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Xi Jinping's two-week absence sparks speculation of power shift within CCP

https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/chinese-president-xi-jinpings-two-week-absence-sparks-speculation-of-power-shift-within-ccp-report-19629056.htm
3•ivape•5m ago•0 comments

Only two islands in the world have population of more than 100M people

https://twitter.com/koridentetsu/status/1692831722159890752
1•matsuu•7m ago•0 comments

Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it

https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/03/britain-is-already-a-hot-country-it-should-act-like-it
2•_dain_•15m ago•2 comments

Science has changed, have you? Change is good

https://mnky9800n.substack.com/p/science-has-changed-have-you
1•Bluestein•22m ago•0 comments

Why Polyworking Is The Future Of Work And How To Become A Polyworker

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2024/11/05/why-polyworking-is-the-future-of-work-and-how-to-become-a-polyworker/
2•Anon84•23m ago•1 comments

Vine-like Systems and Malleability

https://nothingisnttrivial.com/vines.html
1•networked•25m ago•0 comments

I Shipped a macOS App Built by Claude Code

https://www.indragie.com/blog/i-shipped-a-macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code
6•discordance•27m ago•4 comments

Show HN: I Asked ChatGPT to Rebuild My Canvas Radial Menu in SVG

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radialMenuSVG
1•atum47•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Quotatious – A Wordle and hangman inspired game

https://www.quotatious.com/
1•jcusch•32m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Music Producer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdL6b8ZZRLc
2•natebc•37m ago•0 comments

School Discipline Makes a Comeback

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/school-discipline-states-texas-arkansas-washington-covid-trump-obama-eeceba4c
2•sandwichsphinx•45m ago•0 comments

Building Multi-Agent Systems (Part 2)

https://blog.sshh.io/p/building-multi-agent-systems-part
1•sshh12•51m ago•0 comments

Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

https://mildbyte.xyz/blog/solving-wordle-with-uv-dependency-resolver/
2•mildbyte•53m ago•0 comments

How the Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250703-how-the-biosphere-2-experiment-changed-our-understanding-of-the-earth
2•breve•54m ago•0 comments

Think slow, think fast (2016)

http://datagenetics.com/blog/december32016/index.html
1•josephcsible•56m ago•0 comments

Wikipedia Sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
2•esadek•1h ago•0 comments

The Dalai Lama says he hopes to live more than 130 years

https://apnews.com/article/india-dalai-lama-buddhism-birthday-130-98ea3c4c4db8454ea56a7a123ac425ec
1•geox•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: From Photos to Positions: Prototyping VLM-Based Indoor Maps

https://arjo129.github.io/blog/5-7-2025-From-Photos-To-Positions-Prototyping.html
2•accurrent•1h ago•0 comments

Elon Musk launches new America Party

https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-launches-new-america-party/a-73171209
12•layer8•1h ago•2 comments

Elon Musk's Favorite Drug Explained

https://www.vox.com/health/415600/elon-musk-ketamine-therapy-depression-risks
4•wslh•1h ago•2 comments

Under the Hood of Claude Code

https://pierce.dev/notes/under-the-hood-of-claude-code/
1•icyfox•1h ago•0 comments

Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability

https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability
50•cxr•1h ago•9 comments

Can you see circles or rectangles? Does the answer depend on where you grew up?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/optical-illusions-see-world-perception
1•etiam•1h ago•0 comments

JSON Parser in 111 lines of Haskell (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RUqGYuGfw
1•battle-racket•1h ago•0 comments

From a recent presentation of the brand new restoration of TRON [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yHqP6XgHSl8
2•CharlesW•1h ago•0 comments

I'm trying to cool the planet using bacteria – here's the idea

https://osf.io/pmbnk/
1•icevector•1h ago•1 comments

WeSellRemotely – The Daddy of All Remote Sales Job Boards

https://wesellremotely.com/
2•figoshi•1h ago•1 comments

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry

https://www.livescience.com/health/flu/rfks-proposal-to-let-bird-flu-spread-through-poultry-could-set-us-up-for-a-pandemic-experts-warn
28•anjel•1h ago•23 comments

Day 47 of using Claude Code

https://solmaz.io/log/2025/07/05/day-47-of-claude-code/
1•hosolmaz•1h ago•1 comments

Operators, Not Users and Programmers

https://jyn.dev/operators-not-users-and-programmers/
23•todsacerdoti•1h ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/
24•pseudolus•2mo ago

Comments

techpineapple•2mo ago
> Of course, it’s unclear how exactly Microsoft and Google are measuring what’s AI-generated versus not, so these figures are best taken with a grain of salt.

This does seem to me to be the key question, is anyone transparent about this? If not, why not?

cratermoon•2mo ago
Why not? They want companies to buy their AI enabled slop.
techpineapple•2mo ago
Wouldn’t being transparent with how effective it was at writing code be a good sales tool?
sublinear•2mo ago
Yes, and that's exactly why they're not transparent about it.
rsynnott•2mo ago
Only if it's effective at writing code, which it of course is not.

Any time you see companies refusing to even vaguely define what metrics like this mean (or, for that matter, using non-standard metrics, like disclosing weekly active users but not monthly), it's generally a very strong signal that they're not interested in being transparent because the truth is, ah, not what they would like it to be.

hnav•2mo ago
The perception of having fallen behind in AI adversely impacts your stock price, the amount of capital you can marshal to actually compete in AI. What I think is actually happening industry-wide is that any sort of "intelligence" in software is slowly being rebranded as AI.
dustingetz•2mo ago
this was reported as actually just IDE tab completion back when google claimed this stat last year
bananapub•2mo ago
google's internal and extremely sophisticated LLM completion thing is driven by IDE tab completion
dustingetz•2mo ago
it also drives my gmail sentence autocomplete. it does not mean “30% of my email is written by AI”. It does help me type faster though. Reframing the one as the other is, imo, securities fraud. (I will asterisk that YC startups vibecoding their product is real, but that’s, like, 10^10 lower LOC scale than “all of Google”)
UncleMeat•2mo ago
IMO, the key thing that software engineers want to know with these numbers is "is there still an engineer involved." In my mind LLM powered autocomplete that generates a lot of code is just totally different from "PM says they want this feature and the AI generates the entire thing from scratch" in that one amplifies the capabilities of an engineer while the other replaces them.
dustingetz•2mo ago
who said anything about LLMs? Did Pichai specify that?
sublinear•2mo ago
I swear it's as if the entire last 5 years of AI hype and sales were fueled by drugs.
SV_BubbleTime•2mo ago
The last few years of AI have been the longest decade.
strix_varius•2mo ago
...as anyone who's used MS Teams can attest.
lp0_on_fire•2mo ago
Good news then. If the last update to Outlook I received is any indicator they're coming for that, next.
mgkimsal•2mo ago
really really really depends on what sort of code is being 'written'. 20 years ago, IDEs would automatically create boilerplate getters and setters. In large projects that's a non-trivial amount of code. IDEs can autocomplete stuff already. For most of the folks I know doing non-trivial projects, AI tools are... useful autocompletes, but not much more. So... 25% of your code was done by AI but is it the hard nitty gritty stuff? The value prop of your whole company? Or is it just lots of boilerplate that is necessary because of all the abstractions we have at our disposal today (or... all the abstractions that are required to do anything 'modern' to use a negative light on it)?
alganet•2mo ago
Percentages are misleading.

How many lines in a diff are actually relevant code? Anyone who does reviews knows the answer.

That is one of the reasons why lean, terse languages are often better to review.

We can guess by those companies preferred coding styles and technologies whether their codebases are lean and terse or full of straw. And that should give us an estimate.

Of course, I could be wrong. They could be doing this measurement after removing irrelevant changes.

The better choice would be not to publish those sorts of claims if there is not a clear methodology that explains how the number was achieved.

proc0•2mo ago
Explains a lot.
snkzxbs•2mo ago
I don’t believe that datum for a second considering how big their existing code bases are.
omneity•2mo ago
It doesn’t have to be contiguous AI-written chunks. This could also mean X% accepted AI suggestions on Y% codebase where X*Y < 30%.

AI suggestions can also be as simple as autocomplete and still be counted for the sake of engagement metrics.

Oh and in enterprise settings and especially MS shops Github Copilot is being pushed everywhere, (forceful) adoption rates are much higher than the market average.

Hydraulix989•2mo ago
Right, they're not going to want to risk breaking legacy application behavior.
pier25•2mo ago
I don't believe it either but they probably meant 30% of the code committed not of their total codebase.
gorjusborg•2mo ago
By trying to understand, I believe you are expending more thought and effort by far than was made to make the statement.
dessimus•2mo ago
If any line of any codebase was written by AI, then up to 30% can be true, in the way that my ISP will claim ~900 Mbps still qualifies as up to 2 Gbps.
whobre•2mo ago
And 75% of my code was “written” by copy/pasting…
CyberMacGyver•2mo ago
Based on how overzealous these models[0] are to over engineer a solution it’s not surprising. I would imagine the real number is significantly lower.

[0] Claude 3.7 in my recent experience

williamtrask•2mo ago
If this isn’t jumping the shark it’s darn close.
lotsoweiners•2mo ago
Technically 0.5% qualifies as up to 30% to the marketing crowd.
andsoitis•2mo ago
> Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software”

and

> The Microsoft CEO said the company was seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.

So the CEO of Microsoft is saying that 20 - 30% of their code is being produced by computer systems that write poor code?

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2•2mo ago
Honestly, it is disappointing. Even joke jobs are taken away by LLMs. For shame.
mech422•2mo ago
So was it AI or code gen tools (interfaces generators, scaffolding, etc ?)
methuselah_in•2mo ago
Horrible why would you not let people eat on earth and in the name of saving you take away jobs. Let the AI because helpful as a tool to help people not to just take away jobs.
maronato•2mo ago
> Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI

Does it mean AI though? Lots of lines in repositories are generated by software that isn’t AI. Dependency lock files, proto files, etc

IMO the wording is intentionally misleading.

karmakaze•2mo ago
Lot of leeway there. Almost 100% of my source is written by my text editor.
returnInfinity•2mo ago
Doesn't mean 30% more productivity
bananapub•2mo ago
the actual quote (https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business/money-report/sat...):

> "I'd say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software," Nadella said during a conversation before a live audience with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

which is clearly untrue, one assumes he meant "20%, 30% written since 2023 was partially generated by an LLM operated by a developer", but that doesn't sell stock.

masteruvpuppetz•2mo ago
My current VBA coding is all generated by Chat-GPT/Claude/Deepseek.

There is no use of writing VBA these days :@

Ekaros•2mo ago
Generated by software -> generated by AI seems huge logical leap. Then again maybe it can be for given meaning of "AI".

Not that 30% of code being automatically generated from templates or in some algorithmic way seem unbelievable. There is likely lot of code that could be generated by other code and it might even be reasonable choice.