MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hn8726 | 2025-06-09 14:59:22+00:00
why are people insisting that an em-dash is exclusive to llms somehow, when on a mac it's super easy to type dash, en-dash and em-dash — just type dash, option + dash or shift + option + dash. I got used to defaulting to em-dash (even if incorrectly) and now I'll be categorized as an llm for that?
by srean | 2025-06-09 14:59:47+00:00
I never knew Hokusai had interest in these.

Does anyone know if he had seen any Islamic tiling art ? Or for that matter if Escher had seen any of his.

Group theory / symmetry runs deep through these. One [0] of the circular ones made me think of braid(group)s. Not sure what the * operator would be in that case.

Speaking of braid groups Richeson had a very interesting blog post on the braid like groups of maypole dances.

Let me find and submit separately (spoiling a Hokusai story with another story, no matter how interesting, would be a personal sacrilege). Found it [1][2].

[0] https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/10/

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44225324

[2]https://divisbyzero.com/2009/05/04/the-maypole-braid-group/
by int_19h | 2025-06-09 15:00:06+00:00
> Remember how the central idea of Orwell's 1984 was that TVs in everyone's home were also watching all time and someone behind that device actually understanding what they see?

On the contrary, 1984 makes the point that such surveillance doesn't need everybody watched all the time to be effective - it just needs to convince people that the chance of them being watched at any particular moment are too high for them to exhibit any signs of dissent:

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

But yes, you're right in that for the first time in history, truly blanket surveillance of communication is within reach of many states.
Show HN: Mcp-hacker-news – An MCP server for accessing Hacker News data via LLMs
by pablolc | 2025-06-09 15:00:14+00:00
Hi HN!

I built mcp-hacker-news, an MCP server for Hacker News. It acts as a bridge between the Hacker News API and AI-powered tools that support MCP (like Claude and Cursor).

With this MCP server, you can fetch and interact with live Hacker News data—posts, comments, or users. The project is written in TypeScript and aims to facilitate seamless integration between LLMs and automation workflows and HN data.

I'm sharing this to get feedback from developers, LLM tinkerers, or anyone interested in open AI workflows and data integration. If you have ideas for improvement or want to contribute, I'd love to hear from you!

Thanks!
Any good strategies to avoid merge conflicts when using Codex, Jules, etc.?
by scottfalconer | 2025-06-09 15:00:39+00:00
I tend to start tasks one at a time, let them complete, and then start the next. I know I can manually resolve the conflicts, but in a flow that's otherwise generally painless that feels like a huge diversion.

I tried asking it to rebase, but that tends to error out due to resource limitations (and when I asked jules to do it, it flat out refused).

My plan is to explore structuring my tasks like I would with a human dev team - targeting specific areas / files in isolation, but was wondering if anyone else has any good tips here.

tldr: I'm lazy and would prefer to not deal with merge conflicts in an otherwise great workflow.
by DSMan195276 | 2025-06-09 15:01:01+00:00
I wasn't making a comparison, I was just commenting on procedural generation in general. It clearly can be fun and interesting if done well since some games have managed to achieve that.

Whether it's possible to do well in the kind of game Starfield is I don't know, I never claimed it was. I even said as much in the last line of my comment, that perhaps the kind of game Starfield is makes this approach not work.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-09 15:01:05+00:00
chatgpt, perpelxity, grok website all rapidly answered correctly. As expected.

claude 3.5 sonnet got it wrong. Came up with 4227.

claude 3.7 sonnet got it right with 5117

claude 4 sonnet also got it wrong. 4227

Gemini 2.5 pro got it wrong with 4227

GPT-4o got it right and wrong answering both 4227 and 5117? It found the right answer on the internet, the code was wrong. Interesting because my free chatgpt in first line is o4-mini and got it right?

deepseek r1 qwen3 8b super failed.

qwen2.5 coder 7b instruct came up with some code which correctly runs and gives me 5117, but the answer was 4291?
by jsnell | 2025-06-09 15:01:12+00:00
> What? If someone builds something on top of your API, they're tying themselves to it, and you can slowly raise prices while keeping each increase well below the switching cost.

That's not really how the LLM API market works. The interfaces themselves are pretty trivial and have no real lock-in value, and there's plenty of adapters around anyway. (Often first-party, e.g. both Anthropic and Google provide OpenAI-compatible APIs). There might initially have been theories that you could not easily move to a different model, creating lock-in, but in practice LLMs are so flexible and forgiving about the inputs that a different model can be just dropped in an work without any model-specific changes.

> 80% margin on GPU cost? What about after paying for power, facilities

The market price of renting that compute on the market. That's fully loaded, so would include a) pro-rated recouping the capital cost of the GPUs, b) the power, cooling, datacenter buildings, etc, c) the hosting provider's margin.

> admin, support, marketing, etc.? Are GPUs really more than half the cost of this business?

Pretty likely! In OpenAI's leaked 2024 financial plan the compute costs were like 75% of their projected costs.
by leoc | 2025-06-09 15:01:19+00:00
Here's what the foreword to Keep It Simple https://arnoldsche.com/en/vergriffen/keep-it-simple/ https://archive.org/details/keepitsimpleearl0000essl/ says about the Platinum colour, also known as Snow White:

> Esslinger had been working with Steve Jobs since 1982 and was of paramount importance for the look of Apple products as an external designer -—as of 1983 also as Corporate Manager of Design. The start of collaboration between Steve Jobs and Hartmut Esslinger went from 1982 to 1983 with “Snow White,” a new color and design concept that was the base for all future Apple products. Besides specifying certain design aspects, the concept entailed introducing a new color. The dull “greige” of the industrial and corporate workplace was to be replaced by a broken white-called “Snow White" in the US. First used for the Apple llc, this white not only made the computer esthetically compatible with living rooms but also psychologically underpinned the user-friendly menu navigation. The new “Snow White” line worked up by Hartmut Esslinger was supposed to be launched with the Macintosh Computer—originally designed by Jerry Manock-but many reasons made this impossible. So the revised version could not be introduced until later: with the Macintosh SE.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-09 15:01:29+00:00
Well, of course we’re not going to block them due to anyone else’s standards.

Thanks! We’ve been online for 8 years and it’s been a lot of fun, other than dealing with moderation of bad actors. Like the one above who called me an n-word, for instance. Although that was one of the easier mod decisions we had to make, to be sure!
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-09 15:02:08+00:00
Personally a browser extension is the last kind of software I want to install.

Circa 2000 all of my "normie" relatives had 20 or 30 different "toolbars" installed in their browsers from the likes of Yahoo, Lycos, Hotmail, Infoseek, Altavista, etc. They had horrible 640x480 screens that were effectively 640x120 but they thought it was normal, didn't have a choice, etc.

When you install plugins into GUI applications they eventually die of "pluginitis" as something adds 0.2s of latency here and something else adds 0.3s and... wow, a race condition!

The cases I will install an extension are: (1) it is required for work, a project, whatever or (2) I expect it to improve, not reduce performance, such as an adblocker or anti-tracking tool.

It might seem like an anachronism, but I still make bookmarklets that do pretty fancy things such as to cue a personal webcrawler.
by angst_ridden | 2025-06-09 15:02:27+00:00
If you're not part of a group that will suffer under a white-supremecist theocracy they look very similar.

If you're part of a group that will, there is a visible difference.

Picking the lesser evil is actually a good thing if you can reduce harm. It doesn't solve the problem of it being a lesser evil, but it may make space to change that.
by timr | 2025-06-09 15:02:44+00:00
> On the money side? I don’t see how the math and the capex work. And all the time, I think about the carbon that’s poisoning the planet my children have to live on.

The "math and capex" are inextricably intertwined with "the carbon". If these tools have some value, then we can finally invest in forms of energy (i.e. nuclear) that will solve the underlying problem, and we'll all be better off. If the tools have no net value at a market-clearing price for energy (as purported), then it won't be a problem.

I mean, maybe the productive way to say this is that we should more formally link the environmental cost of energy production to the market cost of energy. But as phrased (and I suspect, implied), it sounds like "people who use LLMs are just profligate consumers who don't care about the environment the way that I do," and that any societal advancement that consumes energy (as most do) is subject to this kind of generalized luddite criticism.
by absurdo | 2025-06-09 15:03:02+00:00
Semi-rant:

I’m very disappointed to see such wide adoption of pets, especially dogs, as “replacements” of children in adult lives. I do not think it’s healthy for adults to do this because it infantilizes the adult. It is actually very sad, almost pitiful to see it happen. I think pets are wonderful for children because it helps them to develop a connection with living beings that aren’t humans, to see emotions are a universal trait.

More frequently I see now grown people wheeling their dogs in baby carriages. If this is some cosmic-scale humor by nature because we have overpopulated the planet and it’s intentionally sabotaging the environment, then I’m afraid the joke is on us.
by james_marks | 2025-06-09 15:03:17+00:00
What’s interesting to me is a tool can be terrible at its stated problem and still add value.

I suspect many of the results dieters get is “mere measurement”, e.g. it helps them be more thoughtful, seek education, etc.

So the value of the tool is in its ability to keep them engaged and hopeful (the unstated need), and the actual mechanic doesn’t have to be that good at the stated need.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-06-09 15:04:08+00:00
Okay, while it's really interesting that there are these detectable electrical "signals" this headline really needs "scientist who eats a mushroom discovers that mushrooms can talk." kind of vibe. (the champignon pun in the article not withstanding).

That said, given that multicellular life is just a mashup of single cell life with various bits kept because they were useful, it might be useful to investigate if these fungal structures were adapted as neurons.
Show HN: ProxyFeed – a stable RSS proxy with your own subdomain
by yeldar | 2025-06-09 15:04:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a self-taught developer and podcaster. I’ve built ProxyFeed — a stable RSS proxy that works for podcasts, blogs, newsletters — anything with a feed.

It gives you a clean, stable RSS URL (with your own subdomain) that always stays the same — even if the original feed changes. You can update the source anytime. This way, you can safely share and publish your feed without worrying about host shutdowns, broken links, etc. You can think of it a bit like FeedBurner — but without the shutdown risk, ads, or platform lock-in.

Example:

- Original feed: https://podcast.yeldar.org/feed.xml

- Permanent proxy: https://feed.yeldar.org/podcast

Why I made this:

Years ago, when I didn’t know how to code yet, I dreamed of this tool. I saw feeds disappear when platforms shut down. That stuck with me. Now, after teaching myself to program, I built the first version just for my own show. When I saw it worked, I spent the next 3 months of my evenings making it something anyone can use.

It’s:

- Simple: paste your RSS → get a stable proxy - Flexible: use our system domain or your own subdomain - Compatible: works with Podcasting 2.0 tags (podcast feeds) - Focused: no ads, no tracking, no lock-in

Try it here: https://proxyfeed.io

Would love your feedback and thoughts!
by XorNot | 2025-06-09 15:04:57+00:00
People screw it up by trying to measure energy expenditure is the problem I consistently see.

There is never a reason to do this: people do it because they want to eat more, so they want to factor exercise in.

They're basically already sabotaging the process from the outset: the goal is generally weightloss, they have an easy and precise way to track that, and one week of "under eating" isn't going to kill anyone.
by schmichael | 2025-06-09 15:05:10+00:00
> I really don’t think there’s a coherent pro-genAI case to be made in the education context.

I think it’s simple: the reign of the essay is over. Educators must find a new way to judge a student’s understanding.

Presentations, artwork, in class writing, media, discussions and debates, skits, even good old fashioned quizzes all still work fine for getting students to demonstrate understanding.

As the son of two teachers I remember my parents spending hours in the evenings grading essays. While writing is a critical skill, and essays contain a good bit of information, I’m not sure education wasn’t overindexing on them already. They’re easy to assign and grade, but there’s so much toil on both ends unrelated to the core subject matter.
by bloomingeek | 2025-06-09 15:05:14+00:00
My spin, dogs, as an example pet, are a good way to practice empathy. It doesn't always translate, but if you can be loving and empathetic to a dog, you can surely began to be that way to humans.

we have a good relationship with the children we raised, along with their children. Our dog, however, is always with us and it just feels good to watch after her. We don't consider her a child, just a very good, non-verbal friend.
by int_19h | 2025-06-09 15:05:17+00:00
And the easiest way to train such a specific ML model today is to take an LLM and use it to generate various examples of subversive content to train on.

However, I wouldn't be so sure that an LLM with CoT would be less effective at this than a specially-trained ML model.

Further, given that a sufficiently advanced model of this nature necessarily has to understand the meaning of human text, including context and subtleties, you'd probably want to take an LLM as a basis for training any such model (just as e.g. text embedding models these days are often specialized LLMs for similar reasons).

In any case a realistic deployment at scale would employ multiple levels - starting with really simple classification models that are very fast and broadly low-precision (but trained to err on the side of flagging content). Any content that is flagged by that would be fed into larger models, and so on. At the top of this chain you would likely have SOTA LLMs doing very detailed reviews of the few bits of data that get flagged by all the levels below.
by gizmo686 | 2025-06-09 15:05:27+00:00
> Rabbi Eliezer then said to them: If the halakha is in accordance with my opinion, Heaven will prove it. A Divine Voice emerged from Heaven and said: Why are you differing with Rabbi Eliezer, as the halakha is in accordance with his opinion in every place that he expresses an opinion? Rabbi Yehoshua stood on his feet and said: It is written: “It is not in heaven” (Deuteronomy 30:12). The Gemara asks: What is the relevance of the phrase “It is not in heaven” in this context? Rabbi Yirmeya says: Since the Torah was already given at Mount Sinai, we do not regard a Divine Voice, as You already wrote at Mount Sinai, in the Torah: “After a majority to incline” (Exodus 23:2). Since the majority of Rabbis disagreed with Rabbi Eliezer’s opinion, the halakha is not ruled in accordance with his opinion. The Gemara relates: Years after, Rabbi Natan encountered Elijah the prophet and said to him: What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do at that time, when Rabbi Yehoshua issued his declaration? Elijah said to him: The Holy One, Blessed be He, smiled and said: My children have triumphed over Me; My children have triumphed over Me.

- Bava Metziah 59b

https://link.chabad.org/torah-texts/5455793/The-Talmud/Bava-...
by k310 | 2025-06-09 15:05:57+00:00
He opens with (you guessed it) Toccata in d minor, interrupted by an auto insurance rate reduction ad.

That's more than enough for me. The Clavinova has a nice organ voice, so I'll tranfer my fingers from the screen to the 88.

Music is so much better played than listened. No orchestra? I bought some "Music Minus One" recordings with orchestral tracks. All the way from cassettes to CD's to streaming (at least you can save the streams).

I don't think that the Toccata and Fugue is weird, but if it's another piece, it's past the ad.
by delusional | 2025-06-09 15:06:05+00:00
It's hard to say what a "bona fide 3-party Turing test" is. The paper even has a section trying to tackle that issue.

I think trying to discuss the minutia of the rules is a path that leads only to madness. The Turing test was always meant to be a philosophical game. The point was to establish a scenario in which a computer could be indistinguishable from a human. Carrying it out in reality in meaningless, unless you're willing to abandon all intuitive morality.

Quite frankly, I find the paper you linked misguided. If it was undertaken by some college students, then it's good practice, but if it was carried out by seasoned professionals they should find something better to do.
by mdhb | 2025-06-09 15:06:07+00:00
I love this as an idea, it reminds me a lot of when the CIA were caught making all those obscure websites like Star Wars fan sites etc that were really designed as covert communication systems.

The guardian doesn’t call it that explicitly but that’s exactly what they have built here and I think the cover of a news app is brilliant in a lot of ways.

The only thing I would mention on top here as well is if you are planning to leak something using this app I still wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it on any device that could be investigated.

For example a work provided phone. While having the guardian app is itself in no way incriminating if you were to play out the scenario of an internal leak investigation at an organisation that has just ended up on the front pages of the guardian I think you could end up with a very short list by simply asking:

1. WHO had access to that information to begin with?

2. WHO had that app on their phone or the App Store shows it as previously downloaded or they wouldn’t make their phone available for inspection.

So if you’re in a scenario where you’re leaking something only known to a small group and / or your device can be inspected by someone relevant… I’d continue to strongly recommend making contact via a device that isn’t tied to you like your partner or someone you trust.

Remember, the ACTUAL goal here is to defeat the investigation and the best thing you can possibly do here is to not stand out from the crowd of suspects any more than anyone else.

There’s a very short link however between this app and the information you provided turning up in the guardian specifically that might not actually give you the cover you think you have (beyond the technical parts that they took care of which look brilliant for the record). But the next best thing by far I think you could do to help with that larger goal is to use a device not linked to you and that can’t be inspected to begin with.

I just wanted to point that out because it wasn’t called out in the threat model and I could realistically see people getting caught that way.
by lhl | 2025-06-09 15:06:17+00:00
No, let's add it. The cost for an inference provider to deploy a trained and weights available existing model is $0 (or whatever you want to add for the HF download of the weights). Open weight models simply exist now. Deal with it?

If you would like to someone add that somehow as a line item, perhaps you should add the full embodied energy cost of Linux (please include the entire history of compute since it wouldn't exist without UNIX), or perhaps the full military industrial complex costs from the invention of the transistor? We could go further.
by anton-c | 2025-06-09 15:06:28+00:00
What the heck is this? It's hysterical to report cp immediately?

You can be a free speech 'extremist'(clearly a bit tongue-in-cheek) and still want to protect your site from bad actors. Not much free speech to be had when their violations get your site removed.

I agree slightly that the 'meat' in the article was lacking as far as what was actually happening with the FBI. Seems no party would give him an inch tho.
by cyberax | 2025-06-09 15:06:33+00:00
It has its own problems... Since the async round-trip is gone, you can end up with rendering happening too _early_.

The rendering is also not truly synchronous, you can't resize graphical surfaces from the JS thread. You still need to do a round-trip to the platform UI thread. So for example, React Native WebGPU misrenders an image when you rotate the screen because of that.

The rendering callback ends up running before the surface has the chance to get resized. I've also seen that with other libraries that mix native rendering. I'm pretty sure reanimated is also susceptible to this.
by dlubarov | 2025-06-09 15:06:34+00:00
They didn't actually declare the genocide claim plausible, but rather the Palestinian's right to be protected from genocide. At least that was the then-president's interpretation -

> “It did not decide - and this is something where I'm correcting what's often said in the media... that the claim of genocide was plausible,” said the judge.

> “It did emphasise in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide. But the shorthand that often appears, which is that there's a plausible case of genocide, isn't what the court decided.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g9g63jl17o