MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by techpineapple | 2025-07-22 13:41:49+00:00
Really I think the entire AI hype machine is to blame, all the thought leaders particularly cxo’s.

How am I supposed to believe that like AI is getting to the point that OpenAI can charge 20k per month for PHD level AI, and it doesn’t know not to drop my production database, how are we supposed to get to the point as Dario Amodei puts it that no one is coding by years end, if it’s not most of the way there already?

I would never let an LLM touch my production database, but like, I could certainly look at the environment and make an argument as to why I’m wrong, and thought leaders across the industry; inside and out are broadly making the implication that a good entrepreneur is outsourcing all their labor to like 20 LLM workers at a time.

On some measure, I would say that you shouldn’t let your LLM do this is a minority opinion in the thought-o-sphere.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-22 13:42:10+00:00
You're right, and that's why hoping that companies will just willingly "do the right thing" will never work.

Companies have (at least in the US) the same rights as biological humans. And we've observed corporations long enough to realize that if they were humans, they would be PSYCHOPATHS. Quick, how do you reign in a psychopath? With wishes, hope, or the strong arm of the law? It's option 3, of course. But we don't have a strong arm of the law, we barely even have law these days, and what little law we DO have has been co-opted by the corporations, and generally only wakes up when it's time to defend corporations against the "little guy".

And THAT is why hoping that the government will just willingly "do the right thing" and reign in the psychopathic corps will never work, either.

We need a groundswell of people who demand change pushing upward on the corrupt power structures. When enough people want it, it's what everyone talks about, and politicians can't sidestep the issue any longer, THEN change will occur.
by stephen_g | 2025-07-22 13:42:40+00:00
When you turn energy generation into a market, it opens up the possibility for huge amounts of money to be made by big players constraining supply at just the right times. Of course if properly competitive markets existed outside econ textbook models, it would solve itself, but unfortunately the barrier to entry is too high in the real world so competition is always limited to a few players who try to get as large as possible (gobbling up any smaller ones in the process).

This kind of profiteering by intentionally constraining supply when there was very high demand was literally something Enron became infamous for, but it still happens all around the world.

Of course, on the transmission and distribution side you can’t even try to have a market and there is always a natural monopoly, it’d just be impossible for anyone to overbuild a new grid in any service area. So turning a state-owned natural monopoly into a private one tends to turn out just as badly as anyone could expect…
by codedokode | 2025-07-22 13:43:27+00:00
I tried googling this and found questions from Telegram users why voice messages recognition sometimes produces this phrase and who is this person. Also I found this thread [1] claiming that the subtitles by DimaTorzok are coming from some Russian youtube videos on gaming like [2].

[1] https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2372

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAqyUuahMlc&t=401s
by tombert | 2025-07-22 13:43:36+00:00
I met Peer at Lambda Days in 2023 briefly. We didn't chat for super long (about 5-10 minutes), but (and I do genuinely mean this as a compliment), he was one of the most enthusiastic geeks I've ever met. He seemed so genuinely passionate about Erlang and GRiSP and technology in general, it was outright delightful to talk to him.

I love people who can stay excited and optimistic about stuff; it's so easy to be cynical, it's refreshing to meet someone who hasn't had the life sucked out of them.

I need to pick up a GRiSP Nano one of these days. I have the GRiSP 1 and even managed to get Lisp Flavoured Erlang working on there [1], but I haven't played with it much since then. I should fix that.

[1] https://medium.com/@tombert/working-with-lisp-flavoured-erla...
by klabb3 | 2025-07-22 13:43:42+00:00
No, but loss of smell is indeed a (very well documented) ”mystery effect” of neurological damage, so it’s not a regular ”flu” by any means. It’s closest relative is SARS1 and that’s also vastly different from flu. There are always psychosomatic or ”mystery” effects even with something clear cut like breaking a bone. Noisy data is the first thing you have to accept dealing with these complex systems. If you see a giant cloud of black smoke, it’s a good idea to assume there’s fire and invalidate it later, should it turn out to be something else.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-07-22 13:43:45+00:00
On-prem Exchange is usually fine. Migration is a pain, but for a mid-size org you can mostly just install it and use it. If you have multiple servers distributed globally and database availability groups and such, yeah, it gets to be its own thing, but that's because at that point you're huge and you're going to feel the pain no matter what platform you run.
by gruez | 2025-07-22 13:44:00+00:00
>why ordinary people cannot

They can. I don't think anyone got prosecuted for using an illegal streaming site or downloading from sci-hub, for instance. What people do get sued for is seeding, which counts as distribution. If anything AI companies are getting prosecuted more aggressively than "ordinary people", presumably because of their scale. In a recent lawsuit Anthropic won on the part about AI training on books, but lost on the part where they used pirated books.
by ralferoo | 2025-07-22 13:44:06+00:00
According to the recall notice, these powerbanks were "manufactured between January 1st, 2016, and October 30th, 2019" [0], so that was very much during the time before this says that they were spun out into a separate company.

Going from that last quote, they would in fact have been made and sold by Apex(Inc) at the time it was a subsidiary of Amprius Inc. and claiming otherwise seems like deliberate deception.

Their own website makes clear that Amprius Technologies Inc and Apex (Wuxi) are related in the description of their CEO, who served as CEO of both companies simultaneously. [1]

[0] https://www.anker.com/a1263-recall

[1] https://ir.amprius.com/company-information/executive-team
by hk1337 | 2025-07-22 13:44:19+00:00
> there's occasionally sites that have bugs because, like was the case in the 90s with Internet Explorer

Hol up! Are you saying Chrome is the new Internet Explorer?

I'm being facetious...

If so, then I agree. I have said and thought for a long time a lot of developers go all-in with everything google as if google could do no wrong. In short, they have become that which they swore to destroy.
by dubi_steinkek | 2025-07-22 13:44:29+00:00
I don't think that's a fair characterization.

It's more that there isn't really a big difference between the workflow of

# you're on staging area @ commit A # make some untracked changes and console logs you don't wanna commit git add -p && git commit # select only what you want

vs

# you're on @ empty commit | commit A # make some local changes (which are tracked in @) jj commit -i # select only what you want

You're still "in charge what gets tracked" if you treat the last @ commit as your local playground, exactly the same as the staging area. The only difference is that you can use exactly the same tools to manipulate your "staging area" as other commits. The only difference being that you can manipulate your staging area with the same tools as any other commit.
by Plasmoid2000ad | 2025-07-22 13:45:17+00:00
Microsoft.com and Office.com used to be entirely built upon SharePoint, as SharePoint solutions. It was to prove it out as possible, eat your own dogfood.

I think the shift away started in 2013 or 2014, but you can imagine the throw away effort spent on it.

Not sure about microsoft.com, but office.com frontend "rendering" SharePoint instances were read-only, not plain SharePoint exposed as-is.
by weavejester | 2025-07-22 13:45:20+00:00
Speech is a form of expression; freedom of expression encompasses freedom of speech. To quote from the link you provided:

"This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."

As you point out, all countries have some restrictions on speech. We can obviously agree that somewhere like North Korea has no freedom of speech, in the same way we can agree the Moon is clearly outside our atmosphere. But in the margins it comes down to where you draw the line.

There's also a difference when it comes to theory and practice. In theory the US is more permissive; it lacks the ECHR's caveats that permit restricting speech to protect health, morals and territorial integrity. But in practice the US is rated as coming below the UK in the World Press Freedom Index and the Freedom of Expression Index. The US government has a lot of power to lean on organisations and individuals to stifle speech, which of course it's currently doing.
by kamranjon | 2025-07-22 13:45:20+00:00
I just installed Firefox on iPhone hoping to install ublock, only to realize that you can’t and the reason you can’t is because Firefox on iOS is just WebKit with a different UI. This made me wonder, given the recent rulings around the App Store, how has Apple gotten away with basically banning every other browser engine on their mobile platform but their own? Is there any current court cases - or are iPhone users basically stuck?
by jrockway | 2025-07-22 13:46:00+00:00
I think it just replaces something that's fairly easy (writing new code) with something that's more difficult (code review).

The AI is pretty good at escaping guardrails, so I'm not really sure who should be blamed here. People are not good at treating it as adversarial, but if things get tough it's always happy to bend the rules. Someone was explaining the other day about how it couldn't get past their commit hooks, so it deleted them. When the hooks were made read-only, it wrote a script to make them writable so it could delete them. It can really go off the rails quickly in the most hilarious way.

I'm really not sure how you delete your production database while developing code. I guess you check in your production database password and make it the default for all your CLI tools or something? I guess if nobody tells you not to do that you might do that. The AI should know better; if you asked, it would tell you not to do it.
by matwood | 2025-07-22 13:46:05+00:00
> until I started to fly very frequently

This is a key point. When I used to fly once or twice per year to go on vacation it didn't really matter too much. Now I'm flying sometimes more than twice/month often international and all these little niceties add up. Global Entry is a must, some type of lounge with wifi and snacks is nice. Getting on early enough so I don't have to worry about them forcing me to check which then adds a ton of time when I land (or worse, lost luggage which happens all the time). And yes, I can relax and get back to what I was doing - likely reading a book :)
by jajko | 2025-07-22 13:46:27+00:00
You contradict yourself. There were numerous public cases where they chased people downloading few mp3s just for themselves, and made into example case with massive fines.

If you don't understand how torrents work on technical level I suggest at least some shallow reading. Property rights holders don't care about details, as long as you tick the box of sending a single packet to somebody, off to court with ya.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-22 13:46:38+00:00
>Nokia N900

There is a fetishistic cult surrounding the N900.

Mainly comprised of people who were too young or broke to own one.

I am an old man who owned an N900.

Simply and concisely: the N900 was a half-baked, poorly thought out, frustrating piece of "exercise in box-ticking" junk.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-22 13:47:04+00:00
Seems like they aren't actually "rationing power", they're just delaying new hookups until the grid has enough capacity to handle higher load.

I wonder what the issue is. Is it production, or distribution? If it's production, there's no excuse for that, build nuclear. If it's distribution, is it due to environmental concerns, or NIMBYs?
by leoapagano | 2025-07-22 13:47:08+00:00
Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of wasted CPU cycles and RAM and is a very suboptimal solution compared to what Chromium and Safari do these days, not to mention that the ability to create and switch profiles is not included in the UI by default and requires an extension to access.
by troupo | 2025-07-22 13:47:22+00:00
> Showcasing limitations of vibe coding was the point of the experiment

No it wasn't. If you follow the threads, he went in fully believing in magical AI that you could talk to like a person.

At one point he was extremely frustrated and ready to give up. Even by day twelve he was writing things "but Replie clearly knows X, and still does X".

He did learn some invaluable lessons, but it was never an educated "experiment in the limitations of AI".
by kevindamm | 2025-07-22 13:47:29+00:00
Rivers overflowing with legacy hardware and villages incinerating boards for their metals, and the caustic effects on people & their environment that causes, are already happening. The hardware capacity exists only as long as it is operational and within a few generations. Perhaps we should be careful before building Manhattan-sized data centers.

Up to a point it is better than having additional compute sitting idle at the edge, economies of scale and all that, but after some point it becomes excess and wasteful, even if people figure out ways to entertain themselves with it.

And if people don't want to pay what it costs to improve and maintain these city-sized electronic brains? Then it all becomes waste, or the majority transformed into office or warehouse space or something else.

Proceeding with combined 1% (US GDP)-sized budgets despite this risk being an elephant in the room is what makes it a bubble.
by vrighter | 2025-07-22 13:47:30+00:00
Electricity cannot be delivered to spec anymore in Malta, where I live. If you put a voltmeter in an outlet it's quite normal to see 200 volts on there. It's also quite normal to see 260. That's beyond the 230V +- 10% that it's supposed to be. When anyone notices a problem, the utility company just switches them to one of the other two phases, which will inevitably destabilize too after a while. Meanwhile OVRs became mandatory, but because the supply is so out of spec, you'll have the utility guys setting the limits so wide that it effectively becomes equivalent to the piece of wire it replaced.
by ptrb25 | 2025-07-22 13:47:37+00:00
Been working on a self-hosted AI security agent that runs completely offline — no cloud, no APIs, no external calls.

It ingests system logs, embeds them into vector memory, promotes recurring patterns, and responds based on trust level. The goal is to explore what real autonomous infrastructure might look like: memory-driven, local, and private by default.

Still very much a prototype. Code isn't public yet, but the whitepaper outlines the architecture and direction. Feedback welcome.

Whitepaper Paper(View): https://codeberg.org/ptrb25/ptrb25/src/branch/main/whitepape... Whitepaper Paper(Raw): https://codeberg.org/ptrb25/ptrb25/raw/branch/main/whitepape... Repo: https://codeberg.org/ptrb25/ptrb25
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-22 13:48:27+00:00
As soon as you have the situation of multiple people working on the same branch, forbid force pushes at all times. But it's better to avoid that in the first place, all work should be on its own branch at all times.

For larger features we often have a feature branch with merge requests for various task branches. Limits the review sizes as well.

Of course, you can also then consider to use feature toggles, so there's no feature branch but just your main branch.
by jorvi | 2025-07-22 13:48:28+00:00
With the ramping up of 18+ verification in Australia and now Europe (and South Korea and China already having such a programme for many years, including game time locks for young people), yeah.

It doesn't seem that big a leap to connect the dots from device attestation > web browser integrity > identity verification > verified web access

There is actually a relatively old game series of the 2000s called Bluesky Hacker Replay that has this as the core element of its worldbuilding. Governments and corporations became tired of the internet being overrun with spam, viruses, porn and cyberterrorism and decide to create an internet 2.0, tightly controlled by corporate interests. Hackers persist on the old 1.0 internet called the SwitchNet.

And really, when you think about it.. if you composed an internet solely from the big name social media, entertainment, work, food, news and knowledge services, running atop Cloudflare who verifies everyone via government ID, how many would really complain? 99% of their internet time is already spent inside that bubble.
by florianherrengt | 2025-07-22 13:48:36+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. I mostly used Grammarly. I had a lot of small mistakes like “remenber”. The LLM helped me figure out things like “used to been”. Sometimes things were a bit too disconnected and it pointed out the gaps. As I said, it’s a useful tool but anyone with a little bit of experience would probably not gain as much as I did from it.
by shadowgovt | 2025-07-22 13:48:41+00:00
It's more the magic of precedent.

The fight about digitized media for personal (entertainment / informational) use were the early aughts. The precedents crafted then don't immediately translate to these cases (novel transformative work from protected materials), and the new precedents have to account for the fact that universities have been training via "piracy" for ages.

(The magic of money factors in to the extent that they can afford the lawyers to remind the court that this isn't settled law yet).
by retinaros | 2025-07-22 13:48:55+00:00
I dont know what you are saying. Trump just started a few months ago and the migrations at the border got divided by large numbers. Meloni reported 60% less illegal immigration last year by breaking deal with north african countries.

Trump launched DOGE, Zemmour in france is daily promoting less governement less foreign funding.

You are writing this under an article where everyone left side of the political spectrum is in favor of banning a social network because its owner criticize mass immigration, and leave free to speak some right wing ideas more than over social networks. If the far-right was in power how would you explain even the launch of a criminal probe against X. Nothing make sense in what you trying to convey.
by throw7 | 2025-07-22 13:49:08+00:00
The issue with firefox is sites don't develop or test on firefox and will outright just say use chrome/edge. e.g. on air india can't buy tickets (must use chrome, actually a _lot_ of india sites require chrome to just work), one of my work's agency website literal says on login to use chrome or edge.

I mostly blame mozilla "leadership" for going off on ridiculous directions and identity politics. They've reaped what they've sown. It's only because of short term corporate profits that chrome now has to claw back some ad revenue and by blocking ublock, now firefox gets some users back. The problem is that it's not new users.
by h2zizzle | 2025-07-22 13:49:08+00:00
I suspect that my kidney function was negatively affected by a reaction to the contrast used in some medical imaging I had a few years ago. Unfortunately, lack of access to healthcare means I've never been able confirm it. I just know that, before that episode, I was noted for my ability to hold my alcohol; after, no more, and I've had to be careful about taking certain kinds of OTC medication because I can feel it affecting me similarly.

Wouldn't be surprised if there was some source of hidden damage like that.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-22 13:49:25+00:00
I don't want to, but I can't stop thinking that DJT might be kind of right on this one. Each of economical blocks in this world such as EU/US, China, or Japan, don't mutually co-depend enough for any foreign currencies like USD or CNY to be single universal representation of values.

The current US administration's weird argument is that the USD values exchanged in inter-national trades must be symmetrical, but if you think about it, the amounts just don't mean anything. Balancing the amount only, like forcing the other party buy tons of American stuffs, won't solve it. The exchanged amounts only fuel philosophical border towns and dependency chains don't penetrate deep into foreign economies. The prices are not manipulated, it's just random.

The US has enough of everything to make batteries, you just can't fight something sold at completely arbitrary prices on economical grounds.
by the__alchemist | 2025-07-22 13:49:51+00:00
I can't answer your question directly, as I haven't experienced Firefox problems in a few years. In the past, I experienced regular hangs and crashes.

There are a few point to unpacck here:

- Qualifying a statement with "Full stop" is a thought-terminating cliche. - Due to the different hardware, operating systems, and use cases people have, peoples' experience, and the problems they encounter vary between users of PC software. - Milliseconds as overhead to startup may be irrelevant. Ms in most computing contexts is a timescale to be concerned with, as it's relevant for latency, cumulative operations, and responsiveness.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-22 13:49:55+00:00
I seem to recall similarly about things starting to go downhill after 4.x or so. Performance, optimization, and stability seemed to take a back seat to flashier things like new features and UI themes. It stopped being the lean, mean minimal browser that it’d become famous as and turned into something a lot more unremarkable (albeit, more flexible). They wouldn’t seriously prioritize performance again until many years later with Quantum.

Looking at it that way, it’s no mystery how it lost ground to Chrome (though Google’s marketing muscle is also largely responsible). Mozilla just tossed Firefox’s claim to fame out the window and expected things to work out somehow, which is a bit like a restaurant that’d become popular for its award winning burgers deciding to pivot to the same dry turkey sandwiches you can get at most of the restaurants in town. Yeah, you’re gonna lose customers.
by incomingpain | 2025-07-22 13:49:59+00:00
For open source, you're not going to see stats well online. Openhands + devstral doesnt touch the internet, so wont make it to many stats.

You can look at benchmarks.

https://livebench.ai/#/?Agentic+Coding=a

Keep scrolling until you see something your size. Deepseek R1 is nice, but 600B isnt running on my hardware. You'll also notice they arent doing everything. dominated by the Saas options.

https://huggingface.co/models

This is sorted by trending by default. This tends to help show interest but not necessarily the best.