MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by airhangerf15 | 2025-07-15 17:54:57+00:00
Cloudflare also blocked a popular Internet celebrity gossip site and actionably -defamed them in the process, and a popular blog, yet still has customers who run animal crushing sites (which is literally illegal content in many countries).

Don't defend them. Their decisions are arbitrary and it's really sad so much of the web has chosen to use their garbage services.
by chrisfosterelli | 2025-07-15 17:55:06+00:00
"You don't really love what you do unless you're willing to do it 17 hours a day every day" is an interesting take.

You can love what you do but if you do more of it than is sustainable because of external pressures then you will burn out. Enjoying your work is not a vaccine against burnout. I'd actually argue that people who love what they do are more likely to have trouble finding that balance. The person who hates what they do usually can't be motivated to do more than the minimum required of them.
Calhoun vs. Google, LLC plaintiffs appeal denial of class certification [PDF]
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-15 17:55:12+00:00
Calhoun v Google, LLC plaintiffs appeal denial of class certification [PDF]

Meta shareholders look to haul CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg to court https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/business/meta-shareholders-aim-to-haul-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg-to-court/

Calhoun v Google, LLC plaintiffs appeal denial of class certification https://www.bloomberglaw.com/document/public/subdoc/X3GM03JG1KL93SBE2FST0J6PKM1?imagename
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-15 17:55:26+00:00
Frankly American superhero comics also have(/had) notoriously ex positive dialogue. I feel like it has its DNA in classic pulp books, which, like comics and shonen, are long form stories in a short form format, which can't rely on their readers having read the previous issue(s) (or sometimes just want to refresh memories because it's been a while).

TV these days has recaps, I recently read the third book in a fantasy trilogy that tried a recap, but '"Ok, but what are we going to do about the dark lord?' The dark lord, Jathaniel, had turned out to be the actual murderer of Pomme, Gam's dad, who we had all thought committed suicide. He was seeking the crystals of wonder..." is still very common in modern books. Comics and cartoons are expected to have much less narration, so they tend to put refreshers like this in dialogue. Movies do that to make themselves feel like comics or cartoons. I'm not sure why non comic or cartoon movies do that.
by Duanemclemore | 2025-07-15 17:55:44+00:00
That's all really insightful! I agree. I'm also much better now - not willfully disregarding things because just they're popular. I was a punk and indie rocker in the early 00's, so I was able to get that out of my system. (and boy did we) Now, my tastes are just generally extremely non-mainstream. So I avoid it by default.

It's pretty straightforward really - for example I saw Fruitvale Station as a movie fan. I thought it was great and so Coogler was on my radar. I thought the Rocky franchise was ripe for a reboot, so when I heard he was doing it I was in. And the movie was fine. As was Black Panther (considering Marvel flicks for what they are, no judgment either way). So OF COURSE I was downright excited for Sinners. With no assumption that it had to be the best thing ever - and I had a blast.

Another good example is that I'm currently watching the John Wick series for the first time. I didn't know anything about them, but had heard them positively referenced on Kill James Bond. Well, if you meet it where it is and realize it's just "what if you made a comic book into a movie?" and don't expect more of it, you can appreciate it for whether it does that well or not.
by humbleferret | 2025-07-15 17:55:49+00:00
What a great post.

Some points that stood out to me:

- Progress is iterative and driven by a seemingly bottom up, meritocratic approach. Not a top down master plan. Essentially, good ideas can come from anywhere and leaders are promoted based on execution and quality of ideas, not political skill.

- People seem empowered to build things without asking permission there, which seems like it leads to multiple parallel projects with the promising ones gaining resources.

- People there have good intentions. Despite public criticism, they are genuinely trying to do the right thing and navigate the immense responsibility they hold.

- Product is deeply influenced by public sentiment, or more bluntly, the company "runs on twitter vibes."

- The sheer cost of GPUs changes everything. It is the single factor shaping financial and engineering priorities. The expense for computing power is so immense that it makes almost every other infrastructure cost a "rounding error."

- I liked the take of the path to AGI being framed as a three horse race between OpenAI (consumer product DNA), Anthropic (business/enterprise DNA), and Google (infrastructure/data DNA), with each organisation's unique culture shaping its approach to AGI.
by xtracto | 2025-07-15 17:56:02+00:00
The thing is, the Internet was supposed to be P2P initially (in Spanish it had the motto "La red de redes" (the network of networks, meaning that it was supposed to connect several LANs together).

But as soon as you had ISPs started, centralization came. Now, most countries will have at most 5 major ISPs, and in reality geographical availability within countries make 1 or 2 available.

Then, originally people had their own websites (I was there!) in their own servers. But Geocities started the centralization trend. And then CDNs, and then MySpace/Facebook and all that.

The only way we are going to get the "freedom" network as it was before is through mesh-networks or similar technologies. Which maybe so far are very slow and cumbersome, but they will have to evolve. I know it is not very fashionable here in HN, but the only see that capable of happening is implementing some kind of "incentive mechanism" that incenvitives people to let data pass through their node in the mesh network; aaaand cryptocurrencies offer an possible solution for that.
by azath92 | 2025-07-15 17:56:30+00:00
weve just explored a HN site-reskin as a quick way to validate this, and I now use it for my browsing every day. Its a pretty transparent "profile" that gets applied by an llm to rank your HN frontpage, but would be trivial to shift that to a filter.

An extension could be a powerful way to apply it without having to leave HN, but I wonder if that (and our website prototype) is a short term solution. I can imaging having an extension per news/content site, or an "alt site" for each that takes into account your preferences, but it feels clunky.

OTOH having a generic llm in browser that does this for all sites feels quite far off, so maybe the narrow solutions where you really care about it are the way to go?
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-15 17:56:50+00:00
Just to add one final point: I included modification as well as generation of content, since I also want to exclude technologies that simply improve upon existing content in some way that is very close to generative but may not be considered so. For example: audio improvent like echo removal, ML noise removal, which I have already shown to interpolate.

I think AI classification and stuff like classification is probably okay but of course with that, as with all technologies, we should be cautious of how we use it as it can be used also in facial recognition, which in turn can be used to create a stronger police state.
by burntsushi | 2025-07-15 17:57:07+00:00
It's not only just getting some "regex basics." The `fancy-regex` crate has provided look-behind for years. The OP is about adopting look-behind to the linear time guarantee required by the `regex` crate.

My main focus for the `regex` crate has been on performance: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar

How does Raku's regex performance compare to Perl?
by eqvinox | 2025-07-15 17:57:09+00:00
Contrary to the "highlights" section (which seems to be the only place calling it a "standard" 19-core optical fiber), this is not in fact a 'standard' fiber, rather the origin seems to be the standard (125µm) diameter ("Sumitomo Electric was responsible for the design and manufacture of a coupled 19-core optical fiber with a standard cladding diameter (see Figure 1)"). Looks like the "diameter" simply got lost for the highlights section.

(Nonetheless impressive, and multi-core fiber seems to be maturing as technology.)
by alwa | 2025-07-15 17:57:24+00:00
If anyone tried to demand that I work that way, I’d say absolutely not.

But when I sink my teeth into something interesting and important (to me) for a few weeks’ or months’ nonstop sprint, I’d say no to anyone trying to rein me in, too!

Speaking only for myself, I can recognize those kinds of projects as they first start to make my mind twitch. I know ahead of time that I’ll have no gas left the tank by the end, and I plan accordingly.

Luckily I’ve found a community who relate to the world and each other that way too. Often those projects aren’t materially rewarding, but the few that are (combined with very modest material needs) sustain the others.
by dang | 2025-07-15 17:57:35+00:00
There are degrees of offtopicness, of course. In this case I moved the subthread because it was a generic tangent that had little to do with the specific article.

Good on-topic subthreads usually show some sign of contact with the body of the article—not just the title, and certainly not the most generic phrase (in this case "quantum mechanics") that can be abstracted from the title.

But one can always argue particular cases either way and I agree that the counter-argument was stronger for that one.
by zdragnar | 2025-07-15 17:57:38+00:00
lmgtfy was (from what I saw) always used as a snarky way to tell someone to do a little work on their own before asking someone else to do it for them.

I have seen people use "here's what chatGPT" said almost exclusively unironically, as if anyone else wants humans behaving like agents for chatbots in the middle of other people's discussion threads. That is to say, they offer no opinion or critical thought of their own, they just jump into a conversation with a wall of text.
by briliantbrandon | 2025-07-15 17:57:45+00:00
> The act of sitting yourself in the cinema with other people to actively engage with a movie transforms the experience.

I very much agree with this sentiment, unfortunately post-COVID that transformation has often been a negative one in my personal experience. This is entirely anecdotal, but I feel like there is an increase in the frequency with which I have had a public movie experience ruined by people on cell phones, talking to each other, or even yelling in response to the events on screen.

I feel like when a movie comes out now that I want to see, I am in a constant tension between dealing with a potentially rowdy or obnoxious public, or a less ideal viewing experience at home.
by bcrl | 2025-07-15 17:58:39+00:00
Interesting work, but 19 cores is very much not standard. Multiples of 12 cores are the gold standard in the telecommunications industry. Ribbon fibre is typically 12, sometimes 24 fibres per ribbon, and high count cables these days are 864 cores or more using a more flexible ribbon structure that improves density while still using standard tooling.
by callc | 2025-07-15 17:58:40+00:00
The “use LLMs or you will fall behind” narrative is pearl clutching.

I don’t see anywhere in the near future our profession becoming something other than knowledge work.

So, at the end of the day training your brain is what matters.

Over-reliance on LLM is like skipping the brain gym.

Under utilizing LLM may make you slower. There’s a good optimum of putting in the work so you learn and asking LLM

If it’s mostly a social phenomenon in your company that non believers are pushed out, that does not seem like a fun place to work.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-15 17:58:57+00:00
> I also imagine it’s hard to go to investors with “while all of our competitors are improving their models and either closing the gap or surpassing us, we’re just going to stabilize and see if people will pay for our current product.”

Yeah, no one wants to be the first to stop improving models. As long as investor money keeps flowing in there's no reason to - just keep burning it and try to outlast your competitors, figure out the business model later. We'll only start to see heavy monetization once the money dries up, if it ever does.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-15 17:59:08+00:00
>AI on the other hand target businesses and consumers alike.

Okay. So AI will be using ads for consumers and make deals with the billionaires. If window 11/12 still puts ads in what is a paid premium product, I see no optimism in thinking that a "free" chatbot will not also resort to it. Not as long as the people up top only see dollar signs and not long term longevity.

>Price for ChatGPT will go down.

Price for ChatGPT in reality, is going up in the meanwhile. This is like hoping grocery prices come down as inflation lessens. This never happens, you can only hope to be compensated more to make up for inflation.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-15 17:59:17+00:00
It reminds me of the classic tweet:

'Black Panther was a fine movie but its politics were a bit iffy. wouldve been way better if at the end the Black Panther turned to the camera & said "i am communist now" & then specified hes the exact kind of communist i am'

Some writers are certainly taking cues from the criticisms that tweet was mocking. Or were the same people making those criticisms.
by stale2002 | 2025-07-15 17:59:35+00:00
I can't make a nuclear or chemical weapon on my gaming graphics card from 5 years ago.

The same is not true about LLMs.

No, LLMs aren't going to be stopped when anyone with a computer from the last couple years is able to run them on their desktop. (There are smaller LLMs that can be even run on your mobile phone!).

The laws required to stop this would be draconian. It would require full government monitoring of all computers. And any country or group that "defects" by allowing people to use LLMs, would gain a massive benefit.
by pvtmert | 2025-07-15 17:59:41+00:00
Call this unpopular opinion (probably gonna get downvoted anyway), but the amount Oracle gets paid because lazy-devs are well, too lazy to read which JVM arguments should they put to their deployment, requiring hand-holding by the Oracle-support team.

I understand in the olden times there were javax.* and JavaEE, but nowadays, especially in the newer JDKs, these are completely gone. Whoever maintains Java 1.6 in their core infrastructure already doomed, regardless of Oracle asking them $$$ or not.

edit: I know various Java-devs which are "runs on my machine" mindset. As a DevOps engineer, most of the production outages I took care of were avoidable by removing this mindset and actually testing the code in a sandbox environment...
by jjani | 2025-07-15 18:00:04+00:00
> The thing that I appreciate most is that the company is that it "walks the walk" in terms of distributing the benefits of AI. Cutting edge models aren't reserved for some enterprise-grade tier with an annual agreement. Anybody in the world can jump onto ChatGPT and get an answer, even if they aren't logged in. There's an API you can sign up and use–and most of the models (even if SOTA or proprietary) tend to quickly make it into the API for startups to use.

The comparison here should clearly be with the other frontier model providers: Anthropic, Google, and potentially Deepseek and xAI.

Comparing them gives the exact opposite conclusion - OpenAI is the only model provider that gates API access to their frontier models behind draconic identity verification (also, Worldcoin anyone?). Anthropic and Google do not do this.

OpenAI hides their model's CoT (inference-time compute, thinking). Anthropic to this day shows their CoT on all of their models.

Making it pretty obvious this is just someone patting themselves on the back and doing some marketing.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-15 18:00:14+00:00
True for greenfield projects, but once a project moves beyond greenfield, the assistant will need to understand the existing codebase in order to plan anything correctly. Once it has functionality to understand a codebase, and understand the requirements, plan, and architecture direction, then it's going to have the most context to make edits, so may as well make it an editor too.
by jlokier | 2025-07-15 18:00:32+00:00
To the surprise of many, Google recently announced it is already integrating ZK-proof-of-age into Google Wallet with those kinds of properties, open sourcing the underlying libraries, and working with governments to encourage their ZKP system's adoption for exactly this sort of problem.

- [2025-04-29] https://blog.google/products/google-pay/google-wallet-age-id...

- [2025-07-03] https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-ze...

- [2025-06-11] https://zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/363/
by GolDDranks | 2025-07-15 18:00:59+00:00
To make this even clearer:

Let's imagine that there is a huge amount of time dilation (we live on the surface of a neuron star or something). By climbing a bit, we experience 1.1 seconds instead of 1.0 seconds experienced by someone who left down.

We have a clock that can measure milliseconds as the smallest tick. But climbing up, back down, and comparing the amount of ticks won't let us conclude anything after a single millisecond. If anything, we must spend at least 11 milliseconds up to have a noticeable 11 to 10 millisecond difference.

Now, if the dilation was 1.01 seconds vs 1.00, we would need to spend at least 101 milliseconds up, to get a minimal comparison between 101 and 100 milliseconds.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-15 18:01:02+00:00
Tetanus is an episode driven illness, like food poisoning. It seems weird to group it with transmitted diseases and then evaluate it that way.

My need for a tetanus booster is tied to what I do. When hurricane relief opportunities came once a decade, I got boosted as needed. Now they're 2x a year and I get boosted regularly.
by parpfish | 2025-07-15 18:01:14+00:00
i hope thats not a hot take because it's 100% correct.

people conflate the terms "burnout" and "overwork" because they seem semantically similar, but they are very different.

you can fix overwork with a vacation. burnout is a deeper existential wound.

my worst bout of burnout actually came in a cushy job where i was consistently underworked but felt no autonomy or sense of purpose for why we were doing the things we were doing.
by hinterlands | 2025-07-15 18:01:28+00:00
It is fairly rare to see an ex-employee put a positive spin on their work experience.

I don't think this makes OpenAI special. It's just a good reminder that the overwhelming majority of "why I left" posts are basically trying to justify why a person wasn't a good fit for an organization by blaming it squarely on the organization.

Look at it this way: the flip side of "incredibly bottoms-up" from this article is that there are people who feel rudderless because there is no roadmap or a thing carved out for them to own. Similarly, the flip side of "strong bias to action" and "changes direction on a dime" is that everything is chaotic and there's no consistent vision from the executives.

This cracked me up a bit, though: "As often as OpenAI is maligned in the press, everyone I met there is actually trying to do the right thing" - yes! That's true at almost every company that ends up making morally questionable decisions! There's no Bond villain at the helm. It's good people rationalizing things. It goes like this: we're the good guys. If we were evil, we could be doing things so much worse than X! Sure, some might object to X, but they miss the big picture: X is going to indirectly benefit the society because we're going to put the resulting money and power to good use. Without us, you could have the bad guys doing X instead!
by dguest | 2025-07-15 18:01:51+00:00
You define it to be accurate, and then measure the precision.

You can build two and see how much they shift relative to each other. That gives you precision.

So what's the point of a clock if you just define it to be correct? Again, having two clocks is what makes it interesting. Some people have commented that according to general relatively there will be measuralbe time dilation, but there are other fun experiments, e.g.

- Measure shift of fundamental "constants": If you have two clocks that use different elements, the frequency ratio can be related to some things we thought were constants in the universe. If they shift, they aren't constant.

- Look for preferred directions in space: does one clock give a different reading if you turn it on its side?

- Some theories predict that dark matter might induce a frequency shift in these clocks. Put the clocks far apart and look for spacial modulations in the dark matter density.

- Measure anything else that had to be tweaked to make the clock stable. This includes the magnetic field, for example, so the clock is also a really sensitive magnetometer.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-15 18:02:03+00:00
>what has been developed up until now has a great deal of utility and transformative power

I think we'd be more screwed than VR if development ceased today. They are little more than toys right now who's most successsful outings are grifts, and the the most useful tools are simply aiding existing tooling (auto-correct). It is not really "intelligence" as of now.

>I believe that "LLMs transforming society is inevitable" is a much more defensible assertion

Sure. But into what? We can't just talk about change for change's sake. Look at the US in 2025 with that mentality.
by try_the_bass | 2025-07-15 18:02:28+00:00
> I'm specifically concerned with how those communities affect the real world people I talk to outside of the internet, and there I find that the "anti PC" crowd takes their philosophy along with them much more readily.

My experience tends to align with this, as well. But I don't actually see it as a problem in the same way you do.

After all, if someone's online behavior and their "real world" behavior align, doesn't that just mean they're being authentic?

Which my experience tends to agree with: the "anti PC" crowd, in my experience, is more "authentic" than their "PC crowd" equivalents. I don't agree with their views per se, but they tend to be more internally consistent about those views, which is commendable. A lot of "being PC" plays out as posturing, which often feels inauthentic and fake. I think this is consistent with what you're saying, but it's really a critique of both sides in different ways.

I think lack of perceived authenticity is a large part of the Democratic party's current struggles with membership. Or at least it's a thing that makes me take them less seriously and to see their ideas/proposals in a poorer light, and I can only assume there are some (many?) people who feel the same.
by smeeger | 2025-07-15 18:02:34+00:00
> everyone I met there is actually trying to do the right thing

making human beings obsolete is not the right thing. nobody in openAI is doing the right thing.

in another part of the post he says safety teams work primarily on making sure the models dont say anything racist as well as limiting helpful tips on building weapons of terror… and that AGI safety is basically not a focus. i dont think this company should be allowed to exist. they dont have ANY right to threaten the existence and wellbeing of me and my kids!
by SirMaster | 2025-07-15 18:03:19+00:00
>which would be a lot of exercise for someone to do every single day.

Well I already disagree here at this point I guess. For me that is like the minimum on average. When I'm playing pickleball I'm plying like 3 hours, if i'm cycling I'm cycling like 2 hours, and if i'm jogging i'm jogging like an hour.

Humans are built to be active, not sitting in an office all day, and for a healthily lifestyle I don't think this asking too much IMO to do an hour of moderate exercise a day on average.

I kind of feel like crap when I am not exercising and feel like I have a lot more energy when I do exercise nearly every day. That's my experience with it at least.