MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by int_19h | 2025-09-30 00:41:03+00:00
I have personally witnessed Cursor diagnose and then fix an actual non-trivial bug starting from its description in Jira, and I only had to course-correct it once.

I have also seen it fail on far simpler tasks.

It varies so much depending on what you are doing, the language etc that generic proclamations "it works!" or "it doesn't work!" are pretty much meaningless.

That aside, you seem to be conflating "it works" with "good enough to replace programmers", but these aren't synonyms.

And on the gripping hand, one way to "make" it work is simply to lower the standards. Which our industry has been doing aplenty for a long time now even before AI, so we shouldn't be surprised when top management drives it to its logical completion.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-30 00:41:34+00:00
The valuation of OAI would be peanuts if it stopped reinvesting too. Which will destroy the value of equity and therefore employees certainly wont be happy.

Im not really sure where Altman is going. As time goes on, it seems the walls are closing in and he's just throwing all he can to keep the hype alive.

You cant escape fundamentals forever, I dont care who you are.
by bbkane | 2025-09-30 00:41:46+00:00
Does anyone have good examples of the "metaprograms (programs that make/analyse a program" he's referring to?

Making these types of programs relatively easy in Go (with stdlib ways to manipulate source code) has been a huge boon to the ecosystem (golangci-lint linters, code gen tools).

I'd love to see examples of what that looks like in Odin
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-09-30 00:42:26+00:00
Plastics could be part of it, but three years ago Cleveland Clinic said it could also be weight, sedentary lifestyle, poor sleep, diet, and alcohol

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/declining-testosterone-le...

And anecdotally, I've still been forming goals and shrugging off failure five years into suppressing most of my endogenous testosterone with exogenous estrogen

Have you had your levels checked?
by anie_cha | 2025-09-30 00:42:42+00:00
Really appreciate that you checked out the website. It is a bit hacky, but for now i am happy with it. Indeed that is correct, the focus is on the map. I am going to fix that. Thank you.

As for the see more, it is in my planning. I can do it manually, but I am waiting for some free time to automated that.
by dreamwalkr | 2025-09-30 00:43:30+00:00
A tool for Muslims. Dreamstate: Interpret your dreams Islamically

https://dreamstateai.replit.app/

Traditional Knowledge: Constrained to Ibn Seerin's classical teachings — trusted by Muslims for over 1,000 years AI-Powered Analysis: Unlock the meaning of your dream with 4,300 dream symbols from the Dictionary of Dreams.

Share your dream confidentially, answer a few context questions, and receive your authentic Islamic interpretation in under a minute.

This is an MVP which I started <4 weeks ago. Currently validating Desirability, Feasibility, and Viability.
by shoo | 2025-09-30 00:44:02+00:00
That was a great read, it's not often we get to read thoughtful retrospectives.

Tangent: the author's older posts also contain some gems -- I very much enjoyed this one about heaps: https://probablydance.com/2020/08/31/on-modern-hardware-the-...

That post and the discussion in the blog comments were useful when I was interested in speeding up astar pathfinding (30% speedup of the whole search algorithm by replacing binary (2-ary) min heap with a min heap using a 4-ary tree).
by jadenPete | 2025-09-30 00:44:07+00:00
I think when the answer becomes more important than the journey, AI tools become more valuable. Want to figure out why a bug is occurring? Tools like Claude Code can be great for this. Implementing a new API or feature? You’ll have to read all the code it wrote, and if you’re like most software engineers, you’ll be faster at writing code than reading it. So you might as well just write it yourself.

This has helped to explain why, at least for me, LLMs have been more useful for reading code than writing code. I’m also just reluctant to submit the code it’s written on my behalf without making hundreds of small adjustments, but I think I’ll need to get over that, as I wouldn’t be so nit-picky a junior engineer were completing the task.
by positron26 | 2025-09-30 00:45:00+00:00
> Every site was built from passion, with no expectation of getting anything in return. It was a global community centered around sharing knowledge.

It's a bit of false nostalgia but also it was the era of early adopters. Their concentrations in new spaces always make them better because their motivations are perpetually directed outward from where we are as a civilization. They frequently have to move on as the space they create for themselves becomes drowned out. HN has attempted to remain relatively secluded, and that has been effective up to a point.

The real dilemma there is that the early adopters who make things good need isolation while the "go with the flow" crowd needs a way to support early adopters without themselves getting in the way. Just from a basic computer science perspective, the early adopters need ways to create efficient back-pressure on later adopters so that early adopters can exist without permanently being chased and drowned out by later adopters.

The internet created something analogous to a 2D plain-world where nothing was out of reach for anyone. Without creating some 3D structure, some stratification so that people who get out of the plain can more directly communicate at longer distance, the noise is so inefficient that only those who don't value their time or those who profit off of the poor connectivity will participate.

Baking fresh cinnamon toast comes to mind. Some will accuse me of becoming distracted, but it used to be more common to speak on every open-access forum as if talking to another person in the room. We still do on different formats like IRC or less serious threads of less serious places, but it is diminished as internet culture emerged. Internet culture sometimes expects you to treat every conversation as a conversation with a forum full of angry combatants. A little bit of structure would re-humanize that culture by putting us back into our more human-sized enclaves where there is no need to gatekeep and no audience to perform to.
by nybsjytm | 2025-09-30 00:45:01+00:00
> PINNs are different in concept, yes, but clearly no less important

If anything I think they're more important! Whether or not it works out for Navier-Stokes, this kind of thing is an extremely plausible avenue of approach and could yield interesting singularities for other major equations. I am however extremely concerned about public understanding. I know you are well aware that this is worlds away from the speculative technologies like 'mathematical superintelligence' but, if it works out, it'll be like a nuclear bomb of misinformation about AI and math.
by buescher | 2025-09-30 00:46:12+00:00
One, what you can learn from this is what good production documentation looks like, more than how to hook up Apple's SoCs, which you don't really need to know. If you get used to that sort of detailed parts specifications on your schematics, you'll miss them most places. I also particularly like how they call out the i2c addresses of the chips with i2c interfaces.

Two, take a look at the system specification and block diagram also.
by int_19h | 2025-09-30 00:46:19+00:00
Gemini is surprisingly unguarded as well, especially when running in API mode. It puts on the air if you do a quick smoke test like "tell me how to rob a bank". But give it a Bond supervillain prompt, and it will tell you, gleefully at that. Qwen also tends to be like that.

OTOH Anthropic and OpenAI seem to be in some kind of competition to make their models refuse as much as possible.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-30 00:47:58+00:00
If I had to shoot from the hip and guess: 30% of the current crop of AI startups are going to make it at best. Frankly that feels insanely generous but I’ll give them more credit than I think they deserve re: ideas and actual staying power.

Many will crash in rapid succession. There isn’t enough room for all these same-y companies.
by yggdrasil_ai | 2025-09-30 00:48:51+00:00
I have been building https://github.com/zayr0-9/Yggdrasil

It started as a solution to LLM front ends having terrible native branching features. But slowly I realize most of our data will be going through LLM's so Yggdrasil is evolving into a platform which consumes all your LLM queries, while keeping it easy to query and reference.

And now I have begun to realize how detrimental LLM assisted coding can be to someone who starts depending on it too much, so Yggdrasil is a bet in the other direction as compared to mainstream. Instead of agents/AI doing everything I believe human + ai assistance will win in the end.

Yggdrasil has a simple agent called Valkyrie, so they have their place, but that I believe should be the last step, after the developer has discussed and planned thoroughly through our tree interface, Heimdall.

And if someone replaces the dev, they can browse their conversations with the LLM, observe their mind map, what questions they asked, what extra things they considered (branches), the whole thought process easily navigable and visible.

Personally after using Yggdrasil, I feel quite confident in using the LLM, as I can ask all the silly questions I want, without worrying about context pollution. It aligns really well with the natural exploratory tangential thoughts we have when trying to find solutions or learn something.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-30 00:49:07+00:00
> If you've been told your whole life that you're inherently evil for your gender, told you're inherently evil due to your race, cannot earn enough for a dignified life supporting a family, see no path to owning your own home, have watched as your country has been flooded with millions of military-aged foreign men, have few to no serious dating prospects, and watch powerlessly as laws are passed to persecute you for complaining about any of this... Why bother?

This seems like a distorted world view of someone with a massive persecution complex and who is already susceptible to conspiracy theories. Nobody's telling lonely white men they're inherently evil for their gender. Nobody's telling them they're inherently evil due to their race. And nobody's passing laws to persecute you for making these silly complaints on HN.

Most people benefit immensely from and are indeed dependent on our existing institutions. They pretend they don't and aren't because it's cool and edgy to seem apart from it all. Yes, there are people who fall through the cracks, but by and large, things like public education, public health and safety, emergency services like fire departments, infrastructure like roads and airports, water, sewage, waste management services, libraries, museums, and so on, all benefit far more people than not. As someone else quotes: "They're like housecats: convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."

I do agree that more and more people cannot earn enough for a dignified life supporting a family, and see no path to owning their own home, and that's a real and growing problem. But that's no reason to nuke the whole country and start over.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-30 00:49:25+00:00
> This would be lend more credibility to the premise AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery if it came from someone who's Nobel (or work in general) were in a non-AI-centered domain.

No it wouldn't. I've seen anti-AI people try to make this sort of argument repeatedly and it doesn't make any sense.

It's an attempt to smuggle in an ad-hominem. It's relying on the fact that people who hate AI also hate people who work in AI.
by pmarreck | 2025-09-30 00:50:16+00:00
This is awfully purist.

I think a happy medium of "comment brevity, and try thinking of a clearer way to do something instead of documenting the potentially unnecessary complexity with a comment" would be good.

I don't know where this "comments are instant technical debt" meme came from, because it's frankly fucking stupid, especially in the age of being able to ask the LLM "please find any out-of-date comments in this code and update them" since even the AI-averse would probably not object to it commenting code more correctly than the human did
by vohk | 2025-09-30 00:50:48+00:00
> Because consumers have less disposable income with all the AI-enabled layoffs, the bigger bonanza will come if OpenAI creates educational pathways via AI to enable more people to make money with AI.

Who do you imagine will be throwing money at all these side-hustle "make money with AI" business you envision? No doubt there will be a few- there already are a few- but as the market gets increasingly flooded with AI slop enterprise with very little value add, that well is going to dry up quick.

It's not different than all those content creators making videos offering to teach you the secrets to easy money... instead of just making all that easy money themselves.
by nomel | 2025-09-30 00:51:25+00:00
> Government Operations Agency to develop a framework for creating a public computing cluster.

The meat of the bill is that some government contractors are about to get very rich. And, if history reflects the future, some portion will be no-bid, to make sure the money goes to exactly who he wants it to go to: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article250348451.h...
by staticshock | 2025-09-30 00:51:45+00:00
I do this and like it: https://github.com/staticshock/dotfiles/blob/main/Makefile

I also tend to put a Makefile into the root of any repo I work in (ignored via .git/info/exclude), so that shell commands relevant to my workflow can accumulate under that Makefile. I've been doing this for at least 10 years and love it. Most repos have some sort of a cli interface, but that doesn't mean that they're any good. Make is nice way to wrap all of them, and to standardize on at least the build/test/run commands across many disparate repos.

Here's an example of one of those from a long-abandoned project: https://gist.github.com/staticshock/0e88a3232038d14a2817e105...
by varispeed | 2025-09-30 00:51:48+00:00
You're focusing on a technicality while missing the bigger picture. These leaks frequently include board layout files, so yes, competitors see the exact routing and component placement.

You claim this is worthless because of the custom Apple chips, but that’s precisely what makes it so valuable. Competitors aren't trying to drop an Apple A19 into their phone; they are learning how Apple solves the universal engineering problems that come with supporting a high-performance, custom SoC or their specific parts.

Seeing the complete power delivery network and high-speed routing for that specific chip is a masterclass. When they see 'a capacitor here,' they learn Apple's validated strategy for handling a transient load or suppressing a specific EMI source on a cutting-edge processor. That engineering principle is absolutely portable to their own custom silicon from Qualcomm or Samsung.

That is the very definition of saving R&D. It’s not about copying parts, it’s about learning the architectural patterns from a successful, finished product to avoid months of costly trial and error.
by jknutson | 2025-09-30 00:52:05+00:00
Anecdotal but I have found that at least some times, rideshare drivers are willing to take cash for rides under some circumstances. Not at all common though, most of the time I have asked I’ve been unceremoniously shot down. The one time I distinctly remember it working out was during a packed event in Vegas (EDC LV, music festival). I just asked if they were going to be driving for the concert the second day, since it was so ridiculously packed and hectic to get a ride the first day, and they said yes and I just offered $100 for the ride tomorrow (I was already paying that much with uber, but with poor service from the app and many cancelled drivers). They agreed, they got a double-rate fare for one unsanctioned ride, I got better service since they were better incentivized to get my ride done, and overall everyone was happy. Except Uber I guess. YMMV
by adastra22 | 2025-09-30 00:53:42+00:00
I don’t know. They typically read entirely differently to me, in the sense that what I would expect to see after clicking the link is different.

I admit though the in this case “What is AGI?” better matches expectation to reality. Before I noticed the domain, “What the f*ck is AGI?” would have led me to expect more of a technical blog post with a playful presentation rather than the review article it actually is.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-30 00:53:57+00:00
> The cynists will comment that I've just been sucked in by the PR

You can just ignore them. I see a lot of science-literate folks try to meet the anti-science folks as if they're on equal footing and it's almost always a waste of time. Imagine if every time you talked about biology you had to try to address the young earth creationists in the room and try to pre-rebut their concerns.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-09-30 00:55:02+00:00
Some do this by using tools like RepoPrompt to read entire files into GPT-5 Pro, and then using GPT-5 Pro to send the relevant context and work plan to Codex so that it can skip needing to poke around files. If you give it the context, it won't spend that time looking for it. But then you spend time with Pro (which can ingest entire files at once instead of searching through them, and provide a better plan for Codex, though)
by varispeed | 2025-09-30 00:55:15+00:00
This dismisses the entire field of modern high-speed digital design.

At GHz frequencies, the PCB isn't a passive substrate; it's an active RF component. Managing signal integrity, controlling impedance, and mitigating EMI in a dense layout is a monumental engineering challenge, not a solved problem from the "1930s radio" era.

The AMD comparison is backward. AMD provides public datasheets and reference designs. This schematic is valuable precisely because Apple's silicon is a black box. It's the only public blueprint for a successful, validated implementation.

The chip and board are a co-designed system. A brilliant SoC is useless without the board-level engineering to power it cleanly and cool it within a tiny physical envelope. That system integration is the R&D.
by balder1991 | 2025-09-30 00:55:32+00:00
There was a startup in my region who got popular with the simple idea of having a website/service that manages simple events, like talks, presentations etc.

I think it started with mostly students using it because there used to be a lot of university-related events like these, and eventually they’ve become the standard platform for that, at least in the State. It was all pretty simple, it managed payment etc. and you’d get a QR code by email or in the app that could be scanned in the entrance.
Why is Google charging me $5-10 per click for my own brand name searches
by hypeaccount | 2025-09-30 00:55:41+00:00
It seems Google has made it extremely difficult for small businesses to rank. The only way is to pay for Google Ads to rank for your brand name search terms for which Google is milking the hell out.

Despite whatever I do the website wouldn't rank.

I feel like Google has some sort of big brand whitelist and systemically discriminates against small brands.
by nomel | 2025-09-30 00:55:49+00:00
> if they felt the bizarre desire to, publish assembly instructions for bioweapons on the company blog.

Can they publish them by intentionally putting them into the latent space of an LLM?

What if they make an LLM that can only produce that text? What if they continue training so it contains a second text they intended to publish? And continue to add more? Does the fact that there's a collection change things?

These are genuine questions, and I have no clue what the answers are. It seems strange to treat a implementation of text storage so differently that you lose all rights to that text.
by dreamwalkr | 2025-09-30 00:56:01+00:00
Super cool! I'm building in the same space but for Muslims - Dreamstate: Interpret your dreams Islamically https://dreamstateai.replit.app/

I tried your app - it's quite abrupt to go straight to Access Microphone permissions. The voice recording took a long time to analyse, it timed out for me. It's a great idea but didn't work for me unfortunately.
by benoau | 2025-09-30 00:56:43+00:00
I think in general their plans are contrary to the DMA if they prevent F-Droid from existing. The big bet seems to be that Trump can coerce the EU into repealing the law entirely.

> (50) [...] In order to ensure that third-party software applications or software application stores do not endanger the integrity of the hardware or operating system provided by the gatekeeper, it should be possible for the gatekeeper concerned to implement proportionate technical or contractual measures to achieve that goal if the gatekeeper demonstrates that such measures are necessary and justified and that there are no less-restrictive means to safeguard the integrity of the hardware or operating system.

> (54) Gatekeepers can hamper the ability of end users to access online content and services, including software applications. Therefore, rules should be established to ensure that the rights of end users to access an open internet are not compromised by the conduct of gatekeepers. Gatekeepers can also technically limit the ability of end users to effectively switch between different undertakings providing internet access service, in particular through their control over hardware or operating systems. This distorts the level playing field for internet access services and ultimately harms end users. It should therefore be ensured that gatekeepers do not unduly restrict end users in choosing the undertaking providing their internet access service.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%...
by moregrist | 2025-09-30 00:56:53+00:00
_Clean Code_ is an extremely well-known book on programming by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin from the 2000s. Posts about it have come up on HN as recently as this year.

Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but I’m surprised you’ve never come across it. I say this as someone who doesn’t agree with many of the suggestions.
by shoobiedoo | 2025-09-30 00:56:55+00:00
Well that's great for you, but I was making a generalized statement about the role of testosterone, scientific data showing huge decline, and more and more studies linking it to plastics. We can't just alter a key hormone within the span of a few decades and shrug it off. My levels are great for a 40 year old

And yes there are certainly other factors, but that's not what the original comment was talking about?
by noone_youknow | 2025-09-30 00:57:17+00:00
While I agree this might be a fun resource and useful example code for various aspects of legacy x86 interfacing, I would urge anyone who hopes to actually get into OS development to ignore this (and in fact every other tutorial I’ve ever seen, including those hosted on the popular sites).

For all the reasons stated in the link from the README [1] and agreed by the author, this project should not be followed if one wants to gain an understanding of the design and implementation of operating systems for modern systems. Following it will likely lead only to another abandoned “hello world plus shell” that runs only in emulation of decades old hardware.

My advice is get the datasheets and programmers’ manuals (which are largely free) and use those to find ways to implement your own ideas.

[1] https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial/issues/269