MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arnt | 2025-07-02 13:04:58+00:00
Yeah, well. The richest person in the city where I live is rich because many thousand well-paid jobs are counted as part of her wealth. I've heard that she's not a nice person, but that hardly matters: If you want to extract money from that fortune, the money has to be squeezed from the many thousand jobs, because most of it is those jobs. (It's also the buildings it happens in, and the machines they use, but the largest part if the workforce.)
by exiguus | 2025-07-02 13:05:03+00:00
I see some parallels to Curtis Yarvin and the Boys that follow his philosophy. The funny part, with all this boys is, that they do not recognise, that there utopia e.g. new society/state, does not work without the current society that sponsors them.

Basically, the same with some global corporations, which literally suck society dry (infrastructure, resources, education, labour, health system) and give almost nothing back (except for a few workers and too few taxes). I think the American dream is over. It's an empty shell that's all about making a nice life for yourself at the expense of others.
by JadeNB | 2025-07-02 13:05:10+00:00
> Mozilla wants to be the "web you can trust" brand, which involves not just shipping a browser but protecting people from the rougher sides of the internet.

And also, apparently, selling your data. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213612, and particularly move-on's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213945.
by skyriser | 2025-07-02 13:05:11+00:00
Location: Montreal, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: iOS/macOS (UIKit/AppKit/Objective-C/Swift/SwiftUI), Android (Java/Kotlin), Stock/Forex/Crypto APIs Résumé/CV: http://chriscomeau.com/resume Email: chris.comeau@skyriser.com
by skyriser | 2025-07-02 13:05:20+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Montreal, Canada | Remote/Freelance Technologies: iOS/macOS (UIKit/AppKit/Objective-C/Swift/SwiftUI), Android (Java/Kotlin), Stock/Forex/Crypto APIs Web: http://chriscomeau.com Resume/CV: http://chriscomeau.com/resume LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiancomeau GitHub: https://github.com/chriscomeau Email: chris.comeau@skyriser.com
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-02 13:05:47+00:00
People are supposed to die in war, and automobiles are operated at the whim of the one person driving them whereas commercial airplanes are operated in strict accordance with a protocol that's supposed to prevent killing people and trashing the multimillion dollar commercial equipment. Nobody gives a crap when two guys in a float plane crash in the middle of nowhere, because the circumstances said aircraft is operated under are pretty close to that of a car.

I'm not gonna call your question silly because it was in earnest, but it does seem to indicate problems with your world view that you consider deaths under these differing circumstances fungible at a 1 for 1 rate or thereabouts.
by bluedino | 2025-07-02 13:05:53+00:00
> You've got stores that would include a $5-$20 coupon/gift card in the item in exchange for a positive review.

I had a tool manufacturer read a bad review on one of the big box home improvement stores in the US, they contacted me within a day (the store must have gave them my email address?) and offered to send me my choice of replacement tool, for free, in exchange for taking my review down.

Helps me learn which companies not to trust.
by rain1 | 2025-07-02 13:06:46+00:00
It's extremely interesting how powerful a language model is at compression.

When you train it to be an assistant model, it's better at compressing assistant transcripts than it is general text.

There is an eval which I have a lot of interested in and respect for https://huggingface.co/spaces/Jellyfish042/UncheatableEval called UncheatableEval, which tests how good of a language model an LLM is by applying it on a range of compression tasks.

This task is essentially impossible to 'cheat'. Compression is a benchmark you cannot game!
by Mordisquitos | 2025-07-02 13:06:58+00:00
> _Tell me more about Amaya_

> is preferable to any shorter link.

I agree, but my reasoning is not about length but about semantics. The 'Tell me more about' part carries meaningful intention and makes no sense without the link, so it should be part of the link together with 'Amaya'.

If on the other hand the example sentence was, say, 'You may be interested in Amaya: W3C's free editor/browser...' I would agree that the link should be limited to 'Amaya'—the meaning carried by the 'You may be interested in' part is tangential to the hyperlink.
by swat535 | 2025-07-02 13:07:47+00:00
Since when the employees believed it?

Anyone who has worked at OpenAI or is currently working there has lost all credibility in my eyes. When their dear leader, Sam was "fired", they staged a coup to save their paychecks.

These people are just out there to may a buck and scam people with "AGI" and now that there is plenty of competition and superior models, I'm hearing crickets from them.

All they had going for them was first to market and they managed to damage the brand, lose their top talent, deliver a subpar product and convert a nonprofit into for profit.
by simonw | 2025-07-02 13:08:07+00:00
> There were projects to try to match it, but generally they operated by fine tuning things like small (70B) llama models on a bunch of GPT-3 generated texts (synthetic data - which can result in degeneration when AI outputs are fed back into AI training inputs).

That parenthetical doesn't quite work for me.

If synthetic data always degraded performance, AI labs wouldn't use synthetic data. They use it because it helps them train better models.

There's a paper that shows that if you very deliberately train a model in its own output in a loop you can get worse performance. That's not what AI labs using synthetic data actually do.

That paper gets a lot of attention because the schadenfreude of models destroying themselves through eating their own tails is irresistible.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-07-02 13:08:12+00:00
Well I don’t know much about manufacturing tbh, but for China to take a chunk of our financial services industry would be very difficult.

The dollar is still the world’s reserve currency by a long way, American capital markets are still the world’s largest and safest, and investors do not like capricious governments that don’t always adhere to established practices and rule of law (see: Ant Financial). Investors don’t want to put money in a place where saying the wrong thing or associating with the wrong person could negatively impact your ability to transact in that country (also see: Russia c. 1990).

So I would assume it would take decades for China to maneuver the world away from American financial services.
by rain1 | 2025-07-02 13:08:13+00:00
This is kind of related to the jack morris post https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only he discusses how the big leaps in LLMs have mostly come - not so much from new training methods or arch. changes as such - but the ability of new archs. to ingest more data.
by exe34 | 2025-07-02 13:09:07+00:00
Wikipedia is about 24GB, so if you're allowed to drop 1/3 of the details and make up the missing parts by splicing in random text, 8GB doesn't sound too bad.

To me the amazing thing is that you can tell the model to do something, even follow simple instructions in plain English, like make a list or write some python code to do $x, that's the really amazing part.
Show HN: Opasm, an Assembly REPL
by aedrax | 2025-07-02 13:09:07+00:00
This is a fun repl for running arbitrary assembly commands, right now it supports x86, X86_64, arm, aarch64, but there's not a big reason that I can't add support for other qemu/capstone/unicorn/ keystone supported architectures, just have to do it
Show HN: I bulit Kanba, open source alternative to Trello, self-hostable PM tool
by uaghazade | 2025-07-02 13:09:14+00:00
hi all,

i just released Kanba, a self-hostable, open source project management tool built for developers and small teams who prefer to own their tools.

- no vendor lock-in - fully local data (via Supabase or your own backend) - MIT licensed - lightweight, minimal UI. think Trello, but open and yours

tech stack: React + Tailwind + Supabase

github link on comments

would love feedback or ideas. contributions welcome!
Looking to acquire a job board or ATS side project – any leads?
by JHai | 2025-07-02 13:09:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m looking to acquire a small job board or applicant tracking system (ATS) project – ideally something with working integrations (e.g. Greenhouse, Workable, Zapier, Indeed), but not necessarily with revenue or active users.

If you’ve built one and it didn’t take off, or if you know someone sunsetting a recruiting-related SaaS, I’d love to talk. Happy to pay a fair price even for a side project, or just chat and see what you built.

You can reply here or email me: kirill [at] hotger [dot] com Thanks in advance!
by retsibsi | 2025-07-02 13:09:44+00:00
Personally, I prefer the second example that they advise against. ("To download Amaya, go to the _Amaya_Website_ and get the necessary software.")

A link that just says "Amaya" could be an internal or external link, and even if it's clear from context that the purpose of following the link is to download Amaya (rather than, for example, read more about it), it's not clear whether it's a direct link to the file or a link to the download page.
by bjord | 2025-07-02 13:09:51+00:00
That doesn't necessarily change the overall mission of the organization, but definitely does give them more flexibility to offer paid options to help sustain development, should they see an opening in the future.

This is more or less taken directly from Thunderbird's website (which I think is a fair comparison): "Thunderbird operates in a separate, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. This structure gives us the flexibility to offer optional paid services to sustain Thunderbird’s development far into the future."

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/about/
by tpmoney | 2025-07-02 13:10:03+00:00
> Post WW2, we had gradually managed to build a less violent society

This feels like a whitewashing of a lot of post WWII history. That “less violent society” included the Korean and Vietnam wars, multiple assassinations, civil rights riots, the Kent State massacre and the Cold War.

Was it that society was less violent or that we became more diverse in our ability to commit violence?
by hoseja | 2025-07-02 13:10:53+00:00
Why are they not fungible for you? What difference is there when a drunk t-bones you two thousand times versus an iceberg t-boning fifteen hundred people one time? Also what the hell do you mean "supposed to die in a war", who decides that?

But I see the line about "multimillion dollar commercial equipment". The shareholder value must be protected after all. Conversely, a wrecked car is a potential new sale.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-02 13:12:16+00:00
Just a quick Google search shows that Spain has 643 cars per 1000 people and the US has 842.

Yes I see many more people riding bikes and walking in London where I just left in June than DC when we went in May. But going to the big urban areas doesn’t tell you about the rest of the country. For instance in the UK it’s 603 cars per 1000 people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territ....

And yeah I chose a place where I can go to the gym, a convenience store, and a bar without ever walking outside. But I’m not going to say that’s common like the person I replied to seems to think.
by r4aticate | 2025-07-02 13:12:24+00:00
Location:EU Remote: Yes Willing to relocate:No Technologies: Okta, Jira, MacOS AWS(EC2), GCP(Compute Engine & Cloud Storage),

Terraform, Python, Github Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrios-livanas/ && https://github.com/dimitrisLivanas Email: livanas.dimitris (AT) gmail.com
by p_l | 2025-07-02 13:12:35+00:00
The title resonates well with mainstream dogma of capitalism being objectively good, ignoring that it was just one aspect of what made "the good years" and was in fact quite limited by both physical and legal constraints, and sometimes pure ideological bent of some behemoths of industry (i.e. messrs Hewlett and Packard, impact of US military spending, etc).

Welch exploited a combination of events when a lot of those limitations (especially legal) ended, acting in extremely capitalist ways.
by throw4847285 | 2025-07-02 13:13:37+00:00
Or it turns out that people don't change, as explored in the entirely fictitious but very enjoyable film The Social Network. All those steps, even the horny college nerd, were facades, and the real core of his character is naked ambition. He will warp himself into any shape in order to pursue wealth and power. To paraphrase Robert Caro, power does not corrupt, it reveals.
by alexandre_m | 2025-07-02 13:15:09+00:00
If you buy from china, it’s going to take weeks. If you buy from US and live in Canada, you’re going to pay a lot of customs.

In 2007, I bought a used MacBook on Ebay for $870, with shipping it was about $900. That was back when the currency was on parity.

It arrived with $300 custom fees. I could have bought a new one at that price.
Reasoning models are risky. Anyone else experiencing this?
by lebonnnn | 2025-07-02 13:15:46+00:00
I'm building interviuu (a job application tool) and have been testing pretty much every LLM model out there for different parts of the product. One thing that's been driving me crazy: reasoning models seem particularly dangerous for business applications that need to go from A to B in a somewhat rigid way.

I wouldn't call it "deterministic output" because that's not really what LLMs do, but there are definitely use cases where you need a certain level of consistency and predictability, you know?

Here's what I keep running into with reasoning models:

During the reasoning process (and I know Anthropic has shown that what we read isn't the "real" reasoning happening), the LLM tends to ignore guardrails and specific instructions I've put in the prompt. The output becomes way more unpredictable than I need it to be.

Sure, I can define the format with JSON schemas (or objects) and that works fine. But the actual content? It's all over the place. Sometimes it follows my business rules perfectly, other times it just doesn't. And there's no clear pattern I can identify.

For example, I need the model to extract specific information from resumes and job posts, then match them according to pretty clear criteria. With regular models, I get consistent behavior most of the time. With reasoning models, it's like they get "creative" during their internal reasoning and decide my rules are more like suggestions.

I've tested almost all of them (from Gemini to DeepSeek) and honestly, none have convinced me for this type of structured business logic. They're incredible for complex problem-solving, but for "follow these specific steps and don't deviate" tasks? Not so much.

Anyone else dealing with this? Am I missing something in my prompting approach, or is this just the trade-off we make with reasoning models? I'm curious if others have found ways to make them more reliable for business applications.

What's been your experience with reasoning models in production?
by YorickPeterse | 2025-07-02 13:15:51+00:00
Location: Delft, The Netherlands Remote: Yes (remote only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Ruby, PostgreSQL (a lot more in the past, but less relevant as to what I'm looking for) Résumé/CV: https://yorickpeterse.com/resume/ / https://github.com/yorickpeterse/ Email: yorick at my domain name

15 years of backend experience, with a focus on distributed systems, compilers, and language runtimes. Currently looking for a Rust focused job that involves doing something meaningful for the world (e.g. no crypto, high-frequency trading, etc).
by mikelayerhealth | 2025-07-02 13:16:25+00:00
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by reverendsteveii | 2025-07-02 13:16:48+00:00
Had they followed through with that, it would be compulsion and the comparison to slavery would have been warranted. And the devs did exactly what I would have and what they should do, which is to withdraw any software they're not willing to support. To my mind this process is exactly what the OP was talking about: devs offer software for free with no support because that's what they're willing to do for free, someone demands more free labor from them under the guise of accountability, devs say "I'm not willing to do that and if that makes distributing this software illegal that's fine, we'll pull it down", lawmakers back down and move on to gazing in the mouths of other gift horses.
Show HN: AgentCheck – Snapshot and Replay AI Agents Like Real Software
by hvardhan878 | 2025-07-02 13:18:26+00:00
Hey HN,

I built AgentCheck, an open-source testing tool for LLM agents. It lets you:

Snapshot full agent runs (prompt, LLM calls, tool outputs, final answer)

Replay the trace locally — no API calls, no token costs

Diff agent behavior over time

Assert outputs to catch regressions

Why? Because today, most AI agents are tested by spot-checking outputs or rerunning flaky evals — which breaks CI, costs money, and misses edge cases. AgentCheck works more like Jest or VCR.py, but for LLM workflows. It records and replays traces so you can test agents like real software.

It’s CLI-first, dev-friendly, and designed to plug into LangChain/OpenAI workflows.

Still early I’d love feedback, contributors, and use cases from folks building agentic systems. The code’s here: https://github.com/hvardhan878/agentcheck

Thanks!
by coldpie | 2025-07-02 13:18:36+00:00
What do you disagree with, exactly? The bug is in an underlying library, so it should be reported to that library. That all seems correct to me, I don't see what there is to disagree with there.

The problem with the comment is it does not make ownership of the next steps clear. The maintainer should've either taken the ball ("I will report this to...") or made it clear that the reporter should hold the ball ("We can't fix this here. You should report it to..."). Instead they used the passive voice ("The issue should be reported to..."), which means no one owns it, which means it won't be done, which is a bad way to handle a bug report.
by JoeDohn | 2025-07-02 13:18:45+00:00
the problem that you speak of exist literally everywhere (from public (lowest) to private sector (highest)).

Making fixation on research, academia and science is typical retard behavior. As functioning society (human in general) WE should have ZERO tolerance toward this behavior and RFK Jr kinds should be ignored, he doesn't deserve to be heard, he have ZERO qualification whatsoever (same goes to 90% of this administration).
by cyberlurker | 2025-07-02 13:19:48+00:00
I bought a light fixture that had a design flaw that turned it into a fire hazard. I contacted Amazon and provided proof, hoping they’d take the product down and prevent harm to others. They did initially but within a few days the same exact item with matching SKU and photos was listed.

I have an entire category of items I will never buy from Amazon. They don’t look out for customers ahead of time, only on the backend when you complain.
by snickerbockers | 2025-07-02 13:20:08+00:00
reminds me of when i had a job working on a company that had its own OS (which was an extremely outdated proprietary FreeBSD fork) and we spent more time arguing about who's fault everything was than solving problem. I used to love low-level programming until I realized that in the corporate world (i assume/hope this does not apply to open-source communities) the people who get ahead are the people who can master the art of jettisoning responsibility so that they're always the guy who just implemented the hot new feature and management thinks the people who actually have to make this stuff work are all incompetent and lazy because it takes 2-4 weeks to untangle all the heap corruption and race condition bugs and ultimately come up with a meager 10-line patch to prevent the kernel panic.
by noobermin | 2025-07-02 13:20:36+00:00
I've only scanned the abstract but the conclusion seems too weak given the other stated findings. Sure given different metrics (air temp vs radiant heat) may give different stories for different trees, but that wouldn't lead me to conclude it needs to be evaluated on a "case by case basis" more so than the metric depends. That is not the same thing as "case by case basis."

They should be more proud of their findings. Why insult it out of the gate?
by slightwinder | 2025-07-02 13:20:48+00:00
> ADHD coding, brute forcing product generation until you get it right?

Are we now pretending that humans aren't doing the same? Sure, it's usually on a higher level, but at the end we are also just brute forcing our way toward a solution through trial and error, and if someone is very experienced in the problem-domain, they can do it mostly in their head.

> carbon footprint

So if the AI-datacentre is running on renewables, you would be OK with this?
by franktankbank | 2025-07-02 13:20:58+00:00
It's a quote from a fiction of a bygone era though.

You think China can't write microcode?

You think only USA has big breasted women and men with chiseled abs? None of this makes any sense.

High speed pizza had to be tongue in cheek as written. Maybe you missed the point and it was all written tongue in cheek because who truly cares about those things if you don't have all your other bases covered?

Maybe I missed the point. Are we already pinched off?
by Aardwolf | 2025-07-02 13:20:59+00:00
In the example "Get Amaya!" that they give:

Now that I paste it in this HN comment, the link is gone. If it had said "To get Amaya, click here!" at least you could have seen from the context that it used to be a link.

There's also no explanation in it for why making a verb a link would be bad while nouns are ok.