MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 12_throw_away | 2025-09-28 18:34:49+00:00
I'm not sure I can explain more than is in the article, but I feel that writing it out helps me cope with the insanity:

"Med-beds" are a far-right-adjacent conspiracy theory. It posits that the rich and powerful have access to a secret medical technology that can heal any disease. Descriptions vary between Star-Trek-ish magic future tech on the one hand, vs new age woo magic crystal healing on the other. There are a variety of scams around this preying on the medically ignorant and desperate [1], one of which has even been posted on HN! [2]

The president's truth social account posted a fictional AI-generated Fox News segment purporting to announce that the president himself is making this "technology" broadly available. The segment includes deepfake of the president himself, which raises some alarming (although not, at this point, surprising) questions about who posted the video and why:

- Did the president himself post this or direct someone to post it? If so, does he think that it was real, despite the clips of him saying things he never said?

- Or, did someone post it without the president's authorization, and if so, did they believe it was real?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/far-right-mir...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050557
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-28 18:35:25+00:00
Honestly it describes eerily close to what I dealt with. First psych just depression and general anxiety, wanted to load me up with SSRIs and benzos. Therapy helped some but those meds only made me suicidal.

At a suspicion I later asked about adhd as there were some rather clear cycles and signals, "no you cant have adhd you're successful", successful to them meaning graduated and held a job even if I was at my wit's end. They were of the mindset that clearly if I had adhd my parents or the public school system would have caught it.

New psych and one the first things she wanted unprompted was adhd screening, go figure.
by boricj | 2025-09-28 18:37:07+00:00
I'm gonna up the nit.

Several years ago, I was the sysadmin/devops of an on-premises lab whose uplink to the rest of the company (and the proxy by extension) was melting under the CICD load.

When that became so unbearable that it escalated all the way to the top priority of my oversaturated backlog, I took thirty minutes from my hectic day to whip up a Git proxy/cache written in an hundred lines of Bash.

That single-handedly brought back the uplink from being pegged at the redline, cut down time spent cloning/pulling repositories in the CICD pipelines by over two-thirds and improved the workday of over 40 software developers.

That hackjob is still in production right now, years after I left that position. They tried to decommission it at some point thinking that the newly installed fiber uplink was up to the task, only to instantly run into GitHub rate limiting.

It's still load-bearing and strangely enough is the most reliable piece of software I've ever written. It's clever and witty, because it's both easy to understand and hard to come up with. The team would strongly disagree with the statement that they didn't directly benefit from it.
by fsloth | 2025-09-28 18:37:08+00:00
Since you asked for honest feedback here are my thougths:

Given your propensity for programming you are probably a high functioning individual, able to apply logical reasoning and systems thinking to a wide range of problems.

I have no idea of your living conditions so honest feedback beyond that is quite hard. Different places are different man.

I know talented programmers coming from around the world - so your career choice was not wrong. The career has been an opportunity for talent across the globe. It's possible that your life situation, however, is what stops you to actually follow the career path of your choosing now.

I know people who've struggled to find direction after their initial education did not pan out. They eventually pull through - sometimes they find a job that is aligned with their education, and sometimes they need to pivot and find something new. I have no idea what action you should take in your local economy.

I'm super impressed you take care of you elderly mother. I don't know what relationship you have, but being a caretaker is a dignified position what ever the circumstances. But it can also be a sacrifice towards personal freedoms, goals, and life outcomes.

Now, what I'm going to say may sound like BS but it really is the only solid actionable support I can give: take care of yourself. Try to exercise. Try to sleep. Try to eat. Try to find things in life you enjoy, and notice and pay attention to them. Life can be lived - and sometimes needs to be lived - one breath and one heartbeat at a time.
by kimixa | 2025-09-28 18:37:17+00:00
The last one that made the rounds here ended up being carefully cut to give a specific impression (and the initial presented commentary straight up lies), and when the "full story" came out it turned out to be a lot less "simply practicing free speech" than implied.

But retractions never get the same visibility, and it's already made the impression they wanted the post to make.

Not a great site but gives the gist:

https://www.newsweek.com/british-police-explain-video-office...
by vunderba | 2025-09-28 18:37:25+00:00
You can definitely do music recording on an iPad with WIRED headphones - I have an iPad Pro 10.5 that I'll use in conjunction with a 37-key midi keyboard and it's great for travel.

But there is NO world where you are doing realtime playback/recording even with very loose quantization with an iPad and BT headphones. Maybe some day, but that day is not now.

Latency

- under 30ms = acceptable

- between 30-50ms = irritating but you can work around it

- between 50-100ms = easily detectable when you press a key and almost unusable

- above 100ms = patently absurd

And this is latency figures for laying down melodies. Latency needs to be even tighter when laying down drums.

The only decent wireless headphones I've ever used in a recording setting were AIAIAI TMA-2 Wireless+ [1] which uses a dedicated radio transmitter.

[1] https://aiaiai.audio/stories/products/deep-dive-w-link
by jmcodes | 2025-09-28 18:37:40+00:00
Yeah the main value is definitely the code execution layer. You could easily generate a type-safe client from your REST, GraphQL, TRPC layer, expose it to the Deno layer and list the types as a resource or something. No need to involve MCP at all. You're basically just defining a stdlib for the LLM.

If you run `deno check` before executing the code you'd get the type-safety loop (working on this now)

Later I want to see what'd happen if you give the LLM a repo of sorts to store useful snippets and functions with comments for later use. So the LLM itself would save workflows, be able to import them into the Deno environment and chain those together.

It definitely needs a prompt that tells it to use the MCP server but I can see it being pretty powerful.

I only did simple tests like get Reddit posts, their comments, find the weather on those days, stick them in duckdb, and run some social media metric queries.

I could see that same test being: "find me leads, filter by keywords, run against some parquet file stored somewhere using duckdb, craft an email for my boss."

I'm kind of ranting but I think this a pretty exciting approach.

Edit: GraphQL style codegen layer but for all your APIs seems like a pretty obvious middle layer for this, maybe next weekend.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-28 18:38:09+00:00
In general, modern compilers will often unroll or inline functions without people even noticing. This often helps with cache level state localization and parallelism.

Most code should focus on readability, then profile for busy areas under use, and finally refactor the busy areas though hand optimization or register hints as required.

If one creates something that looks suspect (inline Assembly macro), a peer or llvm build will come along and ruin it later for sure. Have a great day =3
by jacquesm | 2025-09-28 18:38:27+00:00
Yes, that's a problem, but this is akin to all of the other ways in which things are no longer properly sold but come with all kinds of strings attached. My computers are mine, and I determine what is being run on them. I realize that puts me in a - small - minority but I prefer to own things than to rent them. I don't want an ongoing relationship with vendors beyond the initial transaction and possibly warranty issues.

This informs a lot of my choices. It's the reason my car is old, it's the reason my computer is running Linux, it is the reason why I don't wear branded apparel and it helped me decide where to bank. But I fear that it is a losing battle.

The monoculture that you refer to creates choke points and legislators love those. It gives an illusion of control, but actually it is just a massive security risk.
by furyofantares | 2025-09-28 18:39:15+00:00
I felt a little bad about this snark but actually, author barely understands their own use case (says they want alphabetical order but they actually want something more) and barely understands the UI they're using (says they asked for alphabetical order but none of the file managers they used says it has any such setting) and then they go on to claim this is to satisfy dumb users:

> Well, apparently all these operating systems have decided that no, users are too dumb and they cannot possibly understand what alphabetical order means.
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-28 18:39:18+00:00
It is a step further than that.

The outrage was started by Chris Rufo. He has spoken publicly and clearly about his strategy of ginning up DEI controversies and rallying far right online people to harass targeted businesses as a mechanism of making every business be extremely cautious about doing anything at all that could be considered DEI by right wing weirdos. In the past he amplified things like the Bud Light and Target harassment campaigns. By choosing something so incredibly anodyne as this logo update he signals to businesses that they need to not just refuse to acquiesce to left wing demands but that they need to a right wing movement that (like you mention) can fly into a rage whenever they see a woman in a position of power.
by jhanschoo | 2025-09-28 18:39:30+00:00
I don't know how you think the ad market works.

Advertisers have an idea who they want to sell to but they don't know their browsing habits.

The ad industry collects data about you to see whether you are like the person particular advertisers want to sell to and what sites you visit. With this information it can display ads relevant to you on the sites you visit.

You propose that ads shown should be conditioned just on the content of a website, but you are missing out on the fact that the content on any one website alone is a poor proxy for the type of customer that the advertiser is targeting.
Show HN: My first vibecoded Rust project, how do I share the AI sessions?
by marxism | 2025-09-28 18:39:35+00:00
Hey HN! I built this Rust CLI tool to scratch my own itch in about 3 hours using AI coding (Claude Code + Cursor) and wanted to share it as a concrete example to support the "AI makes you more productive" camp. I know that people talk about being more productive, but then catch flak with "so what did you ship".

What it does: This tool solves my problem: You have a JSON file that changes regularly, and you want to track its history without storing dozens of full copies.

json-archive creates a .json.archive file next to your original JSON file. Each time you run the tool, it calculates only what changed and appends those deltas to the archive. You get complete history with minimal storage overhead.

The archive format is human-readable JSONL (not binary), designed to be hackable and easy to inspect, debug, and pipe into other scripts or web visualizations.

Repo: https://github.com/PeoplesGrocers/json-archive (AGPL so maybe don't look at it on work computers)

Why I'm posting: People keep saying AI coding makes them productive, but there aren't many concrete examples to study. So here's mine:

- Bunch of working Rust with documenation - Working tool with proper error handling, testing, and real examples - Yes, some docs have that "AI feel" and the code takes a bit of a brute force approach. - But I'm happy with the file format and the API it came up with - It works and I only had to read/understand code rather than write everything from scratch

My question for HN: I have all the Claude Code and Cursor session transcripts that went into building this but I don't know a good way share them so you all can judge whether I'm using these tools effectively or like a noob

Is there something out there? I'm looking for a way to publish these transcripts and maybe leave comments?

If you're curious about AI-assisted development or want concrete examples before adopting it yourself, I think this could be a useful data point. And if you know how I should share these sessions, I'd love to hear suggestions!
by jacquesm | 2025-09-28 18:40:09+00:00
Press releases are for the public, they are essentially holding their own users hostage, and users that don't see this for what it is deserve all the misery they will get. But you're not going to be able to pretend that Apple isn't solely responsible for following the law in those places where they want to make money. If they don't want to comply with the law that is on them, not on the legislators. And it's high time that these companies learned they are not larger than the nation states where they operate, no matter how rich they are.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-09-28 18:40:23+00:00
The verbs are not the issue. America has been hollowed out by political propaganda, offshoring and growing wealth inequality. Sagan fails to identify any of these and instead dunks on harmless folk superstitions. Show me where the Fed rate or IBM's quarterly earnings or a Fox News chyron were determined by a horoscope.

The real enemy is the belief that value can be created from nothing, such that an economy of infinite growth can exist. Once you've exhausted all the externalities - exploiting people overseas, domestically, pillaging natural resources - you're left in a zero sum game.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-28 18:40:35+00:00
Great. This is necessary. All the other contenders should drop out and rally around Cuomo. Otherwise socialist Mamdani will win, on a platform that is economically unsound, with wild promises like spending $100 million a year on a legal defense fund for illegal immigrants or publicly owned grocery stores. But it’s also worse in numerous other ways, like his support for reducing the penalties for various crimes including DUIs and sexual assault - a huge slap in the face of women who have been central to his campaign.

This is leaving aside the fact that he doesn’t have the track record or professional experience that makes him fit for the actual job of leading the world’s most important city. I’m increasingly seeing right wing influencers celebrate his likely election, as they expect him to fail on the job and for the Democrats to continue falling apart as a result. It’s a bad bet for the future.
by huhtenberg | 2025-09-28 18:40:40+00:00
In parallel with searching for a salaried position, consider writing something on your own.

Look at existing software with unhappy users and make an alternative, even if a simpler one. Create something that hits a specific need of local businesses. If nothing else comes out of it, you will still have a real-world project and related experience (with designing, planning, shipping, talking to customers) to add to your resume.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-28 18:41:31+00:00
Well yes, that is my main reason for disliking companies. And yes, google weighs in on browser standards in myriad ways which gives themseves and companies like them the ability to elevate the preferences of their customers above the preferences of their users.

It would be nice to block them from doing so, but the real fix is to give those users something better to use. Not much has gone into using technology to amplify the innate peer-to-peer trust/distrust mechanisms that we've spent millenia evolving such that they scale to the demands of our times, and quite a lot (thanks to google and friends) has gone into suppressing them.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-09-28 18:41:33+00:00
He (or whoever is controlling his social media, which I'm nearly convinced is not him) is trying to fracture our sense of base reality, which humans need to function as a society. He's trying to do this by posting such AI generated absurdity and conspiracies that no one knows what is actually real anymore. That is his goal. It's a malevolent psychological operation.
by general1465 | 2025-09-28 18:41:33+00:00
Russian market has been less than 1% of Apple's revenue

European market is 25% Apple's revenue (7% is just App Store revenue)

Russian market is tiny compared to Europe + they were forced to do it via sanctions or risk being sanctioned themselves, so it is easy for Apple to tell we have to leave this market (even that they really did not, otherwise Russians would not be able to i.e. pay for development licenses). Leaving Europe is entirely Apple's decision without somebody forcing their hand.
by mattlutze | 2025-09-28 18:41:35+00:00
> The article sort of goes sideways with this idea but pointing out that AI coding robs you a deep understanding of the code it produces is a valid and important criticism of AI coding.

In any of my teams with moderate to significant code bases, we've always had to lean very hard into code comments and documentation, because a developer will forget in a few months the fine details of what they've previously built. And further, any org with turnover needs to have someone new come in and be able to understand what's there.

I don't think I've met a developer that keeps all of the architecture and design deeply in their mind at all times. We all often enough need to go walk back through and rediscover what we have.

Which is to say... if the LLM generator was instead a colleague or neighboring team, you'd still need to keep up with them. If you can adapt those habits to the generative code then it doesn't seem to be a bit leap.
by ephbit | 2025-09-28 18:42:07+00:00
The key feature of hydrogen as energy storage wouldn't necessarily be round trip efficiency but cost effectiveness (compared to batteries) of long-term storage over months.

Think about transporting peaks of renewables electricity generation that are not economically usable at the time when they're produced to times when renewables produce too little to meet demand. (Mostly in regions where generation depends significantly on seasons.)
by Nevermark | 2025-09-28 18:42:09+00:00
Yes. Of course.

All information has a substrate at any given time.

But the amount of computation per resource drops because computation is not something tied to any unit matter. Nor any particular substrate.

It is not the same as a steam engine, which can only be made so efficient.

The amount of both matter and labor per quantity of computing power is dropping exponentially. Right?

See a sibling reply on the physical limits of computation. We are several singularities away from any hard limit.

Evidence: History of industrialization vs. history of computing. Fundamental physics.
by chipotle_coyote | 2025-09-28 18:42:10+00:00
"Excessive" is obviously a subjective measurement. At times I don't think that HN's median audience appreciates that a 400k/yr salary is objectively extremely high, even for software engineers, even in 2025. A "mere" $367K/yr total compensation puts you in the 90th percentile of SWE earnings. I know Google, Facebook, and a few others greatly exceed that in total compensation at their higher SWE levels, but they're probably not the baseline you should be looking at across the industry.

I would personally say that $400K/yr for being an open source developer is fantastic, although I appreciate that that's also subjective. Even in Silicon Valley, though, $400K/yr would net you about $18K/month, which would be enough to live quite comfortably while still socking away more than half of your income for retirement.
by wvenable | 2025-09-28 18:42:56+00:00
It's not just the one decision though; there are literally thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of these decisions in most software. You want every single one of them to have an option? You want it to support every single combination? At some point, it is ridiculous. Sometimes you just have to decide how your software is going to work and not leave every single decision to the user.
by toast0 | 2025-09-28 18:42:59+00:00
How does secure boot help? If you control the BMC, you can enroll whatever keys you want.

The BMC usually has full access to system memory as well, so if you can get the timing right, you could replace the secure boot verified image with your own after verification.

Also, re: BusinessWeek, hey look a hardware backdoor installed on servers. Pretty sure IPMI vulnerability fits the bill for most of what was described.
by dijit | 2025-09-28 18:43:26+00:00
No, English people still somehow tie their identity to the UK Government somehow.

Scotland will not be granted another independence vote for at least 15 years, despite the last one being build upon a house of lies and nobody knows anything about what the Welsh think.

I do think we’re witnessing the collapse of the UK, but more like a Roman Empire collapse - as in it’s happening over decades. Dying with a whimper, not a bang.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-28 18:44:15+00:00
It's always the same in the end - the thing with a low-trust society vs a high-trust society.

When an ever increasing part of the population is cognitively impaired, (massively) under-educated themselves and/or doesn't have the time and money to properly take care of their children, a lot of implicit and explicit assumptions just go straight out of the window. The fact that car dependency and car centrism makes a whole lot of other assumptions (like, that you can let your child outside unattended because nothing will happen to them) go away as well doesn't help either.

And lawmakers and executive agencies like CPS? They only see that "numbers go up" or get blasted for high-profile cases where the shit really hit the fan, but as addressing the root causes goes far out of their scope (both legal and financial), each uses the tools at their disposal to try and keep up.
by halfadot | 2025-09-28 18:45:20+00:00
> The article sort of goes sideways with this idea but pointing out that AI coding robs you a deep understanding of the code it produces is a valid and important criticism of AI coding.

No it isn't. There's literally nothing about the process that forces you to skip understanding. Any such skips are purely due to the lack of will on the developer's side. This lack of will to learn will not change the outcomes for you regardless of whether you're using an LLM. You can spend as much time as you want asking the LLM for in-depth explanations and examples to test your understanding.

So many of the criticisms of coding with LLMs I've seen really do sound like they're coming from people who already started with a pre-existing bias, fiddled with with for a short bit (or worse, never actually tried it at all) and assumed their limited experience is the be-all end-all of the subject. Either that, or they're typical skill issues.
by bwfan123 | 2025-09-28 18:46:17+00:00
> It’s like having cars that go twice as far as the last year but will only get you to your destination 50% of the time

Nice analogy. All human progress is based on tight-abstractions describing a well-defined machine model. Leaky abstractions with an undefined machine are useful too but only as recommendations or for communication. It is harder to build on top of them. Precisely why programming in english is a non-starter - or - just using english in math/science instead of formalism.