MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rukuu001 | 2025-10-08 06:16:28+00:00
This is great.

A group I used to work with framed it as needs and fears, and would produce a ‘conflict map’ when heading into a situation with multiple stakeholders.

The conflict map set out the needs and fears of each group, and indicated where they were incompatible.

That information was used to proactively resolve, or at least plan around those areas of conflict.
by defanor | 2025-10-08 06:16:51+00:00
While I did lose access to a hosted email and other services, and only permanently lost access to a free domain name so far, also was close to losing access to regular paid domains on multiple occasions (once because of the used registrar, twice because of the place I live in and international politics, being disconnected from payment systems, though with registrars also contributing a little).

Mandatory reliance of services on other services (whether it is email, phone, or a more explicit identity provider) is generally unfortunate. I think it is best to not look for a perfectly reliable setup, as it is unachievable, but to keep in mind that they are not reliable, to have recovery plans and fallback options if possible, reduce dependence on online services, especially those depending on others. Though a personal domain name still seems more reliable to me than that of an email provider.
by raffraffraff | 2025-10-08 06:17:21+00:00
Actually the super power of having the LLM in the bowser may be that it vastly simplifies using LLMs to write Playwright scripts.

Case in point, last week I wrote a scraper for Rate Your Music, but found it frustrating. I'm not experienced with Playwright, so I used vscode with Claude to iterate in the project. Constantly diving into devtools, copying outter html, inspecting specific elements etc is a chore that this could get around, making for faster development of complex tests
by vjk800 | 2025-10-08 06:17:47+00:00
> Yet when NPR runs non-stop Walmart articles [1], often in a neutral to positive fashion [...] Among the top results in your link are: "Pasta meals from Trader Joe's and Walmart may be linked to a deadly listeria outbreak", "Walmart recalls frozen shrimp over potential radioactive contamination", and "A man accused of stabbing 11 people at a Walmart is in Michigan authorities' custody".
by rrr_oh_man | 2025-10-08 06:19:40+00:00
Absolutely fair point, the response has been weak.

But here's the thing. The official action is slow, but the media stories about the threat are turned up to eleven, 24/7.

For a year & a half the story about the Nord Stream bombing was "Russia did it". End of discussion. Then it turns out it was probably some Ukrainian group, and everyone just shrugs and moves on. The original media-instilled fear doesn't disappear, though.

And that fear is what they use to sell us things like Chat Control.

So... when you mention "Russian military intelligence terror cells caught red-handed," my bar for skepticism is raised. I'm not saying it's impossible (on the contrary, militaries have been doing hybrid warfare for ALL of known human history), I'm just always failing to find the convictions that should follow someone being caught red-handed.
by scrollop | 2025-10-08 06:19:42+00:00
Matter to whom?

If you're an economist or analyst, I have a feeling it's a little more nuanced than you're stating.

If you mean "for the average person" or "what the media reports for the average person", then, "duh".

The normal distribution of IQ in the general population would cause a general media company to limit it's complexity of data reported.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-08 06:20:05+00:00
>Is this actually a concern? AFAICT this isn't happening

How do you know it isn't happening if their faces and bodies are always covered? Did you undress all of them to check?

> it's just something that could theoretically happen

Welcome to the real world where a lot of laws are made to cover things that could happen precisely so that when they DO happen, there's a law ready to enforce. Why? Because if something CAN happen, it WILL definitely happen.

> but I'm pretty hesitant to force my cultural values on people.

I'm not. You come to my house, you follow my rules, you come to our country you follow our values, simple. If you want to live in the west and benefit from the western system that brings you free education, healthcare, justice, financial opportunities, welfare, freedom of speech, then you must follow the western values that built that system you came here to enjoy. Otherwise if you want to live like in Afghanistan, then go live in Afghanistan, not in our country.

Otherwise if you allow one flavor of imported oppressive cultures out of suicidal empathy, just so you don't "force your values on other people", then why not allow domestic oppressive cultures too, like fascism, nazism, communism, antisemitism, sexism, homofobia, etc? Why open your doors and only tolerate the foreign imported ones?

>It hasn't gone well historically.

Then you need to go back to the schools you went to and ask for a refund, because historically it definitely has. The federal government forced their values over the confederacy via war in 1865 and the US of today is better off from it. Allied powers forced their values over the Axis in WW2 and the world was better off from it. So many historic examples why you're wrong.
by testfrequency | 2025-10-08 06:20:51+00:00
The recent jokes about “everyone is an engineer” now just feels unprovable, where as before it felt like you could still counter that argument by asking to see someone’s code.

Now everyone has examples of code they’ve “written”, but nobody can explain what it does. Unless of course, their readme.md was also completely generated.

I agree with some of the people here that vibe engineering has completely deflated my long successful career as a SWE, and it’s pushed me mentally into non-tech roles to feel motivated.
by solatic | 2025-10-08 06:20:52+00:00
> since they are experts

This is the engineering perspective, not the finance perspective. As an engineer holding an MBA, I've made the argument countless times in BigCo to move from cloud deployments to on-prem. When you're a startup, you often simply don't have the cash on hand to make the capital expenditure to build out datacenter capacity, especially with an uncertain (but hopefully high) expected rate of growth. When you're a BigCo, the script flips; you have plenty of cash on hand and you want to improve overall profitability, which is done by using capital expenditures to reduce operating expenditures, i.e. funding datacenter build-outs to reduce cloud bills.

> experts

Companies can hire experts and can still out-source to colos if they prefer. This is a question of political will and risk analysis.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-08 06:21:24+00:00
I felt similarly about my MythTV setup at the time. It was quite a pain to set up, having to acquire a TV decoder with hardware compression to make reasonable use of disk space without losing frames on the 400mhz boxes of the day. MySQL database, TV programming service subscription, IR remote receiver, etc.

But the commercial skipping used a set of a dozen filters for things like black screens, volume changes, logos in the corner, and bayesian analysis to nail every single commercial transition. It was flawless.
by happymellon | 2025-10-08 06:21:27+00:00
I think so.

It's a market where line has to go up, so bad behaviour is demanded.

Giving OpenAI $30 billion, so that they can spend $30 billion on GPUs, so that you can now report your own $30 billion as revenue is market manipulation and an attempt to get others to invest in this "$300 billion" market, so OpenAI can pay their bonuses and can give Nvidia their 40%.

LLMs might be really good at converting your USB debugging script from Python to Go, and it might do a passable enough translation that you don't need to use Google translate but that's not a $300 billion market.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-08 06:22:39+00:00
The magit-wip commits go on a separate branch and ideally I'm never even aware of them. They just disappear eventually. They exist purely in case of a disaster à la the article.

I make "real" commits as I go and use a combination of `git commit --amend` and fixup commits (via git-autofixup) and `rebase --autosquash`. I periodically (daily, at least) fetch upstream and rebase on to my target branch. I find if you keep on top of things you won't end up with some enormous conflict that you can't remember how to resolve.
by the_other | 2025-10-08 06:23:08+00:00
I think you’re being unfair on Discovery in attacking its “identity politics” as being more intense than earlier Treks. I say this because Discovery intensifies EVERYTHING it does over earlier Star Treks. The visuals are more cinematic, the sets are much, much larger, the pace is faster, the costumes more detailed, the cheesiness is cheesier, the “science” is wilder, the tension is …. er… more tense. I think singling out Discovery’s heavy-handed wokeness as a sign they’re outting too much emphasis there ignores the fact that the entire show is more heavy-handed than previous Treks.
by 7373737373 | 2025-10-08 06:23:36+00:00
I've been wondering about using OpenStreetMap data to achieve something similar, like getting the longest uninterrupted (by buildings) distance between two viewpoints (the Nikon Coolpix P900/P1000/P1100 cameras or a telescope are pretty good for this due to their extreme focal lengths), or maybe something like "most ice cream shop dense area" https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:amenity

Putting the typical airplane cruise altitude (10km) into the distance to horizon calculator https://www.ringbell.co.uk/info/hdist.htm results in a "reverse" distance of 357km to the horizon. So that's how far typical airplanes can be seen when standing at sea level!
by vthriller | 2025-10-08 06:24:28+00:00
What you're showing here is not concatenation, there are fancy borders between file chunks and whatnot. Unless you have very different, unconventional definition of concatenation.

In fact, you're at odds with bat's README:

> you can still use bat to concatenate files. Whenever bat detects a non-interactive terminal (i.e. when you pipe into another process or into a file), bat will act as a drop-in replacement for cat

> It's hard to imagine many people have the muscle memory for the combination of cat, head, and whatever else you need to add headers with the filename and file size, call out empty files, highlight the second line, show line numbers, do syntax formatting

Honestly, it's harder to imagine many people with need for most combinations of these features. I can see general audience who would happily use one feature at a time, and if someone is constantly doing obscure one-off file analysis, chances are bat is just never enough, they're going to write long pipelines with awk/perl or use vim macros anyway, so there are no time savings nor convenience from using bat. (Is it really that much more convenient to read syntax-highlighted heads with line numbers? And I can barely remember the last time when `head` that also shows file sizes could've been much more handy than `du * ; head *`.)

Also, good luck using all that bat muscle memory in docker containers or old-school fleet of remote servers.

> and wrap to the terminal width (head doesn't do this)

Terminals already wrap long lines just fine, they don't need help from anything. They can also re-wrap lines when window gets resized.

(edit: expanded quote, markup fix)
by swyx | 2025-10-08 06:25:35+00:00
yeah guys look i wish you well and respect for launching and all but this is just not going to ever be a venture scale startup and you should calibrate your expectations. you could be wasting the best years of your life being a wrapper of a wrapper of a wrapper and competing on developer experience in open source for no money, or you could be building agents.

build agents. please.
by carynh | 2025-10-08 06:25:54+00:00
> Singal is a lot less interesting a subject (aren't we all exhausted of debating Singal at this point) than whether Bluesky is going to be a viable mainstream competitor to Twitter

I 100% agree with you on that part. As for the rest, it seems you and I have a vastly different experience with him and his views. Cheers!

edit: oh yea, I don't know whether you'd be comfortable sharing it here but I'd be fairly curious about that Jesse 101 you wrote for your facebook group. Not to criticize it or anything just to get a better idea of your POV.
by monkeydust | 2025-10-08 06:26:26+00:00
Nice post from Sean (again). This applies a lot to product domain as well as engineering.

Example, around a year a bunch of product people and like-minded engineers wanted to develop something that we believed could benefit other teams as well as ours. To fund officially (legible channel) would have been a nightmare for many reasons at the time so it was agreed that we would just do it (what OP would call illeigible channel) this required massive degree of trust and respect which this group had.

It felt like a pure grassroots initiate and not driven by top down, as such this helped the development get traction across the org, surprisingly quick in some cases.

Fast forward to today and senior management now citing this as a success story that fits into the narrative they are presenting...great..but...of course...no good deed goes unpunished!

The team is now having to retrofit the business case and justification through the legible channels, it's painful of course but in same easier as the chance of failure has been massively derisked.

One of the much more fun, satisfying and rewarding projects I have worked on in recent years.
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-10-08 06:26:36+00:00
I think it's a good idea to make the distinction. But I don't think 'vibe engineering' is the term I'd go for.

To me `vibe engineering` sounds like shoddily AI-designed suspension bridges. But then maybe I'm just an old fart programmer who thinks 'software engineering' is a term made up by programmers wanting to be as cool as bridge designers...
by seer | 2025-10-08 06:27:03+00:00
In some European countries all of this is commonplace - check out the not just bikes video on the subject - https://youtu.be/knbVWXzL4-4?si=NLTMgHiVcgyPv6dc

Detects if you are coming to the intersection and with what speed, and if there is no traffic blocking you automatically cycles the red lights so you don’t have to stop at all.
by Manuel_D | 2025-10-08 06:27:07+00:00
There has been quality research published recently on treating gender dysphoria. For instance, A 2020 study on treating GD with hormone therapy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08039488.2019.1...

Somewhat unique among studies on pediatric gender affirming hormone therapy, this study had a control group that wasn't prescribed blockers. The group on blockers fared no better than the control group. This is the study that primarily motivated Finland to stop routine prescription of puberty blockers to children, with half a dozen or so other European countries following suit after their reviews of the evidence.

Researchers in the US have typically balked at the idea of including a control group in their studies on blockers, arguing that it's unethical to withhold live-saving medicine from patients. This, conveniently, lets authors frame null results as positive, by claiming that gender dysphoria patient would have fared even worse without blockers. This is what Johanna Olson-Kennedy did in her latest study: she observed no change in the patients' outcomes, and claimed that this indicates that blockers are beneficial because they prevented the patients from getting even worse. But without a control group in her study, this is statement is just speculation.

The retreat from gender affirming care is motivated by the absence of good evidence in favor of their usage. And it's hardly a US-specific phenomenon. It's uniquely politicized in the US, I'll grant that, but this shift in stance on altering children's endocrine systems is happening in plenty of other countries too, so I'm not so convinced this is solely borne out by this latest President.

And again, I find the attempts to equate anti-gay conversion therapy aimed at suppressing homosexual desire with exploring ways to become more comfortable in one's natural body. It's fundamentally different to[ tell a boy attracted to other boys that his feelings are wrong than it is to tell a boy identifying as a girl on account of his same sex attractions, "boys can like other boys, not only girls can like boys". The former is telling someone to reject a part of themselves, the latter is expanding's one's concept of gender to include one's natural state of being.
by yawpitch | 2025-10-08 06:27:10+00:00
No medically trained and board certified doctor that isn’t driven more by their hypocritical convictions than their Hypocratic oath has ever said a kid should be forced to engage in heterosexual activity against their will.

If you have found a non-trained and never certified or licensed effectively voodoo practitioner willing to make that sort of utterly immoral and malign recommendation, then you’ve sought them out because you’re just as or more delusional than they are.
by vintermann | 2025-10-08 06:27:30+00:00
Some institutional designs are more prone to Keynesian beauty contests than others.

It's instructive to compare "Crowdfunding" which took off with Kickstarter ~15 years ago, with "Equity Crowdfunding", which gets tried again and again, and has not a single success story to its name.

Kickstarter was made to fund artistic ventures, and for the first years, they were strict about only allowing that on their site. The idea was to reduce risk for e.g. people trying to bring their favorite band to the area for a concert.

On old Kickstarter, you only pledged to a project if YOU want the product/outcome for its own sake.

However, in "equity crowdfunding", where backers are tempted with a share in the profits of a venture, you should, if you are smart, try to ignore what YOU want. Your own wants are a source of error here: as a fan of the band, you're likely to overestimate its appeal. You should play the Keynesian beauty contest and try to guess what others want.

Kickstarter understood the difference very well. In the early years, they banned such things as "reseller's tiers". Some people would support e.g. a boardgame with pledging for five copies of the game, betting on its success and hoping to resell four of them. That brings the KBC factor in again, and Kickstarter thought that it would eventually lead to the site being flooded with the things everyone thought everyone else wanted, rather than the things they actually wanted.

There's a whole scam industry dedicated to exploiting the gap between what you want and what for its own sake and what you want because you think others want it: MLMs. MLM victims get tricked into a loop where they on one hand convince themselves that the product is great because they hope to sell it, and on the other convince themselves that the product will sell because it's great.
by jamesbriggs | 2025-10-08 06:27:39+00:00
We used frameworks in the past, tried langchain, langgraph, and Openai's agents SDK pretty extensively. Now we roll our own, generally a much better and cleaner experience. We essentially built our own internal framework for our own use-case, we liked the graph approach of langgraph - so we took elements of that. We write everything async, and added nice handling for streaming.

You can see our framework [here](https://github.com/aurelio-labs/graphai). I don't necessarily recommend it as it's built for our use-cases and I make no guarantees for others, but it might be interesting to see what rolling your own might look like
by Llamamoe | 2025-10-08 06:28:11+00:00
> Back on earth, its always the left that is motivated by ideology.

Is it? I don't really remember the last time I've seen right-wing discourse that wasn't centered around moral panic, whether terrorism, immigration, reactionary anti-leftist worldviews, or the opposition to LGBT rights, women's rights, abolitionism, or whatever else is the current threat to all of western society. Not to mention all the damn religious fundamentalism.

Also, in the EU, Croatia with Orban, Poland with PiS, and a few others I can't name off the top of my head are all far-right parties following Russia's playbook, with mass social media campaigns, turning state media into propaganda machines, replacing top government positions with cronies, etc.

Also, it seems extremely bad faith to compare thinly veiled attempts at seizing power with vague promises of "communism" to every single instance of anything left-aligned ever. Might as well start comparing every single right-aligned thought to Nazi Germany, it's roughly just as accurate of an argument.

The way it seems to me is that the right is about preserving the status quo, moral panic, and worship of strong(or more like loud macho) male leaders, while the left is about not-always-well-considered attempts to better the world whose main problem is that there is indeed a lot of empty virtue signalling and misprioritizing of policies around the place, especially among the center-left which is like 90% of the large "leftist" parties.
by rester324 | 2025-10-08 06:28:11+00:00
I read this blogpost and I simply see it as a shoplist of pathologies. And even bad at that, because it's only focusing on how these pathologies impact the company bottomline and it doesn't even touch on how destructive this late stage pathological capitalist company management detrimental to society. Financially, mentally but also phsyically. And it also doesn't mention that these pathologies only serve one reason, so that the members of the class who are holding power and capital can extort control and exploit the working class. So yes, people can see the company this way, but if people ignore these problems I listed, they are part of the problem of why capitalism fails for so many and it only benefits so few.
by baq | 2025-10-08 06:29:54+00:00
The experience you have is something most youngsters won't ever get, because they won't have the time. You've become more valuable than you used to be, because you know exactly what works when and what doesn't. The hard part is being able to find the joy in making agents do what you want achieved instead of building it yourself. I think it actually isn't too hard once you get up to speed with managing multiple agents - efficiently juggling them feels like an art performance sometimes.
by velocity3230 | 2025-10-08 06:30:55+00:00
We're talking about end-to-end encrypted data here. It doesn't matter if LE have the company's data because it's just a scrambled mess. They don't have the keys to decrypt it. They only exist on the users' devices.

Chat Control seeks to execute on each and every device before/after encryption so it has access to the data pre/post encryption.
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-10-08 06:31:54+00:00
I actually really liked the gaussian elimination part. It's a term you hear often and 'demystifying' it is good imho.

Only nitpick I have is that it's a pity you use only 1 and 2 in the example with the carbs. Because of the symmetry it makes it harder to see which column/row matches which part of the vector/matrix because there's only 1s and 2s and it fits both horizontally and vertically...
by angry_octet | 2025-10-08 06:32:00+00:00
The AfD are ultra right and leading figures have openly admitted that they contemplate killing migrants, de-islamification of Europe by expelling all muslims, breaking the EU, etc. They also scatter their speech with fascist dog whistles, and even Nazi slogans from the man in charge, Björn Höcke [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/29/the-tr...