MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryao | 2025-08-06 13:41:11+00:00
> Interesting, but they are not manufactured more, but way less, as you can see. So, quality doesn't drive the market. Monies do.

They were always really expensive, heavy and had low energy density (both by weight and by volume). Power density was lower than lead acid batteries. Furthermore, they would cause a hydrolysis reaction in their electrolyte, consuming water and producing a mix of oxygen and hydrogen gas, which could cause explosions if not properly vented. This required periodic addition of water to the electrolyte. They also had issues operating at lower temperatures.

They were only higher quality if you looked at longevity and nothing else. I had long thought about getting them for home energy storage, but I decided against them in favor of waiting for LiFePo4 based solutions to mature.

By the way, I did a bit more digging. It turns out that US production of NiFe batteries ended before 2023, as the company that was supposed to make them had outsourced production to China:

https://www.terravolt.net/iron-edison
by vinhnx | 2025-08-06 13:41:16+00:00
I did a quick `openai/gpt-oss-20b` testing on an Macbook Pro M1 16GB. Pretty impressed with it so far.

* It seems that using version @lmstudio's 20B gguf version (https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF) will have options for reasoning effort.

* My MBP M1 16GB config: temp 0.8, max content length 7990, GPU offload 8/24, runs slow and still fine for me.

* I tried testing with MCP with the above config, with basic tools like time and fetch + reasoning effort low, and the tool calls instruction follow is quite good.

* In LM Studio's Developer tab there is a log output about the model information which is useful to learn.

Overall, I like the way OpenAI backs to being Open AI, again, after all those years.

--

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[0] https://gpt-oss.com

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by theshackleford | 2025-08-06 13:41:38+00:00
> upon reading that using electric bikes (that are basically mopeds disguised as bikes, i.e. which do not induce "real" physical activity due to assistance from the motor) are the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers, I have the feeling that the title is being a bit over the top

Maybe you should read more than the title than? Like say...the article? Just a suggestion.
by imtringued | 2025-08-06 13:41:41+00:00
This is still illogical. You can hire the original maintainer and pay an incremental cost, or you can hire a random developer and pay the initial learning cost + higher incremental cost.

If every company using a library chose the former, then every hour of development would be paid for (from the perspective of the maintainer) and the cost would be spread out across all its users.
by donatj | 2025-08-06 13:41:50+00:00
Honestly, I get sooo bored just watching it do all the things.

There's simply no "flow state" when you're not the one doing the work, not the one reasoning.

I have loved almost every minute of my 20+ years as a developer, and the biggest thing agentic coding has achieved is suck the fun out of it.

I am bored for the first time in my career.
by glenstein | 2025-08-06 13:41:52+00:00
>In May 2025, the potential and prevalence of slopsquatting was detailed in the academic paper "We Have a Package for You! A Comprehensive Analysis of Package Hallucinations by Code Generating LLMs".[1][11] Some of the paper's main findings are that 19.7% of the LLM recommended packages did not exist

At the risk of perhaps misunderstanding or committing a category error, I wonder if there's such a thing as a category of "correct" hallucinating, distinct from things that are, in some sense, "known" via training (e.g. I read about prompting of one model showing it was able to accurately recreate most of the text of Harry Potter, so clearly it's "in there" somewhere).

An interesting upshot of that could be that models "grow" their own knowledge in an evolutionary way via hallucinations that are retained rather than pruned as part of routine filtering and training.

Though I'm sure some might suggest "hallucinating correctly" is just one of the same with ordinary b function. I wouldn't agree with that but I could at least see the argument.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-06 13:42:27+00:00
A flat fee service for open-source LLMs is somewhat unique, even if I don't see myself paying for it.

Usage-based pricing would put them in competition with established services like deepinfra.com, novita.ai, and ultimately openrouter.ai. They would go in with more name-recognition, but the established competition is already very competitive on pricing
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-06 13:42:41+00:00
Reminds me of the contrast people noted between search engines[1]. xAI is gonna get good at serving its market. And if it's market is "spicy" it's gonna get good at that. The other AI companies are gonna get good at their own niches too.

[1]https://img.ifunny.co/images/237a897c7058903fa2f5bb5fd0f9949...
by oezi | 2025-08-06 13:42:47+00:00
The issue is even bigger: phonemizer is using espeak-ng, which isn't very good at turning graphemes into phonemes. In other TTS which rely on phonemes (e.g. Zonos) it turned out to be one of the key issues which cause bad generations.

And it isn't something you can fix, because the model was trained on bad phonemes (everyone uses Whisper + then phonemizes the text transcript).
by benreesman | 2025-08-06 13:43:04+00:00
Real talk. I'm based in San Juan and while in general having an office job on a beautiful beach is about as good as this life has to offer, the local version of Comcast (Liberty) is juuusst unreliable enough that I'm buying real gear at both the office and home station after a decade of laptop and go because while it goes down roughly as often as Comcast, its even harder to get resolved. We had StarLink at the office for like 2 weeks, you need a few real computers lying around.
by superkuh | 2025-08-06 13:43:05+00:00
Glad the title was changed because this article isn't about HTML at all. Instead it seems to be about corporate/for-profit needs for their web applications that happen to touch HTML in some parts. All about throwing away the good parts of HTML to make laying out applications easier and prettier.

To this I say: go away and leave HTML alone if you want to build some application from first principles. The web's first principle is that HTML should have text. Hyper TEXT MARK-UP language.
by energy123 | 2025-08-06 13:43:13+00:00
Wiped out with what aircraft carriers and with what air superiority? China has limited to no power projection into US mainland aside from ICBMs which are scarce. US has B2 bombers they can send over China. US has multiple nearby countries they can use as a staging ground for their F-16 and F-35s. They can send sorties over and over into China and drop thousands of JDAMs onto selected targets. China can't do anything like that. China's SRBMs and navy and airforce are a threat to Asian countries but not the US.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-06 13:43:19+00:00
Calling this "gross" infantilizes both you and the issue. People jerk off and fantasize about others, and this is obviously going to be a great tool for that. The obvious issue is a lack of respect for another person's privacy and dignity, which is interesting, but probably a losing battle simply because the demand is out there. I do not think a comparison to something like CP would be appropriate simply because CP is naturally repulsive for most people, whereas seeing an attractive celebrity naked is naturally appealing to most people.
by squeaky-clean | 2025-08-06 13:43:58+00:00
The environment isn't the only difference, it's not "do you prefer CLI or IDE or Web" because they behave differently. Claude Code and Claude web and Claude through Cursor won't give you identical outputs for the same question.

It's not like running a tool in your IDE or CLI where the only difference is the interface. It would be like if gcc ran from your IDE had faster compile times, but gcc run from the CLI gives better optimizations.

The fact that no one is recommending any baseline to start with proves the point that it's confusing. And we haven't even touched on Sonnet v Opus
by bayindirh | 2025-08-06 13:44:05+00:00
> And you advocate that the tool should refuse?

Yup, and I advocate this on ethical grounds, and I don't care if laws allow this (and even they do not).

> What are you upset about?

Double standards & free pass to corporations. When an individual does or enables this, SWAT will raid their home and take them and their everything in six hours or less.

When a company does this, people go "it's just an image, why so upset".

I believe people shall have dignity and rights. This is why I'm upset.

Why are you so upset that I'm upset about disregard for human dignity?
by nerevarthelame | 2025-08-06 13:44:07+00:00
Your summary ignores much of the nuance of the article, such as the fact X claims to have a "zero-tolerance policy" for non-consensual nudity images, or that Grok refused to generate similar images with actual literal direct prompting.

So that's the cause of the outrage. Non-consensual nudity is immoral, it violates X's own policies, and they're trying to prevent it - but they did a very poor job of it.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-08-06 13:44:11+00:00
>and it's incredibly unlikely you spent $196000 on repairs in 15 years.

You have $196000 of buffer on all these (downpayment, taxes, hoa, repairs, insurance, realtors, closing fees??). This number doesn't even include the earnings if you sold the house, in your hypothetical example of the price doubling in 15 years, you actually have $696000 to play with here.

Though it's funny you mention taxes since deducting mortgage interest is one of the biggest tax benefits most people have access to.

Look I don't know why your so anti-house, but you really might want to run the numbers again. You provided two numbers, I did further math on them, and your reply was simply 'the math is incredibly more complex'. This is hardly a fruitful argument from my end.

>Functionally you live in the same place, and the system managed to extract more money from you.

I'm honestly sorry you feel this way. You are only hurting yourself.
by delusional | 2025-08-06 13:44:12+00:00
> I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. All the while Musk decries falling birth rates.

I don't think they expect to make money from this crowd. If they were socially literate and well-functioning enough to have money, they'd be doing something else with their lives. This is a bet on the culture war. Musk derives a lot of his aesthetic value and political power from the "anti-woke" culture war, and he wants that to continue.
by throwaway6041 | 2025-08-06 13:44:12+00:00
> being in shape used to (usually) demonstrate discipline.

Putting on weight may demonstrate a lack of discipline or awareness, but those losing weight should not be treated as only undisciplined. Scientific research shows that obesity changes the body in ways that actively work against you when you decide to lose weight. You may be able to loose the first pounds with "discipline", but it becomes increasingly harder the more you lose. Once you have lost a few pounds, the body actively works against you to get back to what it thinks should be the baseline.
by kelp6063 | 2025-08-06 13:45:07+00:00
Speedhunters was the best way to experience broad car culture as a young kid in high school, in its prime it used to be two articles a day of well-written and photographed car features from all over the world in every style, all presented with no ads. A shame to see it go as there's nothing else really like it out there, now it's all scattered across instagram and various youtube channels. I'm hoping EA sells it off to someone who cares but knowing their track record they're likely to completely shut it down as soon as someone remembers it exists
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-06 13:45:13+00:00
Because when people say "just make some lifestyle changes," "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Being fat really, really sucks, so most fat people have tried to make lifestyle changes, but they've gotten a lot of bad advice over the past half-century. They've cut back on fat, especially healthy animal fats, because that's what the government/medical/nutritional complex said to do, replacing them with "healthy grains," and only gotten fatter. They've tried to trim calories or portion sizes, which is difficult and ineffective for a lot of reasons. They've tried so-called weight-loss products promoted by corporations with millions to spend pushing them. They've thrown themselves into exercise plans, and while exercise is great for a lot of reasons, it doesn't have much effect on weight loss.

Even when they go outside the mainstream and try something that can actually work, like cutting carbs or fasting, it's difficult because losing weight isn't just the reverse of gaining weight. Fat cells aren't just buckets that fat falls into and can fall out of. Once energy is stored in the form of fat, it has to be burned to be removed, which requires a different set of hormones and enzymes than storing it did. Maintaining that metabolic mix generally requires an enormous amount of willpower, not just some lifestyle tweaks. People who have plenty of willpower to succeed in other areas of life like career or relationships can be defeated by it.

I don't like big pharma either, and I'm losing weight (slowly) with fasting rather than trying these drugs. But it's hard to blame people for using them, if it's a temporary fix and they're going to maintain their new weight through diet. I'm skeptical that it'll go that way for many, but I suppose there's hope.
by pron | 2025-08-06 13:45:41+00:00
The paper's authors' reply to the comment is really bad. E.g., it says this:

> With respect to the assumption, we have clearly elaborated on why a mathematical assumption is essential for proving computational hardness results in Appendix A of our paper as follows: In fact, the Turing machine itself is an assumption about machines (i.e., mechanized finite formal systems) that can be realized in the physical universe. In essence, the Turing machine represents a fundamental physical assumption, and Turing’s findings on uncomputability signify the physical limits of mechanically solving all instances of a problem.

But Turing's assumption was necessary precisely because it was not mathematical. He had to cross the gap between physics (where computation takes place) and mathematics (which he wanted to use to discuss computation) with an assumption about physics that allowed him to construct a mathematical definition of computation. The authors of the paper, on the other hand, make an assumption within mathematics that could simply be mathematically wrong. It's like "proving" Golbach's conjecture by assuming that if an even number were ever not the sum of two primes, then that number must also be divisible by 17 and proceeding from there. Their "proof" is essentially: we assume that if a tractable algorithm (a mathematical construct) for SAT existed, it would be done in a certain way [1], but that way isn't possible ergo a tractable algorithm for SAT cannot exist.

Physics is based on (mathematically) unprovable assumptions. In mathematics, though, "assumptions" are conditionals. The paper should have said, we make a mathematical conjecture that, if true, would lead to our conclusion. You can't assume a mathematical conjecture and then call the entailment (from that conjecture) of X a proof of X. It's calling a proof of `A ⇒ B` a proof of `B`. I agree that a paper that aims to present a mathematical proof that is based on a redefinition of what a mathematical proof means should have led to the paper's outright rejection.

[1]: The paper says: "We only need to assume that this task is finished by dividing the original problem into subproblems" (... of the same kind)
by pjm331 | 2025-08-06 13:45:50+00:00
love the ability to add tools to the mcp server - would expect nothing less from emacs :)

as a long time emacs user i've only recently started really writing my own elisp tools, but claude is pretty good at writing elisp so i've been doing more there (sometimes it loses track of parentheses and you need to fix that, but overall pretty good)

I'll def be trying this out alongside steve yegge's efrit which kicks the emacs up to 11 by letting the agent just write and evaluate arbitrary elisp expressions https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit
by phire | 2025-08-06 13:45:52+00:00
2 ESPs and a 4” color LCD screen (and a keyboard).

Depending on how bright the backlight was, that could eat through battery. And if they were using the wifi for any active communication, that increases power too.

I suspect they wanted it to last the entire weekend with the display always on. The original design probably only had one cell (maybe even smaller battery with built-in protection) and they hurriedly switched to two 18650 cells at the last moment.

They probably went with parallel because that seemed easier, no need to switch to another voltage regulator and charge controller.
by derbOac | 2025-08-06 13:45:53+00:00
What have we learned about AirGradient improving their product in response to the review?

That they "immediately sent replacement parts and a new unit, including repair instructions, as repairability is one of our core differentiators".

That's good, I genuinely respect that. But are there going to be improvements in QC protocol? Consideration of a bigger display? Apparently not, or at least there's no mention of this.

Instead they launch into a distracting and unproductive discussion about reviews in general, missing the entire point of the review's critiques and an opportunity to make a better product, or at least to clarify why they don't see a need for better QC, or don't think a bigger display would be a good idea.
by handoflixue | 2025-08-06 13:46:00+00:00
The problem is, I'm a verbose writer and can trivially churn out 4 paragraphs - another person is going to struggle. The friction is targeting the wrong area: this is a 15 minute break for me, and an hour long nightmare for my dyslexic co-worker.

Social media will give you a good idea what sort of person enjoys writing 4 paragraphs when something goes wrong; do you really want to incentivize that?
by sea-gold | 2025-08-06 13:46:07+00:00
The lightweight Maven plugin gets the project model through Maven task execution. This provides greater simplicity and original build tool behavior in obtaining project data.

- Original Maven behavior for importing project model into IDEA - Maven 4 support - Dependency analyzer - Execution Maven tasks - Support separate modules for production and test roots - Groovy support - Kotlin JVM support

https://github.com/grisha9/easy-maven-plugin
by kstrauser | 2025-08-06 13:46:48+00:00
Honestly, I forget. I talked to the author on Mastodon when it came out, and mentioned it reminded me of 1Blocker. She set me straight on the many advantages and I figured why not and bought it, since it’s so cheap. It’s nice stuck with it.

I don’t remember what those advantages were, except that I was persuaded thst they seemed like good ideas.

Sorry. I know that couldn’t be more vague if I tried.
by benoau | 2025-08-06 13:46:51+00:00
It's a factor in the DOJ antitrust case that's going to trial soon -

> 43. Developers cannot avoid Apple’s control of app distribution and app creation by making web apps—apps created using standard programming languages for web-based content and available over the internet—as an alternative to native apps. Many iPhone users do not look for or know how to find web apps, causing web apps to constitute only a small fraction of app usage. Apple recognizes that web apps are not a good alternative to native apps for developers. As one Apple executive acknowledged, “[d]evelopers can’t make much money on the web.” Regardless, Apple can still control the functionality of web apps because Apple requires all web browsers on the iPhone to use WebKit, Apple’s browser engine—the key software components that third-party browsers use to display web content.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.544... (p22)
by obscurette | 2025-08-06 13:46:54+00:00
I have a bunch of coworkers who paste various LLM outputs to every chat while discussing issues in production.

- "LLM X told that we should try to add this into configuration file – SOMETHING_SOMETHING = false."

- "There is no SOMETHING_SOMETHING configuration option, you have a full source, grep for it."

- "But should we try at least?"
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-06 13:46:58+00:00
It is not irrelevant, who is going to pay $30,000/mile to run fiber out to rural homes when the subscription fees for a lot of rural properties will never pay for the infrastructure? The US is massive and full of sparsely populated rural areas, all of which will ignored by capitalists. Starlink is then their only option.

I’m all for getting rid of local monopolies that aren’t municipally owned.
by bicx | 2025-08-06 13:47:15+00:00
For me, flow state can be achieved through the true multitasking that agentic coding allows. Start an agent on a task, then set up another agent for another task. While one is working, the other usually needs feedback or tweaking. I run Claude Code in yolo mode in a dev container where it can cause little damage, so I’m not wasting my time approving tool calls (or managing an allowlist of tool calls). Sometimes I have 3 agents going at once, but I’ve found that 2 is usually as many as I can manage. I suppose if your project specifications are really dialed in, you could have more than that.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-08-06 13:47:21+00:00
Don't know about the biggest, but IMO the exciting things about open models is the possibility of creating whole new things.

For example, "generate a heatmap of each token/word and how 'unexpected' they are" or "find me a prompt that creates the closest match to this text"

To be efficient both require access that is not exposed over API.
by graemep | 2025-08-06 13:47:33+00:00
> The article is about "touching on independence, mental health, social behavior, and even environmental awareness" just as much as not sitting on your butt inside.

Teenagers in the rest of the developed world are also spending increasing amounts of time in front of screens despite not have the constraints imposed by American car culture. E-bikes might have removed one barrier, but that does solve the problem.

Kids where I live often, maybe usually, walk or take busses to school. If they pay monthly through the app they get unlimited bus travel in the county. Its not atypical in the UK, and its even easier (albeit more expensive) in big cities. We still have kids spending all their time doom scrolling.

I think it is a combination of over-protective parents and addictive stuff on their phones that is the real problem.

Ebikes are a definite menace here, and e-scooters are worse.
by mvieira38 | 2025-08-06 13:47:38+00:00
If you're intent on using agents, try having them work by themselves on one feature branch while you work normally on another. It feels like hiring a fast intern...

Highly opinionated: Regarding using agents for a main project or feature, as some do, I don't think there is such a thing as a "flow state." If you adhere to that working strategy, your hypothesis is that the agent is so much faster than you that you can get more done even without a flow state, even if the quality is a little worse, and your job has fundamentally changed from programmer to code reviewer. That will have its own set of skills for you to develop, such as efficiently reading their changes, managing costs and context, writing good prompts, etc.