MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dagw | 2025-06-17 14:29:16+00:00
Yea, it didn't mean that UBI could replace all of social security for everybody. Social security is (greatly simplified) made up of a guaranteed minimum payment + a payment you've 'earned' by working. UBI would replace (and be equal to) the minimum payment, the money that you've 'earned' from working will still be paid out. The core point is that at least a chunk of UBI will be replacing existing government subsidies and not be in addition to them.
by notnullorvoid | 2025-06-17 14:29:18+00:00
If I had a green field project that was low novelty I would happily use AI to get a prototype out the door quickly. I basically never work on those kinds of projects though, and I've seen AI tools royal screw up enough times given clear direction on both novel and trivial tasks in existing code bases.

Detailed specs are certainly a transferable skill, what isn't is the tedious hand holding and defensive prompting. In my entire career I've worked with a lot of people, only one required as much hand holding as AI. That person was using AI to do all their work.
by sneak | 2025-06-17 14:29:19+00:00
> Terrestrial because—well, have you ever tried to use a satellite connection for anything real? Latency is awful, and the systems tend to go down in bad weather.

This isn’t true anymore. Starlink changed the whole game. It’s fast and low latency now, and almost everyone on any service that isn’t Starlink has switched en masse to Starlink because previous satellite internet services were so bad.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-17 14:29:23+00:00
> My statement is true no matter how many choices are there, or how skewed the probabilities are. Your count of 99 incorrect labels is perfectly fine but it lives in sample space.

No, it's not.

If you have a 99% chance of picking the wrong outcome, you don't have a 50% chance of picking the right outcome.

The 1% chance of being right doesn't suddenly become 50% just because you reduce the problem space to a boolean outcome.

If I put 100 marbles into a jar, and 99 of them are black, and one is red, and your single step instruction is: "Draw the red marble from the jar." - you don't have a 50% chance of picking the right marble if you're drawing randomly (i.e. the AI has no intelligence whatsoever).
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-17 14:29:42+00:00
if your goal is to deter China don't give your tax dollars to Sam Altman and instead learn how to build missiles and ships again, unless you think you're going to deter Xi with ripped off studio ghibli profile pictures

https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/10/ONI-PLAN-v...
by tempodox | 2025-06-17 14:29:56+00:00
> But it didn’t last.

Of course not. All this gatekeeping is how every Tom, Dick and Harriette make their money and wrestle for dominance. Believing that any specific tech would fundamentally change that is hopelessly naive. The honeymoon phases that make it look like it could be different this time around are merely there to lock in lots of users.

It's in the nature of capitalism and that's not a technological issue.
by kragen | 2025-06-17 14:30:00+00:00
My bookmark from May 28 says:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6XIgdS1rzs #Applied-Science #video on #bootstrapping “insanely powerful” planetary ball mill grinder to make α'' iron nitride filled epoxy for magnets, which did work somewhat; he tested it in a 1.6-tesla vibrating sample magnetometer he built using a lock-in amplifier to plot its B–H curve.

Hopefully this summary is useful to others.

On the topic of alternatives to rare-earth magnets, their most important use is probably electrical machines (motors/generators, and switched reluctance electrical machines can supposedly have power densities comparable to rare-earth-magnet permanent-magnet electrical machines, and you can build them out of just punched electrical steel, copper or aluminum wire, and insulator, just like a line-frequency power transformer. (I suspect Metglas would work better than electrical steel, without requiring any strategic materials, but might be impractically expensive.) Some relevant bookmarks from September 22:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAhF45AtsgA #video by #Akio showing his Arduino-driven switched reluctance motor #electronics control board and working motor #hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvw6k4ppUZU #video about "SynRM" switched reluctance motors made out of sheets with slots punched out to follow field lines. Low-quality AI voiceover from #Lesics.

(You can actually build SRMs out of non-laminated mild steel and speaker wire or whatever, but I think they won't be efficient.)

Another related bookmark from today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAQexymmt64 lecture #video from 02012 (? or 02019?) by JR Hendershot about #switched-reluctance motors (“reluctance synchronous motors”) mentioning ABB’s new #SynRM product line (17–350kW), mentioning higher torque density than induction motors (which use the exact same stator design) and lower cost than permanent-magnet electrical machines as key advantages. Cites a price spike in neodymium as a key reason for interest in the area, which makes me think it’s from 02012 rather than 02019, when it was uploaded to YouTube. It actually says that “reluctance synchronous” motors are different from “switched reluctance” motors. Shows little webs in the stamping to hold the flux carriers together in the transversely laminated anisotropy rotor. Shows ABB’s plot of efficiency over its product line, ranging from 88% at 1kW rated power up to 97.5% at 700kW, because of the missing ohmic losses in the rotor relative to an induction motor. Boglietti and Pastorelli’s paper from 02008 reports 17% higher torque for an SRM (RSM) version of an existing induction motor. Shows some asterisk-shaped switched-reluctance rotors (using higher frequencies) and contrasts with RSMs’ trippy rotor design (using the same inverters as for an induction motor). Also has some nice electronics schematics. “The key to the improvements in efficiency and power factor lies in the inductance ratio or the saliency ratio in the d [direct] & q [quadrature] axes.”
by atmavatar | 2025-06-17 14:30:16+00:00
> And honestly why are we just accepting that these organizations sitting on infinitely growing wealth can use it to incentivize us to give us all their data for convenience and otherwise worry-free management of it, and then just lock you out one day based on bad algorithms, and offer next to no customer support to resolve it because they don't want to spend a tiny fraction of their operation budget on a department for that?

We aren't. That's why we tell people not to trust a company with their data.

That's like complaining people telling you to avoid a super cheap space heater are elitist and unsympathetic to those with less money, while at the same time decrying that everyone accepts that the manufacturer gets away with selling a space heater that occasionally burns your house down.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-06-17 14:30:23+00:00
Who's mad? I am not mad that their mod exists, I think they're sad snowflakes. I'm mad that people think removing intolerance from our communities is somehow hypocritical. The paradox of tolerance tells us that a community that tolerates intolerance turns into an intolerant community. Prune out the racists, the fascists, and the bigots at every opportunity or else they will ruin your society. Those who are intolerant should not be granted tolerance.
by diggan | 2025-06-17 14:31:07+00:00
> but because it exists on the grace of what appears to be a third party (Overwolf), it could be shut down at any point

The source of r2modman is available, and under a FOSS-compatible license (https://github.com/ebkr/r2modmanPlus), together with a relatively small but dedicated community. Ideally, the actual file sharing shouldn't be centralized (imho), but it sounds overly alarmist to say it can be shut down at any point.
by brucehoult | 2025-06-17 14:31:37+00:00
SiFive was founded by academics who had successfully taped out a number of processor chips. They subsequently hired many experienced industry CPU designers from Arm, Intel, AMD and others.

> the future of SiFive is unclear

What is that supposed to mean? The future of Intel is unclear. The future of Arm is unclear. The future of Tesla is unclear. The future of Boeing is unclear. That's just life in a highly competitive industry.

> Choosing another language is pretty much impossible, unless you translate it to either SystemVerilog or VHDL.

?? Which of course is exactly what Chisel has always done. Do you even know anything about it?

> If you do that, then it is hard to justify using another language instead of writing directly in SystemVerilog or VHDL.

No it is not.

Chisel enables much more abstraction than Verilog, enabling you to design not just a single CPU core but a family with very different characteristics. Diplomacy simply has no analog in the Verilog world.

Chisel, FIRRTL, CIRCT enable the same kind of optimisations on RTL as GCC or LLVM do for C code. In fact CIRCT is built on LLVM. You can emit Verilog that is optimised for different hardware technologies, including different PDKs, or FPGA vs ASIC, in a way that is completely impossible with Verilog.
by potatolicious | 2025-06-17 14:32:10+00:00
A good point. The author does briefly address the point of mobile internet but I think it deserves a lot more real estate in any analysis like this. A few more points worth adding:

- Depending on your product or use case, somewhere between a majority and a vast majority of your users will be using your product from a mobile device. Throughput and latency can be extremely high, but also highly variable over time. You might be able to squeeze 30Mbps and 200ms pings for one request and then face 2Mbps and 4000ms pings seconds later.

- WiFi generally sucks for most people. The fact that they have a 100Mbps/20Mbps terrestrial link doesn't mean squat if they're eking out 3Mbps with eye-watering packet loss because they're in their attic office. The vast majority of your users are using wireless links (WiFi or cell) and are not in any way hardlined to the internet.
by HocusLocus | 2025-06-17 14:32:46+00:00
That's why I don't vape nicotine. Small molecule, sold in concentrate, mixed by who knows who. A high school chemistry experiment. If a butcher offers you a 4-ton pork chop by mistake at least it's obvious you shouldn't stand underneath it. Cigs are cigs but nicotine in solution is an assassination weapon. Ask the CIA.

People who long for the old days must realize there were serious mental issues in society. It wasn't a simple case of the dids and the didn'ts. People were batsh*it insane, and I don't mean hallucinogens, especially not LSD that is not directly toxic at all. People were literally driven to hysteria by the ~thought~ of LSD.

The juggernaut opposing LSD and set the stage for the endless war on drugs. It was the boogeyman that could justify any legal atrocity. Lives could be destroyed, tripping teenagers were treated as if it was a life threatening medical emergency, which is trauma and sadism. The monkey brain slides that implied chromosome damage was deliberately not replicated after the mistake in handling was found, and the study was cited for a decade after author retracted it. Just too convenient to repeat the lie.

It is not surprising that G. Gordon Liddy a toady in Nixon's cabinet, spoke up at a meeting briefly to suggest putting LSD on opposition journalist Jack Anderson's steering wheel. As if it's presence would cause an instant accident that flipped the car 5 stories into the air. He was showing off his ignorance and trying to boost his reputation as a 'fixer'.

But far more dangerous than LSD, a few impaired people here and there was the mass hysteria to the 'plot' and 'scandal' that wouldn't work anyway and 3/4 of the country was consumed by it. That was in 1972.

Then along comes fentanyl that is really scary and not much serious pushback, until 'recently'.
by DannyPage | 2025-06-17 14:32:49+00:00
A big focus is (rightly) on rural areas, but mobile internet packet loss can also a big issue in cities or places where there are a lot of users. It's very frustrating to be technically online, but effectively offline. An example: Using Spotify on a subway works terribly until you go into Airplane mode, and then it suddenly works correctly with your offline music.
Show HN: Magic Machines
by xyz_steven | 2025-06-17 14:33:01+00:00
Magic Machines lets you transform images instantly with curated styles and effects. Pick a Machine, drop in your image, and watch it work — no prompts, no friction.

Launch Machines:

- Ghibli — Turn any image into a dreamy Ghibli-style scene.

- Caricature — Transform any image into a fun caricature.

- Vintage Advertisement — Convert your image into a retro ad poster.

- Victorian Era Portrait — Create timeless Victorian-style portraits.

- Muppet — Reimagine any photo in the style of The Muppets.

- Restore — Repair old, damaged, or low-quality images.

- Baby Generator — Combine two faces to see what their baby might look like.

- ... New Machines drop regularly, so check back often to see what’s new.

And images are just the first step — wait until you see what our Machines do next.
by horsawlarway | 2025-06-17 14:33:21+00:00
The power is coming from energy that's otherwise going to heat the planet regardless (solar rays).

If you really wanted to be clever, your best bet would probably be to turn it into a laser beam and send it back to space. Would mimic that energy getting reflected instead of absorbed, albeit through a pretty inefficient and convoluted process.

Might make more sense to run carbon capture devices at that point, but again - in either of these cases we're back into the "it's getting pretty expensive to waste this energy" spot.
by powvans | 2025-06-17 14:33:24+00:00
This is amazing! I am vacationing in Spain and rented, I think, the same model as you. A BMW X2 M something or other.

Absolutely rock bottom by far the worst driving experience ever. Ultimate driving experience indeed. Insane and subtle annoyance, major wtfbbq moments, endless alarm dinging when you exceed whatever speed limit it incorrectly read from a sign, and on and on. The slamming on of the parking brake as you approach a large blade of grass in reverse is nerve wracking and startling even when you know it’s going to happen.

On narrow streets and in parking lots it feels less maneuverable than my full size American SUV. It may have the same turning radius despite being half the size.

Your tweet is making me laugh because honestly you cannot exaggerate how bad this car is. Every time we get in and start going my wife and I share a moment of incredulity. How can they have made this car this bad?
by strict9 | 2025-06-17 14:33:26+00:00
Around 10 years ago I thought they were a terrible practice. A win for graphic designers that wanted simple and nice looking at the expense of usability.

But over time people learn and its standard. And as the NN group article points out: it has become familiar and known today.

My favorite iteration of this was in the This American Life mobile app that used a graphic of an actual hamburger instead of 3 stacked gray lines. This was also about 10 years ago I believe. Unfortunately I can't find any reference or graphic depicting it.
by ojosilva | 2025-06-17 14:34:07+00:00
Well the article briefly addresses this: it's about the iteration: given a problem and sufficient processing power we can attain an intelligent,correct answer by quickly iterating from prompt to results.

There's also a measurement vector for zero-shot LLM responses. But excelling at zero-shot is not a requirement for making LLMs useful.

The market is pointing the way, agents increase iteration capabilities, increasing usefulness. Reasoning models/architectures are another example where iterations make advances - the LLM iterates "in-band" and self-evals so that there's a better chance of a correct outcome.

All that in a mere 3.5 years since launch. To call it an autocomplete is very short sighted. Even if we reached LLMs ceiling, the choice of AI-oriented workflows (TTS, TDD, YOLO...), tooling, protocols and additional architecture adjustments (gigantic context windows, instant adaptors, speed, etc) will make up for any lack of precision the same way we work around human flaws to help us succeed in most tasks.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-17 14:34:42+00:00
> Everyone stopped working entirely.

Firstly, that's not at all true. Secondly, those who did stop working did so because they were unable to work, because their company could not operate without in-person contact (i.e., restaurants).

Also, the government benefits only came _after_ people had stopped working/companies shut down, not the other way around.
by Sunspark | 2025-06-17 14:34:56+00:00
The wavelengths are spiky compared to incandescent, and the LEDs flicker if they are not DC-driven.

The flicker is pretty annoying because the transition is an abrupt on-off. Where I am the city had the bright idea to wrap LED ribbons around the poles in the downtown area to make it look more interesting. They connected the ribbons without diffusers directly to the power source of the streetlight. So what has happened now is that as you drive or walk you are looking directly at an unshielded flickering LED.

I still continue to install incandescent bulbs. They look better, and as I live in a cold-weather country the heat they generate is welcomed.
by bandoti | 2025-06-17 14:34:59+00:00
Any symbolic visual takes time for our brains to decode. When compared to language which we’ve spent our entire lives decoding and which comes much naturally, the cognitive burden is much higher.

In addition the three bars are as mundane of a composition as you can get, so it doesn’t capture the eye well to begin with. Typically the eye gets pulled to more visually complexity.

But ultimately it boils down to the decoding idea—language is the ultimate “codec” of human communication.
by IAmBroom | 2025-06-17 14:35:34+00:00
The implication of "load" is not that it's a huge hurdle, but just that it takes longer (even a tiny bit) for most users to visually assess what it means. Add up all those little delays, and you have a frustrated new user.

I regularly use a piece of software from IBM that has (this won't surprise you) an awful UI. There are not one but TWO hamburger menus, hidden amongst a bunch of text menu headings, and figuring out where the one you want is can be noticeably taxing. Explaining to another user where to click is even worse - "No, not that one, the one under the... to the right..."
Show HN: Anime AI Gen – Create Anime Art with Top Model (No Local Setup)
by stewardyunn | 2025-06-17 14:35:36+00:00
Hey HN! I built Anime AI Generator , a browser-based tool that lets you generate high-quality anime art instantly—no GPU, Stable Diffusion setup, or coding required.

Key Features: - Preloaded AI models (Pony Diffusion, Animagine, Illustrious) for diverse styles

- Text-to-anime in seconds – just describe your idea (e.g., "cyberpunk samurai with neon katana") - Zero local setup – runs entirely in the browser - Free trial to test before upgrading

Why? Existing tools often require technical expertise setup or expensive hardware. I wanted a frictionless way for anyone to create anime art—whether for fun, prototyping, or professional projects.

(Bonus: Works on mobile too!)

Would love to hear your thoughts, use cases, or feature requests. Thanks!
by chownie | 2025-06-17 14:35:49+00:00
> No, they really weren't, they were made to restore an experience that matches 99.99% of people's own experiences and sensibilities at the very start of a game

Exceptionally funny to read this in the face of the most recent example, where the author was banned after he explicitly said that he was making his mod for the purpose of upsetting people.
by lousken | 2025-06-17 14:36:05+00:00
This belongs to /r/assholedesign

If you force people into bitlocker, at least have a setup wizard at the start that forces them to export the key/print the key, or maybe even ask them if they want their stuff encrypted. For a regular home desktop, it's rarely a need and too much hassle

Secondly, why not offer use something like LUKS does just with a password?

TPM is a horrible way to secure things anyway and you need a PIN for true security.
by ddtaylor | 2025-06-17 14:36:11+00:00
It depends on the game and what the mod maker decided.

I made the mod for the Divinity: Original Sin that changes a few bytes in the game XML files to allow for 4 players in game instead of just 2, since it was mostly supported but probably removed for console porting simplicity. This is a braindead simple mod that just needs to find some XML tag inside the embedded EXE/DLL file and update it. I didn't even have to update any checksums, etc.

When I published the mod I chose to target the hashes/offsets of the Steam EXE since that was what everyone had. So, while I didn't target the workshop (as this modification could not be done with it) I did target Steam end-users.
by vidarh | 2025-06-17 14:36:37+00:00
A natural explanation would be an answer to "why", but to "how" to start with.

They are not trying to explain "why", but to iterate toward an approximation of "how" that explains more and more, knowing it will always be incomplete. If someone looks to natural explanations as an answer to "why", then, sure, that is religion.

But to me, simulation or not is orthogonal to the "how". The "how", if we are within a simulation would still be down to identifying which "how" fits the available in-simulation information.

It's irrelevant that this wouldn't be "real" because within our reality, absent someone "piercing the veil" we can only relate to that reality, be it real or simulated.
by nonethewiser | 2025-06-17 14:37:00+00:00
This largely seems like an alternative way of saying "you have to validate the results of an LLM." Is there any "premature closure" risk if you simply validate the results?

Premature closure is definitely a risk with LLMs but I think code is much less at risk because you can and SHOULD test it. But its a bigger problem for things you cant validate.

I might starting calling this "the original sin" with LLMs... not validating the output. There are many problems people have identified with using LLMs and perhaps all of them come back to not validating.
Tell HN: YouTube's New AI Search Is Incredibly Good
by keepamovin | 2025-06-17 14:37:02+00:00
I just saw a new section pop up on my home page, something like "Ask for videos in any way you like" with a few natural language query examples. I tried my own, and in a few seconds 3 highly specific, great videos directly addressing what I asked appeared, with more below.

I believe there's no way I could have found this content through traditional YouTube search, and would have had to have passively waited for it to be recommended, or followed the social/link web to get to it, across long journeys of search country, etc.

This is game changing. Thank you YouTube for putting this in. Really well done!
by mathattack | 2025-06-17 14:37:15+00:00
As an undergrad I had an argument with my Theory professor on if #s could ever be truly random. I believed they couldn't, they could just be #s we don't know in advance, but that everything was actually predetermined. His response, "If needed, we could get them at a quantum level."

I didn't have the Physics knowledge at the time to realize he was right.
by chownie | 2025-06-17 14:37:26+00:00
Yes! Thank you! This is actually the perfect example, because that mod wasn't removed and the author was banned after he specifically said he was making the mod for the purpose of upsetting trans people. Even better with the context that he was linking to kiwifarms, a known hotspot for online harassment.

Nothing proves with more certainty that the GP of this thread has it backwards, the removed mods were uploaded with bad intentions.