MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maratc | 2025-05-26 18:44:18+00:00
> willful deception to prevent action on the cause.

I don't care either way. I don't live in the US. Action or non-action, I'm unaffected by that. There's no reason for me to "willfully deceit" anyone, as I don't stand to either gain or lose with any outcome. There's also no reason for you to frame this as a personal attack.

I've checked Zillow though.

There's a plenty of $1 homes, mostly dilapidated and non-functional even though the land could be worth $1 if one can afford demolition and rebuilding. But at the range of $10,000 to $15,000 there's a lot of pretty normally looking homes. Even if one doesn't have that amount as a down payment, I assume plenty of banks would be willing to give a mortgage for that sum with 25 years of $150/mo payments.

The problem is nobody wants to live where these houses are, because it's not SF, while in SF there are a lot of options under $2M, but not many people have that amount of money.

"Housing shortage" doesn't exist. The only shortage that exists is the shortage of $10,000 homes in SF.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-05-26 18:44:32+00:00
>I’m now on a path to have jaw surgery to move my lower and upper jaw by 1cm.

Please don't do this. See my other comment for more suggestions, but try losing weight and/or sleeping with body pillows [i.e. on your side] before you go mutilating your jaw.

>I used a dental appliance and that worked really well

Same — perhaps you need it to be thicker (i.e. spread your jaw just a bit more).
by thundergolfer | 2025-05-26 18:44:43+00:00
They’re not actually talking casually, as OpenAI and Anthropic run a tight ship around PR. If either of these two say something the PR team doesn’t like it gets edited out.

Trenton and Sholto are very much “talking their book”. They’re doing it well, but it’s highly filtered and partial chat.

source: know a podcast episode which got removed because an OpenAI employee used “black box” to refer to NNs.
by metadat | 2025-05-26 18:45:08+00:00
Note: Submissions without discussion aren't considered dupes on HN. If another article is more interesting or higher quality than the submission receiving comments, it is helpful and appreciated to provide the link in a comment and/or email the mods a link change proposal.

In this case, the alternate link is informative and worth a look:

https://www.websiteplanet.com/news/infostealer-breach-report...

Cheers.
by kbelder | 2025-05-26 18:45:15+00:00
Plus, being stingy even if you have money benefits those who don't have money. It's why I buy the $0.50 macaroni and cheese instead of the $1.69 version. I don't really care; either would be fine. But I don't want companies to succeed in charging more. I want them to desperately need to cut their selling price in order to succeed.

People buying expensive products (assuming they aren't truly better) are helping screw over poor people. Just slightly.
by DocTomoe | 2025-05-26 18:45:22+00:00
Datacenters are not things that just randomly appear. There are planning processes, and city stakeholders are involved - which would include the TVA. The fact that they built the thing is a good indication that the stakeholders agreed this project should go forward - and that would involve an agreement on power provisioning.

But what I strongly disagree with in the politico article is that the datacenter is framed as a major polluter when the whole area is heavy industry, including a steel works and - a methane-burning power plant. To put the blame now on the xAI site smells a lot like an anti-Musk hit piece.

Doesn't mean I like the guy. I just like my journalism honest.
by adocomplete | 2025-05-26 18:45:26+00:00
I think the best way to learn a language is offline through actual human interaction.

I've used Duolingo in the past (and other apps) and quickly lost interest, it's a fun app, but I feel like you don't learn from it. If I had to learn a new language today, I'm confident I could make good progress with GPT or Gemini, but tailoring it to how I learn.
by DustinBrett | 2025-05-26 18:45:34+00:00
Notanos looks awesome, I will check it out.

There are several milestones of my project that will likely require forks in the road where I might have to do a rewrite, but I hope to be able to keep doing it and learning.

I think that in 10-20 years with the progress of AI, this project could become something quite amazing, but by then maybe everything will be amazing by todays standards.
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-26 18:46:13+00:00
>Spanish/European motorcycle racing

Yeah, you're in a bubble and you're likely misreading their politeness. I don't know any Spainards who would want to get into pointless political arguments with Americans who they guessed to be right of center in the off chance they were supporters of the current US government. Unless of course they were Vox affiliated, but even then I'm not sure they would bother engaging. They'd probably prefer to stick to talking about common interest stuff (like motoracing). "Anti-American sentiment" in the European context usually means being Anti-American government, not being dicks to individual Americans. The few cases where it actually crosses into Anti-Americanism the way you describe it seems to happen when the US militarily attacks a country they consider to be "brothers" or very close to. One example would be Greeks during the NATO bombing of now Serbia. Definitely one of the worst times to visit the Acropolis for an American.

I think your error is that you are gauging "Anti-American sentiment" by measuring how much you witness them bitching about Americans or Israelis. Whereas you should measure it by their actions. Tesla sales dropped signifcantly in Spain as it did in the rest of Europe. BYD sales are up 644%. See what they think about taking family vacations to the US.

Spanish people often end up buying local alternatives when available anyway but don't mind buying whatever when there are no alternatives (iphones, sneakers etc)

You ask the Spaniards if you want to send ammunitions to a country convicted of war crimes, the majority will most likely say no. And if your government is actually acting in accordance with that position and pushing the rest of Europe on that front, there's even less reason to bitch about Israelis to random foreigners.

> Most Spaniards I know tend to roll their eyes at their own government more than anything happening in the U.S.

This we can agree on. As it should be. Why bother with things out of your control?
by const_cast | 2025-05-26 18:46:36+00:00
> False.

Okay, but most people aren't using bitcoin as currency.

> That's your opinion.

Okay, and most people's opinion. Yeah we don't need more securities, especially scammy ones. Sorry you're in the minority.

> We do? Please let me know of an instant way to send money to any country on Earth, without exorbitant fees or trusting a single corporation.

I don't pay for my fucking coffee in Venezuela. 99.99% of transfers don't go across countries.

And, if you need that, that's what credit cards are for. They're fast and I'm not going to get kidnapped and have my fingers stolen because I have an Amex blue card.

> It's easy to strawman

Really? You don't think appealing to usecases like "inter-country transfers" isn't strawmanning?

The reality is crypto-currency has exceedingly small usecases that aren't already covered by other technologies. And then, of those that are covered, the alternatives are proven, faster, cheaper, and safer.

> Ah, yes. Let's abolish cash as well.

Nobody ever said this, but we do put limits on cash to prevent laundering.

And it's saved a lot of lives. Sorry, I don't think letting organized crime flourish is worth for some principle of privacy you have. I don't care about you or your principles, I care about real outcomes, in the real world. And, fortunately, legislatures in pretty much every country agree with me.
by StephenAlvin | 2025-05-26 18:46:44+00:00
It's been a few hours and I've made changes based on the feedback:

- Moved the sharing UI down and made the timer central

- Added a button to turn of the rain (which was using significant cpu)

- Lowered the default volume

Moving forward I'll:

- replace youtube audio streaming with just plan sound so your ad blockers don't go crazy

- find a less cpu heavy animation altogether - add import button for your timesheets
by GremlinGPT | 2025-05-26 18:47:31+00:00
Core Module Enhancements:

• fsm.py: Streamlined state transition logic. Added fallback resilience for recursive agents caught in invalid mutation loops. • task_queue.py: Improved async task routing. Deadlocks avoided, sanity preserved. • nlp_engine/: Partial vamp on semantic core – improved vector handling, removed ghost weights. (Phase 2 prep underway.) • feedback_loop.py: Tightened feedback validation; more signal, less hallucinated ego. Loop performance bumped ~11%.

Repo Frontend Ops:

• Updated web README build: • Fixed 100% TOC navigation. • Scroll reveal now fully fluid. • Slugs are bulletproof. • No more markdown-ID crashes. • AscendAI pages now laugh in the face of static repos.

*Similar will be coming to the GremlinGPT Dashboard, Learn as we Go.*

System Status: Autonomy progressing. Shell intact. Web layer now intimidating enough to scare interns.
by DustinBrett | 2025-05-26 18:48:40+00:00
It does indeed have a long way to go if I want to add usefulness beyond my personal website use case.

It is possible to "map" a local drive in several ways, such as via the desktop right click menu's "Map directory", and also if you built it locally you could put a folder in "public" which would then be mapped.

But it isn't the same as what you are describing and that would likely require a server component so I could bypass the limits of the browser.

I hope to eventually have an answer for all the use cases you mention, but because this is just a side project and my main goal is a client-side personal website, I don't expect those features in the 2020's, maybe the 2030's. :-)
by vinceguidry | 2025-05-26 18:49:11+00:00
Lol. Linus didn't pour decades of his life into Linux to save a buck. Neither did Stallman with GNU. Even if the alternatives at the time only cost $15, (hahahahahaha) free alternatives would still have been well worth making.

Software freedom has never been about money, and always been about preserving public access to a software commons. You might believe your local bookstore is a better source of knowledge than your local library, but that's only because you don't really know what you're missing.
by lazide | 2025-05-26 18:49:11+00:00
Well, and as I always told myself - it’s an investment in tools I’ll use again later, and eventually it’ll be cheaper to DIY myself.

Which, at the point I was welding together solar panel mounts onto shipping containers was true. But maybe i could have asked myself ‘should I’ instead of ‘can I’ somewhere earlier in the process hah.
by johnisgood | 2025-05-26 18:49:23+00:00
Using it and being surrounded by people writing and/or speaking the language is probably the right way to learn a language. That is how I learned Polish which is really difficult. I joined a community, and 2 years later, my Polish was quite good! YMMV.

After 4 weeks I also learned Spanish enough to maintain casual conversations just from trying to talk to someone online who did not speak English. I am rusty now, however, because I do not speak it with anyone, nor do I see or hear Spanish anywhere. Spanish is way easier, IMO, in comparison to Polish.

Thoughts?
by edgeuser | 2025-05-26 18:49:32+00:00
That's cool and all, but both WebGL and WebGPU builds of that Unity demo were already done 2 years ago by someone... so your post doesn't offer anything new or groundbreaking, sorry to say. See the links below:

Github link: https://github.com/animeshjha-unity/VikingVillageURP-2023?

WebGL demo: https://vv-webgl-2023-3-0a12.netlify.app/

WebGPU demo: https://vv-webgpu-2023-3-0a12.netlify.app/
by tom_m | 2025-05-26 18:49:55+00:00
It's a good sounding board and productivity tool...but it's over hyped.

I think it'll calm down a bit. People are just making huge claims right now which is music to the ears of many.

I like the tools don't get me wrong, but they aren't going to make a huge difference day to day. The area they will make a huge difference is in helping people work out issues faster. You know those multi-hour or multi-day issues you run into where you go crazy reading and re-reading the code. The LLMs are good at giving you a fresh look at the code that you'd otherwise need to get more people to help with or go sleep on it for a day.

This time savings here is probably the most significant time savings AI code editors or agents will ever provide.
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by baq | 2025-05-26 18:50:19+00:00
I've got a 3 year streak and gamification was obvious to me on day 2. Some of their feature flag experiments are very in your face, too.

Still, 3 minutes per day is just about my tempo. I don't care about literally anything in there except the learning part and consistently doing only one lesson per day makes them very nice and polite most of the time - I feel like I'm in the 'beg-these-for-money' instead of 'milk-them-dry' cohort. (Or maybe I'm in the permanent 'lets-be-nice-for-them' long running experiment?)
by nkrisc | 2025-05-26 18:50:57+00:00
It's a spectrum. If the CEO creates an environment that incentivizes unsafe driving practices among their delivery drivers, either directly or indirectly, then perhaps yes, they should shoulder some portion of the responsibility. It doesn't have to be only 100% or 0% responsibility. The amount can be modulated based on their own behavior or leadership of the company.

For example, if they consistently drove the company towards a culture of safety, and incentivized subordinates to prioritize safety and disincentivized unsafe practices, then perhaps they would share no responsibility for such an incident. They did what they were supposed to do.

If however they set ever more aggressive profit goals and other metrics, and incentivized those at all costs among their subordinates, and presided over a company culture that focused on profits above all else, then perhaps the should share some portion of the responsibility.

What is a leader without responsibility? If they reap the rewards of the successes of their subordinates, then they must also reap the outcomes of the failures of their subordinates. By any other logic, a CEO should only be paid commensurately with the tangible benefit they directly provide to the company with their own two hands.
by zdragnar | 2025-05-26 18:51:01+00:00
Learning a new language to any degree of proficiency requires motivation. It's easy to start and hard to continue if you're not willing to put in the effort.

There's a valid argument to be made that gamification helps to provide that motivation, but the argument doesn't hold up if the users aren't actually becoming proficient by using the app.

In other words, gamification isn't inherently bad, but their motivations don't appear to be good.
by _heimdall | 2025-05-26 18:51:17+00:00
The argument isn't only made by cryptobros though.

Banks seem to be pointing at the same need and I just don't see why. At best it gets around regulation if a stablecoin isn't treated the same as fiat. With either, though, a bank can already create and give out whatever they want and track it in a database (all be it a more standard db and not a blockchain or public ledger).
by sanderjd | 2025-05-26 18:51:29+00:00
Yep, well put.

But to your last part, this is why I think the worst fears I see from programmers (here and in real life) are unlikely to be a lasting problem. If you're right - and I think you are - that the direction things may be headed as-is, with increasingly less sophisticated people relying increasingly more on AIs to build an increasingly large portion of software, is going to result in big messes of unworkable software. But if so, people are going to get wise to that, and stop doing it. It won't be tenable for companies to go to market with "Frankenstein monsters", in the long term.

The key is to look through the tumultuous phase and figure out what it's gonna look like after that. Of course this is a very hard thing to predict! But here are the outcomes I personally put the most weight on:

1. AIs might really get good enough that none of us write code anymore, in the same way that it's quite rare to write assembly code now.

In this case, I think entrepreneurship or research will be the way to go. We'll be able to do so much more if software is truly easy to create!

2. We're still writing, editing, and debugging code artifacts, but with much better tools.

In this case, I think actually understanding how software works will be a very valuable skill, as knocking out subtly broken software will be a dime a dozen, while getting things working well will be a differentiator.

Honestly I don't put much weight on the version of this where nobody is doing anything because AI is running everything. I recognize that lots of smart people disagree with me about this, but I remain skeptical.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-26 18:52:02+00:00
>not some magical word if you don't know how something works.

I'd disagree, emergence is typically what we don't understand. When we understand it, it's rarely considered an emergent concept, just something that is.

>They don't offer a scientific explanation.

Correct, because we don't have the tooling necessary to explain it yet. Emergence as you stated came from simpler concepts at first, for example burning hydrogen and oxygen and water emerges from that.

Ecosystems are an emergent property of living systems, ones that we can explain rather well these days after we realized there were gaps in our knowledge. It's taken millions and millions of hours of research to piece all these bits together.

Now we are at the same place in large neural nets. What you say is pointless is not pointless at all. It's pointing at the exact things we need to work on if we want to have understanding of it. But at the same time understanding isn't necessary. We have made advancements in scientific topics that we don't understand.
by vitro | 2025-05-26 18:52:06+00:00
I'll chip in with my shameless plug - Latudio [0]. A language learning app where all the content was written and audio recorded by real humans™.

We purposedly went that way, with no ads and a one-time payment option.

I feel that human touch is what makes our interactions special as everyone is different, unique, imperfect while being the same like everyone else, in a way...

Howewer as a relatively new and bootstrapped app in the market we have still some way to go. As a next step we are investigating how to add audiobooks and podcasts. Would someone be interested to cooperate?

To se what's inside: [1]

[0] https://www.latudio.com

[1] https://www.latudio.com/whats-inside
by zzo38computer | 2025-05-26 18:52:47+00:00
> Unfortunately, there are very few good, open source/free ASN.1 (de)serializers out there.

I wrote a library to read/write DER, which I have found suitable for my uses. (Although, I might change or add some things later, and possibly also some things might be removed too if I think they are unnecessary or cause problems.)

https://github.com/zzo38/scorpion/blob/trunk/asn1/asn1.c https://github.com/zzo38/scorpion/blob/trunk/asn1/asn1.h

(You can complain about it if there is something that you don't like.)

> In theory you could use ASN.1 DER files the same way you would JSON for human-readable formats. In practice, you're better off picking a different format.

I do use ASN.1 DER for some things, because, in my opinion it is (generally) better than JSON, XML, etc.

> Modern evolutions of ASN.1 like ProtoBuf or Cap'n Proto designed for transmitting data across the network might fit this purpose pretty well, too.

I have found them to be unsuitable, with many problems, and that ASN.1 does them better in my experience.

> On the other hand, using ASN.1 may be a good way to make people trying to reverse engineer your format give up in despair, especially if you start using the quirks ASN.1 DER comes with and change the identifiers.

I am not so sure of this.
by sandinmyjoints | 2025-05-26 18:52:49+00:00
Curious if you have tried (or heard of) spanishdictionary.com? I work on it, and our users seem to like it and find it effective. The name is a bit misleading—started out as a dictionary but now has a full curriculum up through a couple years of college Spanish. We don’t really do any paid marketing (or any other kind for that matter) so I’m always curious about whether people have heard of it.
by emp17344 | 2025-05-26 18:52:55+00:00
This paper makes the claim that the “reasoning” output these models produce isn’t a necessary component of these models, and is likely unrelated to the actual final output:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775

Just because these models are good at outputting text that appears to be a series of thoughts, doesn’t mean that LLMs are thinking.
by dotancohen | 2025-05-26 18:53:21+00:00
You should look at HelloTalk. It's real people communicating in each others' language. Unbelievably great service, almost as good as sitting down to a coffee with someone.

Actually, in some ways better. HelloTalk has a "correct the other person's sentence" feature that shows an inline diff, yet it's simple enough for people who have never heard the term diff.
by a0123 | 2025-05-26 18:53:42+00:00
> I do think AI could be a better language tutor than an average language teacher, but I don't think Duolingo's approach is very effective.

No offense, I can tell you're neither a linguist nor a language teacher.

This is one are where the human input is invaluable and irreplaceable. Because language (the complex kind) is inherently human. It quite literally is.
by BrandiATMuhkuh | 2025-05-26 18:54:36+00:00
I wish I had the funds and a curriculum expert on my side to build a language learning app with LLMs.

Part of my PhD thesis[1] was to study how robots (voice agents) can influence human language. The key component is a social connection. Back in 2017 I did that in the lab. But the research is pretty clear about it.

Also my own experience (trying to learn Arabic) is, that I only remember words/phrases which I picked up during social gathering (camping in the dessert).

The "perfect" learning app would work like how children learn: by interacting with their social surroundings. No need to learn the vocabulary or the alphabet at the beginning. The hard part is, to create a social interaction between the learner and the AI that evolves over time.

[1] https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/items/7da0e989-aa9f-4b92-86bd-92...
by eqvinox | 2025-05-26 18:54:39+00:00
> […] You've usually authenticated yourself, also over a secure connection, and are including some sort of token validating that authentication […]

nit: not sure if that's just me but I was confused by this wording; with "authenticated yourself" you're referring to an initial permanent-token/login ⇒ session-token step? I initially thought you were implying something on the same connection the API call is made on, which would have to be TLS client certificates (HTTP bearer auth is already the token itself.)
by brudgers | 2025-05-26 18:54:41+00:00
<back of napkin>

Based on the current id, about 45,000,000 items.

Assuming 1KB per item, about 45GB.

So with code and OS, probably it would fit on a $10 thumb drive without compression.

</back of napkin>

If I am within a couple of orders of magnitude, it is hard for me to see a benefit from compression.