cannot imagine even. Prototyping, one-offs, cousin-erik-building-james-craft-brewery-site, etc. But even combined with generative- or transformative AI, it won't serve as the source for UI "code".
by ceuk | 2025-07-31 09:16:53+00:00
CC very regularly ignores very explicit stuff in CLAUDE.md for me, and I know I'm not the only one. The cycle of compacting/starting new conversations feels like a sisyphean spiral of the same undesirable behaviour and I've yet to find a satisfactory solution despite a lot of effort to that end.

I don't think it's fair to dismiss this article as a superficial anti-ai knee jerk. The solutions you describe are far from perfect
by arghwhat | 2025-07-31 09:18:59+00:00
> How do you know if the phone doesn’t have an appropriate focal length if the image isn’t marked?

I listed focal lengths for an iPhone 16 Pro Max, and good focal lengths for flattering portrait photography is common photography knowledge that I provided as well for reference, set with a little wiggle-room by the optics of the human eye.

There aren't more variables than subject framing and focal length, and a portrait of a person is a well-known size. Comparing the remaining two numbers is simple math.

(It is well-known what distortion effect using the "wrong" focal length will give, which can sometimes be used intentionally but is not what you want in the average portrait. Shorter focal lengths give a silly, elongated facial appearance which exaggerates frontal features like nose and mouth, longer focal lengths give a flatter appearance which exaggerates rear features like neck width.)

> Secondly, none of the points in the article

The article clearly shows distorted images, and that the article fails to mention it does not make it less of an issue.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-31 09:19:11+00:00
Semi-related, X-37B is heading up next month, and unlike so many missions they're saying a little bit what this one is for. It'll attempt to do some laser communications demonstrations. And... it has a "quantum inertial sensor", as a would-be GPS alternative. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/x-37-eighth-mission-laser-...

The article says it uses magnetic and gravitational field sensing. I don't know how surprised I'd be to hear magnetic field sensing would work: I'd sort of assume there'd be some significant variance day-by-day week-by-week. But getting up there and seeing what you get is probably the way to find out?
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-31 09:19:21+00:00
> why it is also weird that we'd rather have pay raises through switching companies than through internal raises

How does the saying go, something like “show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome?”

> That's like trying to fix the damage from the footgun with a footgun.

If you value your money/time/etc, wouldn't the best way to fix the damage from footguns be by preventing the damage to you in the first place by not being there if/when it goes off?

I think your point is well put, I’m just trying to follow your reasoning to a conclusion logical to me, though I don't know if mine is the most helpful framing. I didn’t pick the footgun metaphor, but it is a somewhat useful model here for explaining why people may act the way they do.
by vjaswal | 2025-07-31 09:19:28+00:00
From recollection, I believe, "The Book of Why", https://a.co/d/aYehsnO, is the general audience introduction to Pearl's approach to causality.

"Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference", https://a.co/d/6b3TKhQ, is the technical and researcher audience book.
by rowanG077 | 2025-07-31 09:19:31+00:00
That's the point. You can't tell. Applying a low resolution filter like you are proposing will filter out a ton of worthwhile products. Here is just a small list of products you can no longer buy if you subscribe to your philosophy: apple, dell, HP, framework, tuxedo and basically almost all laptop manufacturers. The same goes for smartphones. No GPUs at all for you. The filter is so crude it fails spectacularly at what it should be doing.
by piva00 | 2025-07-31 09:19:49+00:00
Do you consider raids by the IDF in Palestinian villages in the middle of the night[0][1], taking people away without recourse, a hostage taking situation?

Because this is something done by the IDF for decades, I shared a house with a Israeli who was in the IDF's intelligence (not a common conscript), participated in such raids in 2010, got told by their officer that these actions were to keep Palestinians afraid, and this is what changed their whole view on the IDF's role in perpetuating the crisis between Israel and Palestine.

Their disenchantment led to the point they became an activist against the IDF in Israel, and had to move away because of threats, and constant harassment.

These raids are well-known, have been happening for ages, and are basically kidnappings perpetuated by the IDF to make Palestinians afraid, isn't that a kind of terrorism? Or doesn't it apply in this case for some reason that I'd love for you to explain?

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-10-11/ty-article-ma...

[1] https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2023/israel-home-invas...
by highwaylights | 2025-07-31 09:20:09+00:00
Haven't read the link, but I might actually steal this idea.

Not because I don't want to prioritize my kids, I really do and am fortunate enough to be in a position where I'm able to, but I often let them down because I end up getting distracted with work calls and forget commitments I've made to them.

Honestly having a calendar reminder pop up for me that I promised I'd play a game of Pokemon cards with my kid at a certain time let's me make sure that time stays free for them.
by soco | 2025-07-31 09:21:17+00:00
But is the difference mostly in the society, or in their lost youth? I reckon it's mostly in the second, as my parents didn't do rivers of schnapps (not a vodka land there) or fistfights at the times when I was doing them. Where I will agree though, is that my youth ran much different than my kid's (aka much wilder and that was quite common) but again, isn't this difference always showing between generations? Shortly put, aren't we witnessing more of the same history?
by omarkhairy21 | 2025-07-31 09:21:54+00:00
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by andriesm | 2025-07-31 09:22:11+00:00
Not the original commentor, but outrage aside, what choices are there? Sometimes a problem isn't solved despite a solution existing. But in this case it's not clear to me that any real "solution" exists?

For Palestine: Either defiant resistance until extermination (or victory whatever it means) or bowing to a group one hates with every fiber of your being? No? Other alternatives? Alternatives they would be willing to accept? How do you even get concensus on such charged matters?

A lot of Palestinians are non-negotiable about wanting all Israelis gone from the region. And a lot of Israeli's may be willing to accept terrible solutions - terrible for the Palestinians. Some say genocide. But how do you choose between genocide or tolerating ongoing attacks?

Other solutions: Outside intervention. Outside world intervenes, but how and at what cost?

And for how long, and will it really be effective? And effective for which side? Is there a way to intervene without tipping the balance in favour of one side over the other? How to intervene in the most fair way to all sides? And is the cost and risk even worth it - unlikely?

I don't see how. I don't see any solutions. I have not heard of any viable solutions acceptable to majorities of populations on both sides, or even acceptable to most impartial outsiders.

Problem is not solved, because it is unsolvable. So it will end badly? Or continue as is for decades more.

I pasted this into Gemini trying to find solutions, the best I can come up with is a two state solution, involving land swaps to clear up the border, and then an international peace keeping force seperating them.

Exploring this solution reveals problems on both sides with proposed land swaps, suggesting basically that outsiders will have to ram a compromise solution down the throats of both sides - which to me sounds rather terrible.
by 0xEF | 2025-07-31 09:22:19+00:00
Spoken like a true middle manager. Attention is not the resource, but the act of spending the actual resource; time.

Time is your most precious resource. Everyone wants more, but there is no way to get more. Nobody knows when their supply will run out. We do not produce it, having been granted a finite amount of it by our existence.

Attention is to time as shopping is to your paycheck.
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-31 09:22:23+00:00
> I'm not saying aus government online portals and services aren't top tier dog shit- but doing an age token through mygov is the best approach, hopefully with enough pressure to make it non shit.

This is a pure fantasy that you seem to recognise on some level.

You know all of the government apps are "top tier shit". You experience this, yourself, first hand. It's not some statistic, or report.

This, this is what any form of mandatory ID verification will be: shit. Top tier shit made by the most expensive consultancies using the cheapest possible outsourced Indian labour.

Source: First-hand experience working in the IT departments of the very same people that made MyGov ID.
by highwaylights | 2025-07-31 09:22:52+00:00
I never have ideas in the shower.

My best ideas always come to me when I'm almost asleep and I have no idea why that is, which is really frustrating because I know I'm never going to remember them. Sometimes I'll get up and write it down but the bar's pretty high for that because then I'm awake and I know I'll end up zombie-ing around the house for another 2 hours until I'm tired enough to sleep again.

I realise this is interesting to no-one but me, but it's WEIRD, right!?
by alt227 | 2025-07-31 09:22:57+00:00
I have never undestood why garden path sentences are interesting. They can always be rewritten to make more obvious sense. Its like saying theres a way to take any sentence and remove some words to make its intended meaning confusing. I dont personally find this interesting, just frustrating that the author didnt take more time to use punctuation or more words to convey explicit meaning.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-07-31 09:23:19+00:00
I personally see the LLM as a (considerably better) alternative to StackOverflow. I ask it questions, and it immediately has answers for my exact questions. Most often I then write my own code based on the answer. Sometimes I have the LLM generate functions that I can use in my code, but I always make sure to fully understand how it works before copy-pasting it into my codebase.

But sometimes I wonder if pushing a +400.000 lines PR to an open-source project in a programming language that I don't understand is more beneficial to my career than being honest and quality-driven. In the same way that YoE takes precedence over actual skill in hiring at most companies.
by yawpitch | 2025-07-31 09:24:55+00:00
And I improved all my health markers and my weight by simply starving myself of any food at all. Sure, eliminating calories leads to weight loss, but the point of “a calorie is not a calorie” is that I could have done exactly the same thing by consuming 10,000 kilo-calories of charcoal a day too. A human being does not burn its food via combustion and pretending it does doesn’t even work over the extremely short run, and it certainly never works over the long run. This idiot, I’m sure, didn’t keep that weight off following that same diet… in fact my guess is he’s the same weight or heavier 5 years after the fact. Statistically that’s true of the vast majority of people who lose a significant percentage of their body mass by the means of any dietary or exercise change, BTW.

A calorie of A is not the metabolic equivalent to a calorie of B because a calorie is only a measure of thermodynamic conversion by direct combustion in a bomb calorimter and cannot tell you anything about metabolic usage of A or B. Thank you for pointing out that you can lose weight and improve your BMI by eating Twinkies… you can do the same thing by sucking your brain out through a straw, or for that matter amputating only one limb; those are also examples of false equivalence and poor quantitative reasoning.

And, yes, when I see people fight to spread what I know to be extremely harmful mythological beliefs, I have a bone to pick.
by benterix | 2025-07-31 09:25:36+00:00
My salary is quite good, my friends in the field earn a bit less, but the gap is still there.

To put things in perspective, according to this website[0], bus drivers earn ca. €20 per hour, within some quite limited margin. I don't know if this data reflects reality. However, the data for SWE show a much, much wider margin[1]. So it would make much more sense to compare the medians, and this gives only 2x difference. A big gap still, but not enormous as in my case.

[0] https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/bus-driver/germany [1] https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/germany
by random3 | 2025-07-31 09:27:31+00:00
Shilling what? AI in general? What’s the incentive? Hype is harder to argue. LLMs are defective attempts at AI, but that’s also a huge blind spot— effectively confounding AI and AI progress with a specific instance like LLMs.

Business incentive— if you can make an argument on why would a corporation provide shit support to its own employees you win. Also make an argument on why support is actually good at Amazon and others like them. So I don’t buy your argument on incentives either. Although there are other implications related to incentives and AI in general, but those are off topic.
Show HN: When Intelligence Becomes a Trap: A Wake-Up Call for the AI Industry
by fishfl | 2025-07-31 09:29:41+00:00
When Intelligence Becomes a Trap: A Wake-Up Call for the AI Industry

This paper exposed a terrifying truth: the more intelligent a model becomes, the more vulnerable it can be. The idea of "overthinking backdoors" isn’t just clever—it’s disturbingly practical. Attackers don’t need to break the model; they just make it think too much. The result? A silent resource drain that slips past every known defense.

What struck me most was the elegance of the attack. No wrong answers, no obvious triggers—just harmless-looking repetitions like "TODO" slowing the model down like digital molasses. It’s not sabotage; it’s soft destruction. And it works across models.

This isn’t just a security flaw—it’s a philosophical challenge. We’ve spent years chasing smarter models, longer reasoning chains, and deeper thinking. But who knew verbosity could be weaponized?

The implications are everywhere. Enterprises relying on AI for critical decisions may already be wasting resources unknowingly. Open-source models are ticking time bombs if poisoned. And current defenses? Blind to this kind of slow violence.

For those looking for opportunities, this paper is a roadmap. Security tools that detect thinking waste, optimization layers that cut through reasoning fluff, or backdoor scanners for poisoned models—these aren’t niche ideas. They’re the future of AI infrastructure.

I’ve seen a lot of AI research, but this one changed how I think. Intelligence isn’t just power—it’s also a liability if not protected. And the race to secure it has just begun.
by ninjin | 2025-07-31 09:30:25+00:00
It is not an excuse, you are perhaps just not familiar with how software is handled by OpenBSD and other free operating systems. You have a base system, which includes the kernel, user land, etc. Then on top of this you have ports and packages, usually in a different source tree.

Unless you have a nearly insane amount of resources, vetting all those ports and packages is incredibly hard if not impossible (think Canonical and Red Hat level of funding, when on a good year OpenBSD raises ~USD 500,000 and Red Hat's revenue is in the billions) and even then there will generally be different tiers of support. Thus, the strongest guarantees will always be with the base system as it is installed by everyone and outside of Linux also developed by a single team. Yes, plenty of ports such as Firefox on OpenBSD have some great security patches applied, but expecting all the over 10,000 ports to have the same level of quality and attention applied as what is in base is unrealistic no matter how much security and correctness is a priority.

I have maintained ports and packages across the Linux and BSD ecosystems for a good while now and I have more confidence in what OpenBSD has in ports based on my own experience compared to several Linux package managers. However, that does not mean that I will try to pull out a random OpenBSD package and expose it to the Internet before doing due diligence.
by Sebalf | 2025-07-31 09:30:36+00:00
Frankly, this take is so reductionistic that it's useless. You can substitute "mathematical functions" with "biochemistry" and apply the exact same argument to human beings.

What I'd like is for people to stop pretending we have any idea what the hidden layer of an LLM is actually doing. We do not know at all. Yes, words like "statistics" and "mathematical functions" can accurately describe the underlying architecture of LLMs, but the actual mechanism of knowledge processing is not understood at all. It is exactly analogous to how we understand quite a lot about how neurons function at the cellular level (but far from everything, seeing as how complicated and opaque nature tends to be), but that we have no idea whatsoever what exactly is happening when a human being is doing a cognitive task.

It is a fallacy to confuse the surface level understanding of how a transformer functions, to the unknown mechanisms that LLMs employ.
by jpatten | 2025-07-31 09:31:23+00:00
Thank you for sharing this! The part of this problem that I’ve found most challenging over time is keeping quantities up to date. I wonder about a function where you could say “I built 25 of these modules” and it would deduct the quantities for individual parts accordingly (optionally adding an extra percentage for the 0402s you dropped on the floor) Or, while I’m dreaming, a feature that parses a DigiKey/mouser/etc. order (or reads the barcodes on the bags!) and updates quantities for you.

Would also be curious about how best to support different storage approaches, like reels on a shelf etc.
Show HN: Open-source self-hosted LLM comparison tool for your own prompt
by ycsuck | 2025-07-31 09:31:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I just pushed Duelr v0.1.1 to GitHub and would love your feedback.

Each month a new model claims “30 % better,” yet I was still copy-pasting prompts into half a dozen playground tabs. Existing evaluation suites (Promptfoo, LangSmith, etc.) are great but heavy; I wanted a <1-minute CLI / local web tool.

How it works - Paste a prompt (or JSON template) → click Compare All. - Duelr fires the same request to models you selected such as GPT-4o, Claude 4 Sonnet, Groq (more drivers coming). - It shows, side-by-side: - response text - end-to-end latency (ms) - token counts → cost spent for the request - simplicity and readability score (more heuristics will be coming) The goal is to see model's performance in your real prompt instead of generic academic benchmarks.

Repo: https://github.com/stashlabs/duelr

P.S.: First time I’ve ever open-sourced a full tool.