skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some examples from me:

Database benchmarks: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench (containing 30+ databases) and the new JSON analytics benchmark, https://github.com/ClickHouse/JSONBench/

Plus, the hardware benchmark: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/hardware/ (also used by Phoronix).
It is MIT licensed, and targets PostgresSql which itself has a very liberal license (and is not a Microsoft project). How does the "extend, extinguish" work in this scenario?
There were massive layoffs in 2024 and continuing this year. No one will scream they are firing people for LLMs
ASTRA: HackerRank's coding benchmark for LLMs
We help companies hire & upskill developers. A customer recently asked: What % of HackerRank problems can LLMs solve? That got us thinking—how should hiring evolve when AI can translate natural language to code?

Our belief: AI will handle much of code generation, so developers will be assessed more on SDLC skills with AI assistants.

To explore this, we’re benchmarking LLMs on real-world software dev scenarios—starting with 65 unseen problems across 10 domains. Beyond correctness, we evaluated consistency—an often overlooked aspect of AI reliability. We’re open-sourcing the dataset on Huggingface and expanding it to cover more domains, ambiguous specs, and harder challenges.

Would love the HN community’s take on this!
> I wouldn't want to be entering the job market in the next couple of years....

I bet there's a software dev employment boom about 5 years away once it becomes obvious competent people are needed to unwind and rework all the llm generated code.
Another aspect this is missing is that, if AI works well enough to fire people (it already does, IMO), there is a whole world of software that was previously out of reach to be built. I wouldn't build a custom photography app for a single individual, nor would I write a full POS system for 3 people bakery. The costs would be prohibitive. But if a single developer/product designer can now be up to the challenge, be it through a "tweak wordpress plugins until it works" or through more serious engineering, there is going to be a whole new industry of software jobs out there.

I know that it works because the amount of softwrae I now write for friends, family or myself has exploded. I wouldn't spend 4 weekends on a data cleanup app for my librarian friend. But I can now, in 2-3 h, get something really usable and pretty, and it's extremely rewarding.
AI Distortion is new threat to trusted information
I think seeing more public spaces shift away from emissive displays and putting more emphasis on quality lighting again would definitely be interesting.

What mainly limits the applications for this tech is that full-color refresh is very slow and very ugly, so it prefers static content. For public spaces this could mean a greater emphasis on graphic design quality as well, since you'd probably only want to refresh out of sight of customers, e.g. outside of business hours.

The problem is that puts it into a pretty narrow band of application of displaying information that only changes infrequently, but often enough to offset the high cost of the panels vs. just having someone put up a new print. Overall my gut feeling is that the economics just aren't quite there yet without some more effort put into changing the equation.

For examle - I think that E-Ink should actually kind of try making the refresh experience have its own aesthetic. Right now the refresh on the Spectra panels looks like the panel is having a seizure. If they could make it look cool (e.g. doing it a fancy geometric pattern or something), it might make it OK to refresh while being seen.
The post mentions this obvious solution before delving into madness.
Ruby and Rails (together or Ruby separate). ~18 years on both.
How was your battery life performance?

I’ve been (slowly) working on a similar project and it’s been easy to get it running on my desk hooked into power but much more difficult to elegantly frame the panel that can just live on a wall.
Using a company run by a Finkelstein to sell Swastika shirts is always a risky strategy Ye.
> where you can be reasonably sure of not getting shot for trespassing

How exactly does that make it OK to be disrespectful of other people's property and privacy?
The price point is too painful for home use unless you place your frame high above inaccessible without ladders.

It should be used for billboard advertising. You don't even need that many PPI pixels per square inch because of how high above it is, and it would save ginormous bucks on printing canvases and technicians changing the ad. Not to mention, timed advertising.
Connectors are where the issue is and there is a difference even if they fit in the same plugs and power can still go through them.

From your link

> Compared to the original 12VHPWR connector, the new 12V-2x6 connector has shorter sensing pins (1.5mm) while the conductor terminals are 0.25mm longer
This would work (w/ a context free grammar) if aliases required the 'AS' keyword.

Ambigious:

SELECT a aliasA b c aliasC FROM d aliasD e

Unambigious:

SELECT a as aliasA b c as aliasC FROM d as aliasD e

Alternately, a schema-aware parser could determine if 'aliasA' was an alias or a column reference.

FWIW, personally, I'd rather go the full-Python, using newlines as delimiters:

SELECT
a aliasA
b
c aliasC
FROM
d aliasD
e

(With tabs for nesting.)
Is nobody going talk about how the architecture is called "Battlemage?" Is that just normal to GPU enthusiasts?
Research: Representation of BBC News content in AI Assistants [pdf]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-int...
The dictionary definition of 'sophisticated' is "changed in a deceptive or misleading way; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure." Pretty much the polar opposite of "boring" in a technology context.
Are you surprised? Shopify and Tobi Lütke have strongly defended "freedom of speech" to continue platforming hate groups in the past. They are happy to platform truly awful people as long as they get their cut.
I can imagine an architecture where companies run their stateless services on some cloud-managed EKS/GKE/AKS and their stateful databases on this LTS Kubernetes distribution. Upgrade the stateless service clusters once a year by blue-greening the entire cluster and flipping DNS, and treat database migrations as a once-a-decade project.

Not to mention all the shops shipping appliances that run on top of Kubernetes, like Chick-fil-A running a Kubernetes cluster in every restaurant.

I have no doubt there's a market here.
Ansible's recommended install path is as a python pip package, which doesn't add manual pages. It's expected that to access the online documentation for ansible you fire off a ton of `ansible help topic` commands. `ipa`, the active-directory adjacent system published by IBM, also expects you to make heavy use of the `--help topic` pattern.

When manual pages exist they're wonderful and lovely. It's a good standard, and my favorite is when the online help system of a given script or installed package (e.g. via pip) emulates man--but there aren't always man pages

that's the entire point of my complaint here. It's unreliable in many contexts, but you do always have access to the command itself.
Don't forget to break it into microservices
Shopify is absolutely fine with selling hate products as long as you give them their cut. If you're using them for free web hosting they draw the line. They probably also didn't splash out for the premium plan where you get a dedicated concierge.
Presumably, the point is that a working car is more complicated & cheaper (in this case) than the graphics card, while the graphics card can't figure out how to make a connector.

I read it as a kind of funny comment making a broader point (and a bit of a jab at nVidia), not a rigorous comparison. I think you might be taking it a bit more seriously than was intended.
I think a good example of boring vs old is wireguard.

Wireguard is a pretty simple vpn to setup, has a very predictable and stable behaviour which makes it boring, but it's fairly new compared to other vpn software.
There's actually something called a "Machinery Cooperative" where several farmers club together to buy a combine harvester which they all share.

Of course, it operates at a different level to the co-op kiliantics describes; you can't have 10 farmers share a $800K machine unless your mean member has $80K cash on hand.
How would Shopify determine a store isn’t “engaging in authentic commerce” if the products aren’t set to ship for 6-8 weeks? That’s standard for Yeezy drops, and past releases have been delivered. Why is this suddenly an issue now? Seems more like a convenient excuse than the real reason for shutting it down.
> You cannot blame the user for doing something which is specifically allowed by design.

We really saying this when swapping a PSU to a different PSU and reusing existing cables that all look and plug in the same fries your build.

I think it's utterly absurd that this is the case but that's PC components for you.
It's a weird, mutant form of Christianity that pretty much ignores the essence of Jesus' teachings and amplifies many of the things Jesus taught against.
They were always going to launch half baked. Its part of their strategy to keep people engaged for the DLC.
Do we know it's steppe ancestry because of DNA comparisons with Kurgan grave DNA, or from some other evidence? To me it seems a priori difficult to know where a gene hails from originally.
As far as I can tell, WFP never said they could "solve" world hunger with $6B. They did put together a report about what they could do with $6B, which didn't seem to interest Musk after all.

CNN maybe wrote a bad headline? Doesn't really seem like the sort of thing to pretend to offer and then deny 42M people food aid over, but then I'm not a trillionaire. I don't think he bothered to actually read the story, instead just tweeted after reading a screenshot of a headline. He got mad about something the WFP didn't even say, and then people decided they must have said that because he got mad about it. They didn't!

If he really wanted to know what $6B could do, he could have donated it and found out. It was cheap enough for him to donate $6B to sit in the "foundation" that he personally controls, so it's not like he was hard up for cash.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/26/economy/musk-world-hunger-wfp...

> Correction: An earlier version of this story’s headline incorrectly stated that the director of the UN’s food scarcity organization believes 2% of Elon Musk’s wealth could solve world hunger. He believes it could help solve world hunger.
While you're stopped at the light, you'll also need to open the verification can to let the car know you've watched the ad, before it will go again.
> absurdities like "show HN: I built a rust backend with an elixir front-end that's actually running doom in pdf hosted on a distributed server composed of a network of the microchips in a Saudi camel herd, get fucked nerds"

You leaned too far into the joke and it undermined the point. There’re roughly three kinds of Show HN:

1. “I made this product to solve this need I perceived. I hope it does well and makes me money. Come check it out.”

2. “I had this insane idea which is funny just from the description and made it as an experiment. Let me share what was interesting about it. Oh, and here’s the code.”

3. “I made this AI NFT Data Harvesting scam and think everyone is too stupid to notice this isn’t a real product filled with fake reviews. Come click this link from this account with 80% flagged comments.”

What you described seems closer to 2 than anything else. There’s nothing wrong with those. They stimulate curiosity, which is HN’s goal.
At this point, I'm waiting for the first RTX generation that just comes with its own separate PSU and wall plug cable.
It’s not one person despite the headline — it’s the Trump administration. The DOJ was prosecuting the case and that’s a federal executive agency, and there is a hierarchy where higher ups can direct where limited prosecutorial resources should be directed.

Note that I am not arguing whether or not this instance is justified or corrupt/BS, just explaining that each administration can direct what cases they want to enforce. You can’t prosecute everything, and there is political judgment involved as to what is a priority.
You'd have to be as high as a kite to have any answer for this question other than yes.
My solution would be a conventional hash table. Now, I will consider using the solution defined in the paper.
Calling this "alternatives" misleads into thinking they are reasonable and there's no duopoly:

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/113952225452466068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261

True alternatives, GNU/Linux phones, are not as polished as iPhones are.
More impressive than the "digital thermometer runs doom!" where really they just connected the OLED display, but IMO if it's not being processed on the device then it's not running Doom.
making tech != using tech
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code (2021)
Gemini is capable of this: https://gemini.google.com/share/4b1acd0935e3
Dejavu, Complaints on using AI sounds very similar to early times of offshoring/outsourcing. At the end of the day, corporates go for most profitable solution, so AI is going to replace some percentage of headcount.
The first Intel product on 18A is the "Panther Lake" CPU for laptops.

According to what Intel claims, it will be launched in H2 2025, i.e. with commercial availability either in October or in December, depending on how quickly Intel will succeed to improve the yields of the 18A process.
It's not becoming more cutthroat, it's become more opposed to humanity.
true. can any current gen AI be given a prompt "create game [X] in spreadsheet" and it just works?
"Boring" tech stacks tend to be highly scalable in their own right - certainly more so than the average of trendy newfangled tech. So what's a lot more likely is that the trendy newfangled tech will fail to meet your needs and you'll be moving to some even newer and trendier tech, at surprisingly high cost. The point of picking the "boring" choice is that it keeps you off that treadmill.
Let's play your game, then. The URL contains a list of links I have found in my browser and YouTube history, mostly about Tesla, in 20 minutes. I especially searched for Tesla, since this is what we're talking about.

Moreover, I failed to find some of the links I wanted to add, which were more positive ones about Tesla, nonetheless (e.g.: the famous consultancy which gutted a Model S and found very good engineering alongside some rookie mistakes).

Now, this is your turn to provide me information about how I'm mislead, and what Tesla does instead. Waiting a similar links trove from you, since you claim that you're very knowledgeable about the subject matter.

https://notes.bayindirh.io/notes/Lists/Cars+and+Related+Tech...

P.S.: I knowingly left out most egregiously negative and biased ones from the list above. There were more links than I added to this trove.
When the ad server goes down, the car will stop working.
But I want fewer cables, not more.
Good lord it even supports BorgBackup.

Thank you very much!
Pedantry between "cable" and "connectors" and claiming one if the same doesn't help people understand the situation.
RTX 5090 Workstation Configuration Journey
With the arrival of the RTX 5090, we built a high-performance workstation to maximize its AI computing potential. In this blog post, we share our experience—from overcoming setup challenges to testing its performance.
It’s best the analogy of the month. I don’t think cab drivers today are the same cab drivers that knew the city by heart of the past.

So, it’s been a privilege gentlemen, writing apps from scratch with you.

walks off the programming Titanic with a giant violin
That makes sense. I was reading some of the comments and thought people were implying that rodents seek out wiring as a food source.
great work! especially the gpu is scarce
I totally agree with you, but it’s funny that you use the cloud as the non-boring example here.

I’m pretty sure the majority of HN thinks that even hosting directly on EC2 is for NIH adventurers only.
It's their 2nd generation, the 'B' series. The previous was their 'A' / Alchemist.

> According to Intel, the brand is named after the concept of story arcs found in video games. Each generation of Arc is named after character classes sorted by each letter of the Latin alphabet in ascending order.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Arc)
I was just about to sign off on a 6 figure deal for someone to make a app for our pest control SaaS, and I just saw this right now and now considering trying this out if it gets the cost low significantly.

I would imagine for those who want to are agencies / developers building apps who charge a fortune doesn't make sense anymore with tools like Replit.it, Bolt, Devin and now A0.

Great work Seth and Ayo for making it easier and potentially bringing to cost of building an app down close to free as I'm assuming this is now free as it is just a sign up.

Is there any pricing on this?
I ended up replacing the battery with a larger one than the one pictured in the end, a 3100 (ed: hang on, was it maybe 3500 even?) mAh Samsung 18650 cell. I also switched the voltage reg to a more efficient chip. I now get about 9-10 months on a charge (with one daily refresh over wifi) in practice. At those durations battery Li-Ion self-discharge is actually a big factor sadly so a lot of those mAh fade into the ether. :)
Please god. I don't believe in you but maybe someone else does and will think me a kindred spirit worthy of mercy. Let me have trailing commas. There is no reason not to. It's backward compatible, easy to implement and would make the world so so so much better.
I feel you on this, I've been planning out my next side project, and I've picked a Django based project that handles a good amount of what I need, I know I could build it all from scratch, but why would I invest a monument of hours for almost no benefit. I'd rather spend more time focusing on the key things that makes my idea special and not reinventing the wheel code wise.
That's one of the best blog posts I've read in a while. It nails the idea of "write one line that makes the reader want to read the next". It's humorous but also serious. There's no fluff. Instant subscribe.
He's totally fine with Nazis, although he will use his identity to deflect criticism.
Flagging and vouching is almost entirely community driven. Maybe people here are just more “leftist” than you think? (Whatever that means.)
I had to have my password reset a several years ago for some service, and the only mechanism they had to do this was to reach out to the company on Twitter. This would have been around 2018 and I remember thinking it was bizarre at the time.
I do not understand this at all, but it looks cool.
Fair question, if you live under a rock (and don't talk with anyone who reads U.S. national news, or the only people you talk with think Twitter is great!), so I upvoted. I don't know seventh12's motivations or current understanding, and while they could be trolling, why assume that? I suppose I could read their other posts, but I didn't. I'm mostly reacting to the downvotes, which I feel are unfair against a plain, if not tone-deaf, question.
When do kings get rebelled against? Typically when they stop listening and caring for their people. So maybe it's not rebelling against a king, I think it's rebelling against old ossified system that didn't and couldn't change anything for the better. Now a new system of ruling is finally doing something at least. A breath of fresh air for a stagnating fire. But sometimes adding fresh air to a stagnating fire will result in explosion.
The original title: Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
Modernization can mean replacing 50 year old technology with "20 year old" technology. I stuck in the quotes because something that is perceived to be that old is probably under active development, and modern while remaining boring.
Edit: Mail voting is not more distributed. You can’t analyze the distribution of a set that small using its min and max, it has to be the full range like the other sets. Distribution approaches zero as bin size increases regardless of voting source. This no longer seems surprising.
The generations are all fantasy type names in alphabetical order. The first was Alchemist (and the cards were things like A310) and the next is Celestial. Actually when I think about product names for GPUs and CPUs these seem above average in clarity and only slightly dorkier than average. I'm sure they'll get more confusing and nonsensical with time as that seems to be a constant of the universe.
People are hooking air con units to liquid GPU coolers

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/rt...
Why would they risk jail in the UK? They aren't doing anything wrong and the UK authorities would even know or care about that forum...

To suggest a risk of arrest (not even jail...) is more than over the top, it is utterly bizarre.
All plugins add latency. They just report that in their API and your DAW compensates. There is no way eliminate CPU cycles being spent on whatever the plugin does.
No, but when your drill breaks there's still plenty of potential for it to physically injure you in different ways. As mooreds said, the end user doesn't care how you made the tool, they care that it won't go catastrophically wrong on them. How you accomplished that is not relevant.
FTA:

> Shopify President Harley Finkelstein told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” Tuesday that the website’s owners “had an entire day” to prove they weren’t violating the company’s policies, “which did not happen.”
It boggles the mind how a $10 space heater has better overheating protection than this $4000 space heater.
UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts
Demagogy is MUCH better than real arguments. Most people you work with will have trouble even understanding the latter. They don't have time, they're overloaded, their kids are waiting at home. Give them the warm feeling that they're doing the right thing. Make them feel smart, experienced,
elite. That's how you get support, not by appealing to (ugh) reason.
I wonder if these GPUs are good options for Linux rigs and if first-party drivers are made.
“The moment we realized this was not actually a real commerce practice, they weren’t actually engaging in authentic commerce, we pulled it down,”

Incredible quote
ClickHouse has support for trailing commas for several years.

I recommend looking at ClickHouse (https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/) as an example of a modern SQL database that emphasizes developer experience, performance, and quality-of-life improvements.

I'm the author of ClickHouse, and I'm happy to see that its innovation has been inspired and adopted in other database management systems.
One important thing to note that isn't mentioned in the article: you have to manually add the porn app's source URL to the AltStore before it'll show up there. Because you have to browse to the (adult) porn app website in Safari beforehand to get the link, it isn't any easier to access porn this way than it is by typing "porn" into the search box.

Set up parental controls on your children's devices! Apple cannot protect them from the preinstalled Safari app (one of the most popular porn apps in the world) unless you take initiative. You can also block the installation of all apps outside of the App Store using parental controls.
This is a popular type of image generation wrapper.

Here are 5 examples from just the past year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520693

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277309

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990890

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40185636

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847244