MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thcipriani | 2025-06-10 22:45:15+00:00
Gotta put the optimism in context vs. previous Sam Altman writing.

Here he says:

> Intelligence too cheap to meter is well within grasp.

Six months ago[0] he said:

> We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.

This time:

> we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways

My summary: ChatGPT is already pretty great and we can make it cheaper and that will help humanity because...etc

Which moves the goal posts quite a bit vs: we'll have AGI pretty soon.

Could be he didn't reiterate we'd have AGI soon because he thought that was obvious/off-topic. Or it could be that he's feeling less bullish, too.

[0]: <https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections>
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-06-10 22:45:27+00:00
> The ”reasoning” it outputs does not have a causal relationship with the end result.

It absolutely does.

Now, we can argue all about whether it's truly "reasoning", but I've certainly seen cases where if you ask it a question but say "Give just the answer", it'll consistently give a wrong answer, whereas if you let it explain its thought process before giving a final answer, it'll consistently get it right.

LLMs are at their core just next-token guessing machines. By allowing them to output extra "reasoning" tokens, it can prime the context to give better answers.

Think of it like solving an algebraic equation. Humans can't typically solve any but the most trivial equations in a single step, and neither can an LLM. But like a human, an LLM can solve one if it takes it one step at a time.
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-10 22:45:29+00:00
What problem? The whole point of shareholder capitalism is to diffuse accountability across so many people that it ceases to exist: the employee points to management, management points to executives, executives point to the board, the board points to the shareholders, the shareholders are index funds managed by robots so "nobody" is to blame. The final phase of the administrative state works much the same way.

Viewed through that lens, LLMs and their total lack of accountability are a perfect match for the modern-day business; that's probably part of why so many executives are hell-bent on putting them everywhere as quickly as possible.
by denispanda | 2025-06-10 22:45:51+00:00
Location: Bay Area, California Remote: Open Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Full-Stack (Next.js, React, Supabase, Firebase, TypeScript, Node.js) Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1237stzg1b-UtPhuf97wpbUoG... Email: dpandarakalam@gmail.com

Recent UC Davis CS grad with a strong track record of building products from a playlist queuing app using the Spotify API, to an internal project tracker deployed on AWS, to a medical image classifier built with PyTorch.

I'm looking to join a team where I can take ownership, learn fast, and contribute across the stack. Especially interested in early-stage startups, but open to any.

Available to start immediately. Thanks! :)
by ty6853 | 2025-06-10 22:46:19+00:00
I noticed that in Abrego Garcia's recent indictment they were able to figure out he was in 2022 based on ALPR pulls that showed he was actually putzing around Texas. My understanding was most ALPRs were being stored for no more than 30 days but apparently that isn't the case, since it appears they did not start to build the trafficking case until this year.
by minimaxir | 2025-06-10 22:46:39+00:00
It's more that every time the topic has come up, it's reported in watts and I'm not sure if there's a nuance I'm missing. It's entirely possible those reports have been in watt-hours though and using watts for shorthand.

I still find the Technology Connections video counterintuitive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOK5xkFijPc
by ikr678 | 2025-06-10 22:47:50+00:00
Humans have always had pets but they were less of a 'lifestyle' in the past. There is a ton of money and investment in the pet industrial complex now, pets are aspirational, pets are marketted as part of your personality, pets get thier own social media, famous pets have merch lines.

I did a lengthy paid survey a few years back that was sponsored by a VC owned pet supply company in my country. All the questions were to non pet owners, or former reluctant non owners and was aimed at getting data on how much pet ownership improved your life. I have seen the results of this survey paraphased and published in every single major news outlet in my country ('science says pet good!'). Pets are consumption, companies run PR campaigns to promote consumption of their product.

I think the politicisation has come because you can't now criticise the pet or having of pets without it being seen as an attack on the owners whole lifestyle and personal image, for those who have become dog dads/dog mums. But for people who do take a position against it, they have to be willing to make that attack on someone's image to get their point across.

I dont want pets, I think a not insignificant # of people have them for the wrong reasons (like the above comment on trauma rescuing), I think over consumption of pet at a macro level is bad, but I like all the individual dogs and cats I know in my life.
by thephyber | 2025-06-10 22:47:51+00:00
But it’s not an isolated incident.

He (the head of US HHS) seems to be trying to push a medical social Darwinism (eg. Expose people directly to the deadly pathogens instead of using vaccines/inoculations), without getting anywhere close to a national consensus.

He is surrounding himself with sycophants of his strange pseudo-scientific beliefs. He claims to believe in science and testing, but the choices he has made as a political leader at the head of the HHS have been top-down dictates and fabricated + sock puppets “research” he is too scared to have peer reviewed in public by de-anonymized reviewers.
by weinzierl | 2025-06-10 22:48:25+00:00
Sure, but the stalking issue is a subset of the generic data privacy issue or do you believe you can hide from a stalker if everyone else under the sun knows you location. It might be too difficult to use location data brokers for stalking[1] but the whole economy around them makes the app ecosystem weak against location privacy and makes it easy to use a manipulated app for stalking. No special devices needed and certainly no cellular devices needed.

https://xkcd.com/538/

[1] Even though data brokers have been used to find out the medications of a German MP, for example. https://www.techradar.com/news/even-your-deleted-secret-web-...
by sh1mmer | 2025-06-10 22:48:29+00:00
When Node was just getting big I met Mikael for the first time at some Node event or another. It’s hard to overstate or forget how welcoming he was, always excited to see folks, and the one getting the energy of the room going.

The more time I spent with Mikael the more I saw him doing all the small things that needed doing for a community, or an event. Even just hanging out Mikael was always so considerate and tried to make things special for everyone.

He will be missed.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-06-10 22:48:40+00:00
I agree that I've seen anecdotal evidence that Denovu slows down some games considerably. That said, a conspiracy between every major hardware manufacturer and Denovu is certainly a bridge too far. It's far more reasonable, especially after reading this article, that there's a significant cost to all this encryption and wrapping and redirection if it's not applied carefully and enters a hot path.
by ryandv | 2025-06-10 22:49:27+00:00
> We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.

Not sure if wishful thinking trying to LARP-manifest this future into being, or just more unfalsifiable thinking where we can always be said to be past the event horizon and near to the singularity, given sufficiently underwhelming definitions of "event horizon" and "nearness."
by tialaramex | 2025-06-10 22:49:45+00:00
Congress could, in theory, begin an arduous process (weeks? months?) in which eventually, if they succeed, again in theory it removes the President and... puts in his place his chosen replacement. It has never successfully done this, so from there we're in uncharted waters but it's hardly obvious that it is an effective procedure.

In contrast the Westminster Parliament routinely disposes of Prime Ministers who lose its confidence, it's already happened once in my lifetime and it's not some multi-week procedure in which there's some performance of a judicial process, just a simple question: Does this Government retain the Confidence of the House?

Margaret Thatcher decided on this course of action on a Monday, on Wednesday morning she rose to say, "Mr. Speaker, I beg to move, 'That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government.'" and by the next morning the Callaghan minority government had fallen.
by pom-ec | 2025-06-10 22:50:36+00:00
Someone on my team put together a ranking of the most popular Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on GitHub as of June 2025.

MCP is becoming a key piece for anyone building LLM agents that need real-time, structured context from external tools.

This post flags something that’s not talked about enough: most of these servers ship without security or access controls. If your agent can read prod logs or push to GitHub, it can also go rogue.

Hoping this helps folks approaching agentic systems with a security-first mindset. Curious what others think or are using in prod when it comes to security!
by 1oooqooq | 2025-06-10 22:50:52+00:00
this is still perfectly legal and allowed.

every app can scan your apps and recently opened ones "for security".

same for your contacts.

whatsapp (only meta product i need to touch in our fleet) will do both at very fast intervals, and upload a contact list diff if it detect changes.

the whole issue here was that meta bypassed the user matching on the web without paying google "cookie matching" price
by jyounker | 2025-06-10 22:51:05+00:00
I think the author's dislike for pair programming says a great deal more about the author than it does about pair programming or LLMs.

If you're pair programming and you're not driving, then it's your job to ask the driver to slow down so you can understand what they're doing. You may have to ask them to explain it to you. You may have to explain it back to them. This back-and-forth is what makes pairing work. If you don't do this, then of course you'll get lost.

The author seems to take the same passive position with an LLM, and the results are similar.
SF Housing Madness. Tired of Screaming into the Void
by Compzilla | 2025-06-10 22:51:44+00:00
I've been casually monitoring the SF market, hoping logic might eventually return. Then I saw this:

579 Belvedere St., a top-floor condo (2BR/1BA, 930 sqft), just sold for $1.5M ($200k over asking). Meanwhile, better units with more space or an extra bath sit for weeks unsold.

Am I missing something? I know this area is desirable, but $1.5M for a 1-bath condo with no garage feels like 2021 energy. I need to vent!

Genuinely asking… are people still panic-buying? Is this just wealth inertia? Tech optimism? Delusion?

And yeah, I’m considering starting a “Wall of Shame” documenting these types of sales. Exhibit 1: this one.
by Infinity315 | 2025-06-10 22:52:52+00:00
How do you define what is needed? The vast majority of reporting does not affect one's own behaviour at all. For example, consider the Snowden leaks, I guarantee you the vast majority of people did not even attempt to modify their own behaviour at all in light of this new information--despite having read or heard about it.

I'd argue that this reporting was still needed, despite it having very little material impact on one's life.
by cryptonector | 2025-06-10 22:54:04+00:00
In my career I've had to deal with two big outages that took over a week to diagnose and fix. One of those involved my code, though the conditions that caused it involved bugs in others' code interacting with bugs in mine such that in isolation none of them would have caused an outage. The first one took two weeks to diagnose, and I had to write specialty tools to help diagnose it. The second took lots of data gathering, code inspection, and making and testing many hypotheses. In neither case did heads roll. The staff who go through such a trial by fire come out of it all the more valuable than before, and that includes those whose "fault" it might have been.

Sometimes you can't have the domain knowledge you'd want beforehand. The reasons vary a great deal. For example, the software in question might be commercial, and you might not have an alternative vendor to switch to. Other times your "bus factor" might have dropped to uncomfortably small values through no fault of anyone in the organization (people leaving too quickly for reasons having nothing to do with the way the org is run, people dying, headcount and budgets not allowing for remediating the situation, and just having way too many critical systems whose bus factor to keep wide at all times).
by smitty1e | 2025-06-10 22:54:10+00:00
The argument that marriage--actual, traditional, heterosexual bindings that produce fresh generations--is useless stands contradicted by the dwindling of a future generations.

Sure, you can point to other factors, e.g. China's One Child policy; war: but the idea that Really Smart People are going to just wave some policy at the problem is laughable.

What works is boys growing into men, girls into women, and families precipitating from actual marriages between them. Pro tip: parenthood is JOY!

The idea that technology has obviated Biology whistles past its own graveyard, voting down anyone daring to point out anyone daring to point out something as obvious as the sunrise.

(And, hey, if Destiny has had other plans than supporting your direct parenthood, the adoption is an eminently honorable alternative.)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-10 22:54:27+00:00
> Ignoring reality does not manufacture a new reality.

I wish we could tell that to Trump.

>We had caravans of tens of thousands of people constantly streaming into the US for four years. T

Okay, and Biden deported more people than Trump's first term. Is that fact a joke too?

>go to the US Customs and Border Protection website and look around.

Okay, what am I looking for? The most recent news update was June 5th about building a wall in Arizona. I thought that 2016 narrative was over?

>if I remember correctly, there were over THREE MILLION unauthorized entries in 2024.

And

>In Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, there were 271,484 individuals removed from the US by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). This number represents an increase of nearly 90% compared to the previous fiscal year. This data includes removals by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

Why are we acting like Biden did nothing?
by prats226 | 2025-06-10 22:54:49+00:00
Reminded my of this article: https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent

Some of the things are just more natural in python being a dynamic language. Eg decorator to quickly convert methods into tool calls, iterating over tool functions to create list of tools, packages to quickly convert them into json schema etc.

Consuming many incoming triggers, eg from user input as well as incoming emails from gmail, or messages from slack which would trigger new agent run was lot more natural in go with channels and switch for loop vs in python where had to create many queues and threading etc
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-10 22:54:55+00:00
The primary operating cost of traditional power plants is fuel, i.e. coal and natural gas. The fuel cost for nuclear power plants is negligible because the energy content is higher by more than a factor of a million. So if you build enough nuclear plants to power the grid, charging per kWh for the electricity is pointless because the marginal cost of the fuel is so low. Meanwhile the construction cost should be on par with a coal plant, since the operating mechanism (heat -> steam -> electricity) is basically the same.

Unsurprisingly, this scared the crap out of the fossil fuel industry in the US and countries like Russia that are net exporters of fossil fuels, so they've spent decades lobbying to bind nuclear plant construction up in red tape to prevent them being built and funding anti-nuclear propaganda.

You can see a lot of the same attempts being made with AI, proposals to ban it or regulate it etc., or make sure only large organizations have it.

But the difference is that power plants are inherently local. If the US makes it uneconomical to build new nuclear plants, US utility customers can't easily get electricity from power plants in China. That isn't really how it works with AI.
by MostlyStable | 2025-06-10 22:55:20+00:00
>I'm not aware of any MS-DOS productivity program...

>I don't know of any MS-DOS productivity programs...

I dunno, seems pretty similar to me.

And in a totally unreltaed query today, I got the following response:

>That's a great question, but I don't have current information...

Sounds a lot like "I don't know".
by cadr | 2025-06-10 22:56:11+00:00
Thanks!

Sorry to belabor the question, when you say "before every session", how many "things" do you do in a session? You say you give them a single task, but do you end up chatting back and forth with the agent in that session? I guess I'm unsure how far back the "context" goes in a conversation and if would drift from your directives if the conversation went back and forth too much.
by valleyer | 2025-06-10 22:56:26+00:00
Don't bother anyway. There are lots of cases of people trying and failing to go through the process, and there is no way to try a second time.

https://community.openai.com/t/session-expired-verify-organi...

https://community.openai.com/t/callback-from-persona-id-chec...

https://community.openai.com/t/verification-issue-on-second-...

https://community.openai.com/t/verification-not-working-and-...

https://community.openai.com/t/organization-verfication-fail...

https://community.openai.com/t/help-organization-could-not-b...

https://community.openai.com/t/to-verify-an-organization-acc...
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-10 22:56:26+00:00
I do think that they are right about many things, although I have my own ideas about how to improve them (and I do not agree with all of the ways they (Ink & Switch) are doing with it).

In UNIX systems you can use pipes between programs (if the programs support that; many modern programs don't support it very well), although there are still problems with that too. (I also disagree with the idea that text (especially Unicode text, although the objections apply even without a specific character set) would be the universal format.)

My idea of a computer design and operating system design is intended to do things which will avoid the problems mentioned there (although this does not avoid needing actually good programming, and such things as FOSS etc still have benefits), as well as having other benefits.

Some of the features of my design are: CAQL (Command, Automation, and Query Language), UTLV (Universal Type/Length/Value), and proxy capabilities. (There are more (e.g. multiple locking and transactions), but these will be relevant for this discussion.)

Like OpenDoc and OLE, you can include other kind of things inside of any UTLV file, by the use of the UTLV "Extension" type. The contents of the extension would usually itself be UTLV as well, allowing the parts to be manipulated like others are, although even if the contents isn't UTLV (e.g. for raster images), you would have functions to convert them and to deal with them anyways, so it will still work anyways.

With those things in combination with the accessibility (one of the principles is that accessibility features are for everyone, not only for the people with disabilities; among other things this means that it does not use a separate "accessibility" menu) and m17n and other features, you can also do such things as affect colours, fonts, etc, without much difficulty. (They might not seem related at first, but they are related.)

I had also recently seen https://malleable.systems/mission/ which seems to be related (you might want to read this document even if you are not interested in my own comments). One part says, "If I want to grab a UI control from one application, some processing logic from another, and run it all against a data source from somewhere else again, it should be possible to do so.", and with CAQL and UTLV and proxy capabilities, this can be done easily, because the UI controls are callable objects (which can be used with CAQL) like any other one, the data source can use UTLV (which can be queried and altered by CAQL), and the interaction between them can use proxy capabilities.
by feoren | 2025-06-10 22:56:40+00:00
> "exactly like ours, except the truth of the continuum hypothesis is flipped"

We can and do create two alternate models of math with CH and ~CH as axioms, in this universe, right now. No need for alternate universes. There's no reason to think the CH is either true or false in the natural laws of our universe -- what would that even mean?

I suppose it's distantly possible that models where CH is true happen to represent our own universe much better than models where CH is false, and that there are other universes that are better represented by models where CH is false. Even if that were true, all the math is still the same, we're just preferring some models over others.
by thephyber | 2025-06-10 22:57:57+00:00
I encourage the weirdos to spend lots of their time investigating their conspiracy theories. The more often they fail to find evidence of these massive conspiracies, the more they are revealed by their supporters to be the Emperor with No Clothes.

It happened with Governor Perry and the Department of Energy, and with Dan Bongino and the Epstein suicide.

This is the only way I see we break the fever of MAGA in a relatively short period of time.
by robomartin | 2025-06-10 22:58:52+00:00
> The people chucking cinder blocks and protestors are unaffiliated.

I didn't say they were and you have no clue if they are or are not. Even if you were personally there to demonstrate peacefully, no have no clue what forces are operating behind they scenes. And we know that part is true. One way to put it is that aspects of this is organized crime. They will eventually be discovered and held to pay for what they have done in a court of law.

> Let's see... what other logical fallacies are in here

Not a logical fallacy, but the most incomprehensible development over the years is that somehow large numbers of people think it is OK for people to just pour into the US as they wish, no controls, no admission criteria, nothing. And yet, the same people understand that this is not acceptable anywhere else in the world.

Clearly there's nothing I can say to help people who are firmly chained inside the cave looking at shadows. The indoctrination is way too powerful. Some of us try, but, sadly, the only way this insanity will pass is for people to gain clarity on their own. Not sure what it will take. Time will tell.

Perhaps this is your idea of what this country needs to become?

https://i.imgur.com/JcjpHKe.png

Not going to happen. No way.
by asadotzler | 2025-06-10 22:59:06+00:00
The pre-training plateau is real. Nearly all the improvements since then have been around fine tuning and reinforcement learning, which can only get you so far. Without continued scaling in the base models, the hope of AGI is dead. You cannot reach AGI without making the pre-training model itself a whole lot better, with more or better data, both of which are in short supply.