MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spdustin | 2025-07-29 18:40:36+00:00
Well done! I’ve built this same sort of thing for my family to play with. My advice for the best results:

1) Structure the choices offered by the LLM; add “choice_type” and add instructions to the LLM on what those choices should do. E.g. action, dialogue, investigation, whatever makes sense for the genre—the LLM can even generate these at story start—then “choice should direct the narrator to focus on an action-oriented moment”, “choice should direct the narrator to focus on a dialogue between two or more characters in the scene”, etc.

2) Use reasoning whenever making tool calls for choices, summarize the reasoning, and include it in narrative summaries provided as part of the context for future narrative requests. For example, the combined summary might be: “In the last narrative I wrote for the user, Harry and Luna were startled by the noise coming from the edge of the forest. Important scene developments: 1) Luna and Harry had been approaching the edge of the forbidden forest for the last three narrative turns, and in the turn I just wrote they arrived at the edge. 2) Harry seemed to be the more courageous of the two in previous narrative turns, but in the most recent one, the user’s choice resulted in Harry becoming more deferential to Luna. 3) In the most recent narrative turn, the noise that had been emanating from the forest was now accompanied by a flickering light. I then suggested paths that would allow for character development through dialogue between Harry and Luna (I gave two options here), a path to move the story forward by having Harry take Luna’s hand before running into the forest, and another path that would slow the pace by having Luna investigate the flickering light accompanying the sound. The user’s choice: ‘Have Luna investigate the flickering light.’

3) Add an RNG weighted by story length or whatever works for you that will result in choices that lead the story to a conclusion. Include that direction in the tool call for generating choices, along with a countdown to the finale choice.

This is a rough mental sketch of what worked the best for me, i purposefully left out implementation or application details, as I don’t know what you’re wanting to do next.

Good luck, looks great!
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-29 18:40:42+00:00
That’s simply not true. I remember working with a startup founder who had Jerry rigged some crap shit together with gpt a year ago.

I was able to access his data by simply accessing it figuring out his URL and other stuff. I told him to use supabase or DO deployment and set up proper roles and stuff…

I think you’re being way too charitable honestly and it’s dangerous. I won’t join you on that path of absolving the developer of any blame.

They don’t read the docs and they didn’t care simply put. Any production system needs to be tested especially if it will have PII data.
by inglor_cz | 2025-07-29 18:40:44+00:00
In Czechia, with its public insurance system, the cost of a liver transplant is about 70 000 USD. But our medical professionals make peanuts compared to the US, and they don't need medical malpractice insurance.

I suspect that the lowest realistic cost in the US could be about 150k.

When compared to conservative treatments, transplants are expensive everywhere. A very invasive treatment with a small army of specialists involved.
by ant6n | 2025-07-29 18:40:49+00:00
There’s Toy Story 1-4 on there and Star Wars Force awakens, but for popular films it doesn’t have the incredibles, no Star Trek (perhaps include ii), few/no bond films (Casino Royale?), few Miyazakis (Nausicaa, Mononoke), not many Tarantinos (hateful 8), not too many Burtons (Batman 2, Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow). Is there any Indiana Jones? Could include Starship Troopers.
by viccis | 2025-07-29 18:41:38+00:00
>Generally I think they targeted the US because of Islamist Ideology. Islamism links conquest and imperialism to a proof of the religious validity of Islam.

You don't have to speculate. You can actually just look at what the bombers stated the purpose of their attack was. It wasn't part of a conquest; it was an attempt to punish us for our history in that region, with a very specific policy of ours mentioned explicitly by many of the masterminds of 9/11.

The only Islamist movement seeking conquest in recent history was ISIS, which is why a lot of their attention was spent expanding their caliphate into their neighbors' territories rather than launching quixotic attacks at the US on our soil. I'm not including ISIS-K in this assessment, as they glow more than Langley.
by naikrovek | 2025-07-29 18:41:40+00:00
I feel like everyone is trying to do things in the most inefficient way possible and it is starting to make me a little bit batty.

WASM is awesome, but if I'm reading this right, they're choosing not to write DLLs so that they can create WASM modules which are recompiled into DLLs prior to runtime.

I think our entire industry has taken banned-by-the-Geneva-Conventions, weapons-grade Stupid Pills.

The only reason I can think of to do this, is so that you can't have arbitrarily malevolent code running in the DLLs that mod authors write. But we can't run the whole game in a sandbox such as a VM because of Nvidia GPU licensing disallowing virtual GPUs in consumer grade GPUs.

If that's why this work is being done, some serious muscle needs to be used to twist Nvidias arm so that they stop being knobheads and start being part of the solution to security issues, instead of part of the problem.

If I pay for that GPU, I should be able to issue work to it however I please. I should be able to split it up among VMs all day long without concern for anything Nvidia wants.
by wiz21c | 2025-07-29 18:42:00+00:00
I use it to refresh some engineering maths I have forgotten (ODE, numerical schemas, solving linear equations, data sciences algorithms, etc) and the explanations are most of the time great and usually 2 or 3 prompts give me a good overview and explain the tricky details.

I also use it to remember some python stuff. In rust, it is less good: makes mistakes.

In those two domains, at that level, it's really good.

It could help students I think.
by didibus | 2025-07-29 18:42:07+00:00
Biometrics are like identification yes. It checks that it's you. Now knowing that it's you, it retrieves a password stored on-device and uses the password for auth.

The auth is using a password still. The password is just indexed on your face or fingerprint ID and only locally, on-device.

That means the attacker would need the device to ever get at the password in the first place. Then they'd need to be able to break into the device. The latter you can argue is easy or hard, depending on perspective, but they'd need both your faceprint or fingerprint, and a reliable way to replicate it that can fool the reader.

If your fingerprint or faceprint leaks to the world. The attacker would still need your physical device, and would still need to find a way to fool the physical reader with a replica of your faceprint or fingerprint.

In that sense, it's more secure than a password.
by menaerus | 2025-07-29 18:42:52+00:00
I started to appreciate that compilers can do only as much and from my experience auto-vectorization doesn't really shine that much, it leaves a lot of performance on the table, and then it also messes up with the hand optimized code.

> So it really seems to be something Zen-specific and weird.

Number and/or type of ports. Perhaps even the code generation is different so it could be the compiler backend differences too for different uarchs
by snapplebobapple | 2025-07-29 18:43:33+00:00
My personal take is you are mistaking progress with a shake down in progress. Lina is operating within the highly restrictive framework the supreme court put in place on Rhenquist and under that it is extremely difficult to break up anyone. it is, however, possible to be enough of a pain for a company that they elect to pay you off in some manner (i.e. campaign contribution, cushy job upon leaving government, outright bribe,etc). Everybody knows an at&t style breakup isn't going to happen when that is what is really needed for most of these oligopolies and they are playing it in a rent seeking manner.
by kube-system | 2025-07-29 18:44:03+00:00
If you have an sort of a services subscription with a company and they are dissolved during liquidation -- the most frequent outcome is that the service is no longer available for any price. The business is gone.

If you had a landscaper mowing your lawn and they die, nobody expects the person who buys the lawnmower at the estate sale to continue mowing everyone's lawn.

This isn't any different just because it is a different type of service. Cloud platforms are services and like any other business, they disappear... a lot.
by IAmNotACellist | 2025-07-29 18:44:06+00:00
This doesn't seem noteworthy. It's called a context window for a reason--because the input is considered context.

You could train an LLM to consider the context potentially adversarial or irrelevant, and this phenomenon would go away, at the expense of the LLM sometimes considering real context to be irrelevant.

To me, this observation sounds as trite as: "randomly pressing a button while inputting a formula on your graphing calculator will occasionally make the graph look crazy." Well, yeah, you're misusing the tool.
by SLWW | 2025-07-29 18:45:43+00:00
That's a fun idea; almost having it "play pretend" instead of directly asking it for strong anti-heliocentric arguments outright.

It's weird to see which topics it "thinks" are politically charged vs. others. I've noticed some inconsistency depending on even what years you input into your questions. One year off? It will sometimes give you a more unbiased answer as a result about the year you were actually thinking of.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-29 18:46:12+00:00
Furthermore, these days I enter the passcode on my phone very rarely (Android requires it after restarting the device or after some amount of time) - normally I use biometric authentication.

The linked WSJ article is a bit hyperbolic and typical journalism overreach by calling it an Apple "security vulnerability", which is bullshit IMO. If you watch the interview with the guy in jail, the main method by which he got people's security code is he asked them. That is, he would tell people he had drugs to sell them and wanted to give them info, so he would get their phone and ask them for their code to unlock it.

At least the WSJ report is honest when it says "The biggest loophole: You".
by gbalduzzi | 2025-07-29 18:46:15+00:00
Are we really comparing this research to just writing and having a good answer in a couple of seconds?

Like, I agree with you and I believe those things will resist and will always be important, but it doesn't really compare in this case.

Last week I was in the nature and I saw a cute bird that I didn't know. I asked an AI and got the correct answer in 10 seconds. Of course I would find the answer at the library or by looking at proper niche sites, but I would not have done it because I simply didn't care that much. It's a stupid example but I hope it makes the point
by doodlesdev | 2025-07-29 18:46:16+00:00
The LCP I see is from Google PageSpeed Insights, meaning it's not benchmarked on my machine! In fact, in my setup I'll get much faster load times, but that performance level likely won't be representative of my users (I have a pretty good fiber connection till the last meter, I use Ethernet to connect, and I have a pretty beefy development workstation). The numbers you will see there aren't exactly comparable to the Lighthouse benchmarks you will perform locally: 1.5s LCP is still pretty decent, considering the average website speed nowadays, just not what I would expect from a static docs website, if that makes sense.

The page I tested is the one linked here in HN (the announcement)! I guess I should've referenced the PageSpeed Insights URL [0]. I hope you can get your bundle sizes smaller in the next versions, because honestly, from my first look (not very in-depth, of course), it's the only thing that's not very attractive about it. Likewise, I keep in mind, though, that most web frameworks nowadays ship very large bundles to achieve hydration and client-side routing.

I'm excited to see future updates to this project!

[0]: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-hologram-page-blog-...
by AIPedant | 2025-07-29 18:46:33+00:00
Kind of amazed by the URL shown in the ad:

https://ohmyz.sh›app/download>lauralen.com

lauralen.com appears to be entirely AI-generated. But the presentation in the ad sure looks like the legitimate https://ohmyz.sh/ - I knew it was a scam yet I still got confused.

I've never purchased an ad - does Google let you enter custom display text for your URL? Or is there some more sophisticated trickery here? (e.g weird unicode in a header or something) Either way, what a mess.
by godelski | 2025-07-29 18:46:42+00:00
> basically all of astronomy, and a good chunk of particle physics. The commercial applications have been pretty much zero.

So far

We must point this out because it's critical to the argument of funding science, basic research, and mathematics. It's easy to lose sight of the time frame or where inspiration was drawn from but it's easier to see with silly examples.

Like who would think studying origami would have ever been useful. The people originally studying it had no direct applications in mind. Yet it is now one of the most powerful tools in engineering. Not just used in satellites but also plays a role in additive manufacturing, robotics, and more.

Or look at Markov. Dude had no interest in applications whatsoever. He invented Markov Chains and revolutionized science purely to spite a rival. It took time for people to see the utility but we wouldn't have our modern AI system without it or even search or even the internet.

Private research is great, don't get me wrong. But they're too focused on right now. You don't get revolutions that way. You get revolutions by thinking outside the box. You get revolutions by straying away from the path that everyone else is doing, which is much more risky. You get revolutions because you do things just for fun. Just for curiosity's sake.

Since Leibniz basically the only funding for this kind of work has come through governments. It's also been declining as we are demanding more and more for people to show the value of their research, which just makes government funds like private ones. I'd warn against taking that path. It's a reasonable one, it makes perfect sense, and it is well intentioned, but it is also ignorant of history.
by maxglute | 2025-07-29 18:47:18+00:00
Eufy vac by Anker was truly baffling launch consider all the roborock alternatives at the time, any budget Xiaomi vac was better.

It's not weird _because_ all the 2018 sentiment eventually led a bunch of export controls by US and Meng Wangzhou arrest in 2020... PRC companies don't want to fuck with getting popular in key western, especially NA markets like US because getting popular is ticket to sanction which makes operating RoW more annoying. See all the tariffs on EVs / renewables. see DJI now. See PRC doing obscene markups abroad to not look like dumping to locals but domestically the same goods sell for less. Everyone in PRC knows US will make up some retarded national security excuse to hobble successful multinational brans in high tech. So they keep all the good stuff, or price the good stuff cheap at home / in other markets. Where good is 80-90% of functionality for 50% the price, i.e. stuff that wipe markets. The really "good" stuff, as in market leaders that wouldn't simply stomp competitors, risk selling/becoming popular in west higher than ever. There was study in 20s that show incumbents (usually western) basically lose 50-100% of their operating profits once affordable PRC alternatives enter market... so now barriers are setup to scare those companies from selling products, or at least sell them at market wiping prices.
by sunrunner | 2025-07-29 18:47:35+00:00
> AI Agents are starting to write more code. How do we make sure we understand what they're writing?

This is a good question, but also how do we make sure that humans understand the code that _other humans_ have (supposedly) written? Effective code review is hard as it implies that the reviewer already has their own mental model about how a task could/would/should have been done, or is at the very least building their own mental model at reading-time and internally asking 'Does this make sense?'.

Without that basis code review is more like a fuzzy standards compliance, which can still be useful, but it's not the same as review process that works by comparing alternate or co-operatively competing models, and so I wonder how much of that is gained through a quiz-style interaction.
by Cieric | 2025-07-29 18:48:02+00:00
When the modding community is so heavily plagued with mods that are malicious in some way, I don't think having a modding api that can be safe by convention yet recompiled to be fast would be a bad idea. So while I'm not sure it was the smartest choice, it's not so inanely stupid as you seem to be putting it.
by iamwil | 2025-07-29 18:48:13+00:00
My pet peeve on the internet (and the only one I consistently rant about) is "Periodic Table of X" The data is often visualized to look like the Periodic Table of Elements. At least this one doesn't make that mistake!

But then, are the system design principles periodic in some way? Does adding Y to one of the principles turn it into another? And if you add enough Ys, does it turn back into the same group again? Here, I find it's a resounding no.

Better to call it a Taxonomy of System Design instead.

/rant
by bayindirh | 2025-07-29 18:48:30+00:00
What bothers me is, their notebooks were fine when they first came to market. I still have their old, filled notebooks with great bindings and paper, with spotless ink retention, incl. fountain pens.

They gradually reduced their quality, and created a “higher, more expensive tier” to offer their previous quality.

Leuchtturm 1917 is a world apart when compared to today’s Moleskine.
by mcswell | 2025-07-29 18:49:23+00:00
Sounds like a good idea, but that was six years ago. What's happened since?

While I'm at it, the article says "The average American family throws away 25% of groceries purchased." I've heard similar statistics before, used in favor of composting. We use our city-provided composting service, but produce only a pound or two of "food scraps" a week, and 95% of that is banana peels, orange peels, or used coffee grounds: all inedible stuff. I seriously doubt that we're that much of an outlier--so I seriously doubt that most people throw away 25% of their groceries.

Of course, 96.2% of all statistics are made up.
by devmor | 2025-07-29 18:49:37+00:00
It sounds important to me. Humans are where context comes from. Humans do not generally provide 100% relevant context but are generally pretty good at identifying irrelevant context that they've been given.

It seems to me that solving this problem is one approach to removing the need for "prompt engineering" and creating models that can better interpret prompts from people.

Remember that what they're trying to create here isn't a graphing calculator - they want something conversationally indistinguishable from a human.
by dang | 2025-07-29 18:49:50+00:00
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: twice is already a pattern - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110785. No more of this, please.

Edit 2: I only just realized that you've been frequently posting abusive replies in a way that crosses into harangue if not harassment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725284 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725227 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725190 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525830 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441154 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110817 (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110785 (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44018000 (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008533 (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43779758 (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474204 (March 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465383 (March 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960299 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942818 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42706415 (Jan 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562036 (Dec 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42483664 (Dec 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42021665 (Nov 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992383 (Oct 2024)

That's abusive, unacceptable, and not even a complete list!

You can't go after another user like this on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are or who you have a problem with. If you keep doing this, we're going to end up banning you, so please stop now.
by asdefghyk | 2025-07-29 18:49:59+00:00
Ha - gets downvoted but with no comment - of how it is known or not. Their would be propaganda and embellishment from both sides.

About sides making mistakes in war - such in WCK World Central Kitchen deaths - I recall that was US claim in the deaths in about the "collateral murder" video ( about 2010 ??) from WikiLeaks - it was a mistake - the photographers telephoto lens looked like a rocket launcher?
by _wire_ | 2025-07-29 18:50:32+00:00
Feynman seminal lecture on Young experiment:

Probability and Uncertainty: the quantum mechanical view of nature

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/fml.html#6

//We see things that are far from what we would guess; we see things that are very far from what we would—could have imagined. And so our imagination is stretched to the utmost--not as in fiction, to imagine things which aren’t really there, but our imagination is stretched to the utmost just to comprehend those things which are there--and it’s this kind of a situation that I want to talk about tonight. Start, for instance, with the history of light.//
by supplied_demand | 2025-07-29 18:50:38+00:00
When he started at DEC in 1982, they had 67,000 employees and almost $4 billion in revenue. It seems like that type of success and size would imply some institutional knowledge. Their revenue, income, and employee count started stagnating in 1989. He worked there until 1998.

No need to keep going back and forth on this as you seem to have dug in your heels.

https://sutherla.tripod.com/infsoc/computers/dec_pl.html
by skmurphy | 2025-07-29 18:50:39+00:00
In his letter to his friend Guy Hickok Hemingway described an out-of-body or near-death experience triggered by the close explosion of a mortar shell that killed a soldier next to him: "There was one of those big noises you sometimes hear at the front. I died then. I felt my soul or something coming right out of my body, like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner. It flew around and then came back and went in again and I wasn’t dead anymore.”

sources

https://greatwar.nl/hemingway/hemingway.html https://www.ehemingway.com/biography Letter to Hickok does not appear to be available online. But his "Natural History of the Dead" is at https://short-stories.co/@ernesthemingway/a-natural-history-of-the-dead-0gpz4rgjln7d
by pythonaut_16 | 2025-07-29 18:50:43+00:00
On the other hand, this is helpful to know as a user of LLMs because it suggests that LLMs are bad at isolating the math problem from the cat fact. That means providing irrelevant context may be harmful to getting back a good answer in other domains as well.

Ideally you'd want the LLM to solve the math problem correctly and then comment on the cat fact or ask why it was included.