MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheDong | 2025-09-04 10:12:36+00:00
Is the data input into ChatGPT not a large enough source of new data to matter?

People are constantly inputting novel data, telling ChatGPT about mistakes it made and suggesting approaches to try, and so on.

For local tools, like claude code, it feels like there's an even bigger goldmine of data in that you can have a user ask claude code to do something, and when it fails they do it themselves... and then if only anthropic could slurp up the human-produced correct solution, that would be high quality training data.

I know paid claude-code doesn't slurp up local code, and my impression is paid ChatGPT also doesn't use input for training... but perhaps that's the next thing to compromise on in the quest for more data.
by fedeb95 | 2025-09-04 10:12:46+00:00
copying paper is not as easy as copying a file. You should try, even making a simple paper notebook that doesn't fall apart isn't easy, let alone print a book.

The tech industry may very well cease to exist as we know it, but the concept of a digital copy is way more powerful. My comment didn't have anything to do with LLMs, and you mentioning that technology points out to a shallow understanding what digital means.

But the proof will lay in history. Any restriction can be easily overcome because of the nature of the digital world. Only a forceful dictatorial state can make effective restrictions (to some extent), and unless one advocates for that, thus effectively banning the technology itself if not only for some privileged users, one has to accept the nature of what humans have discovered: that counting on his finger (digital is from the latin digitus) can replace its analog counterparts in many situations. Has long has you have fingers you can count, unless someone cuts them off.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-04 10:13:18+00:00
To be fair, $150k is still a very good salary. That's like 3 times as much as most other people make. So it seems to me like we're still talking about fairly high-tier jobs, where I live most developers make less than $100k. The only devs I know who make north of $150k are self-employed contractors which comes with a lot of downsides.

I can see how it might be frustrating to have to maintain a separate set of skills just for interviews. I just haven't experienced that myself.
by api | 2025-09-04 10:14:03+00:00
The next step will be removing humans from the loop entirely, a feed of personalized AI generated slop engineered to keep you staring at it.

YouTube and Facebook are almost turning into this organically. YouTube seems to be trying to fight it. Zuck seems to just not care anymore, generally. Eventually one will fully embrace it.

Are there even any social networks anymore? Oddly enough as weird and cringe as it is I think LinkedIn kind of qualifies. It’s business but that’s a form of social interaction that involves real people doing stuff.

I think most social interaction has moved onto messengers, Discord, Slack, etc.
Ask HN: Are managers engaging differently post-LLM?
by pickledoyster | 2025-09-04 10:14:18+00:00
Anecdotally, me and colleagues I talk to are getting a lot more micro-management and nitpicking from managers. The nitpicks and changes requested seem to be increasing at other companies where I have friends, too.

I know that my direct manager is using a popular chatbot for generating work-related slop, which would make them more inclined towards redoing stuff just for the sake of it.

So, an unqualified thought I had was that the nitpicks and micromanagement might be a result of managers/execs getting into LLMs.

I couldn't find anything tangible on this topic, and am unsure if it's just about my company going down the drain process/management wise. What's your experience?
by imtringued | 2025-09-04 10:14:24+00:00
You are comparing the fastest writable memory available (SRAM) vs biological non-volatile memory that is essentially read only. Samsung's 280 layer NAND reaches 28,5 Gbit per mm^2. I don't know how you would convert that to a volume, but if we simply multiply by 1000x for simplicity, it would be much closer to 0.19 Mbit/μm³, but even then you have to remember that NAND flash is still writable at pretty high speeds.
by koliber | 2025-09-04 10:14:45+00:00
I disagree that this is the sole purpose of ads. I can see how people arrive at that opinion, but I feel it is narrow and incomplete. With a little restrospection and introspection, anyone can see examples in their own life where marketing had another purpose.

Marketing can take many forms. Many people narrowly define it as "spam emails" or "unsolicited phone calls." Those are also marketing, but there is so much more. Marketing first and foremost informs. It can inform you that the problem that you have has even has a ready solution. It can inform you about the name of the product that solves your problem. It can inform you about alternative products that also solve your problem. Or it can reinforce and expand your existing opinions and believes. What you call the sole purpose is only one of these broad purposes of advertising.

Remember the time you learned of a particular programming library that does the thing that you wanted to do? Without marketing, you would not have learned about it.

Have you ever gone on a trip to a new place? How did you decide how you will spend your time? It was either because you researched things online and found websites that told you about those things. Or you saw a brochure at your hotel. Or an ad at the airport.

Think about how you learned about your favorite web framework. It was likely through word-of-mouth advertising.

Why do you drink (coke / pepsi / fav. brand of tea / fav. brand of coffee)? What formed your opinion was some kind of marketing, either directly, or indirectly.

Many things we do and believes we hold are because of one form of marketing or another.
by farawayea | 2025-09-04 10:15:31+00:00
This device has planned obsolescence written all over it. The pen includes a built-in rechargeable battery. The device's battery is also not user replaceable. These are the same issues that the Remarkable Paper Pro has.

They use the Linux kernel and some GPL software. They've made a change with Remarkable Paper Pro to only allow SSH access once the user has put the device in "developer mode". The device is marked as compromised until it is restored to factory or something else is done to it. It's not clear to me how the device is restored to factory or restored at all.

They provide tarball dumps via https://github.com/reMarkable/linux-imx-rm instead of a proper git repository for the kernel. Why is it so hard to find people able to push a git repository to Github? These dumps are also rather useless if they still lack the source code for the frame buffer and the display. https://github.com/reMarkable/linux is the Linux kernel for the older remarkable 2 and the remarkable 1. The kernel code from the Github repository for my remarkable 2 wasn't the one they shipped in the latest version running on my device a few months ago. There was a newer minor patch version running on my device.

The devices are very tied to the cloud account and their application. You must have an account and you must use their application if you want to use this device fully, even offline. The network over USB feature makes it possible to back up/download/restore documents. EPUB document handling is abysmal without their application installed on the PC. They really want their customers to use their software, to have an account and to use their cloud services. It's a non-starter if you really don't want to be locked in. EPUB documents still have issues on my Remarkable 2 due to the bugs their USB based document transfer tool has. Many documents simply fail to transfer without any feedback. They probably only update the account-based software they force people to use to get as much money from subscriptions as possible.

Hardware repairs for these devices are also not looking good. You're most like out of luck if the warranty has expired for your device. They couldn't care less. They’ll gladly sell you yet another device which has to be recycled when the battery isn’t able to hold a charge for more than a few minutes.

I wouldn't recommend any product from this company. This company's good old days are over. They've taken money from investors. They want to charge their customers as much as possible. The en*****ification is almost complete.
by TheAdamist | 2025-09-04 10:16:30+00:00
Its an alternative libc instead of gnu.

I've generally seen it for embedded systems due to smaller size and you can statically link it.

But there are some compatibility drawbacks for non musl binaries as well as source that intentionally or unintentionally relies on glibc behavior or non standard functionality.

You don't want to mix and match your libc's on a running system.

Buildroot may be a good way to start to play with musl (or uClibc, another small c library).
by TheDong | 2025-09-04 10:17:06+00:00
This comparison is absolute nonsense.

"How could a telescope see saturn, human eyes have billions of years of evolution behind them, and we only made telescopes a few hundred years ago, so they should be much weaker than eyes"

"How can StockFish play chess better than a human, the human brain has had billions of years of evolution"

Evolution is random, slow, and does not mean we arrive at even a local optima.
by sgrytoyr | 2025-09-04 10:17:21+00:00
If they could add support for remote development (meaning the claude code instance runs on the remote server in the same folder that you have already opened as a remote/ssh project in Zed) and add a way to paste images in Zed and have them interpreted by CC on the server, this would really be a killer feature.

As someone who’s running a development agency I need to have tens of dev environments for different client projects running at the same time, and being able to switch between them multiple times every day (often from multiple client computers), so a remote server is the only way to go–I don’t want all of that stuff running on my Macs.

Nowadays I also have tens of CCs running on the dev server, switching between them using tmux, which works great, but the lack of support for pasting images through the terminal/ssh/tmux has been a real bummer. It would be great if Zed found a way to bridge that gap.
by muldvarp | 2025-09-04 10:18:45+00:00
> These claims wouldn't matter if the topic weren't so deadly serious. Tech leaders everywhere are buying into the FOMO, convinced their competitors are getting massive gains they're missing out on. This drives them to rebrand as AI-First companies, justify layoffs with newfound productivity narratives, and lowball developer salaries under the assumption that AI has fundamentally changed the value equation.

How is this "deadly" serious? It's about software developers losing well-paid, comfortable jobs. It's even less serious if AI doesn't actually improve productivity, because they'll find new jobs in the future.

Pretty much the only future where AI will turn out "deadly serious" is if it shows human-level performance for most if not all desk jobs.
by virginie_d | 2025-09-04 10:18:59+00:00
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by EZ-Cheeze | 2025-09-04 10:19:23+00:00
The AI companies won't run out of data to train on. Almost every user interaction is a significant source of data. Chains of interactions are even more significant, especially the longer and more sophisticated they are. Yesterday I was given A/B tests from both GPT5-Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Pro, something neither of then had done before. OpenAI also just acquired Statsig for $1.1 billion. Statsig does A/B testing and other analytics.

The data scrapped from the Internet and scanned books served its purpose: it bootstrapped something that we all love talking to and discussing ANYTHING with. That's the new source of data and intelligence.
Show HN: Reflag – Self-cleaning flags for TypeScript
by GarethX | 2025-09-04 10:19:57+00:00
Reflag (https://reflag.com) is feature flags for SaaS that run on TypeScript.

Feature flagging tools need a revamp. The market has been around for 10+ years, and most solutions have gone upmarket—combining flagging with experiments (great for eCommerce, useless for SaaS) and prioritizing only Enterprise needs.

Folks we chatted with decried bloated products filled with features they don’t use, complicated UIs, and unpredictable pricing.

So we’re building a focused, purpose-built tool that prioritizes developer experience.

That means tackling features like self-cleaning flags to remove obsolete flag code automatically. As well as a toolbar to toggle features locally when testing, making it easy to manage beta programs, and deep integrations with Linear (to create and manage flags from inside issues) and Slack (to keep everyone up to date with access rule changes and feedback).

It also means focused refinement, not endless features. We’re feature flagging for SaaS that run on TypeScript. That’s it.

Why just SaaS? Because SaaS customers are companies and subscribers. Yet flagging tools treat these as an afterthought. It’s weird that you have to paste lists of UUIDs to give companies access to features. We’ve made working with companies as easy as users with company-level controls.

Why only TypeScript? It’s the stack modern SaaS uses. Plus, the focus means we can create things like self-cleaning flags, as well as essential improvements, like type safety at the flag-key level.

Teams at GitBook, Code Climate, Pleo, and ai.work are already using Reflag. We’d love for you to try it, and let us know what else we can do to make working with feature flags better.

Check us out at: https://reflag.com

Watch a quick overview: https://x.com/reflagcom/status/1963542152895500397
by frereubu | 2025-09-04 10:20:17+00:00
Likewise - I always skip the science episodes and wondered whether there were hordes of historians tutting their way through the other episodes. It feels to me like there are two types of science episodes though - one where it's pure science, and one where it's the history of a particular branch of science. Like you, the second I could generally stick for the historical perspective, but I always wondered why they have the first type on what is ostensibly a programme about history.
by danybittel | 2025-09-04 10:20:23+00:00
That would be hard to source / use, as It's a bit dated. But the technic behind it could be replicated. It uses IR LED on the bezel, around a glass. With total internal reflection the light only shows up where you touch the glass. Then film that with a camera. The advantage to my method, you don't get interference of objects hovering above the screen. But getting the camera & display behind the screen, could be hard.
by api | 2025-09-04 10:23:05+00:00
> If something is made only for money, it is not art, and indeed I can understand why those making it advocate so strongly for copyright restrictions, money being the only thing attached to their art.

How do artists eat?

It is true: art made only for money is usually not very good. But good art can, does, and should make money.

“Information wants to be free” is another way of saying “labor wants to be free” which means only rent extracting owners of scarce capital and assets get to make a living. Everyone else is a serf with 5G Internet.

If you get rid of copyright, you’ll see literature vanish as an art that can be pursued seriously by anyone but people with trusts or other sources of independent wealth.
by larve | 2025-09-04 10:23:44+00:00
I only review what needs to be reviewed, I don’t need to fully review every prototype, shell script, dev tool etc… only what is in the critical path.

But if llms show us one thing, it’s how bad our code review tools are. I have a set of tree sitter helpers that allow me to examine different parts of a PR more easily (one that allows me to diff semantic parts of the code, instead of “files” and “lines”, one that gives me stats on what subsystems are touched and crosscorrelation of different subsystems, one for attaching metadata and which documents are related to a commit, one for managing our design documents, llm-coding intermediary documents, long lasting documents, etc… the proper version of these are for work but here’s the initial yolo from Manus: https://github.com/go-go-golems/vibes/tree/main/2025-08-22/p... https://github.com/go-go-golems/vibes/tree/main/2025-08-22/c... https://github.com/go-go-golems/vibes/tree/main/2025-08-15/d... https://github.com/go-go-golems/vibes/tree/main/2025-07-29/p...).

I very often put some random idea into the llm slot machine that is manus, and use the result as a starting point to remold it into a proper tool, and extracting the relevant pieces as reusable packages. I’ve got a pretty wide treesitter/lsp/git based set of packages to manage llm output and assist with better code reviews.

Also, every llm PR comes with _extensive_ documentation / design documents / changelogs, by the nature of how these things work, which helps both humans and llm-asssisted code review tools.
by Zambyte | 2025-09-04 10:24:18+00:00
I really love that there seems to be a general renewed interest in e-paper devices. I personally have made the Daylight Computer my primary mobile computing device (even over a smartphone, which I really only use if I need GPS, which I only really need if I'm driving, and I sold my car :-D) and it has been lovely.

I use my DC-1 all the time, but I have so much more impulse control over my usage. The lack of color and the lack of notifications means it is very much not overstimulating, and I only use it if I make a conscious decision to.

Quick edit: it might be worth mentioning that I wrote this on my DC-1.
by hnfong | 2025-09-04 10:25:54+00:00
The original comment advised people to enroll in CS to capture the potential shortage of CS grads in the workforce. You’re saying no people shouldn’t be doing CS to make themselves ready for a job. The comment you replied to also takes a similar stance, ie no CS doesn’t make people ready for a job.

You might think you’re disagreeing with the parent comment but in fact you’re disagreeing with the top level comment.
by api | 2025-09-04 10:27:39+00:00
Devils advocate: a lot of people I know in the big tech and adjacent VC world are supporters of things like universal basic income because they kind of agree.

Eventually we will have to admit that we have created so much wealth that classical work ethics are no longer humane or beneficial to society. It doesn’t mean people don’t work but it means it must at least partially be divorced from sustenance.
by flowerbreeze | 2025-09-04 10:28:04+00:00
Thank you! Since you mentioned the decline of eels book that was in Italian, I finally remembered the title too since it wasn't in English neither. It was this book in Estonian: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17609869-angerja-teekond.

The title translated to English would be something like "The Journey of Eel" by Aadu Hint. Published in 1950, so I'm rather certain it makes more sense to read the newer books these days.
by jimkleiber | 2025-09-04 10:28:54+00:00
Yes but i see argument as not about accepting that people come to different conclusions but actively trying to seek mutual understanding. There is a wrestling, a struggle, a fight to understanding, to communicating, that so many of us simply just run away from, and i believe it gets reinforced with cultural norms of avoidance and desire for "peace" instead of connection and deeper integration.
by mrcjkb | 2025-09-04 10:29:00+00:00
Neovim provides the same mechanisms as Vim for Lua plugins. The problem (and part of my motivation for writing the nvim-best-practices document) is that not enough plugins use them.

Edit: The Neovim setup antipattern is the Lua equivalent of writing Vimscript functions in autoload and asking users to call them in their configs instead of doing so automatically.
by bfg_9k | 2025-09-04 10:29:15+00:00
Yes and no. I've never heard of someone trying to use PayPal to pay someone else, however we do have PayID which is linked to your phone number (I hate it, since you can plug anyone's number into the PayID system and see who owns it). This is free and instant, however you don't really pay businesses with this.

Paying businesses you can use EFTPOS which I believe is run by the central bank and has very low fees on debit cards, or the usual credit card networks/Apple Pay/gpay.
by frereubu | 2025-09-04 10:30:24+00:00
Sad news - I hope it continues and they manage to get someone who keeps the quality high. As others have pointed out, the thing that makes In Our Time great is it assumes the people listening are interested in learning something without pointless fluff.

I was watching the first episode of the new-ish BBC TV series Human last night and, although there was some interesting information in there, it was unbearably slow and overwrought - 20 minutes of interesting content stretched out to 60 minutes by overly dramatic speech and pointless visual interstitials with soaring music. Such a stark contrast in terms of information density if you watch the original big BBC documentary series like Life On Earth or Civilisation.
by that_guy_iain | 2025-09-04 10:31:28+00:00
> Of course they are edge cases. How many people do you think install third-party apps on Android? Pretty sure hardly anyone does that.

Yeah, which is why no one with any sense is going to be fighting againist this. Third-party installs on Android are largely scams. I don't think you've thought this through.

> Also, Windows works pretty well with software from third-party sources, or would you forbid them in Windows as well?

Windows is well known for being insecure compared to others. Apple have also worked to secure users against third-party apps.

> Sure, there are the occasional crypto scams which disable a hospital here and there, but this can arguably be prevented by not giving non-admins admin permissions.

Don't they use local privilege escalation attacks as part of the attack?
by gitaarik | 2025-09-04 10:33:08+00:00
Yeah, I also used submodules first. But removing a git submodule is a bit of a pain. Like 3 or 4 steps or something, which I usually need to look up how to do it again. And if you're experimenting with new plugins, trying them out, installing them and then removing them again, it's a lot easier with a plugin manager.
by pavelvoronov | 2025-09-04 10:33:24+00:00
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