MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bombcar | 2025-08-05 15:32:30+00:00
I loved the HP200LX just for that reason - it was a hand-held 90s palmtop that was a full-fledged 186, with DOS 5.0 and "multitasking" and about a meg of RAM - and it could run ANY of those 80s programs, including a full Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet.

That power - phenomenal, especially in the early Internet age.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-08-05 15:32:56+00:00
Comparing adblocked and de-AI'd Google to Kagi in 2025 is like comparing Yahoo and some Greasemonkey improvements to prime Google around ~2008.

I get it won't ever become as big as Google if everyone has to pay buy I don't think everyone has to become that big anyways. I'd rather have multiple search engines with varying strengths and weaknesses than another monopoly surrounded by smaller companies keeping Microsoft Bing on life support.
by gus_massa | 2025-08-05 15:32:59+00:00
So, if I use 0x00450000 I can swap -inf.0 and +inf.0 without modifying any other value? (I don't expect this swap operation to be useful, but I'm trying to understand the details.)

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Thanks again, it's very interesting. I used assembler a long time ago, for the Z80 and 80?86, when the coprosesor was like 2 inches away :) . The problem is that Chez Scheme emits it's own assembler, and support many platforms. So after going into the rabbit hole, you get to asm-fpt https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acisco%2FChezScheme+asm-fp... (expand and look for "define asm-fpt" near line 1300-2000)

This is like 2 or 3 layers below the level I usually modify, so I'm not sure about the details and quirks in that layer. I'll link to this discussion in github in case some of the maintainers wants to add something like this. My particular case is a very small corner cases and I'm not sure they'd like to add more complexity, but it's nice to have this info in case there are similar cases because once you notice them, they star to appear everywhere.

You can tag yourself in case someone wants to ask more questions or just get updates, but I expect that I'll go in the oposite direction.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-05 15:33:51+00:00
It helps to realize that the search is less of a tool for you to find information and more of a tool to show you an ad targeted on your search query. That's why ads are the top results and the organic data you wanted is after the fold. You're asking an ad company for information, and you don't expect an ad as a result? They are only continuing to show the organic results to tease you into coming back..
by stakent | 2025-08-05 15:33:54+00:00
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by lackoftactics | 2025-08-05 15:33:57+00:00
I thought I was not going to see too many negative comments here, yet I was mistaken. I thought if it's not LLM, people would have a more nuanced take and could look at the research with an open mind. The examples on the website are probably cherry-picked, but progress is really nice compared to Genie 2.

It's a nice step towards gains in embodied AI. Good work, DeepMind.
by luckys | 2025-08-05 15:34:08+00:00
I believe we humans have reached a point where, materially at least, everyone could live in reasonable comfort and there would be no space for wars. Yet we seem to often behave as if we're still hunting for sustenance and living in caves, having to carve out our survival.

I don't have any inclination toward socialism or communism, nor do I have an answer for how this system we live in can be changed for the better, but if we don't at least consider that there must be alternatives, we'll keep living in a world where something as absurd as war continues to be considered normal.
by ben_w | 2025-08-05 15:34:13+00:00
That's not a redefinition: when I was a kid, the definition of abject/extreme poverty was $1/day — inflation adjusted, that's the same amount.

Also, when I was I was born the entire country of China had a GDP/capita of about $6.10/day in 2011 dollars: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-p...

When it comes to the distribution, the best I know how to reach for is the Gini coefficient, on which measure China is better than the USA and worse than Germany: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/economic-inequality-gini-...

There's also this chart, but I don't know what search term I would use to describe it: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/poverty-explorer?Indica... (note this chart is in 2021 dollars, the first one is in 2011 dollars)
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-05 15:34:18+00:00
As much as I hate the American health care system as a senior citizen, there is an out of pocket maximum that you can budget for if you have all of the parts.

From what I understand it’s Medicare Part A+B and either Part C or Medigap.

Of course private insurance especially for older Americans like Part C and Medigap is Byzantine if you actually need it and some doctors don’t accept Medicaid (low income) and a few don’t even accept Medicare.

I don’t know much from either first hand or second hand experience because my mom and dad (83 and 81) are under my mom’s teacher’s retirement insurance and between them (two pensions + social security) medical expenses are more of a nuisance than something that they stress about.
by ymolodtsov | 2025-08-05 15:34:29+00:00
This doesn't really make Apple look better, but a huge part of it is surely how recent the Ublock Origin app for iOS is. New apps take time to propagate and become good responses. Which makes sense, you wouldn't want someone else to be able to instantly cover Ublock Origin itself with a copycat app (not that it doesn't happen anyway).
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-08-05 15:34:58+00:00
To me, it's the method for deciding where I put the oscilloscope/debugger.

Without the speculation, where do you know where to put your breakpoint? If you have a crash, cool, start at the stack trace. If you don't crash but something is wrong, you have a far broader scope.

The speculation makes you think about what could logically cause the issue. Sometimes you can skip the actual debugging and logic your way to the exact line without much wasted time.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-08-05 15:35:00+00:00
There's a documentary about it on Netflix and the impression I came away with is that, while there are fundamental engineering problems associated with a carbon fiber design, they could have probably overcome them in one way or another.

The problem with oceangate is that their CEO was an arrogant narcissist who thought he knew better than everyone, and if anyone stood in his way he would explode with anger at them and fire them. It was a company with absolutely no culture of safety and a cult of personality where people were punished for being honest. The CEO knew about the problems and still somehow believed, to his core, that everyone else (including hard data!) was wrong. He believed in his own infallibility so deeply that it killed him
by rufius | 2025-08-05 15:35:02+00:00
I don’t think AI makes me 10x more productive. It does make me close to 10x less bored though.

Much of production software engineering is writing boiler plate, building out test matrices and harnesses, scaffolding structure. And often, it’s for very similarly shaped problems at their core regardless of the company, organization, or product.

AI lets me get a lot of that out of the way and focus on more interesting work.

One might argue that’s a failure of tools or even my own technique. That might be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m less bored than I used to be.
by hollowonepl | 2025-08-05 15:35:11+00:00
Gosh… I thought all that startup mentoring nonsense era is over… work is work… should give money I get it and it should give enough time to spend it wisely, I get it for a while too.. but all that nonsense about problem solving? It should have a business case so it’s something beyond pumped up idea to make world worse… I’ve seen enough startups that aimed to fix problems that never truly existed and generated more problems to speculate on an idea there actually is a business model for it.. I think debunked truth about startup ideas is to find a gig that fat boy investors buy in when you realize, cash out, buy a winery and relax… others will keep fixing problems you’ve generated, but wine tastes good. All other ideas is just bollocks for young minds to be lied that world we live in is not feudal. Forgive me being brutally honest… but we are 20 years after Zuck being impressed by Napster way of impressing investors. We should have learned something real from that.
by rowanG077 | 2025-08-05 15:35:12+00:00
I'm not sure this is interesting beyond the wow effect. Unless we can actually get the world out of the AI. The real reason chatgpt and friends actually have customers is that the text interface is actually durable and easily to build upon after generation. It's also super ez to feed text into a fresh cycle. But this, while looking fancy, doesn't seem to be on the path to actually working out. Unless there is a sane export to unreal or something.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-05 15:35:26+00:00
> I kinda feel bad for the call centers and the legion of Reddit/Twitter users who were mislead by a few random meme protest .gif files

If you think it was just a few image memes, you really haven't been paying attention. Check out my post history here for better information than you currently have on how credit card companies are definitely contributing to this problem, if not a critical link in the chain that causes this problem.

Personally, I believe that the problem is upstream of credit card companies even. The problem is with activist investors with far too much influence, able to bully the CEOs of Visa/MasterCard/etc. to accomplish political outcomes.
by ashton314 | 2025-08-05 15:35:56+00:00
Author here. I think it is well and good to replace human jobs with automation thereby freeing them up for more creative activities. My favorite appliances are my dish washer, washing machine, dryer, and now my robot vacuum. I think automation is great!

I see the problem when humans allow machines to start replacing what is intrinsically human: when you offload your creativity onto a machine, when you "communicate" via LLMs, or when you try to assuage loneliness with a computer "friend", you're missing out on vital parts of the human experience.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-05 15:35:57+00:00
The product I oversee at my job is something that can only be built by people who are intimately aware of the process and have a strong understanding of the underlying engineering.

We could hand the full project file to a competitor and they almost certainly would not be able to build functional units. The failure points are fractal, so you need a strong intuition about what part you are installing, what qualities an ideal part has, what qualities the one in your hand has, how you might install it differently because of those qualities, and/or how you might change a later process to accommodate it. Or if the part should just be junked. The process is fraught with seemingly good intuitions that will ultimately lead you to failure as well.

These units also cannot be reworked, reused, or repaired, so any mistake before finalizing the build junks the entire thing.

For extremely low-entropy products, mother nature is incredibly unforgiving.
by coltonv | 2025-08-05 15:36:26+00:00
I mean throughput, not latency. As in if you ship 10 meaningful changes in a month before you now ship 100.

My point around waiting for things like code review is that it creates a natural time floor, the context switching takes time and slows down other work. If you have 10x as much stuff to get reviewed, all the time loss to context switching is multiplied by 10x.
by krapp | 2025-08-05 15:36:48+00:00
There's a reason complaining that HN is "turning into Reddit" is a "semi-noob illusion as old as the hills."

People show up here expecting a community far more erudite , intellectually and technically deep and separated from popular culture than they find, and when disillusion sets in they interpret this as a degradation of the culture.

Also in a culture that eschews humor and common sentiment the way HN often does (in order to not "be like Reddit") hostility, misanthropy and cynicism become intellectual virtue signals.
by ashton314 | 2025-08-05 15:36:50+00:00
You and another commenter here had about the same comment, so here's what I wrote to them to clarify:

Author here. I think it is well and good to replace human jobs with automation thereby freeing them up for more creative activities. My favorite appliances are my dish washer, washing machine, dryer, and now my robot vacuum. I think automation is great!

I see the problem when humans allow machines to start replacing what is intrinsically human: when you offload your creativity onto a machine, when you "communicate" via LLMs, or when you try to assuage loneliness with a computer "friend", you're missing out on vital parts of the human experience.
by grhmc | 2025-08-05 15:36:54+00:00
DetSys CEO here. We've been working on this for months, and I am so excited for this to be out. This is the third time I've been part of a Linux remote builder on macOS, and we got it right this time. It is magical. The VM just comes and goes on demand. There's no SSH keys, IPs, remote store copying, it is almost completely transparent. Let me know if you have questions :)
by _bent | 2025-08-05 15:36:58+00:00
yeah, this I don't get. Maybe the issue is that you don't want to implement SEPA yourself, so you go through a payment processor -- which may then have the same guidelines as MasterCard?

SEPA flows typically have a more rough UX, maybe this would put off a lot of customers?

They could also just piggy back off of SEPA and just do the bog standard thing of asking the customer to transfer x amount of money with the reference abcxyz. If the customer then uses instant transfer in their banking app, they get to immediately confirm the purchase.

In case of Steam they could totally also just give immediate access and then revoke it if the payment doesn't happen within 36 hours.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-05 15:37:07+00:00
Yeah, I know several people who will turn on a streaming channel of old shows and watch whatever comes on, when they could just as easily pick their favorite episodes. I wonder if it's because we grew up with that, making it a comfort thing, or if there's really something more appealing about not knowing exactly what you're going to watch next.

Same thing with music: I have thousands of songs downloaded and can listen to my favorites anytime, but I kinda miss having a good radio station I can tune in and hear something I wasn't expecting, even if it's not as good.
by necovek | 2025-08-05 15:37:31+00:00
An aside, but I am curious: as an old hat today, I now find that using the Perl RE (though some of it lives on through sed) syntax as "we used to do back in the day" in regular communications confuses most people. People are usually unfamiliar with it, so I am slowly phasing it out.

What's your experience? And what do the "kids" use these days to indicate alternative options (as above — though for that, I use bash {} syntax too) or to signal "I changed my mind" or "let me fix that for you"?
by armchairhacker | 2025-08-05 15:37:47+00:00
Part of it is because people who simply agree don’t have anything to say.

Comments like “^ This”, are generally frowned on, because they don’t contribute knowledge to the discussion and we have votes to show agreement. Constructive criticism does. I think this is a good thing, on forums like HN I prefer constructive criticism over unconstructive praise.

However, it doesn’t explain unconstructive criticism (“how OP can be interpreted as ignorant or illogical or immoral”). Maybe people don’t know how to criticize gently and helpfully*, or being rude correlates more with expressing your opinion.

* My advice would be: make objective points and focus on the content, don’t make subjective points or attack the commenter.
by rramadass | 2025-08-05 15:37:50+00:00
Information and knowledge can be had at any age but it takes experience over time to gain wisdom. It is not that experienced developers are reluctant to learn new things but are cautious and conservative when it comes to adopting and putting them into practice especially for non-trivial systems in production. They have already tamed the complexity of their system and devised workable solutions to thorny problems and hence do not deem it wise to rewrite everything just because of some new fad and/or exciting feature being introduced in their language of use.

The fact that C++ is a multi-layered language with assured backwards compatibility really helps in slowly migrating to newer design paradigms and performant techniques while being sure/stable every step of the way.
by epolanski | 2025-08-05 15:37:54+00:00
> It's not good at keeping up with the standards and utilities of your codebase.

Not my experience.

You can instruct Claude Code to respect standards and practices of your codebase.

In fact I noticed that Claude Code has forced me to make few genuinely important things like documenting more, writing more E2E tests and tracking architectural and style changes.

Not only I am forcing myself to a consistent (and well thought styling), but I also need it later to feed it to the AI itself.

Seriously, I don't want to offend no one, but if you believe that AI doesn't make you more productive you've got skill issues in adopting and using new tools at what they are good at.
by vhrrsrivr | 2025-08-05 15:38:02+00:00
1. yes that's quite doable. the placement test only gets you to see a mix of basic and advanced vocab. without importing learning history from another platform you do have to see everything at least a few times eventually, easy or not.

2. this is more challenging as there's very often not a 1-to-1 relationship between grammar points.

3. I have a branch on the hsrs github that changes the sampling to be prefix-order so an llm can guide it, with mixed results. There's a tension between picking common outputs, and picking the output that will maximize your increase in retention across multiple cards. That being said 色んな娘 is definitely me forgetting to tag 娘 as non-attributive (like pronouns), will fix. you can read about the mechanisms I have to keep the content as natural as possible here: https://github.com/satchelspencer/hsrs/blob/main/docs/deck-c...
by vpribish | 2025-08-05 15:38:09+00:00
Article is a long, personal story conveying the human cost and context of a simple-to-understand problem. If you have experienced this yourself - and most have to some degree - then all the description is unnecessary. Which seems appropriate - how do you convey an internal personal experience - maybe lots and lots of talking with metaphors and emotions?

The health-provider side has the problem that some people are faking it, some are seeking attention or drugs without a condition, and some are needlessly suffering but won’t say so. Also, they don’t have the time.

This is a wicked problem for a system to have - there are malicious actors and incompetents on both sides. The current systems of half-century-old 1-10 scores is frustrating and simplistic.

TFA is not saying the solution is for all patients to get an English degree - I think. The worksheet they show as an improvement is dramatically more complex, hard to read, and undoubtedly more accurate than the old 1-10. That’s not a clear ‘win’.

Also, why have we accepted these simplistic tools for so long? Maybe there is little to be gained by improving them - or maybe the incentives are misaligned.

It’s a good problem to work on
by jeffhuys | 2025-08-05 15:38:23+00:00
I love, LOVE Orion. Use it both on iPhone and Mac. However, lately, it's becoming more and more buggy and sluggish. Writing this in Orion though - just have to quit it a few times a day to battle the RAM consumption and sluggishness. So yeah, like the other person says: DEFINETELY still beta. And yes, I report the issues.
by claytongulick | 2025-08-05 15:38:26+00:00
A cursory scroll on X, LinkedIn, etc... will show you.

That seemed to me be to be the author's point.

His article resonated with me. After 30 years of development and dealing with hype cycles, offshoring, no-code "platforms", endless framework churn (this next version will make everything better!), coder tribes ("if you don't do typescript, you're incompetent and should be fired"), endless bickering, improper tech adopting following the FANGs (your startup with 0 users needs kubernetes?) and a gazillion other annoyances we're all familiar with, this AI stuff might be the thing that makes me retire.

To be clear: it's not AI that I have a problem with. I'm actually deeply interested in it and actively researching it from a math's up approach.

I'm also a big believer in it, I've implemented it in a few different projects that have had remarkable efficiency gains for my users, things like automatically extracting values from a PDF to create a structured record. It is a wonderful way to eliminate a whole class of drudgery based tasks.

No, the thing that has me on the verge of throwing in the towel is the wholesale rush towards devaluing human expertise.

I'm not just talking about developers, I'm talking about healthcare providers, artists, lawyers, etc...

Highly skilled professionals that have, in some cases, spent their entire lives developing mastery of their craft. They demand a compensation rate commensurate to that value, and in response society gleefully says "meh, I think you can be replaced with this gizmo for a fraction of the cost."

It's an insult. It would be one thing if it were true - my objection could safely be dismissed as the grumbling of a buggy whip manufacturer, however this is objectively, measurably wrong.

Most of the energy of the people pushing the AI hype goes towards obscuring this. When objective reality is presented to them in irrefutable ways, the response is inevitably: "but the next version will!"

It won't. Not with the current approach. The stochastic parrot will never learn to think.

That doesn't mean it's not useful. It demonstrably is, it's an incredibly valuable tool for entire classes of problems, but using it as a cheap replacement for skilled professionals is madness.

What will the world be left with when we drive those professionals out?

Do you want an AI deciding your healthcare? Do you want a codebase that you've invested your life savings into written by an AI that can't think?

How will we innovate? Who will be able to do fundamental research and create new things? Why would you bother going into the profession at all? So we're left with AIs training on increasingly polluted data, and relying on them to push us forward. It's a farce.

I've been seriously considering hanging up my spurs and munching popcorn through the inevitable chaos that will come if we don't course correct.