MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by claiir | 2025-04-12 14:29:53+00:00
In this case it's a little bit worse; the "nate" app had a literally "0% automation rate," despite representations to investors of an "AI" automation rate of "93-97%" powered by "LSTMs, NLP, and RL." No ML model ever existed! [1]

See:

> As SANIGER knew, at the time nate was claiming to use AI to automate online purchases, the app’s actual automation rate was effectively 0%. SANIGER concealed that reality from investors and most nate employees: he told employees to keep nate’s automation rate secret; he restricted access to nate’s “automation rate dashboard,” which displayed automation metrics; and he provided false explanations for his secrecy, such as the automation data was a “trade secret.”

> SANIGER claimed that nate's "deep learning models" were "custom built" and use a "mix of long short-term memory, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning."

> When, on the eve of making an investment, an employee of Investment Firm-1 asked SANIGER about nate's automation rate, that is, the percentage of transactions successfully completed with nate's AI technology, SANIGER claimed that internal testing showed that "success ranges from 93% to 97%."

(from [1])

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1396131/dl?inline
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by fercircularbuf | 2025-04-12 14:29:55+00:00
My friend and I have been working on this word game as a side project for about six months, and we’re excited to finally share it beyond our family and friends!

The idea came from a simple game my friend used to play with his kids during long car rides — just using their heads and maybe a pencil and paper. He had such fond memories of it that we decided to bring it to life as a proper game.

We’d love for you to try it out and let us know what you think!
by dinfinity | 2025-04-12 14:31:18+00:00
To be fair, the whole "vibe coding" thing is really really new stuff. It will undoubtedly take some time to optimize how to actually effectively do it.

Recently, we've seen a lot of a shift in insight into not just diving straight into implementation, but actually spending time on careful specification, discussion and documentation either with or without an AI assistant before setting it loose to implement stuff.

For large, existing codebases, I sincerely believe that the biggest improvements lie in using MCP and proper instructions to connect the AI assistants to spec and documentation. For new projects I would put pretty much all of that directly into the repos.
by amarshall | 2025-04-12 14:31:19+00:00
All files pokes a big hole, really you want portals. You probably also want audio. And perhaps graphics acceleration depending on the software, and other limited hardware access. And dbus (but sandboxed proxy access). Probably some global config from the host as well (fonts, themes, cursor). And…well maybe there’s more but the point is it depends on the software. Maybe it is that simply sometimes. Often it’s not for non-trivial applications.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-12 14:31:50+00:00
Long read; these bits were notable to me:

> But the insurer’s defense went even further, to the very meaning of “prior authorization,” which it had granted women like Arch to pursue surgery. The authorization, they said in court, recognized that a procedure was medically necessary, but it also contained a clause that it was “not a guarantee of payment.” Blue Cross was not obliged to pay the center anything, top executives testified. “Let me be clear: The authorization never says we’re going to pay you,” said Steven Udvarhelyi, who was the CEO for the insurer from 2016 to 2024, in a deposition. “That’s why there’s a disclaimer.

> At the trial, Blue Cross revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — nor had it ever told the center that they were pointless. “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment,” acknowledged Paula Shepherd, a Blue Cross executive vice president. The insurer simply issued an edict — the payment was correct.

> On several occasions, though, Blue Cross executives had signed special one-time deals with the center, known as single case agreements, to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
by eddyg | 2025-04-12 14:31:55+00:00
Nice!

I loved the Emerald Chronometer⁽¹⁾app for iOS / iPadOS and all its various “calibres” that you could flip over and show in day or night mode. Sadly the dev has removed the apps from the App Store, but it still runs (for now.) It’s a fun use for an older iPad on a stand.

Wanted to mention it in case it gives you some inspiration. :)

⁽¹⁾https://emeraldsequoia.com/h/
by pmags | 2025-04-12 14:31:57+00:00
Above I've already pointed to TWO types of data that bear on food insecurity in the US, and provided citations:

1. USDA data on food insecurity

2. Food bank usage data

If you wanted to understand the extremes of food insecurity, than data on malnutrition related deaths in the US would also apply:

• Mostafa, N., Sayed, A., Rashad, O. et al. Malnutrition-related mortality trends in older adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020. BMC Med 21, 421 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03143-8

From the paper above -- "Despite some initial decrements in malnutrition mortality among older adults in the U.S., the uptrend from 2013 to 2020 nullified all established progress. The end result is that malnutrition mortality rates represent a historical high...Effective interventions are strongly needed. Such interventions should aim to ensure food security and early detection and remedy of malnutrition among older adults..."

If you wanted to explore malnutrition related deaths for other groups / time periods you could query the CDC Wonder data base using ICD-10 Codes E40 – E46 (as was done in the paper cited above; see also https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/E00-E89/E40-E46).

• https://wonder.cdc.gov/ -- Search CDC Wonder for underlying cause of death

I did the query for 2023 and found were >22,000 malnutrition related deaths recorded by the CDC.

If this number went down significantly I would see that as evidence of a decrease in malnutrition in the US. If this number was near zero I would accept your assertion that no/few Americans are starving.

Given the preponderance of data, the notion that one could argue with a straight face that food insecurity in the US is of no concern seems shocking to me.
by Riverheart | 2025-04-12 14:32:03+00:00
The capability of the model to infringe isn’t the problem. Ingesting unlicensed inputs to create the model is the initial infringement before the model has even output anything and I’m saying that copyright shouldn’t be assigned to it or its outputs. If you train on licensed art and output Darth Vader that’s cool so long as you know better than to try copyrighting that. If you train on licensed art and produce something original and the law says it’s cool to copyright that or there’s just no one to challenge you, also cool.

If you want to ingest unlicensed input and produce copyright infringing stuff for no profit, just for the love of the source material, well that’s complicated. I’m not saying no good ever came of it, and the tolerance for infringement comes from it happening on a relatively small scale. If I take an artists work with a very unique style and feed it into a machine then mass produce art for people based on that style and the artist is someone who makes a living off commissions I’m obviously doing harm to their business model. Fanfics/fanart of Nintendo characters probably not hurting Nintendo. It’s not black or white. It’s about striking a balance, which is hard to do. I can’t just give it a pass because large corporations will weather it fine.

That Fantasia video was good. You ever see Pogo’s Disney remixes? Incredible musical creativity but also infringing. I don’t doubt the time and effort needed to produce these works, they couldn’t just write a prompt and hit a button. I respect that. At the same time, this stuff is special partly because there aren’t a lot of things like it. If you made a AI to spit out stuff like this it would be just another video on the internet. Stepping outside copyright, I would prefer not to see a flood of low effort work drown out everything that feels unique, whimsical, and personal but I can understand those who would prefer the opposite. Disney hasn’t taken it down in the last 17 years and god I’m old. https://youtu.be/pAwR6w2TgxY?si=K8vN2epX4CyDsC96

The training of unlicensed inputs is the ultimate issue and we can just agree to disagree on how that should be handled. I think
by Maxious | 2025-04-12 14:32:57+00:00
>Today at Google Cloud Next, we're thrilled to announce another significant milestone for Google Public Sector: the authorization of Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted) to host Top Secret and Secret missions for the U.S. Intelligence Community, and Top Secret missions for the Department of Defense (DoD).

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-pu...
by nolist_policy | 2025-04-12 14:34:33+00:00
Sxmo is based on a keyboard-driven tiling window manager. Yes, it is as bad as it sounds. Touch gestures suck so much[1] that the most comfortable way to navigate it is with the volume buttons and power button. Each of these buttons has like 3 different functions with double, tripple click etc. Changing the volume is not one of the functions[2].

Auto screen orientation only works 50% of the time, because the whole thing is based on a pile of shell scripts.

There is no lock screen included.

No, I'm not kidding.

[1] https://sxmo.org/docs/gettingstarted/

[2] https://man.sr.ht/~anjan/sxmo-docs/USERGUIDE.md#strongglobal...
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-12 14:36:22+00:00
I am sure people disagree with me and agree with you. Fact is if I bundled up the latest version of Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux malware and ransomeware most here would be hesitant to copy it to their workstations, dev/qd, staging and production servers even if they did not wish to execute it. Very few would be able to prove it was never executed much less be able to prove what the code did or did not do.

If it's not needed it's gotta go especially if it can talk to the network or modify data/code that can talk to the network. I will always assume it is or was running, period full stop.
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-04-12 14:36:39+00:00
Seems a bit anti-business to have an unequal playing field just for the star-bellied sneetches. Also silly that those with the biggest piles of capital are getting exemptions when the whole purpose of this exercise is to spur local investment in manufacturing. If anything, small businesses below some threshold of revenue/staff should be getting exemptions.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-12 14:36:50+00:00
>I think it’s reasonable to wonder that, if the temperature never rises about room temperature, the team might not be fully challenging itself.

I suspect this only seems reasonable if you've never experienced a healthy work environment. I probably would have agreed with you when I was in my twenties, working at a startup with another bunch of twenty-year-old guys and a CEO who was in over his head. It wasn't unusual for the whole company to yell at each other in a meeting room. The stakes seemed high then, but they seem ridiculous in hindsight, as does my own behavior.

Thirty years later, the stakes are much higher, and the temperate is much lower. This is precisely because we can't afford this behavior, and we can't afford to deal with people who can't control themselves and behave professionally in high-pressure situations.
by p_ing | 2025-04-12 14:37:05+00:00
Reddit is a wasteland of:

1. Bots

2. Idiots

3. Stupid people

4. People airing their dirty laundry for all to see

5. People who are being abused by their parents/partners/other

6. People who shouldn't be on reddit

7. "Am I the asshole?" - Every thread invokes Betteridge's law

8. "Am I the only one?" - Every thread invokes Betteridge's law

9. "Rate me" - this was the only SFW picture I could find from my OF

(Tiny 10). Genuine small subreddits focused on a particular non-generic/non-cat topic with Real Humans

Abandon yee ole reddit for it hath been overrun with hordes of rabble
by toss1 | 2025-04-12 14:39:17+00:00
Interesting insight; thanks!

That would make sense as to why they insist on making search worse — keep you in the doom loop to show more promoted products and collect more pennies from the promotion, even if you end up going and purchasing somewhere else. Same Prime subscriptions, as long as they keep you coming back just enough to keep re-subscribing, they collect $130 or whatever per year.

I had noticed a while ago I was using Amazon in a way analogous to 'showrooming'. When Amazon came on the scene, people would look in the brick&mortar stores to see what goods they liked, then buy cheaper on Amazon. I had now unconsciously started using Amazon to do a broad survey search before purchasing somewhere else. OFC, when their search tool really enshittified, haven't been there much.
by cbondurant | 2025-04-12 14:39:36+00:00
I think that the compilation flags utilized are needed in order to properly justify the validity of the microbenchmark here.

At opt-level 2 and 3 rust completely optimizes away the interior loop, leaving just two instructions (plus a check for if n=0). given that your graph isnt showing O(1) time complexity shows you either

1) didn't compile your rust code in release mode for benchmarking, as the release profile uses opt-level=3 or 2) intentionally downgraded the opt-level of the release profile in order to run these tests

I'd be interested to see a more proper example, one where the task itself has some non-zero time complexity. Show a quicksort implementation perhaps. But as it stands this is just marketing smoke and mirrors.
by sha-3 | 2025-04-12 14:40:01+00:00
Great catch! I've figured out the problem. My API actually returns[0] the IPA for both UK and US accents. The problem was it was under the tags "Received-Pronunciation" and "General-American" instead of the usual "En-uk" and "En-us".

I will deploy a fix soon. Thank you!

[0]: https://dict.apihost.site/v1/define/en/dog

EDIT: I've deployed a fix. This still won't cover all the edge-cases but it's much better than before.
by estebank | 2025-04-12 14:40:10+00:00
https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/installation/windows.html

> When targeting the MSVC ABI, Rust additionally requires an installation of Visual Studio so rustc can use its linker and libraries.

> When targeting the GNU ABI, no additional software is strictly required for basic use. However, many library crates will not be able to compile until the full MSYS2 with MinGW has been installed.

...

> Since the MSVC ABI provides the best interoperation with other Windows software it is recommended for most purposes. The GNU toolchain is always available, even if you don’t use it by default.
by yellow_lead | 2025-04-12 14:40:35+00:00
This link is better:

https://wccftech.com/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-have-reported...

Or, the primary source seems to be:

https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSCBP-3db9e5...

But you'd have to look up those codes to know they're for PCs, smartphones
by cardanome | 2025-04-12 14:41:22+00:00
I wouldn't be so optimistic.

Moore's law is withering away due to physical limitations. Energy prices go up because of the end of fossil fuels and rising climate change costs. Furthermore the global supply chain is under attack by rising geopolitical tension.

Depending on US tariffs and how the Taiwan situation plays out and many other risks, it might be that compute will get MORE expensive in the future.

While there is room for optimization on the generative AI front we are still have not even reached the point were generative AI is actually good at programming. We have promising toys but for real productivity we need orders of magnitude bigger models. Just look how ChatGPT 4.5 is barely economically viable already with its price per token.

Sure if humanity survives long enough to widely employ fusion energy, it might become practical and cheap again but that will be a long and rocky road.
by prophesi | 2025-04-12 14:42:08+00:00
I think it can be IP theft, and also require labor negotiations. And global technical infrastructure for people to opt-in to having their data trained on. And a method for creators to be compensated if they do opt-in and their work is ingested. And ways for their datasets to be audited by third parties.

It sounds like a pipedream, but ethical enforcement of AI training across the globe will require multifaceted solutions that still won't stamp out all bad actors.
by Lvl999Noob | 2025-04-12 14:42:19+00:00
Could the AI providers themselves monitor any code snippets and look for non-existent dependencies? They could then ask the LLM to create that package with the necessary interface and implant an exploit in the code. Languages that allow build scripts would be perfect as then the malicious repo only needs to have the interface (so that the IDE doesn't complain) and the build script can download a separate malicious payload to run.
by cynical_german | 2025-04-12 14:43:05+00:00
"rust import csv-parser" "you've installed 89 packages"

why is my executable 20 mb, not as performant as a 50 kb C file & doesn't build a year later if I try to build with 89 new versions of those packages

obligatory xkcd reference: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency_2x.png this is what package managers lead to
by sleepyguy | 2025-04-12 14:43:21+00:00
https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/tariffs-exclusions-exem...

>This latest round of tariff rates is currently set at 125% for Chinese goods and a 10% tax on imports from other trading partners. China also had an additional 20% tax on its goods that began in March, bringing its total to 145%.

Importers of these electronics will no longer face the newest taxes, and it cuts the Chinese rate down to 20% for them. The exceptions cover $385 billion worth of 2024 imports, 12% of the total. It includes $100 billion from China, 23% of 2024 imports from there. For these electronics, the average tax rate went from 45% to 5% with this rule.

The biggest global exemption is the import category that includes PCs and servers, with $140 billion in 2024 imports, 26% of it from China. Circumstances may change again, but this benefits AI king Nvidia, server-makers like Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPE

+2.91% , and Super Micro, and PC makers like Dell and HP

HPQ

+2.49% . The average tax rate went from 45% to 5% here, according to Barron’s calculations.

The biggest newly exempt category for Chinese goods is smartphones, with $41 billion in 2024 U.S. imports, 81% of all smartphone imports. A 145% tax on that would be $60 billion, but even the new 20% tax is a hefty $8 billion.
by jFriedensreich | 2025-04-12 14:43:48+00:00
I don't know why the topic of websockets is so weird. 80% of the industry seem to have this skewed idealised perception of websockets as the next frontier of their web development career and cannot wait to use them for anything remotely connected to streaming/ realtime use cases. When pointing out the nuances and that websockets should actually be avoided for anything where they are not absolutely needed without alternatives people get defensive and offended, killing every healthy discussion about realistic tradeoffs for a solution. Websockets have a huge number of downsides especially losing many of the niceties and simplicity of http tooling, reasonability, knowledge and operations of http. As many here pointed, the goto solution for streaming server changes is h2 / h3 and SSE. Everything that can be accomplished in the other direction with batching and landing in the ballpark of max 0.5req/s per client does NOT need websockets.
by vbtechguy | 2025-04-12 14:44:08+00:00
Used https://gemini.google.com Gemini 2.5 Pro canvas mode for Gemini Advanced subscription account to ask it to build Atari missile command game in HTML5. Tweeted about it at https://x.com/George_SLiu/status/1906236287931318747 almost one shotted but after I passed level 1, it jumped to level 182 and pulverised my cities and bases LOL
by cinbun8 | 2025-04-12 14:44:23+00:00
From an outsider’s perspective, it’s difficult to discern any coherent U.S. strategy—assuming one even exists. One day it’s a 145% tariff on China. The next, it’s “Well, it’s still 145%, but Apple and Nvidia are exempted because their stock prices might take a hit.” Then comes a 90-day pause, adding to the confusion.

It’s not clear whether Jamieson Greer is actually steering this, or if any of it was thoroughly thought through.
by andelink | 2025-04-12 14:44:52+00:00
1. Giving a damn. The majority of people don’t care at all about the work being performed. You can easily distinguish yourself by simply caring about whatever it is you’re working on.

2. A natural consequence of the above: fully reading the documentation, be it man pages or the official technical reference for a given technology. It’s incredible how many people don’t read documentation. You can become one of the foremost experts in your company simply by reading the documentation from front to back. You will seem like a genius.
by richardw | 2025-04-12 14:44:55+00:00
Our brains killed us if we figured things out wrong. We’d get eaten. We learned to get things right enough, and how to be pretty right, fast, even when we didn’t know the new context (plants, animals, snow, lava).

LLM’s are just so happy to generate enough tokens that look right ish. They need so many examples driven into them during training.

The map is not the territory, and we’re training them on the map of our codified outputs. They don’t actually have to survive. They’re pretty amazing but of course they’re absolutely not doing what we do, because success for us and them look so different. We need to survive.

(Please can we not have one that really wants to survive.)
by vasco | 2025-04-12 14:45:50+00:00
That's a funny way of looking at it because the banana republics weren't called that because they were "bananas" or something. They were called that to identify which of those countries had had state and megacorp interference and government toplings, by mostly the United Fruit Company - an American company.

Whatever the banana republics were they were turned into that by the US's doing, so it's funny that now the term comes back home.
by vbezhenar | 2025-04-12 14:46:08+00:00
For me ads on web are acceptable as long as they are clearly distinguished from the content. As soon as ads gets merged into content, I'll be unhappy. If LLM would advertise something in a separate block, that's fine. if LLM augments its output to subtly nudge me to a specific brand which paid for placement, that's no-no.
by simonw | 2025-04-12 14:46:34+00:00
As an "AI apologist", sorry to disappoint but the answer here isn't better prompting: it's code review.

If an LLM spits out code that uses a dependency you aren't familiar with, it's your job to review that dependency before you install it. My lowest effort version of this is to check that it's got a credible commit and release history and evidence that many other people are using it already.

Same as if some stranger opens a PR against your project introducing a new-to-you dependency.

If you don't have the discipline to do good code review, you shouldn't be using AI-assisted programming outside of safe sandbox environments.

(Understanding "safe sandbox environment" is a separate big challenge!)
I built a ZK-Rollup, PQC, and AI blockchain solo – here's the architecture
by _9u0i | 2025-04-12 14:47:03+00:00
Over the past two years, I’ve been designing a blockchain protocol from scratch — with zk-Rollups, post-quantum encryption (Kyber + Dilithium), AI-based gas optimization, and DAG sharding.

It’s called [name-redacted].

No token. No presale. No VC. Just architecture, vision, and conviction.

Here’s the GitHub architecture repo if you’re curious: [link-redacted]

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