MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jazzyjackson | 2025-06-11 02:20:58+00:00
IMO its just that the models are very nondeterministic, and people get very different kinds of responses from it. I met a number of people who tried it when it first came out and it was just useless so they stopped trying it, other people (including me) got gobsmacking great responses and it felt like AGI was around the corner, but after enough coin flips your luck runs out and you get some lazy responses. Some people have more luck than others and wonder why everyone around them says it's trash.
by ziml77 | 2025-06-11 02:21:30+00:00
Whenever I ask these AI "Is the malloc function in the Microsoft UCRT just a wrapper around HeapAlloc?", I get answers that are always wrong.

They claim things like the function adds size tracking so free doesn't need to be called with a size or they say that HeapAlloc is used to grab a whole chunk of memory at once and then malloc does its own memory management on top of that.

That's easy to prove wrong by popping ucrtbase.dll into Binary Ninja. The only extra things it does beyond passing the requested size off to HeapAlloc are: handle setting errno, change any request for 0 bytes to requests for 1 byte, and perform retries for the case that it is being used from C++ and the program has installed a new-handler for out-of-memory situations.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-11 02:23:16+00:00
This is never how the marketing around the big UI overhauls that OP is worried about works. A sneaky UI overhaul that's launched with no fanfare doesn't get anyone promoted, so why bother?

> like when I upgraded to 15 my home button no longer exists when the screen is locked, which effectively makes google maps navigation stuck on the screen unless you stop navigation by pressing back repeatedly

Smaller things like this, sure.

FYI, swiping up from the bottom will get into the lock screen and then once unlocked into the home screen.
by onecommentman | 2025-06-11 02:23:31+00:00
“Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago” - the idea of robots assisting the elderly has been around for several decades, well before Elon was even born, and Japanese prototypes have been around since before Elon could legally drive.

What a strange subtitle…are tech journalists (or AI) nowadays this oblivious to tech history?
Show HN: Make stories for your stuffed animals
by donkey_wobble | 2025-06-11 02:24:00+00:00
I wanted to make something fun using generative AI, so I built Stuffie Stories. You can take a picture of a stuffed animal (stuffie) and create a story for it. There are several ways to customize the story. It's for parents who want to make a story for their kids - it's also a great way to get them involved on the creative aspect.

Let me know what you think! I would love to know what you think of the pricing, design, etc.
by crazylogger | 2025-06-11 02:26:17+00:00
What you described can be (and is being) achieved by agentic systems like Claude Code. When you give it a task, it knows to learn best practices on the web, find out what other devs are doing in your codebase, and it adapts. And it condenses + persists its learnings in CLAUDE.md files.

Which underlying LLM powers your agent system doesn't matter. In fact you can swap them for any state-of-the-art model you like, or even points Cursor to your self-hosted LLM API.

So in a sense every advanced model today is AGI. We were already past the AGI "singularity" back in 2023 with GPT4. What we're going through now is a maybe-decades-long process of integrating AGI into each corner of society.

It's purely an interface problem. Coding agent products hook the LLM to the real world with [web_search, exec_command, read_file, write_file, delegate_subtask, ...] tools. Other professions may require vastly more complicated interfaces (such as "attend_meeting",) it takes more engineering effort, sure, but 100% those interfaces will be built at some point in the coming years.
by jonah | 2025-06-11 02:26:31+00:00
I haven't done much climbing at all but I would encourage you to go for it. Being outside is a whole different level and a great excuse to spend time in nature.

Start by talking to people at your bouldering gym. If you hear anyone discussing going out climbing, ask if you can tag along and just watch for a few times. Watch some videos about climbing basics to get an overall feel for it and some of the concepts and terminology. I'd say you should start out "top roping" on smaller walls. As for equipment for that you don't need much especially since your partner will probably have a rope and gear to build an anchor, etc. You'll need, shoes, a harness, and a helmet.

Going from gym bouldering to outdoor climbing _does_ require being a little more social. It's a minimum 2-person sport usually. But going as a small group and rotating roles and just hanging out watching works too.) You just need to find people you like hanging out with and you can trust. (If you don't find them at your gym, try another or ask around at outdoor stores, your local university rec department, etc.)

About jobs, I can't help you. I tend to stay too long if anything.
by decimalenough | 2025-06-11 02:27:14+00:00
> There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before.

Yeah dawg imma need a citation for that. Or maybe by "the world" he means "Silicon Valley oligarchs", who certainly have been "entertaining" all sorts of "new policy ideas" over the past half year.
by YZF | 2025-06-11 02:28:22+00:00
I've been around and seen many things. I don't think it's that clear cut. But if you start from the conclusion and work your way backwards you can reason about anything.

Another problem is that these processes have a feedback loop. I don't like feeding that loop.

But yes, time will tell. I do agree certain things are normalized which probably shouldn't, but the system has some degree of robustness.

The proper thing for the left to do, IMO, is to present a clear and believable alternative. That also helps with the question of "join the people you were angry with". If the left doesn't understand why people are angry then they can't present this alternative. Standing on a hypothetical box in a hypothetical public square and yelling "the end is nigh" is not political discourse. The left also doesn't get to choose the laws it likes, just like the right doesn't, illegal immigration, as the term hints, illegal. Rioting and destroying things is also illegal. The only way a dictator can take over the US given all the checks and balances is when it seems that's the best alternative to enough people.
by vonunov | 2025-06-11 02:28:34+00:00
These are the first four words of each sentence from a thing ChatGPT wrote. I will let this speak for itself, mostly. Can you see the forest past the trees and spot the major "turning points"?

(Context: I told it to write at "will" after a session of explaining Rene Girard's mimetic desire in the styles of various authors)

*Well, here we are, You've got me tangled *And hey, maybe I *Imagine this: I'm sitting *And maybe now, I'm You've got me thinking *Maybe it's saying, "Hey, *And so, I think Not just any wanting, The kind that makes There's something beautiful about The way it drives *But here's the kicker: It's got a mind It makes us do It's a double-edged sword *And yet, without it, Probably just sitting around, *So maybe, just maybe, *Not just because you've *It's that tiny ember In the end, desire's It's the fire that *And maybe, just maybe, [yes, again] So here's to the May it burn bright

https://ccp.cx/a/chatgpt-voice.htm

>>But here's the thing.

>This is one of the usual key turning points in these essays. An earlier one happened when it was like [introduces idea] [straw-mans objection] [denies strawman]. I didn't bring it up because it's not always a strong one and this one didn't seem entirely too heavy-handed. There is, however, much more often a very obvious "But here's the thing" (or similar) to be found. As soon as I saw that, I already knew I was going to find a paragraph beginning with "So" somewhere near the end.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-11 02:28:42+00:00
I was too loose with my words, apologies. "casualties" was the word I was looking for.

Wikipedia says as much, since the government itself took down their page:

>Within 36 hours, five people died: one was shot by the Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer who died of a stroke a day after being assaulted by rioters and collapsing at the Capitol.[d][34][45] Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months.[35] Damage caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million.[46]
by ars | 2025-06-11 02:29:28+00:00
When Google came out it was way better than Altavista, people switched instantly. Specifically Altavista looked at how often a search term was in the result, which wasn't always a helpful thing. Google also noticed if search terms were near each other in a page which was really helpful, otherwise you would get forums with one search term in one message, and the other far away in an unrelated message. Google fixed that.

The web has changed these days, it's an adversarial system now, where web results are aggressively bad and constantly trying to trick you. Google is much harder to implement now.
by dartharva | 2025-06-11 02:29:38+00:00
Voksi was a popular cracker and among the first to face against Denuvo in the early days. He got himself arrested because apparently his opsec was so nonexistent he used to lurk in steam using his real name and upload cracking tutorials on youtube.

Nobody knows what happened after, or whether he reached a deal with Denuvo or anything else. But Empress did arrive some time after he got arrested, so it could be speculated. He has denied it himself however, on multiple occasions, but even if he is Empress it's obviously something you won't expect him to admit after all that's happened.
by danenania | 2025-06-11 02:30:03+00:00
I didn’t say they’ve arrived—I was just pointing out the very misleading “few” in your earlier comment. Anyone who spends an hour or two in SF can tell you how wrong that is. They’re literally everywhere.

You’re right that they have a long way to go before being fully mainstream. But thousands of people are using them every day in multiple major cities. That’s a pretty big milestone.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-11 02:31:36+00:00
> First, the article doesn’t say where they got that quote from. There’s zero context - just random words in the middle of the text. It’s extremely low-quality journalism.

Because it was widely reported many times since 2021 when he said it in a podcast. It's not lazy journalism; if anything, it seems you are just too lazy to research or corroborate before dismissing things.

https://archive.is/7KMNI#selection-2365.37-2365.64

https://sites.libsyn.com/311600/rfk-jr

He even fucking rants about 5G in this podcast, for a significant period of time. It's just ridiculous. It's non-ionizing radiation. Basic science, easily corroborated. Then he rants about Bill Gates for a couple minutes and tries to paint the EarthNow! project in a completely unfair light. Whether intentional or just ignorant, he's a kook and pushes baseless conspiracies while working with a party who is currently engaging in a literal well-documented conspiracy, Project 2025.

> she’s obsessed with RFK. There’s zero positive writing about anything

What a disingenuous take. Journalists are allowed to have focuses, and their job is not to appease you by making sure that for every 5 negative articles, there must be a positive one. That's not bias; But writing off a journalist for not producing articles that you like is literally bias.

> He insists on more rigorous testing. These are common sense policy positions that deserve fair analysis.

Dude, if that's all it was, we would all be behind him. Unfortunately, whether well-intentioned or not (and I do believe he has good intentions), he pushes a lot of harmful things alongside the less harmful things. Those more harmful things are what people have issue with.

> The lack of balanced reporting

Again, it's your own bias to assume that journalists must be compelled to occasionally paint people in a good light. Would you be saying the same thing about Hitler? "He does have some sensible ideas, why aren't we discussing those and giving him a chance?" Because he's fucking Hitler, and he's a bad person who needs to be taken out of power.

> deserve comprehensive coverage of important health policy debates

Now we are just totally strawmanning. Of course they deserve comprehensive coverage. That's why we have multiple journalism and news outlets and blogs. You can find your comprehensive coverage, from all angles, without demanding that any particular journalist compromise their values in order to appease yours.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-11 02:31:45+00:00
>if you insist on talking about "35% of people in the US" rather than "35% of voters", then fine, but I think it's a weird way to talk about it.

When were talking about adhering to a dangerous status quo, the conversation makes sense. A status quo of boring beauracracy can be defendable. A status quo of fascism, much less so. Thars why conversations in 2025 are like this.

Even then:remember Trump still had a 40% approval rating after all this.
by disambiguation | 2025-06-11 02:31:46+00:00
>. They fall on their face trying to work in sprawling codebases.

>However, they are excellent at writing small bespoke programs

For programmers I predict a future of a million micro services.

Sprawling has always been an undesirable and unnecessary byproduct of growing code bases, but there's been no easy solution to that. I wonder if LLMs would perform better on a mono repo of many small services than one sprawling monolith.
by krackers | 2025-06-11 02:34:27+00:00
To me 2011 has slightly more key travel than 2015, but 2015 and M1+ seem to have about same keytravel but M1 is a lot "crisper". M1+ keyboard seems to uniformly actuate wherever you press it, whereas the shallower keycaps of 2015 keyboard mean that it feels different when you push it from corner vs center.
by Nevermark | 2025-06-11 02:34:44+00:00
There is nothing wrong with goals. Constraints make setting useful goals easier. Constraints and goals are complementary.

But as constraints go: Ikigai is great. [0]

With regard to the popular Venn diagram [1], I add: "With who inspires you / Community"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

[1] https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/_src/7994686/ikigai_japanese_...
by AngryData | 2025-06-11 02:35:32+00:00
Plus having a pirate version is essentially advertising for them if their product is good. Many indie title success stories I think is thanks to pirates trying them out for free and then telling everyone "Wow I just played this awesome indie title that you never would have heard of because its an indie title with little to no marketing and it is really good!" which lead to people looking at it and talking about it and getting more sales. I myself have bought numerous titles that I never would have bought based on the steam shop page. This is especially true for building, survival, or physics based games, which are pumped out en-mass, but take real talent and vision to do well enough to be worth the time and money to buy and play. Just a few games off the top of my head that I own but never would have otherwise bought without first pirating and playing them include, Project Zomboid, World of Goo, Besieged, Neo Scavenger, Oxygen Not Included, Banished. And even some pretty large titles like Crusader Kings I would never have considered buying without playing it first, and now it is one of my favorite games. Factorio would be the same thing if they didn't have a old version as a demo to play.
by hdjdbdirbrbtv | 2025-06-11 02:35:53+00:00
IIRC ( and it was 20 years ago now that I learnt this) the brain uses 20% of the body's resting energy usage. Most of that is keeping neurons polarised to the outside (ion pumps need ATP!!!).

The body uses 25w resting and thus the brain is about 5w.

Source: biology degree but like I said please take with the same amount of weight as a hallucinating LLM.
by lostmsu | 2025-06-11 02:36:56+00:00
I'm sure you can object in many specific cases, but the point is there's no general way to do that. Even your description could be unable to find the famous Java bug with integer overflow in binary search had it only happen on extreme cases. I'm not even talking about race conditions.

And these are still single components, so the exponential growth of state combinations point is left unaddressed. In fact, it directly supersedes your point in this comment, as the exponentiality eats your "random data" idea before you even wrote it.
by qiki | 2025-06-11 02:37:04+00:00
This is such a charming idea, love the concept of turning a stuffed animal into a custom story. I actually have a bunch of stuffed animals myself (all with names ), so the thought of bringing them to life through a story feels incredibly cute and fun. I can imagine how meaningful this would be for parents, both as a bonding activity with their kids and as a way to pass on a bit of their own childhood magic.
by zug_zug | 2025-06-11 02:37:29+00:00
As somebody who's good at RCA, I'm worried all my embarrassed coworkers are going to take at face value a tool that's confidently incorrect 10% of the time and screw stuff up more instead of having to admit they don't know something publicly.

It'd be less bad if the tool came to a conclusion, then looked for data to disprove that interpretation, and then made a more reliably argument or admitted its uncertainty.
by seadan83 | 2025-06-11 02:38:05+00:00
Why then bring up the cinder block issue if it's unaffiliated?

> Some of us try, but, sadly, the only way this insanity will pass is for people to gain clarity on their own. Not sure what it will take. Time will tell.

I'd say it would take sound arguments. Meanwhile, your arguments are not sound. You did not address what I wrote. To rebut a 'guilt-by-association' criticism, you said "I didn't say they were [affiliated]". That confirms the criticism.

You did not address the post-facto rationalization criticism at all.

I also saw a person in a pokemon costume too. Until we can have some sound arguments and facts, it's very much a choose-your-own-adventure situation. Are we here to just yell at each other? I personally do think the country needs to maintain rule-of-law (with notable mention of the 1st amendment), and the full rule-of-law goes for everyone, police, protestors, and opportunists.
by AppInitio | 2025-06-11 02:38:44+00:00
Sorry about this: Very unusual. If the app can't access the library, presumably the 3+3 thumbnails on Home screen and the Top-30 report in View menu are also blank? Please reboot the Mac and try; if even that doesn't help please email us via the app mentioning your macOS version, so we can troubleshoot step by step.
by Eisenstein | 2025-06-11 02:39:16+00:00
I think the conclusion is that changing your business model in a reactive way to internet developments is a bad idea if you want to have a stable business. If you want to run your business that way, you better be on top of everything and you better be lucky. They rode the social media wave and lost, and now they are going to try to ride the AI wave because they don't have anything to fall back on. They are going to lose.

Legacy media grew fat off of TV and local news. Captive attention markets did not teach them how to entice people's attention, they took it for granted. They are not equipped to compete with youtube and tiktok and reddit and they will lose. Trending news from the AP wire is not unique or in depth enough for anyone to want to read more than the AI summary of your article.

What should they do? What they are good at, and what they were always good at: journalism. Write in-depth articles that take time to research and talent to write. Hire real journalists, pay them to find stories that take time to write, and publish those stories. People will pay for it.
by jamesgill | 2025-06-11 02:39:55+00:00
I have an old slide rule, though it had already passed out of use by the time I got it. My father in law, a civil engineer, used one in his early work days but eventually went to HP calculators and later, of course, computers.

I know how to do some basic operations with it. It really is a feat of engineering and design, and I seriously suggest trying one out.

As Obi Wan might say: it was an elegant weapon, from a more civilized age.
by biophysboy | 2025-06-11 02:42:12+00:00
All of these questions are easy to answer:

1) The point is that global health is also about access to a drug, not just existence.

2) We don’t. USA’s foreign aid per capita is not that high (especially now). To mobilize private money for aid, you need a long-term, trusted infrastructure.

3) Countries that receive aid typically do not have functional governments.
by typeofhuman | 2025-06-11 02:42:47+00:00
> Musk... expose a sitting president?

Well he didn't expose him did he? You fell into a trap of cognitive dissonance.

What Musk said was, "[Trump] is in the Epstein files." While this is already well known, what we don't know and what wasn't said was to what _degree_ Trump is in them. Musk is well-known for falsely accusing people he's upset with of being a pedo. Yet he didn't go that far this time. If Trump was in any compromising situation in the Epstein files we would have known about it already. The Democrats and intelligence community would not have needed the fake dossier, fake hooker allegations, Russian collosion hoax, or any of their other tricks.
by imgabe | 2025-06-11 02:44:51+00:00
I thought we weren't a Christian country?

Either way, individuals are welcome to practice any sort of compassion they want with their own money. The government collects tax dollars from citizens under threat of violence, and their only responsibility should be to use that money to ensure the welfare of its citizens, not to engage in charity work in other countries. If citizens want to do that, have the government collect fewer tax dollars and citizens can give them to charity as they see fit.
by dmsnell | 2025-06-11 02:45:47+00:00
Unicode has a range of Tag Characters, created for marking regions of text as coming from another language. These were deprecated for this purpose in favor of higher level marking (such as HTML tags), but the characters still exist.

They are special because they are invisible and sequences of them behave as a single character for cursor movement.

They mirror ASCII so you can encode arbitrary JSON or other data inside them. Quite suitable for marking LLM-generated spans, as long as you don’t mind annoying people with hidden data or deprecated usage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block)
by simonw | 2025-06-11 02:46:32+00:00
This story has a few instances of suspicious numbers like these:

> When Dotdash merged with Meredith in 2021, Google search accounted for around 60% of the company’s traffic, Vogel said. Today, it is about one-third. Overall traffic is growing, thanks to efforts including newsletters and the MyRecipes recipe locker.

If traffic is up but percentage of that traffic from search is down, does that mean search traffic is down overall? Or does it mean that strategies to diversify their traffic sources are working as planned?
by spankibalt | 2025-06-11 02:47:51+00:00
> A lot of these tools seem like useless frivolity.

That's me on a good day; I fuckin' hate smartphones (hardware and software-wise), lol. I have pretty much given up on a slab-style pocket computer (6-7 inch, essentially a deshittified, Samsung XCover-series smartphone on steroids, e. g. S-Pen, exchangeable batteries, audio jack, 1-2 USB-C ports, mSD card slot, lotsa memory, phone-functionality is second fiddle) or a small detachable (8-9 inch, also EMR-penabled, essentially an updated, miniaturized HP ZBook x2 G4 with Nintendo Switch-like capabilities for docking and attachments for a variety of controller options and the keyboard). :(