MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Game_Ender | 2025-12-30 03:22:40+00:00
Why should he put effort into measuring a tool that the author has not? The point is there are so many of these tools an objective measure that the creators of these tools can compare against each other would be better.

So a better question to ask is - Do you have any ideas for an objective way to a measure a performance of agentic coding tools? So we can truly determine what improves performance or not.

I would hope that internal to OpenAI and Anthropic they use something similar to the harness/test cases they use for training their full models to determine if changes to claude code result in better performance.
by left-struck | 2025-12-30 03:23:52+00:00
I knew about duckduckgo for years and it was always too much friction to switch. I tried like 4 times but always went back to google when I had to research something quickly. Eventually the friction of using google became high enough though that the friction of switching was not that much higher. I’ve been using ddg and occasionally duck ai for over a year now.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-12-30 03:23:57+00:00
It seems to me (speaking from a non-gamer perspective) that Steam has nailed down the "app store" vibe better than GOG. I haven't looked much at GOG Galaxy, but AFAIK it's not a Steam-like app to search, buy, install and update games and DLC. I think that's a big part (the only part, maybe?) of Steam's value proposition.
by leshow | 2025-12-30 03:25:35+00:00
It's not the same, LLM's are qualitatively different due to the stochastic and non-reproducible nature of their output. From the LLM's point of view, non-functional or incorrect code is exactly the same as correct code because it doesn't understand anything that it's generating. When a human does it, you can say they did a bad or good job, but there is a thought process and actual "intelligence" and reasoning that went into the decisions.

I think this insight was really the thing that made me understand the limitations of LLMs a lot better. Some people say when it produces things that are incorrect or fabricated it is "hallucinating", but the truth is that everything it produces is a hallucination, and the fact it's sometimes correct is incidental.
by duxup | 2025-12-30 03:25:56+00:00
I worked for a company where we brought in teams from a couple European countries after a merger.

The absolute "I won't do anything more than I explicitly have to." was brutal. It was hard to even talk to them as they seemed terrified / constantly defensive of being asked to do something outside their typical process. They never were asked as long as I was there but man they were on a knifes edge about it at all times.

I'd even be on the phone with folks I met and got along with and I'd ask them about what they saw on a ticket they used to own, and I'd get angry made up rules about "I don't have to tell you anything because that ticket doesn't belong to me anymore!" Like bro ... we had a good time having beers together, I'm not your boss I'm a peer asking, it's still both our work hours ...

They were smart folks, got along with them otherwise, but it was just a horrible experience working with those folks when it came to work. Company eventually just shut down those offices, complied with whatever local laws were required to do so and washed their hands of those locations. I didn't blame them.
by mantra2 | 2025-12-30 03:26:01+00:00
I have, but very rarely. I could count on one hand how often I’ve needed to dig back more than half a decade ago.

Back when I used Gmail I just kept everything personal and work related but when I moved away and started paying for email storage I took a different approach. It didn’t make sense for me to pay considerably more storage for something I almost never use.

I ended up backing up all of my emails outside of the last 5 years and stored them on an offline drive where I can reference them as eml files if I ever need it.

Going forward once a year I’ll export and purge the oldest year in my account.
by zbrozek | 2025-12-30 03:26:04+00:00
A note to other folks. Don't bother asking customer service about this. They want you to record videos, as if that's a productive use of your time or required to support a product.

As soon as a CSR asks me to record a video, I write off the brand. Maybe Gen Z will tolerate that, but I'm too old for that nonsense.
by avianlyric | 2025-12-30 03:26:10+00:00
No the US stuck with signature for profit and cultural reasons. Europe also had a huge install of mag stripe equipment, and has the same fraud systems, what else do you think Europe was using before EMV was developed?

But Chip-and-PIN makes using credit cards marginally less convenient, and forces people to authenticate themselves to perform transactions, unlike swipes and signatures, something that many Americans don't like. The US is happy with crazy high fraud rates, and crazy high interchange rates (fees for using credit cards). Those interchange rates also fund all the fancy points and rewards programs in the US, and primarily are paid for by the poorest in society (who can't access those programs, but are still paying the interchange rates). Plus high interchange rates mean more money for banks and the card networks themselves.

The EU on the other hand capped interchange rates, so either banks had to get fraud under control, or pay for fraud out of their own pockets. I'll give you two guess which route they chose.
by bergie | 2025-12-30 03:26:10+00:00
For travelers, this Balkanization of payment mechanisms is quite a hassle. You can't have Swish (the Swedish payment system) without a Swedish bank account. You can't have Yappy (the payment system used in Panama) without a Panamanian phone number. So as a foreigner you simply can't pay. Especially in Sweden where cash isn't a thing.
by lolive | 2025-12-30 03:26:27+00:00
For what it is worth, here is my experience with Facebook, [a platform that I have learnt to love after my Twitter ban]: I go to the main page, I immediately click the magnifying lens, so I get the list of unread posts of the 10to20 groups I follow. I read them quickly. Then leave.
I do that, on a daily basis.
Time spent: usually 20 minutes.

Reddit is 99% search only. I go there only on a purpose. [might be replaced by Gemini, eventually]

HN and Alterslash are probably the only source of random info that I still consume.

May be that information containment is a reaction to my 15+ years of addiction to [the good old] Twitter. Or because I have reached age 50.

But the consequence is that I get the news late, and usually because of a search I did. Not because of a proactive algorithm.

Additional thought: in the end I suppose my information un-déluge is the proof that algorithms eventually failed to deliver [i.e point me at things meaningful to me]. The biggest example is Spotify proposals. That is 1% of my music discovery, whereas traditional non-commercial radios and dedicated podcasts are [human curated and] much more diverse.
by spicyusername | 2025-12-30 03:26:40+00:00
It probably started before, but the covid era really feels like it was a turning point after which everyone I see, including, it seems, Rich
Hickey, is drowning in news headlines and social media takes.

Are things as bad as they seem? Or are we just talking about everything to death, making everything feel so immediate. Hard to say.

Every time I read any kind of history book about any era, I'm always struck at how absolutely horrible any particular detail was.

Nearly every facet of life always has the qualities it has today. Things are changing, old systems are giving way to new systems, people are being displaced, politicians acting corrupt, etc.

I can't help but feel like AI is just another thing we're using as an excuse to feel despair, almost like we're forgetting how to feel anything else.
by leptons | 2025-12-30 03:26:46+00:00
shift-clicking isn't necessary. Your screen has a resolution higher than 20 pixels wide, doesn't it? Maybe your screen is 1280 pixels wide? Well that could be 1280 steps for a slider, or a knob. It's also a bit dependent on the resolution of the pointing device, too.

And 20 pixels wide on a modern screen is so tiny you would have trouble seeing it, so the whole premise of a "20 px knob" is blown. A slider with 100 pixels width would also be pretty small. The smallest I'd make it to work on a modern screen is at least 250 pixels wide. And that's plenty of resolution for most things. If a slider is more important, make it bigger, and you get more resolution.

Arguing about a 20 pixel knob or slider is kind of stupid considering how small that actually is in screen real estate. If the knob or slider is 20 pixels in any direction then you have other UX problems.
by Eisenstein | 2025-12-30 03:26:51+00:00
This is actually a good thing. Hear me out...

Before LLMs, people had to write these things, and some of them didn't want to. They half-assed it and didn't mean what they wrote, but it was homework and they did it. Reading the letters, it would be tough to separate the sincere from the genuine, because it was done in everyone's typical style.

Now, you see the hallmarks of LLM text construction -- the effusive yet somehow stilted formality with an uncanny valley friendly tone that makes one feel at the same time like they are being sold something and that they are being used as a emotional dumping ground for an person with no self-esteem who needs constant validation.

When you see this, you will know who cares about the process and who does not. You can use that information however you like, but despairing for humanity is probably a bit overblown, IMO.
by Joel_LeBlanc | 2025-12-30 03:27:23+00:00
I totally get where you're coming from—due diligence can be a daunting task, especially with the amount of misinformation out there. It's crucial to dig deep and verify claims to make informed decisions. I've found that using tools like DREA (Digital Real Estate Analyzer) has really streamlined my process for evaluating digital assets. Just remember, trust your instincts, but always back them up with solid research!
by Manouchehri | 2025-12-30 03:27:43+00:00
> BrighData offer H3/QUIC but only in beta and you have to contact their sales team as far as I'm aware.

That's what I thought too, but it's working for me. (I've sent a lot of tickets, maybe they've put our account as something special without telling me, but doubt it.)

> If you wanna play around with it, email me and I'll get you some credit.

Done, emailed! :) Thanks!

> The proxy industry is full of another 100 companies saying they offer H3/QUIC, when they mean UDP proxying using SOCKS.

Out of the large players I've tested, none actually seem to even support SOCKS5's UDP ASSOCIATE. (I have not tested PingProxies yet.)

> I suppose the knowledge gap and what customers care about (protocol to end target) is very different to what I care about (being right/protocol to the proxy server).

I think there's a knowledge gap between the people making the sales landing pages, and the folks who actually run/maintain the proxy servers. There's some large vendors that advertise UDP support (for residential and/or mobile proxies) that I have yet to actually see working.
by abahjat | 2025-12-30 03:28:38+00:00
I built DataLab to solve the problem for professional who lacks the tool to view External systems export files such as in LegalTech Loadfiles or in Data Science Parquet or in Systems JSON and XML and the ability to transform between the formats.

Import, validate, and transform complex data files with precision. Built for professionals who demand accuracy across every industry. Think of use cases where you just need an Excel report of an Archive file, or you need to unnest a JSON or an XML to Data Table.

Custom stream transformers to handle non-standard CSV variations found in litigation support (like .DAT files).

Integrated "AI Copilot" that allows you to bring your own API keys (OpenAI/Gemini/DeepSeek) so you aren't locked into a vendor's AI wrapper.
by bradlys | 2025-12-30 03:29:06+00:00
A lot of people are also assuming intentional malice here when incompetence/lack-of-care is the main issue.

If people saw how things are done at Meta, you wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of the stuff is functionally broken due to a lack of care from the top level. Your VPs and above just do not give a shit about quality whatsoever. This thing fucking prints money like crazy. Also, preventing loss of revenue and/or customer satisfaction is not a top level priority.

I think people also don’t understand how much bigger companies spend. They absolutely dwarf all the smaller businesses out there and Meta doesn’t have a ton of interest in spending time on customers who are just as likely to go out of business next year as they are to increase their budget a tiny bit.

And the top businesses have a completely different flow. These guys are spending hundreds of millions to billions - not a 100k over several years lol.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-12-30 03:29:51+00:00
Most know some version of the 4 types of customer in marketing, but only a few figure out 3/4 classes of sales are not worth the effort.

1. The miser: No matter the cost, the right retail price is $0. These folks make up 82% of the market, but are usually effectively irrelevant in terms of revenue. Yet if you sell low-end low-margin products, than these are your customers.

2. The technical: Give them a list of specifications, and leave them alone. These people already know what you have for sale, and probably know the product better than most of your team. Too bad, these folks are <3% of the market, and while they have opinions they also don't matter in terms of revenue.

3. The sadist: These people are only interested in making people miserable, and for whatever reason are always a liability to have around even in the rare event they buy something. At <5% of the market they are also irrelevant in terms of revenue, but will incur additional losses though nasty cons etc. Your best bet is to give them free swag bribes, and refer them to a competitor because they are so awesome.

4. The emotional: These people are the highest profit market, as they are more concerned with how they feel about a product or brand. They don't care much about hardware performance specifications, but rather focus on the use-case in a social context.

One may disagree, but study 23000 users buying habits... the same pattern emerges for just about every product or service. Note, these classes are only weakly correlated with income level.

Thus, depending on the business it is absolutely possible to ignore the vast majority of the market while still making the same or greater profit. Yet if a product is mostly BS, than the online communities will figure that out sooner or later. =3
by call68 | 2025-12-30 03:30:32+00:00
Pues en una auditoría con note algo raro la verdad su portal web tanto al público y los servidores estaba totalmente colapsados osea no se podía hacer nada porque tal parece que alguien ya lo había hecho por mí en mi cabeza lo que pasó por preguntar es que pasó aquí para que me trajeron vine a buscar posibles vulnerabilidades no a buscar a alguien que hizo esto bueno entre conversiones el se ofreció a decirme que buscará al responsable cosa que no era nada fácil pero tampoco imposible
by presentation | 2025-12-30 03:30:49+00:00
Really? I live in Japan, eSIMs made it very easy for me to switch carriers 3 times when I was shopping. Just had to click the “agree” checkbox in the ts and cs for each carrier when I switched, provide the transfer code (which is always in an easy to find place in their management dashboards), and then plug that into the form when signing up for the new carrier. Then my butt did not have to budge from my couch as the eSIM was provisioned and my old service was cancelled automatically. Definitely beat schlepping it to the physical stores of each carrier in ye olde times.
by mmooss | 2025-12-30 03:31:35+00:00
It was more complicated, from what I've seen:

I think CIA analysts said no WMDs, but the CIA head personally told the President that the case for WMDs was a "slam dunk" - maybe just a kiss-ass moment, but something to learn from: those moments have consequences.

But generally not getting the answers they wanted, VP Cheney and/or SecDef Rumsfeld setup their own mini-intelligence agency in the Department of Defense which produced their desired results, including WMD and also Iraq somehow being involved in 9/11. They relied heavily on an informant that they code-named "Curveball". Seriously.
by Joel_LeBlanc | 2025-12-30 03:32:43+00:00
It's an interesting move by Amazon, and evaluating DRM effectiveness is crucial, especially if you're considering investing in digital assets that use it. In my experience, the best approach is to analyze user feedback and sales performance post-implementation. I've found that tools like the Digital Real Estate Analyzer (DREA) can really help streamline the due diligence process, especially for assessing the potential stability of a digital asset. It’s all about understanding how these changes impact both the market and user experience.
by presentation | 2025-12-30 03:32:46+00:00
Yeah, basically people here think that their experience is the only experience there is with phones. I wager not that many people are actually physically going to stores in many markets anymore like this commenter, and definitely next to nobody is switching their SIM cards literally every month like a sibling commenter is doing, but for people like me who live and travel abroad, eSIMs have been great.
by throwaway150 | 2025-12-30 03:33:08+00:00
> If an LLM is typing that code - and it can maintain a test suite that shows everything works correctly - maybe we don't need that abstraction after all.

But this is a highly non-trivial problem. How do you even possibly manually verify that the test suite is complete and tests all possible corner cases (of which there are so many because synchronizing state is a hard problem)?

At least React solves this problem in a non-stochastic, deterministic manner. What can be a good reason to replace something like React that works determinstically with LLM-assisted code that is generated stochastically and there's no easy way to manually verify if the implementation or the test suite is correct and complete?
by qazxcvbnmlp | 2025-12-30 03:33:29+00:00
Without commenting if parent is right or wrong. (I suspect it is correct)

If its true, the market will soon reward it. Being able to competently write good code cheaper will be rewarded. People don't employ programmers because they care about them, they are employed to produce output. If someone can use llms to produce more output for less $$ they will quickly make the people that don't understand the technology less competitive in the workplace.
by beefsack | 2025-12-30 03:34:11+00:00
I feel like so many of these memory solutions are incredibly over-engineered too.

You can work around a lot of the memory issues for large and complex tasks just by making the agent keep work logs. Critical context to keep throughout large pieces of work include decisions, conversations, investigations, plans and implementations - a normal developer should be tracking these and it's sensible to have the agent track them too in a way that survives compaction.
by qubitcoder | 2025-12-30 03:34:55+00:00
They’re known as DNs, or digital numbers. Thom Hogan’s eBooks do a phenomenal job of explaining the intricacies of camera sensors, their architecture, processing to JPEGs, and pretty much every aspect of capturing good photos.

The books, while geared toward Nikon cameras, are generally applicable. And packed with high-quality illustrations and an almost obsessive uber-nerd level of detail. He’s very much an engineer and photographer. When he says “complete guide”, he means it.

The section on image sensors, read-outs,
and ISO/dual gain/S&R, etc. is particularly interesting—-and should be baseline knowledge for anyone who’s seriously interested in photography.

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by Joel_LeBlanc | 2025-12-30 03:35:18+00:00
It's great that you're passionate about due diligence in evaluating digital assets! It can be tricky to sift through the noise and find reliable information. From my experience, I’ve found that using tools like DREA (Digital Real Estate Analyzer) can really streamline the process, making it easier to assess potential investments. It's all about doing your homework and asking the right questions, right? Happy to exchange insights if you want!
by abustamam | 2025-12-30 03:35:36+00:00
It's kinda interesting to see how advertising is evolving. I'll mindlessly scroll Instagram reels once in a while and every other reel is an ad with the sponsored tag, with an obvious thing being sold and advertised. A fair amount of non-"ads" are influencers or celebrities promoting a product on their personal IGs with the #ad.

It's like advertising and social media are slowly merging together.

I couldn't say how effective it is. Who knows how much they paid that influencer and how much revenue it drives. But it sure is common.
by muzani | 2025-12-30 03:35:46+00:00
"Would you integrate with existing POS systems or is this a new one?"

Depends. The goal is to streamline workflow. A lot of the friction happens when recording transactions. How do you reduce that?

3 years ago, integrating with existing systems might be the smart move, but now with AI, you can build and maintain a POS from scratch faster than an integration.

"If a new one do you integrate with some existing hardware for card scans?"

Yeah, sell it with the hardware, keep friction down. They cost as much as a phone.

Again, depends on the norm. I find in developing countries, it's typical to have the whole thing as one Android app on a card accepting device. There's cool stuff you can do with the receipt printers. If someone orders a latte with an extra shot and a croissant, you can print out a receipt and little paper things to give to the barista and the croissant guy.

"Do you have to sell the customer on migrating away from their existing system?"

Often yes. Most can export data, and you can write scripts to import them.

You customize your product to their workflow. Like some people operate with wet hands. Salons like to track how much shampoo is used to flag theft. Education systems may track credit and attach videos of classes.

"Price?"

Highly variable per state, sector, etc, but OP's requirement of $49/month should be fair.
by deaux | 2025-12-30 03:35:47+00:00
Over the whole population, I bet the difference between sexes is very small when it comes to what % posts online comment. You're saying "most social platforms" - what's the biggest one in the world? Probably still Facebook. Yet I'm fairly sure it has a higher female than male DAU, at least in the West.

r/kpop has 3 million subscribers. Take a look at the most followed accounts on Instagram. How many of them have female-dominated comment sections?

> I am saying this as a guy we really don't understand the world women live in online or offline.

You're saying this as a guy who doesn't understand the world the general population lives in, outside your highly-educated male-dominated tech bubble. You're considering only the spaces you have been visiting for most of your life.
by amber_raza | 2025-12-30 03:36:35+00:00
Fair point on the Privacy Policy link. That definitely slipped through the cracks in the launch rush. I just pushed a fix to add it to the footer now.

Re: the trackers: The SVG is just the icon inside the Clerk login button, but you're right that loading Tailwind via CDN isn't ideal for strict GDPR IP-masking. I'll look into self-hosting the assets to clean that up.
by mmooss | 2025-12-30 03:36:37+00:00
Yeah, that's hard to understand strategically. Is their desired outcome that Paramount to take over WB? Is Paramount somehow backing this protest? But no matter what Paramount promises now, the unions and cinemas must realize they're worse off in the long run. And who would trust any unenforceable promises from those guys? Who would even trust a written contract?