MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nicoco | 2025-04-17 05:23:11+00:00
I'll argue music algorithmic recommendation on these platforms is a bad thing anyway.

First, the algorithm is opaque, so it can push stuff to you because the platform decide it has to get the spotlights. Maybe the label/producer/musician paid for it or whatever you want to imagine that is even worse. It is a well-known phenomenon that if some music is pushed to your ears, you'll end up appreciate it most often than not. This is how hits have been and are still made.

But even if the algorithm was not gamed at all, I still think it is a bad thing. It is not going to push you out of your comfort zone. Listening to new stuff is usually not pleasant at first. You will only "discover" things that are very similar to what you know and already enjoy.

If these recommendation algorithms were about food, they would "reason" like this: "Hey, you've really enjoyed this whole pack of M&M's, I'm sure you'll like this Kit-Kat bar now! Oh and you've had a glass of wine, what about trying out meth, it's pretty good too.". Do we really want our computers to reinforce such behavior?

Go to concerts, buy merch, buy albums on bandcamp (it has not enshittified too much yet apparently), donate money to artists; discover music through your friends and other humans recommending it. Recommend what you like to your friends. Cancel your Spotify subscription, none of that money is going to artists anyway. And use soulseek.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-04-17 05:23:26+00:00
Why so complicated? There could be many 'mini-labs' in underwater caves, accidental discovery of inverse diving bell so to speak. With trapped gases of any sort, by whichever process(volcanism?) pushing the water out downwards, while unable to escape upwards. Ready to explore, and mess around with. Maybe even in something like free floating coral reefs. Or below the ice.
by musicale | 2025-04-17 05:23:26+00:00
> There's no reason to repeat the mistakes Intel made in the 01970s today. We know how to do better!

CP/M, WordStar, and Turbo Pascal were/are pretty good though!

As you suggest, someone really should port an open source FPGA toolchain to Oberon to honor Prof. Wirth's great work.
by noobermin | 2025-04-17 05:23:36+00:00
I hate to be so mean, but I'm surprised a crash hasn't happened yet because this situation of saturation right now is far far worse than 1983. As a gamer, there are just way too many games now, a slow down would be nice because may be then only passion projects or ones with actual investment can rise to the top.

I sort of understand the difference though...essentially steam's income stream is somewhat from gamers but you also make money from developers, and so there's no real incentive for devs to try too hard. That's why the "crash" hasn't happened yet.
by amy214 | 2025-04-17 05:24:00+00:00
the upside of reddit data is you have updoots and downdoots, so you can positively and negatively train your AI model on what people would typically upvote, and train against what they might downvote

Now, that's the upside, the downside is you end up with an AI catering to the typical redditor. Since many claims there are formed on the basis of, "confident, sounds reasonable, speaks with authority, gets angry when people disagree" - hallucinations happen. Rather we want something like "produces evidence-based claims with unbiased data sources"
by sandspar | 2025-04-17 05:25:47+00:00
I don't understand why people fixate on Dyson spheres. Why would a Kardashev type 2 civilization rely on something that a type 0.7 civilization could come up with? Surely in the intervening 1.3 they could come up with something we can't. Dyson spheres are a type 0.7 imagination exercise. A type 2 civilization wouldn't just extend our technology - it would transcend it. Maybe they use dark energy, maybe they gather energy from simulations. We can't understand.
by nine_k | 2025-04-17 05:27:07+00:00
I wonder if a separate CA would be useful for non-public-internet TLS certificates. Imagine a certificate that won't expire for 25 years issued by it.

Such a certificate should not be trusted for domain verification purposes, even though it should match the domain. Instead it should be trusted for encryption / stream integrity purposes. It should be accepted on IPs outside of publicly routable space, like 192.0.0/24, or link-local IPv6 addresses. It should be possible to issue it for TLDs like .local. It should result in a usual invalid certificate warning if served off a pubic internet address.

In other words, it should be handled a bit like a self-signed certificate, only without the hassle of adding your handcrafted CA to every browser / OS.

Of course it would only make sense if a major browser would trust this special CA in its browser by default. That is, Google is in a position to introduce it. I wonder if they may have any incentive though. (To say nothing of Apple.)
by klaas- | 2025-04-17 05:27:14+00:00
I think a very short lived cert (like 7 days) could be a problem on renewal errors/failures that don't self correct but need manual intervention.

What will let's encrypt be like with 7day certs? Will it renew them every day(6 day reaction time), or every 3 days (4 days reaction time). Not every org is suited with 24/7 staffing, some people go on holidays, some public holidays extend to long weekends etc :). I would argue that it would be a good idea to give people a full week to react to renewal problems. That seems impossible for short lived certs.
by musicale | 2025-04-17 05:28:36+00:00
> Heathkit-branded PDP-11

The idea that you could save money by soldering together your own PDP-11 system from parts, and that there was a company that actually sold the kits (as well as assembled versions), is terrific.

And today (assuming you can find a vintage DCJ11 CPU or equivalent) you still can build your own hardware PDP-11 via PDP-11/Hack and other designs! (Though personally I'll probably go for an FPGA version.)
by randunel | 2025-04-17 05:28:44+00:00
> The reigning doctrine of the American empire has been liberalism (which explains why many if not most Americans/Westerners treat liberalism as a "neutral" position; it is the water we swim in).

Most definitely not. The reigning doctrine has been enforcing American wishes, wants and airs, both public and private, by force. Liberalism is a poor guise, mainly to brainwash the locals into accepting the status quo on both sides of the aisle.
by DrSiemer | 2025-04-17 05:28:47+00:00
Same here, plus I can finally find related songs in languages I cannot read!

At least a fifth of my favorite songs look like cryptic gibberish to me, that would be nearly impossible to find as a download... I'm firmly vendor locked for that reason alone.

I do make regular exports, just in case my Spotify account ever disappears for whatever reason. That data is too valuable to risk losing it.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-17 05:29:17+00:00
'sex' has always referred to a biological concept, there is nothing to dispute there. The disagreements typically only begin when people misappropriate the nominal meaning of 'gender', a sociological concept derived from the Latin generare and etymologically distinct from 'sex'.

Because people insist on ignoring simple definitions to wage culture war, we breed an ignorance cemented by perceived animosity. Orwell should have picked up on this; if he wanted people to say 2+2=5 then all he had to do is convince them that 4 is a queer number.
by nneonneo | 2025-04-17 05:30:31+00:00
> Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring

> By August 2025, the University shall commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually viewpoint diverse.

and

> Discontinuation of DEI

> The University must immediately shutter all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices, committees, positions, and initiatives, under whatever name, and stop all DEI-based policies, including DEI-based disciplinary or speech control policies, under whatever name.

So, uh, we can't promote diversity but we have to promote viewpoint diversity, whatever that means? Is "viewpoint diversity" not DEI "under whatever name"?

I mean, the subtext is that DEI is supposed to promote racial equality so it's bad, but "viewpoint diversity" promotes ideological equality so it's good? Some kinds of equality are more equal than others?

Read broadly, the idea is absurd; does the biology department have to hire creationists to ensure "viewpoint diversity" among its faculty? Do we have to admit flat-earthers to the geology program to ensure "viewpoint diversity" in the student body? The "external party" here isn't even designated as being "independent" or "unbiased"; it's literally someone who the federal government gets to choose, and who will decide what viewpoints they want to include and which ones to not include.
by roughly | 2025-04-17 05:31:07+00:00
So, this isn't my area of expertise, but - I score very high on abstract reasoning tests, and I've been lucky enough to be around a bunch of people who are adept at things that at best require a whole lot more effort on my part to grok. I've got friends who can pick up a new language in a matter of months. I've got friends who can hear a song, know what keys it's in, improvise to it, extend it, and build complementary riffs to it on almost anything that makes a sound with more than one tone. I've got friends who can go into a room of children and have them all quiet and paying rapt attention in minutes. I've got friends who could sell an anchor to a drowning man, or have a dude in full biker gear and tattoos discussing their relationship with their mother and their childhood home. I've got friends who can read a book a day and tell you anything you ask about any of them and how they relate to each other. I've got friends who are almost telepathic in their ability to read and react to animals. I've got friends whose kinesthetic sense, ability to move their bodies, and ability to learn new physical movements is almost uncanny. I've got friends who can create absolutely stunning works of art that capture a feeling or a moment without any concrete imagery.

I am, and I say this without ego, a very smart person, and there are situations I absolutely excel - I can synthesize new information very quickly, I can draw correlations and relationships and principles from sparse data, I recognize patterns and build and dissect systems easily. Abstract reasoning is my wheelhouse, but I cannot do the things my friends can do with the ease they do them - I can get there eventually, in the same way that they can get to where I am eventually, but the things they do very clearly require a different type of intelligence than my variety.
How people start developing something impressive
by dauletkhan | 2025-04-17 05:32:00+00:00
Hi, everyone

I hope you are doing well. So, I am currently a student and you know, I am impressed by a lot of developers here. But, that is not enough, I want to become one of them, I want to contribute to the world and make valuable changes.

But, problem is, I am always stuck, overwhelmed and overthink, care too much about doing it right.

I was always thinking, how people like Linus Torvalds started their projects, like how did he come up with Linux, Git. What was their first lines of code, how they planned, brainstormed it. Some people build frameworks for backend, front end, tools being written in Rust.

Then I tried to read their codebase, but that made me overwhelmed even more, HOW? (po reference from kung fu panda), how these people write so much code and make incredible stuff.

Thank you for your attention!
by divyanshusingh | 2025-04-17 05:32:15+00:00
I’ve been working on building AI safety solutions for a while now, and one recurring theme keeps coming up: there's always a tradeoff. You can’t have perfect safety, perfect usability, and perfect performance all at once.

So we wrote a paper—No Free Lunch with Guardrails—to dig into this. We tested a bunch of popular guardrail systems (OpenAI Moderation API, Azure Content Safety, BERT classifiers, LLM-as-a-judge methods) across red teaming attacks and false-positive edge cases.

Every approach fails somewhere: some miss dangerous prompts, others flag harmless stuff, and a few are just too slow for production use. We also benchmarked how top LLMs (GPT-4o, Gemini Flash, Claude 3.5, Mistral) react under different system prompt styles (basic, verbose, chain-of-thought). Some interesting patterns there.

If you’re working on LLM safety or just curious about what “guardrails” really give you, give it a read. Happy to answer questions or chat!
by garrettgarcia | 2025-04-17 05:32:55+00:00
> There is no rational reason for the administration to endure this

Endure? They caused this. The reason is because they don't think that enough people will care about the fate of one foreigner to hold Trump accountable. He's counting on the people not understanding or caring at all about the rule of law, and he may be right. Plenty of commenters here don't.
by daviducolo | 2025-04-17 05:33:47+00:00
Thank you for the report! Here’s what I changed:

1. Always use the raw bad_char_table[text[i + pattern_len‑1]] shift—no extra lowercase lookup at runtime. 2. After a full match, advance by that same table shift instead of just doing i++, so you never miss overlapping occurrences. 3. Removed the “if shift==0 then shift=1” guard—since we build the table excluding the last pattern byte, zero shifts can’t occur.

https://github.com/davidesantangelo/krep/releases/tag/v1.0.6
Show HN: Videoyards – screen recorder with auto-zoom, crop and 4K exports
by Infynite-Labs | 2025-04-17 05:36:16+00:00
As a Windows user, I found that most polished screen recording tools were exclusive to macOS. To address this, I built Videoyards, a web-based screen recorder that offers:

Features: - Record with Chrome extension, - Auto-zoom + smooth transitions, - Customized Cursor + mockup overlays - Smart Video Crops, - Exports up to 4K, - Fast rendering, - Works on ALL devices, - Keeps history of all recordings

We've just launched the waitlist and received 100+ visitors with 20 sign-ups in the first 24 hours. If you're interested, check it out at https://videoyards.infynitelabs.com.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-17 05:36:51+00:00
> Literally every single TLD is administered by a government.

False. I’m not sure what you’re trying to assert, but governments don’t necessarily need to control/admin gTLDs, and as far as ccTLDs go, they’re under jurisdiction of the corresponding nation, usually, but they’re going to be “administered” by a tech company that holds a contract.

Anyway, “.com” does indeed answer to U.S. jurisdiction, despite being technically a gTLD, but registrations are not restricted to US-based entities. The main things that keep “.com” associated with the USA include the history/legacy of this quintessential “original” domain, as well as a general support from major countries that provide a “second-level” commercial domain, such as “.co.uk”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
by Permik | 2025-04-17 05:36:53+00:00
Not that I particularly support Musk in any way or the things they stand for, it's a great goddamn shame that they dropped the project. Even if the company in itself would not be monetarily as good as they would've liked, there's still basically an infinite amount of _value_ that they can still create.

But alas, that is not what the for profit public companies have a mandate to do.

If the maths come to about ±0 then there would be tons of goodwill to be gained by spinning up the robo-taxi project as a non-profit org.
by mrec | 2025-04-17 05:37:28+00:00
A beautifully-written and moving story; thanks for posting it. Have you written any other fiction? I couldn't see it (or even this one) in the list of writing on your frontpage.

Wholeheartedly approve your reading list, by the way. O Caledonia in particular is an under-recognized gem; I've never seen anyone else capture the awesomeness of squirrels the way she does:

> Calm and tranced she walked up through the beeches again and saw two red squirrels leaping along their sinuous branches; they leapt and curvetted, stopped dead, flourished their tails and were off again, swift and smooth, fleeting like light up the trunks, so bright and merry and joyous that she wanted to shriek with delight.
by mrpippy | 2025-04-17 05:38:28+00:00
That Mission Valley San Diego Fry’s seemingly bought all of Incredible Universe’s old delivery trucks too, and never repainted them. Well into the 2000s, it was hilarious to still see Incredible Universe trucks driving around delivering appliances.

(Also I remember going to the North County/San Marcos one the weekend it opened, think I bought a 128 MB flash drive for $30. Now it’s a Costco Business Center)
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-17 05:39:05+00:00
You could literally purchase a bag of chips (SIMMs) on one aisle, and a bag of chips (Fritos) in another!

I must admit that “Big Boob Babes” was my favorite CD-ROM purchase in 1994. No, it was not a DVD

This morning, I was just watching the video of “The Distance” by Cake, and I vividly recall when that was released and played on my car radio, and the metaphor of corporate slavery was not lost on 24-year-old me.

My favorite store was the one with the Mesoamerican temples and stuff.

Also, remember Weird Stuff Warehouse?
by razemio | 2025-04-17 05:39:14+00:00
Compared to cline aider had no chance, the last time I tried it (4 month ago). Has it really changed? Always thought cline is superior because it focuses on sonnet with all its bells an whistles. While aider tries to be an universal ide coding agent which works well with all models.

When I try gemmini 2.5 pro exp with cline it does very well but often fails to use the tools provided by cline which makes it way less expensive while failing random basic tasks sonnet does in its sleep. I pay the extra to save the time.

Do not get me wrong. Maybe I am totally outdated with my opinion. It is hard to keep up these days.
by extr | 2025-04-17 05:39:53+00:00
Yeah this is a great summary of what I do as well and I find it very effective. I think of hands-off AI coding like you're directing a movie. You have a rough image of what "good" looks like in your head, and you're trying to articulate it with enough detail to all the stagehands and actors such that they can realize the vision. The models can always get there with enough coaching, traditionally the question is if that's worth the trouble versus just doing it yourself.

Increasingly I find that AI at this point is good enough I am rarely stepping in to "do it myself".
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-17 05:41:03+00:00
If you're in a building, when should you pull the fire alarm? When you smell smoke? When you see smoke? When smoke bellows? When a door is hot to the touch? Only once you see flame?

If an arsonist threatened to burn down your house, should you only call the police once the house is on fire? Is it possible by taking action earlier you could prevent disaster and loss of well being.

The people who wrote the plan this administration is following said: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."[1] The threat has been credibly made and they appear to be successfully carrying it out with minimal forceful resistance.

People who study Fascism, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, Russia, and Eastern Europe are fleeing the country including Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder.[2]

Trump has stated he wished he had Hitler's generals.[3]

A second in command of the United States armed forces as well as America's top military advisor have both called him a threat to the constitution. [4][5]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/heritage-foun... [2] https://archive.is/jb23b -- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-... [3] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-... [4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/12/mark-milley... [5] https://archive.is/d6f9J -- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-m...
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-04-17 05:41:54+00:00
> The $500 office desktop I got for a home server is struggling at this point

I have a ~10 years old desktop as my server (intel skylake and 24GB of RAM). I host about 20 services and the server is not loaded at all.

The services are the usual ones, nothing heavy such as LLMs, though
by ruuda | 2025-04-17 05:41:55+00:00
I wrote my own networked music player, https://github.com/ruuda/musium. It's not nearly as fully featured as Jellyfin, but it does do what I want in exactly the way I want it. A feature I implemented a while ago is to make it show me albums I listened to a lot in the past, but not recently, and it's been great to rediscover some of those albums.
by ycombiredd | 2025-04-17 05:42:03+00:00
I did not set out to write an enjoyable, well-crafted narrative satirical sci-fi short, complete with escalating story arc and subplots of political intrigue, possible murder-for-hire solicitation (and more!) nor did I really expect my reply to put an end to the incessant sms spam I'd been receiving for a decade+; I just wanted to amuse myself as a distraction from more pressing matters.
by tw04 | 2025-04-17 05:42:43+00:00
> I think it would have been very apparent at the start of 2024 that Tesla cannot compete with the Chinese manufacturers on cost.

But they weren’t going to have to anytime soon. The US would have had very little issue convincing their allies and trade partners to block or tariff Chinese EVs to the point of preventing them from undercutting the market.
by p0d | 2025-04-17 05:43:02+00:00
There are certainties only adults need to understand, such as we will die. However, my close friend's three little girls understand this following his early death.

The certainty that kids require is to know know they are loved and provided for.

As humans we all have to chose at some stage a worldview that believes we are material objects or there is a God. I have chosen the latter and brought my children up with the knowledge of the Bible. I am certain God is with me, this life will have challenges, and I will go to a better place when I die.
by qwerpy | 2025-04-17 05:45:00+00:00
That long ago yeah it was pretty bad and a mistake to pay for. I also bought it 6 years ago and regretted it. These days it’s actually something that people pay for. My dad tried it for a month in his new car and decided it’s worth it to him to buy. He makes the same 2 hour drive every 2 weeks to visit his grandchildren and it makes the drive tolerable. It has come a long way.
by dbdr | 2025-04-17 05:45:11+00:00
> Markets aren't expected to account for externalities. Externalities are the things you're supposed to tax.

> You're describing regulatory capture. This is why governments are supposed to have limited powers. To keep them from passing rules that enrich cronies and entrench incumbents.

The problem is that those two principles are at odds with each other. You need the government to have enough power to fix externalities, but also limited power to avoid corruption.
by int_19h | 2025-04-17 05:45:17+00:00
Even if you can squeeze an existing model into smaller hardware, that means that you can squeeze a larger (and hence smarter) model into that 6 figure cluster. And they aren't anywhere near smart enough for many things people attempt to use them for, so I don't see the hardware demand for inference subsiding substantially anytime soon.

At least not for these reasons - if it does, it'll be because of consistent pattern of overhyping and underdelivering on real-world applications of generative AI, like what's going on with Apple right now.
by aitchnyu | 2025-04-17 05:46:06+00:00
Is it using one of these models? https://openrouter.ai/models?q=amazon

Seems 4x costlier than my Aider+Openrouter. Since I'm less about vibes or huge refactoring, my (first and only) bill is <5 usd with Gemini. These models will halve that.