MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mohsen1 | 2025-10-01 14:13:41+00:00
Cursor was good for a little while until VSCode opened up the APIs for AI editing. Now Copilot is really good and other extensions (specifically Kilo Code) are doing things so much better!

I am seeing a lot of folks talking about maintaining a good "Agent Loop" for doing larger tasks. It seems like Kilo Code has figured it out completely for me. Using the Orchestrator mode I'm able to accomplish really big and complex tasks without having to design an agent loop or hand crafting context. It switches between modes and accomplishes the tasks. My AGENTS.md file is really minimal like "write test for changes and make small commits"
by toast0 | 2025-10-01 14:13:56+00:00
The regular update cadence and the lack of stability for developers sets an expectation that developers must be active (forever) or their product will stop working.

That way, they never have to deal with fallout from breaking a 20 year old program like Microsoft got for breaking whatever version of GTA. There's no way a 20 year old program still runs on current macos, so nothing to worry about.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-01 14:13:58+00:00
I agree that we should work to understand mechanisms of action. However, I am aware of the enormity of the task, and I don't think we will have molecularly accurate complete pictures of how any drug affects us until we have complete virtual models on which to emulate and evaluate in detail. And that is a long way off.

It also seems to me that there is an implicit bias in your comments favoring modern pharmaceuticals over plant-based medicines, which I think is unwarranted. The organisms around us are far more sophisticated than any human construction, our senses are incredibly finely tuned sensors, and selective breeding is an enormously powerful tool. Because these were available to ancient humans, people often make the mistake of thinking them simplistic, outdated, or somehow superseded by modern technology. Nothing could be further from the truth.

From my perspective, a green leafy plant which manufactures a useful compound is a more sophisticated and desirable tool than a fume belching chemical factory making same.

It is no accident that plants an animals around us produce compounds which are useful to us. We are all genetic relatives. Until we understand our own biology fully, and that of the plants and animals upon which we depend, I believe there is much it can teach us.

One thing I've learned is that biology rarely works with pure chemicals. There are always metabolites, precursors, enzymes, enantiomers, and other chemical variations. Sometimes (often?) these prove important as well.
by justinhj | 2025-10-01 14:14:05+00:00
That a traditional modern RDBMS is very fast is not really useful here because the use case of Tigerbeetle includes work loads with high contention. Under that kind of load, in their own tests you can see in a recent conference talk, you can see the throughput drops dramatically in clusters where many transactions affect a single account.

edit: from the horses mouth is better https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437046
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-01 14:14:19+00:00
Yes, the analogy to the postal service falls apart when discussing one-to-one correspondance. That's more like a DM than a social media.

If however some of your junk mail included mass mailings of brochures to join the KKK or some neo-nazi group, I could see why people would want the postal service to crack down on that. That is a fair analogy.
by croes | 2025-10-01 14:14:22+00:00
>"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

You do realize that this includes the freedom of people who get harassed online by others.

German journalist Dunja Hayali’s rights where violated by hate comments after social media and nuis sites misquoted her on her reporting on Charly Kirk‘s funeral
by mallowdram | 2025-10-01 14:15:01+00:00
Thanks for sending, I read it all. I think it keeps its feet in two incompatible realms. Ultimately LLMs turn us into wax fruit, not stochastic parrots.

The word is an arbitrary form, as myth is, (as symbols, money, news, states/politics) both are ultimately evolutionarily suspect in terms of animal signals, and we haven't found a specific workaround to that arbitrariness. That's extinction. The world is only specific, as is survival.

I suggest the only function of arbitrary signals is to refute themselves into replacement. The good thing about the AI debacle is that it's about speeding that up.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-01 14:15:02+00:00
If you dive into the article you'll see where the big winners, that they call "sharps" have found ways around this, like exploiting differences between multiple books, finding arbitrages and betting heavily and quickly in changing situations before the market has a chance to settle. I play a browser game called Torn that has a play money sportsbook and I've absolutely identified scenarios where either side of a straight win/loss bet was paying out positive. What this effectively meant is that I could bet the same amount on each team in the match to win and be guaranteed to walk away with money.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-01 14:15:03+00:00
> Australia has the highest rate of skin cancers in the world - it is estimated that two out of three Australians will have at least one cut out in their lifetime - and it has some of the strictest sunscreen regulations globally.

If the goal of their safety regulations was actual safety - vs. safety theater and make-work for bureaucrats - then maybe they should have done regular real testing?

Even a bottom-tier Health Dept. restaurant inspector knows to stick his thermometer into the food that the customers will actually eat, to verify that it's being kept too cold (or too hot) for bacteria to quickly multiply.
by keeganpoppen | 2025-10-01 14:15:05+00:00
ah yes, so clearly we must make sure that they are even less enforced. what could go wrong? hell, Enron lost investors-- bunch of billionaire fat cats, the lot of 'em-- $75 billion... they shoulda made Kenneth Lay Chairman of the Fed! or i guess maybe he his net worth had one too many zeroes to be sympathetic... hell, Kawhi Leonhard and his uncle blatantly and deliberately broke all of the NBA salary cap rules in the way that an undercover cop asks everyone they come across if they can buy weed from them, but the Clippers are owned by Steve Ballmer, so it's apparently okay. we hate the player because of the game in everything except for sports lmao.
by grep_name | 2025-10-01 14:15:07+00:00
Hmm, I downloaded and installed Atuin a few years ago as a solution mainly for syncing shell history across machines or on the same machine across terminal instances (e.g. in tmux). I thought that was its main use case. How did we get to runbooks? I'm kinda having trouble figuring out what it does based on the linked page, but I think that's mostly because I'm trying to tie it back to my understanding of atuin as a shell history database
by matteuan | 2025-10-01 14:15:10+00:00
(I'm italian) Some international pasta brands (e.g. Barilla) have different cooking times depending on the country/market. I moved from Italy to Germany and noticed the +1 minute in many types of pasta, so I always compensate. I find the cooking time precise and useful, I don't get why people want to reinvent the wheel. When I worked in a restaurant, we would pre-cook the pasta in the morning, store it and then cook the last few minutes when the order came in (this is actually very common also in good restaurants). Barilla/DeCecco sell restaurant targeted packages and they also report the cooking time split with the precooking. Results are basically the same
by kakacik | 2025-10-01 14:15:18+00:00
Interesting perspective, I believe its way more valid for US than say Europe which has way more job/career obsession and sort of class system based on career/wealth status.

Middle class is squeezed everywhere, that's true. But I sincerely doubt young generations 'can't distinguish their work from their identity' en masse. Thats a recipe for disaster, at latest during retirement, probably with first firing from the job and generally a big stupid no-no. But don't expect state will drill this into you in the schools, its up to everybody to look around and figure these things out for themselves, just like rest if life (TM).
by aeon_ai | 2025-10-01 14:15:39+00:00
Why waste precious milliseconds typing complete sentences to your AI coding assistant? With autocomplete in the prompt box, we've solved the most pressing problem facing developers today: prompt fatigue.

Gone are the days of exhausting yourself by typing full requests like "refactor this function to use async/await." Now, simply type "refac—" and let our AI predict that you want an AI to refactor your code.

It's AI all the way down, baby.
by dluan | 2025-10-01 14:15:52+00:00
Several recent attempts at hard forking rails, https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...

Due to just the most recent DHH tirade, but a similarly long trend as with Guillermo: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
by compiler-guy | 2025-10-01 14:16:13+00:00
It is far easier to work your way into programming via spreadsheets than via sql.

One day you are writing ‘sum(a2:a201)’ the next you do some conditional formatting and so the complexity builds up very slowly with your needs.

With sql, day one:

‘SELECT SUM(Column) AS Total FROM Table;‘

Way more complicated. Way more powerful too, but most people don’t need the power until much later.

And you have to work in the console which is an unfamiliar ui for many.

It’s not impossible, but very high overhead in comparison.
by dfee | 2025-10-01 14:16:49+00:00
> If there’s someone out there who just sits on the beach all day and survives by eating coconuts they don’t have to be defined by photography or coding or whatever hobby is being used to seek external validation.

This is written from a different values perspective than mine, but I can understand it. I think you’d have made a stronger point if you’d focused on internal validation, though.

For many, the ideal is internal integrity driving oneself forward. I say ideal, because we’re imperfect creatures - external validation, greed, etc. slip in.

Overall though, a life on the beach sipping coconuts sounds immediately appealing, but long term empty. I’m not going to tell you it’s working 996, either. For me, the journey is finding what makes me whole - through many failed starts.
by freedomben | 2025-10-01 14:16:50+00:00
Lashing out and common sense aren't mutually exclusive. I.e you can lash out as someone with a message containing common sense information. I agree the headline is a bit exaggerated, but it's not incorrect.

I also don't think endianess is common sense. Maybe among experienced kernel developers it is, but even Linus had to Google to see what the argument was. I don't think Linus is common, inexperienced, or dumb
by IncreasePosts | 2025-10-01 14:17:23+00:00
Well, not with that attitude. Surely you've seen people on life that you felt overly stressed themselves. It's not just a natural bodily reaction, how you react to the reaction. Some people can spiral out of control with stress, amplifying it. Other people can relax and not let it get to them.

Try meditation? Not the religious stuff, just breathing exercises and trying to clear your mind
by conductr | 2025-10-01 14:17:38+00:00
> it's usually more productive to have custom software.

If you multiplied the custom software development effort and cost to the multitude of places and use cases people in an organization are using spreadsheets I think you’d quickly find that it’s infeasible. And that’s not even taking into account how much value the adhoc-ability of spreadsheets adds to the equation. Most spreadsheets can be completely refactored or thrown away in a rather trivial manner. The sprint nature of software development screens out most things that could be spreadsheets. I’ll build it in an hour instead of waiting 2 weeks to get on the next sprint.

The software development process is too rigid for rapidly changing business needs. Having to spec out requirements and such is often an unknown and something you’re doing live in the moment when creating the spreadsheet itself.
by gwd | 2025-10-01 14:17:47+00:00
> People can make judgment calls. Those are opinions.

I'm not sure that's a helpful distinction. In some sense, everything we classify as a 'fact' is a judgement call: is the sun a giant ball of fusing hydrogen? I mean, probably, but maybe we're all living in some sort simulation and it doesn't really exist at all; Or maybe you are living in your own personal "Truman Show", being fed lies by everyone who shows you scientific "evidence" about the sun's nature.

But "the sun is a giant ball of fusing hydrogen" is a different type of statement than "chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla", or "Mozart is better than Beethoven".
by ccvannorman | 2025-10-01 14:18:31+00:00
That is also not enough. An agent could build an application that functions, but you also need to have a well-designed underlying architecture if you want the application to be extensible and maintainable - something the original dreamer may not even be capable of - so perhaps a shared extended dream share with a Sr. architect is also needed. Oh wait .. I guess we're back to square 1 again? lol
by d--b | 2025-10-01 14:19:33+00:00
I have a feeling that these feelings come from culture.

Protestantism or Japanese cultures really value effort in a way mediterannean culture (for instance) does not.

Think about Flemish paintings that have all these very intricate details, while Italian painters invented the messy sfumato.

I don't like that digital cameras took over, because I don't like the quality of digital pictures, but I love that LLMs are taking stuff off my plate / brain. I have absolutely zero romanticism associated with effort. I do romanticize smartness.

Gauss finding n*(n+1) / 2 because he didn't want to sum numbers by hand is my absolute hero. Of course he was protestant so what I just said really doesn't make much sense.
by mym1990 | 2025-10-01 14:19:36+00:00
I would guess a lot of intrinsic motivation is driven a lot by hormones and things like dopamine release when you do something that is really interesting or exciting. I play tennis and absolutely love it, I will never make a dime from doing it, and that's totally okay with me.

Things that are built with money are often done so for scale. Successful things that are built with money often also have people who have some interest in the thing they are building.
by Voultapher | 2025-10-01 14:19:59+00:00
The way I understand it yes. Latency will be dictated by going to the leader node and replication to enough followers. The CAP theorem dictates that if you want strong consistency the way they offer you have to talk to a quorum of nodes IIRC N/2 + 1. Paxos and Raft also work that way.

Apparently there is a game about it https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-07-11-we-put-a-distributed...
by anthonypasq | 2025-10-01 14:20:10+00:00
Cursor is your best option if you want to switch models frequently, run multiple agents in parallel, and also have the best tab complete out there. And you're still getting extra vc-funded tokens. You get ~$40 worth of tokens at API costs for the $20 plan.

idk seems worth it to me. If youre shelling out on one of the $200 plans maybe its not as worth it, but it just seems like the best all in one ai product out there.
by landl0rd | 2025-10-01 14:20:15+00:00
50g is quite a lot of meth, dozens and dozens of doses even at the heavier user quantities: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.09.25327334v...

That is almost certainly distribution as well. McMillan played a lesser part in this distribution ring; the two men involved were each sentenced to twelve years: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/pr/monroe-men-sentenced-mo...

McMillan was involved in a group of three purchasing around a pound of meth. Yurchik was involved in a ring of 27 people in multiple states moving kilogram quantities over the course of two years: https://www.kxxv.com/news/local-news/central-texans-among-21...

The group also actively laundered its earnings though only half a dozen or so were charged for that. The feds seized seventy-two kg of meth from them, more than one hundred fifty times what this other lady was involved with, a kg of cocaine, a bunch of money, and more than a dozen firearms. These were not cases of radically unequal charging.

I don't know why you picked these two people but I get a little tired of folks presenting such a skewed view of any and everything to come up with "prison bad, judge bad, sentence bad".
by ipnon | 2025-10-01 14:20:18+00:00
I write whatever in my big Org file. The key is to write something different every day. Having a routine topic becomes boring, and, well, routine. So in my big Org file there is everything worth referencing again, and in the morning I’ll take a wide overview of it, coming back to a few particular items like long-term goals or how the year has been, and that’s the starting point for the thoughts that I then jot down.

Staring at a blank file every morning isn’t interesting to me, but adding a little chunk of thought casually to my second brain is rewarding in itself.

I’m an Org Mode evangelist. I didn’t get it at first but now I don’t think I could get rid of it. I’ll probably be editing this file until my final days!
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-01 14:20:50+00:00
@gwd: absolutely true; all the "facts" I know are either a long series of supporting ideas ("this is a chair and I can sit on it") or something I was told by an authority I trust ("Africa exists").

I still say there is a difference between "Africa exists" and "gwd's statement about the lack of 'facts' is heretical and they should be imprisoned".
by lapcat | 2025-10-01 14:21:00+00:00
I'm not sure. Perhaps Tim Cook just likes schedules, which fit naturally in his MBA brain. Or it could be that Apple previously set the expectation of annual releases and now can't stop, because getting off the update train would be a kind of indicator or admission to stockholders and the media that Apple is falling behind somehow. On the other hand, annual OS updates with updated system requirements would provide a convenient way to implement planned obsolescence of hardware.

In any case, Tim Cook clearly doesn't have the same standards as Steve Jobs did. Cook will never complain, "This is shit!" As Jobs reportedly lamented, Cook is a not a product person. So QA problems are not necessarily a problem for him. I suspect that Cook actually believes everything is mostly going well, and perhaps some "metrics" tell him so, though the metrics likely ignore the fact that developers have been disillusioned and alienated by Apple's hostile bug reporting system. If I thought Apple cared and would do something, I'd file literally thousands more bug reports.
by bertylicious | 2025-10-01 14:21:23+00:00
This doesn't look like a standard .net config (appsettings.json) to me. It looks more like a simple json serialization of an object. To get the framework behavior that replaces secrets with e.g. env vars one would have to feed this json into a .net ConfigurationBuilder first.

Considering that this represents one of many possible workflow objects (probably organized in a data structure and managed by other objects/methods), implementing secret replacement using a ConfigurationBuilder seems like abuse.
by 9rx | 2025-10-01 14:21:56+00:00
The opposite of what? There is no contention with Codd's original paper. I'd suggest that Codd's Alpha paper was lacking in the same way SQL struggles, but that's a bit orthogonal to what you seem to be trying to say. I know its a bit confusing as SQL tries to name many different, independent things with the same name, but when confused it is best to become unconfused, not go off to la-la land.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-01 14:22:09+00:00
Thanks.

But about your last paragraph: A post is written once, but read many times. If you make your readers look for the information, then N people have to do searches. If you search, it only has to happen once. So it's much more efficient for the post author to do so.

And if you don't when you're contradicting someone else, and neither of you supplies evidence, then it looks like "he said, she said". If the evidence is on your side, show it.
by jerf | 2025-10-01 14:22:55+00:00
It's a valid codec move to have 1GB in the codec but to be able to compress arbitrary video with it, or even just arbitrary video within a certain specialized domain. Having those requirements will affect all the cost/benefit decisions that get made when people decide whether to use it, but if it outperforms on other metrics it may be something that wins in some places.

I believe lumost is referring to the actual video being used for testing being embedded in the codec. That is not a valid move; it compresses just that one exact video arbitrarily small (honestly anything above zero bytes is just sandbagging, you can always map the empty file to your test video, for INFINITE COMPRESSIONS!!!1!) but nothing else.
by panarchy | 2025-10-01 14:22:57+00:00
Pretty nice so far. I enjoy the very visible categories (as in the "astronomy" label in the Science category, not the science, technology, etc ones) that make it easy to see if an article is relevant to my interests at a glance.

A save feature to keep track of interesting articles would be nice.

Having more news (or more filtered for quality) would also be nice. Right now at 12 the lists seem to be mostly taken up by trendy low-quality news that will be irrelevant and less news that doesn't make waves but will probably have more impact in the long run. Actually this might just be a lack of the number of places being scraped. Not an actual example from the site but consider how much an article of someone saying the latest comet is actually alien technology trends (but is completely irrelevant) vs a scientific paper reporting on the measurements of the atmospheric composition of a bunch of exoplanets.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-10-01 14:23:11+00:00
I'm currently flying, and using Cursor. I have my model set to Sonnet-4, and it keeps bugging me that my usage is going to end on 10/21, 10/19, 10/13, 10/08, after just a couple hours of VERY slow LLM usage.

I wouldn't even bother with it, but my MCP coding tool I built uses Claud Desktop and is for windows only, and my laptop is MacOS. So I'm using Cursor, and it is WAY WORSE than my most simple of MCP servers (that literally just does dotnet commands, filesystem commands, and github commands).

I think having something that is so general like cursor causes the editor to try too many things that are outside what you actually want.

I fought for 2 hours and 45 minutes while Sonnet-4 (which is what my MCP uses) kept inventing worse ways to implement OpenAI Responses using the OpenAI-dotnet library. Even switching to GPT-5 didn't help. Adding the documentation didn't help. I went to claude in my browser, pasted the documentation, and my class I wanted extended to use Responses, and it finished it in 5 minutes.

The Cursor "special-sauce" seems to be a hinderance now-days. But beggars can't be choosers, as they say.