MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Danielle1993 | 2025-08-11 19:32:22+00:00
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by CyberDildonics | 2025-08-11 19:32:58+00:00
I'm not making a case for anything I'm just explaining what exists. If copying were going to be done in bulk it would have to be done asynchronously to some extent, though CPUs already work like that on a small scale due to instruction reordering.

Now it might be less necessary because CPUs are so fast with contiguous data memory that copying to other parts of memory are less of a bottleneck.
by Havoc | 2025-08-11 19:33:00+00:00
It's challenging. I struggle with the mismatch between work and personal in particular. They run both on different software stack and different cadence. On work side I'm constrained by whatever corporate thingie they give us, and on personal side I prefer selfhost FOSS...so fundamentally incompatible

No idea except knowing if I can crack this my life would be better
by antithesizer | 2025-08-11 19:33:09+00:00
It can be documents and it can be people, but it's not essentially either one. It can take many forms, including being lost when none of those forms has it on offer, as every business is different. An institution with excellent documentation, mature processes, and adept hiring could retain its "memory" without a single human member remaining from the past. Oral history and other humanistic forms of memory make everyone feel warm and fuzzy, but they're not to be idealized as the only real memory simply because they were underappreciated for a some time.
by physicsguy | 2025-08-11 19:33:29+00:00
> manufacture

They're much less strict than they were on cloud, but the security practices are really quite strict. I work in this sector and yes, they'll allow cloud, but strong data isolation + segregation, access controls, networking reqs, etc. etc. etc. are very much a thing in the industry still, particularly where the production process is commercially sensitive in itself.
by notahacker | 2025-08-11 19:33:35+00:00
Premium cabins tend to be a very small proportion of overall seats and are about overcharging for a little extra legroom and service rather than trading off operational flexibility for unique luxury though. Big difference between charging 3x economy rates for 2x the space for a carefully estimated proportion of seats in a mixed configuration (no brainer) and hoping your layout is so good it justifies thirstier, less flexible aircraft to operators (tough sell)...

That said, Boom's customers - if they ever exist - will be a new business class pay extra for supersonic flights category anyway.
by scoofy | 2025-08-11 19:33:43+00:00
There isn’t really enough here that illustrates your aesthetic theory to allow me to respond well.

If you are suggesting that some critics have “better opinions” then I’d basically reject that conception outright. Here I would reference Howard Moscowitz’s theory and practical engineering of tastes to suit different audiences.

If you’re suggesting a trained reviewer can better connect and convey the artist benefit of a work to those who would appreciate those aspects, then I completely agree, but it’s just that we are talking about one specific audience being served that is not easily served, not audiences in general.

If you’re talking about the pleasantness and prose of the written reviews themselves, we end up in a meta-discussion of the aesthetics of review writing.
by neilv | 2025-08-11 19:33:49+00:00
Aren't most book reviews effectively marketing for the book?

Are the book publishers not willing to fund the AP reviews, or the AP doesn't want to be in that business?

Also, I have read some NY book reviews that seem to double as marketing for the guest reviewer's own book or brand. If we go full MBA on this, all these parties could be paying to play. Is some journalistic ethics wall between business and editorial leaving money on the table?
by bluGill | 2025-08-11 19:33:52+00:00
Reminders is not the job of a todo app, it is the job of a calendar app. For a todo there is no now, it is pick the best thing todo next. I need to be interupted for my dentist appointment. However I don't need to be interupted to buy milk, I need a remineer when I'm at the store anyway to also get milk. If the reminder was 'i see you are going in the direction of a store: we need milk if you have time to stop' that would work.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-11 19:34:06+00:00
I do wish Siri was a little more intelligent to be honest.

I use Siri when I need a fast, distraction-free, action. Which makes it perfect when driving or performing other tasks where my hands a busy and/or I cannot put my attention on my phones LCD screen.

The way Apple paired with ChatGPT is awkward. You get prompted if you want to use Siri or ChatGPT. Which creates a distraction.

I'd love it if Siri was smart enough to differentiate between:

- an automation request. eg setting an alarm or ringing a contact. The kind of interaction what you wouldn't want to offload to a 3rd party but is the kind of interaction where you don't need vast datastores of training.

- and an open-ended question. eg What time are Oasis playing in London tonight? Who was the 23rd President of Germany? What are the rules of Dodgeball? these sort of things are less confidential and don't require handing control of your phone to a 3rd party.

And I'd love it if Siri automatically offloaded from their local AI to ChatGPT (or whatever) when the latter was identified. That should be opt in, but when opted in, it should be automatic. I shouldn't have to consent each time after I've opted in.
by k310 | 2025-08-11 19:34:13+00:00
To all the downvoters,even though this reply is to you, yes, there was the twitter integration that went away, but also SIRI listening in at uninvited times, to learn.

Apple may not be the worst offender, but they do from time to time, introduce things that have to be pulled back later.

Will the "Use Apple AI" switch go away? We just don't know, and there are aspects of MacOS that I detest, like search always starting in "This Mac" instead of the working directory, that I have to change almost every time, and search beginning as soon as you type in a search term, (enter the beach ball) rather than waiting a few letters, while slowing down your typing. These may never go away.

And there are lots of other examples on mac forums.

What or who determines what goes away and what stays, begging a fix from some app vendor?
by crisopolis | 2025-08-11 19:34:57+00:00
Hi! I have a side project (that I haven't infiltrated with Claude Code yet, lol) that I need to dust off and get back to work on. It's essentially a B2B SaaS product where I needed to solve the usual suspects: multi-tenancy, SSO, RBAC, passkeys, sessions, and letting customers self-configure their IAM. Since it's a side project and I'm not paying for anything yet, I went ahead and integrated with WorkOS.

My project is built in Elixir, so I implemented the flows where my application has no login screen UI. I just push all unauthenticated users straight to WorkOS. WorkOS and their AuthKit (hosted login page) handles the heavy lifting (User/Pass, Passkey, MFA, SSO, etc) and sends them back to my application with a JWT. I check if the user exists, and if not, just-in-time provisioning kicks in on my side and we're done. Tenant identified, and tenant user authenticated all wrapped up in a single JWT.

Why WorkOS?

Simple... I don't want to be responsible for any authentication headaches. I don't want to self-host or duct tape a bunch of different components together. I'd rather put as much of that control in the client's hands (or WorkOS's if they don't have their own IAM). Plus, I like what WorkOS offers. Documentation is solid, though I still need to figure out their Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) product, formerly known as Warrant. In the end, nothing lives on my side except workos_tenant_id, workos_user_id, and my application data. The tenant has full control over their IAM, all the features of WorkOS via their own admin panel and ultimately who can access my SaaS application.

How's it going so far?

I have exactly zero customers except my development tenant. Everything works as expected so far. Maybe I'll have a different story when I get a customer willing to foot the bill for all the WorkOS bells and whistles in production. But implementation has been smooth, and AuthKit works great for dev/testing as a hosted login page, one-click testing SSO flows, etc.

If I had to re-implement, would I still choose WorkOS?

I probably would've done the same deep research you're doing, hoping to find that needle in a haystack. As a bootstrap developer, I'd try to avoid the paid options and figure out the open source/roll-your-own route. But if I had a plan to afford the paid ones, I'd probably evaluate WorkOS against other paid options properly.
by mikestew | 2025-08-11 19:35:07+00:00
From TFA: "I don't think there's any platform that has been so blank-slate, architected around having a large subassembly that you can put a whole bunch of parts on," added Alan Clarke, executive director of advanced EV development.

You mean a design so common among other car makers (GM, Hyundai) that there’s a word (and a Wikipedia page) for it?

Skateboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboard_(automotive_platfor...
by IshKebab | 2025-08-11 19:35:09+00:00
It isn't. Ruby lacks static typing, and Rails heavily uses generated identifiers, which means navigating a huge codebase like Gitlab is basically impossible unless it's your full time job (or you get lucky). I've tried. I kept finding methods that - based on a grep - were never called from anywhere, and there's no IDE support for something like Find All References.

I'm sure if it was your full time job you'd eventually learn the codebase, but there's no way you can just dip in and add a feature unless you really persevere.

But I did manage to add a few features to the gitlab-runner (used for CI) - because it's written in Go, and Go has static types and pretty great IDE support these days. Night and day.

I've also added a few features to VSCode which is a similarly huge codebase. Again it's written in Typescript which has static types and good IDE support. It would have been effectively impossible if that wasn't the case.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-11 19:35:16+00:00
> Providers are going to eat every abstraction along the way in their delivery of intelligent capabilities. [...] There's a lot of talk around economics. What is going to be more economic than a provider building abstractions/margin-optimizations around the tokens, and shipping directly to consumer. Vs token arbitrage.

The strongman counter-argument would be that specialized interfaces to AI will always require substantial amounts of work to create and maintain.

If true, then similar to Microsoft, it might make more financial sense for Anthropic et al. to cede those specialized markets to others, focus on their core platform product, take a cut from many different specialized products, and end up making more as the addressable market broadens.

The major AI model providers substantially investing in specialized interfaces would suggest they're pessimistic about revolutionary core model improvements and are thus looking to vertically integration to preserve margin / moat.

But relatively speaking, it doesn't seem like interfaces are being inordinately invested in, and coding seems such an obvious agentic target (and dogfoodable learning opportunity!) that it shouldn't prompt tea leaf reading.
by Danielle1993 | 2025-08-11 19:35:25+00:00
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Email: danielle.lensly93@gmail.com
by herval | 2025-08-11 19:35:49+00:00
It certainly is. It's not exclusive to Apple, however - _all_ the big tech (and non-tech) companies offered tribute, in one form or another. Despite it being illegal, it seems to be the new government practice.

Whether that'll lead to the government requiring Apple to break their encryption, it remains to be seen. I imagine Apple has a bit of an edge here anyway, since iCloud is allegedly e2e encrypted?
by stirfish | 2025-08-11 19:35:54+00:00
For things where I don't want creativity, I tell it to write a script.

For example, "write a comprehensive spec for a script that takes in the date and a location and computes when golden hour is." | "Implement this spec"

That variability is nice when you want some creativity, e.g. "write a beautiful, interactive boids simulation as a single file in html, css, and JavaScript."

Words like "beautiful" and interactive" are open to interpretation, and I've been happy with the different ways they are interpreted.
by horizion2025 | 2025-08-11 19:35:56+00:00
I think teletext is what triggered my interest in computers etc. It was one of my first experiences with anything computer like. When I was around 9 years old I was visiting my grandmother just the day she was having her new TV delivered. This must have been in the late 80s and we didn't have a computer or anything. I didn't care that much for the TV itself but then he the TV installation guy wanted to show this cool new thing "Tekst TV" (Text TV) as it was called here. It was like a completely new world opening. I sat the whole weekend playing with it. They had satellite TV in the complex she lived, so there were 20-30 channels and lots of cool graphics to explore. Back at home: No teletext, just 1-2 channels.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-11 19:35:56+00:00
> but it's an ironic twist that these tools that promise so much productivity today ends up dumping more tech debt into our code.

Because long-term productivity was never about the generated lines of code. You can increase your system features through expansion, or by a combination of expansion and contraction.

Generating new code without spending time to follow through with the contraction step, or alternatively contracting first as a way of enabling the new expansion, will always make the code more complex and harder to sustain and continue to improve wrt the feature set.
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by a2g | 2025-08-11 19:36:23+00:00
I recently wrote about a subtle but critical lesson from optimizing a Go sharded pool: sometimes making a hot function faster doesn’t improve overall performance because you hit the system’s architectural ceiling.

In my Medium post, I share profiling insights and explain why the design—not just micro-optimizations—determines what’s possible. I show how a slower but smarter load distribution method cut latency from ~10ns to ~3ns by better leveraging cache locality and reducing contention.

Would love to hear others’ experiences hitting design limits!
by throwup238 | 2025-08-11 19:37:32+00:00
> It shows that Anthropic is a signaling that the leading providers will no longer just train models.

I think it instead (or also?) shows a related but orthogonal signal: that the ability and resources to train models are a strong competitive advantage. This is most obvious with deep research and I haven’t seen any wrapper or open source project achieve anywhere near the same quality as Gemini/Claude deep research, but Claude Code is a close runner up.
by catigula | 2025-08-11 19:37:41+00:00
What is the efficiency loss specifically? Do you even know, or are you just asserting it?

>it doesn't matter because the ARM transition is essentially already done

'Essentially' is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here, but, putting that aside, A. you're wrong, I've recently ran into Rosetta throttling and B. it's not a good reason to begin the project at all, it's only a good reason when it's already done. You're essentially ceding "Yes, I've been wrong and this has been a fool's errand for the past x years until right this moment as the project is done". It's not done and it'd a weak argument.

>Aside from superior performance and battery life (even compared to ARM windows offerings), the M series devices are generally reliable, unlike windows laptops running Intel and (less so) AMD.

Specifically what are the numbers? Because I have performance/tdp numbers and the M-series performs well but it isn't a categorical difference. In fact, that's no difference, it performs okay but AMD is at the top of the heap currently. Sad.
by xp84 | 2025-08-11 19:37:51+00:00
Since when does carrying Apple device(s) mean we have goodwill for Apple?

I dev on a Mac all day and own 2 macs at home. Why?

* not going to try to convince the whole family to change and I want the various family & imessage features that everyone uses to all work

* all the developers at my company use macs and I don't want to have to set up my own unique configurations for everything using WSL and stuff.

* In the US, often the Android versions of "apps" you're forced to use by random businesses (instead of the Web which usually would work fine), are pawned off on an offshore team, and no execs use Android so there's no accountability when those apps suck.

* Windows also has many recent disappointments (ads in the start menu, increasingly dumber and worse settings screens), so they're doing a bad job of winning over people like me, dampening my enthusiasm to switch.

* Linux is cool but I'm too busy to want a project as my daily driver PC.

I have nothing but scorn for Tim Cook's Apple and have zero goodwill for them. They haven't shipped an actual smart idea for any of their platforms besides maybe Shortcuts (which they bought), and even then it took them 3 years to let me run automations unattended.
by zahlman | 2025-08-11 19:37:58+00:00
https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/ is an ecosystem-wide standard first proposed over 2 years ago, before any of the big names in Python packaging discussion showed any awareness of Astral even existing. They are not "uv scripts".

There was also a competing PEP 722; this was simpler and more natural reading, and my personal preference, but ultimately the community consensus preferred the extensible TOML-based format. The author of that proposal explicitly rejected doing things the way you chose to; you may agree or disagree with the reasoning — https://peps.python.org/pep-0722/#why-not-use-a-marker-per-l....
by antithesizer | 2025-08-11 19:38:26+00:00
You clearly are selling something, too: doubt. (Note your appeal to your own authority.)

Don't kid yourself. Skepticism is not neutrality. These days throwing shade is a growth industry. There's money to be made shorting just like there is going long. Neither is the objective, disinterested position, although skepticism always enjoys the appearance of prudence, at least to the ignorant.

Anyone who says they're not trying to sell you something lacks self-awareness about what they themselves have been sold.
by hermitcrab | 2025-08-11 19:38:51+00:00
Every developer:

'Wow there are a 1000 of ToDo apps. I can't possibly try them all. So I will write my own ToDo app that does exactly what I want!'

Result:

There are now 1001 ToDo apps.

ToDo/productivity apps is a very tough market. I know because I wrote a visual task planner for Windows and Mac (hyperplan.com) and struggled to get enough visibility to make it commercially viable, despite a lot of rave feedback.
by asgraham | 2025-08-11 19:39:02+00:00
I totally agree that the agent is essential, and that right now Claude Code is semi-unanimously the best agent. But agentic tooling is written, not trained (as far as I can tell—someone correct me) so it’s not immediately obvious to me that a third-party couldn’t eventually do it better.

Maybe to answer my own question, LLM developers have one, potentially two advantages over third-party tooling developers: 1) virtually unlimited tokens, zero rate limiting with which to play around with tooling dev. 2) the opportunity to train the network on their own tooling.

The first advantage is theoretically mitigated by insane VC funding, but will probably always be a problem for OSS.

I’m probably overlooking news that the second advantage is where Anthropic is winning right now; I don’t have intuition for where this advantage will change with time.
by alternatex | 2025-08-11 19:39:23+00:00
It supports Linux as a running target for console apps, which can be servers, background apps, systemd apps, etc. So everything except UI apps.

The development experience with Rider is also great on Linux. I think you need to be more specific with the complaints because I have many beefs with Microsoft's approach to many things, but I could not pick up on what you meant.
by celsoazevedo | 2025-08-11 19:39:35+00:00
> Longer term, I mainly want it to just use external auth (Google, etc.) and not use passwords at all.

I usually avoid services that do this because I don't want any issues to my Google account (or any other service) to affect other services I use. Good luck trying to talk with someone at Google if some automated system flags and blocks your account.
by mccoyb | 2025-08-11 19:39:57+00:00
Just reflecting on my own comment -- what one might want is an automated layout system with a simple "natural language"-like API (perhaps similar to Penrose, although it's been awhile since I looked at that project).

Hardened and long use systems like TikZ of course, do have something like this -- but in complex TikZ graphics, you end up with a mixture of "right of" and "left of" (etc) and low-level manual specification, which I think tends to fall into the zone of issues.
by kube-system | 2025-08-11 19:40:41+00:00
The CFAA makes it illegal to exceed authorized access to any 'protected computer' (in practice, basically any computer).

The exploit developer avoids violating the CFAA by developing the exploit on their own computer... because you are authorized to access your own computer.

The government doesn't violate the CFAA when using exploits because government agencies are exempt under 18 USC § 1030 (f)