MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abetusk | 2025-05-21 18:58:59+00:00
> You can read your messages on Outlook and Teams without having them summarized ...

At the cost of 10x in time cost? The argument is against the notion of summary?

> ... — and I’d argue that a well-written email is one that doesn’t require a summary.

And yet the world's population probably creates loads of important yet not well-written emails. Different contexts will also require different information to be extracted, so no matter how well-written an email is, the context might determine what the relevant information is.

> Podcasts are not there "to be chatted about" with an AI.

Really? Are written articles not meant to be "spoken aloud"? Are plays not meant to be "turned into a movie"? Who cares cares if someone can get information about media that they want to consume with a new method?

> Preparing for meetings isn't something that requires AI, nor is research, unless, of course, you don't really give a shit about the actual content of what you're reading or the message of what you're saying, just that you are "saying the right thing."

There was no statement about requiring AI. It was about leveraging AI as a benefit.

I use email instead of snail mail. I often watch technical talk videos at 2x speed to shoot past the filler. I read books in digital format instead of their physical counterparts because of convenience and access. I read online newspaper articles, rather than holding a physical newspaper, for the same reason.

None of these require technology, they're enhanced by them.

What a piece of shit article. I stopped reading after the first paragraph. This should read "The Era of the Technical Moron".
by jahsome | 2025-05-21 18:59:59+00:00
> I’d argue that a well-written email is one that doesn’t require a summary.

I don't even know what this article is about but I'm so irritated by the insinuation people write and receive well-written emails I am too irritated to finish the article.

Communication is (beyond frustratingly) not a highly valued skill in most of corporate America.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-21 19:00:15+00:00
> If they were so obviously bad at the time, how did they get to market?

I'm not sure what "they" is here (Humane, Rabbit, or late-Ive-era Apple designs).

In all cases though there were plenty of people sounding the alarm. Both Humane and Rabbit were made fun of (wasn't in Humane's demo that the AI was completely wrong about guess the amount of almonds or the calories?). As for Apple products it was a common refrain that they were being made thin at the cost of ports/cooling/etc. How did Apple keep doubling down on the butterfly keyboard _years_ after it was well known it was a bad design?

Also, "The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." (re: how did they get to market). You can do anything if you set enough money on fire, no matter how many people are telling you it's a bad idea.
by mrweasel | 2025-05-21 19:00:26+00:00
At the risk of being the idiot: Being very smart doesn't prevent you from saying and doing very stupid things.

My problem is that Altman is a very smart idiot. He already admitted that OpenAI have absolutely no idea how to make money. Apparently they've now given up on the idea of asking ChatGPT how to make money. Their "AI" not going to develop fast enough, if ever. So now they are just buying up stuff left and right? It might be part of some coherent plan, but if it is, no one else is seeing it.

Altman is smart enough to see that things are not working out and that he's going to run out of money and investor patience. He might also be smart enough to see that if OpenAI fails, so will 80 - 90% of his competitors, not sure if he care though. He needs OpenAI to survive, but he's not that kind of smart, and honestly I'm not sure anyone is.
by runarberg | 2025-05-21 19:00:43+00:00
I want to make one correction, the verdict was not 3-1 but 3-0 with one of the justices issuing a Partly Dissenting Opinion, meaning they agreed with the verdict but disagreed with the reasoning (more on that later).

So you obviously disagree with the 2021 ruling of the court, and subsequently 2024 ruling which denied Israel‘s appeal to that ruling, thus reaffirming jurisdiction. That is fine. That verdict has not gone without criticism. But it is ultimately irrelevant the court’s interpretation of the Rome Statute, and Palestinian statehood is that the ICC does have jurisdiction over Gaza. In particular the verdict did not claim that Hamas needed to accept the jurisdiction.

Now I’m not very good at reading legal documents, but from what I can gather, the court determined that it “is not constitutionally competent to determine matters of statehood that would bind the international community.” ([1] para. 108) and that it did not want to resolve border disputes (para. 113 and para. 115). Rather the court based its ruling on the right of self determination and the Palestinian right to their own state (para. 116). For this they used internationally recognized borders which were defined in other UN resolutions.

I guess you can point out the colonial nature of such a ruling, that this in effect allows some groups to determine the rights of separate groups as long as the former is internationally recognized, but not the latter. I‘m not gonna argue for how just this system is, but this is consistent with international law, as argued by justices of the ICC, on at least two separate rulings. For better or worse, this is how international law works.

As for the partially dissenting opinion[2] as I understand it—again, I‘m not good at reading these things—disagreed that the court couldn’t determine Palestinian statehood, and argued that the Oslo accords gave Palestine their statehood, and the court derived their jurisdiction from that. This ends up being the exact same territory.

1: https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/CourtRecords/CR2...

2: https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/RelatedRecords/C...
by rept0id-2 | 2025-05-21 19:00:50+00:00
Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

If an overflow is detected, it calls abort(), you crash and get Aborted (core dumped).

This way, you prioritize memory safety over silently running in a wrong state, without needing to call strtol and check errors manually everywhere.
by drdeca | 2025-05-21 19:01:03+00:00
4 isn’t prime.

You could probably use the binary expansion to group the dots? So, 1 is • 2 is •• 3 is _• •_•

5 is

_• •_• •_•

7 is ____• _•_____• •_•___•_•

11 is ____• _•_____• •_•___•_• •_•___•_•

And so on.

(So, 2n is represented as n next to n, unless n is 2 in which case it is n above n, and 2n+1 is 1 above 2n )

Alternatively, using stars instead of n-gons could also be clearer?
by Footkerchief | 2025-05-21 19:01:40+00:00
Surprised to see no discussion of other data structures like dicts/maps, or arrays of arbitrary type. Hopefully they'd be a straightforward extension. IME, apps need collaborative data structures more often than they need pure collaborative text editing.

The motivating examples (update validation, partial loading, higher-level operations) are interesting, but I don't see a strong case that the reason Yjs etc. lack these features is the underlying CRDT implementation, as opposed to these features being intrinsically difficult to build.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-05-21 19:02:02+00:00
Below is wild speculation:

> Five years to the week after he walked away from the top job designing the iPhone [1]

Sounds to me like OpenAI is going to make it's own consumer device. Maybe designed by the AI itself. The AI Is choosing it's own body?

[1]: https://archive.is/yixNr#selection-615.0-615.81 "After Apple, Jony Ive Is Building an Empire of His Own" - NYT
by jermaustin1 | 2025-05-21 19:02:37+00:00
It kind of is, when they were given $500B and told to make a return in 10-ish years. They have to put the capital in play where it has the largest ROI potential. They are gambling that Jony has another iPhone in him.

I don't know enough about any of this to weigh in on it, but when you take investor money, you aren't supposed to sit on it or do slow burn (at least not VC money), its meant to be gasoline, and you moonshot with it.
by sbarre | 2025-05-21 19:03:04+00:00
I'm sorry to hear that's been your experience.. If it helps, know that it's not like that everywhere..

I have certainly been lucky in my career, I've often acknowledged that. But I do believe luck favours the prepared, and I've worked hard for my accomplishments and to get the jobs I've had.

I'm totally with you on the uncertainty that AI is bringing. I don't think anyone can dispute that change is coming because of AI.

I do think some companies will get it right, but some will get it wrong, when it comes to how best to improve the business using those new tools.
by cameronh90 | 2025-05-21 19:03:14+00:00
Perhaps, but pretty much every high performance Intel laptop between 2017 and 2023 is exactly the same unless it's in an heavy, enormous and unpleasantly loud gaming chassis. Supposedly the Core Ultra Series 2 are an improvement but I haven't tried one yet.

For a while, you could get the thermals a bit more tolerable by undervolting them, but then the plundervolt mitigations blocked that.

(Typing this comment from a Lenovo X1 Extreme sitting on a cooling pad, sat next to an X1 Carbon that we can't use because it throttles too much. :)
Show HN: Padding images to custom sizes, pain free. (padsnap.app)
by shayanbahal | 2025-05-21 19:03:28+00:00
I've been doing analog photography for a few years now and started posting my shots on Instagram. I couldn't find any free good tools to do my photo padding/resizing to fit in the instagram new post sizes and every time doing it manually specially for multi picture posts was really time consuming. so I ended up making a free app for it and I'm loving it.

Here's the TLdr;

PadSnap is a simple web app that adds customizable padding to your photos so they fit Instagram’s/custom dimensions — no cropping, no quality loss.

- Modern, intuitive interface with light & dark themes

- One-click photo processing for Instagram-friendly dimensions

- Customizable borders or blurred image backgrounds

- Batch load and preview with ZIP download

- Works entirely in your browser – no photos ever leave your device

- Progressive Web App (PWA) support for installation on any device

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I only shared the app on two photography subreddits and got more than 1400 people visiting the website on the first 48 hours, and more than 400 upvotes and comments. Here are a few of my favorite real comments from kind Redditors who tried PadSnap:

- “A free app, without ads or personal data needed, made by someone who just wants to make a good product and share it with the world. It even works offline. What the hell is this, 2005?”

(This comment really made me thing about what earlier internet felt like and how I really want that back :) )

- “Omg I love you, now I don’t have to put every picture into Gimp anymore”

- “Can’t believe it took so long for a great tool like this to come out.”

More comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogCommunity/comments/1krqvw8/co...

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I'd love to hear your feedback about the current state of the app, where should I take this, and anything you want me to hear.

Also I'm not planning to do that much marketing around the app, but would love to make sure people can find it, now sure what is the best approach for this. (I've heard vibe-marketing, but no idea what that entails :) )
by JCattheATM | 2025-05-21 19:03:35+00:00
> That the continuity that the human race has maintained is based on a conservative values.

Huh? The human race progresses because of the 10% that drag the other 90% out of the muck into a better future, screaming and resisting every step of the way.

> All of the shmabolic things you mention as conservative failures are what I'm complaining about it. I don't see them as conservative values because they cost us all more money and waste resources. The examples you provide I don't accept as conservative.

So defend conservatism. List some values you think you can defend. Not wishy washy abstract stuff, really practicable stuff you think should be implemented.
by metalman | 2025-05-21 19:03:35+00:00
china is on track to have a 100pettawatt laser operating this year called "The Station of Extream Light", SEL for short, which is going to be used to try and seperate energy and matter by breaking empty space. think that this links to the place building it http://english.siom.cas.cn/Newsroom/rp/202207/t20220701_3071... all in all good to have a competitive environment in reseach.......though the US government, cough, cough, might, nudge, think about, some funding there
by lordofmoria | 2025-05-21 19:03:47+00:00
I don't understand all the pessimism and incredulity about the valuation. This is an acquisition to take on and disrupt Apple.

Ives + Altman is perceived as a viable successor to the Ives + Jobs partnership that made Apple successful.

Apple is weak and doesn't seem capable of innovating anymore, nor do they seem to understand how to build AI into products.

There's an opportunity to build an Apple-sized hardware wearables company with AI at its core, just as Altman built ChatGPT and disrupted the Google-sized search.

"Apple-sized" more than justifies a 5B valuation.
by ch4s3 | 2025-05-21 19:03:52+00:00
He's arguing that an integrated hotel absent government force will be cheaper to stay in than the non-integrated one and price conscious potential guests will choose it.

> But then in the passage I originally quoted he says it also harms the business owner to not be a racist. Isn't that contradictory?

It isn't contradictory if you read the whole chapter, its a single thought experiment and not his whole argument.

> In the Quaker thing, did the free market win out? Or did communities become larger and more anonymous, and fashions changed that telling Quakers and non-Quakers apart by appearance became impossible? That can't happen with minorities of a different skin color.

He's arguing that all of these prejudices are simply irrational preferences and will necessarily change over time. In fact today you find that preference have indeed largely changed in society.
by paxys | 2025-05-21 19:03:59+00:00
Ive is a good designer sure but "essentially created the iPhone" is absurd. It took thousands of engineers and product visionaries to bring that device together, and OpenAI isn't getting any of that. You aren't going to replicate its success by hiring the guy whose major contribution was insisisting that all Apple products be a few millimeters thinner in every iteration.
by neogodless | 2025-05-21 19:04:52+00:00
Average computer users could probably switch... but it would require one of two things:

Some way to make it ridiculously low friction for existing hardware owners to get into Linux. Like, less friction than downloading an ISO, mounting it, and installing it on your computer.

Or make computers come with it when people buy them. (This is still vanishingly rare.)

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As a power user... I still have a few issues, some that might be common, and some that might be quite rare/unique to me. For example, post-concussion I really can't stand low refresh rates, and screen brightness is important to me. During my last 2-month Linux experiment, I had issues with controlling those things which was a mix of hardware, drivers, Linux kernel, GPU modes, etc. These sort of issues seem to be less and less common in Linux, and I'm optimistic, but I also am hesitant to sacrifice my own health to make a switch away from Windows. (Mental health aside.)

And some games still don't work right, at least not on launch. Which can make me sad as someone who plays games socially.

As a photographer, I bought and use DxO PhotoLab. I've compared alternatives, and I like it much better. It doesn't mean I couldn't use darktable but I definitely don't like it anywhere near as much. (And no, DxO does not support Linux.)
Show HN: GCP-ops-bot – Ask your GCP infrastructure questions in natural language
by nicolas_younan | 2025-05-21 19:04:55+00:00
Hey HN,

We just open-sourced `gcp-ops-bot` — a Python-based, agentic monitoring utility for GCP that lets you interact with your infrastructure using natural language.

It combines Google GenAI and native GCP APIs (Monitoring, Logging, Compute, IAM) to answer questions like: - "What VMs are running in us-central1-a?" - "List all custom service accounts in my project" - "Show logs from the last hour for compute instances"

It’s meant to be easy to set up, intuitive to use, and useful for devs, SREs, and students learning cloud infra.

Would love your feedback, thoughts, and suggestions. Happy to answer questions here!

GitHub: https://github.com/Retailogists/gcp-ops-bot
by adrian_b | 2025-05-21 19:05:05+00:00
I think that it is for the president where this would be most beneficial.

For senators and representatives there still is a little randomness, but when I look at many presidents that have been elected in recent years in various countries, it is more than obvious that any randomly chosen individual would have been almost certainly a less bad human and more suitable for the presidential position.

After a president is chosen by lottery, there should be a rejection procedure, to eliminate any really inappropriate candidate, but then a new candidate should be chosen by lottery to replace the rejected one, until no reasons for rejection can be found.
by belter | 2025-05-21 19:05:29+00:00
The AI hype seems driven more by stock valuations than genuine productivity gains.

Developers now spend excessive time crafting prompts and managing AI generated pull requests :-) tasks that a simple email to a junior coder could have handled efficiently. We need a study that shows the lost productivity.

When CEOs aggressively promote such tech solutions, it signals we're deep into bubble territory:

“If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can’t exactly predict where it is — it’s possible that most developers are not coding.”

- Matt Garman – CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS) - June 2024

"There will be no programmers in five years"

- Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque - 2023

“I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software.”

- Satya Nadella – CEO of Microsoft - April 2025

“Coding is dead.”

- Jensen Huang CEO, NVIDIA - Feb 2024

"This is the year (2025) that AI becomes better than humans at programming for ever..."

- OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil - March 2025

“Probably in 2025, we at Meta are going to have an AI that can effectively function as a mid-level engineer that can write code."

- Mark Zuckerberg - Jan 2025

"90% of code will be written by AI in the next 3 months"

- Dario Amodei - Anthropic CEO - March 2025
by zeroCalories | 2025-05-21 19:05:42+00:00
Amazon got money, but they got less than the cafe would have. Overall economic activity is down. The Amazon slave labor sustains, the cafe continues to raise prices to keep milking guilty liberals, and the customer sits at home dreaming of a better time. At least they saved some money instead of subjecting themselves to the bad attitude of modern baristas. And in the end, Milton stayed winning.
by Dracophoenix | 2025-05-21 19:05:56+00:00
If we replaced the grocery store in the example with a Hooters and we replaced white and black grocers with female and male servers, it's easier to see the point being made. This is not to say that it is economically (or morally) sensible in the long term (e.g. Hooters), but it is certainly rational to appeal to a customer's discriminatory preferences for so long as it generates recurring revenue or until some other more profitable avenue opens up. A similar strategy is at play with "Made in USA" marketing (whether or not such claims are true) over the past two decades in its appeal to discrimination/patriotism over financial soundness. In many cases it works.

> If just that one owner practices race-blind hiring out of their own personal beliefs they would definitely be harmed. If the law requires every store to practice race-blind hiring and the law is strictly enforced, racist customers will just have to get over themselves or stop buying groceries.

The harm is to the agency of the owners. The entire point of a free market is voluntary terms of entry, association, and exit notwithstanding contractual obligations to the contrary. There is no harm to a grocery owner who voluntarily chooses to defy the trend set by his competitors except economic self-harm should he suffer a net loss of customers over the decision. It's the freedom of the consumer to consciously or unconsciously boycott a store that doesn't appeal to his preferences (whether for or against racial discrimination), however petty such preferences are or irrelevant to his purpose (i.e. buying food). It is also the consumer's freedom to patronize a store that does. Conversely, the owner may find new consumers and thus a new of source revenue that outperforms that of his competitors through the practice of race-blind hiring.

> If the law requires every store to practice race-blind hiring and the law is strictly enforced, racist customers will just have to get over themselves or stop buying groceries.

Or the customers can move out to the countryside, a suburb, or a small town where they can only find white grocers. They can also look for farmers' cooperatives or food clubs unlikely to be staffed by any other race.
by airylizard | 2025-05-21 19:06:04+00:00
The fact that embeddings from different models can be translated into a shared latent space (and back) supports the notion that semantic anchors or guides are not just model-specific hacks, but potentially universal tools. Fantastic read, thank you.

Given the demonstrated risk of information leakage from embeddings, have you explored any methods for hardening, obfuscating, or 'watermarking' embedding spaces to resist universal translation and inversion?
Show HN: Exosphere – Platform for async/batch AI agents
by aikin-nivedit | 2025-05-21 19:06:20+00:00
Hey HN,

We built Exosphere (exosphere.host) – a platform to orchestrate and run batch AI agents on large data with connectors, autoscaling, and affordable inference (up to 75% cheaper). Think of it as a control plane for async AI workloads.

Why we built it: Running background AI workflows (like summarising 1M support chats or processing 10K PDFs) is messy – you need queueing, scaling, model hosting, cost control, and integration with your systems. Most infra today is optimised for chat apps, not bulk tasks or pipelines. This is going to become messier with multistep AI agents/workflows coming in.

What Exosphere does: - Supports batch AI agents with parallelism, retries, and memory - Integrates with tools like S3, Notion, GCS, Pinecone etc - Works with open-source models like DeepSeek, LLaMA, and Claude via API - Has a soon-to-be open-source orchestrator called Orbit (built from scratch) - Cost-optimised infra tuned for large data inference and delayed inference

Easy onboarding, no GPU setup required

Example use cases: - Classify or extract info from 100K PDFs - Run retrieval-based QA across millions of records - Summarize and route large volumes of tickets or feedback - Batch label images or text for finetuning

We’d love feedback from this community – thoughts on dev experience, connectors to add, model support, or features you'd want in the agent platform.

You can try it out here or just reply here if you want some free credits for trying open-source models in batch.

Thanks! – Nivedit (ex-Azure OpenAI) and the team