MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aaroninsf | 2025-07-17 20:24:00+00:00
Hype is foremost a word embedded in a framework of specific values and a specific concept cluster. It's a pejorative used by a variety of factions: those who share the values, and concepts, but are in some fashion competitors or allied with competitors, etc.; or, those who have a different set of values.

Most human behavior, especially commercial and economic, is a function of one's own received beliefs—and one's observations about and participation in the beliefs of others.

Whether a given assertion is factual is secondary to whether it alters belief.

Though I suppose even "belief" is too strong a word. Let's say "behavior."

One need to not believe the hype, to seek to extract value from a market.

The question I'd look it is, how are beliefs and behavior shaped by various assertions, and how well do those assertions correspond to various observations and predictions about the nature of reality—including collective behaviors.

The funny thing about ponzy schemes and hysterical markets is that the usual account about how they form and how they collapse, hand waves around the core of the whole question: the source of value.

A good socialist materialist might attempt to link value to utility amid other prosaic and pragmatic qualities,

but our nature as a social species—one motivated in increasing part as we shuffle down the hierarchy of needs by intangibles such as status and its signaling—means that even the concept of utility is just another contentious ambiguity.
by citizenpaul | 2025-07-17 20:24:35+00:00
> lot of contracts required a VP

That is probably really outdated and no longer a thing. I'm guessing based on what I saw. I remember when we bought some small local bank they told us not to tell the customers/merchants/vendors that basically there would no longer be local decisions made since everything goes through the banks underwriter/contract/ect systems. They literally told the local VP's to pretend they were making decisions.

I'm not sure why I was included in this since I was just working on the migration. They probably didn't know or care that I was there is my guess.
Show HN: A browser-based accessibility checker that integrates into web projects
by pomerantsev | 2025-07-17 20:24:57+00:00
There’s no shortage of web accessibility testing tools, however there are currently none that I know of that do all of the following: * provide immediate, up-to-date feedback on issues created by the code that I’m writing; * make that feedback really hard to ignore; * scan the rendered page (as opposed to the source code).

So I built Accented, an open-source tool that satisfies all of the above criteria.

You can read more about what it does and how it’s different from other approaches at https://accented.dev/blog/2025-07-16-introducing-accented/

Here’s also a playground where you can poke around without installing anything: https://stackblitz.com/edit/accented-playground-react-ts?fil...
by vunderba | 2025-07-17 20:25:19+00:00
> You can tell Claude to verify its work

Definitely - with ONE pretty big callout. This only works when a clear and quantifiable rubric for verification can be expressed. Case in point, I put Claude Code to work on a simple react website that needed a "Refresh button" and walked away. When I came back, the button was there, and it had used a combination of MCP playwright + screenshots to roughly verify it was working.

The problem was that it decided to "draw" a circular arrow refresh icon and the arrow at the end of the semicircle was facing towards the circle centroid. Anyone (even a layman) would take one look at it and realize it looked ridiculous, but Claude couldn't tell even when I took the time to manually paste a screenshot asking if it saw any issues.

While it would also be unreasonable to expect a junior engineer to hand-write the coordinates for a refresh icon in SVG - they would never even attempt to do that in the first place realizing it would be far simpler to find one from Lucide, Font Awesome, emojis, etc.
by criddell | 2025-07-17 20:25:31+00:00
I haven't had great luck with Claude writing Windows Win32 (using MFC) in C++. It invents messages and APIs all the time that read like exactly what I want it to do.

I'd think Win32 development would be something AIs are very strong at because it's so old, so well documented, and there's a ton of code out there for it to read. Yet it still struggles with the differences between Windows messages, control notification messages, and command messages.
by empath75 | 2025-07-17 20:25:42+00:00
This is kind of fascinating because I just tried to play mussolini or bread with chatgpt and it is absolutely _awful_ at it, even with reasoning models.

It just assumes that your answers are going to be reasonably bread-like or reasonably mussolini-like, and doesn't think laterally at all.

It just kept asking me about varieties of baked goods.

edit: It did much better after I added some extra explanation -- that it could be anything that it may be very unlike either choice, and not to try and narrow down too quickly
by neilwilson | 2025-07-17 20:25:50+00:00
There’s a big problem with that. The “deficit” is just the liquid financial savings of the private sector.

The correct approach is to require all those people worried about the “Debt” to hand over any liquid savings they have in bank accounts or retirement funds. Since that is what is causing it by accounting identity.

After all if they consider it to be such a problem they should put their money where their mouth is.

Read The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton to understand how the system actually works.

Amusingly a larger deficit means government has more space to spend, not less. People saving means they are not spending which means resources are left underemployed.

Debt to GDP is not a relevant concern in a free floating currency has Japan has demonstrated for decades.
by aydyn | 2025-07-17 20:25:57+00:00
I do have empathy, thats why I can honestly say you are wrong.

HN is largely comprised of people who are disproportionate beneficiaries of modern society, so its not a surprise that people here develop a pathological ideology that goes as far as valuing the trappings of modern society. It is like in Huxley, the purpose of soma and orgy porgies are to keep people from noticing how fucked up their world is. It is fucked up to live inside pods stacked and crammed up to the clouds - so what is the soma?

All the "vibrant" amenities available in the city. But why would you want to work on a laptop in a cafe when you can work on a quad monitor in underwear looking out over your own literal fiefdom? The amenities are substitutes not the real thing. You shouldn't be fooled.
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-17 20:26:03+00:00
> Show me the tiny Android flagship from the past 5 years that didn't sell well. (You can't, because there wasn't one.)

Yeah, because in the 5 years before that, the much MUCH more diverse Smartphone industry tried to make it work for several YEARS and failed.

Of all companies, Sony had the longest stamina, releasing 5 generations of 'compact' flagship devices.

If there would have been a sufficiently sized market for that, they would have continued and grown. In reality their business decreased every year.

Today the Smartphone is dominantly a media-consumption device, the only viable answer to "tiny Android flagship" is now a foldable like the Galaxy Flip.
by titzer | 2025-07-17 20:26:05+00:00
Money has no inherent value; it is just a currency, an indirection, a promise. The economy must always bottom out at a physical good or service. You can keep trading promises of goods and services in various forms, but ultimately you end up with the inescapable tyranny of physical existence that is a closed system, with the one exception that we get energy from the Sun and stored forms of energy on this planet.

No wealth was created by "discovering value" or finding someone with money to buy something that was already there before. If this new person decided to spend $100 on a baseball card, then they didn't spend money on something else, so the market for those other things is naturally going to price them lower. So the $100 came from somewhere[1].

All of these open system chains of thought that assume any "non-zero sum game" either improperly account for devaluation of other goods or they assume accumulation of labor, and typically add a side helping of assumed exponential growth.

[1] Which is not say that money cannot be created from nothing. In fact, it is all the time. Debt--loans, stocks, bonds, IOUs--is money creation.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-17 20:26:41+00:00
This is a confused article.

It says “AI and machine learning skills”

Then it goes on to say:

The biggest use cases for AI in development are automating repetitive tasks (40%), creating layout and pages (34%), and detecting bugs. About a third of leaders believe AI is freeing up developers to spend time on more meaningful work.

So are they saying using LLMs? Which is not “AI and machine learning skills”

Not in a developer context. Doing machine learning is not “freeing up developers to spend time on meaningful work” it is the meaningful work.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-17 20:27:02+00:00
Not really because this might raise the chances of certain cancer in certain people.

Microbially produced imidazole propionate impairs prostate cancer progression through PDZK1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39819421/

You really need to know your genetics to be certain, and make sure you have enough B6.

Meat is very high in histidine so that is why this meat, without enough B6, will raise the risk of heart disease and T2D as well as colon cancer.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 20:27:48+00:00
Economists have no humility.

When the real-world disproves the models of a physicist, the physicist proclaims he has assumed some variables, or maybe the model doesn't apply at all. Newtonian physics, which is very real and constantly "proven" in the real world, doesn't work at a quantum level.

When the real-world disproves the models of an economist, the economist proclaims we must be living in an alternate reality.

How many variables are influencing the US economy right now? Trillions, I'd say, on the low end. Some aren't even measurable - like trust or happiness.

Did this economist track all these variables? Of course not. He assumed a value for 99% of them. He assumed so much he doesn't even know what he assumed.
by WJW | 2025-07-17 20:28:52+00:00
It's a well known template from the internets, mostly popular on other message boards. I don't actually care about insulting you; it's just a meme that fit the situation well. If you get more value than annoyance from twitter, more power to you.

The original post you posted seemed like you were very much annoyed at twitter turning into shit each time, yet you were looking for solution in restarting accounts regularly. I don't think that's the problem: Twitter is just home to a great many shit people and it gets more engagement from exposing the most controversial people to everyone else. Timelines always converge to racism and hatred, no matter who you initially follow. Your desire to follow just indie gamedev talk doesn't matter to Twitter, sadly enough.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-07-17 20:29:06+00:00
That’s my understanding of how modern money laundering works. Can’t move your money out of a particular bank due to regulations? Use it as collateral to loan money to any other entity you wish. Fancy.

I talked to someone recently who claimed to know someone personally with 16,000 metric tons of gold. He claims that there is waaay more gold than is officially on the books. Hard to believe… but maybe not. He claims that there is unbelievable wealth out there—many more hundred-billionaires than official stats hold. Ok. Who knows?
Show HN: 1.5B LLM routing model that aligns to preferences, not leaderboards
by honorable_coder | 2025-07-17 20:29:12+00:00
Hi HN — we're the team behind Arch (an open-source edge and service proxy for agents)[1], and today we're releasing Arch-Router (https://huggingface.co/katanemo/Arch-Router-1.5B), a 1.5B LLM router model designed to align to user-defined preferences, not public benchmarks and leader boards.

As teams integrate multiple LLMs - each with different strengths, styles, or cost/latency profiles — routing the right prompt to the right model becomes a critical part of the application design. But it's still an open problem. Most routing systems fall into two camps:

- Embedding-based routers use intent classifiers — label a prompt as “support,” “SQL,” or “math,” then route to a matching model. This works for simple tasks but breaks down in real conversations. Users shift topics mid-conversation, task boundaries blur, and product changes require retraining classifiers.

- Performance-based routers pick models based on benchmarks like MMLU or MT-Bench, or based on latency or cost curves. But benchmarks often can't capture what matters in production: domain-specific quality or subjective evaluation criteria. These routers are often opaque, difficult to debug, and their quality judgments can feel arbitrary, failing to capture the subjective nuance of what a “good” response actually means for a specific user’s intent.

Arch-Router takes a different approach: route to LLMs based on preferences written as policies in plain ol English.

You write policies like “contract clauses → GPT-4o” or “quick travel tips → Gemini Flash.” The router maps the prompt (and the full conversation context) to those policies using a lightweight 1.5B auto-regressive model. The model is capable to handle intent drift, supports multi-turn conversations, and lets you swap in or out models with a one-line change to the routing policy. To read more about the strength of our model, check out our research paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16655

Essentially, Arch-Router splits the routing process into two distinct parts:

Route Selection: This is the what. The system defines a set of human-readable routing policies using a “Domain-Action Taxonomy.” Think of it as a clear API contract written in plain English. A policy isn’t just intent_123; it’s a descriptive label like Domain: ‘finance’, Action: ‘analyze earnings report’. The router’s only job is to match the user’s query to the best-fit policy description. Model Assignment: This is the how. A separate, simple mapping configuration connects each policy to a specific LLM. The finance/"analyze earnings report" policy might map to a powerful model like GPT-4o, while a simpler general/"greeting" policy maps to a faster, cheaper model.

Specs:

- 1.5B params — runs on a single GPU (or CPU for testing)

- No retraining needed — point it at any mix of LLMs

- Outperforms larger closed models on our conversational routing benchmarks (details in the paper)

Links:

[1] Arch Proxy: https://github.com/katanemo/archgw
by divan | 2025-07-17 20:29:17+00:00
And I'm still waiting for the simple feature – the ability to edit documents in projects.

I use projects for working on different documents - articles, research, scripts, etc. And would absolutely love to write it paragraph after paragraph with the help of ChatGPT for phrasing and using the project knowledge. Or using voice mode - i.e. on a walk "Hey, where did we finish that document - let's continue. Read the last two paragraphs to me... Okay, I want to elaborate on ...".

I feel like AI agents for coding are advancing at a breakneck speed, but assistance in writing is still limited to copy-pasting.
by frizlab | 2025-07-17 20:29:25+00:00
I was so disappointed a few days ago.

CHIPS is exactly what I need for my project. Safari introduced support for CHIPS in 18.4! And then removed it in 18.5… with no visibility on when they’ll add it back (they have the intention to, apparently, but they have a bug in a private framework that prevent them from doing it).

Now I have to find another solution and it is so annoying to know the proper solution exists and I have to fallback to a less elegant solution because of third-party problems.
by legitster | 2025-07-17 20:29:27+00:00
> their growth is tied directly to work that the humans in the company do

They're linked but it's not 1:1. The whole point of a corporation and a value-add economy is to do a force multiplier on the cost of labor. It doesn't matter how hard you work when digging with a shovel, a lazy guy with an excavator will create value faster than you can.

The guy providing the excavator is currently keeping the lion's share of the productivity gains, and that's not good. But it's also not quite the same as saying all of the wealth comes from exploitation.
by Clamchop | 2025-07-17 20:29:33+00:00
Perfumery is much maligned and misunderstood. It is, ultimately, an art form, a kind of human expression like music or painting, that is rarely appreciated as such. Many would happily see it banned, knowing nothing about it other than that some people wear too much. That'd be like banning music because your neighbor's TV is too loud.

Lucky Scent (mentioned in this article) has a boutique in LA. If you're nearby, you can go in and sample to your heart's content. Perfume boutiques are unfortunately rare but most large cities will have something and they're accessible and inviting in my experience. There really is a _lot_ more out there than what a Sephora or Macy's will ever show you.

Nice article. He correctly notes that vocabulary for describing odors is limited for most so reviews and descriptions trend quite "purple" and abstract. There is a vocabulary, though, but it'd take some time spent with some books and a perfume organ to make progress on that front.
by tekawade | 2025-07-17 20:29:49+00:00
There are many suggestions already let me through in one more: Affine : https://affine.pro/

You can self host too if you like. Not all features as Notion but comes very close. Seems more private too compared to Notion.

I am also looking for more private and secure Notion alternatives. My company doesn’t allow using Notion.

I like templates, tasks, scrum etc. which I use for personal use. But I am reluctant on saving any personal information in it.
by thesuitonym | 2025-07-17 20:29:49+00:00
Most of the time I agree with you, and prefer downranking, but I have to take issue with your example of Pinterest, because my experience with Pinterest is that if I'm searching for a specific image, I will always get a thumbnail of exactly what I want from Pinterest, but when I click on it, I'm taken to a page of completely unrelated results. It is beyond frustrating, and specifically blocking Pinterest was one of the primary features that sold me on Kagi.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-17 20:30:01+00:00
I follow the same logic you do, even though I disagree with what you are saying.

Lifestyle choices increase the risk of these diseases but if they caused the disease, everyone who ate the diet would get the disease, and we know that is not true.

The difference is crucial because we know genetics plays a role as well so matching diet and genetics would be useful.
by testfrequency | 2025-07-17 20:30:30+00:00
So you have a positive opinion when Apple does things after others, but Europe having a slower, cautious approach is treated as negative for you?

What is your preference for Europe, complete floodgates open and never ending lawsuits over IP theft like we have in the USA currently over AI?

The US is not the example of what’s working, it’s merely a demonstration of what is possible when you have limited, provoked regulation.
by aaroninsf | 2025-07-17 20:30:41+00:00
A somewhat cynical but not that I can see incorrect inference from this might be that the critical thing to look at in any market is primarily, to what degree is it a matter of "fashion"; and what are the contributions of current and anticipated social capital concentrations on whether something stays in fashion.

Nearby is the concept of novelty: fashion in the clothes sense obviously chases a convoluted but ultimately cyclical path through relatively limited spaces.

Many of us who have been on HN or in the industry prior to its inception have seen the pendulum swing in technology fashions as well—a regular example being the architectural decisions made in front-end frameworks.

The fiction of classical philosophy of science was that it was additive, and that information was well preserved over time, and hence the entire process of scientific progress one of, well, progress.

The equivalent fiction here might be that there is some obvious way in which the over-hyped and the real, usually, are determined not by intrinsic merit but rather through the tidal swinging of fashion.

Usually. Every once in a while actual progress is made, thank god.

ML and AI are obviously one of those cases.

The noise of the industry churn and frenzy don't obscure that much, at all.
by RichardCA | 2025-07-17 20:30:48+00:00
I went through the same process as a former Pixel 5 user.

Ended up with Galaxy S25 which weighs around 165g.

I pretty much hate Samsung for the One UI interface taking away the stock Android experience. If I could turn it all off I'd do it in a heartbeat.

But I put up with it because there is no other Android phone in 2025 that meets all the checkboxes (less than ~180g, supports all the current LTE and 5G comms, supported by the vendor).
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-17 20:33:04+00:00
>I feel like AI agents for coding are advancing at a breakneck speed, but assistance in writing is still limited to copy-pasting.

Man I was talking about this with a colleague 30min ago. Half the time i can't be bothered to open chat gpt and do the copy/paste dance. I know that sounds ridiculous but roundtripping gets old and breaks my flow. Working in NLE's with plug-in's, VTT's, etc. has spoiled me.
by blibble | 2025-07-17 20:33:13+00:00
that $2k won't last long as you will never maintain a margin on a service like that

employee salaries are high because your competitors can't spawn 50000 into existence by pushing a button

competition in the industry will destroy its own margins, and then its own customer base very quickly

soon after followed by the economies of the countries they're present in

the whole thing is a capitalism self destruct button, for entire economies
by WalterBright | 2025-07-17 20:34:31+00:00
The US government has confiscated value from T Bills before.

The government used to sell two bond types - dollar bonds that paid off in dollars, and gold bonds that paid off in gold. The gold bonds were safer and hence paid a lower interest rate.

Enter FDR. FDR decided to pay off the gold bond holders in dollars, not gold, and since the value of gold vs dollars had diverged substantially, FDR confiscated the difference.

That was the end of the phrase "sound as a dollar". Gee, I wonder why nobody says that anymore!

The largest risk of TBills is that inflation will shrink their value, and with catastrophic deficits that is a very, very real risk. That's why I don't invest in bonds or any investment that is denoted in dollars.