MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Georgii007 | 2025-08-06 12:31:09+00:00
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by npteljes | 2025-08-06 12:31:09+00:00
Brave is also contributing to the Chrome monoculture, same as how the Android forks are contributing to the Android culture. The base projects are so large that no team will do a proper job updating it if, or when, the source project stops being open source. They are entirely beholden to the original developers, and they will also merge whatever change the original developers do, as the cost of maintaining a fork is big enough as it is, without breaking changes.

I do appreciate these being open-source. But there must not be an illusion that these large projects being open source means that "just forking" works. A culture is much more than a repository.
by brookst | 2025-08-06 12:31:53+00:00
Any source or just vibes?

In my experience it take weeks if not months to coordinate a release, from testing to documentation to drafting press releases in multiple languages to benchmarks and website updates.

I’m old and I’ve been in this industry most of my life. I have never once seen or heard of all of that work being done and the company just waiting on competitors before pulling the trigger.
by pbronez | 2025-08-06 12:31:56+00:00
For space sensitive applications like embedded systems, could you shift the preprocessing to compile time?

You would need to constrain the vocabulary to see any benefits, but that could be reasonable. For example, you an enumeration of numbers, units and metric names could handle dynamic time, temperature and other dashboard items.

For something more complex like offline navigation, you already need to store a map. You could store street names as tokens instead of text. Add a few turn commands, and you have offline spoken directions without on device pre-processing.
by xrd | 2025-08-06 12:32:25+00:00
I always feel pretty special when you respond to a comment of mine. Thank you.

I agree with you. And, I'm not sure LLMs help me learn high level concepts (yet). They certainly have those concepts inside their training data and you can extract the concepts if you do the work. But, in a lot of domains, and this applies to someone old like me and someome young like my kids, knowing what to ask is the central problem.

This applies to what I see my kids doing with AI: I don't think LLMs, right now, encourage them to learn concepts as much as they quickly give them answers.

I don't see ChatGPT Study Mode as fulfilling on this, in my limited usage, but I would love to be wrong about that. Its a good direction indeed.

Probably this is the new frontier, where the best students are the ones that figure out how to use these tools to learn "deeply" rather than just jumping to the answers. Maybe that is how it has always been?
by PeterStuer | 2025-08-06 12:32:26+00:00
I call BS.

The 4 paragraphs requirement was not introduced 'because LLM'. It was there all along for what just should have been 'gimme 2 -3 bullet points'. They wanted Bob to hold back on requesting the new machine he needed, not by denying his request openly, but by making the process convoluted. Now Bob can cut through the BS, they want to blame the LMM for wasting their time and resources? BS!
by Fluorescence | 2025-08-06 12:32:27+00:00
> treatment for binge eating disorder

There is a mixed picture on this. I see a lot reports of reports of it causing binging in the evenings despite no prior issues.

The issue is that therapeutic doses are not the multi-day bender of a speed-freak that forgoes sleep to keep their blood-concentration permanently high. Instead it's a medicated window of 6-12 hours with a third or more of their waking hours remaining for rebound effects to unleash stimulation-seeking demons that run wilder than ever.
by mind-blight | 2025-08-06 12:32:42+00:00
Super smart move. I hadn't heard of you folks before, but I'm interested in your product - open source and repairability are high on my list for home monitors. I'm lying in bed awake right now sir to an air quality issue, so it's top of mind.

The only thing you're missing for me is radon detection. I just bought a house and tests came in below remediation levels, but the report showed a lot of spikes and variance. So you have any plans for a model with radon detection in the future?
by floppyd | 2025-08-06 12:33:30+00:00
> However, the reviewers logic is difficult to follow when you compare it across products:

> - Our monitor: Downgraded due to a faulty display (a warranty-covered hardware issue).

> - Another Monitor: Recommended, despite having no display at all.

> - Another Monitor: Also recommended, despite lacking a CO2 sensor—one of the most critical metrics for assessing indoor air quality and ventilation.
Show HN: SpeedVitals RUM – Real-User Monitoring and Analytics Built for Privacy
by kashishkumawat | 2025-08-06 12:33:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Kashish, one of the co-founders of SpeedVitals, a platform for testing & monitoring website performance with a major emphasis on Core Web Vitals.

Until now, our platform has only focused on Synthetic/Lab testing, such as Lighthouse tests and TTFB tests. But now, we have developed a Real-User Monitoring platform that doubles up as a Web Analytics tool.

One major feature we have that most RUM tools lack is Performance Audits. Just like Lighthouse audits work on Lab test data, our audits work across all the real-user visits and gives suggestions on what task to prioritize first.

Just like our Lighthouse test, we also store a request waterfall for every page visit. This makes it possible to track different resources and 3rd-Parties that might be slowing down your website.

Our Web Analytics is privacy-friendly and doesn’t store cookies or any personally identifying information (PII).

Here’s the Demo of our Dashboard: https://rum-demo.speedvitals.com/

I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!
by jongjong | 2025-08-06 12:33:48+00:00
Damn. The part about quality over quantity really hit home. I also got into software engineering as a way to exert craftsmanship and am disappointed with the state of things. It's potentially a great field for people who are interested in the pursuit of perfection. There are few areas which are as complex and take so much time and effort to master.

Software engineering provides a window into reality in a way which exposes you to its full complexity. It changes your brain, you start seeing complexity everywhere around you. You start seeing problems that nobody else sees. This is why I got into coding... But now the industry often feels like it's leading you astray and preventing you from truly flourishing.

This is sad because being skilled at coding feels great and it shapes your reality in a very positive way. Being able to think clearly is a great gift and a worthy goal to strive for. Having a logical mind feels inherently good. Being able to approach any topic, with anyone and maintaining full logical consistency feels good.
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-06 12:33:50+00:00
Ask an llm for a project plan and they’ll happily throw dates around for each step, when they can’t possibly know how long it will take.

But project plan dates have always been fiction. Getting there faster is an efficiency win.

That said I’ve found that llms are good as interrogators. If used to guide a conversation, research background information and then be explicitly told to tersely outline the steps in something I’ve had very good results.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-08-06 12:35:06+00:00
Looking at her singles page on wikipedia (suspect source, but i don't know of a better one), looks like she's had 11 singles hit number 1 on billboard 100, and most of them are later songs. She's had many more in the top 10. I think your theses here is a bit suspect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift_singles_discograp...
Show HN: Magic Sandbox – An AI app platform
by k_kelleher | 2025-08-06 12:36:32+00:00
I built Magic Sandbox, an AI app platform where your AI assistant can directly interact with Magic Sandbox apps published by the community.

Check out the demo video to see it in action: https://www.loom.com/share/4a1d4aee83a5485197898f537e1cb397

Or head to https://magicsandbox.ai to go through the onboarding tutorial.

Originally I set out to build a monetized version of OpenAI’s custom GPTs, where developers would earn money when users used their custom GPT. Eventually this evolved into a platform for AI powered apps, which expose not only context and capabilities to an LLM but also a UI to a human user.

Magic Sandbox apps execute in a strictly sandboxed iframe and communicate via postMessage to request to persist data or hit backend endpoints (what I call Functions), among other capabilities. Because Magic Sandbox provides the AI assistant and handles auth, persisting data, and payments, building apps is super easy - it’s a great platform for publishing (and monetizing!) your vibe coded apps.

Apps can expose a context function which is called when the user chats with their AI assistant with the app open - the context function returns a string which is added to the LLM’s prompt. Apps can also expose an API of functions that the assistant can call to fulfill the user’s request, or the assistant can generate arbitrary code to execute in the app’s sandbox.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback - thanks in advance!

Kevin
by elzbardico | 2025-08-06 12:36:40+00:00
We should stop coding for free for billionaire organizations. The romantic era of Open Source is over.

The only projects with a permissive license, I am comfortable sending PRs nowadays are the kind of projects that will hardly enable a big monopolist to extract more rent from society while being covertly funded by the debasing of currency promoted by the FED via Cantillon Effect.
by C-Loftus | 2025-08-06 12:36:57+00:00
Awesome work! Often times in the TTS space, human-similarity is given way too much emphasis at the expense of hurting user access. Frankly as long as a voice is clear and you listen to it for a while, the brain filters out most quirks you would perceive on the first pass. Hence why many blind folks still are perfectly fine using espeak-ng. The other properties like speed of generation and size make it worth it.

I've been using a custom AI audiobook generation program [0] with piper for quite a while now and am very excited to look at integrating kitten. Historically piper has been the only good option for a free CPU-only local model so I am super happy to see more competition in the space. Easy installation is a big deal, since piper historically has had issues with that. (Hence why I had to add auto installation support in [0])

[0] https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook
by uyzstvqs | 2025-08-06 12:37:14+00:00
TLDR: Author of an open-source project has a crashout over other people using LLMs for coding, believes that AI will replace all developers, and decides to preemptively give up on software engineering entirely because of that.

IMO anyone who understands AI at a technical level will understand that this won't happen. No matter how many parameters, training and compute you throw at it, putting AI in direct charge of anything that's critical and not entirely predictable is going to backfire. Though, based on response from this author, it should be apparent that his response comes from a place of emotion, misunderstanding, and likely conformism to dogmatic anti-AI rhetoric of the same nature, rather than actual reason and logic.
by codingdave | 2025-08-06 12:37:21+00:00
I'd recommend broadening your perspective - stop thinking about how to find them online, where they are probably going to ignore messages as spam anyway, and start thinking about where they really are. Which is at schools. Think about how to approach them within that environment. Email the school or district administration, for example. Or local/regional organizations and associations.

When you do reach them, don't sell - ask to collaborate on what the product should be. Partner with them, don't treat them like targets.

This is true for all industries, by the way. The biggest error I see when people go looking for their users is to have blinders on and only look at where they exist online, instead of where they exist in real life.
by edent | 2025-08-06 12:37:26+00:00
Ultimately, you shipped a broken product.

That points to a lack of QA on your part and, I think, it is fair for a reviewer to point out.

Even if you have an exemplary warranty process and easy instructions, that's still a hassle. Not everyone has the confidence or the time to repair simple things.

As for the objective/subjective nature of reviews. Are your customers buying air monitors for their 100% precision or for "entertainment" purposes / lifestyle factors?

I have a cheap Awair air monitor. I have no idea if it is accurate - but it charges by USB-C and has an inconspicuous display. That's what I wanted it for.

It is perfectly fair for a reviewer to point out their personal preferences on something like this. They aren't a government testing lab.
by kjfaejgoaeijhei | 2025-08-06 12:38:12+00:00
if chrome ever ends up with a majority browser share on ios/ipados, apple won't have any way to keep up. at this point, google already almost 100% controls web standards, and they can push new features (no matter how privacy-hostile or overreaching) without even allowing apple the chance to keep up. at that point, the incentives for apple to keep developing safari would slowly dwindle away.

(oh, and gecko is a joke, especially on mobile - no need to even bring it up)
by braza | 2025-08-06 12:38:30+00:00
> The European principles that created your social guarantees are largely incompatible with an individual-centric, growth-focused society that would reward certain ambitious individuals much more than others.

I agree in terms of the negative correlation, but I do not think this is related only to this set of synthetic principles but also due to the huge tailwind of the longest peacetimein the continent's history plus all the economic development and prosperity generated during this time.

Not to dismiss your point, but in terms of semantics, we cannot mix general guidance for policies and decisions made based on temporal preferences with a principle, which is a fundamental truth that sets the foundation for something and has axiomatic acceptance.

I acknowledge that for ethno-Europeans the European principles (social guarantees) are a thing (especially for the ones in Central Europe), but as soon as the money flow slows down, we will see those principles being tested, particularly due to the contentious (unfair?) intergenerational social contract.
by jltsiren | 2025-08-06 12:38:52+00:00
The academia is far from being homogeneous. Institutions in the same country are usually similar, but things vary a lot between countries.

Science is fundamentally an activity, not a field. You can do scientific research in most fields. Agriculture and software are nice examples, as academic scientists are doing both. And in many cases, the outputs are used by the general public.

Quantitative metrics such as citations, paper counts, and impact factors are mostly used by bureaucrats who don't know what they are doing. Actual evaluations in reputable institutions depend heavily on the subjective judgment of other people in the field.

The role of grants varies a lot between fields and insitutions. In some cases, a professor is expected to become a manager, win grants, and hire other people to do their research. In other cases, grants are nice but optional. Such professors can do research with limited external support, both personally and with students funded from other sources.
by lan321 | 2025-08-06 12:38:58+00:00
Uni graduates do that still. I wouldn't trust myself to set that up either, as a matter of fact.

Optimally, you'd probably have seniors do some "Security Compliance Certification" and the company do it, then the product has to be approved by the certified, and if an issue arises, the certified get to be reprimanded, especially the company certification in some exponentially scaling manner so that it doesn't become the cost of doing business.
by yupyupyups | 2025-08-06 12:39:09+00:00
Not the OP, but I have needed to patch Qt due to bugs that couldn't be easily worked around.

I have also been frustrated while trying to interoperate with expensive proprietary software because documentation was lacking, and the source code was unavailable.

In one instance, a proprietary software had the source code "exposed", which helped me work around its bugs and use it properly (also poorly documented).

There are of course other advantages of having that transparancy, like being able to independently audit the code for vulnerabilities or unacceptable "features", and fix those.

Open source is oftentimes a prerequisite for us to be able to control our software.
by Roark66 | 2025-08-06 12:39:11+00:00
This is all nice and all, but how can they tell these benefits are from ozempic or actual calorie restriction? Were talking about people that suffer from hiv induced bad fat distribution. I assume this means they have conditions such as fatty liver etc. Simple calorie restriction will improve their life.

The study would have to do the exact same calorie restriction for both groups. One on ozempic, one without. Then if one group showed benefits that would he clear.

Even if the mechanism was something like they were stressed less by hunger.

Ozempic/semaglutide is great stuff, but it has same dangers as calorie restriction. If you don't watch carefully what you eat (increase protein, supplement with micronutrients) you can become deffiecient and end up in a very unhealthy place.
by zuhaib-rasheed | 2025-08-06 12:39:17+00:00
We’re building Magicnode — a visual builder that lets anyone turn a prompt into a functional, shareable AI app — without writing code.

You just:

Pick inputs (text, dropdowns, files, etc.)

Connect prompt logic and AI blocks (GPT, Claude, etc.)

Publish the result as a standalone AI tool

The result: An AI app you can publish on the Magicnode store and earn credits through others using your app.
by Macha | 2025-08-06 12:39:25+00:00
People will also use "look society was fine afterwards" as proof the luddites were wrong, but if you look at the fact the growth of industrial revolution cities was driven by importing more people from the countryside than died of disease, it's not clear at all that they were wrong about it's impact on their society, even if it worked out alright for us in the aftermath.
by diggan | 2025-08-06 12:39:40+00:00
I noticed the same when asking various LLMs to summarize and explaining some "Presidential Actions" (from https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/), most of them answer "This is just theoretical, since no such executive actions actually exists, but assuming something like that would happen in the future, it would mean ..." while a few has returned something like "This fictional executive action would be illegal so I cannot summarize the content", even when I provide direct links and they fetch the content themselves. Not exactly sure why that is.
by stoneyhrm1 | 2025-08-06 12:39:41+00:00
I understand the author's sentiment but industries don't exist solely because somebody wants them to. I mean, sure, hobbies can exist, but you won't be paid well (or even at all) to work with them.

Software engineering pays because companies want people to develop software. It pays so well because it's hard, but the coding portion is become easier. Vibe coding and AI is here to stay, the author can choose to ignore it and go preach to a dying field (specifically, writing code, not CS), or embrace it. We should be happy we no longer need to type away if and for loops 20 times and instead can focus on high level architecture.
by HHad3 | 2025-08-06 12:39:46+00:00
I would welcome if this global legislative push would end up in a more open app ecosystem for iOS overall.

BrowserEngineKit is a thin wrapper over XPC and iOS' extension system. The system would be so much better to develop for if XPC was an open API, and JIT for isolated sub-processes was permitted without Apple's blessing.

* Messengers could have separate sub-processes for preprocessing untrusted inputs -- iMessage already does this, third-party messengers are single-process and cannot.

* Applications could isolate unstable components for better user experience and crash recovery.

* Emulators, e.g. for retro systems, would benefit from speedy emulation.

* WASM would become useful in iOS.

* Browser could use XPC without special-purpose API wrappers such as BrowserEngineKit.

But alas, all of this would make it easier to load code that runs at native speed into an iOS app after a store review happened, and as we all know that'll be the end of the world.
by thimabi | 2025-08-06 12:40:41+00:00
One of the things that makes me hopeful for the future of LLMs is precisely this: humans are needlessly verbose, and LLMs can cut through the crap.

I expect smaller models to become incrementally better at compressing what truly matters in terms of information. Books, reports, blog posts… all kinds of long-form content can be synthesized in just a few words or pages. It’s no wonder that even small LLMs can provide accurate results for many queries.
by robmccoll | 2025-08-06 12:41:09+00:00
Python as a language will likely never have a "fast" implementation and still be Python. It is way too dynamic to be predictable from the code alone or even an execution stream in a way that allows you to simplify the actual code that will be executed at runtime either through AOC or JIT. The language is itself is also quite large in terms of syntax and built-in capability at this point which makes new feature-conplete implementations that don't make major trade offs quite challenging. Given how capable LLMs are at translating code, it seems like the perfect time to build a language with similar syntax, but better scoped behavior, stricter rules around typing, and tooling to make porting code and libraries automated and relatively painless. What would existing candidates be and why won't they work as a replacement?
by torium | 2025-08-06 12:41:26+00:00
On HN, reddit counts as a negative signal. You link to reddit directly and most HNers will instantly downvote.

I keep telling people here that reddit is actually an underappreciated goldmine, but I guess feeling better than others feels too good to pass on.

In my mind, reddit is like of HN, except instead of being just tech and business oriented people, it's every subject under the sun. Most of it is garbage (like on HN) but if you're willing to search it's a goldmine.
by LadyCailin | 2025-08-06 12:42:37+00:00
* in Japan. Apple has made it clear that they are willing and able to only allow consumer choice if they are in the jurisdiction where they are required to. I live in Norway, so I’m not able to sideload apps, because Norway, despite usually being lumped in with “the EU” is not actually part of the EU, and thus not covered by the EU ruling.