MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Quarrelsome | 2025-08-05 21:06:13+00:00
10x is a meme in our industry that relates to developer productivity and I think it well reflects the sort of productivity gain that someone would be "nuts" to be skeptical about. You might not have specifically said "10x" but I imagine many people left your article believing that agentic AI is the "next 10x" productivity boost.

They used it 25 times in their piece and in your piece stated that being interested in "the craft" is something people should do in their own time from now on. Strongly implying, if not outright stating; that the processes and practices we've refined for the past 70 years of software engineering need to move aside for the next hotness that has only been out for 6 months. Sure you never said "10x", but to me it read entirely like you're doing the "10x" dance. It was a good article and it definitely has inspired me to check it out.
by taeric | 2025-08-05 21:06:25+00:00
It really is mind blowing to see how much smaller a file with newer compression can be. Had to convert some videos to a codec that would work on my kids chromebook recently. What was a 300 meg video ballooned up to 2 gigs. One of the videos was 130 megs that jumped up to 3.2 gigs. Time lapse video, so I'm sure it had some of the sweet spots for compression. Still, was dramatic how much a modern codec can get that down.
by kawfey | 2025-08-05 21:06:31+00:00
for me kagi started out as a few searches and compared between it, DDG and google.

and then i ran out of free searches, so I gave them $5.

and then i ran out of $5 worth of searches so i kept renewing, $5 more. And again, and again.

At this point I had all my defaults set to kagi because I loved it. Just the fact there are no ads or sponsored leads and I can more-or-less kill webpages completely generated and SEO'd with LLMs, I can actually do research again.

and then I became a full subscriber, with orion, blacklists, I use the quick answer (LLM) and small web searching fruitfully, and joined their discord.

It's been a long time since I fell head over heels for a technology product, and this being something so core to how I use the internet, it's a godsend.

Enjoying it at least until they decide money is nice and growth is imperative, they go public, and enshittifies.
by foxglacier | 2025-08-05 21:06:40+00:00
Great story and it shows what everybody knows but won't say - normal academics are the frauds. Not just mysterious strangers in foreign countries, paper mills, etc. but normal medium or high status academics in prestigious universities in western countries doing the fraud themselves.

You can say it's not their fault - they're forced into it because it's the only way to succeed. But it's still their fault. I remember a case of a politician in China being arrested for corruption and he said that the only way to reach his position was with corruption. Yea he was probably right but he was still corrupt.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-08-05 21:06:43+00:00
One of the interesting features of ZStandard is the support for external dictionaries. It supports "training" a dictionary on a set of samples, of whatever size (16KiB, 64 KiB, etc.), then applying that dictionary as a separate input file for compression and decompression. This lets you compress short content much more effectively.

I doubt it would apply to PNG because of the length and content doesn't seem to be dictionary-friendly, but it would be interesting to try from some giant collection of scraped PNGs. This approach was important enough for Brotli to include a "built-in" dictionary covering HTML.
by radicality | 2025-08-05 21:06:51+00:00
Hey. Not sure what's triggering it from the tmux.conf, i think it's just the `-r` like you have ? I think it stands for 'repeat'. Perhaps you are already doing the same thing, spam resize? I have something like `bind -r H resize-pane -L 1`, so when I hit my <leader> and then hold capital H (shift+h), it just keeps resizing by 1 unit of size.

other parts of my config that could be relevant, using with iterm2.

``` bind h select-pane -L bind j select-pane -D bind k select-pane -U bind l select-pane -R bind -r H resize-pane -L 1 bind -r J resize-pane -D 1 bind -r K resize-pane -U 1 bind -r L resize-pane -R 1 set -g mouse on bind \\ split-window -h -c '#{pane_current_path}' bind - split-window -v -c '#{pane_current_path}' set -g focus-events on setw -g aggressive-resize on set -g display-time 4000 set -s escape-time 0 ```
by torginus | 2025-08-05 21:07:12+00:00
I now understand what artists felt when seeing stable diffusion images - AI code is often just wrong - not in the moral sense, but it contains tons of bugs, weirdness, excess and peculiarities you'd never be happy to see in a real code base. Often getting rid of all of this, takes comparable amount of time as doing the job in the first place.

Now I can always switch to a different model, increase the context, prompt better etc. but I still feel that actual good quality AI code is just out of arms reach, or when something clicks, and the AI magically starts producing exactly what I want, that magic doesn't last.

Like with stable diffusion, people who don't care as much or aren't knowledgeable enough to know better, just don't get what's wrong with this.

A week ago, I received a bug ticket claiming one of the internal libs i wrote didn't work. I checked out the reporter's code, which was full of weird issues (like the debugger not working and the typescript being full of red squiggles), and my lib crashed somewhere in the middle, in some esoteric minified js.

When I asked the guy who wrote it what's going on, he admitted he vibe coded the entire project.
by Animats | 2025-08-05 21:07:27+00:00
Look what happened to Nature, which used to be good. It was once the definitive journal of the life sciences. They became "Nature Portfolio", and now publish all these titles:

Nature Nature Africa Nature Aging Nature Astronomy Nature Biomedical Engineering Nature Biotechnology Nature Cancer Nature Cardiovascular Research Nature Catalysis Nature Cell Biology Nature Chemical Biology Nature Chemical Engineering Nature Chemistry Nature Cities Nature Climate Change Nature Communications Nature Computational Science Nature Digest Nature Ecology & Evolution Nature Electronics Nature Energy Nature Food Nature Genetics Nature Geoscience Nature Health Nature Human Behaviour Nature Immunology Nature India Nature Italy Nature Machine Intelligence Nature Materials Nature Medicine Nature Mental Health Nature Metabolism Nature Methods Nature Microbiology Nature Nanotechnology Nature Neuroscience Nature Photonics Nature Physics Nature Plants Nature Protocols Nature Reviews Biodiversity Nature Reviews Bioengineering Nature Reviews Cancer Nature Reviews Cardiology Nature Reviews Chemistry Nature Reviews Clean Technology Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology Nature Reviews Disease Primers Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering Nature Reviews Endocrinology Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology Nature Reviews Genetics Nature Reviews Immunology Nature Reviews Materials Nature Reviews Methods Primers Nature Reviews Microbiology Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Nature Reviews Nephrology Nature Reviews Neurology Nature Reviews Neuroscience Nature Reviews Physics Nature Reviews Psychology Nature Reviews Rheumatology Nature Reviews Urology Nature Sensors Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Nature Sustainability Nature Synthesis Nature Water

Nature Energy is notorious for battery hype articles. Nature Materials is notorious for surface chemistry hype ("nanotechnology") articles. I suspect some of the others have similar problems.
by ggm | 2025-08-05 21:07:42+00:00
As is by now traditional there is a well written discussion that the size was very probably larger, and the police models of crowd density are out of date. It's hard to do this stuff. Bias is everywhere, over and undercounting.

I recall this from anti-racism marches in the UK back in the 70s.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/05/we-kn...
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-05 21:08:18+00:00
#2 is the reason I keep paying for Claude Code Pro.

For 20 a month I can get my stupid tool and utility ideas from "it would be cool if I could..." to actual "works well enough for me" -tools in an evening - while I watch my shows at the same time.

After a day at work I don't have the energy to start digging through, say, OpenWeather's latest 3.0 API and its nuances and how I can refactor my old code to use the new API.

Claude did it in maybe one episode of What We Do in the Shadows :D I have a hook that makes my computer beep when Claude is done or pauses for a question, so I can get back, check what it did and poke it forward.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-08-05 21:08:32+00:00
This is hilarious. Just 3 weeks ago I signed up for 10 Gbps symmetrical fibre to the home with XGS-PON, and it costs me US$23/month (naturally, this is not in the US).

The only US argument I hear with respect to fibre broadband internet, high-speed rail, good healthcare, and more is 'we're too big!'. At some point it starts being genuinely funny.
by cb321 | 2025-08-05 21:08:56+00:00
FWIW, I almost always have to look at the generated assembly (never mind C) to even verify things are vectorized. I hope you realize the promise of a PLang where that doesn't need checking or some kind of "autovec-miss" compiler flags or so on and wish you all the best.

I'm curious if you have looked at Chapel: https://chapel-lang.org/

If not, you might find some thing there inspiring.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-05 21:09:23+00:00
> Nuclear is good though, it's the single densest source of energy in the world (and, well, outside of it too).

It would be good if the energy were used in critical applications. Wasted energy is stil wasted.

> I don't get your argument though, where has it "accelerated consumerism?"

Are you serious? It is making people richer, allowing people to make products faster, including software. Of course that makes consumption faster.

> And you can't be serious about its medical applications, I doubt more people would die from its incremental climate change effects (as compared to, say, car accidents, much less car pollution in cities) as compared to being saved from death.

No, I am serious. And it will get much worse in the future. Check out [1], [2], etc.. And lets not forget the increased storms, flooding, etc. We are all responsible for that. But those that use electricity like big tech should be held especially responsible because they encourage the bad behaviour and use resources directly.

> Even outside of the scientific fields, AI sure is solving a lot of my problems, saying one is an "enemy of humanity" is the sort of hyperbole I'd only see on HN.

Solving your problems doesn't really mean solving the world's problems, just like making the top 10% richer doesn't make the world a better place. I absolutely consider them the enemy of humanity.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/part-two-how-many-people-die-from...

2. https://www.weforum.org/press/2024/01/wef24-climate-crisis-h...
by xiphias2 | 2025-08-05 21:09:24+00:00
I wanted to try web search to increase my privacy but it wanted to do login.

For Turbo mode I understand the need for paying but the main poing of running a local model with web search is browsing from my computer without using any LLM provider. Also I want to get rid of the latency to US servers from Europe.

If ollama can't do it, maybe a fork.
by dabbz | 2025-08-05 21:09:28+00:00
Sure, their index plays a small part of the equation, but they aren't reliant on any 1 index for their resultset. But sure, I guess their marketing worked.

The index was why I looked elsewhere.

The reason I switched to Kagi was because of their business model where I'm a customer not a product. So results are theoretically tailored for value to me not value to the company.
by mattmanser | 2025-08-05 21:09:39+00:00
I randomly stumbled across Tekwetu who've made a pretty good step-by-step example of coding with Claude Code, using MCPs, etc.[1]. None of the upsell or gushing. It's a pretty simple app with a backend, with a slightly complicated storage mechanism.

I was watching to learn how other devs are using Claude Code, as my first attempt I pretty quickly ran into a huge mess and was specifically looking for how to debug better with MCP.

The most striking thing is she keeps on having to stop it doing really stupid things. She slightly glosses over those points a little bit by saying things like "I roughly know what this should look like, and that's not quite right" or "I know that's the old way of installing TailwindCSS, I'll just show you how to install Context7", etc.

But in each 10 minute episodes (which have time skips while CC thinks) it happens at least twice. She has to bring her senior dev skills in, and it's only due to her skill that she can spot the problem in seconds flat.

And after watching much of it, though I skipped a few episodes at the end, I'm pretty certain I could have coded the same app quicker than she did without agentic AI, just using the old chat window AIs to bash out the React boilerplate and help me quickly scan the documentation for getting offline. The initial estimate of 18 days the AI came up with in the plan phase would only hold truye if you had to do it "properly".

I'm also certain she could have too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erKHnjVQD1k

It's worth a watch if you're not doing agentic coding yet. There were points I was impressed with what she got it to do. The TDD section was quite impressive in many ways, though it immediately tried to cheat and she had to tell it to do it properly.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-05 21:10:02+00:00
Inaccurate in my opinion. Let's say you eat 2500 calories a day usually. But you want to lose weight so you reduce it to 1800.

Except your calories are from pop tarts.

If you ate 100 calories of pop tarts every hour you're awake for total of 1800 calories... At the end of the month you'd be fatter.

If you ate 1800 calories of pop tarts once a day in 1 hour, you might maintain weight or loose a little. Maybe.

If you had 3600 calories of pop tarts in a few hour window, and then didn't eat again for 48 hours, you'd lose weight in a month.

Insulin control is 99% of losing weight. Yes thermodynamic blah blah, but unless you pay attention to hormone control that controls metabolism in general, it's not going to work without insane willpower to keep your 'calories out' higher than your body wants.

If you repeated the 3600 calories every 48 hours with beef instead, you'd lose weight like never before.
by ori_b | 2025-08-05 21:10:08+00:00
Yes. One of the best features of png is that I don't have to wonder if it's going to work somewhere. Throwing that away in favor of a bit of premature optimization seems like a big loss. Especially as this wouldn't be the only modernized image compression format out there. Why use this over, eg, lossless webp?

I don't think I have ever noticed the decode time of a png.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-05 21:10:22+00:00
He said it more than once on more than one occasion though. Which, as with all these things, means either:

- this is his wonky understanding (and he is pretty famously innumerate)

- he's saying it as a power game despite the pushback because people around him feel they have to smile, agree and retcon stuff to make it believable

Or indeed both.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-05 21:10:26+00:00
Of course there is an upper limit for AI. There's an upper limit for humans too.

What you need is just boring project management. Have a proper spec, architecture and tasks split into manageable chunks with enough information to implement them.

Then you just start watching TV and say "implement github issue #42" to Claude and it'll get on with it.

But if you say "build me facebook" and expect a shippable product, you'll have a bad time.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-08-05 21:10:36+00:00
This is very cool. I might have the skills to replicate this but would never be able to accomplish it. My brain is warped .. to get motivated, I need the end result to be of some tangible value. Pure fun doesn't work for me, sadly. I am also unable to go and learn something just for the sake of learning.

Just an aside, an I realize efficiency is NOT a metric for your fabulous display .. here is another interesting mechanism. Maybe one could build a 10K or 100K display with this?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-flap_display
by tugn8r | 2025-08-05 21:10:38+00:00
But that was always going to be the case?

Reality is not composed of words, syntax, and semantics. A human modal is.

Other human modals are sensory only, no language.

So vision learning and energy models that capture the energy to achieve a visual, audio, physical robotics behavior are the only real goal.

Software is for those who read the manual with their new NES game. Where are the words inside us?

Statistical physics of energy to make machine draw the glyphs of language not opionated clustering of language that will close the keyboard and mouse input loop. We're like replicating human work habits. Those are real physical behaviors. Not just descriptions in words.
by dataking | 2025-08-05 21:10:45+00:00
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by bavell | 2025-08-05 21:11:00+00:00
I'm on the basic $20/mo sub and only ran into token cap limitations in the first few days of using Claude Code (now 2-3 weeks in) before I started being more aggressive about clearing the context. Long contexts will eat up tokens caps quickly when you are having extended back-and-forth conversations with the model. Otherwise, it's been effectively "unlimited" for my own use.
by tlamponi | 2025-08-05 21:11:25+00:00
We manage anything, including package builds, ourselves if the need should arise; we also monitor Debian and release critical bugs closely, we see no realistic potential for any Proxmox relevant package to disappear, at least nothing higer compared to that happening after the 9th.

FWIW, we got staff members that are also directly involved with Debian which makes things a bit easier.
by thinkindie | 2025-08-05 21:11:46+00:00
I moved to Germany 10 years ago and while regional and suburban train service has been great, the long distance service has been terrible, with high prices, almost no high speed service and no competition. I'm Italian and therefore I had very low expectations, but at least high speed trains in Italy run better than Germany (at least until recently, when lack of regular maintenance work ultimately made its dent into the service quality).

But for many software engineer this is not a big surprise: everyone knows that accumulating tech debt and neglecting maintence will eventually bite back sooner or later.
by ninwa | 2025-08-05 21:11:56+00:00
> I would prefer if we figured out what other than cultural changes is making everyone have symptoms of inflammatory dysfunctions.

I personally hope it's just cultural and sugar/hfcs. Because some alternatives might be grim to reckon with just from a humanistic/grief perspective: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34484127/
by llmtosser | 2025-08-05 21:12:04+00:00
Interesting - it does indeed seem like llama-server has the needed endpoints to do the model swapping and llama.cpp as of recently also has a new flag for the dynamic CPU offload now.

However the approach to model swapping is not 'ollama compatible' which means all the OSS tools supporting 'ollama' Ex Openwebui, Openhands, Bolt.diy, n8n, flowise, browser-use etc.. aren't able to take advantage of this particularly useful capability as best I can tell.
by getpost | 2025-08-05 21:12:15+00:00
It's an apples-to-oranges comparison, but I'm reminded of the ~10^12 fps (1.7 ps exposures) demonstrated in work at MIT[0], which was for a completely different application.

[0] https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/

EDIT: Video with explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk
by gruez | 2025-08-05 21:12:23+00:00
It's not as bad as the alarmist phrasing would suggest. Consider a toy example: suppose consumer spending was $100 and grew by $1, but AI spending was $10 and grew by $1.5, then you can rightly claim that "AI added more to the grow of the US economy than all consumer spending combined"[1]. But it's not as if the economy consists mostly of AI, or that if AI spending stopped the economy will collapse. It just means AI is a major contributor to the economy's growth right now. It's not even certain that the AI bubble popping would lead to all of that growth evaporating. Much of the AI boom involves infrastructure build out for data centers. That can be reallocated to building houses if datacenters are no longer needed.

[1] Things get even spicier if consumer growth was zero. Then what would the comparison? That AI added infinitely more to growth than consumer spending? What if it was negative? All this shows how ridiculous the framing is.
by riazrizvi | 2025-08-05 21:12:31+00:00
Nobody cares? That seems ludicrous to me. The last 3 decades of business have been characterized most of all by the increased access of private information on people for online business competitive insights. Sure if you are just a consumer you have nothing of real value except in the aggregate, but if you are an up-and-coming business drawing customers away from other businesses, your private AI use is absolutely of interest. Which is why serious businesses here scour the ToS.

The biggest game in town has been managing platforms that give owners an information advantage. But at least the world generally trusts the USA to abide by laws and user agreements, which is why, to my mind, the USA retains the near monopoly on information platforms.

I personally wouldn’t trust a UK platform for example, being a Brit native. The top echelon talent pool is so small and incestuous I don’t believe I would experience a fair playing field if a business of mine passed a certain size of national reach/importance.

EDIT: from ChatGPT, new money entrepreneurs with no inheritence/political ties by economic region, USA ~63%, UK/HongKong/Singapore ~45%, Emerging Markets ~35%, EU ~22%, Russia ~10%