MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmvldz | 2025-08-21 20:53:15+00:00
I'm trying to prototype extremely quickly and I'm working on my project alone so yes, often I accept PRs without looking too closely at the code if my local testing succeeds.

I'm using Typescript and Rust and I think it's critical to use strict typing with LLMs to catch simple bugs.

I've worked at Uber as an infra engineer and at Gem as an engineering manager so I do consider myself an "actual professional developer". The critical bit is the context of the project I'm working on. If I were at a tech company building software, I'd be much more reticent to ship AI generated PRs whole cloth.
by eschaton | 2025-08-21 20:53:26+00:00
Submitting a PR also means you’re not submitting code copied from elsewhere without calling that out and ensuring license compatibility, we don’t refer to that as incentivizing lying about the origin of submitted code.

Fraud and misrepresentation are always options for contributors, at some point one needs to trust that they’re adhering to the rules that they agreed to adhere to.
Show HN: GitArsenal – One-click setup for any GitHub repository
by rs545837 | 2025-08-21 20:53:58+00:00
What it is: GitArsenal automatically sets up and runs any GitHub repository on your machine (or a cloud instance) without you having to deal with dependency hell, environment setup, or debugging cryptic error messages.

The problem: We've all been there, you find an interesting AI model or project on GitHub, try to run it, and spend hours wrestling with Python versions, CUDA toolkit mismatches, missing dependencies, and vague README instructions. Most people give up before seeing the code actually work.

How it works:

- You give it a GitHub repo URL

- It analyzes the entire codebase using gitingest compression - Spins up the right environment (local or cloud GPU if needed)

- An AI agent debugs setup issues in real-time, retrying failed commands with fixes

- Handles API key collection, system compatibility checks, and sudo permissions

- You end up with a working environment where you can actually run the code

What makes it different: Unlike general coding assistants (Cursor, etc.) that are built for writing code, this is laser-focused on the specific task of repository setup. It never stops until everything works, it's like having a persistent developer who won't give up on getting your environment running.

Current status: CLI tool working, tested on various ML repositories. Working on improving the success rate and adding web interface.
by Krasnol | 2025-08-21 20:54:30+00:00
Is is quite wqeird that the comment below you is [dead] when it's perfectly reasonable:

The "one more account" is not problematic because it's just another account, its problematic due Samsung's extremely invasive data collection and snooping. With Google phone you only have Google collecting your fata (unless you install GOS like you should ^^), but with Samsung you have both Google and Samsung getting your data.
by gherkinnn | 2025-08-21 20:54:39+00:00
Grug Dev is my hero, the pinnacle of the bell curve meme.

Grug design reads like a shallow copy, not written by an actual designer but by a developer with a passing, and frustrated, experience with design. It also lacks references to shiny rocks and complexity daemon, and *shaman*. Because the design system shaman reliably summons the daemons.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-08-21 20:54:41+00:00
You're the one whose being dishonest here, at least partly. From what I've read of self-defense laws in the UK, you can use "reasonable" force to defend yourself against attack (try measuring that precisely in the heat of a moment where you don't know your attacker's aims) but yes, you can actually be prosecuted for using force against someone trying to steal from you. Even something as shitty as a google search will show that your claim is demonstratable untrue.
by janalsncm | 2025-08-21 20:54:42+00:00
If Weinstein believed there was an issue with Nguyen’s personality or this was all a misunderstanding, he would not have avoided going on multiple podcasts to clear the air. That Nguyen has a character flaw would immediately be apparent in a long form interview.

Weinstein had that opportunity with Lex Fridman and instead is avoiding it. This is not he behavior of someone with a serious scientific position.

Weinstein has never alleged any kind of issue you’re suggesting, so I don’t think we need to invent any issues for him.
by bkettle | 2025-08-21 20:54:45+00:00
I think many things in this article are wrong (the claim that EVs are silent is plainly false). But I'll just say that even though you might want open space, does that necessarily mean that you are entitled to it (at a reasonable cost)? Strong Towns made a pretty compelling point that urban downtown areas overwhelmingly subsidize suburban areas due to their much higher tax density, and I have to think that rural areas where it's truly possible to own "open space" are even more subsidized than suburbs.
by kami23 | 2025-08-21 20:54:50+00:00
That's a similar story for me at $DAYJOB. We have copilot for our IDEs and it is so much worse than Claude code or any other CLI integration option. We're so restricted on adopting the features as fast as they are turned on. I try to use it during the day and end up frustrated that the agent mode is restricted and returns "I can't complete that for you" or something similar when asking for pretty reasonable actions.

I've been cranking out personal apps with Claude Code in contrast and my brain is exploding with ideas for day job, but this is such an organic space that the speed that corporations move at they are using the cool tool from last year has left me demoing personal work to coworkers and hoping that starts to move the needle on getting better tooling. I understand the governance and privacy concerns for $DAYJOB, and as such every tool needs to get approved by a slow human process.

We also have OpenAI access and I have found myself using that for research more so than copilot as well, maybe we just picked the worst tool because of that MS vertical integration...
by lillecarl | 2025-08-21 20:55:30+00:00
https://www.xkcd.com/1737

If you're OBVIOUSLY not the target audience you don't have to dismiss it because it doesn't fit your usecase. There's probably a thousand "apps" where this is just fine for every one "Sry we work with the government or are planet scale apps" you're talking about.

It's exhausting to read dismissive online dick-measuring comments, if you have the issues you're explaining you already know this doesn't apply to you. It's on the same level as "Bro I asked a question to an LLM and it gave an interesting answer and I'm unique because nobody but me can ask questions to LLMs like I can" style posts.
by lxe | 2025-08-21 20:55:31+00:00
> Average per-capita domestic water use in the US is 82 gallons per day. By comparison, German homes use around 33 gallons per person per day, UK homes use around 37 gallons, and French homes use around 39 gallons.

I want to know way more information about these figures... like, are there significant outliers? Drastically different usage profiles?
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-21 20:55:35+00:00
When it comes to physics it is even weirder than this. I’d argue there really isn’t anything at stake anymore. Einstein was able to make predictions and get them verified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment

But the Higgs Boson might be the last prediction in fundamental physics to be verified in the lifetime of the predictor. Neutrino oscillations sure weren’t.

Society needs people to teach introductory physics classes to a wide range of undergrad students and upper level classes to a few specialists and that is what determines the size of the job market. You don’t really need physics PhDs to do that (I did a lot of that work in the first two years of my PhD program)

The physics community manages to organize things such that a few people can work on fundamental physics on the side but their numbers are basically determined by demand for teaching with is unrelated to the situation in research.

One strange thing though is that there is some market for books for laymen like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time

and it’s been clear for a while those people aren’t really satisfied. They think Bell’s inequality and ‘interpretations of quantum mechanics’ are more interesting than physicists do, there is no more Babe Ruth style showmanship [1] and from an outsider’s point of view there’s a feeling that since GUTs and inflation and String theory there are just a lot of bad smells —- insiders are right to discount some of these complaints but in a lot of ways inflation and string theory have neither had a story that completely made sense nor anything that rules them out so they lumber on in an unsatisfying way so in the 2000s we started to see insider-outsider figures like Peter Woit (who I strongly endorse) and Hossenfelder (who’s been too corrupted by being a YouTube star)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth%27s_called_shot
by tptacek | 2025-08-21 20:55:51+00:00
You're arguing with an oversimplified model of the complaint about Weinstein. It's not that Weinstein has a theory that's orthogonal to mainstream physics, but rather the means with which he pursues the inquiry. He doesn't write real papers, when he released the GU paper he copyrighted it and claimed it as a "work of entertainment", in effect demanding that the rest of the field not cite and address it. That's not how papers work.

The problem, as I understand it, is that Weinstein simply isn't "doing science". He's "doing big thinkies" and then complaining when the world doesn't snap to attention. That problem has not much at all to do with his specific ideas.
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-21 20:56:09+00:00
Always fun to see an exchange on Reddit like:

Person1: "thing doesn't work?"

Person2: "yeah it doesn't work for me either"

Person3: "it's always something I have to work around"

Person4: "I work for <company> as a customer support outreach social media community engagement executive. Can you go and jump through hoops and open a support case?"

Not raising it internally, not getting anything changed or fixed; suggesting the customer do more work to tell the company about the problem. A person who works for the company and is paid to read social media and has read the complaints, is not only apparently ignoring them but annoying the customers as well.

Alternate Person4: "<sigh> I work for <company> as a technical employee and we've been begging to get this fixed for years. As a workaround you can <xyz>. Email me directly if you need more help, and if we get a patch to fix ever, I'll let you know".
by IHaBiS02 | 2025-08-21 20:56:16+00:00
This puzzle is really interesting! I played some puzzles in mobile, and it works well in most cases. Vibrating when block edges are really good feature as it gives direct feedback to user.

However, in my phone when the puzzle size is bigger than 10x10, the outline dots of puzzle is out of screen, makes the puzzle unplayable.

Also, I found that system doesn't check the conditions about one single loop without branches, so the puzzle can be solved without making any loop and using only branches.

And when the puzzle newly generared, place any lines to see zeros change to green feels a little bit inconvenient for me.

Anyway, generated puzzle fits with their difficulty setting, and I like to play it with various difficulty and size settings. Thanks for sharing this joyful site!
by jeffbee | 2025-08-21 20:56:16+00:00
Some quick napkin math using averages (data center designs vary). One of Google's larger and thirstier data centers, in Oklahoma, is said to use 833 million gallons per year (that's about 2500 acre-feet, in useful terms). It occupies about 250 acres, most of which looks to be parking lots but whatever. The number of households that can be supported on 1 acre-foot per year ranges from 2 to 6 depending (Las Vegas on one end, San Francisco on the other).

You said apartments specifically and this urban form usually starts at 50 dwellings per acre, minimum, which would lead me to say the apartments use more water. The break-even point in this equation is 2-5 households per acre.
by seadan83 | 2025-08-21 20:57:13+00:00
No, it's not a wish nor an expectation for a magical panacea, but logic.

The only code you do not have to maintain is code that is fully perfect (100% accurate, 100% of the time). Bus factor zero is a problem for code that needs to be maintained. If AI is short of the 100%, then it is generating code that needs to be maintained. Ergo, a bus factor zero will be a problem for AI generated code (until such time as that code is perfect).
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-21 20:57:20+00:00
I guess it's just different kinds of people. I have used Copilot to generate code I barely understand (stuff for a microcontroller project, nothing important) but I wouldn't in a thousand years say I wrote it. I broadly understand how it works, and like, if someone wanted to see it, I'd show them. But like... how can you take pride in something you didn't make?
by kerblang | 2025-08-21 20:57:50+00:00
This is not unreasonable, and will be standard practice at many large companies. Judging from downvotes some of us are just too cool for that.

I connect to a production replica read-only. Many coworkers aren't even allowed that. Any DDL change has to go thru reviews & approvals etc. and is too much trouble, so I just keep a set of queries in git.

Also, any defined view in the db becomes a dependency that people are scared of breaking because who is using it and for what? This becomes especially true when random things connect to your db (bad but too late to do anything about it...) Now you can't change it without everyone yelling at you, and worse yet, a necessary data migration that affects such views means you have to fold them into your data migration project.

Working on giant corporate legacy systems is painful but it pays the bills...
by cabacon | 2025-08-21 20:58:25+00:00
Plato's _Phaedrus_ features Socrates arguing against writing; "They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks."

I have heard people argue that the use of calculators (and later, specifically graphing calculators) would make people worse at math; quick searching found papers like https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525547.pdf discussing the topic.

I can't see how the "LLMs make us dumber" argument is different than those. I think calculators are a great tool, and people trained in a calculator-having environment certainly seem to be able to do math. I can't see that writing has done anything but improve our ability to reason over time. What makes LLMs different?
by jerf | 2025-08-21 20:58:51+00:00
I agree that the level of complexity of task it can do is likely to rise over time. I often talk about the "next generation" of AI that will actually be what we were promised LLMs would be, but LLMs architecturally are just not suited for. I think the time is coming when AIs "truly" (for some definition of truly) will understand architecture and systems in a way that LLMs don't and really can't, and will be able to do a lot more things than they can now, though when that will be is hard to guess. Could be next year, or AI could stall out now where it is now for the next 10. Nobody knows.

However, the information-theoretic limitation of expressing what you want and how anyone, AI or otherwise, could turn that into commits, is going to be quite the barrier, because that's fundamental to communication itself. I don't think the skill of "having a very, very precise and detailed understanding of the actual problem" is going anywhere any time soon.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-08-21 20:58:56+00:00
> Try out uv format in your next project and see how it fits into your development workflow. The experimental nature means your feedback could help shape how this feature evolves.

So maybe nobody has been waiting for this and the feedback will be: we don’t need this.

Also it uses ruff under the hood. If it’s integrated with uv, an advantage is one less tool to juggle.
by themagician | 2025-08-21 20:59:15+00:00
Yeah, I didn't even account for that. Drive enough and you get into an accident. Add all the hours and cost to dealing with that. You'll probably get somewhat injured, even if minor. Physical therapy and healing time. Lifelong back pain. Now you DO need to drive to a gym for physical therapy. More car time.

I also think about how my nutrition has declined DRAMATICALLY with a car. Gone are the days of fresh lettuce and berries unless you drive to the grocery store every day. Gas stations should sell ozempic at the pump.
by doorhammer | 2025-08-21 20:59:34+00:00
So, I fully agree that we should be aware how AI use is impacting front-line agents--honestly, I'd bet AI is overall a bad thing in most cases--but that's just a gut feeling.

That said, it's possible the agents weren't given extra time to make notes about calls and write summaries; often they're not.

You usually have different states you can be in as a call center agent. Something like: "On a call", "Available to take a new call", "Unavailable to take a new call"

Being on a call is also being unavailable to take a call, but you'd obviously track that separately.

"Unavailable" time is usually further broken down into paid time (breaks), unpaid time (lunch) etc

And _sometimes_ the agent will have a state called something like "After Call Work" which is an "Unavailable" state that you use to finish up tasks related to the call you were just on.

So, full disclosure: I did work for a huge e-com supporting huge call centers, but I only worked for one company supporting call centers. What I'm talking about is my experience there and what I heard from people who also worked there who had experience with other call centers.

A lot of call centers don't give agents any "After Call Work" time and if they do, it's heavily discouraged and negatively impacts your metrics. They're expected to finish everything related to the call _during_ the call.

If you're thinking "that's not great" then, yeah, I agree, but it was above my paygrade.

It's entirely possible that offloading that task to an LLM gives agents _more_ breathing room.

But also totally possible that you're right. I don't know the GPs exact situation, but I feel pretty confident that other call centers are doing similar things with AI tagging and summaries and that you see both situations (AI giving more breathing room some places and taking it away others).
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-21 20:59:48+00:00
Was true during the zero interest rate era, but over the past few years since rate hikes started, the money market rate has kept up with housing. Shelter (used in the CPI readings) +5% yearly, and real median home prices ~2% compounded since rates rose.

Housing affordability is at extreme historical levels, housing sales have fallen through the floor. Looks toppy. Everyone knows interest rate cuts are coming sooner or later, but historically, cutting cycles often coincide with economic slowdown and weakness that has a bigger impact than the cuts themselves. I don't think getting over 4% per year compounding is a bad place to be at all, even when looking at housing prices. Or looking at longer duration, you can get 5% for decades now. Will shelter continue rising for 5% per annum every year from here? Maybe, but it wouldn't surprise me to actually see further deceleration or even (god forbid) a tick down in some of these readings if we see some modest layoffs.
by Aachen | 2025-08-21 20:59:50+00:00
That's not a certain outcome. If you're willing to do this case, I can provide access logs and any evidence you want. You can keep any money you win plus I'll pay a bonus on top! Wanna do it?

Keep in mind I'm in Germany, the server is in another EU country, and the worst scrapers overseas (in China, USA, and Singapore). Thanks to these LLMs there is no barrier to have the relevant laws be translated in all directions I trust that won't be a problem! :P
by blamestross | 2025-08-21 21:00:16+00:00
Its all about who "us" are.

Individuals? Most information technology makes us dumber in isolation, but with the tools we end up net faster.

The scary thing is that it is less about making things "better" than it is making them cheaper. AI isn't winning on skill, its winning on being "80% the quality at 20% the price."

So if you see "us" as the economic super-organism managed by very powerful people, then it makes us a lot smarter!
by cauch | 2025-08-21 21:00:24+00:00
I think that's what the previous comment meant by

"she is essentially equating Weinstein's theory to all other theoretical physics"

Sure, it is an extrapolation to say "all other".

But this sentence still has the point of showing how unfair and unscientific is the basis of Hossenfelder's arguments. Even if you don't know String Theory, you should stop and think "ok, but how can she pretend that conclusion is valid" (in my previous comment, I provided 3 elements she overlooked: the fact that BU and String Theory may not be the same level of bullshit-ness, the fact that having 2 different theories receiving a different treatment can be explained by other reasons that a bias for the insider, the fact that she has no access to the rate of criticism of BU-like theories that come from the inside).

Even if you don't know String Theory, you should ask "did she even consider that maybe there are differences in the level of bullshit-ness that make some people criticize GU and not String Theory".
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-08-21 21:00:54+00:00
> Do companies want to hire "honest" people whose CVs were written by some LLM?

Yes, some companies do want to hire such people, the justification given is something along the lines of "we need devs who are using the latest tools/up to date on the latest trends! They will help bring in those techniques and make all of our current devs more productive!". This isn't a bad set of motivations or assumptions IMO.

Setting aside what companies _want_, they almost certainly are already hiring devs with llm-edited CVs, whether they want it or not. Such CVs/resumes are more likely to make it through HR filters.
by hitekker | 2025-08-21 21:01:03+00:00
Timothy Nguyen’s way of introducing his grievances does feel heavy handed. Lots of emotionally laden, suspenseful language, that I usually hear from people who have an axe to grind.

But I don’t know him nor have I read material from him or his targets. Maybe he’s right on a few points.

Still, there is a smell about his blog that says “stay away”
by smartmic | 2025-08-21 21:01:42+00:00
Today, I read the following in the concluding sentence of Frederik P. Brooks' essay “No Silver Bullets, Refired"[0]. I am quoting the entire chapter in full because it is so apt and ends with a truly positive message.

> Net on Bullets - Position Unchanged

> So we come back to fundamentals. Complexity is the business we are in, and complexity is what limits us. R. L. Glass, writing in 1988, accurately summarizes my 1995 views:

>> So what, in retrospect, have Parnas and Brooks said to us? That software development is a conceptually tough business. That magic solutions are not just around the corner. That it is time for the practitioner to examine evolutionary improvements rather than to wait—or hope—for revolutionary ones.

>> Some in the software field find this to be a discouraging picture. They are the ones who still thought breakthroughs were near at hand.

>> But some of us—those of us crusty enough to think that we are realists—see this as a breath of fresh air. At last, we can focus on something a little more viable than pie in the sky. Now, perhaps, we can get on with the incremental improvements to software productivity that are possible, rather than waiting for the breakthroughs that are not likely to ever come.[1]

[0]: Brooks, Frederick P.,Jr, The mythical man-month: essays on software engineering (1995), p. 226

[1]: Glass, R. L., "Glass"(column), System Development, (January 1988), pp. 4-5.