MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by charles_f | 2025-08-11 17:22:32+00:00
I've been back and forth on that topic, going to paper and back to a todo manager of some sort.

For the past few years I've been using obsidian for all my note taking, and none of the extensions I tried did what I wanted, so I built myself one[^1]. The initial goal was to take todos right within my notes, so I could keep the context of what the todo was about. Then I started adding stuff like planification and tagging. So it's entirely text based, but with a planner UI on top of it that makes it easy to drag and drop stuff to when I want to do them, and plan my day accordingly.

I think the more you go, the more you get set in your own ways, the harder it is to tag along on someone else's implementation of a system.

Low tech like paper and text files are good because they're maleable, and dont embed stuff you don't actually need.

^1: https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=proletarian-wizard
by notpushkin | 2025-08-11 17:22:40+00:00
I know I’m asking for too much, but.

The macOS app Secretive [1] stores SSH keys in the Secure Enclave. To make it work, they’ve selected an algorithm supported by the SE, namely ecdsa-sha2-nistp256.

I don’t think SE supports PQ algorithms, but would it be possible to use a “hybrid key” with a combined algorithm like mlkem768×ecdsa-sha2-nistp256, in a way that the ECDSA part is performed by the SE?

[1]: https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
by halflife | 2025-08-11 17:22:56+00:00
But that makes sense, as the OP said, oct 7th was a huge terror attack that was live-streamed and shared throughout all social media. Hamas filmed themselves on Facebook live doing horrific acts, and people shared and cheered. So obviously there would be an uptick of takedown requests.

Do you have any trend correlating terror attack in Israel and takedown requests?
by glitchc | 2025-08-11 17:23:02+00:00
This moral zealotry in the absence of any evidence just goes to show how Democrats believe in dogma, not facts. Let me provide you with a source [1]. You'll be pleased to know that conservatives do not have a monopoly on child molestation. Some of the highest number of cases are in Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Oregon, all firmly on the left.

[1] https://nyrequirements.com/blog/which_us_states_have_the_hig...
by bakuninsbart | 2025-08-11 17:23:16+00:00
I think you are making a couple of very good points getting bogged down in the wrong framework of discussion. Let me rephrase what I think you are saying:

Once you are very comfortable in a domain, it is detrimental to have to wrangle a junior dev with low IQ, way too much confidence but encyclopediac knowledge of everything instead of just doing it yourself.

The dichotomy of Junior vs. Senior is a bit misleading here, every junior is uncomfortable in the domain they are working in, but a Senior probably isn't comfortable in all domains. For example, many people with 10+ SE experience I know aren't very good with databases and data engineering, which is becoming an increasingly large part of the job. For someone who has worked 10+ years on Java Backends, now attempting to write Pythin data pipelines, Coding Agents might be a useful tool to gap that bridge.

The other thing is creation vs. critique. I often let my code, writing and planning be rewiewed by Claude or Gemini, because once I have created something, I know it very well, and I can very quickly go through 20 points of criticism/recommendations/tips and pick out the relevant ones. - And honestly, that has been super helpful. Using it that way around, Claude has caught a number of bugs, taught me some new tricks and made me aware of some interesting tech.
by bhandziuk | 2025-08-11 17:23:16+00:00
GitHub personal access tokens could be a lot better. It'd be nice if you could assign tokens at the team level or you have more fine grained control over token permissions.

And yes, I know "Fine Grained Tokens" exist but they don't seem to be usable almost anywhere and the fine grain level of control isn't actually very fine grained so they kind of suck.
by layer8 | 2025-08-11 17:23:20+00:00
Teletext still exists, and you can browse it online, for example via this page: https://sites.google.com/view/teletextonline

In case you’re unfamiliar, three-digit numbers on Teletext pages serve as hyperlinks. On a TV you would enter them on the remote control, in the browser you can just click or tap on them.

There are also mobile apps for accessing Teletext.
by vineyardmike | 2025-08-11 17:24:25+00:00
Don’t worry, it’s coming for real this time. The governments have been proposing a requirement that web companies connect accounts to government IDs.

If that isn’t exciting enough, Sam Altman (yea the one who popularized this LLM slop) will gladly sell you his WorldCoin to store your biometric data on the blockchain!
by ttoinou | 2025-08-11 17:24:34+00:00
expressing a fascination with the relationship between function, technology and aesthetics in a graceful structural form

I really like the viaduct, but one thing I'm always wondering about when I read such take as one : can you show me how ugly it could have been ? Do we have others proposals for the same bridge where the engineers would have produced something without an architect and the result wouldn't have been a gracious mix respecting the landscape forms ?

I want to believe what's written. At the same time, I never got any proof for such sentences, it's always blurry, poetic, without any demonstration trying to minimize varying factors as scientist like to do.
by Warwolt | 2025-08-11 17:24:43+00:00
I'm very mathematically inclined, so I would probably want a "proper" treatment of this subject to include both formal logic, set theory, type theory and model theory, but they're also subjects I'm still familiarizing myself with.

My basic pitch is that, to a large degree writing sensible computer programs is about modeling some real life activity that the computer program will be part of, and describing things accurately has been done in other fields than programming for many hundreds if not thousands of years, so there's a deep well to draw from.

Despite my appetite for a dry and mathematical treatment of writing computer programs, I still think the book is good for what it is. I think I would go easier on the book if it were not for the title, because philosophy is precisely one of those subjects that tend to favor being very precise about things, something I distinctly think the book lacks. What the book is, however, is an excellent _sketch_ on what we'd want out of program design. I definitely agree about the author's notion of "deep modules" being desirable.
by dijit | 2025-08-11 17:25:45+00:00
Tangled is a pretty cool idea, but I'm sorry to say that I'm hoping Gerrit gets a resurgence.

It fits my "do one thing, do it well" philosophy as it doesn't have opinions about CI, Issue trackers or even how you view the code online.

I'll admit that it's a nasty bastard to set up properly though, and the options for viewing repositories are universally terrible when not bundled with a code-review system (like Gitea, Github and Gitlab). Alas.
by phoenix_x | 2025-08-11 17:25:59+00:00
Hmm it is not working for MacOS :( I understand that linux and macos network stacks differ. However when I ran the test it and observed the network via wireshark, it seems that my machine does not send a request containing the same source port as the destination port. It just skips it, but anyway MacOS seems to have the same increasing sequential port behavior
by lupusreal | 2025-08-11 17:26:31+00:00
> In Europe, a Ford Transit is just what the local plumber or electrician drives. It's a no-nonsense work tool.

Its the same way in America. White vans are ubiquitous, used by plumbers / etc. IRL, people don't even take note of them because they're just unremarkable and extremely common.

The media trope is mostly just that, a media trope. Insofar as white vans have any real association with crime it's probably just because criminals will favor whatever windowless vehicle is the least attention grabbing and white vans are strong contenders for that.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 17:26:41+00:00
@unnamed76ri Haha, I love the Star Trek nod! Their post-money world sounds great, but where I'm from, hustle economy/treet vendors, okada riders, shows how hard it is to imagine no one needing cash.

Even if AI automates a ton, people will still want incentives for less glamorous jobs. Maybe UBI isn’t about scrapping money but ensuring a baseline so folks aren’t stuck scrubbing metaphorical torpedo tubes.

What’s your take—could a partial UBI make “low-level” work more voluntary?

└── Yarn me
by echelon | 2025-08-11 17:26:56+00:00
Sure, here are some liberal leaning sources saying things you might not like if you believe these things, including vile things said by extremist groups, should be censored:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

https://archive.is/TpU8Q

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/31/how-the-resurge...

Please note: I 100% abhor white supremacy and any kind of racism. But you can and should defend the right to free speech without agreeing with that speech.

We need to support the speech of all groups we detest - baby eaters, satanists, polygamists, racists, sexists, murderers, capitalists, Marxists, televangelists, etc. - in order to champion free speech for all. Once that freedom disappears, it won't come back. Then the systems of censorship and oppression will be used against us.

I'm LGBT. I know what it was like to grow up when my "lifestyle" was taboo. I know how easily and quickly society can change. I don't want to ever have my freedom removed or to be put into a box.

If you're uneasy about this, remember that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from judgement. If you say something disgusting, you'll lose credibility and business from most people. Crowds already effectively censor. But we don't need the government or public squares becoming thought police and building automated systems to muzzle and detain us. Once those systems get built, we're done for.
by 8organicbits | 2025-08-11 17:27:22+00:00
I believe todo apps run into the challenge that "to do" is way too broad a concept. Personally I track in-progress tasks (on a giant roll of paper), recurring and schedule tasks (especially where I coordinate with my spouse; on a dedicated Skylight smart-calendar), long term ideas and goals (as issues in a dedicated GitHub repo), meeting follow-ups (as .txt), groceries (on scrap paper), etc. The UX I want for each of these is quite different so I've never been able to make a generic todo app work. Worse, I'd hate to accidentally see my work list when I'm trying to do housework as I'm liable to start a side quest. So I need dedicated tools for each type of list.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-08-11 17:27:35+00:00
Totally agree, Todoist rocks. Recurring tasks are necessary for any kind of regular maintenance tasks, and Todoist supports all natural language scheduling "every month on the 15th" or "every 8 weeks starting Thursday". Textfile certainly isn't going to do this for you. Article author writes:

> Todoist: Great until I realized I was gaming the points system instead of doing actual work. Turns out completing “drink water” 8 times a day doesn’t make you productive.

Why didn't he turn off the points system if it was distracting, instead of migrating to the next shiny new TODO workflow? Not sure I understand, but I guess that might've left nothing to blog about.
by jandrese | 2025-08-11 17:27:54+00:00
IIRC connecting to the PSTN the best you would ever see was 48kbps, at least in the states, although if you were transferring uncompressed data in the clear sometimes the modem could compress it for you on the fly to get more data on the wire. In practice though big files tended to be compressed already so you rarely saw much benefit from that. You needed some sort of closed phone network that didn't compress the voice channel the way the phone company did in order for the modems to negotiate up to the max.
by phil21 | 2025-08-11 17:27:58+00:00
Try as I might, the best to-do/task list I can come up with is a legal pad. Mixed with notes of the day for meetings or ad-hoc remembering-of-things.

Closest to that is a .txt file in my specific format, but even that is not quite as good.

The days/weeks I can maintain discipline with a legal pad are much more productive. It works well if you work out of an office or a single location, but breaks down quickly if you are moving around.

A notebook is a close second, just not quite as easy to go page through quickly to figure out wtf you were doing 3 weeks ago or find that one note you're pretty sure you have but not quite sure where or when.

I've tried pretty much every electronic form out there, but have never been able to maintain it. The Remarkable 2 comes the closest, but I've found it tends to be very much "write only" compared to a legal pad. Hard to go through it and reference past notes quickly.
by riffraff | 2025-08-11 17:28:06+00:00
Not OP, but I do.

The '90s/00s era of people hating on M$ and picturing them as the Borg had left room to the 10s/20s of MS being "friendly" and releasing open source and free things (typescript, vs code, core.net, wsl, work on python etc) and not completely screwing up acquisitions like GitHub or Mojang.

Windows became adware, and office became some crappy online thing, but _microsoft_ had became nicer and gained goodwill.

This seems to have started evaporating in the last year or so.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-08-11 17:28:08+00:00
Assuming they have a car (which a lot of people don't), this would be on the same level as asking about what phone they use - some people carefully chose theirs and want to talk about it, but for a lot of people it's just a thing that exists and gets the job done. It might get the conversation going, just the same as many other topics, but it won't be a conversation they'll especially enjoy in most parts of the world.
by freedomben | 2025-08-11 17:28:16+00:00
> Forget your modern high-tech nicknacks like satnavs and touchscreens. All you get here is a steering wheel, a big chrome-lined speedometer dial and a chunky heater control. There isn't even a radio.

> Out on the road, it rattles and bangs and occasionally jumps out of gear.

> Disconcertingly, there's no seatbelt, the seat itself has an alarming tendency to move around, and the brakes don't seem to do very much at all.

I have a friend who collects and restores classic cars, and it is mindblowing how polished modern vehicles are (despite attempts by Ford et al to fill them with the world's shittest software so that you sometimes have to pull over and power cycle (restart) your car just to fix the GD radio). If you haven't ridden in a vehicle 50 years or older in a while, and you get a chance to, take it!
by btilly | 2025-08-11 17:28:30+00:00
It sounds like your life requires a manager's schedule. Lots and lots of things to fit into a busy day. Likely without a lot of big blocks of focus time.

Most programmers are far better off with a maker's schedule. Far fewer things in a day. Each with a significant block of time associated with it.

An absolutely minimal productivity system is perfect for anyone on a maker's schedule. You're right that it wouldn't work for your life.

See https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html if you're not familiar with the terms "manager's schedule" and "maker's schedule". It also provides context for why those different kinds of schedules are appropriate for different people. (One of the big mistakes that people on manager's schedules often make is to not recognize and respect the impact that a "quick 15 minute meeting" has on employees who need to be on a maker's schedule.)
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-11 17:29:09+00:00
> For me LLM:s are just a computer interface you can program using natural language.

Sort of. You still can't get a reliable output for the same input. For example, I was toying with using ChatGPT with some Siri shortcuts on my iPhone. I do photography on the side, and finding a good time for lighting for photoshoots is a usecase I use a lot so I made a shortcut which sends my location to the API along with a prompt to get the sunset time for today, total amount of daylight, and golden hour times.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it says "I don't have specific golden hour times, but you can find those on the web" or a useless generic "Golden hour is typically 1 hour before sunset but can vary with location and season"

Doesn't feel like programming to me, as I can't get reproducible output.

I could just use the LLM to write some API calling script from some service that has that data, but then why bother with that middle man step.

I like LLMs, I think they are useful, I use them everyday but what I want is a way to get consistent, reproducible output for any given input/prompt.
by jlbooker | 2025-08-11 17:29:25+00:00
It's a bit of semantics, sure, but there's a subtle difference. In something like Java, there's a very distinct complication phase, the compilation is successful (type checks pass) and the bytecode is shipped off, and someone else runs that bytecode later. In PHP, you ship the code itself and the compilation phase is essentially the same as runtime. There is no distinct phase where types are pre-checked and analyzed. In PHP, all the syntax and type checking happens during (a phase of) runtime.
by klipklop | 2025-08-11 17:29:29+00:00
>I think I’m slightly ADD. I love coding _interesting_ things but boring tasks cause extreme discomfort. >Now - I can offload the most boring task to LLM and spend my mental energy on the interesting stuff!

I agree and I feel that having LLM's do boilerplate type stuff is fantastic for ADD people. The dopamine hit you get making tremendous progress before you get utterly bored is nice. The thing that ADD/ADHD people are the WORST at is finishing projects. LLM will help them once the thrill of prototyping a green-field project is over.
by cogman10 | 2025-08-11 17:29:29+00:00
Sure, I don't agree with that assessment, but I get where it comes from.

I find the "what-about"ism somewhat tiring at this point. What Israel is currently doing is unconscionable.

This is really not unlike trying to criticize the war crimes committed during the Warsaw uprising or the actions of John Brown. Were they wrong? Yes. Were they understandable? Absolutely. Bringing them up whenever someone brings up the actions of the Nazis or the slave owners is what's problematic. It tries to strip away the humanity of people that are being slaughtered in order to justify the slaughtering.
by biophysboy | 2025-08-11 17:29:37+00:00
Why is there so much pressure for Apple to compete in LLM AI? There's a lot of competitors. It would cost them a lot. Their business in design/manufacturing/branding is not as compatible w/ AI as social media or search. All of the AI-related consumer products so far have been mediocre and redundant given the smartphone.

I don't understand why their best strategy isn't to just stand and watch, and then ruthlessly integrate the winner with their product line.
by ljosifov | 2025-08-11 17:30:21+00:00
Good man. Everyone eventually reaches the same year zero: a text file.

Then adds structure back, as it suits their persona. Not too much, not too little, just right - goldilocks. It's very personal, even more than a smartphone.

For me - $ githome add logBook to git $HOME solves versioning and replication:

giho() { (cd "$HOME" && git --git-dir="$HOME"/.githome/ --work-tree="$HOME" "$@";) } # prior must $ git init --bare $HOME/.githome

And in the logBook structure currently at:

1. Sections FIXME, TODO, DONE, DONTDO. Keep them vi searchable /^SECTION$.

2. Entry start searchable /^-(space).

3. Entry end separator from next is empty line searchable /^$.

4. New items add at the top, push old items down.

5. Items move wholesale, no change on between sections move.

6. Items spending too long in TODO moved into DONTDO.

7. No new items added in TODO if FIXME is not empty.

8. If really really need to add to TODO - then move blocking FIXME entries to TODO.

9. Above are rules of thumb - break them with a reason, don't break them without reasons.
by probably_wrong | 2025-08-11 17:30:43+00:00
While I wouldn't comment the way the OP comment did, I see the comment as a response to the hype of "the new version of the model is so good, you would be an idiot if you didn't start firing your PhDs right now".

Hype breeds anti-hype, and comments like this are IMO the natural counterpart of users commenting on every single story with something AI related regardless of whether it's a good fit.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-11 17:31:44+00:00
If there’s a competitor I’ll definitely switch. For things like banks the pain would have to be pretty bad.

But for things like impulse purchases from social media ads, I’ll definitely just close the site if it’s just moderately slow.

There are small slowdowns that will change your behavior in little ways that add up. Maybe you have a Walmart pickup order in, and you think oh I’ll add some ice cream for dessert tonight. If you know the process is super slow, you might just remember how slow it is and decide it’s not worth it because you don’t really need ice cream anyway.

There are tons of studies showing that wait times costs money, and that users will drop if the load time is too long.
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-11 17:32:09+00:00
> Israel can either be aligned with the western sphere of influence or not, but belonging to it has some requirements and not being an ethnostate is definitely one of them.

Most of the West is made up of nations that are, to at least some degree, ethnostates. If they aren't explicitly ethnostates, then they have large political blocs that grew out of ethnic groups. See: Sinn Fein, Bloc Québécois, Scottish National Party, Basque Nationalist Party, Republican Left of Catalonia, Plaid Cymru, and others.

Most of the above listed seek to exercise political power in a given region based on ethnicity. Some even have large delegations to regional or national legislative bodies. All are in countries generally identified as Western.

Even some of what you would define a country as, generally speaking, is somewhat influenced by ethnic factors like language and religion.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-11 17:32:11+00:00
As if that matters. He never takes responsibility for literally anything. Blames other people for his appointees and laws. All negative consequences are always someone else's fault.

And his base gobbles it up.

Heck, even it did get attributed to him - it doesn't matter. 47% of conservatives said they'd still support Trump even if he raped children with Epstein: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-47-republican...
by mesotron_dev | 2025-08-11 17:32:15+00:00
I generate unit tests, comments, and more. A critical aspect is well-defined system instructions. Defining system instructions and prompts with XML formatting provides significant benefits. Think of LLMs as a force multiplier for most use cases. Upload the codebase and generate comments, unit tests, functional tests, mc/dc tests, etc. What follows is a matter of review and edits to outputs. Never unquestioningly trust, and instead, slowly train and refine models for any given project, as this approach tends to reap rewards in my experience.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-11 17:32:54+00:00
> The police can always point to some death that wouldn't have happened

Why must it be this way?

Because we're a bunch of bitch-ass pansies unwilling to tell our fellow countrymen (and women) to shove it when they permit the use of such logic.

I don't care "how many children need to die" or whatever, the sum total of the affronts upon our freedom a is not worth it. What even is the point of caring about the children if we're giving them a totalitarian dump to inherit?