MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by itissid | 2025-10-01 17:58:46+00:00
A few days ago I read an article from humnanlayer. They mentioned shipping a weeks worth of collaborative work in less than a day. That was one data point on a project.

- Has anyone found claude code been able to documentation for parts of the code which does not:

(a). Explode in maintenance time exponentially to help claude understand and iterate without falling over/hallucinating/design poorly?

(b). Use it to make code reviewers life easy? If so how?

I think the key issue for me is the time the human takes to *verify*/*maintain* plans is not much less than what it might take them to come up with a plan that is detailed enough that many AI models could easily implement.
by philipkglass | 2025-10-01 17:59:17+00:00
But then, of course, some things just straight up failed to be invented e.g. Chinese-style wheelbarrow in the West.

Thanks for this remark. This was really interesting: "How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow"

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/how-to-downsize-a-...
by internetter | 2025-10-01 17:59:34+00:00
> For code that is run once, writing time dominates.

where "run once" in the sense you describe is really the case has been rare for me. Often these one off scripts need to process data, which involves a loop, and all of the sudden, even if the script is only executed once, it must loop a million times and all of the sudden it is actually really slow and then I must go back and either beat the program into shape (time consuming) or let it execute over days. A third option is rewriting in a different language, and when I choose to do a 1:1 rewrite the time is often comparable to optimizing python, and the code runs faster than even the optimized python would've. Plus, these "one off" scripts often do get rerun, e.g. if more data is acquired.

Java is a sort of selective example. I find JavaScript similarly fast to write and it runs much faster.
by henlo | 2025-10-01 18:00:03+00:00
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by rayiner | 2025-10-01 18:00:03+00:00
Lots of confusion here about the relevant legal issues. The Fed presents a much trickier question than other administrative agencies. Article II, Section 1 says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” So if a government body exercises the “executive power,” it does so as a delegate of the President.

The FTC, for example, exercises classic “executive power.” It sues people for violating antitrust and consumer protection laws. It doesn’t get more “executive power” than that.

The Fed, by contrast, for the most part doesn’t exercise “executive power.” The Fed influences private conduct indirectly through open market operations as a bank. The Fed has ancillary functions in making and enforcing bank regulations, but arguably those are separable. That makes the independence of the Fed a much trickier question.

At the other extreme would be someone like the CEO of Amtrak. He can’t exercise the power of the state to prosecute you. It’s a train company that functions like any other company and happens to be government owned.
by a_belova | 2025-10-01 18:00:14+00:00
We think of pricing as a simple logic of distance and quality. But after diving into a rare data-driven analysis of the €2 billion Alpine transfer market, I realized the real cost drivers are invisible forces: structural inefficiencies, information asymmetry, and the surprisingly high price of consumer trust. I've always been fascinated by markets that defy simple logic. Why does a cup of artisanal coffee cost $7? Why is some enterprise software priced per seat, while another is priced per API call? These aren't just arbitrary numbers; they are the surface-level results of deep, often hidden, economic forces. Recently, I stumbled upon a perfect example of such a market in an unexpected place: the private ski transfer industry in the Alps. Like many, I used to assume the cost of a transfer from, say, Geneva to Chamonix was a straightforward calculation of fuel, tolls, and a driver's time. It’s a commodity service, right? A to B. But why, then, can the price for a similar distance vary by nearly 90% depending on the destination? Why can booking two weeks later add a 15% "procrastination tax"? It seemed like a market operating in a data vacuum, driven by anecdotes and gut feelings. The reality, as I discovered after analyzing a new, in-depth report that provided a rare glimpse into this industry's data, is that the price you pay for that two-hour ride has very little to do with the ride itself. It’s a reflection of a complex ecosystem of logistical nightmares, fierce competition for your trust, and deeply ingrained consumer psychology. This isn't just a story about tourism; it's a deep dive into the hidden economics that govern niche markets everywhere.
by cardanome | 2025-10-01 18:00:31+00:00
No, just no.

As someone with ADHD, I am orders of magnitude more productive when I do freelancing than in an SCRUM based corporate environment and much happier. And I mean orders of magnitude, I am not being dramatic. (Though that only works if I work on something I am interested in otherwise my lows are even lower.)

Task switching is a typical issue for both ADHD as autism people and SCRUM has so much. Just the damn dailies are complete murder for my mental health and productivity.

The problem with SCRUM is that it focuses on everyone being a cog in the machine. Everyone replaceable. At best it allows teams to self-organize (in theory, seldom in practice) but does not acknowledge individual needs of team members.
by suzdude | 2025-10-01 18:00:38+00:00
> Now I think the opposite: politics isn’t the problem; bad politics is. And pretending politics doesn’t exist? That’s how bad politics wins.

Feels like that's how extremism wins? If no one wants to confront other's political ideas, out of fear irrational responses,

At least in the United States, Americans are more unified on issues than the current executive branch, or (at the very least) the largest main stream media outlet would have you believe. It'd be great if people worked at the center, dealing with outcomes. There's far too much talking past each other, as people stand on their mountain of comfortable points, far too many who ignore evidence as soon as it does not conform to their world view.
by darepublic | 2025-10-01 18:00:40+00:00
Love the aesthetics of this. Very cool. Love that its a game for web and just a really interesting choose your own adventure deal.

As for the game itself, it seems a bit punishing / too pessimistic? I don't want to be insensitive but I don't think my choices would lead my character, who was maintaining a full time job for this long, to collapse at their desk midday and be fired.
by laotze | 2025-10-01 18:00:41+00:00
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by throwaway894345 | 2025-10-01 18:00:49+00:00
> the infohash isn't copyrighted, so it's not illegal information in and of itself. serving the infohash isn't serving the torrent, and serving the torrent is also not serving copyrighted material

I'm of the impression that serving either the infohash or the torrent is considered to violate DMCA. DMCA does not just forbid sharing copyrighted material, but also sharing links to the copyrighted material or generally anything that can help people bypass copyright protections (including software that can decrypt even trivial DRM).
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-01 18:01:02+00:00
I don't remember any advanced computer user, including developers saying that the CLI is dead.

The CLI has been dead for end-users since computers became powerful enough for GUIs, but the CLI has always been there behind the scenes. The closest we have been to the "CLI is dead" mentality was maybe in the late 90s, with pre-OSX MacOS and Windows, but then OSX gave us a proper Unix shell, Windows gave us PowerShell, and Linux and its shell came to dominate the server market.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-01 18:01:05+00:00
There were at least a dozen this past summer. There was one in Žovnek Castle two weeks ago. A couple of weeks before that, in Ptuj. Before that, in Celje. Before that, there was a Roman-era festival in Ptuj, which was seriously cool. And the best medieval-themed festival was in Žužemberk.

I went to all of them because I have young kids and they love that stuff. It's a fun day out. Also gives us an excuse to wear all of the arms and armor we've collected, lol.

There are lots of these in Austria, too, BTW. There was a two-week-long joust fair/festival by Millstätter See in early August!

In truth, these festivals are all over Europe. They're just not well advertised, so you have to look for them.

The next one in the region, by the way, is the medieval-themed Advent festival at the castle in Friesach. (Austria.) I'll be there for sure.
by breadwinner | 2025-10-01 18:01:07+00:00
You are absolutely right about needing more clicks and key strokes in Airtable. You have to reach the pain threshold in order to look for alternatives to Excel. And how soon you reach the pain threshold depends on how big your data is and how many users are trying to modify the same data at the same time.

See here to understand what you are missing out by not using a database: https://visualdb.com/comparison/#integrity
by andy99 | 2025-10-01 18:01:21+00:00
Everything has a sales component, good engineering doesn't automatically sell itself. In that respect, I agree some of what's called politics here is always necessary.

On the other hand, I've worked at places where the only way to get ahead is to be a smarmy political operator and do no real work (I find this common when there is no exposure to a real market so no objective standard of what is the right direction to take). It's better to just leave such organizations.
by ttfvjktesd | 2025-10-01 18:01:45+00:00
How is it going to work when the GPU is in the cloud and the storage is miles away in a local colo in SF down the street? I was under the impression that the GPUs has to go multiple times over the training dataset, which means transfer 30 PB multiple times in and out of the clouds. Is the data link even fast enough? How much are you charged for data transfer fees.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-01 18:02:04+00:00
I have written code in Pascal, C, C++, Java, TypeScript, PHP and Python in my life.

Of this entire pack, Python seems to have the widest ecosystem of libraries. I don't think I ever ran into a "have to reinvent the wheel" problem.

Need to run four test operations in parallel? asyncio.gather(). Need to run something every five minutes? schedule.every(). In most cases, it is a one-liner, or at most two-liner, no sophisticated setup necessary, and your actual business logic isn't diluted by tons of technical code.

Performance-critical parts can be always programmed in C and invoked from the Python code proper.
by hnav | 2025-10-01 18:02:24+00:00
Article says their recurring cost is $17.5k, they'll spend at least that amount in terms of human time tending to their cluster if they have to drive to it. It's also a question of magnitudes, going from $0.5m/mo to $0.05m/mo (hard costs plus the extra headaches of dealing with cluster) is an order of magnitude, even if you could cut another order of magnitude it wouldn't be as impactful.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-01 18:02:56+00:00
> Stop pretending you’re above politics. You’re not. Nobody is. The only question is whether you’ll get good at it or keep losing to people who already are.

False. You do not lose if you do not play. You can offer your expertise/opinions and point out places where things could be improved, but at the end of the day, just treat work as someone paying for your time. If you've advised them on how to best make use of that time, and they want to do something else, well it's their money.
by hackyhacky | 2025-10-01 18:03:28+00:00
The fig lead that they will use to justify this distinction was hinted at in Seila Law, another case when they allowed the firing of members of independent agencies: they will say that the Federal Reserve has a "long tradition of independence" that distinguishes it from newer agencies, even though they are all operated under the same law.

If that distinction sounds preposterous to you, then congratulations, you reached the same conclusion that Justice Jackson reached when she complained that the conservative majority is playing "Calvinball" to reach results-based decisions regardless of statute, precedent, and the Constitution.

For those who didn't grow up in the 90s, Calvinball is a reference to a fictional sport from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, in which the sport's rules are made up and change constantly.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Calvinball
by Liquix | 2025-10-01 18:03:30+00:00
> even if ... empires you build will fall into dust, you can still help others

A beautiful sentiment reminiscent of Zen. Everything is temporary, nothing lasts, everything you build or accomplish will crumble into dust and be forgotten. On its face this appears as nihilism, but on the other side of the realization, you're still here - so what else could there be to do besides seize the moment and live it to the fullest?
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-01 18:03:35+00:00
> If you're autistic, don't mask

I strongly agree. Masking is a maladaptive strategy and it's described that way in the literature.

But you do have to figure out who you are and what matters to you. A lot of autistic people spend much of their youth trying to be other people and only really figuring out what they like when they're in their 30s, 40s, or older.
by mlsu | 2025-10-01 18:03:38+00:00
The counterpoint to this is that in order to motivate large groups of people to get stuff done, you need to be 'involved.' A good leader cannot be someone who says "we're above all of this" -- they have to be involved, they have to influence, and they use their influence to productive ends.

You actually cannot be solution oriented without politics. If you are "not involved in politics," that means that politics is involved with you, and you'll be forced to go wherever it lands, instead of attempting to influence the outcome.
by eugene_g | 2025-10-01 18:03:49+00:00
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by librasteve | 2025-10-01 18:03:50+00:00
lol, here it is in the https://raku.org repl…

Welcome to Rakudo™ v2025.06.1. Implementing the Raku® Programming Language v6.d. Built on MoarVM version 2025.06. To exit type 'exit' or '^D' [0] > 0.1 + 0.2 > 0.3 False
Ask HN: Delaware C-Corp Governing Law Jurisdiction Using Clerky
by Solomonrajput1 | 2025-10-01 18:03:54+00:00
Hey everyone, I just used Clerky to incorporate my startup as a solo founder. I'm doing the post-incorporation setup right now and I have to choose what governing law jurisdiction I use for the confidential information and invention assignment agreement (CIIAA). Clerky says that most founders pick the state that they're located in. I'm in Michigan. It also says this: "The CIIAA was designed for use under California or Delaware law. It is likely to work under the laws of other states as well, but you'll need to check with an attorney to be sure." So could I just pick Delaware and not worry about asking an attorney? Or do I have to ask a startup attorney if Michigan would be fine?
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by LordDragonfang | 2025-10-01 18:04:06+00:00
> To see autism as an "excuse not to deal with life" is just plain bigotry.

Almost all of my social circle is somewhere on the spectrum, and quite a few are diagnosed.

So I can say with some authority that there are absolutely some people who use it as an excuse, which is made even more apparent than the people that aren't using it as one. TikTok and other high-information-low-veracity social media is only making this trend worse. It's not bigotry to acknowledge that.

(Most of said individuals ended up getting cut out of said social circle, after the people actually making an effort got tired of them constantly using their disability as an excuse not to even try to modify bad behavior)

That said, I'm not against diagnosis, or even self-diagnosis. Improved diagnosis is a good thing! But mostly because it makes it easier to understand how you can structure things to adapt to it. Or to quote a coworker's email signature:

> “Undiagnosed neurodivergence is like being handed a video game that has been set to hard mode, but having people tell you over and over "it's on easy, why do you keep dying? " Diagnosis is learning the game is on hard mode. It doesn't make it easier, but you can strategize.”
by gdulli | 2025-10-01 18:04:08+00:00
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by vinhnx | 2025-10-01 18:04:33+00:00
I'm currently building my own coding agent, mainly for self-research [0], so this article is very helpful to me. Thank you Simon!

In this particular thread, other has commented about lightweight sandboxing solution. I think I will integrate this next in my agent for safe code execution. [1]

[0] https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45429787
by mooreds | 2025-10-01 18:04:34+00:00
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by scrubs | 2025-10-01 18:04:37+00:00
@danaris hey get with the program. The morons in congress have pissed way the last 30 years in the kind of bs you give above. Nobody cares anymore. Who has edge or where the edge is between the two parties.. nobody cares. Whether one sides "facts" are propaganda or not ... nobody cares.

The salient points are just two:

- extremes make extremes and neither is good for the US

- congress needs competent technocratic solutions to budget, debt, and other things in the practical realm of running a government.

Pretty boys on tv talking s** means nothing. The fiest 40 minutes of the breakfast club is the problem.
by hermannj314 | 2025-10-01 18:04:59+00:00
If China stops buying our soybeans, we can start planting other things. Aren't natural food dyes just a great way to encourage diversity in domestic agriculture?

I am not an expert in synthetic vs. natural, but I feel like this decision isn't actually about health (I don't see any reason to believe why Wal-Mart cares at all about the health of Americans) but rather some larger macroeconomic reality.
by maxglute | 2025-10-01 18:05:17+00:00
But I will still be entertained. Expedient AI expression can touch most people the same way a low effort meme or an off the cuff whitticism.

Art is not effort. Art is not labour. Beauty is not suffering. Art =/= craft. Art is communication.

If someone wants to suffer long the endurance journey to becaome skilled at a craft we can still respect/appreciate it the same way a sprinter spends 10 years training to run real fast, in the mean time most of us will use a vehicle to get somewhere faster.

What we're going to lose is a bunch of interesting behind the scene videos because no one is going to watch someone prompt for an hour wondering why can't I do that, but rather why didn't I do that.

Proliferating tools for creation is net good in the same sense that teaching masses to write is net good. It's strange people are opposing lowering the barrier to entry to visual communication. That's what art ultimately is, communication. Once difficult, soon ubiquituous.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-01 18:05:28+00:00
This conversation is reminding me of one of the most formative books in my development: Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning". It explores this idea, that the strive to find meaning is the central defining force for humanity, set against the backdrop of brutal destruction of the holocaust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning