MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solarkraft | 2025-10-29 17:06:37+00:00
Absolutely. CC can be tuned to not do too much crap on its own, but even with the new extension its IDE integration and multi thread management are still significantly worse, as is its status reporting, which I find to be very important.

Also, somehow magically, I’ve found Cursor’s Auto mode to be significantly faster than the specific models I’ve tried, Claude being among them.
by dwaite | 2025-10-29 17:07:06+00:00
The issue is that static content only sites do not exist - unless browsers change their stance to disabling long-relied-upon features like Javascript and embedded frames for content served over plain HTTP.

They've taken that strategy with newer enhancements (for instance, you can't use passkeys over non-secured channels), but the bar for widespread breakage of existing deployments is pretty high - even if changes like this make it harder to navigate to those existing deployments.
by keeda | 2025-10-29 17:07:06+00:00
I realized this last year when ChatGPT helped me get $500 in compensation after a delayed flight turned a layover into an impromptu overnight stay in a foreign country.

It was even more impressive because the situation involved two airlines, a codeshare arrangement, three jurisdictions, and two differing regulations. Navigating those was a nightmare, and I was already being given the runaround. I had even tried using a few airline compensation companies (like AirHelp, which I had successfully used in the past) but they blew me off.

I then turned to ChatGPT and explained the complete situation. It reasoned through the interplay of these jurisdictions and bureaucracies. In fact, the more detail I gave it, the more specific its answers became. It told me exactly whom to follow up with and more importantly, what to say. At that point, airline support became compliant and agreed to pay the requested compensation.

Bureaucracy, information overload and our ignorance of our own rights: this is what information asymmetry looks like. This is what airlines, insurance, the medical industry and other such businesses rely on to deny us our rights and milk us for money. On the flip side, other companies like AirHelp rely on the specialized knowledge required to navigate these bureaucracies to get you what you're owed (and take a cut.)

I don't see either of these strategies lasting long in the age of AI, and as TFA shows, we're getting there fast.

ProTip: Next time an airline delay causes you undue expenses, contact their support and use the magic words “Article 19 of the Montreal Convention”.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-29 17:07:14+00:00
There are two aspects to advertising, there's fact and there's opinion. As long as you understand the opinion is biased, the facts can be useful. If a new pizza place opens in my town I'd at least like to know it exists, or else I might stagnate going to only the familiar places.

It's still annoying and it's unacceptable for my fridge to have a screen I can't control the content of.
by quotemstr | 2025-10-29 17:07:22+00:00
> As it happens, The Dark Ages is also one of my Special Interests and the term is reductive to the point of useless. It's a very loaded word that promotes a biased view of history that is, for the most part, meaningfully incorrect.

Industrial output, long-distance trade, literacy, artistic quality (yes, I know it's subjective. I don't care: if it hadn't collapsed the Grotesque style wouldn't have been a revolution), and tons of other things collapsed. Records became extremely spotty. There's no reliable descent from antiquity for a reason. By the fifth century, what we'd call serfdom was common. People were legally bound to their parent's professions. Free movement was restricted. Spoliation was universal because new high-quality materials couldn't be sourced at any price.

Oh, and almost the entire corpus of classical literature was lost.

Yes, the dark ages were real, miserable, and significant, and I don't care for the modern revisionism on the subject. You could argue about the speed of the decline and whether it really got going in the third or the fifth centuries, or whether it might have been averted without the Gothic Wars wrecking what was left of already-fragile Mediterranean trade, but that there was a civilizational nadir in western Europe around the end of the first millennium is beyond honest dispute.

The perspective you've adopted is exactly the one that needs to respond to intellectual competition, because this nonsense about "oh, there was just a change in civilization style and we don't know which is better so don't judge" is infuriating and gaslights the public.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-29 17:07:25+00:00
This whole style of negotiation is just going to blow up in the face of most homeowners. The person trying to sell me bullshit can use an LLM to help them sell it even harder and think of the most high quality retorts to whatever my LLM tries to argue against them with.

But regardless, this arms race doesn't happen because the vast majority of people are bad at prompting models, and when you start writing prompts with spelling errors and other grammar issues, your model responds with low quality, wronger outputs just to punish you for your lack of attention to detail.
by tim333 | 2025-10-29 17:07:28+00:00
They can't ethically put the money into equities because they are obliged to redeem the tether tokens for USD on demand. It's the same thing that your bank manage can't take the cash in your account, bet it on nvda and take the profits if it goes up, unless they want to end up like SBF.

They may have somewhat sketchily put money into bitcoin at times though.
by ComplexSystems | 2025-10-29 17:08:02+00:00
You're absolutely right! Here is the correct, minimal reprex to demonstrate the issue:

# Minimal Reprex (Correct)

(unintelligible nonsense here)

And here is the correct, minimal fix, guaranteed to work:

# Correct Fix (Correct)

(same unintelligible nonsense, wrapped in a try/catch block)

Make this change and your code should work perfectly!
by germandiago | 2025-10-29 17:08:17+00:00
Agreed. This is also my intuition.

By hot-patching you can make a mess of where things are probably.

Even if it is a bit more work, going through a more normal cycle lets you understand what is going on.

So for what I see from other comments and yours REPL is nice for interactive work and root cause debugging but hot-patching a production system, even if powerful, comes with its own set of problems.
by vitovito | 2025-10-29 17:08:20+00:00
Not the OP, but in the TechCrunch Disrupt launch, founder Brynn Putnam says, "capacitive material manufactured into the pieces."

If you put capacitive material in a unique pattern on the footprint of each piece, and the rest of the piece material was conductive enough to carry your body's charge to register a touch, the shape of that touch could be unique per-piece.

There's no mention of syncing pieces, charging pieces, keeping pieces in view of a wide-angle camera, anything like that, so that's my bet. (This would also mean moving a piece using a non-conductive material would be a way to cheat by having it not get registered!)

I just shared this on LI this morning, linking back to a video showing showing related touchscreen explorations I did for a colleague in early 2013, sensing different coins by their radii as you touch them: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vmiliano_a-vertical-triptych-...
by charcircuit | 2025-10-29 17:08:21+00:00
>It's a different approach to security

That's like saying using a hole in a wall is a different approach to security than putting a lockable door in a wall. Sure no security is s different approach to security, but it's not an effective one.

>There are no malicious apps in GNU/Linux repositories

Maybe not intentionally malicous, but there have been bugs that can cause applications to act maliciously such as deleting users files. If an application gets exploited it could also do malicous things. Just because you trust the author of a program, that doesn't mean that sanboxing is pointless. Additionally programs like the terminal are a free for the user to run things like curl | sh which can run malware infecting the system and run wild since there is no security to stop it from doing almost anything.

>Purism

The wiki page pretty much says that they don't have privacy or security and don't have the resources to implement such features unlike Google or Apple. They also make some claims to try and pretend their platform is secure and private in order to help sell the Librem 5, a product they made with inferior privacy and security compared to Android.
by babl-yc | 2025-10-29 17:08:35+00:00
What Raspberry Pi is to Broadcom (developer-friendly SBCs), Beagleboard is to TI.

It's a slightly different approach -- Beagleboard is a non-profit and emphasizes openly purchasable components. But similar in that it is the cheapest way to tinker with SoCs from that vendor.

BeagleY-AI has 4 TOPS for ~$70. AI inference tooling is still improving but I've been working on it here: https://docs.beagleboard.org/boards/beagley/ai/demos/using-e...
by ryandrake | 2025-10-29 17:08:37+00:00
Always has been. Corporate's solution to every empowering technology is to corrupt it to work against the user.

Problem: Users can use general purpose computers and browsers to playback copyrighted video and audio.

Solution: Insert DRM and "trusted computing" to corrupt them to work against the user.

Problem: Users can compile and run whatever they want on their computers.

Solution: Walled gardens, security gatekeeping, locked down app stores, and developer registration/attestation to ensure only the right sort of applications can be run, working against the users who want to run other software.

Problem: Users aren't updating their software to get the latest thing we are trying to shove down their throats.

Solution: Web apps and SAAS so that the developer is in control of what the user must run, working against the user's desire to run older versions.

Problem: Users aren't buying new devices and running newer operating systems.

Solution: Drop software support for old devices, and corrupt the software to deliberately block users running on older systems.
by falcor84 | 2025-10-29 17:08:38+00:00
I tend to disagree. While there are definitely monopolies/oligopoly for every domain, I'm actually constantly impressed with the very long tail of other providers available in that area.

Whenever I am looking for a new solution to a need at work, I would go to sites like g2.com to look at the lists of the most popular ones, and would then typically skim reviews of the top ~10, and more fully evaluate the top ~3. But there are often hundreds of alternatives that I haven't given a chance to, and I know that it's my 
laziness
 need to manage my limited time that's promoting this oligopoly, rather than any particular issue with all of those other providers down the list.

I don't see how legislation can help here, other than picking a provider for me. If anything, this is actually a place where I feel that AI tools, and particularly ChatGPT's Deep Research can research a lot more of the alternatives than I as a human would have time for. But that of course has its own set of issues, and I really don't know what the solution is. We no longer live in that world where you just use that provider who lives down the street.
by theamk | 2025-10-29 17:09:07+00:00
that really does not seem to be something that tools care about. There is already $BROWSER env var, and all tools should support this - and then user can point it to whatever logic they want.

This will give much more control to the user compared to fixed "profile" setting - the script can check working directory, or URL, or calling process, or anything else you can think about!
by sumnole | 2025-10-29 17:09:09+00:00
> Well, this is just standard Aerospace grade software

Can't be further from the truth. DOD software is given huge budgets where it's not surprising to see 3 separate teams performing QA for one software milestone. It's one of the few sectors that still plan software upfront waterfall style and implement strict procedures for traceability, change management, etc. Who else is using formal methods or safety critical stacks like ADA/Spark?
by bitwize | 2025-10-29 17:09:24+00:00
Nobody gives a fuck about the Agile Manifesto.

Inasmuch as Agile was adopted at companies, it's because it was sold to them as a way to provide greater transparency, accountability, and control into a chaotic software development process. The vice president behind the company's "Agile Transformation" probably can't even name point one of the manifesto; "we're doing Scrum with JIRA, therefore we're agile" is the extent of his concern.
by rileymichael | 2025-10-29 17:09:52+00:00
if you need a durable log (which it sounds like you do for if you're going with event sourcing) that has those features, i'd suggest apache pulsar. you effectively get streams with message queue semantics (per-message acks, retries, dlq, etc.) from one system. it supports many different 'subscription types', so you can use it for a bunch of different use cases. running it on your own is a bit of a beast though and there's really only one hosted provider in the game (streamnative)

note that kafka has recently started investing into 'queues' in KIP-932, but they're still a long way off from implementing all of those features.
by argomo | 2025-10-29 17:10:14+00:00
Agreed. We need legally enforceable standards granting owners full control of their devices.

But also: TPMs could be used to prevent evil maid attacks and to make it uneconomical for thieves who stole your device to also steal your data. It makes it possible for devices to remotely attest to their owners that the OS has not been compromised, which is relevant to enterprise IT environments. There are a lot of good uses for this technology, we just need to solve the political problems of aggressive copyright, TIVOization, etc.
by qwytw | 2025-10-29 17:10:17+00:00
> So many open source projects have risen out of real and concrete needs and successfully made their way into our every day lives.

When it comes to consumer hardware or software targeted at end users? I think such cases are pretty rare and far in between. Firefox had a brief stint of being popular in the late 2000s, Valve is doing some cool stuff with SteamOS/Proton but I can't think of much else of the the top of my head.

Otherwise it's usually companies like Google or Apple which use OSS as a base layer for their closed down and proprietary platforms.

PostmarketOS is cool but its a product niche targeted a very tiny subset of consumers (just like Linux on desktop for that matter).
by ddingus | 2025-10-29 17:11:29+00:00
378 pixels, 1bpp

The Phosphenes[0] patients sense will depend on what is left of the retina. People using earlier systems reported some interpolation happened. Maybe that is true of this device too.

[0] - that is the name for the image the brain manifests in response to signals received by the visual cortex. Most of us experience them when we close our eyes and rub them, or maybe just see stuff that is unreal.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-29 17:11:37+00:00
Thanks for covering the software support side of things; that's always been the worst part of the ecosystem, and annoyingly hard to get info on.

On which note: Oh, wow, the Radxa Dragon Q6A looks great! Mainline support, good hardware, good price. Once it's back in stock I may have to buy one:)
by medvezhenok | 2025-10-29 17:12:23+00:00
Indeed. But the unintended consequence (perhaps) of LLMs making things easier to use is that more people will use them - basically Jevons paradox.

I would expect that this will cause certain programs to see more demand than the creators anticipated for (extrapolating previous trends), which might require changes in the programs (i.e. more people apply for benefits than expected, benefits / application might have to be cut, etc).

And in some ways there's a Cantillon effect (though traditionally associated with proximity to the "money printer", but here the proximity is to the LLM-enablement; in that those who use the LLMs first can get the benefit before the rules are changed).
by bluGill | 2025-10-29 17:13:10+00:00
Which is why we need to ban together. Libreoffice isn't dominate, but it has enough market share that it can't be completely ignored. Also if you are using it you are not alone - you are an annoying deviation, but there are enough of you that many cannot ignore you. The more people who also use libreoffice the more power we have. If we can get to just 5% market share we cannot be ignored. (it need not be libreoffice, there are other choices that support that file format well enough which is what we care about.)
by boston_clone | 2025-10-29 17:13:25+00:00
touching back on this -

United States senators are openly admitting that they are determining ways to "work around" the constitutionality [0].

Pair that with continued purges of non-loyalists by SecDef, and yeah - this is a potential reality we cannot afford to dismiss offhandedly.

0. https://packaged-media.redd.it/57z4o0bjr1yf1/pb/m2-res_480p....
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-29 17:14:16+00:00
> Who else is using formal methods or safety critical stacks like ADA/Spark?

This is not actually as common as many people seem to believe. The mandate died almost two decades ago. DOD aircraft fly on Fortran, JOVIAL, C, and C++ more than Ada. And DOD IT systems are a clusterfuck.

> It's one of the few sectors that still plan software upfront waterfall style

That's not the good thing you seem to think it is.

Also, why do you call it ADA? It's not an acronym. Amusingly, SPARK is, or was, and you write it as "Spark". It originally stood for "SPADE Ada Kernel" and the language continues to be stylized as SPARK.
by kragen | 2025-10-29 17:14:43+00:00
Surprised by your comment, I took a gander at graphviz; it's about a quarter of a million lines of code if you discount lib/sparse/color_palette.c and lib/edgepaint/lab_gamut.c, which are hundreds of thousands of lines of data values. This is much more than I expected.

If you want something that builds diagrams from textual descriptions, you might want to check out TikZ, which includes a subset of graphviz but also lets you draw anything you want. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGF/TikZ. On the other hand, you won't have the rapid visual feedback you get with WYSIWYG drawing editors like FigJam.
by lovestory | 2025-10-29 17:14:54+00:00
I would assume many consumers are gonna have to switch to more of DIY approach for many tasks that required some domain expertise. For example, most of my friends completely stopped buying useless skincare products because chatgpt would make them a table of INCI list and explain them the benefit of the ingredient. Turns out most of products are BS. Vitamin C doesn't even penetrate the deeper skin layer, it just evaporates on your skin. My bet is that many companies will have hard time marketing on customer's naivety.
by immibis | 2025-10-29 17:14:58+00:00
There is an objective truth, but many people know it by the alternative name "left-wing bias". You see the problem? (Or, if you prefer, pretend I wrote "right-wing bias")

Flat earth may be a better example, since everyone HN user is hopefully a round-earther. Suppose you are talking to someone who thinks the earth is flat. Flat-earth belief used to be a joke, one or two decades ago, but now these debates actually happen with some regularity and the round-earther never wins. Do you think you could do better than every other round-earther? The proverb about playing chess with a pigeon is relevant here. What you call "objective reality", they all "round-earth bias".
by espeed | 2025-10-29 17:15:20+00:00
Due to the dynamic nature of the Web, URLs don't map to what you've seen. If I visit a URL at a certain time, the content I see is different than the content you see or even if I visit the same URL later. For example, if we want to know the tweets I'm seeing are the same as the tweets you're seeing and haven't been subtly modified by an AI, how do you do that? In the age of AI programming people, this will be important.
by WillAdams | 2025-10-29 17:16:12+00:00
Yes, fortunately. I despair of what I'm going to do when I no longer have such an option. Cenon is clunky, Inkscape's cross-platform nature keeps it from having many interface aspects which I depend on, and I'd rather give up digital drawing than use Adobe Illustrator (which despite using since v3.2 on college lab Macs and on my NeXT Cube I never found comfortable).

The designer/typeface are Warren Chappell's Trajanus, and his unreleased Eichenauer --- I read _The Living Alphabet_ (and his cousin Oscar Ogg's _The 26 Letters_) when I was very young, and met him briefly on a school field trip back when he was Artist-in-Residence at UVA and did a fair bit of research in their Rare Book Room, and even had a sample of the metal type (missing one character unfortunately).

It is currently stalled at my having scanned and drawn up one of each letter at each size which I have available, but only having two letters, _N_ and _n_ in all sizes --- probably shouldn't worry that much about the optical axis, since it was cut in metal in one master size and the other sizes made using a pantograph, but there were _some_ adjustments which I'd like to preserve. There is a digital version of Trajanus available, but it's based on the phototype. I've been working at recreating each character using METAFONT, encompassing the optical size variation in that programmatically, but it's been slow going (and once I'm done, I then have to work out how to make it into outlines....)
by constantcrying | 2025-10-29 17:16:22+00:00
You have to be kidding! Have you worked on any of these projects?

I wrote DO-178 Software, literally every single project I ever worked on has trivial login credentials.

>DOD software is given huge budgets where it's not surprising to see 3 separate teams performing QA for one software milestone. It's one of the few sectors that still plan software upfront waterfall style and implement strict procedures for traceability, change management, etc. Who else is using formal methods or safety critical stacks like ADA/Spark?

None of this matters or contradicts what I said. You will be able to get into it with user:root password:root or some variation. In all likelihood you will even find a requirement for this, which is of course verified.

If you apply the methodology practiced to a web application, the OP is exactly what you will get.
by whalesalad | 2025-10-29 17:16:34+00:00
The word "blinders" really stood out to me in this. Does anyone have a recommendation for something that is literally like horse blinders but for people? I genuinely feel like my peripheral vision is "too adept" and overwhelming sometimes. If I cup my hands around my temples and over my brow, I feel a sense of calm. Trying to find a real product that does this - but I suppose I could just try to prototype my own with an old baseball hat or visor that has some vertical pieces on the side.
by tim333 | 2025-10-29 17:16:38+00:00
I'm not sure I see that, depending what you mean by crypto liquidation. If you mean the prices of dogecoin etc. falling then that mostly just effects the number of Tethers changing hands between one speculator and another and wouldn't really affect the bond market.

If you mean Tether holders redeeming them for US dollars, that would involve selling treasuries but I doubt it would drive the price down that much. That's a very liquid market.