skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a pretty great step in the direction of not being wholly dependent on one platform; makes you start thinking about your website as the source and the social media networks as just a representation.

https://micro.blog has a good implementation of this for both the Fediverse and Bluesky. A random example of mine that has an array of 'em if you want an example: https://zacwe.st/2025/02/12/amazon-is-removing-the-ability.h...
I've been thinking about doing this recently for the felxibility. But I feel like it requires a whole set of extra skills I never developed. How do you recommend getting started with freelancing for those engineers who have always worked at companies?
>> It is not a compiler error. It is never a compiler error (2017)

No, not always true. Even in modern compilers -- as matured and as modern as VS 2022-- you would still get bug.

I found one[0]. In my case it's easy to tell it's a compiler bug because the program just can't compile properly. But it's also not easy to reproduce, which just proves how well tested compilers usually are.

0: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/74872
We did have usenet in the 80s and gopher in the 90s. But yes, in those days it was that mythical "paper" stuff (or were we still using papyrus? I forget)
Similar to superconductors, there are superinsulators, which have an infinite resistance so that no electric current passes through. The phenomenon of superinsulation can be regarded as an exact dual to superconductivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superinsulator
I think the issue is that people actually want to do tactical fighting with flanking and concentrating attacks, but the scale is quite odd. Zone of control is a good game mechanic but it’s very game-y; I can’t pass this guy who’s standing a city’s distance away from me?

Maybe a better mechanic could be for units to be able to pass by each other, but it could cause attrition for the moving unit (representing the fact that the moving unit will have trouble foraging with all the entrenched defenders hanging around).
I wonder how many of the solutions that passes SWE-lancer evals would not be accepted by the poster due to low quality

I’ve been trying so many things to automate solving bugs and adding features 100% by AI and I have to admit it’s been a failure. Without someone that can read the code and fully understand the AI generated code and suggests improvements (SWE in the loop) AI code is mostly not good.
the limiting factor is no longer the answers but the questions
It does not? 1&1 has "unlimited" but after 50 GB you need to add 2 GB again in the web interface every time. I think Telekom has real "unlimited" but it costs like 100€ per month.
> other nation states

The UK might be the country least likely to be confused with a nation-state. It’s an empire, or at least the remnants of one.
That's a really good idea, worth a try.
That's certainly a funny phrase, since it ought to mean that too much engineering effort was put in to getting something right but what it's actually used to mean is that someone got the trade-offs wrong.

In this case it's being used to mean that the regulations are overly restrictive or complicated, and impose higher costs than are reasonable for the benefits they provide. (Or potentially that being overcomplicated actually makes them less effective than if they were done properly.)
When a major nuclear disaster happens, it can cause hundreds of billions of damage. To make it worse from a liability perspective, that damage can be attributed to a specific power plant.

We know from natural disasters that insurance is usually insufficient to cover the true damage. Either governments have to step in, or the victims have to bear the costs. If the government has to pay for damages but someone else pays for safety features, there are clear incentives for overregulation.

The company operating the reactor obviously cannot pay. As long as shareholders are shielded from liability, it's easy enough to structure the company to ensure that it has no major assets beyond the power plant.
Specifically, the current regulatory framework requires not just minimization of accident, but also minimization of radiation (to levels well below that of other powerplant types like coal). There probably could be a pretty notable cost savings in nuclear plant construction if they were allowed to regularly leak as much radiation into the environment to that which we already consider acceptable from other power sources.
makes me wonder if valve has a publisher protection service you can pay extra for.
> The models weren't allowed to access the internet

How many software developers could solve most even simple programming problems (except 'Hello world') with zero shot style (you write in notepad then can compile only once and execute once) without access to internet (stackoverflow, google search, documentation), tools (terminal, debugger, linter, cli)?

I think then it's not the best comparison to make any judgement. Future benchmark should test agents where they allowed to solve the problem in 5-10 minutes, allow give access to internet, documentation, linter, terminal with MCP servers.
Tariffs are massively simpler though and less prone to corruption. The latter is I think the reason we hear so much screeching about them.

Right now our industries are competing with slave labor and lax environmental controls. If we don’t want either of those things here, we can’t allow groups who do those things to sell into our market freely.

The idea that we tax our people and hand the money to our companies so they can compete with polluting slave labor is incredibly more complicated than just putting up barriers to entering our market. Not to mention the fact that the pollution in China et al affects us here also.

In my opinion we should just not trade with countries who don’t have labor and environmental standards at parity with ours. Tariffs are the next best thing.
Hardest part of getting your foot in the door is getting the clearance in the first place.

I'd normally say the easiest way is to get hired as a government employee, go through the vetting process, then bounce a year or two after you get your ticket. With the way things are going with the US Government at the moment, I'm not so sure now.
Reminds me of this post on adding BlueSky likes: https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/show-bluesky-likes-on-blog-pos...

If I would want comments on my blog I would try to integrate BlueSky and Mastodon comments.
Per https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... Mitchell's pay fell to $6.26M in 2023. We'll have to wait till late this year to see the 2024 IRS Form 990.

From the 990s, it seems Mitchell took out $32,683,642 over the eight years from 2016 to 2023. With 2024 included, she could well top $38M -- not too shabby!

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43112590. 2024 will be the last big comp year for Mitchell.
I recently had to do a one-off task using SQL in a way that I wasn't too familiar with. Since I could explain conceptually what I needed but didn't know all the right syntax this seemed like a perfect use case to loop in Claude.

The first couple back and forths went ok but it quickly gave me some SQL that was invalid. I sent back the exact error and line number and it responded by changing all of the aliases but repeated the same logical error. I tried again and this time it rewrote more of the code, but still used the exact same invalid operation.

At that point I just went ahead and read some docs and other resources and solved things the traditional way.

Given all of the hype around LLMs I'm honestly surprised to see top models still failing in such basic and straightforward ways. I keep trying to use LLMs in my regular work so that I'm not missing out on something potentially great but I still haven't hit a point where they're all that useful.
almost made me wonder if url changed to something completely different between the time this was posted and now
> dream is to be an entrepreneur and you're just back in industry to build your funds back up.

And this is seen as a crime by employers? Any employee can and will leave if they found a better career out there, I think employers expect that, no?

YC is great for mostly software AND in the US jobs, if you are after systems (as in both software and hardware) and outside of US, it's no use.
Blogger beware: You can be a victim of your own success if you're not careful.

Every time I follow this sort of advice, whatever I write inevitably becomes immensely popular and I end up hearing from a lot of people that whine loudly about my furry blog having furry art on it.

(Most recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105421)

It's exhausting and if you don't reply on news sites, they'll send you social media messages and emails too.

And if you'd like a poignant example of a time I followed this sort of advice, I wrote this one after I failed to understand why some applications were using HKDF different than I intuited it was meant to be used, and a formal methods guy had to explain it to me because I was asking very loudly. It has since been cited by the Python cryptography library docs: https://soatok.blog/2021/11/17/understanding-hkdf/
$1.3M. Paying $600k in federal+state. Then sales tax is another ~10% on what's left. That brings me to earning 48c on every dollar, so not a 60% tax but a 52% tax which is still damn egregious given that I had better roads and most public services in Florida (0% income tax) than I have had here in California. I know people that have moved to other 0% states that feel similarly.

BTW, I am not "rich." I still can't afford a house in CA. My income last year was a temporary fluke due to RSU inflation. So meanwhile billionaires get away, regular W-2s like me get squeezed by both the working class and the billionaires.

Taxes are largely a waste and a scam. I have seen firsthand how government contractors overcharge absolutely scam the American people. Millions of dollars charged for a shitty Python script written in a day. Screws selling for $80 each. We do not need to pay as much as we do. Years of "small" increases have made people complacent to the point where losing half our income to some bureaucratic black hole is seen as acceptable.
Management consultants. Main attributes are confidence and ability to generate content. No need to stick around to see it through.
Food Costco insider explains why they stock expensive luxury items
The protocol is fully open and adoption is picking up rapidly. You can easily host your own data server in your preferred jurisdiction if that is important to you.
Makes the REPL feel a lot more alive and interactive, much like a SmallTalk IDE.
Thanks! the captcha is annoying tho
$PROBLEM_2 being worse than $PROBLEM_1 does not mean $PROBLEM_1 is over regulated.

Nuclear Waste handling and disposal is a significant regulatory issue and includes many REACTIVE measures that have been hard-learned over the past century at sites like Pennsylvania, Fukushima, and Chernobyl.

This blind lashing out at any and all forms of regulation is ignorant. Each of these situations needs to be considered thoughtfully and contextually to find a balance between short term and long term objectives.
Coding, especially the type mentioned in the article (building an app based on a specification)—is a highly complex task. It cannot be completed with a single prompt and an immediate, flawless result.

This is why even most software projects (built by humans) go through multiple iterations before they work perfectly.

We should consider a few things before asking, "Can AI code like humans?":

- How did AI learn to code? What structured curriculum was used?

- Did AI receive mentoring from an experienced senior who has solved real-life issues that the AI hasn't encountered yet?

- Did the AI learn through hands-on coding or just by reading Stack Overflow?

If we want to model AI as being on par with (or even superior to) human intelligence, don’t we at least need to consider how humans learn these complex skills?

Right now, it's akin to giving a human thousands of coding books to "read" and "understand," but offering no opportunity to test their programs on a computer. That’s essentially what's happening!

Without doing that, I don't think we'll ever be able to determine whether the limitation of current AI is due to its "low intelligence" or because it hasn’t been given a proper opportunity to learn.
Hmm... goes looking into why Socrates was executed... corrupting the youth and impiety?!?!?

"The more things change, the more they stay the same" -- not Socrates
Show HN: An Open Source Implementation of Deep Research Using Gemini Flash 2.0
Sup HN, been seeing a lot of open source implementation of deep research but i haven't seen anything that uses Python (or maybe my x feed is just a bunch of TS users) so here's my own implementation using Python, and Gemini Flash!

It has three modes:
- Fast (1-3min): Quick surface research with 3 parallel queries
- Balanced (3-6min): Moderate depth with 7 parallel queries
- Comprehensive (5-12min): Deep recursive research that builds query trees and explores counter-arguments

This also prints out the research structure as it works, so you can see exactly how it's approaching your topic. All open source.
Hegseth is planning 8% cuts to the DoD per year for the next five years: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/02...
You’re not required to submit a correctly filled out vote, so you can submit a spoiled ballot, and sometimes theres a candidate who is there to sweep in the ‘none of that’ votes

Most people do actually vote correctly though and it drowns-out the special interests
Don't think the decision is based on infra, or any technical reasons.
It's more on the service support side.
How a 200-person company supports 44M iPhone users in China?
Ahh, gotcha, thanks for the tip. Yeah, systemd is easy to reach for, but it certainly has plenty of footguns.
LLMs will never solve this problem, they are basically just glorified copy & paste engines, solving real code problems requires invention, even for most basic tasks. The best they will manage in their current direct is reason they don't have the capability or capacity to actually solve the problem rather than just getting it wrong the vast majority of the time.
I just started using git, can you give me some advice?
I'm not convinced LLMs will evolve into general AI. The promises that it's just around the corner feels increasingly like a big scam.
When I started learning Turbo Pascal I came across a problem where an if-statement was obviously decided wrong. I saw the values in the debugger.

My rescue was that I had a more experienced friend who knew that IIRC the compiler would choose the data type of the left operand of a comparison also for the right operand leading to potential sign switches.
A decent human programmer with experience in a particular domain may rely on internet access to look up API documentation and other generic references, but if you read the paper, you'll see that the AI systems tested suffered from more basic deficiencies in approach and reasoning ('3.6. Discussion', starting on page 7).
Right, because JSON makes a great ad-hoc data format. XML is a heavy duty format with very strict heavy duty tooling which can do things that JSON isn’t a great fit for (heavily nested, structurally complex, large, exactingly created, extremely formalized, etc.) Developers of a certain age were traumatized by having to work with XML that was the default choice for applications that JSON would have been a much better fit for: lightweight tasks with ad-hoc formats like simple configuration files, simple request data for async JavaScript, etc. They often had lax specifications with poorly considered nesting rules, improper namespace configuration, etc. Or, even worse, I had to regularly parse large amounts of XML handwritten in editors by nontechnical people following policies written by other nontechnical people that thought they were technical.

Having to parse a big pile of sloppy JSON data can inspire you to take an eeextra long lunch. Having to parse a big pile of sloppy XML using real XML tools inspires you take an extra long lunch browsing job openings that don’t contain the word XML.
>>Also, JVM juju shooed many away. After I left, a coworker told me they had started rewriting part of it in Go, and that was going alright.

Golang can make even Python look terse.

There's practically 0 abstractions to meaningfully tame large code bases. You just end up writing same/similar code patterns over and over again.

If you are willing to go down that path I'd recommend using Java entirely. You get the full enterprise thing.
Civ 4 Colonization is a lot of fun.
This has been common sense for a long time.

It's funny that people only raise this issue because of Donald Trump, whom the article refers to as "King," no less. The previous administration's green-lighting of the largest-ever industrial sabotage against Europe did not raise an eyebrow, but NBC News, a political opponent of Trump, claiming that Trump is "branding himself as a monarch" does the trick.

Oh well, whatever it takes.
Now that sounds like confirmation bias.
In other words you’re saying it would have been even worse without it (I agree to that).

However I claim it didn’t really solve the problem, it just alleviated it - when I moved to Vienna in early 2005 finding an apartment was easy and the prices low enough that even as a (working) student I didn’t have any trouble paying for rent. You could have a good life in Vienna even earning minimum wage (I know because my part-time student job earned me less than a full-time minimum wage would have).

Today this is no longer possible - it’s not easy to get a cheap apartment and prices are higher to a degree that you need a considerably higher-paying job to lead a comfortable life and the biggest chunk of that change is due to increased housing costs.

Amsterdam, Paris, London etc have it even worse but the problem is life in Vienna used to be very affordable (not that long ago, even 15 years ago) and it’s a lot less so today.

The same can be said about Berlin, prices here are lower than Amsterdam et al but it’s still a lot higher (relative to wages) than it was 15+ years ago and the gap keeps increasing.
None of the donations to the parent Mozilla Foundation pay for Firefox development. This is a common misconception, Mozilla's own fund-raising makes it more common than it would be if they were explicit in stating where donations go and what they fund and do not fund.
Embedded Lisp for app scripting:

https://github.com/codr7/eli

Typed Relational Database access:

https://github.com/codr7/tyred
Even if you account for chernobyl and fukushima the death count from nuclear is orders of magnitudes less than the death count from coal, oil, solar, etc. We overregulated nuclear because the risk of nuclear disasters feels scarier than the real risk of deaths downstream of airborne particulates. There are tradeoffs to every safety regulation on nuclear and those tradeoffs include more climate induced disasters, a sicker population, long term higher energy costs, etc.
There’s nothing specific to data centers here, just electricity use. The electricity use generates a shit load of GDP and soft power for the U.S., way more than $5.4B over 5 years.

So what do these degrowth people want exactly? Cant have resource extraction. Can’t have manufacturing, pollution. Can’t have tech, pollution. Just twiddling thumbs and money will come? Or keep all the benefits while offloading all the downsides to Mexico? And a few years later they will complain about dependence on foreign countries.
It's overall beneficial for society to switch to nuclear.

The problem you posed is just a market structure implementation detail. Government could operate the plants, or they could offer insurance to private sector operators.
> I am very curious, if these bugs are that common then why don’t we see more programs with weird bugs when they are running and especially having them be documented?

Any given program has N "native" bugs and M bugs introduced by the compiler. I think as long as N >> M you won't really notice. Even if you stumble across a compiler bug by chance, proving it is a nightmare: there's so much UB everywhere that any possible output is technically correct. Exceptions are compiler crashes but those are rare.

In my experience most of compiler bugs were found by well-tested and proven software during the update of the compiler version or switching compilers. That kind corresponds to the prerequisite of "N is small".
Working on my mobile semi-idle MMORPG for parents like myself. With the artstyle of 1980s/syntwave/cassette-futurism. Just finished the website over the weekend: https://afterglow-game.com/
Moving to one unit per tile didn’t add a logistics or strategic component. It jumped all the way down to a tactical one, you suddenly care about individual units flanking each other.

IMO it was sort of more “honest” from a realism point of view to just admit that the simulation is not that accurate at the unit level, you smash the stacks into each other and assume the officer corps of each army is handling flanking.

It is hard to say which way is more fun really. Seems like a matter of preference. I like tactical games better anyway, so IMO the new way is an improvement. But, realism? Not really.
We do not thoughtfully balance regulatory costs on nuclear vs say coal... Nuclear regulatory compliance is orders of magnitude more expensive despite being orders of magnitude safer for human health (on top of the climate).
Yeah I suspect there may be a solution involving setsid
It depends a lot on the type of problem. If we're talking about fixing a bug or adding a new feature to a large existing code base, which probably describes a huge portion or professional software engineering work, I would say most engineers could do most of those tasks without the internet. Especially if the goal is to simply pass a benchmark test of getting it working without future considerations.
These models are held at higher standards than humans. They should be above to solve any coding problem with just the documentation.
Coming soon.

Once DOGE eliminates the US government, we will all be either vassals of megacorporations, living in corp arcologies, or homeless with our punk band in burnt-out shipping containers.
WiseTech shares plunge after majority of board quits
> in which case they probably have just become SWE anyway

or learn to use something like Bubble
I vouched for Geolede (made by a green username) but it still needs more vouching. It looks interesting IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154984
Isn't this how interviews tend to work? So I think a good number of devs would, yes.
Considering that there are chickens who outperform stockbrokers, no.
It's a good warning to not do this unless you're having problems. I'm the type who would do this just to avoid potential future problems.
I used to be able to. The web's made me lazy. I was better before it and I'm better when I don't use it.

Really, the stuff you think helps you is often just holding you back.
Through the last decade, I have found that programmers' judgment of technologies, tools, and languages are incredibly noisy. It is hard to make correct decisions based on opinions alone, and design by committee is a real thing.

Common Lisp was the most mind-blowing language I ever touched, and it seems the creator of Clojure really filled the gap between the brilliant simplicity of Lisp as a language and the access to a mature ecosystem. Maybe I should try Clojure as my next language (I am enjoying Rust for now; Rust macros are also cool, but way more complicated)...
The real "Open" AI.
Even better, if you click through to the linked source he doesn't say "low-level" at all, or make any claim that is at all like the claim he is cited as making!
Men don't belong in women's prisons. Find a way to keep them safe in the sex-appropriate prisons, but don't make it women's problem.

Tremaine Carroll is a good example of why we need to stop coddling people's feelings on this.