skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today, I wrote a full YouTube subtitle downloader in Dart. 52 minutes from starting to google anything about it, to full implementation and tests, custom formatting any of the 5 obscure formats it could be in to my exact whims. Full coverage of any validation errors via mock network responses.

I then wrote a web AudioWorklet for playing PCM in 3 minutes, which complied to the same interface as my Mac/iOS/Android versions, ex. Setting sample rate, feedback callback, etc. I have no idea what an AudioWorklet is.

Two days ago, I stubbed out my implementation of OpenAI's web socket based realtime API, 1400 LOC over 2 days, mostly by hand while grokking and testing the API. In 32 minutes, I had a brand spanking new batch of code, clean, event-based architecture, 86% test coverage. 1.8 KLOC with tests.

In all of these cases, most I needed to do was drop in code files and say, nope wrong a couple times to sonnet, and say "why are you violating my service contract and only providing an example solution" to o1.

Not llama 3.1 405B specifically, I haven't gone to the trouble of running it, but things turned some sort of significant corner over the last 3 months, between o1 and Sonnet 3.5. Mistakes are rare. Believable 405B is on that scale, IIRC it went punch for punch with the original 3.5 Sonnet.

But I find it hard to believe a Google L3, and third of L4s, (read: new hires, or survived 3 years) are that productive and sending code out for review at a 1/5th of that volume, much less on demand.

So insane-sounding? Yes.

Out there? Probably, I work for myself now. I don't have to have a complex negotiation with my boss on what I can use and how. And I only saw this starting ~2 weeks ago, with full o1 release.

Wrong?
Shill?
Dilletante?

No.

I'm still digesting it myself. But it's real.
It got restored at about 5:30pm PST on Friday evening: https://x.com/wp_acf/status/1867761686389604368

Mullenweg posted a whiny tweet about it: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1867759730992586756
Vegetable Recall Update as FDA Issues Most Serious Concern Level
It's possible these days to run an entirely open source geocoding stack of your own. Here's one of the better options for that: https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim

I wouldn't recommend it though: it needs a beefy machine and applying updates on an ongoing basis is fiddly. Better to use a commercial option and have that as an escape hatch.
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-http

WebAssembly (wasm) already runs in the browser, but now also it is being used to create cross-architecture executables and modules that might (so they say) replace k8s.
I’m shocked that people here downvote someone asking for data
Your case is relatively unusual and unlike general conversations, since you have:

- a topic that everybody knows will be the focus, and
- an audience that actively values your conversation.

Outside your core discussion time is when you'll see general discussion tropes. If people are (generally) neither leaving nor arriving, in my experience we see transient circles of 6-8 that split (if more than 8 people, or if multiple topics persist) and merge (if fewer than 6 people). The article's limit of 4 doesn't apply if movement between different groups is considered a feature rather than a bug.
Costco carries the New Zealand butter that's almost indistinguishable from Kerrygold. There are inevitably some flavor differences, but not when cooked and imo not in terms of quality.
If nothing else, after stability is reached on a retirement income, you may find that is the time you have the opportunity for action on projects and ventures under the most favorable terms of your life.

So many things that really do make money but were not worthwhile on shitty terms can come into reach, plus anyone involved can have no doubt that you're intending to make something happen sooner rather than later. Whether it's building a desirable acquisition target, or laying the valuable foundation for a growing institution.
Show HN: What I Learned Building a SaaS Product as a Student Entrepreneur
Hello HN,

I’m Kaizar, a university student and founder of Growflyer, an all-in-one platform for website analytics, marketing, and user engagement. I built this tool while juggling classes, assignments, and sleepless nights—trying to solve the pain points I experienced with other tools during my earlier projects.

Here’s what I’ve learned along the way:

Build Fast, Fix Later: When you're a student founder, time is your biggest constraint. I had to prioritize getting a minimum viable product out and refine it based on user feedback. Not everything was smooth (like session replay bugs that still haunt me), but shipping something is better than chasing perfection.

Ask for Help, Early and Often: Whether it’s asking users what they really need or leaning on mentors, feedback has been my best teacher.

Juggling Isn’t Easy: Balancing school and building a startup feels impossible some days. The key for me has been finding small, focused blocks of time to work on one clear goal (even if it’s just fixing one bug).

Start Small, Dream Big: Growflyer isn’t competing with giants like Google Analytics — yet. But every new user who says, “This solved my problem,” reminds me why I started this journey.

I’d love to hear from you:

If you’ve ever built something while studying or working a full-time job, how did you make it work?

What advice would you give to someone trying to turn a side project into a real business?

If you’ve used Growflyer (or even if you haven’t), what would you want from a tool like this?

You can check out Growflyer or dive into the details below. I’m here to answer any questions — about the tech stack or what’s next.

Thanks for reading!
> I know this is meant to be tounge-in-cheek and not serious

I honestly can't tell if it is, or if it is satire, what it thinks the object of ridicule is.
Counterpoint may leave too much implied with only two voices; with four or more voices one must increasingly break or relax various rules that promote voice independence, e.g. the use of parallel motion where additional voices simply double some other line (they can't all be independent, there's too bleeding many of them!), or to drop voices for a thinner texture, for example where there are five instruments but only three or four of them are sounding together most of the time. That's a long way to say that around three to four voices is ideal if you want independent lines (except they're not really independent, like two people shouting past one another; there's a weird mix of both working together while each yet manages to stand out in good counterpoint) though even better than this claim would be to compare, say, Bach's two-part inventions to works that have more voices.

For those who do not know counterpoint, you have only three motions a voice (a horizontal line of music, traditionally sung) can make relative to another voice (move closer, apart, or to hold steady) combined with limited voice ranges (say, a doubling of frequency, or so) and limited interval choices (seven, or so) within an octave or frequency doubling, and the voices are very close to one another but only rarely cross one another, on top of all that various rules systems that forbid or frown on such things as the tritone, parallel fifths, and so on into the weeds such that with more than a few voices you quickly run out of valid options for all the voices to move independently.
You first paragraph raises some interesting points. It makes wonder if NYC police and fire is larger than that of some smaller countries in Europe, like Belgium or Netherlands. My guess: Yes!
Year 8 is 12-13 years old
For anyone wanting to look at traffic cameras across the US states, almost all are now available in a readily consumable GeoJSON format (with webcam URLs as properties) at [1]. There are two "Intelligent Transport Systems" software providers with 50%+ of US market share and the remainder of states generally use a custom developed website.

[1] Type "transport" and "traffic" as search terms at https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/spiders
I am not American, I am Australian and have never been to America, nor do I like the country; so much for "uniquely".

On what basis do you call yourself a communist when you explicitly advocate "trust" in a bourgeois government on the topic of state killings of homeless & disabled people? Shouldn't that be one of the last topics you would ever trust them on, given their clear class interest in killing members of the proletariat who are unable to continue labouring for profit? It seems fine to trust them not to lie about easily verifiable facts that don't threaten them, like weather warnings, but you should trust them about literally everything else before trusting them to "fairly" and "consensually" carry out killings of proletarians.
> You need Python 3.10 to create a Python 3.10 venv.

Yes, but this doesn't need to cause a problem for those of us using bare-bones tooling. Speaking for myself, I just... run venv with that version of Python. Because I have a global installation of everything from 3.5 to 3.13 inclusive, plus 2.7 (just so I can verify what I post online about how things used to work in 2.x). And I never install anything to my base Python versions, because my system Python is Apt's territory and the ones I built from source are only and specifically there to make venvs with.

Compiling Python from source on Linux is about as straightforward as compiling from source ever gets, honestly. (The Python dev guide has some useful tips - https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/setup-building/i... .)
Funny enough studies link night owls with having less self control
There's a lot of inertia and social pressure in both phone use and language choice.
“Wherever they use AI as a tool they will, in the end, do the same with human beings.”
If you're paid 50k, you're paid 50k - the feds don't care what you do with it (well, they do, but you know what I mean). You most likely qualify for significant ACA subsidies at that income level though, probably ~>50% depending on the plan; if you want to go this route the annual enrollment window is currently open and you have until January 15 to sign up.

Since it sounds like the income isn't actually doing you any good, you could potentially just reduce it (to ~<35k) and qualify for Apple Health. It would be basically free but might be accepted by fewer doctors. There's no enrollment window limitation for Apple Health so you can do this at any time.

(Not a lawyer or accountant.)

Oh also someone mentioned tomorrow being a deadline for ACA - that's only for coverage beginning January. You have one extra month and coverage will just start in February instead.
Yep! And it's absolutely amazing! The distant brethren of Navajo basically destroyed the Han Empire 2000 years ago.
Both? Both is good.
> Uses a lot more words than the substance it has.

Not sure that's enough to start the witch-hunt: It was common long before LLMs came around. :p

> Mentions the boy, the Socrates effect etc repeatedly but does explain what that means until very late in the post.

When I highlight some words and zoom out, it's explained within two paragraphs of being introduced, and only because the intervening one is describing the other half of the comparison.
> strictly more powerful

Are they not both turing-complete?
My understanding is that space is so big and empty that the odds of you actually hitting anything is quite small.
It will not help you because bathroom fans may have different ways to disassemble them, car belts may have different bolts position etc. You either can work with electricity wires or not, no third option, and the difference is mostly comes from having read or not having read the book (every country has a different one). For me the list is so boring that it requires me to have a device yelling some podcasts while I am solving such a mind-numbing issues.
This is an out of date news article about the carrots (which they note - were labelled best before Nov 2nd), but isn't anywhere near the recent US recalled vegetable list (back to start of November):

enoki mushrooms https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety... https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...

cucumbers https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety... https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...

mustard greens https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...

green onions https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...

carrots https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety... https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...
I was a helpdesk dude, worked as domain admin for a handful of companies and have worked from my homedesk.
I gave it up, settled for lesser wage to break out that boring chore every day.
Now i am a service technician for copy machines again. That job i did 20 years ago and re-entered that business.
For me its more interesting to deal with people face to face and to leave the house.
Gone are the days i had to stay on helpdesk phone until evening, even when nothing was to be done.
Sure, the machines are heavy, i have bring them to the customers but its a free workout.
This job demanding that i plan my working day on my own, collect parts, read manuals to solve problems and using my experience of the old days, which surprisingly works.
In between i have coffee breaks, talk to customers and also sell new machines by just advocating them. The service dude sells more than the sales agent.
Sure, its stress sometimes, up to 6 service calls i got every day, including driving to customers, traffic jam etc.
But, now, for the sake of the OPs questions, i am happy with what i am doing.
In my early 50ies, i plan to retire with 60 years. That long i think i can do that job.
My company can offer me a part time job for delivering toner and ink cartridges, a part time job when i am officially retired.
Its germany here, my pension funds will be payed when i reach 67 years old, but i am free to quit full-time every moment, but pension will be deducted so that part time job will compensate it.
No, it also offers web access
Cool, I get that from your perspective, you're simply keeping an open mind, too. Just in a different way, right?

I wonder tho - is there nothing that could be said to budge your view?

In case there is, for a start, can I refer you to Karl Nell's excellent overview of the 1st principles argument for the existence of NHI?

--

Also, on to the drone flap specifically: I checked that link and...ugh...the federal (Kirby) and much other official response to the drone flap has been an as yet unmitigated shambles, and deferring to that weakens any points you make. If you search for it, you'll see that there's reports that FBI and WH are internally in melt down over this issue. It's clear from their public statements they're gaslighting the public, which is terrible, and it's obvious they have failed to respond credibly at all.

For instance: so "no evidence" of a threat is now the minimum safe distance? Seems an irresponsible standard to have given "suspicion" of a threat is reasonable grounds if you care about security.

Also, they've frequently said they're not a threat and there's no security issue, but how can they know that while simultaneously admitting they have no idea what they are,
and can't trace their origin?

Unknown craft, with anomalous characteristics (long loiter, no FLIR signature), just chilling out above military bases and people's homes? Nothing to see? Zero threats given? Is it: they don't believe it's a threat, or they say that because they don't have a counter?

And would they mind to deign and inform us on what basis they make their assessment that these unknowns are no threat? This phony, deceptive response is the total opposite of how the military would react to an unknown incursion normally.

Absolute shambles. People are not happy with the response, and no longer accepting the untrustworthy dismissals that this unpermitted, uncontrolled, un-countered incursion is a nothing burger that poses zero threat and requires no response. Maybe you're different, but you should be disgusted with this deeply flawed response. It's certainly not metrological, and even if it's human the official line is still abominable.

But all that said, what's your Occam's limit point for this event, if you're thinking about it?
Having spent a fair amount of time over the past few years as someone working on top of both Nvidia and AMD toolchains (and having spent decades working up and down the stack from mcus, mobile device, to webscale stacks), I have an alternative take.

I'm smart and experienced enough, and the people working on the toolchains are capable and even smarter, but these systems are just extremely hard/complex. The hardware is buggy, the firmware is buggy, the drivers are buggy, every layer above it (compilers, kernels, multiple layers of frameworks) also all buggy. Add on top of that everyone is implementing as fast as they can, every part is changing constantly, and also a good chunk of the code being used is being written by researchers and grad students. Oh, and the hardware changes dramatically every couple years. Sure all tech is swiss cheese, but this is a particularly unstable/treacherous version of that atm.

BTW, shareholders obviously have no idea whether what's being sold works well or not, but there's no financial incentive (in terms of selling stuff/profiting) if your product doesn't even work/work well enough to compete. And if it were so easy, you would see any number of hardware startups take over from the incumbents. Sure there are network effects, but if I could run PyTorch (or really, just train and inference my models easily) faster and cheaper, me, and I assume lots of other people would switch in a heartbeat. The fact that no one (besides Google arguably if you count having to switch all your implementations over for TPUs) has been able to do it, whether they be startups or multi-billion dollar companies (including Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, all who have direct financial incentive to and have been trying), points to the problem being elsewhere.
This conversation is fundamentally about class, not technology. AI is not being used to replace upper management and other upper class positions. It's being used to replace assistants, customer service, interns, paralegals, junior developers and so on -- jobs traditionally taken by lower and middle class workers often entering a field or holding a wage to support their families while being present. AI is a tool developed to eliminate jobs by the class subsidized by tax cuts to do the opposite. Now that we live in a time where those mistreated by corporate policy gun down executives in the street, hopefully the repercussions of saving a buck at the expense of others livelihoods will at least cross the minds of the executive class. If we stay civil and this shift doesn't happen, the elimination of entry level positions will lead to a lack in depth of knowledge that will cause a reduction of quality in goods and services that will result in lower returns and a reduction of GDP. Pretty sure that #1 book is not going to say anything other than AI will make you more money. We need a better measure "good" than a number of dollars.
It's not n of 8. The article doesn't mention cohort size (year 8 is what 7th grade is called in the UK)

Found another source that said n was 26
Why is that in quote marks? I couldn't find any matches in TFA nor elsewhere.

And as to the sentence itself, I'm unclear on what exactly it's saying; people have been using other people at tools from before recorded history. Leaving aside slavery, what is it that you would say that HR departments and capitalism in general do?
How do you explain "w" and "wq" to save and quit the editor with "verb adjective object" model?

These two and "i" is all I remember about vi. Or is vi a different thing from vim and this model doesn't apply?
If you look at particle accelerators, the anti-matter storage is still very much experimental with anti-hydrogen storage holding it for less than 20s at most. We can trap individual particles (e.g. protons) for a long time but things get exponentially more complicated as you increase the size of the system.

Hell, we can't even store hydrogen without leakage issues and with anti-hydrogen any leakage is very bad.
I've linked to a few in a recent post[1], they're in the $150-ish range including storage and RAM.

I have several Pis doing various work, some 3Bs, some Zero Ws, some 4B.

The 5 just does not make sense to me and I don't see myself buying it unless the price radically changes.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42365555
> You have a conjecture, you test it, and then you say "looks like reality didn't match our conjecture, the conjecture must be wrong."

The time is also the part of the conjecture.
The editor is frustrating and a lack of page templates.
ITLL(in three lines or less): Airplanes are required to broadcast license plate numbers. You can request a temp tag for privacy. Offer only valid for US destinations.
I dislike Wordpress, try to avoid it at all costs.
I think you'd have a hard time on any console before the SNES. No matter what you do an Atari VCS is not running Doom.
Most software is not one off little utilities/scripts, greenfield small projects, etc... That's where LLMs excel, when you don't have much context and can regurgitate solutions.

It's less to do with junior/senior/etc.. and more to do with the types of problems you are tackling.
Not only that, it was a commercial product:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing
Yes, deliberately introducing vulnerabilities when generating code is a good one, and could be quite subtle. For running console commands though, anything touching configuration for ssh, gpg, bash aliases, ~/bin, cron, etc., should be immediately obvious.

I was thinking "here's an IP address and ssh key" would be what to phone home with, and that could be encrypted/hidden pretty well, but any network access should be pretty suspicious right away.
You seem to know a lot about it, but you're really just reinforcing the point.
>Acting like a computer means producing a graphical interface. In place of the charmingly teletype linear stream of text provided by ChatGPT, a model-as-computer system will generate something which resembles the interface of a modern application: buttons, sliders, tabs, images, plots, and all the rest. This addresses key limitations of the standard model-as-person chat interface:

Oh boy I can't wait for GPT Electron, so I can wait 60 seconds for the reply to come back and then another 60 seconds for it to render a sad face because I hit some guard rail.
> I have never heard anyone talk about "stability" or "control" when talking about racing technology.

See this article in Road and Track about modern racing stability control.[1]

It goes back further than that. Suspensions were terrible going into the 1950s. During the 1950s, the proper relationship between springs, shocks, and linkages started to be figured out.
Look at 1950s movie car chases. Cars are wallowing all over the road.

[1] https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a44007466/modern-tr...
I've only tried Kerrygold (which is Irish butter specifically) and the white label ALDI Irish Butter which is by all account I've read online...also Kerrygold.

I've never heard of "Normandy AOP butter", you'll have to enlighten me on that one.
Which just shows that communicating through sarcasm brings more harm than benefit.

I know, I'm guilty. Currently on "sarcasm rehab" for the sake of people around me and myself.