MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by agedclock | 2025-09-29 21:20:13+00:00
Your comment is a great example of "If you assume, it makes an ass out of u and me".

Everything about this reply is completely incorrect.

> Your case is a great example of why credit scores are not reliable indicators. You were living on the ropes then. One job loss and you probably have very little saved and will be forced to incur debt and and start defaulting on payments potentially. You were very much the risky bet. And yet, you were able to game the system to look like a reliable bet.

So you made a bunch of assumptions about my personal circumstances. Let me correct you:

- I didn't "Game the system". I had absolutely no idea at the time such a thing as a credit score existed. I cannot game a system when I have no idea that it exists. The only reason I checked is that other people at work were checking theirs and I did so sheerly out of curiosity. Many years later I happened to work a contract where they wrote software that did the credit checks.

- I was not "living on the ropes". I lived within my means.

- I had 2-3 months of savings. My strategy for saving this money was to save it on payday. So I forgot I had the money and couldn't spend it. I do exactly the same thing now.

- The debt I had on my credit card was paid off in full monthly. I only used it for online purchases (many online sites didn't take debit cards still).

> Gaming the system like you were able to do in order to improve your credit score is very much correlated to financial literacy which is correlated to socioeconomic class which is correlated to race.

Again I did not game the system. I was completely financially illiterate at the time. My only financial literacy, I had at time was that I shouldn't spend all my money after payday and I shouldn't spend more money than I had. I found that out in the first month of living on my own. My family actually earn a lot less than I do now.

None of this has anything to do with race. From reading your comments replying to me and your posting history, I am pretty sure you are from the US. You are applying your US centric view of the world onto the UK. The UK is not the US.

> This is how we arrive at credit scores being race and class indicators, but not bound by laws that prohibit using race and class as indicators.

What you are trying to do is to erroneously shoehorn in your brand of US politics into a discussion about the UK. As a result of this you have got everything about my personal circumstances (at the time) and the circumstances of family and wider community completely incorrect, in an attempt to score some political points (it obvious btw from the language you are using).

I suggest in future you shouldn't make assumptions.
by ajross | 2025-09-29 21:20:14+00:00
Again, that's all just conspiracy nonsense. Yes, there are old laws. No, they don't effect macroeconomic policy and to claim they do is silly. This is of a piece with the Trillion Dollar Coin nonsense[1] being hawked in equally silly circles on the other side of the aisle.

Real world economic policy works by virtue of steady hands and rigorously applied norms, not goofball trickery around edge cases of ancient laws.

[1] The idea that the Treasury's statutory authority to mint coinage could be exploited to mint a single illiquid-by-virtue-of-size asset that could then be borrowed against without increasing the debt ceiling.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-09-29 21:20:14+00:00
> The space between buildings thing is a red herring. If you want an area full of tall buildings, there must be a significant amount of space between them to let in light and fresh air.

First of all, I don't think anyone's goal is "an area full of tall buildings"; that's certainly not what I mean by "density" (although it is _one kind_ of density). Secondly, even in urban areas full of tall buildings, there's frequently much less space between buildings than a CostCo parking lot.

> Moreover, it isn't actually a density limit anyway because you can make the buildings taller instead of wider, and you can build a parking garage under the building rather than beside it.

Building vertically is expensive, and in many places land is cheaper, so it's easier to meet the legal requirement by surrounding the building with pavement than it is to build a parking garage beneath the structure. This is why you rarely see a Walmart with an underground parking garage (and when you do, it's usually in a dense city with more lax parking regulations).

> Moreover, you can't put the cart before the horse. If people currently live in the suburbs and arrive in cars, you can't expect them to walk before you allow anyone to build them housing within walking distance.

I think you're confused about what is being advocated. No one is suggesting we make everyone walk to work. I don't think that's a realistic outcome, and probably not a desirable one for many people (who wants to work close to a factory, airport, etc)? More importantly, relaxing parking requirements on developers doesn't make the existing parking lots go away, so it doesn't really affect the current crop of commuters; it just means that future suburban commuters will lean more on public transit to get to work.
by mindcrime | 2025-09-29 21:20:23+00:00
Continuing to do a lot of historical review of early AI stuff. Just finished the Semantic Information Processing[1] book edited by Marvin Minsky, and now I'm reading Volume 1 of the Parallel Distributed Processing[2 book by Rumelhart and McClelland. After that, I have Principles of Semantic Networks[3] by John F. Sowa queued up.

Along with all of that, still working on a lot of stuff using Jason[4] / AgentSpeak[5]. I created a fork[6] of Jason that is meant to be easier to integrate with Spring Boot, and to take more of a "run headless on a server" approach, which meant taking out references to a Swing based in-process logging/management tool. In place of that, I'm implementing a JMX based management interface, and recently I've started to work on replacing the old Swing app with a JavaFX app that can connect using JMX Remoting.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Semantic-Information-Processing-Marvi...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Distributed-Processing-Vol-F...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Semantic-Networks-Explorat...

[4]: https://github.com/jason-lang/jason

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentSpeak

[6]: https://github.com/mindcrime/jasonfg/
by blurbleblurble | 2025-09-29 21:20:30+00:00
Because the plan involves using multiple agents with different roles and I don't want them conflicting.

Sure there's no need to explicitly mention the agents themselves, but it also shouldn't trigger a pseudo-jealous panic with trash talk and a sudden `git reset --hard` either.

And also ideally the agents would be aware of one another's strengths and weaknesses and actually play to them rather than sabotaging the whole effort.
by fn-mote | 2025-09-29 21:20:43+00:00
> The influence that a statistically flawed study can have over our collective futures is too dangerous.

An even bigger danger: with all of the flawed / p-hacked / over-hyped studies, the public (and the legislature) will start to believe that NO science is real.

It worries me how much argument there is over things I consider to be facts. And how much effort goes into undermining science when it is not in the corporate interest (eg cigarette manufacturers funding “inconclusive” studies).
by throwacct | 2025-09-29 21:20:50+00:00
"Merchants are ranked based on availability, price, quality, whether they are the maker or primary seller of that item, and whether Instant Checkout is enabled."

So, this is a race to de bottom for any SMB. If this didn't work for Instagram and Facebook, I don't think is gonna work for them neither.

What's interesting is that they're REALLY trying to see what's going to stick before the wheel stops spinning. From "AGI" and gpt5 getting Altman all "scared" of what's coming to trying to sell ads, a social media showing ai videos, among other things ("app" store with GPTs, etc.).

If there was a statement that we were in a bubble waiting to pop, this right here is plenty enough proof of that.
by rtp4me | 2025-09-29 21:21:10+00:00
Just updated to Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Code 2.0 this afternoon. I worked on a quick project (creating PXE bootable files) using the updates and have to say, this new version seems much faster and more accurate than before. I did not go round-and-round trying to get good output and Claude did not go down rabbit holes like before. So far, so good.
by hakanshehu | 2025-09-29 21:21:17+00:00
I’m working on Colanode, which is built to close the gap between the convenience of cloud tools and the ownership of local software. It brings chat, docs, databases, and files into one open-source, self-hostable workspace where data lives on your devices first and syncs in the background. Unlike typical SaaS tools, Colanode is local-first: everything works instantly and offline, infrastructure stays minimal, and you keep full control of your data.

Website: https://colanode.com Repo: https://github.com/colanode/colanode
by jongjong | 2025-09-29 21:21:43+00:00
It's been a moving goalpost but I think the point where people will be forced to acknowledge it is when fully autonomous agents are outcompeting most humans in most areas.

So long as half of people are employed or in business, these people will insist that it's not AGI yet.

Until AI can fully replace you in your job, it's going to continue to feel like a tool.
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-09-29 21:22:08+00:00
I know a few people who graduated with a CS degree in the last 2 years who have given up completely, at least in the short-term, on finding tech jobs. A few tried pivoting to tech sales but found difficulties there as well. I also know a few who landed tech jobs. Those with more success were definitely more interested in the subject, and continued coding during the (+6 month) job search, while those who ended up giving up seemed pretty sour on coding from the get go, lamenting their choice of degree.

I suspect an H1B decision reduction is a step in the correct direction here, but
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-29 21:22:49+00:00
The problem with this is that if you live in the US and Trump does something that stupid then owning a bunch of gold will not save you, because you still live in this society (assuming you live in the US of course!)

All the Germans who had great gold reserves in 1930 still ended up fighting in WW2. Hell, many of them were Jewish and had that gold stolen and sent to the Swiss for safekeeping by the Nazi state. The danger to their society was not hyperinflation, it was a hostile government sending them to die for stupid reasons, and literally like a hundred people, or fewer, choosing out of utter stupidity and an insane ideology based purely on ignorance, forcing everyone into a bad situation.

There is no safety, of any kind, under authoritarianism. Gold will not save you.
by davidmckayv | 2025-09-29 21:23:11+00:00
This is censorship with extra steps.

Look at what the bill actually requires. Companies have to publish frameworks showing how they "mitigate catastrophic risk" and implement "safety protocols" for "dangerous capabilities." That sounds reasonable until you realize the government is now defining what counts as dangerous and requiring private companies to build systems that restrict those outputs.

The Supreme Court already settled this. Brandenburg gives us the standard: imminent lawless action. Add in the narrow exceptions like child porn and true threats, and that's it. The government doesn't get to create new categories of "dangerous speech" just because the technology is new.

But here we have California mandating that AI companies assess whether their models can "provide expert-level assistance" in creating weapons or "engage in conduct that would constitute a crime." Then they have to implement mitigations and report to the state AG. That's prior restraint. The state is compelling companies to filter outputs based on potential future harm, which is exactly what the First Amendment prohibits.

Yes, bioweapons and cyberattacks are scary. But the solution isn't giving the government power to define "safety" and force companies to censor accordingly. If someone actually uses AI to commit a crime, prosecute them under existing law. You don't need a new regulatory framework that treats information itself as the threat.

This creates the infrastructure. Today it's "catastrophic risks." Tomorrow it's misinformation, hate speech, or whatever else the state decides needs "safety mitigations." Once you accept the premise that government can mandate content restrictions for safety, you've lost the argument.
by gspetr | 2025-09-29 21:23:44+00:00
Just ask GPT, the awareness of being observed significantly impacts behavior even in rather primitive animals:

Research has demonstrated these behavioral changes in various species, including:

Primates: Monkeys and apes often alter their social interactions and grooming behaviors when they know they are being observed by humans or other primates. Birds: Studies have shown that birds may change their foraging behavior when they detect human presence, often becoming more cautious. Fish: Some fish species exhibit changes in swimming patterns and social behavior when they sense they are being watched.

These behavioral adaptations are thought to be evolutionary responses that help animals avoid predation and enhance their survival in the wild.
by Theodores | 2025-09-29 21:24:05+00:00
I get the idea but these feel like those demoscene things people make for really old 8-bit computers.

What I am looking for is inspiration for presenting some actual content, for example, stories with a beginning, middle and end, with meaningful call to action forms and text that is designed to be read rather than 'shapes on a page'.

I am not dismissing what goes on here, or even the demoscene, it is great to see. However, I think that people are struggling to read these days, so lots of text, no matter how well presented, is just not what people read. How do you get people totally absorbed without it being video or a game?

I understand the UX of the UK government websites where information is presented very clearly and is engaging (if you need to do something to do with health, taxes and whatnot). But this super-clear approach doesn't convey that an immense amount of effort has been spent on presentation.

I am also bored of normal Wordpress style websites with the tedious carousels and whatnot, Squarespace fits this 'yawn' style too.

Although I did not find a website to be deeply engaged in with loadmo.re, I am inspired and impressed. There is much to borrow from here and many 'experiments' that are trying to do things new. Props to the site maintainer for doing the research to find these 'diamonds (in the rough)'.
by cgonzar3 | 2025-09-29 21:24:09+00:00
Carlos here, one half of the TimeFly dev duo. We're in beta, shipping fast and paying close attention. Found a bug or have a cool idea? Let us know!

Right now, TimeFly shows your top projects, languages, IDEs & devices, activity heatmap, coding session insights, and daily recaps (useful for standups).

Trust me, it's a game changer.

P.S. I'm the guy behind the frontend and design. Go check the UI, it's neat and kind of fun: [https://timefly.dev](https://timefly.dev/)
by arondeparon | 2025-09-29 21:24:14+00:00
Working on real-time log visualization platform with wallboard/tv support, initially inspired by Logstalgia:

https://tailstream.io

Launched the initial version a couple of weeks ago and making good progress, trying to share as much of the process as I can on X.

Backend API can be used by any client, but I also built an open source agent in Go that makes setup really easy.

Currently working on a proper log viewer, alerts and visualization improvements.
by cookiengineer | 2025-09-29 21:24:27+00:00
I am working on my Go UI library called gooey [1] which aims to be a one stop framework to build webview/webview apps in Go and WebASM.

It started out with bindings for the DOM, Web, and Browser APIs, but as of today I now have custom Web Components support (which is a big deal considering Go's type system quirks).

Tomorrow I'm gonna polish some of the UI components and start refactoring my git-evac [2] repo management tool which is the first app using the gooey framework.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/gooey

[2] https://github.com/cookiengineer/git-evac
by yibg | 2025-09-29 21:24:31+00:00
For me there was a bit of a step function, where I went from caring about the size of something (number of floppies -> CDs -> HD space limited) to at some point just stopped really worrying about it. Yes a 2GB vs 10GB download time differs but leave it and it's done when it's done. HDDs these days are big enough at least for my (and I would imagine most people's) use. I can see storage being a limiting factor if you have a lot of games or media though.
by mchusma | 2025-09-29 21:24:52+00:00
For me, Opus 4.1 was so much better than Sonnet 4.0 that I used it exclusively in Claude Code and cancelled Cursor. I'm a bit skeptical that Sonnet 4.5 will be in practice better, but will test with it and see! Hopefully we get Opus 4.5 soon.
by aunty_helen | 2025-09-29 21:24:57+00:00
I sympathise with this, people who are endangering others deserve consequences of the law. I live in a city near a straight road and often hear bikes step through 2-3 gears at night. I know how fast that is and it’s dangerous.

One of the reasons I stopped riding with this group was a few people there didn’t have a strong will to live and so adrenaline and confrontation was what they were looking for.

The specific route I mentioned though is 50km outside of the nearest city, through a wasteland and ridden at times to minimise traffic getting in the way. The best time was 6pm on a Tuesday night where you’d be lucky to pass anyone.
by rspoerri | 2025-09-29 21:25:28+00:00
creating a kanban editor for vscode that can integrate images, videos etc. i use it for planning and creating lectures over several weeks. it can export to a marp compatible presentation format. it's coded with claude, because i would not have had the time to do it othervise.

https://github.com/ludos1978/markdown-kanban-obsidian
by randomstringxyz | 2025-09-29 21:25:51+00:00
I worked with Perham while at Shopify. They are one of his many financial contributors and he made like 250k a year just so we alone could contract him. (I do not know particular numbers.) Was in my experience a very kind and knowledgeable person who would answer all my dumb questions graciously.

Shopify however is a deeply evil company that is literally run by Nazis. Not a metaphor, like, actual Nazis.
by joe_the_user | 2025-09-29 21:26:30+00:00
Ahem, The article is about ChatGPT check-out. Ecommerce and a relatively quick shows no mention of ads.

Sure, this may in Google-style-monopoly direction or an Amazon-style-monopoly direction. I don't know which. I would indeed expect a large dose of enshittification would be involved.

You're welcome to argue this leads to ads. But jumps to this is ads and getting a dozen pearl-clutching is a symptom of hn's own crude enshittification, jeesh.
by Yeroc | 2025-09-29 21:26:31+00:00
Blunt text replacement so far. There are third-party VSCode MCP and LSM MCP servers out there that DO expose those higher-level operations. I haven't tried them out myself -- but it's on my list because I expect they'd cut down on token use and improve latency substantially. I expect Anthropic to eventually build that into their IDE integration.
by thedeep_mind | 2025-09-29 21:26:51+00:00
I am working on PicPickr.

It is a desktop app built with Electron and React. I built to help newlywed couples to quickly sort thousands of wedding photos with a Tinder style swipe UI. It is offline first, fully private, and offers one click export of your selected pictures.

I started building it earlier this year after going through my own wedding photo experience and realizing how overwhelming it can be. I saw my wife dragging and dropping photos from one folder to other and thought there has to be a better way for non-photographer folks.

Right now, I have a working prototype, a landing page live, and I am testing distribution and feedback from early users.

https://picpickr.com
by flkiwi | 2025-09-29 21:26:57+00:00
> finding products they love

That phrase is a dead giveaway that a very silly group of people have started dominating the conversation at a given company. I don't "love" a product. I certainly don't "love" a product I'm having to resort to ChatGPT to figure out my potential relationship with. At best, I "love" having a solution to a problem that I want to spend as little time and money solving as possible, and even then it's more of a satisfactorily productive comradeship.

God this is exhausting.
by GMoromisato | 2025-09-29 21:27:08+00:00
Still working on https://gridwhale.com.

This is mostly a nostalgia play--I'm pining for a time when app development was much easier. I'm trying to apply lessons from early Rapid Application Development while still providing a full-featured language.

I confess that I haven't gotten any traction at all, but I find it incredibly useful for my own consulting business, so I'm going to keep on working on it.
by the__alchemist | 2025-09-29 21:27:18+00:00
I am reposting something along the lines of a flagged and dead comment: This would be lend more credibility to the premise AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery if it came from someone who's Nobel (or work in general) were in a non-AI-centered domain. This is not a critique of his speech or points, but I think the lead implied by the (especially Youtube) title would hit harder if it came from someone whose work wasn't AI-centered.

Jumper's work is the poster child of AI success in science; this isn't about a new domain being revolutionized by it.

I will throw out an idea I've been thinking about recently about a far less ambitious idea, but related: Amber (MD package) provides Force Field names and partial charges for a number of small organic molecules in their GeoStd set. I believe these come from its Antechamber program. Would it be possible to infer useful FF name and Partial charge for arbitrary organic molecules using AI instead, trained on the GeoStd set data?
by TRiG_Ireland | 2025-09-29 21:28:07+00:00
I believe that it's uncommon in the USA to invite people to part of a wedding, but it's common in the UK. "Not someone invited to the whole day" implies a second-tier guest, who's been invited to the ceremony and the after-party, but not to the meal.

The ceremony is technically open to the public in any case, usually.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-29 21:28:56+00:00
I’ve seen this (“most successful businesses start in their 40s”) a couple times, but I always wonder if the people who start a successful business succeed in their 40s _because_ they’ve been trying since their 20s, and learned a bunch on the way. And if the secret isn’t some combination of business experience/connections/etc, then what is it about being 40+ that would make one intrinsically better at starting a business?
by blinkbat | 2025-09-29 21:29:00+00:00
what's the point? I can name offhand the projects and languages I've been working in for a given day or week. failing that, I can just look through my commits or jira.

your usecase ("I got excited by side features") is easily solved with a basic-ass kanban board. just finish your tickets.

your site also posits to "get rid of standups", but standups aren't generally about the code you wrote. they're about connecting with your team on concepts that are blocking you or others.

sure, it's neat, but is it neat enough for me to want to integrate all this stuff and potentially give you data I don't want to give you? what's in it for me?