MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AngryData | 2025-07-17 03:43:26+00:00
An interesting thought, im pretty wary on most automated construction techniques, but dry stone construction does seem like a good fit for automation. It needs to be done before any other construction is really done and takes a decent chunk of time even for a team of humans so not a lot of people or other things going on around the area or in the way. There are still some issues that need experimentation. You can go 99% of the way with fairly simple imaging, but that last 1% can be tricky and usually requires tactile sensation and probing and pushing on stones to get a rock solid fit, but perhaps the actual technique/style of stone fitting would alleviate that last bit.
by TMWNN | 2025-07-17 03:45:13+00:00
It'd be one thing if you offered a complete solution, even if cumbersome. Lots of open source projects require more steps than, and have various limitations compared to, their commercial counterparts; heck, for many of us, those extra steps are a feature, not a bug.

But all you did was to mention Google Voice, not exactly an obscure VoIP product and which, again, does not provide a whitelist. A whitelist is fundamental to this product's raison d'être, and to its appeal to parents. If you can't understand that, I don't know what else to say.
by bigiain | 2025-07-17 03:45:27+00:00
Implement all of them, with slightly different edge cases that result in glaringly obvious RCE when two or three of them are misused in place of each other.

(New startup pitch: Our agentic AI scans your access and error logs, and automatically vibe codes new API endpoints for failed API calls and pushes them to production within seconds, all without expensive developers or human intervention! Please form an orderly queue with your termsheets and Angel Investment cheques.)
by etothepii | 2025-07-17 03:45:53+00:00
This typically has surprisingly little impact on force of mortality.

Men under 40 essentially have incredibly low mortality. Once you exclude cars and suicide it drops basically to zero.

Even things that are very very bad for you, like being very obese (BMI>40), are factors that scale a mortality that is massively dominated by age and sex. Even 3x mortality at 25 rounds to zero. At 60 background become 1% per year and a 3x increase would make a huge difference.

I would wager $50 that there are no contiguous collection of zip codes in the USA where the average 40 year old has a higher life expectancy than the average 30 year old in any other contiguous set of zip codes assuming there are over 1000 people of that age in both.
by vrosas | 2025-07-17 03:49:20+00:00
I’m guessing you’ve never hired a general contractor, or any other kind of home contractor for that matter? I’ve hired over a dozen at this point in the 1.5 years of owning my home, and I’d say, of those, about 2 have been any good. The construction and contracting landscape is a trash heap - a straight race to the bottom filled with lies, shoddy workmanship, and illegal labor. I’m suing 2 of mine for bad workmanship/abandoned projects. I do 100% of my own home renovations now, regardless of the cost of time, tools or materials.
by samplatt | 2025-07-17 03:49:34+00:00
A big part (I feel) of that for both iPhones and xbox is their ecosystems finally arriving at a point that's "good enough"; the store offers enough games with enough security with low barriers to "fun" that few people WANT to hack it.

Same with Android - from 2008 to ~2018 I was rooting and putting custom ROMs on my phone before I'd even got it home. These days I rarely bother because the functionality that I required is finally provided out-of-the-box.
by user_7832 | 2025-07-17 03:50:07+00:00
Likewise. The 70-something percent battery health isn't the best (and the phone lags like crazy), but the other day I realized it's still a bit smaller than my 2015 Moto G3 (that I still use, though only for basic tasks).

If you are interested, Unihertz launched the titan 2 and it's pretty nice, but no waterproofing or wireless charging are big issues for me.
by ceautery | 2025-07-17 03:50:51+00:00
LinkedIn is by far the worst offender in post previews. The doctype tag must be all lowercase. The HTML document must be well-formed (the meta tags must be in an explicit <head> block, for example). You must have OG meta tags for url, title, type, and image. The url meta tag gets visited, even if it's the same address the inspector is already looking at.

Fortunately, the post inspector helps you suss out what's missing in some cases, but c'mon, man, how much effort should I spend helping a social media site figure out how to render a preview? Once you get it right, and to quote my 13 year old: "We have arrived, father... but at what cost?"
by gh02t | 2025-07-17 03:51:13+00:00
I have a lightning detector hooked up to Home Assistant. It plays a little sound on a buzzer if there are more than a handful of strikes. It's a pretty reliable warning a storm is coming, and my partner (who is a prolific runner) knows not to go out for a run or to turn around.

I've also done sciencey type testing work outdoors, the ranges all had lightning detectors and all work would stop and you had to take shelter if lightning was detected. Mostly wide open space so getting struck by lightning was a serious danger.
by danieltanfh95 | 2025-07-17 03:53:23+00:00
Artifacts can reduce token usage by a factor of 2 or more.

I had an [agent evolution framework](danieltan.weblog.lol/2025/06/agent-lineage-evolution-a-novel-framework-for-managing-llm-agent-degradation) before that dumped the output analysis into chat. It often timed out before the 10th conversation. After dumping the analysis into an artifacts, and have the LLM only edit it as required, I can go to 15 or more rounds without hitting the context limit. While they seem to re-output the entire artifact each time, they don't actually consume the tokens for the entire artifact.

This also greatly reduces the tendency of HALO-style rampancy, or AI psychosis which is also what the recent paper on context-rot/poisoning (https://research.trychroma.com/context-rot) is about.
by knubie | 2025-07-17 03:53:31+00:00
The other problem is that more and more content now is designed for (or only tolerable on) larger phone screens. Go to any website these days on a smaller phone like an iPhone mini and more than 50% (being charitable here) of the screen will be taken up by garbage like ads, cookie banners, popups, etc.

It's a vicious cycle. Phone manufactures make the screen bigger, app and website developers realize they can cram more junk on the page, consumers demand larger screens as a result, return to step 1.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-17 03:53:47+00:00
Expecting variability is a weak argument in my book. If there is some benchmark for skill, like a dovetail joint, the craftsperson is not going to "go rogue" but rather show the discipline required to exactly recreate this thing.

(So many modelers try to recreate the Millennium Falcon from scratch for example when, given their skills at modeling, I've never understood why they all just don't go off and come up with a creation of their own design. But it's kind of a Hello World for modeling perhaps?)
by amy_petrik | 2025-07-17 03:53:47+00:00
it was mostly marketing "oooh altivec can do sooo many FP calculations that it has to be licensed as a deadly weapon". Same kinda marketing for MMX "if a programmer was an a MMX guru then basically you have a supercomputer bro"

That's all great but it was all awaiting a killer app to make it all worth it and reasonable, versus random programs rarely supporting it for a little boost.

And the name of that killer app, using these DSP type features? Local AI.
by vivzkestrel | 2025-07-17 03:54:19+00:00
Too many people writing is a problem they have not discussed in this article. Information is too diluted. I dont have the time to read 5000 books on forex trading. What I want is an LLM crunching all 5000 forex trading books into one book with very concise information. I could apply this idea to "Value investing", "Cookbooks", "Startups", "Business", "Finance" and so on. Does anyone here on HN have an LLM capable of doing this or working on something along these lines?
by ryao | 2025-07-17 03:55:56+00:00
> Where memory latency hurts for us is ISRs and context switches. The hit rate is temporarily very low, and as you mentioned the IPC suffers greatly.

While that is true, that is infrequent and having those memory accesses take 151 cycles instead of 150 cycles is not going to make much difference. Note that those are ballpark figures.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-07-17 03:56:20+00:00
It really isn't. I got my login for dropbox, installed it on some machines, and it was just click upload or download from there. Crwating and using folders was much like on my desktop.

For rsync, a person would have to study it to learn it. They might want to look for potential gotchas in how they configure it, too. The experts at Dropbox already did all that for us, though.
by winstonewert | 2025-07-17 03:57:08+00:00
There is likely a cost to the infrastructure necessary to enable calling 911 that scales with the number of users not the number of 911 calls. Where I'm at, there is a 75 cent per month fee added to phone plans to cover the costs of access to 911. If most people are on the free plan, the margin from the few paying customers won't cover it.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-07-17 03:57:34+00:00
Scarcity also creates automation and efficiency pressure. You either get more of that human resource, or you make it so you use less of it, productivity increases also allow for the resources used to make more money without increasing project costs. This is also a very boom/bust industry, so the 2008 bust washed a lot of people out, especially juniors who would be experienced seniors today. A union is not going to protect labor from a building bust, they will stop hiring and the pipeline stalls.
by pickles1337 | 2025-07-17 03:57:57+00:00
Hi, author here!

This project was intended for just friends and family so the implementation was quite naive (obviously...lol). The project is just using OpenAI's omni-moderation-latest model for content moderation, and a simple prompt for cat detection using gpt-4o-mini.

Thanks to everyone who shared pics of their cats <3
by bjornsing | 2025-07-17 03:59:43+00:00
This feels like the beginning of a wonderful friendship between me and the LLMS. I work as a fractional CTO. One of the things that frustrate me is when my clients have various idiosyncratic naming conventions on things, eg there’s a ”dev” and a ”prod” environment on AWS, but then there’s a ”test” and ”production” environment in Expo. It just needlessly consumes brain cycles, especially when you’re working with multiple clients. I guess it’s the same for the LLMs, just on a massive scale.

In general I think it’s great whenever some weight / synapse strength bits can be reallocated from idiosyncratic API naming / behavior towards real semantics.
by yodon | 2025-07-17 04:00:10+00:00
What astounds me is there are no readily available libraries crawler authors can reach for to parse robots.txt and meta robots tags, to decide what is allowed, and to work through the arcane and poorly documented priorities between the two robots lists, including what to do when they disagree, which they often do.

Yes, there's an ancient google reference parser in C++11 (which is undoubtedly handy for that one guy who is writing crawlers in C++), but not a lot for the much more prevalent Python and JavaScript crawler writers who just want to check if a path is ok or not.

Even if bot writers WANT to be good, it's much harder than it should be, particularly when lots of the robots info isn't even in the robots.txt files, it's in the index.html meta tags.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-07-17 04:00:40+00:00
I appreciate your insight, it did make me wonder.

> I feel like the rise of big tech showed us that it's corporate cogwheels that are most successful career-wise.

I would be interested to hear how you reason to that. What is your definition of "success" and what is your definition of "cog wheel"?

Here is why I ask, I know hundreds of engineers who consider themselves "successful" because they have accumulated enough wealth to not ever have to work again if they choose not to. Recent data[1] shows there are over 342 thousand millionaires in the Bay Area alone. I find it hard to reconcile the idea that they were all 'corporate cogwheels' (which sounds a bit pejorative but again, I don't know how you define it).

> it's becoming ridiculously difficult to tell who is smart and who isn't.

Again, I really would be interested to hear more about this. I find it trivially easy to tell who is "smart" and who isn't. But I will grant you that it is a skill that is enhanced by a lot of exposure to people who aren't smart but would like you to believe they are. They are a LOT of those types around. There is also a nuance between "smart" and "lazy" in that I know some really smart people who are also incredibly lazy, avoiding actually learning things if they can get by with faking it or cheating.

Your comment also made me realize that I have a working definition of 'smart' that is different than 'book learning' smart, it is more a mixture of a willingness to learn, the humility to learn from anyone, and the fortitude to put effort into seeking out new information. That is different than what some people call 'smart' and I might call 'quick' in that they can make up a plausible answer quickly so it sounds like they are speaking from understanding not just bullshitting you. My wife used to call that 'Male Answer Syndrome' :-). The idea that one must never say "I don't know" or "I have no idea."

[1] https://www.alonereaders.com/article/details/3057/top-10-cit...
by nickpsecurity | 2025-07-17 04:01:10+00:00
If you believe it, offer up all your money to cover the cost of all 911 services and life saving tools. Then, the companies can provide them free of charge since you ate the cost.

Most will probably hold back some or all of that money. They'll make it someone else's problem. If not, they'll limit how much they eat the cost of saving others' lives. Their justification will be to put the money into their own needs or pursuing more of something. Which is what the companies do when they don't eat the cost.

If it's right for most people to charge to cover their costs (or ignore other people's problems entirely), then it shouod be right for the companies, too. If they must be selfless at a huge loss, then so must any who demand they do thay.
by joe_the_user | 2025-07-17 04:03:03+00:00
A well-trained LLM that lacks any malevolent data...

The scale needed to produce an LLM that is fluent enough to be convincing precludes fine-grained filtering of input data. The usual methods of controlling an LLM essentially involve a broad-brush "don't say stuff like that" (RLHF) that inherently misses a lot of subtlties.

And even more, defining malevolent data is extremely difficult. Therapists often go along with things a patient say because otherwise they break rapport. But therapists have to balk once the patient dives into destructive delusions. But data of a therapy can't be easily labeled with "here's where you have to stop", just to name one problem.
by necovek | 2025-07-17 04:03:46+00:00
While I sympathise with the industry problem, and generally dislike focus on gender for my very accomplished colleagues, I don't see any proposal here.

1. It claims these initiatives help in early career, but seem patronising later on. How and why this mindset shift happens in the beholders is something we can explore: is it about not focusing on gender that would be enough?

2. What are "men in leadership" to do other than having these gender-specific awards removed/renamed on top of developing intrinsic fairness in evaluating and supporting talent?

Don't get me wrong, noticing issues without a proposal is just fine! It's only opening these questions for me, as I would hate to lose that early career support (would rather extend it to more people), but wonder how we can best extend this to mid- and late-career too.
by db48x | 2025-07-17 04:04:05+00:00
Xerox hired an anthropologist once, Julian E. Orr, and it resulted in a really good book called “Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job”.

Of course, mostly he found was how out of touch the executives at Xerox were with what their employees were actually doing in practice. The executives thought of the technicians who repaired copiers almost as monkeys who were just supposed to follow a script prepared by the engineers. Meanwhile the technicians thought of themselves as engineers who needed to understand the machines in order to be successful, so they frequently spent hours reverse engineering the machines and the documentation to work out the underlying principles on which the machines worked. The most successful technicians had both soft skills for dealing with customers and selling upgrades and supplies as well as engineering skills for diagnosing broken hardware and actually getting it fixed correctly. It seems that none of the sales, engineering, or executives at Xerox liked hearing about any of it.
by debarshri | 2025-07-17 04:04:42+00:00
Recently i had an interesting chat with my team around coding principles of the future.

I think the way people will write code will not be around following solid principles or making sure your cyclometric complexity is high or low, nor it would be about is your code readable or not.

I think future coding principles would be around whether your agentic ide can index it well to become context aware, does it fix into the context window or not. It will be around the model you use and thr code it can generate. We will index on maintainability of the code, as code will become disposable as rate of change will increase dramatically. It will be around whether your vibed prompts matches the code thats already generated to reach some accuracy or generate enough serendipity.
by WillAdams | 2025-07-17 04:05:16+00:00
>As to the widespread notion that Microsoft did not want to pay licensing fees, Allan Haley has publicly stated, more than once, that the amount of money Microsoft paid over the years for the development of Arial could finance a small country.

The money Microsoft paid mostly went to the _man-years_ of development effort towards hinting, so if Helvetica had been chosen, that would have been even more expensive.

There were several reasons not to choose the Linotype design Helvetica:

- Linotype had recently sued Microsoft for trademark infringement over the "Tms Rmn" and "Helv" pixel fonts, and that loss still stung

- Helvetica was being used by, and quite strongly associated with Microsoft's direct competitors Apple (it was a core font on the Apple Laserwriter, and even folks w/o access to those outlines would often use the quite nice pixel fonts of the various sizes of Helvetica and even more so with NeXT, since it was used as the UI font on NeXTstep (so as to better showcase their large/high resolution (for the time) screens _and_ it was part of their brand identity.

EDIT: For an example of a company cheaping out on licensing Helvetica (and Times Roman), look to Adobe, Adobe Acrobat 4 which swapped in Times New Roman PS and a matching Arial in lieu of Linotype's Times Roman and Helvetica.
by anonfordays | 2025-07-17 04:06:39+00:00
>Where was this valued community member blocked?

Killfile and all, same as it ever was. Troll was called out multiple times for posting off topic garbage.

https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Proposal-Standards-for...

>I thought the Xlibre project rejects censoring people for their political positions...

Sir, this is a Wendy's. The project states:

This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed. It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome.

Simple as.

>They aren't getting banned.

They are getting banned.

>And claiming these are "leftist spammers" would sound more believable

They're believable because they're actually happening. Calling Jews Nazis and they should be hunted like Nazis is ghoulishly antisemitic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p06UwUHpHnU

>Apparently the Xlibre community also likes to call out 11 year old children "pedophiles"...

>From outside, calling children "pedophiles" seems a rather strange concept, but you be you.

Is this LLM hallucination? The victim of the pedophile was 11. Sad to see even LLMs will twist themselves into hallucinations defending pedophiles.

>Though some might find the Xlibre and Lunduke communities being obsessed with investigating and collecting information on preteen children somewhat questionable.

Sorry, we don't want to be a pedo bar, and we support preteen victims of violent sexual abuse.
by onecommentman | 2025-07-17 04:07:07+00:00
I believe New Mexico at number 5 least distressed. When real estate is more affordable, residents can save the extra money for emergency funds/investments, or spend on luxury goods without debt. I’ve seen quite a few more new cars, and luxury cars to boot, in average neighborhoods out here recently. That $1500/mo not going to mortgages (and reasonable home insurance rates, since replacement costs are lower on affordable homes, and lower property taxes) lets average people breathe a whole lot easier.
by Abishek_Muthian | 2025-07-17 04:08:28+00:00
I literally have dwarf hands, after experimenting with various form factors I've settled on using iPhone SE (4.7") as the main phone and a android (6.7") running FOSS stack as the secondary phone.

I get the "just works" with decent privacy aspect of the smaller iPhone, health benefits from Apple Watch and for anything requiring longer screen time, termux, shelter cloned apps etc. I use the bigger android (Infact I'm typing this on the excellent HN client Hacki from android).

Earlier I used to use Apple Watch with android using a tool I built[1] which now serves notifications from android to my iPhone.

I'm glad Eric is going ahead with the small phone.

[1] https://github.com/abishekmuthian/apple-watch-with-android
by strken | 2025-07-17 04:08:57+00:00
> Yes, neurodivergence can only be diagnosed based on how you work on the inside.

I don't think this is exactly true. We don't involuntarily commit people to psych wards after a long and complicated investigation to understand their mental state. Diagnoses can be made extremely quickly and with little understanding of the interior state of a patient.

> Both autism are ADHD are vastly under-diagnosed especially in women and adults.

I've heard it said that both autism and ADHD are like height, in that it's not clear where the boundary sits. We all agree that some people are tall and some people are short. When someone claims that there are a vast number of undiagnosed tall people, though, to what extent is it because we're not reaching enough people vs because our diagnostic threshold for tallness has lowered?
by pointmatic | 2025-07-17 04:09:52+00:00
Just finished a weather analytics code translation test from Fortran to C++ and Python. It was simple temperature high/low averaging, so to amp up the processing, I worked with Gemini to add a Monte Carlo simulation for a 7-day weather forecast, and a 2D heat diffusion/advection physics model to calculate the temperatures across a NxN grid over T time divisions.