MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rogerrogerr | 2025-09-03 14:01:46+00:00
ROI is implicitly against the alternative or status quo:

- Fridge: has ROI vs. going to the store more often or getting food poisoning.

- Washing machine: Has ROI measured in the value of your time spent not slapping clothes against a board to make them clean.

- Stove: ROI vs. using and maintaining a fire pit, with the risk of burning your house down factored in.

- MacBook: ROI is how much work you can get done vs. a Windows machine, or not having a laptop and doing math really fast by hand on paper.

Etc. It is suspicious that there isn’t a “this will pay for itself in N years vs. not having it” statement somewhere.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-03 14:02:39+00:00
The Danish Technical Universities Food institute had some research suggesting that around 40% of children experienced sleep issues and restlessness from drinking to much caffeine. [1]

The risk associated with to much caffeine according to the same study is: Disturbed heart rhythm, high blood pressure, palpitations, shortness of breath, stomach ache, nausea, anxiety, nervousness, trouble sleeping, and in the worst case, cardiac arrest.

It's not that children can't safely drink an energy drink, it's just that some teenagers might down can after can and the "safe" amount of caffeine is less than 1L of energy drink per day (which already seems like a lot).

1) https://www.food.dtu.dk/-/media/institutter/foedevareinstitu...
by Ruphin | 2025-09-03 14:02:46+00:00
Oh nice, I wasn't aware this was even possible.

Vue _does_ have some sort of build step, because components use special macros that aren't imported, and the compiler (vite) even complains when you actually import them saying it's not necessary. The build also rewrites your code to some other format that I assume is more optimized because it can do some sort of static analysis.

Are these the main reasons for Vue to use a compiler if it's not necessary? Injecting dependencies and rewriting some code to allow better performance while retaining the nice syntax?
by vonneumannstan | 2025-09-03 14:02:46+00:00
>I think the "just tweak the prompts bro" people are missing out on learning.

Alternatively they're just learning/building intuition for something else. The level of abstraction is moving upwards. I don't know why people don't seem to grok that the level of the current models is the floor, not the ceiling. Despite the naysayers like Gary Marcus, there is in fact no sign of scaling or progress slowing down at all on AI capabilities. So it might be that if there is any value in human labor left in the future it will be in being able to get AI models to do what you want correctly.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-03 14:03:07+00:00
Who said anything about working harder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45089377

The company gets a simple deal from me. They put the amount of money in my account they agreed to every month and in return they get 40-45 hours a week from me and all of my experience and skills.

They want me to fly out to a customer’s site or sit on a zoom call to close a deal? They got me. They want me to lead a large cloud implementation? No problem. They want a 50+ page management consulting style assessment with pretty diagrams? Say the word. They have a customer with an empty AWS account and they want someone who can do AWS architecture from the “DevOps” [sic] perspective and development? Say the word.

What they don’t get from me is burnout, time away from my wife and exercise in the evening, weekends or on call work. They get 40-45 hours of work from me.

It doesn’t take that much time to write down a summary of what you accomplished every quarter and keep an updated resume and in my case go on LinkedIn and post a banal “thought leadership” bullshit post once a quarter to keep me on the top of people’s mind if things go sideways at my current employer.

I would much rather be in my position where interviewing means some behavioral questions and talking to people than having to grind leetcode and reverse a btree on the whiteboard.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-03 14:03:08+00:00
I think you mean 0D for individual receptors.

Point (I.e. single point/element) receptors, that encode a single magnitude of perception, each.

The cochlea could be thought of 1D. Magnitude (audio volume) measured across 1D = N frequencies. So a 1D vector.

Vision and (locally) touch/pressure/heat maps would be 2D, together.
by flamesofphx | 2025-09-03 14:03:42+00:00
(Check) Sensationalized Marketing Language (Check) Little Scientific Data, Could not find any linked Studies that were listed.. (Check) Doesn't Wander on topic at all, like it might be AI written. (Check) Seen Before being posted here on a "CNN Sidebar Ad"...

While I can't 100% say this does not exist, if this is a real breakthrough they went about announcing it very poorly.
by jf22 | 2025-09-03 14:03:47+00:00
Yeah but you get the two days of hacking in 15 minutes.

And I highly doubt you spend months, as in 5+ weeks at the least making it production ready.

What even is "production readiness?" 100% fully unit tested and ready for planetary hyper scale or something? 95% of the human generated software I work on is awful but somehow makes people money.
by Bender | 2025-09-03 14:04:01+00:00
I can't speak to the caffeine but that is by far not the worst aspects of energy drinks.

- The drinks have an addictive property due to caffeine and many of these drinks are full of sugar causing the consumer to continuously consume sugar. Nobody should be consuming added sugar especially not kids who's brains are still developing. They do not need insulin resistance yet another fun topic.

- The excessive B vitamins in the drinks are the cheap low quality inactive forms and worse there are only a couple different vitamins. This is a fun rabbit hole to research. Adding even one inactive B vitamin in large quantities can shut down the conversion of all inactive B vitamins in the liver and in some cases the kidneys and can lead to a B vitamin deficiency, somewhat ironically.

B vitamins are required for energy production. Shutting down the conversion process can lead to people feeling tired and weak, thinking they need more energy drinks... This is a vicious cycle that can only be remedied by a healthy diet, exercise and sleep. Excessive energy drink consumption can interrupt or lower the quality of sleep. A lack of good sleep interrupts the healing process which every person requires or they start taking age related damage earlier and faster leading to more diseases and vulnerabilities.

This rabbit hole goes many layers deeper and would require writing a book and this is even before talking about how this exacerbates all the effects of drugs that doctors have shamefully prescribed to kids and adults.
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-03 14:04:17+00:00
Good question. I don't think there's an easy answer, except for something like:

A statement is provable if it's possible to write a proof for it.

But you're unlikely to find that satisfactory...

Spelling out the bounds of what can possibly constitute a proof is a big question in mathematical logic, model theory, and proof theory, and I'm far from an expert in these subjects.

I think any proof has to be based on some set of axioms, but Godel showed that not all provable statements can be formally derived from a single set of axioms.

Another way to put it might be that the space of all possible proofs can't be defined by a single axiom system with its rules of inference, but I'm not sure about this, because as I understand it we should always be able to tell mechanically, given a putative proof, whether it really proves the theorem.

In any case, I believe all these subtleties and difficulties also have to be faced if we try to spell out precisely what we mean by mathematical truth. In my view, this is the same question: mathematically true = it's possible to prove it.
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by dylan604 | 2025-09-03 14:04:30+00:00
> Could this be a conflict with long exposures?

I've done lots of 1/2 second exposures with 3s interval, and it shoots some at much shorter interval than 3 and some 3+??? At one point, the docs said 5s was a barrier. Maybe it was the 5dmkii specifically. All of my cards are rated higher than the 5D can write (but makes DIT much faster) so I doubt it is write speed interfering. What makes me think it is not the camera is that using a cheap external timer works without skipping a beat.
by benterix | 2025-09-03 14:04:55+00:00
We are literally witnessing the skills split right in front of our eyes: (1) people who are able to understand the concepts deeply, build a mental model of it and implement them in code at any level, and (2) people who outsource it to a machine and slowly, slowly lose that capability.

For now the difference between these two populations is not that pronounced yet but give it a couple of years.
by jibal | 2025-09-03 14:05:39+00:00
Weird which of these two comments was downvoted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_appearance_of_Jesus#H...

> in terms of physical appearance, the average Judean of the time would have likely had brown or black hair, honey/olive-brown skin, and brown eyes

This entire digression has been brought to you by someone who didn't understand an obvious pun.
by mzajc | 2025-09-03 14:05:41+00:00
> I ask follow up questions to make sure I understand why the AI's answer works.

I've tried a similar approach and found it very prone to hallucination[0]. I tend to google things first and ask a LLM as fallback, so maybe it's not a fair comparison, but what do I need a LLM for if a search engine can answer my question.

[0]: Just the other day I asked ChatGPT what a colonn (':') after systemd's ExecStart= means. The correct answer is that it inhibits variable expansion, but it kept giving me convincing yet incorrect answers.
by gitaarik | 2025-09-03 14:06:06+00:00
What I wonder is whether there are any developments related to Lit regarding server-side rendering (SSR). This is one of the reasons I'm experimenting with Svelte now. To me Lit was taking away frustrations with the inefficiencies of React. But for me Svelte seems to fill that gap too, and it also has SSR, among other niceties. But I do like the philosophy of Lit & Web Components. Sometimes I think a framework that would be like Svelte but uses Lit under the hood would seem like the best of both worlds.
by leoc | 2025-09-03 14:06:35+00:00
> There is no competition, there are no web standards anymore except what the monopolistic browser vendors decide, and indeed the WHATWG successfully executed a coup d'état against the W3C standards body.

The remarkable thing is how the WHATWG gang successfully got lots of observers to cheer this on as a good thing. (Relatedly, are there any archived copies of the old, disappeared "Last Week in HTML5" blog floating around out there?)

Overall the Web is a classic (probably by now the classic) example of Too Big To Fork https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810259 : as the size and interconnectedness of a piece of software or a protocol go up, the power of incumbents and those with deep pockets over it increases, effectively nullifying more and more any legal open-source or open-standard status it has. The glass-half-full implication is that this is a to a large extent a technical problem: it can be ameliorated by making the Web more modular and/or easier to independently reimplement. The glass-half-empty implications are that this is a difficult technical problem—it's not straightforwardly obvious how this can be done even starting with a clean slate, let alone how to get there from here—and that without technical improvements, any attempts to solve this with regulation, antitrust action, consumer activism or whatever is going to be unsatisfactory in one way or another.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-09-03 14:07:26+00:00
Wishful, self-serving, and beside the point. The primary argument here is not about the capability of the ai.

I think the same effect has been around forever in the form of every boss/manager/ceo/rando-divorcee-or-child-with-money using employees to do their thinking as a current information-handling worker or student using an ai to do their thinking.
by lukax | 2025-09-03 14:07:55+00:00
Have you tried Soniox for speech recognition? It supports Croatian. Or are you just looking for self-hosted open-source models? Soniox is very cheap ($0.1/h for async, $0.12/h for real-time) and you get $200 free credits on signup.

https://soniox.com/

Disclaimer: I used to work for Soniox
by hedora | 2025-09-03 14:08:58+00:00
Almost all of the 2024 report talks about community trust in police. There’s a reason the crime stats start on page 108.

They also have stats on number of times people call or report crimes vs. number of arrests, gun pulls, etc.

Those stats overwhelmingly disprove the theory that trust in the police department has eroded and people are no longer reporting crime.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-09-03 14:09:29+00:00
I see you comment here all the time about LLVM and I'm pretty sure you have no idea how LLVM works (technically or organizationally).

Yes there's no roadmap but it's flat out wrong that most contributions are from university students because hardly any contributions are from university students. It's actually an issue because we should be more supportive of student contributors! You can literally look at the contributors on GitHub and see that probably the top 100 are professionals contributing as part of their dayjob:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/graphs/contributors
by mrweasel | 2025-09-03 14:09:33+00:00
There's a Danish study that suggests that 99% of people ages 10 - 35 consume caffeine on a daily basis. Which seems insane.

Energy drinks are the main source of caffeine for those age 10 - 14 and 10% of those exceeds the recommended limits. For ages 15 - 17 it's 20%.
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-03 14:10:09+00:00
It’s more about debt than market prices. You can always shift to accommodate inflation by raising prices or shrinking your product as necessary to maintain your margin. Debt is different because it’s an obligation you don’t control.

The more debt you carry the more leveraged you become, which is exposure to risk. Another way to think of that is brittleness, which is subject to breaking. Investments are forms of debt, money locked into a financial vehicle.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-03 14:10:11+00:00
EU is fully invested into virtue signalling over actual tangible results. People keep saying how much stronger EU's economy is than Russia's, and how Russia is basically a gas station with Nukes, but the thing is, even with EU's "strong" economy Russia has them by the balls. They have to go hat in hand begging the US to step in because they can't do anything themselves, and the US is not going to keep propping up EU long term, especially not with how hostile the Europeans are towards Americans.

I live in Europe, I don't want Europe to become a vassal of China/Russia - but if something drastically does not change it will. Russia is Europe's Carthage, Russia must fall. There is no future with a Russia as it is today and a Europe as it is today in it, not because of Europe, but because of Russia. If Europe does not eliminate Russia, Russia will eliminate Europe. I have no doubts about this.

But as things stand, there just seems no way in which we practically can counter Russia at all. If Europe had determination, it would have sent Troops into Ukraine and created a no-fly zone — it should do that, but here we are.
by vincent_builds | 2025-09-03 14:10:28+00:00
Hi Ale, author here. Skepticism is understandable, but trust me, I'm not just writing React boilerplate or refactoring.

I find it difficult to include examples because a lot of my work is boring backend work on existing closed-source applications. It's hard to share, but I'll give it a go with a few examples :)

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First example: Our quota detection system (shipped last month) handles configurable threshold detection across billing metrics. The business logic is non-trivial, distinguishing counter vs gauge metrics, handling multiple consumers, and efficient SQL queries across time windows.

Claude's evolution: - First pass: Completely wrong approach (DB triggers) - Second pass: Right direction, wrong abstraction - Third pass: Working implementation, we could iterate on

---- Second example: Sentry monitoring wrapper for cron jobs, a reusable component to help us observe our cronjob usage

Claude's evolution: - First pass: Hard-coded the integration into each cron job, a maintainability nightmare. - Second pass: Using a wrapper, but the config is all wrong - Third pass: Again, OK implementation, we can iterate on it

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The "80%" isn't about line count; it's about Claude handling the exploration space while I focus on architectural decisions. I still own every line that ships, but I'm reviewing and directing rather than typing.

This isn't writing boilerplate, it's core billing infrastructure. The difference is that Claude is treated like a very fast junior who needs clear boundaries rather than expecting senior-level architecture decisions.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-03 14:11:03+00:00
Sounds bullish for AI.

It's like a drug. You start using it, and think you have super powers, and then you've forgotten how to think, and you need AI just to maybe be as smart as you were before.

Every company will need enterprise AI solutions just to maybe get the same amount of productivity as they got before without it.
by theamk | 2025-09-03 14:11:22+00:00
How so? They may be a different media for a professional photographer, but for a layman (like me) they have exactly the same purpose: I press the button, and I get a picture of my friends / that bird / landscape. And while I can easily tell charcoal sketching vs oil painting apart, I (and most of my friends) cannot tell real camera picture apart from high quality cell phone.

So no, I would not say it's a different media for the modern-ish phones (like pixel 8, iphones, etc...). If your impressions are based on cheap smartphones, they are out of date - there is a whole new world out there.

On a more advanced level, I am awed how a camera with ultra-high-FPS + many GFLOPs of CPU + advanced post-processing algorithms can make tiny lens work like regular ones, while still being thin enough to fit in the pocket.
by HeWhoLurksLate | 2025-09-03 14:11:51+00:00
there's a huge difference between "feature that mostly works and is kinda neat" and "5000 pound robot relies on this to work all the time or people will probably get hurt at minimum" in how much you should trust a feature.

Doesn't really matter if an imgTo3d script gets a face's depth map inverted, kinda problematic if your car doesn't think there's something where there is.
by kekyo | 2025-09-03 14:12:04+00:00
Hello, everyone. Since this was my first time using Hacker News, I didn't expect to receive this much feedback. Thank you, all.

I think a natural question might be why I didn't write this code in .NET. There are two reasons for this: my own long-standing career reasons and the considerations of my current job.

Those who know me are aware that I've written a significant amount of .NET code and continue to work on .NET code in areas like framework design.

The reason I chose to write this in Node.js is that in web hosting, both client-side and server-side code can be written in TypeScript. Furthermore, I've chosen to shift my primary focus at work to web development. The main reasons for this are to hone my technical skills, broaden my knowledge, shape my career, and seek new challenges.

While I reside in Japan, unfortunately, web-related technologies overwhelmingly dominate most business requirements domestically, placing .NET in a very difficult position. Against this backdrop, I had to accept the harsh reality that, despite reaching a certain technical level with .NET, I couldn't attain the heights I aimed for and consequently couldn't get the kind of work I desired.

This project, along with other OSS projects I'm currently developing in parallel, also stemmed from a desire to start anew in a different world. While I fully understand that nuget-server occupies a somewhat delicate position as a .NET project, I created it because it was something I genuinely wanted—so much so that I even dogfood it at work. There's also a calculated expectation that others might want a similar application.

If someone were to create a pure .NET application with similar functionality someday, I would welcome it.
by Galanwe | 2025-09-03 14:12:16+00:00
> Wow, paying himself $150k after tax from donations! That's wildly more successful than I would have guessed. (Not saying it's undeserved.)

There's an article somewhere on the rationale of Andrew's salary. From the top of my head it was based on an median lead developer salary in the area.

Honestly that seems fair, obviously less than he would have in the private sector, but still high enough to not burn out and have a comfortable life.
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-09-03 14:12:16+00:00
While discussing Google Genie v3 and AndroidXR, Bilawal Sidhu said : "to create an even faster, lower latency pipeline to go from like 24 fps to like 100 fps. I could see that being more of an engineering problem than a research one at this point."

https://youtu.be/VslvofY16I0&t=886
by hedora | 2025-09-03 14:12:18+00:00
The reports I linked include everything the police department does, including picking up the phone, number of times the officers are sent out, number of times guns are pulled, discharged, number of times a suspect is pursued, subdued, handcuffed, etc.

Rather than believe and re-repeat lies from propaganda outlets (we have really good propaganda in the US and it uses social media to spread), check primary sources.

It takes less time than writing this comment did.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-03 14:12:23+00:00
This is my pet peeve about most news articles. Give. me. raw. sources. Not edited clips, RAW CLIPS AND LINKS. I'm so tired of sensationalized news, I always look for raw sources or I assume there's a spin on the story. If someone made a news site that actually gave you raw sources, I would subscribe to them for life.
by jimkri | 2025-09-03 14:12:28+00:00
I don't think Gary Marcus is necessarily a naysayer; I take it that he is trying to get people to be mindful of the current AI tooling and its capabilities, and that there is more to do before we say it is what it is being marketed as. Like, GPT5 seems to be an additional feature layer of game theory examples. Check LinkedIn for how people think it behaves, and you can see patterns. But they market it as much more.
by palata | 2025-09-03 14:12:30+00:00
> That's simply not possible with passwords. Passwords, as a concept, just can't be abused in that way.

Well, not with only the password, but with the mandatory 2FA app that comes with it, it's definitely possible. Source: my company does that.

And you can most definitely request the real ID before you let someone create an account, password or passkey.

I don't see a difference.