MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coffeecoders | 2025-06-10 18:34:14+00:00
Despite the popular take that LLMs have no moat and are burning cash, I find OpenAI's situation really promising.

Just yesterday, they reported an annualized revenue run rate of 10B. Their last funding round in March valued them at 300B. Despite losing 5B last year, they are growing really fast - 30x revenue with over 500M active users.

It reminds me a lot of Uber in its earlier years—fast growth, heavy investment, but edging closer to profitability.
by reify | 2025-06-10 18:34:28+00:00
I think i've seen these advertised

They look a bit like metal detectors, except they are all fluffy, similar to a feather duster.

Apparently, you hold them slightly above your PC, laptop or server and they automatically detect if any ai present in the system.

The things they come up with these days,

The next thing they will be telling us is that ai is intelligent and just like humans.
by apwell23 | 2025-06-10 18:34:40+00:00
> This ensures the LLM has a complete understanding of the overall goals

Forget about overall goal. I have this simple instruction that i send on every request

"stop after every failing unit test and discuss implementation with me before writing source code "

but it only does that about 7 times out of 10. Other times it just proceeds with implementation anyways.
by xg15 | 2025-06-10 18:34:55+00:00
> Windows was a wildly malleable piece of software in the 90s and 2000s, and it didn't exactly win love for it.

Is that so? I remember the custom styling options in Win98 and ME/2000 still very fondly. And there were lots of people who invested effort in making their own color schemes, meticulously assembling personal toolbars in Office, etc. (The enthusiasm went away the first time you had to reinstall and were faced with the choice of doing it all again or sticking with the defaults. But I'd chalk this up to Windows not treating the customization data as important enough to provide backup/export functionality, not that people didn't want to customize)

The features increasingly went away in later Windows and Office versions, but I assumed it was some corporate decision. Was there ever actual backlash from users against those features?
by monetus | 2025-06-10 18:36:04+00:00
One question that they presume the answer to iiuc, is that they have a pardon waiting for them. - an inverted sword of Damocles hanging out waiting to save them. IMO, many probably do, but plenty who think they will be safe don't have the right profile and will only be offered one if they have enough money. Guliani offered them for.. 2 million I think last time? You'll have to check that.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-06-10 18:38:10+00:00
I assume you mean Patreon when you wrote pattern? You’re ignoring their main source of donations from users which is Donorbox (I donate $50/mo there for example which is not counted in your number) and significant money from larger sponsors which pays multiple dev salaries on Ladybird, including the main developer I would imagine since he works on it full time.

Meanwhile Mozilla makes it literally impossible for me to donate to Firefox development as they only accept donations to their foundation which they don’t use to fund Firefox, and have Firefox under their for profit corporation which I can’t donate to.
by bitpush | 2025-06-10 18:38:17+00:00
Thanks for sharing the 13 virtues. It was a bit dense to read, so here's an (LLM assisted) friendlier version.

Temperance (Practice Self-Control): Don't overeat, and don't drink just to get drunk. Practice moderation in your habits.

Silence (Speak with Purpose): Only speak if you have something meaningful or helpful to say. Avoid gossip and pointless chatter.

Order (Be Organized): Keep your belongings organized and manage your time effectively. Have a place for everything, and a dedicated time for each task.

Resolution (Be Decisive and Committed): Figure out what you need to do, and then follow through. Do what you say you're going to do.

Frugality (Be Mindful of Your Money): Spend money only on things that truly benefit you or others. Be resourceful and avoid waste.

Industry (Work Hard and Be Productive): Use your time wisely. Always be engaged in a useful activity and eliminate distractions.

Sincerity (Be Genuine and Honest): Don't deceive people. Be sincere in your thoughts and words and speak with good intentions.

Justice (Be Fair and Responsible): Don't harm anyone. Fulfill your responsibilities and be fair in all your dealings.

Moderation (Avoid Extremes): Practice balance in all things. Don't overreact, and learn to let go of grudges.

Cleanliness (Be Clean and Tidy): Maintain good personal hygiene and keep your clothes and living space clean.

Tranquility (Stay Calm and Composed): Don't get upset by small things or events you can't control.

Chastity (Practice Sexual Responsibility): Treat sexuality with respect, in a way that isn't harmful to your well-being or anyone else's peace of mind and reputation.

Humility (Be Humble): Learn from others. Prioritize listening and learning over ego.
by distortionfield | 2025-06-10 18:38:26+00:00
Trump has already joined those ranks, he just failed at it. January 6th was a legitimate attempt at overturning the election results. He was impeached over it. Mike Pence was the only thing that stopped it, and I can’t believe how close we actually came to that timeline.

And you’re absolutely right about the denial. It manifests as the “nothing ever happens” meme.
by aorth | 2025-06-10 18:38:50+00:00
Remember in 2014 when the Android Twitter app started sending a list of all your installed applications back to Twitter? https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/twit...

Ever since then I refused to install native versions of apps that could be used in a browser. I don't use Facebook or Instagram so I don't know if that works anymore, and I recall testing that they were intentionally crippling Facebook Messenger at one point.

Then the past decade of native apps requesting tons of permissions and users just clicking agree. Why should Facebook be able to read my Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth? Of course there is something shady going on. Beacons tracking people walking around brick and mortar stores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Bluetooth_Beacon

Such a shame because native apps are so much more pleasant and performant to use than web apps.
by leakycap | 2025-06-10 18:39:16+00:00
I had no idea Google Drive regularly or programmatically looked through my data for anything objectionable.

I've never put it on the cloud, but I've had legal cases I worked on that would have definitely flagged automated review triggers. Its shocking to me that there's such a difference in what companies do with your data if you upload it to Google Drive vs. iCloud Drive these days.
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-10 18:39:34+00:00
>So all counties with strong border policies are racist?

Please inform me how the US under democrats has NOT had "strong border policy"? Do you know what Obama did more than any president before him? He rounded up immigrants, placed them in front of judges to give them due process, and shipped them out of the country if they did not have a legal right to be here.

Sure is funny how that is "weak border policy"
by righthand | 2025-06-10 18:39:35+00:00
You should talk to the anti-protest side then because they will discourage any protest. Usually they criticize the size of the protest as a few people. They then will tell you that their cause is dumb because only a few people were there. Or they blocked traffic for a few hours, so their cause is dumb. There are plenty of people that care if people protest. There are people that hate the right to assembly so much they make laws about needing a protest permit...
by seadan83 | 2025-06-10 18:39:51+00:00
False dichotomy.

- Recall back to the old republican party of just 20 years ago, GW Bush wanted a guest worker program.

- Recall back to just a year and a half ago, a big bill was in congress to drastically ramp up employment laws and increase border funds - funny enough that was rejected. That rejection by the republican party _increased_ illegal immigration

- The deportation rate under BOTH Obama and Biden has been higher to date compared to the current (second) Trump administration.

So, if you want higher deportation and laws to increase border security - apparently we need to go back to the previous administration... The facts are seemingly all very topsy turvy compared to the narrative.
by localghost3000 | 2025-06-10 18:40:14+00:00
I live in LA and have been here for almost 30 years now. This stunt is a provocation designed to get a reaction. He wants an excuse to crack heads in a city he hates and that hates him back. He probably also wants us to forget about Musk outing him on the Epstein files.

Watching this unfold here is reminding me strongly of the Ghorman plotline in Andor S2: "You need a resistance you can count on to do the wrong thing at the right time."
by vel0city | 2025-06-10 18:40:15+00:00
> Cultural elimination though real is largely a fraudulent right

You start off by declaring it's a fraudulent right but then spend hundreds of words arguing for a framework for your own fraudulent right

> Welfare is essentially incompatible with open immigration

One might then question the rest of their ideals about their morals and what Christ has charged us to do and wonder if racial stability is the standard or helping people is the standard. But I guess you've already decided on such a thing.

> Discriminatory settling patterns are well established as imposed law in the US, i.e. 'hawaiian home lands', American Samoa, Saipan, etc.

I'd say laws in island territories have vastly different concerns than laws on the mainland especially when considering land and cultural concerns. They have vastly different pressures, don't you agree? Like what were going to argue only white Protestants can own land in Montana? Pretty different circumstances here than a tiny island with religious circumstances.
by Horde | 2025-06-10 18:40:15+00:00
There is an old issue, that's related, why one should avoid using equality relations in AI used for creating a proof. It will go back and forth and fill the log with trivial statements before it comes to the right proof path. This might end up being the majority of the proof and could be an unbounded part. Then somebody has to read that and spend a good deal of time deciding what's trivial and what isn't. Whereas if you remove equality, you have something that isn't very natural.
by mrweasel | 2025-06-10 18:40:25+00:00
My understanding was that OpenAI couldn't make money at their previous price point, and I don't think operation and training cost have gone down sufficiently to make up for those short comings. So how are they going to make money by lowering the price by 80%?

I get the point is to be the last man standing, and poaching customers by lowering the price, and perhaps attract a few people who wouldn't have bought a subscription at the higher price. I just question how long investors can justify pouring money into OpenAI. OpenAI is also the poster child for modern AI, so if they fail the market will react badly.

Mostly I don't understand Silicon Valley venture capital, but dumping price, making wild purchases for investor money and mostly only leading on branding, why isn't this a sign that OpenAI is failing?
by dachworker | 2025-06-10 18:40:26+00:00
No expat means expat and immigrant means immigrant. Immigrant implies that the intention is to settle in the host country, whereas expat implies that the reason for staying is temporary and hence the intention is not to stay permanently.

For example, if I am doing a PhD in France, with no intention of staying in France afterwards, wouldn't it be rather inaccurate to call myself an immigrant to France?
by zokier | 2025-06-10 18:40:33+00:00
I recently tested SimScale with OnShape, i.e. cloud FEM with cloud CAD. On the FEM side there was a button "import from OnShape", which opened popup that did go through authz flow ("do you want to allow SimScale to access your OnShape content") and then proceeded to show a part/assembly selection dialog. Reasonably smooth process considering that they are two completely separate companies etc.
by ilyagr | 2025-06-10 18:40:35+00:00
If you search the code, they support Rosetta, which means an ARM Linux kernel running x86 container userspace with Rosetta translation. Linux kernel can be told to use a helper to translate code using non-native architecture.

Actually, they explain it in detail here: https://github.com/apple/containerization/issues/70#issuecom...

It's unclear whether this will keep being supported in macOS 28+, though: https://github.com/apple/container/issues/76, https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1l7maqp/comment/...
by kbolino | 2025-06-10 18:40:41+00:00
There is quite a bit of anecdotal evidence that many Denuvo-protected games run worse on the recommended hardware and O/S until the Denuvo protection is removed. The end result is a worse day-one experience for the people who pay the most than for either the pirates (if any) or the people who wait for the game to fall out of the early hype phase.
by bojan | 2025-06-10 18:41:07+00:00
What do you mean by "graduate school" exactly, is that a Master's or a PhD? If it's the latter, in the Netherlands you get paid salary to do it and it's the easiest path to a work/residence visa. Keep in mind though that our housing market is abysmal.

Alternatively, if you really want to go via an employment, look into the companies that have permission to ask for a knowledge migrant visa: https://ind.nl/en/public-register-recognised-sponsors/public...
by Legend2440 | 2025-06-10 18:41:32+00:00
I'm not convinced this is going to be as big of a deal as people think.

Long-run you want AI to learn from actual experience (think repairing cars instead of reading car repair manuals), which both (1. gives you an unlimited supply of noncopyrighted training data and (2. handily sidesteps the issue of AI-contaminated training data.
by mitchbob | 2025-06-10 18:41:36+00:00
There are people who like to tinker, to play with things, take them apart, learn how they work, put them back together again. Some of them go on to make new things. A few of them will make things that change the world. I'd like to live in a world that does more to encourage imagination and creativity, that lets people participate in creating their future. Software doesn't all have to be black boxes with No User Serviceable Parts Inside. We've seen what people can do with things like HyperCard, Visual Basic, Excel. And have fun doing it.
by aziaziazi | 2025-06-10 18:41:45+00:00
Is any AI assisted coding === Vibe Coding now?

Coding with an AI can be whatever one can achieve, however I don’t see how vibe coding would be related to an autocomplete: with an autocomplete you type a bit of code that a program (AI or not) complete. In VC you almost doesn’t interact with the editor, perhaps only for copy/paste or some corrections. I’m not even sure for the manual "corrections" parts if we take Simon Willinson definition [0], which you’re not forced to obviously, however if there’s contradictory views I’ll be glad to read them.

0 > If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that's not vibe coding in my book—that's using an LLM as a typing assistant

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/is-vibe-coding-with-ai-gn...

(Your may also consider rethinking your first paragraph up to HN standards because while the content is pertinent, the form sounds like a youngster trying to demo iKungFu on his iPad to Jackie Chan)
by hathawsh | 2025-06-10 18:41:51+00:00
I agree, I feel like the authors are underestimating the effect the new AI is already having on the concept of local software crafting. For my entire lifetime, I've had friends ask me to help them build software that accesses some data somewhere, and I've always had to turn them down because there are too many unknowns.

I've spent countless hours thinking about how to build a business that would solve some class of problems my friends have encountered and I've almost always had to conclude that the business would probably not be profitable, so their ideas were never tested.

Now, with a 2025 chatbot, I can confidently estimate the feasibility of a basic project in minutes and we can build the thing together in hours. No one needs to make a profit, build a new business, or commit to ongoing maintenance. Locally crafted software is taking off dramatically and I think it will become the new normal.
by daft_pink | 2025-06-10 18:42:07+00:00
Sorry, shattered most of the windows of the central business district, destroyed virtually every grocery store and pharmacy to the point of an almost total loss, carried away most anything of value that could be reasonably carried away on foot from any retailer or small business, vandalized tons of private property/vehicles. Lit tons of police cars on fire.

I don’t still live there. Honestly, it convinced me right or wrong that the only reason I’m able to live in the city was because the police are there to sort of enforce the laws and that there is a certain percentage of the population that will steal everything as soon as they think there is an opportunity. Compare that to the suburbs where you could leave valuables out in your yard and no one would take them convinced me that I would rather raise a family in a stable mostly crime free environment.
by robomartin | 2025-06-10 18:42:09+00:00
That page is a joke. Ignoring reality does not manufacture a new reality. Four million might be the legal migration count, hard to say.

We had caravans of tens of thousands of people constantly streaming into the US for four years. The video evidence is out there for everyone to see. News outlets that did not engage in hiding reality and promoting falsehoods had crews at the border every day for four years collecting video evidence of what was going on.

If you care about understanding the truth, go to the US Customs and Border Protection website and look around. You can also cross check with Homeland Security and other official sources. And, yes, you will find data that predates the Trump administration...so you can't blame bias. For example, if I remember correctly, there were over THREE MILLION unauthorized entries in 2024.
by bitpush | 2025-06-10 18:42:18+00:00
The problem is your costs also scale with revenue. Ideally you want to have control costs as you scale (the first you build is expensive, but as you make more your costs come down).

For OpenAI, the more people use the product, the same you spend on compute unless they can supplement it with another ways of generating revenue.

I dont unfortunately think OpenAI will be able to hit sustained profitability (see Netflix for another example)
by abhaynayar | 2025-06-10 18:42:25+00:00
Like some other comments, found the article a bit "off" regarding the words and their usage (among other things). But since it does touch a topic that I have thought of a lot, as have many others, leaving my unsolicited advice here.

Set a "goal" and then figure out a "daily-habit" that brings you closer to that goal. Then mostly just forget about that goal and execute on that daily-habit. Every now and then, either (1) change the goal - based on your feelings about the daily-habit you are executing, or (2) change the daily-habit - based on whether it is bringing you closer to the goal or not. Repeat.

I have been on both ends at different times - obsessing over either the journey or the reward - and like most things - the answer is not neat, it is murky, and in the middle. We like neat boxes so we obsess and ruminate - goals or constraints, identity or actions, work forwards or backwards, promotions or purpose, etc. - I feel all these ruminations are forms of procrastination and pseudo-productivity.

While it is good to adjust and calibrate your goals & wants every now and then, I believe that taking action is more important than passive thinking. Also, figuring out what you TRULY want becomes a lot easier after taking a bit of action anyway, instead of being in your own head.
by leakycap | 2025-06-10 18:43:01+00:00
This is interesting and makes sense - you can't often do two things at once, and today's cameras are very interactive and take you out of the moment.

That said, the article says:

> The researchers note an important caveat in that they did not allow participants to review their photos

So that seems... quite relevant and makes me wonder what we're really learning with this info.
by scop | 2025-06-10 18:43:06+00:00
I loved his shows when I was a kid. I was pretty into magic (e.g. going to the local shop and buying tricks) and this show was the most exciting thing I had ever seen. I get that it broke many rules, but I think it was well timed. If it had been earlier I think it would have been a true rule-breaking, “we’re exposing secrets cuz we just don’t care” type of thing. But in the 90s/00s it was a moment in which a new generation of TV kids. Whenever I would watch magic on TV I thought it was pretty lame because, after all, how do you know it was just special effects BS? This guy revealed that even though it was on TV it was still an execution of skill/engineering/performance. Super fascinating. Thanks Val!
by swyx | 2025-06-10 18:43:51+00:00
i put together a brief catalog of AI pollution of the web the last time this topic came up: https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back...

i do have to say outside of twitter i dont personally see it all that much. but the normies do seem to encounter it and 1) either are fine? 2) oblivious? and perhaps SOME non-human-origin noise is harmless.

(plenty of humans are pure noise, too, dont forget)
by hmottestad | 2025-06-10 18:43:52+00:00
With how amazing the first R1 model was and how little compute they needed to create it, I'm really wondering how the new R1 model isn't beating o3 and 2.5 Pro on every single benchmark.

Magistral Small is only 24B and scores 70.7% on AIME2024 while the 32B distill of R1 scores 72.6%. And with majority voting @64 the Magistral Small manages 83.3%, which is better than the full R1. Since I can run a 24B model on a regular gaming GPU it's a lot more accessible than the full blown R1.

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-...
by roarcher | 2025-06-10 18:43:53+00:00
This comment always comes up. Yes, their knowledge was a huge help to the space program and we conveniently forgot about their crimes in exchange for it. But it was THE sole thing that made the moon landing possible? Not our massive industrial and economic capacity? Not the droves of non-nazi scientists and engineers that were driven out of Europe and into the U.S. during the war? Not our academic institutions?

We obviously couldn't have gotten to the moon without any of those things, but someone always jumps in and credits the whole endeavor to Operation Paperclip as if it's a revelation. Gotta cash in on the modern trend of "erm, actually"-ing everything, I guess.
by spencerflem | 2025-06-10 18:43:54+00:00
I think its reflective of broader society. For this issue in specific-

You either think sending the military to break up protests against the wishes of the governor and mayor and against the bounds of the constituion is a problem, or you are insane.

When ICE wears masks and whisks people off the street and sends them to overseas torture camps without warning or due process, you are either opposed or insane.

There's honestly no room for nuance on this. We're reaching the point where Trump is sending the military to enforce his unconstitutional actions. Things are awful right now and are about to get so much worse.

To be clear- if you support what's happening here: you are a bad person. i genuinely hate you.