MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anovikov | 2025-08-10 08:56:34+00:00
My assertion is that this is mainly because of Communism and the Atheism it brought in. Surely it won't happen because of historical/cultural Atheism e.g. in China. Communism has destroyed the very idea of "society" as we understand it - both due to ideology ("society as a construct put forward by the exploiter classes to keep people in check") - they originally even considered nuclear family to be such institution as well ("family as a cell of exploitation") but quickly realised that destroying the family results in depopulation and lack of muskets to fight the "capitalist pigs" and reverted on that one. For Communists, there is a state and there are people, but no "society" - it is a dangerous thing that can get in the Party's way as a quasi-organised third subject. State keeps people in check and exploits them to meet the Party's goals, people are free to do whatever they can get away with when the Party and the State are looking the other way, morally 100% free to cheat it and each other - hard power is the only thing that can stop them. Now the Party is gone, society has not formed, and the people are set free...

Society and God are about the same thing right? Something that keeps people in check without a threat of hard force. Totalitarianism destroys that because it won't tolerate anything getting in it's way.
by chii | 2025-08-10 08:56:37+00:00
> The marginal value being too low is just the company being bad at optimizing.

not really.

If there's a job for cleaning the sidewalk of a joint, or for holding up a sign, but this marginal value is very low, then a minimum wage greater than this value will prevent this productive work from being done (or it'd be done by an existing worker, at the sacrifice of some other productive work they _could've_ done). There's no way to "optimize" this.

Personally i am not a fan of minimum wage. I rather have tax payer money spent on creating valuable workers through training. There's lots of models for such programs - for example, an apprenticeship model, where a firm pays for the cost of an apprenticeship (which includes wages as well as cost of training), in exchange for an agreed upon number of years of employment at an agreed upon fixed wage post-training (they cannot quit or will have to pay back the cost of training for example).
by itsalotoffun | 2025-08-10 08:56:40+00:00
I think we're still in the gray zone of the "Incessant Obsolescence Postulate" (the Wait Calculation). Are you better off "skilling up" on the tech as it is today, or waiting for it to just "get better" so by the time you kick off, you benefit from the solved-problems X years from now. I also think this calculation differs by domain, skill level, and your "soft skill" abilities to communicate, explain and teach. In some domains, if you're not already on this train, you won't even get hired anymore.

The current state of LLM-driven development is already several steps down the path of an end-game where the overwhelming majority of code is written by the machine; our entire HCI for "building" is going to be so far different to how we do it now that we'll look back at the "hand-rolling code era" in a similar way to how we view programming by punch-cards today. The failure modes, the "but it SUCKS for my domain", the "it's a slot machine" etc etc are not-even-wrong. They're intermediate states except where they're not.

The exceptions to this end-game will be legion and exist only to prove the end-game rule.
by 7952 | 2025-08-10 08:56:56+00:00
I work at a corporate that uses FortiNet. Not just VPN but for AV and web filtering. It aggregates traffic together, increases the attack surface and makes us vulnerable to zero day attacks. All to protect sensitive data that is almost entirely composed of connections of Microsoft software to Microsoft servers. And using all the normal SSO/authorisation stuff. It probably is required from a compliance perspective, but just seems like a massive tradeoff for security .
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-08-10 08:57:03+00:00
Where I am it's often not warm and dry enough through summer for chillies and tomatoes. If there are a few cooler, wetter weeks then they do poorly.

Potatoes are a bit better in that respect.

But in poor weather conditions, blight can easily set in on the potatoes and tomatoes. Which makes it a lot less worthwhile.
by verisimi | 2025-08-10 08:58:42+00:00
> malicious AI agents might hide bad intent and actions by communicating in a dense, indecipherable way while presenting only normal intent and actions in their natural language output.

you could edit this slightly to extract a pretty decent rule for governance, like so:

> malicious agents might hide bad intent and actions by communicating in a dense, indecipherable way while presenting only normal intent and actions in a natural way

It applies to ai, but also many other circumstances where the intention is that you are governed - eg medical, legal, financial.

Thanks!
by 47282847 | 2025-08-10 08:59:42+00:00
I am German and this statement catches me by surprise. All of my friends from a lot of different fields would agree that workplace friends are a very important pillar of our lives.

I think there are many strategies to get your own needs met. Keeping friends and work separate doesn’t automatically make it unhealthy; it’s more about individual choice. My peers would not want to work in places without friendship.
by spauldo | 2025-08-10 08:59:45+00:00
I'm an old-school user so I'm not exactly Ubuntu's target audience, but for Ubuntu was bad about a lot of the older, lesser-used bits of Linux.

The two things I can remember were problems with NFS out of the box (outside having to install nfs-common, which I'm fine with) and apt-cache not displaying descriptions of packages. There were lots of other, minor annoyances that affected people like me but wouldn't affect someone who got into Linux desktops after, say, 2010. My memory sucks though so those are the two I remember. Yes, there were bug reports filed and yes, they sat in the tracker for years with no attention from Ubuntu.

I wound up back on Debian once I got old enough that I didn't care about being behind the times a couple years.
by delusional | 2025-08-10 09:00:18+00:00
Where I live we solve this in part with state sponsored offsets in wages. If you hire a person with a medically diagnosed handicap, you get some of the wages back from the government.

That way they aren't "dependent on government aid". They get to work for a fair comparable wage, avoid having to deal with too much additional paperwork, and don't have to be constantly faced with a stigma of being worth less. They are treated equally, and the employer gets to handle their crap on the back end.

It's not some insurmountable gotcha to drag people with a handicap into the conversation.
by inglor_cz | 2025-08-10 09:00:30+00:00
True. I visited a doctor friend in a fairly good institution (IKEM) and he showed me a comode. When he opened it, it was full of alcohol. Hard liquor and wine.

He said: "This is what the patients brought us last week. How are we supposed not to become alcoholics?"

He was seriously worried, btw. No light joking. In every work collective, healthcare included, there are some people prone to alcoholism and this is just a dangerous temptation to them.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-08-10 09:03:15+00:00
>I made a CLI logs viewers and querier for my job, which is very useful but would have taken me a few days to write (~3k LoC)

I recall The Mythical Man-Month stating a rough calculation that the average software developer writes about 10 net lines of new, production-ready code per day. For a tool like this going up an order of magnitude to about 100 lines of pretty good internal tooling seems reasonable.

OP sounds a few cuts above the 'average' software developer in terms of skill level. But here we also need to point out a CLI log viewer and querier is not the kind of thing you actually needed to be a top tier developer to crank out even in the pre-LLM era, unless you were going for lnav [1] levels of polish.

[1]: https://lnav.org/
by delusional | 2025-08-10 09:04:01+00:00
Ohh no, it's Jordan Peterson.

Not every job is the military. Most jobs are in fact not the military. Not qualifying for military service does not render you worthless in the general economy. Furthermore, being worthless in the general economy does not render you worthless in society.

I wasn't qualified for military service in my country, not because of intelligence but some physical conditions. I became a banker.
by joshstrange | 2025-08-10 09:04:02+00:00
Altman is not trustworthy IMHO. So I have a really hard time taking that tweet at face value.

It seems equally possible that they had tweaked the router in order to save money (push more queries towards the lower power models) and due to the backlash are tweaking them again and calling it a bug.

I guess it’s possible they aren’t being misleading but again, Altman/OpenAI haven’t earned my trust.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-08-10 09:06:05+00:00
Recently I tried to make a GTK app, but the problem was, for none of the languages I tried the bindings were working well enough. So in the end I decided to make a local first static web app in Python and Django. Everything is rendered server side and state is stored in the database. If I ever finish it, it should be easy to bring it online. And then maybe registrations ...
by rootsudo | 2025-08-10 09:08:35+00:00
This is still very effective for other organizations, not just microsoft. Of course they won't pay a bounty but any org that uses Micorosft 365/Office 365, Entrea ID which was Azure Active Directory can be polled and abused.

Was not new news, AFAIK from the article they just patched the microsoft tools but they won't be pushing it tenant wide for all orgs.
by r_lee | 2025-08-10 09:08:42+00:00
I would honestly say, it's more like autocomplete on steroids, like you know what you want so you just don't wanna type it out (e.g. scripts and such)

And so if you don't use it then someone else will... But as for the models, we already have some pretty good open source ones like Qwen and it'll only get better from here so I'm not sure why the last part would be a dealbreaker
by godelski | 2025-08-10 09:09:22+00:00
I really wish a "major" messaging service would adopt something like this, at least as a fallback. Don't give me two apps, give me one. This seems right up the alley for a project like Signal. Like a way to wade yourself into decentralization without necessarily needing to go all the way. Hell, it could save bandwidth just by file transfers alone and certainly it is up there with the mission of privacy.

I think it really will take a bigger platform to make this possible because you need an already existing network. I doubt Apple would ever do it, but hey, I mean text messaging and calls through Airdrop? Pitch it as for emergencies like when the phone lines go down? These are legitimate use cases.
by eric-burel | 2025-08-10 09:11:45+00:00
Good read. I just want to pinpoint that LLMs seems to write better React code, but as an experienced frontend developers my opinion is that it's also bad at React. Its approach is outdated as it doesn't follow the latest guidelines. It writes React as I would have written it in 2020. So as usual, you need to feed the right context to get proper results.
by huhkerrf | 2025-08-10 09:12:17+00:00
The author is a startup founder. I assume he means that the person wanted to maximize the cash portion of his comp and reduce the stock portion.

The author meant this signaled a lack of character because... I dunno. It means the person wasn't as committed as the author? Of course, the author doesn't mention, even to himself, that the employee doesn't get the same upside from stock as a founder.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-08-10 09:15:20+00:00
MCP requires that servers providing tools must deterministically validate tool inputs and outputs against the schema.

LLMs cannot decide to skip this validation. They can only decide not to call the tool.

So is your criticism that MCP doesn't specify if and when tools are called? If so then you are essentially asking for a massive expansion of MCP's scope to turn it into an orchestration or workflow platform.
by oriettaxx | 2025-08-10 09:15:35+00:00
My friend has the W124/125 first model, 250D, with the super 5 cylinder diesel engine: OM 602.912 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_OM602_engine

It's not just a beauty, is working super fine: and never stops. They made the 200D, 250D, 300D with the same engine, just adding one piston.

My friends comes and go from the EU to Turkey (5.000 km) with no issues at all: on the way he stops at a Turkish dealer of auto parts www.brossautoparts.com where he is able to just get the little plastic parts they get ruined (one was a little plastic wheel on the mileage meters they gave him for free 3 months ago).

In the second hand marked you can find this car for 4.000€ which is a totally ridiculous price !

He told me about the right and left mirror, which are not symmetric: Mercedes made a long research on usability and efficacy on mirrors, and discovered the right mirror can and should be smaller and squared (and, of course, remote controlled), while the left mirror was surprisingly preferred controlled by hand, so there is just a stick of metal (a rudimentary joystick) the driver can hold and move.

The sad is that he told me the second and third series had issues (as somebody else wrote already above) with metals, with the plastic on the side, and unfortunately with the electrical wiring (replaced with a more Eco-friendly version which did not last more then 10 years).

Let's remember the designer: the Italian Bruno Sacco, who had to fight a bit to have the new design accepted: the change from w123 to w124 was a big risk, and they made a test with the Mercedes 190 (a smaller version of the w124): which was a great success of the 80s (the coolest car a youngster could have in Italy at that time).

Yes, it is sad that no factories would consider such a good quality product nowadays: I remember what the famous marketing professor Kotler once told Philips and Braun about their reliable electric razors: "So, you find a customer who buys your razor, and then you make it so reliable that he won’t need another one for the next 40 years? Are you crazy?"
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-08-10 09:15:46+00:00
>Genuine question - are people comfortable with this?

It's a question of degree, but in general, yeah. I'm totally comfortable being reliant on other entities to solve complex problems for me.

That's how economies work [1]. I neither have nor want to acquire the lifetime of experience I would need to learn how to produce the tea leaves in my tea, or the clean potable water in it, or the mug they are contained within, or the concrete walls 50 meters up from ground level I am surrounded by, or so on and so forth. I can live a better life by outsourcing the need for this specialized knowledge to other people, and trade with them in exchange for my own increasingly-specialized knowledge. Even if I had 100 lifetimes to spend, and not the 1 I actually have, I would probably want to put most of them to things that, you know, aren't already solved-enough problems.

Everyone doing anything interesting works like this, with vanishingly few exceptions. My dad doesn't need to know how to do algebra to get his taxes done, he just has an accountant. And his accountant doesn't need to know how to rewire his turn of the century New England home. And if you look at the exceptions, like that really cute 'self sufficient' family who uploads weekly YouTube videos called "Our Homestead Life"... It often turns out that the revenue from that YouTube stream is nontrivial to keeping the whole operation running. In other words, even if they genuinely no longer go to Costco, it's kind of a gyp.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws
by agent327 | 2025-08-10 09:17:08+00:00
Maybe that attitude works in a big company, but it won't fly in a smaller one. I'm a software engineer and I write plenty of code, but I also help out with interviews, packing, sales demos and proposals, customer support, general IT support, etc. Hell, I've fixed the coffee machine! I'd absolutely hate it if writing code was my only task.
by jammer2 | 2025-08-10 09:17:22+00:00
You are wrong to try to make judgements on historical material.

Do not destroy it.

Sell it and do some good with the money or donate it.

Todays momentary views on the rights and wrongs og enemies will pale in comparison to the future historical value.

Would you wish someone would have destroyed Alexander the great or Caesars things or rather see them in a museum?
by vidarh | 2025-08-10 09:18:07+00:00
This is pure, unsubstantiated conjecture.

It's also wildly unrealistic conjecture, in my opinion.

The first, and most important, measure to me of a good tool is whether it makes me more productive. LLMs does. Measurably so.

You will certainly find people who don't believe LLMs do for them, but that won't change the fact that for a lot of us it is an immensely good tool. And a tool doesn't need to fit everyones processes to be a good tool.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-10 09:18:20+00:00
I can recommend to try a comparison if you can (like with OpenWebUI, you can simply make it run the same prompts through multiple models). If you have access to local models of course. Though you could also use some models like llama on groq.

My usecases are different from yours of course but I don't really see significant difference in result quality in most cases.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-10 09:18:30+00:00
I think the thing to understand is that university professors are upper middle class.

They are not particularly aligned with the working class or with leftism. They're usually centrists or liberals.

I think your confusions stems from believing that liberals are the left. Liberals however, are pro-free trade ultra-propertarians. Liberals are to the right of anti-free trade populists.
by godelski | 2025-08-10 09:19:13+00:00
Side note: if you offer a dark theme and have a toggle "automatically switch based on system theme", make that the default option. And don't bury a dark theme under settings... I'm nearly certain that everyone that uses a dark theme wants to use it everywhere by default. And since we're kinda talking privacy here, don't rely on cookies... Everything is light theme by default, including the OS and browser. If users are using dark theme then they very likely made a conscious decision to do that.

Stop treating dark theme users as second class citizens. I'm also looking at you Wikipedia... There's like 30 browser addons, you can change the one line of code to solve all that...
by precompute | 2025-08-10 09:20:21+00:00
I only use LLMs as a substitute for stackexchange, and sometimes to write boilerplate code. The free chat provided by deepseek works very well for me, and I've never encountered any usage limits. V3 / R1 are mostly sufficient. When I need something better (not very often), I use Claude's free tier.

If you really need another model / a custom interface, it's better to use openrouter: deposit $10 and you get 1000 free queries/day across all free models. That $10 will be good for a few months, at the very least.
by sensanaty | 2025-08-10 09:21:21+00:00
Speaking to actual humans IRL (as in, non-management colleagues and friends in the field), people are pretty lukewarm on AI, with a decent chunk of them who find AI tooling makes them less productive. I know a handful of people who are generally very bullish on AI, but even they are nowhere near the breathless praise and hype you read about here and on LinkedIn, they're much more measured about it and approach it with what I would classify as common sense. Of course this is entirely anecdotal, and probably depends where you are and what kind of business you're in, though I will say I'm in a field where AI even makes some amount of sense (customer support software), and even then I'm definitely noticing a trend of disillusionment.

On the management side, however, we have all sorts of AI mandates, workshops, social media posts hyping our AI stuff, our whole "product vision" is some AI-hallucinated nightmare that nobody understands, you'd genuinely think we've been doing nothing but AI for the last decade the way we're contorting ourselves to shove "AI" into every single corner of the product. Every day I see our CxOs posting on LinkedIn about the random topic-of-the-hour regarding AI. When GPT-5 launched, it was like clockwork, "How We're Using GPT-5 At $COMPANY To Solve Problems We've Never Solved Before!" mere minutes after it was released (we did not have early access to it lol). Hilarious in retrospect, considering what a joke the launch was like with the hallucinated graphs and hilarious errors like in the Bernoulli's Principle slide.

Despite all the mandates and mandatory shoves coming from management, I've noticed the teams I'm close with (my team included) are starting to push back themselves a bit. They're getting rid of the spam generating PR bots that have never, not once, provided a useful PR comment. People are asking for the various subscriptions they were granted be revoked because they're not using them and it's a waste of money. Our own customers #1 piece of feedback is to focus less on stupid AI shit nobody ever asked for, and to instead improve the core product (duh). I'm even seeing our CTO who was fanboy number 1 start dialing it back a bit and relenting.

It's good to keep in mind that HN is primarily an advertisement platform for YC and their startups. If you check YC's recent batches, you would think that the 1 and only technology that exists in the world is AI, every single one of them mentions AI in one way or another. The majority of them are the lowest effort shit imaginable that just wraps some AI APIs and is calling it a product. There is a LOT of money riding on this hype wave, so there's also a lot of people with vested interests in making it seem like these systems work flawlessly. The less said about LinkedIn the better, that site is the epitome of the dead internet theory.
by biehl | 2025-08-10 09:23:41+00:00
I think DHH compares them because they are both the latest, top-line chips. I think DHHs benchmarks show that they have different performance characteristics. But DHHs favorite benchmark favors whatever runs native linux and docker.

For local LLM the higher memory bandwith of M4 Max makes it much more performant.

Arstechnica has more benchmarks for non-llm things https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/review-framework-des...
by bootsmann | 2025-08-10 09:24:13+00:00
> In my experience the more impressive somebody is at leet code, the worse their production code.

Used to think this too, until I met some truly impressively bad engineers where I'm pretty sure they would not have passed a leetcode screen either. People acing leetcode is at the minimum a good signal for people having the patience to sit down and learn non-trivial things over a somewhat longer time period by themselves.