MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vinnymac | 2025-07-08 13:23:00+00:00
I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. Some shops just have very low quality bars where they can ship things that are to be frank, broken. I tend to use Sonnet 4 these days, and use it for tasks that aren’t too important or ones that require prototyping and iteration over perfection.

I find it’s really great for augmenting specific kinds of concentrated tasks. But just like you, I have to review everything it creates. Even Claude Opus 4 on MAX produces many bugs on a regular basis that I fix before merging in a change. I don’t mind it though, as I can choose to use it on the most annoying areas, and leave the ones I enjoy to work on myself.
by avereveard | 2025-07-08 13:23:31+00:00
I think if we zoom out of the tech and into a bit more of economic the risk I see is that the incumbent hold a lot of advantages and also control the means of production due secondary factors like gpu scarcity.

If we want to draw some parallel this may trigger a robber baron kind of outcome more than an industrial revolution.

The existence of workable open weight models tips me more toward the optimistic outcome

Butthere's trillions at stake now and that must not be discounted it's the kind of wealth accumulation that can easily trigger a war. (And if you thinkit isn't you can look at the oil wars in the 90s and other more recent resources war bring fought in Europe today.

Expect "gpu gap" talks sooner that later, and notice there's a few global power with no horse to race.
by drowsspa | 2025-07-08 13:23:35+00:00
I don't know how it is in Europe but down here in Brazil they're lesser gods in all but name. I see no functional difference between their cults and the ancient pagan cults.

They're not gonna admit it because being monotheistic is kind of the whole point of Christianity. Just like they're gonna admit how the Trinity was just a cop-out to the obvious polytheism in the Bible and the traditions.
by csnerd9 | 2025-07-08 13:23:39+00:00
Perhaps unfortunately, math and computer science have redefined "imply" and the "=>" implication operator to mean "certainly follows", which does means "prove".

The OP is probably using those fields terminology, rather than casual commonplace meaning of imply, which is as you were arguing, merely "suggests".

Also, "beyond (a reasonable) doubt" is a legal standard, not a scientific one. Science almost always maintain some doubt :)
by graemep | 2025-07-08 13:24:21+00:00
its great that exists and that it got attention.

Its an immense problem that it got so little attention until someone made a TV dramatisation of it. There are definitely many other miscarriages of justice caused by the assumption that systems are always correct, and these are not being corrected.

The lack of consequences for those responsible also means there is no deterrent to others doing similar things.
by sylens | 2025-07-08 13:26:30+00:00
The main takeaway of this piece seems to be that a large number of the layoffs are focused on people who either:

1. Recently took medical leave 2. Acted as a whistleblower to HR (reporting workplace harassment or similar) 3. Had a documented disability

Even if this wasn't HN, I'd say its pretty hard to feel positive about anything that company is doing right now.
by eigenspace | 2025-07-08 13:26:30+00:00
It turns out that if you have language semantics that make optimizations hard, making a fast optimizing compiler is hard. Who woulda thunk?

To be clear, this seems like a cool project and I dont want to be too negative about it, but i just think this was an entirely foreseeable outcome, and the amount of people excited about this JIT project when it was announced shows how poorly a lot of people understand what goes into making a language fast.
by gwbas1c | 2025-07-08 13:26:45+00:00
I think you're on to something: It sounds like the developer needs to be more hands-on in making changes; as opposed to treating the AI like a subordinate with autonomy.

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For example: About two years ago I worked with a contractor who was a lot more junior than our team needed. I'd give him instructions, and then the next day spend about 2-3 hours fixing his code. In total, I was spending half of my time handholding the contractor through their project.

The problem was that I had my own assignments; and the contractor was supposed to be able to do their job with minimal oversight. (IE, roughly 0.5-1.5 hours of my day.)

If the contractor was helping me with my assignment; IE, if the contractor was my assistant, I'd have loved the arrangement.

(In case you're wondering how it ended up for the contractor, we let him go and hired someone who worked out great.)

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I suspect if the OP can figure out how to make the AI an assistant, instead of an employee with autonomy, then it will be a better arrangement. I personally haven't found an AI that does that for me, but I suspect I'm either using it incorrectly or using the wrong tools.
by roody15 | 2025-07-08 13:26:55+00:00
Agree one worrying idea is using rumors to discredit or just put pressure on the individual in question. Can simply monitor the individual and then report any odd behavior to friends, co-workers, etc. The result is the individual has to focus on these issues and will likely seize the behavior. No charges ever even need to be filed, and nothing is illegal on doing this activity.
by imdsm | 2025-07-08 13:27:01+00:00
Previous threads:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561747

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073701

Here we are, 757 unicorns later, and over two years since this project began. Today I've changed the model from gpt-4o to gpt-4.1 and posted an updated blog post.

People seem to enjoy talking about this, musing over it, and arguing about it. It's not real science, it's a bit of fun, and we all deserve some of that.

So please enjoy my hand-written, human verifiable (in not being great) blog post about unicorns.
by unstyledcontent | 2025-07-08 13:27:33+00:00
As someone with ADHD, this was always terrifying to me. I developed a personal habit of not closing the driver door until I got my kid out of the car. So the driver door was always closed last. If I went grocery shopping, I opened my door, got out, got my child, got a cart, then as I head into the store, I close my door. Crazy, but if you have ADHD you know this is the kind of thing you have to do.
by jmkni | 2025-07-08 13:28:39+00:00
If you think about it, it's crazy how unregulated software development is compared to other industries, considering every industry runs on software.

If you screw up as a Doctor or a Solicitor or an Accountant etc, you can get done for malpractice or struck off or go to prison.

Somebody will basically say, 'you did such a terrible job, you aren't allowed to do that job anymore'.

Screw up so badly writing software that 13 people commit suicide and sweet fa happens.
by bluGill | 2025-07-08 13:28:41+00:00
> that a wholesale rejection of findings from climate science is unhelpful because it is counterproductive to this goal.

I agree. Thus claiming a single isolated local event is the result of climate change without strong evidence (which in a chaotic system is usually impossible to collect) is counter productive because there is no data to back it up and in turn it make climate change look like fools who keep yelling about things that are false.

Which is why anyone who cares about climate change should refute every attempt to blame local conditions on climate change. We can state there is a trend, but we can rarely state that any specific situation wouldn't have happened without climate change.
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by 9dev | 2025-07-08 13:29:13+00:00
> In a world where cellphones have all sorts of radio antennas on at all times, there are more ways than you'd think.

That doesn't explain why soldiers can be identified by their location traces at known military sites; the data must be sent from the device.

> The entire point of my comment was that cynicism induces FUD that's not necessarily backed by direct evidence.

That is exactly the kind of deflective attitude common in big tech I was referring to: There is concrete evidence for these effects (e.g. [0][1][2][3]). Google, Netflix, Amazon et al. would falter if it weren't for the violation of their user's privacy. Even if we leave dogma out of this, lots of negative effects would simply not be possible without their data collection practices.

You cannot participate in—and profit off of—something bad and then distance yourself by claiming your specific part in it was not inherently evil.

[0]: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.ade7138 [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941 [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01032 [3]: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751
by devilbunny | 2025-07-08 13:30:17+00:00
Yeah, if you 1) trust that they actually know how to write a screenplay (a very different skill from writing a novel) and 2) believe they won't sue you for stealing their idea.

That's a problem with fanfic in general. People who would have written fanfic ten or fifteen years ago are writing stuff like litrpg's now; you can steal the general concept as long as you don't rip off the details. And it's a big enough world that you can practice your writing and actually become decent at it before you try to take on a big work. If you compare early drafts of, say, Dungeon Crawler Carl to the latest books in the series? You can see the skill improvement.
by michaelbuckbee | 2025-07-08 13:30:23+00:00
It used to be that cli tools were the power users preference but now I feel like that's shifted to web apps (over native). The ability to have multiple tabs/views, load extensions to customize behavior, adjust sizing, etc.

As an example: an absolutely vital tool for me is the Vimium keyboard control extension for navigation, which unfortunately can't be used in dedicated apps.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-08 13:30:30+00:00
It's somewhat the same problem because its possible to lose manufacturer remotes.

And if the TV decided to implement weird, non-standard control signals, it can be a pain to access certain functionality with universal remotes (e.g. settings).

Different path to get there, but same end result: not being able to access functionality without going through an annoying manufacturer-specific route.
by kerkeslager | 2025-07-08 13:30:33+00:00
I just don't understand why you'd want this, or any of the JS server-side nonsense. WebAssembly is designed for the web--why would you want to use it outside the browser, when there are dozens of much more mature frameworks out there that were designed to work on your machine?

It seems to me like a lot of the JS outside the browser stuff out there is motivated by JS people not wanting to learn something different. Meanwhile for those of us who have been doing dev outside the browser, all this is worse solutions to problems we've already got solutions for.
by m_st | 2025-07-08 13:31:15+00:00
You're more or less describing what happened to me when I changed from dev to dev team lead. I couldn't affort the time anymore to make code reviews, left that to my colleagues and only tested the resulting software. When it didn't work, I returned a bug task and then we iterated this until it worked.

No more joy in writing software. Instead my time is spend in writing user stories and specifications as good as possible.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-08 13:31:30+00:00
One way to think about feminism is as a literary genre in the sense that texts are frozen in amber in the library at your nearest Uni.

It follows the same track as anything (e.g. Twitter) in that the first feminists come across as much better than later feminists -- early adopters are "better" than people who come late, plus groups develop pernicious tendencies over time.

Up to 1970 or so feminists writers are elite, but soon you start to get "zines" where women "bitch" about their problems after getting a good dose of Trotskyism (and later Americanized French Theory [1]) to derange their ability to communicate. By the late 1980s, realizing that they're not speaking to young women, they start to pander to young women so the mainstream is stuck acknowledging the "empowerment" of being an OnlyFans performers but not recognizing the downsides. There has been a conservative countercurrent of plain-speaking academics such as Eva Illouz but way too many academics speak to each other in the obscure gallicized language of American academia.

[1] Oddly, French Theory is big in Japan like Freud is big in Japan, not just among academics but in wider popular literature. Translations from French run into the odd problem that quotidian (everyday) words like spectacle (show) and ensemble (group, as in a rock band or a meal bundle at a fast food restaurant) are $10 words in English. The writing and translation of early Foucault are great (drop what you're doing an read Discipline and Punish or Birth of the Clinic) and I've got a soft spot for Baudrillard between System of Objects and Simulacra and Simulation not to mention Alain Badiou's perfection of Derrida's strategy of Being and Event which spoke to me in my Ontology2 phase, but so much of it is unreadable. On the other hand, Japanese books like Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saito Tamaki make Lacan almost make sense.
by snowwrestler | 2025-07-08 13:31:31+00:00
The Alvarez hypothesis is notable not just because of its power in explaining the Cretaceous mass extinction, but because of its Copernican-like effect on paleontology.

Up to that point, it was a matter of belief among paleos that bolides were not a significant factor in the history of life. Essentially, that the Earth did not experience frequent or significant impacts after the initial formation of the solar system.

The evidence supporting Alvarez became so compelling that it not only became accepted as the K-T cause, it opened the door to considering bolides for all sorts of previous extinctions--an idea explored by Raup in his book Extinction. It made "sudden catastrophes" acceptable as a serious research subject for the first time since Lyell.

Prior to Alvarez, it was a matter of faith that the K-T boundary must have a solely terrestrial explanation, and the Deccan Traps were elevated to the most likely candidate. But it just shifted the need for explanation--why was there sudden globally catastrophic vulcanism? You say "India hit Asia" but that was not a sudden thing, in fact it's still happening today. Hot spots are still active today. It never really worked, but it was the best they had (or were willing to consider at the time).
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-07-08 13:31:47+00:00
>Why can’t I backup an iOS device to a local NAS

You can backup your iPhone using Finder.

Finder -> Locations -> Your iPhone -> Backup all the data on this iPhone to your Mac.

Once you have done this you can find the backup in "Manage Backups", right click on an entry and select "Show in Finder". From there you can copy it to your NAS.

Not as smooth as a Time Machine backup but it is possible.
by gwbas1c | 2025-07-08 13:31:48+00:00
> it makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong

I'm in the same boat: I'm mostly doing C# in Visual Studio (classic) with co-pilot, and it very rarely gives useful code from prompts. Often times the auto-suggestions are hallucinations, and frequently they interfere with "normal" tab completion.

I'm wondering if I'm using the wrong tool, or if Visual Studio (classic) co-pilot is just far behind industry norms?
by micromacrofoot | 2025-07-08 13:31:54+00:00
there are indeed people in this comment area claiming that they'd prefer mostly analog appliances

but generally a wifi/bluetooth chip isn't going to be the point of failure that brings down an entire appliance... most work without them

I've replaced a lot of logic boards and it's usually something every board needs upstream like a voltage regulator or a capacitor that brings it down
by TexanFeller | 2025-07-08 13:32:14+00:00
Finding a good human therapist match is difficult, and it's far more difficult for people who are neurodivergent in any way. If a therapist isn't experienced in the way ADHD or autistic brains work differently they often simply don't have the mental model required to understand and help at all and they give advice that's completely inappropriate. They might have worked with a lot of OCD people, but they won't really get it unless they truly specialize in it or are afflicted themselves. Most of the popular depictions of mental differences, and even many of the perspectives in medical literature of them are wrong or use technical language that's terribly easy to misunderstand out of context. I'm terrified to think about the misconceptions that an LLM would have after ingesting all the Internet content about mental differences/illnesses!

And it's not just having a good mental or virtual-mental model of an illness, personal circumstances also make all the difference. A human therapist learns about your personal circumstances and history and learns the ways that your individual thought patterns diverge from the norm and from the norm of people whose brains differ in the same way as yours. LLMs as they are now don't incorporate memory of past conversations and will never be able learn about you to customize their responses appropriately!
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-08 13:32:19+00:00
I was there long ago

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

The thing is that I don't really stand by that article and didn't really stand by it two years later because things really changed. When I wrote that there had been an Apple conference that I thought was particularly boring, today the Apple obsession is tamed and Apple news interests me more (and Apple fanboys turned from being uncritical to talking like one of those "Why X Sucks" videos that are big on Youtube, where X could be a fast food chain, video game studio, ...)

Looking at the list of hosts there I note that people still post articles from The New York Times despite them hardly ever frontpaging. I think phys.org (ScienceX) wasn't a thing back then, there was a time I thought I was the main booster (like I am for https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=coindesk.com) but it's a big source that many people post from and others complain about. (YOShInOn and I short circuit it and post the original paper if it is open access as much as we can)

BTW, I count four articles about AI on the front page right now, it's not like it is totally overrun.
by mythz | 2025-07-08 13:32:45+00:00
I'm definitely on the opposite side where despite being in the nascent era of code assisting agents, they've become a productivity multiplier and I shudder thinking about how productive my last 25 years of programming could've been if we had coding agents back when I started my career. Young aspirational developers graduating now are going to be able to accomplish much more than us over their entire career.

It's also got me to explore a lot more domains than I would've considered otherwise, e.g. using Python to accomplish tasks with local pytorch/onnx models and creating ComfyUI nodes or using bash for large complex scripts that I would've previously used bun .ts shell scripts to implement.

Even non dev tasks like resolving Linux update/configuration/conflicts have become a breeze to resolve with Claude/Gemini Pro being able to put me on the right track which no amount of old-school Google searches were able to.

Although it's not all upside as LLMs typically generate a lot more code than I would've used to accomplish the same task so code maintenance is likely to require more effort, so I don't like using LLMs to change code I've written, but am more than happy to get them to make changes to code that other LLMs have created.
by stoken | 2025-07-08 13:32:46+00:00
Genuine: how? I assume you're using something like cc-usage to get that value. $1k/day is tons. Would genuinely love to know how you're managing to keep the inference burning through that much a day, as I'd love to do the same, but even with 2-4 simultaneous sessions running fairly continuously, mostly on Opus for 10-12 hours a day, I get maybe $500/day. What's your workflow rig/setup look like to get you to that $1k velocity?
by alexnorton | 2025-07-08 13:33:22+00:00
I was able to give this a try on every YouTube video I've ever watched by exporting the history from Google Takeout:

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/youtube?p...

And then a combination of pup and jq to parse the video titles from the HTML file:

cat watch-history.html \ | pup '.outer-cell .mdl-grid .content-cell:nth-child(2) json{}' \ | jq -r '.[] .children[0] | select(.tag != "br") | select(.text | startswith("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=") | not) | .text' \ > videos.txt
by bgwalter | 2025-07-08 13:33:45+00:00
According to the promises of the Faster CPython Team, the JIT with a >50% speedup should have happened two years ago.

Everyone knows Python is hard to optimize, that's why Mojo also gave up on generality. These claimed 20-30% speedups, apparently made by one of the chief liars who canceled Tim Peters, are not worth it. Please leave Python alone.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-08 13:34:11+00:00
Reread this: https://paulgraham.com/hp.html

Long story short, LLMs are great for people who never wanted to become "code artists" (aka hackers) which many people within CS and SWE do not wish to be.

If you goal is to be able to express your ideas fluently though, you'll have to get good at coding. The differentiator is how you look at the pain and struggle involved. If your goal is to improve yourself, the struggle has value. You learn by trying to do harder and harder things. If your goal isn't to learn though, you may as well outsource the struggling to a bot.