MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amelius | 2025-06-30 23:38:58+00:00
But the logic seems flawed.

He has built an AI system that fails to do X.

That does not mean there isn't an AI system that can do X. Especially considering that a lot is happening in AI, as you say.

Anyway, Carmack knows a lot about optimizing computations on modern hardware. In practice, that happens to be also necessary for AI. However, it is not __sufficient__ for AI.
by epistasis | 2025-06-30 23:39:37+00:00
This is a very odd way to put this, as a battle between elites. Scientific research is a general benefit to the entire US economy, one of its greatest strengths that makes the US economy so much better than anywhere else in the world.

How does framing this as a competition between elites even affect the common person? Shouldn't I care about what helps the US the most? I don't give a damn about elites or taking sides or being on a side of that battle. I want what's best for the US.

> Academia is experiencing the consequences of its failure to live up to its promises to society and hold itself accountable for the negative externalities of its own agenda.

I'm sorry but could you explain any of this? There's a lot of assumptions in here that I can not even begin to unpack, and any possible meaning I can assign to your statements here are easily disproven with even a minimum of research, so I don't want to misunderstand you.
by orbital-decay | 2025-06-30 23:39:58+00:00
Many people figured it out two-three years ago when AI-assisted coding basically wasn't a thing, and it's still relevant and will stay relevant. These are fundamental principles, all big models work similarly, not just transformers and not just LLMs.

However, many fundamental phenomena are missing from the "context engineering" scope, so neither context engineering nor prompt engineering are useful terms.
by ggm | 2025-06-30 23:40:11+00:00
A very strange take. The author might be surprised to learn that the overwhelming majority of degrees are awarded to people with little or no interest in all these "I dont like it so it's wrong" things.

Defining who is and is not a member of the "degree class" feels to me like an exercise in "othering" but I'm probably committing a sin using that term of art. Mind you people who say othering probably don't believe in sin...
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-06-30 23:40:17+00:00
> That's cool. Do you also take the keyboard layout into account?

Thank you! I do actually - in the persistance layer, we have a column for which keyboard and keyboard layout was used to type a particular text. However, currently in the front-end/UI we only have an option to use QWERTY.

I have it in my todo list to add additional layouts to front-end. The issue is just that we need a different SVG and correct highlihgting for each key on the keyboard SVG for each layout. So it's very tedious work and time consuming and LLMs are no good with this type of tasks - they struggle with SVGs.

I also have plans to add a layout builder. Users will be able to create their own layouts and practice them with the on-screen keybaord and hands as a guide to help them and avoid looking down.

So my data and API layers support various keyboard and keyboard layouts; all that's left is to make the fronend fixes and add as an
by kondro | 2025-06-30 23:41:50+00:00
The fact the average Japanese person won't even consider trying imported Japonica rice from Australia or USA is madness if budget is a consideration.

But as someone who's tried many varieties of Japonica, there is a difference between the best Japan-grown rice and non-speciality rice grown elsewhere, as well as a difference between fresh (Japanese enjoy eating new rice, which is different from many rice-eating cultures) and old rice.

I pay somewhere around AUD$14/kg for Japanese rice in Australia, but I also don't eat it that often and I'm not that price sensitive.

But also, the average Japanese eats around 1kg of uncooked rice per week. That's ¥800 at the rates in the article (~USD$300/year). Japan's cost of living is generally pretty low, but I doubt +/- $100/year is effecting many people.
by surecoocoocoo | 2025-06-30 23:42:30+00:00
Ah some No True Scotsman

Not sure why justanotherjoe is a credible resource on who is and isn’t expert in some new dialectic and euphemism for machine state management. You’re that nobody to me :shrug:

Yann LeCun is an AI guy and has simplified it as “not much more than physical statistics.”

WWhole lot of AI is decades old info theory books applied to modern computer.

Either a mem value is or isn’t what’s expected. Either an entire matrix of values is or isn’t what’s expected. Store the results of some such rules. There’s your model.

The words are made up and arbitrary because human existence is arbitrary. You’re being sold on a bridge to nowhere.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-30 23:43:21+00:00
> If maga were both sincere and intelligent then they'd be actual nazis. They lack the second quality so they just spout ineffectually in public spaces thinking they'll get support. If they knew history they'd understand that's not a viable strategy. Ya need a lot more than that to build authoritarianism bro.

Their egos won’t let them go full nazi. Cognitive dissonance is overcome via suspension of disbelief through self-hypnosis at home and collectively online and at rallies. Their need to appear respectable prevents how deep down the rabbit hole that most are willing to go, which is why they lean in to extremism, because it alienates followers from moderating influences of family and friends who are not already indoctrinated. It’s a cult of personality.

The liberals are baited for clicks and impressions, and the left are again sidelined until the next time they need to be chided for being insufficiently centrist by liberals. Non-extremists on both sides become the controlled opposition relative to each other vis-à-vis the political parties proper.

We’re tilting at windmills while digital sharecroppers toil on company plantations, their blood from stones mere grist for the blood money paper mill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#A_World_Wit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to72IJzQT5k

HyperNormalisation (2016)

> In Russia, Vladimir Putin and his cabinet of political technologists create mass confusion. Vladislav Surkov uses ideas from art to turn Russian politics into a bewildering piece of theatre. Donald Trump employs the same techniques in his presidential campaign by using language from Occupy Wall Street. Curtis asserts that Trump "defeated journalism" by rendering its fact-checking abilities irrelevant.

> The American Left's attempt to resist Trump on the internet had no effect. In fact, they were just feeding the social media corporations who valued their many additional clicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHC4NNScEI

HyperNormalisation explained by Adam Curtis

> I'd be more than happy to discuss further. Over email, telegram or zoom.

If you check my profile, you can find many available resources, including contact details.
by andrekandre | 2025-06-30 23:43:32+00:00
> So there is this $34k/yr gap which creates a no-mans land of livelihood.

it also creates/necessitates a vast enforcement bureaucracy to make it all "work" which in itself is a huge waste when you could just tax it back from high-earners at the end of the tax year... its almost as if it was designed to suck
Show HN: Local LLM Notepad – run a GPT-style model from a USB stick
by davidye324 | 2025-06-30 23:43:37+00:00
What it is A single 45 MB Windows .exe that embeds llama.cpp and a minimal Tk UI. Copy it (plus any .gguf model) to a flash drive, double-click on any Windows PC, and you’re chatting with an LLM—no admin rights, Cloud, or network.

Why I built it Existing “local LLM” GUIs assume you can pip install, pass long CLI flags, or download GBs of extras.

I wanted something my less-technical colleagues could run during a client visit by literally plugging in a USB drive.

How it works PyInstaller one-file build → bundles Python runtime, llama_cpp_python, and the UI into a single PE.

On first launch, it memory-maps the .gguf; subsequent prompts stream at ~20 tok/s on an i7-10750H with gemma-3-1b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf (0.8 GB).

Tick-driven render loop keeps the UI responsive while llama.cpp crunches.

A parser bold-underlines every token that originated in the prompt; Ctrl+click pops a “source viewer” to trace facts. (Helps spot hallucinations fast.)
by aaronmdjones | 2025-06-30 23:43:49+00:00
This is quite easy to avoid by using DNS over TLS. It's like 15 minutes of effort in some OpenWRT documentation [1]. If you want any hope of having some semblance of control and privacy, you would already be using your own router, with their CPE being relegated to modem-only duties. It only makes sense that in this situation you choose a router that can run highly-configurable and privacy-preserving software.

I did it several months ago, including the optional adding an outbound firewall rule dropping forwarded UDP/TCP 53 traffic (I tried the redirect rule suggested there first, but it didn't work and the firewall ruleset failed to load, so a drop will have to do. I didn't bother investigating why, because everything on my LANs is configured to use the router as their only nameserver anyway).

I also added a rule dropping it from the router itself in case something breaks, for example if it suddenly decides to start honouring the DHCP-received nameserver addresses (my ISP) despite being configured not to.

EDIT: The article doesn't make this clear, but the bootstrap section is only necessary if you specify upstream nameservers by name (e.g. "https://dns.cloudflare.com/dns-query"). This is not required. For example, you can configure a manual upstream of "tls://1.1.1.1" like I did, and then it doesn't need to do any DNS lookups at all, so does not need to be configured with bootstrap servers, so will not break if you add the 2 firewall rules I mentioned.

[1] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/dns/dot_dnsmasq...
by lxdesk | 2025-06-30 23:43:57+00:00
Crawford's work is worthy of study, as is the causation for why he experienced external failure. It embodies the "simulationist" aesthetic of game design: given enough modelled parameters, something emergent and interesting will happen. This was a trend of the 20th century: computers were new and interesting, and simulations did work when you asked them to solve physics problems and plan logistics. Why wouldn't it work for narrative?

But then you play the games, and they're all so opaque. You have no idea what's going on, and the responses to your actions are so hard to grasp. But if you do figure it out, the model usually collapses into a linear, repeatable strategy and the illusion of depth disappears. You can see this happening from the start, with Gossip. Instead of noticing that his game didn't communicate and looking for points of accessibility, he plunged further forward into computer modelling. The failure is one of verisimilitude: The model is similar to a grounded truth on paper, but it's uninteresting to behold because it doesn't lead to a coherent whole. It just reflects the designer's thoughts on "this is how the world should work", which is something that can be found in any comments section.

Often, when Crawford lectured, he would go into evo-psych theories to build his claims: that is, he was confident that the answers he already accepted about the world and society were the correct ones, and the games were a matter of illustration. He was likewise confident that a shooting game would be less thoughtful than a turn-based strategy game because the moment-to-moment decisions were less complex, and the goal should be to portray completeness in the details.

I think he's aware of some of this, but he's a stubborn guy.
by wenbin | 2025-06-30 23:44:40+00:00
Earlier this year, we at Listen Notes switched to Better Stack [0], replacing both Datadog and PagerDuty, and we couldn’t be happier :) Datadog offers a rich set of features, and as a public company, it makes sense for them to keep expanding their product and pushing larger contracts. But as a small team, we don't have a strong demand for constant new features. By switching to Better Stack, we were able to cut our monitoring and alerting costs by 90%, with basically the same things that we used from Datadog previously.

[0] https://www.listennotes.com/blog/use-betterstack-to-replace-...
by snickerbockers | 2025-06-30 23:45:26+00:00
Okay I'm as concerned about privasy as everybody else is here but i also gotta admire that its pretty neat they can actually do that. Are they measuring the signal echo like what radar does? If they controlled both the receiver and transmitter i wouldn't be as surprised to find out they can tell when something crosses between them and form a 2-dimensional mesh (like that episode of Star Trek TNG where geordie detects cloaked romulan ships by having starfleet deploy a fleet of ships that send signals back and forth and look for timing variances) but if I'm understanding correctly this is different because they only control a single point in the network?

I wonder if they have enough information to make out shapes or if it's just a simple rangefinder?
by 6510 | 2025-06-30 23:47:37+00:00
home screen > settings > default apps > email

Easy if you know where to look. If you end up in the wrong sub menu you might simply search the web for instructions.

Apple provides web pages where they explain how to use the iphone. There is a section called "mail" under "apps" that shows up in the search results. It really wants me to read the help in dutch, the "apps > mail" section has 14 pages that don't talk about changing the default app, in stead they explain how to use the various features of their own mail app (that is also configured by default)

I don't get why the help pages need a different menu structure.

One has to go to "personalize your iphone" which has 18 pages, changing default apps is towards the end.

Searching the Dutch help website for "mail" I get only 3 unhelpful search results. If i change it to US English it immediately redirects to Dutch again. lol?

Using the "English" for Latin America and the Caribbean works. There I get 5 pages worth of results. Changing the default app is on page 3.

Not impossible but it is not a simple prompt on launch of the app "Banana mail is not currently your default email client. Do you want to set Banana mail as your default app for sending email?"

I'm quite dense of course, if they are going to be like that I will NEVER create an email client for this platform.

The web and their TOS is full of good reasons to never create an app for iphone.

In a laps of sanity I created a pwa one time. I've explained to exactly one user how to add the option to add a web app to the home screen to the menu so that they can add a web app to the home screen. It was a really hard sell and it took a long time.

I of course had to laugh at myself for acting against my better judgement.

Imagine someone made a web app email client and tried to compete with the build in client. Then in the middle of the struggle apple jokes about discontinuing PWA.

Seems a pretty level playing field?
by nomel | 2025-06-30 23:48:48+00:00
This is my experience, and my favorite way to learn: go in blindly, look things up when you get stuck/run out of ideas. I think it forces a deeper understanding of the topic, and really helps things "stick". I assume it's related to the massive dumps of dopamine that come from the "Eureka!" moments.

I've "invented" all sorts of old patents, all sorts of algorithms, including the PID algorithm. I think it helped form a very practically useful "intuition".

But, I've noticed that some people are passionately against this type of self exploration.
by snickerbockers | 2025-06-30 23:49:42+00:00
"...for you." --Bane

These days it is never safe to assume that opting-in does anything more than making some of the information that's being collected regardless available.

Although I actually agree with you that it probably isn't doing anything by default to the extent that it isn't doing anything yet because it's new they haven't worked out how to monetize it.
by seriocomic | 2025-06-30 23:49:53+00:00
Getting close to dark-launching a web-app that scans a domain for common issues - there's a heap of "performance measurement", "security analysis", "SEO scan" sites - but nothing that really does them all - a one-stop-shop if you will.

It's been a fun ride co-coding with Claude (Sonnet 3.5 > 3.7 > Code). Already it found a bunch of interesting bugs on a heap of my own sites, older employer sites, friend's sites.

Started as a simple Django web app, extended to Celery+Redis, now also leveraging CF Workers and R2 storage.

Was bourne out of an observation that some sites I have been working on missed some crucial things like domain expiration of asset-domains, mis-configured CORS or SSL certificates, http header and meta collisions, missing/wrong redirects for http/https/www/no-www etc.
by davidclark | 2025-06-30 23:51:09+00:00
Have you considered the opposite? Reflected on your own biases?

I’m listening to my own experience. Just today I gave it another fair shot. GitHub Copilot agent mode with GPT-4.1. Still unimpressed.

This is a really insightful look at why people perceive the usefulness of these models differently. It is fair to both sides without being dismissive as one side just not “getting it” or how we should be “so far” past debate:

https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine....
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-30 23:51:40+00:00
> FAANG isn't going to be hiring at anywhere near the same rate they were before, because they won't need to.

They already didn't need to. The reason they hire as much as they do is to keep their lead, essentially denying potential competitors of growth potential by taking the best engineers and trying every crazy idea before anyone else. Or so I think.

And even though they overhire, it doesn't mean they can do huge layoffs without consequences, as the structure is now built around a massive workforce.
by manquer | 2025-06-30 23:52:06+00:00
It is also quite cool that proto-boomerangs were designed for flight characteristics and actively being used as long as 42,000 years ago.

Not all throwing sticks are the same, these early sticks glided some distance, they are not same as spear which is what comes to most people's mind when you describe them as throwing sticks.

If the bar for click bait is so low, then we should only read peer-reviewed, edited academic journals which are not top tier (i.e. not Science/Nature etc) for driest factual titles.
by transpute | 2025-06-30 23:52:07+00:00
We need more funding for open-source WiFi Sensing counter-measures, e.g. EU research, https://ans.unibs.it/projects/csi-murder/

> this paper addressed passive attacks, where the attacker controls only a receiver, but exploits the normal Wi-Fi traffic. In this case, the only useful traffic for the attacker comes from transmitters that are perfectly fixed and whose position is well known and stable, so that the NN can be trained in advance, thus the obfuscator needs to be installed only in APs or similar ‘infrastructure’ devices. Active attacks, where the attacker controls both the transmitter and the receiver are another very interesting research area, where, however, privacy protection cannot be based on randomization at the transmitter.

https://github.com/ansresearch/csi-murder/

> The experimental results obtained in our laboratory show that the considered localization method (first proposed in an MSc thesis) works smoothly regardless of the environment, and that adding random information to the CSI mess up the localization, thus providing the community with a system that preserve location privacy and communication performance at the same time.
by ethagnawl | 2025-06-30 23:52:25+00:00
I think this is plausible as we got into the late 90s and they became cheap enough to not warrant repairs. Prior to that, though, it definitely was not the case. I had a neighbor who made quite a comfortable living repairing VCRs in the 80s and early 90s. I also saw the web for the first time in his shop in 93/94.
by CursedSilicon | 2025-06-30 23:52:57+00:00
I recently came across a VM of Google's now defunct "Google Search Appliance" [1] specifically the "version for developers" that was discontinued abruptly in either 2008 or 2009 (sources conflict)

This appliance was designed by Google for enterprises to (essentially) run a Google Search Engine for their internal corporate intranets. Boasting the ability to index millions of pages. Under the hood these machines seemed to be re-badged Dell R710's in fancy bright yellow chassis with a copy of CentOS 5.x installed and some ability to phone home over a modem (??? DRM, I guess?)

Unfortunately the "developer version" was only ever distributed as a VMware image. Inside it contains a CentOS 5.0 image stripped down so aggressively it lacks even basic functions like "ls" internally. It's still able to index up to 50,000 pages and doesn't seem to have any kind of activation required or phone-home functionality embedded. So it still works (on sites that don't speak modern SSL, at least!)

I wanted to use this for a "Retro ISP" project currently in semi-closed-beta [2] but we're using Proxmox instead of VMware ESXi. So it needed some work to get it ported over to a "real" hypervisor!

After spending an afternoon fruitlessly trying to piece it back together with a full featured CentOS 5.0 install (or even just get it to accept a newer kernel) I ended up attaching a Debian 5.0 "sidecar" hard disk and modifying Debian's GRUB bootloader to point the kernel root to the GSA rootfs.

As a bonus this means the appliance now has access to virtio accelerated drivers for improved performance in Proxmox. Though it's still running a very old 2.6 era kernel and should not be used on production networks or the open internet!

Pictures of the GSA in action are also available on the Internet Archive listing for those that want to just see it running!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

[2] https://wiki.cursedsilicon.net/wiki/Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-...
by walterfreedom | 2025-06-30 23:53:31+00:00
I am mostly focusing in this issue during the development of my agent engine (mostly for game npcs). Its really important to manage the context and not bloat the llm with irrelevant stuff for both quality and inference speed. I wrote about it here if anyone is interested: https://walterfreedom.com/post.html?id=ai-context-management
by lrvick | 2025-06-30 23:53:33+00:00
Soon ICE will have given Comcast enough money to provide a live feed of the neighborhoods they are targeting and where all the bodies are that match the height of their targets.

We need to be finding the xfinity wifi hotspots in our neighborhoods, knock on doors, and help people understand the risks they are creating for themselves and their neighbors and how to setup their own routers.
Show HN: CeresAi, Create a Clone of Anyone
by Mahsanziak9 | 2025-06-30 23:53:53+00:00
I’m excited to share CeresAi, a consumer-facing platform that lets you create deeply personalized AI companions based on your own WhatsApp, Instagram or SMS chat logs. Instead of generic bots, each CeresAi character learns your loved one’s turn-of-phrase, emotional nuances, and in-chat memories—so you can have realistic, heart-felt conversations anytime. We also have pre-built characters: peep my conversation with Trump (https://www.ceresai.xyz/share/2e902afc-f76f-476c-a52c-9c30d7...)
by biglyburrito | 2025-06-30 23:54:06+00:00
"Zero Hedge (or ZeroHedge) is a far-right libertarian financial blog and news aggregator....

Over time, Zero Hedge expanded into non-financial political content, including conspiracy theories and fringe rhetoric,and has advanced radical right, alt-right, and pro-Russia positions. Zero Hedge's non-financial commentary has led to multiple site bans by global social media platforms, although a 2019 Facebook ban and a 2020 Twitter ban were later reversed."

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