MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-10-14 11:07:54+00:00
As stated, a viewpoint unique to your experience in central North America and not one universal to farming communities.

Wall Street isn't exactly the brightest when it comes to optimal approaches.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-30/solar-farm-graz...

( FWiW the counter arguments raised in anticipation in that three plus year old article didn't come to fruition in the time since across many sites - we do pay attention to water tables here in Australia following disastrous effects of over clearing for 80 years that ended some 50 years past )

The largest current complaint hereabouts in the farming community is the looming onset of a mega garbage dump for the nearest city. It's promised to be well sealed and well maintained, but local people are upset by the intrusion of convoys of garbage from the city - more noise and traffic than a few thousand hectares of solar panels.
by rovr138 | 2025-10-14 11:08:20+00:00
> This is a OTA vehicle update. It has the ability to update the infotainment, ECU, ECM, TCM, and BCM. Multiple manufacturers have been able to release recalls that fix major vehicle defects (safety, reliability, and performance). *That wouldn't be possible without OTA updates that update core vehicle computer systems.*

Why wouldn't it be possible without OTA? It would just require someone to go somewhere, or do something, to get this installed.

While their assumption is incorrect, your conclusion is incorrect.
by Ianjit | 2025-10-14 11:09:31+00:00
"Just start iterating in chunks alongside the LLM".

For those types of tasks it probably takes the same amount of time to form the idea without AI as with AI, this is what Metr found in its study of developer productivity.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o... https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-14 11:10:42+00:00
Wonder why they used HDDs and not a CompactFlash card - CF under the hood is IDE in a different form factor, there's passive adapters to IDE, and you can get them new up to 256GB. Or you go with CFast, a SATA adapter or just a straight SATA SSD and then a SATA to IDE adapter. Far more durable than any HDD will ever be.
by skydhash | 2025-10-14 11:10:58+00:00
I do carry my ereader with me, because I can read it without glasses (astigmatism) which is hard to do with an lcd panel. Using gps is rarer than using a phone. And it’s even rarer to listen to music on the go (I do have a small mp3 player with 512gb of storage, but it only comes when I have a bag)
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-10-14 11:11:00+00:00
> I would be surprised if companies specializing in LLMs were not major players the way today's tech giants are

I wouldn't.

The OG Internet gold rush was about centralization. (Aka "the cloud".)

This LLM bubble makes most sense if you go the other direction towards bespoke self-hosted self-owned solutions.

Hardware manufacturers will probably come on top after all this. Especially those who figure out commodity user-facing LLM hardware.
by invalidusernam3 | 2025-10-14 11:11:51+00:00
Public transport is often the fastest way to get around in some cities for some locations. I live in Prague and it's generally faster to take the metro or tram than drive. Obviously not in all cases, but the majority.

Walkable city doesn't mean you can't have a car, it means there are other (often faster) transport options and amenities within easy travel distance without a car. Children and elderly can still be transported by car.
by hansmayer | 2025-10-14 11:11:56+00:00
Are you sure? Isn´t one aspect of intelligence being able to use, apply and develop tools? Isnt that the core feature that got humanity ahead of other mammals? As an early adopter, I couldn´t have cared less if AI was cheating in terms of strictly academic terms. I care about results. Lets say we´re working on something together and I ask you what is the 123921 multiplied by 1212. As the most natural thing you will dish out your calculator and give me the result. Do I care how you reached it? No, so as long as the result is correct, reliable, repeatable and quick - AND - I did not specifically ask you to perform the calculation specifically by hand or only with your mental faculties. So this is missing from those tools and because we have to remember to tell them for each and every use case HOW to do it, they are not intelligent.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-14 11:12:13+00:00
There are two opposite ways to do this.

Codex is like an external consultant. You give it specs and it quietly putters away and only stops when the feature is done.

Claude is built more like a pair programmer, it displays changes live, "talks" about what it's doing and what's working et.

It's really, REALLY hard to abort codex mid-run to correct it. With Claude it's a lot easier when you see it doing something stupid or getting of the rails. Just hit ESC and tell it where it went wrong (like use task build, don't build it manually or use markdownlint, don't spend 5 minutes editing the markdown line by line).
by mlrtime | 2025-10-14 11:12:17+00:00
Is that all you think this is about, being racist and sexist?

I agree with OP, this video shows how easy it can be a sucker. There are two parts to it, one is being the sucker, the other is the specific content and time.

OP is pointing out that the sucker is in every echo chamber because these chambers get filtered to only allow extreme viewpoints thrive.
by CapsAdmin | 2025-10-14 11:12:35+00:00
I've dabbled with claude code in this particular project, but not much. My short experience with it is that it's slow, costly and goes off the rails easily.

I prefer to work with more isolated parts of the code. But again, I don't really know all that much about agents.

One thing I wanted to do on my project is reorganize all the tests, which sounds like an agent job. But I'd imagine I need to define some hard programmatic constraints to make sure tests are not lost or changed in the process.
by udev4096 | 2025-10-14 11:12:49+00:00
OP is right (not surprising, given he's a platform engineer with decades of experience unlike you, a nobody). You are projecting your extremely flawed and naive approach of learning k8s. If all you could think of is "copy-paste configs" then sure, you are definitely NOT gonna learn anything. You're just trying to act smart with absolute hatred towards people running k8s outside of businesses
by haspok | 2025-10-14 11:14:50+00:00
Gnome UI sucks. It is ugly and non-customizable without plugins, or whatever you call that addon that enables you to put your clock on the right... I'm sure the UI makes more sense on a tablet or a phone with touch controls, but I just want to use it on my laptop with a regular monitor and with a mouse (or touchpad).

KDE has sane defaults and looks and feels like Windows UI from the best era. It just works.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-14 11:15:18+00:00
or, and get this, software development is an enormous field with 100s of different kinds of variations and priorities and use cases.

lol.

another option is trying to convince yourself that you have any idea what the other 2,000,000 software devs are doing and think you can make grand, sweeping statements about it.

there is no stronger mark of a junior than the sentiment you're expressing
by joenot443 | 2025-10-14 11:15:59+00:00
> There was no avenue to get job listings in front of the most likely eyeballs

Bit of an aside, but if anyone else is in this position and trying to reach the eyeballs of jobseekers who aren't actively using portals, I really can't recommend local Facebook groups enough.

A post from a real account (not the business) saying "Gizmo Plastics are hiring line workers for $18/h, anyone interested?" will get some guaranteed traction. In my small town Ontario groups, I've never seen a post looking for laborers go ignored.
by wraptile | 2025-10-14 11:16:10+00:00
> nothing good comes out of that

One might argue that global connection through economic ties is what gave us thes last 50 years of relative peace. So even with talent/ip drain there's a solid humanitarian and cosmopolitan argument here that trade is just good for humanity even when "unfair".

I'm not saying thats the case here but I would not dismiss this as "nothing good comes out of that"
by aredox | 2025-10-14 11:16:26+00:00
It won't be cancelling national elections. It will be "suspending" a few local ones, enough to tilt the balance, and then using any excuse - e.g. "antifa", but any protest is enough - to escalate, to justify, progressively, a military clampdown.

>I wouldn't be so sure about a lack of military pushback

Again, Ashley Babbitt received full military honors for trying to overrun security at the Capitol to attack congressmen and women to overturn the election. That's what happened. Nobody has said anywhere in the military "it's wrong".

The "status quo" is that the president, immune from any prosecution, is saying openly he is ready to use soldiers to shoot at American citizens when he gives the order, and anyone who disobeys will be fired.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-14 11:16:46+00:00
> There are countless reasons why someone does not return the product: They maybe simple not know, and there is no way to reach them.

In Germany we let the Kraftfahrtbundesamt handle this. You are required by law to keep your address updated with the authorities, and all vehicles have to be registered to get a license plate. When a recall for safety reasons happens, the Kraftfahrtbundesamt writes a notification letter, and if you do not respond in time with evidence of having the recall issue remediated by a qualified shop (or doing it yourself and getting a sign-off from a licensed inspector), eventually they write to your local DMV office that can ban your vehicle from the roads, and if you miss that the police shows up at your home and physically removes the license sticker from the table.

And heaven forbid you get actually caught driving the car after having gotten the notification letter from your local DMV. That's automatically felony territory. Our authorities really, really do not mess around.

[1] https://www.kba.de/DE/Themen/Marktueberwachung/Rueckrufe/rue...
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-14 11:17:45+00:00
> Well we are all doing different tasks on different codebases too. It's very often not discussed, even though it's an incredibly important detail.

Absolutely nuts I had to scroll down this far to find the answer.Totally agree.

Maybe it's the fact that every software development job has different priorities, stakeholders, features, time constraints, programming models, languages, etc. Just a guess lol
by SweetSoftPillow | 2025-10-14 11:18:22+00:00
https://github.com/ryokun6/ryos

> A modern web-based desktop environment inspired by classic macOS, built with a cutting-edge web stack and AI. Features multiple built-in applications, a familiar desktop interface, and a system context-aware AI agent. Works on all devices—including mobile, tablet, and desktop. Made with Cursor.
by danielbln | 2025-10-14 11:18:56+00:00
That study design has some issues. But let's say it takes me the same amount of time, the agentic flow is still beneficial to me. It provides useful structure, helps with breaking down the problem. I can rubber duck, send off web research tasks, come back to answer questions, etc., all within a single interface. That's useful to me, and especially so if you have to jump around different projects a lot (consultancy). YMMV.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-14 11:19:06+00:00
The white page problem hits me every time.

It's not FUN building all the scaffolding and setting up build scripts and all the main functions and directory structures.

Nor do I want to use some kind of initialiser or skeleton project, they always overdo things in my opinion, adding too much and too little at the same time.

With AI I can have it whip up an MVP-level happy-paths-only skeleton project in minutes and then I can start iterating with the fun bits of the project.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-14 11:19:33+00:00
> More broadly, it is an analogy for supposedly insuperable extrapolated problems being rendered moot by the introduction of new technologies.

Here I thought it was going in the direction of fear-mongering NIMBY types exploiting, what I would assume were, the horrors of living through the Great Stink & cholera outbreaks to slow the rapid growth of London at the time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
by troupo | 2025-10-14 11:19:36+00:00
> It will be littered with negative comments that either imply or outright say that the poster is either shilling, ignorant or working only on toy examples.

And they would be often be right. Coupled with the fact that most of the glowing "omg I only code with AI" posts don't even try to show what code or products they are working on.

And yes, the absolute vast majority of people who are skeptical are skeptical precisely because they use these tools every day themselves.
by mlrtime | 2025-10-14 11:20:05+00:00
This is not a humanity issue, this is a legal one. The president ran on removing people from this country who entered the country illegally. He is executing what he ran on and what the people voted for.

I don't personally approve of all the tactics that are being used, however it is clear that some cities are not in favor of these Federal laws at all no mater which tactic is used. I also realize how quickly these conversations turn.
by programLyrique | 2025-10-14 11:20:07+00:00
There are some experiments in using copy-and-patch for the R language (after Python): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759548.3763370

From a master thesis: https://www.itspy.cz/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/it_spy_2025_...
by wiz21c | 2025-10-14 11:20:32+00:00
I use KDE on my home PC since about a 15 years, exclusively. I like it a lot but it still has some rough edges here and there. For example, the network config interface is a bit messy. Sure you can configure many things with it, but it's hard to understand). Dolphin is the best file manager I have ever used, nothing come close nowadays (I have tested windows and macs). The desktop configuration is quite nice and the look and feel is really good too.

Unfortunately, it still crashes sometimes (about 2 or 3 times over 500 hours of usage, but my PC is 15 years old, so this may explain that).

And as many here, I sure don't think about changing.

Thank you KDE team !
by defrost | 2025-10-14 11:20:51+00:00
I wouldn't call him, not unless he was swimming in my dam. No one deserves the out of band hassle.

He was on the Australian TV Q+A which had questions submitted by the general public, and it's not all that hard to get meaningful questions put forward in Parliamentary Question Time .. which is better for all as it goes on the record via Hansard.

* https://www.abc.net.au/about/media-centre/press-releases/q-a...

* https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard

* House Question Time, 9 October 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU9mf2sMfe8
by spwa4 | 2025-10-14 11:22:14+00:00
Only thing on the BBC site:

"Palestinian prisoners and detainees report abuse and mistreatment in Israeli prisons"

Of course, for THAT, the word of Hamas members is enough, and obvious issues are ignored, the videos of the release, pretty fat men jumping out of buses, is not mentioned. Plus one of the men obviously had recent dental work done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEE6Bunm6e8

Contrast with the hostages held by Hamas:

https://youtu.be/sReRxFy8fEw?si=UnX7f1H_oRdQ1OuB&t=900

Also of note is that Israel has punished at least one member of the security services with jail time for abuse (based on the word of prisoners, with his colleagues also testifying against him)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqldpyn5ng6o

At least the BBC mentions that Hamas is not done committing warcrimes, but now Hamas is once again able to massacre Palestinians, immediately. Other sources say at least 33 people have been killed, most are part of a single family. (doesn't that qualify as a genocide under UN rules?)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99g3p52k15o
by lproven | 2025-10-14 11:23:06+00:00
> UNIX could have done with a re-thinking of how you deal with software, but that never happened.

I think it did, but the Unix world has an inherent bad case of "not invented here" syndrome, and a deep cultural reluctance to admit that other systems (OSes, languages, and more) do some things better.

NeXTstep fixed a big swath of issues (in the mid-to-late 1980s). It threw out X and replaced it with Display Postscript. It threw out some of the traditional filesystem layout and replaced it with `.app` bundles: every app in its own directory hierarchy, along with all its dependencies. Isolation and dependency packaging in one.

(NeXT realised this is important but it has to be readable and user-friendly. It replaces the traditional filesystem with something more readable. 15Y later, Nix realised the same lesson, but forgot the 2nd, so it throws out the traditional FHS and replaces it with something less readable, which needs software to manage it. The NeXT way means you can install an app with a single `cp` command or one drag-and-drop operation.)

Some of this filtered back upstream to Ritchie, Thompson and Pike, resulting in Plan 9: bin X, replace it with something simpler and filesystem-based. Virtualise the filesystem, so everything is in a container with a virtual filesystem.

But it wasn't Unixy enough so you couldn't move existing code to it. And it wasn't FOSS, and arrived at the same time as a just-barely-good-enough FOSS Unix for COTS hardware was coming: Linux on x86.

(The BSDs treated x86 as a 2nd class citizen, with grudging limited support and the traditional infighting.)
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Show HN: InfiniDesk 2 – Multiple Desktops on Mac (+ Mission Control Integration)
by ben_s_e | 2025-10-14 11:25:05+00:00
A major update to the InfiniDesk Mac app is released today.

InfiniDesk lets you have multiple desktops on Mac. Perfect for visual people who work a lot from the desktop.

Version 2 lets you set different wallpapers for different desktops, and it can also change the desktop contents when you change the Space in Mission Control.

(It finally makes Mission Control behave like true virtual desktops; something Apple never implemented.)

Free trial of 100 desktop switches, $12.99 one-time purchase if you like it.

Original post on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412165
by tim333 | 2025-10-14 11:25:14+00:00
I thought it was funny that in the Cameron R. Jones attempt as doing the test, 75% of judges thought GPT-4o was the human rather than the actual human. I think it illustrates both the limits of the test and that LLMs are getting quite good. (paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674)

I think if you are having to accuse the humans of woeful typing and being smartphone gen fools you are kind scoring one for the LLM. In the Turing test they were only supposed to match an average human.
by muzani | 2025-10-14 11:25:16+00:00
I think both are correct and reflect people's situations at work. Some are doing the ikea thing, some are doing the automatic saws, and some are using the automatic saws to make the ikea things for someone else.

It's also why the opinions are so heated on this. There's many forms of management, and some play way better with the AI tools than others. Some people are doing the assembly line jobs and some are doing code ninja jobs. Some are actually doing engineering, and some are code monkeys who are paid the same range as the engineers and using the same tools.
by Ianjit | 2025-10-14 11:25:43+00:00
"That study design has some issues. " This is a study that tries to be scientific, unlike developer self reports and CEO promises of 10x.

Can you point to a better study on the impact of AI on developer productivity? The only other one I can think of finds a 20% uplift in productivity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDDYKRFjhk
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-14 11:25:47+00:00
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/09/30/tether-adds-usd...

Tether's backing / solvency become more important when it's a major provider of crypto liquidity.

If liquidity is generated by many participants, the failure of one doesn't impact the underlying asset.

If liquidity is concentrated in one participant, it increases the potential volatility of the asset, as that participant's failure can drastically limit liquidity and leave the asset open to bigger price swings.

That said, even at $1B, Tether is a smaller portion of the BTC market than it was historically.
by sayamqazi | 2025-10-14 11:26:17+00:00
Here are a bunch more things to make you even more scared.

- Oops! mistakenly left some instrument inside and sewed up the patient - Junior begging to do certain step of the surgery while the anesthesiologist asking them to just get a move on. - Administered a drug to a newborn baby which was supposed to be given to the mother. (My sister's colleague did this with no consequences)
by kakacik | 2025-10-14 11:26:18+00:00
Yeah but those commissars act upon market forces and market forces alone. They screw up and overproduce? Bam! And financial punishment comes. Underproduce? Bam! All the lost could-have-been profit went elsewhere.

Any attempt to not have market as part of the loop just leads to long term inefficiency, punished as it should be. I wont be buying overpriced pencils from bad planners unless they are the only ones in the world, and in such case I may be motivated to look for alternatives.