MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Lovable.dev Is Absolutely Amazing
by adinhitlore | 2025-08-28 11:10:46+00:00
If you don't know what this is: a web AI agent, that is: based on my extremely limited experience with it it seems like the goal is to simplify web development.

So in other words Lovable should finally make it possible for non-devs to make websites and also to greatly simplify the process if you're professional.

I just gave it 1-2 sentences prompt in pure English to make a Kelly criterion simulation, it's true i wanted it in C (it didn't do it in C because...obviously it's tuned only for web development). But boy, did it do it in React/Js...it was so perfectly executed, here's a screenshot and yes it works + it's even lightweight - no database just pure functionality of mathematical formula:

https://postimg.cc/t7FFcS5h

Btw, I don't gamble at all, i was curious if it has broad knowledge of such concepts + if it can perform simulations and the way it will approach them.
Ask HN: Perplexity AI Cheating on Model?
by freakynit | 2025-08-28 11:10:51+00:00
See screenshot: https://postimg.cc/YL0d6rvP

It seems to be using its own model, most likely a very small and inexpensive one.

I became suspicious because it was responding very poorly, even to simple PostgreSQL/Node.js queries, which is not typical of GPT-5. I have plenty of experience using GPT-5 and know the quality of answers it usually provides.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue?
by ath3nd | 2025-08-28 11:11:39+00:00
People who get overly excited from every new shining thing also thought that NFTs and Crypto and web3 (whatever the heck it means) are the next coming of Jesus.

If LLM boosters were not so preachy about it, I'd left them off the hook easier. But at the current moment:

- Only study up to date shows experienced developers have 19% less productivity when using LLMs https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

- There are studies showing that using LLMs regularly makes you dumber https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt...

- The fresh study from MIT shows 95% of AI pilots fail https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generat...

- The companies developing LLMs don't have that part of their business profitable nor any path for profitability. You can see it with Anthropic's constantly changing token limits and plans, and with Microsoft and OpenAI not able to reach a deal https://www.ft.com/content/b81d5fb6-26e9-417a-a0cc-6b6689b70...

- Hell, Sam Altman himself admitted that the current Ai market is just a bubble https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/openai-sam-altman-warns-ai-m...

When the LLM cultists wake up during the bubble pop, I wonder what they are gonna jump on next. The world is running out of hype bandwagons to jump on. Maybe... LLM NFTs?
Ask HN: Has anyone used LLMs for basic legal docs?
by sgallant | 2025-08-28 11:11:48+00:00
I'm in Canada and going to set up a new corporation. The legal fees for bylaws, resolutions, etc, are about $2,000 (note: we are going to set up a shareholders' agreement at a later date).

We want a fairly standard arrangement and I am under the impression that these docs will be mostly boilerplate.

Has anyone used ChatGPT to create these or other legal docs? Am I crazy?
by lazide | 2025-08-28 11:13:11+00:00
It is truly remarkable how ‘dirty’ fractionated hydrocarbons are from crude, but it makes sense considering the absolute chaotic chemical soup that is crude oil.

On the plus side, I read your comment like a sommelier critiquing the latest wine - my mental imagine was you lightly sniffing and then sipping the latest syngas.

‘A strong note of toluene, with a remarkably clean and sharp benzene aftertaste, with an earthy finish reminiscent of the best Texas light crude.’

A+
by reuven | 2025-08-28 11:13:12+00:00
Sorry to disappoint! I can tell you that many people I've met, including those who have read the documentation, kept asking questions about how to use uv. This article is a summary that I came up with, based on my experience and theirs.

System-wide package installs are a weird quirk of my own work, since I'm doing very little product development and lots of one-off classes. I'm not at all recommending that "normal" developers do this, and I make sure to say that in all of the courses I teach.
by vintagedave | 2025-08-28 11:14:35+00:00
> swatting—for just $20, while faked threats against hospitals, businesses, and airports can cost up to $50. The group also offered “slashings” and “brickings” for as little as $10

> Gores tells WIRED that the group had earned around $100,000 since the swatting spree began. WIRED has not independently confirmed that figure.

While vile (I can only imagine what a 'slashing' and 'bricking' are) those numbers don't add up. At $50, that's two thousand threats called in. Does that seem remotely realistic? Across the whole of the US in just the past week?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-28 11:14:38+00:00
Yep. It's wordsalad without much in the way of consistency, memory, or thoughtfulness (no pun intended). Also, he looks really, really unhealthy and so I'm frightened what a POTUS Vance would look like except requiring religion in public schools and mass expulsion of everyone not WASP. Oh, wait.
by vjerancrnjak | 2025-08-28 11:14:55+00:00
I would like a language where your call stack can't be bigger than two/three.

You can call functions inside your function Main, but these function can't call any functions anymore (exception being flat helper functions defined inside your function).

I think it would save a huge chunk of time by just having all programs really nice and flat. You'd naturally gravitate towards mechanisms that make programs flat.
by UltraSane | 2025-08-28 11:15:23+00:00
How do you react to comments like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980896#44980913

I believe it absolutely should be, and it can even be applied to rare disease diagnosis.

My child was just saved by AI. He suffered from persistent seizures, and after visiting three hospitals, none were able to provide an accurate diagnosis. Only when I uploaded all of his medical records to an AI system did it immediately suggest a high suspicion of MOGAD-FLAMES — a condition with an epidemiology of roughly one in ten million.

Subsequent testing confirmed the diagnosis, and with the right treatment, my child recovered rapidly.

For rare diseases, it is impossible to expect every physician to master all the details. But AI excels at this. I believe this may even be the first domain where both doctors and AI can jointly agree that deployment is ready to begin.
by reuven | 2025-08-28 11:15:24+00:00
I dunno, every single conference I've attended over the years had at least one talk trying to make sense of packaging -- downloading, installing, venvs, creating wheelfiles, and distributing to PyPI. It was nice to say that you could choose your own tools, but it was a huge, confusing, daunting mess for many people.

I had some thoughts about how things could improve, but the core developers said that anyone with their own ideas had better think through all of the implications, because packaging is super hairy.

The uv folks basically took that as a challenge, and said, "What if we have one package manager that replaces literally everything else in the packaging ecosystem, hiding the stuff that people find confusing or annoying?" Color me impressed; they really did it.
by defgsus | 2025-08-28 11:16:35+00:00
A couple of years ago (before OpenÄI), i imagined that in the not-too-far future, an average iphone will probably call the police if it detects inappropriate behavior above some threshold. Like domestic violence, a robbery, etc.

The reasoning would be: because our AIs are so much part of everyone's life, it would be irresponsible to not call the police if the algorithm says so. Because we, as a multi-national, gigantic corporation, deeply care about everyone's well-being. That's our highest priority!
by Scea91 | 2025-08-28 11:18:16+00:00
Its tricky to use statistics for personal decisions. In general something might be correct but not for your specific subgroup. I know many people who changed for worse.

If you are in a bad position then change, but if you like the company and role, don’t take it for granted and think carefully.

This advice is consistent with the broad statistic if more than half of the sample is currently in “bad position”.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-28 11:18:23+00:00
> I'm not sure knowing about Tuaregs is inherently more important than Bruce Lee if they're so marginal to your local life that you don't even know they exist

It does when the Tuareg de facto control much of the Libyan Sahara, and became a major faction of the Civil War first backing Gaddafi and then becoming their own thing, and when Gaddafi spent decades marginalizing and attempting to eliminate Amazigh/Berber culture and language, and even reducing a significant number to statelessness.

Both Tuareg and Amazigh make up around 20% of Libya's population.

> in say.. South Dakota. I have no idea what their capital is. I have zero conception of the people there. And I have zero interest. I rather learn about life in Korea or Uzbekistan

A Korean or Uzbek doesn't decide our president. South Dakotan voters do. Ignoring to learn about major portions and communities in the US further incentivizes partisanism, and regional alienation.

The US has significant cultural and ethnic diversity, and assuming the culture in all 50 states is the same "American" culture is dumb if you travel across the country and especially outside of the white collar tech bro bubble of Tier 1 metros like SF, NYC, and Seattle.

Even California itself is easily at least 5 different cultural zones.
by SCdF | 2025-08-28 11:19:32+00:00
Yes, the audit trail that should exist is part of the package. Or more generically, Horizon should have had enough instrumentation, combined with adequate robustness, where they could detect the issues the lack of robustness caused, and resolve those issues without people dying.

My core point is that if you're designing a system, *any system*, you should be thinking about what is required to produce safe software. It isn't just "well I don't work on medical devices that shoot radiation at people, so I don't need to worry"[1]. You still need to worry, you just solve those problems in different ways. It's not just deaths either, it's PII leakage, it's stalking and harassment enablement, it's privilege escalation, etc.

[1] I have heard this, or a variation of this, from dozens of people over the my career. This is my core bug bear about Therac-25, is that it allows people to think this way, and divest themselves of responsibility. I am very happy to hear you are teaching a course about Horizon, because it's a much more grounded example that devs will hopefully see themselves in more. If your course is publicly available btw, I'd love to read it.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-28 11:19:48+00:00
Most people in China don't have cars. They use public transportation, buses, mini electric motorbikes that can be on sidewalks, and ride hailing.

So if they can't afford to switch from ICE to EV mandate, they still have options to get around. Though I think if a person had enough money to buy an ICE car, they should have enough to switch to an EV in China.
by syntaxing | 2025-08-28 11:19:52+00:00
That’s true for the Jetson Nano. The Jetson Orin Nano (I know, the naming sucks) is much better in that aspect. Higher memory (8GB), way higher memory bandwidth (120 GB/s), and Orin has way more CUDA cores. It can pretty much run any “traditional” neural network, even YOLO large and even LLMs.
by donatj | 2025-08-28 11:20:28+00:00
I have worked in this industry for 20 years and never met a piece of software I would deem "safe". It's all duct tape and spit. All of it.

I have had software professionally audited by third parties more than a few times, and they basically only ever catch surface level bugs. Recently, the same we the audit finished we independently found a pretty obvious sql injection flaw.

I think the danger is not in producing unsafe software. The real danger is in thinking it can ever can be safe. It cannot be, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a snake oil salesman.

If your life depends on software, you are one bit flip from death.
by prasadjoglekar | 2025-08-28 11:20:39+00:00
It's all storytelling. And when a good story is being told, the audience understands that it's a caricature with a lot of truth and a bit of simplification.

US TV is endlessly about reducing a certain subset of the US to a bit of a caricature to entertain. Real housewives of (insert town), Jersey Shore, Sopranos, Duck Dynasty. I don't think anyone here believes all Italians in Jersey are mafia.

Real maturity comes from being able to laugh at yourself without getting offended at every second line.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-08-28 11:21:17+00:00
When I worked at Linden Lab we had a deal going with IBM. Either as part of that deal or in an attempt to impress our larger partner, many of us got Thinkpads. I actually kind of like them, since the cost wasn't coming out of my budget.

Inside Linden, about 90% of meetings were held in-world, so we constantly had the Second Life viewer up. About three months later our Thinkpads started failing. Apparently they thought people who would a) buy a thinkpad and b) use it to play video games wouldn't be playing video games 12 hours per day (though as many have pointed out, does one "play" Second Life? especially if you're using it for work.)

After 3 months of use, the Second Life client had caused sufficient heating cycles so as to delaminate the PCB under the GPU.

I'm sort of proud of this. Our software was dangerous.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-08-28 11:22:10+00:00
He looks authentic. You’d be surprised how varied and ridiculous people’s ideas about how the world works can get when they have some intelligence, some ignorance, and a little bit too much self confidence. Doesn’t seem harmful to anybody else in his case. I’ve done (and still do) my own share of biohacking.

Random threads here will ocassionally surface these guys in the extremes.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-28 11:22:14+00:00
Whenever I read this well-meaning advice I have to ask: Do you actually read hundreds of thousands of lines of code (or more) that NPM installed?

Because the workflow for 99.99% of developers is something resembling:

1. git clone

2. npm install (which pulls in a malicious dependency but disabling post-install scripts saved you for now!)

3. npm run (executing your malicious dependency, you're now infected)

The only way this advice helps you is if you also insert "audit the entirety of node_modules" in between steps 2 and 3 which nobody does.
by vintagedave | 2025-08-28 11:22:40+00:00
From the screenshots, it looks like it doesn't automatically clean URLs (eg if I share to Mail, say, the URL will be unmodified) but it has to go through Linkfy, then from there via a second share?

The pricing is insane. $100 for the app purchase. Something like this should be $1.99 or $5 for a license -- useful, but absolutely not a hundred bucks, which is the price for major software. Pixelmator Pro, an incredibly powerful image suite, is _half_ that price.

As a side note, I read this as "linkify", meaning, "to make a link" not "to clean a link". Maybe "linkwash" or something?
by lelanthran | 2025-08-28 11:23:14+00:00
> The first figure alone is insane, for me it helps explain why some friends feel like the market has fallen out from under them (early career) while others aren't having such a tough time. It seems like so far, for folks 30+ AI hasn't really changed things radically (yet).

Not just early career, also independent devs who are any from early-career to late-career.

I did a thing for a client a few weeks ago (embedded, with prototype board + code for industrial sensor containing multiple sensor types, using wifi to both configure and monitor the device, and to retrieve sensor values).

They balked at a two-week bill; their argument was that this should have not been more than a 2-day bill (literally, 2 days for everything from soldering up the prototype board to writing the code).

Their frame-of-reference was that their in-house dev (or similar, not sure now) could do that in two days with an arduino or ESP32 devkit.

My suspicion is that because their in-house dev took only two days to get claude code to write a ping program for a esp32 dev board (no soldering, sensors, etc. Purely WiFi comms and nothing else), their expectations were that this should have been the same.

(I eventually accepted the payment for only 2 days worth of dev, of which at least half was expenses for me - driving, meetings with them, purchases, etc.)
by cjs_ac | 2025-08-28 11:23:56+00:00
I don't think Borat works as well for this. Borat was made for an international audience, including many Americans, and involved Sasha Baron Cohen meeting Americans in person to wind them up, so there had to be an element of accuracy in his satire. Top Gear, on the other hand, was made primarily for a British audience, so the jokes in that episode are very much lazy stereotypes that the British have about Americans without having to be too rooted in reality. I imagine that the production crew spent some time looking for a filling station where they could provoke the 'throwing rocks' incident, for example.
by shotvu | 2025-08-28 11:24:12+00:00
I’ve been building ShotVu, a modern alternative to Loom, with a focus on async communication. It started as a simple screen recording tool but has evolved with AI features that make video creation more natural and productive:

AI Eyes on Camera → corrects gaze so you appear confident and connected on video.

AI Notes → automatically generates meeting notes or summaries from recordings.

Webcam test & mic test → simple tools to ensure your setup works before recording.

The goal is to save time, reduce meetings, and make video a more natural way to share knowledge.

Would love feedback from the HN community — especially on what you’d want to see in an AI-powered screen recorder.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-28 11:24:52+00:00
For a general purpose system, this line of thinking makes sense. However, the desktop system in question was built to be daily driven and support some high performance code research, so it had to endure some serious loads for a desktop computer.

I went the other way and overspecced the CPU cooler and added some silent but high CFM capable fans on the system. The motherboard I got was able to adjust all fans depending on the system temps, so it scaled from a very silent desktop to a low-key space heater automatically under load.

Instead of undervolting the processor, I was using a tweaked on-demand governor on the system which stuck to lower power levels more than usual, so unless I was doing software development and testing things, it stayed cool and silent.

BTW, by 100%, I'm talking about completely saturating the CPU pipeline. Not pseudo 100% where CPU reports saturation but most of the load is iowait.
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-28 11:27:31+00:00
Prompt injection is about making the model do something else then specified.

Adding words to the text to break the algorithm which does the NLP is more along the lines of providing 1 in a boolean field to break the system. And that's generally something you can mitigate to some degree via heuristics and sanity checking. Doing the same for LLMs is essentially impossible, because it's an effective black box, so you cannot determine the error scenarios and add some mitigations
by beacon473 | 2025-08-28 11:29:58+00:00
> You may think it's being critical of you, but it's not. It's ultimately interacting you on your terms, saying what you want to hear when you want to hear it.

That's been my experience with human therapists. When I tell Claude to stop being sycophantic, it complies. When I tell a human to stop being sycophantic, they get defensive.

I agree that an ideal human therapists would be better than Claude, but most that I've worked with are far from ideal. Most are not very bright, easily manipulated, and quick to defensiveness when questioned. And Claude won't try to get me to take random meds with the only justification for the specific medication being 'got to start somewhere'.
by gilleain | 2025-08-28 11:33:12+00:00
Most of those are small molecules, so nearly unambiguous (C2H6O is either ethanol or dimethylether).

However, C10H15N5O10P2 is more tricky. A quick google suggests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_diphosphate (ADP) which seems plausible.
by seanhunter | 2025-08-28 11:33:25+00:00
Honestly as an outsider this is the not the most important role for them to have eliminated. I have interacted with google a couple of times in the last few years and the company I work for are considered a priority account that they want to do more business with.

In every meeting, they put forward one engineer (who is usually quite capable) and 6 or 7 spreadsheet-trackers who all come from McKinsey or straight out of MBA school and seem to have no function other than to consume the oxygen in the room. Every meeting another one shows up and introduces themselves as being the person in charge of the relationship (this has become a running joke between me and the CTO).

At one stage I stopped going to one of the weekly meetings that these people put on my calendar so the guy called me up to ask why. I explained I got no value from the meeting as all the meeting was for was so he could read through a spreadsheet that everyone already had shared so if I was interested (which spoiler I wasn’t) I could just read it for myself and didn’t need a 45min meeting. He was most offended and disappeared soon after to be replaced by some other person who introduced themselves as the head of the relationship.

So in short if they get rid of everyone on the client-facing side who describes themselves as head of some relationship they would cut a lot more dead wood than TLMs.
by majkinetor | 2025-08-28 11:34:44+00:00
Nah, I used various Linux distros for years and the update problems happen there all the time, I think even more TBH, and require substantial technical expertise to fix them.

IMO, the only good way is "if it works, don't fix it", which means, no updates. People are seriously overhyping updates.

I stopped updating all the stuff - OSes, smart locks, android apps, TVs, BP monitors - I honestly had multiple update problems on ALL mentioned devices, multiple times. I only update the thing when I have an actual problem and there is changelog stating that the bug is fixed, or when I want a new feature. You can handle security in other ways in almost all the cases.

I think this IT update burden has gotten out of hand - I don't recall any other domain is like that - my car, my house, my bicycle, my glasses DO NOT UPDATE and its glorious - apart from physical damage, they work the same as yesterday.
by bookofjoe | 2025-08-28 11:34:53+00:00
Me. I've been on Typepad since I started my blog in 2004. Even though it's clunky I've been able to use it for 21+ years.

Moving to Ghost now, will see what happens, but I'm not optimistic.

Over 24 million page views, lost in the ether....

https://imgur.com/a/mHBQBGD
by extrovertgeek | 2025-08-28 11:36:16+00:00
Couldn’t agree more! Event guy here, for our country 2 weeks ago we launched https://belgiumtech.events

Little niche we conquered with duck tape data inputting and a nice UI Very open to feedback!

For guilds / groups / clubs / companies.. I was even thinking a decentralised SOLID database (cf Berners Lee) for futureproof(?) data ownership and interoperability
by mierz00 | 2025-08-28 11:36:52+00:00
This does not feel anything like crypto to me.

Crypto always had hard to understand and abstract use cases. It became popular because the value was going up.

LLMs are different. There are an endless amount of use cases that people can easily understand. Now, just how well it does things is debatable but there is a very clear value gain.

Hell, I got it give me a list of recipes for the week based on my preferences and dietary needs then created a grocery list in 2 minutes. Did I need an LLM for this? No, but it made it so much faster and this is what I am finding with a lot of tasks.