MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by foldr | 2025-08-05 14:35:04+00:00
No-one can rationally justify their basic values. If you think there’s no inherent value in learning about the universe we live in then I won’t argue with you. Just as you wouldn’t argue with someone who denied that money was valuable.

You’re assuming that modern programmable digital computers would have arrived at the same point in time even if the theoretical foundations from Frege and Babbage onwards had never been laid (and that we would have had just as much success programming them to do what we wanted). Possible, but hardly something that can be assumed. And of course, Church and Turing’s seminal work predates the advent of programmable digital computers, contrary to what you appear to be suggesting.

As for computer science, the US made the biggest investment in it and got the biggest rewards. It doesn’t seem like an example that supports your claim.
by adolph | 2025-08-05 14:35:12+00:00
Those who are not aware of the mythical man month's silver bullet are condemned to rewrite it.

The amount of product ideation, story point negotiation, bugfixing, code review, waiting for deployments, testing, and QA in that go into what was traditionally 3 months of work is now getting done in 7 work days? For that to happen each and every one of these bottlenecks has to also seen have 10x productivity gains.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-05 14:35:24+00:00
Dude, you're 25. You're just at the very start of your life.

But since you're worried about "being behind" and "not making it", perhaps you should reflect on what you mean by those things. You're "behind" what? How do you define success and failure?

In any case, my advice to you is that you're just getting started. It's far too soon to seriously fear failure in your life. The important thing in anything isn't the current state, it's the trendline. As long as you are moving in the general direction of your goals, you'll be fine.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-05 14:35:41+00:00
>The big problem is that universities basically never hire or promote based on a persons teaching ability.

Because they aren't intended to be educational. Universities (as they are run today) are primarily grant-revenue capture organizations, secondarily research organizations (at least to the degree necessary that grant money doesn't dry up because of fraudulent spending accusations), and finally after that, a begrudged effort is made at education for optics. If they could ditch the education angle entirely, they'd send the students home tomorrow.
by recursive | 2025-08-05 14:35:42+00:00
I use tab auto complete, and i think it's a 5% productivity gain. On a good day, maybe 10%. I haven't put much effort into optimizing the setup or learning advanced usage patterns or anything. I'm using stock copilot, provided by my employer. If I had to pay for it, I wouldn't be using it, as it doesn't justify the cost.
by lightweb | 2025-08-05 14:36:23+00:00
LLMs still leave something to be desired for DevOps related work; infrastructure code. There is still not really enough context available when crossing the division between the hardware, OS, and software.

For Terraform, specifically, Claude 4 can get thrown into infinite recursive loops trying to solve certain issues within the bounds of the language. Claude still tries to add completely invalid procedures into things like templates.

It does seem to work a bit better for standard application programming tasks.
by st_goliath | 2025-08-05 14:36:44+00:00
> Early mainboards...

... like in the PC AT, PC XT[1] or the Compaq DeskPro 386[2] that the article discusses didn't have those ports at all.

Those were instead on ISA expansion cards, just like the floppy controller that would often share a card with the UART controller for the serial interface.

[1] https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ibm-xt-type-5160-64-2...,

[2] https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/compaq-deskpro-386-20...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-05 14:37:28+00:00
Chase Bank is partnering with Coinbase, and is one of the largest commercial banks in the country. Now, I'm unsure what the UX is going to look like in my Chase iOS app vs Coinbase app, but that is a strong signal of directionality. If I can send money globally in a few clicks with Chase and TransferWise, I expect to be able to get fiat onto crypto rails (including stablecoins) pretty quick in a similar fashion soon. Chase already supports RTP and FedNow for domestic dollar instant payment rails, but if Coinbase maintains an account with them (any bank, really, who wants to support this), a book entry will do for immediate funds availability.

My mental model is "what is the least friction to get value from fiat stores to uncensored value transfer rails" on this topic.

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/Coinbase-and-JPMorgan-Chase-jo...

> Beginning this fall, you’ll be able to use Chase credit cards to fund your Coinbase account. Beginning in 2026, you’ll be able to redeem Chase Ultimate Rewards Points to fund your Coinbase account. For the first time, points from a major credit card rewards program will be redeemable for crypto rewards. Beginning in 2026, you’ll be able to directly link your Chase account to Coinbase. Chase customers will be able to seamlessly link their bank accounts to Coinbase for another fast, easy way to buy crypto - in addition to all of our existing integrations.

(As of 2023, Chase had 18.5 million checking accounts. In 2024, Chase opened nearly 2 million net new checking accounts. In July 2025, it was reported that JPMorgan Chase holds the largest total deposits among US banks, totaling over $2T; not a JPMC fan by any means, but they are the Goliath of commercial banks as it stands)
by samfeldman | 2025-08-05 14:37:47+00:00
Yeah nicely said, it's currently in a middle area between a big app vs an app that's not used at all.

So far most of the birthdays.app users have come from X ads (ex: https://x.com/sam_feldman_/status/1930488932132671529) and some from Google Ads, organic search, etc.

I'm now starting to think in terms of high-leverage videos that celebrate strangers on their birthdays (that are more likely to spread based on merit / wholesomeness rather than ad budget alone). Here's an example of one of these videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSOt2_dIiPI)—hoping to keep iterating and testing out various ideas (with the same core idea of celebrating strangers on their birthdays).

Thanks for your comment, and feel free to let me know if you have any ideas or follow up questions :)
by crinkly | 2025-08-05 14:38:12+00:00
Sometimes. It's usually a lot bigger than that the moment you pull in any simple dependencies. Also the CLR memory overhead is horrible. Our .Net guys have serious problems with startup time (JIT) and initialy latency on .Net Core so I don't trust the fast claim. And no you can't just AOT everything.

We moved a couple of critical services over to Go because of those two issues and it turned a few heads.
by nurettin | 2025-08-05 14:38:23+00:00
Here's my workflow (if I feel like using claude)

Me: Here's the relevant part of the code, add this simple feature.

Opus: here's the modified code blah blah bs bs

Me: Will this work?

Opus: There's a fundamental flaw in blah bleh bs bs here's the fix, but I only generate part of the code, go hunt for the lines to make the changes yourself.

Me: did you change anything from the original logic?

Opus: I added this part, do you want me to leave it as it was?

Me: closes chat
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-05 14:38:32+00:00
Something I've noticed from living most of my life in rural areas but part of it in cities is that urbanites have very strange ideas of what rural life is like (at least in the US). Rural people usually have some idea of city life because they lived in a city for some time, perhaps while at college or pursuing a career in their youth before moving back to the country. But urbanites often have no personal experience of rural life at all, so their notions come from entertainment media created by other urbanites. They end up with a weird caricature that has more in common with Deliverance than it does reality.

I used to try to educate them, but then I realized that would just encourage them to move to the country, so I stopped.
Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases
by juliangoetze | 2025-08-05 14:38:36+00:00
Hey HN, we're Julian and Glenn, and we're building stagewise (https://stagewise.io), a frontend coding agent that lives inside your browser on localhost and operates on local codebases.

You can spawn the agent into locally running web apps in dev mode with `npx stagewise` from the project root. The agent lets you then click on HTML Elements in your app, enter prompts like 'increase the height here' and will implement the changes in your source code.

Before stagewise, we were building a vertical SaaS for logistics from scratch and loved using prototyping tools like v0 or lovable to get to the first version. But when switching from v0/ lovable to Cursor for local development, we felt like the frontend magic was gone. So, we decided to build stagewise to bring that same magic to local development.

The first version of stagewise just forwarded a prompt with browser context to existing IDEs and agents (Cursor, Cline, ..) and went viral on X after we open sourced it. However, the APIs of existing coding agents were very limiting, so we figured that building our own agent would unlock the full potential of stagewise.

Here's how it works: When you run `npx stagewise`, our cli proxies your running web application in dev mode and injects a toolbar containing the coding agent on top of it. Each prompt you send will be enriched with browser context and sent to our cli, which will call our backend and modify the source code of your local codebase accordingly.

Here's a demo of our agent changing the login UI of Cal.com, a popular open-source meeting scheduling app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkDcAozK9L4.

So far, we've seen great adoption from non-technical users who wanted to continue building their lovable prototype locally. We personally use the agent almost daily to make changes to our landing page and to build the UI of new features on our console (https://console.stagewise.io).

If you have an app running in dev mode, simply `cd` into the app directory and run `npx stagewise` - the agent should appear, ready to play with.

We're very excited to hear your feedback!
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-05 14:38:47+00:00
> as it means a lot of energy has been misdirected.

Mastercard was involved* in the censorship of Steam games, according to Steam’s statement quoted here:

https://www.thegamer.com/steam-adult-game-ban-valve-says-mas...

So whence “energy has been misdirected”?

*: Yes, we can quibble about who was “actually responsible”, were the various intermediaries overzealous, etc., but it’s enough to note that in the counterfactual where Mastercard doesn’t have a rule 5.12.7, there is no censorship of Steam in this manner.
by AlexandrB | 2025-08-05 14:39:00+00:00
The whole "publish or perish" paradigm has commodified scientific research. My theory is that the pre-WWI paradigm of academia being mainly for rich kids who could afford to devote their life to science did not scale, but it also had fewer issues with "making stuff up" since scientists were in it for the love of the game rather than making a living. I don't think we should go back to that model, but the MBA-inspired approach of treating "scientist" as a fungible role in a system and trying to apply metrics like citations to measure "impact" is doomed to fail in my opinion.
by danbruc | 2025-08-05 14:39:00+00:00
Of course, they will not get paid for me visiting the website if I block the ads, but that was not my point. People have already bought stuff and with that paid for the ad budget. And that money will be spent somewhere. Maybe someone else will see the ad that I blocked, someone who would otherwise not have seen it because the ad budget would have been exhausted. Or maybe the prices for ads go up because there are less impressions to sell. Only if companies would lower their ad budgets in response to ad blocking would there be less money to distribute. If that would be the case, then my argument would fail.
by 2d8a875f-39a2-4 | 2025-08-05 14:39:22+00:00
Only vibe-coding influencers were ever talking about 10x multipliers.

Internally we expected 15%-25%. A big-3 consultancy told senior leadership "35%-50%" (and then tried to upsell an AI Adoption project). And indeed we are seeing 15%-35% depending on which part of the org you look and how you measure the gains.
by modeless | 2025-08-05 14:39:25+00:00
Consistency over multiple minutes and it runs in real time at 720p? I did not expect world models to be this good yet.

> Genie 3’s consistency is an emergent capability

So this just happened from scaling the model, rather than being a consequence of deliberate architecture changes?

Edit: here is some commentary on limitations from someone who tried it: https://x.com/tejasdkulkarni/status/1952737669894574264

> - Physics is still hard and there are obvious failure cases when I tried the classical intuitive physics experiments from psychology (tower of blocks).

> - Social and multi-agent interactions are tricky to handle. 1vs1 combat games do not work

> - Long instruction following and simple combinatorial game logic fails (e.g. collect some points / keys etc, go to the door, unlock and so on)

> - Action space is limited

> - It is far from being a real game engines and has a long way to go but this is a clear glimpse into the future.

Even with these limitations, this is still bonkers. It suggests to me that world models may have a bigger part to play in robotics and real world AI than I realized. Future robots may learn in their dreams...
by satvikpendem | 2025-08-05 14:39:27+00:00
Starbucks actually does not want you to just do a mobile order, it's often cited as a reason for their lowered sales. This is a rather long podcast interview with Howard Schultz so search for the line "Ben: Of course. All right. While we’re in technology land, I think today 33% of Starbucks orders are done with mobile order and pay." and you'll see where that conversation about mobile ordering ruining third places exists.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/starbucks-with-howard-schul...
by accrual | 2025-08-05 14:39:29+00:00
This should disable the start menu web search on Windows 11. It's one of the first .reg tweaks I apply to a new system:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions"=dword:00000001
by efields | 2025-08-05 14:39:43+00:00
In a week, Claude Code and I have built a PoC Rails App for a significant business use case. I intend to formally demo it for buy-in tomorrow after already doing a short "is this kind of what you're looking for?" walkthrough last week. From here, I intend to "throw it over the fence" for my staff, RoR and full-stack devs, to pick it apart and/or improve what they want to in order to bring it from 80-100% over the next two months. If they want to rewrite it from scratch, that's on the table.

It's not a ground-breaking app, its CRUD and background jobs and CSV/XLSX exports and reporting, but I found that I was able to "wireframe" with real code and thus come up with unanswered questions, new requirements, etc. extremely early in the project.

Does that make me a 10x engineer? Idk. If I wasn't confident working with CC, I would have pushed back on the project in the first place unless management was willing to devote significant resources to this. I.e. "is this really a P1 project or just a nice to have?" If these tools didn't exist I would have written spec's and excalidraw or Sketch/Figma wireframes that would have taken me at least the same amount of time or more, but there'd be less functional code for my team to use as a resource.
by user____name | 2025-08-05 14:39:44+00:00
> To do it, we completely abandon the PDF text-structure and only use the individual location of each letter. Then we combine letter positions to words, words to lines, and lines to text-blocks using a number of algorithms. We use the structure blocks that we generated with machine learning afterwards, so this is just the first step in analyzing the page.

Do you happen to have any sources for learning more about the piecing together process? E.g. the overal process and the algorithms involved etc. It sounds like an interesting problem to solve.
by generalizations | 2025-08-05 14:39:50+00:00
In many ways this feels like average software engineers telling on themselves. If you know the tech you're building, and you're good at splitting up your work, then you know ahead of time where the complexity is and you can tell the AI what level of granularity to build at. AI isn't magic; there is an upper limit to the complexity of a program that e.g. Sonnet 4 can write at once. If you can grok that limit, and you can grok the tech of your project, then you can tell the AI to build individual components that stay below that threshold. That works really well.
by ramon156 | 2025-08-05 14:40:25+00:00
Sorry if this is grumpy, but I'm tired of seeing so many blogposts making the same conclusion from the dev's side

LLMs make writing code quick, that's it. There's nothing more to this. LLMs aren't solutioning nor are they smart. If you know what you want to build, you can build quick. Not good, quick.

That said, if managers don't care about code quality (because customer's don't care either) then who am I to judge them. I don't care.

I'm on the edge of just blacklisting the word AI from my feed.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-05 14:40:25+00:00
Naively, I was assuming TSMC would still operate like TSMC, not the Taliban, and that they'd focus on doing their work, not religious performance, but I guess anything is possible!

Suggesting TSMC start operating like the Taliban to protect their trade secrets seems like an obviously bad idea, though.

But we don't live in a vacuum, so I guess it's all just opinion pieces.
by cnst | 2025-08-05 14:40:28+00:00
> The funny thing is, I've been using ChatGPT throughout this entire process and it failed to inform me of al this at the beginning, so clearly there's more tailored guides needed for people to pick the right thing.

So, you want someone to write a guide, but you admit you're not gonna read it or click on any affiliate links, because you'll just get that info from ChatGPT?

I think this is a problem we're gonna have with the AI age.

If the only consumer of information, is AI, who will be watching the ads and clicking the links to support all the content production?
by piperswe | 2025-08-05 14:40:38+00:00
Trixie is under a heavy freeze right now; just about all that's changing between now and the 9th are critical bug fixes. Yeah it's not ideal for Proxmox to release an OS based on Trixie this early, but nothing's really going to change in the next few days on the Debian side except for final release ISOs being uploaded
by jongjong | 2025-08-05 14:40:39+00:00
AI is making 10x developers 10x more productive and is making 0.1x devs 0.1x times as productive.

When I use Claude Code on my personal projects, it's like it can read my mind. As if my project is coding itself. It's very succinct and consistent. I just write my prompt and then I'm just tapping the enter key; yes, yes, yes, yes.

I also used Claude Code on someone else's code and it was not the same experience. It kept trying to implement dirty hacks to fix stuff but couldn't get very far with that approach. I had to keep reminding it "Please address the root cause" or "No hacks" or "Please take a step back and think harder about this problem." There was a lot of back-and-forth where I had to ask it to undo stuff and I had to step in and manually make certain changes.

I think part of the issue is that LLMs are better at adding complexity than at removing it. When I was working on the bad codebase, the times I had to manually intervene, the solution usually involved deleting some code or CSS. Sometimes the solution was really simple and just a matter of deleting a couple of lines of CSS but it couldn't figure it out no matter how I wrote the prompt or even if I hinted at the solution; it kept trying to solve problems by adding more code on top.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-05 14:41:05+00:00
> The recent TEA app leak is a good example of vibe coding gone wrong

Weren't there 2 or 3 dating apps that were launched before the "vibecoding" craze that went extremely popular and got extremely hacked weeks/months in? I also distinctly remember a social network having firebase global tokens on the clientside, also a few years ago.
by wonderwonder | 2025-08-05 14:41:11+00:00
I work remotely for a fortune 250 company and am on a project with 50+ devs. They are all offshore and I generally work on solo assignments. I go days, sometimes weeks without talking to anyone else including my onshore director. We have a weekly 1:1 scheduled and they are cancelled every week. I generally only end up speaking to him less than 10 times over the year.

Its gotten to the point where If I have get a meeting on my calendar all I feel is irritation.

I lost all my real life friends 10+ years ago once I had kids and I have worked remotely for the same period of time. I can literally go weeks without talking to anyone besides my kids and wife. I don't leave the house unless its to go to the gym or to take the kids to sports. In the gym I'm just head phones on and head down. Just got back from a mini vacation with my wife to a beach resort and all everyone spoke to me about was my physique. I had nothing to respond to them with. I honestly feel like an alien sometimes.

Very strange days.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-05 14:41:15+00:00
My Renault Megane is a bit inbetween I think. You definitely notice it trying to get you where it wants.

But if you're holding the steering wheel normally, ie not just with two fingers, you're easily able to keep it steady.

Another feature I think is suboptimal is the auto emergency breaking. It gets confused when there is strong shadows from an overpass or similar, or winding roads with wide vehicles like campers in opposite lanes, and stomps on the breaks. However when it works it can be a positive...
by blacklion | 2025-08-05 14:41:22+00:00
Nah, you can purchase anything legal (and adult content is legal in many jurisdictions).

Problem is, different classes of goods and/or services have very different rates. Like, if you sell grocery it is 1%, if you sell computer games it is 2.5% and if your sell adult content it is 5% if you can see physical card (you are magazine stall with adult magazines) and 7% if you don't see card (on-line sell). Numbers are totally made up by me here, BTW, but principle is the same.

You see, Visa and MC are credit card system, so if transaction was done by stolen card (and probability of that event depends on the goods sold and type of point of sale) and it was charged back by proper card owner, it is Visa/MC who pays for troubles.

It is what why proper transaction coding is so enforced.

Many (a lot) of transactions are with effectively debit cards (overdraft limit is set to 0.0 by issuer bank), but technically any Visa (not Electron) and MC (not Maesto) card is credit one.

On the other hand, I didn't hear about successful charge backs for many years. Like, 20 years ago it was trivial with good European bank (one phone call, zero paper work — I seen this several times in person!), and now it is much harder.

And one more question: why do we need payment processors at all?! I don't need it to pay with my card, why do I need to accept payments? Why banks don't want to be payment processors directly for their clients? Why do we need these MitM?