MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hedora | 2025-06-09 14:00:44+00:00
Their privacy pass thing lets you run searches in a way that doesn’t let them associate the query with your account, so the privacy half of the “always logged in” problem is mostly solved.

I switched from DDG. It saves me more than $10/month, both in time and in actual dollar costs due to suboptimal search engine results. It’s as simple as that.

The jump in improvement from google to ddg is probably bigger than the jump from ddg to kagi though. Also, I switched before ddg and kagi had AI search. Kagi’s AI is a huge differentiator for me, and I haven’t used the DDG one that much.
by devmor | 2025-06-09 14:01:14+00:00
Yes, macros were key as I was doing a pretty intensive 4-day HIIT program at the time.

I actually aimed strictly for my maintenance calories as I was burning 700-900cal in exercise per workout day. Was very hard work, but rewarding.

It took about a year to drop that much weight, normally I think it would take longer but I had a very dedicated group trainer helping me stay on track.
by osigurdson | 2025-06-09 14:02:05+00:00
I think there are basically three kinds of uses for AI: 1) "Out of loop" - e.g. Codex - it does things while you work on something else. Today it can handle basic things on its own like an appliance. 2) "In the loop" - e.g. Windsurf / Cursor. Here, you know what you are doing but are trying to use AI to essentially type at super human speeds. 3) "Coach mode" - you need to learn something in order to progress. You are using ChatGPT (usually), but possibly other tools as a way to help you get the right context faster.

Of these "In the loop", seems to be the one that doesn't work that well (yet). The main problem is latency in my opinion.
by mlinhares | 2025-06-09 14:02:46+00:00
The average American (like the average citizen of almost any other country) doesn't care about this in general and needs leadership to sway their opinion one way or another. If the leaders don't care, they hold enough power and visibility to make it moot and get people to care about other things, like inflation, price of eggs or immigrants stealing their jobs.

People have this thinking nations have these widely shared opinions when they don't, the politics and visible leaders are the ones shaping public opinion.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-09 14:03:26+00:00
Adversarially? That doesn't sound especially compatible with the sacrament. Sacraments are generally freely received.

In any case, you can't baptize an adult against his will. In extreme situations, when a person is in, say, a coma, there can be a presumption of consent, but as I understand it, if the person in question was totally hardened against the very possibility of baptism, then the presumption would prove false and no baptism would have occurred.
by ghc | 2025-06-09 14:03:33+00:00
In my experience, most software is not a capital asset that can be sold. Most software is a one off throwaway script to generate a report, or a modification to an existing piece of software to change its behavior. Most software isn't even written by software companies, and now having a software engineer on staff is prohibitively expensive, despite their job being functionally similar to a factory worker.

By your logic, the salaries of technical writers should be amortized too, because theoretically the bank operations manual could also be a capital asset.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-06-09 14:03:45+00:00
The safe spaces I’m familiar with were on American universities (specifically public universities) and typically prohibited debate or other forms of speech.

I see a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to people criticizing the idea of a private safe space while the critics themselves engage in their own private safe space (there’s a certain subreddit that loves to call others “snowflakes” while the subreddit itself aggressively and formally censors). I think hypocrisy with respect to public safety spaces (in which government censorship concerns are relevant) is rarer, but I’m sure it exists.
by ithkuil | 2025-06-09 14:05:27+00:00
I'm not talking about whether you guys should give him money.

But it's totally normal for a country to try to defend itself.

I honestly don't understand why people seem to ignore this angle and just keep talking about budget and money and foreign interests and nato and what not.

Ok, you don't want to give Ukraine money for their defence, FINE, do not give them money!

But why do you have to frame it as zelenski is corrupt, traitor, murderer, boogyman or whatever.

No normal leader of a country being invaded would be expected to surrender their country. They would have been hanged by their own people.

What I find infuriating about this discourse is the double standard. At the same time the american right is absolutely going bezerk over "immigrant invasion" and when some other people suffer an invasion "nah, I don't see the problem, they will just get along fine if they surrender".

You're free to spend your money as you wish, but it's the total lack of empathy (about this and other causes) that rubs me the wrong way.
by munksbeer | 2025-06-09 14:05:32+00:00
I could be wrong, but it seems you have misunderstood something here, and you've even quoted the part that you've misunderstood. It isn't that the algorithm for solving the problem isn't known. The LLM knows it, just like you do. It is that the steps of following the algorithm are too verbose if you're just writing them down and trying to keep track of the state of the problem in your head. Could you do that for a large number of disks?

Please do correct me if the misunderstanding is mine.
by bigfatfrock | 2025-06-09 14:05:47+00:00
> Makes me wonder if there will be a "thirty years discolored" version as well, if you want to print a piece to replace something broken... or can you just leave it out in the sun for a couple weeks or something?

Would probably just need to make this part of a build loop where you send it through a high intensity light/heat cycle such as when they beat up jeans for purchase by people who buy those.

"Would you prefer the color tone of the 1977 Apple II or perhaps a 1980 Apple III?"
by Havoc | 2025-06-09 14:05:52+00:00
I doubt you’re going to beat datacenter under any conditions in any model that is vaguely like for like

The comparison I saw was a small llama 8B model. ie something you can actually get usable numbers on both home and api. So something pretty commoditized

> When ran 24/7, CC would possibly incur more API fees than residential electricity would cost when running on your own gear?

Claude is pretty damn expensive so plausible that you can undercut it with another model. That implies you throw out the like for like assumptions out the door though. Valid play practically, but kinda undermines the buy own rig to save argument
by leguy | 2025-06-09 14:05:57+00:00
I would have loved to see such a list when I joined a startup. I'm not sure it's possible to make a comprehensive list, given all the various startup structures and agreements, but still a "top 10" list with some guidance on how to protect yourself would be valuable.

Or... an SLM where you feed the model your contract and it provides a list with recommendations tailored to your situation.
by localhost | 2025-06-09 14:06:11+00:00
The models are the same, but the actual prompts sent to the model are likely somewhat different because of the agentic loop - so I would imagine (without having done the experiments) there will be slight differences. Unclear whether they will be more or less than the variance in responses sent multiple times to the same experience (e.g., Claude.ai variance vs. Claude Code variance vs. variance between Claude.ai and Claude Code). Would be an interesting controlled experiment to try!
Ask HN: Are LLMs a net environmental positive, deserving of green tech status?
by thedevilslawyer | 2025-06-09 14:06:13+00:00
I've been wrestling with a notion lately from a recent HN discussion, and debating with a colleague: could LLMs actually be a net positive for the environment? Should it earn all the benefits that come with ESG status? It's a bit wild, but we haven't found a solid, economically defendable argument against it. it assumes a claude (200$/month) subscription can in many cases replace a 10K/m SWE.

The best we've managed to push back with is that the environmental cost of a human worker, like their commute or office space, would be there anyway. But that feels like a cop-out; it basically means no technology can ever really improve productivity in an environmentally beneficial way, and we don't apply that logic to anything else.

So on one side: the environmental cost of the LLMs themselves (as indicated in the subscription price). On the significantly higher cost of a human engineer. Am I missing something here?
by kstrauser | 2025-06-09 14:06:18+00:00
I run a medium sized Mastodon server. I blocked them because one of their users called me the n-word, I reported them to their admin, and nothing happened. It had zero to do with fediblock or any other communal mechanism. Their users acted like assholes, their admins did nothing about it, so I decided I didn’t want to talk to them anymore.

The notion of FSE whining about being blocked by some cabal is hilarious to me. No, they’re garden variety trolls that are capable of annoying others directly. There’s no grand conspiracy required to make a bunch of people disconnect from them.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-09 14:06:33+00:00
> We can focus on more than a single thing at a time.

This is not the point. You are correct that we can focus on more than one thing at a time and that’s why different articles are about different things. This article is about “Building supercomputers for autocrats” and it is odd that it focuses on a single aspect of that topic.
by danaris | 2025-06-09 14:06:45+00:00
AI is multiple things.

AI is a marketing term for various kinds of machine learning applications.

AI is an academic field within computer science.

AI is the computer-controlled enemies you face in (especially, but not solely, offline) games.

This has been the case for decades now—especially the latter two.

Trying to claim that AI either "has always been" one particular thing, or "has now become" one particular thing, is always going to run into trouble because of this multiplicity. The one thing that AI "has always been" is multiple things.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-09 14:07:28+00:00
That search query brings up https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/baggage/carry-on-baggage... for the first result, which says "The total size of your carry-on, including the handles and wheels, cannot exceed 22 x 14 x 9 inches (56 x 36 x 23 cm) and must fit in the sizer at the airport."

What benefit did the LLM add here, if you still had to vet the sources?
by ksherlock | 2025-06-09 14:07:32+00:00
What ChatGPT calls the "bitvector-based NFA simulation algorithm", (when only globbing is involved) is also known as bitap, shift-or, shift-and, Baeza-Yates–Gonnet, etc.

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

I love it but your character set needs to be 8-bit.
by nine_k | 2025-06-09 14:07:50+00:00
A design system is a set of Lego bricks. Instead of clay that can become any shape but requires effort, you have a (carefully limited) set of components, alignments, grids, color palettes, etc, which you can easily combine to produce a visually consistent and usable UI. Instead of sweating over margins, color gradients, perfectly balanced columns, etc you put components together, and they work well together without further bespoke tweaking. They have consistently named properties, CSS classes, etc.

Now connecting them becomes a mechanical task, which an AI does well. Detecting them in the sketch also becomes a mechanical task, you don't need pixel perfection, because the components will be pixel-perfect once in place, and you can think and operate in terms of logical structure and the general, well, topology of the layout. The machine can pick it up and map to your design system.

If you're a mechanical engineer, imagine being used to need to produce bespoke connectors for everything you build, and then switching to a set of few standard bolts and nuts, or, again, Lego blocks. Suddenly you can assemble significant things in days, not weeks. (Then you add a robot that can read sketches, and days become hours.)
by fermigier | 2025-06-09 14:08:02+00:00
The "EU" is not a political institution. It is a "a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.".

The (main) political institutions of the EU are:

- the European Parliament,

- the European Council (of heads of state or government),

- the Council of the European Union (of member state ministers, a council for each area of responsibility),

- the European Commission,

- the Court of Justice of the European Union,

- the European Central Bank and

- the European Court of Auditors.
by Fluorescence | 2025-06-09 14:08:15+00:00
Only 11GB... but I guess it will allow you to not do anything useful just as well as 12GB will :)

You can however solder on double-capacity memory chips to get 22GB:

https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/double-your-gpu-m...

I hoped the article would be more along these lines than calling an unremarkable second-hand last-gen gaming pc an "AI Server".
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-09 14:09:23+00:00
> Show us a real example of something that your putative non physics science can do that physics cannot

I just did. Please reread my post. Physics cannot claim to be "all there is", as that is not a proposition that belongs to physics, but to philosophy. And philosophy cannot make this claim, because it would be self-refuting.

As far as observables are concerned, physics can only deal with what is quantifiable. So anything that isn't quantifiable is by definition beyond the grasp of physical methods. It is circular to say that all that exists is that which is quantifiable. It would be putting the cart before the horse. Some call this the "streetlight effect".
by eth0up | 2025-06-09 14:09:51+00:00
Oolong, loongching, typical blacks, a red I can't pronounce (tsin hong?), herbals...

Long ago when I had a reliable source for organic dragonwell, my favorite tea, I found it did perfectly. I admittedly may have compromised sensory, though I'm sincerely surprised (not skeptical) of your results.

It is probably me, as my benchmark for the best greens are, that left to steep, the leaves sink and do not float. And yes, I'm aware that it's said to increase heavy metal content of the brew. And yes, I'm also aware that this violates the tealitist convention.

However, imposter cups and imitations, which brands I won't name, I'd hesitate to use as bed pans.

Edit: it's worth adding that I almost never scrub it or use soap. The interior is stained, presumably with tannins
by os2warpman | 2025-06-09 14:10:09+00:00
38:44 "If you are ever in a position to make a decision about where your thing is manufactured take a second and consider making a little less profit maybe in order to invest in your local community."

I would add that people should, IF ABLE, consider spending more in order to invest in their local community.

The vast majority of the items on my person right now were manufactured domestically, both in terms of number and total overall monetary value. Same goes for household goods and tools.

This almost always means having fewer things, spending more, taking time to research, and possibly delaying gratification which I know is a hard sell (the same way making very slightly less profit is usually an impossible sell to corporations).

But I believe it is worth the effort and expense.
by stuckinhell | 2025-06-09 14:10:22+00:00
I'm having a hard time taking apple seriously, when they have don't even have a great llm.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-ceo-ai-i... Anthropic CEO: “We Do Not Understand How Our Own AI Creations Work”. I'm going to lean with Anthropic on this one.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-09 14:10:24+00:00
OK, but in the current situation, the laws are federal, and the feds are choosing to enforce them. A state or city preventing the feds from enforcing them is not protected by sovereign immunity.

It seems to me that the most that can legally be done is to require the feds to actually follow due process. (But I thought different yesterday, and I may think different tomorrow...)
by pjc50 | 2025-06-09 14:10:34+00:00
Hundreds of thousands of casualties for Russia too. Haven't they considered just stopping?

Ukraine as client police state is not a casualty free environment either. Really the war started when pro-Russian security services killed over a hundred protesters at Euromaidan, back in 2014.

Someone who genuinely cared about Russian lives, rather than just the regime or contrarianism, would want the Russians to pull out immediately like the Americans out of Afghanistan.
by neutrinobro | 2025-06-09 14:10:53+00:00
Buried at the end of the article:

> A limitation of this work is that the resulting de-oxygenated titanium contains yttrium, up to 1% by mass; > After solving the yttrium contamination problem, applications to industrial manufacturing will be straightforward.

One wonders how much of a problem this is for most applications, and how easy it will be to solve...
by jroseborough | 2025-06-09 14:10:56+00:00
We just launched AskAnyQuestion.ai, and it might be the fastest way to turn your documents, links, or product listings into an intelligent, AI-powered search engine—with zero code required.

Unlike Algolia, which is great but developer-heavy and often locked behind complex integration steps, AskAnyQuestion lets anyone upload content or point to a URL and get a working search engine in minutes. Branding is fully customizable. Add your logo, adjust your layout, and embed it directly into your site.

Unlike Chatbase or other chatbot-style tools, we’re not just focused on agentic support. We also built interactive product discovery directly into the AI response flow. This includes integrations with Stripe and Shopify, so your actual products show up in search—clickable, visual, and ready to convert.

Built for teams, schools, marketplaces, and anyone tired of fragmented knowledge or buried product catalogs.

If you're curious about how far no-code AI search has come, try it here: https://www.askanyquestion.ai

Would love your feedback.
by lumost | 2025-06-09 14:11:25+00:00
We don’t know what the marginal cost of inference is yet however. So far, users are demonstrating that they are willing to pay more for LLMs than traditional web experiences.

At the same time, cards have gotten >8x more efficient over the last 3 years, inference engines >10x more efficient and the raw models are at least treading water if not becoming more efficient. It’s likely that we’ll lose another 10-100x off the cost of inference in the next 2 years.
by phkahler | 2025-06-09 14:11:29+00:00
>> A limitation of this work is that the resulting de-oxygenated titanium contains yttrium, up to 1% by mass; yttrium can influence the mechanical and chemical properties of titanium alloy. After solving the yttrium contamination problem, applications to industrial manufacturing will be straightforward.

How much does the yttrium matter? How likely is there to be a solution to that problem?
Show HN: Autonomous AI Agent for e-signatures – chat/voice assistant
by kariopaul | 2025-06-09 14:12:01+00:00
We built an autonomous AI agent that helps with e-signature workflows - kind of like a smart assistant you can chat or talk to. You can check out the demo here: https://youtu.be/yP19cE7s0TA

You just tell the assistant (via chat or voice) what you need. It asks a few simple questions and handles the rest.

Here’s what it does: • Creates e-signature requests and templates, or use templates you've created - by chatting with you — no form builders. • Auto-detects fields in your PDFs and suggests who should sign, what type of input is needed (signature, date, title, etc.) based on the layout of the document. It important to note here that it will not detect fields in a blank document there has to be lines, boxes, tables etc.

• Detects the titles of the main parties in a document (eg. landlord, tenants, buyer, seller etc)

• Follows up with signers automatically if you ask - adjusted for tone. • Tracks document status in real time (opened, signed, etc.) with feedback directly in the chat window. • Voice activation built-in — just say “create a new e-sign request” and it walks you through it.

We’re targeting freelancers, startups, and small teams that want fewer clicks and more automation in their doc workflows.

Pricing is $15–35/month depending on usage and features. There’s a 14-day free trial — credit card required to activate (we’re testing this to reduce spam and friction later on).

Would love your feedback — especially from folks who've dealt with annoying doc prep or legal workflows.

Thanks Kario

https://docendorse.com
by s900mhz | 2025-06-09 14:12:02+00:00
I personally love LLMs and use them daily for a variety of tasks. I really do not know how to “fix” the terminology. I agree with you that they are not thinking in the abstract like humans. I also do not know what else you would call “chain-of-thought”.

Perhaps “journaling-before-answering” lol. It’s basically talking out loud to itself. (Is that still being too anthropomorphic?)

Is this comment me “thinking out loud”? shrug
by fzwang | 2025-06-09 14:12:32+00:00
We've mostly banned the use of AI coding assistants, with exception of certain uses, for junior level devs/engineers. Essentially, they need to demonstrate that their use case fits with what LLMs are good at (ie. for in-distribution, tedious, verifiable tasks).

Annecdotally, what we've found was that those using AI assistants show superficial improvements in productivity early, but they learn at a much slower rate and their understanding of the systems is fuzzy. It leads to lots of problems down the road. Senior folks are also susceptible to these effects, but at a lower level. We think it's because most of their experiences are old fashioned "natty" coding.

In a way, I think programmers need to do natty coding to train their brains before augmenting/amputating it with AI.
by bendmorris | 2025-06-09 14:12:45+00:00
Devs (like yourself) might generate scaffolding for a greenfield project very quickly and be amazed and claim they're more productive, but I don't think that is evidence that an experienced developer will actually be more productive.

Honestly, project scaffolding is such a small part of the job. I spend a lot more time reading, designing, thinking critically about, reviewing changes to, and generally maintaining code than I do creating greenfield projects or writing boilerplate. For all of these tasks having actually written the code myself gives me an advantage. I don't believe today's tools are a net positive.
by bird0861 | 2025-06-09 14:13:10+00:00
No. It's not microtubules. Enough with the g-darn microtubules already. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/712794v1

"We used an antimicrotubular agent (parbendazole) and disrupted microtubular dynamics in paramecium to see if microtubules are an integral part of information storage and processing in paramecium’s learning process. We observed that a partial allosteric modulator of GABA (midazolam) could disrupt the learning process in paramecium, but the antimicrotubular agent could not. Therefore, our results suggest that microtubules are probably not vital for the learning behavior in P. caudatum. Consequently, our results call for a further revisitation of the microtubular information processing hypothesis."
by criddell | 2025-06-09 14:13:47+00:00
I wasn’t talking about any of that. I was talking about the ease of earning a living as a solo developer on the platform. On iOS, it’s true that there are hoops you have to jump through and you have to share 15% of your fees (if you get to the point where you owe 30%, you are doing well!), but in return you get access to a fairly large audience of people willing to pay for apps and services.

The web is the Wild West and I don’t really have much of a feel for how difficult it is to find an audience that will pay to use the software you build.