MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scotty79 | 2025-06-05 22:17:51+00:00
> ... if our historical tech tree has ever been truly limited by anything other than human ingenuity.

I feel more like our tech tree was pretty much directed by resources availability and human ingenuity didn't play much role at all and any species of roughly 50-150 human IQ would follow pretty much the same path when placed in similar situation, only perhaps slower or faster.

Another interesting idea that I'm not sure if I believe in is that rate of our technological progress might be mostly explained with population growth, as if technologies didn't really accelerate progress on future ones.
by 9-133-392-393 | 2025-06-05 22:18:13+00:00
> Garmin Pay can work with GrapheneOS

As an aside - I think the Paypal app in Germany offers HCE tap-to-pay, and In the UK/Europe 'Curve' is a Google pay replacement that runs fine on GrapheneOS (and they have first-party support for huawei phones that don't even ship Google play services anymore)
by Vetch | 2025-06-05 22:20:54+00:00
There is skill to it but that's certainly not the only relevant variable involved. Other important factors are:

Language: Syntax errors rise, and a common form is the syntax of a more common language bleeding through.

Domain: Less so than what humans deem complex, quality is more strongly controlled by how much code and documentation there is for a domain. Interesting is that if in a less common subdomain, it will often revert to a more common approach (for example working on shaders for a game that takes place in a cylinder geometry requires a lot more hand-holding than on a plane). It's usually not that they can't do it, but that they require much more involved prompting to get the context appropriately set up and then managing drifting to default, more common patterns. Related is decisions with long term consequences. LLMs are pretty weak at this. In humans this one comes with experience, so it's rare and an instance of low coverage.

Dates: Related is reverting to obsolete API patterns.

Complexity: While not as dominant as domain coverage, complexity does play a role. With likelihood of error rising with complexity.

This means if you're at the intersection of multiple of these (such as a low coverage problem in a functional language), agent mode will likely be too much of a waste for you. But interactive mode can still be highly productive.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-05 22:22:33+00:00
Once you have enough power to legislate and enforce this, what's to stop a future administration from tightening the ratchet just a little bit further and forcing users to purchase TPM computers with unbreakable DRM and encrypted blobs running who knows what, and no ability for users to modify their system, change hardware or operating systems without either running afoul of the law or losing access to banking and insurance?
by solarwindy | 2025-06-05 22:22:55+00:00
Having intermittently given in to the hype and tried whatever is supposedly latest and greatest, it without fail goes like this. I’ve even on occasion deceived myself into thinking I’ve finally hit on the right way to use these tools, only to realize in retrospect that under a complete accounting, the time spent to reach that productive mode of working in no way generalizes, so must be paid effectively every time.
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-06-05 22:24:53+00:00
I guess Europeans are quite satisfied that US don't have jurisdiction in the EU.

Sure, GDPR isn't applicable against law enforcement, but it is a surprisingly strong public right. TM and robocalls? It didn't take long for all of that to cease after I simply started to ask for the name and contact information to the consumer privacy manager for the caller's employer and then whispering "GDPR" whenever I got an unsolicited phone call.
by quesera | 2025-06-05 22:25:40+00:00
I do not work in aero or auto, but I have a much higher expectation of training and retention of a commercial airline pilot than I do of a random Toyota driver.

I had a stuck accelerator on an old Ford F-150. The throttle inside the carb got stuck. I was lucky to have the Toyota case in my memory, so I just shifted into neutral.

It was an automatic, which I think is another factor -- the more direct control you remove from the driver, the less intuitive it becomes to compensate for a single system failure. Obviously a standard transmission driver would just hit the clutch.

(And I've had a similar failure on an unfamiliar motorcycle that just came out of storage. Pulling the clutch bail was the instinctive response, after manually untwisting the throttle did not work. I learned my lesson about old vehicles eventually. Trust nothing, verify everything.)

Very sorry to hear about your dad!
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-05 22:26:25+00:00
Yeah, it's like saying the masses wanted high-fructose corn syrup, or lead, or asbestos, or BPA, or CFCs, or whatever other cost-saving or profit-increasing but classist and consumer-hostile product or practice was foisted upon us and sweetened with deep propaganda and gaslighting, bankrolled by global corporate interests.
by fsflover | 2025-06-05 22:26:50+00:00
Librem 5 is my daily driver, buy I'll just give links to good, extensive reviews:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/nine-months-librem-5-as-my-only-pho...

https://forums.puri.sm/t/a-l5-review-1-week-to-my-ready-to-s...

Tl;dr: calls and texts work fine, battery life is not as good as Android/Apple but usable. Also you can replace the battery on the go.
by JCattheATM | 2025-06-05 22:26:54+00:00
> Unfortunately, Google's Pixel devices have been the only ones with hardware that meets all of the project's stringent security requirements, including a secure hardware enclave

That's my point, though. The projects security requirements don't need to be that stringent. By all means, take advantage of the hardware security on devices that offer it like pixel, but even on devices without that hardware security it would still be the most secure Android based OS available, and orders of magnitudes more people would benefit from having access to that.
by vaxman | 2025-06-05 22:27:12+00:00
They need sideline embedded until they release a proto board and a compute module with Apple Silicon SoCs running Linux or Darwin. If Apple drops support for the embedded variant of Swift then it would be up to enthusiasts to carry on and I don't see that happening. This is also why the other OEMs like Nordic and STMicro are more likely to support Micro/CircuitPython than Swift.
by lurquer | 2025-06-05 22:28:37+00:00
> There is no disadvantage to being able to synthesise vitamin C, and no advantage in dropping the trait.

So why did the trait of that mutant primate spread throughout the entire population? There should instead be a mixture of those who can and those who can’t synthesize vitamin C.

(Indeed, one should perhaps not so blithely assume that there was sufficient fruit for everyone and so C didn’t matter… for it is precisely the ability to survive in times of drought and scarcity that drive evolution, and there id no reason to suspect a population that could synthesize their own vitamin C was less fit than a population that couldn’t. The issue of vitamin C is far from simple…)
by diggan | 2025-06-05 22:30:53+00:00
> tech tree was pretty much directed by resources availability and human ingenuity didn't play much role at all and any species of roughly 50-150 human IQ would follow pretty much the same path

Huh? There are inventions that happened by mere coincident, or two "right" humans at the same place and the same time.

Penicillin, superglue and microwave ovens are just some examples from the top of my head, that probably wouldn't have happened if they weren't "accidentally" discovered. It would seem many inventions are driven by "Hmm, what happened there?" accidents, and since the right person actually paid attention, they dove into it rather than dismissing it.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-05 22:33:07+00:00
The right did not grow their propagandists and build their bullhorn overnight. They have been planning and moving their chess pieces for decades. Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Laura Ingraham... This network and its audience was carefully and strategically built and cultivated over at least 40 years. It's going to take actual planning, hard work, and long hours for the other side to catch up.
by potatolicious | 2025-06-05 22:34:26+00:00
I think this pretty substantially overstates ChatGPT's stickiness. Just because something is widely (if not universally) known doesn't mean it's universally used, or that such usage is sticky.

For example, I had occasion to chat with a relative who's still in high school recently, and was curious what the situation was in their classrooms re: AI.

tl;dr: LLM use is basically universal, but ChatGPT is not the favored tool. The favored tools are LLMs/apps specifically marketed as study/homework aids.

It seems like the market is fine with seeking specific LLMs for specific kinds of tasks, as opposed to some omni-LLM one-stop-shop that does everything. The market has already and rapidly moved beyond from ChatGPT.

Not to mention I am willing to bet that Gemini has radically more usage than OpenAI's models simply by virtue of being plugged into Google Search. There are distribution effects, I just don't think OpenAI has the strongest position!

I think OpenAI has some first-mover advantage, I just don't think it's anywhere near as durable (nor as large) as you're making it out to be.
by dctoedt | 2025-06-05 22:35:43+00:00
I posted the DOS version on CompuServe (!) probably 30 or 35 years ago. I don't think I ever posted the Word for Windows version. I switched to a MacBook a dozen years ago; I think I remapped some of its keys to emulate Emacs. (But in recent years I've used mostly Emacs itself and org-mode, because these days I'm mostly a law professor and use Word mainly in the occasional client contract-negotiation project.)

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10383691
Show HN: Explainr – Upload a research paper and get a learning roadmap
by mulitet4 | 2025-06-05 22:37:52+00:00
I built Explainr (https://explainr.aryanbuilds.com) to help people understand research papers. You upload a PDF, and it extracts key topics, their prerequisites, and gives you a learning roadmap.

I’d love feedback on: Usefulness of the roadmap Accuracy of topic extraction Any UI/UX issues

Note: You get 20 free credits (1 credit per document). Billing isn’t fully functional yet, and the API might throttle under load. But it works reliably for individual use.

I'm at a point where I might move away from the project, but I wanted to ship it and learn what could be improved. Appreciate any feedback!
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-05 22:38:09+00:00
> I feel like there's only so much a company can do when it comes to balancing protecting users from themselves vs allowing users free rights over their own computers

Convert to a one-time escape hatch unlock via a random-question quiz hosted by Google that assesses security and computing knowledge?

If the intent is to prevent the dumbest users from doing something, then a good place to start would be an assessment to determine if a user is actually dumb or not.

It's oxymoronic to attempt cover-all methods that encompass both (a) advanced users who do want to sideload & (b) people who will type in anything the internet tells them will make a cracked app work.
by eurleif | 2025-06-05 22:38:10+00:00
Wikipedia:

>HFCS 42 is mainly used for processed foods and breakfast cereals, whereas HFCS 55 is used mostly for production of soft drinks.

In other words, the type of HFCS that's "shoved into countless foods" has less fructose than table sugar, not more. If fructose is the villain here, that actually constitutes an improvement over table sugar.
by david-gpu | 2025-06-05 22:40:17+00:00
I suggest reading the thread again to aid in understanding. My argument has precisely nothing to do with human biology, and everything to do with "pauses in data processing do not make sentience impossible".

Unless you are seriously arguing that people could not be sentient while awake if they became non-sentient while they are sleeping/unconscious/in a coma. I didn't address that angle because it seemed contrary to the spirit of steel-manning [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by AaronAPU | 2025-06-05 22:40:43+00:00
I find o1-pro, which nobody ever mentions, is in the top spot along with Gemini. But Gemini is an absolute mess to work with because it constantly adds tons of comments and changes unrelated code.

It is worth it sometimes, but usually I use it to explore ideas and then have o1-pro spit out a perfect solution ready diff test and merge.
by symbolicAGI | 2025-06-05 22:42:35+00:00
Given chat and API needs for low-latency, llama.cpp is probably still the best choice for self hosted models with or without GPU support. And Ollama is the leader for wrapping llama.cpp.

Because Tokasaurus was mentioned as better than Ollama for conducting darwinian godel machine operations (self-improvement), I looked for the linked repo on GitHub and it was 404. So glad it is back https://github.com/ScalingIntelligence/tokasaurus.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-06-05 22:42:42+00:00
well on the flip side god bless capitalism for finding a way to give this junk a second chance at avoiding going straight to the landfill.

... i perceive the proliferation of so much junk more of a result of zirp, low interest rates/inflation/central banking devaluing the past over future "growth" and china and the west playing the goodhart game with GDP and juicing production/consumption, than something necessarily a part of "capitalism" for one definition of capitalism.
by khedoros1 | 2025-06-05 22:43:47+00:00
If my schedule's so packed that I can't spare a couple hours, I'll wait until I can stream it.

I'm about 20 minutes away (each) from 3 different theaters, so watching a 30-minute chunk of movie is 70 minutes of my time (ignoring parking, unusual traffic, ticketing, etc). I'm not going to commit to doing that 3 times.
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-05 22:43:52+00:00
Exactly what I was thinking. Another Shill on the FP of HN in a week. This is getting old.

1. List of uses that are nothing but claims with zero tangible repeatable steps.

2. One vague statement about using it to bootstrap a machine... yeah lets see it.

I don't see any use cases for Claude code that I have not already tried with Goose or Dagger Agents. And I don't have to let those loose on my OS to use them.But hey the author made a zero proof claim that they can re-bootstrap with claude anyway...

Then at the end you are challenged to

"Got a crazier Claude workflow? Ping me @steipete."

IDK You didn't share any details beyond some vague use cases. Pretty much the same half working stuff from 2 years ago.

Yo, Steipete. Since claude is such a banger why don't you have it generate the config that you can share as proof. I'm not gonna wait though since its all hot air.
by Groxx | 2025-06-05 22:44:03+00:00
I'll toss in a counter-anecdote in that I am an enthusiastic returner.

Was it misrepresented? Return it - penalize misleading practices.

Was it junk? Return it - penalize hiding that something is junk. (is it priced like junk and not shy about it? great! you know what you're getting! junk can be useful!)

Was it just a bad fit for you and nothing is wrong with it and it might work for someone else[1]? Return it - encourage more thorough descriptions. E.g. "one size fits all" is an extremely lazy lie that just cost you money, measure it and tell me the measurements - they are perfectly capable of that and almost certainly did it multiple times already while creating the thing. (though for some I do feel bad about the cost it imposes, and don't always return here. depends on the details.)

It's not a 100% "I just don't want it" thing, there's plenty of regret-purchases that I just hang onto and give to someone else or sell at a rummage sale. But I definitely don't feel bad about using returns as a "stop being hostile towards your customers" tool.

It's also roughly the only way consumers as a whole can provide feedback to a seller that won't be ignored. Communicate your opinion clearly.

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[1]: Headphones are a pretty good example here. They like to claim sky-high perfection and durability and features, and then ship buggy crap with no support or wildly misrepresent sound quality (e.g. frequency response is quantitatively measurable so measure it, leaving it up to niche reviewers is worse for everyone). Lots of luxury-adjacent products do stuff like this, and I do not feel the least bit bad about calling them out on it - this stuff gets measured during development, used to select materials and tune the final product, and then hidden from you to sell it. And then they often change it after the initial launch, and do not tell anyone. It's blatant hostility, and it deserves to be treated as such.
by 0xhald | 2025-06-05 22:44:09+00:00
Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Technologies: C, Python, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Vue, React, Slim Framework, Laravel. Résumé/CV: https://halozano.com/assets/resume.pdf

Email: hector[/at/]halozano.com I am a software developer, mostly fullstack but I have delved into other areas of development. My latest role was in a fintech company here in Mexico where I was in charge of the implementation of AML/CFT policies in the company, I also was part of the support team where I attended tickets of our customers. I am passionate about machine learning and anything where statistics and programming mix up. Adaptability and continuous learning are my key strengths, honed through my university studies, which have equipped me to excel as an agile learner.
by solarwindy | 2025-06-05 22:44:45+00:00
Juniors do learn though, by contrast (as you said yourself). So these models are, at best, perpetual juniors.

Except, they make bizarre mistakes that human juniors would not, and which are hard for even experienced developers to spot, because while it becomes possible with experience to preempt the kinds of mistakes that stem from the flawed or incomplete mental models of human juniors, these models do not themselves have a model of the computation underlying the code they produce—which in my experience makes the whole process of working with them endlessly frustrating.
by leptons | 2025-06-05 22:44:53+00:00
I think you'll probably run into performance problems with SVG before you get too far. I can't imagine SVG will perform fluidly with complex circuit boards.

SVG elements are DOM elements after all, and too many DOM elements will cause browser performance issues. I know this the hard way, after adding a few hundred SVG <path> elements with a few hundred <div> elements in a React-based interactive web application, I ended up needing to move to a canvas solution instead, which works amazingly well.

I really hope you have all that figured out, because I don't think it's going to work well using SVG to render complex circuit boards. But maybe your product is only working with very simple circuit boards?
by garrettgarcia | 2025-06-05 22:45:27+00:00
I don't know why you're being downvoted. The political climate, and more broadly the culture of a society, is the crucial component to whether or not technological progress happens. Evidence of this is all around us, even today. Look how much more progress there's been in South Korea vs. North Korea over the last 75 years. That is a direct consequence of the differing cultural and political climates.
by vaxman | 2025-06-05 22:47:55+00:00
Have you had any feedback from The Chuck?

How about a ZeptoFORTH-MCP bridge (to implement services in ZeptoFORTH that can be called by local or remote agents) and an official way of programmatically configuring and interacting with an LLM, like on a Jetson, from ZeptoFORTH?
by themadturk | 2025-06-05 22:50:39+00:00
I took this passage, mentioning the "LED wall", to be a reference to the Volume (I think there might have been another reference as well):

Kirill: The show spends a lot of time at the apartment with Bix. How big was it?

Christophe: The nice thing about that set is that everything you see is captured in camera, including the view outside which was an LED wall. That wall allowed us to be more creative and find some extra shots. You have shots from the outside where you see the city below in reflection with raindrops on the window. You see cars passing and light coming in.
by ghurtado | 2025-06-05 22:52:39+00:00
My name is certainly not George :D but I'll pick two features:

- fibers

- advanced pattern matching

These are two not so common language features that are often the differentiator in a class of languages: "I like Python - but Ruby has fibers" or "I like Ruby - but Python has pattern matching"

To see such features all in one language has a lot of appeal (to me, anyway)
by mike_heffner | 2025-06-05 22:56:07+00:00
Hi all — one of the authors of Rotel here. Thanks for the kind words, Bilal and Michael.

We're excited to test our Clickhouse integration with Clickstack, as we believe OTel and Clickhouse make for a powerful observability stack. Our open-source Rust OpenTelemetry collector is designed for high-performance, resource-constrained environments. We'd love for you to check it out!
by s1artibartfast | 2025-06-05 22:56:13+00:00
Im not saying there isnt a biological component. I think a large portion of the USA has a trashed metabolic and hormonal system. A lot of this damage is irreversible from overconsumption.

unless we start dosing children with GLP-1s preventatively for weight and medicate them for attention we should probably think about how we relate to our environmental conditions long term and prevent patterns from repeating.

There are lots of people out there not living their best lives
by jlcx | 2025-06-05 22:56:58+00:00
For something related that takes a very different approach: https://causegraph.github.io/causalaxies

In contrast to the author's decisions here, I decided to

-go for an "everything tree" even if that will contain many more errors

-use DBpedia/Wikidata, and address issues discovered by editing Wikipedia/Wikidata

-use a 3D visualization tool, due to the size of the graph

I think it reveals an interesting overall structure, and some interesting details for those who zoom in despite the issues with the data.
by PantaloonFlames | 2025-06-05 22:57:13+00:00
> At even a $300B valuation a typical wall street analysts would want to value them at 2x sales which would mean they'd expect OpenAI to have $600B in annual sales to account for this valuation when they go public.

Oops I think you may have flipped the numerator and the denominator there, if I’m understanding you. Valuation of 300B , if 2x sales, would imply 150B sales.

Probably your point still stands.