MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bhopro | 2025-08-05 18:17:49+00:00
While I agree with some components of this blog, I also think that the author is speaking from a specific vantage point. If you are working at a large company on a pre-existing codebase, you likely have to deal with complexity that has compounded over many product cycles, pull requests, and engineer turnover. From my experience, AI has increased my performance roughly by 20%. This is primarily due to LLMs bypassing much of the human slop that has accumulated over the years on Google.

For newer languages, packages, and hardware-specific code, I have yet to use a single frontier model that has not slowed me down by 50%. It is clear to me that LLMs are regurgitating machines, and no amount of thinking will save the fact that the transformer architecture (all ML really) poorly extrapolates beyond what is in the training canon.

However, on zero-to-one projects that are unconstrained by my mag-seven employer, I am absolutely 10x faster. I can churn through boilerplate code, have faster iterations across system design, and generally move extremely fast. I don't use agentic coding tools as I have had bad experiences in how the complexity scales, but it is clear to me that startups will be able to move at lightning pace relative to the large tech behemoths.
by shayief | 2025-08-05 18:17:58+00:00
Codeberg UI appears to be pretty similar to GitHub, so it's great as GitHub alternative. It's powered by Forgejo, fork of Gitea.

Gitpatch is a bit different. It implements a new storage backend and Git library from scratch. It also uses patch-based model for code review vs pull requests, where specially-named branches are used to submit patches and patch stacks.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-05 18:18:21+00:00
> quick-and-dirty exist for a reason. It's easy to say that quick-and-dirty is just dirty, and it's true: in the long run, quick-and-dirty takes longer than the-right-thing

I've started to view this as "quick and dirty pays the bills for me to clean up later".

Yes, it'd be great to have an elegant solution right off the bat - but that's almost always going to take more time/effort. There's also a good chance what you build is completely wrong, so it might get thrown away.

Of course, there are exceptions to this. Particularly, for well-known, well defined things or safety critical things.
by general1726 | 2025-08-05 18:18:47+00:00
I tried Redmine, went to Trello and then returned to self hosted Redmine. Redmine might be little bit inflexible and does not have nice Kanban board, but when you will correctly set start-due dates + limit how far into future you want to see it can create usable Gannt chart, and I have eventually got used on this type of work.

Next step has been putting Redmine on the web so I can access it from anywhere. I have got stuck on setting up HTTPS for Redmine in Docker container, which required to use traefik or what the hell so I have gave up on that part and instead started using Wireguard on my laptop + my phone and my router and just access it via plain HTTP + VPN. Advantage is that I don't need to worry about bugs in Redmine because it is not exposed to the internet itself at all.

I understand this setup is light years from what regular user would do and it should give FOSS community pause to think about user friendliness and ease of a setup. But it is unlikely it will.
by RyanHamilton | 2025-08-05 18:18:49+00:00
I evaluated a lot of chart frameworks 3 years ago before choosing echarts. We use it in our real time database visualization to to display charts at 10+ frames per second: https://www.timestored.com/pulse/ it's proved to be an excellent choice. There's been only one essential feature that I couldn't achieve and rechecking the github issue I see they merged a fix so I'm going to have to upgrade. Great work. Thanks.
by dang | 2025-08-05 18:19:08+00:00
Related. Others?

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44783566 - Aug 2025 (565 comments)

Clarifying recent headlines on gaming content - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760843 - Aug 2025 (24 comments)

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713414 - July 2025 (586 comments)

Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685011 - July 2025 (890 comments)

Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44679406 - July 2025 (250 comments)

Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44675697 - July 2025 (52 comments)

Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44667667 - July 2025 (323 comments)

Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636369 - July 2025 (162 comments)

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606184 - July 2025 (905 comments)
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-05 18:19:09+00:00
>I said that Tesla isn't free from incompetence despite its power.

Ok, and what is your point? Do you have a point or was that just a random observation related to nothing and implying nothing? Because it seems like your implication, given the comment you responded to, it's that Telsa's incompetence is not malicious in it's incompetence. That it is just one of those things that the powerful also have incompetence.

But Telsa decides where to put funding and resources, so if they put funding into covering up and hiding data, and they don't put funding into safety systems and testing that their "autopilot" engages and disengages properly, that is malice.

And again, if that is not the implication of your comment, please just let me know what your intent was, and I will correct myself.
by wagslane | 2025-08-05 18:19:18+00:00
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by thoop | 2025-08-05 18:19:18+00:00
The article says "We plan to release substantially larger improvements to our models in the coming weeks."

Sonnet 4 has definitely been the best model for our product's use case, but I'd be interested in trying Haiku 4 (or 4.1?) just due to the cost savings.

I'm surprised Anthropic hasn't mentioned anything about Haiku 4 yet since they released the other models.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-05 18:19:47+00:00
I'm not sure what's complicated about what you're describing? They offer two models and you can pay more for higher usage limits, then you can choose if you want to run it in your browser or in your terminal. Like what else would you expect?

Fwiw I have a Claude pro plan and have no interest in using other offerings so I'm not sure if they're super simple (one model, one interface, one pricing plan)?
by RGBCube | 2025-08-05 18:19:56+00:00
Sorry, I meant `&Vec<T, dyn Allocator>`.

And no, it is possible. Here is an example that does it with BufReader, which has T: ?Sized and uses it as a field: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Though it comes with a caveat that you can't take self by value, which is perfectly fine for this use case & is what a normal allocator-aware language does anyway.
by FabHK | 2025-08-05 18:19:57+00:00
The two main theorems of welfare economics show why free markets are great: a market equilibrium is pareto-optimal and vice versa.

The problem is that the conditions under which these theorems holds are completely unrealistic: perfect competition (which is predicated on decreasing economies of scale), so no monopolies, perfect information, no externalities, no public goods, etc.

Given that, it is imperative to regulate markets, and provide some goods through the public sector.
by tekacs | 2025-08-05 18:19:57+00:00
We can dream bigger: when music, images, video and 3d assets are far easier then treat them as primitives.

We can use these to create entire virtual worlds, games, software that incorporates these, and to incorporate creativity and media into infinitely more situations in real life.

We can create massive installations that are not a single image but an endless video with endless music, and then our hand turns to stabilizing and styling and aestheticizing those exactly in line with our (the artist's) preferences.

Romanticizing the idea that picking at a guitar is somehow 'more creative' than using a DAW to create incredibly complex and layered and beautiful music is the same thing that's happening here, even if the primitives seem 'scarier' and 'bigger'.

Plus, there are many situations in life that would be made infinitely more human by the introduction of our collective work in designing our aesthetic and putting it into the world, and encoding it into models. Installations and physical spaces can absolutely be more beautiful if we can produce more, taking the aesthetic(s) that we've built so far and making them dynamic to spaces.

Also for learning: as a young person learning to draw and sing and play music and so many other things, I would have tremendously appreciated the ability to generate and follow subtle, personalized generation - to take a photo of a scene in front of me and have the AI first sketch it loosely so that I can copy it, then escalate and escalate until I can do something bigger.
by viccis | 2025-08-05 18:20:00+00:00
The US doesn't generally do new things anymore. We just shuffle money around into peoples' pockets. So we have plenty of societal wealth to do something like this, even given how large and rural many areas are, but we just don't. Because no one gets reelected because they rolled out bandwidth. They get reelected based on however their party is faring in the battle of the spectacle going on nationally.
by apparent | 2025-08-05 18:20:02+00:00
> Satellite is not and will never be a replacement for fiber.

Plenty of suburban homes don't have fiber availability and are just fine. I'd rather have 3 coax companies competing for my business than 1 fiber option. I just really don't care that much about speeds above what coax (and Starlink) have to offer. Honestly, I'm on the lowest tier offered by my cable company, and I'd go lower if it would cut my monthly bill by a commensurate amount.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-05 18:20:02+00:00
Well, I am British and have studied a tiny bit of my own country's history... so I do.

But consider who in the world really loves the British. You don't need much time to make a list. Or even a paper and pen.

The main difference between the British Empire and the American Empire is that the American Empire is being led by a man who believes tariffs are a tax on foreign countries and retail prices can be cut by more than 100% and remain positive.
Show HN: I built a tool to replace capcut audio transcription
by correa_brian | 2025-08-05 18:20:23+00:00
I originally added this to my site to speed up my video editing process. Last year I started a youtube channel and for some of my longer videos it's annoying to rely on youtube or capcut to transcribe when Whisper is open source. Capcut also recently updated their T&Cs to say they own your content if you use their app, so I cancelled my subscription.

Another use-case I have is recording my claude prompts as audio, transcribing them, and then pasting them into my terminal. I mostly work on the CLI (claude, ffmpeg, whisper), but I wanted to make a browser version.

Not reinventing the wheel here, just using Huggingface/Xenova Transformers.js to run Whisper in the browser with a background worker.

You can see a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICLOvAq9vKE

If you're interested in building this yourself, there's a bunch of examples on Huggingface https://huggingface.co/collections/Xenova/transformersjs-dem...
by wpm | 2025-08-05 18:20:43+00:00
> it says my trip time will be extended by 66%

Yeah 66% is a higher number, so it seems worse if you literally don't think about it at all.

Its 4 minutes. If its that important your car would have lights and sirens on it.

And it isn't a bad example, unless things are quite different in Finland, the vast majority of car trips taken in the US are under 6 miles (~10km). If you're taking a 40 minute trip on crowded, surface streets in a dense city and not going on a motorway, that's your choice, and frankly, quite selfish of you to not expect to go slow. I frankly don't care how long it takes you to get somewhere in a huge car through a city going faster means endangering other people.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-05 18:20:44+00:00
Intel is not profitable. They have negative eps and negative free cash flow. The cash flows from existing products can't be considered in isolation. If their R+D and Capex investments stopped, the sum total of the existing+legacy cash flows wouldn't nearly cover Intel's substantial liabilities.

They also have 50 billion dollars in debt, and their cash flow situation has gotten so desperate that slices of future fab revenue have been pawned off to private equity, who now has a senior claim on the assets (as do the bondholders).

An equity stake and Intel is not something that a TSMC would want without coercion. It's just not a very attractive place to be an equity holder.

>Get rid of some dead weight, write off the bad investments, improve their foundry business and their value easily grows multiples of what it currently is.

As if it was that easy. The company has now been through multiple CEOs attempting to mix up these ideas in various ways. The last CEO tried to do a Hail Mary to improve the foundry business, but the balance sheet can't support it. Now the new CEO is essentially writing off those investments and putting them on the back burner. Considering that, getting rid of the dead weight will be difficult, considering the company itself is largely dead weight... The quality of their employees is not good, or at least not nearly at the level that needs to be (18A yields are alarmingly low, and that's the critical product that basically determines the company's future. 14a is already looking more and more distant despite it being the purported savior not even a year ago).

Realistically, their financial situation puts them right at the precipice of needing to shed the fabs, and/or permanently continue down the path of more Brookstone-like partnerships where they can spread the burden (which then caps the equity holder upside).

There is nothing "easy" about the current situation. Maybe without the 50 billion in debt, but nearly all of remedial paths are running into nasty balance sheet constraints. There's no more room to spend quarters rejiggering the thing.
by kridsdale3 | 2025-08-05 18:21:18+00:00
In the "first person standing in a room" demo, it's cool to see 100% optical (trained from recorded footage from cameras) graphics, including non-rectilinear distortion of parallel lines as you'd get from a wide-angle lens and not a high-FOV game engine. But still the motion of the human protagonist and the camera angle were 100% trained on how characters and controllers work in video games.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-05 18:21:25+00:00
>I'm kinda of shocked that chip & many tech companies play ball..

Have you heard of this story? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...

The only telecom in America to resist turning on a domestic eavesdropping firehose tap for the government, was pounded to the edge of bankruptcy.

Intel and TSMC are both strategically important and favored-status corporations for the going concern of the United States, and large swaths of the federal appartatus are invested in their success, contracts, global projection, etc. That comes with a price. Naive to think they are independently operated companies.
by throwup238 | 2025-08-05 18:21:29+00:00
Does it really matter? Does TSMC have a choice either way?

They’re a globally important company but they’re not ASML and they’re stuck between two superpowers and the threat of potential total war. They’ve had the misfortune of being sucked into geopolitical maelstrom and those tides are far too strong for any company to resist.
by e-topy | 2025-08-05 18:21:37+00:00
Instead of using a new PNG standard, I'd still rather use JPEG XL just because it has progressive decoding. And you know, whilst looking like png, being as small as webp, supporting HDR and animations, and having even faster decoding speed.

https://dennisforbes.ca/articles/jpegxl_just_won_the_image_w...
by saubeidl | 2025-08-05 18:21:44+00:00
I also don't think you necessarily have to get rid of a market if you change ownership structures.

Personally, I like the idea of worker's self-management. [0] (tl;dr only legal form for companies with > 5 employees is worker-owned coops with elected board)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_self-management
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-08-05 18:22:01+00:00
This is only true sometimes. You can, in many cases, create a functional monopoly and force people to pay you for their essentials. You can provide them a useful product, but deny them a better alternative that would make you less money (the old super strong drinking glass example). You can make use of the fact that value doesn’t mean “rationally determined to be of utility” to sell people things that are damaging to them for huge amounts of money. “Value provision” just means “you give me money for any reason,” and there’s a lot of shitty reasons people have to fork over their money in capitalism.
by rohit89 | 2025-08-05 18:22:36+00:00
Are they training only on video game data though? I would be surprised when its so easy to generate proper training data for this.

It is interesting to think about. This kind of training and model will only capture macro effects. You cannot use this to simulate what happens in a biological cell or tweak a gravity parameter and see how plants grow etc. For a true world model, you'd need to train models that can simulate at microscopic scales as well and then have it all integrated into a bigger model or something.

As an aside, I would love to see something like this for the human body. My belief is that we will only be able to truly solve human health if we have a way of simulating the human body.
by nirav72 | 2025-08-05 18:22:37+00:00
I don't exactly have the ideal hardware to run locally - but just ran the 20b in LMStudio with a 3080 Ti (12gb vram) with some offloading to CPU. Ran couple of quick code generation tests. On average about 20t/sec. But response quality was very similar or on-par with chatgpt o3 for the same code it outputted. So its not bad.
by SequoiaHope | 2025-08-05 18:23:43+00:00
You don’t ask people to speak how you want, you simply only invite people who already have a history of speaking how you want. This phenomena is explained in detail I. Noam Chomsky’s work around mass media (eg NY Times doesn’t tell their editors what to do exactly, but only hire editors who already want to say what NY Times wants, or have a certain world view). The same can be applied to social media reviews. Invite the person who gives glowing reviews all the time.
by stephencanon | 2025-08-05 18:24:03+00:00
"Only slightly faster in decompression time."

m5 vs -19 is nearly 2.5x faster to decompress; given that most data is decompressed many many more times (often thousands or millions of times more, often by devices running on small batteries) than it is compressed, that's an enormous win, not "only slightly faster".

The way in which it might not be worth it is the larger size, which is a real drawback.
by annaescher2 | 2025-08-05 18:24:15+00:00
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by tb_technical | 2025-08-05 18:24:21+00:00
I am not the person you're replying to, but I am also concerned about this issue.

This is a concern for people who have a lot of digital content under Amazon's umbrella. I have hundreds of audiobooks, ebooks, music, and movies - and if I lose my Amazon account I lose access to hundreds if not thousands of dollars of content.

As for trying to constrain Amazon to play fair, and treat the peasants nicely? Good luck.

Amazon is a rival to Google in terms of content delivered to people, and, like Google, Amazon performs a lot of services for the federal government. They have lobbyists, legal teams, and even politicians in their pocket.

Your subjective experience, or a lack of interest from legislators, does not mean these issues do not exist.
by addaon | 2025-08-05 18:24:23+00:00
> Be warned, there are fraudulent sellers on Amazon

If you're one of today's 10,000 learning this for the first time, congratulations.

For everyone else, this is a reminder that you probably shouldn't use Amazon for anything that goes in or on your body, that has properties that change over time and use (this case), that has value high enough to be worth counterfeiting, or that you want to be usable within the first round or two with customer support.
by danthom | 2025-08-05 18:24:32+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback! (Full disclosure, I work at Stytch and led the launch of SAML Shield.)

> the docs were helpful and it’s great they provide a bad saml response to test with https://samlshield.com/examples/unsigned_saml_response.txt

Glad you noticed that! Including a bad SAML response was a small detail I hoped would make it easier for developers to validate their integration,

> * if you use the proxy ( https://samlshield.com/docs/get-started-proxy ), it won’t be able to check encrypted SAML assertions (how could it, it won’t have the key)

Absolutely and that’s a key limitation of the proxy model. Since the proxy doesn’t have the decryption keys, encrypted assertions need to be handled inside the app. I just updated the security coverage page to call that out explicitly!

> * replay attacks better protected against by using unique identifiers and invalidating when you’ve seen one before (they just check for time based validity). But I get that’s hard to do with a proxy!

Totally fair. Today, we rely on timestamp-based validity checks, but we know that doesn’t fully mitigate replay risk. For the managed version, we plan to track assertion IDs server-side to detect replays. It’s trickier to solve for the OSS version since we don’t manage state, but we’re exploring lightweight approaches there too.

Appreciate your support and agree, SAML isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Our hope is that SAML Shield makes it easier for teams to secure their stack without having to become SAML experts or wait on upstream patches!