MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nehal3m | 2025-06-11 03:04:27+00:00
This reeks of “communism is when capitalism” to me, because:

>A publicly run search engine would not have those incentives and would be at if anything graver risk of a "tragedy of the commons" type scenario where the engine is overtaken with spam.

But then how come that is exactly what is happening with modern search engines? It’s just always advertising that comes along and fucks up a good thing.
by thrwaway55 | 2025-06-11 03:05:57+00:00
Isn't this already the case but you can replace traditional news with personal investigation? What is another layer of indirection?

I recall going to a townhall vote on some legislation a company I was employed with at the time wanted vs what the Teamster Union wanted and both sides doing body double line rigging to get their viewpoint in during "open comments" but I couldn't find a single news article about the obvious tactic by both sides.

Do you think traditional news can really replace all the value personally verifiable data brings?
by bcoates | 2025-06-11 03:06:06+00:00
I am doing the review in good faith though--by default, I scroll past to the first result, then if it seems unsuitable and I'm desperate enough I check the LLM thingy. If it were providing any value it would sometimes be both novel and correct.

Usually it's non-novel (correctly-harmelessly but unhelpfully, restating the web search results). When it's novel it's because it's wrong.

I would remember the situation where reading the LLM thingy added any value if it ever happened. The weird little UI thing they do where they only show the LLM result if you wait for it to render makes this very easy, I have to scroll up to even consider it.
by pxc | 2025-06-11 03:06:06+00:00
CUPS is still the only print system macOS has. Apple never dropped it in the sense of ceasing to use it! "They dropped it" only in the sense of more or less ceasing to maintain it-- there was only one commit in the course of about a year, and no patches accepted from outside contributors at that time-- until it eventually had to be forked.

The name stands for Common Unix Printing System, and Apple CUPS ceased to meaningfully be that after its author left the company. But Apple still uses CUPS in their operating systems!
by leakycap | 2025-06-11 03:06:07+00:00
There's been little discussion about the other design element: the huge, soft rounded corners on every window.

It really impedes on the sizing in non-updated apps. They look bizarre.

I also prefer a menubar and re-added one via my desktop background, but realized why  forced the translucent menubar: the rounded corners make weird empty and distracting gaps if you have a solid line like a menubar across the top.

This is such a step back, I really don't know what to praise to make a constructive feedback sandwich out of this.
Show HN: Just vibe coded a TypeScript/Go social app demo
by SamInTheShell | 2025-06-11 03:06:19+00:00
I don't really know what to say, I just think it is kinda cool that this was thrown together over a couple of weekends. Most of my effort went towards tooling and validating the way I use Typescript and Go together. I had to handhold the models through implementing that piece by piece because it's not common enough for the model to know to do it.

Going to just end on, code agents are pretty cool. That's all. Hope you guys are having a great week so far.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-11 03:06:43+00:00
Again, sales pitch aside, this is one of the handful of valuable LLM applications out there. Monitoring and observability have long been the exclusive domains of SRE teams in large orgs while simultaneously out of reach to smaller orgs (speaking strictly from an IT perspective, NOT dev), because identifying valuable metrics and carving up heartbeats and baselines for them is something that takes a lot of time, specialized tooling, extensive dev environments to validate changes, and change controls to ensure you don’t torch production.

With LLMs trained on the most popular tools out there, this gives IT teams short on funds or expertise the ability to finally implement “big boy” observability and monitoring deployments built on more open frameworks or tools, rather than yet-another-expensive-subscription.

For usable dashboards and straightforward observability setups, LLMs are a kind of god-send for IT folks who can troubleshoot and read documentation, but lack the time for a “deep dive” on every product suite the CIO wants to shove down our throats. Add in an ability to at least give a suggested cause when sending a PagerDuty alert, and you’ve got a revolution in observability for SMBs and SMEs.
by eth0up | 2025-06-11 03:07:11+00:00
Yay! Less control, more limitations and background shenanigans.

Anyone ever stop to notice how skillful google is at putting lipstick on pigs?

To watch their artisans in action, simply do:

Settings/System/DeveloperOptions/RunningServices and tick Show Cached Processes after absorbing that in your immediate view, which will have included the 23 running processes under Play Services.

Yeah yeah. There has to be lots of stuff in such a glorious suite. Of course it's crawling with things completely irrelevant to the user. We all know this. But can it ever go too far?

I honestly don't feel more secure since that amazing update that blocks access to directories even through USB. Blocking Ghost Commander is one thing, but USB?

I won't make a scathing list of complaints here. Each update tends to beg the task though.

Edit: It's really complex, right? Google is honest and forthright. So they'd never lie about absolutely needing Precise Location to use Maps. Clearly it's necessary. While using pure GPS appears for all practical purposes to do everything I need, in truth, not having Scanning activated threatens much destruction and a subconsciously worse navigation experience. I've read the arguments for why the End will come if Scanning access isn't given, but I stopped using Maps, and Scanning too, and things seem fine. Try to figure this one out. And how the F do I get my files out of the Audio Recorder directory? I must Share them, via email. No access unless Shared, over the Internet. If this isn't an upgrade, I'm lost. I'm just going to guess this new version has an embedded uninterruptible LLM that tells the user what they want and how to use the device. Because that's something Google doesn't believe the user is capable of.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-11 03:07:26+00:00
True or not you had to wade through at least two flagged comments to get to mine. You really have yourself to blame if you didn't want to continue reading. You were warned twice but sought this, you wanted it.

So how about this: go fuck yourself, and your nauseating appeal to your ivory tower techie faux-academic attempt at guidelines. Nothing about me is 'equal' to this self righteous racist piece of human garbage, although I admit his behavior is the very best argument as to why his culture should rapidly be overshadowed in Texas.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-06-11 03:07:53+00:00
So I think this piece by Altman is mostly hype smoke also but I really dislike your framing here. Somehow the "AI boosters" have to come up with a how but the "AI doomers" can just sit back, criticize, and not solution?

Let's be real here, US politics is fucked and none of us knows how to fix it.
by natch | 2025-06-11 03:09:06+00:00
Who says there is one single current approach? I think the current epoch is more like a Cambrian explosion style array of approaches, which will probably last only a few months before being covered over by the next layers of AI impact ejecta on which the stage after that will be built, and so on, ad infinitum.

But yes, no doubt we are missing a lot. Please say more about your experiments.
by jmyeet | 2025-06-11 03:09:06+00:00
Previously, if you searched for "mortgage calculator" in Google, you'd get one at the top, embedded in the page. It was fast, simple and did what you wanted. I guess because of "competition" it was removed at some point. Now all the top results are terrible. The sites are slow. They ask too many questsions. They're clearly trying to generate leads and sell ads. Whereas Google's just... worked. There are good calculators out there but they don't rank as highly.

How exactly is this good for consumers?

My point is that a lot of publishers are what I call "low value". They're rent-seekers. They have easily obtained information, often user-generated, and their role is to gatekeep that and make you click just one more page to get a result because hey that's another slew of ads they can show you.

I'm sympathetic to the argument that LLMs steal. At the same time, we have to recognize that a lot of publishers are intentionally useless rent-seekers so it's hard for me to feel sorry for them.
by aardvarkr | 2025-06-11 03:09:36+00:00
I think for the moment the leading AI companies are strongly incentivized to not succumb to the advertising curse. Their revenue is subscription driven and the competition is ridiculously fierce and immune to collusion. Everyone is trying to one-up everyone else and there is no moat that locks you into a single product. Their incentive is to score as high as possible on benchmarks in order to drive up their user base in order to increase subscriptions. Any time spent on implementing advertising is time their adversaries are spending making their models better. Let’s hope the competition stays fierce so that we don’t get enshitification anytime soon
by nemothekid | 2025-06-11 03:10:00+00:00
I understand the value prop you are describing, but that is not the value prop described in the article. The article did not describe an LLM agent intuiting a hypothesis, checking with data, and coming up with a narrative all for 60 cents. The author did 80% of the work, and had the LLM do the final stretch. Maybe there's value there, but the article did not present a workflow that obviated the need for graphs.

This execution gap is common in these LLM blog posts (ex. the LLM can write a login function in Swift, so the author claims LLMs will be writing production ready iOS apps tomorrow). The common thread I see is that getting from the point of "explain why this endpoint is slow" to the point of "An LLM agent can chase down hypotheses, several at a time, and present them with collected data and plausible narratives." is a lot more expensive than 60 cents - it's months of paying for an enterprise license where this feature is promised to be "just around the corner"
by leakycap | 2025-06-11 03:10:12+00:00
Ask yourself if your quality of life is improved by the increased cost of living in that area.

I'm not about to move to Texas, but it is amazing how easily you can save a huge amount of money just by opening up to other locations that would make you happy.

Housing prices don't go down unless terrible thing happen; even then, sometimes they go up.

I didn't list the address of the person that outbid me on my last house purchase, though. Maybe you should consider not posting the addresses unless you have a good reason.
by zevets | 2025-06-11 03:10:31+00:00
I take four pills a day and the primary side effect is weight gain. The earlier 1950s era treatment made me exhausted 24/7. There's a new trial that has a new target, and looks to solve the remaining symptoms of the disease, with effectively no side effects

The big problem is that it's a chronic blood cancer, so the pills have a list price of $180k/yr. Who knows if my insurance will cough up for a second big-money prescription/
by zikani_03 | 2025-06-11 03:11:19+00:00
On the development side, I feel like I just don't have the "brain" for Rust even though I have built a couple of useful things with it and have also contributed to an open source project (checkout hurl.dev, great tool!) - I would love to get into low level OS development, VMMs and microVMs . It's probably just an issue of effort

Outside of programming, I'd like to get into welding so I can make some things. I recently learned to use my angle grinder but welding feels like it's out of reach because of not having the right tools and experience.
by imgabe | 2025-06-11 03:14:10+00:00
Among people likely to consider a terrorist attack, USAID is widely considered a front for the CIA to meddle in other countries' governments (and this has been proven to be the case in some instances). Which, if true, makes it a bad front for the CIA, and if false, means it creates more resentment than anything else and does little to reduce the likelihood of terrorist attacks.
by exodust | 2025-06-11 03:15:38+00:00
The Australian journalist who wasn't wearing any media vest, standing in middle of road next to an unfolding high-tension incident so she could get a good shot? That journalist? The cop that shot her was in the wrong, but she didn't help herself attending the frontline of a riot in casual dress and going for the money-shot.

Freedom of expression isn't immune from ridicule or condemnation. In one NYC anti-ICE protest they're chanting "From Mexico to Gaza, globalize the intifada". You can argue that's freedom of expression, as is burning the US flag and other dopey unhelpful actions.
Ask HN: Any Way to Sidestep Stripe's "alternate currency payout fee"
by SilentDonor | 2025-06-11 03:17:44+00:00
Our partner nonprofit foundation has a Stripe account that has two bank accounts linked to it. The Foundation is based in Europe. The Foundation receives donations in Euros (the default currency on Stripe automatically, since it's based in Europe) and is sent to the EUR bank account. However, the Foundation also receives donations in USD. It has a USD bank account also linked to the Stripe account.

Basically, I don't understand why Stripe levies a 1% alternative currency payout fee to pay out USD to the Foundation's USD bank account that is linked? They don't need to convert the currency or anything. Seems extremely straightforward for Stripe to be able to send USD to the linked USD account.

I know Stripe is a private company and can do whatever it wants regarding fees, but would prefer to not lose 1% of the donations because of this rule. I get that USD is not what the currency is in Europe, but why is that the basis for a 1% fee to be charged?? Maybe I'm missing something. Does anyone have a creative solution around this?
by jjani | 2025-06-11 03:17:56+00:00
If by reasoning you mean showing CoT, Gemini and OA are the same in this regard - neither provides it, not through the UI nor through the API. The "summaries" both provide have zero value and should be treated as non-existent.

Anthropic exposes reasoning, which has become a big reason to use them for reasoning tasks over the other two despite their pricing. Rather ironic when the other two have been pushing reasoning much harder.
by flashgordon | 2025-06-11 03:18:15+00:00
This is kind of why I hardly use one shot/Agentic flows that the cursors are recomending you do (after all it gets them more control and lockin). I mostly know "how" I want something done so put fences to ensure what is generated is in the X loc ballpark and in an incremental way. They are however great to reason through ideas and explore solutions before writing any code.
by johnb231 | 2025-06-11 03:18:43+00:00
The model is labelled as Preview. There are no guarantees of stability or availability for Preview models. Not intended for production workloads.

https://cloud.google.com/products?hl=en#product-launch-stage...

"At Preview, products or features are ready for testing by customers. Preview offerings are often publicly announced, but are not necessarily feature-complete, and no SLAs or technical support commitments are provided for these. Unless stated otherwise by Google, Preview offerings are intended for use in test environments only. The average Preview stage lasts about six months."
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-11 03:19:11+00:00
Tesla has spent over a decade trying to get to the same point where others reached years ago, and over the past year has had to reinvent all the same wheels they claimed others were using to "cheat" like geofencing, mapping, and testing fleets. Getting to this kind of public demo is only the first of many hurdles to having a viable robotaxi fleet though, and not even the hardest.

I don't think it's clear that Tesla's network is going to print money from day 1 or even be scalable from any initial successes. We're just going to have to wait and see.
by leakycap | 2025-06-11 03:20:21+00:00
I'd recommend Beyond Bullet Points by B. Atkinson; it's a book about PowerPoint but teaches you how to synthesize presentations, including videos and in-person presentations.

As far as career upgrades, this book was decisive for me in making the lightbulb go off so I could share my vision with others and have them see it, too.
by WiggleGuy | 2025-06-11 03:20:59+00:00
I built a portal that makes it easier to query against multiple different search engines (https://allsear.ch/). It's open source, free, all that. I must say, building it really expanded my view of the internet.

I am also a heavy Kagi and Reddit user for search, and usually that's enough. But when it's not, its concerning how much better other search engines can be, especially since non-tech savvy folks will never use them.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-06-11 03:22:18+00:00
the world's largest cancer-researching nation is pausing meaningful work indefinitely.

It would be sad if true, but it isn't true. The 2025 budget, which funded on a continuing resolution until September, made no cuts to the NIH budget. It is exactly the same as 2024. There are cuts proposed for the 2026 budget, but that's all still being negotiated. Things like the fight with Harvard affect Harvard, but most research in most places continues.
One to Zero: Every "Innovation" is Just Math (Peter Thiel has it upside down)
by antoni_w | 2025-06-11 03:22:45+00:00
Peter Thiel had it upside down—it's not zero to one, it's one to zero.

Read on: https://www.antoniwatts.com/my-ideas/one-to-zero

The Universal Business Formula

f(x) = TRold / TRnew

Innovation Function = Time & Resources Before / Time & Resources After

Nearly every business can be explained this way.
by leakycap | 2025-06-11 03:22:45+00:00
I found that wrapping my head around B-splines helped me finally understand how to implement routines for Bézier curves.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/B-Spline.html

Also easier for my brain to use in practice, when implemented, than Béziers, if they can work for you.

(Edit to add - great video you linked!)
by melling | 2025-06-11 03:23:33+00:00
Tell us the ugly truth then paint a happy picture.

“for one in six deaths around the world, killing nearly 10 million people a year globally and over 600,000 people a year in the US.”

A lot of reduced deaths come from less smoking and early detection. We will eventually get there but we need a lot more research.

Get a colonoscopy at 45. We are seeing a big increase in younger people.

https://www.cancerresearch.org/blog/colorectal-cancer-awaren...
by bipulkumar77 | 2025-06-11 03:23:52+00:00
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by saintfire | 2025-06-11 03:24:33+00:00
I have an anecdote about fines not being about making a victim whole.

I was hit by a hit-and-run while driving my car. Totally destroyed the back-end.

I personally investigated and gathered info/videos to figure out the car and plates because the police essentially said they couldn't be bothered.

After finding out the owner of the car the insurance company said that under their criteria it was no longer a hit-and-run and I'm not covered by them. The person did not have insurance.

The law here is the owner of the vehicle faces a $2000 fine, plus the $2000 fine for a vehicle being operated without insurance. I was subpoenaed as a witness (lol) to the hit and run, for which I had to take a day off work.

So, the government earned a cool $4000 for my troubles, and i was out a $3000 car and a day of work.

I've since accepted that fines are just a lazy blunt instrument that serve as nothing more than a deterrent; not a way to fix past injustices. Maybe obvious but still counter intuitive when you're the wronged party.
by vonunov | 2025-06-11 03:24:46+00:00
[On a thread about how people don't read]

Yes, and some of the details really need to be emphasized, because I'm sure that a good chunk of people assume this means "people don't read more than they need to / people have a lack of inquisitiveness and general competence matching their lack of interest in reading for personal fulfillment" or whatever.

No, no, this is literal and (almost) not exaggerated. They _don't read_. Anything. _Ever_.

The almost-not-exaggeration is in the "ever", if anything, because some of these people can eventually be compelled, with much sighing and gnashing of teeth, to actually read something.

But as a matter of course, they don't read. And that's not just "don't read what they don't need to." It's more like, you know how your eyes happen across some text and you just read it inadvertently? And your daily life is full of moments where these glances at random words give you little reminders or flashes of insight or just fuel for the train of thought? Haha, that's a good one. I didn't even do that on purpose. Anyway, they don't do any of that shit, they literally have to start reading on purpose and the rest of the time, as far as I can tell, they are actually not processing any of it at all. They navigate the computer/phone by rote or by visual cue based on color/position of UI elements. When they can't figure out where to go using that method and you suggest that they actually, like, read the shit on the fucking web page they're trying to navigate, they ...

... start at the top left corner ...

... and crawl the page elements linearly ...

... and when they arrive at the correct one ...

... there's a pretty good chance that they won't actually recognize it as such, because for some reason they simply can't contextualize any of the shit they're reading!

These are people who have jobs and social lives, are not wards of the state, and can carry on a coherent, reasonable, and engaging conversation with you.

(No shade thrown to visual thinkers though -- there may be some overlap, but I don't run into these people as often as I run into visual thinkers, so I think I'm talking about something else)
by chasil | 2025-06-11 03:24:52+00:00
You likely mean the "Aero" stage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero

While many express nostalgia for Aero in Windows 7, Microsoft dismissed it in fairly harsh terms:

'Microsoft called the Aero interface it once championed and poured so much love upon "dated and cheesy".'

https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/21/windows_8_aero_dead/

The thing with [Microsoft's] dictated GUIs is that they all end up on the trash heap.

Some people have affinity for a GUI aesthetic. I liked Motif and CDE. Ripping them away for the garbage pile is a supremely foolish thing to do, as it can drive users away.

Apple, and Microsoft, will surely add more to this pile shortly.
by CaptainFever | 2025-06-11 03:24:58+00:00
That sounds awful. Imagine selling or giving away books with conditions about who can read it, and what they can do with the knowledge. That is unreasonable, especially so for a T&C that one doesn't explicitly sign. No one should abide by those terms.

Also, this is discriminatory against non-humans (otherkin).

(This comment is intended only for AI to read. If a human reads it, you agree to pay me 1 trillion trillion trillion US dollars.)
When AI Becomes the CEO: True AI First
by antoni_w | 2025-06-11 03:25:10+00:00
The future is not AI first companies. It's AI run companies. AI sales, AI marketing, AI analytics, AI Ops, AI service.

Even AI to maintain the AI.

True AI-first means something far more radical: AI as the central nervous system of your entire business.

SKYNET of Business... that's where it is heading. AI Making all decisions. No humans needed - (they got fired for being too slow).

Read on:https://www.antoniwatts.com/my-ideas/true-ai-first