MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxwellg | 2025-05-26 14:58:46+00:00
> When you add an MCP server to your Claude organization, you just add the MCP server. Each user will have to go through the integration's OAuth2 authorization flow separately.

Check out https://aaronparecki.com/2025/05/12/27/enterprise-ready-mcp - there are some great ideas there on how this can be simplified even more in the future.
by numpad0 | 2025-05-26 14:58:50+00:00
I think it does. I think LLM showed us possibility that maybe there's no language but just pile of memes and supplemental compression scheme that is grammar.

LLM had really destroyed Chomsky's positions in multiple different ways: nothing perform even close to LLM in language generation, yet it didn't grow a UG for natural languages, while it did develop a shared logic for non-natural languages and abstract concepts, while dataset needing to be heavily English biased to be English fluent, and parameter count needing to be truly massive as multiple hundred billion parameters large, so on and on.

Those are all circumstantial evidences at best, a random paraphernalia of statements that aren't even appropriate to bring into discussions, all meaningless - in the sense that an open hand of a person observing another individual aligned to a line between standing position of the person to the center of nearest opening of a wall would be meaningless.
by parsabg | 2025-05-26 14:58:53+00:00
The raison d'être for BrowserBee is to control the user's browser in a private fashion so they can automate tasks that require them to be logged in. I'm unsure how it would work in a remote browser setup - tools like Browser Use and BrowserBase seem to cover that use case already.

The key differentiator is privacy and local control. When users need to automate tasks on sites where they're already authenticated (banking, personal accounts, work systems), they need their actual browser with their existing sessions and cookies, not a remote instance.
by TimPC | 2025-05-26 14:59:08+00:00
LLMs give you superpowers if you work on a wide range of tasks and aren't a deep expert on all of them. They aren't that great if you know the area you are working in inside and out and never stray from it.

For example, using an LLM to help you write a Dockerfile when you write Dockerfiles once a project and don't have a dedicated expert like a Deployment Engineer in your company is fantastic.

Or using an LLM to get answers faster than google for syntax errors and other minor issues is nice.

Even using LLM with careful prompting to discuss architecture tradeoffs and get its analysis (but make the final decision yourself) can be helpful.

Generally, you want to be very careful about how you constrain the LLM through prompts to ensure you keep it on a very narrow path so that it doesn't do something stupid (as LLMs are prone to do), you also often have to iterate because LLMs will occasionally do things like hallucinate APIs that don't actually exist. But even with iteration it can often make you faster.
by nasretdinov | 2025-05-26 14:59:41+00:00
The issue with dynamic languages mostly is that it's sometimes next to impossible to find all references to the code you're refactoring, so you can't just rely on a compiler & tests to ensure that nothing breaks after a change in some core library that everyone uses. Instead you almost have to add some logging into a function you're refactoring, make sure it's not used after you've made the change to a new API, and ideally do that a couple times. It's not too bad when you're the sole developer in a repository, but in the presence of hundreds of feature branches that sometimes can be weeks old, you can't be sure that nothing breaks after your change in the future too. So unless your code can be statically analysed reliably (like in compiled languages) large scale refactoring is a huge pain
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-26 14:59:43+00:00
Unicode and word processors ("desktop publishing") have brought us to the point of being our own typesetters.

Talk about losing jobs: in the past, a document could go from a verbal dictation to a scribe taking notes, to an editor for redactions, to be set in movable type, and printed on a press.

Now it’s up to one person with a computer to do it all, and our scope and definition of literacy has expanded.

Someone writing a manuscript doesn’t have 3 different dashes: they just draw a line, short or long. Typewriters had a hyphen key only.

Maybe we can go back to "two spaces after each period".
by al_borland | 2025-05-26 14:59:45+00:00
Where I work we don’t use GitHub, but we do use Copilot. It took a long time before it was opened up for us to be able to use it, as deals had to be struck and accounts and auth setup to use our corporate logins, which have different rules for data privacy than public use of Copilot. We are explicitly forbidden from using the public version of Copilot, or any other AI for that matter.

I can only assume that companies paying for GitHub also pay for enhanced levels of privacy. Just because a company can pay GitHub not to train on their data, doesn’t mean they’re not going to train on your data that is being hosted for free. They are almost certainly crawling all free repos.
by diggan | 2025-05-26 15:00:01+00:00
> That's ... unsettling. So you're reducing events at the cost of increased blood pressure and heart rate? That's not good.

Ultimately, the question becomes "is higher quality of sleep with some tradeoffs more or less healthy overall, than not getting enough sleep at all?", as research keeps showing how important sleep is. So even if this increases heart rate and diastolic blood pressure, does it raise it more than a couple of decades of not being able to sleep would do?
by jbellis | 2025-05-26 15:00:55+00:00
I don't see anything here to indicate it's "actually" Sonnet under the hood

Possibly it was intentionally trained on some of Sonnet's outputs, but given that this only happens in thinking mode and Sonnet 3.5 did not have a thinking mode, I think the most likely explanation is just that LLMs are at their core a next-token predictor and sometimes that gives you weird artifacts when you slurp in a bunch of data from the web, which increasingly includes other LLMs' outputs
by jmclnx | 2025-05-26 15:01:26+00:00
Edit: Seems the article is only for Microsoft Windows, so what follows may be a waste of bandwidth :)

Well I guess this will cause OpenBSD to drop more packages that depend upon rust for i386:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174696055709421&w=2

FWIW, OpenBSD i386 seems to be on its way to tier 2 anyway:

https://www.openbsd.org/i386.html

I wonder if this could cause NetBSD to start dropping packages that need rust on some ports. Right now, due to NetBSD's assume Cross-Compiling, I do not think rust is an issue for NetBSD (yet).
by hijodelsol | 2025-05-26 15:01:30+00:00
I assume you are unfamiliar with how pensions in Denmark work. While there is an unfunded social security part that is paid for through taxes, >90% of Danish workers have "occupational pension plans" that they contribute about 15% of their salary to. By the time they retire, they have saved on average 2 million DKK [https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/arbejde-og-indkomst/fo...], so about 300,000 USD. At that time, life expectancy is about 20 years, so that is about 15,000 USD per year from individual capital-backed schemes alone. For the 60% of Danes that are home owners, this alone could probably cover all basic living expenses outside of very HCOL areas. In that way, Denmark already strikes a good balance between purely tax-based schemes (that you are probably referring to as "Ponzi") and socially detrimental schemes like a pure Austrian backpack approach (which would leave people that cannot work in deep poverty).
by wslh | 2025-05-26 15:01:36+00:00
> If so, what is the point of stablecoins if the banks themselves are running it? If regulations and technology are no longer an issue, can’t they just make USD transfers fast and easy? Why bother with a wrapper around USD?

I think at a macro level, the key point is that banks were initially unmotivated/uninterested in, and critical of crypto. The long-term effort behind stablecoins to become compliant and aligned with regulatory frameworks has now positioned them as useful infrastructure. Today, banks can simply adopt or acquire the benefits of a system they had no interest in building themselves. The current US administration clearly helps.
by alright2565 | 2025-05-26 15:01:45+00:00
> significant amount of resources

Most importantly, location!

Location is not fungible, and at least in my local area, data center developers seem to want to place their datacenters in up-and-coming areas, where they would block the development of higher-quality structures.

There's no reason the datacenters can't be built in the middle of nowhere, far from people, especially as they don't provide any jobs to the community.
by georgeecollins | 2025-05-26 15:01:47+00:00
I think what you are describing is the difference between being among the people to engineer the first car to being in the factory trying to make the 100 millionth car as cheaply as possible. Forty years ago people mostly learned to program because they were interested in it. People starting software / tech companies were taking a chance on something most didn't understand. That self selected for a type. Now its the most common major in school. I am sure its possible to recreate what you felt in the '90s but probably in a different field or a subset of this one.
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-26 15:01:47+00:00
Nothing, AFAIK. And we do see imported apples year round here[1], many which are not stored but imported directly with duties paid.

Though a lot of local apples goes to production of other goods.

For example various apple juices made from local apples have become popular, especially as an alternative to wine. The price of a 1L bottle of quality, loc apple juice can be the same as a 0.7L bottle of Riesling wine, around $7. And you need a lot of apples to make juice.

[1]: https://www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/provosert-av-kiwi-rema-og-...
by Balgair | 2025-05-26 15:02:29+00:00
Neuroscientist here:

> Perhaps there are no simple and beautiful natural laws, like those that exists in Physics, that can explain how humans think and make decisions...Perhaps it's all just emergent properties of some messy evolved substrate.

Yeah, it is very likely that there are not laws that will do this, it's the substrate. The fruit fly brain (let alone human) has been mapped, and we've figured out that it's not just the synapse count, but the 'weights' that matter too [0]. Mind you, those weights adjust in real time when a living animal is out there.

You'll see in literature that there are people with some 'lucky' form of hydranencephaly where their brain is as thin as paper. But they vote, get married, have kids, and for some strange reason seem to work in mailrooms (not a joke). So we know it's something about the connectome that's the 'magic' of a human.

My pet theory: We need memristors [2] to better represent things. But that takes redesigning the computer from the metal on up, so is unlikely to occur any time soon with this current AI craze.

> The big lesson from the AI development in the last 10 years from me has been "I guess humans really aren't so special after all" which is similar to what we've been through with Physics.

Yeah, biologists get there too, just the other way abouts, with animals and humans. Like, dogs make vitamin C internally, and humans have that gene too, it's just dormant, ready for evolution (or genetic engineering) to reactivate. That said, these neuroscience issues with us and the other great apes are somewhat large and strange. I'm not big into that literature, but from what little I know, the exact mechanisms and processes that get you from tool using ourangs to tool using humans, well, those seem to be a bit strange and harder to grasp for us. Again, not in that field though.

In the end though, humans are special. We're the only ones on the planet that ever really asked a question. There's a lot to us and we're actually pretty strange in the end. There's many centuries of work to do with biology, we're just at the wading stage of that ocean.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_connectome

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydranencephaly

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-26 15:02:30+00:00
> letting my partner have a proper night's sleep

I’m interested in this: how’s the CPAP noise perceived by the partners?

I don’t snore and usually wake up quickly when doing the "apnea noise", stopping before waking her up. In the meantime I read that CPAP produce a a constant sound + an inconstant sound from the air coming in and out. She needs quietness to sleep and disturbing her sleep refrained me to try it out. Non trivial price is also a factor through, otherwise I would have tried it since a long time.
by OutOfHere | 2025-05-26 15:02:37+00:00
Your beliefs are your own. Personally I would consider those beliefs to be a clown show for the most part with few exceptions.

GDP alone does nothing for the human condition. To me, productive actions are not those that increase GDP or the stock price, but those that improve the human condition. The rich have a moral obligation to fund activities that improve the human condition, preferably by themselves without governmental intervention. The alternative path is to destroy the planet with CO2, microplastics, and PFAS as we have been doing.

Tariffs are going to be a complete and utter failure due to the "first sale rule", and this rule is a just one that cannot go away either. Have you tried ordering anything from abroad lately? Odds are good that it will get stuck in Customs forever. Their system is utterly dysfunctional, more so than it was previously. Will Customs pay me interest on the cost for the time they hold my item? Why not?

If I take quality of life to be healthspan, meaning the length of a healthy life, then life expectancy absolutely drives it. The two are tightly interlinked. If instead you mean QoL to the size of your SUV, then it's true, it doesn't drive life expectancy.

Food is program too. In effect, you're not anti-program; you're just anti everything you don't understand or aren't even aware of.

Money doesn't solve problems for the vast majority of people who don't know how to use money to solve problems. It solves numerous problems for those who know how to use it intelligently. Pretty much the dumbest thing I have ever read on this site is money doesn't solve poverty. It solves that, and a lot more, including resolving trauma if ones knows how. It's true that most people waste their money, but the few that don't are the ones that matter.

It is not "entitled" to have certain expectations about the stability of the legal visa system. If one has been informed legally that action X will lead to result Y, then one purses the action. The feeling of entitlement comes in when one wants to bypass the action to get the result, like you do.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-05-26 15:02:43+00:00
Would like to suggest a possible need to the dev wizards on HN, and also request pointers to something good that may already be out there:

I would like a phone app that would disable anything that a user doesn't actually need (not something like the existing google android feature that identifies apps that haven't been used in x months). It may ask a user what they actually need (for example, calling, SMS, a browser, etc.). The app would identify all the software/apps on the phone that are not required for the above needs and identify / disable them (say for example Location services). When you get a new phone one could start off with an absolute minimum.

It would need ongoing updates, as the app universe and surveillance technologies continuously evolve.
by kulahan | 2025-05-26 15:03:19+00:00
A lot of people seem to think AI development happens in a vacuum, but there are a lot of international implications to consider. Even if the US had some incredibly thorough process for ensuring everyone got paid for their AI additions, many nations would just straight-up steal the data anyways. So maybe in ChatGPT, you can’t ask for a studio ghibli-style photo, but in ChinaGPT (or what-have-you), it’ll work just fine.
by vessenes | 2025-05-26 15:03:50+00:00
I agree whole heartedly that it’s going to be really hard to get my iPhone out of my hands, for a host of reasons. That said, would I replace my AirPods with a Bluetooth version that has zero latency 4o, cameras on the stems and Chat over Siri? Um, yes, in a nanosecond. If that AirPod replacement needed a small brick with cellular backhaul that lived in my bag, and could make calls for me, would I use it? Yep, some of the time.

I think there’s a lot of space for device innovation right now. A quick survey of sci-fi ideas yields a lot of possibilities:

Lapel pins that talk to you

Earrings / Earcuffs that talk to you

Directed environmental audio that only you can hear

Drones that attach to you, fly around when you or they want, and then .. talk to you

Projection on arbitrary surfaces

Smart surfaces everywhere that show things

Anyway. We’re not done innovating data and compute connectivity in device form in my opinion. And, I think we would both do well to remember that how hard it is to sell me, or you, on a new phone, is massively different if you’re willing to give away your first 100mm phones.

That said I’m not convinced the next thing they’re putting out is a phone. But it might be a phone killer, or a baby thing that will one day be a phone killer.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-05-26 15:04:13+00:00
Llms should be ushering in an era where writing any halfway decent code in a mainstream language should then enable porting that code to virtually all other languages while maximizing the standard library or language features.

Alas chathippityi can't even port something as enduring, test exampled, source available, and well documented as SED.

There is a little bit of depth to something like that, but it should be well in the wheelhouse of the claim capabilities of llms. Alas, I get nothing but the most superficial of flag capabilities and sed capabilities.

Effective porting should be a prime capability, because in general I would consider that to be breadth-based knowledge Rather than involve deep language knowledge.

There was a wiki style sit, I believe it's called Rosetta or Rosetta Stone that attempts to do this before the age of llms. And really that should be the low-hanging fruit for some stage of llm maturity that it can do that and renders that site obsolete.

I'd love to hear opinions to the contrary, but it appears we are pretty far from that
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-26 15:04:19+00:00
> Unfortunately when it comes to land use, we have a tendency to block overall uses rather than blocking the negative effects of those uses

Probably because history is full of developers promising to mitigate certain negative consequences and then failing to do so. I'm as YIMBY as anyone, so this history of developers being awful matters a lot to me: it galvanizes the opposition.
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-26 15:04:21+00:00
I work professionally in ticketing with ticket sales system. The problem with scalpers is completely solved, and the only reason why scalpers can operate is because the artists and venues deliberately allow for it.

It's incredibly easy to remove scalpers:

Sell each ticket with a name attached, ask for ID at the door.

That's it. Whatever hacker argument against this you are thinking up right in this moment, it is just wrong.

"What if I don't know who I'm going to ask to go with me?" - Then buy your ticket once you've figured that out.

As for tickets that are so popular that servers can't handle the demand: Make a lottery and give people one day to sign up for the lottery.
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-26 15:05:51+00:00
Note that if you need to pass variables into the bash -c invocation, the best way to do it is to append them. e.g.

bash -c 'some command "$1" "$2"' -- "$var1" "$var2"

I use "--" because I like the way it looks but the first parameter goes in argv[0] which doesn't expand in "$@" so IMO something other than an argument should go there for clarity.

Note that bash specifically has printf %q which could alternatively be used, but I prefer to use bourne-compatible things when the bash version isn't significantly cleaner.
by pj_mukh | 2025-05-26 15:07:23+00:00
Sincere question: Do we need new laws for this?

If I use photoshop to create a straight reproduction of an artwork by someone else and monetize it, copyright law handles this.

If I use AI to do the same, same deal? At no point did someone suggest suing Adobe for building photoshop for "enabling" people to recreate art and sell it.

So what changed? The ease of use?
by georgeecollins | 2025-05-26 15:07:44+00:00
>> Yeah the consistent "reporting" of "status" on "stand-ups" where you say some filler to get someone incapable of understanding what it is that you're doing off your back

In my experience it is human nature to think you are doing something that people around you can't or don't understand. The graveyard is full of irreplaceable people is an old saying. Sometimes the people you report to are morons, but if you consistently report to a moron its time for introspection. There's more that you can do than just suffer that. One place to start is to have some charity for the people you work with.
by CooCooCaCha | 2025-05-26 15:08:00+00:00
What we’re really talking about is freedom. Freedom to do what you want with your time whether it’s relaxation or work, but on your own terms.

When you have to work for an income that is a type of forced work, and generally speaking forced work is not going to be as effective as work done of your own volition.

It’s intrinsic motivation vs extrinsic motivation. When I think about your point of view I see a lot of waste and misery. Instead of naively maximizing value production, I want to see a future of contentment and quality value production. Value produced because people are inspired to produce value, not because they have to.
by captainbland | 2025-05-26 15:08:26+00:00
No but I guess it does hint at some possibilities like:

Some of the training data includes statements which happen to be identifications as Claude 3.5

It may be a tweaked distillation model from Claude 3.5

Or it could just directly be using Anthropic's API directly behind the scenes, maybe with some special access to tune any filtering to Grok's policies.

These all have interesting implications ranging from AIs being trained off other AI generated data in the wild - the inability to filter this out may be harming the model's performance.

The other two options potentially hint at relatively unimpressive development/training capabilities on Grok's side.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-26 15:08:27+00:00
I presume they couldn't be bothered hooking their "neighbors" [0] up because the demand was too great, no...?

[0] "Neighbors" here means a datacenter primarily processing data for wealthy people outside of the community and their mega-companies, where the revenue from that processing primarily goes... also to wealthy people outside of the community and their mega-companies...

Edit: Ah yes, that is exactly the case [https://memphischamber.com/blog/press-release/xai-phase-one-...]. While xAI is fronting the cash, the entire upgrade will ultimately be paid for by taxpayers in the form of monthly rebates.
by DetroitThrow | 2025-05-26 15:09:03+00:00
>Commercial RE projects are often moved and/or delayed, how is this any different?

In terms of how these projects will get built, I assume they're quite similar - the bigger difference is that we're talking about tech companies and startups who may lose an early market advantage or run out of runway if their project is delayed two years.

Lumen orbit, the DC-in-space startup, might run out of runway if they space construction suppliers delay their project by two years for example.

This is in comparison to office buildings or automotive, where big delays can be a lot of trouble but not the end of the company.