MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnldean0 | 2025-10-21 18:05:12+00:00
WindBorne cofounder CEO (John Dean) here -- Thanks, indeed I think that a strike to the cockpit glass, in the corner where there is more stress concentration, is one of the worst places to hit for human safety. And indeed the system was designed to be safe in the event of a collision.

But still, in light of this I think we can do better. I think it's possible to operate the way we do and have a the mass distributed such that the only damage is ever cosmetic. We follow FAA 101 regulations on this but I want to have better internal impact modeling as well.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-21 18:05:12+00:00
In 2022, I had the ILX and upgraded to a BMW I4 EV. An electric Acura Integra, I would have been all over that in a heartbeat...but they just had an Acura SUV EV that was a GM Blazer knockoff. Honda has really been slipping in EVs, unfortunately.
by jdoliner | 2025-10-21 18:05:12+00:00
Throughout most of the non-US parts of the western world voting works quite well using paper ballots and hand counts. Any organization treating voting like a tech problem is willfully oblivious of the existing very good low-tech solutions. I think the intention is often good. But tech is also a new vector for attacking elections, so sometimes it's malicious. And it's very hard to tell the difference, and with elections even the appearance of interference is risky. We should outright reject technical solutions to voting, all it does is add risk.
by devjab | 2025-10-21 18:05:14+00:00
I have smart lighting, but that's only because it means I can turn everything in the area living and eating room on/off with a single button/switch (not sure what the right English term is). In a typical Danish townhouse like mine that would be 4-8 buttons otherwise.

If I had an electrician redo the wiring, I'd do the same thing without the "smart".
by seizethecheese | 2025-10-21 18:05:16+00:00
I find the hike itself more meaningful than the searching for it. If an LLM can recommend be me a better hike, I’m all for it.

The word choice here: “you’ll be told what to do” doesn’t really reflect my experience with LLMs. You can always ask for more recommendations or push back.

(As an aside, I’ve found LLMs to be terrible for recommending books.)
by hn_acc1 | 2025-10-21 18:05:18+00:00
So let's say everything is cheap - will that lower housing prices? Grocery prices? Energy prices?

Or will the cheapest provider gobble everyone else up and then raise prices to maximize marginal revenue / whatever everyone can bear? For example, imagine if Oracle (or whoever you want) somehow wins the AI price wars and completely owns every energy company, every housing company, every farm on earth, every bank, etc. You think they'll LOWER prices to make life easy for everyone? When they'll know exactly just how much you can pay each month to still survive and not riot?
by giobox | 2025-10-21 18:05:26+00:00
> Hasn't the ISO to install W11 now gotten too large to be burned to the biggest DVD?

No.

The Windows 11 media creation tool still officially supports creating a DVD installer from ISO image for Windows 11 (including the latest 25H2 release), alongside USB drives etc. The requirements for the DVD version are still the same 8gb of space it has been for a while. As of today, the ISO is 7.2GB.

Virtually everyone uses a bootable USB thumbdrive or similar today though, and page you download the ISO from heavily encourages this, and is trivial to make with the Installation Media tool Microsoft give you.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11
by chuckadams | 2025-10-21 18:06:12+00:00
Voiden looks really promising, so I installed it to get started, and here's my hot takes so far before even using it.

* The text is tiny for my old eyes. I figured there's probably a setting for it and hit Cmd-, and found there's no settings UI whatsoever. No keyboard shortcut either it seems, and no help menu either, so no searching for "keyboard" with Shift-Cmd-/

* .void files may be markdown, but no markdown editor will recognize it as such. Maybe support .void.md as well. I also couldn't find any way to edit the markdown source of a .void file from voiden, which is a bit ironic for a tool that loudly advertises the markdown format as a central feature.

* Could there be a block that expands into the full URL of the request and parameters above it (or perhaps as args)? How about another that renders as a cURL command, which would cover POST/PUT/PATCH requests nicely too. My API documentation always has cURL request examples and I detest writing them by hand.

* While I'm suggesting blocks, one that renders the response headers/body to the preceding request would also be handy. It should support a placeholder response that gets replaced when the request is actually run (and perhaps a "save" button to persist it in the markdown). Responses get long, so maybe have a max-height for the block and make it scrollable

I'm actually really excited about Voiden and hope these can be addressed. It has a similar feel to Jetbrains' .http format, but an evolutionary leap beyond it. It also feels really raw and unfinished.
by BasilPH | 2025-10-21 18:06:17+00:00
Atlas feels like a Dia clone. I’ve used Dia for a couple months, but rarely touch the ChatGPT integration—quick answers go to Kagi with “?”, and deeper work goes to Claude or ChatGPT directly. The “reference a bunch of open tabs” workflow just isn’t common for me. Dia’s free-tier limits don’t help, and since I already pay for Claude and ChatGPT, I’m not adding another $20/month for overlapping features.

Curious how Atlas stacks up against Dia.

It also makes me think the right approach is AI at the OS level. At the end of the day, it’s reading text and writing it back into text boxes. Surprised Apple hasn’t gone further than a hidden right‑click “writing assistant.”
by whynotminot | 2025-10-21 18:06:19+00:00
I got a few paragraphs into this piece before rolling my eyes and putting it down.

I consider myself an engineer — a problem solver. Like you said, code is just the means to solve the problems put before me.

I’m just as content if solving the problem turns out to be a process change or user education instead of a code commit.

I have no fetish for my terminal window or IDE.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-21 18:06:29+00:00
You may not be aware, but Joe DeCuir, who worked for Atari on the VCS and 8-bit computers, also worked on the development of USB. Some of his Atari engineering notes helped fend off a patent troll who tried to claim USB was infringing. It's a neat story. There are a ton of interviews with him about it. He gave a nice presentation at VCF a few years ago where it was mentioned, too: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dlVpu_QSHyw
by elric | 2025-10-21 18:06:51+00:00
The more I see shit like this, the more I want to pursue my little fantasy job of starting a factory that builds dumb devices. A simple microwave. A simple dishwasher. Stuff that isn't connected to any garbage cloud and just works. No touchscreens. Just physical buttons. Something that works equally well for elderly as for us geeks.

Oh well, I guess it'll remain a fantasy.
by knuckleheads | 2025-10-21 18:07:05+00:00
> Creative puzzle-solving is left to the machines, and we become mere operators disassociated from our craft.

For me, at least, this has not been the case. If I leave the creative puzzle-solving to the machine, it's gonna get creative alright, and create me a mess to clean up. Whether this will be true in the future, hard to say. But, for now, I am happy to let the machines write all the React code I don't feel like writing while I think about other things.

Additionally, as an aside, I already don't think coding is always a craft. I think we want it to be one because it gives us the aura of craftspeople. We want to imagine ourselves as bent over a hunk of marble, carving a masterpiece in our own way, in our time. And for some of us, that is true. For most programmers in human history though, they were already slinging slop before anybody had coined the term. Where is the inherent dignity and human spirit on display in the internal admin tool at a second tier insurance company? Certainly, there is business value there, but it doesn't require a Michalengo to make something that takes in a pdf and spits out a slightly changed pdf.

Most code is already industrial code, which is precisely the opposite of code as craft. We are dissociated from the code we write, the company owns it, not us, which is by definition the opposite of a craftsmen and craft mode of production. I think AI is putting a finer, sharper point on this, but it was already there and has been since the beginning of the field.
by avazhi | 2025-10-21 18:07:06+00:00
Writing is thinking, so they necessarily outsourced their thinking to an LLM. As far as the quality of the writing goes, that’s a separate question, but we are nowhere close to LLMs being better, more creative, and more interesting writers than even just decent human writers. But if we were, it wouldn’t change the perversion inherent in using an LLM here.
by synapsomorphy | 2025-10-21 18:07:09+00:00
Sharepoint is one of the worst, most bug-ridden softwares I've worked with.

It has a bug with Solidworks (3D design suite) that sporadically makes files completely un-openable unless you go in and change some metadata. They are aware of this, doesn't seem to be any limitation preventing them from fixing it, and it has sat unfixed for years.

Microsoft's cloud storage as a whole is an insane tangle where you never know where you'll find something you're looking for or whether it will work. Some things work only in browser, some only in the app, zero enumeration of these things anywhere.

Completely unsurprised and I'm sure there are many more vulnerabilities ripe for the picking.
by artvepa | 2025-10-21 18:07:10+00:00
Hey everyone — thanks for checking out Hefesto!

I built this after getting frustrated with traditional linters (flake8, pylint, etc.) that only catch syntax or style issues, not logical drift. In large Python projects, I noticed we often had multiple implementations of the same business rule — all valid syntactically, but inconsistent logically.

Example: apply_discount() in one file used price * 0.8, while another used price * 0.85 for the same user type. Tests passed, linting passed — yet production behavior diverged. Hefesto was designed to detect exactly this kind of semantic mismatch before commit.

How it works:

Parses your codebase, extracts function-level representations.

Uses sentence-transformers to build semantic embeddings for each function.

Compares them to spot near-duplicates with divergent logic.

Optionally uses an OpenAI model to propose normalized fixes or highlight intent mismatches.

Runs as a FastAPI service or CLI (hefesto analyze --project myapp/) integrated with pre-commit or CI/CD.

I’m especially interested in feedback on:

scaling to large repos (>100K LOC),

balancing false positives vs. meaningful matches,

and whether it makes sense to generalize to TypeScript or Go next.

Repo (MIT): https://github.com/artvepa80/Agents-Hefesto

Happy to answer any technical questions or share benchmarks if people are curious.
by sothatsit | 2025-10-21 18:07:28+00:00
Most people here could choose to work less than full-time hours if they wanted to. I already do (although I do it so I can work more on my own projects, to be fair).

Although, maybe going against the hedonic treadmill is against our nature. There’s always a nicer house in a better neighbourhood to work for. But I at least want more people to have the choice to work fewer hours through higher wages. That might not come for free with economic growth, but it certainly won’t come without it.
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-10-21 18:07:54+00:00
I don't disagree.

Social/economic stratification (to a certain degree) makes sense as long as there is a reasonable amount of social mobility. AGI paired with advanced robotics seems as though it would all but eliminate social mobility. What would your options be? Politics, celebrity, or a small number of jobs where the human element is essential? I think the economic system needs to dramatically change if/when we reach that point (and ideally before, so people don't suffer in the transition).
by dmitrygr | 2025-10-21 18:07:55+00:00
Wish granted: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm

I've been porting it to various devices, eg: https://x.com/dmitrygr/status/1980508960538099856, https://www.hackster.io/news/def-con-32-s-raspberry-pi-rp235...,

and possibly soon: https://x.com/dmitrygr/status/1978263373012717592
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-21 18:08:04+00:00
"I pay to remove ads so my experience with a neutered adblocker isn't as bad" is a weird take.

If you think the end game is companies deciding they're comfortable with removing ads in exchange for a subscription, rather than a subscription with a gradually increasing amount of ads, then I have a bridge to sell you.

I support the creators I watch by donating to them directly.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-21 18:08:14+00:00
> When you find an employer that is happy to pay people to not work, let me know because I also want to work there.

This was most employers during COVID :-)

I worked fewer hours, and still got more done than most of my team. Since I didn't come to office, no one knew. As long as I responded to emails/messages in a timely fashion, no one cared.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-10-21 18:08:16+00:00
> According to a recent Wired investigation, AI start-ups in Silicon Valley have begun to adopt 996-style work schedules.

The Wired article seems to be mostly focused on situations where employees are compensated for working this lifestyle. Aside from that - they discuss how AI _founders_ are doing this to keep up with things. The former surprises me (a little - it wouldn't surprise me to see companies doing this _somewhere_ in the US pre-ChatGPT). The latter doesn't really surprise me at all. Typical founder hustle culture.

A better title would be AI is making startup founders hustle harder [and they are trying to normalize this workload across their (small but growing) companies). NOT "AI Is Making [All Of] Us Work More".
by jancsika | 2025-10-21 18:08:27+00:00
I mean, you left yourself open to that glib, low-effort criticism when you wrote this:

> no software or programmable hardware

That's obviously too stringent. Consider:

1. Precinct hand-counts every single paper ballot bubble sheet.

2. Precinct hand-counts every single paper ballot bubble sheet, then confirms the hand count by feeding all the ballots into an electronic bubble-sheet reader.

Your claim is that #1 is more trustworthy than #2. That's an extraordinary claim that requires more evidence than two youtube links!

Edit: to be clear, I want the requirement that all voting must be paper ballots like the human-readable bubble sheets mentioned above. But saying that no software or programmable hardware can be used "in the election process" is so extreme that it sounds like a parody of my own position.
by Centigonal | 2025-10-21 18:08:49+00:00
> But deep down devops are developers who just want to get their thing running, so they'll google/serveroverflow their way into production without any desire to learn the intricacies of the underlying system. So when something breaks, they're SOL.

Depends on the devops team. I have worked with so many devops engineers who came from network engineering, sysadmin, or SecOps backgrounds. They all bring a different perspective and set of priorities.
by BurningFrog | 2025-10-21 18:08:55+00:00
The US federal government spends $20B per day. It could end world hunger without even noticing the expense if it really only cost $40B/year. But of course, that number is complete nonsense.

Here is your intellectual mistake: Wealth isn't fixed. Musk didn't take his fortune from anyone else. He has been part of creating a huge amount of new wealth in his companies.

Tesla didn't use to exist. Now it's worth $1500B. That's new wealth, and Musk owns a part of it.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-21 18:09:03+00:00
> But you wouldn't get paid for that.f

Maybe you wouldn't, but you definitely should. Knowledge workers aren't paid for their labor (in the form of me trading my time and effort for wages), knowledge workers are paid for impact. I'm trading my ability to reason, decide, and create value for the company.

I'm valuable not because I sit at a desk and type for 8 hours. I'm valuable because the outputs of my thinking help move the company forward. My employer isn't buying 8 hours of my time , they're buying the outputs that come from expertise and judgement.

So if I automate something, the company still receives the same value the pay me for whether I perform the task manually or build something that automates it. I work in ops, so if I use ansible and a script to automate patching 100 servers instead of doing it by hand, my employers gets the same result: patched systems. The automation didn't diminish my contribution, it proved it. I get paid the same either way.

In essence, my salary is a retainer. It's payment to keep my expertise availalbe, and working for my employers instead of someone else. It's not payment for activity or time.
by vannventures | 2025-10-21 18:09:18+00:00
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by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-21 18:09:18+00:00
Yes, they are hiring for it. They want you to use their own apps instead of a web browser so that blocking tech cannot be created for it.

https://sandstormdigital.com/2025/10/16/openai-is-building-i...

https://www.contentgrip.com/openai-internal-ad-infrastructur...
by clearleaf | 2025-10-21 18:09:20+00:00
Where I come from this was a widely held belief by the end of the 2000's: If you raise a child in an overly sterile environment and/or feed them a very limited diet, they are much more likely to develop a bad immune system and allergies. It was also believed that this idea came from science, but I guess not?

Here's an early preview for the next bombshell of this area. Breastfeeding is extremely beneficial. "Infant formula" should not be the main thing a baby is consuming.

To me it discredits science a lot more when things like this are treated as arcane or brand new knowledge. It's good when we can lock in reasoned beliefs as definite fact, instead of just reasoning which is often incomplete or flat out wrong. But when it's right and people act like this about it, it just makes it look like "scientists" know less about the world than my grandma, and that my grandma would make better calls on national health policy than the people currently in charge. Obviously that's not the case but I wouldn't be unjustified in thinking that during times like this.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-21 18:09:32+00:00
Additionally all the flaws regarding it being designed for teaching and the raise of dialects, were already fixed by 1978 with Modula-2, which Niklaus Wirth than created, with the learnings from Mesa at Xerox PARC.

Later, we also got the managed language genealogy, via Modula-2+ branch, and Niklaus Wirth own Oberon variants, or inspired dialects from it.

Nowadays GCC has Ada, Modula-2 and Algol 68 as official frontend, we have Free Pascal and Delphi.

Then we also have all the other modern ones that somehow got some inspiration out this history.

Thus we as an industry aren't lacking alternatives.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-21 18:09:45+00:00
Is it possible that people who already managed to get access (that they confirmed) has been waiting for any hiccups in AWS infrastructure in order to hide among the chaos when it happens? So maybe the access token was exposed weeks/months ago, but instead of going ahead directly, idle until there is something big going on.

Certainly feels like an strategy I'd explore if I was on that side of the aisle.
by musjleman | 2025-10-21 18:09:54+00:00
Why is this AI slop here? The "author" deleted his twitter account and added the disclaimer at the top of this post that it's all written by AI and he's not an actual "programmer or reverse engineer".

The fact that nonsense like this gets likes amazes me. You take an emulator, you know a thing whose entire purpose is to evaluate instructions without actually executing them, "bypass" something with overcomplicated and unnecessary hardware breakpoints usage (what exactly is the point of not just catching the access violation instead? Or why do you need to cause an exception at all to emulate the instructions?) and release it with some awful POC that's also AI generated.
by oivey | 2025-10-21 18:10:11+00:00
It’s not a non-sequitur. The thesis behind the push for in person paper is predicated on the idea that it makes it prohibitively difficult to steal an election. That’s demonstrably untrue based on current and historical examples.

As another example, you don’t have to swap the ballots at all. Somewhere in the chain of custody, someone could just “lose” ballots for a region that is projected to vote against whoever they’re trying to fix the election for. They could forge or lose some other accompanying paperwork that was to manage those ballots, too. Or they could not bother doing that either because what are you going to do, redo the election?

Cooking up examples is sort of pointless. There are always going to be new and unexpected ways to commit fraud. The actual root issue isn’t technological. It’s sociological trust.
by risyachka | 2025-10-21 18:10:20+00:00
Its like a factory.

First things were made by hand, slowly - they were expensive and you could make a living making things.

Now those things are made in factories.

And they are 99% automated - like where software is going.

And whats left is to be a mindless factory worker doing repetitive things all day for a living wage.

But hey, you are so productive - now you make 100k items in a day. Must feel nice.
by gaogao | 2025-10-21 18:10:20+00:00
Yeah, I don't think surrealism or constructed is good in the early data mix, but as part of mid or post-training seems generally reasonable. But also, this is one of those cases where anthropomorphizing the model probably doesn't work, since a major negative effect of Cocomelon is kids only wanting to watch Cocomelon, while for large model training, it doesn't have much choice in the training data distribution.
by valbaca | 2025-10-21 18:10:24+00:00
> ask if dairy is ok

> "we're in that part of town."

Given that lactose intolerance impacts non-caucasians much more, this reeks of racism

Lactose intolerance Prevalence by Race:

African Americans: 75-95%

Asian Americans: 70-90%

Native Americans: 70-80%

Hispanic Americans: 50-65%

Caucasians: 15-25%