MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-01 16:17:21+00:00
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude all point me to a plethora of sources for most of my questions that I can click through and read. They're also pretty good at both basic and weird git issues for me. Not perfect, but pretty good.

Also part of the workflow of using AI is accepting that your initial prompts might not get the right answer. It's important to scan the answer like you did and use intuition to know 'this isn't right', then try again. Just like we learned how to type in good search queries, we'll also learn how to write good prompts. Sands will shift frequently at first, with prompt strategies that worked well yesterday requiring a different strategy tomorrow, but eventually it will stabilize like search query strategies did.
by dmix | 2025-08-01 16:17:30+00:00
I also believe the main business will be via APIs and integrations, but wouldn't be surprised on the consumer side if it ends up being on phones, in your house ala Alexa, in your car etc. Big brands typically win in B2C. Tons of affiliate and transactional potential (ie, do my grocery shopping or buy tshirt). That's assuming LLMs don't plateau and become generic with minor specialization like databases.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-01 16:17:43+00:00
> "Not seeing any other reason" doesn't seem to be a particularly strong argument. But let's take it at face value. Estimates of German civilian deaths during WW2 range from 1.5m to 3m people:

To be fair, I think the allies commited a bunch of war crimes they were never charged with during WWII, and firebombing is high up that list as is dropping nuclear bombs on cities.

That said, WWII was an actual war and Germany (and the axis in general) lost fewer people than their enemies.

This is not a war, this an occupation and slaughter. Isreal has killed 50 times as many people as Hamas.

> Do you have a source for your death statistics that doesn't ultimately trace back to the "health ministry" of an internationally proscribed terrorist organisation?

These numbers are pretty much universally acknowledged as more likely to be too low than too high (including by Isreal.)

Here's a study not done by a Palestinian organization that says that the official Palestinian estimate is 40% too low.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.19.25329797v...

> 3. Not all children who have died in Gaza since 2023 will have been "killed by Israel". Many will have been killed by Hamas for a variety of reasons, including misfired rockets, booby trapped houses, mosques and schools, and getting caught in the crossfire. Since Hamas knows that every child death will be attributed to Israel it's quite happy for that statistic to rise.

I don't even know what to say to the twisted amount of self deception involved in that sentence. "It's not us, they're just killing themselves guys, not our fault."

> As far as I can tell, Israel does not kill children (or any civilians) intentionally. Any civilian killed by Israel in Gaza was unintentional, and civilian deaths occur in any war. This happens all the more in Gaza since Hamas deliberately puts civilians in harms way, and booby traps civil infrastructure or uses it to hide in.

Isreal happily kills civilians to avoid risks to their soldiers, that's why this "war" has such a disproportionate death toll.

> Hamas is the government of Gaza, and as such it seems like it is their responsibility, not Israel's, to take action to ensure that harm is prevented to their civilians, up to and including freeing the hostages they hold and unconditionally surrendering. That's what the governments of Germany and Japan ultimately did.

Hamas won one election 20 years ago and neither Isreal nor the USA recognize Hamas as the government a sovereign country. It seems pretty bad faith to claim Hamas is the government only when it is convienent to blame them. (To be clear Hamas deserves plenty of blame.)

However, I place the responsibility and the majority of the blame on the group with the vast majority of the power: Isreal.

At a certain point, the comparative death toll and comparative wealth/power imbalance make it clear: Isreal is engaging in genocide, not war.
by bill_02109 | 2025-08-01 16:17:44+00:00
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by CJefferson | 2025-08-01 16:18:01+00:00
I'm happy to discuss they are very different, and I agree the current systems (in the UK in particular), are awful.

However, I think tech people risk losing this battle by saying (it seems to me, and in the post I originally replied to) "any attempt at any age checking on the internet is basically 1984", rather than "we need some way of checking some things, keeping people's privacy safe, this current system is awful."

Of course, if some people believe the internet should be 100% uncensored, no restrictions, they can have that viewpoint. But honestly, I don't agree.
by Voultapher | 2025-08-01 16:18:05+00:00
Yes, I'm calling you a human supremacist [1].

There are plenty of examples of things that are not equal like skin color or gender and yet we - I assume you are not racist or sexist - try to treat equal. Drawing a hard line in the sand at human and everything else seems well ... really an Orangutan and a Human are so different that they deserve completely different rights, what about whales that have languages likely as complex or more complex than humans? Don't get me wrong I don't believe a cricket has the same emotional reasoning capabilities as a human. But it strikes me as very human to define in-groups people like you and people or beings other than you and using that as justification to do horrible things to them.

[1] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/08/mm-12-human-supremacy/
by Centigonal | 2025-08-01 16:18:24+00:00
I hate hate hate this - especially because my browser autofills my email with my address. My flow is to autofill, then go back and change the email to gibberish. Sometimes that doesn't work and I get some un-asked for promotion anyway.

I think I should have to at least click a button for some company to be able to send me what is clearly a marketing email.
by El_Mo | 2025-08-01 16:18:27+00:00
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by iJohnDoe | 2025-08-01 16:18:28+00:00
Thanks Zillow for making a straightforward article.

FWIW, real-life experience matches the article. Current interest rates shave off about $100k+ in affordability. Explaining where the interest rates need to be for most regions for affordability is an easy way to show the situation. I do agree that a major economic downturn would need to happen and unemployment would need to rise to change things. However, these numbers are always manipulated which keeps us on a trajectory that is hard to reconcile with reality for most.
by rayiner | 2025-08-01 16:18:36+00:00
I feel really bad for GenZ. My brother and sister and law are both in their early 20s (large age gap with my wife) and the housing market is a tire fire. I recently learned that the house across from us is being rented to three young women for $3,000/month. This is a 1,100 square foot cottage, built maybe in the 1970s, with a leaky roof and no basement in exurban Maryland. For comparison, our mortgage is around $2,000/month for a house three times the size, built in the 2000s, on a riverfront lot. And we're not boomers, we just bought the place in late 2016! It's a kinda dumpy neighborhood with a lot of better-off blue collar workers (cops, nurses, etc) and retirees. But prices doubled seemingly overnight during the pandemic!

It's not like there's an employment boom happening here. We're right outside of Annapolis, which is a small city focused on the Naval Academy. Which is stable but hardly growing employment. A couple of the anchor employers (AT&T, Rockwell Collins) have been downsizing. We're an hour away from DC, and 45 minutes from Baltimore. Where the heck do these people work? Where is all the money coming from? It doesn't make any sense.
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-01 16:18:45+00:00
Direct File was only built in the first place because Turbo Tax and H&R Block dropped out of agreements with the IRS to keep free tax filing options free and unencumbered of upsells and dark patterns.

The number of people their "free" products actually serve dropped drastically a couple years ago. They will upsell or dark pattern you to paying for it as best and as deeply as they can.

This was an interesting read on the subject: https://chrisgiven.com/2025/07/the-things-that-cannot-be-cha...
by diggan | 2025-08-01 16:19:08+00:00
Considering that Llama's license dictate you should prefix your model name with "Llama" if you create, train, fine tune, or "otherwise improve" an AI model based on Llama, it might happen sooner than expected :) Fast-forward a couple of generations with their own similar license and maybe we'll end up with `LlamaRamaPastureForageGrazer/20280415`
by Atotalnoob | 2025-08-01 16:19:36+00:00
I like how my current job structured their interview.

They gave me a take home, said use whatever AI you want, just tell us which.

The take home was the equivalent of a simple TODO app using their API (key provided). It took an hour to build.

After I submitted it, they had a follow up session where I had to explain the code to them and answer questions about why I did things the way I did.

Simple, easy, and something any developer should be able to do.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-01 16:19:44+00:00
> How does something like this happening not make people immediately realize that the Republican party is not working for the people anymore?

It is working "for" the people who have (perceived?) grievances against others, and are enacting pain on those Others.

People are happy to screw themselves if they screw Others (even more):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness

The cruelty towards Others is the point (regardless what you, yourself, get hit with):

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive...
by CWuestefeld | 2025-08-01 16:19:57+00:00
With some AI-assisted searching:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3257884/

e.g., "An explanation of the mechanism of action for the effectiveness of concentrated heat in this study can be found in the activation and suppression of receptors. A rapid temperature increase to a maximum of 51°C leads to an activation of transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 (TRPV1) via C- and Aδ-fibers."
by LeafItAlone | 2025-08-01 16:20:26+00:00
> It’s just bizarrely uncompetitive with o3-pro and Grok 4 Heavy.

In my experience Grok 4 and 4 Heavy have been crap. Who cares how many requests you get with it when the response is terrible. Worst LLM money I’ve spent this year and I’ve spent a lot.
by munificent | 2025-08-01 16:20:37+00:00
I said absolutely nothing about money.

> I actually don't like programming

Right, that's my point exactly.

> in my experience, those people tends to solve inexistant problems

Yes, that's definitely a risk with people who really just love writing code. Fortunately, most people who like to write code also like to have useful code written, so in my experience, the folks who will go off an yak shave a thing no one needs for months are fairly rare.
by gruez | 2025-08-01 16:21:16+00:00
>And the "costal cities" mentioned should just be abandoned; there's no hope and nothing will make them affordable.

This will basically never happen because the reason why they're expensive is that they're desirable. Supply and demand. Expecting otherwise makes as much sense as "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded"

>Instead, all sorts of "subsidies to rich people" should be stopped

examples? If you're talking about "affordable housing" programs, aren't those usually means tested?
by perivamsi | 2025-08-01 16:21:25+00:00
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by wjgilmore | 2025-08-01 16:21:46+00:00
Apple seems to be making no progress whatsoever on AI so it's unclear what role they would place in this new type of marketplace. Google/Gemini certainly seems to be lightyears ahead of them. Claude is also making demonstrable progress on creating a marketplace. ChatGPT not so much, their MCP servers are currently buried in the Connectors section of Settings menu.

I think what's so cool about this is because MCP is an open standard, anybody can incorporate an MCP client into their own software and give users the ability to mix and match MCP servers. There will undoubtedly be commercial winners in the end, but this time it could be a much wider marketplace than two incumbents.
by firefoxd | 2025-08-01 16:21:50+00:00
Fun fact, we had this at an old job. It was a charge code field in Jira. It was required whenever you requested work from an external team. It operated like a credit card with a set budget. If you bothered other teams a lot, you ran out of money. Department heads set their price.

It sounds great in theory. But a black market quickly developed, and people figured out ways to circumvent it. People created tickets for their own teams and shared laptops.
by brokegrammer | 2025-08-01 16:21:57+00:00
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Show HN: AI tool that generates YouTube timestamps automatically
by fistondev | 2025-08-01 16:22:02+00:00
Hi HN I’m a developer and YouTuber, and I recently built a small tool to solve a problem I kept running into. When editing my videos, creating precise timestamps and chapter markers by hand was incredibly time‑consuming. I wanted a way to generate these automatically while still letting me refine them.

My tool uses speech analysis to detect topic changes and outputs a list of timestamps with suggested titles. You can upload or link a video, and it returns a set of chapters that you can tweak before publishing. It’s still early, but I’ve been using it on my own channel and it cut my editing time by more than half.

I’m sharing it here because I’d love feedback from other creators and developers. What features would make it more useful? Does the AI get the segments right? Feel free to try it out here: https://autotimestamps.com . I’ll be around in the comments to answer questions.

Thanks for checking it out!
by munificent | 2025-08-01 16:22:13+00:00
I made no moral claims about whether it's bad to want to have code without wanting to go through the experience of writing it.

I want a nice lawn, but I don't want to mow it myself. I pay a landscaper. I don't think that makes me a bad person.

But it does make me a different person from someone who enjoys the process of manicuring a lawn.
by josh_cutler | 2025-08-01 16:22:20+00:00
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by vidarh | 2025-08-01 16:22:42+00:00
Sometimes I wish interviewers were tested. E.g. mix some current well-rated colleagues into the mix, and see how they rated them. Of course that would only work in quite large companies.

But even mock interviews with current staff they know are current staff might help, as a means of weeding out questions that current, well-performing staff would fail.

I don't even blame these interviewers - most of them have never been given any training in how to interview, and it's not a skill they've ever been properly tested on in most cases. It's cruel to both sides to put untrained interviewers in that position.
by ieuanking | 2025-08-01 16:22:52+00:00
I am not a physicist- I am an anthropologist and front-end developer of an AI research studio I started with my best friend.

I love to learn and became interested in physics and astrophysics, but with a history in religious anthropology, I started making some connections I wanted to share.

If I got anything wrong, please tell me. These are some excerpts from a larger project I'm working on about Science and Religion and how faith in answers ends in a joint pursuit for parsimony.
by jeffbee | 2025-08-01 16:23:08+00:00
Not sure why you are dating it there. For one thing, housing prices in NY fell from 2007-2012 so it hasn't been monotonic since the 90s to today. Secondly, housing costs in NY tripled from 1980-1988, which is the same ratio as 2000-2025, but in a third the time.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-08-01 16:23:35+00:00
> But I do know this is still the case in Japan. Some Japanese service workers or small business owners will even be insulted if you try to tip.

It's absolutely not. Have you actually been there, or are you repeating things?

https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanTravelTips/comments/1cyj0nu/ti...