MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kordlessagain | 2025-07-27 23:30:53+00:00
People have always tended toward taking shortcuts. It's human nature. So saying "this technology makes people dumber or lazier" is tricky, because you first need a baseline: exactly how dumb or lazy were people before?

To quantify it, you'd need measurable changes. For example, if you showed that after widespread LLM adoption, standardized test scores dropped, people's vocabulary shrank significantly, or critical thinking abilities (measured through controlled tests) degraded, you'd have concrete evidence of increased "dumbness."

But here's the thing: tools, even the simplest ones, like college research papers, always have value depending on context. A student rewriting existing knowledge into clearer language has utility because they improve comprehension or provide easier access. It's still useful work.

Yes, by default, many LLM outputs sound similar because they're trained to optimize broad consensus of human writing. But it's trivially easy to give an LLM a distinct personality or style. You can have it write like Hemingway or Hunter S. Thompson. You can make it sound academic, folksy, sarcastic, or anything else you like. These traits demonstrably alter output style, information handling, and even the kind of logic or emotional nuance applied.

Thus, the argument that all LLM writing is homogeneous doesn't hold up. Rather, what's happening is people tend to use default or generic prompts, and therefore receive default or generic results. That's user choice, not a technological constraint.

In short: people were never uniformly smart or hardworking, so blaming LLMs entirely for declining intellectual rigor is oversimplified. The style complaint? Also overstated: LLMs can easily provide rich diversity if prompted correctly. It's all about how they're used, just like any other powerful tool in history, and just like my comment here.
by benderbreaker | 2025-07-27 23:32:09+00:00
Agree. The OP is picking from dated and not exactly applicable data. I estimate you could be down to 20% of that by now if you were optimizing for costs. An issue that is real for you guys is software stack tractability; i.e. the ability of your team to bring on board models in a timely manner. Maybe because all models are optimized for GPUs, but it's something that I would get on top of if its fixable. Obviously, you must be taking into account these issues and competitive performance in future iterations of your chips also.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-27 23:32:10+00:00
When Spain increased parental leave for men, desired fertility dropped. Some men want to do childcare, but a substantial cohort want to chase comp and status while someone else stays home to raise their kids.

The phrase I’ve heard more than once about this is “Men want kids like kids want pets.” Easy to want something, but work is hard.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/20/paid-paternity...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
Ask HN: How do you handle audit logs in your systems?
by efeoge | 2025-07-27 23:33:25+00:00
I'm working on designing audit logging for a system that needs to track actions like data changes, user access, and administrative operations. The goal is to ensure traceability, support compliance, and assist with incident response.

I'm curious how others handle this in production:

- What data do you log?

- How do you structure audit logs (JSON, text, DB records)?

- How do you ensure logs are immutable/tamper-evident?

- Do you store them separately from application logs?

- What tooling or patterns have worked well (or poorly) for you?

Any war stories, best practices, or pitfalls to avoid would be really appreciated.
by kbelder | 2025-07-27 23:33:29+00:00
>In some cultures, mentioning dating apps will immediately lead to negative assumptions

Hell, that's the case in my culture, and I'm a modern American. These dating apps seem to be a consequence of modern urban disfunction, and I can't imagine ever using one. Or admitting without shame that I did.

Now, that's my feeling, but I realize that others have different feelings, depending on which subcultures you're immersed in.
by ggm | 2025-07-27 23:33:32+00:00
Maybe I skimmed too fast, but I didn't see your criticisms in the write up cited. They're a good critique, ssd aside: ssd are magic, any filesystem.

ZFS mainline kernel aside, is the only FS I've seen which is able to encompass redundancy and is portable BSD <-> Linux. It isn't a big reason I run it, but it's one of them. Snapshotting is the big reason although the various journal fs had this ages ago.

I don't personally feel a zealot, but I admit to proselytising.
by wnevets | 2025-07-27 23:34:32+00:00
> Devils advocate, Musk is no longer part of the administration, and news reports have cited Nasa nonsense as part of why.

Only a devils advocate would believe that with this administration still giving his companies massive government contracts [1] and regulation win falls [2]

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-elon-musk-xai-pentagon-con...

[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-spacex-rocket-...
by homebrewer | 2025-07-27 23:35:34+00:00
I am in a similar situation, with very aggressive push for turning all banking and every government service into mobile applications only.

> What do elderly people without smartphones do?

They buy a smartphone and have their relatives set everything up for them. Not doing that isn't really an option because you can't even get your pension or planned (i.e. nonemergency) medical services anymore without going through the government mobile app.

If they don't have any relatives, they walk to the government building that used to solve these things for them using good old paper forms, and have officers there help them out. It's a completely braindead system that was envisioned by someone who has very little idea of how the common person lives.

Not that there are any channels to provide feedback, ironically enough. (Voting is a sham and has always been so here.)
by dontdoxxme | 2025-07-27 23:35:36+00:00
"file paths (obfuscated)" -- this is likely enough for them to work out who the user is, if they work on open source software. They get granular timing data and the files the user has edited, which they could match with open source PRs in their analytics pipeline.

I suspect they aren't actually doing that, but the GDPR cares not what you're doing with the data, but what is possible with it, hence why any identifier (even "obfuscated") which could lead back to a user is considered PII.
by 93po | 2025-07-27 23:35:47+00:00
how much did internet usage increase that year, in terms of the number of people and hours spent? what changes happened in the app ecosystem that had google as a default search provider? what other service offerings shut down or degraded that caused people to move to google? how much did chrome browser usage increase over IE and Safari?

there are so many factors to this, its the same issue when target stock drops 10% over a year and people are like "oh it's because they stopped selling plus size bikinis! the crowd has spoken!". you can attribute it to anything but you're basically always wrong if you're not attributing it to at least a dozen different things
by ACCount36 | 2025-07-27 23:36:15+00:00
Reportedly, Jared Isaacman, the rumored Musk's NASA pick of choice, wanted to cut down SLS/Orion and axe Gateway - and was opposed to science cuts.

Jared Isaacman is out, and what we're seeing actually happen now is the opposite of that. All the pork barrels are getting funded, and the brunt of budget cuts seems to be stated to be born by science missions like Roman Space Telescope.
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-27 23:36:51+00:00
My case? What's YOUR case. Assert a position and provide proof in triplicate please.

Please tell me exactly what you think and I can nitpick it vaguely instead of putting forth mine. Heh.

In any case, just look at the comments under my comment. You'll see them.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705630 (this is good, we need this). - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705597 (are you a conservative?! Anonymity should be reduced.)

Don't be disingenuous with your proof demands and tell us what you think and then we can discuss the merits of your argument.
by joshmlewis | 2025-07-27 23:36:52+00:00
I've been building promptslice.com as a way to create, test, and optimize prompts + tools + context. I needed it when building agents for other use cases so I built it. Unlike Langsmith and some of the other prompt editors, this has a first class editor for your prompt with "Cursor style" chat where you can ask it to make tweaks, overhaul sections, optimize ambiguity, etc.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-27 23:37:22+00:00
From my read, I don't see this article making the case that UK is Poised to Ban VPNs. At least not directly.

As of July 25th, internet users in the United Kingdom are being asked to prove their age before accessing many of their favourite apps and websites.

Reddit, for example, redirects the user to a 3rd party data broker service, where they are asked to provide biometric face scans, official identity documents, or a similar measure.

Do you comply with these new requirements, or just find something else to do with your time?

Well, no, there's a third option of course: circumvention [VPN].

Not much directly. Indirectly: Reddit has been ramping up VPN bans for some time. It's pretty thorough from what I see.

We may wind still up in the same unwanted space (Gov's influence over browsing) but thru different enforcement measures.
by mberning | 2025-07-27 23:38:32+00:00
I am highly sympathetic to all impacted. It’s devastating.

The rhetoric around cost cutting is something I can’t figure out how to deal with. The media makes it sound like the sky is falling with every cut. But having worked in enormous organizations myself, I also know that teams can and do lose headcount all the time, and somehow manage to carry on.

I guess the issue I wrestle with the most is how we can spend tax dollars on programs, but also have the ability to reduce those programs when needed, without it seeming like the end of the world.

We can’t have government agencies and programs that go on forever, expanding, growing in headcount and budget, for eternity. But the rhetoric around these events would have you believe that is the only path forward.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-27 23:38:34+00:00
> "I'm not convinced, maybe you just saw black cats but non-black cats exist, after all, other animals, like dogs, horses, cows, ... have different color".

Well the actual argument wasn't nearly as extreme as "only black fur", and a better (but still messy) analogy would be you citing one other animal and we don't have good stats for any other kinds of animal either. That's part of why I'm saying the child example isn't very good at affecting convincedness.

Also you used the word "proves", I feel like if you say X proves Y then it's not weird for me to call that a "claim". I don't think "I'm not the one making any claim" is valid here; you're responding to the original claim with arguments that include your own claims.

> there are different models that explain the situation as accurately

I'd say that so far none of the models here reach "very convincing" for all the data at hand. They're all big maybes.

> I'm saying that the extreme of the distribution shows that we cannot simply assume that the mean is at the same place.

Well even with a completely isolated size factor, the means are different. I don't think anyone was saying that.

And sure the distributions might have different shapes. There's a lot of analysis here that hasn't been done.

> What I don't understand is that on one hand, the claim is that violence is mainly due to a "mechanical fixed parameter" such as the size of the person and that societal messaging has no significant impact.

That's too binary. One thing can be the main effect while another is still quite significant. Like 75/25 just to toss out a number.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-27 23:39:36+00:00
NOAA, NASA, NIH, FWS, and DOE all regularly push how bad the situation is around global climate change. That's likely why they're getting targeted. The GOP's position on climate change is sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming LALALALALA and having credible government agencies pointing out the ongoing effects is detrimental to this strategy.

Meanwhile the USDA, FWS, and DOE do those pesky regulatory things, like making it so you can't torture animals quite as much in the pursuit of profits, can't build coal power plants in the center of national parks, and can't dump raw chemical waste into your local wetlands. Utter killjoys they are.

Like, not meaning to be shitty to you in specific, but it's no secret why these agencies are getting targeted. If you say anything the admin doesn't like, or dare to tell people with money that they can't do literally anything they want at all times irrespective of it's effects on broader society, you've got a target on your back.
by fluidcruft | 2025-07-27 23:40:00+00:00
I'm pretty sure all you need is the ability to login to a website and for that site to vouch for your age based on having examined your identification documents (or something like a network of PGP web-of-trust type notaries). I have a hunch that using a hardware token and biometrics is required to prevent fraud (FIDO and passkeys etc should work). The trick is preventing simulated tokens from existing/working which is where secure boot etc enter the picture.
by elliotec | 2025-07-27 23:41:45+00:00
I mean, windows users install things they’ve never heard of all the time.

If this was a real thing you needed to do, and it is too much work to get them to install WSL, you could probably just send them the link to install Git and use git bash to run that curl install sh script for dumbpipe.

And if this seemed like a very useful thing, it couldn’t be too hard to package this all up into a little utility that gets windows to do it.

But alas, it remains “easier” to do this with email or a cloud service or a usb stick/sd card.
Show HN: A WordPress MCP Server – Connect Claude Desktop to WordPress via AI
by docdyhr | 2025-07-27 23:47:03+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a WordPress MCP Server that connects Claude Desktop to any WordPress site using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It's designed for developers who want to work with WordPress content directly from their editor, assisted by AI.

You can interact with posts, plugins, and themes through Claude — for example:

Browse and edit content contextually Debug and develop plugins with AI help Automate repetitive WordPress tasks It’s fully open-source and self-hosted: https://github.com/docdyhr/mcp-wordpress

I’m looking for feedback from developers interested in AI-assisted workflows, WordPress tooling, and protocol-based app integration.

Happy to answer any questions — and open to contributors!

– Thomas
by david38 | 2025-07-27 23:47:39+00:00
This.

Two things are rarely mentioned

When you compare apples to apples, male vs female engineering manager with similar backgrounds, the pay is the same. In the Bay Area it favors the woman.

Desire has a large part. It’s no coincidence that the countries with the most women in programming are places like India and China, where they are given little choice. If you can do the job, you do it because otherwise poverty.

When women don’t have to, they don’t.
by toxicosdatwitch | 2025-07-27 23:47:42+00:00
Pessoas na twitch: fazendo bullying, se pagam de bonzinhos mas por trás (pelas suas costas falam mal de você e ficam rindo e debochando de você), se pagam de coitados, se pagam de vítima e são os mais tóxicos da plataforma. Diante a isto eles ficam mexendo com o psicológico da pessoa fazendo ela se sentir culpada e depois acabar ficando isolada. Eles fazem ameaças para as pessoas como uma forma de humilhação e chantagem, ficam de gracinhas causando medo e trauma na pessoa fazendo ela se afastar cada vez mais da plataforma.

Canal das pessoas tóxicas da Twitch:

1: https://twitch.tv/Viviandrade 2: https://twitch.tv/tthais 3: https://twitch.tv/rdrigo 4: https://twitch.tv/Fertoquio 5: https://twitch.tv/braz2k 6: https://twitch.tv/kaubieber 7: https://twitch.tv/WhiteDeathS2 8: https://twitch.tv/Jenkp__ 9: https://twitch.tv/iampersio 10: https://twitch.tv/Hidex__ 11: https://twitch.tv/Gabriel_Foresto 12: https://www.twitch.tv/imd3monzin 13: https://www.twitch.tv/hannya_r 14: https://www.twitch.tv/olapaulosantos 15: https://www.twitch.tv/mah_lanay 16: https://www.twitch.tv/eijonn 17: https://www.twitch.tv/gusnner 18: https://www.twitch.tv/leo2xs 19: https://www.twitch.tv/v_jhonny_v 20: https://www.twitch.tv/imd3monzin 21: https://www.twitch.tv/leleydk 22: https://www.twitch.tv/raveliix_ 23: https://www.twitch.tv/thesouzx 24: https://www.twitch.tv/o_rabisco 25: https://twitch.tv/zpablow 26: https://twitch.tv/cruvinell 27: https://twitch.tv/cicloswt
by twic | 2025-07-27 23:48:16+00:00
So you synthesize gold in a bath of mercury. Gold and mercury form an amalgam. Isn't amalgam solid? The amalgam in my teeth certainly is. So will you get nuggets of it clogging up the mercury pumps? Apparently not, because the physical properties depend on the ratio of gold to mercury - when there's only a tiny bit of gold, it behaves just like mercury:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAGYGGmUmUw

I'm not sure how you would separate the gold from the mercury in this approach. The paper doesn't seem to say. I suspect the approaches used in mining assume a much higher concentration of gold, and would be impractical here.
by rockskon | 2025-07-27 23:48:36+00:00
Considering her coworkers are calling the mass contractor layoffs "getting DOGEd", SpaceX is less than appealing.

Similar sentiment is felt about any other organization run by people who are seen as having had a hand in kneecapping NASA - working for their companies is not appealing. Perhaps her views will change after she's had more time to process the sting of the layoff notice.

And her prior work for the DoD left her with an extraordinarily bad impression of the culture. Admittedly she'd only worked at a single Navy Yard and different branches in different services can have different cultures, but nevertheless - the DoD is not appealing either. Depending on the results of her job search, that might change.

For Amazon Kuiper - no relevant roles are available in the region and, as far as what's listed on the website, there's no jobs that allow for working remotely outside of relevant travel.

Blue Origin...same issue as with Kuiper - remote work doesn't seem to be a thing and they've no local presence with relevant jobs available.
by avidiax | 2025-07-27 23:48:40+00:00
The one good thing (in principle) about a service like this is that social media is much more centralized, so this kind of system could put seemingly-effective age restrictions on social media. For example, no under-14's, or under-14 requires a supervising guardian and has other guardrails.

But this still wouldn't stop determined kids from VPNing to another country to make their account, and wouldn't stop peer pressure on kids from bleeding to parents to help them.
by Niksko | 2025-07-27 23:48:42+00:00
I see what you're saying, but IMO beer is both a bad example AND similar to coffee in many ways.

It's a bad example in the sense that the flavors you get out of fruited beers tends not to be as 'funky' as in coffees because fermentation is controlled so closely. You can get some incredible flavors out of adding adjuncts to beers. Yes it's interesting and cool that you can get some of those flavors out of yeast, but there are also flavors you just can't get from yeast that can be delicious.

It's also similar to coffee in that adding extra things is not somehow new or novel, it's actually very old, we're just rediscovering it.
by 147 | 2025-07-27 23:49:42+00:00
I'm working on a GitHub + Slack bot to let organizations customize and get notifications on Slack from GitHub.

I've tried using the official GitHub Slack integration (https://github.com/integrations/slack) but found it limiting and unmaintained by GitHub. For example, at the companies I've worked at, we want to get notifications sent to a specific channel when there are deploys to the "production" environment on GitHub. The official integration doesn't let you filter events by environment, so it's all or nothing. Your Slack channel for production releases will be filled with staging and qa notifications.

I designed it so users can filter on essentially any field of any event - deployment environment, branch patterns, file paths, PR labels, commit authors, etc.

It's at chivesbot.com as a hosted service, however, the signups are disabled right now as I'm working on some core features, but here are a couple of screenshots of the filter creation: https://imgur.com/a/pSiolWu

I'm looking for early beta users and feedback, so if this problem resonates with you, my email can be found in my profile.
by LtWorf | 2025-07-27 23:49:43+00:00
1. They don't just kill people you don't like, they kill randos with bombs

2. People you don't like don't deserve mass murder anyway

3. Killing communists is what nazis do. In fact they're so good at killing they killed much more people than any communist ever did. If your morals align with the nazi party, you're probably a nazi and you should REALLY REALLY REALLY do some serious thinking.
by toomanyrichies | 2025-07-27 23:50:16+00:00
To add: I had never heard of the "blueberry expansion" fetish before. But that sounds like it fits the above explanation. Five bucks says people with this fetish had a childhood experience where their parents sat them in front of a TV, put on "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", and went to make love in the next room. The kid probably figured out what was going on around the same time Violet Beauregarde turned into a blueberry.

There's probably a greater-than-zero number of people who had that experience, and there are probably similar fetishes around chocolate rivers, pneumatic tubes, and little orange people.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-27 23:51:10+00:00
> My case?

The case that "so many" people are advocating this on HN. Sounds like a significant percentage!

> What's YOUR case. Assert a position

Their case is that you should give evidence.

> and provide proof in triplicate please. Please tell me exactly what you think and I can nitpick it vaguely instead of putting forth mine. Heh.

"you should give evidence" doesn't need its own proof. And nitpicking such a simple idea would be a waste of everyone's time.
by lobsterthief | 2025-07-27 23:51:18+00:00
My business partner and I are building an AI-powered lead gen platform that allows you to request leads directly from Slack for a variety of roles. Most mature sales orgs have really in-depth CRMs that can serve this purpose (Apollo etc) but smaller teams generally don’t. We’re here to fill that gap.

It’s called Wednesday.

Check it out: https://wednes.day
by arkt8 | 2025-07-27 23:52:21+00:00
In a Lua scripting framework to: - enforce non-globals - project hierarchy (for tests and documentation) - cli access for .md package docs - installation in path - extension of Lua stdlib (fs.mkdir, os.realpath) - module autoloading/lazyloading

Expected support for Lua 5.4 and luajit. At first entirely in Lua with long term goal to compiled Lua modules (merging Wax)

The goal is to make Lua the first choice for system scripting in POSIX systems for Lua users without thinking twice between Lua, Sh and other tools like Python, Ruby etc.

I have many system scriptings in Lua but not in a easy way of reusing libraries. Also I don't like to think in creating Luarocks packages or deal with unstandardized ways to write code.
by lobsterthief | 2025-07-27 23:54:16+00:00
I imagine once everything else is tuned with your product you could make a hot-swappable blade assembly that can be quickly swapped out and later cleaned. Like if the entire guard and blade assembly came off, that would be super convenient.

Would add some weight and complexity but if it’s purpose-built it would probably be less stress on the Drone than constantly pulling props off.