MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-04-15 20:13:27+00:00
1: Press release about amazing AI development.

2: "Try it now!" the release always says.

3: I go try it.

4: Doesn't work. In this case, I give it a prompt to make a video and literally nothing happens, it goes back to the prompt. In the case of the breathtakingly astonishing Gemini 2.5 Coding - attach to source code file to the prompt "file type not supported".

That's the pattern - I've come to expect it and was not disappointed with Google Gemini 2.5 coding nor with this video thing they are promoting here.
by AHTERIX5000 | 2025-04-15 20:13:40+00:00
Is there an open source project which uses CMake well and could be used as a reference for good CMake practices?

I've been using CMake for years and it's definitely not the worst solution for building multiplatform C++ projects. But I've never read a CMake script and thought what a clean solution, it's always a bit gnarly.
by analog31 | 2025-04-15 20:14:16+00:00
Money is a technology. Its purpose is whatever use you want to put it to.

Like any technology, a money system can be designed so that it works well enough for a small set of intended purposes, and poorly for all other purposes. Moreover, its uses can be constrained by laws.

I think an open question is whether existing laws related to money or property apply to cryptocurrencies. For instance, "theft" and "fraud" cover a lot of things, without specifically listing all of them.

If it's ambiguous whether such laws apply to crypto, then sure, someone could use the legal system to settle the matter. In fact, using the legal system to remediate undesired transactions could be as good a use of crypto as any, if "anything goes."
by ajross | 2025-04-15 20:14:18+00:00
> I’m skeptical that the current system is efficient at allocating the funds

I think everyone would be. There's a lot of bad science that gets funded. The point, though, is that you can't pick the good science from the bad without DOING THE SCIENCE.

The easiest thing in the world is to sit back and pretend to be an expert, picking winners and losers and allocating your limited capital "efficiently". The linked article shows why that's wrong, because someone comes along to outspend you and you lose.
by strangattractor | 2025-04-15 20:14:18+00:00
Like MS, Google is ubiquitous - search is much like Office and DOS before that. Anything OpenAPI or the other AI competitors create would normally be protected by patents for instance. Not so with an AI models. Google has the clout/know how to responded with similar technology - adding it to their ubiquitous search. People are both lazy and cheap. They will always go with cheaper and good enough.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-15 20:14:39+00:00
When I think "code generation" I think about a module that (say) inspects a schema or other artifact and then generates code in some language like Java. Something that happens fresh every time you run your build process. In most cases it is an A-Tier software engineering practice, up there with macros in Lisp. Contrast that to the S-Tier technique of developing real compilers.

What gets me about AI complaining is how behind the time it is. Like people driving in the rearview mirror.

10 years ago I was saying "Oh shit, Chinese webcrawlers cost me $200 a month and don't give me any benefit" and was very aware of the discourse that the Google economy was unfair and exploitative. Now people get triggered by some A.I. slop they see on YouTube and they want to slam the barn door when the horses are long gone.

I had horribly wrong ideas about neural networks and AI 10 years ago because I was working on that stuff 10 years ago.
by gangstead | 2025-04-15 20:15:21+00:00
Back when the tariff was first announced I remember seeing a whitehouse.gov announcement saying it was 30% with a $25 minimum per package. I can't find that but the [newest Fact sheet](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...) dated 4/2/25 just has the vaguely worded "either / or".

Then there's [avalara.com](https://www.avalara.com/blog/en/north-america/2025/02/how-to...) saying on 4/10 that it's 120% OR $100, but not clear if filer gets to choose.

The latest I can find is from today (4/15/25) from [metro.global](https://metro.global/news/new-tariffs-and-the-end-of-de-mini...) that says 120% AND $100 per package (rising to $200 June 1st).

Your question is so simply put it seems like there should be an easy answer but it seems like there's a lot of interpretations on what's going to happen. It's possible that all of these sources were true on the day they were posted but the rules are continuously changing.
by SoftTalker | 2025-04-15 20:15:30+00:00
There was a local camera shop in my town, this was back in the 1980s. I went in to look at some cameras and the salesman mentioned how they were having problems because people would come in and look at the cameras and get advice and then go order them from 47th Street Photo or Adorama or one of the other big mail-order places that advertised in photography magazines.

Not a new phenomenon.
by jll29 | 2025-04-15 20:15:47+00:00
More precisely: "While she would not have been eligible to win a Nobel prize, because the award is not given posthumously, she likely would have been omitted in any case, as her and Gosling's data was not even cited/mentioned in Watson and Crick's Nature paper, which suggests they did not intend to share credit."

Check out the last paragraph of page 737 and the first on page 738: https://www.mskcc.org/teaser/1953-nature-papers-watson-crick... That gives you an idea about the generic acknowledgement to Franklin (not even in first position).
by david-gpu | 2025-04-15 20:16:05+00:00
> I know cardinals are red and they look obviously red to me. Hard as hell for me to spot one in a tree though

Does it mean that trees also look reddish to you?

I don't understand how cardinals can look "obviously red" and still blend in with the foliage, which average people would consider "obviously green". My mental model for red-green color blindness is that most reds and most greens are hard to tell apart because they largely look like shades of yellow.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-04-15 20:16:25+00:00
My experience is that CMake is fine (even great) for small to medium sized projects. Including dependencies, automating tests, even packaging is all handled with not too much fuss.

If you think your project will have more than half a dozen developers then you should probably start thinking about something like Bazel. But both have their idiosyncrasies and Bazel for a small project is overkill.
by andriym | 2025-04-15 20:16:25+00:00
Hey Elliot,

Andriy, co-founder at Nomic here! Congrats on Embed v4 - the more embeddings the merrier!

Embed v1.5 is a 1.5 year old model!

You should check out our latest comparable open-weights, multimodal embedding model that's designed for text, PDFs and images! I can't directly say anything about relative performance to Embed v4 as you guys didn't publish evals on the Vidore-V2 open benchmark!

https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-multimodal
by casey2 | 2025-04-15 20:16:39+00:00
Right from the first paragraph I know this is just nonsense that is only being posted because of currentpoliticalthing

The US leapfroged the rest of the world in both science and engineering by it's civil war, this isn't disputable. It could only do that because of decade long tariffs that existed solely to protect it's nascent manufacturing industry.

People have constructed so many myths about WW2 it's crazy.

GDP: 1871 the US passes GB By 1900 the US economy was double GB's size. by 1910 they've already passed them by GDP per capita. INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT: Again 1870s. You can't really untie science from industrial output. Is there argument here that the US was behind scientifically because of Nobel prizes? If you narrowly define science as "things europeans liked to research" then I guess. But even by that definition Americans were discovering new drugs such as Actinomycin D as early as 1940, during, not after, WW2 and before they entered. So unless people like Waksman (educated in America) count as braindrain 30 years before the fact I don't think the argument is credible.

The UK failed to mass produce penicillin. It's this industrial ineptitude that caused "brain drain".
by miki123211 | 2025-04-15 20:16:44+00:00
If you really want that blur effect so badly, you can just replace your content with something innocuous, and then blur that innocuous content.

This is what you actually have to do with websites, e.g. when you want some content blurred when it's behind a paywall. If you leave the original text intact, people can just remove the CSS blur in dev tools.

Some implementations get this slightly wrong, and leave the placeholder content visible to accessibility tools, which sometimes produces hilarious and confusing results if you rely on those.
by tombert | 2025-04-15 20:16:50+00:00
I'm not 100% sure what you're getting at.

I didn't mind paying a bit more for stuff at Fry's because it was directly available and I liked walking around the store, but I certainly had no plans of buying a product I wasn't already going to buy just to patronize Fry's. These stores, while I do like them, are not charities. I don't want to needlessly give them money for stuff if I don't want it. I am not going to directly donate to them either.

I agree that the experience does have some amount of value if I am reminiscing about these things, but fundamentally what gives me (and I suspect most people) the most value is simply lower prices, and I think these things are at odds.

Big fun stores like Fry's have overhead, and they have to pay for that overhead somehow, meaning that it is rolled into the prices. Amazon is more boring, leading to lower prices.
by skydhash | 2025-04-15 20:17:09+00:00
> You can ask a model a question multiple times. You can ask different models the same question. You can ask the same question different ways. You can do this automatically with agentic frameworks or reasoning models.

LLMs are for generating text, not producing knowledge. The actual knowledge come from the signal/noise ratio of the training data, not the training method.

It's like recording a violin in a noisy environment, encoding it with a low-bitrate lossy encoder and trying to get the PCM of only the violin back.

We've tried to use a better environment for recording specific notes from the violin (better training data), adjust the parameter of the lossy encoder (tuning the model), mix other violin samples to the respone (RAG, MCP), and redefining what a violin should sound like (LLMs marketing).

But the simpler solution is to record it correctly and play it later (AKA going to the source).
by thriftbeam | 2025-04-15 20:18:20+00:00
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by momentary | 2025-04-15 20:18:20+00:00
I had Claude take a whack at what my most pressing tasks were based on my emails. After searching through 17 emails, they came back with the following (obfuscated) list:

Based on my search of your emails from today, here are the tasks Michael Smith has specifically assigned to you:

Horizon Project Tasks:

Set up a separate AI platform account for Robert Johnson using his team email (which you have already done) Check styling on the Horizon emails (CMS and platform standard emails) Change the default blue to white and add the logo to emails Run through Lisa's website launch checklist for the Horizon site

TG Design Adjustments:

Product grid images: Make images have a consistent height like VRS (virtualretailsolutions.com/shop/) Other product page adjustments (additional details would be in the email body)

The most pressing tasks appear to be:

Completing the Horizon email styling adjustments Running through the website launch checklist for Horizon Making the TG design adjustments for product grids and pages

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This captured some of the more pressing tasks, but not all of them. Just thought I'd share a little example of how Claude does with the Gmail integration.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-15 20:18:52+00:00
What distinguishes how Amazon treats their employees from any other logistics/retail employer?

Union busting? Piss bottles? Intrusive tracking with zero tolerance for shortfalls? Poor safety? Low pay?

That's rampant everywhere.

There are exceptions, but they make the rule and the exceptions only apply to direct employees so you have to dig, take time, do research, verify certifications/audits, spend more money, and wait longer, to truly avoid abusive companies.

Shopping at unionized Costco doesn't count for shit. That gallon of ketchup you bought was made by someone pissing in a bottle on a dangerous production line.

Please note: I'm not saying it's right. It is not right.

What I'm saying is that people SEEM to be saying "Amazon sucks brah <they clap their hands together like they're knocking dust off> I don't use 'em" and then they're shopping at Target, where the distribution centers and stores are filled with poorly-paid workers pissing in bottles in between safety stand downs because an unsupervised and poorly-trained worker died crushed between a manlift and a wall: https://www.sungazette.com/uncategorized/2024/11/muncy-targe...

If anyone wants to compete in the smug olympics, I'm the unholy lovechild of Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps when it comes to only buying union-made/public benefit corporation/domestic/local products.

Simultaneously, I recognize that not everyone makes as much as I do so Walmart or Amazon may be their only option.
by LASR | 2025-04-15 20:18:52+00:00
I am genuinely curious how demand for such things spike up. Is it social media? Influenced by someone etc?

I am not on SM, and I really cannot even imagine the peer?-pressure that drives normal, sane and reasonable people living in modern society to go after something so silly and be willing to part so much money for it.

I understand how it works with designer bags and watches etc where it's a signal for social status. But this bag? Come on.

Anyone know why? Or is it just that there is a positive feedback loop here of people wanting to buy this bag only to resell it for a huge return, and that causes the prices to shoot up. When really nobody actually wants to buy this bag to use? Sounds like a group-think ponzi scheme.
by collingreen | 2025-04-15 20:18:57+00:00
Online is a facet of the real world and a place for a significant amount of information gathering and discourse so dismissing it entirely is a bad mistake as well.

The dynamics are very different, especially the complete lack of consequences for lying, cheating, and uncivil discourse. It used to be that you needed to assume you're talking to a shill/liar at all times but now you can't even believe you're talking to an actual human. Regardless, a lot of people get a lot of influence online; it is impactful and it matters even if we wish it didn't.

One of my favorite quotes is "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog" because of how many different angles it can cover. My bright eyed youth took it as a meritocracy of ideas enabled by anonymity and free access - anyone can talk even if you don't normally talk to them or even think "they" are valid. My jaded cynic side sees the ability for predators to lurk in plain sight with no recourse. A more rounded view simply cautions that not knowing who is "on the other side of the line" means you really can't get a lot out of a conversation there.

I have no idea if it's true but I've heard the folk tale that saying "moshi moshi" to answer the phone was because trickster foxes could pretend to be people but couldn't pronounce moshi moshi so you are least knew you were talking to a person. Everything old is new again.
by o11c | 2025-04-15 20:19:10+00:00
This article should be ignored, since it disregards the canonical origin of target triples (and the fact that it's linked to `configure`):

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/tree/

The `testsuite/` directory contains some data files with a fairly extensive list of known targets. The vendor field should be considered fully extensible, and new combinations of know machine/kernel/libc shouldn't be considered invalid, but anything else should have a patch submitted.
by lynndotpy | 2025-04-15 20:19:36+00:00
> Years ago it would've required a supercomputer and a PhD to do this stuff

This isn't actually true. You could do this 20 years ago on a consumer laptop, and you don't need the information you get for free from text moving under a filter either.

What you need is the ability to reproduce the conditions the image was generated and pixelated/blurred under. If the pixel radius only encompasses, say, 4 characters, then you only need to search for those 4 characters first. And then you can proceed to the next few characters represented under the next pixelated block.

You can think of pixelation as a bad hash which is very easy to find a preimage for.

No motion necessary. No AI necessary. No machine learning necessary.

The hard part is recreating the environment though, and AI just means you can skip having that effort and know-how.
Show HN: Baby's Day Out – An AI toddler escape game inspired by the '90s movie
by vijit-singh | 2025-04-15 20:19:42+00:00
Hey HN,

Built a small browser game during a recent hackathon called “Baby’s Day Out”, inspired by the ’90s movie.

It’s a lighthearted escape game where you don’t control the baby directly — instead, you place toys, treats, and distractions to influence the baby with a mind of its own as it tries to escape a park.

It’s still rough around the edges and desktop-only for now, but built it mostly for fun, to dive into game engines and explore some ideas around AI personas and simulation.

Would love your feedback, suggestions, or any related ideas to take it further.

Play here: https://babydayout.xyz
by josefresco | 2025-04-15 20:19:48+00:00
> Republicans in Washington in late 2023 suspended a $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine. The knock-on effect was quickly felt despite Europe’s efforts to make up shortfalls. By April 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told PBS in an interview that for every Ukrainian shell, Russia was firing 10 back. An increasing portion of those were North Korean.
by soylentcola | 2025-04-15 20:19:57+00:00
Oh yeah, it was awful by then. At my store you made essentially minimum wage plus a sort of commission for addons/upsales (as long as they were over a certain percentage of your total sales) and flat bonuses for new cell contracts, phone/accessory sales.

Theoretically it could add up to a passable paycheck for retail, but they had it set up so that only a few senior staff ever got enough hours/good shifts where you could conceivably hit the addon percentages needed to qualify for commissions. So the only way to make any money was to sell cell plans, phones, and accessories. The whole store was totally focused on hawking cell plans.

Then we had to go to monthly meetings an hour out of town on our own dime. That's where they talked at us about the company and how cool and great it was. Such a shitty place to work. IIRC there was a dedicated web forum called "RadioShackSucks" or something like that where staff complained to each other.
by hinkley | 2025-04-15 20:20:03+00:00
Proof of work has problems with this because you (Mallory) can be paid to be the tertiary durable store for a file and secretly fetch the file from Alice or Bob when asked to prove you have the files. And even if you do something like use a different cypher for each copy the fact that the data is often meant to be public means one could work out the cypher given Alice and Bob and then dump your copy once you have done so.

Unless you use public key cryptography, which is so expensive that nobody actually uses it for arbitrarily large inputs.
by CognitiveLens | 2025-04-15 20:20:53+00:00
I'm skeptical that we would need determinism in a supervisor in order for it to be useful. I realize it's not exactly analogous, but the current human parallel, with senior/principal/architect-level SWEs reviewing code from less experienced devs (or even similarly-/more-experienced devs) is far from deterministic, but certainly improves quality

Think about how differently a current agent behaves when you say "here is the spec, implement a solution" vs "here is the spec, here is my solution, make refinements" - you get very different output, and I would argue that the 'check my work' approach tends to have better results.
by jeffbee | 2025-04-15 20:22:05+00:00
Ironic because Bay Area housing socialists are just witless "useful idiots" acting on behalf of the real estate lobby. For example noted idiot and self-described socialist Dean Preston, who is himself an ultra-wealthy landlord who owns hundreds of SF apartments. Preston's former chief of staff and campaign manager Jen Snyder, and most of the rest of his campaign staff, most of whom literally use hammer-and-sickle titles on Twitter, formed a real estate consultancy called "Red Bridge Strategies" that takes contributions directly from NIMBY dipshits, for example when they sued the city of Livermore to stop two 100%-subsidized affordable apartment complexes in Livermore.

YIMBYs rightly looked at these fake socialists and said "pick up a hammer or GTFO".
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-15 20:23:15+00:00
> Let's assume "code is law" is nonsense, as many comments here say. Then, under what conditions do we define interacting with the blockchain as fradulent? What is fraud and what is not fraud?

The thing is, laws can have issues and bugs as well, just like code! And we have courts to judge not just when someone outright breaks a law but also when someone is skirting on the edges of the law.

Take Germany's "cum ex" scandal for example. Billions of euros were effectively defrauded from the state and on paper the scheme appeared legally sound, but in the end it was all shot down many years later because the actions of the "cum ex" thieves obviously violated the spirit of the law.

The only difference is that blockchains are distributed worldwide and there is no single entity that can be held accountable and forced to execute or reverse any given transaction.
by ninininino | 2025-04-15 20:23:45+00:00
As usual with Gen AI the curated demo itself displays misunderstanding and failure to meet the prompt. In the "Glacial Cavern" demo, the "candy figures" are not within the ice walls but are in the foreground/center of the scene.

These things are great (I am not being sarcastic, I mean it when I say great) if and only if you don't actually care about all of your requirements being met, but if exactness matters they are mind-bogglingly frustrating because you'll get so close to what you want but some important detail is wrong.
by flyinghamster | 2025-04-15 20:24:17+00:00
> Fry's Electronics closed here in the west part of Phoenix, several years ago. Their shelves were starting to get bare and were selling things from consignment. It took a while for them to die, and I finally found out why: they were having trouble getting credit to buy inventory.

I was going to do some of my 2019 Christmas shopping at the one and only Fry's in the Chicago area, but I walked inside and it looked like a bomb had gone off. Nothing was organized, lots of empty shelves, the cafe was closed, and I got a serious case of the heebie-jeebies and hightailed it out of there.

Google Street View shows it as it was in August 2019. As far as I know, the building is empty now.

And then there was TigerDirect, but that's a separate rant. I used to have three major computer shops within driving distance, but it's down to one now with MicroCenter.