MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NapGod | 2025-09-03 18:22:49+00:00
yea it's clear no one is actually reading the paper. the study showed the group who used LLMs for the first three sessions then had to do session 4 without them had lower brain connectivity than was recorded for session 3 with all the groups showing some kind of increase from one session to the next. Importantly, this group's brain connectivity didn't reset to the session 1 levels, but somewhere in-between. They were still learning and getting better at the essay writing task. In session 4 they effectively had part of the brain network they were using for the task taken away, so obviously there's a dip in performance. None of this says anyone got dumber. The philosophical concept of the Extended Mind is key here.

imo the most interesting result is that the brains of the group that had done sessions 1-3 without the search engine or LLM aids lit up like christmas trees in session 4 when they were given LLMs to use, and that's what the paper's conclusions really focus on.
by nitwit005 | 2025-09-03 18:23:11+00:00
I'd caution that the people not familiar with working at the low level are often missing a bunch of associated knowledge which is useful in the day to day.

You run into Python/Javascript/etc programers who have no concept of what operations might execute quickly or slowly. There isn't a mental model of what the interpreter is doing.

We're often insulated from the problem because the older generation often used fairly low level languages on very limited computers, and remember lessons from that era. That's not true of younger developers.
by pzmarzly | 2025-09-03 18:23:29+00:00
After moving to Zed I also missed good Git integration that I had in VSCode with GitLens.

That pushed me to finally try Jujutsu instead of Git, since it has a CLI (and TUI and GUI, if that's your thing) that are perfectly usable by mere mortals. Now I feel as fast as when I had the Git integration, despite using the terminal.

But if I had stuck to Git, trying GitButler or Sublime Merge was the next option on my TODO list.
by ngriffiths | 2025-09-03 18:23:53+00:00
> Therefore, despite the insanely large number of adjustable parameters, general solutions, that are meaningful and predictive, can be found by adding random walks around the objective landscape as a partial strategy in combination with gradient descent.

Are there methods that specifically apply this idea?

I guess this is a good explanation for why deep learning isn't just automatically impossible, because if local minima were everywhere then it would be impossible. But on the other hand, usually the goal isn't to add more and more parameters, it's to add just enough so that common features can be identified but not enough to "memorize the dataset." And to design an architecture that is flexible enough but is still quite restricted, and can't represent any function. And of course in many cases (especially when there's less data) it makes sense to manually design transformations from the high dimensional space to a lower dimensional one that contains less noise and can be modeled more easily.

The article feels connected to the manifold hypothesis, where the function we're modeling has some projection into a low dimensional space, making it possible to model. I could imagine a similar thing where if a potential function has lots of ridges, you can "glue it together" so all the level sets line up, and that corresponds with some lower dimensional optimization problem that's easier to solve. Really interesting and I found it super clearly written.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-03 18:24:19+00:00
Their email UI is extremely clunky and unrefined, both on the desktop and on the app. When I delete a message in the app, it just stays there in the folder. When I empty spam in the desktop, its count doesn't update. It's like they don't use their own product.

Also, relying on its VPN for illegal activities is incredibly foolish since they log your IP and probably have your payment info.
by neurostimulant | 2025-09-03 18:24:23+00:00
It's great that Zed adding this very useful feature, but isn't this effectively cannibalize their own AI subscription plans? Why pay zed $20 when you already pay for claude code and can use it in the assistant panel? You might still want the edit prediction feature, but then why pay zed $20 when you can pay $10 github copilot and can use it to power zed's edit prediction feature?
by krig | 2025-09-03 18:24:24+00:00
Well, first of all, I guess I am wrong! Hey, I'm not Bill, just a user of the language.

A couple of clarifications, though: I did mean unsafe rust, not the safe subset. No need to get rude!

Second of all, I am of course not under the illusion that Odin prevents use-after-free (and thus, technically, it does allow UB I guess). I just don't think Bill is either. So clearly he doesn't mean UB by the same definition as you do.

_My_ use of UB has always been in the context of what a compiler will do during optimization, and the discussion I've seen in the context of C compilers is that they perform optimizations that remove code or change code in surprising ways because the way the code was written technically resulted in UB. But I'm neither a spec writer or a compiler author, so I don't really care that much about the actual definition of the term.

Anyway, best of luck in convincing Bill to use the term correctly as well! I won't mention UB when talking about the benefits of Odin in the future. :)
by ohgandihelpme | 2025-09-03 18:24:25+00:00
My guess is someone eventually got in (my password wasn’t great, and my Gmail attached also got hit) and then they locked it out of suspicious activity. I didn’t mean to imply the registrar did, but it was changed.

The domain didn’t expire—my partner was able to renew without having to login, not knowing that my account was “locked, please contact support”ed.

The CEO said it’s out of their hands and the abuse department would take care of it, but he seems to have now offered radio silence. I’m not sure what to do next short of sending a demand letter, or if that would get me anywhere with a FR-based entity, albeit they do have an office in San Francisco…
by jasonlotito | 2025-09-03 18:25:03+00:00
> Each of those can be fixed with practice.

Practice can and should be done before giving the presentation to the public. You should record yourself and watch it back.

If you consider practice to just be giving presentations in front of people at a conference, I'm sorry, but no. For example, if you want general practice: seek out your local Toastmasters.

> Your donts are all about nervous people lacking experience.

They aren't. Many of them has nothing to do with lacking experience.

> You don't need notes or a script,

Technically, no, but that's like saying you technically don't need a windshield on a car, or doors, or numerous other things. I have no issue getting up and giving a presentation, and I still use notes.

> Most importantly though, it's okay to screw up when you're nervous and each of these donts is totally fine.

It depends on the context. I'm sorry, but using a conference as your means of practicing is not considerate. People spent money to be there. Often thousands in tickets, travel, and hotels. Speakers frequently get compensated as well. So no, it's not totally fine.

At a local meetup which is usually free? Sure. At some presentation you give at work? Great. There are numerous other ways to get practice, but the context of this thread is conference talks.

As someone who has helped people become speakers at conferences and colleges, I think rather than babying them, it's important to provide clear and actionable guidance.
by atoav | 2025-09-03 18:25:19+00:00
Legible != Readable

Legability means you have to be able to differenciate words and letters. With a font specialized for aerospace use that probably also mean it has to retain that quality when printed on panels.

A special requirement I would think of is legability while in motion. Try taking your favourite, perfectly kerned font and reading it while shaking your head wildly in poor light conditions, then you get a hint of why this font isn't optimized for looks.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-03 18:25:20+00:00
> But 99% of the Android's user base doesn't want to sideload (and they shouldn't).

Never say never. It's a matter of principle - giving in an inch can and will get your head chewed up. As in "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further" [1]

> I think you do not understand how alternative OSes work, because this is plain wrong.

I do. With proper pressure Google can stop manufacturers from dragging their feet. Say if Android required an unlocked bootloader and a standard API BSP.

> I don't like monopolies.

And they aren't going to de-monopolize themselves. [2]

[1] Darth Android https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/#i-am-altering-the-d...

[2] They brick you because they can https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/#autoenshi...
by jbstack | 2025-09-03 18:25:36+00:00
That very much depends on the topic being studied. I've passed plenty of exams of different levels (school, university, professional qualifications) just by reading the textbook and memorising key facts. I'd agree with you if we are talking about something like maths.

Also, there's a huge difference between passively watching a teacher write an explanation on a board, and interactively quizzing the teacher (or in this case, LLM) in order to gain a deeper and personalised understanding.
by dlivingston | 2025-09-03 18:26:04+00:00
1.25% of Elon Musk's net worth is $5.2 billion dollars, but buying, I don't know, a new PC for that price would not be reasonable.

Okay, bad analogy. My point is: just because your budget is high and you've got bytes to burn doesn't mean all those bytes should be burned.
by freehorse | 2025-09-03 18:26:33+00:00
With the exception of macbook air that has passive cooling nothing as aggressive as "turbo" modes, and ime it is relatively hard to get to thermal limits just with cpu in general for the devices I have used. Most other manufacturers nowadays officially advertise boosted single core clock speeds that are much higher and lower when more cores are used at the same time. Thermal limits, in contrast, are much more circumstantial.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-09-03 18:26:53+00:00
I assume AI only generated the readme file. But I would say if AI boilerplate eases Microsoft releasing more of their old code to the public, I am okay with that.

Microsoft recently closed a 7 year old .NET documentation bug I opened using Copilot. I am not a fan of AI but the submitted fix was far superior to the basically useless message that had been previously present, so net positive. At being ignored for 7 years, it was unlikely to get better from human effort.
by KerrAvon | 2025-09-03 18:27:11+00:00
Grapple with what, though? Abstract Whitey loves Coltrane and Satchmo and hates every Black person born since? It's not a coherent theory to begin with.

Also, if the current regime is in a position to fully eradicate all the blacks and browns, the statues will all be of Confederate generals and Trump family members, not black people.
by corimaith | 2025-09-03 18:27:24+00:00
Let's not perfect be the enemy of good. OP is making a relative judgement, not an absolute one. And in authoritarian countries, figures like Jack Ma are dissappeared for far less, while radicals like you mention are just shot and silenced. You are not going to be allowed to build a alternative power structure that can challenge authority regardless if your views are valid or not.

Might be a hard metric for some people to confront, but the USA is one the least racist countries in the world. The gridlock in many ways is strongest signal of excessive plurality and minoritarianism (of marginalized groups) than of single power groups unilaterally controlling things.
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-03 18:27:42+00:00
Why do you have any reason to believe AI generated any of the 6502 code? What possible reason or motivation could there be for that? Wouldn't it spoil the entire reason for releasing it, totally miss the point of releasing original historic code? Who might possibly benefit by doing that? Are you just making up baseless conspiracy theories or do you have any factual basis for that accusation?

Seems hypocritical for a human being to hallucinate a conspiracy theory about LLMs, with no evidence whatsoever.
by btown | 2025-09-03 18:28:08+00:00
As a VS Code + Claude Code user, I'm really excited to see progress here, because the official near-zero-config Claude Code IDE integration is... inflexible, at best.

What if I want to send a subset of my open editor panes to Claude Code? What if I want Claude Code to open diffs for its edited files in a specific area/window, and silently open that file so that I can multitask on other things without it taking focus when it's done thinking? What if I want keyboard shortcuts for specific slash commands, or to trigger a slash command from another task?

Having a robust open-source ecosystem that will let users fork and build customizable UI around coding agent experiences will make them even better, and the space will move even more quickly because the ecosystem won't split between different preferences for agent/model choice. It's an incredible time to be coding.
by jsheard | 2025-09-03 18:29:34+00:00
> MacOS native apps have had great sub-pixel rendering all along

Apple removed subpixel anti-aliasing in Mojave, seven years ago, because it's not necessary on the HiDPI/Retina displays they ship as standard. They still do greyscale anti-aliasing but that's not the same thing as subpixel.

Discussion from the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476873
by moomin | 2025-09-03 18:29:43+00:00
It's a pity that Clojure is kind of a hermetic space these days, because the concept of bitemporality really deserves much more attention. It's amazing how often you want to know "What was the P&L for March using the data available on Apr 4?" and how uncommon it is to find a database design that supports that kind of query.
by bbor | 2025-09-03 18:30:20+00:00
I spent a while trying to set it up, as I share your general take on their ethos. Personally, I'm okay with a 'power user'-focused text editor, even! But the relative lack of syntax highlighting options got me to give up. Maybe I'm just spoiled from SublimeText's dope, complex, extensible system for specifying "contexts" in themes, but Zed was just nowhere near enough for me.

The keybinding system is also nuts if you turn on Vim mode, but I think I'd eventually get used to that. But functions need to be a different color than arguments, which need to be a different color than local variables... Just non-negotiable.

I look forward to trying it again sometime soon! The AI features seem rad, this included.
by rtfeldman | 2025-09-03 18:30:40+00:00
We just pushed a fix! Here's how to get it:

- Start a new Claude Code Thread, which will kick off the background download of the new Claude Code ACP adapter.

- Wait a few seconds, then start another Claude Code Thread. The new thread will use the updated one.

We're working on a nicer UX for getting updated versions, which we'll definitely ship before Claude Code support leaves beta!
Show HN: Ogmap – A low-cost vector map tiles API
by absurdwebsite | 2025-09-03 18:31:05+00:00
Hey everyone

I’ve been hacking on a project → [OGMAP](https://ogmap.com). It’s a *vector tiles API (PBF)* with simple prepaid pricing:

- $10 = 1,000,000 tiles

- 250k free on sign-up

- Auto-buy with Stripe, with safety limits

- Served worldwide via Cloudflare CDN

We don’t try to compete with Mapbox feature-wise. It’s literally just fast, low-cost tiles + some basic styles for MapLibre.

Why I built it: I wanted to start a web project and realized if it got even a bit popular (before monetization), I couldn’t afford the usual map APIs. Existing services often cost 3–10× more. So I made this for myself and figured others might find it useful too.

If you want to build something without burning your budget on maps, give it a try. And if anyone needs help with integration or launching their project, I’m happy to help :)

P.S. I’m also just excited to finally launch this — now I can start working on all those side-project ideas from my notebook that needed maps. Before, I always hit the wall of map API costs. Open/self-hosted alternatives weren’t really an option for me, because I want the confidence that if a project actually takes off, I won’t suddenly be asked to run and scale my own tile server. That reliability at scale was a key reason I built OGMAP as a service.
by photon_garden | 2025-09-03 18:31:10+00:00
Curious how they've assessed quality, either qualitatively or quantitatively. How often do the generated documents miss important parts of the codebase or hallucinate requirements? How often do engineers have to redo work because the LLM convincingly told them to build the wrong thing?

You can build real, production-grade systems using LLMs, but these are the hard questions you have to answer.
by mikepurvis | 2025-09-03 18:31:11+00:00
There's an analogue here with programming language iteration— Python, Ruby and friends showed what the semantics were that were needed, and then a decade or two later, Go and Rust took those semantics and put them in compiled, performance-oriented languages.

Electron has been a powerful tool for quickly iterating UIs and plugin architectures in VSCode, Brackets, Atom, etc, now the window is open for a modern editor to deliver that experience without the massive memory footprint and UI stalls.
by jleyank | 2025-09-03 18:31:23+00:00
Hmm... Guess they want mothers to have 2-4 years of sick kids? I predate the vaccines (old fart, eh?) and I remember a lot of sick time in grades 1-4. Topped with pneumonia and an ulcer. Guess it stressed me out. Did it make it lose much of my hearing? Nobody checked. Didn't try to have kids, so the 2x mumps weren't checked, either. There's reasons this stuff was developed 100's of years ago until today.
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-03 18:31:43+00:00
I don't use a VPN for anything that would get me in the cross hairs of a nation-state. I use it to trade crypto outside my jurisdiction, make sure my ISP doesn't get torrenting complaints, obscure my traffic from wifi networks I don't trust, that sort of thing. None of these things have enough money or power behind them that peeling away the VPN is worth it, so it's good enough.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-09-03 18:32:05+00:00
Rather a subset of people who would like to believe the results don't apply to them.

Frankly, I'm sure there will be much more studies in this direction. Now this is a university, an independent organization. But, given the amount of money involved, some of future studies will come from the camp vitally interested in people believing that by outsourcing their work to coding agents they are becoming smarter instead of losing achieved skills. Looking forward to reading the first of these.
by zarzavat | 2025-09-03 18:33:15+00:00
> If you have a sophisticated agent system that uses multiple forward and backward passes, the quality improves tremendously.

Just an hour ago I asked Claude to find bugs in a function and it found 1 real bug and 6 hallucinated bugs.

One of the "bugs" it wanted to "fix" was to revert a change that I had made previously to fix a bug in code it had written.

I just don't understand how people burning tokens on sophisticated multi-agent systems are getting any value from that. These LLMs don't know when they are doing something wrong, and throwing more money at the problem won't make them any smarter. It's like trying to build Einstein by hiring more and more schoolkids.

Don't get me wrong, Claude is a fantastic productivity boost but letting it run around unsupervised would slow me down rather than speed me up.
by godelski | 2025-09-03 18:33:15+00:00
> nerds are huge bikeshedders

How can you judge if it is bikeshedding or actual warranted issues if you don't have expertise?

Think about it this way, every big problem can be broken down into a bunch of much smaller problems, right? That's generally how we solve things. So obviously small problems come together to create big problems. The main difference between an expert and a novice is the ability to see how these small things interact. So, how do you, as a non-expert, know if the nuance is unimportant or important?

> how dismissive you are of experts who have actually worked with Musk and don't seem to share your low opinion of his expertise in certain areas.

Experts currently working with him or experts who used to work with him? I think you're using a really weird bias. People that are paid by him are suckups? Why is that surprising? Especially when he's known for firing people who are critical of him. Did you forget that whole thing when he bought twitter[0]? Not to mention the other founders of Tesla talking about how he was not an actual founder or SpaceX employees saying he doesn't understand rockets, or AI people saying he doesn't understand AI. But of course he doesn't, he's been promising fully autonomous self-driving cars "next year" since like 2014. No sane ML expert will tell you such a thing is possible, even now. Sure, your Reddit Armchair expert will make the claim, but who cares, they don't actually know anything.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-fire-staff...
by nostrademons | 2025-09-03 18:33:27+00:00
This isn’t VPN providers per se - most want to be able to control their own exit nodes.

There are however a fair number of commercial proxies that do exactly that, sometimes via consumer malware. I know several startup founders who have used them as a way to scrape lots of data and not get banned. Usually the interface they provide to the customer is just a normal SaaS “pay us money and give us a list of URLs and we will give you the page content”, and the interface they provide to the end user is a game or marginally useful utility, and nobody but the company realizes they’re doing something dodgy.
by adityaathalye | 2025-09-03 18:33:28+00:00
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

In this sense, I think one has to aaaaaalmost be a bat in order to know what it is to be it. A fine thread trailing back to the human.

The imago-machines of Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" come to mind. Once integrated with another's imago, one is not quite the same self, not even the sum of two, but a new person entirely containing a whole line of selves selves melded into that which was one. Now one truly contains multitudes.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-09-03 18:33:36+00:00
ProSupport isn't just excellent warranty coverage, often adding Plus (accidental damage) is not expensive either. Laptop literally run over by a car? Dell fixes or replaces it.

There are funny aspects too, we had a laptop with a broken rubber handle and Dell didn't have the available part, or replacement laptops of the same model, so they gave us an equivalent system a three years newer model.

At the desktop tier Dell Command Update is probably just the best driver/firmware update tool for a business.

Their server side can be a harder sell, it's a lot pricier than competitors sometimes without a ton of justifiable benefit for choosing them.