MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-12 22:44:50+00:00
I'm curious, what does it say on /model?

For reference, my options are:

╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ │ │ Select Model │ │ Switch between Claude models. Applies to this session and future Claude Code sessions. │ │ For custom model names, specify with --model. │ │ │ │ 1. Default (recommended) Opus 4.1 for up to 50% of usage limits, then use Sonnet 4 │ │ 2. Opus Opus 4.1 for complex tasks · Reaches usage limits faster │ │ 3. Sonnet Sonnet 4 for daily use │ │ 4. Opus Plan Mode Use Opus 4.1 in plan mode, Sonnet 4 otherwise │ │ │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
by brunohaid | 2025-08-12 22:45:09+00:00
Hard to respond with something help - and/or meaningful, but still: my whole adult life oscillated (OK, oscillates) between being in the most incredible spaces and really shit situations, like being dependent on friends to crash on their sofas, live in literal garages, rebuild abandoned SROs etc for months while friends I grew up with had homes, kids, families etc. I just got lucky to be delusional / screwed up enough in just the right ways to keep going.

It's really hard to overcome that feeling once it's there, but you somehow have to find that space in yourself and through others. Some of the most talented and skilled people I know live in the weirdest places, but somehow managed to find their place. If you're lucky to live in a big city, check out spaces like Noisebridge or Resistor, or whatever your local equivalent is.

If that's not an option, maybe the internet can help. Don't know if for example engineering is your thing, but the reason I respect folks like IMSAI Guy or bigclivedotcom on Youtube so much isn't just that they really know what they're talking about, they also seem like really decent people and found their place. They don't seem to be particularly rich or fancy, and I'm sure they have their own stuff to deal with in their lives, but they kept going until they found their place. Long rant, hope it helps somehow/somewhat.
by phyzix5761 | 2025-08-12 22:45:42+00:00
> H-1B is for when you cannot find an American to fill a role so somebody comes into the US on a visa to fill that slot.

The job market would disagree with you right now. I know so many US citizens who have 10+ years of work experience and work in modern stacks that have been out of a job for 6+ months yet companies are still hiring H-1B workers because its cheaper.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-12 22:45:49+00:00
> standards of living and disposable income have been rising in the West and all over the world for 50 years or more

Standard of living has been steadily declining in most of Western Europe post 2009: stagnating wages, exploding costs of living, declining public healthcare, pension and welfare funds, with longer waiting queues and scarcity in public services, etc.

Hence why so many people are mad and see globalization as one of the main factors. They feel rug-pulled: those with inherited wealth can relax and cash in on this new status quo, those without now have to compete with Asia as they no longer have a moat that guaranteed a good and stable income from basic low-skill jobs.
by echelon | 2025-08-12 22:45:52+00:00
> All your examples have replaced some other service in the past.

This was pre-broadband penetration, pre-smartphone. That was a really different era.

Social networking wasn't really that big before Facebook. Friendster, MySpace, and Xanga were all niche communities.

> Except GitHub, maybe.

Github toppled SourceForge, which was awful.

Reddit is probably the player that unseated the closest peer competitor. It toppled Digg, which was pretty big at the time. (Digg had itself disrupted Slashdot, StumbleUpon, and Del.icio.us, but those were niche communities.)
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by kevinlajoye | 2025-08-12 22:46:07+00:00
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by dakial1 | 2025-08-12 22:46:23+00:00
This immediatelly reminded me of a discussion I had here on HN 11 months ago:

> Now seriously, by Llama being "sort of" open source, it does not seem to be something someone can fork and develop/evolve it without Meta, right? If one day Meta comes and says "we are closing Llama and evolving it in a proprietary mode from now on" would this Llama indie scene continue to exist? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41391471

I still have that doubt, it seems that we are going to see it answered.
by drums8787 | 2025-08-12 22:46:44+00:00
My experience is the opposite I guess. I am having a great time using claude to quickly implement little "filler features" that require a good amount of typing and pulling from/editing different sources. Nothing that requires much brainpower beyond remembering the details of some sub system, finding the right files, and typing.

Once the code is written, review, test and done. And on to more fun things.

Maybe what has made it work is that these tasks have all fit comfortably within existing code patterns.

My next step is to break down bigger & more complex changes into claude friendly bites to save me more grunt work.
by superkuh | 2025-08-12 22:47:57+00:00
This is possible because the website is made of .html and other multi-media files in directories. There are no moving parts. As long as there's a webserver it's immortal and probably the closest any of those in Heavens Gate will get to the concept.

We really need more websites that are .html and files in directories. Making everything an executable (either server or client side) leads to very short lifetimes.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-12 22:48:08+00:00
The max he can get is 20. More likely he will get half of that which would be around 10. If he goes to federal prison that means he would have to at least 8.5 years. The other issue is he's not a US citizen so they could also just deport him, confiscate his passport and put him on a no-fly list to keep him out of the country.

There's no reason to pardon him.
by etherwaste | 2025-08-12 22:48:29+00:00
The problem, and the trick, of this word-game regarding empathy, is frequently the removal of context. For example, when you talk about "forcing mentally ill people on the street to get treatment," we divorce the practical realities and current context of what that entails. To illuminate further, if we had an ideal system of treatment and system of judging when it was OK to override people's autonomy and dignity, it would be far less problematic to force homeless, mentally ill people to get treatment. The facts are, this is simply far from the case, where in practical reality lies a brutal system whereby we make their autonomy illegal, even their bodily autonomy to resist having mind-altering drugs with severe side-effects pumped into their bodies, for the sake of comfort of those passing by. Likewise, we can delve into your dismissal of the semiotic game you play with legalism as a contingency for compassion, actually weighing the harm of particular categories of cases, and voiding context of the realities of immigrant families attempting to make a better life.
by daniddeme | 2025-08-12 22:48:57+00:00
I build a PR description CLI primarily to use it for work to automate my pr creation flow, pr-desc allows me to pipeline ai generated pr description to my gh pull request and I can update the content to my need on github after but it makes the process more smooth. Although I build it for this specific reason I can see multiple use of this CLI I added few on README in Incoming section. Please check it out and see if you want to contribute and make it even better.

Here' few feature currently availabale in pr-desc:

AI-Powered Generation: Utilizes advanced AI models to analyze Git diffs, commit messages, and file changes for intelligent description generation. Flexible Output Templates: Choose from predefined standard, detailed, or minimal PR description formats to match your team's conventions. Fast & Free: Integrates with high-performance, free-tier AI providers like Groq and DeepInfra, ensuring rapid generation without cost barriers. Seamless Configuration: Store API keys and default settings globally, allowing pr-desc to be used effortlessly from any project directory. Model Transparency: Easily list and select from a range of supported AI models for each provider. Robust & Reliable: Built with TypeScript for enhanced type safety and maintainability. Custom Template Files: Provide your own Markdown file as a template for highly tailored PR descriptions. Interactive Configuration Wizard: A guided setup process to easily configure pr-desc for the first time. "Dry Run" Mode for Generation: Preview AI-generated PR descriptions without actually creating a PR or consuming API quotas.
by ojosilva | 2025-08-12 22:49:27+00:00
yeah, the niceness and complacent nature of model training makes it hard to try to nuke any idea from all possible angles, which is what a good VC review does anyway. This a confirmation-bias validation tool!

OP, here are some pointers: prompt the model into the most negative, raunchy and insurmountable as possible personality. Give it examples in the system prompt on how VCs (or your average reddit user...) responds to business ideas, maybe as a different persona, then present negatives and positives from the model at different angles. Wash, rinse, iterate.
by taurath | 2025-08-12 22:49:42+00:00
Raised to huddle close and expect the imminent utter demise of the earth and being dragged to the depths of hell if I so much as said a bad word I heard on TV, I have to keep an extremely tight handle on my anxiety in this day and age.

It’s not from a rational basis, but from being bombarded with fear from every rectangle in my house, and the houses of my entire community
by joe_the_user | 2025-08-12 22:50:33+00:00
A lot of people also believe that global warming will cause terrible problems. I think that's a plausible belief but if you combine people believing one or another of these things, you've a lot of the US.

Which is to say that I don't think just dooming is going on. Especially, the belief in AGI doom has a lot of plausible arguments in its favor. I happen not to believe in it but as a belief system it is more similar to a belief in global warming than to a belief in the raptures.
by netsharc | 2025-08-12 22:50:39+00:00
> I asked the the admins if they resented this task at all: being left behind to play caretaker to a forgotten corner of the internet, missing their chance to “evolve” to this Next Level. They told me they weren’t resentful at all.

> “We didn’t have any of those feelings. That would be a very human response,” they wrote. “Don’t worry, we will be taken care of.”

At the end of the article the realization hit me that it's just standard cultist behavior: if they suddenly gave up the faith they'd be unmoored, not having anything to hope for, so it's more comforting to believe in the "lie".

Behavior that too many people in the world exhibit of course, suuure America will be great again, it's not racism, it's fighting against thugs! What grift? Oh all politicians do it, so it's fine if the ones I support do it!

[This paragraph redacted, sigh, triggering people's emotions won't get my message across]
by torginus | 2025-08-12 22:51:16+00:00
To be quite clear - by models being empathetic they mean the models are more likely to validate the user's biases and less likely to push back against bad ideas.

Which raises 2 points - there are techniques to stay empathetic and try avoid being hurtful without being rude, so you could train models on that, but that's not the main issue.

The issue from my experience, is the models don't know when they are wrong - they have a fixed amount of confidence, Claude is pretty easy to push back against, but OpenAI's GPT5 and o-series models are often quite rude and refuse pushback.

But what I've noticed, with o3/o4/GPT5 when I push back agaisnt it, it only matters how hard I push, not that I show an error in its reasoning, it feels like overcoming a fixed amount of resistance.
by aydyn | 2025-08-12 22:51:31+00:00
>(disclaimer: I wasn't in those comments, IDK who's reality is true here)

As someone who did see that thread evolve, let me help you out.

HN (being largely comprised of redditors) were more than happy to amplify pure misinformation because it was politically expedient. The evidence that it was fake was given fairly early on; a lot of people ignored it.

It's certainly a condemnation of the userbase on this forum.
by unlikelytomato | 2025-08-12 22:51:53+00:00
I wish I shared this experience. There are virtually no filter features for me to work on. When things feel like filler on my team, it's generally a sign of tech debt and we wouldn't want to have it generate all the code it would take. What are some examples of filler features for you?

On the other hand, it does cost me about 8 hours a week debugging issues created by bad autocompletes from my team. The last 6 months have gotten really bad with that. But that is a different issue.
by mystraline | 2025-08-12 22:53:53+00:00
Why do you think Windows, MS Office, MSSQL, Azure, and other MS applications are used extensively in the federal government?

Its to prop up American businesses, and as a form of corporate welfare.

We see this a lot in various vertical industries. The USG could pay and make it free, but they would rather prop up proprietary software as long as its US based.

Not even being a monopolist matters.
by meowface | 2025-08-12 22:54:57+00:00
He's considered the father of rationalism and the father of AI doomerism. He wrote this famous article in Time magazine a few years ago: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...

His book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies comes out in a month: https://www.amazon.com/Anyone-Builds-Everyone-Dies-Superhuma...

You can find more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
by natch | 2025-08-12 22:55:00+00:00
>A car that can be controlled and surveilled remotely, will be controlled and surveilled remotely.

Fair point. The examples given elsewhere here are limited and very explainable cases of this, but I’d argue the overall stance of current management is good. Future management, it’s anyone’s guess, but I am just commenting what I see with current management as an owner of their cars.
by apimade | 2025-08-12 22:55:43+00:00
Many who say LLMs produce “enterprise-grade” code haven’t worked in mid-tier or traditional companies, where projects are held together by duct tape, requirements are outdated, and testing barely exists. In those environments, enterprise-ready code is rare even without AI.

For developers deeply familiar with a codebase they’ve worked on for years, LLMs can be a game-changer. But in most other cases, they’re best for brainstorming, creating small tests, or prototyping. When mid-level or junior developers lean heavily on them, the output may look useful.. until a third-party review reveals security flaws, performance issues, and built-in legacy debt.

That might be fine for quick fixes or internal tooling, but it’s a poor fit for enterprise.
by asar | 2025-08-12 22:56:21+00:00
I see, thanks for explaining and congrats on the launch! After re-reading the description, the ability to use other frameworks might become a USP too.

Just a random remark, what's annoying and a pain point in my workflow are definitely proper development environments for agents . Not just runtimes but also managing secrets etc. Maybe an avenue to explore and use in marketing copy.
by brulard | 2025-08-12 22:56:42+00:00
> From my experience, even the top models continue to fail delivering correctness on many tasks even with all the details and no ambiguity in the input.

You may feel like there are all the details and no ambiguity in the prompt. But there may still be missing parts, like examples, structure, plan, or division to smaller parts (it can do that quite well if explicitly asked for). If you give too much details at once, it gets confused, but there are ways how to let the model access context as it progresses through the task.

And models are just one part of the equation. Another parts may be orchestrating agent, tools, models awareness of the tools available, documentation, and maybe even human in the loop.
by tomhow | 2025-08-12 22:56:56+00:00
Rayiner takes a lot of arrows on HN because he is (particularly these days) one of a tiny few who is notable for advocating conservative/libertarian positions. Those words in his comment weren't great but they were more of a commentary on society than a personal attack.

As for there being “a sizeable and vocal minority of users that are very right wing authoritarian”: without links to comments or account names I'm not able to gauge what you mean. But I'm in the threads every day and the political skew is clearly in opposition to the U.S. administration and to the the left of the broader population, which you would expect of a population sample dominated by tech industry employees and freelancers. But it's still a bell curve, which means, yes, there are some people here who are to the right of centre. That shouldn't be surprising or undesirable if we want to debate important topics.

If you see toxic material that hasn't been flagged/killed, you should flag it and/or email the moderators about it. It's fine to criticize us if you've done that and we haven't taken adequate action, but you've cited no cases of that.
by meowface | 2025-08-12 22:57:19+00:00
Asterisk is basically "rationalist magazine" and the author is a well-known rationalist blogger, so it's not a surprise that this is basically the only fair look into this phenomenon - compared to the typical outside view that rationalism itself is a cult and Eliezer Yudkowsky is a cult leader, both of which I consider absurd notions.
by switknee | 2025-08-12 22:57:29+00:00
>1 chargeback we received last month

>We refunded all of them

Was it a chargeback or a refund? It can't be both.

I'd assume one chargeback isn't enough to get your account banned though. There may be other factors, like one of your company officers sharing a name with a person the USA doesn't like.

I agree with the sentiment that you should have multiple payment processors set up in parallel so you don't lose any business due to this issue happening. Until you become big enough that they can't afford to do without your business, you'll be at risk of arbitrary suspension.
Ask HN: Are foreign key constraints still useful?
by doganugurlu | 2025-08-12 22:57:34+00:00
There was a time we offloaded a lot of business logic to the database server. Well, it was the only server "up" so it felt like it was ok.

So we piled on a ton of business logic on the database server. Triggers, stored procedures, you name it, we did it. And then it dawned on us that the code that lives in the database server extremely is unmaintainable - or MS decided to stop pursuing the "SQL server is where everything lives" strategy. Not sure, bit of a blur.

But, we still offload some logic to the database in the form of constraints, most popular one being the foreign key constraint.

In 15+ years of professional programming, I can't remember a time DB constraints protected a system I was working on. Almost 99% of the time, DB constraints pop up when I am making changes to my local environment, and the 1% was when there was a fire, and I had to make changes to a prod database in an urgent fashion. I never saw a log line that indicated DB constraints to be a useful protection.

And then there is the NoSQL world where obviously life goes on without these constraints and no one is trying to port foreign key constraints to NoSQL.

I feel like DB constraints are relic from a bygone era and the requirements that necessitated DB constrains are long gone.

Do you agree or am I going crazy?
by therealpygon | 2025-08-12 22:57:37+00:00
I mostly agree, with the caveat that I would say it can certainly be useful when used appropriately as an “assistant”. NOT vibe coding blindly and hoping what I end up with is useful. “Implement x specific thing” (e.g. add an edit button to component x), not “implement a whole new epic feature that includes changes to a significant number of files”. Imagine meeting a house builder and saying “I want a house”, then leaving and expecting to come back to exactly the house you dreamed of.

I get why, it’s a test of just how intuitive the model can be at planning and execution which drives innovation more than 1% differences in benchmarks ever will. I encourage that innovation in the hobby arena or when dogfooding your AI engineer. But as a replacement developer in an enterprise where an uncaught mistake could cost millions? No way. I wouldn’t even want to be the manager of the AI engineering team, when they come looking for the only real person to blame for the mistake not being caught.

For additional checks/tasks as a completely extra set of eyes, building internal tools, and for scripts? Sure. It’s incredibly useful with all sorts of non- application development tasks. I’ve not written a batch or bash script in forever…you just don’t really need to much anymore. The linear flow of most batch/bash/scripts (like you mentioned) couldn’t be a more suitable domain.

Also, with a basic prompt, it can be an incredibly useful rubber duck. For example, I’ll say something like “how do you think I should solve x problem”(with tools for the codebase and such, of course), and then over time having rejected and been adversarial to every suggestion, I end up working through the problem and have a more concrete mental design. Think “over-eager junior know-it-all that tries to be right constantly” without the person attached and you get a better idea of what kind of LLM output you can expect including following false leads to test your ideas. For me it’s less about wanting a plan from the LLM, and more about talking through the problems I think my plan could solve better, when more things are considered outside the LLMs direct knowledge or access.

“We can’t do that, changing X would break Y external process because Z. Summarize that concern into a paragraph to be added to the knowledge base. Then, what other options would you suggest?”
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-12 22:58:43+00:00
All this means is that warm and empathetic things are less reliable. This goes for AI and people.

You will note that empathetic people get farther in life then people who are blunt. This means we value empathy over truth for people.

But we don't for LLMs? We prefer LLMs be blunt over empathetic? That's the really interesting conclusion here. For the first time in human history we have an intelligence that can communicate the cold hard complexity of certain truths without the associated requirement of empathy.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-12 22:59:28+00:00
It depends on what you are optimizing for. If you are just optimizing for making the numbers go up, the yes letting big tech hiring all the available foreign workers so that they can do even more big tech stuff, increase their revenue, lift their share price, produce GDP, increase tax revenue etc. But what if you care about the diversity of the foreign workers in terms of field or specialty? What if for example you have a "Made in America" slogan and want to hire manufacturing workers so that we can have a renaissance in manufacturing?

The current H1B program is terrible in that it has a lottery. A strict salary-based distribution is marginally better but I would hope that it should incorporate multiple factors.