MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcynix | 2025-04-16 20:02:45+00:00
My reasoning for the plain question was: as people start to replace search engines by AI chat, I thought that asking "plain" questions to see how trustworthy the answers might be, would be a good test. Because plain folks will ask plain questions and won't think about the subtle details. They would not expect a "precise number" either, i.e. not 23:06 PDT, but would like to know if this weekend would be fine for a trip or the previous or next weekend would be better to book a "dark sky" tour.

And, BTW, I thought that LLMs are computers too ;-0
by x1xx | 2025-04-16 20:02:57+00:00
If you are like me (same vim, python, no LLM, no autocompletion, no syntax highlighting noise), LSP will make you a better developer: it makes navigating the codebase MUCH easier, including stdlib and 3rd party dependencies.

As a result, you don't lose flow and end up reading considerably more code than you would have otherwise.
by anon291 | 2025-04-16 20:03:02+00:00
People talk about how hard it is to have kids these days without realizing that this sort of chaos was normal for the vast majority of humans throughout history and they still achieved great things. Part of it is the expectation of others. So what if your kids color your book, interrupt your meetings, or cause embarrassment in front of your boss. They need to get over it.

Like him or hate, the fact that the Vice President takes his kids everywhere is a good reminder of how un-child-friendly our societies have become. It's almost transgressive to exist with children these days.
by krackers | 2025-04-16 20:03:09+00:00
Might this be due to the fact (or at least something I've heard) that TLC SSDs maintain some initial portion as SLC for speed reasons?

Also I'm not sure simply keeping the drive powered on is sufficient to prevent degradation you'd have to actually read from the blocks in order for ECC and relocation to kick in. But maybe the SSD firmware does that in the background.
by s3r3nity | 2025-04-16 20:03:28+00:00
This reminds me of the fascinating story of how Shakespeare's first folio was assembled, in that many of the plays were assembled from folks who had copies that were annotated - either as reading notes or with random family musings like todo lists.

I highly recommend the Chris Laoutaris' book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-Book-Behind-Making-Shake...
by chatmasta | 2025-04-16 20:03:30+00:00
I just wanna say the Dagger shell syntax is incredibly cool and I look forward to playing with it. I would not complain if you posted such self-promotional comments on any thread where it’s relevant because it goes to show the flexibility of the thing.

I saw your announcement post / many contentious HN comments, but wanted to chime in here with a supportive take, because I think time will reveal this design to be very compelling.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-16 20:03:33+00:00
>Single people in Belgium often complain that they are more taxed than families and that it's some kind of injustice.

On face this is true in the US. If you dig down into it in the slightest though, at least for a middle class family, it is extremely misinformed.

Society puts all kinds of burden on the parent that they would not otherwise have to spend

1) Car seats, safety equipment,

2) Employment and corporate taxes, regulatory overhead (including any government-imposed insurance and bond requirements), and licensing costs on daycare. And daycare is required because in US leaving children alone is illegal and providing unlicensed childcare for money is also in many cases illegal. (this one likely completely eats up the child tax credit)

3) Taxes charged on items of utility for the child, often even food.

If you are a single person you are not paying sales taxes for all the shit a kid consumes, you are not paying all the overhead taxes of childcare and child healthcare workers, you are not paying for all the costs associated with licensing requirements of child services providers, you are not paying sales taxes for car seats and all those goodies. You are also paying increased property taxes for the real estate the child needs, although this one is less questionable since you are more likely to consume public schooling which is usually a major component of that.

When you sum it all up I have zero doubt whatsoever a middle class parent pays way more in extra taxes and government imposed overhead than they get in tax breaks. And this is ignoring the fact that the single people in the end still ultimately benefit from the pyramid scheme we have going where social security is paid upward, and the investment to make that possible is mostly born on parents who in the end get the same stake on the returns as someone who did not raise a kid much beyond the scraps taken out of their property taxes.
by saulpw | 2025-04-16 20:04:47+00:00
Okay, so what's your proposal (or any proposal) to fix this funding disaster? As a technical person I don't know how to affect the political process, and am thus disinclined to participate meaningfully. People with political ability and/or power have bigger problems to deal with right now, and also seem unable to affect the current political process. So what options do we have but to try our best, even if those ways are ultimately doomed?
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-04-16 20:05:28+00:00
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm going to be very honest with you: this strikes me as unhinged. I don't mean to put you down, I really mean to be honest. Our perceptions of the world are really, really different. I can imagine how you might believe things like this if you spent too much time in online echo chambers. The information environments they make for you are too...much. The bots run by nefarious parties seek only to make you feel the way you feel, make you believe the things you believe.

I can only recommend that you take a step back, and unplug, fellow traveler :-)
by leoedin | 2025-04-16 20:05:44+00:00
The Drogue IoT project is probably the best set of projects which enable building IoT devices in Rust. https://github.com/drogue-iot

It’s built on top of the Embassy embedded async runtime (which is great), and implements a lot of the stuff you need for IoT.

Unfortunately it seems to have been mainly written by red hat engineers who’ve been redeployed, so apart from a few active subprojects it’s mostly abandoned and slowly bit rotting. It’s a shame as it has real potential but didn’t quite reach production ready state.
by ai-christianson | 2025-04-16 20:06:02+00:00
I've ended up with $5K+ in a month using sonnet 3.7, had to dial it back.

I'm much happier with gemini 2.5 pro right now for high performance at a much more reasonable cost (primarily using with RA.Aid, but I've tried it with Windsurf, cline, and roo.)
by arjf | 2025-04-16 20:06:17+00:00
yes - the sample app has demo of single resonator (so frequency bin equivalent) frequency estimation/tracking based on phase shift and also Doppler velocity computation (the code for these is in the Swift package, equations in the upcoming paper...). this video is from an older version of the demo app (less efficient implementation but same principle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCPDJ8L_ao
by bluGill | 2025-04-16 20:06:17+00:00
The 5200 was essential the 8 bit Atari computer hardware on the inside. The controllers were different, and no keyboard, but almost exactly the same (IIRC one graphics mode was different in their GPU [not related to the GPU of today]). The 8 bit XEGS of 1987 was the same hardware as computer.

They did have some interesting handhelds in later years, but didn't have enough good ideas to make them catch on.
by jfengel | 2025-04-16 20:06:31+00:00
I think that's our ideal, but I suspect we believe it less than we think we do.

Rights often conflict, and the government can't always protect both rights. So we have a giant pile of judicial precedent telling us which rights get prior claim. And you'll find that most people will insist that the right they care about dominates over the rights other people care about.

In this case, people have a right not to be subject to crime, and many of them believe that this dominates over the due process rights of people who might commit crime. They will rarely put it quite that way, but those who voted this way don't seem to be issuing a lot of push-back. They consider their right to avoid theft and murder to be sacrosanct, and that non-citizens have few if any rights that take precedence.
by echelon | 2025-04-16 20:06:59+00:00
Seriously. The users on sora.com are already trying to. They're sending messages to each other with the embedded image text and upvoting it.

GPT 4o and Sora are incredibly viral and organic and it's taking over TikTok, Instagram, and all other social media.

If you're not watching casual social media you might miss it, but it's nothing short of a phenomenon.

ChatGPT is now the most downloaded app this month. Images are the reason for that.
by chrsw | 2025-04-16 20:07:25+00:00
I’m not an AI researcher but I’m not convinced these contemporary artificial neural networks will get us to AGI, even assuming an acceleration to current scaling pace. Maybe my definition of AGI is off but I’m thinking what that means is a machine that can think, learn and behave in the world in ways very close to human. I think we need a fundamentally different paradigm for that. Not something that is just trained and deployed like current models, but something that is constantly observing, constantly learning and constantly interacting with the real world like we do. AHI, not AGI. True AGI may not exist because there are always compromises of some kind.

But, we don’t need AGI/AHI to transform large parts of our civilization. And I’m not seeing this happen either.
by danenania | 2025-04-16 20:07:29+00:00
That may be, but I think tools with a fixed monthly fee are always going to have an incentive to reduce their own costs on the backend and route you toward less capable models, cut down context size, produce less output, stop before the task is truly finished, etc.

Given how much time these models can save me, I'd rather optimize for capability and just accept whatever the price is as a cost of doing business. (Within reason I guess—I probably wouldn't go beyond $2-3k per month at this point, unless there was very clear ROI on that spend.)

Also, it's not only about saving time. More powerful AI tools allow me to build things it would otherwise be impossible to build... that's just as important as the time/cost equation.
by yorwba | 2025-04-16 20:07:42+00:00
I guess it's limited to only two languages because each version of Wikipedia has its own set of templates and they want to make sure they can render them correctly to JSON before releasing the data.

As for the size, it's small compared to the training data of most LLMs, but large relative to their context size. Probably best used for retrieval-augmented generation or similar information retrieval applications.
by 9rx | 2025-04-16 20:07:57+00:00
> I'm not asking whether you have a reason to make up your mind on the question

I am. It is central to the discussion. If there is no reason to make up your mind, why would you do it?

> Is math an area where you can make up your mind?

I don't know.

> Do you know whether you know the answer to the question I posed above?

I don't know. If I were to dedicate the resources necessary to come to know, what advantage would I gain?
by like_any_other | 2025-04-16 20:07:59+00:00
I'm having trouble following your argument. How is a retraction without any allegation or proof of misconduct comparable to retractions of fraudulent papers? Why is fraudulent papers getting retracted a good reason to not worry when sound papers get retracted without cause? This paper was neither climate denialism, nor did it have AI illustrations or plagiarism, so how are those even relevant?
by Retric | 2025-04-16 20:08:01+00:00
The ratio of younger vs older people is also a function of biological aging which might look very different in 500 years. I don’t think we can reasonably expect to retire at 65 if healthy lifespan hits 200+.

If 150 year olds are as healthy as current 50 year olds they may very well be expected to work. And personally I’d happily extend how long people are expected to work in exchange for significantly longer lifespans.
by phoe18 | 2025-04-16 20:08:03+00:00
Response from Gemini 2.5 Pro for comparison -

``` Based on the search results, the new moon in August 2025 will occur late on Friday, August 22nd, 2025 in the Pacific Time Zone (PDT), specifically around 11:06 PM.

In other time zones, like the Eastern Time Zone (ET), this event falls early on Saturday, August 23rd, 2025 (around 2:06 AM). ```
by mrandish | 2025-04-16 20:08:24+00:00
> "In July 2024, a new company called Tengen Games released its first game, “Zed and Zee,” for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) ... Tengen and its parent company, Atari Games, had disappeared 30 years ago after being crushed in court by Nintendo for doing exactly the same thing: manufacturing unauthorized cartridges for the NES."

The article doesn't address how Tengen is now able to produce unauthorized NES-compatible cartridges. Is Tengen paying Nintendo for a license? Did the patents expire? Did relevant legal precedents change? Another possibility might be that, while Atari's 80s legal actions established that intermediate infringement during reverse engineering could be fair use, Atari itself was precluded from relying on that fair use because its lawyers did naughty things. Maybe "new" Tengen reversed engineered it again from scratch without naughty lawyers?

Does anyone know?
by ldoughty | 2025-04-16 20:08:39+00:00
> Congress shall make no law ....

Parents are the ones saying "Damn" is inappropriate. Employers don't want to get a frivolous lawsuit. Congress has not limited my speech.

I was just commenting here in case the project owner wanted to increase the potential distribution of their content. Put simply, having "Damn" in the name means that it will face a distribution problem in the under-18 age range.

I personally have no issues with the word, but DVWA has been extremely popular, and I am crossing my fingers for more content, in general, that is like that.
by anyfoo | 2025-04-16 20:08:39+00:00
When programming assembly, it was common to just indiscriminately use all RAM, not matter what the kernal[1]/basic used it for.

When programming basic, it was common to use memory regions that were meant for something else for yourself if you don’t need it, like you did, knowing that you won’t use the cassette routines.

On the C64, there were some common “autorun” tricks that loaded the program into a buffer overlapping with the keyboard/command buffer, so that after loading completed, the program would magically start without having to type “RUN” or “SYS” with some arcane address.

[1] Not a typo, Commodore called it “KERNAL” with an “A”.
What 100 devs taught me about monetizing small code
by splimeproject | 2025-04-16 20:09:02+00:00
Hey HN,

A few days ago I asked: “How do you monetize personal code if it’s not really an app?”

I wasn’t sure what to expect — but wow. 60+ comments later, I’ve got a lot to think about.

Some of you shared great ideas: microtools, paid APIs, digital bundles, and usage-based services. Others shared tough truths about open source monetization, idea theft, and how hard it is to “just sell code.”

One theme came through clearly: there’s value in small, useful code — but few tools make it easy to share or monetize it *without turning it into a full product or startup*.

So we’re building something lightweight to explore that space. Think of it as a graph-based system where you can plug in small functions (in Python, Go, Rust, Node, even CLI tools), visualize how they connect, and share or even monetize them if you want. We’re focusing on:

Visual orchestration of multi-language functions Easy swapping of nodes without breaking the graph Local-first, no vendor lock-in Optional monetization (sell a function, not a SaaS)

This project came directly out of the discussion on this thread, and we’ll be sharing updates and early access invites for anyone interested in testing it out.

We'll post here again — and also share progress via: - X / Twitter - https://x.com/splime_proj - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/sp-lime - Telegram group - https://t.me/+8ekv5cANUXllZDJi

If you want to help us test the early prototype (or just follow the journey), feel free to join. And thanks again — the HN comments gave this project shape and momentum
by roughly | 2025-04-16 20:09:03+00:00
The correlation in this case isn't about the distribution for the individual event, it's about the interactions between them - so, for instance, Rent could be anywhere between 1200 and 1800, and Food could be anywhere between 100 and 150, but if Rent is 1200, it means Food is more likely to be 100, and if Food is 150, it means Rent is more likely to be 1800. Basically, there's a shared factor that's influencing both (local cost of living) that's the actual thing you need to model.

So, a realistic modeling isn't 1200~1500 + 100~150, it's (1~1.5)*(1200 + 150) - the "cost of living" distribution applies to both factors.
by wnevets | 2025-04-16 20:09:11+00:00
> The single use of AI to generate that video of Trump licking Elon Musk's feet, used significantly more power than this change will cause to be used over the next decade.

We are effectively talking about the entire world wide web generating multiple highly secure cryptograph key pairs every 47 days. That is a lot of CPU cycles.

Also you not picking up on the Futurama quote is disappointing.
by socalgal2 | 2025-04-16 20:09:28+00:00
Why would that be a solution? What's the difference between the LLC that buys a bunch of homes and the LLC the builds bunch of homes. When the homes are done being built the LLC has morphed from an LLC that builds homes to an LLC that bought a bunch of homes.

The solution to me is to stop preventing people and companies from building homes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWs7dqaWfY

Effectively, goverments and nimbyism prevent houses from being built. Even when some laws change to supposedly allow it other laws continue to prevent it. It's got nothing to do with LLCs buying existing houses, it's got to do with not enough houses period.
Site-Llms.xml – An XML Sitemap Standard for AI-Friendly ECommerce Data
by nicola_alessi | 2025-04-16 20:10:14+00:00
We've forked Answer.AI's llms.txt to solve a specific problem: how eCommerce sites with 10K+ products can expose clean product data to LLMs without inefficient scraping.

What it does:

site-llms.xml is a machine-readable sitemap pointing to product-specific llms.txt files (Markdown)

Solves LLM context window issues by splitting catalog data into atomic units

Works alongside robots.txt and sitemap.xml (backward-compatible)

Why it matters:

No more LLMs hallucinating prices/specs from messy HTML

50% faster indexing vs. traditional crawling

Example: Python script to auto-generate files from a DB

Try it on GitHub | Star to support open standards! Built by: Lumigo.ai (AI Product Search Engine – now helping LLMs understand eCommerce better)
by grayhatter | 2025-04-16 20:10:19+00:00
> This idea I had months ago will surely fix all the problems I just started thinking about today.

I very rarely find myself agreeing with some take the author has made. To the point where I almost said never agree. But I always read though, because even though the suggestion is always surface level, it's also always well written and well expressed. I like the help in reasoning through my own thoughts, and his musings always give a good place to start explaining and correcting from.

I hate, with a passion, CVE farmers. Because sa much of it is noise these days. But everyone complaining^1 so far have all completly missed the forest for the trees. The reason everyone uses CVEs still is because the value from having a CVE was never to know the severity. (The difference between unauthenticated remote arbitrary code execution, and might create a partial denial of service in some rare and crafted cases, is 9.9 and 9.3) The value has always been the complete lack of ambiguity when discussing some defect with a security implication. You don't really understand something if you can't explain it, you can explain it if you don't have the words or names for it. CVE farming is a problem, but everyone uses CVEs because it makes defects easier to understand and talk about without misunderstandings or miscommunication.

I'd love to see whatever replaces CVEs included a super set, where CVEs, also have CRE, where Vulnerability is replaced by Risk and only when [handwavey answer about project owner agreement], which would ideally preserve the value we get from the current system. But would allow the incremental improvement suggested by the original comment this essay is responding to. I would like my CVEs to be exclusively vulns that are significant. But even more than I want that, I don't want to have to argue about where the bar for significant belongs!

No company wants to manage CVEs, there's nothing that's going to meaningfully change that in the short term. Which means no one is looking for a better CVE system. Everybody wants the devil they know, I have complaints about the CVE system. But don't want to try to replace it without accounting for how it's used, in addition to how it works (and breaks).

1^: it's still early, and the people rushing to post are often only looking at the surface level. I'm excited to hear deeper more reasoned thoughts, but that's likely to take more than just 24h
by thrance | 2025-04-16 20:10:53+00:00
Then why did he run on that?? That's my whole point! Why did Fox News make this the central issue of the campaign? Why did he promise 100 times he would bring down egg prices? And why is he now pretending like the prices are down and lower than ever before???

And most importantly, why aren't there any Republicans that care he lied and continues to lie so shamelessly about it? On that and the thousand other issues he promised he would fix and did not deliver jack shit on.

My point is, they're completely detached from reality. No amount of polite discussion can bring them back. If you haven't realized Trump is a lying crook at this point, you never will.

You're prime example, you just shut your mind completely and said "he can't do anything about it" when 4 months prior you, like the rest of them, certainly would have been adamant Biden should go to hell for making eggs so expensive and that Trump would fix everything.
by jumploops | 2025-04-16 20:11:56+00:00
The big step function here seems to be RL on tool calling.

Claude 3.7/3.5 are the only models that seem to be able to handle "pure agent" usecases well (agent in a loop, not in an agentic workflow scaffold[0]).

OpenAI has made a bet on reasoning models as the core to a purely agentic loop, but it hasn't worked particularly well yet (in my own tests, though folks have hacked a Claude Code workaround[1]).

o3-mini has been better at some technical problems than 3.7/3.5 (particularly refactoring, in my experience), but still struggles with long chains of tool calling.

My hunch is that these models were tuned _with_ OpenAI Codex[2], which is presumably what Anthropic was doing internally with Claude Code on 3.5/3.7

tl;dr - GPT-3 launched with completions (predict the next token), then OpenAI fine-tuned that model on "chat completions" which then led GPT-3.5/GPT-4, and ultimately the success of ChatGPT. This new agent paradigm, requires fine-tuning on the LLM interacting with itself (thinking) and with the outside world (tools), sans any human input.

[0]https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-age...

[1]https://github.com/1rgs/claude-code-proxy

[2]https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/