MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MurkyLabs | 2025-08-11 17:42:43+00:00
I'm 100% an armchair physician so take my words with a grain of salt but it seems like according to the math there is no limit to how massive a black hole can get. There are limits on the size of how big and small things can get and how hot or cold they can get, the second part is pretty cool, Physics Explained on yt has a good video on it (he's got a lot of good videos) but I enjoyed this one on what the maximum temperature is in the universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVlEQlz6n1k
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-11 17:43:03+00:00
>> But what did happen is that people were freed up to do different things. Those jobs were indirectly created by the fact that people did not need to spend so much time growing food. That allowed people to do other things to create value and improve our lives.

The key point here is that "create value" -- new jobs are created if there are new human jobs that create value.

The bifurcation of incomes pre-AI should be a warning that we're reaching a point where the average human (in physical ability and knowledge) can no longer efficiently create value.

Imagine we have robots that can physically lift and manipulate as well as the average human. And AGI that can think as well as the average human (arguably LLMs might already pass that low bar).

Should an AGI future eventuate, the distribution of that abundance is not pre-ordained. Retooling government and society into a post-capitalist system, and deciding a fair distribution to people who have little power to demand it, is going to be a mess.

Or to put it another way, how many times in history have the rich en masse voluntarily given to the poor?
by torium | 2025-08-11 17:43:11+00:00
> Is the implication that everything anti-Israel - regardless of its merit or truth - should be upvoted and praised, or at least never in any way criticized? That, to me, feels a lot weirder.

You don't understand that in the face of genocide people cling on to anything? Some times even, yes even! gasp, if the article has typos?
by MaxLeiter | 2025-08-11 17:43:17+00:00
We felt the .dev TLD was too developer focused. v0 is for everyone, not just developers. We're constantly surprised by the roles our power users have at their companies (and in Vercel): marketers, sales, our VPs sharing their visions, etc.

Glad the auth transition was seamless -- we'll have a blog post up soon on how we accomplished it
by smcin | 2025-08-11 17:43:31+00:00
You say "forge" and stuff like "collectively built in the open"? Do you consider the repos "public", "private" or what?

You have a very short privacy policy [https://tangled.sh/privacy], but no guarantees of AI-bot-scraping protection. What if anything is your users' expectation of privacy of their repos against third parties, including malicious ones? Really you need to set that out clearly in your privacy policy.
by ivanjermakov | 2025-08-11 17:43:43+00:00
Other benefits of plain text notetaking: perfect versioning, using favorite text editor (therefore spell checking and various tools), amazing integration with unix programs, support on any platform/device.

Two shortcomings are: figure out cross-device sync (ssh/nfs are good options), reinventing the wheel for rich text (tags, references, data tables, etc.)
by dasil003 | 2025-08-11 17:44:02+00:00
Project managers shouldn't be running engineering. They are there to keep the trains running on time, not to design the track, trains and stations.

The generally accepted roles are Product decides what we need to build, Design decides how it should work from user perspective, Engineering decides how to build it at a reasonable upfront and maintenance cost. This involves a fair amount of influence, because Engineering is better equipped to describe the cost tradeoffs than any other function. Of course this comes with the responsibility of understanding the big picture and where the business wants to go. IMHO you should not be speaking to project management about code quality, you should maintain ground level quality as you go, for bigger refactoring/cleanup this needs to be presented to Product leadership (not project managers) in terms of shoring up essential product complexity so it's easier for customers to use, less support, and simpler foundation for the next wave of features. Never talk about code with non-technical stakeholders.
by segphault | 2025-08-11 17:45:06+00:00
Microsoft not being terrible was a zero interest rate phenomenon. The news today is a lot worse than just Github not being independent anymore. It sounds like literally the entire development division is being rolled into this "Core AI" business unit.

When Nadella announced plans to double the company's revenue by 2030, it was pretty clear that the enshitifiction was going to ramp up significantly, but it doesn't seem like it will ever relent now that they have to squeeze out more free cash flow to cover all of this AI capex. Windows is practically malware at this point, they've made extremely deep cuts to .NET engineering headcount, and it's just going to get worse.
by butlike | 2025-08-11 17:45:09+00:00
It's such a young person thing to believe the adrenaline of pushing against the envelope is a better feeling than the endorphins of expressing appropriate emotion. I'm sure they'll learn this when they come of age.

Life can be painful, and comfort, solace, and community are really nice when you're on the downswing instead of the upswing, which happens to all of us if you're strong enough to live that long.
by legorobot | 2025-08-11 17:45:21+00:00
> Just taking the notion of "complexity". Reducing that to _just_ cognitive load seems to be a very poor analysis, when simple/complex ought to deal with the "size" of a structure, not how easy it is to understand.

Preface: I'm likely nitpicking here; the use of "_just_" is enough for me to mostly agree with your take.

Isn't the idea that the bulk of complexity IS in the understanding of how a system works, both how it should work and how it does work? We could take the Quake Fast Inverse Square Root code, which is simple in "size" but quite complex on how it actually achieves its outcome. I'd argue it requires comments, tests, and/or clarifications to make sense of what its actually doing.

How do we measure that complexity? No idea :) But I like to believe that's why the book takes a philosophical approach to the discussion.

I agree the arguments in the book largely "make sense" to me but I found myself finding it a little hand-wavey on it actually proving its points without concrete examples. I don't recall there being any metrics or measurements on improvement either, making it a philosophical discussion to me and not a scientific exercise.
by jandrese | 2025-08-11 17:45:51+00:00
You can spend more for the higher tier plan that won't get your traffic prioritized down into the "best effort" tier. It looks like your neighbors have already done that. You may need to buy directly from whomever is running your towers and not a MVNO to get that.

Honestly, I'm actually shocked and impressed that whatever is queuing your data up has enough buffer space to hold on the packets for so long without dropping them.
by stereolambda | 2025-08-11 17:45:52+00:00
The actual hard question is probably making even 10% of such wisdom and good intentions survive when the program is bombarded by contributor patches, or people taking Jira tickets. TFA talks about it in the context of strategy and tactics.

Organizationally enforcing strategy would be the issue. And also that the people most interested in making rules for others in an organization may not be the ones best qualified to program. And automatic tools (linters) by necessity focus on very surface level, local stuff.

That's how you get the argument for the small teams productivity camp.
by mr_mitm | 2025-08-11 17:46:23+00:00
I hate random links being thrown at me, because I don't know what you are trying to tell me. Perhaps you can spare a few key strokes.

For everyone else reading the thread, let me summarize. The article agrees with me:

> the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that is, for all the evidence to the contrary

>....

> It does not seem likely that we live inside a rotating universe, let alone a black hole.
by empath75 | 2025-08-11 17:46:26+00:00
I do a ridiculous amount of dumb shit with cursor without paying extra for it and I can't be the only one. There is just no way they will ever make a profit with their current all-you-can-eat model. Like there have been times I have just copy and pasted code into a cursor window for the AI to add when I could have just pasted it myself just because it makes the context easier to deal with.

However, they will eventually get purchased by an AI company because the _product_ is great.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-11 17:46:45+00:00
More like Egypt requires fertilizers in order to maintain it's domestic industry.

Cheap NatGas means cheap ammonia synthesis, which means cheap fertilizers.

Sinai has also been in the midst of a violent Islamist insurgency [0] which can be further exacerbated by the security situation in Gaza.

[0] - https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/de-secu...
by 827a | 2025-08-11 17:46:59+00:00
My deepest concern at this time isn't that AI eventually gets written down to nothing; because I don't think it will. Its that these companies are so scared of being out-competed by an AI-first competitor that they're willing to make deep sacrifices to their core businesses just to effectively virtue signal that they're AI first and unable to be out-competed.

It is deeply concerning because all things point to reality shaking out with irony. None of these big tech companies have leveraged AI to build anything remotely interesting from a product perspective. Its truly astounding how bad they are at it. Apple has nothing, Microsoft wants to put spyware on every Windows computer and builds the worst coding agent on the market despite having privileged access to every line of source code ever written, Meta put a chatbot in Whatsapp then decided paying researchers ten mil would solve their problems, Google has world-class research teams that have produced unbelievable models, without any plan at all on how those make it into their products beyond forcing a chat window into Google Drive.

Their fear is going to lose them everything. Its a fascinating inversion of the early internet problem, where companies who were unwilling to innovate got out-competed. Everyone learned that lesson and decided "we'll never be unwilling to innovate ever again"; but now their core product stable undergoes constant churn that is pissing off customers and driving competition to eat their lunch.

There is long-term, durable beauty in investing majority effort into making Github the single best place to host and organize code. That need is never going away. There is also necessity in ensuring it has an AI strategy in a post-AI world, no one doubts that, but its a matter of proportion and humility. Microsoft/Github will never build AI products that lead the market. Its not a technology problem; its an organizational and political one. But that's ok, because they could dominate the market with the world's best code hosting platform, an average AI strategy, and a library of integrations with the rest of the frontier world.
by gus_massa | 2025-08-11 17:47:00+00:00
At least here in Buenos Aires, the cooper wires are too old and when there is a problem the landlines telephones companies replace them with a mobile device disguised as a landline. It has a chip, and perhaps some geographical restriction. It looks like an old phone, but it's a cell phone.

You can also buy a very stupid phone, with a tiny screen and plastic buttons. It still has SMS, a camera and a browser but you must type the ULR in T9 that is as fun as it sounds. The main feature is that you can't use WhatsApp (that is super popular here), so nobody can contact you unless they realy want to speak.
by bitpush | 2025-08-11 17:47:02+00:00
If companies like Apple and Google don't lead in AI, they risk becoming obsolete. Once customers see their phone as just a device for accessing a universal AI like ChatGPT, they'll no longer be locked into an iPhone or Android. They'll just buy whatever device offers the best access to that AI.

This is the same reason Apple ensures that apps from its App Store work better than websites. They need to keep their own platform essential.
by halflife | 2025-08-11 17:47:08+00:00
Well, if we’re being pedantic, you stated that the war is the Palestinian holocaust, I asked if other conflicts with much higher casualty count would be also considered.

But if we want to continue this thread it appears that most wars in urban areas have a ratio of 30-90% civilian casualties https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
by ieuanking | 2025-08-11 17:47:16+00:00
As a musician I love this especially because i constantly working with files (WAVs) would be cool if you could do some actual file browsing inside the drop down + like with music I want to be able to listen ot the wav before adding quick to rekordbox or ableton. Even for work (im a front-end dev for AI research platform) I think it would be helpful to do more browsing rather then selecting and then working from within that selected folder.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 17:47:39+00:00
Boy have I got to do a rebound. I skimmed through the repo.The Readme reads well; pun intended.

Mine would be titled:

"A Vuetify Vue - A nod to I Svelte That, a Book by Gemini and v0.app (previously v0.dev) by Vercel"

└── Dey well
by gkuhl21 | 2025-08-11 17:48:08+00:00
The following is half serious. Please enjoy.

Some comments here are reminiscent of antiquated discourse: "how many angels dance on the head of a pin?"

We somehow are trying to agree on some factual ramp-up time required for a dev to become competent coding with LLM's. This is inherently subjective! Why bother?

Perhaps certain LLMs are blessed with disproportionately more angels (nee "bugs") in the machines.

I enjoyed reading the article:

"The model looks good, but Google’s enshittification has won and it looks like no competent software developers are left. I would know, many of my friends work there."

Yikes!

Credit to the author for having the courage to post publically.
by pron | 2025-08-11 17:48:09+00:00
Sure, and that may be valuable, but it's neither "programming" nor "offloading mental effort" (at least not much).

Some have compared it to working with a very junior programmer. I haven't done that in a long while, but when I did, it didn't really feel like I was "offloading" much, and I could still trust even the most junior programmer to tell me whether the job was done well or not (and of any difficulties they encountered or insight they've learnt) much more than I can an agent, at least today.

Trust is something we have, for the most part, when we work with either other people or with tools. Working without (or with little) trust is something quite novel. Personally, I don't mind that an agent can't accomplish many tasks; I mind a great deal that I can't trust it to tell me whether it was able to do what I asked or not.
by scubbo | 2025-08-11 17:48:27+00:00
I bounced away from Gitea because they don't (last time I checked) have OIDC. I started[0] trying to revive-and-drive a previous PR[1] to add it, but the test failures are beyond my motivation to investigate and resolve.

[0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/33945

[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/25664
by nine_k | 2025-08-11 17:49:36+00:00
Worked for me, too, in similar circumstances. 30-32 hours with 8-9 hours of sleep and 21-24 hours of activity is a somehow better sleep/activity ratio, closer to 1/4 than to 1/3. More important for me were longer stretches of uninterrupted concentration time. Likely it's not important in the vibe-coding case.
Show HN: ServerBuddy – GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS
by dpraburaj | 2025-08-11 17:49:38+00:00
Hi HN,

I've built an app for macOS that allows performing common SSH operations on Linux servers using a native GUI.

The problem:

Managing multiple Linux servers usually means juggling terminal windows and copy-pasting snippets/scripts. After dealing with tens of production/staging VPSes at previous jobs, I realized there had to be a better way for common operations I did on a daily basis than my collection of bash snippets.

Features:

- Quickly switch between different servers. Tag servers with arbitrary key values for easy search.

- Real-time dashboard with CPU/memory graphs, disk usage, and uptime.

- Table based interface for processes (sortable/filterable), Docker containers, systemd services, network ports, and system logs etc.

- Built-in file browser.

- Full-featured terminal when you need to drop to the command line.

You can check out the screenshots at https://serverbuddy.app/screenshots for a quick overview of the features supported.

All the above are done through SSH, there are no agents/scripts to install on your servers.

From using the app for a few weeks(admittedly a short duration), I can say I much prefer the ServerBuddy based workflow to my previous workflows.

Pricing:

Free forever for one server, $59 one-time for unlimited servers (includes 1 year of updates).

If you're a developer or sysadmin managing Linux servers from Mac, please do try out the app. I'd love your feedback regarding additional features/workflows etc.

Thank you!
by icy | 2025-08-11 17:50:10+00:00
Not sure I understand your first comment. Repositories are currently public only since we’re built on the AT Protocol, which doesn’t yet have private data (in the works!).

Thanks for the feedback re: the privacy policy. It’s still actively being improved and we take a lot of effort to protect against AI scrapers. I’ll update the policy verbiage to include that.
by wk_end | 2025-08-11 17:50:10+00:00
The issue with the typos or grammatical errors aren't the typos per se - it's that it strongly implies that their claims of being "independent journalists" is misleading or dishonest. At which point, a critical reader might ask themselves 1) why are they being dishonest about their identity; and 2) what else might they be being dishonest about?

Obviously, none of this matters if you don't actually care about the contents of the work, only its political purpose (not even how effective it is at achieving that). But if you don't actually care about the contents of the work, why are you even discussing it?
by lossolo | 2025-08-11 17:50:22+00:00
We know humans have needs, and most jobs exist to meet them. The agricultural revolution mainly met one need — cheaper food with less labor.

A superintelligent AI could meet all human needs. The only remaining jobs might be those where people prefer a human touch like therapy or sex work, but such roles would be rare.

Past revolutions either made work more efficient or created new ways for humans to serve each other. Superintelligence would replace every form of work that meets human needs, so historical analogies don’t apply.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-11 17:51:24+00:00
I've found that a lot of apps try to micromanage me, my workflow, or how I use my computer.

I've grown to appreciate using simple tools, (spreadsheet, document) without the structure of an app.

I manage my 10-house HOA with spreadsheets, because the tools cost so much that I'd have to raise HOA rates.

Shopping lists are on whatever document app I'm using. (Currently Word, used to be Google Drive, used to be iPhone notes.)
by showerst | 2025-08-11 17:51:30+00:00
I really vehemently disagree with the 'feedforward, tolerance, feedback' pattern.

Protocols and standards like HTML built around "be liberal with what you accept" have turned out to be a real nightmare. Best-guessing the intent of your caller is a path to subtle bugs and behavior that's difficult to reason about.

If the LLM isn't doing a good job calling your api, then make the LLM get smarter or rebuild the api, don't make the API looser.
by buzer | 2025-08-11 17:51:35+00:00
I'm not sure if this Wikipedia's official policy but at https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/wikipedias-nonprofit-hos... they do say:

> Definition of content recommender systems: Having any “algorithm” on the site that “affects” what content someone might “encounter”, is seemingly enough to qualify popular websites for Category 1. As written, this could even cover tools that are used to combat harmful content. We, and many other stakeholders, have failed to convince UK rulemakers to clarify that features that help keep services free of bad content — like the New Pages Feed used by Wikipedia article reviewers—should not trigger Category 1 status. Other rarely-used features, like Wikipedia’s Translation Recommendations, are also at risk.

> Content forwarding or sharing functionality: If a popular app or website also has content “forwarding or sharing” features, its chances of ending up in Category 1 are dramatically increased. The Regulations fail to define what they mean by “forwarding or sharing functionality”: features on Wikipedia (like the one allowing users to choose Wikipedia’s daily “Featured Picture”) could be caught.
by ifwinterco | 2025-08-11 17:51:47+00:00
Yes but if they're ever sent over an HTTPS connection that was established using ECDHE key exchange, anyone who recorded that can make it public in the future if quantum computers exist.

On the other hand - we already give our passport information to every single airline and hotel we use. There must be hundreds if not thousands of random entities across the globe that already have mine. As long as certain key information is rotated occasionally (e.g. by making passports expire), maybe it doesn't really matter
by throwaway342110 | 2025-08-11 17:52:08+00:00
Thank you! That makes sense. The client does have some understanding about the scope of the project, since when he approached me he stated "I'm not sure if it's something for 1 person", but yeah, the timeframe would probably be an issue and I need to push it to cut it to the essential features first and add anything non-critical later.

However, is a 1 year timeframe something common / acceptable in the industry? I don't think everyone is hiring sub-contractors and it's rather hard for one person to deliver anything substantial in 1 year unless they work overtime like 50 - 60 hours per week.
by hinkley | 2025-08-11 17:52:23+00:00
I used to be very enthusiastic about generic types. Now, well what else would you do? I don’t mean that as a rhetorical question. If someone came up with another way to represent functions that can take multiple types and knows what it will return, I’d be all over them.

Elixir is trying something, I don’t know yet whether it will be better. But their solution is based on a decision about how to do overloading that I suspect makes for maintenance problems later. So it’s gonna have to be good to offset the consequence.