MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rapind | 2025-09-13 15:03:25+00:00
Subagents suffer from the same overriding problem with "Claude Contexting", which is context wrangling. Subagents "should" help to compartmentalize and manage your context better, but not in my experience so far. I found I was jumping through a lot of hoops with special instructions, manual compacts, up front super detailed plans, and MCPs just to manage my context. So subagents is probably the same, where you want to have it handle tasks that do not require context from your main thread.

P.S. I know they added 1m context to their API, with a price increase, but AFAIK the subscription still uses the 200k context.
by ddavis | 2025-09-13 15:03:35+00:00
I don’t think the person quoted is implying that it should be that way, merely pointing out a discovery that builders have made: they _can_ get a symbolic bonus. One can skip building to code… do a quick and bad job and move on to the next job, saving cost and moving onto the next paying job more quickly. That “bonus” doesn’t exist if you build to code (and of course it shouldn’t exist, but neither should the bonus that does exist, your stick should prevent it).
by psychoslave | 2025-09-13 15:04:51+00:00
I don't think noun as a grammatical class is an issue, all the more if we take for granted that grammar themselves are mere inferences modeling what's happening on average when producing some utterance, or at least a very simplified representation of a leaned version of the utterance.

It might become more problematic when using a term such as substantive which can connotate some ontological beliefs about the nature of the word or what it refers to, or their relationship.

English is already very generous with conversion of word type without morphological impact in general. I heard Mandarin don't have even that kind of string lexical typology bound to every item in the vocabulary, but I didn't check the details to be transparent.

Thanks anyway for the hints on the other languages
by crazygringo | 2025-09-13 15:05:01+00:00
I think you're misunderstanding, and have come up with a strawman here.

What you're describing as correct is what people understand. Of course it's the fact that you're far away. I think it goes without saying that you can't use a telephoto lens inside of a room or something.

And yes, of course you could take a wide picture and make a crop. But the resolution would be terrible. The whole point of a telephoto lens is to take that tiny crop of your environment at full resolution.

I'm sorry you learned it wrong at age 14 and maybe wherever you got it from really did explain it badly. But it's standard for professionals to talk about the effect of a long lens in this way, that the camera will be further away.
by sunscream89 | 2025-09-13 15:06:06+00:00
[For the conversation with the dead]

“Helter skelter” is the rape and murder of the innocent and lawful and dancing in the streets in victory. And there is nothing anyone can do about it.

It is the chanted phrase (without my elaboration) in their every orgy.

Did you all see those police training video from the 90s?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5CgSLC7smM

Or …

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJ0_BABexo

“Helter skelter” was that vision of America and the world, and boy I tell you they got it. In every way you would deny!
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-13 15:06:16+00:00
I've really gotten depressed looking at the state-of-the-art of static site generators that are based on things like markdown that just aren't any good aren't really any easier than writing HTML.

Forr 2 years I've thinking about making a blog based on an SSG and whenever I try it I just hate the tools, hate the themes, hate everyting. I'm not happy with the tools that are out there and right now starting to develop some tools that are oriented towards pure HTML publishing. I reject a lot of these assumptions like you're going to commit something to Github and then have some opaque environment like Github actions which you'll spend a whole lifetime debugging.
by weinzierl | 2025-09-13 15:07:11+00:00
The biggest award is that your images will look differently from nearly everything that is posted today, especially if you get close.

The past decades have been decades of wide angle. Before the turn of the millennium wide angle photography was confined to mostly landscape, architecture and real estate. Often out of necessity and not because people liked the look.

It was in the early 90s that skater subculture chose wide angle out of necessity, but they also embraced the distorted look. From there it went into hiphop culture and became mainstream.

At the same time technological development also facilitated wide angle lenses because together with tiny sensors they can be easily fitted into mobile phones and action cams.

If people 100 years from now will look at our photos and watch our videos the wide angle look will be the dead giveaway of our era.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-13 15:07:24+00:00
As a programmer, you should always consider how corner cases are handled in the software, in particular if it is accessible from the internet. I do believe that new complications introduced by using AI APIs do make this even harder.

Specifically concerning your argument

> as a joke generador it's broken due to leaky abstraction?

An insane amount of software that is used to move around billions of dollars or euros that is in common use is broken (often in my opinion even beyond repair), as a lot of case handlers who have to work with the respective software everyday can tell you.

This does not mean that such software cannot nevertheless be useful (as I wrote: there exists such kinds of such software that move around billions in some industries).
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-13 15:07:46+00:00
I recently started a small synthesiser project, specifically to teach myself some SIMD:

https://github.com/seclorum/simdsynth

Its an 8-voice polyphonic synth with 1 oscillator per voice, a filter, an LFO, and EG's for the Osc and Filter.

I've been extremely happy with the performance I'm getting, running on the Raspberry Pi - in both Monome and Zynthian systems!

Monome and Zynthian are both game-changers for FOSS audio hackers. I have both running side by side and they are just a pure inspiration for audio exploration. It's very rewarding also, to be able to put my own code alongside all the other great stuff from both communities.
by natmaka | 2025-09-13 15:07:46+00:00
In many Western nations bury them is now forbidden. Most are burnt in cement kilns (producing useful heat).

In France, 95% of the mass of a wind turbine must be recycled (legal obligation), the concrete base is not spared and the law requires wind farm operators to lock (upfront) a financial guarantee (deposit).

Recyclable blades are appearing (RecyclableBlade, ZEBRA, PECAN...) and even existing ones are being considered: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/08/newly-discovered-che...

According to EDF (multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France, the giant in France, owning and operating all nuke plants) 94% of a solar panel is recyclable. In France most of it is already recycled.
by omnimus | 2025-09-13 15:07:57+00:00
Exactly. It's very convenient to claim that somebody else benefits from the open license when there have always been dozens of competitors behind wordpress ready to take their place.

There are even commercial WP competitors with highly superior product like Craft CMS or Kirby CMS. And you know what? They make fraction of what Automattic does. The strategy to offer free product and then make money on addons and hosting is clearly superior. But let's no mistake WP is for Automattic more like open-source freemium NOT some ideologically pure charity.
by faangguyindia | 2025-09-13 15:08:06+00:00
No the context going out of control is overblow. Lemme example why. First you need to work at feature level. It shouldn't be too large of a feature in one go.

Let's say in my workflow, first agent must know where it needs to make changes? So it greps bunch of files and reads them. We do not need these read calls or grep calls to be part of history, the knowledge gained by doing these is what needs to be part of context

Finally, we do some risk analysis and then just code it right away.

No sliding window needed for this

After this you reset context /reset and u start on new feature.
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-13 15:08:32+00:00
There is a lot of stuff that window managers could in theory do (e.g. something i'd like Window Maker to be able to do is "combining" windows so that the title bar becomes a tab bar that contains multiple windows in the same screen space region) but in practice never end up doing for whatever reasons (i could in theory spend the time to implement such a feature in Window Maker but it is very low in my priorities for whenever i have time to spend). And more importantly, not everyone has the same window manager, so even if my window manager could provide a feature that made some application feature unnecessary, someone else's window manager might still not provide it (but might provide some other feature they want that mine doesn't).

> The only applications that really need MDI are those that do something with their windows other than window management, which (loosely) implies that those things are something other than windows.

Well, in the example of image editors i mentioned, these windows are views to the underlying image documents - and being able to move and resize those views arbitrarily, together with a caption about the document they're about, is very useful. It also matches perfectly with embedded/MDI windows.
by MichaelRo | 2025-09-13 15:08:56+00:00
After reading a couple of articles on fraud or just sloppy record keeping almost always behind centenarians, now I'm extremely skeptical on claims of people having past 100 years of age.

While there are a few people who seemed to be nearly immortal, as in "being around since forever", like the Queen Of England or recently deceased https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Iliescu ... they didn't actually push past 100.

With all the care and life standard, seems to be a hard limit in our genes, so until something is done about that, better get realistic expectations.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-09-13 15:09:11+00:00
In my experience, you need shorter prompts and steering it constantly for any kind of work, novel or not. You can be doing the most basic thing, if you let it iterate long enough, it will start doing something completely stupid. It's really sad watching Gemini CLI debugging something trivial, and trying to change it "one last time" again. Fortunately, Claude is better at this, but you still need to steer it. And try extremely hard not to give it pointers to something you DON'T want it to do, especially if it's easy and in it's training set, because it will so gladly pick it up.
by sodapopcan | 2025-09-13 15:10:10+00:00
They probably just mean "BEAM language that isn't Erlang."

All BEAM languages always bring something new to the table aside from just syntax (for Gleam it's static type, for Elixir it's macros and, well, mix!) but none of them try and abstract away the core tenants of the BEAM being functional working with modules and processes. So ya, in that sense you could say it's like Elixir.
by lacker | 2025-09-13 15:10:14+00:00
We DID build good transit. It takes 15 minutes to get from the MacArthur BART to downtown San Francisco! But the walkable area around that station is full of single-family housing. It's a huge waste building all of this incredible public transit and then not allowing apartment buildings near it.

The same is true for so many of the East Bay BART stops. Amazing transit but apartment buildings are banned so it's much more expensive to live there than it should be.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-09-13 15:10:32+00:00
> A few creators do append labels disclaiming that their videos depict “no real events,” but many creators don’t bother, and many consumers don’t seem to care.

https://youtu.be/kLyuNo3vEuQ?t=346

AI videos as propaganda. In this clip, the guy can be seen passing through a missile transport railing.

300K views.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-13 15:11:12+00:00
I have a room full of synths from the 70's and 80's, two racks full of synths from the 90's, a veritable crap heap of soft synths on various Macs, and a Eurorack corner that threatens to implode my universe .. an as well - my Zynthian and Monome systems are chock full of great stuff, too.

It's not just iOS.

Zynthian and Monome provide an AMAZING ecosystem for audio exploration. If you haven't checked that out as well, here's the links:

https://monome.org

https://zynthian.org

That said - I could easily just get another iPad, throw away the room full of synths, wire up my iPads and the Zynthian and Monome systems, and be quite satisfied.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-13 15:11:31+00:00
Besides Microsoft, plenty of others thought UTF-16 to be a good idea. The Haskell Text type used to be based on UTF-16; it only switched to UTF-8 a few years ago. Java still uses UTF-16, but with an ad hoc optimization called CompactStrings to use ISO-8859-1 where possible.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-13 15:11:38+00:00
> Correct, given that housing in one location is significantly fungible with housing in another location, barring some economic frictions

What do you mean by economic friction, because in real estate, “location, location, location” is the most important phrase.

The economic opportunities available to someone in living within 1 hour of SF and San Jose are vastly different to someone living 4 hours away, hence the house in one location is not fungible with the house in another.

Even on the more local level, the school district a house is located in will make a big difference.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-13 15:12:08+00:00
> but do travel out and walk during weekends.

Traveling somewhere where you walk more and then losing weight is such a common story that it has become a meme.

People also don’t accurately judge how much they eat. The portion sizes were likely smaller and the food composition was different than what you ate in Singapore, even if you thought you were eating the same. A lot has been written arguing about hidden factors in food, but in actual studies it always comes down to eating fewer calories. Eating less calorie dense foods and smaller portion sizes will do it. Even the GLP-1 studies revealed that the magic of their weight loss is directly proportional to reduction of calories eaten, even if patients eat exactly the same foods (but in smaller quantities or less frequently)
by businessmate | 2025-09-13 15:12:19+00:00
Generative AI assistants are no longer experiments. They are shaping consumer decisions — surfacing one

or two brands in response to prompts where search engines once delivered pages of links. That shift makes

AI visibility both a strategic risk and a growth opportunity. In From Snapshots to Standards, we introduced

the Prompt-Space Occupancy Standard (PSOS™) under the AIVO Standard™ as the first audit-grade

benchmark for visibility in AI assistants. We showed why screenshots and dashboards from tools like

Profound or Evertune cannot provide reproducible, governance-grade evidence. This paper moves further.

PSOS is not only a visibility audit. It is also a system to: - Protect: by providing independent, board-level

governance of visibility risk. - Grow: by optimizing the internal rate of return (IRR) on AI search investments. -

Persist: by mapping brand presence across first-, second-, and third-level prompts, where switching decisions

are actually made. Every PSOS audit produces executable insights: what to stop funding, where to reallocate,

and which sources to seed for persistent visibility. These insights are implemented internally or by certified

AIVO Standard partners, preserving audit independence while enabling action. Finally, we show why brands

must ensure their content is not just published but ingested by large language models (LLMs). What is not

ingested cannot be recalled. The dual mandate is clear: Governance plus Growth. Brands that adopt PSOS

now will not only mitigate the invisible risk of disappearing in AI assistants but will also secure a compounding

advantage in the age of AI search.
by mejutoco | 2025-09-13 15:12:57+00:00
Democracy is about equality of rights, not equality. People are not equal in every aspect, but they should be equal in front of the law, for example.

Freedom is not absolute because your freedom stops where somebodys freedom beginns.

Hence, if you practice medicine without qualifications there is a high chance you will hurt somebody. It is not undemocratic to protect against hurting others. Hurting others is not a right.

Interesting thought exercise though.
by randycupertino | 2025-09-13 15:13:26+00:00
I enjoy watching movie trailers on youtube and I've noticed in the last month all these ai-created fake movie trailers for upcoming movies where the actual trailer isn't out yet. It's infuriating when I watch it, realize something is off and then at the end it's like "Fan-made!"

If this ai-slop keeps up I'm going to just probably stop watching youtube altogether, it sucks getting tricked by fake content.
by TheFreim | 2025-09-13 15:14:03+00:00
An individual remix of a song added to a playlist, which most people have never heard of, multiple years ago does not make it a "groyper meme".

Before the other day when this misinformation campaign began, nobody ever associated the song with groypers. Its always been associated with anti-Fascist, anti-Nazi groups, which contain a completely different set of beliefs. In recent history the only people to ever use the song for political purposes have been left-wing groups: Protestors against the AfD in Germany, communist priest Andrea Gallo, movement against Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, left-wing protests against Meloni in Italy.

Combining the lack of substantial evidence of association with groypers with the history of the song being used by left-wing movements, in addition to the evidence in my post above and elsewhere, its clear that this cannot be reasonably associated with groypers by any evidence-oriented person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao
by mindslight | 2025-09-13 15:14:22+00:00
How do you envision this helping?

There are limits to home inspections, and many types of defects you're just not going to see. For example, that leaking water line causing a brown spot on the wall that reappeared after a week could be slightly slower (or in a drier season) and only appear after a few months. Many problems take time to manifest as symptoms, and especially with a newly constructed home there just hasn't been enough time. (also why code inspectors check at separate stages of progress, while many more problems can be visible without having to open walls)

Furthermore, home inspectors don't actually have any skin in the game. They're not giving you any kind of representation or warranty, but rather more of a quick look from the perspective of someone who knows how houses are built and have a list of common problems to look for. And they can certainly succumb to the same type of normalization of deviance going on with the contractors in this article.

That's not even getting into the types of ongoing scams I've heard of where builders/sellers do things like "seal" the attic access door for "energy efficiency" reasons, and then assert that home inspectors cannot inspect the attic (eg the roof!) because opening the door would be causing damage. Or that a seller can easily cover up many types of problems a home inspector would notice, it's just generally illegal.

I'd say the real problems here are the high pressure sales funnel, and the complete lack of legal accountability. Forced arbitration and other onerous terms should be illegal. Heck if we're talking about a professional developer with an inventory, liquidated damages themselves should mostly be illegal. And newly built homes should have mandatory warranty periods longer than a year, probably at least 5 years, culminating with an independent inspector at the end to help notice any still-developing problems.

Then, claims for defects shouldn't be going directly to the builder who's strongly incentivized to trickle it down to some disempowered guy in a van, claiming to have solved the problem with whatever he had on hand. Rather the homeowner should be able to choose any contractor to fix the problem and file a claim on the builder's insurance - just as if it was home insurance claim, with a different responsible party.
by jszymborski | 2025-09-13 15:14:52+00:00
Gleam has long kinda seemed like my idea programming language. My only real hang-up is maybe an irrational one, but I don't love that it needs either a VM (BEAM) to run, or for it to be compiled to an interpreted language (javascript). I really wish it could target LLVM or something so it could be compiled down to native.

Maybe someone can sell me on BEAM though.

EDIT: The comments below are indeed beginning to sell me on BEAM, I'm realizing my reluctance might come from some negative experiences I've had dealing with the JVM.
by MichaelDickens | 2025-09-13 15:15:05+00:00
The reason I used to oppose nuclear energy is that its proponents would say nuclear waste isn't a problem, but they would never explain why it isn't a problem. I knew the half-life of uranium was 4 billion years; I didn't see how you could possibly make that safe, and nobody on the pro-nuclear side seemed to have an explanation, so I assumed that no explanation existed.

(Turns out the answer is that you can store nuclear waste deep underground at geologically stable locations where tectonics won't cause it to eventually resurface.)

(Also radioactive waste isn't uranium and the half-life is considerably shorter than 4 billion years, although it's still quite long.)
by Aurornis | 2025-09-13 15:15:19+00:00
> it’s the choices that Japanese people make within this environment that are healthy

This is a difficult truth for a lot of people to accept because it’s so much easier to blame invisible factors that are poorly understood: Microplastics, xenoesteogens, microbiome, trace lithium in the water supply, or the other trendy excuses.

In some cultures moderating your eating and controlling your weight comes with very high societal pressure. Everyone sees this from a young age and internalizes it. It’s hard to communicate how strong this pressure is and it gets lost when you only look at studies about the food supply.
by reactordev | 2025-09-13 15:16:42+00:00
My grandfather made it to 98, but holy cow he was frail. The last few years of his life he couldn’t move much. Shuffle walked only a few inches. Drooled on every meal in front of him. I loved my grandfather but watching him in that state, we were all relieved for him when he passed.

He smoked only during WW2, was an army corp of engineers colonel when he retired from the military, came from a dirt farm in Michigan, engineered all kinds of civil and military projects. In the end, he still managed to engineer a smile. He absolutely loved maps/atlases/GIS.
by theodric | 2025-09-13 15:16:45+00:00
Same, but about ten years after the last modular RAM computers go on the market, you and I are both going to have a Problem.

Incidentally, this is why I bought a hot air rework station and a heater. Won't help me if they blow an efuse on the package to permanently set the RAM spec, or use part pairing For Your Security And Protection, but maybe they won't all be that evil.
by pron | 2025-09-13 15:16:50+00:00
GraalVM is a separate product developed by an unrelated team. Its enterprise flavour is not considered an enterprise flavour of the JDK. The closest to an enterprise JDK from Oracle I can think of is the "Enterprise Performance Pack" for the 12-year-old Java 8, but it has nothing that isn't in the free and open recent releases (which actually include many more performance enhancements).

The idea there is that it's cheaper for companies with legacy software that isn't actively maintained to pay for some portion of the performance improvements in modern JVM generations than to ramp up maintenance to upgrade to modern Java, and this can help fund the continued evolution of OpenJDK.