MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zahlman | 2025-08-05 16:13:15+00:00
> When I have had engineers who were 10x as valuable as others it was primarily due to their ability to prevent unnecessary work. Talking a PM down from a task that was never feasible. Getting another engineer to not build that unnecessary microservice. Making developer experience investments that save everyone just a bit of time on every task. Documenting your work so that every future engineer can jump in faster. These things can add up over time to one engineer saving 10x the time company wide than what they took to build it.

What about just noticing that coworkers are repeatedly doing something that could easily be automated?
by manyturtles | 2025-08-05 16:13:21+00:00
IDE was just coming in (in the UK) in 1990. The acronym got updated to "AT Attachment" because "Integrated Drive Electronics" was generic, and it wasn't as if the older drives had no electronics on them. Much later when SATA showed up, the name evolved again as ATA became known as Parallel ATA to distinguish the two.

Before that, when you installed a hard disk you had to go into the BIOS to specify the geometry of the drive. 46 types were already defined, to match individual drives on the market. "Type 47" allowed -- required -- manually specifying the drive geometry in terms of cylinders, heads and sectors. So for a short while some traditional MFM or RLL drives would be informally classed as Type 47 because their geometry and capacity differed from earlier drives.
by roboboffin | 2025-08-05 16:13:29+00:00
In theory, creativity is an infinite space. As technology advances it allows humans to explore more and more complex things; take the advancement of music as an example, synths, loops etc.

If humans are not stretched to their limits, and are still able to be creative, then the tools will help us find our way through this infinite space.

AI will never be able to generate everything for us, because that means it will need infinite computation.
by edgineer | 2025-08-05 16:13:44+00:00
This has bothered me about kagi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29844665

The founder started that he was not interested in serving users who want anonymity. I see they've since added Privacy Pass using VOPRF tokens, which does provide anonymity by decoupling searches from user accounts. But by now LLM search tools are good and don't require an account.
by pmontra | 2025-08-05 16:13:50+00:00
There is git format-patch to create a diff and git send-email [2] to mail it to another developer and git-am [3] to apply the patches from a mailbox.

The Linux kernel developers have been using that workflow for a lot of time. Maybe still now.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch

[2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email

[3] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am
by ben_w | 2025-08-05 16:14:06+00:00
If so, please ask your representatives to copy Germany's "Balkonkraftwerk" rules.

We've got one, cost €350 including delivery and a balcony railing mounting kit, could've been €250 if we'd collected and not had the stands. Whole thing is trivial DIY, no skill or training needed: you literally just assemble the kit and plug it into a power socket, register it online as a small power station, and you're done.

Sure, the legal limit of 800 W output sure isn't a huge supply, but at that cost it's also a no-brainer — at €350, it will pay for itself in 1y8m.
by msgodel | 2025-08-05 16:14:22+00:00
Users are charged for compute and whether the outcome is positive or negative doesn't cost more for the company. I don't see where you got the idea that there are incentives to waste tokens.

EDIT (can't reply): Have you never run a business before?

Dating apps are weird because you can't have repeat customers without failing to deliver. With literally everything else repeat customers are what you want to optimize for. If your AI product fails to deliver your customers can't integrate it into their operations and you'll lose them eventually. That's a disaster.
by coffeebeqn | 2025-08-05 16:14:26+00:00
My company is all in on LLMs and honestly the improvement seems to be like 0.9x to 1.2x depending on the project. None of them are moving at break neck speed and many projects are just as bogged down by complexity as ever. Pretty big (3000+) company with a large mature codebase in multiple languages. For god knows how much money spent on it
by ollin | 2025-08-05 16:14:26+00:00
Regarding latency, I found a live video of gameplay here [1] and it looks like closer to 1.1s keypress-to-photon latency (33 frames @ 30fps) based on when the onscreen keys start lighting up vs when the camera starts moving. This writeup [2] from someone who tried the Genie 3 research preview mentions that "while there is some control lag, I was told that this is due to the infrastructure used to serve the model rather than the model itself" so a lot of this latency may be added by their client/server streaming setup.

[1] https://x.com/holynski_/status/1952756737800651144

[2] https://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/genie-3-and-future-of-...
by funcDropShadow | 2025-08-05 16:14:39+00:00
In every trade or art you start as an apprentice. That is the time when you learn the basics, the rules, the best-practices. When you have mastered the state of the art, you are a master. You know when to apply which rule and tactic to create masterful artifacts. The next step is to learn when you should break the rules and general wisdom. That is where true wisdom starts.
by ComradeMatis | 2025-08-05 16:14:43+00:00
There was also bugs in the declarative net request implementation that was also just recently fixed - quite a few bugs have been holding uBlock back. The reason why uBlock hadn't come sooner was because DNR hadn't been implemented which would have required the developer to go out of their way to specifically re-write uBlock Origin to work with Apple's content blocking API but now Apple has implemented DNR it should open up the possibility for more choice in the content blocking extensions market.
by pixelesque | 2025-08-05 16:14:58+00:00
What's interesting to me along these lines is I assume most of the companies funding the research are targeting the "creative" media in terms of image generation, music generation, avatars, speach, etc.

I can understand it's very interesting from a researcher's point-of-view (I'm a software dev who's worked adjacent to some ML researchers doing pipeline stuff to integrate models into software), but at the same time: Where are the robots to do menial work like clean toilets, kitchens, homes, etc?

I assume the funding isn't there? Or maybe it's much less exciting to research diffusion networks for image generation that working out algorithms for the best way to clean toilets :)
by myaccountonhn | 2025-08-05 16:16:09+00:00
I actually think indie game dev is quite safe from AI (well its already insanely competitive). It might change the field, or shrink the market but I think AI has a chance at replacing workers where the only metric that matters is $$$ and productivity. I just don't see myself consuming, for example, an AI generated autobiography or any AI generated book. As long as enough people feel that way the market will continue to be there.
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-05 16:16:11+00:00
A Mind needs a few things: The ability to synthesize sensor data about the outside world into a form that can be compressed into important features, the ability to choose which of those features to pay attention to, the ability to model the physical world around it, find reasonable solutions to problems, and simulate its actions before taking them, The ability to understand and simulate the actions of other Minds, the ability to compress events into important features and store them in memory, the ability to retrieve those memories and appropriate times and in appropriate clarity, etc.

I feel like as time goes on more and more of these important features are showing up as disconnected proofs of concept. I think eventually we'll have all the pieces and someone will just need to hook them together.

I am more and more convinced that AGI is just going to eventually happen and we'll barely notice because we'll get there inch by inch, with more and more amazing things every day.
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-05 16:16:15+00:00
It's convenience. People have gotten used to MC/Visa.

Debit cards are just MC/Visa that comes straight out of your bank account.

A true alternative would need to tie into banks, work with the current payment systems seamlessly, and offer credit options with reasonable terms.

Basically, it would have to be either funded by billionaires as a revenge passion project on MC/Visa or established by a country like the US as a public infrastructure.
by motoxpro | 2025-08-05 16:16:55+00:00
Engagement is one of the core pieces education and one of the hardest things to solve. If you remember back to being a kid, reading white papers is not really a thing. Interesting (e.g. engaging) teachers and field trips (which not all schools have access to) are tools that help kids learn.

At the limit, if you could stay engaged you would be an expert in pretty much anything.

"It doesn't help students understand why things happened, and what the consequences were and how they have impacted the rest of history of the modern world." I would say the opposite, let's recreate each step in that historical journey so you can see exactly what the concequenses were, exactly why they happened and when.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-05 16:17:05+00:00
I needed to add search to my own website. I wanted it to be local search (the titles for the documents are all available locally). I tried several different popular 1000s of stars JavaScript search libraries. All but one failed on simple searches. Like if the title was "See Spot Run to the Park" and my search was "Park" or "Run" this title would not be listed as a result and titles with neither word would appear. I reported the issues, they were ignored as "working as intended". Not sure why anyone uses these libraries. I suspect they don't actually test. The plug them in, it appears to work at a glance, and they ship it.

I'm talking about Fuse.js, FlexSearch.js, etc.... I don't remember which other ones I tried but was shocked out bad the results were
by bigyabai | 2025-08-05 16:18:27+00:00
The NSA owns all of Ghidra and it's network-silent with better features than IDA Pro. What is your point here?

I don't deny that American tech is almost ubiquitously monitored by the NSA. It's just that Starlink isn't particularly special, your iPhone and your car are both likely "DOD fronts" too, if you define it so flippantly.
by eumenides1 | 2025-08-05 16:18:57+00:00
I was looking for an explanation of why apple and google received such a difference in outcomes.

1. Apple had to post a link that said Epic's product could be purchased at elsewhere 2. Google has to do a lot more. Like actual anti-trust punishment things

IMHO, these two should be both punished because the duopoly is pretty self-evident.

From what i could grep (and it's dumb): The problem lies in the structures of both monopolists. Apple has never ever let any one else make smartphones, and it's walled garden is completed, so the court can't compel it to open up and let others (like epic) play. So a link is all they have to do. Android smartphones do allow other app stores, but Google makes it hard to install them, highly discourage them, and google pays developers to not release on other app stores. So google has an "open" market but behaves like a monopoly. So the judge is trying to "level" the market and punish google for acting like a monopolist.

I think apple should get the same treatment, but how?
by sofixa | 2025-08-05 16:20:10+00:00
> I wouldn't bribe you to not give me money

But you would definitely bribe so your competitors don't get money and your services are required for longer. Existing coal and various other fossil fuel power generating and supply chain companies would be very happy to have less competition from solar.

See Boeing managing to get the KC-45 tanker contract awarded to Airbus cancelled (for a plane that mostly existed and needed some US specific updates), to get a new one they won, that not only have they still not managed to deliver on, but they're also losing money.
by lordnacho | 2025-08-05 16:20:10+00:00
The way to understand it is when you catch yourself almost falling asleep at night while reading something. You lose the ability to understand anything, even though you are still reading and the words are still English.

LLM is great at generating that sort of thing. When you lose concentration, or didn't want to pay attention, that document can be generated by LLM to fool you.

That's a lot of documents. All the powerpoints that young investment bankers and strategy consultants make. Every restaurant menu. Brochures. The middle 100 pages of a pop science book from the airport.

When it comes to writing something actually importantant, LLM can only help you a little bit. Well, it's a lot in historical context. But it can do things like bullet point ideas so you don't forget things, or move a few things around while preserving grammatical structure.

All it can do is bring you the ingredients. That's why we get these odd AI-generated articles nowadays, it's a bunch of chopped onions and tomatoes, very nicely done up but with no intention other than to trick you into thinking it's a meal.
by rwmj | 2025-08-05 16:20:11+00:00
You joke, but when I was doing my start-up we made good money on the side from monitoring websites to detect when the designers had pushed regressions to the live site. We would keep track of change requests that were filed and resolved, then scripts would monitor the sites to see if any earlier changes had been backed out. (Getting the designers to use version control was considered to be in the "too hard" bucket. This was back in the mid 2000s.)
by qingcharles | 2025-08-05 16:20:13+00:00
A lot of commercial translations of foreign books are out of date. The ones sold in stores use translations that are > 100 years old because then they are public domain and they don't have to pay any royalties to anyone.

I can highly recommend anyone who is looking to read a foreign book research the translation before they buy it. Some awesome modern translations don't bubble up in the searches because their sales are much lower than the cheaper versions.
by fleebee | 2025-08-05 16:20:15+00:00
Well written. I've been thinking about this topic lately and it's hard to put it into words, but you've captured into words a lot of the feelings I've had about it.

Judging by discussions I've had around this topic, a lot of people don't seem to mind reading LLM edited or straight-up generated content as long as they feel like they gain value out of it. To me, it feels like a violation of a social contract. Communication isn't just words; the words are there to help you interpret the implicit meaning of the author. When there is no author, that meaning doesn't exist and I think that's part of why it's so repulsive to decipher LLM output.
by bumblehean | 2025-08-05 16:20:56+00:00
> You can get work done in 1/2 of the time it used to. Now you got 1/2 of the day to just mess around. Socialize or network.

This has never been the case in any company I've ever worked at. Even if you can finish your day's work in, say, 4 hours, you can't just dip out for the other 4 hours of the day.

Managers and teammates expect you to be available at the drop of a hat for meetings, incidents, random questions, "emergencies", etc.

Most jobs I've worked at eventually devolve into something like "Well, I've finished what I wanted to finish today. I could either stare at my monitor for the rest of the day waiting for something to happen, or I could go find some other work to do. Guess I'll go find some other work to do since that's slightly less miserable".

You also have to delicately "hide" the fact that you can finish your work significantly faster than expected. Otherwise the expectations of you change and you just get assigned more work to do.
by Isamu | 2025-08-05 16:21:06+00:00
Part of the problem understanding this is how much the leadership of Japan was strongly split into factions with opposite goals and views.

There was no unified decision to start the war. Instead the army unilaterally precipitated the war.

There was a lack of unified views about ending the war. To say that the war was already lost was true and recognized by many, but there was a strong faction that would not support surrender.

It’s hard to prove a counterfactual, whether not dropping the bomb would result in fewer deaths or more.
by dingnuts | 2025-08-05 16:21:19+00:00
robotics is difficult and since transformers are just next word predictors they can't actually help us design those robots :)

also the billionaires have help so they don't give a shit if the menial stuff is automated or not. throw in a little misogyny by and large too; I saw a LinkedIn Lunatic in the wild (some C-level) saying laundry is already automated because laundry machines exist

fucking.. tell me you don't ever do the laundry without telling me. That guy's poor wife.
by tovej | 2025-08-05 16:21:20+00:00
Thanks for elaborating, this puts things into perspective, although the complexity of the end product is still unclear to me.

I do still disagree with your assessment, I think the syntactic tokens in programming languages have a kind of impedance mismatch with the tokens that LLMs, and that the formal semantics of programming languages are a bad fit with the fuzzy statistical LLMs. I firmly believe that increased LLM usage will drive software safety and quality down, simply because a) no semblance of semantic reasoning or formal verification has been applied to the code and b) a software developer will have an incomplete understanding of code not written by themself.

But our opinions can co-exist, good luck in your game development journey!
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-05 16:21:30+00:00
> I'm not even talking about the fact that panels MAY act like a pool for resale. Some people DO want them--again depending on your locale--most, at this point, do NOT where I live.

A roof mounted solar array easily adds $20,000 - 25,000 to reroofing a house just in labor (assuming two electricians for one week on either side of the reroofing with labor priced at $150/hr)

If I was buying a house with a solar array on the roof I would consider it to be a liability that is going to add to the TCO of the home and ask for a discount to cover the future costs of removal. The labor to remove and replace the solar array when reroofing is never going to be paid for by the solar array, it’s just an added expense to the TCO of a home.

There are plenty of people who are not aware of the added costs of a roof mounted solar array, I just happen to be aware since I sell and run electrical work for a living.
by mvieira38 | 2025-08-05 16:21:49+00:00
That position seems to have changed, I think? They are supposedly allowing people to buy Privacy Pass tokens without a Kagi account in-the-future™:

"Yes, this makes sense. This is possible because technically the extension does not care if you have an account or not. It just needs to be ‘loaded’ with valid tokens. And you can imagine a mechanism where you could also anonymously purchase them, eg. with monero, without ever creating an account at Kagi. Let us know here if you are excited about this, as it will help prioritize it." https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

They also provide a Tor hidden service which can be used with Privacy Pass (although you'd have to install their extension on Tor Browser for it to work)
by alephnerd | 2025-08-05 16:21:50+00:00
The majority of all tourists (B1/2) in the US come from countries with either visa-free access or sub 5% visa overstay rates [0]

And plenty of poor countries with Sub-Saharan developmental indicators like Pakistan, Cambodia, and Nepal don't have elevated B1/2 visa overstay rates compared to other countries, so if some countries with similar developmental indicators are seeing elevated abuse of the B1/2 program, then it should be cracked down on.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-05 16:21:56+00:00
The thing is, Palantir doesn't enable that, their software does. And if Palantir didn't exist, the government could simply create it. (Some will say that the government is too incompetent to write software, to which I point to the US Digital Service, and also point out that trusting hyperbole is always a bad idea).

My point isn't that you shouldn't hate on Palantir, but that in doing so often the cause and effect get reversed in people's minds. They think that Palantir is the cause and eroded civil liberties is the result, when the opposite is true.
by wltechblog | 2025-08-05 16:21:59+00:00
Thingino has ssh. There are product docs available with the differences between chips, but in a nutshell X series have 128MB and others have 64, except for a newcomer (T23DL) that only has 32! For normal usage, 64MB is enough. The 32MB chip works well enough but you'll need to have an SD card inserted to do online firmware updates which otherwise isn't necessary.

If you don't see a specific device on our site, we either haven't seen one yet or we know it's not compatible. We rely on users to find new devices in the wild that we can port to, if you see an Ingenic chip in a cam not on the site let us know!
by SeanaldMcDnld | 2025-08-05 16:22:11+00:00
Consistent output and spatial coherence across each eye, maybe a couple years? But meeting head tracking accuracy and latency requirements, I’d bet decades. There’s no way any of this tech reduces end to end latency to acceptable levels, without a massive change in hardware. We’ll probably see someone use reprojection techniques in a year or so and claim they’ve done it. But true generated pixels straight to the headset based on head tracking, is so so far away.
by slashitapp | 2025-08-05 16:22:14+00:00
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by southernplaces7 | 2025-08-05 16:22:34+00:00
>The Soviet Union defeated the Nazis without mass bombings of German cities.

You're reading from a curiously misinformed understanding of history. The USSR defeated the Nazis by killing millions of them while also burning, bombarding and destroying their cities and anything else in its way en masse during a ferociously bloody campaign of revenge mixed with genuine military imperatives. Soviet soldiers also committed what are probably some of the biggest mass rape epidemics in modern history against their German enemy's women once they entered their territory. This in particular was immaterial to Soviet victory and not an official Soviet policy, but I mention it to underscore that there was absolutely no shortage of war crime-worthy targeting of civilians in many ways, and on a colossal scale by the Soviets too.

Read about the invasion and ethnic cleansing of East Prussia if you like. At least couple hundred thousand German civilians died as a result of that alone. None of this at all compares to what the Nazis did during their eastern conquests of course, but while a war crime is a war crime, degrees exist. Thus, it's not surprising if allied moral and military conduct was on a very long leash given such extremely savage enemies as Germany and Imperial Japan.