MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ravus | 2025-08-11 11:43:24+00:00
Regarding [1], the study itself mentions that stopping watching porn reverses the effect. In layman's terms: watch enough of it and the novelty wears off, but the sexual drive returns. Hardly a harm, it's what happens with every human activity.

[2] makes the big logic jump of assuming that someone who watches kinky porn fails to separate between fantasy and reality. It is the same line of reasoning as the disproven "videogames cause violence" paradigm and it is pushed by the same sort of people (personal hypothesis: they might be projecting). This could ironically point to a problem limited to at least some individuals failing to differentiate the two, but studies find that at the population level, a higher availability of porn correlates with lower rates of sexual assault. My personal reading is that it provides a safe outlet for sexual frustration and moderate desensitization reduces the chance that someone will, so to speak, get aroused over an exposed ankle.

On [3]... you're linking to a single data point, not a series nor a correlation; additionally, even if the correlation actually existed held, people's propension to form stable relationships is a preference, not a harm. It is also not related to minors, and it is not something that the state has any business sanctioning, much less with incarceration.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-11 11:45:33+00:00
> Those "experienced" actually are just senior code monkeys if u ask me, it's trivial right

Well, it seems you are not open for discussion. There is no reason to disparage the senior devs that participated in the study just because you don't like the results of the study. But the study happened, and it is clear: experienced developers are the ones that suffered from using LLMs.

> but it's just illogical for a junior to get benefits and the seniors don't

Experienced car drivers won't benefit from a youtube tutorial how to drive, junior car drivers might. That's similar to junior developers being potentially the ones who can benefit from the basic things that an LLM can help you with, e.g helping you with syntax and structure your thoughts and write a scaffold to get you started. Those are concerns that experienced developers don't need help with, similarly how experienced drivers don't need youtube tutorials how to shift a gear. There is nothing illogical in that premise. Do you agree?

> i don't think i can do better than the LLM

I most certainly can tell you that there are 1000s of developers that can do infinitely better than any of the current LLMs, and those developers are fairly often senior. It seems like a skill issue you mentioned in the beginning of your post might actually be on your side.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-08-11 11:45:39+00:00
Nissan Leafs are I think the most DIY friendly EVs, certainly 1st generation, and also 2nd, but 3rd generation that is coming soon … not so much. Anyway 1st and 2nd can definitely be completely offline and there are significant online communities of tinkerers and even open source tools to interact with them.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-08-11 11:45:56+00:00
I was personally pretty surprised at the idea that Jane Street found PTP to be too difficult to administer or run. Hardware support for PTP is nearly ubiquitous in NICs and switches (unless you build this gear for yourself, I guess), so it is not that hard to administer. PTP done poorly gets you ~100 ns time sync across your cluster, and if you do everything correctly you can get time within about 10 ns given how small a trading network is.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-11 11:45:57+00:00
First, it would be great if people stopped top acting as if those billion-dollar corporations where sport teams.

Second, I don't claim OpenAI have to clone anything, and I have no reason to believe that their proprietary models are copying other people's ones. But for this particular open weight models, they clearly have an incentive to use exactly the same architectural base as another actor's, in order to avoid leaking too much information about their own secret sauce.

And finally, though GPT-4 was a MoE it was most likely what TFA calls “early MoE” with a few very big experts, not many small ones.
by BlackWater85 | 2025-08-11 11:46:03+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with a new file format, .aix, that acts as a control script for LLMs. Unlike static prompts or fixed pipelines, .aix files define structured, reproducible workflows that run entirely inside an AI host (e.g., ChatGPT) and can call live APIs mid-execution.

To demonstrate, I built Gene Intel Miner, a proof-of-concept that:

Prompts for a list of genes. Pulls live data from FDA, OpenTargets, ChEMBL, ClinicalTrials.gov, and literature APIs. Merges and cleans the results on the fly. Outputs a decision-ready table (CSV/Excel) with per-cell citations.

No local installs, no backend servers — just the .aix file and an LLM session. The same workflow can run on different AI hosts, be edited mid-run, and still produce consistent outputs most of the time.
by sunaookami | 2025-08-11 11:46:10+00:00
>On 11 May 2022 the European Commission presented a proposal which would make chat control searching mandatory for all e-mail and messenger providers and would even apply to so far securely end-to-end encrypted communication services

And scanning end-to-end encrypted is only possible on-device.

And of course the next step is that the EU will mandate that every device needs to implement this scanning, they are very aggressive with this stuff. Framework phone won't help you in this case, this is obviously the next step. That's why we have to fight against it. Reminder that soon online age verification with an app that can only be downloaded from the Play Store and used within a "trusted environment" (e.g. SafetyNet) will be mandatory.
by solardev | 2025-08-11 11:46:43+00:00
Might be a regionalism, but here in Oregon, we don't signal going in, but signal right before we intend to exit. That way the next incoming driver can enter the roundabout and keep traffic flowing. We have a LOT of roundabouts though, like dozens upon dozens, and many of them are over saturated. It may be a local response to the traffic patterns here, not sure.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-11 11:46:49+00:00
No. More than 80% of Mozilla Corp's income is a yearly payment from Google. [0]

The payment will stop immediately if Google thinks it's no longer needed, or if federal prosecutors (who have determined this payment is illegal) decide the remedy is to stop the payment. [1]

The CEO's job is simple. Say "I think we should take Google's money again this year", and then pocket several million of it. Ca-ching! What are your plans for post-Google-money? Uh uh... AI? Sell out our users to advertisers? [2] It's not looking good.

The Firefox market share continues to dwindle. The board continues to hob-nob with San Francisco socialites and "activists" and use Mozilla as a piggybank to fund their chums. [edit: removed line about Mitchell Baker as she does seem to have finally left]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/google-lo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909
by prmoustache | 2025-08-11 11:47:40+00:00
Resale price does not mean anything if most units have hardware issues which was largely the case for most +5y macs when I looked for them out of curiosity.

Granted this is also the case of many brands but I found it was easier to find old thinkpad, fujitsu and dell business laptops in good shape than it was to find Apple ones.

Maybe this is biased and it has more to do with professional vs personal use. I guess you are a bit more cautious with a laptop your employer is lending you.
by imprecisionable | 2025-08-11 11:48:10+00:00
This is the problem with becoming reliant on large monopolistic companies. Due to business interests, they become enshittified, and have no incentive to provide you any value.

Social media apps are incentivized to turn you into a zombie who spends every waking second scrolling.

Dating apps are incentivized to keep you single and using their app forever.

You don't need LinkedIn if you get a good job.

If you aren't mindful about this, you will be treated as the compliant commodity you are.

But the truth is you don't need them. The best jobs aren't on LinkedIn, the best friendships or party invites aren't on instagram or facebook, the best romantic partners are not on dating apps, etc.

Doing things in real life pays a massive dividend now, and fewer people than ever before are doing it, because the barriers to the enshittified life are minimal, and the costs are downstream.
by salawat | 2025-08-11 11:48:42+00:00
Everyone talks about unemployment when what we should be talking about is the inability to get seed capital or expertise to start a business, and given you actually get one started the casting of value moats by hyperscaled firms that bring the taint of diversified, hyper-optimization, and consequent elevation of the barriers to entry for everyone else.

We all want to talk the investor/capitalist game, but nobody wants to recognize the fact the world we're in Washington built on much greater levels of competition, less consolidation, and more fiscal risk/insecurity. .arguably, in capitalism, it seems to me that the velocity of money is most important, and we've got massive amounts of it bottlenecked at the top of the pyramid instead of at the bottom where the actual organic distributed optimizers are.
by willvarfar | 2025-08-11 11:48:42+00:00
Kudos to the author, a very very nice overview of things!

I was just at a big conference where there was now a lot of AI talk and papers etc and, as that hasn't been my area, I've been catching up. Have been hearing so much about GNN and ensembles and things that I haven't had to think about before. So now I'm going through this and looking up new-to-me terms. Sweet.

Now it's just to work out how to save it as an epub to browse on the beach.
by senko | 2025-08-11 11:49:53+00:00
This is the way.

Or at least it should be, if companies were putting users first (a naive thought, I know).

I have a small mobile app for recording expenses (receipts). The usual strategy would be for users to create accounts and store and sync data with my service. Potentially useful data (behavior, spending), which I don't want to touch with 10ft pole.

Instead, I keep all the data local (user's device). No registration at all. Nothing to store on the server.

Slightly more inconvenient for the users (to move to a new device, you need to export and import the local db), but cheaper and zero-stress for me.
by fainpul | 2025-08-11 11:51:53+00:00
By "got this right", the parent poster probably meant tab completion. You get that for free when writing a script or function, as well as basic syntax documentation. Both can be improved gradually by adding hints / comments in your script.

If you are bothered by the verbose `Verb-Noun` structure of commands, those are mostly used in scripts (and you never type them fully, you use tab-completion of course). On the commandline you use aliases for many of them.

For example listing files and directories created in the last 10 days:

ls | ? CreationTime -ge (Get-Date).AddDays(-10) | ft name, size

All the long words are tab completed (CreationTime, Get-Date, AddDays). The fully verbose syntax you might write in a script looks a bit uglier:

Get-ChildItem | Where-Object CreationTime -ge (Get-Date).AddDays(-10) | Format-Table Name, Size

Also PowerShell is NOT case-sensitive, even though many people seem to think so.
by jimkleiber | 2025-08-11 11:52:20+00:00
I built a micro-journaling app back in the day and subscribed to this philosophy as much as i could have. On Android, i even didnt let the app have the permission to access the internet. Everything was stored on device, encrypted. However i was still scared that individual phones would be hacked (or the app itself) and the info would get out anyways.
by tyfon | 2025-08-11 11:53:05+00:00
I have a 5950x with 128 gb ram and a 12 gb 3060 gpu. The speed of generating tokens is excellent, the killer is that when the context grows even a little processing of it is super slow. Hopefully someone smart will optimize this, but as it is now I keep using other models like qwen, mistral and gemma.
by harimau777 | 2025-08-11 11:54:10+00:00
I definitely second that its a great book, especially if you focus more on the principles it's getting at instead of necessarily the examples.

Funny experience with that:

A big part of How to Win Friends and Influence People that I took to heart was "be interested in other people". Flash forward a few years and I'm in a bar with a group of people I had recently met when one of them says to me "Hey, we've been talking a lot about ourselves but not really that much about you." One of the other people interrupted "That's because they are polite! They are showing interest in what we're interested in instead of insisting on talking about themselves."

So at least some people do notice when you put in an effort to use good social skills!
by Twey | 2025-08-11 11:54:19+00:00
Right, due to the complexity of the syntax one of the most sensible things to do in C if you're faced with a problem that maps naturally to higher-order functions is to reframe the problem so that the solution doesn't use higher-order functions — basically doing a compilation step yourself. D (*f(B (*)(A)))(C) is definitely a fancy type, after all :)
by rwmj | 2025-08-11 11:54:35+00:00
Don't just plug it in! The power supply and/or VRM can fail in ways that deliver bad voltages to components. You might want to watch some of Lee's[1] videos first on how to bring up a ZX81 safely, or ask in his discord community for more help.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@MoreFunMakingIt/videos
by uecker | 2025-08-11 11:55:33+00:00
I don't see how it safer. I think this is just a random claim C++ people like to make without any evidence. In terms of error message, the problem is that C++ often can not produce them because due to overloading it is entirely unclear to the compiler what the intention of the code actually way. A macro-based solution also does not have ideal error message, but I do not think it is worse than C++.
by benterix | 2025-08-11 11:55:36+00:00
I actually have flashbacks from the crypto hype, with people coming up with exactly the same arguments: that we don't understand blockchain, that we don't get how web3 is revolutionary, that we don't grasp the consequences of the revolution and so on.

The difference here is that LLMs do have some genuine use cases, it's just they are far away from the hype.
by chiffre01 | 2025-08-11 11:55:52+00:00
Saying everyone was 'coked out of our mind' seems a bit far fetched. Yeah there were niche products using coke and consuming/exporting it was legal, but historic production numbers from the period are a small percentage of modern production numbers even considering the populations were lower.

Cocaine exports then vs. now: early 20th century legal exports at their peak(1921 - 30 tons) were roughly 1/20 to 1/30 of current illicit production.

At the time most coca production was for local consumption, far less was aimed at the international recreational market.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037687169...

Not to say there were not other drugs on the market, like Morphine
by saubeidl | 2025-08-11 11:56:05+00:00
Total dystopia is Nazis freely spreading their propaganda unchallenged. We've seen where this leads before and have learned the historical lesson.

The fact that your source claims to fight an imagined left wing bias tells me all I need to know - this is exactly the sort of propaganda that needs to be banned before more people fall for it and it hurts our society more.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-11 11:56:35+00:00
> I 'm just wondering what the morale is with AI doing 30-50% of your work?

You might want to be less credulous around LLM vendor marketing. Outside of possibly the blogspam/ultra-low-end journalism industry, and maybe low-end translation, LLMs aren’t doing 30-50% of anyone’s work.
by ai_assisted_dev | 2025-08-11 11:56:42+00:00
I land most of my clients by maintaining my blog and a github with open source projects. I have build a lot of general purpose MCPs and quite some tools, which are all written by Claude (3.5 and 4.0) and now GPT5. On my blog I just blog together with AI. It sounds silly, yes... I don't want to share it here publicly, but it looks good and it gets me people in my inbox (email/linkedin).

So I post on LinkedIn & Reddit, and I am not doing it in a spammy way. Do some outreach through LinkedIn and post on YCombinator on my personal account on the monthly who's hiring/freelancing posts. But a lot of the traffic I get comes from organic search and reddit -> clients. I had a client who told me they found me on Twitter; but I never even posted there, so someone reposted an article.
by awesomelab | 2025-08-11 11:57:09+00:00
I built YouTube-GPT to replace the way people search YouTube.

Problem: Finding specific info in long videos is painful. People search for “best running shoes” or “Tokyo local restaurants” and end up scrubbing through multiple videos.

Solution: YouTube-GPT searches across videos, understands your question, and returns direct answers with clickable timestamps from the most relevant scenes — sometimes combining results from multiple videos.

Tech: Speech-to-text for accurate transcripts, semantic search to find relevant moments, and summarization that prioritizes both relevance and visual context.

Great for product recommendations, travel tips, how-to tutorials, and more.
by solardev | 2025-08-11 11:59:40+00:00
Wow, you've had a very different experience, and apparently met very different people (or at least saw different sides of them).

I have never discussed those things with my friends or acquaintances anywhere in the world, across many countries... I don't know anything (or care about) any of them, so I suppose I self-select out of those groups.

The people I end up bonding with (all over the world) are usually because of hiking and outdoor stuff, board games, Dungeons and Dragons, martial arts, history, travel, food, whiskey, couch surfing or hosting, national parks, musical theater, etc.

If someone tried to talk to me about cars, sports, or dead fish, I'd probably just excuse myself. It'd be a huge bore for me and them alike.

I don't doubt what you said, that these are popular topics with men in some parts of the world (especially parts of North America). But it's also totally possible to go through life meeting many people without ever discussing any of those, thankfully...
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-11 12:00:39+00:00
I'm aware of the Sentinelese, I was just trying to keep us from falling into the trap of speaking on their behalf from our comfortable modern office desks, painting an idealistic picture of a society where no modern medicine or food surplus would be appreciated.

You'll notice that the comment began by saying "let's compare" but then no actual comparison was made; nothing was actually said about the reality of these peoples' lives, they were simply reduced to a rhetorical device.
by elric | 2025-08-11 12:02:20+00:00
So what you're saying is: countries elect politicians in national elections, some of these politicians (typically the prime ministers) form the European Council, they propose a President of the Commission, the ruling government of each country then proposes one unelected Commissioner to join that Commission.

I still think it's fair to say that the Commission does not represent the people. It is many steps removed from the people. Nobody voted for any of them.

According to wikipedia, this point of view makes me a euroskeptic. Which is not something I consider myself to be, I'm a big proponent of cooperation between European countries. But I am certainly very skeptical of unelected government officials deciding on far reaching legislation that infringes upon fundamental liberties. With zero political repurcussions or liability.
by ai_assisted_dev | 2025-08-11 12:02:22+00:00
The biggest tip I can give you is to stay in the framework you are most convenient in, and have the most experience. Start building stuff the way you would by yourself, but then start delegating the repetitive tasks to an agent. My best recommendations would be using Cursor in Agent mode, and switching to VScode in Agent mode when your credits with Cursor run out. The reason why I like Cursor more is because of the Checkpoints. And VScode Copilot Agent checkpoints suck; but you can still use git to create your own checkpoints (git add / git stash, etc).

I don't even use completions, really just agent mode. I do planning, wireframing, creating specs all with agents. Even small MVPs created in 5 minutes, deployed in 10, during a meeting to just brainstorm. As for the models. Go with Claude 3.5 or 4.0, GPT5. Use sequentialthinking and Taskmaster MCP. I could write a book about it... but the best way to go about it is to dive into, get frustrated, push through and then learn it the hard way. I started delegating a lot of my programming work the day ChatGPT came out; just copy and pasting, and since that day, my reliance on AI has just been increasing, and I have been getting better at it (and now I am at this stage.. with 2 PMS).