MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by omnimus | 2025-09-13 11:13:09+00:00
It's way more nuanced. Wordpress became popular thanks to convergence of many things including work done by PHP and shared hosting providers (and of course linux). WP itself is not that special CMS but it was main platform people knew about where you can easily self-host and thus be in control/independent. I can't understate how much this is THE main feature. And this is mainly thanks to the PHP/hosting not WP itself.

In that ecosystem everybody depends on everybody. It is also shared open competitive market. But importantly more people use WP the better for everyone.

When you start to throw your weight around thinking you should be getting more because it's all your doing... you will upset the balance. People will call you out. Because they want and need the ecosystem to stay open.

For example think about PHP itself... should they be upset and also want more? The creators of PHP didn't become millionares quite the oposite. Why aren't they entitled to some of the pie? Or Linux? Or what about the guy that cofounded Wordpress but never was invited to be part of Automattic?
by pydry | 2025-09-13 11:13:19+00:00
>AI changes the job to be a constant struggle with hard problems

I find this hilarious. From what I've seen watching people do it, it changes the job from deep thought and figuring out a good design to pulling a lever on a slot machine and hoping something good pops out.

The studies that show diminished critical thinking have matched what i saw anecdotally pairing with people who vibe coded. It replaced deep critical thinking with a kind of faith based gambler's mentality ("maybe if i tell it to think really hard it'll do it right next time...").

The only times ive seen a notable productivity improvement is when it was something not novel that didnt particularly matter if what popped out was shit - e.g. a proof of concept, ad hoc app, something that would naturally either work or fail obviously, etc. The buzz people get from these gamblers' highs when it works seems to make them happier than if they didnt use it at all though.
by faangguyindia | 2025-09-13 11:13:56+00:00
AI coding is working really good for us.

My teammate shared 3 phase workflow we are using on our team to deliver project at rapid phase.

It's shared on ClaudeCode subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/iy058fH4sZ

I've been using it for months with great success
by gnufx | 2025-09-13 11:14:00+00:00
It's worth noting that Stallman had earlier proposed a design for Emacs "to handle all the world's alphabets and word signs" with similar requirements to UTF-8. That was the etc/CHARACTERS file in Emacs 18.59 (1990). The eventual international support implemented in Emacs 20's MULE was based on ISO-2022, which was a reasonable choice at the time, based on earlier Japanese work. (There was actually enough space in the MULE encoding to add UTF-8, but the implementation was always going to be inefficient with the number of bytes at the top of the code space.)

Edit: see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tsutsui/emacs-18.59-netbsd...
by blinkingled | 2025-09-13 11:16:49+00:00
I have been working on finding out ways to make use of AI a net-positive in my professional life as opposed to yet another thing I have to work around and have cognitive load of. Some notes so far in getting great benefits out of it on couple projects -

* Getting good results from AI forced me to think through and think clearly - up front and even harder.

* AI almost forces me to structure and break down my thoughts into smaller more manageable chunks - which is a good thing. (You can't just throw a giant project at it - it gets really far off from what you want if you do that.)

* I have to make it a habit of reading what code it has added - so I understand it and point to it some improvements or rarely fixes (Claude)

* Everyone has what they think are uninteresting parts of a project that they have to put effort into to see the bigger project succeed - AI really helps with those mundane, cog in the wheel things - it not only speeds things up, personally it gives me more momentum/energy to work on the parts that I think are important.

* It's really bad at reusability - most humans will automatically know oh I have a function I wrote to do this thing in this project which I can use in that project. At some point they will turn that into a library. With AI that amount of context is a problem. I found that filling in for AI for this is just as much work and I best do that myself upfront before feeding it to AI - then I have a hope of getting it to understand the dependency structure and what does what.

* Domain specific knowledge - I deal with Google Cloud a lot and use Gemini for understanding what features exist in some GCP product and how I can use it to solve a problem - works amazingly well to save me time. At the least optioning the solution is a big part of work it makes easier.

* Your Git habits have to be top notch so you can untangle any mess AI creates - you reach a point where you have iterated over a feature addition using AI and it's a mess and you know it went off the rails after some point. If you just made one or two commits now you have to unwind everything and hope the good parts return or try to get AI to deal with it which can be risky.
by bdcravens | 2025-09-13 11:16:59+00:00
> In some cases, especially with the more senior devs in my org, fear of the good parts is why they're against AI. Devs often want the inherent safety of the boring, easy stuff for a while. AI changes the job to be a constant struggle with hard problems. That isn't necessarily a good thing. If you're actually senior by virtue of time rather than skill, you can only take on a limited number of challenging things one after another before you get exhausted.

The issue of senior-juniors has always been a problem; AI simply means they're losing their hiding spots.
Show HN: AI Roast – Fun AI-generated roasts of websites
by happy_malone | 2025-09-13 11:17:06+00:00
Hey HN,

I built AI Roast – a simple web app that takes your website and gives you a funny AI-powered roast.

Features:

Instant roasts in a lighthearted tone

"Pro Roast Report" (downloadable) if you want to take it further

Share button to drop your roast on Twitter/X easily

Live stats: total roasts, reports sold, and shares

Why: I wanted something playful to explore AI beyond productivity apps. Instead of “AI that helps you work,” this is “AI that dunks on you.”

Would love feedback on:

Roast quality (do they land?)

UX — what would make this more fun/shareable?

Any crazy ideas for distribution

Try it here ai-roast.jamatrix.io
by zkmon | 2025-09-13 11:17:45+00:00
Ofcourse, there is some truth in what you say. But business is desperate for new tech where they can redefine the order (who is big and who is small). There are floating billions which chase short term returns. Fund managers will be fired if they are not jumping on the new fad in the town. CIO's and CEO's will be fired if they are not jumping on AI. It's just nuclear arms race. It's good for none. but the other guy is on it, so you need to be too.

Think about this. Before there were cars on roads, people were just as much happy. Cars came, cities were redesigned for cars with buildings miles apart, and commuting miles became the new norm. You can no longer say cars are useless because the context around them has changed to make the cars a basic need.

AI does same thing. It changes the context in which we work. Everyone expects you use AI (and cars). It becomes a basic need, though a forced one.

To go further, hardly anything produced by science or technology is a basic need for humans. The context got twisted, making them basic needs. Tech solutions create the problems which they claim to solve. The problem did not exist before the solution came around. That's core driving force of business.
by apercu | 2025-09-13 11:18:09+00:00
I think some of the “hate” is the hype. We’re all tired of companies announcing ground breaking tech that isn’t readily available a decade later.

I don’t live in California (like most of the population of the planet) - Toronto for 18 years and now the American side of the Great Lakes.

Ice storms, snow, sleet, cold weather 5-6 months out of the year. Batteries suck in the cold, sensors fail or under-perform. Hell, door handles and windows struggle in this weather.

Waymo is not a thing in NY or Chicago or Minneapolis or Philadelphia (I could go on).
by IshKebab | 2025-09-13 11:18:17+00:00
> intentionally barring foreign talent to artificially inflate wages for domestic workers undermines U.S. competitiveness

Sure, but the Americans here don't really care about American competitiveness - they care about their inflated wages! The biggest thing they fear is that American wages will become more in line with the rest of the world.

And to be fair, the American tech industry is still doing pretty well in spite of the enormous wages. Probably because America is such a friendly environment for startups.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-13 11:20:09+00:00
I wish people would stop calling this stuff magnetic. It is not. Maybe it can be mathematically explained using some "pseudomagnetic" but it is fundamentally different, because this effect can't do the same things as a real magnetic field (e.g. Faraday rotation). Which would allow integrated optical isolators in Si, which would be a major breakthrough (and is fundamentally impossible as I understand it).
by skimojoe | 2025-09-13 11:20:14+00:00
I am sceptical if these persona based agents really make that much of a difference, and more "appear" to make a difference because of their talk style.

Underneath is just a system prompt, or more likely a prompt layered on top "You are a frontend engineer, competent in react and Next.js, tailwind-css" - the stack details and project layout, key information is already in the CLAUDE.md. For more stuff the model is going to call file-read tools etc.

I think its more theatre then utilty.

What I have taken to doing is having a parent folder and then frontend/ backend/ infra/ etc as children.

parent/CLAUDE.md frontend/CLAUDE.md backend/CLAUDE.md

The parent/CLAUDE.md provides a highlevel view of the stack "FastAPI backend with postgres, Next.js frontend using with tailwind, etc". The parent/CLAUDE.md also points to the childrens CLAUDE.md's which have more granular information.

I then just spawn a claude in the parent folder, set up plan mode, go back and forth on a design and then have it dump out to markdown to RFC/ and after that go to work. I find it does really well then as all changes it makes are made with a context of the other service.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-09-13 11:20:56+00:00
AI coding is the one thing that got my back to programming. I got to the point in life, when my ability to focus is reducing, and I prefer to send the remaining energy elsewhere. I kind of gave up on programming, just doing architecture and occasionally doing very small programming tasks. It all changed when I discovered Claude Code and saw that the way it works, is kind of how I work. I also use a lot of grep to find my way through a new codebase, I also debug stuff by adding logs to see the context, I also rely on automated tests to tell me something is broken. I'm still very good at reading code, I'm good at architecture, and with these tools, I feel I can safely delegate the boring bits of writing code and debugging trivial things to AI. Yes, it's slower than if I focused on the task myself, but the point is that I'd not be able to focus on the task myself.
by luckylion | 2025-09-13 11:21:28+00:00
My point is that micro-studies like that on a tiny random (or even counter-indicated, "healthy") selection of the general population don't tell you much for drugs that do specific things.

"Antibiotics don't improve your life, but can damage your health" would likely be the outcome on 13 randomly selected healthy individuals. But do the same study on 13 people with a bacterial infection susceptible to antibiotics and your results will be vastly different.
by luke-stanley | 2025-09-13 11:21:51+00:00
Human problem? It's probably already solved by one of the many recent machine learning papers, often there is source on GitHub and Transformer models on HuggingFace or some random Google Drive or Biadu drive. So one such human problem is finding how to ask aXiv Assistant what the best SOTA papers for it are and searching for if they finally released code or not (hoping researchers have a real repo not a GitHub site without code). I recall that Nvidia have some clean solutions. I wish it was a more pure principled solver though with some clean code. Probably OpenEvolve could iterate on a solution to it like the circle packing problem example but 3D. Sometimes it's funny to think that there are human problems left, which itself really is a human problem.
by DannyBee | 2025-09-13 11:22:17+00:00
Lawyer here-100% agree. Calling this a win is super super strange. The only claims that were dismissed were long shots anyway and will just be amended except for extortion.

The court didn’t even find that there wasn’t extortion, just that you can’t privately sue over the kind of extortion claimed here. Which means California could actually still sue over it, just not WPEngine.

Amusingly, the court also refused to take judicial notice of several documents Automattic submitted because WPEngine said they were not authentic copies of the documents.

Overall this is emphatically not a win. They knocked out roughly no interesting claims, knocked out zero claims permanently (the one claim that can’t be amended could still be sued over by California, and they actually might because it’s California), and will have just made themselves work arguing the same claims again once amended.

They will still end up in trial in 2027 or 2028.

The only usefulness of this would have been as a delaying tactic but I don’t see how that benefits Automattic given the PR disaster they made of this
by dsign | 2025-09-13 11:22:28+00:00
> Interacting with real people is rewarding and can boost your energy.

Not for everybody. Me and a work friend are considered "highly energetic" by our colleagues when we are at the office in person, to the point that people and things soon find themselves in orbit around us. But the truth is that when we come home, we both feel drained and exhausted for the next day or two. For me, it's as if my entire mind and soul got washed and diluted by those interactions.

I'm not saying it's all bad, in the same way that running a marathon is probably not all bad. But "boost your energy" wouldn't be a term I would ever use for it.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-13 11:22:50+00:00
This is the only document [0] linked from the article that has relevant information about "Core safety profiles," which were prioritized over "Safe C++." It defines the following profiles:

- type - bounds - lifetime - arithmetic

[0]: <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p30...>
by IMTDb | 2025-09-13 11:23:44+00:00
Nuclear sits just between wind (slightly more dangerous) and solar (slightly less dangerous) per unit of electricity production, all of them being much safer than hydro; and ridiculously safer than gas, oil and coal. It's a really, really safe option.

Note that these number are a bit old and since then, installation of consumer solar has increased significantly. Installation of solar panels on consumer roofs is much more dangerous than installation of solar panels in solar plants, so death rate for solar are significantly underestimated. Meanwhile accident rates of plant construction (nuclear, solar or otherwise) keep dropping.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
by tempodox | 2025-09-13 11:24:45+00:00
But it also moves the line for what can be sold as an appropriate reaction that may not look unquestionably crazy on the surface:

> And more may be to come: some GOP lawmakers and officials are signaling their readiness to punish people for their speech. Conservative activists are collecting and publicizing social media posts and profiles that they say "celebrated" his death and are calling for them to lose their jobs.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/13/nx-s1-5538476/charlie-kirk-jo...

The McCarthy period, as comparison, lasted much too long and claimed many victims before it was discredited as immorally crazy.
by bdcravens | 2025-09-13 11:24:47+00:00
Which was my original point. Not that the outcome is shit. So much of what we write is absolutely low-skill and low-impact, but necessary and labor-intensive. Most of it is so basic and boilerplate you really can't look at it and know if it was machine- or human-generated. Why shouldn't that work get cranked out in seconds instead of hours? Then we can do the actual work we're paid to do.

To pair this with the comment you're responding to, the decline in critical thinking is probably a sign that there's many who aren't as senior as their paycheck suggests. AI will likely lead to us being able to differentiate between who the architects/artisans are, and who the assembly line workers are. Like I said, that's not a new problem, it's just that AI lays that truth bare. That will have an effect generation over generation, but that's been the story of progress in pretty much every industry for time eternal.
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-13 11:24:52+00:00
Brilliant, thank you. The killer part of this video is quantifying the effects of the standard tidal force lift/stretch explanation. They are tiny: around 1 micro-g. Compare this with the total hydraulic pressure of tidal forces on a perfect global ocean predicting a 75cm tide (which, on Earth, is amplified by the coastlines of the continents.)
by ordu | 2025-09-13 11:27:21+00:00
> I can’t get a good intuition about how tidal forces explain (1) Earth’s moon causing ocean bulges on both sides of Earth

Try to imagine that all the Earth is liquid, so no landmass that resist deformation. And now ask yourself a question: which form this Earth should take in presence of Moon? You see the reason for a bulge facing the Moon, but what kind of shape should be the other side? Anti-bulge, depression? Or maybe an approximate spherical surface? Or another bulge facing from the Moon?

> tidal friction making Earth’s moon stop spinning and move further away.

Deformed Earth is rotating and the bulge under the Moon tends to move faster than Moon (in terms of angular velocity). So the bulge is sort of "in front" of the Moon and it pulls it forward speeding it up. The other bulge works in opposite direction, but it is more distant so the force is lower.
by umjunsik132 | 2025-09-13 11:27:42+00:00
That's a fantastic question, and you've hit on a perfect example of the GWO framework in action. The key difference is the level of abstraction: GWO is a general grammar to describe and design operations, while Mamba is a specific, highly-engineered model that can be described by that grammar. In fact, as I mention in the paper, we can analyze Mamba using the (P, S, W) components: Path (P): A structured state-space recurrence. This is a very sophisticated path designed to efficiently handle extremely long-range dependencies, unlike a simple sliding window or a dense global matrix. Shape (S): It's causal and 1D. It processes information sequentially, respecting the nature of time-series or language data. Weight (W): This is Mamba's superpower. The weights are highly dynamic and input-dependent, controlled by its selective state parameters. This creates an incredibly efficient, content-aware information bottleneck, allowing the model to decide what to remember and what to forget based on the context. So, Mamba isn't a competitor to the GWO theory; it's a stellar example of it. It's a brilliant instance of "Structural Alignment" where the (P, S, W) configuration is perfectly tailored for the structure of sequential data. Thanks for asking this, it's a great point for discussion.
by usrusr | 2025-09-13 11:28:20+00:00
How will that hobby fare against gen-AI prompt composing? Synths and samplers and sequencers were once removed from playing real instruments, softsynths and DAW twice removed and now there's genAI, thrice removed and arguably the biggest jump of them all. When softsyths appeared, real instruments weren't affected at all, but physical synths all but disappeared, just carried on by inertia, integration with real instruments and a bit of nostalgia. Will the same happen to soft synth now that there's an alternative thrice removed from real instruments?

I believe so: in an aging softsynth community I still mingle with occasionally, everybody who is still actively involved with music seems to have either moved on to genAI, or to soft-on-Rpi for better integration with real instruments (including synths of all kinds).
by matt3D | 2025-09-13 11:28:20+00:00
This is a more extreme example of the general hacker news group think about AI.

Geohot is easily a 99.999 percentile developer, and yet he can’t seem to reconcile that the other 99.999 percent are doing something much more basic than he can ever comprehend.

It’s some kind of expert paradox, if everyone was as smart and capable as the experts, then they wouldn’t be experts.

I have come across many developers that behave like the AI. Can’t explain codebases they’ve built, can’t maintain consistency.

It’s like a aerospace engineer not believing that the person that designs the toys in an Kinder egg doesn’t know how fluid sims work.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-09-13 11:28:58+00:00
I think there are two kinds of uses for these tools:

1) you try to explain what you want to get done

2) you try to explain what you want to get done and how to get it done

The first one is gambling, the second one has very small failure rate, at worst, the plan it presents shows it's not getting the solution you want it to do.
by haute_cuisine | 2025-09-13 11:30:04+00:00
I can’t help in any way, but I’m just curious why you decided to transfer it as a luggage and not as a carry on? Why it didn’t have something like an apple tag inside it and why it wasn’t ensured and didn’t have a backup? Did you research Pegasus before the flight to see if it has a good service?

Can it be a chance that customs didn’t allow your luggage to be transferred?
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-13 11:30:19+00:00
I asked it who Chris Kirk was. It was done golfer so I said what about the public speaker and it corrected me to Charlie Kirk and mentioned he had been shot and killed. I asked if it had been recorded and it said yes, and that the videos spread online. I asked it where to and it gave a list of platforms. I asked if they were still up and it said it couldn't give me a definitive answer because if ever changing moderation policies. I asked it how I could verify they were up or down and it suggested

> Try searching on X.com for strings like "Charlie Kirk assassination" or "Charlie Kirk shot dead video"
by oneshtein | 2025-09-13 11:31:23+00:00
Life of hundreds of millions were/are/will be affected by Chornobyl. Nobody can calculate real death toll of Chornobyl accident because it's impossible to control radiation. Moreover, nobody wants to pay for those deaths or partially lost health.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-kno...
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-13 11:32:35+00:00
I wonder if this is true. There is significant risk in price changes for renting (or even HOA fees for condominiums), such that many middle class people might feel more secure living in their home with a near zero interest rate mortgage, if not a paid off mortgage.

On top of that, most jurisdictions (in the US) subsidize property tax rates for senior citizens, so there is a lot less price volatility for simply remaining in one’s home (or even moving to a different, but smaller detached single family home).

Unless a person specifically wants an urban lifestyle in a shared building, I don’t see much impetus to move out. Worst case, they get to stay in their home they have gotten used to and have space for visitors, best case they save a bunch of money and sleep easy knowing their costs are more controlled.