MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdrianB1 | 2025-08-05 16:42:47+00:00
When I go to buy 2 bottles of milk I am never offered to get it for 1.x the price of one bottle. I don't see any way it is fair to deliver double and get just 1.5x, in a hypothetical scenario just for the sake of the discussion. The suggestion to work 50% of the time and relax, socialize and network the other 50% is way more reasonable, when possible (not in my case).
by seunosewa | 2025-08-05 16:42:48+00:00
GitHub made git popular, and git made GitHub popular.

So the major mercurial hosts (especially bucket) decided that it wasn't worth supporting even for their existing users. That was the mail in Mercurial's coffin. Google also decided to shut down their Google Code.

Git's appeal is that it is more flexible and has every feature you might want, allowing people to do whatever they wish whether it's pretty or not. As long as it works, people can look past the ergonomics. GUIs and AI shield most people from the UI.
by kkkqkqkqkqlqlql | 2025-08-05 16:42:48+00:00
> Stuff like that just can't happen anymore.

Ya sure about that? You can be a fraudster in the UK, have your medical degree revoked, and go to the US as a fraudster without a medical degree... And be a leader!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-05 16:42:52+00:00
I don't like to go into personal details, so I'll offer a high-level summary:

They insist on living in a high-cost-of-living area, but can't hold the kind of job needed to live there. Moving to a lower-cost-of-living area where they can be employed isn't considered.

They don't have insight into who makes a good romantic partner / spouse. (Think of the stereotype who imports a "Russian Bride.")

They get into bar fights, in part because they will talk without listening to others' opinions. (And because they don't understand important differences between US culture and where they immigrated from.)

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I have a few people in my life who stop listening when they get agitated, so I personally have little patience for changing people. Trying to get these people to listen to reason is a fools' errand, so I no longer try and just end the conversation as quickly as possible.
by graemep | 2025-08-05 16:43:06+00:00
It is critical for those who choose to use it.

If you deliberately decide to use a system that introduces a single point of failure into a decentralised system, you have to live with the consequences.

From their point of view, unless they start losing paying users over this, they have no incentive to improve. I assume customers are happy with the SLA, otherwise why use Github?
by bradlys | 2025-08-05 16:43:16+00:00
I'll go even further. I've been the guy who gets all his work done way faster than others. You know what happens? I get assigned way more work than most people until I am overflowing and the literal bottleneck is my peers being able to code review everything I do. Yet, I am still blamed for overproducing then too cause now I am creating too much work for my peers!

Literally unwinnable scenarios. Only way to succeed is to just sit your ass in the chair. Almost no manager actually cares about your actual output - they all care about presentation and appearances.
Show HN: Elf0 – Build and run AI agent workflows in YAML (CLI)
by emson | 2025-08-05 16:43:17+00:00
Hi HN — I built Elf0, a command-line tool to define and run AI agent workflows in YAML. It helps you iterate on small multi-step "agents" without scaffolding a whole codebase.

The agent patterns described in Anthropic's article was an inspiration: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-age... I then used Nvidia's AgentIQ YAML spec as inspiration.

Why: I keep bumping into tasks where a single prompt isn’t enough (e.g., extracting quote data from an insurance PDF). Defining the workflow in YAML makes it easy to version prompts, parameters and logic, and to feed the whole spec back to an LLM to improve.

What it does: - Run single- or multi-step agents from a YAML spec. - Reference files or directories in prompts with @file / @dir. - Improve a workflow with a built-in command. - Use OpenAI or Anthropic APIs, or run locally via Ollama. - Optional MCP server example (YouTube transcript analyser). - Interactive mode for step-by-step runs.

Anyway it's been a lot of fun and really useful, let me know any ideas you might have to improve it?
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-05 16:43:31+00:00
I'm playing with it still and now am adding more scenes and more logic. I think the complexity here is whatever my goals are. I'm not sure what the practical limits here are, or at least they exceed my own ability in games development right now. This is just a toy game, but as I reach into claude and gpt, I can keep going, which is nice. I already have coding experience so I'm not exactly a 'vibe coder' but I think professionally, I dont think people with zero coding experience are getting dev roles, but instead the role will change like my example of the modern mechanic or modern sysadmin above.

As far as QA goes, we then circle back to the tool itself being the cure for the problems the tool brings in, which is typical in technology. The same way agile/'break things' programming's solution to QA was to fire the 'hands on' QA department and then programmatically do QA. Mostly for cost savings, but partly because manual QA couldn't keep up.

I think like all artifacts in capitalism, this is 'good enough,' and as such the market will accept it. The same way my laggy buggy Windows computer would be laughable to some in the past. I know if you gave me this Win11 computer when I was big into low-footprint GUI linux desktop, I would have been very unimpressed, but now I'm used to it. Funny enough, I'm migrating back to kubuntu because Windows has become unfun and bloaty and every windows update feels a bit like gambling. But that's me. I'm not the typical market.

I think your concerns are real and correct factually and ideologically, but in terms of a capitalist market will not really matter in the end, and AI code is probably here to stay because it serves the capital owning class (lower labor costs/faster product = more profit for them). How the working class fares or if the consumer product isn't as good as it was will not matter either unless there's a huge pushback, which thus far hasn't happened (coders arent unionizing, consumers seem to accept bloaty buggy software as the norm). If anything the right-wing drift of STEM workers and the 'break things' ideology of development has primed the market for lower-quality AI products and AI-based workforces.
by morpheos137 | 2025-08-05 16:44:27+00:00
Because an individual biological organism that has the potential to reproduce has a self preservation drive instilled by evolution. Because those of our ancestors who didn't try didn't pass on their genes. Because I enjoy being alive and want to continue life as long as I am viable. The justifiable individual will to live does in no way imply that the behavior of the species as a whole in its homo technologos mutation is a sustainable innovation of nature. All of the widespread social problems of the modern world can be directly traced back to egotistical technological capitalism. Maybe Pol Pot was on to something although he was cruel and brutal in his method so is nature by virtue of necessity.
by hristov | 2025-08-05 16:44:31+00:00
First of all your post is off topic. Second of all, the reason why solar panel installations in both Australia and Germany are cheaper than the US is solar panel tariffs. Neither Australia nor the EU has solar panel tariffs. The US does. The cheapest solar panels come from China, where there is significant overproduction of panels. If you do not have tariffs you get a lot of cheap Chinese panels.
by tetha | 2025-08-05 16:44:40+00:00
We have post-its with file names on a wall in the office. You take one down if you edit the file, and put it back up when you're done. Easy.

Though I wish I was entirely kidding. ~12 years ago or so we did that if one of two parallel development teams had to modify a message of the network protocol to avoid incompatibilities and merge problems.

Mind you, these were SVN merges. I can't even verbalize my feelings about SVN merges but by a mixture of laughing and groaning in pain, like if you stubbed your toe in a painful, but entirely funny way.
by glenstein | 2025-08-05 16:44:41+00:00
I think we have some notion of a proto-grammar or ability to linguistically conceptualize, probably at the level of some primordial conceptual units that are more fundamental than language, thoughts and ideas in the concrete forms we generally understand them to have.

I think it's like Chomsky said, that we don't learn this infrastructure for understanding language any more than a bird "learns" their feathers. But I might be losing track of what you're suggesting is software in the metaphor. I think I'm broadly on board with your characterization of DNA, the mind and memes generally though.
by Bjorkbat | 2025-08-05 16:45:16+00:00
Also, to drive my point further home, in one of the demos they were operating a jetski during a festival. If the jetski bumps into a small Chinese lantern, it will move the lantern. Impressive. However, when the jetski bumped into some sort of floating structure the structure itself was completely unaffected while the jetski simply stopped moving.

This is a pretty clear example of video game physics at work. In the real world, both the jetski and floating structure would be much more affected by a collision, but in the context of video game physics such an interaction makes sense.

So yeah, it's a video game simulator, not a world simulator.
by MrGilbert | 2025-08-05 16:45:21+00:00
> It's like everyone's reading from the same script/playbook.

I'd assume that many CEO are driven by the same urge to please the board. And depending on your board, there might be people on it who spend many hours per week on LinkedIn, and see all the success stories around AI, maybe experienced something first hand.

Good news: It's, from my estimate, only a phase. Like when blockchain hit, and everyone wanted to be involved. This time - and that worries me - the ressources involved are more expensive, though. There might be a stronger incentive for people to "get their money back". I haven't thought about the implications yet.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-05 16:45:22+00:00
Say you want to create a web app, but you don't know any web dev. You spend a couple of months reading front-end and back-end dev, incrementally create something, and after half a year you've made a web app you like. Say you spent 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 6 weeks, going from zero to a functional web app. So you spent 120 hours in total.

Now let's say you use Claude code, or whatever, and you're able to create the same web app over a weekend. You spend 6 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday, in total 12 hours.

That's 10x increase in productivity right there. Did it make you a 10x better programmer? Nope, probably not. But your productivity went up by a tenfold.

And at least to me, that's sort of how it has worked. Things I didn't have motivation or energy to get into before, I can get into over a weekend.
by varispeed | 2025-08-05 16:45:23+00:00
Depending how they used them. You can say similar thing about having junior developers in the team that you have to delegate tasks to. It takes time to explain to them what needs to be done, nudge into right solution, check etc.

But maybe another thing is not considered - while things may take longer, they ease cognitive load. If you have to write a lot of boilerplate or you have a task to do, but there are too many ways to do it, you can ask AI to play it out for you.

What benefit I can see the most is that I no longer use Google and things like Stack Overflow, but actual books and LLMs instead.
by Terretta | 2025-08-05 16:45:29+00:00
> Star Wars

And then you watched Mandalorian and Andor?

Jokes aside, Google Search results are worse thanks to so much web content being just ad scaffolding, but the interesting one here is music.

Music is typically imagined to be its best at whatever ages one most listened to it, partly trained in and partly thanks to meanings/memories/nostalgia attached to it. As a consequence, for most everyone, more recent music seems to be “getting worse”!

That said, and back to the SEO effect on Google Results, I'd argue mass distribution/advertising/marketing has resulted in most audio airtime getting objectively* less complex, but if one turns off the mass distribution, and looks around, there seems to be plenty of just as good — even building on what came before — music to be found.

* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387975100_Decoding_...
by sureglymop | 2025-08-05 16:45:40+00:00
I have no doubts that is the case. Just look at this new Unitree robot that was unveiled a mere 6 hours ago: https://youtu.be/ve9USu7zpLU?feature=shared

And these are consumer options, affordable to you and me, not only to some military. If those are the commonly available options... there may be way more advanced stuff that we haven't seen.
by garciasn | 2025-08-05 16:45:55+00:00
My rural cabin has access to:

1. 25/2 DSL for $140/month (12 month contract with $40/mo seasonal disconnect)

2. 5G (60/0.03 which was 100/20 last summer until the nearby tower became overloaded).

3. LTE (see above) which I routinely get ~100/30 but which Verizon, at least, will not allow their boxes to use if it can connect via 5G, regardless of usability of the connection.

4. Fiber (100/100) at $89.95 (12m contract with $25/month seasonal disconnect). The fiber has higher speeds, but I didn't price them out. The costs were originally listed at $34.95 before they ran the lines, but they have upped them to $89.95 now that they are run to my lake home.

5. Starlink (supposedly 150/20 for Residential Lite which is available in my area) at $80/month on a month-to-month with purchase of a dish (I got mine refurbished for $135). I am routinely seeing ~400/40 with 25ms ping even though I shouldn't be. That said, the speeds are more variable (low as 120/7).

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I would LOVE for there to be reasonably priced and very stable Internet for month-to-month, but there just isn't except for Starlink--at this point.
by gregbot | 2025-08-05 16:46:04+00:00
He said “cost inefficient” which i would interpret as meaning “expensive”. I think it’s pretty plausible that a single nat gas or coal plant would be a cheaper way of generating a fixed amount of electricity than solar + enough batteries to last several days of cloudy weather. All the sources ive seen only include a few hours of battery storage to go along with their solar which keeps the cost down but also means frequent outages which data centers really dont want
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-05 16:46:15+00:00
> It's why Texas surpassed CA in terms of utility solar

Texas surpassed California in terms of utility-scale solar because California both uses less electricity and has been so successful with distributed (customer premises) solar between the old incentives (now phased out) and its newer construction mandates that there is basically no energy demand for new utility solar to fill, because solar generation already peaks at above 100% of demand much of time, the utility demand is for storage and/or generation that is not on the same cycle as solar.

Texas has less total solar generation capacity than California, and gets much less of its total electricity from solar.
by quantified | 2025-08-05 16:46:34+00:00
I spent a good chunk of yesterday watching 90%+ of inferred code get deleted. The other dev hadn't turned off their AI assistant and it constantly suggested irrelevant stuff. I've had that experience myself, turned it off a long time ago. And the dev was sort of following the suggestion flow instead of following the actual goal.

There's probably a use-case when you're building the kind of code it's been trained on. But refactoring and updating algos to account for the refactor was awful, worse than typing.
by minimaxir | 2025-08-05 16:46:47+00:00
The new transformers release describes the model: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v4....

> GPT OSS is a hugely anticipated open-weights release by OpenAI, designed for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases. It comprises two models: a big one with 117B parameters (gpt-oss-120b), and a smaller one with 21B parameters (gpt-oss-20b). Both are mixture-of-experts (MoEs) and use a 4-bit quantization scheme (MXFP4), enabling fast inference (thanks to fewer active parameters, see details below) while keeping resource usage low. The large model fits on a single H100 GPU, while the small one runs within 16GB of memory and is perfect for consumer hardware and on-device applications.
by neom | 2025-08-05 16:46:53+00:00
I might be misunderstanding your comment so sorry if so. Robots have sensors and RL is a thing, they can collect real world data and then processing and consolidating real world experiences during downtime (or in real time), running simulations to prepare for scenarios, and updating models based on the day's collected data. The way I saw it that I thought was impressive was the robot understood the scene, but didn't know how the scene would respond to it's actions, so it gens videos of the possible scenarios, and then picks the best ones and models it's actuation based on it's "imagination".
by Ylpertnodi | 2025-08-05 16:46:53+00:00
>I tend to believe that Carbon Fiber is a fine material to use.

For deep underwater? Apart from the series of stupidities you go on to list, I'd love to hear your reasons as to why?

I'm a carbon f bike rider, even down to carbon spokes and I do not trust the material, knowing that pressure, or force, applied in the wrong direction will make it crack!. As for carbon in a circle...no way.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-05 16:47:10+00:00
I think I like the serendipity of wandering by and The Last Picture Show is on, or whatever.

As for music — I have all my stuff on a large SD card and it is in a player 24/7 on shuffle/repeat. So, yeah, I never know what's coming on. (Playing on a lowish volume in a different room, FWIW.)
by danbruc | 2025-08-05 16:47:13+00:00
Well, I don't give a shit about the advertising goals of Apple or anyone else, that is why I block ads. And that is also completely irrelevant, the question was whether I am screwing over websites when I am using an ad blocker. I argue not, because as a consumer I still contribute to the ad budgets that become the ad revenue of the websites. What I am not doing when I block ads is influencing how the money gets distributed among all the websites, I can live with that. And if the money is not consumer money, so what? What do I have to do with companies distributing VC money among websites?
Show HN: macOS-style Web UI built with React
by rdvnnl | 2025-08-05 16:47:24+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a macOS-style desktop interface that runs entirely in the browser using React, Tailwind CSS, Zustand, and Framer Motion. It simulates a dock, draggable windows, and a file-like workspace – all on a clean, responsive UI.

It’s a hobby project I work on when I find time, and it’s still evolving. You can try it live here:

*Demo:* https://rdvnui.com *Code:* https://github.com/ridvanonal/macos-react

Would love any feedback, ideas, or crazy feature suggestions. Thanks for checking it out!
by throw0101d | 2025-08-05 16:47:36+00:00
> They are horrendous war crimes. The only reason they aren't called as such is we were the victors.

Who says they aren't called it? LeMay, for one, recognized it.

* https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/outputs/undergraduate/If-We-Ha...

There is a paradox called “logical insanity.” The novel Catch 22 deals with this irony: basically, the idea was that the war was killing thousands daily, so in order to end it as fast as possible, they planned to be as brutal as possible. But what were alternatives?

Drop the bomb somewhere 'harmless': how would that convince the War Cabinet of anything? The point of all weapons is to harm to convince the enemy to stop and re-evaluate their costs.

Blockade and starve the Japanese out? Possibly millions dead. Invasion? The Japanese leadership thought that up to 20M of their own people would perish trying to repel the US landings.

And that's just the Japanese numbers: what about all the peoples that were still living under Japanese rule in Manchuria, Korea, etc?

And what about the American lives, which were Truman et al's first responsibility?
by zahlman | 2025-08-05 16:47:56+00:00
... But that's as far as you could take it, since 16-gons would show at least 7 faces while only having an encoding for 4.

I also thought of using hexagonal prisms, showing two faces at a time in paired colours but using three colours. These would also need much less clearance in order to rotate freely, compared to face-on cubes.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-05 16:48:39+00:00
> But instead they left Titan winter on the parking lot in Saint Johns where it was not protected from any exposure because that was cheaper.

This came up in the hearings. It's standard practice to do this but it's probably different leaving say the metallic Antipodes [1] outside than carbon fiber.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes_(submersible)
by bechaubs | 2025-08-05 16:48:49+00:00
> Talking face to face changed everything, because they could draw diagrams, pull out specs, and give concrete examples.

The original programmer should have included all that (design docs, specs, diagrams, examples) in the commit messages, or at least made references in code comments / commit messages, and included this design material in the same repo. It's good if you can talk to the original author; it's better if you can read their original thoughts in their absence.
by rawgabbit | 2025-08-05 16:49:36+00:00
Quote:

>Not at all, because carbon fiber is better compression than tension. And that's what nobody understands. It's completely opposite of what everyone else says. Everyone's, oh, carbon fiber can't handle compression. They're full of shit, and I've proven they're full of shit. If you want to see that, you take a look at the third scale model that we tested.

Jesus Christ, I met people like him in previous jobs when I worked in Aerospace. Don't need to know nothing but a giant ego and connections to get a job managing engineers.
by blensor | 2025-08-05 16:49:43+00:00
This was such a random post on HN, because I didn't even know about echarts about 2 weeks ago. I had been using amcharts for the workout analysis in XRWorkout for several years but wanted to switch to a more open library.

Converting the old amcharts code to echarts worked almost automatically with Gemini 2.5 Pro and since a bit over a week all stats in the game ( via webview ) and in the web on the user portal are now using echarts.

I'm even using it in a Three.js visualizer for the recorded workout data ( which is still highly experimental so don't judge the visuals please ): https://portal.vrworkout.at/static/workout_visualizer/index....
by riedel | 2025-08-05 16:49:59+00:00
It was mostly about syncing groups with proxmox. Worked by patching the LDAP provider to support our schema. Comment was more about the extensibility problem when doing this. Actually when you say this, I wonder how PAM could work, only ever used it for providing shell access: we typically do not have any local users on the machine. Never used PAM in a way not providing any local execution privileges (which is the whole point of a VM host).
by hcurtiss | 2025-08-05 16:50:13+00:00
This has always struck me as pretty weak. Yes, paying Yandex indirectly results in paying taxes to the Russian government. But people are rarely so dogmatic about these matters. There are lots of despotic and tyrannical regimes in the world, under which companies must operate because people live there who must try to make a living. Punishing the people at those companies because they're obligated ot pay taxes to their rulers strikes me as rather ridiculous.

Kagi is awesome. I appreciate the Yandex results. I'm not a big fan of Russia.