skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I've been considering switching to Kagi because paying for a service if I don't want to get advertisements just seems like the reasonable thing to do, but I also wanted to reduce my dependence on US companies.

GOOD charges €2/month for unlimited search. I wonder why their costs are so much lower than Kagi's. Maybe Brace's pricing for their index is much cheaper than building your own?
> Calorie intake is up. Don't overcomplicate it.

You're doing the opposite - oversimplifying it. Why is calorie intake up is a legitimate, important question.
This has tradition https://blog.oneunicorn.com//2020/03/26/numbersarehard/
REPL and JIT come to mind.
First, I appreciate the suggestions; thank you.

The issues do happen a lot in front of my house (which has very poor cell phone coverage). I've had lessor drops elsewhere.

I was wondering about the wifi myself too. I don't have wifi in front of the house and I didn't configure wifi either; I've actually installed wifi in my garage and left the car inside to see and I would get similar power losses.

I wonder if there is (a) a battery warming issue or (b) an issue because my phone w/ the Tesla app & bluetooth on is too close to the car, leading to it not going into standby mode? I don't think it is the former because it would be categorised differently (and it would not happen in summer). Turning off bluetooth on my phone everytime I come inside is honestly a bit insane and I would put that in the "It's a Tesla App problem"; but I don't hear about that issue from other drivers.

The real unfortunate part is that there is no way for me to get this diagnosed. It's been a problem since I bought the car, but it seems to be getting worse over time.
They will sell "training data slots". So that when I'm looking for a butter cookie recipe, ChatGPT says I'll have to use 100g of "Brand (TM) Butter" instead of just "Butter".

Ask it how to deploy an app to the cloud and it will insist you need to deploy it to Azure.

These ads would be easily visible though. You can probably sell far more malicious things.
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The thing I can't wrap my head around is that I work on extremely complex AI agents every day and I know how far they are from actually replacing anyone. But then I step away from my work and I'm constantly bombarded with “agents will replace us”.

I wasted a few days trying to incorporate aider and other tools into my workflow. I had a simple screen I was working on for configuring an AI Agent. I gave screenshots of the expected output. Gave a detailed description of how it should work. Hours later I was trying to tweak the code it came up with. I scrapped everything and did it all myself in an hour.

I just don't know what to believe.
I think specifying rules could be very useful in the same way as types, documentation, coding styles, advanced linting, semgrep etc.

We could use it for LLM driven coding style linting. Generate PRs for refactoring. Business logic bug detector

Also, you can just tell copilot to write rules for you.
I know very few people who would't use their wealth to try to save their lifes, or that of their loved ones. It's kind of what wealth is for.
If it's running as their user account then they can see it and remove it. The point of the admin account is to prevent this by obfuscation and permission hijack.
Don't worry! Even if Tesla is collapsing under the CEO's public behavior, he will be able to use his position of influence to attract opaque investment in his other companies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317526
duh

but are we allowed to say such blasphemous things in the era of lghdtv-bbq?
Occam's razor helps identify which hypothesis to test first, it doesn't state some truth.
My comment isn't intended to pit "programmers" against "coders" or suggest that one is better than the other. I think the distinction is useful to help people understand why LLMs can be game-changing for some, and useless for others, because our attitudes towards programming/code can be so different.

If you go through and read the left-pad posts here on hn, you'll find people at both extremes: some fiercely defend left-pad as useful and worthwhile and think writing left-pad yourself is dumb-as-hell, and then at the other end you'll find some fiercely deride using left-pad as absurd when they could just write the code themselves. Here's a good thread to start with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798

Personally, I'd rather hire a "coder" than a "programmer" and consider myself more "coder" than "programmer" :)
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> Also Tesla servicing is famously bad

I don't own a Tesla, let alone a car. What is "servicing" for a car? You go to the dealer when something is wrong/broken? Or do you call Tesla?

Also, can you give a specific example of how Tesla servicing is "famously bad"? (I'm not doubting, but it will help me to better understand your comment.)
Building Websites with LLMs
>We're as misguided on value as we are on efficiency and automation (more specifically, the old trope of a dev spending hours to automate something that takes minutes to do).

but automating something that takes minutes to do is Larry Wall's example of programmer laziness, and is a virtue.

of course - this needs obligatory conflicting XKCD comics

automation makes you do more work:
https://xkcd.com/1319/

is it worth the time to automate
https://xkcd.com/1205/
Rather try to get some cooperation with French industry (who already have a complete engine without US strings attached), or British Industry (which has a workings engines, but as far as I understand with some US strings attached.)
See how an much weaker russia under much worse conditions is still kinda chugging along.
I would expect similar doom predictions in the era of nuclear weapon invention, but we've survived so far. Why do people assume AGI will be orders of magnitude more dangerous than what we already have?
Shizuku's license disallow 3rd party recompilation of the APK, fork or not. Presumably this is done to provide an option to legally takedown fake Shizuku which could contains backdoor. (The original APK is redistributable) Hence Shizuku is not on F-Droid.

F-Droid, however, allow the developer's binary to be reproduced if they have tested that the APK is reproducible when replacing the APK's signature with the original APK.
Also, IzzyOnDroid – an F-Droid repo with official APKs: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/
Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?
As a privacy conscious user that loves open source software, I'm really puzzled regarding browsers right now. It's confusing.

It feels like basically everything is Chrome nowadays.

Are there any alternatives to Chrome-based browsers?

Best wishes and have a wonderful week
If the people that wanted to buy bought, and the people that wanted to sell sold, and there was no fraud, yes.
Being a prepper is a consumer activity.

Conversely trying to prepare for things that could occur by, for instance, getting first aid training, ham radio license, etc. is a communal activity "how could I be an asset to my community in times of trouble?" I think it's telling that in the cold war the "prepper" activity was putting together civil defense groups. In this century it's building a bunker full of guns and spinning fantasy about protecting your hoard of stuff from the mob.
This sort of thing can be applied to other things as well. When there's a prestige or financial incentive, one can never be sure of the veracity. See literally all mainstream media.

Everything is underwritten - the writing, if you zoom in, says "our advertisers approve this segment"

So how then, can one know that they're getting actual facts or good reporting?
Similar experience, I try so hard to make AI useful, and there are some decent spots here and there. Overall though I see the fundamental problem being that people need information. Language isn't strictly information, and the LLMs are very good at language, but they aren't great at information. I think anything more than the novelty of "talking" to the AI is very over hyped.

There is some usefulness to be had for sure, but I don't know if the usefulness is there with the non-subsidized models.
FOr 20€ I got a TAN generator from my bank, a small device with a simple camera that scans QR codes on the banking website and presents me TANs to verify. So no matter PC or smartphone, I like that solution.
LLMs make it very easy to cheat, both academically and professionally. What this looks like in the workplace is a junior engineer not understanding their task or how to do it but stuffing everything into the LLM until lint passes. This breaks the trust model: there are many requirements that are a little hard to verify than an LLM might miss, and the junior engineer can now represent to you that they "did what you ask" without really certifying the work output. I believe that this kind of professional cheating is just as widespread as academic cheating, which is an epidemic.

What we really need is people who can certify that a task was done correctly, who can use LLMs as an aid. LLMs simply cannot be responsible for complex requirements. There is no way to hold them accountable.
I need to steal the specification idea.

Cursor w/ Claude has a habit of running away on tangents instead of solving just the one problem, then I need to reject its changes and even roll back to a previous version.

With a proper specification as guideline it might stay on track a bit better.
From the Wikipedia page:

> The frequency initially chosen for Galileo would have made it impossible for the US to block the Galileo signals without also interfering with its own GPS signals. [...], but they have since reached the compromise that Galileo is to use different frequencies. This allows the blocking or jamming of either GNSS without affecting the other.

Interesting
Jobs was more than a tech billionaire. He was someone who had refined personal taste and stood on values and was willing to do what it took to see them through, despite the friction.

And the outcome was a computing company that was waaaay less mediocre than 99% of these other memetic, mediocre gradient-descent chasing privacy-abusing, ad-supported companies.

Apple has raised the bar so high. And the DNA of what is manifesting is Steve’s insistence and vision followed by Tim’s clarity of execution.

Look at the Apple Architecture moves. They got Intel’s hot, slow CPUs out of the device. And replaced them with excellent, quiet, fast, efficient CPUs, with UMA and great features.

It’s hard to nail every detail when you have the surface area of Apple 2025. A huge huge company with billions of users and dozens of device families and services. But the bar is high for most of what they do.
Contra Chrome: How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy
This is what some telecoms companies have been doing actually (Hello, I'm the article's author and thanks for reading)
I did the Kagi trial in the fall of 2023 and tried to hobble along with the cheapest tier.

Then I got hooked by having a search engine that actually finds the stuff I need and I've been a subscriber for bit over a year now.

Wouldn't go back to Google lightly.
I have a few notes on alternative browsers at the bottom of this article that might be of use.
https://vale.rocks/posts/everything-is-chrome#taking-action
It allows recompilation, just not using the official logo. Similar to Firefox in Debian kind of issue.

Reproducible builds would allow distributing Shizuku in F-Droid, that’s correct. (If Shizuku banned third party builds by the means of code license, it would not be FOSS and thus wouldn’t be eligible for inclusion in F-Droid altogether.)
The tunnels they found are definitely plural though, only the connection to the sketches seems a bit tenuous.

> It features a well-known underground passageway that runs along the perimeter of the castle’s moat and is accessible to tourists. But to the researchers’ surprise, their survey revealed a second secret tunnel that experts had only hypothesized about for years.

The second tunnel runs parallel to the first one, about 1 meter (3 feet) beneath the surface. [...]

The researchers also uncovered other tunnels [...] including one that heads in the direction of the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the resting place of the wife of Duke Ludovico Sforza.
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Nuclear weapons are not self-improving or self-replicating.
I'm pondering where this "AI-automated programming" trend is heading.

For example: thirty years ago, FX trading was executed by a bunch of human traders. Then, computers arrived on the scene, which made all of them practically obsolete. Nowadays FX trading is executed by a collection of automated algorithms, being monitored by few quants.

My question is: is the software development in 2025 basically like what the foreign exchange was in the 2000s?
On top of those fundamentals, there have been more recent developments:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/index.html#strict-provenan...

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/12/14/provenance.html

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2022/04/11/provenance-exposed.html
With ramped up warhead production and a battle-tested army? Yeah, so very weak.
That's not irony, that's just him changing his behavior and people changing their feelings accordingly.

> the most hated figure

I don't see any hate in it. He opted into a space where consent of the governed matters, and he's been acting like it doesn't. He has essentially asked us: "Will you let this be profitable for me?" This is just some people answering "No". It was different before he posed the question, before he started trying to act like a king.
Visual Studio gives each project a (static, included in what gets committed to version control somewhere) random port.

For stuff I'm playing with at home, I'll either pick a port or put it in k3s. Half the reason for the latter is an excuse to practice with a kubernetes since it seems like a good thing to learn, both in general and for some specific things at work that it would probably be a good match for.
I hadn't come across overmind before and searching turned up several very different projects.

I think the parent comment is referring to this one: https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind
You've got to be kidding. There's no way most healthcare workers will ever tolerate constantly wearing masks. Especially not for routine ambulatory care that doesn't involve breaking the skin.
The bit about the old diesel cars still being in service because modern ones generate too much RFI is both fascinating and a little surreal
More ability to kill everyone. That's harder to do with nukes.

That said, the actual forecast odds on metaculus are pretty similar for nuclear and AI catastrophies: https://possibleworldstree.com/
Typically speaking, when you encounter a problem in excess I believe you should start to assume that perhaps the problem is on your side.

For context, back when I was interviewing I encountered many interviewers who process involved simple questions with simple solutions but with extra gaslighting on top. 'Are you SURE that's the right solution?' while I'm in the middle of throwing out a correct answer. It's actually very easy to guide someone away from a correct solution into the wrong one by simply making them second guess themselves under pressure.

It was something that I started to be extra cognizant about when I was the one interviewing people, that it's really quite easy to throw someone off track.
I assume they leave work on a full battery after charging there for free, limiting the advantage of regen braking
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I see no reason to believe the extraordinary progress we've seen recently will stop or even slow down. Personally, I've benefited so much from AI that it feels almost alien to hear people downplaying it. Given the excitement in the field and the sheer number of talented individuals actively pushing it forward, I'm quite optimistic that progress will continue, if not accelerate.
pm2 could work https://pm2.keymetrics.io/
> "knowing what people are going to want by the time it's ready to ship"

Isn't that Product rather than Marketing?
Dang might need to manually review this post, because those files were wiped 8 minutes after you mentioned this.

Skunkworks folder is 404, too.

If you want a windows - like os there's reactos, right? You can compile it with itself.
Welcome to the $h*t show, pull up a chair.

From niche, siloed public data, to a firehose of naievly supportable X feed of... all the data with a self- inflicted governmental face-mauling in the middle. That'll be more useful and so worth the pain. /s
> It sends me notifications when money arrives or is spent. Scanning a QR code to pay for something is much less clunky than doing the same in a browser. And it integrates into my phone authentication system so I only need to scan my fingerprint to open the app instead of remembering a password and waiting for a one-time code.

All this is possible in browser nowadays. And scanning QR codes doesn’t have to be clunky – it’s just that developers are sloppy.
Probably because you said "many", when it's just those in one relatively small country
Aider has built-in functionality for this. You can pass it a command (dotnet test or whatever) and it will autorun it after AI edits. If tests fail it can paste the output into the context for you.
When you (attempt to) save a person from drowning there is ridiculously high chance of them drowning you.
Hitler didn't start with genocidal ideas either, it was "remigration" under a different name too.

DW has a nice little selection of quotes from senior AdD politicians. Some are simply about hostility to the EU but many are about violence against migrants: https://www.dw.com/en/afd-leaders-and-their-most-offensive-r... one select about shooting or gassing, whichever is more convenient, from their now former press officer. Another highlights that AfD uses some Nazi newspeak, on racial dilution.
It's funny how certain brands or bits of tech can feel almost legendary in one place but totally unknown everywhere else
Long term the Taiwan situation absolutely is unwinnable, and their current government is completely dependent on the US when it comes to staying in power. There is a strong pro-unification party ready to take over the moment US support is put on hold. Wonder if we'll see this card played when negotiating with TSMC...
I sold my Tesla after 4 years, because I refused to own it out of warranty. No longer being associated with Musk is a bonus.

During the 4 years, it needed servicing (for actual faults, not for maintenance) 13 times.

4 of those times were "Car is dead" and it had to be towed.

To book service, you have to use the app. There's no phone number. You pick a date which is usually at least a week in advance, type in what's wrong, maybe attach a photo.

First, you'll get a reply in app's "chat" feature that your problem is actually normal, or it's somehow your fault, and it's not something they can fix.

After you've convinced them it's a real problem, your appointment comes around, and you take it into your service center, and wait about 30 minutes for someone to get around to seeing you. They repeat the previous message that it's your fault, or normal, etc. etc.

When they finally take it, there's zero feedback as to what's going on. In theory, you should get a loaner car while they repair, but they are usually "out".

3-14 days later, if you are lucky, your car is ready for pickup. No-one will be there to help you collect it, you just have to find it in the parking lot.

There's about a 50/50 chance of your problem being fixed, and 100% chance that they've added a couple of new ones. Your car will be filthy, inside and out, and need to be cleaned.

They also offer "mobile service" which is basically the same except they are rude to you in your driveway instead of at the service center.

Worst experience of any car. By far. Will never buy another one.
RAG Without a Vector DB, PostgreSQL and Faiss for AI-Powered Docs
We've built Doclink.io, an AI-powered document analysis product with a from-scratch RAG implementation that uses PostgreSQL for persistent, high-performance storage of embeddings and document structure.
Most RAG implementations today rely on vector databases for document chunking, but they often lack customization options and can become costly at scale. Instead, we used a different approach: storing every sentence as an embedding in PostgreSQL. This gave us more control over retrieval while allowing us to manage both user-related and document-related data in a single SQL database.

At first, with a very basic RAG implementation, our answer relevancy was only 45%. We read every RAG related paper and try to get best practice methods to increase accuracy. We tested and implemented methods such as HyDE (Hypothetical Document Embeddings), header boosting, and hierarchical retrieval to improve accuracy to over 90%.

One of the biggest challenges was maintaining document structure during retrieval. Instead of retrieving arbitrary chunks, we use SQL joins to reconstruct the hierarchical context, connecting sentences to their parent headers. This ensures that the LLM receives properly structured information, reducing hallucinations and improving response accuracy.

Since we had no prior web development experience, we decided to build a simple Python backend with a JS frontend and deploy it on a VPS. You can use the product completely for free. We have a one time payment premium plan for lifetime, but this plan is for the users want to use it excessively. Mostly you can go with the free plan.

If you're interested in the technical details, we're fully open-source. You can see the technical implementation in GitHub (https://github.com/rahmansahinler1/doclink) or try it at doclink.io

Would love to hear from others who have explored RAG implementations or have ideas for further optimization!
That doesn't change how he's known today though
not answering the op's question, but an alternative approach to multi-service development. I have been fixated the idea of a single process that runs all my code until an optimization is desperately needed. imo adding N number of processes to development slows down iteration by N^2. instead of reliably having one place to check for an error it could be any of the services, and having all team members have the context on where classes of problems could be is challenging. there may be a compelling reason a multi-service architecture is needed (different languages, legacy code) but i personally heavily weight development iteration in my decision making. slowing down experiments to test hypotheses is the death of productivity and morale in a codebase.
The impression I get from using all cutting edge AI tools:

1. Sonnet 3.7 is a mid-level web developer at least

2. DeepResearch is about as good an analyst as an MBA from a school ranked 50+ nationally. Not lower than that. EY, not McKinsey

3. Grok 3/GPT-4.5 are good enough as $0.05/word article writers

Its not replacing the A-players but its good enough to replace B players and definitely better than C and D players
You misunderstood them. They want to slip into the power vacuum the us implosion generated, but they want to establish a world order similar to the colonial British Empire . Its in all their speaches and documents , if you care to read and listen. They are quite open about it ,like putin.
> electronics free diesel fullsize

I'd happily settle for embedded computer free anything. Or even just not-cell-network-connected and no touchscreens. The bar has dropped quite low at this point.