MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yencabulator | 2025-08-13 15:23:43+00:00
I wonder if one can reconstruct the UI on top of the JSON input/output, without losing the agentic smarts that in Claude Code.

--output-format <format> Output format (only works with --print): "text" (default), "json" (single result), or "stream-json" (realtime streaming) (choices: "text", "json", "stream-json") --input-format <format> Input format (only works with --print): "text" (default), or "stream-json" (realtime streaming input) (choices: "text", "stream-json")

Anyway, that's how software should be written in an ideal world. A protocol to communicate with weakly-connected user interfaces (plural!).

For Claude specifically, how exactly does the --ide flag work? That might be useful too.
by benterix | 2025-08-13 15:23:47+00:00
Frankly, I'm not sure if LLM would be the best replacement. Given they need to make decisions, I'd say ensemble methods could work better, at least in scenarios where you can actually perform reliable simulations (e.g. production, but not necessarily marketing). LLMs tend to averages whereas what shareholders want is to optimize for X, where X is usually, but not necessarily, net profit.

(It would be a fun experiment to create such an optimization startup and advertise it to boards as "AI-CEO-as-a-service" and watch the faces of these CEOs pushing for AI in workplace. Maybe they would start having a more nuanced view.)
by johnecheck | 2025-08-13 15:24:07+00:00
UBI is just wealth flowing from the government to all individuals. The goal is redistribution. As a government, you can explicitly specify who wealth is being taken from by paying for UBI in taxes. If you don't raise taxes to balance the budget, your choice is between kicking the can down the road with debt or printing money. Printing money is really just another form of redistribution drawn from the wealth of everyone holding that currency. Naturally, doing so can lead to a crisis of confidence where the value of the currency collapses as people flee to other assets that are less likely to be devalued.

UBI, like any government spending, needs to be paid for. By taxes or financial disaster. I prefer taxes, personally.
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 15:24:12+00:00
Most farm jobs are not sitting in the tractor all day. There are only a few farms in the world where a tractor has someone sitting in it all day every day. Most farms the tractors are used for 80 hours a week just a couple weeks per year (planting and harvest time). The rest of the time the tractors sit in the shed. There is a lot of non-tractor jobs farmers do. Many of the farms where the tractor is used full time every day the tractor is just pulling the harvest wagon and the crops are harvested by hand - one person drives the tractor while 30 walk behind it harvesting the crops.

The autonomous tractors are for use in fields where there are no other humans (at least so far)
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-13 15:24:25+00:00
Yeah, I agree. I dislike both the doomer content and the singularity content.

> yet still the daily general models are still useful

Yup. I just had a ~30min session where gpt5-mini did everything I needed, almost 0shot. Nothing complicated, but production code. Wanted to refactor a small service, wrote a ~4 sentence goal, it went on and asked for read permissions on the repo, understood the API requirements perfectly, wrote itself a plan, did the refactoring, all the previous tests pass (confirmed manually just to be sure), all good. Would have taken me maybe 4 hours?
by uv-depression | 2025-08-13 15:24:49+00:00
Ah, the techbro defence. "We already started doing it, so I guess you're just going to have to let us".

> Whether they like it or not,

A swarm of LEO satellites because in the current political climate it's easier to massively pollute orbits and prevent astronomy than do municipal internet is not, in fact, a law of nature; nor is it inevitable.

> But building international consensus; or even enforcing what little there is on that front could be challenging.

Ah, a challenge! Let's all give up immediately; this could make some rich people a lot of money, after all!

> Luckily we now are able to launch stuff into orbit a lot cheaper. Including astronomy related hardware.

Would you like to pay for launching Vera C. Rubin (8.4m, nearly 20,000kg for just the camera and mirrors) into space? How about the TMT (30m, expected ~2.6 million kg)? Truly spoken like someone who knows nothing about astronomy.

> And otherwise, astronomy is very interesting and cool but mostly it concerns observations about things that are really really far away and not directly relevant to a lot of things on earth.

Apparently fundamental physics is not very relevant to us here on Earth! This is one of the most small-minded statements I've ever read.
by wishfish | 2025-08-13 15:24:52+00:00
Here's a catalog of apps from the Obtainium wiki.

https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

They put the disclaimer on top that this list is not meant as an app store or catalog. It's meant for apps with somewhat complex requirements for adding to Obtainium. But it serves well as a catalog since most of the major open source apps are listed.
by NohatCoder | 2025-08-13 15:24:59+00:00
This is such a useful feature.

I'm fairly well versed in cryptography. A lot of other people aren't, but they wish they were, so they ask their LLM to make some form of contribution. The result is high level gibberish. When I prod them about the mess, they have to turn to their LLM to deliver a plausibly sounding answer, and that always begins with "You are absolutely right that [thing I mentioned]". So then I don't have to spend any more time wondering if it could be just me who is too obtuse to understand what is going on.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-08-13 15:25:09+00:00
Again worth mentioning something I've mentioned in other comments, and it's enormously obvious: There's a massive differene between unluckily being misindentified by some random copper who needs to get his memory or eyesight checked, and the percentage of false positives that's nearly guaranteed from a mass digital facial rec surviellance system working around the clock on categorizing millions of faces all over the country. The first is a bit of bad luck, the second will likely become pervasive, systemic and lead to assorted other shit consequences for many people being cross-checked and categorized in all kinds of insidiuous ways
by Forgeties79 | 2025-08-13 15:25:27+00:00
There’s still value in turning the faucet off if you ask me. Especially if you’ve hardened security/privacy practices to better protect yourself moving forward.

I only got really serious about consistently using VPN’s, firewalls, adblockers, and more privacy centered browsers a few years ago. I would say over the last 8 to 12 months I finally started to see it pay off. I still don’t see a lot of ads if ever, and they are wildly off target when I do see them. Using email aliases that I regularly purge has also made a huge difference when it comes to password/info leaks in particular.

Now if I could only get my damn phone number under control… so tired of the endless spam texts
by lucb1e | 2025-08-13 15:25:52+00:00
Wow. I lived in Finland for a few months and this does not match my experience with them at all. In case it's relevant, my cultural background is Dutch... maybe you would say the same about us, since we also don't do the fake smiles thing? I wouldn't say that we see anyone who's polite and friendly as inferior; quite the contrary, it makes me want to work with them more rather than less. And the logical contrary for the rude example you give. But that doesn't mean that faking a cheerful mood all the time isn't disingenuous and does not inspire confidence
by matt_s | 2025-08-13 15:26:15+00:00
Cisco still exists and was a winner for a long time. The company that emerged hugely successful out of the dot com era was Amazon, they dominate ecommerce today.

Take a look further back to the Personal Computer era in the 80's into early 90's. There were tons of PC makers out there, IBM became dominant but they haven't been in that business for a long time now. Microsoft was the enormous winner coming out of that.

When grandma starts talking about GPU's and NVIDIA stock, this AI bubble might be at its peak. I think if history rhymes with past lyrics (that whole history doesn't repeat but rhymes thing), its more likely that a software company (OpenAI, Google, Microsoft) is going to be the dominant player emerging from a potential bubble burst.

A potential pin-prick to the bubble (looking into my crystal ball): pricing for AI - once companies realize their runways are running out and they want to turn a profit of some kind to stakeholders they will need to raise prices to offset the energy and hardware build outs. Customers may realize they aren't getting the productivity to offset those increased costs and hold back budgets on AI spend. Or chip tariffs depending on TACO volatility.
by aaronmdjones | 2025-08-13 15:26:41+00:00
In the UK, VED is based on the vehicle's CO2 emissions per kilometre traveled under prescribed driving conditions. This means the registered keepers of EVs (and some hybrid ICE/EVs) pay nothing.

There are talks about scrapping this system as more and more of the country transitions to EVs, and taxing them by vehicle weight instead (the same way driving licences are classed). This would reverse the current status quo, with EV owners paying the most due to the greater weight of their vehicles.

I'm not sure I like that idea, but I also appreciate that as the revenue goes down under the current scheme, they may feel tempted to introduce something even worse to make up the deficit instead, like a tax per mile traveled.
by sanderjd | 2025-08-13 15:26:55+00:00
I feel like it's the same target market as the Maverick, but the (certainly smaller currently) subset of that market that prefers the drivability of EVs.

I think if they can actually pull off this vehicle at this price point, it will be nice, though maybe still not successful.

But I'm very happy to see US carmakers trying to figure out how to do cheaper EVs. I hope others will follow suit (and that Tesla will get their heads out of their asses and work on this too).
by cratermoon | 2025-08-13 15:27:06+00:00
I used to collect instances of things that I called "accidentally right-handed".

the designs of mugs - the patterns almost always assume that you are right handed.

Cake forks tend to have a blade down one side - guess which.

Packs of cards. Fan them out with your left hand and you can't see the mark in the corner telling you what they are.

Measuring cups - if you use them with the left hand, the marks face away from you.

Cameras - The shutter release is always in the right.

Rulers and tape measures

bicycles

tv and stereo remote controls, the most frequently-used buttons are placed under the end of the thumb of a right-hander holding the remote.

bus fareboxes are on the right as you board the bus (in the US), an awkward reach across your body if you have the fare in your left hand.

student desks

musical instruments including

guitars the violin family the brass instruments flute

crank-operated pencil sharpeners

ATMs & vending machines

oven mitts with heat-resistant material on one side only - the side that faces the hot item only if you wear the mitt on your right hand
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 15:27:45+00:00
Tractors get stuck when they drive in mud (and other mud like soils) all the time. However when driving on not-mud it is true. That is the trade off, the heavier you are the more care you need to take about mud.

I suspect tanks get stuck often in part because that is fun and in part because they need to train troops how to get them unstuck and so they intentionally send tanks into mud - which is to say in a real war the generals might (should) avoid getting stuck, but in training it is important to get stuck often. I'm not a military expert though, but that is my opinion on tanks.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-08-13 15:27:47+00:00
I would be very interested in hearing how you subsidize my lifestyle, and I will refrain from flippant attacks like "do you pay my mortgage" because it sounds like you are alleging there is some externality that I am producing that you are paying for.

Regarding horrible commutes, I for one believe that it is the companies who demand in person work who are the ones who are being coddled here with transport infrastructure. In reality, we need a two speed road network-- one for seriously heavy trucking, and the other for bikes. I have no problem giving up my personal car, if that's the angle you are going to take.
by mvieira38 | 2025-08-13 15:27:57+00:00
Wow, that first paragraph is a compelling political economy argument against this policy that I hadn't really thought of. Your model seems to take the assumptions that the trade industries can't reorganize to optimize car usage, and that transit operators have only one stream of income (the car tax).

Both are untrue, IMO, and in the desired steady state the car tax is in fact near zero, substituted by higher taxes on everything else. Even if that ends up making the city more expensive, the variation in utility is still at least positive if we model citizens' utility functions as negatively sloped on the pollution axis, and of course if we are assuming the central planning wants to comply with global warming goals.

I would even question if tradespeople would be against paying the car tax if it gets commuters out of the road, to be honest. I'd wager a plumber would be more than willing to pay even 100$ monthly if you worded it as "you get a fast pass to avoid all traffic and get everywhere as fast as the speed limit" and not "it's a tax on your car".
by ryao | 2025-08-13 15:28:09+00:00
It sounds like you are used to short conversations with few turns. In conversations with dozens/hundreds/thousands of turns, prompting to avoid bad output entering the context is generally better than prompting to try to correct output after the fact. This is due to how in-context learning works, where the LLM will tend to regurgitate things from context.

That said, every LLM has its quirks. For example, Gemini 1.5 Pro and related LLMs have a quirk where if you tolerate a single ellipsis in the output, the output will progressively gain ellipses until every few words is followed by an ellipsis and responses to prompts asking it to stop outputting ellipses includes ellipses anyway. :/
by rollcat | 2025-08-13 15:28:13+00:00
The OS looks highly opinionated and I respect that. Better to have a single overarching vision than try to do too many things poorly.

However I will question some design choices!

- 32-bit only: the writing is on the wall, many vendors (HW&SW) are slowly moving to kill it off. I guess it's fine, but IMHO each ISA (regardless of pointer width) should just be considered a different ISA. Portability is good, it ensures your software doesn't hardcode too many assumptions about the platform - and weeds out bugs. Just treat an int like an int, and a pointer like a pointer. Distinct types.

- Pure co-op multitasking: it will be completely fine, until you try serious in-system development. Hard reboot any time I make a mistake in a for-loop? Mercy, please :,) Implementing a simple watchdog via a timer interrupt will still keep all of the scheduling logic simple and stupid: it's just another case for a yield call, except now involuntary. The runaway process will simply never see completion, but seeing that it would never yield anyway, I don't see a problem just killing it. And most importantly, the sanity shall be preserved.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-13 15:28:14+00:00
>Consumers already have a hard time having any lever against rising grocery costs. Consolidation earlier on in the supply chain is not helping.

Who in the grocery supply chain is earning huge profit margins?

As far as I understand, consumers have long benefited from myriad subsidies provided to farmers, too low fossil fuel prices that do not price in externalities, too low water prices that deplete aquifers quicker than they can recharge, and extremely cheap labor due to cheaper labor in less developed countries and government looking the other way on farms that hire illegal immigrants.

If anything, the mechanization of farms is the only force pushing food prices lower. Before that, it was the advent of the Haber-Bosch process which drastically increased yields.
by stoneman24 | 2025-08-13 15:28:27+00:00
I will echo the recommendation. Though some of the puzzles do require local knowledge, there are quite a few based on the US.

Though not really applicable to LLM, the last rapid fire round (missing vowels, work out what the words/phrase without any vowels, on the buzzer) is a favourite.

Currently Monday evening on BBC 2 is Mastermind, Only Connect and then University Challenge. This excellent sequence will stretch pretty much anyone's knowledge.
by lordkrandel | 2025-08-13 15:28:30+00:00
Seems just a normal kernel discussion, very on point, on mergeframe and code quality. Linus is notoriously a tiny bottleneck and a very large PR with evident quality issues late in the merge, while the reviewer (you probably get to know what Linus is doing working with him) is travelling, that's something that needs a hard stop. Unneeded code that requires cleaning takes the name of garbage even if it took positive effort from who made it, when one of the most appreciated qualities of the product is maintainability. As always, Steve Jobs would just fire the person and everybody would applaud.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-13 15:28:42+00:00
It's (mostly) determined by the delta between money creation and creation of "stuff" (by which I mean services as well as goods). If there's more stuff, then creating the same amount more money isn't inflationary.

I said "mostly" because there can be things like supply shocks... but I guess that means less stuff, so maybe even that isn't an exception.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-13 15:28:55+00:00
This is an extremely naive take. Sundar Pichai's claim to fame was getting the Google Toolbar and Chrome pushed into the Adobe Reader installer back in the day. So many OEMs were shoving Chrome and Google into their default loads that Microsoft had to make a "Bing Edition" of Windows for a bit with a lower price to include Bing and Edge as default, and have now outright blocked the practice I believe.

When you visit Google Search or Gmail on your default browser, you get at least one but sometimes as many as three separate popups telling you to install Chrome for "faster" ability to search/email.

Today many product vendors incorrectly claim that their website or service will only work on Chrome, and refuse to provide support unless you switch to it.

Oh, and my personal favorite: If you aren't the admin of a PC, Chrome malware-installs in the user profile folder so you can circumvent your IT department!

Google's power to force Chrome on people is insane, and as the government has now determined, illegally anticompetitive.
by microtonal | 2025-08-13 15:29:01+00:00
That's completely possible if the development of LLMs follow an S-curve (sigmoidal). At the beginning of the curve it will look exponential, then linear, and finally logarithmic. For different tasks, LLMs could be on different points on the curve, which would explain why some people perceive the improvements as exponential and others perceive them as logarithmic - they are simply working on different things and so experience different gradients.
by ben_w | 2025-08-13 15:29:08+00:00
Sure, and I do too, but the relative difference between "ideological brigade against medicine and science" and "what the various Europen countries did" suggests that the difference between Trump as he was and a plausible competent alternative still didn't add up to 5e5 lives per 342 million population.

China, I think, managed to get their response right (eventually, having failed hard right at the start). Either that or they managed to hide the death toll in several different dependent outputs that all roughly agree with these numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_by_country_a...

(That said, this map also says that the USA should be ruled over by Canada, with King Charles as head of state etc., I absolutely do not disagree that a lot of dumb things were done and should've played out differently, this is just a relative statement about how incredibly mediocre a lot of our other leaders besides Trump are in the supposedly developed nations…)
by scrollaway | 2025-08-13 15:29:20+00:00
> These models routinely make basic mistakes, yet can answer these devilish lateral thinking questions more than 9 times out of 10?

You could also say "These models routinely make basic mistakes, yet they're able to one-shot write entire webpages and computer programs that compile with no errors".

There are classes of mistakes the models make, this is what we're digging into.
by atbpaca | 2025-08-13 15:29:24+00:00
I tried ChatGPT 5 and Claude for some medium, non-trivial coding tasks in Rust, and most of the time the code does not even compile. It may work better for other programming languages. However, this make me believe that unless you want basic small functions (like convert integer to string) done by AI, betting on it to replace SDEs is still risky, as of today. On the other hand, AI tech is progressing quickly.
by fusslo | 2025-08-13 15:30:00+00:00
I've been thinking about this lately.

While we engineers understand how to judge and evaluate AI solutions, I am not sure Business Owners (BO) care.

BO's are ok with a certain percentage of bugs/rework/inefficiency/instability. And the tradeoff of eliminating (or marginalizing) Engineering may be worth the increased percentage of unfavorable outcomes.
by koverstreet | 2025-08-13 15:30:30+00:00
Well, being upstream has not been a rosy experience, so that'd be an easy judgement to make in hindsight.

But consider: ext4 was done entirely in tree, and btrfs was upstreamed much, much earlier and took a lot longer to stabilize.

So compared to historical precedent, we already upstreamed much later. e.g. we upstreamed long, long after we stopped making breaking changes in the on disk format (that was the point where btrfs removed the experimental label!)

If we're saying even that is too soon, then we're saying that bcachefs shouldn't have been upstreamed until it was perfect. But, no one was ever going to fund developing a filesystem from scratch all the way to completion and perfection completely out of tree. That's far too much uncertainty, and that kind of money simply isn't being thrown around in the Linux filesystem world.

Asking a filesystem to only be merged when it's completely done and perfect is saying "we want all the benefit and none of the pain", and it's just fundamentally unrealistic.

The whole point of Linux is community based development, and that's how I've been developing bcachefs. I don't have a big engineering team - but what I do have is a large community of people doing very good QA work that I work with closely, on a daily basis. People show up from anywhere with bugs, I ask them to join the IRC channel, and we start working together and it goes from there; a lot of people see us doing productive work and stick around and find ways to help out.

If that no longer works within the development model of the Linux kernel... oi vey.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-13 15:30:38+00:00
I think the problem here is N = 1..4 or whatever.

The issue is there, they were just there at a time where these people who are snatching weren't there. 18 phone snatching per day on one street, but not at all hours, and not on all streets. It varies. But yeah, we want people's experiences. Maybe some of these people on HN did not experience it. Perhaps they could ask their friends and the friends of their friends.
by busterarm | 2025-08-13 15:30:40+00:00
France doesn't need to call anyone, they have spies everywhere. They're the world leader in industrial espionage with a few hundred-years head start over everyone else.

And also don't forget they're the second largest global arms exporter after the United States. Which is amazing when you realize they only have one manufacturer (Airbus) in the global top 15...