MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cloverich | 2025-10-06 16:54:47+00:00
I think this puts the onus in the wrong direction. I _love_ LLM coding and write probably 70% of my code that way. But having seen its (current) limits, and building a few toy apps myself, I'd love to see examples of successful, complex products that are mostly vibe coded. Until I see that, I'll continue to believe the current crop of LLM is best suited for building prototypes, helping get initial ideas shipped, and helping speed up very experienced developers working in well trodden ground (i.e. mostly CRUD in popular languages / frameworks), because that's what most peoples experience is (at best - many here wouldn't be nearly as generous as my takes).
by mannyv | 2025-10-06 16:54:53+00:00
Terraform isn't there to resolve the complexity of aws, it's there so you can manage tour aws deploy more easily.

In fact, terraform exposes the complexity of AWS, since with terraform you need to hook everything up manually.

And avoiding vendor lock in is an illusion. Everyone is locked in to some extent. Just design things so you can move providers by understanding your system and architecting it correctly.

Not taking advantage of extra capabilities vendors provide you is just stupid. SQS/lambda is great. Why avoid it, because one day in the far future you might move to GCP? Protip: if you move to GCP (or Oracle cloud, or IBM cloud, or CloudFlare, etc) you're going to rebuild everything anyway.

For larger companies this will get shut down, because the idea of some random team deploying to the cloud by themselves is a security breach that hasn't been reported yet.
by gruez | 2025-10-06 16:54:59+00:00
>Wait until it has a 30ms input latency and 480p resolution. That's not accessible, that's just enshittification.

I'm sure many would take 30ms input latency and 408p over no games at all, or whatever games are available on the xbox 360 or whatever. Moreover nobody is forcing you to play the shitty version, there's always the option to not play, same as before.

>Like Google has done with YouTube: you can no longer watch HD videos if you don't have Premium. You can select 720p or 1080p, but the video won't be HD.

It objectively is HD because it meets the requisite resolution. It might not meet the bitrate that you'd like, but arbitrarily calling something as not "HD" because its bitrate isn't high enough is misleading, and leads to weird conclusions. Is netflix "not 4K" because it's not the same bitrate as a blu-ray? Is a blu-ray not 4K because it's not using jpeg encoded frames that movie theater projectors use?
by duxup | 2025-10-06 16:56:21+00:00
With some of the most absurd hallucinations in mind and LLM's opaque "thinking" ... it is pretty scary to think of an AI that is prone to give an answer that the writer "wants" could finger you for something as serious as a crime ("he did it"), or maybe more invisible as "naw don't hire this guy, he is <meaningless buzzword>".

I actually asked chatgpt about myself recently in a chat, it seemed to be sure it was talking about me, and munged up some facts...
by alexisread | 2025-10-06 16:56:54+00:00
Interestingly Wat implements a callstack in a userland VM, to implement it's delimited continuations. Ergonomically it would be good to implement algebraic effects on top, but the basis is there, along with demos of exception handling, branching, fibres etc.

https://github.com/manuel/wat-js

Obviously with forths the callstack is already in userland to implement these things, might be a bit brain-bending in forth.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-06 16:58:18+00:00
Not an answer to your question, but I was amazed at how wildly varied the pricing was when I was getting estimates. This was a few years back and I didn't go with it at the time, so I forget what the exact estimates were. But I remember that the highest was literally double the price of the lowest for all the same equipment. All I'm saying is don't trust any pricing you get from folks online, and do get a lot of estimates.
by ozim | 2025-10-06 16:58:43+00:00
Agree. This blog entry has vibes of: „I am software developer so I am so smart I can do everything and I can definitely make revolutionary healthcare app”.

Ignoring actual complexity of things, regulations and fact that there are areas that no one will take seriously some vibe coder and you really have to breath in out and swim with the right fish to be trusted and considered for making business with.
by Asmod4n | 2025-10-06 16:58:43+00:00
Nuclear is the answer to no problem we face currently. It’s expensive, slow to build new plants (decades). It’s also not flexible in the way it’s useable.

Solar + battery storage on the other hand is super fast and easy to build, costs virtually nothing and leaves no toxic waste which can’t be recycled.

Nuclear fuel is also mostly only available from Russia, which no one wants as a trade partner.
by chuckadams | 2025-10-06 16:58:44+00:00
It's a scream how easy it is in PHP of all things:

function is_palindrome(string $str): bool { return $str === implode('', array_reverse(grapheme_str_split($str))); } $palindrome = 'satanoscillatemymetallicsonatas'; $polar_bear = "\u{1f43b}\u{200d}\u{2744}\u{fe0f}"; $palindrome = str_replace($palindrome, 'y', $polar_bear); is_palindrome($palindrome);
Show HN: Hector – Pure A2A-Native Declarative AI Agent Platform (Go)
by kadirpekel | 2025-10-06 16:58:46+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been building Hector, a declarative AI agent platform in Go that uses the A2A protocol. The idea is pretty simple: instead of writing code to build agents, you just define everything in YAML.

Want to create an agent? Write a YAML file with the prompt, reasoning strategy, tools, and you're done. No Python, no SDKs, no complex setup. It's like infrastructure as code but for AI agents.

The cool part is that since it's built on A2A (Agent-to-Agent protocol), agents can talk to each other seamlessly. You can mix local agents with remote ones, or have agents from different systems work together. It's kind of like Docker for AI agents.

I built this because I got tired of the complexity in current agent frameworks. Most require you to write a bunch of boilerplate code just to get started. With Hector, you focus on the logic, not the plumbing.

It's still in alpha, but the core stuff works. I'd love to get feedback from anyone working on agentic systems or multi-agent coordination. What pain points do you see in current approaches?

Repo: https://github.com/kadirpekel/hector

Would appreciate any thoughts or feedback!
by wat10000 | 2025-10-06 16:58:50+00:00
That was the original argument. "it's only the left that does that." Where "that" was "political violence."

I don't understand what you mean by "if it is, then technically every single traffic stop is." What logical process requires us to go from "mass arrests of innocent children is political violence by the state" to "every traffic stop is political violence by the state"?
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-06 16:58:55+00:00
> I imagine this new free plan is a ploy to increase the number of subscribers they can report so Game Pass looks like less of a disaster.

I wonder if it will offset all the cancellations they had due to the recent price hike.

Enough came through that it crashed their subscription cancellation page for quite a while and (admittedly anecdotally) I know half a dozen people (including myself) who decided the new price wasn't a good value and cancelled over the past week.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-06 16:59:13+00:00
AOSP is a joke. This is coming from a custom rom user.

Google has been squeezing custom roms for the past 10 years. They barely work, and this is both on purpose and unavoidable. Google shoves DRM anywhere they can get their grubby little hands into.

Also, AOSP doesn't even run on any devices. Anywhere. You need mountains of supplemental proprietary blobs and Google systems to get it onto a phone.

Also, Google is trying to kill all apps outside the play store anyway.
by chad25 | 2025-10-06 16:59:19+00:00
Hey I'm Chad, I'm a software engineer with a background in music, experienced in backend systems and AI-powered applications!

Location: NYC, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Backend: Node.js, Express.js, Python, Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, Qdrant, REST APIs Frontend: JavaScript, Typescript, React, jQuery, Handlebars, HTML, CSS, Vue.js AI/LLM: RAG, embeddings, Prompt Engineering, Hugging Face, OpenAI APIs, LangChain Cloud: AWS (ECS, EC2, ELB, VPC, CloudFormation, IAM), Digital Ocean, Azure, PaaS

Résumé/CV: https://chadgratts.com/resume.pdf

Email: garrettgratts21@gmail.com
by Aurornis | 2025-10-06 16:59:19+00:00
> Most apps are simple crud apps and if they aren't it's usually because the devs are bad.

I heard this a lot from candidates who had only worked on software that could be described as an app. They bounced from company to company adjusting a mobile app here, fitting into a React framework there, and changing some REST endpoints.

There is a large world of software out there and not all of it is user-facing apps.
by t8sr | 2025-10-06 16:59:22+00:00
Name one other place on the continent that has:

1) At least token engineering presence by every major tech company

2) Tech-savvy VC, legal, audit and tax services you can get on a short notice

3) A pool of talent to fill any engineering position

4) A funnel from a big engineering university to the industry that generates startups

5) Tax authorities willing to work through complicated situations like acquihires, IP riders in contracts for a consideration in the form of stock, etc.

It’s much smaller than the Bay Area, of course, but it’s the only place in Europe that has everything you need in one spot. (Except maybe London, but that’s more like the New York of Europe, minus the high salaries.)

Also, “IT hub” is a place where salaries are low and you plop down a call center. IT are the support roles that install antivirus, not a profit center. There’s a huge difference between that and a “tech industry.”
by Herring | 2025-10-06 16:59:26+00:00
The last time Democrats tried to turn down the heat, they lost tons of seats countrywide, up and down the ballot.

https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/under-obama-democ...

Your problem is the people. The call is coming from inside the house.

Biden is given 4 years to grow a tree, Trump is given 8 years to cut down as many trees as he can. The government is also intrinsically hard to change (filibuster, gerrymandering, fptp, electoral college, supreme court etc).
by nemothekid | 2025-10-06 16:59:42+00:00
I wonder how many of these exist at every company. At $dayjob we have built something similar over the years. We have a custom load balancer that will query ECS, provision certificates with lets encrypt and even provision domains inside Cloudflare. We also have deploy previews, and various services on lambda function urls. We used to use mesos but transitioned to ecs, so we even have a homegrown "chronos" for running scheduled jobs on ecs.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-06 16:59:45+00:00
The issue is without profit incentive of course it isn’t X (backed up, redundant, highly available, whatever other aspect is optimized away by accountants).

Having worked a great deal inside of aws on these things aws provides literally every conceivable level of customer managed security down to customer owned and keyed datacenters operated by aws, with master key HSMs owned, purchased by the customer, with customer managed key hierarchies at all levels and detailed audit logs of everything done by everything including aws itself. The security assurance of aws is far and away beyond what even the most sophisticated state actor infrastructure does and is more modern to boot - because it’s profit incentive drives that.

Most likely this was not about national security than about nationalism. They’re easily confused but that’s fallacious. And they earned the dividends of fallacious thinking.
by apparent | 2025-10-06 16:59:46+00:00
I still can't understand my my HomePod is constantly responding (uselessly, often just saying it can't send a message for me) when I am talking to my phone that is in my hand. It even happens when I have AirPods in my ears. How hard is it to have a priority listing for:

1: AirPods-linked devices go first when AirPods are present

2: closest device goes first in general

3: if there are multiple devices that could respond, and only some of them can do the requested task, one of the devices that can do the task should respond
Reverse Early Morning Training Mentality
by danielfalbo | 2025-10-06 16:59:54+00:00
You’ve probably heard NBA players say they trained late at night or early in the morning because they couldn’t sleep knowing someone else was training on the other coast.

This is flawed. It’s the opposite approach that gives you a competitive edge.

I will go to sleep early because I can’t work knowing that someone else “on the other coast” is following a consistent sleep schedule, and therefore generating higher-quality ideas and executing them more effectively.

Because of leverage, sleeping well to be sharp and make higher quality decisions has far more long-term impact than sacrificing sleep to work longer hours.

Good night,

Daniel

https://danielfalbo.substack.com/p/reverse-early-morning-training-mentality
by throw0101a | 2025-10-06 17:00:11+00:00
> So, turn off the web server logs.

You need a database of everyone who signs up for the service so you can know who to send notifications to. That database needs some kind of unique ID plus a regular location updates.

That's a tempting target to go after, as it's a list of potential ICE targets plus 'political sympathizers'. The app developer does not (AIUI) want the responsibility of keeping that database secure against attack, exposure, or warrant requests.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 17:00:19+00:00
> Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day

Starlink’s next-generation V3s, which will require Starship to launch, weigh in around 2 metric tonnes [1]. (They’re currently “around 260 and 310 kilograms” [2].)

“Every day, Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons [91 metric tons] of dust and sand-sized particles” [3]. So we’re talking about a 2 to 10% increase in burn-up by mass. (Not accounting for energy, which natural burn-up has more of, or incomplete burn-up, which reduces the atmospheric effects of artificial mass.)

Broadly speaking, we don’t seem to be in a problematic place in respect of the atmosphere. Where improvement may be required is in moving from splashdown, where we sink space junk in the ocean, to targeted recovery.

[1] https://starlink-stories.cdn.prismic.io/starlink-stories/Z3Q...

[2] https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-elon-musk-next-gen-starlink...

[3] https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/asteroid-fast-fa...
by fragmede | 2025-10-06 17:00:32+00:00
The obvious one being your wife noticing you're at your mistress' house when you told her you were over at your girlfriend's, but outside of that, the problem the people that are positive about sharing their location is that it's also being abused by the abusive. That's a social problem, and not something technology can solve. I share my location with people I love and trust and will understand that I was busy and had an itinerary I needed to stick to and couldn't see them even though I was right next door, and if they ask we'll have a conversation about it that isn't awkward. Good for me but the problem isn't that I have good people in my life that I share this with, but that other people have bad people in their lives that they're forced to share it with, for whatever reason. I don't have an answer for that.
Show HN: run-phx.com - a human powered guide to running in PHX
by runnr_az | 2025-10-06 17:00:47+00:00
Long time Valley ultramarathoner... chances are, if you wander around on the trails around Phoenix, we've literally crossed paths.

I've included my own favorite trails and routes and wrote all the content, took all the pics, etc... but this is still very much a work in progress. I could use some suggestions as to other trails outside of Tempe / Phoenix / Scottsdale.

What did I miss? Are there features I should add?
by duxup | 2025-10-06 17:01:04+00:00
I suppose you can infer, very roughly, that a UUID with an older date stamp inside it is possessed by an older user ... very roughly.

At the same time age of account is all over forums and other places, often used to demonstrate a certain level of trust vs say new accounts.

Is that also a privacy issue? I'm not sure I like the implications if it is.
by eightysixfour | 2025-10-06 17:01:17+00:00
I had an interesting experience with this - I have a friend who talks about their phone and its keyboard exactly how you do, so I asked to watch them type something out on the keyboard.

He painstakingly erases every mistyped letter along the way and demand precision that is impossible given the constraints.

When I type on a phone keyboard, it is a tool for communicating, not for typing, and I type word-wise instead of letter-wise and use the autocorrect/correction bar liberally. I'll do maybe one or two more manual edits when I am fully done typing. I tried to get him to try this approach and he just couldn't do it. He needed every letter to be the one he meant to hit.

When I need to type something I know autocorrect will screw up, or I am typing a URL or something it won't get right, I slow down dramatically and type like they do. Not quite swiping, but holding my finger longer to see the pop-up.

Not sure if it is a worldview thing, a way the brain works thing, or something else, but it has been a long ongoing conversation between me and him about the different ways we use computer and computer adjacent devices - I'm more than happy with search-centric interfaces, he hates them and needs manual organization, etc. This carries over to AI where I perceive it as a partner in completing a task, he sees it as an unreliable and unruly tool that won't follow his precise instructions.
by mrandish | 2025-10-06 17:01:46+00:00
I generally agree with your point. OpenAI committing to buying a bunch of AMD hardware and doing the work to integrate support for it in their systems is a risk for OpenAI and a benefit for AMD (as demonstrated by the AMD stock popping on the announcement). So the warrants give OpenAI equity upside to offset risk.

I think the skepticism comes from the recent OpenAI/Oracle deal which seemed kind of circular due to paying with equity whose value was being inflated by the deal itself (if I understand it correctly). This deal seems more like an outright gift of equity if OpenAI goes through with the deal - so it could be thought of as almost a rebate or net discount on the cost of the GPUs.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-06 17:01:48+00:00
> No struggle but the class struggle.

No, see, there are other struggles. The reason Marxism is fundamentally totalitarian and always devolves into a single party dictatorship is EXPLICITLY because it attempts to explain all suffering as caused by class conflict. Thus: if class is destroyed, utopia is achieved.

This is of course farcical.

"no struggle but x struggle" is the very the definition of a totalitarian ideology. You really think there's no struggle but class struggle? When you are suffering because a loved one has died of old age, is that struggle the class struggle?

Fuck off with that totalitarian nonsense.
by yalok | 2025-10-06 17:02:43+00:00
The paper only mentions evals for Ruler 4K and 16K - I wish they’d go further and measure for longer context windows. I was wondering if there would be some gain as compared to baseline (no compression) for this method - their results for Qwen with Ruler 16K seem to allude to that - at small compression ratios the evals look better than baseline - which means they are not just improving inference speed/memory, but addressing attenuation dilution problem…
by vunderba | 2025-10-06 17:02:55+00:00
Nice job. There's also a good open-source ASCII paint tool which supports export to TXT/ or PNG that I've been using for the past few years as well.

Github

https://github.com/Kirilllive/ASCII_Art_Paint

Online Demo

https://kirilllive.github.io/ASCII_Art_Paint/ascii_paint.htm...
by rchaud | 2025-10-06 17:02:58+00:00
Vibe coded apps might do OK in the $5/mo product space (assuming people pay that instead of staying in the free tier) but will fall apart for anything even resembling B2B.

Buying business tools comes with the expectation of support and customization, the complexities of which become unmanageable when the lead developer is AI.

You don't hear much about WYSIWYG app builder platforms like Bubble.io anymore because once the hype subsided, it was clear that it wasn't scalable beyond extremely limited CRUD functionality.
by taylodl | 2025-10-06 17:03:08+00:00
"It's a 24/7 campaign-style work ethos. Not everyone is cut out for that."

It’s not a matter of being "cut out" for a 24/7 campaign-style work ethos. It’s a matter of persisting in that kind of self-effacing behavior. If you’re always in campaign mode, you never get to live your own life - just someone else’s. You only get one life, and this is not a good way to spend it.
by stevenwoo | 2025-10-06 17:03:28+00:00
The Peace Prize has had quite a few weird choices, like Kissinger when that simply meant the USA would stop participating in the Vietnamese civil war (and to be generous putting a stop to USA bombing campaigns that Kissinger advocated in Vietnam and surrounding countries) or Barack Obama for giving a few speeches after less than a year in office. So it's not out of the question but it's hard to see the logic behind Trump getting one now.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-06 17:03:34+00:00
For sending files between my phone (Android) and my son's iPad, I use:

Wormhole William (Android): https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

Destiny (iOS): https://github.com/LeastAuthority/destiny

For interoperability, don't use Destiny's default servers. After you install Destiny, change the config to the standard Magic Wormhole servers:

Mailbox: ws://relay.magic-wormhole.io:4000/v1

Transit Relay: tcp://transit.magic-wormhole.io:4001
by infinet | 2025-10-06 17:03:39+00:00
> Edit: I just rechecked China and wow! $0.08 per kWh. Can anyone confirm?

Yes, it is in the ballpark of $0.08/kWh. It varies a little bit across regions. Also in some places the price is only half during the night. But as you consume more power, you may see the price rise to $0.12/kWh.

In 2024, cost of renewable + storage was 0.52-0.88 CNY/kWh($0.08-$0.12). Advancement in storage is expected to drive that cost down by more than 50%.
by jerf | 2025-10-06 17:03:41+00:00
The parallel doesn't hold, because the AI-bubble skepticism was near zero even six months ago. Yes, I was a skeptic, and I know where I was getting my info from, so I know it was not zero, but it was not a significant market force and nobody in the mainstream was issuing any cautionary notes on it.

It has now progressed to what you might call a "mainstream contrarian" position. The relevant Overton window has shifted to where it is just barely in the acceptable discourse window.

It's been a while, but if I remember my dotcom bubble, that never happened from the zero-skepticism position. It was all RAH RAH RAH and then blammo it blew apart. Skepticism was always around... again, I know because I was a skeptic and I arranged my career, with modest but far from total success, around the bubble not being sustainable, but everyone around me had no idea what I was talking about (although since my alternative was "go to grad school" I didn't get much flak since they figured the market would still be as hot years later). The skeptical position was never in the Overton window, so I don't think the comparison is useful on this particular metric.

Personally I'm watching, intrigued, to see how far the general awareness that this is a bubble can go while the bubble refuses to pop. At some point that awareness needs to translate into ceasing to feed the bubble the feedstock capital it is so rapaciously consuming, but "I can always find a bigger idiot to unload on" can run quite a ways, it seems. (I don't find that an appealing investment thesis personally but I seem to be in the minority.)