MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ousamzing | 2025-11-22 07:41:20+00:00
Creator here, thanks for checking this out.

Code Intel is an experimental platform that combines: -AST parsing (to extract structure, anti-patterns, duplication), - Dependency graph analysis (circular imports, module cohesion), - RAG over the full codebase (ChromaDB + MiniLM embeddings), - Multi-agent LLM reasoning (Security/Performance/Architecture agents via GPT-4).

All orchestrated via FastAPI + WebSockets, with a React frontend and one-click GitHub integration.

Right now it only supports Python, we deliberately scoped it narrow to validate the core pipeline before expanding to JS/TS/Rust.

→ Try the live demo (no install): https://codebase-intelligence.vercel.app → Run locally: see README — takes ~5 mins to set up with your OpenAI key & GitHub OAuth.

I’d genuinely love feedback on: - What signals matter most when onboarding to a new codebase? - How would you reduce hallucination risk in LLM-based code analysis? - Would you prefer agent-based reasoning (like this) or fine-tuned smaller models?

(And yes — I’m bracing for the “just use Semgrep/CodeQL” comments — happy to explain how this complements them.)
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-11-22 07:43:39+00:00
I enjoy having a place to write that I can call my own, and it is a major flex when a topic comes up for a client like, say, migrating giant Subversion projects to Git, and I can whip out [1] and say "ah, I happen to know a thing or two about that".

[1]: https://andrew-quinn.me/reposurgeon/
by jrflowers | 2025-11-22 07:44:52+00:00
The story in the article that is being discussed here does not say that the doctor was explicitly not a member of the community that he served. You would have to just sort of make that part up and then come up with an explanation for how the doctor even knows that story if he wasn’t part of that community.

The doctor in the story exists in pretty recent history, which you would call modernity. If for some reason you’re using “modernity” as a way to say “systemic alienation of the individual” rather than “modernity” meaning “happening in the modern world” then yes, by your definition of that word, it is indeed a story about “modernity” being to blame for poor treatment for depression.
by awesome_dude | 2025-11-22 07:45:20+00:00
> I did not, and never would if given the choice.

You have the choice. Every time you choose to vote, every time you choose not to engage with your local representatives.

That's not even talking about the most obvious choice - jump on a plane and go somewhere else.

What you really mean is "Waaaahhh waaahhh I have never done anything resembling looking at the issues beyond accusing other people of doing what i don't know anything about"

Honestly, you genuinely sound like one of those libertarians that don't want to pay for water, then run out and start stealing from neighbours.

Or an incel that blames women for all the bad choices HE made.

I'm done with your childishness.
by koliber | 2025-11-22 07:45:33+00:00
I don't know where it stems from, but I think it's harder to fire people in union shops. In a non-union shop, you have to work with the person, their manager, and HR to see if you can correct someone's performance, and if that does not work, let them go. At a union shop, I imagine someone from the union will also be involved in this process, and it's hard to imagine how this process would be made easier through the involvement of another person, who happens to hold a bias.
by dalemhurley | 2025-11-22 07:47:01+00:00
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by pjmlp | 2025-11-22 07:47:07+00:00
AI on Windows would be great, but for the stuff that matters, in a transparent way.

First of all, don't use AI to yet another reason for people to throw away perfectly working computers, and helping the OEM buddies sell CoPilot+ PC, many GPUs can do the same job, and they are castrating on purpose, even with Windows ML reboot.

Secondly it should be transparent, for stuff like handwriting recognition, OCR, image search, speech, and such.

Not to fix a broken search that was working perfectly fine on Windows 7, or to surveil everything I do, getting the info into Microsoft servers and US government.
by directevolve | 2025-11-22 07:47:36+00:00
The study found the average effect was no different from placebo. It’s plausible, based on anecdotes like the one you’re responding to, that Prozac is harmful for some people, helpful for others, with the expected benefit close to zero. If so, it might be necessary to just try it and see if it’s obviously helping, keep taking if so, stop if not.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-22 07:47:43+00:00
Yup. There's too much institutional inertia to adopt evidence-based approaches.

I've tried 19 antidepressants over about 15 years. Stuck with mirtazapene-induced obesity that doesn't qualify for GLP-1 coverage, so I can either be fat, broke, or crushingly catatonic.
by crackalamoo | 2025-11-22 07:48:44+00:00
My two cents: if you're not doing anything too political or controversial, it's fine or even beneficial to mix in the occasional personal essay with the professional.

After all, many of your readers are also human beings with lives, maybe even lives similar to yours based on your professional content. (The rest of your readers are LLMs.) Your readers might appreciate your perspectives on random life things or just getting to see what their favorite blogger is up to.
by procaryote | 2025-11-22 07:48:58+00:00
Microsoft's AI itegration seems especially bad. I've had the misfortune to use outlook recently, and the AI bits I notice are actively destructive:

* it will guess who the person I'm talking to is to show a photo, usually failing and showing me a photo of someone else, making me double check that the contact is actually the correct one

* it will all over the place suggest "related" documents or mail that usually aren't related. It often makes me worry I'd sent the wrong documents to the wrong person

It has been useful exactly zero times
by crackalamoo | 2025-11-22 07:52:09+00:00
I'm a little skeptical of AEO. What's the point if AI users just ask the LLM to retrieve the information and never visit your blog? I almost never click the links ChatGPT gives me

Maybe it makes sense if you're selling a product or service, but I don't see the appeal of AEO as the new SEO. Maybe I'm missing something?
by Karliss | 2025-11-22 07:52:21+00:00
Large companies have repeatedly demonstrated that they will pick whichever interpretation is most convenient at the time. When there are pitchforks they will claim that you are confused and misinterpreted the writing but when you get poisoned by food in their restaurant and try to sue them they will point at terms of service on their online video streaming service that your spouse agreed 5 years ago as if that's relevant (not a joke Disney tried that one). These things are supposed to be written by proffesionals, I dont think Hanlon's razor sufficiently explains it, terms of service are at least partially intentionally written as vague and unclear as possible for benefit of one side.
by arjie | 2025-11-22 07:53:38+00:00
That's probably because of how easy things are to get here in the US. My parents are in their late 60s and I was talking to my dad the other day when he told me about how they watch old movies on the ancient TV they have at home in India: RaspBMC.

I found this astonishing since I set this up perhaps a decade ago on a RaspberryPI with a large external USB drive. I recall setting up something with Samba so that their Windows computer in the house could either make the stuff available or transfer it to the USB drive. Then I used one of those USB flirc setups so that they could use a remote to navigate the interface.

And then I imaged a few SD cards and left them there for them to use.

At some point, my parents figured out how to get torrented content down and how to use the OpenSubtitles.org integration to get subtitles. And that worked for a bit, but something must have changed because they tell me now that they have to download the subtitles on the computer and change the name to match or something.

I suppose you need sufficient motivation. My parents seem to enjoy movies from a century ago which are hard to find in India but easy to find on the Internet. If they could just jump on Amazon Prime and fetch them perhaps they'd have jumped through fewer hoops.

The thing that most amazes me is that this gambit with imaging SD cards worked! South India had a period in there where power would cut out frequently. This dodged that particular problem!
by voidnap | 2025-11-22 07:53:53+00:00
The homepage for this project has this video [1] under the heading "See it in action". It starts off with background music that progressively gets lounder and at about 30s the vocals start to drown out the narrator. Why do people do this? Did nobody watch this video before uploading it? What was going through the mind of whoever made this video? Wild.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=dYWK9eU8tu4
by goku12 | 2025-11-22 07:54:59+00:00
> I dread even eating out anymore as I fully expect to overpay for bad food and service.

I don't know if HN is the place to say this. But, it's just infinitely better these days to cook your own meals. With some modest initial investment and planning, you can minimize the average time and cost of doing it, while still having access to a reasonaly healthy and delicious menu, though slightly repetitive. But if you really want to indulge, setting aside a couple of hours will give you dishes that taste way beyond anything you can afford from outside.

Some people are natural born chefs with an intuitive understanding of tastebuds. But if you're like me in that you're clueless about it, there are still some exceptional recipes you can steal online. I treat cooking more like chemistry, insisting follow exact measurements and time. It still works out really well for me. You might even tweak the recipe over 4 or 5 repetitions to your at most satisfaction. Anybody who hasn't given it a try really should, at least once.
by themafia | 2025-11-22 07:57:32+00:00
As someone who never got deeply into math but deeply into programming they just seemed like an incompletely generalized data structure with an interesting "canonical" algorithm that can be used on it. In some cases, if you arrange your data into the structure correctly, you can use it to model interesting real world phenomenon.

It feels like Linear Algebra tries to get at the heart of this generality but the structure and operator is more constrained than it ultimately could be. It's a small oddball computational device that can be tersely written into papers and widely understood. I always find pseudocode easier to follow and reason about but that's my particular bias.
by bragh | 2025-11-22 07:57:33+00:00
Yes, networking and sysadmin are hard, because the Internet is a much more hostile place than it was 20 years ago and the consequences for getting things wrong are much more severe. Early 2000s, ISPs had ports open by default and getting a static IP-address was a question of just asking. With dyndns, we were hosting websites off home computers. I remember a comment on HN saying that some US university provided publicly routable static IPs to dorm room port. Not even sure I could get a static IP-address nowadays as a home consumer, never mention the willingness to host something that is not behind a WAF.

And when you got things wrong back in the day, you came home from school, saw a very weirdly behaving computer, grumbled and reinstalled the OS. Nowadays it is a very different story with potentially very severe consequences.

And this is just about getting things wrong at home, in corporate environment it is 100x more annoying. In corporate, anyway you spend 80% of the development time figuring out how to do things and then 20% on actual work, nobody will have the time to teach themselves something out of their domain.
by synecdoche | 2025-11-22 07:58:34+00:00
>> Who would plant a flower next to a sick or hostile one?

> A gardener who understands that after that short grace period that plant will have to grow amongst those sick and hostile ones essentially and not only that, it will have to form a thriving ecosystem with them.

If, on the other hand, the gardener knows from experience that the flower will be suffocated, then it's pointless at best and cruel at worst.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-22 07:58:34+00:00
> Well, of course, if you anesthetize someone they can't feel anything.

Not what the post you replied to was talking about.

> Unless the reason was that the physical causes are running haywire and making someone feel sad when they otherwise wouldn't, but how often is that just uhh a lazy scapegoat? "Oh this person has no reason to feel sad, something must be wrong in their brain"

That's basically the definition of clinical depression. Doctors try quite hard to make sure it's not a scapegoat.
by phil21 | 2025-11-22 07:58:51+00:00
More expensive? Absolutely not. Never has been and is unlikely to ever be true.

More difficult? Time consuming? Requires practice? Yes. Usually overblown though on all fronts, considering the types of families that seem to find ways to make cheap meals compared to those that do not in my experience.

Fast food (and prepared/junk foods) are low friction and convenient. Cheap is not a metric they compete within.
by roenxi | 2025-11-22 07:59:39+00:00
I suppose the "good" news is that is just how life goes. Conceptually similar comparison to someone who is hungry and someone who isn't - the tendency towards snapishness is definitely there. Who someone is becomes unstable of long stretches of time (unless they are very boring), it results more from the present conditions that involve them than anything else.

The main issue with drugs is they are more likely to have unexpected or socially harmful side effects than most things.
by hypfer | 2025-11-22 08:01:27+00:00
The good thing is that at least for a somewhat technical crowd, there is absolutely no need to buy into any of this, as there have been proper solutions available since at least 2018.

Just buy Hue, maybe Aqara sensors, use zigbee2mqtt with Home Assistant and be happy while observing the shitshow that is this market from a safe distance.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-22 08:02:54+00:00
I have to say that the Matter Cast standard sounded good, but ended up being an abomination, imo. Instead of ther being a boradly available platform for casting, my crude understanding is that to have Matter Cast work, there has to be some out of band way for an app that wants to cast to have a reciprocal app available on the target device. There's nothing provided to help facilitate this.

Where-as with DIAL and for the first decade of Google Cast, the device being cast to was basically a web browser & could run any url. It made it so any device could be cast to from any app. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_Launch

It's been incredibly disappointing seeing Matter build a standard that completely fails to offer a usable path. I really want to be wrong here, but it sure seems like Matter Cast requires every device to have its own unique bespoke partnership & install already loaded, for everything that will be able to cast to it. It standardizes some protocols for how to communicate, but there's such an anti-standard vendor-controlled limited anti-ecosystem basis.

I really really want Matter to be a good better world. I hope Matter Cameras can bring some unity to streaming camera systems. But man I can not see how Matter Cast could be worse designed, more hostile to the freedom to cast that we've enjoyed, and I really worry for this ecosystem as a whole if this is what Matter is willing to ship.

I'd also really like to see affirmations that Matter is usable sans any big network, sans Google Apple and whomever else. That it really is something we can run ourselves. But I haven't seen validation that Matter really is as liberatory as it's promises, haven't seen evidence that folks really can undo the Internet of Shit damage with Matter. I hope it's just all us being extremely slow on the uptake, but I have heard just so little about running our own provisioning/control networks on Matter. I want so much to believe but my vibe is that we've been rug pulled again.
by ted_dunning | 2025-11-22 08:03:42+00:00
Of course. They can simply wait to exploit their vulnerability. It it is well hidden, then it probably won't be noticed for a while and so you can wait until it is running on the majority of your target systems before exploiting it.

From their point of view it is a trade-off between volume of vulnerable targets, management impatience and even the time value of money. Time to market probably wins a lot of arguments that it shouldn't, but that is good news for real people.
by phil21 | 2025-11-22 08:04:24+00:00
Costco has been 2.99/lb for chicken breast about as long as I can remember now here in Chicago. It’s only sometimes better priced than the local supermarket, but the quality is consistent and price stable.

If I have spare time on a weekend it can be picked up far cheaper in bulk from a food services supply store. 2 weeks ago when I last walked through the cooler section it was sitting at $1.29/lb in 40lb cases. Costs maybe 10 cents per food saver vacuum bag or so to freeze them in packs of 2-4 each.

A lot of folks are price takers and have forgotten how to comparison shop or buy on sale and stock up. These were skills lost over the past few generations - likely since stores thought they were competing on price far more than they actually are. Covid taught them the average consumer simply isn’t as price sensitive as the business classes teach you, and have engaged in aggressive price segmentation.

I don’t bother buying most shelf stable or freezable products these days unless it’s on a very large sale - which I’ve found tends to happen roughly quarterly for most things. Beef is the current exception, but we buy a half cow from a local farm and eat off that for a year or more.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-11-22 08:04:55+00:00
You view this as a burden, but (at least if you operate in the EU) I’d argue you’re actually looking at a competitive advantage that hasn't cashed out yet.

Come 2027-12, the Cyber Resilience Act enters full enforcement. The CRA mandates a "duty of care" for the product's lifecycle, meaning if a company blindly updates a dependency to clear a dashboard and ships a supply-chain compromise, they are on the hook for fines up to €15M or 2.5% of global turnover.

At that point, yes, there is a sense in which the blind update strategy you described becomes a legal liability. But don't miss the forest for the trees, here. Most software companies are doing zero vetting whatsoever. They're staring at the comet tail of an oncoming mass extinction event. The fact that you are already thinking in terms of "assess impact" vs. "blindly patch" already puts your workplace significantly ahead of the market.
by hellotheretoday | 2025-11-22 08:06:22+00:00
On #3 you can use jellyfin/plex/emby to manage your content and import it into kodi with plugins (jellyfin for kodi/plex for kodi/etc). This makes the media content portion of kodi MUCH easier as you now can centrally manage it through the superior jellyfin (or whatever) app which is better for administering metadata and utilize kodi which is better which is much better than most jellyfin client apps when you don’t have to worry about managing content libraries.

Especially so when you get a good skin and device that makes the whole thing worthwhile. My primary playback system is kodi + arctic zephyr reloaded but I haven’t evaluated skins in awhile so maybe there’s something new that’s better. The hardware is a ugoos am6b+ flashed with coreelec which afaik is the only thing that can natively play all profiles of Dolby vision correctly which is great bc my primary tv is an lg oled. Having a jellyfin database as the backend means that all my new media just shows up when I start it up and I also have the option for jellyfin client apps on other devices in the home and remotely. It’s the best option all around, though it does have headaches: ugoos locked the bootloader so hdmi cec doesn’t work with power on very well (I just send a wake on Ethernet through home assistant when the tv and avr come on to circumvent this) and there are some other hdmi cec hiccups (it tends to “steal focus” during things like airplay)
by ted_dunning | 2025-11-22 08:07:45+00:00
The problem isn't the implementation of what I want to do. It's all of the implementations of things I never cared about doing. And the implementation of what I want to do that is soooo much more complex than it needs to be that I could easily have implemented it myself in less time.

The problem is also less about the implementation I want, it's about the 10,000 dependencies of things I don't really want. All of those are attack surface much larger than some simple function.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-22 08:09:03+00:00
The most likely direct response is not new capacity, it's older capacity running at full tilt (given the now higher margins) to produce more mature technology with lower requirements on fabrication (such as DDR3/4, older Flash storage tech, etc.) and soak up demand for these. DDR5/GDDR/HBM/etc. prices will still be quite high, but alternatives will be available.
by Scottn1 | 2025-11-22 08:09:44+00:00
I've met so many of these narcissistic dad types that I think they are either a) living vicariously though their sons as an ego thing or b) seriously think they are sitting on a winning lottery ticket and their kids will make pro. So they obsessively push the kids so they don't "waste their opportunity" and/or "don't make mistake I did and not take it seriously".

I have even felt that urge with my son at times when he was making Little League All-star teams each year and considered top 5 player in the league. But then you realize they are only 9-12 years old and playing on a mini field! So I relished in him just having FUN. It was so hard to be around those obsessive Dads when I was having fun practices.
by lewiscollard | 2025-11-22 08:10:25+00:00
From the UK too, and your experience is matched by mine. The last time I was in one (I mean "the last time" in both senses of the words) I waited over 20 minutes for my food; I do not know how long it would have actually taken because at that point I got bored, wrote it off as a loss and walked out. No sense in complaining to anyone because that would have consumed even more of my time.

McDonalds is not food and it is not even fast anymore.

I cannot blame their staff for any of this anyway; if I was being paid that little to be treated like garbage I wouldn't give a shit either.