MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dig1 | 2025-11-04 07:39:10+00:00
a16z is heavily long on AI, so this article sounds very biased.

From the article: If you live in the United States today, and you accidentally knock a hole in your wall, it’s probably cheaper to buy a flatscreen TV and stick it in front of the hole, compared to hiring a handyman to fix your drywall.

Probably because the US has been focused on services for years rather than physical goods production. Everything else in US is focused on importing cheap(er) goods or materials.

> On the other hand, I think he wants to push the narrative that AI is seeing enormous productivity gains.

That is my impression as well. I would be thrilled to see this mythical 10x productivity. Even with 2x productivity, I would be highly pleased. This should mean developers (and everyone else) are producing 2x more quality, software (and general services) are 2x better? I see none of that, except 2x more junk. Did AWS, GCP, or anything else become 2x cheaper and 2x more stable? Maybe I'm living under a rock.
by nynrathod | 2025-11-04 07:41:30+00:00
Doolang currently does not allow you to mutate a primitive variable from another function.

Only support this as of now

fn Foo(x: Int) { x = 123; // Only modifies Foo's local copy print("inside Foo", x); // Print 123 } fn main() { let x: Int = 0; Foo(x); // x is still 0 here after Foo returns print("out x", x); // Print 0 }
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-04 07:41:42+00:00
> There is no such thing as conscious AI.

They said it in nature so it must be true. Well, I'm convinced.

> We believe that these flawed associations arise from a lack of technical knowledge and the way several new technologies (especially LLMs) work, which can create the illusion of consciousness.

Ah yes, the dude that has a phd in cognitive neuroscience and has received a nobel prize for his AI contributions to chemistry, definitely doesn't understand how this technology works.

> We believe that mathematical algorithms implemented on graphics cards cannot become conscious because they lack a complex biological substrate.

Ah, yes the substrate stuff. Darn klankers, they're built out of silicon, they surely can't do x and y because muh biology.

What a weak article. Give hydrogen a few bilion years and it starts feeling superior to silicon.
by redok | 2025-11-04 07:42:56+00:00
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by rkomorn | 2025-11-04 07:43:30+00:00
How long of a long term are we talking about? I suspect this is very dependent on many factors (not least of which is labor, but also insulation, climate, etc).

The energy (gas+electric) bill for my whole home would've taken well over a decade to add up the amount the mini split installation alone would've cost, so even if it brought down my energy cost to zero (which it wouldn't), it would've taken a decade to pay for itself (including the cost of window units).

Edit: and yes, they're prettier than window units for sure, but as you've pointed out, they're not competing with window units. They're competing with ducted central air that has almost no visible impact.
by ehnto | 2025-11-04 07:43:47+00:00
In Japan there's a subset of cars called Kei or small cars, and they're very popular due to the lower tax, initial cost, fuel consumption and ease of parking.

In states of Australia registration is more expensive depending on the amount of doors and cylinders your car has. This doesn't seem to stop big cars being popular though, the #1 selling car in Australia is the Ford Ranger (which is BIG in Australian car standards). We're working on getting F150s sized vehicles even more heavily taxed, they aren't seeing wide adoption here and they're pretty highly criticised.

In cities like Rome you can see many small cars due to the nature of their streets and parking.

For highway driving these cars are a bit less comfortable but honestly modern Kei cars aren't even that bad. The Fiat 500 isn't a Kei sized car but it is also a very reasonable highway and city car, it can happily do both.
Ask HN: How to detect Google Play review completion via API?
by orangepush | 2025-11-04 07:44:43+00:00
Hi all,

We’ve hit a limitation with the Google Play Developer API during automation and wondered if anyone has found a workaround.

Short background: Using the Google Play Developer API, we can upload artifacts and move releases between tracks (internal/alpha/beta/production). However, once a release is submitted for review, there’s no API to read the review status (e.g., “in review,” “approved,” “rejected”), and you cannot remotely trigger the final publish after review completes.

Reference issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/179708468

This is blocking our end-to-end automation: we can push builds and submit for review, but we can’t reliably detect when review finishes or automatically finalize the rollout.

Questions for the community:

Has anyone found a direct API (official or undocumented) that provides review status?

Any reliable workarounds? (examples: polling track/release timestamps, scraping Play Console UI, email/webhook notifications, or manual gates)

If you had to design a robust release pipeline around this limitation, what approach did you take?

Thanks — any pointers, scripts, or experiences would be hugely helpful!
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-04 07:44:59+00:00
> Can you? How would that work in practice? Isn't this just "he said/she said" with no way to resolve it

Conflicting claims or testimony are common in the legal system, and we do in fact have means of resolving them. They are not, of course, 100% guaranteed to resolve things correctly, but it is simply false to say that there is no way to resolve it.
by empressplay | 2025-11-04 07:45:15+00:00
I recently returned to Melbourne after being away for 5 years. They've been building a lot, particularly in the Western suburbs, and in satellite towns. Also there are a lot more people working remote / hybrid and living farther out in the country. A house in a smaller city like Bendigo is $400+ a week. But I expect this has been driving prices in Melbourne down -- but I'd hardly call it 'affordable' at ~$500 a week for a small house.
by nosduhz | 2025-11-04 07:45:26+00:00
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by ofalkaed | 2025-11-04 07:45:50+00:00
Being the weirdo frees you from a great many time consuming pleasantries. Making friends might secure a permanent place but it also means a few minutes from every break will be lost to small talk and sometimes the entire break; you see a self serving lone wolf casting himself as the hero, I see someone just trying to find a way to do what is important to him. I am fairly certain that much of the eccentric artist image is just frustration over small talk.
by baxtr | 2025-11-04 07:46:25+00:00
> How did this happen? 100 years after Jevons published his observation on coal, William Baumol published a short paper investigating why so many orchestras, theaters, and opera companies were running out of money. He provocatively asserted that the String Quartet had become less productive, in “real economy” terms, because the rest of the economy had become more productive, while the musicians’ job stayed exactly the same. The paper struck a nerve, and became a branded concept: “Baumol’s Cost Disease”.

I find the term “cost disease” very negative. It actually describes positive social progress.

Instead of a “disease,” it’s really a sign of a healthy, advanced economy.
by KoolKat23 | 2025-11-04 07:47:05+00:00
1. You do. You probably have a different version of that and are saying I'm wrong merely for not holding your definition.

2. That directly addresses your point. In abstract it shows they're basically no different to multimodal models, train with different data types and it still works, perhaps even better. They train LLMs with images, videos, sound, and nowadays even robot sensor feedback, with no fundamental changes to the architecture see Gemini 2.5.

3. That's merely an additional input point, give it sensors or have a human relay that data. Your toe is relaying it's sensor information to your brain.
by EagnaIonat | 2025-11-04 07:47:12+00:00
Anything relatively new in a technology LLMs struggle with, especially if the documentation is lacking.

Godot for example in ChatGPT.

It may no longer still be the case, but the documentation for GoDot was lacking and often samples written by others didn't have a version number associated with it. So samples it would suggest would never work, and even when you told it the version number it failed to generate workable code.

The other stuff I've noticed is custom systems. One I work with is a variation of Java, but LLMs were treating it as javascript. I had to create a LoRA just to get the model from not trying to write javascript answer. Even then it could never work, because it had never been trained on real world examples.
by O-stevns | 2025-11-04 07:47:32+00:00
That's a lot of code for a PR, though i should admit I have made PR's being half that size myself.

Personally I think it's difficult to address these kinds of PR's but I also think that git is terrible at providing solutions to this problem.

The concept of stacked PR's are fine up to the point where you need to make changes throughout all yours branches, then it becomes a mess. If you (like me) might have a tendency to rewrite your solution several times before ending up with the final result, then having to split this into several PR's does not help anyone. The first PR will likely be outdated the moment I begin working on the next.

Open source is also more difficult in this case because contrary to working for a company with a schedule, deadlines etc... you can't (well you shouldn't) rush a review when it's on your own time. As such PR's can sit for weeks or months without being addressed. When you eventually need to reply to comments about how, why etc.. you have forgotten most of it and needs to read the code yourself to re-claim the reasoning. At that time it might be easier to re-read a 9000 lines PR over time rather than reading 5-10 PR's with maybe meaningful descriptions and outcome where the implementation changes every time.

Also, if it's from a new contributor, I wouldn't accept such a PR, vibe coded or not.
by ivanjermakov | 2025-11-04 07:50:01+00:00
Unicode support in terminals is kind of a mess for TUI software developers. There is no good way to know how many columns a Unicode character will take, because terminals use different grapheme clustering algorithms.

For a text editor I'm making I ended up with:

> Unicode support is limited to what common modern terminal emulators support. In Hat, "character" is a Unicode codepoint. So no grapheme clustering, no variation selection, no ZWJs, no terminal emulator-specific logic. As long as every buffer byte is displayed and editable, we're ok.

https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING...

And I do basic codepoint range check to find its approximate width: https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat/blob/00782dbaee1e1a814ce...
by hnlmorg | 2025-11-04 07:50:06+00:00
People already knew the value of data long before LLMs were popularised and web scraping has been a thing since the very beginnings of the web.

Why you’re describing isn’t a recent phenomenon. Not even remotely.

Facebook has never allowed people read only views to their platform. And Expert Stack Overflow like Quora used the same dark patterns you described too.
by eru | 2025-11-04 07:50:13+00:00
> Yes, I fully support people's desire to work 20% less hours, if they're willing to take a corresponding 20% cut to total compensation (note that's not the same as a 20% pay cut; benefits are often really expensive).

I suspect even a 20% cut in total comp isn't going to cut it (for most jobs). That's because up to a point there's economics of scale in working hours. Ie in many jobs you need to spend a certain amount of time each week just trying to stay in touch with everything else that's happening, but once you paid that cost every extra hour is pure benefit in terms of productivity---up until the point you work so much that you see diminishing returns. But eg going from 30 to 31 hours per week is productive more productive than going from 0 to 1 hour.

However, I didn't even have in mind cutting the amount of hours you work every week. You can make use of the extra productivity and real pay you get these by eg retiring early and then live in modest circumstances. Or you could take sabbaticals every so often. All while still working 40 hour work weeks, when you actually work.
by raigol | 2025-11-04 07:51:26+00:00
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by loyalcinnamon | 2025-11-04 07:51:50+00:00
As the hype is dying down it's becoming a little bit clearer that AI isn't like blockchain and might be actually useful (for non generative purposes at least)

I'm curious what counts as a midsize model; 4B, 8B, or something larger/smaller?

What models would you recommend? I have 12GB of vram so anything larger than 8B might be really slow, but i am not sure
by Roark66 | 2025-11-04 07:52:33+00:00
Same with me, check yourself for sleep apnea and "sugar crash" during sleep if you can...

Interestingly some medications like tadalafil restore my dreams... My smart watch also tells me the phases like remand deep have normal lengths. So I'm not sure why it is so rare for me to dream, but I suspect low glucose or oxygen may have something to do with it.
by hcbylmz | 2025-11-04 07:52:45+00:00
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by ktpsns | 2025-11-04 07:52:58+00:00
I think lightweight wasm OS runtimes can have real use cases for instance in "cloud terminals" (such as in Rancher or at hyperscalers) which currently just connect a web terminal to some k8s pod. Or in more snappy Jupyter scientific notebook ecosystems. But people have to meet a sweep spot of downloading <1MB runtime, realizing networking and enough tools within the VM.
by smsm42 | 2025-11-04 07:53:23+00:00
The only way such a PR can be reviewed is if it's accompanied with a detailed PRD and tech design documents, and at least half of that LOC count is tests. Even then it requires a lot of interactive work from both sides. I have seen PRs third or quarter of this size that took weeks to properly review and bring to production quality. Unless there's something artificially inflating the side of it (like auto-generated files or massive test fixtures, etc.) I wouldn't ever commit to reviewing such a behemoth without a very very good reason to.
by edelbitter | 2025-11-04 07:53:44+00:00
One would expect the results to be highly correlated to corrected vision which is all over the place.. but they get suspiciously tightly grouped results.

Did they maybe not measure how many pixels we can see.. but rather how laughably bad COTS IPS are at contrast, as the examined pattern approaches their resolution? I wonder what happens if you repeat that with a reasonably bright 16K OLED.
by theothertimcook | 2025-11-04 07:54:40+00:00
“the Victorian government introduced extra land tax for investors, amounting to about $1,300 a year for a property worth $650,000. A levy on platforms such as Airbnb and expanded taxes on vacant properties and land came soon after.”

Along with strong and consistent new construction are cited as the drivers behind this but the catalyst has been remote work and the COVID lockdowns.

Victoria’s lockdowns were particularly onerous and many Melbournites realised they could move to south east QLD and pocket the potentially massive difference between the QLD and VIC properties, while still earning capital city $$$ and having better weather.

Melbourne will surge again eventually as their government takes a long view on infrastructure while QLD is adversarial to public utilities.
by dns_snek | 2025-11-04 07:55:09+00:00
No, that's decidedly not what is happening here.

One is saying "I've seen an LLM spectacularly fail at basic reasoning enough times to know that LLMs don't have a general ability to think" (but they can sometimes reproduce the appearance of doing so).

The other is trying to generalize "I've seen LLMs produce convincing thought processes therefore LLMs have the general ability to think" (and not just occasionally reproduce the appearance of doing so).

And indeed, only one of these is a valid generalization.
by poisonborz | 2025-11-04 07:55:14+00:00
I agree with the criticism but wonder why are there no alternatives? Nextcloud, for what most people use it, is a rather simple, straightforward collection of apps, yet not even those single apps have alternatives. Eg. show me a good selfhostable web calendar, it doesn't exist.

Why does Nextcloud, or even just parts of it, not have dozens of alternatives?
by raverbashing | 2025-11-04 07:55:19+00:00
The problem with those rules is that they "all make sense" somewhat (and where details might have been influenced by local idiosyncrasies) locally but if you mix and match them then it gets weird

But the trick here is: if you're relying on the details for your benefit then make 100% sure it's provable (though tbh legal proof is less - and different - than what your HN commenter might understand). Or just make it easy on yourself and don't rely on them
by vaylian | 2025-11-04 07:55:42+00:00
"social" is the most important word. I'm surprised that so many people in this thread focus on algorithms, ranking and addiction. These things can be part of social media platforms, but they are orthogonal to what social media is: A platform that is centered around the identities of its users and the relationship between users.

Hacker news is just a good old web 2.0 website.
by eru | 2025-11-04 07:55:44+00:00
> Decreasing number of workers means buildings are built slower and more expensively (resulting higher housing costs).

In the markets were housing costs are out of control, it's mostly down to legal and political bans on construction, not so much cost of construction itself.

It's perfectly possible for people who want to spend less of their life working to do that. It's true that if you want to work the same number of total weeks, but fewer hours per week that constraints what jobs you can take; but it's straightforward to retire early on a modest nest egg: you don't even need to tell your employer that this is what you are planning to do.

In principle modern conveniences like Uber make it more possible for more people in more industries to decide how many hours they want to work. But there are substantial political barriers to widening these models.

> Health care is already insanely expensive.

It's fairly cheap where I live, even though wages are some of the highest in the world here in Singapore.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-04 07:56:33+00:00
I work on a local-first app for fun and someone told me I was simply creating problems for myself and I could just be using a server. But I'm in the same boat as you. I regularly don't have good internet and I'm always surprised when people act like an internet connection is a safe assumption. Even every day I go up and down an elevator where I have no internet, I travel regularly, I go to concerts and music festivals, and so on.
by instamatch | 2025-11-04 07:56:49+00:00
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by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-04 07:57:22+00:00
It's rules and legislation. The job of banging together reasonably serviceable form of shelter isn't that expensive. It's only expensive if you have to jump through a lot of hoops to use certified designs, materials, etc. deal with inspections, use expensive people for that have had training for wiring things together, etc.

Any slum in developing nations features lots of housing that people bang together out of trash. Very unsafe. But it works. We've been creating shelters for ourselves since prehistory. It's not that hard.

Millions of people live in slums. Upgrading that kind of housing to something slightly better isn't all that hard. Most people that a are a bit skilled can bang together a shed in their garden in no time at all. Putting a few solar panels on top isn't that hard either. And you can plug them into batteries easily. You can buy that kit on Amazon and run your power tools of that. All legal.

It's only when you want that in your house connected to the grid that cost suddenly balloons from a few thousand to many tens of thousands. Exact same technology. Maybe you'll use slightly more panels and a bit bigger battery. But now it's a lot of gate keeping by inspectors, electricians, certified equipment, etc. that come into play.

Same with houses. You can buy a recreational vehicle or caravan for a reasonable amount of money. Second hand these are very affordable. And some RVs can be quite nice to live in and even have AC. So, why are houses so expensive relative to RVs? Prefab housing has been a thing for decades. If you remove the wheels from an RV, it's basically a house. If you live in an RV, you are referred to as trailer trash. It has a stigma. But it's very cheap. Poor people do that. Because it's very affordable housing. That's why it's a popular option for people that would otherwise build slums.