MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rusuereboutdat | 2025-05-24 00:47:53+00:00
For the same reason Yann LeCun and everyone else says language won’t lead to AGI, nothing will lead to AGI.

Yann says language models need to be updated with new language to describe new observation.

But that’s not just with language. That’s physics. We cannot solve going to Mars or anything without the process.

But space time is endless and eventually some composition of it will come along the continuous learning machine has no ability to adapt to before it’s destroyed.

We’ve lost the information of the past and merely store simulation. We cannot see all of the future, just reduce to simulation.

Eventually any autonomous thing hits a snag it cannot solve before its destruction because in any reference frame it cannot know all the next best steps and know which past options to eliminate to simplify.

Energy based models will streamline away nonessential state to generating media and making a robot lift a box, like Linux and software like we know, but without 100% accurate data of the past and future (generation of which is impossible) whatever autonomous thing will eventually encounter a problem it never had time to solve and be smashed by the immutable churn of physics.
by hbartab | 2025-05-24 00:48:27+00:00
Both are diagrammatic but that's all the overlap there is.

Feynman diagrams are a way to compute Green's functions/propagators for particle scattering amplitudes. IOW they give a pictorial representation of things you need to compute to figure out particle reactions at high energies.

ZX calculus is for "simplifying" quantum circuits. I write this in quotes because the rules are pretty involved. Apart from Quantinuum, few (if any) are pushing for it. Almost no quantum computing papers are published using ZX notation.

Feynman diagrams in particle physics are, however, universal.

You might enjoy this write-up: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_zx_calculus
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-05-24 00:49:35+00:00
> There isn’t a universally accepted way to do client discovery, and what exists are very specific to those domains.

I commented elsewhere on this recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063680, but a huge value of LLMs is you don't need a "universally accepted way to do client discovery" - if you have an exposed API that already supports one of the bajillion standards that expose schema information (e.g. Swagger/OpenAPI, GraphQL, SOAP, etc.), then any decent LLM should just be able to figure out how to use it.

This idea that we need "one more universal interop standard to rule them all" seems to me like a very pre-LLM way of thinking.
by susiecambria | 2025-05-24 00:50:33+00:00
Watching the speech, had a flashback to early 1986 when I was trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do now that I had graduated from college. In addition to what Jessica talked about, I left school a semester early having earned enough credits. I was quite off-balance, didn't have any peer support or friendship.

I moved in with my parents and I'm grateful for that. But they were not helpful in any way with helping me think through what was next for me. As I've said here before, it was a long road of mental health and drinking challenges and I finally got it together enough to have a direction somewhere.

As I reread this, I recognize how whiny this privileged white girl (!!!) sounds. But I also know that my not-so-great experiences got me where I am and I desperately want more for my grandkids and hope that I can be what they need me to be for them.
by cwbriscoe | 2025-05-24 00:50:47+00:00
I used DBeaver (community edition) before Datagrip and I would have to give the nod to datagrip overall. I wouldn't have even tried it if I did not have the etbrains all product pack. DBeaver is great, don't get me wrong, but Datagrip just seems a lot more polished overall and the settings and the UI just seem more intuitive to me.
by darth_avocado | 2025-05-24 00:50:56+00:00
> For a long time, I’ve been this person for other people, but don’t feel like I have anybody to do this for me.

For the longest time I was this and unfortunately I got bitter over time. But then a couple of years ago I got back into the mindset again. A few bad years later I realized that the more happy you are for your friends, the more happy you are. Do it for yourself and nobody else.
by holografix | 2025-05-24 00:52:41+00:00
MCP is a brilliant way to wrap pre-existing APIs with LLM interpretation and in a way, marking standard REST apis as outdated and soon you’ll see language calling it “legacy”.

What could just be a simple api call or set of api calls combined into a single response now “must” be wrapped in an MCP server ensuring that LLM providers effectively take a cut of every api call.
by skydhash | 2025-05-24 00:53:20+00:00
I got you. I like to be focused on a single thing so whatever is in front of me is relevant to the current task: Either selecting files or viewing them. So I've never been a fan of the file explorer windows/dock in most editors and IDEs.

In Vim, I use vinegar, which bind the minus key to display the file's directory in netrw and in netrw, go up.
by deanmoriarty | 2025-05-24 00:54:19+00:00
In the Bay Area:

- A 10 min visit to a specialist office, where I was seen by a nurse practitioner who was able to refer me to an exam without involving the main physician, costed $800 (just the visit, not the followup exam), which also went through deductible.

- A routine colonoscopy came at $19k with bills that kept coming for the next 6-12 months from various parties. Consumed my deductible in one shot as the first bill came.

- A visit to the ER that lasted 10 mins with an XRay costed me $5k, also sent in tranches for the next 6 months, to the point where I thought I was victim of some scam (I wasn’t). Maxed my deductible as well.

I have a couple non-critical health concerns right now I’d like to consult a doctor about, but I won’t drop another huge deductible just for that.

I am a dual citizen from a European country with a high quality healthcare public system (but admittedly longer waits than the US ). I’m not eligible for it since I’m not a resident anymore (I will when/if I move back), but as I went visiting family I booked a private appointment with a well known cardiologist and he spent a good 50 minutes with me, for a total of EUR 100.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-05-24 00:54:58+00:00
IANAL, but if you are trying to profit from this, you’d probably have to leave the company and make the pitch from outside.

And if they think you developed it while employed, things could get nasty. Don’t want them thinking you’re selling their IP commercially either. Formalizing the idea while employed and then taking it outside could be trouble. Probably worth discussing details with a lawyer before attempting.

If you develop an MVP while employed and gain stakeholder acceptance, you likely won’t see any huge financial gains. Maybe a promotion, pat on the back, small bonus, or can enjoy the prospect this being more interesting work for a time.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-05-24 00:55:02+00:00
I'm a massive quantum computing skeptic. However, I do believe that if there is going to be an actual real and practical QC use case with verifiable quantum advantage in our lifetimes, it's NOT going to be factoring with Shor's or doing search with Grover's, it's going to be molecular interaction simulation as described here. Even so, I give it less than 50% chance of coming to fruition.
by fernly | 2025-05-24 00:55:27+00:00
Well I just had to try it on Claude 4.0, I mean somebody has to, right? and it did a clean, if rather terse, breakdown, concluding with:

Caesar's last breath: ~0.5 liters (typical final exhale)

Total atmospheric volume: Earth's atmosphere has a mass of about 5×10^18 kg. Using the ideal gas law with average molecular weight of air (~29 g/mol), this gives roughly 4×10^44 molecules total.

Molecules in Caesar's breath: 0.5 liters at standard conditions contains about 1.3×10^22 molecules.

Your inhale: ~0.5 liters also contains about 1.3×10^22 molecules.

The fraction: Caesar's molecules represent (1.3×10^22)/(4×10^44) = 3.25×10^-23 of all atmospheric molecules.

Final answer: (1.3×10^22) × (3.25×10^-23) ≈ 0.4 molecules

So statistically, you inhale less than one molecule from Caesar's last breath with each inhalation, but over the course of a day's breathing, you'd likely inhale several molecules that were once in his lungs as he died.
by teleforce | 2025-05-24 00:55:38+00:00
Fun facts, the Malay word garam for salt most probably come from the Roman word Garum, a very popular fermented fish sauce from an ancient Malay Champa kingdom [1]. The Champa kingdom used to rule majority of Vietnam and the South China Sea used to be called Champa Sea even in ancient Chinese chronicles [2]. If I'm not mistaken the Vietnamese themselves still calling this particular fish sauce as Champa fish sauce, while the rest of the world call this Vietnamese fish sauce [3].

The original world from Old Malay for salt is probably "asin", that's now become the word for taste of salt or "masin" meaning salty.

[1] Garum:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum

[2] The Cham: Descendants of Ancient Rulers of South China Sea Watch Maritime Dispute From Sidelines:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140616-so...

[3] Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road? (111 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23980279
by gjm11 | 2025-05-24 00:55:46+00:00
Yes, obviously strictly speaking "famous to me" makes no sense. On the other hand, you correctly understood what I meant, and I made it clear at the outset ("One pair of data points") and at the end ("my sense is that that's a bit unrepresentative") that I understand that my own state of familiarity isn't anything like definitive and am not attempting to "judge fame by my own familiarity". So I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make that actually needed making.

I mean, if you want to complain about people making judgements of relative fame on insufficient evidence, fair enough. But I'm having trouble figuring out why my comment is the one that requires that complaint, when the other three people in this thread passing judgement on the relative fame of Rorty and MacIntyre (1) in no instance give any more evidence than I did, and (2) in fact give no indication at all of where their opinion comes from.

(I actually don't think I quite do mean "that [I] know MacIntyre better than Rorty", though I agree that that's the specific thing I gave a bit of kinda-quantitative evidence about. I think what I actually meant is more like "I have heard more about MacIntyre than about Rorty". That correlates well with who I know more about, for obvious reasons, and in this case it matches up OK, but there are philosophers I know more about than either but who I would consider less famous even with the yes-I-know-strictly-incorrect "to me" qualifier; for instance, I have read zero books by M. or R. but one by Peter van Inwagen, but I have hardly ever heard other people talking about him and I think I encountered his work while browsing bookshop shelves. I know Inwagen better than MacIntyre but I hear about MacIntyre much more often. Again, I admit that you couldn't reasonably have got that distinction from what I actually wrote; to whatever extent I'm offering a correction it's a correction of my previous unclarity, not of any perceived misunderstanding on your part.)
by prepend | 2025-05-24 00:55:58+00:00
I use it and see it many times per month as it’s the preferred way of sticking graphics and diagrams in markdown in git repos and generated static sites.

It’s so handy for putting a sequence diagram in your docs and then tracking the changes over time using git.

I’m curious what other software developers use if not this. I’ve tried specific graph and drawing tools like lucid and Visio, but the simplicity of mermaid is nice. And I don’t know anything else that shows git blame for who changed what in my diagram, when.
by Retric | 2025-05-24 00:56:18+00:00
People aren’t simply moving into the city locally the numbers just don’t work.

The demographics of NYC require and support the idea of a huge and constant flux of people from distant areas moving into and out of the city which matches people’s observations. Even the gender divide is abnormal, the largest age group is 25-29 for women and 30-34 for men despite more men being born vs women living longer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City
by thoughtpeddler | 2025-05-24 00:56:23+00:00
They're back, but at the speed of mid-2020s tech progress. I remember the CPU MHz wars being a far slower process, or maybe my processing of time as a child was slower in the 90s? Not sure. But I'm fairly certain there wasn't a new CPU 'drop' happening every few months like we witness now with new model drops in this current AI race.
by yibg | 2025-05-24 00:56:28+00:00
The other version of this is the whole FIRE movement. Instead of living cheap, which also affords the ability to not work much, work as normal (or more than normal) for a shorter time while living cheap, so eventually you can live cheaply forever without working.

Especially tenable for the tech crowd, where salaries are high and potentially scales well with more effort put in, even if for a short duration.
by talkingtab | 2025-05-24 00:58:57+00:00
Wow! Thanks. The thought about "Boids is not a simple ..." is new to me and very good. The other vector in this is the evolution/genetic algorithm idea. It raises the question of what are the benefits of flocking? And could you plug those into a genetic algorithm to test survival.

It seems like perhaps the visual inputs are another interesting area. What do I (as a boid) do when I see one boid in front of me go right, one go left, for example. But thanks!!
by fabrice_d | 2025-05-24 00:59:02+00:00
Yes, most of the problem with the semantic web is that you end up with having to agree on how to describe the world: what are the concepts, and how they are related. This kind of work on semantic networks has been done for a while in computational linguistics for natural language processing, but it's very tedious. For instance users of the Minitel in France in the 80s could lookup vets by querying the yellow pages directory with sentences such as "my dog is sick". Nice tech, but not that useful and not very discoverable either.

LLMs promise to just discover all these relations between concepts for you and do the right thing instead. Sometimes it works, sometimes not...
by agarren | 2025-05-24 01:00:04+00:00
> It feels disingenuous but even companies I know and respect are adding questionable “agent” features that rarely work.

Word. I’m not a huge Microsoft fan, but it feels like they’re just shoving ChatGPT/copilot down your throat every chance they get. It’s integrated into everything - it’s useful when it’s useful, okay, but it generally isn’t. It’s one more Microsoft’ism that you have to learn to tolerate or simply ignore.

I can’t tell if Nadella’s really betting the farm on it all, or if he’s just trying to leave his mark.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-05-24 01:00:28+00:00
Rural living also looks cheaper because most people do not even remotely consider the costs of transportation.

The IRS estimates per-mile deduction at well over 60 cents per mile. If you have to drive 15 miles to the grocery store and back, your grocery bill goes up $18/trip. If you need to drive 15 miles to work and back, take $90/week out of your paycheck.

Then there's the fact that whoever is The Employer in that region - if you lose your job there, you're fucked. So The Employer gets to abuse every rule in th book because who's going to complain and risk losing their job? If The Employer decideds to drop everyone's pay by 25 cents/hour, what are you all going to do? Answer: nothing.

Meanwhile in the city you can go anywhere you want within a 500 square mile area (or more) for well under $100/month and commuter rail will take you even further for not a lot more. And you can do other things while using said transportation. No "self driving car" needed.

As a sidenote: the same author complains about the "loss of the $50 motel room" and laments they're 3x more expensive now. Days after complaining that housing isn't actually that expensive. The guy has to be a troll...

Oh, and also not factored in: almost every aspect of rural life is heavily subsidized, and I don't just mean direct assistance. I mean literally everything you stare at when you roll through a rural town was subsidized in some way by the federal government, and most of them either don't know or will never admit it.

For fucks sakes the government actually runs a program to subsidize rural Americans getting to fly around on barely-occupied turboprop planes. But heaven forbid a city get some federal funding for electric or hybrid transit busses that will serve several thousand people a day.
by istjohn | 2025-05-24 01:01:32+00:00
Median disposable household income is higher in the US than anywhere else in the world [0]. Real median personal income has increased 50% since the 1970s [1].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per...

1. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/globalization-did-not-hollow-o...
by hbartab | 2025-05-24 01:02:10+00:00
Software with CE and TÜV stickers... what a time to be alive!

> It is the universal expectation that Linux will fall under the Cyber Resilience Act, even though it is not clear what Linux is exactly, nor who programs it and therefore who should comply with the act, which includes such fun things as mandatory third party audits by government certified companies.

If the EU cannot even figure out how to make it apply the proposal to the most common OS on servers, then it has no business proposing such regulation. All it'll achieve is hand incumbents (e.g. Red Hat and SuSE) more power in market dominance.
Show HN: MyDeviceAI – Local AI with web search for your phone
by navedmerchant | 2025-05-24 01:03:13+00:00
Hey HN! I built MyDevice AI because I was frustrated with the privacy trade-offs of existing AI chatbots. I wanted the convenience and capability of modern AI without my conversations being sent to remote servers or used for training. What it is: A completely local AI assistant that runs entirely on your iPhone. Think Perplexity, but your data never leaves your device. Key features:

100% local processing - All AI inference happens on-device using optimized models Web search integration - Built-in SearXNG search for up-to-date information while maintaining privacy. Tiny models on phones can hallucinate quite a bit, but web search acts as an anchor point that makes them dramatically smarter and more trustworthy - they stay focused and factual Lightning fast - Async model loading means no waiting around for initialization Thinking Mode - Powered by Qwen 3 for complex problem-solving 30+ day chat history - Your conversations are preserved locally Completely free and open source - No subscriptions, no data collection

Recent updates:

Redesigned UI that's much cleaner Zero-config SearXNG integration (no more setup headaches) Image previews in search results Tons of bug fixes based on user feedback

I've been dogfooding this for months and it's become my primary AI assistant. Response times are impressive on modern iPhones, and knowing my conversations stay private makes all the difference. The code is available at github.com/navedmerchant/MyDeviceAI if you want to contribute or just see how it works under the hood. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Obsidian User Curious About Emacs – What Should I Know?
by willschetelich | 2025-05-24 01:03:43+00:00
Hey there!

I’ve loved using Obsidian for the past year. It’s my second brain — I use it for storing future ideas, managing current projects, writing, thinking things through, and organizing logical reasoning. It’s served me super well, and honestly, my laptop is basically just an Obsidian machine at this point.

But recently I stumbled across Emacs, and… you know how it goes — rabbit hole time . I'm not afraid of the rabbit hole, I just want to know about it! I love learning everything about a tool before deciding if it’s for me. When I learn all I can, I'm empowered to pursue what's best!

So I’m wondering:

What are Emacs really good at?

Where do they shine compared to Obsidian?

Where are they worse?

If you’ve used both (or made a switch), I’d love to hear your thoughts, workflows, or even your “aha!” moments.

Thanks in advance!
by mindcrime | 2025-05-24 01:05:19+00:00
There's a lot to unpack in this, but the parts that excite me are:

1. Official support for Strix Halo in ROCm. And that's mainly because I'm hopeful that Strix Halo systems with 128GB of RAM (of which 96GB can be allocated to the GPU) will make really interesting hardware for local AI experimentation. No, it won't be as fast as a "real" GPU with 96GB of RAM, but it may be better than some of the other alternatives.

2. AMD is committing to "day one" support on their future hardware, including consumer hardware. That's something the community has been asking (begging?) for for a long time, and it's nice to see them move in that direction.
by ycomb_anon | 2025-05-24 01:06:36+00:00
How much real data alignment helps? Wouldn't -O3 with -Ofast do all code optimization for programmer. Contributor dav1d claims 1-3% growth after his optimization, depending on video dataset payload. He nullified 1% optimization in rav1d, if the real growth was 3%, rav1d will not soon be able to equalize benchmark results.

Another question in theory can Rust be faster than C?
Show HN: HNRelevant – Add a "related" section to Hacker News
by imadj | 2025-05-24 01:07:08+00:00
It's been 2 years since the initial release [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610). The initial version was a very basic prototype which was not available anywhere beyond the GitHub repo. You had to install it as a userscript or load the extension manually.

Since then, it remained simple but better, new features include:

- Improved accuracy by also using comments to help gauge the topic of discussion and the right keywords.

- Published as plugin for more browsers: Chrome, Firefox (including android), and more recently Microsoft Edge.

- Support for narrow screens and mobile devices.

- Added preference controls.

You're here because you love interesting HN discussions but they're often buried away like hidden gems, so give it a try and let me know what you think.
by smeej | 2025-05-24 01:07:22+00:00
Yeah, but the other symptoms don't line up. Screenings I've had have been negative.

It seems more likely that I have complex trauma from gestation, birth, infancy, and early childhood that really threw a monkeywrench into my neurological development. What we're trying to figure out now is whether I have enough neuroplasticity left at this stage for it to be recoverable, or if I'm just going to be like this forever. I'm definitely not neurologically typical, but I'm also not neurodivergent in a well-established category.

It does seem like there comes a point, though, where it's worth throwing in the towel on attempting to get "better" and just learning to make the most of what is.