MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattl | 2025-07-03 16:06:26+00:00
Yeah, virtually everyone I knew circa 1990 had a home computer. Mostly Spectrum and CPC. A few years later it was a few Amiga 500 too. The only “console” I had seen was the Atari VCS or a dedicated Pong machine. A few people got Game Boys a little later circa 1992. A single friend who had a Master System and one kid with divorced parents who got a SNES as a result.

It was in this environment that I would discover programming and the internet.
by pxc | 2025-07-03 16:06:34+00:00
There's a fine-tune of Qwen3 4B called "Jan Nano" that I started playing with yesterday, which is basically just fine-tuned to be more inclined to look things up via web searches than to answer them "off the dome". It's not good-good, but it does seem to have a much lower effective hallucination rate than other models of its size.

It seems like maybe similar approaches could be used for coding tasks, especially with tool calls for reading man pages, info pages, running `tldr`, specifically consulting Stack Overflow, etc. Some of the recent small MoE models from Chinese companies are significantly smarter than models like Qwen 4B, but run about as quickly, so maybe on systems with high RAM or high unified memory, even with middling GPUs, they could be genuinely useful for coding if they are made to be avoid doing anything without tool use.
by dd82 | 2025-07-03 16:06:36+00:00
to be honest, you;'d have the same issues with that said magic wand and normalcy, because hearing aids do amplify sound and allow you to hear everythig.

You'd have the same issue, if not more, with background noise, group settings and context acquisition

Processing input is the hard part, if you're already having issues, that isn't going to go away
by kibwen | 2025-07-03 16:06:41+00:00
No, 3D printers are the backbone of modern physical prototyping. They're far more important to today's global economy than LLMs are, even if you don't have the vantage point to see it from your sector. That might change in the future, but snapping your fingers to wink LLMs out of existence would change essentially nothing about how the world works today; it would be a non-traumatic non-event. There just hasn't been time to integrate them into any essential processes.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-07-03 16:06:53+00:00
I don’t give my interns green field projects, and they are usually hack jobs like get A working with B, which means they can’t really rely on LLMs to do much of the coding, and must instead must try, run the test, adjust, try again. More like junior investigators who happen to write some code I guess. I imagine this is extremely group-specific though.

For junior devs, it’s about the same, I’m assigning hack jobs, because most of what we need to do are hack jobs. The code really isn’t the bottleneck in that case, the research needed to write the code is.
by louthy | 2025-07-03 16:06:57+00:00
Just to be clear, because there have been a number of similar responses, I am not claiming the Amiga couldn’t do anything else, nor that it wasn’t used for anything other than games.

But, the vast majority of people who bought Amigas did so because it was a great machine for games and had lots of high quality titles.

When the majority of your market disappears and moves to cheaper options; and all you have left is video walls in departure lounges, you’re fucked.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-07-03 16:07:01+00:00
> Another important file is _users.csv which contains user credentials and roles. It has the same format as other resources, but with a special _users collection name. There is no way to add new users via API, they must be created manually by editing this file:

admin,1,salt,5V5R4SO4ZIFMXRZUL2EQMT2CJSREI7EMTK7AH2ND3T7BXIDLMNVQ====,"admin" alice,1,salt,PXHQWNPTZCBORTO5ASIJYVVAINQLQKJSOAQ4UXIAKTR55BU4HGRQ====,

> Here we have user ID which is user name, version number (always 1), salt for password hashing, and the password itself (hashed with SHA-256 and encoded as Base32). The last column is a list of roles assigned to the user.

I haven't had to handle password hashing in like a decade (thanks SSO), but isn't fast hashing like SHA-256 bad for it? Bcrypt was the standard last I did it. Or is this just an example and not what is actually used in the code?
by MadVikingGod | 2025-07-03 16:07:16+00:00
So the findings here do make sense. For sub 5m cables directly connecting two machines is going to be faster then having some PHY in between that has to resignal. I'm surprised that fiber is only 0.4ns/m worse then their direct copper cables, that is pretty incredible.

What I would actually like to see is how this performs in a more real world situation. Like does this increase line error rates, causing the transport or application to have to resend at a higher rate, which would erase all savings by having lower latency. Also if they are really signaling these in the multi GHz are these passive cables acting like antenna, and having a cabinet full of them just killing itself on crosstalk?
by chriswarbo | 2025-07-03 16:07:29+00:00
I use a similar file, but just for myself (I've never used an LLM "agent"). I live in Emacs, but this is the only thing I use org-mode for: it lets me fold/unfold the sections, and I can press C-c C-c over any of the code snippets to execute it. Some of them are shell code, some of them are Emacs Lisp code which generates shell code, etc.
by kpen11 | 2025-07-03 16:07:44+00:00
Whether or not there was a claim that code _was_ the bottleneck, this raises some points that I've been talking over with people for a while now.

Introducing a lever to suddenly produce more code faster creates an imbalance in the SDLC. If our review process was already a bottleneck, now that problem is even worse! If the review bottleneck was something we could tolerate/ignore before, that's no longer the case, we need to solve for it. No, that doesn't mean let some LLM review the code and ship it. CI/CD needs to get better and smarter. As a reviewer, I don't want to be on the lookout for obscure edge cases. I want to make sure my peer solved the problem in a way that makes sense for our team. CI/CD should take care of making sure the code style aligns with our policies, that new/updated tests provide enough coverage for the new/changed functionality, and that the feature actually works.

The code expertise / shared context is another tough problem that needs solving, only highlighted by introducing a random graph of numbers generating the code. Leaning on that one engineer who has been on the team for 30 years and knows where all the deep dark secrets are was not a sustainable path even before coding agents. Having a markdown file that just says "component foo is under /foo. Run make foo to test it" was not documentation. The imbalance in the SDLC will light the fire under our collective asses to provide proper developer documentation and tooling for our codebases. I don't know what that looks like yet. Some teams are trying to have *good* markdown files that actually document where all the deep dark secrets are. These are doubly beneficial because coding agents can use those as well as your humans. But better markdown is probably a small step towards the real fix which we wont be able to live without in the near future.

Anyway, great points brought up in the article. Coding agents aren't going away, so we need to solve this imbalance in the SDLC. Fight fire with fire!
by bediger4000 | 2025-07-03 16:07:51+00:00
I wrote the blocks of text on my Web site specifically to say the entire story in as few words as possible. I put illustrations and diagrams to help humans understand.

This creates nothing new, and users of it will miss important points.

If I may be so bold, the use of "content" instead of specific words, like "text", "story", "article", "diagram", "graph", "video", is where you started to go wrong. "Content" erases category distinctions, and like the phrases "human resources" and "product", makes it possible to weaken respect for those categories, and the intent of the people who present them.
by vidarh | 2025-07-03 16:07:54+00:00
The last iteration of the Amiga chipset Commodore worked on when they went bankrupt (Hombre)[1] was intended to be a 2-chip system providing a 64-bit 3D chipset with a PA-RISC CPU on-die in the in one of them that'd break compatibility, and be used for both standalone computers, set-top boxes and for a high-end graphics card.

To sort out compatibility, the idea was for an "AGA Amiga on a chip".

I'm not convinced Amiga-users would've been all too happy with all of this - or that PA RISC was a good choice, given what we know now -, but it certainly would've been a massive upgrade.

(What Commodore was close to completing when they went bankrupt, though, was AAA[2] - which would've seen far more modest but still significant upgrades, like wider buses, support for chunky graphics modes, higher resolutions, far higher video bandwidth; AAA was in testing when Commodore failed)

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Amiga_Architecture_ch...
by benreesman | 2025-07-03 16:09:09+00:00
Vibe coding is nonsense, and its really kind of uncomfortable to realize that a bunch of people you had tons of respect for are either ignorant or dishonest/bought enough to say otherwise. There's a cold wind blowing and the bunker-building crowd, well let's just say I won't shed a tear.

You don't stock antibiotics and bullets in a survival compound because you think that's going to keep out a paperclip optimizer gone awry. You do that in the forlorn hope that when the guillotines come out that you'll be able to ride it out until the Nouveau Regime is in a negotiating mood. But they never are.
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-07-03 16:09:13+00:00
Came here looking for this comment!

I think we will need to find a way to communicate “this code is the result of serious engineering work and all tradeoffs have been thought about extensively” and “this code has been vibecoded and no one really cares”. Both sides of that spectrum have their place and absolutely will exist. But it’s dangerous to confuse the two
by tstrimple | 2025-07-03 16:09:19+00:00
It's the exact same thing every time a technical bar is lowered and more people can participate in something. From having to manually produce your own film to having film processing readily available on demand to not needing to process film at all and everyone has a camera in their pocket. The number of people taking photos has absolutely exploded. The average quality of photos has to have fallen through the floor. But you've also got a ton of people who couldn't participate previously for one reason or another who go on to do great things with their new found capabilities.
by frankus | 2025-07-03 16:09:20+00:00
I'm not sure of the exact reasons but you don't really see vapor-compression heat pumps in the tens- to low-hundreds-of-watts range. So I suspect there are some scaling factors where the reduced size/noise/complexity of a solid-state device starts to be more important than the extra energy that it uses.

I think most of the commercial bed cooling systems are thermoelectric (ChiliPad, Eight Sleep) and they seem to work fine, but by the time you get to the scale of a small fridge or dehumidifiers the products are generally awful.
by dirkc | 2025-07-03 16:09:43+00:00
> Lots of talk here about writing being far superior to talking. This is entirely true.

Writing and talking allows you to formulate and explore concepts in different ways. Writing forces you to be specific and put thoughts in a linear order. Talking allows you to explore less defined ideas in haphazard ways.

I recently had a meeting where understanding snapped in place right at the end of the meeting. Writing might have gotten us there too, but I'm not convinced that it would have been more efficient. The idea wasn't well defined to start with and we talked about lots of things randomly.

Now writing is needed to make sure that we capture what was discussed and agree on it.

Both has a place in collaboration with other people.

ps. not to make the argument for useless meetings where managers drag you along for body count, I've slept through my share of those. And would probably also sleep through the AI summary of it
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-07-03 16:09:56+00:00
For sure, I think your projection is a worse case scenario, one that's totally in the realm of possibility.

In "non-growth" times (i.e the era we're in now (post ZIRP) and probably for the foreseeable future, LLMs being the exception), very little outside the major revenue generators is probably "core" roles.
by dnemmers | 2025-07-03 16:10:18+00:00
This seems like a non-genuine take. You seem to have a definition of (American) right-wing that fails to include the President’s social media site?

I’m sure you’d like to divorce ‘true’ right-wing causes from whatever is happening in the federal government these days, but a new horse is pulling your cart, and you may need to find a new party to get what you want.
by bbor | 2025-07-03 16:10:30+00:00
Thanks for sharing your expertise! What really bends my mind is the relative speeds involved. Reddit's /r/space has a great visual[1] which depicts it as basically going straight through our solar system, only bending slightly as it passes Sol. This is only possible if the object moving at 68 km/s is also moving sideways at 230 km/s so as to match our galactic orbit, and moving up at a mind-boggling 600 km/s (relative to CMB). This is all basic stuff of course, but something about having the object actually pass by us is making it more real than usual...

Hell, maybe it's only orbiting the galaxy at a leisurely 160 km/s, and from its perspective we're a spinning disc of chaos zipping past it for the first time in a few million years! I don't even know how I would start to analyze its orientation in relation to the galactic center, but I'll be keeping this as my little "headcannon" until proven wrong, that's for sure.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1lpw4as/new_interste...
by throwawayoldie | 2025-07-03 16:10:33+00:00
> Don't think any genuinely right-wing site would be pro-israel

Except that a large faction in the overall right coalition are fundamentalist Christians who want the Third Temple built ASAP so Jesus will come back and they can get Raptured and look down on us sinners for eternity.

Now you may say "well no TRUE Scot^H^H^H^Hright-winger", but that'd be to retreat into an abstraction and ignore everyday reality.
by solarwindy | 2025-07-03 16:10:36+00:00
I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century.

“So it isn’t the original building?” I had asked my Japanese guide.

“But yes, of course it is,” he insisted, rather surprised at my question.

“But it’s burnt down?”

“Yes.”

“Twice.”

“Many times.”

“And rebuilt.”

“Of course. It is an important and historic building.”

“With completely new materials.”

“But of course. It was burnt down.”

“So how can it be the same building?”

“It is always the same building.”

I had to admit to myself that this was in fact a perfectly rational point of view, it merely started from an unexpected premise. The idea of the building, the intention of it, its design, are all immutable and are the essence of the building. The intention of the original builders is what survives. The wood of which the design is constructed decays and is replaced when necessary. To be overly concerned with the original materials, which are merely sentimental souvenirs of the past, is to fail to see the living building itself.

— Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
by xerox13ster | 2025-07-03 16:11:05+00:00
The progressively worsening attacks on the ability of trans people to exist in daily life.

Depending on how you define the Ten Stages of Genocide, we for sure have crossed the 3rd stage of genocide with all the state level anti trans bills and Trumps executive orders, and they’ve also engaged in stages 4 and 6. They’re not pressing on the brake, there’s a lead block on the gas pedal and they have repeatedly professed to wanting to erase us from public life. Trump released a campaign video about it in Feb/March of 2023.

https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages
by aidenn0 | 2025-07-03 16:11:11+00:00
What about an "I" (or H if your font is sans-serif) shaped system? Like the Vast "stick" but with two sticks attached to the end. Seems like that would multiply the livable area by a much greater factor than it would multiply the number of launches. If I understand correctly the Vast is already a multi-launch system, so it seems like the obvious change.
by brazzy | 2025-07-03 16:12:02+00:00
> I would say most of the migration from PHP was due to the appeal of one language for frontend and backend

Definitely not. PHP lost far more market share to Java,C# and Ruby on Rails than to node.js

> PHP is still very usable for server-side rendering and APIs.

Not "is still", but "has become". It has changed a lot since the PHP 3 days.

> You say "very simple" as if you can't have complex systems with PHP.

With early 2000s PHP, you really couldn't, not without suffering constantly from the language's inadequacies.

> I see the current state of web development as a spiral of complexity with a lot of performance pitfalls. Over-engineering seems to be the default.

I don't disagree, but that seems to happen most of all in the frontend space.
by rvnx | 2025-07-03 16:12:08+00:00
Hate speech laws are totally a political tool.

They are asymmetric in favor of certain communities.

The same way that “making LLMs safe” or “neutral” is actually a way to inject an ideology.

Look into France, which case can lead you to jail:

Criticize islam: risk of jail

Criticize white: ok

Criticize black: risk of jail

Glorify nazis: risk of jail

Glorify soviets: ok

Quite the reflection of influence if one side is forbidden to speak and the other can shit on them

Extremists in France love these laws, but only the left ones.
by londons_explore | 2025-07-03 16:12:24+00:00
A Carnot heat pump maintains the temperature in a house at 20C on a day when the temperature outside is 5C. What is the coefficient of performance of the heat pump?

The coefficient of performance (COP) of the Carnot heat pump is 19.5.

The coefficient of performance of a typical heat pump in a british home is around 4.

There is obviously a huge difference between 4 and 19.5 - although a good chunk of this is explained by large temperature differentials in the condenser and evaporator, and a british desire to use a water heating loop.
by hellojesus | 2025-07-03 16:12:28+00:00
I omitted the valuation of time with my child since it is hard to capture empirically.

> It also ignores the societal costs of separating mothers and babies at such extremely young ages, reducing the rates of successful breastfeeding, and more.

I'm not ignoring this cost. I'm stating that this cost should be borne by the individual that elected to have a child; e.g., lowered labor participation for some duration. The current US federal policy recognizes this by allowing unpaid leave for some duration.

> It also assumes a considerably above-average income job.

My point exactly. If above average compensation is actively harmed by this policy through deadweight loss, it means the policy is bad. This ignores the plethora of moral hazard that is introduced too. For example, how to we reconcile those laborers that take 12 weeks of paid taxpayer vacations only to promptly quit their job upon restarting it? These folks were always going to drop out of the labor force; now we've given them 12 weeks of free money redistributed from productive members.

> Your username is hellojesus. Which action is more Christlike, providing for children and families or hoarding your wealth? Are we called to build bigger barns?

Religious inclinations should direct followers how to execute behavior for themselves of a voluntary nature. It should not be used to dictate that everyone in society follow the same moral orders at the behest of a gun, which is what governmental policy does.
by 0xEF | 2025-07-03 16:12:35+00:00
> people just don't read

You're right, and that tracks with my experience too, sad as it is to have to admit.

However, if you're not holding people accountable for not reading the directive/memo, then that's on you. When you have something in writing that you can point to and say "look, there it is, I provided you with the information, you chose to not acknowledge it," it's very damning to the person who ignored it.

Without getting into details about the time I nearly left my company, I can tell you that one of my greatest weapons was (and still is) being able to literally recall emails, SOPs, and SMS messages that had been ignored. It makes me a thorn in the side of lazy managers and legacy hires that turned out to be freeloaders in my industry.

The people at the bottom of any organization have a responsibility to hold the people at the top accountable, just as it works the other way around. This is extremely hard for those of us near the bottom of an organization to do, I know, but if we don't, we are giving permission for the problem to persist and make our work that much harder. We all know that managers and those above them will avoid doing as much work as possible at any given time, but willful ignorance is not admissible in court of law, so why should it be any different in the work place?
by nickjj | 2025-07-03 16:12:44+00:00
Yep I've been doing this since WSL 1 was available, it's rock solid.

My dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles have an install script to automatically get everything (including tmux w/ plugins) set up on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux or macOS. This includes native Linux and WSL 2 support.
by lqet | 2025-07-03 16:12:53+00:00
A close relative once told me that as a child from maybe age 6 to 10, each dream every night was about him dying. It was so "normal" for him that he remembered the first dream he had again at age 10 in which he didn't die. He enthusiastically told his parents in the morning: "Mom, dad, this night I didn't die in my dreams!".
by jorvi | 2025-07-03 16:13:10+00:00
Google aggressively forces you to add your phone number or a backup email, multiple pop-ups per month. When you make a passkey they again aggressively try to force you to have backup access methods. You really have to put in a good effort to lock yourself out.

If regular Joe configured a TOTP and then ignores the huge warnings about not saving the backup codes, are you going to blame the service or him?
by deadbabe | 2025-07-03 16:13:46+00:00
I find it kind of boggling that employers spend $200/month to make employees lives easier, for no real gain.

That’s right. Productivity does go up, but most of these employees aren’t really contributing directly to revenue. There is no code to dollar pipeline. Finishing work faster means some roadmap items move quicker, but they just move quicker toward true bottlenecks that can’t really be resolved quickly with AI. So the engineers sit around doing nothing for longer periods of time waiting to be unblocked. Deadlines aren’t being estimated tighter, they are still as long as ever.

Enjoy this time while it lasts. Someday employers might realize they need to hire less and just cram more work into individual engineers schedules, because AI should supposedly make work much easier.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-07-03 16:13:48+00:00
This really isn't the forum for political discussion, so many users here flag political posts. One the one hand, they're trying to keep intelligent discourse from devolving into flamewars, and I very much agree with that. On the other hand, sometimes I want to hear what the crowd here, who I view as far more intelligent than the average internet forum crowd, thinks about these political issues. So I see both sides. I think Dan G is doing a admirable job with riding the line as well as is possible.