MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by octagons | 2025-08-14 18:34:18+00:00
I share this sentiment - I often get the sense that they struggle to prioritize their development efforts appropriately.

It baffles me that they don’t offer a way of creating my own JetBrains IDE from the pile of features available across their IDEs and other tools. I pay for the “all products pack” and have started to question whether it’s worth it. Even if I am working in an IDE like PyCharm, it’s not much work to also work with a pre-compiled language in the same project. The distinction between the different IDEs grows less so year over year.
by jrm4 | 2025-08-14 18:34:27+00:00
Current thought, for me there's a lot of hand-wringing about what is "reasoning" and what isn't. But right now perhaps the question might be boiled down to -- "is the bottleneck merely hard drive space/memory/computing speed?"

I kind of feel like we won't be able to even begin to test this until a few more "Moore's law" cycles.
by ericmcer | 2025-08-14 18:34:35+00:00
Goddamn that website is terrible. I am trying to read ~200 lines of text and I get: A loading indicator (I guess to compensate for a 5 second initial paint? Maybe just make the site faster?), overridden native behaviors like scroll, select and right click and almost 15mb downloaded so I can see 5kb of text and an extremely low res image of a guy.

I am actually amazed at the amount of complexity, technical debt, and performance that was sacrificed to achieve bad UX.
by w4 | 2025-08-14 18:34:53+00:00
Isn't this more or less what every procedural programming language is? It's especially obvious with examples like Apple's Objective-C APIs ([object doSomethingAndReturnATypeWith:anotherObject]), Cobol (a IS GREATER THAN b), or SQL (SELECT field FROM table WHERE condition), but even assembly is a mnemonic English-ish abstraction for binary.

I'm intrigued by the idea, but my major concern would be that moving up to a new level of abstraction would even further obscure the program's logic and would make debugging especially difficult. There's no avoiding the fact that the code will need to be translated to procedural logic for the CPU to execute at some point. But that is not necessarily fatal to the project, and I am sure that assembly programmers felt the same way about Fortran and C, and Fortran and C programmers felt the same way about Java and Python, and so on.
by deeg | 2025-08-14 18:35:04+00:00
Do you have any evidence it was shut down by the Fed? I looked briefly at the BPP numbers and they aren't that far off the CPI. There were even a few times it was lower than the CPI. There was a 2 year period that BPP was noticeably higher but it eventually converged.

https://thebillionpricesproject.com/datasets/
by moron4hire | 2025-08-14 18:35:29+00:00
Yes, it should apply to everything. Does the good outweigh the harm? This sounds like that "LLM Inevitablism" that came up a month ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857).

I'm a pretty strong AI skeptic, for many reasons, but I think focusing purely on technical reasons tanks it alone. Everyone in the AI industry seems to be putting all their eggs in the LLM basket and I very much doubt LLMs or even something very similar to LLMs are going to be the path to GAI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44628648). I think the LLMs we have today are about as good as they're going to get. I've yet to see any major improvement in capability since GPT-3. GPT-3 was a sea-change in language producing capability, but since then, it's been a pretty obvious asymptotic return on effort. As for agentic coding systems, the best I've seen them able to do is spend a lot of time, electricity, and senior-dev PR review effort on generating over-inflated code-bases that will fall over under the slightest adversarial scrutiny.

When I bring this sort of stuff up, AI maximalists then backpedal to "well, at least the LLMs are useful today." I don't think they really are (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527260). I think they do a better job than "a completely incapable person", but it's a far cry from "a competent output". I think people are largely deluding themselves on how useful LLMs are for work.

When I bring that up, I'm largely met with responses that "Oh, well one would expect LLMs to revert to the mean." That's a serious goal-post move! AI was supposed to 10x people's output! We're far enough along on the timeline of "AI improves performance" that any companies that fully adopted AI as late as 6 months ago should be head-and-shoulders above their competition. Have we seen that? Anywhere? Any amount of X greater than 1.5 should be visible at this point.

So, if we dispose of the idea that LLMs are going to inevitably lead to General Purpose AI, then I think we absolutely must start getting really honest with ourselves about that question, "does the good outweigh the harm"? I have yet to see any meaningful good, yet I've certainly seen a lot of harm.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-14 18:36:26+00:00
My qualms with Bluesky has less to do with ideological leanings (it’s true that there are ethics implications that a lot of people like to sweep under the rug and that should be pointed out) and more with how depressing it is to use, with an overwhelming sentiment of doom.

I’m not going to bury my head in the sand and pretend everything is just peachy (it’s not) but the doomerism is so strong and pervasive that I think it breeds complacency that when met with the sugar high of social media engagement reacts to form armchair activism (which breeds yet more complacency). All that time and energy may be better spent building each other up and encouraging action through an optimistic outlook.
by runako | 2025-08-14 18:36:47+00:00
I understand, and this is timely in the context of Meta making $100m offers. I have no data on this, but I would be highly surprised if Apple offered anybody more than $5m/year. Masimo has that much money.

Could Apple go higher? Sure, but again most people who like their jobs are not going to leave once their needs are met.

From a competitive standpoint: Masimo has lost $8B in market cap during this kerfuffle. It's entirely possible it would have been rational for Masimo to pay these employees higher than Apple possibly would go in order to not lose those billions in value.
Show HN: FirstUser – Exchange reviews for your product launches
by sgraphics8 | 2025-08-14 18:37:01+00:00
I’ve launched on Product Hunt several times, and while it’s great for exposure, I noticed most launches get very little actionable feedback. That’s frustrating when you’ve spent weeks or months building something.

I built FirstUser as a feedback exchange for makers. You review other launches, earn “Karma” points, and spend them to get thoughtful reviews on your own launch. Each Karma point = 1 guaranteed review.

It works before, during, and after launch day, and there’s a one-click import for pulling your PH listing into the site.

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on: * How to ensure reviews stay high-quality? Right now theres 150 char minimum and app owners can give +3 Karma for helpful reviews. Both should motivate reviewers to be more thorough. * What other use cases you’d want this for beyond launches? * Any other ideas on how to get real meaningful feedback on product launches? Something I could incorporate.

Find it at https://firstuser.app and its free to use.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-14 18:37:04+00:00
>the weird thing is the state via an accidental conspiracy between librarians has arguably been engaging in view point discrimination.

What conspiracy are you talking about? Who are the members of this "conspiracy"?

>even though this has not been legislated, or commanded by the executive and is probably in contradiction with what the current executive wants it should not be allowed either.

Huh? IIUC, Florida House Bill 1069 (you know, the law we're discussing) was passed by the Florida Legislature and signed intolaw by the Governor of Florida.

So yes, it was "legislated" and approved by the current executive in 2023.
by 0manrho | 2025-08-14 18:37:41+00:00
What makes you think that?

They're small and efficient, that means they can pack large numbers of those into small spaces, resulting in a similar large power draw per volume occupied by equipment in the DC. This is especially true with Apple's "Ultrafusion" tech which they're developing as quasi-analog to Nvidia Grace (Hopper) superchips.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-14 18:37:42+00:00
> Huh, I didn't know that about Target (perhaps because I've lived for years in a state that doesn't allow this, so I can't get the discount where I live)

I linked to a website that shows the federal government specifically allowing it. You can definitely get a 5% discount in your states’ Targets for paying with a debit card:

https://www.target.com/circlecard

> Do you know how they're handling the American Express problem? I don't think I've noticed a big contraction in how many merchants accept it.

It’s not a problem. Refer back to the federal legislation that prohibits payment card networks from dictating cash and debit card discounts.
by jrm4 | 2025-08-14 18:37:45+00:00
Wild how far down I had to scroll to even see "cryptocurrency" mentioned.

Normally, I'm not a fan of always relying on incentives, but you can't begin to tackle this problem without understanding, and being grossly open about the fact that it's almost certainly not a "tech capability/efficiency" problem, but a (naturally) greedy financial sector company problem.
by 7bit | 2025-08-14 18:37:55+00:00
The Arch Linux community is one of the most toxic I know. First and foremost, there are members with tens of thousands of posts who become condescending and insulting when other members don’t dance to their tune. The Code of Conduct exists only on paper and is not enforced by the Arch leadership. This results in such behavior not only being tolerated but actively encouraged. Shame on them and shame on Debian for further encouraging this behaviour by inviting them to the DebConf.
by reactordev | 2025-08-14 18:38:05+00:00
Ahem, another company tried that approach and couldn’t get it to work. The fastest way to space is up. The fastest to orbit is a curve through the mesosphere to the exosphere to reach a speed of 11.2km/s.

They built the best vehicle that would work, today. Not some distant future of a possible way to get to space. An actual working way to get to space. Built on the backs of NASA engineers of the space coast of FL, Houston TX, CA, and AR. You can armchair architect another way, but they successfully built one. One that is reusable. Over and over and over and over again.

EU then followed. Then China. Then India (ordering could be wrong but). So it’s definitely something that works.

EDIT

Ok, EU doesn’t have a reusable rocket yet.
by sunrunner | 2025-08-14 18:38:15+00:00
It really doesn't seem like it has to be that complicated, yet somehow we've gone from channels with markedly anti-consumer fixed bundles to a massively fragmented ecosystem where it genuinely seems like the streaming services _don't_ actually want you to subscribe by the amount of the effort that goes into making things hard to watch or doing everything that could make the streaming experience worse (region availability, paid tier ads, lower bitrate stream quality, and so on).
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-14 18:38:25+00:00
Your rent will go up 5% a year, every year, compounding to infinity.

That pays for a lot of contractor time.

Even if you have to take a line of credit against your house above your current loan amount, your equity is based on it's current value, and that's still a static price in the end.

That rent increases every single year, percentage based so it compounds, is asinine and literally only serves to make some holding company's line go up infinitely.

As long as the US has 30 year fixed rate loans, it will never be better to rent.
by benreesman | 2025-08-14 18:39:34+00:00
This is a very common statement but doesn't match my experience at all, unless you expand "business rules" to mean "not code already".

There's plenty of that work, and it goes by many names ("enterprise", others).

But lots and lots and lots of programmers are concerned with using computers for computations: making things with the new hardware that you couldnt with the old hardware being an example. Embedded, cryptography, graphics, simulation, ML, drones and compilers and all kinds of stuff are much more about resources than business logic.

You can define up business logic to cover anything I guess, but at some point its no longer what you meant by that.
by mahmoud-almadi | 2025-08-14 18:41:09+00:00
Good point. In a way we can verify to a customer that we have that policy set up with them by showing them the certificate. But you are correct in that we haven't gone as far as asking for proof from Anthropic or OpenAI on not retaining any of our data but what we did do is we got their SOC 2 Type II reports and they showed no significant security vulnerabilities that will impact our usage of their service. So now we have been operating under the assumption that they are honoring our signed agreement within the context of the SOC 2 Type II report we retrieved, and our customers have been okay with that. But we are definitely open to pursuing that kind of proof at some point.
Show HN: Happy Coder – End-to-End Encrypted Mobile Client for Claude Code
by ex3ndr | 2025-08-14 18:41:24+00:00
Hey all! Few weeks ago we realized AI models are now so good you don't need to babysit them anymore. You can kick off a coding task at lunch and Claude Code just... works. But then you're stuck at your desk steering it. We were joking around - wouldn't it be cool to grab coffee and keep chatting with Claude from your phone? Next thing you know, 4 of us are hacking on weekends to make it happen.

Dead simple to try: "npm install -g happy-coder" then run "happy" instead of "claude". That's it.

We had three goals:

* Don't break anyone's flow - Use Claude Code normally at your desk, pick up your phone when you leave. Nothing changes, nothing breaks.

* Actually private - Full E2E encryption, no regular accounts. Your encryption keys are created on your phone and securely paired with your terminal. We protect our infra, not your data (because we literally can't see it).

* Hands-free is the future - This was the fun one. We hooked up 11Labs' new realtime SDK so you can literally talk to Claude Code through GPT-4.1 while walking around. Picked 11Labs because we can configure it to not store audio or transcripts.

The mobile experience turned out pretty great - fast chat, works on everything (iPads, foldables, whatever), and there's a web version too. It's free! The app and chat are completely free. Down the road we'll probably charge for voice inference or let you run it client-side with your own API keys.

Links to apps iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/happy-claude-code-client/id674... Android (just released): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ex3ndr.hap... Web: https://app.happy.engineering

Would love to hear what you think!
by llm_nerd | 2025-08-14 18:41:54+00:00
Sure, but unlike heart conditions where people often have no idea (about afib, or even abnormally high or low heart rates), people generally know when they have respiratory difficulties. Like the other comment noted something about family having pneumonia, and I cannot understand how the watch would have made their situation better. If someone in that state wasn't already seeking medical advice, it's hugely unlikely a watch saying "yo it's bad bro" is going to help.

It's like heralding a G-sensor in your watch telling you that you're falling. It's likely pretty obvious already.
by canyon289 | 2025-08-14 18:42:27+00:00
We obviously need to create a pelican bicycle svg finetune ;) If you want to try this out I'd be thrilled to do it with you, I genuinely am curious how well this model can perform if specialized on that task.

A couple colleagues of mine posted an example of finetuning a model to take on persona's for videogame NPCs. They have experience working with folks in the game industry and a use case like this is suitable for game devs who want to start including lightweight models that won't take up a ton of accelerator memory and can run efficiently on CPU if needed. https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/huggingface_text_full_...

As for GGUF it's available here! https://huggingface.co/collections/ggml-org/gemma-3-270m-689...
by bigyabai | 2025-08-14 18:42:33+00:00
Because Apple consciously violated the patent? When you think about it, Apple is lucky the judge didn't demand a hardware recall. They got off pretty easy, and if Apple wanted to be petty, then they could enable the hardware as an API only, and let users do the rest.

Here in America this is part of our culture: your health gimmeck features are precisely meaningless to the court if the prosecution can prove wreckless harm on Apple's behalf.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-08-14 18:42:34+00:00
I am extremely interested in this.

I am stuck in an environment with CMake, GCC and Unix Make (no clang, no ninja) and getting detailed information about WHY the build is taking so long is nearly impossible.

It's also a bit of a messy build with steps like copying a bunch of files from the source into the build folder. Multiple languages (C, C++, Fortran, Python), custom cmake steps, etc.

If this tool can handle that kind of mess, I'll be very interested to see what I can learn.
by isodev | 2025-08-14 18:42:43+00:00
Even if set aside the details on dependence on bluesky infrastructure, the effort to host “all components” is quite expensive and technology-intensive with significant cost for storage and compute. For example, a deployment of “all the things” (just for you) is in the ballpark of 70-100€/month because the way things are designed to work. And that’s not even factoring the burden of managing the whole range of technologies involved.

Making it hard to setup or run, complex to understand or change are also forms of discouraging independent use.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-08-14 18:44:11+00:00
I think it depends on what you do with them.

If your living depends on the camera, you're probably not buying Kodak anyway, since in that case you're buying more into a system, which Kodak doesn't have.

If you're an amateur, it's likely that it will outlive its warranty anyway, so it doesn't make much of a difference. Also, since there's no "system", grabbing a different one isn't that expensive financially.
by tempodox | 2025-08-14 18:44:13+00:00
That's what I don't understand about AI coding fans. Instead of using a language that was designed to produce executable code, they insert another translation stage with a much murkier and fuzzier language. So you have to learn a completely new interface that is less fit for the task for the benefit of uncertain outcomes. And woe betide you if you step outside the most mainstream of mainstreams, where there's not an overabundance of training data.
Show HN: My job search was a mess of spreadsheets, so I built an AI copilot
by razf6 | 2025-08-14 18:44:18+00:00
Hi HN,

My last job search was a chaotic mess of spreadsheets, scattered notes, and dozens of CV versions. I couldn't find a single tool to manage the whole process, so I built one.

Sagarty is a web app that acts as an end-to-end workspace for your job search. Here's how it works: - It starts with a central Talent Profile for all your skills and experiences. - It analyzes job descriptions to give you a Fit Score and shows you where the gaps are. - It helps you generate tailored CVs and Cover Letters for each role. - It preps you for interviews with company intelligence and helps structure your answers using the STAR method.

It's in a free, open beta. I'm looking for honest feedback on the workflow and the AI-generated content. All thoughts and criticisms are welcome.

You can try it here: www.sagarty.com

Thanks for taking a look.
by kevinventullo | 2025-08-14 18:44:30+00:00
Perhaps you can do some pre-processing before the LLM sees it, e.g. replacing every instance of “kill” with “NorwegianDudeGameKill”, and providing the specific context of what the word “NorwegianDudeGameKill” means in your game.

Of course, it would be better for the LLM to pick up the context automatically, but given what some sibling comments have noted about the PR risks associated with that, you might be waiting a while.
by andrewmutz | 2025-08-14 18:44:42+00:00
I agree that it is probably easier for an LLM to write good code in any framework (like Rails) that has a lot of well-documented opinions about how things should be done. If there is a "right" place to put things, or a "right" way to model problems in a framework, its more likely that the model's opinions are going to line up with the human engineer's opinions.
by mahmoud-almadi | 2025-08-14 18:44:43+00:00
Great point! Yes you are correct in that the actual "agent" lives in the cloud and its actions are executed by a proxy running on the desktop. Hopefully at some point we can set up a straightforward installation procedure to have the AI models running entirely on the desktop, but that's constrained by desktop specs for now. VMs and desktops with the specs to handle that would be prohibitively expensive for a lot of teams trying to build these automations.
by rglover | 2025-08-14 18:44:44+00:00
I don't doubt that, but most consumers are not professional photographers. They want results that look professional.

A digital camera is a no-brainer combined with a printing station where the phone just docks. They already have a version of this, but if they control hardware they could make it really solid—no compatibility issues, no headaches, just exactly what you want: an easy way to capture high-quality memories that don't get lost in the void of your camera roll.
by skadamou | 2025-08-14 18:44:46+00:00
This paper is interesting but I want to point out there is a difference between a research paper showing that something is hypothetically feasible and something that is actually useful clinically.

Clinically, methylene blue is used to treat a different condition, methemeglobinemia and is not used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning which relies on hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
by the_af | 2025-08-14 18:44:51+00:00
> and end up with 1800 photos

I suffer from this when taking photographs of my daughter. I suppose every parent does. And the end result IS that I end up with a pile of photos I'll never look at again.

"I should delete 99% of these photos I took from her birthday. But she looks so cute in this one! Oh, and this one! Which is a minor variation of the other one. But I could never delete it."

I'm much more inclined to delete redundant photos of nature, landscapes, etc, but then again -- since they are static -- I also tend to take fewer of those to begin with!
Show HN: Constant Entropy Mixtape Vol.01
by imcotton | 2025-08-14 18:44:53+00:00
Tools for blend passphrase into public entropy. Quote from LLM:

> contropy (CONstant enTROPY) is a TypeScript/JavaScript library that aggregates entropy data from multiple heterogeneous sources, providing both programmatic and command-line interfaces for accessing diverse streams of constantly changing information. The system is designed to offer reliable access to entropy through a unified interface while maintaining cross-platform compatibility between Deno and Node.js ecosystems.

Try running in command-line:

pnpx contropy mix vol01 xkcd 936 bun x contropy mix vol01 'correct horse battery staple'

Or as script:

import { vol01 } from 'contropy/mix'; const buffer = await vol01('xkcd', 936);
by vpribish | 2025-08-14 18:45:16+00:00
damn. fucking. straight. pussyfooting with racist traitors has kept us paying for the original sin of slavery into another goddamn century.

popular vote for president

nonpartisan redistricting of every state

ranked-choice-voting everywhere

limits on corporate money in politics

end the filibuster

strictly define supreme court size, terms, and appointment rules

age limits for congress

finish reconstruction

mess with texas

there is a lot of technical debt in this project