MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by y-curious | 2025-04-16 17:34:30+00:00
I think the idea is that racism relies on a scientist's personal agenda, in your case. It is not racist to say "black people have higher rates of sickle cell anemia", it's a statistic. Having reproducible statistics can never be "racist" in my opinion, even if it hurts people's sensibilities. Interpreting statistics as biased because they offend you is akin to calling people I don't like "Nazis"
by sho_hn | 2025-04-16 17:34:43+00:00
> I would wager that if you could travel back in time to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, you’d find they’re just like us.

I find this viewpoint surprisingly underutilized in institutional history and archeology sometimes. I occasionally watch documentaries with distinguished talking heads on e.g. egyptology and what not, and they often bend over backwards to find complicated explanations that defy all "this is just not how humans or human organizations operate" logic. For example, analyzing an impressive building and then assuming that the same people capable of constructing it also made a basic mistake or in other ways assuming they were daft. Or requiring a complex lore/spiritual explanation for something that can be equally explained by classic big org fuckups.
by jcynix | 2025-04-16 17:34:46+00:00
To plan a visit to a dark sky place, I used duck.ai (Duckduckgo's experimental AI chat feature) to ask five different AIs on what date the new moon will happen in August 2025.

GPT-4o mini: The new moon in August 2025 will occur on August 12.

Llama 3.3 70B: The new moon in August 2025 is expected to occur on August 16, 2025.

Claude 3 Haiku: The new moon in August 2025 will occur on August 23, 2025.

o3-mini: Based on astronomical calculations, the new moon in August 2025 is expected to occur on August 7, 2025 (UTC). [...]

Mistral Small 3: To determine the date of the new moon in August 2025, we can use astronomical data or a reliable astronomical calendar. As of my last update in October 2023, I don't have real-time data access, but I can guide you on how to find this information. [...]

I got different answers, mostly wrong. My calendars (both paper and app versions) show me 23. august as the date.

And btw, when I asked those AIs which entries in a robots.text file would block most Chinese search engines, one of them (Claude) told me that it can't tell because that might be discriminatory: "I apologize, but I do not feel comfortable providing recommendations about how to block specific search engines in a robots.txt file. That could be seen as attempting to circumvent or manipulate search engine policies, which goes against my principles."
by tlogan | 2025-04-16 17:35:27+00:00
> Actually Trump repeatedly said he didn't know about project 2025.

His exact quote is: "I have nothing to do with Project 2025." Meaning sure - he did not write it. I doubt he read it - it is 900+ pages long document :-)

Anyway, he might fooled some people but I doubt - my understanding was that he is going to follow Project 2025. It is good time to rewatch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s
by mannyv | 2025-04-16 17:35:39+00:00
All our door locks suck, but everyone has a door lock.

The goal isn't to make everything impossible to break. The goal is to provide Just Enough security to make things more difficult. Legally speaking, sniffing and decrypting encrypted data is a crime, but sniffing and stealing unencrypted data is not.

That's an important practical distinction that's overlooked by security bozos.
by silisili | 2025-04-16 17:35:43+00:00
> There is a dearth of applicants for jobs exactly like what I've posted. Why don't people take them?

It's pay. It's always pay.

You gave a range so I'm guessing the lower end is starting out, why take that when nearly every entry level job, with far less demand, pays about the same?

Start your pay at $45/hr and people will flood in. If they aren't, it's because the factory is too remote for population to get to. Put that factory in any mid to large midwestern city and it'll be flooded with applicants.

How do I know? About an hour south of Louisville, Amazon keeps building giant warehouses and hiring workers, and people fight over those jobs. They don't pay half of that.
by kabdib | 2025-04-16 17:35:47+00:00
atari marketing was pretty f---ing terrible. objectively so

i had one of the home computer division marketing types come to my office one day, and was asked:

"can you print out all possible 8x8 bitmaps? we'd like to submit them to the copyright office so no one else can use them"

a stunning lack of knowledge of copyright law and basic exponential math. i didn't bother to point out that he really wanted all possible 8x8 _color_ bitmaps (there aren't enough atoms in the universe for this, by many orders of magnitude)

they didn't make very good decisions about consoles or computers, either
by leptons | 2025-04-16 17:35:59+00:00
>We already know fusion has been a grind. For decades.

Let's also not forget that "AI" has been grinding on for at least half a century, with nothing even coming close to AGI. No, LLMs are not AGI and cannot be AGI. They may be a component of an eventual AGI in the future, but we're still far, far away from artificial general intelligence. LLMs are not intelligent, but they do fool a lot of people.

With the paltry amount of money spent on fusion, it's no wonder it's been delayed for so long. Maybe try putting the $1 Trillion into it in the short time "AI" has had its windfall, and let's see what happens with fusion.

>If we view AI across decades, it has reliably improved

That's your opinion. It's still not much better than Eliza. And LLMs lie half the time, just to make the user happy hearing what they want to hear.

>As computational power grows, and current models become more efficient, the hardware overhang for the next major step is growing rapidly.

And it's still going to "hallucinate" and give wrong answers a lot of the time because the fundamental tech behind LLMs is a bit flawed and is in no way even close to AGI.

>That just hasn’t been the case for fusion.

And yet we have actual fusion reactions happening now, sustained for 22 minutes. We're practically on the threshold of having fusion power, but still there is nowhere near the money being spent on it compared to LLMs, which won't be capable of AGI in spite of the marketing line you've been told.
Show HN: Octivity – AI that understands your codebase like a senior engineer
by joct | 2025-04-16 17:36:10+00:00
I’m a robotics grad student building Octivity, an AI assistant for software developers that goes beyond autocomplete.

Unlike most tools, Octivity learns your project structure, conventions, and component relationships. It can flag fragile edits, predict downstream impacts, and auto-generate documentation that actually reflects how your team works.

We’re still early and would love feedback from devs who live in messy, real-world codebases.

https://octivity.us

Curious to hear what folks think. What would make something like this a must-have for you?
by codethief | 2025-04-16 17:36:54+00:00
> With some luck it will be even routed to your bank. Then it will fail due to invalid authentication.

What if you're mimicking the swiping-type of payment protocol? Shouldn't the magnetic stripe be relatively easy to clone?

> I think there's a defcon talk on YouTube that details the exchange.

Is it this one? -> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EBZlt1E8drE
by hartator | 2025-04-16 17:37:17+00:00
I don't think you are being transparent.

Like it all sounds like a business decision (limiting 1 device to 1 sub) which is actually that was confirmed both by the actual tech limitation (logging out users from their other devices) and your own support.

Blaming the AI, then the user connection, and then some odd race conditions seem unnecessary. You can just say it was a bad business decision, roll it back, and go on with your day. Instead of treating multiple paying users badly.
by swyx | 2025-04-16 17:37:22+00:00
related demo/intro video: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1912556874211422572

this is a direct answer to claude code which has been shipping furiously: https://x.com/_catwu/status/1903130881205977320

and is not open source; there are unverified comments that they have DMCA'ed decompilations https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1899997417736724858?s=46

by total coincidence we're releasing our claude code interview later this week that touches on a lot of these points + why code agent CLIs are an actually underrated point in the SWE design space

(TLDR you can use it like a linux utility - similar to @simonw's `llm` - to sprinkle intelligence in all sorts of things like CI/PR review without the overhead of buying a Devin or a Copilot SaaS)

if you are a Claude Code (and now OAI Codex) power user we want to hear use cases - CFP closing soon, apply here https://sessionize.com/ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2025
by boston_clone | 2025-04-16 17:37:59+00:00
While anecdotal, every single O3 and higher in my company received one after our OEF rotation, despite spending their entire time on KAF and not at COPs or FOBs.

Here's an excerpt from the Military Times describing changes to awarding criteria: "The policy changes also seek to tighten the criteria for awarding the Bronze Star specifically, a combat award that can be presented without a “V,” and often was throughout the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, for “meritorious” performance.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2017/03/30/...

And here's some details about Pete's own awards: "The first Bronze Star was awarded to Mr. Hegseth for his assignment in Iraq as a rifle platoon leader in Iraq from September 2005 to July 2006. The citation noted his “professionalism and commitment to excellence” while he was with the 101st Airborne Division. He received the second Bronze Star in 2012 after serving as a counterinsurgency instructor in Afghanistan."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/6/pete-hegseth...

Nothing valorous. He was a PL that did his job, then a teacher in Kabul. And the dude is still a christo-fascist with a drinking problem.
by tech_ken | 2025-04-16 17:38:01+00:00
The Git-like approach to data versioning seems really promising to me, but I'm wondering what those merge operations are expected to look like in practice. In a coding environment, I'd review the PR basically line-by-line to check for code quality, engineering soundness, etc. But in the data case it's not clear to me that a line-by-line review would be possible, or even useful; and I'm also curious about what (if any) tooling is provided to support it?

For example: I saw the YouTube video demo someone linked here where they had an example of a quarterly report pipeline. Say that I'm one of two analysts tasked with producing that report, and my coworker would like to land a bunch of changes. Say in their data branch, the topline report numbers are different from `main` by X%. Clearly it's due to some change in the pipeline, but it seems like I will still have to fire up a notebook and copy+paste chunks of the pipeline to see step-by-step where things are different. Is there another recommended workflow (or even better: provided tooling) for determining which deltas in the pipeline contributed to the X% difference?
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-16 17:38:03+00:00
"Lacking certainty" seems to me to be very different from "age of AI" (unless you mean that AI gives confident answers of uncertain truthfulness).

There are two problems that you should address that I see.

First, how do you teach them not to believe everything an AI says? Well, how do you teach them not to believe everything a politician says? An advertiser? A peer? Do that with AI, too. It's not a new problem.

Second, how do you keep them from being emotionally attached to an AI? Give them hugs. Give them eye contact. Give them genuine attention from an actual human - lots of it - and pray that it's enough.
by csdvrx | 2025-04-16 17:38:35+00:00
> Could you stick the Linux kernel and initramfs on the EFI boot partition as a UKI

I considered that, even if it would go against the idea of having everything inside the Windows partition. I'd rather have had a shim in the EFI, with the UKI in C:\

The difficulty was bitlocker: my approach was a UKI with a small kernel and a few binaries to open the bitlocker volume and kexec the bigger kernel.

I was also exploring how to mark part of the NTFS volume as unusable to stick a different payload there.

The "ISO on a thumbdrive" was done to get baremetal boot working and out of the way, to see if I needed deeper changes to what had started as a 2 stages boot process, or if it was good enough as-as.

> Linux supports NTFS.

The kernel module is great!

I wish there was a linux distribution that could be run from either WSL or baremetal, to get more people familiar with baremetal linux.
by bbuerhaus | 2025-04-16 17:38:44+00:00
Interesting. I published research on this style of attack in 2019 when I found Slack and a few other big websites vulnerable to it. In their cases, LibreOffice was passing the files off to specific parsers based on magic headers rather than file extensions.

https://buer.haus/2019/10/18/a-tale-of-exploitation-in-sprea...

We published a PoC for file write as part of our research and bug bounty submissions:

https://gist.github.com/ziot/fb96e97baae59e3539ac3cdacbd0943...
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-16 17:38:56+00:00
OK, so what policies do you recommend?

Any policies to "ensure classrooms are inclusive" are going to be decried by some people who say that it's "unfair" for whatever reason. Because when you have a class or classes of people who have been discriminated against for centuries, who are at the bottom of the heap, they don't just magically gain parity with other classes, in terms of being able to take advantage of equal opportunity (the promise) simply because they're no longer legally discriminated against. It takes active policies, not just passive ones, for inclusivity to take root. (Once it's taken root, in time those policies may no longer be necessary.)
by kumarm | 2025-04-16 17:39:09+00:00
Anyone got codex working? After installing and setting up API Key I get this error :

system OpenAI rejected the request (request ID: req_06727eaf1c5d1e3f900760d10ca565a7). Please verify your settings and try again.

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Show HN: I tricked ChatGPT to build your forms
by nilveryboring | 2025-04-16 17:39:52+00:00
Hey HN I got tired of fiddling with drag-and-drop builders, configuring logic flows, and spending too much time just making a basic form work. So I thought: what if ChatGPT could do all of it for me?

That’s what I built: Makeform AI — an AI-native form builder where you just describe what you want, and it generates the full form, including:

Multi-page flows

Conditional logic

Start & end screens

Editable themes

Shareable + embeddable forms

How it works:

No signup required — uses GPT-4o Mini for guests

Log in to unlock GPT-4.1 and more complex form logic

Tell it what you need (“lead gen form with email, size, and a thank-you screen”), and it builds everything in seconds

Built with: • Next.js 14 • Supabase • Tailwind CSS • OpenAI GPT

Still a WIP, but fully usable — would love your thoughts, feedback, or feature ideas!

→ https://makeform.ai
by jillyboel | 2025-04-16 17:39:59+00:00
Getting my parents to add a CA to their android, iphone, windows laptop and macbook just so they can use my self hosted nextcloud sounds like an absolute nightmare.

The nightmare only intensifies for small businesses that allow their users to bring their own devices (yes, yes, sacrilege but that is how small businesses operate).

Not everything is a massive enterprise with an army of IT support personnel.
by themaninthedark | 2025-04-16 17:40:00+00:00
I wouldn't say he is anti-manufacturing but more that he takes a defeatist view.

Two of his points: "Industrial supply chain is weak" and "We don't know how to make it" are exactly the same. >all the factories which make the needed components are in Asia, >because they know how to make the best semiconductors in the world.

But this is looking at the problem and then missing the point: If I decide to start mfg. IPhone in the US, I can't because there are no suppliers.

As long as nothing changes, there will continue to be no suppliers.

If I HAVE to mfg the IPhone in the US, at first I will import due to no supplier but someone will make a local supplier because they can undercut my importer.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-16 17:40:41+00:00
You believe random tech posts about programming languages, frameworks, and data stores are more interesting than a previously democratic superpower slipping into an authoritarian regime and how this impacts hundreds of millions people and the world order? I’m always curious about people who want to discuss and debate shiny things while the house is on fire.

(no snark! genuinely intrigued!)
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-16 17:41:22+00:00
I also can't show conclusive evidence that there wasn't a continent of Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic 10k years ago that mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Yet if someone enters a conversation about geography with me and inquiries about Atlantis I'm probably going to tell them that it never existed without bothering to wrap that statement in multiple layers of clarification about the evidence and probability estimates and highly unlikely contingencies.

We can't prove that there wasn't some isolated genius who engaged in animal husbandry in Africa before everyone else but was ignored by the rest of his tribe or whatever. But we have managed to place some fairly low upper bound on how much of that could have been happening. At some point it is reasonable to conclude that your typical society in that time and place didn't have access to it.
by mjevans | 2025-04-16 17:41:24+00:00
The article mentions backside (underside) power distribution, capacitors to help regulate voltage (thus allowing tighter tolerances and lower voltage / operating power), voltage regulation under the chip, and finally dual-layer stacking with the above as potential avenues to spread heat dissipation.

I can't help but wonder, where exactly is that heat supposed to go on the underside of the chip? Modern CPUs practical float atop a bed of nails.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-04-16 17:41:29+00:00
I'd say it's less bad design, & more a near-total lack of design. Someone needed a "good enough" way to specify target properties for a few targets they had to support, and picked a string format they could easily parse. Worked fine. Then more systems had to be added, and special cases happened, and nobody wanted to break backwards-compatibility so the system just grew. And nobody can agree on names, so people added alias support, and the system grew. And people started releasing OSes instead of just organizations so the "vendor" concept grew fuzzy, and the system grew. Now it is a hyphen-separated variable-length monster of confusion.

Ideally each component in the target "triple" would be a separate argument.
by immibis | 2025-04-16 17:41:29+00:00
The consumption load isn't the problem. You can download a complete dump of Wikipedia and even if every AI company downloaded the newest dump every time it came out, it would be a manageable server load - you know, probably double-digit terabytes per month, but that's manageable these days. And if that would be a problem, they could charge a reasonable amount to get it on a stack of BD-R discs, or heck, these companies can easily afford a leased line to Wikimedia HQ.

The problem is the non-consumptive load where they just flat-out DDoS the site for no actual reason. They should be criminally charged for that.

Late edit: Individual page loads to answer specific questions aren't a problem either. DDoS is the problem.
by georgewsinger | 2025-04-16 17:42:03+00:00
Yes, however Claude advertised 70.3%[1] on SWE bench verified when using the following scaffolding:

> For Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new), we use a much simpler approach with minimal scaffolding, where the model decides which commands to run and files to edit in a single session. Our main “no extended thinking” pass@1 result simply equips the model with the two tools described here—a bash tool, and a file editing tool that operates via string replacements—as well as the “planning tool” mentioned above in our TAU-bench results.

Arguably this shouldn't be counted though?

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-...
by basisword | 2025-04-16 17:42:38+00:00
The user experience needs to be massively improved when it comes to model choice. How are average users supposed to know which model to pick? Why shouldn't I just always pick the newest or most powerful one? Why should I have to choose at all? I say this from the perspective of a ChatGPT user - I understand the different pricing on the API side helps people make decisions.
by pfdietz | 2025-04-16 17:42:45+00:00
I don't think there would be much difference because much of the conductivity of copper is from the conduction electrons, not phonons. Isotopic purification increases thermal conductivity in silicon because it decreases phonon scattering.

Isotopically pure diamond, now there's something to look at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopically_pure_diamond

"The 12C isotopically pure, (or in practice 15-fold enrichment of isotopic number, 12 over 13 for carbon) diamond gives a 50% higher thermal conductivity than the already high value of 900-2000 W/(m·K) for a normal diamond, which contains the natural isotopic mixture of 98.9% 12C and 1.1% 13C. This is useful for heat sinks for the semiconductor industry."
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-16 17:43:30+00:00
They also have way more debt than Nintendo's net cash so?

Businesses may be comfortable operating in massive debt but it's clearly only sustainable for so long

Businesses operating under the kinds of debt loads they take on are what leads to irresponsible government bailouts to keep "key industries" from collapsing when they are unable to service their debt

Sure, Toyota is "successful" until it isn't, and then their debt comes due and they can't pay so it collapses

We should be encouraging more companies to be responsible like Nintendo
by jkingsman | 2025-04-16 17:43:44+00:00
Oh man you'd be shocked on Twitter. So many people have outsourced to AIs as arbiters of truth and reality. The number of "@grok is this true" "@perplexityai is this real" that pepper any post en masse is shocking and dismaying to me. In what I suppose shouldn't be a surprise but still stings, people seem to be offloading critical thinking and examination onto LLMs first, with usage as a tool for gathering context/additional points of research to go explore/hyper-efficient search engine etc. coming in a sadly distant next/N-th place.