MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cpgxiii | 2025-08-11 16:48:29+00:00
There's this bizarre alternative history around "cash for clunkers" where an incentive program has been rewritten as this great evil that forced older vehicles off the road. All participation was voluntary. While internet commentators bemoan the "classic" cars scrapped in the program, these were almost certainly in terrible condition - people with classic cars in good condition know their value (or at least the party taking it as a trade-in does).
by mdaniel | 2025-08-11 16:48:40+00:00
In my experience, the "really good" is that it comes batteries included:

- completely docker based CI/CD which makes reasoning about what it's going to do easier than "read through some minified .js from some rando"

- they do have composable CI/CD akin to the GitHub Actions marketplace, but I haven't used it as much in anger to speak to how valuable it is versus "competitive checkbox feature"

- built-in Terraform State, so no more S3 + Dynamo

- highly configurable JWT claim curation for ease of OIDC based access from the pipelines

- good integration between the platform and multiple Kubernetes clusters

- related to that, a strong "review environment" setup

- they were also hinting at being a Sentry replacement, but regrettably I had to switch back to GitHub before that came out of preview so I don't this second know where it stands
by benreesman | 2025-08-11 16:49:05+00:00
I think we have a winner. This sort of personal toolsmithing is fun, and you can try out some new programming language or whatever.

We all love a good excuse to build something small-to-medium sized for our own perfect "tailor fit" preferences.

All the excuses about other tools not being adequate are just what we need to say to ourselves to justify the time ;)
by OptionOfT | 2025-08-11 16:49:30+00:00
I feel that GitHub has gotten worse lately.

* Actions are more finicky, both private (paid) and public, they crash and hang more.

* Publishing changes without testing them: https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2106

* 5+ second loads on the GitHub mobile app

* AI buttons everywhere (Your administrator can pay for CoPilot)

* Releasing Node24, completely skipping Node22 in their actions: https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/tag/v2.327.1

One of the most disgusting features that they did build is the ability for administrators to check how often a user accepts the CoPilot suggestions.

I was about to complain that they still don't have YAML anchors, but it seems that that was merged in 7 days ago: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182#issuecomment-3...
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-11 16:49:35+00:00
Its not about what is right politically, its about the quality of the moral character of conservatives.

It should be pretty clear at this point that if Trump came out and admitted to his actions with underage kids at Epstein's parties, his approval rating wouldn't even drop that much. Which just shows that the majority of modern conservatives are perfectly with child molestation. So its probably not far off to say that those people are somewhat mentally ill.
by halflife | 2025-08-11 16:50:02+00:00
Agreed, as an Israeli Jew, them saying that Jews don’t work on Shabbat there shouldn’t be reports on the 7th, shows so much their lack of objectivity, ignorance and the will to connect random points together.

Do they think that the police in Israel don’t work on Saturday? Does the CIA stops working on sundays? If they tried to visit Tel Aviv on Saturday they would see how lovely it is.
by ctbellmar | 2025-08-11 16:50:29+00:00
I know it's been mentioned a few times, but worth repeating: these LLMs tend to do noticeably better in their own native environments. Claude (Opus or Sonnet) in Copilot != Claude in Claude Code. Same applies to Cursor, Windsurf, Augment, etc. This likely has a lot to do with context manipulation (and compression), which affects the resulting output. I imagine that GPT-5 likewise will do better in Codex vs 3rd party plugin/VS Code fork.
by uncircle | 2025-08-11 16:50:32+00:00
“Really good” under which metric? Because it is slow, even more confusing after the terrible sidebar redesign and, to quote a famous author, its usage does not spark any joy.

Codeberg and gitea, on the other hand, feel great, like early Github. Fast and simple, instead of a product that’s adding feature on top of half-baked feature to capture the sweet corporate $$$.
Show HN: I built an app that uses math to find restaurants nearby the sweet spot
by mayukh180505 | 2025-08-11 16:50:33+00:00
I recently built an iOS app called Settld: Group Restaurant Finder that helps friends decide where to meet by finding restaurants that are roughly equally far from everyone’s location, and displaying information about them. We’ve all been in chaotic group chats where no one can agree on where to eat — this app cuts through that by calculating a “sweet spot” for the group. For 2 people, it’s the midpoint. For 3 people, it’s the circumcenter. For 4–6 people, it uses a minimum enclosing circle approach (Welzl’s algorithm).

It then shows the top 15 nearby options so there’s no more “where do we meet?” chaos — or $50 dinners after a gruelling 2-hour trip just because no one planned. If anyone’s wondering why I capped it at 15 options, it’s to cut down on decision paralysis.

Would love to get your thoughts: https://settld.space/
by potatolicious | 2025-08-11 16:50:43+00:00
The term that comes to mind, and one of my favorite concepts, is "progressive disclosure", which is a concept we really ought to be more mindful of.

One of the perks of just-a-text-file-with-a-bunch-of-addons is that it enables progressive disclosure - it takes no learning curve to just get in and use the tool on a basic level, but additional complexity (and power) can be introduced over time.

The problem with a purpose-built app is that there's a minimum level of new concepts to learn before the tool is even minimally useful, and that's a barrier to adoption.

A good example of this in action is something like Markdown. It's just text and will show up fine without you learning anything, but as you pick up more syntax it builds on top - and if you learn some markup syntax but not others, it doesn't prevent you from using the subset you know. There is a clear path to adding new knowledge and ability.
by pron | 2025-08-11 16:52:09+00:00
> For me LLM:s are just a computer interface you can program using natural language.

I wish they were, but they're not that yet because LLMs aren't very good at logical reasonsing. So it's more like an attempt to program using natural language. Sometimes it does what you ask, sometimes not.

I think "programming" implies that the machine will always do what you tell it, whatever the language, or reliably fail and say it can't be done because the "program" is contradictory, lacks sufficient detail, or doesn't have the necessary permissions/technical capabilities. If it only sometimes does what you ask, then it's not quite programming yet.

> Now - I can offload the most boring task to LLM and spend my mental energy on the interesting stuff!

I wish that, too, were true, and maybe it will be someday soon. But if I need to manually review the agent's output, then it doesn't feel like offloading much aside from the typing. All the same concentration and thought are still required, even for the boring things. If I could at least trust the agent to tell me if it did a good job or is unsure that would have been helpful, but we're not even there yet.

That's not to say the tools aren't useful, but they're not yet "programming in a natural language" and not yet able to "offload" stuff to.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-11 16:52:27+00:00
This is not the first time Tesla has done it, either. Before the 3 was released, a customer found some references to it in their software and made some posts.

Next thing they know, their vehicle's firmware was forcibly downgraded to a version that had no references, was forcibly version-locked at that firmware version, and had the Ethernet and OBD ports disabled.
by mooreds | 2025-08-11 16:52:57+00:00
> It cannot be understated that we are getting front row seats to the end of Pax Americana. In a world where countries can no longer enjoy reliable trade for commodities, we are going to revert to a world of imperialist land grabs and violence.

I don't agree with everything Peter Zeihan writes, but he did a good job of capturing this in "The end of the world is just the beginning"[0].

It feels like it is going to be a rough couple of decades.

0: https://zeihan.com/end-of-the-world/
by kstrauser | 2025-08-11 16:53:01+00:00
Same here. I lived in the middle of nowhere but somehow surprisingly close to a remote CO, and I could regularly get 44Kbps connections. My friends were envious.

My "favorite" thing when working tech support was explaining to people in expensive new subdivisions that Southwest Bell saved money by deploying pair gains instead of running more copper, and that's why they were never, ever going to see more than 33.6 (if very lucky) or 28.8 (more likely).

A common trick was to get them to add 3 commas to their dial string. That would prevent their modem from starting to train up until 3 seconds after they finished dialing. That would give our modems time to answer and start the 56K initiation. The delay would cause them to miss that, and then start trying to train up a much more stable 33.6 connection. It capped their max speed but made their connection a lot more reliable.
by ctbellmar | 2025-08-11 16:53:14+00:00
I wonder how well Augment system will play with both of these. I recall that for some time, Cursor worked really well with Claude LLMs and less so with OpenAI's offerings like GPT and o's. So far, my own testing had a few timeouts on GPT-5 and slower results. Nothing substantially different - need to experiment with different languages and projects to pick out the use cases for GPT-5.
Dual-Crypt – Working AES+RSA Encryption Between Java Spring Boot and React/JS
by muthuishere | 2025-08-11 16:53:17+00:00
Encrypt in Java, decrypt in the browser (or seed JS-encrypted payloads into Java). Sounds straightforward. It’s not.

You hit landmines like:

Mismatched IV/tag defaults (Java Crypto API vs WebCrypto)

Conflicting key formats (X.509 vs JWK vs raw)

Varied Base64 implementations and encoding subtleties

I spent hours chasing these. So I made Dual-Crypt, a fully working example:

AES-256-GCM + RSA-2048, wired correctly across Java ↔ JS

Uses spki for public key, pkcs8 for private key, 12-byte IV, 128-bit tag

Copy-paste ready code and a live demo

Read how I hacked it into existence, and try it yourself: https://muthuishere.medium.com/dual-crypt-cross-platform-encryption-spring-boot-react-that-actually-works-c713ecdbb89c Live demo here: https://dualcrypt.muthuishere.site
by nialse | 2025-08-11 16:53:19+00:00
Apple using GPT-5 explains quite a lot of the PhD vibe of the model. They have always been notoriously picky with what Siri does and especially what it doesn’t. I bet that Apple had a say in what and how GPT-5 was trained. Might also explain why it took so long. Extra guardrails for everything. And little emotion.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-11 16:53:51+00:00
Thats all cool and all, but the major trading firms own properties that are all physically connected to the exchanges faster than any competitor in terms of physical location and routing.

No matter how fast you process the data, the ping difference of 1ms is going to be an advantage that you can never beat.

There is a reason why firms like HRT trade mostly in derivatives and futures.
by alankarmisra | 2025-08-11 16:53:55+00:00
Same. I use Apple Notes. I have a few notes pinned (regular work, creative work, self-education, travel, chores). I write tasks. Break them up into small tasks with indents. Pick a task from the pool and execute. "Regular Work" tasks get priority. But if I'm not feeling it, I move to the other ones. Once I finish a task, I delete it/replace it with next steps. Nothing fancy. No formatting except for indentation. Been crushing it.

But I will add, there is no right way to do things in life in general. Experiment, and do what works for you.
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-11 16:54:08+00:00
If your solution to this problem is the web of trust, to be blunt, you don't have a solution. I am techie whose social circle is mostly other techies, and I know precisely zero people who have ever used PGP keys or any other WoT-based system, despite 30 years of evangelism. It's just not a thing anybody wants.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 16:54:09+00:00
I came across a similar post on YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg45b8UXoZI - it's titled "I Fixed My ADHD with a Receipt Printer".

I should build one that sends me an SMS message instead. So I stumbled on AT+ plus code for programing GSM devices. I have a MTN HUAWEI E303 modem from back in 2016 and I wrote a server using the npm serialport module.

I just need to write a dmenu script that pipes from every 3 git commits.

```txt SMS from :mtn-E303-sms-server ------------------------- PROJECT: ppc-v.1.0 ------------------------- Commits: 3 New Features Added! Bugs Squashed Code Cleaned Up ------------------------- Total XP: +150 Keep it up! ------------------------- ```

That should keep my monkey brain hooked for a while he he.

└── Dey well
by josefritzishere | 2025-08-11 16:54:12+00:00
I think the current capabilities of AI are basically trash. But at the same time, just because something has not happened, does not mean that it cannot happen. I think AI becomes salable as a replacement for people not because it's amazing, but because there are things outsourced labor is truly bad at. So in the work units where execs have already proven they are happy to destroy jobs to gain incremental revenue, they will do so again. At the same ttime, CEOs will not replace themselves with AI simply because they will make the business decision not to.
by metalman | 2025-08-11 16:54:19+00:00
Just before the plandemic, China put in an offer on everything that Alberta could produce, and that deal never got past the first stage, and then, we kidnaped the daughter of the guy behind Huawie, all the rest of the anti China stuff and now we are here, watching Trump fly out to entertain Putin......perhaps Canada can put together a very special surprise for both of them
We'll need a universal basic income (UBI) in an AI-driven world
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 16:54:47+00:00
I read on windowscentral "...We'll need a universal basic income (UBI) in an AI-driven world".

Eventually, at some point. Most of industry would have been disrupted/automated.

There should be a working group of the major players/stake holders in the space working out a model of how that would work.

I work in tech and I don't see that happening for another decade and half or so.

Care to ruminate?

└── Dey well
by rbanffy | 2025-08-11 16:54:59+00:00
> Btw, I'd love to know where this idea about no assembler programs on OS/2 came from.

It’s certainly a misunderstanding - nothing prevents someone from writing assembly. Could also be a lack of official documentation on how to make the API calls from assembly. Another possible source is that you can’t access the hardware directly in OS/2, which was more closely associated with low-level programming.
by xorcist | 2025-08-11 16:55:01+00:00
Justification from principles is for rationalisation. Never confuse cause and effect.

If the free market is good for my business, it is good. Same thing with foreign relations. Same thing with control over democratic instutions.

Always look at what people do, not what they say.

(Keep in mind though, that just because things have always been this way does not justify getting bitter over it. Society has been through this before.)
by lrei | 2025-08-11 16:55:05+00:00
Warning: This is AI generated, probably a low end model as some of the content is outright nonsense eg: """ concept of MoE is quite prevalent (refer Outrageously Large Neural Networks: the Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer), with Langchain’s high-level implementation of an LLMRouterChain, and notable low-level integrated examples """
by OscarCunningham | 2025-08-11 16:55:08+00:00
It's wild how people keep on talking about the prisoner's dilemma in the face of economist consensus that the selfishly dominant strategy is free trade. It's consistently easy for special interests to convince the public that tariffs are part of a sophisticated strategic/moral dilemma, while in fact they're just handouts. Likewise the glorification of China. The idea that the Communist Party might make bad economic decisions is never considered.
by itsanaccount | 2025-08-11 16:55:12+00:00
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1mjuunh/strange_objec...

and in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpxjuX-rDM and in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBQGn7GzLg

tip of the iceberg. of course 95% of these are balloons, rolling shutter cameras, insects close to the lens, etc etc. like this is probably a balloon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlwvV7_6l4

But out of that misreporting rate which has remained more or less the same since Project Blue Book, there bubble up some decent evidence of worldwide, fast moving, sometimes glowing orbs. And the folks with infrared and radar sensors are more convinced of it than those with access to random cameras.

Since that comic was posted, bigfoot, ghosts and the like have fallen out of reporting by the general public. UFOs/UAPs have not.
by layer8 | 2025-08-11 16:55:21+00:00
Some more indication:

> “Just like how Bill [Gates] had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our platform, for any enterprise or any organization, to be able to be the thing they turn into their own agent factory,” said Parikh [the CoreAI team lead].

That Bill Gates analogy seems rather far-fetched, though.
by Terretta | 2025-08-11 16:55:29+00:00
Never impressed, no longer impressed, feeling depressed ... Another option, newly impressed by the next iteration.

Up to a point these have been probability machines. There's probably a lot of code that does certain likely things. An almost astonishing amount doing the same things, in fact. As such, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised or impressed by the stochastic parrot aspect any more than we're impressed by 80% of such sites being copy pasta from Stack Overflow a few years ago.

However, what we perhaps didn't expect is that on the margins of the mass probability space, there are any number of less common things, yet still enough of those in aggregate that these tools can guess well how to do those things too, even things that we might not be able to search for. Same reason Perplexity has a business model when Google or DDG exist.

And now, recently, many didn't expect one might be able to simulate a tiny "society of mind" made of "agents" out of these parrots, a tiny society that's proving actually useful.

Parrots themselves still impress me, but a society of them making plans at our beck and call? That can keep us all peeking, pecking, and poking for a while yet.

// given enough time and typewriters, who wins: a million monkeys, a society of parrots, or six hobbits?
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-11 16:55:32+00:00
Absolutely it is:

This is not the first time Tesla has done it, either. Before the 3 was released, a customer found some references to it in their software and made some posts.

Next thing they know, their vehicle's firmware was forcibly downgraded to a version that had no references, was forcibly version-locked at that firmware version, and had the Ethernet and OBD ports disabled.

They'll also release misleading telemetry data at press conferences to throw you under the bus. In one fatal accident, on the topic of AP/FSD, at a press conference: "Well, we do the right thing, and vehicle telemetry tells us that the car was warning the driver to pay attention before the accident".

When the NTSB report came out, it was found that there had been one attention warning issued, and it was eighteen minutes before the collision.
by anon-3988 | 2025-08-11 16:55:35+00:00
This after the gaffe with the postal services, we are going to see some innocent folks being branded.

In general, I think we need a shift in society to say "yea, screw those kids". We don't put 20km/h limits everywhere because there's a non-zero chance that we might kill a kid. Its the cost of doing business.

Having privacy MEANS that it is difficult to catch bad people. That is just the price. Just swallow it and live with it.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-11 16:55:42+00:00
The problem you run into with stuff like this is poor sources. For instance, I don't think the 200k addicted users passes the sniff test (pun intended?) or even close. Consider that there were hundreds of various commercial concoctions nationwide, including Coca Cola, including it in ever larger quantities. There were factories plying their laborers with it, recreational use, medical use, and more. And then there was also a nationwide frenzy against it, all over a supposed 0.3% addiction rate, and in an era before the magnifying effects of the internet? To say nothing of a seemingly large proportion of famous names of the time admitting to using cocaine in various forms? This really does not pass the sniff test.

The source for the 200k/0.3% claim is a lengthy chain that eventually leads to this [1] book which then makes that claim by simply stating that the American Pharmaceutical Association said so, in 1902. A primary source for that, so far as I can find, does not exist, and my web fu is pretty decent. So if we just assume that this was said, how was this measured? And were the ulterior motivations? For instance cocaine's widespread usage in tonics and various pharmaceuticals would obviously create a major interest in a pharmaceutical trade group greatly downplaying its negative effects (including addiction) as much as possible. The 'safe and effective' of a different time.

The book also mentions that the primary addicts were "middle class genteel women." And so if that number was ever stated, I expect it was simply representing the group that actively sought treatment for addiction, which is obviously not exactly meaningful. Note also that you're comparing a potentially lowballed figure of addiction to a potentially highballed figure of usage.

[1] - https://archive.org/details/hepcatsnarcspipe0000jonn/page/25...
by matt_s | 2025-08-11 16:55:51+00:00
Pattern recognition. I don't mean the ability to do regular expressions. I mean the ability to recognize patterns in software development, organizations, and trends in the industry. It helps recognize when you've seen something similar before and know a good approach to dealing with it. This would include design patterns (like Gang of Four), integration patterns, architecture patterns, etc. There are a lot of problems out there that have stable, known solutions to them.
by arrowsmith | 2025-08-11 16:56:14+00:00
Is it "democratic" when both parties agree on everything of substance and elections don't change anything no matter who wins? Because that's how "democracy" has worked in the UK for at least as long as I've been alive.

Also, no-one asked for this bill, both parties support it, it received basically no debate or scrutiny and was presented as a fait accompli. Where's the democracy exactly?
by kriops | 2025-08-11 16:56:20+00:00
I want to signal boost the following quote from the URL above:

> Forgejo was created in October 2022 after a for profit company took over the Gitea project. It exists under the umbrella of a non-profit organization, Codeberg e.V. and is developed in the interest of the general public. In the year that followed, this difference in governance led to choices that made Forgejo significantly and durably different from Gitea.

If you take it at face value (at your peril), Gitea is about to start enshittification, while Forgejo will not at any point. My personal opinion, is that this is credible.