MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MattGaiser | 2025-07-28 03:24:14+00:00
That isn't needed, as LLMs are way cheaper. Even if they never advance beyond strong new grad, their cheapness is enormous value add on its own. GitHub will presently sell you 1500 AI generated PRs a month for $40. You used to have to pay a human 10K a month, even if it was small stuff.

All kinds of software that are worth as little as 10K a year are now worth building, as making and supporting them is so trivial.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-28 03:26:05+00:00
Back with palladium the people that used computers were still mostly knowledgeable like us. These days everyone carries a phone and nobody really understands the impact. In fact many people in the EU are even against the opening of iOS because they feel comfortable in apple's walled garden. Many people consider privacy a lost battle (I often get the argument "why are you railing against this, you have no privacy anymore anyway"). And that's from intelligent people usually.
by andyferris | 2025-07-28 03:29:05+00:00
I’d say some of the downsides on the modern internet become much starker when your kids come up against them. As adults growing up through the birth of the internet we are kinda inoculated to it.

I suspect the lack of privacy is because the target audience is “kids” not “teens”. When my kids first discovered group chat in iMessage with their cousins it was fun for literally 30 minutes before it was tears and abuse - which was a really instructive lesson for me.

At that (primary school) age parents would almost universally know the parents of your kid’s out-of-school playmates - if only because someone tends to have duty of care at any time and who is where with whom needs to be figured out.

The feature set seems sound and frankly welcome and overdue to me!
by reactordev | 2025-07-28 03:29:18+00:00
Now replace Google with an EU company doing it in the EU for EU jobs and everything you described. It’s not like money only comes from the US.

You are right to be worried. US companies under this administration can’t be trusted to follow the law. Why should they, when our commander in chief isn’t and has a panel of judges who let him do whatever. Just the other day he suggested Obama be investigated for treason. So yeah, we’re toxic, and you all should seriously quarantine yourselves.
by anovikov | 2025-07-28 03:29:31+00:00
Why is it even a problem if fertility falls much faster in rest of the world and US also has massive immigration unlike almost all other countries? American immigration is also almost entirely Christian and whitest of immigration to any other large country, so it's not even making America genetically worse. It's only a one-generational integration problem, which always existed and America knows how to handle it very well, it's been there since inception.

And well, majority of fertility decline is a consequence of successful handling of a major social ill - teenage pregnancies. People stopped having entirely unwanted kids at the time in life when they couldn't handle it. And yes, a result of this (but not the cause!) is the massive increase of parenting time/workload - not because past generations thought that letting their kids fend for themselves was a good idea, but because they were fucking teens who tried to figure their lives at least minimally with unwanted kids on their backs! Those kids were constantly beaten up, neglected, and grew up drug addicts who stole stereos from cars and dealed crack in 1980s. Thank God that kind of fertility is gone.
by hdhdhsjsbdh | 2025-07-28 03:30:19+00:00
How uninspired are we that the best we can hope for is to be served popcorn by robots? I look forward to a future where the mentally ill in Los Angeles don’t live in tents by ditches; where blue collar migrant workers aren’t snatched off the streets or racially profiled; where human dignity takes precedence over money for a few people. Sorry but it is not possible to separate any Musk project, however benign, from the reality that he is a force for evil as far as human dignity and flourishing are concerned. Enjoy your rollerskating robots.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-07-28 03:31:04+00:00
The article says it's illegal and they're having trouble tracing the devices back to those responsible.

Having briefly participated in some illegal and covert missionary work, I hope they are stopped. Of course when your mission is from heaven then no risk is too great. Looking back from the outside, it does amaze me the logic pretzels one learns to make to justify stuff like this when raised in the church.

That said, IME, some of these groups do have decent opsec, and they have to considering the penalties in certain countries.
by hnpolicestate | 2025-07-28 03:31:16+00:00
The problem isn't being handcuffed by Google or an American company, it's being handcuffed at all. Is it some kind of psychological coping skill to misdirect from the obvious problem (an age verification app that bans user software preferences)?

Who cares if it's Google or an American company. The point is you decided to let the E.U dictate what software you can run on your phone.
by reactordev | 2025-07-28 03:32:21+00:00
Cool, in what court? EU court? It would be the EU doing this. Want to do business in the EU, GDPR extends to giving us the keys as well if you’re going to valet park here. Or they can go kick rocks while smart engineers in member countries build a new android. After all, a lot has changed since someone decided to bolt Java onto a Linux kernel.
by cjonas | 2025-07-28 03:32:57+00:00
Then do you need tests to validate your tests are correct, otherwise the LLM might just generate passing code even if the test is bad? Or write code that games the system because it's easier to hardcode an output value then to do the actual work.

There probably is a setup where this works well, but the LLM and humans need to be able to move across the respective boundaries fluidly...

Writing clear requirements and letting the AI take care of the bulk of both sides seems more streamlined and productive.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-28 03:33:42+00:00
It's in part because the military doesn't buy stuff from China.

The companies that make the parts for those missiles (not just the mega corp whose badge is on it) are likely only in business because they make the parts for it, and employ 20-200 people with decent pay and full benefits in Corn County, Midwest to do it.

On the surface it looks like enormous waste, it still might be, but understand that the defense budget is primarily a jobs program and basically only thing propping up Americans manufacturing.

This is why it never gets cut, but anyone red or blue. It employs way to many people and in way to many places without much good work. Republicans especially hate welfare, but if you can get people to show up and turn screws, they'll happily "waste" money on them.
by MarioMan | 2025-07-28 03:33:50+00:00
My washing machine is a "dumb" machine from the '90s. The wash cycles run based on the position of a glorified timer knob: it doesn't have a computer or sensors to detect if it needs extra time aside from the water fill stages. Thanks to this consistency, I just set a 40 minute timer on my phone, and it's always done by then. Can't get much simpler than that. If I need reminders, there's always the alarm snooze function.
by somat | 2025-07-28 03:33:50+00:00
Fun fact: corn farmers almost always rotate with soybeans to replenish the nitrogen in the soil.

Also, most corn (and soybeans) is for animal food anyway. Very little of the corn grown in the US is for human consumption.

My understanding(not a corn farmer but have watched a show by one on youtube) is the farmer will harvest the corn then dry and store it, selling over the course of a year or two, the ethanol plant is sort of the fallback option when they need to get rid if it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSB-8dn3CkI

Personally, I am in the rapeseed bandwagon. Ethanol is not a very good fuel, better to be growing bio-diesel
by henriquegodoy | 2025-07-28 03:34:03+00:00
Great post! i've been thinking along similar lines about human-AI interfaces beyond the copilot paradigm. I see two major patterns emerging:

Orchestration platforms - Evolution of tools like n8n/Make into cybernetic process design systems where each node is an intelligent agent with its own optimization criteria. The key insight: treat processes as processes, not anthropomorphize LLMs as humans. Build walls around probabilistic systems to ensure deterministic outcomes where needed. This solves massive "communication problems"

Oracle systems - AI that holds entire organizations in working memory, understanding temporal context and extracting implicit knowledge from all communications. Not just storage but active synthesis. Imagine AI digesting every email/doc/meeting to build a living organizational consciousness that identifies patterns humans miss and generates strategic insights.

just explored more about it on my personal blog https://henriquegodoy.com/blog/stream-of-consciousness
by deathanatos | 2025-07-28 03:34:48+00:00
> You mean a cross ethernet cable?

If both machines have an Ethernet port.

> Or using Bluetooth?

Half the time I need a dumb pipe, it's from personal to work. Regrettably, work forces me to use macOS, and macOS's bluetooth implementation is just an utter tire fire, and doesn't work 90% of the time. I usually fall back to networks, for that reason.

Of course, MBPs also have the "no port" problem above.

> Or using local WiFi (direct or not)

If I'm home, yeah. But TFA is advertising the ability to hole-punch, and if I'm traveling, that'd be an advantage.
by Leftium | 2025-07-28 03:35:06+00:00
Veneer: a thin facade over Google Forms/Sheets (https://github.com/Leftium/veneer)

Some samples:

- https://veneer.leftium.com/v/s.1o5t26He2DzTweYeleXOGiDjlU4Jk...

- https://veneer.leftium.com/v/s.1pk4C9jFI02CnZaxo9obsD4oAmLla...

Vercel is ending support for Node v18. Instead of updating my old app, I decided to finish the rewrite of the better version. The old version currently powers this site: https://viviblues.com

Compare to the new version:

- https://viviblues.com/pretty/sheet?u=https://docs.google.com...

- https://viviblues.com/pretty/sheet?u=https://docs.google.com...
by kerkeslager | 2025-07-28 03:35:15+00:00
> Recursive descent is fine if you trust that you won't write buggy code. If you implement a generator for it (easy enough), this may be a justifiable thing to trust (though this is not a given).

The idea that you're going to hand-roll a parser generator and then use that to generate a parser and the result is going to be less buggy than just hand-rolling a recursive descent parser, screams "I've never written code outside of an academic context".
by kamaal | 2025-07-28 03:35:33+00:00
I think writing code was never slow. Or atleast never the slowest part of the overall process.

Vibe coding might be fast, but thats only if you wish to pretend that coders deploy to production directly within minutes of writing code without product discussions, automated builds, CI/CD, code review, production testing, UAT, regression testing, security testing etc.

In reality when you factor in all these things, which are absolutely necessary if you don't want you product to break every new release and lose users permanently. You have to do the same drills as you always did.

To that end, unless you are building something very large, coding velocity is largely irrelevant.
by skissane | 2025-07-28 03:35:42+00:00
We lived in different geographies (you were somewhere in the US, I was in Sydney, Australia), being exposed to different types of enterprises: for me a private Catholic high school, and the Australian branch of the global US-headquartered pharmaceutical company for which my father worked.

I suspect your experiences were in part a product of which industry you were in, and which end of that industry - in another comment you mentioned DOS-based CAD software, in the early 1990s some big firms (especially in aerospace, defence, automotive) were still using IBM mainframe-based CAD systems running on IBM 7437s and 5080s (and if you could afford that fiendishly expensive kit, you could afford networking and likely already had it); as the 1990s progressed, mainframe-based CAD increasingly moved to UNIX workstations, for which Ethernet was very standard. And DOS-based CAD software and networking were not mutually exclusive-NetWare worked fine with DOS, and my high school had a CAD lab running the DOS version of Bentley MicroStation (IIRC, the DOS version we used was still branded Intergraph not Bentley), but all the machines were connected to Ethernet and we logged in to them using NetWare. Similarly, at my dad’s work almost all PCs ran Windows 3.x, but there were a few DOS-only machines connected to various pieces of laboratory or manufacturing equipment for which the software was DOS-only (and had issues running under a Windows 3.x DOS box) - and they connected those machines to NetWare too, because NetWare had no problem with DOS-only clients.
by mootoday | 2025-07-28 03:35:50+00:00
I'm heads down building a workflow pipeline builder that executes Wasm Components as part of individual nodes within the pipeline.

Think Zapier or n8n, but you either use existing processing nodes or upload your own code, written of course in any language that compiles to Wasm Components.

It's week 2 but it works and it's live at https://pipestack.dev
by graeme | 2025-07-28 03:35:53+00:00
I remember when the corn subsidies were introduced. I don't recall seeing any favourable commentary. Nor do I remember anyone in real life discussing them or saying "gee I'm glad we're saying the environment with biofuels"

For anyone who had heard of them the program seemed pretty transparently a way to put a fig leaf on an extra subsidy. Big agriculture may not have spoken accurately about the programs but I doubt they succeeded in misleading anyone. Maybe in the states receiving subsidies, no firsthand experience of the marketing there.
by deathanatos | 2025-07-28 03:36:18+00:00
One … can. I have a script for this myself, but I only set that up after wanting to do ad hoc and then realizing that it was basically impossible to do from scratch. Ad hoc requires an Internet connection to download the knowledge necessary to do ad hoc, and that utterly defeats the point of it all. (Except in how I've now cached that into a script.)

Ad hoc requires the machines be in "WiFi shouting range".
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-28 03:38:59+00:00
Given Space Xs issues in the subsequent years with complying with environmental regulations, it doesn’t seem that ridiculous to me. It’s not as though the shark question was simply posed in a vacuum: it was part of a broader inquiry into potential impacts of launching rockets into space. And Space X wasn’t singled out. Blue Origin had to do the same paperwork, yet bezos didn’t feel the need to whine about it.
by fivestones | 2025-07-28 03:39:07+00:00
The problem we’ve found is that when you get more information, you are more likely to find things that look off somewhere, which may have no real bearing on your actual health but definitely can cause you to have a worse quality of life—whether because of stress or subsequent more invasive tests or just the time and energy it costs you.

This is why there are tests which previously were recommended to a wide range of people on a regular basis which are now only recommended in more limited settings. PSA is a good example of this.

The question to ask is, is doing this test likely to improve my life, or not? And while you probably can’t know the answer for a specific test in your specific case without trying, you can often know the probability that it will improve your life based on statistical analysis of other people who have gotten that test and how it went for them.
by guessmyname | 2025-07-28 03:39:27+00:00
> Yes, why do people use products from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, ...

I work at Apple, so I’m not concerned about being monitored—it’s all company-owned equipment and data anyway.

It was the same when I worked at Microsoft. I used Microsoft products exclusively, regardless of any potential privacy concerns.

Employees at Google and Amazon do the same. It’s known as “dogfooding”—using your own products to test and improve them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food).

As for why people outside these companies use their products, it usually comes down to two reasons: a) Their employer has purchased licenses and wants employees to use them, either for compliance or to get value from the investment; or b) They genuinely like the product—whether it’s because of its features, price, performance, support, or overall experience.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-28 03:40:52+00:00
Lobbyists are responsible for all of the harm that Americans at large come to. Eco damage, car crashes, toxic chemicals in food, the drug war, wars in the Middle East, lack of public housing, the world's most expensive health care, union-busting, even heart disease. If you can think of it and it hurts lots of Americans, lobbyists were behind it.
by Nevermark | 2025-07-28 03:41:14+00:00
Our thumbs, ..., our intellect, and especially language, gave us an ecological/economic niche.

We became a technological species.

We observed, standardized and mechanized our environments to work for us. That is our niche.

But then things snowballed in the last couple of centuries. A threshold was crossed. Our technology became our environment, and we began adapting the environment for our technologies direct benefit, for own indirect benefit.

Simple roads for us at first, then paved for mechanized contraptions. Wires for talking at first, then optimized for computers. We are now almost completely building out a technological world for the convenience and efficiency of the technology.

And once our technology frees us from dependence on others, a second threshold will be crossed. Then neither others or the technology, will need us.

I don't see a species of devolving humans, no longer needed by their creations, in a world now convenient for those creations, finding a happy niche.

If there is a happy landing, it will need to take a different route than that.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-28 03:42:40+00:00
If they could have stopped BitTorrent they would have long ago.

So no, this is totally ineffective. And it's not like there's actually a problem. There's no crisis of messed up kids or young adults. We all had access to porn in some form and we all turned out fine. I used to watch the late night pay tv which was just 'scrambled' by removing the sync signal. It was easy to put that back with some electronics chops. I saw my share of gangbangs and cumshots and I did not get messed up or get weird ideas. In fact I often get compliments I'm a sensitive and caring lover. I never do or push for the dirty porn tropes (unless she asks for them :)

So did most of my school friends. Also video tapes got passed on at school and later CDroms (when the writable DVD came I was already an adult). We all had plenty.

This is all to mitigate a "crisis" which doesn't actually exist.
by dmix | 2025-07-28 03:44:50+00:00
The UK in the last 2 decades has been far more totalitarian than the US, even up to 2025. But the people in England seem to accept it and openly defend government encroachment even here on HN. While even smallest steps towards eroding rights in US have people there decry it, so it's far more controversial and newsworthy

But it's nice so many people care about the last few places where hard freedoms exist. The biggest risk is missing the forest for the trees and not seeing the local extensions of short term political comprise.
by dboreham | 2025-07-28 03:44:53+00:00
For readers who are not local perhaps worth noting that Wolf reintroduction is a very emotional subject in this area. The wolves were brought back just before I moved here 25 years ago and I remember wondering if anyone ever wrote a letter to the editor at the Bozeman paper that wasn't about wolves. It's a kind of pre-Trump anti-science, anti-intellectual issue, the echoes of which you'll see in the comments on the article. It's one of the things featured in that TV show with Kevin Costner that's actually accurate.
by apparent | 2025-07-28 03:46:20+00:00
> Although Alpha says it offers students opportunities to collaborate, some have decided to leave after middle school to embrace a high school experience with team sports, student council and prom night.

Seems like an oversight not mention that Lake Travis Sports Academy specifically focuses on sports as the after-academics activity? If the author was not aware of this, that suggest insufficient research. If she was aware and chose not to include this relevant fact, that signals bias.

I found this review [1] to be much more informative. Can't understand why the NYT would publish something so clearly inferior, so much later.

1: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-alpha-school
by joak | 2025-07-28 03:46:44+00:00
Agriculture is bad for biodiversity. The raison d'être of agriculture is to favor few species over all others. The goal of agriculture is to reduce biodiversity.

Please keep agriculture for food.

Simple molecules like ethanol can be produced with electricity, water and air (CO2 capture). No need to sterilize a patch of land for that.

Besides I'm not sure ethanol is much needed, electric cars do not burn ethanol.
by reactordev | 2025-07-28 03:46:54+00:00
>Haven't crime rates been declining in the West for quite a while now?

Yes but not for the reasons you think. More crime is going unreported, unsolved, unenforced than ever before. It started during Covid and hasn’t really gotten any better. The Leo’s that are die hard are now out there wearing masks looking for people of a specific skin color.
by bensonn | 2025-07-28 03:47:23+00:00
My two cents of info as mildly informed. I am a volunteer ff/emt.

My department is very well funded compared to the rest of our county. Compared to cities, it is laughably underfunded. We are 90 percent volunteer. We have zero paramedics, only EMTs (about 4).

An Engine not only has to run but has to pump. An engine may drive 3 miles but then run for 20 hours without moving but pumping water the entire time (using the transmission to do so). If the pump is not up to standards, FFs do not enter a building. No water, no entry. If the pump isn't compliant then it is not longer an "engine". Mileage is irrelevant. A low mileage engine (10k) might have a million other problems after 100k hours. Who fixes that in a volunteer department?

Ambulances are the same. The drive may be short but the engine never stops idling or charging the equipment on board. In the city the answer is always transport. If you have 1 ambulance and 6 hours round trip, you may stay on scene for a while to avoid a transport (assuming you don't risk the patient's life).

Most volunteer departments have 1-2 engines, and those are aging. If an engine goes out of service without a replacement, we stop responding.

This is not a city/rural problem. If you have ever taken a road trip, gone camping, visited relatives in "the country", then then you are relying on, and praying they have the equipment and staff to respond. Go outside the city for a rafting trip- swiftwater, rope rescue, EMS, traffic... all in the hands of volunteers with no resources.

Back to the article- we have one engine out of service. We can't buy 20x our tax revenue. Yes, everything has gone up in price. When EMS and Fire becomes unpurchaseable, there are (dire) consequences.
by jajuuka | 2025-07-28 03:47:46+00:00
I think this misses the forest for the trees. I could care less if the app requires a Google Android phone or non-jailbroken iPhone to work. I care that age verification exists in the first place, when it most definitely shouldn't. Arguing and ranting about how a huge privacy compromise functions misses the point that privacy is being compromised.

It's just odd to see them bringing up America when their own government created this. Not the US. How about fight the actual problem instead of making sure the problem works on more devices.