MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RiverCrochet | 2025-07-29 13:48:04+00:00
I'm under the assumption that the global, unfilitered Internet is on an irreversible course to lockdown and won't exist at all in its current form in 10 years or less. It's sad, and defeatist, but the forces on the lockdown side are too strong and will get what they want eventually, so I can either hit my head against a brick wall or do something productive for myself.

I've decided to deal with it by reevaluating the role of tech and Internet in my life. I certainly don't care about improvements to my residental Internet speed any more, or what the next wireless tech after 5G will be, or what protocols the IETF is working on, or net neutrality, because none of it matters to me any more. It's exciting what's going on with AI but it's all going to behemoths who will be able to tell the rest of us what we can and can't do with it. So... I don't care anymore. I can see myself honestly just not having a wired home Internet connection anymore in a few years and I would get rid of my cell phone if it wasn't necessary for day-to-day life. I don't need symmetric 1gbps fiber to stream the occasional show, text, and do normal-life things on apps.

But when you brought up magazines - it reminded me of that brief period of time of the late 80's/early 90's during the "multimedia" and "interactive" crazes; when BBSes were a thing--there were a lot of interesting CD-ROMs on diverse subjects.

I'm glad optical media hasn't completely died yet. Most new PCs don't come with one installed, but USB ones cheap and easy to find. PCs have come a long way since the early 90's. Fun fact, if your Android phone supports USB OTG I do believe a USB optical drive will totally work with it.
by pseudocomposer | 2025-07-29 13:48:05+00:00
If “reference capabilities” are the important thing about Pony, they should have a max 100-200 LoC example on the front page that uses them.

As far as I can tell reading here, “reference capabilities” don’t do anything that properly-used C semaphores haven’t done for near half a century. Or that their abstraction of that isn’t nicer to use than, say, Elixir’s, or better than Rust’s borrow checker for managing mutability. A code example could convince me otherwise.

Show us code that uses “reference capabilities” to do something. This “the syntax doesn’t matter” talk just comes off as bullshit to devs wanting to actually use a language. It would be better to commit to a syntax, post some damn examples on the site, and let devs get used to “reference capabilities.” If the syntax needs revising, just do that in Pony v2.

If you want devs to be enthusiastic about your language, make it easy for them to understand why they should be enthusiastic. That means code, front and center, first thing.
by flyinglizard | 2025-07-29 13:48:38+00:00
If Israel, the state, had interest in the West Bank it'd have annexed it already. There is a group, admittedly growing as a result of the processes happening in the Israeli society, which is very interested in the West Bank. But it was never the official position of the state.

West Bank should have went to the Palestinians following the Oslo accords, and it partly did, but that all came to a halt with the deadly suicide attacks led by Hamas on Israel. Another opportunity was in 2000 Camp David accords, but that too ended with the second Intifada. A third opportunity came in the form of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza. Had it been a success story - the Palestinians building their own little Singapore in there, as the world was willing to pour in infinite capital - it would have pushed forward another such a move in the West Bank. But alas it ended with Hamas swiftly coming to power, years of rocket attacks on Israel, then October 7th and the rest is history.

I doubt the Israeli public will ever give the Palestinians anything, at this point; any time a concession was made, Israel found itself in a worse and worse security situation. The great Israeli-Palestinian peace attempt over the past three decades failed miserably.

These populations simply will not coexist, for great many reasons - religious, cultural, historical, tribal, and external.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-29 13:49:05+00:00
Compilers are systems that tame complexity in the "grug-brain" sense. They're true extensions of our senses and the information they offer should be provably correct.

The basic nature of my job is to maintain the tallest tower of complexity I can without it falling over, so I need to take complexity and find ways to confine it to places where I have some way of knowing that it can't hurt me. LLMs just don't do that. A leaky abstraction is just a layer of indirection, while a true abstraction (like a properly implemented high-level language) is among the most valuable things in CS. Programming is theory-building!
by reverendsteveii | 2025-07-29 13:49:19+00:00
I've been told that my rainbow flag lapel pin is anti-Christian hate. This opinion seems to be gaining in popularity. If society decides this is the case, which some elements of society are currently making a concerted effort to see through with dozens of bills across dozens of states, is it incumbent upon me to accept it?

Right now in Europe there are people arguing that it's fundamental to the nature of Islam that adherents hate anyone who is not Islamic. They can cite Quran saying some pretty horrendous stuff about non-believers, that they need to be killed in a holy war and things like that. Is it within the bounds of society to decide that being Islamic is ipso facto a hate crime?
by lawn | 2025-07-29 13:49:42+00:00
I haven't seen Hologram before. What an ambitious and exciting project!

I see that you've been focusing on the performance aspect but I see a big benefit with the offline first use-case.

It would be nice to have built-in support for syncing any changes when the client comes back online as it would remove the biggest issue with LiveView based websites (that they stop functioning if you lose connection).

For example, a simple todo list where you can check off items offline and when you go online they're sent to the server?
by simonw | 2025-07-29 13:49:46+00:00
I got a 3 bit quantized version of this running on my Mac - using up 48GB RAM of my 64GB total - and it really impressed me. I used MLX (via uv) to run this version: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/GLM-4.5-Air-3bit

Notes on how I got that working, plus a neat Space Invaders clone it built me: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders/
by aidenn0 | 2025-07-29 13:49:49+00:00
> People would pipe up in channels and say "this doesn't work" only to be told they were using the wrong app and should go back to the one marked unsupported

This sounds like how XMPP was about 10 years ago. e.g. the transition to XEP-0280 was rather terrible and anyone complaining about it was told they were using the wrong client; often without any recommendation for which client to switch to.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-29 13:51:15+00:00
OK, but why does that make it "outlandish", as opposed to just "really big"?

It's smaller than Pfizer buying Warner-Lambert in 1999. It's smaller (at least inflation adjusted) than Exxon-Mobil or Citicorp-Travelers. It's a lot smaller than AOL-Time Warner in 2000. It's smaller than Dow-duPont in 2015.

Why is it outlandish? Because it involves railroads?
by philipp-gayret | 2025-07-29 13:51:18+00:00
The reason I ask is I work on developer experience, and I see feedback often online by developers that AI simply doesn't work for their flow. So I'm looking for real-world concrete examples on what AI development tools are stuggling with. Or, maybe it is how you use the tool? Personally I haven't run into limitations, so I'm really looking for hard counter-examples. The Godot example by the other poster was great, maybe you could provide another?
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-29 13:51:50+00:00
it is a good thing. Ironically hard effort leads to happiness. A life spent scaling mountains is happier then a life spent on the couch.

It's just where you are right now, the happiness part is not apparent. It's because it's a long term thing.

If porn or computers or TV or junk food didn't exist, you'd have nothing better to do then for mind numbing self improvement. Miserable, but in the long term you end up building something that makes you happier and more fulfilled. You build up resistance to the short term pain. And eventually depending on your case, the pain disappears completely. You start to enjoy scaling the mountain.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-07-29 13:53:09+00:00
Why would gamification be a misleading practice per se?

Obviously the term has nothing to with "gaming the system", which is an expression that essnetially means cheating.

You can go to a casino and play roulette or slots without being misled or cheated. That being the case you can definitely gamify shopping without misleading or cheating customers. If that's the case then people are adults and make their own decisions.
by imglorp | 2025-07-29 13:53:15+00:00
Not just porn and abortion, but the US is also targeting political speech now. The moral nuts are overlapping with the corporate and government interests such that the public loses.

Several examples: government employees are being vetted for loyalty instead of qualification; public corps like CBS are not only self censoring political speech but they also have a "bias monitor" to appease the government; normal people are being denied entry to the country for various wrongspeak on socials.
by belorn | 2025-07-29 13:53:43+00:00
Seems like a good case for some kind of handshake protocol where the caller and recipient can negotiate if they want to use AI or not, and have the AI talk to the other AI if both side agrees.

The tool itself seems like a fine response to companies that uses AI to take calls. If they want to replace their human interface with an computer interface, then the user have the same option. In practice it means that the customer uses their own computer interface to communicate with the companies computer interface. It not much different from the experience of a website where the customer can do the exact same thing, like scheduling an appointment, paying a bill, or checking their balance. The only difference is that the website is now replaced with two AI interfaces that communicate through the phone like old dial-up.
by thefz | 2025-07-29 13:53:51+00:00
> Ironically when Apple introduced their solution it was actually better than what we have now. It was interesting to watch people lose their minds because they didn't understand how the current or proposed system worked.

What, the cloud scanning of user photos was a good idea for you? The private companyt deciding what is good or bad idea? The automated surveillance that could lead to people wrongfully accused idea?

> f it didn't get flagged then it stayed encrypted on the cloud and no one could look at it.

If Apple can decrypt your data when they find a match, they can decrypt ALL your data. Who says it will be used for good? Do you trust a private company this much?
by Aperocky | 2025-07-29 13:53:56+00:00
Occams Razor says no.

A proper ebike won't stand a chance against the modern queen stage of the tour de france, even if ridden by a professional with appropriate gears otherwise, because the battery would run out half way on the first HC and it would just be a very heavy bike for the rest of the stage.

Same with a tiny motor - you gain tiny amount of force but you'll have to carry a full bidon with you on all the climbs, not to mention that the delicate mechanism can break easily.

I'd rather believe they're doping.
by nunez | 2025-07-29 13:54:04+00:00
- If you're capable of rooting a device then you're capable of understanding the risks which come with doing so.

Spend an hour in xdaforums and you'll see how untrue that is.

Many people root just to get YouTube Revanced or something like that. Meanwhile, you have launchers masquerading as a stock launcher that will happily steal refresh tokens for your Google account.
by stockresearcher | 2025-07-29 13:54:25+00:00
Your local library probably has a copy of Nature’s Metropolis, a very well-written, information-dense book that captures much of the reason why it was Chicago rather than, say, St. Louis that became the important link in the railroad system. (In the mid 18th century France and the UK concluded a treaty that made the ‘Illinois Country’ off-limits to Europeans. It depopulated and most people moved to St. Louis. By the time Chicago was much more than an Army fort and a dozen houses, St. Louis was a 100-year old large city).
by shivasaxena | 2025-07-29 13:55:32+00:00
Fine, but I also gave the example of 12 EUR for a wine opener that I can get for 2 EUR on temu. Lots of people in this thread pointed out how Temu doesn't pay VAT and/or other taxes etc which were plain trumpian style misinformation.

In my mind this 10 eur markup on this simple cheap good is directly related to lack of competition in retail in europe.

> I don't know what the answer is. Making Temu (et al) liable for goods' compliance —in the way importers are— seems like a sensible start.

Sure! However the way things are moving, it'll end with Temu/Shein being banned in europe in a few months.
by incomingpain | 2025-07-29 13:55:46+00:00
Ive tried this with deepseek r1, i got about 2 tokens/second and each response took 10-15 minutes to reply.

The cost of that hardware was free to me, but to build this yourself would be thousands. You might as well just hit up an api: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528/providers

Even if you hammer it, it'll only be $10.

>Most benchmarks I see are for Mac Mx series chips with MLX

Mac mini pro with 64gb of ram is actually suspiciously good value. Somehting like $4000... bit high but it can be your workstation.

The gpu and system memory are unified so you can load up bigger models. It's not the same speeds as high end gpus, but it's also not the same power draw. You'll stick to under 200watts.

Obviously 64GB doesnt let you run full deepseek or similar neither; but those 32B-70B models are ideal anyway.

At a bit cheaper price, there are minipcs with AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395. Same idea as the mac mini; and you can get 64-128GB of ram. Intel has a similar chip.

You'll get 15-20 tokens/s from 32B. Which is slow if you're coding.

Now, you could look into high end gpus, get a server mobo with 10 pcie slots, load it up with 16GB cards. Have 160GB of vram. But you'll need special electrical plugs; it'll idle at like 600watts, costing $100/month. But man that thing would be great, so fast.
by constantcrying | 2025-07-29 13:56:02+00:00
>Until member states start actually backing this these articles are nothing but click bait.

As the article states "According to the former MEP for the German Pirate Party, Patrick Breyer, Denmark crucially needs to manage to convince Germany of its proposed text. The new government has not yet taken a position at the time of writing."

And since the current German government is bound to take the most idiotic and destructive path it is basically assured.
by Hilift | 2025-07-29 13:56:10+00:00
It's probably relevant due to companies usually dump EOL hardware, and some of it gets a new life in a non-business environment. But if it needs a firmware update for a security vulnerability you're out of luck. There is legitimate commercial market for used EOL hardware as parts for people that keep old hardware a bit longer, but that's probably short term until it can be replaced.
by mikepurvis | 2025-07-29 13:56:24+00:00
Because there's still a benefit to a synchronous interaction. The bot can perform first level troubleshooting, ask for clarification, begin to form a plan and get your buy-in, etc. When you just have a fire-and-forget email form, you're going to have incomplete reports, missing information, people who have no idea what they're talking about, and who knows what else.

I bet 95% of calls to a plumber are the same ten or so issues— leaky faucet, toilet won't flush or is clogged, laundry machine overflowed, omg there's water everywhere, etc. If the bot is able to suss out the situation and also get a sense what kind of solution the customer is looking for and on what timeframe (cleanup now because I'm having a party tomorrow, install a $3000 sump pump in two weeks, etc) that can skip over a lot of exhausting email back and forth and get to something much more like what GP experienced, where they had one brief, synchronous interaction, followed by a single followup with the proposed actions that was exactly what he knew he wanted.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-29 13:56:31+00:00
With in-person access it’s easy to do two things:

1. Verify the ID without storing it in your system. Someone just looks at it.

2. Visually confirm that the photo on the ID matches the person entering the building.

Neither of these apply online.

Has everyone forgotten how kids operate? They’re not clueless. They’re going to realize that they don’t need to submit their ID. They just need to submit someone’s ID.

At first they’ll just use fake ID generators and submit those photos.

If that loophole gets closed somehow, a market will appear for buying ID verified accounts for trivial prices. People will create ID verified accounts and sell them cheap for side money. The only way around this is to start storing ID information for every account to make sure IDs aren’t used multiple times.

It’s one giant slippery slope of consequences for the adults forced to submit IDs, while the people who want to work around it do so trivially.
by torginus | 2025-07-29 13:56:58+00:00
It's weird how since like the 2018ish, the West has been holding its collective breath about how 'high-tech Chinese product X' is going to wipe out local markets by offering the same stuff cheaper and better.

We've seen this mentioned with smartphones, laptops, various electronics accessories, household stuff, and most recently cars.

Interestingly, this stuff never seemed to catch on, the best they usually managed is they became mid-tier market players.

The jury's still out on cars, but my suspicion is they're going to be far less dominant than the doomsayers predict.

The only 2 exceptions to this are dji, and Bambulab, their products are without peer.
by ozgung | 2025-07-29 13:57:22+00:00
I believe this goes deeper than a simple bait-and-switch. It’s straight out of Silicon Valley’s venture-backed startup playbook: burn money until the world dominance. That’s one of the reasons non-US or non-SV startups fail to compete. Not because their products or services are inferior, but because they can’t replicate this aggressive pricing strategy. They don’t have deep enough pockets to survive until reaching billions of users.

For Claude Code and similar services, we’re still in the very early stages of the market. We’re using AI almost for free right now. It’s clear this isn’t sustainable. The problem is that they couldn’t even sustain it at this earliest stage.
by padjo | 2025-07-29 13:57:46+00:00
That list has Avatar and La La Land on it. It’s definitely not elitist!

There’s some real gems on lists like this but some of the older stuff would definitely be a slog for most people and would probably need to be put into context to make sense.

Recently I’ve engaged in a practice of just hitting play on any old movie on Prime with at least an actor or director or even studio I’ve heard of. Essentially any film from the 40s to the 00s that had a budget and was remembered enough to make it to Prime. It’s been quite rewarding, all sorts of hidden gems out there even from the 70s through 90s. Even the mediocre stuff from then is often more nuanced and creative than a lot what you get today.
by ijk | 2025-07-29 13:57:48+00:00
> If they had bought each book themselves would it be fair use? So this is only about the piracy?

The earlier ruling covered exactly that question:

- Anthropic downloaded many books (from LibGen and elsewhere). This piracy is what the current case is about, and is unrelated to the training.

- Separately, Anthropic bought and scanned a million used books. They trained the AI on this data. This was ruled as fair use, and is not involved in the current case.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-07-29 13:58:09+00:00
Having a law saying children shouldn't view pornography isn't abuse. It's common sense. Just like saying a 12 year old can't legally buy weed. Is that a slippery slope? Should 12 year olds be able to buy weed? If not, why is that not a slippery slope and this is?

What needs to be kept in check is the scope. Let's say they try to age restrict sites that are subversive, but not obscene. That's what I'm talking about.
by b112 | 2025-07-29 13:58:24+00:00
The elephant in the room, is 'foreign actor'.

All of our platforms are inundated by an overwhelming amount of well crafted, targeted (specific per person) campaigns of disinformation by foreign actors.

China, Russia, Iran, and others cannot even remotely hope to stand against the West. Yet if you cannot stand against your adversary, you must weaken them.

You promote infighting. You take minor issues which can be cooperatively resolved with compromise, and seek to turn them into issues of great division. You spread falsehoods, creating useful idiots in great numbers.

You find the most radicalized, most loony of citizens that you can, and then secretly fund them.

Understand, any concept of "we do that to ourselves" is like a gnat in comparison. This is a real threat, it's been getting worse, and the common person is not capable of even understanding the concept. The common person, even when told repeatedly, thinks there is no downside to having their Pii stolen, or hacked. They simply read click bait titles, youtube or tiktok videos and 100% believe every word without any skepticism.

You may disagree with any or all of the above.

However! The above is what is actually behind the move for KYC to this extent. It's not about age verification, it's about identity. And it's not even about one westerner talking to another, it's about a foreign adversary seeking to pretend to be a domestic.

Of course, this is all rife for abuse. Of course, there are immense downsides. Yet the downsides of leaving an endless stream of propaganda, disinformation spewed at everyone including our youth, unchecked, is far far greater.

And I say this as someone that has fought for an open internet. It's already dead. It's dead because foreign interests use it as a tool to destroy our societies. It's dead because soon AI will replace most generated information.

Age verification laws are really identity laws, and any work to provide anonymous verification will fail, sadly, unfortunately, because the perceived threat is so large.

(I do not even necessarily agree with this, but if we don't understand the logic and the why of this, of why it is happening, then we're complaining about the wrong thing...)