MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 80hd | 2025-08-11 18:07:32+00:00
Seconding this. My work has had the same problem - by the time I've got things all hooked up, figured out the complicated stuff - my brain (and body) clock out and I have to drag myself through hell to get to 100%. Even with ADHD stimulant medication. It didn't make it emotionally easier, just _possible_ lol.

LLMs, particularly Claude 4 and now GPT-5 are fantastic at working through these todo lists of tiny details. Perfectionism + ADHD not a fun combo, but it's way more bearable. It will only get better.

We have a huge moat in front of us of ever-more interesting tasks as LLMs race to pick up the pieces. I've never been more excited about the future of tech
by jandrese | 2025-08-11 18:07:46+00:00
My take is that they felt like they were already pushing their luck with the prototype and didn't want to scare investors away when it inevitably crashed.

I share your skepticism, especially with their timeline. It has been some time since I looked at them closely, but they originally pitched developing their own supersonic capable turbofan to power their eventual production model. Especially with such a small team that seemed overly ambitious to me.
by rwyinuse | 2025-08-11 18:07:54+00:00
That depends very much on how technology progresses during coming decades. If we get something like AGI, then having less working age people may be a good thing, because there will be much, much less demand for white collar workers at least.

In the mid 2000's when I was a kid, at school I was taught that there would be a HUGE labour shortage once certain large generations retire, as younger generations are much smaller. Guess what, they retired a decade ago, and yet my country has the second highest unemployment rate in EU, with a very weak job market for fresh graduates in particular. Increased efficiency & automation ate all those jobs, nobody was hired to replace many of the boomers who retired. I doubt the future will be any different.
by steezeburger | 2025-08-11 18:07:57+00:00
There is definitely something to be said for simple file formats augmented with tooling like LLMs and such. I am one of the people who also ended up writing my own todo list app. It really started as a journaling system, but it was super simple to add TODOs. I basically created my own clone of Logseq if anyone is familiar with that. I've basically got what the author has got, but I've automated the part where a fresh page is created each day, and a feature to quickly move undone TODOs to any day.
by _mlbt | 2025-08-11 18:08:00+00:00
> large proportion of citizens getting swept up with no due process or legal rights

Can you give me a few examples of this? I can’t find evidence to support what you’re saying here.

> We even have cases of citizens ending up in foreign prisons and only getting returned after extensive legal battles lead by Congress members

Are you referring to the “Maryland man” here? Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not a US citizen.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-08-11 18:08:12+00:00
The status quo is, as long as clickthroughs don't hurt the consumer then and there, they are valid. Can you imagine if this status quo were upended? Chaos. The end result would be a uniform agreement, kind of like the GDPR, but more expansive, and guess what: the scope of what clickthroughs will permit would be expanded, not constrained.

This thing about judges... if you brought a complaint to court that doesn't show any harm, you'll get the opposite result that you want: judges will expand the legality of clickthroughs. This is what happens, without a doubt.

Privacy advocates have numerous strategic failures. One is failure to show meaningful harm of specifically the data gathering permissions in these clickthroughs, in any legal venue, anywhere. The harms have always been of other issues, like a data breach, and even then, the harms amount to ones of dollars per person, in places where judges have approved data breach settlements. Another failure is of leadership/education: they cannot communicate the very simple idea to the public that there is privacy in the sense of limiting government overreaching versus privacy in the sense of limiting dissemination of embarrassing personal information. There are so many steps in this privacy mission before the judges.
by leoc | 2025-08-11 18:08:30+00:00
I've seen enough: as the recognised authority and designated responsible person ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525256 I'm officially recognising this as the final end of 2010s Cool Microsoft.

> 74 points by leoc on April 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler

> Well, here we are then. This now officially the standard play for formerly-dominating computer-platform firms who have fallen on hard times: having before been proudly hard-nosed and proprietary, publicly see the light and present a new image as a new, kinder, gentler company which totally gets it about openness. Former famous examples: IBM under Lou Gerstner (we love Linux and open platforms!), Apple after the NeXT acquisition but before the iPhone (look how expandable our new PowerMacs are; on the software side, we're now an open-systems-loving Unix vendor, and we'll even open-source our kernel!), poor old SGI (we love Linux now! Or, wait ... actually WinNT, whatever.). Sun of course used to go back and forth between being chill dudes who totally get it and more nakedly hard-nosed. As always in these cases, the questions are how far the bright new era of glasnost actually goes in substance (IBM legal's patent monster quietly thrived through all the kinder-gentler period) and how long it lasts (these eras tend to end with the company either dwindling into irrelevance, or finding renewed success and going back to its bad old ways).

Historical debate may now begin.
by bko | 2025-08-11 18:08:45+00:00
I don't know, it seems like I'm the minority but I like Cursor. I think it adds value beyond the terminal style editors. Yes it relies on the Claude model but I get a lot of value from the visual component, history, auto-complete, etc.

Couldn't you make the same argument around something like S3? How many companies are basically S3 wrappers? Or companies that use general AWS infra and make it slightly better. There could still be a market for add on products. Why would Claude or OpenAI want the headache of managing an IDE? They're okay giving up some margin there.

I agree there is a huge rush of "AI wrapper" companies, whose moat is basically prompt engineering. Like a "AI buddy" or whatever. Those are all going to zero IMO. But things like Cursor have a future. Maybe not at the hyped valuation but long term something like this will exist
by colmmacc | 2025-08-11 18:09:27+00:00
Here's we're talking about hybrid key-agreement. It's more like you agree secret A with a peer using the magic of Diffie-Helman, separately you make up secret B and encapsulate (which is basically a form of asymmetric encryption) that using a PQ algorithm and then send that on, and then derive C by mixing A and B. You're not actually encrypting something twice.

Some government and military standards do call for multiple layers of encryption when handling data, but it's just that multiple layers. You can't ever really make that kind of encryption weaker by adding a new "outer" layer. But you can make encryption weaker if you add a new "inner" layer that handles the plaintext. Side-channels in that inner layer can persist even through multiple layers of encryption.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-11 18:09:42+00:00
While I think of myself as above this error, I can absolutely see myself falling for it. Messing with symlinks to dynamic libraries isn't uncommon and in the heat of a debugging session, the fact that I mess with the linker itself can go unnoticed. Of-course I would move it to a backup, but when accidentally also closing the last shell instance the problem amounts to the same.

Also the LLM output is so noisy, there are tons of shell commands, commands and a lot of useless text, which can easily make you miss the needle in the haystack what you are actually doing.
by f1shy | 2025-08-11 18:10:50+00:00
I think the OP is far from saying what you are implying. He is not advocating for changing text editor or installing any plugins. Just recommends trying out org mode. I think is very valid. I’ve known many many people (in the order of hundreds) that use vi for editing in general but emacs for other tasks, e.g. org mode, sbcl repl, etc. I think the suggestion ist just to give org mode a try. No need to feel offended or pushed to leave your favorite editor. At the end, is all about personal preference.
by keeda | 2025-08-11 18:10:50+00:00
> ... LLMs aren't very good at logical reasonsing.

I'm curious about what experiences led you to that conclusion. IME, LLMs are very good at the type of logical reasoning required for most programming tasks. E.g. I only have to say something like "find the entries with the lowest X and highest Y that have a common Z from these N lists / maps / tables / files / etc." and it spits out mostly correct code instantly. I then review it and for any involved logic, rely on tests (also AI-generated) for correctness, where I find myself reviewing and tweaking the test cases much more than the business logic.

But then I do all that for all code anyway, including my own. So just starting off with a fully-fleshed out chunk of code, which typically looks like what I'd pictured in my head, is a huge load off my cognitive shoulders.
by ongytenes | 2025-08-11 18:10:59+00:00
Could be the vehicle stopped for some other reason and the rapper falsely accused Tesla. It would help as PR for his song as people will want to hear it.

Note most gas powered cars now can do this. General Motors has been able to remotely deactivate vehicles since 2009 using their OnStar technology. Biden administration has mandated all cars to have this technology.
by extraisland | 2025-08-11 18:11:18+00:00
> It’s not the same argument at all. Accessibility is important. What I’m saying is if you want it to be fast offload the UI to a native app, don’t even bother me with a web page. If it’s critical serve it in plain text or simple HTML. Either of those are both fast and accessible.

A web page and a native app all suffer from the same issue. It frequently needs to talk to a server somewhere. No you are downloading the UI/Logic, but often it needs to talk to a server.

> The idea that most websites should broadly work for people even on a 2G signal is absurd.

I worked in a large company and we did optimise for some random guy that was in Spain on a crappy 2G/3G signal (this was a real customer). It was a good test case of how the app responded with a poor bandwidth & signal. As a result the application would behave well when having poor signal.

Large companies such as google pore huge resources into optimising, that why YouTube (both their app and their mobile site) will work on a flakey connection on a train going through the countryside and something like kick.com won't.

Often It isn't the bandwidth that is frequently the issue. It is the latency between requests and stability of a signal. Sometimes a request can fail, the phone goes to sleep and sometimes that can suspend the browser thread. This affects higher bandwidth connections such as 4G and 5G.

If the web site/web app or even native app is coded poorly often you will get into a state where you have to reload the app.

Also downloading an app could be relatively large compared to a web page. If you just want to check the train times / bus times / closing time of a shop or similar it will take longer to use the app as you need to download the whole thing first.

> However I’m not going to try to configure a BMW and email dealers from the middle of the woods, and I’m sure they know their target audience is not either.

Things like this do happen. I've bought vehicles from farmhouses in the middle of nowhere in the UK. Bank transfers, road tax I have literally done in someone's garden.
by whartung | 2025-08-11 18:11:45+00:00
I'm kind of in this cohort. While in the groove, yea, things fly but, inevitably, my interest wanes. Either something too tedious, something too hard (or just a lot of work). Or, just something shinier shows up.

Bunch of 80% projects with, as you mentioned, the interesting parts finished (sorta -- you see the line at the end of the tunnel, it's bright, just don't bother finishing the journey).

However, at the same time, there's conflict.

Consider (one of) my current projects, I did the whole back end. I had ChatGPT help me stand up a web front end for it. I am not a "web person". GUIs and what not are a REAL struggle for me because on the one hand, I don't care how things look, but, on the other, "boy that sure looks better". But getting from "functional" to "looks better" is a bottomless chasm of yak shaving, bike shedding improvements. I'm even bad at copying styles.

My initial UI was time invested getting my UI to work, ugly as it was, with guidance from ChatGPT. Which means it gave me ways to do things, but mostly I coded up the actual work -- even if it was blindly typing it in vs just raw cut and paste. I understood how things were working, what it was doing, etc.

But then, I just got tired of it, and "this needs to be Better". So, I grabbed Claude and let it have its way.

And, its better! it certainly looks better, more features. It's head and shoulders better.

Claude wrote 2-3000 lines of javascript. In, like, 45m. It was very fast, very responsive. One thing Claude knows is boiler plate JS Web stuff. And the code looks OK to me. Imperfect, but absolutely functional.

But, I have zero investment in the code. No "ownership", certainly no pride. You know that little hit you get when you get Something Right, and it Works? None of that. Its amazing, its useful, its just not mine. And that's really weird.

I've been striving to finish projects, and, yea, for me, that's really hard. There is just SO MUCH necessary to ship. AI may be able to help polish stuff up, we'll see as I move forward. If nothing else it may help gathering up lists of stuff I miss to do.
by bArray | 2025-08-11 18:11:54+00:00
> The government told the BBC it welcomed the High Court's judgment, "which will help us continue our work implementing the Online Safety Act to create a safer online world for everyone".

Demonstrably false. It creates a safer online world for some.

> In particular the foundation is concerned the extra duties required - if Wikipedia was classed as Category 1 - would mean it would have to verify the identity of its contributors, undermining their privacy and safety.

Some of the articles, which contain factual information, are damning for the UK government. It lists, for example, political scandals [1] [2]. Or information regarding hot topics such as immigration [3], information that the UK government want to strictly control (abstracting away from whether this is rightfully or wrongfully).

I can tell you what will (and has already) happened as a result:

1. People will use VPNs and any other available methods to avoid restrictions placed on them.

2. The next government will take great delight in removing this law as an easy win.

3. The likelihood of a British constitution is increasing, which would somewhat bind future parliaments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Labour_Party_(UK)_sca...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_Unit...
by smsm42 | 2025-08-11 18:11:54+00:00
I mean if I were promised a "never-have-to-work-ever-again" amount of money in exchange for doing what I'd love to do anyway, and which I think is a working thing, and tolerating the CEO publicly proclaiming some exaggerated bullshit about it (when nobody asks my opinion of it anyway), I'd probably take it.
by sho_hn | 2025-08-11 18:12:37+00:00
> Even among tech people, they have good will

Wait, do they?

I mostly remember:

- A neglected desktop OS with slowly deteriorating quality

- Aimless products like the Vision Pro that seems to have failed as the "get the devs excited" premium SDK launch everyone described it as

- Rocky start issues on Apple Intelligence, nerfed Siri, etc.

- Unexciting iPhone launch and lots of ridicule levied on Liquid Glass

It's the laptop to get for compute/battery, which definitely is not nothing, but I'd say few tech people have been excited about Apple otherwise lately, as product or platform.
by Lich | 2025-08-11 18:12:37+00:00
> I mean, with GUI frameworks it's pretty obvious MS is placing all their chips on WinUI3, even though they are not deprecating any legacy framework.

WinUI3 is dead, lol. I tried to migrate from UWP to WinUI3, but it is literally dead. There doesn’t seem to be any team at MS actively working on it, the community calls have died, and the last build conf didn’t have any WinUI3 talks, all AI stuff. Yes, you can build apps with WinUI3, but development and support for it has stalled and I couldn’t justify moving the companies product over to WinUI3.
by api | 2025-08-11 18:12:40+00:00
The thing that collapses in a negative population growth environment is passive earnings from interest and asset appreciation, retirement, and to some extent social welfare states. The whole idea of things like social security is predicated on a growing population paying for the elderly. It's also very, very bearish for things like real estate long term. We are probably still in a real estate bubble.

I suppose I've never expected to ever be able to retire unless I get truly wealthy. It's not something I've ever included in my life plan because I've kinda seen the writing on the wall about this since I was in my twenties.

I don't think this crash in fertility is that unexpected, and it's not even all bad. It'll help us weather things like climate change and natural resource depletion.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-11 18:12:41+00:00
By Wikipedia I meant the foundation of course. I'm not sure localisation automatically makes them a multinational entity. Windows is available in Chinese but we both understand that Microsoft is not a Chinese company.

It is fair to say it's not a business, but essentially there's no difference to my feeling that private entities from other countries shouldn't be throwing their weight around in local democracy.

Do you feel that Wikipedia today is banned through the letter of the law? If so why is there a question of it continuing to operate there?
by crinkly | 2025-08-11 18:13:01+00:00
> Then there is the issue they seem to be shoting into all directions, with GUI frameworks, Web, Blazor, Aspire, to see what sticks.

This is Microsoft's primary strategy. There are a lot of victims out there.

... he says after spending several months porting a win32 app to Silverlight as part of a Gold Partner/MS case study with much fanfare, only to have to spent the next few years backporting everything into the win32 app it never replaced, and then it was shit canned and only the win32 version remains.

We're planning to rewrite it in Qt at some point as some of our customers use RHEL.
by throwup238 | 2025-08-11 18:13:36+00:00
> The other problem is the angle at which the light must be redirected. The Cosmic Horseshoe is composed of two systems almost directly in line, the light comes from the farther system and bends infinitesimally around the black hole to come to us. I don't know if a 180 degree bend is possible.

It is possible to get a deflection angle of 180 but under a few million solar masses, hitting the “sweet spot” in between the photon sphere and the boundary of the shadow would basically be a once in the lifetime of the universe type probability, if it were possible at all. At billions of solar masses that sweet spot become much bigger, but then those are much further away.
Tell HN: Regulations.gov Comments API is shutting down on Friday
by sadmiralakbar | 2025-08-11 18:13:47+00:00
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by UncleMeat | 2025-08-11 18:13:56+00:00
Paul Ehrlich was the most visible figure in the midcentury fear of overpopulation. He claimed that by now we'd have seen starvation so profound around the world (100,000,000s dead of starvation) that large portions of the third world would collapse completely and that the only mechanism to prevent this starvation was extreme population control measures placed by the west on the rest of the world (including things like partitioning India and just letting some regions starve completely to death with no aid). He believed that the sustainable population for the planet was one billion.

He was completely wrong. I think it is a great example to use in these modern discussions. Just 50 years ago we were seeing highly influential people say "we are going to breed ourselves to death and the only solution is extreme curtailing of rights." Today, we are starting to see highly influential people say "we are going to not-breed ourselves to death and the only solution is extreme curtailing of rights."
by smcin | 2025-08-11 18:14:05+00:00
You were suggesting GitHub users migrate to your forge, and historically, one of GitHub's big features was private repos. And at least historically, Github private repos claimed to provide protections against unauthorized access/scrapers.

But AT Protocol can't.

So currently, you're only suitable for non-commercial users. (Can you name any commercial org using Tangled.sh on source code?)

Does AT Protocol have any rough milestone (date?) for private data?

> we take a lot of effort to protect against AI scrapers.

Sorry that's not stating a guarantee of anything, it's an unquantifiable aspiration. I asked what you guarantee your users. IP access logs? Alerts? Response times? Blocks? IP whitelisting?
by cultofmetatron | 2025-08-11 18:14:07+00:00
All this AI coding stuff is scaring the shit out of me. a few months ago my team were hiring for a new engineer. of the 9 candidates we ran technical interviews with, only two could work without the ai. The rest literally just vibe coded their way though the app. as soon as it was taken away, they couldn't even write a basic sql query in ecto (we're a phoenix app). when questioned about tradeoffs inherent in the ai generated implementation, all but one was completely in the dark.