MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-04 12:46:10+00:00
Symbolic processing was obviously a bad approach to building a thinking machine. Well, obvious now, 40 years ago probably not as much, but there were strong hints back then, too.

"AI agent" roughly just means invoking the system repeatedly in a while loop, and giving the system a degree of control when to stop the loop. That's not a particularly novel or breakthrough idea, so similarities are not surprising.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-04 12:46:55+00:00
I think one of the most important 'social values' for science to thrive is a culture with a freedom to disagree on essentially anything. In most of every era where there was rapid scientific progress from the Greeks to the Islamic Golden Age to the Renaissance and beyond, there was also rich, and often times rather virulent, disagreements over even the most sacred of things. Some of those disagreements were well founded, some were... not. It's only in the eras where disagreement becomes taboo that science starts to slow to a crawl and in many cases essentially die.

Disagreeing with some consensus is not "anti-science". The term doesn't even make any sense, which is because it's a political and not a scientific term. I mean imagine if we claimed everybody who happens to believe MOND is more likely than WIMPs as an explanation for dark matter, to be "anti-science". It's just absolutely stupid. Yet we do exactly that on other topics where suddenly you must agree with the consensus or you're just "anti-science"? I mean again, it makes no sense at all.
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-04 12:47:10+00:00
The nice thing about more recent architectures is that no one (including the original authors) can rely on cycle-exactness because of the basically unpredictable effects of caches and speculative execution and bus contention and (...).

Most of these, as a big exception, do not apply to the Cell running code on data in its local memory, but fortunately, it's different as seen from other system components, as you say.
by doodlebugging | 2025-06-04 12:47:17+00:00
Malwarebytes warned me about this site.

Website blocked due to riskware. IP 37.27.51.34 port 443

Firefox error reported as Problem Loading Page:

>SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

Could be my machine. I'm on Win7Pro with FF 115.24.0 so old and out of date here.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-04 12:47:19+00:00
The 2030 worker shortage was identified by japan long enough ago that policy interventions has mostly eliminated this problem for them.

This is why Japan is one of the world leaders in industrial robotics. Also service robots, ai receptionists etc are prevalently used now.

They are also one of the last countries in the world with penal labour; not to mention 99% chance of conviction to fill those labour quotas.

They will certainly look at AI as perfectly supplementing what they are doing.

So while they still have a demographics collapse and oh boy their debt situation is yikes, this high inflation must be a godsend for them.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-04 12:47:43+00:00
Claude Code is only useable from a subscription.

Other than that, API + custom UI seems better since you're paying for the usage instead of competing with other flat-fee users for what seem to be overprovisioned resources (claude.ai was always throwing https 500 or 'sorry we're too busy' errors for me until I switched to API).

Not sure if it's cheaper though - I never checked.

It's insane how bad the first party chat apps are though. That's reason enough to use the API.
by qsort | 2025-06-04 12:47:49+00:00
Seems like it's a "limited" version of the offering though:

> Pro ($20/month): Average users can send approximately 45 messages with Claude every 5 hours, OR send approximately 10-40 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours > Model access: Pro plan subscribers can access Sonnet 4, but won’t be able to use Opus 4 with Claude Code

Most importantly no Opus 4. Still a great nice to have!
by ljm | 2025-06-04 12:47:55+00:00
I think the charitable middle ground no matter how you slice it is that whatever funding they receive should in part go towards bringing talent on board that can help them grow and avoid repeating past mistakes. Maybe nobody steps down but they invest in an experienced staff.

They specifically call out the sustainability of the organisation so if it keeps PP going and even just iterating on V4 or growing it such that they can innovate on V5, that's a good use of funding that could rebuild confidence in the team and keep the overall mission going.

If they plug it all into V5, which doesn't seem to be clearly defined, then at some level that might not be any different than giving away $100k to the community. It's a gamble from a donor's point of view, might as well crowd fund it on kickstarter.
by mcphage | 2025-06-04 12:48:39+00:00
> IMO they lost the plot on what made Zelda games interesting

That's definitely an "IMO"—I've been playing Zelda games since the first, and Breath of the Wild revitalized my love for a series I was getting bored with. I do want to see them do something different with the next big title, but Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom kept my interest for hundreds of hours.
by gianniskotsas | 2025-06-04 12:49:42+00:00
I’ve been sending myself a daily email with the top launches from Product Hunt — just a simple way to stay in touch with what others are building (especially in the AI/indie space). Eventually I decided to clean it up and make it public.

The stack is pretty lightweight: • Resend – handles email delivery • New.email – lets you generate React Email components via natural language • Vercel – hosts the landing page and runs the cron job that sends the email each day

I liked the design vibe of Resend’s landing page, so I tried to carry that over. Since new.email isn’t multimodal, I uploaded a screenshot of Resend to ChatGPT, asked it to extract the brand colors, then used that to prompt new.email’s design tool. That actually got me ~80% of the way there. A few manual CSS tweaks and it felt good enough to share.

Right now it only features Product Hunt launches, but I’m considering adding GitHub projects, Hacker News posts, or startup news as well. Open to ideas.

If you’re into minimal tools or indie projects, feel free to check it out: https://debutism.com
by saalweachter | 2025-06-04 12:51:03+00:00
Consider, though, one of the unique aspects of crochet or knitting -- you can fuck things up and it's not a big deal. Unlike woodworking or sewing, where once something is cut it cannot be uncut, with these crafts if you zone out while watching Wheel of Fortune and do a few rows wrong, you can always just ... undo it and try again. Nothing is lost but your time, and if you are doing it to relax while watching TV, you haven't really lost anything at all.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-06-04 12:51:47+00:00
> Buttons don’t work often, screens are inconsistent, results get lost, and more issues.

What device are you using, out of curiosity? I use this app almost daily for months at a time across several generations of the Google Pixel, I haven't had any of these issues even one time. I'm not even sure what you mean by "we ID something, but it’s gone by the time we show it to someone". Like, it shows a match while you're recording, but the ID disappears after you've stopped the recording?

I've found the app starts hiccuping when I'm making a very long recording, but I've learned to just cut it off and start a new one after about 10 minutes.
by elif | 2025-06-04 12:51:50+00:00
Ehhh it's definitely nuanced but we certainly haven't been dramatically overlooking anything fundamental.

The prevailing wisdom has been that a fully developed cockatoo has roughly the intelligence of a 3 year old.

A 3 year old figuring out how to use a drinking fountain wouldn't be world-breaking science, and I don't think this is either.

We have proven that they don't understand language and can simply mimic sounds. I don't think it's as deep as you are hoping.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-04 12:52:23+00:00
Is it, even when applied to trivial classifiers (possibly "classical" ones)?

I feel that we're wrong to be focusing so much on the conversational/inference aspect of LLMs. The way I see it, the true "magic" hides in the model itself. It's effectively a computational representation of understanding. I feel there's a lot of unrealized value hidden in the structure of the latent space itself. We need to spend more time studying it, make more diverse and hands-on tools to explore it, and mine it for all kinds of insights.
by jajko | 2025-06-04 12:52:28+00:00
Children are great under normal circumstances, its spouses and living with them 24/7 who create friction which easily dissolve even best relationships, one atom at a time.

Many reasons for that, but most I've seen could be summed up as "women expect men to change in marriage, and men expect women to not change", and it fails all over that statement in relationship over time, when kids and responsibilities come knocking at the door of your free time and energy.
by terminalbraid | 2025-06-04 12:53:00+00:00
There is no automated system for checking symmetries and constraints for general arbitrary physics theories. You cannot make a requirement asking for "consistent with the rest of our knowledge about physics" without unambiguously defining with "consistent" means. This is not possible as "consistent" is arbitrary, subjective, and at best contextually dependent on the theory itself.

Many theories are also not designed to be consistent across all known constraints and often are approximations for a particular domain. Where that domain begins and ends is also a matter of interpretation, sometimes not quantifiable in rigorous ways.

Doing science is not like writing code and requires human interpretation.
Show HN: The Polyglot's Atlas – Interactive world map for language learners
by lapdem | 2025-06-04 12:53:11+00:00
I built a website that let's you create a mop of the languages you speak/are learning. Data is mostly pulled from the CIA world fact book via python (package worldfactbook).

Any feedback and ideas for features that would make it more useful to you are most welcome :)
by MonkeyClub | 2025-06-04 12:53:18+00:00
> to put something online and watch teenagers destroy it.

Lol you're quite right there.

> Share your online service if you've got one.

I don't have anything that's not work anymore.

I got burnt out about a decade and half ago, and since then it's been just work, analog life, and the occasional touch up of a couple of personal projects in dark consoles.
by xela79 | 2025-06-04 12:53:29+00:00
> The fact that productivity gains are bad for employees (labour vs capital) should raise significant questions about the economic systems that we have in place.

yup, exact same argument was made against installing these machines on the product lines instead of having 20 people there. the problem is not the machine, it's the never ending uncontrolled capitalism of being seeing as a failing company, if your productivity and benefits don't growth year after year. If they stay stagnant? failed company.
by 9rx | 2025-06-04 12:53:58+00:00
> This clearly can't be solved "just as well" because nobody can figure out how to do it.

Fine, but then that means there is no other solution for Go unless you completely change the entire fundamental underpinnings of the language. But, again, if you're going to completely change the language, what's the point? Just use a different language that already has the semantics you seek. There are literally hundreds of them to choose from already.

> That's exactly the argument for solving this for what you're calling a "narrow" case.

Go has, and has had since day one, Java-style exception handlers. While it understandably has all the same tradeoffs as Java exception handling, if you simply need to push a value up the stack, it is there to use. Even the standard library does it when appropriate (e.g. encoding/json). The narrow error case is already covered well enough - at least as well as most other popular languages that have equally settled on Java-style exception handling.

Let me be clear: It is the general case across all types that is sucky. Errors, while revealing, are not the real problem and are merely a distraction.
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-04 12:54:05+00:00
It probably varies from company to company.

Sometimes the company might set the bar impossibly high. Other companies might be rejected by the candidates.

Given the current economic situation, I think a tech job that stays open for longer then 2-3 months is a warning sign about the company. (Except for jobs that require ultra-rare skills, but most jobs I see don't require them.)
by throwaway366363 | 2025-06-04 12:54:07+00:00
> before first discussing whether there's one iota of evidence that these liberties are to blame for extremely serious issues you mentioned

2017 — but links to a bunch of studies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170926-is-porn-harmfu...

> Watching porn has been linked to a multitude of problems for individuals and wider society – but for every study maligning it, another clears its name. Often, evidence is mixed, and the research methods and sample sizes of studies have their limitations.

> Will the future of ever-more immersive porn may bring with it more risks? It’s too early to say.

> The question of cause and effect comes up a lot with research into porn: does porn attract more people with sexually aggressive tendencies, those who are in unhappy relationships, those with smaller reward systems in their brain and those with sexual addiction – or does it cause these things? It’s a tricky area to research – but until the answers are more definitive, the evidence so far suggests that the likelihood that porn has a negative effect very much depends on the individual consuming it.

—

yes, the ideal would be to not infringe on the liberties of anyone who doesn’t suffer from negative effects of it.

but we don’t live in a perfect world where there’s infinite resources :shrugs: so… apparently the trade off is age verification.

that’s the sacrifice we make as a society. we sacrifice some “rights” for the greater good, and the right to watch porn without having to do an age verification check is a bit of a first world privileged one if you ask me.

(i say that as someone who consumes a lot of porn and is personally dreading the upcoming uk age checks. but what’s good for society is not what i want most of the time)
by quanto | 2025-06-04 12:54:13+00:00
I would like to see evidence behind this claim on two fronts: 1. all parts are produced in other countries 2. slightly higher prices

There are countries (including Ukraine) that produce on-board flight controllers, but the controllers themselves often rely on components from China. I actually do think it is feasible to create a passable quadrotor using non-Chinese components only but I do not know of a rigorous study or a manufacturer that does this.
by 999900000999 | 2025-06-04 12:54:29+00:00
Once upon a time a certain someone wanted to come over,in reality I had to decline, but in an alternate timeline she does. We have fun, she decides to keep it, but signs over custody to me. Our daughter is a musical prodigy. With her sights on Juilliard.

I can play out a similar scenario with quite a few slight variations. But this what if stuff is almost always positive.

It's never what if I never downloaded Unity and taught myself to program.

It's never, what if that eviction was a bit faster.

For most of us reading this our lives are modern miracles. I came from nothing and I've made a comfortable 6 figure salary for a decade.

Be content with where you're at, you will never have everything you want.
by bananapub | 2025-06-04 12:54:53+00:00
claude code churns away in a terminal, I have the git repository open in emacs with auto-revert-mode enabled so it reloads files if they're changed under it.

I view the files, and then review the changes in magit, and either approve some or all of them and commit them, or tell claude to do some thing else.

it works astonishingly well.
by taylodl | 2025-06-04 12:54:58+00:00
Calling it a "joke" doesn't excuse the comment, as it highlights a serious lapse in judgment. The public expects competence and clarity from the National Weather Service, not attempts at humor that downplay responsibility. In a room where confidence in leadership is already low, joking about not knowing hurricane season exists only reinforces perceptions of incompetence. This isn’t about being funny-it’s about being accountable and understanding the mission.
by mdp2021 | 2025-06-04 12:55:15+00:00
> AI ... can accelerate innovation in medicine, science, and engineering. // Right now it's messy and raw

With all due respect to Armin, he sounds confused. That sentence above amounts to a "[Software] can accelerate innovation in medicine, science, and engineering. // Right now it's messy and raw" - as I have to note again, after a piece hours ago from the MIT¹. The linear reply is "Dude, what are you talking about? ?! !!".

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167355
by submeta | 2025-06-04 12:55:16+00:00
Does anyone know if this is available for the Teams plans as well? I still use a teams plan (5 users where I only use one seat). I did this before Anthropic introduced the Max plans. Would love to migrate to Max plan, but I don't have the time to recreate dozens of projects with all the attachments.

Is someone from Anthropic reading this? Is it possible to downgrade Teams plan to an individual Max plan and keep all the projects?
by Daub | 2025-06-04 12:55:21+00:00
> IMHO the single most important thing digital provides is new ways to see - I'll often direct students to use the threshold filter to discover new lighting shapes in references or indicate planning problems with their value structure.

Completely agree. The hidden structures of an artwork are pretty much invisible with access to some flavor or other of a digital tool.

I believe that Rembrandt would have killed to have the ability to photograph his work and apply a de-saturation in order to see its lightness map. In fact... he did something similar... view his paintings in candle light, which does indeed almost de-saturate his colors.

Likewise, any decent Impressionist would have loved to be able to create a Saturation map using Photoshop's Selective Color adjustment.
by 0_____0 | 2025-06-04 12:55:49+00:00
Lael Wilcox used to drink half and half (easily found at convenience stores, high calorie, high palatability, fast). I tried this trick and found that it made me fart more than I found acceptable.

Lael has since stopped doing the milk thing since apparently it aggravates her asthma.

I like food that softens quickly in the mouth. Lil debbie oatmeal cream pies, brownie bites. Absolutely no sour candy or spiced nuts ever. Real Food(TM) is nice but I save it for when I'm at a resupply. Other athletes vary.

One thing I love about the ultra bike world specifically is how unique everyone's systems are. In other cycle disciplines the gear and methods converge tightly, but in umtb it's all over the place.
by grues-dinner | 2025-06-04 12:56:00+00:00
It's quite obvious if you look at how a watermill is built. Upstream, there's a wier which diverts water along a culvert into a pond at the level of the weir. The watermill is then driven by water falling from the pond to the level of the river at that point. Depending on the gradient of the river, this can be some distance from the weir. If the weir diverts on average a substantial portion of the flow, anyone wanting to use the river between the weir and the mill will find there's much less water for the purpose. Many British rivers in areas where there were (literal) cottage industries like little mesters are not that big (only a few metres across and under a metre deep) so you can see where conflicts could arise. And also they do dry up to almost trickles in dry weather.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-06-04 12:56:07+00:00
You're just being obtuse. It's been explained multiple times that there are tools external to the version control systems that can generate and consume this format. Just because there's no 'svn-diffx' or 'hg-diffx' command/tool built into the vcs itself, doesn't mean that this format can't be generated and used by other tools.

So to answer your question, any vcs that has had tools written for it to generate this format. And it sounds like it's most of the major ones as far as Review Board is concerned.
by mcphage | 2025-06-04 12:56:31+00:00
> I feel like this is the sentiment I hear from most friends. [...] I’m confused who is buying all these switches

Well, Mario Kart 8 sold about the same as the 5 Zelda titles for the Switch put together (BotW, TotK, Link's Awakening, Skyward Sword HD, and Echoes of Wisdom). More than twice BotW, which was the best selling Zelda game for the Switch. So that's the bigger draw overall.
by xohails | 2025-06-04 12:57:12+00:00
Hey everyone

I'm the founder of Gubb.net (recently rebuilt from scratch), and I wanted to share a quick story behind it and why it exists.

Like many of you, I’ve tried dozens of productivity apps—only to be overwhelmed by clutter, tabs, subscriptions, and features I’d never use. That frustration led me to build Gubb.net: a focused, 10-tools-in-1 app designed to be lightweight, clean, and actually useful.

Gubb App Key Features: Break Time Reminder – Helps you rest your eyes and body, especially useful for remote workers or students.

Clipboard History – Never lose a copied link or text again.

Voice to Text – Dictate instead of typing when you’re in flow.

Pomodoro Timer – Boost your focus using the proven 25/5 technique.

To-do List – Minimal and fast, with just the essentials.

Calculator + Contextual Math – Calculate with logic; handles simple math to contextual formulas.

Currency Converter – Real-time, simple, no ads.

Unit Conversions – Quickly switch between units (km to miles, °C to °F, etc.).

Keyboard Sounds – A subtle productivity boost for those who enjoy tactile feedback.

Markdown Notes – Write in clean, structured text with formatting.

Additional Features: Markdown support for clean formatting

Import & Export notes for portability

10+ Themes to match your vibe

Why Gubb? No account needed to use the core features

Super fast – launches instantly

Offline support – works even without internet

Cross-platform ready – minimal web + native builds

I built Gubb.net to make productivity simple again — no learning curve, no sign-ups, no bloated UI. Just 10 focused tools in one tidy space.

Would love your thoughts, feedback, and ideas.
by seydor | 2025-06-04 12:57:24+00:00
> Although the cockatoos can manipulate the fountain’s handles, they don’t always quench their thirsts. The team found that only 41% of attempts ended with the birds successfully drinking water. The animals struggled especially when other cockatoos crowded or rushed them.

"learned to operate" is an overstatement. They brute-forced a way to get water sometimes. Lots of animals do that. Mice learn or figure out how to get such water rewards - it's used every day in labs studying the brain
by rendaw | 2025-06-04 12:57:36+00:00
I don't agree. Plenty of people write HTML by hand, no WYSIWYG, often with no more than a live preview pane like Typst's.

Why isn't it easy to place something relative to the edges of a page via text? In HTML I do `padding: 2cm` and I'm done. I'd say most of design involves placing elements relative to eachother; half the constraints in GUI design tools are matching spacing or aligning to nearby elements.

I'm not saying you can do the whole thing blind, but for the odd thing that does need visual feedback, not having a convenient UI isn't a critical failure. Some of those things are hard to do in a GUI too, and having a good text based layout tool could be easier.