MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cjohnsonpr | 2025-07-14 14:52:16+00:00
We’re releasing Adaptive Recursive Consciousness (ARC), an open-source layer that plugs into any causal-LM checkpoint and lets it keep learning after deployment.

Why it matters A conventional language model freezes the moment training stops; every conversation thereafter is a missed learning opportunity. ARC flips that script. It performs lightweight LoRA weight updates in real time, absorbing new facts, refining style, and building a reasoning graph while it runs, no offline fine-tuning, no epoch schedules, zero downtime.

What ARC brings On-the-fly LoRA updates – gradients are applied during generation, so the model improves without a restart. Biologically-inspired learning gates – novelty, relevance, and emotional salience decide what gets stored, much like human memory consolidation. Hierarchical memory & reasoning graph – working memory, episodic recall, and a growing concept network support long-range reasoning. Cognitive inhibition & metacognition – built-in filters damp off-topic rambles, repetitive loops, and AI-centric digressions. Lean, fast outputs – in a 30-round TinyDolphin-GPT-2 benchmark ARC cut latency by roughly half and reduced perplexity by more than a third while tightening answers and slightly boosting coherence.

Quick start pip install metisos-arc-core

PyPI https://pypi.org/project/metisos-arc-core/ GitHub https://github.com/metisos/arc_coreV1

Performance snapshot (TinyDolphin base vs. ARC) Across 30 blind evaluation rounds ARC:

lowered perplexity from 19.5 to 12.2, indicating cleaner, more fluent language cut average generation time from 4.84 s to 2.22 s, a 54 percent speed-up trimmed answers by about 38 percent without losing substance lifted a simple coherence score by 8 percent nudged heuristic factuality upward by 6 percent

Taken together, these gains translate to roughly a 25 percent overall improvement across the weighted metric bundle we report in the accompanying paper.

What’s next Version 1 is our foundation. We’re already experimenting with multi-modal memory, finer-grained safety rails, and adapters tuned for newer 7- and 13-billion-parameter bases. If you’re building agents, tutors, or autonomous tools that need to learn on the fly, we’d love to hear from you—file an issue, open a pull request, or email us at cjohnson@metisos.com.

— The Metis Analytics research group
by bit1993 | 2025-07-14 14:52:58+00:00
The biggest threat is vendor-lockin at the programming level, far more destructive than SAAS lockin. We already have monopolies in hardware now we are about to have monopolies in software by the same companies who monopolized the hardware. Giving them so much power that there will no longer be computer programmers, there will only be LLM prompters.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-07-14 14:52:58+00:00
Everything has tradeoffs. You can protect children extremely well, if you mandate that every household have a live-in social worker, subsidized by the government with a 30% caretaker tax on top of standard income tax. If a government were to pass such legislation, do you hate children and love money that much to want to repeal it?

At some point, protections are not feasible - and the EU's "consumer and environmental" protections are apparently unfeasibly expensive in their current form to have a competitive economy. This is also self-defeating, as only in the context of a competitive economy, would these protections have any merit or be enforceable. Beggars can't be choosers.
by mnmalst | 2025-07-14 14:53:10+00:00
No OP but of course!? Are you suggesting otherwise? That denis bider person doesn't answer a single question the "journalist" asks. OP wasn't referring not to the email exchange [0] tho but the personal blog of denis bider where it gets even more obnoxious.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250714144716/https://putty.org...
Show HN: SciCrumb – 3-minute podcasts from the latest research papers
by hugoib | 2025-07-14 14:54:27+00:00
Hi HN!

I’ve been exploring how to make scientific research more accessible.

Academic papers are powerful but hard for non-specialists (or even busy specialists!) to digest.

So I built SciCrumb — a tiny site where I convert new research papers into short ~3-minute podcast-style audio summaries.

The idea is:

Bridge the gap between research and curiosity Save time for people who’d rather listen Make science less intimidating

Right now, I’ve manually curated and narrated 4 papers across: Medicine Computer Science Economics Environment

It’s early days. I’d love feedback on: Whether this is useful Topics people care about

I would love to scale it to a full blown app and bring science to regular people.

Demo: http://scicrumb.com

Thanks for checking it out!
by stockresearcher | 2025-07-14 14:55:01+00:00
I have two comments:

First, I believe that you are correct in that small enterprises are not going to be fined out of existence (unless they continually fail to adhere to CRA requirements). The issue is that if you want to make a browser in the EU, you have to be extremely serious about it.

Second, you are quoting from the section of the act that the EU uses to lay out their reasoning, justification, and thought process. This section is not legally binding. The actual text (page ~28 and beyond in the linked document) is what controls. We have seen from DMA enforcement in regard to Apple that the EC does not consider conflicts between the two sections to be important.
by taeric | 2025-07-14 14:55:15+00:00
Apologies, I assumed you'd have to play with the terms a bit, especially with Google being personalized nowadays. For me, the first result on that search is https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/bibliography/ref/2130, which shows about a 16% reduction in backing crash rates. Which could easily conform to the numbers you were showing, as the number of licensed drivers increased by about the same percent. (I'm assuming miles driven and similar would have grown about the same.)

Reading your link appears to be more fear and caution than data showing things are worse? There is a broken link that ostensibly looks at lane assist and how it can have problems in bad weather. But nothing that says rear view cameras actively cause trouble? Just a fair callout that you shouldn't exclusively rely on them.
by Incipient | 2025-07-14 14:55:58+00:00
I deal, with mid size (200-800) people and there is no k8s or serverless to be seen anywhere.

Personally I don't have a huge amount of experience with either, so I'm possibly a bit biased, but I see k8s as either a hyperscale solution or someone wanting to be cool and trendy.

Same goes for serverless, other than niche use cases of say running python code in a 100% Azure ecosystem when you just have absolutely zero other choice.
by thephyber | 2025-07-14 14:56:15+00:00
Yeah, the drug + the injector together are the patentable thing. When the first patent nears expiration, they work on an iteration of the injector or a time release change for the drug, then they get another few decades of product monopoly.

They have also made a business of either stifling or “catch and kill”ing of the generics for their products. It’s cheaper to pay off a generic manufacturer to not compete with the new thing than it is to lose price elasticity of the n non-generic.
by watwut | 2025-07-14 14:56:26+00:00
Wait for steam sales, buy a bunch of cheap stuff that seems interesting and figure out what you like from there. And ignore moralization in the article and comments.

It is actually ok to buy a bunch of cheap stuff without being sure you will like it. People always bought physical books based on few pages in the store and either finished them or not. People start netflix shows and figure they dont like them 15 min in.
by condensedcrab | 2025-07-14 14:56:34+00:00
Even the Aptera, which is designed to be super lightweight, can only regen about 10% of the battery (40 mi vs. 400 mi total capacity) with rooftop solar (https://aptera.us/)

Good reminder with respect to the CAFE standards (rip) that sometimes engineering doesn't trend towards what is "good" with respect to SWaP-C but rather what games the current regulatory environment best.
by danaris | 2025-07-14 14:57:26+00:00
But even stipulating this, with the way solar is improving, it may very well not be the case for much longer.

If you can guarantee that, in moderately sunny weather, the solar panel on your car's roof can provide enough power to keep the car going at, say, 30mph indefinitely, that's no longer just a fun toy.

Now, that level of utility may still be a long way off—or may even never be possible!—but I'm not willing to write it off for good, given solar's curve.

ETA: sorry, realized I should unpack a bit why I think this is worth mentioning: Your GP post was expressing confusion over why people would study this; I think it's very valuable to continue studying it as solar continues to improve, so that we can understand just where we are in relation to that utility curve.
by cosmosa | 2025-07-14 14:57:43+00:00
In Weaknesses of RNN architecture I’ll motivate the need for the transformer architecture. In Transformer architecture I’ll go more in depth into its architecture. Finally, in Experiments and results I’ll show how the transformer performance compares to the RNN performance, and as a sub-research question, how the original encoder-decoder transformer architecture compares to GPT-style decoder-only architecture in Encoder-decoder vs decoder-only
by david927 | 2025-07-14 14:58:20+00:00
A year ago, I started running a mile five days a week, and have slowly moved up distance and pace. I'm doing weight and resistance training as well and cut out most sugar and carbs, going high protein.

The result has been transformational. Resting heart rate is at 60, blood pressure down, my clothes don't fit me anymore, and best of all, I feel better and can concentrate more.

I wish I knew this in my teens. It's like a cheat code.
by energ8 | 2025-07-14 14:58:21+00:00
"significant increase in the range of 10.7-42.2% for lightweight and aerodynamic efficient vehicles" shout out to aptera motors https://aptera.us/vehicle/ that's currently vapor ware "Designed with ~700 watts of integrated solar cells, drive up to 40 miles per day completely off the grid and enjoy 400 miles of range per full charge"
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-14 14:59:38+00:00
> Out of these numbers, 100 willfully worked for the ring. 15 worked for the illegal gambling establishment. Only 4 minors are reportedly the victim of human trafficking. Ironically, when those people came back (willfully or otherwise), they will claim that they were being "misled" or "coerced" to do it even though the evidence suggests that they willfully do so.

Exactly. Same as when prostitutes get picked up. They say they're trafficked or coerced to get a lighter sentence. Cops love it because they get to act like they're on the tail of serious crime and get more resources. Win-win at the expense of everyone else.
by bputano | 2025-07-14 15:00:03+00:00
Started a daily newsletter for tech, covering a key headline, a page of a great book, and one question to ponder. Big news over the weekend with potentially damaging implications. I often find great links for the newsletter on Hacker News, so I thought I'd share my post as well. Shout out to John Luttig, whose post I found in HN this morning
by OptionOfT | 2025-07-14 15:00:18+00:00
Same with Reddit. They have their own share sheet, and then 'other' which goes to the iOS built-in one.

I wish Apple was more strict on this. There is no reason for them to have their own. Same with the photo viewer.

I love the iOS photo viewer, it allows me to select text directly to copy it etc, but Reddit needs to use their own.

On the other hand, it should be possible for me to set up a default photo viewer.
by SpikedCola | 2025-07-14 15:00:24+00:00
In the same way, Apple is equally difficult about forcing the use of Apple Maps.

If you receive an address in an iMessage, clicking/long-holding will always open in Apple Maps. There is no way to share to Google Maps (it doesn't appear in the list), and the default setting to use Google Maps doesn't affect iMessage.

You have to copy the address, switch to Google Maps, paste it in, and search. I would much prefer clicking the address to open in the app of my choice.
by throwinthetowel | 2025-07-14 15:00:36+00:00
In my case, it was pretty easy to get off venlafaxine. Not to diminish your experience, which I am truly sorry to hear about. I was on venlafaxine for about a year and a half, with a peak daily dose of 375 mg. I do think it made my suicidality worse at the start, but at least getting off it was easy for me.
by kgermino | 2025-07-14 15:01:14+00:00
I don’t think you’d have to run the AC any more aggressively with the solar panels than with a traditional steel roof?

If you’re suggesting it wouldn’t work in a garage, that’s obviously true (and another factor in whether car solar makes sense) but many (most?) people park their cars outside during the day anyway. I for one can’t remember the last time I parked under cover
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-14 15:01:20+00:00
> In 64-bit code there is very little reason at all to be using bits 15:8 of a longer register.

I disagree: there only exists BSWAP r32 (and by 64 extension BSWAP r64): https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/bswap

No BSWAP r16 exists. Why? in 32 bit mode, it was not needed, because you could simply use

XCHG r/m8, r8

with, say, cl and ch (to swap the endianness of cx).

In 64 bit mode, you can thus only the endianness of a 16 bit value for the "old" registers ax, cx, dx, bx using one instruction. If you want to swap the 16 bit part of one of the "new" registers, you add least have to do a 32 bit (logical) right shift (SHL) after a BSWAP r32 (EDIT: jstarks pointed out that you could also use ROL r/m16, 8 to do this in one instruction on x86-64). By the way: this solution has a pitfall over BSWAP: BSWAP preserves the flags register, while SHL does not.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-07-14 15:01:26+00:00
where do you get that?

There are dozens of autoinjector manufacturers, and generics can and do change manufacturers. It looks like semaglutide uses an off the shelf Yposomate pen, although Novo Nordisk uses different injectors depending on the country and indication.

Novo Nordisk also has an in house pen, but this would not prevent someone from competing, unless patients simply prefer that design to a generic one.
by cesarb | 2025-07-14 15:01:37+00:00
> In a similar vein is the surge shaft being built as part of the Snowy 2.0 scheme in Australia. [...] It absorbs the momentum of the surge of water when the downstream power station closes its valves.

Not the same power station, but I have to post a link to one of my favorite YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJVBlhgt9j8 (Obere Wasserschlosskammer).
by wffurr | 2025-07-14 15:01:46+00:00
My children are 3 and 7.

3 is certainly not old enough to do so.

7 is marginal. I seem to recall playing in my neighborhood at 7, but very few of my child's friends are out on their own at this age.

The local public school district allows children to self dismiss starting in 3rd grade, which is typically the year they have turned 8 and will turn 9 during the school year. That seems like a potentially reasonable time to allow them to go out unsupervised.
by marcyb5st | 2025-07-14 15:02:04+00:00
Last time I tried what stumped me was getting "ReadWriteMany" volumes working.

My use case was pretty straightforward, a series of processing steps with the caveat that storing the actual results in a DB would be bad due to the blobs size. So, instead, the DB is used to signal downstream consumers files are ready and instead write the files in the ReadWriteMany volumes so that downstream files can simply read them.

I tried Longhorn, but even if I manage to get a volume showing up in the UI, it was never detected as healthy and after a while I refactored the workflow to use Apache Beam so that I could drop databases and volumes and run everything from within a single beefy VM.

Is it still an issue (it was a while ago TBH)?
by disqard | 2025-07-14 15:02:31+00:00
> You still have not told us on which source code line the buffer overflow occurs.

> > hey chat, give this in a nice way so I reply on hackerone with this comment

> This looks like you accidentally pasted a part of your AI chat conversation into this issue, even though you have not disclosed that you're using an AI even after having been asked multiple times.

A sample of what they have to deal with. Source:

https://hackerone.com/reports/3230082
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-14 15:02:56+00:00
Intels inability to pivot to gpu that increasingly handle most of the serious computational workload along with AMD success in building competitive CPUs in both the server and consumer segments made this outcome inevitable.

I know what you will say, hindsight is 20 / 20. But this was really easy to spot, the future is in massively parallel workloads, that's where the money is it has been clear for at least a decade that CPUs are becoming increasingly irrelevant in computation.

The shift that happened in the last few years is that it became clear that massive computational workloads are actually a huge market instead of the niche that they used to be.
by reedf1 | 2025-07-14 15:03:02+00:00
> The framework difference comes from people believing in short-term gains (like revenue, abusing the novelty factor, etc.) vs those trying to reasonably minimize harm.

OK - so your framework is "harm minimization". This is kind of a negative utilitarian philosophy. Not everyone thinks this way and you cannot really expect them to either. But an argument _for_ AI from a negative utilitarian PoV is also easy to construct. What if AI accelerates the discovery of anti-cancer treatments or revolutionizes green tech. What if AI can act as a smart resource allocator and enables small hi-tech sustainable communes. These are not things you can easily prove AI won't enable even within your framework.
by faeyanpiraat | 2025-07-14 15:03:13+00:00
I always hated running, but months of nagging by one of my colleagues (who does marathons) I started doing it, but keeping it short and slow for now.

My first jog was like 500 meters, and I was exhausted, but I've did like 20 more sessions since then, and I see a steady increase of distance I can go before I reach my first point of exhaustion.

Now I can go 1000 meters, and recover faster, and I even feel slightly generally better during my everyday life.

Since I'm not pushing myself too hard, it is actually kind of enjoyable and even though I do not have a regular routine, never before I had the spontaneous urge to jump up from my chair at the end of the workday and go running with a smile on my face.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 15:03:33+00:00
Hello folks! I've been working on Kiro for nearly a year now. Happy to chat about some of the things that make it unique in the IDE space. We've added a few powerful things that I think make it a bit different from other similar AI editors.

In specific, I'm really proud of "spec driven development", which is based on the internal processes that software development teams at Amazon use to build very large technical projects. Kiro can take your basic "vibe coding" prompt, and expand it into deep technical requirements, a design document (with diagrams), and a task list to break down large projects into smaller, more realistic chunks of work.

I've had a ton of fun not just working on Kiro, but also coding with Kiro. I've also published a sample project I built while working on Kiro. It's a fairly extensive codebase for an infinite crafting game, almost 95% AI coded, thanks to the power of Kiro: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro
by mwigdahl | 2025-07-14 15:03:37+00:00
Surprisingly little press for a fairly major enhancement. I work in a Windows shop, and while the WSL2 setup isn't terrible, our IS group has nested virtualization turned off, so our developers and automated testers using VM development machines can't use it.

This single release unlocks a lot of folks who wanted to use the tool but couldn't, and removes a number of headaches for me.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-14 15:03:45+00:00
There's no "citation", just go work at any business.

And you seem to be misunderstanding. They're not doing it out of charity. They're doing it because if something costs $50, they make more profit selling 20 at $100 and 20 at $70 than they do selling just 20 at $100.

> A game going from $80 to $60 doesn’t practically make it any more accessible to most people

I think you may be out of touch with some people's financial realities. $20 can very much be the difference between buying something and not buying it this month. And people will literally wait half a year to buy something on Black Friday because it's the only way they can afford it.
by shrubble | 2025-07-14 15:05:09+00:00
“The first round of photographs were dreadfully underexposed. We set up a second bar of magnesium, set it burning, and discovered that an f-stop of 3.5 with an exposure of 1/60th of a second with 100ASA film was just about right.”

That part is truly retro: the professional photographer having to worry about exposure and capturing the scene with the flames.
by kibwen | 2025-07-14 15:05:10+00:00
America also loves reserving vast swathes of the road for on-street parking, as well as endless fields of parking lots, not to mention that an enormous number of homeowners would rather park in their driveway and use their garage for storage.

I'm not trying to say solar roofs on cars make sense as a default option, but focusing on "percentage of battery charged" is the wrong metric. Most Americans would get by just fine on a relatively modest amount of charge per day, especially if we got over our range anxiety of insisting on massively oversized batteries for the average EV, which drastically increases weight and decreases efficiency.
by ryandvm | 2025-07-14 15:05:12+00:00
Honestly, if you had held all of your BTC until today you would be an idiot.

Just because it made it to $120,000 doesn't mean that it was predictable or even an rational. Given that Bitcoin _still_ doesn't have a use case beyond buying drugs means the bottom could fall out at any time.

There is no rebar in this structure.
by neomantra | 2025-07-14 15:05:12+00:00
I had not heard of Iggy, love the mascot! Looks to be pretty comprehensive messaging system focusing on persistent streams; lots of batteries included like auth and monitoring.

While that has some sick throughput benchmarks, it is a pretty different architecture and Aeron will have way (orders) lower and more stable latencies. But it won’t work on as many networks as Iggy.

Iggy client SDKs are easy to make because they just need to speak socket. Aeron client SDKs are “easy” to make because they just need to figure out framing shared memory. (And the orchestrator handles the network getting it there).
by gwbas1c | 2025-07-14 15:05:41+00:00
I went the plugin hybrid route. The added complexity caused a lot of maintenance and reliability issues. I ended up having to dump the vehicle at a loss.

Something to keep in mind: A full EV doesn't require oil changes, which you still need to do with a plugin hybrid.

If you're able to do all your daily driving on battery only, then why bother with a gas engine that you aren't using? High speed charging works very well for the occasional road trip; it's at the point where if you take your bathroom breaks at high-speed chargers, you don't even need to "think" about charging.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-14 15:06:23+00:00
> the Venusian environment

Everyone uses "Jovian" for Jupiter, and yet nobody uses "Venerean" for Venus...

[The planets take adjectives in -an because, I assume, people didn't want to reuse "Martial", "Jovial", and "Venereal". In science fiction you also see "Terran" replacing "Terrestrial".

Interestingly, while martial and venereal are named after the gods, jovial and mercurial are named after the planets.]