MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nudgeOrnurture | 2025-08-05 22:32:54+00:00
dude, Germany's identy crisis is that Germans still don't get the potential they have. They are still, after decades of American ( I love America but I think they had it waaaaaay too easy in the past decades ) easy mode, not realizing they are playing the game of others.

Two bad examples: there's a PhD level genius just a few villages away and he still didn't even try to get the funding to build a proper mechatronics Hogwarts in our area ( it's 2025 ... ) and a nuclear Physics PhD, who's now a banker ( crying laughing joker emoji, a fucking banker, like one of those modern Kazakhs, crying laughing Joker emoji ) just a little further away .... who's daddy is also a Physics PhD and has been in IT for 30 years or so ... Iean, sure, money, but is that all "agency" or just the result of priming/nudging towards the lower levels?

Good little Germans, just do as I do, keep your lips ( and minds ) sealed .... walk away

it's 4 to 8 hours of work per day anyway and you got the brains for it, ma dudes and dudettes, what the fuuuuuuuck
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-05 22:32:59+00:00
> Sadly I can't find that talk anywhere on the internet

Microsoft is apparently incapable of preserving their website—in particular, several years ago they destroyed what used to be the centralized store for all of their videos, MSDN’s Channel 9. I find it useful to open an Internet Archive snapshot of channel9.msdn.com from before ~2020 and navigate from there.

(If I sound a bit salty, it’s because I found that a huge number of threads on the Microsoft support forums, mostly concerning older products, was “retired”—i.e. memory-holed—recently enough that Google still thinks they’re there. While the “support” part was always a joke, the threads were still occasionally better than a big fat nothing, which is what we have now.)
by tzs | 2025-08-05 22:33:19+00:00
> Author here. My sentiment is mixed. I like the anti-phishing protection of passkeys. I don't like getting locked in to one password manager

Most sites that support passkeys let you make more than one passkey. For all sites I've made passkeys for except one I've simply made two passkeys, one using 1Password and one using Apple's Password.

The one site I have not done this with is Premera. They only let you have one passkey as far as I can tell.
by samtp | 2025-08-05 22:34:06+00:00
I don't think you understood me at all. I don't care about the actual workflow. I just want an example of of a project that:

1. Would have legal, security, or monetary consequences if bad code was put in production

2. Was developed using an AI/LLM/Agent/etc that made the development many times faster than it otherwise would have (as so many people claim)

I would love to hear an example where "I used Claude to develop this hosting/ecommerce/analytics/inventory management service that is used in production by 50 paying companies. Using an LLM we deployed the project in 4 week where it would normally take us 4 months." Or "We updated an out of date code base for a client in half the time it would normally take and have not seen any issues since launch"

At the end of the day I code to get paid. And it would really help to be able to point to actual cases where both money and negative consequences of failure are on the line.

So if you have any examples please share. But the more people deflect the more skeptical I get about their claims.
by ptmcc | 2025-08-05 22:35:13+00:00
To some extent, yes.

Most notably, I published a little browser extension I created to scratch a personal itch. It got a little bit of attention and users, and then the feature requests started coming. Among a couple reasonable ideas were big demands like make it work on different platforms, make it integrate with other sites, or make it work entirely differently. And unhelpful bug reports that often didn't even make sense.

Not one of them ever contributed to the repo, and many of them were ungracious and demanding in nature. Fortunately nothing outright hostile, but it still left a sour taste in my mouth for daring to share a neat personal project as-is.
by golmansax | 2025-08-05 22:35:28+00:00
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by gruez | 2025-08-05 22:35:42+00:00
>Have you heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

Have you heard of the disagreement hierarchy? You're somewhere between 1 and 3 right now, so I'm not even going to bother to engage with you further until you bring up more substantive points and cool it with the personal attacks.

https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
by mrtksn | 2025-08-05 22:36:16+00:00
Yes it's a tax on consumption and when applied to everything the same way it's essentially a VAT. The admin keeps telling that EU will pay, India will pay but at best they can do is to weaken their currency so the goods become cheeper and it compensates for the tariffs US importers pay.

Arguably, US consumers are super consumers and maybe it will be better for everyone if Americans consume a bit less? I don't think that it should be necessarily bad for business, maybe it's time to switch to world building instead of consuming, maybe as so many people works so hard we as species should gradually move on to use our output for longer and enrich our lives with each new tool instead of consume more and more and keep working the same or more. Eastern Europeans are or used to be a bit likte that, have a slow paced life, have low GDP output, on paper economy and everything is bad but actually have a great life if you have a house with a garden and some stuff you bought 30 years ago and still functioning good enough.
by MisterMower | 2025-08-05 22:37:32+00:00
Is the data gained from the programs described in the article worth the $15M per year cost? That’s the real question.

It’s entirely rational to think such an expense is unnecessary, especially if your politics inclines you to believe the data collected by these programs will be used to push for more stringent environmental regulation that you dislike.

Even granting that the data is valuable, is it worth $15M per year? Can it be collected privately? Why does the government need to fund it?

To answer your question, yes, people can defend this action rationally. You don’t even have to be MAGA to do it. We should all want more efficient government.
by erulabs | 2025-08-05 22:37:38+00:00
When I was ~14 I open sourced a script to autoconfigure X11's xrandr. It was pretty lousy, had several bugs. I mentioned it on a KDE mailing list and a KDE core contributor told me it was embarrassing code and to kill myself. I took it pretty hard and didn't contribute to KDE or X11 ever again, probably took me about a year to build up the desire to code again.

Everything else I've open-sourced has gone pretty well, comparatively.
by giovaniguizzo | 2025-08-05 22:38:00+00:00
Interesting lib!

Graphile Worker: PostgreSQL only

Sidequest: Multiple backends (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB)

Graphile Worker: No built-in dashboard - you need external monitoring

Sidequest: Comprehensive built-in web dashboard for job monitoring

Graphile Worker: Single queue with job prioritization

Sidequest: Multiple queues with individual: i) Concurrency limits; ii) Priority levels; iii) State management (active/paused); iv) Isolated workloads.

Graphile Worker: Direct PostgreSQL integration, very lightweight

Sidequest: Worker threads for non-blocking processing, more comprehensive job lifecycle management

Graphile Worker: Optimized for PostgreSQL performance (3ms latency)

Sidequest: Balanced performance with rich feature set

I hope that helps answering your question.
by captainregex | 2025-08-05 22:38:34+00:00
I am so so so confused as to why Ollama of all companies did this other than an emblematic stab at making money-perhaps to appease someone putting pressure on them to do so. Their stuff does a wonderful job of enabling local for those who want it. So many things to explore there but instead they stand up yet another cloud thing? Love Ollama and hope it stays awesome
by wubrr | 2025-08-05 22:39:03+00:00
If you're building any kind of product/service that uses AI/LLMs the answer is the same as why any company would want to run any other kind of OSS infra/service instead of relying on some closer proprietary vendor API.

- Costs. - Rate limits. - Privacy. - Security. - Vendor lock-in. - Stability/backwards-compatibility. - Control. - Etc.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-08-05 22:39:44+00:00
QOI has some pretty major downsides. it only supports 8 bit SRGB, and is optimized for images with 8 bit transparency. Also, the handsome it uses seems to harm compression when entropy compression is used. Also, the focus on streaming means that the algorithm can't take advantage of 2d locality.

QOI is really cool, but I think the author cut the final version of the spec too early, and intentionally closed it off to a future version with more improvements. With another year or 2 of development, I think it probably works have become ~10% more efficient and suitable for more usecases.
by altruios | 2025-08-05 22:41:05+00:00
Police should be held to the highest standard: as they have a monopoly on legal force. The end of 'qualified immunity' and the start of personal insurance akin to what surgeons have would do a lot to reform the police.

They should also be trained better (certainly longer than 1 semester), actually study the law they have to enforce, and pass a bar-like exam: They should be exceptional people.

Instead, we have a system that prunes people that are 'too smart' to be cops (https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...).
by pdntspa | 2025-08-05 22:41:12+00:00
Screw Chrome; both Safari and Chrome are inferior to Firefox' adblocking toolkit

And for the record Ublock Origin used to have a Safari extension. But that was forced to be phased out a couple of OS updates ago for reasons I can't remember.

In any case, as someone who will not touch Google's spyware browser with a ten-foot pole, it's nice to have a flagship alternative to Firefox that does decent adblocking.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-05 22:41:18+00:00
What those text mean isn't too important, it can probably be "how to make flat breads" in Amharic or "what counts as drifting" in Finnish or something like that.

What's interesting is that these questions are simultaneously well understood by most closed models and not so well understood by most open models for some reason, including this one. Even GLM-4.5 full and Air on chat.z.ai(355B-A32B and 106B-A12B respectively) aren't so accurate for the first one.
by roenxi | 2025-08-05 22:42:12+00:00
"Stupid" seems like a pretty fair way of describing that. If someone watches media that outrages them, misinforms them then causes them to make stupid decisions then the consequences are very much on their head. It is well know that the people peddling strong outrage are basically scumbags in it for the money and not the sort of people who should be listened too if you want to achieve long term success (which is mostly the domain of trusting optimists).

There are a lot of high quality media sources out there that don't promote outrage.
by gnabgib | 2025-08-05 22:42:28+00:00
Lots of BitChat discussion recently

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (795 points, 30 days ago, 402 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485342

-dupe- (23 points, 26 days ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523701

bitchat mesh on the App Store (2 points, 8 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711665
by mchiang | 2025-08-05 22:42:34+00:00
totally respect your choice, and it's a great project too. Of course as a maintainer of Ollama, my preference is to win you over with Ollama. If it doesn't meet your needs, it's okay. We are more energized than ever to keep improving Ollama. Hopefully one day we will win you back.

Ollama does not use llama.cpp anymore; we do still keep it and occasionally update it to remain compatible for older models for when we used it. The team is great, we just have features we want to build, and want to implement the models directly in Ollama. (We do use GGML and ask partners to help it. This is a project that also powers llama.cpp and is maintained by that same team)
by WalterBright | 2025-08-05 22:43:02+00:00
Around here the power goes out to the lights now and then. Interestingly, the traffic flows smoother and faster without the lights! Even the arterials! It's amazing! Drivers simply politely cooperate with each other.

(The same thing happens when a traffic cop handles the intersection.)

I'm always assured that the city traffic light engineers know what they're doing and design the lights for maximum flow. They do no such thing. They are either incompetent or deliberately set things up to impede the flow of traffic.

Most of the lights now have cameras on them. Would it be so hard to connect them up to AI with the goal of "maximize throughput"? Imagine how much gas would be saved. It would be tremendous!
by crazygringo | 2025-08-05 22:43:45+00:00
But there are lots of critiques of that supposed trilemma.

Why would beings in simulations be conscious?

Or maybe running simulations is really expensive and so it's done sometimes (more than "almost none") but only sometimes (nowhere near "we are almost certainly").

Or simulations are common but limited? You don't need to simulate a universe if all you want to do is simulate a city.

The "trilemma" is an extreme example of black-and-white thinking. In the real world, things cost resources and so there are tradeoffs -- so middle grounds are the rule, not extremes.
by andyferris | 2025-08-05 22:43:57+00:00
Claude Code is really good for this situation.

If you like an IDE, for example VS Code you can have the terminal open at the bottom and run Claude Code in that. You can put your instructions there and any edits it makes are visibile in the IDE immediately.

Personally I just keep a separate terminal open and have the terminal and VSCode open on two monitors - seems to work OK for me.
by slongfield | 2025-08-05 22:44:00+00:00
I asked it to create the kind of storybook my toddler would have asked for ("create a storybook about a music truck and an ice cream truck and a mailman and a carwash", inspired by his request for a story last night), and the results were certainly... interesting.

Obviously Gemini doesn't know that "music truck" is another name for "ice cream truck", but more concerningly, the illustrations it made for the trucks were this kind of eldritch amalgamation of Cars-movie style cars and people driving cars. The story was just OK, I don't think it would have kept my toddler's attention for the whole ten pages. Plus, the mailman is barely involved.
by tarruda | 2025-08-05 22:44:11+00:00
> Also I'm not sure if ollama supports a kv-cache between invocations of /v1/completions, which could help)

Not sure about ollama, but llama-server does have a transparent kv cache.

You can run it with

llama-server -hf ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF -c 0 -fa --jinja --reasoning-format none

Web UI at http://localhost:8080 (also OpenAI compatible API)
by agent_turtle | 2025-08-05 22:44:45+00:00
The article you gave is derived from a poll, not a study.

As for the quote, I can’t find it in the article. Can you point me to it? I did click on one of the studies and it indicated productivity gains specifically on writing tasks. Which reminded me of this recent BBC article about a copywriter making bank fixing expensive mistakes caused by AI: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o
by WalterBright | 2025-08-05 22:45:19+00:00
> I think I'd get tarred and feathered if I did that at my company.

The problem with it is the boss. Too many bosses show their dominance by how much they can force underlings to wait for them. The boss is quite capable of starting the meetings on time, and the rest will work out.

I do the same thing with chronically late people. I simply don't wait for them. The problem resolves itself.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-05 22:45:20+00:00
In my experience, a quest to be perfect is a quest to be simple and thoughtless.

When perfection is assumed (typically w/o evidence) to be the best outcome, it dismisses the need for evaluation and consideration. Collateral damage is an acceptable cost by default and nuance is a distraction to be buried.

I think perfect can be well compared to a rainbow's end. It is a mirage, seen only at a distance but can not be traveled to. It is nowhere and nothing.

Lastly, perfect is not the same thing as best. And even best is (at best) a broad indicator of where a better outcome might be. It has value as a direction to go. Perfect has not even that.
by hypertexthero | 2025-08-05 22:46:24+00:00
When playing guitar, instead of gripping the neck tightly as if your hand was a vise, grip it lightly and pull the neck toward your body instead. Make sure the action of your guitar is not too high; if it is, get it adjusted.

Listening is more important than talking, but don’t automatically believe what you hear. Find out for yourself.

Observing animals and plants can teach one about humans and living in harmony with nature’s cycles.

Some people are not capable of feeling empathy. Learn to recognize them.

Your initial intuition is often wrong about numbers and statistics and many things, even if you are an expert. Double check. Triple check. Discuss with others you trust.

A little at a time goes a long way (understanding compound interest).

Certainty leads to insanity (regarding the “trade” of life).

References:

- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

- The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music by W. A. Mathieu

- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

- The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti

- The Psychopath Code by Peter Hintjens

- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

- Fingers Pointing to the Moon by Jane English
by caseysoftware | 2025-08-05 22:46:36+00:00
We got an overview of those "efforts" a few months back and it was both comical and enraging to hear how much money and time was wasted. And this was a law+process crafted by Democrats, signed by a Democrat President, and presided over by a Democrat Administration.. they had all the pieces in place to accomplish their goals.

Ref: https://youtu.be/NcZxaFfxloo?t=990

When you have tons of paperwork and ZERO deployments (not exaggerating), there's nothing to revert.. just a lot to be disappointed by.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-08-05 22:46:47+00:00
> the unique event will be the AI having the ability to act on its own without a "prompt"

That's super easy. The reason they need a prompt is that this is the way we make them useful. We don't need LLMs to generate an endless stream of random "thoughts" otherwise, but if you really wanted to, just hook one up to a webcam and microphone stream in a loop and provide it some storage for "memories".
by samtp | 2025-08-05 22:48:03+00:00
I don't care about your workflow, that can be figured out from the 10,000 blog posts all describing the same thing. My issue is with people claiming this huge boost in productivity only to find out that they are working on code bases that have no real consequence if something fails, breaks, or doesn't work as intended.

Since my day job is creating systems that need to be operational and predictable for paying clients - examples of front end mockups, demos, apps with no users, etc don't really matter that much at the end of the day. It's like the difference between being a great speaker in a group of 3 friends vs standing up in front of a 30 person audience with your job on the line.

If you have some examples, I'd love to hear about them because I am genuinely curious.
by nahuel0x | 2025-08-05 22:48:15+00:00
C-M-% it's working for me using Emacs 30.1, the latest Kitty terminal emulator and the "kkp" emacs package (global-kkp-mode 1), check if it's enabled using "M-x kkp-status". Makes Emacs use the Kitty Keyboard Protocol (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/ ), which it's also implemented on other terminals like Wezterm.
by nevi-me | 2025-08-05 22:48:39+00:00
There's going to be a lot of undoing actions that were taken because of an old bully who thinks the world is a celebrity game show.

Surely tariffs for 3 more years are less damaging than buying a sinking ship?

South African right wing farmers sold a story of a genocide and reverse racism, now they wish losing business because their exports are more expensive from the very tariffs that are a negotiation tactic to get their government to abolish or repel sine laws.
by kalleboo | 2025-08-05 22:48:54+00:00
If you're going on a trip, just avoid signing a contract that looks like this

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Oct/22/2003569244/-1/-1/0/CG-...

> The experimental submersible vessel has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and is constructed of materials that have not been widely used for manned submersibles. As of the date of this Release, the experimental submersible vessel has conducted fewer than 90 dives

Or a contract that redefines you from a passenger to a "mission specialist"

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Sep/20/2003550574/-1/-1/0/CG-...
by jdhn | 2025-08-05 22:48:54+00:00
So you could try grouping icons into sections, labeling the sections, and then clearly delineating the space between said sections. For example, you could have small text in all bold and all caps as the section title. Another user suggested using text with the icons, which is good for accessibility. Also, looking at the first screenshot in your Github, you could completely merge the left icon only nav with the nav directly to its right. This could result in saving some space.

Also, if you really wanted to, you could move back to a more traditional top menu where you have the section title, mousing over the section would open a menu (what is now your icons), and then if needed you could have a submenu underneath (what is your left nav with the words in your first Github photo). Discoverability would potentially take a hit but it's a different way of doing it.

If you have any other questions feel free to reach out, I like doing this stuff.

Edit: Another user suggested using AI enhanced chat to navigate around. This is a sign that the information architecture is WAY too confusing. AI agents shouldn't be utilized for navigation purposes.
by cco | 2025-08-05 22:49:16+00:00
> I’m still trying to understand what is the biggest group of people that uses local AI (or will)?

Well, the model makers and device manufacturers of course!

While your Apple, Samsung, and Googles of the world will be unlikely to use OSS models locally (maybe Samsung?), they all have really big incentives to run models locally for a variety of reasons.

Latency, privacy (Apple), cost to run these models on behalf of consumers, etc.

This is why Google started shipping 16GB as the _lowest_ amount of RAM you can get on your Pixel 9. That was a clear flag that they're going to be running more and more models locally on your device.

As mentioned, it seems unlikely that US-based model makers or device manufacturers will use OSS models, they'll certainly be targeting local models heavily on consumer devices in the near future.

Apple's framework of local first, then escalate to ChatGPT if the query is complex will be the dominant pattern imo.