MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sixothree | 2025-07-03 03:26:50+00:00
I did a yolo and installed it the day after it was released. I have been daily driving it since. I like it. And I mean I really like it. When Apple says the focus is the content, they really mean it. The content is king here, not the interface.

All of these things people keep telling me are "worse" are often things I thought were poorly designed in the first place. Being able to find controls easily seems to be the biggest complaint, for instance the buttons in Safari. I've always thought the buttons in Safari were unintuitive. This actually feels better to me.

This idea that things are harder to find because of the visual changes, that goes away in like a day. Just like every major visual upgrade before this your eyes train to it _extremely_ quickly.

I do feel like they "borrowed" the shape of textboxes from google though with the circular edges. I was never really a fan of that shape.
by dilawar | 2025-07-03 03:27:41+00:00
> Egyptians don't like the notion that "they moved there from somewhere". They claim their own unique, uninterrupted, history and connection to the land as well as their civilizational independence from Mesopotamian, Asia Minor, Europe, and Africa.

Same here in India.

These ideas about civilization and racial purity/superiority are a scientific nonsense but very useful for getting people to hate each other.
by timersavertools | 2025-07-03 03:28:24+00:00
Nothing tremendous, but I launched a no-frills website for the community that has a collection of work/productivity-related tools. All of the tools run in-browser and are hosted on Google Sites. Give it whirl!

TOOLS: [WordCounter] Count characters, words, and reading time instantly. [Pomodoro] Stay focused with simple 25/5-minute work/break cycles. [Invoice Generator] Create and export clean, printable invoices in minutes. [Standup Timer] Keep meetings on track with a smart team timebox tool. [Clicker Counter] A minimal, responsive tap/click tracker. [Timer] A simple countdown timer for any purpose. [Wheelspin] Randomize anything with a fun spinning wheel. [Alphabetize List] Sort any text into a clean, ordered list. [Word Generator - BETA] Get fresh word ideas with simple constraints. [Auto Capitalizer - BETA] Clean up messy case formatting with one click.
by _hako | 2025-07-03 03:28:24+00:00
hey, yes the landing page is vibe coded but the actual app is not. Point taken on clarity. Would change the copy to make things simple to understand. Since we're launching on August 15th, I wanted to build a list of committed early users who'll get first access to our initial version. That's where the $199 comes in. Once the app goes live, that payment automatically converts to app credits you can use, or if you're not satisfied with what we've built, we'll refund it completely. There's really no risk on your end.

The idea is to work with people who are genuinely interested rather than just casual browsers, so we can get meaningful feedback and make sure we're building something that actually solves real problems.
by Marsymars | 2025-07-03 03:29:14+00:00
The range thing is weird, because it’s simultaneously too little for your use case, and too much for mine. What I want is a shorter-range (like 200 km/125 miles would be perfect, it gives enough buffer by being about double the max range I’d ever need in practice) that saves on upfront cost and weight by having a smaller battery that can be my household’s secondary city car. But as-is, there’s no EV that’s cheap enough to justify buying as a cheap, low-range city car.

So instead of my household having one EV and one gas car, we’ve got two gas cars.
by gexla | 2025-07-03 03:30:07+00:00
My take on this... a small meeting among close people can have big payoffs. Much of the payoff is fast transfer due to total communication (body language, casual, back and forth) and then that loses it's power as the meeting gets less intimate. The unexpected face to face conversations and the overall environment are what makes in-office work well. Big meetings lose much of that power. Zoom meetings lose much more of that power. AI note taking sessions... might as well not even bother. Just send docs that of course nobody will read. This is just cargo-culting.
by wredcoll | 2025-07-03 03:30:45+00:00
> Either we should keep finding the somewhere else for all cultures for as far back as we can,

I'm not a scientist, but as far as I can tell... do that?

Half the interest in archeological type studies seems to be "ok, this the earliest history we know of, what came before that?"

I agree that humans tend to get way too entitled about (maybe) sharing genes with someone who did something cool in past history, but learning about which populations migrated to egypt and from where and when, seems unrelated.
by goku12 | 2025-07-03 03:31:06+00:00
While your question is meaningful and well intentioned, let me point out that it may be inconsequential. The legality of an action is moot when the regime ignores and defies the entire basis of those laws - the constitution. It's like trying to evaluate yourself against a standard that is no longer followed.

Instead, evaluate yourself on the basis of your standing with the regime. If they dislike you for any reason including your skin color, they will find some sort of national security threat in your actions. Or they may punish you first and then claim the inability to correct it. On the other hand if they need you, they will completely ignore your actions, including even leaking of extremely sensitive information to unauthorized individuals.
by ramoz | 2025-07-03 03:31:15+00:00
Sorry, but you had a misleading experience with trash software (crew). Research Agent of all cases - the productionized high-value agent shipped to the masses by all providers.

Hard disagree with most of the narrative. Dont start with models, start with Claude Code. For any use case. Go from there depending on costs.

> When NOT to use agents

> Enterprise Automation

Archive this blog.

The real lesson is don't let any company other than the providers dictate what an agent is vs isnt.

Computer use agents are here, they are coming for the desktop of non-technical users, they will provide legitimate RPA capability and beyond, anyone productizing agents will build on top of provider sdks.
by nashashmi | 2025-07-03 03:32:04+00:00
> distinct lack from one's natural capabilities in the way that deafness is.

The original commenter wanted to state that deafness can and should be seen as a natural occurrence, instead of a disability, that pushes people to better use other faculties. In the computer analogy, it would be someone who protests the use of computers entirely like for school children, to push them to use other skills.

I have a specific “disability” that I often cannot smell (because of allergies). I have learned to “feel” smell with my fingers running through the air. In such a situation, am I really disabled? Despite how important smell can be especially with spoiled foods? Few would think so. This deaf commenter sees his deafness in the same manner. And sees efforts to broaden people’s senses in the same manner as children being given calculators and computers at an early age.
by instig007 | 2025-07-03 03:32:47+00:00
> A list is not a monad. A list is a data structure; a monad is more like a "trait" or "interface."

You operate with things that are bound to PL notions of specific languages. Instead, consider that list isn't a data structure, it's an abstraction that defines a multitude of position-ordered values. The multitude of position-ordered values called "list" is a presented entity of "monad", because it can be used as a valid input for a monadic computation defined consistently (in terms of the monad laws).
by zafka | 2025-07-03 03:33:57+00:00
I worked a summer job at a factory that made box cars. 10x10 or larger sheets of 1/4 inch plate steel lifted on stacks with chain hoists, box cars tacked together, then put on a large rotisserie, so it could be turned as all the seams were welded. Anyhow, At lunch we all went out for shots and beers, and perhaps a doobie or two. While I did not see it, people did get squished. I survived my summer, but I did pickup a nicotine habit that lasted 20 years.
by sixothree | 2025-07-03 03:34:36+00:00
I will admit it takes a little getting used to. But that feeling goes away in literally a single day. Just like _every_ major OS upgrade before this, people complain that things are hard to find. But your brain gets used to these things so quickly.

I am really liking this upgrade. There is something appealing about seeing _less_ of the OS and more of your content. I know this felt like lip service, but the focus here really is content.

For example the lock screen. Before you even unlock your phone, your wallpaper is more visible than before. I've never enjoyed having my wallpaper cycle more than I do with update.

This is an update people are going to absolutely freaking fall in love with. It's good stuff.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-03 03:35:32+00:00
I disagree that the raids have been going on with this frequency or with this level of going after people in neighborhoods, preying on them at courthouses and so on.

It is critical to consider the context as well. The Trump administration demonizes all immigrants, legal or illegal. Listen to Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, or Laura Loomer. The terror is the point.
by anilgulecha | 2025-07-03 03:35:50+00:00
IMO, if this ends up occuring, it will follow how other practitioner roles have evolved. Take medicine, and doctors for eg: there's a high bar to reach to be able to do a specialist surgery, until then you hone up your skills and practice. Compensation wise it isn't lucrative from the get-go, but can get so once you reach the specialist level. At that point they are liable for the work done. Hence such roles are typically licensed (CAs, lawyers, etc).

So if I have to make a few 5 year predictions:

1. Key human engineer skills will be to take liabilty for the output produced by agents. You will be responsible for the signoff, and any good/bad that comes from it.

2. Some engineering roles/areas will become a "licensed" play - the way canada is for other engineering disciplines.

3. Compensation at the entry level will be lower, and the expected time to ramp up to productive level will be larger.

4. Careers will meaningfully start only at the senior level. At the junior level, your focus is to learn enough of the fundamentals, patterns and design principles so you reach the senior level and be a net positive in the team.
Show HN: GenZ AI – Your Voice, but Fluent in Gen Z
by misbahsy | 2025-07-03 03:35:57+00:00
So I’ve been wanting to build this goofy but oddly satisfying app for a while — and I finally did it. It’s called GenZ AI.

Here’s the idea:

You speak into your mic → it clones your voice → rewrites what you said into Gen Z (or Gen Alpha or whatever flavor you want) → and then speaks it back in your own voice.

Yep. That’s it. You say something like:

“I’m working on a cool side project.”

And it comes back with your voice saying:

“Lowkey building this fire side hustle, no cap.”

Why? Mostly for fun.
by tverbeure | 2025-07-03 03:36:17+00:00
Many people, after spending a good chunk of money on something, become part of the tribe and feel the need to justify their purchase. It’s just human nature.

Not saying that you’re one of those, but as others have pointed out: 25% of rides with a force intervention is absymal and didn’t have the impressession that you thought so too.

25% puts it in party trick category, not something that should be allowed on the road.
by dalemhurley | 2025-07-03 03:36:17+00:00
At my previous company, one I started, I would try to organise a meeting with only the most essential people and then people would forward the invite as people would be upset they were not invited (normally because it is a prelim meeting to a wider meeting), the meeting would go from 4 people to 15, people would attend the meeting find it was irrelevant to them or too early to them, which is why they were not invited in the first place, and then complain about too many meetings. Ugh.
by epdlxjmonad | 2025-07-03 03:36:29+00:00
In this article, we report the results of evaluating the performance of the latest releases of Trino, Spark, Hive-MR3 using 10TB TPC-DS benchmark.

Trino 476 (released in June 2025)

Spark 4.0.0 (released in May 2025)

Hive 4.0.0 on MR3 2.1 (released in July 2025)

At the end of the article, we discuss MPP vs MapReduce.
by dragonshed | 2025-07-03 03:36:30+00:00
To piggyback on what PaulDavisThe1st said.

Record numbers of US citizens seeking to relocate to Canada & the UK. In the last couple months I remember seeing several news stories variously about Doctors, Professors and students applying and/or relocating.

Layoffs in the tech sector haven't slowed at all, and couple that with the DOGE Govt layoffs and the recent jobs numbers stories.

I feel quite certain that if the U.S. is actually measured "at #1" for anything good, it won't retain it much longer.

Bias Disclaimer: I'm a former software engineer working an hourly labor job.
by smallstepforman | 2025-07-03 03:36:38+00:00
Google search is giving us a taste of AI summarised results, and for simple things its passable, but ask a serious question and you get good looking garbage. Yes, I know its early days, but looking at the current output quality we have nothing to worry about. It will be used as calculators, offload some menial repetetive task which can be automated, but the next gen of developers will still be tasked to solve complex problems.
by travisgriggs | 2025-07-03 03:38:30+00:00
Latest Veritaseum video is about Braess Paradox (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27_paradox).

What intrigues me about this video is the analogs in how organizations work (or don’t work) together. What is your experience with the parts of how your team/group/company/organization works that create serial dependencies, where if cut, would lead to more optimal operations due to the parallelism that would emerge?
by leakycap | 2025-07-03 03:38:47+00:00
I'm familiar with this story, this is the person who founded the software being discussed/linked... but what does this do to explain why a competent interviewer was unable to suss out that the person had no idea what they were doing?

Bluffing in interviews is nearly a given. Your interview should be designed to suss out the best fit; the cheaters should not even rank into the final consideration if you did a decent interview and met the person via some sort of live interaction.
by akovaski | 2025-07-03 03:39:42+00:00
The partitioning algorithm to find two missing/duplicate numbers is clever, I wouldn't have thought of that. It should also work if you have a list with 1 missing and 1 duplicate, yeah? You'd probably have to do an extra step to actually find out which number is missing and which is a duplicate after you find the two numbers.

> If more than two elements are missing (or duplicated), then analyzing the individual bits fails because there are several combinations possible for both 0 and 1 as results. The problem then seems to require more complex solutions, which are not based on XOR anymore.

If you consider XOR to be a little bit more general, I think you can still use something like the partitioning algorithm. That is to say, considering XOR on a bit level behaves like XOR_bit(a,b)=a+b%2, you might consider a generalized XOR_bit(a,b,k)=a+b%k. With this I think you can decide partitions with up to k missing numbers, but I'm too tired to verify/implement this right now.
by sedatk | 2025-07-03 03:39:58+00:00
> A higgs-bugson is a bug that is reported in practice but difficult to reproduce

This was the first time I heard of "higgs-bugson". The term sounded so forced that I had to know how it differed from Heisenbug. In short, it doesn't[1].

Then why did it even exist?

The term somehow made it to the "Heisenbug"'s Wikipedia page[1], so I checked the sources. There were two and both end up at the same site: Jeff Atwood's blog post[2] quoting some StackOverflow answers to a poll-like question ("what's a programming term you coined?") because he wanted to remove lighthearted content from the site as he thought it clashed with SO's mission of educating people and advancing their skills[3].

There was a proposal on Meta StackExchange about undeleting that question with the answers, but it was refused by Jeff Atwood again because it invited "made up stuff"[4] among other reasons.

So, Wikipedia in the end, has this term in Heisenbug page because someone just blurted out something in 2010, it was copy-pasted to a blog, and then got scooped up by some news outlet. There are no other sources. Kagi doesn't find any instances of the term before it was coined on StackOverflow in 2010. For all we know, "gingerbreadboy" from England invented it.

The irony is that the term somehow made it to the literature -hence the blog post here- because someone was just having fun at StackOverflow. It obviously either sounded good, or just clicked that others started using it. StackOverflow deleted the content that actually made a small part of computer science history because it wasn't "serious".

In other words, StackOverflow cut off one of its history-making parts because it had an incomplete and simplistic view of useful. I think it might be possible to draw a line from their understanding of communities and societal dynamics to the downfall of StackOverflow after the emergence of AI[5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

[2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

[3] https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/01/04/stack-overflow-where-w...

[4] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/122164/can-we-un-de...

[5] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...
by ilaksh | 2025-07-03 03:41:33+00:00
I think this was true late 2023 or early 2024, but not necessarily in mid 2025 for most tasks (as long as they require some AI and aren't purely automation) and you use SOTA LLMs.

I used to build the way most of his examples are just functions calling LLMs. I found it almost necessary due to poor tool selection etc. But I think the leading edge LLMs like Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 are smart enough and good enough at instruction following and tool selection that it's not necessarily better to create workflows.

I do have a checklist tool and delegate command and may break tasks down into separate agents though. But the advantage of creating instructions and assigning tool commands, especially if you have an environment with a UI where it is easy to assign tool commands to agents and otherwise define them, is that it is more flexible and a level of abstraction above something like a workflow. Even for visual workflows it's still programming which is more brittle and more difficult to dial in.

This was not the case 6-12 months ago and doesn't apply if you insist on using inferior language models (which most of them are). It's really only a handful that are really good at instruction following and tool use. But I think it's worth it to use those and go with agents for most use cases.

The next thing that will happen over the following year or two is going to be a massive trend of browser and computer use agents being deployed. That is again another level of abstraction. They might even incorporate really good memory systems and surely will have demonstration or observation modes that can extract procedures from humans using UIs. They will also learn (record) procedural details for optimization during exploration from verbal or written instructions.
by hbarka | 2025-07-03 03:42:31+00:00
Can’t we think of it as just one large land mass? Maybe 5000 years ago the Sinai peninsula was more land, less sea—the Red Sea not as big, and the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba as we know it now was land mass. Then it wouldn’t be hard to imagine freedom of travel in all kinds of directions.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-03 03:42:32+00:00
> bet there are a bunch of people in upper management who hear about this phenomenon and think that employees are skipping meetings to slack off

Everyone I know in senior leadership sees this as a plus. It’s known that middle managers waste time with performative meetings. Their value add is just seen to outweigh that drag. So if they can perform and employees can work, that’s sort of a win-win for shareholders.
Show HN: Wyntk.ai – anti horseless carriage email
by gregorvand | 2025-07-03 03:43:12+00:00
Gregor here, co-founder of Wyntk.ai - ~What You Need To Know dot ai~

Disclaimer - we started work on this in earnest in February and even back then it started to look a lot like what the article presented. Someone at Figma can maybe help back us up here if needed(!)

Pete Koomen's take on it really helped validate the problem space, and we don't pretend to have solved this to the level of his demo (yet). However we're pretty stoked with how our multi-account, natural language prioritization approach is taking shape.

This first step is a read-only, triage UI for all of your Google-based accounts. We hope to add smart draft replies soon that you can adjust to suit.

If you use a +hn alias when you sign up, I'll make sure to prioritize you on the waitlist (you can change which Google-based email you actually onboard at that stage, not locked on waitlist).

We're in live alpha with a decent chunk of users that have helped stress test a few areas, so this is by no means day zero.

Privacy - We don't store any emails (we use local caching on your device to keep things performant) nor do we do any weird stuff like hiding messages in your Gmail (unlike other platforms tackling this space). CASA Tier 2 third-party audited.

All feedback welcome. Thank you!
by Marsymars | 2025-07-03 03:43:17+00:00
Well the problem there is that you don’t know which companies will pay better than bonds and which ones won’t.

Haven’t run the numbers, but I assume that you could take the S&P 500 over whatever timeframe you want, remove all the stocks that didn’t outperform bonds, and be left with a basket of stocks that wildly outperforms the actual S&P 500.
Show HN: Piskvor Prime: a five-in-a-row iOS game with a reactive AI opponent
by vh311 | 2025-07-03 03:43:39+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a solo developer and recently released Piskvor Prime, a five-in-a-row game for iOS. This started as a side project to experiment with a simple board game AI that I ended up wrapping into a complete game.

Your opponent is a glitchy robot that reacts to your moves — taunting, hesitating, and reveals bits of internal lore as you play. It is not unbeatable, but it has a bit of personality based on lots of text generated with LLMs.

I wrote a short devlog about the process here: https://vojtahavlicek.github.io/vojtanyc/posts/piskvor_prime...

and would love to hear your feedback!

Thanks, Vojta
by lxgr | 2025-07-03 03:45:12+00:00
It's not much consolation to me if I'm one of the 25% still being challenged.

The world really has more than enough heuristic fraud detection systems that most people aren't even aware exist, but make life miserable for those that somehow don't fit the typical user profile. In fact, the lower the false positive rate gets, the more painful these systems usually become for each false positive.

I'm so tired of it. Sure, use ML (or "AI") to classify good and evil users for initial triaging all day long, but make sure you have a non-painful fallback.