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> 99% of the code in this PR [for llama.cpp] is written by DeekSeek-R1

It's definitely possible for AI to do a large fraction of your coding, and for it to contribute significantly to "improving itself". As an example, aider currently writes about 70% of the new code in each of its releases.

I automatically track and share this stat as graph [0] with aider's release notes.

Before Sonnet, most releases were less than 20% AI generated code. With Sonnet, that jumped to >50%. For the last few months, about 70% of the new code in each release is written by aider. The record is 82%.

Folks often ask which models I use to code aider, so I automatically publish those stats too [1]. I've been shifting more and more of my coding from Sonnet to DeepSeek V3 in recent weeks. I've been experimenting with R1, but the recent API outages have made that difficult.

[0] https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/faq.html#what-llms-do-you-use-to-bui...
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Its the famous law for involuntary mental lockup in California, then referenced a lot in pop culture, probably most notably with a Van Halen album named after it. Its used in a lot of jokes, but also oppressively. I think we've seen some divorce court releases and such on how to "5150 my wife," how cops abuse it, etc.
You won't be happy doing a robot's job either, at least not for long.

In the ideal case, we won't be dependent on the unwilling labor of other humans at all. Would you do your current job for free? If not -- if you'd rather do something else with your productive life -- then it seems irrational to defend the status quo.

One thing's for certain: ancient Marxist tropes about labor and capital don't bring any value to the table. Abandon that thinking sooner rather than later; it won't help you navigate what's coming.
I don't think it's necessarily any larger of a leap than any of the other big breakthroughs in the space. Does writing safe C++ with an LLM matter more than choosing Rust? Does writing a jQuery-style gMail with an LLM matter more than choosing a declarative UI tool? Does adding an LLM to Java 6 matter more than letting the devs switch to Kotlin?

Individual developer productivity will be expected to rise. Timelines will shorten. I don't think we've reached Peak Software where the limiting factor on software being written is demand for software, I think the bottlenecks are expense and time. AI tools can decrease both of those, which _should_ increase demand. You might be expected to spend a month outputting a project that would previously have taken four people that month, but I think we'll have more than enough demand increase to cover the difference. How many business models in the last twenty years that weren't viable would've been if the engineering department could have floated the company to series B with only a half dozen employees?

What IS larger than before, IMO, is the talent gap we're creating at the top of the industry funnel. Fewer juniors are getting hired than ever before, so as seniors leave the industry due to standard attrition reasons, there are going to be fewer candidates to replace them. If you're currently a software engineer with 10+ YoE, I don't think there's much to worry about - in fact, I'd be surprised if "was a successful Software Engineer before the AI revolution" doesn't become a key resume bullet point in the next several years. I also think that if you're in a position of leadership and have the creativity and leadership to make it work, juniors and mid-level engineers are going to be incredibly cost effective because most middle managers won't have those things. And companies will absolutely succeed or fail on that in the coming years.
LLMs are great at converting code, I've taken functions whole cloth and converted them before and been really impressed
I'd be worried that LLMs are incredibly gullible.

A phisher may insert text for an LLM with a disclaimer that's only an educational example of what not to do, or that they're the PayPal CEO authorizing this page.
We used maxima extensively in high school. I remember that I forgot to bring my laptop when we had our first maxima lesson. My teachers understandably scolded me for not bringing my laptop to school, but to their surprise I found an online version of maxima. [1] While it was good enough for this period, in contrast to this implementation it was truly awful.

I just think it's kinda sad that a lot of people never heard of maxima, as it is a pretty decent tool once you learn how to use it.

[1] http://www.dma.ufv.br/maxima/index.php
I believe the main issue in regard to LLMs is that there is a real chance of the prevalence and ease of use of LLMs to erode critical thinking skills. Regardless of boilerplate warnings to "check the validity of answers" coming from the LLM, plenty of people in society outside of this tech savvy audience wouldn't even know where to begin. There was a recent Big Think article on this: https://bigthink.com/thinking/artificial-intelligence-critic....

To be fair, I do think there are plenty of uses for LLMs, but with adoption skyrocketing there really are no guardrails against misuse.
The discussion was about leaving unattended valuable objects in public places. Sure, a theft can happen even if attended, or using violence, but I personally avoid increasing the chance of having something stolen by leaving it unattended.

If I would make a statistics of primary cause of remaining without a laptop among people I know, the biggest danger is liquids in glasses (that ends up on the laptops) ...
> While I also don't like Go's error handling approach I thought Go compiler gives an error if a variable is unused, in this case `err`. Is this not the case?

This isn't foolproof. If you're calling multiple methods and reusing `err` it won't give an error because it's technically not unused.
According to google search ~1/3rd of all hits for "Jevons paradox" appeared since January 25 2025

It's the fancy big word of the day if you want to appear smart on social media.
> HD 20794, a star with a slightly lower mass than the Sun and located just 20 light-years away

I'd prefer to hear about interstallar travel news rather than DeepSeek ones :-) The pale-blue-dot is really generating anxiety :-/
I pray we get star treck replicators.
I think quality is going to go up - I have so much code I wish I could go back and optimize for better performance, or add more comprehensive tests for, and LLMs are getting great at both of those as they work really well off of things that already exist. There has never been enough time/resources to apply towards even the current software demand, let alone future needs.
My hopes aren't high at this point. Trump and the GOP are hellbent on implementing all of the P2025 agenda - many of the flurry of Eos this week were either literally cribbed from the P2025 document or strongly appear to AI-generated adaptations of the same.

Give it 6-12 months and we'll see how the courts react to challenges and if Congress suddenly grows a spine. And if a mid-term swing back to normalcy seems likely.
Luckily, people who run massive international corporations generally don't make decisions "out of spite" or they wouldn't have a massive international corporation in the first place. You play the game you're handed. What you're suggesting is like childishly flipping the table.
The fact that you are equating changing the name of a geological feature to crushing humans beneath bulldozers and hosing them down a storm drain is absurd.
The FCC doesn't revoke ham radio licenses except in egregious circumstances. Most of the time, it's someone who is deliberately interfering with public safety or commercial frequencies, and is told to stop, and doesn't.

Even the douche canoe that intentionally interfered with firefighting efforts recently only got a hefty fine. He still has his license.

Ham radio licenses are granted by the FCC with the understanding that the the license-holders intend to experiment and explore radio technology. And further understanding that while licensees are expected to adhere to all of the rules, mistakes will sometimes be made. Hams are therefore given wide latitude in terms of self-policing and forgiveness for accidentally or unknowingly breaking them from time to time.
a bigger concern to me is if the current regime pulls the rug out from fiscal policy. This will certainly crash the market. They seem to be doing this as we speak.
I didn’t realize it was not required. This is a good change.

I could see this being one of those no-brainer decisions that requires herculean effort to push through all the product politics.

I would love to hear how this change came about and what hurdles needed overcoming from someone in the know.
For those wondering, it is in flight right now
It depends on the threat model. A local police force vacuuming up cell data looking for easy targets and ways to intimidate protestors is different than a targeted investigation by a state actor to identify everyone at all costs.

The Jan 6 insurrection is a good example of how difficult it is in a real world scenario to ID specific people in a large protest, and many of them got caught because they talked about it afterward on Facebook. If you are cell phone 2,347 on a spreadsheet of 33,422 phones and the number has no associated locational data, open source information, etc. you are way safer than bringing your regular phone, while not being an easy target and being able to communicate if you need to.
Trump's Most Lawless Action Yet
Yeah -- I learned to walk on dirty snow where I could when I didn't have snowshoes. The albedo makes the snowpack melt a little more than its surroundings and it makes a nice crust over what could otherwise be quite deep. Stepping onto clean snow and postholeing is quite an experience.

Clean snow is quite nice if you have a long downhill chute though because then you can just plunge step quickly down and let the snow cushion your quite large steps.
You can do this already if you have a Pebble, someone made an app for it.
Do we know how do these distilled versions perform in benchmarks?
I always assumed those classes don't need to make the professors any money, as the professors earn a salary,

and they're more about broadening access and performing the school's charitable goal of educating lots of students,

secure in the knowledge that even a thousand hours of free online Harvard lectures can't replace a Harvard degree, so the tuition money will keep pouring in.
I can qualify this- when we began, we had a tonne of fraud and a lot of students looking to host a VNC to circumvent their school restrictions. Our goal is to be the last cloud a developer has to think about. (More code repo integration vs. give me a machine.) So- when we wrote our fair use policy, we blanket banned VNC use cases.

It genuinely sucks that to stop 90 percent of suspicious use cases, you do get legitimate use in that net. For that I apologize.

Now since Railway has a better handle on fraud, we feel that we can loosen up the restrictions, so if a customer clarifies their use case, we don't mind. With that said, we don't offer raw VMs (yet) so you will find the platform a bit limiting a bit after our complete migration to self-hosted metal.
I'm not sure I see the bear argument for NVidia here. Huge AI models certainly drive NVidia sales, but huge AI models are also widely thought to be untrainable and nearly un-runnable save for large datacenters.

To me, this is ripe for an application of the Jevons paradox. If architectural improvements make similar models cheaper, I would expect to see more of them trained and deployed, not fewer, ultimately increasing the market for GPU-like hardware.
> make the balance between capital and labor even more uneven.

I think it's interesting to note that as opens source models evolve and proliferate, the capital required for a lot of ventures goes down - which levels the playing field.

When I can talk to one agent-with-a-CAD-integration and have it design a gadget for me and ship the design off to a 3D printer and then have another agent write the code to run on the gadget, I'll be able to build entire ventures that would require VC funding and a team now.

When intellectual capital is democratized, financial capital looses just a bit of power...
Ooooo- thanks for sharing. Is this the bot that you are referring to?

https://slack.com/marketplace/A044USEAHRV-unblocked

I will try it out and see how it performs.
plentiful tariffed chips? I feel like the US supply is going to get harder soon if the Taiwan tariffs are real.
The post is much better than the clickbaity title suggests.

Loved the visualisation and the fact that 2902/0229 are noticeably lighter than surroundings.
Looks like some of these changes can be reverted: https://bitwarden.com/blog/bringing-intuitive-workflows-and-...
Go to Settings -> Appearance -> "Show quick copy actions on Vault"
I think what I meant is that out of these three ways to do it, I don't like the second one:

1. The language has the feature of returning multiple values, which is then used in an error handling pattern.

2. The proposal is about special syntax for that pattern

3. Languages that have generics (like Go) can instead implement a Result type, turning this pattern into more readable code without the extra syntax.

I feel like a Result type would have more advantages and be less disruptive than a syntax macro for a pattern, but I'm not sure.
> “people should not be surprised when they are occasionally surprised, and they should anticipate being surprised some more in the future.”

It’s mildly hilarious that you’re deriding Taleb for thinking (and investing) at a level that all of bubble-chasing investment houses are incapable of achieving. He’s made so much money precisely because this thing you’re describing as so stupidly obvious, is actually, not, stupidly obvious to people.
Show HN: Plik – a tiny FUSE filesystem with compression and deduplication
This is my personal research project.

I spent some time developing it, and now I feel it can be interesting/usable for someone else.

Not everything is perfect in there, and it'll be cool, if people from around the world could take a look at it, and share their opinion with me.

I'll also read and respond to the comments here, on HN.
This would have to be installed on-prem by each agency using it to be FEDRAMP compliant (which it would have to be).
Have you looked at some of the alternative firmwares for older Numworks models?
> "Might not get a conviction" is a negligible deterrent against police overreach.

But it isn't just that. It's a possible perjury charge for lying to a judge. It's the strong likelihood of ending the detective's career or at least limiting it significantly. It's the political fallout from articles like this one. It's the potential civil rights lawsuit bankrupting against the department and detective. It's the personal shame and guilt that the detective feels for knowing that it's their corner-cutting that let a murder escape justice. Imagine having to face the victim's family if this guy is acquitted...

These are big deterrents.
It's back up, the only real announcements listed from the new administration are Ferguson as chair and anti-DEI changes (including a 2-1-2 vote to allow it where "Commissioners Rebecca K. Slaughter and Lina M. Khan did not participate.")
It was so frustrating when I was studying mathematics, I feel like just one more dimension would make understanding lots of concepts much easier; for me there is simply not enough points to extrapolate from: 0D is the degenerate case, 1D is trivial, so only two, 2D and 3D, are left to play with. %(
100% this. The idea is ok, the tooling to actually use it is terrible
And they didn't just say that NVidia was overvalued, but that it was overvalued for precisely this reason. I've also read people here and elsewhere warn that export controls could quickly become ineffective as Chinese researchers find clever ways to train models with lower-end hardware. I think if there had been a prediction market, this outcome would have been given a better than 50% probability here, though maybe the speed it happened has surprised people.
Except the ten different articles that have made the frontpage about DeepSeek R1 in the last week. It’s probably almost 20 by now, I’ve lost count. There’s three on the frontpage now (there were five+ yesterday) and they’re full of the exact discussion you’re looking for. It’s by far the most popular topic of conversation on HN right now.

You’re suffering from an acute case of confirmation bias.
In my GenX brain, a Van Halen album* comes to mind.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFxg1nB9yQ8
React DevTools wants clipboard permission
Humans live on a planet called 'Super Earth' in that game
My bank has more than 10k customers, despite four digit PINs.
It's worth noting that 'taking a proposal seriously' doesn't equate to accepting it.
> If the past is any indication, I think we've seen that lowering to barrier to getting software shipped and out the door (whether it's higher level languages, better tooling) has only made demand greater.

Something I think about a lot is the impact of open source on software development.

25 years ago any time you wanted to build anything you pretty much had to solve the same problems as everyone else. When I went to university it even had a name - the software reusability crisis. At the time people thought the solution was OOP!

Open source solved that. For any basic problem you want to solve there are now dozens of well tested free libraries.

That should have eliminated so many programming jobs. It didn't: it made us more productive and meant we could deliver more value, and demand for programmers went up.
It's up to the designer to deal with any physical limitations.

They could have added grid-lines to reveal this information, for example.
My personal problem is that I self host and the updated extension just completely fails to connect to my vaultwarden instance. I probably just need to repull the updated docker container, but it's something I would have rather not thought about. But since the extension auto updated I'm forced to think about it.
it seems like my pin of 1077, the same as a cheese pizza and soda at my old job, is still super secure.
That is not at all close to what the ruling said.

"immunity for official acts within an exclusive presidential authority that Congress cannot regulate"

Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), is a landmark decision[1][2] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court determined that presidential immunity from criminal prosecution presumptively extends to all of a president's "official acts" – with absolute immunity for official acts within an exclusive presidential authority that Congress cannot regulate[1][2] such as the pardon, command of the military, execution of laws, or control of the executive branch.
> literally a single Deepseek release yesterday destroyed large market cap companies

Nobody was “destroyed” - a handful of companies had their stock price drop, a couple had big drops, but most of those stocks are up today, showing that the market is reactionary.
Far better to use a six digit pin, like 0-0-0-0-0-0.
>I don't believe it was a cyber attack; I think it's just usage overload.

Can you explain what information you're basing this on? Is there a particular reason not to believe them?

Typically, from a public relations standpoint, you'd be better off saying "we're super popular and haven't scaled enough yet" over "we got hacked".

But I don't really know much about DeepSeek. Do they have a pattern of lying?
Thank you!! I also hated the new copy icon!!
It's a pity that you didn't have a tab at the bar I bumped into you in in Amsterdam last year, while wearing my PTS, then ;)

I remember you mentioning that there was hope of the firmware being open sourced. Very glad to see that it's happened, and that I might well have a chance to upgrade this 10-year-old but still going strong watch.
And Eddie’s amp model, the Peavey 5150. It’s become the de-facto standard for the more extreme metal bands.

When Eddie took the rights with him to Fender and they made the EVH 5150 (another fantastic amp), Peavey renamed this line to the 6505 series, so there you have another four-digit code to use.
You made me wonder what my smartphone PIN actually is and now I can only access the device with the fingerprint reader. Usually my hands know what PIN to use, but apparently not when the brain gets involved. Guess I have to wait until I forget that I don't know that PIN.
So the system allowed multiple users to chose their own Pin and didn’t ask for a user ID when authenticating? That’s just stupid design.
Strong continents, with tears in their eyes.
> I hope we can put to rest the argument that LLMs are only marginally useful in coding - which are often among the top comments on many threads. I suppose these arguments arise from (a) having used only GH copilot which is the worst tool, or (b) not having spent enough time with the tool/llm, or (c) apprehension. I've given up responding to these.

Look at the code that was changed[0]. It's a single file. From what I can tell, it's almost purely functional with clearly specified inputs and outputs. There's no need to implement half the code, realize the requirements weren't specified properly, and go back and have a conversation with the PM about it. Which is, you know, what developers actually do.

This is the kind of stuff LLMs are great at, but it's not representative of a typical change request by Java Developer #1753 at Fortune 500 Enterprise Company #271.

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/11453/files
USA, and that’s with good insurance and a primary care provider
Yes, citation needed (and also probably unlikely to be forthcoming or validated) but the rest of the comment stands, so let's just ignore this weakest/most-dubious claim.
Not all of them, sure, but there's a lot of money being spent on lottery tickets and scratchers and $700 shoes and other nonsense that doesn't make sense to me. Caleb Hammer on YouTube interviews people with really bad spending habits for his Financial Audit channel and it really seems like, sorry to say, that some of them really are stupid.
DeepSeek published a bunch of benchmarks when they released the models: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1?tab=readme-ov-fil...

I'd like to see detailed benchmarks run by other unaffiliated organizations.
I didn't like it at first, but once I built up the muscle memory I like it a lot more.
Corals Are Made for Walking
I don't know, I just never felt the pressure of time past the age of around 17 so I cannot relate anymore. I started to enjoy live significantly more by not worrying about such things.
The key thing is that it's actually both, and the market is still in waiting to see mode even after a 20% dump. AI end applications are not growing fast enough, and compute costs may be crashing down.
Sometimes, threats are meant to squeeze a little payola out of the targets.

Obviously not the case here. Ahem.
Show HN: "One-Click" Game Server Hosting Integrated with Discord
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UK Government publishes consultation on Copyright and AI
This is some much needed comic relief.

It’s as if buddy just came in the topic and casually dropped a rhetorical puzzle that even AI and the bright minds on HN can’t figure out.

Guess he’s down at the chow truck now.
DeepSeek would need FEDRAMP certification to be deployed in most cases.
Watching it. :-)
There are 0 times I’d want to panic in go code in production services.