MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2025-07-15 17:19:25+00:00
> Assuming genAI won't deliver and make that world disappear entirely, ofc.

I get the concern and the reasoning behind it but having spent most my adult life and career in digital content creative tooling (2D, 3D and video), I believe AI will be short-term disruptive but also a long-term net positive. It should make skilled pros faster and more productive while helping non-pros achieve more of their creative vision on their own.

For over 30 years progress in tools has been about giving creative people the power to realize their visions. To create more and do it faster, cheaper and at higher quality. Of course, they don't always choose to use that power well but the concern that "these new tools are just enabling bottom feeders to create more bad content" has remained a pretty constant refrain since I started in 1989. Even back in the 90s I said "Sure, these new tools will enable 95% more crap but they'll also unleash 5% that's great which wouldn't have existed before." I think that's just as true today as it's always been.
by taeric | 2025-07-15 17:19:33+00:00
Agreed. Outliers are a thing. As is cherry-picking data to try and prove a point.

Sucks, as this level of cherry-picking heavily biases me against the premise. If someone has a good data set, they don't need to drive anecdotes from the outliers. And if they are, is it an attempt to hide that the overall data paints a different picture?
by ghc | 2025-07-15 17:19:38+00:00
> to my knowledge, has never had serious incidents of either.

The magic removal branch in 2006 was one such case (of API instability). I recall another case circa 2007(?) with a "new admin". But, importantly, pre-1.0 Django made no guarantees of API stability. Post-1.0 Django has had a pretty rock-solid reputation for stability and security.
by leakycap | 2025-07-15 17:19:52+00:00
The image at the top of this article is beautiful, so I was confused why Apple would pull such an aesthetically pleasing game.

But then I searched the App Store for the game. The description still says "80% off!" from prior endless sales, the art style is pretty bad even for the 2015 copyright date, and the storyline is "I just robbed that bank" and similarly shallow storylines.

This isn't art as people would think of it, this reminds me of a run of the mill flash game from another decade.
by cdrini | 2025-07-15 17:20:13+00:00
I would disagree with that; I want taxes because I get something out of taxes. Taxes are me paying the government for certain services they provide me, like I'm hiring a contractor.

As for surveillance/war, although they have been supported by large chunks of the population in the past, I would say democracy aims to reflect the views of the majority. But it's also not magic, it's a fixed system -- a complicated system, but just a system. You vote for the person/party that best reflects your views. It seems quite a bit more likely to be a reflection of the people than other forms of government where the people tend to have less of a say, but not necessarily of course.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-15 17:20:25+00:00
I've managed to partially short-circuit my allergy to hype by telling myself that if I wait until after something is established, I successfully avoided the downsides of hype (buying into something site-unseen that might not even be that good) and intelligently waited for something to come out and get properly evaluated. Also I'm being unique and independent by getting into things well after everyone else.

This has given me a license to come back and check out beloved works whenever I realize I was just being contrarian and stubborn, which is a delight. Also still lets me say "I knew it!" when super popular things become less than beloved in retrospect.

Plus old stuff is often cheaper. It's often a fun adventure to go "Ok, let's see what all the fuss is about," even if it doesn't become an instant new favorite. Example: Twilight, while I wouldn't call it "good", is very funny and very fun to watch, especially if you get a mixed crowd of people that loved it at the time but recognize it's dumb, people that were allergic at the time but have since watched it and can acknowledge the fun, and new watchers.
by saulpw | 2025-07-15 17:20:38+00:00
Thank you, I feel similarly. We've become gods of computing through global-scale invention, production, supply-chains, and finance, and we're apparently going to use that power to "improve productivity" which in the best case means cheaper apps that make people more money. I've not heard a single actual use-case for the modern AI/LLM that helps us with our actual national and global problems.
by terminalshort | 2025-07-15 17:21:51+00:00
Good question. I have narcolepsy. There is a medication called TAK-861 which is the first drug to actually treat the root cause of the disease. It has passed phase 1 and 2 trials proving it is safe and effective. My doctor is involved in the research has said he wishes he could prescribe it to me now, but it is still in phase 3 trials and will not be approved by the FDA for another 2 years, so he can't give it to me.

I despise nothing more than these bureaucrats. If I want to take the risk on a new medication then that's my choice. If someone else doesn't then that's fine too. I'm not the one telling other people what to do, these worthless busybody bureaucrats are.
by hu3 | 2025-07-15 17:22:23+00:00
Interesting. I have used look behind before without knowing their specifics. AI generated a regex and unit tests passed so I carried on with life.

Searching for a simple explanation of how it works, I found this which also explains negative look behind and look ahead. TIL:

https://www.phptutorial.net/php-tutorial/regex-lookbehind/
by nembal | 2025-07-15 17:22:28+00:00
wham. thanks for sharing anecdotal episodes from OAI's inner mecahnism from an eng perspective. I wonder if OAI wouldn't be married to Azure would the infra be more resilient, require less eng effort to invent things to just run (at scale).

What i haven't seen much is the split between eng and research and how people within the company are thinking about AGI and the future, workforce, etc. Is it the usual SF wonderland or is there an OAI specific value alignment once someone is working there.
by azath92 | 2025-07-15 17:22:46+00:00
We just built https://www.hackernews.coffee/ to rerank your frontpage based on a quick survey of your preference, all local storage based.

In general we're thinking about how you can have a transparent profile that stands in place of an opaque algo, or in this case a dominance of a community by something you're not so into. It allows you to still engage with HN, but through the lense of a profile you have control over.

Ironically it is built with AI, but its pretty straightforward no magic stuff. Keen to hear if it is useful, or could be, we're really early stages exploring where to go with it.
by 0_____0 | 2025-07-15 17:23:03+00:00
I'm expecting a kid in Jan. It was sort of unexpected (earlier than planned by about a year!). I'm gonna be honest I had a really grim talk with my partner about finances... I don't make tech money right now and my partner is not in a high paid field.

You make good points and I'm looking into all those options now. I have friends who are doing basically everything you mentioned between them.

I do think you missed the extra housing cost associated with children though. It seems like many families simply move out of the urban core when it's time to start or grow their family.
by spwa4 | 2025-07-15 17:23:08+00:00
I think the more important point is that at a 2:1 dependency ratio everyone would be expected to take care of half another person, either directly or through payments, and be required do whatever labor is required to do that.

In other words, there is a point, quite likely less dramatic than 2:1 where "allowing" people to be unemployed becomes economically absurd.
by nikolqy | 2025-07-15 17:23:09+00:00
Some of the documents I found also contain prices from all sorts of vendors.

I have a strong reason to believe it’s not inflated, based on posts from their customers on the internet, and the fact that Akamai’s products on Azure and similar indicate similar prices.

To be fair, most of their customers are massive, so I doubt they’re paying that much, especially if they’ve been long-time Akamai customers with multi-year contracts.
by screature2 | 2025-07-15 17:23:13+00:00
Yup, this is an emulator for a book published in the 1980s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Adventure (part of a series of 10, looks like the emulator has 6 of the books already!).

I remember seeing these books in my elementary school library decades ago (pre-PC ubiquity) and wondering what to do with them.
by alexhans | 2025-07-15 17:24:37+00:00
Unless I'm misremembering, aider with Playwright [1] works with local models, so you can scrape the web.

Depending on your hardware you could do something like:

aider --model "ollama_chat/deepseek-r1:14b" --editor-model "ollama_chat/qwen2.5-coder:14b"

[1] - https://aider.chat/docs/install/optional.html#enable-playwri...
by Jugurtha | 2025-07-15 17:24:40+00:00
>Hanging out on the "new" page and upvoting quality non-AI articles is an effective method of resistance.

I hang out in /ask and /asknew for my part.

PS: Hey, Paul... When are you going to close my 2021 issue[0], you already merged the pull request[1] :D

Come on, man!

[0]: https://github.com/paulhoule/gastrodon/issues/10

[1]: https://github.com/paulhoule/gastrodon/pull/11
by rafaelero | 2025-07-15 17:24:42+00:00
Right now, I’m noticing how my colleagues who aren’t very comfortable using LLMs for most of their work are getting sidelined. It's a bit sad seeing them struggle by not keeping pace with everyone else who is using it for ~90% of our tasks. They seem to really care about writing code themselves, but, if they don't pivot, things are probably not going to end well for them.

So is LLM inevitable? Pretty much if you want to remain competitive.
by ookblah | 2025-07-15 17:24:50+00:00
i don't really understand this thought process. all technology has it's advantages and drawbacks and we are currently going through the hype and growing pains process.

you could just as well argue the internet, phones, tv, cars, all adhere to the exact same prisoner's dilemma situation you talk about. you could just as well use AI to rubber duck or ease your mental load than treat it like some rat-race to efficiency.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-15 17:24:53+00:00
I've found a lot of parallels between now and 1910s-1930.

Thru genealogy I see how families and extended families lived together to afford living expenses. MultiFamily housing was common and jobs were within walking distance. The automobile dispersed jobs and families, taking all the above away.

The needs we have now are no longer possible to fill.
by xoxxala | 2025-07-15 17:25:07+00:00
Pricing greatly depends on location. Full-price tickets are $28.99 in New York for non-IMAX or special showing. Los Angeles is $22-24. My local theater in a small Arizona town is $10 full-price and $5 off peak.

We just saw Superman in a Las Vegas IMAX and it was $85 including fees for three tickets. $75 for two seems perfectly reasonable in LA, SF or NY once you include concessions.
by haiku2077 | 2025-07-15 17:25:23+00:00
The computer is a general purpose tool, though. You can play games, edit video and images, and self-host a movie/TV collection with real time transcoding with the same hardware. Many people have powerful PCs for playing games and running professional creative software already.

There's no reason running a model would shorten a machine's lifespan. PSUs, CPUs, motherboards, GPUs and RAM will all be long obsolete before they wear out even under full load. At worst you might have to swap thermal paste/pads a couple of years sooner. (A tube of paste is like, ten bucks.)
Show HN: Recreation of Neuro-sama for a year, alternative of Grok Companion
by ayakaneko | 2025-07-15 17:25:49+00:00
This is the project we've worked for over a year, gaining already over 1300 stars, 200 Discord members, the container of cyber livings, Project AIRI, where you can own your own customized AI companion on mobile devices, desktops, and be able to play Minecraft, Factorio, connects Discord, Telegram, while be able to do normal chat, realtime voice chat, and many other things.

We were working hard for the past month to deliver better Desktop version of our Project AIRI, we decided previously to hold our initial show on HN until next release with many more features. However, yesterday, xAI announced Grok Companion mode, the so called AI companion to have a girl friend / cyber waifu living inside your device backed by xAI's Grok models.

Luckily, we were also working on the new landing and documentation page, the new fresh look isn't like any other AI projects, now the work has done, I think this is quite a opportunity for us to show to everyone.

So this is the post about it.

You may wonder who Neuro-sama is, she is the famous AI VTuber on the internet for the past two years of AI hype, capable of playing Minecraft, Among Us, and chat with stream. I've always enjoyed watching her and her creator Vedal streams and clips.

Last year, between May 2024, and June 2024, I started to re-create what Vedal has done for years. We initiated the organization Moeru AI, and Project AIRI for this specific work. We created so many beloved open source projects when working on this project, including the previous posted xsAI (Vercel AI SDK alternative) on HN, and unspeech for speech providers works like many other LLM providers gateway... feel free to check http://github.com/moeru-ai and http://github.com/proj-airi.

The project wasn't finished yet, we are still finishing it with better UI and user friendly design. Please send us your feedbacks about this project on GitHub https://github.com/moeru-ai/airi/issues.
by lupusreal | 2025-07-15 17:26:02+00:00
The question of whether any individual wants it ultimately won't matter. Now that the technology exists and has found traction, it continuing to exist and have traction until eventually being superseded by something even more useful is inevitable.

The author seems to think that the existence of the technology can be decided by debate to sway people one way or the other, but that's not how it works. Real life doesn't work like a debate club. The people who are saying that the technology is inevitable aren't trying to do a debate persuasion thing to make it inevitable, that's just the way the author wants to see it because that framing makes it negotiable. But there's no negotiating with the course of technological development.
by dmoy | 2025-07-15 17:26:06+00:00
> LLMs literally do explain contracts in natural language. They also allow you to create contracts with just natural language. (With all the same caveats as using LLMs for programming or anything else.)

I can't generalize, but the last time I tried to use an LLM for looking at a legal document (month or two ago), it got a section completely wrong. And then when that was pointed out, it dug in its heels and insisted it was right, even though it was very wrong.

Interestingly there was a typo, which was obvious to any human, and would have been accepted as intended in a court, but the LLM insisted on using a strict interpretation accepting the typo as truth.

It was weird, because it felt like on the one hand the LLM was trained to handle legal documents with a more strict interpretation of what's written, but then couldn't cope with the reality of how a simple typo would be handled in courts or real legal proceedings.

So.... I dunno. LLMs can explain contracts, but they may explain then in a very wrong way, which could lead to bad outcomes if you rely on it.
by IggleSniggle | 2025-07-15 17:26:42+00:00
It generally means that while you live somewhere permanently with no timeline on returning "home," you do not allow yourself to think of your new country as "home."

It comes across as a refusal to immigrate. It means that what you care about is that you are no longer living "at home," rather than caring about assimilating with your new home.

It's like going to a new place and identifying yourself as an "emigrant" instead of an "immigrant."

"Patriation" is about giving away authority so that the other country assumes authority. "Expatriate," then, would be that authority of the old country no longer applies, with no acknowledgement of your new circumstances.

Oh here's a good one; what if you got married, divorced, and married again? You would be an ex-husband or ex-wife, and it would be entirely appropriate for someone to refer to you as such in certain contexts, but it would be really off-putting...especially to your new spouse.

Imagine introducing yourself as an "ex-husband." If you're with a bunch of your ex-wife's old friends and associates, then it might make sense to introduce yourself this way under some circumstances...but usually, even then, it would be far more polite and in better taste to introduce yourself in some other way.

Much better to clarify your former relationship only when it's pertinent, and maybe even then "we lived together for awhile" might be a gentler framing. Otherwise, you are simply drawing attention to your divorce, and to what purpose?
by pjmlp | 2025-07-15 17:27:20+00:00
Modules have already seen the light of day in VC++ and clang.

Anyone using a recent version of Office, is using code that was written with C++20 modules.

It is relatively easy to see how far behind compiler developers are regarding even basic features.

Note that two of the three major surviving compilers are open source projects, and in all three major compilers, the big names have ramped down their contributions, as they rather invest into their own languages, seeing the current versions as good enough for existing codebases.
by StillBored | 2025-07-15 17:28:18+00:00
Because literally the entire rest of the ecosystem is immature demoware. Rather than each vendor buying into opencl+SPIRV and building a robust stack around it, they are all doing their own half baked tech demos hoping to lock up some portion of the market to duplicate nvidia's success, or at least carve out a niche. While nvidia continues to extend and mature their ecosystem. Intel has oneAPI, AMD has ROCM, Arm has ACL/Kleidi/etc, and a pile of other stacks like MLX, Windows ML, whatever. Combined with a confusing mix of pure software plays like pytorch and windows ML.

A lot of people talk about 'tooling' quality and no one hears them. I just spent a couple weeks porting a fairly small library to some fairly common personal hardware and hit all the same problems you see everywhere. Bugs aren't handled gracefully. Instead of returning "you messed up here", the hardware locks up, and power cycling is the only solution. Not a problem when your writing hello world, but trolling through tens of thousands of lines of GPU kernel code to find the error is going to burn engineer time without anything to show for it. Then when its running, spending weeks in an open feedback loop trying to figure out why the GPU utilization metrics are reporting 50% utilization (if your lucky enough to even have them) and the kernel is running at 1/4 the expected performance is again going to burn weeks. All because there isn't a functional profiler.

And the vendors can't even get this stuff working. People rant about the ROCm support list not supporting, well the hardware people actually have. And it is such a mess, that in some cases it actually works but AMD says it doesn't. And of course, the only reason you hear people complaining about AMD is because they are literally the only company that has a hardware ecosystem that in theory spans the same breadth of devices from small embedded systems to giant data center grade products that NVIDIA does. Everyone else wants a slice of the market, but take apple here, they have nothing in the embedded/edge space that isn't a fixed function device (ex a watch, or apple TV), and their GPU's while interesting are nowhere near the level of the datacenter grade stuff, much less even top of the line AIC boards for gamers.

And its all gotten to be such an industry wide pile of trash that people can't even keep track of basic feature capabilities. Like, a huge pile of hardware actually 'supports' openCL, but its buried to the point where actual engineers working on say ROCm are unaware its actually part of the ROCm stack (imagine my surprise!). And its been the same for nvidia, they have at times supported openCL, but the support is like a .dll they install with the GPU driver stack and don't even bother to document that its there. Or tensorflow that seems to have succumbed to the immense gravitational black hole it had become, where just building it on something that wasn't the blessed platform could take days.
by ModernMech | 2025-07-15 17:28:26+00:00
I think this is what the original poster means. The value proposition isn't "As a developer, AI will allow you to unlock powers you didn't have before and make your life easier". They're selling it as "AI can do you job."

We are being sold this idea that AI is able to replace developers, wholesale. But where are the examples? Seemingly, every example proffered is "Here's my personal project that I've been building with AI code assistants". But where are the projects built by AI developers (i.e. not people developers)? If AI was as good as they say, there should be some evidence of AI being able to build projects like this.
by ghc | 2025-07-15 17:28:32+00:00
> You need to train new models to advance the knowledge cutoff

That's a great point, but I think it's less important now with MCP and RAG. If VC money dried up and the bubble burst, we'd still have broadly useful models that wouldn't be obsolete for years. Releasing a new model every year might be a lot cheaper if a company converts GPU opex to capex and accepts a long training time.

> Also the semianalysis estimate is from Feb 2023,

Oh! I missed the date. You're right, that's a lot more expensive. On the other hand, inference has likely gotten a lot cheaper (in terms of GPU TOPS) too. Still, I think there's a profitable business model there if VC funding dries up and most of the model companies collapse.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-15 17:28:55+00:00
You mean, blockchain and everything else?

Oh, sorry, wrong hype cycle.

Currently, for me on the front page, there is 10/30 AI/LLM related. It means you have 20/30 that is not about AI/LLM. 1 of them is blockchain btw.

Typical HN, 1/3 hype, 1/3 less hype tech, 1/3 other. AI is the current hype.
by akdev1l | 2025-07-15 17:29:05+00:00
Tried to use this to create a minimal bootloader and kernel that prints hello world in x86

There was never a point in which it successfully did anything.

1. Tried to use macOS’s toolchain (m2 laptop so this is not going to work to build x86 binary)

2. It tried to fix that and failed multiple times.

3. Eventually I gave up on it trying to fix itself and told it to just use a container with Fedora Linux on it to work around the issue.

4. It created Dockefile for Fedora 39 (current is 42)

3. It still fails to recognize that we are on aarch64 and we need x86 so the container it built was not correct anyway lol

I imagine “minimal bootloader + printing hello” is quite represented in the training set as there’s thousands of projects like this on GitHub.

If it cannot deal with basic things like this, I legitimately don’t get all the comments here praising it