MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-03 22:59:12+00:00
They still mean something in serious discussions. If you find that media use seems to dilute the meaning of a term so as to be uselessly vague, consider the likelihood that it is intentional. (Very high, IMO.) The critical-thinking-not-allowed topics are especially interesting to pay attention to: who is served by devaluing the term?
by geor9e | 2025-06-03 22:59:27+00:00
Imagine a horrific world where most articles are 5 pages of LLM generated fluff from a 10 bullet point sentences prompt. I know, truly a nightmare world. But in this world, wouldn't it be great to just collapse all those articles down to their original prompt? A sort of reverse-fluffing. So maybe I can't convince you of how great it is in our world, but hopefully at least in this hypothetical world it makes sense.
by dmkolobov | 2025-06-03 22:59:40+00:00
I think the problem is an assumption that people are too stupid to grasp their brilliant idea.

That being said, having all drones equipped with cameras could enable a more robust version of what they’re talking about:

If uplink with human operators is lost, but short-range comms between drones exist, they could use their video feeds to autonomously coordinate amongst themselves.
by Izkata | 2025-06-03 23:00:47+00:00
Also small hands here. My own style involves using my shoulders and elbows for coarse movements, and when I need to type the symbol keys on the right I move my hand over to roughly index finger on ";", middle finger on "[", and ring finger on "enter". Moving further up or down for "+" or "/" usually also involves further hand movements instead of twisting or reaching.
by Mawr | 2025-06-03 23:01:16+00:00
Yeah, so that's not how anything humans do works. Languages are designed for humans, so you must analyze from the perspective of humans. You can't merely compare "functional differences" and call it a day.

Watch this until the end: https://youtu.be/MmPtfy9P714?t=101

So now, what's more likely, that someone is just going to slap a "?" at the end of a line and be done with it or that they're going to, unprompted, research error handling libraries, choose and install one, then go out of their way to add context to each line?
by edude03 | 2025-06-03 23:01:21+00:00
I feel vindicated! I'm building a tool with VLMs and I've noticed the answer is always what I expect to see, but wrong if the input is slightly different than expected.

Just like the article - if I have picture of a cup, it says cup, if I have a picture of a dog, it says dog, if it's a dog with a cup, it says a dog with a ball (noticed this with Qwen and InternVL).
by pyman | 2025-06-03 23:01:36+00:00
I did a bit of research…

Builder.ai didn't tell investors they were competing with GitHub Copilot, Cody, or CodeWhisperer. Those are code assistants for developers. They told investors they were building a virtual assistant for customers. This assistant was meant to "talk" to clients, gather requirements and automate parts of the build process. Very different space.

And like I said in another comment, creating a dedicated, pre-trained foundation model is expensive. Not to mention a full LLM.

Questions:

1. Did Craig Saunders, the VP of AI (and ex-Amazon), ever show investors or clients any working demo of Natasha? Or a product roadmap?

2. Was there a technical team behind Saunders capable of building such a model?

3. Was the goal really to build a domain-specific foundation model, or was that just a narrative to attract investment?
by TimTheTinker | 2025-06-03 23:02:47+00:00
Human "reality checker" systems are analogous to a discriminator in a generative adversarial network, but strongly informed by emotion.

Psychology tells us that regardless of how "emotional" we are, our sense of truth/falsehood goes first through an emotional circuit, which is informed by underlying beliefs.

If someone states something you strongly disagree with, your first internal response will be emotional; then your thoughts will pick it up from there.
by em-bee | 2025-06-03 23:03:10+00:00
while i agree in principle, you seem to make it sound like without a science fiction story, some things would not have been invented. but i disagree with that. the thing is that science fiction is the imagination of humans of how the future could look like but new ideas in tech come from the same source. that is, while star trek may have predicted phones and tablets they were not invented because of star trek. they would have been invented anyways simply because it is part of the imagination of humans. just like multiple authors can come up with the same plot lines or settings, multiple people can invent the same tech.

science fiction represents the full breath of human inventiveness, and tech inventions the part that can realistically be built. in that sense the first airplane was also inspired by historical scifi

basically, someone has an idea, and either, like you, they write about it, or, if it is realistic enough, and they know how to do it, they set out to build it. and any idea that is written about but can be realized (and is practical enough to be useful) will eventually be realized. but ideas are cheap, and i feel we give far to much credit to people having an idea because a thousand others probably had the same idea, but only a few write about it and a few more are able to build it, while the remaining 995 stay silent and do nothing about it.

what makes scifi interesting is to predict inventions that at the time can't yet be realized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_existing_technologies_...

so i credit star trek not for inspiring the tablet, but for predicting it, and more so, for popularizing the idea. the flip phone less so, because the original communicator is just a wireless handset with a cover. very different from what a flip phone actually does. (you'll notice that the flip phone is not listed in the above wikipedia page, and even the tablet has been described more than a decade before it appeared in star trek TNG)
by arp242 | 2025-06-03 23:03:26+00:00
No, you have certain ways you like communication to happen. That's okay, everyone had that. To present this as some sort of objective standard is complete bollocks, as is your claim that it somehow "degrades" discourse.

This applies twentyfold when the topic of the scientific paper is swearing. Like mate, seriously?

Anyway, I tried. Good luck with your life.
Show HN: llm-tools-openapi and MCP: access to MCP server with this one trick
by oliviergg | 2025-06-03 23:03:44+00:00
MCP servers must manage state which makes them difficult to use directly. There exists a proxy solution (https://github.com/open-webui/mcpo) that transforms an MCP server into OpenAPI REST, handling the state. This llm-tools-openAPI plugin coupled with MCPO allows access to MCP servers directly from the command line without needing to manage states.
by nwlotz | 2025-06-03 23:03:50+00:00
There's a fantastic Ray Bradbury short story from 1948 called "Jonah and the Jove-Run" that I hardly see referenced anywhere. It's about Jupiter being the next frontier after colonizing Mars and the complexity of navigating the asteroid belt on supply runs.

It's a great quick read. Though it hardly attempts the sort of scientific justification as in The Three-Body Problem.
by shibeprime | 2025-06-03 23:04:20+00:00
Lmao, its so random.

ASCII Art for "bambi":

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by ndriscoll | 2025-06-03 23:04:26+00:00
In Scala basically all types are nullable (including Option/Try/Either), but it never really comes up because no one uses nulls (except when wrapping java code) because the language makes it easier to just do the right thing almost all of the time.

In fact the lack of sum types seems to be why you need everything to have a zero value in the first place: because sums are products you need a nonsensical value when the sum is the other type.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-06-03 23:04:58+00:00
If you apply with years of experience you'll be swiftly denied. Yet the post is up month after month.

> MixRank sent you the following message: We had a number of highly qualified applicants, and after careful consideration, we regret to inform you that we have decided not to move forward with your application at this time. This decision was not an easy one given the impressive skills and experiences many of the candidates presented.
by delichon | 2025-06-03 23:05:01+00:00
Asimov's Zeroth Law of robotics:

A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

"Robots and Empire" is a nice discussion of the perils of LawZero. IMHO if successful it necessarily transfers human agency to bots, which we should be strenuously working to avoid, not accelerate.
by xenadu02 | 2025-06-03 23:05:06+00:00
You assign blocks of numbers along a road, eg by thousands. So a block becomes the "300 block". Within that block you allocate odds on one side, evens on the other. Then you assign numbers with gaps between them to account for future changes. Basically take the length of the block, divide into 50 "lots" per side, and give each one a number. So a building with its centerpoint at the midpoint of the block on the north side of the road gets the number 350. The building next to it can get 340. If that building is replaced by two buildings you can use 342 and 347. If one of those becomes a duplex 347 becomes 346/347. There is no confusion: any address with a 3xx number is on this specific block, with the lower numbers near one end of the block and the higher numbers on the other end.

If you find block 300 you also know roughly how far away block 9000 is and you know what direction to go. Or in the worst case when you see that the next block is all 2xx buildings you know you are going the opposite direction so you turn around.

This is the typical western street numbering design. There are variations - sometimes streets start at the center and indicate direction, so West Easy St vs East Easy St both start at 100 or 1000 and count up. But in general if you can find the street you want at any point along its length you can very quickly determine which direction to go and approximately how far.

To help orient you cross streets can be provided. If you know Avenue H intersects with Jones St then you cannot get fully lost. If you move up and down Ave H you will eventually find its intersection with Jones St and from the number you can determine which direction to go along Jones St (or someone can tell you Jones at 5000 block of Ave H).

Many cities go further and have a letter/number grid system to their roads that takes the same concept up a level: giving numbers, letters (or words starting with the relevant letter in alphabetical order). Minor roads might be named but move to the next intersection of any of them and you arrive at Ave H or 132nd St. And from there you know which direction to go and approximately how far to find 18th St or Ave A.

I'm not saying Japan should have adopted this specific system. But they certainly could have come up with a system that had some kind of scheme to it designed to help people figure out "if I am here which direction should I go to reach my destination?".
by II2II | 2025-06-03 23:05:24+00:00
I suspect the use of profanity was to grab people's attention, rather than for shock value. I would consider it as unprofessional, much as I would consider an article titled "Stars that go boom" to be unprofessional. I would suggest that it should be discouraged, mostly because we don't want scientific journals to come off sounding like tabloids. Yet I don't think that it automatically results in degraded discourse.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-03 23:05:27+00:00
OK but blacks in Seychelles (adjusting for purchasing parity, about the richest black nation in existence to the point they're not far from the black american GDP per capita) have a gini coefficient far better than the US (in fact almost same as Sweden) but still have a pretty similar infant mortality to blacks in the US. So I don't know about the thesis they just need to be made more equal to the rest of USA or something.

Definitely not interested in accepting eugenics either, just maybe we should acknowledge and be OK with the fact some demographics are just different and we shouldn't be forcing them to be like the nordics.
Show HN: Plan Harmony – AI-powered travel planning with real itinerary structure
by mikeluby | 2025-06-03 23:05:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Plan Harmony because trip planning—especially with friends or family—kept turning into a mess. We’d juggle group chats, scattered Google Docs, random links, and always miss something. I wanted a tool to help structure an itinerary, suggest smarter options, and keep everyone on the same page—without feeling like work.

The idea: most travel tools either hit you with generic “Top 10 things in Rome” lists or dump everything into a calendar/map with no real structure. I wanted something in between—something that helps you actually plan a coherent trip across days, cities, logistics, and energy levels.

What Plan Harmony does:

Visual itinerary builder across multiple days and locations

Add flights, hotels, activities, notes—everything in one place

Shareable, read-only trip links for friends or travel partners

Google Calendar sync so you don’t miss that 5 a.m. flight

It’s web-based and with a free option. Still early, but I’ve used it for a few real trips, and it’s made planning much easier.

Would love feedback on:

Anything confusing or missing?

First-use experience—what feels off?

What would make this worth using regularly?

Appreciate any thoughts or suggestions: https://planharmony.com

Thanks for checking it out!
by lanthissa | 2025-06-03 23:06:16+00:00
by designing ai first products that can operate at far lower margins. Google has to extract hundreds of billions a year, perplexity, anthropic, openai all dont.

Idk what the future of the browser is but i know if i was in the lab at any of these companies i'd be laughing at the competition putting a out a product that was just a text summary in a window.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-03 23:06:19+00:00
The calculus to make a terrorist is simple

non-terror life opportunity vs terror life opportunity

Why you tend to have domestic terror in places with bad economies (and high economic equality). And why beliefs often drive it (religious, political, etc.), by adding righteousness to the terror side of the equation.

But requisite minimum skillset is also a consideration, and that's where drones are dangerous.

We're talking (play videogames and some soldering) instead of (chemistry or biology).
by corewood_io | 2025-06-03 23:07:02+00:00
We have some pretty cool PII detection and masking tech happening. I was looking at one of our fun optimizations using Go for ML inference, and the binary tokenizer stuck out.

I figured it would be fun to share what we're doing with the tokenizer which, alongside other optimizations, is enabling us to detect PII at ~500-700 tokens per sec on 2 GB of RAM.
by girvo | 2025-06-03 23:07:12+00:00
> It's not very helpful if the reviewer just kills it because it's hard.

I am absolutely still an AI skeptic, but like: we do this at work. If a dev has produced some absolutely nonsense overcomplicated impossible to understand PR, it gets rejected and sent back to the drawing board (and then I work with them to find out what happened, because thats a leadership failure more than a developer one IMO)
by Lyngbakr | 2025-06-03 23:07:34+00:00
I'm excited to give this a try, as I think I'm the target audience. I tried using Helix[0] (my editor of choice) with mpls[1], but it didn't quite scratch the itch. These days, I use a sturdy notebook and cheap (but awesome!) fountain pen, because I just need something simple. No bells. No whistles. This seems ideal!

[0]https://helix-editor.com/ [1]https://github.com/mhersson/mpls
by astura | 2025-06-03 23:07:50+00:00
>I guess I could be wrong here

The only people in the US who have received an immunization for chicken pox were those who were NOT exposed to the chicken pox virus prior to 1995 (the first year it was available).

Before immunizations almost everyone got chicken pox in the first few years of life.

Thus the majority of people born between 1981 and 1996 were exposed to the chicken pox virus before 1995 and weren't eligible for immunization.

I was born in the early 80s and got chicken pox in 1993. It was considered very late at the time, everyone was like "wow, how have you not had chicken pox before?"
by fuzzfactor | 2025-06-03 23:08:01+00:00
>The issue is that step 2 is wrong.

Step 1 could even be wrong if making detailed drawings turns out to be wasting time by making detailed drawings :\

But OTOH you could say up until step 14 it's not as disappointing as it could be.

Then it ends with the devs being pissed, that's probably why it's only 2.5 instead of the full 3.0 :)

There is an alternative ending but you would have to be a whole lot more optimistic.

13. Nobody’s happy. But nobody hates it.

14. That's better'n They Do Not Love It innit?

15. Progress is being made.

16. The devs are energized for more.

17+. . .

Next round a couple people love it. But just a couple.

Do over again, and almost everybody is happy.

One more time and you've really got something there!

~35+. Champagne 6.0 showered on devs.

It could happen . . .
by lapcat | 2025-06-03 23:09:00+00:00
I still don't know what you mean by "filter". I asked, and you haven't elaborated.

The only thing I can think of is that you (mistakenly) assume that I'm suggesting all students must move at the same pace? But that would be a very weird interpretation of me, since I've already expressed strong criticism of that idea: "Our current educational system is designed like an assembly line, based on age and social promotion. Everyone of the same age is expected to follow the same track."
by CharlesW | 2025-06-03 23:09:03+00:00
Yes, they watermark. https://suno.com/blog/v3 (2024)

"Suno is designed for creating original music, and our models don't recognize references to other artists. We are not here to make more Fake Drakes.

"To further protect against misuse, we have developed proprietary, inaudible watermarking technology that can detect whether a song was created using Suno."
by arp242 | 2025-06-03 23:09:51+00:00
Not infrequently by people who are not even Go programmers. And/or the same people who hijack every other Go thread to rant about how much they hate Go.

In a quick search, you seem to be one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41136266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40855396

You don't see me going around $languages_I_dislike threads slagging off the language, much less demanding features. Not saying anything is an option you know.
by a4isms | 2025-06-03 23:10:05+00:00
You the customer are only a minor part of the grift. In fact, you're an unwitting prop for the grift. The entire point of the grift is the stock price, not your $8,000 or monthly subscription.

What they want from you are comments like this. What they want to do with those comments is to preserve the consensus amongst Tesla bulls that they are on their way to selling robots and renting robot taxis by the ride.
by synack | 2025-06-03 23:11:25+00:00
Last year I had an injury that left me one handed for a few months. I managed to hunt-and-peck my way to a patched QMK firmware for an Adafruit Macropad I had lying around. I set it up with the artsey.io layout and set the cheatsheet as my desktop wallpaper.

I found the Learning Artsey book from Discord helpful and managed to get up to 15 WPM in about a week with regular practice. Still quite tedious for coding, but good enough for emails and IRC.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5128

https://github.com/JeremyGrosser/qmk_firmware/tree/artsey_ma...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artseyio/artsey/main/layou...

https://discord.gg/UAMMaASc
by const_cast | 2025-06-03 23:12:27+00:00
I don't think it's a matter of demographics being different, I think it's a matter of us wanting to believe some demographics are inferior because that makes us feel better. I mean, we're not describing positive, but different, traits, now are we?

In regards to Seychelles - are we looking at levels of education? Are we looking at income inequality? Are we looking at corruption? Are we even considered how developed the nation is? How long have they been developing? Have we taken a gander at any population pyramids?

Again, it feels like we're hamfisting these things to draw conclusions that we want to draw. I don't think just having white people fixes things, we need to look at what those white people are doing that actually works. Even money doesn't necessarily fix things, if you're already underdeveloped or you have high corruption.
by westurner | 2025-06-03 23:13:47+00:00
From the article; the HTTP Request header that results in upgrade to HTTP/3:

alt-svc: h3=":443", h2=":443"

> The HTTP Alt-Svc header it received in packet 25 included the directive h3=":443", so when we then reloaded the page (note: not shift-reload, which would have caused Chrome to "forget" the Alt-Svc for this site), Chrome could switch over to QUIC (packets 31 onwards) and then make the request using HTTP/3 (packets 44-45).

HTTP/3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3
by johnea | 2025-06-03 23:15:26+00:00
Another example today:

https://www.chron.com/news/article/hurricane-season-fema-chi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165573

The FEMA chief not knowing there's a hurricane season...

The woke-nut mode of the highly bimodal distribution seems more inclined to just ignore what they don't like, but the wing-nut mode is constantly flagging articles that point out that we have elected a moron to the office of US presidency...

EDIT: Another example, same subject:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163750

Yea, Reuters, that "fake news" site 8-/
by const_cast | 2025-06-03 23:15:54+00:00
Sometimes, but I think most people are pretty simple and straightforward. There's a lot of smokers who hear the yearly "smoking increases your risk of heart disease and yadda yadda yadda..." and they still smoke.

Then my grandfather got told "if you don't quit smoking you're going to fucking die, and not a doctor on Earth can save you". And then he quit. 3 heart attacks in, by the way.

Intellectualizing everything isn't necessarily good for communication. Conversational tone can be powerful.
by phatskat | 2025-06-03 23:16:09+00:00
> The truth of the matter is that the vast majority of software engineers write crap code, as the definition of "crap code" is "something I would have done differently".

This is certainly a part of it, but I do wonder that even if an LLM “learned” the conventions and preferences of an engineer and spit out “perfectly styled” code, would it be treated as such? I’d wager (a small amount) that it wouldn’t, because part of enjoying the code - for me - is _knowing_ the code. “I wrote it this way because I tried X, then Y, then saw I could do Z, and now I’m familiar with the code in a way that’s more intimate.” Unfamiliar code rarely looks like _really good_, in my opinion.
by owenpalmer | 2025-06-03 23:16:18+00:00
I would reach out to Charachorder and ask if you can get a priority shipment of one of their products. They spend a lot of time making informative videos about their product, and disabilities is a significant use case. If your friend is willing to make the tradeoff of a steep learning curve for raw input speed, this seems like your best bet. I have never personally used the device, but from what I can see, it requires very little finger movement.

https://www.charachorder.com/