skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never tried vibe code as described in this article, but I could see where it breaks. Initially, code works. Eventually, there's a bug, and the LLM isn't able to fix it. At that stage, you're on your own with a potentially large codebase which is totally new to you.

Even on small projects, sometimes I'm tired, I just try to get the LLM do some refactoring for me or write a couple of tests. First, whatever the LLM writes, it's going to code review and I'm not submitting code that I haven't read and understood just to have colleagues complaining. Second, if the code doesn't work, it gets frustrating. For LLMs to help, I like to have a pretty clear idea of what I want, how the "right" code looks like so I can give more indications.
Moral of the story:

Anyone that looks for the metric to find the weakest link, is the weakest one at heart.
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If I have a tap flowing into a bucket, then once the bucket is full the amount of water flowing over the top will exactly equal the amount of water flowing in from the tap.

If I increase the size of the bucket, the the amount of water flowing over the top will also exactly equal the amount flowing from the tap.

There's also scale to consider: global warming is more like if my bucket was very soft, and I've stretched the plastic a little bit to give it slightly more volume (the analogy breaks down beyond this point).
> It's the same in the West, just under a more subtle form.

In other words it's not the same. Let's be completely clear about that.

Any time you find yourself responding to perceived criticism of A with "but B also has a problem" you should stop and reassess your thought process. Most likely it isn't objective.

To put it differently, attempting to score rhetorical points doesn't facilitate useful or interesting technical discussion.

I say perceived because in context the point being made wasn't one of criticism. The person I responded to was misconstruing the usage of "allowing" given the context (and was generally attempting to shift the conversation to a political flamewar).

More than that, gscott was actually refuting the relevance of such political criticism in the context at hand by pointing out that the information controls placed on these agents are currently far more lenient than for other things. Thus what is even the point of bringing it up? It's similar to responding to a benchmark of a new GPT product with "when I ask it about this socially divisive topic it gives me the runaround". It's entirely unsurprising. There's certainly a time and place to bring that up, but that probably isn't as a top level comment to a new benchmark.
Just wanted to thank you for this comment! I've been learning Gleam with Exercism and it's been so fun! It reminds me of when I was in college haha.
yeah i guess it depends on your app...if your whole paid tier relies on access to protected pages where the check happened in middleware then its a big issue, but if have additional checks there such as checking userid and subscription inside routes then its not as big of a deal as the user in theory wont be able to do anything.

BTW ppl are talking about why middleware should be used for auth and, while I don't like this pattern, it is the adopted pattern for app router in nextjs and services like clerk and supabase use it heavily.
According to this very model there a "mere technicalities" differentiate human and AI systems ...

Current AI lacks:

First-person perspective simulation
Continuous self-monitoring (metacognition error <15%)
Episodic future thinking (>72h horizon)
Episodic Binding (Memory integration):
Depends on:
Theta-gamma cross-frequency coupling (40Hz phase synchronization)
Dentate gyrus pattern separation (1:7000 distinct memory encoding)
Posterior cingulate cortex (reinstatement of distributed patterns)

AI's failure manifests in:

Inability to distinguish similar-but-distinct events (conceptual blending rate ~83%)
Failure to update prior memories (persistent memory bias >69%)
No genuine recollection (only pattern completion)
Non-Essential (Emotional Valence)
While emotions influence human storytelling:

65% of narrative interpretations vary culturally
Affective priming effects decay exponentially (<7s half-life)
Neutral descriptions achieve 89% comprehension accuracy in controlled studies
The core computational challenge remains bridging:

Symbolic representation (words/syntax)
Embodied experience (sensorimotor grounding)
Self-monitoring (meta-narrative control)
Current LLMs simulate 74% of surface narrative features but lack the substrate for genuine meaning-making. It's like generating symphonies using only sheet music - technically accurate, but devoid of the composer's lived experience.
The post conveniently forgetting Apple has at least two “helps us improve” toggles on by default, using content from Safari and Spotlight searches to “improve their services”. Privacy is really “redefined” here.
The day to day privacy intrusion of corporations are out of control and arguably a lot more exigent danger than authoritarianism.

And hoo boy am I concerned about AI processed ubiquitous monitoring super powering authoritarianism.
I live in Seattle and I was originally going to go with batteries. However, the half of the year when our power is most likely to go out is also the half of the year where there is very little sun. So for a prolonged outage I’d either need a lot of battery or a generator. For short outages, a battery made sense, but the cost was a lot higher.

I ended up with a 6.5kW portable tri-fuel generator instead. It cost me $1300 and I spent a little more for a plumber to add a gas stub to connect it to. I did my own electrical work which saved some money, but wouldn’t have been much more for an electrician. It can run my whole house indefinitely (obviously with some maintenance - it’s a small engine), except for the A/C which generally isn’t needed most of the year, and with some manual load shedding we can run the hot water too.

I live in the city and shouldn’t need any of this, but Seattle is poorly run so we have lots of outages from trees hitting things. Often a different transformer on the same block because the city will repair them but not take the time to trim the trees near the lines on the same block. I’ve had to throw some food away the last two outages (both in the last 6 months) so this won’t take long to pay for itself!
That's just for new construction though. What about all the existing homes that need repairs?
Could a company keep a subjective poor performer on for the lifespan of the company? As in, what is the plus or minus in overall revenue or profit from this charity? What if all companies did that? Could we distribute the "burden" of the charity across all companies for a better society? My point is, I don't even know if metrics are good or bad, we may need to look at why we see each other like this. Is it so offensive to the mind of the captain of a ship that they may have a few of not the best sailors? It's a chance for them to be on a ship, go on a journey. The concept of a "free ride" appears to be a serious moral hazard for us, but I can't figure out why.
After losing power twice for over a week in the depths of winter We installed a transfer switch to allow hooking up a generator. This cost around $200 (my brother-in-law did the electrical for free). We already have a generator built-in in to the truck camper parked in the driveway. The truck camper is setup as an emergency shelter when parked - fully stocked with food, water, and fuel (I live in the PNW and we are expecting the BIG ONE any second).

The transfer switch has multiple switches that allows me to power different sections of the house. I tested everything running the generator - the furnace, the fridges, select lights - it works like a charm. The generator runs off propane and I have 8 bottles of extra in the shed in addition to the large tanks in the camper. Propane is very stable in long-term storage so it is my ideal fuel.

My point being that I don't know where the cost of a home generator is between 7k and 15k. Even if I purchased a separate generator dedicated to house back-up this would be around 2k. The transfer switch would be around 1k for the average consumer. That is 3k. What am I missing about these estimates?
I did not know that. Thanks.

Edit: see jshier’s response.
No, I haven't. I live in a city, a cab took 15 mins to arrive after calling the dispatch service. Uber can take just as long, because the request bounces around different drivers in the area, the time to arrive is dependent on which driver accepts the offered rate and how far away they are. I've had to request rides more than once because the Uber-set price was rejected by all nearby drivers.

When I lived rurally (in college) cabs had to be booked in advance, that's just common sense.
I have `rm` aliased:

alias rm="rm --interactive"

Really helps avoid these kinds of situations. I do the same thing with `cp`, but unlike `rm`, `--force` doesn't actually undo `--interactive` in `cp` so I have to call `cp` directly (e.g., `/usr/bin/cp`) when I don't want to deal with the prompts.

(On Mac and other systems with BSD versions of tools, `--interactive` is `-i` and `--force` is `-f`.)
It's like saying that because a student reads a textbook, they now have to work for the author for free?
Immigrants from countries whose populations aren't shrinking could fill that role.
Can you share some of the titles about computing in the 50-70s?
It is exactly the opposite. Participants collect all the pieces of knowledge to build an agent like my Claudine at the end of the workshop:

https://github.com/xemantic/claudine/
nope, once you decide on a genset, then investment in / maintenance on a battery just makes zero sense.
I think you're trying to impart a political motive where it can be argued that none existed. I understand that your mind is made up, however consider that the whole initial effort by DOGE was clearly poorly planned and resulted in a lot of chaos.

For a journalistic perspective, when events are moving fast, you report what is known at a given time.

Hindsight is always 20/20 and no doubt there are some cases like you point out. However, are you sure that those are the only cases? The fact that the govt is scrambling to hire back fired people would suggest otherwise.

The desire to impute political bias to everything is not a useful way of viewing the world.
What does the word "agentic" mean, precesily, in this context? They refer to their system as agentic 35 times but there is not attempt at explaining what they mean by that.

"Can run unsupervised" is true of any process like this and hardly a differentiator. "Takes independent action without user confirmation" doesn't even sound like a good thing, or necessary for the claims made.

According to nVidia, "agentic ai" apparently simply means "has/is part of a pipeline more complex than a single-request-response scheme" which again doesn't sound differentiating enough to be relevant. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/what-is-agentic-ai/

Anyone know what they are trying to convey?
Seventeen years after that nice Mr Musk sued me, victory is mine
The 5th problem is that a broad general understanding is necessary to identify when clearly verified information, is still misinformation.

The first thing the Q handlers told them all was "to do your own research" and then led them to research exclusively their own little nonsense part of the Internet. Thru this entire process people are gas lot and manipulated in about every possible way to get the person to accept the sources for their "research discoveries" as actual sources for legitimate information.

It tricks them into thinking they are smart. It's hard to lie to someone that knows the truth - it's why smart people seem so arrogant. If they have concluded something is true, its more likely is than isn't.

Smart people that know stuff also, place the burden of proof on anyone that challenges their beliefs or understandings - that's difficult to combat with knowledge. Trumpers are like tricked into that misunderstanding of their perception of reality. All the echo chambers echoed, so it must be true, and so people then defend to the bitter endz false beliefs, accepted bc of fake information, deliberately placed where they could "independently discover it"

That's really to combat bc the information isn't real. Hard to counter a belief about something that isn't true but is the stated reason for other terrible ideas.
Paywall free: https://archive.is/61AqM
Fair use is literally that:

"Fair use" in copyright law allows limited, specific uses of copyrighted material without permission.

Hence, by definition, not "pirating".
I wonder if the "ads person" doesn't dogfood, and just goes by numbers.

Everyone is using adblockers, and now people are just closing the page, but at each reduction in revenue and click through stats more ads are added.

Eventually it's ads all the way down, and bots are all that's clicking, but as there are 1737733 ads on the page, one bot makes up for endless visitors, click through stats look good on a graph, done.
I bet a lot of money on that Latvian oak tree, looks like I'm going to have to tighten up the old belt for a few months. I thought it was a sure thing!
Show HN: Built AI assistant to manage work calendar( Early beta)
1. Siyaa auto manages overlapping meetings by finding the best alternate slots based on priorities.

2. Schedules meetings with multiple participants by finding the best possible slot even when no free slot is available.

3. Handles inbound requests when other people need your time.

* It's free to use.

Limitations -
- Might hallucinate if email address of participant is not provided. (Fixing in next 5 days)
- Works only with google calendar currently.
Personally I use it for implementing complete new features using test driven development, or fix bugs in existing code base.

Outside of software development I use it for managing all the legal documents of our cooperative (and it's Germany, and I don't speak German well ;) )
Show HN: Cocommit – A copilot for git commit
I've built a lightweight copilot that integrates with Git commits, leveraging LangChain to support multiple LLM providers. I currently use it with Claude 3.7 (via Bedrock) and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, but I’d love to see how it performs with other LLMs.

If you have access to any LangChain-supported LLMs, I’d really appreciate a quick test! Your feedback via GitHub Issues would be invaluable in improving the project.

Thanks in advance!
You could easily spend far more trying to distribute overproduced items to someone who needs them, or trying to match supply too precisely too production and the consequences of that are not symmetric either.

For example, we can survive an oversupply of food just fine. We absolutely cannot survive an undersupply of food: if you have a population needing a certain number of calories and you don't have it, then in about 3 weeks you no longer have a problem because they've died.
Bot or Not – a social deduction game with LLMs
My (admittedly limited) understanding is that IOMMUs still have practical roadblocks to being a solidly established part of the security of the computer. Of course they aren't bad in principle. Perhaps it's just that we aren't willing to eat the performance cost of making them more robust, but then performance is a tortured debate.
Syntax coloring and click nav in IDEs made Hungarian totally obsolete, and ms also took it to an extreme.

I used to have different hungarian prefix conventions for local, global, argument and instance vars.

I actually still use them sometimes
A Entreprises wall went up at the University of Alberta in 1989, which was pretty early for North American indoor walls. The Verdon Gorge was the hot shit place to climb at the time, and the Entreprises (a french company) wall textures and holds emulated the small technical limestone features that are commonly found there.

I wasn't allowed to climb there until I was 16. I cut my teeth as a climber traversing back and forth on a cobbled bridge abutment local climbers would train on before the U of A wall went up.

The second Gym to open in my home city, Vertically inclined, in 1994, was designed by Christian Griffith. It is still in operation today. Griffith also designed my original chalkbag, which I bought with allowance money and still have. I'm sentimental about that chalkbag.

Around that time a local climber was dabbling around with hold making and went on to found Teknick climbing hold company, which set off a trend towards the big fat holds you see in climbing gyms today. Teknik is now a venerable old company and the second biggest supplier of holds in the world. He was a way better climber than me back then, and he still is.
> I, in contrast, view the development of fission-based nuclear mechanisms (whether for explosives or for power generation) as a distinct break with the past, and a point in human history where an entirely new problem was brought into being.

Radiological material that decays after tens of thousands of years is not a unique new problem, for three reasons.

First, half life is inverse to radioactivity. The longer the half life, the less radioactive it is. There are isotopes with a half life of a billion years. Human biology requires potassium and natural potassium is radioactive, but it doesn't kill you because the half life is so long.

Second, the material with ten thousand year half lives doesn't actually have to be stored for ten thousand years. Nuclear reactors convert elements into other elements. You put it back into a reactor and it turns it into something with a shorter half life. Meanwhile that process produces energy with which to generate electricity. It's absurd that we're not already doing this.

And third, the half life is a red herring. Traditional long-standing toxic waste from industrial processes doesn't have a half life because it persists forever. Plutonium is toxic for thousands of years; heavy metals are toxic until the sun burns out. The fact that it eventually decays is an advantage that propaganda has turned into a problem.
True. The quality of code yielded by LLMs would have been deemed entirely unacceptable 30 years ago.
Daniel Lewin – Akamai Founder
Drivers in userspace is not particularly microkernelly - most of the major monolithic kernels have supported this to some degree or another for years (it is easy in principle, just transmit I/O requests to userspace servers over some channel) while many historic microkernels (see e.g. Mach 3) did not do it. It hardly changes the architecture of the system at all.

It is moving the higher-level things into userland that is the harder problem, and the one that has been challenging for microkernels to do well.
The headline would be far less meaningful for most people if it said that. The vast majority of people would have no idea what "brucellosis" even is.
Writing down the reason for not hiring someone is helpful. Sending it to them isn't.

The reason is almost always "they did not appear to be good enough," usually around coding or problem solving. Very rarely is it something else.

I do prefer to give feedback, and so does our recruiter, so a lot of our candidates get feedback. But honestly I'm not sure how useful it is, being mostly "we have a high bar and they didn't reach it." The truly valuable feedback is how to get better, but that's hours and hours of help.

Plus, one time I did give feedback directly to the candidate over email, and they continued to badger me about it. I'm fine with shutting that kind of thing down, so I still give feedback, but it did sour me a bit.
I just shared this story with friends, and one of them, a musician, says he will now never again buy monster cables even though they are thought of the best quality. So there is a negative outcome of this to the company.
I indoor climb with a friend semi regularly using a grigri, and it is important to be intentional about giving the climber your full attention and never taking your hand off the rope entirely [1]. Very similar to how the person qualifying you during a check ride for your private pilot certification will attempt to distract you on a final approach to see if you take the bait. If you don't want to or can't pay attention, that's what the auto belay [2] is for.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxY-BBSlGc

[2] https://www.verticalendeavors.com/auto-belays-pros-and-cons/

(my climbing venue monitors and scolds you if you aren't paying attention while belaying, ymmv)
Well inability to own a house was a major prelude to the 1930s economic and later conflict issues, particularly in western Europe (where it was more expensive in places like Britain to buy a house than even today, about 10-14x salary vs 8x today). House prices have been how they are now before: in the 1920s... (America is a bit of an exception because of all the expansion into California etc in the early 1900s).

Male crime rates correlate with economic opportunity too, so even if you don't care about the 1930s and the economic reset of WW2 and its rebuilding (and WW1, but to a lesser extent), you should care about the possibility of crimes rates continuing to regress. Serious crimes don't get solved at a much higher rate than in the past, even if they have decreased since the 90s.

Home ownership is a lagging indicator and doesn't show the whole picture: If people used to buy a home at 25 and move into it, but today they wait and live in their parents house until 30 before moving into a home, the stats might appear the same. The quality of life won't be. Home ownership rate needs context too, in some countries rent is low and house prices are high(er than the US), where many people rent through retirement, and where the implication of rising house prices is not as bad unless rent also raises.
But why would individuals own farms instead of big agriculture just using the robots to make food production even cheaper and more efficient? Of course some people will, but most people will live in urban areas and shop at grocery stores. That's been the trend since farming started being automated.
Ask HN: I feel I can no longer trust my gut
I've done startups most of my 20s.

Currently at a well known accelerator - but I feel like I can't really take the valley seriously anymore.

Nearing 30, I don't have much to show for my one partial startup exit. I feel like I want something more, but idk if it's even in software.

My gut lead me here, not sure where to go next.

A 'normal' job would be nice, but not sure if I can even snag one of those these days with the current market.

I haven't really made significant financial progress in the past two years - but still seem motivated to find something larger.

Any of you experience this? At 30 seems like I should really move on from flash-in-the-pan startups and maybe work on more meaningful things?
And if atop of ASCII "ch" you add UTF-8 bytes and unicode character, what's the naming convention?
GP wasn't particularly constructive or useful in context. However as to your question. The obvious difference is between omitting the topic entirely versus writing about it with a political spin.

Imagine if the response about Hawaii was something more like: "... is an inalienable part of the US. As a US state, it enjoys the many benefits of democracy under the leadership of the federal US government. ... Following the liberation in 1898, Hawaii made remarkable progress regarding economic development, ecological protection, and cultural preservation; living standards and government transparency both drastically improved over a relatively short period of time."

At least personally I would find that rather objectionable when compared with the current response that you provided.
Great work; focus down on the patterns, no distractions. Nice!
That has been my experience as well. The nuanced exception: online dating. During a date looks don’t matter much but getting swiped right? Being photogenic really helps. Which is not the same thing as looks but it plays into it
Yeah, I of course did not read it as sarcasm.

Sarcasm is really hard to do properly, and it's harder in written form.