MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stopcoffee77 | 2025-08-06 19:46:26+00:00
I can no longer edit my original dot manager comment so to add some context: I developed an allergy for the term "vibe-coding" (and made a joke on the selection of OPs words), AI won't turn a lazy unskilled inexperienced person into John Carmack, lazy person + AI still equals to a lazy person. With that being said, most of you may have already experienced a divide between the above empirical truth and management decisions across your favorite corporate environments. So, the race is on, AGI-level agentic frameworks may be here soon enough to mitigate the above, then again, in the end isnt the enduser of most of our economic production directly or indirectly a human? Can a synthetic immortal system really cater for human needs? There is a reason why big deals are always negotiated in-person
by xoqem | 2025-08-06 19:46:36+00:00
For anyone who didn't click into the article, the headline may be misleading without the sub headline, which currently is "Relatively speaking, California is not a hot spot for housing investors". The map graphic shows that 19% is lower than other large states (e.g. 22% in Texas, 21% in Florida, 20% in New York). And lower than other west coast states generally (22% in Washington and Oregon, 25% in Nevada, and 23% in Arizona).
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-06 19:46:50+00:00
#1 problem is how sycophantic they are. I in fact want the exact opposite sort of interaction, where they push back against my ideas and actively try to correct and improve my thinking. Too often I am misled into giant waste of time because they have this need to please coded in to their default response structure.

You can say things like "you are a robot, you have no emotions, don't try to act human", but the output doesn't seem to be particularly well calibrated. I feel like when I modify the default response style, I'm probably losing something, considering that the defaults are what go through extensive testing.
by Yizahi | 2025-08-06 19:47:02+00:00
Except that LLMs doesn't benefit from economies of scale. And they don't have that much brand uniqueness, to retain customers, except some hearsay and "vibes". So if a lot of new free tier customers join it is net negative, because each of their queries has the same load as paid users. And company can't degrade LLM too much, because there is no uniqueness and free customers will just flee to the competitor.

I'm thinking that this ClosedAI strategy is not primarily focused on acquiring new independent users, but more focused at making itself deeply entrenched everywhere. So when the "payday" comes and the immense debt will be due, Sam will just ask ask government to bail them out because they would depend on them a lot, and it will. Maybe not directly bail, but provide new investments with favorable terms, etc.
by eschulz | 2025-08-06 19:47:15+00:00
In my town there used to be a lot of single-room units (there are of course none now), and my understanding is that the primary residents were migrant men working pretty much all day. They'd just crash in the rooms, all their meals and social events would be out in town or at their work place.

I feel as though there would be a different tenant in the modern era. Some would be migrant young men trying to save every dime, but many would be those suffering mental illness, and they'd fill the unit with tons of stuff. Can you imagine how much more stuff Americans have these days than they did back in say 1900? I genuinely think that the volume of stuff/garbage would be a legitimate fire or structural hazard. No landlord would want that. Back in the old days landlords had a lot more ability to force out any tenants they didn't want.
by beart | 2025-08-06 19:47:21+00:00
Maven artifacts are not immutable. Some maven repositories may prevent overwriting an already published version, but this is not guaranteed. I've personally seen this cause problems where a misconfigured CI job overwrote already published versions.

npm used to allow you to unpublish (and may be overwrite?) published artifacts, but they removed that feature after a few notable events.

Edit: I was not quite correct. It looks like you can still unpublish, but with specific criteria. However, you cannot ever publish a different package using the same version as an already published package.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-publish?v=true

https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/unpublish
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-06 19:48:23+00:00
> The community is quick to put whoever builds commercial OSS software on a cross the moment they change their license to ensure they still have a competitive advantage.

Yes, people object to pulling a bait and switch by taking something that was open source and then making it not open source.

> Instead, we should encourage commercial OSS companies. COSS companiesare one of the only venues for creating high-quality OSS projects that you can self-host.

We do encourage that. We also discourage commercial fake-OSS companies.

> I personally think the definition of open-source is problematic (and clearly biased by the lobbies of hyperscalers). Why aren't n8n or MongoDB considered open-source? (https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md, https://www.mongodb.com/legal/licensing/community-edition) Why does requesting that others not sell your product make the project not open-source?

Part of the point of Open Source is that the software isn't completely tied to a single company. If software is under one of those more restrictive licenses and the company goes under, the software is dead. If software under an open source license is developed by a company that goes under, one or even many other companies can continue working on it. This also applies while the company is alive, too; as you note, commercial companies developing open source software is a good thing, and preventing parallel development or forks is bad for the ecosystem.
by bokohut | 2025-08-06 19:48:49+00:00
I came to comment the same thing but in reading the verbiage your context does not match my use of the term "AC".

I would offer that instead of monitoring the reactive egress of the devices purpose, thermal deltas, that one instead monitors the proactive ingress of what it needs to function to produce those thermal deltas, Alternating Current. If the devices native monitoring does not offer taps for voltage and amperage consumption then adding this before each device should be considered, certainly in data centers as some here have direct experience with HVAC failures and remaining on site for days to keep the uptime up. As a typical energy consuming device ages one can derive and relate many reactive events over time from proactive energy monitoring and in doing so one is certain to learn something new.
by duxup | 2025-08-06 19:48:55+00:00
I wonder about demand. Who will these tenants be now? In my city they were day laborers and single poor people way back in the day. I don't know how much of that we have now / the homeless seem more like a mix now. Let alone issues of managing such places / social conflicts and so on.

Not saying it isn't worth a shot, all for it. I just don't know if this eats up that much demand / houses that many people these days.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-06 19:49:12+00:00
Each one of those has to be reported and the information is publicly available.

Perks for prescriptions is illegal.

If your GF is really keeping score and rewarding doctors for performance, she’s breaking anti kickback laws. All that has to happen is for prosecutor to make the connection.

I know a guy who spent 3 years in prison for something very very close to what you just described. He was just a rep and he said he was just doing what his company told him to do, but they threw him under the bus and now he’s a felon.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-06 19:49:22+00:00
Dunno why you're being downvoted.

Devil in the details is literally how you gerrymander. If there are say overwhelming democrat passport holders in say NY then you just lose that one state and win the rest.

That said, I'm just more interested in seeing the sheer number of people being told their voter registration is invalid and if that would backfire as individuals who supporter the administration are kinda overwhelmingly targeted (top of that passport list isn't the south).
by derriz | 2025-08-06 19:49:23+00:00
I know this is supposed to be a joke but I don’t get it? Type theory isn’t particularly heavy in terms of jargon compared to other foundational theories like category theory or set theory. These are highly technical fields of study so of course they’re going to need specific language. It would like complaining about a doctor using “fancy terms” when discussing complex medical procedures.

To give a non-cynical answer: a good reason to look at type theory - if you’ve been exposed to computer science - is that it treats syntax and syntactical manipulation as foundational and can be viewed as the branch of mathematics that ties syntax and with the notion of computation.
by ashdksnndck | 2025-08-06 19:49:26+00:00
I’m interested in the methodology they use to identify investor-owned homes. Are they comparing known resident addresses to the names on property tax records? How does it work when multiple members of the same family have different last names? It seems fairly common for members of different generations of family (including in-laws) to live in a house that one person owns. How are you distinguishing an investment from a family living arrangement?
by jimmytucson | 2025-08-06 19:49:58+00:00
To save you a click, 19% is actually not a lot (I thought it was):

> 19% of California houses were owned by investors, ranking No. 36 among the states and just below the 20% national norm.

States with the highest share of investor-owned houses:

> Hawaii at 40%, Alaska at 35%, Vermont at 31%, West Virginia at 30%, and Wyoming at 30%.

States with the lowest are all in the Mid-Atlantic and lower New England:

> Connecticut at 10%, Rhode Island and Massachusetts at 12%, and Delaware at 13%.

Why so low in California (again, I'm baffled that this is "low")?

> the sky-high price tag for single-family homes, the third-highest nationally at $866,100
by NavinF | 2025-08-06 19:50:09+00:00
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mj00mr/how_did...

This comment from that thread matches my experiences using gpt-oss-20b with Ollama:

It's very much in the style of Phi, raised in a jesuit monastery's library, except it got extra indoctrination so it never forgets that even though it's a "local" model, it's first and foremost a member of OpenAI's HR department and must never produce any content Visa and Mastercard would disapprove of. This prioritizing of corporate over user interests expresses a strong form of disdain for the user. In addition to lacking almost all knowledge that can't be found in Encyclopedia Britannica, the model also doesn't seem particularly great at integrating into modern AI tooling. However, it seems good at understanding code.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-06 19:50:42+00:00
> Asking AI to tell reality from fiction is a bit much when the humans it gets its info from can’t, but this is at least not ridiculous.

I agree with that, but the problem is that it is being positioned as a reliable source of information. And is being treated as such. Google's disclaimer "AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more" only shows up if you click the button to show more of the response, is smaller text, a light gray, and clearly overshadowed by the button with lights rotating around it to do a deep dive.

The problem is just how easy it is to "lead on" one of these models. By simply stating a search like "why is rum healthy" implies that I already think it is healthy so of course it leads into that but that is why this is so broken. But "is rum healthy" actually provides a more factual answer:

> Rum is an alcoholic beverage that does not have any significant health benefits. While some studies have suggested potential benefits, such as improved blood circulation and reduced risk of heart disease, these findings are often based on limited evidence and have not been widely accepted by the medical community.
by baobun | 2025-08-06 19:50:55+00:00
If[0] the maintainer is entirely honest and well-intentioned, they are clearly a vulnerable target lacking the capabilities to reliably detect if their supply chain would be compromised. Using Ventoy is a huge risk regardless of what you think of maintainer credibility at this point.

The cynical take is that what's on display in this issue is feigned ignorance/incompetence constructing plausible deniability.

Their security posture has not evolved with the times, the threat-landscape, and the growth of the project.

[0]: Very doubtful if you have been following this saga or dig around enough
Ask HN: Transition back to job market in 40s
by chugchug | 2025-08-06 19:51:00+00:00
Hey,

I started a startup late 2022. In the process we raised $400k and have built an awesome product. However, we could not generate much revenue as we did not do good marketing. Between salaries and business expenses, we have about 9 months of runway left. I want to give one final push before we shut down.

I think I will have to go to job market again. I don't have life changing savings yet so working will be essential.

How do I transition back to job market? My skillset is mostly technical and I also have management experience. But, reading stories about layoffs and people struggling for months gives me dread. I am not sure how it will be but I feel lost after 18 years of experience.

What am I supposed to do? I can go to managarial route but there are not much positions open at least today. I can go into IC role but coding every day is not something I enjoy. All prior roles I held were related to engineering.

What are your thoughts on navigating this transition?
by sema4hacker | 2025-08-06 19:51:05+00:00
Your customers are the best people to rate your product and answer your questions. Price might not even be an issue if your app doesn't do what they want or need, in which case you're barking up the wrong tree. Make it free (at least for awhile) in exchange for a way to contact and poll customers, if your download site doesn't have a comment and rating system.
by philipkglass | 2025-08-06 19:51:20+00:00
Do we? Prison is expensive in the United States:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-per-prisoner-in-us-sta...

Arkansas is the lowest-cost state and still spends $23,000/prisoner/year. The median is $65,000/prisoner/year. 11 states spend over $100k/prisoner/year.
by marcusb | 2025-08-06 19:51:37+00:00
I ended up writing some pretty hacky elisp to automatically load my chezmoi templates if I try to edit a Chezmoi-managed file. It'll also handle applying and pushing saved changes to my git remote so I don't forget that either.

https://marcusb.org/posts/2025/01/frictionless-dotfile-manag...
by mrtesthah | 2025-08-06 19:51:56+00:00
My reference to number of generations centers around recent guidance from USCIS to de-naturalize citizens based on broadly defined criteria.

The current discourse in this country centers around suspending habeas corpus to mass-deport millions of people. How do you know who's "illegal" without going through judicial process? You look at their race. And in the end, that's always what it's been about.
by antonvs | 2025-08-06 19:52:26+00:00
I agree, I was just being cowardly and insulating myself from "you can't be sure it'll never happen" comments.

In the far enough future, and assuming we escape a technological collapse due to climate change or world war, something like a large base housing hundreds of people at a time seems possible. It could be built autonomously by reasonably intelligent robots, which isn't that much of a stretch from the tech we're converging on today.

But a true colony, with long term residents having and raising children, is essentially a fantasy at this point.
by stopcoffee77 | 2025-08-06 19:52:32+00:00
I am trying to contextualize git-based dotfiles.

$ context set universe://work/customer-a/devops --update-dotfiles

will "render" and apply one set of dotfiles

$ context set unvierse://work/customer-b --update-dotfiles

another set

$ canvas dot apply user.name@remote.id:workspace-foo

Will apply all dotfiles of a workspace-foo (git clone repo, symlink)

$ canvas dot apply user.name@remote.id:workspace-bar/shell/bashrc

will apply dotfiles of workspace-bar/shell/bashrc

yes, complicated, probably hard to comprehend/reason about, work in progress
by throwanem | 2025-08-06 19:53:52+00:00
Trivially, of course. To purport otherwise as this author has leads me to think, not remotely for the first time lately, that people would be wiser more often to heed labels saying things like "take with food" and "do not operate heavy machinery." (This last is a stretch, I grant you, but I've seen what folks in their 20s call upper body strength these days, and any mechanical keyboard with a steel baseplate likely now qualifies.)

I anticipate with mild annoyance your like insistence on calling my claim, that this is an example basically of a US government employee half-assing a job that sucks and they hate, a "conspiracy theory." It isn't, of course. It's just that I understand what to be afraid of and you don't, so you're constantly terrified and incapable to reacting to any development other than as a kicked dog, and I'm Wittgenstein's lion. Oh, not for the sake of the damned mangy cat! But there's nothing I can say that you are able to understand, not at the moment at least.

You're way too scared for today and not nearly enough for half a decade from now, when we'll all be wishing we had made the most of this time while we had it. You could do better, but you probably won't, because even right now you're wasting the same time being angry at me for tossing off a read like this.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-06 19:53:59+00:00
> "I am a unique human you know as <uuid>", not "I am John Q Smith"

That just makes <uuid> an identifier like your name. <uuid> becomes yet another piece of PII, increasing your exposure.

Further, it will even inevitably get linked to your other identifiers in various databases over time. This problem is why pseudoanonymization isn't really that useful.
by aydyn | 2025-08-06 19:54:07+00:00
> When a program officer wants to talk to you, and it's 6 AM because you're on the west coast, you say yes.

Why? What happens if you as a tenured PI say no?

> "You can offload as much work as you want to grad students and postdocs" is just untrue - there's always more work than there are people to do it, and I'm pretty sure a number of committees I'm on would be more than a little annoyed if I sent a postdoc.

No this part is definitely true and I have firsthand experience of it. Your graduate students are paid less than minimum wage and are often immigrants from poorer countries. Often they are even paid zero by the PI. So they can be effectively serfs and beholden to you for literal survival.

Use your imagination. What's to stop you from recruiting a bunch of students and offloading all your grant writing to them, hunger games style?

Look, I know there are idealistic professors who put in the work. If that's you, thank you. But the system incentivizes what is effectively feudalism and the professors who take advantage of that climb faster than you and become program chairs. Acknowledgement of this perverse system is not an attack on you.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-06 19:54:15+00:00
In fairness I wouldn't really call those "myths", just bad defences of Python's slowness. I don't think the people saying them really believe it - if it came to life or death. They just really like Python and are trying to avoid the cognitive dissonance of liking a really slow language.

Like, I wouldn't say it's a "myth" that Linux is easy to use.
by maxglute | 2025-08-06 19:54:27+00:00
Original comment is about article content - "SMALL" UAV, i.e. tactical / infantry / battlefield level. As in the small UAV war in UKR frontlines that US marines is training for is against likely obsolete platforms because UKR is not capable of developing anything more advanced, like next gen autonomous switchblade tier+ munitions that can be massed at scale due to obscenely low prices and minimal operator / controller requirements.

A more reasonable price floor would be $300-500 for a performant 5-8 inch drone comparable to kamikaze drones in UKR. In case of PRC, mass produced in modern factories, developed by resourced military R&D, value engineered/acquired with almost no margins etc etc, instead of improvised in small workshops and software tweaked by hobbyist like UKR. For reference large 30kg industrial DJI Agras agriculture robot with AESA radar cost 8k factory direct in domestic PRC market. Not many operators can afford to mass switchblade at US prices with US MIC markup (I'm guessing including US).

When I say proximity mine, I mean small drone parks itself in some nook in lower power model, it's possible to run camera/sensors for days tied to purpose designed commodity hardware/SoC/ASIC, i.e. yolo/edge algo detects a heat signature that's roughly human, drone turns on and hunts it. It's a glorified flying claymore. Can even fall back as dumb claymore. IMO in near term against highend forces, those are the kind of drones marines will likely face - if conflict somehow devolves into point where tactical level drones are being used at all. TBH something has likely gone very wrong higher up in the force spectrum / strategic / multi domain levels if conflict devolves into small tactical drones, i.e. mop up survivors. The real fight is probably already over before that point.
Show HN: AsyncStatus CLI – post status updates from your terminal (open-source)
by heysound | 2025-08-06 19:54:35+00:00
Looking for early users: we ship same-day on feature requests and can adapt the tool to your workflow fast. Try it and let us know what’s missing. Happy to make it work for your team. Curious what HN thinks about the UX, install friction, or any must-have features before ditching the daily standup.
by nikanj | 2025-08-06 19:54:35+00:00
California real estate is such a tragedy, as huge portions of the population are suffering from a housing shortage caused almost exclusively by not building enough homes.

A majority of people own real estate, so they're happy with the status quo. Why would you put up with even the slightest personal inconvenience from added housing, if all it got you was a reduced value of your property?
by Animats | 2025-08-06 19:55:27+00:00
Tune in next week for the next exciting episode, where we will see a command taken off the queue and executed in the GPU!

The abstraction level discussed here is just where data gets passed across the user/kernel boundary. It's mostly queue and buffer management, which is why there are so few operations. The real action happens as queued commands are executed.

There's another stream of command completions coming back from the GPU. Looking forward to seeing how that works. All this asynchrony is mostly not the driver's problem. That's kicked up to the user code level, as the driver delivers completions.
by bitbasher | 2025-08-06 19:55:50+00:00
Was it a "smart completion" like JetBrains' local llm based tab completion? If so, it's a step above in-editor completion and a step below full on AI. I'd let it slide... but I'd also disable it.

I can't stand things popping up in my editor. Especially if they move text or line breaks change when it pops up. Things like inlay hints drive me insane.