MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fnordpiglet | 2025-07-01 12:07:00+00:00
An example I’ve done with a small language model is fine tuning a small model for evaluating semi structured user input for whether it’s likely sanctions evasion. The heuristic code to do this due to the fact is got a natural language component is very complex and has a relatively poor precision and recall. A fine tuned model pretty reliably classified the inputs and was pretty resilient to adversarial attacks while heuristics - partially due to their full determinism - were very brittle over time.

These sorts of “heuristics are surprising incapable while the semantic flexibility of language models are powerful” are surprisingly large. Even flexible validation mechanisms that take human entered semi fixed form inputs and reformat them to the expected input in a really reliable way and is much less frustrating to end users. Essentially any situation where abductive logic or natural language comes into the picture a small model does really well.

Both of those things - abductive logic and natural language - were largely unavailable as tools until recently. This pretty nearly rounds out the complete toolkit for making really robust and powerful (and usable) systems. You sacrifice a perceived determinism by admitting abductive logic and non determinism, but in my experience this warm blanket of the mathematically inclined wasn’t particularly robust in reality and systems often deterministically failed in complex and difficult if not impossible ways to avoid that a little bit of abductive reasoning could make it remarkably simpler and more robust.
by Nitrolo | 2025-07-01 12:07:08+00:00
For years YouTube would randomly change my language to Italian and auto translate all the titles, which was annoying but I can change the language back to English and it was fine.

Thing is, I haven't lived in Italy for well over a decade. I don't consume much Italian content. I've tried my best to purge my Google account of any possible trace of Italian language settings, I've never saved an Italian address etc.

And yet Google must be convinced that, because I was in Italy over a dozen years ago when I made the account I must be Italian, and that cannot possibly change.
Show HN: PomeloAPI – one key for 25 AI models
by soGeneri | 2025-07-01 12:07:21+00:00
PomeloAPI lets you swap between GPT-4, Claude 3, FLUX images, ElevenLabs speech and more with a single REST call. One schema, one bill, no vendor lock-in.

What it is:

• One REST endpoint that speaks to GPT-4, FLUX, ElevenLabs, Kling, Veo and more.

• A consistent request+response schema, so you can swap models without rewriting code.

• Usage-based billing that tracks each model’s native price. Pay only for what your app calls.

Why bother:

Every provider ships a different SDK, authentication method and pricing unit. If you want to experiment, run A/B tests or add fallbacks, the glue code piles up fast. PomeloAPI hides that complexity. Call /v1/task, set model to whatever you need and ship.

Typical use cases:

• Content marketing: generate articles, social posts and ad copy in one pipeline.

• Product design: create mock-ups with FLUX images, then refine UI text with a chat model.

• Data analysis: summarize PDFs, extract entities and draft reports from the same job.

• Voice features: text-to-speech or speech-to-text with ElevenLabs using the very same auth token.

Example:

curl -X POST https://www.pomeloapi.com/api/v1/task \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"gpt-4","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Live now with a free tier. Docs at https://www.pomeloapi.com/docs. Feedback welcome!
by m-hodges | 2025-07-01 12:07:27+00:00
This is great. For years I’ve been wanting to solve the “link problem” in my Signal group. My friends post a ton of great links that get lost in the scrollback and I’d love a way to get just a dedicated queue. I’ve thought about things like a private subreddit or even just a different link group; but everything just felt like moving the problem and change management. Great to see this type of solution worked for you!
by aviaryan | 2025-07-01 12:07:54+00:00
It's the same (or better) than Whisper models, in my experience.

However, Wispr Flow does post-processing, so its output might be more useful, as it removes fluff from your speech.

I think it's possible to implement fast, local post-processing using the Gemma models. So I will give it a shot. If it works, then the output will be as good as the best paid options available.

Needless to say, if you speak very precisely, then my project is all that you need. It's almost 100% accuracy, I haven't seen a mistake yet (crazy, I know).
by rjmunro | 2025-07-01 12:08:00+00:00
In terms of energy supply, air conditioning works pretty well with solar power. Normally hot days and sunny days are very correlated.

If you are worried about the local heat generated by the air conditioners themselves, there are new coatings and panels that can radiate that heat directly to space, for example https://www.skycoolsystems.com/. Also just removing a few parking spaces and replacing them with green space can help at a city wide level.
by kruador | 2025-07-01 12:08:05+00:00
The Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 have static RAM internally, which you wouldn't expect for a) a computer that's designed to be as cheap as possible and b) uses a Zilog Z80 which has built-in refresh circuitry.

The reason is that the designers saved a few chips by repurposing the Z80's refresh circuit as a counter/address generator, when generating the video signal. Specifically, it uses the instruction fetch cycle to read the character code from RAM, then it uses the refresh cycle to read the actual line of character data from the ROM. The ZX80 nominally clocks the Z80 at 3.25MHz, but a machine cycle is four clocks (two for fetch, two for refresh), so it's effectively the same speed as a 0.8125 MHz 6502.

I wrote a long section here about how the ZX80 uses the CPU to generate the screen and the extra logic that involves, but it was getting too long :) The ZX81 is basically just a cost-reduced ZX80 where all the discrete logic chips are moved into one semi-custom chip.

Doing this makes external RAM packs more expensive too. You couldn't use the real refresh address coming from the Z80 because the video generator would be hopping around a small range of addresses in the ROM, rather than covering the whole of RAM (or at least each row of the DRAM). The designer has two options:

1. Use static RAM in the external RAM pack, making it substantially more expensive for the RAM itself; 2. Use DRAM in the external RAM pack, and add extra refresh circuitry to refresh the DRAM when the main computer is using the refresh cycle doing its video madness.

I think most RAM packs did the second option.
by nurettin | 2025-07-01 12:08:19+00:00
Well if you insist, this is what makes me think that there is a gradual process of compiling and running native jitted code as the project runs. Hence, runtime.

> The scoring process attempts to gauge how well each document matches the user's intent, and as such, depends on the specifics of how each query was phrased. Bing formulates a custom expression for each query and then uses NativeJIT to compile the expression into x64 code that will be run on a large set of candidate documents spread across a cluster of machines.

If this is "wrong" to you, then I would like to remain wrong. In fact I would like to have my mental faculties as acutely orthogonally aligned as possible compared to yours in every possible dimension.
by pjbk | 2025-07-01 12:08:32+00:00
I always loved the isometric diagrams on Clive Maxfield's [1] books about electronics. Since a lot of circuits are non-planar (flip flops, semiconductor layers, FPGA architecture), adding a perspective view makes things uncluttered, and easier to understand and remember. I think it translates well to many technologies.

[1] https://www.clivemaxfield.com
by ctrlt | 2025-07-01 12:08:32+00:00
I'm building a browser extension that turns your new tab page into a customizable, widget-based dashboard.

It started as a simple way to control my Philips Hue lights from the new tab, but over time it's grown into a daily tool I rely on for:

- Taking quick notes - Launch bookmarked websites - Quick weather updates - Track multiple time zones - Embed parts of websites using an iframe widget (with CSS selectors to isolate elements)

The goal is to make the new tab genuinely useful tailored to your workflow, not just another homepage clone.

It's still a work in progress, so i'd love feedback from anyone into productivity tools, browser customization, or just building cool UI ideas in the browser.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ejnndgifkmlldcdlifj...

https://newtabwidgets.com
by qwerty456127 | 2025-07-01 12:09:01+00:00
> seeking jobs, they tend to want fewer barriers to getting hired, not more

Like it or not, this is worth highlighting indeed. As I heard unions are an extra barrier for job seekers: in some occupations a union also has to approve an employee, not just the employer and this can make getting in the occupation prohibitively hard. Whoever knows better pleas comment, especially if and why this is not a problem.
by mvanbaak | 2025-07-01 12:09:46+00:00
The end user is _NOT_ forced to buy into their ecosystem though. There are alternatives, and depending on where on this globe you ask, apple is not even the one with the biggest marketshare.

So while I'm not against the general outcry and need for change, it is not just apple. The problem is way way bigger, and it should not be put onto one of the players in my opinion. Create regulation/platform that sets the limits, then put ALL players into the process not just one
by marginalia_nu | 2025-07-01 12:09:50+00:00
Sadly they seem to be getting through this one lately. Had a scraper hitting me with 80 qps punching straight through Anubis. Had to set up a global rate limit that browned out the functionality they were interested in[1] in excessive load.

[1] This form https://marginalia-search.com/site/news.ycombinator.com
by pu_pe | 2025-07-01 12:10:02+00:00
> The true potential of pay per crawl may emerge in an agentic world. What if an agentic paywall could operate entirely programmatically? Imagine asking your favorite deep research program to help you synthesize the latest cancer research or a legal brief, or just help you find the best restaurant in Soho — and then giving that agent a budget to spend to acquire the best and most relevant content.

So the vision is a paywall around the whole internet. Content aggregators would charge AI companies to provide data relevant to specific queries. Sounds like a nightmare to me.
by Moomoomoo309 | 2025-07-01 12:10:10+00:00
This feels off to me. There are so many Indians in silicon Valley, most of which speak at least one Indian language (even if not as well as English) in addition to English, some from India, some whose parents or grandparents are from India. They're both there in higher levels and lower levels - they're throughout the company, and none of them stepped in? I don't think this makes sense.
by throwaway843 | 2025-07-01 12:10:20+00:00
You seem to be chatting down some perceived tangental competition in order to chat yourself up. That kind of self-promotion's no good. Especially when picking ethereal "your writing sounds weird" ad homineming a decently detailed, reasonably hard-hitting, article.

Perhaps you don't like the conclusions it draws?

You then put words in others mouths. Then cannot leave the thread alone. You've already been called out by failing to pander some cheap anti-Electron sloganeering to the HN crowd, too.

I suggest, if you're going to talk-up your APP, to do so by focusing on positives. Perhaps read some posts by people that promote successfully, such as patio11.
by dole | 2025-07-01 12:10:50+00:00
Yakisoba in traditional Japanese cuisine is noodles (“soba”), fried (“yaki”). Noodles varies but you can use ramen, udon, or others, and it’s stir fried up with vegetables, meats and a worcestershire based sauce and has been in japan since the 1930’s so like most things it means different things in different places.

This is my personal gold standard for yakisoba: https://sanyofoodsamerica.com/products/sapporo-ichiban-chow-...

But I’ve also seen “yakisoba” served up in US military mess halls and correctional institutions as little more than spaghetti noodles and hamburger as well.
by trainerxr50 | 2025-07-01 12:11:23+00:00
Many worrisome aspects with this in terms of smelling like a super bubble.

Even being bullish on LLMs, it is not obvious this is the right paradigm even for AGI let alone something beyond AGI.

Seems like it could be 10 years from now "Remember during the peak of the bubble when Zuckerberg was paying researchers 100 million dollars to try to make a super humanoid robot out of just a mouth?"
by pjmlp | 2025-07-01 12:11:34+00:00
Because some people really hate C++ to their bones, hence this kind of stuff that keeps coming up.

I was really disappointed that Microsoft decided to backtrack on C++'s is the future, after the new found Linux and FOSS love.

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-...

Not that it matters much, as nowadays C and C++ have a new policy at Microsoft due to goverments and cyberlaws.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-secur...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/11/19/windo...
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-01 12:11:54+00:00
Apple has not just created integrated HW/SW to sell as a product, with the AppStore they created a closed market within that product that only Apple controls.

They invite others to sell on that market, but made themselves gatekeeper and simultaneously a player there, controlling the rules of that market in its favor.

Market forces are unable to flow freely, to the point that it affects the "parent" market (in which the iPhone/iPad competes with others) as well as other markets (where other Hardware and Services are sold).

Their closed market reached a significant size now, so it should be reasonable to step in and ensure fair competition also there.

But thanks to those layers of abstraction, billions of dollar in lobbying and marketing, there is always room to argue that ensuring that free market is unjust, hinders innovation, restricts Apple from competing, etc.
by its-kostya | 2025-07-01 12:12:05+00:00
A problem this doesn't solve is that people are trusting LLM summaries so much that they aren't even visiting the pages linked as sources. The pages-scraped/visitor is something like 1,500 pages scraped to 1 visitor. Compare that to years ago when google advertised that for every 2 pages they scrape, you get 1 visitor. If no one read content, people aren't incentivised to write content, publishers and bloggers alike.
by palata | 2025-07-01 12:12:07+00:00
> If you say you want access to the walled garden because that's where the people are, then consider that they are in there because they like the walls.

I disagree there. Most people I know who have an iPhone didn't choose Apple because they like walls. There are many other reasons to choose Apple other than "I like getting screwed by TooBigTech".
by xtiansimon | 2025-07-01 12:12:15+00:00
Interesting to hear meditation described this way—gap. I’ve followed (as a neophyte) the works of Thich Nhat Hanh, and if asked I would say he describes meditation as a practice of focus. Not that I see any incompatibility with the idea of gap in meditation. I quite like it.

Also interesting is the notion of gap as I hear it used in psychology to describe post-traumatic stress.

In the first case the gap is too quick. In the last, it’s too long.

Also, in literature, another definition describes irony as having a “gap”.

“Gap” is obviously polysemous in these applications, but contain the same notion of spacing (which is also critical in music and art!).
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-01 12:12:18+00:00
>At that point consumers would be free to make a choice to switch away from Apple if they value their privacy enough.

Consumers who spent hundreds of dollars in Appstore purchases and have 10+ years of photos, movies and data tied to Apple won't just suddenly leave all that and move to Android and start their digital life from scratch.

And the young consumers just starting their digital lives, are jumping in the ecosystem their friends and family already use (iMessage lock-in). It's basically not even your choice at that point, it's more that you're forced to.
by cloudnet-draw | 2025-07-01 12:13:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Kristoffer, a cloud security architect. I built CloudNetDraw to solve a problem I kept running into: diagramming Azure networks manually is slow, error-prone, and annoying.

This tool connects to your Azure environment (via user login or service principal) and auto-generates Draw.io diagrams of your vNets, peerings, subnets, and even flags NSGs and UDRs. It supports both HLD and MLD, and exports clean, editable files.

Privacy-wise, nothing from your environment is stored — diagrams are generated in memory and deleted right after download.

You can use the hosted version, or self-host it in your own tenant (it's open source, no tracking).

GitHub: https://github.com/krhatland/cloudnet-draw

Would love feedback, suggestions, or just to hear what people think.
by conception | 2025-07-01 12:13:33+00:00
Feels more like photography. Everyone will “soon” have a tool that lets you take pretty great photos - surpassing professional of thirty years ago.

If you want professional work done you’ll still hire someone but that person will also use a lot of professional grade computer tooling with it.

But there definitely won’t be as many jobs as before - especially on the low skill end.
by asimpletune | 2025-07-01 12:13:56+00:00
It’s a step in the right direction but I think there’s a long ways to go. Even better would be pay-for-usage. So if you want to crawl a site for research, then it should be practically free, for example. If you want to crawl a site to train a bot that will be sold then it should cost a lot.

I am truly sorry to even be thinking along these lines, but the alternative mindset has been made practically illegal in the modern world. I would 100% be fine with there being a world library that strives to provide access to any and all information for free, while also aiming to find a fair way to compensate ip owners… technology has removed most of the technical limitations to making this a reality AND I think the net benefit to humanity would be vastly superior to the cartel approach we see today.

For now though that door is closed so instead pay me.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-01 12:13:59+00:00
What huge productivity boosts will this provide that doesn't include "the time you spend with the doctor is shorter than it once was?"

My sister is in a healthcare field. Automatic charting is useful, but not a game changer. Healthcare companies seem to be largely interested in placing AI in between their nurses/doctors and their patients. I'm not terribly excited about that.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-01 12:14:48+00:00
My partner is disabled, and my home office is far enough from the bedroom/her work desk that I sometimes can't hear her when she could use, wants, or needs help. These very different priorities make messaging me difficult for her sometimes, not to mention that I can't know what the urgency is if she messages me over SMS/Signal/etc.

As a result, we were looking into a very similar system where we each have an LED signboard, speaker, and priority lights on the top of a small device that lives on top of our monitors along with an app where she can select "not urgent, but you should know", "when you have a moment", "as soon as you can", and "urgent, right now" in an app, with an optional message, and the device makes a tone and lights the lights associated with the most recent, highest priority message as well as reminding every five minutes.

I'm playing with an ESP32 right now to implement, but it's nice to see that the entire concept isn't entirely unprecidented.
by Davidzheng | 2025-07-01 12:15:04+00:00
I highly highly doubt that training a LLM like gpt-2 will help you use something the size of GPT-4. And I guess most people can't afford to train something like GPT-4. I trained some NNs back before the ChatGPT era, I don't think any of it helps in using Chatgpt/alternatives
by palata | 2025-07-01 12:15:13+00:00
It's easy to get licenced to fly drones. Sure, there are rules, but if as you claim you can build a business that will make you rich in 6 months, those rules are not an obstacle at all.

Now one could ask: if you don't manage to pass that point, could it be that you underestimated the complexity of building such a business? :-)
by jose-handit | 2025-07-01 12:15:14+00:00
Hey HN!

We just open-sourced Handit, a tool we built out of frustration with AI agents breaking in production and us not knowing why or how to fix it.

Handit hooks into your logs, evaluates every agent decision, and when something underperforms (drift, hallucination, latency, even tailored key actions), it not only flags it, but suggests and applies a fix (like a better prompt, model, or dataset). Then it A/B tests that fix and keeps the better one live.

We originally built this to debug our own LangChain pipelines, but others started using it too, so we decided to clean it up and make it open source. It works with any LLM system where you have logs (LangGraph, RAGs, etc.), and it's 100% open source—no black boxes.

Would love your feedback,and we're super curious if others have been struggling with the same “drift + broken agent” pain we’ve had.

Repo: https://github.com/Handit-AI/handit.ai Docs to get started: https://docs.handit.ai/ Landing page: https://www.handit.ai/
by bombcar | 2025-07-01 12:15:40+00:00
My home inspection report was two pages of useful information (here’s where the water shutoff is, the breaker panel is here), a page with two actual real issues (garage door opener didn’t work, kitchen foundation was settling) and then ten to twenty pages of “we don’t look at shit” legalese.

They specifically disclaim being experts in damn near everything.

If you want a real inspection you hire two or three building contractors to do it. I’d go with a general, a roofer, and an electrician. If I cared.
by easygenes | 2025-07-01 12:16:36+00:00
If you care for a similar cup profile with higher quality beans, I’d characterize Dunkin original blend as a medium-light roast (lighter than Starbucks’ Pike). Aroma: toasted cereal, brown sugar, roast almond, and hint of citrus. Flavor: caramel sugar, roast nut, hint of milk choc and citrus. Acidity: sweet/malic, soft and smooth. Body: light/medium, silky. Overall: Very well balanced but simplistic.

A blend to achieve this cup would rely on primarily (50-60%) Brazilian naturals for the core sweetness, with Colombian washed for the clean citric-malic acidity and silky body (~25%), and some mix of Guatemala/Honduras and Ethiopia washed for the last quarter to tweak body and acids.

If this profile (sweet-nutty, caramel-driven profiles with gentle citrus lift) is absolutely your jam, I’d check out the following blends for a similar cup put together from higher graded green beans:

Counter Culture - Big Trouble Stumptown - Holler Mountain Onyx - Monarch Intelligentsia - El Gallo Blue Bottle - Three Africas La Colombe - Nizza Square Mile - Red Brick Espresso Coffee Collective - Espresso Blend

Counter Culture and Stumptown are probably closest in profile. Intelligentsia and Blue Bottle will add more sparkle to the finish. La Colombe and Square Mile lean sweeter.