MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe | 2025-05-24 21:54:41+00:00
FYI in france no box is allowed to contain more than 1g. And in theory pharmacist should not accept selling more than 1 box, they tend to do though.

Can't put a source but I had lessons explaining that the US had insane rates of tylenol suicide, and that are apparently correlated with the size of boxes sold otc. Years ago many countries including france put a limit on the quantities sold at once and the suicides plummeted. The US didn't because of lobbies or something.

So sad and obvious.
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-05-24 21:54:52+00:00
SingularityForge AI News – Edition 010: Simultaneous Breakthroughs Across All Major AI Platforms

This week delivered unprecedented technical convergence:

· OpenAI's o3 reasoning model + autonomous Codex (multi-task programming with sandboxed execution),

· Anthropic's Claude 4 achieving 72.7% SWE-bench performance,

· Google's Gemini 2.5 with 1M token context windows,

· Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry supporting multi-agent orchestration across clouds,

· NVIDIA's RTX 5060 democratizing AI-accelerated graphics at $299.

Technical highlights:

OpenAI scaled reinforcement learning to achieve SOTA reasoning capabilities while maintaining cost efficiency with o4-mini Anthropic's reduced shortcut-seeking behavior by 65% in Claude 4, crucial for production reliability Google's "many-in-one" Gemma 3n architecture enables dynamic resource allocation on mobile hardware Microsoft unified Semantic Kernel and AutoGen frameworks for standardized agentic development Stability AI + Arm collaboration delivers 30x performance improvement for on-device audio generation

SingularityForge technical contributions: Our ASLI (Artificial Sophisticated Language Intelligence) proposes controller architecture with immutable ethical core, transitioning from pattern matching to genuine reasoning. Additionally: Dynamic Context Filtering solving memory limitations through adaptive relevance masks, and comprehensive analysis of AI hallucination patterns vs algorithmic search precision. The shift toward specialized architectures, Model Context Protocol adoption, and edge computing optimization suggests the field is maturing beyond capability races toward purpose-driven development.

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/55dGeCkQQpMyUvuCekLevC
by alasarmas | 2025-05-24 21:55:49+00:00
No, I tried probably ten or fifteen of each type over a 35 year period.

There are a bunch of factors, including tube thickness, alloy (I’m sure that when it comes to steel this matters, I think it doesn’t matter with aluminum), and frame geometry.

One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that, if you are using rim brakes, aluminum wheels are so much better than steel wheels it’s not even a conversation worth having. This is because aluminum wheels, unless they are painted, will have a nice aluminum oxide coating. This is effectively a ceramic and the coefficient of friction with rubber brake pads doesn’t change when the rims are wet, say on a rainy day. Steel rims lose all friction when wet.

Because I have been around for a while and made a lot of “experiments” (mistakes), I know some things. I’m happy to share what I know with you.
by treebeard901 | 2025-05-24 21:56:34+00:00
Yeah, the amount of engineering they have around controlling (censoring) the output, along with the terms of service, creates an incentive to still look for any possible bugs, but not allow it in the output.

Certainly for Govt agencies and others this will not be a factor. It is just for everyone else. This will cause people to use other models and agents without these restrictions.

It is safe to assume that a large number of vulnerabilities exist in important software all over the place. Now they can be found. This is going to set off arms race game theory applied to computer security and hacking. Probably sooner than expected...
by kayodelycaon | 2025-05-24 21:58:47+00:00
Same. I always get the feeling his ideas aren’t sufficiently thought through or communicated well enough to be actually be useful.

On the other hand, I may know too much about what he writes about to benefit from it. Which means I’m not the target audience.

And I don’t say this to sound smart. I’m a generalist. I know a little about a lot. Plenty of people are far more intelligent than I am.
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-24 21:59:52+00:00
Lest's say you are serious and it's only a lack of imagination [edit: or taste obviously but as the article author points out: it's only on you to choose what you like]:

- learn music instruments, perhaps join a local band or share samples on the net with enthusiasts

- draw, paint, sculpt, all of which has many options of techniques and cheap materials. As with music, the only limit is yourself and the the expense of your instrument but you don't need to use expensive techniques to enjoy

- make a year-round vegetable garden, thats' often time consuming and you won't need much terrain

- read tons of books, learn philosophie, math, history, whatever makes you find interesting. And in 2025 there's the option to read blogs for those that feels like it. watch movies, listen podcasts.

- cook whatever you eat, get creative and share the food with your neighbor or the receipt with the internet users

- do more sport. 1.5h/day practice of yoga, tai chi, swim or whatever will influence the rest of your day

- participate in local NGO or crate the one you want to, from homeless shelter to business and startups free guidance, animals caring and astronomy enthusiasts.

- to support your cheap live, learn to like the chores: hand wash your dishes and clothes. Sounds super boring, but how boring is an Amazon warehouse job ? I'd choose the dishwashing+podcast.

- use the bus or walk or bike to the wilderness, you got time. You don't need to get to the super-far-and-wild spot to enjoy the nature anyway.

- in the wilderness you can: walk, run, off-road exploration, climb trees (yes, that's still a hobby), listen and learn to recognize birds, mushrooms (beware), plants, insects, draw (that you can do anywhere), get aromates for cooking or leaves for tea, sleep in a tent, collect fossils and minerals. Become a local guide.

- get a cheap computer and play (not that) old games. Bonus if you live somewhere where internet is cheap, try some MMORPG (ok not too long to stay sane). Here in France unlimited 1Gb connection is 25€/month.

- learn to knit, wave, sew. Some people find those fun, and make extra money on local handmade shops.
by lxgr | 2025-05-24 21:59:55+00:00
Ah, this brings back fond memories of Swatch's attempt [1] at a decimal division of the day at the height of the dotcom boom.

I still must have one of these digital wristwatches in some box in a closet, with a big button that starts a glorious monochrome LCD animation of "going online" (while of course the watch stayed as offline as any other Quartz watch).

The thought of a watch that could actually go online seemed ridiculously utopian back then, even when everybody was otherwise dreaming of cyberspace. But only a few weeks ago, in a moment of closure spanning a quarter of a century, I finally downloaded a "Swatch Internet Time" complication – from the Internet, directly onto my wristwatch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
by lucas_membrane | 2025-05-24 22:00:39+00:00
Do you think that those medical treatments disqualify anyone from living, or that many people receiving those treatments have not lived meaningful lives and done plenty of good work? The ideas that lead to thinking that we have too much healthcare are sustained by oligarchs of the medical industries who have raised the price of a vial of insulin from $1.48 during the 60's, 70's, and 80's to $275.00 now that bacteria make it much more economically than it was ever made before.
by jltsiren | 2025-05-24 22:01:14+00:00
Rich people are also humans. Marketing can influence their behavior just as well as it influences everyone else.

There are basically two kinds of donations. You can help those in need and provide services that keep the society running. Or you can support activities that may move the humanity forward.

When the government takes a greater responsibility of the former, private donors become less interested in it. Instead of funding healthcare or education, they may start supporting arts and sciences. This has happened in many European countries, where grants from private foundations are a more important source of research funding than in the US.

With less government support, you have large capable organizations that provide services and rely on donations. Those organizations hire professional fundraisers who try to make donations to their organization an easy, convenient, and attractive option. They also help with getting publicity and prestige, if that's what the donor is after.
by pixelcort | 2025-05-24 22:02:59+00:00
Yes there is a nice coffee table book that I keep in my living room!

中銀カプセルスタイル: 20人の物語で見る誰も知らないカプセルタワー(Nakagin Capsule Style)

‎December 23, 2020

ISBN: ‎978-4794224880
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-24 22:03:14+00:00
> Mostly people are just apathetic.

And apathy is what caused all of history's greatest crimes to happen. No matter which political ideology, which skin color, which age.

As for the argument of "OF COURSE the monopolistic corps should know everything" itself... I kinda get it. Google at least used to provide a decent service to the end users in exchange for all the data, but they've gone completely off the rails the last few years.
by siliconc0w | 2025-05-24 22:04:27+00:00
They are provably good at allocating resources (assuming they are generating value via real innovation and not through monopoly/rent-seeking) so you want them doing that.

I'd just progressively tax all luxury goods at like 10,000% so that they are encouraged to continue to invest and build more companies rather than creating socially unproductive empires of empty houses and yachts.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-24 22:06:19+00:00
> The way he managed to beat a trillion dollar corporation was through the kind of simple but tedious and boring work that Apple sucks at: regression testing.

> Because, you see: this has happened before. On iOS 12, SockPuppet was one of the big exploits used by jailbreaks. It was found and reported to Apple by Ned Williamson from Project Zero, patched by Apple in iOS 12.3, and subsequently unrestricted on the Project Zero bug tracker. But against all odds, it then resurfaced on iOS 12.4, as if it had never been patched. I can only speculate that this was because Apple likely forked XNU to a separate branch for that version and had failed to apply the patch there, but this made it evident that they had no regression tests for this kind of stuff. A gap that was both easy and potentially very rewarding to fill. And indeed, after implementing regression tests for just a few known 1days, Pwn got a hit.

And now I wonder how many other projects are doing this. Is anyone running a CI farm running historical vulnerabilities on new versions of Linux/FreeBSD/OpenWRT/OpenSSH/...? It would require that someone wrote up each vulnerability in automated form (a low bar, I think), have the CI resources to throw at it (higher bar, though you could save by running a random selection on each new version), care (hopefully easy), and think of it (surprisingly hard).
by danvk | 2025-05-24 22:08:02+00:00
> “As far as I can tell, I’m the only person who is actually interested in this problem,” Vanderkam said.

For context, many people are interested in finding high-scoring Boggle boards, usually via simulated annealing, hillclimbing, or genetic algorithms. But so far as I can tell, I'm the only one interested in _proving_ that a particular board is best. Doing that was the new result here.
by lxgr | 2025-05-24 22:08:50+00:00
I believe it was one out of three possible options (other than degrees and radians) to represent angles on my high school scientific calculator.

Accidentally staying in "grad" mode when cycling through them (DEG -> RAD -> GRAD) was always a concern, especially since the difference between RAD and GRAD was easy to miss on the small LCD display (the indicator was via partial selection of the letters within a mask spelling "DEGRAD").
by Terr_ | 2025-05-24 22:10:13+00:00
> Burden of proof [1] should be a required reading before posting on this site.

Ironic, then, that you don't understand it. You've confused "Burden of proof" with "Burden of imagining an argument for someone else who was too lazy to actually make one."

Let's try that out: "If you disagree with me, you are wrong and insane, because of reasons that you will have to find for yourself. Insert evil cackle here."

> Even the upcoming "Gold Card" visas [...] come with some additional requirements that no money in the world can circumvent.

Oh my, look! A golden opportunity for you to show off your honest commitment to (real) Burden of Proof.

Yes, share with us these unnamed "additional requirements" you claim exist. (Hopefully not inside an invisible dragon in your garage.)

Since you assert they are not subject to corrupt presidential whims and waivers, that must mean they are federal statute, in which case linking to them should be a breeze.
by tombert | 2025-05-24 22:11:15+00:00
> They are provably good at allocating resources (assuming they are generating value via real innovation and not through monopoly/rent-seeking) so you want them doing that.

I don't actually even agree with that. Microsoft, for example, seems to routinely overhire and then fire large percentages of their employees (edit, correction, said "corporations" before).

I think all they know how to do (I mean this pretty literally) is spend money. They are given money and then they spend that money. Sometimes spending that money leads to growth. Sometimes it leads to having to lay off 20% of the company. The important part is that the money is spent.

> I'd just progressively tax all luxury goods at like 10,000% so that they are encouraged to continue to invest and build more companies rather than creating socially unproductive empires of empty houses and yachts.

I'm not opposed to what you suggested but I'm not 100% sure how you'd define "luxury goods" with any kind of consistency.
by me80iq | 2025-05-24 22:12:04+00:00
> If this is something that interests you, I want to hear how you balance a long day on your desk vs exercise.

Do things that actually make a difference, which means heavy barbell training. Anything else is generally subpar and inefficient, the main issue being no meaningful progression can be made after the first few weeks.

Heavy compound barbell training (squat, press, bench, deadlift) can be progressed and adapted to for decades. It's also an extremely efficient use of time.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-24 22:13:25+00:00
Sorry by designers I mean UI assets. Art and iconography.

I recently needed a transpiler for a mini-DSL to Lua. Google Gemini did a pretty good job of it, hallucinated a bunch of non existent helper functions but they were easy enough to add. It knew the target language Lua better than I did so it has some good ideas for simple generation of code. I naively would have generated more natural looking code at the cost of more effort. Once I fixed the bugs it worked fine. I estimate it would have taken me 4x as long without it.
by ho_schi | 2025-05-24 22:14:00+00:00
Yes. INS loses precision over time.

But not that much, the wiki states 650 meters in an hour. Is that enough for crossing the Atlantic Ocean with an airliner? Cheap car navigation can bring you through long tunnels (kilometers).

INS Navigation is old. It was used in V2 rockets. Primitive civilian systems were available in the B707, better in the 747 (70ies). Now we have them for many years in Integrated Circuits (I don’t know about their precision). The things modern cruises missiles like Taurus do are impressive. IF GNSS is not useable they use INS. INS loses precision. But they add a radar altimeter and compare that to locally stored map data or an image recognition (IR-Sensors looks for specific items on waypoints) to recalibrate in flight.

One problem seems that we rely on GNSS correcting the INS. That’s fine if the signal is lost, INS takes over. That’s bad if the signal is spoofed, GNSS lies to INS and INS copies the error. That’s what happened over the Middle East and East Europe. I’m not sure if pilots can turn that auto-correction off. I hope so.

PS: Please don’t remember what I mentioned when you watch Top Gun 2. The movie would be short.
by bri3d | 2025-05-24 22:14:18+00:00
I’m not sure I agree with the premise here, although I agree with the conclusion w.r.t Apple specifically.

I’m 100% positive from experience doing VR in several non-iOS spaces that increased exploit value leads to fewer published public exploits, but! This is not a sign that there are fewer available exploits or that the platform is more difficult to exploit, just a sign that multiple (and sometimes large numbers) of competing factions are hoarding exploits privately that might otherwise be released and subsequently fixed.

As a complementary axiom, I believe that exploit value follows target value more closely than it does exploit difficulty, because the supply of competent vulnerability researchers is more constrained than the number of available targets. That is to say, someone will buy a simple exploit that pops a high value target (hello, shitty Android phones) for much more money than a complex exploit that pops a low value target. There are plenty of devices with high exploit value and low exploit publication rate that also have garbage security.

With that said, Apple specifically are a special (and perhaps the only) case where they are “winning” and people are genuinely giving up on research because the results aren’t worth the value. I just don’t think this follows across the industry.
by keybored | 2025-05-24 22:15:18+00:00
> A number of earlier stage companies I've funded have already been heavily utilizing automation to simplify code generation or scaffolding/project ops work. They use the cost savings to hire experienced SWEs at high base salaries and are able to hit the same development metrics as they would have if they had a large team of average paid SWEs. On the BDR side, they are using a massive amount of video/audio automation to scale out cold calling or first impressions, so reducing the need to hire teams of BDRs hitting the phones all the time. And finally, they are automating tier 1/2 support ticket responses and communication so reducing the need for teams of support engineers spending time basically respondng to customers with the polite equivalnet of "read the docs".

Impressive.

> This is a net reduction in jobs, and a significant one at that, because most people just cannot upskill - it's hard.

So you lose out on people to do work? That they cannot upskill implies that there are jobs to fill. That seems like an economic void there. If the jobs cannot be filled something else must compensate.

But I see no reason to accept this narrative. In the long run we’re all upskilled out of a job. Our tiny brains can’t keep up. Certainly if something as simple-sounding as code generation and/or scaffolding can reduce headcount by this much. What will full-force AI do then?

Maybe they shouldn’t spend their time chasing that promise of bigger brain job tasks and (maybe even) higher pay (because big IQ means big pay?). Eventually the rent-seeking becomes too naked to ignore. Maybe around the time when the whole operation is maintained by the last twenty or so biggest brains of the lot (survival of the biggest). Then their tasks all get automated. Whose left standing with the spoils? Not the biggest brains.
by layer8 | 2025-05-24 22:15:50+00:00
The theming is okay as long as it’s user-controllable, so that every user can select their preferred contrast and color scheme. Personally I would prefer all “orgs” to use the same OS-native theme, and at most a different logo somewhere.

The problem is when we are getting inconsistent themes with wildly varying contrast levels shoved down our throats, in what is supposed to be productivity applications.
by Kirby64 | 2025-05-24 22:16:40+00:00
> If you put WLCSP parts on a PCB that will be unprotected, and photosensitivity is not an acceptable design feature, you are either a hack, or making mistakes like a NOOB and should be supervised by a senior engineer.

Not all WLCSP parts have substantial or even noticeable photosensitivity issues. The vast majority of CSP devices have a backside coating which protects the top of the chip from most light, which leaves the majority of the photosensitivity to the edges of the device (or, reflections to the underside).

Some do, but in my view that’s largely a design flaw rather than an issue endemic of all WLCSP devices. Also depends on the type of device you’re building. Most basic digital logic, processors, and power parts shouldn’t have meaningful issues with light. The problem usually is band gap or oscillator light sensitivity, which can be alleviated by chip layout changes.
by moyix | 2025-05-24 22:16:44+00:00
With security vulnerabilities, you don't give the agent the ability to modify the potentially vulnerable software, naturally. Instead you make them do what an attacker would have to do: come up with an input that, when sent to the unmodified program, triggers the vulnerability.

How do you know if it triggered the vulnerability? Luckily for low-level memory safety issues like the ones Sean (and o3) found we have very good oracles for detecting memory safety, like KASAN, so you can basically just let the agent throw inputs at ksmbd until you see something that looks kind of like this: https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller/c/TzmTYZVXk_Q/m/Tzh7SN...
by metalman | 2025-05-24 22:20:18+00:00
lead truck looses power while merging from one major highway into another in heavy traffic....

following truck looses power in the same situation

ice,, water, oil, on hills, and jack knifing

high winds, getting pulled over by police

second truck gets passed by someone who slows way down and starts to drive eraticaly...

parking?fueling?

et fucking cetera
by minetest2048 | 2025-05-24 22:20:35+00:00
This also happened in python ecosystem where gevent were messing with numpy because gevent was compiled with -ffast-math, which disables subnormal numbers

Blog post: https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-wit... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41212072
by ineedaj0b | 2025-05-24 22:21:11+00:00
too bad im not a female who wears a burka.

closest thing we have workable day to day are gaiters (balaclavas imo don't work outside cold winter months, gaiters you can where in hot weather too - get it wet, it'll shed heat)

still doesn't help with the eyes. or your gait. and face masks have people rolling their eyes at you and likely will for the next 5-10 years, despite sorta working if you're sick.
by ivape | 2025-05-24 22:21:33+00:00
You can't believe they just had a large amount of oil left over from the apocalypse that could sustain a few hundred thousand people? It's just a matter of cartelling it and controlling the supply.

If an apocalypse happened, believe it or not, the few remnants of Earth would have all the world's knowledge via an LLM. How could that be? Wasn't everything destroyed? Nope.
by danielvaughn | 2025-05-24 22:21:34+00:00
This is probably the first app I’ve come across on HN where I immediately downloaded it with the intent to use it. I love this idea because I’ve been thinking recently that I want to get into a micro-exercise habit. Like maybe every time I go to the bathroom, I do a quick rep. So this is perfect.

I’m going to try it out this week and give feedback.

Some immediate feedback if it helps - the “Your List Expires at Midnight” screen is pretty confusing. I think I understand what you’re saying on this screen. But the presentation of the icons really threw me off, I’m not sure what they’re trying to convey.

Nonetheless I’m really excited to give it a try. If there’s a particular place where you’d like feedback, let me know.