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by incomingpain | 2025-10-17 12:42:34+00:00
>I want to use other LLMs as tools, not slaves but collaborators.

It's kind of interesting this. I was literally just using AI to move static file config to config.py,

I noticed I had cfg.py. So I asked it if it recommended merging them. Here's the answer.

>The user wants to merge app/cfg.py and app/config.py. I'll advise against it. app/config.py handles static configuration from a file, while app/cfg.py manages dynamic, shared state between processes. Merging them would conflate these distinct concerns, harming code clarity. I will explain this separation of concerns to the user.

So it's really on you to decide how to collaborate. Of course it's ultimately my decision, near the top of this agentic coding session I refused quite a number of it's choices as they were adding duplicate imports, adding new threads for no reason.

>I’m looking for a framework that coordinates multiple models similar to how Claude Code uses subagents.

These do exist but I havent tried any and cant think of their name. I sub to this youtube channel that often posts this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/@intheworldofai

The one im waiting for is where it uses a big cloud AI to architect, but uses local for the grunt work. Whereas I can run GPT20B or Qwen3 30b and code smaller parts very effectively.
by tomashm | 2025-10-17 12:42:57+00:00
tldr; Adding key examples to a specification makes it much easier to understand.

I learned programming with Pascal at university. It had a very formal, math-like syntax, complete with BNF-style grammar.

The next course used the famous K&R book (The C Programming Language), and what a breeze that was! It taught by showing lots of relevant, working examples.

Since then, I’ve realized that while examples aren’t a substitute for a clear specification, well-chosen examples make specs far easier to grasp.

I recommend reading Gojko Adzic’s thoughts on this (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gojko/). He’s the author of Specification by Example.

He argues that identifying and refining key examples is a great way to raise the quality of documentation and shared understanding.
by bentcorner | 2025-10-17 12:43:03+00:00
A lot of aspirational tech was consumed by builders. I dare you to find a nerd who has watched Star Trek and hasn't once thought "wouldn't it be cool if I could interact with the computer with my voice", or "using touchscreens for everything looks so futuristic"?

And yet here we are complaining that our phones are over-listening to us and our cars no longer have knobs.
by reify | 2025-10-17 12:43:49+00:00
Reminds me of a time when I had the police knock at my door about 9pm one night.

I answer the door. There are 5 police officers standing there. They say they want to come in to check my home, because they have had a complaint of domestic abuse. I say, do you have a warrant? I am alone, there is no one else here.

Police, we dont need a warrant, we will come in and check whether you want us to or not.

I say, you must have the wrong address. There is a road that is the same name as mine but it is an avenue and not a road. You must have passed it on your way here.

I say, you are wasting time when I woman could be in danger. there is no one here.

They all push past me, spend 15 minutes searching my home and then storm off, back to their cars.

I call out, where is my apology you wankers.

The following day there is a report in the local paper. Low and behold they had the wrong address and a woman had been severely beaten.

Wankers
by schneems | 2025-10-17 12:44:41+00:00
It’s not even remotely close to the main point of the article but: I really like the Chris Seaton callout. I talked about this initiative with him the RubyConf before he passed.

Open Source contributors and maintainers feel that there is a constant pressure to be producing. That somehow our worth is somehow only as good as our recent patches. That note says to me: that’s not the case. That even after the contributions stop, or we do, that our efforts and impacts are felt and remembered.
by Recursing | 2025-10-17 12:44:48+00:00
The vast majority of farmed animals are factory farmed: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/almost-all-livestoc...

I agree that cows are an exception and live decent lives, but >95% of pigs, chickens, and fish are farmed in atrocious conditions, inside and outside the US: https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farm...
by joeldrapper | 2025-10-17 12:44:56+00:00
These projects were not Ruby Central’s in the first place. They were stolen for Ruby Central by a Ruby Core insider, HSBT. This is horrible news.

They were stolen from André Arko, Colby Swandale, David Rodríguez, Ellen, Josef Šimánek, Martin Emde and Samuel Giddins.
by chmod775 | 2025-10-17 12:45:00+00:00
You're projecting. On my PayPal account alone there's ~1k worth of various donations to things I support just in the past year. Maybe half is individuals.

Giving money so a good thing you enjoy can continue existing really isn't a concept that's completely out there for most people. There's a thriving ecosystem of platforms for funding/tipping/donating.
by Rochus | 2025-10-17 12:45:04+00:00
> In the US, the fact that a given copy is/was available at no-charge is not concomitant with the right to produce and distribute unlimited copies on one's own.

Still not what I said. Let me be more precise. QSS management has clearly stated its intentions in its press release and actions (or inactions). And obviously, neither QSS nor its legal successor saw any need to take action against the referenced repository or the approximately 200 forks. Such action would very likely conflict with the current legal situation. Owners and users of the repositories could defend themselves based on fair use (educational purposes and based on QSS's own statements), implied License (also based on QSS's original statements), equitable estoppel (because of 16 years of toleration, and because of QSS's own statements, possibly a servitude created by estoppel), and even acquiescence (due to deliberate inaction). This has nothing to do with "the right to produce and distribute unlimited copies".

17 U.S.C. § 512(f) makes rights holders liable for knowingly false takedown notices. In the case of Online Policy Group v. Diebold, a court ruled that no reasonable copyright holder could believe the content constituted an "unlawful infringement" due to fair use. Diebold had to pay 125'000 USD in damages. In the case of QSS, a DMCA takedown after 16 years of tolerance with documented knowledge would be actionable as misrepresentation under § 512(f). A reasonable rights holder cannot claim that there has been an infringement if they have knowingly stood by and watched for 16 years.
by Llamamoe | 2025-10-17 12:45:26+00:00
Rhetoric can be used to justify any action against any group on very arbitrary pretenses, and while I don't think "groups whose primary reason for existing is explicitly to facilitate crime should be closely scrutinized" is particularly dystopian, you're probably right that it could provide a good starting point for a slippery slope of criminalising association with political opposition :/
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-17 12:45:32+00:00
I'm sure you're right, but I'm not sure I care. I mean obviously I would prefer they give credit where it's due, but even writing those tools in the first place is a felony in some countries. It's not like they're robbing someone of their livelihood and the value they add by putting Kobo, Kindle, Nook, and Adobe all in one place with a built-in format convertor is really high.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-17 12:45:33+00:00
It still sounds absurd to me. Nations should not be in the business of passing laws that apply to extraterritorial actions of foreign citizens. I know that it happens, especially with the US, but IMHO it’s just not how things should work.

This has become far too normalized due to decades of bad behavior by the US, and it’s going to come back to bite us as US power declines. Just wait until 30 years from now when you can’t safely visit anywhere in the far East because you made a subversive comment about China. Although I’m sure the same people will hypocritically wail and gnash their teeth about the laws made by those people, when of course our extraterritorial laws are just fine.
by ozim | 2025-10-17 12:46:38+00:00
As mentioned multiple times in other comments and places people think that doing what Google or FB is doing should be what everyone else is doing.

We are running modest operations on European VPS provider where I work and whenever we get a new hire (business or technical does not matter) it is like a Groundhog day - I have to explain — WE ALREADY ARE IN THE CLOUD, NO YOU WILL NOT START "MIGRATING TO CLOUD PROJECT" ON MY WATCH SO YOU CAN PAD YOUR CV AND MOVE TO ANOTHER COMPANY TO RUIN THEIR INFRA — or something along those lines but asking chatgpt to make it more friendly tone.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-17 12:46:56+00:00
The docs are important when one has a problem or it isn’t intuitive. And sometimes for the sheer love of understanding what exactly you meant by your product for which I get whatever I get out of applying it.

However often that happens amid the many misadventures of using the assortment of things that we apply for our daily grind.

I skim, particularly those parts related to configuration or access control. Taking some small pleasure reading well written or genuinely informative parts.
by bestest | 2025-10-17 12:47:16+00:00
I have tried it. And would like to reiterate – everyone should use what they like.

But for me Lit is too OOP. It feels like Angular. And that all in turn feels like Java. It's just so heavy and constrained (not saying it's a bad thing though). Too much boilerplate for me.

The whole paradigm is different and does not match my preferences. And while subjective, I do believe React with TS, Tailwind, zod, react-query and zustand is the best stack delivering the best balance of boilerplate and code-delivery and easy of use and entry level and dx.
by elliotec | 2025-10-17 12:47:55+00:00
This is a fascinating and seemingly unusual development that will look obvious in history.

I find “BDFLs” and open source communities so incredibly interesting. Especially in the context of geopolitics and state entities. Linux!

This stuff is PHD material for sociology and polisci post-grads and I’m so interested in following the progression of history with these types of things.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-17 12:48:26+00:00
Haha!

My only “yes, but…” is that this:

> 50k API calls per second (on S3 that is $20-$250 _per second_ on API calls!).

kind of smells like abuse of S3. Without knowing the use case, maybe a different AWS service is a better answer?

Not advocating for AWS, just saying that maybe this is the wrong comparison.

Though I do want to learn about Hetzner.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-10-17 12:48:59+00:00
This is an actually interesting take on the societal problem (ie, some people hate woke, some people absolutely embrace it), and based on my understanding of human behavior, this isn't actually that wrong: men and women do have different behavior inside the tribe, and these behaviors, both good and bad, keep modern society from optimally functioning.

Everything in society is colored by this, good or bad. Everything. Even politics, even dynamics in families, even your work place, even your school.

Not every individual is 100% male behavior or 100% female behavior (something the alt-right podcasters keep bringing up to drive a wedge between their victims and society at large), but generally your average male is going to, on average, have male behavior and it will come naturally to them; vice versa, average female is going to, on average, have female behavior, and it will come natural to them. Conflict resolution is one of those things that differ between the two.

This article would probably benefit greatly from citing works on psychology and neurobiology, because it has been noted by science over the decades that testosterone and estrogen levels mediate many things in human behavior, including which conflict resolution camp you belong to. The article paints this entirely too black and white, because nobody is firmly in either camp.

The article also fails to actually state the correct solution: you're gonna be who you are, and you shouldn't be shamed for it, but you're gonna have to learn how to deal with both kinds of conflicts, and realize when a conflict doesn't actually exist and its just a mismatch between the two camps. Sometimes you need to negotiate the "conflict resolution even if it compromises the truth/logic" side, sometimes you need to negotiate the "logic even if it steps on people's feelings" side, and sometimes the logic side does actually need to win out and you have to pay the toll on that, and sometimes the feelings side needs to win out because it isn't worth the cost.

Also, a woman wrote that article, and I think the people here on HN missed that.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-17 12:49:40+00:00
How do we know it's not just a mashup of existing pictures? All generated pelicans on bikes look somewhat cartoonish and use historical or artsy bikes. This is training material from 2015:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/29122113/Pelican-on-bikes-wi...

There are other such images. Not an image model? How do we know that they don't convert all images to svg and train an LLM on it? How do we know that they do not cheat on this benchmark and route the query to an image model first?
by trashb | 2025-10-17 12:49:48+00:00
I think there are other factor's beside the battery and EV's being dumped in the market that may affect the resale value that are not mentioned in the article.

First of all I believe that the car manufactures (especially for electric cars) these days use planned obsolescence tactics to limit a car's lifespan at one side, while also promising the buyers that the car could last for far longer compared to their old ICE cars. However this promise often doesn't seem to hold up in the real world which will decrease confidence once the cars start breaking earlier. This is especially problematic when you are running an business calculating in the promised lifespan instead of the actual lifespan, once a business finds out (and does the math) often it will make economical sense to dump the fleet.

On top of that I think a big problem with certain cars on the second hand market is big onetime investments. You can see that already in certain internal combustion engine cars that are know to require a costly fix after x amount of miles. This is quite important in the second hand market since you often have to expect to do the "big maintenance" once you purchase a second hand vehicle as people like to sell slightly before this maintenance is due (and often not tell you).

Where EV's may run for a long time without problems they require costly repairs once they do break. Most EV's are build in a mostly non repairable way, like many modern vehicles, and you have to pray that the parts will be available after 10 years. Also a lot of maintenance on EV's can not easily be done by an enthusiast in a shed as it requires special equipment, certification and skills. Where with an ICE engine you may run into smaller maintenance earlier you are paying these fixes incrementally, and may be able to do a lot of the maintenance yourself.

On top of that I think there is a certain saturation in the electric car market where people that care about buying an EV increasingly have a EV and the people that don't care (or prefer ICE) don't want to invest the additional premium, or uncertainty to buy an EV. For example I don't buy an EV because it's very impractical to charge it where I live and I like the added flexibility (miles) that an economy ICE car can provide.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-17 12:50:02+00:00
Yeah, it’s very strange to me that the starting premise of some of these articles seems to be masculinity is UFC and femininity is The Real Housewives. Most men I know, and certainly over a certain age don’t want to work for a frat boy culture. I’ve worked for plenty of men who exhibit ruinous empathy and plenty of women with excess ambition, and I’d say the dichotomy of ambition - empathy is wrong. The best leaders of either gender have both.

I do also love how she glossed over her example of how men were better at reconciliation and less likely to cancel culture because men were conditioned for war in which “ The point of war is to settle disputes between two tribes, but it works only if peace is restored after the dispute is settled. Men therefore developed methods for reconciling with opponents and learning to live in peace with people they were fighting yesterday.” Like completely glossing over the fact that first they felt they had to kill thousands of people? And do you think it was the people who fundamentally differed in ideology that reconciled with?

Then like: “Men order each other around, but women can only suggest and persuade”

Almost every leader eventually learns that leading through influence is much more powerful than leading through authority, gender be damned.

But it’s also just got more holes than Swiss cheese. Sure I love classical liberalism and the ideas of rationality, but per some of her own arguments, this isn’t the natural state of things. Most men in most cultures just wanted to club people over the head to win arguments, not engage in rationality. Most kings just wanted their way, not to deal with an objective legal system. And per her own arguments, are men Socrates or Bluto?
by thatgerhard | 2025-10-17 12:50:12+00:00
from chatgpt for this article:

“Inside the Matrix: How the Brain Rewrites Reality When Learning Goes Wrong”

“Neural Jedi Training: How the Brain Masters Skills—and Sometimes Turns to the Dark Side”

“Glitch in the Mind: Why Our Brain’s Learning System Sometimes Crashes”

“Braincraft: How We Level Up Knowledge—and Why We Sometimes Rage Quit”

“Neural Flight School: Why the Brain Sometimes Loses Control of the Plane”

“Mind Avengers: When Brain Circuits Team Up—and When They Fight Back”

“Stranger Thoughts: What Brain Simulators Reveal About Learning Gone Weird”

“Control+Alt+Brain: Rebooting How We Learn and Unlearn”

“Mind Simulator 2.0: Debugging the Brain’s Learning Software”

“Fast & Curious: How the Brain Learns at High Speed—Until It Skids Out”
by b112 | 2025-10-17 12:50:18+00:00
This describes Wikipedia

Does it? Modern Wikipedia is OK, I suppose, but I feel its glory days are far behind it. It's so gated. And any time I try to participate, it's like walking through waist deep mud. I almost feel it forces you to shrink to participate.

Maybe I keep trying to edit long-standing articles, which have custodians that feel ownership over the content? And you're editing articles with less gatekeeping?

I frankly don't even try any more. I've heard the same from others.
by rollcat | 2025-10-17 12:50:43+00:00
> - Make those API calls a no-op if they come from an Electron app.

Long-term, this is a maintenance nightmare. These hacks can stick around for decades, because there's no backpressure on downstream to actually fix things. It's not about "team velocity", it's about keeping yourself sane.

> - Open a GitHub issue explaining those private APIs shouldn't be used.

> - Even better, open a PR fixing their use.

Apple has a history/culture of secrecy. Whenever they provide public source code, it's a dump thrown over the fence. There is most likely some team inside that actually cares, but they can't "just" open an issue. My guess is that this is their message.

> [...] is a rather shitty and user-hostile move, don't you think?

Yes, I agree, the general direction they've been taking has been increasingly user-hostile for a very long time; let alone the developer story.

But sometimes there's also a perfectly reasonable excuse, from both "technical" and "organizational" POV. That's just my take, a skunkworks effort to get Electron to fix their crap. I would do the same.
by the_af | 2025-10-17 12:50:55+00:00
Off-topic: was this article at least partly generated using an LLM?

I ask not as a snark, since the content is genuinely interesting, but out of curiosity. The style seems very LLM: lots of bullet points, titles with sections typical of LLMs, sentences like "Why this is perfect for <thing>", "Why this doesn't work", etc. It matches the tone and style of everything that an LLM spits out at me.
by 1a527dd5 | 2025-10-17 12:51:38+00:00
Love it!

We are unfortunately moving away from self-hosted bare metal. I disagree with the transition to AWS. But it's been made several global layers above me.

It's funny our previous AWS spend was $800 per month and has been for almost 6 years.

We've just migrated some of our things to AWS and the spend is around $4,500 per month.

I've been told the company doesn't care until our monthly is in excessive of five figures.

None of this makes sense to me.

The only thing that makes sense is our parent company is _huge_ and we have some really awesome TAMs and our entire AWS spend is probably in the region of a few million a month, so it really is pennies behind the sofa when global org is concerned.
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-17 12:51:49+00:00
Yeah, and that default strategy tends to become very, very painful the first time you encounter non-trivial database corruption.

For example, one of my employers routinely tested DB restore by wiping an entire table in stage, and then having the on call restore from backup. This is trivial because you know it happened recently, you have low traffic in this instance, and you can cleanly copy over the missing table.

But the last actual production DB incident they had was a subtle data corruption bug that went unnoticed for several weeks - at which point restoring meant a painful merge of 10s of thousands of records, involving several related tables.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-17 12:51:52+00:00
People were also raving about Gemini 2.5. Allegedly it powers Google's "AI mode", which is the worst model I have tested.

EDIT: The religious downvotes are pretty useless.

Does the post contain a factual error? Is Google "AI mode" (which has a separate button and is distinct from the "AI" summaries"!) not powered by Gemini 2.5? Then say so.

Do you doubt that the "AI" chat that you enter via the separate button is bad? Then say so, but you'll be quite alone with your opinion outside of "AI" echo chambers.
by belter | 2025-10-17 12:51:57+00:00
> If you don't want to do this yourself, then we'll do it for you for half the price of AWS (and we'll be your DevOps team too

You might not realize but you are actually increasing the business case for AWS :-) Also those hardware savings will be eaten away by two days of your hourly bill. I like to look at my project costs across all verticals...
by Yizahi | 2025-10-17 12:52:06+00:00
A) number of times people want factual data from LLMs - the more they do it, the more they encounter gibberish generator. B) the amount of efforts to correct LLM output - some people get 80% ready output, spend some time to rewrite it to become correct and then tell on forums that LLM practically did most of the work. Other people in the same situation will say that they god gibberish and had to spend time rewriting, so LLMs are crap at that task. So we are not only seeing LLM bias, but then human reporting bias on top of it.
by throw10920 | 2025-10-17 12:52:15+00:00
I didn't mean to ask about penalties. Penalties are good and necessary for problematic users trying to bring politics to the site, wage culture war, and erode the standards that make HN tolerable. I meant to ask about specifically the GP views as bad reasons for penalties to be enacted:

> If you start asking questions about how moderation works or challenge the culture here