MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saberience | 2025-06-12 10:15:33+00:00
There are humans who cannot do arc agi though so how does an LLM not doing it mean that LLMs don’t have general intelligence?

LLMs have obviously reached the point where they are smarter than almost every person alive, better at maths, physics, biology, English, foreign languages, etc.

But because they can’t solve this honestly weird visual/spatial reasoning test they aren’t intelligent?

That must mean most humans on this planet aren’t generally intelligent too.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-06-12 10:15:55+00:00
as I said previously there will be an inflection point and then MS is basically history in the whole country, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44238752 that's the way Denmark works

which I am personally looking forward to, not because I think MS is so much worse than Linux, Mac etc. (although haven't really used for some years so I may be wrong) I personally think of OS's as being commodified, and I do like the ability that MS gives you to do globaly hotkeys and hotstrings that you really can't replicate easily, if at all, in other OS's (which security wise is probably a plus, if you can catch keystrokes easily enough you can make keyloggers), nope I have a personal beef here.

Some years ago I was working for the Danish Governmental department of IT and Telephony, later changed to Digitization Department (a department or "styrelse" being a big government agency subsidiary to a ministry) running a project to provide overarching data standardization for the government - mainly providing and hosting XML schemas for data interchange, providing some services etc.

The data interchange repository we were on was provided by Microsoft, which was built on top of some MS product the name of which I can't recall that they were thinking was good for this kind of thing, a glorified file server with some lousy search etc. It was extremely sub-par, so we had a meeting with some MS guys, Jean Paoli etc. where basically they got mad at us for their sub par product and said they couldn't be associated with it, this came about a month after Bill Gates had a meeting the prime minister and talked shit about how Denmark needed MS but MS didn't need Denmark.

So anyway, personally, my spiteful little heart will sing when Denmark no longer "needs" MS.
by onli | 2025-06-12 10:16:24+00:00
I get the impression, yes. They still have a big list of supported devices, which means many maintainers, and they managed well to port their system to new android versions, even if a recent point release killed many devices. Have a look at https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/, or alternatively my ROM finder https://www.sustaphones.com/.

However, I personally switched to CalyxOS. I was a bit unhappy with LineageOS pushing users towards the Gapps, by blocking microG from working properly (they blocked signature spoofing, a problem during the pandemic) and by forbidding discussions about microG on their subreddit, together with forbidding to even talk about issues with VoLTE or anything that touches rooting the system. They course corrected only a little bit with the signature spoofing, but still project user hostility otherwise via those rules. CalyxOS gave me a more usable system out of the box, while having a bigger focus on security (locking the boot loader) and presenting the project nicer. Vastly less devices supported though, and if pixels go closed now the Calyx project would have to implement big changes, those were their main devices.
by qwool | 2025-06-12 10:16:25+00:00
notch was a programmer first, so i believe he made something programmers love - an intuitive and minimal interface. when microsoft took over minecraft, they hired designers and marketers to do interface for the bedrock edition which is cluttered with flashy annoying popups, drawn-out and "smooth" transitions and constant attempts to sell you something that's free. every person i've talked to who doesn't like bedrock cites this exact reason for why they don't like it - it feels janky and "too corporate". same goes for the electron-based launcher i'm really glad that the community had time to establish their expectations for java which forced the 1.14's texture update to only improve on what was already there (like smoothing out painful color combinations and adding a white border to hovered elements)
by mrweasel | 2025-06-12 10:18:58+00:00
As many IT people in Denmark is pointing out, it's not really about replacing Office and Windows, it's all the surrounding infrastructure that will be the main issue.

Are these Linux machines going to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory, maybe just a local Active Directory, or are the IT department going to run a separate service in parallel? Are they moving away from Exchange Server... probably not, given that it's half of the staff. Are they using Intune, if so what's the replacement strategy where?

My guess is that many of these staff members are going to use webmail and run Windows programs in remote desktop. The investments in the infrastructure isn't high enough, nor have they addressed any of the hard problems and the time frame is rather short. I doubt any significant money and time has been set aside for training.

It is going to end in complete failure, the employees are going to complain about lost productivity and a frustrating work environment. They are setting themselves up for complete failure.

The same is happening in a number of schools, where Linux and LibreOffice is set to replace ChromeBooks for some students. The expectation is that the cost is going to be €2.25M per year, for the next two years, then there will be a cost saving of €4-5M. Again no plans for handling authentication, email, file sharing or provisioning. They'll just force the students out of the relatively protected Google Workspace for Students, into the "real" Google/Gmail ecosystems where they are less protected against data mining.

This will all end badly and it will be because of poor planning. Then the next US president steps in, calms things down and we forget the whole thing in 2 years.
Show HN: Turn YouTube videos into structured learning (Notebook for YouTube)
by AzharKhann | 2025-06-12 10:19:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Azhar, a self-taught developer who learned most of what I know from YouTube. But I kept running into some walls:

- It was hard to stay organized across videos - When I didn’t understand something, I had no one to ask - I’d procrastinate or forget what I’d already watched - Note-taking was time-consuming, and I had no way to check what I actually learned

So I built Notetube — a tool to make YouTube more structured and interactive for learning. Here are some of the problems I faced and how Notetube tries to help:

- No structure → Organize videos into focused learning collections - Stuck on something? → Ask questions with an AI assistant beside the video - Hard to stay on track → Set learning goals and track progress - Note-taking takes too long → Get comprehensive auto-generated notes from the video - No feedback loop → Test yourself with interactive quizzes - Passive learning → Take timestamped notes while you watch

You’ll need to sign up to use it, but it’s quick—Google OAuth works right away!

Try it out here: https://notetubeai.com

It’s still early and I’m actively improving it based on user feedback. I’d love to hear what you think—about the concept, usability, or how it could better support learning.

Thanks!
by diggan | 2025-06-12 10:19:08+00:00
In the end, with DNS you have to trust someone, your ISP, the DoH host, or wherever you get the records for running your own resolver. It's not a "Do I want privacy yes or no?" but rather "Who do I trust enough to make these requests through?"

Personally, I'd trust an entity that is under GDPR more than one that is not.
by viraptor | 2025-06-12 10:19:11+00:00
> so extremely simple they have basically 100% human approval rates

Are you thinking of a different set? Arc-agi-2 has average 60% success for a single person and questions require only 2 out of 9 correct answers to be accepted. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hQrGh5YI6MK3PalQYSQs...

> and even some other mammals to do.

No, that's not the case.
by permo-w | 2025-06-12 10:19:15+00:00
so what you could opt-out? your info was/is still in any phonebook from before you opted out. any well-prepared organisation, which these modern data-collection firms are, would have no problem whatsoever keeping every edition of the phonebook for this purpose.

yeah the discrepancy is that its harder now. phonebooks were essentially free and had people's addresses in them
by ITDoofuses | 2025-06-12 10:19:33+00:00
Your entire lifestyle is depending on, respectively subsidized by, the exploitation of imported labor from 3rd world countries. That is why a sizeable portion of you guys is so upset about these ICE immigration law enforcement actions.

You are probably posting from your Californian gated communities, afraid to lose your Mexican gardener, Venezuelan housemaid, Philippina babysitter, or your Cuban pool boy.
by yuri91 | 2025-06-12 10:19:53+00:00
So using agents forces (or at least nudges) you to use go and tailwind, because they are simple enough (and abundant in the training data) for the AI to use correctly.

Does this mean that eventually in a world where we all use this stuff, no new language/framework/library will ever be able to emerge?

Competing with the existing alternatives will be too hard. You won't even be able to ask real humans for help on platforms like StackOverflow because they will be dead soon.
by freehorse | 2025-06-12 10:20:09+00:00
I don't have ms office installed in my work macbook (it was not pre-installed, they just told me I should install it but I never did). Only once I actually needed access to a computer with ms office installed, because of some horrible word template that should not have existed in the first place. Most of the time microsoft's online suite works just fine, if I cannot do it in pages/numbers. The times I had to use teams (my group hates it and doesn't use it, so only when have to talk with outsiders) running it from the browser worked too.

My colleagues have more problems than me anyway with reading those csv files in excel in a locale that uses "," for decimals. A side effect of avoiding excel is that it is much easier to read csv files for me.

I understand others may make heavier use of more word-excel specific stuff and have more issues, but I never had actual issues with avoiding to install ms office at work, even though everybody here uses it all the time and I have to work together on documents with them.
by bubblethink | 2025-06-12 10:20:18+00:00
I don't get the motivation behind this RedHatification. Hasn't Google already won in the Android space ? Nobody that matters is forking or using AOSP without Google's blessings anyway due to the stranglehold of Google Play Services. Why the sudden dick move ? I see some mention of the impending antitrust cases, but I don't quite see how that fits.
by TheChaplain | 2025-06-12 10:21:10+00:00
It's not a matter of technical limitations, it's EU regulation and laws that make it so expensive to run that the margins are not enough.

Large actors can do it because they have other revenue sources, and they have resources to deal with the legal matters.

I am not saying regulations are bad, they are not, but every paragraph takes a small piece of the cake. And the cake is not infinite, so at a certain point people will go away because "I earn more on doing something else".
by BSDobelix | 2025-06-12 10:22:29+00:00
>EU is slowly turning into some communist superstate

That's not true!

Communist State's have at least real leaders/parties and a vision for the future. The EU is turning it into a surveillance state in fear from itself (direct?-democracy), fear to take a seat (responsibility) in global matters (France and some others maybe excluded from that that statement) and fear to impose already existing laws (because illegal migration gives us cheap labor aka "modern slavery").
by bawolff | 2025-06-12 10:22:47+00:00
Not just in the past. People write books today just as much as in the past.

Even today, encyclopedia briticana is still selling an encyclopedia product for about $75 a year.

The new business model is competiting with the old one. Generally the new model is winning on price and breadth, by a fairly wide margin. Accuracy seems about the same for both business models.

A business model doesn't need to be perfect to win, it just needs to be slightly better.

> It's how the vast majority of human knowledge has been stored and perpetuated for millennia.

I think writing books for money is a newish phenomenom. I think historically you probably had more of a patronage system for most art. Selling your written work is a lot harder in the pre-printing press era.
by 47282847 | 2025-06-12 10:22:51+00:00
(Alone, all-one)

If we merge, by definition the „I“ and „you“ have to die; both of us stop existing. The merger creates something new, a „we“. A single entity. We can then use the definition of identity to call this new we „I“. Rinse and repeat until back to being alone/all-one?

Do you really want to be all-one? Omnipotent, full of all potentials/possibilities? I don’t know. I am already overwhelmed with my limited human potential/possibilities/options. And I prefer to not be alone. I prefer to stay separate, and keep my identity.
by mft_ | 2025-06-12 10:23:02+00:00
Tastes in design are unique to individuals and change over years and decades; judged in 2025, it’s easy to find past examples one might not agree with.

But I’m not thinking of the superficial design so much as the underlying ethos informing such decisions. Early OS X got a lot right by focussing on usability. Skeuomorphism might not be in vogue today, but the iPhone was much more usable, approachable and discoverable compared to most mobile phone OSs of the day. The Apple UI guidelines have mostly stood the test of time.

I hope that Jobs (or Ive, for that matter) would’ve taken Liquid Glass in a very different direction, as the current offering seems to make things worse for users.
by mort96 | 2025-06-12 10:23:39+00:00
"The wrong game"? What about the game they want to play..?

Or what if they want to play the game they bought on different computers they own?

Or what if they're troubleshooting something?

What about when I wanna play the game again in 10 years and your activation servers are down?

> You're also not 11 years old anymore. You can afford to pay your peers in your industry.

I haven't pirated a game in forever, and as a paying customer, I'm harmed by anti-piracy measures. Pirates usually get a better experience since crackers strip out the DRM.
by diggan | 2025-06-12 10:24:09+00:00
Although implementation/internal wise it's not wrong to say it's just an llm call in a loop. If the llm responds with a tool call, you (the implementor) needs to program the call to happen, then loop back and let the llm continue.

The model/weights themselves do not execute tool calls unless the tooling around it helps them do it, and loops it.
by yorwba | 2025-06-12 10:25:10+00:00
The ARC-AGI-2 paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11831#figure.4 uses a non-representative sample, success rate differs widely across participants and "final ARC-AGI-2 test pairs were solved, on average, by 75% of people who attempted them. The average test-taker solved 66% of tasks they attempted. 100% of ARC-AGI-2 tasks were solved by at least two people (many were solved by more) in two attempts or less."

Certainly those non-representative humans are much better than current models, but they're also far from scoring 100%.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-12 10:25:38+00:00
As long as interfaces are well defined, comprehensive tests are written, memory is safely handled and time complexity is analyzable, who cares what the rest of the code looks like.

I understand programming for the sake of programming, chasing purity and really digging into the creative aspects of coding. But I get that same kick out of writing perfect interfaces, knowing that the messier the code underneath is, the more my beautiful interface gets to shine. But transformers are offering us a way to build faster, to create more, and to take on bigger complexity while learning deeply about new domains as we go. I think the more we lean into that, we might enter a software golden age where the potential for creativity and impact can enter a whole new level.
Show HN: Herobot – Open-source AI chatbot for WhatsApp, Instagram and more
by dihak | 2025-06-12 10:25:39+00:00
Herobot is an open-source customer service platform that lets businesses manage conversations across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and TikTok from a single dashboard.

Key features: • 24/7 AI-powered responses using Gemini, OpenAI, or OpenRouter • Real WhatsApp Business integration with QR code pairing • Custom business tool integrations (shipping APIs, Google Forms, spreadsheets) • Self-hosted or managed cloud deployment options • Built with Laravel + Vue.js, Docker-ready

GitHub: https://github.com/herobot-id/herobot Demo: Try in Firebase Studio (buttons in README)
by ashirviskas | 2025-06-12 10:25:58+00:00
Do the authors know what "UFO" stands for? Or is it just for clickbait title?

A pigeon in the dark can be a UFO. Or a bat. Or a satellite, an airplane, literally anything. If I throw a sock out of my window, it would be an UFO to my neighbours. Though "F" in UFO would stand for "Falling" in the sock case.
by rurban | 2025-06-12 10:26:43+00:00
See, everybody can see how you cheat your benchmarks. It's unrealistic to measure only the perfect hash function, when you discard the cost of the deserialization and false-positive checks.

That's always the case when dealing with you academics.

We dont care how you define your costs when we laugh about that. In reality you have to load the keys, the data structures and check for existance. You even discard the existance checks, by omitting the false-positive checks. Checking against a non-existing key will lead to a hit in your check. Only very rarely you know in advance if your key is in the set
by Amekedl | 2025-06-12 10:27:33+00:00
This level of conceitedness can hardly be measured anymore; it's on a new scale. Big corps will build and label whatever as "superintelligent" system, even if it has plain if conditions placed within to suit their owners interests.

It'll govern our choices, shape our realities, and enforce its creators' priorities under the guise of objective, superior intelligence. This 'superintelligence' won't be a benevolent oracle, but a sophisticated puppet – its strings hidden behind layers of complexity and marketing hype. Decisions impacting lives, resources, and freedoms will be made by algorithms fundamentally skewed by corporate agendas, dressed up as inevitable, logical conclusions.

The danger isn't just any bias; it's the institutionalization of bias on a massive scale, presented as progress.

We'll be told the system 'optimized' for efficiency or profit, mistaking corporate self-interest for genuine intelligence, while dissent gets labeled as irrationality against the machine's 'perfect' logic. The conceit lies in believing their engineered tool is truly autonomous wisdom, when it's merely power automated and legitimized by a buzzword. AI LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
by redrblackr | 2025-06-12 10:28:39+00:00
There is Nextcloud which is not only eu-based but open source as well. You choose what parts you run but it competes with most of workspace and office 365 (everything but the arguably obscure stuff*). I use all three (g-workspace, office 365 and nextcloud) and I strongly prefer nextcloud excluding my private preference of open source - even more so from an administrative perspective (fuck the workspace admin pages, they causes me so much trouble)

Cloudflare I don't know if there are good competitors by my own experience, but some are listed here: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/cloudflare

*except email-server which although easy to add on trough stalwart or external email provider is technically not part of the nextcloud ecosystem (webmail is however)
by jl6 | 2025-06-12 10:28:42+00:00
The article seems to imply that UFO disinformation was a previous strategy that they are trying to move away from. Plausibly it went too far, causing a backlash against UFOlogists, making pilots wary of reporting genuine anomalies for fear of being labelled a wacko. If you suspect your enemies are flying new capabilities, you want your people to be reporting it.
Show HN: I built a blank screen tool for screen testing and minimalism
by TinyMomentum | 2025-06-12 10:28:49+00:00
Hi HN, I built https://screenbackground.org to solve a small but recurring annoyance — I needed a fullscreen black (or red, white, etc.) background to test screens, protect OLED panels, or just use as a neutral background for photo/video setups.

Most apps I found were bloated or required installation. So I made this: a single-page, no-login, no-ads website that displays pure fullscreen colors and supports downloading images in different resolutions.

It works on iPhone, PC, TV, anything with a browser. More fun/creative backgrounds are coming soon.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
by mickeyp | 2025-06-12 10:28:52+00:00
Shameful plug: my upcoming app perhaps?

Single-file download, fuss-free and install-less that runs on mac, windows and linux (+ docker of course.) It can run any model that talks to openai (which is nearly all of them), so it'll work with the big guys' models and of course other ones like ones you run privately or on localhost.

Unlike Claude Code, which is very good, this one runs in your browser with a local app server to do the heavy lifting. A console app could be written to use this self-same server, too, of course (but that's not priority #1) but you do get a lot of nice benefits that you get for free from a browser.

One other advantage, vis-a-vis Armin's blog post, is that this one can "peek" into terminals that you _explicitly_ start through the service.

It's presently in closed alpha, but I want to open it up to more people to use. If you're interested, you and anyone else who is interested can ping me by email -- see my profile.
by energy123 | 2025-06-12 10:29:27+00:00
With maturing synthetic data pipelines, can't they just take one base llm and fine tune it for 20 different niches, and allow user to access the niche with a string parameter in the API call? Even if a new version of a language released only yesterday, they could quickly generate enough synthetic training data to bake in the new syntax for that niche, and roll it out.
Show HN: Revolutionary Trading Platform
by DavidvsGoliath | 2025-06-12 10:31:20+00:00
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by rsynnott | 2025-06-12 10:31:51+00:00
In Bowdler's case, though, he was doing _unnecessary_ censorship; you could get basically uncensored versions of Shakespeare's work at the time.

Wheatley _could_ maybe have been more explicit and said "I've omitted the illegally obscene bits", but honestly given the legal environment of the time this would have been asking for trouble.