MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sidjxjxbnxkxkkx | 2025-08-02 19:18:50+00:00
English is much less expressive compared to code. Typing the keys was never the slow part for senior developers.

It does work with an LLM, but you’re reinventing the wheel with these crazy markup files. We created a family of language to express how to move bits around and replacing that with English is silly.

Vibe coding is fast because you’re ok with not thinking about the code. Anytime you have to do that, an LLM is not going to be much faster.
by neom | 2025-08-02 19:19:08+00:00
And it's everywhere. I've been on the road a lot the last few years, all over, central/south america, north america, korea, europe, airports, trains, coffee shops, restaurants, hospitals, it's everywhere. I've taken to spending time to just sit somewhere for a half hour and just watching people...stuck, totally glued, to the screen. So sad to watch parents with children, the children desperate for attention, the parents zoned into the device, or the inverse also...but the degree of prevalence is stark to my mind.
by maccard | 2025-08-02 19:19:23+00:00
Steroids are usually given to reduce inflammation and as immunosuppressants to stop the body from fighting back against whatever treatment is being given. The main method of weight gain with prednisone (the most common steroid) is water retention. Anabolic steroids are not commonly prescribed to cancer patients.

Cortico steroids usually result in muscle mass loss.
by danielbln | 2025-08-02 19:20:03+00:00
I realized Claude Code is the abstraction level I want to work in. Cursor et al still stick me way down into the code muck when really I only want to see the code during review. It's an implementation detail that I still have to review because it's makes mistakes, even when guided perfectly, but otherwise I want to think in interfaces, architecture, components. The low level code, don't care. Is it up to spec and conventions, does it work? Good enough for me.
by torginus | 2025-08-02 19:20:28+00:00
I really like the idea of taking advantage of there not being an engine bay in the front, and moving the driver position forward, and eliminating the unused length of the engine bay - but this looks very unsafe for the driver in a crash, with no crumple zone to speak of - not to mention it turns a simple fender bender into a front axle replacement (though with modern cars and their sensors, there's no such thing as a cheap crash anyway)
by mlinhares | 2025-08-02 19:20:28+00:00
I think a lot of this conversation is centered in the US, most other countries haven't been through a suburbanization at the rate and size the US has gone through. It is very easy for you to be disconnected from reality living in the suburbs in florida (where I live, for instance) than it is to do the same in a city like Barcelona or São Paulo.

I don't know of any other country were living in the burbs is desirable, everyone wants to be close to where the action and the businesses are.
MaskLLM for LLM API Key Rotation
by meerc | 2025-08-02 19:20:37+00:00
I was using proxy services to rotate my LLM keys but realised that it is not an ideal solution. API keys can become inherently complex with XX+ params! and they release new models every month or two. Proxy providers are always lagging behind and also rerouting sucks. Instead, I built MaskLLM (https://maskllm.com) the easiest and best way to generate masked keys for rotation across Apps (bolt, lovable, replit etc) & Teams (dev teams, ops teams etc) and SDK packages to resolve the master key securely in backend. Your backend becomes the gateway and you can easily apply your logic for rate limiting, throttling etc. MaskLLM is in beta and I think it is useful for those who have been pasting original keys or sharing them. You can find our portal at https://app.maskllm.com/ to mask keys and use them in seconds. Let me know what yall think!
by wjnc | 2025-08-02 19:21:08+00:00
Over the holidays I built a plan for an app that would be worthwhile to my children, oldest son first. That plan developed to several thousand words of planning documents (MVP, technical stack, layout). That was just me lying in the sun with Claude on mobile.

Today I (not a programmer, although programming for 20+ years, but mostly statistics) started building with Claude Code via Pro. Burned through my credits in about 3 hours. Got to MVP (happy tear in my eye). Actually one of the best looks I've ever gotten from my son. A look like, wow, dad, that's more than I'd ever think you could manage.

Tips:

- Plan ahead! I've had Claude tell me that a request would fit better way back on the roadmap. My roadmap manages me.

- Force Claude to build a test suite and give debugging info everywhere (backend, frontend).

- Claude and me work together on a clear TODO. He needs guidance as well as I do. It forgot a very central feature of my MVP. Do not yet know why. Asked kindly and it was built.

Questions (not specifically to you kind HN-folks, although tips are welcome):

- Why did I burn through my credits in 3 hours?

- How can I force Claude to keep committed to my plans, my CLAUDE.md, etc.

- Is there a way to ask Claude to check the entire project for consistency? And/Or should I accept that vibing will leave crusts spread around?
by masklinn | 2025-08-02 19:21:16+00:00
I've been looking at the GTK Boxer since it was first announced. The modularity means you can bring the kids to school then swap the rear module for one more suited to transporting raw materials, you just need a garage equipped with a 15t crane to do the swap at home in just a few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn_WblYc4xk
by thepryz | 2025-08-02 19:21:18+00:00
Midwest, so cost of living is relatively low to moderate. I don't have firsthand experience elsewhere but it's my understanding that what we experience isn't uncommon.

This is the third facility he's been in and options are limited because a lot of facilities aren't staffed to provide memory care. Unfortunately, there just aren't many options unless you're wealthy enough to have in-home care.
by ta555555 | 2025-08-02 19:21:18+00:00
The alternative is to depose them.

It's a massive shame how he is treated right now. Right after the deposition of one mass murderer CEO, another would-be mass murderer insurer backtracked their plans to limit time under anesthesia.

Deposition works.

Even those who believe human lives are equal (they are not) have to admit the price of one dead (bad) person outweighs the number of people who would have died or had serious complications from rushed procedures.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-02 19:21:20+00:00
Absolutely, it's not going to work that well for MoE, though today most local models (except Qwen3-30B-A3B) are dense ones.

But even for MoE it will still work: sure the second parallel agent running is going to divide the token rate by almost two, but the reduction is exponentially decreasing and the 30th will almost be free. So if you have enough VRAM to run Qwen3-32B, you can run Qwen3-30B-3A at the same speed as the 32B version but you'll be running a hundred of instances.
by danielfetz | 2025-08-02 19:21:46+00:00
Initially the win criteria was within ±10% of the correct answer, but 15 minutes ago I changed it to ±20%. My rationale here is that the goal of the game is to get within the ballpark of the correct answer. And a guess of 80 billion when the correct answer is 100 billion seems quite good and indeed should probably win the game.
by throwpoaster | 2025-08-02 19:22:11+00:00
There is a cost-revenue pairing issue with traditional software business models: if someone pays upfront, how do you pay to deliver bug fixes? In games that offer any kind of multi it's worse because you have continued server costs as well.

One could say, for example, "ship bug free" or perhaps more reasonably, "include the net present value of future costs". Both of those are essentially infeasible.

Subscription model software one-shots the cost-revenue pairing issue.
by contingencies | 2025-08-02 19:22:39+00:00
Hey Ken, great read as always. I wonder if in future you would consider doing an overview of the various early radio chips and their evolution. I recall recently reading some HAM projects and understanding that a lot of the later radio chips were clones of earlier designs. Given your suggestion that this earlier period of integrated radio innovation is 'low hanging fruit' in terms of RE-friendliness, it should be an interesting read and I'm sure a very large number of radio enthusiasts would love to see your insights.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-02 19:22:45+00:00
You and I both grew up during times when it was acceptable to persecute homosexuals, hit your kids in public and private, and it was "controversial" for women to take jobs other than bank tellers or airline stewardesses.

And we filled our gas tanks with leaded gas and people smoked in windowless restaurants.

While I'm not happy how the world is going right now, it's also important to take stock of where we've been.
by gugagore | 2025-08-02 19:23:24+00:00
I think search is a fairly simple control loop. Beam search is an example of TTC in this modern era.

It is a very wide term, IME, that means anything besides "one-shot through the network".

I think the thing about the search formulation, which is amenable to domains like chess and go, but not other domains is critical. If LLMs are coming up with effective search formulation for "open-ended" problems, that would be a big deal. Maybe this is what you're alluding to.
by 9rx | 2025-08-02 19:23:38+00:00
That's because the night starts way earlier than it used to. The data is abundantly clear about that.

Back in my day you didn't even leave home for a night out before 11PM. You couldn't spend that much even if you tried before everything was closed and there was nowhere left to spend. Young people today, on the other hand, are favouring starting the night out in the early evening, even the afternoon.

A night out may cost 5x more, but the same night out doesn't.
by staticman2 | 2025-08-02 19:24:43+00:00
"They don't need copyright ownership of the AI output to make part of the conditions for using their software running on their servers (API access) an agreement not to use it training a competing AI model."

You are missing the point.

Copyright law and the copyright act, not general contract law, governs whether a contract provision relating to AI output can be enforced by Anthropic, and since copyright law says Anthropic has no copyright in the output, Anthropic will not win in court.

It's not different than if Anthropic included a provision saying you won't print out the text of Moby Dick. Anthropic doesn't own copyright on Moby Dick and can't enforce a contract provision related to it.

Like I said I can be convinced I'm wrong based on a legal analysis from a neutral party but you seem to be arguing from first principles.
by dang | 2025-08-02 19:24:48+00:00
Recent and related. Others?

The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612313 - July 2025 (181 comments)

The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five-Year Mistake [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596554 - July 2025 (91 comments)
by justlikereddit | 2025-08-02 19:24:56+00:00
I've been exploring vibe coding lately and by far the biggest benefit is the lack of mental strain.

You don't have to try to remember your code as a conceptual whole, what your technical implementation of the next hour of code was going to be like at the same time as a stubborn bug is taunting you.

You just ask Mr smartybots and it deliver anything between proofreading and documentation and whatnot, with some minor fuckups occasionally
by trinix912 | 2025-08-02 19:25:43+00:00
I'm one of the people who do that nowadays (I'm also from Europe). I've friends who find no problem with just sitting in a public park / square, but the amount of other young people I see doing that seems to be going down year by year. Slightly, but steadily. Same with bars, at least in my city, most bars have raised prices significantly due to tourism. Wages for student jobs have gone up (the minimal student wage almost doubled in the last 5 years), but not at the same rate as prices at bars, restaurants, and cinemas.
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-02 19:26:20+00:00
Voting machines do cause problems, see 2000 presidential election. Best practice appears to be along the lines that CO, OR and WA do, mail human marked paper ballots to every voter, allow in person voting. The paper ballots are both human and machine readable. After a count, human or machine, perform a risk limiting audit.

There's a good paper, "A gentle introduction to risk limiting audits", Mark Lindemann and Philip B. Stark, on the topic.

This kind of voting increases participation, decreases costs, a win-win. Anybody advocating for in person, same day voting, or using voting machines has not worked through the issues, or wants to suppress voting.
by qsort | 2025-08-02 19:26:20+00:00
People are using different definitions of "vibe coding". If you expect to just prompt without even looking at the code and being involved in the process the result will be crap. This doesn't preclude the usefulness of models as tools, and maybe in the future vibe coding will actually work. Essentially every coder I respect has an opinion that is some shade of this.

There are the social media types you mention and their polar opposites, the "LLMs have no possible use" crowd. These people are mostly delusional. At the grown-ups table, there is a spectrum of opinions about the relative usefulness.

It's not contradictory to believe that the average programmer right now has his head buried in the sand and should at least take time to explore what value LLMs can provide, while at the same time taking a more conservative approach when using them to do actual work.
by dang | 2025-08-02 19:26:20+00:00
That could certainly be. The trouble is that we have no way of sorting out which companies are doing what.

Btw I went back and found a bunch of past explanations about this in case anyone finds it helpful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44770591 (Aug 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161363 (June 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239393 (May 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759361 (Oct 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759152 (Oct 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37741801 (Oct 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37397355 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354391 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158274 (June 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35818403 (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335600 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408468 (Dec 2021)
by dang | 2025-08-02 19:26:39+00:00
That could certainly be. The trouble is that we have no way of sorting out which companies are doing what—there would need to be some kind of 'due process' whereby the community could assess the fairness of different claims, and Who Is Hiring threads are no place for doing that. So in the end we just ask people not to post these.

It's not to deny that these things are a problem, just that it can't be fairly decided here.
by bbminner | 2025-08-02 19:27:09+00:00
Hm, I thought that these salaries were offered to actual "giants" like Jeff Dean or someone extremely knowledgeable in the specifics of how the "business side" of AI might look like (CEOs, etc). Can someone clarify what is so special about this specific person? He is not a "top tier athlete" - I looked at his academic profile and it does not seem impressive to me by any measure. He'd make an alright (not even particularly great) assistant professor in a second tier university - which is impressive, but is by no means unique enough to explain this compensation.
by isoprophlex | 2025-08-02 19:27:21+00:00
Burning through your credits is normal. We're in the "lmao free money"/"corner the market" phase, where anthropic offers claude code at a loss.

Recently they had to lower token allowances because they're haemorrhaging money.

You can run "ccusage" in the background to keep tabs, so you're leas surprised, is all I can say.

Enjoy the cheap inference while you can, unless someone cracks the efficiency puzzle the frontier models might get a lot more expensive at one point.
by rawling | 2025-08-02 19:27:29+00:00
> There are 3 limitations:

> ...

> 2) I can place the first 11 edge pieces onto the cube any way I want. The orientation of the last edge piece is determined by the orientation of the first 11.

> 3) I need to track how many swaps I create by placing those pieces. An even number of swaps is solvable, and odd number is not.

Would it be equivalent to say, after placing the first 10 edge pieces, the position of the 11th is mandated, and then the orientation of the 12th is too? Or if (3) is broken might it be harder to fix than swapping the 11th and 12th?
by giantrobot | 2025-08-02 19:27:49+00:00
I'm in California. We have a large "native" population of homeless and have been a popular destination for "Greyhound Therapy" for decades. It's the same where I live in every part of the state I've been through in the past several years. Police tend to clear homeless off main drags and parks so they end up moving to less policed areas like outdoor preserves and trails.

I try not to judge homeless people as it happens for a thousand reasons, many outside peoples' control. That being said having open spaces filled with homeless doesn't make anyone want or even able to use those spaces. It's not just the people but tents, trash, and literal shit.
by mmkchughtai | 2025-08-02 19:28:09+00:00
Why Most Transformations Fail — and How Culture Becomes the Missing Lever

After 20+ years leading enterprise transformations across Fortune 500s, PE turnarounds, and hyper-growth firms, one insight stands above the rest:

Strategy may initiate transformation — but culture sustains it.

The problem? Most leaders treat culture as ambiance rather than infrastructure.

In Part 4 of a 10-part field-tested leadership series called The Long Arc, I break down why culture is the invisible system behind everything that works — and the root cause of everything that stalls.

This is not a philosophical take on values and vibe. It is a practitioner’s lens into culture as a systemic lever for:

Organizational alignment

Innovation that scales

Turnaround velocity

Strategic execution

Core Thesis: Culture carries the load when complexity scales. It tells the truth when systems obscure it. And it leads when pressure mounts — long before policy or process can.

In the post, I outline 3 cultural disciplines:

Culture as the Infrastructure of Momentum — where systems reinforce coherence and speed.

Urgency Without Panic, Integrity With Theater — where leadership posture becomes the tone that scales.

Architect for Alignment, Not Just Performance — where innovation meets integration.

If you prefer a direct-to-camera walkthrough (no fluff, just substance), here’s the video companion: https://youtu.be/UJOj-Ylb9Ao

Full article here (no paywall): https://medium.com/the-long-arc/part-4-culture-that-sparks-e...

Curious to hear from other experienced builders:

Where have you seen culture act as an amplifier — or a bottleneck — to transformation?

How do you operationalize culture, not just define it?

Open to respectful challenges, field stories, and counterpoints.
by bebeskids | 2025-08-02 19:28:16+00:00
You took "a 39 year old" and felt targeted. Where there's one there's more, it doesn't need to be all to be statistically significant.

Society collapses when the capable are helpless. There's no bandwidth to help the actual needy when enough of the normies need caretaking too.

Old puritans in government and corporate would just lop off the tail but that's actual people who mean something to their useful people.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-08-02 19:28:23+00:00
Currently I'm porting the Playwright / Puppeteer client API to run in a Chrome extension without using the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). Since there is 100s of Chrome extension AI copilots using Playwright with CDP with all the problems that come with that, I believe my library can be very useful. The vscode copilot chat with any model is always trying to evaluate strings in the content script using chrome.scripting.executeScript with eval('') and new Function('') which violates the CSP policy in MV3. The use case is novel but calling executeScript is common and this policy has been enforced for the last 2.5 years and available for a couple before that. Worse is it will convert my valid function definitions to eval() and new Function('') even though it has nothing to do with prompt.
by tekdude | 2025-08-02 19:30:04+00:00
Thanks, yes I'll probably have to give it another try some day. I might be confusing Avalonia and Uno, but I think I first attempted it a couple years ago, and then again last year. I remember spending a whole weekend trying to get it running but wasn't having success. Also, I was a bit turned off by how heavy the development environment was. I had to download and install a tool, then that installed more build tools and packages, and then there was also a "recommended" VS Code extension. With WPF, I've gotten used to writing XAML without a designer, so I can get by with just VSCode, the C# extension, and the .NET CLI.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-02 19:30:32+00:00
> Exactly, people have a "non-event bias" they can't fathom thing that didn't happen because of the preceeding things that had to happen to prevent it!

No news is good news, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_a_disjunct

> The formal fallacy of affirming a disjunct also known as the fallacy of the alternative disjunct or a false exclusionary disjunct occurs when a deductive argument takes the following logical form:

A or B A Therefore, not B

If the news is good, then there's no other newsworthy events to cover, so the good news must rule the day.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slow_news_day

> 1. (journalism) A time when media organizations publish trivial stories due to the lack of more substantial topics.

> 2016, W. Lance Bennett, chapter 5, in News: The Politics of Illusion, 10th edition, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 136:

> > Perhaps you have seen a television news program on a slow news day. In place of international crises, press conferences, congressional hearings, and proclamations by the mayor, the news may consist of a trip to the zoo to visit a new “baby,” a canned report on acupuncture in China, a follow-up story on the survivor of an air crash, or a visit to the opening of baseball spring training in Florida.

If the news is bad, coverage of it will be minimal to nonexistent. Why? No news is good news, after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

> In propositional logic, affirming the consequent (also known as converse error, fallacy of the converse, or confusion of necessity and sufficiency) is a formal fallacy (or an invalid form of argument) that is committed when, in the context of an indicative conditional statement, it is stated that because the consequent is true, therefore the antecedent is true. It takes on the following form:

If P, then Q. Q. Therefore, P.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversive_affirmation

> Subversive affirmation is an artistic performance that overemphasizes prevailing ideologies and thereby calls them into question. Simultaneously with affirmation, the affirmed concepts are revealed, and artists distance themselves from those concepts. Strategies of subversive affirmation include "over-identification", "over-affirmation" and "yes revolution".