MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DinoStarcic | 2025-12-09 09:48:25+00:00
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by jakubmazanec | 2025-12-09 09:48:31+00:00
Exactly what I experience. I don't need AI to generate complex algorithm, I need e.g. a lot of code for a UI library that is clean and maintainable - but it's can't ever generate such code and it can't be prompted, because training data has much less excellent code than good and ok code. Therefore I can't use AI for high-level design task, ony low-level code, which I then have to check and clean line by line, and that isn't an enjoyable work.

I don't need LLMs, I need some kind mind reading device :D
by mynti | 2025-12-09 09:48:33+00:00
To me, this only makes sense on a word level not sentence level. I can understand that words, especially those that are older, have evolved because of energy and comfort constraints of our physiology. But to extend this to sentence level is a rather big step. I would suppose it works for simple, short sentences that had to be efficient in the past. But imagine sentences about computer science where most words are rather new and have been chosen by arbitrary rules. To me it would be interesting to see, if this hypothesis holds when applied to longer and more complex sentences and "modern" words.
by kakacik | 2025-12-09 09:48:56+00:00
The fact that in US you can win the most powerful seat in the world while not even voted for by majority of its own population is properly ridiculous. Yes we all heard about historical this and that but that doesn't matter, thats not a democracy at its core and at the lowest, most important layer of building a resilient democratic society.

Then on that questionable base you build a shaky empire that is supposed to work if people behave nicely. It works till somebody comes around who doesn't care about that and it all falls down. Lets not forget current government was voted by +-half of US population, for second time. Nobody should be shocked by direction its taking again, maybe surprised by intensity of it but thats it.

I am a minority in the fact that I openly welcome the visible consistent hostility of USG towards whole Europe and Ukraine conflict when russia attacks whole western world including US and our philosophy of existence, as much as it can (luckily for us not that much). We are waking up from our deep comfy slumber, not in ideal fashion but we already have a bigger combined military than US has in many, for us the most important aspects (since we don't want to drag ourselves to remote wars unlike you guys so ie aircraft carriers are rather unimportant).

Green deal will be soon gone (good idea in vacuum but not in world where literally nobody else cares about it and we just destroy our economy and future trying to make our 10% part count), social services will get cuts to bring them to more sustainable levels based on unavoidable demographics and more focus on more practical and military manufacturing, like it or not.
by Grisu_FTP | 2025-12-09 09:49:09+00:00
For 24$ a month you can get a good enough VPS to stream Terabytes of movies with jellyfin.

Even if you take away the money a vpn costs, you still can have a decent vps with decent storage.

If you only need storage, even better. Found an offer for a "Storage VPS" with low hardware specs and 2TB of HDDs for 10€/monthly
by bellamoon544 | 2025-12-09 09:49:21+00:00
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by exasperaited | 2025-12-09 09:50:32+00:00
Well how else are you going to pay for the AI they want?

You have to understand the basic consumer SaaA contract of the 21st century:

- We give them money and agree terms and they do things to us that we didn't ask for that they want to do

- They change the terms of the agreement to allow it, we occasionally spot their attempts to grab new rights in the process, and they back away a little as if it was just some sort of silly mistake.

- Repeat.
by wooger | 2025-12-09 09:50:37+00:00
We briefly had a reasonably priced, all pro cycling coverage streaming service called GCN plus.

Swallowed by Discovery and then (in the UK) bundled into a 30 GBP a month sports package called TNT that comes with a little bit of premier league football.

Prohibitive and has led many to piracy this year. I only hope whoever eventually wins the race to buy Warner Bros eventually undoes this madness, it could not be worse as a cycling fan.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-12-09 09:51:21+00:00
"RTT to NextDNS is ~30ms for me"

That's why i setup a local caching resolver. RTT to NextDNS in Denmark is ~10ms, and RTT to my local caching resolver is 1-2ms, so yes, it's quicker, but my caching resolver is essentially just what my router offers (Unifi), with NextDNS as upstream (DNS over TLS).

"I just have an always-on AdGuardHome"

I've self hosted for 20 years, i honestly can't be bothered anymore. The power consumption of self hosted hardware alone costs more than the equivalent, better, service in the cloud. NextDNS is $18/year, thats 51 kWh at €0.35/kWh. 5W for a year is 43.8 kWh, which is roughly what a Raspberry Pi 3/4 uses, so for just €2.5/year i can have enterprise hardware and massive redundancy with zero operational risk compared to running on a single RPi at home.

Yes, i'm aware you can run better hardware with more services, but that really only makes the problem worse, both in terms of power consumption, but also in terms of TCO with hardware costs, as well as cybersecurity.

For most people, running in the cloud is cheaper than self hosting. If you have less than 5-6TB of data, the cloud will also be cheaper. After that the math starts going in the favor of self hosting, but year for year the amount of data you can store in the cloud cheaper than at home keeps growing. Yes, the cloud prices increase, but so does the price of harddrives and other hardware.

"but only local NZ IPs, which I did with GeoFilterig on my router."

I know geofiltering is usually security by obscurity, but it does keep the worst bots away, and i used to use it as well (when i self hosted). It cut down dramatically on the various "drive by shootings" by random bots constantly pinging various ports.
by drcxd | 2025-12-09 09:51:29+00:00
> I believe the AI agentic coders will threat tech giants more than it - collectively - threats software engineers.

Currently, I don't think so. Coding agents' performance generally depends on the quality of the model behind them. Running a powerful model is assets-dependent. Not everyone has the hardware and power to support Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini 3 even if they are open-source. So, before the top notch models can be deployed on personal computing devices, I would not say coding agents will threat any organization.
by bondarchuk | 2025-12-09 09:52:15+00:00
>Edit: according to gemini AI:

>* Type I had a dynamic range of about 50bB (roughly 8 bits)

>* High quality tape with Dolby B, C and dbx yielded roughly 65, 75, and 85dB SNR (about 11, 12.5, and 14 bits)

>So you could get pretty close to CD quality, but not quite.

Source? AI content without it is less than worthless.
by tecleandor | 2025-12-09 09:52:30+00:00
Yep, and I think they've already used the Watson brand for a good bunch of different technologies, and most if them have been retired for lack of success. In fact, seems like a couple weeks ago they've sold a good chunk of Watson Healthcare to private equity [0]. Edit: When I talk about the lack of success, I talk not only about market success, but the usefulness of the product.

Until 3/4 years go I was in healthcare for 15 years, a good bunch of them being partners with IBM in radiology imaging solutions. I've been in their IBM La Gaude (former) research/presentations lab a couple times and I've seen a lot of their Watson product come and go, without much success. I have to say that I've seen a couple that were very interesting, but were mostly statistical, with no AI/LLM/... involvement.

And don't talk me about Softlayer/Bluemix. Or their private cloud racks that I cannot even remember their name...

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0: https://pharmaphorum.com/news/ibm-sells-off-large-parts-of-watson-health-business
by brainless | 2025-12-09 09:53:56+00:00
Very happy to see this since I am building in this domain. We need external and internal context though. I am aiming for always available context for current and related projects, reference projects, documentation, library usage, commands available (npm, python,...), tasks, past prompts, etc. all in one product. My product, nocodo (1), is built by coding agents, Claude Code (Sonnet only) and opencode (Grok Code Fast 1 and GLM 4.6).

I just made a video (2) on how I prompt with Claude Code, ask for research from related projects, build context with multiple documents, then converge into a task document, shared that with another coding agent, opencode (with Grok or GLM) and then review with Claude Code.

nocodo is itself a challenge for me: I do not write or review code line by line. I spend most of the time in this higher level context gathering, planning etc. All these techniques will be integrated and available inside nocodo. I do not use MCPs, and nocodo does not have MCPs.

I do not think plugging into existing coding agents work, not how I am building. I think building full-stack is the way, from prompt to deployed software. Consumers will step away from anything other than planning. The coding agent will be more a planning tool. Everything else will slowly vanish.

Cheers to more folks building here!

1. https://github.com/brainless/nocodo 2. https://youtu.be/Hw4IIAvRTlY
by Eisenstein | 2025-12-09 09:53:58+00:00
> If a doctor is spending time on admin tasks instead of revenue-generating procedures, obviously the hospital has accountants and analysts who will notice this, yes?

I am going to assume that the Doctors are just working longer hours and/or aren't as attentive as they could be and so care quality declines but revenue doesn't. Overworking existing staff in order to make up for less staff is a tried and true play.

> I'll contrast your experience with a well-run (from a profitability standpoint) dentist's office, they have tons of assistants and hygienists and the dentist just goes from room-to-room performing high-dollar procedures, and very little "patient care." If small dentist offices have this all figured out it seems a little strange that a massive hospital does not.

By conflating 'Doctors' and 'Dentists' you are basically saying the equivalent of 'all Doctors' and 'Doctors of a certain specialty'. Dentists are 'Doctors for teeth' like a pediatrician is a 'Doctor for children' or an Ortho is a 'Doctor for bones'.

Teeth need maintenance, which is the time consuming part of most visits, and the Dentist has staff to do that part of it. That in itself makes the specialty not really that comparable to a lot of others.
by ant6n | 2025-12-09 09:53:58+00:00
For a first world country, Germany has ridiculously low food prices. These are found at the chain supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl, etc.). They tend to be small by American big box standards (perhaps 1000sqm, so maybe 3x the size of a bodega). There's a lot of these supermarkets everywhere in the country, most people can easily come across them during usual daily trips.
by pdimitar | 2025-12-09 09:54:11+00:00
That's a nice balanced wholesome take, only the problem is that the "Pragmatic Executive" is more like "Career-driven frenzied 'ship it today at all costs' psychopath executive".

You are describing a push-and-pull / tug-of-war balanced relationship. In reality that's absolutely exactly never balanced. The engineer has 1% say, the other 99% go to the executive.

I so wish your take was universally applicable. In my 24 years of career, it was not.
by simonw | 2025-12-09 09:54:25+00:00
Do you have any plans to add timeouts or some other mechanism for limiting the amount of CPU a webassembly call can use?

I'm always interested in options for using WebAssembly as a sandbox to run untrusted code, but one of the things I need to protect against is an infinite loop.

(I had Claude knock up an experimental Python binding to try Epsilon out, notes from that here: https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/epsilon-python-... )
by Tor3 | 2025-12-09 09:54:52+00:00
The paradox isn't actually when the twin is returning, the paradox is seen during the trip away from earth. Both are observing each other through telescopes, and both can see the clock on the wall in each other's home (a house, or for the twin, his space ship. Which has got a big window). And both can observe that the other twin's clock is moving at a slower pace than their own clock. And that's the paradox.

(p.s. the spacefaring twin doesn't have to move at the speed of light, and indeed cannot, it's enough to move at a "relativistic" speed, i.e. fast enough that this is actually measurable. With today's clock that doesn't have to be very fast actually)
by rurban | 2025-12-09 09:57:06+00:00
I agree that github actions has a horrible syntax and can do much less than travis, appveyor, circle, ... I'd really have to resort to yaml references to do anything elegant. But yaml references aren't elegant at all. But it still is free and vastly outperforms the other free CI's.

I just converted our old parrot travis runners to github actions. There I had constant troubles with travis timeouts of 15m 10 years ago. With the new github actions I can run the full tests (which was not possible with travis) in 3 minutes. About 8x faster hardware.
by davnicwil | 2025-12-09 09:57:18+00:00
thanks for the report. I've just double checked it works for me, and it does.

If you triggered a few login flows there may be some race condition with emails arriving out of order or something.

If you're feeling even more generous with your valuable time and want to let me know your sign in email (my email is davnicwil at gmail) I can investigate further.
by coldtea | 2025-12-09 09:57:27+00:00
>Isn't the logical endpoint of this equivalent to printing out a Stackoverflow answer and manually typing it into your computer instead of copy-and-pasting?

Isn't the answer on SO the result of a human intelligence writing it in the first place, and then voted by several human intelligencies to top place? If an LLM was merely an automated "equivalent" to that, that's already a good thing!

But in general, the LLM answer you appear to dismiss amounts to a lot more:

Having an close-to-good-human-level programmer understand your existing codebase answer questions about your existing codebase answer questions about changes you want to make on demand (not confined to copying SO answers) interactively and even being able to go in and make the changes

That amounts to "manually typing an SO answer" about as much as a pickup truck amounts to a horse carriage.

Or, to put it another way, isn't "the logical endpoint" of hiring another programmer and asking them to fix X "equivalent to printing out a Stackoverflow answer and manually typing it into their computer"?

>And I pick Stackoverflow deliberately: it's a great resources, but not reliable enough to use blindly. I feel we are in a similar situation with AI at the moment.

Well, we shouldn't be using either blindly anyway. Not even the input of another human programmer (that's way we do PR reviews).
by rocqua | 2025-12-09 09:57:50+00:00
I don't think the parent post is complaining that academics are writing proposals (e.g as opposed to people with common sense). Instead, it seems to me that he is complaining that academics are writing proposals and papers to impress funding committees and journal editors, and to some extend to increase their own clout among their peers. Instead of writing to communicate clearly and honestly to their peers, or occasionally to laymen.

And this critique is likely not aimed at academics so much as the systems and incentives of academia. This is partially on the parties managing grants (caring much more about impact and visibility than actually moving science forwards, which means everyone is scrounging for or lying about low hanging fruit). It is partially on those who set (or rather maintain) the culture at academic institutions of gathering clout by getting 'impactful' publications. And those who manage journals also share blame, by trying to defend their moat, very much hamming up "high impact", and aggressively rent-seeking.
by sofixa | 2025-12-09 09:57:53+00:00
With a SaaS, you have one platform that you fully control. Broken dependency? Need to update/rollback? It's all in your hands.

Local software has to target multiple OSes, multiple versions of those OSes, and then a million different combinations of environments that you as a developer have no control over. Windows update whatever broke your app, but the next one fixed it? Good luck getting your user base to update instead of being pissed at you
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-09 09:58:04+00:00
> The internet, and the world, are a lot more interesting and exciting when you get a lot of different people from different backgrounds participating. Genius and innovation can come from anywhere. Morally and practically I think we're better off being inclusive

Agreed but honestly sometimes I wonder about the funding sides of things, I love tinkering with software and making (right now LLM based but I know it can be a crutch, I use it to just "test" ideas tbh) but basically my question is, I wish to do more stuff on the web but as someone from a third world country, even 30k $/year are enough to me right now.

I am extremely frugal, most of it might just go into my savings/ETF world funds but basically I worry that if I cannot earn that amount, or even if I do, I am subjected to some very high risks which scare me as I have seen its costs first hands

I want to build software which some people might even work on full time but I just don't know how to make money out of it. If I can't make money out of it, I just open source some half assed implementation of it and literally noone knows about it.

I don't know too much about marketing and monetization perhaps. I don't know how to monetize, I hate ads and don't wish to push them, most of my servers/services I create can be abused so there is an issue the server provider might block me and I don't know if people are willing to pay for the software.

I am in a unique position but honestly what most people do is that they create growth right now, then sell it or smth or take VC funding etc which might include enshittening in the future for profit.

Like I just want to build, and a sustainable/profitable business with a profitable business model but the web just lacks this ability and I think I try to see it from my lens where I am frugal so I expect everyone is so its :/

The internet is interesting if people participate from different nations but that means that I just feel like what I might do will always be risky and I always need a job to fall back upon I guess.

Maybe an compromise I think I will do is work in very adjacent industries and contact them directly and work for 30-40k$ so I can get paid "enough" for my country and basically be good to go I guess.

The thing I get worried about is that if any such business goes bad, I would be on the chopping block and that its inherently more riskier than any business here who will try to extract 10x more value out of me and be the middleman...

I wish to be a software engineer here out of my own passion but since literally everyone wants to be here, my talent literally means jackshit in colleges or their applications so Genius and innovation can come from anywhere but opportunities can have an inequality which I hope I can fix for myself and hopefully help others in solving too one day I guess Idk.
by otikik | 2025-12-09 09:58:27+00:00
The cost of writing code has gone down - I don't think by 90%. Maybe by 30%, with a big asterisk that says something like "as long as someone has put some similar code somewhere or is a very mechanical refactor".

The thing is, writing code is just the first step on building software. You are reviewing what your AI generates, right? You will still be held responsible when it doesn't work. And you will have to maintain and support that code. That is, in my mind, also "building software".

This reminds me of the (amazing) Vim experts that zip around a codebase with their arcane keystrokes. I'm a main Vim user and I can't mimic a fraction of their power. It's mesmerizing to watch them edit files, it's as if their thoughs get translated into words on the screen.

I also know that editing is just the first step. If you skip the rest, you are being misled by an industry with vested interests.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-09 10:00:51+00:00
CRUD as a concept is flawed. It is more or less any computational system with input -> process -> output. Just as this abstract system can have any complexity, the same is true for any CRUD app.

You don't need Claude to write it. But you cannot generate solid web forms with the same speed. What usually would have taken you a few hours is now solved in much less time.

I doubt software will get cheaper though, requirements will adapt.
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-12-09 10:01:29+00:00
I am determined to play this on Saturn at some point. I had the Playstation version as a kid and I didn't notice any of the flaws, it was just a brilliant game with a much more interesting and fun battle system than Final Fantasy. But now I see all the mismatched textures which have been ported right up to the modern HD "remasters".

Great to see that there's an English patch. Christmas is coming up..
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-09 10:02:08+00:00
> Stop the extreme polarization

LITERALLY THIS. I hope I can stress more point on it but we need to stop extreme polarization and the social media and how its centralized and controlled by a few too.

> We're building 1984 and thinking it serves us. It doesn't.

You just have to convince the masses that 1984 is something that serves them when it doesn't and sell that I suppose to seize power yourself bribed by lobbying too.