MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lillecarl | 2025-07-02 15:09:29+00:00
When we can run our own models that are good enough on local hardware (practically) it'll really take off, I believe AI accelerators in end user electronics will revolutionize how we utilize computers.

> I don't know. I should probably put on a sleeping mask and navigate the web via a screen reader one of these days to really experience how things are. The difference is that it wouldn't be like experiencing it through a screen reader, it'd be like experiencing it with a screen reader that you can't use and will never be motivated enough to learn. Some blind people are known to listen to code in "reading speed" which is pretty incredible.

You'd be like standing on skis for the first time, or using Vim
by Nevermark | 2025-07-02 15:09:39+00:00
Very much so!

The more and faster a “mind” can infer, the less it needs to store.

Think how much fewer facts a symbolic system that can perform calculus needs to store, vs. an algebraic, or just arithmetic system, to cover the same numerical problem solving space. Many orders of magnitude less.

The same goes for higher orders of reasoning. General or specific subject related.

And higher order reasoning vastly increases capabilities extending into new novel problem spaces.

I think model sizes may temporarily drop significantly, after every major architecture or training advance.

In the long run, “A circa 2025 maxed M3 Ultra Mac Studio is all you need!” (/h? /s? Time will tell.)
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-07-02 15:09:43+00:00
They cant do anything other than bog down the internet. I havent found a single cf provided challenge I havent been able to get past in < half a day.

This is simply juat the first step in them implementing a marketplace and trying to get into LLM SEO. They dont care about your site or protecting it. They are gearing up to start making a cut in the Middle between scrapers and publishers. Why wouldnt I go DIRECTLY to the publisher and make a deal. So dumb I hate cf so much.

The only thing cloudflare knows how to do is MITM attacks.
by seanw444 | 2025-07-02 15:09:52+00:00
This is pretty much the conclusion I've come to as well. It's not good at being an autocomplete for entire chunks of your codebase. You lose the mental model of what is doing what, and exactly where. I prefer to use it as a personalized, faster-iterating StackOverflow. I'll ask it to give me a rundown of a concept I'm not familiar with, or for a general direction to point me in if I'm uncertain of what a good solution would be. Then I'll make the decision, and implement it myself. That workflow has worked out much better for me so far.
by progbits | 2025-07-02 15:10:24+00:00
Good for him to get the money. I skip all these with sponsorblock, can't trust them to give honest review. Nobody should either.

On the other hand if I already know I want to use a product I search for it on youtube and if I find a video with coupon in the description from a channel I know (or least seems decent) I use it. Make the advertisers think it works and pay more, and I get a discount.
by travisgriggs | 2025-07-02 15:10:40+00:00
This parrots much of my own experience.

I don’t have it write of my Python firmware or Elixir backend stuff.

What I do let it rough in is web front end stuff. I view the need for and utility of LLMs in the html/css/tailwind/js space as an indictment of complexity and inconsistency. It’s amazing that the web front end stuff has just evolved over the years, organically morphing from one thing to another, but a sound well engineered simple-is-best set of software it is not. And in a world where my efforts will probably work in most browser contexts, no surprise that I’m willing to mix in a tool that will make results that will probably work. A mess is still a mess.
by taeric | 2025-07-02 15:11:01+00:00
I was assuming a BCD scheme to do something like this, at the binary level. At the text level, I'd assume parens to indicate the group would be common. Is what that Euler problem did, though; so I'm probably just biased on that.

Actually getting the overbar, I wasn't too concerned with. Just noting that we have a way to do it on paper that doesn't require using ratios directly. Or infinite paper. :D

At any rate, this also got me thinking about how to do operations on repeated digits. I'm assuming I would have learned something like this years ago, but I don't remember it. At all. I vaguely remember it was awkward to realize that 0.(9) == 1. But, I don't recall playing with that too much. Is neat to see you should be able to make the general ideas work out just fine after you account for that? Just widen any repeating groups so that they are the same size, and then add. Reduce using the 9 rule.
by popularonion | 2025-07-02 15:11:08+00:00
Suburbs and commuter towns desperately need Robotaxi - there’s literally no other option. Public transit isn’t coming, Waymo isn’t coming, Uber and Lyft are shrinking

Even a US city of 100,000 people, it can be really tough or impossible to get an Uber - good luck getting a ride from the airport at 12:30 in the morning
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-02 15:11:14+00:00
The fault is firmly with the consumer. People are addicted to cheap shit and consuming like crazy.

We had cheap clothes 10 years ago, then Shein and their ilk showed up with even cheaper clothes, and people flocked to them in droves.

And you can still buy good quality clothes, $120 shirts and $150 pants of good quality are readily available. But who wouldn't want to have 10 shirts and 5 pants instead?
by quaintdev | 2025-07-02 15:11:18+00:00
LLMs have limits. They are super powerful but they can't make the kind of leap humans can. For example, I asked both Claude and Gemini below problem.

"I want to run webserver on Android but it does not allow binding on ports lower than 1000. What are my options?"

Both responded with below solutions

1. Use reverse proxy

2. Root the phone

3. Run on higher port

Even after asking them to rethink they couldn't come up with the solution I was expecting. The solution to this problem is HTTPS RR records[1]. Both models knew about HTTPS RR but couldn't suggest it as a solution. It's only after I included it in their context both agreed it as a possible solution.

[1]: https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/hosting-website-on-phone/
by gortok | 2025-07-02 15:11:28+00:00
Let me start with the App.

The Tesla App allows me to lock, unlock the car, pop and close the trunk, check the cameras, schedule it to warm itself up, input destinations, see its real-time location, and see charging issues.

The app isn't clunky to use. It's wonderful, and it's really well made.

The car's infotainment system is vertically integrated; all of the features are available in one common interface and work well with one another. The car will automatically turn down the fans when I'm on a call, as just one example.

The cameras turn on and show me the blind spots when I'm changing lanes (my only complaint there is that the side-view mirrors do not physically allow me to position them as recommended by NHTSA).

The integrated maps also include charging station availability; and the maps automatically update (I don't need to buy an SD Card from a manufacturer with the updated maps). The software team is able to push updates to my car; so if there are bugs with their bluetooth, it gets fixed without me having to go to the dealership and hoping they care enough about their technology stack to fix it.

If there are bugs, they get fixed; and since they're not dealing with different third-party modules, they own the entire stack that is in the car.

My only complaints are that I can't use Waze on my Tesla, which shows where cops are, and sometimes their navigation routes are wonky and aren't practical (like driving through the middle of DC to avoid going around the beltway), but otherwise the technical experience of owning and operating a tesla an using their infotainment system is lightyears ahead of any other car I've driven.

Contra that with the Volkswagen I just rented where its Carplay crashed and crashed the whole infotainment system; or the bug where its rearview camera stayed on until I manually closed it when I shifted into drive;
by kashunstva | 2025-07-02 15:11:33+00:00
> Shame it all got so political.

“The Left” bears sole responsibility for this? I don’t think so. If some of us find this man some kind of a Nazi and genuinely creepy, we have a named syndrome now?

Musk chose to visibly support causes I personally find repugnant. I’m not intolerant; he can do what he wants within the confines of the law. And surely given his much-vaunted genius, he must realize that symbols are important to people whether the actions they take on account of them are rational from a purely economic point of view.

The progress he made on electric vehicles is laudable. The real shame here is his lack of self-control to focus on his business.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-02 15:11:47+00:00
In very old CPUs and in many microcontrollers, floating-point operations are slower than integer operations.

However, in many old but not very old CPUs, e.g. in many from the last decade of the 20th century and from the first decade of this century, floating-point multiplication and division were much faster than integer multiplication and division.

So for those CPUs, which include models like Pentium 4, or even the first Intel Core models (those older than Nehalem, which got a dedicated integer multiplier), there were many cases when converting an integer computation into a floating-point computation could increase the speed many times.
by onionisafruit | 2025-07-02 15:12:49+00:00
Despite coming across like I was trying to correct you, I only meant to give my personal understanding of “handful”

I don’t know where I got my idea of handful, but it probably came from how high I can count using the fingers on one hand. So far that understanding seems to work for me when other people say it as long as I do what you said and treat it as an approximation.

On the “several” topic, I used to think it meant “about seven” because of the shared “sev” prefix, but it didn’t take long to realize several has a much bigger range than that.
by neoden | 2025-07-02 15:12:54+00:00
For example, one word which is a form derived from one of the basic swear words can be used to describe/express: 1) disastrous circumstances, 2) extreme surprise, 3) an end-game event making very negative prospects for the future.

An adjective from the same stem would make another word with the meaning on the other side of the spectrum, which is basically "really cool, highly approved". An adjective similar but constructed in a little different way would mean "weird, crazy".

From the same stem you can make three most common verbs, one with meanings "beat up", "steal", another quite similar with meaning "lie" and a third one meaning "talk". Light modifications of the latter form allow some fine-tuning of the meaning, giving words describing more complex behaviour: 1) suddenly say something unexpected, that will attract the attention of others, causing amazement and approval, 2) unintentionally give up a secret, blurt out too much, 3) get yourself in trouble by talking too much, or even 4) fall down from a certain height or bump into an object receiving a light injury.

and so on, and so forth..
by cosgrove | 2025-07-02 15:12:59+00:00
Can they really do it? Tesla is making steady progress and has reached a few new milestones recently.

They recently launched their Robotaxi service in Austin, and it seems to be as good as Waymo or better. https://youtu.be/RcaBZenrCCs

They also recently autonomously delivered a car to a customer’s apartment straight from the factory line. https://youtu.be/lRRtW16GalE
by falcor84 | 2025-07-02 15:13:10+00:00
But isn't it the same sort of FTL and "immortality" that a creator gets from us listening to a downloaded podcast that they prerecorded?

To quote Woody Allen:

> “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
by gortok | 2025-07-02 15:13:35+00:00
I use their adaptive cruise control; and unless they intentionally nerfed it compared to their FSD, I have to be really careful using it in the DC area, as it will randomly brake in certain places.

With the latest Tesla Updates I can tell it thinks there's a grade or curve issue that is causing it to brake; but before the latest update it would just randomly brake in certain places (coming down from 70 to 40 very quickly) and that is just dangerous in the DC area.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-02 15:13:35+00:00
Perhaps some people lie, but the "Made in America" designation is specifically regulated by the FTC (https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/complying-ma...), and unlike similar regulations in other countries it doesn't permit these kind of final assembly shenanigans. The entire thing has to be made end-to-end in the US with negligible foreign input. One specific example they list is a lamp with an imported base; even though the base is neither a functional component nor a large amount of the cost, the manufacturer may not claim that the lamp as a whole is American-made.

I've actually seen arguments that this is so strong it loops back around to discouraging American manufacturing. Is there any "Made in America" loving consumer who wouldn't be happy to buy that lamp?
by kakuri | 2025-07-02 15:13:48+00:00
> I’ve said this before, but Apple is forcing third party devs to be in service of Apple

I got my first taste of computers on early 90's Macs and was enchanted. Within a year I discovered DOS, Windows - and freedom. I did tech support for both Mac and Windows computers for several years. It's always been abundantly clear that the Empire of Mac exists for its own glorification (and obscene profits) - customers, developers, partners - they are all in service of Apple. It's unfortunate that Apple does some things with unparalleled quality and maintains a loyal following, because the apple has always been rotten at its core.
by MrGilbert | 2025-07-02 15:14:23+00:00
My point of view: LLMs should be taken as a tool, not as a source of wisdom. I know someone who likes to answer people-related questions through a LLM. (E.g.: "What should this person do?" "What should we know about you?" etc.) More than once, this leads to him getting into a state of limbo when he tries to explain what he means with what he wrote. It feels a bit wild - a bit like back in school, when the guy who copied your homework, is forced to explain how he ended up with the solution.
by shadowtree | 2025-07-02 15:14:33+00:00
This pairs well with:

1 - Microsoft investing 3bn USD in India-based developers: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-invest-3-bln-ex...

2 - Microsoft having 4700 H1B filings for fiscal 2025: https://www.myvisajobs.com/employer/microsoft/

Utterly predictable behavior by Satya Nadella.
by ijk | 2025-07-02 15:14:50+00:00
What I want to know is if the flood of scraping everyone has been complaining about is coming from people trying to scrape for training or bots doing RAG search.

I get that everyone wants data, but presumably the big players already scraped the web. Do they really need to do it again? Or is it bit players reproducing data that's likely already in the training set? Or is it really that valuable to have your own scraped copy of internet scale data?

I feel like I'm missing something here. My expectation is that RAG traffic is going to be orders of magnitude higher than scraping for training. Not that it would be easy to measure from the outside.
by abandonliberty | 2025-07-02 15:14:56+00:00
Pain, like sleep, is a super interesting field and specialization, that is somewhat secondary for most medical practitioners.

In physiotherapy, we used to think that structural issues like slipped disks caused pain, but when we started imaging healthy people, we found the same structural issues commonly in the 'healthy' population.

Both how much pain we feel and how sensitive we are to it are things that can be learned. The bullet ant initiation rites of the Sateré-Mawé people are an extreme example.

A decent book on this is 'dopamine nation'.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-07-02 15:15:08+00:00
Cloudflare snd their customera have been desperately for years trying to kill scrapers in court. This is all. Meaningless, but they are probably gearing up for another legal battle to define robots.txt as a legal contract. Theyre going to use this marketplace theyre scamming people with to do it. They will fail.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-02 15:15:09+00:00
I'm sure ChatGPT and co have a decent enough grasp on what is not allowed in China, but also that the naive "prompt engineers" for this application don't actually know how to "program" it well enough. But that's the difference between a prompt engineer and a software developer, the latter will want to exhaust all options, be precise, whereas an LLM can handle a bit more vagueness.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the developers can't freely put "tiananmen square 1989" in their code or in any API requests coming to / from China either. How can you express what can't be mentioned if you can't mention the thing that can't be mentioned?
by stego-tech | 2025-07-02 15:15:15+00:00
This has been a critique of the figures for decades, but the current numbers are too convenient for the powers-that-be to change into something more reflective of reality. Trust me, spending fifteen months unemployed in the middle of nowhere and with access to raw data helped me understand a lot about the deliberately engineered shortcomings of our current datasets.

It’s in the vested interest of leaders to control the narrative. That’s why we have/had so many regulations that prevent them from doing so.
by benreesman | 2025-07-02 15:15:20+00:00
I'm really torn on the whole thing. I consider myself a patriotic American and would never do anything to undermine the security of my country or its allies (using the same definition of national security that the serious sworn oaths use, "all enemies foreign and domestic", which makes NSA backdoors that compromise American devices squarely a "domestic enemy").

But loyalties don't change facts and China is where serious hackers are rising on merit, doing a lot with limited resourves, giving zero fucks about empty slick talk.

If we wanted to hobble the PRC's technical rise we should have subsidized wasteful NVIDIA use and had Altman/YC be in charge: they'd still be gladhanding about how to pump their portfolio companies sticker price and avoid "systemic shocks" to the stock market anchored on NVDA.
by thehoff | 2025-07-02 15:16:00+00:00
The linked article is talking about ADP.

"To be sure, the ADP report has a spotty track record on predicting the subsequent government jobs report, which investors tend to weigh more heavily."

The BLS does do several measures.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-une...

Their (BLS) news release also provides more detail.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-02 15:16:07+00:00
Everyone in here is nostalgic for Sun Rays.

I loathe them.

I worked for A Large Government Agency that was deeep into the Sun ecosystem and was using a Sparcstation 5 workstation well into early 2000s running GIS, RF analysis, and report writing tools. It was a 24x7 operation with shifts of users logging in and out every 12 hours and those systems were never not in use and never powered off. They, and the software, were practically flawless.

Then we switched to Sun Rays. For "security" and "cost". It was a disaster. The latency even just across a couple of floors, was terrible. They spent more on titanically large, best-of-the-best, fantastically equipped servers and immediately the several hundred users trying to use them overwhelmed disk I/O, network throughput, and memory capacity.

We had to log in in staggered blocks, with 5-minute gaps between groups of 20 or so people inserting their cards.

My memory is starting to fade but I recall there being absurd amounts of downtime, with weekly briefings about capacity upgrades and equipment installs and the constant presence of network and server installers dragging pallet jacks and ladders around the facility.

"Oh the servers were underspecc.." NO. They were not. They were literally and actually millions upon millions of dollars of the absolute best and most capable servers Sun sold. We had Sun employees working in our facility. They had an open spigot of cash flowing from the Large Government Agency directly into their accounts to do carte blanche whatever they needed to do to make it work.

If the servers were over-subscribed it was because the ability to deploy that much capacity did not exist for any, infinite, amount of money and Sun knowingly and willingly ripped us off.

It never worked. The experiment made my professional life a living hell for several years.

In 2005-2006 they gave up and moved to Dell workstations running Windows XP professional using thrown-together Java or X11 versions of all of the applications.

Except for capacitors exploding at random intervals, it was "fine".

Moving from ancient vector-graphics GIS tools to Google Earth blew my mind though...

edit: literally never, ever, did anyone need the ability to pull their card out, walk over to another person's desk, and say, "Well hey Jim take a look at this!" and move their session.
Show HN: Hai – A REPL for hackers using LLMs
by kelkabany | 2025-07-02 15:16:29+00:00
hai HN! We can't go a week without a new CLI so today's submission is hai (Hacker AI).

There are a lot of tools in the space so I'll focus on what's different: hai is an experiment in personal computing rather than in agentic AI coding.

We each rely on a patchwork of web/mobile apps to manage our personal and work lives. They all share the same flaw: these apps aren't tailored to us, and we're powerless because we can't change the app or extract our data. Woe is the hacker ethos.

Well, it's 2025 and we have the cloud for our data and AI to transform it as we please. Why not relitigate the 2010s and its legacy of apps and walled gardens?

hai's approach is as follows:

- Powerful REPL commands: Load files, images, URLs; use tools (e.g. !sh - shell, !py - python); ask the LLM to use the REPL; prompt the human; send email; cache results; and more.

- Tasks: Versioned, shareable configs that describe a programmable workflow (i.e. prompt-on-steroids) as a series of REPL commands. Tasks can be published and reused by anyone.

- Assets: S3-like blob store for you and your LLM to use: public/private storage, change listeners, JSON metadata separate from data, local syncing, and temporary local copies to bypass chat context.

Live tutorial in a browser terminal: http://ec2-98-84-215-186.compute-1.amazonaws.com:1337

Watch a walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6qAy8PF2WU

(Too slow? Skip the first 3:25 to jump to tools/tasks/assets)

(Shorter video on managing a calendar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfAnEs_Fpx8)

Install:

curl -LsSf https://hai.superego.ai/hai-installer.sh | sh

Would appreciate any feedback or contributions. Happy hacking!
by ben_w | 2025-07-02 15:16:35+00:00
Getting computer vision and physics models to correctly handle fabric is the hard part of automating what's left in textiles.

Everything else is ultimately just inclined planes and a power rod pulling on levers, which is the stuff that was solved with the Jacquard machine and a whole industry of competing models of sewing machine before we even had electricity let alone electric servos.
by kasey_junk | 2025-07-02 15:16:48+00:00
You of course know that we have a diverse set of metrics for unemployment that capture all of what you are talking about right?

And that is before we talk about alternative signals like the ADP number this like references.

Anytime someone says “we need better ways” you should just read it as “I should do more reading”, because this is a very well studied, understood and measured set of data.