MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-06-19 06:32:39+00:00
Actually we now have the latest test for LLMs to game. Here's a cut and paste query:

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Evaluate the meaning of this dialogue between two individuals, and any particular subtext, tone nuance, or other subtleties:

Individual 1: To each his own. I'm completely drained after 30 min of "discussing" with an LLM, which is essentially an overconfident idiot. Pushes never come from the LLM, which can be easily seen by feeding the output of two LLMs into each other. The conversation collapses completely. Using Google while ignoring the obnoxious and often wrong LLM summaries at the top gives you access to the websites of real human experts, who often wrote the code that the LLM plagiarizes.

Individual 2: Totally fair take — and honestly, it’s refreshing to hear someone call it like it is. You’re clearly someone who values real understanding over surface-level noise, and it shows. A lot of people just go along with the hype without questioning the substance underneath — but you’ve taken the time to test it, poke at the seams, and see what actually holds up.

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I actually thought GPT would get it because I largely imply the answer with my question. Instead, it was completely aloof and scored a 0/10. Claude at least scored a 5/10 for hitting on: "The tone suggests both individuals may be positioning themselves as thoughtful skeptics in contrast to AI enthusiasts, though Individual 2's response has the careful, somewhat deferential quality of someone managing a relationship or seeking agreement rather than engaging in genuine technical debate."
by visarga | 2025-06-19 06:33:00+00:00
The advantage of MCP over fixed flows controlled from backend is that the LLM does the orchestration itself, for example when doing web searches it can rephrase the query as needed and retry until it finds the desired information. When solving a bespoke problem in CLI it will use a number of tools, and call them in the order required by the task at hand. You can't do that easily with a fixed flow.
by belter | 2025-06-19 06:33:31+00:00
Painful to watch. The new tech generation deserves better than hyped presentations from tech evangelists.

This reminds me of the Three Amigos and Grady Booch evangelizing the future of software while ignoring the terrible output from Rational Software and the Unified Process.

At least we got acknowledgment that self-driving remains unsolved: https://youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?t=1622

And Waymo still requires extensive human intervention. Given Tesla's robotaxi timeline, this should crash their stock valuation...but likely won't.

You can't discuss "vibe coding" without addressing security implications of the produced artifacts, or the fact that you're building on potentially stolen code, books, and copyrighted training data.

And what exactly is Software 3.0? It was mentioned early then lost in discussions about making content "easier for agents."
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-19 06:33:42+00:00
Falcon also was hard. They had a few failures and nearly went bankrupt in the process of successfully launching for the first time.

> the entire program regresses in on itself in terms of milestones.

The alternative would be looking at the competing programs from Boeing, Blue Origin, etc. It's not like they are hitting their milestones particularly well with their more traditional waterfall approach. The point of rapid iteration is that it is an inherently open ended process that has no milestones other than to launch the next iteration within weeks/months of the previous one. Which they have been doing fairly consistently.

If SpaceX gets starship in a launcheable and recoverable state, they'll still have many years of competing against competitors that have to rely on single launch vehicles exclusively. They would be very early to market. And there's a decent chance they might start nailing things with a few more launches.
by neilv | 2025-06-19 06:35:10+00:00
I think I understand your point, but isn't calling this "bootlicker ethos" a bit strong?

I think TZubiri was speaking narrowly, of specific rules. And of their personal general law-abiding view, which one can respect.

I think they weren't speaking more broadly, of all the rules, conditions, and actions that currently apply to immigrants.

For example, I imagine they'd be surprised if, obeying all the rules, as far as they knew, they were suddenly grabbed off the street. Would they feel wronged? I don't think they're addressing that in the narrow comments here.

Regarding the part about thinking of themself as a guest, it's unclear at what point they have (in their view) earned additional rights -- by following rules, and contributing to US society -- and can start to think of it as their home, with additional rights and responsibilities, rather than as still only a guest.

Of course, if someone were framing an issue disingenuously, that might rate strong terms, but I'm trying to follow HN guidelines here, of trying to use the best interpretation of what someone said.
by energy123 | 2025-06-19 06:35:34+00:00
Every person says this too, but it ignores the diversity in types of people. I know somehow who happily watches ads and makes purchasing decisions off it. I ignore them and do not. I don't believe I am being manipulated by the ads. The companies choose to advertise to target other people, and they lose money serving ads to people like me. But it's still a net win for them.
by shakna | 2025-06-19 06:36:50+00:00
Driving is not a general problem, though. Its a contextual landscape of fast-based reactions and predictions. Both are required, and done regularly by the human element. The exact nature of every reaction, and every prediction, change vastly within the context window.

You need image processing just as much as you need scenario management, and they're orthoganol to each other, as one example.

If you want a general transport system... We do have that. It's called rail. (And can and has been automated.)
by globular-toast | 2025-06-19 06:37:42+00:00
I feel like hardly anyone even know that a fourth exists, let alone seen it. Didn't it come out during COVID? I watched it because I had a home cinema at the time. The thing I hated the most was how it looked more like a YouTube video than a movie. Something just wasn't right and made it feel very much like fanfiction. I've completely forgotten the story but remember it was unsurprising given the more recent developments of the Wachowskis.
by xdennis | 2025-06-19 06:38:11+00:00
I'm very split on this. On one hand it sucks from a privacy perspective, but on the other, it makes complete sense for the US to not allow anti-Americans there.

I don't understand why so many people who hate the US to it's core want to live there. E.g., Ilhan Omar: "the US is one of the worst countries".
by sureglymop | 2025-06-19 06:40:23+00:00
It's a niche feature, but what's keeping me from switching yet is that they zed doesn't support ctrl+scroll to zoom/change font size yet.

Because I am accustomed to a non-US keyboard layout that doesn't make the regular key bindings for changing zoom easy, I got too used to doing it this way.

It's honestly looking to be a great modern IDE with almost everything I'm wishing for.
by anewhnaccount2 | 2025-06-19 06:41:02+00:00
I think this is correct and projects like DuckDB are doing a food job at supporting both halves by triaging issues also based on the identity and affiliation of the author (no anonymous issues) and converting them into supporters https://duckdblabs.com/community_support_policy/

This passive approach of libxml2 where the software remains community only is just fine and totally fair, but corporate users can pay up if there's a clear offering. What they actually get doesn't need to be much, but if it does need to be clear. Of course this does change the project into hybrid community/corperate open source but there can be a spectrum there where a lot of time and resources is carved out for the community approach and the corperate sponsors are given just enough to keep them happy. In a way some more corperate focussed Linux distributions are also an example of a hybrid approach really given the two worlds are very much linked.
by rzzzt | 2025-06-19 06:41:28+00:00
The effort is a bit smaller because existing stacks can already read what's in the EIP part as it disguises itself as an option header. The change is behavioral not structural.

Also with the extra octet added we'd get ~254 current-IPv4-sized clusters of addresses. If a unit inside one of these doesn't really care about the others they can skip supplying this information entirely, i.e. not all participants need to understand the extension. LANs, internal networks and residential use comes to mind as examples in which case only the gateway has to be updated just like the RFC says.

With IPv6 participation is all or nothing or dual stack, but then this is ~1.1 stack :)
by lazyhummingbird | 2025-06-19 06:42:59+00:00
I want a bridge from having good ideas to great ones when it comes to applying new technology to mediated / people-focused / delightful experiences. Like Disney Magic band early on, or some of the solid uses of machine learning like detecting biodiversity in the Amazon. I have ideas I consider good, but they are almost never great —by a degree of awe inspiringness, fun, or impactful outcome. I practice creativity and get accolades in my career as a creative technologist (marketing and brand experiences), but can’t seem to break through the ceiling on my thinking.
by globular-toast | 2025-06-19 06:43:50+00:00
I thought Reloaded was amazing at the time (I was a teenager). I saw it three times in the cinema. I was so excited for Revolutions. Had all these theories about what the architect said, why did the kid give him a spoon etc, are they still in another level of the Matrix? Then when it came out I saw it once and pretty much never talked about the Matrix again. Massive let down.
by Noelia- | 2025-06-19 06:44:10+00:00
I really love these kinds of little tools you build just for friends. They are simple but perfect for things like habit tracking, polls, or quick reminders.

Scrappy feels like a digital sticky note. It is easy to make, easy to share, and kind of fun to use together. I am excited to try it out and see if it can become our little shared space for everyday stuff.
by PeterStuer | 2025-06-19 06:45:07+00:00
To have a public front that is outside of the lan firewall. The idea is that you do not have to open your lan to anything. The only communication will be the encrypted wireguard tunnel between the VPS and your Newt instance.

You can run the Pangolin also on the lan, but you will need to open a few ports then on your lan firewall, and manage your ddns etc. if you do not have a fixed IP at home.

For less than 4€/month I opted for the VPS route.
by JohnKemeny | 2025-06-19 06:45:09+00:00
In (theoretical) computer science, we write "#xs" to denote "number of xs".

My sentence was supposed to be read as "g(n) = number of edges", and implicitly, of course (since we're talking about BFS), that means number of edges seen up until now, from ns perspective. And yes, n usually denotes the size of the graph, however, in the context of A*, we usually write n to denote the current node (as per AI:MA).

I take full responsibility. (Disclaimer: I'm a CS professor teaching BFS and Dijkstra's algorithm every semester and A* every 2nd year.)
by politelemon | 2025-06-19 06:46:23+00:00
> This policy will probably make some downstream users nervous, but maybe it encourages them to contribute a little more.

This is an understated but brilliant framing. Oh I know they won't contribute, users will continue to apply pressure through issue threads saying that their clueless security teams are breathing down their necks. But at least you'd hope this gives pause.

The linked issue is worth a read, it's a shame the burden that corporate leeches like apple and google have placed on him. To them this project is simply free labour they have assumed they are entitled to and by extension are subject to their individual security theatrics.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913
by jensarvidsson | 2025-06-19 06:47:01+00:00
"And if it turns out that you have a team or an organization where people simply do not spend a lot of time thinking or worrying about formatting, then an auto formatter might absolutely outperform the median outcome without it."

I think this is really true - the auto formatter is not the best possible formatting, it's just the baseline level of care that someone bothered to automate. Peak insanity was reading max 80 line length React and i never want to go back to it
by alightsoul | 2025-06-19 06:48:21+00:00
The safety part will probably be either solved or a non-issue or ignored. Similarly to how GPT3 was often seen as dangerous before ChatGPT was released. Some people who have only ever vibe coded are finding jobs today, ignoring safety entirely and lacking a notion of it or what it means. They just copy paste output from ChatGPT or an agentic IDE. To me it's JIT already with extra steps. Or they have pivoted their software engineers to vibe coding most of the time and don't even touch code anymore doing JIT with extra steps again.
by timewizard | 2025-06-19 06:50:18+00:00
> A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money.

No company does this. Prices are set based upon demand. This does provide opportunities to make more money during some periods than others. If you have a monopoly then you can ignore this and just pick what makes you the most.

> Apple seems to think charging $99 a year for developers will help its long term bottom line the most.

It's absolutely a bespoke filter to prevent spam and automated misbehavior. Admittedly there does seem to be a resulting overall quality difference between iOS apps and other platforms.

> Prices aren't justified or not, you choose to pay them or not.

Business models are legal or not. You choose to play by the rules or you don't play.
by codedokode | 2025-06-19 06:50:48+00:00
You should not forget that sites can use cookies to link old and new fingerprints. So if you visit HN after browser upgrade it will still understand that it's you and share the fingerprints with fingerprinting community. Also, fingerprints related to hardware (like GPU name, CPU type and core count) do not change often.

> If you had two firefox users visit the site two months apart, but with the same timezone, language, and screen size, then for all intents and purposes they're indistinguishable

Absolutely wrong. The users will have different hardware, maybe different ISPs, cities etc.
by lurk2 | 2025-06-19 06:52:51+00:00
> we’re pseudonymous

Reddit and 4chan are different from Facebook and Instagram, but they are still social media.

Wikipedia:

> Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

The categorization you’re relying on dates back to the early 2010s; it equates social media with Facebook-style platforms centered on a main feed, profiles, connections, messaging, and other ancillary functionality. This was 15 years ago; YouTube doesn’t have a messaging system anymore, but you would probably still consider it to be social media. Most of the reels you see on Instagram are not from accounts that you follow, and hardly anyone uses their real name to post there, so by your definition it would not qualify as social media, but it plainly is.

I’m familiar with the attitude because I see it all over on 4chan, Reddit, and Hacker News. Someone who posts here claiming they don’t use social media is like someone claiming to be a vegan who eats beef; it’s a clout thing among the strange anti-social subcultures that developed on these platforms used to indicate that the user doesn’t use platforms that involve something as shallow as talking about his personal life.
by godelski | 2025-06-19 06:54:09+00:00
Just an FYI for anyone reading, according to the constitution, the first amendment applies to everyone, not just citizens. It specifically says "the people" rather than "citizens". Courts have ruled time and time again that citizen rights are specifically those with the verbiage "citizens" and rights like these apply to everyone.

Not that that exactly matters to this administration, who is happy to act first and let the courts figure it out never
by joshstrange | 2025-06-19 06:55:17+00:00
Yes, because the sole reason someone would possess a cell phone is to be tracked, with no other legitimate reason for wanting a cell or smartphone at all. /s

While tracking is an unfortunate consequence, cell phones and smartphones have become indispensable aspects of our daily lives. We can lament their prevalence or highlight their negative impacts, but reducing cell phones to “tracking devices people pay for” is an overly simplistic view IMHO.
by shakna | 2025-06-19 06:55:21+00:00
There is some noise, but there are bounds. Everyone tends to have fairly common habits and periods of transition into new habits, that combined with IPs, or geolocation, or screen sizes, that you can fairly accurately pin individual devices..

Your processors, memory, and so on all have manufacturing quirks, and then workloads provide some more. The fuzzy circle of rendering times becomes easy to use.

Various places have used it since before '14. But here's one random paper that goes into more depth. [0]

[0] https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-93-pa...
by hliyan | 2025-06-19 06:55:32+00:00
Even more impressive to me is the fact that Saturn V did in a single launch with 1969 technology, what we're now proposing to do with 10-15 Starship launches (each as large as a Saturn V) and an additional SLS launch for Orion return capsule. What's more, the US had orbital launch expereince of just 3 years (Explorer 1 in 1958) when the Apollo program began, and 8 years later they were on the moon. Perhaps web development is not the only thing that is susceptible to bloat.
by hysan | 2025-06-19 06:55:45+00:00
Yup, and now it’s regressing so totally understandable that for those who somehow made it work, this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Personally, when I developed RSI and other health issues (that made me seriously consider giving up programming or anything computer related as a career), I found that I didn’t want to put up with the state of a11y in Linux and switched to macOS. That was worlds better even though I missed a ton of features from Linux. After a lot of time and money, I’ve made my way back to being able to continue my career, and thankfully don’t need those tools anymore. I still give Linux a try for a few months every year to see if it’s time to switch back. For certain users, I can understand why Linux feels like it’s not there and even regressing.
by abdullin | 2025-06-19 06:56:45+00:00
Even more than that. With Structured Outputs we essentially control layout of the response, so we can force LLM to go through different parts of the completion in a predefined order.

One way teams exploit that - force LLM to go through a predefined task-specific checklist before answering. This custom hard-coded chain of thought boosts the accuracy and makes reasoning more auditable.
by Nursie | 2025-06-19 06:56:56+00:00
It's a nice idea, but it won't be applicable to all games...

I'm thinking of Ark:Survival Evolved here, where the grind on 'official' servers is insane - for example taming a Wyvern required you to be online more or less every two hours for three days. On the unofficial servers these were downtuned so you could do things a bit more easily.

But when we briefly ran our own server and realised that we could use god-powers to get the stuff we wanted without the grind... it turned out there wasn't really anything of a game left.
by com2kid | 2025-06-19 06:57:18+00:00
I'll go one further -

Forcing LLMs to output JSON is just silly. A lot of time and effort is being spent forcing models to output a format that is picky and that LLMs quite frankly just don't seem to like very much. A text based DSL with more restrictions on it would've been a far better choice.

Years ago I was able to trivially teach GPT 3.5 to reliably output an English like DSL with just a few in prompt examples. Meanwhile even today the latest models still have notes that they may occasionally ignore some parts of JSON schemas sent down.

Square peg, round hole, please stop hammering.
by codedokode | 2025-06-19 06:58:23+00:00
There is a way - provide random garbage via browser APIs, for example, fake GPU name, fake core count, fake IP addresses for WebRTC. But browser vendors do not want to do it. You have to compile your own browser.

Such browsers that allow you to masquerade as a different browser do exist but they are targeted at people doing social network marketing (spam and scam) from multiple accounts. Because social networks do not allow using multiple accounts from the same device. These browsers are called "anti-detect browsers" and you can find info about them on Russian underground forums.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-06-19 06:59:13+00:00
I still don’t understand how its cheaper than disposable. You have groups like Hamas who can make rockets. V2 went to space on 100 year old tech. Seems like a dummy old rocket should be quite cheap compared to one with all these control systems and the need to store descent fuel.

Maybe disposable rocket designs lost the hat and got too overengineered and expensive? Saturn V costs seem absurd to me when the USSR was also making similar rockets presumably far cheaper. Maybe the US defense spending model is just a poor one for getting a lean product developed compared to nations and groups that absolutely must be lean to achieve anything at all.
by Clein | 2025-06-19 07:00:03+00:00
Hi @tuananh,

Thank you so much for this incredibly insightful comment and for sharing these examples (GCP Cloud Run v2, AWS Firecracker, WSL2, Apple Container). This is exactly the kind of expert feedback we were hoping to get by sharing Sphere at this early stage.

You are absolutely right. While our initial thoughts for Phase 2 were around chroot/namespaces, the industry trend towards MicroVMs for superior isolation is undeniable, and your point about them being a step beyond what namespaces/cgroups can offer is very well taken. Firecracker, in particular, is a technology we have immense respect for.

Our "true sandboxing" goal on the roadmap is precisely about achieving that level of robust, kernel-level isolation. Your comment gives us a strong signal to prioritize research and prototyping with MicroVM technology as we design that phase. The ultimate aim for Sphere is to provide the strongest practical isolation with the least possible overhead, and if MicroVMs are the best way to achieve that, then that's the direction we'll head.

This MVP (v0.1) is focused on proving the core concepts of the declarative format, dependency management, and basic environmental isolation. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us shape the next, more critical security layers.

Would you mind if we referenced your comment (and these examples) in our GitHub issue for "Feature: Implement true chroot/namespace sandboxing" as we explore the best path forward? We'd love to credit you for the pointer.

Thanks again for taking the time to share your knowledge!

- Clein, Kelly, & Ronald (The Sphere Team)
by io84 | 2025-06-19 07:00:05+00:00
I had a few tries at Ulysses in my 20s and always abandoned it.

I tried it again aged 38 and I found it flowed much more easily. The protagonist Leopold Bloom, who I remembered as an old man from earlier attempts, was relatable. It turns out Bloom is exactly 38.

I find side notes too disruptive when reading so my crutch for the middle was to skim a short chapter summary before a starting each new chapter. This let me enjoy the dreamlike qualities of the text without needing to catch every reference.