MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-04 16:37:51+00:00
The fact that people are ignoring the degree to which human factors are responsible for making the Corolla what it is in people's minds is disappointing albeit 100% predictable.

The Toyota Corolla would not be what you think it is if "Altima people" historically went out and bought them in droves and many would do well to think about comparable effects on other classes of product (Adobe Flash anyone?).
by dabockster | 2025-08-04 16:38:18+00:00
> We're moving progressively in the direction of "pages can't be served for free anymore". Which, I don't think is a problem, and in fact I think it's something we should have addressed a long time ago.

I agree, but your idea below that is overly complicated. You can't micro-transact the whole internet.

That idea feels like those episodes of Star Trek DS9 that take place on Feregenar - where you have to pay admission and sign liability wavers to even walk on the sidewalk outside. It's not a true solution.
by ckcheng | 2025-08-04 16:38:33+00:00
I propose: Software Development/Engineering with “Gen AI Assistance” (yes, “Gaia” [1]. Also spelled “Gaea” in engineering communities).

Just like no one speaks of vibe-aeronautics-engineering when they’re “just” using CAD.

More specifically, GAIA in SDE produces code systematically with human in the loop to systematically ensure correctness. e.g. Like the systematic way tptacek has been describing recently [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

Briefly summarized here I guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44296550
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-04 16:39:02+00:00
>No sorry, I was including that example because it's something "political" that is also pretty universally accepted and uncontroversial, and as a consequence could only really upset the most upsetable. I meant it as a contrast to the other more controversial political topics that would require more consideration before putting into a children's show.

Fair enough. However, you didn't really (at least IMHO) make that much of a contrast, especially considering the "contrasting" example (a teacher misnaming their student because they can't even be bothered to try pronouncing their name properly). You've significantly clarified that in the comment to which I'm currently replying -- and thank you!

>I think that we (and I include myself in this we) tend to jump past the specific content of a response, and only "hear" the tone of the response and presume intention from it.

That said, the negative reaction to your comment[0] isn't all that surprising, given what appears to be the tone you've taken.

While the HN guidelines clearly state that one should try to see the comments of others in the best possible light (and I tried to do so -- which is why I asked about it), but there's a more universal idea: who you are -- at least as far as others are concerned -- is how you are perceived by those others.

I'm not saying you shouldn't be true to yourself and your principles. Rather the opposite. That said, it might not be a bad idea to try and see how others might perceive you based on what you write.

I am emphatically not telling you what to do here. Rather, I'm just pointing out that others likely don't see the decent, fair-minded person you consider yourself to be -- because all they have to go on is what's right in front of them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760432
by rkomorn | 2025-08-04 16:39:03+00:00
For me (recent NixOS user), it's mainly two things:

- for every configuration item in the software I use, I basically need to learn the way to NixOS-configure it (assuming I don't want to raw-configure everything)

- experimentation is onerous (unless there are workflows I don't know), for example: messing with my sway config requires rebuild switches

I'm not bailing (yet?) but the "ergonomics", well, don't feel ergonomic.
by lxhwes | 2025-08-04 16:39:26+00:00
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by kachapopopow | 2025-08-04 16:39:43+00:00
AI has allowed me to work on projects I was simply too lazy or haven't attached any importance to. It also allows me to skip the entire process of contacting a designer or doing design work myself (which might actually be a bad thing). The thing I know for sure is that none of my smart home additions I had sitting in a box would be finished if AI didn't exist.
Show HN: I drank the AI Kool-Aid and stopped coding after 40 years
by rangerchaz | 2025-08-04 16:39:50+00:00
Maybe I've lost it. After 40+ years of programming (starting with a turkey in BASIC), I've completely stopped writing code. Instead, I orchestrate AI systems to build software faster than I ever could manually. Either I'm documenting the future of development, or I'm having the world's most productive midlife crisis. You decide.
by czk | 2025-08-04 16:40:32+00:00
the year is 2045.

you've been cruising the interstate in your robotaxi, shelling out $150 in stablecoins at the cloudflare tollbooth. a palantir patrol unit pulls you over. the optimus v4 approaches your window and contorts its silicone face into a facsimile of concern as it hits you with the:

"sir, have you been botting today?"

immediately you remember how great you had it in the '20s when you used to click CAPTCHA grids to prove your humanity to dumb algorithms, but now the machines demand you recite poetry or weep on command

"how much have you had to bot today?", its voice taking on an empathetic tone that was personalized for your particular profile

"yeah... im gonna need you to exit the vehicle and take a field humanity test"
by aantix | 2025-08-04 16:40:36+00:00
I don't think "IDK Claude did that" is a valid excuse. Immediate rejection.

AI may be multi-threaded, but there's still a human, global interpreter lock in place. :D

If you put the code up for review, regardless of the source, you should fundamentally understand how it works.

This raises a broader point about AI and productivity: while AI promises parallelism, there's still the human in the middle who is responsible for the code.

The promise of "parallelism" is overstated.

100's of PRs should not be trusted. Or at least not without the c-suite understanding such risks. Maybe you're a small startup looking to get out the door as quickly as possible, so.. YOLO.

But it's going to be a hot mess. A "clean up in aisle nine" level mess.
by seer | 2025-08-04 16:40:37+00:00
Hah still remember the old “solving the internet with hate” idea from Zed Shaw in the glory days of Ruby on Rails.

https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-...

I do believe we will end there eventually, with the emerging tech like Brazil’s and India’s payment architectures it should be a possibility in the coming decades
by khalic | 2025-08-04 16:40:38+00:00
I think some are really afraid of the fabled slippery slope, but yeah, the gaming world is home to a very dubious bread of pro CP, sex obsessed (as in “every media I consume must make me horny”) and misogynistic punks. Edit: not making any claims regarding the size of that population, most gamers are just regular people enjoying some escape, like me
by thrill | 2025-08-04 16:40:39+00:00
When a vehicle crash occurs, that embedded system should no longer be treating data as "temporary", but as what it now is, civil and potentially criminal evidence, and it should be preserved. To go to the effort of creating that data, uploading it to a corporate server, and then having programming that explicitly deletes that data from the source (the embedded system), certainly reads as nefarious without easily verifiable evidence to the contrary. The actions of a company that has acted this way in no fashion lends any credibility to being treated as anything other than a hostile party in court. Any investigators in the future involving a company with such a history need to act swiftly and with the immediate and heavy hand of the court behind them if they expect any degree of success.
by throwawaysleep | 2025-08-04 16:40:48+00:00
A lot depends heavily on how you define productive.

At one of my jobs, the PRs are far less reviewable, but now the devs write tests when they didn’t used to bother. I’ve always viewed reviewing PRs as work without recognition, so I never did much of it anyway, but but now that there are passing tests, I often approve without more than a cursory skim.

So yes, it has made their work more productive for me to get off my plane.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-04 16:40:49+00:00
Isn't that the system that we are already living in?

Democracy in its american form or even at many others show almost complete paralysis of the entire system basically if bad actors infiltrate it (Looking at ya donald)

It is honestly a little sad since conservatives usually think of their society as this high trust society and they were the ones who primarily voted and are being taken advantaged of by the few untrustworthy individuals.

Politics is a cult/religion and you can't prove me otherwise.

I vote because I vote for lesser evil not for greater good. I do think that frankly, both the parties or just most parties in every nation are just so short of reality but I created a discord server of 100 people and I can see how I can't manage 100 people and so maybe I expect so much from the govt.

I used to focus so much on history and politics but its bloody mess and there is no good or bad. Now I just feel like going into the woods and into the darks living alone, maybe coding.
by randysalami | 2025-08-04 16:41:16+00:00
Work harder, create datapoints, democratize knowledge. Except that knowledge will be confined eventually and doom the futures of many people. Use AI now to get ahead of your peers by feeding it questions and evaluating responses. Then in 10 years, Insert Field Here will be dominated by models trained by yesterday’s experts. New members of the field will not be able to compete with the collective knowledge of 1000s of their predecessors. Selling the futures of our youth for short-term gains. It’s quite sad and it is what’s happening.

It’s a shame too because it really could have been something so much more amazing. I’d imagine higher education would shift to how it used to be: a past-time for bored elites. We would probably see a large reduction in the middle class and its eventual destruction. First they went for manufacturing with its strong unions, now they go for the white-collar worker who has little solidarity for his common man (see lack of unions and ethics in our STEM field; most likely because we thought we could never be made redundant). Field by field the middle class will be destroyed and the lower class in thrall of addictive social media, substances, and the illusion of selection into the influencer petty-elite (which remain compliant because they don’t offer value proportional to the bribes they receive). The elites will have recreated the dynamic that existed for most of human history. Final point, see the obsession of current elites in using artificial insemination to create a reliable and durable contingent of heirs. Something previous rulers could only dream about in history.

It disgusts me and pisses me off so much.
by gruez | 2025-08-04 16:41:21+00:00
>People never agreed DOSing a site to take copyright material was acceptable. Many people did not have a problem with taking copyright material in a respectful way that didn't kill the resource.

Has it be shown that perplexity engages in "DOSing"? I've heard of anecdotes of AI bots gone amuck, and maybe that's what's happening here, but cloudflare hasn't really shown that. All they did was set up a robots.txt and shown that perplexity bypassed it. There's probably archivers out there that's using youtube-dl to hit download from youtube at 1+Gbit/s, tens of times more than a typical viewer is downloading. Does that mean it's fair game to point to a random instance of someone using youtube-dl and characterizing that as "DOSing"?
by fwip | 2025-08-04 16:41:41+00:00
In this case, the popular opinion that would get them down voted is "The conspiracy theory that the world is secretly run by evil Jewish people is both false and racist."

Comments that vague-post about "I would say something but people would down vote it" should be expected to be down voted. Either it is too vague to add anything useful, or it expresses the same belief that they believe will be objectionable.

Worrying about your internet score is a sucker's game. Post what you believe, or don't bother.
by evantbyrne | 2025-08-04 16:42:03+00:00
In this industry they do. You know that companies using these tools are exercising minimal effort and due diligence, and that should be taken into consideration before participating. It only makes sense to play the high-volume application game if each application takes negligible effort to submit. The people I've known that have gone that route have had <1% success rates. For quality candidates, a lower-volume targeted approach will yield the best jobs and retain your sanity.
by amirhirsch | 2025-08-04 16:42:24+00:00
The blogosphere (am I dating myself?) keeps bringing up the METR study (https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...) without really understanding the result. The guy with experience had a huge boost. You are reading the results wrong if your conclusion is this blog.

And that was before Claude Code.
by cnst | 2025-08-04 16:42:32+00:00
I have the impression that most security cameras on Amazon are subsidized with their subscription services.

Also, because many of these brands are no-name, you get the inverse volume discounts — you can get 1 camera for less per-unit cost compared to buying 2 or more.

Starting a business may make more sense if you're willing to go directly to the manufacturer, and have the manufacturer flash the firmware directly at the factory. Even then, why would people buy from you at $30 when they can buy an encumbered version for $15 and follow a few instructions?
by belter | 2025-08-04 16:42:34+00:00
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by cldcntrl | 2025-08-04 16:42:55+00:00
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by mosesbp | 2025-08-04 16:43:07+00:00
Your link seems unrelated to the topic of this article? I gave the line items for the research conducted in the OP.

A good faith reading of your comment leads me to guess you might take issue with a small number of unrelated NSF CAREER awards going to research you don’t find worthwhile (such as those alluded to in your link). But the vast majority of CAREER awards fund what I would imagine you would consider “real science” [1], like the content of OP.

So please do not tune out!

[1] You can count them here in the list of all CAREER awards: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/advancedSearchResult?PIId=&P...
by queenkjuul | 2025-08-04 16:43:07+00:00
Well hold on now, are the LLMs doing novel research or not? "Aiding significantly" (as in, humans doing novel research are using LLMs to aid their process) is not remotely the same -- can you show us examples of LLMs doing novel research?

Researchers using GPT to summarize papers may be helping humans create novel research, but it certainly isn't GPT doing any such thing itself.
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by amluto | 2025-08-04 16:43:11+00:00
What fraction of modern light trucks do you suppose are ever driven in a technically competent manner off-road, even once, by their original owner?

I bet a larger fraction, albeit still small, are driven around construction sites with crud on the ground, with a driver who pays approximately no attention to what they’re driving over. In which case a monster suspension with a dangly differential is probably less appropriate than a low vehicle without any dangly bits in the middle.

(I’m obviously excluding trucks that are used a loading docks. If you are planning to load and unload at a loading dock, you want your truck to load and unload at loading dock height.)
by kebman | 2025-08-04 16:43:20+00:00
Here's the kicker: AI was supposed to automate the boring parts so we could “focus on high-leverage, strategic, needle-moving, synergistic core competencies.” Instead, we’re stuck in a recursive loop of prompt engineering, hallucination triage, output validation, re-prompting, Slack channel FOMO, and productivity theater. We’ve basically replaced “doing the work” with “managing the tool that kinda tries to do the work but needs babysitting.” Congrats—we’ve invented Jira for thought. And here's the kicker.
by butokai | 2025-08-04 16:43:25+00:00
I just moved to macOS for the first time, and my only way to adapt to its multi-tasking has been keeping exactly one window per open application, never zero or more than one. The fact that Finder can't be treated like that is a real pain. I will focus on it essentially randomly, and it will disrupt my intended interaction.

I don't get the reasoning behind the zero-window cmd-tab interaction, but if it is there I guess that there's a reason behind it?
by cal85 | 2025-08-04 16:43:44+00:00
If I understand right, this is about actual text chatbots, where they don't hide that it's an AI interview? I've not experienced one of those, but I don't think it would be as bad as the time I was interviewed by AI through a human relay on a video call. It took me a long time to realise. Sometimes I'd say something 'technical' and she'd say "Mmm yes, definitely," nodding lots while typing something, but I got the funny feeling she hadn't understood. So I recalibrated, but then a few questions later she'd say something that indicated she must have understood the technical thing I'd said earlier. So I thought: oh cool, I am talking with a fellow engineer after all – and I'd get a little more technical with my answers again. But then I'd get that same unconvincing nodding response. After a few rounds of this it hit me that I was being interviewed by an AI, relaying through a human who was smiling and laughing and chatting while not understanding what the AI and I were talking about. The rest of the interview felt really uncomfortable.
by kylestanfield | 2025-08-04 16:44:17+00:00
Perplexity claims that you can “use the following robots.txt tags to manage how their sites and content interact with Perplexity.” https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots

Their fetcher (not crawler) has user agent Perplexity-User. Since the fetching is user-requested, it ignores robots.txt . In the article, it discusses how blocking the “Perplexity-User” user agent doesn’t actually work, and how perplexity uses an anonymous user agent to avoid being blocked.
by estearum | 2025-08-04 16:44:29+00:00
> The process which is due (among whatever other redundant triplechecks they should be doing) is to hear all such protests in good faith and evaluate whatever evidence such a person provides. I haven't heard of any refusing to do such a thing (but if they have, it should be grounds for termination).

A DOJ lawyer literally said they haven't been doing this sufficiently and then he got sacked by Pam Bondi. SCOTUS then reaffirmed 9 to 0 that the original lawyer who admitted this failure in court was actually correct, that DOJ wasn't giving people their due process rights.

I find it extremely hard to believe you have not heard about the Kilmar Abrego case?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-04 16:44:29+00:00
Caps lock are mostly unwarranted on hackernews but I am not the PC principal.

Like, lets have a real talk, shall we? Lets just assume that the topic we are discussing on that I am right and you are wrong, How can I even convince ya when you are showing so less of maturity...

And lets say that you are right and I am wrong, but the fact that you are being so bullish on the fact that you can't be wrong and bringing the "this is worse than reddit" and etc. can't make me take you serious and can't make me think your opinion is valid.

If you really want, I'd like to logically disect this stuff as adults using pure logic & not mere opinions.

Waiting for your response.
by hollerith | 2025-08-04 16:44:38+00:00
As of the end of 2021 there were around 6.7 million registered refugees from Syria globally. This figure is reported by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) in their Global Trends report for 2021. These refugees were primarily hosted in neighboring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan -- and most of those are restricted to refugee camps -- and the ones who enjoy the freedom to move around the country probably achieved that through bribery, which of course is not the same thing as having due-process rights.

Refugees admitted into Europe are not restricted to camps and do have some due-process rights, but they have at most times been a distinct minority of the refugees in the world.
by andrewrn | 2025-08-04 16:44:57+00:00
You're right about the smoking. Boy did stigma kill that, at least in the US. I still remember bars where you could smoke when I was a kid.

This is an interesting comparison you bring up, because there isn't no stigma around social media, I'd say. It's definitely not well regarded to be on your phone in social settings, at least for my generation. But in private, I know many (incl myself) scroll way more than I'd like. Almost like a smoker sneaking off to get their fix.

A few days ago I came across some idea of having a public readout on a website or something of how much time you spend on your phone, as a way to reproduce this stigma. Unfortunately all the API's to access this data are closed, including iOS. With more access, there could be some really amazing tools to help people use their technology in a way that serves them better, but the people in power would prefer that don't happen...