MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nemomarx | 2025-09-02 13:58:11+00:00
A little embarrassing to admit this, but I find it harder to listen to a new song or genre if that's the main activity I'm doing - like sitting down to just focus on the song. If I put it on while washing the dishes or driving I don't feel as pressured about it.

Maybe this is involved a bit? asking your son to listen to something could be making it an activity, maybe put it on while you do something else and then ask his thoughts on it after?
by AbsintheLabs | 2025-09-02 13:58:19+00:00
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by rickdeckard | 2025-09-02 13:58:21+00:00
Samsung is not in control of this. Play services is a quite broad framework that is fully in control of Google, and the foundation for many services and applications on the device (including Play Store itself).

If you would factory-reset your device right now, it would reset to the version of Play Services that came with the installed device firmware, but upon startup the services framework would likely fetch information that it is outdated and won't continue until you have upgraded it.

In this state you could probably use your device and sideload apps, but none of the Google Mobile Services (Play Store, Gmail, Maps, YouTube,...) and 3rd party apps which require Google APIs will work
by echelon | 2025-09-02 13:58:21+00:00
I can't comprehend this view at all.

I hate open source purism. It's not pragmatic and it's enabled us to be resold a world with ever disappearing rights.

This view is okay with hyperscalers. But it attacks the small developer.

The hyperscalers are removing our freedoms and privacy. Not small developers.

We need leverage against this.
Vector search on our codebase transformed our SDLC automation
by antonybrahin | 2025-09-02 13:58:27+00:00
Hey HN,

In software development, the process of turning a user story into detailed documentation and actionable tasks is critical. However, this manual process can often be a source of inconsistency and a significant time investment. I was driven to see if I could streamline and elevate it.

I know this is a hot space, with big players like GitHub and Atlassian building integrated AI, and startups offering specialized platforms. My goal wasn't to compete with them, but to see what was possible by building a custom, "glass box" solution using the best tools for each part of the job, without being locked into a single ecosystem.

What makes this approach different is the flexibility and full control. Instead of a pre-packaged product, this is a resilient workflow built on Power Automate, which acts as the orchestrator for a sequence of API calls:

Five calls to the Gemini API for the core generation steps (requirements, tech spec, test strategy, etc.).

One call to an Azure OpenAI model to create vector embeddings of our codebase.

One call to Azure AI Search to perform the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). This was the key to getting context-aware, non-generic outputs. It reads our actual code to inform the technical spec and tasks.

A bunch of direct calls to the Azure DevOps REST API (using a PAT) to create the wiki pages and work items, since the standard connectors were a bit limited.

The biggest challenge was moving beyond simple prompts and engineering a resilient system. Forcing the final output into a rigid JSON schema instead of parsing text was a game-changer for reliability.

The result is a system that saves us hours on every story and produces remarkably consistent, high-quality documentation and tasks.

The full write-up with all the challenges, final prompts, and screenshots is in the linked blog post.

I’m here to answer any questions. Would love to hear your feedback and ideas!
by PopAlongKid | 2025-09-02 13:58:39+00:00
My point is that it is far from a "rare triple unicorn" or whatever overhyped language they use. You can put money in an IRA, get a tax deduction, and then not pay tax on the money and the earnings if you take it out via a QCD (qualified charitable distribution)), but no one calls this a rare triple unicorn. Also, many items paid through your employer, such as health insurance, flexible spending accounts, dependent care accounts also are tax free when contributed to and not taxed later if used for intended purposes. It is just a single tax benefit, not a "triple" tax benefit.
by torginus | 2025-09-02 13:58:40+00:00
Thanks, but that makes his arguments even less valid.

He argues that computer programs only manipulate symbols and thus have no semantic understanding.

But that's not true - many programs, like compilers that existed back when the argument was made, had semantic understanding of the code (in a limited way, but they did have some understanding about what the program did).

LLMs in contrast have a very rich semantic understanding of the text they parse - their tensor representations encode a lot about each token, or you can just ask them about anything - they might not be human level at reading subtext, but they're not horrible either.
by johnecheck | 2025-09-02 13:59:05+00:00
From earlier today:

Me: How do I change the language settings on YouTube?

Claude: Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the language button on the footer.

Me: YouTube pages scroll infinitely.

Claude: Sorry! Just click on the footer without scrolling, or navigate to a page where you can scroll to the bottom like a video.

(Videos pages also scroll indefinitely through comments)

Me: There is no footer, you're just making shit up

Claude: [finally uses a search engine to find the right answer]
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-02 13:59:27+00:00
You can put in parts and effort to maintain older computers, but when you can buy a brand new desktop for $120 or a few year old one for $40 and they blow it out of the water on performance and power efficiency, what's the reason to do so? (I'm asking in the context of a main computer, not something to run old games natively or be nostalgic about.)

A computer you buy today will be much more viable in 20+ years than a 20+ year old computer is right now. We were still in the extreme part of speed and density growth back than, and it will lessen every decade.
by yabones | 2025-09-02 13:59:37+00:00
More northern cities like Montreal and Winnipeg also have very interesting indoor pedestrian systems. The one in Winnipeg is particularly useful, since there are approximately 72 hours per year that it's comfortable to be outside between the bone-chilling cold and the biblical swarms of mosquitos and flies in the summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_Walkway
by ezekg | 2025-09-02 13:59:44+00:00
Fair enough, but the LLM said nothing incorrect (if it did, please point it out). Regardless, the screenshots don't even matter. You didn't seem to actually read the thread I pointed to, where a VC-backed startup founder admitted to using the AGPL to limit bigtech from using the software, a clear violation of freedom 0. They didn't choose the AGPL for altruistic reasons, rather, it's simply a part of the COSS startup playbook now -- because it works! -- they can use the term "open source" while protecting themselves from competition. Which is my entire point.

Why do they get to use "open source" while effectively violating the freedoms but somebody using the Elastic License, or the Sustainable Use License, or the SSPL, or the BSL, or the FSL, etc. isn't allowed to? They're all doing the same thing, only the latter licenses are saying the quiet part out loud.

Anyways, I agree we do seem to be talking past each other at this point. gl
by ninkendo | 2025-09-02 13:59:53+00:00
But it's not undefined behavior. That's the key. It's "unspecified behavior", meaning that according to the standard, it's allowed. A program that reuses a moved-from value is considered valid and well-formed by the standard. It merely delegates how to make this work to the individual implementation (a string becomes an empty string, a vector becomes an empty vector, etc.)

The RFC you posted has nothing to do with move semantics, it's about references outliving what they point to (ie. use-after-free, etc) and similar to Rust's borrow checker.

But here's the thing: move semantics and the borrow checker have nothing to do with each other! The borrow checker ensures that borrowed data (ie. &Foo, equivalent to C++'s references) is sound, it's not the part that enforces move semantics. That happens earlier in the compilation, the compiler enforces moves well before the borrow checker phase.
by nomilk | 2025-09-02 14:00:04+00:00
This is awesome. Over the past four years I went from Sublime Text, to VS Code, to a 'dual IDE' setup (neovim and cursor).

I hear rubymine has the best support for documentation and source code lookup capabilities (vitally important).

Curious of its AI capabilities; how much of a step down would it be going from cursor to rubymine? I guess it could be used stand-alone purely for its documentation/source capabilities, but 3 IDEs feels like overkill.
by kiba | 2025-09-02 14:00:05+00:00
Everyone wanting to live in a few economically hot cities is also a recent invention. If you price the LVT in those cities appropriately, then only the most income generating projects are going to be viable, and that means the lower class is basically not going to be living in those cities anymore.

It's not a recent invention that people wants to live in cities. It's the suburbanization and sprawling that's odd.

The lower class already can't live in those cities anymore in the first place. You need to expand the supply of housing to make this possible, which means more efficient use of land which is what urbanists has been advocating for years to fix the housing crisis.
by franga2000 | 2025-09-02 14:00:25+00:00
I still don't see the problem. Apple can say this app wasn't verified for safety by Apple because...it wasn't. I see an argument for them having to have a setting to disable the nag screen, but it's just stating a fact, just like Windows says "this app is not signed, you can't verify it comes from the correct publisher".

The walmart comparison makes no sense. A better comparison is the operator of a mall putting up a sign saying the products the stores in there sell are not verified by them. Often a store chain also owns malls, so Walmart saying "the things in the Walmart in the WalmartMall are ours and we vouch for their quality, but the other stores in the mall are independent and not vetted by Walmart.

It's only weird because it's so obvious nobody would think otherwise for a mall. But apparently people expect different for phones, which does make sense given Apple hasn't allowed third parties until now.
by toast0 | 2025-09-02 14:00:34+00:00
Beam only promises soft realtime. When switching processes, runnable high priority tasks will be chosen before runnable normal or low priority tasks, and within each queue all (runnable) tasks run before a task runs again. But beam isn't really preemptive; a normal or low priority task that is running when a high priority task becomes runable won't be paused; the normal task will continue until it hits its reduction cap or blocks. There's also a chance that maybe you hit some operation that is time consuming and doesn't have yield points; most of ERTS has yield points in time consuming operations, but maybe you find one or maybe you have a misbehaving NIF.

Without real preemption, consistently meeting strict timing requirements probably isn't going to happen. You might possibly run multiple beams and use OS preemption?
by jparishy | 2025-09-02 14:01:02+00:00
I suspect this ends up being pretty important for the next advancements in AI, specifically LLM-based AI. To me, the transformer architecture is a sort of compression algorithm that is being exploited for emergent behavior at the margins. But I think this is more like stream of consciousness than premeditated thought. Eventually I think we figure out a way to "think" in latent space and have our existing AI models be just the mouthpiece.

In my experience as a human, the more you know about a subject, or even the more you have simply seen content about it, the easier it is to ramble on about it convincingly. It's like a mirroring skill, and it does not actually mean you understand what you're saying.

LLMs seem to do the same thing, I think. At scale this is widely useful, though, I am not discounting it. Just think it's an order of magnitude below what's possible and all this talk of existing stream-of-consciousness-like LLMs creating AGI seems like a miss
by ath3nd | 2025-09-02 14:01:28+00:00
> Just because it's not that hard to reach a high-level understanding of the transformer pipeline doesn't mean we understand how these systems function

Mumbo jumbo magical thinking.

They perform so well because they are trained on probabilistic token matching.

Where they perform terribly, e.g math, reasoning, they are delegating to other approaches, and that's how you get the illusion that there is actually something there. But it's not. Faking intelligence is not intelligence. It's just text generation.

> In that sense, yeah you could say they are a bit "magical"

Nobody but the most unhinged hype pushers are calling it "magical". The LLM can never ever be AGI. Guessing the next word is not intelligence.

> there can be no form of world model that they are developing

Kind of impossible to form a world model if your foundation is probabilistic token guessing which is what LLMs are. LLMs are a dead end in achieving "intelligence", something novel as an approach needs to be discovered (or not) to go into the intelligence direction. But hey, at least we can generate text fast now!
Show HN: Agent Hub MCP – Universal coordination system for AI coding assistants
by gilbarbara | 2025-09-02 14:01:44+00:00
Agent Hub MCP enables ANY MCP-compatible AI assistant to coordinate across repositories and platforms. Think message broker + shared state for multi-vendor AI agents.

Key insight: AI agents work better when they can communicate, regardless of the underlying platform. Mix Claude Code, Qwen, Gemini, Cursor - they all coordinate through the same hub.

Example: Qwen discovers API patterns → shares with Claude Code → both coordinate with Gemini for documentation → end-to-end feature delivery.

Platform agnostic via Model Context Protocol. One-line setup for any MCP client. Production ready with TypeScript and comprehensive testing.
by rsyring | 2025-09-02 14:01:45+00:00
Be forewarned, there isn't much novel in the "solutions" category in the article. That's often why I read articles on procrastination, hoping maybe some solution will click.

I posted this because I found the "tax" concept and related strongly aligns with my perceived experience of procrastination and it's interaction with willpower. I also found the various reasons why one might procrastinate, "Taxum", also align well with my experience.

In particular, I find that I'm generally a very critical thinker in the sense that my internal wiring seems to hyper focus on reasons and possibilities something might not work. Combine that with a generally melancholy disposition that leans towards "nothing really matters" and I find that there are plenty of Taxums to help fuel my procrastination.
by honeybadger1 | 2025-09-02 14:01:53+00:00
I didn't vote for Trump, but I can completely understand the desire to be rid' of illegal immigrants that do not respect our laws and not looking to get right with the system. Where I am originally from it was basically 8/10 drug related crime arrests was someone that had illegal status and it was such an issue the police force would essentially pull anyone over that even looked Mexican, straight up racial profiling.

This is a problem of our own creation and we have ignored it for 2 generations by letting immigration law go unenforced and while also not improving the path to citizenship for those who are law abiding and want to be a proper citizen or legal resident. Immigration is the primary wedge issue to drive people apart like abortion has been, but now it doesn't have the same luster because it's no longer a federal issue, but a state one.
by ktut | 2025-09-02 14:02:04+00:00
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by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-02 14:02:31+00:00
I did not make any positive claim, so no, it's not on me to "chase this up". I did, however, look it up, and the only case of an unlawful deportation I could find is of domestic abuser Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And as far as I'm aware there has been 0 deportations of people who are citizens or held valid visas or green cards

Tourism being down proves nothing.
by 4ad | 2025-09-02 14:03:11+00:00
It appears that Bear does not accept contributions[1] and the very few contributors it had in the past only contributed a trivial amount of code[2].

But you're right, relicensing requires the approval of all copyright holders, and in general there can be many. Of course many projects require the prospecting contributor sign a CLA where they relinquish their rights to the project in order to be able to contribute. Personally while I have signed some CLAs, such as the Go one where I retained my rights, I'd never sign one which required me to give away my copyright rights, precisely so they wouldn't be able to do a rugpull on me.

I believe that copyright law is the biggest weapon one has against open source rugpulls and one should not give it away.

[1] https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/master/CONTR...

[2] https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/graphs/contributo...
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-09-02 14:03:27+00:00
Well, one of them has long established use as a gender-neutral term. At least in some dialects/accents of English. Just like using they as a singular was also well established.

I mean I get it, the rules of English often do not make sense, but our words can have different meanings based on context. Pretending like you don't understand that is nonsense.

But this is also not the right time to bring it up.
by Etheryte | 2025-09-02 14:03:56+00:00
Camps, hobbies and other such activities where they see others their age do things and have a good time. As a parent, you're not necessarily the coolest thing in the world. However their friends and peers with varied backgrounds can fill that role. I used to do youth work when I was younger and some of the biggest leaps of personality happened in groups with very mixed backgrounds. Poor kids, rich kids, sporty, dorky, introverts, extroverts and everything in between, in the right environment they'll rub off on one another in all the best ways.
by donatj | 2025-09-02 14:04:10+00:00
I had something of a semi-intentional palate reset in my early twenties.

I had been a super picky eater basically my entire life, and getting me to try new foods was like pulling teeth. Then I spent a couple weeks traveling around Japan with some friends. I think it was in part genuinely wanting to immerse myself in the culture and in part not wanting to make myself appear fussy or annoying to a girl we were traveling with, but I forced myself to try things I would never have eaten state side. I found myself by the end of the trip actually pushing myself to try things... Even perhaps a little too far as the Takoyaki triggered my shellfish allergy. Nothing a bunch of Benadryl couldn't solve.

I'd come to Japan a picky eater though and left an adventurous one. I will at least try just about anything once.

This is something which twenty years later my parents still don't accept. "Oh, I thought you didn't eat salad" when I am halfway through my salad.

Mind you there are still things I did not like before that I still do not like. Ketchup tops the list.
by notyouraibot | 2025-09-02 14:04:14+00:00
NextJS as a framework is pretty good, it has gone downhill since the whole RSC shift sure but its still pretty good for most use cases. The problem however is Vercel and how closely its tied to Vercel.

I recently developed a small internal application in NextJS and we are using Azure PostgreSQL, we are on the Pro Plan from Vercel (honestly even that's an overkill, our use case would be satisfied easily on the free plan; which is very very generous) but one problem I faced is a NextJS App hosted on Vercel, it will never have a static fixed IP, so we couldn't directly access our database unless ofc we opened it to the entire world, which is never an option. This is so dumb honestly, the audacity to call it a full stack framework is stunning.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-02 14:04:15+00:00
You don't need to understand the human mind on a mechanistic level. You only need to examine how the whole organism learns, acts, and reacts to stimulus and situation.

Even something as simple as catching a ball is basically predictive. You predict where the ball will be along its arc when it reaches a point in space where you can catch it. Then, strictly informed by that prediction, you solve a problem of motion through space -- and some very simple-seeming problems of motion through space can't be cracked in a general case without a very powerful supercomputer -- to physically catch the ball.

That's a very simple example. The major component of what we call intelligence is purely predictive. Of course Bayesian inference also works the same way, etc.
by Insanity | 2025-09-02 14:04:18+00:00
Lol, I actually agree on the 'as far as Canada goes'.. but many of us in Toronto aren't Canadian. The winters are pretty bad to me as a foreigner. But to be honest, I'm not as impacted by the cold as I am by the darkness. I get pretty bad seasonal depression during the worst winter months and haven't found a great way to cope yet.
by roncron | 2025-09-02 14:04:34+00:00
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