MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by therealpygon | 2025-07-16 13:40:11+00:00
It is hard to accept as a premise because the premise is questionable from the beginning.

Google already reported several breakthroughs as a direct result of AI, using processes that almost certainly include LLMs, including a new solution in math, improved chip designs, etc. DeepMind has AI that predicted millions of protein folds which are already being used in drugs among many other things they do, though yes, not an LLM per se. There is certainly the probability that companies won’t announce things given that the direct LLM output isn’t copyrightable/patentable, so a human-in-the-loop solves the issue by claiming the human made said breakthrough with AI/LLM assistance. There isn’t much benefit to announcing how much AI helped with a breakthrough unless you’re engaged in basically selling AI.

As for “why aren’t LLMs creating breakthroughs by themselves regularly”, that answer is pretty obvious… they just don’t really have that capacity in a meaningful way based on how they work. The closest example is Google’s algorithmic breakthrough absolutely was created by a coding LLM, which was effectively achieved through brute force in a well established domain, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a breakthrough. That alone casts doubt on the underlying premise of the post.
by jraph | 2025-07-16 13:40:25+00:00
I'm not sure why you are asking me all this, this is beside my points.

> So

I reject the link here.

> when somebody says "Linux reaches X market share", are they talking about the kernel?

Likely not.

> Why does it even matter how much the kernel is used?

Why not? Depends what's your concern.

> Would you count WSL?

Depends what you want to evaluate.
by danbruc | 2025-07-16 13:40:39+00:00
There are browser - Vivaldi for example - that allow you to place the tab strip on any edge you want. To me personally it just looks and feels wrong, maybe just because of years of exposure to tabs on the top, but I can not get used to it, even though I have to admit that the tab labels are much nicer to read on the left if you have sufficiently many tabs open.
by adregan | 2025-07-16 13:40:41+00:00
Ah this takes me back. It felt as thought the early 2010s were replete with ipsum generators (https://hipsum.co/ was always fun), and they were really handy when coding up a PSD design.

Not really sure if it’s just me, but I don’t really reach for them in my work anymore. Not sure if it’s because everything used to be a blog and now everything is an app, lower information density, or that content is less likely to be text.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-16 13:40:44+00:00
> You're not gonna believe this, but you are paying for it. Every dime your employer spends on your insurance is one dime they're not paying you in cash.

You're not gonna believe this, but you are paying for it. Every dime your employer spends on taxes is one dime they're not paying you in cash.

Wow, really?
by Aachen | 2025-07-16 13:40:50+00:00
Does that setup fall back to 8.8.8.8 if 9.9.9.9 fails to resolve?

Quad9 has a very aggressive blocking policy (my site with user-uploaded content was banned without even reporting the malicious content; if you're a big brand name it seems to be fine to have user-uploaded content though) which this would be a possible workaround for, but it may not take an nxdomain response as a resolver failure
by ta1243 | 2025-07-16 13:41:35+00:00
In the internet world you can't really advertise subnets smaller than a /24, so 1.1.1.1/32 isn't a route, it's via 1.1.1.0/24

You can see they are separate routes, say looking at Telia's routing IP

https://lg.telia.net/?type=bgp&router=fre-peer1.se&address=1...

https://lg.telia.net/?type=bgp&router=fre-peer1.se&address=1...

In this case they both are advertised from the same peer above, I suspect they usually are - they certainly come from the same AS, but they don't need to. You could have two peers with cloudflare with different weights for each /24
by palata | 2025-07-16 13:41:38+00:00
So I was saying that Android runs the Linux kernel, period.

But now that you say it, Android is very much a full OS. It's not a Linux Desktop, but it is a full OS. And televisions running Android are called "smart TVs", precisely because they run a full OS instead of a minimal firmware like they used to.

Google is working on bringing Android to the Desktop, and Samsung already does it. As in: you plug your smartphone into a docking station and it is suddenly a Desktop computer.
by joks | 2025-07-16 13:42:03+00:00
I've definitely been enjoying the sort of mini-comeback desktop toys have had in recent years as little JavaScript scripts on tech people's personal blogs (like oneko.js: https://github.com/adryd325/oneko.js/). If I was a little more cold-hearted I might find it annoying and distracting, but I just love when folks do silly stuff on personal websites to make them feel more "personal" like they did in the early-mid 2000s.
by js8 | 2025-07-16 13:42:03+00:00
I am not sure why tie this to any concrete AI technology such as LLMs. IMHO the biggest issue we have with AI right now is that we don't know how to philosophicaly formalize what we want. What is reasoning?

I am trying to answer that for myself. Since every logic is expressible in untyped lambda calculus (as any computation is), you could have a system that just somehow generates terms and beta-reduces them. In even so much simpler logic, what are the "interesting" terms?

I have several answers, but my point is, you should simplify the problem and this question has not been answered even under such simple scenario.
by Gormo | 2025-07-16 13:42:20+00:00
> I don’t hate it, but I question the use. You can use HTTP to do what it does, but better.

I'm not sure I understand that. HTTP is the fundamental protocol of the web. If your goal is to create an ecosystem that is deliberately set apart from the web, how would using the same underlying tech stack help rather than hinder you in doing that?

> HTTP is great, and deserves our time and attention. I get that they seem upset with the modern web, and I am too - but it isn’t HTTP’s fault. It’s the sites you visit.

And why are those sites so awful? Did they decide to become awful from the outset, or is it because they've gradually adapted to a userbase that has regressed to the mean due to the mass-market nature of the web?

The whole point of developing a new protocol is to create a non-negligible threshold of though and effort for participation, precisely so that it doesn't get popular quickly and end up subjected to Eternal September.
by Mordisquitos | 2025-07-16 13:42:32+00:00
Haha. I only avoided that reflexive action because my reflex when a large online service is down is to start typing 'news.ycom...' in my address bar and then scroll down to search :-)

Of course hilarity will ensue the day I experience a HN outage and wish to see if anyone has made a thread about it...
Show HN: Minimal SVG to Favicon Generator
by ignatiusmb | 2025-07-16 13:42:45+00:00
i built a minimal web app that generates a complete favicon set from a single SVG.

it runs entirely in the browser, has no third-party dependencies (not even the web framework itself), and is fully self-contained in a single downloadable HTML file.

site: https://favicon.mauss.dev

article: https://mauss.dev/posts/svg-to-favicon

source: https://github.com/ignatiusmb/mauss.dev/tree/master/workspac...

the article link is a technical deep dive that i wrote, mostly to document what i learned, but also to make sure i don't forget the experience itself.

i've been using it locally for a couple of weeks, and finally polished it enough to deploy it. there are more features i could add (like cropping non-square SVGs or compressing PNGs), but i wanted to release it before it joins the mountain of unfinished and unreleased side projects at the corner of the room.

feedback or suggestions are very much welcome. a bug report straight on the GitHub repo is also appreciated.
by doright | 2025-07-16 13:42:48+00:00
I guess it matters what "shitty" parent means. You can give all the financial/material support in the world to a child and still cause irreversible lifelong damage with the wrong parenting style. You don't need to be a "perfect" parent, but at the same time you do need to be a "good enough" parent, or the consequences are dire.

Knowing what I've been through, I'd much, much rather those people spend an extra 5 or more years working through those problems instead of having children that will grow up to regret being born.

And reality is, some people should never become parents, because they carry mental issues they will forever lack the self-perception to acknowledge and attempt to change. But they will become parents anyway, and the outcome is all but certain.
by oleksandr_dem | 2025-07-16 13:42:54+00:00
Hi, yes, the dev.to post is a bit outdated.

> I would like to see sqlite support Indeed, it is something I'm planing to add, but following all the feedback I got so far this will have to wait (landing page needs some work, plus a lot of people are having concerns regarding CLI tool not being open sourced)

> any value of having the frontend loaded from a website instead of just opening it in localhost ? I want the CLI package to be as small as possible, and including 600kb React bundle in it is the exact oposite of small. Moreover, the idea in the future is for you to be able to connect to any host (be it cloud, localhost or selfhosted) from the same page (for example I have company self hosted server and a local server for my local databases).
by tomhow | 2025-07-16 13:42:59+00:00
You’re always welcome to email us to point out an article that has that potential to sustain a high quality discussion. These things are often best judged by their consequences. If the thread if full of repetitive ideological rhetoric, it’s not good for HN. If it has plenty of interesting new ideas, then it belongs here and we’ll happily give it the exposure the community wants. Either way, we’re answerable to the community.
by sjw987 | 2025-07-16 13:43:36+00:00
It's the economy, stupid.

Most younger people can't afford homes. People's money doesn't go as far as it used to. Academic qualifications are worth less than they used to be. Many people currently working now won't see a pension. Many won't see a good paying job, even with good academic qualifications and work experience. General health and wellbeing is getting worse, with businesses abusing human psychology to shift product that knowingly causes worse health outcomes. Many people are concerned about the political direction of the countries they live in, and many are concerned about the changes in the community and culture around them. Many might see the first shockwaves of climate change (climate refugees, more extreme weather, water shortages). War is growing, and will grow further when states start fighting over dwindling resources. All generations, especially the young and impressionable are becoming addicted to information (not in a good way) and media consumption, the only upside of which is an inverse relationship to alcohol and substance consumption.

And their kids will have it worse than them. The world is getting worse to live in, and we (or many of us) have just enough education this time around to not want to burden another generation with that. In the past, and in certain places today, a lack of education would mean people would procreate even as society collapsed around them.

We've lived through a very small golden age of being alive (in select places) the last 70 years. It was unsustainable, and we are now seeing the undoing of those times. We might not see such a boom of prosperity again.
by vkazanov | 2025-07-16 13:43:56+00:00
Linux is a kernel, that's it. There is an organisation maintaining it, and also the trademark.

There is also a major family of OSes building on the kernel + gnu userspace, which you probably call "desktop linux".

In my house there are dozens of devices running linux the kernel: routers, a tv set, washing machines, NAS, printers, etc. Some have the full gnu posix-like stack, others are very barebones.

Then, there's is a bunch of android devices running the kernel as well.

What's wrong with all of these? At what point should i draw a line?
by johnisgood | 2025-07-16 13:44:01+00:00
How do you know that it is not the reason or not ONE of the reasons? Seems pretty reasonable to me to use ChatGPT, Claude, or whichever one supports it.

I am pretty sure some people (maybe this individual, too) may be using Python because their scripts can be executed in a sandbox on one of these websites.

Heck, if it was as good at Factor or Forth as it is at Python, I would be writing more of them, too.

In any case, you cannot claim that it is not one of the reasons. Can you?
by lumost | 2025-07-16 13:44:32+00:00
The issue here is that no one can agree on which portion of government spending is wasteful. It’s almost taken as a tautology that the government is wasteful. After 50 years of cost cutting and wage freezes, I tend to find it fanciful that individuals paid 1/4 of their private sector compensation to work on core civil infrastructure, national research priorities, and policy are somehow a bad deal for the American taxpayer at large. If anything, I’d imagine that the government could incentivize greater productivity by normalizing the pay scales. At a minimum, maintaining a public capability can often neutralize monopolistic pricing practices.

Have you considered who the narrative of wasteful spending benefits? Even our narratives of tax increases never discuss tax increases on what is now the bulk of personal monetary gain.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-16 13:44:32+00:00
On the other hand, if for whatever reason some top tier soccer/football/basketball/etc. went to shark tank and said «I want to release my own sportswear brand», they’d probably get their funding. In fact, they’d probably have investors lined up.

Same thing here. Mira is a top tier, high-profile person in the AI space. So investors lined up.
by JohnFen | 2025-07-16 13:44:41+00:00
The US has historically run pretty hot and cold with immigration. We're in an "immigrants are evil" phase right now, and we have been before. But the wheel will keep spinning and we'll be in a "immigrants are great" phase again.

US' attitude towards immigration is generally correlated with how economically secure people are feeling. The less secure, the more immigrants are viewed as a threat and even scapegoated. What's happening with immigration right now says a lot about how secure people are feeling.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-16 13:44:49+00:00
I don't understand why population studies people don't even mention this: we're technically wild animals, competing for survival. In absence of a specific and effective imperative stipulating population must grow, we must subconsciously modify societal frameworks exactly to impede reproduction.

It's crazy that the threshold for kids/adults is right in the middle of fertile age and no one ever questions that.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-16 13:44:51+00:00
> Yeah, this is definitely the conduct of someone who's [interested in more understanding over more fighting]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582005

Yep, I agree with you that it is! Note that I fixed your "translation" of my quote here, which I'm sure was just an honest mistake on your part.

You see, I realize that you have different opinions than me and others, but that's no reason for you to be rude and disrespectful to others on HN. Your link there is a good example of how to behave instead.

That said, I already told you I'm not interested in a fight about opinions with someone who isn't interested in changing theirs, so if you're leaving because I didn't provide you with such a fight... bye?
by leereeves | 2025-07-16 13:45:19+00:00
> Sending dissidents/LGBTQ people home to many South American countries is a death trap

That's exactly the kind of ignorance I'm talking about.

Same-sex marriage is legal in most (by population and area) of Latin America. Nations that haven't legalized that still have laws that ban anti-gay discrimination. English colonies like Jamaica and Guyana are worse. Many parts of the US are worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_the_Americas

"Outside of the North Atlantic, no region in the world has undergone more progress in expanding LGBT legal rights than Latin America"

"Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries (SPLA) are unquestionably in the lead in the region. If one excludes non-SPLA countries, which are mostly small countries in the Caribbean, the record of progress is even more impressive."

- LGBTQ+ Victory Institute

https://victoryinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LAC-...
by sofixa | 2025-07-16 13:45:21+00:00
> unemployment rate dropped from 5.8% in 2020 to 2.3% in 2025

Because a massive amount of men were conscripted?

> GDP is surging

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Spending ~30% of the country's budget on military hardware that will get blown up might look good, GDP wise, but is utterly unproductive.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-16 13:45:24+00:00
No one is stopping couples from having big families (except their economics perhaps), but no one should help them either. There are 8 billion people on Earth, headed to 10 billion. We are currently unwilling to spend what it takes and reconfigure socioeconomic systems to provide quality of life for the humans here now. Fix this and then an argument to have more kids is potentially palatable. But "spit more expensive [time and fiat] kids into the torment nexus?" Neither a rational nor empathetic argument imho.
by AstroBen | 2025-07-16 13:45:29+00:00
I wonder how much of this is driven by Linux gaming performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560913

I've used all three OS's for many years and I really just.. don't care which one I'm on anymore. They all do the same thing. Currently on windows 11 after ~5 years of debian gnome and its fine. Enjoyable even, especially with WSL. GUI software support is much better here
by imiric | 2025-07-16 13:45:33+00:00
> IMHO, that would qualify as an AGI even though it isn't writing essays or producing business plans.

I'm not sure it would, though. The "G" in AGI stands for "General", which a dog obviously can't showcase. The comparison must be done against humans, since the goal is to ultimately have the system perform human tasks.

The definition mentioned by tedsanders seems adequate to me. Most of the terms are fuzzy ("most", "outperform"), but limiting the criteria to economic value narrows it down to a measurable metric. Of course, this could be exploited by building a system that optimizes for financial gain over everything else, but this wouldn't be acceptable.

The actual definition is not that important, IMO. AGI, if it happens, won't appear suddenly from a singular event, but as a gradual process until it becomes widely accepted that we have reached it. The impact on society and our lives would be impossible to ignore at that point. The problem with this is that along the way there will be charlatans and grifters shouting from the rooftops that they've already cracked it, but this is nothing new.
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-16 13:45:34+00:00
If it was the head of the foundation making that much no one would donate. It would be a matter of opportunity cost. A non profit that size would normally have a leader compensated on the level of a software developer. I'd argue the ceo of the corporation is also wildly overcompensated too, but that normally wouldn't be relevant to the decision to donate. The issue arises because of the close financial ties between the corporation and the foundation, which is enough to prevent my donations by itself, those ties though create the perception that fewer donations would increase transfers from the corporation. If that is in fact true, then the question of opportunity cost does extend to all of the corporations expenses and someone considering donating sgould absolutely consider all of those expenses and decide if they are doing good with their donation or not.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-16 13:45:53+00:00
I had a Teams meeting for an outside of work topic this morning. Since all my personal machines are Linux based I was kinda happy I had my work laptop available with Windows and Teams installed.

Booting it up about half an hour before the meeting... Installing updates...

After rebooting twice and only five minutes before the meeting started I reverted to my Linux desktop, opened the email with the link to the Teams meeting and was a minute early using the web version of Teams.

Phew, saved by Linux.

Kudos to Microsoft for making Teams web version operating system and browser agnostic. But fuck what they've done with Windows updates. Numerous coworkers also saying their computers decided to reboot of their own volition the last couple of days in order to install updates.

Maybe it's a worthwhile trade off for security, but I'm glad I had an alternative option this morning.

I'm the five-odd years since switching to Linux exclusive at home, my decision is only ever reconfirmed as correct.

(I'm a reformed gamer from a long while ago, but the very few games I do play I have gotten to work on Linux).
Ask HN: Critical thinking system prompt for ChatGPT, Claude etc.
by celurian92 | 2025-07-16 13:45:56+00:00
Anyone made any system prompts for ChatGPT, Claude etc llms where it will let you think critically and improve your analytical abilities and thought process by being a genuinely interested partner/debate/devils advocate/research scientist?

Like it will help me think critically/out of the box/ creatively and broaden my horizons rather than answering like a sycophant?
by butlike | 2025-07-16 13:46:11+00:00
I don't understand how Rooklyn and Queens are indestructible structures? A rook can attack the structure and take pieces off the board if it's ok with sacking itself.

Edit: nevermind, the secret is revealed at the beginning of the paragraph

>I prevented pieces from capturing pieces on other boards.

so normally it's not an indestructible structure, but with that rule it is. Got it.
by NoProfession | 2025-07-16 13:46:22+00:00
What really struck me is how the Jheri curl was so much more than just a hairstyle. It was about giving people a look they’d dreamed of and making it feel accessible.

The way it spread through local salons and word of mouth says a lot too. It wasn’t some huge ad campaign pushing it, it was people telling each other, trying it out, showing up proud.
by qntmfred | 2025-07-16 13:46:48+00:00
this is why in 2023 i started livestreaming whenever I work at my PC. I also take these kinds of daily and project notes, but it's a bit tedious and can take you out of the flow. so I just let youtube capture everything I'm doing and if I need to go back and remind myself of something (or ask an LLM a question about my livestream history, in the not too distant future) it's all right there.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-16 13:46:59+00:00
The article is specifically claiming a shift and growth. But if all that really changed was an increase in percentage due to less devices overall there really isnt much of a shift or growth.

I think there is likely an argument that the people that would have previously used Linux are likely using Linux for tasks that would not easily work on a phone or a tablet and are likely more technical users.

Where as many users who would have previously used Windows or Mac for general basic computing can easily accomplish those tasks on their phones or tablets. (Not all tasks obviously, but there are a lot of tasks that an iPad can do that you would have previously done on your traditional computer).

That is why to me just celebrating a percent change really is not telling us much of the story. And to be clear here, I am asking the question not to say that the number is not something to celebrate but to ask why the number is the way it is and celebrate accordingly.