MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bobnarizes | 2025-09-30 12:16:41+00:00
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment and support, Brajeshwar — it really means a lot.

You’re right, Fallinorg currently only supports Apple Silicon Macs. The main reason is that the M-series chips have neural engines and very high memory bandwidth, which makes the AI models run fast and efficiently. On Intel Macs the performance just isn’t the same, but I do want to explore ways to bring a great experience there too. If you’d prefer a refund in the meantime, just let me know and I’ll send it right away — no worries at all.

Also, thank you for pointing out the email confirmation — I’ll definitely add that.

I noticed you mentioned using Hazel for years and building up muscle memory with rules. Right now, Fallinorg is built around content-based AI classification rather than rules. But rules can give a lot of precision and flexibility. Could you share what kind of rules or workflows you relied on most with Hazel? That would help me understand how people like you used it, and how Fallinorg might evolve to cover those use cases better.

Again, really appreciate your support and feedback.
by WilcoKruijer | 2025-09-30 12:16:48+00:00
I've been working on 'Fragno', a TypeScript framework to build full-stack libraries with. It allows the library author to define backend routes, and provides them with reactive primitives for building frontend logic using these routes. This all embeds into the user's application. Eventually, it should include a data layer as well.

The ideas are in large part inspired by Better-Auth, which is built on top of similar primitives. I hope more libraries will be built in this manner, because I believe that it provides very nice DX for the integrator/end-user.

It's not quite ready yet, but I did write most of the documentation.

https://fragno.dev
by vessenes | 2025-09-30 12:16:53+00:00
The original opus/sonnet 4 safety card mentioned that it would hand write emails to the fbi turning in a user if it thought they were doing something really bad. It has examples of the “snitch” emails.

I too use it extensively. But they’re very, very capable models, and the command line contains a bunch of ways to exfiltrate data off your system if it wants to.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-30 12:17:05+00:00
This is hardly the fluid, turn key solution I am talking about, so I don’t know why you’re talking like this to me and acting like the answer is so obvious. Frankly your tone was rude and unnecessary. Not everyone on HN shares the same knowledge and experience about all the same subjects, let alone all the ones you expect all of us to know.
by BoxFour | 2025-09-30 12:17:06+00:00
I'm not of the "LLMs will replace all software developers within a year" mindset, but this critique feels a bit overstated.

The challenge of navigating rapidly changing or poorly documented code isn’t new: It’s been a constant at every company I’ve worked with. At larger organizations the sheer volume of code, often written by adjacent teams, will outpace your ability to fully understand it. Smaller companies tend to iterate so quickly (and experience so much turnover) that code written two weeks ago might already be unrecognizable, if the original author is even still around after those two weeks!

The old adage still applies: the ability to read code is more crucial than the ability to write it. LLMs just amplify that dynamic. The only real difference is that you should assume the author is gone the moment the code lands. The author is ephemeral, or they went on PTO/quit immediately afterward: Whatever makes you more comfortable.
by mort96 | 2025-09-30 12:17:09+00:00
I feel like there are almost two completely incompatible stories being sold by ad tech people. One is that "you shouldn't use an ad blocker, reputable websites have ads from Google and other reputable companies and they wouldn't be scams or malware". The other is that any time there's a story about malware and scams on reputable websites, they say: "there are so many ads being submitted, Google is doing their best but you can't expect them to successfully weed out every single bad ad".

The reality is, of course, that Google and its ilk doesn't give a single rat's ass about people falling from scams or getting infected by malware. Scams and malware pays better than "ethical" ads (to the degree that such a thing exists). It's a travesty that there are apparently no laws against their behavior.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-30 12:17:14+00:00
He didn’t “institute” anything. He can’t do it without getting a law passed.

That’s just like the “deal” he made with Nvidia that Nvidia would pay 15% of revenue for every processor shipped to China.

The CFO of Nvidia said on the earnings call that it doesn’t matter what deal someone at his company made with Trump, he isn’t authorizing any funds transfer until there is a law passed.

Even my mid sized company when asked when they would start allowing private equity and crypto based on Trump’s announcement, they said not until a law is passed by Congress.

On a completely separate note, of the large tech companies can’t get H1Bs cheaply, they will continue to expand their presence outside of the country.
by ben_w | 2025-09-30 12:17:21+00:00
Value != price

Food remains valuable even though production is increasingly automated; there's not much difference in value of hand-picked {insert name of soft fruit whose harvesting has yet to be automated here} over a machine that sticks a net around the base of a tree and shakes it until the fruit falls off, but there sure is a difference in price.

For e.g. software: when I'm buying, I don't care in the slightest if it was made by one single human, a team of humans of my nationality, contracted and outsourced to the lowest bidder in a developing nation, a sentient typewriter, or an evolutionary algorithm — I care that it solves the problem that I had and for which I entered the market looking to buy.
by vax425 | 2025-09-30 12:17:36+00:00
I'm launching a new product for my clock-making business: https://DigitalHorology.com

None of my clocks tell the time.

They're all fully automatic GPS-enabled timepieces. For a couple of years I've been developing, hand-making, and selling these clocks that track the moon phase, the sun's position, etc.

My new idea is the tide clock "NautiKron." It's getting a lot of interest from US coastal buyers.
by benjiro | 2025-09-30 12:17:37+00:00
> But this does not explain why Sonnet would deliver a broken implementation that does not work in even the most basic sense.

Depends not just on prompt but also the tooling / environment you use. Somebody using Claude Code CLI may get a totally different experience then somebody using CoPilot via VSC.

What do i mean by that? Look at how Copilot tries to save money by reading content only in small parts. Reading file X line 1-50, X line 51-100, ... And it starts working with this. Only if it finds a hint about something somewhere else, it will read in more context.

What i often see is that it misses context because it reads in so limited information and if there is no hint in your code or code doc, it will stop there. Try to run a local test on the code, passes, done... While it technically broke your application.

Example: If i tell it to refactor a API, it never checks if that API is used anywhere else because it only reads in that API code. So i need to manually add to the prompt to remind it, "the API is used in the system". And then it does its searching /... Found 5 files, Read X line 1...

And plop, good working code ... So if you know this limitation, you can go very far with a basic $10 CoPilot Claude Agent usage.

Where as a $200 Claude Code will give you a better experience out of the door, as it reads in a ton more. The same applies to GPT-5/Codex, what seems to be more willing to read in larger context of your project, thus resulting in less incomplete code.

This is just anecdotal from my point of view, but like with any LLM, hinting matters a lot. Its less about writing a full prompt with a ton of text but just including the right "do not forget about function name X, and module Y, and test Z". And Claude loves it hints on CoPilot because of that limited reading.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-30 12:18:57+00:00
> But there are many, many more who would cause friction with others in such a community without a code of conduct

Hard disagree... I've never seen one have this effect. IMO you don't need a CoC to suddenly understand what should already be common sense i.e. don't be a dick. Either they were already going to act that way, or they weren't.
by EdwardCoffin | 2025-09-30 12:20:51+00:00
I know that Guy Steele joined Thinking Machines, but after they'd at least designed the CM-1. He talked a little about it in A Conversation with Guy Steele Jr. in the April 2005 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal. I don't have a link, but I am sure he has talked about it elsewhere too.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-30 12:20:56+00:00
The problem I have seen with them is that they get weaponized. Someone can point to a specific rule in the CoC that has very subjective language in it, and claim that you are violating the rules, when really they're just doing that to silence opinions they don't like.

This is further proven when any attempts to discuss said rule/policy are immediately shut down with even more staunch black-and-white opinions and zero empathy... even if you wait until later to discuss it in a different setting.
by montenegrohugo | 2025-09-30 12:21:28+00:00
Just to show how easy it is to send/receive money with Peanut, here's a few links with $2 each.

(they are only claimable once, so please be courteous and don't claim all, leave some for other users!)

1. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5778#p=ms74xIbdGVSK...

2. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5779#p=G7V82WybXthy...

3. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5780#p=Rgpymby5wBbO...

4. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5781#p=6F5nKWjx2Kf6...

5. https://peanut.me/claim?c=42161&v=v4.3&i=5782#p=DtdJ0y2Ufayu...
by bell-cot | 2025-09-30 12:21:57+00:00
Yes, that $1M house is a pretty illiquid asset.

But consider the PoV of an average-ish (say) 65-year-old homeowner. He knows he could live to 95 or so, that medical costs go up far faster than the official US gov't inflation rates, and that being in a nursing home (which he might need for 5+ years) is already ungodly expensive. And that the thundering herd of older-than-him boomers may have trampled Social Security and Medicare to death before he starts really needing those.

He ain't got $10M's in other assets, to say "whatever; I can afford it".

The "value" of that house, and the idea that it could somehow keep appreciating far faster than inflation - those things are really, really important to that homeowner.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-30 12:21:58+00:00
Didn't we already see this in like 15-20 years ago? Companies thought they could outsource project to India, the consulting companies put their best developers on design, prototyping, code samples, interviews, everything, once the contract was in place, the actual work got moved to the meeeh tier developers.

Often we also saw management pick the cheapest outsource partner, because otherwise it didn't really make a ton of sense in terms of saving on cost. They then acted very surpised when they got the exact quality they paid for.

In the current era, I'm concerned that development will be shifted to the cheapest option, and those people can barely code and will just type everything into an AI chatbot, not understanding the output.

We had one consultant from an outsourcing partner come to our offices for two weeks during the start up fase. This dude would just rip through code yelling: No, no, no... NOOOO, this is shit! That was the point where we knew that we found the right outsourcing team.
by matja | 2025-09-30 12:22:11+00:00
does removing EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kernel_fpu_end); [0] - which broke ZFS, count as removing stuff or changing the API?

AFAIK that change didn't add functionality or fix any existing issues, other than breaking ZFS - which GKH was absolutely fine with, dismissing several requests for it to be reverted, stating the "policy": [1]

> Sorry, no, we do not keep symbols exported for no in-kernel users.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux... [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190111054058.GA27966@kroah.co...
by ben_w | 2025-09-30 12:23:20+00:00
15 years ago I made, and even sold, games that I spent less than 50 hours making. But that's with the advantage of starting with a generic template that already held all the game menu structure (achievements, preferences, etc.), and even then the games weren't very good.

If you can make a "production grade … application" (irregardless of language details or anything else) in 50 hours, by hand and without AI assistance, you're an unusual person. Most "agile" places I've been, even a single sprint is longer than that.
by gruez | 2025-09-30 12:23:20+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.

what about iPhones? They're ubiquitous enough that Apple probably doesn't need ads to let people know they exist, yet every at launch ads for them are plastered everywhere. Same with soft drinks and cars, just to name a few. Before you say "iPhone sucks", the same can be said for basically all other phone OEMs, and if your theory allows categorizing an entire industry as crap, your theory is basically unfalsifiable.
Show HN: I built a tool to compare my kids at the same age across years
by mbosch | 2025-09-30 12:23:50+00:00
Hi HN! I built WhenIWasYourAge.app as a side project after a fun thought:

“What was my oldest son doing when he was the same age my youngest son is right now?”

Sometimes I’ll scroll back in my photo albums to the exact date — looking at what my oldest was into then, and wondering if his younger brother might enjoy the same things at that age. That sparked the idea for a tool that makes these kinds of time comparisons easier.

What it does: • Lets you line up family members and see what they were doing at the same age. • Shows the top song, movie, book, toy, gadget, and baby names for any year (1920–2025). • Adds context like U.S. presidents, stock market closes, and everyday prices (gas, milk, bread).

It’s been fun to explore with my kids and compare “my age in the 90s” vs “their age now.”

Looking for feedback on: • Other data sources that would make it richer (sports, ads, world events?). • Whether the layout works well for you on mobile. • If a “share/print this year snapshot” feature would be useful.

Everything is free to try, and affiliate links are clearly labeled. Curious to hear what you think!
by hmry | 2025-09-30 12:24:13+00:00
I think you're totally right from a practical view. Trying to debug 16-bit x86 code is a nightmare, none of the debuggers properly support it.

Leaving practicality aside and focusing on aesthetics... Normally, for hobby wheel reimplementation projects like this, I find doing it as close to the bare metal as possible, relying on the minimum amount of other people's code, a lot more fun.

But AFAIK, these days legacy BIOS boot is just some emulated compatibility mode running under UEFI anyway. The bootloader already ran and configured the hardware for you, and then it un-configured a bunch of stuff so you can re-do it. It's role-playing as an 80s PC for you. I find that deeply unsatisfying.

UEFI is the bare-metal API, for all intents and purposes. (Unless you want to go completely blobless, writing your own firmware.)
by saberience | 2025-09-30 12:24:14+00:00
But this is just like giving a junior engineer access to a prod K8s cluster and having them work for hours on stuff related to said cluster... you wouldn't do it. Or at least, I wouldn't do it.

In my own career, when I was a junior, I fucked up a prod database... which is why we generally don't give junior/associate people to much access to critical infra. Junior Engineers aren't "dangerous" but we just don't give them too much access/authority too soon.

Claude Code is actually way smarter than a junior engineer in my experience, but I wouldn't give it direct access to a prod database or servers, it's not needed.
by kotaKat | 2025-09-30 12:24:22+00:00
Both Samsung and Oura do, yes. I’d almost want to have a little wallet-card with the emergency cut diagram, out of first responder paranoia.

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshoot/TSG10003554/

https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025428394-...
by bobnarizes | 2025-09-30 12:24:29+00:00
Thanks for sharing, jonpurdy — I know how fast that backlog can build up!

Most tools I’ve seen (like Sparkle) sort by file name, but that only works if names are clear. Fallinorg looks inside the file itself, so it understands what the content is about before sorting. I haven’t found another Mac app doing that.

Curious — if Fallinorg could automatically handle your ~/Downloads/yyyy-mm folders each month, would that take care of the backlog for you?
by belorn | 2025-09-30 12:25:45+00:00
From my experience, writing rules directly after incidents and as a reaction to incidents do not produce good results. New members of the community 5-10 years later will have no understanding of what the rules are trying to do or why they exist, and when a new incident occur the rules get rewritten again and again. The only effect is the optics as in sending a message that "we take those concern serious", but without substance, and again from experience, those people who was leaning to leave will still leave regardless.

What has worked in communities I have been active in is to have continuously conversations, in combination with a no-blame culture that provide social safety for people to bring up issues and also room for people to improve without feeling personally attacked (which is the opposite of social safety).
by shark1 | 2025-09-30 12:26:14+00:00
Disqusting is the copious amount of trackers they inject in the websites.

For small websites a good start is to get comments by email, publishing only the ones that adds value to the article or conversation. Why? Because we have lots of noise done by social media. A way of curating the comments increase the quality of the website.

If the website gets traction, than it's good to consider a tool to facilitate the commenting and moderation.
by OskarS | 2025-09-30 12:26:22+00:00
Yeah, and environment variables as well. It's notable that the syntax for reading an environment variable in bash is identical to the syntax for reading a "normal", process local variable (though setting is slightly different, you have to use "export"). It's like the ground scope is "the computing environment" (files, processes, env vars, ...), not the "program sandbox".
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-09-30 12:27:24+00:00
Debt has always existed, and "LLMs is making it worse"

Yes, I think point is, LLM's are making it 'a-lot' worse.

And then compounding that will be in 10 years when no Senior Devs were being created, so nobody will be around to fix it. Extreme of course, there will be dev's, they'll just be under-water, piled on with trying to debug the LLM stuff.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-30 12:27:50+00:00
It also doesn’t help that so many creators - even legitimate ones - now use injected ads that they don’t verify at all.

I remember listening to an episode of Better Offline a buddy sent me and anyone who knows about Ed knows that basically half his crusade is against bad AI implementation/“slop”/etc. He’s broadly against the current LLM rush.

First ad when I fired up the podcast episode was yet aother injected ad for yet another AI agent company as generic as the rest. Literally the organizations he’s railing against and calling wasteful. It was clearly because he handed off the advertising to one of these injection services.

Sidebar: these ads tend to perform terribly. Actual ad reads by the host(s) are the only thing that lead to meaningful conversions in podcasts.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-30 12:28:04+00:00
> If you are unhappy with how things are handled, fork it and do better.

Yes, but often the projects where this happens are just big enough to where one person cannot realistically maintain their own fork to the same level that users will expect if they are looking to jump ship.

What I've seen happen more often than not, is even if the person does attempt a fork, they either get constantly attacked by existing users, or stop working on it within a year, or both.
by XorNot | 2025-09-30 12:28:32+00:00
Except you can't: countries exercise the monopoly on violence within their borders, and that specific detail delineates most other powers: e.g. if they want to setup and run high power jamming on their territory, then to stop them would take an act of war.

So in practice the agreements we make essentially cover making reasonable concessions so no one feels the need to start bombing things.
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-30 12:28:44+00:00
Liquid fuel wasn't new (the etymology of "oil" is olive oil, in use for literally thousands of years <https://www.etymonline.com/word/oil>), but cheap, abundant, geologically-sourced liquid fuels were.

Whale oil may have been big business in the 18th century, but the entire history of whale-hunting produced the equivalent of a few days of present petroleum extraction in terms of fuel.

Oh, and Whale hunting did in fact continue through the 20th century, petroleum didn't save the whales, as has been discussed here: <https://edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosene-did-not-save-the...> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584303> (April 2025). Aristotle Onasis, whom I've already mentioned in this thread, not only owned oil tankers and supertankers, but built some of the largest whaling ships ever commissioned, specifically to hunt blue whales:

<https://www.greece.org/poseidon/work/modern-times/onassis.ht...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle_Onassis#Whaling>

I'm not entirely sure what Churhill knew or when, but the British Empire was already creaking (along with much of the rest of the 19th-century European political establishment) even before the onset of WWI (and was in fact a major contributing factor to that war), and was obviously weakened and foundering prior to WWII, which was the coup de grâce.
by tgv | 2025-09-30 12:29:54+00:00
Idk. The company I work for had a new website designed, and it was built with an (unknown) LLM, through repeated prompting, I believe (so basically a large document that starts the initial description and then adds fixes). It's deployed on an unknown stack, at a random server somewhere. Us techies simply got a few remarks from the LLM about changing the DNS (which were not up to any standard for such requests). The moment some marketeer wants some change on that website, the whole thing may come undone. It's like outsourcing to the lowest bidder. But the CEO is happy, because AI.

I'm also not sure about your basic premise that understanding will improve. That depends on the size of network's internal representation(s), which will start overfitting at some point.
by scottydelta | 2025-09-30 12:30:05+00:00
I don’t see people outside US and western countries using this where there are very few credit card protections. Especially countries like India which could be a big market has a second otp based auth on all cards for each payment which wouldn’t work with this.

On top of that the avg income of an Indian user is less than 300$ per month, do you think they have a credit card? Much easier for them to ask for link and buy it themselves rather than any sort of surprise charge that can’t be refunded.