MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by afro88 | 2025-12-30 06:54:20+00:00
Without having tried it (caveat), I worry that 100% coverage to an LLM will lock in bad assumptions and incorrect functionality. It makes it harder for it to identify something that is wrong.

That said, we're not talking about vibe coding here, but properly reviewed code, right? So the human still goes "no, this is wrong, delete these tests and implement for these criteria"?
by amiga-workbench | 2025-12-30 06:54:38+00:00
I don't think the bad sound is necessarily deliberate, its more of a casualty of TV's becoming so very thin there's not enough room for a decent cavity inside.

I had a 720p Sony Bravia from around 2006 and it was chunky. It had nice large drivers and a big resonance chamber, it absolutely did not need a sound bar and was very capable of filling a room on its own.
by t-3 | 2025-12-30 06:55:01+00:00
Exactly. Games are just software, there's no real unit cost to factor in when setting minimum prices, just market strategy. Running sales with different levels of discounts is as close to optimal as possible $/customer without doing stuff like individualized pricing (which surely requires a vast amount of computing power and human effort to do at scale). Only the truly penniless or retro-game fans need to pirate nowadays.
by larusso | 2025-12-30 06:55:03+00:00
I setup my TV (LG OLED CX) with filmmaker mode in all relevant places and turned off a lot of nubs based on HDTVs [1] recommendations. LG has definitely better ways of tuning the picture just right than my old Samsung had. For this TV I had to manual calibrate the settings.

The interesting thing when turning on filmmaker mode is the feeling of too warm and dark colors. It will go away when the eyes get used to it. But it then lets the image pop when it’s meant to pop etc.
I also turned off this auto brightness [2] feature that is supposed to guard the panel from burn it but just fails in prolonged dark scenes like in Netflix Ozark.

[1] https://youtu.be/uGFt746TJu0?si=iCOVk3_3FCUAX-ye
[2] https://youtu.be/E5qXj-vpX5Q?si=HkGXFQPyo6aN7T72
by zarzavat | 2025-12-30 06:55:26+00:00
> people are very annoyed with Apple pushing for signing off the resulting product.

Apple is very much welcome to push for signing off of software that appears on their own store. That is nothing new.

What people are annoyed about is Apple insisting that you can only use their store, a restriction that has nothing to do with safety or quality and everything to do with the stupendous amounts of money they make from it.
by chvid | 2025-12-30 06:56:39+00:00
From wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus_(AI_agent)

...

Company background

Butterfly Effect Technology was founded by entrepreneur Xiao Hong (Chinese: 肖弘), who previously established Nightingale Technology in 2015.[2] Nightingale developed productivity tools including "Yiban Assistant" (Chinese: 壹伴助手) and "Weiban Assistant" (Chinese: 微伴助手), AI-driven platforms serving over 2 million business users. These products attracted investment from Tencent and ZhenFund.[5]

In 2022, recognizing the potential of large language models, Xiao Hong founded Butterfly Effect and released Monica, an AI assistant browser extension integrating models including ChatGPT and Claude.[5] By 2024, Monica accumulated over 10 million users while maintaining profitability, serving as both a technological foundation and user acquisition platform for Manus.[5]

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Doesn't sound like a "company focused almost entirely on marketing".
by mkozlows | 2025-12-30 06:58:32+00:00
"The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed."

At some companies, most developers already are using it in their day to day. IME, the more senior the developer is, the more likely they are to be heavily using LLMs to write all/most of their code these days. Talking to friends and former coworkers at startups and Big Tech (and my own coworkers, and of course my own experience), this isn't a "someday" thing.

People who work at more conservative companies, the kind that don't already have enterprise Cursor/Anthropic/OpenAI agreements, and are maybe still cautiously evaluating Copilot... maybe not so much.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-30 06:59:23+00:00
IMO programs are 90% data or information, and modern software vastly underutilizes that concept.

If you know what data you need, who needs it, and where it needs to go, you have most of your system designed. If you just raw dog it then stuff is all over the place and you need hacks on hacks on hacks to perform business functions, and then you have spaghetti code. And no, I don't think domain modeling solves it. It often doesn't acknowledge the real system need but rather views the data in an obtuse way.
by EfimovSD | 2025-12-30 07:00:08+00:00
Hi HN! I’m the maker of Revieko — a GitHub App that highlights architecture drift hotspots in pull requests and posts the results where reviews happen.
What you get in each PR:
- a PR comment with the top hotspots and file/line pointers
- a status check
— a full report - markdown/ json
How it works (high level): after install it builds a baseline from the repo, then compares each PR to highlight structural changes that are unusual for that codebase
What it isn’t: not a linter, not a security scanner — the goal is “signal for review”, not more noise.

It’s free right now while we learn. I’d love feedback on 2 things:
1. what would make a hotspot truly actionable in your repo?
2. what would be noise that you’d want filtered out?

Install: https://github.com/apps/revieko-architecture-drift-radar
Sample output: https://synqra.tech/revieko#modal-sample
by bgun | 2025-12-30 07:00:24+00:00
I like this. Although - can we stop naming every project with a single short, common, vaguely related English word? Does anyone name software after what it actually does anymore?

It’s almost as if software authors are afraid that if their project names are too descriptive, they won’t be able to pivot to some other purpose, which ends up making every project name sound at once banal and vague.
by Shacklz | 2025-12-30 07:00:52+00:00
As an avid gamer myself, I fully agree with your point. I guess in this thread there are a lot of people who, due to them being in tech, have a bit of a relationship with games but it's not really a big hobby. And as it happens, Steam has a few policies that trigger some intellectually motivated objections - nice in theory but practically irrelevant for gamers who play games on a regular basis.

As a matter of fact, in case the nostalgia itch really does hit, Steam actually enables a relatively easy 're-release' of old games that many publishers started doing - often with no further addition except the promise that it'll run on modern hardware/OS hassle-free.

I've re-bought games I've played in the 90s/2000s on Steam even though I already owned them and probably still have the CD lying around somewhere, but I just can't be arsed to go through the troubles of installing from them. Pay a few bucks, click a button and I'm up and running.
Show HN: DevCompare – a live, auto-updating comparison of AI coding tools
by anticlickwise | 2025-12-30 07:03:01+00:00
Hi HN,

AI coding tools change fast and I kept running into comparisons that were outdated within weeks. So I built DevCompare to automate the whole thing.

DevCompare regenerates comparisons daily across 18 criteria, including features, pricing, repo understanding, latency, and real developer sentiment from Reddit and HN.

The site is fully automated via cron, cached at the edge, and loads as a simple table with expandable details. No signups, no paywall.

https://devcompare.io

Happy to answer questions
by kacesensitive | 2025-12-30 07:03:53+00:00
Plenty of quotes from anti-mine residents. Not one from a pro-mine voter.

These are from the company.

“We're pleased that Hood County voters saw through the sham incorporation effort and rejected it at the ballot box,” a spokesperson for MARA said.

“As we've said from the start, this was an unlawful attempt to weaponize municipal incorporation against law-abiding businesses like MARA.”

“We remain focused on creating jobs, supporting local communities, and being a responsible neighbor.”

The story otherwise paraphrases general sentiment (e.g., people moved there to avoid city regulations)
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-30 07:05:11+00:00
> It's definitely not equivalent.

We agree, but not for the reasons you think we do.

Chatcontrol is literally 1984. It's mandated at the provider level. You can't opt out.

You can always chose not to participate in the social media, sharing whatever you do. You can't not participate in chat control. Same same, but different.
by rswail | 2025-12-30 07:05:20+00:00
That's when he was bailing out the solar roof company owned by his cousins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity

Being in Australia, we have the benefit of getting US, EU, CN, and other vehicle brands, as well as solar and battery suppliers.

Tesla sells a lot of home batteries, but there are numerous other brands.

Tesla's cars are old now, the difference is the Hyundai, Kia, Geely, ZeekR, BYD, Polestar, Mini, Lexus, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes and other brands are cars that happen to be powered by batteries, not some magic carpet of future ideas.
by hvb2 | 2025-12-30 07:07:01+00:00
It takes a lot more effort to be first. When they were making the roadster, who else was interesting in BEV?

For SpaceX, who is landing rockets for reuse?

With all due respect, China at this point does seem to only get in when the early adoption is done. Then they just throw state money at the problem to catch up. They might be innovating now but they left the hard work to someone else
by nothrabannosir | 2025-12-30 07:07:31+00:00
given that you get feedback on every coordinate independently you can solve them all in parallel-- afai understand you should always be able to solve a 2^6 space, / 2 because you don't get green per coordinate, and / 2 because you don't get a directional hint on the first guess, so up to 16 is always solvable? This is even without the distance metric, right?
by DoctorWhoof | 2025-12-30 07:07:58+00:00
Most of the issues (like "judder") that people have with 24fps are due to viewing it on 60 fps screens, which will sometimes double a frame, sometimes triple it, creating uneven motion. Viewing a well shot film with perfect, expressive motion blur on a proper film screen is surprisingly smooth.

The "soap opera" feel is NOT from bad interpolation that can somehow be done right. It's inherent from the high frame rate. It has nothing to do with "video cameras", and a lot to do with being simply too real, like watching a scene through a window. There's no magic in it.

Films are more like dreams than like real life. That frame rate is essential to them, and its choice, driven by technical constraints of the time when films added sound, was one of happiest accidents in the history of Arts.
by sam_bristow | 2025-12-30 07:08:32+00:00
2025 had a bunch of bits of fun mathematical trivia:

45² = 45 x 45 = 2025

Also,

9² x 5² = 2025

40² + 20² + 5² = 2025

My favourite?

1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
Show HN: Videx – Summarize YouTube without the fluff
by bchaipats | 2025-12-30 07:10:22+00:00
I built this because I kept rewatching YouTube tutorials to find the one part I needed.

Existing summarizers give you walls of text. Videx keeps everything under 300 words — a one-liner, few takeaways, and a clickable timeline.

No signup needed to try it. There's sample videos on the homepage. I'd be happy to answer questions or hear what's missing.
by tirthsvora | 2025-12-30 07:11:02+00:00
Look, I’m 23 and had the same problem when I was 19 and entered college.

I have really good friends now.
The actionable advice I would give is:

1. Be genuine and don’t fake yourself. Don’t try to behave in a way you think might impress someone, and don’t force yourself in trying to become someone else to become friends with someone.
(Take this as a fundamental advice and I will reference it)

2. Put yourself out there. Try to be more of an extrovert. Approach people for help, If you wanna talk to someone, just talk. (And take advice 1 here, don’t fake yourself).

3. Look, there are definitely people out there who are your type and you’d be great friends. It’s just you have to keep putting yourself out there until you ‘find’ or ‘attract’ the right kind of people.
Participate in events, be a part of communities.

It won’t happen if you consciously try. Don’t be on a lookout, just try to express yourself and take all opportunities to socialise.
by klodolph | 2025-12-30 07:11:23+00:00
I agree that speaker tech has progressed slowly, but cars from 20 years ago? Most car audio systems from every era have sounded kinda mediocre at best.

IMO, half the issue with audio is that stereo systems used to be a kind of status symbol, and you used to see more tower speakers or big cabinets at friends' houses. We had good speakers 20 years ago and good speakers today, but sound bars aren't good.
by pkphilip | 2025-12-30 07:12:03+00:00
Belief systems have consequences. Period.

If you believe that what is wrong for others is right for you (subjective morality), you can find ways to do whatever you want to do irrespective of the negative consequences to others.

Combine this with the idea that people are born poor / disadvantaged because of their sins from the previous birth and now you can justify anything you do to them - including making them work in slave-like conditions.

These types of thinking has consequences that you cannot simply wish away.
by maxminminmax | 2025-12-30 07:12:05+00:00
Yes, but that’s not the relevant datum, because of selection effects. The relevant question is how well employed is the person who had a choice to do a Ph.D. or not compared to the counterfactual person who made an opposite choice.

As an example, an Ivy graduate makes more than state school graduate on average, but there was a study showing that those offered Ivy admission but deciding to go to a state school made just as much (that study setup has its own selection bias issues, but hopefully those gives an idea of what I mean).
by aidenn0 | 2025-12-30 07:12:48+00:00
In past cases of automation, quantity was the foot-in-the-door and quality followed. Early manufactured items were in many cases inferior to hand-built items, but one was affordable and the other not.

Software is incredibly expensive and has made up for it with low marginal costs. Many small markets could potentially be served by slop software, and it's better than what they would have otherwise gotten (which is nothing).
by tsimionescu | 2025-12-30 07:13:03+00:00
The train took them 5+ stations away from their destination. They could very well have stopped in any of those stations, they just claim that some bureaucracy prevented them from doing so. Also, trains can in fact stop anywhere they want and let people get off. It's not normally done, but it could be a very good option rather than forcing people to travel much farther away than their destination.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-30 07:13:04+00:00
1) Modern games are enormous and as long as services like GOG let me re-download my library it frees up literally terabytes of space on my disk array for pirated movies and other things that benefit far more from piracy than games do.

2) I don’t want viruses. I don’t want viruses more than I want to avoid paying $1-$20 for a game (as if I’m anywhere near caught up enough on my backlog of games from the last 40ish years for buying games at full launch-week price to ever make sense, lol, I do that like… once every several years, all the rest are very cheap)
by beloch | 2025-12-30 07:13:44+00:00
"Duffer’s advice highlights a conflict between technological advances and creators' goals. Features like the ones he mentioned are designed to appeal to casual viewers by making images appear sharper or more colorful, but they alter the original look of the content."

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Settings that make the image look less like how the material is supposed to look are not "advances".

Q: So why do manufacturers create them?

A: They sell TV's.

Assume that every manufacturer out there is equally capable of creating a screen that faithfully reproduces the content to the best ability of current technology. If every manufacturer does just that, then their screens will all look extremely similar.

If your TV looks like everybody else's, how do you get people strolling through an electronics store to say, "Wow! I want that one!"? You add gimmicky settings that make the image look super saturated, bizarrely smooth, free of grain etc.. Settings that make the image look less like the source, but which grab eyes in a store. You make those settings the default too, so that people don't feel ripped off when they take the TV out of the store.

If you take a typical TV set home and don't change the settings from default, you're typically not going to see a very faithful reproduction of the director's vision. You're seeing what somebody thought would make that screen sell well in a store. If you go to the trouble of setting your screen up properly, your initial reaction may be that it looks worse. However, once you get used to it, you'll probably find the resulting image to be more natural, more enjoyable, and easier on the eyes.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-30 07:13:47+00:00
LLMs also have encyclopedic knowledge. Several times LLMs have found some huge block of code I wrote and reduced it down to a few lines. The other day they removed several thousand lines of brittle code I wrote previously for some API calls with a well-tested package I didn't know about. Literally thousands down to dozens.

My code is constantly shrinking, becoming better quality, more performant, more best-practice on a daily basis. And I'm learning like crazy. I'm constantly looking up changes it recommends to see why and what the reasons are behind them.

It can be a big damned dummy too, though. Just today it was proposing a massive server-side script to workaround an issue with my app I was deploying, when the actual solution was to just make a simple one-line change to the app. ("You're absolutely right!")
by franky47 | 2025-12-30 07:14:41+00:00
Especially when the "content" is a blatant AI summary:

> Duffer’s advice highlights a conflict between technological advances and creators' goals. Features like the ones he mentioned are designed to appeal to casual viewers by making images appear sharper or more colorful, but they alter the original look of the content. By asking fans to turn these features off, he is stressing the importance of preserving the director’s vision.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-30 07:16:12+00:00
This is an analogy that is very appealing, which is precisely why I feel it sends the fundamentally wrong message.

There is not one single puck in the web search field, and we actively don't want that situation in the first place (want no monopoly or cartel). There should be at least 2 if not a ton more. Everyone focusing their attention and resource on a single thing is the absolute worst case scenario.

I also hope the future of search is not where every existing player is looking at. That means there is no disruption happening, money straight dictates the winner and nothing truly innovative is expected.

Even "skating where the puck will be" is essentially following someone else's play. It can be fine, but I'd prefer to focus on the person actually acting on the puck, where they're trying to lead the game.
by aidenn0 | 2025-12-30 07:16:42+00:00
I posted elsewhere, but you are looking at the wrong part of the chain.

We have cheap (or free) software for large markets, and certain small markets where software developers with hobbies have made something. If every niche that will never be able to afford a large 6-figure custom software could get slop software for an affordable price, then that establishes a foot-hold for working its way up the quality ladder.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-30 07:16:55+00:00
> I don't find the source anymore but I think that I saw that it was even a kind of small conspiracy on tv streaming so that you set your speakers louder and then the advertisement time arrive you will hear them louder than your movie.

It's not just that. It's obsession with "cinematic" mixing where dialogues are not only quieter that they could, to make any explosion and other effects be much louder than them, but also not enough above background effects.

This all work in cinema where you have good quality speakers playing much louder than how most people have at home.

But at home you just end up with muddled dialogue that's too quiet.
by wtcactus | 2025-12-30 07:18:50+00:00
Instagram (one of the potential targets of the author to replace Google Ads) became unusable for me with this last update, where they make you wait for ads to finish.

Not that I ever used it much (in fact, after all these years, I still didn't wrap my mind around anything but simple posts), but now, I basically only go there to do a post about a group I have (and that I had to remove from Meetup because Meetup is equal shares of terribly bad and terribly expensive) and answer some messages.

There's a generation (in fact several) of people that still want to meet in person, and the platforms that allowed us to create and join groups for it (Meetup was great for that during a golden period of 3-4 years) are all turning into garbage.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-30 07:19:20+00:00
Practically every post on HN that mentions AI now ends up with a thread that is "I get 100X speed-up using LLMs" vs. "It made me slower and I've never met a single person in real life who has worked faster with AI."

I'm a half-decent developer with 40 years experience. AI regularly gives me somewhere in the range of 10-100X speed-up of development. I don't benefit from a meme, I do benefit from better code delivered faster.

Sometimes AI is a piece of crap and I work at 0.5X for an hour flogging a dead horse. But those are rarer these days.
by vbernat | 2025-12-30 07:20:13+00:00
I am using something like this on Linux:

bwrap --ro-bind /{,} --dev /dev --proc /proc --tmpfs /run --tmpfs /tmp --tmpfs /var/tmp --tmpfs ${HOME} --ro-bind ${HOME}/.nix-profile{,} --unshare-all --die-with-parent --tmpfs ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR} --ro-bind /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf{,} --share-net --bind ${HOME}/.config/claude-code{,} --overlay-src ${HOME}/.cache/go --tmp-overlay ${HOME}/.cache/go --bind ${PWD}{,} --ro-bind ${PWD}/.git{,} -- env SHELL=/bin/bash CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=${HOME}/.config/claude-code =claude
by red75prime | 2025-12-30 07:21:29+00:00
Yeah, it's typical of Elektrec to interpret anything Tesla-related in the worst light.

I personally fact checked articles about "Autopilot disengages milliseconds before collision" and the one related to Benavides v. Tesla case.

In the first case they jumped to conclusions. In the second case they "forgot" to mention any details that contradict their narrative: that there were two cases separated by years, that the police has received all the information they needed in the first case, that the driver was pressing the accelerator.
by thfuran | 2025-12-30 07:21:32+00:00
>Assume that every manufacturer out there is equally capable of creating a screen that faithfully reproduces the content to the best ability of current technology.

That basically isn’t true. Or rather, there are real engineering tradeoffs required to make an actual consumer good that has to be manufactured and sold at some price. And, especially considering that TVs exist at different price points, there are going to be different tradeoffs made.