MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wahnfrieden | 2025-09-23 22:37:13+00:00
Companies are already starting to require the use of these tools and cycling workflows. It won't remain optional for long, just as it's no longer optional per dev preference to use pull requests, to minimize unblocked work-in-progress, to achieve test coverage standards, etc.

Expectations of full agentic parallelization is still not so widespread though as employers are slow to pick up on the need to budget $2400-4800+ annually per developer for enough capacity with recent sota tools.
by hiharryhere | 2025-09-23 22:37:30+00:00
Bundler already does this.

# From a specific branch gem 'my_gem', git: 'https://github.com/user/my_gem.git', branch: 'development' # From a specific tag gem 'my_gem', git: 'https://github.com/user/my_gem.git', tag: 'v1.2.3' # From a specific commit (ref) gem 'my_gem', git: 'https://github.com/user/my_gem.git', ref: 'a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0k1l2m3n4o5p6q7r8s9t0'
by breadwinner | 2025-09-23 22:38:07+00:00
> silencing people doesn't work

I agree, but how do you combat propaganda from Putin? Do you match him dollar for dollar? I am sure YouTube would like that, but who has deep enough pockets to counter the disinformation campaigns?

Similar issue with Covid... when you are in the middle of a pandemic, and dead bodies are piling up, and hospitals are running out of room, how do you handle misinformation spreading on social media?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 22:38:13+00:00
> wasn't Google/Youtube banning so much as government ordering private companies to do so

No, it was not. It’s particularly silly to suggest this when we have live example of such orders right now.

The companies were nudged. (And they were wrong to respond to public pressure.) The President, after all, has a “bully pulpit.” But there were no orders, no credibly threats and plenty of companies didn’t deplatform these folks.
by andrewrn | 2025-09-23 22:38:38+00:00
I worked on a 254nm UVC fungicide system at an agricultural robotics startup. For some fungal pests like powdery mildew, there’s growing evidence that irradiating the crops at night (when the fungus has its UV defenses down), can effectively manage fungus outbreaks and save crops yields. This was specifically strawberries.

I had to do a bunch of safety research and testing. We had some grower partners experimenting with it too and they had their workers operate the system without any coverings and everyone got sunburn. Unbelievable.

Another startup working on this right now is TRIC robotics.
HTML5 Supercomputer
by danielschreber | 2025-09-23 22:39:06+00:00
Google's summary of the topic:

"The concept of an "HTML5 supercomputer" refers to a system where HTML5 is used as the foundational language for the entire computing infrastructure, including the operating system and applications, rather than just for web content. This approach leverages the widespread familiarity and versatility of HTML5 among developers to build integrated and secure systems.

An example of this concept was articulated by Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corporation, who described the infotainment system in Nikola trucks as an "HTML5 supercomputer." In this context, HTML5 was not just for displaying web pages, but served as the core language for the entire system, allowing for custom chip development and a unified data network where all components communicate using the same standard. This approach offers several potential advantages:

Developer Accessibility: Utilizing HTML5, a widely known and understood language, can broaden the pool of developers capable of working on the system. Integration and Security: Building a system where all components speak the same language can lead to tighter integration and potentially enhanced security by reducing the complexity of inter-system communication. Flexibility: HTML5's capabilities for multimedia, interactive applications, and responsive design can be extended to create a rich and adaptable user experience within the system.

While HTML5 itself is a markup language primarily for structuring web content, its use in a "supercomputer" context highlights a shift towards leveraging web technologies for broader system development, moving beyond traditional operating system and application architectures."
by duxup | 2025-09-23 22:39:59+00:00
>Perplexed state transportation officials asked Tesla’s policy representatives whether they could help clear up “public confusion” about the launch, according to the emails obtained by Reuters. Tesla’s reply was to avoid the question entirely, saying only that the company’s policy was not to respond to questions from the press. Which makes a ton of sense when responding to a question from a government official in charge of overseeing the safe rollout of autonomous vehicles.

WTF
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-23 22:40:03+00:00
They're into folk medicine, but their anti-vax issues generally come from people who don't have any means of knowing better (i.e. never been to school, dropped out at a very early grade, isolated, not even literate). Typically just education and having a doctor or a local elder respectfully explain to them that the Polio shot will help prevent their child from being paralyzed for life is enough to convince them.

Meanwhile the 'educated' Westerner, to whom Polio is a third-world disease, will convince themselves that the doctor is lying for some reason, will choose to take the 75% chance of an asymptomatic infection because they don't truly appreciate how bad it can otherwise be, will use their access to a vast collection of humanity's information to cherry pick data that supports their position (most likely while also claiming to seek debate despite not intending to seriously consider opposing evidence), and if their gamble fails, will probably just blame immigrants, government or 'big pharma' for doing it.
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-23 22:40:06+00:00
Thanks for clarifying! So basically his van kept getting towed and he kept losing business as a result? Presumably it also cost him to recover his vehicle. So in summary, if you got on this list you're just permanently screwed in SF? And you can get on this list by paying a fine twice by accident?

> "?towid=1"

Funnily, incrementing that number in the country I live in would itself be a crime. If the company I did this to found out, they could probably take me to court and win.

A wonderful world we live in. :)
by colinwilyb | 2025-09-23 22:40:36+00:00
This reminds me of the workshop tool scavenger hunt from Scope of Work. Even as an adult I still encounter new machines and tools that I've never heard of... and it's /fascinating/ to learn there are machines and tools to do such specific things!

I enjoy the "what does this thing do" of farm implements.

[Scopeofwork.net]
by ojosilva | 2025-09-23 22:41:04+00:00
+1 for using the file system as memory. You don't need a memory backend for that, or MCP, RAG, nothing. Just the basic read/write fs tools any agent has at its disposal.

Use an .agent/ directory. Tell it to keep a task list, a plan, findings, wishlists, future prompt ideas in there. I use it so much I have ".agent/" in my .gitignore template already. Tell it to use meaningful file names and to set the status of the memory using uppercase suffixes (and category as prefixes or subdirs), and you end up with...

.agent/task-cleanup-code.DONE .agent/memory-function-style.md .agent/prompt-remove-dead-code.md .agent/symbols-map.toml ...

The agent will scan that directory every once in a while and look for information before making a decision. Granted, this is not a vectorial or graph search, it's a ripgrep regex probably, but the model can extrapolate and search many times for related words if needed.
by jawarner | 2025-09-23 22:42:15+00:00
Mawson et al. 2017 (two papers) – internet survey of homeschoolers recruited from anti-vaccine groups; non-random, self-reported, unverified health outcomes. Retracted by the publisher after criticism.

Hooker & Miller 2020/2021 – analysis of “control group” data also from self-selected surveys; same methodological problems.

Lyons-Weiler & Thomas 2020, 2022 – data from a single pediatric practice run by one of the authors; serious selection bias.

Joy Garner / NVKP surveys – activist-run online surveys with no verification.

Enriquez et al. 2005 – a small cross-sectional study about allergy self-reports, not about overall neurodevelopment.

Large, well-controlled population studies (Denmark, Finland, the U.S. Vaccine Safety Datalink, etc.) comparing vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children show no increase in autism, neurodevelopmental disorders, or overall morbidity attributable to recommended vaccines.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-23 22:42:36+00:00
"The chatbot’s answers referenced retracted papers in five cases but advised caution in only three."

I think this may actually be positive, it just needs to get better at advising caution on the redacted papers.

It is important that negative or null responses be understood. In some ways redacted papers lead to better understanding of what didn't work, why not, what were the errors in the paper?

Was it complete fraud, ok, good to know. Was a mistake made, or have we learned something else as the science has progressed?

I wrote about this recently on our blog Beyond Cheerypicking Data[1].

We work in neurotech/sleeptech we increase slow-wave activity during sleep or what we refer to as enhancing restorative function.

We are building on more than a decade of research and 50+ published peer reviewed papers. We haven't seen retractions of papers, but we've seen a few null results, which helped us understand where the implementation of the technology has struggled in the past.

The article focuses on scientific papers for public consumption, but that doesn't really matter to the AI atm. There is so much junk pretend science on the internet already that has no citations. I see this as being something that can help the research community as it improves. Maybe with that background AI can be better at understanding when junk science is being promoted.

[1]https://www.affectablesleep.com/blog/beyond-cherry-picking-m...
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-23 22:42:39+00:00
I was there too - I didn't "miss a lot", I just ignored it. The community was still vibrant, helpful, and the language/tools were developing nicely. So some people with big egos (ZS, DHH etc.) were causing waves. Who cares. I don't get swept up in that sort of thing. Not letting it affect you is different from not being aware of it, it just means not getting involved with it.

I'm still very happy with Ruby itself, and how it's developed, and Rails too. While I haven't used it professionally in a while, it's still the language I most enjoy working in. I also used it to get my daughter (now finished college and working as a SWE) into programming when she was a child, and currently using it to introduce my 9 yr old son to coding.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-09-23 22:43:00+00:00
Having the ticket price linked to their income would immediately make the game fair. If you earn 10k/h and you need to pay a 100k ticket you will be more careful.

A millionaire in Finland got a 120k€ ticket for speeding a bit over the limit (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/finnish-busine...). IIRC the CFO of Nokia had a similar experience.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-23 22:43:03+00:00
Earlier in 2025, the video game Fortnite announced[1] that they were giving cheaters with lifetime bans a "second chance" and let them return to the game. Lo and behold, cheating in the game spiked up this year and has returned as a huge ongoing problem. Turns out, the vast majority of the bans were probably correct, and when you let people back into something who were banned for doing X, they're going to immediately start doing X again once they're back in.

1: https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-anti-cheat-update-feb...
by MSM | 2025-09-23 22:43:10+00:00
I picked one at random (NVKP, "Diseases and Vaccines: NVKP Survey Results") and, while I needed to translate it to read it, it's clear (and loud!) about not actually being a scientific study.

"We fully realize that a survey like this, even on purely scientific grounds, is flawed on all counts. The sample of children studied is far too small and unrepresentative, we didn't use control groups, and so on."

Turns out the NVKP roughly translates to "Dutch Organization for those critical towards vaccines."

I understand being skeptical about vaccines, but the skepticism needs to go both ways
by wahnfrieden | 2025-09-23 22:43:31+00:00
Nothing much weird about the SwiftUI UIs GPT-5-codex generates for me. And it adapts well to building reusable/extensible components and using my existing components instead of constantly reinventing, because it is good at reading a lot of code before putting in work.

It is also good at refactoring to consolidate existing code for reusability, which makes it easier to extend and change UI in the future. Now I worry less about writing new UI or copy/pasting UI because I know I can do the refactoring easily to consolidate.
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 22:43:32+00:00
I really like the Articles https://www.earlytelevision.org/postwar_magazine_articles.ht... (scanned PDFs about early TV)

> "The Youngs have found the best way to control their children's television enthusiasm is by agreeing roughly every Sunday on which programs they will tune in that week. Some control is necessary because the children love everything on television except news programs." https://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/sci_ill_1-49-2.pdf

and

the Advertising sections https://www.earlytelevision.org/postwar_ads.html (organized by brand)
by jerrinot | 2025-09-23 22:44:08+00:00
That's a very good question. A proper compiler engineer would know, but I will do my best to find something and report back.

Edit: I could not find any pass with a pattern matching to replace CAS loops. The closest thing I could find is this pass: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/06fb26c3a4ede66755... I reckon one could write a similar pass to recognize CAS idioms, but its usefulness would be probably rather limited and not worth the effort/risks.
by breadwinner | 2025-09-23 22:44:14+00:00
If the government asks private companies to do that, then that's a violation of 1st amendment, isn't it?

This is the conundrum social media has created. In the past only the press, who were at least semi-responsible, had the ability to spread information on a massive scale. Social media changed that. Now anyone can spread information instantly on a massive scale, and often it is the conspiracy theories and incorrect information that people seek out.

"We were a bit naive: we thought the internet, with the availability of information, would make us all a lot more factual. The fact that people would seek out—kind of a niche of misinformation—we were a bit naive." -- Bill Gates to Oprah, on "AI and the Future of us".
by 0xTJ | 2025-09-23 22:44:56+00:00
I'd be very interested in a version of this for Canadian postal code, which have the form K1A 0B1, alternating letters and digits. The first letter is either a province or 1/2 territories, or for Ontario and Quebec is a portion of the province or a metro area. (Vancouver could reasonably be offended at not getting its own first letter.)

Santa Claus's postal code H0H 0H0 would be read as being in the Montreal area (starting with an H), but being rural (second character is a 0). H0 is an almost completely empty prefix, except for an indigenous reserve.
by qweiopqweiop | 2025-09-23 22:45:00+00:00
Honestly - if it's such a good technique it should be built into the tool itself. I think just waiting for the tools to mature a bit will mean you can ignore a lot of the "just do xyz" crap.

It's not at senior engineer level until it asks relevant questions about lacking context instead of blindly trying to solve problems IMO.
by rmoriz | 2025-09-23 22:45:11+00:00
To my knowledge: Sidekiq is the lead project of Contributed Systems LLC. Ruby Central also announced to end the "RailsConf" series after this year.

I fully understand and support to be angry about and cut all ties to the 3-letter-guy, but I think this Ruby Central/Rubygems issue is a case of "friendly fire".
by simne | 2025-09-23 22:45:25+00:00
Well, formally, you are right that Crimea is 90% Russian ethnically, but what about price?

- In 1940s, USSR totally resettled all Crimean Tatars to Siberia, and only in 90s they got permission to return home. For comparison, imagine US will resettle all people from Florida to Alaska - you will not name this genocide?

And yes, resettling of peoples, was typical for USSR, and Russia was main power in USSR, even when prime ministers was from other parts of Union, so demography policy was pro-Russia. For example, up to 1990s, Russia constantly resettle Russians to Eastern Ukrainian regions, and same way, now Kazakhstan, and other Asian exUSSR counties have large share of ethnically Russian population.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-23 22:45:29+00:00
> Anthony R. Mawson, et al., “Pilot Comparative Study on the Health of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated 6 to 12-year-old U.S. Children,” Journal of Translational Science 3, no. 3 (2017): 1-12, doi: 10.15761/JTS.1000186

Retracted: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/08/retracted-vaccine-aut...

If you edit down your list to journal articles that you know you be valid and unretracted, I will reconsider looking through it. However, journal access in general is too expensive for me to bother reading retracted articles.
by baw-bag | 2025-09-23 22:45:39+00:00
You were never an engineer. I'm 18 years into my career on the web and games and I was never an engineer. It's blind people leading blind people and your somewhere in the middle based on 2013 patterns you got to this point on and 2024 advancements called "Vibe Coding" and you get paid $$ to make it work.

Building a bridge from steel that lasts 100 years and carries real living people in the tens or hundreds of thousands per day without failing under massive weather spikes is engineering.
by pton_xd | 2025-09-23 22:46:01+00:00
We've all been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Everyone points out that reviewing code is more difficult than writing it. The natural question is, if AI is generating thousands of lines of code per day, how do you keep up with reviewing it all?

The answer: you don't!

Seems like this reality will become increasingly justified and embraced in the months to come. Really though it feels like a natural progression of the package manager driven "dependency hell" style of development, except now it's your literal business logic that's essentially a dependency that has never been reviewed.
by lkey | 2025-09-23 22:46:03+00:00
"If they were as safe as other treatments they wouldn't need a blanket liability immunity." Citation very much needed for this inference.

Even if I granted every single paper's premise here. I'd still much rather have a living child with a slightly higher chance of allergies or asthma or <insert survivable condition here> than a dead child. How quickly we forget how bad things once were. Do you dispute that vaccines also accounted for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years? And before that, TB, Flu, and Smallpox killed uncountably many people. Vaccines are a public good and one of the best things we've ever created as a species.

Do you also have theories about autism you'd like to share with the class?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 22:46:16+00:00
> If the government asks private companies to do that, then that's a violation of 1st amendment, isn't it?

Yes. An unfortunate conclusion I’m approaching (but have not reached, and frankly don’t want to reach) is the First Amendment doesn’t work in a country that’s increasingly illiterate and addicted to ad-powered algorithmic social media.
by xenadu02 | 2025-09-23 22:46:34+00:00
FWIW the sweeper comes by my street on the posted schedule. Most days one or two parking cops come ahead of the sweeper writing tickets. I have never seen them come behind the sweeper though I have seen the sweeper wait for them. I believe it is policy not to write tickets after because as other posts have noted it is perfectly legal to park right after the sweeper comes through even if it is still sweeper hours.

Of course we are on the corner and the other street does not get sweeping (it is also concrete). I assume that is because it is too steep.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-09-23 22:46:58+00:00
On the Pro tier? Plus/Team is only suitable for evaluating the tool and occasional help

Btw one thing that helps conserve context/tokens is to use GPT 5 Pro to read entire files (it will read more than Codex will, though Codex is good at digging) and generate plans for Codex to execute. Tools like RepoPrompt help with this (though it also looks pretty complicated)
by TeeMassive | 2025-09-23 22:47:38+00:00
> This seems like good banning to me. Anti-vaxxer propaganda isn't forbidden thoughts. It's bad science and lies and killing people.

Any subject important enough in any public forum is potentially going to have wrong opinions that are going to cause harm. While some people could be wrong, and could cause harm, the state itself being wrong is far more dangerous, especially with no dissident voices there to correct its course.

Edit: I see you're getting downvoted for simply stating your honest opinion. But as a matter of principle I'm going to upvote you.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-09-23 22:47:46+00:00
It's not exactly just marketing, it is indeed possible to "move" heat energy by using less energy than the amount of heat energy moved, which all modern high efficiency compressor based air conditioners/refrigerators/mini splits/heat pumps can do. It's still a useful metric for comparing similar devices' efficiencies. It's called Coefficient of Performance and if it's only 1, your compressor based system has a major issue.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-23 22:48:43+00:00
> literally had access to JIRA at Twitter so they could file tickets against accounts

I’m not disputing that they coördinated. I’m challenging that they were coerced.

We wouldn’t describe Fox News altering a script on account of a friendly call from Miller and friends the “government ordering private companies” around. (Or, say, Florida opening their criminal justice records to ICE the federal government ordering states around.) Twitter’s leadership and the Biden administration saw eye to eye. This is a story about a media monoculture and private censorship, not government censorship.
by master_crab | 2025-09-23 22:48:52+00:00
Actually, I’d say it worked. Hamas doesn’t care about Palestinians. But they also know Israel doesn’t. And they have succeeded in using over-the-top violence to goad Israel into committing its own orgy of over-the-top violence. And that will turn it (if it hasn’t already) into a pariah state.

A page straight from Bin Laden’s book. And in case you are wondering, he also succeeded in severely - possibly even permanently - damaging America.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-23 22:49:56+00:00
I'm so sorry this is happening to you and the rest of the community. And I don't get why they pick on the trans community so much. Apart from not aligning with their personal religious views, what else has a trans person ever done to a cis one? Most trans people I know are super respectful especially because they know what it's like to deal with bigotry every day.

I mean when they go after drug gangs, at least there's some reason. Because they're a source of violence and misery. Even though it seems to be a thinly veiled excuse to go after brown skinned people instead.
by xenadu02 | 2025-09-23 22:50:09+00:00
Fun fact: as a regular citizen you can apply for such a permit online. I did this when we were moving houses to ensure the entire block in front of our house would be clear of cars (or we could tow if required) to make it possible to get a moving truck in on the one-lane street where double-parking would block all access. I filled out the forms. A week or so later the city dropped signs on the sidewalk warning of the upcoming closure.

You can also close your entire street for a block party. You just need a certain number of people on your block to sign the form approving it.