MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by risyachka | 2025-08-02 19:01:01+00:00
I bet it highly depends on the work you do.

It is very useful for simpler tasks like writing tests, converting code bases etc where the hard part is already done.

When it comes to actually doing something hard - it is not very useful at least in my experience.

And if you do something even a bit niche - it is mostly useless and its faster do dig into topic on your own that try to have Claude implement it.
by arrowsmith | 2025-08-02 19:01:52+00:00
The real power of Claude Code comes when you realise it can do far more than just write code.

It can, in fact, control your entire computer. If there's a CLI tool, Claude can run it. If there's not a CLI tool... ask Claude anyway, you might be surprised.

E.g. I've used Claude to crop and resize images, rip MP3s from YouTube videos, trim silence from audio files, the list goes on. It saves me incredible amounts of time.

I don't remember life before it. Never going back.
by newsclues | 2025-08-02 19:02:07+00:00
You don't care that people exploit other humans beings for power and profit?

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-homeless-audit-spendi...

https://invisiblepeople.tv/unveiling-corruption-the-dark-rea...

You are right, the people being exploited are human beings, and rather than working to end the suffering, some people end up prolonging the suffering and creating more of it, because fixing problems ends the flow of funds and power.

You aren't refuting what I am saying, you only seem to justify corruption and incompetence because the apparent intention is noble.
by _proofs | 2025-08-02 19:02:11+00:00
my recent experience with flash and using it to prototype a c++ header i was developing:

- it was great to brainstorm with but it routinely introduced edits and dramatic code changes, often unnecessary and many times causing regressions to existing, tested code. - numerous times recursion got introduced to revisions without being prompted or without any justified or good reason - hallucinated a few times regarding c++ type deduction semantics

i eventually had to explicitly tell it to not introduce edits in any working code being iterated on without first discussing the changes, and then being prompted by me to introduce the edits.

all in all i found base chatgpt a lot more productive and accurate and ergonomic for iterating (on the same problem just working it in parallel with gemini).

- code changes were not always arbitrarily introduced or dramatic - it attempted to always work with the given code rather than extrapolate and mind read - hallucinated on some things but quickly corrected and moved forward - was a lot more interactive and documenting - almost always prompted me first before introducing a change (after providing annotated snippets and documentation as the basis for a proposed change or fix)

however, both were great tools to work with when it came to cleaning up or debugging existing code, especially unit testing or anything related to TDD
by akimbostrawman | 2025-08-02 19:02:23+00:00
>This is absolutely false, it was not caught in any sort of regular testing whatsoever

>The packages were already staged in the testing branches

Thanks for making my argument for me. It was also literally caught in (Debian) TESTING.

It does not matter for who he works unless you believe a cooperation owns there employees time and achievements 24/7.

He notices something off, tested it, looked at the source code (impossible on windows ;) and reported the issue he found which got quickly and transparently (also impossible on windows) fixed. Again that is how FOSS should work and why it's superior to proprietary software.
by rcarr | 2025-08-02 19:02:35+00:00
Out of all developed nations, Japan is probably the one least affected by housing pricing in the world seeing as though Japanese housing depreciates rather than appreciates over time. Rent prices in America are a staggering 177.4% more expensive than Japan[1]. Ever increasing house prices, caused by the underlying power imbalance between capital and labour, is the root of all evil in the Anglosphere. It will not stop until wages are restored to pre financial crisis levels and assets and wealth are taxed at a level equal to or higher than work. Until that happens, the wealthy will continue to squeeze everybody else out of a life.

[1]: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...
by slackpad | 2025-08-02 19:02:49+00:00
Not the parent but I've totally been doing this, too. I've been using docker compose and Claude seems to understand that fine in terms of scoping everything - it'll run "docker compose logs foo" "docker compose restart bar" etc. I've never tried to isolate it, though I tend to rarely yolo and keep an eye on what it's doing and approve (I also look at the code diffs as it goes). It's allowed to read-only access stuff without asking but everything else I look at.
by wenc | 2025-08-02 19:03:00+00:00
I've also found that structure is key instead of trusting its streams of consciousness.

For unit testing, I actually pre-write some tests so it can learn what structure I'm looking for. I go as far as to write mocks and test classes that *constrain* what it can do.

With constraints, it does a much better job than if it were just starting from scratch and improvising.

There's a numerical optimization analogy to this: if you just ask a solver to optimize a complicated nonlinear (nonconvex) function, you will likely get stuck or hit a local optimum. But if you carefully constrain its search space, and guide it, you increase your chances of getting to the optimum.

LLMs are essentially large function evaluators with a huge search space. The more you can herd it (like herding a flock into the right pen), the better it will converge.
by HaZeust | 2025-08-02 19:03:07+00:00
>"First, young people make a lot more than they did 10 years ago (both nominally and inflation adjusted)."

I need a source on this, like [1], and I need you to also share the cost-of-living average increases, which PLAINLY show that despite wages increasing, the increasing costs for goods and services within that same time period have outpaced wage increase percentages [2][3].

And don't be a typical HN-crowder and say ANYTHING about wages in our industries — it's white-collar work, and a functioning society sees to accomplishing an ever-progressing standard of living for members in ALL sectors of the status-quo 'bell curve'.

Shit, even average household income is down 2k from 6 years ago [4]

1 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CEU0500000003

2 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA

3 - https://www.kff.org/health-costs/press-release/annual-family...

4 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
by webstrand | 2025-08-02 19:03:39+00:00
Well, there's still people making still making chiptunes, and there's still interest in developing tracker technology both for chiptunes (i.e. OpenMPT) and for music composition in general (Renoise DAW).

<https://4mat.bandcamp.com/album/modern-closure> came out in 2019 and is one of my favorite albums of all time, but I'm not sure that it fits all of the elements of "keygen music" which are hard to pin down.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-02 19:04:22+00:00
It's to provide "comfort noise" when the correlator indicates a missing or mistuned signal.

Muting the audio would make more sense -- and would certainly have been familiar to the CB[1] radio operators of the day in the form of a squelch effect -- but this chip was targeted at consumers who expected it to behave like a conventional FM radio.

1: An early incarnation of social media, for better and worse
by turnsout | 2025-08-02 19:07:21+00:00
To 99% of consumers in the US, kei trucks look like toys, so I'm not sure that's the best example.

Honestly, if you look at the truck market, it's dominated by masculine designs like the F-150. Arguably this has created a gap in the market for designs that are more compact and approachable. It may never be the majority, but TELO looks perfectly suited to address that niche.
by albumen | 2025-08-02 19:07:48+00:00
Ireland.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/criminal-law/c...

Edit: Wikipedia page on drinking in public: "In some countries, such as Norway,[1] Poland,[2] India and Sri Lanka[3][non-tertiary source needed], some states in the United States,[4] as well as Muslim-majority countries where alcohol is legal, public drinking is almost universally condemned or outlawed, while in other countries, such as Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Germany,[5][6] the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan, Finland, and China, public drinking is socially acceptable."
by esseph | 2025-08-02 19:08:14+00:00
What I'm saying is whatever "activists" are doing or saying is often an excuse for others to continue to ignore the ugly problem. This is not limited to one locality.

What I am interested in is long term support and funding for workable, humane solutions.

These things require bipartisan support at the state and federal level (rooting out many of the causes and aiding homeless prevention), and I'm pretty sure that's fucking toast.
by marttt | 2025-08-02 19:08:29+00:00
Yeah, it has got me "in the zone" for writing many times. On a side note, I also like the "click" when I close the lid on my T42. Mentally balancing for sure :).

I bought a used P50 for our son, and while it's allright (even the keyboard -- although it doesn't give that particular feel of the T4x era keyboards), it lacks both of those extra-relevant features. No click on closing, and a mere backlit keyboard. But, that's life!
by mgraczyk | 2025-08-02 19:08:57+00:00
Any source will do, here is the Atlanta fed

https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker

Click "age"

Then compare to price levels. Wages have outpaced price levels for this age group significantly

Here's men 16-24 showing 20% increase after CPI adjustment

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252882200Q

EDIT: the data you shared is not specific to "young people", that's why it's different. While everyone's wages are up over the last 10 years relative to prices (according to the data you shared), young people have gained much more
by jdietrich | 2025-08-02 19:09:02+00:00
There are a number of pilot projects currently in development to heat entire neighbourhoods using the waste heat from data centers.

Unless you've got a monster ML workstation under your desk or a crypto mining rig in your garage, that surplus heat isn't especially useful and isn't really worth harvesting. A typical desktop PC only dissipates a few tens of watts at idle or a few hundred watts under heavy gaming loads, versus many kilowatts for a typical domestic water heater.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-of-homes-to-be-...
by plaguna | 2025-08-02 19:09:07+00:00
User with Spanish keyboard here: when I enter 99999 it formats it as 99.999 and when I submit it, it shows as 99, because it uses the dot as decimal separator that is the way we do over here.

Otherwise the UI and concept looks pretty interesting. But until that is fixed, it is unplayable for me.

(On an iPhone, using Safari)
by ColonelPhantom | 2025-08-02 19:09:31+00:00
I guess modern crash safety does require decent crumple zones, but I'm not sure in how far Europe is different than North America in this.

If anything, small vehicles aren't a thing in NA, but extremely popular still in Europe, even though SUVification is also happening here.

There's plenty of small cars left, like the Toyota Aygo X. Renault is also working on a new electric Twingo, and the new 5 isn't huge either.
by scrollaway | 2025-08-02 19:10:03+00:00
Taking the pain of starting is a big one. It lets me do things I would never have done just because it’d go on the “if only I had time” wish list.

Now literally between prompts, I had a silly idea to write a NYT Connections game in the terminal and three prompts later it was done: https://github.com/jleclanche/connections-tui
by trhway | 2025-08-02 19:10:04+00:00
with power hungry AI datacenters popping up like mushrooms after a rain the timing couldn't be better for fusion. I guess VCs see that too. Well, some VCs also paid for that back then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Rocket - single stage half-helicopter half-rocket to orbit (and $30M in VC funding 30 years ago were really huge money) - despite 6th grade math.
by dkdcio | 2025-08-02 19:11:15+00:00
I think this criticism is missing the order of magnitude aspect -- I agree, people do not choose the most technically pure option. But one that launches on day 1 that can be used in SQL or Python with a few lines of code, across any cloud provider, and it basically "just works" is an order of magnitude or more simple than using Iceberg, at least in my experience in Python. It's always been odd how every non-JVM client for Iceberg has supported reads, but never writes...

People don't choose on tech on technical purity, but they often chose on simplicity & ease of use
by catherd | 2025-08-02 19:11:32+00:00
There are safe (and unsafe) drivers contributing to both car and motorcycle statistics. Is this an argument that the skill curve for motorcycle driving is skewed towards highly unskilled drivers but cars are more evenly distributed?

I don't remember much about my statistics classes but even if you're a 99th percentile driver can't you still say there will be a large increase in your own personal probability of a fatality if you jump from the car curve to the motorcycle one?
by neilv | 2025-08-02 19:12:17+00:00
> (need to find time to buy an updated one (and a spare) w/ USB-C)

Once you find a TrackPoint keyboard model that you like, buy spares, since you might have a hard time getting a good design in the future.

For example, they went to a lot of trouble to develop TrackPoint keyboard SK-8855, with community input, and then discontinued it. To cries of anguish, scalpers and price-gouging on last remaining stock, and, years later, people selling filthy broken used ones for more than they cost new.

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd005137-thinkpad...

I don't think Lenovo has quite the same design sensibilities as IBM ThinkPad team had:

* "You, the user, want to throw away IBM's famed keyboards, and have a chiclet keyboard as the only option." (No.)

* "You want to remove the function keys that aren't necessary for Twitter." (No.)

* "You want to remove the tactile cues from TrackPoint buttons, so it looks more sleek, for your TikTok scrolling." (No. This is not a mindless "content consumer" device. "Think" is right there, in the name.)

* "You want to remove the TrackPoint buttons altogether, from a workstation laptop, so you can get RSI from clicking with your thumb on the touchpad below instead." (No, and now I think you are just trying to sabotage all the smart people who were using ThinkPads before.)

I'm still surprised that IBM was even allowed by the US gov't to sell ThinkPad to China. It was beloved fleet tech of US big business and government, as well beloved by techies ("innovators"). And maybe also a source of technology excellence pride, like fewer companies are now. Imagine the iPhone business being sold to China. Or Cisco being sold.
by Jach | 2025-08-02 19:12:23+00:00
Still as ugly as last time it appeared on HN, it has none of the charm of a Kei truck. I wish any company would just take the old Ford Ranger designs (2011 and earlier) and make a truck on that. Or better yet, Ford themselves could redo the electric version of the Ranger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV) from 25 years ago with modern tech but the same look.
by SpectralName | 2025-08-02 19:12:48+00:00
Location: NY State, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (BE - Django, FastAPI; data science - numpy/pandas; ML - pytorch/ONNX/torchscript/Triton), Kafka Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xfpNaajacqC46E-P5PuQwn9KsG7lUmfa/view?usp=sharing Email: matts10e6@gmail.com

MLE with 5 YoE - 4 in computer vision R&D, 2 with LLMs and SaaS. The arc of my career so far has been a slow evolution from Research Engineer towards AI-assisted full stack web dev. I'm interested in working in AI4Science, climate tech, or anywhere with a compelling story about how you're making the world a better place. I'm comfortable figuring out whatever needs doing and doing it in a small org, but I'm happiest when I get to implement a paper every so often, and when I get to help technical but non-programmer SMEs solve problems they didn't realize could be solved.
Ask HN: Is fast.ai's "Deep Learning for Coders" still relevant in 2025?
by hedgehog0 | 2025-08-02 19:12:59+00:00
Dear all,

I learned some basic ML from Andrew Ng's Coursera course more than 10 years ago, recently I graduated from the Math Master program and have some free time in my hand, so I am thinking about picking up ML/DL again.

In [Yacine's video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph6PIchDOcQ), he mentioned [fast.ai's course](https://course.fast.ai/), which I heard of in the past but didn't look into too much. The table of contents of [the book](https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Coders-fastai-PyTorch/dp/1492045527) looks pretty solid, but it was published in 2020, so I was wondering given the pace of AI development, do you think this book or course series is still a good choice and relevant for today's learners?

*To provide more context about me*: I did math major and CS minor (with Python background) during undergrad but have never taken any ML/DL courses (other than that Coursera one), and I just finished the Master program in math, though I have background and always have interests in graph theory, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science.

I have two books "Hands-on Machine Learning" by Geron and "Hands-on LLMs" by Alammar and Grootendorst, and plan to finish Stanford's CS224N and CS336 and CMU's DL systems when I have enough background knowledges. I am interested in building and improving intelligent systems such as DeepProver and AlphaProof that can be used to improve math proof/research.

Thank you a lot!
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-02 19:13:02+00:00
I’ve heard from many recent moms that Aetna regularly denies normal labor and delivery charges that are explicitly covered in their plans. That then forces you through a months long process of calling them repeatedly, tolerating hold times of 1-2 hours each time, and getting virtually no help. And maybe at the end of it, when your child is almost one year old, they may pay out. That’s for a normal delivery with no complications.

Aetna knows exhausted and stressed moms are less likely to persist. It is blatantly fraudulent but they get away with it because no one has the time or money to get their executives thrown in jail.
by martin-t | 2025-08-02 19:14:55+00:00
Of course, their job is to make their own job redundant. If they are true believers, this is the last paycheck they might ever get.

After that, it's manual labor like the plebs or having enough savings to ~~last them the rest of their lives~~ invest and "earn" passive income by taking a portion of the value produced by people who still do actual work.
by risyachka | 2025-08-02 19:15:06+00:00
Its all great until

>> I thought I would see a pretty drastic change in terms of Pull Requests, Commits and Line of Code merged in the last 6 weeks. I don’t think that holds water though

The chart basically shows same output with claude than before. Which kinda represents what I felt when using LLMs.

You "feel" more productive and you definitely feel "better" because you don't do the work now, you babysit the model and feel productive.

But at the end of the day the output is the same because all advantages of LLMs is nerfed by time you have to review all that, fix it, re-prompt it etc.

And because you offload the "hard" part - and don't flex that thinking muscle - your skills decline pretty fast.

Try using Claude or another LLM for a month and then try doing a tiny little app without it. Its not only the code part that will seem hard - but the general architecture/structuring too.

And in the end the whole code base slowly (but not that slowly) degrades and in longer term results net negative. At least with current LLMs.
by cyberax | 2025-08-02 19:15:14+00:00
> And yes, some stuff in Win11 still isn't WinUI, which is kind of annoying, but some of those dialogs hidden away in Windows are at least 20 years old, and probably would need to be entirely rewritten, not merely have their UI's updated.

And this is hard to do. These dialogs often are _dynamic_, with third-party settings rendered as ActiveX controls.
by bryant | 2025-08-02 19:15:32+00:00
> I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged..

Speculating: there may be parallels between this and other fields with entirely unnecessary artistic expression. Think watchmaking where watch movements with superlative finishing are celebrated and often command premium pay (e.g watches with the Geneva Seal). Beyond a certain point, the finishing adds absolutely nothing to the watch aside from showcasing talent.

There's something to the idea that if someone spent a ton of effort building something, even if it's superfluous, it garners a level of trust in the end product.
by throwaway078315 | 2025-08-02 19:15:59+00:00
i keep up exercise for health reasons and because i do have a higher energy level if i'm in better shape.

however, both during and for two or three hours after exercising, the emotional effect is very negative. i feel much more anxious, prone to negative thoughts, self-critical, pessimistic, sometimes angry.

the benefits are definitely real but I feel like I am paying a very large cost to get them. i've tried lots of different forms of exercise and they all have this effect if i push to a reasonable level of intensity.

i'm wondering if anyone else has had this experience and managed to find a place where exercising makes them feel happy.
by queenkjuul | 2025-08-02 19:17:37+00:00
This is basically my experience with it. I thought it'd be great for writing tests, but every single time, no matter how much coaxing, i end up rewriting the whole thing myself anyway. Asking it for help debugging has not yet yielded good results for me.

For extremely simple stuff, it can be useful. I'll have it parse a command's output into JSON or CSV when I'm too lazy to do it myself, or scaffold an empty new project (but like, how often am i doing that?). I've also found it good at porting simple code from like python to JavaScript or typescript to go.

But the negative experiences really far outweigh the good, for me.
by bongodongobob | 2025-08-02 19:18:18+00:00
I tried out Claude for the first time today. I have a giant powershell script that has evolved over the years, doing a bunch of different stuff. I've been meaning to refactor it for a long time, but it's such a tangled mess that every time I try, I give up fairly quickly. GPT has not been able to split it into separate modules successfully. Today I tried Claude and it refactored it into a beautifully separated collections of modules in about 30 minutes. I am extremely impressed.
by Jach | 2025-08-02 19:18:40+00:00
> Additionally, the demand for these vehicles will be relatively low until influential YouTubers in the construction, farming, and rural sectors become advocates and start promoting them.

This is a surprising claim to me. Can you point to any other vehicles (even something from John Deere or a competitor) whose demand significantly rose in a way directly attributable to influential youtubers in those niches, and which influencers in particular you think would be particularly influential?
by trhway | 2025-08-02 19:18:48+00:00
>Presumably 2025 MSFT is more sober-minded about Altman.

If nothing else, that, after all the good they had done to him, should do it:

"OpenAi v. Microsoft: Altman ready to sue for unfair competition

...

OpenAI has put a potentially devastating weapon on the table: accusing Microsoft of anti-competitive practices and raising the attention of the Federal Trade Commission. It would be a low blow... "

https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/openai-v-microsoft-altman-rea...