MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swat535 | 2025-07-15 23:31:57+00:00
I highly doubt this is going to happen anyway.

HN has many VCs and startups and HN itself is backed by a VC firm, so I highly doubt AI news is going anywhere as it benefits many YC Startups currently levering this hype as well as VCs and other investors shoving cash into this.

Additionally, that there are also ton of vibe coders, OpenAI / Meta / Google folks here interested in this topic.

I'm afraid the only solution is for people to ride the cycle until it either fizzles out or morphs into something else.
by drfuchs | 2025-07-15 23:32:07+00:00
The annotations say "... I don't have the exact instruction format for the either the LGP-30 or RPC-4000 ..." but the entire manual for the LGP-30 with this information, and way more, is available at http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/royalPrecision/LGP-30/LGP-30_Op...

In 1973, Mr. Willoughby taught the Abington (Pennsylvania) High School computer programming class to code in LGP-30 assembly language. We didn't actually have an LGP-30; it just happened to be what he had been taught on when he was young. All assignments were graded by him simulating your code in his head. Of course, we then went on to learn the (slightly) higher-level NEAT/3 language, for which the school actually had an NCR Century-100 mainframe that would run programs that we submitted on punch cards. Mr. Willoughby's (nobody knew teachers' first names back in the day) theory was that it was important to learn the lowest-level machine language first, so you could understand what was really going on underneath. Worked fine for me; evidently it's not quite so universal anymore.
by dbg31415 | 2025-07-15 23:33:37+00:00
Firefox should ship with a local AI agent that can browse, summarize, and act on the web — entirely on-device.

I don’t want to send my searches through Google or OpenAI just to get basic tasks done. Give me a sandboxed local model that can:

* Read pages and data that’s loaded through it

* Summarize content

* Act on rule-based prompts I define (e.g. auto-reply in Slack, triage emails, autofill forms, upvote followed author’s posts…)

Let me load a Slack tab and have the AI draft replies for me. Same for Gmail. Basically, let Firefox interact with the web on my behalf and train the AI to be my assistant.

Beyond that, extensions already do most of what I need — but a built-in, private AI agent would actually move the needle.
by somat | 2025-07-15 23:33:55+00:00
I am halfway convinced the idea of a "10 foot ui" driven by a remote is... well not wrong, but perhaps we could do better. Have the big screen be for just that, a spot to display video. Have the remote control, with the entire UI, be on a phone. I would keep the interface as a web interface so you don't have to screw around with an app to make it work, and include collaborative features so everyone gets to fight^wshare over what is shown.
by protocolture | 2025-07-15 23:34:06+00:00
>You can create a great wireless link. It still won't beat a great fiber link. I'm sure the best wireless links beat the worst fiber links, but...

When engineered correctly people tend to have absolutely no idea wireless is involved in their connection. Largely its a self inflicted branding issue. You see wireless being sold as "Fibre Extension" way too often for this reason.

Theres also factors that fibre people never consider, like mean time to restore a service. Even if you have a team of 24/7 engineers ready to mobilise, a fibre break will often take a significantly longer time to restore than a wireless outage.
by dang | 2025-07-15 23:34:50+00:00
Recent and related:

Whistleblower: Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482051 - July 2025 (58 comments)

Also:

Huawei Whistleblower Alleges Pangu AI Model Plagiarized from Qwen and DeepSeek - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44506350 - July 2025 (1 comment)

Pangu's Sorrow: The Sorrow and Darkness of Huawei's Noah Pangu LLM R&D Process - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485458 - July 2025 (2 comments)

Huawei's Pangu Pro MoE model is likely derived from Qwen model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461094 - July 2025 (1 comment)

Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441089 - July 2025 (333 comments)
by pyman | 2025-07-15 23:35:02+00:00
"Hey, Twitter vibes are a metric, so make sure to mention the company on Twitter if you want to be heard."

Twitter is a one-way communication tool. I doubt they're using it to create a feedback loop with users, maybe just to analyse their sentiment after a release?

The entire article reads more like a puff piece than an honest reflection. Those of us who live outside the US are more sceptical, especially after everything revealed about OpenAI in the book Empire of AI.
by znpy | 2025-07-15 23:35:04+00:00
> In modern relationships, men just want to work and come home to a cooked meal and clean house, but their wives are working just as many hours the men are.

This absolutely isn't the reality I observe in my circle, but I acknowledge it was the reality for my parents and grandparents.

Not gonna lie: it just seems like you made a poor choice in picking a partner.

Don't blame it on the entire male population.
by apparent | 2025-07-15 23:35:35+00:00
I've wondered about this also. I have an MBA and like that it's lightweight and relatively cheap. I could buy a MBP and max out the RAM, but I think getting a Mac mini with lots of RAM could actually make more sense. Has anyone set up something like this to make it available to their laptop/iPhone/etc.?

Seems like there would be cost advantages and always-online advantages. And the risk of a desktop computer getting damaged/stolen is much lower than for laptops.
by refulgentis | 2025-07-15 23:35:52+00:00
Right, you should read it though, we're in the weeds over here, it's not just sort of free-assocating chat, we're picking apart specific things about the article. One of them, as I mentioned 4 up, is that the study with the 65% # is confounded because the groupings involve type 1 diabetes, and also, the number rebounds higher than the # who stopped
by Detrytus | 2025-07-15 23:36:18+00:00
Sorry, my English failed me: I meant "most" as in "more teams compared to other leagues", not "almost every Premiership team".

Also, 4 different champions in the last 10 years is the most diverse of all major leagues. Bundesliga has Bayern winning 12 of the last 13 titles, Ligue 1 has PSG winning 10 of the last 12. In Spain the title basically alternates between Real and Barcelona, with Atletico winning 2 titles in the past 20 years.
by kennywinker | 2025-07-15 23:37:16+00:00
If cyberpunk is an imagining of late capitalism, then wouldn’t octavia butler’s parable of the sower be prime cyberpunk?

I don’t think it is. I’m not a scholar of this, but to me it lacks a focus on tech indicative of cyberpunk. Either because it’s told from the perspective of people who don’t have access to what tech remains, or because it’s too far into the collapse that tech is mostly gone?

Either way, it’s a must-read.
by lz400 | 2025-07-15 23:37:17+00:00
Engineers thinking they're building god is such a good marketing strategy. I can't overstate it. It's even difficult to be rational about it. I don't actually believe it's true, I think it's pure hype and LLMs won't even approximate AGI. But this idea is sort of half-immune to criticism or skepticism: you can always respond with "but what if it's true?". The stakes are so high that the potentially infinite payoff snowballs over any probabilities. 0.00001% multiplied by infinite is an infinite EV so you have to treat it like that. Best marketing, it writes itself.
by ghushn3 | 2025-07-15 23:37:21+00:00
One does not need to meet the bar of Auschwitz to be considered a death camp. A smaller death camp is still a death camp. This isn't a contest where only the worst one counts, we should be comfortable saying the holocaust was a uniquely horrifying evil thing and that also, other governments are doing horrifying things at a lesser scale that should still correctly be labelled a death camp.
by wjrb | 2025-07-15 23:37:32+00:00
Long, but a good read, though I started skimming around the (broken?) [IMG] tags. Great history and clarification of the source of what "we" imagine as cyberpunk and what that means.

Reading this in the context of recent discussions about 'Reading Neuromancer for the First Time in 2025'[0] and The Paris Review interview with William Gibson[1]. I recommend the discussion of [0] and reading all of [1] if you're into this.

The article defines cyberpunk as 'science fiction that imagines “late capitalism”'. In Gibson's Paris Review, he says (to paraphrase) that the past as it was cannot be imagined; we can only imagine the future. There's no "speculative" that's purely the future, because it all must build on the present.

I found the post illuminating and a great disambiguation of the term "cyberpunk" and the (messy) history of the term. There's no mention of the term "solarpunk", which some regard as a sort of modern-successor-thing to cyberpunk. I haven't read any yet. I sometimes imagine Doctorow's work as post-cyberpunk, somehow more painful because it's often realistic but also more positive. Like the article says, it's hard to classify things.

I'm a huge Neuromancer and Gibson fan, and love the cyberpunk aesthetic as well as the "Neuromantic" genre. I haven't read much Bruce Sterling, so glad to get to read 'Mozart in Mirrorshades'.

The article does touch on Japanese cyberpunk, to say that it's outside the context of the post --- which I appreciate! The discussion from 3 days ago [0] has some great comments making those distinctions, though I'm only familiar with a small part of the media.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548353 [1]: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fi...
by socceroos | 2025-07-15 23:39:00+00:00
I find the repeated comments of how much parenting 'sucks' and how much childbearing 'sucks' to be distasteful.

It has been the single most incredible experience I've had (5 times over).

I feel like, primarily, the reason why our society isn't having children is because of a growing selfishness and entitlement; which happens to be the very thing that Rome was suffering from when their society was collapsing too.

No, I'm not rich and I'm not old. But I was brought up in a family that cherished loved ones and family. Love was agape, not eros.
by alonsonic | 2025-07-15 23:39:19+00:00
They are purposely losing billions, this is a growth phase where all of the big AI companies are racing to grow their userbase, later down the line they will monetize that captured userbase.

This is very similar to Uber which lost money for 14 years before becoming profitable, but with significantly more upside.

Investors see the growth, user stickiness and potential for the tech; and are throwing money to burn to be part of the winning team, which will turn on the money switch on that userbase down the line.

The biggest companies and investors in the planet aren't all bad at business.
by wanderingmind | 2025-07-15 23:39:37+00:00
One thing that I feel that is discussed less is, what are the high level constraints and levers that can be set to enable a group of programmers to become a better programmers. For example, how much impact does architecture have? bug tracing, choice of language, tools. People handwave and say that one is better than another because of <reason 1>, <reason 2>, but to be able to explain how each of this choice impacts the code in a semi-rigorous way by explaining all the way of how it impacts individual code components and their interaction (as a graph or a tree) would be immensely helpful. If anyone knows of resources like that, please let us know
by Runsthroughit | 2025-07-15 23:40:07+00:00
VCs are betting they'll get out with at least some gains before this bubble bursts. They have literally nothing new, not even in theory. They'll build a smaller-but-not-that-small-still-better-than-you-expect model which will be kind of open for others, which means they'll cut some deal and pretend they did something and that they received something in return.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-15 23:40:15+00:00
>Where are you at?

There are two ways to hire a nanny. The "law abiding as a point of pride" way is comically expensive.

The "pay your neighbor's teenager cash" way is cheap.

If even that's too expensive for you then send your kids to whatever unlicensed, uninsured, unregulated daycare that some tradesman's wife runs out of her house.
by shermantanktop | 2025-07-15 23:40:42+00:00
How many movie cards can they put on a screen at once...10, at most. How are they supposed to show you what is "on offer"? If their catalog were 10x smaller or 100x larger, they can only show so much.

I supposed they could email customers an excel document. But short of that, they have to make choices about what to do with the pixels on their page, and those choices represent filtering what they show you. How is "hampering discovery" different than what they are physically forced to do?
by shade | 2025-07-15 23:41:38+00:00
One of my weird hobbies is radar chasing storms, and all of that stuff is completely normal. NEXRAD is very sensitive, especially when it's in clear air mode (it has different modes depending on if it's raining in the area) and can pick up things like dust, birds, bats, and insects. There's also ground clutter from things like buildings, wind farms, and even cars.

The National Weather Service has a good brief explainer: https://www.weather.gov/iwx/wsr_88d

They also have an interesting PDF covering some of the more unique signatures you might see, though it's not exhaustive: https://www.weather.gov/media/btv/research/Radar%20Artifacts...
by sombragris | 2025-07-15 23:42:27+00:00
The problem is not so much about "more mouse clicks". The problem is that by forcing the use of an hamburguer menu, you *must* use a mouse.

In a traditional WIMP GUI app, you press Alt and automatically there is a letter in the menu underlined. That means that pressing that letter in the keyboard, you get the menu pulled down. Then, you can navigate it using cursor keys + enter or other highlighted letters.

This is no longer possible with most hamburguer menu apps in Plasma. You MUST use the pointer device (mouse). That is my pet peeve. More or less clicks is not really of the essence.
by codedokode | 2025-07-15 23:42:35+00:00
> However, OpenAI has publicly acknowledged ongoing investigations as to whether DeepSeek “inappropriately distilled” their models to produce an AI chatbot at a fraction of the price.

I wonder does OpenAI has permission from all authors of works it "inappropriately distilled"? A pirate has no right to complain about safety of navigation.

I think there should be a system that if country A illegally uses works of country B for developing an AI, it loses copyright protection in country B.
by ryao | 2025-07-15 23:43:08+00:00
Infiniband is alive and well in HPC. 327 out of the top 500 machines use it according to this:

https://www.top500.org/statistics/sublist/

It is a nice interconnect. It is a shame that the industry does not revisit the idea of connecting all components of a computer over infiniband. Nvlink fusion is a spiritual successor in that regard.
by antonvs | 2025-07-15 23:43:11+00:00
> It doesn't really matter what use cases cryptocurrencies were supposed to have — their actual use cases turned out to be scams and speculation.

I'm going to translate what you said here out of your obscene level of privilege:

"It doesn't really matter what use cases cryptocurrencies were supposed to have - even if their actual use cases did address those concerns, not all of them did, and what's more important to me, and other hypercapitalists like myself, is to maintain my privilege."
by fasbiner | 2025-07-15 23:43:42+00:00
One of the most obvious signs of an encroaching oligarchy is that people who have become successful in the domain of accumulating any non-standard amount of wealth feel this qualifies them to speak on every topic with no preparation.

At a certain point the disregard for truth and emphasis on narrative (and always with a facile material interest!) makes it impossible to engage with the alleged ideas and we have to look at the person behind it.

This is really no different than north korean propaganda in miniature if you are part of this cofounder of Kickstarter's sycophantic proofreaders: something absurd and obviously false is being said, but it can only harm you to point it out.
by ghushn3 | 2025-07-15 23:43:42+00:00
It's sort of it's own thing -- a pre-post-apocalypse novel, an earthseed novel, a cautionary tale, a book about the fall of empire. But I agree, it's probably not a cyberpunk novel.

That said, it's in conversation with the genre, imo, and imagines a different way late stage capitalism can go -- not up into dystopian spires and neon lights, but down into instability due to climate change, growing wealth inequality, and corporate greed.
by fcpguru | 2025-07-15 23:43:48+00:00
so employee goes to DeepMind and says "I'm leaving." and they say two options:

1. agree to 1 year PTO, THEN go work for new company or

2. leave now and join them but we'll try and sue you for non-compete

And depending on the state/country 2 might be a real threat.
by dan-robertson | 2025-07-15 23:44:20+00:00
I think I agree with you that though women could work in the ’50s, there weren’t really careers available to them in the same way as for men. Maybe it is just women having ‘real’ careers and therefore higher opportunity cost/more practical liberty/fulfilling alternatives to children making a big difference.

I guess what I’m getting at is that, even if you describe men’s desires accurately, I don’t think it describes their behaviour in my parents’ generation let alone mine. But maybe this just varies a lot by country/income/education/social class and I see some weird sample. I know divorce rates have become super divergent by education in the US for example so presumably relationships are quite different too.
by freejazz | 2025-07-15 23:44:40+00:00
It was Vincent.

> I feel like big VC money goes to solving legal analysis, but I'm seeing a lot of wins with document drafting/templating.

What do you mean "wins?" Like motions won with AI drafted papers? I'm skeptical.

>I work with an attorney who trained his paralegals to use chatgpt + some of these drafting tools, says it's significantly faster than what they could've done previously.

I'd be concerned about malpractice, personally. The case reviews I've seen from Vincent (which is ChatGPT + the entire federal docket) are shocking in how facially wrong they can be. It's one thing for an attorney to use ChatGPT when they do know the law and issues (hasn't seemed to help the various different partners getting sanctioned for filing AI drafted briefs) but to leave the filtering to a paralegal? That's insane, imo.
by david_shi | 2025-07-15 23:44:47+00:00
Slack claims it does not train generative AI models on customer data, but this hinges on a narrow definition of “generative.” In practice, Slack does use customer data, including messages, files, and usage behavior, to train global machine learning models for features like search, emoji suggestions, and autocomplete. Your data is included by default unless you manually opt out.

To opt out, a Workspace or Org Owner must email feedback@slack.com with the subject line “Slack Global model opt-out request” and include the workspace or org URL. The instructions are not prominently linked and are buried several clicks deep behind multiple marketing pages. The Privacy Principles page concedes this use and confirms the opt-out process.

https://farcaster.xyz/web3pm/0x2742da62
by usef- | 2025-07-15 23:45:08+00:00
Emacs binary download page pointed me to Windows, but for comparison:

141MB: emacs-30.1-nodeps.zip

75MB: emacs-30.1-installer.exe (better compression? Contents seem similar)

27MB helix-25.07-x86_64-windows.zip

So there's still an Emacs distinction, it seems

(*not that these size differences matter in practice -- helix's "bulk" is all in compiled language grammars, each of which is not loaded unless you use the language.)
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-15 23:45:36+00:00
Solarpunk seems far less dystopian, so while it is one successor, it's by no means the preordained one.

Gibson has a post-capitalistic Jackpot trilogy, but that seems to have disappeared into the "post-apocalyptic" box.

Amazon have adapted the first book. It's by far the best adaptation of any Gibson book, according to this commenter
by transpute | 2025-07-15 23:45:45+00:00
Jane Street's reported use of LLMs + OCaml, https://archive.is/HSVJN

> Using Vcaml and Ecaml, they wired AI tools straight into Neovim, Emacs, and VS Code.. RL Feedback: The system learns from what works, tweaking itself based on real outcomes.. Jane Street records the [developer] journey — every tweak, every build, every “aha!” moment. Every few seconds, a snapshot locks in the state of play. If a build fails, they know where it went south; if it succeeds, they see what clicked. Then, LLMs step in, auto-generating detailed notes on what changed and why. It’s like having a scribe for every coder.
by anitil | 2025-07-15 23:46:24+00:00
Just this morning I was wondering about using an in-process redis instance for either mocking for unit/integration test and also just as a convenient logical boundary. It looks like this would fit the bill, either with an in-memory sqlite db or in the filesystem for debugging or analysis.

I can't quite understand the use-case for postgres (outside of using postgres for everything [0]), but a really interesting tool.

[0] https://postgresforeverything.com/
by eugenekay | 2025-07-15 23:46:30+00:00
The NEXRAD weather radar system has multiple modes of operation (Volumetric Coverage Patterns) configurable for each antenna site. Each of these is optimized for different weather conditions. The light-blue returns represent humidity in the air (not quite rain or fog) and is usually tuned below the “noise floor”.

Current operating modes: https://www.roc.noaa.gov/branches/operations-branch/current-...
by pyman | 2025-07-15 23:46:33+00:00
It's worst than that. Lots of power struggles and god-like egos. Altman called one of the employees "Einstein" on Twitter, some think they were chosen to transcend humanity, others believe they're at war with China, some want to save the world, others see it burn, and some just want their names up there with Gates and Jobs.

This is what ex-employees said in Empire of AI, and it's the reason Amodei and Kaplan left OpenAI to start Anthropic.
by bagxrvxpepzn | 2025-07-15 23:47:13+00:00
Well now the goalpost has shifted from "it's not cynical" to "even if it is cynical it doesn't matter" and dang has already warned me so I'm hesitant to continue this thread. I'll just say that once you recognize that a lot of the fluff in this article is cynically motivated, it reduces your risk of giving the information presented more meaning than is really there.
by epicureanideal | 2025-07-15 23:47:40+00:00
You forgot to mention child support which is for up to 18 years. Also, nothing stops the woman from having a career, especially if she cooperatively shares 50/50 custody, but often they prefer aiming for nearly 100% custody because it increases their child support payments, and then still have the option to cry victim that they’re a single mother despite getting thousands of dollars a month and they’re actively preventing the father from being involved with the kids. Happens a lot.

As for a stay at home mom who doesn’t get divorced, she doesn’t need to be entirely stay at home for all 18 years.. kids go to school at 5 and can go to after school programs if necessary while she works. A couple years before that if the kids are in pre school she could get a degree or masters degree or work part time. So the career gap could be minimized.