MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-08-09 15:59:15+00:00
Back in the late 90s Geocities era, I did like surprise music on personal pages… but also I had bad taste in music at that point because I was an edgy goth teenager with limited experience.

None of us kids back then were any better.

The teachers were going to physically cut the speaker wires in each machine in the computer suite due to all the out-of-sync MIDI renditions of Beverly Hills Cop / Axel F theme before they figured out another solution.
by Snarwin | 2025-08-09 15:59:25+00:00
import std.meta: AliasSeq; enum E { a, b, c } void handle(E e) { // Need label to break out of 'static foreach' Lswitch: final switch (e) { static foreach (ab; AliasSeq!(E.a, E.b)) { case ab: handleAB(); // No comptime switch in D static if (ab == E.a) handleA(); else static if (ab == E.b) handleB(); else static assert(false, "unreachable"); break Lswitch; } case E.c: handleC(); break; } }
by Argonaut998 | 2025-08-09 16:00:14+00:00
It depends how you use it. If you exclusively used 4o and o3 then it is better now. But if you’re like me who used all models it’s worse. 4.5 was amazing for writing and still far better than ChatGPT 5. 5 thinking is probably better than o3, but I used mini-high for minor thinking tasks. That’s just not possible anymore due to the quota.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-09 16:00:36+00:00
> not everyone can be an owner

Anyone with $10 and a phone can be an owner of the means of production (by buying stock).

> It's meaningless to say

The meaning is the massive improvement in the standard of living due to free markets.

BTW, if being "poor" means being in the bottom quintile of income, there will always be "poor" people, regardless of how well they live.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-08-09 16:00:46+00:00
> We can’t see x-rays, so should doctors just have to guess at where your bones are broken?

Hey if I wanted to see strawmen, I'd watch The Wizard of Oz instead of trying to have this conversation.

Actually, I'm unsure why you're arguing with me. I literally said you were both right. Unless your stance is that GP's definition of art is incorrect? If so, that's a far more slippery slope than I wish to go down and I bid ye adieu.
by GhostDrift | 2025-08-09 16:00:46+00:00
I’ve just uploaded my new manuscript to Zenodo: A Short Proof of the ABC Conjecture for a Set of Density One https://zenodo.org/records/16786092

The proof was mock peer-reviewed by GPT-5 Thinking, which concluded the argument is rigorous. For additional confirmation, Gemini Pro independently reached the same conclusion.

Core ingredients: – Deterministic Markov threshold – Normal-order lower bound for () – Standard φ-weighted lifting

PDF and both AI review snapshots are included in the Zenodo record. Discussion and scrutiny welcome.
by righthand | 2025-08-09 16:01:05+00:00
Because he’s not a locksmith, he is a contracted technician that performs duties in the illegal absence of a building super. There are more details to my case that will just make your jaw drop more but I chose to keep focused on the fundamentals. And yes if I owned the apartment I would not want property management having a key. However I include that detail to indicate how poorly managed my building is without listing off 10 other things.
by emrahcom | 2025-08-09 16:01:50+00:00
The results are a bit different on my side. I've been doing intermittent fasting (23:1) since 2019 (~6 years). During this period, I did IF (46:2) for a year (one meal every two days).

I have never been overweight in my life but I lost ~10 kg in the first year and my weight has remained stable since then. I haven't measured it, but my body fat percentage is probably around 15%.

By the way I do moderate exercise every days. Walking at very slow speed for 3-4 hours or swimming for an hour. My muscle mass is always increasing, albeit slowly.
by canerdogan | 2025-08-09 16:01:56+00:00
Feels like you might be overthinking this. Most of the tools you listed already cover 90% of what you’re asking for. If you’re starting a SaaS from scratch and haven’t got a single user yet, sinking too much time into picking the “perfect” auth solution will slow you down more than making a “wrong” choice ever will. The bigger risk is not shipping at all.

I’ve worked with Supabase, Clerk, Keycloak, and Kratos on different projects. None of the open-source options truly deliver on “low management overhead”. You’ll always have to deal with updates, patches, and some manual babysitting.

If you refuse to compromise on your feature list, your realistic options shrink fast. In that case, Zitadel is a solid choice, but be ready for higher costs from day one. My advice is to trim the must-have list, go with a managed service, get real users, and revisit the decision when scale actually becomes a problem.
by mindslight | 2025-08-09 16:02:03+00:00
I don't really understand what you mean here, because I don't really know what you specifically mean by Torment Nexus. It wasn't bad for a rhetorical technique of pointing out the incentive-attractor(s) that we're already suffering (Mammon, the orphan grinder, etc), but the term doesn't really work for analyzing technicals unless you spell it out.

In general, now that the pump has been fully primed for capital to flow into developing "AI", I do not see how copyright law is going to make much of a dent in that trend. Nor do I see how "AI" companies are going to make a dent in copyright law for anyone but themselves. I foresee large "AI" companies being essentially unbound on training over small-owner copyrighted works, upstart "AI" companies needing to pay into a hefty protection racket, and individuals still bound by imaginary property laws whether directly (old fashioned piracy) or when using common genAI (sorry Dave, I can't do that).

I just ran into a situation where ChatGPT refused to quote me the relevant bit of the electrical code for my state (supposedly binding law), because those laws were created by wholesale importing the "National Electrical Code" which is copyrighted. At best, the situation is an open legal question. And yet de facto there is still a restriction that prevents me from using the tool to engage with the law in good faith.
by exe34 | 2025-08-09 16:02:10+00:00
> Checking is usually faster than writing from scratch

Famous last words. Checking trivial code for trivial bugs, yes. In science, you can have very subtle bugs that bias your results in ways that aren't obvious for a while until suddenly you find yourself retracting papers.

I've used LLMs to write tedious code (that should probably have been easier if the right API had been thought through), but when it comes to the important stuff, I'll probably always write an obviously correct version first and then let the LLM try to make a faster/more capable version, that I can check against the correct version.
by sowbug | 2025-08-09 16:02:13+00:00
The electrical is relatively easy. It's not much harder than replacing a frayed power cord on a lamp (with an extra wire if the unit is 220 rather than 110).

Managing the lineset is the scary part (though it's not that hard). You're vacuuming copper lines that you've hopefully sealed correctly. If you get that wrong and your refrigerant yeets off into the sky, you have to call in help because it's hard for an unlicensed person to get the refrigerant legally. That half-hour of work and ~$1 of materials will cost you a punitive amount of money.
by anonymousiam | 2025-08-09 16:02:16+00:00
It depends upon how you define "success." I visit California regularly, and since the new minimum wage law went into effect, I've noticed reduced hours, reduced staff, and increased prices. So now my normal breakfast spot isn't open when I want to go there, so I eat at home. The places I visit when they are open are mostly empty, because the customers don't want to wait longer and/or pay higher prices.

So aside from the fewer employees getting a raise, the businesses are now under financial stress because of the reduced revenue, the customers have fewer options for where to eat, and the State of California and the local city/county governments will receive less tax revenue from these restaurants.

Like most of the other recent California legislation, it's a "success" at further damaging the local economy and encouraging people like myself to stay away.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-09 16:02:28+00:00
>Humans are statistical models too in an appropriate sense.

No, we aren't and I'm getting tired of this question begging and completely wrong statement. Human beings are capable of what Kant in fancy words called "transcendental apperception", we're already bringing our faculties to bear on experience without which the world would make no sense to us.

What that means in practical terms for programming problems of this kind is that, we can say "I don't know", which the LLM can't, because there's no "I", in the LLM, no unified subject that can distinguish what it knows and what it doesn't, what's within its domain of knowledge or outside.

>If you take the time to define "know", "think", and "deduct", you will find it difficult to argue current LLMs do not do these things

No, only if you don't spend the time to think about what knowledge is you'd make such a statement. What enables knowledge, which is not raw data but synthesized, structured cognition, is the faculties of the mind a priori categories we bring to bear on data.

That's why these systems are about as useless as a monkey with a typewriter when you try to have them work on manual memory management in C, because that's less of a task in auto completion and requires you to have in your mind a working model of the machine.
by pkaye | 2025-08-09 16:02:32+00:00
Private equity has been buying out HVAC companies in the US. The technician are forced to drive up sales. So instead of repairing something, they now recommend new equipment. I saw this difference in behavior at an HVAC company I used for a 10 years. The owners were retiring and the private equity bought them out. You really have to go by word of mouth and seek out the smaller companies.

Similar thing happened for Veterinary care clinics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HVAC/comments/16asntf/lets_talk_abo...
by mindslight | 2025-08-09 16:02:37+00:00
Musk certainly shares responsibility, but focusing responsibility on him lets others escape blame - eg Trump, Congress, the corpo and individual edgelord enablers sanguine about chaos, etc.

And frankly, it's sad enough for Musk already - richest guy in the world, he could have actually done something politically on his own, and yet he still ends up being used as a useful idiot scapegoat by a con artist. "But Trump promised he cared about the debt!!1!1!"
by mc32 | 2025-08-09 16:02:38+00:00
That’s how we manage them now. I mean before we had that program, we dealt with the pest/infestation that way and we can in the future too if need be to combat what’s getting through. Obviously neutralizing them down in the isthmus is preferred but we’re seeing them come up from Mexico now. So if you have a minor infestation that’s how you treat it to address whatever gets missed by the sterilization program.

It doesn’t render the cattle or meat from the cattle useless. Obviously if affected cattle are untreated they will succumb to the pest.
by jhYYY | 2025-08-09 16:02:43+00:00
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by jpc0 | 2025-08-09 16:03:01+00:00
If that same intern, when asked something, responded that they checked, gave you a link to a document they claim have the proof / answer but does in fact no and continued to do that they wouldn’t be an intern very long. But somehow this is acceptable behaviour for an AI?

I use AI for sure, but only on things that I can easily verify is correct (run a test or some code ), because I have had the AI give me functions in an API with links to online documentation for those functions, the document exists, the function is not in it, when called out instead of doing a basic tool call the AI will double down that it is correct and you the human are wrong. That would get an intern fired but here you are standing on the interns side.
by zahlman | 2025-08-09 16:03:15+00:00
I have to wonder: if you indeed believe that reality is not external to your mind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism_syndrome), then why are your submissions to HN dominated by reports of unpleasant things going on in the world and calls to action (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=burnt-resistor)? Why not just imagine a better world for yourself?
by seba_dos1 | 2025-08-09 16:03:38+00:00
Unless what you work on is very simple and mostly mindless, using tools like Claude Code is the exact opposite of how to make the current SotA LLMs useful for coding. The models can help and boost your productivity, but it doesn't happen by letting them do more stuff autonomously. Quite the contrary.

And when what you usually work on actually is very simple and mostly mindless, you'd probably benefit more from doing it yourself, so you can progress beyond the junior stuff one day.
by gallerdude | 2025-08-09 16:03:42+00:00
> OpenAI researcher Noam Brown on hallucination with the new IMO reasoning model:

> Mathematicians used to comb through model solutions because earlier systems would quietly flip an inequality or tuck in a wrong step, creating hallucinated answers.

> Brown says the updated IMO reasoning model now tends to say “I’m not sure” whenever it lacks a valid proof, which sharply cuts down on those hidden errors.

> TLDR, the model shows a clear shift away from hallucinations and toward reliable, self‑aware reasoning.

Source: https://x.com/chatgpt21/status/1950606890758476264
by Karliss | 2025-08-09 16:03:45+00:00
Just scrolled around a little bit 2-3minutes with network monitor open. That already resulted in 500requests, 5MB transferred (after filtering by vector tile data). Not sure how many of those got cached by browser with no actual requests, cached by browser exchanging only headers or cached by cloudflare. I am guessing that the typical 10-20 requests/user case is for embedded map fragment like those commonly found in contact page where most users don't scroll at all or at most slightly zoom out to better see rest of city.
by Bender | 2025-08-09 16:03:56+00:00
Whether your meat comes form South America or the US or the EU, always wear gloves when handling raw meats and don't touch your face. There are thousands of types of dangerous larvae that can infect via the eyes rubbing the eyes or the nose picking ones nose when handling raw meats and vegetables. Cutting meat slices thinner and cooking them well kills larvae. Marinating meats with something that contains acetic acid also helps. Stomach acid takes care of the rest.

Beware of the fear porn spreading around this issue. I have already seen articles posted showing what happens when rubbing ones eyes or picking ones nose after handling raw food and of course it is horrific but screw worms are just one of many real risks. Food handlers in first world countries are taught not to touch their faces and to wear gloves among many other safety practices with raw meats and vegetables. Everyone both vegetarian and carnivore unknowingly eat many types of larvae, bacteria, mold, fungus and insects all the time.

I know I will get beat up for going against the agenda but I am that guy.
by free_bip | 2025-08-09 16:04:20+00:00
The dead already have many rights:

- right to control distribution of property through a will

- right to control method of remains disposal (up to a point)

- right to dignified treatment (e.g. no desecration of the remains)

- rights against posthumous defamation- rights to control how their likeness, name, and image are used posthumously

I fail to understand how this proposal would be any different.
by johnfn | 2025-08-09 16:05:01+00:00
I find it hard to empathize with these sorts of articles. I think in, in the spate of GPT-5 related content recently, I've been seeing a lot of articles that boil down to "I tried GPT-5 on a single hard question, and it gave an answer. This proves that all LLMs are useless." And I don't think I'm distorting the author's viewpoint. He goes on to say "This concludes all the testing for GPT5 I have to do" after conducting a single test.

This seems like particularly harsh criteria; what would happen if I applied this to other tools?

- I used Typescript, but it missed a bug that crashed prod, so it is "absolute horseshit"

- I used Rust, but one of my developers added an unsafe block, so it's trash.
by overgard | 2025-08-09 16:05:10+00:00
My issue with LLMs isnt really the tech itself. They're occassionally useful, although HOW useful seems to depend on a persons skillset.

My main beef with the AI hype is that it's allowing a lot of idiots to significantly devalue our profession in a really noxious and irritating way to people that generally don't understand what we do but would like to pay us less or pay less of us. I'm annoyed at other software developers that don't seem to see how harmful this will be for us when the insane investment bubble bursts and AI becomes a lot more expensive to use. We will probably have lost a generation of junior developers who have become dependent on a suddenly expensive tool. And execs will just think the seniors need to pick up the slack. And expectations on AI will be a lot higher when the subscription is more like 200 or 2000 a month.

And that's just for coding! I'd be furious if I was an artist and generative AI was being trained on my portfolio to plagiarize my work. (Badly)

What I never see justified is why any of this is good for society. At best it lets billionionaires save some money by getting rid of jobs, or vibe coders pretend they can build a product until they hit a wall where real understanding is neccessary. If you follow the trail of who is supposed to benefit from these things its not many of us. If AI were to disappear today I don't think my life would be any worse.
by sillyfluke | 2025-08-09 16:05:20+00:00
Well, the Yuramal in Colombia are the people that hold the record for the most Alzeihmer cases because many possess the gene for early onset and exhibit the diseases at 40 year of age. So for them the age is quite young. This goes to show that currently the record is held by genetic factors and not environmental factors.

But they also show that it instead of eliminating the root cause of the disease, the solution might be eliminating its symptoms instead. Cause one woman who had the gene defied all odds and exhibited the symptom of the disease in her 70s. The reasoning is that another gene she had, the Christchurch gene, protected her brain from the disease. So if someone can use that info to prevent symptoms of the disease eliminating the root cause would become secondary.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-09 16:05:23+00:00
The W210 was a very good car, the so-called "Camry" of Mercedes-Benz in terms of reliability, except it had one huge problem: rust.

The true "million mile" Mercedes are probably the W123 diesels. Built very solid, they will still rust if you live in areas where road salt is used, but most cars will eventually.

It's weird how some cars are much more prone to rust than others. I had a Toyota truck in the 1980s and it rusted so fast you'd almost swear you could see it happening. Mechanically it never had any problems.
by ankit219 | 2025-08-09 16:05:37+00:00
This is speculated as the reason as blockbuster acquihires have risen:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-17/meta-g...

https://natlawreview.com/article/rise-acquihiring-post-layof...

https://bowoftheseus.substack.com/p/update-the-gut-and-licen...

Meta's case is interesting. In the past, for what they want, I still feel they would have just acquired the company and be done with it. Now, they explored more paths, and ended up negotiating for Scale AI's stake.
by fransje26 | 2025-08-09 16:05:44+00:00
True, from experience, the E290 TD was mechanically solid. The electronics, less so unfortunately. Ours was plagued by intermittent errors and beeping, together with some parasitic battery drain we could not trace down despite our best efforts.

I didn't have the chance to own a W211, but from what I read and heard, it was indeed an improvement. Even in the looks department!
by mikewarot | 2025-08-09 16:05:45+00:00
My understanding is that the battery in a Tesla is so fragile that even in the most minor of accidents, the insurance company "totals" the car, at least here in Indiana.

It's amazing they have any resale value at all. A totalled Tesla should have a large negative value because of the hazardous waste aspect of the battery.[1]

Edit/Append: You would think that given the cost of the lithium other metals in a battery, 100% recycling would be an actuality, instead of just a marketing claim.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/3/24058476/tesla-hazardous-w...
Ask HN: ChatGPT – GTM Reverse Engineered – Pre Virality
by mehra-vaayushop | 2025-08-09 16:05:52+00:00
Guys - I am reverse engineering chatGPT - pre-launch GTM work...Prior to 2018 that led to its viral loop in 2019...

it seems quite intriguing & has a pattern for innovative products...but not playbook...

Could other ppl share their insights for GTMs of innovative products? (Beyond obvious GTM engines for startups)

for context - Our product is like salesforce agentforce & I am putting GTM engine now...we are humble startup with some angel funding...so have to be super frugal.

Curious case of chatGPT pre-launch GTM My curosity - how come an unkown product(pre-2018) - which wasn't even thought/prepared for consumer launch - had no proof that it will work....noone even knew about it...started going viral... (Contrary to what polished media shows..there were big hardships - OpenAI had from 2014-2019 & little interest)

I am trying to trace their work prior to 2018....to understand their thought process, prep work .......this goes to building organic but more precision work..before doing super duper spend on ads/marketing that I think most ppl are misled to right now

Which is not repeatable...C-suite told me off stage in marketing events at 7-star hotels - that they weren't impressed by show or spend to market AI..which seemed to them as oversell.

This is important as I m putting my GTM Engine..& don't want to just burn funds on marketing

It's not just about product & GTM...& goes beyond playbooks...but has a pattern....

Some key patterns: Inner Trust Circle - maniacic ppl who just loved geeky stuff - Initial Organic growth - Community partnerships - Founders brands - Podcasts - niche communities -- Prep for viral loops...but months & years ahead

Communities are great example of nerdy, maniacs, whom I believe can make things happen

Could you share your thoughts on GTM for AI products? At my startup we are putting GTM Engine for our innovative product...parallel to Salesforce agentforce..... & I can tell GTM code isnt cracked for even bigger companies who are throwing 7 start hotel parties..& doing heavy market spends...

Would like to meet people - over coffee to brainstorm GTM - traditional GTM + discuss/reverse engineer beyond obvious stuff...which can't be taught...just built.

Looking forward inputs from community