MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ze7111 | 2025-07-01 17:44:28+00:00
Hey I'm on of the devs; We aren't upset at all, this kind of publicity shows us what everyone else really thinks, being critical is a really good thing when it comes to programing, while I do admit, Our Docs is blank and most of the README + current outdated docs are written by AI (after an initial draft by us), and things are not fully polished, we are after all collage students, critical feedback helps us learn more, get better and find ways to improve. Always being complimentary, only boasts the ego and prevents us from really improving...

After reading though everything we've seen posted on here and reddit there's a couple things that keep coming up consistently: AMT - devs want to know more about it Vial - devs want to know more about it Helix the name - everyone thinks it overlaps with the Helix Editor Readme - Looks to generic, Afterall it was put through ChatGPT to make it have good English after a draft... Docs - Outdated and Missing Helix the logo - its too similar to the Helix Editor Our Feature set - devs think its too good to be true. Linux Support - devs think not testing Linux is a dealbreaker.

Addressing the issues: Linux - Issue is we need word and Microsoft apps for college, hence the use of Windows and MacOS, but starting now We will set up WSL to test for Linux as well. AMT - We will add a section in our docs explaining it much more in detail! Vial - Also add a section in the docs explaining it much more in detail! Helix the name - We've kept the name for over a year now, and yes Helix editor has been around longer; We will consider another name, but for the time being we will add a disclaimer. Helix the logo - We will redesign the logo to be truly unique, might take a few weeks but we will change it. Readme - We will rewrite the readme from scratch, would use AI after an initial draft but make the content not seem like trying to market the language instead show the raw technical aspects without buzz words and stuff like that. Docs - Started to rewrite the docs from scratch same thing as the Readme, will post a commit without any AI modifications first. Our Feature set - while it does seem far fetched, we have written down all of our features in MD files (internally) that outline the exact processes that we need to follow, along with the thesis and theory of them, Everything is planed out fully, we just have to implement, while saying this is easier said then done, our goal is to try to make all of the features happen, maybe a year or two down the line it should be complete (or at least a working alpha).

Thank you so much! for all the compliments and criticism, These comments do mean a, lot to us and our team we are all college students, trying really hard to get this working, our coding ability should allow us to make Helix a reality, we are trying to get better at the other aspects, such as marketing, communicating with other devs, listening to feedback, and continuously improving...
by spirodonfl | 2025-07-01 17:44:29+00:00
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by tzury | 2025-07-01 17:44:38+00:00
In case you wondered, $1M in cash ($100 bills) weigh approximately 22 pounds (about 10 kilograms).

Last week I was watching that episode of Better Call Saul where he carries $7M throughout the desert for 36 hours, and realized his bags were supposed to get ripped 4 minutes into the process.

--

Calculation by Claude:

Here's the calculation:

A single US banknote weighs about 1 gram regardless of denomination.

So 70,000 bills × 1 gram = 70,000 grams = 70 kilograms = 154 pounds.

That's quite heavy - equivalent to carrying around a large person!

Those 70,000 bills would also represent $7 million in cash

* edit corrected the pounds calculation
Ephaptic Coupling in Neural Networks – A New Layer of Intelligence
by izzo1 | 2025-07-01 17:45:23+00:00
We've introduced a new AI architecture inspired by a real biological effect called ephaptic coupling, where neurons influence each other through electric fields, not just synapses. This interaction is missing from today’s artificial neural networks.

The approach adds a second layer of modulation inside neural nets, enabling neuron-to-neuron influence across the same layer, which we model mathematically and implement efficiently. We call these Ephaptically Coupled Artificial Neural Networks (EC-ANNs).

Preliminary testing shows strong cross-domain gains compared to standard weight-only baselines: a 74.65% reduction in perplexity in language (GPT-2, WikiText-103), a 3.08% accuracy gain in vision (ResNet-18, ImageNet-100), and a 6.67% reward improvement in reinforcement learning (PPO, Walker2d-v5). These performance improvements were achieved with minimal parameter overhead using pretrained models: ~0.5% for GPT-2 small, ~2.2% for ResNet-18, and ~0.98% for the PPO network. Initial ablation studies suggest that ephaptic coupling provides a highly efficient means of architectural enhancement compared to conventional width expansion.

We're currently applying this to AI-based predictive maintenance for 5G infrastructure at my company, Bloxtel.

Would love feedback, questions, or challenges. This idea has been on my mind for years, and I finally went public after revisiting a 1969 interview with McCulloch (of McCulloch-Pitts neuron fame). His words about discovery inspired me to share.

Paper (may require cookies): http://bloxtel.ai
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-01 17:45:42+00:00
> With teams especially, it's basically an open secret that Teams is frequently only bought because its basically packaged in with an Microsoft 363 subscription.

In our case, we see Salesforce as our biggest competitor, so we did not want our corporate history on Slack (I don't think that's particularly a high risk issue, but our leadership does, so... Teams it is.)
by blackjack_ | 2025-07-01 17:47:17+00:00
Sure, I can explain.

Basically, adtech is the backbone of the attention economy where more clicks = more revenue. So the incentives are to always say the most inflammatory clickbait you can, to incentivize profits. Sensible and boring stable takes and agreement will always be stifled to promote outrage, beefs, and clickbait to maximize revenue. To generalize; stability in any general field like politics or journalism gets turned into obnoxious grandstanding to be more like reality tv to get more attention. In software, people who monetize off advertising are incentivized to build dark patterns maximized on attention grabbing. Whereas without advertising as the main source of revenue, people stop building dark these patterns to steal your attention, as you are paying them directly for a service, so you are the customer instead of the product.
by ehsankia | 2025-07-01 17:47:32+00:00
Maybe just my biased brain, but the title made it sound like they were half a million under, not over. In some way, this is how 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles will never be exactly 1000 pieces. As long as there's at least 1000, I think most people are fine, especially as an art piece. And of course as mentioned, there's the possibility that there's filler inside.

It would've been much worse if it was under though.
by comex | 2025-07-01 17:47:58+00:00
Fair enough. In some sense you’re writing your own borrow checker. But (you may know this already) be warned: this has been tried many times for C++, with different levels of annotation burden imposed on programmers.

On one side are the many C++ “static analyzers” like Coverity or clang-analyzer, which work with unannotated C++ code. On the other side is the “Safe C++” proposal (safecpp.org), which is supposed to achieve full safety, but at the cost of basically transplanting Rust’s type system into C++, requiring all functions to have lifetime annotations and disallow mutable aliasing, and replacing the entire standard library with a new one that follows those rules. Between those two extremes there have been tools like the C++ Core Guidelines Checker and Clang’s lifetimebound attribute, which require some level of annotations, and in turn provide some level of checking.

So far, none of these have been particularly successful in preventing memory safety vulnerabilities. Static analyzers are widely used in industry but only find a fraction of bugs. Safe C++ will probably be too unpopular to make it into the spec. The intermediate solutions have some fundamental issues (see [1], though it’s written by the author of Safe C++ and may be biased), and in practice haven’t really taken off.

But I admit that only the “static analyzer” side of the solution space has been extensively explored. The other projects are just experiments whose lack of adoption may be due to inertia as much as inherent lack of merit.

And Zig may be different… I’m not a Zig programmer, but I have the impression that compared to C++ it encourages fewer allocations and smaller codebases, both of which may make lifetime analysis more tractable. It’s also a much younger language whose audience is necessarily much more open to change.

So we’ll see. Good luck - I’d sure like to see more low-level languages offering memory safety.

[1] https://www.circle-lang.org/draft-profiles.html
by belorn | 2025-07-01 17:48:30+00:00
There is a reason why meta studies that look at findings from different countries often has to account of cultural bias. Different objective truths can be found depending on how one look, including findings that give contradicting conclusions.

The existence of Global Warming, or Human Rights, or LGBTQ+, or Vaccines is not the topic which academia (or people in general) debate. Outside of some very fringe places, there is practically no discussion of it. The thing people debate is the strategies. Different ideologies will have different answers to which strategies works, are effective, and what costs they are allowed to have (and to whom). A common topic that the green movement discuss, and which often comes into global warming research, is fair wages for minorities and the impact of global warming on that demographic. People and politicians will discuss that and not the factual argument that Global Warming exist.

There is a similar argument over human rights as defined in Europe vs human rights as defined in the US. They both acknowledge human rights but with widely different interpretations. At a concept level, the idea of protected classes as a classification has very little to do with human rights as a theory but has everything to do with different strategies that involve human rights. Abolishing which demographic should be included, or including new demographics are hot topics of debate.

What people debates most heated over and get most emotional about is not when people disagree with the facts, but rather when both sides of an argument agree with the facts but disagree with the best strategy to go forward. That is when science becomes politics.
by LorenDB | 2025-07-01 17:48:37+00:00
> “Oh I like that!” said Dave, grinning. “I would love to specify the outcome and have the compiler write the code for me.”

> “Well specifying the outcome precisely enough would be no easier than just writing the code,” said Patrick

Unexpectedly relevant commentary on today's LLMs from 2009 was not on my bingo card for today.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-07-01 17:49:10+00:00
What is the point in making a display like this at all in the first place, but making it either under claimed or over filled?

Who gets anything out of giving people the wrong idea about what $1m would look like?

If you are commissioning the thing to be built, why might you want it to either contain more than $1m, or be hollow and larger than what $1m really is? What purpose does an incorrect display serve? A correct display already serves almost no purpose in the first place, now make it incorrect.

None of the reasons I can think of would seem to apply here:

Disinformation.

Advertizement.

Art, where the artists point was to make it wrong and never tell anyone.

Simple goof up? This one is at least plausible. Someone estimated wrong, got a local shop to build an expensive cube(1), well we got the cube we got, fill it and get the display up.

(1) That will have to be quite thick polycarbonate or glass, not cheap. In fact, that right there might expose that there is at least some kind of fakery inside, if the glass is not at least as thick as the aluminum frame, then it's not strong enough, neither is the frame for that matter if it's what it looks like. So if the glass and frame are as thin as they look, then there is some kind of internal skeleton.)

Maybe there is some other significance we've lost since it was built. Maybe the $1m was never the interesting point originally. Maybe instead the dimensions or maybe weight of the cube were the interrsting thing, and this is really something like "1000 gallons of $1 bills" and that just hsppens to come out to 1.55m.
by spirodonfl | 2025-07-01 17:49:14+00:00
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Proficient in Laravel and game dev frameworks.

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by atrettel | 2025-07-01 17:49:38+00:00
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by citizenpaul | 2025-07-01 17:49:42+00:00
One of the most disturbingly creepy things I've realized is when looking at render of a laser scanned environment. The oddly bumpy and uneven gray mass that everything show up as. That is actually reality. The filtered colorful smooth version we see is an arbitrary specific wavelength interpretation that our brains developed. We are actually living in that creepy gray horror movie render of the laser scan.
by _wire_ | 2025-07-01 17:49:47+00:00
Fellow IT nerds!

Why is Mac so crazy and inconsistent?! Was it developed by morons, imbeciles or idiots?

Why can't it be clear and easy to use? Like Linux!

Take Ubuntu: It's always CTRL-C to copy to clipboard.

Except in Terminal, where it's CTRL-SHIFT-C.

But please don't misunderstand me, I'm not judging others' abilities to adapt to trivial differences. Many of us in tech struggle with severe cognitive deficits. Besides, we're pros!

So here's a couple of tips:

Tip 1 - Use a mnemonic. Imagine your memories as a large castle with many rooms. After coming through the Linux foyer and through the Ubuntu hall, when you get to the Terminal room, think "I've got to SHIFT my thinking to use copy".

If that doesn't help, try admonishing yourself in the third person: "Buddy, it's SHIFT-ctrl-c. Do you wanna copy or not?!"

Back to Mac and why it's so shitty being trapped in its maze-like garden of walls... who can live like this?
by johnfn | 2025-07-01 17:49:54+00:00
You really are saying, on Hacker News, that "negatives must not be allowed?" Hacker News, probably the most negative news site on the Internet, the place that hates everything, the place where the Dropbox 'Show HN' post got dismissive comments about how it could be done trivially? That's the place you're saying that negatives can't be allowed?

You think that's more likely than that this is just a bad article?
by panarchy | 2025-07-01 17:50:32+00:00
I actually think this is where smaller more "organic" type robots and AI will play a role. We can do more restorative and mixed farming and then have a legion of robots doing all the picking. The way agricultural automation is currently with equidistant rows all with the same type of plant because it's basically impossible to make a machine that can take apples off a tree and pick blueberries but you can make a very optimized machine that can do either. Kind of like 10,000 cheap drones or 1 fighter jet.
by gausswho | 2025-07-01 17:50:49+00:00
I have been considering this. I even came up with a name: Good Phone, Bad Phone. Your experience is instructive, thank you. Other than the additional cost, I think it has lots of upside.

I daily drive a Pixel on GrapheneOS and most of what I install is from F-Droid repos. I'm wondering if I should just de-SIM that one to make it 'Good Phone' and my 'Bad Phone' should just be a Light Phone or maybe something more featureful.
by simonw | 2025-07-01 17:51:17+00:00
Here's something that isn't deterministic:

a = 0.1, b = 0.2, c = 0.3 a * (b * c) = 0.006 (a * b) * c = 0.006000000000000001

If you are running these operations in parallel you can't guarantee which of those orders the operations will complete in.

When you're running models on a GPU (or any other architecture that runs a whole bunch of matrix operations in parallel) you can't guarantee the order of the operations.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-01 17:51:56+00:00
Expected labor that is not compensated is not slavery. It could is rude to expect people to do labor for us for free, but there’s no compulsion behind it.

Required labor that is not compensated flirts with slavery.

Part of the danger of a software supply chain law is that, as a law, it can compel behavior. So, it is runs the risk of bumping stuff from the “expected” to “required” bucket.

> Demanding said labor without compensation, with or without threat of consequences, is to demand the other party willfully submit to a form of enslavement or servitude.

A demand without a threat of consequences is just a request. It could be a very rude request. But that’s all it is.

Conflating rude requests with compelled actions cheapens the impact of the latter, and obscures what is wrong about the former.
by ramraj07 | 2025-07-01 17:51:59+00:00
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by trustlesecurity | 2025-07-01 17:52:16+00:00
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