MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 18:22:07+00:00
It was interesting that Radio Shack found a "second life" in making IBM Compatibles that were very much their own, particularly with the improved graphics described in the article.

In the late 1980s when I was in high school I traded my TRS-80 Color Computer 3 for a 286-based clone which came in a big box with many expansion slots and that you plugged a keyboard and monitor into, like a modern full-size desktop computer. One of my friends I shared programs with had a Tandy PC which had a built-in keyboard but used an external monitor like a Commodore 64 or my CoCo -- there was a period in which they were fiercely competitive and influencing the industry. They didn't survive Win 95.
by lucideng | 2025-07-14 18:22:29+00:00
I want to agree with you that the "corvette absolves a lot of sins". But GM is still operating like they are "too big to fail", I hope we don't bail them out again. They make some amazing products and have a long history of advancing manufacturing and technology in their sector. Even with their engineering prowess, almost in spite of it, they continue to make some of the most mediocre vehicles that have ever existed. I swear the only people that buy their cars are former employees and relatives of said employees.
by empath75 | 2025-07-14 18:22:37+00:00
> if i were to visit any country, and then just randomly stay and try to get a job, I expect that it won't last long. why is this not the case for people that come here?

If you have ever gone backpacking for any length of time, you will have met large numbers of people all over the developing world from Europe, Australia and America who are living there and working illegally. In general the result of being caught is being asked to leave and come back with a new visa, and not being violently arrested and thrown into a concentration camp indefinitely.
by mlyle | 2025-07-14 18:23:09+00:00
I am pretty confident. Last similar LVGL thing I did took me 10-12 hours, and I had a quicker iteration time (running locally instead of the test hardware). Here I spent a little more than an hour, testing on real hardware, and the last 20 minutes was nitpicking.

Writing front-end display code and instantiating components to look right is very much playing to the model’s strength, though. A carefully written sentence plus context would become 40 lines of detail-dense but formulaic code.

(I have also had a lot of luck asking it to make a first pass at typesetting things in Tex, too, for similar reasons)
by frollogaston | 2025-07-14 18:23:14+00:00
Local Postgres is easy. If you're deploying to some cloud service, Postgres is still probably easier than SQLite, since persistent local storage is a bit more special there. I'd also be worried that SQLite doesn't provide something I need out of the box.

This isn't to complain about SQLite overall, it's perfect for local DBs like you'd see in app frontends or OS services.
by ben_w | 2025-07-14 18:23:19+00:00
> Do we observe misaligned behavior of LLMs?

Grok? :P

That said: We don't know how many other things besides being trained to write malicious code also lead to general misalignment.

Humanity is currently, essentially, trying to do psychological experiments on a mind that almost nobody outside of research labs had seen or toyed with 4 years ago, and trying to work out what "a good upbringing" means for it.
by delusional | 2025-07-14 18:23:26+00:00
Well they didn't. The reason we just read the article we read was because they looked in the logs, and the logs included well written reasons that were illegal. So they wrote an article.

How does stopping them from writing "fuck you" in the field (which they provably didn't, considering they found the queries), or giving you access to it, help in any way in this situation? You're going to have to make an argument here for it to make any sense.
by dmbche | 2025-07-14 18:23:31+00:00
1. I've heard of buying properties and developping them to resell at a profit. I believe there has also been firms that held off properties to raise prices, weren't there?

Edit0: actually, your point was about "buying properties to rent", but you're talking about the avg investor "renting until they sell". I can see a massive distinction, as some properties are rentals their whole lifetimes, and some are only in parts while trying to sell them. But you seem to propose that all investors are waiting to sell and "bought to rent"?

2.You can write things and those things not be factual y'know? You can just say that renting is the best choice for most, while I've provided you evidence yo the contrary, whoch you lovingly ingored twice now. Census.gov is very biased, I know.

I've rented every single day of my adult life, it's not something I'm prejudiced against, whatever you might think that means.

It is crystal clear to me and anyone I know who rents: renting is more expensive than owning, and owning a dwelling is a life goal for most people.

I really don't understand your position - other than trying to justify your own investments to yourself.

That's too bad for them. As a plant worker in manufacturing, I wish them to find everything that makes them happy - and recommend getting a union job.

Edit1: What's the line again? You will own nothing and be happy?
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-14 18:23:33+00:00
People don't grasp how easy it is to build data models like this even without privileged first-party data access.

In 2012 I created a killer prototype that demonstrated that you could accurately reconstruct most people's flight history at scale from social media and/or ad data. Probably the first of its kind. This has been possible for a long time.

A quick sketch of how it worked:

We filtered out all spatiotemporal edges in the entity graph with an implied speed of <300 kilometers per hour or <200 kilometers distance, IIRC. This was the proxy for "was on a plane". It also implicitly provided the origin and destination.

These edges can be correlated with both public flight data and maintenance IoT data from jet engines to put entities on a specific flight. People overlook the extent to which innocuous industrial IoT data can be used as a proxy for relationships in unrelated domains.

In rare cases, there was more than one plausible commercial flight. Because we had their flight history, we assumed in these cases that it was the primary airline they had used in the past, either generally or for that specific origin and destination. This almost always resolved perfectly.

This was impressively effective and it didn't require first-party data from airlines or particularly sophisticated analytics. Space and time are the primary keys of reality.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-14 18:23:43+00:00
I will never forget being in a code review for a upcoming release, there was a method that was... different. Like massively different with no good reason why it was changed as much as it was for such a small addition.

We asked the person why they made the change, and "silence". They had no reason. It became painfully clear that all they did was copy and paste the method into an LLM and say "add this thing" and it spit out a completely redone method.

So now we had a change that no one in the company actually knew just because the developer took a shortcut. (this change was rejected and reverted).

The scariest thing to me is no one actually knowing what code is running anymore with these models having a tendency to make change for the sake of making change (and likely not actually addressing the root thing but a shortcut like you mentioned)
by kevinlahey | 2025-07-14 18:23:47+00:00
This is like saying that we've had a problem with people piloting with pneumonia, so anybody sniffling or taking sudafed won't be allowed to pilot (the FAA is fine with sudafed). One hopes that getting pilots early treatment for incipient mental health issues would help ensure that they don't wind up with more serious issues.

It looks like the FAA has within the last few years gotten chiller about some antidepressants, but that they still require an elaborate and complicated process to approve use of them.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-14 18:23:58+00:00
Okay, and who are these people you contact for this data, and how do they themselves obtain it so precisely? You say the big tech industry is pretty air-tight about sharing data, so how does mysterious X company have on hand the credit ratings of all those youngish dentists on Elm street, among other kinds of information? How o these dynamics work, since you seem to know it internally?
by grafmax | 2025-07-14 18:24:02+00:00
Billionaires have funded a coup, supported climate change, mass surveillance, and a genocide in Gaza. Why are they not held to account for their wrongdoing but immigrants are being sent to concentration camps without due process for the crime of crossing border for work? The reason is that billionaires are powerful and hard to unseat, while immigrants are a convenient scapegoat for society’s ills.
by toss1 | 2025-07-14 18:24:23+00:00
I've long been in favor of sortition, but with (as suggested in the article) a set of qualifying criteria.

Not selecting absolute random people, but people who have established their ability to intelligently handle responsibility, and avoid breaking the law. E.g., once you have achieved a certain level of educational attainment (3.0+ at well-ranked college, managerial-level at established biz, certain mil leadership rank, etc.), pass security clearance, pass citizenship test, etc., you are in the qualified pool, and may be called upon to serve in a legislature. The always-a-newbie problem could be solved by allowing legislators to serve 2nd or maybe 3rd terms by re-election/confidence vote. Same for POTUS, possibly selected by sortition out of the existing legislators who pass a confidence vote.

There is no way a reasonably and responsibly selected random group of achieving responsible people would do worse than a corrupt or craven group, especially worse than the selected-for-corruption — i.e., selected for loyalty-to-leader — currently seated.
by rvz | 2025-07-14 18:25:22+00:00
Must have been acquired for an extreme discount far from the $3B offer from OpenAI and Windsurf's (alleged) valuation of $1.3BN.

Cognition being worth $4B with Devin being raced to zero by Claude Code also undercutting both Windsurf and Cursor have a very steep hill to climb.

Having both Devin and Windsurf will just make them raise more money as they burn through their operational costs.
by dang | 2025-07-14 18:25:36+00:00
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Of course annoyances are annoying, but they're also distracting, and they tend to get stuck at the top of threads, choking out more interesting conversation.)
by mrandish | 2025-07-14 18:25:48+00:00
I think the removal was originally about memory usage in Win 95 due to fitting the new OS into lower RAM systems. Then it was about battery usage. More recently the epidemic of feature and information removal from interfaces is primarily driven by the obsession of UX designers to dumb down everything to the lowest common denominator.

By controlling how usage analytics are instrumented UX designers can weaponize the data to support removing almost any feature or information they don't personally find essential. Of course, this entirely misses the fact that power users drive word-of-mouth and adoption >10x more than lowest common denominator users and also have significantly higher lifetime value because they are engaged and loyal (until you finally remove too much advanced utility). I'm all for simplicity - what I don't understand is the insistence on removing features or capabilities entirely instead of just putting them as an option in advanced settings. Different users have different preferences and good UX design can maintain surface simplicity without trashing depth, flexibility and personalization.
by klohto | 2025-07-14 18:25:53+00:00
Having been acquired by Google, there is always a leeway for the execs to take the employees with them. Google is a weak negotiator when they NEED something.

On the other hand, I can imagine the execs taking Google golden handcuffs while trying to close the Cognition deal so the employees are made whole or maybe even on better terms than if they all went to Google.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 18:26:33+00:00
I've got a longer personal blogpost coming soon!

But in the meantime I'm also the author of the "Learn by Playing" guide in the Kiro docs. It goes step by step through using Kiro on this codebase, in the `challenge` branch. You can see how Kiro performs on a series of tasks starting with light things like basic vibe coding to update an HTML page, then slightly deeper things like fixing some bugs that I deliberately left in the code, then even deeper to a full fledged project to add email verification and password reset across client, server, and infrastructure as code. There is also an intro to using hooks, MCP, and steering files to completely customize the behavior of Kiro.

Guide link here: https://kiro.dev/docs/guides/learn-by-playing/
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-14 18:26:39+00:00
There are still people not even using an editor, but rather using vibe-coding apps like lovable.

Also,I don't mean to be rude to cursor but the fact that they are literally just a vscode wrapper still, to this day makes me really crazy thinking that the value of an AI editor could be so high..

I think it was the lack of competition really, Cursor (IMO) always felt like the biggest player, I think there was continue.dev before that, but that's all I know before Cursor.

After Cursor became a hit, there are lot more things now like (Void editor?) etc.

Also, if you Find Vscode editor slow, try zed. But like my brother said to me when I was shilling zed, Vscode is just for manipulating texts and using LSP. He personally didn't feel like it was there any meaningful slowness to Vscode even though he had tried zed. Zed has Ai stuff too iirc

Now Sure, they could've created CLI, but there are a lot of really decent CLI like SST/opencode and even gemini cli. Though I have heard good things about claude code too.

Honestly, I just think that any efforts in anything is cool. I just like it when there are a lot of options and so things stay a little competitive I guess.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-14 18:26:55+00:00
> The "fix" simply muted an error instead of addressing the root cause.

FWIW, I have seen human developers do this countless times. In fact there are many people in engineering that will argue for these kinds of "fixes" by default. Usually it's in closed-source projects where the shittiness is hidden from the world, but trust me, it's common.

> I suspect their motivation was just to get a commit on their record. This is becoming a troubling trend with AI tools.

There was already a problem (pre-AI) with shitty PRs on GitHub made to try to game a system. Regardless of how they made the change, the underlying problem is a policy one: how to deal with people making shitty changes for ulterior motives. I expect the solution is actually more AI to detect shitty changes from suspicious submitters.

Another solution (that I know nobody's going to go for): stop using GitHub. Back in the "olden times", we just had CVS, mailing lists and patches. You had to perform some effort in order to get to the point of getting the change done and merged, and it was not necessarily obvious afterward that you had contributed. This would probably stop 99% of people who are hoping for a quick change to boost their profile.
by revlolz | 2025-07-14 18:27:14+00:00
Unfortunately, I strongly believe these posts often get scraped by social media aggregators or sentiment analysis platforms. So, when public sentiment appears to have "dropped by X%" because we all chilled out, it becomes a justification for decisions by non-technical program or product leaders even though users actually disliked what was being done. I see the only way forward through continued expression, so I'm assuming our happy compromise would be to have constructive negative feedback and try to hold our peer commenters accountable to quality over "upboat" mentality.
by empath75 | 2025-07-14 18:27:26+00:00
> Local law enforcement should not just enforce the law of the specific city they are in. They should enforce all applicable laws: city, county, state, country, etc.

Not only shouldn't they do it, they _can't_. You don't want some local sheriff deciding you're guilty of, I dunno, securities fraud, and you don't want the FBI writing parking tickets.
by aeve890 | 2025-07-14 18:27:33+00:00
>Voters in a liquid democracy have the right to vote directly on all policy issues à la direct democracy; voters also have the option to delegate their votes to someone who will vote on their behalf à la representative democracy.[2] Any individual may be delegated votes (those delegated votes are termed "proxies") and these proxies may in turn delegate their vote as well as any votes they have been delegated by others resulting in "metadelegation".[3]

How this solve anything? I might choose a expert representative in matters I don't have a clue, like health policy. But the morons that do "their own research" will see themselves fit to vote because in their minds they know better. So what gives?
by brudgers | 2025-07-14 18:27:35+00:00
When I got a floppy with Doom, I played it on a clone 386 and it ran well (and in fact better than on the PC's of other people I knew).

Not so much because the standard for gaming in 1993 was relative to gaming in 1993 but because Doom is a great game even at 15FPS because it was designed to be a great game even at 15FPS.
by seany | 2025-07-14 18:28:15+00:00
I've really been looking at some of the new mobile options for when I take the family camping but I still need to get some stuff done. With that said, over the last 30 days at home we've downloaded 4.8tb and uploaded 6.2 (no torrenting). I'm sure there are thing we could do different, but two people that WFH and do some semi data involved things... really just not sure how we could make that work full time.
by whstl | 2025-07-14 18:28:23+00:00
Different sections of an app can use different databases, if the bottleneck is in the database.

Different routes can be served by different servers, if the bottleneck is in CPU usage.

Different async tasks can run on different task runner services, if the problem is tasks competing with each other.

Different test suites can run for different sections of the app, if the problem is with tests taking too long to run.

Github and others even allow specific subfolders to be "owned" by different teams.

What else is there? Even slowness of compilation and/or initialization can be alleviated, depending on the language or framework.
by mindcrash | 2025-07-14 18:28:43+00:00
> Assuming the "spinnaker" it talks about is https://spinnaker.io/ how does it translate the move from virtualization to deployment?

VMware does _a lot_ more than just virtualization these days. This most likely has something to do with Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry or just Tanzu, which does provide CI/CD services.

Which they likely migrated to Spinnaker and vanilla Kubernetes.
by tensor | 2025-07-14 18:29:08+00:00
Safari supports ad blocking just fine. In fact I switched from a google pixel to iphone precisely for this feature. On the pixel there was no way to have ad blocking in embedded browsers, and of course so many apps defaulted to embedded browsers for that very reason. On iOS the blocking works everywhere.

Safari as a browser is great on iOS. The problem is the forced default of google search, and worse, you can't even use search engines outside of a very small number of built-in. E.g. I can't set the. default to be kagi. This is because the money from google is dependant on them sending users to the "search" site.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-14 18:29:30+00:00
It's not that easy. Poles vs trenches are a tradeoff discussion. FWIW I was once in construction digging trenches and I'm German, so I might be biased a bit.

Pro poles / open air:

- very, VERY cheap and fast to build out with GPON. That's how you got 1/1 GBit fiber in some piss poor village in the rural ditches of Romania.

- easy to get access when you need to do maintenance

Con poles / open air:

- it looks fucking ugly. Many a nice photo from Romania got some sort of half assed fiber cable on it.

- it's easy for drunk drivers, vandals (for the Americans: idiots shooting birds that rest on aboveground lines [1][2]), sabotage agents or moronic cable thieves to access and damage infrastructure

Pro trench digging:

- it's incredibly resilient. To take out electricity and power, you need a natural disaster at the scale of the infamous Ahrtal floods that ripped through bridges carrying cables and outright submerged and thus ruined district distribution networking rooms, but even the heaviest hailstorm doesn't give a fuck about cable that's buried. Drunk drivers are no concern, and so are cable thieves or terrorists.

- it looks way better, especially when local governments go and re-surface the roads afterwards

Cons trench digging:

- it's expensive, machinery and qualified staff are rare

- you usually need lots more bureaucracy with permits, traffic planning or what not else that's needed to dig a trench

- when something does happen below ground, it can be ... challenging to access the fault.

- in urban or even moderately settled areas, space below ground can be absurdly congested with existing infrastructure that necessitates a lot of manual excavation instead of machinery. Gas, water, sewers, long decommissioned pipe postal service lines, subways, low voltage power, high voltage power, other fiber providers, cable TV...

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/illegal-shoo...

[2] https://ucs.net/node/513
by ben_w | 2025-07-14 18:29:33+00:00
If we're lucky, it will be following fiction tropes.

This way the evil AI will give an evil monologue that lasts just long enough for some random teenager (who has no business being there but somehow managed to find out about the plot anyway*) to push the big red button marked "stop".

If we're unlucky, it will be following the tropes of a horror story.

* and find themselves roped into the story no matter how often they refused the call: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero's_journey#Refusal_of_the_...
by pyman | 2025-07-14 18:30:08+00:00
In March 2024, Tether helped the DOJ and FBI seize $1.4 million in USDT from a tech-support scam—funds were returned to victims

In June 2025, they assisted in freezing about $225 million tied to a massive "pig-butchering" fraud, working closely with the DOJ to identify and restrict wallets

Questions:

Why isn't Tether regulated like a bank? Why are governments allowing them to operate at this scale? They say they're a tech company issuing digital tokens, and that's how they manage to operate under unclear laws, based offshore in the Caribbean.

This doesn't make any sense. A company moves billions every month, acts like a bank, avoids regulation by calling itself a tech firm, and sets up shop offshore and governments just let it happen? Who owns that money? Who's really behind it?
by didibus | 2025-07-14 18:30:15+00:00
For anyone wondering, Amazon already offers an Agentic coding CLI similar to Claude Code: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli

It has a pretty decent free tier, and maybe the subscription is better value than Claude Code, but hard to tell.

It supports MCP as well.

Amazon Q also has a VC Code and IntelliJ Idea plugin too, Kiro goes beyond what you can do as a plugin in VS Code though, similar to why Cursor had to fork VS Code.
by microtonal | 2025-07-14 18:30:28+00:00
Here symmetric 4Gbit without a data cap (NL). Best of all, you can bring your own equipment. I have my Ubiquiti Gateway Max hooked up to fiber with a media converter (yes, the Gateway Max does PPPoE etc.).

My parents live in a small, countryside village. They have fiber at the same prices (including 4Gbit symmetric, though they are happy with a cheap 200Mbit subscription).