MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akshaysg | 2025-09-10 20:02:19+00:00
1. Pricing would be $20 per person and we'd spin up an analysis for every PR you create/are assigned to review 2. We don't train or retain anything related to your codebase. We do send all the diffs to Open AI and/or Anthropic (and we have agentic grepping so it can see other parts of the codebase as well) 3. Do you mean the ability to run this on your own servers (or even on your own computer with local LLMs)? We do have plans for the former, but I don't know how big the lift on the latter will be so I'm not sure!
by k310 | 2025-09-10 20:02:20+00:00
I agree in part.

> Humans are bad at predicting what will work or understanding the unintended consequences of something new. We can only see clearly in hindsight.

However, everything changes.

I believe that there's a good chance that the problem has changed, gone away, rather than recur when the solution goes away.

Many solutions become a problem, either because the problem changed or vanished (think defense against dinosaurs) or the solution changed the environment, creating new problems. (think autos, think cell-phone addiction. Perfectly wonderful solutions that created new problems.)

I see history as a field to mine for learning, and not for engaging in "woudla, coulda, shoulda" or longing for a time that passed. Unfortunately, it seems that history is often used as the source for grievances and payback. Just look at the source of conflicts around the world, other than pure greed in action. The people are different. Places are different. The times are different and the circumstances are different.

And, quite simply, I see solutions and traditions that don't pass the regular "why" test as questionable to dangerous.

Buddhists have an eight-fold path that starts with right understanding, right intent, right speech and right action. I have found four to be sufficient, though most of our problems start with the first. Asking "why" and examining causes and effects in a very cause and effect, and yet ever-changing world is a necessary first step.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-10 20:02:30+00:00
That "state of equilibrium" is only unavoidable if there are infinite sources and sinks of people. That's a workable approximation if you're only studying one part of a much larger system, in isolation, but when considering the entire world, it falls down. If we have enough nice areas for everyone to live in them, that model stops being applicable.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-09-10 20:03:08+00:00
For gaming:

Joseph Anderson, NeverKnowsBest, SuperBunnyHop and MandaloreGaming are the ones that come to mind. They've uncovered so much about games that I never knew was there! :)

I think some would recommend Matthewmatosis, Hbomberguy and Raycevick as well, I'm just less familiar with their work personally.
by ath3nd | 2025-09-10 20:03:18+00:00
Extremely hard disagree. The status page is exactly where you communicate about both the root cause, and the action plan to prevent it.

Every status page incident on every normal company everywhere in the world has links to lead you to the postmortem and their steps to avoid it. Here are a few examples:

https://status.gitlab.com/ -> https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...

https://status.hetzner.com/ -> https://status.hetzner.com/incident/2e715748-fddd-427b-a07b-...

https://www.githubstatus.com/ -> https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/mj067hg9slb4

https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/ -> https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/4mcg46242wz...

It's literally a standard for your status page to communicate both about root cause and action plan how to prevent it in the future. Sure, when an incident is just happening, the status page entry doesn't have the postmortem and the steps to avoid, but later on those get added.

Being so overconfidently wrong reminds me of an LLM.
by antonchekhov | 2025-09-10 20:03:27+00:00
Back in the early '90s, I was a big fan of the C/C++ debugging library "electric fence" (written by Bruce Perens) - it was a malloc() implementation that used mmap() to set the pages of the returned buffer such that any writes in that region (and even read accesses!) caused a segfault to happen, and the program halts, so you can examine the stack. It was a godsend.
by card_zero | 2025-09-10 20:03:40+00:00
Free to enter since 2001. Which means now they have (more) donation boxes.

My local museum started charging for entry a few years ago, along with a refurbishment, new exhibits, a bigger gift shop and a push to attract more tourists. So now it's horrible. I'm not sure what the unifying mistake is in both models, free entry and ticketed. I think the error might be in trying to serve the public.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-10 20:03:40+00:00
Even in the cases where the ostensibly-good guy with a gun steps in, it's not necessarily a happy ending.

There was a shooting at a protest in SLC in June[0] in which a volunteer working with the group organizing the protest shot and killed an innocent man while trying to hit someone carrying an assault rifle. (Primarily due to a misunderstanding that could have been avoided.) His intentions were good, thinking he was saving people from someone else who had bad intentions.

I was personally about 50 feet away from the incident. It's hard for me to imagine what a good guy with a gun actually does in practice.

0: https://apnews.com/article/salt-lake-city-no-kings-shooting-...
by astrange | 2025-09-10 20:03:49+00:00
It's not difficult to find improvements to LLMs still.

Large issues: tokenizers exist, reasoning models are still next-token-prediction instead of having "internal thoughts", RL post-training destroys model calibration

Small issues: they're all trained to write Python instead of a good language, most of the benchmarks are bad, pretraining doesn't use document metadata (ie they have to learn from each document without being told the URL or that they're written by different people)
by Scoundreller | 2025-09-10 20:03:57+00:00
When they say the recommended hotspot device used for this is cheap, they really are.

The recommended device for the Americas is US$11 (refurbished) on eBay with free US shipping. US$14 for shipping to Canada :(

https://www.ebay.com/itm/276624956523

and brand new units for US$20

There’s another seller with 50 for US$160
by jerf | 2025-09-10 20:03:58+00:00
After some pondering, I've come to consider it a generally positive thing. If I compare watching a 1x video to my reading the transcript, I am reading very much faster than the person can normally speak. Cranking the speed up makes it so the video much more approximates a reading speed. You still don't get as much random access and I can generally still read at a speed where I wouldn't be able to comprehend the speech if it was keeping up, but I think being able to handle increased information density is generally a good thing. It also tends to filter out videos that are just noise and flash and such, because any video tuned for simple tickling our lizard hindbrains at 1x is much less appealing at 2x (because if it was more appealing at 2x, that simply would have been the original speed it was served at).

It is also a side effect of the fact that frankly a lot of stuff on YouTube doesn't actually need to be on YouTube and is, as I mentioned in my first post, really just a podcast with a video track because it has to have a video track to be on YouTube, but that is perfectly ignorable. Even channels as high quality as Practical Engineering are (guestimating) something like 80% stock footage and 20% something he actually created that is useful and germane to the topic.

I often have a hard time dealing with videos at 1x as well but it's not like it has impacted my social relationships or anything. I don't perceive normal people as speaking slowly now or anything like that. Somehow my brain has this segregated, and I phrase it that way because it's not like I can consciously take credit for it, I didn't do anything, it's just happening naturally.
by pas | 2025-09-10 20:03:58+00:00
because we still live in the shadows of those times, unfortunately.

there is at least one very bad quasi-dictatorship in the EU, Hungary, where "protecting the children" is used as the perfect propaganda slogen, but when it comes to holding abusers accountable, things are 240% farcical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Nov%C3%A1k_presidentia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G%C3%A1bor_Kaleta...

and of course Hungary supports this. who would have thought.
by paulnpace | 2025-09-10 20:04:25+00:00
> hmm all of my assumptions have been wildly correct and you are just further confirming it. good stuff my dude. sorry you choose a place like that to live. sounds miserable.

> i'll be sure to wave at the other drivers next time i'm in town in a zoox or waymo and then go back to doing literally anything else than driving.

You will remain free to be self-righteous.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-10 20:05:29+00:00
Nice. there's also a project [0] that uses the RP2040 to talk I2C and present it as USB HID, created in service of the beepberry [1]. Now that I think of it tho this could be made into a very miniature home theater PC remote, a la the Logitech DiNovo

[0] https://github.com/TheMediocritist/beepy_rp2040

[1] https://blog.beeper.com/2023/05/16/beeper-x-sqmfi-beepberry/

[2] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/546865-REG/Logitech_9...
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 20:05:36+00:00
> The philosophy of preservation runs deep and you won't struggle to find curators whose favourite day of the week is when the museum is closed to the public.

Which gets back to the question - why does/should the public support a museum. If we can't see it why are we keeping it? Even with our best preservation things will be destroyed over/with time, some things quicker than others. So if people don't get to see it what is the point of preserving it.

Museum backrooms are filled with things that they can't afford to preserve/restore, and so they are slowly being lost without anyone even able to see them in the mean time. Curators hate this reality, but they have to priorities the important things. I want things they can never preserve anyway sold the highest bidder, at least that way one person can enjoy it, we can use the proceeds to preserve something else. Plus part of the value to a rich person is showing off so there is a better chance someone will see it. (if there is no bigger that proves we don't value it. Even if future society would it won't make it to them anyway so may as well trash it now and stop pretending)
by itsoktocry | 2025-09-10 20:05:40+00:00
>I beg to differ. First, you made a very clear judgement in your wording;

Case in point. You "beg to differ" because you read incorrectly into everything.

I said they looked convenient to the last administration, which Trump said himself. I even added "baselessy?" as in, "maybe it was baseless? I don't know".

Think about what you're saying here. I TOLD you "I'm not making a judgment", and you say "Ahcktually..". You can spare me the moral lecture.

>But you made no separation between trumps words and yours.

Huh? How poor is your comprehension that you would require this?

>This sentence is more dangerous to me than the current administration.

This is an actual sanity test. If you think the sentence I wrote is more "dangerous" than anything you are, indeed, way off-kilter.
by xpe | 2025-09-10 20:05:41+00:00
Is the above comment a genuine question? I’m concerned it’s a rhetorical question that isn’t really getting to the heart of the matter; namely, what is the empirical performance? One’s ability to explain said performance doesn’t always keep up.

How about we pick an LLM evaluation and get specific? They have strengths and weaknesses. Some do outperform humans in certain areas.

Often I see people latching on to some reason that “proves” to them “LLMs cannot do X”. Stop and think about how powerful such a claim has to be. Such claims are masquerading as impossibility proofs.

Cognitive dissonance is a powerful force. Hold your claims lightly.

There are often misunderstandings here on HN about the kinds of things transformer based models can learn. Many people use the phrase “stochastic parrots” derisively; most of the time I think these folks are getting it badly wrong. A careful reading of the original paper is essential, not to mention follow up work.
by ok1984 | 2025-09-10 20:05:54+00:00
Personally it impacted me in a way that I have lost faith in humanity.

Everybody talks, but no body cares, no body takes serious actions. Kids, women, elderly, whole families are being killed for almost two years and no body gives a shit.

Millions of people trapped in a land and moved from north to south from south to north like animals, have you seen videos of starving people running in masses to get food from aids thrown from the air? I can’t beilieve such things are happening in 2025! Sometimes I think, what would I do if I was put under such circumstances? How much hate would I accumulate? What if something happens to my kids? What if I see my kids starving in front of me and I can do nothing about it?

Also big companies, they only care about money, ethics and morale do not exist, they only care about money money and more money.

Countries fighting for women rights in Iran and Saudi (which I agree with) but at the same time, those same countries don’t say anything about the killing of innocent people, pure hypocrites.
by mclanett | 2025-09-10 20:06:02+00:00
Did not load, sad.

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT ^ I'm not exactly sure what this is about. I think it is https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vcd15cbe... which I would imagine is probably not necessary.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object at Object.keys (<anonymous>) at review/?pr_identifier=xxx/xxx/1974:43:12

These urls seem to be kind of revealing.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-10 20:06:16+00:00
As a parent, I agree 100% with the sentiments expressed by the author.

But even judging digital exhibits on their own merits, I have yet to see one in a museum (or similar location) that was actually "wow" or that really captured my kids' attention or sparked any discussion (like other "real" stuff we saw). Most were, as my 9 year old would say, "mid" (==crappy in genAlpha speak). Very blah. Very low effort, and sometimes didn't even work properly. Think of your typical crappy software experience that just barely works.

The places that do have physical hands-on exhibits do catch my kids' attention, and we return multiple times. For example, one has a lab where you can do chemistry experiments (which they rotate) -- 100x better than doing some digital simulation (which 1) is very quickly boring, and 2) I'll just do it at home and we can close the museum (sad).
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-10 20:06:30+00:00
I agree that they don’t necessarily view it as a mellowing of their position, but as a matter of policy the net effect is the same.

All my life I’ve heard conservative talk radio types (and more recently, conservative influencers) chant “shall not be infringed” as a mantra and oppose any restrictions whatsoever (at least, post-Reagan; see the comment down-thread). That old state of affairs has subtly changed.
by SantalBlush | 2025-09-10 20:06:58+00:00
It could be stable in the US. The basic idea behind Keynesian economics is: during contractions, decrease taxes and increase spending; during expansions, increase taxes and decrease spending. Doing this helps smooth out business cycles, promotes steady growth, and collects revenue for the government.

The problem is, as we've seen, our government is cutting taxes and raising spending no matter where we are in the business cycle. That's a very easy problem to solve, if there is the political will, but right now, there isn't.
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-10 20:07:54+00:00
Nah.

Print debugging optimizes for timing detail and fidelity.

Debuggers optimize for data detail, at the expense of timing detail and fidelity.

In my opinion - timing & order of events is actually more meaningful.

I often don't need the extra data detail, and the debugger is going to change timing in meaningful ways.

Both are skills - both have their place. Know when logs are useful, know when debuggers are useful. Don't get stuck in the fallacy of "The one true way!" - that's the only thing I can promise is bullshit.

If you've never debugged a problem that goes away when a debugger is attached - you're woefully unprepared to have this conversation (It's much rarer, but I can even talk about times where adding a single print line was enough to change timing and make the issue harder to reproduce).

At the very least - with prints you get a tangible record of the order of operations during a reproduction. It doesn't go away, I don't have to remember how many times I've hit continue, I don't have to worry about whether pausing at this breakpoint is changing the world (and it is, because other things keep chugging - the network doesn't give a fuck that you're paused at a break point).
by comprev | 2025-09-10 20:08:08+00:00
Where I live tech is one of the few careers which puts [senior] salaried devs in the top 1% of earners when I look at my income bracket in the annual county stats published by the Government. At a regional level it puts me in top 5%.

This of course all relative geographically but we're certainly very well compensated compared to other industries.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-10 20:08:27+00:00
It's funny how after using an app like ssh/awk/sed/grep for so many years and achieving so much functionality with it with some pretty "advanced" features is still but a scratch on the surface of actual abilities or what other people do with them. I'd wear it like a badge of honor if I ever created something so useful and universally used. To the point, I'd probably even use my initials in the name of the app too!
by strnisa | 2025-09-10 20:08:33+00:00
Yes, Small Transfers is the merchant of record for the card charge. We transfer only funds actually received to the merchant's Stripe account; we don't advance funds. As per the Terms (§1 "Transfer" and §5.6 "Non-Payment"), chargebacks/reversals are net-deducted from future transfers, so the seller bears non-payment risk.

Details: https://smalltransfers.com/terms
by edent | 2025-09-10 20:10:10+00:00
It isn't that email is taboo. It is that it is effort.

I have to go to my email program. Download the patch. Upload it. And then, if I want some changes, have to copy-and-paste stuff into a reply. Then repeat.

That's more effort than clicking "review" on a hosted git service.

A theoretical future service could use email under the hood to send messages back-and-forth between instances. But that's just an implementation detail.
by zenlot | 2025-09-10 20:10:42+00:00
Delphi is still great, even though the usage declined and not many people, especially newcomers know about it (or C++ Builder).

It is still probably the best drag and drop experience for UI components, with Qt Creator being a runner up.

A bit shame, as most likely the popularity declined due to draconial licencing model at the time. Now they have Delphi Community edition, which is free.

If you have some free time, try it, you won't regret it. Especially good for hobby projects.
by 0xTJ | 2025-09-10 20:11:15+00:00
> For my part of the conversation, I think what I'm implying is we might get better outcomes if we paid teachers more.

That is not at all the impression that I got reading your original comment. It seemed (and continues to seem, on a second reading), that you disagree with further funding education, because there's no point, high schools "just" day care for teenagers.

Please consider that, just because someone doesn't bother to reply to you, it doesn't mean that you're right. They may simply see no point in arguing with some stranger with whom they'll hopefully never have to interact. With this follow-up comment, it seems to me that your actual opinions are significantly different from both the words and tone in your initial message. That isn't helped by the notes about downvotes without comments (and the Latin snark in the edit).
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-10 20:11:26+00:00
You're probably right, I hadn't considered the volume of mail being sent within institutions that might host their own mailservers, so maybe we should say more than like 50-60%.

Is it still a good example of federation though if a vast majority (99%?) of mails between such institutions or outside of orgs large enough to have a campus, tend to go through Microsoft/Google/Apple/Amazon?
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-10 20:11:45+00:00
Oh LOL I didn't even notice that on the first link, yeah I guess they're just obscuring it for the logo. IRL it is a non pixelated keyboard xD

FWIW the project hit a wall and they didn't deliver the quantity they planned on, I ended up buying one on ebay for an extortionate cost (but buying rare electronics scratches an itch for me) - digging in the discords lead to discover an offshoot project that made some progress at a recent chaos comms congress, called Beepis

https://bbkb-community.github.io/computers/beepis/
by tkiolp4 | 2025-09-10 20:12:02+00:00
I use AI at work, and certainly I’m doing less deep thinking over time. But at home, on side projects I still do it the traditional way. This is because I enjoy the process of thinking (rather than shipping. I actually never shipped any side project).

I guess I’m lucky, deep thinking (on interesting things at home) is a hobby so I feel less encouraged to automate that away. I never cared about my jobs, so as long as I bring home money, it’s fine.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-09-10 20:12:45+00:00
Any link list, or domain list is not worth much without any rating, or meta. I lead a hobby project, and I am not expert, so I provide ratings based on what kind of data pages provide (title, social, description), and my own manual voting system. It is not ideal, but it is something. Also I provide tags, so it is easily known what the domain provides, or domains can be filtered by tags.

I know that you cannot count and visit every domain, so the list will never be finished, but I am happy with the results.
by HaZeust | 2025-09-10 20:13:40+00:00
It genuinely comes down to an American belief that "the individual is the primary unit" and must be equipped with tools to secure his safety, security, and well-being through his own actions. ALL of the idealogues around gun ownership loop around this single virtue. To take several examples:

- "When seconds matter, police take minutes"

- "Guns are the last line of defense against tyranny"

- "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"

- "Your home, your property, and your family must be your right to protect"
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-10 20:14:11+00:00
My position is that guns should be strictly regulated and traffic as well to achieve zero traffic deaths ("Vision Zero"). Alternatively, the US could look into what gun culture difference they have to Switzerland, because the Swiss have amongst the most liberal gun laws of Europe but are pretty average amongst European countries when it comes to gun violence.

Kirk's position was to have guns as unregulated as possible, so I pretty much DGAF when the consequences of his position come home to roost.
by johnea | 2025-09-10 20:15:45+00:00
When my son was about 5 years old, I set up a linux computer for him.

I used a very basic floating window manager and created about 6 or 10 large desktop icons to run the things I had installed for him (Hyperspace Delivery Boy was a favorite 8-)

One icon started a script which launched the media player in a specific directory.

I highly recommend giving (very young) kids exposure to a wide variety of desktop user interfaces. Failure to do this has led to an entire generation (2 or 3?) of windoze based computer illiteracy.

Computers really aren't all about right-clicking that thing that looks like a pineapple, then selecting Settings, etc...