MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mike-cardwell | 2025-08-17 21:13:04+00:00
> LISAs are a trap if you want to buy in the South. You can only use it if the value of the property is £450k or less

In London it limits you. Outside of London, including most of the South, where the vast majority of British people live, most first houses cost less than £450k.

The limit should have been raised though yes. Or perhaps it should be set by region, I don't know. Hopefully it will be updated at some point.
by bwfan123 | 2025-08-17 21:13:11+00:00
> Claude wrote me Go tests that passed. They were beautiful, and they were worthless

Their ability to look correct exceeds their ability to be correct. Optimized for form more than function. Like politicians and management at large companies. Like the rote student who can be correct, but wont know why. Being fair though, it is a useful tool among many others in our toolbox.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-17 21:13:52+00:00
> I make the 4 hour drive from Detroit to find a unmarked black box in front of my firewall. I had no idea what it was, I took it out of the loop causing a brief outage. Then i took it out of the rack and opened up to see if inside the box had anything. i took pictures thinking industrial espionage or something.

This is the most interesting part of the whole story, and to not include the details of what was actually causing the outage specifically makes reading this feel less informative than it might be otherwise.

I won't say pics or it didn't happen, but I do want to see those pictures all the same, or at least hear about them accurately described!
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-17 21:14:16+00:00
The point is, those features were available to people buying S classes 15 years ago. So not only were rich people safer for those 15 years, there's still a huge subset of people that even today drive old cheaper cars instead of buying the Hyundai that has it today. There's probably a 30 year safety difference between rich and poor.
by throw10920 | 2025-08-17 21:14:33+00:00
Part of this is driven by people who have realized that they can undermine others' thinking skills by using the right emotional language.

For instance, in a lot of threads on some new technology or idea, one of the top comments is "I'm amazed by the negativity here on HN. This is a cool <thing> and even though it's not perfect we should appreciate the effort the author has put in" - where the other toplevel comments are legitimate technical criticism (usually in a polite manner, no less).

I've seen this same comment, in various flavors, at the top of dozens of HN thread in the past couple of years.

Some of these people are being genuine, but others are literally just engaging in amigdala-hijacking because they want to shut down criticism of something they like, and that contributes to the "everything that isn't gushing positivity is negative" effect that you're seeing.
by logicprog | 2025-08-17 21:14:40+00:00
> You can use Claude Code against Kimi K2, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc.

Yeah but I wouldn't get a generous free tier, and I am Poor lmao.

> I am impressed you were able to get your results

compared to my brief stint with OpenCode and Claude Code with claude code router, qwen-code (which is basically a carbon copy of gemini cli) is indeed unhinged, and worse than the other options, but if you baby it just right you can get stuff done lol
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-17 21:15:58+00:00
Well that made my day. Fantastic satire.

To be a nit picky well acktually…one of your articles opens with, “ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was import this, spoken by Guido van Rossum…”

I believe ‘import this’ was actually penned by Tim Peters.
by ramoz | 2025-08-17 21:16:42+00:00
And then the providers ship a landmark feature or overhaul themselves. Especially as their models advance.

Wrappers constantly live in the support and feature parity of today.

Anthropic’s Claude Code will look a hell of a lot different a year from now, probably more like an OS for developers and Claude Agent non-tech. Regardless they are eating the stack.

Pricing/usage will be very simple - a fixed subscription and we will no longer know the tokenomics because the provider will have greatly abstracted and optimized the cost per token, favoring a model that they can optimize margin against a fixed revenue floor.
Ask HN: What tools are you using for client RUM (Real User Monitoring)?
by varsis | 2025-08-17 21:16:45+00:00
What tools are you using for client Real User Monitoring?

Ideally I would use OTEL but the client libraries are only stable for tracing.

I’ve started looking at Sentry, NewRelic and Dynatrace. Neither are a perfect solution as it means splitting up our backend metrics (GCP, with managed Prometheus) and front end without some syncing or moving them over to them.

What does everyone else use?
by SamInTheShell | 2025-08-17 21:16:57+00:00
Moderation is a fine suggestion. This idea could actually be implemented in such a way that other player clients do detection and reporting behind the scenes. Suppose a ton of clients see one user violating rules of the physics engine. Automated reporting on that can be observed as a trend and a ban would make sense.

Having argued about this specific topic in the past, I agree that going so far as to do checks on player movement is difficult and even expensive if you're validating physics for every user.

What concerns me more is the increased risk of RCEs when developers skip fundamental security practices because "the anti-cheat handles it" for them.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-08-17 21:17:02+00:00
You're confused because you favor a simplistic view of the world where you have evil people and good people.

The US is not an enemy of Palestinians in general. Policies historically reflect conflicting goals and problematic facts on the ground. And problematic facts on the ground are often not the US's fault.

The biggest problematic thing is outsiders that support Palestinians armed conflict with Israel. And then get butthurt and double down due to the predictable results.
by schappim | 2025-08-17 21:18:14+00:00
The real risk isn't that AI will be "wrong" too often, it's that it will be right often enough that humans stop practising the skill. Pilots lose manual flying proficiency with autopilot, drivers lose wayfinding sense with GPS, and radiologists already double-check less when the AI agrees with them.

What makes medicine different is that the tail risks matter: you only need to miss one subtle but lethal case because you've dulled your instincts. And unlike navigation or driving, you don't get daily "reps" to stay sharp. Deskilling here isn't hypothetical, it compounds silently until a crisis forces a clinician to act without the crutch.
by liuliu | 2025-08-17 21:18:49+00:00
Some facts are wrong:

- The 27B "MoE" are not the MoE commonly referred to in LLM world. It is not MoE on FFN layers. It simply means two different models used for different denoising timestep ranges (exactly the same as SDXL-Base / SDXL-Refiner). Calling it MoE is not technically wrong. But claiming "which were usually only used for autoregressive LLMs rather than diffusion models" is just wrong (not to mention HiDream I1 is a model actually incorporated MoE layers (in FFN layer) and is a diffusion model).

- The A14B models can run on 24GiB VRAM too, with CPU offloading and quantization.

- Yes, it is SotA even including some closed source models.
by IceHegel | 2025-08-17 21:19:06+00:00
There's a fascinating tension with anti-aging drugs, which is that your preference would obviously be to take them as early as possible, so you spend more time at a younger age as opposed to just prolonging the last years of your life, where you'll be stuck in a nursing home anyway.

But taking experimental drugs while you're young is also much higher risk, and you might see people sacrificing their 20s for the sake of their 70s in a way they end up regretting, even if there aren't any side effects.
by baby_souffle | 2025-08-17 21:19:08+00:00
> We’re curious how the HN community feels about this. Is it the right way to protect privacy online, or will it just provoke regulators to push harder?

Both. May the mouse forever elude the cat in this game!

If you’re proxying all traffic, that’s going to get expensive and - in theory - makes you as easy to block as VPN providers. I wish you the best of luck!
by pyuser583 | 2025-08-17 21:20:56+00:00
I'm a parent, and I try to keep my kids from the Internet in general, but adult parts in particular.

VPN's are great for this. Just install the VPN, have it block access to adult sites, and have it alert me of any suspicious attempts.

It's bewildering how VPN companies have branded their technology as "anti-censorship" and "privacy-focused." VPN's are a censor's best friend.

DNS services are taking the opposite approach: they start by having a censorship feature (blocking malware, adult ads, etc), and now are adding anti-censorship options.

There's nothing about connecting to a different network, or using a different DNS provider, that is anti-censorship.
by ejiblabahaba | 2025-08-17 21:21:47+00:00
Historically this was a huge concern because not every manufacturer implemented their ESD protection properly; or, on occasion, the process technology meant that ESD protection would hinder the functionality of the device. This happened a lot in RF circuits, and still to this day many RF instruments are extremely sensitive to ESD events. Board assembly was also a lot less automated in the early days of integrated circuits, so more human handlers and more opportunities for ESD events were anticipated.

Modern IC ESD protection is very effective against a few moderate energy events distributed on different pins, and there's a few industry standards that help determine the required amount of caution for dealing with a particular IC (HBM or human-body model, and CDM or charged-device model, are common - targeted toward human assembly procedures and things like triboelectric or inductive charge buildup). In the right climate, a single high energy event is sometimes enough to degrade functionality or (rarely) completely destroy the device, so board assembly and semiconductor manufacturing facilities still require workers to use wrist straps, shoe grounders, mats, treated floors, climate control, etc. Some high voltage GaN work I did years ago required ionizing blowers (basically a spark gap with a fan) because GaN gates are easy to destroy with gate overstress, and there are risks involved with unintended high voltage contact with typical ESD protective solutions. In another embedded-focused lab, the only time I've ever seen someone put on a wrist strap was for handling customer hardware returns. It really depends what you're working with, and in what environment.

I've more frequently (once or twice a year) had devices which exhibit symptoms of something being wrong at the inputs or the outputs, but only on a specific pin or port. For outputs, some symptoms include the output slew rate is inadequate, or the output appears stuck sometimes, or the output has higher than expected voltage noise (though this is a non-exhaustive list). For inputs, the symptoms are more complex - sometimes there's a manifestation at the outputs for amplifiers or other linear circuits, but for feedback systems or digital systems they might behave as though an input is stuck, toggling slowly, etc. which is difficult to distinguish from other, more common errors. I've also directly been the cause of several ESD failures, but in these cases the test objective was to determine the failure thresholds for the system, so I'm not sure that counts.

I've had a customer hardware failure that was eventually traced back to electrical overstress damage on a single pin of an IC near the corner of a board, right where someone might put their thumb if they were holding the board in one hand. In the absence of a better explanation, I suggested this was an ESD failure due to handling error. I never heard about it again, which is weak evidence in favor of a one-off ESD event.
by popalchemist | 2025-08-17 21:23:01+00:00
Most people do not realize it, but the tech industry is largely predicated on a cult which many people belong to without ever realizing it, which is the cult of "scientism", or in the case of pro-AI types, a subset of that, which is accelerationism. Nietzsche and Jung jointly had the insight that in the wake of the enlightenment, God had been dethroned, yet humans remained in need of a God. For many, that God is simply material power - namely money. But for tech bros, it is power in the form of technology, and AI is the avatar of that.

So the emotional process which results in the knee-jerk reactions to even the slightest and most valid critiques of AI (and the value structure underpinning Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI) comes from the same place that religous nuts come from when they perceive an infringement upon their own agenda (Christianity, Islam, pick your flavor -- the reactivity is the same).
by saalweachter | 2025-08-17 21:23:05+00:00
I don't know that I'd use the word generous but they do have to advantages relative to other types of loans:

1. A relatively low rate for no collateral. It's never the 2.x% we got on mortgages during the brief window when mortgage rates are good, but compared to other rates you get showing up at a bank with no collateral, they're amazing.

2. Almost guaranteed approval for the above. Can you imagine an 18 year old walking into a bank with no credit history and collateral and walking out with a loan for hundreds of thousands of dollars? Sure, it may be a terrible idea, but a student loan is one of the easiest to get.
by DaSHacka | 2025-08-17 21:23:20+00:00
> reddit

There used to be one such project (Pushshift), before the Reddit API change. You can download all the data and see all the info on the-eye, another datahoarder/preservationist group:

https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/

> twitter

Not that I know of, and you haven't even been able to archive tweets on the Wayback machine for YEARS.
by johnfn | 2025-08-17 21:23:24+00:00
Maybe negative isn’t exactly the right word here. But I also didn’t enjoy the cited post. One reason is that the article really says nothing at all. You could take the article and replace “LLMs”, mad-lib style, with almost any other hyped piece of technology, and the article would still read cohesively. Bitcoin. Rust. Docker. Whatever. That this particular formulation managed to skyrocket to the top of HN says, in my opinion, that people were substituting in their own assumptions into an article which itself makes no hard claims. That this post was somewhat more of a rorsarch test for the zeitgeist.

It’s certainly not the worst article I’ve read here. But that’s why I didn’t really like it.
by dml2135 | 2025-08-17 21:23:31+00:00
No, it’s not flawed and it’s not a hypothesis — I’m speaking from specific knowledge and experience regarding particular degrees.

Those averages include things like medical school for doctors and law school for lawyers. Tuition and expected salary are more aligned there.

Where tuition and salary are not aligned are fields like the humanities and social sciences. At top graduate schools for those fields you will have tuitions in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, with average salary expectations far below that.

The only way that it makes financial sense to get a degree like that is if you are independently wealthy to begin with, but these schools will not tell you that and will cheerfully direct you to take on a ruinous amount of debt.
by RobinL | 2025-08-17 21:24:24+00:00
When I read the title my brain immediately jumped to a slightly different idea. With olap, I often find it annoying to figure out the joins from the fk/pk relationships, so I was imagining a tool that kind of automatically followed the links for you. A bit like how a orm gives you auto complete, but without the user having to manually enter the schema.

And I wanted it to emit the raw SQL because that's generally what I want for olap.

So I had to go at building it. If anyone's interested a very rough demo/prototype is here: https://www.robinlinacre.com/vite_live_pg_orm/

Load in the demo Northwind schema and click some tables/columns to see the generated joins
by kevindamm | 2025-08-17 21:24:49+00:00
I think it depends on the effort put into reading and understanding the code being generated. The article makes the assumption that extended use of LLMs leads to a shift of _not reviewing and validating the code_. It is pointed out as the wrong thing to do but goes on assuming that that's what you do. I think it's like reading books.. there are various degrees of reading comprehension from skimming for content/tone, to reading for enjoyment, to studying for applications, to active analysis like preparing for a book club. There isn't a prescribed depth of reading for any document but context and audience has an effect on what depth is appropriate. With code, if it's for a one-off utility that can be verified for a specific application, yeah why not just look at its output and skip the code, full vibing, especially if it doesn't have any authority on its own. But if it is business critical it better still have at least two individuals read over it, and other CONTRIBUTING-related policies.

And it's not just complacence.. this illusion of mastery cuts even harder for those who haven't really developed the skills to do a review of the code. And, some code is just easier to write than it is to read, or easier to generate with confidence using an automata or some macro-level code, which often the LLMs will not produce, in preference to repeated-in-various-styles inlining of sub-solutions, unless you have enough mastery to know how to ask for the appropriate abstraction and would still rather not just write the deterministic version.

> I wonder, is there a danger to giving the tool to a new apprentice? If I send my kid off to learn coding using the AI, will it be a mess

As long as your kid develops the level of mastery needed to review the code, and takes the time to review it, I don't think it'll be a mess (or not too large to debug). A lot of this depends on how role models use the tool, I think. If it's always nonchalant "oh we'll just re-roll or change the prompt and see" then I doubt there will be mastery. If the response is "hmm, *opens debugger*" then it's much more likely.

I don't think there's anything wrong with holding back on access to LLM code generators but that's like saying no access to any modern LLMs at this point, so maybe that's too restrictive; tbh I'm glad that's not a decision I'm having to make for any young person these days. But separate from that you can still encourage a status quo of due diligence for any code that gets generated.
by spookie | 2025-08-17 21:26:10+00:00
Server side check for what?

My dude, we are at the point where AI's are trained on images resembling the enemy player (you know the ones appearing on your screen, good luck not showing those) and a little programme rolls a mouse around and clicks heads.

We ONLY have this problem BECAUSE the game publishers want to OWN the server infrastructure themselves.

In the old days you had dedicated servers where one of the players, at least, had full control over that server. Any sus behaviour would be met with rods from god right into the cheater's home router location. I'm being really theatrical here but really this worked, and was sustainable. Mods were able to fight the criminals in their small servers. A distributed cyber police if you will.

Today, we rely on a singular company (the one who published or developed the game) to be able to automagically pinpoint sus behaviour across a million servers and NOT have collaterals.

We had the perfect scheme to handle them, we have just lost to greed. No amount of client or server side shenanigans will ever be enough to fight cheaters. You need actual humans in there.
by lambdasquirrel | 2025-08-17 21:26:41+00:00
> This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'.

At first, I didn’t know what to say about the article other than to agree to something about it that I couldn’t put a finger on. But now it makes sense.

Developers really can’t be faulted to hate LinkedIn specifically because it’s marketing. It’s just pure noise to signal. It’s pure promotion.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-08-17 21:26:58+00:00
Presenting government ID to random entities is literally what government ID's exist for. Paranoia about this is silly.

Additionally, intentionally aiding someone (especially a minor) in circumventing the law is very likely to not be legal, especially when legality is largely determined by a jury, and especially^2 when the facts of the case against you are the most egregious that the government can find, especially^3 when you are profiting from it. It will be something like a 12yo using your service to access something absolutely shocking, and you or someone else will be forced to read a detailed text description of it in front of a jury. This doesn't even begin to address civil liability.

I'm not saying what you are doing is 'wrong', I'm saying you should talk to a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing before you are forced to.
by ram_rar | 2025-08-17 21:28:12+00:00
Unpopular opinion: in 2025, nobody should be reaching for an ORM first. They’re an anti-pattern at this point. The “abstraction” it promises rarely delivers—what you actually get is leaky, slow, and a nightmare to operate at scale.

The sane middle ground is libraries that give you nicer ergonomics around SQL without hiding it (like Golangs sqlx https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx). Engineers should be writing SQL, period.
by yogorenapan | 2025-08-17 21:28:17+00:00
100% agree. During high school, I stumbled upon a bug bounty by pure chance, landing a nice fat $50k, with which I bought my own laptop, paid for uni, and most importantly, removed all the stress/pressure for having to get a scholarship. Having those on my CV made getting internships really easy, which in turn also made getting a job much easier. Beyond just money, I was also able to enjoy life, play sports, travel, etc. all of which were unimaginable growing up in a lower/middle class family where even food prices were a concern.
by ktallett | 2025-08-17 21:29:05+00:00
Whilst not someone from the US, I had the same feeling in McDonald's with the original happy meals and the hamburglar. For a child from a very poor family who was on the equivalent of food stamps and without electricity occasionally, the rare McDonald's treat which I ate sat on a toadstool in the restaurant brought real joy to me. Just like the occasional arcade game I actually got to play (although even just looking at a machine without any coins to put in was special) was magical, and still remembered to this day (Virtua Striker). I think there is a real value to nostalgia and for many including me, no amount of money or extravagant trip will ever bring me as much joy as those small treats did in some really hard childhood moments, therefore keeping it around is definitely a sound business model at times.

To take this back to tech, for me it's the same reason, I have a fondness for the early days of the internet and gopher protocol websites that resemble that more closely hold such a big place in my heart.
by motoboi | 2025-08-17 21:30:03+00:00
Fasting without any exercise has a hidden downside: you’re not just burning fat, you’re also burning muscle. Less muscle → lower glucose disposal capacity → systemic insulin resistance. The problem is that insulin resistance doesn’t stop in muscle — the brain is highly insulin-sensitive, and once central insulin signaling gets disrupted you start seeing network-level dysfunction and cognitive impairment (there’s a reason Alzheimer’s is sometimes called “type 3 diabetes”).

So yeah, autophagy is real, but pairing fasting with at least some resistance work is critical if you don’t want the “anti-aging hack” to backfire by accelerating muscle loss and brain decline.

See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5462531/ for brain insulin effect