MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-08 16:55:45+00:00
How does this square with the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency?

Also, maybe 20 years ago, about 15% of the US public did not have a bank account at all, for various reasons, but including people who were too big of a PITA for banks to deal with. Will this sort of EO force businesses to work with people they don't want to?
by patcon | 2025-08-08 16:55:47+00:00
> One continuous difference: while GPT-5 would do lots of thinking then do something right the first time, Claude frantically tried different things — writing code, executing commands, making pretty dumb mistakes [...], but then recovering. This meant it eventually got to correct implementation with many more steps.

Sounds like Claude muddles. I consider that the stronger tactic.

I sure hope GPt-5 is muddling on the backend, else I suspect it will be very brittle.

Re: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/massed-muddler-intel...

> Lindblom’s paper identifies two patterns of agentic behavior, “root” (or rational-comprehensive) and “branch” (or successive limited comparisons), and argues that in complicated messy circumstances requiring coordinated action at scale, the way actually effective humans operate is the branch method, which looks like “muddling through” but gradually gets there, where the root ["godding through"] method fails entirely.
Show HN: Grow a Garden Stock Tracker
by incendies | 2025-08-08 16:56:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a free iOS app for players of the Roblox game “Grow a Garden.” The game has a dynamic in-game economy (like seeds, gear, and eggs) that refreshes regularly, and players often miss rare items or trade poorly due to lack of real-time info.

The app shows: - Live stock levels (with timers and weather) - Instant alerts for specific items - A community-informed trade calculator

No account/login is required. Would love feedback from anyone into game tools, economies, or just curious about lightweight mobile utilities.

Thanks!
by MoreQARespect | 2025-08-08 16:56:52+00:00
Gherkin was always a pretty bad format that made it difficult to write terse, clear spectests. Inevitably the people who used it made horribly repetitive or horribly vague gherkin files that were equally bad for BDD and testing.

This is an artefact of the language which the creators are in total denial about.

There are better languages for writing executable user stories but none very popular.
by infecto | 2025-08-08 16:57:05+00:00
You’re arguing against a point I’m not making. I’m not saying R&D isn’t necessary or that it “doesn’t exist”, I’m saying that operationally, the service itself runs at a profit before accounting for R&D. That matters because it means they have a viable revenue engine that could, in theory, fund a sustainable R&D budget if they adjusted spend.

That’s a very different conversation than “pretend R&D doesn’t matter.” No one is suggesting they stop building; the question is whether they can align the burn rate with the revenue base over time. Companies make those tradeoffs constantly when maturing from heavy investment to profitability.

And yes, you are being emotional, not because I disagree with you, but because your language is inflammatory and brutish. It’s hard to have a constructive discussion when every response is dialed to 11. Misframing the premise as “ignoring a huge cost” isn’t debate, it’s a straw man, and it sidesteps the real question of whether the underlying business model works once R&D is right-sized.

Would love to have a real critical discussion on why you disagree but please leave the bad language out of it. It’s boring and I know it’s your typical route in these types of discussions but at least have a valid retort.
by SixFeetUp | 2025-08-08 16:57:07+00:00
Watch top AI coding agents go head-to-head in “Battle of the Bots: AI Agent Showdown,” a free webinar on Tues, Aug. 19 at 1pm ET. Calvin Hendryx-Parker (Six Feet Up CTO) and Travis Frisinger (8th Light Director of AI) will test five AI coding agents — Aider, Goose, Devin, Cursor, and Claude Code — in live dev workflows and share honest, unscripted feedback. No slides. Just demos, discussion, and real-world context.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-08-08 16:57:38+00:00
I guess the idea is that you put a deductible amount of money into the account annually, and the tax-advantaged investment makes up for any difference between the deductible and the savings you get on premiums for having a HDHP (I.E. HDHP premiums + deductible - tax savings ≈ normal premiums + deductible).

It's an insane way to run health insurance, and it just goes to show that expected value and mathematical benefit isn't the end-all be-all, but it's supposedly mathematically coherent.
by anarbadalov | 2025-08-08 16:57:52+00:00
Haven't yet given this a proper read, but was motivated to find it after stumbling upon this (H/T to The Morning News newsletter): https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/08/08/and-theyre-off/

Unusual names of racehorses, collected by Paul Dickson in What’s in a Name?, 1996:

Bates Motel Disco Inferno Up Your Assets Race Horse Crashing Bore English Muffin Leo Pity Me Cold Shower T.V. Doubletalk Ranikaboo Holy Cats Hadn’t Orter Strong Strong Honeybunny Boo
by neilv | 2025-08-08 16:58:14+00:00
I used Tor for surveillance. But an appropriate kind, IMHO.

I used Tor as a small part of one of the capabilities of a supply chain integrity startup. I built a fancy scraper/crawler to discreetly monitor a major international marketplace (mainstream, not darknet), including selecting appropriate Tor exit nodes for each regional site, to try to ensure that we were seeing the same site content that people from those regions were seeing.

Tor somehow worked perfectly for those needs. So my only big concern was making sure everyone in the startup knew not to go bragging about this unusually good data we had. Since we were one C&D letter away from not being able to get the data at all.

(Unfortunately, this had to be a little adversarial with the marketplace, not done as a data-sharing partnership, since the marketplace benefited from a cut of all the counterfeit and graymarket sales that we were trying to fight. But I made sure the scraper was gentle yet effective, both to not be a jerk, and also to not attract attention.)

(I can talk about it now, since the startup ran out of runway during Covid investor skittishness.)
by tharne | 2025-08-08 16:59:16+00:00
I don't know why people keep referring to AI as a hype bubble. A bubble usually implies that the majority of the population doesn't see the hype and bubble for what it is (see the run up to the 2008 housing crisis, where everyone and their brother was flipping houses). In the case of AI, pretty much everyone outside of the tech and AI spaces has smelled the BS from get go.

Bubbles do damage when they pop and surprise everyone, but I don't think too many people outside of SV will be surprised when this train eventually goes off the tracks.

The problem here is not that there's an AI bubble, it's that the AI and tech folks are so disconnected from regular people.
by morgoths_bane | 2025-08-08 17:00:12+00:00
>Just from the fact that the LLM can/will work on the issue 24/7 vs a human who typically will want to do things like sleep, eat, and spend time not working, there would already be a noticeable increase in research speed.

Driving A to B takes 5 hours, if we get five drivers will we arrive in one hour or five hours? In research there are many steps like this (in the sense that the time is fixed and independent to the number of researchers or even how much better a researcher can be compared to others), adding in something that does not sleep nor eat isn't going to make the process more efficient.

I remember when I was an intern and my job was to incubate eggs and then inject the chicken embryo with a nanoparticle solution to then look under a microscope. In any case incubating the eggs and injecting the solution wasn't limited by my need to sleep. Additionally our biggest bottleneck was the FDA to get this process approved, not the fact that our interns required sleep to function.
Show HN: Aegis – A framework for AI-governed software development
by chavezabelino | 2025-08-08 17:00:21+00:00
Hey HN – I built a framework called Aegis to govern AI-assisted software development.

The core idea is that AI-generated code should follow the same rules as human code: versioned, validated, observable. Aegis enforces this through blueprint-based development, drift detection, and runtime compliance systems. It’s designed for teams using tools like Copilot, Kilo, or Lovable to build production systems with confidence.

This isn’t a library — it’s a way to architect AI-native engineering workflows.

Would love feedback, questions, and critiques. Especially curious if others are facing similar issues with AI output governance or system reliability in their workflows.

Happy to dive into internals or philosophy if there's interest.
by MarkusQ | 2025-08-08 17:00:25+00:00
Totally agree with the core of your position. But the two perspectives are complementary, and perhaps even more deeply linked.

Initial attempts to alleviate any shortage are likely to result in a decrease in quality; initial attempts to improve quality are likely to reduce variability and thus variety. My point (and my reading of the article) is that we're at the stage where we've figured out how to turn out enough Hostess Twinkies that "let them eat cake!" is a viable option, and starvation is being driven back.

This is definite progress, but also highlights previous failures and future work.
by fouc | 2025-08-08 17:00:52+00:00
Claude Code can be used through VS code too. As for why? Some people prefer IDEs over terminals.

Personally I think the attempts to combine LLM coding with current IDE UIs, a la Cursor/Windsurf/VS Code is probably the wrong way to go, it feels too awkward and cumbersome. I like a more interactive interface, and Claude Code is more in line with that.
by KronisLV | 2025-08-08 17:01:16+00:00
How hard would it be for the model to be like: "Okay, there's a bar chart in the picture, the left bar is 350 px in size and the right bar is 120 px. Meanwhile, the labeled values are X and Y, which doesn't seem to match those relative sizes due to this math I ran thanks to all the cool deterministic tools I have."

Apparently quite a bit.
by poulsbohemian | 2025-08-08 17:01:19+00:00
I acknowledge I'm using anecdata and deliberately telling a story to pull at your emotions, but my cousin died suddenly at 45 of a heart attack, having been skiing and surfing just weeks prior, IE: seemingly great health. But, because he had been a (successful!) self-employed person but was in a bit of a bad time (wife cheated, divorce, sudden economic shift...) he didn't have health insurance so put off going to the doctor when he had a weird symptom a week or so before he passed.

I bring this up because in this country our health insurance is broken in every way. We absolutely should be investing in preventative medicine, because doing so would not only have found things like my cousin's situation, but it would also help us ward off both the disease and cost of more chronic illness. Instead most of us dwindle along with very limited access for decades until we either get some condition that forces us into very expensive and time-consuming care, or we end up gutting whatever life savings we might have on our last few months. So is an annual physical really all that big of a deal on the surface? No, but it's emblematic of how broken our approach is to care - to put it in IT terms, we have no monitoring/observability or metrics and we only take action after we've had an incident or breach, and even then we are generally only applying patches not dealing in RCA.
by davidml | 2025-08-08 17:01:32+00:00
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by latchkey | 2025-08-08 17:02:28+00:00
That's weird. Pivotal itself had hundreds of developers using it for what was thousands of projects. It was never slow like that for us, unless they were having some sort of outage or something.

I hate to say it, but my immediate guess is that your company was using it in some fashion that it wasn't intended for. That was the real problem with the tool. Unless you actually worked at Pivotal, you never really got to learn how to use it the way they intended. The documentation was good, but nothing beats going to the source.

What is your best guess for why it got so slow?
by pjm331 | 2025-08-08 17:02:33+00:00
Made me think about John Wilkins' "philosophical language" which I first heard about in Neal Stephenson's book Quicksilver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Towards_a_Real_Charac...

I'm sure there have been countless similar attempts at categorizing knowledge

one of the more successful ones being the dewey decimal system

I have my doubts about whether the thing the OP alleges we have "failed" at is even possible at all
by asimmon | 2025-08-08 17:02:45+00:00
Author here. Even though we have different teams and products/services, there's still a baseline of "historical" code style and rule configuration at our company. Also, I personally explored the various codebases and reached out to several developers to get some feedback throughout the process.

The whole thing did not come out as a surprise for most of us. Even so, for those who were not aware of it, the benefits - as I captured screenshots of improvements highlighted from the warnings in their codebases after installing an alpha version of the package - were obvious.

Adoption was quite smooth and easy at first. Definitely not pushed onto teams for several weeks/months, until enough repos were onboarded and we had enough feedback that it would be beneficial for the whole company to use this.
by nartho | 2025-08-08 17:02:55+00:00
> See: Synthesizers, Digital Synthesizers, overdriven guitars, reverb effects (instead of recording in special rooms), Midi, Multitrack recording, studio musicians, overdubbing, digital recording, autotune.

All of those required critical thinking and knowledge from musicians

The issue is not that an artist will use AI to split tracks on an album to practice, or use AI to come up with grooves for their VSTs, the issue is that you have AI bands on streaming platforms hoping to make money. Small magazines, publications etc (see clarkesworld) are being flooded by AI slop because people want to make a quick buck. Big players want nothing more than being able to prompt a model and get free hits with nobody to credit or pay royalties to.
by Nizoss | 2025-08-08 17:03:00+00:00
Thank you for the kind words, it means a lot!

I spent my summer holiday on this because I truly believe in the potential of hooks in agentic coding. I'm equally surprised that this space hasn't been explored more.

I'm currently working on making the validation faster and more customizable, plus adding reporters to support more languages.

I think there is an Amazon backed vscode forked that is also exploring this space. I think they market it as spec driven development.

Edit: I found it, its called Kiro: https://kiro.dev/
by grafmax | 2025-08-08 17:03:13+00:00
Workers savings doesn’t change the fundamental dynamic. Their savings are dwarfed by those of their bosses. So when stocks double, workers, even accounting for savings, benefit far less in absolute terms than owners. Assets under capitalism follow a Pareto distribution - a minority owns a majority of the wealth.

And having $100 in savings doesn’t free someone from wage labor.
by antithesizer | 2025-08-08 17:04:26+00:00
The essential meaning of technological progress is the utter inadequacy of humanity. We build cars that we never figure out how to safely drive, but being to arrogant to admit defeat and reconstruct society around trams like a sensible animal would do, we wait a century for cars that can drive themselves while the bodies pile up on the freeways in the meantime.

Yes it's true, we can't make a UI. Or a personal computer, or anything else that isn't deeply opaque to its intended users. But it's so much worse than that. We humans can't do hardly anything successfully besides build technology and beat each other in an ever expanding array of ridiculous pissing contests we call society.
by armitron | 2025-08-08 17:04:59+00:00
This is a massive cope. AI image/video slop is still slop. Yes it's getting better, but it's still better .. slop. Unless radical new breakthroughs are made, the current LLM paradigm will not outdo Pixar or any other apex of human creativity. It'll always be instantly recognizable, as slop.

And if we allow it to take over society, we'll end up with a society that's also slop. Netflixification/marvelization only much much worse..
by gmueckl | 2025-08-08 17:04:59+00:00
These models aren't rigorously deriving the future state of a system from a quantitative model based in physical theories. Their understanding of the natural environment around is in line the innate understanding that animals and humams have that is based on the experience of living in an environment that follows deterministic patterns. It is easy learn that a river flows faster in the middle by empirical observation. But that is not correlated with a deeper understanding of hydrodynmics.
by horsawlarway | 2025-08-08 17:05:06+00:00
I just want to point out that your argument is now contradictory.

You're stating that networks and latency will only improve, and that this is a reason to prefer SSR.

You're also stating that 50kb feels too heavy.

But at 8kb of SSR'd plaintext, you're ~6 page loads away from breaking even with the 50kb of content that will be cached locally, and you yourself are arguing that the transport for that 50kb is only getting better.

Basically: you're arguing it's not a problem to duplicate all the data for the layout on every page load because networks are good and getting better. But also arguing that the network isn't good enough to load a local-first layout engine once, even at low multiples of your page size.

So which is it?

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Entirely separate of the "rest of the owl" argument, with which I agree.
by epistasis | 2025-08-08 17:05:20+00:00
I literally do not care at all if there's a profit based system or not. It is completely immaterial to me. Both profit driven system and non-profit systems are successful around the world at delivering universal care.

That you are more focused on profit than on providing care to people is a definite difference. It is funny that you somehow think you could be disrespecting me in this exchange, because I think that putting people first is the only defensible position, and that your position of prioritizing a particular political bent over the health of people is ultimately extremely disrespectful to people and incompatible with leftist politics, liberal politics, or basic human decency.

Tl;dr putting profits over people is wrong, but so is putting profit-elimination over people. People first, everything else comes from that.
by cnst | 2025-08-08 17:05:40+00:00
That's just excuses that ignore the fact that AWS was never popular even before any of these restrictions came about.

Many of the providers on those lists are older than AWS, and/or have been in business for many years since before 2010, many for 20 years or more, long before the data sovereignty concerns went mainstream all around the world in the last 10 years.
by dabockster | 2025-08-08 17:06:13+00:00
I can replicate almost all of cloud based vibe coding with the Roo Code extension for VS Code and a Qwen Coder model file from HuggingFace, all running on my gaming computer. And I usually get better code quality than almost every cloud based coding agent I've tried.

That right there says a lot about where we are with AI now. We have AI models that can run on off-the-shelf name brand computers (think a Dell or HP tower at a Best Buy) with about the same memory footprint as a few Chrome tabs. Yeah, it'll be slow and stutter like crazy at only a few tokens per second of output. But it still works in the first place.

And that's the important part here. The fact that local on-device AI is here, it can produce output superior to cloud platforms in general, and it's only going to get better over time (especially zero shot training techniques - look it up). These firms' products are expensive developer front ends to some of the most expensive and proprietary models on the market - that they have to rent themselves. Why use them as a middle man when I can either go to the model provider directly or bring my own model?

Also, this trend of fully forking VS Code needs to stop. These coding apps could have been VS Code extensions, which would let devs have access to all of Microsoft's proprietary tooling. And the apps feel vibe coded themselves overall.
by matwood | 2025-08-08 17:06:16+00:00
> Honestly I think this stuff goes very under-reported.

It's not under-reported generally, it's that a large portion of the population only watches certain news channels that do not report what's going on. That's why the Epstein case is such a big issue for Trump, because it's been pushed so hard by the news his supporters watch. They don't care about the blatant corruption on a scale never seen because they don't know about it. But Epstein is a foundational MAGA conspiracy.
by ttemPumpinRary | 2025-08-08 17:06:40+00:00
You need view or gesture pointers to go make "go from here to there" meaningful . A standalone sound interface will always fail .

And for 3d space it needs ai, as omly ai can deduce the depth along the view axis by analysing context.

Then you need a cubic volume selection . With a relational addition .

"a,3,5 Select all except resting drones and fly to here."
by diet_jerome | 2025-08-08 17:06:53+00:00
I disagree. The root problem that causes high prices of food/housing/healthcare is the lack of supply for food/housing/healthcare. The root problem that causes low supply of food/housing/healthcare is government regulation. There is enormous market incentive to provide more food/housing/healthcare, increase supply, and decrease prices. However, governments have made it difficult or impossible for the market to provide more food/housing/healthcare. Even if someone's paycheck is the same over 30 years, if the prices of things go down (as they have for nearly all products and services except food/housing/healthcare), their purchasing power would increase and they are by definition wealthier.
by quijoteuniv | 2025-08-08 17:06:53+00:00
Today I used GPT-5 for some OpenTelemetry Collector configs that both Claude and OpenAI models struggled with before and it was surprisingly impressive. It got the replies right on the first try. Previously, both had been tripped up by outdated or missing docs (OTel changes so quickly).

For home projects, I wish I could have GPT-5 plugged into Claude’s code CLI interface. iteration just works! Looking forward to less baby sitting in the future!
by zeroCalories | 2025-08-08 17:06:53+00:00
How is he 51, managing 150 people, and not financially independent? Americans need to learn that you can't guarantee employment stability. You need to live FAR below your means. He should have sold his home and down sized before letting himself fall behind on a mortgage, and his wife should have been out doing doordash too. Stay at home wife is for the rich.