MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by voiper1 | 2025-05-22 21:08:59+00:00
The benchmarks in many ways seem to be very similar to claude 3.7 for most cases.

That's nowhere near enough reason to think we've hit a plateau - the pace has been super fast, give it a few more months to call that...!

I think the opposite about the features - they aren't gimmicks at all, but indeed they aren't part of the core AI. Rather it's important "tooling" that adjacent to the AI that we need to actually leverage it. The LLM field in popular usage is still in it's infancy. If the models don't improve (but I expect they will), we have a TON of room with these features and how we interact, feed them information, tool calls, etc to greatly improve usability and capability.
by microflash | 2025-05-22 21:09:30+00:00
Such a shame and wasted potential. Mozilla could have turned Pocket into a read it later + RSS reader killer combo that would have closed the browsing loop across the web on Firefox. But they slept on it, actively worsening it and finally putting it out of its misery. This is an end of an era and it has such a chime of finality to it.
by lillecarl | 2025-05-22 21:10:02+00:00
My hopes are with Servo, I like the novelty of it being implemented in Rust rather than C/C++.

I follow Ladybird and appreciate their work. Especially implementing everything from standards, fixing standards and keeping it easy to follow the standards in code (and I'm proud Andreas is Swedish too).

But for something with the surface area of "everything you can do with a computer and it's uncle" a memory safe language feels like the right choice.

Just a knee-jerk opinion since I'm not a browser dev and existing sandboxing seems to work well enough, but an opinion nonetheless.
by alecst | 2025-05-22 21:10:49+00:00
It's around 900 pages. In NYC we have a study group to go over it -- we've covered just a handful of chapters. But most people can get a lot out of just reading the opening section.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-202...

You can understand, for example, most of their tactics about immigration by reading the section on Homeland Security, tariffs by reading the Economy section (by Peter Navarro), and so on. They are in fact hewing pretty closely to the plan.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-22 21:10:51+00:00
> Trump is not a mafia boss - time after time he showed that his words cannot be trusted. If Harvard makes a concession, there's no guarantee that Trump will "forgive" it.

> Look how China is dealing with Trump. Trump announces tariffs, China returns Boeing planes, tariffs somehow comes down.

Doesn't this example make the opposite of your point?
by hackyhacky | 2025-05-22 21:11:07+00:00
> if you replace "Zionist" with "Jew"

I've never understood this kind of argument. If I replace "Zionist" with "elf", then the anti-Zionist movement would be anti-elf! Oh no!

Except that no one is replacing anything. The anti-Zionist movement is exactly that: anti-Zionist.

Antisemitism is real and a problem, but it's not the same thing.
by CharlesW | 2025-05-22 21:11:42+00:00
Sorry, yes —¹ I was just gently poking you about the idea of self-hosting outside of one's local network without many 3rd-parties involved.

BTW, Tailscale Funnel²³ (in beta) does provide public reachability! ² https://tailscale.com/kb/1223/funnel ³ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxmfpCl20c ¹ Please enjoy this hand-typed em-dash.
by BeetleB | 2025-05-22 21:11:56+00:00
I've noticed an interesting trend:

Most people who are happy with LLM coding say something like "Wow, it's awesome. I asked it to do X and it did it so fast with minimal bugs, and good code", and occasionally show the output. Many provide even more details.

Most people who are not happy with LLM coding ... provide almost no details.

As someone who's impressed by LLM coding, when I read a post like yours, I tend to have a lot of questions, and generally the post doesn't have the answers.

1. What type of problem did you try it out with?

2. Which model did you use (you get points for providing that one!)

3. Did you consider a better model (compare how Gemini 2.5 Pro compares to Sonnet 3.7 on the Aider leaderboard)?

4. What were its failings? Buggy code? Correct code but poorly architected? Correct code but used some obscure method to solve it rather than a canonical one?

5. Was it working on an existing codebase or was this new code?

6. Did you manage well how many tokens were sent? Did you use a tool that informs you of the number of tokens for each query?

7. Which tool did you use? It's not just a question of the model, but of how the tool handles the prompts/agents under it. Aider is different from Code which is different from Cursor which is different form Windsurf.

8. What strategy did you follow? Did you give it the broad spec and ask it to do anything? Did you work bottom up and work incrementally?

I'm not saying LLM coding is the best or can replace a human. But for certain use cases (e.g. simple script, written from scratch), it's absolutely fantastic. I (mostly) don't use it on production code, but little peripheral scripts I need to write (at home or work), it's great. And that's why people like me wonder what people like you are doing differently.

But such people aren't forthcoming with the details.
by teruakohatu | 2025-05-22 21:12:04+00:00
> High-strung, antisocial, egotistical, domineering, rage-filled.

I think you are doing the man a disservice summarising him in such a way.

His interest in unorthodox/heretical religion was at least since he was at university. He spent a significant amount of time on alchemy.

Newton was the President of the Royal Society for over two decades, an MP for a similar amount of time which I would think required a lot of interpersonal relationships and socialising.

He seemed to get along well with family who cared with and lived with him and described him as loving.

The traits of holding grudges and raging were probably as common in academia then as they are today (tech is benign in comparison), but are otherwise sociable and genuinely trying to be good, albeit flawed, people.

He made numerous statements of modesty, the most famous being "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." This has, IMHO, been unfairly reinterpreted in recent times as being a insult to a rival rather than taken at face value.

If every comment, action, HN comment, tweet etc. of any person's entire life was interpreted in the least charitable light we would all be recorded in history as being as vile as you describe him.

I think at the end of the day he was just a gifted flawed human.
by bastardoperator | 2025-05-22 21:13:33+00:00
What does tearing down Harvard achieve again? What does punishing visitors to our country who are law abiding achieve again? Clearly it mentions these students can transfer, so all of the little benefits you dreamt up inside your head are dead on arrival. Your perpetual victimhood has a shelf life, hurting everyone you don't like because they're not from here when this country is founded on the ideas of immigrations... you never understood the plot.
by ordersofmag | 2025-05-22 21:13:34+00:00
The journal appears to be published by an office with 7 FTE's which presumably is funded by the money raised by presence of the paywall and sales of their journals and books. Fully-loaded costs for 7 folks is on the order of $750k/year. https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/

Someone has to foot that bill. Open-access publishing implies the authors are paying the cost of publication and its popularity in STEM reflects an availability of money (especially grant funds) to cover those author page charges that is not mirrored in the social sciences and humanities.

Unrelatedly given recent changes in federal funding Johns Hopkins is probably feeling like it could use a little extra cash (losing $800 million in USAID funding, overhead rates potential dropping to existential crisis levels, etc...)
by ignoramous | 2025-05-22 21:13:41+00:00
> 1.5m line codebase

I work regularly with AOSP code (~3mn). While LLMs (Copilot w/ Claude Sonnet 3.7, in my case) cannot gobble all of it up, they have no trouble answering my queries, for the most part, from submodules. If nothing else, using LLMs has dramatically reduced the time it takes to understand a new code file / submodule / a range of commits.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-05-22 21:13:49+00:00
Which isn’t at all how PhD programs work. This is a supreme dick move to students are going to be forced to leave with an AbD for no other reason than Trumps ego.

This is going to burn the children of the most powerful families across the world. Monarchies, dictators, owners of international conglomerates, etc all send their kids to Harvard. Destroying their children’s education out of a fit of malice is going to haunt him, and America on top of all the other stuff America is doing to the world.

America first is rapidly becoming America alone.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-05-22 21:14:08+00:00
> if you replace "Zionist" with "Jew" you're at Goebbels levels of antisemitism

This is a weird statement. It seems to suggest this as a reason not to criticize Zionists but if you replace "fascist" with "Jew" you're in a similar situation and that doesn't mean people shouldn't criticize fascists.
by amarcheschi | 2025-05-22 21:14:19+00:00
Scott effectively defended Lynn study on iq here https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-le...

Citing another blog post that defends it, while conveniently ignoring every other point being made by researchers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-22 21:14:22+00:00
Or Libya [0] or <random_third_country>.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/libya-deport...

[1] e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-admini...
by joshstrange | 2025-05-22 21:14:27+00:00
I’m sorry but that system (bug council) sure seems like it’s being viewed through rose-colored glasses and/or I don’t know how well it could work today in a remote environment. Even when I was in an office, if you have a meeting with more than 3 people at least 1 person is not paying attention.

Bug council seems like a huge waste of time (I manage 9 developers but sub-groups are working on completely different projects (which is why it’s broken into 3 teams). Bringing in another team to hear about bugs from a different team almost guarantees zoning out even if there is valuable info being shared.

Also, I don’t see how this process works with general project management. Are there no sprints? How do you track what people are working on and if it’s too much? How do you track that people are completing tasks in a reasonable time? A single-assignee system doesn’t solve that. Powerful queries don’t solve that.

I’ve used bugzilla before, it’s the same as any other ticketing system at the end of the day and no ticketing system can solve project management for you. The things this author is focusing on confuse me and those have never been problems I’ve run into with managing projects/teams.
by _peregrine_ | 2025-05-22 21:15:04+00:00
Yeah I mean SQL is pretty nuanced - one of the things we want to improve in the benchmark is how we measure "success", in the sense that multiple correct SQL results can look structurally dissimilar while semantically answering the prompt.

There's some interesting takeaways we learned here after the first round: https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/we-graded-19-llms-on-sql-...
by alephnerd | 2025-05-22 21:15:09+00:00
Harvard (the University, not it's alums) has had a near nil presence on K-Street for a looooong time - and their primary lobbyist with the GOP has been on Trump's bad side for sometime after he pissed off David Sacks.

I'm also an (severely disillusioned) alumni of some of the student orgs that are mutually using Harvard the institution as a punching bag to fight their culture wars.

A lot of this is honestly very childish BS done by some petulant alums who were already dicks on campus.

There is very little campus loyalty at Harvard which makes it easier to use it as a punching bag for your culture war (whichever way you lean).
by rat87 | 2025-05-22 21:15:29+00:00
Higher education is what made America rich and powerful and influential. Many immigrants who come to these schools stay there. Many others form positive links between their counties and the US. International students pay more and therefore subsidize American students. Kicking them out would likely increase the price, which is not a huge deal with Harvard but would be incredibly damaging if say he did this to all universities including state ones

Besides this is just Trump abusing and violating the law to go after his enemies. It could be anyone next including you. Impartial rule of law is one of the core aspects of a liberal democracy. It's one of the reasons we are better then corrupt Dictatorships. It's like Nixon but worse and more open. What we need is Trump and maga to be knocked down many pegs before they destroy our country (please remember you live here in the place Trump is destroying)
by boroboro4 | 2025-05-22 21:15:48+00:00
Yeah, it might be a win for local inference.

I think "output quality per compute" will be loss for diffusion models, but it might be similar (or even better?) for "output quality per number of parameters". Which will still make it better for local inference.

However autoregressive models also have own way of dealing with low compute utilization - it's speculative decoding. You can use smaller (and faster) model to generate bunch of different possible continuations and verify all of them at once. I think Eagle3 for example achieves ~8 tokens per iteration speedup this way (and to be frank I believe it can be even better).
by Joshringuk | 2025-05-22 21:16:25+00:00
I would agree for the most part but I found C3 to be a significant simplification over Zig. I struggled very hard with Zig but found C3 to be much more straightforward.

Syntax wise it's different but philosophically it is quite similar to Go's strive for simplicity, but less extreme, much lower level and more C like syntax.
by cherryteastain | 2025-05-22 21:16:35+00:00
There were many recent instances of even long term US permanent residents being sent to immigration detention centers. Maybe El Salvador gulag is an exaggeration, but being sent to a squalid prison is a very real possibility. Here's one from yesterday [1]. What's preventing them from doing the same to a student?

Also, most people affected by this will not be the son/daughter of the president of a foreign country or a billionaire.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-holder-detained-ice-immi...
by iambateman | 2025-05-22 21:16:36+00:00
Btw, I am a University employee who serves (among other things) children affected by parents who abuse drugs.

My organization employs hundreds of people working on everything from low income nutrition education to researching Medicaid expenditure.

We belong to the University, but we don’t have anything to do with undergraduate education.

This is the problem with looking at higher-Ed ratios like that…there are a lot of good things happening at a University which don’t reduce to “teacher in classroom.”
by sigmaisaletter | 2025-05-22 21:16:39+00:00
> 10 years ago, the entire conversation would have seemed ridiculous

Bostrom's book[1] is 11 years old. The Basilisk is 15 years old. The Singularity summit was nearly 20 years ago. And Yudkowsky was there for all of it. If you frequented LessWrong in the 2010s, most of this is very very old hat.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...

[2]: Ford (2015) "Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence", MIT Tech Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/02/11/169210/our-fear-...
by achint_withpi | 2025-05-22 21:16:42+00:00
Thanks for your feedback on the video. Great point about going step by step, instead of switching mid-stream to a pre-built session :). We have another even simpler version which goes slower, step by step which would have been better for this post? The challenge has been balancing between showcasing the wide feature set with duration.

We have a spreadsheet integration (which I might post as a comment) for the usecase you mentioned. The scorer is quite light weight so easy to integrate it in your existing pipelines instead of building yet another pipeline/framework. The co-pilot is specifically for triangulating the right set of metrics (that are subjective based on your taste), which does require looking at examples a few at a time and make a judgement call. But I agree that once you are done with that you want to quickly transition off of this to either code or other frameworks like sheets, promptfoo etc.
by leshokunin | 2025-05-22 21:17:03+00:00
This looks like a lovely body of work.

I do have to say I am reluctant to even try it because the idea of essentially hijacking the copy shortcut really makes me anxious.

Especially because I often press command c multiple times to ensure the thing I want is registered. Using that as a trigger sounds like it would punish me.

I’d normally brush this off, but here the entirety of the pitch is centered around the idea of that command, rather than its value prop.

Hope this gives some insight!
by godelski | 2025-05-22 21:17:06+00:00
Quanta targets people who are above average. So I don't think it is too much for them to give a sentence or two stating that. Or even a little graphic could do wonders. I don't think it would take much time or effort to make a graphic like the one on wikipedia[0] and just throw in some equations within the ring. You can easily simplify too, by removing NL and merging EXP. Hell, look at the graphics here[1]. That's much more work.

I don't think Quanta should be afraid of showing math to people. That's really their whole purpose. Even if I think they've made some egregious mistakes that make them untrustable...[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPACE#/media/File:Complexity_...

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067043
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-22 21:17:18+00:00
> International students are on the Meng Wanzhou end of things.

The vast majority of them (of which there are over a million) don't have a Wikipedia page, nor are they "Deputy chairwoman and CFO" of a company as big as Huawei.

Rumeysa Ozturk sat in jail for six weeks for writing an op-ed. I assure you, there are plenty of international students you can mistreat without causing a major diplomatic incident.
by ajross | 2025-05-22 21:17:27+00:00
That is just shockingly cynical. We're facing a situation where a sitting government feels empowered to go to war against an elite university solely over the speech it doesn't like to hear on its campus.

And your response is to dismiss it all as a kerfuffle over "bad lobbying" and "inter-elite fratricide"? Really?

Surely there are existing institutions of some form or another you'd like to see not made enemies of the state. You don't maybe see a principle at work here beyond your personal dislike of academia?
by HEmanZ | 2025-05-22 21:17:46+00:00
I find it unlikely but…

Much of my extended family would absolutely join a civil war on side Trump to get him into a permanent position of power if given the opportunity. Some of them are in the military. So it’s not unreasonable by world history standards that he could get a subset of the military on his side in a coup scenario.

I think people in large urban centers or outside of the US don’t realize how much certain parts of the country truly worship him above anything else. I know many people like this, I have to see them at family events, so you can’t tell me it’s an exaggeration. I’m not sure there are enough to do anything substantial, but the seeds are there.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-22 21:18:02+00:00
Why would you want a valid argument for holding a voter responsible for the actions of representatives? Arguments have nothing to do with it. Just hold them responsible, or not, for any reason. It makes no difference.

Voters don't really choose a representative. They are given choices. Two choices, of which, let's face it, most people will just pick whichever one is on "their side". Those choices are created by outside forces. And those choices, once chosen, will do... whatever the hell they want. There's no consequence to them doing whatever the hell they want. So it doesn't really matter what the choice is to begin with. You're as likely to get what you want by praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster as by voting. The "choices" are just gonna do whatever the hell they want anyway. Whether you get what you want or not is incidental.

But let's assume you do hold somebody responsible for choosing something they have no control over. What does that mean to "hold them responsible" ? You gonna actually do something? Throw them in jail? Kill them? Probably not. You're probably just gonna say nasty things about them on Facebook. Which you could do at any time, for any reason. So who gives a shit what the argument is? It makes no difference to anything at all. You might as well ask for a valid argument for why the sky is blue. Ain't gonna change the sky.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-22 21:18:17+00:00
> They sent a Salvadoran who nobody cared about to El Salvador.

They sent a lot of people, mostly not Salvadoran, to El Salvador [0] without due process, the one Salvadoran just gets covered more in the news because, as well as the issues applicable to the others, he had a existing court order prohibiting his deportation to El Salvador specifically.

[0] And they've done or attempted to do that to Libya, South Sudan, and other third countries to whom the deported have no connection, as well.
by latchkey | 2025-05-22 21:18:45+00:00
We are building something like this for AMD MI300x GPU CI workloads. Except that every time someone shuts down a VM, we start a fresh one; hot spares cuts down your start up time.

We take on the small fortune expense and multi tenancy does the rest. The plan is to offer this as inexpensive as possible (far cheaper that deploying and running this type of compute yourself), so that it is a no brainer to take advantage of.
by bluGill | 2025-05-22 21:19:59+00:00
People didn't have good choices. There was plenty to not like about the Democrats as well. You can argue who is worse, or even if the concerns are valid, but there are plenty of things many people don't like about how the democrats use their power. As such what was a voter to do?

There are a long list of things, and most people are not willing accept that "their side" does anything someone else might not like. Doesn't matter what side. Most people are not even willing to honestly listen to "the other side's" concerns.

Waters of the US. All the various "woke" issues which harms someone who isn't a minority who sees someone less competent getting business (and then calling them racist when the feel cheated). Immigration or China taking all their jobs. The above is what I can think of just off the top of my head that many people feel democrats have messed up on. (I don't not agree with this entire list, but I'm sure people will shoot the messenger anyway...)