MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keithdevon | 2025-08-11 10:35:52+00:00
Site author here! Really interesting to read all of this feedback.

The site was built with WordPress using a tool that we've developed. It's been populated by me, using AI to help come up with activity ideas and the activity content. You should see the suggestions, content and images that don't make it through!

Ideally, this would all be community generated and made by humans, but I'm doing this on my own and I don't have the experience of all the activities. Using Ai was a way to get lots of activities on there quickly, to try to test the concept. I agree that in some cases the quality isn't up to scratch, and I appreciate some of the feedback, which I'll do my best to fix.

This is a personal project of mine, scratching my own itch as a parent who needs inspiration for what to do. I thought that it might be useful for others too.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-08-11 10:37:13+00:00
You cannot fight this with technology. What will you do when they make connecting to instant messager servers without scanning illegal? VPN? They are already going after VPNs.

"VPN services may soon become a new target of EU lawmakers after being deemed a "key challenge""

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpn-servi...
by maria_designer | 2025-08-11 10:38:35+00:00
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by maria_designer | 2025-08-11 10:38:52+00:00
Hi! I'm Maria, a Senior UX/UI Designer with 5+ years of experience. With a keen eye for detail, I design user-centered, intuitive, and functional interfaces that align with both user needs and business objectives.

Experience: FinTech, Startups, Logistics, Business automation, E-commerce.

Design practices: User Research, User Flow, UX/UI, Web, Design System, Variables, Wireframes, Email Design, Dashboards, Mobile App Design, Illustrations, Animations, Figma, FinTech, E-commerce.

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by anonzzzies | 2025-08-11 10:39:16+00:00
Nice, but there are self hosted / open source systems that allow you to do the same ; here I have to give my access to someone I don't know who might also use my claude after analysing usage and seeing I have plenty of credits left or when I sleep? Not a bad idea actually but :)

I'm not saying you are, but how can you prevent it? I don't think we can see usage of the plan ones (API of course we can) right? I'm not sure how anyone can guarantee?
by maccard | 2025-08-11 10:40:14+00:00
In my defence, this is a HN comment thread and not an actual interview. I wrote that on my phone at 6pm on a Sunday.

We have an actual question, a snippet of code that is copied and shared to the candidate, and everyone who asks this question has undertaken this exercise. The interviewer has the list of (known) issues and a handful of stylistic things that can be talked about too. If we actually did share this snippet with someone and they said "should this be declared in the class body", I would say "oops yeah, thanks for catching", and update our template.

>you kinda need to guess what the intervoewer wants to hear

Interviewers are human, and I've done tech screens for probably 250 candidates over the past few years, and I've designed tech screens that have been used for probably 5x that. We have good days and bad days, and it's super tough to give an evaulation of someone in an hour. The main thing I'm looking for (and I tell people this) is someone that I think would be a good fit on the team. To me that means that their own read on their level is roughly equivalent to my read on their level (a senior engineer who says they understand concurrency but doesn't understand what a mutex or atmoic is is a fail, for example), and that they're not a giant pain in the ass. If you've managed to annoy me in an hour by assuming every single thing I do is an attempt to catch you out, we're not going to get along and I'm going to pass on you for that reason.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-11 10:40:53+00:00
Hrm. Remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Ultimately the US government's key escrow fixation largely faded away, and it was never clear whether it would stand up in the courts, but it still shows up from time to time.

It's quite possible that this would conflict with the EU's can't-believe-it's-not-a-constitution (the Lisbon treaty) if passed, too; for a prior example see the defunct data retention directive, which was nuked by the ECJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
by maxberdnikau | 2025-08-11 10:42:16+00:00
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by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-08-11 10:45:12+00:00
I cannot access your link so I have no idea what this points into.

> If you meant, after you converse with it for a while: what was the conversation leading up to this point?

If you have a conversational style with chatgpt you end up with much shorter back and forths (at least on o4) than you do if you give it a long prompt.
by maxberdnikau | 2025-08-11 10:45:33+00:00
Hi! I am Max. I am an Engineer with 13+ years of experience and extensive knowledge in several areas: UI Design, Software Development, Analytics. Involved in creation of several startups and have previously created my own products and tools. I have a strong mathematical background.

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by account42 | 2025-08-11 10:46:13+00:00
Spot on. They also showed how the constitution means nothing to them because once you win in court they already got what they wanted.

What's more sad is that the general public has also responded that they are OK with this. Dissenters have become to be though of as a problem that needs to be corrected instead of as an indicator that what the government is doing is wrong.
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by willyt | 2025-08-11 10:46:25+00:00
‘Go and put your shoes on’ is correct British English. We consider ‘Go put your shoes on’ as incorrect grammar. So ‘try and put your shoes on’ would also be natural. I’m trying to think what other verbs this would work with because ‘find and put your shoes on’ doesn’t sound right in British English but neither does ‘find put your shoes on’ in US English perhaps someone who understands grammar better can explain why some verbs work with this construction and some don’t.
by codingdave | 2025-08-11 10:47:21+00:00
I'm not working right now... kinda waiting to see if the AI hype dies off before re-entering the industry. Because the last 2 teams of execs I've worked under both went "all in" on AI, asking everyone to use it as much as possible. Both led us down paths that made no sense from a product perspective. Both failed. It is the only time in my career that I've seen an entire exec team get fired all at once, and it happened twice. I know this is one anecdote, and a rare one, but it left me uninspired to just go do it again, not until I find leadership who has a reasonable perspective on AI. To me, that means treating it is just one tool among many, to be used when it is the best tool for a job, and only then.

So to answer the original question of how my morale is? It is non-existent. I am quite open to fixing that, but haven't seen much that indicates now is the right time to search for something new.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-08-11 10:48:34+00:00
I stand where I stand. It’s not our brains being threatened, it’s our sense of self.

The first step to solving a problem is to admit you have a problem. The second step is to make sure you’re solving the right problem, else you end up wasting your time, or worse you’re deceived into believing you’re making progress (but you’re not).
by alansammarone | 2025-08-11 10:49:21+00:00
I think what he meant is that whether or not, in that particular instance, it happens to be the case that the company does not feel sufficiently motivated to actually do this (maybe his singing wasn't offensive enough, or the company just happens to have enough reasonable people in their staff right now), the much bigger issue is that they could theoretically do this. Which I think is a very important point.

It should be provably, technically impossible to do this - or at the very least, there should be heavy penalties (say, 10-20% of annual revenue) for doing this without proper judicial ruling. A company should only be able to afford 1 or 2 errors like this.

Are you free just because your master happens to like you and let you do what you want? Obviously not, since he could change his mind at any time.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-08-11 10:49:36+00:00
> There's 5 billion people with a smartphone worldwide

There are more than 8 billion people on this world. By your own account, 3 billion of them do not have smart phones.

> The device hurdle is gone.

Evidently not. There are a lot of countries that still have a smartphone penetration rate of <50%.

We're talking about people with low income here. We're talking about people that cannot even afford bicycles for transportation.
by msgodel | 2025-08-11 10:49:39+00:00
Maybe owning a Corolla for ten years as my first car and now a fairly old Highlander screwed up my baseline understanding of how car ownership should work. If I paid that much for a car and it lasted five years I would talk to a lawyer about a lawsuit. I've never done that before and never really think about doing that but that's completely unacceptable.

I certainly would never ever buy from that brand again. I don't know how they expect to have repeat customers. Judging from what I've heard though it sounds like they're struggling to get first customers and the new "cars" are just pilling up.

Between the car scams, the housing scams etc we could be facing a pretty steeply deflationary environment in the next couple years. I can't imagine the banks will continue financing this insanity for too much longer.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-11 10:50:33+00:00
> That’s a strategy problem.

It isn’t. It’s a tactical problem. Tactics are micro goals to achieve alignment towards macro goals, for example processes to move things in order to achieve a stand operating procedure at lower cost.

The difference between tactics and strategy isn’t about size of effort or timeframe. For example historically the German military has trained on superiority of movement as a strategy to dominate the battlefield. That concept is strategic during training but tactical during execution. It’s all about alignment towards goals. To simplify that even further the US has adopted the Mission Command philosophy whereby the goal is to achieve a commander’s intent instead of a factual result.
by cpursley | 2025-08-11 10:50:55+00:00
Yeah, I noticed this too about sportball people - they’re generally out of shape and not actually athletic (I’m fit and active in several outdoor sports). I just find watching or talking about sports excruciatingly boring. To me it’s the same thing as pornography, watching other people who are really good at it while you are a bystander, but your brain gets the physiological and-psychological signal that you’re actually part of the action. Though I don’t recommend the latter as a potential topic of conversation.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-11 10:50:57+00:00
You've replied multiple times specifying toolchains without explaining what they are.

I've seen for models that don't support tool defs via API that those tool defs are provided in the context (though the model is still trained for tool use, outputting the special python_call/x tokens to indicate a tool call in output).

I can see for example that MCP's own example using Anthropic uses their API/SDKs tools section as outlined here https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/messages#body-tools. What the example does is shove the tool definition into here - this includes the full name description etc of the tool.

Quoting them "And then asked the model "What's the S&P 500 at today?", the model might produce tool_use content blocks in the response" so I imagine that behind the scenes they're _smashing it into the context_ as I already suggested; the only reason it's separate in the API is so they can type/validate it.

I don't know what this magical tool chain is but the LLM is the thing providing output based on the not so new magical concept of attention and statistics; I don't see how some separate "toolchain" piece takes the input string and somehow does a better job at selecting a tool than the model itself; unless the toolchain is itself a smaller LLM trained specifically for tool use outside of your larger multi-purpose/"knowledgable" LLM.
by throwaway3b03 | 2025-08-11 10:51:37+00:00
I live in The Netherlands and my yearly expenses are less than 20k EUR per year, and also have a car (major expense around here). But I don't pay rent. Several years ago I used to live in Romania, and similarly, had expenses a lot lower than 10k EUR per year.

So I think it's possible just about anywhere in the world, if you're ready to do a lot of things yourself (don't rely on services such as a car/bike mechanic, fix plumbing, house issues yourself, don't pay a lot of money on going out etc).
by credit_guy | 2025-08-11 10:54:08+00:00
You are a bit quick to jump to conclusions. With LLMs, test driven development becomes both a necessity and a pleasure. The actual functional code I push in a day is probably in the low hundreds LOC’s. But I push a lot of tests too. And sure, lots of that is boilerplate. But the tests run, pass, and if anything have better coverage than when I was writing all the code myself.
by thedevilslawyer | 2025-08-11 10:55:52+00:00
The fact that they called this captioned as "The bottom photo is an AI-generated image created in six prompts using OpenAI’s ChatGPT", without actually releasing the 6 prompts is quite telling. Because that will show they were prompting things to match the original image.

Iconic images (mona lisa, tank man, widely reported news stories, styles like ghibli) would of course be incorporated in as styles. It doesn't refute fair use.

So, you can't say "draw this person in the mona lisa pose, in simpsons style" and then act surprised and shocked when the model does exactly that. That's not theft.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-11 10:56:46+00:00
I think the "no closure to allocate" is not quite right because the captured parameters of a first-class function still need to be stored somewhere. It just happens as part of the calling code, e.g. consider how a "function object" in C++/Java works: the operator() or .call() code does not need to allocate anything, but the allocation might occur as part of constructing the object itself.
by oblio | 2025-08-11 10:57:32+00:00
Even in Western Europe.

Hunting is extremely rare (and generally an indicator of old money or living in an extremely rural environment).

Fishing is a lot more popular but even that tends to date you a bit. At least for Eastern Europe, fishing is a lot more popular among the 45+ year olds.

OP is primarily speaking about a North American perspective, I think.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-11 10:59:19+00:00
The only study currently trying to measure productivity of experienced devs using LLMs showed they suffer a 19% decline in productivity.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

Since that study demonstrated that experienced developers currently suffer a decline in their productivity when using LLMs, it's perfectly likely that less experienced/junior developers who normally will struggle with syntax or simple tasks like organizing their code are the ones experiencing the boost of productivity from LLMs.

Thus, it seems the devs benefitting the most from LLMs are the ones with the skill issue/more junior/early in their career.

Which group do you belong to?
by raxxorraxor | 2025-08-11 10:59:51+00:00
News organization welcome any barrier to social media networks, they are heavily biased on these topics. The "modern" journalist of today doesn't really care about freedom of information either.

Speaking of which, the EU is also working on a "free speech" law for journalists and against them being arbitrarily banned by platforms. One would think this law could easily be extended to everyone since it is not at all trivial to determine who gets these benefits and who doesn't.

Most outlets today are some form of court reporter in one way or another. That trust in media is sinking is quite expected and in many cases reasonable too.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-11 11:00:07+00:00
With Windows 10 support ending on Oct. 14th*, it'd be very interesting if this MacBook was officially announced in September. No need for Apple to suggest switching from Windows to MacOS - there'd be plenty of reporters and pundits and fans talking that up.

*Yes, there are various work-arounds. Every one with some cost, downsides, and/or FUD.
by profstasiak | 2025-08-11 11:00:12+00:00
Can someone please explain, sunscreen was invented in 1938.

How can something so new be suddenly a necessity, that if you fail to use every day you will get a skin cancer?

I understand for example that antibiotics are also new and really helpful, but was skin cancer a problem in our pre-history, or pre 1938 history?

Is it caused by ozon layer destruction? Global warming? What is the reason we suddenly need sunscreen?

(Genuinly asking, not trying to take a stand)
by LarMachinarum | 2025-08-11 11:00:24+00:00
Aside of how this looks like an AI-generated PR puff piece, it comes waaay too late after the Windsurf deal busted (OpenAI refusing to buy them after all) and Google cherry-picked the employees they wanted without wanting to buy the company, the artificial ARR-blown valuation disappearing in thin air and investors losing pretty much everything.

The thing is: those "$100M+" of negative-margin ARR don't mean anything positive for Cursor, just like it didn't for Windsurf; quite to the contrary, it's just a measure of capital bleed with an unsustainable model in a negative margin death spiral: the more of that artificial ARR they make, the closer they get to bust.

For a description of the problem, see https://ethanding.substack.com/p/windsurf-gets-margin-called which was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843801
by willyt | 2025-08-11 11:00:32+00:00
Yes, I would understand it and that’s probably what people naturally say informally where I live in Scotland and in other dialects it’s said more like ‘go’n put your shoes on’ where the ‘n’ is very soft. But especially if I saw it in writing I would assume that they were not a native British English speaker. It’s interesting. In America I presume it’s not grammatically correct to say ‘the police officer went got his gun and shot killed the suspect’ so why does US English drop the ‘and’ from go (and) or try (and)? Curious. (Edit with some observations about dropping letters from and)
by uyzstvqs | 2025-08-11 11:01:17+00:00
"In talking to the subjects, researchers discovered that high exposure to pornography videos apparently resulted in lower responsivity and an increased need for more extreme, specialized or “k+++y” material to become aroused."[1]

This effect can be clearly seen in that pornography websites promote this extreme, vile and obscure content, such as incest, exhibitionism, and even depictions of non-consensual interaction and physical abuse.[2] Obviously, these matters have no place in a healthy relationship, and it's pretty basic psychology that regular consumption of this content causes the normalization of such practices, especially in impressionable teenagers whom do not yet have legitimate experience in healthy, normal relationships.

A majority of adults watches pornography.[3] And we're dealing with a massive loneliness epidemic under younger generations, together with a significant rise in "hook-up culture" over forming serious relationships. Coincidence?

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5039517/

[2] Just go to one of those websites. I'm not going to do that, neither am I going to link to that here.

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1402222/us-adults-pornog...
by dns_snek | 2025-08-11 11:03:39+00:00
Agreed, but I'm also open to the likely possibility that LLMs genuinely work quite well in a few niches that I don't happen to work in, like writing run-of-the-mill React components where open source training data is truly abundant.

In day to day work I could only trust it to help me with the most conventional problems that the average developer experiences in the "top N" most popular programming languages and frameworks, but I don't need help with that because search engines are faster and lead to more trustworthy results.

I turn to LLMs when I have a problem that I can't solve after at least 10 minutes of my own research, which probably means I've strayed off the beaten path a bit. This is where response quality goes down the drain. The LLM now succumbs to hallucinations and bad pattern-matching like disregarding important details, suggesting solutions to superficially similar problems, parroting inapplicable conventional wisdoms, and summarizing the top 5 google search results and calling it "deep research".
by moomin | 2025-08-11 11:04:18+00:00
A very common specialisation of this is drinking culture. Some guys just plain don't drink and definitely don't drink as much as the drinking culture would require, some women bluntly don't feel safe around a bunch of guys getting drunk. Managers who drink can lead to this weird thing where going out drinking feels mandatory. Shout out to my last manager who definitely did drink and didn't have a drinking culture.