MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tarsinge | 2025-12-09 09:00:02+00:00
What you list are common characteristics encountered in legacy systems, but what makes it legacy is a business decision of declaring it obsolete and in maintenance mode, and so that no money or time to be invested in it. Old systems that continues to evolve are not legacy, like say Linux, and yes like you say a project that is only one year old can be declared legacy. Resistance to change is only an economic variable that drives the decision. Vibecoded apps fits the definition because the developer is unlikely to want to invest more time in them for different reasons.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-12-09 09:00:21+00:00
Right; but this is also information. The Civilization game used little pictures of wheat and shields, I think, to indicate the production levels. Here the pictures are better than numbers because they feel more like actual things and allow to express all the details we need. We understand smaller numbers differently, three vs five is not just arithmetical for us, it is more substantial to actually see three vs five items than a different shape of a digit.
by pdimitar | 2025-12-09 09:00:37+00:00
I'm not seeing full self-hosting yet, and "Book a call" link is an instant nope for many techies.

I understand that you need to make money. But you'll have to have a proper self-hosting offering with paid support as well before you're considered, at least by me.

I'm not looking to have even more stuff in the cloud.
by nicbou | 2025-12-09 09:00:45+00:00
I think that censorship grew because the internet did.

When the crowd grows bigger, it becomes a market. Then you get people who are only here out of self interest, and you need rules to deal with them.

When the crowd gets too big, the conversation is too loud and fast to be polite, and the loudmouths take over. Only hot takes anger people enough to speak above the miasma.

I don’t think it’s a red versus blue issue because there exist people outside of the United States. About 8 billion of them.
by unwind | 2025-12-09 09:01:15+00:00
Interesting, did some light (heh) digging.

[1] agrees that World War II-era luminous materials featured radium, yes. Another use seems to have been putting discs on helmet fronts of paratroopers, to help soldiers see each other in the dark.

This page [2] has a picture of a variety of luminous products from the era, and also mentions one civilian usage was marking edges of clothing, also to help make pedestrians more visible in the (blacked-out) streets.

I'm rather low on the Interest in History scale, but it's fascinating how often WW2 manages to deliver something new. Thanks.

[1]: https://www.paratrooper.be/articles/luminous-disks/

[2]: http://www.butterflybalcony.com/2013/10/the-home-front-black...
by gniv | 2025-12-09 09:02:30+00:00
> most companies will still have more work to do than resources to assign to those tasks

This is very important yet rarely talked about. Having worked in a well-run group on a very successful product I could see that no matter how many people would be on a project there was alway too much work. And always too many projects. I am no longer with the company but I can see some of the ideas talked about back then being launched now, many years later. For a complex product there is always more to do and AI would simply accelerate development.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-09 09:03:05+00:00
Because customers tend to want to map why the Ferrari they asked for is a Fiat with bandages, given the fixed price budget, and thus want to map each requirement to the work time spent on it, and expensed budget.

Then comes all the argumentation why all those hours were required for each item, due to project delivery challenges on either sides, decisions that would require even more work, needless efforts spent in stuff we shouldn't have done as part of fixed price, and so forth.
by traceroute66 | 2025-12-09 09:03:50+00:00
Because ...

- Its one package - All the non-tech users already know Microsoft - Most IT techies will be VERY familiar with Microsoft - If you are migrating from on-Prem then it is highly likely you've got Exchange on-prem.

Add on top of that, you can (depending on package) get Active Directory ("Entra") and MDM ("Intune"). So you get credential management and the ability to push out Group Policies to your user's machines.

Look, I'm the last person to defend Microsoft. But if you are a Microsoft shop then it does, sadly, make a lot of sense to take a Microsoft sub.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-09 09:04:04+00:00
> These kind of tasks ought to be have been automated a long time ago.

People have been trying for literally decades. The problem is that there is just enough uniqueness to every CRUD app that you can't really have "the CRUD app".

I guess it's the sweet spot for AI at the moment because they're 95% all the same but with some fairly simple unique aspects.
by 47282847 | 2025-12-09 09:04:33+00:00
Agreed.

To illustrate, say you live inside a fenced-off city. You say you don’t discriminate, anyone is welcome to come and talk to and trade with you. Somebody points out that there are people outside the city, behind the fence, that aren’t able to come talk to you. You are free to act or not act on that, but speaking out against the one that merely points it out and tries to change it means you take an active position to support the current discriminatory situation, rather than a passive, opportunistic one that supports whatever the political situation happens to be.

All positions are valid positions to take. They do however reflect an active choice and an active act. All of them are political. All of them come from a position of privilege, being inside the city, not outside.
by slyfox125 | 2025-12-09 09:05:01+00:00
You believe it is irrelevant - I believe it is relevant. I argue matter itself has more basis in reality in that it cannot be as easily explained away as time. In the context you're speaking in, there is much more evidence and logic to support the existence of matter. My point is that time as we believe it exists, is a construct that has meaning to us because of its benefit to our survival, rather than it being an objective reality.
by Subtextofficial | 2025-12-09 09:05:01+00:00
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by pondix | 2025-12-09 09:05:07+00:00
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by nephihaha | 2025-12-09 09:05:28+00:00
They stole literature and architecture from the Greeks, chariot building techniques from the Gauls, their identity from the Etruscans and Latins, and probably more than they would ever admit to from the Carthaginians.

When I was growing up we were taught the Romans' own imperial myth that they had built upon nothing. The Monty Python film even promotes that as a joke. There are cities in the Holy Land like Jericho which were inhabited before Rome was even founded.

p.s. Do I get downvotes for pointing out archaeological and historical fact here? When I said "merely improved roads", I was talking about their road network not their entire civilisation.
by rbanffy | 2025-12-09 09:06:06+00:00
True, but you could make a warehouse of sysplexes work together using the same mechanisms we use for warehouses of generic servers, but, if each system takes four racks, and one sysplex takes 128 racks, it’ll be thousands of times fewer systems to be coordinated.

All that would remain is an eye-watering hardware and licensing bill.
by eesmith | 2025-12-09 09:07:53+00:00
Named after, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia#Taxonomy

> The first to be scientifically described, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) about 1696–1697 by the French Minim friar and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_triphylla .
by Sabr0 | 2025-12-09 09:08:30+00:00
I kept seeing the same question everywhere: “Which AI tool actually creates a good logo for a startup?” So I tested the 5 most popular ones, same brief, same brand, same constraints.

And here’s what I realized very quickly:

Most tools generate nice-looking logos, but almost none create a coherent brand identity.

You often get a logo… but no story, no colors that match, no typography choices, no brand consistency.

And founders end up stitching everything themselves, wasting more time than expected.

This pain point is what pushed me to build Brandolia. A tool that doesn’t just create a logo, but a full identity system: colors, fonts, messaging, brand book, website draft, etc.

If you're building a startup, bootstrapping a project, or launching a Shopify store, I’d love to know:

What do YOU use right now for branding? And what’s the biggest pain point you’ve had with AI logo tools so far?
by tuyiown | 2025-12-09 09:09:13+00:00
> flows in one direction

_Everything_ flows in one direction, all particles goes in a straight line from their self reference, fields "modifying direction" is just an observer point of view. The separation of time and space is purely a perception matter.

A gross comparison would be to compare with objects perception, it only exists because our mind can leverage it for a strong evolutional advantage (I'm not only speaking of humans here).
by IshKebab | 2025-12-09 09:10:04+00:00
Yeah but on the other hand there are plenty of human programmers that are bad at understanding complexity, make dumb mistakes, and write terrible code. Is there something fundamentally different about their brains to mine? I don't think so. They just aren't as good - not enough experience, or not enough neurons in the right places or whatever it is that makes some humans better at things than others.

So maybe there isn't any fundamental change needed to LLMs to take it from junior to senior dev.

> They still "fix" things by removing functionality or adding a ts-ignore comment.

I've worked with many many people who "fix" things like that. Hell just this week, one of my colleagues "fixed" a failing test by adding delays.

I still think current AI is pretty crap at programming anything non-trivial, but I don't think it necessarily requires fundamental changes to improve.
by businessmate | 2025-12-09 09:10:17+00:00
Institutions rarely fall because a threat is invisible. They fall because the threat is visible, structurally important, and institutionally inconvenient. Early Palantir showed this clearly. Agencies had the data, but their reasoning environment was fractured. They denied the weakness because acknowledging it meant dismantling entire categories of tools, roles and workflows. Only after failures became public did anyone accept that the governance layer had already been outpaced by the reasoning layer.
by dmos62 | 2025-12-09 09:10:28+00:00
I don't think it's a stretch. I've numerous close friends that work with it daily and I've helped troubleshoot some of the issues. After Effects is quite hated among them, but has to be used, because there aren't viable alternatives. Illustrator crashes randomly. Photoshop has multi-decade bugs in color handling. But, the fact that their resource use baloons yearly and thus forces the industry to waste on constant hardware upgrades would be enough to discredit Adobe software, imo.
by habinero | 2025-12-09 09:10:38+00:00
It isn't clear because they do none of that lol. They don't think.

It can kinda sorta look like thinking if you don't have a critical eye, but it really doesn't take much to break the illusion.

I really don't get this obsessive need to pretend your tools are alive. Y'all know when you watch YouTube that it's a trick and the tiny people on your screen don't live in your computer, right?
Show HN: I built a website that runs itself. Roast my AI-generated content
by since | 2025-12-09 09:12:46+00:00
Hey HN! OP here.

I was too lazy to check 50+ RSS feeds daily, so I built a robot to do it for me.

This is a 100% non-profit, for-fun project (no ads, no tracking, just code). I built it to learn Next.js and LLM automation.

The Request: Roast it hard :)

- Is the AI summarizing things correctly or just hallucinating?

- Is the UI clean or "developer art"?

Original sources are linked in every post. Thanks for checking it out!
by jjav | 2025-12-09 09:12:56+00:00
Cassettes were always a pain, but LPs are an awesome medium even today.

While it's convenient to just listen to anything with a click, the joy of the experience is gone. Purposefully pulling out an LP and setting it on the turntable, sitting on the couch to meaningfully listen while reading the album cover is a much more engaging musical experience.

Yes, I don't have time to do that much anymore either. But when possible, it is much more enjoyable.
by watwut | 2025-12-09 09:13:14+00:00
> AI cars are already much safer drivers than humans.

Nothing like that was shown. We have a bunch of very "motivated reasoning" kind of studies and best you can conclude from them is that "some circumstances where ai cars are safer drivers exist". The common trick is to compare overall human records with ai car record in super tailored circumstances.

They have potential to be safer drivers one day, if they will be produced by companies that are forced to care about safety by regulations.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-09 09:13:45+00:00
I ported Forth to a 1980s sampler, so that you could plug a MIDI cable in and run a special terminal program to write Forth programs on its 6809 processor.

It boots off a floppy disk, so it was really just a case of working out where in the ROM and OS disassembly the entry points were, and making it all fit around the assumptions the ROM makes.

This allowed me to make up a diagnostics disk to check the RAM (a whopping 128kB of sample RAM) and IO are working.

https://gordonjcp.github.io/miragetools/

Now I wouldn't place a bet on it being the nerdiest project on Github, but I suspect it's well up there.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-12-09 09:13:56+00:00
The great thing about games that are 10+ years old is that they're cheap, you can filter out all but the best rated, and the hardware to run them won't require mortgaging your first born.

I'm building a Steam library for my retirement.

I quit gaming when I had kids, and currently play tennis and do inline skating as my regular active hobbies (which, I believe, count as touching grass), with gaming as my injury / infirmity backup.
by kevin061 | 2025-12-09 09:14:03+00:00
While I agree with the overall sentiment, streaming services have also degraded our behaviours by prioritising instant rewards and locking us into a platform you cannot escape easily from, and that once you escape, you lose literally everything, for you never owned those songs. Then you have social media notifications interrupting your songs, no headphone jack, and no physical button feedback when playing music on your smartphone.

I also don't really see the appeal of cassette tapes, personally, and the quality of digital media like CDs and even MP3 files is arguably superior.

I guess a good middle ground is one of those modern audio players that don't have smartphone functionality and take an SD card or so. FiiO I think is quite popular. Might give it a try some day.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-09 09:14:09+00:00
We get told to save energy and "cut Carbon" at every turn. We are ripped off for even trying to heat our homes.

And yet the ruling class, at the same time, is building stuff like this which gobbles up electricity. These data centres remind me of the massive computers of decades past.

There is a massive contradiction here. Either we cut energy usage and use a hybridised system where many records etc are kept physically... Or we embrace this Fourth Industrial Revolution rhetoric and use as much electricity as we can.
by kurisufag | 2025-12-09 09:14:39+00:00
it's a link. if your browser doesn't have some visual cue that a load is occuring (for me it's a favicon indicator and a visual loading bar) you're having a client issue.

>How does this make the accessibility problem any better?

it's not a UX decision to load slowly on poor uplinks (fwiw it's near-instant on my machine). obviously nobody would /choose/ to do that.

toasts, though, are a definitely conscious UX choice.
by davnicwil | 2025-12-09 09:15:02+00:00
I think my about page [0] might do a decent job providing more context and trying to answer that question.

I guess in the end it's my take on a system that I want to use for regular meeting notes with others and that I've never been able to find in any other tool, so I built it.

[0] https://withdocket.com/about
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-09 09:15:37+00:00
> The optimality results are drawn from modeling assumptions that happen to be fairly general, not from any specific political views

The idea that someone rich would “work less and thus produce less value to the society if their marginal tax rate was non-zero” isn't “fairly general” it's straight Randian and it's not how the world works. Same for the idea that individual income reflect the value they create to society.

The idea that you ought not to tax capital is also politically motivated.

Anything can be said to be “optimal” if you pick the hypothesis accordingly, and that's exactly what's being done here… It may work on paper for a world populated by a spherical John Galt in vacuum, but it tells you nothing about the real world.
by kakacik | 2025-12-09 09:15:55+00:00
Who does typical code sweat shops churning out one smallish app at a time and quickly moving on? Certainly not your typical company-hired permanent dev, they (us) drown in tons of complex legacy code that keeps working for past 10-20 years and company sees no reason to throw it away.

Those folks that do churn out such apps, for them its great & horrible long term. For folks like me development is maybe 10% of my work, and by far the best part - creative, problem-solving, stimulating, actually learning myself. Why would I want to mildly optimize that 10% and loose all the good stuff, while speed wouldn't visibly even improve?

To really improve speed in bigger orgs, the change would have to happen in processes, office politics, management priorities and so on. No help of llms there, if anything trend-chasing managers just introduce more chaos with negative consequences.
Show HN: A deterministic code-rewrite engine that learns from one example
by hypmachine | 2025-12-09 09:16:00+00:00
I built a tool that learns structural code transformations from a single before/after example.

It isn’t a transformer or LLM — it doesn’t generate code. It extracts the structural pattern between two snippets and compiles a deterministic rewrite rule. Same input → same output, every time.

Examples: • console.log(x) → logger.info(x) generalises to console.log(anything) • require(“x”) → import x from “x” • ReactDOM.render → createRoot • custom project conventions

The rules apply across an entire codebase or through an MCP plugin inside Claude Code, Cursor, or plain CLI.

It runs entirely on CPU and learns rules in real time.

Tool: https://hyperrecode.com

I’d really appreciate feedback on the approach, design, or failure cases.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-09 09:16:36+00:00
> The most striking argument against this line of reasoning is that there is no possibility for you not to act politically. By ignoring the issue of systemic discrimination (“don’t care don’t personally discriminate”)

This is not a very good argument, it would make the words "political" and "systemic" simply meaningless. First of all, it's implicitly assuming that the only way of effectively addressing the issue of systemic discrimination against X is to actively care about whether X is involved in the stuff we personally use. But "personal" and "systemic" issues and approaches are mutually contrary; that's what "systemic" means. Also if every social action is "political" by definition, what's even the point of resorting to the word "political" to begin with? It's not saying anything of relevance.
by My_Name | 2025-12-09 09:17:53+00:00
They nearly have it in the article but don't take the next step, which is to realise that time is gravity. We are falling towards the future at the speed of causality. You can slow your experience of that by travelling really fast, or by being near something with a large gravity. Quantum particles can simply ignore gravity and time while we are forced to feel their effects due to our size, like a mote of dust can ignore gravity, but a brick can't.
by ajb | 2025-12-09 09:18:08+00:00
Interesting, but "FunctionTrace is opensourced under the Prosperity Public License 3.0 license."

"This license allows you to use and share this software for noncommercial purposes for free and to try this software for commercial purposes for thirty days."

This is not an open source license. "Open Source" is a trademarked term meaning without restrictions of this kind; it is not a generic term meaning "source accessible".

You can also just use perf, but it does require an extra package from the python build (which uv frustratingly doesn't supply)