MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qnleigh | 2025-07-02 06:57:23+00:00
An observation: most articles with titles of the form "A SLAMS B" put forward a narrow, one-sided view of the issue they report on. Oftentimes they're shallow attempts to stir outrage for clicks. This one is just giving a CEO a platform to promote how awesome he thinks his company is.

All these articles and videos of people "slamming" each other; it doesn't move the needle, and it's not really news.
by vinhnx | 2025-07-02 06:59:21+00:00
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by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 07:00:12+00:00
> I agree that on its own it isn't evidence of the ability to respond without excessive false positives. But similarly, it isn't evidence of an inability to do so either.

It is in combination with the high rate of false positives, unless you think the false positives were intentional.

> If as you claim (and I doubt) the current way of doing things is uneconomical under those requirements then perhaps it would be reasonable for those products to be excluded from the Australian market.

If they actually required both removal of all offending content and a low false positive rate (e.g. by allowing customers to sue them for damages for removals of lawful content) then the services would exit the market because nobody could do that.

What they'll typically do instead is accept the high false positive rate rather than leave the market, and then the service remains but becomes plagued by innocent users being victimized by capricious and overly aggressive moderation tactics. But local alternatives couldn't do any better under the same constraints, so you're still stuck with a trash fire.
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by mobilekg | 2025-07-02 07:02:25+00:00
I’m the maker of *Signature Capture*, a tiny web app that instantly digitizes your handwritten signature using your webcam, with no uploads or logins.

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*Technical notes* - Pure JS + browser APIs—no server-side code - Uses webcam’s live video feed + edge detection + PNG encoding

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I’m curious: - Any thoughts on cleaner image-processing techniques? - Would this be useful in your toolchain?

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by svara | 2025-07-02 07:02:58+00:00
> I think building super intelligence for the company that owns and will deploy the super intelligence in service of tech's original sin (the algorithmic feed) is a 100x worse than whatever OpenAI is doing,

OpenAI announced in April they'd build a social network.

I think at this point it barely matters who does it, the ways in which you can make huge amounts of money from this are limited and all the major players after going to make a dash for it.
by grafmax | 2025-07-02 07:05:06+00:00
He claims to be advancing progress. He believes that progress comes from technology plus good governance.

Yet our government is descending into authoritarianism and AI is fueling rising data center energy demands exacerbating the climate crisis. And that is to say nothing of the role that AI is playing in building more effective tools for population control and mass surveillance. All these things are happening because the governance of our future is handled by the ultra-wealthy pursuing their narrow visions at the expense of everyone else.

Thus we have no reason to expect good “governance” at the hands of this wealthy elite and we only see evidence to the opposite. Altman’s skill lies in getting people to believe that serving these narrow interests is the pursuit of a higher purpose. That is the story of OpenAI.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-07-02 07:06:43+00:00
I don't know, maybe all the big AI companies could come to an agreement not to poach each others employees?[1]

It is always surprising to me when billionaire CEOs are complaining that their own employees are min-maxing their earning potential.

[1] https://www.ere.net/articles/tech-firms-settle-case-admit-se...
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-02 07:06:46+00:00
何為吞蠅 蠅永同音一 化驚腸內舞 雙義笑開顏 歸路際無定 蠅永同音一 What is this “swallowing flies”? “Fly” and “shadow” share the same voice, always. In a flash it’s startled -- inside it dances like starlight. The double pun draws us to smile. Homeward the light finds no single course. “Fly” and “shadow” -- one and the same sound. 燕過非武裝地帶 鐵雲如網隔青川 碧波照影尋舊隱 長空一點寫歸年 寥寥邊聲人未到 惟有飛羽訴和平 Barn swallows slip over the de-armed border. Iron-barbed clouds fence off jade riverbanks. Green waters cast their shapes -- seeking the homes of memory. A lone dot in endless blue writes our season of homecoming. At the silent frontier no footsteps fall. Yet wings alone carry the plea for peace.
by ForgotMyUUID | 2025-07-02 07:07:53+00:00
>Biomech Innovations: A wearable tech startup that uses genetic algorithms and AI to help zebrafish regenerate damaged organs, with a secrets management platform to securely store user data and a retro-futuristic assembly-level code editor for custom hardware designs.

Instant fun! Honestly, whatever tech I look for, I use built-in search engine of Hacker News first before googling it.
by rkris1991 | 2025-07-02 07:08:58+00:00
This is just beyond insane. The projected bullcase of 4B by end of 2025 and bear case of 2.2B. We're already at 4B in first six months of 2025.

1B ARR end of 2024. Monthly revenue 85M 1.3B ARR end of Feb 2025. Monthly revenue 108M 3B ARR end of May 2025, Monthly revenue 250 4B ARR end of June 2025, Monthly revenue 330M.

MRR acceleration is 33% month over month. If it continues, according to Claude, we'll be at 22B ARR end of 2025! Just insane.

At 15% MRR growth, 9.2B ARR end of 2025 At 20% MRR growth, 11.8B ARR end of 2025 At 25% MRR growth, 15.1B ARR end of 2025

This is unbelievable. We might see Anthropic raise a round at $200B any time soon! What an insane time to be alive.
by Kraji2 | 2025-07-02 07:09:29+00:00
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by dgunay | 2025-07-02 07:09:51+00:00
I am experimenting with a similar workflow and thought I'd share my experience.

I might be a little too hung up on the details compared to a lot of these agent cluster testimonials I've read, but unlike the author I'll be open and say that the codebase I work on is several hundred thousand lines of Go and currently does serve a high 5 to low 6 figure number of real, B2C users. Performance requirements are forgiving but correctness and reliability are very important. Finance.

Currently I use a very basic setup of scripts that clone a repo, configure an agent, and then run it against a prompt in a tmux session. I rely mainly on codex-cli since I am only given an OpenAI key to work with. The codex instances ping me in my system notifications when it's my turn, and I can easily quake-mode my terminal into view and then attach to the session (with a bit of help from fzf). I haven't gotten into MCP yet but it's on my radar.

I can sort of see the vision. For those small but distracting tasks, they are very helpful and I (mostly) passively produce a lot more small PRs to clean up papercuts around our codebase now. The "cattle not pets" mentality remains relevant - I just fire off a quick prompt when I feel the urge to get sidetracked on something minor.

I haven't gotten as much out of them for more involved tasks. Maybe I haven't really got enough of a context flywheel going yet, but I do typically have to intervene most of the time. Even on a working change, I always read the generated code first and make any edits for taste before submitting it for code review since I still view the output as my complete responsibility.

I still mostly micromanage the change control process too (branching, making commits, and pushing). I've dabbled in tools that can automate this but haven't gotten around to it.

I 100% resonate with the "fix the inputs, not the outputs" mindset as well. It's incredibly powerful without AI and our industry has been slowly but surely adopting it in more places (static typing, devops, IAC, etc). With nondeterministic processes like LLMs though it feels a lot harder to achieve, more like practice and not science.
by ggm-at-algebras | 2025-07-02 07:10:27+00:00
"Lie" is a word I dislike in much discourse. Being wrong, fine. Misunderstanding, fine. The implied intentionality in "lie" demands evidence.

Not always wrong, but overused. My own personal nitpick hot buttons:

* "learnings" should be lessons

* "jealous" should be envious.
by zxexz | 2025-07-02 07:11:02+00:00
Effectively kept secret and in the shadows by those working on it, until a world-altering public display makes it a hot politically charged issue, unaltering even 80 years later?

Edit: Honestly, I bet that "Altman", directed by Nolan's simulacrum and starring a de-aged Cillian Murphy (with or without his consent), will in fact deservedly win a few oscars in 2069.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 07:11:04+00:00
> Does a refusal get more active than a message that says “Our review team has found that [the account’s] post does not go against our Community Guidelines”?

That's assuming their "review team" actually reviewed it before sending that message and purposely chose to allow it to stay up knowing that it was a false negative. But that seems pretty unlikely compared to the alternative where the reviewers were overwhelmed and making determinations without doing a real review, or doing one so cursory the error was done blind.

> They’ve either looked at the content and decided to do nothing about it, or they’ve lied when they said that they had, and that it didn’t breach policy. Which do you suppose it was?

Almost certainly the second one. What would even be their motive to do the first one? Pedos are a blight that can't possibly be generating enough ad revenue through normal usage to make up for all the trouble they are, even under the assumption that the company has no moral compass whatsoever.
by nilirl | 2025-07-02 07:12:11+00:00
"Fix inputs" => The assumption is there exists some perfect input that will give you exactly what you want.

It probably works well for small inputs and tasks well-represented in the training data (like writing code for well-represented domains).

But how does this work for old code, large codebases, and emergencies?

- Do you still "learn" the system like you used to before?

- How do you think of refactoring if you don't get a feel for the experience of working through the code base?

Overall: I like it. I think this adds speed for code that doesn't need to be reinvented. But new domains, new tools, new ways to model things, the parts that are fun to a developer, are still our monsters to slay.
by fizzbuzz-rs | 2025-07-02 07:12:36+00:00
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by aspenmayer | 2025-07-02 07:14:09+00:00
> is being silly; but I don't think anyone here is doing that.

I think it’s silly that English has these quirks, and it’s silly to engage with them as points of argument, which isn’t what I mean to do, but rather to show how my own thought process works, silly it may be. It’s okay to embrace silliness in the environment as long as it isn’t detracting from understanding. This thread is exploring the words, not arguing with each other or trying to convince the other, so it’s not at cross purposes to me. But I think I agree that there may be no disagreement?

Let’s not let the perfect be the enemy of the silly. ;)
by hopelite | 2025-07-02 07:14:58+00:00
That must explain why I’ve seen bad reviews that have 5 stars. I guess the review itself really does not matter as much as long as the stupid starts are there.

It also reminds me of one of the biggest apartment complex management companies, Graystar using a similar method by bribing applicants with $500 off the security deposit for a 5 star review on Google maps.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-02 07:15:14+00:00
It's a broken analogy though, because in software, people (should) do some research first before picking a tool. But to extend your analogy, it's like someone comes into the free supermarket, picks peanut butter, then demands the manufacturer changes the recipe or complains after a few years because there's a new type of peanut and they want their old jar of peanut butter to be updated. I dunno, I'm stretching the analogy lol.
by kolinko | 2025-07-02 07:15:26+00:00
I had internet access since 13yo, although it was the internet of 1996, so it was way more basic.

And for me it was a place to explore my passions way better than any library in a small city in Poland would allow.

And sure - also a ton of time on internet games / MUDs, chatrooms etc.

And internet allowed me to publish my programs, written in Delphi, since I was 13-14yo, and meet other programmers on Usenet.

On the other hand, if not for internet, I might socialise way more irl - probably doing thing that were way less intelectually developing (but more socially).

It just hit me that I need to ask one of my friends from that time what they did in their spare time, because I honestly have no idea.
by poiru | 2025-07-02 07:15:50+00:00
The linked post was about Evan's side project, but within Figma, all of that is indeed possible. The glyphs are transformed into vector networks[0], which has a fill pipeline that supports transparency, gradients, images, blending, masking, etc.

[0]: https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-vector-networks/
by ankitoid | 2025-07-02 07:15:51+00:00
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by noone_youknow | 2025-07-02 07:16:02+00:00
I’ve been trying out various LLMs for working on assembly code in my toy OS kernel for a few months now. It’s mostly low-level device setup and bootstrap code, and I’ve found they’re pretty terrible at it generally. They’ll often generate code that won’t quite assemble, they’ll hallucinate details like hardware registers etc, and very often they’ll come up with inefficient code. The LLM attempt at an AP bootstrap (real-mode to long) was almost comical.

All that said, I’ve recently started a RISC-V port, and I’ve found that porting bits of low-level init code from x86 (NASM) to RISC-V (GAS) is actually quite good - I guess because it’s largely a simple translation job and it already has the logic to work from.
by thekracken | 2025-07-02 07:16:49+00:00
>I've experimented with every SOTA model since 2022

>The content is usually reasonably strong but the tone is always off and it never quite understands what it is a reader/viewer needs

A SOTA model fine-tuned with your choice of transcripts could probably get you most of the way there. There might be a customized, open-weight model already on Huggingface that meets your needs.
by Aachen | 2025-07-02 07:17:35+00:00
> - country has many official languages

Belgium has 3 languages but my guess would be that each region speaks English better. The French, pardon, Walloniers scarcely speak Dutch and while the Flemish area speaks better French it's usually not great (unsure whether most people would qualify as fluent). Afaik Flanders has mandatory French in school but Wallonia doesn't need to take Dutch, even though 60% of the population is Dutch-speaking. The German-speaking region is mostly forgotten about and they either integrate with the French-speaking part or work in Germany with Belgium as a cheap place to live

The Netherlands has Papiamento as the native language of most people in a part of the country. They're overseas but they vote for the same government and live by the same law. I literally didn't know this until a few years ago (I'm 30). I assume they don't want independence due to things like getting defence and other benefits from a much larger economy (and we're right to feel the need to pay such repairs) but man, this feels really 1800s slave trade levels of wrong. Not a soul speaks Papiamento in the european Netherlands, it's not even an option in school — let alone compulsory!

In Luxembourg it's hit or miss whether someone speaks the national language (Luxembourgish), French (an administrative language), or German (another administrative language). Many will speak at least two, but many also only one (French in particular)

Very eurocentric perhaps but that's my experience with countries that have more than one official language: nearly nobody bothers learning the other if there is no direct necessity
by quantified | 2025-07-02 07:19:35+00:00
Everyone is the chairman of the board of their lives, with a fiduciary duty to their shareholder, namely themselves. You can decide to hire only employees who either believe in mission over pay or who are willing to mouth the words, but you will absolutely miss out on good employees.

I remember defending a hiring candidate who had said he got into his specialty because it paid better than others. We hired him and he was great, worth his pay. No one else on the hiring team could defend a bias against someone looking out for themselves.
by renewiltord | 2025-07-02 07:19:36+00:00
I suppose as an American taxpayer and American voter, he is responsible for as many ethnic cleansings as anyone else. Supposedly, Armenians leaving Nagorno-Karabakh is ethnic cleansing, and the US did give aid to Azerbaijian so that makes Americans facilitators of ethnic cleansing, though admittedly so are the Canadians.
by mrkeen | 2025-07-02 07:19:43+00:00
You just defined ORMs and made no comment on consistency. And Linq is what prompted me to write the comment.

In this EF code, we're deducting an amount from some balance, not necessarily the highest balance:

// Find the highest balance var maxAccount = await db.MyAccounts.OrderByDescending(x => x.Balance).FirstAsync(); ... // Deduct an amount maxAccount.Balance -= amount;

Whereas in SQL, it will work.
by hliyan | 2025-07-02 07:19:51+00:00
For me, a natural next step would be to turn this into a service -- rather than doing it in the browser, this acts as a proxy, strips away all the crud and serves your browser clean text. No need to install a new browser, just point the browser to the URL via the service.

But if we do it, we have to admit something hilarious: we will soon be using AI to convert text provided by the website creator into elaborate web experiences, which end users will strip away before consuming it in a form very close to what the creator wrote down in the first place (this is already happening with beautifully worded emails that start with "I hope this email finds you well").