MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lemoncookiechip | 2025-08-02 23:49:14+00:00
- Three major court wins (Illumina, Tapestry/Capri, Kroger/Albertsons), multiple deals dropped.

-Over $1.5B refunded. Significant settlements (Epic, MoneyGram, Amazon delivery drivers, etc.)

- Junk-fees ban, click-to-cancel rule (You can thank the current administration for walking back on this), non-compete ban.

-Right to repair, data privacy enforcement, health-care pricing interventions ( reduced out-of-pocket costs for inhalers and insulin).
by trjordan | 2025-08-02 23:49:16+00:00
I think the most interesting change Claude enables is letting AI try stuff. We do this all the time.

I have this sense this works best in small teams right now, because Claude wants to produce code changes and PRs. Puzzmo, where OP works, is <5 engineers.

In larger codebases, PRs don't feel like the right medium in every case for provocative AI explorations. If you're going to kick something off before a meeting and see what it might look like to solve it, it might be better to get back a plan, or a pile of regexps, or a list of teams that will care.

Having an AI produce a detailed plan for larger efforts, based on an idea, seems amazing.
by monster_truck | 2025-08-02 23:49:21+00:00
They would never do this because of fingerprinting, which is already the cause of most of the reasons we cannot 'just' do a lot of things, unfortunately.

E: And the infamous other half: malware. A bit over a decade ago malware devs started using canvas to do things like hide fragments inside of bitmap data in seemingly harmless ads and then a second script would extract and assemble it to evade detection.
by waaaaaaaaahhhh | 2025-08-02 23:49:34+00:00
"Loneliness can only be alleviated by an entity that can judge"...won't say your wrong, but does that include for you: "An entity that gives you food for thought"?

Or as a well more philosophic-Question (call it an oldie): "Needed existence to substain sustaining the saints?"

OT: There once was a saying that while talking to god a lot people became angry, asked by god "Angry for what?" so the people answered, "Angry about you god...", "cos been angry about the people around sometimes..." So god answered: "Like you i also become angry about the people sometimes" and those listening Crowd, knowed from in there, "That was the reason for why god didn't showed up most of the time ?"

Saying "...let me alone!" ?

and if that couldn't be "confussier"... P-:

(still reading)
by woodruffw | 2025-08-02 23:50:08+00:00
Yes, that's why the second half of the equation is structural traffic calming: you both need to lower the speed limit and induce lower driving speeds. The US has historically not done a great job at the latter, and has mostly treated it as an enforcement problem (speeding cameras and tickets) rather than an environmental one (making the driver feel uncomfortable going over the speed limit, e.g. by making roads narrower, adding curves, etc.). You need both, but environmental calming is much more effective on the >95% of the populace that speeds because it "feels right," and not because they're sociopathically detached.

That's slowly changing, like in NYC with daylighting initiatives. But it takes a long time.

(European cities typically don't have this same shape of problem, since the physical layout of the city itself doesn't encourage speeding. So they get the environmental incentive structure already, and all they need to do is lower the speed limit to match.)
by bell-cot | 2025-08-02 23:50:20+00:00
Charitable take:

Finding what we might call an HN-quality current article on a specific topic - in English - can take some real work. And if a good discussion gets going on HN, it's going to be better than 90% of such articles anyway.

So - if someone is hoping for a good discussion of a specific topic on HN, but not too interested in working to find a great article, then it's easy to hit [submit], and cross their fingers.
by silisili | 2025-08-02 23:50:42+00:00
I agree generally, but blame the makers I guess. One important thing to remember is bed length. Trying to haul plywood or 2x4s with a 5 ft bed is a joke, and not easy with even a 6 ft bed.

The old, small rangers used to have a 7 ft bed option! I believe the longest you can get today is 6. So if you want a longer bed, you're kinda forced into the full size fold.

I don't know how well they'd actually sell, but it'd be neat if they at least offered something maybe a hair bigger than maverick sized with a 7 ft bed.
by godelski | 2025-08-02 23:50:51+00:00
> The thing is, AI researchers have continually underestimated the pace of AI progress

What's your argument?

That because experts aren't good at making predictions that non-experts must be BETTER at making predictions?

Let me ask you this: who do you think is going to make a less accurate prediction?

Assuming no one is accurate here, everybody is wrong. So the question is who is more or less accurate. Because there is a thing as "more accurate" right?

>> In 2022, they thought AI wouldn’t be able to write simple Python code until around 2027.

Go look at the referenced paper[0]. It is on page 3, last item in Figure 1, labeled "Simple Python code given spec and examples". That line is just after 2023 and goes to just after 2028. There's a dot representing the median opinion that's left of the vertical line half way between 2023 and 2028. Last I checked, 8-3 = 5, and 2025 < 2027.

And just look at the line that follows

> In 2023, they reduced that to 2025, but AI could maybe already meet that condition in 2023

Something doesn't add up here... My guess, as someone who literally took that survey, is what's being referred to as "a simple program" has a different threshold.

Here's the actual question from the survey

Write concise, efficient, human-readable Python code to implement simple algorithms like quicksort. That is, the system should write code that sorts a list, rather than just being able to sort lists. Suppose the system is given only: A specification of what counts as a sorted list Several examples of lists undergoing sorting by quicksort

Is the answer to this question clear? Place your bets now!

Here, I asked ChatGPT the question[1], it got it wrong. Yeah, I know it isn't very wrong, but it is still wrong. Here's an example of a correct solution[2] which shows the (at least) two missing lines. Can we get there with another iteration? Sure! But that's not what the question was asking.

I'm sure some people will say that GPT gave the right solution. So what that it ignored the case of a singular array and assumed all inputs are arrays. I didn't give it an example of a singular array or non-array inputs, but it did just assume. I mean leetcode questions pull out way more edge cases than I'm griping on here.

So maybe you're just cherry-picking. Maybe the author is just cherry-picking. Because their assertion that "AI could maybe already meet that condition in 2023" is not unobjectively true. It's not clear that this is true in 2025!

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02843

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/688ea18e-d51c-8013-afb5-fbc85db0da...

[2] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/python-program-for-inse...
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-02 23:50:54+00:00
There's some wild stuff included though, roll-off roof enclosures over your telescope, gigabit symmetrical fiber on a mountain. Included a couple hours a month of specialized tech support.

Like it's definitely not for an occasional hobbyist but if it's your main hobby... it sounds kinda neat.

I could imagine $600/mo. being burned on more mundane hobbies like video games.
by frosted-flakes | 2025-08-02 23:50:55+00:00
In Ontario a new speed zone is always signed with "BEGINS" below it, which is very helpful if you missed the last sign. I wish this was standard practice across Canada.

In much of Europe, including the UK, they have the concept of standardised "national" speed limits, which vary depending on the road type and which you are expected to know. When a road returns to the national speed limit, the sign is a white circle with a slash through it, indicating that there are no more local speed limits and the national speed limit is in effect.
by karmakaze | 2025-08-02 23:51:23+00:00
Right. This reminds me of Enigma not mapping a letter to itself. Perfect isn't quite the name for this, it's constrained with the outward appearance of being unpatterned and being very patterned having only 48 arrangements of a unique solution. When we see simple patterns, we think things are not truly random, hence fake random for Spotify playlists.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-02 23:51:39+00:00
I believe the splitting of hairs is that plugins should build on top of core, solid, helpful primitives, and augment the core platform with esoteric things that the core audience wouldn't care about. That's not this plugin

It also pragmatically makes for fragmentation in the experience, leading to the same outcome as the current LLM debate: "works great" "not for me"
by Schiendelman | 2025-08-02 23:52:26+00:00
It's honestly not that much. I know it looks good when comparing to recent years, but it doesn't look as good when you look at regional numbers (the city limits don't matter much in a housing market) - and the number of ADUs you can build in the entire city in a year is lower than some single new apartment buildings. We aren't keeping up with demand, much less drawing down the likely hundreds of thousands (seriously) of units we need to allow.
by rjknight | 2025-08-02 23:52:58+00:00
I think it depends a lot on the org. In enterprise software development, there's definitely a type of "business analyst" or "domain expert" who is capable of reading code, at least to the extent that the code resembles a flow chart. Clojure's small syntax means that it's fairly easy to write code that is obviously just a flow-chart in text form.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-02 23:53:13+00:00
Given typical realtor behavior, I’m amazed any house is overpriced. Seems like they push sellers to sell below market and buyers to go above market.

I knew market prices well from doing my own property tax protests.

Our damn realtor strongly advised on a price close to $100k lower than we insisted.

House was in average condition and not recently updated. Said we were overpriced.

Multiple offers above closing on first day of listing.

Closing price was still significantly above asking.

Stupid damn realtor!
by Arathorn | 2025-08-02 23:53:14+00:00
> How the hell did they manage to make chat so complicated?

This is a bit like saying “CVS works fine; how the hell did they manage to make git/mercurial/monotone/etc so complicated?”

The point of Matrix is to replicate conversation history across participating servers without a single point of control. To make it impossible for a Facebook or similar to act as a gatekeeper on a conversation. It’s decentralised just as a DVCS is.

Just because we haven’t executed well enough yet on the implementation (due to getting stuck between Element and Element X on the clientside, and having to focus on govtech featuees on the serverside to try to keep the lights on) doesn’t mean the underlying idea of replicated chatrooms is bad. It just needs a git-equivalent implementation, where the perf and benefits mean folks stop fixating on the underlying complexity.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-02 23:53:26+00:00
> Why people don’t just learn cron syntax is beyond me.

Because it looks like line noise, is unreadable to anybody not a UNIX/Linux admin, and is a standard in the same sense that the directory separator is the backslash on the majority of deployed desktops and servers.

More importantly: It’s also not extensible without being completely changed, which makes it a poor design.

Fluent builders can be trivially expanded to support new capabilities without breaking existing code or configuration.

Cron’s syntax was likely a quick and nasty thing thrown together by some student at Berkeley or wherever in the stone ages of computing. We shouldn’t be bound by these accidents of history in the same way we shouldn’t keep using Roman numerals these days.
by zahirbmirza | 2025-08-02 23:53:58+00:00
Maybe. I think there is some real insight in this viewpoint.

I think there was a time, long ago, that I justifiably believed that some of Apple's design was forward thinking. But, I think they are now more like WhatsApp, who apparently have a unit that is charged with ensuring that the UI does not change for fear of unsettling users.

I think this translates to - 'Apple has to play it safe as it is too big a company to make risky changes'. Ie, it can no longer do revolutionary things for fear of a collapse in faith of the consumer masses rather than the avidly convinced first adapters.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-02 23:54:05+00:00
> is a fallacy because it can be true or false independent of whether everybody says it is or not

Except of course when there is a dependence between the trueness of the statement and how many people are saying it. For example, if I bring up that a certain taxonomization exists and is established, it is pretty crucial for it to be popularly held, otherwise it would cease to both exist and be established.

> Whether a particular thing fits into a particular category can be reasoned about, and a particular miscategorization being common doesn't make it correct.

But you reject the category of informal fallacies being fallacies overall, despite them being definitionally fallacies, no?
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-02 23:54:16+00:00
One thing I'm really happy about with the rise of EVs is that they seem to be unlocking a fresh wave of innovation. This is in part because at a fundamental level, they are much simpler and easier to manufacture and more flexible in terms of design, so they are far more accessible for the startup ecosystem to break into. I'm really looking forward to what else we see emerging in the next few years once all the basic EV technology is commoditised.
by em-bee | 2025-08-02 23:55:37+00:00
i make it a point to be myself because i want my partner and my friends to accept me the way i am. i use it as a filter to weed out people who are looking for something else even if that makes finding friends more difficult. that doesn't mean i don't change things. but those are things i don't mind changing or things that help me to be a better person. (eg. i started to shave once i went to china, because in china people generally don't have beards, and having one makes you look old, but some time after i got married i started to grow a small beard again, even though my wife didn't like it because i preferred it that way)
by ricardobeat | 2025-08-02 23:55:41+00:00
The company in question has been doing their survey for two decades. It’s a private data set, but has been reported on by multiple serious news outlets which will have their own data scientists looking over the data, e.g. Axios: https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history

You can also verify the data is coming from real drivers, by searching for “New Vehicle Experience Study” and seeing all the posts from users who receive the survey and think it’s some kind of scam.
by Arathorn | 2025-08-02 23:55:56+00:00
You may be interested in this week’s Matrix Live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyuqM7RbX5E - transcript at https://gist.github.com/ara4n/190ad712965d0f06e17f508d1a45b5...) to see Matrix’s thoughts on this post and others, and whether your cynicism is warranted.
by tsoukase | 2025-08-02 23:56:04+00:00
From the European POV this is awful and marginally scary. A commenter down the article writes that she is gonna sell her mother's house in order to serve her and even that will not last long.

The way US health care functions is an argument that the nation's principles (all free capitalism and no public intervention) are problematic.

If I were POTUS for a season, I would make a volcanic erruption in the health system. If I needed to care an elder without insurance, I would pay out of pocket a willing friend or even a homeless and not proceed to euthanasia as a commenter suggested.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-02 23:57:04+00:00
Versus the experts, politicians, and media who in the exact same time period were still confidently stressing the importance of achieving herd immunity because if you got vaccinated you couldn’t get COVID, and therefore couldn’t transmit it to others.

The issue for me is that comment starts with a lie, the initial clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines were designed to measure efficacy against symptomatic disease, not transmission prevention. Health officials and scientists generally communicated that while vaccines showed strong protection against severe illness that wasn't the scientific consensus. Therefore I never took the vaccine thinking I would never catch COVID, I took the vaccine with the understanding that it would better protect me from the worst outcomes. A lot of people seem to like hearing an "alternative view" because that often suits their own worldview...which is sometimes, the vaccines are a form of population control by the rich elite, or something like that.

So to your point, they absolutely are suggesting we should ignore experts by buying into nonsense and using false claims to question the science behind vaccines and medical trials.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-08-02 23:57:43+00:00
Are you certain that the civilizations you consider wealthy were not essentially 'equal poverty' with a tiny number of elites of top? From the article: "After the fall of Rome, people actually got taller and healthier". A generic high standard of living for the common people does not necessarily raise conquering armies or monuments to capture the modern imagination. The contrast is mostly against more distributed societies that you might not recognize as 'famous civilizations' per se, perhaps were able to provide better for their inhabitants.
by Tohsig | 2025-08-02 23:57:46+00:00
Technically true, but only if we consider dev checkouts as "backups". In the majority of cases they probably are, but that's not guaranteed. The local repo copy could be in a wildly different state than the primary origin, a shallow clone, etc... While the odds of that mattering are very low, they're not zero. I personally prefer to have a dedicated mirror as a failsafe.
by esseph | 2025-08-02 23:58:21+00:00
Commercial is in crisis

https://www.jimersonfirm.com/blog/2025/02/the-approaching-co...

I spent 3 years renting a commercial property that subsidized the rest of the property locations. As soon as my business left, the building and rest of the tenants were gone within 3 months.

It's now vacant, and has been for 2 years.
by joks | 2025-08-02 23:58:36+00:00
I did a company hackathon recently where we were encouraged to explore vibe coding more and this was essentially my take-away too. It's kinda perfect for a hackathon but it was insanely mind-numbing to relegate the problem solving and mental model-building to the LLM and sit there writing prompts all day. If that has to become my career, I genuinely might have to change career paths, but it doesn't seem like that's likely -- using it as a tool to help here and there and sometimes provide suggestions definitely feels like way to actually use it to get better results.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-02 23:59:26+00:00
Bicycling communities suck for learning safety. The correct thing to do is take the full lane and take dutch lefts (turning right into perpendicular traffic then going straight to avoid changing to a left hand turn lane). People should be preaching it from the rooftops to save lives. Wouldn’t need to have bike lanes everywhere if people were fully taking lanes, forcing a merge to pass them, and being far more visible to traffic vs riding along the shoulder and getting doored and right and left hooked. The current bike lane gold standard of buffering traffic with parked cars means bikes are invisible at intersections and driveways to cars which is where many accidents tend to happen.
by p_ing | 2025-08-03 00:00:49+00:00
> You agree not to use LuxPDF to process any material that is unlawful, offensive, or otherwise objectionable.

So I can't take Hunie Pop images and convert them to PDF?

The site says the tool is open source but I can't find a link to said source. It also doesn't indicate which open source license is being used (presumably one is). Don't forget to put .DS_Store in your .gitignore.

And the site itself is like daggers in the eyes. Black text on white background. The dark mode hipsters will change their tune in their 30s.

What PDF revision do you support? I figure this is based on pre-existing open source libraries which typically means 1.6, max.

You should make a connector for Power Automate.
by bitlax | 2025-08-03 00:00:54+00:00
I remember the NewsHour when it was MacNeil/Lehrer. I can tell you when Ken Burns jumped the shark. I watched Sesame Street before it was peppered with digital glitter (which is one of many reasons my kids don't watch it). I've listened to NPR since I was a little boy. I've never claimed to be anything but an avid consumer of public media over several decades, and I watched the decline happen in real-time. The person I responded to can't think of a single example of racial or sexual programming, which has been fairly common for the last couple of decades. I've been commenting on forums long enough to know that this conversation is going nowhere. I sincerely believe this person should just do some very simple searches on the PBS website or their YouTube channel to see what sorts of things people might find objectionable. But I'm not interested in naming an example (or three) which will be quickly dismissed. You and the other poster may not like it, but that is my prerogative. There are lurkers and other posters who may find the comments useful or may find my statements compelling.
by Damogran6 | 2025-08-03 00:01:26+00:00
Dude. I don't know how what I asked and what you interpreted got so far apart, and yet I'm compelled to respond.

I've been in IT for more than 30 years. I've worked hands-on hardware for the first 20 of them. There's a datacenter in my office (though it's nearly empty as it's all been migrated to the cloud.)

What does a modern AI hosting datacenter look like? What's the network look like from a compute module to the perimeter of the DC? Is the hardware that hosts AI compute a 6U server with 20 RTX 4090's?

When Elon gets in trouble with having too many turbines...are they generating power at all times because it makes some kind of thermodynamic sense to convert LNG to power, rather than pulling power from the grid?

I'm not talking about the software used in training, I'm asking about the bare metal.
by godelski | 2025-08-03 00:01:35+00:00
It's also worth pointing out that in the same survey it was well agreed upon that success would come sooner if there was more funding. The question was a counterfactual prediction of how much less progress would be made if there was 50% less funding. The response was about 50% less progress.

So honestly, it doesn't seem like many of the predictions are that far off with this in context. That things sped up as funding did too? That was part of the prediction! The other big player here was falling cost of compute. There was pretty strong agreement that if compute was 50% more expensive that this would result in a decrease in progress by >50%.

I think uncontextualized, the predictions don't seem that inaccurate. They're reasonably close. Contextualized, they seem pretty accurate.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-08-03 00:01:56+00:00
One completely random study result[0] supporting that couch + testosterone leads to bigger muscles. Maybe it is some puritanical thing, but not sure why this myth persists. Exercise + juice results in even bigger gains, but it is possible to increase muscle mass without hard work.

...The men in the testosterone groups had significant increases in the cross-sectional areas of the triceps and the quadriceps (Table 4); the group assigned to testosterone without exercise had a significantly greater increase in the cross-sectional area of the quadriceps than the placebo-alone group

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199607043350101