MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by baby_souffle | 2025-08-10 17:00:18+00:00
> We have a bunch of ptz outdoor units supported by Thingino. Check out thingino.com for the full list of supported devices!

Compared to when I last looked ~ a year ago... yeah, the list certainly has gotten longer.

For anybody else that clicks, all of the outdoor cameras are all WiFi based, though. The dream of "at least 2K, PTZ, PoE and rain-proof" is still a pipe-dream :(.
by diatone | 2025-08-10 17:00:33+00:00
For one - I’d say scoped API tokens that prevent messing with resources across logical domains (eg prod vs nonprod, distinct github repos, etc) is best practice in general. Blowing up a resource with a broadly scoped token isn’t a failure mode unique to LLMs.

edit: I don’t have personal experience around spending limits but I vaguely recall them being useful for folks who want to set up AWS resources and swing for the fences, in startups without thinking too deeply about the infra. Again this isn’t a failure mode unique to LLMs although I can appreciate it not mapping perfectly to your scenario above

edit #2: fwict the LLM specific context of your scenario above is: providing examples, setting up API access somehow (eg maybe invoking a CLI?). The rest to me seems like good old software engineering
by geob01 | 2025-08-10 17:00:35+00:00
Location: EU, EEST Bucharest time zone

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies:

C++ 17, Python 3, SOLID, TDD, Linux, REST APIs, Docker, Git, Protocols, Flask, Django AI: Claude Code, Cursor, RAG, Prompt Engineering

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pnVituSV1qz0hFUMajTj38bi...

Email: (Check Résumé/CV)

About: Software engineer with expertise in C++, Python, and web technologies (14+ years of full time software development experience). Proven track record in designing, developing, and deploying scalable backend systems and embedded applications. Passionate about writing clean, efficient code. Language agnostic, open to multiple tech stacks.
by geob01 | 2025-08-10 17:00:45+00:00
SEEKING WORK

Location: EU, EEST Bucharest time zone

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies:

C++ 17, Python 3, Linux, OOP, TDD, Jenkins AI: Claude Code, Cursor, RAG, Prompt Engineering

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pnVituSV1qz0hFUMajTj38bi...

Email: (Check Résumé/CV)

About: Software engineer with expertise in C++, Python (14+ years of full time software development experience). Proven track record in designing, developing, and deploying scalable backend systems and embedded applications. Passionate about writing clean, efficient code. Language agnostic, open to multiple tech stacks.
by darthrupert | 2025-08-10 17:01:26+00:00
I suggest Cosmic Desktop (currently at alpha7) for anyone looking for a hyprland -kind of experience but with a bit more desktop feeling.

It's already quite stable even though it's an alpha version, possibly thanks to being implemented in Rust. I've been using it daily on my personal laptop since its release in April. No big problems, some missing features and tweakability though.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-10 17:02:34+00:00
Probably this. You would not want to stand out in any way. If you were such a slacker that it reflected badly on your boss, or if you were so productive that you became a threat to others, things could go badly. So your goal was to just exist, be a nobody, never challenge authority, never have a controversial opinion, just go home to your little cement apartment on the 5th floor and drink vodka. Sounds wonderful.
by mjevans | 2025-08-10 17:03:10+00:00
I don't think I'd be happy in that context. Medical technology failed 'us' and at that point the body has failed too. Time ran out and we did not slay the dragon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY CGP Grey : Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
by justbuynothing | 2025-08-10 17:03:53+00:00
I like this idea a lot. Been working a ton on the site to get it to where it is today and make updates based on user feedback.

AI has been helping me create product images. Right now I have it limited to 150 products on the site at the time. I originally had 1K+ and realized that cloudinary is very expensive. It provides the best user experience but had to cut back a bit for now to not break my own wallet.
by notjoemama | 2025-08-10 17:05:05+00:00
That's a bingo! Christoph Waltz is just a great actor.

I'm building an app in my stack with fairly common requirements. There are a few code examples that cover requirements but none that cover our specific scenario. After searching the web myself, I asked 3 different AI models. All they did was regurgitate the closest public GitHub example, lacking the use case I was trying to do. Solving this problem can only be done by understanding the abstraction of the alteration in design.

These things can't actually think. And now they're allowed to be agentic.

In some ways they're just glorified search engines but there's a geopolitical sprint to see who can get them to mock "thinking" enough to fool everybody.

Out of ego and greed, everything will be turned over to this machine, and that will be the end of humanity; not humans...humanity.
by vunderba | 2025-08-10 17:05:15+00:00
Why does this reference Lovable at all? The tagline for this project is "Clone and recreate any website as a modern React app in seconds" and requires a FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in order to perform the necessary scraping.

Lovable is more of a self-contained LLM chat which creates a new react site with optional supabase integration.
by derektank | 2025-08-10 17:05:39+00:00
There are a lot of skills which I haven't developed because I rely on external machines to handle it for me; memorization, fire-starting, navigation. On net, my life is better for it. LLMs may or may not be as effective at replacing code development as books have been at replacing memorization and GPS has been at replacing navigation, but eventually some tool will be and I don't think I'll be worse off for developing other skills.
by xienze | 2025-08-10 17:05:53+00:00
> Southern states generally have no set minimum wage, so they mostly default to the $7.25/hr set in 2009.

You may be shocked to learn this, but just because they follow the minimum wage doesn’t mean companies are _actually_ paying minimum wage. Even in my southeastern state, McDonald’s is paying $12/hour. Why? Because there’s no takers, even in a LCOL area, at $7.25/hour! That’s why all this handwringing over the federal is so stupid. Local labor markets will dictate what an acceptable wage is.
by igorkraw | 2025-08-10 17:06:17+00:00
I have a tiny tiny podcast with a friend where we try to break down what parts of the hype are bullshit (muck) and which kernels of truth are there, if any, startedpartially as a place to scream into the void, partially to help the people who are anxious about AGI or otherwise bring harmed by the hype. I think we have a long way to go in terms of presentation (breaking down very technical terms to an audience that is used to vague-hype around "AI" is hard), but we cite our sources, maybe it'll be interesting gpr you to check out out shownotes

https://kairos.fm/muckraikers/

I personally struggle with Gary Marcus critiques because whenever they are about "making ai work" it goes into neurosymbploc "AI" which o have technical disagreements with, and I have _other_ arguments for the points he sometimes raises which I think are more rigorous, so it's difficult to be roughly in the same camp - but overall I'm happy someone with reach is calling BS ad well.
by ecocentrik | 2025-08-10 17:07:16+00:00
Dr Dre is a professional poet and a very successful one by any standard. His whole stock-in-trade was American urban colloquialisms most of which can be traced back to English rural and working class and predate the colonization of the Americas. The early development of English "prestige grammar" and word usage dates back to the court of William the Conqueror and the reintroduction of romance linguistic influence on Anglo-Saxon English that lead to the development of Middle English by the 13th Century. What you understand as English "prestige grammar" today is a moving target, consistently evolving but still full of contradictions and single-case rules. Many popular European languages today have been modified to exclude these linguistic anomalies, making them more consistent, less error prone and easier to learn. I expect the same thing will be done to the English language over the next century.
by ComputerGuru | 2025-08-10 17:07:45+00:00
Not very rigorous or scientific, honestly, I would say it's just clickbait spam with some pretty graphs. Everything on twitter is now a "deep dive". No info on how the 10M "random examples" were generated and how that prevents the model from collapsing around variations of the same output. Others already mentioned how the "classification" of output by coding language is bunk with a good explanation for how Perl can come out on top even if it's not actually Perl, but I was struck by OP saying "(btw, from my analysis Java and Kotlin should be way higher. classifier may have gone wrong)" but then merrily continuing to use the data.

Personally, I expect more rigor from any analysis and would hold myself to a higher standard. If I see anomalous output at a stage, I don't think "hmm looks like one particular case may be bad but the rest is fine" but rather "something must have gone wrong and the entire output/methodology is unusable garbage" until I figure out exactly how and why it went wrong. And 99 times out of a 100 it wasn't the one case (that happened to be languages OP was familiar with) but rather something fundamentally incorrect in the approach that means the data isn't usable and doesn't tell you anything.
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-10 17:08:15+00:00
I disagree. GP is laying is laying out reasonable scenarios that are a few dropped/implied words away from the otherwise incoherent ones. For my part, this one is very grating to my ears:

"Try and tell the truth"

Since it clearly should be "try to tell the truth"

However this one, while similar in construction, doesn't actually sound nearly as bad:

"Try and finish the assignment"

It can be fixed the same way ("try to finish") but it also accept GP's form too, which would be "try (to work hard) and (see if you can) finish the assignment". As I say, for whatever reason this second example sounds much more reasonable to me— I think at least in part my brain is much more accepting of a word that feels dropped than one that's misused.
by k310 | 2025-08-10 17:08:18+00:00
The article seems to say that just as AI is challenging search, it may introduce ads and inducements to buy stuff, the same "feature" that turned search from a source of information into a marketplace heavily front-loaded with ads and product placement, and a bear to use for factual information.

Enshittification?

People as buying robots. Great. When all that's asked for is information, the masters of "frictionless" turn even that task, unimaginable in even my own past, into a detour to "The Internet Shopping Mall".
by Bender | 2025-08-10 17:08:39+00:00
This reminds of tactics by the Japanese mafia. The Yakuza managed to get porn outlawed even showing genitals so they would have a monopoly on it. I don't know if that is still the case but it sounds like someone in the AI world liked the idea.

I see this behavior on Youtube as well. People are not supposed to upload porn but Youtube shorts are almost nothing but cleavage, butts, camel toe and I do not log in to Youtube nor have I ever searched for that on Youtube. There are a myriad of places to get unlimited porn without even using a browser.
by stassats | 2025-08-10 17:09:29+00:00
> changes in the Qt project made the technique used by the Qt4 bindings impractical for Qt5 or Qt6 - at least that was my understanding when I looked into it.

It was hard to do reasonably with qt4 already. The best solution would be to support the C++ ABI natively, but that's never going to happen.
by motoxpro | 2025-08-10 17:09:46+00:00
I don't think that's true. It's not that has zero value, it's that it has zero monetizable value.

Hackernews is free. The posts are valuable to me and I guess my posts are valuable to me, but I wouldn't pay for it and I definitely don't expect to get paid.

For YC, you are producing content that is "valuable" that brings people to their site, which they monetize through people signing up for their program. They do this with no regard for what your preferences are when they choose companies to invest in.

They sell ads (Launch, Hire, etc.) against the attention that you create. You ARE the product on HackerNews, and you're OK with it. As am I.

Same as OpenAI, I dont need to monetize them training on my data, and I am happy for you to as I would like to use the services for free.
by KronisLV | 2025-08-10 17:10:34+00:00
> And one of the best parts is, I've never had a Debian system break without it being my fault in some way.

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/debian-updates-are-broken

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/debian-and-grub-are-broken

Then again, I’ve had most software occasionally break, I’m thankful that Debian exists.
by kbolino | 2025-08-10 17:10:53+00:00
Is the problem truly down to physics or is it down to the stovepiped and conservative attitudes of PC part manufacturers and their trade groups like JEDEC? (Not that consumers don't play a role here too).

The only essential part of sockets vs solder is the metal-metal contacts. The size of the modules and the distance from the CPU/GPU are all adjustable parameters if the will exists to change them.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-08-10 17:11:11+00:00
It's not just you. I've seen several news articles with stories of people who were pulled in by AI's human-like responses. They start asking it questions about themselves and then believing its answers...

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/i-feel-like-i-m-going-...

ChatGPT rolled back an earlier model because it was too "flattering" to users -- which basically led to it agreeing with even their most dangerous delusions, ultimately encouraging them. So the AI companies are aware of the problem. It's just not clear how to fix it.

Personally, I'd like to see less emphasis on "conversations with AI". (It's not an entity with a personality, it just looks like one.) Even if AI can "converse" -- it shouldn't. It shouldn't be used that way, and it shouldn't be promoted that way.
by Twey | 2025-08-10 17:11:29+00:00
> I think Kotlin nails it: val, var, fun. Note all three are monosyllable, unlike const and fn!

At least in my pronunciation, all five of those are monosyllabic! (/kQnst/, /f@n/).

(Nice to see someone agree with me on minimizing syllable count, though — I definitely find it easier to chunk[1] fewer syllables.)

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)

The use of Ruby block parameters for loops in a language without first-class blocks/lambdas is a bit weird to me. I might have preferred a syntax that looks more like normal variable binding.
by xrd | 2025-08-10 17:11:40+00:00
This is exactly the kind of comment I was hoping for. Thanks!

But, I'm unclear that this is very cost effective. For example, is this the kind of device you mean?

https://twenty7tech.com/product/pots-adapater/

That's $300 and then requires a SIM card as well, right? So, let's say I use a cheap one from Tello that is $6/mo.

That's still a lot more than using Plivo/Twilio with a SIP phone, right?
by Glyptodon | 2025-08-10 17:12:08+00:00
I agree everything people might want done isn't worth the cost of having a human do it. But I don't see why such jobs should exist. I also don't think the base level of welfare needs to "idyllic," but enough for everyone to act as good citizens without being trapped in cursed doom cycles of impoverishment.

In general, though, it wouldn't matter what the minimum wage is if everyone had a sufficient level of general welfare without working...

Which goes to show that rather than minimum wage we ought to have a welbeing floor, perhaps with UBI, perhaps based on keeping key costs, like food, housing, healthcare, and education minimal.
by markerz | 2025-08-10 17:12:47+00:00
MCPs are the most basic solution possible. Shoving the tool definitions into a vector store and having a subagent search for relevant tools, then another subagent to run the tools would greatly reduce impact on context. I think it’d work in theory, but it’s so annoying to have to do something like this. We’re still in a world where we have some building blocks rather than full fledged toolboxes.
by lossolo | 2025-08-10 17:12:51+00:00
> China (at least its current incarnation with Xi) doesn't care about soft power

That’s just wrong. Xi has explicitly ordered cadres to "tell China’s story well"[1] and build "discourse power" that’s textbook soft-power ambition. Surveys show it’s working, China jumped to #3 in 2024 and #2 in 2025 on brand finance’s global soft power index.

1. https://www.iseas.edu.sg/articles-commentaries/iseas-perspec...

> We already have piracy coming back with the Houthis; China didn't join the alliance with other countries, defended their own ships and ignored everyone else.

This is NOT piracy. Under UNCLOS Art. 101, piracy requires acts "for private ends" on the high seas. The Houthi campaign is openly political/armed-conflict behavior, so it doesn’t meet the piracy definition (even though it looks like it to laypeople).
by losvedir | 2025-08-10 17:13:27+00:00
> Note all three are monosyllable, unlike const and fn!

I'm not sure if I'm parsing this right, but is the implication that "const" is not monosyllabic? It certainly is for me. How else do people say it? I get "fn" because people might say "eff enn" but I don't see what the equivalent for const would be.
by felixgallo | 2025-08-10 17:14:21+00:00
Paraphrasing the late great Joe Armstrong, the great thing about Erlang as opposed to just about any other language is that every year the same program gets twice as fast as last year.

Manycores hasn't succeeded because frankly the programming model of essentially every other language is stuck in 1950. I, the program, am the entire and sole thing running on this computer, and must manually manage resources to match its capabilities. Hence async/await, mutable memory, race checkers, function coloring, all that nonsense. If half the effort spent straining to get the ghost PDP-11 ruling all the programming languages had been spent on cleaning up the (several) warts in the actor model and its few implementations, we'd all be driving Waymos on Jupiter by now.
by godelski | 2025-08-10 17:14:48+00:00
Passion can show itself in many ways. Why did you pick programming of all things? There's something there, right? If you can dig into a topic, that's a form of passion. If you're willing to put in hard work, that's a form of passion. These may not be the same thing as the person who gets excited about these problems, but something did drive you. And no one is so excited about coding that they are never dispassionate and never frustrated. The thing you're looking for is why should I trust that you have these skills? If there's nothing you can rant about, then I'd find that odd, even if you see it as a paycheck.
by wtallis | 2025-08-10 17:15:14+00:00
> Mac Mini with 32GB of RAM, 512 GB storage: $1,199.00

You're looking at the wrong Mac Mini. The model with the M4 Pro is the right comparison, on account of also having a 256-bit memory bus giving substantially higher bandwidth than a typical desktop computer. The M4 Pro model doesn't have a 32GB option.

The M4 Max (not available in a Mac Mini) has an even larger memory bus, giving it far more bandwidth than either the M4 Pro or the AMD Strix Halo part used by Framework.
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by mjevans | 2025-08-10 17:16:02+00:00
Exactly why healthcare should be just one more part of the standard social contract. We the people should collectively pay (single payer) for everyone to have the required basic healthcare in bulk, without the stress of billing, collections, etc.

Same idea as police, fire, basic education. We want a properly educated, health, safe workforce. That's the basis of a healthy, productive, strong society.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-08-10 17:16:30+00:00
> You clearly agree with my upthread point,

I do not. There is no ongoing civil war. The vast majority of Taiwan (except for the small minority composed of the fleeing KMT) had nothing to do with the civil war, so it is incorrect to say that the people who fought that civil war make the chips produced in Taiwan.

> you're just going blue in the face yelling about a technicality regarding what you perceive is my alignment with whoever your enemies in domestic Taiwanese politics are

No, I am fully aware (and have been since the beginning) that you have no conception of Taiwanese politics. I'm correcting your incorrect statements about China and Taiwan's relationship to it.

You have a mistaken belief that Taiwan is mostly descendants and supporters of the KMT. It is not, even after the suppression of other political groups during martial law. Unlike the KMT, the current dominant parties have never aspired to rule China.
by umanwizard | 2025-08-10 17:16:52+00:00
> In the UK when someone "corrects" language what they are very often doing is engaging in class signalling.

Same is true in the US, though ethnicity is in the mix too. White and black Americans are historically distinct cultural groups which speak different dialects (though obviously, since the end of slavery and segregation the groups are mixing more and more). It is no coincidence that varieties spoken by white people ended up as the “standard”.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-08-10 17:17:46+00:00
Lex Fridman did an interview with Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. I think DHH actually keeps his AI in a separate window, and insists on retyping the suggestions it displays. (The act of typing the code somehow plants it more deeply in his memory, and he finds it more education.)

From the interview I got the impression that AI can help you learn or rob you or learning, depending on how you use it. Like, you can go fast or you can go slower-but-more-educational... Depends on what you're after, I guess.
by augusto-moura | 2025-08-10 17:18:13+00:00
Battleship sounds like a good analogy, but is very different because you don't have other options to "secure your ship" besides obscurity. If you had other options, let's say a sonar or moving your ship, they would definitely be used along with obscurity.

Besides, the time to scan the whole board is too time consuming in a battleship game, but scanning the whole internet on the other hand only take a few minutes[1]

[1]: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan