MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _boffin_ | 2025-12-30 18:39:28+00:00
Not sure this counts as "successful" yet (invite-only beta, still rough), but I'm building a full product almost entirely via LLM-assisted coding.

Tangents (https://tangents.chat) is an Angular/Nest/Postgres app for thinking-with-LLMs without losing the thread.

- Branch: select any span (user or assistant) and branch it into a tangent thread so the main thread stays coherent.

- Collector: collect spans across messages/threads into curated context, then prompt with it.

- You can inspect a "what the model will see" preview and keep a stored context-assembly manifest.

Vibe-coding aspect: about 600 commits and about 120k LOC (tests included) and I have not handwritten the implementation code. I do write specs/docs/checklists and I run tests/CI like normal.

What made it workable for something larger than a static page:

- Treat the model like a junior dev: explicit requirements plus acceptance criteria, thin slices, one change at a time.

- Keep "project truth" in versioned docs (design system plus interface spec) so the model does not drift.

- Enforce guardrails: types, lint, tests, and a strict definition of "done."

- The bottleneck is not generating code, it is preventing context/spec drift and keeping invariants stable across hundreds of changes.

If you define "vibe coding" as "I never look at the code," I do not think serious production apps fit that. But if you define it as "the LLM writes the code and you steer via specs/tests," it is possible to build something non-trivial.

Happy to answer specifics if anyone cares (workflow, tooling, what breaks first, etc.).
by internet2000 | 2025-12-30 18:39:34+00:00
This blog post has good fundamentals but ends up missing the mark. Is Times New Roman the perfect serif? Obviously not. Is it better than Calibri? Yes. Is “hey go back to how things were before” the simplest plan to execute? Also yes.

I personally would’ve liked Georgia since I imagine that’s similarly ubiquitous. People suggesting a custom typeface are out of their mind.
by runevault | 2025-12-30 18:39:35+00:00
Yup. I remember running dotmemory on a whim and being confused by all the stringnames until I noticed what was in them. They really should put that in the docs to just make a const stringname somewhere. I use a global static class for anything I want in multiple files. But I also tend to just use statics instead of autoloads if I'm doing everything in c#.
by furyofantares | 2025-12-30 18:40:00+00:00
> That's table stakes for this kind of game now.

Haha, well yes - I've put quite a number of these games out myself. I was a little surprised I didn't realize at the start that it was going to be this type of game, probably because of SET being a PVP game I've played tons of (well, you can play it solo but I haven't) so I wasn't really seeing this as a daily puzzle game at first.

But anyway, some of these games do a better job with their share result than others, often depending on if it's tacked on at the end or if the game is designed with it in mind. I was commenting that I liked this specific share result.
Show HN: Schema – A daily word puzzle with conserved 14-segment "mass"
by regnodon | 2025-12-30 18:40:21+00:00
I built SCHEMA because I wanted a word puzzle that feels like constraint solving instead of guessing. Each letter is a 14-segment glyph; the total number of lit segments across the whole word is conserved ("mass"), and you move segments between letters until you match a hidden target word.

Every puzzle is generated and filtered to avoid ambiguous states: you’re given invariants (segment totals + exact-move PAR + geometric clues) so the target can be deduced rather than brute-forced.

I’d appreciate feedback on:

- Mobile "Precision Mode" (touch UX for slot/segment edits)

- Difficulty scaling (does "Hard" feel fair, or spiky?)

- Onboarding clarity (do the invariants click quickly?)
by freehorse | 2025-12-30 18:40:23+00:00
> I can't think of a game available on GoG that sells on Steam for > $20.

It is easy to check such claims. This shows what kind of games are in gog since 2024 at >$20 (it may change the currency depending on your country though).

https://www.gog.com/en/games?priceRange=20%2C152.99&hideDLCs...

Far from complete but also a few big titles are there. Granted this is the price in gog but most of the times ime it is the same price as in steam, or around the same.

> Nobody likes DRM, the game industry didn't used to have it.

Aren't DRMs a pretty old thing at this time? I remember the days when DRM was basically about having to use the cd to launch the game as the game would check for that, even if everything needed to run the game was in the hard drive. People would use cracks or virtual drives even if they actually bought the game to avoid doing that. At least now DRMs are far less obstructive to someone who owns the game.
by enraged_camel | 2025-12-30 18:40:49+00:00
Not the OP but I just got done with a codebase-wide re-architecture (driven by a need for a complex data migration) in a little ~2.5 weeks. 800+ files changed, 60k+ line diff.

Without AI it would have taken me several months, and that is only if I managed to avoid burnout. The vendor quotes we got just to see if we could outsource the work were all six figures.
by strongpigeon | 2025-12-30 18:41:24+00:00
To strong-man their argument, they don't seem to be arguing to reward effort only, in their words:

> "To truly measure and reward by an effortocratic measure we need both a top-down and bottom-up approach

- At the top, reward people who have overcome more to get to the same point

- At the bottom, level the playing field so that potential, wherever it is, can be realised"

The way I think of it is using a vector analogy. They're arguing that a meritocracy only reward the end point, and that instead we should value both the magnitude of the vector in addition to its end point. You're interpreting effortocracy (not unfairly IMO) as only rewarding the magnitude of the vector, which is indeed absurd.

In my opinion however, they themselves are straw-manning what they point to as "moral meritocracy". As I understand it, their main gripe is that achievements are not only rewarded, but also ascribed higher moral weight, which is plain false. People vastly prefer rag-to-riches story to born-rich ones. So much so that you have many rich people straight up lying about their origin stories to make it sound more rag-to-riches than it is.

Edit: removed last bit that was harsher than intended.
by NetMageSCW | 2025-12-30 18:41:42+00:00
But the system is not a workspace acts like resources are free. Everything that’s wrong with a modern computer being slower than one from 30 years ago at running user applications has its roots in this kind of thing. It’s more obvious on mobile devices but desktops still suffer. Android needs more RAM and had worse power utilization until a lot was done to move toward native compiled code and background process control. Meanwhile Electron apps think it’s okay to run multiple copies of Javascript environments like working RAM is free and performance isn’t hurt.
by regnodon | 2025-12-30 18:42:26+00:00
Extra details for anyone interested:
- letters are 14-segment bitmasks

- moves transfer individual segments under a hand-cap

- PAR is the exact required number of placements start→target

- clue tiers disclose geometric facts (counts of diagonals/verticals/horizontals, center spines, etc.)

The puzzle generator simulates candidate counts and rejects puzzles that don’t collapse under constraints.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-30 18:42:29+00:00
Yeah, flatpak has some good ideas, and they're even mostly well executed, but once you start trying to build your own flatpaks or look under the hood there's a lot of "magic". (Examples: Where do runtimes come from? I couldn't find any docs other than a note that says to not worry about it because you should never ever try to make your own, and I couldn't even figure out the git repos that appear to create the official ones. How do you build software? Well, mostly you plug it into the existing buildsystems and hope that works, though I mostly resorted to `buildsystem: simple` and doing it by hand.) For bonus points, I'm pretty sure 1. flatpaks are actually pretty conceptually simple; the whole base is in /usr and the whole app is in /app and that's it, and 2. the whole thing could have been a thin wrapper over docker/podman like x11docker taken in a slightly different direction.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-30 18:42:45+00:00
Yes, my point was, if AI and automation in general are the start to the end of all that (and I do think there are some signs that these technologies could be leading us towards a fundamentally less egalitarian society) I think many would consider that a devastating impact that we did not adapt to, the way we did the Industrial Revolution, which ultimately led towards more middle class opportunities.
by andrekandre | 2025-12-30 18:42:59+00:00
> it's the difference between hiring some web dev firm and doing it themselves.

anecdote but i've had a lot of acquaintances who started at both "hiring some web dev firm" and "doing it themselves" with results largely being the same: "help me fix this unmaintainable mess and i will pay you x"...

jmo but i suspect llms will allow for the later to go further before the "help me" phase but i feel like that aint going away completely...
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-30 18:43:27+00:00
It’s definitely not specific to the context of capitalism

capitalism however makes transactionalism the explicit structure such that it cannot coexist with any other type of ownership regime by function

That is to say, if you look at anarcho socialist philosophy it can theoretically coexist with other philosophies inside the same state and action space

Historically however, we have not found a stable equilibrium for the lived reality of our experience such that we could map it cleanly onto some discreet and identified philosophical framework

So neither anarcho-socialism nor capitalism is a sustainable equilibrium point due to the constraints of a human biological substrate

Claiming that “it could” or “can” or “is the best we can do” are all beside the point, because they ignore the intractable fundamental fact of separating human systems from all other systems

Every possible game is zero sum because the universe isn’t creating more matter or energy, it’s just moving around. How we move it around is the problem to solve and anyone using weak justifications with bankrupt epistemological foundations is just wasting everyone’s time.
by snickerbockers | 2025-12-30 18:45:09+00:00
Honest question: do you have any financial stake in this? I'm assuming you don't get paid per-document or whatever but do you have any sort of income dependent on Microsoft shipping your font with outlook (whether as the default font or not)?

I don't mean to accuse you of anything but to 99% of the population this is a complete nothingburger and it looks ridiculous that anybody would care (this cuts both ways btw I also think Rubio is being a cringy idiot). I just don't understand what the big deal is here and I really cannot understand why anybody (on either "side") cares.
by zajio1am | 2025-12-30 18:45:50+00:00
Well, i would say that there are two common fallacies w.r.t. meritocracy:

1) Mixing up merit (ability to provide achievement) with effort.

2) Assuming it has anything to do with moral weight. While it primarily targets just decision making and distribution of deserts (rewards).

Why distribution of deserts should be meritocratic? Because that ensure that collaboration is positive-sum for everybody involved. Considering this, fair reward for participation in some group effort has to satisfy a condition that reward is at least as large as a missed opportunity (of collaborating in some other group, individually, or not collaborating at all).
by joecool1029 | 2025-12-30 18:45:50+00:00
> Over long distances, fibre optic would have lower latency so it'd be shorter if taking the same path today.

Source that claim, it's well understood the speed of light is around 66% due to refractive index in glass.

It gets weird with telegraph cables and capacitance, wikipedia at least touches on it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity
by vitaelabitur | 2025-12-30 18:46:42+00:00
Yeah, AI won't entirely replace developers in the foreseeable future. But there is no denying that it lets 6 developers do the work of 10. That means fewer people per project.

What is left to see is whether the world wants more software? Because then these efficiency gains will fuel more projects, more companies, and more software to balance out the number of jobs.

In the meantime, it makes sense to upskill in areas where AI fails miserably like design, scaling, reliability, etc., and start using AI to speed up your day-to-day work.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-30 18:46:45+00:00
Funny story: I use Anki (the flashcard program), and I run it on my NixOS laptop. There is a NixOS/nixpkgs package for Anki. It doesn't work. You know how I run Anki, which has a native GNU/Linux version and even an actual nixpkgs package, on my GNU/Linux NixOS laptop? Yeah, I run AnkiDroid, the Android version, through Waydroid. Because the Android version works.
by detectivestory | 2025-12-30 18:47:06+00:00
I get the impression that there is a very good idea here but you are not selling it very well. I think a text-heavy explanation is better here than on the webpage itself.

People on this site don't tend to have much patience when being shown something new. It would be great if you could dive right in as a guest user somehow. The CTAs on the webpage are not very inviting also imo. Not many people are going to want to sign up just to try something novel.
by magic_hamster | 2025-12-30 18:47:26+00:00
There's a lot in this comment that doesn't exactly fit.

First of all, there could be other solutions, such as B2B subsidizing individual user plans, or more fine grained model tiering per cost.

Also, yes you can get some access for free, but even today the higher tiers of proprietary models is around $200/mo for individual users, which might still be subsidized but is definitely not free, and is quite a chunk of money at $2400 a year!

I don't know what your setup is at the moment, but it's possible more efficient hardware and stack are available that you're not utilizing. Of course this depends on what models you're trying to run.

I think that smaller models will become a lot better, and hardware will become more optimized as well. We're starting to see this with NPUs and TPUs.

All this means running models will cost less, and maybe upgrading the power grid will also reduce cost of energy, making it more affordable.

I don't see any way that AI will go away because it "hits a wall". We have long passed the point of no return.
by anthk | 2025-12-30 18:47:29+00:00
Under an invasion you can expect anything.

I've seen far right regimes in Europe -Spain- siding up with the Communist Cuba because of the common backgrounds over politics.

And the Cuban regime itself under Castro mourning over Franco's death. As crazy as it sounds.

Under an US-invaded European Union Spain would team up with Cuba and Venezuela the first day no matter which party would be ruling, left or even neocon-close right. The Spaniard state's survival would be the top priority.
No state, no economy, no Ibex 35. And shit would hit the fan from Latin America too.

Oh, and expect hell with guerrillas spawning here and there from Latin America backed up from Europeans and maybe the Moccromafia and the former Italian Mafia themselves. Spain, France and Italy have contacts over all the Mediterranean and you knows what Mediterranean means. I wouldn't be there if I were an American trying to invade Europe... because once you kick the wasp nest of the Islamic regimes being generously supported from Mafias, you would have both the Jihad and the Narcoguerrillas at home with European army support.
Try to stop that. Because something the Southern Europeans know well it's learning to have friends even in Hell "just in case".
Spain has the Hispano-spehere, they know how to put a whole political spectra on its side with ease, and the French have the Francophonie.
by Y_Y | 2025-12-30 18:47:53+00:00
#+ BEGIN_ART

Here's my John Deere™ tractor:

_____
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|:`_|---'-.
'_'.-JD--.|
'._.' (-)

It's a heap of shit, overpriced and unrepairable. It smells like farts, but does have a sweet green paintjob.

#+ END_ART

Should I have asked the corpos for a license before exhibiting my art?
by mlinhares | 2025-12-30 18:48:04+00:00
They’ve done this before in their locked environments and programming languages, anyone that doesn’t think this is going to end the same way is delusional.

I’m starting to think actually knowing how to write code might end up being a superpower with so many people completely lost to the stochastic parrots. I’m already getting inbounds from friends and acquaintances that need “help” with their generated shit, gonna start asking for money for it.
by lawlessone | 2025-12-30 18:49:27+00:00
>Definitely not. I am being sincere.

haha no worries, i may be insecure and seeing the flaws in my own argument there..

Similar in some ways i've tried things in my 20's that should have got me hooked but never felt the urge to do or seek out those things. Can't watch TV either but computer games on the other hand... absolutely hooked.
by why-o-why | 2025-12-30 18:49:46+00:00
No. I asked my RIA, and he said that scenario would destroy the world economy but also it is highly improbable (he never says "impossible", which is what I like about him). There's no place to hide if the USD craters a-la reddit-like doomsdaying (not even non-US funds).

EDIT: My speculation, not my RIA's: If the global economy wasn't backed by USD, I would recommend foreign funds/ETFs, but everything is interconnected with the US economy. Maybe in 50 years if the global economy moves to anohter currency, but what is there? sterling? renminbi? rubles? rupees? there's nothing.
by bruce511 | 2025-12-30 18:50:26+00:00
It also makes support more or less impossible.

Even if we ship as source, even if the user has the skills to build it, even if the make file supports every version of the kernel, plus all other material variety, plus who knows how many dependencies, what exactly am I supposed to do when a user reports;

"I followed your instructions and it doesn't run".

Linux Desktop fails because it's not 1 thing, it's 100 things. And to get anything to run reliably on 95 of them you need to be extremely competent.

Distribution as source fails because there are too many unknown, and dependent parts.

Distribution as binary containers (Docker et al) are popular because it gives the app a fighting chance. While at the same time being a really ugly hack.
by RangeLead | 2025-12-30 18:50:43+00:00
I’ve been working on a side project that collects and structures public US business data into ready-to-use datasets.

The focus is on:
- clean structure
- industry and location segmentation
- usable output without dashboards or subscriptions

This is still early and intentionally minimal.

I’m mainly interested in technical feedback and thoughts on data quality expectations, not promotion.

Happy to answer questions about how the data is collected, cleaned, and maintained
by kitd | 2025-12-30 18:51:05+00:00
This results in them moving up a layer, in this case creating a network of inter-dependent containers that you now have to put together for the whole thing to start... and we're back to square one, with way more bloat in between.

I think you're over-egging the pudding. In reality, you're unlikely to use more than 2 types of container host (local dev and normal deployment maybe), so I think we've moved way beyond square 1. Config is normally very similar, just expressed differently, and being able to encapsulate dependencies removes a ton of headaches.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-30 18:51:32+00:00
> ICC member states should take steps to ensure the sanctioned judges and prosecutors do not suffer as a result of U.S. sanctions

This would be lovely. It’s not going to happen, and it would be stupid for Europe to pursue alone.

The ICC was born out of the optimism of the 1990s. When China was accepted into the WTO because trade was equated with democracy. When the world powers at least pretended to heed an international rules-based order.

That order is dead. The EU is—nobly—trying to resurrect it. But the great powers, together with most regional powers, have explicitly rejected it in favor of spheres-of-influence realpolitik.

Upholding the Rome Statute would mean picking simultaneous fights with America and Russia, and probably Israel, Iran, India and China, too. It’s simply not a tenable situation in a world where the rules are being re-written in multiple theatres.
by hamdingers | 2025-12-30 18:51:43+00:00
You're so busy projecting your strawman of an anti-ai luddite onto me that you forgot to address the content my comment.

I find it unfortunate that entire categories of artistic expression will be lost in your vision of the future. I do not doubt that people would continue telling stories. I feel the same way about this as I did about model making and matte painting for film in the 90s. I never thought movies would stop being made, and movies made without them are still good, but it is still very sad that demand for those art forms collapsed.
by jandrese | 2025-12-30 18:52:23+00:00
It was an era where there was actual competition in the motherboard space as different vendors tried to outdo each other with their northbridge and southbridge and especially the connection between them. Computer magazines at the time actually benchmarked motherboards. Then Intel and AMD slammed the door shut on that market by moving the important functionality into the chip and now nobody cares about the motherboard very much.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-12-30 18:52:33+00:00
Somewhere cheaper, I expect the downturn to present as things generally becoming too expensive to afford so I got a jump on reducing expenses.

If you want to be in startup culture SV is still the place to be. I didn’t like it because of all the trend following, if you want to succeed there it’s best to jump on a trend. I’m more of an applied researcher and had my own ideas I wanted to explore.

As inequality continues to get worse those who initially benefited from it will generally find themselves on the other side of the transition and losing out.

AI is going to increase inequality far more than economic policy, I’m 5x more
productive with AI and am able to compete with much larger orgs. What happens when they lose their job, what happens when someone does the same to me. The Pareto distribution of productivity is about to get a hell of a lot steeper.
by daveguy | 2025-12-30 18:53:06+00:00
> Why do cars need weekly software updates?

Because musk has been over promising and under delivering for years. What do you want to bet those updates still haven't put the "self driving" in FSD? Classic bait and switch. They give you a little thread of hope that one day your car will be better, and give you goofy infotainment features instead of autonomous driving.
by fusslo | 2025-12-30 18:53:16+00:00
Why do you say they don't have jurisdiction in that case?

Article 70:

“It shall be a crime for any person to commit any of the following acts:

(a) giving false testimony;

(b) presenting false or forged evidence;

(c) corruptly influencing a witness, expert, or court official;

(d) interfering with or intimidating a witness, expert, or court official;

(e) committing any other act which perverts the course of justice in relation to proceedings before the Court.”

Article 70's jurisdiction is not tied to member states. It applies to anyone, anywhere that may affect the court's functioning.