MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jlebar | 2025-07-01 21:06:25+00:00
I think that leaks like this have negative information value to the public.

I work at OAI, but I'm speaking for myself here. Sam talks to the company, sometimes via slack, more often in company-wide meetings, all the time. Way more than any other CEO I have worked for. This leaked message is one part of a long, continuing conversation within the company.

The vast majority of what he and others say doesn't get leaked. So you're eavesdropping on a tiny portion of a conversation. It's impossible not to take it out of context.

What's worse, you think you learned something from reading this article, even though you probably didn't, making you more confident in your conclusions when you should be less confident.

I hope everyone here gets to have the experience of seeing HN discuss something that you're an expert in. It's eye-opening to see how confidently wrong most poasters are. It certainly has humbled my own reactions to news. (In this particular instance I don't think there's so much right and wrong but more that I think if you had actually been in the room for more of the conversation you'd probably feel different.)

Btw Sam has tweeted about an open source model. Stay tuned... https://x.com/sama/status/1932573231199707168
by drtgh | 2025-07-01 21:07:34+00:00
> We have found wild beehives, including abandoned beehives, which are fairly mite resistant.

It seems that some Apis Cerana (Japonica?) are fairly mite-resistant; they bite and kill the mites (except for those within the drone cells, as far as I read). This, could be combined also with rising the hive temperature along two hours to temperatures able to kill the mites, included the ones within the cells.

PS: I have only read a little about the matter.
by codingdave | 2025-07-01 21:07:42+00:00
> I would be wary of agreements with Microsoft.

I'm unclear what part of their agreement with you was broken. Did they promise future credits, or the continuation of the program? You already said that you retained access to all credits that were approved. It sounds like you built a plan based on a possibility, not a legal contract, but if that isn't a fair take on it, please do elaborate.
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-01 21:07:50+00:00
Honest answer*:

I think building super intelligence for the company that owns and will deploy the super intelligence in service of tech's original sin (the algorithmic feed) is a 100x worse than whatever OpenAI is doing, save maybe OpenAI's defense contract, which I have no details about.

Meta will try to buoy this by open-sourcing it, which, good for them, but I don't think it's enough. If Meta wants to save itself, it should re-align its business model away from the feeds.

In that way, as a missionary chasing super intelligence, I'd prefer OpenAI.

*because I don't have an emotional connection to OpenAI's changing corporate structure away from being a non-profit:
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-01 21:08:14+00:00
...I actually think you're being too nice. The exhibit implies that this is how big a cube of a million dollars would be. You can use it to get a sense of how much a million is.

If it's 50% too big, that's a serious mistake! They should, like, take down the exhibit until it's fixed. You can't just make one of the bars on a graph taller because it looks more impressive, or your pen slipped, or whatever else. This thing is inaccurate and they should fix it.
by j2kun | 2025-07-01 21:08:27+00:00
> Graph Theory isn't just a topic that is restricted to being "theory". There are several real-life applications of it. One of those just happens to be video games. In this talk, I go over a brief overview of several concepts where Graph Theory is applied.

There are many places where graph theory is used in real applications, but the topics in this article appear to be hypothetical applications, rather than techniques that video game designers have actually used in their games. At least, the author provides no evidence that they are used and many are explicitly described as things the author thinks people should use.

That doesn't make the ideas less cool (and bravo to the author for writing about them), just that the title/intro is misleading.
by vmsp | 2025-07-01 21:08:46+00:00
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by akho | 2025-07-01 21:09:27+00:00
Immich does it on the server.

What happens if there’s a new, better model? You’d need to re-download, decrypt, and run inference on all your past media, which is in terabytes for many.

I understand the benefit of e2ee in a situation where there is no trust between user and admin. In personal self-hosting, that’s the same person (or family), and the upsides are not as relevant. The downsides (possibility of data loss for, e. g., kids who are not very good with passwords/keys; difficulties with updating models / thumbs; …) remain important, and outweigh the benefits, even assuming the e2ee is implemented well.
by btown | 2025-07-01 21:10:11+00:00
They don't link to the Form S-1 prospectus from their announcement, but it's publicly available at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579878/000162828025...

Their highlighted metrics page: $821M LTM revenue, 46% YoY revenue growth, 18% non-GAAP operating margin, 91% gross margin.

It's an incredible success story, and the engineering they did upfront (primarily led by co-founder Evan Wallace) that set the stage for their success is the stuff of legends. https://madebyevan.com/figma/ has links to numerous blog posts breaking it down, but here are some choice quotes:

> [Evan] developed the hybrid C++/JavaScript architecture for Figma's editor that made it possible to build a best-in-class design tool in the browser. The document representation and canvas area is in C++ while the UI around the canvas is in JavaScript (the team eventually settled on TypeScript + React for this). This let us heavily optimize the document representation to reduce memory usage and improve editing speed while still using modern UI technologies for fast iteration on our UI. C++ development was done using Xcode (not in the browser) to provide a better debugging environment.

> Even though the contents of Figma documents are similar to what HTML can display, Figma actually does all of its own document rendering for cross-browser consistency and performance. Figma uses WebGL for rendering which bypasses most of the browser's HTML rendering pipeline and lets the app work closely with the graphics card. The rendering engine handles curve rendering, images, blurs, masking, blending, and opacity groups, and optimizes for high visual fidelity.

> [Evan] developed Figma's multiplayer syncing protocol, worked on the initial version of the multiplayer live collaboration service (a kind of specialized real-time database), and added multiplayer syncing support to Figma's existing editing application. The initial version was written in TypeScript but [he] later ported it to Rust for improved performance and stability.

It's a great reminder that it's not premature optimization if your UI's fluidity is your distinctive feature and your calling card! And the business acumen to turn this into such a wildly successful product in the context of competitors with kitchen-sink feature lists can't be understated, either. I have an incredible amount of respect for this team, and they should inspire all of us to tackle ambitious projects.
by HatchedLake721 | 2025-07-01 21:12:08+00:00
> The lower price is intended to attract customers

Lower prices attract customers you don’t necessarily want to deal with, e.g. https://blog.readme.com/getting-rid-of-our-cheapest-plan-a-m...

I agree with the commenter above, you’re too cheap, which signals that you have a disconnect with the value you provide, especially since you’ll have no recurring revenue.

I assume moving Stripe accounts is extremely business critical, and people will want to speak, understand and be hand-held by experienced professionals during this time.

Anyone who would consider paying $299 but not $1,500 to move their Stripe accounts is not the customer you want to deal with.

I was you until one of our customers asked to increase their invoice from $3k to $4k, saying “You've been instrumental to my sleep this week”. (this was data migration between two finance systems)

I think you’re hugely underestimating the value you offer.
by viccis | 2025-07-01 21:12:14+00:00
This is correct. It's really more of a mindset than anything. You take a guess at how much something will cost based on a quick calculation (good cloud providers make this easy, some cough Databricks cough just use a black box and bill you whatever they feel like) and then once you test it at a small scale, you verify that it's as expected and continue to monitor.
by metriccaution | 2025-07-01 21:12:27+00:00
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by felphos | 2025-07-01 21:12:33+00:00
Thanks for the advice. Yes, building a reputation is the hardest challenge when you have a once-off kind of product. Hopefully the low price can attract leads and we can start from there, although I understand that it can also backfire and make it look low quality and untrustworthy but we need to start somewhere. Our tool tries to explain each step in detail and also links to the specific Stripe documentation to help the user understand the process to build trust. The subscription transfer is done as a trial, following Stripe's recommendation.
by beoberha | 2025-07-01 21:13:06+00:00
I understand the massive anti-OpenAI sentiment here, but OpenAI makes a really great product. ChatGPT and its ecosystem are widely used by millions every day to make them more productive. Losing these employees doesn’t bode well for users.

Meta doesn’t really have a product unless you count the awful “Meta AI” that is baked into their apps. Unless these acquisitions manifest in frontier models getting open sourced, it feels like a gigantic brain drain.
by nxobject | 2025-07-01 21:13:17+00:00
One detail that I'd be interested to see are startup times for the MicroPython environment. Having compiled both Lua and Duktape (an embedded friendly ES7 runtime) for a Macintosh Classic, morally a Plus, I regularly got startup times of up to a minute - I think most of it due to the sheer size of the resulting binaries and standard libraries.
by Scaevolus | 2025-07-01 21:14:14+00:00
SQLite can be built with the R*tree module, which supports efficiently looking up all bounding boxes that contain a point: https://www.sqlite.org/rtree.html

PostGIS similarly provides an R*Tree index mode, as well as a heap of functions for doing GIS calculations directly. To do that in SQLite, you'd implement and inject custom functions as appropriate.
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by echelon | 2025-07-01 21:14:44+00:00
Most of Meta's models have not been released as open source. Llama was a fluke, and it helps to commoditize your compliment when you're not the market leader.

There is no good or open AI company of scale yet, and there may never be.

A few that contribute to the commons are Deep Seek and Black Forest Labs. But they don't have the same breadth and budget as the hyperscalers.
by merl1n | 2025-07-01 21:15:23+00:00
Hey HN, nextbike.lol is an exploratory project that scrapes and visualizes data from the biggest European rental bike provider, Nextbike.

Right now, it is capable of collecting all bike positions over time and their corresponding places and cities. It also collects the zones in which bikes can be parked.

When clicking on a bike, you can see how it has moved across the map over time and which stations it was left at.
by ashdksnndck | 2025-07-01 21:15:55+00:00
> I disagree, bundling is the problem. That strategy created the fragmented landscape that we now see in streaming video, which is pretty much universally hated.

> The ideal solution would involve a flat rate which I pay monthly, and at the end of the month that money goes towards the content that I consumed during that month. If I only read a single blog, they get all of it.

You just described bundling - that’s how YouTube Premium works. I’m not sure what the distinction you are drawing is here. Is it the existence of multiple separate bundling services? If so, I agree that creates friction, but the solution is more bundling, ie. everything should be in the same bundle.

Btw I don’t hate the fragmentation of streaming that much. The value proposition for TV/movie consumption is the best it’s ever been. For what it used to cost to buy a single season of a TV show on DVD, I now get access to watch hundreds of shows on-demand. It would be even better if all the streaming services merged together, but antitrust law will probably prevent that.

I think what most people hate more is when the specific thing they want isn’t in the bundle - ie. paying $4 to watch one movie.
by sparacha | 2025-07-01 21:15:55+00:00
Can you share more about your evaluation setup? I would love to see the specific usage pattern as we have tested our model against smaller LLMs and foundational models and our results show things differently. Of course, routing policies should follow best practices here: https://docs.archgw.com/guides/llm_router.html

Nonetheless, super curious to learn more and see what we may be able to improve. This is technically not a classifier model - its a usage prediction model (feels like a classifier, but not quite in terms of intended usage)
by int_19h | 2025-07-01 21:16:21+00:00
Not that conservatives were ever trans-friendly, but their current agitated fascination with the subject in US is mostly because Dems invited it by publicly supporting some related policies (sports etc) that don't poll well, to put it mildly. It's easy pickings, so of course they go there.

It doesn't neatly map to left/right politics globally, though. E.g. Sweden massively scaled back access to puberty blockers under social democrats.
by gist | 2025-07-01 21:16:30+00:00
> I think that leaks like this have negative information value to the public.

To most people I'd think this is mainly for entertainment purposes ie 'palace intrique' and the actual facts don't even matter.

> The vast majority of what he and others say doesn't get leaked. So you're eavesdropping on a tiny portion of a conversation. It's impossible not to take it out of context.

That's a good spin but coming from someone who has an anonymous profile how do we know it's true (this is a general thing on HN people say things but you don't know how legit what they say is or if they are who they say they are).

> What's worse, you think you learned something from reading this article, even though you probably didn't, making you more confident in your conclusions when you should be less confident.

What conclusions exactly? Again do most people really care about this (reading the story) and does it impact them? My guess is it doesn't at all.

> I hope everyone here gets to have the experience of seeing HN discuss something that you're an expert in.

This is a well known trope and is discussed in other forms ie 'NY Times story is wrong move to the next story and you believe it' ie: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
by ogoffart | 2025-07-01 21:17:27+00:00
For Slint [https://slint.dev], a (native) GUI Toolkit, I've also developed a LSP server that do live preview and editing. You can try it online at https://slintpad.com : if you click on the toolbar button to enable the right panel, you can edit the properties from the UI, and this is all done through the LSP and can be integrated in any editor that supports it.
by darth_avocado | 2025-07-01 21:17:39+00:00
> This includes playgrounds, restaurants, grocery stores, etc

Dogs are most definitely not allowed in playgrounds, restaurants (unless it’s for an outdoor seating) and grocery stores.

Everything else you described is mostly you expressing your discomfort around large dogs, stemming for your parental instincts to protect your child. Which is by definition an emotional response.

> Just like you evaluate the type of people you're around

Btw there are two types of evaluations. One is situational awareness and the other is stereotyping. Looking at a large dog that’s minding its own business but complaining about it because it’s a pitbull and COULD be dangerous, fits the second type.
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by otsaloma | 2025-07-01 21:18:22+00:00
I used to hate matplotlib because of its awful API and awful API documentation. These days I just ask an LLM "add thousand separators on the y-axis", "add a vertical line ar zero" etc. and now I never need to look at the API documentation and it feels somewhat tolerable.

LLMs feel to me a nice fit here because there's just so much users might want to do with the chart styling. Past approaches that I've seen offer some kind of "quick selections" of common stuff and while they can help you get started, they quickly become annoying when you need to add some final tweaks not covered by the tool/API/whatever.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-01 21:18:54+00:00
> If any of the required subtasks fail, you don’t do the side effects. You ROLLBACK.

I'm afraid I am still not seeing the advantage here: the subtasks that can fail are IO almost exclusively. If the email is already sent when the DB update fails, that email can't be recalled.

Other than hash/signature verification, just what sort of subtasks did you have in mind that can fail and aren't IO?
by viccis | 2025-07-01 21:20:04+00:00
>costs are hidden from engineering

Yeah one of my big pet peeves was when engineering teams build platforms to run things on that obscure the cost. There have been times where they said "hey we made this big platform for analytics, just ship your stuff as configuration changes and it's deployed!" Then when I did it with very simple small cases, some unoptimized stuff on their end (a lot of what I talked about before) resulted in runaway costs that they, of course, tagged to my team.

Ultimately, you can only control what's in your scope and anything else you will need to hope that management can take that runaway cost feedback and make the correct team optimize it away.

>I don't know if I would call them mediocre, but without a feedback loop its hard to get engineers to agree whether it's worth time reviewing the code to make it faster compared to just making the db one size larger.

This started in the mid 2010s, by which point they should understand that you don't put terabytes of data into S3 in 100kb files. And if not, they should be willing to take some very simple steps to address it (literally just bundling them all in 100mb files with an index file containing the byte offsets of the individual ones would have solved a lot of their problems). There was a feedback loop. There just happened to be big egos more interested in their next fun project of reinventing another solution to another solved problem. I learned there that engineering driven companies sometimes wind up in situations in which the staff engineers love fun new database and infrastructure projects like that more than they enjoy improving their existing product.
by jshchnz | 2025-07-01 21:21:02+00:00
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i thought it'd be cool to let people vote on ideas that HN Slop came up with, so now you'll see an "i'd invest" button & that will let others vote on the idea on a leaderboard

hope y'all like it, keep sending the feedback, I'm listening!
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