skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the answer lies in this tweet I saw here:

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away.

Embrace vibe coding and sell yourself as a Software Maestro of AI
Fyi I tried this on my Galaxy S21 with both Brave and Chrome browsers and just got screeching noises in the audio
Hey Siri, Are You a Zombie?
I imagine they would fine apple a large sum of money. If apple refuse to pay they send high court sheriffs to confiscate any property they have in the UK to pay the debt.
Rust or not, mixing two different languages within a single project is a sure fire way for a maintenance nightmare. Specially for a large project like Linux. I sincerely don’t want something like that happening to the Linux kernel. Just let it die with C. However it may seem improbable, writing a kernel from scratch is the way to go for new wanna be system programming languages.
Minor tweaks in ergonomics, both times.

1) Using a laptop at a desk with no peripherals. Fix was to raise the screen, sit up straight, and get an external keyboard and mouse.

2) Stopped using one of the sleek Apple mice from years ago, the one that looks like a bar of soap. My wrist was in very bad pain, and switching mice fixed it immediately.
I knew someone with a horrible addiction/dependence on ketamine and justified it by always talking about how it cured depression like it was a vitamin.
> The limiting factor for tall buildings is elevators: The taller the building, the greater a percentage of the floor space gets taken up by elevator shaft

That’s only true if you plan for getting about everybody into and out of the building every day, at ground level.

There are some ‘designs’ (rather: rough ideas, typically in science fiction, and often dystopian) that let go of that constraint (think flying cars landing on balconies or enormous buildings where people mostly live and work on a few floors of an enormous building)
IMAK Smart Glove (just to be specific, but there are many products like this) was super helpful for reducing small tissue strain during typing, and a timer on a per hour basis to remind me to literally let my hands fall to my side for 5 minutes and "listen" for the tingling and allow that strain to subside. Small changes but made a huge difference. Ergonomics themselves did not have much impact for me.
I'm seeing a lot of postings for 5+ years of experience, so it doesn't seem that bad. That said I'm not applying unless it's a great fit, so I'm not yet aware of how much competition there is (I've just begun looking the past month or two). It does seem like there are many more applicants than openings, but I would certainly not want to be a junior or mid level right now, especially with how AI is changing things.
The US alone has 3 grids (East, West and Texas). With the same frequency but still not connected.

In Switzerland trains use 16.7Hz but they are connected with large frequency inverters. Before it was with large motors / generators. Now its just static with electronic.
I wonder almost daily why anything at all exists. It’s an absolute mystery.

Why isn’t there just void? So here we are on a tiny planet alone. Alone?

How did we get here? Are we living in a simulation? Maybe we are in Sim Planet game for another entity?

All of our existence is mystery.
Indeed, every area that is underserved by retail can most cheaply be incrementally improved by adding a strip mall, but strip-malls area really shitty local maximum to get stuck in.
Why would they "access [their] data", instead of a report from a foreign intelligence agency?
I have to say, incredibly bold of you to essentially hinge your graduation on whether you can regex hard enough or not.
"It was brought back (to England) as ballast" !!?!

great link
At one site in a jungle, my employer had an electrically driven flywheel built that ran on that country's mains grid, paired with an AC alternator on the flywheel that fed the building. This solved a variety of frequency and voltage problems, including mains outages. If the mains went dark, a diesel generator would kick in to boost the flywheel RPMs on an as-needed basis rather than constantly run.
Fair point. I agree. Now it is better to disable it.

The rationale was to implement a fun operation called transducer composition. It is possible to do simple operation on strings and compose trre's like filters. But I haven't finished it yet. So again, a fair point.
Huh?

Loads of HTML has to do with presentation.

b, colspan, map, etc
I can't stand usa can only achieve the effortless luxury of walkability in the vacation communities for its doctors and lawyers, but cannot make its own city centers adopt the same qualities.
You know the answer, of course with FPTP there's only two parties with a realistic chance. But why do they? Because you keep voting on them. Your votes made e.g. Corbyn lose but Starmer win. What signal does this give off? A very different signal than if both would've lost. Would another Tory government would have been even worse? In the short term, maybe. But this kind of short-termism is what has got Labour (and all of the other similar parties all over Europe) in this exact predicament. Better to make them lose for picking an awful candidate that's a Tory-lite and bite the bullet. It's not like the Tories would have kept winning for decades on end with the way things were going.
When I was learning embedded design, the general rule of thumb was to aim for 10ms polling for user input, because human tolerance for delay is around 100ms so 10ms appears instantaneous. Then I see products like Nest come out, with big endcap displays at home improvement stores, and I'm like how do people not just immediately write this off as janky trash.

Then again maybe the extra lag (and jitter!) is gets a pass because its part of these products positioning themselves in the niche of "ask the controlling overlord if you may do something" rather than "dependable tool that is an extension of your own will".
I heard that Trump is refashioning the CIA to focus on the West, which could be understood as including a focus Canada. I can sort of imagine the turbulence we may start to see in Canada's political realm as a result of such shift of the CIA's priorities and operations to Canada in the service of achieving Trump's goals:

> "His aide said Trump’s CIA will have a greater focus on the western hemisphere, targeting countries not traditionally considered adversaries of the US, according to the Journal."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/cia-reported...
> where housing is much harder to build due to regulation, zoning etc

The central planning must increase to overcome the downsides of central planning.
I updated it to clarify, thank you! Currently the system has no awareness of you unless you grant me explicit permission to inject your handle. There's user specific stuff that will start to understand individuals in the works currently.

You can watch the early crappy version think here:

https://bsky.app/profile/comind.stream
Java (+Kotlin) for Android, Python for its automation and tooling (and obviously, data.) These aren't very low-level - For Android there is always C++ if you want to go down to metal.
Healthy gut bacteria that feed on sugar analysed
It is less and less likely... motor-based clocks are a thing of the past; hand appliances (like mixers and blenders) use either DC or universal motors to allow speed control. Even refrigerators feature "variable speed motors" nowadays, which means they are frequency-independent.

I think fans will likely be the last devices which care about frequency.. but new ones are often 12V/24V-based, with a little step-down modules.
lol I absolutely do not want non digital goods nor pirating. Ever. It's 2025. I don't have a cdplayer, a tape player, a blue ray player, I don't even know what the most modern "blue ray" disc would be. I have $2k worth of vinyls that are just unique copies I display as art I'll never put in my record player, that's also never been used. I don't want to constantly worry about 60gb of mp3 files.

Oh no, that TV show I'll forget about in a year cost me $15/mo instead of $60 of blurays.

I jump in my cars and hit a button and music plays. Almost any music I want. That's amazing.

I'm also not pirating games. I'm not 12 without a job. I have a job. I pay developers for their work. I want more games, like Kingdom Come 3, to come out.

Weird ass comment. You seriously think we're going to put our lives on hold to.. what, fight "digital media"? You think I care about netflix? Or societies use of it? I haven't used netflix in years. I don't know anybody under 40 with a netflix account. Everyone on your end of the pirate spectrum uses debrid nowadays, anyway.

Next you're going to tell people to install the "Black XP Windows" edition to not support Microsoft and they all get malware and their credit cards stolen because they installed some pirated and modified cracked windows. Genius.

MSNBC just cancelled Andrea Mitchells TV show, today, because she brought in no younger audiences. So yes, shows do get cancelled by not being watched.

This comment was upvoted? Hn needs a break. This is some I'm 14 and edgy bullshit that sounds like it belongs on an eastern european piracy forum.
I know people who had horrible addictions to ketamine and adderall (who also had depression and ADHD) who managed to recover from those addictions and years later use them appropriately and in reasonable therapeutic doses on a normal therapeutic schedule for treatment of same.

Anecdotes are not data and abuse potential isn’t really relevant to their clinical utility. Do we need to have a comment about junkies whenever someone mentions that they received fentanyl for a major surgery?
If you believe the site is operated by conspiracy (bots, hidden influencers, Musk (when he's not crushing it at Diablo IV and PoE, presumably)), what sort of evidence could conceivably convince you? You might as well be asking every HN user to show you their phone or computer to make sure they're not a shill. That doesn't seem realistic.
Huh? You completely misunderstood what I meant by that moniker. In no way at all does it absolve them of blame - quite the opposite, it's calling them nearly as bad, so close that the difference doesn't really matter.
I don't know why people think Europe is homogenous. Go to somewhere like Hamburg and you'll see roads wide enough for cars and for buses to run on time along side them.
> Richard Feynman is famous for being an educator

It's amazing how deep the celebrity worship goes. No he's famous for being a mathematical physicist (his Nobel is in physics not education). He was actually a very mediocre educator - you can read his own assessments of his success/failure in teaching the "famous" intro courses.

Or you can ask literally any physics major that's actually had to use those books (they are horrible for actually learning from).
Aren't other optimizing techniques are out of scope? Why would author implement frustum culling in a tech demo for dynamic LODs?
Using culture wars to attack foreign aid is a decades-old strategy of the GOP.

Entirely eliminating foreign aid would not meaningfully reduce the scope & power of the federal government in the U.S. (although obviously it harms our soft power abroad and there are millions of people who will be directly and indirectly impacted).
Maybe I can do one better...

For the 'create_chat_completion' on this line: https://github.com/simonw/llm-smollm2/blob/afed0963b3a8bcca1...

I changed it to:

completion = model.create_chat_completion(
messages=messages,
temperature=0.2,
top_p=0.9,
presence_penalty=0.06,
frequency_penalty=0.5,
repeat_penalty=1.0,
)

I took as many parameters as I could from their documentation: https://github.com/huggingface/smollm/tree/main/text#transfo...

And then added some to reduce repeating. I then used the prompt "Write a 10 line poem on computers." (note the fullstop), to get:

In the realm of computation, where magic and science intertwine,
The art of programming and the art of computing.
Computers are machines that can think, they are computers.
They can do what humans cannot – to create.
Computers are machines that can think, they are computers.
Computers are machines that think, they are computers.
Computers are machines that think, they are computers.
Computers are machines that think, they are computers.
Computers are machines that think, they are computers.
Computers are machines that think, they are computers.
Computers are machines that think, they are computers.
Computers can think, they can think.
Computers can be thought of as a machine that thinks.
Computers can be thought of as a machine that thinks.

Still not perfect, but the parameters seem to make a massive difference. I think it's entirely possible to get something reasonable out of this model.
Synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components (1952) [pdf]
The question you should be asking is, what do you want to do about it? Throw the people challenging the taxi cartels in prison, or get rid of the laws against fun lettuce?
Whenever I come across a "density Density DENSITY" story I do some looking at the background of the individuals running/promoting the effort.

I'll go to the "our team" and "about us" page of the org, look at who runs it and then google them and find the interview they did five years ago in their palatial suburban estate, sitting jauntily atop a stool next to the island in their 500 square foot kitchen.

They are all hyper-rich arrogant dickheads who want the masses stacked on top of each other in habicubes where they have to listen to couples fighting, smell the stench of their neighbor's disgusting cooking, and feel constant compression from crowding shoulder to shoulder up against each other as they march from their in-office job to their tiny, cramped, habicube.

My only question is why the rich dickheads who run media outlets and non-profits obsessed with turning everyone into the renter of a high-density nightmare hovel doesn't take their own medicine?

Why are they giving interviews to Dwell or A+U about how everyone should live in a dense city from inside their gated 30,000 square foot fortress of solitude?

There's a reason that the first thing anyone, anywhere, does when they get some money is buy an SUV or (in Europe and Japan) a station wagon and move out to an American-style suburb.

Once you get out of your "hip young urban professional" or "broke-ass" phase you realize the only thing that matters is sitting by yourself in a lawn chair on your wasteful suburban Bermuda grass lawn watching the sprinkler move back and forth in peace and fucking quiet.
Yep, the government had to go house-by-house, building-by-building replacing all electrically powered devices that could not be adapted. Thankfully it also happened early in the era of electronic devices.
I don't support the legislation you're referring to, but I think you're painting an exaggerated picture (unfortunately a common theme of these threads on HN about the UK). You can easily find examples of recent protests in London: https://news.google.com/search?q=protests%20london&hl=en-GB&...
Sleep? Never Heard of It: How I Built an Entire App with AI in One Weekend
another determined enough me here. it started out of necessity, but at this point, i trudge through berms and through parking lots out of spite.
To put that into perspective of what it means, conservatively they can spend $2.14B every year and never touch the principle of their $53.6B[1] endowment following the "4% rule".

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/10/17/harv...
I'm not a customer, so don't take what I say too seriously, but to me it seems like you are unilaterally making a purchasing decision on my behalf. That is, I agreed to pay you 50 dollars a month and you are deciding I should pay 100 (or more) - to "upgrade" my service. My intuition is that this is probably not legal, and, if I were a customer, I would not pay for a charge that I didn't explicitly agree to - if you tried to charge me I would reject it at the credit card level.

If I sign up for a service to pay X and get Y, then I expect to pay X and get Y - even if my automated tools request more than Y - they should be rejected with a failure message (e.g. "quota limit exceeded").
Here is a strategy doc from a reputable org that explicitly states that climate change is one of the causes of an increased view of Greenland as a strategic asset: https://www.belfercenter.org/research-analysis/explainer-geo...
I'm very surprised that I got as many as three replies by people who interpred my comment this way! You got it right indeed.

I'm a bit confused though, surely if I call someone "Hitler-lite" this couldn't possibly be inteprered as something positive, haha. Maybe it's just tribalist reflexes, or maybe I did word things strangely.
What a weird headline. Cars were invented long after America became a country, so every neighborhood in America for about 150 years was a car-free neighborhood. This can't be the first one, and may not even be the newest one either, since it's two years old.
there is no reason to read any book or research publication because you can just ask an AI to describe and quote at length from the contents of anything you might want to read

I think this is the fundamental misunderstanding at the heart of a lot of the anger over this, beyond the basic "corporations in general are out of control and living authors should earn a fair wage" points that existed before this.

You summarize well how we aren't there yet, but I'd say the answer to your final implied question is "not likely to change at all". Even when my fellow traitors-to-humanity are done with our cognitive AGI systems that employ intuitive algorithms in symphony with deliberative symbolic ones, at the end of the day, information theory holds for them just as much as it does for us. LLMs are not built to memorize knowledge, they're built to intuitively transform text -- the only way to get verbatim copies of "anything you might want to read" is fundamentally to store a copy of it. Full stop, end of story, will never not be true.

In that light, such a future seems as easy to avoid today as it was 5 years ago: not trivial, but well within the bounds of our legal and social systems. If someone makes a bot with copies of recent literature, and the authors wrote that lit under a social contract that promised them royalties, then the obvious move is to stop them.

Until then, as you say: only extremists and laymen who don't know better are using LLMs to replace published literature altogether. Everyone else knows that the UX isn't there, and the chance for confident error way too high.
This is legitimately useful! How does it track what a user has already viewed? Is it just showing articles from the current day in order? If I get to a day I've viewed previously, will it start showing me articles that I've already viewed once? I've been hesitant to touch my filter search term since I don't want to start over.

More customization to what papers it shows you could be very useful. You could keep track of user likes and employ a recommendation algorithm. Or better yet, the user could provide a custom prompt, which an LLM would use to filter and/or recommend papers.
for small embedded devices, I'd use something like dnsmasq.
that was just a metaphor, you can ask your AI what's that or use way less energy and use Wikipedia's search engine... or do you think OpenAI first evaluates if the author is an independent developer &/or has died &/or was funded by a public university before adding the content to the training database? /s

and one thing is publishing a paper with jargon for academics, another is to simplify the results for the masses. there's a huge difference between finishing a paper and a book
Thank you for a good answer.
I know this isn’t useful or aligned with the rules, but you are on fire these days, Simon!
> When you have corporations more powerful than the government of the biggest states, it's a bug, not a feature.

The only distinction between corporations and governments is one of them are morally bankrupt arbiters of force.
I think that statement is too broad to be useful. To make a decision like this, you need to actually argue the real pros and cons of doing so, rather than just saying "it's much more difficult."

All of this was brought up and discussed thoroughly when the experiment was greenlit, and any difficulties created by including Rust, "much more" or no, was deemed an acceptable tradeoff for the benefits of doing so. That's engineering.
I don’t know if I agree with the sentiment of this article. Yes, all the LLMs have flaws and limitations and can’t work for all purposes in real life. But we’re still early on all this. It can get a lot better. Does that mean someone is in shambles? No. This author implies that LLMs are no better than they were two years ago. But we know that’s not true. We have benchmarks to compare LLMs by. A small collection of anecdotes doesn’t make those benchmarks mean less.
What patent is needed to expire for them to support it?
> Yes, there are people who randomly click on one end of the scale or the other, but the assumption is that on average the portion of these people is stable.

That assumption is predicated first on the idea that people can and will tell you their likelihood to recommend within a reasonable degree of accuracy. I don't think they do.

1: https://www.xminstitute.com/data-snippets/gap-consumer-recom...
2: https://hbr.org/2019/10/where-net-promoter-score-goes-wrong

> If you believe in that core assumption that NPS measures word of mouth, then this interpretation of "likely to snag some other customers on my way out the door" is a sensible one.

But that's not the scale given to the respondent. The scale is given as going from "not at all likely" to "very likely" to recommend. There isn't an option for likely to recommend against. The low end of the scale probably captures some, but to assume it is near 100% is a mistake.
ZIP codes are an emergent property of the mail delivery system. While the author might consider this a bad thing, this makes them "good enough" on multiple axes in practice. They tend to be:

- Well-known (everybody knows their zip code)

- Easily extracted (they're part of every address, no geocoding required)

- Uniform-enough (not perfect, but in most cases close)

- Granular-enough

- Contiguous-enough by travel time

Notably, the alternatives the author proposes all fail on one or more of these:

- Census units: almost nobody knows what census tract they live in, and it can be non-trivial to map from address to tract

- Spatial cells: uneven distribution of population, and arbitrary division of space (boundaries pass right through buildings), and definitely nobody knows what S2 or H3 cell they live in.

- Address: this option doesn't even make sense. Yes, you can geocode addresses, but you still need to aggregate by something.
Because more money and special interests are behind fun lettuce smoking enforcement than local taxi companies could put behind protecting their own cartel from interlopers. If the taxi companies had more money to dump on politicians than is poured into drug enforcement, then the priorities would have changed.
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