MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Clubber | 2025-04-28 10:23:05+00:00
This is a half truth. This is what I found.

"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned states that they will lose federal funding for roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects if they continue to foster diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, impede President Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts or defy other directives from the administration."

It far time to stop taking what the news says at face value. They've been doing this for decades.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-28 10:23:13+00:00
Yup. This is exactly the same problem as the self-driving car. The tech is not 100% reliable. There are going to be incidents. When an incident happens, who takes the blame and what recourse is available? Does the corp using the AI simply eat the cost?

See also https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-unaccountab...
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-04-28 10:23:49+00:00
I love science fiction, but as someone born in the middle of the last century, I am biased toward authors from the 20th century.

I noticed that the novels at the end of Nature (the journal) were sad and weird, but I thought it was probably an editorial choice to look "modern".

Yet recently, I read SF novels with authors sorted alphabetically, and it struck me again how weird and sad 21st-century novels are.
by rollcat | 2025-04-28 10:24:18+00:00
I wonder how hard would it be to detect which single bit was flipped? As ryao noted, in JPEGs it's immediately obvious where the image was corrupted - by visual inspection. Similar for videos, you only need to inspect the data following a single I-frame. Even for bitmap/text files, you could just scan the entire file, try flipping one bit at a time, and compare the result with the checksum.

Unlike e.g. KDFs, checksums are built to be performant, so that verifying one is a relatively fast operation. The Blake family is about 8 cycles per byte[1], I guess a modern CPU could do [napkin math] some 500-1000 MB per second? Perhaps I'm off by an order of magnitude or two, but if the file in question is precious enough, maybe that's worth a shot?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE_(hash_function)
by TuxSH | 2025-04-28 10:25:14+00:00
Seconding this. AI vibe coding (of anything with complex requirements) is blown out of proportion but is quite frankly one of the worst uses of LLMs.

LLMs are ridiculously useful for tasks where false positives (and false negatives) are acceptable but where true positive are valuable.

I've gotten a lot of mileage with prompts like "find bugs in [file contents]" in my own side projects (using a CoT model; before, and in addition to, writing tests). It's also fairly useful for info search (as long as you fact-check afterwards).

Last weekend, I've also had o4-mini-high try for fun to make sense & find vulns in a Nintendo 3DS kernel function that I've reverse-engineered long ago but that is rife with stack location reuse. Turns out, it actually found a real 0day that I failed to spot, and which would have been worth multiple thousands dollars before 2021 when Nintendo still cared about security on the 3DS.

See also: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/ai_models_can_generat...
by nickwatson | 2025-04-28 10:25:30+00:00
Very true, and it got me thinking a lot.

As humans, we align to our experiences and values, all of which are very diverse and nuanced. Reminds me of a friend who loves any medical conspiracy theory, whose dad was a bit of an ass to him, and of course, a scientist!

Without our cognitive biases, are we truly human? Our values; our desired outcomes inherently are part of what shapes us. and of course the sources we choose to trust reinforce this.

It's this that makes me think AGI can never be achieved, or human-like ability for AI to think, because we are all biased, like it or not. Collectively and through challenging each other, this is what makes society thrive.

I feel there is no true path towards a single source of truth, but collaboratively we can at least work towards getting there as closely as possible
by nickdothutton | 2025-04-28 10:25:55+00:00
Unfortunately we are at the stage in the UK now where people do receive visits from the police to (and I use the exact language of the police here) "Check their thinking". This is a consequence of attempting to police speech which previously fell below the level of criminal activity, but now may have been elevated to a crime via volumes of new hate crime laws. Indeed society has now decayed here to such an extent that we have "non crime hate incidents" which still fall below the criminal threshold but warrant an investigation by the police.
by kylebenzle | 2025-04-28 10:26:11+00:00
Thank you for correcting...

America is now just a bunch of lobbyist, billionaires and lawyers in a trenchcoat.

We lock up our minorities, deport those in need and separate children from their families for profit, America is an evil nation and history will see it and it's citizens that way. It's amazing that it seems a majority of people (in the US) fail to see the the US for what it is, an imperial nation run on greed and an army of pure evil lawyers hellbent on total economic control. Lawyers and billionaires destroyed this country 20 years ago, now the American machine is just running on fumes and hate. History will see America as a nation and people of pure greed and evil.
by ActorNightly | 2025-04-28 10:26:16+00:00
People were warning that Trump is going to tank the economy - it was in a positive state in 2016 from Obama and he deficit spend like crazy while also lowering taxes, which contributed to recession under Biden in a large way, but of course Covid is to blame.

Now, without Covid, its pretty clear that he basically tanked the economy for no good reason.

People were warning that Trump is going to weaponize the government to go against people opposing him.

He is doing that now.

People were warning that Trump is going to ignore the law and the legal process.

He is certainly doing that now.

People were warning that Trump is going to implement policies based in racism.

He is certainly doing that now.

And we aren't even half a year into his term.

But sure, pick the few points that didn't happen as justification.

I really do wonder what it feels like to live with ideological blinders on sometimes. Must be a nice feeling to live in reality thats probably happier than what actual reality is.
by mungoman2 | 2025-04-28 10:26:28+00:00
This is super neat, cool that you have an online demo as well.

I wonder if there are any ideas on how to make this a OpenSCAD-style editor instead of interactive? I like the text-based style for simple regular shapes, but they tend to end up too simple and regular. Maybe tools like filleting edges SDF-style is a game changer?
by red369 | 2025-04-28 10:27:40+00:00
I just tried again, and ChatGPT did much better. A notification said it was using GPT-4o mini, and it reached move 10 for White (me) before it lost the plot:

https://chatgpt.com/share/680f57b6-8554-800b-a042-f640224b91...

It didn't get much further with suggestions to review. Also, the small ASCII board it generated was incorrect much earlier, but it sometimes plays without that, so I let that go.
by tim333 | 2025-04-28 10:27:51+00:00
>“It really demanded modern AI to formulate the three-dimensional structure very precisely to make this discovery.”

It's not like bic pens. It's a new technique they couldn't do before that helped crack the mystery.

Also the title is "AI Helps..." not "AI Discovers" so that's kind of a strawman. I don't think anyone is denying the humans did great work. Maybe it's more like Joe Boggs uses the Hubble telescope to find a new galaxy and moaning because the telescope gets a mention.

I'm quite enthusiastic about the AI bit. My grandad died with alzheimer's 50 years ago. My sister is due to die of als in a couple of years. Both areas have been kind of stuck for decades. I'm hoping the AI modeling allows some breakthroughs.
by Saigonautica | 2025-04-28 10:27:53+00:00
I made an electronic board game: https://github.com/seanboyce/Calculus-the-game

It's compatible with Settlers of Catan. However, I plan to make my own rulesets, artwork, manuals, etc. It will not be a commercial product, of course you can make your own with the files I provide.

Right now the boards, electronics, and firmware are in good working order. Although the routing is pretty YOLO.

It feels like there's a lot of unpleasantness going on in the world right now. I thought maybe I could put my other projects aside and try to make something that might brighten your day (It certainly has enough of LEDs).

A big TODO is to replace the 0402 SMT components with something larger and easier to work with like 0603. I'll find time within a week or so and push it to the repo. (I am notoriously cheap and only keep 0402 in stock)
by maz1b | 2025-04-28 10:28:11+00:00
https://medangle.com

Since my third year in medical school, I've built the largest medical education platform in MENAP. 90k+ users, 100m+ questions solved, billions of seconds spent learning across our Super App. Now working on sustainably scaling further, building medGPT.

It's awesome, exciting and impactful work. I am the first medical doctor + full stack technologist in Pakistan (250m) people, and we've helped the country move medical education decades forward.
by yapyap | 2025-04-28 10:28:22+00:00
Great blogpost with some nice insights.

Though I had to roll my eyes at the “inventing AGI” part.

Also it’s Steve Glass not Steve Grass and when a word ends in an s sound you don’t have to add another s after the ‘ when making it possessive. So it would be “Steve Glass’ idea” instead of “Steve Glass’s idea”
by thorin | 2025-04-28 10:28:24+00:00
I'm not sure getting out of Europe would help that. Where would you suggest, maybe Canada, Australia, New Zealand but the situation will continue to be volatile I think. I don't think going to US is ideal at the current time for Europeans. Running a business is probably the best option if you can do something in demand. A different career is probably only realistic if you're very young as the only things I could suggest that would be a lot better (financially) might be by training as a professional Accountant, Lawyer or Doctor (and all of these might also be threatened by AI.

This is a UK perspective not Europe, but there are a lot of parallels (until recently) and I know Europe pretty well.
by Saline9515 | 2025-04-28 10:28:38+00:00
The problem here is that I could go to the police, report Tony Edgecombe as he told me at the coffee machine that devs who use 4 spaces instead of tabs are pure human scum who should be deported, and it will be written in your file. You then have no way to erase it.

The problem with thinking that such practice is totally ok, is that one day it will turn against you. Pro-Palestine liberals discovered this at their expense after the Trump election and the recent crackdown on their movement.
by daSiberian | 2025-04-28 10:29:06+00:00
Science is about contributing to the world.

Not all citizens agree with their government's actions, and not everyone is able to leave their country. Those who could leave have already done so; those who couldn’t had no choice but to stay, as they often lack viable options. Additionally, obtaining a job abroad as a Russian passport holder has become increasingly difficult due to rising political tensions. Despite this, many of these individuals still want to contribute positively to global society but instead find themselves punished for actions they do not support.

These people should not be punished—they need support. Such punitive measures only create unnecessary barriers.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-28 10:29:14+00:00
Failure to drive 70 mph on a highway posted at 60 will (very often, road depending) result in far more cars overpassing you. Each instance of passing carries a small but definite amount of risk; it is safer to match the speed of the other cars on the road than to obstinately stick to the limit and get passed hundreds of times in a single trip.

(As for ripping up roads and relaying them so drivers intuitively find the safe speed to match the posted speed limit, it would be much cheaper to simply adjust the speed limit than establishing entirely new right of ways through existing neighborhoods, farms and industrial zones. That would be bonkers.)
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-28 10:29:25+00:00
Definitely NOT going to build that. I haven't touched a soldering iron in 30-35 years, and don't plan to do so again. Perhaps after retirement (and with some massive magnifying lens) I was thinking to buy and make some cool 'ready-to-built-kits' with silly stuff I don't really _need_.

But I do miss those days that I would blow a fuse because I made a mistake in the soldering.. heh.. good/fun days!
by criddell | 2025-04-28 10:29:36+00:00
How are you going to check Gemini’s math on that?

Claude tells me that’s 4-5 eggs per day or 5x150 mg alpha gpc capsules.

The eggs would be a lot more expensive in both time and materials plus most egg farms seem cruel (especially male chick killing)… I’m leaning towards alpha gpc supplements.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-28 10:30:22+00:00
A big part of the problem here is that Universities have increasingly begun attaching prestige to specific “top” conference publications for both ranking and faculty promotions. A good example of the phenomenon can be seen in [1] (sorry for the noun-citation!) which only gives credit for approximately three conferences in each field. Combine this with a flood of new researchers entering CS, you have a recipe for “top” conferences being essentially destroyed and filled with uninspired work.

(And contrary to the joke in the article, even your own work becomes uninspired when you ship it to those conferences. You can’t afford to be quirky or interesting.)

Fortunately every field has a fourth or fifth-tier conference that isn’t on this list (or a specialized topic conference that the rankings folks don’t care about), and those still serve the purposes that conferences were made for. You just might not be able to convince a ranking-obsessed administrator that your work has any value if you publish there.

[1] https://csrankings.org/
by ben_w | 2025-04-28 10:30:35+00:00
> Would it yield a zero?

The electron's position is smeared out over the entire orbital, so in this sense it's being accelerated in all cartesian directions equally — sure, in spherical coordinates, it's always in the radially inwards direction, but it can't go "in" any further because its own wave function is already there, blocking it.

(Operator specifically: IDK if there is one for acceleration, but this is why electrons can't be pushed in once they're at the final energy level).
by tenthirtyam | 2025-04-28 10:31:40+00:00
I'm not sure that intent should be at all relevant. If you're not capable of routinely keeping the vehicle within the speed limits, then perhaps you shouldn't be driving it?

If you're caught once, then a fine and a slap on the wrist should be enough to make you pay more attention. Twice - bigger fine & harder slap. If you're caught N times, then lose your license.

Something like "ignorance is not an excuse in the eyes of the law".
by maz1b | 2025-04-28 10:32:39+00:00
Part of my vision is to also help revolutionize adjacent healthcare fields, as we're focused on premed, medical and dental currently for undergrads + recent medical graduates, but nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy and veterinary school all are of great interest to me. I am a big animal lover personally.

For such markets, you can imagine that the TAM etc is smaller, but still important. For us it's a blend of mission driven and business.

Thanks for the comment! I would love to chat vet-ed-tech further, I am on LinkedIn (/in/az1b) or email: azib [at] az1b [dot] com
by tetris11 | 2025-04-28 10:33:17+00:00
A tree cutting tool.

Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph representation of the tree.

The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one side).

I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping them back to their original state, but in an order that does not intersect other branch vectors.

The idea came to me as a particularly difficult tree needed to come down in my friends yard, and we spent hours planning it out. I've already gotten some interest from the tree-surgeon community, I just need to appify it.

Second rendition will treat the problem more as a physics one than a graph one, with some energy-minimisation methods for solving.
by hunvreus | 2025-04-28 10:33:31+00:00
1. Still maintaining Pages CMS [1], a CMS for static sites and apps.

2. Basecoat, a HTML/CSS port of shadcn/ui v4 [2] (no React).

3. DevPu.sh, a Vercel for Python apps.

Releasing both Basecoat this week and DevPu.sh hopefully in the next 2 weeks.

[1]: https://github.com/pages-cms/pages-cms

[2]: https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/tailwind-v4
by bitbloob | 2025-04-28 10:33:33+00:00
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by HenryBemis | 2025-04-28 10:33:36+00:00
I am thinking a Black Mirror-like scenario, that in the peak of the episode, someone's life is at risk, and they got the speed-limiter to 10km/h (due to past offenses) and the baddie can run fast, catch them, kill them. (kinda like 15MM or Nosedive but for driving speed)
Show HN: I made a tool for finding memorable, available domains
by io84 | 2025-04-28 10:33:52+00:00
I was sick of all the noise on domain sites trying to upsell me to premium and auction domains for small dev projects, so I built a tool that shows only available, non-premium domains.

It automatically scores and ranks options based on six metrics (spellability, pronounceability etc). By default, it suggests a wide range of "dot-something" domains, but you can restrict it to .com, .ai, .io.

The tool also learns from your likes and dislikes, helping you hone in on names that match your taste.

Would love feedback from others who have faced the same problem!
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-28 10:34:06+00:00
No. It's the clause that is common in tech contracts, where any idea that you come up with, "in the shower," belongs to the company.

It prevents things like moonlighting, or doing charity work.

I worked for a company that employed a lot of top-notch photographers, and there's no way that they would have agreed to anything like that.
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-28 10:34:18+00:00
A small-to-mid-sized group of people you have come to know (IRL or online), between a dozen and maybe fifty members, has bee a sweet spot for me.

Or: Metafilter.

Tildes has been reasonable. It's not gotten dragged down to Reddit's depths of depravity and uselessness, though it doesn't rise much above it either.
by RamblingCTO | 2025-04-28 10:34:32+00:00
I'll say yes. I am the only one in the company that has a degree (MSc compsci). I know stuff the others never heard of. Your exposure to obscure things in uni are really worth the time for deeper topics. I focused on machine learning and had classes like operations research, non-linear optimization or complexity theory & approximation algorithms and I kid you not, I could make use of these things quite a lot to find efficient issues for a harder problem.

If the course is just software engineering, don't bother imho. If it's compsci, do it. Do the hard stuff. You'll have an edge the others don't.

For context: I studied in Germany at a proper Uni and focused more and had quite the mathematical and theoretical curriculum. Not sure what the international situation is.

Also, yes, a paper helps. You have exposure to a variety of topics on a deeper level. That can come in handy!
by n4r9 | 2025-04-28 10:34:37+00:00
Although I'm sympathetic to the author's argument, I don't think they've found the best way to frame it. I have two main objections i.e. points I guess LLM advocates might dispute.

Firstly:

> LLMs are capable of appearing to have a theory about a program ... but it’s, charitably, illusion.

To make this point stick, you would also have to show why it's not an illusion when humans "appear" to have a theory.

Secondly:

> Theories are developed by doing the work and LLMs do not do the work

Isn't this a little... anthropocentric? That's the way humans develop theories. In principle, could a theory not be developed by transmitting information into someone's brain patterns as if they had done the work?
by leereeves | 2025-04-28 10:35:38+00:00
There's no doubt that the part about the police investigating and recording non-criminal speech is true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-crime_hate_incident

And according to these solicitors, such records are used in background checks:

https://www.slaterheelis.co.uk/articles/crime-category/non-c...
by niemandhier | 2025-04-28 10:35:50+00:00
440 companies left London at least partially for the EU.

Winner is Dublin, followed by, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt.

10% of assets were moved out of the UK.

Ironically things would have been much worse if not for Covid. The COVID slump in economy kept the EU from fully nuking the UK banking sector.

https://www.newfinancial.org/reports/brexit-%26-the-city%3A-...