MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GoofGarage | 2025-07-31 19:50:02+00:00
It was Goodyear, specifically the Eagle VR50. The advertisement featured a Ferrari 308 GTB.

Ferrari had only adopted radial tires in racing a decade earlier. I'm curious as to what deal they got with Goodyear at the time, as radial tires (including high performance versions) were already long ubiquitous in the United States by the time that commercial came out, which I believe was actually after the end of the 308's production run.
by leptons | 2025-07-31 19:50:06+00:00
I don't find the "AI" answers all that accurate, and in some cases they are bordering on a liability even if way down below all the "AI" slop it says "AI responses may include mistakes".

>It's the opposite of finding an answer on reddit, insta, tvtropes.

Yeah it really is because I can tell when someone doesn't know the topic well on reddit, or other forums, but usually someone does and the answer is there. Unfortunately the "AI" was trained on all of this, and the "AI" is just as likely to spit out the wrong answer as the correct one. That is not an improvement on anything.

> wade through UI distraction like ads and social media

Oh, so you think "AI" is going to be free and clear forever? Enjoy it while it lasts, because these "AI" companies are in way over their heads, they are bleeding money like their aorta is a fire hose, and there will be plenty of ads and social whatever coming to brighten your day soon enough. The free ride won't go on forever - think of it as a "loss leader" to get you hooked.
by protimewaster | 2025-07-31 19:50:20+00:00
I'm curious to see if any of the supposed security concerns over alternative stores actually come to fruition in any meaningful way. I'm skeptical that it will pose any real problems. Untrustworthy apps are already widely available on the official app stores, and the market share of the official app stores is likely to continue to dwarf the market of other stores, so those will continue to be the market places to target for any malicious apps.
by markus_zhang | 2025-07-31 19:51:12+00:00
> I might have a surge of energy for a couple days but it’s hard to sustain when the choice of pushing forward means stealing from my energy that I could reserve for my family

This is exactly what I'm feeling. Occasionally I got motivated and wrote some code for my side projects, but my heart would be gone for the next X weeks/months. I don't know why I need so much time to recharge, but that's it.

> I do think it will return. I’m trying to be present in my kids life at the age they want me present. Before long, they’ll have their own life and hobbies and then they’ll be out of my house. I think each of those will mark steps in my return to my former self. I was selfish with my time before because it didn’t really effect anyone, being selfish with my time now would cause me a great deal of regret and at the end of the day I value family well beyond my own interests and hobbies.

I agree with you. I definitely don't want to regret about not being present, thus the struggle. But as you and others said, hopefully this is going to change. Good luck!
by falcor84 | 2025-07-31 19:51:17+00:00
It's what "flag" is for:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by bayindirh | 2025-07-31 19:51:20+00:00
Yeah, the CERN talk* [0] coined the term Pets vs. Cattle analogy, and it was way before VMs were cheap on bare metal. I think the word just evolved as the idea got rooted in the community.

We use the same analogy for the last 20 years or so. Provisioning 150 cattle servers take 15 minutes or so, and we can provision a pet in a couple of hours, at most.

[0]: https://www.engineyard.com/blog/pets-vs-cattle/

*: Engine Yard post notes that Microsoft's Bill Baker used the term earlier, though CERN's date (2012) checks out with our effort timeline and how we got started.
by TensileMistress | 2025-07-31 19:51:38+00:00
Well, let’s see how they plan to handle oscillating cavitation bubble collapse. Unless that’s accounted for, they’re essentially just sending microbubbles into the brain and hoping for the best. If they’re lucky, the bubble adsorbs the drug, maybe if it’s protein-based or has a slow adsorption curve with an induction period and non-spherical oscillations.

But even then, the local velocity field around the bubble could easily damage soft tissue. I really hope someone runs micro-PIV first to map background flow and bubble wake velocities, because otherwise, it’s just high-resolution trauma delivery.
by gruez | 2025-07-31 19:52:30+00:00
The blog post has a bunch of charts, which gives it a veneer of objectivity and rigor, but in reality it's just all vibes and conjecture. Meanwhile recent empirical studies actually point in the opposite direction, showing that AI use increases inequality, not decrease it.

https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20250215_FNC...

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/13/h...
by lucb1e | 2025-07-31 19:52:48+00:00
> note: I'm not excusing the feature but come on! Have some common sense before visiting a site like that?

I first read this as directed at the person you're replying to (me) but then saw a second possible reading: the site should know better as to expect you are logged into google with like one click

Idk which it is so I'll answer both: people are logged into their OS these days, call it Chrome (the browser, but it's close enough to an OS nowadays) or Android but either way it's a big trackfest and nobody besides a few nerds like us here bats an eye. And I indeed don't visit those sites with cookie states of other sites ^^
by lukeschlather | 2025-07-31 19:53:00+00:00
This is a really good overview, and it seems remarkably not needing much modification after several decades, at least in terms of the facts and things it predicts everything has happened as the author says. I do want to pick at some of the numbers in the upper bound because obviously we're getting close to the end of the first third of the century and we don't have ASI yet even though we have roughly hit the upper bound the author defines.

> Since a signal is transmitted along a synapse, on average, with a frequency of about 100 Hz and since its memory capacity is probably less than 100 bytes (1 byte looks like a more reasonable estimate)

I admit my feeling is that neurons/synapses probably have less than 100 bytes of memory, and also that a byte or less is more plausible, but I would like to see some more rigorous proof that they can't possibly have more than a gigabyte of memory that the synapse/neuron can access at the speed of computation.

The author has a note where they handwave away the possibility that chemical processes could meaningfully increase the operations per second, and I'm comfortable with that, but this point:

> Perhaps a more serious point is that that neurons often have rather complex time-integration properties

Seems more interesting. Especially in the context of if there's dramatically more storage available in neurons/synapses. If a neuron can do maybe some operations per minute over 1GB of data per synapse, for example. (Which sounds absurdly high, but just for the sake of argument.)

And I think putting some absurdly generous upper bounds in might be helpful since, we're clearly past the 100TOPs, asking, like, how many H100s would you need if we made some absurd suppositions about the capacity of human synapses and neurons? It seems like, we probably have enough. But also I think you could make a case some of the largest supercomputing clusters are the only things that can actually match the upper bound for the capacity of a single human brain.

Although I think someone might be able to convince me that a manageable cluster of H100s already meets the most generous possible upper bound.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-07-31 19:53:07+00:00
It might surprise you, but copy-paste coders have always existed, LLMs are just making them more obvious, like "vibe coding". I don't use AI code assistants, but I can see why they could be valuable autocompleters in contexts where the user is knowledgeable.

It also makes me shudder to think of people who know just enough to compile and fix glaring mistakes, but largely trust the overall AI output. As if commercial software quality hasn't gone downhill enough these days.
by djoldman | 2025-07-31 19:53:20+00:00
If I had one piece of advice for someone trying to pick a career, it would be to require that they shadow someone actually in the professions they're considering.

Doctors: you may spend many many hours in front of a mobile computer entering notes, medications, etc. You may also spend a good deal of time fighting insurance companies via email and/or phone. It's likely you feel you are rarely "helping people"; sometimes you have to help people in spite of themselves. Also patients rarely do what you tell them to, contrary to what you judge to be in their best interests.

Lawyers: you may never see the inside of a courtroom or even a client. You likely will spend the mass majority of your time using Microsoft Word redlining documents. Trial drama is the exception of the exception.

Many jobs are not what people think they are.
by adisingh13 | 2025-07-31 19:54:22+00:00
Great question - we get this input a lot. It really depends, while I'm a big believer of voice and API-driven design in the future, I think email's role remains but looks different. It's a sticky, universal protocol that serves as a great system of audit and record. Also think an agent is only as good as its context - an inbox serves almost as a personal gateway to the internet and early customer's use cases show different applications from agent-human connection to identity verification and authentication.
by beau_g | 2025-07-31 19:54:40+00:00
Making a high performance, expensive, rare car is a small part of the recipe. Most Ferrari owners own more than one Ferrari (65% according to Ferrari of North America study from a decade ago or so, not sure if there's an updated number). A significant number of owners own more than 2. Ferrari famously has dealer prioritization and waitlists that reward you for buying more cars, just like Rolex which another poster mentioned below. When I was servicing these cars around 2015, many customers would buy FFs and Californias that they didn't necessarily want just to have the option to buy something like a first year 458 Spider, not even one of the particularly rare offerings. If someone got something truly low production like a LaFerrari or F12 TDF, chances are that customer had already bought 10+ cars from the dealer and immediately trades in many of their cars at a multi hundred thousand dollar loss to them as soon as they are able to get out of a "regular" model into a special edition. Ferrari drives/meets also serve as social clubs/networking which certainly does provide some positive value for many owners of these vehicles. Very few customers I ever met really cared about outright performance/$ and would have been cross shopping a Ford GT with a 430.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-31 19:54:53+00:00
The "middleboxes" excuse for not improving (or replacing) protocols in the past was horseshit. If a big incumbent player in the networking world releases a new feature that everyone wants (but nobody else has), everyone else (including 'middlebox' vendors) will bend over backwards to support it, because if you don't your competitors will and then you lose business. It was never a technical or logistical issue, it was an economic and supply-demand issue.

To prove it:

1. Add a new OSI Layer 4 protocol called "QUIC" and give it a new protocol number, and just for fun, change the UDP frame header semantics so it can't be confused for UDP.

2. Then release kernel updates to support the new protocol.

Nobody's going to use it, right? Because internet routers, home wireless routers, servers, shared libraries, etc would all need their TCP/IP stacks updated to support the new protocol. If we can't ship it over a weekend, it takes too long!

But wait. What if ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/etc only supported communication over that protocol? You know what would happen: every vendor in the world would backport firmware patches overnight, bending over backwards to support it. Because they can smell the money.
Show HN: TheHypeBridge – AI-Powered Influencer Vetting Reports for Brands
by akhilcjacob | 2025-07-31 19:55:06+00:00
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by bayindirh | 2025-07-31 19:55:15+00:00
Computers are always touted as deterministic machines. You can't argue with a compiler, or Excel's formula editor.

AI, in all its glory, is seen as an extension of that. A deterministic thing which is meticulously crafted to provide an undisputed truth, and it can't make mistakes because computers are deterministic machines.

The idea of LLMs being networks with weights plus some randomness is both a vague and too complicated abstraction for most people. Also, companies tend to say this part very quietly, so when people read the fine print, they get shocked.
by YmiYugy | 2025-07-31 19:55:39+00:00
In the last 24h alone Chromium merged almost 900 CLs (their equivalent to a pull request) into the src/Chromium repo, Ladybird had 7. Yes a project that started fresh a couple of year ago with decades of hindsight can be more efficient than one started 16 year ago as the fork of a fork, but if I had to guess they'll sooner or later reach a point where they have implemented the low hanging fruit and chromium moves faster away than they can catch up.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-31 19:55:46+00:00
One example:

https://www.fsa.usda.gov/resources/farm-loan-programs/farm-o...

100% financing government backed:

> Farm Ownership Loans offer up to 100 percent financing and are a valuable resource to help farmers and ranchers purchase or enlarge family farms, improve and expand current operations, increase agricultural productivity, and assist with land tenure to save farmland for future generations. With a maximum loan amount of $600,000 ($300,150 for Beginning Farmer Down Payment), all FSA Direct Farm Ownership Loans are financed and serviced by the Agency through local Farm Loan Officers and Farm Loan Managers. The funding comes from Congressional appropriations as part of the USDA budget.

As long as your intent was in good faith at time of origination, you’ve met the burden.
by viccis | 2025-07-31 19:57:15+00:00
This is problem with the places like 90% of the Kitchen Nightmares, Bar Rescue, etc., type shows. An owner retires with a huge nest egg and decides that, as a dive bar regular, they'd really like to think of themselves as the owner of the neighborhood bar. The "unpacking" that they never did would have involved cleaning up vomit regularly, violently drunk patrons, just having to do a shit ton of work yourself because labor is expensive, etc.
by lucb1e | 2025-07-31 19:57:15+00:00
Chrome has it built into the browser. If you fake the Chrome user agent string from Firefox, it'll also not show up (but you shoot yourself in the foot in other ways so I'm not advising that). Or so I heard on Mastodon a few days ago iirc

This also means that Google made it unblockable in Chrome. User scripts and extensions cannot block a browser UI feature... I guess thankfully you haven't logged in on the browser and it's clever enough not to spam it then
by bgwalter | 2025-07-31 19:57:23+00:00
Thanks for the links. That should be obvious to anyone who believes that $70 billion datacenters (Meta) are needed and the investment will be amortized by subscriptions (in the case of Meta also by enhanced user surveillance).

The means of production are in a small oligopoly, the rest will be redundant or exploitable sharecroppers.

(All this under the assumption that "AI" works, which its proponents affirm in public at least.)
Show HN: Reality Defender – Free Tier for Deepfake Detection in Images and Audio
by rdrob | 2025-07-31 19:57:46+00:00
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by lubujackson | 2025-07-31 19:58:27+00:00
I'm reminded of the famous story of (I think) the central beam in a building at Oxford. The story goes something like:

The central beam was beginning to fail and the Oxford administration knew they needed to replace it. When they went around for quotes, no one could replace the beam because it was 100 ft in length and sourced from an old growth tree. Such logs were simply unavailable to buy. To solve the issue, the staff begin to look at major renovations to the building's architecture.

Until the Oxford groundskeeper heard about the problem. "We have a replacement beam," he said.

The groundskeeper took the curious admins to the edge of the grounds. There stood two old growth trees, over 150 feet tall.

"But these must be over 200 years old! When were they planted?" the admins asked.

"The day they replaced the previous beam."
by qcnguy | 2025-07-31 19:59:05+00:00
Cool list, but to be a party pooper:

> Will Unix Time or TCP/IP ever be replaced? Modified: sure.

UNIX time is already being replaced with a 64 bit value instead of signed 32 bit. TCP/IP has already been replaced, that's QUIC over IPv6 which is what my computer uses every time it connects to Google.

I mean you can claim IPv6 is still "IP" because it shares the same first two letters, but IPv6 is different enough to be easily considered a different protocol.
by laughingcurve | 2025-07-31 19:59:16+00:00
Lysenkoism destroyed the sciences for USSR. Stalin picked the crony himself. If your problem is “I don’t like people using bad men as comparison points” maybe you can point to someone who was a good person but still intentionally went out of their way to stymie or destroy the sciences. It’s pretty hard to do that because I can’t think of one. William Jennings Bryan ? Anthony Comstock ? William Proxmire ? And even those folks are not considered good by most or many
by mkagenius | 2025-07-31 19:59:32+00:00
> MCP-Use supports running MCP servers in a sandboxed environment using E2B's cloud infrastructure.

If you want to support a local and privacy friendly sandboxed environment for code execution, you may consider something I have built, Coderunner - https://github.com/instavm/coderunner - it uses Apple's native container for hosting a jupyter server and a headless browser.
by Reason077 | 2025-07-31 19:59:35+00:00
In fairness to Netflix, in the old days they only had to own a copy of the DVD in order to rent it out.

Now they have to secure rights for every title they want to stream. That’s a lot of work (and cost) for a hundred thousand titles, especially when your competitors own some of the studios that license those titles.

Disney, for example, owns the Disney / Marvel / Fox / Searchlight / Lucasfilm back catalogues and wants to hoard much of it for its own streaming service.
by kulahan | 2025-07-31 20:00:23+00:00
It's pretty easy to spot a Rolex once you know a little bit about them. Get a closer look and it's even easy to spot fakes.

However, I agree with the first part of your comment in a way, but it's really not that hard to get a rough estimate of someone based on how they choose to present themselves. They didn't exactly get forced into that look.
What's with the Labubu Hate?
by shreythecray | 2025-07-31 20:00:47+00:00
During a team meeting, my co-worker shared his confusion around how popular Labubu's are. I'm personally not a Labubu owner, but I do own other collectibles so I understand why people like them.

In a world where everyone likes collecting things, what's with the hate against this one specific brand/design?
by _--__--__ | 2025-07-31 20:01:10+00:00
For an independent coffee shop specifically, the important question left out is "How are you going to create a welcoming environment that will attract customers without 1) aggressively kicking out the guy who bought one $5 espresso and then sat on his laptop occupying a 4-top table for 5 hours and 2) aggressively kicking out homeless people who try to use your establishment as a substitute for social services not provided by the local government?"
by viccis | 2025-07-31 20:01:18+00:00
> I wonder if there's a halo effect where the perfect grammar, structure, and confidence of LLM output causes some users to assume expertise?

I think it's just that LLMs are modeling generative probability distributions of sequences of tokens so well that what they actually are nearly infallible at is producing convincing results. Often times the correct result is the most convincing, but other times what seems most convincing to an LLM just happens to also be most convincing to a human regardless of correctness.
by peterkos | 2025-07-31 20:01:21+00:00
I'm imagining a spectrum between "has to be slow" and "needlessly slow", with a middle slider for that one razor where things take as much time as you give them.

Intentionality is a big theme in math research (so i've heard), where solving "useful" problems isn't the ideal goal. The goal is to solve interesting problems, which might seem useless, but along the way achieve results with much wider implications that would have been impossible to discover directly. Or, how inventions like toothpaste came from space travel research.

(rhetorically) Does an indirect result "justify" a longer, slower project? Is speed an inherent property of the problem, or is it only knowable once it's complete? Or both, in the cases of misused funds?
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-31 20:01:52+00:00
There seems to be a pattern of humorous plurals in English where by analogy with ox ~ oxen you get -x ~ -xen: boxen, Unixen, VAXen.

Before you call this pattern silly, consider that the fairly normal plural “Unices” is by analogy with Latin plurals in -x = -c|s ~ -c|ēs, where I’ve expanded -x into -cs to make it clear that the Latin singular comprises a noun stem ending in -c- and a (nominative) singular ending -s, which does exist in Latin but is otherwise completely nonexistent in English. (This is extra funny for Unix < Unics < Multics.) Analogies are the order of the day in this language.
by jpadkins | 2025-07-31 20:01:52+00:00
> Its job is to control the value of the dollar.

Thank you for the softball! Since the 1913, the dollar has lost 95% of its value [source https://disciplinefunds.com/2024/07/23/the-death-of-the-doll...

The prior 100 years, the value was roughly stable [source https://publications.cedarville.edu/books/haymond/no_free_lu... ]

So yes, using your preferred method of judgement I think we were better off before the creation of the "independent" federal reserve. Note, the constitution did not give the president the power to set the value of a dollar. It was a fixed amount of gold.

I can give you more in depth arguments why the Fed is bad (e.g. interest rates are future price of money, history has shown that government price fixing typically has bad outcomes) but you suggested we use a good, simple measure - value!