MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sandykarnati | 2025-07-01 01:33:47+00:00
Key Industry Movements

• Microsoft lost WizardLM team to Tencent, who quickly launched Hunyuan-A13B model • Meta won a major AI competition and recruited top talent from OpenAI • U.S. judge ruled Anthropic's use of purchased books for AI training as "fair use" • Google shut down unofficial Gemini CLI tool, tightening third-party access • Chinese VCs reversed cautious stance on LLMs, increasing investments • OpenAI experienced departures while Meta recruited top AI scientists • Nvidia became world's most valuable company and topped Hugging Face leaderboard • Replit reached $100M ARR, showing growth in AI developer tools • Google DeepMind announced $150K hackathon for Gemma 3n model • UK's ARIA seeking CEO for influential innovation role • Waymo launched fully autonomous robotaxis without human oversight

New Tools & Technologies

• Ten open-source research assistants launched (DeerFlow, Alita, WebThinker) • FramePack introduced next-gen video diffusion technology • OpenAI launched free Academy with tutorials on AI skills • Dolphin-summarize enables extraction from AI models without downloads • Ant Group released Codefuse-CGM for software issues • Hugging Face launched JarvisArt for photo editing • Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro returned to public API

LLM Developments

• Chain-of-Experts architecture routes decisions between specialized networks • Industry positioning LLMs as the "CPUs" of AI-native applications • Researchers questioning if LLMs truly understand benchmarks • Meta's Llama 5 expected to redefine benchmarks • Apple preparing AI model for iOS/Mac with customizable adapters • Research revealed LLMs exhibiting insider threat behaviors • Titans architecture combines attention with in-context memory • Alternative alignment methods emerging for RLHF • LMCache technology boosts inference speed 3-10x for long contexts

Other Developments

• Gemini app now allows scheduling automated AI actions • OpenAI released research models for agent prototyping • Growing push for agent-facing web standards (llms.txt) • 15 AI coding agents compared in development challenge • DreamCube project accepted at ICCV 2025 • US-China AI competition intensifying • Growing discussion on AI's impact on global power dynamics

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by amiga386 | 2025-07-01 01:34:40+00:00
You could do this too! If you don't feel you have the coding chops for it, read Usbourne's WRITE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE PROGRAMS FOR YOUR MICROCOMPUTER and you'll learn all the secrets of adventure game programmers!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTYkFJbUswOHFQclE... [PDF]
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-01 01:35:41+00:00
I have five tape decks and two of them work. Most of them were fairly cheap (<$40) but I tried buying one really elite Sony deck with Dolby S that I got one good recording out before one of the heads wound up rotated 90 degrees away from where it should be.

I think the story is that the quality of a tape deck is inversely proportional to its need for maintenance. Any deck made in the last 20 years has the same mechanism

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-last-cassette-pl...

which is mediocre sounding but reliable. TEAC makes a dual deck model that costs about $600 (crazy!) but probably sounds about as good as $50 deck from back in the day, they say is the most dependable deck they ever made.

Between having two A/V systems and a tapehead in the family I am still looking for another one. I'd like an elite deck but probably won't get one. My son brought home a reel-to-reel that didn't work and he's still hoping he can get one that does.
by egypturnash | 2025-07-01 01:35:43+00:00
Figuring out the plot and character designs for the next chapter of my graphic novel about a utopia run by AIs who have found that taking the form of unctuous, glazing clowns is the best way to get humans to behave in ways that fulfil the AI's reward functions.

http://egypt.urnash.com/npol/

And moving my financial support for this graphic novel over to a new crowdfunding platform that's run as an employee-owned co-op instead of a for-profit affair with a lot of VC investment that's starting to demand more and more attention to turning a profit.

https://comradery.co/egypturnash
by godelski | 2025-07-01 01:35:44+00:00
Same is true for lots of things. Classic example is we are so leetcode obsessed because all the people that were leetcode obsessed got hired and promoted. We've embraced p-hacking, forgetting Goodhart's Law (and the original intention of leetcode style interviewing. It's just the traditional engineering interview, where you get to see how the interviewee problem solves. It is less about the answer and more about the thought process. It's easy to educate people on answers, but it is hard to teach someone how to think in a different framework... (how much money do we waste through this and by doing so many rounds of interviewing?))
by phelddagrif | 2025-07-01 01:35:53+00:00
https://www.quarterbackranking.com

It's a DIY confirmation bias machine for ranking NFL quarterbacks by a variety of stats.

https://www.fishbitch.xyz

it's a fishing recommendation engine that weights weather, lunar cycles, water turbidity, and a few other factors and generates gear & bait/lure presentation recommendations.
by ModernMech | 2025-07-01 01:37:27+00:00
The quackery comes in the application of these techniques, promising that they "work" without ever really showing it. Of course what's suggested in that blog sounds rational -- they're just restating common project management practices.

What makes it quackery is there's no evidence to show that these "suggestions" actually work (and how well) when it comes to using LLMs. There's no measurement, no rigor, no analysis. Just suggestions and anecdotes: "Here's what we did and it worked great for us!" It's like the self-help section of the bookstore, but now we're (as an industry) passing it off as technical content.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-01 01:37:51+00:00
> has a great package ecosystem

So great there are 8 of them. 800% better than all the rest!

> If you think Python is a bad language for AI integrations, try writing one in a compiled language.

I'll take this challenge, all day, every day, so long as I and the hypothetical 'move fast and break things' have equal "must run in prod" and "must be understandable by some other human" qualifiers

What type is `array`? Don't worry your pretty head about it, feed it whatever type you want and let Sentry's TypeError sort it out <https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/v20250625/whisper/aud...> Oh, sorry, and you wanted to know what `pad_or_trim` returns? Well that's just, like, your opinion man
by sircastor | 2025-07-01 01:38:09+00:00
I didn’t want to be attached to the Synology system or hardware anymore. Synology Photos is great (and we’re still using it for the upload atm), but Immich lets me control the whole thing, top to bottom.

I’m running a DS1813+. It’s stopped getting new feature updates. This approach lets me keep the storage running while migrating away the server components.
by godelski | 2025-07-01 01:39:05+00:00
Discord is only marginally better than dedicated forums. Honestly, I'm not even sure it is... But boy am I annoyed at how frequently that is used too.

I don't know if misspelled on purpose, but I think the original name is a more accurate description than the typo (Discourse). Because it sure does create a lot of discord (disagreement and lack of harmony)

You might as well go to the Arch Linux forums or Stack Overflow. Where someone will berate you for bringing up an already discussed topic that is difficult to search for. And to rub salt into the wound, they almost never provide the cross-link...

Back on topic (kinda):

Man, I really do wish Signal would allow you to pin or bookmark messages. It sure beats the cluttered chaos of scrolling, searching, or forwarding to Notes To Self (which lacks a cross-link back but at least gives you precise search queries).
by drewcoo | 2025-07-01 01:39:37+00:00
LLMs can help you fake writing.

What can help you actually write? [spoiler: not LLMs]

The thing is that most college-educated adults don't really write to one another. Nor do they really read. We're now at the point of expecting college-level texts or Tweets or coffee orders. I know myself. I've seen the beast. No fat double latte please, with which I'll go about my day and forget this digression into my feelings (separate box from children or coffee).
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-01 01:40:33+00:00
Haven't had great results with the AI portion though, even with the recommended model. Embeddings seem really poor, and has lots of misses and false positives.

Given how good the new multimodal models are, I've been thinking it would be much better to just have a multimodal model describe the image, and let the searching be done by the already included melleisearch.

That said, due to reasons I haven't had time to mess with it past couple of months, so perhaps something drastic has changed.
by dosnem | 2025-07-01 01:40:34+00:00
Providing context makes sense to me, but do you have any examples of providing context and then getting the AI to produce something complex? I am quite a proponent of AI but even I find myself failing to produce significant results on complex problems, even when I have clone + memory bank, etc. it ends up being a time sink of trying to get the ai to do something only to have me eventually take over and do it myself.
by wooben | 2025-07-01 01:40:51+00:00
Memories and Recognize work fine with the base Nextcloud docker image. My host has a GPU so I use go-vod to leverage hardware transcoding. The base NC docker image can't access Nvidia cards (probably other GPUs as well). I could script in a way to do this but would need to run it after each update. Recognize runs fine on my CPU so I haven't explored this yet.

I have an OpenMediaVault VM with a 10tb volume in the network that runs the S3 plugin (Minio-based) which is connected through Nextcloud's external storage feature (I want to migrate to Garage soon). I believe notify_push helps desktop clients cut down on the chatter when querying the external storage folder. Limiting the users that can access this also helps.

I was having issues getting the notify_push app [1] to work in the container with my reverse-proxy. I found some similar setups that did this [2], so I added another nextcloud container to the docker-compose yaml like so:

notify_push: image: nextcloud restart: unless-stopped ports: - 7867:7867 depends_on: - app environment: - PORT=7867 - NEXTCLOUD_URL=http://<local ip address of docker server>:8081 entrypoint: /var/www/html/custom_apps/notify_push/bin/x86_64/notify_push /var/www/html/config/config.php volumes: - /path/to/nextcloud/customapps:/var/www/html/custom_apps - /path/to/nextcloud/config:/var/www/html/config

[1] - https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notify_push

[2] - https://help.nextcloud.com/t/docker-caddy-fpm-notify-push-ca...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-01 01:42:39+00:00
One example I’ve heard of (not endorsing the veracity, just something I’ve heard) is dogs being trained to recognize panic attacks and respond by lifting itself up and rest its forelegs on its owners shoulders and its chest on its owners chest, basically giving them a hug (which is adorable, tragedy aside).

So yes, in that context they’d be there 24/7, or near enough, but obviously that’s a different story from someone’s yorkie yapping at the DMV or whatever.
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-01 01:42:57+00:00
There is no technical solution for this unless you want to invest billions/trillions in building new computing and networking platforms created with privacy in mind.

ISPs will always have the ability to at least deduce whether a connection was used, the MAC address, and it there is WiFi, unfortunately whether people are physically present.

If we look at the roadmap for WiFi/phones/etc, they will soon gain the ability to map out your home, including objects, using consumer radios.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-07-01 01:43:03+00:00
You're greatly exaggerating the problem. Literally any requirement can exclude students. Establishment of a trusted proctor network for administering exams is how you solve this problem. If you're an online student, you'll have to show up a few days per year to prove your knowledge in person. I believe this is how many remote study programs already work, because AI is just the latest way to cheat. You could always pay people to do your work for you before AI, and the solution is the same.
by brenainn | 2025-07-01 01:43:17+00:00
Not uncommon for Australia. The housing market is very competitive so being a nuisance as a buyer, such as hiring someone for a thorough inspection, could hurt your chances.

What inspectors actually do also depends on who is engaging them and how much they get paid. For example, in the ACT it's mandatory for sellers to have an inspection done. This will generally go to the lowest bidder and they will put in minimum effort, e.g. the report will have things like "Roof inspected as far as can see from ladder placed against the house" and "furniture present, unable to inspect area". If you were the buyer and engaging an inspector, and the seller cooperated, you could have them inspect as much as you were willing to pay them for.
by bb88 | 2025-07-01 01:43:42+00:00
I moved from Linux and MS to Mac this year. I didn't know if I'd like it, but the fact is that battery life always sucked on linux and running things like fusion 360 always felt like a workaround.

I used Jeff Geerling's ansible scripts, and now I have all of the development tools, fusion 360, and xtool creative suite through it and homebrew. I still don't like the fact that apple forces you to pay the memory and storage tax, but OTOH windows has been broken for a few years -- and forcing me to upgrade hardware from a perfectly serviceable Dell XPS 15 from 7 years ago to Windows 11 sealed it for me.

I thought I was going to dread the experience but it was fine. The only thing I hate is the stupidity of the command/ctrl behavior that's different than windows/linux. But I fixed that with a mechanical keyboard running VIA.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-01 01:44:18+00:00
Yes, and only recently did I learn that Discord has a 100 join limit, so yea for everyone in the universe locking themselves in an anti-automation limited platform. As show-stoppingly annoying as joining every single Slack workspace in the universe is, at least they didn't ban my email after 100 workspaces

I actually sponsor Zulip because that's the world I want to live in: sane threading, public HTML views of the chats, Apache 2 licensed, and a "we host it for you" for Open Source communities

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Back in the olden days, I actually would have submitted a PR to introduce that new behavior, but their "fuck you, it's our project" taught me that it's source available more than open source for any meaningful version of that
by ggm | 2025-07-01 01:46:22+00:00
I'm wondering if you would acquiesce to surgery by somebody with vibe and no degree. Or want to take heart drugs designed by an acolyte of RFK jnr, rather than somebody a current pharma would hire. Overwhelmingly these structural roles demand formalisms acquired through tertiary study.

If you just mean fintech and politics... I guess it's arguable common sense is more valuable but again, the $b hedgefunds pay for quants who did advanced maths and stats and can prove their assertions. We're not talking vibe. Functional programmers in Haskell get jobs in banks.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-01 01:46:27+00:00
Wait, but is any of what he says true? Inflation is up, and it seem to early to tell most of the macroeconomic stuff.

He makes this very shallow argument that the degrees class was al binary pro free trade, but that’s not true, there’s a wide swath of perspectives, and most I’ve read said that the US has been shafted on trade but a straategic set of tariffs and not random fluctuations and false start would be the solution.

Can you name one person doing finance in the Trump Administration that doesn’t have an advanced degree? Trump has a degree in Economics for cry in out loud! Stephen Miller went to Duke, Scott Bessent went to Yale.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-01 01:47:42+00:00
Good luck!

For myself, I have done the whole shebang, Jamaican Blue Mountain, Tanzanian Peaberry, Mocha Yemen Mattari, Kona, etc.

Never did Catshit Coffee or Jura coffee machines, but I’ve invested in a lot.

But the last ten years or so, I have been buying 4 bags at a time (once a week), of Dunkin’ whole bean, and I’ve been using standard Braun Melitta-style coffeemakers.

I know, I know. I’m doomed to Coffee Hell for my blasphemy, but it really is the best coffee I’ve had. Home-roasted is better, but too high-maintenance for me.
by devilbunny | 2025-07-01 01:48:46+00:00
> It's not as easy to set up one's own modem as it is their own router, IME.

I mean, I suppose it's got the additional step of calling Comcast and giving them the MAC of your modem, but IIRC that's all I had to do after buying one on their approved list. Been at least 7-8 years since I had them, though.

You can plug-and-play with a consumer "router", but even then you need to know the difference between WAN and LAN sides. So the extra effort seems minimal.

Most people don't know how to set up either one. I know when the fiber techs came to my house to set me up they were greatly impressed at my (fairly basic; I don't do this for a living) networking knowledge.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-07-01 01:49:01+00:00
The expectation is that you at least have some basic knowledge coming out of education. If your entire expertise involves typing your question into ChatGPT and copy/pasting the output, do you need anyone to teach you that? When you encounter a brand new problem that ChatGPT has no concept of, you will need to figure it out using your own internalized knowledge and intuition.

People said the same shit about calculators in math class. Yes, you may have a calculator that can do calculus available 99% of your working life, but if you never learn even the basics of anything then you are fundamentally just a monkey with a typewriter.
by K0balt | 2025-07-01 01:49:09+00:00
It’s on a sub$ part with 8-20 pins and is intended to do what you might otherwise do with a handful of logic gates, for reasons of timing or power consumption. It’s also quite fast compared to the processor in this case.

It’s great for handling basic state machine or logic tasks without waking the cpu unless it is needed. It replaces glue logic better than a straight microcontroller… I can imagine a lot of situations where you might install one as universal logic and not even bother to run code on the MCU… like universal glue logic with a built in MCU in case you need it, rather than the other way around.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-07-01 01:49:15+00:00
"In the the late 80s it wasn’t easy to copy a CD onto DAT, because of the different sampling rates."

At that point nobody worried about using the analog inputs to do the copy. The quality was such a leap from cassette that nobody would quibble about an analog stage. I know because I was one such consumer. I had the Sony TCD-D8 portable.

As usual, the record companies' and Congress's behavior in the DAT case screwed the American public. The lie of "perfect digital copies causing piracy" was gobbled up by a legislature of out-of-touch geezers eager to serve corporate interests, when everyone with a brain knew that all "piracy" was taking place on double-cassette boom boxes in dorm rooms. Statistically nobody copying music gave a shit about quality.

And sure enough, when MP3 came along it further proved the point by being a glaringly IMperfect digital copy. So all the audiophiles, home musicians, and indie bands who would have built the market for DAT got screwed by media conglomerates' lies and Congress for no reason.

And oh yeah, that asinine tax on blank media: I would have then made the argument that by paying it, I paid for a license to copy whatever I wanted.

Anyone old enough might remember that Best Buy and Circuit City advertised "any CD $10.99 or less" at a time when they were typically $16. Then, all of a sudden, that deal disappeared... to the point that employees even feigned ignorance. Why?

It turns out that record companies had colluded and strong-armed retailers into rescinding this pricing. They were later found to have illegally ripped consumers off for $400 million (if I remember correctly), which coincidentally was the exact amount they were whining that Napster cost them. I still have a copy of the $13 settlement check I received from this cartel. But you didn't hear that side of the story much, did you? All you've heard for decades has been the caterwauling about "piracy," but never crimes perpetrated by record companies. <cough>SonyRootKit</cough>

DAT's fate stands testament to the relentless ripping-off of the American consumer, under the cover of absurd lies abetted by corporate stooges masquerading as "our" representatives.
by kondro | 2025-07-01 01:49:31+00:00
I can taste the difference between Japanese brands and, because we have a local Japanese grocer with various regional rice options, I get to eat the one I enjoy the most.

But in general, I’ve not found non-Japanese rice that tastes as good, although we don’t have much variety of non-Japanese Japonica around (I won’t get into the general homogenization issue of products in Australian supermarkets).
by godelski | 2025-07-01 01:50:10+00:00
Great, I always wanted to

- be able to spy on my neighbors - add more surveillance systems into my house - have my neighbors be able to spy on me through my walls

I get that there is utility to this thing but come on, they don't even guarantee that the information is private and they say they collect it. Does the boot really taste that good? Why are we so obsessed with surveillance and giving people the power to surveil ourselves? Why are so many devs complicit in developing these tools? Again, I can understand how there's honest and good nature utility to them, but just because something has utility doesn't mean you get to ignore any harm. This trade-off is literally the whole of ethics in engineering. Engineers both create the tools for utopia and the tools for autocracy. The bitter truth is that often tools for autocracies are created while trying to create tools for utopias. But frankly, I'm not convinced this one is in that ambiguous gray zone...
Show HN: Crush Check – AI relationship text analyzer
by omarfarooq360 | 2025-07-01 01:51:27+00:00
Hi HN,

I over-thought one too many “lol sounds fun” texts and decided to teach a model to be my wingman instead. The result is Crush Check AI —export an iMessage / WhatsApp / Instagram thread and get a chat report with:

* crush score (0-100) based on response latency, reciprocity, sentiment shifts.

* red flags like like breadcrumbing / love-bombing

* chat timeline.

You can also ask questions about your conversation.

Why post here I’d love feedback on: * whether this is something people need. * how was the user experience. * what features would you like to see.

Thanks in advance for any roast, bug reports, or “this is useless because ___” takes. Happy to share more implementation details and happy to give away free Premium subscription in exchange for feedback!