MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jxf | 2025-08-08 05:33:23+00:00
Pivotal was far from a perfect company (if there can even be such a thing to begin with), but sadly, a lot of good things were lost in its latter days. This was one of them.

Are there particular attributes, behaviors, or properties you feel are important that you can't find elsewhere? I see you mentioned latency, for example — what else is key to you?
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-08 05:34:30+00:00
If you build the Torment Nexus, it might even be ever so slightly less tormentful[1] than it otherwise could have been because you're a good person, perhaps even slightly better than most.

This thing you eventually come to believe, of course, is exactly what one must believe for the Torment Nexus to be made.

Sure, there are structural and economic incentives that tilt the playing field, but this is the belief that is easier to accept than to turn down the high pay, deal with the hassles of insurance or lack of, or have to encounter the immigration authority.

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tormentful
by jiveturkey | 2025-08-08 05:34:46+00:00
disagree, if you mean simple cut key. a screwdriver defeats it.

ok, if you mean a key that has a chip embedded, where the key cuts are just window dressing and the real magic is still in cryptographic proof of "something you have". i am not aware of any such key ever being produced, but i certainly do not have comprehensive knowledge. GM had something close to that.
by timc3 | 2025-08-08 05:35:10+00:00
The encryption is interesting but I wouldn’t call this over engineered at all, in fact it’s rather basic compared to a lot of homelabs I see people building particularly where people are doing K8s or similar over multiple machines.

Also Proxmox was called out as the only choice when that is very much not the case. It is a good choice for sure, but there are others.
by grahamjperrin | 2025-08-08 05:36:05+00:00
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_compared_to_other_dist... exists, but probably does not answer your question.

For Arch users of KDE Plasma and applications, are essential packages ever missing? <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Installation>

From https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/307b8cdef5d4dcd30f5fdc4... for FreeBSD:

> It's not unusual for a Tier 1 platform to have no package for a wanted desktop environment. Two platforms are at this tier: …

For example, kde for FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT was recently missing for a few days for AMD64; is still missing for aarch64 (64-bit ARMv8).

This is not to criticise the maintainers of packages or repos. I do understand the constraints.

The absence of an essential meta package is, inescapably, an impedance when aiming to test installers and upgrades, especially with pkgbase.
by sagarm | 2025-08-08 05:36:43+00:00
An LVT specifically targets land rents, yes including imputed rents. Implied is an end to income and sales tax. The effects of this will be to discourage things like a surface parking lot or low rise motel in the dense part of a city.

Suburbs and rural areas nobody really cares about.

I'm very confused about the idea that taxing land ownership more heavily will somehow lead to more consolidation and _favor_ landlords, and simultaneously harm existing homeowners. It's just incoherent. Perhaps I too am not smart.
by defrost | 2025-08-08 05:36:53+00:00
It's somewhat more complicated given that much of the significant work passed on by Klaus Fuchs to the Soviets that they acknowledge was responsible for the first Soviet fission bomb was Fuchs own work .. he shared with the British, the Americans, the Canadians, and the Soviets .. who were all ostensibly allies at the time.

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

Adding to @eastbound's comment the Soviets were also responsible for the first remote operated "robot" on the moon.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-08 05:39:46+00:00
> Wasn’t Challenger known to be unsafe? (Feynman inquiry?). And the 737 MAX was Boeing skirting safety regulations to save money.

The AI companies have convinced the US government that there should be no AI safety regulations: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-sam-altman-ai-regulati...
by astrange | 2025-08-08 05:40:10+00:00
This isn't the actual issue with them, the actual issue is "correlation is not causation". IQ is a normal distribution by definition, but there's no reason to believe the underlying structure is normal.

If some people in the test population got 0s because the test was in English and they didn't speak English, and then everyone else got random results, it'd still correlate with job performance if the job required you to speak English. Wouldn't mean much though.
by nopinsight | 2025-08-08 05:40:20+00:00
There are quite a few relatively objective criteria in the real world: real estate holdings, money and material possessions, power to influence people and events, etc.

The complexity of achieving those might result in the "Centaur Era", when humans+computers are superior to either alone, lasting longer than the Centaur chess era, which spanned only 1-2 decades before engines like Stockfish made humans superfluous.

However, in well-defined domains, like medical diagnostics, it seems reasoning models alone are already superior to primary care physicians, according to at least 6 studies.

Ref: When Doctors With A.I. Are Outperformed by A.I. Alone by Dr. Eric Topol https://substack.com/@erictopol/p-156304196
by KingOfCoders | 2025-08-08 05:40:37+00:00
If a website says "Do this" and you're the person who follows random websites against security practices, because you believe in authority, a password manager does not help. You will open the password manager, search for GOOD.com and put it into BAD.com and be angry that your password manager can't do that for you.

"Any human can be tricked, no matter how smart they are."

and

"A password manager will protect me from doing the latter."

Don't work together. Either everyone can be tricked or not.

It says "Everyone can be tricked" but I can't be tricked because I use a password manager.
by t1amat | 2025-08-08 05:40:52+00:00
The problem with OpenAI models is the lack of a Max-like subscription for a good agentic harness. Maybe OpenAI or Microsoft could fix this.

I just went through the agony of provisioning my team with new Claude Code 5x subs 2 weeks ago after reviewing all of the options available at that time. Since then, the major changes include a Cerebras sub for Qwen3 Coder 480B, and now GPT-5. I’m still not sure I made the right choice, but hey, I’m not married to it either.

If you plan on using this much at all then the primary thing to avoid is API-based pay per use. It’s prohibitively costly to use regularly. And even for less important changes it never feels appropriate to use a lower quality model when the product counts.

Claude Code won primarily because of the sub and that they have a top tier agentic harness and models that know how to use it. Opus and Sonnet are fantastic agents and very good at our use case, and were our preferred API-based models anyways. We can use Claude Code basically all day with at least Sonnet after using our Opus limits up. Worth nothing that Cline built a Claude Code provider that the derivatives aped which is great but I’ve found Claude Code to be as good or better anyways. The CLI interface is actually a bonus for ease of sharing state via copy/paste.

I’ll probably change over to Gemini Code Assist next, as it’s half the price and more context length, but I’m waiting for a better Gemini 2.5 Pro and the gemini-cli/Code Assist extensions to have first party planning support, which you can get some form of third party through custom extensions with the cli, but as an agent harness they are incomplete without.

The Cerebras + Qwen3 Coder 480B with qwen3-cli is seriously tempting. Crazy generation speed. Theres some question about how long big the rate limit really is but it’s half the cost of Claude Code 5x. I haven’t checked but I know qwen3-cli, which was introduced along side the model, is a fork of gemini-cli with Qwen-focused updates; wonder if they landed a planning tool?

I don’t really consider Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Roo, Kilo et al as they can’t provide a flat rate service with the kind of rate limits you can get with the aforementioned.

GitHub Copilot could be a great offering if they were willing to really compete with a good unlimited premium plan but so far their best offering has less premium requests than I make in a week, possibly even in a few days.

Would love to hear if I missed anything, or somehow missed some dynamic here worth considering. But as far as I can tell, given heavy use, you only have 3 options today: Claude Max, Gemini Code Assist, Cerebras Code.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-08-08 05:42:23+00:00
I don't care if it's open source or not. I care if people call something open source which it isn't.

Do you care about binary blobs in the kernel? No. Are binary blobs in the kernel open source? No.

But it is tedious to go through the same discussion every 10 years, with a relentless industry that wants to dupe people.

If there wasn't a benefit in for them, they would not call it open source.
by leoedin | 2025-08-08 05:43:17+00:00
> One could also argue that criminals being able to steal parked cars is safer over all for society as they then don't feel the need to car jack you while you are actually in the vehicle.

Here in the UK vehicle theft reached an all time low in 2014. It’s doubled since then. If there was an increase in car jacking it must have been minescule by comparison. It’s not really a crime that happens here.

I had an old beater van that got stolen. It turned out that model was known to be easy to steal. I suspect most car theft is done because it’s easy and fairly low risk. Walk up to a car in the night, fiddle around for a few minutes and drive off.

I still drive a car with a key. It’s completely fine. Who actually asked for keyless entry?
by schmorptron | 2025-08-08 05:45:10+00:00
I was about to to comment the same, I don't know if I believe this system prompt. It's something that ChatGPT specifically seems to explicitly be instructed to do, since most of my query responses seem to end with "If you want, I can generate a diagram about this" or "would you like to walk through a code example".

Unless they have a whole seperate model run that does only this at the end every time, so they don't want the main response to do it?
by nodja | 2025-08-08 05:45:22+00:00
Back in the GPT3 days people said that prompt engineering was going to be dead due to prompt tuning. And here we are 2 major versions later and I've yet to see it in production. I thought it would be useful not only to prevent leaks like these, but they would also produce more reliable results no?

If you don't know what prompt tuning is, it's when you freeze the whole model except a certain amount of embeddings at the beginning of the prompt and train only those embeddings. It works like fine tuning but you can swap them in and out as they work just like normal text tokens, they just have vectors that don't map directly to discrete tokens. If you know what textual inversion is in image models it's the same concept.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-08 05:45:37+00:00
I'm sure some people thought that too seeing first phones with color displays that could run software that costed 10 times as much as a normal phone. I know I thought that when they said they are the future I was very skeptical. In few years iPhone happened, then Android and even I got myself one. Things seem ridiculous until some of them just become common. Other claims just fade away.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-08 05:45:45+00:00
> And the final product must be consumed within 10 minutes after emerging from the oven.

I like this requirement because it means I could go into a place, order a pizza, sit there starting at it for 15 minutes, and then report them for a violation. :-)

Joking aside, I'm always intrigued by these associations and legal categories that nail down specific characteristics for certain foods (or other items). A lot of them require stuff to be made in a specific geographical area, so it's cool to see this Naples pizza one focusing on the actual process rather than the location. But this is still largely about the process rather than the product. It'd be an interesting challenge to see if you could define such categories in terms of the product itself, so you could verify just based on the pizza whether it was a "real" pizza, without knowing how it was made.

I do have to wonder whether it's really worth it to go through all this rigmarole to get the official Neapolitan pizza seal of approval. In practice I find that in a fair amount of cases, the most "authentic" version of something isn't necessarily the one I like the most. And if it costs the restaurant a bunch of money to get this certification, I'm not sure it's going to be worth it to me as a customer when that cost is passed on to me. I care more about how good the pizza is than how authentic it is.

Amusingly, I once met an Italian (from the Veneto area) who loved Little Ceasar's pizza and said Italian pizza was "boring".
by gloxkiqcza | 2025-08-08 05:46:10+00:00
I bet it has to do with efficient UX experience. Most of the users most of the time want to get the best possible answer from the prompt they have provided straight away. If they need to clarify, they respond with an additional prompt but at any time they can just use what was provided and stop the conversation. Even for simple tasks there’s a lot of room for clarification which would just slow you down most of the time and waste server resources.
by sothatsit | 2025-08-08 05:46:18+00:00
My girlfriend when asked about models: What do you mean, I just ask ChatGPT?

I think people here vastly underestimate how many people just type questions into the chatbox, and that's it. When you think about the product from that perspective, this release is probably a huge jump for many people who have never used anything but the default model. Whereas, if you've been using o3 all along, this is just another nice incremental improvement.
by teruakohatu | 2025-08-08 05:46:48+00:00
> researchers will be frantically trying to fine-tune it to remove the safety guardrails.

It is a really weak excuse. They are more likely to take a reputation hit for having silly guardrails than for having someone to remove them.

Imagine if Bill Gates decided not to release MS Paint in 1985 because someone could have drawn something offensive with it.
by artem981 | 2025-08-08 05:46:49+00:00
Made some good progress in Porsche Track Precision Gateway reverse engineering, was able to read all important channels.

PTPA gateway is a hardware module I bought on the second-hand market 5 years ago for $50, officially that option costs ~$1000+ , wired it directly to the vehicle into the MMI CAN segment, as factory does that.

Unfortunately, PTPA app lap timer does not support non-GT vehicles, so can't really use it with my Cayman 981 S, probably can do emulator and put there GT4 VIN, but don't have time and will for it :-)
by lmm | 2025-08-08 05:48:28+00:00
> they say it's at cost but it feels like a premium/markup on London prices, not a city known for being cheap!

If you've ever looked at housing (or anything else) in the SFBA, yes, it's more expensive than even London. (Salaries are higher too).

> Surely most people dropping work to focus on blogging would be looking for minimal costs (whilst they have limited income as they hone a skill) rather than maximal costs?!

Maybe. In my experience when you're trying to switch careers, getting to the point where you can earn income (or discover that you can't) as quickly as possible is more effective than trying to extend your runway by cutting expenses. Others may make a different judgement call.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-08 05:49:04+00:00
This is because you haven't given it a tool to verify the task is done.

TDD works pretty well, have it write even the most basic test (or go full artisanal and write it yourself) first and then ask it to implement the code.

I have a standing order in my main CLAUDE.md to "always run `task build` before claiming a task is done". All my projects use Task[0] with pretty standard structure where build always runs lint + test before building the project.

With a semi-robust test suite I can be pretty sure nothing major broke if `task build` completes without errors.

[0] https://taskfile.dev
by joegibbs | 2025-08-08 05:49:22+00:00
When writing React: - Default export a React component. - Use Tailwind for styling, no import needed. - All NPM libraries are available to use. - Use shadcn/ui for basic components (eg. `import { Card, CardContent } from "@/components/ui/card"` or `import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"`), lucide-react for icons, and recharts for charts. - Code should be production-ready with a minimal, clean aesthetic. - Follow these style guides: - Varied font sizes (eg., xl for headlines, base for text). - Framer Motion for animations. - Grid-based layouts to avoid clutter. - 2xl rounded corners, soft shadows for cards/buttons. - Adequate padding (at least p-2). - Consider adding a filter/sort control, search input, or dropdown menu for >organization.

That's twelve lines and 182 tokens just for writing React. Lots for Python too. Why these two specifically? Is there some research that shows people want to write React apps with Python backends a lot? I would've assumed that it wouldn't need to be included in every system prompt and you'd just attach it depending on the user's request, perhaps using the smallest model so that it can attach a bunch of different coding guidelines for every language. Is it worth it because of caching?
by jondwillis | 2025-08-08 05:49:37+00:00
So… a LLM with a search tool? But the tool is Twitter search? I’m not convinced that Twitter conversations are the right alternative to indexable web data like pricing pages. Anyway, good luck relying on Twitter and Grok!

Sent from my 6 year old shitbucket, creaky tentmade Tesla that still doesn’t full self drive despite promises otherwise
by Maxion | 2025-08-08 05:50:01+00:00
It depends on how you use it. The "vibe-coding" approach where you give the agen naive propmts like "make new endpoint" often don't work and fail.

When you break the problem of "create new endpoint" down into its sub-components (Which you can do with the agent) and then work on one part at a time, with a new session for each part, you generally do have more success.

The more boilerplate-y the part is, the better it is. I have not really found one model that can yet reliably one-shot things in real life projects, but they do get quie close.

For many tasks, the models are slower than what I am, but IMO at this point they are helpful and definitely should be part of the toolset involved.
by themafia | 2025-08-08 05:50:19+00:00
Those of us who are not sociopaths do experience some anger at this outcome. The thing you haven't noticed is the "freedom to lie" is not equal among companies and is directly controlled by "market capitalization." You have dreams of swimming with the big fish but you will almost certainly never attain them, while simultaneously, selling out every other option you could have had to genuinely improve everyone's lot in life.

My point is you present the attitude of a crab in a bucket... and, uh, that's not exactly liberty you're climbing towards.
by mnky9800n | 2025-08-08 05:51:04+00:00
It’s also that most r1 university budgets single largest contributor is grant overhead which is the approximate 50% of the grant you win is given to the university. But the people who write and win these grants have little say over how this money is spent. Also because universities are impervious to reorganising there is a lot of extra weight within departments as well.
by Animats | 2025-08-08 05:51:10+00:00
See "Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy"[1] The US is having a giant AI boom and a recession in the rest of the economy.

Historically, the classic example of this is railway mania of the mid 19th century.[2] That started in 1830, with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.[3] This was when the industrial revolution got out of beta. There were earlier railroads, but with dual tracks, stations, signals, tickets, schedules, and reasonably good steam engines, the Liverpool and Manchester worked like a real service. It was profitable. Then lots of others started building and over-building railroads, with varying degrees of success. See Panic of 1847.

It was really too early for good railroads. Volume production of steel didn't exist. Early railroads were built with wood and iron, not very well. Around 1880-1900, everything was rebuilt in steel, and got bigger, better, and safer.

Consider the early Internet. We had TCP/IP working across the US in the early 1980s, but it wasn't a big deal commercially for another 10-15 years, it wasn't everywhere until the early 2000s, and it wasn't out of bubble mode until 2010 or so.

[1] https://fortune.com/2025/08/06/data-center-artificial-intell...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

[3] https://youtu.be/pDEnsraYx3k?t=505
by phire | 2025-08-08 05:52:44+00:00
You don't even need a physical connection.

As long as you have two-way wireless communication (which any keyless entry/start system does), then you can simply do a Diffie-Hellman key exchange during the pairing process.

Diffie-Hellman is designed for exactly this usecase, allowing two parties to derive a shared secret key over a public channel without exposing it.
by larodi | 2025-08-08 05:53:05+00:00
> I think we forget how old the term algorithm is.

given Al Kwarizimi lived ~12 century (if memory serves right) it is a fairly old term in this regard.

when was it that modern people started using the word, I'd bet beginning of 20th century, but this is a wild guess.

when did everyone started calling algorithms "ai", well perhaps ~1960 ?
by teruakohatu | 2025-08-08 05:54:04+00:00
> Who actually asked for keyless entry?

Probably the vast majority of consumers?

There is no reason why keyless entry cannot be more secure than a physical key, other than incompetence.

The cars stolen in New Zealand are usually, as you say, cars that are known to be easy to enter and drive away. Even then, they break a window. But I have also heard of break-ins at night targeting certain high-end cars and going as far as gaining entry to a garage.
by umanwizard | 2025-08-08 05:54:58+00:00
Somewhat tangential, but can anyone explain or give any insight into how candles were invented? This has always puzzled me. The idea that if you put a piece of string in some wax, and light it on fire, the string will get hot enough to melt wax, and the molten wax will be sucked into it by capillary action, and burn, before the string itself burns, seems very counterintuitive and hard to come up with before a modern understanding of chemistry and physics. And yet, candles have apparently existed since 700 BC. How?
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-08 05:56:34+00:00
> For those of us who care about improving how we work and, specifically, about making better software, is there even an audience out there that both cares about doing things well and has the ability to change their practices?

Most of that sentence is overkill. :-) It's becoming hard enough to find organizations (or even individuals) that care about doing things well, period.
by benbayard | 2025-08-08 05:57:04+00:00
The problems I’ve given CC are things that are incredibly simple and basic. Things I knew how to fix immediately. I would tell it the gilt to change and how to change it. And it will get lost when the types are incorrect, or when it causes a test to fail. It will like just delete the test.

I don’t doubt I could improve my prompts but I don’t have those same prompting problems with cursor.