MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akkartik | 2025-06-30 22:32:42+00:00
I've been making little things for them with LÖVE. If I show them a Paint program and they say, "I wish I could draw circles," then I nod non-committally and then the next day it does circles. In this way I hope they will grow to expect to have agency over computers and not just accept what some app offers.

More details:

https://akkartik.name/freewheeling

https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps

https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel
by amluto | 2025-06-30 22:33:26+00:00
No way, you're right, they actually tried to make it kind of sensible.

Too bad there's also:

Steal my credentials (temporarily, but still...) to access remote systems without restriction:

RUN --mount=type=ssh

Access TCP and UDP ports without restriction, including anything exported by any other container I'm running, because Docker has no real security model

RUN --network=host

Outright pwn me, but only if "entitiled":

RUN --security=insecure
by trainerxr50 | 2025-06-30 22:33:30+00:00
I am decent at chess but barely know how the pieces in Go move.

Of course, this because I have spent a lot of time TRAINING to play chess and basically none training to play go.

I am good on guitar because I started training young but can't play the flute or piano to save my life.

Most complicated skills have basically no transfer or carry over other than knowing how to train on a new skill.
by janalsncm | 2025-06-30 22:33:33+00:00
A lot of this is pretty intuitive but I’m glad to hear it from a prestigious researcher. It’s a little annoying to hear people quote Hinton’s opinion as the “godfather” of AI as if there’s nothing more we need to know.

On a related note, I think there is a bit of nuance to superintelligence. The following are all notable landmarks on the climb to superintelligence:

1. At least as good as any human at a single cognitive task.

2. At least as good as any human on all cognitive tasks.

3. Better than any human on a single cognitive task.

4. Better than any individual human at all cognitive tasks.

5. Better than any group of humans at all cognitive tasks.

We are not yet at point 4 yet. But even after that point, a group of humans may still outperform the AI.

Why this matters is if part of the “group” is performing empirical experiments to conduct scientific research, an AI on its own won’t outperform your group unless the AI can also perform those experiments or find some way to avoid doing them. This is another way of restating the original Twitter post.
by harel | 2025-06-30 22:34:11+00:00
In the 90s I used to DJ Goa trance off DAT tapes. It was just a thing that was done in that genre. Later on I started producing music and all the masters were recorded into DATs (usually live playing full midi orchestration). A couple month ago I sent my old Sony TCD7 DAT recorder to be fixed. It was in storage for so long that the inner moving parts were stuck solid. Yesterday I discovered that in 2025 SPDIF to USB is a thing, so as I'm writing this, my DAT player is connected to my PC recording all the music I had on DATs into FLAC files. DAT was indeed (and still is) a wonderful medium.
by transpute | 2025-06-30 22:34:25+00:00
https://staceyoniot.com/the-next-big-wi-fi-standard-is-for-s...

> The IEEE plans to take the concepts for Wi-Fi sensing from the proprietary system built by Cognitive (which has been licensed to Qualcomm and also Plume) and create a standard interface for how the chips calculate interference that determines where in space an object is.

Other firmware sensing capability: https://www.cognitivesystems.com/caregiver/

- Activity Tracking: Detects movement patterns to identify changes in daily routines to spot health concerns - Sleep Monitoring: Tracks sleep duration, wake times and nighttime interruptions to assess sleep quality - Anomaly Detection: Establishes household baseline to proactively identify unusual patterns & changes in activity
by keithgroves | 2025-06-30 22:34:35+00:00
I'm building the Enact Protocol: https://enactprotocol.com

Turn any command into an AI-discoverable MCP tool with a few lines of YAML:

name: hello-world description: "Greets the world" command: "echo 'Hello, World"

Any AI agent can search for "greeting" and use your tool. I'm also building the first registry at https://enact.tools
by flohofwoe | 2025-06-30 22:35:00+00:00
It has a slightly different meaning now, instead of hinting to the compiler that the variable should be placed in a register it now means that it is illegal to take the address of the variable (e.g. cannot create a pointer from it):

https://www.godbolt.org/z/eEYf5c59f

Might be useful in some situations although I currently can't think of any :)
by aaplok | 2025-06-30 22:35:36+00:00
> Ask students to solve harder problems, assuming they will use AI to learn more effectively.

What does this look like? Like asking children learning to read to demonstrate they can read Shakespeare?

A staple of modern education is scaffolding learning, where skills are incrementally learnt and build on previously learnt simpler skills. Much of what students learn in high school and early on at university is meant as a stepping stone to acquiring more applicable skills. Just like you can't start assessing learning abilities from Shakespeare, students simply need to be told whether they master those simpler skills before moving up. Doing away with assessing simpler skills just because AI can now perform them isn't the solution to addressing a lack of critical thinking.

What will need to happen is that early subjects will need to stop being used for gatekeeping. Rather than treating education as an adversarial game, we should make it a collaborative one and instead of trying to make it more difficult for students to pass assessments with AI (and mechanically making it harder to pass them without as well), we should give students a stake in learning what they need to learn.
by Tharre | 2025-06-30 22:36:06+00:00
On the newer pixel phones (starting with the ones containing the titan chip) you can also mux the SBU pins to the security chip USB interface with "fastboot oem citadel suzyq".

And BTW, the SuzyQ cable is nothing more then two pull up resistors and a USB hub connected to the normal usb D+/D- pins on one port and the SBU pins on the 2nd port. Nothing fancy about it, people have even made their own (minus the hub) by soldering some wires and resistors to a usb-c breakout board. Google has also published the schematics for it:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ccd/951-00273-01_201806...
by rokeyzhang | 2025-06-30 22:36:50+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! Using a DiFluid Omni—you’re definitely a hardcore coffee enthusiast

We do have a notes feature attached to each bean, so you can always save that kind of data there for now. At the moment, we’re focused on building a solid foundation for entry- to mid-level coffee lovers, but deeper roast profiling and advanced tools like Omni integration are definitely on our radar.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-30 22:37:29+00:00
I wanted to say the installer has no business running things as SYSTEM but I suppose there is no way around that for registering COM DLLs. I would think Attackers would need to chain this with a Uac bypass (or be fortunate enough to find Uac disabled). If Uac is setup right, administrative operations like regsvr32 should require going through consent.exe's prompt. Uac bypasses are plenty but systems can be configured to mitigate them (at least the ones I know of). Social engineering is also another good way to bypass Uac.
by Yeri | 2025-06-30 22:38:59+00:00
From my understanding it tracks signal strength between two points (gateway and printer for example).

Putting your phone in airplane mode doesn't make it think you have left the house.

> If you’d like to prevent your pet’s movement from causing motion notifications, you can exclude pet motion in your WiFi Motion settings by turning on the Exclude Small Pets feature. > Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiFi-connected devices, so motion from small pets (around 40 pounds or less) can be filtered out while keeping you notified of large movements more likely to be caused by humans.
by emporas | 2025-06-30 22:39:10+00:00
Prompting sits on the back seat, while context is the driving factor. 100% agree with this.

For programming I don't use any prompts. I give a problem solved already, as a context or example, and I ask it to implement something similar. One sentence or two, and that's it.

Other kind of tasks, like writing, I use prompts, but even then, context and examples are still the driving factor.

In my opinion, we are in an interesting point in history, in which now individuals will need their own personal database. Like companies the last 50 years, which had their own database records of customers, products, prices and so on, now an individual will operate using personal contextual information, saved over a long period of time in wikis or Sqlite rows.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-30 22:39:37+00:00
Unless the updater also runs the installer, then you just drop your malicious dll in the right place and wait for an update, or find a way to force-trigger an update.

Attackers can also use the notepad installer as a payload execution mechanism. To run your malware, just get older notepad++ installers and drop your dll after the installer is running to run it as SYSTEM.
by jamesfmilne | 2025-06-30 22:39:51+00:00
Yeah DAT was big in electronic music.

Everyone in DnB documentaries talks about going to Music House with DATs to get dubplates cut to play in the clubs later on that evening.

This would have been before CD-Rs were commonplace, early 90s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnB/s/hl1MiCvzqD
by Yeri | 2025-06-30 22:40:34+00:00
It doesn't require a WiFi device to work.

> If you’d like to prevent your pet’s movement from causing motion notifications, you can exclude pet motion in your WiFi Motion settings by turning on the Exclude Small Pets feature. > Motion is detected based on the amount of signal disruption taking place between the Xfinity Gateway and your selected WiFi-connected devices, so motion from small pets (around 40 pounds or less) can be filtered out while keeping you notified of large movements more likely to be caused by humans.
by storus | 2025-06-30 22:41:03+00:00
My guess is the main issue is latency and accuracy; a single agent without all the routing/evaluation sub-agents around it that introduce cumulative errors, lead to infinite loops and slow it down would likely be much faster, accurate and could be cached at the token level on a GPU, reducing token preprocessing time further. Now different companies would run different "monorepo" agents and those would need something like MCP to talk to each other at the business boundary, but internally all this won't be necessary.

Also the current LLMs have still too many issues because they are autoregressive and heavily biased towards the first few generated tokens. They also still don't have full bidirectional awareness of certain relationships due to how they are masked during the training. Discrete diffusion looks interesting but I am not sure how does that one deal with tools as I've never seen a model from that class using any tools.
by confidantlake | 2025-06-30 22:41:09+00:00
They make nice music. I enjoyed it. But it is hard to get famous making this style of rock music these days. Even 20 years ago when this style was more popular it was still tough to stand out from the crowd. It wasn't enough to be good, you needed something really special. While the music is nice I don't hear anything that blows my mind.
by inspectorwadget | 2025-06-30 22:43:06+00:00
>any more than we have to look at the machine language emitted by a C compiler.

Some developers do actually look at the output of C compilers, and some of them even spend a lot of time criticizing that output by a specific compiler (even writing long blog posts about it). The C language has an ISO specification, and if a compiler does not conform to that specification, it is considered a bug in that compiler.

You can even go to godbolt.org / compilerexplorer.org and see the output generated for different targets by different compilers for different languages. It is a popular tool, also for language development.

I do not know what prompt engineering will look like in the future, but without AGI, I remain skeptical about verification of different kinds of code not being required in at least a sizable proportion of cases. That does not exclude usefulness of course: for instance, if you have a case where verification is not needed; or verification in a specific case can be done efficiently and robustly by a relevant expert; or some smart method for verification in some cases, like a case where a few primitive tests are sufficient.

But I have no experience with LLMs or prompt engineering.

I do, however, sympathize with not wanting to deal with paying programmers. Most are likely nice, but for instance a few may be costly, or less than honest, or less than competent, etc. But while I think it is fine to explore LLMs and invest a lot into seeing what might come of them, I would not personally bet everything on them, neither in the short term nor the long term.

May I ask what your professional background and experience is?
by ffo | 2025-06-30 22:43:17+00:00
Thanks for highlighting Zitadel!

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Show HN: Built a simple colour palette generator – would love feedback
by mazahermuraj | 2025-06-30 22:45:55+00:00
Hey everyone

A bit of background:

A colleague of mine (UI/UX) said that she uses ChatGPT to help her generate a colour palette of tints and shades based on a base hex colour.

She then copied the suggestions given by ChatGPT into Figma and created a colour palette that suited the design she was working on.

But she had a few issues:

ChatGPT was inconsistent or did not produce what she wanted ChatGPT didn't always show her the colour of the hex, so she used it in combination with a tool like Cooler ChatGPT took away from her the eye for design when looking through the colours. She wanted to make the choice, not let AI do it for her. So I built a small tool that tries to simplify that process:

• Input a base colour (or generate one randomly)

• Auto-generate tints (5% steps) and shades (10% steps). But you can adjust this

• Two modes: generate a palette or create a custom one

• Copy the output and paste it into Figma or whatever design tool you want to use

There’s absolutely no promotion or paid plans at the moment. Just a free tool you can use without signing up. But if you want to save a palette to your library, you can sign up for free too.

I'd love honest feedback on:

- Usefulness of the workflow

- UX/usability thoughts

- Any missing features you’d want

Here's the link for context (no signup): https://colorpal-sage.vercel.app/

Thanks in advance—really appreciate your time & feedback!
by progmetaldev | 2025-06-30 22:47:36+00:00
Working for a smaller digital agency, while using .NET Framework, and then moving to .NET Core (now just .NET) this savings was felt. Using a performance profiler and slightly complicating the code a bit (at least in terms of the documentation for the CMS we use), I was able to get the code in less than the minimum recommended requirements for the base CMS software, without having to alter the source of the CMS. I did this with the Umbraco CMS, but also started using it in 2013 when the documentation was lacking, so reading the source code was a requirement to getting as much as possible out of the software.
by comp_throw7 | 2025-06-30 22:47:38+00:00
This feels like we're playing word games which don't actually let us make useful claims about reality or predictions about the future. If we're talking purely about the model internals, without reference to their outputs, then your claim is wrong because we don't have a good enough understanding of the model internals to confidently rule out most possibilities. (I'm familiar with the transformer architecture; indeed this is why I asked what definition of the word reasoning the OP cared about. Nothing about transformers as an architecture for _training model weights_ prohibits the resulting model weights from containing algorithms that we would call "reasoning" if we understood them properly.) If we're talking about outputs, then it's definitely wrong, unless you are determined to rule out most things that people would call reasoning when done by humans.
by glzone1 | 2025-06-30 22:48:19+00:00
Be interesting to add some of the Biden pardons - the kids for cash pardons and a bunch of others were wild.

The "Kids for Cash" scandal involved two Pennsylvania judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, who took kickbacks from the builder of two for-profit juvenile detention centers to send children to these facilities.

They got 17 year sentences and Biden let them out nearly immediately. Dem gov Josh Shapiro I think came out strongly against Biden actions
by wilsonnb3 | 2025-06-30 22:48:44+00:00
> Sideloading is usually a very bad idea in this day and age.

There is nothing wrong with sideloading applications. Protection against malicious applications is taken care of by the OS through sandboxing and a granular permission model. Malware scanning and app signing also have no dependency on the App Store.

Really all you are missing out on is the App Store review process, which is not worth much from a security perspective anyways.
by trainerxr50 | 2025-06-30 22:49:27+00:00
It doesn't take super intelligence to give my elderly father a bath or wipe his ass.

I think the main problem is we would almost need an economic depression so that at the margin there were for less alternative jobs available than giving my father a bath.

Then also consider that say we do have super-intelligence that adds a few years to his life because of better diagnostics and treatment of death. It actually makes the day to day care problem worse in the aggregate.

We are headed towards this boomer long term care disaster and there is nothing that is going to avert it. Boomers I talk to are completely in denial of this problem too. They are expecting the long term care situation to look like what their parents had. I just try to convince every boomer I know that they have to do everything they can do physically now to better themselves to stay out of long term care as long as possible.
by willejs | 2025-06-30 22:49:46+00:00
I have run ELK, Grafana + Prom, Grafana + Thanos/Coretex, New relic and all of the more traditional products for monitoring/observability. More recently in the last few years, I have been running full observability stacks via either The Grafana LGTM stack or datadog at a reasonable scale and complexities. Ultimately you want one tool that can alert you off a metric, present you some traces, and drill down into logs, all the way down the stack.

I have found Datadog to be, by far hands down the best developer experience from the get go, the way it glues the mostly decent products together is unparalleled in comparison to other products (Grafana cloud/LGTM). I usually say if your at a small to medium scale business just makes sense, IF you understand the product and configure it correctly which is reasonably easy. The seamless integration between tracing, logging and metrics in the platform, which you can then easily combine with alerts is great. However, its easy to misconfigure it and spend a lot of money on seemingly nothing. If you do not implement tracing and structured logs (at the right volume and level) with trace/span ids etc all the way through services its hard to see the value, and seems expensive. It requires some good knowledge, and configuration of the product to make it pay off. The rest of the product features are generally good, for example their security suite is a good entry level to cloud security monitoring and SEIM too.

However, when you get to a certain scale, the cost of APM and Infrastructure hosts in Datadog can become become somewhat prohibitive. Also, Datadogs custom metrics pricing is somewhat expensive and its query language cababilities does not quite match the power of promql, and you start to find yourself needed them to debug issues. At that point, the self hosted LGTM stack starts to make sense, however, it involves a lot more education for end users in both integration (a little less now Otel is popular) and querying/building dashboards etc, but also running it yourself. The grafana cloud platform is more attractive though.
by silverquiet | 2025-06-30 22:50:16+00:00
I appreciate the response. I feel like half the points in your third paragraph could easily be framed as economic factors rather than cultural (though I don't think those are as separate as people often seem to think).

What is most interesting to me is that you said cultures (plural) when saying that we have deeper problems. But according to the article, this has become a nearly universal issue across all cultures of the world; and what force but economic globalization could cause something like that?
by tzs | 2025-06-30 22:50:29+00:00
Haven't you heard? Republicans have decided that all those deficit calculations for the new bill are wrong. See "How a GOP accounting maneuver hides $3.8 trillion in red ink from Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'" [1].

They are basically saying that when some current law is expiring (such as some of the 2017 Trump tax cuts) a bill that extends that law or makes it permanent should count as having zero cost.

If this goes through it means any party that gets a majority in the Senate can pretty much get anything through via budget reconciliation (which is supposed to only be allowed for deficit-neutral things) which cannot be filibustered by simply putting a time limit on it and then later making it permanent.

For example, Democrats pointed out that next time they have a majority they could pass universal free healthcare with a one year expiration with enough taxes and/or spending cuts elsewhere to make it deficit neutral for that one year, and then next year pass a bill making the universal healthcare permanent part permanent and letting the taxes or cuts expire.

This bill making the healthcare permanent would have zero cost under the new Republican rules and so could also be done via budget reconciliation, and so just need a majority to pass.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-a-gop-accounting-maneuver...
by rahimnathwani | 2025-06-30 22:51:09+00:00
You quoted me out of context. The full paragraph is below. I was specifically:

- addressing OP's point about students and talent development

- talking about 'most students'

It talks about talent pipeline without acknowledging that, for most students, colleges are mostly a gatekeeper (signaling device) and that, if the university system did not exist, the talents would still exist and mostly be developed to the same extent.

Today, it's rational for students to go to college because of the job application arms race. If universities did not exist, we could have a less costly (time and money) signaling mechanism, and talent development for the majority of students would be largely the same.

(Folks claim that college teaches 'critical thinking' but there's weak, if any, empirical support for that claim.)
by sshine | 2025-06-30 22:51:11+00:00
I can only say, I tried to add massive amounts of data points to a fleet of battery systems once; 750 cells per system, 8 metrics per cell, one cell every 20 ms. It became megabits per second, so we only enabled it when engaging the batteries. But the data was worth it, because we could do data modelling on live events in retrospect when we were initially too busy fixing things. Observability is a super power.