MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thicknavyrain | 2025-07-01 20:40:45+00:00
That's true, it could just turn the writer's role into more of an editorial role. The main time-saving I have so far is being able to upload papers and get it to fact check for me. The editorial guidelines at SciShow are stricter than any academic journal I've published in: any non-trivial statement has to be supported by a direct, findable quote in (most-of-the-time) peer-reviewed scientific literature. I once had to find a citation for the idea that heat + fuel + oxygen generates a fire! (for this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcaE0e0CZg)

LLMs make that much easier. As I collect primary sources during my drafting/writing phrase, I can type up any non-trivial claims I'm making in my script in a separate document, share that with the LLM and say "Quoting directly from the set of attached PDFs, identifying which document, and on which page the quote comes from, find content which directly supports each of these assertions" and it generally goes a great job. At any rate, I have to check each of those quotes for accuracy but the help in _finding_ those quotes in order to pass a stringent fact checking procedure is a huge help if I didn't scribble down the supporting quotes during my research phase. This is also, by the way, stricter than the fact checking process for most non-fiction publishing.
by Kon5ole | 2025-07-01 20:40:53+00:00
>much of the increased productivity has ended up in the hands of a select few.

I do agree that wealth is not distributed particularly fairly but I don't understand the idea that it's mostly going to a select few. There are almost 20 million more jobs in the US now than there were 20 years ago, that's a lot of productivity right there.

Amazon employs 1.4 million people. Bezos has spent maybe the equivalent to a couple of weeks worth of Amazon payroll so far in his life. His yacht was the equivalent of a few days, his wedding maybe one hour. That money didn't come from Amazon either, it came from people wanting to own Amazon.

Leaving aside whether that's fair or not, surely it means that most of the productivity and money is going to the employees?

What am I missing here? How was this better before, what has changed recently that makes this such a big talking point now?
by goopypoop | 2025-07-01 20:41:11+00:00
Fast Railing Monthly

Long Rollers

Barely Legal Signals

Locomania!

Chuggers

Driver's Wives

Hot Steamy Machines

Whistleblowing Enthusiast

SMUTS

Country Tooter

Shudders & Squeals

Stiff Points Quarterly

The Linkage Lover

This Oiled Life

Footplate Fanciers

Tiny Tunnels

Dirty Platform Digest

Wide Gauge Wonders

Derailed Darlings
by ksbrooksjr | 2025-07-01 20:42:12+00:00
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I'm a full stack web developer who's been developing web applications for 8 years. I currently maintain a Chrome Extension that I released in 2017 with over 6,000 users that was Product Hunt's Product of the Day in September of 2017.
by wavemode | 2025-07-01 20:42:32+00:00
> how do they prevail through all of this and become a sustainable frontier AI lab and company?

I doubt that OpenAI needs or wants to be a sustainable company right now. They can probably continue to drum up hype and investor money for many years. As long as people keep writing them blank checks, why not keep spending them? Best case they invent AGI, worst case they go bankrupt, which is irrelevant since it's not their own money they're risking.
by recursive | 2025-07-01 20:42:32+00:00
Unsuspecting investors in Vancouver Stock Exchange issues have done a double-take when the speculative resource-oriented exchange opened for trading yesterday. The index measuring activity on the exchange sat at 1098.892, mysteriously up 574.081 points from Friday’s close. But VSE stock prices were unchanged in the cold light of day. Rather, the change in the index represents three weeks of work by consultants, correcting mistakes in index calculation that have been compounding themselves for the 22 months the index has been in operation.
by rvz | 2025-07-01 20:42:42+00:00
> 99.9999% of code is not written with compilers that are "formally verified" as immune to code-generation bugs.

Again, that isn't a reason to never check or write tests for your code because an "AI-generated it" or even assuming that an AI will detect all of them.

In fact, it means you NEED to do more reviewing, checking and testing than ever before.

> It's not likely that any code that you and I run every day is.

So millions of phones, cars, control systems, medical devices and planes in use today aren't running formally verified code every day?

Are you sure?
by andrewrn | 2025-07-01 20:42:52+00:00
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Remote: Prefer no

WTR: Yes

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by konz | 2025-07-01 20:43:17+00:00
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by codeforafrica | 2025-07-01 20:43:19+00:00
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I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and I am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

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by codeforafrica | 2025-07-01 20:43:41+00:00
Location: Africa or REMOTE

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, to any location in Africa, where I can get the necessary permission to live and work. Occasional travel is possible.

Technologies: Linux, Front or Backend Web Development, General Software Development, System Administration.

Résumé/CV: on request (software development, CTO, mentoring, training, fluent in English and German, german citizenship)

Contact: Email: see profile or http://codingforafrica.at/

Like this Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945], I am looking for similar work, but I am open to work on any interesting project. I am a European software developer who has lived and worked on four continents. Now it's time to move on and so I am in the process to relocate to Africa.

I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and I am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

I value good teamwork over fancy tech, and I don't shy away from working on legacy code. I am primarily motivated by solving problems, so let me help you solve your problems.

I am open to work for a company anywhere as long as the work can be done fully remote from Africa.

While I could find a job elsewhere I believe that the experience living in an area where my work is going to have an impact gives me a better understanding of the needs of the location I am serving. Whether it is through direct contact with clients and users or just by being part of a local community and learning about the reality of living there.

In addition, I want to use some of my income to hire local interns and junior developers and train them in order to pass on my experience. I also sponsor children that otherwise can't afford to go to school (see my website). If you want to support this, I would love to work with you. Also if you are interested in hiring African developers yourself. I can help you build up a team for you.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-01 20:44:09+00:00
Back in the pandemic I remember movie theaters being in a real hurry to get the food concessions running again.

I don't think I've ever been one to get disgusted quickly and I might even like insects and germs better than people, but when things were re-opening my sense of cleanliness was reset and the thought of dealing with a popcorn and Coke mess was just unbearable to me.

Since then I've only been out for Barbie and Join or Die, the latter because the showing was sponsored by my employer and some of my coworkers showed up in it.
Ask HN: Do you create data visualizations often?
by andrewrn | 2025-07-01 20:44:39+00:00
Does anyone else find styling charts in excel/gsheets to be really repetitive? Adding trendline, changing symbol shapes, adding gridlines, etc involves sifting through a ton of menus.

Seaborn/matplotlib helps but its still a lot of friction. I am considering making a tool to make it easier and curious if something like this would be useful for others.
by tzs | 2025-07-01 20:45:08+00:00
> Regulations around them and how international transactions are taxed will depend on each country, just like anything else. These matters can be handled by lawyers and accountants as usual.

One of my points is that quite a lot of sites don't currently do any international transactions with site visitors. They make their money selling ad space. Their transactions are with a small number of ad networks, probably in the same country.

The site's lawyers and accountants are most likely just trained in dealing with in-country transactions.

If the site start directly charging international crawlers it is then adding international transactions and will need accountants and lawyers who can deal with that.

Big sites with a lot of revenue can probably handle this fine. Smaller sites are much less likely to be able to deal with it.

There is also political risk handling it yourself because some counties are viewing AI development similarly to how they view weapon development, and I would not be surprised to find that some countries will view selling AI crawling access to certain other countries as violating sanctions.

Thus for most sites that aren't already engaged in international commerce they are probably going to want to go through a middleman to sell crawler access even if cryptocurrencies are used for the payment system.
by andrewrn | 2025-07-01 20:46:35+00:00
I made this agent to tutor physics with diagrams! It's basic and my first agent and actually only has a single tool to call, but I really enjoyed building the agent loop from scratch rather than using a framework. Uses 4.1 for fast but reasonably intelligent, then o3 I think for diagram generation.

https://www.physicsviewer.com
by zahirbmirza | 2025-07-01 20:46:36+00:00
Minidiscs, now those are my nostalgic weaknesses. I weighed up between DAT and Minidiscs, and they were just made for portable recording and listening; and they looked so cool. The players were amazingly designed also. They gave a lot of freedom. Excellent compression and digital line-in recording meant that they were so so much better than tape. I used one until I got the iPod shuffle Stick thing and a proper iPod.
by Austin_Conlon | 2025-07-01 20:48:01+00:00
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by abeppu | 2025-07-01 20:48:07+00:00
1. I explicitly said I agree with the broader point

2. The fallacious form of "what about ..." is trying to dismiss problem X without addressing it by raising problem Y. I identified the article's concern as being part of a larger erosion of rule-based good-faith behavior, which I agree should be addressed. But I think the more effective way is from the top down. I'm _not_ saying that people should bring their dogs into restaurants until the government is no longer corrupt. I _am_ saying that this is the most pedantic, narrow way to go about improving anything (and possibly virtue signalling about disabilities without input from those people, and from policing other people's behavior in a way that comes off as self-righteous without achieving anything.)

3. Merely pointing at people and labeling them as what-abouting is itself a fallacious way of avoiding confronting that person's argument. Again returning to that wikipedia article:

> Christian Christensen, Professor of Journalism in Stockholm, argues that the accusation of whataboutism is itself a form of the tu quoque fallacy, as it dismisses criticisms of one's own behavior to focus instead on the actions of another, thus creating a double standard. Those who use whataboutism are not necessarily engaging in an empty or cynical deflection of responsibility: whataboutism can be a useful tool to expose contradictions, double standards, and hypocrisy.

> Abe Greenwald pointed out that even the first accusation leading to the counteraccusation is an arbitrary setting, which can be just as one-sided and biased, or even more one-sided than the counter-question "what about?" Thus, whataboutism could also be enlightening and put the first accusation in perspective.

I.e. while I maintain that I am literally not using it in this instance, I nevertheless I find the impulse to loudly label something "whataboutism!" as a way to avoid engaging with a critique to also be a lazy fallacy.
by Hercuros | 2025-07-01 20:48:11+00:00
I guess the internal exposure state would be “wrong” if the compiler removes the dead load (e.g in a pass that runs before provenance analysis).

However, if all of the program paths from that point onward behave the same as if the pointer was marked as exposed, that would be fine. It’s only “wrong” to track the incorrect abstract machine state when that would lead to a different behaviour in the abstract machine.

In that sense I suppose it’s no different from things like removing a variable initialisation if the variable is never used. That also has a side effect in the abstract machine, but it can still be optimised out if that abstract machine side effect is not observable.
by trhway | 2025-07-01 20:48:20+00:00
look around - CA - missionaries have the best real estate. And another related note on connection between strong promotion of devotion to ideas and it is being a good business - the Abrahamic monotheism was a result of the successful marketing campaign "only the donations made here are donations to the real god" of that Temple back then against several other competing ones. (Curiously that the current historic stage of AI, on the cusp, be it 3 or 30 years, of emergence of AGI is somewhat close to that point in history back then. Thus in particular a flood of messiahs and doom sayers would only increase.)
by vlucas | 2025-07-01 20:49:49+00:00
Good writeup. I am in the camp that Tagged Template Literals are the ultimate answer for easy templating that is native to JavaScript. The bit about using native Signals with them is spot on too. Nothing else really allows the clean separation of HTML strings with other random JavaScript objects and pieces as easily as Tagged Templates do. On the remarks about fear of strings, server-rendered markup is just one giant string sent to the browser anyways. I don't know why some people get so worked up about why they think templates should not be strings. That is literally what HTML shipped to the browser is. It's also the easiest and most straightforward way to define templates in native JavaScript without any compile step.

I did many of my own experiments with templates that are native JS with no compile step, and reached basically the same conclusion as this post. Use tagged templates and keep it simple. My angle was server-focused, with async bits in a template doing automatic streaming while server rendering with them. Works super well and it takes so little code to achieve. Check it out if you're interested: https://www.hyperspan.dev/ or the CodeSandbox demo: https://7lpdpl.csb.app/
by lrvick | 2025-07-01 20:50:28+00:00
Someone who did not want to spend money for an apple logo could choose a $50 Android device and put F-Droid on it for 100% free tracking-free open source apps.

People pay extra to be in walled gardens, presumably because they think it will make them cool. If they -like- pointlessly spending money, let them.

No one needs an iPhone, and there is no monopoly. Just educate consumers on alternatives.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-01 20:50:58+00:00
If you don't get a response that doesn't mean you violated the rules of the community, it just means you didn't get a response.

There's a much bigger question of how to promote something effectively. Unfortunately a lot of people are seduced by something like "get into TechCrunch" or "get to the top of Product Hunt" or "Tik Tok will make me a star without me doing anything."

The short of it is that marketing takes 100x the effort that you think it would, especially if you don't want to spend a lot on paid media, but it takes a lot of effort even if you do. Unless you're exceptionally lucky the first 10 things you try will disappoint you, that's how it is.
by dfawcus | 2025-07-01 20:51:14+00:00
Well, obviously speed when one is on the clock.

All power tools have trade offs vs the manual alternates, often tipping towards their use, but not always.

I have had success on an occasion using a belt fed screw gun when fitting plaster boards, especially for ceiling boards.

However I don't do joinery often enough to justify the use of a nail gun.
by gday2020 | 2025-07-01 20:51:14+00:00
SEEKING WORK | The Netherlands | Remote (anywhere)

I have almost 10 years experience with Python/Django and worked with many tools/technologies/libraries related to it (Vue, pytest, various CI/CD tools, docker, htmx, alpine, websockets etc). I especially love to dive into odd bugs and optimize slow queries/functions. I am a big fan of testing and documenting.

I maintain a few applications for clients (as the sole developer), but can also work well within a team.

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by righthand | 2025-07-01 20:51:17+00:00
Well it’s all in a single directory:

```

static/

js/ css/ log/ my-post.xml my-post.xsl index.html

```

Caddyfile:

```

:8080

try_files {path}.xml {path}.html

file_server {

index index.xml index.html root static

}

```

XSLT work is all based off of a repository someone wrote with a grug brain explainer:

https://github.com/pacocoursey/xslt

The next step is to generate all of the `static` dir from markdown files and probably a new markdown-like format for registering templates to generate xsl/xml files for special html blocks and template parts or generating blog listing pages.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-01 20:51:23+00:00
Dunno... I'm running a mailu box, without delivery issues to Gmail... now Outlook.com hosted mail (not o365) is another story.

I have forward/backward dns configured as well as dkim, spf, etc. With TLS endpoints configured for secure transmission. It's worked pretty well in general. That said, I'm not using it that much, and there's no spam coming from my server (dedicated box on OVH), I dedicated a VM/IP to the mail server.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-01 20:51:43+00:00
Well, but you can't pass through a solid object, right? There's a real "thing" there, it's not just a specific wavelength.

I realize "thing" is doing a lot of work in the above sentence, and that everything is all just particles. Still, I think there's something to the idea that form and shape are more real than color.
by achenet | 2025-07-01 20:53:22+00:00
SEEKING WORK

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I'm an experienced backend developer currently working for a large web hosting company, looking for a nights and weekends gig to learn new things and make a bit of spare cash.

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Because my primary motivation is learning, I have a "pay what you'd like" pricing scheme for my freelance work.

You contact me with a project, and if I accept it, you only pay me if I deliver something that has helped you, and you chose a price that reflects how much my work has helped you.

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