MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jart | 2025-06-25 18:14:47+00:00
It would be more accurate to say I packaged it. llamafile is a project I did for Mozilla Builders where we compiled llama.cpp with cosmopolitan libc so that LLMs can be portable binaries. https://builders.mozilla.org/ Last year I concatenated the Gemma weights onto llamafile and called it gemmafile and it got hundreds of thousands of downloads. https://x.com/JustineTunney/status/1808165898743878108 I currently work at Google on Gemini improving TPU performance. The point is that if you want to run this stuff 100% locally, you can. Myself and others did a lot of work to make that possible.
by janalsncm | 2025-06-25 18:14:53+00:00
I recently used lovable to create the scaffolding for an app. It did a great job, far better than I expected.

However, it also squishes everything into one JS file, making it unwieldy for anything moderately complex. After I fell off the happy path (integrating onnx was basically impossible), I had to spend a fair amount of time reworking it.

I’m probably not the target audience though. And I got the end result faster than I would’ve, and it’s better looking.
by ProgramMax | 2025-06-25 18:14:56+00:00
In general, I support the "follow the money" idea. But I don't think it applies here.

I'm retired and making zero money here. (I'm actually losing money on it. Wish I had a company sponsoring me for the flights and hotels for meetups.)

All participants are required to not patent any piece of it. We work hard to make sure we only reference open standards. (This one is quite tricky. We have to convince other standard orgs to make their stuff free.)

I could see the argument for getting around a gate. But fwiw I don't think that's the case :)
by sershe | 2025-06-25 18:15:11+00:00
One nice thing about basic economy and price discrimination is you actually get a better experience if you pay more. Instead of free exit row seats distributed via luck and timing, trying to get in early to ensure overhead bins are not full due to ridiculous size and amount of stuff people bring, checking seatguru for best laptop compatible seats etc. you can pay 30-150 bucks for exit row and have guaranteed comfort and early boarding. Or you can save money with the baseline experience. Previously your only improvement option was business/first class at bazillion dollars.

Same for bags, I almost never check bags and I have run into competing fares where one is X+Y, bag included, another ~X with Y bag fee. They should disaggregate more!
Show HN: ESP32 Partition Calculator
by platevoltage | 2025-06-25 18:15:19+00:00
I know I've mentioned this in a comment somewhere, but I wanted to officially share it with HN. In one of my projects I had the need to customize the partition table on the ESP32. The only tool I could find at the moment to do the calculations was a Google Sheet based tool that was very limited, so created this.

Recently I added some tools to automatically adjust partition sizes to fit empty space. I hope there are some people on this board that will find some use for it.

Any suggestions on improvements are absolutely welcome!
by agentultra | 2025-06-25 18:15:47+00:00
It's mostly empty, isn't it?

By "literally nothing there," I mean there's literally nothing for us. Three stars and a few Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone that are, more than likely, uninhabitable by humans. There's nothing there worth going all that way for.

I like sci-fi as much as the next person but the reality of the situation, it seems to me, is that the universe is mostly empty, vast, and inhospitable to human life.
by irthomasthomas | 2025-06-25 18:15:58+00:00
If you uv install llm Then grab my shelllm scripts github.com/irthomasthomas/shelllm and source them in your terminal then you can use premade prompt functions like shelp "what's a nm and grep command to find this symbol in these 3 folders" -m gemini-pro

There's also wrappers that place the command directly in your terminal prompt if you run shelp-c
by lxgr | 2025-06-25 18:16:47+00:00
That only proves that a given human exists and was issued a given passport, not that that passport is actually present. For that you do need active or chip authentication, but only the former yields a signature that third parties can validate.

Even then, authorization is completely missing from the ICAO model – it's for authentication of identity documents only. It's explicitly not intended for "proof of humanity", since that requires authorization too, or it'd be vulnerable to any attacker that can briefly tap your identity document with their phone.

That's one of the reasons why active authentication was deprecated, presumably: Signatures without document owner authorization can be misleading/interpreted as confirming intent, not just document existence.
by frollogaston | 2025-06-25 18:17:00+00:00
They aren't exactly bad hires. Lots of previously solid employees were going kinda AWOL sometimes while remote. Even if someone wants to be responsive, after seeing enough pings go unanswered all day, they might follow suit.

They could redefine the job requirements to be remote-first, but that'd require a lot of firing and hiring.
by bisby | 2025-06-25 18:17:17+00:00
> I, like many hackers, hated school because they just threw one-size-fits-all knowledge at you

"This specific knowledge format doesnt work for me, so I'm asking OpenAI to convert this knowledge into a format that is easier for me to digest" is exactly what this is about.

I'm not quite sure what you're upset about? Unless you're referring to "one size fits all knowledge" as simplified topics, so you can tackle things at a surface level? I love having surface level knowledge about a LOT of things. I certainly don't have time to have go deep on every topic out there. But if this is a topic I find I am interested in, the full talk is still available.

Breadth and depth are both important, and well summarized talks are important for breadth, but not helpful at all for depth, and that's ok.
by jjcob | 2025-06-25 18:17:21+00:00
I doubt there is a single explanation. I think it's multiple factors.

Unleaded gasoline could also be a factor. Every country has shown drops in crime rates when leaded gasoline was phased out.

If I recall, leaded gasoline was phased out in the 80ies, which fits a drop in crime rates in the 90ies.
by Xmd5a | 2025-06-25 18:18:10+00:00
>Gemini 2.5 Pro is the best model

It's the second time I read this in this thread. May I ask why you think this is the case? And in which domains? I am very satisfied with 2.5 pro when it comes to philosophical/literary analysis, probably because of the super long context I can fill with whole books, and wanted to try Claude Code for the same purpose, but with folders, summaries, etc to make up for the shorter context length.
by kgwxd | 2025-06-25 18:18:12+00:00
>lack of “ideological diversity,” whatever that means.

> You know what that means. You're being dismissive of their complaints for what reason?

All social feeds are going to end up leaning "left" where users get to vote without heavy algorithmic/moderator manipulation. It's only considered "unfair" by people that have to trick other people into liking them, and scream over everyone to "be heard" because they've quickly proven themselves the human equivalent of an AI spam bot trained on FUD, hate, and zealousness.

Those demonstrably opposed to all forms of diversity do not get to hide behind "diversity". They just suck, and no one wants to listen, or talk, to them, except other people exactly like them. It's not a paradox, it's not hypocrisy, it's just decent people avoiding interacting with miserable people as best they can.

I used Bluesky at the beginning of the year, just to check how it has progressed after initial launch. I was easily able to keep a feed with nearly 0 political content by building my "Follow" list organically.

If I felt like jumping on a bandwagon, I'd click the Discover feed or trending topic. Before leaving, I blocked those elements with uBO just to see how it felt. It was exactly as I dreamed, a feed solely of my own design without any distractions. Bluesky should completely hide those feeds by default. They should just remove them entirely IMO, but 1 step at a time. Let people find each other in natural ways, void of any algorithm. Just provide the platform to manage their custom-built lists and how other people can interact with them through it.
by lxgr | 2025-06-25 18:18:31+00:00
Some countries indeed also implement an e-signature scheme with their national identity cards (for example Germany), but this is a completely different scheme and accordingly protocol from the ICAO biometric travel document one.

Essentially, these countries run two applications on the document chip: One that lets anyone verify the authenticity of the document, using the ICAO PKI and active or chip authentication, and one that lets the document owner sign data, usually after entering a PIN or password (or anybody holding the document could do so on their behalf).

Other countries decouple e-signatures/remote authentication and electronically verifiable identity documents, e.g. Austria – which now has an ICAO-compatible identity card, but a completely separate e-signature schme based on, and it really pains me to say this... server-side private keys.
by nico | 2025-06-25 18:18:57+00:00
This is a really cool feature and it’s big competition for services like Lovable, Bolt, v0

Seems like AI-assisted coding space is splitting in 2:

1) tools and services that aim mostly at prototyping and are close to no-code; most useful for users like PMs or very early stage entrepreneurs who just need to have something to show/share

2) professional tools that target “serious” developers who are already working on bigger/more complex code bases

Interesting that Claude is going after both. 1) with this new feature, and 2) with pretty much all their other services
by anonnon | 2025-06-25 18:19:38+00:00
> India has been sanctioned by US in the 90s for doing reciprocal nuclear tests

For one year. 14 other countries sanctioned India too.

> The CIA is currently fuelling and instigating Manipur riots

I couldn't find anything on this besides articles on Indian/Bangladeshi InfoWars-tier websites.

> to what US Government has done to India over the past 7 decades

Like what?
by jinlisp | 2025-06-25 18:19:45+00:00
It depends of what you need, but for example for calculus is a nice program. There is also sympy and Wolfram Mathematica. For symbolic computation I think that Mathematica is the strongest then maxima and then sympy, but sympy is based on python and I think it will get stronger. If you need numerical computation then there is octave or matlab or julia.
by iforgotpassword | 2025-06-25 18:20:13+00:00
Oh, a few years ago I wanted to write a simple program for dos. Since this is a Linux-only household otherwise, I was delighted to see OpenWatcom has a Linux port. I spent a good half hour trying to get a simple first version of the program I wanted to write running, but it always crashed right away. I simplified more and more until I basically arrived at hello world. On a hunch I ran the windows version of OpenWatcom with wine, and lo and behold, the program ran flawlessly! Once I googled that I found a couple of forum threads where people went like "yeah sure the Linux port produces broken binaries" because of course.

It's never the compiler until it's the compiler. Just didn't expect it during some simple fun coding at home. :)
by antonymoose | 2025-06-25 18:20:23+00:00
I live in a deep Red Bible thumping, back the blue, law and order county / state.

About 7 years ago a former schoolmate of mine shot a man 6 times over a bad drug deal, fled the state to California. He was captured by the US Marshal and brought back to the county jail where he bonded out after 3 month.

After his bonding out, he drove over to the victim’s parent’s house and performed a drive-by shooting, injuring none but did kill livestock.

He was arrested again, taken to the county jail, and bonded out after several months.

The issue finally reached a plea bargain, they dropped all charges related to both shooting, had him plead guilty to felony firearms charge, and gave him time served and 5 years probation.

This man is a grown adult with felony priors, and got a proverbial slap on the wrist. Never saw a day of state prison, likely never will.

If this is how we treat serious violent crime, I’m not surprised in TFA at all.
by trhway | 2025-06-25 18:20:38+00:00
alternatively you ionize that particle, may be make in into plasma by laser for ease of "digestion" down in the engine, direct in into the engine where it is used as working mass for your ion thruster, kind of similar to scramjet.

As far as i see with today's tech - like Starlink's ion thruster + classic nuclear reactor - we can get to 300km/s in about 4 stages. Straightforward improvement of ion thrusters - mainly voltage increase and associated engineering (which will immediately happen once we start flying to Mars and beyond as ion thruster currently our best/fastest option inside the Solar system) - can get us to 1000-2000km/s, i.e. under 1000 years to Alpha Centauri (that for a large populated spacecraft, and for just tiny probe to announce our existence (and to send back photos which we'd receive using Sun's gravitational lensing) we can do even better). And using interstellar gas and dust scramjet-style will improve on those numbers (as such ship is mostly limited by the working mass it starts with while the reactors would be able to continue produce the energy much longer).
by foob | 2025-06-25 18:21:41+00:00
your data can be used UNLESS you opt out

It's even more nuanced than that.

Google recently testified in court that they still train on user data after users opt out from training [1]. The loophole is that the opt-out only applies to one organization within Google, but other organizations are still free to train on the data. They may or may not have cleaned up their act given that they're under active investigation, but their recent actions haven't exactly earned them the benefit of the doubt on this topic.

[1] https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/googl...
by anonnon | 2025-06-25 18:21:44+00:00
I believe they're referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha

> Gregory Douglas, a journalist, conspiracy theorist,[128] forger,[129] and holocaust denier[130] who claimed to have conducted telephone conversations with former CIA operative Robert Crowley in 1993, published a book titled Conversations with the Crow in 2013. According to Douglas, Crowley claimed that the CIA was responsible for assassinating Homi Bhabha and Prime Minister Shastri in 1966, thirteen days apart, to thwart India's nuclear programme.[131]

Clearly, the GP is completely rational and quite well-informed.
by swedonym | 2025-06-25 18:22:43+00:00
We’re in an era where spinning up a new app is easier than ever. With AI-assisted coding, no-code tools, and cloud infra, the barriers are down. If your moat is “we write complex code,” there’s an AI and ten hungry devs who can match you by next Friday.

The only real constant is motion. In 2025, software moats are not ditches. They’re treadmills. Keep running.
by FredPret | 2025-06-25 18:22:52+00:00
Or overseas investors are sending capital to America, where it enlarges existing businesses and creates new ones, leading to more jobs, more competition for the consumer's dollar, and more tax for the US government when money is paid out to those investors.

If it was so simple to use capital to exploit the rest of society, why would these investors not simply invest where they are? Why go to the trouble and expense of investing their money in a different country?
by y-curious | 2025-06-25 18:23:06+00:00
I'm the person you responded to originally. The biggest issue is "kick out non-paying customers". Mechanisms exist to do so, but: 1. What if someone bought a coffee? You face potential litigation for discrimination. 2. Minimum wage employees shouldn't have to play the role of enforcers. A mentally-ill/drug-addled person can snap and cause a dangerous scene. Getting the cops involved is possible, but time-consuming and a pain. 3. It's America-centric because we don't have a social safety net for people. In the UK, for example, the NHS has avenues for people to get treated. The homeless you do run into tend to pose a much lower risk, anecdotally.

We do have coffee shops, but as others have pointed out, many are getting rid of seating. I think a membership route is the only way to enforce something more exclusive.
by aquariusDue | 2025-06-25 18:23:24+00:00
I attended a workshop for iroh a while ago and really enjoyed it, and from what I can tell on the Discord server the folks developing it are gearing for a 1.0 release soon-ish.

There's also Dumb Pipe and SendMe which are demos (I believe) built on iroh to showcase some of its uses, and at the workshop we were shown a video of a startup using iroh for video game streaming (something similar to the old OnLive).

From what I understood (in spite of my lack of networking knowledge) and if I remember correctly clients have to be on the same relay (I think there's one for Europe and one for North America) and they use the Bittorent DHT Mainline (I had to google the iroh blog post about it because I forgot the exact name) for discovery. There was some stuff about BGP too, but it went over my head sadly.

I hope somebody more knowledgeable chimes in because iroh is really exciting, I feel like I could throw together a p2p application and it wouldn't be a daunting task due to it.
by fragmede | 2025-06-25 18:23:27+00:00
It's a much more interesting question when framed with numbers! But let's say they ship 500k main boards (since it doesn't need to be a totally assembled laptop to benefit), and it only costs $300k, not $3 million (and a couple laptops) to the right eastern European software developer to perfectly tune some Linux config files. Then it's only $1.50 per laptop, and they could arguably just eat that cost.

Framework doesn't have to spend enough to be the next Apple (nor do they have the resources to be), they just need to spend enough to not be so desperately far behind Dell.

The explanation makes sense in isolation, it just seems like a local maxima if you zoom out.
by alok-g | 2025-06-25 18:23:34+00:00
I am in such a phase as I write this. What should have been a week-long project has already gone through three and not finished. This is a simple multi-platform app I am building in Flutter.

One challenge I face is to be able to build something useful within a week. In two projects, I could make wirhin two days each.

For the Flutter one mentioned above, it took me two-three days just to get the tooling/SDKs to work and get me to a hello-world program working on Windows. Then it took about a week to program with all features I needed.

And then, damned again -- Took me a couple days to get it to build APK (random errors; the issue in the build tooling is still open). And then a week of craziness to sort out Android permissions. I still have the latter unresolved.
by infogulch | 2025-06-25 18:23:38+00:00
Just ESNI/ECH is a big deal.

I recall one of the main arguments against Encrypted server name indication (ESNI) is that it would only be effective for the giant https proxy services like Cloudflare, that the idea of IP certs was floated as a solution but dismissed as a pipe dream. With IP address certificates, now every server can participate in ESNI, not just the giants. If it becomes common enough for clients to assume that all web servers have an IP cert and attempt to use ESNI on every connection, it could be a boon for privacy across the internet.
by olejorgenb | 2025-06-25 18:24:08+00:00
> For API users, we automatically delete inputs and outputs on our backend within 30 days of receipt or generation, except when you and we have agreed otherwise (e.g. zero data retention agreement), if we need to retain them for longer to enforce our Usage Policy (UP), or comply with the law.

If this is due to compliance with law I wonder how they can make the zero-data-retention agreement work... The companies I've seen have this have not mention that they themself retain the data...
by joshvm | 2025-06-25 18:24:12+00:00
Gemini has some fun failure modes. It gets "frustrated" when changes it makes doesn't work, and replies with oddly human phrases like "Well, that was unexpected" and then happily declares that (I see the issue!) "the final tests will pass" when it's going down a blind alley. It's extremely overconfident by default and much more exclamatory without changing the system prompt. Maybe in training it was taught/figured out that manifesting produces better results?
by mgraczyk | 2025-06-25 18:24:56+00:00
But that view is wrong, the model outputs multiple tokens.

The right alternative view is that it's an immutable function from prefixes to a distribution over all possible sequences of tokens less than (context_len - prefix_len).

There are no mutable functions that cannot be viewed as immutable in a similar way. Human brains are an immutable function from input sense-data to the combination (brain adaptation, output actions). Here "brain adaptation" doing a lot of work, but so would be "1e18 output tokens". There is much more information contained within the latter
by virgildotcodes | 2025-06-25 18:25:08+00:00
So far I'm getting mixed results. I noted in its memory and in GEMINI.md a couple of directives like "only generate migration files using cli tools to ensure the timestamps are correct" and "never try to run migrations yourself" and it failed to follow those instructions a couple of times within ~20 minutes of testing.

In comparison to Claude Code Opus 4, it seemed much more eager to go on a wild goose chase of fixing a problem by creating calls to new RPCs that then attempted to modify columns that didn't exist or which had a different type, and its solution to this being a problem was to then propose migration after migration to modify the db schema to fit the shape of the rpc it had defined.

Reminded me of the bad old days of agentic coding circa late 2024.

I'm usually a big fan of 2.5 Pro in an analysis / planning context. It seems to just weirdly fall over when it comes to tool calling or something?
by krferriter | 2025-06-25 18:25:15+00:00
I subscribed to Google One through the Google Photos iOS app because I wanted photos I took on my iPhone to be backed up to Google. When I switched to Android and went into Google One to increase my storage capacity in my Google account, I found that it was literally impossible, because the subscription was tied to my iCloud account. I even got on a line with Google Support about it and they told me yeah it's not even possible on their side to disconnect my Google One subscription from Apple. I had to wait for the iCloud subscription to Google One to end, and then I was able to go into Google One and increase my storage capacity.
by quantadev | 2025-06-25 18:25:25+00:00
The only way that analogy remotely maps onto reality in the world of LLMs would be in a `Mixture of Experts` system where small LLMs have been trained on a specific area like math or chemistry, and a sort of 'Router pre-Inference' is done to select which model to send to, so that if there was a bug in a MoE system and it routed to the wrong 'Expert' then quality would reduce.

However _even_ in a MoE system you _still_ always get better outputs when your prompting is clear with as much relevant detail as you have. They never do better because of being unconstrained as you mistakenly believe.
by krunck | 2025-06-25 18:26:04+00:00
The comment by Benjamin Stockton on the article page is spot-on:

>I just wonder if humanity’s adventurous nature is leading us away from a proper focus on the sustainability of our civilization, our specie, and our fragile planetary environment?

But we still need spaceflight at least for planetary defense against asteroids, mining asteroids(so we don't have to mine Earth), etc.