MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sean-Der | 2025-07-14 18:30:40+00:00
I put up a video here [0] so you can see it in action. All the software is coming together to make some really cool things possible.

* Pipecat lets you switch between different AI backends with just a little code

* Espressif is so easy to hack on (and cheap).

Getting closer to this being easy enough for more cool projects to take off :)

[0] https://youtu.be/6f0sUEUuruw
by davrosthedalek | 2025-07-14 18:31:11+00:00
At the same time, we do not allow people to have nuclear bombs.

As everything in life, it's a trade-off, but a good trade-off can only be found if people are fully aware of the consequences. It seems to me, people regularly underestimate the negative consequences of data collection (or realize that these consequences will not affect them, but others).
by jspann | 2025-07-14 18:31:19+00:00
> 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal

> 100% of Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived for their work to date

> 100% of Windsurf employees will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date

This sounds like a happy ending for the employees of Windsurf and a good deal for Cognition
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-07-14 18:31:47+00:00
The U.S. is unique in that it offers fixed-rate 30 year mortgages to basically everyone who can afford the monthly payments. Once you've locked in a 30 year mortgage at a great rate, it's super cheap money - your new goal is to basically hold it until it's completely paid off. Then, the only way you can move is by renting out your old place.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-14 18:32:27+00:00
I've also had bad results with hallucinations there. I was trying to learn more about multi-dimensional qubit algorithms, and spent a whole day learning a bunch of stuff that was fascinating but plain wrong. I only figured out it was wrong at the end of the day when I tried to do a simulation and the results weren't consistent.

Early in the chat it substituted a `-1` for an `i`, and everything that followed was garbage. There were also some errors that I spotted real-time and got it to correct itself.

But yeah, IDK, it presents itself so confidently and "knows" so much and is so easy to use, that it's hard not to try to use as a reference / teacher. But it's also quite dangerous if you're not confirming things; it can send you down incorrect paths and waste a ton of time. I haven't decided whether the cost is worth the benefit or not.

Presumably they'll get better at this over time, so in the long run (probably no more than a year) it'll likely easily exceed the ROI breakeven point, but for now, you do have to remain vigilant.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-14 18:32:35+00:00
So I am pretty sure that there is some aws/amazon service which can provide gpu's / model inference too.

I read it (I think) in one of the comment that There is a model picker that currently allows you to switch between Claude Sonnet 4.0 and Claude Sonnet 3.7

So is this just using Claude?

I really thought that the advantages of using Kiro might really be that of the leverage that Amazon Gpu's infrastructure could provide, maybe even some discounts to lure people to Kiro.

I am pretty sure that a lot of people will ask you the same question, But I would really appreciate it if you could answer me this question in preferably simple terms: "Why Kiro? Why not all the other stuff that has come before it and the stuff that will come after it"

Also I am really having some dejavu but while writing this comment, has the title of this post changed, I swear I saw something written in the header with Amazon and now I don't see it. honestly, I am really being so off-topic but after seeing this name change of the post, I really wish if that there was some website that could track all the name changes of posts that happen in HN, because I was completely baffled by this name change or I am being totally paranoid.
by sleepydog | 2025-07-14 18:32:39+00:00
The EU is better on average, but isn't universally great either. I pay 60 EUR for 200Mbit down/20Mbit up ADSL in Amsterdam, after my 6-month discount ran out. No fiber in my neighborhood yet. There's one gigabit provider in my neighborhood (Ziggo) and they have a bad reputation. For the same price I was getting FiOS gigabit in NYC.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 18:32:57+00:00
I'll look into this. Kiro is supposed to be doing progressive reindexing. When you make a change it should only have to reindex the files that changed. If you have any logs or other data you are willing to share, to help the team investigate you can use the "report a bug / suggest an idea" link at the bottom, or open an issue at: https://github.com/kirodotdev/Kiro/issues
by ghushn3 | 2025-07-14 18:32:57+00:00
There's a hugely material difference between deterring local property crime and handing ICE this information.

ICE is deporting people to death camps (e.g. CECOT), not giving people due process, operating masked and with military support. ICE is a gestapo in all but name.

By all means, find ways to get your community police departments to address crime in your communities. Work with systems outside of police to fix the systemic root causes (crime doesn't "just happen", it's a symptom of other problems). But you don't need the secret police to fix car jackings and break-ins.
by dang | 2025-07-14 18:33:12+00:00
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44563324, which is currently higher on the frontpage and has more background.

I've pinched your title, though—I hope that's ok.

(In the future we want to have karma sharing so multiple submitters can get 'credit' for a successful submission, but that's not implemented yet. In the meantime, it's basically random, so it does at least even out in the long run.)
by Gormo | 2025-07-14 18:34:17+00:00
A state law can only be illegal if it violates the state's own constitution or the US constitution.

States are not obligated to participate in the enforcement of federal law, and are entitled to control the official conduct of their own officers and agencies.

If a state has a law that prohibits local police officers from furnishing data to federal agencies, that law is completely valid, and officers that act contrary to it are in violation of state law.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-07-14 18:34:22+00:00
A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers built to train more powerful A.I. are set to be even thirstier, requiring millions of gallons of water a day

I naively assumed these were closed loops. Where does the water go? I would think it just gets warm and does not evaporate.
by jtrn | 2025-07-14 18:34:29+00:00
As I wrote to another person here: Yes. Not as much as with ADHD medication, but there is an obvious subset of addictive personalities that find relief from addictive behaviors (beyond eating addiction) with semaglutide.

But to add to this, I feel like there are different kinds of addictive behaviors at play that are more susceptible to one medication or the other and are based on different systems.

For instance, the food-craving reduction in GLP-1 is almost certainly not just related to reward and goal-seeking behavior. It literally affects hormone signaling for satiety, and slows down the movement of food through the stomach, and affects, globally in the body, responses to metabolic signals. And it probably has a global effect on the way every cell in the body works, which might be why there are positive health effects beyond just the weight loss.

ADHD medication, on the other hand, targets the goal-directed activity system directly. It seems much more likely to me that reduced appetite is just as much driven by the focus and "let's get shit done" mode that is artificially increased with dopamine. Both result in reduced eating but through massively different pathways. Basically, you pay attention to the biggest wave in the pond (the waves in the pond being a metaphor for all the things your brain COULD pay attention to). So when the goal-stuff gets increased in size, the food-seeking is automatically smaller by comparison, and less likely to drive your behavior and thinking.

I don't think I can say that there is much of a pattern between ADHD and overeating, just based on how easily I can predict if someone is overeating or not if I know they have ADHD. That is, it would be a coin toss.

The simplistic answer would be: Semaglutide reduces addictive behavior if it's driven by emotional regulation needs, and ADHD medication reduces pure drug-like craving. As seen in studies where people that start lisdexamfetamine (ADHD medication common in the EU) have a huge reduction in actual amphetamine abuse.

Case in point: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/... Findings In this Swedish nationwide cohort study of 13 965 individuals, lisdexamphetamine was significantly associated with a decrease in risk of hospitalization due to substance use disorder, any hospitalization or death, and all-cause mortality.
by shekharupadhaya | 2025-07-14 18:35:13+00:00
Thank you for the feedback! I completely get what you mean. This is exactly the issue with open-ended discovery use cases, the AI just isn’t at a point yet where it can be fully trusted for stuff like road trips or similar things. It’s also kind of an open question on which use cases can be sharper and which ones the AI will completely mess up.

That’s why I’m positioning this more as a way to curate map-based content, where the AI is tasked with plotting something using the supporting data from your prompt, so it can give a more precise first draft. Then it can be refined more using the edit feature before sharing it with confidence. Instead of expecting it to magically handle any random map question. That whole space of “unknown unknowns” still needs to be explored.

Not sure I explained that perfectly, but I’m figuring it out too. Definitely needs more brainstorming and experimentation.
by Supermancho | 2025-07-14 18:35:17+00:00
https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/global-metrics/countrie...

The trend is clear. The outliers from 2024 onward (which are pretty big outliers) are likely due to data not being curated correctly. The administration would be to blame for that. The US is faring better than most other western nations specifically because of immigration, so the political environment will likely have a negative downward pressure on that benefit.
by bradly | 2025-07-14 18:35:34+00:00
Very clearly called out in the article:

> To that end, Jeff and I worked together to ensure that every single employee is treated with respect and well taken care of in this transaction. Specifically: > 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal > 100% of Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived for their work to date > 100% of Windsurf employees will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date
by happens | 2025-07-14 18:35:52+00:00
So, you barely read one sentence, then went to the comments, read an entire thread, and took the time to post about how the author probably thinks they are superior to you?

I strongly recommend rethinking that approach. You ascribed intentions to the author and then spent more time getting upset about them than you did interacting with the content.

There are actually interesting points in that text, yet here we are getting fussy about the author's supposed lack of decorum. That's really disappointing to me.
by xedrac | 2025-07-14 18:36:14+00:00
Comcast is notorious for exploiting places that don't have any other real options. Just before Google Fiber was activated in my area, Comcast stepped up their game big time. The only problem is that they had spent years nickel and diming me for actual connection speeds that didn't even come close to their advertised rates, and their latency/jitter is garbage compared to fiber. Comcast clearly doesn't want to have to compete. In their defense, their connection was rarely down.
by kec | 2025-07-14 18:36:24+00:00
LCDs as a transmissive display technology work by emitting a bunch of photons and then selectively filtering some out to achieve the desired color / pixel brightness. Any filtered photon is wasted energy, this is inherent to the display technology and is not limited to dark content, just exacerbated by it.

Given that, all things equal there is no way for LCD to equal the efficiency of a self emissive display, at best it's a question of when will the luminous efficiency of OLED exceed that of white/blue backlight LEDs... and honestly we're likely already at or past that point.
by namlem | 2025-07-14 18:36:53+00:00
Well we mostly know what positions these groups were pushing for. It's possible that some influence went unnoticed.

That said, the US used to have quite a lot of juror bribery in the late 1800s and managed to successfully crack down on it with harsh penalties, sting operations, and other strategies. Attempting to bribe a juror can get you 15 years in federal prison in the US, it's not taken lightly.
by xg15 | 2025-07-14 18:37:00+00:00
Maybe instead of trying to detect LLMs, would a better strategy be to try and detect inconsistent or self-contradictory reports? The reports we see here seem to unravel at some point, either leaving out crucial information, such as code location or steps to reproduce, while insisting the information is present - or straight-up claiming things about a code location that are not there.

Such as the buffer length check in [1] where the report hallucinated an incorrect length calculation and even quoted the line, then completely ignored that the quoted line did not match what the report was talking about and was in fact correct.

So essentially, can we put up a gaslighting filter?

It seems like those kinds of inconsistencies could be found, ironically, by an LLM.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561058
by ben_w | 2025-07-14 18:37:29+00:00
The maths says that the *mean* number of miles driven by a vehicle is surprisingly low, and that tiling the surface of a car can get to about 80% of that *mean* in places where the car is just left out on the street and not shaded parking.

But!

That's a practical consideration at the level of "should a government require EV makers to design the roof, bonnet, doors etc. to be tiled in PV in order to reduce, but not eliminate, the induced extra demand on the grid" and definitely not "should I personally bolt a small, fixed, PV panel and inverter into my EV as an aftermarket DIY job?"

The former gets wind-tunnel tests for efficiency, QA, designed around all the other safety concerns cars have e.g. crash safety.

The latter, doesn't.
by qwertylicious | 2025-07-14 18:37:38+00:00
It says a lot about the current discourse around AI that 6 years ago Marcus would write:

> Despite all of the problems I have sketched, I don’t think that we need to abandon deep learning.

And that would somehow be spun, today, as "LLMs are the wrong approach".

Meanwhile, another attempt to post this article here got straight up flagged, I can only assume because this whole topic has become about religious orthodoxy vs the heretics.
by neko_ranger | 2025-07-14 18:38:23+00:00
Depends on the project. I feel like Rails has better JS integration if your project really needs it. The out of the box JS experience with rails (import maps) is similar to django (static link from cdns), but the ability to set up esbuild from project generation makes it really easy Literally just my opinion though, but I haven't been pleased with an extremely nice method to set up django with javascript that doesn't feel hacky for local dev and deployment
by jtrn | 2025-07-14 18:38:46+00:00
I am a strong believer that the biggest "thing" in ADHD is the challenge with sustained goal-focused behavior. And that is in large part due to how fucking hard it is to stay on task when you have ADHD. It's not uncommon to hear people like you who are able to keep control by focusing on the few things that make the most sense and are the most motivating. And even with a perfect target for behavior, it's a battle to keep at it. That is why I think a lot of people get adult-onset ADHD diagnoses—because they are burned out from spending 2x the energy to keep their life and behavior on track.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-14 18:39:13+00:00
I could give you some great horror stories, but honestly I don't see the benefit in either potentially harming former coworkers of mine that still work at those places or ending myself in some sort of career/legal trouble for something people generally don't care about (other than a few points on HN).

If you were caught demoing something both horrific and internal you would risk serious damage to your career, and ultimately will have zero impact on the industry as there's just too much data out there and too much money wrapped up in it.

Plus, most people working with the data don't bother to look at it. The places I've internally demo'd massive privacy risks were shocked because they didn't realize what their own data was capable of. Most people are just writing jobs that run and shuffle data around from one place to another never really asking "what is this data?" Even among data scientists I'm routinely surprised (so maybe I shouldn't be surprised) how frequently data scientist never do any real error analysis by looking at what the model got wrong and trying to understand why.
by MisterTea | 2025-07-14 18:39:21+00:00
> I swear the only people that buy their cars are former employees and relatives of said employees.

Coworker loves loves loves the corvette even though its one of the worst vehicles electrics wise. Two people he convinced to buy vettes traded them back in within a year of purchase for electrical issues.

Brand loyalty is a big part of the American mindset and I think GM rested on those laurels to the point where even after the bailout they still have the same mindset.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-14 18:39:21+00:00
What you're proposing would be swiftly corrupted by the people in power deciding what qualifies as "educated enough" or "security clearance".

Accept anyone from Jebus University with its miraculous 100% graduation rate, exclude anyone with a record of "Disrespecting an Officer", and the pool is quickly skewed, a reinforcing feedback-loop in favor of the groups doing the skewing.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 18:39:25+00:00
MCP is great, but it adds a lot of extra latency. The MCP servers themselves will stuff your context full of tool details, taking up valuable tokens that could be spent on code context. Then at runtime the LLM has to decide to call a tool, the tool call has to come back to your machine, the data is gathered and sent back to the LLM, then the LLM can act on that data. Multiply this by however many rounds of tool use the LLM decides it needs prior to taking action. If you are lucky the LLM will do a single round of parallel tool use, but not always.

The advantage of something more purpose built for gathering context from the IDE is that you can skip a lot of roundtrips. Knowing the user's intent upfront, the IDE can gather all the necessary context data preemptively, filter it down to a token efficient representation of just the relevant stuff, add it in the context preemptively along with the user's prompt, and there is a single trip to the LLM before the LLM gets to work.

But yeah I agree with your point about CLI capabilities for running in parallel, integrating in other places. There is totally room for both, I just think that when it comes to authoring code in the flow, the IDE approach feels a bit smoother to me.
by toss1 | 2025-07-14 18:39:39+00:00
Yup

Possibly what terrified them most was the Work From Home movement and Quiet Quitting. Both were real workers asserting their needs for a sane un-exploitated life and a fair deal.

Both of those emerged from COVID, with the hard proof that commuting daily to an office was not only not required, it is actively counterproductive for profitable business. It was proof that RTO was at best an outmoded model preserved primarily as a means of control over the workers, even "respected" educated knowledge workers.

To people with $billions who see both their wealth and their personal identity as being able to exploit people and extract their resources to their own purposes at will, this is an existential threat.

So, yes, their self-victimization is bullsh*t, and merely another play in the Oligarch's playbook.

(Edit: clarifying by inserting missing words)
by ActorNightly | 2025-07-14 18:40:14+00:00
I think the problem lies within Rust itself. It requires devs to think in a very different way, and write explicit code with borrows.

When writing an application, the ideal would be to write all the wrapper and high level code in a language like Python, while having the performance low level code that shares memory in Rust. Right now this requires a lot of setup.
by dang | 2025-07-14 18:40:18+00:00
Recent and related:

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536988 - July 2025 (679 comments))

Attended Windsurf's Build Night 18 hours before founders joined Google DeepMind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539884 - July 2025 (1 comment)
by some-guy | 2025-07-14 18:40:44+00:00
When I lived in downtown Oakland CA, Comcast literally could not keep up price-wise with the competition. Their customer service jaw would drop when I told them our local fiber offered a flat fee cheaper than theirs for 10 gigabit symmetrical fiber. On top of that there was another local microwave wireless option that wasn't too terrible.

The only thing in the end their salespeople could do was offer TV bundles but still wasn't cost-competitive. Not sure what their offerings are now but it was such an easy decision to switch.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-07-14 18:40:48+00:00
It was not tried, and saying that it was is a fundamentally false claim that is actively pushing public opposition to the idea supported by lies. It’s as reasonable as saying don’t vote for democrats because they have a pedophile office under a pizza store. Are there a bunch of people who were convinced by this lie? Yes. Does that make it anything other than a manipulative lie to say? No.
by killerstorm | 2025-07-14 18:40:49+00:00
I think understand of programming as a sequence of commands is necessary before you go to abstractions. BASIC's GOTO is a feature, not a bug: that's how assembly work.

As an adult I'd strongly prefer Lisp over Basic. But I appreciate Lisp or lambda calculus elegance after I spent some time with more basic kind of stuff. Going to higher abstractions right away won't have the same effect
by wwarner | 2025-07-14 18:40:59+00:00
The key point of the article is "your data is trapped inside your program", i.e. data models can't generally be shared between programs. One thing that has improved my life has been using apache arrow as a way to decrease the friction of sharing data between different executables. With arrow (and it's file based compressed cousin parquet), the idea is that once data is produced it never needs to be deserialized again as you would with json or avro.
by icedchai | 2025-07-14 18:41:05+00:00
After fixing internet for some neighbors and older relatives, I've wondered if people would pay for a home network / internet handyman service. It's super frustrating, especially for older folks. They often confuse their email passwords, ISP passwords, wifi setup, etc. Also I could save them a bunch of money getting rid of services they don't use, like moving their landlines to VOIP.