MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2025-06-02 13:43:10+00:00
Is that before world governments have to put restrictions on their electricity use or banks refuse to fund them becaue they dont make a profit.

I for one am waiting for the first AI product for the people to use. I wont hold my breath.

what have they made for us to use.

what can AI offer, that those wonderfully gifted developers have already given us.

nothing!

AI for me is just like adding an addon to your browser.

They dont make anything.

here is a list of products that use ai, most are existing products that use the ai addon!

https://www.tableau.com/data-insights/ai/examples

I personally do not use any of those things listed on that page.

It is very short list, considering the $billions that have been spent so far.

we, the people, do not need AI.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-02 13:43:20+00:00
> That does make sense as attacks like this while being demoralising doesn't really offer any real military breakthrough to the Ukrainians

Eh? These planes are regularly used to attack Ukraine, and they are irreplaceable (one odd dynamic of this war is that a lot of the Russian equipment is a legacy of the past; modern Russia simply does not have the industrial base to replace it, so unless they can somehow convince China to sell them bombers, every bomber lost is a permanent reduction in offensive capability.)
by ryan_glass | 2025-06-02 13:43:43+00:00
Basically it comes down to memory bandwidth of server CPUs being decent. A bit of oversimplification here but... The model and context have to be pulled through RAM (or VRAM) every time a new token is generated. CPUs that are designed for servers with lots of cores have decent bandwidth - up to 480GB/s with the EPYC 9 series and they can use 16 channels simultaneously to process memory. So, in theory they can pull 480GB through the system every second. GPUs are faster but you also have to fit the entire model and context into RAM (or VRAM) so for larger models they are extremely expensive because a decent consumer GPU only has 24GB of VRAM and costs silly money, if you need 20 of them. Whereas you get a lot of RDIMM RAM for a couple thousand bucks so you can run bigger models and 480GB/s gives output faster than most people can read.
by lowercased | 2025-06-02 13:43:49+00:00
Moved from SE to 12 mini, now a 13 mini - just bought used last year. Will likely hold on for another year or two. Desperately want a small screen. There just seem to be no options.

Re: thumb - I have found some gesture to pull the screen down halfway so you can reach the 'top' part without moving your hand. It's close to OK, and it's almost second nature now, but still annoying.
Show HN: Andi – AI language tutor with a 3D talking teacher (Realtime API)
by thekotik | 2025-06-02 13:43:50+00:00
I vibe-coded Andi — a browser-based AI language tutor where you practice with a 3D talking teacher in real time.

It's built with the Realtime API, WebRTC (via LiveKit), and Three.js, Next.js plus a custom lipsync animation system. The biggest challenge was performance — running smooth 3D and real-time audio in-browser is brutal. I ended up designing a lightweight 30MB character model (down from 500MB) to make it usable on the web.

It’s desktop-only for now. Mobile browsers don't have enough performance for heavy 3d models. If browser version gets stuck, just reload the lesson.

Would love feedback on: – Whether this tool can find real product–market fit in such a crowded space – How you’d approach bringing this to mobile (iOS especially)? In my experience Apple libraries don't work well for heavy hyperrealistic models. Unity seems the only reliable option rn. – Better ways to optimize or rethink this stack for 3D + realtime audio? Realtime API has random disconnects that I haven't figured out.

Try it here: https://www.anditutor.com
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-06-02 13:43:57+00:00
I find this hard to believe- how would you even know if someone used AI in producing a PR or indie product? Are you omniscient?

Further, there are articles here on HN all the time about people using AI for actual serious work. Heres a pretty significant example :

https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-...
by bradlys | 2025-06-02 13:44:09+00:00
I don’t want to be a dick but it’s not that dating apps are bad so much that most men are just ugly. The main issue men complain about is not getting matches and almost all these “new dating app” threads come from men. I can’t recall any time I heard a woman suggesting that a new dating app should be made. The main reason is that for most women - the apps work as intended. They get matched and dates and so on. For them, the issue becomes about filtering and being intentional. Which isn’t a problem that’s unique to dating apps - they’ll have this issue in any real life scenario too.

For men, it’s about even getting to a date. I haven’t met many men who complain about dating apps and that get dates. It seems exclusive to men who cannot get matches or dates. These are men that the market doesn’t want. They’re not realizing that it’s not the app - it’s them/society. You might meet someone in another way and eventually find your match but it’s very rare to see men who do exceptionally well in real life but somehow completely bomb on apps. They’re usually correlated.

Apps aren’t the issue. It’s just a society thing. You’re ugly and that’s all there is to it, man. Stop blaming the app and either get surgery or do something else with your life.
by zikani_03 | 2025-06-02 13:44:24+00:00
We have been using Vikunja for our team for about 2/3 years and it's good. It has it's quirks but generally works. What we haven't done well is keeping up to date with development as the version we installed did enough for us. We recently found out that they moved main development to github and we are keen to contribute where we can as we have found value in it.
by greedo | 2025-06-02 13:45:07+00:00
Pretty sure that I'm not the one who brought up Trophy systems?

Yes the technology exists to mitigate some of the risk. It's not deployed currently, and is very expensive. There are significant limitations to these systems, and most haven't seen combat.

You're trivializing a complex problem by pointing out that it's technically feasible, when it's more than just "we have the technology."

Show me a "proven system" in the US arsenal that can protect a large airbase from this type of attack. Not similar technology that the DoD has talked about converting to address this threat, but purchased, deployed systems.
by JohnBooty | 2025-06-02 13:45:09+00:00
Yeah. For that level of resources they probably could have just had ten Star Destroyers orbiting every known inhabited planet.

But real-world warfare history is full of these expensive disasters that, in hindsight, were spectacularly dumb ideas.

I don't think the Death Star was meant to be practical. More of a terror weapon or trump card, akin in some ways to nuclear weapons whose true value transcends their practical value. The destruction of Alderaan felt like an allegory for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-06-02 13:45:15+00:00
From one deploying stuff on prem:

Absolute best scenario is single binary with embedded static files (Go is very good at that) that just takes config and/or CLI options (preferably both if it isn't too complex of a config) and works. Or static file that just needs to be pointed at database with certain version

It can be easily run on VM, it can be easily made with container, it can be easily made into package, or ran in cloud with cloud DB service. All those options are a plus, but the fact it is a single binary makes it easier to make a package or container out of it and deliver that to customers.

Second best is .deb package that deploys a single service or a container that just exposes a port and that's it.

DB-wise there is a temptation to provide a bunch of containers that have all of app's dependencies (DB etc.) but that's a LOT of work on both side. On supplier side you have ton of stuff you need to take care of, providing method to do consistent backups, caring about log rotation, handling service restarts if something fails etc. and lastly procedures to recover it from the backup

And on client side they can't just do same database backup they do for every single other database they know, they have to take app's custom way of backing up and integrate it, or just "copy whole container and hope for best".

It can be worth it, if your setup is complex enough that asking client to install those dependencies would be a big obstacle (and especially if you need to use different versions than available under Debian/Ubuntu stable), but if you are just deploying container with app and plain PostgreSQL db without using anything special that would need latest version, just let user ship their own DB.

Also supporting "small" deployment with just SQLite backend is great for demoing stuff to management
by major505 | 2025-06-02 13:46:02+00:00
I guess most poeple that really dont care in reading in a device instead of paper, endup buying cheap tablets.

Yeah, the experience is not the same, but ereaders are fragile as fuck (i broke 2 of the damn Kindles), and very limited. Even if the the experience of reading is worse in an active iluminated screen, even a shit android tablet can be used for multiple tasks, like watching youtue, listening to music or checking e-mail. ALso they have colored screens.

I used a terrible samsgung android for 1 stuff only: reading old comic books, something that I could not do in my kindle.
by throwaway71271 | 2025-06-02 13:46:13+00:00
> I disagree with that strongly. The LLM is obviously not a human or a person, but it's not a trivial token predictor, either.

I am sorry, by no means I think it is a trivial token predictor, or a stochastic parrot of some sort. I think it has a world model, and it can do theory of mind to us, but we can not do theory of mind to it. It has planning as visible from the biology of language models paper.

> So again, I disagree about AI-generated tokens having no meaning. But I would agree there is no human connection there

What I argue is that language is uniquely human, and it is how it is because of the human condition. I think we agree more than we disagree. I say that the meaning is 'halved', it is almost as if you are talking to yourself, but the thoughts are coming from the void. This is the sound of one hand slap maybe, a thought that is not your own but it is.

I guess I am saying is that AI is much more like Alien than Artificial, but we read the tokens as if they are deeply human, and it is really hard for people to not think of it as human, purely because it uses language in such profound way.
by setgree | 2025-06-02 13:46:14+00:00
My salary is $96,000, which comes to about $5700/month after taxes and everything. I spend about $1300 a month in recurring expenses (rent, gym, etc.). I'm 36, I live with roommates in Brooklyn, and I saved $1200 last month. That means on average, I spent about $100 a day on everything else (food, fun, travel). It's a life that works for me.

IMHO, income is logarithmic [0], so in terms of things I might like to have but don't (an apartment with a shared pool?) it would probably be a big jump up in income to get them. If I got a $10K raise tomorrow, it wouldn't really make a difference.

If I ever have kids, I'll either have to give some things up or climb the income ladder.

[0] https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/
by Boogie_Man | 2025-06-02 13:46:30+00:00
Hey man, I appreciate the question and wanted to let the thread fall off before answering, because I'm just a layman and don't want to get too unorthodox theologically or be prideful because I know there are other eyes on the conversation.

A fundamental tenant of Christianity is that it is not permissible to take an "intrinsically evil" action even if it is for a good or selfless purpose. Another is that every attempt to "game the system" (for lack of a better term) is also sinful. If our ultimate goal was to "maximize entrance of other souls to heaven" and we considered ourselves to be equal in ability to God, this might be an avenue of investigation, but if our goal is to "submit to Christ our Lord" it is the slaughter of innocents resulting from our attempt to play God.

We understand religious truth as God has revealed it to us, but because of the disparity in knowledge between humanity and an all knowing being, I have the feeling (but no proof) that we'd not be able to "pull of a heist" like this. I don't know if or by what mechanism God might choose to subvert the attempt. I'm thankful that you're speaking purely hypothetically. It is my estimation that if you have faith you would not do it because it is impermissible and evil, and if you do not have faith you would not do it because you wouldn't believe it to be effective.

I also question if a person legitimately believing they would be endlessly tormented beyond anything they can conceptualize could truly chose this. Even if they could, I would imagine they'd rescind after a second of hell (not that they'd have the option). It's nice to say (as the other response did) that we'd suffer anything for our children, but if I strip away my pride and look at myself in the mirror and am honest with myself and consider the reality of what eternity means, I don't think I could do it, even though I do truly believe I'd give up my life to save their's. It's possible that I'm a coward, or it's possible that I'm able to be more honest with myself about the question. I entrust their eternal well-being to God's mercy (as I understand them to already be a Christian through Baptism) without damning myself.

It's a somewhat similar issue of authority when it comes to the crucifixion. God, being all knowing and having all authority, is able to undertake such a mission. We are able to take similar actions (jumping on a grenade to save our friends, for example), but they are temporal actions with largely temporal results. To attempt to enter the "spiritual realm" and generate "spiritual results" other than in ways which have been provided to us by God, are in obedience to him, and are facilitated (not the best word but I can't find a better one) by the Holy Spirit (also God ofc) functionally amounts to, well, "witchcraft".
by subpixel | 2025-06-02 13:46:31+00:00
My local library, which is privately funded, also has a tool lending program. It's amazing.

It doesn't replace the need for me to own things I use all the time (mower, trimmer, drill, sander, circular saw) but it's perfect for once-in-a-while things like a power washer, a table saw, or an air compressor.
by paxys | 2025-06-02 13:47:08+00:00
AI coding tools have really turned me off from engaging with the vast majority of startups and personal projects online. It used to be that people who had the skills and dedication to launch something of their own could generally be trusted to follow security best practices and be careful with user data, sometimes even more so than large companies. Now it's more likely that someone with marginal technical skills is "vibe coding" to try and make a quick buck.
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-02 13:47:22+00:00
> valued, on the other hand, means that you are brought into more conversations, not just to execute, but to help shape the direction

This article is heavy on emotional persuation, but rationally, it is not even operationally defining the terms. It posits the existence of 2 categories of employees, when, it is hard to know if they even exist.
by mooreds | 2025-06-02 13:47:23+00:00
It's a bit weird. He says there'll be a 'crack', which sounds pretty bad to me, but that we'll be fine.

> The JPMorgan Chase chief executive said on Friday that he had cautioned regulators: “You are going to see a crack in the bond market.” He added: “I’m telling you this is going to happen. And you are going to panic. I’m not going to panic. We’ll be fine.”

After scanning the transcript, I'm pretty sure he is referring to JP Morgan being fine, rather than the US economy or Americans in general.

Here's the whole interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NHLha3jG2g
by simonw | 2025-06-02 13:47:30+00:00
The reason I ask questions like this is that I know that most people are too scared to admit their ignorance... because of the risk that others might post comments like you've posted here!

I'm confident enough in my own reputation that I'll take that risk.

It's the same reason I try to step up in meetings and ask the "stupid questions" - things like "what do we mean by agent here?". There are always people in the room with the same question who are embarrassed to reveal any gaps in their knowledge.

My recommendation to you is to avoid that temptation to belittle others and instead try to engage in conversations like this in good faith.

It sounds like you've seen the evidence that fine-tuning is valuable and effective and have useful information to add to the conversation. So do that instead!

As far as I can tell, for most teams working on most problems fine-tuning is something of a trap: they assume that it's a good solution, spend months trying to get it to work by and get out-performed by their competitor who invested in better prompting and then got to benefit from the latest release of a frontier model.

In this particular case I was trying to do people who promote fine-tuning as a solution a favor - I am extremely confident that the first vendor to provide a useful side-by-side demo will see a great deal of return on that investment, because I know I'm not the only person who wants to see the benefits of fine-tuning shown with more than just a paper with some benchmark scores.
by acureau | 2025-06-02 13:47:31+00:00
23m, 2 YoE software engineer, live in Louisiana. I take home around $1100 weekly after tax. My monthly bills total ~$2500. I put ~$600 into my personal IRA, being a contractor. What remains either sits in savings, put towards to developing another source of income, or spent on games and beer.

I am fairly lucky in that I can do most things I want to. I can buy things that I want with a little saving. I can eat out with the family. I can't travel too much, though I'd like to. The only "normal life" expense I can't afford is buying a home. It seems a long way off.

I think the path forward will be moving states or working remote, as there are few jobs in software near me. At least at my experience level. For now I cannot complain. My quality of life is higher than most I know. Off topic, but I think about this a lot.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-02 13:48:30+00:00
I have a fundamental philosophy about spending money -- identify the few things that really, genuinely, make your life better and spend on those. For everything else, be a total cheapskate.

So, for example, I drive a cheap used car because a nice expensive car doesn't actually make my life better, but I won't think twice about buying an expensive tool that I'll use every day, or going out for a lavish meal every so often, etc. There is nothing I want to do but I can't because of a lack of funds.

I make six figures, and I'm not in SV or NY, so that can provide a very comfortable standard of living. I actually spend about 25% of that and put the rest into charitable donations, savings, investments, etc.
by bryanhogan | 2025-06-02 13:48:33+00:00
Well, what makes such a product high quality is highly subjective :D

But for me personally I'd love a Kanban product that can rival Notion's feature set and simplicity, can be used offline / is local-first, offers some custimzation options, does not force me into a subscription, works well on desktop (Windows) as well as on my phone (Android).
by mardifoufs | 2025-06-02 13:49:04+00:00
As I said, there's a big difference between them saying something, and them actually publishing internal documents about the case. I mean they can always lie about the documents themselves or modify them, but there's a very long history of intelligence agencies outright lying, even in front of Congress.

There's less of a history of them modifying or altering documents that they are forced to release.

Fwiw, I believe that Oswald did it, and that there's almost no evidence for any other shooter.
by eitally | 2025-06-02 13:49:10+00:00
I actually don't agree, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise. I posit that there's an employer expectation that every employee will be "useful", but utility is a fungible characteristic and the majority of managers and employers treat job descriptions of standardized roles just like that. Employees in those roles are susceptible to both replacement and career advancement, depending how "useful" they are, and how the company is doing.

That's an entirely different set of metrics than determining "value". Being valuable means being a trusted strategic voice to some portion of the leadership, and being recognized for contributions that go beyond (horizontally or diagonally) the employee's job description. In many cases, this value = trust relationship is evidenced by how frequently senior managers bring former employees with them when joining new firms, or how small & tight knit the community is for specialty roles/functions.

Lots of fresh grads and junior staff focus 99% on being useful, but career advancement beyond the first one or two promotions depends MUCH more on being valued.
by alistairSH | 2025-06-02 13:49:19+00:00
For me, a dedicated e-reader (Kindle in my case) has two or three benefits...

1. The screen is easier on my eyes. Especially at bedtime, when I do the majority of my reading.

2. The form factor - larger than a phone, smaller and lighter than a regular tablet. I find it much easier to use lying down (vs my iPad).

3. Cost - WAY less expensive than a good tablet. I can take the Kindle on a backpacking trip and not worry about breaking it. A hammock and an e-reader are my "luxury" items on these trips.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-02 13:49:31+00:00
Travel - $20K - $30K per year. Not extravagant trips, just a lot of them and months long “nomadding” in different cities and starting next year a couple of months in the winter in Costa Rica. Most of our long stays are offset via income by renting our home out. We live in a unit of a condetel (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp) that we own.

We are 51/49, grown kids, and I work remotely

I make in the low $200s in cloud consulting and another $7500 in rental income offsets to pay our mortgage + expenses when we aren’t there