MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattbee | 2025-08-03 22:45:27+00:00
This speaks to me!

I've worked on 3 different projects / workplaces in the last year where I've been the only talker on a Slack with 10s of people on it. Sometimes I'll write 5-6 detailed messages in a day, talking about particular problems or updates on things I'm working on, and almost nothing from anyone else.

These are in subject-specific channels (#network-engineering or #programmers or the like) where colleagues are subscribed.

But the real business of each company seemed to happen in private group chats or video meetings, with no long-term records.

I'm like to state a problem before I've solved it, for the rubber ducking. Very occasionally someone would reply to help, and occasionally I reply with a :facepalm: if I realise I've just been hasty or sloppy. But even if nobody replies, I am very happy to have a public log of my work, the problems I've solved (or not), and the people I might tag for particular input.

If someone DMs me for help with something that is possibly of interest to >1 person, I tend to re-state the issue (without identifying who asked me), then answer in public, and thank them for asking.

If I have a question for a colleague, I will tend to ask it in a channel, as it becomes something searchable.

I ask work questions on Stack Overflow for the same reason, and often self-answer because the place is dead as a community, but the search works well. After a few years I find my own answers as a complete surprise.

But I have colleagues who've not said a line in public basically forever. I've not been a manager for years, always an IC lately. I've not had any objections, but it seems like nobody wants to join me to make "work in public" the default.

Apparently I'm happy to be the exhibitionist little freak?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-03 22:45:42+00:00
You would hear the usual white noise between stations, just by virtue of FM reception relying on high IF gain ahead of a limiting stage. But judging from the description of the block diagram, I suspect the noise you'd hear when tuning in a station would be very unfamiliar, maybe a lot of distorted tones and whistles. I can't believe they'd have gone to so much trouble to hide it otherwise.

It's a much more interesting chip than it initially appeared to be, that's for sure.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-03 22:46:01+00:00
Diplomacy is an art, not a science, and “doing something” isn’t necessarily the goal.

I’ve worked in government in varying capacities, and one thing that happens is that legislatures want reports. It’s part of the governing process. The fact that it’s being written and later has meaning and justifies inquiry which may not have happened otherwise.

It’s hard for people to understand because companies don’t work that way - they have their own mercurial processes. I went to a conference awhile ago, and the AWS sales dude gave me a bunch of swag. Palo gave me a fancy water bottle, Oracle gave me a dancing wind up dude for my desk. The hotel gave me a pen.

Does that make me buy AWS? No. It’s a token that essentially buys attention and goodwill for a moment in time.
by kaoD | 2025-08-03 22:46:18+00:00
This didn't feel right so I went and tested.

process.on("uncaughException", (e) => { console.log("uncaughException", e); }); try { const r = await Promise.all([ Promise.reject(new Error('1')), new Promise((resolve, reject) => { setTimeout(() => reject(new Error('2'), 1000)); }), ]); console.log("r", r); } catch (e) { console.log("catch", e); } setTimeout(() => { console.log("setTimeout"); }, 2000);

Produces:

alvaro@DESKTOP ~/Projects/tests $ node -v v22.12.0 alvaro@DESKTOP ~/Projects/tests $ node index.js catch Error: 1 at file:///C:/Users/kaoD/Projects/tests/index.js:7:22 at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:271:25) at async onImport.tracePromise.__proto__ (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:547:26) at async asyncRunEntryPointWithESMLoader (node:internal/modules/run_main:116:5) setTimeout

So, nope. The promises are just ignored.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-03 22:46:22+00:00
It's pretty obvious when I see this comment or others about the dollar losing value at a historic rate that the person commenting read it somewhere and doesn't actually understand the currency movement and has zero context. Your comment isn't even factually correct either - the USD is down 10.63% against the Euro this year, not 15%. Now to add a bit of context, it's up nearly 40% over the last 15 years against the Euro. The dollar is currently sitting at a level vs the Euro that is higher than 31 out of the last 45 years. It is at the same level it was in November 2021, which is still far above the mean.

Have a look at the dollar index since it's inception in 1967. Does it look like the dollar is plummeting to you?

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/TVC-DXY/?timeframe=ALL
by fisherjeff | 2025-08-03 22:46:46+00:00
I think it helps to remember that those posts are basically sales pitches, and that if they don’t resonate for you, then you are probably not their target audience.

But another thing is that most tech people really undervalue good marketing and end up doing either the bare minimum (e.g., LLM puke) or narrowly targeting themselves as an audience. Either way, they often fail to get their message out to their market.
by amiroo | 2025-08-03 22:47:16+00:00
To our knowledge, the only approved app on the App Store that allows users to run an LLM on medical records gathered via HealthKit (this only works for large providers in the US, UK and Canada).

Yari Timeline allows you to build an organized, accessible, and private timeline of your care. It runs a HIPAA-compliant LLM (Gemini on Vertex AI) on the HealthKit medical records in three careful steps: (1) it generates a global timeline of all records, one episode of care at a time; (2) it generates a summary of each episode in plain language for laypeople to understand; (3) it allows the user to go all the way to the individual medical records on their HealthKit and see their AI summary or the raw data.

We purposefully built this app NOT as a chatbot. This allows us to thoroughly validate its prompts and context-assembly on a predefined set of use cases and build a user experience that minimizes common failures.

Having said all that, the app is not intended for medical use and can be wrong. It’s merely a demonstration of what’s possible, done in perhaps the most careful and private way.

As a bonus, we never store any data locally or on our servers. We have even disabled Gemini’s caching capabilities and traffic logs. You are always in incognito mode :)

It’s worth saying that the experience is far from ideal. Given the strict constraints on Apple HealthKit’s medical records, we cannot do things like storing pre-processed data in the app to reduce initialization time. We also cannot provide ways to do data sharing or long-running processing. You also may end up in a bit of a messy state if you do not give the app access to all records during the HealthKit authorization workflow (you can fix this in iOS Settings). So please make sure to follow the instructions carefully and feel free to write to us via timeline@yari.care if you run into any issues.

This app demonstrates what’s possible with today’s App Store rules and today’s technology. But it’s just scratching the surface of what’s possible. For example, we are eager to add a lot of interesting new things once iOS 26 comes out and on-device models are accessible to more users.
by XorNot | 2025-08-03 22:47:21+00:00
Everyone coming in with a hot take on "lol reports" here should go look up what a military command actually does during a war. Because some advances in live streaming aside...they read reports, and write more reports.

In fact something your field commanders get to do is go and be shot at and then write reports about what happened. Radio operators keep notepads of things to send to back to base while in the field (usually meaning they're the last to sleep because they need to get the reports in).

Writing stuff down is how knowledge is communicated in all disciplines.
by robbomacrae | 2025-08-03 22:48:28+00:00
Talkito does indeed support all the popular TTS and ASR cloud providers so you can bring your own key. But even without a key, on Mac it can use the system default TTS and googles free ASR for input.

So whats the benefit? Well for Claude Code this wrapper effectively bridges those TTS/ASR systems and CC so the voice interface is now there (CC doesn't have one). It doesn't just rely on MCP either (although it does start an MCP server for configuring via prompting) but instead directly injects the ASR and directly reads out CC's output when on.

It is free and open source so folks can inspect it and check it's not doing anything nefarious, so that others can contribute if they should choose. And the license is what it is as that seems to be the advice on this forum if you want to make sure a company can't just make a paid service out of your work.
by simonw | 2025-08-03 22:48:37+00:00
I think ditching the feature was the right move for them.

I'm not sure you could fix this with copy - we all know that users don't read anything.

The audience of people who genuinely do want their shared chats to also be indexed by Google is likely absolutely tiny. The audience of people who find such an option confusing and are likely to turn it on without understanding the consequences is proven to be pretty huge already.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-03 22:50:28+00:00
And if uninstalling is too far, inactive games can go to an extra cheap hard drive and it'll only take 10-15 minutes to move 100GB back to your SSD.

I was hoping SSDs would get price competitive with hard drives but the progress sure has been bad lately...

(It's possible to even set up a system that lets you play a game while it's being moved over to SSD, but sadly there aren't any easy ways to do that right now.)
by hnroo99 | 2025-08-03 22:50:28+00:00
Just last week I was about to integrate `ts-rest` into a project for the same reasons you mentioned above... before I realized they don't have express v5 support yet: https://github.com/ts-rest/ts-rest/issues/715

I think `ts-rest` is a great library, but the lack of maintenance didn't make me feel confident to invest, even if I wasn't using express. Have you ever considered building your own in-house solution? I wouldn't necessarily recommend this if you already have `ts-rest` setup and are happy with it, but rebuilding custom versions of 3rd party dependencies actually feels more feasible nowadays thanks to LLMs. I ended up building a stripped down version of `ts-rest` and am quite happy with it. Having full control/understanding of the internals feels very good and it surprisingly only took a few days. Claude helped immensely and filled a looot of knowledge gaps, namely with complicated Typescript types. I would also watch out for treeshaking and accidental client zod imports if you decide to go down this route.

I'm still a bit in shock that I was even able to do this, but yeah building something in-house is definitely a viable option in 2025.
by corytheboyd | 2025-08-03 22:50:49+00:00
It’s so dumb. There is no way to verify the numbers, and yet, this stupidity weaseled its way into the LinkedIn cinematic universe of corporate bullshit. The same point but without the “X by Y%” hits the same for me— besides I know what questions to ask to judge if you are actually capable of moving the needle, which is all I care about as a conductor of interviews.
by refulgentis | 2025-08-03 22:51:15+00:00
Same, but, I'm struggling with the idea that even if I learn things I haven't before, at the limit, it'd be annoying if we gave writing like this a free pass continuously - I'd argue filtered might not be the right word - I'd be fine with net reduction. Theres something bad about adding fluff (how many game changers were there?)

An alternative framing I've been thinking about is, there's clearly something bad when you leave in the bits that obviously lower signal to noise ratio for all readers.

Then throw in the account being new, and, well, I hope it's not a harbinger.*

* It is and it's too late.
Ask HN: Can no-code AI workflow tools replace runbooks?
by rkalahasty | 2025-08-03 22:52:13+00:00
With all these no-code/AI-powered automation platforms popping up (n8n, Zapier, Make, Flowise, etc.), are we moving past the need for the classic runbook automation tools like StackStorm for ITOps, DevOps, and SRE stuff?

Is anyone here already using these no-code builders for “serious” infra automation or incident response?
by unencumberednut | 2025-08-03 22:52:34+00:00
I had graduated in 1984 and the market had dried up significantly until 1985, then it was booming. But, that year I searched for employment (crickets) and getting engaged in eventual very high tech, it was a great time, and I look back fondly at the personal journey. I dug ditches, painted apartments, and advanced myself. And I still tell people out of school and searching, enjoy the time to be un-interrupted as you will get fully engaged at some point and find yourself busy for the next 40 years.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-03 22:53:33+00:00
I think the microwave is actually the perfect example, per your data, I, as an AI skeptic don’t think AI is going to go the way of the Segway, I think it will have real solid use cases and quickly grow to sustained usage that will persist. And like the microwave, will plateau long before the “end of all white collar jobs and scarcity” superintelligence, but yeah, a solid $100 billion dollar a year business? Great? But people are investing in it like it will be the only tool ever used for everything, and a multi trillion dollar business.

Ai obviously has solid use cases, it’s just not the whole kitchen.
by mirlind | 2025-08-03 22:54:10+00:00
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by YoniA1978 | 2025-08-03 22:54:30+00:00
Memory architecture should be an industry standard. This is why OpenAI is # 1, even if their own memory is flawed. Yes, I am an outsider, but this outsider has contributed more than OpenAI's own devs and engineers. Don't believe me? Read my tech manifesto. Read my tweet history.I won't outright plug it here, out of respect, but you can find me easily if you want to. Unlike Reddit whiners, I don't hide my face or name. I have the guts to tag WilmerHale in my tweets because I'm doing everything by the book.

There will be no AGI without consistent memory. Full stop. Why do Google and Meta trail in the AI race? No memory architecture. Anthropic, too. Guys, focus on memory, not window dressing, if you truly want to compete.

Sometimes it takes an outsider who has nothing to lose to tell the truth that those in the bubble won't.

I am a free agent. Whoever--whether an established company or an upstart--is looking for a rockstar to make their product better, look no further. QA,UX, marketing...I've done it all.

I want to work. I want to contribute. Who's ready to take their company to the next level?

Jonathan "Yoni" Assis
by recursivecaveat | 2025-08-03 22:54:59+00:00
I think most people learning CS101 will at some point attempt to merge-sort a stack of physical papers alphabetically, and give up half way through. Everyone should have this experience: it teaches a lot about the importance of assumptions about the problem. Not to say that the math isn't important, but you have to think critically, because spherical cows are pretty rare.
by bawana | 2025-08-03 22:55:25+00:00
The IRS taxes americans no matter where they are or where they take their money. The US is only one of two nations in the world with citizenshp based taxation. And if you want to renounce your citizenship, 35% exit tax. The only solution is to make a foreign corporation (Apple keeps its income in Ireland for example) and hide your money there (The City of London does a brisk business setting up corps in their old colonies - when the IRS comes knocking, the City of London plays dumb)
by unsupp0rted | 2025-08-03 22:56:06+00:00
> all it takes is one good person who is capable of making even a passing stranger feel welcome

No, that's not all it takes. After a bit of time in a place your brain can tell that's an outlier, and while it's a nice moment, it doesn't warrant updating your priors. For a tourist though, that's all it takes. The local people are "so kind" and "so welcoming" after that one outlier.

Most people with an open mind can tell that very good cultures are very good, even if their own native culture is vastly different.

You can tell when you're in Singapore, for example, that everything is unusually good (or put another way: that everything is way better than it is in the general region).

And you can tell when you're in... um, I won't say... that everything is unusually bad. And it doesn't matter if you're a Mongolian nomad or a SF Bay technocrat or from a former soviet country that no longer exists, you can still tell which places are objectively very good or very bad.

But not as a tourist.
by contingencies | 2025-08-03 22:57:05+00:00
https://archive.md/8asa5

I spent a lot of time living in China. Nobody believes the government figures. But I'm also skeptical that using artificial light as a proxy for economic growth is rational, particularly when you realise that Chinese people overwhelmingly live in vertical high density buildings and the amount of light used when moving from last-gen 'heavy industry' to next-gen 'value add'/'light industry'/'design work'/whatever is going to be reduced.

Therefore although I am a big fan of the Economist and like the idea, I think the premise of this particular study may be somewhat flawed.

Where the article states "the mismatch between satellite and GDP data did not appear in dictatorships until they were too rich to receive some types of aid" I think what they may be discovering is "when people move in to dense modern housing and shift to white collar work the model breaks down". There are other factors too: more modern lighting is more efficient, people increasingly socialize through phones, and outdoor living spaces are reduced in relatively inhospitable climates, somewhat limiting light pollution.

Thinking back to first principles, the majority of outdoor light pollution is probably from freeways and city centers, and if you proxy that with economic growth it's probably significant as a pre-emption at a certain phase of transition from agricultural/low-development-level economy through highly developed economy, but becomes irrelevant rapidly once those development prerequisites have been achieved.

It doesn't help that this guy is trying to sell a book.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-03 22:57:08+00:00
That note in the tweets above, spoke to me.

I'm usually the only person that ever reads my docs, so I write docs for me.

I also often write design docs during, and sometimes after my projects.

I call it Forensic Design Documentation[0].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-03 22:57:48+00:00
Seems exactly like someone who knows the equivalent of being punched in the face. Thats not a deterrent, it's an action that provokes retaliatory action from a place of fear of needing to defend ones self. If a group is dangerous enough for one to think they could do harm, leaving them without options/scaring them is an awful strategy

You want to deter wild animals, not scare or corner them. Rattlesnakes want to deter you from stepping on them, not scare you into doing so.
by ryanmadden | 2025-08-03 22:58:08+00:00
In my experience, organization/clarity is the biggest hurdle for SWEs trying to improve their doc writing. I like the author's spaghetti code analogy for the importance of idea organization within a doc -- I've struggled to convey the same concept before and I will use this in the future. In the past I've talked about 'ferrying' the reader through your thought process but this post explains the concept in a more familiar way.

I wrote a similar post last year[0] and it was interesting to see the similarities (concision, importance of practice) and differences with someone from a different company. I'm not sure I agree about 'short paragraphs' -- that may be a natural consequence of high information density writing but line breaks themselves aren't much help if the ideas aren't distilled. The 'Editing' section gets at that underlying idea more directly imo.

[0]https://ryanmadden.net/things-i-learned-at-google-design-doc...
by xinweihe | 2025-08-03 23:00:39+00:00
Great question! Yes, we're actively building a golden test set of debugging scenarios with known root causes and failure patterns. This allows us to systematically evaluate and improve agent performance with every release. Contributions are very welcome as we expand this effort!

In the meantime, we lean on explainability, i.e. every agent output is grounded in the original logs, traces, and metadata, with inline references. So if the output is off, users can easily verify, debug, and either trust or challenge the agent’s reasoning by reviewing the linked evidence.
by vr46 | 2025-08-03 23:01:06+00:00
The UN is operating at a different scale doing something quite unique, and the reports don’t need to be widely-read to be important or influential. I ran kitchens at a series of homeless shelters for ten years and the difference between cooking/serving food, and actually procuring supplies and dealing with the supply chain - was the difference between something that took one hour and something that took nine months. It is much like this with the UN and other international trans-governmental organizations, they work with ridiculously complex systems and get real shit done, even if it’s not as visual as handing out a plate of food.
by dijit | 2025-08-03 23:01:13+00:00
I hope we do get a bit more sense in things.

I’m worried that the pendulum will swing far past center and back to biases though.

I’m a bit of a leftie, but it has been really painful for the last 10 years watching my side be the one that is actively racist and proposing systematic racism & sexism with a bare face.

We should be mindful that inside each of us is a significant amount of value, and under the right circumstances that can be unlocked to be great- despite any political or physiological differences.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-03 23:01:16+00:00
I encrypt so much of the stuff I upload to google drive or email. In my case, more because my filetypes and contents tend to trigger malware detection (even though literally none of it is malware or even security research).

Stories like this are why I do it. I don’t know when something is going to get flagged - NSFW or otherwise. I really should de-google and I mean to. Buts its a daunting project for the email address I’ve had since 2004 (my email is now old enough to drink in USA).
by majormajor | 2025-08-03 23:01:40+00:00
> With ai it’s cheap and fast for a professional to ask the AI: what does this rubbish software do, and can you create me a more robust version following these guidelines.

This falls apart today with sufficiently complex software and also seems to require source availability (or perfect specifications).

One of the things I keep an eye out for in terms of "have LLMs actually cracked large-product complexity yet" (vs human-overseen patches or greenfield demos) is exactly that sort of re-implementation-and-improvement you talk about. Like a greenfield Photoshop substitute.
by bakugo | 2025-08-03 23:02:27+00:00
This is true. I agree with the overall premise of the article, but claiming that Opus is more used than Sonnet is just wrong.

One of the graphs even lists a "Claude 3.5 Opus", which does not exist. After 3.5 Sonnet was released, 3 Opus largely fell into irrelevance until they decided to finally release another big, expensive model with Opus 4, which still isn't anywhere near as popular as Sonnet 4 with users who pay API prices.