MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mohsen1 | 2025-08-06 14:11:51+00:00
I totally relate to this. Sometimes I think I can do my ideas quicker but when I try to do that it ends up taking more time. So I learned waiting for AI to respond is a better use of my time.

I keep a notepad open with my ideas and thoughts as AI working and reading the code. Writing down my thoughts and use that for my next prompt.

Unrelated but I also noticed that using a lot of AI for coding often leads to over-engineered solutions. Instead of fixing the backend to return a proper audio format it suggests bringing FFMPEG to the browser and transcode for instance. It's important to be aware of this and keep asking AI if there are better ways to do things
by theshackleford | 2025-08-06 14:12:03+00:00
> that line of "someone says something I don't agree with so I will insinuate they didn't read the article" is tired, seriously

Except... you clearly didn’t read it, or you read it and didn’t understand it. I actually gave you the benefit of the doubt by assuming it was the former.

> the article is literally saying that

The article is literally saying a lot more than just that.

You cherry picked one point out of a multi-faceted discussion about health benefits, ignored the rest, and then acted like that narrow takeaway was the entire message. Pro tip: “health” doesn’t just mean physical exertion.

So again, either you didn’t read the article, or you didn’t get it.

> it's also saying things about mental well-being, the sense of community, which I can get behind of course

Cool. But no one’s asking whether you can “get behind it” and nor does anyone care. The point is those are part of what makes it beneficial.
by takigon | 2025-08-06 14:12:06+00:00
You're right to call that out, that's a fair point. "Fully understands" is indeed a bit of an overstatement for the current state of AI.

What I meant from a technical perspective is that the system uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach. It has the entire book's content available in a vector database, and when you ask a question, it performs a semantic search to pull the most relevant passages in real-time to use as context for the LLM's answer.

So, from a user's perspective, the experience is designed to feel like you're conversing with an expert who can instantly recall any part of the book. I should have used more precise language. Thanks for keeping me honest!
by TheDong | 2025-08-06 14:12:08+00:00
Comparing all "tiny fractions" as if they're identical is nonsense.

"Why wouldn't apple make an iphone mini even though it only targets a tiny fraction of people? They already only target a tiny fraction of the living animals on earth because they don't make iphones for fish"

The reality is that japan is less than 5% of iphones, and mozilla has to focus it's limited resources.

Also, if mozilla's, mostly US based, developers can't run firefox on ios, they can't even build it in the first place
by conductr | 2025-08-06 14:12:10+00:00
I could ask the same of you. Do these things only exist because of trickle down? Do you have proof they wouldn’t have been invented and commercialized without it?

I don’t expect either of us to be able the answer the questions posed. Nobody in the 80s was asking for any of these inventions. People were living their lives happily ignorant to a better future. For that reason, most of these things do amount to just gadgets. They have shaped our lives in a dramatic way and had huge commercial success by solving huge problems or increasing conveniences, but they are still nonessential. That’s the way I’m using the term, don’t really care what Webster has to say about it tbh as I’m perhaps being dramatic precisely to highlight this point.

The continuation of R&D isn’t even a trickle down policy. If you’re a big manufacturer of CRT televisions, it’s in your interest to continue inventing better technology in that space just to remain competitive. If you’re really good at it, there’s a good chance you can steal market share. It’s good old fashioned business as usual in a competitive industry. I don’t see how they relate to one another. Not to mention that many things are invented in a garage somewhere and capital is infused later. Would this only happen if the rich uncles of the world benefited from economic policies aimed at making them rich? I think it would still find a way in most cases, good ideas typically always find a way. I don’t think a majority of gadgets can be linked to something like “brought to you by trickle down economics”.
by jfreax | 2025-08-06 14:13:11+00:00
Nice test. I tested it with llama.cpp and the 20b model. He got the answer correct at first try on my side. The internal/thinking dialogue is fun to read - it could be my own inner dialogue ;)

``` > "Bobs dad has five daughters, Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and ??? 
analysis
The question: "Bobs dad has five daughters, Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and ???". It's a common riddle. The answer is Bob? Actually "Bob's dad has five daughters: Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and..." The riddle is to trick: it's "Bob" himself is a daughter? Wait Bob's dad has five daughters: Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo, and Bob? But Bob is a name often male. But the riddle says Bob's dad. So Bob is a person who has a dad, and that dad has five daughters. But Bob could be the fifth daughter? That would be weird: Bob is likely the name of the fifth daughter. So answer: Bob. But sometimes the answer is "Lulu" or "Bob's sister"? Let's think. The riddle is a trick: It's "Bobs dad has five d aughters: Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo, and ... Bob." Because the riddle begins with "Bobs dad has five daughters" implying Bob is one of the daughters. So the missing daughter is Bob. So answer: "Bob".

Thus answer: Bob. But sometimes the riddle goes "Bob's dad has five daughters, Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo, and ... Who is the fifth?" The answer: Bob (the name of the person speaking, "Bobs"). But in riddle it's "Bobs dad has five daughters , Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and ???". The missing name is "Bob." So answer: Bob.

Thus the answer: Bob. Or maybe it's "Boba"? But no.

Hence answer: Bob.

We'll answer accordingly.
assistant
final
The missing daughter is *Bob*. The riddle starts with “Bob’s dad …” so Bob himself is the fifth daughter. ```
by dylan604 | 2025-08-06 14:14:12+00:00
Come on, these are air quality measuring devices. You set them all up, set their panels next to each other for the duration of the testing, and then you evaluate their performances. It doesn't take much time. You look at them when you take readings at whatever interval to compare accuracy. You glance at them to see readability. It doesn't require a lot of effort.

This is quite different from being tasked with comparing bicycles which would require a lot of effort to give equal time to each one. Unless the journo was a world class rider, I'd be shocked if they rode any one of them for more than 5 minutes.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-06 14:14:16+00:00
> For me personally I don't really understand how, if dynamic linking was viral, using linux to run code isn't viral. Surely at some level what linux does to run your code calls GPLed code.

The Linux kernel has an explicit exception for userspace software:

> NOTE! This copyright does not cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls
by scripper1 | 2025-08-06 14:14:17+00:00
I’m a rando. This was on a street in New York. There’s a chance he was just spraying and praying he’d find someone who hadn’t updated iOS, but I guess I can’t know for sure. Would you know if it’s possible to check how any info has left my phone? My email, text, and iCloud look OK, and I’ve changed my passwords, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to wipe records here or communicate otherwise.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-06 14:14:40+00:00
He did in fact support the GOP since they will tackle "big-tech abuse" more (aka benefit proton): https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...

I can only assume they're actively donating to the GOP and trying lobby. In other words, it's not even support for trump that's a problem, but willingness and desire to get into bed with political parties that favor them in the moment (shouldn't at all).
by kube-system | 2025-08-06 14:15:03+00:00
I'm not really sure what you're getting at. I don't have cameras as a crutch for an anxiety disorder, I use them to solve property management problems. If there is something that needs to be addressed, I do so. This may or may not require my involvement depending on the issue. If a camera breaks (which isn't common), I order whatever parts that may be required if any, and fix it when convenient.

A broken camera gives you exactly the same information as a camera that doesn't exist: zero information. If this gives someone enough anxiety that they would need to drop everything, they probably need therapy.
by eviluncle | 2025-08-06 14:15:59+00:00
Working on a side project that I hope to launch in the near future, I can relate. At first I tried sharing with friends/family but noticed how disinterested anybody who isn't working on it themselves are.

I personally thrive on conversation and a back-and-forth to hone my ideas and thoughts so it's definitely been hard.

I ended up settling on creating system prompts for both OpenAI and Anthropic for co-founders with the explicit prompt that they critique and challenge my thoughts.

In ChatGPT web interface you can create a folder for that context and then all my conversations in that folder relate to my project.

It isn't perfect but it does help and it's a soundboard that's available 24/7, and lets me develop my thoughts, do my research, etc.

There's a risk of it being an giant echo chamber. But then again, most startups are until they hit the market and start validating against reality.
by tushr | 2025-08-06 14:16:21+00:00
You are right, feature flags are just toggles but the devil is in the details. When the product scales you would want to test things internally or with a close group of people on prod before you make it public (beta releases). Sometimes you would want to release features at a specific time (Apple, Figma product launches). Sometimes you would want to test if A is working better than B (A/B testing typically in eCommerce sites). Sometimes features are location-specific (Different content for different countries, netflix does this). Let's consider a scenario: You have a team of 10 engineers working on 5 different features. They merge their feature branches to a main branch which gets deployed at the end of the release cycle. Now, if one of those features isn't working as expected, the engineers will have to roll back to the last deployment which won't have any of the 5 features. With feature flags, this could be avoided by developing all features behind a feature flag.
by frogperson | 2025-08-06 14:16:22+00:00
We are waaayyy passed that line. We are, for just about every definition, living in an authoritarian state. Trump has immunity, from the Supreme Court, support in the house and senate, support of the media, and enough support from the military.

Freaadom isnt free. I think americans forget that. They are waiting for someone else to come save them, which will NEVER happen.
by kamilap | 2025-08-06 14:16:53+00:00
Charity work is the way imho. You can support an NGO with your skills, contribute to an open source projects or challenge yourself with a side project that will be interesting for you and good for others. In my experience, it makes it a lot more motivating. There are orgs connecting tech people and NGOs, you might want to look into that, e.g. tech to the rescue: https://app.techtotherescue.org/available-projects?
by cubefox | 2025-08-06 14:17:16+00:00
And most of those Google images don't even look particularly "spicy" or sexualized. (Except of course for the US American tradition of considering any instance of partial nudity as pornographic, which manifests itself e.g. in YouTube allowing a significant amount of violence while videos with any uncensored breasts are immediately taken down. Which looks rather prudish from a European perspective.)

> Even if people are still outraged, I should also point out that we're trusting what the reporting is saying without any evidence...

The reporters could have easily included the offending images in censored form. The fact that they didn't is somewhat telling.
by ArcHound | 2025-08-06 14:17:29+00:00
A counterproposal:

You can use what is as is. Then you can ignore all of the other issues if they don't impact your bottom line.

Don't get me wrong, I like your corporate OSS financing model. But there seems to be not enough incentive for companies to use it. Why take ownership for a small cost, when you can use an imperfect thing with no cost?
by TheDong | 2025-08-06 14:17:49+00:00
Partly because the EU law's phrasing wasn't as "I'll know it when I see it", and partly because apple seems to not care about the spirit of the law and just want to exploit its users.

The japanese law's phrasing is apparently better, but I kinda expect apple to still ignore it and then drag whatever comes through court as long as possible
by skydhash | 2025-08-06 14:17:51+00:00
It’s all volunteer work, not some corporation with trillions laying around. If you want something easy, use Debian (or ubuntu). They pretty much have everything under the sun.

What you want to have (download software from the net and run it) is what most distro have been trying to avoid. Instead, they vet your code, build it, and add it to a reputable repo. Because no one wants to download postgres from some random sites.
by ActivePattern | 2025-08-06 14:17:55+00:00
A “sufficiently smart compiler” can’t legally skip Python’s semantics.

In Python, p.x * 2 means dynamic lookup, possible descriptors, big-int overflow checks, etc. A compiler can drop that only if it proves they don’t matter or speculates and adds guards—which is still overhead. That’s why Python is slower on scalar hot loops: not because it’s interpreted, but because its dynamic contract must be honored.
by jve | 2025-08-06 14:18:18+00:00
Other comparison would be that we are equipped with tools (software) other people build completely for free. And we can improve those tools and propose them to be implemented (PR). Or just continue using our custom-modified tool (Forking).

And we often get the luxury to ask questions and receive answers (Issues) directly from the manufacturer (author, contributor).

And we need not much investment to set up our own factory... thus "materials" can be free and then we give away our product.
by pooloo | 2025-08-06 14:18:18+00:00
> Just look at the recent CVS Caremark forced switch from Zepbound (2nd Gen) to Wegovy (1st Gen) in July.

This is something I wasn't aware of, are you on 2nd gen Zepbound then?

My wife has been plateaued at an undesirable weight and has been wanting to try this, however, the VA refuses to support it regardless of the fact she fits their guidelines and requirements to receive it. They recently banned it due to costs.

I prefer her to use Zepbound if we can get it, the question is how? We refuse to use the alternative methods where the drug is hand made to be equivalent to them as that seems very sketchy.
by fragmede | 2025-08-06 14:19:01+00:00
(Blink is the Chrome web rendering engine)

> Checking out and building Chromium for iOS

> Building Blink for iOS

> The iOS build supports compiling the blink web platform. To compile blink set a gn arg in your .setup-gn file. Note the blink web platform is experimental code and should only be used for analysis.

> [gn_args] > use_blink = true > ios_content_shell_bundle_identifier="REPLACE_YOUR_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER_HERE" > ios_chromium_bundle_id="REPLACE_YOUR_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER_HERE"

> Note that only certain targets support blink. content_shell and chrome being the most useful.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...
by ljchen | 2025-08-06 14:19:20+00:00
It's interesting that at the bottome of this article there is a recommened article about PCIE 7.0 published in June 2025. And it says "While PCIe 8.0 is still years away, PCIe 7.0 is a lot closer." Never know how these committees work.

Nevertheless, the perf increases of IO devices these days are in insane. I am wondering whether and when these perf promises will materialize. We are only on PCIE 5 this year and it's not that common yet. I am wondering how fast adoptions would be, which pushes manufacturers to iterate. The thing is that at the current level of PCIE 5, a lot of softwares already need to be rewritten to take full advantages of new devices. But rewriting softwares takes time. If software iterations are slow, it's questionable if consumers will continue to pay for new generations of devices.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-06 14:19:29+00:00
> The argument hing made is that the credits are what is being delivered.

Right, I understand that.

> but it is not obvious to me that the revenue should be recognised when the credits are used or expire rather than when they are sold.

The realisation (or recognition, if you want) of the revenue is irrelevant. Once you have already accepted payment for a service, that service is a liability until you deliver it.

So, unless they are cooking their books to say that they are not obligated to provide the service after accepting payment, I don't really see how they can report it on their statements as anything other than a liability.
by pyrale | 2025-08-06 14:19:45+00:00
It's no surprise given the distro name, and DHH's previous use of the word Omakase [1, or, perhaps, 2]

[1]: https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E99FnoYqoII
by firefax | 2025-08-06 14:19:52+00:00
>Creating fake nudes of people is not "parody". Parody says something, that's what gives it the artistic value we weigh above the targets desire to control their image. Fake nudes don't carry any message worth protecting.

And how are we to define what is parody -- ask the person parodied?

Nobody but Trump seems to be saying what South Park did is anything but protected speech for example.

Unfortunately, sometimes objectionable things are done with free speech -- we need to balance the harms to the many against the complaints of the few, and further... under my arguement you can simply not be a public figure if you don't want these sorts of things to happen.

It's well established that public figures have less rights around these matters.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-08-06 14:19:59+00:00
Tangentially, I wonder if logins and click-throughs can help address this on the legal front.

If you set up a login flow with a click through that explicitly sets the terms of access, specifying no cost for access by a person, and some large cost for access by AI.

Stepping past this prompt into the content would require an AI to either lie, committing both fraud and unauthorized access of content.. or behave truthfully, opting in the proprietor of the API to the associated costs.

In either case, the site operator can then go after the company doing the scraping to collect the fees as specified in the copyright contract (and perhaps some additional delta of punitive fines if content was accessed fraudulently).
by foolswisdom | 2025-08-06 14:20:03+00:00
Why not? Congress is meant to be a check on the other branches of government (though the filibuster rule / partisan omnibus bill system has degraded its collective will, which is why they won't do anything), so pre-emptively removing the powers of congress from the list sounds like a power grab. It's not like it's something completely irrelevant. Same for the limitations of government listed there.

Besides, the thing about organizations is that they encourage behaviors. A big corporation encourages different behaviors than a startup, and different company cultures can also encourage / optimize for different things. There's also a reason why we do expect ultimate responsibility to rest with leaders.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-06 14:20:06+00:00
Compute is a precious resource.

The world is also full of totally delusional people who dreamed up the idea of using winzip to compress VRAM on the GPU, and now Anthropic will definitely hire them for $1M year for this genius solution, so better write up a glammed up resume and auto-send it once a day for any open position.
by throwaway6041 | 2025-08-06 14:20:11+00:00
> the "Python-stans"

I think the term "Pythonistas" is more widely used

> you may need to question your choice of language if you start hitting performance ceilings.

Developers should also question if a "fast" language like Rust is really needed, if implementing a feature takes longer than it would in Python.

I don't like bloat in general, but sometimes it can be worth spinning up a few extra instances to get to market faster. If Python lets you implement a feature a month earlier, the new sales may even cover the additional infrastructure costs.

Once you reach a certain scale you may need to rewrite parts of your system anyway, because the assumptions you made are often wrong.
by integralid | 2025-08-06 14:20:59+00:00
As an EU citizen I don't believe chat control will ever happen. We already had mass protests in my country during the last 20 years against internet and population control, and we will again if this becomes close to reality.

Maybe I'm delusional and I'll be severely disappointed I'm my country and the EU, but I don't think so. Who knows, time will tell.
by crabbone | 2025-08-06 14:21:07+00:00
The problem is that DOM is absolutely inadequate for describing page layout, and even less so for Web applications. Incremental changes to DOM were meant to make it more suitable for this goal, but having inherently bad foundation didn't exactly help.

I believe that some sort of a constraints language would've been a lot better at describing page layout. And stuff like Web applications simply shouldn't exist. These should be applications that use native UI toolkits while relying on Internet for moving data, not presentation.

Users are usually unhappy with Web applications because of the way browsers restrict useful functionality and programmers struggle with workarounds and bloat of browsers to accomplish simple things.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-06 14:21:46+00:00
I foresee lots of up-sells:

* Class monitoring when no teacher present - optional collusion analysis

* Conduct enforcement in corridors - optional RFID speed ticketing to prevent running in the hallways!

* Playground overwatch - optional score keeping for licensed games such as Hopscotch [TM].

* Perimeter monitoring for truants, contraband trading and drug dealing

* Toilet break escorting (optionally at a discreet distance)

* Per-student tracking and ensemble fraternisation analysis, optional social media and online profile correlation, and real-time alerting of parental accounts on contact with other students in parent- or community-provided watchlists or handy pre-set demographic groups.

* Student mood, wellness and attitude monitoring based on body language and speech patterns. Referral to preferred behavioral therapeutic partner providers at a discount!

With facial recognition you can even send warnings and punishments directly to the student and parental phones via the CGA App and apply demerits to their account automatically. Link a lunch payment account for automatic profanity penalties!
by JohnFen | 2025-08-06 14:21:46+00:00
The primary purpose of robots.txt isn't to deny access. That's just a sideline. The intended purpose is to do exactly what this aura proposal does: to provide guidance to crawlers as to what parts of the site are valuable to crawl. That's why it's voluntary: it's main reason for existing is to benefit the crawlers in the first place.

In that light, I guess your proposal makes a certain amount of sense. I don't think it addresses what a lot of web sites want, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Own your niche.