skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
51 year old software developer here and through my entire career Oracle was seen among the developers I know as something you'd sometimes be forced to use because a non-technical person at your company agreed to pay so much for a license that it would be too publicly embarrassing not to use it.

It wasn't seen as an inherently bad piece of technology, it was just massive overkill (too expensive, too high maintenance) for a lot of the solutions it ended up being used for because of the effectiveness of Oracle's sales organization.
"Make me a website about books. Make it look like a designer and agency made it. Use Tailwind."

https://play.tailwindcss.com/tp54wfmIlN

Getting way better at UI.
It certainly is the most clickbaity title I have ever seen on an actual paper.
If I had to guess, it's putting the opening curly bracket on the same line as the function definition, instead of the next line. And if I'm correct, then I also agree.
I thought the same thing, I have 3 really hard problems that Claude (or any model) hasn’t been able to solve so far and I’m really excited to try them today
Awesome! Thank you, I will definitely launch my product there—I just need to ship it first, lol!
Serverless was never a cure-all
No, its all good. And you are right. Its gets the job done.
I'm developing ParaNoia, an application that allows people to securely share passwords between each other (https://github.com/jonesconnor/paranoia).

At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID password, or something of the like, there are people that send the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not everyone deletes their message containing the password afterwards.

You enter your secret on the website and it gets encrypted on the client-side before being sent to the database. A one-time-use URL is generated and then you send that URL to whomever needs the password. The backend never sees the secret in plain-text.

The tool is meant to be self-hosted - but I'm in the process of deploying it publicly for people to try out. I got the idea from my brother -- he was doing an internship at Tesla and said they had this being used internally, so I figured I would create my own as a little side project that I can then implement at work.
I seriously doubt it's cheaper than tariffs.
Fossil footprints reveal what may be the oldest known handcarts
Your "logic" (masking) conveniently avoids the point I raised: That these tariffs are being enforced to the tune of 10%. That isn't enough to alone justify this level of investment, or relocation of significant production capacity. Obviously, Apple agrees with this, because the investments they're making aren't as far as I can tell a relocation of capacity from China to the United States, but rather greenfield investment in high-skill research and development. Apple has also made significant investment into advanced silicon manufacturing in the United States; something they also did not rely on China for previously.

> The world is a bigger market than USA and just about every other country has cheaper labor and no tariffs.

Have you done zero research into this? The EU imposes a tariff on Chinese EVs. India imposes insane tariffs on all imported electronics. China tariffs Australian wine. Russia tariffs agricultural products from the EU. Brazil tariffs all imported automobiles. The list goes on. Tariffs are everywhere, everyone uses them for something.
It's fascinating how close these companies are to each other. Some company comes up with something clever/ground-breaking and everyone else has implemented it a few weeks later.

Hard not to think of Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns.
He won the popular vote. His base is the majority of Americans lol
I've been using O3-mini with reasoning effort set to high in Aider and loving the pricing. This looks as though it'll be about three times as expensive. Curious to see which falls out as most useful for what over the next month!
> If things keep going the way they are going, that could describe the US just as well in a few short years.

Why do you think so?
Hope it's worth the money because it's quite expensive.
Claude's Extended Thinking
This is a historically inaccurate take.

The Middle Ages spanned hundreds of years across countries that had very different views from each other. If you can think of something strange, it probably happened. Just one example: Women might not be able to own property in one town, but can literally vote alongside princes in another (abbesses in Medieval Germany). Stereotypes are rarely directly applicable to the whole period, any more than me digging up a stereotype of an 1850s Californian would be applicable today.

Secondly though, it downplays the likelihood that the majority of priests, bishops, and cardinals, did labor in good faith and, at least on paper, viewed the rules imposed as equally applicable to themselves. Whether they followed them or not, even the serf believed God would avenge. I would say a more accurate comparison for the nuanced authority and love-hate relationship might be our modern police.
20K people is a drop in the bucket.
I agree. At first I thought it was doing something very simple but I am not so sure anymore. When you check the condition for the swap, you realize it almost works counterproductively while i<j because it keeps pushing smaller numbers in the wrong direction, but then it starts "fixing" those mistakes when i>j. I don't find this intuitive at all.
Advice for a New College Graduate?
I'm graduating university this spring and I have done an internship, but I currently have no job offers which worries me a bit. I may have to move back in with my parents. Currently I'm doing market research to understand a specific industry because I would like to start a startup in this space. Should I just continue trying to land a job in a company that deals in the space I'm interested in so I could learn the industry better?
Considering that they are the model that powers a majority of Cursor/Windsurf usage and their play with MCP, I think they just have to figure out the UX and they'll be fine.
I went into a k-hole (a few times) where I was seeing myself from the outside (with all my flaws and faults being shown to me), and I remember my then-girlfriend slipping away from me and I tried to grab into her but she slipped away, and I remember being locked in time (not sure how to explain it). I did DXM too, that was less clean than ketamine and DXM had more of an alienish-vibe to it and I ended up watching Stargate Atlantis on it, that was fun, but ketamine had me self-reflect quite a lot.

About expectations & imminent, it made me want to change the way I live as I am pretty much a reclusive.

I wish I could explain it better but I really can't. I never felt an urge to re-dose, however.
Despite 2024 Layoffs, Tech Jobs Expected to Take Off
That looks like ActionScript 2, so the javascript convention was actually well in place by then. I can't speak confidently about the late 90s, but I wouldn't be surprised if it predated Actionscript 1 as well.

But doesn't it all trace back to C conventions anyways?
Pull request testing on Kubernetes: vCluster for isolation and costs control
It’s funny how this claim is able to make the rounds. I originally heard it here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1f-o0nqpEI

Singapore is the billing location, not the shipping location, which makes sense because they’re the HQ of a lot of companies in the region.
I'm not prepared to say "no", and as has been noted already, it depends on the application, but from your description it seems to me more like a task for Bayesian statistics organized on graphs (the nodes & vertices kind).
As long as you have a dozen potatoes, some human poop, a sample of earth soil for necessary nutrients and bacteria, and rocket fuel to burn to make water, it should be pretty easy.
> To be successful in this business you need to eliminate the hubris and just be a farmer.

Yes.

That is not to say that farming is not due for some revolutionary redefining.

But it will be farmers leading the change, not software people
Nah too easy. Pee a QR code, then scan the QR to validate.
That's not hideous. Derivative, but that's the nature of the beast.
How is that not contemplated in "additional"?
Right, because so much innovation comes from places with super high taxation in Europe. Give me a break.
works fine for my use case and found it alot better than myFitnessPal, ymmv and yeah of course it's impossible to determine with certainty but it gets you 80/90% of the way there.
Claro has had the goal of rolling out fiber island-wide for quite some time. We (In the rural foothills of Mayagüez) were the some of the first customers to receive this expansion several years ago. Are you sure it wasn't Claro?
I am learning how to promote http://codingforafrica.at/ in particular http://codingforafrica.at/help/

There is a lot of potential here to help, and I don't have big ambitions to scale this to a lot of children. There are also schools that need help. Other people that volunteer their time to run a daycare center for those that can't afford a regular one. One school is looking for someone to teach programming, but doesn't have the budget to hire a professional. I could volunteer to do it, if I could find a sponsor. It doesn't even require a full-time salary.
There is a continuum, and at the parasitic end you'll find Gastrodia Elata. It has basically no leaves at least in its herbally desirable expression where the tuber is called Tian Ma or colloquially "expensive potato".

The wild version is (should be!) unavailable because it's considered endangered, the cultivated version costs $80/lb. I know it well; I take small amounts of it in combination with Gou Teng and otherthings mumble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrodia_elata
What I would add to this (perhaps below the fold):

1. The current time in a few major cities around the world (NYC, SFO, London, CET, Mumbai and Beijing come to mind), with an indication of where it's working day (which is not 9 to 5 everywhere). Particular emphasis should be put on timezones that just started and ended daylight saving (EU and US aren't synchronized on this).

2. Upcoming holidays in major world countries.

3. Info about which fiscal year it is and when that's going to change.

You could probably get Claude to build you an artifact for this in 5 minutes though.
According to the paper, the public health cost from data centers is 1/3 of the road transportation emissions of California. The tool they used (https://www.epa.gov/cobra) to calculate the emissions impact doesn’t have aviation emissions.
We've gotten here because enough is never enough, right?
You could take it at face value. I have no idea if this was a 15 minute off-the-cuff effort, or a larger researched project. Rather than assume they either did or did not know, I asked. If they knew, they can explain their choice more. If they did not, they have something new to look into.

If you are taking it as condescending, that is on you. It was simply a question.
Things used to stop being called AI once they worked well, because AI was artificial human thought and those things weren't that.

Now they start being called AI, because AI is artificial human thought and those things are that.

What changed? Our perception of the meaning of "thought".
I don't know what you mean by killing the Turing test, but the Eliza already passed the test in the 60's.

If it is natural like a human being when you talk to it, I hear that there are actually better models than LLM.

If the LLM says it is really able to parse the language, then things like halcynation do not happen.

As a computer engineer on the fringe, I am not inclined to trust the output of a general-purpose AI whose use case is still unknown over a powerful algorithm that reliably produces the same output with the same input.
Read the comment from zeroq. We are talking about chess, and the poster was confusing GTO with having a predictable and naive strategy. There is no randomness in chess; GTO will draw in the worst case as long as both players get to play white the same number of times. I don't even know what "draw" means in the context of poker.

In heads up poker, GTO is worst case zero EV. Obviously this does not mean that the worst case in a single hand is a $0 payout - that is a fairly absurd straw man. I can play Federer at tennis for one point and it is possible he will lose. There is nothing interesting in that statement.
Advanced TypeScript Types (2021)
What about GWP-ASan? It basically samples a portion of allocations with ASan looking for memory corruption bugs. If your app is used enough it’ll find the bugs eventually without the performance overhead.
https://llvm.org/docs/GwpAsan.html
Could not agree more.

In fact, we’re tackling this exact problem with Hypership (https://hypership.dev) but in the React/Next.js and JavaScript space. Infra, auth, events, analytics, forms, database, API, everything you need to ship a product, all configurable in minutes with no glue code.

Laravel is 100% going all in on their cloud, tightly integrating their entire ecosystem. I mean, have you seen how many products they have?!

The trade-off is clear: speed vs lock-in. I'm betting on flexibility without the setup overhead. Agencies will gobble this service offering up in no time.
Discussion (682 points, 3 days ago, 444 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43125840
The only part I would quibble with is the fear that superficial AI generated code becomes widespread. It's not that I think this won't happen, and I wouldn't want it on my team, but I think it could actually increase demand for competent software engineers.

I got into coding about a decade ago when cheap outsourcing had been all the rage for a number of years. A lot of my early experience was taking over very poorly written apps that had started off with fast development and then quickly slowed down as all of the sloppy shortcuts built up and eventually ground development to a halt. There's a decent chance LLMs lead to another boom in that kind of work.
Wdym is hard? Hard like is harder to make apps for Android than iOS? Genuinely curious
GitHub copilot has now introduced Claude as model as well
Whimsical Animations
Technically it depends on the interpretation of "עֵ֥ד" and "בְרֵעֲךָ֖" whether that commandment is admonishing against telling any lie, just lies in court when making a legal accusation against another person, or somewhere in between.

Even if we accepted the premise that one book should be the basis of all morality, this one contains within itself contradictions, satire, sarcasm, and a community context we no longer have: with individual quotes I can make anyone look like a hypocrite.

To my mind the more interesting question is, does a singular community condemn a behavior in out-group members that they tolerate or even praise in in-group members?
Most employees don't generate anything that can be taken elsewhere.

overall emplopee owned companies are a bad idea because you get too invested personally in it. If the company goes bankrupt you are out not only your job but also your savings.
The only recourse for what problem? Aren't there other plausible creative ways to apply pressure and get it fixed, with less risk to the people unwittingly at mercy of this vendor's negligence?

Or are you speaking of the transactional convention, in which people can break into systems, and then are entitled to publicity for that, so long as they give the vendor advance notice?

The whole responsible disclosure convention seems an imperfect compromise, among various imperfect actors. On occasion, individuals might decide that other options are more appropriate to the specific situation, and to Perfect Tommy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKHaNIEa6kA
A Snap-Map Style App for Musicians – Would This Work?
Hey HN,

I'm exploring an idea for a location-based musician networking app, similar to Snap Map, but designed to help musicians:

Find local bandmates and jam sessions
See who’s attending local gigs and open mics
Post "Looking For" ads (e.g., "Need a drummer for a last-minute gig")

The Problem:
Most musician networking apps seem to fail, and I’m trying to figure out why.

Common reasons:

Empty app problem – Not enough users at launch, so no one sticks around.
Random connections – Musicians don’t want to meet just anyone; they need people with the right genre, style, and goals.
Existing organic networking – Many musicians already find bandmates through live shows, so they may not need an app.

My Pivot Idea:
Instead of just a musician map, make it a local music scene hub:

Filter by genre and interests to find relevant musicians
Show who’s going to gigs before the event to encourage real-life connections
Post & search for open band positions or collaboration opportunities

Questions for HN:
Have you ever seen a musician networking app work? Why or why not?
How would you solve the empty app problem?
What’s the best way to launch locally before scaling?
Would this even be useful, or do musicians just prefer finding each other organically?
I’d love to hear thoughts before diving into an MVP. Thanks for any insights!
> it's nice to see things being tried in the real world that aren't just scammy/$ grabs.

It would be nicer if it was not saddled by hubris and a lack of domain knowledge

It would be great if it were not such a colossal waste
Yeah, a lot of process vs. thread distinctions can be unclear, even in documentation. E.g., the Linux clone(2) man page mostly talks about "the child process", even though it can create either a new thread or a new process.

The weirdest case of processes vs. threads is definitely the setuid() family of functions on Linux. The underlying syscalls apply the new uid (or euid, fsuid, etc.) to the current thread, but POSIX requires them to apply to the entire process. How does glibc paper over this? It registers a realtime signal handler which calls the appropriate syscall, and sends that signal to every thread when the wrapper function is called. On top of that, it quietly removes the handler's signal number (SIGSETXID) from all calls to sigfillset(), sigprocmask(), and pthread_sigmask() to keep it from getting blocked, and bumps the value of SIGRTMIN in the userspace headers so that programs won't notice the gap. I believe musl libc does something very similar.
if you cooked a meal with a ton of butter or oil, it would not be able to detect the quantity. it could possibly undercount by hundreds of calories, making it useless. if you're not serious about the counting then it could be fine
Wonder if Aider will copy some of these features
'Why don't we teach parents proper pedagogy' seems like a more moral position than 'Lets continue treating boys as defective girls'.

https://www.johnlocke.org/boys-are-treated-like-defective-gi...
https://www.foundationfather.com/p/boys-are-not-defective-gi...
Should everyone police everyone else? That is called "the Stasi" and makes for a fearful populace. I think they have something like that in China.
Simplifying to that point is more of what a Markov chain is. LLMs are able to generalize a lot more than that, and it's sufficient to "understand text" on a decent level. Even a relatively small model can take, e.g. even this poorly prompted request:

"The user has requested 'remind me to pay my bills 8 PM tomorrow'. The current date is 2025-02-24. Your available commands are 'set_reminder' (time, description), 'set_alarm' (time), 'send_email' (to, subject, content). Respond with the command and its inputs."

And the most likely response will be what the user wanted.

A Markov chain (only using the probabilities of word orders from sentences in its training set) could never output a command that wasn't stitched together from existing ones (i.e. it would always output a valid command name, but if no one had requested a reminder for a date in 2026 before it was trained, it would never output that year). No amount of documents saying "2026 is the year after 2025" would make a Markov chain understand that fact, but LLMs are able to "understand" that.
OllyChat: AI Agents for DevOps
I know what omnipotent means. The contradiction is that it shouldn't be possible to violate the will of an omnipotent God.

You can invoke "free will", but that's just another layer of abstraction for the same problem. If free will truly exists, then God isn't omnipotent. If He does, free will cannot exist.

>On that note, who is being cruel here: A God who imposed rules on how he wants his creatures to behave to his other creatures; or a creature who hurts his other creatures, and then calls God cruel for stopping it?

God isn't cruel for imposing rules, God is cruel for allowing evil to persist and for punishing humans with eternal torment for a state of sin they cannot absolve themselves of. The God of the Bible is very obviously not good, or just, or even self-consistent. More than once He just lets humans into heaven because He likes them.

But yes humans are cruel, too.
I just got offered to discuss a "token of appreciation" by another company that included deleting public posts and signing NDAs. I replied saying I don't accept bribes. If that's clear enough for you.

And I didn't say "I will disclose it or you can do X". I asked follow up questions as I always do. Related to intent on notifications to regulators or clients so I can delay my report until the company does their notifications if that is their intent. I've done this multiple times for multiple companies, some I delayed the post for 3-4 months.

I was actually trying to be nice to the company by not doing a disclosure before them, up until this point this was just like every other interaction I have. I sent the information, the server got closed and no one got back to me. None of my communications warranted the reply I got back from this.
It does seem like it will be very, very hard for the companies training their own models to recoup their investment when the capabilities of open-weight models catch up so quickly - general purpose LLMs just seem destined to be a cheap commodity.
> one of the only ways is to solve problems or face adversity together

This is why Burning Man is such an effective community-generator, which in turn is part of the reason people tend to get culty about it. Throw yourself into a week of harsh, primitive conditions with a group of people working together to survive, thrive, and build something you can share with others, and it's easy to go home feeling like you are surrounded by friends - part of something greater than yourself.
>The behavior could change from one manufacturing run to another. The behavior could disappear altogether in a future revision of the chip.

That's the overfitting they were referring to. Relying on the individual behaviour is the overfit. Running on multiple chips (at learning time) reduces the benefit of using an improvement that is specific to one chip.

You are correct that simulation is the better solution, but you have to do more than just limit to the operating range of the components, you have to introduce variances similar to the specified production precision. If the simulator made assumptions that the behaviour of two similar components was absolutely identical to each other then within tolerance manufacturing errors could be magnified.
You are probably correct, I'm sorry. It's just that my experiences of this type with family members were much more "my food is poisoned" or claiming to see the nonexistent love child of another person. The whole secret knowledge/sheeple attitude seemed like the expression of some personality trait, but you are right, I have no personal experience to claim that.
That's exactly why. A lot of monitors don't go dim enough for darker environments, so we make them even dimmer by showing a mostly black picture.