MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zaylan | 2025-06-12 07:54:24+00:00
I think the first real AI disaster probably won’t come from some kind of superintelligence. It’s more likely to happen in a very ordinary situation, where a system gives the wrong information, it causes real harm in the real world, and no one notices until it’s too late.

To me, the real risk is people handing over judgment to a system they don’t really understand, and then blaming it when things go wrong.
by lukan | 2025-06-12 07:56:09+00:00
"That's not a reason, you're just repeating the question. "Having lived long" is a value neutral statement of fact. How do you derive value from that?"

It is a reason in itself.

I don't know if I manage to live 10 years more, not speaking of 50 years more.

Living long is a achievent on its own, not be brought down early by life. Because there is a lot that life has to offer to bring you down.

That requires a minimum of wisdom.
by anthk | 2025-06-12 07:56:20+00:00
Spanish too. Francisco Javier -> Javi, or maybe Paco (Francisco), but Javi would be the obvious case.

Francisco -> Paco from Saint Francis holding a Pater Comunitatis title in Latin.

But, as a weirder case:

José María -> Chema

Luis María -> Luisma

Juan Manuel -> Juanma

José Manuel -> Chema/Josema

Juan Ramón -> Juanra

María José (women's name) -> Marijose
by ownagefool | 2025-06-12 07:56:50+00:00
I quit a job via a consultancy to a bank at about lunchtime on my first day.

I'm just not at the stage in my life where I'm willing to onboard to a transformation that starts with a half a day call authenticating so you can login to a remote VM to do your development.

Similarly I had a 2 week gig where they send me some shitheap of a windows laptop that takes 20 minutes to login, where they wanted future engagements.

Nope. Nada. No way.

You can see the value of your productivity straight out the gate. It's not valued and you will never be able to change it from your vantage point of IC or middle manager.

It doesn't really matter that they say otherwise, the evidence tells the story.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-12 07:58:05+00:00
> > There is not a single population on the planet, no matter how badly off they are, that gets 10% of what Palestinians get, on a per-capita basis. Palestinians are absolute geniuses at this.

> Oh yes, how lucky the Palestinians are. I hear Israeli bombs are filled with butter tarts and pixie dust.

Let me just address this claim in your style: "Oh yeah, that's impossible, because NOBODY has ever heard of large groups of people doing war so they get amounts of money they have no other way of making".

Wait, that's so common just about every language has a word for such people? Oh my ...
by misja111 | 2025-06-12 07:58:24+00:00
> But how come Penrose’s theorems forbid out such outcomes? It’s all down to a rule called the quantum exclusion principle, which states that no two identical particles known as fermions can occupy the same quantum state (such as angular momentum, or “spin”).

> And we show that this rule prevents the particles in the collapsing matter from being squeezed indefinitely. As a result, the collapse halts and reverses. The bounce is not only possible – it’s inevitable under the right conditions.

Do I understand right, that this would mean that every formation of a black hole would result in a bounce?
by ninjin | 2025-06-12 07:58:27+00:00
Depends a bit on which machine really. Overall, I am more confident trusting a company with a good track record or non-profit with DNS. Mullvad have great offerings with optional content blocking and DNS over both HTTPS and TLS:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

If there are other entities (commercial or not) with similar DNS services I would be happy to hear about them.

I find some reactions here to my initial comment a bit puzzling. Yes, the EU has a number of great attempts at getting privacy legislation right. Personally, I even have sympathies for the cookie banners. But it is equally true that we have seen attempts and successes to introduce surveillance measures as well. I remember the fight against the Data Retention Directive [1] and we still have "Chat Control" lurking in the shadows. Thus, I do not think I am entirely wrong in feeling less than chuffed about the prospect of handing all my DNS queries straight over to an entity working directly under the European Commission.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
by e2021 | 2025-06-12 07:58:49+00:00
We actually released an app for WP7 and then just as the platform was starting to get traction, they released WP8, made it backwards incompatible and told everyone to rewrite their apps. It killed the platform overnight. Maybe you can get companies to take a chance on a new platform once, but you can't then deprecate every device and app a year later and expect everyone to do the same thing again
by gwd | 2025-06-12 07:59:33+00:00
> I think the point the author misses...

It looked to me like the author did know that. The title only says "Fine-tuning", but immediately in the article he talks about Fine-tuning for knowledge injection, in order to "ensure that their systems were always updated with new information".

Fine-tuning to help it not make the stupid mistake that it makes 10% of the time no matter what instructions you give it is a completely different use case.
by scotty79 | 2025-06-12 08:00:10+00:00
I've heard about interesting theory. Since we observe large early galaxies, to explain them scientists postulate that they must have grown very quickly. But recently some scientists calculated how much light would such quickly growing galaxies could have emitted. And it turned out that this light after being dispersed by the dust and redshifted by the expansion of the universe it should have contribute to CMB, up to 100% of it's observed intensity. What's interesting they didn't make any assumptions outside of established modern cosmology. Just So it's entirely possible that CMB is something completely different than what we believed.
by matthewmacleod | 2025-06-12 08:00:33+00:00
Among other things, Bosch manufactures washing machines, dishwashers, and microwave ovens — why do their interfaces differ? They’re all appliances made by the same brand! Because they have different purposes and you use them in different ways.

Actually, as an owner of both a washer/dryer and a dishwasher from the Bosch “Serie 6” range, this makes the opposite point intended. The interfaces are bafflingly, irritatingly different for no good reason, and would really have benefited from some central alignment on UX patterns.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-12 08:00:49+00:00
So to sum it up, a user (or let's be real, a consumer) has three choices for a desktop / laptop:

- an ad-ridden, privacy invading hellhole that goes for "flat design" even worse than macOS's newest iteration (Windows 11), with machines mostly built out of cheap plastic, with the hardware being inadequately cooled and built on a CPU architecture that leads to guzzling power worse than an X-series BMW with its gas pedal floored on a German Autobahn. On top of that, AI slop everywhere.

- a visual hellhole that, gotta admit it, still has by far the upper hand performance-wise thanks to a best-in-class-by-far hardware and excellent integration with the OS (macOS)

- an "OS" that's more like 20 different ways of doing things, with not a single one achieving any sort of visual integration across at least the major applications because there's like a dozen UI frameworks and serious issues with hardware support across the board on top (Linux)

Brave new world lol
by masklinn | 2025-06-12 08:01:25+00:00
> Agreed. It had a funny habit of corrupting its own data store also. That's absolutely what you want in a source control system.

I still ‘member articles calling it a source destruction system. Good times.

> It sucked; but honestly, not using anything is even worse than SourceSafe.

There have always been alternatives. And even when you didn’t use anything, at least you knew what to expect. Files didn’t magically disappear from old tarballs.
by whstl | 2025-06-12 08:01:32+00:00
I’d argue that you can still have an accurate model of the world without the depression part.

I can’t back it up but recovering from depression by simply putting “rose colored glasses” is a recipe for bouncing back later. Happened to me.

In HN’s case: admitting that companies are quite toxic and more often than not working against you, that most people around you is probably an incompetent if put under a microscope and that the things you’re working on aren’t exactly changing the world for the better.

The trick perhaps is not letting those things make you cynical, and not acting on them. And forgetting yourself because you’re also a bit incompetent too, so you can let you and everyone else off the hook.
by thom | 2025-06-12 08:01:34+00:00
TiVo was one of the most delightful products I ever owned. It had near-perfect UX, including the audio effects: to this day my wife and I still talk about "be-bipping" through video when we want to fast-forward. Now I can watch any episode of Star Trek I like, anytime I like, and yet somehow coming home to a TiVo with some freshly recorded episodes was vastly more satisfying. The first algorithmic feed I actually loved.
by nindalf | 2025-06-12 08:02:15+00:00
Let’s not pretend he was hosting the software. Npm was.

No software developer or organisation will use a software repository that allows deletion of packages. That’s why it’s not a thing anymore.

If you think this “right” should exist, that’s a market niche for you to exploit. But you won’t, will you? Because like I said, no user wants this.
by vidarh | 2025-06-12 08:02:20+00:00
To some, the joy in writing is in producing a story. To others, it lies in crafting the words. If you want to "direct" a story, an LLM that could take your exposition of your plot and make it into something enjoyable to read could still let you enjoy the process. If what you care about is crafting the perfect sentence, an LLM that could assist with the plot could still let you enjoy the process. Maybe more, because not everyone enjoys every aspect of the process.

And even authors who enjoy both might hate the many subsequent steps to publishing a book, such as getting editorial feedback and doing rewrites that can sometimes feel like a gut-punch (I sat on my first editorial feedback for a month, agonising over what to accept and what to ignore, and it was anxiety-inducing and felt awful - since I don't expect to make much money from my novels, I decided to ignore a lot of it, even when I knew the editor was probably right from a mass-market appeal point of view, but it sure as hell was not an enjoyable part of the process).

And some people don't enjoy the actual writing at all, but enjoys coming up with high-level plots and seeing what pops out.

In other words: It's not all or nothing, and people enjoy wildly different things about the process.

Or to put it yet another way: Some people - even adults - enjoy paint by numbers too. Not everyone want to create - sometimes people just want to be adjacent to creation and discover things.
by noduerme | 2025-06-12 08:03:17+00:00
Thank you. I am / have been a digital nomad since 2006. Wired Magazine even published an article about us back then in our solar van in Australia trying to find 2G internet. I feel quite old ;) But after all this time, I am still dependent on having a laptop to do my job! An e-ink screen is much nicer for outdoors but I don't know of a system built on one that would be worth investing in. It's also a software problem. I would really like to be able to write with a pen but I don't know of anything good at understanding handwriting for stuff like this:

for (let f of arr.filter((a)=>a>0)) { ... }
Show HN: Apple's new "Liquid Glass" effect as a Svelte component
by Tozaburo | 2025-06-12 08:03:54+00:00
When Apple introduced its “Liquid Glass” design language at WWDC 2025, I wanted to bring that look to the web.

liquid-glass-svelte is a lightweight component that lets you drop the same translucent, refractive panels into any Svelte project.

Works where backdrop-filter and mask compositing are supported.

Install from npm, import the component, and wrap any content to get the effect. The full source are on GitHub.

GitHub: https://github.com/Tozaburo/liquid-glass-svelte

I would love to hear your thoughts on this!

Thanks for taking a look!
by codeulike | 2025-06-12 08:04:17+00:00
We used it. We knew no better. It was different then, you might not hear about alternatives unless you went looking for them. Source Safe was integrated with Visual Studio so was an obvious choice for small teams.

Get this; if you wanted to change a file you had to check it out. It was then locked and no-one else could change it. Files were literally read only on your machine unless you checked them out. The 'one at a time please' approach to Source Control (the other approach being 'lets figure out how to merge this later')
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-12 08:04:18+00:00
Ha, Bosch, LOL. I own an old Series 4 VarioPerfect washing machine, and when I moved into a new apartment I treated myself to a clothes dryer. Ordered a Series 4 one... the font size is different and instead of the old tactile buttons it has a touch surface on physically printed labels that needs an arcane incantation combined with a precise way of holding your fingers while touching it, the door opens to a different direction - and the "official" stacker frame isn't compatible so I needed a third party stacker.

Bloody ridiculous, but hey, some price to pay to the design gods for at least having a machine that works solidly and that I can repair should it ever be needed.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-12 08:04:38+00:00
> while he claims that 50% of jobs are useless, less than 20% of workers feel that way, and those who feel their jobs are useless do not correlate with whether their job is useless. (Garbage collectors, janitors, and other essential workers more often felt like their jobs were useless than people in jobs classified by Graeber as useless.)

Well, again, there is a huge difference between one's own perception of their job being useful or not. I believe garbage collectors, janitors, and nurses, are not examples of useless jobs. Useless jobs are mainly in the office, called "paper pushers". I mean come on, have you not been to any jobs (nor heard of any) where you had to pretend you were busy just to get paid? I saw plenty of cases.
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-12 08:05:46+00:00
Whataboutism is a great hobby, right?

To the point of Altman, I keep writing in HN that 'where money can be made, money will be made'. Of course he will lie. And of course he will tell the truth. He will pick the right thing to say at the right (convenient) moment. His job is not to tell the truth. His job is to say and do whatever he can (enough to stay out of jail) to make the most money for himself and his partners/shareholders/etc. (but mostly for himself).

I came across to Sex Pistols lyrics before I listened to their music. The lines that have impressed (and etched in my memory) the most are:

How many ways to get what you want I use the best, I use the rest I use the N.M.E. I use anarchy

So.. yeah..
by fside | 2025-06-12 08:05:52+00:00
I’m with the author. DNS4EU is being sold as “sovereignty,” but it’s just another centralized resolver sitting on the same foreign-owned infrastructure we already depend on. Shuffling everyone’s queries through one EU-branded endpoint doesn’t fix privacy or resilience—it just adds another middleman. If the EU really wants independence, it should invest in making local ISP resolvers secure and trustworthy instead of outsourcing the job yet again.
by vidarh | 2025-06-12 08:06:03+00:00
I'd argue that technological change that is a simple enough iteration of existing technology that it can be carried out by small groups of people will happen independent of culture with a very high probability once a population is large enough.

In this case, so many people are curious as to whether we can make this work and/or see financial implications that this will happen irrespective of whether wider culture rejects it.
by arbfay | 2025-06-12 08:06:37+00:00
Before post-ChatGPT boom, we used to talk of "catastrophic forgetting"...

Make sure the new training dataset is "large" by augmenting it with general data (see it as a sample of the original dataset), use PEFT techniques (freezing weights => less risks), use regularization (elastic weight consolidation).

Fine-tuning is fine, but will be more expensive that you thought and should be led by more experienced ML engineers. You probably don't need to fine tune models anyway.
by mbanerjeepalmer | 2025-06-12 08:06:40+00:00
Clickbait headlines are a necessary evil.

Note first that the piece is not about zacusca.net itself. It's saying 'You should go out of your way to build on a protocol. Even if the protocol is 'dead'. Perhaps I can clarify that.

Regarding Zacusca, I appreciate you explaining why it doesn't seem useful. First, it's not for everyone. Some people like reverse chron as an algorithm. Second, let me clarify how the pipeline works. But I think I explain the import/export poorly: - you export the feed addresses - you set up the categories - Zacusca continously polls the imported feeds, sorts them into the categories and exposes the categories as new feeds

So it's fire and forget. And you can keep your existing feeds as duplicates if you want.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-12 08:07:14+00:00
Great topic. We've moved past simple automation and into the era of orchestration, as you said.

But I believe there's another layer to this shift: the move from Horizontal AI Agents to Vertical AI Agents.

Horizontal agents (like general-purpose chatbots or assistants) are powerful, but they lack deep, contextual understanding of a specific team's unique workflow. They can answer general questions, but they can't manage a complex design review process from end to end.

At my company, Markhub, we're betting on the power of Vertical AI. We're building an AI teammate, MAKi, that is not a generalist. It is an expert in one thing: the chaotic workflow of turning scattered team conversations into structured, actionable work.

It's designed to understand the specific context of a project—the feedback on a PDF, the follow-up questions in a chat, and the resulting tasks on a Kanban board. It doesn't just automate tasks; it orchestrates the entire feedback and execution lifecycle.

My belief is that the most successful enterprise AI won't be a single, all knowing agent. It will be a network of specialized, vertical agents like ours, each mastering a specific, high-value business process.
by tompccs | 2025-06-12 08:07:54+00:00
The environmental story about AI is extremely boring and I wish it would stop being brought up.

Every technological development since the industrial revolution has increased human demand for energy in some way. It's only the environmental movement, which actively shut down nuclear power plants, which wants human energy consumption to be reduced for cultish reasons.

If we'd ignored anti-nuclear activists in the 70s none of this would be a problem.
by masklinn | 2025-06-12 08:10:35+00:00
Mercurial still has some life to it (excluding Meta’s fork of it), jj is slowly gaining, fossil exists.

And afaik P4 still does good business, because DVCS in general and git in particular remain pretty poor at dealing with large binary assets so it’s really not great for e.g. large gamedev. Unity actually purchased PlasticSCM a few years back, and has it as part of their cloud offering.

Google uses its own VCS called Piper which they developed when they outgrew P4.
by echelon | 2025-06-12 08:10:54+00:00
I really don't think your analogy fits the absurdity of lacking the tooling. It's more like you have to decompile an N64 cartridge ROM and don't have the tools. But I don't want to play that game.

I'll up the ante. I'll bet you money that nobody forks this and adds fine tuning for at least a year.
by zerof1l | 2025-06-12 08:10:59+00:00
As an EU citizen, I'm happy that we're starting to have more infra and are less reliant on countries outside of EU. However, I'm skeptical of their "privacy-focused" slogan. Most likely they mean that your data won't leave EU. However, EU itself does a lot of tracking and blocking.

The only true private DNS server is the one you own. It should be a recursive DNS server configured with DNS root zone and DNSSEC. So it would first contact one of the root DNS servers (obtained from ICANN), validate the authenticity of the response ensure it is not tampered with using DNSSEC, and then proceed to call the next server in the chain until the query is fully resolved. Such DNS server would bypass all censorships.

Also nice is that more and more root servers already support DoT meaning that the request and response would be encrypted preventing intermediaries like your ISP from seeing the data.

As a last resort, your DNS server can be hosted outside of the country on a server and then you'd connect to it over DoT or DoH.
by voidUpdate | 2025-06-12 08:11:13+00:00
From my limited knowledge, itwould be very hard to make it react to all types of radiation (alpha, beta, gamma) since they penetrate differently and interact with forces differently. You could potentially make a magnetic "lens" that would interact with alpha and beta particles, but gamma rays would ignore it.

The best way I can think of to make a "radiation camera" is similar to how you can make a "wifi camera", by hooking up a radiation detector to a pan-tilt mechanism, and moving it around very slowly and sampling the amount of radiation detected at each point. Essentially a single pixel "camera" that you have to move around to take a full picture. However, you'd also have to shield the detector from any radioactivity coming from directions that it's not pointed in, which is especially hard if you're trying to capture gamma rays, since they like to penetrate through everything. Its like if light could leak into the side of a normal camera, you'd get rubbish photos
by kingstnap | 2025-06-12 08:11:20+00:00
> Altman did not offer any evidence for these claims and failed to mention where his data comes from.

Presumably, as CEO, he is a first-party source.

Also, I mean, water usage is relative. How much water does a person who chats all day use compared to someone who eats a burger every day?

Electricity is also relatively clean as a power source. We would technically all be much greener if we sat naked in shoebox apartments all day playing video games, streaming videos, and chatting with AI instead of doing actually resource-intensive things like flying around and manufacturing.
by fsflover | 2025-06-12 08:11:48+00:00
> and serious issues with hardware support across the board on top (Linux)

I'm tired of this myth. Just like with Mac and Windows, you choose the suitable hardware or, better, buy preinstalled. There are no compatibility issue with my Librem 14. Even suspend works 100% of the time.

Also, GNU/Linux is not an OS but there are many very different OSes for different use cases and visual preferences.
by radicalbyte | 2025-06-12 08:11:58+00:00
It's because people are reading the first few words and thinking "this is an male nerd asking stupid ignorant questions".

It's that or there are people who actually think that counting days is a good way to enable unprotected sex without a risk of baby. Which is absolutely isn't - it changes the risk to 2-5% a shot. Compared to around ~2% year for condoms alone.