MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hearsathought | 2025-08-11 15:44:33+00:00
> It created dump truck driver / maintenance / engineer / safety / fuel supply / parts factoring / etc jobs.

Those are primarily intellectual/service jobs.

> I wouldn't say that's an example of creating zero jobs.

I never said it didn't create zero jobs. Reread my comment. I said it created more intellectual/service jobs. It's the first line of my comment.
by bobthepanda | 2025-08-11 15:44:42+00:00
Is that the fault of the parent, or is the state trying to cover up incredibly bad transportation and land use planning? Kids should just be able to walk to stores without getting hit by cars.

It is basically crazy how car obsession has turned America into such an unsafe place for children, and the statistics show it;

> In 1969, 48 percent of children 5 to 14 years of age usually walked or bicycled to school. In 2009, 13 percent of children 5 to 14 years of age usually walked or bicycled to school.

http://guide.saferoutesinfo.org/introduction/the_decline_of_...
by autotune | 2025-08-11 15:44:44+00:00
It's impossible to develop open source software without having a credit/debit card and cell phone present. Feels more like a scam to me than not but I understand it from an operator's perspective; you have to prevent fraud. From a contributor's perspective who had their life derailed for more than a year, it's a pain to get everything back up and running as it was before.
by bluGill | 2025-08-11 15:44:46+00:00
> You could fit a very respectably battery in the space where the fuel tank and exhaust go

You can fit some battery there, but liquid fuels have a much higher energy density and so I wouldn't call it respectable. I have know people who converted a car to electric, and finding places to stuff batteries was the major challenge, they did the fuel tank of course, but then went looking for any other unused empty space. In the 1980s old trucks were favored because under the bed there was a lot of empty space to work with (even then those old lead-acid batteries didn't give much range)
by collingreen | 2025-08-11 15:45:05+00:00
We're getting to the point where the thing making Minority report look unreasonable is that they had three (extremely drugged, troubled) humans making decisions as a consensus instead of just using an algorithm or a police officer's vibes. Nobody really doing these things today would slow down enough for that or risk someone having empathy and derailing the whole operation.

The last ten years have stuck out as a continuous loop of "this is so messed up it wouldn't be a believable/good movie plot".
by Havoc | 2025-08-11 15:45:25+00:00
Of course it’ll create new jobs. Already has - see teams of people doing training runs and a whole bunch of AI SaaS and consulting services etc

The risk is more that the quantity is less than what is removed. And that the people losing jobs aren’t suitable to retrain. Retraining say truck drivers as data scientists is an uphill battle.

ie substantial risk of specific people getting left behind
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-11 15:45:38+00:00
This isn’t the only such instance. There have been other people who were victims of invasive CPS for kids playing in their own yard, on their own street, walking to school, biking around town, or whatever.

Parents these days are fearful to an unhealthy degree to begin with, but having to deal with CPS, who may subject you to repeated visits and bureaucratic reports or at worst take your kids away, is making the parents have even more fear of giving kids the slightest independence or hint of a real childhood.

Remember if CPS shows up at your door, you don’t need to talk to them. You can tell them firmly to get off your property and to not return. If they insist, record them, tell them to identify themselves with ID, tell them they’re trespassing and you’ll press charges, and to leave. They have no legal right to be there or speak to you without a warrant and a police officer. The point of them making you talk to them is so they can make a big deal out of SOMETHING you say or SOMETHING they see so they can do paperwork that justifies their ability to invade your life. Don’t let them. There are videos on YouTube about how to deal with them.
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-11 15:45:39+00:00
As I understand the argument, dnh44 said "These are some of the things I do to try and get good results:" and ModernMech said it seems like spellcasting. ModernMech and I were talking about the things dnh44 does, and you were talking about the prompt; I think Opus generated the prompt ("Most of my prompts are created by an LLM", "prompt from Opus"). Are you reading it as the input dnh44 personally wrote into Opus?

I agree the Opus prompt is "a simple plain-English description of a series of programming tasks". Where did it come from? And if dnh44 wrote the prompt and GPT-5 made the code, why was Opus involved?
by mjsir911 | 2025-08-11 15:46:11+00:00
Sure, but the primary difference between what you're talking about is ecosystem lock-in vs file lockin.

both can be postured as a labor-saving measure, exposing user data to users is an additional burden on developers. Designing an extension system that is easy for other products to use is an additional burden on developers (& developer relations! And marketing! Other products won't just adopt your extension system willy-nilly)

But switching from obsidian to something else is so much easier on a file-level than say, google docs or whatever other super-proprietary system that's being used.

I'm very wary about adjusting my workflows to depend on flimsy or proprietary ecosystems. I don't really use vim with any plugins. I don't really use obsidian with any plugins, although I'm slowly trying to ease up to using a couple that would be big QOL improvements.

Striving for standard interfaces/workflows is a good thing, but I don't think emacs is that. vim isn't that. They've just cemented themselves as the de-facto.

I'm using vim bindings in obsidian, for what it's worth. I'm not re-learning a whole other set of keyboard shortcuts (although obsidian's is quite lacking)
by ivape | 2025-08-11 15:46:40+00:00
Software industry needs a healthy shake out anyway. Too many people came in for the money. The current shake out involves either stunting people inside vibe coding such that they are functionally retarded, or straight up leave them long-term unemployed. Honestly, the only reason anyone would stick around is because this is all they know or like. I would not fuck around with this career if you ain’t about that life. But this goes for all, so all the project managers, and basically anyone that acted as middle-men between text editor and production, they all need to go. It’s going to be a nice trim job, better for everyone.
by wk_end | 2025-08-11 15:46:52+00:00
The nature of the censorship is that it isn't targeted at who's seeing posts, but rather at the posts themselves. So it's not necessarily the case that the Israelis are treating different countries differently; it could simply be that Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine are all producing the largest amount of content related to the war given their proximity, involvement, and interest in the conflict.
by showerst | 2025-08-11 15:46:52+00:00
I think programming is a good example profession.

For a simple model, let's say you hire programmers for three reasons:

1. Because you have (X) work to get done to run your business. Once that work is done, there is no more work to do.

2. Because they get work done that makes more money than you pay them, but with diminishing marginal returns. So the first programmer is worth 20x their salary, the 20th is worth 1.01x their salary.

3. Because you have some new idea to build, and have enough capital to gamble on it. If it succeeds before you run out of money, you'll revert to (1) or (2).

Let's assume AI comes along that means a programmer can do 4x the work. If most programmers are in the first bucket, then you only need 1/4 as many programmers and most will be fired.

If most programmers are in the second bucket, then suddenly there's _much_ more stuff that can be built (and money made) per-programmer. So businesses will be incentivized to hire many more programmers.

For programmers in the third bucket, our AI makes more likely to get built in time, thus ups the odds of success a little.

How you think the market is structured decides how you think AI will effect job creation and destruction.
by const_cast | 2025-08-11 15:47:01+00:00
Debian IS more cautious with dependencies, in that you won't get hidden dependencies that aren't in the repos.

I don't want to install an app that downloads and executes 500 node packages that I don't know what they do. Those packages should already be vetted and in Debian. If not, then I'm not interested.

Side stepping the distro repos for dependencies for software in the repos leads to unexpected behavior.
by taude | 2025-08-11 15:47:28+00:00
well, he was arguing that it's not worse than 99% of the human slop that gets posted, so where do you draw the line?

* well crafted, human only? * Well crafted, whether human or AI? * Poorly crafted, human * well crafted, AI only * Poorly crafted, AI only * Just junk?

etc.

I think people will intuitively get a feel for when content is only AI generated. If people spend time writing a prompt that doesn't make it so wordy, and has personality, and it OK, then fine.

Also, big opportunity going to be out there for AI detected content, whether in forums, coming in inmail inboxes, on your corp file share, etc...
by wnevets | 2025-08-11 15:47:28+00:00
> I saw an article floating around about a couple that were prosecuted for letting their child cross a street alone to go to a store, but it was actually a highway and one of their other kids had died on that highway a few years ago.

Anyone that suggest agencies like CPS are overflowing with time and money to target random parents over minor things like letting a child cross a street isn't a serious person.
by o11c | 2025-08-11 15:47:33+00:00
It was very common to be limited to a significantly lower speed. Wikipedia sucks, so I dug up the actual v.34 standard:

33.6 kbit/s (a later addition) 31.2 kbit/s (a later addition) 28.8 kbit/s (the theoretical maximum for most people; I remember being jealous of people who actually got it) 26.4 kbit/s (what my internet usually hit in practice) 24.0 kbit/s (I remember seeing this) 21.6 kbit/s (apparently this was very common, though I don't remember seeing it) 19.2 kbit/s 16.8 kbit/s 14.4 kbit/s (quite possible) (lower bitrates are also documented; this is all multiples of 2.4 kbit/s)

Also, remember to assume about 10 bits per byte of actual data, since there is various protocol overhead.
by indigodaddy | 2025-08-11 15:47:57+00:00
Not sure if I'd want Claude doing whatever on a production vps/node, but I like the idea of a way to use Claude Code on the go/wherever you are. I'm going to setup KASM workspaces on my free OCI server and see how it works there.

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/kasm
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-11 15:47:59+00:00
That would, again, mean not engaging with most countries on Earth, because most of them are, or have at least some qualities of, being ethnostates, religious states, or some other combination of putting one group above another in society based on immutable characteristics or characteristics of conscience.

If you're not Han in the PRC, they're going to try to "normalize" you in the direction of acting like you're Han. If you're not ethnic Russian, same with you in Russia. The only way to keep the former Yugoslavia from continuing to be a bloodbath was by essentially setting up ethnostates. And, yes, all of them use or have used violence to enforce these conditions.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-08-11 15:48:07+00:00
I have a hard time evaluating articles like this. On one hand, we all know problematic neighbors who have an unrealistic standard of something, whether it be the supervision of kids, the noise of a backyard gathering, yard/fence maintenance, etc. So we are primed to believe that the person in the story is just being unfairly persecuted. Perhaps the neighbors just called the police as soon as they saw the kids without bothering to check if the parents were anywhere nearby. Perhaps the parent was in the bathroom for a minute and the neighbors called the cops on that.

On the other hand, it is plausible that the parents were actually negligent and the kids were outside totally unsupervised, and the neighbors tried to find someone watching over the kids before calling the police. I would normally not be suspicious, but statements like, "the next door neighbors were okay with our kids playing in their yards" and, "of course my child is allowed to climb the stairs" feel a little off. Yes, neighbors will often say it is okay for kids to be on their lawns but there is usually an understanding that the parents are aware of what's going on. And it's easy to say that you allow your kids to climb the stairs, but the child in question was less than a year old. I don't know of a parent who wouldn't at least be watching over them on the front porch.

So I don't know where I land here. This story, even if true, sounds like a bad parent trying to pass this off as intrusive neighbors and government overreach. Kids can and should be allowed to roam, but there should be some appropriate limits. I experienced this first-hand as a kid. My parents were great and we had awesome families on our street. Most of the time we just roamed to various houses on the street and the parents all knew each other and it was fine. Once we rode our bikes to another town and had to ask a stranger to use their phone because we got lost- this was probably not okay, but our parents picked us up and things turned out okay. But notably, we did not get CPS called on us multiple times.
by jvanderbot | 2025-08-11 15:48:25+00:00
The foster agencies are the worst. They take 3/4 the state funding per child. But AFAICT, CPS was very slow to become engaged, and always focused on giving the child back to the parent as soon as possible. So many familes get into foster care thinking they can save a child and adopt them as the defacto path. That is very much not the case, you are state sponsored babysitters.
Show HN: Determystic, get agents to follow your coding conventions
by icyfox | 2025-08-11 15:49:00+00:00
tldr: Determystic lets you show bad LLM code patterns once and generate persistent AST validators to catch them forever. Like mypy rules but generated on demand from examples. Right now for Python.

Happy Monday HN,

I've long been a believer in automatic tests and static analysis to help LLM agents give us better output. pytest combined with ruff is a baseline for any AGENT.md file I'm working on these days.

But neither helps in situations where agents write code that's technically valid but just doesn't meet my standards. Overly vague typehinting, importing a library I know I don't want to use, using dataclasses instead of pydantic, or straight up cheating and using a try/except to catch cases within test files that aren't passing but should be.

Thankfully LLMs are able to generate AST parsing code pretty accurately. Could we just use LLMs to create deterministic guardrails for themselves in the future? Here's basically how determystic works:

``` uvx determystic new-validator

1. Enter the bad Python code that your Agent generated: var: Optional[int] = None

2. Describe the issues Don't use Optional - use A | None

3. Name your validator Modern typehinting ```

After this you can run `uvx determystic validate` and get a full validation of your project based on your new rule:

``` Custom Validator main.py:6: Use 'T | None' instead of 'Optional[T]' for type hints 4 | 5 | class MyModel(BaseModel): >>> 6 | name: Optional[str] = None 7 | age: int 8 | ```

As LLMs get better and we put more compute behind RL environments, I think a lot of this will be solved at the model layer. But even then the system prompt makes us rely on natural language to describe what is otherwise a more precise problem.

I'm still in the very early days on this approach. But I'd love some feedback about ergonomics and the unusual coding conventions I'm sure people are going to throw at it. Raise an issue if you have examples of things that aren't working and I'll try to get them fixed. Thanks!
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-11 15:49:12+00:00
Absolutely no one looks at random open source contributions or your personal repo. They barely look at resumes for more than six seconds.

Yes, my open source contributions got me a job the year before last as the second highest contributor to a popular in its niche official “AWS Solution”. But no one cared about my other open source projects that I highlighted that were also well documented, solved a unique need and were on the official “AWS Samples” GitHub repository.
by ryandv | 2025-08-11 15:49:15+00:00
> I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.

There was a time before "achievements" or badges and NARCISSISM.MD files on your profile page.

The UI has clearly regressed in terms of performance and responsiveness over the years, when GitHub insisted on making the code viewer a pseudo-IDE. There was even an article making this observation here on HN just last week [0].

Do you seriously feel that GitHub of 2025 has had less outages and more stability than GitHub of 2015?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861
by hodgehog11 | 2025-08-11 15:49:18+00:00
I appreciate Mistral (and others) releasing their weights for free. But given how llama.cpp underpins a lot of the programs which allow users to run open weight models, it is a little frustrating to have companies which brag about releasing models to the community, leave the community to their own devices to slowly try and actually implement their models.

I hear the reason for this is that llama.cpp keeps breaking basic things, so they have become an unreliable partner. Seems this is what Ollama is trying to address by diluting their connections to llama.cpp and directly contacting companies training these models to have simultaneous releases (e.g. GPT-OSS).
by simonw | 2025-08-11 15:49:54+00:00
That's always been the biggest flaw in the Worldcoin idea in my opinion: if you have a billion+ humans get their eyeball scanned in exchange for some kind of cryptographic identity, you can guarantee that a VERY sizable portion of those billion people will happily sell that cryptographic identity (which they don't understand the value of) to anyone who offers them some money.

As far as I can tell the owner of the original iris can later invalidate an ID that they've sold, but if you buy an ID from someone who isn't strongly technically literate you can probably extract a bunch of value from it anyway.
by MDGeist | 2025-08-11 15:49:56+00:00
I had an aunt who was a hold out until this past year. She was in a rather wooded and sparsely populated area and although faster internet became available awhile ago it was much more expensive and she was already used to the limitations of dial-up so she didn't feel compelled to make the jump. If she really needed fast internet for some reason (maybe emailing an attachment) she would drive to the nearest library.
by zkmon | 2025-08-11 15:50:12+00:00
ToDo apps are a perfect example of coming up with solutions for a non-existent problem. Most of the tech solutions fall into this category.

When the consumer gets to take a hard look at their needs and gives a thrashing for sales pitch and doesn't give a damn to peer pressure, and demands for a bare-bones functional solutions only for their real and immediate needs, 90% of these solutions vanish into thin air.
by benterix | 2025-08-11 15:50:32+00:00
Honestly, having seen how it can be used against you, retroactively, I would never ever engage in a discussion under my real name.

(The fact that someone could correlate posts[0] based on writing style, as previously demonstrated on HN and used to doxx some people, makes things even more convoluted - you should think twice what you write and where.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-11 15:50:48+00:00
Ford has been talking about this for a few years now. Do a web search for "Ford Q1/2/3/4 2023/4/5 earnings call transcript" and read what the CEO keeps saying, over and over again.

For example, here's a quote from last year:

"We're deep in the development of our next generation of vehicles that we believe will be affordable, high volume and great for our business. On the U.S. retail side, the sweet spot that has emerged is small- and medium-sized trucks and utilities. These vehicles use case fits perfectly for EVs, daily commuters, well suited as a second vehicle in the household.

They require smaller, much lower cost batteries. These vehicles can be offered at lower prices to help adoption of EVs for the customers who really appreciate their lower operating costs. But for larger retail electric utilities, the economics are unresolvable."

Also from last year:

"We believe smaller, more affordable vehicles are the way to go for EV and volume.

Why? Because the math is completely different than ICE. In ICE, the business we've been in for 120 years, the bigger the vehicle, the higher the margin. But it's exactly the opposite for EVs. The larger the vehicle, the bigger the battery, the more pressure on margin because customers will not pay a premium for those larger batteries."
by Retr0id | 2025-08-11 15:50:54+00:00
Unless the implementation bug is severe enough to give RCE, memory dumping, or similar, I don't see how a bug in the MLKEM implementation (for example) would be able to leak the x25519 secret, even with sidechannels. A memory-safe impl would almost guarantee you don't have any bugs of the relevant classes (I know memory-safe != sidechannel-safe, but I don't see how sidechannels would be relevant). You still need to break need both to break the whole scheme.
by mlyle | 2025-08-11 15:50:59+00:00
> There is a wider point that ChatGPT is less autonomous than an assistant, as no matter the tenure with it, you'll not give it the level of autonomy that a human assistant would have as it would self correct to a level where you'd be comfortable with that.

IDK. I didn't give human entry level employees that much autonomy. ChatGPT runs off and does things for a minute or two consuming thousands and thousands of tokens, which is a lot like letting someone junior spin for several hours.

Indeed, the cost is so low -- better to let it "see its vision through" than to interrupt it. A lot of the reason why I'd manage junior employees closely are to A) contain costs, and B) prevent discouragement. Neither of those apply here.

(And, you know -- getting the thing back while I remember exactly what I asked and still have some context to rapidly interpret the result-- this is qualitatively different from getting back work from a junior employee hours later).

> that maybe for some classes of tasks it just won't be economically viable;

Running an LLM is expensive. But it's expensive in the sense "serving a human costs about the same as a long distance phone call in the 90's." And the vast majority of businesses did not worry about what they were expending on long distance too much.

And the cost can be expected to decrease, even though the price will go up from "free." I don't expect it will go up too high; some players will have advantages from scale and special sauce to make things more efficient, but it's looking like the barriers to entry are not that substantial.
by jerlam | 2025-08-11 15:51:26+00:00
According to Axios, the GitHub CEO position will not be filled.

> GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position, according to memos shared first with Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-dohmke-step-down