MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cloverich | 2025-09-29 20:03:18+00:00
Things I'd normally do 3x faster. That 3x is me focusing explicitly on the precise things I did before - the PR rate on a specific work project - because I tie those PR's back to specific tasks the same as I did before I used claude code. I haven't looked at lines of code, total commits, etc. Qualitatively I write more tests and abstract more components than I used to, but those get lumped in to the PRs as I normally try to limit pure refactoring work, and instead tie it into ticketed feature requests or bugs.

I don't count the things I'm doing now that I would have avoided or never finished in the past. For those, of course to me personally those are worth much more psychologically than 3x, but who knows if it's an actual boost. I.e. I took a partially scripted task the other day and fully automated it, and also had it output to the CLI in a kind of dorky sci-fi way because it makes it fun to run it. It didn't take long - 30 minutes? But I certainly didn't _gain_ time doing that, just a little more satisfaction. TBH I'm surprised 3x is so controversial, I thought it was a really cool and far more practical assessment than some of these 10x claims I'm seeing.
by netdur | 2025-09-29 20:04:16+00:00
Yeah, ChatGPT is better overall, but with a twist, Gemini can actually be the best if you use AI Studio, tweak the config, and set up a good system prompt, kinda like how nano banana is SOTA, but Qwen-Edit feels more useful since it’s less censored, meanwhile ChatGPT is starting to feel slower and kinda showing its age, another example is Veo 3 being SOTA while the infamous Grok is technically worse but doing better, and OpenAI’s Sora is pretty much dead

edit: I run low profile service that localizing e-commerce photos, like taking Alibaba listings and swapping the model to look local alike, with nano banana I can’t automate it because I have to manually check if the output got blocked (anything with female skin is risky, underwear or cleavage is 100% blocked), but Qwen-Edit just does the job without fuss
by GoatInGrey | 2025-09-29 20:04:19+00:00
Not that it was better at programming, but I really miss Sonnet 3.5 for educational discussions. I've sometimes considered that what I actually miss was the improvement 3.5 delivered over other models at that time. Though since my system message for Sonnet since 3.7 has been primarily instructing it to behave like a human and have a personality, I really think we lost something.
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-29 20:05:14+00:00
What is it about gold, anyways? None of its useful properties were known until recently (and mostly overhyped and upsold tbh, at least as far as those stupid cables go). Are we really just instinctively attracted to shiny metals? Or do people like it as a status symbol?

(not to act like im above it all, i still have my gold-plated pokemon jigglypuff trading card from burger king in 1999 and i often use golden paint on model kits).
by kbenson | 2025-09-29 20:06:07+00:00
Importantly, I think it's much more obvious what you're doing with a web app when you upload data. There's an erroneous belief when you're using native app that the data you provide to it never leaves the device. That might be the case, but even in cases where the native app isn't just a shim to do something through a service, there's little guarantee they aren't utilizing your data for their own purposes, legally (e.g. Adobe) or not.

This isn't unique to mobile vs desktop, but from my experience people use those different device types with different levels of care. It's possible app stores play into this by giving people an incorrect sense of security about aspects of application usage and updating that they don't actually provide.
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-29 20:06:27+00:00
I've tried codex with GPT-5 a little bit and I haven't figured out how to get it to not be annoying. codex just constantly tries to gaslight and argue with me. For example, I was debugging an OpenGL render pipeline that went black and codex insisted it must be because I was ssh'd into a headless server. It really makes me appreciate the Claude "You're absolutely right!"s. Anyway as you can tell, I haven't cracked working with codex. But at the moment it just messes everything up and ways I've learned to work with claude don't seem to translate.
Security folks, which would you feel more comfortable with?
by hellosecpeeps | 2025-09-29 20:06:40+00:00
Hi all,

I work at a SaaS company that needs to securely connect our cloud control plane to customer on-premise infrastructure in order to run orchestration and automation tasks. We’re trying to avoid requiring customers to open inbound firewall rules or stand up full VPNs.

We’ve narrowed it down to two models: Agent-based HTTPS/mTLS connector

* Customer deploys a small VM/Pod (our agent) inside their environment. * The agent makes an outbound TLS connection (443) to our SaaS, authenticates with mTLS, polls for jobs, and executes them locally. * Simple setup (firewall-friendly, “just outbound HTTPS”), similar to how Datadog agents, GitHub Actions runners, or Terraform Cloud Agents work.

WireGuard-based connector

* Customer deploys the same kind of connector, but instead of plain HTTPS, it establishes a WireGuard tunnel back to our cloud. * Provides a stable overlay /32 per connector, potentially lower latency, and allows us to send jobs and receive results over a secure tunnel. * Requires outbound UDP (or TCP fallback with something like Tailscale/Netbird). * More networking moving parts, but possibly a more robust transport.

We want to balance security posture, customer comfort during security review, and ease of deployment. From your perspective (especially those who review SaaS vendors for security), which approach would give you more confidence, and why?

Thanks!
by throwaway314155 | 2025-09-29 20:06:57+00:00
> If you think about how LLMs ingest their data, they have no way to know how to form a pellican in SVG.

It's called generalization and yes, they do. I bet you could find plenty of examples of it working on something that truly isn't "present in the training data".

It's funny, you're so convinced that it's not possible without direct memorization but forgot to account for emergent behaviors (which are frankly all over the place in LLM's - where you been)?

At any rate, the pelican thing from simonw is clearly just for fun at this point.
by m101 | 2025-09-29 20:07:14+00:00
The drivers of this in my view are:

1) flight from USD assets given views that one cannot depend on US assets as safe havens

2) central banks increasing gold holdings

3) purchases by Chinese investors as they have few places to invest their money

4) concern around debt levels deficits and democratic process ability to fix this

5) concerns around central bank independence, and hence inflation targeting, being undermined for political motivations

I have personally bought a lot of gold after having been a long term US equities investor because of its risk-off and zero duration nature. In a world of stock bubbles, high valuations, and general economic uncertainty, leaning risk-off has been where I currently feel comfortable. In a world of inflation being in zero duration is a sensible place to be.
Show HN: Emoji Search – semantic emoji picker using sentence-transformers
by tanishk888 | 2025-09-29 20:07:17+00:00
Show HN: Emoji Search — semantic emoji picker with instant similarity search

Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TanishkB/emojisearch Repo: https://github.com/tanishkbansode/emoji-search Blog: https://www.sisymaru.xyz/blog/emojisearch

I built a tiny emoji picker that returns the best-fit emojis for a phrase (e.g. "sad but hopeful","sad flower" "mickey"). It uses sentence-transformers embeddings and faiss as a lightweight vector database.

Built with: sentence-transformers +faiss
by kimixa | 2025-09-29 20:07:43+00:00
It's an indicator that they think they'll be able to feed more of their greed with $1 of gold than $1 of something else.

Nothing fundamental about gold that links it to greed, just it's value and return.

So yes, it tells you something more than "Amount Of Greed". And that may well be "Fear of losses (or even just reduced gains) in the market"
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-29 20:07:54+00:00
My comment doesn't propose use of nuclear weapons.

I don't see how what I propose is unrestricted. It is simply how one conducts war.

Entering Ukraine with troops puts those troops lives at risk for no reason. It is not legitimate to ask somebody to stand under artillery bombardment while the factories producing the shells are permitted to exist, or to attack well-defended positions when that is not the most efficient manner of attack.

We have no right to conduct a war so badly. Our duty to our soldiers and to our population is to conduct the war in the free and appropriate way that is the normal conduct of war.

We have a duty to undertake no operation of any kind that is not the most efficient and useful operation. This means not going against any prepared position, while betters targets exist, without considering any escalation concerns. This means focus on radical targets-- the roots of the enemy's fighting capability.

This is our duty to our soldiers in planning and conducting a war and this not something we can deviate from.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-29 20:08:05+00:00
I was definitely feeling something as I didn't think of the stranger's wife's cousin's mother? as dying but rather the stranger's wife dying and that cousin recording it.

But even now, yes you may have proved your point but death is so fucking weird and not talked about and sometimes I just get speechless, like someone just left the earth, let that sink in...

Honestly, I can somewhat both understand why he was live streaming now wanting more comments/everyone's final messages to go to her mother but at the same time, its definitely privacy invasive and might show their last moments and something of a behaviour I don't condone but I just don't know, now my opinion is mixed.
by eikenberry | 2025-09-29 20:08:09+00:00
I find laptop keyboards to be so poor in general that catering to them seems like a lost cause (in my case). I would prefer a laptop w/o a keyboard (basically a beefy tablet) where I would bring my own keyboard. Ideally I'd like it to be even more modular than that and I might even look into it one day using frame.work components and a 3d printer.
by lomase | 2025-09-29 20:08:34+00:00
In my country is like this, or was, I have not worked in that space for a long time.

An individual can record you on the street without problems.

A crew can't record you on the street for anything that will be aired on tv/cinema without your signing that you give your permision.

A Youtuber can record you on the street without problems.
by wnissen | 2025-09-29 20:08:50+00:00
It does make you wonder what would cause a downgrade. The debates over the debt ceiling have certainly brought the U.S. closer to default than I would ever have thought. It's true that the U.S. can never run out of dollars, so in once sense it's not possible for a bondholder not to get paid back. But the political environment, the potential unreliability of previously iron-clad data, economic disruption from tariffs, and behavior from the Federal Reserve, these all seem to make an unlikely event much more likely.
by icelancer | 2025-09-29 20:08:58+00:00
Huh. Doesn't work over here.

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SYSTEM:

Got it. Those are the setup commands for Simon Willison's LLM CLI tool, which lets you interact with language models from the command line.

The -e flag installs it in editable mode, and [test] pulls in the test dependencies. Are you running into any issues with the installation or tests? What are you working on with the LLM library?

USER: Correct. You run them using your code tooling.

SYSTEM:

Realized inability to execute requested Python commands.The user is telling me to run these commands using my code tooling. They want me to actually execute this. Let me think about what tools I have available:

I have the repl tool which runs JavaScript code in a browser environment I have artifacts for creating code/documents I have web_search and web_fetch

The user wants me to:

Checkout https://github.com/simonw/llm Run pip install -e '.[test]' Run pytest

But I don't have a tool that can:

Clone git repositories Run shell commands like pip or pytest Execute Python code in a command-line environment

The repl tool is JavaScript-only and runs in a browser environment, not a server environment where I could run shell commands. I should clarify that I don't have the capability to run shell commands, install Python packages, or execute pytest. I can only run JavaScript code in a browser environment via the analysis tool. I need to be direct and clear about this limitation, following the user's preferences to eliminate filler and be straightforward.I don't have tooling that can run shell commands, clone git repos, install Python packages, or execute pytest. My only code execution environment is a JavaScript browser REPL. I can't run pip, pytest, or any command-line tools. I can only execute JavaScript code in a sandboxed browser environment. What were you hoping to accomplish? Do you need help understanding the test setup, or were you expecting different capabilities?R
by baobabKoodaa | 2025-09-29 20:09:13+00:00
Here's an anecdata. I have a real-world use case financial dataset where I have created benchmarks. Sonnet 4.5 provides no measurable improvement on these benchmarks over Sonnet 4. This is a bit surprising to me, especially when considering that the benchmark results published by Anthropic indicate that Sonnet 4.5 should be better than Sonnet 4 specifically on financial data analysis.
by amflare | 2025-09-29 20:09:28+00:00
The short version is that its in limited supply, it has luxury value (think jewelry or artisan crafting), and its doesn't corrode. So it's a supply and demand issue. There is basically always the same amount, kings want it, and it doesn't ever disappear.

It s superior to currency because while (for example) the US dollar will always have value as long as you pay taxes with it, there is not a limited supply

It is superior to bartering because while (for example) a chicken has value due to its utility as food, it naturally disappears (because you ate it or it died).

Gold and other precious metals sort of sit in the middle ground as the "next best thing" to almost everything that humans want. So it remains a useful means of preserving and communicating value.
by isodev | 2025-09-29 20:09:43+00:00
I’m not sure what you’re saying exactly: you had a bad lawyer or you operate in a place where the spirit of the law is not known?

> That suggests to me that some EU specific reason

That was my point as well - Google is being shady for no apparent reason. I guess we’ll never know, or they’ll release some clickbaity statement like Apple’s recent “commentary” on the DMA. Baddies gonna do bad things.
by araes | 2025-09-29 20:10:01+00:00
North Montreal, Charlemagne, Lachenaie is rather impressive also. Needs Log axis to print out the results visibly.

https://www.gmcmap.com/historyData.asp?Param_ID=17717804628

Spiked multi-thousand several times in the last couple days. Out of the last week, with ~2500 entries, ~500 > 100 CPM, ~20 > 1000 CPM.

Looks like they're in the middle of suburbia next to a mall. Maybe their neighbor bought uranium or something? However, also downstream of the city dump is what it appears, possibly somebody dumped something they should not have?

Also, would not have noticed the History Data printout otherwise, so thanks on that.
by klgibbs | 2025-09-29 20:10:15+00:00
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by icelancer | 2025-09-29 20:10:22+00:00
When pressed:

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My execution environment is a browser-based JavaScript sandbox. I don't have Python, Node.js shell access, pip, git, or pytest capabilities.

Simon's post may have been referring to a different deployment or feature set that I don't currently have access to. My only code execution is the JavaScript REPL I just demonstrated.

What specifically are you trying to accomplish with the llm library tests? I can help with that in other ways.

EDIT: Ah, in Settings you have to disable the Analysis tool and enable Code Interpreter. You cannot have both enabled.
by camilomatajira | 2025-09-29 20:10:59+00:00
Summary: So why bother with Ansible in 2025? Because it gives you interesting features out of the box:1) Idempotency, 2) Drift detection, 3) a really high level ‘language’. And because used with UV, Ansible can be used as a standalone ‘scripting’ ‘language’, with idempotency and drift detection, again out of the box. For certain tasks, those are killer features. Which tasks? Think for example installation of software; installation of tools; Developer Experience (DevEx) setup; CD part of a CICD pipeline; setup of CI ephemeral runners etc.
by waterbadger | 2025-09-29 20:11:53+00:00
I think the only historical narrative supportable by the evidence (without having a pre-existing axe to grind about what the conclusion can or cannot be) is that Jesus was crucified by the romans and that he came back to life. Obviously normal people can’t do that.

Faith is a gift, it’s not something we can create for ourselves or claim responsibility for. We can only pray to God to give us faith and I believe He will always grant it!
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-09-29 20:13:09+00:00
If Bioware can squeak out one more good Mass Effect it would make for a great swan song. I don't really know what the last EA game I bought was other than the Mass Effect trilogy on Steam. I started avoiding Ubisoft games after Assassin's Creed 3 and EA followed a few years after that- so maybe 2015ish?
by jMyles | 2025-09-29 20:14:10+00:00
Is that true? There are many level of exercise of political, social, and economic power that happen in the commons. The camera is a primary tool of defense against injustice in this area.

Restrictions (especially with the force of law, but also social pressures) of the basic and deeply human capacity to capture photons and vibrations, and to make depictions of the results of that capture, are invariably used by the more powerful against the less powerful. eg: cops playing "copyrighted" material to prevent posting to youtube.

Much safer and fairer is to just give ourselves the same rights we might imagine are afforded to an alien, 4 light years away, looking through an extremely powerful telescope. Do you suggest that earth laws extend to this alien? Is she prohibited from posting the activities she can see of ours through her telescope?
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-29 20:14:29+00:00
> YouTube nerd-bait aside, real-world phone repair techs replace screens, batteries, and charging ports. It's rare for anything else to fail, and when it does, it's generally not cost-effective to troubleshoot which of the BGA pads or microscopic inductors might be faulty.

My mom's Samsung phone suddenly failed to charge a year ago, but in a weird way. Tried some tricks but it ended up getting stuck on a black screen during boot.

I handed it to a repair shop in town that had good reviews. Three days later they called back. I asked what was wrong, and it turned out they had to replace one charging chip, a power sequencing chip and a third chip I can't recall the purpose of, along with the USB port. The reason it took so long was they got a bit further for each chip they swapped.

I'm in Norway where prices are high, and we have a 25% VAT on top. I paid $180 including VAT, or $144 before VAT.

For that I might have gotten a very cheap Android phone on sale, however my mom's phone was a premium model from a few years earlier. Besides, less e-waste and saved me time reinstalling everything. Personally I think the repair was well worth it.

There's discussion here in Norway to drop VAT on repair jobs such as this, and in that case I think it would definitely make sense to repair such cases.
by turnsout | 2025-09-29 20:14:41+00:00
Yeah, I just have it generate PRDs/high-level plans, then break it down into cards in "Kanban.md" (a bunch of headers like "Backlog," "In-Progress", etc).

To be honest, Claude is not great about moving cards when it's done with a task, but this workflow is very helpful for getting it back on track if I need to exit a session for any reason.
by cloverich | 2025-09-29 20:15:55+00:00
Oh, 3x at work. I shared some details on the methodology, its PR rate for ticketed features / bugs (so e.g. closed tickets as opposed to commits, loc, etc). For prompts and tasks, am happy to share (redacted as needed; check comment threads) if you want more details, presuming this is a genuine request? Here's a few example prompts (I can't paste exactly obviously, but I can approximate):

- "Rails / sidekiq: <x file> uses sidekiq batches. <y file> does it. Refactor your to use pattern in <x file> Match spec in <z file> then run rspec and rubocop" - "Typescript / react. <x file>. Why is typescript compilation a bottle neck int his file. Use debugger to provide definitive evidence. Cast type to any and run script and time it; write a script to measure timing if needed. Iteratively work from type `any` to a real type and measure timing at each step. Summarize results" - "I redefine <FormComponent> in five places. Find them all. Identify the shared patterns. Make new component in <x location>. Refactor each to to use new component. Run yarn lint and fix any ts issues when done" - "<file y>: more idiomatic" (it knows my preferences)

Side projects and such I have no idea, and (as you noted) I do those quite infrequently anyways! Actually come to think of it... outside of the toy iOS work I did last week, I've not actually worked on my side projects since getting into Claude code / cursor agents. For work stuff, I guess other metrics I'd be interested in are total messages sent per task. I do sometimes look at $ per task (but for me anyways, that's so wildly in my favor I don't think it's worth it".
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-29 20:16:12+00:00
If you want to understand what's going on, I strongly recommend reading Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio.

The book is highly researched and explains the pattern we're in, and what we'll see next.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Navigating-Big-Debt-Crises...
by rossant | 2025-09-29 20:16:23+00:00
Excellent. Imagine three nested loops:

- Initiation loop: The AI identifies a trigger (calendar entry, email, purchase pattern) and begins the conversation unprompted.

- Action loop: Once trust is assumed, it executes on your behalf (ordering, booking, messaging).

- Feedback loop: Each interaction produces more data, refining its ability to predict when to act next.

Together these loops progressively erode the boundary between “I decide, AI assists” and “AI decides, I ratify.”

Would you like me to sketch this as a flow diagram, or unfold the psychological implications of each loop?