MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by econ | 2025-10-11 16:50:42+00:00
I use to wire houses. (Here all wires go in tubes.) The absurdity of not adding a few empty tubes for later use endlessly amazed me.

I think I've done only one house where the owner wanted to be able to put speakers in every corner of every room on every floor with multiple possible locations for his stereo.

Then he wanted multiple cable tv connections per room, multiple sockets for landlines, Ethernet everywhere.

The speaker tube was left empty and a few short distance sockets didn't have wires in them.

It seemed excessive even to me but it isn't actually a lot of work to run 5 tubes in stead of 1. You might add 1-2% to the renovation bill. Even less for a new house.

The end result was wonderful. He could do his chores with music all over the house. Move his TV sofa bed or desk where ever he wanted.

Doing this after the house is finished is more expensive, it takes a lot more work and the result is inferior.

I think nowadays we should have an USB socket next to each power outlet that provides both internet and extra fast charging. In reality I've never even seen such socket.

With a few small updates Android could switch off wifi and mobile networking and seamlessly switch to calling over 
wifi
 wired internet when you plug in the charging cable.

Who knows, maybe the mobile phone could even be a first class citizen in the landline network.
by hansmayer | 2025-10-11 16:51:28+00:00
>"Amplifier is a complete development environment that takes AI coding assistants and supercharges them with discovered patterns, specialized expertise, and powerful automation — turning a helpful assistant into a force multiplier that can deliver complex solutions with minimal hand-holding."

Again this "supercharging" nonsense? Maybe in Satiyas confabulated AI-powered universe, but not in the real world I am afraid...
by paulddraper | 2025-10-11 16:52:25+00:00
!!!

A payment, bill, price, etc has a particular currency.

For example, 59.95 Australian dollars:

In en-AU locale, that is $59,95.

In en-US locale, that is 59.95 AUD or AU$59.95.

Either way, the quantity and units are the same, but they are presented differently.

In some cases, there may be currency exchange services. That will depend on the current exchange rate, and possibly exchange fees. And yes, that will take some more work. But that’s a fundamentally distinct concept than pure presentation of a monetary amount.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-11 16:52:28+00:00
The problem open-source, and social media, and everything digital, has never overcome is accountability. Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?

Combine that with most small businesses having more money than time (just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host), and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship.
by Galanwe | 2025-10-11 16:52:29+00:00
My work involves a lot of time series analysis, as such I'm often dealing with intervals.

While the overlap algorithm (or rather "condition") is cute, there a lot more "cool" stuff to do with intervals, which I would have liked to see in there.

- Checking whether multiple intervals overlap

- Checking whether multiple intervals are contiguous

- Merging contiguous intervals

- Etc..

From experience, something is also crucial when working with intervals: trivially knowing which boundaries are closed and which are opened. I found that defining a strict vocabulary helps a lot here. e.g. "last" is "inclusive", while "end" is exclusive.

[closed; opened[ intervals are also the best when dealing with time intervals (if that makes sense in your use case), because you can trivially join them.
by bentt | 2025-10-11 16:52:58+00:00
Yes this post-Jobs era smells just like the Scully + Amelio era, just with a stronger start. iOS was a massive tee-up for Cook and he's done everything possible to leverage it. Now it's time for a new visionary to step in. Unfortunately I can't think of an example in the history of companies where the visionary founder was followed by a visionary. The more likely outcome is the company stagnates forever.
by _se | 2025-10-11 16:53:05+00:00
Complete nonsense. Your understanding of investment is entirely flawed. Dividends are one element of the value of a stock, but there are many, many others. Chiefly, the expectation that the stock will rise in value such that you can later sell it for more than you purchased it for.

A parallel to draw very easily is an investment in commodities. Those will never pay a dividend, so therefore they're worthless? Obviously not, you invest in them because you expect their value to rise. Same with a stock.

An asset is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. That is its value. Intrinsic value is an element, but not the most important one.
by ludamn | 2025-10-11 16:53:06+00:00
That looks beautiful, it might be a silly question but why hasn't anyone pushed for rebuilding them? It's kinda sad to see NY without these towers, it's a silent reminder that terror once won. I know it would probably be very expensive, but I wonder why nobody thought of rebuilding these, even if as a symbolic token that people can reemerge after tragedy.
by simonw | 2025-10-11 16:54:07+00:00
I recommend it strongly because the "skills" mechanism it describes is a new and very promising technique, and this is the best article I've seen that explains that.

It's "wild" because, among many other experiments, Jesse has experimented with giving Claude a "feelings journal" and prompting it using Graphviz DOT diagrams.

For my previous writing and work on this you can consult my blog - here's the AI-assisted programming tag: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/
by machardMAXHARD | 2025-10-11 16:54:07+00:00
A job description for a role that doesn't quite exist yet, but probably should.

The premise: Run a modular rack of Mac minis at home. Cooperate with (not "manage") Ethereum validators, EigenLayer restaking for arbitrary protocols, and domain-specialized AI models exploring whatever interests you—art, biology, philosophy, code, whatever.

Two paths in:

1. Capital holder: Own 32 ETH (~$70k+), run your own validators, earn 3-6% APR

2. Infrastructure operator: Just hardware ($3-8k Mac mini rack), operate validators for others via SSV Network (distributed validator tech), get paid for uptime and reliability

The second path is the interesting one. Liquid staking protocols (Lido, Rocket Pool) enable clean separation: capital holders provide stake, technical operators run infrastructure. You don't need to be an ETH whale to participate in decentralized coordination infrastructure.

Hardware: 2-4 Mac mini M4 Pro units (16-core GPU, 64GB RAM), add/remove on demand, 120-240W total. Run validators for any EigenLayer protocol (not just Ethereum—oracles, bridges, rollups, DA layers). Run local 3B AI models with LoRA adapters (30-50 tok/sec, no cloud dependency, domain-specialized not general-purpose).

The language matters: "cooperating with" not "managing". Horizontal coordination, not vertical hierarchy. The infrastructure runs itself; you maintain conditions for it to function.

Is this production-ready? Partially. Ethereum staking works today. SSV Network enables the operator path. EigenLayer AVS are launching. Local AI models are fast enough. The full vision is aspirational, but the components exist.

This is meant as an invitation—what would it look like to make infrastructure operation accessible to technical people without capital barriers? To separate coordination work from wealth accumulation? To run general-purpose productive substrates at home instead of renting compute from megacorps?

Exploratory thinking, not a business plan. Curious what HN thinks.
by trod1234 | 2025-10-11 16:54:20+00:00
Eric, I think it appropriate to mention, and I'd like to point out the lack of any real documentation (reaching a professional level) related to PSL on the professional working groups touching on these things (i.e. M3AAWG).

There are only two blog posts on M3AAWG in 2023 where it had been used silently (apparently for years), but was calling for support. I would think if it were an industry recognized initiative it would have the appropriate documents/whitepapers published on it in the industry working group tasked with these things. These people are supposed to be engineer's after all. AFAIK this hasn't happened aside from a brief-after-action with requests for support which is highly problematic.

When there is no professional outreach (via working group or trade group), its real hard to say that this isn't just gross negligence on google's part. M3AAWG has hundreds if not thousand's of whitepapers each hundreds of pages. A single blog post or two that mention it insufficiently, won't rationally negate this claim supporting gross negligence.

Why do I mention Gross negligence?, when coupled with loss, it is sufficient in many cases to support a finding of 'malice' without specific intent (i.e. general intent), especially when such an entity has little/no credibility, but is overshadowed by power/authority that is undeserved. Deceitful people that reasonably should know the consequences will go bad, often purposefully structure towards general intent to avoid legal complications and the legal system has evolved. I am not a lawyer, but this paraphrase about gross negligence/general intent/malice did come from a lawyer, its not meant or intended for use as legal advice in paraphrase form, so standard IANAL disclaimer applies. If the that is needed, consult a qualified professional for a specific distinction on this.

The company is more than technically capable of narrowly defining blacklists and providing due process and appropriate noticing requirements.

The situation begs questions of torturous interference, and whether the PSL is being used as an anti-competive mechanistic moat to prevent competitors from entering the market by imposing additional cost arbitrarily on competitors that is assymetric to the costs such companies have with competing services (as oligopoly/monopoly).
by imtringued | 2025-10-11 16:54:26+00:00
That's a lot of words to say that Tesla's self driving software is not ready yet and is undeserving of the name "full self driving".

Externalising the blame to regulators is pretty embarrassing, because regulations are flexible with respect to how well self driving cars work.

Why would Tesla be scared of having liability for a self driving car that drives better than humans? Shifting the liability to the driver who is merely sitting in the car and only exists for regulatory reasons and never controls the car is illogical in the case of the car never getting into an accident or violating traffic rules.

Additionally, it is still illogical even in the case of an accident as the driver did nothing to bring about the accident or traffic rule violation. Their existence as a backup can only prevent such things from occurring.

Assuming adversity from the driver is just one more reason to take control away from humans. E.g. the driver disengaged the self driving features to produce an accident on purpose as liability was shifted to Tesla.

Supervision appears to be extremely suboptimal for Tesla with no conceivable upside if we trust your word that regulations are holding them back from full self driving without the supervision disclaimer.

If anything, they have an incentive for locking out drivers from driving their cars manually. You should be paying for manual control instead of paying for full self driving.
by evanjrowley | 2025-10-11 16:54:38+00:00
Those laptop provisioning experiences sound great. I too found myself working from & deploying software to AWS Workspaces - cloud VDI seems like a great solution for a lot of businesses.

My remote work journey started with IBM in 2015. A few team members got Macs while the rest were issued beefy ThinkPads. It was one of the first large organizations I've seen that intentionally chose not to use Active Directory for their PC fleets. Unsurprisingly, IBM had IT service centers globally distributed. Despite the wider availability of service centers, I also installed extra storage and RAM myself on that ThinkPad.

It's great that remote work has taken off especially since Covid-19.
by rf15 | 2025-10-11 16:55:06+00:00
I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand what "the app was closed" means. A lot of people think that all processing goes to the visible foreground app, but that hasn't been true since the late DOS era. Please learn what's what in the system you're using. Clearly it was running in the background because you onlly had another app or the home acreen open.
by srean | 2025-10-11 16:55:09+00:00
This seemingly no-brainer of a task becomes more intellectually interesting than what you may think on first contact (pun intended).

More so when you have to distinguish between the different types of overlap and non overlap and carry through the reasoning over a chain of overlap/no-overlap relations. I sure underestimated it.

The one dimensional case is covered(there you go again) by Allen algebra. The more richer notion is that of topological relations. I will find the Wikipedia pages and post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%27s_interval_algebra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region_connection_calculus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_relation

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DE-9IM

Interval trees, range trees help if you have a large static set of interval like objects against which you have to relate a query object.
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-11 16:55:09+00:00
The browser with the best content blocking options is the best browser and at this moment that means Firefox ends up on top. Now that Mozilla is slow-walking towards doing ad-related things themselves I'm no longer running the branded versions but choose F-Droid's Fennec instead. If ever a browser with better content blocking shows up I'll give it a good look and might switch if it turns out to be at least on the same level as Firefox/Fennec.

That's telling for the state of the web but alas, that's where we are. You give them an inch (-high banner ad) and they'll take a mile (-wide page-covering all-encompassing data-slurping javascript monstrosity).
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-11 16:55:11+00:00
It's the heart of the problem with all software engineer research. That's why we have so little reliable knowledge.

It applies to using LLMs too. I guess the one largest difference here is that LLM has few enough companies with abundant enough money pushing it to make it trivial for them to run a test like this. So the fact that they aren't doing that also says a lot.
by pkulak | 2025-10-11 16:55:16+00:00
> side effect of adaptive HTTPS streaming

Adaptive streaming isn't really adaptive anymore. If you have any kind of modern broadband, the most adaptive it will be is starting off in one of the lower bitrates for the first 6 seconds before jumping to the top, where it will stay for the duration of the stream. A lot of clients don't even bother with that anymore; they look at the manifest, find the highest stream, and just start there.
by comprev | 2025-10-11 16:55:28+00:00
When your code didn't work due to a typo in the magazine (surprisingly common!) or bug in the compiler itself, how did you fix it?

AI allows juniors to magically fix the mistakes or suggest an alternative solution without needing to _think_ themselves. It will cook up a script in seconds to approach the problem from a completely different angle.

I only use AI when I'm really stuck on something and enjoy learning new ways I had never even thought of before. This provides me another avenue to explore before asking AI to help again.
by clusterhacks | 2025-10-11 16:55:31+00:00
> This isnt science, or engineering. > This is voodoo.

I was struggling to find the exact reason this type of article bugs me so much, and I think "voodoo" is precisely the correct phrase to sum up my feelings.

I don't mean that as a judgement on the utility of LLMs or that reading about what different users have tried out to increase that utility isn't valuable. But if someone asked me how to most effectively get started with coding agents, my instinct is to answer (a) carefully and (b) probably every approach works somewhat.
by sefrost | 2025-10-11 16:55:41+00:00
It seems to me that most semantic HTML has helped third parties extract data from web pages for their own use. Perhaps if you are an important primary source of information like a government service that could be useful if it helps you advance your cause of sharing data, but I don’t think it is in the interest of most website operators if it reduces traffic to your site.

I understand that their are some accessibility benefits to some semantic HTML tags.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-11 16:55:43+00:00
At the end of 2023 the Nasdaq 100 was 15000, now it is 24200. The economy was better in 2023, before this "AI" nonsense and all the layoffs began.

The bubble is more isolated than in 2000. If "AI" crashes, tech companies might focus on real progress again.

At the beginning of 2019 the Nasdaq was at 6000 and the economy was even better, with ample jobs in the tech sector.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-11 16:55:54+00:00
It can be simultaneously the best we have, and well short of the best we want. It can be a remarkable achievement and fall short of the perceived goals.

That's fine.

Perhaps we can RL away some of this or perhaps there's something else we need. Idk, but this is the problem when engineers are the customer, designer, and target audience.
by agiacalone | 2025-10-11 16:55:54+00:00
I teach CS at a state university, specifically computer security. At the beginning of this semester, I did a poll of my students and asked if they use any form of ad-blocking. Less than a third of my students did, and not many more even knew about browsers other than Chrome or Safari. This was out of a class of ~110.

Granted, it's anecdotal, but if 66% of my upper-division CS students don't even know about Firefox and ad-blocking, than I seriously doubt many non-tech people do.

Similarly, after that lecture, I had a student come to my office hours and ask for more info about ad-blockers. I had them open up msn.com and showed them the large banner ad on the page. It took a few seconds for them to even realize they were being advertised to! I then showed them my browser, nice and ad-free.

I get the impression that people have gotten so used to ads flashing in their face that they gloss over them. But the damage is still done.
by oblio | 2025-10-11 16:56:06+00:00
> What you're getting at is the heart of the problem with the LLM hype train though, isn't it?

> "We should have rigorous evaluations of whether or not [thing] works." seems like an incredibly obvious thought.

Heh, I'd rephrase the first part to:

> What you're getting at is the heart of the problem with software development though, isn't it?
by blakeasm | 2025-10-11 16:56:10+00:00
Hi!

I got frustrated with having to set up a proper python project with pyproject.toml or setup.py any time I wanted to have some python code importable for my local scripts/misc stuff.

When I have an idea for a python library, I want to be able to try it right away and test it out in my own script writing before committing to setting up packaging.

I've created `nopkg` to ease this pain by allowing any module (.py file or folder of multiple .py files) to be made importable without a full pip install and packaging setup.

`nopkg install mymodule.py`

This enables quick iteration and re-use of custom utilities, as well as more easily sharing modules within small teams.

https://github.com/BlakeASmith/nopkg

Please create an issue on the github for any feature requests or feedback! I hope others will find this useful as I have
by t-3 | 2025-10-11 16:56:44+00:00
I can't help but think that Sony and AMD would be better off developing a GPU-style PCI-card module that has all their DRM and compute and storage on the board, and then selling consoles that are just normal gaming PCs in a conveniently-sized branded case with a PS card installed. If the card was sold separately at $3-400 it would instantly take over a chunk of the PC gaming market and upgrades would be easier.
by d_sem | 2025-10-11 16:56:54+00:00
This article left me wishing it was "How I'm using coding agents to do <x> task better"

I've been exploring AI for two years now. It's certainly upgraded itself from the toy classification to a basic utility. However, I increasingly run into its limitations and find reverting to pre-LLM ways of working more robust, faster, and more mentally sustainable.

Does someone have concrete examples of integrating LLM in a workflow that pushes state-of-the-art development practices & value creation further?
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-11 16:57:09+00:00
I am only on the first page and saw this blurb and was immediately annoyed.

@/Users/jesse/.claude/plugins/cache/Superpowers/...

The XDG spec has been out for decades now. Why are new applications still polluting my HOME? Also seems weird that real data would be put under a cache/ location, but whatever.
by kgwgk | 2025-10-11 16:57:13+00:00
> Analysts forecast that

Analyst did also forecast that. (And the company did better than forecast for a while and the stock continued to rise - until it didn’t.)

https://www.forbes.com/1999/03/26/mu4.html

This morning [Merrill Lynch computer hardware analyst and long-term Sun Micro bull Steve Milunovich] increased his price target to $140 a share, or 42 times his fiscal 2000 earnings estimate of $3.30 a share on sales of $13.9 billion. For fiscal 1999, he expects the company to have earnings of $2.79 a share and sales of $11.62 billion. "Sun is increasingly at the heart of Internet computing. Its stubbornness in developing its own technology is paying off," says Milunovich.
by tptacek | 2025-10-11 16:57:30+00:00
Tip: I very often use AI for inspiration. In this case, I ended up keeping a lot (not all) of the UI code it made, but I will very often prompt an agent, throw away everything it did, and redo it myself (manually!). I find the "zero to one" stage of creation very difficult and time consuming and AI is excellent at being my muse.

This right here is the single biggest win for coding agents. I see and directionally agree with all the concerns people have about maintainability and sprawl in AI-mediated projects. I don't care, though, because the moment I can get a project up on its legs, to where I can interact with some substantial part of its functionality and refine it, I'm off to the races. It's getting to that golden moment that constitutes 80% of what's costly about programming for me.

This is the part where I simply don't understand the objections people have to coding agents. It seems so self-evidently valuable --- even if you do nothing else with an agent, even if you literally throw all the code away.

PS

Put a weight on that bacon!
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 16:58:55+00:00
When did every mundane choice became a life-or-death calculation for you? Media buttons aren't footguns. Scooters aren't assassins.

The gap between reasonable caution and this kind of hypervigilance isn't wisdom, it's self-imposed paralysis.

Running pedestrian safety and keyboard shortcuts through the same catastrophic framework is a system that's eating itself - every interaction becomes a referendum on survival.

When people point out that you aren't serving yourself with this worldview, you seem to take the disagreement as proof that others just don't see what's coming.

That's not living... that's white-knuckling through existence, mistaking the grip for control.