MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diggan | 2025-08-29 15:47:57+00:00
> some fundamental flaws in what you’re vibing

That's just a misunderstanding, I'm not "vibing" anything. The tests are written by me, the API interfaces are written by me, the usages are written by me, and the implementation of these functions are written by an LLM, but reviewed to be up to code standards/quality by me.

If a function gives me the right output for the inputs I have in mind, does anything beyond that really matter?
by vmh1928 | 2025-08-29 15:48:31+00:00
The issue is the gun goes off by itself without the trigger being pulled. Remember that all this type of gun has the firing pin under spring tension all the time. The only thing keeping it from firing is a latch mechanism that is supposed to only activate when the trigger is pulled but if the mechanism is defective and too close to the edge the latch can disengage without the trigger being pulled or touched. There are numerous YT videos of this occurring.
by usernamed7 | 2025-08-29 15:48:39+00:00
> One clip on Instagram, which has been viewed over 21.5 million times, shows a man ordering "a large Mountain Dew" and the AI voice continually replying "and what will you drink with that?".

Are they even testing these systems before deploying? With a limited menu and only so many possible permutations... It sounds like they did not do any validation testing or put in safeguards or design it to be robust. I'm like, fairly confident that speech to text + some recorded messages would be able to get you pretty far over a fully AI solution.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-29 15:48:51+00:00
When I lived in Pasadena in the 70s, there were fires now and then, with smoke and ashes falling like snow. It was just part of life in that area.

The way to present it to the citizens is, do you want to smell smoke now and then, or have your house burn down? Like what happened a few months ago?

Or you can do the controlled burns when the wind is blowing away from the city.
by phkahler | 2025-08-29 15:48:52+00:00
>> Swap out PE for another profit-seeking structure and you’ll tend towards the same outcome, as the bad outcompetes the good.

The optimum might be an employee-owned facility, but even there you'd have incentives to increase profit - everyone would like to get paid more for whatever it is they do. PE has the strongest conflict of interest though, as they are simply investors seeking profit and have nothing else in the game.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-29 15:48:56+00:00
I don’t believe that CC is so much better than cursor using Claude models that it moves the needle enough to flip the results of that study.

The key thing to look at is that even the participants that did objectively save time, overestimated time saved by a huge amount.

But also you’re always likely to be at least one model ahead of any studies that come out.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-29 15:49:15+00:00
It's a slide action handgun... hard to imagine any part of the design deserving "military secrets" protections when the devices themselves are the most widely available side arm in the US. Anyone can measure, 3D scan, weigh or otherwise capture the design to thousandths of an inch. For that matter, there are thousands of metal and gun smiths that could re-manufacture the design.

I could see the argument in the early 1900's, but today that's absolutely ridiculous on its face.
by daveguy | 2025-08-29 15:49:21+00:00
FTA - This is after McDonalds cancelled AI in their drive through last year after people getting orders for bacon on ice cream (which can be delicious, tbf) and hundreds of dollars of unwanted nuggets. So... AI isn't even smart enough to run a drive through. Until "common sense" is addressed, AI is going to be more trouble than it's worth for the vast majority of applications. Problem is, we don't know how to implement "common sense", or even define it concretely. That's why all these projections about AGI and superintelligence are so bogus. We are clearly missing at least one, and probably many, algorithmic advancements. And these types of advancements just aren't predictable. Could be 5 years, could be 50.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-08-29 15:49:31+00:00
we couldn't find good SAP security folks to save our life at a previous job. 900/hr for consultants.

regular "line" SAP admins had to be found in Mexico and brought up on TN visas -- still well paid but generally pretty good, doubly so because we had a Mexico City office and could retain the staff even after they rotated back to MX.
by ljosifov | 2025-08-29 15:49:39+00:00
Well Yes and No. Funny you mention the 80s/90s. I grew up in the pre-Internet world. I remember home computers, then PC-s, then modems to access BBS-es, then FIDO, uucp email, academic Internet and then the private commercial Internet after 1990. Some parts of the privacy agenda I'm strongly pro-privacy, the more the better. I don't want encryption broken. The UK gov (I live in the UK) are being morons for that, forever trying that play. Atm there is at least part of the US admin to push back on that. I don't like UK Parliament forcing the online ID on me. I'm pro- having private citizens having private keys on un-snoop-able dongle devices.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-29 15:49:45+00:00
Cyc.

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

Cyc (wikipedia.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781597

Doug Lenat has died (garymarcus.substack.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354000

Remembering Doug Lenat and his quest to capture the world with logic (stephenwolfram.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402925

Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project (outsiderart.substack.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40069298

One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense (2016) (wired.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757198

Obituary for Cyc (yuxi-liu-wired.github.io)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625474
by bayesianbot | 2025-08-29 15:49:49+00:00
This sounds strange? If I were to build this system (without really having time to think about it), I'd let the AI "build" the order, which would impose some hard limits - like not accepting 18 000 items. Then I'd have the user confirm it without any AI involvement, so you wouldn't end up with bacon in ice cream. This sounds like they just connected an AI directly to ordering functions and that's it?
by chamomeal | 2025-08-29 15:49:52+00:00
Point taken, but it still feels like a gray area to me. The value that SO created was the curation of knowledge and high quality discussions that were well indexed and searchable.

The users did provide the data, which is a good point. But there’s a reason SO was so useful to developers and quora was not. It also made it a perfect feeding ground for hungry LLMs.

Then again I’m just guessing that big models are trained on SO. Maybe that’s not true
by lupusreal | 2025-08-29 15:49:56+00:00
I don't think you even know what a "chain gun" is. Where did you get this information from, reddit and video games?

Chainguns are a type of autocannon. Heavy, light and general purpose machine guns, like the M2 Browning, M249 SAW, Maxim, Been Gun, MG3, etc... none of these are chain guns. They aren't even all belt fed, which I guess is what you meant to say because I think that's the videogame midwit lingo. They are nonetheless universally accepted as being very valuable in combat.
by throwawayaiai | 2025-08-29 15:50:12+00:00
I used this last night to vibe-code a simple iOS game using the GPT-5 model. I found the developer experience to be quite awful and shockingly more regressive than a CLI (I.e. Cloud Code). Totally unbecoming of a company that claims to never be the first but do it always better than the rest.

This should have been a POC for a demo to the Xcode sponsor program. At best, this should have been part of the first beta — not beta 7….

First sin: someone decided to expose the chat window on the same side as the file explorer as an alternate tab. On an IDE where you can’t move things around freely like in VSCode, how one can make that design decision is beyond me.

Any developer trying to use this feature, regardless of the model picked, will have to constantly physically switch between the file explorer and the chat window (or conversation window). This feels like a silly thing to crib about but it starts becoming irritating for long coding sessions.

Then comes the baffling user experience where sometimes the question asked by the response from the LLM is randomly answered automatically by the IDE itself with a vague entry that says “Project context” with not much visibility into what the actual response was from the IDE. And then there are random times where the question is left unanswered and now I as a developer have to now decide how to answer the question. It almost feels to me like there is zero system prompt from Xcode itself. This will never ever compete with agentic coding tools.

Apple has a lot of incompetent PMs and EPMs but this is next level garbage. Zero thought has gone into how a developer today uses these “vibe-coding” tools in their workflows. It almost feels like this was shoved down the throat of the Xcode development team for whom orthodoxy was a higher priority.

Pardon my rage here because I have seen enough from inside to understand why Apple is behind in AI and it is frustrating as fuck.
by runjake | 2025-08-29 15:50:20+00:00
> In this case, the whole "it want off by itself" claim was a lie.

I think we need to await the facts of the case and the judgement. The only public information I've seen strikes me as unusual.

The accused airman is being charged with involuntary manslaughter, which coupled with the extensive issues with the P320 brings up more questions than it answers.

I could come up with my own conjecture based on that information, but there's enough people doing that already.

The fact remains that the P320 malfunctions. There's been countless documented cases, and numerous recorded demonstrations of the issue on YouTube and elsewhere.
by mikewarot | 2025-08-29 15:51:02+00:00
I'm no economist, I've only taken Econ 101 and 102, where the professor accused me of hacking the stock market simulation, when actually I just I conspired with a fellow student to corner the market, and we ended up with all the virtual money. ;-)

Back in the days of commodities based currency, the demand for silver or gold limited what could be achieved in the economy. After a flood of silver stolen from the "New World" arrived in Europe, it caused inflation. Similar situations happen throughout history.

I think the primary driver of economic growth is the distribution of opportunity throughout society. If a rentier class happens to capture governance, as is the case in Russia with the oligarchs, or in the US with our "Tech Bros" and hedge funds, social mobility, and the drive to improve one's station in life, is greatly diminished, and the economy becomes a zero sum game.

I'm very open to being wrong though.
by N_Lens | 2025-08-29 15:51:32+00:00
I’ve experienced psychosis and it definitely leans more towards a hardware issue. The reason I think this is apophenia - seeing connections where none exist - is a particular state of the mind where neural connection making is highly elevated. In my lay experience it’s as though dopamine, acetylcholine, and norepinephrine are all chronically elevated and create internal feedback loops, which causes a spiral/cascade of accelerated meaning making and increased neural connectivity. This is also experienced physically and mentally as mania, paranoia, anxiety.

This is probably why antipsychotics usually work by damping down on these neurotransmitters really hard, and by preventing that accelerating cascade they interrupt the illness process.
by jayd16 | 2025-08-29 15:52:03+00:00
I wonder if this is a stealth ad for s&box.

Anyway....it looks pretty neat. I feel like the industry as gone from a time of mods, through an era of AAA unmoddable games, and now we're landing on "all games will be mods.". I guess we're chasing Minecraft and Roblox and Fortnite models now.
by krick | 2025-08-29 15:52:05+00:00
I think "disastrous" is a bit too strong of a word, but I don't see any "real" reasons mentioned here why it won't be. Sure, there are "cheap" phones that are (almost always) Android, it's also probably true that "most people" use those and wouldn't switch no matter what. But there are also Pixel phones, Samsung Galaxy phones, you know, what people call "flagships". Why people buy these? It's been a long time since they stopped being competitively cheaper they Apple. Even flagship Huawei phones now cost the same as an iPhone. Who buys them? Well, I did. Solely because I couldn't install software I want on iPhone. If I truly won't be able to install what I want on my Android phone — I don't know yet, how I'll deal with that issue (surely I'll figure it out) but I promise you — I'll buy an iPhone for the first time in my life, if only to say "fuck you" to Android. And I urge you to do the same. Vote with your wallet.
by roflyear | 2025-08-29 15:52:09+00:00
They created a market and they are charging to be on the market. If you're saying "I want to be on the market but by my own rules" that's not a free market effect, it's breaking a contract.

If you say "fine, I'll go on another app store" then that is a free market in action - but good luck getting anyone to download your game.
by margalabargala | 2025-08-29 15:52:35+00:00
I am personally aware of at least one company which was bought up by private equity in the last 5 years, which has remained very much the same since. It hasn't taken on debt, it hasn't been parted out, it hasn't started optimizing for profit and reducing worker benefits.

The new owners seem content to simply sit back and collect the profits of the company that were previously going to the family that owned the company before.

That is to say, in greater than zero instances, PE has the capacity to be benign.

I think the median PE firm is far worse than the median non-PE firm, but there exist outliers in both groups.
by Goofy_Coyote | 2025-08-29 15:52:40+00:00
Noob question, so feel free to correct me please, but wouldn’t having a simple anomaly detection prevented this?

Even an “if” statement, or heck, even running the order through an LLM with a prompt “does this look a normal order?” ?.

I’m sure I’m oversimplifying things here, but this specific case looks like it could be easily prevented vs “rethinking” the whole AI initiative.
by bccdee | 2025-08-29 15:52:43+00:00
Why? I haven't heard any credible accounts of "pornography psychosis."

Moral panic narratives about pornography have become popular in recent years, but though many critiques of mainstream pornography are valid (that it's pervasively misogynistic, for example), pornography hasn't actually been linked to any concrete harms. "Pornography addiction," the poster child for anti-porn narratives, is not recognized as a condition by any major medical organization, and self-reported pornography addiction correlates much more strongly with conservative views on sexuality than with actual quantity of pornography consumed.
by sashank_1509 | 2025-08-29 15:52:56+00:00
These are definitely skill issues and frankly low skill issues. Just ask ChatGPT 5 thinking to think after the order is finalized whether it is a reasonable order or not and you’ll get rid of 99% of these cases. I don’t know if they’re using ChatGPT API. This is definitely a solvable with current state of AI.
by Joker_vD | 2025-08-29 15:53:03+00:00
Honestly, those many duplicates of the Latin alphabet in the Unicode tick me off way more than the emojis. Serif, sans serif (also with bold, italic, and bold italic variants as well), fraktur and bold fraktur, cursive and bold cursive, monospace, and double-struck (which could reasonably count as bold monospace TBF). And there are several more proposed but not yet accepted.
by ubunthree | 2025-08-29 15:53:03+00:00
Not powder but many other failures in a particular model of the Vietnam era m16:

https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure/

(I own an ar15 and an ak47 and it is like comparing Microsoft’s MFC to a shell script. The former is all bloat and high tolerances and the latter gets the job done with fewer moving parts.)
by red-iron-pine | 2025-08-29 15:53:05+00:00
As posted above, we had great success with Mexican hires out of Mexico City.

General perception was the universities there produced qualified graduates who were not paper tigers (or didn't lie about creds).

Rates for them were pretty good, and we had better alignment with timezones and holidays.

Reasonably good alignment in terms of legal and HR issues -- easier to enforce than, like, Bangladesh

The NAFTA / USMCA / whatever its called now Visa made it easy for them to come across the border for a few years as well. Pay bump for a while plus a chance to work in HQ or the IT office directly, make fat stacks, and then rotate back to MX and buy a nice house. The Mexico City PMs were also instrumental for bridging the language gap when running projects in other LATAM countries.

Trump's ICE might be the end of that approach tho
by fidotron | 2025-08-29 15:53:20+00:00
I worked on the software dev side in the games industry for years. I have never seen a worse time to be attempting to make a living doing that, it's pure madness. The endgame being pushed, and looking increasingly technically viable over a decade or so, is the user, holodeck style, describes what they want and it is assembled in front of them. There is a lot of cope in the games industry about this ever happening because of how disruptive it would be.

In the mean time as others have mentioned I know people, industry pros, that make money on Roblox and UEFN. The valuable part is a talent for creating gameplay systems, which is not in any way related to low level programming or rendering algorithms, then you stand at least a small chance, but due to how crowded the market is the returns on this get smaller every day.

To anyone wanting to make a living from the games industry I would advise simply going outside and doing something else.

Edit to add: I have noticed than when I started in games over twenty years ago people knew hard work was involved. These days if you tell people you work in games you are met with a response that you basically play all the time and are not serious, and to some extent this reflects the changing nature of most of the work being done in that period.
by tln | 2025-08-29 15:53:26+00:00
> By definition an “opt out” setting is selected by default.

No, (IMO) an "opt out" setting / status is assumed/enabled without asking.

So, I think this is opt-in, until Sept 28.

Opt-in, whether pre-checked/pre-ticked or not, means the business asks you.

GDPR requires "affirmative, opt-in consent", perhaps we use that term to mean an opt-in, not pre-ticked.
by thrawa8387336 | 2025-08-29 15:54:14+00:00
Spanish in particular has more connotations per word than English. It's not even the grammar or spelling, those have rules and that's that. But choosing appropriate words, is more like every word has it right place and time and context. Some close examples would be the N-word or the R-word in English, as they are steeped in meanings far beyond the literal.
by JanSolo | 2025-08-29 15:55:04+00:00
The article highlights how to get into the modding industry. While that is part of the games industry, it is a small fraction of the larger game production business.

I've hired many game programmers and the key to getting into the industry is demonstrating a few critical skills:

1. Sufficient technical skill in whatever your field is.

2. Curiosity applied to problem solving. How can we make this work?

3. An ability to finish what you start. Get it done.

If you're a new programmer looking to start out on this journey, I recommend picking an engine and just start making stuff. Participate in as many Gamejams, Mods or minigame productions as possible. Ship things; Finish them. Then, when you're interviewing for a 'real' game job, you will have some experience to share and discuss.

For technical candidates, there's a minimum threshold that you must cross to be considered. For programmers, it's often C++. So learn the basics, get proficient, use the tools. Read the books on programming interviews and learn the types of things that are expected.
by dmix | 2025-08-29 15:55:07+00:00
Why wouldn't you want the option for both?

I haven't used Copilot in a while but Cursor lets you easily switch the model depending on what you're trying to do.

Having options for thinking, normal, fast covers every sort of problem. GPT-5 doesn't let you choose which IMO is only helpful for non-IDE type integrations, although even in ChatGPT it can be annoying to get "thinking" constantly for simple questions.
by 0xdde | 2025-08-29 15:55:32+00:00
It should also be noted that there are some pretty big flaws in the analysis. They mention "the distribution of firms using ADP services does not exactly match the distribution of firms across the broader US economy," but make no attempt to adjust their analysis for it. They also drop 30% of the data for which there is no job title recorded. With such a skewed sample, it's hard to tell how the analysis is supposed to generalize.
by hluska | 2025-08-29 15:55:53+00:00
Wow, someone sent out of their way to write about protocols. Instead of saying “thank you” or being silent or even doing independent research, you decided to talk about your paranoia. That’s interesting…

Every single thing the person wrote about is a protocol. Each has been written about extensively and they’re open source. You can read source code if you’d like.

Those are the best guarantees you can get with any software. If you’re not technical and not willing to do the research and put in the work, there’s nothing you can do.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-29 15:56:12+00:00
It seems crazy to me to not filter the order through a "reasonableness check", and if it fails that, a human is brought into the transaction.

When I was at Caltech, institute policy was that if you solved an exam problem, and came up with not just a wrong answer but an absurd answer, you would get negative credit rather than a zero.

The way to get just a zero is to annotate with "I know the answer is absurd, but I cannot find the mistake".
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-29 15:56:29+00:00
You can run an OCI container on bare metal though. It doesn't stop being run on bare metal just because you're running in kernel namespaces, aka docker container

Lots of people were advocating for running their k8s on bare metal servers to maximize the performance of their containers

Now wherever that's applied to your conversation... I've no clue, too little context ( ｡ ŏ ﹏ ŏ )
by jamal-kumar | 2025-08-29 15:56:38+00:00
The videos where people try to do the 10,000+ drinks are pretty funny but the ones where people are just straight up frustrated their order isn't getting interpreted correctly are also telling [1]. I've also heard of employees intentionally breaking these kiosks or AI things in this way just to make their own job easier because these things messing up all the time are just getting in the way of their burger flipping and making things complicated. I thought they kept beta testing of new flavours to a few locations in Orange County, you think they'd do the same for large software rollouts

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bsTFEgFAAjY
by redsymbol | 2025-08-29 15:56:55+00:00
I used to regularly go to my local Taco Bell, but stopped going after they rolled this out. Not mad at them or anything, it was just sometimes a frustrating experience, and overall I was not sure how I felt about it: it's more impersonal, I wondered if it meant less jobs available in my local community, etc. So without making a conscious decision, I just stopped going.

I wonder how this has affected sales and net profit at their locations using AI in this way.