MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marckrn | 2025-09-29 17:48:20+00:00
You can find the revamped prompt on github[1], or on twitter summarized by my bot[2].

[1] https://github.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/compare/v1.0.128...

[2] https://x.com/CCpromptChanges/status/1972709093874757976
by bradley13 | 2025-09-29 17:48:27+00:00
I need to try Claude - haven't gotten to it.

I use AI for different things, though, including proofreading posts on political topics. I have run into situations where ChatGPT just freezes and refuses. Example: discussing the recent rape case involving a 12-year-old in Austria. I assume its guardrails detect "sex + kid" and give a hard "no" regardless of the actual context or content.

That is unacceptable.

That's like your word processor refusing to let you write about sensitive topics. It's a tool, it doesn't get to make that choice.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-29 17:48:30+00:00
That (thankfully) can't compound, so would never be more than a one time offset. E.g. if you report a score of 60% SWE-bench verified for new model A, dumb A down to score 50%, and report a 20% improvement over A with new model B then it's pretty obvious when your last two model blogposts say 60%.

The only way around this is to never report on the same benchmark versions twice, which they include too many to realistically do every release.
by crthpl | 2025-09-29 17:48:46+00:00
The reason they get a perfect score on AIME is because every question on AIME had lots of thought put into it, and it was made sure that everything was a possible. SWE-bench, and many other AI benchmarks, have lots of eval noise, where there is no clear right answer, and getting higher than a certain percentage means you are benchmaxxing.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-29 17:49:57+00:00
> It's rare that one of the passive components is the cause of a failure on a PCB at this density.

There have been a few videos posted here or showing up on my YT feed for phone repairs, iirc the voltage/battery regulators are things that do like to fail (and pretty obviously, when looking at the pcb with a heat camera).
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-09-29 17:50:07+00:00
> Another fun one, while I'm here. C. 2010, we're shooting a music video in central Melbourne. We're on the public pavement. There's a bank ATM waaaay in the background. Bank security come out. Sorry mate, you can't film here.

> We told them, we can. We're on public land. So they call the cops. We politely wait for the cops. The cops turn up.

Heh. As a photog I've have plenty of similar run ins with people...but only when wielding an SLR (or similar). Was once standing on a sidewalk, saw a building that looked cool, took a picture. I'm more into architecture than people. Security comes out from the lobby to accost me. I very politely told them "Dude, I'm on the sidewalk, you can't do shit"

I also had the local transit agency threaten to call the cops on me for taking photos. Literally of just the platform and rails (without people) when I was trying to document the system for Wikipedia. Even though on their website it EXPLICITLY states that what I was doing was within their rules. Ignoring the fact that it was totally legal regardless.

That time I just (metaphorically) ran away rather than dealing with a belligerent station agent. Was what I was doing wrong? No. Was it legal? Yes. But did I want to deal with the transit police? Nope.

The thing that drives me batshit nuts is no one seems to care if you're taking a picture with a phone. The latest iPhone have megapixel counts in excess of many DSLR and mirrorless cameras. I can be way more sneaky with my phone. By using a DSLR type camera I'm being very public that "Hey, I'm taking a picture here" that should assure people, rather than scare them.
by recursive | 2025-09-29 17:50:08+00:00
I don't understand why so many people seem so fascinated by constructions like the library of Babel. Yes it contains the answers to all your questions, but there are some significant drawbacks.

* It has more wrong information than right information, with no way to tell the difference.

* If you had an oracle that could tell you how to get to the book you need, the navigation instructions to get to the book will be at least as long as the book, on average.
by gosub100 | 2025-09-29 17:50:27+00:00
> What does belief in a religion have to do with participating in social events that happen to be rooted in religion?

I'm not making that claim. I'm addressing the reverse: someone who refuses to go to church ("participating in social events ") because he doesn't believe the dogma. And so I brought up that many people have no such reservations about participating in Christmas traditions and activities.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-29 17:50:43+00:00
> RIP Mass Effect and by extension BioWare. One of the most groundbreaking trilogies in gaming with tons of potential and it’ll get relegated to the dustbin of history no doubt.

Maybe I started with BioWare too early, but everything after NWN felt incredibly empty... in that 'world breaks if you look left or right of the main plot' Call of Duty way.

Which is fine, but always gave me an itch that I was really strapped into a plot-on-rails amusement park ride rather than a world.
by toss1 | 2025-09-29 17:50:56+00:00
>>Coercing who, exactly? Do you have any examples?

Seriously?

How can you ignore or justify as not authoritarian all the newspeople and COMEDIANS who Trump has coerced the networks into cancelling? All the spurious lawsuits and threats of abusive government action against any org broadcasting non-Trump-favorable news? Check the current abuse of the DOJ to go against anyone involved in investigating his crimes, the unilaterial userpation of Congress' power of the purse with the daily tariff announcements?

DOGE is massively reducing the power of the state? NO, (aside from teh data raid) it is removing career professionals who might govern competently instead of loyally to the Chief Executive. That is the opposite of reducing government power, it is concentrating it.

DOGE saving money? Nope again, every week it gets worse. They are literally recalling fired workers who have been on payroll doing nothing since April because the functions cannot be performed without them. Six months of paid leave without even firing people is the opposite of efficiency with payroll money.

Theil Libertarian? Are you serious? He is building Palantir, which is the largest surveillance company ever, and integrating it into every government function he can. His friend Ellison also stated 'people will be on their best behavior when they are under cameras all the time'. Those are not the statements or actions of Libertarians, and any Libertarian sentiments are cover at best.

Seriously, look and reassess. You are providing a fine example of how motivated reasoning and enthusiasm can lead to deeply wrong conclusions

edit: correct "unpaid leave" to "paid leave"

Plus, another reminder, Elon supported ALL of this with $250 - $400 million. That is not the action of a libertarian
by jackstraw42 | 2025-09-29 17:50:58+00:00
Wow! Well you never know where simple frustrations will lead, or in your case noticing something that you just can't shake that no one else seems to think is important. I'd say keep me posted, but that's not on you especially while you're developing that app. I wish you the best of luck, and it sounds like you're doing it with a really unique and authentic perspective that I wouldn't be sure that any of the apps that become popular on either App Store can guarantee. Seriously, the world might depend on you :)

I had a feeling about what you described with GrapheneOS would be the case, and that's what kept me from really considering it as a replacement for my iPhone until talking with some folks in this thread. I really don't see myself getting out of using an iPhone as my "main phone" tied to my phone number since my wife is neck-deep in the whole Apple ecosystem (and I truly believe that being flexible in this regard is worth it and makes our lives a whole lot better, even when the issue in question is what I would consider a simple moral non-negotiable, securely protecting my and my family's personal data. just means that I have more solving to do before the solution).

My solution for now is to always run everything through a trusted VPN and NextDNS on the iPhone, or as much as iOS will let me I guess, and using this as my new Pixel's gateway to the internet when I'm away from a trusted connection. I will also be running everything through the VPN when I'm using GrapheneOS, so when I am out and about I'm not treating my not-entirely-trustworthy iPhone any differently than a Starbucks hotspot. Sometimes the convenience really makes a difference, not all the time but it does matter occasionally.
by senordevnyc | 2025-09-29 17:51:52+00:00
HN is such a negative and cynical place these days that it's just not worth it. I just don't have the patience to hear yet another anti-AI rant, or have someone who is ideologically opposed to AI nitpick its output. Like you, I've found AI to be a huge help for my work, and I'm happy to keep outcompeting the people who are too stubborn to approach it with an open mind.
by r_lee | 2025-09-29 17:52:03+00:00
Nonsense.

Unlike the disgusting parasites called "employees" or "the workforce" (vomit)

The Glorious management and executives are at such levels that those vomit-inducing vermin could never reach. They will never be replaced.

They are by definition invincible, irreplaceable by AI, or even future Superintelligence.

Because by definition, they ARE the Superintelligence.
by leptons | 2025-09-29 17:52:16+00:00
"AI" autocomplete has become a damn nuisance. It always wants to second-guess what I've already done, often making it worse. I try to hit escape to make it go away, but it just instantly suggests yet another thing I don't want. It's cumbersome. It gets in the way to an annoying extent. It's caused so many problems, I am about to turn it off.

The only time it helps is when I have several similar lines and I make a change to the first line it offers to change all the rest of the lines. It's almost always correct, but sometimes it is subtlety not and then I waste 5 minutes trying to figure out why it didn't work only to notice the subtle bug it introduced. I'm not sure how anyone thinks this is somehow better than just knowing what you're doing and doing it yourself.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-29 17:52:33+00:00
> "At this time, it appears that meaningful tariff revenue has the potential to offset the deficit-raising aspects of the recent budget legislation."

Assuming this is true, which it may not be given that the deficit (not debt…) continues to rise despite the tariff revenues, it basically points to the fact that the US is cutting taxes on the richest and funding it with a federal sales tax on all.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-29 17:53:02+00:00
> for example Claude code could not seem to stitch together three screens in an iOS app using the latest SwiftUI

That's... not super surprising? SwiftUI changes pretty dang often, and the knowledge cutoff doesn't progress fast enough to cover every use-case.

I use Claude to write GTK interfaces, which is a UI library with a much slower update cadence. LLMs seem to have a pretty easy time working with bog-standard libraries that don't make giant idiomatic changes.
by senordevnyc | 2025-09-29 17:53:11+00:00
Oh good, a new discussion point that we haven't heard 1000x on here.

Have you heard of that study that shows AI actually makes developers less productive, but they think it makes them more productive??

EDIT: sorry all, I was being sarcastic in the above, which isn't ideal. Just annoyed because that "study" was catnip to people who already hated AI, and they (over-) cite it constantly as "evidence" supporting their preexisting bias against AI.
by sanskritical | 2025-09-29 17:53:25+00:00
> Any other admin and Apple would sue them

I doubt Apple could demonstrably prove damages before the civil statute of limitations expires. This is a nonstarter in court, and furthermore this is not negligence by the FCC. You do not have a right to keep your FCC filings from leaking under all circumstances, and the FCC has not assumed a civil obligation externally to your rights to do so. Government agencies do not sign NDAs when corporations submit technical documents to them. The Federal government has no obligation in statute to keep them secret, you asking them to is a polite suggestion to the FCC and holds no bearing in law. Even if you could prove damages, trying to bring a case under the Federal Tort Claims Act against the government for this would be a nightmare in any administration, and there's no way that the Supreme Court would cede the idea that the government has an absolute obligation your filings secret forever under pain of civil penalties. It's an embarrassing clerical error, but it isn't a tort.
by klodolph | 2025-09-29 17:54:46+00:00
That sounds completely backwards. It seems, again, obvious to me that it would be easier to add HTML->markdown converters to agents, given that there are orders of magnitude more websites out there compared to agent.

If your agent sucks so bad that it isn’t capable of consuming HTML without tokenizing the whole damn thing, wouldn’t you just use an agent that isn’t such a mess?

This whole thing kinda sounds crazy inefficient to me.
by fragmede | 2025-09-29 17:54:53+00:00
It's because the output is testable. If the model outputs a legal opinion or medical advice, a human needs to be looped in to verify that the advice is not batshit insane. Meanwhile, if the output is code, it can be run through a compiler and (unit) tests run to verify that the generated code is cromulent without a human being in the loop for 100% of it, which means the supercomputer can just go off and do it a thing with less supervision.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-09-29 17:54:55+00:00
Longer term (10-30 years), I see LLMs allowing for far more automation within software, which means that an "AI native" company may only need 5-10% of the people that a conventional company does for the same level of delivery. As the technology improves past the point where humans are competitive, eventually it will be the rich people with jobs doing all the work and we need to figure out what happens when we end up with a centrally planned economy because most people don't really have money...
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-09-29 17:55:10+00:00
I am confused about how this photo exists. If I were a CEO, regardless of my politics, the last thing I would do would be to post a photo with somebody that controversial. It's a situation that one can only lose from: one side might feel mildly positive about it, the other side will hate your guts. And the side that hates this guy is surely a much larger portion of Vercel's customer base. It doesn't take a genius to gauge public perception of a world figure in your key market (US & other western countries).

They need a publicist, bad, to control this guy.
by array_key_first | 2025-09-29 17:55:51+00:00
> You're talking about a hypothetical situation where end users pay the app store directly, rather than indirectly via developer fees?

It doesn't matter much, you pay it regardless.

> Also, Tying is usually applied for unrelated, unnecessary, or non-beneficial services.

Yes, Apple and Google charge 30% for basically nothing.

I know some people will complain about that. They will say, "no, they do stuff!"

From what I've seen, they do as close to nothing as possible. Malware makes it through, deceptive apps make it through, nobody gives a single fuck. If you report anything to Apple they will spit in your face. They do not care.

This is less of a service fee and more a of a mafioso "pay me, for your sake" type fee.
by emptybits | 2025-09-29 17:56:05+00:00
Shameless plug for a good organization that helps fight social isolation and loneliness among elderly: Cycling Without Age.

https://cyclingwithoutage.org/

We're an international movement whereby volunteer cyclists pedal passengers around on what is essentially a small couch on wheels. The elderly get out into their neighbourhood while engaging with volunteers in conversation, jokes, and memories. The benefits of even brief but regular social connection are lasting, as we hear from medical professionals and care home workers and the residents themselves and their families.

There's a great TED Talk on it which inspired us to start a local chapter almost eight years ago. We are in high demand and growing so if you're looking for a healthy way to serve others, consider getting in touch with your local chapter (or starting it!)
by kristopolous | 2025-09-29 17:56:12+00:00
What I've been trying to use it for is to solve a number of long-standing bugs that I've frankly given up on in various Linux tools.

I think I lack the social skills to community drive a fix, probably through some undiagnosed disorder or something so I've been trying to soldier alone on some issues I've had for years.

The issues are things like focus jacking in some window manager I'm using on xorg where the keyboard and the mouse get separate focuses

Goose has been somewhat promising, but still not great.

I mean overall, I don't think any of these coding agents have given me useful insight into my long vexing problems

I think there has to be some type of perception gap or knowledge asymmetry to be really useful - for instance, with foreign languages.

I've studied a few but just in the "taking classes at the local JC" way. These LLMs are absolutely fantastic aids there because I know enough to frame the question but not enough to get the answer.

There's some model for dealing with this I don't have yet.

Essentially I can ask the right question about a variety of things but arguably I'm not doing it right with the software.

I've been writing software for decades, is it really that I'm not competent enough to ask the right question? That's certainly the simplest model but it doesn't check out.

Maybe in some fields I've surpassed a point where llms are useful?

It all circles back to an existential fear of delusional competency.
by strangattractor | 2025-09-29 17:57:27+00:00
According to Gemini:

Norwest Venture Partners: A venture capital firm that invested in Sunshine.

Felicis Partners: A venture capital firm that also backed Sunshine.

Ron Conway's SV Angel: An early-stage venture fund that invested in Sunshine.

Archetype Agency: A public relations firm that was a Sunshine shareholder.

This time it will different;)
by hshshshshsh | 2025-09-29 17:57:40+00:00
All these are useless metrics. It doesn't say anything meaningful on the quality of your life. I would be more interested in knowing if he can now retire in next 5 years instead of waiting another 15?

Or do he now just just get to work for 2 hours and enjoy the remaining 6 hours doing meaningful things apart from staring at a screen.
by dandanua | 2025-09-29 17:58:30+00:00
You could use 7 row operations. row and col ops commute, and your last 3 col ops are equivalent to ('row', 1, 0), ('row', 2, 1), ('row', 3, 2) if acted on identity matrix. So, use them at first, and then your four row ops.

Alternatively, you could use 7 col. Your 4 row ops are equivalent to ('col', 3, 0), ('col', 0, 2), ('col', 2, 1), ('col', 1, 0).
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-29 17:58:52+00:00
I thought a human would be a considerable step up in complexity but I asked it first for a pelican[0] and then for a rat [1] to get out of the bird world and it did a great job on both.

But just fot thrills I also asked for a "punk rocker"[2] and the result--while not perfect--is leaps and bounds above anything from the last generation.

0 -- ok, here's the first hurdle! It's giving me "something went wrong" when I try to get a share link on any of my artifacts. So for now it'll have to be a "trust me bro" and I'll try to edit this comment soon.
by wintermutestwin | 2025-09-29 17:59:17+00:00
The “fucking” manual is obtuse, overly verbose, and almost always lacking in super clear real world examples. That you claim it is a <10 min problem demonstrates experts disregard for the degree of arcane crap, a beginner needs to synthesize.

I am backing up and verifying critical data here. This is not a task that should be taken lightly. And as I learned, it is not a task that one can rely on an LLM for.
by jackstraw42 | 2025-09-29 17:59:28+00:00
My impression is that the very first thing a privacy-conscious person would do with a new Android device is install a secure keyboard. Is that not the case? Why should people trust any old software keyboard the company selling it sets as the default?

For a very long time, Apple didn't allow installing custom keyboards. And I would still bet a bit of money that they are more restrictive than the keyboards Android allows.
by stouset | 2025-09-29 17:59:44+00:00
Wait, really? This is kind of surprising to me. Even without adaptive cruise control, I generally spend very few brain cycles paying attention to speed. My speed just varies based on conditions and the traffic flow around me, and I'm virtually never concerned with the number on the dial itself.

As a result I've never found adaptive cruise control (or self-driving) to be all that big a deal for me. But hearing your perspective suddenly makes me realize why it is so compelling for so many others.
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-29 17:59:50+00:00
Most of the money is PIF, and that gets into a lot of accusations of "sportswashing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswashing

The Saudis through the PIF are heavily invested in entertainment brands and sports to distract from the fossil fuels (and worse) that create most of those investment funds.

As to Kushner's-specific role, could just be cynically seen to money itself, as a US-based middleman of the PIF deal trying to take a cut. "Administrators" in these sort of private equity buyouts (leveraged buy outs) can make a lot of fast, stupid cash in a grift that probably should be illegal but still currently is not. (LBOs saddle the company being bought out with a lot of debt to pay the "Administrators" what they think they are worth. That debt often leads to the original company going bankrupt and selling their IP at auction to highest bidder and the "Administrators" also take their cuts of those auctions. It's a corporate ponzi scheme that no matter how many huge companies it takes down like Sears or Little Debbie or MGM or many more we still haven't actually put a law on the books to stop it.)
by godelski | 2025-09-29 18:00:05+00:00
Also think about software recently. Is it actually better? IME I face more bugs than ever. Trivial ones to that are clearly being deprioritized but relatively easily solvable.[0]

Do an experiment for me. Write down every bug you face today. Even small. I think you'll be surprised at how many there are and even more at how many are likely simple to solve.

I know it's not just me as so many around me are getting increasingly frustrated with their devices. It's not the big things, it's a thousand paper cuts. But if you just you look at a paper cut in isolation, it isn't meaningful. That's the problem and why they get ignored. But they get created because we care more about speed than direction. I'd argue that's a good way to end up over a cliff

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45363210