MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kazinator | 2025-05-22 17:23:34+00:00
(Funny you should mention that because while writing my grandparent comment above I vaguely ruminated about some kind of example involving standard deviation and variance, due to those being linked by squaring.)

Even if there isn't a +10dB(stddev), logarithmic graphs are a thing, in many disciplines. You just refer to the axes as "log <whatever>". Any time you are dealing with data which has a wide dynamic range, especially with scale-invariant patterns.

Back in the realm of electronics and signal processing, we commonly apply logarithm to the frequency domain, for Bode plots and whatnot. I've not heard of a word being assigned to the log f axis; it's just log f.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-22 17:23:50+00:00
Imagine being able to detect every situation where heat is a potential indicator of either problems or a system working as intended by simply looking at it.

It would be a wildly valuable tool to any industry that does things. Currently such work is mostly done on a spot basis with IR temp guns and cameras.

Imagine being able to see a failing conveyor bearing from across a facility or a low pressure tire as it rolls by.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-22 17:24:22+00:00
Presenteeism check. Roll call, just like grade school.

To be entirely unfair, I think that's always been the real reason for the standup "ceremony" to get a daily roll call because developers doing "agile" apparently can only be trusted if treated like school children. I feel that way because that's always been a part of the point of why it is called a standup: it's supposed to be as boiled down as just "progressing" or "blocked, who can help?" and it's supposed to be done standing up so that it is intentionally uncomfortable and everyone moves quickly to get back to their seats and get back to actual work getting done.

I continue to advocate that standups are mostly useless and should just be a Slack message at most.
by htrp | 2025-05-22 17:25:40+00:00
>Rakuten validated its capabilities with a demanding open-source refactor running independently for 7 hours with sustained performance.

From their customer testimonials in the announcement, more below

>Cursor calls it state-of-the-art for coding and a leap forward in complex codebase understanding. Replit reports improved precision and dramatic advancements for complex changes across multiple files. Block calls it the first model to boost code quality during editing and debugging in its agent, codename goose, while maintaining full performance and reliability. Rakuten validated its capabilities with a demanding open-source refactor running independently for 7 hours with sustained performance. Cognition notes Opus 4 excels at solving complex challenges that other models can't, successfully handling critical actions that previous models have missed.

>GitHub says Claude Sonnet 4 soars in agentic scenarios and will introduce it as the base model for the new coding agent in GitHub Copilot. Manus highlights its improvements in following complex instructions, clear reasoning, and aesthetic outputs. iGent reports Sonnet 4 excels at autonomous multi-feature app development, as well as substantially improved problem-solving and codebase navigation—reducing navigation errors from 20% to near zero. Sourcegraph says the model shows promise as a substantial leap in software development—staying on track longer, understanding problems more deeply, and providing more elegant code quality. Augment Code reports higher success rates, more surgical code edits, and more careful work through complex tasks, making it the top choice for their primary model.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-05-22 17:25:42+00:00
I think people actually do find social networks, and apps that support them, to be deeply useful and in high demand. The problem is almost every social network app, or website, is really just a massive spynet trying to capture as much personal information and data as possible to sell.

The social network part is really really simple. The early form of Facebook was remarkably effective, simple, and useful. The same goes for Instagram and MySpace. The business side, however, has poisoned that original creation into a profoundly corrosive "content delivery system" and a spy network that hides behind a fancy profile page and algorithmically (read: business interest determined) "feed".
by leetharris | 2025-05-22 17:25:47+00:00
Much like others, this is my stack (or o1-pro instead of Gemini 2.5 Pro). This is a big reason why I use aider for large projects. It allows me to effortlessly combine architecture models and code writing models.

I know in Cursor and others I can just switch models between chats, but it doesn't feel intentional the way aider does. You chat in architecture mode, then execute in code mode.
by zamadatix | 2025-05-22 17:25:59+00:00
The amount of degradation at a given context length isn't constant though so a model with 5x the context can either be completely useless or still better depending on the strength of the models you're comparing. Gemini actually does really great in both regards (context length and quality at length) but I'm not sure what a hard numbers comparison to the latest Claude models would look like.

A good deep dive on the context scaling topic in general https://youtu.be/NHMJ9mqKeMQ
by tptacek | 2025-05-22 17:26:07+00:00
No, we don't have to work harder on these things. "I love fly but I think they're going bankrupt soon because I did kremlinology on their front page" is not actually a user cohort I care much about.

I'm really tired of trying to make decisions about what we say or don't say based on these weird messaging things, so I think we're just going to stop trying, and go back to talking like we did in 2021.
by archon1410 | 2025-05-22 17:26:11+00:00
Claude Plays Pokemon was the original concept and inspiration behind "Gemini Plays Pokemon". Gemini arguably only did better because it had access to a much better agent harness and was being actively developed during the run.

See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7mqp8uRnnPdbBzJZE/is-gemini-...
Show HN: Pill Buddy - Meds Tracker for iOS
by kaiherng | 2025-05-22 17:26:35+00:00
Hi everyone! I was most recently a PM at a large-ish tech company for 6+ years, but I decided it was time to strike out and do something on my own as an indie developer.

I built an iOS app to help people like myself track their medicines & supplements. It's called Pill Buddy, and its designed to be a cute way to remember to take your meds. Please let me know what you think!
by bntr | 2025-05-22 17:26:54+00:00
Thanks for the kind words and for sharing your thoughts! I actually remember Jenn3d as well — the animations always reminded me of some kind of shimmering foam.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t quite grasp the method you’re describing — perhaps I’m missing some illustrations. (By the way, links [2] and [3] seem to point to the same video, and I’m not sure they match your description.)

It sounds like you’re suggesting a way to slice objects into almost-repetitive sections, so the brain can reconstruct a fuller picture — a bit like how compound eyes work in insects.
by _def | 2025-05-22 17:27:42+00:00
> Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does not contain tags or highlights.

boo! without the tags, the links will be mostly useless for me. Every now and then I thought aboyt switching to some self-hosted solution. Should've done it sooner... and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.
by wrsh07 | 2025-05-22 17:27:57+00:00
My understanding for the original OpenAI and anthropic labels was essentially: gpt2 was 100x more compute than gpt1. Same for 2 to 3. Same for 3 to 4. Thus, gpt 4.5 was 10x more compute^

If anthropic is doing the same thing, then 3.5 would be 10x more compute vs 3. 3.7 might be 3x more than 3.5. and 4 might be another ~3x.

^ I think this maybe involves words like "effective compute", so yeah it might not be a full pretrain but it might be! If you used 10x more compute that could mean doubling the amount used on pretraining and then using 8x compute on post or some other distribution
by LtWorf | 2025-05-22 17:28:04+00:00
Also if that means the program won't run at all? Or a bug that has a patch to fix it doesn't get fixed? Or a device that could be supported is instead not supported?

I've made patches to a bunch of stuff to improve kde on mobile/tablets. After short or very long time they do get merged, but meanwhile people (like me) who own a tablet can actually use the software.

Why wait several months or even years?
by testfrequency | 2025-05-22 17:28:11+00:00
Super bummed about this.

I know a surprising number of high profile CEOs and founders who live by Pocket, really has just been quietly reliable and simple way to reserve content for later.

Despite there being so many other $apps that can fill the gap here, none of them seem to be as clean and straightforward as Pocket has been for me.

Anyone here paying for Matter or Readwise? I know Instapaper may seem to be the obvious migration path, but since my landlord is kicking me out, maybe it’s time I move to a more robust solution.
by munificent | 2025-05-22 17:28:11+00:00
It's enshittification.

Software for playing audio used to be great even with far fewer engineering resources going into them. That suggests the reason they are getting worse is deliberate and stems from a misalignment between what software users want and what the producers want.

Most music software companies today are two businesses joined together:

1. A software company that makes apps to let people listen to music.

2. A content licensing company that pays artists and record labels to give them access to music and let people listen to it.

If they were only #1 then they would be agnostic to what music people listen to and how much of it. WinAmp didn't give a damn how big your music library was, what songs you listened to, or how often, because that was entirely between you and your MP3 collection.

But, say, Spotify has to pay someone every time you listen to a song and how much they pay depends on what you listen to and how often. That gives them a direct, perverse incentive to build an app that routes you away from expensive audio you might prefer towards cheap stuff that eats up your time but doesn't cost Spotify as much.

That's why every single time I open the fucking Spotify app I see a wall of podcasts even though I have literally never listened to one and never will. They don't put them there for my benefit, but for theirs.

For Spotify, the end game is routing people towards eventually-AI-generated musak that they themselves own the licenses for because it's free for them. This is directly analogous to why Netflix is now constantly pimping their own often-shitty produced shows over movies you might actually prefer.

The reason we aren't saturated with options is that producing a media app without also having deals that give the app direct access to media to play dumps a lot of work back onto users and most users these days simply don't have a local media library or want to maintain one.

And spinning up a new app that does off content directly has huge startup costs. You need an army of lawyers to go out and negotiate deals with every record label out there, and those labels probably hate you out the gate since they are still salty about not making anywhere near as much money as they used to make when they sold CDs.
by drnewman | 2025-05-22 17:28:24+00:00
I agree blocks are closures. But they’re call stack aware closures. Which gives them _some_ of the power of continuations.

I’m also sure you’re right that they’re not implemented using continuations. However, my understanding is that Ruby was originally conceived as a language with continuations. I’ll see if I can find a reference for that. But from what I recall reading in a blog post from someone who was at a programming language conference in 1997 when Matz introduced the language that’s how he described it.
by op00to | 2025-05-22 17:28:25+00:00
You’re not here to discuss tech,you’re sea lioning to derail the thread with bad-faith outrage.

Meanwhile, LLMs are making a difference: they power screen readers and plain language summaries for disabled users, help immigrants and low income folks fill out forms and understand legal docs, offer free mental health support where care is inaccessible, and tutor kids in underserved schools. If you want to deny that, the burden’s on you to disprove it, not on me to jump through hoops every time you pretend to ask for more proof. Classic sea lioning.
by tmpz22 | 2025-05-22 17:28:28+00:00
Looks compelling from the app store page! Because I might use it I have to ask - how do permission work around messages? I'd assume something like this:

* Install App

* App cannot passively READ messages

* When I need to use the app, like in a group chat where we are spontaneously planning an event, I can invite it into the chat so that the group can input their preferences

* Other group members (who may also need to install the app) can interact with the widget to submit their planning prefferences

* Widget then WRITES results back to the chat

Does it ever read my messages? Does it ever write messages to the chat? Does my entire group chat need to install it?

Great work. Seems well targeted and that it could help a lot of folks.
by muzani | 2025-05-22 17:28:47+00:00
I had a friend. We made games as teenagers. Just strangers over the Internet nerding out on random things. We clicked real well, better than I do with many IRL friends.

But she lied to people. She was trans. People don't like being lied to. The LGBTQIA+ community defended her, until she became inconvenient for them and they ditched her. She fell in with the more militant crowd. Her social media presence became just full on hatred. I told she wasn't making friends that way; she insisted she's being an activist. We drifted apart because of this, but we still nerded out on random things every 3 years or so.

Once, she sent me a message out of the blue once saying that she appreciated me backing her in hard times. We chatted for two hours or so about liberalism and programming best practices. I then excused myself to get back to work.

That was the last conversation I had with her. She committed suicide publicly a few months later.

I don't think I could have done anything differently. Maybe I should have stuck up for her more? Or at least talked to her about random stuff. But if I had a one-shot time machine, I'd probably have prevented that decline rather than buying bitcoin.
by BuckRogers | 2025-05-22 17:29:04+00:00
Denaturalization has always been done and nothing new. The US government can revoke citizenship for those who obtained it fraudulently. This can happen if an individual made false statements or concealed material facts during the naturalization process. The government must prove "clear, convincing, and unequivocal evidence" of fraud to succeed in a denaturalization case. I'd expect more of this going forward.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-22 17:29:16+00:00
from a non-app developer, that's something I'd never even contemplated. I've only ever released websites, and I don't give a damn about compliance anything. I've spent time making something on my own, and now making it available for anyone else that comes across it to view. If the viewer lives in a country that has rules I'm never going to read, that's the viewer's problem. Luckily for the viewer, anything I make does not include any of the shit that has been attempted to be regulated. But if I did something offends those regulations, don't care.

These related documents you speak really makes me not want to app. I'm glad there are braver people than me. The only thing I can offer is "fly low and avoid the radar"
by chimeracoder | 2025-05-22 17:29:37+00:00
> and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

Who will you trust? Google? Apple? Microsoft? It's not like any of the other behemoths have a better track record when it comes to long-term maintenance and availability of hosted consumer products. If anything, Mozilla actually has the best track record out of them all when it comes to long-term offerings.
by jasonjayr | 2025-05-22 17:29:45+00:00
I was unaware that synctrain existed! That solved my last issue I had with my iPhone. I have been using keepass on various platforms to sync my password list, and with keepassium + synctrain I have my iPhone covered. Thank you!

I was unaware foobar2000 existed on iOS too, but the Windows version is my favorite audio player on that platform too.
by codegeek | 2025-05-22 17:29:49+00:00
Depends on which model will be more beneficial to your customers and also be profitable to you at the same time. You can learn from companies like PostHog that stopped offering paid self hosted managed solution. Either you use their Open Core version yourself OR you pay for their cloud hosting. This article will hopefully help:

https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog
by moonlighter | 2025-05-22 17:30:13+00:00
That seems super useful, as my dock is overflowing with too many apps, which I all use, just at different times for very different scenarios... like for example when producing and working on videos I use FinalCutPro, Motion and Compressor, but these three take up space when I'm in a totally different context like coding. But I don't want to remove them from the dock when not used; because if I do, I seem to forget that I have them or would need to add them back later. So this solves that perfectly!
by joshstrange | 2025-05-22 17:30:25+00:00
His last few years at Apple lost him a large amount of my respect (or at least proved he wasn't the genius he had been portrayed as) but this OpenAI move took whatever respect was left to 0.

That video they posted was completely over the top and absurd (especially without announcing/shipping a product). Watching Sam and Jony fellate each other was nauseating. I don't SNL could have done a better (worse?) job.
by poisonborz | 2025-05-22 17:30:30+00:00
Saving links and offline reading is dime a dozen nowadays, but the one BIG feature was recommended articles, which basically opened the reading list of the world and you could read extremely interesting longform articles based on your list. It was the best magazine you could imagine. But I guess it required maintenance and moderation so they axed it - in the typical fashion of an acquired product I might say.

I still wish for something like this with privacy in mind and community maintained.
Show HN: Keyboard-first tool to type and create fast
by kevinisherenow | 2025-05-22 17:30:34+00:00
A little while back I shared an early version of this tool here and got some amazing feedback—really grateful for that. Based on those suggestions, I’ve made a bunch of changes and wanted to share where it’s at now.

Quickpoint: https://quickpoint.me

It’s a lightweight tool for quickly putting structured thoughts into words—no tabs, no distractions, just type and share.

People have used it as a note-taking scratchpad, for outlining ideas, drafting specs, even demo notes. I’m still figuring out who this actually clicks for.

You can see the homepage, try it out, take the demo, or whatever you want.

I'm wondering the following-

-What do you think it is? -Could you see yourself using it? If not, why not? -What would keep you from using it more than once?

Just trying to better understand who it helps and how to shape it accordingly. Would love any thoughts.

Thanks in advance!
by fuzzfactor | 2025-05-22 17:30:58+00:00
Some of the best combinations are when either of the parties would absolutely thrive on their own.

Ideally then a merger would be most formidable if it was greater than the sum of its parts.

Things are rarely ideal and it can also be quite formidable when it's only equal to the sum of its parts.

Or even "less-than-equal" if it's really affordable, depending on the combined resources, or even one-sided resources.

None of this really means any "merging" of tasks or facilities, or combining business structures, etc.

There's such a huge amount of options and possibilities just from different approaches and levels of equity and cash consideration.

A merger can completely engulf the smaller company, with a logical transition plan to deprecate its separate identity (sometimes for better or worse) and assimilating it into part of an established structured monolith. Or even creating a new monolith altogether in combination. OTOH it can be done so there are virtually no changes to either org up and down almost their entire separate structures, with only a handful of operators at the top adjusting to equally influential changes which are purely in financial elements alone.

This is not completely unlike Ive getting paid in advance to work his magic. Except it looks like he was up to new tricks starting a couple years ago, with sama's encouragement. Or is that more like deferred compensation? If it's going to be insanely great there's probably so much work to do, there wouldn't even be time to spend an extra billion dollars or so, plus that's a lot of money so it would be best to have a better idea if it's really worth spending before you go whole hog too.

A couple years ago it was probably a good bet that something big could come out of a collaboration. And it could really be worth money someday. And that idea is now worth more than it was back then. And as good fortune would have it, sama was on a trajectory to be better able to afford it now for quite a high price compared to what it was worth then, and he couldn't have justified it yet back then anyway. I would think Ive has made progress in the last couple years (without spending exorbitant amounts) that impressed sama more than ever too. Imagine what he could do if he had exorbitant amounts :) I guess we'll find out.

Looks like Ive will have quite a bit of resources to finalize designs and ramp up, plus billions more in equity to fall back on if that's not enough. This may just it be what it takes to launch a mass-adoption physical product without having undue pressure to prematurely issue something with any type of shoddiness.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-22 17:31:10+00:00
I don't think so, for a bunch of reasons:

1) Battery size/life compromised by form factor (or have cumbersome wire to battery pack in pocket)

2) WiFi/5G connectivity - form factor seems to compromise antenna design, and anyways health impact of antenna on your head all day is unknown

3) Fashion - most people care more about appearance than any debatable benefit smart glasses might have (AR?) over a smart phone

4) Smart glasses AR displays are a cool piece of tech, but quality-wise nowhere near that of a phone screen, used for photos and videos - TikTok on smart glasses ?

5) Texting seems a very popular type of communication for all age groups, and much preferred (and more discreet) that having to voice dictate into smart glasses, or listen to incoming messages via smart glasses speakers

It just seems that a smartphone provides so much, checks so many boxes in terms of features and usability, that most people won't want to not have one, and if you do have one, then the incremental benefit of another device becomes minimal.
by beernet | 2025-05-22 17:31:50+00:00
MCP is as revolutionary as JSON.

Still, funny to see numerous hyped GenAI start-ups with bad monetary traction jump on the bandwagon and proclaim MCP as the latest revolution (after RAG, Agents, you name it)...All of these are simply tools which add zero value by themselves. Looking forward to the VC wake up calls.