MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jach | 2025-07-15 15:45:02+00:00
I don't really buy your point 2. Just the other day Meta announced hundreds of billions of dollars investment into more AI datacenters. Companies are bringing back nuclear power plants to support this stuff. Earlier this year OpenAI and Oracle announced their $500bn AI datacenter project, but admittedly in favor of your point have run into funding snags, though that's supposedly from tariff fears with foreign investors, not lack of confidence in AI. Meta can just finance everything from their own capital and Zuck's decree, like they did with VR (and it may very well turn out similarly).

Since you brought up supersonic jetliners you're probably aware of the startup Boom in Colorado trying to bring it back. We'll see if they succeed. But yes, it would be a strange path, but a possible one, that LLMs kind of go away for a while and try to come back later.

You're going to have to cite some surveys for the "most people agree that the output is trite and unpleasant" and "almost universally disliked attempts to cram it everywhere" claims. There are some very vocal people against LLM flavors of AI, but I don't think they even represent the biggest minority, let alone a majority or near universal opinions. (I personally was bugged by earlier attempts at cramming non-LLM AI into a lot of places, e.g. Salesforce Einstein appeared I think in 2016, and that was mostly just being put off by the cutesy Einstein characterization. I generally don't have the same feelings with LLMs in particular, in some cases they're small improvements to an already annoying process, e.g. non-human customer support that was previously done by a crude chatbot front-end to an expert system or knowledge base, the LLM version of that tends to be slightly less annoying.)
by DoneWithAllThat | 2025-07-15 15:45:13+00:00
I am 100% of the opinion that it’s (2), in no small part because the writers themselves say as much frequently and vociferously at every opportunity. This isn’t reading some hidden meaning, this is just listening to what they say when they’re interviewed.

The two most common themes I hear from writers are intense narcissism, feeling deeply their own personal experience is something anyone else should care about, and activism/social justice/messaging, where they’re pushing a particular political narrative. It’s why we’ve seen the death of truly morally ambiguous characters or even antiheroes - they threaten the clear and unambiguous message the writer wants to send. Stories aren’t for the audience to interpret but for the writer to preach.

And again this isn’t inference. This is reading and watching interviews with writers, showrunners, producers, etc.
by singron | 2025-07-15 15:45:20+00:00
You need to train new models to advance the knowledge cutoff. You don't necessarily need to R&D new architectures, and maybe you can infuse a model with new knowledge without completely training from scratch, but if you do nothing the model will become obsolete.

Also the semianalysis estimate is from Feb 2023, which is before the release of gpt4, and it assumes 13 million DAU. ChatGPT has 800 million WAU, so that's somewhere between 115 million and 800 million DAU. E.g. if we prorate the cogs estimate for 200 DAU, then that's 15x higher or $3.75B.
by rbanffy | 2025-07-15 15:45:24+00:00
I really don't get why automakers put so much emphasis on their infotainment systems. After you get used to things like Google Drive or Apple CarPlay, there is no going back to on-board software.

It's hard to beat the convenience of continuing to hear your music seamlessly from home to car, or the car knowing where your next calendar appointment is and having the map ready to navigate you there. That, and the fact you upgrade your phone a couple times faster than you change cars, and on every phone iteration, the in-car systems will appear increasingly sluggish in comparison.

This is also why modular radios/8-track/cassette/CD players were popular - you could upgrade your sound system without upgrading the car.
by otikik | 2025-07-15 15:45:33+00:00
I am not a particularly pro-AI person myself, I definitely have misgivings about the technology as a whole.

That said, any tool in the wrong hands can do a lot of damage. People can do a lot of damage with a simple hammer.

A friend of mine's brother recently had an accident and became tetraplegic. Any advancement on direct brain-to-computer interfaces has the potential to increasing his quality of life immensely.
by hngaza | 2025-07-15 15:46:55+00:00
I'm in Europe.

> There is little to do really except probably push back in casual conversation

I've had the same thought initially, but I think this is "surface-level" thinking about the problem. We could say: "we can't shout for 5km, so we can't communicate at a distance in real-time" — but clever people had very interesting ideas how to look at this problem from another perspective. This is maybe a bad analogy but my point is that there might be non-obvious ways to address this.
Show HN: Legal Eyes – Turn casual text into legalese with one click
by ForgedLabsJames | 2025-07-15 15:47:24+00:00
Hey HN xD I have an app that I think could really help small business's. It's called Legal Eyes, and basically it converts plain text to legalese. It's great for making your payment reminders more official for example. It's also region aware, so it will use the correct context depending what country and state you live in. It's super light weight and easy to use. I offer the first 5 for free so you can test the power of it, and if there is enough interest I can offer an affiliate program.

Here is a quick example:

Before

Hi Greg, I am still waiting on that payment you promised last week for the building works carried out at my address, could you please let me know when you can get this sorted out?

After

Hi Greg. It has come to my attention that the payment for the construction services rendered at my premises, which you assured would be settled last week, remains outstanding. Could you kindly provide an update on when this matter will be resolved?

Would be awesome if you could give it a spin for me, and let me know what you think? thanks for you time
by sunshine-o | 2025-07-15 15:47:39+00:00
I came to the realisation recently that the free Internet only happened (in the West) because:

- The Silent Generation, in charge at the time, had no idea what was this Internet thing about.

- The US Intelligence community understood it was a powerful tool to operate abroad.

- Nobody dared derailing the only engine of growth and progress in many economies

It obviously got out of control and is very abnormal in fact if you consider how power really works.

As of today, as a user of a reputable VPN, I am blocked from a lot essential websites or have to prove I am an human every 5 minutes, it sucks.

Anyway we are one major cyber disaster away for our the state to switch from a blacklist to whitelist paradigm. A safer and better Internet for everyone.

We will probably still have ways to access the "Free" Internet. It is gonna be fun, slower and might get you in serious troubles.
by m-watson | 2025-07-15 15:48:24+00:00
The very study you cited states in their initial summary of findings that "The study provides the first evidence to support a widely held belief: that racially mixed juries do not discriminate against defendants based on the defendant’s ethnic background. While the assumption has been that racially mixed juries will not discriminate against ethnic minority defendants, this study showed that racially mixed juries also did not discriminate against White defendants.[0]"

[0]https://www.ucl.ac.uk/judicial-institute/sites/judicial-inst... - page iv
by duxup | 2025-07-15 15:48:29+00:00
The manufacturing jobs discussion (in the article called China Shock 1.0), I find it confusing and maybe nonsensical.

The market for those jobs changed, the market became cheap labor from wherever, in this case China. That's what happened, it seems like it is less China as those jobs effectively became low wage (bad jobs) and I don't see anyone magically protecting those jobs at the time or now. It's not like the US could hold out and say "nope these manufacturing jobs have to pay higher wages" and that work in any way.
by deadbabe | 2025-07-15 15:48:49+00:00
Let’s reframe your world view:

No one wants to communicate with a computer. Computers are annoying, vile things. They just want things to work easily and magically.

Therefore, for these people, being able to communicate in a natural language isn’t going to be anymore appealing than a nice graphical user interface. Using a search engine to find stuff you want already requires no logic, the LLM does the same but it just gives you better results.

Thus the world of LLMs is going to look much like the world of today: just with lazier people who want to do even less thinking than they do now.

It is inevitable.
by bcrl | 2025-07-15 15:49:57+00:00
2 of my customers explicitly asked for IPv6 prefixes. Another ISP had a couple of users actively using IPv6 15 years ago, but it bitrotted and nobody cared enough to ask for it to be fixed. Another user recently asked to be provided with IPv6 (actually, forcefully demanded it rater) and then didn't even bother to enable IPv6 on their router.

So, yeah, I don't see IPv6 being relevant as a small ISP today.
by scioto | 2025-07-15 15:50:22+00:00
(commenting late in the game, so the point may have been made already)

I personally believe that "AI" is mostly marketing for the current shiny LLM thing that will end up finding some sort of actual useful niche (or two) once the dust has settled. But for now, it's more of a solution being carpet-bombed for problems, most of them inappropriate IMHO (e.g, replacing HR).

For now there'll be collateral damage as carbon-based lifeforms are displaced, with an inevitable shortage of pesky humans to do cleanup once the limitations of "AI" are realized. Any the humans will probably be contract/gig at half their previous rates to do the cleanup.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-07-15 15:50:30+00:00
To celebrate

- getting rid of `libCross` (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/414321 and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/414573)

- making `gccNgPackages` (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/414299)

I wrote this blog post explaining the bigger pictures behind these two
by spauldo | 2025-07-15 15:51:06+00:00
Pseudocolor was a different thing. The palette wasn't fixed. The adapter could display any color in a 24-bit color space, but only 256 colors at once. So if you had one program that used one palette and another program that used a different palette on the screen at the same time, whichever program wasn't active would have its colors scrambled.

Windows never used pseudocolor as far as I know.
by megaloblasto | 2025-07-15 15:52:00+00:00
That's a very dark point of view. Many countries have severely underdeveloped (or overbooked) healthcare systems. A tool that might help people get answers when they otherwise couldn't is a great thing.

I know of nowhere where it is normal to replace your human-to-human contact with a chatbot. In my society people would call that pathological.

People have always resisted change in favor of maintaining some idealized version of the past that probably never existed.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-07-15 15:52:03+00:00
Hey you bought it? Have a few questions if you don't mind

How is the sturdiness? Does the firmware have any particular issues with linux? I mean bigger than usual problems with things like suspend/resume/laptop lid/usb autosuspend.

How is the battery life?

Also, how is the shipping time? I read a lot online about folks not receiving it for a year+
by pjmlp | 2025-07-15 15:52:07+00:00
For me, this was eventually the end of setting up dual booting for Linux, hunting for laptops where hardware support would be above 90%, but never 100%, not even the Asus netbook that I acquired in 2009, which survived multiple distros and travels until last year.

Until WSL2 came to be, it was my way to do GNU/Linux development, on Windows powered laptops.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-15 15:52:12+00:00
"Today, it is aggressively contesting the innovative sectors where the United States has long been the unquestioned leader: aviation, A.I., telecommunications, microprocessors, robotics, nuclear and fusion power, quantum computing, biotech and pharma, solar, batteries."

I think at least in solar and batteries China has already gone beyond "contesting"... and maybe telecommunications and robotics (components)? The others don't seem as clear on China's path to dominance.
by briangriffinfan | 2025-07-15 15:52:34+00:00
I think people today, in general, would be unwilling to hold the idea in their heads that a movie might be good in a way that goes over their heads, or that they just don't understand. There's no curiosity that it might be more than what they saw it to be. And when everyone sees art as beneath them (or at least, certainly not above them), it loses that transcendent quality.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-07-15 15:52:50+00:00
Don't use GPT but rather learn to code in GDscript manually first. It will come to you, even you don't have a clue where to start. The start is often a problem.

But, use GPT to help you write in a manner "I need this. Do this. Explain the code line for line. I want to learn the GDscript so show additional information for me to understand and may be make some small exercises for me after I say "let's try this""

I learned python with Google. Then turned to GPT. One Thing I noticed:

After usage of GPT my coding skills went south. I'm capable of doing more, more pythonic code, I understand almost all code. But I can't write it fluidly anymore after GPT. that's why I say learn it manually.
by Flux159 | 2025-07-15 15:53:44+00:00
I'm not sure I would say this is solved - having used CNPG with GKE, I ended up moving off of hosting Postgres inside of Kubernetes & moving to Cloud SQL and Spanner for storing state in my apps.

Few issues I found was that having stateful sets caused GKE to be unable to automatically update in my cluster setup. I had a read-write and read replica for a few postgres databases & the operator wasn't consistent with what pod id was read-writeable (you were able to retrieve this info from metadata though, so could script around it). Then having to setup backups to GCS manually & needing to ensure that they would work correctly to restore - easier to just pay GCP to deal with all of this with Cloud SQL.
Show HN: Pproftui – An interactive terminal UI (TUI) for Go's pprof
by askaritomoje | 2025-07-15 15:53:58+00:00
Hey HN

I've spent the past month building *pproftui*, a terminal-based UI for Go’s `pprof`. It lets you explore CPU, memory, and heap profiles—flame graphs, caller/callee stacks, and even diffs—without leaving your terminal.

Key highlights: - *Flame graphs* directly in terminal UI - *Diff mode*: compare two profiles side-by-side - *Live profiling* support via HTTP endpoints - *Caller/callee views*, profile sorting by flat, cum, samples - Fully navigable via hotkeys (F1 for help) - Built with *Bubbletea* (TUI framework)

I created this because I frequently find myself cycled through the browser when using `go tool pprof`—interrupting my flow. With `pproftui`, everything’s in one keyboard-driven interface.

Let me know: - What features you'd like next? - Any pain points or improvements? - How to make it even more useful for you?

Demo: https://asciinema.org/a/726583

Repo & install instructions: https://github.com/Oloruntobi1/pproftui

Thanks & looking forward to your thoughts!
by labcomputer | 2025-07-15 15:54:18+00:00
> This is a theoretical exploration of the hard limits, not an engineering design

You replied to (and even quoted) a comment explaining the practical limits, then doubled-down and said multi junction cells can exceed a number which has never been experimentally demonstrated.

And here you are again saying that multifunction cells can achieve 87% efficiency.

An ICE engine can achieve 100% thermal efficiency with the right Th and Tc. That has about as much relevance to the discussion at hand as 87% efficient solar panels.

Let me be clear: the most efficient cells that have ever been experimentally demonstrated under any conditions are less efficient than the number you originally stated. In real world conditions the number is half of what you originally.

> Again, what stops the top hood and engine cover of a Prius from raising at an angle and tracking the

I guess I’m just feeding the trolls here.
by wpm | 2025-07-15 15:54:41+00:00
I experience that but then I also experience the somewhat opposite effect, where randomly, spurred on by almost nothing at all, a memory of a dream that I knew that I had but had forgotten about, bubbles up out of nowhere. It's like some pathway to that other filesystem exists, but only gets activated due to some random glitch that is then fixed immediately, as I still won't be able to recall the dreams later on, like something is forcing it to get cleared from my normal long-term memory. Not that I can't remember dreams, I can if they are vivid enough, journals help too, but most of them get locked away in the "you'll watch the memory of this dream evaporate before your very eyes in the morning, and then years later while you're washing dishes you'll remember it vividly" box.
by nozzlegear | 2025-07-15 15:54:56+00:00
I was going to make this point myself. I think my wife and I have seen maybe three or four movies in a theater since COVID. Our theater didn't even close during COVID (they started marathoning older movies like Harry Potter), but once the big companies started releasing new movies directly on streaming services, we realized how much better seeing a new movie in the comfort of our own home can be.

So now we just wait for a movie we want to see to become available on Apple TV, and then we rent it.
by duxup | 2025-07-15 15:55:20+00:00
ICE just seems to be a setup for "federal personal thugs".

We've seen them now threatening not just American citizens, other politicians, judges. ICE has been given instructions to simply go operate on their own without direction to "find" people.

The laws surroundings them are surprisingly forgiving / people have few protections. This step seems to just be to dump vast quantities of data they could just for anything they wish from departments that had rules for how they can use that data ... to a group that has few rules ...
Ask HN: Recommendations for a self-hosted Substack alternative?
by pinter69 | 2025-07-15 15:55:34+00:00
I'm looking to re-start my old newsletter, along with a new website. Every webpage will also be a newsletter email. Looking for a simple to use setup, where I will own the data and audience and will not be reliant on a platform to exist X years from now and continue serving me in a reasonable price
by marcodiego | 2025-07-15 15:55:49+00:00
I don't know if it supports HDR on MacOS but, AFAIK, it doesn't on windows and in Linux it is only supported with Wayland.

Though I don't like the Wayland x X11 flamewar, I'm happy to see some modern features are only supported on Wayland.

That may please the crowd that will be able to say "sorry, I can't use x11 because it doesn't support a feature I need" bringing some symmetry to the discussion.

Edit: correction: it is about the development 5.0 version: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/vulkan-wayland-hdr-support/412...
by charles_f | 2025-07-15 15:56:45+00:00
> One of the negative consequences of the “modern secular age” is that many very intelligent, thoughtful people feel justified in brushing away millennia of philosophical and religious thought because they deem it outdated or no longer relevant.

Isn't that a societal trait though? See English Christians attitude towards vikings, requiring baptism (or the prima signatio, kinda baptism-light) before they could deal with them, because they were savage. Or colons forcing natives to adopt Christianity, because what they had before was "primitive". There was wisdom and thought in both, but in both case the Christian side "brushed it away". Or capitalism and communism in the cold war. It feels like everyone with a belief system tries to force it onto others.
by sensanaty | 2025-07-15 15:57:12+00:00
Every time pro-AI people bring up the Luddites I have to laugh, because they've clearly not had their magic little boxes actually tell them anything about the Luddites.

They argued the exact opposite, they wanted proper training on how to use the "damn machines" as people were literally dying because of being untrained in their usage. They were also then beset upon by hired thugs and mercenaries that proceeded to beat and even kill the Luddites for daring to speak out against horrible worker conditions in the factories.

It's pretty funny, the anti-luddites being exactly like the anti-luddites of yore.
by KerrAvon | 2025-07-15 15:57:17+00:00
Really crude comparison, but sort of. It would have taken much longer, and dropping the bombs was supposed to bring about an end to the war sooner. But in the long run social media would have been much more devastating, as it has been in America.

The destruction of the American government today are a direct result of social media supercharging existing negative internal forces that date back to the mid 20th century. The past six months of conservative rule has already led to six-figure deaths across the globe. That will eventually be eight to nine figures with the full impact of the healthcare and immigration devastation inside the United States itself. Far worse than Hiroshima.

Took a decade or two, but you can lay the blame at Facebook and Twitter's doorsteps. The US will never properly recover, though it's possible we may restore sanity to governance at some point.
by AlekseiSavin | 2025-07-15 15:57:28+00:00
You're right, modern edge devices are powerful enough to run small models, so the real bottleneck for a forward pass is usually memory bandwidth, which defines the upper theoretical limit for inference speed. Right now, we've figured out how to run computations in a granular way on specific processing units, but we expect the real benefits to come later when we add support for VLMs and advanced speculative decoding, where you process more than one token at a time
by pixl97 | 2025-07-15 15:58:02+00:00
Most of the time you have these dreams and are not woken up, so you never remember they exist at all...

Occasionally my brain likes screwing with me and in the dream it goes "You're remembering this dream, you're about to be woken up" and then a loud noise or something external will happen an wake me up and leave me with a great sense of unease.

Now, I don't believe my mind can actually predict the future. I can only assume my brain is doing this crap quite often and just happens to get it right every once in a while. Still a creepy feeling.
by m-schuetz | 2025-07-15 15:58:35+00:00
I'm obviously not talking about modules-level features that may never get to see the light of day.

A random(min, max) function isn't rocket science and already a major inprovement over the three-liner that is currently necessary. The major compiler devs won't take long to implement these cases, just as it did not take them long to implement simple yet useful functionality in previous versions of the standard. And the standard library is full with these cases of missing convenience functions over deliberately over-engineered functions.
by maxglute | 2025-07-15 15:59:03+00:00
One of my neatest Beijing finds was an usually eloquent huckster (i.e. not a country bumpkin) leading me through maze of alleys and hallways to a VCD shop that repackaged discs into really nice matching spines and covers. Kind of like criterion collection / Nintendo switch games. Like analogue custom plex art - they had service where you can colorize your collection.