MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by idkwhattocallme | 2025-06-03 14:44:59+00:00
The apocalypse will presumably come when communication + coordination meetings are no longer necessary. People are really inefficient at this. We have to all get on a synchronous meeting and wait 20 minutes to share our 90 second update. We can debate the utility of these meetings, but that's how it's done and nothing has replaced them. Agents/AI will just get the info they need from the source, no updates needed. In my experience 60%+ of a corporate job would go away if I could just ask an all knowing bot where we were on something and get an instant response vs waiting for someone to respond to a slack or not wanting to bother them knowing we were meeting tomorrow morning for updates. All the people who dedicate themselves to making meetings work won't be necessary. I'm kinda excited for this future.
by willk357 | 2025-06-03 14:45:18+00:00
Has anyone experimented with an ensemble + synthesizer approach for reliability? I'm thinking: make n identical requests to get diverse outputs, then use a separate LLM call to synthesize/reconcile the distinct results into a final answer. Seems like it could help with the consistency issues discussed here by leveraging the natural variance in LLM outputs rather than fighting it. Any experience with this pattern?
by hostyle | 2025-06-03 14:45:35+00:00
For a long time there has been back chatter on how to turn programming into a more professional field, more like actual engineering where when something goes wrong actual people and companies start to take security seriously, and get held accountable for their mistakes, and start to actually earn their high salaries.

Getting AI to hallucinate its way into secure and better quality code seems like the antithesis of this. Why don't we have AI and robots working for humanity with the boring menial tasks - mowing laws, filing taxes, washing dishes, driving cars - instead of attempting to take on our more critical and creative outputs - image generation, movie generation, book writing and even website building.
Show HN: Controlling 3D models with voice and hand gestures
by getToTheChopin | 2025-06-03 14:45:52+00:00
I'm sharing my project to control 3D models with voice commands and hand gestures:

- use voice commands to change interaction mode (drag, rotate, scale, animate)

- use hand gestures to control the 3D model

- drag/drop to import other models (only GLTF format supported for now)

Created using threejs, mediapipe, web speech API, rosebud AI, and Quaternius 3D models

Githhub repo: https://github.com/collidingScopes/3d-model-playground

Demo: https://xcancel.com/measure_plan/status/1929900748235550912

I'd love to get your feedback! Thank you
by wiseowise | 2025-06-03 14:46:27+00:00
> imagine

Trying to use imaginary situations when there’s a clear and real one going on - check.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_the_Russian...

> Dozens of confirmed rape cases, that don’t even include all the violence between 2014 and 2022

>> Well, akshually , tovarisch, rapes haven’t even started yet

Check.

> SMO

It’s war, “drug”, even führer junior called it already.

Calling war SMO - check.

> What about west

Check.

> Denying war crimes

Check.

Astonishing, perfect record. Straight out of metodichka, Petrov.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-03 14:46:27+00:00
> Well, now nobody can really even say what jobs will be available in 5 to 10 years with high confidence.

I am very sure that those jobs that have been existing for a long time will continue existing for a long time (and no: even if some disruption occurs, these jobs won't suddenly disappear, but will rather phased out slowly; you thus have sufficient time to make a decent plan for you).

In other words: in my opinion one can predict rather well many jobs that will be available in 5 to 10 years.

The "inconvenient" truth rather is that many high-paying jobs in the new economy sector don't satisfy this criterion of "existing for a long time". So by this criterion you might miss out some hard to predict high-earning opportunities. Thus, if you are the kind of person who tends to easily become envious if your friends suddenly experience a windfall, such a job perhaps won't make you happy.
by DanHulton | 2025-06-03 14:46:41+00:00
> and the right click copy people would be just as in violation of the law

What are you EVEN talking about.

If you transmit an image to my computer when I browse your website, that image is now saved on my computer in my browser's cache. It is too late for your supposed legal contact at this point, I have already copied your image, at your explicit instruction. Now try to run that through court.

"Your honor, I instructed the defendant's machine to save a copy of my image on his computer, which it did, causing the defendant to have copied my image, thus violating this here legal contract written on a slice of American cheese."

You can already make legal contracts about the use and re-use of art. NFTS, as a method for trying to prevent people from performing actions the internet explicitly requires for them to even be seen in the first place, were, are, and will remain nonsense.
by creesch | 2025-06-03 14:46:54+00:00
You said a bunch without saying much. It also doesn't track. If the majority of AI work is supposed to be done by agents, capable of doing the entire process including making PRs. Then, why isn't there an explosion in such PRs on a large amount of open source projects? Even more so, why am I not seeing these PRs on AI related open source projects? If I need to target it even more directly, why am I a not seeing hints of this being applied on code agent repositories?

Call me naive, but you'd think that these specifically want to demonstrate how well their product works. Making an effort to distinguish PRs that are largely the work of their own agents. Yet, I am not seeing that.

I have no doubt that people find use in some aspects of these tools. Though I personally more subscribe to the interactive rubber ducky usage of them. But 90% from where I am standing seems like a very, very far way off.
by eeiaao | 2025-06-03 14:48:42+00:00
Appreciate your interest.

Yea, there is lot to be added, that's by design. I'm not aiming for one-pass toy, this is foundational infra, not a weekend simulator.

FP numbers wrapper are planned. Sharing strategies is not a priority, maybe I will add some just for demo. And for sure I'm not sharing backtesting engine.

Goal to build infra - not give away alpha.
Show HN: Winhider – Hide windows from screenshare and Taskbar/Taskswitcher
by bigwiz | 2025-06-03 14:48:59+00:00
This is a Windows OS tool allows you to hide any windows from screen-sharing software and even from your taskbar/task-switcher(alt-tab), while still be able to use the and interact with the window in your original system. Comes with CLI and GUI Interfaces.

Website : https://winhider.bitmutex.com Winget : `winget install winhider` Release : github.com/aamitn/winhider/releases/latest

Cheers
by jscalisi | 2025-06-03 14:49:04+00:00
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by voidUpdate | 2025-06-03 14:49:08+00:00
It would be nice if they also couldn't target us with more information than what we consent to give them. Like, fine, if you want to target facebook ads at people using details they've filled in, I can see that being acceptable, but trying to scrape every single byte of data about us and using that to throw targeted ads at us feels icky.

Better moderation of crappy AI-generated image ads that are just scamming you would be nice as well.
by verisimi | 2025-06-03 14:49:09+00:00
We don't get to the source. Have you ever personally seen any historical sources? Eg the sources for classical writings or the Bible? At best you get high resolution imagery provided by suspicious folks such as RB Toth.

If the source is corrupt - as I suggest and as is possible because the Medicis provided/sanctioned their version - all you have is interpretation based on flawed data. Endless production of information (by ai) based on flawed sources (this is our history) only serves to increase the haystack rather than helping you to converge on truth.
by throwaway1004 | 2025-06-03 14:49:19+00:00
I mean examples in-practice of such a system being used for anything other than mass surveillance of citizens which flouts their constitutional and human rights.

>having laws written down by elected leaders

The EU commission is not elected by public vote.

>judges who are accountable to the electorate

Judges are not elected by public vote.

edit: neither are the think tanks, NGOs, and array of well-paid experts who tend to both guide legislation and/or justify it to the public. This discussion can go in circles indefinitely as long as you continue to ignore reality and defer back to abstract principles and the _stated_ values & goals of the regime.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-06-03 14:50:02+00:00
I deeply resent the notion that we engineers should let non-engineers tell us how to achieve agreed-upon objectives (e.g. "use LLMs more!"). I'm happy to use LLMs when they are useful. If I have to babysit them excessively, then it's a double loss: I'm not accruing domain knowledge, and I'm wasting time. The contract of work I was sold in the early 2000s: decision makers specify what should be be built, and what the time constraints are. This bounds the space of possibilities along with the local engineering culture. I bear the responsibility of execution, clarifying requirements, and bringing up potential issues sooner rather than later.

However, at no point was the exact technical approach prescribed to me. It'd be asinine if someone came to me and said, "you need to be using VSCode, not vim." It's irrelevant to execution. Yet, that's exactly what's happening with LLMs.

The denial of agency to devs via prescriptive LLM edicts will only end badly.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-03 14:51:10+00:00
Fun article, although I'd say I'm maybe slightly more on the skeptical side.

I've found LLMs can't really write a whole program there isn't already a template for. They're good enough at writing individual functions, and as the author mentioned, their breadth of knowledge is better than any individual.

Honestly, I see them as a supercharged version of googling, without all the out of context answers you get from Google since they also place ads and whatnot. I find an LLM can get me an answer far quicker than a regular internet search, even if it's imperfect and I'm probably not going to put it straight into my code.
Show HN: Slurm-web – open-source lightweight web UI for Slurm HPC/AI clusters
by rezib | 2025-06-03 14:51:28+00:00
Hi HN,

I’d like to share Slurm-web, an open source web interface to monitor Slurm HPC & AI clusters in real time.

It provides a read-only overview of job queues and node status with metrics and advanced visualizations – useful to sysadmins, managers and end-users – without needing to SSH in or run command-line tools.

Slurm is the world's leading workload manager and the de facto standard for HPC and AI clusters. It has a powerful command-line interface, but it's complex to use. Many HPC centers deploy advanced stacks to create custom dashboards with exporters, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, which are complex and time-consuming to design and maintain.

Slurm-web offers clear and accessible views of the cluster – with minimal setup and overhead.

And it is released as free software under the GNU GPL v3!

Key features:

- Dashboard with interactive charts of resources and jobs status - Instant jobs filtering and sorting - Live jobs status update with colored badges to visualize at a glance - GPU resources utilization monitoring - Advanced visualization of node status with racking topology - Intuitive visualization of QOS and advanced reservations - Dark mode support - Multi-clusters support - LDAP authentication (including Active Directory support) - Advanced RBAC permissions management - Transparent caching - Integration with Prometheus to collect and chart timeseries metrics of Slurm

Architecture:

- Backend: Python (Flask), uses Slurm REST API to consume data from scheduler - Frontend: Vue.js and Tailwind CSS

It is easy to deploy with native deb and RPM packages for most common Linux distributions.

The roadmap is full of features such as reporting and job submissions. In the meantime, I would be more than happy to get your feedback on this software!
Show HN: Compliant LLM toolkit for ensuring compliance & security of AI systems
by kaushik92 | 2025-06-03 14:51:51+00:00
With the right technique, I was able to break the so-called secure models like Claude and OpenAI.

So, I built an open-source tool to automate this and find security holes in any hosted model.

I got claude-sonnet-4 to demonstrate the following harmful behavior:

- steal data from downstream tool calls using sql injection, code injection and template injection attacks

- install spyware or malware using prompt obfuscation to send data to a third-party server

Try it yourself with this simple command:

pip install compliant-llm && compliant-llm dashboard
by laconicmatt | 2025-06-03 14:52:53+00:00
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by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-06-03 14:53:02+00:00
I think there are more possibilities than simply hoarding.

A game might be conceptually interesting enough that I am willing to toss a few dollars to the author as a show of support for their effort (particularly when the discount reaches >75%) even if I know full well that it will likely never quite reach the threshold where I find it interesting enough to install it and try it out.

For other games that are mostly story rather than gameplay, I may already have experienced the content elsewhere; e.g. for Slay The Princess, I watched a playthrough by an online streamer and found the experience interesting enough to purchase the game as a show of support to the creators.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-06-03 14:53:02+00:00
I ask this as someone with a lot of respect for education and the Humanities: do the majority of Humanities students actually get this type of education?

Any conversations I've had with students or graduates of Arts, Literature, etc. indicates that their education was very much about consuming and regurgitating. Maybe the top 5% approach their studies the way you're describing but I've never seen anyone like that in the wild.
by jajko | 2025-06-03 14:53:08+00:00
Why nobody us building automated shotgun based solutions for anti-air defenses... maybe they need more than 100-150m reliable reach? Having 300 of those covering one airfield may not be ideal, nor cost effective, nor easy to manufacture and deploy and maintain in such numbers... we talk about russia after all, they let most of their strategic bombers arrogantly unprotected on runways with full gas tanks.

I don't think western common folks grok how depraved that country is in terms of doing good work, reward systems for such and corruption on every single level. puttin' built a mafia state and pushed this behavior from top->bottom, and these are side effects. Not some soviet competence and discipline, which wasn't stellar either but light years ahead of current state.
by vaidhy | 2025-06-03 14:53:22+00:00
I think the discussions are also missing another key element. The time in takes to read someone else code is way more mentally tiring.

When I am writing the code, my mind tracks what I have done and the new pieces flow. When I am reading code written by someone else, there is no flow.. I have to track individual pieces and go back and forth on what was done before.

I can see myself using LLMs for short snippets rather than start something top down.
by benmmurphy | 2025-06-03 14:54:32+00:00
there is also some weirdness or used to be some weirdness with linux and modifying shared libraries. for example if you have a process is using a shared library and the contents of the file is modified (same inode) then what behaviour is expected? i think there are two main problems

1) pages from the shared library are lazily loaded into memory so if you try and access a new page you are going to get it from the new binary which is likely to cause problems

2) pages from the shared library might be 'swapped' back to disk due to memory pressure. not sure whether the pager will just throw the page away and try to swap back in from disk from the new file contents or if it will notice the disk page is dirty and use the swap for write back to preserve the original page.

also, i remember it used to be possible to trigger some error if you tried to open a shared library for writing while it was in use but I can't seem to trigger that error anymore.
by palmotea | 2025-06-03 14:55:17+00:00
I don't like the reasoning behind these changes, but I'm not morally outraged. Space exploration is really just a luxury product for nerds, and no one actually needs it (despite the numerous sci-fi fantasies that claim otherwise).

There are a lot of really basic needs that are going unmet in society, so it would totally make sense to redirect money towards away from NASA, or at least to systems and projects that are "dual use" (e.g. not space telescopes and probes). I know that's not what Trump's doing here, but I'd rather some NASA space probe be cut than a similar cut to Medicaid.
by marcosdumay | 2025-06-03 14:55:18+00:00
I had an Irex. The company went out of business a few years later. It had an 11" screen, very high contrast, supported note-taking over any kind of content, and had a nice modules API.

> Most eReaders have been 6" since the days of the Sony Librie.

7" readers were common when I brought my current one, but nowadays there are only 6" ones out there. A bit before I brought mine, there existed 8" ones, and Amazon launched an interesting A4 sized one.
by cvwright | 2025-06-03 14:55:28+00:00
No but people do pay universities for (among other things) a meaningful credential that testifies to their knowledge and abilities.

If taking away phones is what’s required to make that credential meaningful again, then the universities must do it.

I think of it like a personal trainer. Do you pay them to make you sweaty and sore? Not really, but sweat and soreness are consequences of doing what it takes to build muscle/endurance/etc.
by LiquidSky | 2025-06-03 14:55:53+00:00
>It's one of the few pieces of fiction I've ever seen that really grapples with the idea of paradise and what meaning life can have when all obstacles are removed.

I'm not so sure about this. It's hard not to see these kinds of "actually, paradise actually wouldn't be so great" takes as the ultimate sour grapes. See also: "actually, immortality would be bad".

I suspect we can't even really discuss what "paradise" would be like or how people would react to it because it would be so different from all of previous existence. The best we can do, as in this story, is "the current world minus the bad stuff" and go from there.
by steego | 2025-06-03 14:55:53+00:00
Isn't TLA+ is more like Alloy insofar as they're thinking tools optimized for the design phase?

I'm more familiar with Alloy, which is a great tool for exploring a specification and looking for counter-examples that violate your specification.

AFAIK, none of the languages you listed above work well in conceptualization phase. Are any of them capable of synthesizing counter-examples out of the box? (Aside: I feel like Lean's meta capabilities could be leveraged to do this.)
by haswell | 2025-06-03 14:56:08+00:00
I’m not saying it’s a good solution, but the problem itself is real enough. As others have noted, I’ve had more close calls with dangerous e-bike riders as a pedestrian than I’ve ever had with cars, mostly because riders behave as if they’re not piloting a powered vehicle capable of doing quite a bit of harm.

Whether or not it’s actually making pedestrians safer is an open question. If the threat of a court date actually leads to less dangerous behavior by riders, it’s entirely possible that it could make pedestrians safer.

That still wouldn’t be sufficient to conclude it’s a good policy.

Another approach would be to level the playing field between drivers and riders and use the same enforcement policies/mechanisms for both, but that also has side effects that people would not like.
by scotty79 | 2025-06-03 14:56:11+00:00
How much of useful programming work are you able to do without google? I don't think I even tried to do do any for the last 20 years.

You make a good point of course that independence is important. But primo, this ship sailed long ago, secundo, more than one party provides the service you depend on. If one failes you still have at least some alternatives.
by matsemann | 2025-06-03 14:56:13+00:00
No, we don't really have dedicated school buses here in that sense. They're just normal buses where we in remote areas make the time table sync up with when people go to/from school. (And you may still need to cross the road safely at other times)

This viral video is from where I grew up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp4gouR2Ei4 The Volvo truck that juuust manages to stop when kids are running out behind the bus.
by parsonsd | 2025-06-03 14:56:17+00:00
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by osigurdson | 2025-06-03 14:56:43+00:00
I have been using Windsurf for a few months and ChatGPT for a couple of years. I don't feel Windsurf is a massive game changer personally. It is good if you are very tired or working in a new area (also good for exploring UI ideas as the feedback loop is tight), but still not a real game changer over ChatGPT. Waiting around for it to do its thing ("we've encountered at error - no credits used") is boring and flow destroying. Of you know exactly what you are doing the productivity is probably 0.5 vs just typing the code in yourself. Sorry, I'm not going to bang around in Windsurf all day just to help with the training so that "v2" can be better. They should be paying me for this realistically.

Of course, in aggregate AI makes me capable in a far broader set of problem domains. It would be tough to live without it at this stage, but needs to be used for what it is actually good at, not what we hope it will be good at.