MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brailsafe | 2025-08-11 16:30:20+00:00
I agree with the criticism of the pricing ladder, and shared related sentiments in similar comments throughout the years about other issues, but I've simply never purchased an Air because it's not a developer laptop if those are your constraints. Earlier Pros had multi-monitor support, just not the Air. It's a way more capable laptop in other ways than it was before even with the regression, so it required a harder decision.

It was only in 2024 that the gap between the computer I did have became significantly noticeable enough, and the configuration became more tolerable in their stupid pricing ladder to accept it. Because the money was also finally there on my side, the 4.5k CAD I paid was actually relatively fine, when you consider that it's relatively cheap within the scope of investments in professional tools.

In prior years, I had a 14" M2 Pro, M3 Pro, sitting in my cart with minimum 32gb of ram, but it felt too highly priced for what it was. Then in 2024 I got a 16" 48gb Pro. Even though I'd prefer 64, it had the right balance for me in my overall budget for my only physical tool investment (rather than focusing on the specific upgrade costs). "Can I spend ~4.5k CAD on this tool and be happier than I was doing my work?", the answer was yes, and it's been great, but I'm not sure I'd have been as happy with it earlier.
by gnabgib | 2025-08-11 16:30:24+00:00
Previously:

Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing (94 points, 3 months ago, 82 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085188

'Crypto king' turned NYC townhouse into torture chamber to gain partner Bitcoin (56 points, 3 months ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084352
by nchmy | 2025-08-11 16:30:28+00:00
Hmm. But the JS is only 2.4mb, so not sure why the 4mb is probably being used.

Whatever the case, it's still immense numbers. So large, in fact, that I was skeptical about it. But Kroger has 150 billion in revenues and 2.5 billion in profits. I have to figure the loss is revenues, not profits - that would, indeed, be too high.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-11 16:30:44+00:00
> It's just basic economics

Yes, if you look up any video of an economist talking about AI, they'll bring up the industrial revolution and point out how people thought it would bring the end of employment and instead created more and better jobs. The generally accepted viewpoint is AI will make things more efficient, and thus people will be freed to do other, more important work.
by CalChris | 2025-08-11 16:30:48+00:00
> absolutely do

I'm not convinced. There is no coherence in their decisions, well any more than tossing out red meat. We can't even call them protectionist policies. It's just populism.

Still, I agree about isolationist. But we started down that road with W and are now running off that cliff with Trump. Not coherently but enthusiastically.
by wrg | 2025-08-11 16:31:10+00:00
Fair argument but easily shot down by the high birth rates in poverty-stricken countries such as India, Pakistan, most states in Africa. Yes it does play a part in birthrates in developed countries and I don't doubt it is a factor in many people not starting families. But the deeper issue isn't economic otherwise it would apply evenly across the board and it simply doesn't.
by unhappy_meaning | 2025-08-11 16:31:46+00:00
> ... you need to think from the attacker's perspective and make sure every route to every piece of sensitive data is actually secure.

This is almost "paralyzingly" scary but to not think about it at all is something I cannot fathom from the developers who made these apps.

Doing some more digging into these two "CEOs" of Tea and TeaOnHer. The TeaOnHer CEO is a Criminal Justice graduate from UMD with some comments about using claude.ai and the Tea CEO looks like he took a 6 month coding bootcamp at UC Berkeley. I don't want to dog on their background because I also don't have a CS degree but man...
by icy | 2025-08-11 16:32:07+00:00
Yeah, GitHub is cooked. Now's a good time to consider migrating to alternative forges like Tangled (https://tangled.sh; bit of a shameless plug, I'll admit. I'm the co-founder). We've got a more advanced PR flow, jujutsu change-id support and we just launched our in-house CI! https://blog.tangled.sh/ci

Long-term, we aim to be the new social coding platform, collectively built in the open.
by pengaru | 2025-08-11 16:32:15+00:00
> Of all the new cars ideas I've seen recently, only the Slate mini-truck seems to be taking a minimalist approach, with no fancy head unit or navigation system.

Agreed re: Slate, it looks interesting through this lens for sure.

But I also think there's probably a business opportunity here, and wonder why a bunch of thinkpad enthusiasts don't get together and start a classic tech business delivering simple EVs with knobs+levers, and computers that don't suck.
by benchly | 2025-08-11 16:32:41+00:00
Nice article! I had rediscovered teletext for myself a few years ago, only vaguely remembering it existed (or something similar) in select cities in the US when I was a kid, but it was not something I paid much attention to. Getting interested, I began to wonder if you can set up your own teletext service.

Naturally, you can: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/create-your-own-teletext-se...

For those like me who weren't familiar with the service or lived in a country that really didn't have it, there's this informative site: https://teletextarchaeologist.org/

Edit: Sorry all, it looks like teletextarcheologist.org went dormant, so the archive no longer seems to be working.
by zebomon | 2025-08-11 16:33:00+00:00
This is very interesting. I think a lot of people may be quick to overlook the value of such simulators when thinking about AI agents at the extremes. (Either they're not good enough to trust or they're so good they'll leapfrog over any economic value here.)

My own experience makes me lean toward thinking that the truth is somewhere in the middle in this situation, and that simulators like these will be valuable. I've been experimenting a lot with computer use on my website Bingeclock, passing through different prompts along the lines of "make a movie marathon based on X." The newest agents are consistently impressive, while also being consistently imperfect in surprising and interesting ways.

Whether or not all the labs are already running this kind of thing internally for themselves, you would know better than I. But it's an idea that seems very useful nonetheless. Congratulations on the launch!
by itsanaccount | 2025-08-11 16:33:05+00:00
> Conservatives lose any kind of intellectual high ground

I'm not sure what country you're from but in the US conservatism has always been a reductionist, post-hoc justification of doing "whatever the hell I want because I can", going back as far as I know political history. Civil war era at least, when states rights were when it was good for me and Federal enforcement when it was bad.

The market was free when that was how these groups made the most money, now that they arent making the most money its tossed out like yesterdays garbage. And if you believed "reasoning from principles" fluff around it, I think you could reconsider what incentives lead you originally down that path of weaponized naivety that is so common in this community (organized as it is around making money.)
by tantalor | 2025-08-11 16:33:11+00:00
For example: Peter Navarro (Counselor to the President of the United States)

Here he is on CBS News, 30 July 2025

https://youtu.be/Ez_KJp4fDy0?t=65

"The reason we put tariffs on products from other countries is because they cheat, full stop. When they cheat, products come in and they steal our jobs, shut down our factories, and wages go down. So, the logic of tariffs is to stop that."
by hattmall | 2025-08-11 16:33:31+00:00
Wind shifts, something breaks, something blows overboard, random water where it shouldn't be. Something is making a funny noise. Some alert on the radio that you didnt catch all of it. Odd smell. People speaking excitedly in a foreign language about something. Something breaks again, hooked a fish, approaching vessel with no signal, coast guard inspection, unexpected military craft telling you to change course. Sure there is downtime, but it's lucky to have it remotely scheduled.
by expensive_news | 2025-08-11 16:33:43+00:00
This is a great comment.

I’ve noticed a new genre of AI-hype posts that don’t attempt to build anything novel, just talk about how nice and easy building novel things has become with AI.

The obvious contradiction being that if it was really so easy their posts would actually be about the cool things they built instead of just saying what they “can” do.

I wouldn’t classify this article as one since the author does actually create something of this, but LinkedIn is absolutely full of that genre of post right now.
by legitster | 2025-08-11 16:34:01+00:00
> Smith wasn't right on everything, but he was right to criticize Mercantilism.

I don't know why there's a need to hedge. Smith's observations were incredibly objective and insightful and have aged extremely well.

There were areas where his observations were incomplete or refined later (absolute vs relative advantage, paradox of value, efficiency of corporations).

Even Karl Marx found little in Smith's work that was disagreeable.

The Wealth of Nations is a seminal piece of Western civilization and deserves all the respect we can bestow such works.
by antifa | 2025-08-11 16:34:10+00:00
> Larger numbers of people are rising up against the CCP and recent events are becoming more and more frequent.

Do you have a source on that, preferably one that's not quoting a cult like the chinese version of scientology, not uploading daily china-will-collaspse-soon videos, not a tankie, or other random type of propaganda/fanboy outlet?
by LAsteNERD | 2025-08-11 16:34:43+00:00
I just don’t get this. Anybody want to take a shot at explaining how this kind of private/public profit-sharing fits into the vision of the capitalist-in-chief?

Nvidia and AMD are reportedly handing over 15% of their China-bound chip revenues (H20 and MI308, respectively) to the U.S. government in exchange for export licenses that had previously been denied on national security grounds. No word yet on what the government plans to do with the money.

The deal effectively clears the way for billions in chip sales to China, despite earlier restrictions—and sets a pretty wild precedent for direct federal revenue participation in corporate exports. Markets didn’t exactly cheer: NVDA and AMD both dipped slightly in premarket.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-11 16:34:48+00:00
I'm not sure if you're being serious but it was just poor phrasing. It really should have read "AI may raise the bar higher, such that low-IQ individuals ...".

That said, I'm sort of assuming simple tasks will get done with AI, which isn't a given and is something I could easily be wrong about. AI could easily just benefit everyone, as has been the case for every prior technological advancement in human history
by dehrmann | 2025-08-11 16:35:20+00:00
> it seems like he doesn’t just go out in public these days, does he? It is kind of odd.

It's certainly ironic considering his company's founding mission was connecting people.

Some amount of isolation can be normal as a high-profile CEO. At some point, it gets to be quite a sad life. You can't enjoy any activities without planning. You only interact with family, executive assistants, the C-suite, peer executives, and security. Everyone in your life is a sycophant, and you're blind it it. You can't drive yourself. You live life in a cushy cocoon with both unlimited freedom and zero freedom.
by jordanb | 2025-08-11 16:35:52+00:00
China is not a "han ethnostate" de-facto or de-jure.

Israel wasn't even an explicitly declared ethnostate between 2009 and 2017.

Additionaly, regardless of how China runs its affairs the truth is that ethnostates are highly Anti-American. It's fundamentally contradictory to our way of life. However China chooses to run its own affairs, the United States should not be providing such enormous amounts of support to a state that is run so contrarily to our own values as we do for Israel.
Google's RCS disconnected in several countries
by hocuspocus | 2025-08-11 16:36:09+00:00
There are several reports from Google Messages users who have been suddenly disconnected from RCS in the past few days. They are in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Pakistan, Bulgaria... a few examples:

- https://x.com/chepsi_/status/1954862817288368306

- https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMessages/comments/1mnfpgg/suddenly_my_carrier_is_not_supported/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMessages/comments/1mmmg57/rcs_down_for_vivacom_and_a1_in_bulgaria/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/UniversalProfile/comments/1mkpvj7/i_thought_google_rcs_was_all_about_bypassing/

It's not clear whether it's a widespread bug or if Google has started disconnecting MNOs that aren't interested in RBM, which, to my understanding, is the condition behind Google running Jibe and providing P2P messaging for free.
by xnx | 2025-08-11 16:36:40+00:00
Historically, jobs lost to technology are eventually replaced with other jobs, though not necessarily for the displaced workers.

There's always the chance that "this time it's different". What's left after machines can think better than people? Dexterous manual work that mechanical arms can't perform?

The ideal situation would be that we reap the benefits of technological abundance and work less.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-11 16:37:05+00:00
Did you?

Spoiler: no he didn't.

But the article is interesting...

It really highlights to me the pickle we are in with AI: because we are at a historical maximum already of "worse is better" with Javascript, and the last two decades have put out a LOT of javascript, AI will work best with....

Javascript.

Now MAYBE better AI models will be able to equivalently translate Javascript to "better" languages, and MAYBE AI coding will migrate "good" libraries in obscure languages to other "better" languages...

But I don't think so. It's going to be soooo much Javascript slop for the next ten years.

I HOPE that large language models, being language models, will figure out language translation/equivalency and enable porting and movement of good concepts between programming models... but that is clearly not what is being invested in.

What's being invested in is slop generation, because the prototype sells the product.
by monero-xmr | 2025-08-11 16:37:44+00:00
I live in a major American city run by progressive democrats, like all major American cities, and petty crime is rampant. The "rule of law" here doesn't seem to apply to anything except murders because reporting anything else takes hours at the station to even get them to file a report, let alone solve anything (hah!). Even worse, the apparatchiks that run local politics never believe anything they do is wrong and entirely lack personal humility. It is hard to square this being a "Republicans Only!" problem when I see so much of the same all around me.
by wujerry2000 | 2025-08-11 16:37:44+00:00
We agree that as a demo flight booking is probably overused.

However, in talking with my AI Labs, their perspective on flight booking is a little different. "Solving" flight booking requires the AI agent to solve a LOT of hard problems. Namely, personalization, context, weighing multiple options, interacting with the UI, math, then wrapping that all up into a coherent response. The thought process is IF a computer use agent is able to solve flight booking well, then we will have developed many other powerful primitives that will scale to other problems.

So as a standalone use case, I'm inclined to agree this might not be where the most agent traction is seen. However, as a research/capability goal, there are some generalizations that could apply to other very important use cases.
by rvba | 2025-08-11 16:38:08+00:00
If wikipedia can show the Jimmy Wales banners, then sure it can go for the throat of some politicians.

It allready collects few hubdred million per year, spends like 10 on wikipedia itself and rest goes for political projects. They could do something useful for once.

(On a side note: all those money and they dont use it to track the cliques / country level actors across admins...)
Ask HN: How do you deliver big projects as a solo contractor?
by throwaway342110 | 2025-08-11 16:38:42+00:00
I have been doing some freelance development on smaller projects. The usual range being 100 - 300 hours. I also work on my own product, so I know what's it's like to develop a product that spans 3,000 hours in scope, but I have never done it professionally, for someone else.

Now a good client of mine is asking to develop an SaaS app. It's a typical CRUD app, nothing extremely complex, nothing that could not be done in a stock Next.js setting. Yet when I think about the scope of it, I think it would probably take some 1,000 hours to get a crude prototype, another 1,000 hours to add some features and polish it and then 500 hours to get it ready to be Internet facing, with payment system and so on. And that does not even include communication with the client, changes, buffer. I don't think I am out of my mind, if I think I would need to bill some 3,000 hours at the very least for the base product and any extra features being an extra premium (I did not really dig into the scope in detail yet, I am just guessing).

So let's say it takes 3,000h. If I work 30h/week just on that product (there are also other admin tasks and what not), it will take me 100 weeks or 2 years to deliver it. Is it something expected in the industry? Or am I simply uncompetitive for a project like this?
by mikewarot | 2025-08-11 16:38:43+00:00
Here's the PDF of the product line[1] with the price list from 1987.... 300 Megabytes was $789. I was the entire tech staff for Management Support Systems, and had written an inspection reporting system for fossil fuel generating systems in Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS that talked to Norand corporation portable computers with Symbol Technologies barcode scanners. The portables were rated for a 3 foot drop to concrete, and you could use them outdoors in winter, with gloves on... amazing stuff.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microSolutions/MicroSolutions_P...
by pydry | 2025-08-11 16:39:34+00:00
The theory of comparative advantage should really be dubbed the theory of static comparative advantage to highlight where it fucked up.

If China believed in it theyd still be making cheap plastic tat. If the west hadnt believed in it China's industrial rise probably wouldnt have been quite so shocking - 90s/00s neolib economists thought China was shooting itself in the foot.
by wujerry2000 | 2025-08-11 16:40:12+00:00
UI refreshes knocking down simulator realism is a real issue that we're still trying to solve.

I think this will probably be a mixture of automated QA/engineering and scale.

Another interesting path is actually partnering directly with software providers to offer their platforms as simulators IF they see there is a competitive advantage to training agents to perform well on their UI.

This idea we're really excited about, but it would require a company to see real revenue potential in enabling agentic access vs not. I'd say we're still on the "block them out" phase of the internet (ex. see Cloudflare's recent post about bot detection: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-unde...)
by rsoto2 | 2025-08-11 16:40:22+00:00
Israel is not the target of a terrorist group. It is a terrorist state subjugating a trapped population to forced starvation and hunger. It's a second holocaust live streamed to your phone and you still think they are acting rationally.

Oppressed people have the right to violence just because they're brown doesn't make them "terrorists," that's actually quite the racist worldview.
by mdasen | 2025-08-11 16:40:49+00:00
I guess what seems surprising to me is that Gemini 2.5 Pro scores well above Claude Sonnet on Aider's leaderboard, even beating Claude Opus 4.

I have been kinda wondering if there's something that just isn't as good between the CLI and model because the Gemini CLI has been a mostly frustrating experience - and it's kept me from wanting to pay for Claude because I don't want to pay money for the same frustrating experience. But maybe I should try Claude and see.

https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
by CraigRood | 2025-08-11 16:40:53+00:00
I run Gitea too - Seeing what is happening over at GitHub solidifies my decision.

Not too concerned over my public facing repos, Amazon and OpenAI seem to love 'em! I have the ultimate control over my private repos (nothing juicy). I can't say I trust Microsoft not to do something I don't like at any point in the future.

Edit: I should say I wish phabricator got more love, that was a great tool!
by emberfiend | 2025-08-11 16:40:57+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

Long-time WP contributor and apologist here. I still think Wikipedia does more good than bad (for all its sins), is the greatest collaborative human work of our time, and there is some merit to the idea of having a giant pile of money to be able to fight government-scale battles like this one. But the story of the bureaucrats settling in and leeching donations at scale is basically accurate.
by jlarocco | 2025-08-11 16:40:59+00:00
As much crap as AOL used to get, there's not much difference between their chat in 1996 and Teams and Slack now. And it managed to do it with 8 Mb of RAM over a 14.4k modem. Of course it didn't have video, but the group chat itself was basically the same.

In some ways, tech progress has been pretty disappointing.
by jimbokun | 2025-08-11 16:41:01+00:00
I think a lot of your examples demonstrate the power and low learning curve of a single text file as an organizing tool.

Org mode is one direction you could take your text file in. Feeding your text file into an LLM or committing it to git or formatting with Markdown are others. But starting with a plain text file doesn’t commit you to any of those paths.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-11 16:41:06+00:00
As an ex-Flock employee:

I was sold during the recruiting process on high ethics and morals and an idealistic vision.

The reality was a surveillance state, questionable policies on data sharing between agencies and private installations (HOA, etc.), and a CEO with a very literal belief that Flock should "eliminate all crime" - not "visionary" but far more literal. It was way too Minority Report for my liking.

They have a public "disclosure" site that supposedly shows the agencies using Flock that is absolutely inaccurate (there are three agencies in my County alone using it that are not listed there).

Any conversations about ethics and the other "should we even do this?" questions got consistently shorter and superficial during my time there.
by tatjam | 2025-08-11 16:41:38+00:00
I like the "dopamine hit" of changing a task from TODO to DONE that comes from colors. I use this very simple vim syntax file for that :)

syntax match TODOKey "TODO"

syntax match DONEKey "DONE"

syntax match BLCKKey "BLCK"

syntax match MAYBKey "MAYB"

syntax match Comment "\/\/.*$"

hi def link TODOKey DiagnosticWarn

hi def link DONEKey Type

hi def link BLCKKey DiagnosticError

hi def link MAYBKey Constant

hi def link Comment Comment
by burntsushi | 2025-08-11 16:41:41+00:00
This is sort of a category error. I don't know what ghostty is doing (or perhaps its distributor), but lots of widely used software (including my own ripgrep, but also even things like glibc) will query what the CPU supports at runtime and dispatch to the correct routine based on that. So things like, "I'm only going to stick to SSE2 for maximal compatibility" have a false assumption baked into them.