skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article seems a bit weird because it doesn't talk about whether the quality of the analysis went up or down afterwards.

To pick an extreme example, programmers using a strongly typed language might not bother manually checking for potential type errors in their code and leave it to the type checker to catch them. If the type checker turns out to be buggy then their code may fail in production due to their sloppiness. However, we expect the code to eventually be free of type errors to a superhuman extent because they are using a tool that is strong to cover their personal weaknesses.

AI isn't as provably correct as type checkers, but they're pretty good at critical thinking (superhuman compared to the average HN argument) and human analysts must also routinely leave a trail of mistakes in their wake. The real question is what influence the AI has on the quality and I don't see why the assumption is that it is negative. It might well be; but the article doesn't seem to go into that in any depth.
See also Dwarkesh Patel’s interview with two of the authors of this post (Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo) that was also released today: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/scott-daniel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htOvH12T7mU
> It's a mindset I don't understand.

As someone who used to cheat in online games until I got a real job...

I could create my own story. I would cheat on servers where other people wanted to play in that story too. Eventually cheats become mods and mods become permitted. Once everyone has access to that story then the story is boring.

Think about a dungeon master who brings their own tools and props to some other board game and then invents a whole new game. Plenty of games or game mods kind've started in similar ways.

Plus it was fun to sometimes exact revenge upon other cheaters.
Came across essay excerpts on X - didn't read like he was very excited to go to college.
Here's the official source for the calculation: [0].

Also, there are some hints this might be from a LLM [1].

And an official statement that it's about trade imbalances and not reciproc tarrifs [2].

And they ask the affected country to "not retaliate" [3].

IMHO Trump tries to lead the US like he managed his businesses. And here I'd like to refer to the three casinos he owned that are now insolvent [4].

[0] https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114272481124239587

[1] https://universeodon.com/@henryk@chaos.social/11427313249281...

[2] https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations

[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/02/business/liberation-day-t...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atl...
> I'm not convinced it's necessarily a lack of creativity, but more just a lack of knowledge and expertise around what's even possible.

Agreed. Great creatives are still great (and still too rare). In addition to the lack of technical proficiency and creative aspiration, I also suspect there's an element of some directors/DPs on VFX blockbusters assuming all the sensational VFX elements in the frame simply overwhelm beautifully subtle, artistically expressive in-camera cinematography or maybe make it matter less. I can't really fault them for assuming that as it's sometimes at least somewhat true (for some viewers). But then I look at an extraordinary outlier example of VFX-soaked comic book movie lensed brilliantly like The Batman compared to a typically competent example like recent live action Spiderman and realize... nope, it still matters - it's just really hard to do well and integrate with VFX. (Some good comparison examples in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STynLl-2FqU).
That's not what that says at all. It says that the language was slightly different depending on the platform.

Microsoft basic wasn't the first basic interpreter which is a different claim than Microsoft basic source was copied from another interpreter.
We can’t all be bread making hedonists. Some of us want these finite lives to mean more than living constantly in the moment in a state of baking zen.
Right, because agents can utilize git natively.

If this is for navigating/searching github in a fine-grained way, then totally cool and useful.
If that is a Nazi salute, then a lot of democrat party politicans are also Nazis, lol.
In Safari 18.4 (currently in beta) tags are supported and notifications can replace each other.
You sound like a supervisor there ;)

“They didn’t break the rule! They engaged in the rules with purpose unlike those rule followers.”

Though I’m not advocating your approach is incorrect.
I'm the complete opposite. After being burnt out and feeling an almost physical repulsion to starting anything new, using AI has renewed my passion. I've almost finished a side project I started 4 weeks ago and it's been awesome. Used AI from the beginning for a Desktop app with a framework I'd never heard of before and the learning curve is almost non-existent. To be able to get the boring things done in minutes is amazing.
What's remarkable is that the cost of software companies will rise dramatically simply because cost of laptops, office chairs, tables, electric cables will rise.

At that point, it might just be worthwhile to develop 100% abroad and then sell in the US with a one-time tariff rather than pay for itemized tariffs/US greedflation.
It's not baffling in the least.

No matter the extent you believe in the freedom of information, few believe anyone should then be free to profit from someone else's work without attribution.

You seem to think it would be okay for disney to market and charge for my own personal original characters and art, claiming them as their own original idea. Why is that?
I was wondering if this was the case.
It used to be standard practice for ISPs to host a bunch of game servers too, to minimize latency and cost.
> In the 1950s, as part of the MKULTRA project, the Agency hired magician John Mulholland to teach young officers techniques of deception suitable for the field, such as smuggling assets out of East Germany during the Cold War in vehicles that resembled the magic boxes used in stage illusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra says:

> Project MKUltra[a] was a human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.[1] The term MKUltra is a CIA cryptonym: "MK" is an arbitrary prefix standing for the Office of Technical Service and "Ultra" is an arbitrary word out of a dictionary used to name this project. The program has been widely condemned as a violation of individual rights and an example of the CIA's abuse of power, with critics highlighting its disregard for consent and its corrosive impact on democratic principles.[2]

I would guess the goal of this fluffy article is to promote positive domestic perceptions of the CIA.

But did they really have to shout out some keyword that's associated with some of the craziest publicly-known things that the CIA did, without acknowledging, oh yeah, some bad stuff happened?

And is now the time to be clouding past lessons learned by the US, about the dangers of insane rogue elements in government, sabotaging our ideals from within?
I think paragraphs 4 and 5 were more relevant than paragraph 2.
Oh hey, Wesleyan on HN! I’m an alumnus (matriculated a year or two after Roth became president). Wesleyan has a rich history of activism and protest, and not always entirely peaceful (Roth’s predecessor, Doug Bennet, had his office firebombed at one point).

I’ve had a few opportunities to speak with Roth since the Gaza war started, and I’ve always found him particularly thoughtful about balancing freedom of expression with a need to provide a safe and open learning environment for everyone on campus. In particular, he never gave in to the unlimited demands of protestors while still defending their right to protest.

In part, he had the moral weight to do that because—unlike many university presidents—he did not give in to the illiberal demands of the left to chill speech post-2020, which then were turned against the left over the past year.

I don’t see any particularly good outcome from any of this; the risk of damaging the incredibly successful American university system is high. Certainly smart foreign students who long dreamed of studying in the US will be having second thoughts if they can be arbitrarily and indefinitely detained.

But I hope the universities that do make it through do with a stronger commitment to the (small l) liberal values of freedom of expression , academic freedom, and intellectual diversity.
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It's standards track and we've had positive signals from Mozilla and Google. Apple is just the first to ship in this case. Are you also mad when Apple is _not_ the first to ship a feature? Is there any way to win?
That article is a bit confusing because it's using the term "BASIC" to refer to both the language and Microsoft's implementation. But what it's trying to say is that Microsoft's BASIC implementation was licensed by many computer companies (including Commodore and Atari) and that those companies changed and extended it in incompatible ways.
> Regardless, I guarantee nobody who buys one will be alive to redeem the ticket.

I agree 100%, which is part of what makes it such an easy scam to pull off!

You're attempting to sell this thing as a donation with a fake toy Monopoly-money not-actually-expected-to-be-redeemed ticket thrown in. The top commenter of this thread shouldn't have tried to include the ticket as a serious value-add if that's what it is. The comment specifically said "you can already buy a ticket to the finale, so your distant descendants can go see it [using the ticket]," not "so you can support the project out of the kindness of your own heart without any guarantee your descendants will get to see the finale."
>information itself must be entirely subsumed into an oppressive, proprietary, commercial apparatus

I think that's the reason why I've (and probably many others?) have cooled down on general open source coding.

Open source started when well-paid programmers used their stable positions and ample extra time to give back to the community. What happened then is that corporations then siphoned up all that labor and gave nothing back, just like the AI bros siphoned up all data and gave nothing back. The 'contract' of mutual exchange, of bettering each other, was always a fantasy. Instead the companies took away that ample extra time and those stable positions.

Here we are in 2025 and sometimes I can't afford rent but the company C-tier is buying itself their hundredth yacht. Why should I contribute to your system?
It really smacks of an "I am very smart" attempt.
In the US Army an E-4 is a specialist or a corporal. Most E-4s are specialists. The E-4 is the pay grade, and the specialist or corporal designation is the rank. A corporal is a type of lateral promotion from specialist and as a corporal the soldier is then considered a non-commissioned officer.

One thing I think would've been helpful for the article to address are operational and or program leaders that strive to get things done, respect their team's time, and want to be a good steward of resources. These leaders may ask probing "why" questions trying to do what's arguably common sense.

Cutting through red tape can be seen by others as rule breaking, but often it's just asking the questions others haven't and trying to do something in a new, hopefully better way. That means taking a risk that something could go wrong and that's received in different ways by people.
Those are not my prompts. Those were the headings it put above the code it generated in its responses.

Even if my prompt was low-quality, it doesn't matter. It's confidently stating that what it produced was both tested and working. I personally understand that's not true, but of all the safety guards they should be putting in place, not lying should be near the top of the list.
No.
Research Universities are about Research. There are non governmental sources of funding for research, but they pale in comparison with government funding. If you want to make the case that the private industry should take on research, the problem is that there is no immediate profit in it. It can take decades, and few companies can invest decades of funding hoping for some eventual breakthrough. Moreover, in that model, research is slowed because companies are notoriously bad at sharing research with competitors.
So you either create national research centers, or you use research universities.
This is also why I think the current iterations wont converge on any actual type of intelligence.

It doesn't operate on the same level as (human) intelligence it's a very path dependent process.
Every step you add down this path increases entropy as well and while further improvements and bigger context windows help - eventually you reach a dead end where it degrades.

You'd almost need every step of the process to mutate the model to update global state from that point.

From what I've seen the major providers kind of use tricks to accomplish this, but it's not the same thing.
What GPU do you have?
> I can now whip up a serious contender to any SaaS business in a week

This reminds me of the famous HN comment when Drew Houston first announced Dropbox here in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Yes! VAX/VMS became OpenVMS back in the 90's. It runs on VAX, Alpha, Itanium, and x86-64.
https://prose.sh was absolutely inspired by bearblog. We wanted to leverage SSH for content management. To the reader there is a lot of overlap in terms of minimalism and no-JS.
Sure, but my original comment was:

> Modern taste is more about more neutral-colored foundations with color accents.

Yes, there's no such thing as "objectively correct" when it comes to design. But it's where Western society currently is in terms of the design of public spaces including offices, how your realtor will advise you to redecorate when putting your home for sale, etc. And there are principles of modern design that, while not judgeable as correct/incorrect, are widely accepted as established.

So that's great you like to be bombarded with color, but I'm talking about an explanation for where society has been and how it's evolved with regard to color.
What does your network tab in the browser's dev tools show?
Battery friendly because notifications can be coalesced by the OS and processed without having to fire up a full browser engine process and JS VM just to unpack the notification and post a visible notification.

Even in the case where the app needs local processing to show the best notification, having this as fallback removes the risk that the app misses the deadline to display a visible notification and therefore loses its push subscription (which is a behavior Chrome and Firefox have too).

We're also not removing classic Web Push, so web apps can deny themselves the benefits of Declarative Web Push if they don't like it.
You don't but 99.99% of people do :) Especially because most Linux distros use a key signed by Microsoft by default.
Incredible work, ignore the naysayers. As I was reading the article, I was thinking "this is hacker spirit". Well done.
My personal blog is http://brettcmullins.com

It is a static site using Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. Although I'm not doing anything fancy, I'm surprised at how flexible Jekyll is when I try to add a feature.
Seems reasonable to me. He'll pick and choose who to give relief to depending on how they bend the knee. It's still going to crash the economy and ruin the country though. In sane times, congress could take the toys away from the executive branch which is obviously abusing its powers. However, we're not in sane times.
Interesting analogy, coming from HN's own personal version of Ian Miles Cheong.
Someone who follows the rule even when it produces a terrible outcome is a painful liability. Just like someone who breaks the rule to do the same thing.
TIL you can grab the scroll bar on iOS!!

Thanks for this. Jumping to the bottom of a page was such a chore for me.
Good point. Though if they change the rules after breaking them, will history remember?

Looking at uber, any number of social media companies, etc., having some good lobbyists works wonders.
Most Linux development is corporate now, WSL makes Linux easy to "use" without ever leaving Windows, and the lock-in-effect if you are using Office/Azure/Teams/BI/etc is almost perfect. You can't leave it, basically. Easier to start a new subsidiary from scratch using something else, than trying to migrate off the Total Microsoft Stack.
Better would be to remove inheritance after death, instead distributing that wealth among the citizenship equally.
You’re setting court precedent that will apply equally to OpenAI as it does to the llama.cpp and stable diffusion models running on your own graphics card.
> Is there any reason to use VMS today other than for existing applications that cannot be migrated?

No, there is no reason to do a greenfield VMS deployment and hasn't been for a long time.

> I've heard its reliability is legendary, but I've never tried it myself.

I've heard the same things but I am doubtful as to their veracity in a modern context. Those claims sound like they come from an era where VMS was still a cutting-edge and competitive product. I'm sure VMS on vaxclusters had impressive reliability in the 1980s, but I doubt it's anything special today. If you look at the companies and institutions that need performance and high reliability today (e.g. Hyperscaler companies or the TOP500) they are all using the same thing: Linux on clusters of x86-64 machines.
What a bad faith argument. No true AI safety scaremonger brat stabs their landlord with a katana. The rationality of these rationalists is 100% uncorrolated with the rationality of *those* rationalists.
Those were their own ports, as per the page you just linked. They developed Microsoft BASIC.

"The Altair BASIC interpreter was developed by Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates using a self-written Intel 8080 emulator running on a PDP-10 minicomputer."
Is there a sentient human that has access to (and actually uses) all of the Pokémon game guides yet is incapable of beating Pokémon?

Because that's what an LLM is working with.
What does "gorging themselves on endowments" even mean? If they did that, they wouldn't be very endowed in quick order.
How is CRWV doing so well? All I see is a Nvidia weaponized reseller
The hypocrisy is obviously disgusting.

It also shows how, at the end of the day, none of the justifications for this intellectual property crap are about creativity, preserving the rights of creators, or any lofty notion that intellectual property actually makes the world a better place, but rather, it is a naked power+money thing. Warner Bros and Sony can stop you from publishing a jpeg because they have lawyers who write the rulebook. Sam Altman can publish a jpeg because the Prince of Saud believes that he is going build for corporate America a Golem that can read excel spreadsheets.
So my question is when other countries start counter tariffs on services.

Office 365 is now 25 % more expensive.
I guess it depends why you're writing the code. I'm writing a local video library desktop app to categorise my home and work videos. I'm implementing only the features I need. No one else will use it, I'll be finished the first version after about 4 weeks of weekend and night coding, and it's got some pretty awesome features I never would have thought possible (for me). Without AI I probably never would have done this. I'm sold, even just for the reduction of friction in getting a project off the ground. The first 80% was 80% AI developed and the last 20% has flipped to 80% coded by me. Which is great, because this part is the meat of the app and where I want most input.
Show HN: Build a job leads database with Notion and Claude
I have been using Claude for so much lately. And so when I needed to build a list of leads for my job search I tried to get Claude to do it.

With computer use and a list of job boards I could get some results but I didn't think Claude was going to find my next job. Then I found an api that aggregates job boards and lets you search for jobs. They publish an openapi spec and Claude made me an MCP server in no time. You can find the mcp server here: https://github.com/jhgaylor/hirebase-mcp

The workflow is simple.

1. Make a database in notion with some fields to store information about the job.

2.Prompt claude to find jobs I'd be interested in, claude gathers context with playwright, searches hirebase for jobs, and updates notion with the results.

3. Repeat Step 2 until you have enough leads.

My prompts usually look like this:

"Find jobs that would be a good fit for the candidate described by https://jakegaylor.com/?hn=1 and update the notion database job search 2025 with the results".

My claude config installs playwright, notion, and hirebase mcp servers and can be found here: https://gist.github.com/jhgaylor/39243d71e03b49c775bd31e913f...
I changed the display on the printers in our office to read, "Needs Chocolate".
I am against dissolution of patents if the technology took lot of research. In this case the patent protects from others copying the result of research.

However, obvious patents like "a computer system with a display displaying a product and a button to order it" should not be allowed. Also, software patents should not exist (copyright is enough).
Not forever. But 75 years after the death of the creator by current international agreement. I definitely think that the exact terms of copyright should be revisited - a lot of usages should be allowed like 50 years of publishing a piece of work. But that needs to be agreed upon and converted into law. Till then, one should expect everyone, especially large corporations, to stick to the law.
Love how absolutely engorged and broken this web page is to dramatically depict a style that - were the article actually just published in plain text - would be what... a millionth the size? Should have known better than to be surprised that the "source code" one can "download" and "look through" is in a goddamned PDF.

I do truly wonder if the fact that he was publishing a PDF as downloadable "code" even caused him any pause lol.
The backlash against AI compels creative types to be more original, maybe. It could be that AI improves culture by reflecting it in insipid parody, with the implicit message "stop phoning it in".
David Cutler is one of my heroes. I think he only worked on the first version of VMS, but his expertise of OS design and implementation is probably second to few.

Does anyone know whether he is still working in Microsoft? What does it feel to work with him?
Schools don't want people who min-max for college acceptance. They want people who are genuinely excited to go to that school.

I don't think his essay was necessarily a deal-breaker if you read it as a "I learned from experience but need to get another kind of experience, one that you get at college". Still, it reads as colossally arrogant and I don't see an admissions officer having any problem rejecting him as a candidate.
Crackpot millenarians have always been a thing. This crop of them is just particularly lame and hellbent on boiling the oceans to get their eschatological outcome.
“Not even wrong” …
Datalog with First-Class Facts [pdf]
But you said "I can now whip up a serious contender to any SaaS business in a week".

Any SaaS business. In a week. And to be a "serious contender", you have to have feature parity. Yet now you're shifting the goalposts.

What's stopping you? There are 38 weeks left in 2025. Please build "serious contenders" for each of the top 38 most popular SaaS products before the end of the year. Surely you will be the most successful programmer to have ever lived.
Right, superhuman would be relative to humans

but intelligence as a whole is based on a human ego of being intellectually superior