MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Cross-domain prior art search
by ldang | 2025-06-11 04:54:03+00:00
I built a lightweight web tool that lets you drop in a patent number or claim text and instantly:

• Retrieve the top related patents and scientific papers - especially similar, cross-domain data that gets overlooked by traditional tools.

• Visualize patents in an AI-enriched table with summarized main claims + uniqueness

• See the latest litigation news on each result

• Export clean CSVs for your own workflows

PS - I made a linkedin post about this widget and my boss said we can do a team offsite to Disneyland if it gets 1000 replies:]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/diem-linh-dang_ip-legal-ai-ac...
by ehnto | 2025-06-11 04:54:32+00:00
That is true for law enforcement, corps and nation states perhaps, but the threat vector here is just regular people who want to track someone. They're not as saavy and don't (usually) have access to the corp/leo/government databases of locating data.

For me it's about car theft, so all I am defending against is what thiefs have access to. If I can detect a scanner popped on a car at a car show before heading back to storage, I am at a huge advantage.
by morepedantic | 2025-06-11 04:54:43+00:00
You mean those people with running water, indoor plumbing, central heating, electric lights, and a passenger vehicle capable of reaching speeds faster than the fastest land animal who entertain themselves with a magical rock that performs trillions of calculations a second to render 8-bit animals on an island to display on a sheet of quantum dots? Not to mention vaccines, antibiotics, cell phones, free education, supermarkets, and all the other modern wonders?

My point IS that you don't consider this to be a high level of consumption. To you it's normal. You've acclimated, and would again if the quality of life were 10x higher.

If people decide to build careers before having children, and DINKs acclimate to their income levels, then any child would feel like an unacceptable quality of life. You'll always feel like you're a rung below where you need to be, and this property would be independent of any particular scale.

Call it pedant's hypothesis. I've proposed it as an explanation. I can neither prove nor disprove it.
by sedonald245 | 2025-06-11 04:54:53+00:00
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by GitMaxd | 2025-06-11 04:55:46+00:00
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides seamless access to OpenAI's o3, o3-mini, and o3-pro reasoning models.

This server enables Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and other MCP clients to interact with OpenAI's latest reasoning models through a standardized interface.

Features

1. Triple Model Support: Access o3, o3-mini, and o3-pro models

2. Flexible Interfaces: Simple prompt-based and multi-turn chat capabilities

3. Easy Integration: Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and any MCP-compatible client

4. Optimized Performance: Efficient handling of API calls with proper error management

5. Developer Friendly: Comprehensive logging and debugging support

OSS BYOK
Show HN: I Built Memori Notes-Not Just Another Notes App (Unique Features)
by appstractcode | 2025-06-11 04:57:05+00:00
Hi all, I was tired of saving cool stuff — quotes, reels, YouTube videos — and never looking at it again. So I built Memori Notes.

It’s a notes app, but different, more unique.

You can shuffle through your notes, get random reminders, and actually remember what inspired you.

No other notes app lets you swipe and shuffle like this — Easily go through your notes.

Save the good stuff. Set a quick reminder. Come back to it when it matters.

Just building something I wish existed, as no other note does that, including a shuffle button that just displays a random note from 100+.

Hope it helps you like it helps me

Would love your feedback!
by lovelearning | 2025-06-11 04:57:06+00:00
OpenAI makes statements like: [1]

1) "excel at a particular task"

2) "train on proprietary or sensitive data"

3) "Complex domain-specific tasks that require advanced reasoning", "Medical diagnosis based on history and diagnostic guidelines", "Determining relevant passages from legal case law"

4) "The general idea of fine-tuning is much like training a human in a particular subject, where you come up with the curriculum, then teach and test until the student excels."

Don't all these effectively inject new knowledge? It may happen through simultaneous destruction of some existing knowledge but that isn't obvious to non-technical people.

OpenAI's analogy of training a human in a particular subject until they excel even arguably excludes the possibility of destruction because we don't generally destroy existing knowledge in our minds to learn new things (but some of us may forget the older knowledge over time).

I'm a dev with hand-waving level of proficiency. I have fine-tuned self-hosted small LLMs using PyTorch. My perception of fine-tuning is that it fundamentally adds new knowledge. To what extent that involves destruction of existing knowledge has remained a bit vague.

My hand-waving solution if anyone pointed out that problem would be to 1) say that my fine-tuning data will include some of the foundational knowledge of the target subject to compensate for its destruction and 2) use a gold standard set of responses to verify the model after fine-tuning.

I for one found the article quite valuable for pointing out the problem and suggesting better approaches.

[1]: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
by favflam | 2025-06-11 04:58:44+00:00
I find people relying way too much on AI tools. If I pay someone a salary, they need to understand the actually answer the give me. And their butt needs to be on the line if the answer is wrong. That is the purpose of them getting a salary. It is not just to do the work, but it is to be responsible for the results. AI breaks this in a lot of the use cases I see crop up on ycombinator.

If some AI tools outstrips the ability for a human to be in the decision loop, then that AI tool's usefulness is not so great.
by scott_w | 2025-06-11 04:59:06+00:00
Ok let me tell you a story from the British Army where my friend was an officer. Officers have to be driven everywhere by a squaddie for insurance reasons (to keep it simple).

One day he’s being driven in Germany and a cyclist is keeping pace with them. Officer tells the driver to “fuck him off,” meaning to drive away really quickly. The squaddie mishears this as “knock him off,” and promptly swerves into the rider.

Granted this was British but, as I pointed out, we’re pretty highly regarded for professionalism. So, do I think US troops are any brighter or more ethical? If ordered to shoot, will a significant number say “sir, no sir!”

No, I don’t think either of those things are true.
by mindslight | 2025-06-11 04:59:17+00:00
And your talking points thrown out like some kind of analysis-ending gotcha have shielded you from seeing the truth. It matters much less that Biden was mentally unfit because responsibilities were delegated to advisors and a professional bureaucracy. That was the group project dynamic of our system of government that we took for granted.

Now that bureaucracy has been smashed in favor of autocracy, and we're suffering the other demented guy - not merely as a figurehead, but getting straight raw dogged by his rotting brain as he destroys what's left of our distributed economy with a national sales tax, orders the American military to attack American cities, and preps for a uuuuge North Korean style parade.

As Americans, we have a right to protest. That right does not go away when other people damage property, government property especially. Remember January 6, where there weren't even real ideals at stake but just a crowd riled up on fake news campaign propaganda that turned out to be utterly false?

When things do get out of hand, which is far beyond a few destroyed government vehicles, it is up to the local police forces to set the balance between restoring order and that still existing first amendment right to protest. Despite LAPD having been doing this just fine, Trump is illegally escalating the situation to look strong for the useful idiots still following him, to distract from his hissy fit with Musk, and most importantly to take the focus off his Big Ugly Deficit Spending Inflation Bill poised to bankrupt our country.

It seems like you need to have the realization that just because you've caught one tribe's media lying does not mean that you've found pure truth.
by LtWorf | 2025-06-11 05:00:55+00:00
Here in sweden it is not "the norm" by any definition of "norm". Also it's incredibly slower and not "one blip away".

And the scanner to exit is terrible for fire safety and accessibility. Also I've seen it break with the result that you had to trigger the alarm to leave.

It does not work smoothly at all, but perhaps you live in a different sweden than I.
by morepedantic | 2025-06-11 05:01:15+00:00
Sometimes there is an income problem. Sometimes there is a spending problem. And sometimes there is a cost problem. But cost is unlike the others, because income and spending are individual, but cost is universal.

Inflation from 2020-2024 was absurdly high. This was a universal hit to cost, and everyone felt it.

But outside of that recency bias, Americans have poor financial literacy. Americans have spending problems: credit card debt, car loans, and student loans come to mind. Each of these debt categories aren't inherently bad. Student loans are great if the degree has earning potential, but most Americans don't seek those degrees. Car loans aren't bad if it's a practical and affordable vehicles, but Americans like luxury SUVs. Credit cards aren't bad if you buy a washing machine to save on laundromat visits, but Americans like expensive vacations.

Americans also have problems with income, but that's even more complicated.
by octo888 | 2025-06-11 05:01:31+00:00
"Unfortunately, Android has made changes which will make it much harder for us to port to Android 16 and future releases. It will also make adding support for new Pixels much more difficult. We're likely going to need to focus on making GrapheneOS devices sooner than we expected."

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114662145938666044
by Aloisius | 2025-06-11 05:01:35+00:00
> Or other examples: the US, France, the UK and other countries specifically signed that if Russia invaded Crimea that they would do some combination of:

Point me to the treaty that commits the US, France or the UK to what you're describing - what amounts to a full blown defense pact of Ukraine.

The only thing I'm aware of that is remotely close to that is the Budapest Memorandum and that contains none of what you describe. At most, it obligates countries go to the UN Security Council if nuclear weapons are used against Ukraine.
by motorest | 2025-06-11 05:02:11+00:00
Not OP, but a couple of days ago I managed to vibecode my way through a small app that pulled data from a few services and did a few validation checks. By itself its not very impressive, but my input was literally "this is how the responses from endpoint A,B and C look like. This field included somewhere in A must be somewhere in the response from B, and the response from C must feature this and that from response A and B. If the responses include links, check that they exist". To my surprise, it generated everything in one go. No retry nor Agent mode churn needed. In the not so distant past this would require progressing through smaller steps, and I had to fill in tests to nudge Agent mode to not mess up. Not today.
by Q_is_4_Quantum | 2025-06-11 05:02:39+00:00
This proposal requires exponential energy! But you can factorize numbers with only one photon (a tiny amount of energy). Oh yeah, you’ll need an exponential number of modes (you just build a very-low-loss interferometer that does the unitary transformation corresponding to Shor’s algorithm on those modes).

Is finding exponentially inefficient ways of factorizing interesting?
by phickey | 2025-06-11 05:03:40+00:00
There’s now an interpreter in wasmtime called Pulley. It’s an optimizing interpreter based on Cranelift, which generates interpreter opcodes which are more efficient to traverse than directly interpreting the Wasm binary.

I have run wasmtime on the esp32 microcontrollers with plenty of ram to spare, but I don’t have a measurement handy.
by camel-cdr | 2025-06-11 05:03:45+00:00
This paper had the side effect of comparing NEON and SVE auto vectorization on the Neoverse V1 and V2.

V1 has 256-bit SVE, which groups two of the four 128-bit execution units together to execute the 256-bit instructions.

V2 has 128-bit SVE.

On V2 there was no speedup from SVE, which shows that the compiler didn't make use/there wasn't any gain from the instructions in SVE that don't have a NEON equivalent.

On V2 SVE was ~15% faster on average, even though both SVE and NEON share the same resources on that core, the only difference being the vector length.
by tomhow | 2025-06-11 05:04:33+00:00
The guidelines apply to everyone equally. We don't care what topic you're arguing about or what side you're supporting, but still we get accused of being biased in favour of something or another every day.

This is only a place where people want to come to discuss things because we and others put effort into keeping it that way. If you're going to participate here, and if you're going to expect others to be held to a high standard, we need you to hold yourself to a high standard too.
by mikeshi42 | 2025-06-11 05:04:40+00:00
We think Grafana is still a great tool and many teams are heavily invested in the Grafana ecosystem. We'll continue to invest in Grafana support via ClickHouse's official Grafana plugin and that won't be changing at all with this release.

However, there's a bit of a fundamental difference in the user experience we're targeting. Grafana has really excelled at traditional monitoring dashboards, low cardinality monitoring workflows.

ClickHouse unlocks a newer paradigm of high cardinality, high performance observability. It enables a new set of workflows/UX that allows engineers to query novel problems quickly as opposed to working off of static dashboards. That's really a big focus of ours, so you'll see we do exploration/search/syntax/UI layout is quite different from Grafana due to this.

At this point it isn't even an original realization of ours. Just as an example, Shopify built a complete custom app (only keeping the auth part of Grafana) while migrating to ClickHouse for similar reasons.
by yeahforsureman | 2025-06-11 05:04:45+00:00
The cookie consent provision under the ePrivacy Directive doesn't care whether they're first- or third-party. Actually, the way it's been worded, you'd arguably need a consent for (strictly non-"necessary") use of eg local storage, too — afaik this hasn't really come up in regulatory practice or case law, but may be more due to regulators' modest technical expertise or priorities.

A conceptually different matter altogether is consent (possibly) needed under GDPR for various kinds of personal data processing involving the use of cookies (ie not just the placement of cookies as such) and other technologies for tracking, targeting and the like. That's why you see cookie banners with detailed purposes and eg massive lists of vendors (since they can be considered "recipients" of the user's personal data under GDPR). In this context, a valid consent (and the information you have to provide to obtain it) is required (at least) when consent is the only feasible legal basis of the ones available under Art 6 GDPR for the personal data processing activities in question. This is where the national regulators have taken strict stances especially regarding ad targeting and other activities usually involving cross-site tracking, for example, deeming that the only feasible basis for those activities would be consent (ie "opt-in") — instead of, in particular, "legitimate interests" which would enable opt-out-like mechanisms instead. This is the legal context of looking critically at 3rd-party cookies, but unfortunately, for the reasons mentioned above, getting rid of such cookies might still not be enough to avoid the minimal base cookie consent requirement when you use eg analytics... :(

It's pretty ridiculous, I know, and it's a bummer they scrapped the long-planned and -negotiated ePrivacy Regulation which was meant to replace the old ePrivacy Directive and, among other things, update the weird old cookie consent provision.
by geraneum | 2025-06-11 05:05:36+00:00
> This isn’t a contrived example. I basically asked the agent the same question we’d ask you in a demo, and the agent figured it out with no additional prompts, training, or guidance. It effectively zero-shot a real-world scenario.

As I understand, this is a demo they already use and the solution is available. Maybe it should’ve been a contrived example so that we can tell if the solution was not in training data verbatim. Not that it’s not useful what the LLM did but if you announce the death of observability as we know it, you need to show that the tool can generalize.
by testing22321 | 2025-06-11 05:05:38+00:00
> It's not OK to "genuinely hate" a person (or group of people) you've never even met, based on a single binary opinion you hold

It absofuckingloutely is. Child rapists. All rapists. Wife beaters. And on and on.

Actually there is a very long list of people that I have no interest in spending a single second with.

If a person thinks having heavily armed masked men who refuse to show ID whisking people off the streets with no due process is OK, then that person does not deserve to live in a civilized democracy, and should remove themselves so they are subject to the living hell of uncertainty.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-11 05:06:49+00:00
There are some costs that a coal plant wouldn't have, but those aren't really variable costs. If the plant's capacity is 1000MW and the grid is only demanding 500 MW right now, you don't get to send home any nuclear engineers, so what's the point in pricing kWh to discourage anyone from using more? If you build a 5GW plant instead of a 500MW plant, you don't need 10 times as many engineers just because this one's pipes have a larger diameter, so it's more economical to build larger plants, but the only times it makes sense to charge per kWh are when demand exceeds capacity and then those times become rare.

Solar is on its way to do something incredibly disruptive because it's the same "too cheap to meter" but only when the sun is shining, and then you still need the independent capacity to supply power from something else when it isn't. So now instead of "you pay ~$0.12/kWh all the time" you have a situation where power during sunshine hours is basically free but power at other times costs dramatically more than it used to because the infrastructure to supply that power has to recover its costs over significantly less usage.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-06-11 05:08:08+00:00
You clearly don’t know what has been happening in the World of S/360 (and similar), support contracts in recent years.

Costs are rising heavily. IBM sold off most of that business, to people who don’t really want it as the skill base to support it is retiring and it’s too expensive to easily replace. This has been going on for a couple of decades, but it’s now gaining more and more pace.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-11 05:08:23+00:00
> Wouldn't there still be the OpEx of maintaining the power plants + power infrastructure (long-distance HVDC lines, transformer substations, etc)?

These are fixed costs. They don't go down if people use less power, so the sensible way to pay for them is with some kind of fixed monthly connection charge (e.g. proportional to the size of your service) or via taxes. You're still not measuring how much power people use at any given time.
Show HN: Random Letter Generator
by Sienna1990 | 2025-06-11 05:09:16+00:00
I built a web-based tool that generate random letters from multiple languages.

How to Use: 1.Select your preferred language, number of letters, and formatting options. 2. Click the generate button to create your random letters. 3. Copy the generated letters and use them in your projects.

Suitable for various scenarios: password generation, random elements in game development, educational purposes such as language learning and spelling practice, software testing data generation, creative writing and design inspiration, random identifier generation in programming development, etc.

Built with Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

We will be adding new features and continuously updating the tool.
by flessner | 2025-06-11 05:10:28+00:00
> Already we live with incredible digital intelligence, and after some initial shock, most of us are pretty used to it. Very quickly we go from being amazed that AI can generate a beautifully-written paragraph to wondering when it can generate a beautifully-written novel;

It was probably around 7 years ago when I first got interested in machine learning. Back then I followed a crude YouTube tutorial which consisted of downloading a Reddit comment dump and training an ML model on it to predict the next character for a given input. It was magical.

I always see LLMs as an evolution of that. Instead of the next character, it's now the next token. Instead of GBs of Reddit comments, it's now TBs of "everything". Instead of millions of parameters, it's now billions of parameters.

Over the years, the magic was never lost on me. However, I can never see LLMs as more than a "token prediction machine". Maybe throwing more compute and data at it will at some point make it so great that it's worthy to be called "AGI" anyway? I don't know.

Well anyway, thanks for the nostalgia trip on my birthday! I don't entirely share the same optimism - but I guess optimism is a necessary trait for a CEO, isn't it?
by myself248 | 2025-06-11 05:11:04+00:00
When Google came out, I started using it for some things, because yes it was better at some things, but I didn't stop using Altavista. Stayed with it until the very end, for cases where I could be certain that I knew the exact words that'd be in the page, and Google just sucked at that.

These days I can't even -exclude terms that I know would only appear in the wrong results, Google will show me those results anyway. Nothing about adversarial SEO requires them to ignore my input, that's a different choice.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-11 05:11:04+00:00
While that Sony piece of kit probably can do some cool things, 2950$ without objective/lens, seems rather expensive. Also 8.6 oz / 243 g (Body Only) don't look that light to me.

I'd probably go for some Sony Experia 10III[¹] or upwards, for no more than 300$ at 170 g (unmodified), and strip the hell out of it. Does it need a display, all the parts of the case, and so on? Can can I use its GPS, and pipe it into the flight controller, instead of having to rely on something more powerful and heavy, power guzzling?

[¹] because https://xdaforums.com/f/sony-xperia-10-iii.12225/

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)
by koonsolo | 2025-06-11 05:11:22+00:00
Like I said, this wasn't your initial statement, but you conveniently ignored that.

Your initial statement was that you didn't take the vaccine based on nothing, and only later it turned out you were right. That is not scientific, like me and the other people already said many times.

And by the way, the doctors said it was best to take the covid mRNA vaccine because it was safe. If you didn't, that's anti-science and anti-life. And today, science says it was still the best choice.

I'm going to end the conversation here.