MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jemiluv8 | 2025-07-20 23:47:10+00:00
AI coding category was recently added to the vscode-wakatime plugin. I'm building an open source alternative to the web based wakatime at https://wakana.io and AI coding can now be visibly seen. You can see how many hours you spent coding with ai.

The implementation is rather interesting - wish I had the brains for that. It is able to detect even claude code at the moment and I'm amazed. It detects also when a ai chat window is in use and other things. This could be a great starting point for getting real stats on actual AI usaeg

I spent over 5hrs coding today and about 3 hours of that was claude code
by MarkSweep | 2025-07-20 23:47:41+00:00
> My technical team has been running around for 4 months for approvals for testing an upgrade of a database.

Jeez, and I was just grumbling how it takes up to 24 hours for a change I make to appear in prod, compared to about 4 hours at my previous job.

It should be possible to develop automated systems and processes to keep most changes on the “happy path” where approvals are quick. These sorts of organization responses were a new layer of people who can say “no” grow whenever a problem happens or a regulation changes are suffocating.
by willseth | 2025-07-20 23:47:53+00:00
You are misinformed about license cost, as I’ve already explained in multiple comments.

Hard to integrate in what way? XSLT is a language focused on several things that it’s very good at but it’s not intended to replace Python or be a general purpose language. Yet there are many common data related tasks where a messy and hard to maintain pile of imperative code can be replaced with a simple XSLT.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-20 23:48:36+00:00
America has finally reached the Ihre Papiere, bitte. of its racist golf clubization development cycle. According to the proponents of the Strauss-Howe generational "theory" (hypothesis), expect the self-destructive crisis to last around 20 ± 5 years unless or until it can nudged sooner by socio-political change.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-20 23:48:43+00:00
There's so many plugin systems for zsh. From comments it seems like Pretzo is the main one suggested.

But there's a huge list of different offerings. Looking at https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure?tab=readme-ov-file#inte... , there's also for example zim, zplug, zinit, zi. It's be so great to have see some deeper investigations or comparisons: is Pretzo really the best choice? Aside from seeming popularity, why?

At least found this neat gist with a cheat sheet for different zsh plugin systems (and how very many there are!) https://gist.github.com/olets/06009589d7887617e061481e22cf5a...
by Nevermark | 2025-07-20 23:49:14+00:00
Perhaps re-read with more care?

There was no endorsement of Epstein.

There was a callout of multiple types of bank hypocrisy. Contrasting bank's "concerns" about small time erotic material vs. their lack of concern about employees use of erotic material, and the blind eyes they turn for major criminals, include prolific trafficking/pedophilic billionaires.
by duskwuff | 2025-07-20 23:49:35+00:00
Inasmuch as the victim might have had some underlying manic tendencies? Perhaps. But that's no excuse, either from a moral standpoint or a legal one (see [1]). And I have a suspicion that susceptibility to this sort of psychological manipulation isn't all that uncommon.

I'd add that framing the ChatGPT response as it "admitting" to its actions is flawed. When prompted in a way that implies that it's at fault for something, it will respond by accepting fault. That doesn't mean that it's "experiencing remorse" or that it "understands it actions", though; it's simply acting as a stochastic parrot, just like it always does.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
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by tabarnacle | 2025-07-20 23:49:44+00:00
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by wskinner | 2025-07-20 23:50:11+00:00
> Taking muni or bart involved walking, waiting, more waiting, and then more walking

Exactly.

Uber makes a lot of money these days. The price is not suppressed. And yet... it is more popular than ever. Prices were artificially low for awhile in order to bootstrap the market, and that worked, and now that the market has been established, prices are at a level that is sustainable. Your whole premise is wrong.
by rchaud | 2025-07-20 23:50:21+00:00
The era of the "brand" is over. Consumers have gotten wise to companies cutting corners while raising prices, burning up the goodwill earned on their past reputation for quality.

Apple had a top brand, yet most consumers are aware that now Apple Stores are overcrowded messes and the iPhone 16 doesn't offer anything meaningfully different than iPhone 13.

Netflix replaced AAA TV series licensed from other networks with in-house material, the overwhelming majority most of which is cheaply produced shovelware that doesn't make it to Season 2.
by actinium226 | 2025-07-20 23:51:02+00:00
I saw your edit with the paper, but when you first mentioned it I thought you might have been referring to the Apple paper that more or less said the same thing.

Speaking of Apple, I just want to get it out there that I'm impressed that they're exhibiting self restraint in this AI era. I know they get bashed for not being "up to speed" with "the rest of the industry," but I believe they're doing this on purpose because they see what slop it is and they'd prefer to scope it down to release something more useful.
by andyferris | 2025-07-20 23:51:43+00:00
I think it’s the time slice problem.

Locally I need to pay for my GPU hardware 24x7. Some electricity but mostly going to be hardware cost at my scale (plus I have excess free energy to burn).

Remotely I probably use less than an hour of compute a day. And only workdays.

Combined with batching being computationally more efficient it’s hard to see anything other than local inference ALWAYS being 10x more expensive than data centre inference.

(Would hope and love to be proven wrong about this as it plays out - but that’s the way I see it now).
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-07-20 23:52:33+00:00
You claim this but signatures in many cases work by encrypting the hash so that it can be decrypted by the public key (and therefore if the decrypted hash matches the plaintext's hash, it's considered a valid signature).

There's lots of schemes of course but that's the basic concept. (And of course I don't think anybody would seriously consider ECC signatures (which don't use encryption) as "not cryptography")

Signatures are cryptography. Signatures work because of cryptography.

And even ignoring that of course your whole "cryptocurrency isn't cryptography" stance completely falls apart for all of the many projects that are built on zero knowledge cryptography.
by bawolff | 2025-07-20 23:54:12+00:00
> Security teams have raised red flags about iframes for years. Cross-frame scripting, clickjacking, and credential phishing are common exploits, since the frame executes third-party code inside your trusted domain

I would disagree.

Yes iframes have security risks, but they generally pale in comparison to giving some other random site full control of your page, which is the alternative.
by nine_k | 2025-07-20 23:55:52+00:00
Oh, indeed I was wrong; COP of Peltier elements is much higher than I had gleaned from online charts, not the order of 0.03 (3%) but can easily reach values above 1.0 (100%) and be e.g. 0.5 (50%) at ΔT = 30C, enough for a home fridge.

Still a bit far from compressor-based designs, but not negligible, and almost doubling the efficiency is indeed a serious advance.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-07-20 23:56:09+00:00
I would read more about the new powers that Ofcom has...the type of person who bloviates online about everyone else being stupid tends not to have actually checked what is going on.

Also, none of these laws are led by politicians. All the communications-related offences were led by security services. Do you know when Molly actually passed? 2017? And you are telling me that a law passed in 2025 is related? A law which largely contains things unrelated to her passing (i.e. significant expansion of Ofcom powers).

It is genuinely funny that people who have no idea about politics...as in first-hand knowledge which will just imagine that everything works the way they assume it must work. At the very least, you should exercise some common sense: we have seen multiple Home Office ministers pass through, ministers are gaining no new extra powers, Ofcom staffing has gone up by thousands, the amount of graft that has already gone on is staggering...but the one's to blame are, conveniently, the ones who are always blamed...but seem to be strangely unable to do anything...you cannot possibly be this credulous.
by kldg | 2025-07-20 23:57:13+00:00
Now I'm curious whether or not this is true. I'm much more likely to be killed or assaulted by friends or family than by a random person, and if I'm being killed by someone, the most likely killer by far is also the person they killed, even in the US. Further, while I know people who were shot in their car, I know nobody who was shot on a bus (I don't know anyone involved in knife violence in any capacity).
by iamarnob6543 | 2025-07-20 23:57:24+00:00
I totally get it — having taste usually comes from people who’ve shipped a lot, across different kinds of work. Design-led founders often bring that naturally because they’re in a position to experiment freely and shape the product from the top.

But at the same time, designers also need to individually ship and build that muscle themselves.

Personally, I really admire what the founder of mymind.com does — it’s pure craft, refined through years of experimentation.

That said, I believe the best design studios are the ones that sit close to the founder and ship alongside them — not just for them.

Let me know if you ever need help — always happy to jam: https://x.com/iamarnob6543
by thom | 2025-07-20 23:58:31+00:00
Yeah, I see this all over. Every hobby becomes a question of how to get better at it, not of how to enjoy it more. Even if you enjoy your craft and growing your skills, the internet presents you with infinitely many well-trodden paths, completely robbing you of any sense of ownership. Instead of being here and now, possessing agency in a particular moment, you're just a dot in the bottom-left quadrant of some enormous scatter graph. It's the total perspective vortex.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-20 23:59:44+00:00
Except we're not dealing with one of the web servers running out of reg-shopped countries where you can host just about anything. We're dealing with stuff that's legal as-is in most developed countries, including America. Aside from the basic question of whether it's ethical to regulate in that way (you're correct it's practical, but there are plenty of things that get results but are morally wrong) it doesn't bear on this case.
by MarkSweep | 2025-07-21 00:00:16+00:00
I’ve had a few family relations approach technology this way. I think it’s like they are missing a “theory of mind” for how software works. We have developed this intuition by either using or creating software for a long time.

Like often people are scared to click random buttons or explore menus. We have used software for a long time, so we know that any destructive act would be proceeded by an “are you sure?” dialog box.

I think I would be in their shoes if I ever tried to change the oil on my car. I may be able to follow a procedure. But I would not deviate from it. It would not try to pop the covers off unrelated parts to peek into the alternator, for fear of electric shock.

Anyways, my rambling point is ideally we people would make themselves more familiar with how to understand the technology they work with everyday. But we should have empathy for people who have not contorted their minds to understand the peculiar behavior of software.
by shivamani03350 | 2025-07-21 00:02:14+00:00
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by dataangel | 2025-07-21 00:03:25+00:00
You're a bit naive about the complexity. Commonly longer sequences are actually faster, not just because instructions vary in their speed, but also because the presence of earlier instructions that don't feed results into later instructions still affect their performance. Different instructions consume different CPU resources and can contend for them (e.g. the CPU can stall even though all the inputs needed for a calculation are ready just because you've done too many of that operation recently). And then keep in mind when I say "earlier instructions" I don't mean earlier in the textual list, I mean in the history of instructions actually executed; you can reach the same instruction arriving from many different paths!
by Aurornis | 2025-07-21 00:03:51+00:00
> but I cannot understand how programmers (whether complete nobodies or popular figures) dont mind adding a strong dependency on a third party in order to keep programming.

I don’t understand how people consider this a strong dependency.

Changing LLMs is trivial. Some times I’ll switch between LLMs on a whim to experiment. I can close one coding agent app and open another in seconds.

These claims about vendor lock-in and strong dependencies seem to mostly be coming from people watching from a distance, not the people on the ground using these tools.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-07-21 00:03:51+00:00
It's also interesting how much worse security gets with all this RCSR oversight.

Because the policy teams don't understand the technical details, they get hung up on things that don't matter so all your "security budget" (in terms of dev effort available for improvement) gets spent on useless things.

Because there is a CIS guideline recommending "do not put secrets in environment variables" in k8s, a team I work with recently spent two weeks modifying deployments of all their third party charts to mount all secrets as volumes, this included modifying / patching upstream helm charts. This will be a maintenance burden forever lol. Actual security benefit in context is approximately zero.

Meanwhile they COULD have spent that time implementing broadly effective things like NetworkPolicy or CSP for the front-end but now there is no dev time for that.

At the top levels of their process there are plenty of risk x impact matrices but there aren't corresponding effort / payoff assessments, so the things being done end up not being engineering.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-21 00:04:03+00:00
These are at some level businesses that do well because they avoid regulatory regimes. That risk is built-in from day one and basically their raison d'etre. I happen to think that's fine and good, but it's still the case.

In other words, the guys who actually believe in a normal level of compliance are hamstrung, defection is rewarded, classic failure mode of this kind of thing.
by Silhouette | 2025-07-21 00:04:53+00:00
Most of the UK didn't even vote for a Labour representative at the last general election. The Labour party's current control of our government is the result of one of the most disproportionate parliamentary majorities ever relative to its actual popular vote at the election. It's a consequence of our broken "first past the post" voting system.

There's a certain irony in our politics right now that FPTP has been maintained by two dominant political parties because it has served their purposes to have little real challenge from smaller parties despite those parties collectively having quite a lot of popular support. That same system has now all but ended one of those two dominant parties as a force in British politics and at the next election it might well do the same for the other. The scariest question is who we might then get instead if Labour don't force through a radical change to our voting system while they still have the (possibly last) chance.
by kypro | 2025-07-21 00:05:00+00:00
My GF works in schools helping children who have special needs. It's really sad some of the things she tells me. Many parents of these children will spend all of their child's DLA on giving their hair or nails done. Kids regularly turn up to school hungry and sometimes don't even get presents on their birthdays.

Many kids from these backgrounds are seen as little more than cashcows to help their parents get homes and income without having to work.
by whynotmaybe | 2025-07-21 00:05:11+00:00
I guess we should make some comparisons between marketing budget for cars presented as "freedom" and public transit as outdated VS public transit discrediting cars.

Why were there tax incentives to own cars? Because cars were manufactured locally and required a lot of labor so we can say that it was a relatively positive thing for the economy.

But how come that some countries have both a strong public transit and huge car industries like France or Germany?
by theluketaylor | 2025-07-21 00:05:27+00:00
As far as I know all the common commercially available heat pump appliances all use the same refrigerants, so it doesn't seem like it would be that challenging.

In cars that have unified heat management the refrigerant cycle is handled as a separate element, with a manifold controlling individual coolant loops to each component. I'm picturing something similar for the home, with a coolant moving heat to and from each appliance using standardized communication to the manifold. There would probably need to be heat buffer tanks, but air to water heat pump systems for radiant heat already need this anyway.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-07-21 00:06:07+00:00
The reason I think this is because: 1. I know this first-hand and 2. You have to be completely blind to not see the same thing happen multiple times with multiple laws (this has been happening for decades).

Elected officials are irrelevant because, in this case, they are functionally unable to propose a reasonable alternative. Policy options were presented, all of the policy options offered in this case were to empower Ofcom (again, how old are you? are you unable to think of another situation like this: same thing happened with BoE/PRA in 2010, same thing happened with Border Force creation, same thing happened with illegal immigration where the only functional action presented was to increase Home Office staffing, I can go on and on) so what was the alternative?

You also may not understand what is going on here either: this legislation gave Ofcom new statutory powers but what you might not be aware of is that Ofcom has also been granted through non-statutory instruments significant new powers that interlock with this legislation...who voted on that? Again: media campaign by the powers that be, multiple Home Office ministers have been railroaded into this, Ofcom/security services have been granted new powers (the latter by the back door...again, tell me what that has to do with "social media abuse"? nothing).

Finally, elected officials are mostly pawns. The majority of "them" do not know what is in the legislation. They have been told the PM wants "Molly's Law" passed, so it is passed. Some of the scrutiny was laughable...do you understand that the law has a provision that requires tech companies to provide "end-to-end encryption" that the government can break? To their credit, this was questioned by legislators several times...it wasn't removed from the Bill, despite it obviously being unrelated to anything in the Act. Again, how are you this blind? Do you see why elected officials might be irrelevant if you are so blind?
by j1elo | 2025-07-21 00:07:18+00:00
You could access via web browser and try this uBlock Origin list [1], props to this commenter [2] who helpfully posted it a while ago. Or if you must use a native app, on Android use a patched version of YT that supresses shorts from the view (to be honest the user agency it still allows, is for me worth enough to prefer Android over its competition)

[1]: https://github.com/Harren06/ublock-yt-shorts

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848253
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-07-21 00:08:16+00:00
Yes...there is more I would like to say but that is the issue.

If you turn having children into a profit-seeking enterprise, you will get bad outcomes. The UK is in the bizarre position where people who should have kids aren't having kids but they are paying for the children of those who shouldn't have kids.

The statistics coming out about this are incredible. We are looking at 20-30% of this cohort likely being unable to work at any point in their lifetime.
by jerrysievert | 2025-07-21 00:08:44+00:00
my first emacs experience was emacs over 2400 baud - it was amazing for what it was, but painful at that rate, plus the resources it was taking on the host, even though I was running in a terminal, were crazy, but the experience was magnificent!

later, I ran memacs on my amiga locally, which was a better experience, had most of what I used, and seemed to work well - that was my introduction to writing code that would run on unix, locally (dcc).

enter a world of unix and x11, real life emacs, and xemacs became my thing (xemacs mostly, later), but jove was still useful: lighter weight on my sparc, seemed to just work, but I'll be darned if I didn't return back to emacs.

now, don't use emacs, when connected to a *nix box I drop back to vi (happy if vim is present), but since the advent of modern ide's that don't suck, I haven't opened emacs. I still miss zippy, Eliza, and the Hanoi towers though.
by cj | 2025-07-21 00:09:03+00:00
I’ve eaten 124g of protein so far today, no meat no protein powder.

I wish I could tell you one food, but it’s not primarily from 1 source.

Egg whites, chickpea salad, Greek yogurt - lots of stuff has protein in it.

On the flip side, I’ve never understood how meat eaters can hit their protein goals without frequently exceeding 50-100g fat per day.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-07-21 00:09:29+00:00
Stack Overflow existed because it had a moat on specific bug-fix related coding information that wasn't available elsewhere, or the mechanisms/community to solicit that information wasn't available elsewhere. Its moat naturally dissolves when a chatbot can offer all that plus more. So we have to think, what other moats will dissolve as AI gets better, cheaper, more effectively and widely deployed?

Will law firms be a thing, or basically just a formality because laws still require humans to submit cases? Will therapists still exist when AI therapy could be scientifically and anecdotally shown to be 10x as effective and much less expensive? A lot of inertia will exist because of trust, people's bias towards "the way things have always been", but as the difference in utility between traditional services and AI-powered services grow, that inertia will not be able to resist the force of change.