MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tibbar | 2025-08-08 18:16:05+00:00
I've worked on many migrations of things from vX to vX + 1, and there's always a tension between maximum backwards-compatibility, supporting every theoretical existing use-case, and just "flipping the switch" to move everyone to the New Way. Even though I, personally, am a "max backwards-compatibility" guy, it can be refreshing when someone decides to rip off the bandaid and force everyone to use the new best practice. How exciting! Unfortunately, this usually results in accidentally eliminating some feature that turns out to be Actually Important, a fuss is made, and the sudden forced migration is reverted after all.

I think the best approach is to move people to the newest version by default, but make it possible to use old versions, and then monitor switching rates and figure out what key features the new system is missing.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-08 18:16:33+00:00
> His whole work, a pamphlet discussing massacring the bourgeoisie

It's not cool to make stuff up just to win an argument. It makes you lose the argument.

> In fact it was a part of Marx's work in much the same way as you are arguing it here: he was falsely accusing capitalist and bourgeoisie of mass surveillance, even while he was trying to do it himself. But yeah, Marx is Marx.

Yeah, Marx was trying to establish a vast spy network of ravens and pigeons, spanning the whole continent on Wakanda. /s

Both mine and your statements are equally true.

> Yes, the need for mass surveillance of the masses is actually in Marx and Engels's work.

Yeah, in the unpublished archives that only you have access to. /s
by dbreunig | 2025-08-08 18:17:08+00:00
I’m wondering that too. I think better routers will allow for more efficiency (a good thing!) at the cost of giving up control.

I think OpenAI attempted to mitigate this shift with the modes and tones they introduced, but there’s always going to be a slice that’s unaddressed. (For example, I’d still use dalle 2 if I could.)
by autoexec | 2025-08-08 18:17:50+00:00
> The point still stands that people who committed "illegal entry" are the backbone of our society.

If the "backbone of our society" is a heavily exploited and abused underclass of people being just a step above slave labor then I think this system needs to be changed rather than preserved. The sooner our society is forced to improve itself the more secure our nation and our food supply will be.
by grumbel | 2025-08-08 18:18:10+00:00
Cyc[0] tried for 40 years to make handwritten semantic rules a thing, but still don't have much to show for. Humans just aren't good or fast at writing down the rather fuzzy semantics of the real world into a computer readable format.

With RDF specially, there was also the issue of "WTF is this good for?". Semantic Web sounds lofty in theory, but was there ever even a clear plan on how the UI would look like? How would I explore all that semantic data if it ever came into existence? How would it deal with link rot?

And much like with RSS, I think a big failure of RDF is that it's some weird thing outside the Web, instead of just some addition HTML tags to enrich existing documents. If there is a failure, it's that. Even today, a lot of basic semantic tags are missing from HTML, we finally got <date> in 2011, but we still have nothing for names, cities, units, books[1], movie, gps coordinates and a lot of other stuff we use daily.

Another big failure is that HTML has become a read-only format, the idea that one uses HTML as a source format to publish documents seems to have been completely abandoned. HTML is just a UI language for Web apps nowadays, Markdown, LaTeX or whatever is what one uses to write content.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

1. <a href="urn:isbn:..."> exists, but browsers don't support it natively
by philip1209 | 2025-08-08 18:18:25+00:00
This is cool - I have a similar home lab on a Mac Mini [1].

The encryption question is interesting. I don't have disk encryption turned on, because I want the computer to recover from power failure. If power turns off then on, the server would be offline until I decrypt it.

How does your "Wake on LAN" work with the encryption?

[1] https://github.com/contraptionco/toolbox
by epolanski | 2025-08-08 18:18:51+00:00
That's insightful.

I spend a lot of time planning tasks, generating various documents per pr (requirements, questions, todo), having AI poke my ideas (business/product/ux/code-wise) etc.

After 45 minutes of back and forth in general we end up with a detailed plan.

This has also many benefits: - writing tests becomes very simple (unit, integration, E2Es) - writing documentation becomes very simple - writing meaningful PRs becomes very simple

It is quite boring though, not gonna lie. But that's a price I have accepted for quality.

Also, clearing the ideas so much before hand often leads me to come with creative ideas later in the day, when I go for walks and review mentally what we've done/how.
by the_real_cher | 2025-08-08 18:18:52+00:00
The math in the statement is correct in the short term. If the risk-free rate is around 3% and the equity risk premium is about 4%, the expected return on stocks would be roughly 7% a year, which would double values in about 10–11 years using the Rule of 72. That doubling could occur for a time even without productivity growth, as companies can boost earnings through pricing power, cost-cutting, or financial engineering.

Over the long run, though, sustained returns depend on fundamentals like productivity growth, population growth, and inflation. Without productivity gains, corporate profits would eventually stagnate, making it difficult to maintain a 7% annual return. Risk premiums, interest rates, and valuations also change over time, so fixed assumptions rarely hold for decades. In short, the doubling math works, but it oversimplifies the economic reality that long-term stock growth ultimately relies on productivity.
by conductr | 2025-08-08 18:19:38+00:00
Low income people chase goods with all their money. High income people squirrel it away or spend on luxury goods.

You’ll redistribute the money such that the things that people receiving the subsidies need/want now have more money chasing them. That will cause inflation of those goods.

I don’t think this causes lasting inflation, it causes a step up of inflation. Precisely in a way that once every thing stabilizes nobody is better or worse than they were previously. I read Friedman in ECON 101 thirty years ago, I’ve probably forgotten a lot but not the role of velocity in MV=PQ.
Telnyx adds GPT-5 and Groq GPT-OSS-120B to Voice AI Agents
by maevesentner | 2025-08-08 18:19:49+00:00
Telnyx just rolled out new LLM support for their Voice AI Agents: OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Groq’s gpt-oss-120b are now available in the AI Assistant Builder.

GPT-5 is configured with minimal reasoning effort by default to keep latency suitable for real-time voice while still delivering high-quality conversations. The aggressively low cached input pricing of GPT-5 makes it an especially attractive choice for voice agents, where most tokens are cached input.

Groq’s gpt-oss-120b offers lightning-fast, open-source inference for those seeking performance without vendor lock-in.

You can switch models instantly and test live in the Telnyx AI Assistant Builder.

Learn more: https://telnyx.com/release-notes/gpt-5-groq-gpt-oss-120b-llm-support
by muzani | 2025-08-08 18:19:56+00:00
Freelance queries are rushing in again but they're benchmarked against inflated AI expectations.

Someone asked for something similar to a meal delivery app, but it had to be in production in 2 weeks. Bro, it would take more than 2 weeks just to figure out what you want. Just vibe code it or something and I'll build a proper app once you figure it out.

Other people who have no experience in AI think they can vibe code stuff in 3 hours for a client and will quote them based on this. Sometimes the client themselves will think this. I've had people who were interested suddenly back out after I iron out the technical details.
by epolanski | 2025-08-08 18:20:32+00:00
> My experience with coding agents is they need a lot of hand-holding.

So do engineers.

The difference is that IRL engineers know a lot about the context of the business, features, product, ux, stakeholders, expectations, etc, etc which means that the hand-holding is a long running process.

LLMs need all of these things to be clearly written down and specified in one shot.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-08-08 18:20:37+00:00
I suspect that it may not necessarily be that they're getting objectively _worse_ as much as that they aren't static products. They're constantly getting their prompts/context engines tweaked in ways that surely break peoples' familiar patterns. There really needs to be a way to cheaply and easily anchor behaviors so that people can get more consistency. Either that or we're just going to have to learn to adapt.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-08 18:21:04+00:00
Those countries seek destructive control of all within its sphere of influence.

There are generally two types of countries, those that seek agency, independence, and freedom of rational thought and action; which requires privacy, and there are those that seek ultimate control, imposing dependence, coercion and corruption of reason; from the top down.

The cultures that seek total control generally fall under totalism and are parasitic in nature. The ones that seek agency, freedom, and independence, Protean.
by jjani | 2025-08-08 18:21:05+00:00
Is it really this easy now to get your article high on HN with 100 comments? The findings are completely meaningless.

"Agenticness" depends so much on the specific tooling (harness) and system prompts. It mentions Copilot - did it use this for both? Given it's created by Microsoft there's good reason to believe it'd be built yo do especially well with GPT (they'll have had 5 available in preview for months by now). Or it could be the opposite and be tuned towards Sonnet. At the very minimum you'd need to try a few different harnesses, preferably ones not closely related to either OpenAI/MS or Anthropic.

This article even mentions things like "Sonnet is much faster" which is very dependent on the specific load at the time of usage. Today everyone is testing GPT-5 so it's slow and Sonnet is much faster.
by sagiadinos | 2025-08-08 18:21:24+00:00
Garlic-Hub, the open-source digital signage CMS built around SMIL for streamlined device and content management, has reached its Release Candidate stage.

The current Edge edition—designed for small deployments—offers a full-featured software including media and SMIL playlist management, multi-zone layouts, conditional and triggered playback, plus user auth and internationalization in 5 languages.

Release Candidate means the feature set is frozen and focus is now on testing and stability.
by lurk2 | 2025-08-08 18:21:41+00:00
> it got coverage that was nearly universally mocking it and sneering at it, and the second they were able to ignore it and pretend it didnt exist anymore, corporate news moved on.

This is exactly how I remember the coverage, but it’s notable that these people tied their own noose:

Occupy Richmond 10/6/11 Intro to "Progressive Stack" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwhlZtHhWs

The leadership then largely went along for the ride in the technology and corporate finance sectors by electing to become a pseudo-priesthood under the banner of DEI. A lot of money got siphoned off by these people during the boom in exchange for countersignalling the anti-corporate sentiment prevalent among progressive coalitions at the time. This declined somewhat during the latter half of the 2010s after the tech companies started censoring conservatives (“They’re a private company, they can do whatever they want.”), and then the trend reversed when Biden’s senility became obvious, and the tech companies pivoted to Trump and started (disingenuously) signalling that they were anti-woke. In a lot of ways, Peter Thiel’s entire model of hiring ostensibly right-wing influencers (while himself being a homosexual immigrant) mirrors that of woke capital 10 years prior.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-08 18:22:00+00:00
I suspect this is a symptom of something bigger and not a cause. Our hyper-capitalist world has become so transactional — of course when your value and ability to participate in this world are based on your ability to have a certain set of character traits, not having those characteristics will be seen as a “problem”

I have ADHD. I take meds so that I can do my job and get paid to afford to participate job society. I don’t take it on the weekends, and yes, I have a personality that my family loves, but the rest of the week? It’s not cute to be forgetful at work.

And then you have Mike Johnson talking about lazy 24 year olds in their basement playing video games.

We literally can’t afford to be an almagam of traits of our ancestors, when the social safety net going away, entry level jobs being more competitive and the decline of highly paid unskilled labor.
by hinkley | 2025-08-08 18:22:20+00:00
Margins are weird.

You have a system that’s cheaper to maintain or sells for a little bit more and it cannibalizes its siblings due to concerns of opportunity cost and net profit. You can also go pretty far in the world before your pool of potential future customers is muddied up with disgruntled former customers. And there are more potential future customers overseas than there are pissed off exes at home so let’s expand into South America!

Which of their other models can run well on the same gen of hardware?
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-08 18:22:26+00:00
I've met teams that strongly prefer Cake [1] and it seems well maintained.

Personally, I think there's too much baby in the MSBuild bathwater unfortunately and too much of the ecosystem is MSBuild to abandon it entirely. That said, I think MSBuild has improved a lot over the last few years. The Sdk-Style .csproj especially has been a great improvement that sanded a lot of rough edges.

[1] https://cakebuild.net/
Show HN: Regolith – Regex library for TypeScript made to prevent ReDoS attacks
by roggenbuck | 2025-08-08 18:22:31+00:00
I made TypeScript bindings for the Rust Regex library to prevent Regular Expression Denial of Service attacks. Rust's Regex uses a linear-time guaranteed Regex engine (which prevents these attacks) and I wanted to bring this functionality to TypeScript as a drop-in replacement for RegExp. Many CVEs happen because TypeScript libraries are vulnerable to these types of attacks. This library attempts to mitigate these vulnerabilities for TypeScript and JavaScript.

I'm really fascinated by making programming languages safer and I would love to hear any feedback on how to improve this project. I'll try to answer all questions posted in the comments.

Thanks! - Jake
by devmor | 2025-08-08 18:22:33+00:00
I should have specified that I am referring to their usage for experienced developers working on established projects.

I think that they have much more use for someone with no/little experience just trying to get proof of concepts/quick projects done because accuracy and adherence to standards don't really matter there.

(That being said, if Google were still as useful of a tool as it was in its prime, I think you'd have just as much success by searching for your questions and finding the answers on forums, stackexchange, etc.)
by zamadatix | 2025-08-08 18:22:52+00:00
I don't think they build the ChatGPT subscription interface around workflows. They leave the APIs to cover either custom or pre-built workflows pinned against a specific model. At the same time I wouldn't be surprised if they do end up keeping a couple of the cheaper/smaller older models though, the cost would be low and reduce a lot of the churn friction.

I'm not saying I'd do it that way myself, but it explains why they don't see it as too bold.
by iamleppert | 2025-08-08 18:22:53+00:00
Taking away user choice is often done in the name of simplicity. But let's not forget that given 100 users, 60 are likely to answer with "no opinion" when asked what about their preference to ANY question. Does that mean the other 40% aren't valuable and their preferences not impactful to the other "we don't care" majority?
by andy99 | 2025-08-08 18:23:16+00:00
Ah ok, that's an important distinction. Seems much less a big deal then - or at least a consumer issue rather than a business one. Having never really used chatgpt (but used the apis a lot), I'm actually surprised that chat users would care. There are cost tradeoffs for the different models when building on them, but for chatgpt, it's less clear to me why one would move between selecting different models.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-08 18:23:20+00:00
> and I feel like AI quality is typically at the junior level. When it comes to authorship, either I'm prompting it wrong, or the emperor just isn't wearing clothes. How can I become a believer?

The emperor is stark naked, but the hype is making people see clothes where there is only an hairy shriveled old man.

Sure, I can produce "working" code with Claude, but I have not ever been able to produce good working code. Yes, it can write a okay-ish unit test (almost 100% identical to how I'd have written it), and on a well structured codebase (not built with Claude) and with some preparation, it can kind of produce a feature. However, on more interesting problems it's just slop and you gotta keep trying and prodding until it produces something remotely reasonable.

It's addictive to watch it conjure up trash and you constantly trying to steer it in the right direction, but I have never ever ever been able to achieve the code quality level that I am comfortable with. Fast prototype? Sure. Code that can pass my code review? Nah.

What is also funny is how non-deterministic the quality of the output is. Sometimes it really does feel like you almost fly off with it, and then bam, garbage. It feels like a roulette, and you gotta keep spinning the wheel to get your dopamine hit/reward.

All while wasting money and time, and still it ends up far far worse than you doing it in the first place. Hard pass.
by rco8786 | 2025-08-08 18:23:50+00:00
“Kinda”. I run Claude code on a parallel copy of our monorepo, while I use my primary copy.

I typically only give Claude the boring stuff. Refactors, tech debt cleanup, etc. But occasionally will give it a real feature if the urgency is low and the feature is extremely well defined.

That said, I still spend a considerable amount of time reviewing and massaging Claude’s code before it gets to PR. I haven’t timed myself or anything, but I suspect that when the task is suitable for an LLM, it’s maybe 20-40% faster. But when it’s not, it’s considerably slower and sometimes just fails completely.
by nextos | 2025-08-08 18:23:55+00:00
Less structure? I think links are less necessary. It's a bit like using email when search is cheap, you don't need to rely on tags if you don't want to.

I have a fairly large set of notes written in Org, and I never bothered with internal links. Ripgrep search was always enough for me to make connections.

With local LLMs, it's even better. gptel makes it really easy to add notes as context.
by pphysch | 2025-08-08 18:23:59+00:00
It's not totally surprising given the economics of LLM operation. LLMs, when idle, are much more resource-heavy than an idle web service. To achieve acceptable chat response latency, the models need to be already loaded in memory, and I doubt that these huge SotA models can go from cold start to inference in milliseconds or even seconds. OpenAI is incentivized to push as many users onto as few models as possible to manage the capacity and increase efficiency.
by advaitjayant | 2025-08-08 18:24:11+00:00
We built MemSync, a web app that lets you distill reusable facts/preferences from your AI chats and reapply them across all AI platforms.

What it does: - Import selected chats and review the distilled “memories” before use. - Create memories during your interactions. - Full edit/delete controls with provenance for each memory.

What works today: - Web app live. Works best with ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. - Free tier available.

Looking for feedback on: - Accuracy of the distillation - Review-before-use UX - Privacy/permissions model

Demo (no login): https://vimeo.com/1108479227 Docs / privacy: https://memsync.mintlify.app/

Would love to answer your questions and take feedback!
by ruralfam | 2025-08-08 18:24:28+00:00
Just got my bill for a recent 20 minute doctor visit (with one of the best HC insurance coverages in my state: $1,600 cost, $1,400 adjustment, $200 out-of-pocket given my $3,000 OOP limit was not reacehd). Absurd. The USA will likely never get to an efficient govt. single pay system (unlike every other industrialized company). Given this, the option I hope for is that the FedGov passes a law that requires all Master Charge prices to be based on "Acitivty Based Accounting". ABC would provide insights for greater operational efficiency, and the 1600>1400>200 magic hand-waving would disappear. There would be a great loss of employees for health insurance portfolio analysts, but most of them could move into cost accounting roles for hospitals. Please GOP/DEM consider this.
by ramesh31 | 2025-08-08 18:24:51+00:00
>Has anyone with decent (5+ years) experience built a non-trivial new feature in a production codebase quicker by letting AI write it?

Yes. Claude Code has turned quarter long initiatives into a few afternoons of prompting for me, in the context of multiple different massive legacy enterprise codebases. It all comes down to just reaching that "jesus take the wheel" level of trust in it. You have to be ok with letting it go off and potentially waste hundreds of dollars in tokens giving you nonsense, which it will some times. But when it doesn't it's like magic, and makes the times that it does worth the cost. Obviously you'll still review every line before merging, but that takes an order of magnitude less time than wrestling with it in the first place. It has fundamentally changed what myself and our team is able to accomplish.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-08-08 18:25:55+00:00
Another option would be to add something to your AGENTS.md or whatever giving examples of the kind of code organization you want. You could ask Claude to explain its approach in terms explicitly that GPT-5 can understand. GPT-5 seems much more sensitive in its responsiveness to instructions. My sense is that in the long run this will be really nice, but that the current prompts in these mainstream LLM coding tools are designed for models with a different style of responsiveness to instructions.
by pbmonster | 2025-08-08 18:26:54+00:00
I kind of like the compliance. It comes with infant first aid courses and theory in child education, psychology and nutrition. Meals are prepared from scratch. I'm sure it's much more than strictly necessary, but that's much better than to little compliance.

I also really like that the pros give the strict guarantee of 0 minutes of screen time - both for the kids and the ladies who watch them. I'm going full Luddite for the kids, having a nanny backdooring that effort seems like a bad idea...