MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ticulatedspline | 2025-07-01 16:19:45+00:00
Hallucinations are just lies one believes, and there's definitely overlap between creativity and lying but hallucinations tend to not have the conscious component of lying.

categorizing the difference with AI it's much the same as with a person, context. if you ask a person what's the capitol of Florida and they tell you "Pink Elephant, and the capitol building is a literal giant pink elephant with an escalator up it's trunk", my how creative, but it's a lie. But you press them and it seems they genuinely believe it and swear up and down they saw it in a book. Now it's a hallucination, though is it creative if they believe they're just regurgitating the contents of a book? technically yes but the creativity is subconscious.

Now if you asked the same person to make up a fictitious capitol to a fake state and got that answer you'd say it was creative, and not a lie or a hallucination since the context was fiction to begin with even if the source of that creative thought comes from the same place in both instances. If there's no objectively correct answer and not a copy of an exiting known then it's "creativity".

The biggest difference is hallucinations are rare in humans, above we'd probably assume the person was being flippant, or didn't know and was a pathological liar (and not a very good one). We don't associate those motives or capacity to AI though, the AI genuinely seems to think that's right, that the response is coming honestly, thus we categorize all factual errors as hallucinations.
by dcow | 2025-07-01 16:20:05+00:00
You don’t need a shopping cart either. Just make the user write down the skus from your online catalog and send you a purchase order. Products exist on spectrum and the ones that win are typically easier and more convenient to use. If your business is developing the best product it can, it absolutely needs the ability to be convenient and useful.

Adding a language select option on a multinational site seems pretty table stakes in my experience. Plenty often the user does not wish to use the same language as their system/browser. Switching your system’s default language just for one site is a huge hassle.

Re crash reporting: I’m talking about tools like Sentry. I have never once worked on a product of any scale that didn’t need to collect diagnostic reports from the field in order to address code level errors that happen as users are using the product. In house or 3rd party it doesn't matter, and client state has always been involved. A product that doesn’t function is broken. It needs to be fixed.

There is no privacy concession in any of these cases. The EPD simply over-regulates cookies.

I mean maybe we should just reimplement all this crap using indexdb. That’s not a cookie, legally.

The EPD fights symptoms not causes and the internet is worse for it.
by cryptonector | 2025-07-01 16:20:18+00:00
IMO there should be attributes for declaring allocators. Or builtin functions that have the effect of marking their callers with such attributes (e.g., an `__allocated()` function to say a pointer is indeed now to be considered a pointer to a new storage allocation, with a given size and optional type, and a `__freed()` function to say that a pointer is indeed now to be considered a dangling pointer to a deallocated object.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-01 16:20:28+00:00
> I thought Turing's Test would be a good barometer of AI

Depends on what you consider a "Turing's Test".

Fooling unsuspecting humans is relatively easy, it has been done with relatively simple software and some trickery. LLMs can do that too of course.

A more convincing "Turing's Test" would be:

- You have one interrogator, and two players, one human and one computer

- The interrogator, after chatting with both players has to find which is which

- The interrogator is an expert in the field, he knows everything there is to know when it comes to finding the computer

- The human player is also an expert, he knows how to solve problems that are hard for computers to solve, he also knows what to expect from the interrogator

- The interrogator and human player collaborate to find the computer

- The interrogator and human player are not allowed to have shared information that the computer doesn't have (and ideally, they shouldn't know each other personally), but everything else is fair game
by jugglinmike | 2025-07-01 16:20:43+00:00
Great catch. I was getting ready to mention the theoretical risk of asking an LLM be your arbiter of truth; it didn't even occur to me to check the chosen example for correctness. In a way, this blog post is a useful illustration not just of the hazards of LLMs, but also of our collective tendency to eschew verity for novelty.
by spacemadness | 2025-07-01 16:20:52+00:00
When it works for unit tests I love it. Every once in a while it’d just work and save me time. Unfortunately a vast majority of the time I could never let it just write them and not rework them because I’ve never seen an LLM know how to write code review ready code. It takes weird short cuts and sidesteps more efficient and readable ways of doing things. And a lot of the time it was just simply wrong in its approach and I’d find myself arguing with it so much that it made more sense to write the test myself. This was on iOS and using Swift which I think most LLMs generally suck at for whatever reason, probably due to all the bad and old advice on the internet as Swift continues to change.
by doublewale | 2025-07-01 16:21:11+00:00
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by eldaisfish | 2025-07-01 16:21:21+00:00
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by belorn | 2025-07-01 16:21:27+00:00
> It makes no sense that any other large animal with similar characteristics as a large pitbull would have been disallowed, but because a pitbull falls under dog, it is allowed.

I will just point toward horses, which are dangerous animals, significant more dangerous than any wild animals we allow near civilization, and which no human has any ability to fully control. They weight somewhere around a car, has high risk of going out of control if spooked, and there very little anyone can do once that amount of mass is moving.

Mounted police, cart and horse ride (often on busy tourist streets), or just places that has horse rides directed toward children. We would not treat other large and dangerous animals with similar characteristics to be used as we do with horses.
by citizenpaul | 2025-07-01 16:21:44+00:00
>particularly heard anyone regard civil engineers as "low quality workers"

You still haven't. I never specified such a thing. Nice straw-man though.

On a side note I wasn't even thinking about this but I actually personally know two civil engineers(or did). One is a gambling addict. The other moved to a different state because he researched that they had more prostitutes there. I promise you the public welfare is low on their list of concerns.

I do care. However when the government is involved care is often manipulated(think of the children) into giving unquestioned authority against people's best interest because its for their own good after all....
by josefresco | 2025-07-01 16:22:04+00:00
Related: (the guy they hired used this "trick" to grow his polling app tbh)

We eventually identified a psychological trick:

1. Set the app’s Instagram profile to Private.

2. Set the bio to something mysterious, e.g., “You’ve been invited to the new RHS app—stay tuned!”

3. Follow the targeted users.

4. Wait 24 hours to receive the inbound Follow Requests. (They were curious about our profile so they requested access)

5. At 4:00PM when school gets out (The Golden Launch HouseTM), add the App Store URL to the profile.

6. Finally, make the profile Public

Supposedly this loophole/exploit(?) has been closed.
by juancferrer | 2025-07-01 16:22:37+00:00
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by dfxm12 | 2025-07-01 16:22:46+00:00
This is giving me flashbacks to stories about Facebook moderators: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382

TikTok content moderators in Turkey are speaking out about traumatic working conditions, including exposure to graphic content

This is one of the reasons I wish all social media apps had an option to hide media by default. It would also have the benefit to limit data consumption. I understand that might be hard for TikTok, but maybe it can have user settings that empower the user to limit autoplaying only items from friends or friends of friends. This will probably expose fewer posts overall to the mods as well. User friendly settings like this probably hurt TikTok's bottom line. On the other hand, maybe apps that are hostile to both the user and the worker aren't necessary.
Show HN: Aegis AI – Adaptive screen-time coach that blocks distractions
by chriseh | 2025-07-01 16:22:47+00:00
Built Aegis AI (on IOS) after losing hours each day to doom-scrolling, its a real problem especially for this generation - 99% of the time, main productivity gains can be won by limiting phone use.

- Data 100 % stored on device. Swift + OpenAI API for usage analysis (with smart prompting), report data stored privately on device. Firebase backend for authentication no personal data saved.

• Generates adaptive blocking plans for critical applications (blocks them and reviews weekly), serves as a mobile productivity coach, deep analytics, advanced blocking modes that allow for timed deep-focus sprints. Think “Whoop” but for your social media addiction.

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Looking for blunt feedback on:

1. Does the adaptive algorithm feel smarter than fixed limits, do you see value in being served the solution to your specific usage v.s traditional apps just giving you blocking functionality?

2. Is the weekly review enough, how else would you think of integrating AI to help for this use case. What other features do you consider essential?

3. Should pricing stay subscription, move to one-time or freemium (for flywheel effect)?

Happy to share more info on request.
by joonjavel25 | 2025-07-01 16:23:18+00:00
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by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-01 16:23:21+00:00
> Any discussion about AGI requires a written definition of the term to have a reasonable discussion.

I agree, this is the hardest thing to pin in any discussion. What version of AGI are we even talking about?

Here's a definition / explanation of AGI from the early days of DeepMind (from the movie "The thinking game"):

Quote from Shane Legg: "Our mission was to build an AGI - an artificial general intelligence, and so that means that we need a system which is general - it doesn't learn to do one specific thing. That's really key part of human intelligence, learn to do many many things".

Quote from Hassabis: "So, what is our mission? We summarise it as <Build the world's first general learning machine>. So we always stress the word general and learning here the key things."

And the key slide (that I think cements the difference between what AGI stood for then, vs. now):

AI - one task vs. AGI - many tasks

at human level intelligence.

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Now, if we go by this definition, which is pretty specific and clear, I think we've already achieved this. We already have systems that have "generally" learned stuff. And can do "many tasks" at "human level intelligence". Again, notice the emphasis on "general" and "learning". We have a learning machine, that takes in vast amounts of tokens (text, multimodal, even bytes at the end of the day) and "learns" to "do" many things. And notice it's many tasks, not all tasks. I think this is QED at this point.

But, due to the old problem of "AI is everything that hasn't been done yet", and the constant goalpost moving, together with lots and lots of writing on this topic, the waters are muddier today, and lots of people argue and emphasise different things in the AGI field.

> Fortunately there is a lot of practical utility without AGI

Yeah, completely agree. I'm with Simon's recent article on this one. It doesn't even matter at this point if we reach AGI or not, or who's definition we use. I get a lot of value today from these systems. The debates are moot from my point.
by bbartlomiej | 2025-07-01 16:23:25+00:00
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by joseda-hg | 2025-07-01 16:24:00+00:00
Not all creators enable it (Or take the time / know to disable it, as some report it enables automatically), but it's more common on say Mr Beast or Kurzgezagt, Larger channels that would keep an eye on click troughs

As a point of anecdata, I go out of my way to avoid these, and report them any time I come across them, and now there's been a while I've not gotten them on content I want (But I do get them on some of the default feed YouTube places on home, even if I never interact with them)
by jborden13 | 2025-07-01 16:24:03+00:00
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by lern_too_spel | 2025-07-01 16:24:17+00:00
> if Apple finds it harder and harder to monetize the App Store through fees, then THEY might eventually decide to switch to privacy violating advertising as their revenue strategy.

They already do this right now anyway, with App Store ads. Apple doesn't care about privacy. It cares about money, and it makes money any way it can. Unlike pretty much every other phone or tablet, iOS devices don't let you install apps without telling Apple. That privacy violation exists because it makes Apple money.
by ze7111 | 2025-07-01 16:24:17+00:00
Hey, I'm one of the dev's; I do definitely agree with you, while bootstrapping isn't always the best idea and it does take forever, we are doing it for a really simple reason, the project was initially a passion project by me, and then A few friends wanted to jump-in as well and make it a fully fledged thing, so we thought it would be a good idea for me to get the bootstrap compiler completed before moving on to the main compiler, So my bootstrap compiler right now works, its not the best tho riddled with bugs and problems; but its enough to write a compiler with. As to the taper off, We all are working summer internships right now, so the development is definitely slowed down a little, but, we are working on it, albeit slowly for the time-being, but the bootstrap endeavor, isn't causing a stop but rather a slow down also paired with the summer internship, it will pick up back to speed once college starts in Fall...

Our timeline for a early working alpha with the bootstrap is Q1 2026 (or Q2) but no later.

P.S A reason why only I mainly wrote the initial compiler, and also we decided to make a new compiler is since this was a passion project, the code wasn't maintainable AT ALL, I didn't plan on anyone else working on it, the code is really bug prone C++, a lot of lines of code that make 0 sense, and no structure in the codebase. The new compiler however, we are properly structuring it, documenting it, following code guidelines, and working on it as a team as opposed to 1 man writing all the code and the rest of the team only stating ideas.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-01 16:24:24+00:00
This guy wants Trump to sign an executive order to take back land that has already been given to the city, and then hand it over to him, so that he can build this... whatever it is? Get outta here.

1. I question whether Trump has the legitimate authority to do this, even if he declares a national emergency (as the proposal requests). So it would be tied up in court for an extended period... unless the city doesn't fight it.

2. The city will fight it, unless they think it's going to work, thereby bringing in large numbers of jobs and lots of tax revenue. They might fight it anyway, just because having the Federal government take city land is a really bad precedent.

3. This guy (James Ingallinera, but from all I see he's just some guy) has no particular experience at making something like this actually work. He's just some random guy. Does anybody have any confidence that anything will actually come of this, even if Trump bought it?

4. What does this say about where we are as a country, that we have random people asking the president to take 500 acres from someone else by executive order, and to give it to them? That has way too much of a "random peasants petitioning the king for favor" vibe for my bred-in-a-democracy taste.
Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned
by Manik_agg | 2025-07-01 16:24:24+00:00
I keep running in the same problem of each AI app “remembers” me in its own silo. ChatGPT knows my project details, Cursor forgets them, Claude starts from zero… so I end up re-explaining myself dozens of times a day across these apps.

The deeper problem

1. Not portable – context is vendor-locked; nothing travels across tools.

2. Not relational – most memory systems store only the latest fact (“sticky notes”) with no history or provenance.

3. Not yours – your AI memory is sensitive first-party data, yet you have no control over where it lives or how it’s queried.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/iANZ32dnK60

Repo: https://github.com/RedPlanetHQ/core

What we built

- CORE (Context Oriented Relational Engine): An open source, shareable knowledge graph (your memory vault) that lets any LLM (ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude, SOL, etc.) share and query the same persistent context.

- Temporal + relational: Every fact gets a full version history (who, when, why), and nothing is wiped out when you change it—just timestamped and retired.

- Local-first or hosted: Run it offline in Docker, or use our hosted instance. You choose which memories sync and which stay private.

Try it

- Hosted free tier (HN launch): https://core.heysol.ai

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