MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by preommr | 2025-10-20 22:55:58+00:00
> I'm seeing the downvotes. I'm sorry folks feel that way. I'm regretting my honesty.

What honesty? We're not at the point of "the Godfather was a good/bad movie", we're at "no, trust, there's a really good movie called the Godfather".

Your honesty means nothing for an issue that isn't about taste or mostly subjectivness. How useful AI is and in what way is a technical discussion where the meat of the subject matter is. You've shared nothing on that front. I am not saying you have to, but like obviously people are going to downvote you - not because they might agree/disagree but because it's contributed nothing different from every other ai-hype man selling a course or something.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-10-20 22:56:12+00:00
I don't think anyone can reasonably argue against Claude Code being the most full-featured and pleasant to use of the CLI coding agent tools. Maybe some people like the Codex user experience for idiosyncratic reasons, but it (like Gemini CLI) still feels to me rather thrown together - a Claude Clone with a lot of rough edges.

But these CLI tools are still fairly thin wrappers around an LLM. Remember: they're "just an LLM in a while loop with access to tool calls." (I exaggerate, and I love Claude Code's more advanced features like "skills" as much as anyone, but at the core, that's what they are.) The real issue at stake is what is the better LLM behind the agent: is GPT-5 or Sonnet 4.5 better at coding. On that I think opinion is split.

Incidentally, you can run Claude Code with GPT-5 if you want a fair(er) comparison. You need a proxy like LiteLLM and you will have to use the OpenAI api and pay per-token, but it's not hard to do and quite interesting. I haven't used it enough to make a good comparison, however.
by dijit | 2025-10-20 22:56:15+00:00
Uh, they still have roles open for DevOps:

https://amazon.jobs/en/jobs/3080348/devops-engineer-linux-re...

https://amazon.jobs/en/jobs/3082914/devops-systems-engineer-...

This one mentions terraform by name (though that doesn't necessarily imply its in use, though having worked in large companies I would argue that sweeping statements about a popular technology not being used is likely to be wrong)

https://amazon.jobs/en/jobs/3042892/delivery-consultant-devo...
by sema4hacker | 2025-10-20 22:56:22+00:00
I think the likes of Stalin and Hitler had the intelligence, cunning, and control to actually lead their misguided followers. What worries me about someone like Trump is how an immoral and unethical grifter can keep fooling roughly half the population, while the puppet masters behind him push their agenda. I'm worried we're moving into an era where presidential candidates will merely be a personality, incapable of any significant train of thought, and unseen controllers will actually be calling all the shots. At least Mile Bruner came to his senses and has decided to do the right thing.
by zahlman | 2025-10-20 22:56:46+00:00
My assumption is that people absolutely did, and do, write like that all the time. Just not necessarily in places that you'd normally read. LLM drags up idioms from all over its training set and spews them back everywhere else, without contextual awareness. (That also means it averages across global cultures by default.)

But also, over the last three years people have been using AI to output their own slop, and that slop has made its way back into the training data for later iterations of the technology.

And then there's the recent revelation (https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison , which I got from HN) that it might not actually take a whole lot of examples in the data for an LLM to latch onto some pattern hard.
by lumost | 2025-10-20 22:58:14+00:00
The doomerism on OpenAI finances is unfounded IMO. They will survive and be a large company at this point. The big question marks are on just how big, when, and the cost to get there. If they lost all financing tomorrow, they'd deploy a cheaper model and slow down research. I don't have a hard time imagining that they could pull off a 75% reduction in costs in such a scenario.

No one is OpenAI’s financing while anthropic et al. keep raising. The big risk is that future innovation fails to live up to the hype and they can't afford full priced GPUs or the proposed datacenters.
by gregw2 | 2025-10-20 22:58:15+00:00
Ah, but have they verified how far down the turtles go, and has that changed since they verified it?

In the mid-2000s most of the conference call traffic started leaving copper T1s and going onto fiber and/or SIP switches managed by Level3, Global Crossing, Qwest, etc. Those companies combined over time into Century Link which was then rebranded Lumen.

As of last October, Lumen is now starting to integrate more closely with AWS, managing their network with AWS's AI: https://convergedigest.com/lumen-expands-fiber-network-to-su...

"Oh what a tangled web we weave..."
by hinkley | 2025-10-20 22:59:16+00:00
The best way I’ve seen it described is that the first 9.8 m/s² of thrust only makes you hover in place. So the more g forces you generate the higher the efficiency of the engine - as long as thrust per kg of fuel doesn’t dip too far.

This all changes in outer space, where 0.01g is a valid propulsion mechanism for long duration missions.
by zahlman | 2025-10-20 22:59:42+00:00
> be tested against popular LLMs, perhaps work by tricking Cursor and similar tools into installing the malware, without the user running anything themselves

My sense is that the attack isn't nearly as sophisticated as it looks, and the attackers out there aren't really thinking about things on this level — yet.

> Hide the shellcode in an `npm` dependency

It would have to be hidden specifically in a post-install script or similar. Which presumably isn't any harder, but.
by mdeeks | 2025-10-20 23:00:18+00:00
What you're describing feels like the next major evolution and is likely years away (and exciting!).

I'm mainly aiming for a good experience with what we have today. Welding an AI agent onto my IDE turned out to be great. The next incremental step feels like being able to parallelize that. I want four concurrent IDEs with AI welded onto it.
by kulahan | 2025-10-20 23:00:31+00:00
I use circle-K because it's like 3 blocks from me. The self-checkout seems to work fine. I buy alcohol on the rare occasion I drink, and even then the cashier just steps to the side for one moment to check my ID, presses a button, and then goes back to what he's doing with someone/something else. It never overcharges me, at least, and it always seems to pick things up in just a couple moments. I suppose I take the time to space them out a bit, but I always seem to have a perfectly reasonable experience.

That being said, I see the same one-person-two-registers thing at 7-eleven, and it's very, very fast.
by kridsdale3 | 2025-10-20 23:00:34+00:00
This was made abundantly clear to me in 2020. It's a mass hysteria fueled by trypanophobia in a vast population of people who aren't very interested in self-analysis and understanding how their own behavior and thought patterns are driven by the amygdala.

One bit of evidence for this: SARMS are huge in the bodybuilding as "gateway steroids". They don't work, they have bad side effects, but hey, they're oral.
by Hizonner | 2025-10-20 23:01:01+00:00
> new testament scripture about slavery: https://www.google.com/search?q=new+testament+scripture+abou...

Posting Google searches as references is pretty lame.

The New Testament clearly condones slavery, but I think all the stuff telling you to take slaves is in the old.

> new testament scripture about killing women and children: https://www.google.com/search?q=new+testament+scripture+abou...

When I follow that link, every single thing on the page is from the Old Testament.

If I remember right, the worst you get in the New Testament is massive sexism, exhortations to obey authority in things you obviously shouldn't, and threats to throw people into Hell post-death. Oh, and a note from Jesus that the rather draconian laws of the Old Testament still apply, including the parts about stoning people to death for random silly offenses, although he doesn't list them and I think that's mostly been munchkined around.

... but both testaments are canonical and authoritative for most versions of Christianity... it doesn't make that much sense to carve up the book, and none of the apps actually exclude the Old Testament.
by slaymaker1907 | 2025-10-20 23:01:26+00:00
I haven’t used Codex a lot, but GPT-5 is just a bit smarter in agent mode than Claude 4.5. The most challenging thing I’ve used it for is for code review and GPT-5 somewhat regularly found intricate bugs that Claude missed. However, Claude seemed to be better at following directions exactly vs GPT-5 which requires a lot more precision.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-20 23:03:31+00:00
Honestly it could have, if Intel had invested in the platform for more than a few generations and built the software ecosystem around it. It had on package HBM before it was cool with all the modern AI GPUs and APUs. Intel had the opportunity to build the CUDA ecosystem, and chose to shelve it. I'll never understand the obsession that new platforms must be profitable immediately. Seems they take ~10 years to develop, and planning for that should be part of what's expected before the decision is made. Gelsinger seemed to understand at least that much.
by NKosmatos | 2025-10-20 23:03:42+00:00
This is how articles should be written, this is why I’m reading El Reg (a.k.a. The Register) all these decades, this is what happens when high management cares only about profits and when real engineers don’t eat the RTO bullshit. Bravo for putting this online.

P.S. I’m not an Amazon hater, replace the company name with any other big one of your choice and the article will have the same meaning ;-)
by chasing0entropy | 2025-10-20 23:03:58+00:00
Trump is the lump that appears once the cancer has already taken root. A slim majority of the American populace reject the progressive status quo of the past 30 years and demand radical change. The only non-violent avenue which has net that radical change is Trump; he is the sign of much deeper societal malcontent with the facade of a 'democratic republic' which represents neither the interests of the people or the laws presented to it.
by sc68cal | 2025-10-20 23:04:09+00:00
From the article.

> At the end of 2023, Justin Garrison left AWS and roasted them on his way out the door. He stated that AWS had seen an increase in Large Scale Events (or LSEs), and predicted significant outages in 2024. It would seem that he discounted the power of inertia

Your comment is relying on that referenced inertia. Things will continue to function for a period of time, but there exists an inflection point at which they no longer function as previously.
by Vegenoid | 2025-10-20 23:04:35+00:00
We've all been hearing from people talking about how amazing AI coding agents are for a while now. Many skeptics have tried them out, looked into how to make good use of them, used modern agentic tools, done context engineering, etc. and found that they did not live up to the claims being made, at least for their problem domain.

Talk is cheap, and we're tired of hearing people tell us how it's enabling them to make incredible software without actually demonstrating it. Your words might be true, or they might be just another over-exaggeration to throw on the pile. Without details we have no way of knowing, and so many make the empirically supported choice.
by paradox460 | 2025-10-20 23:04:39+00:00
For a long time I used Paw, which became RapidAPI a couple years ago. Nice little app that does it's job well.

Lately I've just been using a Phoenix LiveBook notebook, with the Req package loaded into it. I can make requests, do arbitrary transforms on the data, and generally stay right at home in a language I like and understand

If you don't know elixir, I'm sure jupyter or some other notebook system would do just as nice of a job
by a-dub | 2025-10-20 23:04:56+00:00
> This is the stupid part. You will burn CPU cycles waking up spuriously for timeouts with no work to do. Setting the flag won't wake up the event loop until the timeout hits, adding pointless delay.

it's the smart part. waking up at 50hz or 100hz is essentially free and if there's an os bug or other race that causes the one time "wake up to exit" event to get lost, the system will still be able to shut down cleanly with largely imperceptible delay. it also means that it can be ported to systems that don't support combined condition variable/fd semantics.
by mdeeks | 2025-10-20 23:05:00+00:00
PRs work well for what they are. Ship off some changes you're strongly confident about and have another human who has a lot of context read through it and double check you. It's for when you think you've finished your inner loop.

AI is more akin to pair programming with another person sitting next to you. I don't want to ship a PR or even a branch off to someone sitting next to me. I want to discuss and type together in real time.
by placardloop | 2025-10-20 23:05:13+00:00
AWS does not have dedicated devops roles. All AWS SWEs are expected to take oncall shifts and respond to incidents, manage build pipelines, etc rather than having specific devops people to do it for them. The article you linked claiming 40% of them were fired is total junk. You can believe that or not, I don’t care.

The last one is a ProServe role, which is a consulting role that spends their time working in customer environments, which is where they may encounter terraform. It does not mean anything about internal use of terraform.
by president_zippy | 2025-10-20 23:05:23+00:00
I wonder how much better the uptime would be if they made a sincere effort to retain engineering staff.

Right now on levels.fyi, the highest-paying non-managerial engineering role is offered by Oracle. They might not pay the recent grads as well as Google or Microsoft, but they definitely value the principal engineers w/ 20 years of experience.
by kazinator | 2025-10-20 23:05:47+00:00
I regret to be informed that they still haven't figured this out. I was very active in thread on Linux over 20 years ago, working on glibc and whatnot. That was before C++ had threads, needless to say. There was a time when cancelation didn't do C++ unwinding, only the PTHREAD_CLEANUP_PUSH handlers. So of course cancellation and C++ exceptions was a bad cocktail then.
by Hizonner | 2025-10-20 23:05:49+00:00
The First Amendment does not apply to fucking app stores. It applies to the government and only to the government. That does include the government leaning on people, but it does not include editorial or curation decisions made by totally private organizations.

If you tried to take your position to a court in the US, even now, you'd be treated as a frivolous litigant... which, to be clear, means being told to fuck off and not come back.

Please stop posting this kind of ignorance. It burns.
by marcellus23 | 2025-10-20 23:07:07+00:00
Maybe you're seeing this argument come up all the time (and maybe everyone else in this thread is disagreeing with you) because your experiences actually don't reflect everyone else's. I guess the other alternative is we're all morons and you're the only smart person here.

Also: if it's so trivially reproducible, then can you provide a ChatGPT transcript link of this happening?

> I'm sorry to be so blunt but this is a massive cope

Coping for what? I don't work for an AI company. If AI vanished tomorrow I wouldn't particularly care.
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-20 23:07:52+00:00
Source: Former AWS Professional Services employee.

Notice the job description:

As part of the AWS Managed Operations team, you will play a pivotal role in building and leading operations and development teams dedicated to delivering high-availability AWS services, including EC2, S3, Dynamo, Lambda, and Bedrock, exclusively for EU customers.

They aren’t looking for DevOpe engineers to work alongside the “service teams” - the teams that build and support internal AWS services. They are working with AWS customers who may already be using Terraform. AWS has a large internal consulting division staffed with full time employees. When they work with customers they will use Terraform if needed.
by zahlman | 2025-10-20 23:07:57+00:00
If anything, the pattern of the obfuscated code is a red flag for both human and LLM readers (although of course the LLM will read much faster). You don't have to figure out what it does to know it's suspicious (although LLMs are better at that than I would have expected, and humans have a variety of techniques available to them).
by Dig1t | 2025-10-20 23:09:07+00:00
>Amazon remained the single largest H-1B sponsor, increasing approvals from 9,257 in 2024 to 10,044 in 2025, an addition of 787 visas.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/1ncm25p/amazon_m...

I’m confused how they can have such a failure, they are employing the best and brightest top tier talent from India.

Hopefully they can increase their H1B allotment even more next year to help prevent these types of failures.
by sokoloff | 2025-10-20 23:09:39+00:00
It’s absolutely fascinating and mystifying (and dismaying) to see educated and otherwise smart people in engineering in the US hold an opinion that two countries with over a billion people each can’t accomplish anything in engineering or science without “us”.

Despite ample and repeated evidence that they can and, in China’s case, that they’re the best in the world in several areas of manufacturing.
by holowoodman | 2025-10-20 23:09:52+00:00
Depends. Some have a paranoid mode without caching, because then a physical attacker cannot snip a cable and then use a stolen keycard as easily or something. We had an audit force us to disable caching, which promptly went south at a power outage 2 months later where the electricians couldn't get into the switch room anymore. The door was easy to overcome, however, just a little fiddling with a credit card, no heroic hydraulic press story ;)
by bhewes | 2025-10-20 23:10:53+00:00
Yes true, but lag to industry is closer to ten years. We definitely don't move fast. Example Oil and Gas is just touching LLMs. We took 15 years+ to move to the cloud which once everything was there we moved stuff back to the edge. There are racks now in the HQ towers (Devon Tower which wasn't designed to have any on perm DC setups now has two whole floors). And the actual factories, they barely have any kind of OT awareness. We help them, but who knows how long before they do much of anything.
by throwaway48476 | 2025-10-20 23:11:32+00:00
On a society level I think everyone realizes the ship is sinking and just looting everything they can before running for the lifeboats.

Bureaucracies became a spoils system. In the 60s the civil rights movement would boycott companies and then demand favors. Minority groups realized the moral weakness of western society and are just in it to loot whatever they can. For them the 350 pages of spoils are very important.
by jamiepond | 2025-10-20 23:12:41+00:00
I made a very simple lightweight yaml based Postman alternative called `yapi`.

https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi

Run this:

yapi -c ./users.yapi.yaml

With this file:

# users.yapi.yaml # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://pond.audio/yapi/schema url: http://localhost:3000 method: GET path: /api/users query: select[name]: true select[tag]: true limit: 10

Or just `yapi` to use fzf to find configs.
by kazinator | 2025-10-20 23:13:03+00:00
This sounds like a case of the alerts being badly tuned.

If you are distracted by a high CPU alert that turns out to just be an expected spike, the alert needs to filter out spikes and only report persistent high CPU situations.

Think of how the body and brain report pain. Sudden new pain is more noticeable than a chronic background level of pain. Maybe CPU alarms should be that: CPU activity which is (a) X percent above the 24 hour average, (b) persistently for a certain duration, is alarm worthy.

So 100% CPU wouldn't be alarm-worthy for a node that is always at 100% CPU, as an expected condition: very busy sytem constantly loaded down. But 45% CPU for 30 minutes could be alarm-worthy on a machine that averages 15%.

Kind of thing.
by arianvanp | 2025-10-20 23:13:14+00:00
The way network Access works really feels weird to me. I wish that instead i could just do it like (or with!) nix. If i know the hash of the thing I'm fetching from the network, allow me access to it. Instead of arbitrarily allow listing domains.

Imagine if this would just be able to use your nix file in your repo to fetch all the dependencies needed to run your project. That'd be extremely sick
by macNchz | 2025-10-20 23:13:26+00:00
I frequently have multiple coding assistants going at once—Gemini 2.5 Pro via Aider as the workhorse for most standard changes, Sonnet 4.5 via Claude Code for question answering, documentation, test case development, or broad based changes to many files in a project, then GPT-5 for more complex diagnostic or architectural type things—I don’t generally like the code it writes, but it will often be able to fix situations where the other models get stuck in some kind of local maxima.
by root_axis | 2025-10-20 23:15:39+00:00
> My app’s website doesn’t even show a cookie consent dialog, I don’t track or serve ads, so there’s no need for that.

I just want to point out a slight misconception. GDPR tracking consent isn't a question of ads, any manner of user tracking requires explicit consent even if you use it for e.g. internal analytics or serving content based on anonymous user behavior.
by Mistletoe | 2025-10-20 23:16:45+00:00
I’d add a corollary to Steve’s often quoted idea, that became even more relevant after Covid. Everyone competent that makes tons of money retired early. We are left with the dregs at all these companies, the newbies and those that didn’t budget well and plan for early retirement.

Any interaction you have with a company post-Covid you can feel it. Nothing works anymore and you can’t even tell anyone about it or why.
by bsder | 2025-10-20 23:18:38+00:00
> The you of today has access to much more, via the internet and now AI.

Adult me does. But if I were a poor child today, would I really have access to much more? I'm not convinced.

As a better recent example, I was trying to figure out how jeweler's used to historically do threads on screws for watches. I had to run down a copy of "Practical Benchwork for Horologists" and eventually had to buy it, sight unseen since the libraries I had access to couldn't cough it up.

For people in the future, apparently there has been a paperback reprint of it. Answering my question about threads: the book devotes a bunch of pages to showing how to build a power feed for your jeweler's lathe.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-10-20 23:19:30+00:00
This is brilliant.

If you're willing to have Claude write code to test a thing you could do a teeny bit more work and make that Playwright script a permanent part of your codebase. Then, the script can run in your CI on every build, and you can keep enhancing it as your product changes so it keeps proving that area of your product works as desired.

Have it run inside a harness that spins up its own server & stack (DB etc.) and boom - you now have an end-to-end test suite!
by kllrnohj | 2025-10-20 23:20:23+00:00
I think a spinning mirror would make it a lot harder. He's only moving the mirror after the "animation" finishes. So it's capture video, step by 1 pixel, capture video, step by 1 pixel, capture video, etc... He's replaying the scene ~1 million times, for 1 million unique single pixel 2 billion fps videos.
by rchaud | 2025-10-20 23:20:45+00:00
That's awful. Stuff like this is why I mourn the loss of MTV and VH1; they would actually license artists' music in their Behind the Music documentary episodes, I discovered a lot of artists that way.

The Beavis & Butthead and Daria shows in the '90s also used a lot of licensed music. When the DVD versions arrived in the mid-2000s, the music was removed and replaced by stock instrumentals; I'm not sure the torrents of the original versions are even being seeded anymore.