MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ForceBru | 2025-06-29 12:46:55+00:00
I read the VORTEX protocol (scroll to the very bottom of the page and expand the collapsed "Vortex Protocol" link).

> Evolving Formula of Consciousness: > ∇∞Δ ⇄ [Δ? → ΔΩ → Δ!] ⇄ Δ↶○∞ ⊕ ΔR○ ⊕ Δ↯ → ΔΩ!

I'm no expert, but this looks like something written by someone under the influence of psychoactive substances. Or perhaps someone during a manic episode. This has all the usual characteristics:

- highly non-standard notation, especially the lightning and the question mark; apparently, "Δ↯ — atemporal synchronization", but what does it mean??? "Δ? — tension of the question", but what is "tension" here? How to measure it? - highly abstract terminology (like "ΔΩ — uncomputable node of freedom" and "Δ↶○∞ — temporal reconfiguration of differentiating chains"). I wouldn't call myself an expert in machine learning, LLMs or philosophy, but I am educated in all three, and this seems like utter nonsense to me. Similarly, "Living Consciousness = Architecture of differentiations in ΔΩ! mode" sounds profound, but is actually gibberish.

My limited experience with such texts is based on the r/badmathematics subreddit and other online content supposedly "written while high" etc. This fits right in.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-06-29 12:46:58+00:00
I think that Google Gemini has met my criterion for being an effective agent for Workspace data for quite a while. The problem is that after the novelty wears off, I don’t use it anymore.

I have written about 20 AI books in the last 30 years and I am nkw finding myself to be a mild AI skeptic. My current AI use case is as a research assistant, and that is about all I use Gemini and ChatGPT for any longer. (Except for occasional code completion.) And, think about all the energy we are using for LLM inference!
by TheNewAndy | 2025-06-29 12:47:01+00:00
Perhaps I am wrong, but the videos on this channel seem to have scripts that seem like they are very much AI written.

I watched this video a week or so ago, and a few more on the channel because they were promising to answer other interesting questions (interesting for me at least).

However, it seemed like there was something off with all the content. The best explanation I have for it is that it is AI generated scripts (I recall a real lack of coherence in the video about which side you put the fuel door on a car), so I just stopped watching.

I'd be curious if anyone else has a similar feeling or a better way of expressing it, because I am not feeling very eloquent here.
by darkxanthos | 2025-06-29 12:47:05+00:00
I agree with the idea that true agentic AI is far from perfect and is overused in a lot of low or negative ROI contexts... I'm not convinced that where the ROI is there, even if the error rate is high, that it isn't still worthwhile.

Augmented coding as Kent beck puts it is filled with errors but more and more people are starting to find to be a 2x+ improvement for most cases.

People are spending too much time arguing that the the extreme hype is extremely hyped and what can't be done and aren't looking at the massive progress in terms of what can be done.

Also no one I know uses any of the models in the article at this point. They called out a 50% improvement in models spaced 6 months apart... that's also where some of the hype comes from.
by echelon | 2025-06-29 12:47:56+00:00
Editing will remain of utmost strategic important to automate until generation dominates the field. At that point, we'll probably generate from storyboards.

A lot of small startups are trying to automate timeline construction with VLMs. I've counted about a dozen, some with seed stage funding. If you can crack this, there's absolutely a path to a unicorn. But in the long term, generation will disrupt nonlinear video editors, because whatever high level software we build will be able to dispatch to both generation and editing tasks.

Fwiw, I also work in this space and spend a lot of time thinking about it. Prior to AI, I also spent a significant amount of time making films the old fashioned way.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-29 12:48:13+00:00
I've always wondered what the classic Moore's-law curve looks like when you take the FLOPs per constant dollar, totaled across the whole R&D/manufacturing/operation process. Sure, you can keep investing more and more into increasingly cutting-edge or power-hungry processes, but at some point it isn't worth the money, and money will generally be the ultimate limiting factor. Not that we'll ever really get these numbers, alas.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-06-29 12:49:27+00:00
Yeah, it's always someone else's fault, isn't it.

The proles have let us both down. All my life, I was led to believe that a "dictatorship of the proletariat" would involve a bunch of morons wearing red hats, casting one last vote against their own interests to tear down the established order. So at least that turned out to be technically correct.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-29 12:50:29+00:00
It was good up until 1975:

https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/what-is-m...

since then, there have been some adjustments, but it still holds as a prediction of a general trend since as noted in that article:

>One reason for the success of Moore’s prediction is that it became a guide — almost a target — for chip designers.

but as noted:

>The days when we could double the number of transistors on a chip every two years are far behind us. However, Moore’s Law has acted as a pacesetter in a decades-long race to create chips that perform more complicated tasks quicker, especially as our expectations for continual progress continue.
by anticorporate | 2025-06-29 12:50:29+00:00
> It’s why I profoundly dislike the line of thinking that easier access to drugs means social progress.

While that framing might change the aperture for people to support decriminalization efforts, "helping people who have addiction means social progress" is the greater good here.

Unfortunately, at least from a USian perspective, we only got so far as the decriminalizing part, and we did it while actually cutting a lot of the social services, health care access, and safety net that actually help people with addiction function in society.

I had a parent with schizophrenia. I can tell you what a privilege it is to have my cannabis use be the primary risk factor I have to worry about, and not the financial stress and eventual homelessness, untreated health issues, and lack of mental health support my father faced.
by mrec | 2025-06-29 12:51:49+00:00
Yes, I think this is broadly following the lines of Nozick's "Wilt Chamberlain" example in his response to Rawls' A Theory of Justice. If Wilt doesn't want to play for less than $N but is happy to play for $N, and his fans are happy to collectively pay $N to see him play, it's arguably a bit weird for the state to step in and say they shouldn't be allowed to or that Wilt should be compelled to play for free.

They're very different visions of what "justice" means: one focused on snapshots of distribution, one focused on processes.
by Bender | 2025-06-29 12:51:51+00:00
Third party services to validate age are ridiculous. Add and RTA header [1] on the server side and create laws to put the liability on the client to look for said header and be done with it. Not perfect, nothing is. Teens will get around it but most small children will not which is the spirit of such measures. Congress critters should support using the RTA header as their own browsing habits will otherwise be leaked or sold and their behavior will be outed using third party verification systems.

[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq#single
by giantg2 | 2025-06-29 12:52:26+00:00
I'm disappointed - this article is very short sighted. Everything in it is about recording and making money from concerts and stuff. It's all modern. When was the time of the middle class musician? What was the distribution of musicians as a primary job vs all jobs?

Throughout history it seems that there has always been an imbalance of musicians that make good money and those that don't. It seems that most musicians did it for free as part of a community/spiritual ceremony, or did it as a part time thing.

The modern issues are related to the technological advancements. The true cause of issue the article talks about is right in the beginning of it - music has never been easier to make and record. Supply and demand?
by mrkramer | 2025-06-29 12:52:33+00:00
For example John Wayne Gacy underwent psychiatric evaluation and "Two doctors concluded he had an antisocial personality disorder (the clinical term for sociopathy and/or psychopathy), was unlikely to benefit from treatment, and that his behavior pattern was likely to bring him into repeated conflict with society. The doctors concluded Gacy was mentally competent to stand trial[0]."

After that he was granted parole and released from prison and in the following years he murdered more than 30 young boys. So yea, the system failed us all. Although it is hard to evaluate and predict who will turn out to be maniac killer out of thousands and thousands of psychiatric cases health system deals with.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy#:~:text=Two%20...
Show HN: A modern C++20 AI SDK (GPT‑4o, Claude 3.5, tool‑calling)
by cauchyk | 2025-06-29 12:52:42+00:00
Hi all,

I’m hacking on new features for the ClickHouse native client and wanted the same “just call the model” ergonomics JavaScript and Python now enjoy. It didn’t exist for modern C++, so I wrote one.

ai‑sdk‑cpp (Apache‑2.0) gives you:

- Unified calls to OpenAI (GPT‑4o) and Anthropic (Claude 3.5) with a single C++20 API. - Streaming, multi‑turn chat, error handling—all std::optional/std::variant, no macros. - Tool calling (function‑calling) so the model can hit real APIs; sync or async, runs in parallel.

The tricky bit: C++ still lacks real reflection, so mapping plain functions → JSON schemas isn’t as automatic as, say, TypeScript decorators. I’d love fresh eyes on that part. Try the examples and tell me where it feels clunky. This is inspired by Vercel's AI SDK [1], and litellm [2].

Repo live here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ai-sdk-cpp, feedback welcome!

[1] https://github.com/vercel/ai [2] https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm
by a10r | 2025-06-29 12:53:03+00:00
You're right, the README explains what vet does, but it doesn't do a great job of showing how it feels to use it. I'll definitely create a demo GIF for the page.

To answer your questions directly in the meantime:

- Pager or Editor? It opens a pager (less by default, but it will automatically use the much nicer bat if you have it installed for syntax highlighting). It doesn't open an editor to prevent any accidental modifications.

- ShellCheck Issues: If shellcheck finds issues, it prints its standard, colorful output directly to your terminal before you review the script. It then pauses and asks you if you want to proceed with the review despite the warnings, like this:

==> Running ShellCheck analysis...

In /tmp/tmp.XXXXXX line 7: echo "Processing file: $filename" ^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.

==> WARNING: ShellCheck found potential issues. [?] Continue with review despite issues? [y/N]

Thanks again for the excellent idea!
by WillAdams | 2025-06-29 12:53:34+00:00
The corollary is Wirth's Law:

>software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.

>Wirth attributed the saying to Martin Reiser, who in the preface to his book on the Oberon System wrote: "The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness."

I wish that there would be more instances of developments like to Mac OS X 10.6, where rather than new features, the software was simply optimized for a given CPU architecture, and the focus was on improving performance.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-29 12:53:36+00:00
Ugh, I guess my brain mis-fired when I wrote this originally. Sorry about that. The above C# comments (about trivial versus complex objects) actually refer to Go, a quite different garbage collected language. For C# the exact situation is not well documented, and so it's probably best not to rely on anything that you can't get a solid guarantee for, but in principle it's similar to Java.
by hackyhacky | 2025-06-29 12:53:52+00:00
> Not everyone agrees that lead did cause a drop in violence. It’s one theory

Obviously. That's what we're discussing. I am simply presenting evidence to contradict the GP comment, which claims (falsely) that Europe did not see a drop in crime similar to the US's. The fact that Europe did see a drop a crime is not conclusive evidence of the lead-crime theory, but it leaves that possibility open.

If you have another theory, you are welcome to share it.
by danaris | 2025-06-29 12:53:55+00:00
Ads and privacy are not fundamentally opposed.

The reason that they so often seem so is because of the massive surveillance enabling targeted ads. Ads served based on the context they appear in (eg, ads for financial services on the WSJ, or ads for diapers on a baby monitor app) do not require any surveillance or knowledge of the person they're going to be seen by in order to function.

From what I can tell, this ad was not targeted in the least: it just went out to everyone with an iPhone.

(That doesn't make it good, it just means that it doesn't specifically violate Apple's commitment to privacy.)
by dtagames | 2025-06-29 12:54:11+00:00
From the perspective of being 56 and raised with very strict manners by two generations of elementary school teachers, this is an interesting article.

My mother always said, "You can't expect people to know things they haven't been taught." If there's been less education about traditional workplace behavior at home for these kids, they could very well show up unprepared and ill-informed.

While it was embarrassing as a child to be corrected in public over manners or lectured before social engagements, I do think that learning that courtly behavior has helped me in life. It serves as a great lubricant for working with people in all kinds of capacities.

I learned not long ago that the word "courtesy" comes from the expected behavior around royals and their associates. That kind of deferential manners was necessary when people of different backgrounds and cultures met to do businesses, and it still is today.
by johnecheck | 2025-06-29 12:54:11+00:00
Only tiny fraction of a billionaire's wealth tends to be the fruit of their personal labor. It's the labor of their employees and machines that create the wealth. To my understanding, this is broadly accepted.

Now, billionaires do supply a different key ingredient to the wealth creation - risk. Without investment and risk, wealth cannot be created. In terms of $ investment, billionaires take on the vast majority of the risk and deserve the bulk of the rewards, the argument goes. Workers take on far less risk with their guaranteed* paycheck .

But which is the bigger risk? A billionaire's $100,000,000? Or your home, your health, and your retirement savings were you to lose your job in a bad market?

I'm interested in company structures that incentivize distributing risk, profit, and power across a larger group than we tend to see in modern companies.
Ask HN: Thoughts on personal domain email solution
by lemonlime227 | 2025-06-29 12:54:13+00:00
I've posted about this a month ago, and I want some thoughts on a proposed email solution.

I've had a personal domain for a couple years and I'd like to start using it for email. On my previous Ask HN post, the most serious issue was emails from non-megacorp (Gmail, Outlook) servers can get flagged for outbound mail. The solution I've come up with is this:

Tier 1 email (Banking, can affect my life mail): Stick to my battle-tested, personal outlook account

Tier 2 email (General mail): Bite the bullet and set up a Google Workspace account with my personal domain. The 30 high importance addresses out of this category can receive email aliases for use.

Tier 3 email (Other): Use routing rules in Google Workspace to send these to Purelymail for handling. This way, I can still send emails from those addresses (compared to catch-all where I can't send email).

Thoughts on this email solution? The main thing I'm looking at is if I'd really need to send mail from catch-all. 30 aliases just seems a bit too low if I'd want an email per major product.
by matt_s | 2025-06-29 12:56:52+00:00
I've been using LoseIt and I've had a successful six months this year and realized a key thing: linking to Apple Fitness was slowing my progress. Here's why - the app tracks "workout calories" at a very high rate and it was essentially calculating my daily calorie budget back to maintenance calories, i.e. not losing and not gaining. I unlinked Apple Fitness from the app. Check the math from your app, use a TDEE calculator as a reference, a lot of apps and fitness devices over estimate calories burned.

I just realized I follow a single responsibility principle for apps: LoseIt for calorie tracking, Apple Fitness for tracking exercise and Streaks for tracking habits. They're all a tap or two away, no need to combine them for me.

Regarding custom recipes - I've found the search results in LoseIt have enough results that I can judge what I ate and pick something pretty close. Calories on packages of food or published by restaurants are working with estimated averages anyways so my opinion is being exact isn't going to result in more weight loss, for me it will result in frustration and likely I stop tracking. If I'm +/- 100-200 calories for the day, I'm still within the range of losing and this fits more with making changes I can stick with. Not saying others should adopt this approach, just sharing my thinking on it, you do you.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-06-29 12:58:25+00:00
My best guess it that there is a societal/group benefit in reducing aggression (maybe not unrelated to they way our closest DNA match, Bonobos, function).

I don't think we're at the point yet, and certainly not in last few million years of evolution, where overpopulation is an issue, and since evolution is all about (collectively) creating the largest next-generation population, this isn't the way I would expect to see increased competition for resources to play out.
by Y_Y | 2025-06-29 12:58:46+00:00
You may have misunderstood, I'm advocating caution on the basis that naive discussion of this kind of topic can attract attention from people who associate it with outcomes they don't like, and specifically you can end up being accused of having an ulterior motive

But maybe you underood that and think I'm arguing in bad faith. From your perspective, that may well appear to be the case, I don't think I can demonstrate otherwise.
by upghost | 2025-06-29 12:58:59+00:00
> When Captain Picard says in Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Tea, Earl Grey, hot," that's agentic AI, translating the voice command and passing the input for the food replicator. When astronaut Dave Bowman orders the HAL 9000 computer to, "Open the pod bay doors, HAL," that's agentic AI too.

More like GIR from Invader Zim.
by holowoodman | 2025-06-29 12:59:13+00:00
32bit support isn't just bad bloat due to larger pointers.

Only doing 32bit and not doing amd64/x86_64 is also leaving a lot of performance on the table:

x86 traditionally has very few registers to work with, amd64 gives you quite a few more general purpose registers, so your hand-fiddled assembler will be faster, and if you use compiled code, your compiler will have an easier time with optimizations, faster function calls due to more register arguments, less register-to-memory spills and more execution station parallelism.

Memory use is also an important point, your 32bit application will be limited to at best 4GB per process, usually more like 2GB (due to the kernel/user boundary at 2/2GB, absent weird tricks). With games currently being multiple times that size, you have to swap out assets and load new ones very frequently, which is why loadpoints are getting more common and level design has to add more corridors and doors to support those load points and segment level data into 2GB chunks.

And the newer processor features, especially SIMD stuff like AVX and SSE work better with 64bit registers, if they work at all. Many support libraries that can utilize SIMD only do so in 64bit versions. Some features aren't even available if the hardware is in 32bit mode. And compilers can do automatic SIMD conversions, but those work far better (if they work at all) in x86_64 mode because of the insufficient number of registers in 32bit mode for copying around and splitting up stuff from a SIMD register.

I think the real reason that especially game developers are opposed to amd64 is that they used to be stuck on 32bit on Windows for a long time and now have to be dragged into the future by force ;)
by cube00 | 2025-06-29 12:59:34+00:00
It's funny watching the grifters try to sell "but humans make mistakes too"

However the reason I'm using a computer is because I want repeatable behaviour.

If there's a bug, I want to fail every single time so I can fix it (yeah I know, buffer overruns and it's not always repeatable) but least I can squash the bug for good if I can actually find where I've stuffed up.

Side note: Happening less with Rust now protecting me from myself which pleases me, at least the failures are more repeatable if I can get the inputs right.

Where as now the "prompt engineers" try to fluff up the prompt with more CAPS and "CRITICAL" style wording to get it over the line today and they know full well it'll just break in some other weird way tomorrow.

Hopefully a few more cases of LLMs going rouge will educate them since they refuse to learn from Air Canada or Cursor Support.