MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SatvikBeri | 2025-09-02 23:39:32+00:00
It really depends on the project. For example, there's a lot of thorny devops debugging where I can just let Claude spin for 30 minutes and it'll solve the problem (or fail) with a relatively short final answer.

The sweet spot for me tends to be running one of these slower projects on a worktree in the background, and one more active coding project.
by tonymet | 2025-09-02 23:39:49+00:00
async only helps with io-wait concurrency, but not cpu-bound concurrency.

async is popular in JS because the browser is often waiting on many requests.

command-line tools are commonly computing something. even grep has to process the pattern matching so concurrent IO doesn't help a single-threaded pattern match.

Sure there are applications where async would help a CLI app, but there are fewer than JS.

Plus JS devs love rewriting code very 3 months.
by nkurz | 2025-09-02 23:40:13+00:00
> By the way, a pet peeve of mine right now is that reporters covering court cases (and we have so many of public interest lately) never seem to simply paste the link to the online PDF decision/ruling for us all to read, right in the story.

I have the same peeve, but to give credit where it is due, I've happily noticed that Politico has lately been doing a good job of linking the actual decisions. I just checked for this story, and indeed the document you suggest is linked from the second paragraph: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/02/google-dodges-a-2-5...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-02 23:40:19+00:00
I forget the details, but one example that I recall is that it turned out that the search team pushed the Chrome team to make changes to the addressbar search functionality to drive more search traffic. Arguably another is how signing into any Google service also signs the browser into that account, as well as Chrome on Android never supporting extensions of any kind (and thus, not supporting adblockers).
by dmacvicar | 2025-09-02 23:40:43+00:00
I upgraded from a Pixel 4a (running Calyxos) to a 8a, only because at some point Whatsapp videos broke on the 4a and friends got videos with some green encoding. Otherwise, I had no reason to upgrade.

I hate my new phone. I could use the 4a with one hand comfortably, but that is not the case with the 8a. My thumb does not reach the top of the screen like before. I have to hold it in diagonal position just to be able to do the gestures Android -by design- expects.

The fingerprint sensor moved from the back to the front. That design helped having the phone in the right direction when taking it out of my pocket. Now it comes half of the time upside down. The fingerprint sensor is bad. Half of the time does not work and I have to use the pin. On the 4a was flawless.

Camera is better. Yes.
by alisonatwork | 2025-09-02 23:41:10+00:00
This exact same story pretty much happened to me when I moved to Canada about 15 years ago. I wasn't able to get a credit card for years, and couldn't rent an apartment without a guarantor, despite the fact that I was full-time employed in the tech industry, had zero debt, plenty of savings etc.

What I took from the experience (especially after going through various iterations of it in several other countries) is that most communities are biased against migrants/newcomers. Egalitarianism would be nice, but in practice nepotism and chauvinism are encoded in policy.
by x0x0 | 2025-09-02 23:41:59+00:00
While I'd love to see google harshly penalized, nobody has proposed an answer that doesn't end with the destruction of essentially the world's only browser. Or it's sale to extremely sketchy people, which I guess also ends in destruction plus with OpenAI or whomever buys it hoovering up as much personal data as they can.

So I get not liking this answer, but I haven't heard a better one.
by contingencies | 2025-09-02 23:42:03+00:00
I've found it's quite good for Aussie plants, although you do need to have the right photographs for the organism type in question. Generally you want close-ups of flowers, leaves and seedpods, bark and general whole-plant images for flowering plants. If you just provide a whole-plant image it will often fail, this is presumably partly because without details they look too similar, and partly because they reduce the resolution to 2048 pixels maximum before storing it for evaluation. Relatively speaking it currently sucks for grasses, some plants and ferns, many fungi, and almost all insects.
by unsignedint | 2025-09-02 23:42:03+00:00
The whole “the staff ate it later” routine is really just a symptom of a broader intolerance in Japanese media. After years of getting complaints over the most innocuous things, Japanese TV shows have started slapping disclaimers on everything, even the most trivial situations.

You see it everywhere: statements like “this is just one of many possible hypotheses” to appease people who might disagree, though to be fair, Western media sometimes include similar disclaimers, or “this was filmed with the owner’s permission” even when it is not really necessary. Then there is the excessive blurring—if someone with even a minor scandal appears, they are edited out or blurred, and a message like “this was recorded on MM-DD” pops up, all to avoid viewers asking, “Why is this person on TV?”

Of course, I understand the need for disclaimers in situations that really warrant them, such as scientific experiments that require proper oversight. But the disclaimers added just to dodge silly complaints do nothing but infantilize viewers, and honestly, they are kind of insulting.

Ultimately, this is part of a bigger problem with Japanese TV. It has dumbed itself down to the lowest common denominator, pandering to the most vocal complainers who often lack basic critical thinking skills. This is not unique to TV, either; Japanese businesses in general have long been hypersensitive to the “customer is always right” mindset. Thankfully, there is some pushback against that now. Still, TV is especially vulnerable since broadcasters get access to public airwaves at relatively low cost and are expected to act like a public utility, making them an easy target for complaints.

Ironically, all of this is helping drive younger generations away from TV, not just as a medium, but because the shows themselves feel less and less relevant.
by ambicapter | 2025-09-02 23:42:13+00:00
Obviously I'm an AI-tools skeptic, but this is hilarious:

> 1. Prepare issues with sufficient context

> Start by ensuring each GitHub issue contains enough context for agents to understand what needs to be built and how it integrates with the system. This might include details about feature behavior, file locations, database structure, or specific requirements such as displaying certain fields or handling edge cases.

> You can’t do half-hearted prompts and fix as you go, because those fixes come an hour later.

> Skills That Become More Important > Full-stack understanding > Problem decomposition > Good writting skills > QA and Code Review skills

This is just software engineering?!?

edit: On the other hand, maybe I can convince people in my org to get better at software engineering by telling them its for the AI to work better.
by benjiro | 2025-09-02 23:42:19+00:00
Ironic part ... LLM are very good as solving CAPTCHA's. So the only people bothered by those same CAPTCHA's are the actual site visitors.

What sites need to do is temp block repeat request from the same IPs. Sure, some agents use 10.000's of IP's but if they are really so aggressive as people state, your going to run into the same IP's way more often then normal users.

That will kick out the over aggressive guys. I have done web scraping and limited it to around 1r/s. You never run into any blocking or detection that way because you hardly show up. But when you have some *** that send 1000's off parallel request down a website, because they never figured out query builders for large page hits. And do not know how to build checks to see from last-update pages.

One of the main issues i see, is some people simply write the most basic of basic scrapers. See link, follow, spawn process, scrap, see 100 more links ... Updates? Just rescrap website, repeat, repeat... Because it takes time to make a scrap template for each website, that knows where to check for updated. So some never bother.
by eyberg | 2025-09-02 23:42:24+00:00
There are a few ways to approach this. If you don't mind owning the orchestration layer this is precisely what firecracker does.

If you don't even want to pay for that though scheduling unikernels on something like ec2 gets you your full vm, is cheaper, has more resources than lambda and doesn't have the various limitations such as no gpu or timeouts or anything like that.
by merlincorey | 2025-09-02 23:43:35+00:00
> on different projects

This seems like an important caveat the author of the article failed to mention when they described this:

> you can have several agents running simultaneously - one building a user interface, another writing API endpoints, and a third creating database schemas.

If these are all in the same project then there has to be some required ordering to it or you get a frontend written to make use of a backend that doesn't have the endpoints used, and you get a backend that makes use of a different database schema than the separately generated database schema.
by leandrosa81 | 2025-09-02 23:43:49+00:00
20 years ago, I used to have a Linux server running Slackware at home, that would wake up the two PCs we had at home to back up their data if they were turned off. If they were already turned on, they would send a WOL packet to the Linux server to turn it on in case the that server was off, and then start the backup routine. And the last one would tell the Linux server to turn-off itself. It used to work really great, good times.
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2025-09-02 23:43:57+00:00
That can only be true if someone else is subsidizing Anthropic's compute. The calculation is simple: Annualized depreciation costs on the AI buildout (hundreds of billions, possibly a trillion invested) are more that the combined total annualized revenue of the inference industry. A more realistic computation of expenses would show the each model line very deeply in the red.
by Jensson | 2025-09-02 23:44:37+00:00
Was US ever a liberal democracy? People had much less liberties in the 1950s than today, with people getting arrested for their political views instead of just deported. not to mention segregation and such.

They even put lawyers defending these politicians in prison for defending them... The constitution doesn't seem to matter since the government apparently don't have to care about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
by adastra22 | 2025-09-02 23:44:53+00:00
I also use Rust with Claude Code, like GP. I do not experience forever loops — Claude converges on a working compiling solution every time. Sometimes the solution is garbage, and many times it gets it to “work” by disabling the test. I have layers of scaffolding (critic agents) that prevent this from being something I have to deal with, most of the time.

But yeah, strongly typed languages, test driven development, and good high quality compiler errors are real game changers for LLM performance. I use Rust for everything now.
by sdesol | 2025-09-02 23:45:29+00:00
It will certainly be interesting to see how businesses evolve in the upcoming years. What is written in stone is, you (employee) will be measured and I am curious to see what developers will be measured by in the future. Will you be at a greater risk of layoffs/lack of promotions/etc. if you spend more on AI? How do you as a developer prove that it is you and not the LLM that should be praised?
by robocat | 2025-09-02 23:45:49+00:00
I would love to agree.

Complex systems can be stable but close to collapse. Individually within we see stability and presume everything is fine while laughing at preppers. After a crash we can see all the signs that were there, and we retcon stories about crashes.

Complex systems seem to crash suddenly once a point of criticality is teetered over, where causes and effects that feed on each other driving the crash harder (positive feedback is not positive).

We retroactively create stories about dependencies (Archduke Franz Ferdinand).

Watching systems come back up after a shock is also weird (earthquake in my hometown Christchurch was a spectacular example of recovery).

Trying to diagnose how modern financial crises occurred is eye-opening.
by meerab | 2025-09-02 23:45:59+00:00
I am working on VideoToBe.com - and my stack is NextJS, Postgresql and FastAPI.

Claude code is amazing at producing code for this stack. It does excellent job at outputting ffmpeg, curl commands, linux shell script etc.

I have written detailed project plan and feature plan in MarkDown - and Claude has no trouble understanding the instructions.

I am curious - what is your usecase?
by shmerl | 2025-09-02 23:46:17+00:00
Well, see here: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10374

I'm pretty sure a lot of this stuff are arbitrary decisions that sites make when they implement passkey support and you never know where it will work. Also some sites likely don't care about fixing it since they think they deliberately are "improving security" or they just don't care. So I'd say it's an ugly mess. I wish it would work though.
by bongodongobob | 2025-09-02 23:46:49+00:00
Depends on the culture. I worked at a place that did $100 million in sales a year and if the cost was less than $5k for something we needed, management said just fuckin do it, don't even ask. I also worked at a place that did $2 billion a year and they required multi-level approval for MS project pro licenses. All depends.

Edit: Why is this downvoted? Different corp cultures have different ideas about what is worthwhile. Some places value innovation and experimentation and some places don't.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-09-02 23:48:17+00:00
To each their own, I come from the land of dynamic typing and writing down types is the bane of my existence, especially when they can be inferred.

2. Type annotations are always on on VScode for rust in places they are omitted. There must be a setting in your editor to show you the types without highlighting. It might take a bit to load at startup though.
by arthurjj | 2025-09-02 23:48:54+00:00
This article reminds me of those silly "Capitalism is the real super intelligent AI" or "is a burrito a sandwich" arguments from a few years ago. Saying a "system with the explicit goal of the government judging legal behavior to try and change it and punish you if you don't" is the same thing as "private entities deciding on how or even if they want to interact with you" is just stretching the definition too far to be taken seriously. By that argument me deciding I don't want to read more by this author is a social credit system.

>Your Uber rating doesn't affect your mortgage rate, and your LinkedIn engagement doesn't determine your insurance premiums. But the infrastructure is being built to connect these systems. We're building the technical and cultural foundations that could eventually create comprehensive social credit systems.

She doesn't provide any citation for this

> Corporate platforms increasingly share reputation data. Financial services integrate social media analysis into lending decisions

Again she doesn't provide any citation for this, but more importantly she doesn't explain why she thinks it's wrong. Someone who posts "Feeling lucky so headed to the craps table" probably shouldn't be lent to, if only for their sake
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-02 23:50:36+00:00
I immediately just click the back button when some spin wheel discount thing pops up, I just figured it was temu leaking. Thank you for explaining why they are doing this, tho I still wonder why it has to be gamified and not just, click here for a coupon, is it because the agreement with Amazon precludes them from offering coupons, but neglects to forbid casino games?
by jljljl | 2025-09-02 23:50:41+00:00
You probably can't eliminate any sort of political bias, but a single 14 year term puts you pretty much outside of any electoral cycle considerations, which is important for maintaining long term stability in monetary. Making them have to stand for election or make the president happy every 4 years would completely eliminate any ability for the board to focus on the actual technical issues. There's a reason why countries that eliminate CRB independence tend to see hyper inflation

It also isn't a lifetime appointment, and tenures are staggered so the board isn't fixed in place for generation like the Supreme Court
by mothballed | 2025-09-02 23:50:47+00:00
The casino is an extremely rational savings model if you expected to constantly be robbed and want to convert small (and thus not worth robbing) income streams into occasionally large sums of money to be spent rapidly. I.e. say you are a north korean worker in China/Russia and you occasionally get small change to spend on cigarettes, you could gamble it every 'paycheck' and eventually buy a phone to escape with the winnings.

Filipinos have a more predictable low-loss version of this call Paluwagan.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-02 23:51:59+00:00
> So called "budget" phones these days have OLED screens some even come with 120Hz displays (beyond me why someone would want that) and plenty of compute and memory.

Are you mistakenly calling the Pixel 10 a budget phone? Because it's not. The actual budget phones are like $200, and they certainly don't have 120 Hz OLED screens.

> You want camera, buy a camera. You want gaming, buy a console or gaming machine.

Because why would I buy a separate camera and portable gaming machine when I can have them all on a single device?

Do you honestly not see the benefits of having a single device that does everything rather than having to pack multiple things? Especially a camera. They're bulky as hell and require a whole-ass bag dedicated to them. At least a Nintendo Switch can still fit in a large pocket.

I'm not a professional photographer and don't pretend to be one. I just want something that'll create "good enough" pictures to share with friends and family.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-02 23:52:17+00:00
Even if what you say is true (it doesn’t line up with what I have read), it doesn’t change the fact that anti-stimulant advice is bad for the patient. I WANT to be a better husband, and a better father. Of course I could just lower my standards and accept a divorce, because my brain isn’t wired up for being a responsible adult in our society. Or I can take my prescribed stimulant medication and be a better person with literally no downsides.
by sakesun | 2025-09-02 23:53:25+00:00
Everyone sees AI as this huge, game-changing technology that’s going to reshape every life as we know it, but right now its main money-making uses are pretty much content and code generation. So it’s no surprise that more players are jumping in. With what Gitpod already offers, it totally makes sense for them to go down this route.

Computer is just a fancy calculator after all.
by Defletter | 2025-09-02 23:53:43+00:00
> Also the fact is that I don't need AI included into this software.

Yup, the fact that every new service now is AI-first is troubling... it's literally the first thing said about Amber when going on their website. My tab says "Amber — AI-enabled all-in-on...". It's like the only thing they want you to know about their service.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-02 23:53:50+00:00
He's not right at all. It is not "part of the problem" to use a term that a poster here doesn't think accurately captures the issue. The only part of the problem is the corporations who are trying to take our rights away.

Also, I think you'll be quite disappointed in what the general public does or does not care about. The iPhone has always been even more locked down than Android and it sells like hotcakes. Even on Android only a tiny minority of users make use of the option to install third-party apps. I think the general public should care about this topic, but all evidence is to the contrary.
by plaguuuuuu | 2025-09-02 23:54:26+00:00
I've been using a few LLMs/agents for a while and I still struggle with getting useful output from it.

In order for it not to do useless stuff I need to expend more energy on prompting than writing stuff myself. I find myself getting paranoid about minutia in the prompt, turns of phrase, unintended associations in case it gives shit-tier code because my prompt looked too much like something off experts-exchange or whatever.

What I really want is something like a front-end framework but for LLM prompting, that takes away a lot of the fucking about with generalised stuff like prompt structure, default to best practices for finding something in code, or designing a new feature, or writing tests..
by goosedragons | 2025-09-02 23:54:41+00:00
Nah dawg. I was a practiced touch typist for years. We had oodles of typing in elementary school. Pain in my pinkies didn't get better. Only worse because keys like {}| are far more important in programming than writing English and add to pinkie stress. Switching to a Kinesis Advantage with thumb keys and layers to put keys like {} under better fingers resolved my problem.
by craftkiller | 2025-09-02 23:54:47+00:00
> If and when solar truly makes economic sense to justify the switching costs

Already does. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/20201019...

> neither practical nor safe to build 100% solar grid

No one is suggesting a 100% solar grid. You combine solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear.

> battery

Battery prices have been in free-fall for a while, and there are a bunch of interesting tech for grid-scale energy storage. The vanadium redox battery is appealing for grid-scale energy because the energy capacity is determined by the amount of liquid you store in its tanks, so scaling that is trivial. Sodium ion batteries are appealing since they're made with abundant materials and their lower energy density compared to lithium ion isn't a concern for grid-scale storage.

> black swan weather events

Which is why no one is suggesting 100% solar. You do a mix like I described earlier.
by wccrawford | 2025-09-02 23:55:24+00:00
Similarly, I have so many hobbies now that I am actually stressed by them taking us so much space and costing so much money, and me spending so little time on each of them.

I'm now actively trying to cut down on them instead, and accept that I'll have some "boredom" time as a result.

I can "like" just about any hobby. I definitely don't need to explore more of them. They find me on their own, and I really don't need them to.
by gruez | 2025-09-02 23:55:44+00:00
Again, you don't see the illegal behavior that they didn't try. For instance, Uber probably could have nabbed more market share by allowing drivers to pick people up off the streets as well, but that would obviously break taxi medallion laws. Uber worked within the pre-booked ride service loophole. Same goes for contractor classification. They probably could have gotten better customer satisfaction ratings if they prohibited drivers from using multiple apps, but that would obviously look bad for them if they wanted to argue drivers were contractors.
by strken | 2025-09-02 23:55:55+00:00
I tell people I don't like country because I grew up in the country, and I'm sick of listening to relatable things like one lane roads and escaping cows one moment, then switching to bible-thumping alcoholism when the song changes.

Listening to any given country song might be lovely. Listening to the genre is painful. Sometimes the aggregate effect of a genre ruins the enjoyment of any given song.
by pvtmert | 2025-09-02 23:55:59+00:00
This is exactly how my (personal) page(s) work! I wrote it pre-covid.

Initially I was using the hash as you suggested, but the redirect/404 was flaky when I use github-pages as the host, hence I reverted to the query-string (? or search) as it creates a complete refresh. Which allows me to set up "virtual" routes like `/blog`.

Topping with worker/service worker, it is quite robust!

Link: https://mert.akeng.in/