skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it actually good at solving complex code or is it just garbage and people are lying about it as usual?

In my experience EXTENSIVELY using claude 3.5 sonnet you basically have to do everything complex or you're just introducing massive amounts of slop code into your code base that while functional is nowhere near good. And for anything actually complex like requires a lot of context to make a decision and has to be useful to multiple different parts, it's just hopelessly bad.
Remember Apple Maps? They polish stuff incrementally.
I've found cal.com to be a more pleasant experience than calendly. The interface looks more polished, it has a ton of integrations and it works really well.

I could in theory self-host it but I'd rather use a service with a proper team to maintain it.

The free tier does everything I need. I'd be more than willing to pay ~€5/month for it to contribute to its sustainability, but there is no paying tier that makes sense to me as an individual an occasional contractor.
Defiance
Even better: just stop using their services. Given that these settings are presented to you by a party you already don't trust, why should you believe they don't do the opposite of what they say?
> Do you need a comment to tell what a member function called postOrderMessageToEventBroker does?

Which event broker? Will I get a response via some callback? What happens if the sending fails, is there a retry mechanism? If yes, how many retries? What happens when the retry count is exceeded? Will the order‘s ID be set by this method? Is the method thread-safe? Which errors can be thrown? „Don‘t call this before the event broker has warmed up / connected“. Etc etc
Show HN: Librisomnia – A Bedtime Reading App
I built an app to help people fall asleep by reading classic books. I'd like to share my thought process and reasoning behind this app here.

Two challenges I've observed for some people:

1. Difficulty falling asleep, often made worse by scrolling through short-form content while in bed. Even when this eventually makes us sleepy, the time spent feels wasted.

2. A desire to read classic literature (like "In Search of Lost Time" — quite ironic given point #1 :P) that remains perpetually on the to-do list.

I noticed these two challenges actually complement each other. Think about school time, when we read something serious, we get sleepy :(

So the solution: read classics at bedtime, resulting in either sleep or some meaningful reading time. (A practical advantage: most classics are in the public domain, which solved the copyright issues.)

However, simply having access to classics isn't enough. The typical ereading experience presents too many options, which often leads to abandoning reading altogether in favor of more immediately engaging activities.

To address this, I implemented several practical design principles:

1. Minimize friction by reducing decision fatigue

- The app presents just a few random books each night. One tap to start reading.

- Reading begins from a random chapter rather than the beginning, removing the commitment pressure of a full book. You don't even see the preface, which you might otherwise debate whether to skip.

- For books you want to read fully, there's a limited "Stack" feature. Once full, random ones disappear, reducing choice paralysis.

2. Visual design considerations

- During book loading, the cover is displayed — an attractive cover makes readers anticipate the text they're about to read. I designed each cover individually (over 150 books!), which consumed a significant amount of time. Thankfully, modern AI tools became valuable design partners in this process.

- The reading interface is thoughtfully crafted — I carefully selected fonts, colors, and typesetting options to create a comfortable reading experience.

3. Social sharing

- I know this sounds ironic given the narrative so far. But it may help many of us stick to reading. Think of posting: "Last night I fell asleep reading this page..."

- The app generates beautiful reading cards (images) containing the whole page or an excerpt with book cover and other design elements. I worked hard to simulate a real book resting on a nightstand.

- These eye-pleasing cards can be saved to the photo library if social sharing is totally not intended.

The app is free with no ads or popups. Part of the book collection and some card styles are premium (top 50 ranked books are free, with at most 1 book per author). I plan to add more books in updates.

Extra book slots are also premium (though this might increase decision fatigue, so an option to adjust active slot count is coming in updates soon).
The royal "you" is "Your Majesty".
Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)
15 years back I used to work somewhere that had an entirely separate engineering network with no route to the Internet. And a build room that was physically airgapped. All for good reasons. Xcode worked fine.

I wonder how they do it now. I imagine Apple’s requirements have made it a lot more complicated.
Swiss Micros make some decent RPN calculators inspired by the legendary HP ones.
https://www.swissmicros.com/products
Yep. Even small companies.

The majority of companies doing web is doing "something plus Javascript".

And then if there's some AI in the mix, there's also almost always Python. Often maintained by a super small team.

What about apps? Java and Swift. The migration to Swift included a lot of Obj-C and Swift living side by side for a while. Same with some apps migrating to Kotlin.
All of my best writing has largely gone unwritten.
I remember working with SDRC I-DEAS API in the early 2000s - it was well documented and "clean looking" compared to something like PTC's Pro/TOOLKIT. Interestingly, it was also CORBA-based, and it worked quite well over LAN.
I have every Facebook owned domain blocked in NextDNS so it's essentially impossible for them to track me. I don't even have a Facebook account but they obviously don't need me to have one to build a shadow profile.
Hi, interresting goal that you have in mind.

Working in a huge enterprise, I see a clear benefit for this kind of product, as we are really struggeling to keep track.

I understand that you are very early in boot-strapping, but what I was missing while skimming over the videos and links and webpage is a better high-bird view or contextualization of the apporach.

I was considering a demo, but the two options (chat and quick chat) were a bit unclear to me what they would archive / how they are structured.

Again, I have full understanding that you are still working on this. Good luck with this project.
> It's a helluva vacuum being created, and I'm not particularly optimistic about what's going to fill it.

The biggest asset of the US was that it was a trustworthy business partner. US would fuck you over, but in 90% of cases within the limits of law. Dollar is the world's currency because long-term, it's the most stable currency. And so on.

I think that only Europe has the established institutions to replace the US. Yes, China is powerful, but China is not trustworthy enough to make long-term deals with. Yes, Europe is a much worse option than the US, but it's the second-best thing. Now, if Europe also falls to authoritarianism, then modern world as we know it will end.
(2017) Discussion at the time (123 points, 63 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14307986
It’s the rich people.
How do you link non text files? Is it like a link to the file on your computer directly? And if so, do you the. Loose the ability to see those files when you are not on your computer but instead using the mobile app? Or is there a way to include those non-text files in the notes syncing apparatus?
“Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C." - Governor Bobby Jindal, Feb 24 2009 in his party response to Obama first address to congress.

“Monitor my Beer” - Mount Redoubt in Alaska, March 22, 2009, erupted.

The Wikipedia page details some of the effects of the eruption (air travel, oil production, etc) and like any. such natural disaster multiple government agencies were involved in recovery.

I always end up thinking about this when republicans pick stupid examples of government waste. Best of luck to you.
I would second this. In Paris, but I find it to be true in most European city, the area surrounding train station is usually not very nice. It is usually surrounded by cheap hotel for 1-night traveler, overpriced fast food (hence the initial theory) and social housing / cheap building (a lot of people don't want to live next to a train station due to the nuisance, so poor people often get stuck there).

On the other hand, metro station are pretty much anywhere, and they tend to have the opposite effect. Having a metro station close by is very practical and doesn't generate as much nuisance since it is underground and pretty well hidden.

I am almost sure the data will look very different if you only look for train station.
The better question is, how do you prevent this tactic from working?

For example, suppose there were required to be multiple parties who could issue a revocation, each in a different jurisdiction, and if any of them was ordered not to do it then the others would be required to do it, and would have the technical capacity to do it but not be subject to the jurisdiction of that court.
Show HN: See your H-index on GitHub, Reddit, YouTube
made an app that calculates the h-index of sorts for various sites on the web and shows cool stats.
Pardon my ignorance, but I always wonder how these money laundering kebab places work. We have some in my city too and they always leave me puzzled. If nobody eats there, how do they launder money? I'm probably daft/naieve but can't figure out the mechanics of money laundering when the business doesn't actually move any product.
What's "FP"? Nothing comes to mind.
As for myself, I had a Texas Instruments TI-30, I think it was, in my higher studies - it was a price revolution at the time. That was a fine simple calculator, but when somebody let me try their HP calculator a year or two later I was sold and I never looked back. RPN is just so much easier when you want to do long calculations - just begin, no need to plan things in advance.
Less predictable orbit.
I don't know if I agree with that and as a SWE myself its tempting to think that - it it a form of coping and hope that we will be all in it together.

However rationally I can see where these models are evolving, and it leads me to think the software industry is on its own here at least in the short/medium term. Code and math, and with math you typically need to know enough about the domain know what abstract concept to ask, so that just leaves coding and software development. Even for non technical people they understand the result they want of code.

You can see it in this announcement - it's all about "code, code, code" and how good they are in "code". This is not by accident. The models are becoming more specialised and the techniques used to improve them beyond standard LLM's are not as general to a wide variety of domains.

We engineers think AI automation is about difficulty and intelligence, but that's only partly true. Its also about whether the engineer has the knowledge on what they want to automate, the training data is accessible and vast, and they even know WHAT data is applicable. This combination of both deep domain skills and AI expertise is actually quite rare which is why every AI CEO wants others to go "vertical" - they want others to do that leg work on their platforms. Even if it eventuates it is rare enough that, if they automate, will automate a LOT slower not at the deltas of a new model every few months.

We don't need AGI/ASI to impact the software industry; in my opinion we just need well targeted models that get better at a decent rate. At some point they either hit a wall or surpass people - time will tell BUT they are definitely targeting SWE's at this point.
It really does not. Set the right flags, and your debugger traffic gets routed into the tunnel.
It's not true though!
>Each individual function eventually does zero things.

Lambda calculus, basically :)
Who cares what businesses do, what I want is an AI agent I can point to a business with my goal (e.g., be relentless in either negotiating my cable bill down by 25% and if after 30 days you fail, cancel my subscription) and have it do it.
Walk 500 steps?
The article title is a little misleading. He says he wants to see proof that AI is generating actual value by seeing actual economic growth as a result. He doesn’t like the hype, which is based on arbitrary goals that have no tie to actual value. Hence there is not really a disconnect between his statement and his actions as portrayed here.
Entrust got torpedoed basically for deploying an improvement to the requirements for its certificates slightly before the improvement got officially approved, and the browser people collectively lost their crud over the concept that Entrust didn't immediately revoke all of their... perfectly valid, secure certificates immediately.

Fundamentally, there is no accountability in the web PKI stewards. You want to talk about utter waste and incredible damage to the Internet, you can see it right here, in the people determining who is allowed to issue you sets of magic numbers that browsers have agreed are trustworthy, despite everyone involved behaving like complete children.

And of course, the browser operators all have their own root CAs, so basically have extremely motivated reasons to want to eliminate every commercial provider that isn't one of the monopoly companies.

Meanwhile:

- Compromised certificates are basically a non-issue from a threat model standpoint, every certificate error people hit are just... expired certificates people didn't rotate yet.

- Expired certificates cause issues for the majority of businesses at some point or another, making the internet increasingly fragile and unreliable.
> Do you need a comment to tell what a member function called postOrderMessageToEventBroker does?

Obviously not and the comment you're replying to hasn't asserted otherwise. They say, clearly, that comments should explain the _why_, postOrderMessageToEventBroker explains only the _what_ (which is reflected in the verbiage of your question). Fortunately comments are practically free and we're not limited to doing the reader one-favor-per-statement, we can explain _both_ the why with a comment (when it's not obvious) and the what with clear function names.
Ask HN: What's Missing in QuickBooks?
What’s missing in QuickBooks?

Can I make an accounting system for your company please?
What drastic changes? Republicans are presently pushing for a $4T debt ceiling increase and $4.5T in tax cuts. The DOGE cuts will not curtail the purported theft from our children’s futures in any way.
Small is beautiful – and other thoughts about university governance
I think they meant which candy bar
A lot of people don’t like that “regulation” has been delegated to unelected agencies instead of having congress make laws.

Is the current structure of agencies with delegated regulatory powers specified in the constitution? I don’t think so. It isn’t explicitly forbidden, but it’s not like it’s what the founders had in mind or wrote down.

The current administration’s approach is activist in the sense that it would be more direct to just outlaw the current structure via congress. I suspect that isn’t possible at the moment due to the entanglement of corporate interests, regulatory agencies and lobbying money.

Activist action isn’t exactly new though. Maybe it hasn’t happened on the right wing as much in America in living memory, it feels like they felt like they were above it for a long time. They don’t feel like that anymore.
I believe that targets more or less technical clients, CTOs, etc... How do you target completely non-technical prospects?
That's very interesting!

I'll try out IPv6
And the described use case - USB stuff with very specific exception - makes a strong case for literate programming, that is, more prose than code.
You seem to imply that morality necessarily finds its source in (the existence of) a god, and/or the religion(s) that may come from there?
I've taken to saying, much to the chagrin of my techy friends, that "the best language is a dead language". Usually speaking about C which isn't even dead but maybe should be, just stick with C89 and pretend that was the end (though for more modern targets C11 with atomics is tempting).

Along the same lines, maybe the best platform is a dead platform. And there is a mature emulator, or many, for pretty much every modern platform. I've definitely been exploring DOS as a way forward (lol) out of the madness of modern computers.

Radically simple, single tasking, and local first with a stable platform that is close to the metal. What is not to love? I mean maybe it doesn't hurt it was on my first computers so a nostalgia factor I'm sure is at play as well.
"some of you may die. But that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"
They pretend like people _do_ eat there, that's how the dirty cash ends up in the register.
Sure, but if we believe the conceit of the article that making some settings within facebook reduces your value to them, stopping altogether must reduce your value even more.
BikeSize.Guide
My work blocks any domains registered in the last 90 days which is a big pain in the ass
I guess I have some interest in nutrition, and I think it could be useful to be really meticulous in my measurements of it, as well as I cook the same recipe over and over and it always reminds me to work on this app lol
>You do realize that America has the highest number of Michelin-starred restaurants per capita? Way to stereotype

How did you find this data? A quick google says that France has about 630 Michelin restaurants and the US about 230 (and obviously fewer people live in France). It looks like Switzerland has the highest per capita with 143 for about 9 million people.
The US has a lot of good eating places, but let's stick to facts.
Incredibly accurate. I hate eating and would eat one of those every morning for 2 years.

You shovel it down and go about your day.

Tastes and feels like you're eating mud, but who cares, only lasts a minute.
SCTP is fascinating because it's one of the backbone technologies that makes communication possible for most people on the planet (as the mobile network stack pretty much relies on it), yet it's effectively unsupported on almost every consumer device. If you want to use it, you're probably going to have to ship a userland implementation that needs privileges to open a raw network socket, because kernel implementations are rare (and often slow).

We could've had it as a QUIC replacement if it weren't for terrible middleboxes and IPv4 NAT screwing everyone over once again. Hell, NAT wouldn't even have been an issue had SCTP support been widespread before consumer NAT devices started being implemented.

It's a prime example of how new network protocols now have to lie and deceive to work over the internet. TLS needs to pretend to be TLS 1.2, QUIC needs to pretend to be an application on top of UDP while reimplementing SCTP and TCP, and even things like secure DNS are now piped over HTTPS just in case a shitty middlebox can't deal with raw TLS.
Wow, that just adds another layer to the mess. Sounds like some doctors care more about business than patients. Glad you found someone who actually helped you!
I said limited support and gave curl as an example because curl --http2 sends a HTTP/1.1 upgrade request first so fails in a purely HTTP/2 environment.

Thanks for bringing up --http2-prior-knowledge as a solution!
Eating too many fruits can provide too much sugar, but fresh fruits have low sugar content in comparison with any artificial sweet food.

Only dried fruits, like raisins, dried figs, dried dates, dried prunes and so on, have high sugar content, well over 50%, so they are comparable with chocolate or candy bars.

Most fresh fruits contain only around 10% sugar, with a only a few, like grapes or fresh figs exceeding 15% of sugar (but less than 20%).

This means that for most fresh fruits you can eat a half kilogram (or a pound) per day, while still avoiding an excessive sugar intake.
It’s one of the four corner states … Colorada, Arizani, Now Mexico and Utoh
I see it in Kagi Assistant already and it's not even 24 hours! Nice.
A workaround is to set the corporation name to apple corps, apple records.
Upvote for mentioning ADRs! ;)

I really like the approach and as other comments already mentioned, this is a nice way to capture the "why" of specific decisions that go beyond the "how" in the code.

Here is a good starting point for people not familiar with ADRs:
- https://cognitect.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-architectu...
- https://adr.github.io/
> For example, I am writing some driver software for a USB device right now. It is so easy to get the device into a bad state, even when staying within the documented protocol. Every time I implement a workaround, or figure out exactly how the device expects a message to appear, I put in a comment to document it. Otherwise, when (inevitably) the code needs to have features added, or refactoring, I will completely forget why I wrote it that way.

I believe in general there is a case for this (your case sounds like a perfect candidate). The implementation of Dtrace is another example[0] full of good description, including ASCII diagrams (aside: a case for knowing a bit of Emacs (though I'm sure vim has diagramming too, which I would know if I pulled myself out of nvi long enough to find out)).

[0] https://github.com/opendtrace/opendtrace/blob/master/lib/lib...
I don’t understand why so many people are convinced that these newfangled automobiles will replace horses. It sounds like unsubstantiated hype to me.

There are a few reasons why I don’t believe cars will replace horses anytime soon:

1. Riding and caring for a horse is about much more than just transportation. Horses have been an integral part of life for centuries—they provide companionship, work the land, and serve in countless roles beyond simple travel. Even if you consider only their use for getting from place to place, riding is a skill that people take pride in, and I don’t see that disappearing overnight.

2. The maintenance and upkeep of these machines seem like a nightmare. A horse may need food and care, but it doesn’t require expensive parts, specialized fuel, or constant repairs from trained mechanics. If a carriage breaks, any competent craftsman can fix it—but if one of these new engines fails, who will know how to repair it?

3. From what I’ve seen, these automobiles are still prone to frequent breakdowns and failures. They get stuck in mud, they require smooth roads (which hardly exist outside cities), and they are unreliable compared to a well-trained horse. If a machine fails, you’re stranded—whereas a horse will always find its way home.

I know people will argue that these machines are improving rapidly and that soon they’ll overcome these issues. But I think these challenges are fundamental and won’t be solved anytime soon.

What I do believe, however, is that for certain tasks, automobiles may assist in making travel more efficient. But replace the horse entirely? I just don’t see it happening.
The sad part here is that the 4-year degree vs high-school also feels like it's probably more of a class divide than anything else.