MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-11 16:22:22+00:00
AT&T used to be the default landline provider for my address, but they recently got the regulators to release them from that responsibility, so now there isn't one. So I can't buy a landline for my property, even though there's copper running right past it and a pedestal where all they'd have to do is reconnect the line to my house. If I call AT&T, they'll sell me a cell phone, but not a landline.

Fortunately I have fiber (from another company), so it's not a problem; but the concept of being able to get a landline anywhere is going away.
by aatd86 | 2025-08-11 16:22:28+00:00
They also provide free hosting. Besides, compute is not free and alledgedly llms require a lot of it. Personally, I would look at the numbers before complaining.

Where you are right though is that it does lower the barrier for people to copy simpler projects. For large ones, the llms are still not up to par.

Unless you want people to pay a llm plugin per-project which is akin to having a subscription service for netflix, hulu, disney plus, amazon prime, etc. Just bad UX. I think there is no fighting it.
by sealthedeal | 2025-08-11 16:22:38+00:00
I agree. I for one was riding my bike all around the neighborhood as a kid, going everywhere. I guess starting in 1st grade it was walking around apartment complex and then we got. a house in 2nd grade, and probably 3rd grade we were off on our bikes with "boundaries" our parents said we couldn't go past. A 4 year old, hell even a 6/7 year old I just couldn't trust to make a proper decision, even with older siblings around.

Also, the way this article reads, this lady just seems like a pain in the a* and clearly her neighbors do not like her. The best bet is for them to move...
by mapt | 2025-08-11 16:22:39+00:00
The next time somebody says the phrase "Fire in a crowded theater" to support free speech restrictions, remind them that this phrase comes from Schenck vs US (argued 1919), which was about whether you have the right to distribute antiwar pamphlets.

At issue was whether antiwar speech can constitutionally be punished as espionage, which can be a capital crime under US law, punishable by death.

Whether you're allowed to to speak in ways that Congress considers too close to 'creating a clear and present danger of a significant evil that Congress has power to prevent'. Whether you could criminalize speech deemed disloyal or detrimental to the war effort.

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921, and among other things, his administration dramatically expanded the precedential authority of the federal government in authoritarian directions, particularly with regards to things like surveillance and censorship. The Sedition Act of 1918 "broadened the scope of prohibited speech to include any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the U.S. government, flag, or military", and the Espionage Act of 1917 "made it illegal to interfere with the military, obstruct recruitment, or convey information that could harm the U.S. or aid its enemies. "

It took the Warren and Burger courts of the 60's/70's to reel this back in and re-establish many of the Constitutional rights you were taught about. It's unclear whether the pendulum will swing back the other way precedentially, but doubtless Trump would prefer carte blanche to target dissidents.
by apparent | 2025-08-11 16:23:07+00:00
I agree that both topics should be mentioned. But is AI not the main cause here? Basically, companies no longer see the same value prop in hiring highly-paid college grads with CS degrees. What has changed is AI — not their appetite for H1Bs. Maybe AI makes their H1Bs more effective, or maybe it makes their foreign workers in low-cost jurisdictions more effective.

Either way, it's AI that's changing the calculus on whether a Georgetown grad who worked her but off to get in, and to graduate with a CS degree, has lots of highly-paid prospects.
by wrg | 2025-08-11 16:24:15+00:00
I wasn't being impolite, maybe you are inferring impoliteness into it where there is none?

Unjustifiable? Not at all.

I am fully aware of how much of a third rail my point was, and you guessed right about why I used this account to make it. Shouldn't that say something to you? I don't think I am saying something necessarily bad, but it's impossible to have a reasonable discussion about this because neither side is really willing to give any ground. I'm also glad the backdrop of this discussion was the fucking South Korean army's size as you can't really get more high stakes (for South Korea at least) than that. Yet still, we're somehow not allowed to discuss it, it's too taboo.

And why are you framing it as a conspiracy? Prima facie, is my point really that incoherent? Inflammatory, sure. But is there really no link between births in a country and that country's female population being largely in the workforce? C'mon. Please do stop this inane shouting down of taboo subjects, do not brow beat people for using anonymous accounts when it's clear why they are doing so. Discuss the issue rather than brush it under the carpet until the hump gets too large to ignore and absolute trash like Tate and friends make use of it to increase their platform. Be smart, maybe learn lessons from the last few years in politics.

/rant
by jongala | 2025-08-11 16:25:07+00:00
I don't know if they were the first but I think of 37signals and Basecamp as the ones that first nailed the multi-column/highlighted plan form of design that has become so dominant.

Here's 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090307125843/http://www.baseca...

if you go back to 2007 you can see the same structure in a plainer presentation; it's easy to see how they went from one to the other: https://web.archive.org/web/20070831191822/http://www.baseca...

Pretty interesting!
by netsharc | 2025-08-11 16:25:22+00:00
"Cannot communicate with battery, TLS certificate expired".

I think something like this happens to Macbooks if you set the date too far into the future: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251100942?sortBy=rank

I suppose then you can change the date on the car's computer so it's still 2014 or something, at least the car would remain a non-fascist place with Obama still president...
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-11 16:25:23+00:00
Your explanation is too simplistic. I've found magazine subscription pages where the link to the pdf is display:none in css. (I downloaded their entire back catalog.) This isn't that they missed a few routes to files when securing things, but that they are utterly clueless. Invariably, such software projects employ a number of contractors who for whatever reason can barely cobble together the functionality that is repeatedly demanded by the clients, let alone any of the common-sense features that these people fail to realize that they must also nag for.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-11 16:25:45+00:00
It's also selfish, narcissistic and kind of anti-social. Somehow, we've uplifted "taking care of yourself" over every other societal norm, obligation, and courtesy. Humans are not meant to be "on the comfortable/happy path" 100% of the time. Sometimes, we are expected to act altruistically. Sometimes we should make small sacrifices for others' benefits. Sometimes we should be go out of our comfort zone to comfort someone else. This doesn't mean torture yourself and ruin your mental health, but it does mean stepping out of your usual routine occasionally, for other people's sake.
by LAsteNERD | 2025-08-11 16:25:48+00:00
The executive order, titled "Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking", grants political appointees sweeping authority over all federal grant funding.

If implemented, political appointees — not scientists — would take control over decisions about research grants. It would, among other changes, allow political appointees to overrule advice from scientists on award decisions, and let them terminate ongoing grants based on political criteria.
by e3bc54b2 | 2025-08-11 16:25:49+00:00
Yes.

I always licensed my projects under GPL variants. That contract was broken by LLM vendors. So now I'm taking my toys and going home.

All my new projects are hosted on Sourcehut. I trust Drew when he says they are not letting LLM bots have at it.

Its not just the dev either. I'm no longer posting any content on blogs. Almost all of my other online interactions have moved to private channels and closed forums. I'm no longer giving my work away for free, unless you've passed the entry tests.
by browningstreet | 2025-08-11 16:26:12+00:00
I don't know about Claude Code, but here's my story. With Replit, I have a bunch of tasks that I want Replit to do at the end of a coding session -- push to Github, update user visible Changelogs, etc. It's a list in my replit.md file.

A couple of weeks ago I asked it to "clean up" instead of the word I usually use and it ended up deleting both my production and dev databases (a little bit my fault too -- I thought it deleted the dev database so I asked it to copy over from production, but it had deleted the production database and so it then copied production back to dev, leaving me with no data in either; I was also able to reconstruct my content from a ETL export I had handy).

This was after the replit production db database wipe-out story that had gone viral (which was different, that dev was pushing things on purpose). I have no doubt it's pretty easy to do something similar in Claude Code, especially as Replit uses Claude models.

Anyway, I'm still working on things in Replit and having a very good time. I have a bunch of personal purpose-built utilities that have changed my daily tech life in significant ways. What vibe coding does allow me to do is grind on "n" of unrelated projects in mini-sprints. There is personal, intellectual, and project cost to this context switching, but I'm exploring some projects I've had on my lists for a long time, and I'm also building my base replit.md requirements to match my own project tendencies.

I vibe coded a couple of things that I think could be interesting to a broader userbase, but I've stepped back and re-implemented some of the back-end things to a more specific, higher-end vibe coded environment standard. I've also re-started a few projects from scratch with my evolved replit.md... I built an alpha, saw some issues, upgraded my instructions, built it again as a beta, saw some issues... working on a beta+ version.

I'm finding the process to be valuable. I think this will be something I commit to commercially, but I'm also willing to be patient to see what each of the next few months brings in terms of upgraded maturity and improved devops.
by uludag | 2025-08-11 16:26:18+00:00
I've came to a very similar conclusion. Productivity SaaS apps feel exciting to get started but eventually I've abandoned them all. I feel that many others have similar experiences but I'm not exactly sure why. Like the author, I too ended up with a plain text format (org-mode) and I've happily been on it for 7 years. Some questions that came to mind:

- Is it the artificial hype and promises around certain productivity apps (e.g. youtube notion promoters) that ultimately leave one disappointed?

- Does the productization of these apps make the companies feel compelled to change too much, thus alienating users? Is this why Apple notes has such a following, since it's not a monetized product of apple?

- Is the allure of plain text the fact that it doesn't change, analogous to something written on paper?
by OffScopes | 2025-08-11 16:26:24+00:00
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by ww520 | 2025-08-11 16:26:30+00:00
Excellent write up. I really appreciate the clear and detailed explanation of the algorithm.

The nice thing about Zig’s SIMD operation is the register size support is transparent. You can just declare a 64-byte vector as the Block, and Zig would use an AVX256 or two AVX2 (32-byte) registers behind the scene. All other SIMD operations on the type are transparently done with regard to the registers when compiled to the targeted platform.

Even using two AVX2 registers for 64 bytes of data is a win due to instruction pipelining. Most CPU have multiple SIMD registers and the two 32-byte data chunks are independent. CPU can run them in parallel.

The next optimization is to line the data up at 64 byte alignment, to match the L1/L2 cache line size. Memory access is slow in general.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 16:26:46+00:00
Well I came here to say "...We'll need a universal basic income (UBI) in an AI-driven world".

Eventually, at some point. Most industry would have been disrupted. There should be a working group of the major players/stake holders in the space to figure out how this is implemented.

I work in tech and I don't see that happening for another decade and half or so.

Where is this discussion thread?

└── Dey well
by Defletter | 2025-08-11 16:26:53+00:00
Forking is fine, do whatever, but as soon as you make actual changes to the code then adopt your own name. This is what trademarks are for, it's just that official trademark registration is somewhat inaccessible (eg: cost) for open source projects. Could you imagine trademarking every little project you make just in-case it gets repackaged by someone who tears huge chunks of it out?
by andrewstuart | 2025-08-11 16:27:03+00:00
I use Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini all together.

I throw their results at each other, get them to debug and review each others work.

Often a get all three to write the code for a given need and then ask all three to review all three answers to find the best solution.

If I’m building something sophisticated there might be 50 cycles of three way code review until they are all agreed that there no critical problems.

There’s no way I could do without all three at the same time it’s essential.
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-11 16:27:08+00:00
> So the first programmer is worth 20x their salary, the 20th is worth 1.01x their salary.

> If most programmers are in the second bucket, then suddenly there's _much_ more stuff that can be built (and money made) per-programmer. So businesses will be incentivized to hire many more programmers.

How do these two reconcile? If hiring more programmers is diminishing returns, why would a business hire more?
by itsmek | 2025-08-11 16:28:18+00:00
Ah sorry I was taking you seriously when you said "real question", I didn't realize it was a rhetorical device. The history of the minimum wage is pretty irrelevant compared to the economic models and empirical studies in that article, I'm not going to engage in such a pointless distraction. If the Nazis invented building codes I would still support them based purely on whether they are a good idea or not.

But you seem to be missing my point on housing code: do you support a nonzero housing code? Some is good, too much is bad. Same for minimum wage, many models and analyses show that some minimum wage improves productivity and counterintuitively increases employment in monopsonistic industries up to the point when they (partially) undo the damage the monopsony caused, at which point obviously a further increase in minimum wage causes damage as you say. My point is that your "real question" (which was an argumentative point in disguise) works rhetorically against nearly every intervention, some of which you certainly support (I tried to pick an obviously good intervention and came up with building code), and thus is a weak argument. If you truly support no market interventions I at least respect the internal consistency of your worldview but think you must underestimate how much food poisoning, fire death, servitude, etc it would cause.
by nec4b | 2025-08-11 16:28:24+00:00
>> It is not impossible. It is going to happen and it is unavoidable.

Based on history it hasn't happened. How do you know it's going to?

>>The alternative is to keep pushing for an ever growing population and to end up in Soylent Green / Blade Runner.

That is absolutely not the only alternative. One would be to have a stable population at the current size. Another on would be decreasing population slowly and not as drastically as it will happen in Korea. A third one would be growing it slowly. The fourth one would be oscillating around the current size, etc.
by deng | 2025-08-11 16:28:38+00:00
They labeled it as "sponsored" when it should have said "ad". I mean yeah, it's weird to simply repost a straight ad on the main channel, but at least that's clearer than integrating it into their own content. The description also always made clear that it's content provided by Nintendo.

If you believe that this influences their view of the Switch2, then by all means, get your information elsewhere. From what I've seen, they've actually been more critical of Switch2 than most other outlets, highlighting the issues with the blurry screen and also the rather lackluster line-up from third parties, mainly because Nintendo is intentionally stingy with dev units.
by sealthedeal | 2025-08-11 16:29:16+00:00
Just reading it, I am a bit confused. I was a free range kid starting in about 1st grade. We had boundaries, but let's be honest, little boys push the limits.

Now im in my mid 30s and have my third daughter on the way. I would never let my kids go play outside in the front yard unsupervised, just for the simple fact that I don't want them getting hit by a car, the oldest is 6, and understands things, but still, that just seems neglectful.

It could be because they are girls, and im more protective, but I also just generally gauge a Childs "readiness", and I don't know many 6 year olds that I would be comfortable going to explore my neighborhood without some form of supervision.

I also generally despise the use of CPS in this way, but from what I gather, this lady seems like a pain in the a*, and her neighbors clearly do not like her, for whatever reason it is. It doesn't mean they should get CPS involved, but it's honestly shocking that this lady would continue to live in a place like this, it's pretty unreal actually.

Not sure what to make of all of this, and it reads like a very one sided piece, would be interesting to hear all the other drama that led to all of this transpiring.
by qafy | 2025-08-11 16:29:26+00:00
You can fine tune the amount of unified memory reserved for the system vs GPU, just search up `sysctl iogpu.wired_limit_mb`. On my 64gb mac mini the default out of the box is only like ~44gb available to the GPU (i forget the exact number), but tuning this parameter should help you run models that are a little larger than that.
by pancakemouse | 2025-08-11 16:29:27+00:00
What this shows to me, as someone who has committed some of the unholy crimes above, is that people want their system, however esoteric, to come naturally to them.

I think reading docs, understanding a new system which someone else has designed, and fitting one's brain into _their_ organisational structure is the hard part. Harder than designing one's own system. It's the reason many don't stick with an off-the-shelf app. Including Org mode.
by codazoda | 2025-08-11 16:29:30+00:00
I geeked out a bit, after reading another blog post, and used my thermal printer for this. I've been using it for a few weeks now. The little sticky notes it makes are great.

https://joeldare.com/trying-to-stop-procrastination-with-my-...

I am starting to collect too many of them though. I kinda like the idea of ops text-file because it is renewed from day to day. I'm still not quite sure how to deal with the items I know I need to get to eventually but that I won't get to today. I'm also not sure how to deal with the pile growing continually.

I have noticed that thermal notes fade relatively quickly. When they do that I have to think about weather I want to reprint them or just throw them out.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-11 16:29:32+00:00
What I have:

Work projects: typically on the order of a dozen

House projects: Probably over 20 distinct chores over the course of a week, plus currently two maintenance things that I can't do myself and have to call people repeatedly because 90% of contractors just don't show up unless you remind them to.

Kids: most things can be handled immediately (e.g. sign a form), but there are always at least half-a-dozen things in the air that can't for one reason or another.

Other: Resubmitting medical bills to insurance (can only be done during business hours, I typically open my mail after business hours). Contacting bank about something. &c.

Here's a fraction of what I'm doing today, including one from each category (except calling a contractor because my wife is doing that):

- I have to contact my bank during business hours because they sent me the wrong form (discovered while I was filling it out this weekend).

- I need to call a coworker because one project is blocked on them regarding an issue that they haven't replied to my e-mail sent Thursday afternoon.

- I need to pickup my daughter from a day-camp on the way home from work. Before dark, I need to weed part of the front yard.

- Tonight the trash (but not the recycling) goes out to the curb for a pickup tomorrow morning.

Yes, I have met people who can keep track of these things in their head. I am not one of them.
by ertgbnm | 2025-08-11 16:29:48+00:00
The only problem I have with articles like this is that it frames what Trump is doing with an air of intention. Most readers will obviously think that becoming mercantilist is a bad idea. However, readers will also walk away with the notion that these actions have all been done with the a grand plan in mind.

The reality is much more stupid though. Recent policies have been made without any plan to begin with. There is no driving philosophy of "we must create modern mercantilism" and the resulting policies being a coherent plan to bring about that change. Instead actions are being made based on the split second decision making of a moron would lacks the most basic understanding of economics much less mercantilism.

This is a decidedly worse world than one in which the plan is simply a bad one. A bad plan would at least be coherent and something that our allies could predict and make their own plans around. Nevertheless, I think the thesis is broadly correct as being the outcome of recent actions.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-11 16:29:56+00:00
This may be a more recent thing, but I find a lot of the "sportsball" conversations are actually just slightly disguised conversations about gambling. Everyone is on Draft Kings and when they talk about this guy's stats or that team's past, or this game's expected score, they're just talking about betting and stuff. I don't think a lot of the sportsball people are even really fans of the sport, they're just looking at stats and betting.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-11 16:30:10+00:00
Maybe virtual tasks need better organization or reminders than physical tasks. I rarely forget to wash my dishes because the dishes are right there. I don't forget to go gather the eggs because I have to shut up the chickens every night and check their food and water, or living creatures could die. There are physical consequences and reminders of those things.

The need to update a piece of software doesn't give me any physical cues, and if I have a couple dozen tasks like that waiting on me, I'm never going to remember them all unless they're all popping into my head throughout the day. That pretty much is how I used to try to do it, and it wasn't good.