MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solsane | 2025-10-17 22:38:28+00:00
By all means I’m pro AI - but I feel like Microsoft has no idea what they’re doing with Copilot. I have to use the windows shitstack for work and I was open to trying some of this stuff out. Truly a hammer looking for nails scenario. Sounds like they’re focused on being able to interact with Windows solely with text / voice… because someone asked for that, I guess.

Findings summarized:

They added a chat window with a half-rate model and access to OneDrive and sharepoint. Obviously useful integrations like setting up meetings based on a thread or creating tasks are not present.

I don’t care about email summaries or drafts. I talk with developers and our emails are precise.

Github copilot: The shared naming is confusing. There’s not even a shared UI language between the two. I use it because I don’t have Claude code at work. They’ve added some little things like pulling errors from the terminal but it’s mostly just a chat window. Meh.

Also if I edit the file outside the editor (maybe stash some changes with git) before approving edits things get broken and the LLM will start adding in old changes and it becomes part of the context and it’s kind of a mess.

Copilot (browser): -separate ‘work’ and ‘web’ mode for some reason. As far as I can tell it can see my web page in ‘web’ mode but I lose my OneDrive and sharepoint junk. Minimal utility. ChatGPT is better.

Outlook/teams: It’s totally inconsistent and missing integrations. Long email thread? Let’s use Copilot to avoid having to draft a meeting invite with everyone on the thread! There’s a context menu option to do this!

Oh, ok. They removed that in the past week.

Oh ok. It has no context of what I have open. I have to describe the email I’m currently in to their sidebar. This is already not worth my time.

Hmm. It made zero attempt to schedule a time where everyone is available.

This goes on, and I wanted to try because scheduling with our big wigs is a pain. No dice.

Post meeting. We’ve got takeaways. Convert these to MS Todo tasks? No dice! No integration. Want to find teams messages or schedule from teams? Also no.

Excel: neat for making formulas. But sometimes I want to do LLM classification or structured response on a tabular level. That’s the next thing. Also includes a useless chat window.

Powerpoint: also useless. Strangely, I can’t use another powerpoint as a reference for a powerpoint. I want to create clipart. Make a theme. They have ‘make a slide with copilot’ that I actually like, if I could use what it generates as a theme and apply it for all slides.

Generating a slide deck based on a bunch of input is actually pretty cool - but the generic ‘synergy business’ lingo and clip art it uses is so cringe.
by Ccecil | 2025-10-17 22:38:38+00:00
Bushings and suspension parts will likely have similar (or possibly worse) wear than an IC based car due to the extra weight. Brakes a bit less possibly since you can use the regenerative braking but this also depends largely on the driver and situation.

*This is an assumption based on my experience with cars in general and doing my own repairs/maintenance not a slam on EVs.
by ajross | 2025-10-17 22:39:23+00:00
> New and used car prices are at all-time highs (nominal it sounds like

Well, yes, nominal. But no, not really. Cars (and really this isn't surprising) have been getting steadily more affordable over time. They represent about half the fraction of consumer income that they did in the 80's. AS ALWAYS, please just go to FRED to ask these questions before announcing incorrect answers on the internet. New car price[1] expressed as a fraction of median income:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1NbqH

[1] Actually it's new car CPI, so the values are unitless.
by mgh95 | 2025-10-17 22:40:04+00:00
Exactly what people are saying here (the USD is weakening at an alarming pace! Americans are going Weimar Republic!) isn't borne out in the data. We aren't seeing the USD weaken against other countries in an independent manner. That's the point; not to prove that we are seeing a stalwart dollar, but that we are seeing roughly "business as usual".
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-17 22:40:24+00:00
There's some extra irony here: many of those product teams don't realize that AI is not something they can have within their product. If something like MCP is a good fit for them, even a little, then their product is actually a feature of the AI.

Agentic LLMs are, in a way, an attempt to commoditize entire service classes, across the board, all at once.

Personally, I welcome it. I keep saying that a lot of successful SaaS products would be much more useful and ergonomic for end users if, instead of webshit SPA, they were distributed as Excel sheets. To that I will now add: there's a lot more web services that I'd prefer be tool calls for LLMs.

Search engines have already been turned into features (why ask Google when o3 can ask it for me), but that's just an obvious case. E-mails, e-commerce, shopping, coding, creating digital art, planning, managing projects and organizations, analyzing data and trends - all those are in-scope too; everything I can imagine asking someone else to do for me is meant to eventually become a set of tool calls.

Or in short: I don't want AI in your product - I want AI of my choice to use your product for me, so I don't have to deal with your bullshit.
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-17 22:40:25+00:00
Running away from internal IT works until they inevitably catch up to the escapees. At $dayjob the time required to spin up a single cloud VM is now measured in years. I’ve seen projects take so long that the cloud vendor started sending deprecation notices half way through for their tech stacks but they forged ahead anyway because it’s “too hard to steer that ship”.

The current “runners” are heading towards SaaS platforms like Salesforce, which is like the cloud but with ten times worse lock in.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-10-17 22:40:29+00:00
I think it’s possible to make a case both of you are right.

These are huge globe changing effects being batted around. Solar is going to have an enormous effect - it’s distributed at minimum. A lot of human domestic activity (billions of people) can go off grid. That’s going to chnage politics in ways that’s hard to understand

Elite production (a term I always have concerns about - I prefer to say that the average school leaving age has moved from 16 when I was young to 21.)

But elites, social media, balkanisation of social groupings (death of mass media) these also have huge effects.

But the good news is this page on HN probably lists all of the giant freaking tidal waves - it’s not an infinite challenge. But it is going to need radically different approaches to fix it.

Luckily we have Democracy and Science - tattoo them on your knuckles folks - we got a fight ahead of us :-)
by cogman10 | 2025-10-17 22:40:44+00:00
The BRL or CNY is probably one of the most apt comparison given the BRICKS alliance. That's where you are seeing the roughly 10% swing since Jan. (if you go back to last Oct the swing is less pronounced. IDK exactly what was happening last Oct, but there appears to have been an upswing in dollar value from Oct to Jan and a steady decrease of the dollar value since.)
by _heimdall | 2025-10-17 22:40:52+00:00
Old car repairs generally don't cost as much as you'd expect, especially when you aren't paying $750/no on a loan plus higher insurance premiums.

My mechanics often perk up when I bring in my 80s era pickup. It has very low miles, they can generally diagnose it with very basic tools, and parts are cheap. When I have the time to work on it myself I appreciate it for those exact same reasons.
by K0balt | 2025-10-17 22:41:37+00:00
You’re right that my generalization was overly broad when taken out of context, as you have, but I don’t think that anything I was saying can be interpreted in good faith to mean that I assert that things were better in pre history or even 50 years ago.

I am a supporter of legal equality for women, of course, and of women having the social agency and opportunities to choose the path of their life on an individual basis.

That has nothing to do with the abandonment of reason for empathy, which I see as threatening and highly dangerous to the cause of female empowerment. You don’t have to use your imagination to see how that works out.
by Ccecil | 2025-10-17 22:42:17+00:00
When I last priced the equipment it wasn't that bad costwise. In my case though it was only worth it to get rid of the whole "dealing with tire shops" issue. A close friend owns a used car dealership and they bought the mounter and balancer. IIRC...it just needed a 240v line.

I have also lost days waiting for tire shops and alignment...as those are the only 2 things I don't do myself.
by shellkr | 2025-10-17 22:42:35+00:00
Comparing with Tesla is bad as there is a political aspect why people, especially in EU, do not want to buy it after 2024. Which means the statistics might falter. Also when I look at other sources the data say different. I mean if I look at data from the biggest reseller in Sweden KVD you have EV's that has ~80% of the original worth after three years.
by mgh95 | 2025-10-17 22:42:55+00:00
The EUR is unusually strong, in part due to fiscal tightness by ECB (see their balance sheet L2 Liabilities here https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/annual-reports-financial-sta...) compared to the US. This is having a knock-on effect that the EUR strengthens against the dollar, which actually causes a whole host of problems for an export economy.

It's why you see Lagarde calling for a reserve EUR; it's the only way to export EUR at this point. But that's a topic for another time.
by iamnotarobotman | 2025-10-17 22:44:07+00:00
> The point is this: you will be very dissatisfied with your career if you expect a promotion every 2 years. Very simple math would say you’re setting yourself up for decades of disappointment.

Recommended Reading: [0]

[0] https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/10/15/pathe...
by yodsanklai | 2025-10-17 22:44:34+00:00
> how I can make good on this bet.

I agree with you, and I think that's where Polymarket or similar could be used to see if these people would put your money where their mouth is (my guess is that most won't).

But first we would need a precise definition of AGI. They may be able to come with a definition that makes the bet winnable for them.
by criddell | 2025-10-17 22:45:19+00:00
An NVIDIA 5090 with 128 GB of VRAM is $13k. It doesn’t make any sense to run that at home when you can pay OpenAI $20 / month to use it (it would take more than 50 years to spend $13k at OpenAI this way).

So technically you might be able to run a six month old model at home, but it would be foolish to do so from a financial point of view.

Or is there a way to get 128 GB of VRAM for a lot less than that?
by simonw | 2025-10-17 22:45:28+00:00
I'm more excited about this than I was about MCP.

MCP was conceptually quite complicated, and a pretty big lift in terms of implementation for both servers and clients.

Skills are conceptially trivial, and implementing them is easy... provided you have a full Linux-style sandbox environment up and running already. That's a big dependency but it's also an astonishingly powerful way to use LLMs based on my past 6 months of exploration.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-17 22:45:46+00:00
Tools are literally function calls with extra steps. MCPs are interpreters of those function calls.

Same stuff, different name - only thing that's changed is that Anthropic got people to agree on RPC protocol.

It's not like it's a new idea, either. MCP isn't much different from SOAP or DCOM - but it works where the older approaches didn't, because LLMs are able to understand API definitions and natural-language documentation, and then map between those APIs (and user input) on the fly.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-10-17 22:46:10+00:00
40 words per minute is equivalent to about 50 tokens a minute.

I just took GPT-5, output is $10 per million tokens. Let's double the cost to account for input tokens which are ($1.25 per million / $0.125 if cached).

For 1 million tokens it would take a 40 wpm typist.. around 20K minutes to output that $20 of worth of text. That is just typing. So about 300 hours of non-stop effort for that $20.

So even if you say.. oh.. the real price is $100 not $20. The value changes are still shattering to the previous economic dynamics.

Then layer in that also as part of that value, the "typist" is also more skilled than the average working person in linguistics, software engineering, etc. Then that value is further magnified.

This is why I say we have only begun to barely see the disruption this will cause. Even if the models don't get better or cheaper, the potential impact is hard to grasp.
by derf_ | 2025-10-17 22:47:43+00:00
> "Distress in auto lending broadly is often seen as a bellwether to changing circumstances in the US economy, because Americans particularly in the lower-income brackets tend to put their highest priority in auto payments," said Brett House...

Or, put another way, when the bills come in, people make their car payments first, because they have to get to work. So either there are other bills people aren't paying, or people aren't going to work. Both seem bad. One purported cause of increased auto loan defaults is that people are having to make student loan payments again, although that would suggest they aren't prioritizing the auto payments.
by hamdingers | 2025-10-17 22:48:18+00:00
> A bus will pretty much always be inferior to a car.

I never have to clean a bus, or put gas in it, or change its oil. I don't even have to drive it.

I don't have to dedicate a big portion of my property to storing it, just to pay to park it somewhere else when I go out. I'll never get a ticket for leaving it in the wrong place, and I'll never have to go to court because I used it wrong.

I don't have to worry about it getting stolen, or crashed into. I don't have to worry about being unable to afford the insurance or registration. I don't have any wealth tied up in it, so its deprecation doesn't matter.

Having to walk a few minutes at the start and end of my journey is a small price to pay for such convenience.

And if I ever do need one, I can rent one for less than the average American's monthly payment. In fact, I can rent the exact one I need that day, which might be a pickup today but a minivan tomorrow.
Show HN: Pluely v0.1.6 -Open Source Invisible AI Assistant,Alternative to Cluely
by truly_sn | 2025-10-17 22:48:55+00:00
Hey HN,

Pluely v0.1.6 is out. I'm building this in public—no VC backing, no team, just me solving problems one commit at a time.

What Pluely is: An invisible AI assistant that stays out of your way until you need it. Think Cluely, but open source, 10MB instead of 800MB, and built by someone who uses it every day.

What's different about v0.1.6: Screenshot Selection - Click and drag to capture specific areas of your screen for AI analysis. The hard part wasn't building the selection tool-it was keeping Pluely completely invisible while enabling precise interaction. I integrated tauri-nspanel on macOS for non-activating panels and rebuilt Windows window management to stay non-focusable. Three rewrites to get this right.

Audio Device Control – Pick exactly which microphone and system audio source Pluely captures from. The challenge was hot-swapping audio devices without restarting the entire capture pipeline. Had to rebuild the audio layer from scratch to support dynamic device switching.

Autostart - Pluely now launches silently when your system boots. Always ready, never in the way.

Window Focus Issues Solved - The most reported issue from v0.1.5. Pluely no longer steals focus on macOS or Windows. You stay in your workflow, Pluely stays invisible until you call it.

Custom audio capture with Voice Activity Detection

Multi-LLM support: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Mistral, Cohere, plus custom/local models

Try it: https://pluely.com

Source: https://github.com/iamsrikanthnani/pluely

Full changelog: https://github.com/iamsrikanthnani/pluely/releases/tag/app-v...

I ship updates based on what users actually need, not what looks good on a roadmap. This release exists because the community told me what was broken and what is needed.

Built in public. No hype. Just shipping.
by Ethee | 2025-10-17 22:49:00+00:00
This kind of self meta-analysis can be amusing to think about sometimes, but I think more often than not it's actually harmful to your own sense of progress or worth. In my opinion the two sides of this coin that are hard to reconcile are: "You shouldn't limit your own ability" and "It's important to be realistic". Comparing yourself to those around you is human nature, but here you're asking us to compare ourselves to what we imagine is the peak of ourselves in order to stay realistic. I guarantee you that the people around you who are actually making forward progress haven't given a single thought to whether or not they've "peaked".
by mothballed | 2025-10-17 22:49:24+00:00
Or it's the only thing available.

A few years ago my car was totaled by an uninsured illegal in a hit and run, and I was forced to get another one (bought used). This was back when the bubble was even worse, and since I lived on dirt roads, I needed a 4x4. Literally the only thing I could find not clapped out were luxury models, because rich people were about the only people at the time dumping cars that weren't completely clapped out.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 22:49:26+00:00
Being on the bottom rungs is actually a lot cheaper than "HN style" car ownership. Nobody expects your shitbox to be legal, or have compliant papers all the time. You're blue collar so you know people who wrench and trade favors here and there. Boss expects you to be late a few times a month.

There's a "welfare cliff" when you try to get into a "must have reliable transportation" job though
by Illniyar | 2025-10-17 22:50:14+00:00
If leaking creation time is a concern, can we not just fake the timestamp? We can do so in a way that most performance benefits remain - so like starting with a base time of 1970 and then adding base time to it intermittently, having random months and days to new records (or maybe based on the user's id - so the user's record are temporally consistent but they aren't with other user records).

I'm sure there might be a middle ground where most of the performance gains remain but the deanonymizing risk is greatly reduced.

Edit: encrypting the value in transit seems a simpler solution really
by NegativeK | 2025-10-17 22:50:22+00:00
In most places I've lived, busses are for poor people. Because anyone else will pay whatever it takes to get a car and avoid something like a _three hour_ round trip for something 10 miles away. I'm not kidding; my work commute is 10 miles each way, in a city of way more than 1M, and it's 1.5 hours total for me to get to work on time.

I've lived in one place where they were great. Dense urban environments can do that, though. So nuh us busses can be great (the trains were even better), but it seems like the US has zero actual drive to make public transit not crap.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-17 22:50:29+00:00
The Volt I bought a few years ago is worth a small fraction of what we paid for it, 30% maybe?

Its also turned into a mountain of problems recently. It was great until about a year ago, then the battery started acting up. With 10 miles of charge left it will drop to 0, go into limp mode, and require dealership software to disable the thrown code and restart the car. Now it has a phantom battery drain going on, killing the 12v battery after being parked for a few days.

I really liked the car until these issues cropped up. Now I wish I hadn't saved the ~$2,800 in gas while the car depreciated by 4x that amount.
by thr0w__4w4y | 2025-10-17 22:50:36+00:00
I noticed all the feeders seem to be similar / same. I'm in California, I feed 3 strays in an area where the average outdoor cat's lifespan is about 4.5 years (fires, traffic, hawks, coyotes, evil people).

Right now my process is very manual but it's a labor of love. All 3 cats only show up after dark. Ring stick up camera, bowls out (clean them every day), run out on a motion alert, etc. problem is I also have racoons, opposssums and skunks. (I'm not in L.A. highrises, I'm close to the ocean).

Where can such feeders now be purchased (US customer). Thank you!
by johnnyApplePRNG | 2025-10-17 22:50:40+00:00
You are so right.

I am serious about reducing carbon waste. I was amazed at how quickly that CO2e estimate jumps just by savings a few megabytes here and there.

At the very least, it's got me (and hopefully others!) thinking about the issue and I'll be doing everything I can to reduce the load (and the load time!) in the near future!

Thanks for the kick in the butt!
by crazygringo | 2025-10-17 22:50:47+00:00
It's not absurd. And there's no automatic way to make money perfectly stable. That's not how money works.

And deflation is much worse. So we target a small 2% yearly inflation so that if it's 1% or 3% it's not a big deal. Whereas if you target 0% and wind up with -1%, you've got problems.
by aaronSong | 2025-10-17 22:50:56+00:00
Love the demos, but the bar for “digital restoration” should be provenance + uncertainty-by-default: clearly label what’s scanned fact vs. modelled conjecture, keep raw data reversible, and publish model/data cards so future scholars can audit the guesswork. Without that, we’re at risk of preserving our present biases more faithfully than the past.
by graemefawcett | 2025-10-17 22:51:19+00:00
I think there are significantly more than 2, when you start to count variations through the spectrum of neurodiversity.

Spatial thinkers, for example, or the hyperlexic.

Meaning for hyperlexics is more akin to finding meaning in the edges of the graph, rather than the vertices. The form of language contributing a completely separate graph of knowledge, alongside its content, creating a rich, multimodal form of understanding.

Spatial thinkers have difficulty with procedural thinking, which is how most people are taught. Rather than the series of steps to solve the problem, they see the shape of the transform. LLMs as an assistive device can be very useful for spatial thinkers in providing the translation layer between the modes of thought.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-17 22:51:32+00:00
It's a reminder to us all.

I don't think I've ever seen Matz be rude to anyone on the Ruby bug tracker. I've actually witnessed him deal with controversial topics firmly yet gracefully, making decisions that avoid turmoil in the community and that leave no room for escalation into flamewars. Other projects weren't so lucky.

I wrote some Ruby in my teenage years and his conduct certainly made an impression on me. I try to remember this guy whenever I get too angry about stuff. We should all try to be more like him.

That's what the phrase is saying, by the way. It's an encouragement to follow in his footsteps.
by khedoros1 | 2025-10-17 22:51:36+00:00
> If you ever exchanged messages on ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Hangouts, GChat, BlackBerry Messenger, or Campfire your messages are now gone.

I've got archives of transcripts, from when I was using Gaim/Pidgin. I said some cringe things 20 years ago.

I see E-mail as the way to broadcast information to a bunch of people. I see messaging as a way to have conversations. There's maybe some overlap at the edges, but I see most kinds of communication as being much better-suited to one or the other.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-17 22:52:10+00:00
>The COVID pandemic was a good example of this. The working class got thrown a $2,000 check while there was billions given to bail out businesses/lots of fraud.

A lot of people were paid more to not work during COVID restrictions than they earned before or after. $653 billion in federal funds for unemployment programs.

People were getting $600 per week from the feds for a while, then $300/week. Not a single $2000 check, $2400 per month. About the bottom 25 percentile were brought up to 25th percentile income.