MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sfn42 | 2025-07-04 13:57:04+00:00
If you drive into a lake or anything like that it's your own fault not the GPS. It doesn't control the car it just tells you directions. And if you know the area well enough to make judgements like the other things you mentioned, you don't need gps. Gps is specifically for when you don't know where to go.

I use it all the time, pretty much zero issues.
Track what the U.S. President is doing in real-time
by hubraumhugo | 2025-07-04 13:57:26+00:00
I built a tracker that:

- aggregates and monitors White House news, Truth Social, and official schedules in real-time

- uses semantic matching to ensure high signal notifications

- sends you relevant alerts faster than any mainstream channels

All information is publicly available and released by the President's press team.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-07-04 13:57:30+00:00
In my opinion the separation isn’t between AI vs. not. It’s between software that is restrained and well reasoned in their development vs. software that sticks unnecessary features in without enough testing that creates bugs and pushes useful UI features into a submenu. Software that updates just so they can sell a new version and get a product manager a promotion almost always sucks.

This is conflated right now with AI because every CEO and PM is pushing AI into their product as a first step to increased monetization once they figure out how. This is not well thought out and it ruins the experience of users who were previously happy with their software. A smart company would wait until the AI actually served a real use case and then roll out a well-tested update, but these companies are exceedingly rare.

I honestly don’t care if you add AI features, but make it so I can ignore them and make sure they don’t get in the way of the actual use of your software.

It’s sad that the best example I can think of such restraint is Apple, who was planning on rolling out AI on everything but realized that a lot of it sucked and halted the rollout partway through. It would have been better if they hadn’t made AI the key selling point of the iPhone 16 before failing to deliver, but at least they realized they should stop.

Microsoft also had a partially self-aware moment with their Recall feature, but it took a massive public outcry and their modifications only partially addressed privacy concerns.

But the volume of shit that gets funding because of AI overwhelms even the partial success stories- agents that don’t do what they claim, self driving cars that have never materialized, Rabbit AI, the Humane AI pin, Meta AI glasses, whatever shit Jonny Ive’s deal with OpenAI will produce- all of that makes people very skeptical because product managers and CEOs can’t hold back and wait until an idea is fully baked.
by kylecazar | 2025-07-04 13:57:48+00:00
I think the right tool for the job eventually emerges victorious. Right now AI is shoe-horned absolutely everywhere because it's trendy and no company wants to be seen as lagging -- eventually, it will only remain in product contexts in which it's useful and represents a step forward. At least that's what I hope.

Right now I think there is an audience for no-AI because it's in a lot of places it doesn't belong. After the great rebalancing, maybe it won't be as big of a segment.
by dgacmu | 2025-07-04 13:57:51+00:00
The easy path, as someone suggested, is a kill-a-watt that you just plug it into.

The less intrusive path for some definition of less intrusive is a clamp ammeter if you can expose one of the AC wires (you have to clamp around an individual wire, not both hot and neutral). But then you don't need to unplug the system to measure it.

The third overkill option is to have it plugged into a full-time power monitoring and control device, such as a zigbee home automation plug switch. ;)
by s-macke | 2025-07-04 13:58:02+00:00
This paper only scratches the surface and feels incomplete, as it references only GPT-4 and mentions appendices that are not included. The examples are two years old.

For a more in-depth analysis of chatbots playing text adventures, take a look at my project. I haven’t updated it in a while due to time constraints.

[0] https://github.com/s-macke/AdventureAI
by simonw | 2025-07-04 13:58:20+00:00
For your benefit I will make two minor edits to things I have said.

> Looks like I was the inspiration for this post then

I replace that with:

> Looks like I was the inspiration for finishing this post then

And this:

> Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

I can rephrase as:

> Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the introduction of the table saw.
by nattopizza | 2025-07-04 13:58:31+00:00
> You can argue with the author of the study saying that but I can't see an issue with an article reporting that they did, if that's what actually happened.

I think that's kind of the point: nobody knows if that's what actually happened and the study doesn't show any information to support any specific theory. I could be that (though I think it would be unlikely as we'd have probably seen a real steady decline in the ice sheet and not an up and down up), something else that is still concerning but not as severe, or maybe something that we didn't now before and is not as concerning.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-04 13:59:09+00:00
'Creative decisions made by people who don't even like the output' was a good phrasing I recently heard.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Qm6_lEdcQ&t=656s

It's incredibly difficult to pick good creative things if you don't have the same spark their actual consumers do.

Sure, maybe someone is experienced, but they'll always be looking at it through a completely different lens than consumers. Eventually that creates a blind spot and understandings diverge disastrously.

Ex: the infamous Diablo mobile game announcement
by qsort | 2025-07-04 13:59:47+00:00
I commented on this before, I'm in this weird "opinion arbitrage" spot where I'm relatively skeptical by HN standards but I'm actually pushing for more usage at work. Hell, I'm typing this while I wait for Claude to be done.

The reason for my skepticism is the delta between what they're being sold as and what they actually do. All AI solutions, including agents (especially agents!), are effectively worse-than-worthless without guidance from someone experienced. There's very little that's "autonomous" about them, in fact.

The very guy who coined the term "vibe coding" went on stage effectively saying we're putting the carriage before the horse!

Omitting the important caveat that while they are fantastic tools they need to be restrained a lot is effectively lying.
by agentultra | 2025-07-04 13:59:48+00:00
The Luddites and their sympathizers were often shot. Some labourers displaced by the mechanical looms did find work elsewhere... if you mean workhouses. You see, history is written by the winners and the capital holders won.

The modern perception of Luddites as being "anti-progress," is the myth written by the winners.

The real history was that they were arguing for better working conditions, abolishing child labour, and social safety nets for workers displaced by machines. The problem was that unions hadn't been invented yet and people working in these textile factories had little leverage. So they made leverage by destroying the machines in an attempt to intimidate the capital holders to the negotiating table.

It didn't work in the end.

History might not be repeating today with AI tools being foisted upon us everywhere but it sure does rhyme.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-07-04 14:00:09+00:00
I have a regular i5-6500 in an HP 800 G2 SFF. It has 32 GB RAM (2x8+16), two Samsung 840 SSDs and a 4-port i350 network card. It Linux as a KVM host with OpnSense and Home Assistant on top.

According to some watt-meter I got off Amazon it idles at 14W with the 4 interfaces UP but next to no traffic. I consider it idling when the CPU usage as reported by the host is under 5%.

Now the watt-meter isn't some top-of-the-line exotic model, just a random Chinese thingy, but it seems to measure close enough to what I expect some other devices to pull.
by cubefox | 2025-07-04 14:00:39+00:00
Yeah. Another nice article on the bird experiments:

https://finchwench.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/cosmoquails/

Still, trying it with mice (or other mammals) would have been worth it, because we can't rule out mammals being more robust during embryogenesis than birds. The ISS actually has still a few years left, so there would be some time left for such an experiment. Though I doubt it will happen.
by palata | 2025-07-04 14:00:50+00:00
> You seem to not understand how far racism goes in America.

Well, I said it was probably worse than in Europe, I did not bound it :).

> Why wouldn’t I take advantage of the arbitrage of being on the other side of inequality and make as much money as possible

If you're in the US it seems like you definitely should, because that's how it works there. My point was that if you're not part of those benefitting from that, or if you don't actually want to live in a country that values this lifestyle, then that's a reason to move to another country.

And many many countries are better than the US if you "don't mostly care about money", if I can say it like that.

On HN I often see messages from US people saying that "Europe is dying" and "Europe cannot innovate". My point is that a large part of the people in Europe would not want to live in the US, and there are reasons for that. And those US people seem to not realise it.
by kgwgk | 2025-07-04 14:01:04+00:00
> Being a good developer and being a scammer are completely uncorrelated variables.

One could expect good developers to be less inclined to fraud as they may not “need” it as much.

That also made me thing of Berkson’s paradox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

If these were really independent traits they would look negatively correlated as we talk about people who are good OR scammers.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-04 14:01:16+00:00
> For the next 4 years, I continued to accumulate weird and persistent pains in different parts of my body.

Anyone who is accumulating weird pains in random, different locations should definitely pursue some of these alternative explanations. Another sign that these techniques are appropriate is if the pains come and go depending on your mood or situation (worse when working, disappear when doing something fun) or are prone to suggestion (someone talks about their back pain and then you have back pain for the following days or weeks).

However, I’m also getting tired of the people who benefit from this techniques deciding that their explanation for chronic pain covers everyone. It’s a huge trend in parts of tech Twitter right now to apply these theories to all chronic pain. A small number of people who had unexplainable pain and addressed it through meditation, therapy, and similar techniques are now pushing it as a far more universal explanation. It really needs to be applied to the appropriate situation, not used as a universal treatment for chronic pains.

This parallels similar trends with topics like PTSD, where a smaller group of people have benefited from therapy that addresses past trauma and now they’re trying to export the theory that past trauma and PTSD is the explanation for all psychological ills. Again, matching the right treatment to the condition is critical and being open-minded is important, but beware of people who are preaching that doctors are misinformed and you should subscribe to their app, blog, newsletter, or course instead.
by Nursie | 2025-07-04 14:01:51+00:00
It’s right I don’t want AI in my email client. Gmail now summarises threads, but I didn’t ask for that, and I have no reason to trust it any more than the frequently bullshit AI search results.

It still astounds me that the dominant search company, where people go as a first port of call when looking for information, is willing to put generated answers at the top of its results which are variously sorta-right, subtly wrong or outright fabricated.

Meta has started offering artists I know AI versions of their own work on Facebook. There’s no obvious way to turn it off and … frankly it’s pretty insulting.

So yes, there is a no-AI audience. At the very least a let-me-turn-it-off audience. And not just in tech.
by subscribed | 2025-07-04 14:02:48+00:00
You cannot just compare raspberry pi specifically with all the slew of the random no name / ephemeral mini-pc builds, they're not the same.

I was trying to find something deemed reliable for myself (I need two: one to replace kodi, one as the home storage) and I just don't know. Some have good prices and terrifyingly bad reviews, some look decent but in-depth reviews show significant design shortcomings (eg very bad air circulation inside, 2.5G ports but one chip for this and dosk, for example.
Show HN: We built EveryTicket – modern ticketing and POS software for museums
by ethanleetech | 2025-07-04 14:03:13+00:00
Hey HN,

We’ve spent the last year working closely with museums to build EveryTicket, a modern ticketing and POS software designed specifically for cultural attractions.

Most museums still use outdated systems that create long queues, manual cash handling, and frustrated visitors. EveryTicket solves that with:

Online ticketing & timed entry

Self-service kiosks

POS for tickets, memberships & donations

CRM & visitor analytics

Custom branding and mobile-ready UI

You can literally start selling tickets in under an hour. No long-term contracts, transparent pricing.

Would love your feedback on the product, UX, or just thoughts on this niche space. Happy to answer any questions!
by tomhow | 2025-07-04 14:03:15+00:00
There’s something about the point when anger at someone’s actions turns to trawling over someone’s backstory in order to attack/demean them as a person that crosses a line for me; I’ve always pushed back on it whenever I’ve seen it, on HN and elsewhere. People doing it and supporting it always think it’s “not that bad”; nobody likes to think of themselves as doing or supporting something bad.

Any time you see egregious comments on HN that aren’t flagged/dead, you should flag them and email us so we can take a look.
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-07-04 14:03:15+00:00
It's genuinely crazy how much better value an N100 is and how much better it works out of the box than a Pi for anything that is a little server, plex/jellyfin, self hosting project that doesn't need to talk to electronics/GPIO.

Caveat being about my comment is my N100 us used mostly as a Jellyfin server/torrent downloader running windows but has two SSDs inside it and has worked flawlessly for 2 years. Not sure how well it performs under Linux but I've used Pi's a lot previously and this beats it in terms of getting the job done and in price for a similar Pi setup.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-07-04 14:03:25+00:00
That's not entirely wrong.

https://gpuopen.com/download/RDNA_Architecture_public.pdf

I've been showing this one to people for a few years as a good introduction on how RDNA diverged from GCN->CDNA.

The main thing they did was change where wavefront steps (essentially, quasi-VLIW packets) execute: instead of being at the head of the pipeline (which owns 4x SIMD16 ALUs = 64 items) and requires executing 64 threads concurrently (thus, 64x registers/LDS/etc space), it issues non-blocking segments of the packet into per-ALU sub-pipelines, requiring far fewer concurrent threads to maintain peak performance (and, in many cases, far less concurrent registers used for intermediates that don't leave the packet).

GCN is optimized for low instruction parallelism but high parallelism workloads. Nvidia since the dawn of their current architecture family tree has been optimized for high instruction parallelism but not simple highly parallel workloads. RDNA is optimized to handle both GCN-optimal and NVidia-optimal cases.

RDNA, since this document has been written, also has been removing all the roadblocks to improve performance on this fundamental difference. RDNA4, the one that just came out, increased the packet processing queue to be able to schedule more packets in parallel and more segments of the packets into their per-ALU slots, is probably the most influential change: in software that performed bad on all GPUs (GCN, previous RDNA, anything Nvidia), a 9070XT can perform like a 7900XTX with 2/3rds the watts and 2/3rds the dollars.

While CDNA has been blow for blow against Nvidia's offerings since it's name change, RDNA has eradicated the gap in gaming performance. Nvidia functionally doesn't have a desktop product below a 5090 now, and early series 60 rumors aren't spicy enough to make me think Nvidia has an answer in the future, either.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-04 14:04:19+00:00
You must live alone. Even at home, you have people called family or friends that do not necessarily sit idle while watching TV. Watching with kids at home is worse than at the movies because they are at home and don't have the same social rules to follow. People at home are also not under the social rules of not using their devices, and second screening has become the norm.

Yes, a theater probably holds more people than your typical viewing experience at home. Unless you go to the movies during the week and avoid crowds. The last movie I saw at the theater was on a Tuesday after opening weekend as 4pm. There might have been 2 other people in the entire theater. It was amazing.
by brohee | 2025-07-04 14:04:27+00:00
If they do so Tesla is a regular company and should trade at a regular automotive sector P/E ratio, so what, one fifteenth of its current valuation ? That's a hard sell to investors. They are likely better off keeping that plane flying as long as possible hoping for a miracle, then crash, than soft landing, so are Tesla insiders, each quarter passing means more stocks dumped.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/tsla/insider-a...
by johnisgood | 2025-07-04 14:04:35+00:00
Have you tried H2 blockers?

And as you have said, avoid anything that increases stomach acid production (such as caffeine or even tea, along with spicy food).

You might also have success with Venter[1] (Sucralfate).

[1] https://www.medicinesfaq.com/brand/venter
by Jon_Lowtek | 2025-07-04 14:04:42+00:00
Little known fact: GDPR replaced the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) from 1995 which itself replaced the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, written in 1981. Now if you compare these three, there is enough details to get an undergrads degree in law, but on the high level the tenor did not change much. Those who were struggling in 2018 to meet GDPR criteria before the grace period of two years ended were most likely not struggling with details, but in blatant violation of almost 40 year old rules. Well one of the details probably mattered: the fines went up considerably.
by briandw | 2025-07-04 14:06:06+00:00
Interesting to see but as the authors say a chat bot isn't trained to play text adventures. Instruction tuning doesn't seem to match the text adventure style very well. I think a very small bit of context engineering would allow it to play successfully. Reformatting past action response pairs from the history would certainly help, mostly to condense the context window and keep it from getting stuck taking about irrelevant topics. Also note that they used GPT-4 and not a reasoning model.
by marcinzm | 2025-07-04 14:06:27+00:00
Not OP but similar story with someone I know. Five years of many specialists that always ended in "all the tests are negative so it must either be fibromyalgia or psychological." Doctors never helped but eventually they empirically found that abilify and rexulti in very low doses (ie: half the minimum) made it just go away. Empirically based on the reaction to various medications it was probably some type of dopamine imbalance or issue. There's other case studies of similar reactions to abilify and chronic pain but not many.

Extra fun fact, a deep research AI nowadays will actually suggest this as one of the treatments given a few paragraphs of information on the symptoms/medications tried/etc.
by soup10 | 2025-07-04 14:06:28+00:00
>It's a lot harder to take a creative risk when a lot of money is on the line. It's also harder aligning a large team to execute on a novel vision.

well indie games are their own separate thing and large studios will never have the creative freedom and the ability to align a small team to a novel vision that they do. However studios with deeper pockets and larger teams can still innovate and push the boundaries of what gaming can be so long as the executive team isn't a bunch of spineless losers.
Show HN: Server-driven web UI framework for Go
by derstruct | 2025-07-04 14:07:32+00:00
It’s called doors. I've been working solo on this for a while. There’s so much I want to say about features, how it works and how I got here (10 years of career from php dev to CTO to this), I don’t even know where to start. Please check out the announcement site. What do you think about it? P.S. Doors will require a paid license for production use (lifetime, per-domain, very affordable). But it’ll be free for development, and the source code will be available on GitHub. P.P.S. Landing site is hosted in the U.S., so there might be a slight delay if you're visiting from farther locations
by p_ing | 2025-07-04 14:07:44+00:00
If you want something less "risky", ASRock Industrial has mini PCs which are great. I have an AliExpress N150, fully passive which worked just fine but then I saw the shiny of the Arrow Lake-H platform. Ended up getting a NUC BOX-225H for Opnsense. Way overkill, it's great!

https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/industrial-computer-system

The Arrow Lake-H platform can have up to 28 PCIe lanes where as the N150 gets 9. Something to think about if you want dual NIC + plenty of NVMe drives.
by qualeed | 2025-07-04 14:08:00+00:00
>People doing it and supporting it always think it’s “not that bad”; nobody likes to think of themselves as doing “bad”.

So we're clear, because this implies I'm "supporting" it, I'm not. Just saying that this is more tame than many personal attacks I've seen, with a stronger response than I've seen (when there is a response). And, in this case, that gives off some bad optics/more ammo to people who are critical about when & why you moderate.

Without moderator transparency (which I've read the reasoning for, and can agree with!), optics is really all you've got.
by Tistel | 2025-07-04 14:08:21+00:00
I am a Luddite holding on.

1) solving the problem myself is the fun part of the job 2) writing emails or whatever, I want it to be my voice, not some bland average of everything slop 3) I can't sppeell big word because auto-correct does that. I don't want to lose logic and thinking to "auto-think ai™" 4) is the output trustworthy?

For four, imagine some malevolent entity (North Korea or insert whomever you hate) procedurally generates thousands of tutorials (with slight cosmetic variations to trick the crc checks) with unique URLs. The tutorials teach some tricky thing like SSO. The tutorials reference some library (or tricky math heavy function) that has been altered by black hat hackers. The LLM reads all the urls and that affects its output. Then low knowledge "vibe coders" just blindly cut and paste their way to victory. voila, security nightmare.

It doesn't have to be code, it could be insults to political leaders (some emphasized, some excepted). Political policies. LLM lose money so start to sell out to advertisers (you pay, we push your product).

When I am procrastinating on other sites, you see it everywhere. Someone posts something the first comment is "grok explain the post." Its worse than orwellian, they had only the 5-minutes of hate monitoring. People are offloading their thinking to a handful of companies. Also, people apparently really open to the pseudo humans, will those personal private thoughts be resold to make up for cash burn?

I pretty sure I will lose, but, its worth a shot.