MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fhd2 | 2025-07-03 18:37:28+00:00
The problem is the knowledge encoded in the models. It's already pretty hit and miss, hooking up a search engine (or getting human content into the context some other way, e.g. copy pasting relevant StackOverflow answers) makes all the difference.

If people stop bothering to ask and answer questions online, where will the information come from?

Logically speaking, if there's going to be a continuous need for shared Q&A (which I presume), there will be mechanisms for that. So I don't really disagree with you. It's just that having the model just isn't enough, a lot of the time. And even if this sorts itself out eventually, we might be in for some memorable times in-between two good states.
by juliansimioni | 2025-07-03 18:37:51+00:00
This is super cool. As part of the Pelias geocoder(https://pelias.io/) we use both OSM and SQLite heavily. Currently we've written our own pbf2json tool in Golang (https://github.com/pelias/pbf2json). But creating intermediate databases in SQLite could enable more powerful manipulation of OSM data before we eventually import it.
by alganet | 2025-07-03 18:38:21+00:00
But word-of-mouth _is_ a marketing strategy.

Companies can distribute freebies to make people talk good about them, even when their product sucks. It has been done for decades.

A particularly pathetic and scammy LLM company could deploy thousands of bots to forums like Hacker News or reddit just posting stuff like "It works for me", or generating simplistic blog posts that praise their latest scam. Just to pretend word of mouth exists.

These bots don't even need to be intelligent. If someone reveals them as scam, the pathetic LLM company can just spin more dumb bots to burrow the previous embarassment.

It is what I would describe as _fraud_ though.

Maybe SAP is not interested in this kind of potential.
by tel | 2025-07-03 18:38:40+00:00
Yeah, that's correct. You also often see it as having that for any method `X -> T<Y>` there's a corresponding method `T<X> -> T<Y>`. Or you can have that for any two arrows `X -> T<Y>` and `Y -> T<Z>` there's a composed arrow `X -> T<Z>`. All are equivalent.
by lupusreal | 2025-07-03 18:39:33+00:00
And another thing:

We still have no idea what long term stays in Martian or even Lunar gravity does to a human body. We don't know because we have spent the past half a century fucking around with useless zero-g space stations instead of building von Braun wheels which could easily be used to simulate those conditions. Because forget about Mars colonization, merely finding the political willpower to do something as conceptually simple as spinning in space is evidently impossible for us.
by dale_huevo | 2025-07-03 18:39:50+00:00
This is peak HN. You behave like a douche then appeal to decorum and cry about the rules when called out about it.

> No one says the plethora of email client choices is confusing. This is exactly the same

It's absolutely not the same. No one is manually syncing files across PCs and devices so they can retrieve mail on all of them. You have zeroed in on some irrelevant pedantry and continue to ignore the big picture.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-03 18:40:08+00:00
> Good experienced devs will be able to make better software,

No, they won't. It's a race to the bottom.

I can take extra time to produce something that won't fall over on the first feature addition, that won't need to be rewritten with a new approach when the models get upgraded/changed/whatever and will reliably work for years with careful addition of new code.

I will get underbid by a viber who produced a turd in an afternoon, and has already spent the money from the project before the end of the week.
by commandlinefan | 2025-07-03 18:40:44+00:00
I knew a guy who would ask the binary search question in interviews (i.e. "you have an array of sorted values, what's the fastest way to find if an element is in the array?"). I always felt like this was an unfair question to ask somebody as well - it doesn't seem like something you'd be able to come up with on your own if you hadn't seen it _in an interview situation_. OTOH it's a quick way to screen people who actually did a CS degree.
by vfvthunter | 2025-07-03 18:40:48+00:00
I do not see it this way. Google is a publicly traded company responsible for creating value for their shareholders. When they became dicks about ad blockers on youtube last year or so, was it because they hit a bandwidth Moore's law? No. It was a money grab.

ChatGPT is simply what Google should've been 5-7 years ago, but Google was more interested in presenting me with ads to click on instead of helping me find what I was looking for. ChatGPT is at least 50% of my searches now. And they're losing revenue because of that.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-07-03 18:41:02+00:00
"So it's cheer up my lads, may your hearts never fuss, when you're integrating systems for the S-100 Bus" "And when they turn the power on, it's sure to dim the lamps With plus or minus sixteen volts and fourteen hundred amps"

(Adapted from "The Bonny Ship The Diamond", also quoted in Moby Dick)
by wat10000 | 2025-07-03 18:41:04+00:00
Until pretty recently, throughput dominated the actual human-relevant latency of time-until-action-completes on most connections for most tasks. "Fast" means that your downloads complete quickly, or web pages load quickly, or your e-mail client gets all of your new mail quickly. In the dialup age, just about everything took multiple seconds if not minutes, so the ~200ish ms of latency imposed by the modem didn't really matter. Broadband brought both much greater throughput and much lower latency, and then web pages bloated and you were still waiting for data to finish downloading.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-07-03 18:41:12+00:00
> "We do expect Nintendo may further limit third-party docks and accessories via system updates to maintain device and system security,"

> maintain device and system security

Yeah, as usual. Because it's inherently "insecure" to transmit video from the console I (allegedly) own to the TV that I (allegedly) own.

Screw these scumbags.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-07-03 18:41:14+00:00
Apparently an American city of 100,000 people has:

9 Starbucks and 4 Dunkin’s 6 McDonalds, 3 Burger Kings and 3 Wendy’s 4 Taco Bells and 2 Chipotles 9 Subways 3 Dominos and 2.5 Chick-Fil-A’s
by aerostable_slug | 2025-07-03 18:41:47+00:00
When did I defend authoritarian masked men? Perimeter defense is an expensive endeavor, and if you read the words I wrote that's clearly what I was talking about. At first glance, the new budget includes over 50 billion (!) dollars for increasing our perimeter defense. That sounds like capable, rational border security to me.

Please stop accusing people of peddling the straw man you want to tear down. It's Reddit-tier, not worthy of HN.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-03 18:42:03+00:00
Most airports are not open 24/7 in the sense that flights are departing 24/7 or that you can get through security checkpoints 24/7. They simply don't kick people out of the secure area when they shut down. You'll still have difficulties showing up to your 5am flight 3 hours early before the checkpoints open at most major airports.
by fragmede | 2025-07-03 18:42:47+00:00
If you want to talk about the laptop and desktop use case, we can talk about those, but non technical people don't have laptops or desktops anymore, they got thrown out sometime after the iPhone and ipad came out, circa 2010. (sorry you didn't get invited to the conference. It was nice, Sarah brought her granddaughter and we had chips and guacamole, it was all very nice)
by tucnak | 2025-07-03 18:44:01+00:00
To say this has nothing to do with blockchain is like saying RADAR had nothing to do with war. Yes, people knew Maxwell's equations prior, i.e. "knew the proofs," w.r.t. ZKP but it has only really been developed much later, during the war.

The whole field of zero-knowledge mathematics was, if not non-existent, but certainly marginalised, before the crypto investment has hit the scene; this is facts. Yes, Shamir et al. go back to 90s, but it's a far-cry from zkSNARK, zkVM stuff we have nowadays. It has also popularized many applications, like provable auctions (see kyber[1] library in Go as nice starting point...) and opened the door to homomorphic stuff.

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/go.dedis.ch/kyber/v4/shuffle
by 21stcenturydude | 2025-07-03 18:44:02+00:00
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Show HN: StyleShot – Prettify Your Screenshots on Your Phone
by sundaywong | 2025-07-03 18:44:52+00:00
Hi HN! I built StyleShot, a mobile app that helps you prettify plain screenshots right on your phone, instead of jumping to your laptop and opening heavy tools just to style a screenshot for an X post. With StyleShot, you can: * Tweak padding, corner radius, and drop shadow * Change the background (solid color, gradient, or wallpaper) * Add borders, macOS-style windows, or phone mockups * Export in various aspect ratios It’s great for sharing tweets, testimonials, app reviews, analytics, or anything screenshot-based. Currently available on iOS only, Android support is on the way! Would love your feedback, ideas, or feature suggestions
by DidYaWipe | 2025-07-03 18:46:10+00:00
No, it does not. Does the cable company's forcing of you to use DOCSIS-compliant modems control what Web sites you access? No.

Does WebKit direct you to certain sites or block sites based on their content? Does it capture your search terms and curate the results? Does it aggregate content? Does it funnel your viewing to certain sites preferentially? No.

You keep attempting to assert that the viewing tool curates what you view with it. WebKit doesn't. Even if you raise technical points (doesn't support Web MIDI or something), those still don't prevent you from visiting any site you want. Even if a site were totally broken for technical reasons, it doesn't amount to deliberate curation by Apple.

Come on.
by dperfect | 2025-07-03 18:46:24+00:00
I agree. However, let's look at it practically. Let's assume someone is watching content streamed on a low bandwidth connection. As a content creator, what version of the compressed content would you rather your audience experience:

a) Compressed original with significant artifacts from the codec trying to represent original grain

b) A denoised version with fewer compression artifacts, but looks "smoothed" by the denoising

c) A denoised version with synthesized grain that looks almost as good as the original, though the grain doesn't exactly match

I personally think the FGS needs better grain simulation (to look more realistic), but even in its current state, I think I'd probably go with choice C. I'm all for showing the closest thing to the author's intent. We just need to remember that compression artifacts are not the author's intent.

In an ideal world where we can deliver full, uncompressed video to everyone, then obviously - don't mess with it at all!
by sethkim | 2025-07-03 18:47:18+00:00
My two cents here is the classic answer - it depends. If you need general "reasoning" capabilities, I see this being a strong possibility. If you need specific, factual information baked into the weights themselves, you'll need something large enough to store that data.

I think the best of both worlds is a sufficiently capable reasoning model with access to external tools and data that can perform CPU-based lookups for information that it doesn't possess.
by kentonv | 2025-07-03 18:48:37+00:00
> There was also a review of that code about a week later [0] which highlights the problems with LLM-generated code.

Not really. This "review" was stretching to find things to criticize in the code, and exaggerated the issues he found. I responded to some of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217254

Unfortunately I think a lot of people commenting on this topic come in with a conclusion they want to reach. It's hard to find people who are objectively looking at the evidence and drawing conclusions with an open mind.
by hellojesus | 2025-07-03 18:48:38+00:00
I don't mind turning back the Keynesian dials and abolishing the federal reserve. The reason my discussion is focused on PFML and universal healthcare is because that was the topic of the OP to which I replied at the root of my comment chain.

Those two are also not current or longstanding federal policy, which should making their prevention far easier than their repeal.
by dale_huevo | 2025-07-03 18:49:30+00:00
I disagree, it's an extremely myopic understanding of the world likely perpetuated by a sheltered Silicon Valley cabal.

There are millions of non-technical people with jobs, where they are issued a company computer.

It's conceivable they might want to access the World Wide Web on it.

Assuming they own no other devices other than a mobile phone as you suggest, they still have at least two and probably don't want to sync anything from their personal phone to a company computer.

P.S. your comment was funnier before you added the part about the gucamole
by ramesh31 | 2025-07-03 18:50:06+00:00
>By embracing batch processing and leveraging the power of cost-effective open-source models, you can sidestep the price floor and continue to scale your AI initiatives in ways that are no longer feasible with traditional APIs.

Context size is the real killer when you look at running open source alternatives on your own hardware. Has anything even come close to the 100k+ range yet?
by abletonlive | 2025-07-03 18:50:24+00:00
This awful advice can’t be blanket applied and misses the point: starting from zero is extremely easy now with LLMs, the last 10% is the hardest part. Not only that, if you don’t start from zero you aren’t able to build from whatever you think the new first principles are. Spacex would not exist if it tried to extend old paradigm of rocketry.

There’s nothing wrong with starting from scratch or rebuilding an existing tool from the ground up. There’s no reason to blindly build from the status quo.
by jjmarr | 2025-07-03 18:50:28+00:00
Not necessary, Uganda has been levying social media taxes on end-users since 2018 by automatically adding it to your cell phone bill if you access a social media website. About 2.7¢ per day of usage.[1]

Virtually everyone gets their internet from an ISP that is regulated in the country that the user lives in. There are no technical barriers to implementing a permitting system in the United States.

Linking connections to real people is self-enforcing when there is a usage-based tax.

[1] https://www.africanews.com/2018/04/13/uganda-s-social-media-...
by bee_rider | 2025-07-03 18:51:45+00:00
I think I misread the figures.

But still, they have:

> A source video frame from They Cloned Tyrone

> Regular AV1 (without FGS) @ 8274 kbps

> AV1 with FGS @ 2804 kbps

Just to emphasize the problem, would it be nice to see:

Regular AV1 (without FGS) @ 2804 kbps

It should look really bad, right? Which would emphasize their results.
by lwansbrough | 2025-07-03 18:51:48+00:00
There seems to be some correlation with how NIMBY a city is, and its access to diversified food options. (And probably entrepreneurship in general?)

Similarly, I would expect that the greater the dependence a city has on cars, the less diverse their food options are (leaning heavily into fast food.)

Houston standing out makes sense though. Despite its insane car infrastructure, I believe there are comparatively few restrictions on property use.
Show HN: Motive+ – A Habit Tracker to Change Lives
by MotiveAppTeam | 2025-07-03 18:52:03+00:00
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by JdeBP | 2025-07-03 18:54:02+00:00
Instead of just dogmatically asserting that any C program has security vulnerabilities, and changing C programs is also a security problem, you should look at what tmux's record actually is.

tmux has existed for approaching 18 years, and M. Marriott is still actively improving it as of last week. One can actually look at its record over that time, and, if that record is poor, replace proof by unsupported generalized assertion with proof based upon actual evidence.

* https://cvedetails.com/product/20683/Nicholas-Marriott-Tmux....
by porridgeraisin | 2025-07-03 18:54:24+00:00
> I wonder what the limitations are

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

says that there is a 100kb limit, and a 512 KV pair limit per extension.

Quite limiting, but if this pattern becomes popular I don't see why it can't be expanded to have the same limit as localStorage (5MB)
by diogolsq | 2025-07-03 18:54:28+00:00
1. about looking artificial.

Granted, it is not only summaries that go into the description—how to test, if there is any pre-deploy or post-deploy setup, any concerns, external documentation, etc.

Less is more. A summary serves to clarify, not to endlessly add useless information.

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2. about the usefulness of summaries.

Summaries always provide better information—straight to the point—than commits (which are historical records). This applies to any type of information.

When you’re reporting a problem by going through historical facts, it can lead to multiple narratives, added complexity, and convoluted information.

Summaries that quickly deliver the key points clearly and focus only on what’s important offer a better way to communicate.

If the listener asks for details, they already have a clear idea of what to expect. A good summary is a good introduction to what you are going to see in the commits messages and in the code changes.

______________________

3.About multiple Prs.

Summary helps to clarify what is scope creep (be it a refactor or unrelated code to the ticket);

it make it easier for the reviewer demand a split in multiple PRs.

examples: A non-summary PR/MR might lead to the question—“WHY is this code here?"

"he touched a class here, was he fixing something that the test missed out ? or is just a refactor?"

_______________

As a reviewer you can get those information by yourself, although summary helps you to get it much quicker.
by rvnx | 2025-07-03 18:55:17+00:00
Somehow this work when dealing with pedophile content, so the tech is already active.

For example, on Discord, all your messages are scanned for such. On Cloudflare as well (for over 5 years).

For now it means they have no interest to remove such content unless coerced or affected by the public opinion.

This would destroy all content though, not just for minors.

Absurd, but it works, in North Korea (death penalty), Iran (death penalty), China (10 year prison), and also protects victims from rape, or "rape" under financial pressure.

The alternative is to let responsibility of the parents to install web filter to their kids, and let others live freely on the internet, without sharing their history or IDing them.

In reality, TikTok also has really traumatizing content, yet is engaging tons of kids and teenagers, and IDing won't solve that, but good parents can.
by kris-kay | 2025-07-03 18:55:53+00:00
> I don't think this is a kind of moat they created with the explicit intention to make web apps worse.

Yes, exactly! Personally, I’m glad that Apple invests in this kind of R&D. They push the whole field forward as others try to catch up. I doubt they’ll ever make their UI freely available to all other platforms, but I do hope CSS continues to add features that make these effects much easier to implement on the web.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-07-03 18:56:52+00:00
You have confused "Web functionality" with gatekeeping.

You can use WebKit to visit any site you want; whether it supports every technical feature you might encounter on a site is irrelevant. I'm not arguing that it's a good engine or even competitive. I don't question your objections to missing functionality, and probably agree with all of them. But that is not gatekeeping. That's like saying black-&-white TVs were "gatekeeping" by not showing color, or some Bluetooth speakers are "gatekeeping" by not being stereo.

Anyway, the point is moot because Apple has to allow other browser engines now. If you think it through, this will simply allow Chrome to completely dominate the Web and take us backward to the bad old days of "this site works best on..."

WHEEEE!
by r0fl | 2025-07-03 18:56:54+00:00
I use CSV files to run multiple sites with 40,000+ pages each. Close to 1mil pages total

Super fast

Can’t hack me because those CSV files are stored elsewhere and only pulled on build

Free, ultra fast, no latency. Every alternative I’ve tried is slower and eventually costs money.

CSV files stored on GitHub/vercel/netlify/cloudflare pages can scale to millions of rows for free if divided properly