MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by psyclobe | 2025-08-12 23:43:03+00:00
Isn’t Opus better? Whenever I run out of Opus tokens and get kicked down to Sonnet it’s quite a shock sometimes.

But man I’m at the perfect stage in my career for these tools. I know a lot, I understand a lot, I have a lot of great ideas-but I’m getting kinda tired of hammering out code all day long. Now with Claude I am just busting ass executing in all these ideas and tests and fixes-never going back!
by Aeolun | 2025-08-12 23:43:37+00:00
> Or lose control of the codebase, which you no longer understand after weeks of vibing (since we can only think and accumulate knowledge at 1x).

I recognize this, but at the same time, I’m still better at rmembering the scope of the codebase than Claude is.

If Claude gets a 1M context window, we can start sticking a general overview of the codebase in every single prompt without.
by aatd86 | 2025-08-12 23:44:32+00:00
For me it's the opposite. As long as I ask for small tasks, or error checking, it can help. But I'd rather think of the overall design myself because I tend to figure out corner cases or superlinear complexities much better. I develop better mental models than the NNs. That's somewhat of a relief.

Also the longer the conversation goes, the less effective it gets. (saturated context window?)
by throwanem | 2025-08-12 23:44:46+00:00
"Unofficial?" Was that a recent change? But my point is that because the author neither can nor will criticize the fundamental axioms or desiderata of the movement, their analysis of how or why it spins off cults is necessarily footless. In practice the result amounts to a collection of excuses mostly from anonymees, whom we are assured have sufficient authority to reassure us this smoke arises from no fire. But of course it's only when Kirstie Alley does something like this we're meant to look askance.
by CSMastermind | 2025-08-12 23:44:54+00:00
Use the action to set the fee to the government, set a salary floor, and hold like 50% of the fee money in escrow that gets refunded back to the company after 5 years provided they retained the employee and tax records indicate the employee was paid at least at the floor level (something like 1.5x the median salary for the that position in that area).
by hoppp | 2025-08-12 23:45:15+00:00
I used it with Tyopescript and Go, SQL, Rust

Using it with rust is just horrible imho. Lots and lots of errors, I cant wait to stop this rust project already. But the project itself is quite complex

Go on the other hand is super productive, mainly because the language is already very simple. I can move 2x fast

Typescript is fine, I use it for react components and it will do animations Im lazy to do...

SQL and postgresql is fine, I can do it without it also, I just dont like to write stored functions cuz of the boilerplatey syntax, a little speed up saves me from carpal tunnel
by sashank_1509 | 2025-08-12 23:45:23+00:00
That’s what I disagree with, I think Google codebase scale is massive. It has android + chrome + Google + Waymo + tensorflow etc, this is a lot of code. And also consider that every third party library is put inside Google3 codebase too, there are no truly external dependencies, all the code is there in one repo, with their version one version principle. I think Google is roughly similar scale to GitHub and is managing things far better
by brettgriffin | 2025-08-12 23:45:29+00:00
I love dhh and I applaud his manic obsession with Linux over the 18 months or so that I've seen on my twitter feed. I still don't exactly understand what the purpose of all of this is.

I'm sure it is very configurable, but every visual I've seen of this thing looks awful and not something I'd want to look at while working. But I understand we all have different tastes.

But even in the blog post I'm struggling with 'why?' here. Am I to understand the primary benefits here are improved battery life and increased developer productivity by tests running faster? Is that it?

I travel an inordinate amount and have never found a Macbook's battery life to be insufficient. I struggle to even remember the last time I've used my computer long enough to drain the batter and not be near a power outlet. I work from ski lodges, planes, my car. This has never been a problem for me. Not once. This just feels like a really bad metric to optimize for given a typical developers' schedule and work arrangement.

> On the flip side, we'll get a massive boost in productivity from being able to run our Ruby on Rails test suites locally much faster.

Is this not just a Ruby issue? I don't know what's basecamp or HEYs codebase looks like on the inside, but they don't feel like projects whose tests suites should require a completely different OS or hardware arrangement. I haven't used Ruby in a decade but I do recall it being frustratingly slow. This seemed to be an understood and accepted reality amongst teams that adopt it.

Anyway, I feel like a better 'why you should do this' in order, especially if it is being mandated amongst developers in a company.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-12 23:45:42+00:00
I'm aware of that post! I did a video looking at the GNU Hurd and I believe it came up there.

It definitely would not be a trivial amount of work.

Honestly, I think the downvotes were for mentioning AI may have a role in validation. LLMs are increasingly being explored in the theorem prover space, but it's still controversial to talk of them approvingly on some HN threads.
by Aeolun | 2025-08-12 23:46:31+00:00
I think one of thr big issues with CC is that it’ll read the first occurence of something, and then think it’s found it. Never mind that there are 17 instances spread throughout the codebase.

I have to be really vigilant and tell it to search the codebase for any duplication, then resolve it, if I want it to keep going good at what it does.
by wredcoll | 2025-08-12 23:47:19+00:00
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy-Prosper_Enfa...

Sometimes history really does rhyme.

> Enfantin and Amand Bazard were proclaimed Pères Suprêmes ("Supreme Fathers") – a union which was, however, only nominal, as a divergence was already manifest. Bazard, who concentrated on organizing the group, had devoted himself to political reform, while Enfantin, who favoured teaching and preaching, dedicated his time to social and moral change. The antagonism was widened by Enfantin's announcement of his theory of the relation of man and woman, which would substitute for the "tyranny of marriage" a system of "free love".[1]
by joks | 2025-08-12 23:47:22+00:00
> It's just fun to mess with these tools

I think this is the main sentiment I can't wrap my head around. Using Claude Code or Cursor has been entirely a mind-numbingly tedious experience to me (even when it's been useful.) It's often faster, but 80% of the time is spent just sitting there waiting for it to finish working, and I'm not proud of the result because I didn't do anything except come up with the idea and figure out how to describe it well. It just ends up feeling like the coding equivalent of...like...copying down answers to cheat on a test. Not in the sense that it feels gross and wrong and immoral, but in the sense that it's unsatisfying and unfulfilling and I don't feel any pride in the work I've done.

For things where I just want something that does something I need as quickly as possible, sure, I wasn't going to care either way, but personal projects are where I find myself least wanting to vibe code anything. It feels like hiring someone else to do my hobbies for me.
by nomel | 2025-08-12 23:47:24+00:00
> "no more x86" and devs either have to jump on board or abandon Apple.

I don't think that's fair. They provided a very smooth transition, with a well performing translation layer. The user wouldn't have to care or even notice when they picked up a new ARM MacBook, except their battery lasted way longer and cooler. Everything that worked still worked (well, 64bit at least). I'm still running x86-64 apps, and developing for x86-64, on my ARM MacBook.

When the first Windows RT came out, there was no compatibility, and this wasn't communicated well. They nuked the customer perception on day 1. When they finally implemented the x86 compatibility, it had terrible performance and compatibility.

Now, Apple's 32-bit to 64-bit transition was definitely a "jump on board or abandon Apple", but the Intel to Arm transition was well crafted, from a user perspective.
by leoc | 2025-08-12 23:47:35+00:00
They famously did better than the proprietary shell tools in the original fuzzpocalypse https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/395-495-200... . I also think I recall reading, somewhere on jwz dot org, something which purported to be an internal SGI email giving a dismal account of the quality of the Irix tools. GNU tools often have expanded feature sets, too. But I think that GNU-tools adopters were probably also driven by a standardisation impulse to at least have the same bugs and quirks as everyone else.

Yes, here it is: “Software Usability II” by Tom Davis, the “Irix bloat memo” https://www.seriss.com/people/erco/sgi-irix-bloat-document.t... . Mind you, that bloat would probably look very modest nowadays.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-12 23:47:55+00:00
Embedded for sure eats the world. If you're looking at that then QNX, FreeRTOS, and similar options are also big in the running. The thing is if you're targeting a particularly well-defined piece of hardware and application, and you know you're going to want to customize and optimize for that combination, then you're generally going to be better off with a smaller, simpler starting point than something which is designed to run on pretty much everything and for almost any application. The different licenses complement that, but I think even if the licenses swapped the design and goal difference would affect things more.
by samantha-wiki | 2025-08-12 23:47:58+00:00
It seems like an alternative might be something along the lines of this, just a rough sketch

- Alice wants Bob to notify her about something

- Bob advertises an email address specific to that something

- Alice creates a disposable email address and requests that Bob notify her about that something at that disposable email address

- Alice only accepts emails to that address from Bob's something-specific email

- Once Alice receives an email from Bob's something-specific email she discards the disposable email
by jjk166 | 2025-08-12 23:48:22+00:00
This sounds like cherry picked data to support a predetermined conclusion.

Note they only asked if participants pretended to have more progressive views, not views different from their own. Nor did they ask how frequently or how extreme the views were different from the participants' own. They chose to narrowly look at a particular politically charged social issue. They present no data at all showing that this is in any way damaging.

Note, you are supposed to have more nuanced views in private than you express to people who are only a wrung up from strangers. Even more so, it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without holding it as your own. There should be people in your life to the left and right of you, and both should describe you as someone who "gets where I'm coming from."
by vitorbaptistaa | 2025-08-12 23:48:50+00:00
This has been one of the most surprising developments of late, given DHH's and Rails devs historical preferences for Apple products. I'd love to see some stats on the impact of this change.

After many years using Ubuntu, I migrated to Omarchy this weekend (Arch Linux + Hyperlnd, a tiling window-manager). Looking great so far!
by cogman10 | 2025-08-12 23:49:01+00:00
Here's the thing, the goals of the terrorists weren't irrational.

People confuse "rational" with "moral". Those aren't the same thing. You can perfectly rationally do something that is immoral with a bad goal.

For example, if you value your life above all others, then it would be perfectly rational to slaughter an orphanage if a more powerful entity made that your only choice for survival. Morally bad, rationally correct.
by godelski | 2025-08-12 23:49:04+00:00
I don't even know what you're arguing.

> you implying that some people are good building good axiom systems

How do you go from "most people aren't very good" to "this implies some people are really good"? First, that is just a really weird interpretation of how people speak (btw, "you're" not "you" ;) because this is nicer and going to be received better than "making axioms is hard and people are shit at it." Second, you've assumed a binary condition. Here's an example. "Most people aren't very good at programming." This is an objectively true statement, right?[0] I'll also make the claim that no one is a good programmer, but some programmers are better than others. There's no contradiction in those two claims, even if you don't believe the latter is true.

Now, there are some pretty good axiom systems. ZF and ZFC seems to be working pretty well. There's others too and they are used to for pretty complex stuff. They all work at least for "simple logic."

But then again, you probably weren't thinking of things like ZFC. But hey, that was kinda my entire point.

> there simply is not set of logical claims which can provide anything like certainty no matter how "good" someone is at "axiom creation".

I agree. I'd hope I agree considering my username... But you've jumped to a much stronger statement. I hope we both agree that just because there are things we can't prove that this doesn't mean there aren't things we can prove. Similarly I hope we agree that if we couldn't prove anything to absolute certainty that this doesn't mean we can't prove things to an incredibly high level of certainty or that we can't prove something is more right than something else.

[0] Most people don't even know how to write a program. Well... maybe everyone can write a Perl program but let's not get into semantics.
by sien | 2025-08-12 23:49:49+00:00
Trying to do a bit of formal philosophy at University is really worth doing.

You realise that it's very hard to do well and it's intellectual quicksand.

Reading philosophers and great writers as you suggest is better than joining a cult.

It's just that you also want to write about what you're thinking in response to reading such people and ideally have what you write critiqued by smart people. Perhaps an AI could do some of that these days.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-12 23:50:30+00:00
> Big tech pays lesser than I expected: I thought they would average at 200k, not 160k

H1Bs aren't just for Engineers - PMs, TPMs, Accountants, PMMs, and other roles can get H1B visas as well.

Maybe filter based on the BLS code to get more granular info into what is causing outlier skews.
by elasxies | 2025-08-12 23:50:54+00:00
I’m so tired of seeing desperate tech startups lie on their numbers and slap SOTA for VCs.

Mem0 published this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19413, claiming they beat everyone on LOCOMO, but turns out they completely botched the implementation of their competitors. Then used those bad results to prove their dominance. When Letta and Zep actually ran the benchmarks correctly, they both hit a 10% higher score than Mem0’s best.

There's so much vaporware in this industry it's insane. I get the incentive to get VC money by overpromising features, but lying on research papers is pathetic. do better.
by gibbitz | 2025-08-12 23:51:05+00:00
This study raises the question, why do we play games? Do we play to win or to enjoy ourselves. Why design a machine to do what we should be enjoying? This goes for writing, creating Art, coding. Wanting a machine to win is the desire to achieve a goal without doing the work to earn it. Same for making art or writing novels. The point of these things (growth and achievement) is lost when done by a machine. I want to see this done with investment, legal strategy or business management. These are better suited to LLMs than what we're making them do, but I'd venture that those who are profiting from LLMs right now would profit less if replaced by LLMs by their boards.
by tharkun__ | 2025-08-12 23:51:21+00:00
There's no Coca-Cola down the block from here (nor a Nestle bottling plant ;)). Nor any high water usage industries (no real "industries" at all actually). We're one of a few towns in the area with municipal wells tapping an aquifer.

The next big city does not take water from an aquifer at all but from a river. One that's also currently lower on water than usual, which is not great because upstream cities put their sewage in there and that city does the same "downstream" (which will add to the problem cities even further downstream are going to have that also use the river water).
by skybrian | 2025-08-12 23:51:41+00:00
The WHO didn't declare a global pandemic until March 11, 2020 [1]. That's a little slow and some rationalists were earlier than that. (Other people too.)

After reading a warning from a rationalist blog, I posted a lot about COVID news to another forum and others there gave me credit for giving the heads-up that it was a Big Deal and not just another thing in the news. (Not sure it made all that much difference, though?)

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7569573/
by mvdtnz | 2025-08-12 23:52:01+00:00
The problem isn't your one coffee an hour during the lull of the day. It's you taking up a table at lunchtime that could be occupied by 4 customers who will outspend your entire day by several times over. Sure the place is mostly empty for most of the day but your cheap ass is taking a seat during the precious hours where they make their profit.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-12 23:52:14+00:00
> it costs 5 figures and 6+ months to train a non-diver to the level of scuba instructor. It is good for the labor pool to force the shop to train a new instructor, even if they have to pay a massive cost for them to get certified, and the labor can quit the day they get certified. It is bad for consumers and the shop.

I believe the common situation is a company pays for your masters degree but the two of you end up with a contract where you'll stay at the company for X years afterwards.

I don't see why there can't be a non-"At will" situation for the scuba instructor.
by sans_souse | 2025-08-12 23:52:19+00:00
Does anyone who works in Android dev know what's going on with the app TikTok itself?

It's so bug-ridden but each update introduces new weird behaviors and each is so unique and could change at any point it's almost strangely satisfying when you succeed in working around them to get your intended results.

The app weighs in (for me) at over 13gb, after cache clears in app and os. Some of it just seems like bad coding but all that is beyond me
by vitorbaptistaa | 2025-08-12 23:52:30+00:00
From what I understood, the initial motivation wasn't technical, but related to Apple's practices around a closed app store and the 30% tax on every purchase. He explained it both on Lex Fridman's podcast at [1] and a bit on [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDi8u3WMj0 [2] https://world.hey.com/dhh/living-with-linux-and-android-afte...
by kstrauser | 2025-08-12 23:52:33+00:00
That's right. To be explicit: I am absolutely, 100% for smart people coming to the US and participating as full, equal peers in our job market. Come on in, friend! I welcome you!

However, I am wholly opposed to the H-1B program as I've seen it used in reality, where those smart peers are used as below-market-rate slave labor who can't really complain about it without facing immediate deportation. I've personally worked with iOS app devs who were making less than I was while working many more hours per week, all because our asshole boss let them know that if they didn't like it, they had 60 days to find another visa sponsor or GTFO of the country and leave their homes and friends and partners behind.

They weren't coming here to invent quantum computers. They were writing phone apps. The sole reason said asshole boss hired them was because he knew he'd own them.

I firmly, adamantly believe there should be an extra 50% employer-borne tax on H-1B roles, making it so that it's possible but expensive to bring in new employees. It wouldn't stop people like those quantum computer scientists. The companies making those things would still hire them in a heartbeat if they couldn't find "local" talent. But it would stop the asshole boss from exploiting my friends to work them like rented mules while artificially suppressing salaries for everyone else.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-12 23:53:42+00:00
> It's just that you also want to write about what you're thinking in response to reading such people and ideally have what you write critiqued by smart people. Perhaps an AI could do some of that these days.

An AI can neither write about what you are thinking in your place nor substitute for a particularly smart critic, but might still be useful for rubber-ducking philosophical writing if used well.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-08-12 23:54:45+00:00
Actually it's super-easy, barely an inconvenience.

Dedicate a portion of your site to notifications. Allocate the URL there with a blank page that has a meta 404 tag or something.

When blog post is live, replace the meta 404 with a meta redirect to the real permalink.

You can do an all-manual URL shortener for QR codes the same way. That means you can also have a QR code for this kind of subscription, which is cool
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-08-12 23:57:06+00:00
Improvements are still improvements.

How does a good actor do this in good faith right now?

Email? Costs money. SMS? Costs money. RSS? Wildly unpopular. ActivityPub? Can't be statically hosted and fairly unpopular.

Right now they basically use fucking Facebook and fucking Twitter, and even then you're subscribing to an entire stream.
by gurjeet | 2025-08-12 23:57:36+00:00
Shameless plug and completely tangential: Since we're talking about protocols we need, I wrote a specification called ToolsConfig that aims to reduce the clutter in our software projects (think of all the Makefile, package.json, .npmrc, .vscode/, .gitignore, etc. files and directories that clutter our software projects' directories and sometimes even sub-directories).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883130
by lesuorac | 2025-08-12 23:57:44+00:00
> If agriculture workers don't exist anymore at the wages the market is willing to bear, we just won't bother with those foods anymore, or import them from somewhere else.

Expand H-2A: Temporary Agricultural Worker visa then.

We shouldn't be encouraging black market activity. If as the US we want to have cheap imported labor pick apples then write it into law. If we as the US want to experience the Baumol effect [1] then don't. I think most people want to experience the Baumol effect as opposed to losing out gains to trade.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-12 23:58:02+00:00
At some point the contradiction is so flagrant that the typical "we're all individuals here" dismissal no longer suffices.

Like if you showed up on a homeschooling moms facebook group and half the moms are spewing religious mumbo jumbo and the other half are spewing trans rights stuff it immediately begs the question how the heck are these groups coexisting without fighting at every turn without massive cognitive dissonance or not actually believing what they're saying. Same thing here with immigration, among other things (wouldn't have been my first pick of an issue to highlight the dissonance but here we are).
by 7thpower | 2025-08-12 23:58:02+00:00
Funny you mention this, I literally just got done loading the context window of AI studio up for an hour doing some prototyping and then was frustrated when I couldn’t see where I was at from billing (knew it couldn’t be that much, but I still like to know).

I assumed because I’m on paid tiers it would still cost behind a certain usage amount, but I guess not.