MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-30 12:45:20+00:00
Assuming the AI coding tools progress at their current rate (which is probable but not guaranteed), 90% of the code generated by AI will become commonplace for certain types of projects.

An LLM is essentially a statistical text engine that can produce convincing code for any problem for which there are already similar solutions. Most projects have many such problems, and some projects involve 100% solved problems that just need to be packaged into a new solution.

However, there is a certain class of problems that are too technically innovative and novel. It is often difficult to even describe these problems in human language. AI will mostly hallucinate for such a class of problems, which will actually slow down a competent programmer because the necessary training data is missing.
by extraN | 2025-09-30 12:45:20+00:00
I’ve been using tools like Cline and Roo-Code quite a bit, and the idea of rethinking the core stack/UX from scratch resonates a lot. The agent workflow and devex feel like the hardest problems to get right, so I’m curious how Multi approaches context management and long-running tasks compared to the others. Excited to see it open-sourced and will definitely give it a spin.
by majorchord | 2025-09-30 12:45:33+00:00
> everyone assumes they are also a white cis hetero guy even if they're not

Hard disagree. And how is this even relevant?

> The implication is "you have to conform, and if you don't then you don't belong".

Conform to what, being nice? That was already the case. A group is very unlikely to change their ways regardless, especially just because you barge in and say you are marginalized and start getting offended at things.

For one, "hey guys" is often said by people of every possible group known to humankind, but also if you really wanted to, you can ask them to use a different term without saying you are part of some marginalized (or any) group at all.

The fact that they belong to some group is still (IMO) meaningless in this context, the reality is that they want to play politics and try to get people to change how things operate... you don't need to be part of any group to do that. IMO that's just being difficult.

Maybe you believe it is necessary to identify yourself online as belonging to some group, perhaps in order to force a change, but again I think this is just trying to play politics where it's often not welcome.

If online discourse can exist without people even knowing this much about a person, then I think it's far less likely that they will be targeted for belonging to a group that people are not even aware they belong to.

I'm not saying people need to hide, but I think it's just easier if people can assume "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog"... if nothing else simply because some people suck, and it's easier to get along in a purely technical project if we don't know that much about you personally.
by pepoluan | 2025-09-30 12:46:28+00:00
Reminds me of someone's quote:

> Reading -- and understanding -- code requires twice the brainpower of writing code. So if you used every bit of your intelligence to write 'clever' code, you won't be able to maintain it because it requires twice your intelligence to read it again.

Einstein's words are oh so suitable as well:

> Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
by slaterbug | 2025-09-30 12:46:38+00:00
I bought a new pair of glasses online on Saturday evening as I couldn't be bothered going to a store to try them on. The website had a "virtual try on" feature that would overlay the glasses on your face, and even though the result wasn't great (lighting was off etc. so it wasn't a genuine reflection of what they'd look like), I thought it was pretty cool / useful. An AI-powered version of that which could make it look real would be killer, as long as what you're shown matches the product and isn't some hallucinated bastardisation.
Ask HN: For those who build a successful side-hustle, what was your next move
by saas_startup | 2025-09-30 12:46:42+00:00
I have been running a side-hustle SaaS for the last several years that is finally going to reach mid 6 figures over the next year. I am in a niche so further growth is unlikely. My time commitment is probably 10h a week (weekends). I do have a full-time career as a tech exec with mid 6 figures as well and maybe on the path to low 7 in the next 5 years. I generally love to work and don't plan to stop, I am pretty good at avoiding burn out.

I do have a question for those who build a successful side hustles. Once your business started to generate a more serious money what did you do ? I do understand the general options (take cash, sell, reinvest) but looking for people stories to give me some food for thought.
by fuzzy2 | 2025-09-30 12:46:45+00:00
Eh. I feel TFA is a little overblown. It is not the devices (a physical thing with software) that are upgraded, it is the Apple Home instance (a purely virtual/software thing) that changes.

Personally, I use HomeKit with Home Assistant as the "backend" and it's working fine. HomeKit can see and act on exactly what I need it to.
by lxgr | 2025-09-30 12:46:58+00:00
There are significant amounts of soft power between countries before it comes to physical force.

For example, how I'd have expected this to play out in an age that feels more and more a thing of the past:

- Country A's ingenious startup offers global satellite service, bypassing country B's telecom monopoly, without even fully registering it. (They employ more engineers than lawyers.)

- Country B complains to country A's government.

- Government A respects B's sovereignty, even though A is much larger and more powerful than B, and wants to reassure the world that the same rules apply to everybody. It slaps the startup on its wrist, under the (very implicit, never even hinted at) threat of further regulatory or legal action. (The startup pays taxes in A, and its executives live and can be arrested there.)

- The startup stops providing service on B's territory.

- The governments of A and B sit down together and negotiate, behind closed doors and without making it a big display of power, a deal that works for both of them, e.g. granting the startup access to the market of B, in exchange for complying with local regulations.

Obviously it has never worked like that between all countries and in all cases, but I'm just saying, this used to be seen as a desirable model by many.
by crubier | 2025-09-30 12:48:18+00:00
I love this!

I keep telling my euro-friends that food and health regulation could potentially be enforced by the free market more effectively than by corruptible government, and this is a perfect example of this.

I'd want to see all products I can buy in there, with all possible chemical, ingredients and nutrients, and clear indications of good/bad, a little bit like in Yuka. You should partner with them maybe even!
by jasoneckert | 2025-09-30 12:48:53+00:00
When I was evaluating ways to add comments to my blog on GitHub Pages, I quickly passed by Disqus because it was a 3rd party service that I didn't trust for reasons like this.

Instead, I went with a tight solution that minimized 3rd party interaction: GitHub Discussions leveraged using the Giscus app (https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/github-discussions-blog...). You have to have a GitHub account to post comments using this method, which I like because my blog is geared to those that would have that.
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-30 12:49:02+00:00
s/algorithm/dynamic/

HN doesn't have an algorithm, per se.

There are voting mechanics, and some sites gain or lose a penalty based on content or type (most generic news sites, for example, are slightly penalised). There are keyword / topic penalties too for issues that are dominating the hivemind for a period.

But mostly what you're seeing is simple mass-media power-law effects, along with early-action advantage:

- Votes / article tend to follow a power-law curve, where the frequency of high votes is inversely related to the vote. This typically shows as a linear relation when the log of both values is taken (log(frequency) vs. log(votes)). There are 30 front-page slots on HN, about 11,000 opportunities per year (at day's end, more if you count intra-day appearances), vs. about 400,000 submissions (see: <https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective>). Most submissions won't make the grade, often through no fault of their own. I've looked into this in some detail, including looking at votes/comments by story position (there's a sharp decrease here as well).

- A small amount of early activity (upvotes, flags, comments) tends to have an outsized effect on the trajectory of a given story. Low-quality comments are particularly deleterious, and are hunted aggressively by mods for this reason.

- Stories often do far better on a subsequent submission. Part of this is probably randomness, part also a familiarity effect among those reviewing the "New" queue. If at first you don't succeed ... try again, a few times, at least.

- Stories can get selected (or nominated for) the Second Chance or Invited pools. These increase odds of landing higher on the front page, and are used fairly frequently. See "pool" <https://news.ycombinator.com/pool> and "invited" <https://news.ycombinator.com/invited> under "lists".
by alistairSH | 2025-09-30 12:49:15+00:00
Same, I have (mostly) z-wave devices with a mini Beelink PC as the hub. Then use Homebridge (via HomeAssistant) to bridge to HomeKit. Works fine and I can ditch HomeKit in the future should the need arise. Of course, I’ve had an iCloud account the whole time because I use it for other things (cloud backup, photos, etc).
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-30 12:49:27+00:00
He's very unlikely to actually do this

All he would be doing is documenting the fact that right wing propaganda is poorly rooted in facts.

But then again, a lot if what Musk does is the same. FSD is not really "full self driving". And he has filed a motion in federal court to keep crash data away from the public.

So he may try to do this but he won't do it in the straightforward way you would expect. For example, he may combine this with using legal means to impede wikipedia.
by billy99k | 2025-09-30 12:50:08+00:00
How is this any different than platforms like Blue Sky? I've noticed that when the censorship happens silently from the left, most people either don't know it's happening or completely ignore it.

I've compared the bias from X and other platforms and you generally get both sides of the argument. Blue sky bans anything not left-leaning. This is evident by first-hand accounts and the fact that you never see both sides of an argument.
by m-hodges | 2025-09-30 12:50:16+00:00
There are similar¹𝄒²𝄒³ ideas for Mastodon / ActivityPub:

¹ https://jszym.com/blog/mastodon_blog_comments/

² https://jan.wildeboer.net/2023/02/Jekyll-Mastodon-Comments/

³ https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-sta...
by K0balt | 2025-09-30 12:50:19+00:00
Of course, if people choose to create their own private torment nexus, they should absolutely be free to do so. But let’s not pretend that justifies the mass manufacturing of torment nexus starter kits , to be sold as portable Eden’s.

Harmful things are harmful, and if sold to the unsuspecting public, should ideally be sold as such.

This is off topic, but one of the problems with “free market capitalism“ arguments is that “free market capitalism” is exactly what we have right now, with all of the attendant problems.

If you move up a level, you eventually get to the supernational level, in which there are no entities to enforce regulations and we have global calvinball.

The free market of ideas itself dictates increasing layers of regulation moving downward. Totally Free markets are only possible in an absolute vacuum of power. Every “free market” scenario implies an externalization of regulatory power and cost in order to preserve it.

Without that it is just who has the biggest stick, a “free market“ of coercive force.
by chrismatheson | 2025-09-30 12:50:47+00:00
I actually got stuck with a bug in the flow. "What drives you" I couldn't seem to move on from this step, no button visible (maybe my old device for factor (iPhone mini 12)

But I also would have bounced on the "free trial, auto payment after" I understand the thinking around them, but for me it's just not a pattern im ever going to opt into. It feel predatory, you will probably forget and then ill get some amount of "months" off you. Like gym memberships.
by dav_Oz | 2025-09-30 12:51:41+00:00
> It's amazing when people flag this as a bad thing when it's undoubtedly a key component of getting places to prosperity in the first place. Got to get people away from being starvation-limited.

Exponentially falling fertility rates can create dynamics which can be destructive in its own right. As with other complex phenomena it would be for example foolish to rapidly cool the earth's climate. Stability is the key, here. Right now India is just below replacement which short to mid-term looks very promising but will it stabilize? Looking at worldwide trends I very much doubt that. A growing economy needs some demographical stability so coming from a long-term view fertility dropping off a cliff, now, could be bad news later (in one, two generations).

Turning some knobs one way or the other does not produce linear results, quite the opposite, there are thresholds, there is criticality. To draw on another more time compressed analogy here: I guess some operators thought back then: What could go possibly wrong by running a nuclear reactor (RBMK) at safer lower powers?
by gizmo | 2025-09-30 12:52:28+00:00
Not every business loses 95% of their market cap in 3 years. Many companies bleed out slowly as they struggle to retain their market share in the face of new competition. This is normal. It's not normal for a business to just collapse out of nowhere.

Did shareholders and investors collectively make money from the whole ordeal? Looking briefly at the numbers, it looks like they didn't. During the profitable years IRobot made $639 million (sum total) but they lost -$737 in the collapse that followed. No dividends were paid either during the good years. Shareholders were left holding the bag.

Building a business from nothing to IPO is a real accomplishment and I won't diminish that. However, if a business collapses and incinerates more money than it has ever made during the sum of all profitable years calling it a "real success" is a bit of a stretch.
by huijzer | 2025-09-30 12:52:48+00:00
As I understand it, a benefit of H-1B visa's employees is that they are more incentivized to not talk back since they would not only lose their job but also lose their visa.

I've heard a similar thing with student houses in the Netherlands. House owners often prefer international female students because they are less likely to know their rights or come up for their rights.
by est | 2025-09-30 12:52:59+00:00
> direct way for users to insert data into your repo

Yes, and spam is also a huge concern.

I plan to mitigate by adding "Pull Request" style moderation next.

And you can switch to a private repo

For mass moderation, just git clone, grep the lines, sed them out, and `git push -f`

Remember the use case is for static generated personal blogs.

I'd argue it's even quicker than, say a paginated bloated megabytes javascript rendered single-page application moderation system.
by deburo | 2025-09-30 12:52:59+00:00
It seems to be similar to what Yan Lecunn argues also. I wonder what does Sam Altman, Ilya sutskever and other major LLM creators mean when they say they aim to create AGI. Do they acknowledge that the current architecture isn't sufficient as well, or do they think scaling will be enough? Or do they not say at all?
by trjordan | 2025-09-30 12:53:38+00:00
LLMs absolutely produce reams of hard-to-debug code. It's a real problem.

But "Teams that care about quality will take the time to review and understand LLM-generated code" is already failing. Sounds nice to say, but you can't review code being generated faster than you can read it. You either become a bottleneck (defeats the point) or you rubber-stamp it (creates the debt). Pick your poison.

Everyone's trying to bolt review processes onto this. That's the wrong layer. That's how you'd coach a junior dev, who learns. AI doesn't learn. You'll be arguing about the same 7 issues forever.

These things are context-hungry but most people give them nothing. "Write a function that fixes my problem" doesn't work, surprise surprise.

We need different primitives. Not "read everything the LLM wrote very carefully" ways to feed it the why, the motivation, the discussion and prior art. Otherwise yeah, we're building a mountain of code nobody understands.
by FranzFerdiNaN | 2025-09-30 12:54:07+00:00
> We just didn't tax the middle tier of workers so intensely while giving everything for free to the ultra rich. That isn't really a part of capitalism itself.

This is literally capitalism. It's the very first sentence on Wikipedia: 'Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit.' Its literally the owners get the money, so the ultra rich get more and more the money because they own more and more. There is absolutely nothing in capitalism that says that workers should get anything. Its just an annoying part of doing business, that companies do their very hardest to avoid as much as possible.
by conception | 2025-09-30 12:54:16+00:00
The workaround I use is to present it to the AI first as a “Does the following article violate your terms of service or content filters?” For me, it will reply “No, this is a legitimate news article about xyz. It talks about certain topics but does not violate my rules” or something. Then you can say “Proofread the article…” and continue as normal.
by chrismatheson | 2025-09-30 12:54:26+00:00
FWIW I have a few app ideas that are about lifestyle / personal system. and i've thought about pricing strategies etc, specifically to balance "the Ick" with what I know are proven industry standards that Do maximise conversions & profit, and what I think is more personally palatable. (no real word experience though)

I would be much more likely to convert if the "trail" as months maybe years instead of days or weeks (this is a lifestyle thing after all, if customers find it genuinely useful and buy into the system for months then $30 a year is nothing)

OR

free-trial followed by locked out. No "automatically start billing"
by rvermeulen1993 | 2025-09-30 12:54:40+00:00
I am working on https://productpageshots.com

You copy/paste your product page URL into it.

It scrapes your existing product images + additional context (using Firecrawl's API).

Then it uses Google Gemini vision model to generate recommended missing shots.

It suggests those with a confidence score from 0 - 100%.

Then it uses Google Gemini Flash 2.5 to generate the actual recommended shots.

You can download them and insert them in your product listing.
by seec | 2025-09-30 12:56:30+00:00
To be fair, poor-quality cables are a more recent development at Apple. It basically follows the Tim Cook takeover, where full on greed has become the "raison d'être" of Apple at the expense of everything else.

I had the 1,5G iPod (10GB variant) which was sold with all the accessories, including a carrying pouch, very nice quality remote (that could be used with any headphones, not just the ones included) and a very nice FireWire cable. It was literally one of the best quality cable I ever used.

The first iPhone also had a pretty decent quality cable (and included a dock). Back then, iBooks/PowerBooks also included many adaptors for the various video-out standard of the time, that is to be contrasted with their all USB-C release MacBooks, where they basically told their customers: "fuck you, buy the necessary dongles at a nasty markup".

It all went to shit when Apple became very successful with the iPhone and the bean counter fully took over, saving pennies everywhere he could (at scale it does makes a lot of money).

And this is what feels so bad with Apple today, you pay a premium price, only to be taken for a fool and have a mediocre experience in the name of "ecology" (who are they kidding, seriously).
by gosub100 | 2025-09-30 12:56:36+00:00
Going back to the tired quote about AI doing the dishes and laundry, fundamentally what IS so hard about making a robot that does that?

Is it the range of motion of my arm and hands? Is it computer vision not knowing the clearances of objects ? Even if the thing couldn't drive itself to the kitchen or laundry room, I would be fine wheeling it there and standing it in front of dirty clothes or dishes opening the appliance doors. But yet we don't have this.

Each individual problem is solved: we have water proof electronics, we have precise multi axis stepper motors, we have computer vision that can map 3D spaces. We could even sell custom dishwasher inserts that are designed to make it easier for the robot. Why the hell do I still have to do the dishes?
by sofixa | 2025-09-30 12:57:03+00:00
> If it's a brand of good quality (Miele, Henry, DeLonghi) it probably does not need to be advertised, as word of mouth and price point is generally enough.

Nah, they advertise (probably) for a similar reason as car brands do, to make the people who bought it already feel better and more reassured about their choice.

Also, obligatory "lucky 10k" xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
by exasperaited | 2025-09-30 12:57:12+00:00
Trying to reboot an early-middle-aged brain that has succumbed to a terrifying, long-term brain fog that has almost crippled me by ruining my concentration span.

Personal projects, developing a habit of contributing my time to a large open source project (having only ever run my own very small ones), teaching newer users how to use that open source package by answering questions and making little example videos, beginning to repackage my notes on things into blog-publishable writing.

Really anything that will help me use brief moments of concentration span to rebuild my confidence in my own ability. It is like a snail ride through treacle but this is the first month-long span in nearly two years where I don't feel like I am falling apart.
by randallsquared | 2025-09-30 12:57:33+00:00
Exactly so. From the article:

> But those of us who’ve experimented a lot with using LLMs for code generation and modification know that there will be times when the tool just won’t be able to do it.

The pace of change here--the new normal pace--has the potential to make this look outdated in mere months, and finding that the curve topped out exactly in late 2025, such that this remains the state of development for many years, seems intuitively very unlikely.
by meander_water | 2025-09-30 12:57:55+00:00
I've done my share of vibe coding, and I completely agree with OP.

You just don't build up the necessary mental model of what the code does when vibing, and so although you saved time generating the code, you lose all that anyway when you hit a tricky bug and have to spend time building up the mental model to figure out what's wrong.

And saying "oh just do all the planning up front" just doesn't work in the real world where requirements change every minute.

And if you ever see anyone using "accepted lines" as a metric for developer productivity/hours saved, take it with a grain of salt.
by wintermutestwin | 2025-09-30 12:58:09+00:00
>rsync which is well documented

Here is the man page entry for the --delete flag:

--delete is used. This option is mutually exclusive with --delete-during, --delete-delay, and --delete-after.

Hilarious!

Reading and understanding the rsync command would take much more than 10 mins and I am not a total newb here.
by jrmg | 2025-09-30 12:58:36+00:00
It's a travesty that there are apparently no laws against their behavior.

In the USA I’m pretty sure advertising scams - even the more ‘benign’ ones like claiming a product does something it doesn’t do or lying about its efficiency - are illegal. There’s just no - or not nearly enough - enforcement.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/truth-advertising