MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ses1984 | 2025-10-07 14:47:53+00:00
Did you pay for that AI to work for you? How much would you be willing to pay for it?

Tractors undoubtedly increase farmer efficiency, the evidence is clear to see, even when accounting for all costs necessary to design and produce tractors. There’s even room for farmers and tractor manufacturers to generate economic profit.

That remains to be seen of AI.
by tombert | 2025-10-07 14:47:54+00:00
I am still a bit so-so on stuff like Codex and Cursor, but ChatGPT has undeniably helped me get more work done, if for no other reason than unblocking me with stuff.

I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s relevant. Most of my adult life has followed a pattern: I work on a personal project until I get blocked on some bullshit detail (e.g. some arcane Linux server error), get annoyed because I am not making money and the project is no longer fun, and give up on the project about halfway through.

Being able to paste server logs and weird error messages and having ChatGPT generate recovery scripts has been extremely valuable to me. I am not even sure it’s necessarily reducing my workload, but it has absolutely allowed me to focus much more interesting and fun parts, and I finish a much larger percentage of my projects.

I am probably not learning as much as I would if I had powered through the issue, but I am definitely learning more than if I had abandoned it.
by bko | 2025-10-07 14:47:57+00:00
I don't know where this extreme egalitarian belief that it's bad to let smart people excel is coming from. How is it not healthy? Even Marxism, an extremely egalitarian system of belief has a phrase "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

People focus on the second part of the phrase, but the first part explicitly states we should strive to work up our individual ability and potential. Denying that is an entirely new concept that likely never existed prior to the last 50 years or so.
by oschvr | 2025-10-07 14:48:01+00:00
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by ionelaipatioaei | 2025-10-07 14:48:08+00:00
I must be doing something wrong but I couldn't manage to compressed a file using a custom trained profile since I was getting this error:

``` src/openzl/codecs/dispatch_string/encode_dispatch_string_binding.c:74: EI_dispatch_string: splitting 48000001 strings into 14 outputs OpenZL Library Exception: OpenZL error code: 55 OpenZL error string: Input does not respect conditions for this node OpenZL error context: Code: Input does not respect conditions for this node Message: Check `eltWidth != 2' failed where: lhs = (unsigned long) 4 rhs = (unsigned long) 2

Graph ID: 5 Stack Trace: #0 doEntropyConversion (src/openzl/codecs/entropy/encode_entropy_binding.c:788): Check `eltWidth != 2' failed where: lhs = (unsigned long) 4 rhs = (unsigned long) 2

#1 EI_entropyDynamicGraph (src/openzl/codecs/entropy/encode_entropy_binding.c:860): Forwarding error: #2 CCTX_runGraph_internal (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:770): Forwarding error: #3 CCTX_runSuccessor_internal (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:1149): Forwarding error: #4 CCTX_runSuccessors (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:707): Forwarding error: #5 CCTX_runSuccessor_internal (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:1149): Forwarding error: #6 CCTX_runSuccessors (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:707): Forwarding error: #7 CCTX_runSuccessor_internal (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:1149): Forwarding error: #8 CCTX_runSuccessors (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:707): Forwarding error: #9 CCTX_runSuccessor_internal (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:1149): Forwarding error: #10 CCTX_runSuccessors (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:707): Forwarding error: #11 CCTX_runSuccessor_internal (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:1149): Forwarding error: #12 CCTX_runSuccessors (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:707): Forwarding error: #13 CCTX_runSuccessor_internal (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:1149): Forwarding error: #14 CCTX_startCompression (src/openzl/compress/cctx.c:1276): Forwarding error: #15 CCTX_compressInputs_withGraphSet_stage2 (src/openzl/compress/compress2.c:116): Forwarding error: ```

On the other hand the default CSV profile didn't seem that great either, the CSV file was 349 MB and it compressed it down to 119MB while a ZIP file of the CSV is 105MB.
by mbesto | 2025-10-07 14:48:28+00:00
Consultant here!

Two reasons:

- Expertise

- Bandwidth

That's it. That's the reason you hire consultants. Your team either doesn't have the expertise or the bandwidth to do the work you require. Could you hire for expertise and bandwidth? Absolutely. Is it hard ($$) to do that? Yes, and in most cases it's arguably WAY harder, especially when the effort is episodic.
by tomrod | 2025-10-07 14:48:36+00:00
> A state can simply order workers to work without pay or be punished, burn debt that they don’t want to pay, or lock traders into a room with orders to buy. There is still an economy, but it becomes one of political favor which is earned through multiple mechanisms.

Without irony, this is my observation for how corporations work internally. The currency between teams is backscratching.

The USSR was a big corporation with a license of coercive force.
by Nasrudith | 2025-10-07 14:49:04+00:00
Congratulations, you fell victim to the 'platform vs publisher' liability misinformation. It doesn't work like that and has never worked like that, nor should it except for the perfidious pushers of that misinformation.

A prioritization or recommendation algorithm does not count as publication. The work was already published by somebody else. Do you blame a library card catalog for listing by subject, title, or chronology?
by ST33LDI9ITAL | 2025-10-07 14:49:39+00:00
Lot of issues... but it all should have been prevented in the first place. It's not likely that manufacturing will ever really return to US like it once was. We have had administration policies that literally handed our manufacturing away and signed their death certificates for them. Policies and regulations have been the downfall. And, will continue to be, because the way our government is designed and politics handled; the same mistakes are repeated with every administration and party shift. It's just a pendulum that swings back and forth every few years. No matter what changes and policies are put in place by an administration, international business knows it's only a few years till it changes. Thus, another huge win for China. Their changes actually last and stick around for the long haul to show improvement.

In the US and other places policies just keep shifting. One party is eager to just rip out and undo everything that was put in place by the previous. And setup policies to be a pita for the next. It's really quite counter-productive, even embarassing.
by rbanffy | 2025-10-07 14:49:51+00:00
The way it makes sense is when you can't add that much memory to the system directly, or when directly attached memory would be significantly more expensive. For this you can get away with much slower memory than you would attach to the memory bus directly - all you need is to be faster than the storage bus you are using.

Last time I saw one was with a mainframe, which kind of makes sense if adding cheaper third party memory to the machine would void warranties or breach support contracts. People really depend on company support for those machines.
Show HN: FizzBee – Formal Model based autonomous testing
by jayaprabhakar | 2025-10-07 14:49:56+00:00
GitHub: https://github.com/fizzbee-io/fizzbee-mbt-examples Quick Start: https://fizzbee.io/testing/tutorials/quick-start/

Most developers agree testing is important. At the same time, most developers don’t enjoy writing tests. With AI generating code faster than ever, testing is becoming even more crucial. But even AI-generated tests need review and maintenance, which makes them another burden.

I'm introducing another form of autonomous testing - "model-based testing". Instead of writing test cases, you describe expected behavior in a Python-like specification language.

The FizzBee model can be: - Verified exhaustively for design bugs (like formal methods). - Mapped to your actual system, automatically generating the tests.

This gives you:

- No hand-crafted test cases - Automatic testing of concurrent as well as sequential behavior - No cascading test rewrites when behavior changes - No cluttering the SUT with tracing code

With FizzBee, you get both design validation (like in formal methods) and automatic test generation, saving time and effort.

Currently, only Go is supported. Java and Rust are next and would love to hear which language you’d want supported next.

I’d love your feedback!
by goku12 | 2025-10-07 14:50:10+00:00
Look, I'm not aligned with any political movement and my political beliefs are nowhere near the right. But I have noticed on Wikipedia that some left-aligned claims are presented ignoring objections or without any supporting references, while right-aligned claims sometimes get stuck in endless arguments despite the availability of supporting references. I admit that this is just an anecdote. And since I don't read every Wiki article very critically[1], not a lot of them have caught my attention either. So my observations could be just statistical outliers. But this isn't the first time anyone has accused the Wiki of left-leaning bias. Meanwhile, I'm yet to see anyone accusing it of right-leaning biases, outside of organized vandalism campaigns. It is widely suspected that these biases come from the Wiki editors themselves[2].

Considering how much the information on Wikipedia influences politics and people's lives these days, it's important to not simply brush such concerns aside. It's a difficult task to address it, but may be well worth it. As a first step, someone will need to do a statistical study of a large sample of arguments and claims that lack supporting references. Only that measure will establish if the concern is real or just imaginary. Whatever comes after depends on that result.

Whatever be the truth about this accusation, there is something else very clear that prompted me to write this reply. Left ideology doesn't automatically equate to liberalism. I've noticed that a section (not everyone, but a sizable group) on the left is very inflexible in dealing with opposing views[3]. The left is the birth place of the cancel culture after all. They don't tolerate any challenges. However, that attitude is very detrimental to an information repository like Wikipedia in the medium to long term. The only real solution is to embrace the true progressive ideology - depend on evidences rather than conformance to popular narratives.

[1] I'm just looking for starter information most of the time. Critical analysis isn't the priority there.

[2] I'm not making an accusation. Everyone has biases. But it's important to address them in contexts like that of Wikipedia.

[3] The incident that made this very clear to me was when the fediverse almost defederated (cancelled) the fosstodon.org instance. It was over something that one of its right-leaning admins said somewhere else. That ultimately didn't happen because the said admin resigned and the instance moved to a more formalized administrative protocol. However, even that's a bit too far, because that admin had kept his job free of his personal political beliefs, and it never reflected on the instance. Besides, that instance is also home to a lot of individuals and FOSS projects, the majority of whom are left-leaning. The use of cancel culture as a weapon for stifling political speech was on full display there.
by wibbily | 2025-10-07 14:50:12+00:00
It’s a shame. Nordic’s chips blow the ESPs out of the water in terms of power consumption. You can get an nRF bluetooth dongle to run for months/years off a coin cell, almost without trying. Getting an ESP32 to behave is much harder

IIRC their standalone wifi chip is pretty good even… just stick them together already c’mon.
by browningstreet | 2025-10-07 14:50:25+00:00
Some years ago when an older Macbook Air of mine need a bit of Linux upgrade TLC I cycled through a bunch of linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc) and found that Ubuntu had more automatic built-in support for the hardware and had no 1st hour niggles. So I kept it.

When I decided to wipe Windows off my desktop, I started with Fedora because I wanted more container/package consistency with some of the other environments I interact with, and I thought I wanted some of the bare-bones Gnome stuff. But Fedora just didn't feel right.. it was uglier than Ubuntu, the Super-key action was a bit jankier, I missed the menu, I had to manually configure the NVIDIA drivers, and the flatpaks didn't really seem like a huge improvement to me.

Anyway, I wiped Fedora and went again with Ubuntu. I feel like that last round of polish they add to it, and some of their device driver defaults, just work better for me. I have had no issues with snaps though I had to learn to mount external directories over symlinks for things like Thunderbird's snap security for relocated profile stores (moved my profile off the SSD and over to the internal spinning disc). But that was easy.

I tried Linux Mint before and thought about Pop_OS but decided to stick with one of the major distros. Ubuntu has won two of my recent "let's try a bunch of distros" so I think that itch has been quieted for a while.

I will say, for Linux in general, after configuring all the apps I use on the daily (browsers, Obsidian, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, etc) my Linux storage on / takes up all of 35GB of storage on a 256GB SSD. I am unreasonably pleased by that.
by a_red_horse | 2025-10-07 14:50:45+00:00
> Tractors undoubtedly increase farmer efficiency, the evidence is clear to see, even when accounting for all costs necessary to design and produce tractors. There’s even room for farmers and tractor manufacturers to generate economic profit.

Aren’t small independent farms struggling because of debt loads are really small returns?

Is this what AI will do as well? Enable large players consolidate while anything bigger than hobby work becomes very difficult and expensive for individuals.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-10-07 14:50:47+00:00
"I suspect that people who are good engineering managers will also be good at 'vibe coding'."

I have observed that those who have both technical and management experience seem to be more adept (or perhaps willing?) to use LLMs in the daily life to good effect.

Of course what really helps, like in all things, is conscientiousness and an obsession for working through problems (if people don't like obsession then tenacity and diligence).
by Marsymars | 2025-10-07 14:50:58+00:00
> edit: not sure about your mac point. I sometimes use a mac and it works at 200% on two separate 4k screens.

200% scaling works if you only want "looks like 1920x1080", but if you have a 27" 4K display, I'd typically want "looks like 2560x1440" or 150% scaling - if you do that on macOS, the desktop is rendered at 5120x2880 and then downscaled to 3840x2160. So you're getting both higher resource draw from rendering the desktop at a higher resolution and losing pixel-perfect rendering.

It won't be a problem for most people, but it's enough of a problem for me that I won't use macOS with scaled displays.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-07 14:51:28+00:00
Shame to see Arduino go, but honestly how relevant are they anymore? The Arduino framework is one of the worst ways possible to write firmware for any slightly serious use, and their hardware is... quaint in the era of Espressif and the Cambrian explosion of devboards with any number of highly advanced features.

Arduino was a great way to get into microcontrollers back when the only alternative was vendors' native libraries in straight undocumented C and wiggling CPU registers manually. But that's not really a niche anymore, there's plenty of other, better designed, frameworks and libraries. Arduino has always been the worst, slowest framework available.

Honestly it's high time to replace Arduino with something else that doesn't instill such awful habits in new engineers.
by sublinear | 2025-10-07 14:52:01+00:00
This is not how the web works.

That's like asking any other software dev to "say no" to letting other programs run concurrent with their own. It's just not within scope and any attempts to have your program behave this way will be impossible to maintain.

If you're a business that wants to inject ads without anyone getting in the way, all you have to do is host the pages somewhere the dev can't touch. This would likely be a CDN or similar for a multitude of other good reasons. So the content security policy is now only configurable by the admin who really doesn't give a shit and doesn't even know what's being hosted on there.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-07 14:52:21+00:00
> Why not just have the filesystem be a SQLite DB then?

A lot of people have proposed exactly this, that modern filesystems ought to be relational databases at the directory/metadata level.

It would be amazing to be able to interface with the file system using SQL and have the power of transactions.

> A: because it would suffer from all of the same problems, except worse, because it is not a filesystem

Not really. Database technologies really are far more advanced in many ways. It would not suffer from many filesystem problems, and would actually be better in many ways.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-07 14:52:21+00:00
I rode a few in SF and can’t wait for them to come to Seattle. They don’t use actual human remote drivers, and the support person I spoke to when I had an issue had a Filipino accent, so I’m not sure they were even in the usa (although that totally could have been California also). I don’t think they wound need that many people anyways to do live support. Waymo is definitely being cautious, but the cities they move into seem to all be success stories.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-07 14:52:34+00:00
> Have you ever taken a Waymo? You see them on every street in SF now

Man I can tell you 99.9999% of people in real life outside of silicon valley tech hubs do not give a single shit about these things. City dwellers are already so disconnected from reality, but silicon valley takes it to a whole other level.

Only terminally online tech solutionists get a hard on for these things
by lesuorac | 2025-10-07 14:52:50+00:00
I assume you're being tongue in check but I've watched a lot of people use software and they really just don't know anything about it. Being able to verbally request something is something they can learn to do while googling how do I normalize the scores in my rubric to add up to 100 is something they couldn't.

Verbal queries is the solution for the world we have even if it's not optimal.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-07 14:52:55+00:00
I agree until the end - won’t replace people - it will replace people. There are tons of people who a) can’t or won’t learn how to maximize their value with the fools, b) some jobs will outright be automated and they’re jobs that require little executive intelligence and judgement. Not everyone is smart - the median IQ is 100. I expect a hollowing out of non manual labor work under 115 IQ. Further, world models and robotics will start hollowing all but the most poorly paid manual labor or the highest skill, which most people are incapable of. There will be a large hollowing out of labor across the low end.

The fact we haven’t fully automated everything in ~3 years seems to be the proof this isn’t really happening. It takes at least a decade to iron out how a new technology fits into things how to exploit it efficiently, and this specific technology requires a lot of subtle research and building tooling and infrastructural code, processes, and techniques we’ve never built before. It also has a large physical infrastructure requirement.

However for those manual tasks above (effectively any sort of coding, classification, labeling, task oriented data work) my experience is LLMs have much higher precision and recall at any scale of work without labor issues around hiring and ramp up/idle time, let alone cost. I’m not saying this is good - but it is absolutely true and in my last two jobs we’ve eliminated massive numbers of roles for people and we are just beginning in the cycle and not very mature. By the end I expect as many as 20k+ reduced, maybe much much more, from my current company in these sorts of roles.
by beAbU | 2025-10-07 14:52:58+00:00
> Criticizing "hedonism" is its own kind of hedonism

It's like kink-shaming being someone's actual kink.

Criticizing "hedonism" is its own kind of hedonism because you are overindulging yourself in your own sense of pride and smugness for "being better than everyone else"

Not that the author of TFA is doing this, but claiming that you have overcome materialism while at the same time posting about it on instagram with your latest iphone, recording yourself on insta360 cameras, with your apple watch-recorded heart-rate superimposed on your videos is a bit silly.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-10-07 14:52:59+00:00
Doesn't this all kind of hinge on the idea that these programs indeed serve these kids? Maybe things are different now, but growing up in public school, GT was kind of seen as a joke and ultimately arbritrary. I think I lost my chance to get in because of my lack of cursive skills. We would compare assignments and laugh at the sameness, sometimes even lesser challenge, of the "gifted" classes. The only thing that really mattered back then was the standardized tests.
by thisisit | 2025-10-07 14:53:14+00:00
Just today a consulting firm asked if they can use AI to generate user guides and documentation.

I refused because of the hallucination issues. But got overruled by the end users - who are going to use these documents. They are convinced that AI will move things faster. When it comes time to using the document they are most likely going to feed the doc to AI and ask for summary and steps.

Write document using AI and then read/summarize using AI.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-07 14:53:34+00:00
> The collective west enjoyed a period of prosperity because it had massive technological advantage. The Spanish had guns,

as it was said in 1898 by Hilaire Belloc: "Whatever happens, we have got. The Maxim gun, and they have not."

In that case it was the British who had just slaughtered a lot of Matabele in Africa.

> Losing the AI race is an existential threat to our civilization.

Lol. If winning it means a sea of hallucinated "factual" text and deepfake videos, then that death of truth is also a threat. Being rid of that is no threat at all.