MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ralfp | 2025-08-05 15:54:29+00:00
It didn't implode on next dive, it was much worse.

On dive 80 during surfacing people heard a "loud bang" from the submersible (according to a witness it sounded like a gunfire).

They looked at their "RTMS" system and found recording of loud noise from the hull. But only three days later they did the dive 81 (with customers). After this dive their tension sensors shown that their carbon hull no longer compresses under pressure like it used to. They then made plan to inspect the hull after dive 83. But instead they left Titan winter on the parking lot in Saint Johns where it was not protected from any exposure because that was cheaper.

During summer they hauled it for a dive 88 (I don't know why they jumped from 81 to 88, prolly cancelled dives because of the weather?). During hauling it become loose and started knocking against the hauling platform (LARS) because of the waves. Day later they did a dive where it imploded.

On side note, they had no way to access and inspect the carbon hull without having to completely dissemble vehicle, and that too was considered too pricy to do.

This was a disaster of organization with messianic CEO dismissing all concerns with bravado and legal treats that got what was coming to them. If you want to, here's transcript of him scolding and then laying out one of engineers because they took safety concerns outside of the company:

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Sep/20/2003550726/-1/-1/0/CG-...
by MarcusE1W | 2025-08-05 15:54:55+00:00
I don't know which version of the iPhone SE you have, there have been several over time. Mine is from 2016 (had to look that up). No update to iOS 18, true.

In your specific case you have to look very carefully in the Android world to avoid an even worse situation. I think there are a few Android models now that promise several years of updates, remains to be seen, though. If this is your beef with Apple, then I doubt you will feel much better with Android.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-05 15:55:15+00:00
> My argument is that using a machine to replace your thinking, your voice, or your relationships is a very bad thing. Humans have intrinsic worth—machines do not.

I agree with that, and the only logical path if we are to preserve this principle is to eradicate AI, and not try and control it. There is no way to control it (think prisoner's dilemma, greedy individuals, etc.)
by LarMachinarum | 2025-08-05 15:55:46+00:00
while I don't doubt that such situations also exist, that wasn't the reason for any of the many "Excel abusers" I've encountered in different positions. Quite to the contrary, these people all had access to the appropriate tools, but their whole thinking was totally formatted and fixated on Excel as their go-to tool for everything:

be it things better done with a database, a word processor, a diagramming program, a label generator, a Form editor, a markup language, a web page, anything: they had all the tools at their disposal but no, no, they felt the odd compulsive need to do it with only Excel instead…

…often leading to problems down the line when the limitations of Excel for the use case (for which it wasn't made) would show more and more but they wasted already so much time and (needless) effort doing it in Excel that they would be even more reluctant to the possibility of switching to any more appropriate tool for the task.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-05 15:55:54+00:00
> Just knowing how the thing is built doesn't seem to be enough.

See perhaps:

> Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge is knowledge that is difficult to extract or articulate—as opposed to conceptualized, formalized, codified, or explicit knowledge—and is therefore more difficult to convey to others through verbalization or writing. Examples of this include individual wisdom, experience, insight, motor skill, and intuition.[1] An example of "explicit" information that can be recorded, conveyed, and understood by the recipient is the knowledge that London is in the United Kingdom. Speaking a language, riding a bicycle, kneading dough, playing an instrument, or designing and operating sophisticated machinery, on the other hand, all require a variety of knowledge that is difficult or impossible to transfer to other people and is not always known "explicitly," even by skilled practitioners.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge
by orwin | 2025-08-05 15:55:56+00:00
Exactly. My two worst roadblocks are the beginning of a new feature when I procrastinate way too much (I'm a bit afraid of choosing a design/architecture and committing to it) and towards the end when I have to fix small regressions and write tests, and I procrastinate because I just don't want to. AI solved the second roadblock 100% of the time, and help with design decisions enough to be useful (Claude4 at least). The code in the middle is a plus, but tbh I often do it myself (unless it's frontend code).
by TuringNYC | 2025-08-05 15:55:57+00:00
>> Why are people still installing security cameras that are monitored by them? They increase stress level and felt insecurity.

I am fascinated by this whole thread because I have multiple cameras trying to capture hummingbirds, coyotes, and foxes in my backyard. We try to ring an alert when they come so we can quickly run to the window and be inspired by their grace and beauty.

Currently i'm doing this via a very flimsy RPI+webcam setup but i'd like something much better. I also have FLIR cams because im interested to do this with night vision also.
by veidr | 2025-08-05 15:56:01+00:00
Maybe you mean democratic societies are badly equipped to regulate capitalist economies? There are zero successful capitalist economies that lack powerful governmental regulatory control.

Fukushima 1F was a failure of governmental regulation.

It's really important to understand that, because otherwise you inescapably frame the argument wrongly. Capitalism isn't the problem, regulatory weakness is the problem. No capitalist society can survive lack of effective regulation.

(Fukushima was bad, and an example of regulatory failure, but Japan's overall effective regulatory influence over its corporations — and similarly, its mafia — is the secret sauce that has made it an economic overperformer. China can also do that — because it is a brutal dictatorship. America can't do that — and things aren't looking good. UK retains the power to do it, but it's Keystone Kops. EU can't do it, either, for reasons I can't understand at distance.

But creating safe nuclear power plants is fundamentally the same problem as creating safe elevators. In a capitalist society, it's 100% about regulatory power and competence, and nothing else.
by mgfist | 2025-08-05 15:56:01+00:00
Yes. It's so dramatically better it's not even funny. It's not that information doesn't exist out there, it's more that an LLM can give it to you in a few seconds and it's tailored to your specific situation. The second part is especially helpful if the internet answer is 95% correct but is missing something specific to you that ends up taking you 20 minutes to figure out.
by lubujackson | 2025-08-05 15:56:14+00:00
"Vibe architecting" or maybe less pretentiously, "vibe orchestrating". I think that nicely encompasses thw workflow and required skillset. A very knowledgeable eng can orchestrate all the way but clearly nocode people are able to do this as well.

I think orchestration may be a step that can't really be magicked away by advancements, beyond toy implementations. Because at the end of the day it is just adding specific details to the idea. Sure, you can YOLO an idea and the LLMs can get better at magically cleaning things up, but the deeper you go the larger the drift will be from the concept and the reality without continued guidance.

If LLMs could construct buildings you might describe what you want room by room and the underlying structure will need to be heavily revamped at each addition. Unless you start with "I am making a 20 floor building" you are going to waste a lot of time having the LLM re-architect.

I think the real new skill people are going to get scary good at is rapid architecting without any strong awareness of how things work underneath the hood. This is the new "web programming isn't real programming" moment where future developers might not ever look at (or bother learning about!) variables or functions.
by vhrrsrivr | 2025-08-05 15:56:33+00:00
yeah! hsrs elements are the notes, and their learnable properties would be the flashcards.

however, individual grammar outputs aren't their own cards, you get a fresh example every time you see a card. this requires a very different scheduling approach, since you have to estimate how all the cards in the 'call tree' contribute to the overall result and reschedule them as well https://github.com/satchelspencer/hsrs/blob/main/docs/overvi...
by chriswarbo | 2025-08-05 15:56:43+00:00
I certainly wouldn't focus on getting a Haskell job. Yet they are out there; e.g. my current job is Haskell, and happens to be in the same sector (public transport) as my last job (which was mostly Scala).

Also, I've found Haskell appropriate for some one-off tasks over the years, e.g.

- Extracting a load of cross-referenced data from a huge XML file. I tried a few of our "common" languages/systems, but they all ran out of memory. Haskell let me quickly write something efficient-enough. Not sure if that's ever been used since (if so then it's definitely tech debt).

- Testing a new system matched certain behaviours of the system it was replacing. This was a one-person task, and was thrown away once the old system was replaced; so no tech debt. In fact, this was at a PHP shop :)
by bbanyc | 2025-08-05 15:56:53+00:00
The funny thing is the classic Looney Tunes weren’t made for Saturday morning kids shows, but for movie theaters to be shown between the newsreel and the feature. (And weren’t necessarily kid stuff either - they were full of topical references that nobody has understood since the 1940s.)

Warner Bros has been a lousy manager of the Looney Tunes property lately but I expect they’ll remembered fondly for decades more, while most of the repetitive schlock that was made for Saturday morning will be forgotten.
by grafmax | 2025-08-05 15:56:56+00:00
> Due process is only violated if they claim citizenship and ICE ignores them.

Due process is a human right not a right of citizens.

> What punishment?

The conditions of these concentration camps are inhumane, which itself is punishment. Besides, as stated by public officials, Alligator Alcatraz is intended as a deterrent. How can it deter if it doesn’t punish?

And being deported if you don’t deserve it is punishment. And being deported to foreign concentration camps where you are tortured is punishment as well.

And individuals can indeed claim citizenship and get no hearing for their claim. Claims don’t get hearings. That’s because there is no due process. In fact, many people are kidnapped without any formal accusation whatsoever being levied at them - for example Mahmoud Khalil, who had a green card and was retaliated against for protesting genocide, without ever being formally accused of anything.

> No one intends to incarcerate them

Detention at a concentration camp constitutes incarceration. On average ICE detains people around 50 days domestically (although those are dated numbers). Some are detained indefinitely. At CECOT, prisoners are incarcerated for life. And the US plans to increase the numbers of foreign concentration camps it uses as part of its operations, which don’t even have to be the person’s country of origin.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-05 15:57:01+00:00
> Maybe on break but while deep-working I just want the information necessary to do the job, the communication being there to communicate the information, efficiently.

The problem is that we are slowly be pushed to become cogs who only really think this way. We shouldn't just want to be the most efficient possible. Technology already reduces the ability for us to connect, which is why connections at work seem weird or shallow in the first place. We simply don't need each other as much, so it makes sense that AI seems like the next logical step.

Your sentiments are just your instinctual desire to move to the next local maximum in a sequence of descending maxima that lead to the bottom.
by stillpointlab | 2025-08-05 15:57:26+00:00
I think this is a strawman argument that is conflating uses for AI. I posted a video not long ago where Andrew Ng makes the claim to the AI Startup school that in testing they are seeing ~10x improvement for greenfield prototypes and 30%-50% improvement in existing production code bases.

So two groups are talking past one another. Someone has a completely new idea, starts with nothing and vibe codes a barely working MVP. They claim they were able to go from 0 to MVP ~10x faster than if they had written the code themselves.

Then some seasoned programmer hears that claim, scoffs and takes the agent into a legacy code base. They run `/init` and make 0 changes to the auto-generated CLAUDE.md. They add no additional context files or rules about the project. They ask completely unstructured questions and prompt the first thing that comes into their minds. After 1 or 2 days of getting terrible results they don't change their usage or try to find a better way, they instead write a long blog post claiming AI hype is unfounded.

What they ignore is that even the maximalists are stating: 30%-50% improvement on legacy code bases. And that is if you use the tool well.

This author gets terrible results and then says: "Dark warnings that if I didn't start using AI now I'd be hopelessly behind proved unfounded. Using AI to code is not hard to learn." How sure is the author that they actually learned to use it? "A competent engineer will figure this stuff out in less than a week of moderate AI usage." One of the most interesting things about learning are those things that are easy to learn and hard to master. You can teach a child chess, it is easy to learn but it is hard to master.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-05 15:57:36+00:00
Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore also use bonds for high overstay risk candidates.

And that's who the bond proposal is targeted at. So far, the countries listed (Malawi and Zambia) have 10-15% of all accepted B1/2 holders overstay their visa.

At some point, it is unfair to immigrants who follow the correct path and it's associated hurdles when others use underhanded techniques to immigrate to the US.

And not all "third world countries" have high B1/2 visa overstay risks. For example it's only 1.3% for India, 3.67% for China, 1.97% for Peru, 5% for Pakistan, 2.6% for Cambodia, 4.1% for Nepal, 3.56% for Madagascar, etc. [0]

If countries with similar developmental and economic indicators to Pakistan like Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, and Malawi have a 2-3x higher visa overstay rates, then there are issues with enforcement and vetting of B1/2 visa applicants from those countries.

[0] - https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-countries-highest-us-visa...
by atonse | 2025-08-05 15:57:51+00:00
This article seems to be more informative: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/which-countries-must-post-bo...

It will apply to applicants from countries with very high overstay rates, as outlined in this report [1]. Some examples of countries with very high overstay rates (rates of people that apply for tourist visas but then never leave): Chad, Haiti, Laos, Sudan.

1: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/24_1011_CBP-...
by throwanem | 2025-08-05 15:58:01+00:00
> The data was not preemptively destroyed. It was uploaded and then deleted. The implications for deleting are obvious. The part can be sold and reused after the crash data is erased. The part should not be sold and reused until that information is erased because it contains a large file and this file will likely contain death footage.

Okay, then your contention appears that Tesla is content with not bothering at all to refurbish the junkyard pulls it sells through OEM channels as OEM repair parts, thus denying themselves any opportunity to manually wipe sensitive data - potentially to include video of the prior owner's violent death! - as part of any remanufacturing or even basic QC process. But - as has now been made a matter of public record, in consequence of their fighting and losing this wrongful death case - Tesla do make sure to keep a copy for themselves, one of an apparently large collection of same which they went far out of their way for years to keep anyone else from discovering even exists.

Is there anything you care to add to that? Feel free to take your time. You've said quite a lot already.
Show HN: Give coding agents MCP access to lint/test/format with 1 YAML file
by scosman | 2025-08-05 15:58:26+00:00
Fun little project I built for myself. Create a YAML file for your dev-commands (lint, format, tests, etc), then expose those to coding agents via MCP.

https://github.com/scosman/hooks_mcp

Kinda like package.json scripts, but for agent runtimes, and commands are invoked via MCP.

1. Simple setup: one YAML file is all it takes to create a custom MCP server for your coding agents. Add the YAML to your repo to share with your team.

2. Tool discovery: coding agents know which dev-tools are available and the exact arguments they require. No more guessing CLI strings.

3. Improved security: limit which commands agents can run. Validate the arguments agents generate (e.g. ensure a file path is inside the project, not `~/.ssh/id_rsa`).

3. Works anywhere MCP works: Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, etc

4. Speed: using MCP unlocks parallel execution, requires fewer tokens for generating commands, and eliminates errors in commands requiring iteration.

5. And more: strip ANSI codes/control characters, .env file loading, define required secrets without checking them in, supports exit codes/stdout/stderr, etc

https://github.com/scosman/hooks_mcp
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-08-05 15:58:37+00:00
> And no human is so worthless as to be replaceable with a machine.

Speaking of inanity. This sentiment, if taken seriously (I doubt people take this author seriously very often) would imply the majority of humanity should be spending a large amount of their life digging holes in the ground with their bare hands to drop a couple seeds in. Replacing them with some god awful machine, like a plow pulled by a tractor, means they must be worthless. They should never watch a movie, only the play. They should never listen to Spotify, they should have to wait for a band to play near them.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-05 15:58:43+00:00
Why use an app store. Is Apple more trustworthy than the author of this app. Think about it

The company continues to increase its advertising services revenue. In terms of protecting computer buyers from advertising and associated surveillance, one could reason that its interests are conflicted

App store "search" has always been a joke. It has never been suitable for app "discovery". The company would rather computer owners select from lists of recommended apps
by zaking17 | 2025-08-05 15:59:06+00:00
The other day I asked chatgpt (o3) to help me compare a bunch of task orchestration systems and arrange them according to some variables I care about (popularity, feature richness, durability, whether can be self-hosted, etc.). I ended up using https://www.inngest.com/ -- which was new to me -- and that single tool sped up my particular task by at least 10x for the week. That was a one-off project, so it won't generalize in a clean way, but I keep finding individual cases where the particular strengths of LLMs can save me a whole bunch of time. (another example: creating and evaluating responses to technical interview questions). I don't expect that these are easy to quantify, but they are significant.

This is not to disagree with the OP, but to point out that, even for engineers, the speedups might not appear where you expect. [EDIT I see like 4 other comments making the same point :)]
by marklyon | 2025-08-05 15:59:09+00:00
It's wonderful. I run a UCG Max at home to support both my internet needs and camera storage. Run their other gear in several other SMB environments, including a condo where we're using it for office, building automation, and public area networking along with around 80 cameras. Dead simple to understand.

Crosstalk Solutions, MacTelecom Networks, and Lawrence Systems all do youtube videos on UI's gear and setup - may help give you an idea of the experience before you commit to kicking off your addiction.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-08-05 15:59:31+00:00
> If we're going to discuss this problem honestly we need to admit the elephant in the room: it is much, much worse for young men than young women.

I empathize with my fellow young men, and sadly I don’t think most of my fellow progressives care about young men. It’s certainly not a platform that will get you votes if you run for office.

If I were born post-2005 I doubt that I have been given any major advantage over women yet the messaging is all about how bad it is for the other side. At the same time it’s hard to argue otherwise because the GOP is actively eroding women’s rights.

Young men are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
by Saline9515 | 2025-08-05 15:59:38+00:00
Acronyms are not the same as the English language as they are not words by themselves but compressions. "Closed-circuit television" is self-evident to a reader; CCTV isn't. And "in the context", yes, but readers are not necessarily experts in their fields. This is why many news publications usually expand acronyms.
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-08-05 15:59:58+00:00
The central theme is very hard to disgree with; claims of productivity increase being self-reported are oftem misleading. The way forward is math and meaningful measurement, this bears repeating.

I find that getting from zero to 80-90% functionality on just about anything software these days is exceedingly easy. So, I wonder if AI just rides that wave. Software development is maturing now such that making software with or without AI feels 10-100x faster. I suspect it is partially due to the profound leap that has been made with collaborative tools, compilers, languages, and open source methodology, etc..
by thunderbong | 2025-08-05 16:00:14+00:00
Thanks. I really liked the top voted comment there by edw519 [0]

> I have a simple guideline for real life interactions with others that carries over quite well on-line, "Deal with issues; ignore details." > It's amazing how well this works in person, especially when trying to get something done. My number one question to another is probably, "Is that an issue or a detail?" We can almost always decide together which it is. Then, if it's an issue, we deal with it, and if it's a detail, we move on to the next issue.

> This has also saved me countless hours and aggravation on-line. If I post something and someone disagrees, I quickly decide whether or not it's really an issue and only engage the other if it is. I realize that this is just a judgment call, but I'd estimate about 90% of on-line disagreements are just details. In these cases, I think it's best to simply move on.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057250
by recursive | 2025-08-05 16:00:40+00:00
That's not a rigorously measured number.

The 5% is an increase in straight-ahead code speed. I spend a small fraction of my time typing code. Smaller than I'd like.

And it very well might be an economically rational subscription. For me personally, I'm subscription averse based on the overhead of remembering that I have a subscription and managing it.
by code_for_monkey | 2025-08-05 16:00:42+00:00
one of the core tenets of capitalism is the profit motive, its a central piece of it: the idea that people innovate and create and labor for the expected reward of a pile of money, but so much of tech actually bucks this idea between open source projects and public funded initiatives (maybe not as relevant for app based coding, but the space race was pretty important for technology overall.)