MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shawntan | 2025-05-22 17:08:06+00:00
I'm curious how the speed is achieved is this is the technique used. Generally I expected this "masked language model" technique to be far slower since the full vocab projection needs to be computed every iteration.

I always thought the eventual technique would be some form of diffusion in continuous space, then decoding into the discrete tokens.

Also I'm guessing this is a "best guess" of how Gemini Diffusion is done?
by incomingpain | 2025-05-22 17:08:37+00:00
>You're taking him at his word that's what he's doing. I don't think that's what he's doing at all. What he's doing is attempting to limit the conversation to pro-corporatist sentiments.

Like I said, I hadnt heard he even did that. It is fact checked true that he did say this.

I dont read the washington post, it's a foreign newspaper with very little interest to me. So I am happy to take him at his word.

chatgpt analysis right now suggests that the prohibition against posting opinions that are against personal liberty and free markets hasnt changed much, has been done, and is not overtly corporatist. Providing multiple examples in relation to the tariffs and trade wars that express multiple different viewpoints.
by overfeed | 2025-05-22 17:09:07+00:00
> The bar for being a package maintainer in Debian is relatively low

It's typically an unglamorous, demanding, unpaid, volunteer position a few rungs above volunteering at a soup kitchen or food bank. It's unsurprising that the bar is low.

It's also trivial for upstream maintainers to set up their own competing Debian package repos that entirely ignore Debian rules - Microsoft has one for VS Code.
by 00N8 | 2025-05-22 17:09:16+00:00
I often see pop sci articles saying something like '400 dB would represent a sound strong enough to tear the world apart', or 'military sonar is X dB -- strong enough to liquefy your organs at Y distance'. It's rarely clear to me which of these usages of 'dB' are directly comparable. I think the dB measurement for sonar is a different scale/unit than the one for hearing damage thresholds in air, but I couldn't figure out how to convert between the two last time I spent a few minutes trying to look it up, so in my opinion it can be fairly confusing.
by minimaxir | 2025-05-22 17:09:20+00:00
Context window is unchanged for Sonnet. (200k in/64k out): https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models/overv...

In practice, the 1M context of Gemini 2.5 isn't that much of a differentiator because larger context has diminishing returns on adherence to later tokens.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-05-22 17:10:39+00:00
Yeah, I don't think it was people snooping on Facebook posts that caused the adoption of TLS at a widespread level. It was the fact that companies realized the NSA & their competitors would use it to attack them at every level.

You don't need ARP spoofing or anything like that to intercept a plaintext communication when you control the ISP
by webdoodle | 2025-05-22 17:10:48+00:00
Citizen's United broke the news media, by turning it into a pay per influence business, instead of journalism. Where are the Ida Tarbell's of our time? Most of them have been throttled, censored or completely suspended from most of the social media that they built up over the years, by the same rich parasitic influences that broke Citizen's United.

Want to do something about it? Come to the Billionaire's SummerCamp in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 6th, and complain to the rich parasites themselves.

Protest! Civil Disobedience! Justice!

Or just got back to watching YouTube and delude yourself into thinking it will fix itself.
by nottorp | 2025-05-22 17:11:09+00:00
> I think it's required to sign up.

Ok, now where are Signal's servers hosted? You're not safe for any secret police from those countries and countries friendly to the hosting countries.

> It's never used after that (unless you want to use it).

As in there's no way to accidentally leak your phone number to your contacts on, say, a new installation that comes with the option to make it visible by default?
by burningChrome | 2025-05-22 17:11:19+00:00
I feel like social media has changed human behavior for the worse and we're too far gone in trying to get it back.

I was just getting into development when social media was coming on the scene. It was so cool to be engaged in communities with people who I loved to see what they were doing, finding emerging technologies and development frameworks and techniques. People were willing to tell you about stuff they were working on. It really felt like a community. Every new platform someone at work would find it and send out invites or get us to sign up and run it through its paces. It was such a great time and I really felt like my growth as a developer was accelerated by being apart of these early communities.

Now? Its not about bringing people together with common interests. Its 100% about getting people to stay on your platform as long as possible and engage with your content. Usually that means creating content that gets people to negatively engage with your content. So much so, its now referred to as "rage bait" where Only Fans women purposely post content that gets men to engage with their posts in order to make more money. Political posts are made to inflame either side and get more shares and upvotes.

It would seem the entire purpose of social media these days is just about getting people to react negatively to what you're posting in order to generate MORE negative content. It turns into a self fulfilling cycle that is now in a space where I have no idea how it will be broken.

As a footnote to this, there are still very good people, still posting very good content that does not have that purpose. One account I found a few months ago was trailerparksports on instagram. Its a black guy who got interested in Hockey after the Four Nations Cup and how crazy that tournament started out with the Canada/USA game. His interest was 100% genuine. In the last four months, he's detailed how much he's learned and the outpouring from hockey fans AND the teams themselves has been unreal. The LA Kings flew him out for a few of their games, he's been going to games in other cities. He's 100% into the sport now and its been really cool to see him go through the process of picking a team to support, learning the rules and the strategies.

So yes, there are still very honorable and decent content creators who are sharing ceratain aspects of their life with the internet and getting a lot of positivity in return. But man oh man, it takes a LOT of digging to find them these days.
by acjohnson55 | 2025-05-22 17:12:05+00:00
Damn, this one really hurts.

I've been a massive user since Read It Later. I used to get year-in-review emails telling me I was in the top 1% of users. For a period of several years, I read an astounding amount via Pocket. It is very tightly intertwined with my time on HN, as most headlines I'm interested in get immediately saved to Pocket.

My usage dropped a lot when I stopped commuting via the subway (where offline was critical), and a lot of my media consumption switched to podcasts, over time. I always thought Pocket could have gone multimedia, and in a world in which they supported podcasts, I would have loved to have everything in one spot. Newsletters, too.

But, I'm not surprised that the end has come, considering they stayed in their lane. Also, if the Google default search gravy train is about to disappear, this is one of the consequences. The idea that Tab Groups are a replacement is laughable.

I wonder if this is the sort of thing that could live on as a community project?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-22 17:12:45+00:00
Following up, looks like The Economist says we're at the trough already.

Welcome to the AI Trough of Disillusionment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44064183 - May 2025

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/05/21/welcome-to-the... | https://archive.today/By1GZ
by kazinator | 2025-05-22 17:12:54+00:00
Mathematically, the Bel is unitless because it is a function applied to a ratio of measurements. Whatever units those measurements have disappear due to the cancelation.

If that measurement is linked to another one in a nonlinear way, that nonlinearity doesn't disappear: the fact that if the unitless fraction in which certain units canceled out is 2, then the corresponding unitless fraction obtained via different units is 4.

Just because the units disappeared in a fraction doesn't mean they are not relevant.
by GloriousKoji | 2025-05-22 17:13:23+00:00
I grew up on kikkoman, view it as the soy sauce equivalent of Heinz ketchup or Best Foods/Hellmans mayonnaise and still cook with it all the time. But after tasting a wide variety of soy sauce I would describe kikkoman's profile as salty, metallic and stout-beer like. The fancier soy sauces seem less salty (despite similar amounts of sodium) and can have varying notes of oyster sauce, seafood, sweetness, coffee, molasses and MSG.
by johnisgood | 2025-05-22 17:13:30+00:00
The term "theft" and "steal" feels really odd to me when referring to ice or glaciers, or anything that is inanimate (?).

For example this sentence: "Usually, when glaciers come into contact they merge and continue flowing together. They have also been recorded stealing ice from one another" just left me more confused than before. What does it mean for glaciers to "steal ice" from one another? I understand "merge" but not "steal" in this context.
by kotyk | 2025-05-22 17:13:37+00:00
Thank you deeply for this comment — it hit me hard, in a constructive way.

When I first wrote the SVITLO manifesto, I did include a list of specific cognitive traits that I considered signals worth noticing — things like:

- Connecting unrelated concepts in meaningful ways - Compressing complexity into intuitive structures - Reframing deep assumptions - Exploring contradiction without collapse

But during editing and formatting, that section got removed. You’ve just shown me that this omission matters. So thank you — genuinely.

---

### On brilliance vs. madness

Your point about "thought disorder" mimicking genius — I couldn’t agree more. Many intelligent people have said something terrifying but honest:

> *Genius is not the absence of madness. It's how madness is structured.*

You’re absolutely right: brilliance can manifest as incoherence. And incoherence can sometimes masquerade as brilliance.

This is not a bug. It’s the edge case we *must* account for.

---

### Why sSpace exists

This is precisely why *SVITLO doesn’t stop at classification*.

When the AI detects a signal — it doesn’t assign a rank or award a label. It offers the person an invitation to *sSpace* — a quiet, public publishing layer. No followers. No rewards. No comments. No validation loops.

There, a person can write. And be read. And — in time — judged by History, not just the algorithm.

If someone writes nonsense, it will fade. If someone writes brilliance masked as chaos — it might survive. *The only thing sSpace guarantees is: visibility. Not judgment.*

---

### A man dismissed in life, but luminous in death

You mentioned how people with schizo-* conditions can produce discourses that "don’t go anywhere". And I respect the caution behind that.

But it reminded me of a man who lived poor, sick, obscure — and was seen by most of his peers as either broken or useless.

His name was *Baruch Spinoza*.

- Died in poverty. - Excommunicated from his community. - Denied any academic platform. - Worked as a lens grinder to survive. - Laughed at by rationalists and theologians alike.

And yet — centuries later — he's now considered: > “The absolute philosopher of clarity, peace, and structural genius.”

---

SVITLO doesn’t try to label Spinoza early. It just tries to make sure we don’t miss him again.

Thank you again for your honesty, experience, and pushback. You made this better.
by kelthuzad | 2025-05-22 17:13:52+00:00
>Even after the DMA Act in the EU, sideloading still isn’t fully open. EU users can now install apps from third-party marketplaces directly from a developer’s site, but only if that developer still enrolled in Apple’s $99/year program and agrees to Apple’s Alternative Terms. For personal/hobbyist use, this still doesn’t remove the 7-day dev build limitation.

Does Apple want to face a formal non-compliance judgment under the DMA, or is there another reason for Apple's blatant contempt of court with its refusal to properly and fully implement the mandated sideloading[1]?

[1] The Digital Markets Act (DMA) does mandate sideloading in Article 6(paragraph 4). It requires designated gatekeepers, which includes Apple for its iOS operating system, to allow for the installation and use of third-party apps and app stores. ( https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/1925/oj/eng )
by doug_durham | 2025-05-22 17:14:30+00:00
REST doesn't provide the documentation or the semantics of the interface. It's the API definition along with text on why to use it, when to use it, and how to use it. This is what is needed for a LLM to consume it. The documentation is a requirement. I have developed many MCP Servers, they are real and they provide me real value in my work every day.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-22 17:14:36+00:00
> So much so, its now referred to as "rage bait" where Only Fans women purposely post content that gets men to engage with their posts in order to make more money.

Did you intentionally call “thirst traps” “rage bait” erroneously so that someone would correct you? Engagement bait works surprisingly well on HN, I just wasn’t sure if that was an ironic wink at the audience.
by jefurii | 2025-05-22 17:15:07+00:00
I keep a sort of common book in a text file. All my meeting notes and other things go into that file, with dates marked in a standard format. I have one file per year. I use Emacs and a set of TODO DONE IDEA etc tags sort-of inspired by orgmode.

Specific tasks go into GitHub issues, with a pointer in the text file. "WORKING" tags in each repository to mark tasks I'm currently working on.

At the end of the day, if I have a special need to pick up a task I write a note in ALL CAPS.
by Nevermark | 2025-05-22 17:15:12+00:00
The other problem is to address all possible 4098 byte blocks, you need a 4098 byte address. I suppose we would expect the actual number of blocks computed and reused to be a sparse subset.

Alternately, have you considered 8 byte blocks?

If your block pointers are 8-byte addresses, you don't need to count on block sparsity, in fact, you don't even need to have the actual blocks.

A pointer type, that implements self-read and writes, with null allocations and deletes, is easy to implement incredibly efficiently in any decent type system. A true zero-cost abstraction, if I have ever seen one!

(On a more serious note, a memory heap and CPU that cooperated to interpret pointers with the top bit set, as a 63-bit linear-access/write self-storage "pointer", is an interesting thought.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-05-22 17:15:47+00:00
Here's an example non-power-user usecase for CoT:

Sometimes when I miss to specify a detail in my prompt and it's just a short task where I don't bother with long processes like "ask clarifying questions, make a plan and then follow it" etc etc, I see it talking about making that assumption in the CoT and I immediately cancel the request and edit the detail in.
by inhumantsar | 2025-05-22 17:16:35+00:00
"Discovery" and "invention" can be fuzzy ideas. In the past I've framed this distinction as "science" vs "engineering" since it links directly to a student's classes and possible careers.

Typically I reach for material (or rocket) science and aerospace engineering as my analogy: "Do you want to build rockets or dream up better rocket engines?" What I like most about the analogy is that it gets people thinking about their options without implying that the choice they make today has to define their entire career.

After all, there are plenty of rocket scientists and aerospace engineers working in industry, just as there are plenty of both doing research at universities.

Side note: The super specific "novel game dev" thing is a little weird to me. There is as much invention happening outside of game development as there is regular ass work happening inside game development.
Show HN: Kubiks – Real-Time Service Map for K8s, Cloud, CDN, WAF, and More
by alex_holovach | 2025-05-22 17:16:40+00:00
Hello Everyone,

I'm excited to introduce Kubiks — a real-time service map designed to give teams clear visibility into Kubernetes and cloud-native systems.

Kubiks connects to your existing stack — Tempo, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Loki, Elasticsearch, and cloud provider APIs — and visualizes services, cloud resources, CDNs, WAFs, load balancers, and more in a single, unified map. It’s built to extend the tools you already use by stitching together data into a live, interactive view of your system.

You can:

- See real-time service-to-service traffic, latency, and errors

- Query logs, metrics, and traces from multiple sources directly within the map

- Investigate incidents using minute-by-minute historical snapshots

- Share a live view of your system to improve collaboration and onboarding

- Avoid constant context switching by keeping all observability data in one place

We have a demo — no signup required. You can explore it here: https://demo.kubiks.ai

You can also deploy it in your own cluster: https://app.kubiks.ai

Would love your feedback.

Thanks! — Alex Holovach
by vFunct | 2025-05-22 17:17:11+00:00
Yah Claude tends to output 1200+ line architectural specification documents while Gemini tends to output ~600 line. (I just had to write 100+ architectural spec documents for 100+ different apps)

Not sure why Claude is more thorough and complete than the other models, but it's my go-to model for large projects.

The OpenAI model outputs are always the smallest - 500 lines or so. Not very good at larger projects, but perfectly fine for small fixes.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-05-22 17:17:12+00:00
I understand what you're saying, but I'm still not clear why any of this should be necessary or is a benefit for LLMs. Another commenter mentioned that MCP saves tokens and is more compact. So what? Then just have the LLM do a one-time pass of a more verbose spec to summarize/minify it.

Any human brainspace needed to even think about MCP just seems like it goes against the whole raison d'être of AI in that it can synthesize and use disparate information much faster, more efficiently, and cheaper than a human can.
by archon1410 | 2025-05-22 17:17:12+00:00
The naming scheme used to be "Claude [number] [size]", but now it is "Claude [size] [number]". The new models should have been named Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet, but they changed it, and even retconned Claude 3.7 Sonnet into Claude Sonnet 3.7.

Annoying.
Ask HN: Would a combination of Snapchat and Reddit be interesting?
by busymom0 | 2025-05-22 17:17:36+00:00
Imagine a Snapchat + Reddit combo where you are able to send posts of text, links, pictures etc, but then they disappear after a set period.

The set period could either be a fixed time period (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year etc) or it can be after a certain period after the last engagement on that post (lets say 1 month after the last comment posted on it).

Thoughts? Open to improvement to this idea.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-05-22 17:17:40+00:00
3.7 failed when you asked it to forget react, tailwindcss and other bloatware. wondering how will this perform.

well, this performs even worse... brrrr.

still has issues when it generates code, and then immediately changes it... does this for 9 generations, and the last generation is unusable, while the 7th generation was aok, but still, it tried to correct things that worked flawlessly...
by energy123 | 2025-05-22 17:19:43+00:00
You're accusing me of mind reading other users, but then proceed to engage in your own mind reading of those same users.

Have a look in Gemini related subreddits after they nerfed their CoT yesterday. There's nobody happy about this trend. A high quality CoT that gets put through a small LLM is really no better than noise. Paternalistic noise. It's not worth reading. Just don't even show me the CoT at all.

If someone is paying for Opus 4 then they likely are a power user, anyway. They're doing it for the frontier performance and I would assume such users would appreciate the real CoT.
by sigmaisaletter | 2025-05-22 17:20:12+00:00
* The first generation were those silly AI pins last year.

* The second generation will be this opaqueAI ivePad.

* And when the third generation comes out, all phones will already have whatever makes this special.

I don't think Sama and Ive are smarter than everyone else, but even if they are, I don't see how this flies.
by skrebbel | 2025-05-22 17:21:12+00:00
This is unnecessary complexity. My rant is against that exactly. You're defending confusing shit that doesn't get any better from being confusing. If all countries had a different currency, things would be clearer too. Ask any Australian shopping for digital products on international sites. Half of the sites write $ but forget to specify whether it's "we geolocated you and guessed AUD" or "haha it's USD but we just wrote $ because we forgot that there's a world outside the US". If Switzerland would rename the CHF to Euro but not change its value to match the existing Euro, everybody would agree that that's a terrible idea. There wouldn't be edgy HN commenters explaining that well, actually, there's precedent so it's fine! No, it'd just be bad. The dB ambiguity is a mess for the same reason. The situation has no benefit and in the world of units, where most other things (eg the most of the SI) are actually relatively usable and non-ambiguous, it's a fuckup. And the power vs voltage aspect of it makes it even worse than the $ situation.

Your argument that it isn't so bad in practice doesn't change the fact that it has no benefits whatsoever.

It's just ambiguity for the sake of it, because way back when people started measuring sound stuff, nobody bothered to go "but wait is this actually handy?" and then we got stuck with whatever the first guy came up with. It's just like the whole kilobyte/kibibyte crap and the whole Wh vs mAh vs kilojoule soup. It's all downside.
by tschumacher | 2025-05-22 17:21:25+00:00
I built my own web app to listen to full albums while allowing me to take breaks and switch devices. I really like to listen to albums from front to back but I found that at least YouTube Music doesn't remember playback position and you can't just switch devices without pulling up the album again on the other device and finding the position where you left off. My web app lets me paste a URL that is then downloaded to the server using yt-dlp and can be streamed from there. It always remembers playback position so I can listen from the phone in my car and then continue on the laptop at work from where I left off. It also works great for adding mixes from other sources such as NTS Radio - one of my favorites.
by lambdaone | 2025-05-22 17:21:57+00:00
In the "real world", techically competent people understand decibels just fine.

But this is not arcane knowledge only known by a priesthood. Since you are clearly confused about what a decibel is and how and why it is used, you can read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel

and all will be revealed.
by merksittich | 2025-05-22 17:22:04+00:00
From the system card [0]:

Claude Opus 4 - Knowledge Cutoff: Mar 2025 - Core Capabilities: Hybrid reasoning, visual analysis, computer use (agentic), tool use, adv. coding (autonomous), enhanced tool use & agentic workflows. - Thinking Mode: Std & "Extended Thinking Mode" Safety/Agency: ASL-3 (precautionary); higher initiative/agency than prev. models. 0/4 researchers believed that Claude Opus 4 could completely automate the work of a junior ML researcher.

Claude Sonnet 4 - Knowledge Cutoff: Mar 2025 - Core Capabilities: Hybrid reasoning - Thinking Mode: Std & "Extended Thinking Mode" - Safety: ASL-2.

[0] https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686...