MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gunnarmorling | 2025-06-18 19:53:43+00:00
Author here, thanks for reading and commenting! Indeed my conclusion is that "agent" means different things to different people. The idea for this post was to explore what's there already and what may be missing for using SQL in this context. When following Anthropic's taxonomy, as of today, SQL let's you get quite far for building workflows. For agents in their terminology, some more work is needed to integrate things like MCP, but I don't see any fundamental reasons for why this couldn't be done.
by arkj | 2025-06-18 19:54:07+00:00
>Software 2.0 are the weights which program neural networks. >I think it's a fundamental change, is that neural networks became programmable with large libraries... And in my mind, it's worth giving it the designation of a Software 3.0.

I think it's a bit early to change your mind here. We love your 2.0, let's wait for some more time till th e dust settles so we can see clearly and up the revision number.

In fact I'm a bit confused about the number AK has in mind. Anyone else knows how he arrived at software 2.0?

I remember a talk by professor Sussman where he suggest we don't know how to compute, yet[1].

I was thinking he meant this,

Software 0.1 - Machine Code/Assembly Code Software 1.0 - HLLs with Compilers/Interpreters/Libraries Software 2.0 - Language comprehension with LLMs

If we are calling weights 2.0 and NN with libraries as 3.0, then shouldn't we account for functional and oo programming in the numbering scheme?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI
by clausi_ai | 2025-06-18 19:54:36+00:00
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by eszed | 2025-06-18 19:55:20+00:00
Fiona Shaw is one of the greats. I've been lucky enough to see her on stage a couple of times.

For those of you who don't recognize her name, she's Maarva in Andor, and some minor character (I don't remember) in the Harry Potter films - neither of which roles get even close to challenging her range and power.
Show HN: Easy picture in picture final cut pro automation
by andrewfromx | 2025-06-18 19:55:24+00:00
Take this hammerspoon lua script:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/cutlass/blob/main/scripts/ham...

And you can now press one buttons to start a movie recording and a screen recording at the same time.

After you have talked and demo'd your screen save the files and run:

./cutlass fcp add-video ~/Documents/test1.mov -o demo.fcpxml

./cutlass fcp add-pip-video ~/Desktop/test1.mov --input demo.fcpxml -o demo.fcpxml

And it will make you a final cut pro xml file you can import to FCP and have a video like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxQkM0Sszeo
by archagon | 2025-06-18 19:55:44+00:00
Ghoulish shit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghan-ally-detained-by-ice-imm...

> "For more than three years I worked for the U.S. military back in my home country," Naser said in the video as the masked officers took him into custody. "I came here to make a better life. I didn't know this was going to happen like this for me."
by AlecSchueler | 2025-06-18 19:57:03+00:00
Politics hasn't been getting more freedom here lately, though, that was my sarcastic point. Every day there's a bunch of stuff flagged off of the front page for being only tangentially related to contemporary American politics yet this gets the thumbs up. It's indicative of people trying to quell certain types of political conversation only.

Number two on your list shouldn't apply because we've seen many technical articles about Tesla, DOGE, etc flagged in the past months

3 shouldn't apply either because we lose posts every day just because they have the "potential" for flaming.
by theodric | 2025-06-18 19:58:17+00:00
I got my wife an entire-ass Framework 13 7840U /and/ put 32GB RAM and a 2TB SSD in it for less than the cost of the uplift to go from base RAM to 32GB and base SSD to 2TB from Apple at time of preorder. That was the day I stopped being an Apple customer. Maybe for the $300 Walmart laptop folks it's too expensive, but hardly for Mac refugees.
by bluGill | 2025-06-18 19:58:27+00:00
Several times I've been involved in porting code. Eventually we reach a time where we are getting a lot of bug reports "didn't work, didn't work with the old system as well" which is to say we ported correctly, but the old system wasn't right either and we just hadn't tested it in that situation until the new system had the budget for exhaustive testing. (normally it worked at one point on the old system and got broke in some other update)
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-18 19:58:57+00:00
Content creators basically do not make money from Youtube. Right now, almost all income comes from patreon, subscriptions, and merch.

I will give google a dollar when they actually work to make their service better for the creators I care about, actually pay attention to their concerns, actually build tools that improve their work, and stop treating content creators as consumables to pump out "content" faster than humanly possible so that they can shove more ads into more faces, and burn them out routinely.

Nearly every great Youtube creator deals with burnout because of Youtube's "algorithm". But youtube doesn't want thousands of talented people making niche content with high quality.

Youtube wants a hundred Mr. Beasts.

I will pay for Youtube when they fucking stop that.

Until then, I support content creators through platforms that actually pay them, actually work towards improving their work experience and artistic endeavors, and treat them like people.
by yesbabyyes | 2025-06-18 19:59:02+00:00
I've visited Lady Musgrave Island in the Great Barrier Reef. It is covered with trees called "the grand devil's-claws", the seeds of which are barbed and sticky. The seeds stick to the wings of birds eating seeds, and so they can spread across islands.

However, a visitor to the island will soon notice lots of dead birds on the ground. There are no predators or scavengers, so the birds lay there decomposing.

Thus, the trees use the birds not only for reproduction, but also for food. It's a carnivorous forest out there on the reef.
by wonder-boy | 2025-06-18 19:59:34+00:00
Just wanted to humbly thank the HN community — I believe the initial attention here helped me more than anything. I suspect some of you quietly shared the project with your own circles, and it really made a huge difference.

Since posting to HN: - Released v0.2.1 (README and setup improvements) - 296 views, 132 unique visitors - 143 clones, 102 unique cloners (unbelievable for a 4 day old project) - 20 stars - 1 PR already submitted

It’s still early, but I'm so grateful for the encouragement and support. Thanks again.

GitHub: https://github.com/torserv/torserv
by esseph | 2025-06-18 19:59:36+00:00
Aws doesn't make batch chemicals, they don't transport fuel or nuclear weapons, they don't control water plants or the electrical grid, etc.

Those things cannot expect to have internet access, and should not.

There are tons of billion dollar companies with multiple datacenters or presences in multiple datacenters because of this.

There is more physical hardware right now deployed by companies of all shapes and sizes than there ever has been in history.

CISA PPD-21 Critical Infrastructure Sectors:

* Chemical Sector

* Commercial Facilities Sector

* Communications Sector

* Critical Manufacturing Sector

* Dams Sector

* Defense Industrial Base Sector

* Emergency Services Sector

* Energy Sector

* Financial Services Sector

* Food and Agriculture Sector

* Government Facilities Sector

* Healthcare and Public Health Sector

* Information Technology Sector

* Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste Sector

* Transportation Systems Sector

* Water and Wastewater Systems Sector

These things need to operate without Internet, full stop. Most of these companies have been around for decades or even centuries. They're not interested in a lot of web/SaaS and can barely even spell SaaS. They're also probably likely to outlive the next few dozen frameworks or language fashions.
by leptons | 2025-06-18 19:59:57+00:00
The Apple M-series laptops get a performance boost by putting the RAM inside the CPU, which makes it completely impossible to upgrade RAM. That is the antithesis of what Framework is doing. Apple are the kings of disposable hardware that costs way more than the competition for no good reason. You want 32GB? You're going to pay a lot for it. Oh, now you need 64GB? Too bad, throw out that old laptop and get a new one.
by eschulz | 2025-06-18 20:00:12+00:00
Yes, they're in two comparably large and affluent German cities (although each of these cities has numerous clubs), but when it comes to sport club success I think city details is just one factor. Ownership wealth and dedication, current management issues, and recent luck are important factors.

For example, Boston has way more championships in US "big four" sports than every US city except NYC, but there are 24 larger cities in the country. There are just a ton of factors at play (pun intended).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_by_number_...
by muziq | 2025-06-18 20:00:15+00:00
A quality choice of addresses :) “0xffFFfFFffFFffFfFffFFfFfFfFFFFfFfFFFFDead," "1FuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXXXaAovLX," and "DFuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXXXWLW65t."
by LambdaComplex | 2025-06-18 20:01:29+00:00
Alright, let's say you try doing that but it fails for some reason. Where did the failure occur? Were you able to open a TCP connection but you received garbage data that your minecraft-ping command didn't understand? Were you able to open a TCP connection but you received no reply to your ping? Did you fail to open a TCP connection (no SYNACK in response to your SYN)?

All of those problems have different root causes and therefore have different solutions. Telnet helps you figure out where in the stack the failure is occurring.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-18 20:02:23+00:00
For a lot of them, they aren't cheating, they are compensating for bad teammates, bad servers, other cheaters, bad hit reg, bad sound effects, bad whatever they can dream up.

Cheating is "this is my actual skill level if there wasn't so much bullshit happening to me"

Of course this is all a lie, but it's what they tell themselves.
by zie1ony | 2025-06-18 20:03:12+00:00
I find it amazing, that the same ideas pop up in the same period of time. For example, I work on tests generation and I went the same path. I tried to find bugs by prompting "Find bugs in this code and implement tests to show it.", but this didn't get me far. Then I switched to property (invariant) testing, like you, but in my case I ask AI: "Based on the whole codebase, make the property tests." and then I fuzz some random actions on the state-full objects and run prop tests over and over again.

At first I also wanted to automate everything, but over time I realized that best is: 10% human to 90% AI of work.

Another idea I'm exploring is AI + Mutation Tests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing). It should help AI with generation of full coverage.
by sfblah | 2025-06-18 20:04:22+00:00
I was interested in making an open-source version of strava, so along the same lines. I hate how strava blocks so many features if you don't pay. The idea was to make a lichess to strava's chess.com.

I'm just not sure if there are people who would want to work on such a thing, though. I built a few pieces, but kind of got stalled out.
by bluGill | 2025-06-18 20:05:58+00:00
We (as society) don't assign algebra or Calculus for the fun of it. We assign it because they are so useful in a lot of different careers (mostly in engineering). However it is really hard to find a simple and realistic example of why you need to spend the next 6 years learning that before you have done the math so you can see how it works on a real world problem.
by hu3 | 2025-06-18 20:06:38+00:00
No, but perhaps you may have. Please take a look:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Frame...

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Frame...

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Frame...

And for battery life:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Frame...
by spankibalt | 2025-06-18 20:07:17+00:00
"Interesting" product placement (already within their portfolio, compared to the Framework 13). Sadly, they didn't succeed in making their unique features (compared to their and the market's other offerings) really useful by:

1. Using substandard digitzer tech (something as performant and economical as Wacom EMR is needed). One cannot compromise here. I get that this might also be a licensing issue.

2. Making the device too big. 10.3 inch or smaller is better; the possibility of using the device in a train's or on a plane's fold-away tray table, just to be stashed away in a cross-body or small messenger bag after use, is still a killer feature. More real estate (by way of screens, ultraportable projectors, et cetera) can always be thrown into the mix later.

3. Choosing a wrong, or to be more precise obsolete, form factor. It needed to be a detachable for more modularity and flexibility. So, it's just another, admittedly very maintainable, premium-priced classic convertible. Its attached keyboard is a design-compromising dead weight and/or wasted space whenever not in use, very much like (the unused) maneuvering jets on older VTOL aircraft while in conventional flight.

4. The display is not of primary importance here, but there's no need to make it that bad. Top-notch, wide-color, flicker-free IPS displays do exist.

5. Sturdy but lightweight metal, not plastic.

And so the search for a well-designed, modular SFF general computing device continues. They nailed the colors tho, and hopefully continue to set an example in Linux support. I wish them plenty sales, I'm sure the machine will find its fans.
by tanelpoder | 2025-06-18 20:07:28+00:00
Yep, same here, first GUI editor that has ended up sticky enough. I've used just plain vim (or vi, back in the day) in a terminal. Occasionally tried out some GUI editors every few years, but none of them were suitable/sticky enough for my taste. Now I've been using Zed for 8-9 months, almost daily when coding vs. just testing/hacking something, and haven't fallen back to vim in a terminal for coding tasks yet.
by guenthert | 2025-06-18 20:07:51+00:00
That's 114°F in the shade. There is no shade in the desert though ...

Don't want to be projecting, but first time I went to Death Valley happened to be in August. I saw dunes from the car and thought I had to walk up there. Fifteen minutes later I had an unbearable headache and quickly headed back. Sombreros don't look all that ridiculous to me anymore.
by alganet | 2025-06-18 20:08:25+00:00
Let me be clear about what I think: I have zero fear of an AI apocalypse. I think the fear is part of the scam.

The danger I see is related to psychological effects caused by humans using LLMs on other humans. And I don't think that's a scenario anyone is giving much attention to, and it's not that bad (it's bad, but not world end bad).

I totally think we should all build it. To be trained from scratch on cheap commodity hardware, so that a lot of people can _really_ learn it and quickly be literate on it. The only true way of democratizing it. If it's not that way, it's a scam.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-18 20:08:43+00:00
> I only toyed with it for a few weeks as I then grew disinterested but that definitely left a sour taste in my mouth for the "effectiveness" of VAC if a script kiddie like me at the time could throw together something custom in just a few hours, I'm sure it'd be much easier now with ChatGPT...

The thing is, VAC doesn't immediately ban you. Or anyone else. It's looking for suspicious patterns across hundreds if not thousands of players and collecting evidence over weeks if not months to make sure they got relatively low false-positive rates and don't end up banning people for a Windows update gone wrong... and additionally, it raises the iteration time for cheat developers as well, and that's the true point. Show cheaters immediately that they're spotted and the only thing you enter is an immediate arms race.

Your way of writing a cheat was probably detected but since no one else used it, VAC didn't trigger.
by keyringlight | 2025-06-18 20:09:30+00:00
I'm surprised there haven't been more events of mods and tools being used as trojans. For all the concern about anti-cheat/DRM, PC gamers seem very selective over what sources of code they're running on their computers they scrutinize. There's an awful lot of users with "just enough" levels of knowledge where I think a tempting enough release with the right timing for a hot game could get a lot of installs.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-18 20:09:40+00:00
I wonder if someone will make a LLM farm from older (probably not too old) iPhones using Apple's new foundation models. I know they won't hold a candle to SOTA models, they are much smaller for one, but when they announced API access that's the first thing I thought of, a sort of "folding @ home" but routing queries to a phone and spitting back the results.

It's silly and probably makes no sense at all based on how weak the model will probably be but it's a fun thing to think about.
by surgomat | 2025-06-18 20:10:44+00:00
great feedback and I agree that (i forgot tbh..) most beginners don't think in muscle groups, but in goals like "lose weight" "feel better", "beginner friendly", etc...

The goal is to make the app more welcoming by offering goal-based (or filters,let's see) entry points like "fat loss" "beginner full-body" or "3x/week routine" and not require anatomy knowledge to get started.

The muscle filter will just be one of many ways to browse, not a gatekeeper i guess. Thanks a lot for highlighting this!
by pests | 2025-06-18 20:11:48+00:00
I think to understand how Andrej views 3.0 is hinted at with his later analogy at Tesla. He saw a ton of manually written Software 1.0 C++ replaced by the weights of the NN. What we used to write manually in explicit code is now incorporated into the NN itself, moving the implementation from 1.0 to 3.0.
by no_wizard | 2025-06-18 20:12:02+00:00
I’m surprised, mostly because I don’t understand the logic of only taking Venmo and nothing else. The company isn’t well known for great customer service and can be quite hostile to helping with fraudulent transactions (to the point of this, they banned the end users who got scammed, not just the scammer. I also wonder if they were made whole).

Seems like a bad idea to me. Even Square with Cash App support would be better
by ezschemi | 2025-06-18 20:12:27+00:00
I am also very interested in AMD's Strix Halo for running LLMs locally. For that I have a Framework Desktop in order (batch 1!). Alex Ziskind on Youtube does videos comparing Strix Halo, M4 Mac mini and MacBook Pro, Nvidia 5090, etc. including power consumption. The only downside is one has to pull out the numbers from the videos, there's no tables or anything. Here is the recent video with testing Strix Halo and a Mac mini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7GDr-VFuEo
by Gravityloss | 2025-06-18 20:13:12+00:00
Maybe this thought experiment makes it clear. There's a cannon firing straight up from the lunar pole. One cannot observe the explosion charge. The ball goes straight up, and then falls down and goes back to the barrel. The cannon is filmed from afar firing and you can see the whole ball travel.

Then you are shown two films, the normal and a reversed one. Would you be able to tell which one is which, and if so, how?
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-18 20:13:32+00:00
Yes. Go to Germany and travel from any large urban area to the next and you'll see why - it's a meme by now that coverage on trains and even Autobahns is piss poor.

And no, geography is not an excuse. Neighboring Austria has same geography as Bavaria, and yet it is immediately noticeable when exactly you have passed the border by the cellphone signal indicator going up to full five bars. And neither is money an excuse, Romania - one of the piss poorest countries of Europe - has 5G built out enough to watch youtube in 4k on a train moving 15 km/h with open doors to Sannicolao Mare.

The issue is braindead politics ("we don't need 5G at any remote milk jug") and too much tolerance for plain and simple retarded people who think that all radiation is evil.
by linsomniac | 2025-06-18 20:14:15+00:00
>in theory, you'd be keeping the same body, while swapping out the mainboard.

I love the idea of Framework, but the upgradability seems questionable to me. I base this off my experience with desktops where I've rarely over the decades upgraded more than the hard drive and RAM. When I'm looking at upgrading the motherboard it seems I just end up going all the way and getting a new case/ps/etc at the same time. Maybe that's just me though?
by warbaker | 2025-06-18 20:14:44+00:00
"Israel's defense minister warned Saturday that "Tehran will burn" if Iran continues firing missiles at Israel." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-israel-retaliatory-strikes...

Don't get me wrong, Katz is a douchebag, but this was specifically a threat to retaliate in-kind of Iran continued to target arbitrary Israeli population centers.

I haven't seen any evidence of Israel targeting civilians (nuclear scientists aside), despite having complete air supremacy over Tehran. Air supremacy means Israel could carpet bomb the city if they wanted, but they don't want this. Not only would it be a horrible thing to do and of no military value, they simply don't blame the people of Iran for the IRGC's actions.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-06-18 20:15:14+00:00
I might be wrong, but it seems like some people are misinterpreting what is being said here.

Software 3.0 isn't about using AI to write code. It's about using AI instead of code.

So not Human -> AI -> Create Code -> Compile Code -> Code Runs -> The Magic Happens. Instead, it's Human -> AI -> The Magic Happens.
by mmcnl | 2025-06-18 20:15:21+00:00
You're linking to a multi-core benchmark. The story is a lot more in favor of Apple if you look at single-core efficiency, Apple is roughly 2-3x more efficient: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Lunar-Lake-CPU-analysis-...

And this benchmark doesn't even include M4, which is even more efficient.