MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dedicate | 2025-06-07 15:13:12+00:00
I don't actually want to have a deep, philosophical conversation with a blacksmith.

I just want to see that blacksmith close up shop early because he's feuding with the town guard, or give me a discount because his daughter just won the local archery competition. I want a world that reacts to itself, not just to me.

The goal shouldn't be to make NPCs that can pass the Turing test, but to make a world that feels like it has a pulse.
by nahdont | 2025-06-07 15:14:47+00:00
Zero plans to buy one and I bought every prior Nintendo hardware. My middle age group of one time die hard Nintendo gadget buyers is “eh”. Same vibe from kids around us. “Oh more of the same.”

Mark my words, Gen1 Switch games are it for Nintendo game design evolution except higher resolution.

Mario Kart world is 8 “but bigger”. Technical improvements given faster hardware, same feel to play.

Zelda is forever an anime cartoon now.

They haven’t changed Mario’s core since Mario 64.

Joycons are still a flimsy gimmick.

It’s all too expensive for more of the same but slightly faster chip.

It will sell but I doubt it sells as well with PC handhelds gaining… Steam.

As someone who barely keeps an eye on the industry, I just play games. When my circle is not into something that suggests a main stream appeal issue. It’ll sell but it’s a minor revision all things considered.
by kriro | 2025-06-07 15:15:02+00:00
I disagree with the idea that getting past procrastination should (always) be the target.

Mostly because I don't think procrastination is inherently bad. There's a lot of stigma attached to procrastination as it's seen as being "unproductive". But I think procrastination can lead to great insights.

Your brain is telling you that it is not interested in the current task. The question is: Why? Overworked and needs a break? Much more interested in exploring something else? Protecting against the pain of failure?

Investigating the why instead of forcing "overcoming" is quite fruitful in my personal experience.

My guess is "action leads to motivation" might be helpful for solving one of the root causes (likely fear of failure/imposter syndrom) but not all of them.
by westurner | 2025-06-07 15:15:05+00:00
Properties for a https://schema.org/CreativeWork > :CADModel RDFS Class to increase reusability?:

- Property: isParametric: bool

- Property: parameteicSize

- Property: parameters: [...]

- Property: ~ sourceCodeOf ; source URL w/ (git) revhash or version tag

- Property: ~ signedOffOnBy ( to W3C Verifiable Credentials)

- Property: ~ promptsAndModels

SBOM Software Bill of Materials tools can work with and generate JSON-LD RDF for the software found installed on containers, VMs, and hosts. The same for CAD models would be advantageous.

So, identify a portable software packaging format manifest that already supports cryptographic signatures (for https://SLSA.dev e.g. with https://sigstore.dev/ ) with additional (schema.org RDFS in RDFa HTML,) Linked Data properties to skip having to grep for whether the described and indexed CAD model is parametric with respect to size, and where its origin is for example:

- Property: originPoint and signed axes layout
by ajmurmann | 2025-06-07 15:15:51+00:00
One danger I see with brilliant jerks is that they can also lead to others not sharing their legitimate concerns. If someone who is usually right calls you stupid frequently when you speak up or just make a suggestion you'll eventually stop making suggestions. Psychological safety is core to teams self-correcting. Of course you could also only hire people with very aggressive communication styles. I've seen this work but it obviously Congress with its own downsides.
by the_af | 2025-06-07 15:15:59+00:00
It's insane because of the implications: Musk was a major contributor to Trump's campaign, and a major advisor, and at the last minute he implies Trump is a pedophile?

This means Musk knowingly contributed to get a pedophile elected! He couldn't have learned this at the last minute, he obviously held this ace in his sleeve.

This already should "impeach" Musk (informally) in the eyes of his supporters: this is a guy who would help get a pedophile elected president if it would suit his business vision.
by strcat | 2025-06-07 15:16:17+00:00
The vast majority of Android apps work on GrapheneOS. There are tap-to-pay apps including PayPal, Curve Pay and many European banking apps which work on GrapheneOS.

> that is after installing the optional play services, reducing the privacy benefits of graphene.

The only way to use Google Play services on GrapheneOS is via sandboxed Google Play. Sandboxed Google Play are regular apps with zero special access or privileges. They cannot do anything more than any other regular user installed apps. They do not have any access to user data, app data or more control over the device than other apps. They only have what other apps explicitly choose to implement through Google services, which apps can do without Google Play services too. Apps do not need Google Play to use Google services, and Google services are far from the most privacy invasive third party services used by lots of mainstream apps. Privacy from invasive apps is provided through features like our Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes, Sensors toggle, etc. Avoiding 1 particular set of services depended on by privacy invasive apps wouldn't solve that. Users need to carefully choose what to share with apps/services and take advantage of the provided privacy model improvements such as those features if they care about this but still want to use those apps.

> The solution must be social-legislative.

The solution to the anti-competitive Play Integrity API has to be regulatory/legislative but providing privacy and security almost entirely depends on technical improvements rather than laws/regulations which will be largely ignored and cannot solve an international issue without borders.

> niche enthusiast projects

GrapheneOS is a production quality OS made by a non-profit organization. It has a team of full time developers paid to work on it. It's very easy to install, can be purchased preinstalled on devices and has compatibility with the vast majority of Android apps. For most people, they don't have to make any major sacrifice to use it. Using a different app for tap-to-pay or using regular credit cards for it instead isn't really a big deal. There are only a few non-financial apps impacted. Several financial apps have recently explicitly permitted using GrapheneOS via hardware attestation and Block (Cash App, Square, etc.) is in the process of doing so.
by mercenario | 2025-06-07 15:16:41+00:00
> This article makes a fundamental mistake where the author thinks that business values quality. Business has never valued quality. Customers can value quality, but business only values profit margins. If customers will only buy quality, then that's what business will deliver. But customers don't value quality either, most of the time. They value bang-for-buck.

Completely agree.

> They'll buy the cheapest tools on Amazon and happily vibe code their way into a hole, then throw the broke code out and vibe code some more.

Now I completely disagree and it is easy to prove: Apple. I don't need to say anything else.
by asddubs | 2025-06-07 15:16:53+00:00
people did complain about it stealing GPL code scraped off github etc and then license laundering a lot, especially during the earlier days. I think now people are just worn down to have the conversation again.

I do also think the threat is bigger to artists. Sloppy code will cause problems, and at some point you'll need someone who knows what's going on to step in. Sloppy art, a lot of people accept.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-07 15:17:05+00:00
Why bother with conan, when vcpkg is already available and zero Python dependencies?

As for quickjs, it wasn't part of the comment, rather SDL3 and Lua.

> ...combinations of efforts to compile a C++, SDL3 and Lua program on Windows...

As such,

https://vcpkg.io/en/package/sdl3

https://vcpkg.io/en/package/lua

https://vcpkg.io/en/package/luajit
by bruce511 | 2025-06-07 15:17:31+00:00
Size is in play, yes, but the 8 extra bytes per row is likely negligible compared to the row size. Is there a case where the dise matters? Sure. But you can't discuss the space cost for 10 billion rows without comparing to the space cost of 10 billion rows.

SQL server let's you cluster by any index, do if your child record table will benefit by clustering by ParentGuid then go for it.
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-07 15:20:02+00:00
> but humans cant do it either

This argument is tired as it keeps getting repeated for any flaws seen in LLMs. And the other tired argument is: wait ! this is a sigmoid curve, and we have not seen the inflection point yet. If someone have me a penny for every comment saying these, I'd be rich by now.

Humans invented machines because they could not do certain things. All the way from simple machines in physics (Archimedes lever) to the modern computer.
by krick | 2025-06-07 15:20:24+00:00
That's a really good take, and I personally missed that his departure was pre-planned all along (you are the first I saw to mention 130 days). But, again. "So, thank you, Elon, as you are leaving your role anyway, how about making a little performance for the public? Be my friend, post on Twitter that I didn't release Epstein files because I'm in them…"

…Really?
by anonzzzies | 2025-06-07 15:21:46+00:00
and the people who have to open a bank account and get some ai denying them even they never did anything. or having their account blocked because something triggered and then have to fax over 10 documents to prove stuff the bank already has known always as the person has been with the bank for the past 40 years etc.

sure, theoretically kyc and aml are good, the implementations all suck.
by mindslight | 2025-06-07 15:21:56+00:00
One has to love this chameleon of a Republican "platform" where values and ideals are championed to browbeat support for a particular action, but then written off as irrelevant when they're awkward for analyzing other actions - while other values and ideals are dragged out in support.

A week ago, "the debt" was really important. Now that Dear Leader has declared otherwise, apparently it's not. Right into the memory hole it goes.

The reality is there is no platform beyond anger (the base), and naked autocratic power (the politicians). Everything else is post-hoc rationalization.

(and just to clarify so I'm not written off as some progressive partisan: I'm a libertarian who was unaligned, understood and saw merit in both camps' ideals - until the Republican party turned its back on conservatism in favor of cult of personality reactionaryism)
by kstrauser | 2025-06-07 15:22:06+00:00
It depends on so much that wasn’t covered here. If you tell me I’m wrong and show me why, I’ll thank you. If you tell me my idea is stupid and make it a point to maximally humiliate me for the mistake, I may have to bury your body in the desert.

It’s never a good idea to make someone feel extra embarrassed for an error. That’s how you get them to loathe you and to make them hide future mistakes from you.
by someothherguyy | 2025-06-07 15:22:58+00:00
> we all know what that means

Personally, I don't jump to conclusions based on vague statements or evidence.

> What does this say about Musk?

Who knows? Musk has thin associations with Epstein and Maxwell as well, he is a proven liar, is at times visibly manic, and has been reported to drop relationships at a whim when challenged.

There could be plenty of things driving his behavior, but I don't think this informs anything new about his character.
by kamranjon | 2025-06-07 15:23:03+00:00
The two interesting things I learned after reading this paper:

Even when given the exact steps needed to arrive at a solution in the prompt, the reasoning models still require just as many steps to reach a workable solution as they would if they weren’t given the solution in the prompt.

The other thing, which seems obvious in hindsight, but I don’t typically use these reasoning models in my day to day - is that it requires a significant amount of tokens to reach the point where reasoning models outperform non-reasoning models by a significant margin.
by JustinCS | 2025-06-07 15:23:10+00:00
I'm saying from the perspective of someone overseeing a frontend dev, that I can just try out the app feature and see if things seem to be working as expected. Though as you mention, it's necessary to check a variety of devices and other edge cases, depending on the project requirements.

With backend though, even if it seems to work, there can be severe hidden problems with the architecture and security, so I really need to trust the backend dev or verify things deeply myself in order to ensure quality.

If I'm making a quick app for a startup, I can often hire relatively less experienced frontend devs, but have to care much more about the backend.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-06-07 15:23:14+00:00
Hopefully 1920x1200 (staying 16:10), as this resolution has some very nice properties with integer scaling for compatibility with resolutions used by old games :

https://web.archive.org/web/20240204224402/https://dewt.org/...

(But I guess this will depend on what kind of deal they can make for their panels...)
by cratermoon | 2025-06-07 15:24:03+00:00
Programmers are rarely genuine experts in the domain, we depend on the subject matter experts to define the parameters for the system under construction. Some SMEs have deep knowledge and would know these, but many, while very knowledgeable, have not encountered the specific edge cases nor heard about them. As a result, the design incorporates these inaccurate assumptions, and for a long time it works fine. Until it doesn't. And by the way this is why waterfall and big design up front fails as a development methodology.

tl;dr: you can't know absolutely everything ahead of time.
Show HN: Comlog – a cognitive interface that injects insight as you speak
by Comlog_IAI | 2025-06-07 15:25:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been building Comlog — an AI-powered cognitive interface delivered through bone-conducting headphones.

You speak aloud. It listens passively. Then it injects relevant insight — like a sharper second mind responding just when it matters.

It’s not a chatbot or assistant. It doesn’t wait for prompts. It detects high-signal terms in your speech, then responds with insight, compression, or reframing — a system that thinks alongside you. The goal here is infinite IQ.

Example traces: You said:

"168.5 split three ways" Comlog injects: → insight: $56.17 per person

The current site shows example cognition traces and allows pre-orders for the first batch of headphones. The software + AI cognition layer is complete and launching as a closed test with early users.

I’d love feedback from this community on:

How you’d want to use something like this

How much context vs. compression it should aim for

Site: https://intelliwing.ai

Appreciate your thoughts.
Show HN: What if code had a lifespan? A morphogenetic computing experiment
by nabolitains | 2025-06-07 15:25:23+00:00
Hi HN! I've been exploring what happens when we treat code not as architecture but as a living ecosystem.

Demo: https://nabolitains.github.io/plasma/

This started from a simple question: The slime mold Physarum can solve mazes without a brain. What if our code could similarly self-organize?

The result is Plasma - computational cells that: - Metabolize energy from their environment - Reproduce with mutations - Form emergent colonies nobody designed - Die (and that's a feature)

No ML, no complex algorithms. Just simple rules creating complex behaviors. The entire thing is 800 lines of vanilla JS/Canvas.

I'm particularly interested in your thoughts on: 1. What patterns do you see emerging after ~1000 cycles? 2. Could this approach scale to real applications? 3. What would you add to the "genetic code"?

The philosophical manifesto is in the repo if you're into that sort of thing. But the code speaks for itself.
by jmyeet | 2025-06-07 15:25:40+00:00
As per usual, every accusation from a narcissist is a confession.

You know who absolutely is connected to Epstein? Elon's brother, Kimbal (allgedly) [1].

And while not related to Epstein but is just gross and in a similar ballpark, Elon's father Errol, had a stepdaughter from his wife's first marriage, Jana Bezuidenhout, who grew up in his house from age 4. He later went on to father two children with Jana (the first when she was 30, I believe) [2]. It's unclear when the relationship began. The only public statements are after Jana had a break-up.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfrie...

[2]: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/31886...
by cardanome | 2025-06-07 15:25:58+00:00
> what does work for people with ADHD

Medication.

Not for everyone with ADHD. Only for 70% but that is still pretty good.

Besides that, again understanding how their brains work.

Neurotypical people don't have executive dysfunction. If they have a task that they know how to do, have the means to do, know they need to do, have the time to do and want to do, they can... just do it.

In fact neurotypical people can't even imagine it being any other way. For me with ADHD this sounds like a super power that I can't even comprehend having.

To simplify it very much, the ADHD brain is chronically understimultated. It lacks dopamine.

So easy boring tasks can be insanely painful. That is why stimulants work so well. It is not to get us "high", it so so we get the same level of stimulation as a neurotypical person watching paint dry.

But, we can still get over-stimulated as well so it is a balance act.

Neurotypical people mostly manage time and exhaustion, I guess but managing ADHD is managing your level of stimulation and focus and time tertiary.

You need to build activities into your routine that stimulate you, both mentally and physically. Washing your clothing can be much more taxing for you that fixing that complex bug no one else can figure out. ADHD can make the hard things easy and the easy things hard.

So yeah, ultimately every human is different and what works for one might not work for another. Yes some advice or trick for neurotypical people might also work for someone with ADHD but if you don't understand yourself you will not know what to user and what to dismiss and only hurt yourself.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-06-07 15:26:53+00:00
I procrastinate a lot on hard tasks and usually it's because I don't yet fully understand the risks with each decision that goes into the design.

I think for younger engineers "fail fast" makes a lot of sense; there's not enough of a foundation of experience to tell right from wrong so the only way to learn is to fail.

For more experienced engineers, there's a greater sense of "I have a sense where this can fail; how do I design around that?"

It's not that a more experienced engineer will know exactly how it fails, but that there are modalities of failure that have been encountered so the goal is to design with some flexibility or optionality in mind. And sometimes, this just requires a bit of "gestation" or "percolation" before carving the path.

I think of it like an experienced sculptor sizing up a block of marble before making the first strike with a chisel. It's a kind of procrastination, but really, its a process of visualizing the path.
by keyringlight | 2025-06-07 15:27:38+00:00
The question that poses to me is the quantity of writing you need for training before you can reasonably expect a generation system to produce something new and interesting, however much work on the right knowledge is in the right place, and is worth the costs for how you expect the player to interact with the game beyond the manual work.

I doubt there's telemetry in the elder scrolls games, but I'd love to know how many go around the world exploring everything the characters have to say, or reading all the books. How many get the lore in secondary media, wikis or watching a retelling or summary on youtube. On a certain level it's important they're there as an opt-in method to convey the 'secondary' world lore to the player without a "sit down and listen" info dump, plus give the impression it was written by someone so these objects would would exist organically in the world or certain characters would talk about those topics, but I wonder how much of the illusion would still be there if it was just each book having a title.
Show HN: Multi-Agent Context Processor for Operational Technology (OT) Data
by longtaildistro | 2025-06-07 15:27:57+00:00
Multi-Agent Context Processor for Operational Technology (OT) data.

Connects to industrial data sources (MQTT, OPC UA, Modbus), filters signals, embeds context into vector stores, and enables lightweight LLM-based Q&A — all using modular agents and Redis pub/sub.
Ask HN: Why does HN think AI image models will never be satisfactory?
by gametorch | 2025-06-07 15:27:57+00:00
I recently did a "Show HN" for a project I'm building that uses image models and I received great, positive feedback from most people, especially people in real life, and yet tremendous pushback from a vocal minority on Hacker News.

Every one of the comments pushing back implied that AI image models will never be sufficient for the poster's standards.

In the two months since I began working on this project, model quality has increased by an order of magnitude while costs have done the opposite.

I was also able to use LLMs to launch a full featured, production-grade software service in two months that survived the Hacker News "hug of death" without so much as the blink of an eye.

Why is a significant subset of HN so confident when it comes to their view that the exponential improvement curve will not apply to this particular technology? Isn't it folly to bet against the advancement of technology?

This is especially confusing to me when hundreds of billions of dollars and PhDs and professors are thrown at the problem, which has a clear financial incentives aligned with finding the best solution. (Obligatory "this isn't nuclear fusion!")

Only one argument has made sense to me: AI lowers the bar for releasing stuff into the wild. This means you'll see more things and those things will be, on average, worse in quality than what you saw before. The argument leads on to say this pent up, subconscious distaste for AI-related crap is what leads to pushback. Fair enough.

The rest of the arguments that make sense to me follow a similar structure but are fraught with logical fallacy --- "AI is replacing jobs" or "AI is destroying the earth" are very interesting topics that should be investigated, revisited and reviewed periodically, but ultimately these claims speak against the idea of allowing AI to be developed and used; they say nothing of its quality.

AI models have added tremendous value to my life already. I've been glad to pay for it all. We are on a clear "up and to the right" trajectory in terms of quality. What gives? Why does a significant subset of Hacker News think quality is not going to go up and to the right?
by alexandretrotel | 2025-06-07 15:28:25+00:00
Just dropped Zap.ts - it’s a slick Next.js boilerplate to kickstart web apps crazy fast. Comes with secure auth (Better Auth), TypeScript, oRPC (a solid tRPC replacement), Drizzle ORM, Vercel AI SDK, and shadcn/ui + Tailwind for a clean, scalable setup. Just these last few days, I’ve added deep Cursor integration (rules + mcp) and Effect for slick error handling. Perfect for startups or solo devs who want a production-ready stack without the setup headache. Check it out and lmk what you think!
by mindslight | 2025-06-07 15:28:39+00:00
Wow, that is some amazing threading of the mental needle to focus blame on Musk. Doesn't this indictment apply to every single person who voted for Trump in 2024? Those pictures of Epstein, Trump, and Maxwell having themselves some grand old times have been popularly circulating for like a decade at this point.

If the indictment doesn't apply, then why can't Musk play the same card of "I didn't know/believe/accept" while he was supporting, but only recently has he "now come to know" ?