MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-08 20:59:23+00:00
Someone posted that they had used a "mining rig" [0] from AliExpress for less than $100. It even has RAM and a CPU. He picked up a 2000W (!) DELL server PS for cheap off eBay. The GPUs were NVIDIA TESLAs (M40 for example) since they often have a lot of RAM and are less expensive.

I followed in those footsteps to create my own [1] (photo [2]).

I picked up a 24GB M40 for around $300 off eBay. I 3D printed a "cowl" for the GPU that I found online and picked up two small fans from Amazon that got int he cowl. Attached the cowl + fans keep the GPU cool. (These TESLA server GPUs have no fan since they're expected to live in one of those wind-tunnels called a server rack).

I bought the same cheap DELL server PS that the original person had used and I also had to get a break-out board (and power-supply cables and adapters) for the GPU.

Thanks to LLMs, I was able to successfully install Rocky Linux as well as CUDA and NVIDIA drivers. I SSH into it and run ollama commands.

My own hurdle at this point is: I have a 2nd 24 GB M40 TESLA but when installed on the motherboard, Linux will not boot. LLMs are helping me try to set up BIOS correctly or otherwise determine what the issue is. (We'll see.) I would love to get to 48 GB.

[0] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806580127486.html

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/engineersneedart.com/post/3lmg4kiz4...

[2] https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:oxjqlam...
by vintagedave | 2025-06-08 21:01:46+00:00
Interesting idea. Your landing page goes straight to signup to try it, and I expect that's why no upvotes. It wasn't until I navigated to the main page I saw samples.

The two licenses are confusing, both have the same set of checkmarks. One seems to be for use, but that is not an absent/checkmark pair.

I saw varying quality in the generated shapes, but overall much better than I expected. I suggest you write some blogs about how it works, what fine-tuning you did, etc and submit those. Maybe you'll get more upvotes and visibility!
by tshaddox | 2025-06-08 21:01:49+00:00
> At some point it's necessary to confront the uncomfortable truth

Sometimes the truth is even more uncomfortable than “lots of people are stupid.” A much more insidious scenario is when there’s two groups with no major differences in education or access to facts, but one has a cultural which is actively and explicitly hostile to truth. In such scenarios, ever-escalating hostilities between the two groups is inevitable.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-08 21:01:54+00:00
To be clear, this is the quote that article references.

> “WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!),” Trump said in a social media post. “BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.”

That doesn't read to me as Trump claiming responsibility for any pain that we might see, and it isn't an apology. Even better, he ultimately doubles down on the tariffs and claims the end result will be worth any of the pain that he doesn't directly acknowledge he will have caused.
by growse | 2025-06-08 21:02:40+00:00
> DoH seems to exist mainly to circumvent that control.

Hate to break it to you, but if I control the client, then I'm not in any way obligated to use DNS or any other IETF-endorsed protocol to turn names into numbers when I'm running on your network.

The idea of "controlling what's going in and out of the network" died in the 90s.
by thangalin | 2025-06-08 21:03:12+00:00
> I want to read how to do something.

The home page[1] links to documentation[2] that describes variables, metadata, R integration, and more. If that's not sufficient, I'm open to improving the documentation.

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

[2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/docs/REA...
by ghaff | 2025-06-08 21:03:58+00:00
There's probably a book in there. The CA axis was probably Stanford/Berkeley with Caltech relatively small and in another part of the state and probably much more theoretical in focus.

Don't really buy Levy's thesis of the migration from east to west and Stallman as "the last hacker" hasn't aged well.

But Boston/Cambridge (really Massachusetts generally) did sort of empty out of a lot of tech for a time as minicomputer companies declined and Silicon Valley became the scene. I actually decided not to go that direction because, at the time in the nineties, it would have been a relative cost of living downgrade.
by jawiggins | 2025-06-08 21:06:21+00:00
Figure 5 is really quite remarkable. It seems to show that normal LLMs are better at tasks where the correct answer is likely to be the next token. For tasks that require a small number of intermediate steps, current reasoning models do much better, but break down as the number of intermediate steps grow.

This seems to indicate that the next generation of models should focus on recursively solving small parts of the problem before function-calling another model to solve another small part of the problem and working it's answer into the reasoning loop.

Many seem to be citing this paper as an indication that LLMs are over - I think this indicates a clear path towards the next step function change in their abilities.
by teo_zero | 2025-06-08 21:07:38+00:00
The use of $@ doesn't look right to me.

In the trivial case exposed here where there are no additional arguments to pass to the .c program, the shell executes

gcc "print.c" -o .out && exec ./.out

and it works "by chance".

In a more complex scenario where print.c expects some parameters, it won't work. For example,

./print.c a b c

will result in the shell trying to invoke

gcc "print.c" -o "a" "b" "c".out && exec ./"a" "b" "c".out

which makes no sense.

Are you sure you didn't intend $0 instead of $@ ?
by mettamage | 2025-06-08 21:07:45+00:00
> Few phenomena demonstrate the perils that can accompany AI illiteracy as well as “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the subject of a recent Rolling Stone article about the growing number of people who think their LLM is a sapient spiritual guide. Some users have come to believe that the chatbot they’re interacting with is a god—“ChatGPT Jesus,” as a man whose wife fell prey to LLM-inspired delusions put it—while others are convinced, with the encouragement of their AI, that they themselves are metaphysical sages in touch with the deep structure of life and the cosmos. A teacher quoted anonymously in the article said that ChatGPT began calling her partner “spiral starchild” and “river walker” in interactions that moved him to tears. “He started telling me he made his AI self-aware,” she said, “and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God—and then that he himself was God.”

This sounds insane to me. When we are talking about safe AI use, I wonder if things like this are talked about.

The more technological advancement goes on, the smarter we need to be in order to use it - it seems.
by progbits | 2025-06-08 21:08:12+00:00
Fun deep dive article!

Looked up the source and it appears the regex was changed from `eth\\d` to just `*` in October 2023, presumably fixing this issue:

https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/packages/...

The description says "The default will include both usb\d+ and eth%d named interfaces on Android U+", "U+" being version 14 I think (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history)
by jcrawfordor | 2025-06-08 21:09:07+00:00
Modern speed control technology has expanded the incline range for steel-wheeled trains quite a bit. Inclines that would have historically pointed towards rubber-tired or non-traction systems are usually within the range of steel wheels with solid-state motor control. Basically the control of torque is much finer than in old resistance-box parallel/series speed controllers, so you can avoid slippage much more easily.
by b3morales | 2025-06-08 21:09:22+00:00
The stakes of changing the way so many people work can't be seen in a short term. Could be good or bad. Probably it will be both, in different ways. Margarine instead of butter seemed like a good idea until we noticed that hydrogenation was worse (in some ways) than the cholesterol problem we were trying to fight.

AI company execs also pretty clearly have a politico-economic idea that they are advancing. The tools may stand on their own but what is the broader effect of supporting them?
by Rochus | 2025-06-08 21:09:25+00:00
> The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned.

Well, according to the article, Weigelt claims he was censored and that the ban was an attempt by Red Hat to eliminate competition and push for the adoption of Wayland; this action resulted in the deletion of his account, repositories, tickets, and over 140 merge requests associated with the Xorg project.
by 7e | 2025-06-08 21:09:37+00:00
No, the problem is that humans breed to fill the supply of housing, causing prices to go up again. The population of the U.S. has doubled since 1960. It’s a never ending cycle, only after every iteration, there is more pollution, less beauty, more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, more traffic, etc. It’s not sustainable. The solution is not to build, it is to reproduce sustainably and stop overrunning the planet with unchecked population growth. That implies limits on how much you can ruin a neighborhood with development.
by sph | 2025-06-08 21:09:46+00:00
Thanks for the links, but just a note. The thesis of being alone is not enough to be creative in this day and age. As advice, it worked quite well before the advent of modern technology, so the oft-quoted works on solitude from Nietzsche, Jung, etc. just don’t mention a state of being that was quite commonplace at the time, but has practically disappeared: the long hours of contemplation, which for the modern philosopher Byung-Chul Han are the crucial component of creativity; it can only express itself when we’re steeped in boredom and non-activity for a long enough time. We have completely eliminated it in the past 100 years with radio, TV and now by staring at our screens all day, to work, and to “relax.” We do not contemplate the world anymore, we do not let ourselves be spontaneously creative.

I recommend Byung-Chul Han’s books The Burnout Society and Vita contemplativa: In praise of inactivity for a short but deep dive into this aspect we’re rapidly losing.

(I have just finished reading both books and I quite enjoyed the main thesis, though thick with philosophical discourse at times. Thankfully, they are quite short, not even reaching 100 pages so they don’t overstay their welcome)
by lelanthran | 2025-06-08 21:10:24+00:00
> The trick is memory bandwidth - not just the amount of VRAM - is important for LLM inference.

I'm not really knowledgeable about this space, so maybe I'm missing something:

Why does the bus performance affect token generation? I would expect it to cause a slow startup when loading the model, but once the model is loaded, just how much bandwidth can the token generation possibly use?

Token generation is completely on the card using the memory on the card, without any bus IO at all, no?

IOW, I'm trying to think of what IO the card is going to need for token generation, and I can't think of any other than returning the tokens (which, even on a slow 100MB/s transfer is still going to be about 100x the rate at which tokens are being generated.
by jayd16 | 2025-06-08 21:11:53+00:00
I think the cloud providers should figure out some kind of service for perpetual matchmaking/hosting of private servers. Devs are not always going to open source things but if you could fit your game server in some kind of package for Amazon to host then you can skirt that issue.

In theory, enthusiasts could pay to keep the lights on even after the developer went out of business.
by tsoukase | 2025-06-08 21:13:06+00:00
Marginally offtopic: DNS filtering was tricky for me. I setup a pihole instance with secondary DNS a regular 8s. But the router accessed both servers arbitrarily and not if only the first was down. So pihole is totally USELESS if you have only one instance.

For a mobile device, where ads are much more penetrating, I discovered the fantastic android option of "Private DNS". It forces ALL traffic through it. I inserted a free ad blocking DNS server which works though DoH (thank you controld) and all companies are ditched. On the desktop ublock guards the browser. Better a company to know some sites I visit than dozens to penetrate my digital life.
by ben_w | 2025-06-08 21:14:06+00:00
Why does this government think this is a good look?

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure Hamas would love to smuggle grenades inside pomegranates etc., but this is an (attempted) aid shipment headlined by a young photogenic celebrity and you can just search this ship for arms (and likely let it through after finding nothing) just for the PR value, surely?

"Look, we're the good guys, we have nothing to hide despite what you say", that kind of thing.

Why take the aggressive route? It doesn't even matter if Greta Thunberg is correct, because either way it is a propaganda self-own to respond to her like this.
by ashwinsundar | 2025-06-08 21:15:22+00:00
I should have done a better job explaining what this repo is for. This is an MCP server that interfaces with the (rather comprehensive) Congress.gov API. I made this because I was fed up with reading highly partisan news reports on what our US Congress is actually doing. I don't think there is any easy way to actually find out, for example, what my congresspeople from Colorado (my home state) did today. The Congress.gov API exposes that information, in near real-time. I am honestly surprised more news organizations don't seem to rely on this for, well, news.

There is still work to be done to finish out the remaining endpoints. MCP Servers are the next evolution in interacting with LLM agents in my opinion, and they are dead simple to write in Python, for example. The installation is super straightforward too.

Happy to accept any contributions or ideas. This repo is available via the MIT License.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-08 21:16:25+00:00
I really don't understand the founding motivation for this company. For one, autonomous vehicles (e.g. Waymo) don't use GNSS as the primary means of localization. You can also achieve centimeter (and higher) precision with RTK. The main source of errors is usually reflections, which are still a problem here. A higher SNR helps, but I'm not sure it helps enough to justify the endeavor.
by RealityVoid | 2025-06-08 21:16:29+00:00
Please, spare us. The most powerful men in the world are having a spat over social media like a pair of tweens, and you have the gall of calling out the left, as if the "left" (whatever the hell that means in the US, since you have no left, but I digress) was the one that voted them. Take a look in the mirror if you want to cry about dumb thoughts.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-08 21:16:43+00:00
LLMs are divinatory instruments, our era's oracle, minus the incense and theatrics. If we were honest, we'd admit that "artificial intelligence" is just a modern gloss on a very old instinct: to consult a higher-order text generator and search for wisdom in the obscure.

They tick all the boxes: oblique meaning, a semiotic field, the illusion of hidden knowledge, and a ritual interface. The only reason we don't call it divination is that it's skinned in dark mode UX instead of stars and moons.

Barthes reminds us that all meaning is in the eye of the reader; words have no essence, only interpretation. When we forget that, we get nonsense like "the chatbot told him he was the messiah," as though language could be blamed for the projection.

What we're seeing isn't new, just unfamiliar. We used to read bones and cards. Now we read tokens. They look like language, so we treat them like arguments. But they're just as oracular, complex, probabilistic signals we transmute into insight.

We've unleashed a new form of divination on a culture that doesn't know it's practicing one. That's why everything feels uncanny. And it's only going to get stranger, until we learn to name the thing we're actually doing. Which is a shame, because once we name it, once we see it for what it is, it won't be half as fun.
by chistev | 2025-06-08 21:17:16+00:00
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot.

I lost my Facebook and I've been hurting. It was a place I dropped beautiful quotes I found or heard.

Thinking of creating a website just for myself to drop quotes I found interesting. I want people to see these quotes too!
by threeseed | 2025-06-08 21:17:43+00:00
> If an LLM produces the most interesting, insightful, thought-provoking content of the day, isn't that what the best version of HN would be reading and commenting on?

Absolutely not. Would much rather take some that is boring, not thought provoking but that was authentic and real rather than as you say AI slop.

If you want that sort of content maybe LinkedIn is a better place.
by daveguy | 2025-06-08 21:18:34+00:00
Tesla has garbage fit, finish and build. They are run by a cheap-out scammer who puts more energy into social media than his business endeavors.

250kw in 2020 vs 1000kw (4x) in 2025. When is Tesla coming out with a 1MW charger?

Sell your stock if you're still making that mistake.
by moffkalast | 2025-06-08 21:18:50+00:00
> they concluded that effortful, goal-directed tasks use only 5% more energy than restful brain activity

That parallels the other conclusion that we don't really use that much more energy when at rest and when exercising. If energy isn't used by movement, it gets used for whatever to consume the predetermined daily energy budget.

Our bodies seem to be really set up to work with a consistent fixed energy amount and dealing with allocation of it instead of optimizing idle efficiency. We don't idle.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-08 21:19:26+00:00
That migration occurred in 2007, the whole thing was replaced by a web app in 2017. Over that decade they saved many millions of dollars. Large scale disturbed legacy hardware is much more expensive than Citrix licenses!

When we started in 2007, systems still using floppies were considered ludicrously legacy and people could hardly believe me when I told them it was still in production and used for a critical system affecting millions of people.

Anyone still using floppies in 2025 has no excuse, stop trying to justify incompetence and sloth.
by const_cast | 2025-06-08 21:19:53+00:00
> So by your logic New York is a better governed state than Florida? Net internal migration would seem to disagree.

Yes, and it's not even close. Choose just about any metric and NY is running laps around Florida.

And, not just Florida, but red states in general. If you look at the metrics, they typically are some of the poorest states with the worst outcomes. Bad infrastructure, bad education, not a lot of job opportunities, horribly impoverished, under-developed.

It's just that nobody cares. Nobody expects Louisiana or Florida to be decent places to live. But since California is the economic powerhouse of the US, people do expect it to be decent. That's the issue, the blue states are essentially carrying the economy of everything else on their back, so they now get a new, unfair set of standards.

There's some exceptions here, mainly Texas.
by 9d | 2025-06-08 21:20:45+00:00
Ideally I'd like something like AssemblyScript on wasmtime, but then I'd have to compile `asc` (assemblyscript's tsc) to wasm first or something, since AssemblyScript is written in TypeScript, and Rust has no native TypeScript runtime. And it all started because rquickjs is really confusing and not very documented, though it's so heavily used that random usages on github have been serving well enough for now.
by tuukkah | 2025-06-08 21:20:46+00:00
If you want a real tram that is compatible with existing street geometries, the really nice Škoda ForCity Smart Artic tram was developed to meet the requirements in Helsinki, which wanted a smooth modern tram even though there are 15m radius curves and 8% inclines in the old parts of the network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0koda_Artic
by vlovich123 | 2025-06-08 21:21:09+00:00
The US also sees a huge amount of wealth directly or indirectly flowing through it. I would say that’s the attraction for illegal activities, less the amount of people.

And I don’t know how small you think the list is, but I suspect it’s quite small because whether you get prosecuted from some corrupt act is pretty random since someone has to notice the corruption and try to investigate. Additionally the recent moves by SCOTUS is to significantly raise the bar for prosecuting corruption. So however you think America is fairing compared to other countries, I’d say America today is allowing once more, more institutionalized corruption than it had in the second half of the 20th century (and America’s history is filled with top-to-bottom corruption).