MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eintrottel | 2025-10-11 04:52:09+00:00
(I was a codesmith resident in 2022, just as the covid hiring bubble started to burst, take that bias as you will)

You're entirely right. What Codesmith teaches isn't revolutionary. Lars touches on it in his blog, but there are really only three things that have contributed to the success they had, and none of them have anything to do with the technology or languages/frameworks they teach:

1. Build a very strong enrollment pipeline that filters for highly motivated individuals who are also technically capable of self-learning. There's a lot of (free) coursework in their CSX platform that needs to be completed prior to even enrolling in the main program as well as passing both a behavioral and technical interview to be accepted. This sets a higher technical floor so the program can start fast without the risk of losing students. Good candidates => good graduates.

2. Focus the program primarily on self-learning principles. "Hard learning" was always Codesmith's motto. Lessons were very high level in order to push students toward official documentation. Instructors/fellows/mentors all actively discouraged the use of tutorials which are a waste of time. Projects proposals are screened for uniqueness. You don't learn anything following step by step instructions for an app someone else built to solve a problem that isn't yours. Unique problems will require unique solutions which will require actual understanding of the technology.

3. Go really hard on on soft skills and leveraging past experiences. Be it technical or otherwise, nearly everyone had at least a few years of experience in "real" careers. Residents have already proven they can interview well enough to be hired at least by someone. Of my cohort of ~30-35 residents, I can only remember a couple that I didn't want to work with due to either their technical ability as the program ramped up or their coworking ability in general. A brief scroll through r/cscareerquestions or r/csmajor shows how abysmally low the bar is when it comes to soft skills in tech. Even if you ignore college students and only look at those that have been hired in industry, now that I can see it firsthand, the "average" Codesmith student is astonishingly above average in this regard.

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It's really not rocket science. When you start with a pool of people that are personable, technically capable of learning, career oriented, and mature, you're obviously going to get graduates that are able to punch way above their weight-class. Once you find 30-40 of those people, all Codesmith has to do is put them in the same room together for a few months, without the distractions of life and work, and just facilitate their own, collaborative self-learning.

This is in stark contrast with many bootcamps who will accept anyone that's willing to part with their money without any screening of ability. These I'd truly call snake oil praying on people's desire for a better life.
by twothreeone | 2025-10-11 04:54:55+00:00
Jobless and drowning in cash is rough.. it takes a toll on the strongest of minds.. meandering through the day, aimless, chasing the next high. Realizing that being handed a mic wherever you go is now your life. Cursed to be incapable of achievement because what else remains to be achieved. Minimizing your taxes?
by akira921 | 2025-10-11 04:55:30+00:00
Most AI assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) can autocomplete, but they forget everything once the tab closes. They don’t remember design reasoning, they can’t coordinate tasks, and every new prompt starts from zero.

AutomatosX is a local-first framework that fixes this by combining persistent memory, multi-agent orchestration, and governance into a single developer toolchain.

- Persistent Memory: Every decision, plan, and conversation is stored locally (SQLite + FTS5) for millisecond recall. - Multi-Agent Collaboration: Specialized agents (frontend, backend, QA, security, product…) can delegate work, verify results, and operate as a small software team. - Governance Controls: Each agent has clear permissions and delegation depth limits to prevent runaway recursion. - Local-First Design: Runs entirely on your machine, zero token cost, zero privacy leakage. - Dynamic Ability Loading: Agents only load capabilities they need, reducing prompt size and latency.

Why it matters: AI coding tools today act like smart calculators. AutomatosX gives them memory and structure, so they can manage evolving projects instead of isolated prompts. This bridges the gap between LLM assistants and true autonomous developer environments.

We see it as a missing “operating system layer” for agentic development — turning one developer into an orchestrated AI team that actually learns from its own history.

I’d love feedback on:

Multi-agent design trade-offs

Memory governance and privacy boundaries

Integration ideas with local or hybrid LLMs
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-11 04:55:49+00:00
In my opinion, examples are very helpful, but are not the best documentation; real documentation is better. (It is good to have documentation with examples, and/or to have documentation and also separate examples. Having the source code of the program can also sometimes help with some things that the neither the documentation nor the examples makes clear.)

I try to write good documentation for my programs, although it helps if other people (who do not already know the working of the program) will review it in order to suggest improvements.
by prescriptivist | 2025-10-11 04:58:38+00:00
> It isn't? What is stopping companies from building on GPT-OSS or other local models for cheaper? The AI services have no moat.

Right now there is an efficiency/hardware moat. That's why the Stargate in Abilene and corresponding build outs in Louisiana and elsewhere are some of the most intense capex projects from the private sector ever. Hardware and electric production is the name of the game right now. This Odd Lots podcast is really fresh and relevant to this conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsqn2XJDcwM

Local models, local agents, local everything and the commodification of LLMs, at least for software eng is inevitable IMO, but there is a lot of tooling that hasn't yet been built for that commodified experience yet. For companies rapidly looking to pivot to AI force multiplication, the superscalers are the answer for now. I think it's a highly inefficient approach for technical orgs, but time will create efficiency. For your joe on the street feeding data into an LLM, then I don't think any of those orgs (think your local city hall, or state DMV) are going to run local models. So there is a captured market to some degree for the the current superscalars.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-11 04:59:38+00:00
That's the best way to win back soybean customers and entrench the run-up to the invasion of Taiwan.

And give Argentina $20 billion to be used to drop duty charges on soybeans sold to China.

And also give Qatar a base in Idaho to learn how to fly F-15 because that 747 definitely absolutely wasn't anything like a bribe.
by hattmall | 2025-10-11 04:59:51+00:00
Apple had innovative products that they went very heavy in brand based fashion merchandising. In addition they were a legacy brand with a generally favorable reputation and solid recognition. They built a strong moat based on those characteristics and finally hit the mass market non-tech target demographic with the most widely used emerging technology since the personal vehicle. Apple did this while successfully merging a hardware, software, and marketplace platform. OpenAI has some interesting software but has an incredibly long way to run and extremely unlikely path to becoming anything like Apple. Not only that, they are in a market that a lot of the general population finds questionably valuable if not outright unappealing.
by faust201 | 2025-10-11 05:00:14+00:00
> but it's hard to argue that they don't have a gigantic influence on the whole internet, no? :)

Then don't relate this to safe browsing. What is the connection?

You could have just written a one liner. Google has too much power. This has nothing to do with safe-browsing.

In fact you could write...

- USA/China/EU etc has too much power..

You use the word relative in another reply..

Same way.. My employer has relatively too much power...
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-11 05:00:31+00:00
>You could have used the time to type up that comment on the basics of visual design, and saved us all some sanity.

For hundreds of years humans have got it wrong. The basics of visual design are made up qualitative guidelines with no solid metrics to back it up. Just a bunch of arbitrary rules with legit sounding words and rules to dress it up as a science.

Take for example the primary colors. RYB. Completely ass wrong for hundreds of years. Our eyes achieve color ranges by mixing RGB. RYB is an arbitrary choice.

You've been drinking the koolaid.

> There are absolutely things that do not work well

Did I say there wasn't? What are you going off about here?

>So no, it isnt your eye. And you dont need to see an eye doctor. The person/team/company that designed it fell short of the mark.

So you're saying Apple really fucked their entire company over with liquid glass? Really? Let's be real. People can't use their phones anymore because the GUI is so terrible? It's so bad everyone is going back to windows and android?

Wake up man. It's a band wagon and you're getting on it; destination: Not reality.
by etwigg | 2025-10-11 05:01:12+00:00
> I tend to do all writing in my favorite text editor

Have you tried https://ghosttext.fregante.com/

> typing in textareas is a cumbersome and risky experience

Exactly! Forget syntax highlighting, that's the real problem to be solved! (gitcasso is very far from achieving that rn)

> any developer familiar with the codebase ... fix the issue in a fraction of that time

Fair point. I published an example which was easy to follow rather than an example which showed off the tooling at its "max strength". I recorded a different take where I added support for issues being opened within a GitHub Project. The scraping there is a lot more complex, fixing one case tends to break another, and the AI can solve it in pretty much the same time, but the video felt too confusing to bundle with the launch.

> any developer familiar with the codebase

Refined GitHub (a popular github browser extension) has long rejected syntax highlighting for being too hard to maintain. So part of the goal here is to automate that maintenance - hopefully there won't even be a developer who is currently familiar with the codebase pretty soon. The slowest part by far is capturing the snapshots in the first place, which could/ought be automated.

> you have a very nice shed

Thanks imiric! And thanks for sharing your thoughts :)
by andix | 2025-10-11 05:01:16+00:00
It looks so easy on the video. If I try to drag a full screen window it only works in 20% of the cases. In the other cases either one of those things happen: menu bar opens, widgets opens, control center opens, lock screen opens, or I tap some controls in the app.

I don't think it's "an issue" that I use an iPad without mouse and keyboard most of the time. Last time I checked the iPad was designed as a touch device.
by Hansappreciator | 2025-10-11 05:03:44+00:00
Regulation is the result of politics, and politics is the result (in democracies) of the inputs of every person in society. Dismissing regulation, or in Thiel's formulation, conflating regulators with the antichrist is therefore anti-democratic and anti-people. The anti-regulation side of SV, which comes from the libertarian / Randian utopia, is one of its least appealing and most ignorant aspects.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-11 05:03:55+00:00
Nobody buys into it. That's the problem.

But you have to realize, Before AI was capable of doing something like NotebookLLM nobody bought into it. And they were wrong. They failed to extrapolate.

Now that AI CAN do NotebookLLM, people hold on to the same sentiment. You guys were wrong.
by Animats | 2025-10-11 05:05:08+00:00
Yes.

It wasn't a "secret meeting". It was a meeting of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, which anyone can join for about $90. I used to have a membership. Here's the event.[1] There is a recording. Here is the MP3 file.[2] Transcription of the first 30 minutes (of 67) via free web site. [3]

Notes:

On being a VC:

When you invest other people's money, you're trying to always do two things. Number one, get good returns. Number two, look like you're going to get good returns. And there's a surprisingly large disconnect between those two things.

So I like long term because again, that's less competitive. It can't be super long term. This was always the disconnect between, say, Japanese and US approaches to business. US businesses we always critique for being on this quarterly earnings cycle. Japan argued in the 80s that it had much longer time horizons. And there's a point where long term can be just a euphemism for procrastination or for avoiding accountability. But yeah, I think in its best form there are definitely things that take five or ten years to build and we should be building more of those.

On education:

My claim has been that over the last 40 years there's generally been less innovation in the world of atoms. It's not been a good idea to go into all the engineering disciplines that had to do with atoms. It was not a good idea to become a nuclear engineer, a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, an aeroastro engineer. And so we had less innovation in areas like energy or transportation.

Not seeing the "antichrist lectures". Sounds like standard VC speak. Am I missing something here?

Was there some other talk, also held at the Commonwealth Club, at which Thiel spoke?

[1] https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2014-09-30/peter-thi...

[2] https://audio.commonwealthclub.org/audio/podcast/cc_20140930...

[3] https://audiototext.com/?order_id=e0a6efe8-c656-4746-b93c-f4...
by dhosek | 2025-10-11 05:05:10+00:00
The current administration is directly and indirectly eliminating the foreign student pipeline. Even if we somehow get out of this morass in the next few years, which is far from guaranteed, the long-term damage will take decades to repair if ever.

The foreign student population, incidentally, had been a big subsidizer of the domestic student population. They pay full tuition and get no domestic financial aid. But that flow is getting shut off, and between the domestic cliff and this self-inflicted international cliff, they will close. A lot of smaller liberal arts colleges have shut down in the last decades and we’re busily working to send the destruction up the food chain.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-11 05:05:13+00:00
> I'd rather read the guardian; at least they'll be informed. Thiel is speaking from absolute ignorance. The antichrist as a figure is an evangelical creation that's about 150 years old, for example

You, my friend, are ill-informed. The idea of the antichrist has deep and complex origins that developed over centuries, blending Jewish apocalyptic expectations, early Christian theology, and later medieval interpretation.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-11 05:06:58+00:00
Agreed. Its just that sometimes these regulations would've made damn hard for me to get money without having something like paypal and that had its bunch of issues as well

I think that even in the article I had wrote that 99% don't need stablecoins as well but for people for whom USD or gold access could be hard, I can maybe see some usecase but then again as I said 99% don't need it but for the 1% like me who did, that's all there is to worry about. Maybe monero can have some usecase too since people use it as an actual currency but even then I would only buy monero in low quantity and still keep most money in stablecoins or most preferably banks as you said.
by submeta | 2025-10-11 05:07:34+00:00
There is no future for Replit considering how Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are moving into dev tools. And then there‘s Cursor and the likes.

As an online IDE they would have had a chance. But when they pivoted into AI, they decided to enter a highly crowded place with very strong players.

Recently OpenAI and now Anthropic are developing mobile clients as well:

https://www.testingcatalog.com/anthropic-prepares-claude-cod...
by bix6 | 2025-10-11 05:07:43+00:00
$55B in this one

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

> Mea Culpa! I have said a few times “$40 billion” is the total amount of AI revenue in 2025, and I need to correct the record. $35 billion is what hyperscalers will make this year (roughly), and when you include OpenAI, Anthropic and other startups, the amount is around $55 billion. If you include neoclouds, this number increases by about $6.1 billion. In any case, this doesn’t dramatically change my thesis.
by kouru225 | 2025-10-11 05:08:40+00:00
I was almost willing to accept that Rene Girard had some academic value until I read more about him. It's hilarious to me that he writes an entire book arguing that scapegoating people is wrong and Christianity has single-handedly prevented scapegoating by relating to Jesus Christ, but then says political correctness is the Antichrist. If Christianity prevented scapegoating by telling the story of Jesus Christ, then shouldn't political correctness prevent scapegoating using the exact same tactics as Christianity? The whole point of political correctness is repenting the for the evils of the past. Isn't that exactly what you say works to prevent scapegoating Mr. Girard?
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-11 05:09:11+00:00
Do you make this argument in any other scenario? I'm sure all merchants who accept credit cards combined make WAY more than Visa/MC, but I think most would agree Visa has much more leverage over a corner shop that accepts Visa than the other way around.

There are 5 or 6 big insurance companies, maybe 2000 if we count all of the small ones and 400K medical practices. So even by this very simple money=leverage argument, each individual practice has far less money than the insurance company they are dealing with. So if more money = more leverage then these same numbers prove the opposite claim.

So its probably fair to say that the picture isn't as simple as money=leverage.

If a medical practice and an insurance company get into a dispute and one of them decides to not work together, the practice loses say 1/5th-1/10th of its customers, the insurance company loses 1/100000th of its revenue. I call that leverage.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-11 05:09:19+00:00
I get it. It's mockery but I think I can extract the ideas here from it.

tl;dr Peter Thiel believes that we will be presented with a large number of potential world-enders: climate change, AI, something else. We will be told that a united force under some person or small group will be able to forestall this end of the world. However, this is a power grab technique and in truth this consolidation of power itself will be the apocalypse.

Okay, so everyone who argues for collective action will be an agent of the antichrist. I mean, I get it. Basic collective action is about creating the safe free society we all rely on. Past a point it turns extractive, with the majority Omelasing the gifted few in order to preserve the status quo. That's the thing he's scared of.

Cool. To be honest, one of the things I really appreciate the Joe Rogan Experience podcast for this: you get the guest's best shot at telling you what he's about. Not someone else's mockery of it. Just the thing the guest himself thinks is the best form of what he's about rather than some game of telephone.

Looks like there's a Thiel episode. Let's hope it's good because I'm going to have to find a good drive to listen to it on.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-11 05:09:32+00:00
This one is pretty straightforward so it doesn't need an AAIB report. Failure of pilots to brief destination weather conditions and anticipate proper bingo fuel accordingly. Storms in the area == brief max go arounds, brief alternates, and carry extra fuel. They screwed up by taking unnecessary risks of too many go arounds and barely making an alternate because they didn't play it safe by carrying additional fuel. Take these bold pilots to the chief pilot's office for an uncomfortable conversation without tasty snacks.
by hulk-konen | 2025-10-11 05:10:13+00:00
This takes me back.

I used to run a coffee roastery and roasted several thousand batches. This is pretty much how it works. I spent hours of trying to match those curves to the target profile.

Back in the day we had software called Artisan and a few probes inside the machine. It would have benefited of from having much more data being recorded.

For example: environment humidity, the number of the batch (machine itself heats, so batch 1 of the day is very different than batch 11), bean temp and moisture before going in, actions the roaster takes etc.

It seems like I have forgotten some nuances.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-11 05:10:31+00:00
> Thiel is clearly out of his depth, unless we're going to pretend he's an informed Bible scholar now. And he's clearly not, since the Antichrist as a figure is an evangelical creation about 150 years old and is not in the Bible at all.

You, my friend, are ill-informed. The idea of the antichrist has deep and complex origins that developed over centuries, blending Jewish apocalyptic expectations, early Christian theology, and later medieval interpretation.

John 2:18 — “Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come.”

1 John 4:3 — “This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.”
by paulhebert | 2025-10-11 05:10:59+00:00
>How far can we extend this?

This feels like the slippery slope fallacy.

Most users will have a very different reaction to being served politics they are uninterested in vs being served shocking gore. (Bored or annoyed vs traumatized)

Many users want to see political content. Almost none want to see beheadings.

You can treat this as one long spectrum but if I was in charge of content moderation I’d treat politics and gore as separate categories. (And most sites do!)

> They've also been accused of having a left bias by the right.

That doesn’t mean they don’t have a political bias. It may just not cleanly fall across modern American political party lines. (And it may have changed over time.)

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But this is all theoretical. My stance is that if you are going to allow some political content then you should allow all political content that doesn’t break other rules.

And I think “non-joyful” is a bullshit rule for a major social media company to have. It can easily be reinterpreted by moderators to selectively silence political speech
by Fuzzwah | 2025-10-11 05:12:28+00:00
I did a similar project... <checks date of yt video... oh my I'm old> 13 years ago. I haven't used it in some time, but I really do miss the visual aspect of selecting what to listen to... you've inspired me to get it rigged up again. Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyq2xqjHW0

My hacky solution, which is obviously way out of date and a bit specialised to my situation (in that I use kodi to play my music) is over here: https://github.com/Fuzzwah/xbmc-rfid-music