MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-08-29 05:35:43+00:00
> Nobody's making small, lightweight, low range, low power EVs.

Small low power EVs are everywhere.

Unless you’re setting the bar so low that you expect a tiny 50-100 mile range car. That’s not going to happen because everyone would pass right over it and get an affordable EV with multiple times the range for only marginally more cost.
by manmal | 2025-08-29 05:36:33+00:00
If a bunch of markdown files forced into the context is “knowing”, then yes. They are usually located at /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/PlugIns/IDEIntelligenceChat.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AdditionalDocumentation

You are free to point Claude Code to that folder, or make a slash command that loads their contents. Or, start CC with -p where the prompt is the content of all those files.

Claude Code integration in Xcode would be very cool indeed, but I might still stick with VSCode for pure coding.
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-29 05:36:37+00:00
"Because you still want to use (and not just "look at") Facebook or WhatsApp or BSky or Drive or CoD:BO6 or... everything."

For many people that's true and good luck to them.

For others, myself included, I can't think of anything worse online than being locked into mega corporations such as Google and Facebook. I don't have a Google or Facebook account and I de-Google my Android phone by either disabling or removing all Goolge apps (there are pleanty of alternatives).

I'd bet that if you did a survey you'd find that those who can live without scripts are also those who can essentially live without Social Media and or Google apps. However, for many, the imperatives of Social Media are so strong that no argument would ever convince them to go script-free.

In essence, here we're dealing with diametrically opposite worldviews and there's little point or value in trying to reconcile them.
by nsonha | 2025-08-29 05:37:36+00:00
I am pretty comfortable with CSS, enough to find tailwind useless. I've done front-end work exclusively too (not anymore). Just because one has the skill doesn't mean they can't acknowledge the stupidity of it. People bash CRUD code not because they can't write it, it's just boring and sometimes wrong too (crud API, don't get me started on that)
by somat | 2025-08-29 05:37:37+00:00
Speaking of chalkboards, next time you have to give a presentation, bring a chalkboard and do your slides in realtime. Something about the visual show, auditory overload, and not least the novelty of the act makes it much more impactful and memorial than "another powerpoint that puts you to sleep"

White boards are... ok... better than powerpoint but still fail to sell it like a chalkboard does. I think it is the noise.
by osullivj | 2025-08-29 05:37:48+00:00
Written code is an auditable entity in regulated businesses, like banks. Fowler suggests we get more comfortable with uncertainty because other eng domains have developed good risk mgmt. Cart before horse. Other engineering domains strive to mitigate the irreducible uncertainty of the physical world. AI adds uncertainty to any system. And there are many applications where increased uncertainty will lead to an increase in human suffering.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-29 05:38:34+00:00
The hardware for the Librem 5 is difficult to justify for the price. Googling suggests that its SoC is comparable to a circa-2016 Snapdragon with worse power efficiency. At $800 you’re looking at upper-midrange/lower-flagship pricing for a device that many phones half its price or less would run circles around. Similar problem as the PinePhone Pro.

If it were in the ballpark of a 2-3, maybe 4 year old Pixel, it’d make more sense and probably sell better.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-29 05:40:17+00:00
As someone seeing this going on since OpenMoko, was at Nokia when Nokia 770 Internet Tablet was shown to employees for feedback before going public, it has always been the same story regarding getting these devices actually flying off the shelves from consumer shops.

Some enjoy more attention than others, savy people buying them online, and eventually fade away for the next attempt, while general public continues unaware of their existence.
by RajT88 | 2025-08-29 05:40:19+00:00
I'm not a gearhead, but a car admirer. Bought my first fun car recently (a 2001 MR2 Spyder - probably my last fun car).

I think we're a long way off self-driving cars in earnest, but we're in the shorter term leaving behind the idea of cars as something where their performance in some way correlates with social status. As hard as you try, you can't deny that element is there for gearheads and tuners - it's writ large across the Fast film franchise.
by PeterStuer | 2025-08-29 05:41:06+00:00
That is for a very specific class of usecases. If they would turn up the sycophancy on the new model, those people would not call for the old onee.

The reasoning here is off. It is like saying new game development is nearly over as some people keep playing old games.

My feeling: we've yet barely scrarched the surface on the milage we can get out of even today's frontier models, but we are just at the beginning of a huge runway for improved models and architectures. Watch this space.
Most devs obsess over code quality, few obsess over distribution. Why?
by snippkit | 2025-08-29 05:41:15+00:00
I’ve been thinking about this:

- We obsess over code quality, architecture, and scaling.

- But we rarely “debug” distribution — why people sign up, how they discover us, or why they leave.

For those of you who have built something that actually took off — what made the biggest difference:

1. A feature you built?

2. Or something you did outside of coding?

Curious to hear real-world stories.
by drodgers | 2025-08-29 05:41:32+00:00
> What am I doing wrong

Trying two things and giving up. It's like opening a REPL for a new language, typing some common commands you're familiar with, getting some syntax errors, then giving up.

You need how to learn to use your tools to get the best out of them!

Start by thinking about what you'd need to tell a new Junior human dev you'd never met before about the task if you could only send a single email to spec it out. There are shortcuts, but that's a good starting place.

In this case, I'd specifically suggest:

1. Write a CLAUDE.md listing the toolchains you want to work with, giving context for your projects, and listing the specific build, test etc. commands you work with on your system (including any helpful scripts/aliases you use). Start simple; you can have claude add to it as you find new things that you need to tell it or that it spends time working out (so that you don't need to do that every time).

2. In your initial command, include a pointer to an example project using similar tech in a directory that claude can read

3. Ask it to come up with a plan and ask for your approval before starting
by pell | 2025-08-29 05:41:52+00:00
In my experience Claude is quite good at the popular stacks in the JavaScript, Python and PHP world. It struggled quite a bit when I asked it non-trivial questions in C or Rust for example. For smaller languages (e.g., Crystal) it seems to hallucinate a lot. I think since a lot of people work in JS, Python and PHP, that’s where Claude is very valuable and that’s where a lot of the praise feel justified too.
by Teever | 2025-08-29 05:42:19+00:00
In the context of outsourcing ship production the original line I wrote was "It has become so dire that the US Navy is looking to outsource ship production to South Korea." I feel that the link that I have provided is a pretty solid source regarding the US making moves towards outsourcing ship production to South Korea and your nitpicking what I wrote and the source I provided doesn't add much to the conversation.

The point I'm trying to make with all of this is that the US simply lacks the industrial capacity to produce sufficient materiel for a protracted war with China. And not only does it currently lack the capacity, there is no indication that the political or social structures that dominate American discourse see this as a priority.

You describe this asymmetrical warfare technique of the US using missiles that have a fraction of the cost of the ships that they're targeting as if it's a unique strategy when it's the exact same thing that the Chinese are going to be doing.

The difference is that the Chinese have the ability to build many more missiles, and many more ships, and they're not nearly as exposed to cyber attacks and fifth column sabotage as the US is. So what will likely happen is they'll both survive the first round of engagements over Taiwan with the US narrowly winning and then the Chinese will rebuild more and faster and will win the next round of engagements. Or even worse the US will just let China have Taiwan because the political structure of the US is so unbelievably dysfunctional.

It's not like I want any of this to happen either. I'd love to live in a world where China was a non Authoritarian country that didn't have ambitions of dominating its neighbours but that just isn't the world we live in.

I find it dismaying that anytime I bring up my concerns about this matter online people are so quick to dismiss them with little thought. There are a lot of people who consider the US being the hegemonic military force of the plant to be a fundamental part of reality and they just can't fathom a scenario where that isn't the case.

Either way we're all going to find out in 18 months. I hope I'm wrong about this.
by xp84 | 2025-08-29 05:43:02+00:00
Interesting, but on the other side of the coin I can tell you that in 10 years of renting I've only foregone small fractions of my deposits and always by choice (pre-departure inspection tells you what they'd charge for anything amiss, and you can choose to clean/fix/etc. or pay them out of your deposit). If you don't get a pre-departure inspection you're definitely set up for ambiguity and shadiness.

In one apartment, I even spilled some bleach in a closet, and sneakily replaced the piece of carpet from the scraps I found when they were recarpeting a nearby unit. They didn't notice or care.
by watwut | 2025-08-29 05:44:15+00:00
> America has a much higher risk tolerance than the rest of the world.

America is one of the most risk averse countries in the world, seriously. Americans are constantly scared - of loosing job, of physical injury, of everything and everywhere.

> Failing is considered a good thing in the USA

America punishes failure pretty hard. Some peoples failures are ignored, but most peoples failures are punished in pretty significant ways.
by verandaguy | 2025-08-29 05:44:32+00:00
Hi, posting from my main account (I'm also the poster of the GP comment).

"Nothing special" in this case was meant to describe the fact that it's random data with no identifiable patterns inherent to the data; you're absolutely right that that's what obfs4 does. I understand the confusion though, this phrasing could be better.

> your government can decide to block unknown protocols

This does happen, though when I worked in the industry it wasn't common. Blocking of specific protocols was much more of an obstacle.

> you should trick DPI into thinking it sees HTTPS. Unless your government decides to block HTTPS

HTTPS blocking (typically based on either the presence of a specific SNI field value, or based on the use of the ESNI/ECH TLS extension) was prolific. I won't comment on whether this was effective or not in impeding efforts to get people in these places connected.

I will say though, Operator's Replicant does something similar to what you're describing in that it can mimic unrelated protocols. It's a clever approach, unfortunately it was a bit immature when I was working in that area so the team didn't adopt it while I was around.
by k310 | 2025-08-29 05:46:11+00:00
NYT only mentions "16 states, including Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, even to people who meet newly restricted criteria"

A web search turned up no mention of the other 13 states, nor did the CVS website.

https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine

As for Wallgreens,

> Walgreens, the nation’s second largest pharmacy chain, did not respond to requests for comment about the availability of Covid shots at its stores. But when a New York Times reporter tried to schedule vaccine appointments in all 50 states, the pharmacy’s website said patients would need a prescription in 16.

I suppose the 16 will be revealed. It's just interesting that 13 were not mentioned in the article, nor anywhere else I looked tonight.
by baq | 2025-08-29 05:46:13+00:00
Why wouldn’t it be possible if meat computers can do it more or less reliably? The construction of such a machine is a matter of time; whether it’s a year or a century is anyone’s guess.

When it is eventually made, though… it’s either aligned or we’re in trouble. Job cushiness will be P2 or P3 in a world where a computer can do everything economically viable better than any human.
by _boffin_ | 2025-08-29 05:46:32+00:00
too big of tasks. break them down and then proceed from there. have it build out task lists in a TASKS.md. review those tasks. do you agree? no? work with it to refine. implement one by one. have it add the tests. refactor after awhile as {{model}} doesn't like to do utility functions a lot. right now, about +50k lines in to a project that's vibecoded. i sit back and direct and it plays.

Imagine the CS 100 class where they ask you to make a PB&J. saying for it to make it, there's a lot of steps, but determine known the steps. implement each step. progress.
by exe34 | 2025-08-29 05:46:39+00:00
I have their pinenote - as far as I can tell, the community has done a great job on the Linux image, but I ended up sticking with the android fw as I can't be bothered to reflash the Linux partition now in case I brick it.

I think it can be done this way, with the manufacturer taking care of hardware and the community taking care of software - but they should at least fund one or two people and some projects directly to make it work.

the pinenote is a great little ereader with the android fw.
by NoPicklez | 2025-08-29 05:48:02+00:00
You can say AI might make doctors worse, but this is going to be the same issue wherever it is used in my opinion.

I spend a fair chunk of my time writing reports for various clients of different management levels. It's taken me many years to get good at writing effective reports, conveying gaps and recommendations. I worry that using AI in its place would reduce my ability to keep up that level of writing and comprehension.

If you don't use it you lose it so to speak.
by verandaguy | 2025-08-29 05:50:25+00:00
Nit: you likely mean steganography, stenography is what court reporters do :)

I encourage you and anyone else here to read into the GFW if you're interested. It's more like the Great Firewalls -- there's regional fragmentation with different vendors, operators, implementations and rules between different parts of the country.

Predictably this means there's no one-size-fits-all solution to circumventing censorship on the Chinese internet, and research into this area's difficult since China has both the technical means to identify violations very efficiently as well as the bureaucratic infrastructure to carry out enforcement actions against a considerable portion of those people who violate the GFW rules (with enforcement action being anything from a "cooldown period" on your internet connection where you can't make any connections for some amount of time between minutes and days, fines, or imprisonment depending on the type of content you were trying to access).

So, the ethics of digging into this get very muddy, very fast.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-08-29 05:50:56+00:00
many enterprises store their code on GitHub, owned by Microsoft, operator of Copilot

you can use Claude via bedrock and benefit from AWS trust

Gemini? Google owns your e-mail. Maybe you're even one of those weirdos who doesn't use Google for e-mail - I bet your recipient does.

so... they have your code, your secrets, etc.
by palmfacehn | 2025-08-29 05:51:06+00:00
>You can't have a family if you live at mom's house.

Elsewhere in the 3rd world people are doing that. Savings is still valued, rather than debt and credit for everything. Interestingly, this is often in the form of precious metals rather than paper money or digitized bank balances.

People overlook the genesis of the climate doom movement and the overlap between the neo-malthusians, who themselves had a large overlap with the eugenicists. It isn't to say that everyone involved is cheering for depopulation, but understanding how these ideologies evolved puts the results in better context.
by delusional | 2025-08-29 05:51:43+00:00
> similar to how there's a lot going on behind the scenes in Google or ChatGPT

I would caution against maling this sort of comparison to tech companies. Speaking from personal experience, my vantage point is limited to Denmark, but banking isn't complicated like tech is. In tech the complications are all self inflicted, all serve to make the product. Banking interacts directly with the foundation of society. Most of the complication of banking is therefore not in service of the product, but in service of democracy.

That distinction affects the mentality and the "feel" of the complications a lot.
by riku_iki | 2025-08-29 05:53:11+00:00
> your nitpicking what I wrote and the source I provided doesn't add much to the conversation.

lol, you wrote clearly: "Here's a recent story about the outsourcing of ship production to South Korea[0]"

I am confused how else it can be read as not "about the outsourcing of ship production to South Korea"

> if it's a unique strategy when it's the exact same thing that the Chinese are going to be doing.

they won't be doing this, they are surrounded by US military bases and don't have ability to project power to US territory, and US doesn't have plans to invade China, so ships don't need to come close to coastline.

sorry, ignored rest of your speculations, because imo they grounded in nothing.
by johnnienaked | 2025-08-29 05:53:25+00:00
But there's no way those "costs" are real because companies are currently losing money on purpose to accumulate market share and stay ahead of their competitors, similar to Amazon selling diapers at a loss to put diapers.com out of business and then jacking the prices.

So the true cost could be 10x as much as stated, we have no idea.
by nirv | 2025-08-29 05:54:38+00:00
> Chinese government [...] gives tons of freedom for business owners to run wild

This claim is provably incorrect.

> Analysis of all 37.5 million registered firms in China reveals that 65% of the largest 1,000 private owners have direct equity ties with state owners […] The number of private owners with direct equity ties with the state almost tripled between 2000 and 2019, and those with indirect equity ties rose 50-fold.

> Provincial and local government officials in China enforce laws and control resources, such as land and loans, but these officials change positions every few years. […] Publicly listed firms increase perk spending (travel, dining, and entertainment) by an average of 3.6 million yuan (20%) when new local officials take charge. […] The results are consistent with the view that local officials are important gatekeepers and firms seek to influence them with perks and positions of power within SOEs.[1][2]

> China’s domestic politics have changed significantly over the past decade, with the top leadership enacting much more muscular policies to limit the power of large corporations while also deploying extensive measures to support firms, especially in key industries. According to Hsieh, this trend means that companies need to navigate the state’s “two strong hands,” one supportive and the other restrictive which aim to increase the party’s control over the economy even as the private sector continues, in one form or another, to grow. Moreover, political control is likely proving oppressive for companies as the party-state increasingly weights national security over economic growth. […] These findings […] suggest that not all government intervention in the economy is welcome by Chinese companies, especially if it comes with national security strings attached. The findings from the experiment suggest that state and party influence on private firms may have evolved to prioritize politics above economic growth, creating new challenges for companies that would naturally seek to maximize political support alongside autonomy.[3]

[1] https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/rise-state-conne...

[2] https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/how-do-chinas-fi...

[3] https://bigdatachina.csis.org/unpacking-linkages-between-the...
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-29 05:54:50+00:00
Luckily the democratic west has been setting a really good example so there's no way a hegemonic China can get away with genocide, chopping up journalists, poisoning the air, causing famines, ignoring international bodies, committing war crimes, torturing people, toppling other country's governments, invading nations on flimsy pretexts...

And all that's before counting whatever Trump manages to ruin before his time is up.
by citizenpaul | 2025-08-29 05:55:23+00:00
Well yes. He is a journalist. Not an analyst. I don't think he is a prophet or anything nor is is a tech person so yeah his details on operation are off. The money business side though he seem to be the only person willing to poke holes in the whole AI thing publicly.

I'm not an AI hater. I genuinely hope it take over every single white collar job that exists. I'm not being sarcastic or hyperbolic. Only then will we be able to re-discuss what society is in a more humane way.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-29 05:55:59+00:00
I suspect the difference lies in people who think in code versus people who translate their thoughts into code

I think in code and programming concepts when I am writing software . I don't really know how to explain that, but I don't often feel like there is any friction between my thoughts and the code I make

I think that many coders do not have this. They have an extra "translation" step that introduces friction into their workflow

I don't experience this friction, so LLM coding introduces new friction that I don't like

They do experience this friction, so LLM coding doesn't introduce new friction for them, it may transform their previous friction into a new form that is easier for them to navigate

I don't know. Maybe I'm talking out my ass, this is just a random theory based on no real evidence
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-29 05:56:10+00:00
I'm referring to the failure of Hilbert's program. All the incompleteness, undefinability and undecidability results arise when and only when some sort of infinite objects are present so I can definitely see the allure of finitism.

ZFC is a working foundation of math but it's unknown whether it's consistent or arithmetically sound and important statements like CH are independent from it. It's a "working foundation" but not a "true foundation" which alas cannot exist.

As mentioned above I'm personally not a finitist and think that math without infinite and uncountable sets is intellectually poorer. I don't mind however developing further a finitist subset of math and see what's provable (and describable) in it, much like there's value in proving theorems in ZF instead of ZFC whenever possible.