MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jermaustin1 | 2025-07-04 13:22:24+00:00
I guess having only worked in one large organization and only for a couple of years, I had never come across it before. I had even consulted for that company for a few years 10 years prior, and they treated IT a lot differently. That was during a push to insource. So as a consultant, they fired me, years later hired me as an employee, then a new CIO came in and laid off all ICs and replaced us again with consultants.

They even had one of their vendors extend a job offer to me for slightly more than I was making, but I couldn't in good conscience take that offer. Fool me once, and all that.
by diggan | 2025-07-04 13:22:35+00:00
I mean, if you "program" (prompt) them to do those stuff, then yeah, they'll do that. But you have to consider the task just like if you handed it over to a person with absolutely zero previous context, and explain what you need from the "requirements gathering", and how it should handle that.

None of the LLMs handle any of those things by themselves, because that's not what they're designed for. They're programmable things that output text, that you can then program to perform those tasks, but only if you can figure out exactly how a human would handle it, and you codify all the things we humans can figure out by ourselves.
by Nextgrid | 2025-07-04 13:23:16+00:00
You are joking but that's exactly how it works as long as you are a company (and the bigger/more connected it is the better).

Don't pay your debts as a person: you quickly get hit with fees, chased by collections, etc.

Don't pay your debts as a company: sorry, it was merely a clerical error by our accounting department. Nothing to see here.

Lie and profit from it as an individual: that's called fraud and could land you in jail.

Lie and profit from it as a company: sorry, our website/documentation was out of date, our CS clerk was wrong and has since received additional training. Nothing to see here.
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-07-04 13:23:24+00:00
While this might be true, the police are the ones who decide if they will prosecute. There’s no such thing as pressing charges or deciding to drop charges as the victim of a crime in the UK. The police will investigate and decide, so the warnings written on the walls of buildings are not really worth anything.

You can however do things like refuse to give evidence to torpedo the court case if you wanted to functionally “drop the charges” but if there’s still a chargable offense in the eyes of the police and credible evidence otherwise then the court case can still proceed regardless of your feelings.
by Mipila | 2025-07-04 13:25:04+00:00
Cant speak for Vue or Solid, but in Angular this has never been a big issue like it is in react. There is state of course but it is not something you have to actively think about all the time. State is kept as properties in classes, directly on your component or (when it needs to be shared) in services that can be injected. Angualar change detection will update the view when needed. You can argue about the performance of this, but in my experience it is easier on the developer.
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-04 13:26:43+00:00
Are the two boards even in the same category or class?

I use RPi for little hobby projects

- RPi Pico for being the payload that flies around the world in a PicoBalloon

- Decoding NOAA weather imagery and storing it in my Google Drive

- Full time AIS message decoder and tracker

- Full time ADS-B and MLAT receiver

- Runs my RetroPie setup

- Runs my OctoPrint setup

I wouldn’t replace much of that with an Intel NUC style computer
by dizhn | 2025-07-04 13:27:04+00:00
> , people and companies come to depend on it, and then the mess must eventually be cleaned up.

I have found time and again that enough technological advancement will make previously difficult things easy that when it's time to clean up the old stuff, it's not such a huge issue. Especially so if you do not need to keep a history of everything and can start fresh. This probably would not fly in a huge corp but it's fine for small/medium businesses. After all, whole companies disappear and somehow we live on.
by diggan | 2025-07-04 13:27:53+00:00
The huge gap between the people who claim "It helps me some/most of the time" and the other people who claim "I've tried everything and it's all bad" is really interesting to me.

Is it a problem of knowledge? Is it a problem of hype that makes people over-estimate their productivity? Is it a problem of UX, where it's hard to figure out how to use these tools correctly? Is it a problem of the user's skills, where low-skilled developers see lots of value but high-skilled developers see no value, or even negative value sometimes?

The experiences seem so different, that I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around it. I find LLMs useful in some particular instances, but not all of them, and I don't see them as the second coming of Jesus. But then I keep seeing people saying they've tried all the tools, and all the approaches, and they understand prompting, yet they cannot get any value whatsoever from the tools.

This is maybe a bit out there, but would anyone (including parent) be up for sending me a screen recording of exactly what you're doing, if you're one of the people that get no value whatsoever from using LLMs? Or maybe even a video call sharing your screen?

I'm not working in the space, have no products or services to sell, only curious is why this vast gap seemingly exists, and my only motive would be to understand if I'm the one who is missing something, or there are more effective ways to help people understand how they can use LLMs and what they can use them for.

My email is on my profile if anyone is up for it. Invitation open for anyone struggling to get any useful responses from LLMs.
by swores | 2025-07-04 13:27:59+00:00
Would you mind rephrasing your comment, as currently I really don't understand what you're trying to say at all...

edit: I originally wrote out a long comment about exactly why your comment doesn't make sense to me, but after posting it I felt it was ridiculously long for its purpose, so if you want to waste time reading it you can find it here - https://pastebin.com/Y11P8ETs - but I think asking you to explain what you meant more clearly is enough for here :)
by josephg | 2025-07-04 13:28:04+00:00
I've written a fair few Solid apps. I've never felt the need to reach for 3rd party tools to help manage state. In my experience, solid's built-in signals (& resources) are enough on their own for simple apps. And when I need something more complex, you can build on top of them if you know what you're doing.

If anyone is curious, here's an interactive, editable tutorial teaching how solidjs signals work. If you haven't seen solid before, its similar to react but components don't re-run whenever their state changes:

https://www.solidjs.com/tutorial/introduction_signals?solved

Am I missing out on some whiz bang magic that the react ecosystem has invented? Is it substantially better than what solid provides out of the box?
by samrus | 2025-07-04 13:28:31+00:00
i dont think so. theres precendent to say that you can legally jailbreak phones you buy, so this seems similar

the financial aspect might not be worth your time if theres not enough of an audience. one risk is that the added price might deter your customers, who might just buy a smart tv and not use the smart part, which is what i already do.
by rswail | 2025-07-04 13:28:49+00:00
Because I loath Nouning Verbs and Verbing Nouns, I'd really like "learnings" to always have an implied or explicit set of quotes and mean vaguely defined and not necessarily ethical stuff.

There's a perfectly good noun, "lessons" and a verb, "to learn" that, when combined, provide everything "learnings" does, without the pretension of using a verbed noun. It's like "diarize" and other even worse monstrosities.

Sorry to this poster, no personal attack intended, you just pushed one of my pedant buttons.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-07-04 13:28:59+00:00
Going to disagree here.

Early in the game when context windows were very small (8k, 16k, and then 32k), the team I was working with achieved fantastic results with very low incidence of hallucinations through deep "context engineering" (we didn't call it that but rather "indexing and retrieval").

We did a project for Alibaba and generated tens of thousands of pieces of output . They actually had human analysts reviews and grade each one for the first thousand. The errors they found? Always in the source material.
by AutoAPI | 2025-07-04 13:29:09+00:00
I just purchased a Beelink Mini S13 with 16GB ram and 1TB drive on Amazon for ~$200 to use as a Docker host on my local network and have been very happy with it so far.

I immediately wiped it and installed Ubuntu Server. I chose Coolify to manage Docker and local domains, and that took a bit of work to get going, but now I can spin up local services and containers on local domains and play with random stuff
by poulpy123 | 2025-07-04 13:31:16+00:00
This year I built a NAS . My focus was to optimize the price not the power, so I planned to go with a raspberry 5 or a raxda 5c because of their lower consumption. For what I gathered a RPI 5 and similar draw 3W idle and 12W at full power and a N100 based computer draw 9W at idle and 24W at full power (approximately of course).

But then I looked at the power consumption of the consumer grade HDD disks. 4 disks would add between 10 and 14W at idle and between 16 and 20W in operation, and suddenly the advantage of the arm based computers in power consumption is less striking.

Moreover you can find on AliExpress N100 mini-pc for 120€ with 16gb RAM and 512gb SSD. Aliexpress is risky but it was much less than the RPI5 with 16GB RAM or just a bit more than the raxda 5C 16GB , both without drive, case and power supply. And the raxda 5C would have been also bought in AliExpress so no almost as risky as my N100.

At the end, for cheaper to buy and not too much more expensive in power consumption I went with the mini-pc. I lost the possibility to use extension cards, especially the one that allows to connect up to 5 HDD, but a 4 port USB HDD dock proved sufficient for my needs.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-04 13:31:22+00:00
I meant to say larger animals - it's been tried. Small fish and frogs were fine, but chicken eggs showed issues developing past some early stages under microgravity[1]. Therefore we know that animals significantly more complex than amphibians can not reproduce normally under zero-g.

> Twenty out of 30 eggs (nine out of ten 10-day-old eggs; 10 out of ten 7-day-old eggs; 1 out of ten 0-day-old eggs) were recovered alive after landing. The only living embryo of the 0-day-old egg died 24 days after launch, and was comparable to a 16-day-old embryo when it died. The high mortality of the 0-day-old eggs appeared to be related to the specific inner structure of the egg. The yolk (specific gravity, 1.029) would not have separated from the albumen (1.040) during space flight.

1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9600757/ ( https://archive.is/r66W3 )
by Nextgrid | 2025-07-04 13:31:36+00:00
YC is the company that (to this day!) has Yotta - a borderline scam to take advantage of financially-illiterate people - on their website after the whole thing has completely blown up and most customers lost their savings: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yotta

Oh, and now they have their own rendition of the "Aviator" game often advertised by unregulated Eastern-European online casinos: https://members.withyotta.com/moonshot/. You can't make this shit up!

I wrote off YC after this. Maybe early on it was a mark of quality and good due-diligence, but now I'd argue it's the outright opposite - if it's funded by YC, buyer beware.
by jcelerier | 2025-07-04 13:31:49+00:00
> If uttering a sentence like this is a "theoretical" solution for you, I don't know what to tell you, except that you're not going to have a good time in any job until you learn the practicality of saying "no" the hard way.

but no one wants to say no here. the thing is going to happen one way or another, if only because everyone involved is passionate about making sure artists can reach their dreams. if we can't do this, we just close shop.
by incomingpain | 2025-07-04 13:32:01+00:00
>Pain Reprocessing Therapy

I asked chatgpt to explain this to me and it did a poor job.

Generally speaking in my friend group. Chronic pain used to be opiods; though long ago medical cannabis came along. I couldnt tell you how many people i know who arent stoners who got into the cbd thing and fully got off opiods. 1 addiction for another, but at least cannabis has far less negatives.

>If you don’t have chronic pain and you’re just here for vibes and to see some cute brains, I really appreciate you .

The problem, CBD never fixes the pain. ~8 hours later you need more.

There's no business case for solving chronic pain. Here's my take.

1. There can be cases where there's something legitimately physically wrong causing chronic pain. In detroit I had a friend who got shot with birdshot, a tiny pellet was in his spine that surgeons didnt want to go after but there's no getting away from that pain. If this is the case, you're not seeking explanation.

2. There's stress/emotional pain. "The body keeps the score" by Bessel van der Kolk. He's big on EMDR and yoga. Your achilles pain and such absolutely could be, Probably something like 'change or abandonment' one of my favourites for yoga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XhJ63OQ7Ww

Do that 23 minute video and see if it helps.

3. Mindfulness meditation. Get into the most comfortable position possible. Dont move; and far more difficult dont think. Your mind will wander. If the pain is in your achilles. The only thing you're doing is monitoring the pain. What's the exact shape of the pain? Is it 4 inches long or is it only 2 inches? Is it sharp like a knife, or is it round in shape? Do you have any taste, smell, or sound from it? You need to wait as long as you have to, maybe it only makes a sound every 2 minutes, you have to wait and your focus is only on waiting for the sound and nothing else.

4. Yoga nidra or progressive muscle relaxation. Start at your toes, you try to flex the muscles to the maximum and hold for 5 seconds, release. then do your feet, ankles, legs, every muscle has to have been flexed and held for 5 seconds. Then when you're done, you simply do nothing at all. dont even focus on anything; maybe your breath at most.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-07-04 13:33:08+00:00
There’s an even deeper issue, not just for art, for all things.

The majority of artists, and of all other groups, are in fact mediocre with mediocre virtues, so enough incentives would turn most of them into Whatever shillers like the post describes.

So a non expert cannot easily determine, even if they do stumble upon “Serious art” by happenstance, whether it’s just another empty scheme or indeed someting more serious.

Maybe if they spend several hours puzzling over the artist’s background, incentives, network, claims, past works, etc… they can be 99% sure. But almost nobody likes any particular piece of work that much upon first glance, to put in that much effort.
by ekianjo | 2025-07-04 13:33:12+00:00
> Before moving forward - I’m not a doctor. Just a bit of a nerd with a blog. Please do not sue me or use these posts as a replacement for medical care.

unnecessary disclaimer here. when it comes to chronic pain treatment doctors are mostly useless or even harmful, proposing surgeries or drugs that will do more bad than anything else because they have no interest in learning how to customize their approach and will parrot and prescribe what they heard from medical representatives. Remember, the opoids crisis was enabled by doctors in the first place.
by nwienert | 2025-07-04 13:33:16+00:00
As someone who had years of undiagnosable pain and after many years (and more than one doctor trying to suggest it was all in my head) I just want to say to anyone reading who has it -

Don’t let yourself be gaslit that it’s all mental. It seems some do have that, but there are also many hard to diagnose and completely valid physical health conditions that cause terrible chronic pain. And don’t give up on trying to find out what they are. Once I did, I was able to largely manage mine, and more importantly, to stop constantly questioning my own sanity.
by gigatexal | 2025-07-04 13:33:26+00:00
My excise comment was more about Trump and poor-exploiting-rich-people like him that feign care for structural ills but run and act in a hostile autocratic xenophobic and populist way.

I like to think that people voted for him despite his policies on immigration and others because they thought this idiot real estate mogul turned reality TV star was an actually competent business person and yet …

The man failed at selling steaks in America, casinos, ran fraudulent universities, stole from veterans in charity money … the list is nigh infinite.
by williamdclt | 2025-07-04 13:33:34+00:00
> I'm not sure about Postgres

Not possible. It’s explicitly a non-goal, sub-optimal plans are considered a bug to be fixed, you can’t even force the use of an index.

To their credit, the Postgres query planner is amazing and does generally work very well that you don’t need forcing indexes or plans. But that’s little comfort when it does not and you have a production incident on your hands

Edit: I think RDS Aurora Postgres does let you have managed query plans
by myself248 | 2025-07-04 13:34:05+00:00
International Art English is a well-documented, and mercilessly mocked (and deservedly so!) phenomenon, which thrusts the creator's image of self into the spotlight and questions assumptions about their ability for self-expression at the intersection of rational thought and plain language, through pervasive use of meaningless and tortured constructions, abject puffery, and run-on sentences.
by joeharwood3 | 2025-07-04 13:34:10+00:00
I’ve been building with LLMs a lot lately and recently came across a report showing the growing emissions from AI workloads, not just training, but inference too. It got me thinking about all the computing we’re using every day, even in small apps.

So I started working on EmitMind, a platform that tracks and offsets the carbon footprint of your AI tools like GPT, Claude, or any API-based model. The idea is to integrate once and let it estimate usage + emissions, then automatically buy verifiable offsets.

Still very early, just a waitlist up for now, but I’d love feedback on the concept, implementation ideas, and whether anyone here is already thinking about sustainability in their AI stack.

Site: https://emitmind.com
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-04 13:34:26+00:00
Not really.

I don’t need to access untrusted sources from tmux. I do from Firefox.

Tmux has a smaller, easier to audit code base. Browsers are large, complicated and sprawling projects. That makes browsers a much larger attack surface.

Browsers already have sandboxing and other mitigations. Tmux doesn’t. Which means there are lower hanging fruit to fix in the terminal vs web browser.

Browsers are used by more people than tmux. So it’s a juicer target for zero-days.

We also already have Rust-based multiplexers for people who are worried about memory safety. There isn’t for web browsing.

Security is a scale of risk rather than something that is black and white. At some point the scales will tip and rewriting tmux in rust makes sense. But as said earlier, we already have Rust-based multiplexers for that eventuality. Whereas the need to harden browsers is much more urgent.

Context matters when it comes to InfoSec. At this point in time, rewriting tmux in Rust offers marginal gains vs rewriting a browser in Rust.
by Nextgrid | 2025-07-04 13:34:47+00:00
I was thinking more about regulations around taxis, short-term rentals, etc for example.

As an aside, GDPR enforcement is so lacking (even today) it doesn't register on anyone's radar beyond those that fear-monger about it or sell snake oil to pseudo-comply with it. But even then, keep in mind most of what the GDPR has was already part of many countries' own legislation, and things like spyware were illegal even in the US (but again laws don't apply if you are a company and have enough capital).
by koakuma-chan | 2025-07-04 13:34:54+00:00
> But with respect to something like software development, what you've described sounds a lot like creating a detailed design or even pseudocode.

What I described not only applies to using AI for coding, but to most of the other use cases as well.

> Now I've never found typing to be the bottle neck in software development, even before modern IDEs, so I'm struggling to see where all the lift is meant to be with this tech.

There are many ways to use AI for coding. You could use something like Claude Code for more granular updates, or just copy and paste your entire code base into, e.g., Gemini, and have it oneshot a new feature (though I like to prompt it to make a checklist, and generate step by step).

And that is also not only about just typing, that is also about debugging, refactoring, figuring out how a certain thing works, etc. Nowadays I not only barely write any code by hand, but also most of the debugging, and other miscellaneous tasks I offload to LLMs. They are simply much faster and convenient at connecting all the dots, making sure nothing is missed, etc.
by wtallis | 2025-07-04 13:34:59+00:00
The on-die ECC used by DDR5 (and pretty much all other recent DRAM) actually doesn't have many compatibility implications, precisely because it's done entirely on-die unlike traditional ECC memory modules that include an extra one or two chips to enable end to end ECC managed by the CPU's memory controller.

The more significant incompatibilities between DDR4 and DDR5 are in the power delivery (DDR5 has voltage regulators on the module rather than on the motherboard) and rearranging of the address bus and command encoding.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-07-04 13:35:14+00:00
I like the idea but I think there is more potential that could be addressed here.

A calendar is clearly useful --- but you don't really need it *all* the time.

What to do in the meantime? How about display personal photos?

Basically, I'm talking about a digital photo frame *with* calendar. I've looked and found one or the other --- but why not both in one device?

It doesn't look like it would be all that difficult to produce. The calendar could be just another graphic file but one that is displayed only on demand.

I think there is a real marketplace opportunity here.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-07-04 13:35:28+00:00
The transformation is to aesthetic awareness over raw technical facility, and to "freshness" over skillful adherence to norms.

The best artists will spot holes in the culture, and present them to us in a way that's expertly composed, artful and meticulously polished. The tools will let them do it faster, and to reach a higher peak of polish than in the past, but the artfulness will still be the artist's.

Futuristic tools aren't replacing art, they're creating a substrate for a higher order of art. Collages are art, and at its most crude, this higher order art reduces to digital collages of high quality generated assets with human intention. With futuristic tools, art becomes reductive rather than constructive. To quote Michelangelo's response to how he made David: "It is simple, I just removed everything that wasn't David"