MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hatefulmoron | 2025-09-03 16:27:02+00:00
It does say something that the models simultaneously:

a) "know" that they're not able to do it for the reason you've outlined (as in, you can ask about the limitations of LLMs for counting letters in words)

b) still blindly engage with the query and get the wrong answer, with no disclaimer or commentary.

If you asked me how many atoms there are in a chair, I wouldn't just give you a large natural number with no commentary.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-03 16:27:41+00:00
> If news on the web was journalism instead of attention seeking for ad revenue you’d be right.

That’s painting with an overly broad brush. Nevertheless, the news was relying on ads long before most people knew the word “Internet”, but there were far fewer channels to place ads back then, so in some respects news and media organizations had a captive audience in advertisers.

Mass adoption of television was effectively made possible because of advertising money.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-03 16:27:53+00:00
Since the inside dimensions and mounting rails are standard, there's lots of different compatible inserts you can get.

I cheapened out a bit at that point and went with double-height plastic drawers:

https://mero.ng/i/RixswvHW.jpg

Drawers generally come in single/double and plastic or aviation-grade welded alu.

There's also a bunch of funky stuff like cages to keep hot bread in for serving, and an after-market of "galley trolleys as designer furniture" companies that turn them into minibars with wine chillers and bottle storage and what not.
by Muromec | 2025-09-03 16:28:04+00:00
Another pain in the ass is the fact web components are registered globally. Good luck marrying this with npm dependency hell where two transitive dependencies both import a button.

The good part of react and friends is it's just javascript and the class is imported and referenced normally, not with a weak string-binding-through-registry kind of way.

Now add types to the mix and shadow dom and it brings constant problems without any upside.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-09-03 16:28:28+00:00
My guess: their shaders or text rendering don't account for sub-pixel anti-aliasing, which is critical to getting decent text rendering on low pixel density displays.

If they'd used Skia (which is what Electron and Chromium use), they would've got this for free. Instead they tried to reinvent the world and didn't realise how big the world was.
by jodrellblank | 2025-09-03 16:29:04+00:00
> I genuinely want to know what is wrong with it ... when I can be bothered.

https://odin-lang.org/community/ - here's the forum, the IRC channel, the Discord invite, the subReddit link, or you could have commented in GitHub in the PR while you were looking at it.

All of these would be less effort than the comments you've made here in this thread, instead you've taken a second hand grudge and used it to give a small project a good kicking based on an exchange you haven't linked here for any reader here to form a judgement about, for reasons you don't understand and can't be bothered to find out, and then accused people of being bots and astroturfing. [I have followed two of Karl Zylinski's videos in Odin last winter; I have not used Odin in months. I have no stake in Odin].

How is that reasonable behaviour, a useful HN comment for HN readers, fair to GingerBill / Odin, or a step towards getting you the information you "genuinely want to know"?
by jfengel | 2025-09-03 16:29:18+00:00
I've heard more than one Brit describe him as a national treasure.

I've wanted his job so badly that I've thought about starting a podcast to get it. He interviews four academics every week, on every conceivable subject. The people he talks to are incredibly well informed, and he does a masterful job of keeping the conversation on track. He's always sincerely interested, no matter how abstruse the material.
by gerardothr | 2025-09-03 16:29:47+00:00
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by nullbyte808 | 2025-09-03 16:29:53+00:00
I was thinking the samething about subway. Ideally everyone would just order a sandwich online and by the time they arrive its ready to go. You scan a QR code(or enter a code) and your sandwhich pops out of hole. Having the option to make or in front of you slows down production and is awkward talking over fans and such.
by cestith | 2025-09-03 16:30:03+00:00
Did you have grandparents who lived through the Great Depression? Were your great grandparents adults during that? Mine were. My parents also both grew up fairly poor, partly in single-mother homes with multiple siblings. The guilt about wasting things, especially food, can be very real in North America.

Maybe your generation or your family's economic class is just very different from mine.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-03 16:30:21+00:00
Yup, mine were 650 EUR a piece new with the drawers shown in the other comment from https://trolley-dolly.de/ (one of several shops I found), though it looks like they now stopped with trolley+drawers bundles.

I was looking at the used market at first, but it turns out that a lot of those are enthusiast collectibles and don't seem to be cheaper than new ones when in good condition, i.e. airline branding bumps the price up, sometimes considerably.

It's obviously all >IKEA, but if you compare this to stuff like Lista office drawers or automotive workshop trolleys it's maybe half, and much closer to the pricing of lower-end stuff from a big brand chain toolstore--but with higher build quality, superior rigidity, better wheels and brakes, and being lighter to move around since the application is weight-conscious. Add the subjective neat-ness factor and I think it's worthy of consideration :)
by bityard | 2025-09-03 16:30:24+00:00
I love SomaFM so much. Been a listener for around 20 years, maybe a bit longer. Nice surprise to see this posted today, it must be fate that I happened to wearing my Soma FM t-shirt to work.

ETA: Other stations I listen to sometimes (that have web sites anyway):

https://www.friskyradio.com

https://www.protonradio.com
by mythz | 2025-09-03 16:31:01+00:00
I mostly use neovim for editing files remotely and have come to miss AI Autocomplete but was pleasantly surprised to find my preferred AI IDE Tool also maintains a Neovim plugin [1]. Not as many features as its VS Code and Intellij/Rider plugins, but its core autocomplete is a major productivity win.

[1]: https://github.com/augmentcode/augment.vim
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-03 16:31:08+00:00
Yeah, I had the pump on my washing machine go out. I called the repair guy, he said there was nothing to fix, it just needed a new pump. He told me he could do it for $X (on top of the call-out fee), but it wasn't that hard and I could find the replacement pump online for ~1/3X and do it myself. I did that and it took 20 minutes. We will definitely be using that repair company in the future for anything that isn't immediately obviously trivial
by imiric | 2025-09-03 16:32:13+00:00
I skimmed through your blog posts, and the WICG proposal, and my main objection to it is making it depend on JavaScript.

There are plenty of ways HTML templating can be done already using JavaScript. The simplest approach of using tagged template literals, as you mention, doesn't even require external dependencies.

The problem with this approach is that it makes JavaScript a requirement for all but static sites, and those doing templating on the server. This shouldn't be the case.

The web as a platform should be flexible, and provide tools to build maintainable web sites and applications without forcing developers and users to depend on a specific runtime. JS should be an optional dependency, just like CSS is today. Even HTML should be optional, as Web Assembly gains traction, and the web browser becomes a software delivery platform.

Furthermore, making what should be a core HTML feature depend on JS is a colossal violation of separation of concerns. HTML modules should be a standalone feature, and we should be able to define a tree of HTML modules, import modules, reuse them, and so on. That should be the core groundwork on top of which templating is built on.

We've had Server-Side Includes and XSLT since the 90s, yet HTML templating should depend on JS? That's just silly.

Besides, there's a strong argument to be made for minimizing logic in templates or avoiding it altogether. Mustache and Handlebars have shown that this can work simply and elegantly. Whenever I see JS inside HTML attributes, I curse whoever came up with the idea. It's awful for legibility, maintainability, and plain sanity.

HTML can be a lot more capable without having to depend on JS. I think the discussion to drive this implementation forward would be well served by first principles thinking, instead of being inspired by modern web frameworks and JavaScript features.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-03 16:32:28+00:00
Having started my career in 1999 (and if you could spell C++, you were pretty well guaranteed at job at a good salary), I remember two things...

- 2000-20001 - "small" recession, along with the dot-com bubble bursting. Lasted through 2003 or so, though the bulk of job loss (across industries) was 2001 into 2002.

- 2008-2010 - housing market collapse - world-wide impact. Most of us probably remember that period. It as brutal for everybody, not just STEM grads. Too big to fail and all that hocus-pocus.

I was RIF'ed in Dec 2001, took a few months to find a job I wanted, but wasn't all that bad given I was pretty darn junior at the time.
by hassadyb | 2025-09-03 16:32:34+00:00
I’ve always thought that to succeed in life, I just had to be good at the technical and knowledge part. That’s why I’ve always given top priority to my studies and learning new skills. I went to Université Ibn Zohr for 5 years, earned a two-year degree in physics, learned graphic design, and landed an internship with AJICOD. At the same time, I worked as an English telemarketer with H A Modern Homes to cover university costs.

Then, in 2022, I had an amazing chance to join the best IT school in Morocco-yes, 1337 Coding School-the perfect place where I honed my technical skills. After that, I landed an internship with OCP Maintenance Solutions. And throughout all this time, I was focused only on learning. I thought I just had to be good at the technical side, which is why I didn’t spend much time on networking, events, or social media.

In my free time, I consumed an insane amount of books on self-improvement, marketing, sales, startups, business, and productivity. On top of that, I listened to countless podcasts on self-improvement, business, startups, psychology, and more.

Guess what? I was wrong. All those years, I knew I was missing something. I had always heard and read about the power of personal branding, networking, and how social media can scale anything you do and set you apart. I always knew that people prefer dealing with people, not logos, and how the economy of influence is growing. And I probably know what you’d say if I asked you to name an electric car company.

I guess I was just comfortable not putting effort into networking or growing my social presence.

So, after all those years, I can certainly say that one call may save you months of hard work, one network can save you years of effort, time, and energy, and an ordinary product can crush an amazing product if the first one is backed by powerful personal branding.

I can also say that whatever you are searching for-whether it’s an internship, job opportunity, investment, partnership, or a customer-you should know that in another world, you might just need one call. Yes, one simple call can get you what you need. And you’re probably struggling now because the person you should call or text isn’t in your contact list.

You should know that no one will understand your value if you don’t market it. Marketing yourself is not an option-it’s a necessity.

You should also know that people are not posting on social media for no reason. And if you’re asking whether it’s worth it, I’ll say this: if you don’t have a digital presence, you are almost invisible. It’s never too late to play this game, and I probably don’t need to tell you how.
Ask HN: My friend says he has an AI optimized language
by samweb3 | 2025-09-03 16:32:53+00:00
A friend built https://memelang.net/08/ which claims "Memelang is an AI-optimized query language that significantly reduces token count and model size for LLM RAG. Copy-and-paste the Python spec below into your LLM."

Is it possible that this language would make AI agents better at retrieving data either in terms of cost or accuracy? For example, might an AI Agent calling tools be more efficient than just using standard SQL or similar? How would you design a test or set of tests to figure out the benefits?

I would like to help him prove the cost or accuracy benefits. Thank you for any advice!
by harmmonica | 2025-09-03 16:32:54+00:00
I totally share your concern, but I think there's reason for hope assuming it's not Terminator-style AGI that destroys the world (bigger problems than unemployment in that case). Specific to your scenario, it seems like companies are laying people off today in the name of AI efficiency gains (that in itself is debatable, but let's assume that is why they're doing it--they think they can do the same if not more with less). But if you play out those same efficiency gains companies that are in growth mode ought to be able to use those efficiency gains to accelerate product development. So instead of laying people off, companies will be able to build product that much faster because their employees, and engineers in particular, can move so much more quickly. We're so early, though, and c-suite folks are so myopic that the troops haven't yet had time to show them that revenue growth is the real prize of AI/LLM's (and believe me it's always the some troops that show them the way).

On a larger level, I would just ask your fictitious medium-level engineer what are they able to do today, with an AI/LLM, that they were unable to do before? As a very basic example, and one that is already true with existing LLM's, a mid-level engineer who wanted to build an app might've formerly struggled with building a UI for their app. Now, sans designer, a mid-level engineer can spin up an app UI much more quickly, and without the labor of finding and actually paying a designer. That's not to say there's no value left in design, but if you're starting out it's similar to how bootstrap (dating myself here) was an enabler because you were no longer in need of a designer to build a website (was still a huge time suck and pain in the ass though). You can multiple that by a bunch of roles and tasks today because LLM's make it possible to do things you just formerly wouldn't have been able to do on your own.

Last thing is the much more high level. Every time some new tech is introduced there's a lot of concern about displacement. I think, again, that's valid and perhaps moreso with AI. But it does seem to me like major new tech always seems to create a lot of opportunity. It might not be for the exact same people like your mid-level engineer (although I think it might for him/her), but I stay hopeful that the amount of opportunity created will offset the amount of suffering it will cause. And I don't say that in some kind of "suffering is ok" way, but just like revenue growth is the be all end all for so many companies, tech brings change and some suffering is a part of that. Prior skills become less important, new skills are preferred. Some folks adapt. Others thrive. Some are left behind.

If you're still checking in on this thread, and you actually read my diatribe, do you think I'm totally full of it? Again, I don't know that I would bet it would work out this way. Actually I probably would bet on that. But I'm definitely hopeful it will.
by qwertox | 2025-09-03 16:33:34+00:00
I have my Pixel 3 magnetically attached to my keyboard, to the left side, next to the tab, caps lock and other keys. It displays a webpage of a grid of buttons which do things when I press them, like inject the current timestamp at the cursor position, toggle my monitors on and off, launch certain apps.

Because I wanted an Elgato Stream Deck but then thought that I have this unused phone.
Ask HN: How to get the most out of Hacker News?
by keepamovin | 2025-09-03 16:33:52+00:00
I think this is an interesting place to find unique articles and news. Sometimes for an insightful or well written post. At times for a laugh or good joke. And sometimes to discover some hot new (or new to me) product, or amazing creator, or good person.

I also find a lot of the articles boring, and not interesting, nor worth a read. This happens often. Ditto the threads. I can’t classify my interests into categories or keywords, so RSS is wrong.

Does anyone else feel this way? This is already a high signal place, how do you increase that and maybe tune it specifically for you?
by jerlam | 2025-09-03 16:33:59+00:00
It looks gigantic in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNINfyNukKs&t=1425s

A 7.3" display, even ignoring the "chin", makes it bigger than most Kindles and big phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra or iPhone 16 Pro Max.
by chipotle_coyote | 2025-09-03 16:34:01+00:00
The parent post saying they “cost a bit higher” is, AFAICT, understating it a wee bit. LG’s consumer 65-inch 4K OLED TVs run between $1200 and $2500 at retail, from a quick search; the 65-inch 4K OLED “professional monitor” linked on that page—e.g., the one that’s closest to an actual TV—retails for around $8000 at B&H. The cheapest OLED commercial TV I could find at b&H was a 55” LG for $3K…and as far as I can tell it’s really just a Smart TV, complete with all internet connectivity, for twice the price because it has the word “commercial” in its name.
by ZpJuUuNaQ5 | 2025-09-03 16:34:14+00:00
I am sure Zed is great and I appreciate the effort put in to create it, but nowadays I just cannot imagine switching from VSCode to something else. In my limited understanding, none of the existing alternatives offer anything (and often misses at least something) truly innovative or anything else that VSCode extension wouldn't solve. On VSCode I have about 15 different profiles setup, each with different settings and dozens of extensions based on either a technology stack or a project - it would be really difficult to find a good reason to throw it all away. The idea of switching between IDEs does not appeal to me either. I do use Neovim a little bit too, but most of that usage time was spent on configuration.
by danialasif | 2025-09-03 16:34:17+00:00
That is great feedback, and agreed that LLMs definitely have generic outputs, especially if missing the right context. To combat this, we're actively working on playing with which data we can pull, how to cleanly give it to an LLM and which models to use to improve the inference (while staying within the compliance boundaries).

We've found the "chat" functionality to be especially useful for advisors since we've been able to surface insights to them without them having to log onto many different systems and just present it in a clean output, as you pointed out.
by tguvot | 2025-09-03 16:34:33+00:00
this is the atlantic article from 1961 about unrwa camps. journalist went to visit them in lebanon, gaza and then went to visit arabs that remained in israel.

there are many interesting things in this article, but one of the most interesting it's that back than in unrwa schools was taught that all land was stolen and that they will liberate it by force.

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1961/10/208-4/132...
by Peritract | 2025-09-03 16:34:38+00:00
It's not a critique of LLMs, but it is a reason to be wary of the claim that it really helps you learn.

We have the idea of 'tutorial hell' for programming (particularly gamedev), where people go through the motions of learning without actually progressing.

Until you go apply the skills and check, it's hard to evaluate the effectiveness of a learning method.
by kadoban | 2025-09-03 16:34:53+00:00
There's a lot of money and effort spent in satisfying the sexual desires of (predominantly straight) men. There's not typically quite as much interest in doing the same for women.

For example I've been looking at models and loras for generating images, and the boards are _full_ of ones that will generate women well or in some particular style. Quite often at least a couple of the preview images for each are hidden behind a button because they contain nudity. Clearly the intent is that they are at least able to generate porn containing women. There's a small handful that are focused on men and they're very aware of it, they all have notes lampshading how oddball they are to even exist.

I would expect that this is not as pronounced an effect in the world generating speech, but it must still exist.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-03 16:35:00+00:00
Keycloak, most likely. We have experience with it.

Fastmail’s calendar invitation support is solid in my experience. And they support access via standard protocols. That is very quickly disappearing with Microsoft 365.

We never used Teams. Once we had the option to switch to non-Teams 365 licenses we did that almost immediately. We used to use Slack, but saw the writing on the wall when Salesforce acquired it, moved to Mattermost in Kubernetes, then Mattermost Cloud’s paid tier when it launched. When Mattermost evicted non-enterprise licenses from their cloud service we never replaced it. Turns out, we don’t really need an internal chat/conferencing app. We’re a few guys within a half hour of each other. If we need to, we hop on a call, send an email, or send a text to schedule a in-person meeting.