MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soerxpso | 2025-05-04 23:10:44+00:00
> I should hope that the purpose of a class writing exercise is not to create an artifact of text but force the student to think

I'm there for the degree. If I wanted to learn and engage with material, I could save $60,000 and do that online for free, probably more efficiently. The purpose of a class writing exercise is to get the university to give me the degree, which I cannot do by actually learning the material (and which, for classes I care about, I may have already done without those exercises), but can only do by going through the hoops that professors set up and paying the massive tuition cost. If there were a different system where I could just actually learn something (which probably wouldn't be through the inefficient and antiquated university system) and then get a valid certificate of employability for having actually learned it, that would be great. Unfortunately, however, as long as university professors are gatekeepers of the coveted certificate of employability, they're going to keep dealing with this incentive issue.
by idoubtit900 | 2025-05-04 23:10:52+00:00
>It's not intentional...

>...it mostly stopped.

I don't think they got the message. Someone... spent all day spamming r/LocalLLaMA and other LLM-related subs. Just an excited friend that wants to see the project do well?

I came here to see if this was an issue previously, and if others noticed. Turns out I was right.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250504223732/https://old.reddi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250504224002/https://old.reddi...

You can see the account I linked is only 4 months old (similar to some accounts here), and only just recently started posting again. Could be they've been deleting past astroturfing.

This is an extremely bad look. You couldn't pay me to run their software if this is how they behave.

This is an old thread, but I hope that it will be here any time people look up this dime-a-dozen AI framework projects on HN in the future.

EDIT:

Comment is now archived in case you like hiding these types comments...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250504231402/https://news.ycom...

EDIT2:

>I can just move the booster ones lower down

YOU can. Anybody else needs 500 internet points to downvote any of the comments in this thread. Imagine all the projects that don't get a boost because of a network of real, living and breathing bots ready to boost your project. It's ok! They're ~real~ humans.

EDIT3:

Here are three other Reddit accounts that like spamming this project on llm-related subs:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250504233237/https://old.reddi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250504233136/https://old.reddi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250504233010/https://old.reddi...

Nothing to see here! Just "YC founders excitedly telling their friends."
by ozim | 2025-05-04 23:11:56+00:00
I tried but it is not consistently 1 hour task down to 10 minutes. That is what I think most people experience, some tasks are really hit or miss.

For greenfield "make me a plain JS app that does X" yeah usually it is just able to do a small app that I describe in under 10 mins where I most likely would take far more than an hour to implement as well as just AI does.

For "hey I do have an app in framework X, implement feature that would take me less than 30 mins" - it might hit some issue and loop hanging on its own mistakes, hallucinate dependencies, hallucinate command line parameters and get stuck or just messing whole files. When such things happen I drop it do 'git reset --hard' and move on my own because trying to fix stuff by leading it usually ended up taking me hours fiddling with AI and not progressing on task.

But I also tried to make a greenfield apps with react and angular instead of just "plain JS" and that also mostly went bad getting stuck on some unsolvable issues that I would not have just using default templates/generators on my own.
by MadnessASAP | 2025-05-04 23:12:12+00:00
> I wonder if any CAD engine can do "production-aware design" that constrains design to the capabilities of standardized machines

At this time, none that I'm aware of. I am considering some manner of FreeCAD workbench that would integrate slicing to allow specific printing techniques to be applied to specific features of the part. I'm still not sure exactly what it would look like or integrate into the workflow yet.
by kevinsync | 2025-05-04 23:12:20+00:00
When I was salaried, I never participated in company-sponsored hackathons and actively resisted attending any conferences or anything of the sort. Even back in late 00's / early 2010's it all felt like sponsorship hell, and my point of reference for the activities was nigh-impossible to recreate..

When I was a teenager in the mid-90's, I would go to a monthly Boy Scouts Explorer Post group hosted/sponsored by CompuServe (at their headquarters). My brother and I were a couple years younger than some of the "cool hacker" dudes (it was almost all dudes), like this guy Travis who had already had multiple Dade Murphy-esque run-ins with the feds and would give little talks on why it's not worth it and was honestly really supported by the alpha-nerd adults (not pejorative) who worked for CompuServe who ran the thing and were trying to keep us all from life-changing mischief (while still encouraging safer mischief).

Other attendees would give presentations on MODs (FastTracker / Impulse Tracker), or show off software they wrote (or found) that was cool, that kind of thing, and the only sponsor was CompuServe itself (which gave us all free dialup accounts).

I remember one time we set up a booth at the fairgrounds, like inside of one of those giant, long open-air pavilion buildings that normally would have horse/animal stalls, with a row of computers to demo either their brand new service "WOW!" [0] or maybe it was WorldsAway [1] to the general public. I had no idea what I was doing lol, but it sure did feel important!

Anyways, my rose-tinted vision of what a hackathon should be is some amalgamation of trading rainbow books at Cyberdelia mixed with those monthly CompuServe meetings where elders guided the young through the labyrinth of technology mixed with like a LAN party where instead of games, people get together, code, push boundaries, exchange ideas, and make something cool. Or something.

Not a brutal, forced interaction with your coworkers that wastes time, produces jack shit, and is sponsored by SliceLine Pizza lol

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6BQzd2km58

[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/424450/this-old-tech-remembe...
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-04 23:12:42+00:00
Just paste the full text and ask a LLM to summarize it for you.

It feels like we are getting to this weird situation where we just use LLMs as proxies, and the long, boring text is just for LLMs to talk to each other.

For example:

Person A to LLM A: Give me my money.

LLM A to LLM B: Long formal letter.

LLM B to Person B : Give me my money.

Hopefully, nothing is lost in translation.
by zeroq | 2025-05-04 23:13:38+00:00
You're missing trees for forest.

When I was a kid and got an assignement for writing an essey about "why good forces prevailed in Lords of the Rings" as a gate check to see if I actually read the novel I had three choices: (a) read the novel and write the essey myself (b) find an already written essey - not an easy task in pre-internet era but we had books with esseys on most common topics you could "copy-paste" - and risk that the professor is familiar with the source or someone else used the same source (c) ask class mate to give me their essey as a template and rephrase it as my own

A and C would let me learn about the novel and let me polish my writing skills.

Today I can ask ChatGPT to write me a 4 pages essay about a novel I've never heard of and call it a day. There's no value gained in the process.

That's a simple example. The problem is that the same applies to programming. Novice programmer will claim that LLM give them power to take on hard tasks and programm in languages they were not familiar before. But they are not gaining any skill nor knowledege from that experience.

If I ask google maps to plot me a directions from Prague to Brussels it will yield a list of turns that will guide me to my destinations, but by any means I can't claim I've learned topography of Germany in the process.
by evil-olive | 2025-05-04 23:14:11+00:00
another factor to consider is that if you have a typical Prometheus `/metrics` endpoint that gets scraped every N seconds, there's a period in between the "final" scrape and the actual process exit where any recorded metrics won't get propagated. this may give you a false impression about whether there are any errors occurring during the shutdown sequence.

it's also possible, if you're not careful, to lose the last few seconds of logs from when your service is shutting down. for example, if you write to a log file that is watched by a sidecar process such as Promtail or Vector, and on startup the service truncates and starts writing to that same path, you've got a race condition that can cause you to lose logs from the shutdown.
by palata | 2025-05-04 23:14:16+00:00
I would argue that if you are losing a consequent amount of your time fixing grammar, then it sounds like you need to spend that time to improve your grammar skills.

> We need to teach students to use AI for deeper thinking by asking better questions.

Same thing here: the whole point of learning critical thinking is that you don't need to ask someone/something else. Teaching you how to ask the LLM to do it for you is not the same as teaching you how to actually do it.

In my opinion, we need to make students realise that their goal is to learn how to do it themselves (whatever it is). If they need an LLM to do it, then they are not learning. And if they are not learning, there is no point in going to school, they can go work in a field.
by fooker | 2025-05-04 23:14:29+00:00
> simple I/O operation

That’s the reason it doesn’t get implemented. Nobody wants the simple I/O operation based inclusion. The moment you try to propose it, there’ll be demands to add conditional logic or macros. More relevant for the web is instantiating html templates, which will undoubtedly get piled onto such a feature. And pretty soon you have yet another:

> interpreter in your browser

Might as well use the one already there.
by circularfoyers | 2025-05-04 23:15:18+00:00
> On one hand, understandable; on the other, again, the software is effectively useless because of this.

Just in case you didn't already know, you can use Flatseal[1] to add the symlinked paths outside of those in the default whitelisted paths.

I think it's a good thing Flatpak have followed a security permissions system similar to Android, as I think it's great for security, but I definitely think they need to make this process more integrated and user friendly.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
by Leftium | 2025-05-04 23:17:03+00:00
> Typing `article about german war in the stone age !!g` becomes: `site:en.wikipedia.org "german" AND "war" AND "stone age"`

I wonder how much of that could be done without AI, just (locally) using https://www.npmjs.com/package/compromise

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Also I couldn't find your source for bang data; Kagi maintains an updated list: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs

I'm working on an enhanced version of bangs. Since there are so many "dead" bangs, I'm thinking of using a bang whitelist and suggestions from the full list if not found in the whitelist.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-04 23:17:11+00:00
You should pay attention to when a Switch updates. There is no A/B system - the installation literally is 5 seconds after the download is finished, followed by a reboot. It makes other operating systems look downright shameful.

As for backwards compatibility, Flatpak solves it, mostly. The underlying system doesn’t necessarily need to be Linux if it provides the right environment to run Flatpaks, maybe in a container.
by tabbott | 2025-05-04 23:17:33+00:00
I have a very similar experience. Some students who want to get involved in contributing to open source will try to contribute to Zulip by taking whatever they wanted to say and asking ChatGPT to write it better for them, and posting the result.

Even when no errors are introduced in the process, the outcome is always bad: 3 full paragraphs of text with bullets and everything where the actual information is just the original 1-2 sentences that the model was prompted with.

I never am happy reading one of those; it's just a waste of time. A lot of the folks doing it are not native English speakers. But for their use case, older tools like Grammarly that help improve the English writing are effective without the problematic decompression downsides of this class of LLM use.

Regardless of how much LLMs can be an impactful tool for someone who knows how to use one well, definitely one of the impacts of LLMs on society today is that a lot of people think that they can improve their work by having an LLM edit it, and are very wrong.

(Sometimes, just telling the LLM to be concise can improve the output considerably. But clearly many people using LLMs think the overly verbose style it produces is good.)
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-05-04 23:19:28+00:00
For what it’s worth, Nintendo’s kernel has been reimplemented entirely as open-source, under the mesosphere/ folder of the Atmosphere project. Modded Switches use it over Nintendo’s original binary.

The creator of it (SciresM) has publicly stated that after reverse engineering and re-implementing both it and the 3DS kernel, he firmly believes it has zero security flaws remaining. The last 6 or so years of not one software exploit in Horizon capable of enabling piracy also bears this out.

https://x.com/SciresM/status/1327631019583836160?ref_src=tws...

He also is giving the Switch 2, assuming it inherits the NVIDIA boot bug fix and new anti-glitching capabilities, possibly over a decade of being crack free at this rate. Even then, it will almost certainly be a hardware mod.
by Leftium | 2025-05-04 23:19:29+00:00
Related project (also works locally):

- https://unduck.link/

- https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck

- https://youtu.be/_DnNzRaBWUU

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Note unduck works without service workers: https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck/blob/91a66c25de8b0e7ac5ba5...

Is there any advantage to using service workers?

edit: Ah... unduck doesn't work from the browser search bar.
by bsder | 2025-05-04 23:20:06+00:00
> someone could write the next Harry Potter and it will be lost in a sea of one million mediocre works that roughly similar.

To be fair, the first Harry Potter is a kinda average British boarding school story. Rowling is barely an adequate writer (and it shows badly in some of the later books). There was a reason she got rejected by so many publishers.

However, Netscape was going nuts and the Internet was taking off. Anime was going nuts and produced some of the all time best anime. MTV animation went from Beavis and Butthead to Daria in this time frame. Authors were engaging with audiences on Usenet (see: Wheel of Time and Babylon 5). Fantasy had moved from counterculture for hardcore nerd boys to something that the bookish female nerds would engage with.

Harry Potter dropped onto that tinder and absolutely caught fire.
by smelendez | 2025-05-04 23:20:23+00:00
I haven't been to a hackathon in a long time, but the best ones I remember were explicitly about getting designers and developers to build something concrete but simple for a good cause. I think in some cases just a working prototype was sufficient for the "client," who could then more easily apply for grants to build a more robust or fully featured version.

POV, the PBS documentary series, used to have weekend hackathons in NYC in the early 2010s that paired the filmmakers with designers and coders. They were pretty good—filmmakers would come with an idea for a website they needed to support the film, basically, often a data visualization component or something to collect information from the public about the subject of the film.

The Tribeca Film Institute did something similar a couple of times, too—I went to one at CERN that they ran where scientists worked with designers, developers, musicians, etc. to build projects presenting their research, and another in Detroit.

I remember others like this as well from other organizations. It's still a bit of a weird format because you're basically doing pro bono or minimally paid freelance work on a tight deadline with your client sitting next to you, but they could produce some generally interesting work.

Some hackathons in this category I remember also had a goal of letting non-coders understand how the coding process works, which is hard to balance with actually getting stuff done.
by jrmg | 2025-05-04 23:20:40+00:00
The work this degree will credential you for is so is so disconnected from the areas of study in your degree program - presumably in the same field as the job - that the majority of the things you might learn would not be valuable?

I can’t imagine this in my own life. I use concrete things and ways of thinking and working I learned in my CS degree _all the time_.
by drewcoo | 2025-05-04 23:21:53+00:00
>> the purpose of a class writing exercise

> how many intelligent professionals and academics don't understand this

Mastery of a discipline does not imply any pedagogical knowledge, despite anything one of my childhood heroes, Richard Feynman, might have claimed.

Despite frequent claims otherwise, in my experience and sampling of PhDs and Masters of different sorts and grad students working toward those degrees, an advanced degree does not teach anyone how to lead or teach. This is true of even some of the folks I knew studying Education itself who were a little too focused on their own research to understand anything "so simple."

> cheat themselves out of an education

What's "an education," though? For some people, education is focused on how to learn. For others, it's focused on some kind of certification to get a job. Some of us see value in both. And I'm sure there are other minority opinions as well. We, as a society, can't agree. The only thing we can seem to agree on in the US is that college should be expensive and saddle students with ridiculous debt.
by phire | 2025-05-04 23:22:39+00:00
Yes... there is a very interesting generational thing going on here.

Bluetooth headsets were very popular among a certain market segment (business people who made a lot of phone calls), but saw very little adoption outside of that. At that time, you often had to buy an expensive business grade phone to get bluetooth functionality.

Then once Bluetooth was common in cheaper phones, we see a completely different market segment (students at schools) rapidly adopting bluetooth for a completely different usecase (file sharing). It's hard to find two market segments that are more isolated from each other.

I don't think file sharing could have ever driven bluetooth to mass adoption on its own, partly because companies always overlook what school students are doing with technology. But mostly because the file sharing usecase required mass deployment of the technology before it could take off.

When I was in high school, I had a palm PDA with IrDA that could do file sharing. But did I ever use it for file sharing? No, because nobody else had devices with IrDA. IrDA never hit the market saturation it needed to be actually useful, so there never was much demand for it (despite the hardware being really cheap, especially compared to a dedicated bluetooth radio)

Bluetooth headsets worked as a killer app in those early days, because a single BMW driver could buy both a high-end phone with bluetooth and a headset from the cellphone store and get the complete experience. It worked without market saturation.
by msla | 2025-05-04 23:22:50+00:00
I'm pretty sure nobody in the historical record mentioned how their armies have never once used blackcurrant jam to destroy a rampaging army from Venus. Does that make such an event more or less likely for you?

People mostly don't go around listing off things they're not doing and have never done. Therefore, lack of mention that someone's not doing something isn't really evidence they are doing it, or at least is very weak.
by palata | 2025-05-04 23:22:59+00:00
I think that figuring this out is a great achievement. Probably one of the goals of school. It depends on many factors and the sooner, the better.

Young kids don't get it, they just do what they're asked. That's okay. University students graduating without having figured it out is a problem. And somewhere in the middle is when the average student gets there, hopefully?
by superkuh | 2025-05-04 23:23:03+00:00
The linked article is all about prediction of reward. Not reward itself. The dopaminergic populations of neurons, in the VTA or not, are not necessary for expressions of reward itself which is mostly in glutamergic cells in the shell of the nucleus accumbens(s). But the dopaminergic VTA neurons do project to the accumbens as part of reward prediction. I say this so we can avoid reviving outdated 1970s dopamine as 'reward chemical' ideas.

>“It seems like dopamine is signaling not just for [reward] prediction errors, but errors in general.”

This makes sense. More evidence that dopamine isn't especially related to reward.
by rayiner | 2025-05-04 23:23:35+00:00
What does “the law” require, though? A number of these judges are liberals who adhere to the notion that the law can be found in “emanations from penumbras” of the constitutional text. But I saw little effort to look at the “emanations from penumbras” of the INA, which is a decidedly pro-deportation document.

And some of the actions have been simply lawless. For example, after the Supreme Court ruled that Judge Boasberg lacked jurisdiction in the deportation flights case, the proper course would have been to dismiss. Instead, he initiated contempt proceedings based on failure to follow an order that was void ab initio, citing case law that applies to private litigants but makes no sense in a case where a district court exceeds its jurisdiction to compel a co-equal branch of government to act. Sanity prevailed and the DC Circuit administratively stayed those contempt proceedings. Judge Howell, in one of the law firm EO cases, asserted that firms had a first amendment right to pursue “progressive employment policies”—even though the first amendment obviously doesn’t apply to race-conscious employment policies. Other courts are insisting that Trump can’t revoke temporary authorizations by executive fiat that Biden granted by executive fiat.

More generally, courts are abusing their injunction powers. Read Marbury v. Madison again. The court goes out of its way to avoid enjoining the secretary of state even to perform the “ministerial” task of delivering a letter the president had already signed. Marbury makes clear that, while courts have the power to declare the law, and overturn Congress’s laws, its power to compel the executive branch to act is extremely limited.

The Supreme Court correctly ruled in the deportation flights case that the administration must allow detainees to file habeas petitions in the districts where they’re detained. That’s a proper exercise of district courts’ jurisdiction to adjudicate alleged deprivations of individual rights. It’s not proper for the courts to try and use that authority to enjoin entire executive policies that offend a judge’s sensibilities.
by fragmede | 2025-05-04 23:23:53+00:00
I doubt wikimedia is lying though, so we have to concoct reasons why their data doesn't match the 2024 data. Which we can just make stuff up for. Is it because macOS users are more likely to use Wikipedia because they're smarter than Windows users? Dumber? Hold onto their computers longer? Whatever the real reason, again, I don't. believe the wiki link is lying, or the 2024 sales numbers, for that matter. It's just there have been years prior to 2024 in which computers were sold so using just those numbers is also an incomplete and inaccurate view of things.