MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brulard | 2025-08-05 16:34:35+00:00
Don't do that. You'll spend much of your time tinkering with HW/sw instead of doing what you care for. I recently upgraded to Claude Max ($100 version). It's not cheap, but it would pay for itself. On top of that this local setup that is recommended here will be slower, dumber and would cost you right away many hundreds of bucks. And models and tools are improving quickly. I don't want to imagine how much time you would spend upgrading these local models yourself. If you just run Claude, it is taken care of, Claude Code is the best agentic tool there is and is improving every few weeks.
by jcelerier | 2025-08-05 16:34:39+00:00
Qwen Code is really not representative of the state of the art though. With the right prompt I have no problem getting Claude to output me a complete codebase (e.g. a non trivial library interfacing with multiple hardware devices) with the specs I want, in modern c++ that builds, runs, has documentation and unit tests sourced from data sheets and manufacturer specs from the go
by rotexo | 2025-08-05 16:34:56+00:00
You know that thing in anxiety dreams where you feel very uncoordinated and your attempts to manipulate your surroundings result in unpredictable consequences? Like you try to slam on the brake pedal but your car doesn’t slow down, or you’re trying to get a leash on your dog to lead it out of a dangerous situation and you keep failing to hook it on the collar? Maybe that’s extra latency because your brain is trying to render the environment at the same time as it is acting.
by organsnyder | 2025-08-05 16:34:57+00:00
For me, it's about being aware of the entire stack, and deliberate about which possibilities I am downplaying.

At a previous company, I was assigned a task to fix requests that were timing out for certain users. We knew those users had more data than the standard deviation, so the team lead created a ticket that was something like "Optimize SQL queries for...". Turns out the issue was our XML transformation pipeline (I don't miss this stack at all) was configured to spool to disk for any messages over a certain size.

Since I started by benchmarking the query, I realized fairly quickly that the slowness wasn't in the database; since I was familiar with all layers of our stack, I knew where else to look.

Instrumentation is vital as well. If you can get metrics and error information without having to gather and correlate it manually, it's much easier to gain context quickly.
by Intralexical | 2025-08-05 16:35:05+00:00
I definitely agree it happens more than ideal on HN as far as I've seen.

However, HN is also one of the few places where it's not uncommon for me to see people push back on it. And often comments that "pounce on a few words" are offering valid criticism on only that part IMO, while still accepting the larger work that's been posted.
by hintklb | 2025-08-05 16:35:15+00:00
I don't even know where to start. The math is incredibly more complex than the back of the napkin example you just gave. (downpayment, taxes, hoa, repairs, insurance, realtors, closing fees??)

But you are proving my point, you "think" you came ahead (while ending up paying way way more). Functionally you live in the same place, and the system managed to extract more money from you.
by hahn-kev | 2025-08-05 16:35:36+00:00
I feel like this could work if the payment was handled by your ISP. Content provider tells the ISP how much their content costs that there subscribers pay, and the ISP pays them. I already pay my ISP. The real problem is that it's kinda too late for this kind of change. And also the ISP would need to prevent their users from running up a bill that the ISP would be responsible for and without tracking them that's not possible.
by stronglikedan | 2025-08-05 16:35:45+00:00
> If you're hired to do a job, use whatever tools you want as long as your output meets minimum standards of quality. If the tools aren't there yet, it's up to you to bridge the gap.

Unfortunately this doesn't hold up in the real world, where managers dictate which tools are used, and directors dictate which are even going to be purchased for use. Sometimes the gap can't be bridged, but the onus is certainly not on the employee to bridge it.
by hattar | 2025-08-05 16:35:49+00:00
More annoyingly, they'll beep intermittently with no other indicator.

I have a house with ~15 fire alarms and when one is making an intermittent chirp every 30 seconds, it takes forever to figure out which one is low on battery. This could be solved with an LED that is lit when in a good state, and turns off when the battery is running low (or vice versa). For some reason I can't find a fire alarm with such a feature.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-08-05 16:35:54+00:00
> Is anyone actually claiming they produce wholly novel research?

I would argue companies performing layoffs because they think LLMs can do the work of a human is practically the same thing. There was even another article posted here today saying a bunch of companies are hiring humans again to fix the terrible work LLMs are doing, so it's fair to assume C-level jerks do think LLMs can produce something to the level of novel research and are finding out LLMs can't.
by AaronAPU | 2025-08-05 16:35:59+00:00
I can relate on the one hand but I also have a potential partial solution for you.

Early on, one of the choices I made as a solo founder was to put a note under my products asking existing customers to contact me for a loyalty discount.

This could’ve been automated of course, but now I routinely get emails from customers and they constantly say kind words about the software, make suggestions and provide encouragement.

Plus you can see their email signatures and links to understand who your customers are. You can ask them questions, even working collaboratively. You start having regulars who reach out.

It helps a lot because it creates a better sense that what you’re building is actually a part of people’s lives.
by glenstein | 2025-08-05 16:36:00+00:00
>it could also be argued that the real end of Google came when the long tail disappeared from results — that is where the real gold could be found

Wholeheartedly agree. Millionshort was based on this idea, of effectively skipping the "first 10k" sites that most commonly come up in results, skipping to the good stuff. But they've implemented forced logins and made other design choices I haven't loved.
by pclowes | 2025-08-05 16:36:01+00:00
I fear the move to LLM based search is a short term boost with a potential long term cost.

Yes they are very helpful. But what is the incentive to create more blogs for them LLM companies to scrape for novel tech? They are great for answering questions about things that are very well documented and understood but the incentive structure that aligns technical bloggers with search is being undermined.

In tech, knowledge scales non-linearly. No amount of trivial search can amount to finding excellent technical writing. Most of the stuff LLMs are great at answering are things that an individual can typically figure out already just much more slowly by RTFM (eg: react component, MVC code etc.) However, the LLMs fail at deeply technical or highly novel subjects.

I worry LLM usage overtime will create a gap between research papers and engineering as nobody is incentivizeded to write about their implementations/explorations.

I am hearing more and more tech-people jumping to Kagi regardless of role (SWE,SRE, PD,DS) which is encouraging.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-05 16:36:17+00:00
Yeah as a general rule, when something requires "no coding" I question if they're too zoomed-in. In reality, you can just hire a programmer instead of a box-clicker.

...Except in this case, there might be a lot of value in letting James Bond or Boris Badenov whip up a quick spy pipeline without putting up a job ad for a Python coder.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-08-05 16:36:41+00:00
I killed Comments on my Blog because of Spam. In its early days (2000s), comments on my blog made my day and hours. I made many friends, got many projects/contracts, along with the occasional threats and trolls. I even got a girlfriend who found it hard to believe that the visitor counter on my website increased non-stop. She commented that I'm cheating. I showed her my Web Analytics. That's how I got a girlfriend (I think 2005-2006).

Spam killed it, and let go of blog comments in 2021. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
by hiprob | 2025-08-05 16:36:50+00:00
The CEO has expressed his stance in a forum post: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

"Kagi has been using yandex search api since 2019, long before current geopolitical tensions"

The war in Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014.

"We understand these are deeply personal issues for many. As someone who was a refugee of two wars, I'm not indifferent to human suffering."

He is Serbian.

Regardless, the option to exclude Yandex (and other search engines) results has been suggested here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/4727-option-to-choose-or-exclude-...
by simonw | 2025-08-05 16:37:15+00:00
They used mostly vanilla JS for over a decade. They were early proponents of a technique they called PJAX which is actually pretty similar to how HTMX works: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

My hunch is that over time it became harder and harder for them to hire new frontend developers who didn't insist on building everything new in React and eventually they gave up.
by nativeit | 2025-08-05 16:37:22+00:00
I wouldn’t expect it to be, as kernel.org don’t list distribution kernels.

(Ignore this if it’s irrelevant and I’m missing the point, which is always a distinct possibility)

> Many Linux distributions provide their own "longterm maintenance" kernels that may or may not be based on those maintained by kernel developers. These kernel releases are not hosted at kernel.org and kernel developers can provide no support for them.

> It is easy to tell if you are running a distribution kernel. Unless you downloaded, compiled and installed your own version of kernel from kernel.org, you are running a distribution kernel. To find out the version of your kernel, run uname -r:
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-05 16:37:22+00:00
I get people writing comments on photos I post to social in languages that I have partial comprehension of such as Japanese and Portuguese. I use Copilot to translate their messages, ask specific questions about particular words, get explanations about idioms and supply context and ask it to translate my replies which I always translate back through another LLM to try to catch problems, sometimes I ask it to make an edit, sometimes I make an edit myself.

Often I use LLMs to "have a conversation with a language" such as researching the cognate between the phrase "woo" to describe the supernatural in English and the similarly pronounced character 巫 (wu) in Chinese which is used in words like 女巫 (witch -- that first character means "woman") but it is not the "wu" in 武侠 (wǔxiá -- martial arts)

I am sure one of these days I am going to embarrass myself but with partial comprehension I could do that without the help of an LLM.
by mitchbob | 2025-08-05 16:37:26+00:00
> What are you supposed to do...?

Well, you can

> ...[seek] to violently overthrow the democratically elected president Lula, who had been inaugurated on 1 January. Many rioters said their purpose was to spur military leaders to launch a "military intervention" (related to a misinterpretation of the 142nd article of the Brazilian constitution and a euphemism for a coup d'état) and disrupt the democratic transition of power.

> Several law enforcement officers assaulted and injured by rioters, at least 44 hospitalized [1]

You can have, in Donald Trump's words, "a day of love." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_January_Bras%C3%ADlia_attack...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5159868/2024-election-t...
by southernplaces7 | 2025-08-05 16:37:37+00:00
This is just blatantly stupid in the crudest sense. You want to showcase yourself as a friend of big industrial interests, oil and whatever else, fine. Want to spit in the face of "progressive" energy rhetoric? okay, sure, whatever. But why try to ruin a genuinely useful, powerfully developing technology for such crude motivations? Of course, because you're Trump (or a Trump appointee) and need to showcase your reactionary ass to the world of your perceived enemies even when it's completely counterproductive to do so.
by threatofrain | 2025-08-05 16:37:46+00:00
AI is strong in different places, and if it keeps on being strong in certain ways then people very soon won't be able to keep up. For example, extreme horizontal knowledge and the ability to digest new information almost instantly. That's not something anyone can do. We don't try to compete against computers on raw calculation, and soon we won't compete on this one either. We simply won't even think to compare.

People keep focusing on general intelligence style capabilities but that is the golden grail. The world could go through multiple revolutions before finding that golden grail, but even before then everything would have changed beyond recognition.

So write an integration over the API docs I just copy-pasted.
by lajr | 2025-08-05 16:38:14+00:00
This format, or similar formats, seem to be the standard now, I was just reading the "Lessons from Building Manus"[1] post and they discuss the Hermes Format[2] which seems similar in terms of being pseudo-xml.

My initial thought was how hacky the whole thing feels, but then the fact that it works and gives rise to complex behaviour (like coercing specific tool selection in the Manus post) is quite simple and elegant.

Also as an aside, it is good that it appears that each standard tag is a single token in the OpenAI repo.

[1] https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Less... [2] https://github.com/NousResearch/Hermes-Function-Calling
by echelon | 2025-08-05 16:38:18+00:00
I don't know. I wasn't there and I'm excited.

I think this puts Epic Games, Nintendo, and the whole lot into a very tough spot if this tech takes off.

I don't see how Unreal Engine, with its voluminous and labyrinthine tomes of impenetrable legacy C++ code, survives this. Unreal Engine is a mess, gamers are unhappy about it, and it's a PITA to develop with. I certainly hate working with it.

Innovator's Dilemma fast approaching the entire gaming industry and they don't even see it coming it's happening so fast.

Exciting that building games could become as easy as having the idea itself. I'm imagining something like VRChat or Roblox or Fortnite, but where new things are simply spoken into existence.

It's absolutely terrifying that Google has this much power.
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by nkrisc | 2025-08-05 16:38:52+00:00
Using the symbol explorer (or whatever it’s called) on files is nice for following definitions through files, but it makes the browser back button completely non-functional. Often the URL will actually change to the previous history state, but the page content never changes. Trying to then reload with the changed URL also doesn’t work for whatever reason.

It would be a really great feature if it worked correctly.
by kartoffelsaft | 2025-08-05 16:38:55+00:00
Reminds me of a discussion that Casey Muratori and Robert Martin had over clean code and it's impact on performance... but not because of the subject matter. They were using GitHub as a medium for their discussion, and they ran into some serious lag when typing paragraphs into just the hundreds of characters (ctrl+f emoji, ~1/4 of the way through):

https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c...
by prasadjoglekar | 2025-08-05 16:38:56+00:00
Having looked at Solar for my house in NY, I can only summarize as this:

Solar tax credits are subsides for the well off. The poorest folks can't afford the cash cost of panels and don't have enough taxable income to use the offsets.

The workaround to the high cost has been to lock less diligent people into 30 year power purchase agreements in return for no upfront costs. The lessor takes the subsidies and credits and it just creates another lien on the house.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-05 16:40:21+00:00
I pay for Kagi and Claude. I feel that the core of this decline in services is simply because nobody want to pay for what is of value.

Search is still useful. Claude is not good at citing sources. Search is great for doing my own research.

I’m hearing a lot of people just copy and paste LLM output as truth. From students to law clerks. LLMs are designed to output convincing text (not correct text) and for lazy people that’s good enough.

There will always be a need for searching raw data and making conclusions without an LLM
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-05 16:40:30+00:00
"Isn't suited" is a stretch. They still managed to make a few good dives with it despite comically bad decisions in just about every key area. Imagine what a well funded company with experience in CF, robust QC and non-laughable operating procedures could do.

It's not ideal on a first pass analysis in the same way concrete can't to shit in tension yet with a bunch of carefully placed steel and number crunching magic it works great. I think they proved that CF has the same potential. A more serious attempt could likely work in some capacity.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-05 16:40:50+00:00
I too have dumped Google for Kagi (within the same time frame, even). I encourage everyone to give it a shot and see if it clicks for you. For me, it was night and day. I used to be skeptical about the idea of paying for search, but I'm definitely sticking with Kagi after seeing how well it works.
by avallach | 2025-08-05 16:41:05+00:00
@viraptor above mentions that they actually do try first with an explicit perplexity-agent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797682 . So there's no ambiguity. The worst they could accuse Cloudflare, is that they don't give website owners an easy way to only block scrapers while allowing user-driven agents (do they?).
by lurk2 | 2025-08-05 16:41:15+00:00
> I don't need to catch up or get anywhere remotely close to Bezos be financially satiated.

No one does. The issue comes when they start using that money to acquire political power. He wasn’t joking about seeing your margin as his opportunity.

> Insisting otherwise is a direct attack on the fundamental right to private property that underpins western civilization.

Western civilization includes a history of taxation, expropriation, and probate fees. No amount of libertarian revisionism will change this.
by codemac | 2025-08-05 16:41:18+00:00
Everyone has similar agreements with local power grids, and pretty much all DC operators respond to demand reduction calls from the grid.

It's extremely rare for a DC to put an entire community's grid at risk, and they are usually working closely with the upstream power providers during any storm, increased demand, etc.

I think there is a lot of hand wringing from folks who have never worked in DC operations.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-05 16:41:49+00:00
There was a recent study concluding that AI made experienced developers 20% SLOWER to complete tasks rather than any faster !

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089

Obviously it depends on what you are using the AI to do, and how good a job you do of creating/providing all the context to give it the best chance of being successful in what you are asking.

Maybe a bit like someone using a leaf blower to blow a couple of leaves back and forth across the driveway for 30 sec rather than just bending down to pick them up.... It seems people find LLMs interesting, and want to report success in using them, so they'll spend a ton of time trying over and over to tweak the context and fix up what the AI generated, then report how great it was, even though it'd have been quicker to do it themselves.

I think agentic AI may also lead to this illusion of, or reported, AI productivity ... you task an agent to do something and it goes off and 30 min later creates what you could have done in 20 min while you are chilling and talking to your workmates about how amazing this new AI is ...
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by einarfd | 2025-08-05 16:42:13+00:00
There are companies out there working on those problems as well. How the funding climate for them are. I don't know. But the market for smart robots, should be gigantic. So there must be some. Keep in mind that what is easy, and hard for a human, which is the result of billions of years of evolution. Isn't necessary the same things that are hard or easy for our technologies.
by parpfish | 2025-08-05 16:42:26+00:00
sometimes reading LLM text reminds me of being a TA and having to grade student essays from people that didn't really understand.

the courses i had to grade in were often undergrad students first exposure to having to read scientific papers. when it came time to write an essay of their own, they always felt a need to mimic the writing style of those papers and it resulted in lots of superficial changes to their writing that made it clear that they read the papers but did not understand the papers. they'd sprinkle in words like "putative" and "substrate" in places that felt correct but made no sense.

i wish that they would've had the confidence to just write what they wanted to say instead of putting on airs and making some convoluted and sometimes nonsensical prose.

LLMs do the same thing.
by bobson381 | 2025-08-05 16:42:28+00:00
You would like this article - https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/curious-george-and...

The author orders some Curious George stickers and gets a surprising array of kind of scary "closely related" stickers with em.... a fuzzy interpreter. The plus c when you integrate. Those missing harmonics and back-channel data that get inaudibly cut out of MP3s. The goo between the prickles. We don't know how to say what it is, but we sure can tell when it's missing!