MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EasyMark | 2025-06-08 13:55:14+00:00
Does this matter if you can make a digital copy (cd, cartridge, online game download) ? I think the key issue is ownership, not media. If you pay for a game it should be yours; up to you to back it up, etc, but yours. That's the legislation that needs to be set and explicit. Regulate an option to buy or outlaw licensing for obvious products; games, software apps that serve a purpose (office apps, cad, etc). I'm not sure how we get around online only apps though. We should be able to own stuff without having to be on a network. I would pay a premium for that, but it really should be the standard. It should be obvious that such things are ridiculously burdonsome and consumer unfriendly. We know the current regime in the USA is unfriendly to this but I think most voters would prefer this to the tyrannical methods companies currently use to "protect their IP" yet someone they are still making huge profits before and after it became a trend.
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by fizzbuzz07 | 2025-06-08 13:55:48+00:00
I built a minimal autonomous agent in <1000 lines of vanilla Python—no frameworks, SDKs, or exotic imports.

It uses just LLM sampling to:

- Autonomously write, test, and push code

- Read GitHub issues and add new features, making PRs in response to them end-to-end

- Resolve git and environment issues and backtrack autonomously

- Perform web research tasks (e.g., gathering niche trivia from Reddit)

Some architectural details. It uses:

- ReAct-based iterative reasoning with tool usage (web search, file operations, code execution)

- Short- and long-term memory management for context

- Various engineering tricks to handle surprising edge cases that arise when going from LLM -> agent

The result is a simple self-contained repo showing people the core logic needed to go from "language model" to "autonomous agent" and unpack the hype/jargon around agents.

It's intentionally minimal and educational, but seeing genuine autonomy arise from simple token sampling was a striking "feel the AGI" moment for me! I welcome contributions from others.
by diggan | 2025-06-08 13:57:25+00:00
> To me, the term "homeless" implies a lack of alternatives

Why does it imply that? Many homeless have alternatives, but they aren't either applicable, or the person don't simply want that. Just as one example, a homeless person with a dog could probably get rid of their dog so they can stay at the homeless-shelter, but instead chose their close bond with their dog over that. Does that suddenly mean the person isn't homeless?

Another (personal example) is when I first arrived to Barcelona and barely could afford food. I spent two nights sleeping outside in the city instead of paying hostel fees, so technically I had the choice of spending a bit of money so I had roof for the night. Lets say that situation was longer instead of just two nights, would I not count as homeless then because I could have spent my money differently?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-08 13:57:48+00:00
You don't need phenomenal consciousness. You need consistency.

LLMs are not consistent. This is unarguable. They will produce a string of text that says they have solved a problem and/or done a thing when neither is true.

And sometimes they will do it over and over, even when corrected.

Your last paragraph admits this.

Tokenisation on its own simply cannot represent reality accurately and reliably. It can be tweaked so that specific problems can appear solved, but true AI would be based on a reliable general strategy which solves entire classes of problems without needing this kind of tweaking.

It's clear we're nowhere close to that.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-06-08 13:59:06+00:00
to use your own example though, many of these core skills are declining, mechanized or viewed through a historical lens vs. application. I don't know if this is net good or bad, but it is very different. Maybe humans will think as you say, but it feels like there will be significantly less diverse areas of thought. If you look at the front page of HN as a snapshot of "where's tech these days" it is very homgenous compared to the past. Same goes for the general internet and the AI-content continues to grow. IMO published works are a precursor to future human discovery, forming the basis of knowledge, community and growth.
by mcpherrinm | 2025-06-08 13:59:33+00:00
The most important part of DoH, etc is that it allows you to make a choice. You can choose a vendor in your country. As a Canadian, I might want to use the service offered by my national TLD operator https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/configure/firefox/

Many ISPs explicitly sell DNS data, and are also advertising vendors.

Cloudflare, on the other hand, doesn’t share or sell data and retains minimal data: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns...
by mjevans | 2025-06-08 13:59:51+00:00
My point was to reserve the generic term for something that's really intelligent, and thus deserving of rights an intelligent being should have, rather than what things really are. 'Machine Learning', 'Neural Nets', 'Magic black box Chinese Room simulations' (with millions to billions of parameter weights).

The public wants to hear the unspoken word General in the unqualified statement Artificial Intelligence. They correctly grammatically assume that this should refer to some synthetic entity created in a lab which has the ability to think.

For the LLMs that are popular today, I prefer the more truthful phrases I've heard. 'Transformers' (transform an input prompt into a related output) or more loosely 'codecs' (mostly decoders) which synthesize an output based on a prompt and an internal cache of structures.

I personally consider the compression of ideas into more generalized structures to be a big component of learning for humans too. However it isn't sufficient to simply learn, understanding is required. The output I've seen doesn't cross from tool to person.
by yalogin | 2025-06-08 14:03:04+00:00
Isn't it a matter of training? This is the way I think about LLMs. They just "learned" so much context that they spit out tokens one after the other based on that context. So if it hallucinates it's because it understood the context wrong or doesn't grasp the nuance in the context. The more complicated the task the higher chance of hallucinations. Now I don't know if this can be improved with more training but that is the only tool we have.
by patcon | 2025-06-08 14:03:29+00:00
Sorry, that last bit was snarky. I would have preferred to phrase it that I'm very accustomed to receiving discerning feedback about this side of my expertise (intuitions that combine my biochem background with complexity science and related fields) from persons in fields like yours. I tend to assume the skills/affinities of people in highly logical domains like yours can make it hard to recognize other forms of skill and knowledge that are more ambiguous and highly integrational. I didn't need to frame it as a slight, because I imagine it comes part and parcel with the things you excel at (and someone who thinks like me, probably does not have affinity for such things)

Anyhow, sorry for the initial disrespect, and thanks for taking the time to offer feedback
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-08 14:03:35+00:00
No matter how much computing power you give them, they can't solve harder problems.

Why would anyone ever expect otherwise?

These models are inherently handicapped and always will be in terms of real world experience. They have no real grasp of things people understand intuitively --- like time or money or truth ... or even death.

They only *reality* they have to work from is a flawed statistical model built from their training data.
by creata | 2025-06-08 14:04:02+00:00
No it's not. I'm saying don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

DoH does solve a problem for many people. Many large ISPs will sell your DNS requests, use them for targeted advertising, tamper with responses for various reasons, etc., and so DoH is an improvement over the status quo--not for everyone, but for many users, and I'd guess most users.

You're right, DoH might not be worth adopting if it were "stupid enough", but... it's not stupid enough.
by LoganDark | 2025-06-08 14:04:13+00:00
Not exactly LSD, but psilocybin clinics have been legalized in certain locations, such as the US state of Oregon. Psilocybin is of the same psychedelic class (tryptamines), so it is not an entirely dissimilar experience, although for me it's less stimulating than LSD, so YMMV.

I understand though that clinics aren't the ideal for many (they are for some), since you aren't allowed to have the trip at home or leave the clinic until it is over.
by roxolotl | 2025-06-08 14:04:25+00:00
Apple prides itself on building high quality user experiences. One can argue over whether that’s true anymore or ever was but it’s very clear they pride themselves on that. This is why Apple tends to “be late” on many features. I think like you’re saying it’s becoming even more clear they aren’t seeing a UX they are willing to ship to customers. We’ll see with WWDC if they found something in the last year to make it better but this paper seems to indicate they haven’t.
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by OutOfHere | 2025-06-08 14:04:41+00:00
This is why I have multiple LLMS review and critique my specifications document, iteratively and repeatedly so, before I have my preferred LLM code it for me. I address all important points of feedback in the specifications document. To do this iteratively and repeatedly until there are no interesting points is crucial. This really fixes 80% of the expertise issues.

Moreover, after developing the code, I have multiple LLMs critique the code, file by file, or even method by method.

When I say multiple, I mean a non-reasoning one, a reasoning large one, and a next-gen reasoning small one, preferably by multiple vendors.
by skrebbel | 2025-06-08 14:05:57+00:00
What does it mean to "give them the mic"? I feel like your comment makes sense in the abstract but when it gets more concrete it gets a lot fussy. Do you mean disallowing people who make nasty radio broadcasts? Jailing people who send nasty tweets to all their 10 followers?

Most people aren't "given the mic" by some benevolent all-powerful force, they just grab a mic and use it.
by asnyder | 2025-06-08 14:06:34+00:00
Nope, is completely the same base. Scroll the homepage, and you'll see an example of Livecode (updated HyperTalk).

You can open your HyperCard stacks, or MetaCard stacks, or Runtime/Livecode Stacks in their IDE, code, edit, etc, similar to what you would have back in Hypercard days, but with modern features, updates, and additions.

It's backwards compatible with HyperTalk, its current language is an updated HyperTalk (i.e. an updated MetaTalk), that incorporates all that was, but adds new features for today.

Your Livecode apps can be deployed and run as cross-platform desktop applications (Mac, Win, *nix) , mobile applications, and as far as I remember, web applications with HTML5 deployment (so they say).

Not affiliated with them in any way, just sharing my understanding and memories.
by bredren | 2025-06-08 14:06:45+00:00
Great writeup.

This measure of LLM capability could be extended by taking it into the 3D domain.

That is, having the model write Python code for Blender, then running blender in headless mode behind an API.

The talk hints at this but one shot prompting likely won’t be a broad enough measurement of capability by this time next year. (Or perhaps now, even)

So the test could also include an agentic portion that includes consultation of the latest blender documentation or even use of a search engine for blog entries detailing syntax and technique.

For multimodal input processing, it could take into account a particular photo of a pelican as the test subject.

For usability, the objects can be converted to iOS’s native 3d format that can be viewed in mobile safari.

I built this workflow, including a service for blender as an initial test of what was possible in October of 2022. It took post processing for common syntax errors back then but id imagine the newer LLMs would make those mistakes less often now.
by zo1 | 2025-06-08 14:08:36+00:00
An "ER visit" can be a completely benign and simple thing that happens after-hours but really you just needed a nurse/doct, OR it could be a life-changing set of multiple surgeries and tests and treatments and and and. Let's not dismiss how very-real emergency costs can be, just because we don't like the messed-up american healthcare billing mess. I've been to an emergency room in South Africa, as an example, and off the bat it cost about $100. That's almost monthly average salary of a huge portion of the population here!
by mcswell | 2025-06-08 14:08:45+00:00
I've wondered whether the marquee idea could be behind the UFOs/ UAPs that appear to move extremely fast. Specifically, you line up a bunch of drones that can communicate with each other via directional (or just weak) radio or laser transmissions. Then when a drone on one end of the line receives a radar pulse from an aircraft (etc.), it sends back a stronger pulse than its reflection would be, and simultaneously signals the next drone in line. That drone sends off a radar pulse and signals the next drone in line, etc. The effect, as viewed from the aircraft with the radar, would be a somewhat larger (or more reflective) target moving rapidly. The line of drones would not need to be straight, in which case it could simulate a fast-moving object that suddenly turns.
by prosheprostogo | 2025-06-08 14:09:03+00:00
It is an AI dream analyzer which goes a step further (in fact, some 7 steps further) than most one step tools out there. I have some background in process-oriented psychology and I'm on a quest to see how useful an AI can be in with real psychological stuff. This dream analyzer was created for my personal inner work use, it seems to be helpful with "creating a map" of symbols and tendencies in the dream. In no way it is an in-depth psychological advice, but still it is quite powerful to give a dream layout, which is based in your current situation and challenges
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-08 14:09:47+00:00
He also pointed at the root cause and possible solution there. Which is re-categorizing spending on this as essential instead of as something that's nice to have and becomes the victim of cuts almost immediately after anytime some budget is actually allocated.

An interesting point here is maybe that there's a whole world outside the US where planes fly and communicate. For example the EU has its own issues on this front but is modernizing what it does. Airspaces here are pretty dense and busy. It's not necessary to reinvent a lot of wheels here. The US could just look across its borders and learn from what is being done there.

As soon as there's a reasonable budget for this, there are all sorts of perfectly reasonable things that can be done. The core issue isn't technical.
by etcimon | 2025-06-08 14:10:54+00:00
Power and control over people's lives and public image is what they get off on, how can anyone feel like they have purpose working on that is beyond me, so it's true that innovation would be thwarted by procrastination - if they give them the "next big thing" it'll be monopolized and weaponized rather than given to the people like tcp/ip initially was. The key term is decentralization, and it's being blown up in favor of locked up datacenters behind layers of digital policing.
by skrebbel | 2025-06-08 14:11:09+00:00
> A culture that produces that kind of hatred

According to other pages on this same site, the primary motivation for the people behind RTLM (rich powerful people, incl the presidential family) to spread said hate, was fears that Tutsis would sabotage their own country in support of the invading RPF.

This is the exact same fear that made Americans put their Japanese-American countrymen into concentration camps during WWII. So to me, either you're saying that Rwandan culture in the early 90s was pretty much the same as US culture in the 1940s, or something else than culture is to blame.

Obviously the Japanese-Americans weren't mass-murdered, so it's not a fair comparison, but I'm not immediately convinced things would've been super mega different if the Japanese army had already conquered the entire US west coast and was quickly moving eastward. People would be very afraid.
by rramadass | 2025-06-08 14:12:03+00:00
That's a good book too (i have it) but more general than the Ridgway Scott book which uses examples from Numerical Computation domains. Here is an overview of the chapters; example domains start from chapter 10 onwards - https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1ddcxfs

These sort of books are only "dated" when it comes to specific languages/frameworks/libraries. The methods/techniques are evergreen and often conceptually better explained in these older books.

For recent up to date works on HPC, the free multi-volume The Art of High Performance Computing by Victor Eijkhout can't be beat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815334
by foobarbaz33 | 2025-06-08 14:12:14+00:00
Web based UI's (javascript baked in) are the only cross platform GUI all the major tech players endorse. Companies like Apple are hostile to alternative GUI frameworks, except web browser. Flash? that threatens the walled gardens so the big tech cartel came together to squash it out. Java graphics? we will not ship a JVM becuase "security". The web was already ubiquitous so the big tech couldn't squash it without squashing their own foot.

Typescript let's you start with a cross platform GUI right out of the gate. Text based HTML GUI is screen reader friendly, battle hardened for many years to get accessibility right.

Type system is advanced and allows for that sweet IDE experience.

And.... the Javascript ecosystem is the only game in town that gets close to the Lisp immediate feedback experience. (no Javascript is not as good as a lisp image, but it's better than nothing). Change a function, see the result instantly in the browser while you're app is still running. I'm not 100% sure this is true for Typescript as it must compile to javascript first, but compiling the TypeScript for 1 modified file with an on-save-hook could still be a pretty quick feedback loop.

Do these reasons have anything to do with AI agents? no but it would explain why people are already using Typescirpt, and thus use it for AI agents.
by metalforever | 2025-06-08 14:12:40+00:00
The homeless shelter situations in the bay area have waitlists. Some of the encampments also have waitlists (!). A lot of the homeless actually work in the bay area, some of them far away. Being in line in time to get a spot on a shelter is a task by itself and can be mutually exclusive with working. There is so much at play here you do not understand well. If we assume you are well meaning, you need to know that some politicians are not telling the truth about the true state of things.
by toast0 | 2025-06-08 14:13:14+00:00
> I think one way or another you will have to trust some entity with your DNS. Unless you are willing to use tor all the way on OS level. Even running your own recursive DNS resolver will leak your IP to root servers

With modern recursive DNS, you don't leak much to the root servers, just the tld you're trying to resolve. And you can axfr the root zone and then the root servers only know you're a resolver. The TLD servers know a lot, by necessity, though.
by a022311 | 2025-06-08 14:13:41+00:00
I totally agree with this and I wish root servers supported DoT, but I guess this setup is slightly better than having all your queries collected by a single entity (at least as far as you can know, because as you said, anyone in between can intercept requests). At least response integrity can be verified with DNSSEC and DNS-level censorship can be prevented much more effectively.
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-08 14:13:42+00:00
That makes sense to me. This is why I suspected that attempting to claim the election was stolen would be a losing proposition; I was sadly surprised to the contrary.

Elections are run by Republicans as well as Democrats. In fact several of the key locations that Trump claimed were stealing the election from him were basically locations where the Republican party had a lock on the administration of the election. As I remind people often, when they talk about someone stealing the election, that's not a hypothetical "someone," that's Betty three houses down that has the nice flower garden and organizes the bake sale at church every month.
by murukesh_s | 2025-06-08 14:14:01+00:00
What about generating testable code? I mean you mentioned detecting subtle bugs in generated code - I too have seen similar - but what if that was found via generated test cases than found by a human reviewers? Of course the test code could have bugs, but I can see a scenario in the future where all we do is review the tests output instead of scrutinising the generated code...
by staplung | 2025-06-08 14:14:20+00:00
I get that FAA hardware/software is a time-tested, safety-critical system that has resisted many prior modernization efforts but...how do other countries run their systems? Surely they're not all using floppies. I doubt there are many (any?) countries with a flight volume like the US but overall, flight safety is pretty good world-wide (again, with exceptions).
by avaika | 2025-06-08 14:16:08+00:00
In no way this is a good example of such a system, but I still find Bosnia and Herzegovina political system absolutely hilarious. After Dayton peace agreement the literally put ethnicity requirement for presidents to Constitution as a hard rule. One Bosnian, one Serb and one Croatian. And yes, the country is ran by 3 presidents at the same time. So there is no longer a competition whether the main guy in the country will be theirs or ours.

There were two guys: a Roma and a Jew in BiH who also wanted to take the president office. However according to Constitution they didn't have a chance. So they went to EU Human Rights Court to look for a justice. The court told the country it's kinda racist to have a rule like that and they should change it. This was like 15 years ago. Guess whether the rule has changed since then. (Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina for more details).

PS. If you find 3 presidents not fascinating enough, then google for High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.