MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moskogaige | 2025-07-24 11:13:51+00:00
Majored in philosophy, now running AI infrastructure at a mid-sized startup. Been coding professionally for 6 years after teaching myself through building random tools - including an AI photo enhancer that eventually became https://flux-kontext.io. Tech's beautiful because what matters is what you can ship, though you'll need a killer portfolio to get that first break. The non-STEM background actually helps sometimes - gives you different perspectives when everyone else is stuck in engineer brain. Just be ready to constantly learn and prove yourself through work, not credentials.
by glp1guide | 2025-07-24 11:13:52+00:00
Yes, we should, and eventually those who need to will be.

Pill forms of the drug are currently uninspiring (see: Rybelsus), but as different formulations (triple agonists, etc) that are more effective also get their own pill forms, it is even more likely that this class of drugs may become as common as aspirin.

Not everyone needs to take GLP1s, but they are as close to a miracle drug as has recently been seen.

That said, most people can't stay on them forever:

https://glp1.guide/content/if-glp1-is-so-great-why-dont-peop...

And once off them, most people do not regain the weight:

https://glp1.guide/content/do-people-regain-all-the-weight-l...

Given the relatively rare negative side effects, it's an amazing class of drugs.
by mrkramer | 2025-07-24 11:13:57+00:00
Google introduced its Google Knowledge Graph in 2012 and for sure it caused the drop in website clicks but I would say not that significant. People want quality content and they will always look for quality websites with or without AI overviews. My digital marketing professor once said that customers who look beyond first page results are the most valuable ones, because they are dedicated users and customers. People who read AI overviews won't be your first class users and customers.
by kalleboo | 2025-07-24 11:14:11+00:00
My 8yo has a hand-me-down iPhone, but she only gets it when we go out to festivals/camping/a big park or something so she can wander off and do her own thing and then we regroup later. It's locked down into the basic "Assistive Access" mode so it only has the very basic features, no YouTube or entertainment at all.
by chownie | 2025-07-24 11:14:26+00:00
If anyone else is reading along, the throwaway account is also lying about this (shocker!)

You'll open link to find a website that does not at all claim math is racist, but instead claims that it has been unequally taught for years. Which makes complete sense, as the racial gap in Math attainment in the US isn't replicated in other countries -- in the UK GCSE Maths levels for black students hover around or slightly above those of white students.
by pflenker | 2025-07-24 11:14:32+00:00
Recipe for Foo. Foo has always been my favorite dish. I fondly remember all the times my grandma made this for me. My grandma, who was born on August 2, 1946, as the daughter of… (10 more pages of text) To cook Foo the way my grandma did, you first need some Bar. Bar is originally native to the reclusive country of… (20 more pages of text)
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-24 11:15:34+00:00
> Anyways, luckily I did not get sick.

Why would you purchase meat that you suspect is diseased? Even if you cook it well-done, all the (now dead) bacteria and their byproducts are still inside. I don't understand why people do this to themselves? If I have any suspicion about some meat, I'll throw it away. I'm not going to cook it.
by ben_w | 2025-07-24 11:16:15+00:00
We've already got distilled down versions of models designed to fit on consumer-sized devices, they are definitely not as performant as the bigger models.

But the models are RAM limited not compute limited, and there's no reason consumer devices need to have their current RAM limits. Get 256 GB of RAM in your phone and an LLM may drain the battery in 15 minutes, and I have no idea about the bus bandwidth, but the NPU (e.g. Neural Engine in Apple SoCs for the last few years) is already enough for the compute part of the problem.
by horrorente | 2025-07-24 11:16:46+00:00
> More than likely, people return to publishing content because they love the subject matter and not because it is an angle to “create content” or “gain followers” or show ads. No more “the top 25 hats in July 2025” AI slopfest SEO articles when I look for a hat, but a thoughtful series of reviews with no ads or affiliate links, just because someone is passionate about hats. The horror! The horror!

I disagree with that. There are still people out there doing that out of passion, that hasn't changed (it's just harder to find). Bad actors who are only out there for the money will continue trying to get the money. Blogs might not be relevant anymore, but social media influencing is still going to be a thing. SEO will continue to exist, but now it's targeted to influence AIs instead of the position in Google search results. AIs will need to become (more) profitable, which means they will include advertising at some point. Instead of companies paying Google to place their products in the search or influencers through affiliate links, they will just pay AI companies to place their products in AI results or influencers to create fake reviews trying to influence the AI bots. A SEO slop article is at least easy to detect, recommendations from AIs are much harder to verify.

Also it's going to hit journalism. Not everyone can just blog because they are passionate about something. Any content produced by professionals is either going to be paywalled even more or they need to find different sources of income threatening journalistic integrity. And that gives even more ways to bad actors with money to publish news in their interest for free and gaining more influence on the public debate.
by Aachen | 2025-07-24 11:17:05+00:00
Maybe it's possible to rent a cheap parking spot with charger elsewhere and take a tram/metro/bus/bicycle/scooter for the last ten minutes of distance as you get deeper into the city?

Having a car right out one's door is a real luxury though, no more than two steps through any weather. I can see the appeal, just not sure if the collective downsides are worth it compared to arranging good transport inside of, and between, cities. Outside of populated areas, yeah, whatcha gonna do, but at least inside of major settlements we ought to be able to get this done (in many cities it's already okay to not have a car, but imo the facilities to get to the countryside are relatively annoying and needlessly expensive)
by graemep | 2025-07-24 11:17:35+00:00
Also a problem in the UK, not just for renters, not for anyone who does not have off street parking.

There are smaller and more practical changes that would have huge benefits. More public transport, pedestrianised areas, encouraging people to drive smaller cars (lots of ways to do that - e.g. reserve some parking for small cars, tax vehicles on weight) would all have huge benefits.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-07-24 11:18:58+00:00
A bit off topic, but how do you guys use banks to buy expensive things? I always run into issues, like I couldn't pay for my dentist because my card had a 300$ tap limit (I had to come back the next day and pay the rest lol), and there's all sort of limits, like I don't think I can spent more than a couple thousand dollars a day even if I physically bring my card and insert it or whatever.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-24 11:19:04+00:00
> None. But they all claim they don’t understand it.

Do any claim it is likely that LLMs are conscious? Or do they agree with me?

> Look at yourself. When did I claim the LLM is conscious? Never did. I said it’s a possibility but mostly we don’t know wth is going on.

Look at yourself. When did I claim it’s impossible? Never did. I said it’s unlikely.

> Let’s say the horse was in actuality doing quantum mechanics.

But we aren’t at that point with LLMs. Hence, I say it’s unlikely. Not impossible.

You’re so wound up you’re projecting and doing exactly what you falsely accuse others of doing.
by mhitza | 2025-07-24 11:22:15+00:00
Isn't there some kind of optional typing in Elixir?

What you're describing are the same uncertainties I've used to have writing PHP a long time ago, but since using optional types and PHPStan checker, it kind of serves as a compiler pass that raises those issues. The benefit being that I still can be lazy and not type out a program when I prototype the problem on my first pass.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-24 11:22:27+00:00
I didn't know that. Although it seems as though they're sufficiently far outside what its makers thinks Unity is for that their attempt to go to Unity 5 had big obstacles. Thanks for correcting me!

[Also, another way I was wrong: to make Unity work the centre of the world is the player, and so the universe is implemented in reverse, your orbit around the sun is calculated with you at the middle, this works correctly in our actual Einsteinian universe - no position is privileged, there is no "center", but it would be crazy to do the maths, for the short time Outer WIlds needs it works well enough with their simple Newtonian physics model]
by falcor84 | 2025-07-24 11:23:13+00:00
I don't see how it becomes irrelevant. It's as if I have a door in the entrance to my building that serves multiple purposes, such as holding the company logo and keeping the A/C-controlled air in, and then someone smashes the door with a sledgehammer. The fact that all of the door's functionality stopped working doesn't make the security aspect of not having a door irrelevant.
by alganet | 2025-07-24 11:23:17+00:00
It doesn't say anything about open training corpus of data.

The USA supposedly have the most data in the world. Companies cannot (in theory) train on integrated sets of information. USA and China to some extent, can train on large amounts of information that is not public. USA in particular has been known for keeping a vast repository of metadata (data about data) about all sorts of things. This data is very refined and organized (PRISM, etc).

This allows training for purposes that might not be obvious when observing the open weights or the source of the inference engine.

It is a double-edged sword though. If anyone is able to identify such non-obvious training inserts and extract information about them or prove they were maliciously placed, it could backfire tremendously.
by microtonal | 2025-07-24 11:24:02+00:00
After a lengthy two-year delay, the phone got a taste of Android 12 in February 2023, with Android 13 arriving relatively quickly in October 2023. For Android 14, Fairphone promised to roll out the update in H2, 2024, almost a year after Google released it.

It is also worth mentioning that Android Security Bulletins generally only contain backports of patches for High and Critical vulnerabilities. Most non-Pixel/GrapheneOS phones only get all the other fixes when moving to the next major release [1]. So getting the next major Android release is important (getting to a recent patch-level alone is not enough).

I can completely understand that Graphene does not want to support Fairphone and others, their security/privacy goals are the complete opposite of what those phones provide.

[1] https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23462-grapheneos-version-20...
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-24 11:25:13+00:00
The country is continuing to rapidly move to an authoritarian ideology and to illiberal hate and criminalization of poverty. Limousine neoneoliberal Democrats and far-right MAGA both display illiberal animosity towards a narrow subset of disadvantaged groups. It's about as rational and empathetic as deporting the people who pick your vegetables, make your dinner, and build your homes. But until the confluence of related problems* are address systemically, criminalization won't solve.

* Cheaper housing with greater inventory, comprehensive medical and mental healthcare, substance treatment programs that work, higher minimum wage, lower housing cost:income ratio, and tailored and helpful support and investment in people who don't have enough to magically pull themselves up by their invisible bootstraps.
by garylkz | 2025-07-24 11:25:19+00:00
Yep, I can't remember when was the last time I've visited a SEO optimized site but I still had the bitter taste that I felt when I last visited it:

- searches for "How to do XYZ" and click one of the site

- "what is xyz"

- "why xyz matters"

- "preparations before xyz"

- "what you might encounter when xyz"

Sounds reasonable and in theory should be useful, but the actual useful info are only stuffed in 1-2 lines of multi paragraphs on tons of sections that I don't care about.
Show HN: Digital Twin Proxy – Turn web browsing into memory for AI agents
by kstonekuan | 2025-07-24 11:25:36+00:00
I built Digital Twin Proxy as an open-source tool that logs your web browsing and uses a local LLM to generate an analysis of your browsing patterns. The goal is to create a "digital twin" of your online activity that can be used to provide real-time context to other AI agents.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/kstonekuan/digital-twin-proxy

How it works: It uses a Squid proxy to capture HTTP/S traffic, and then a Rust application sends the logs to a local LLM (via Ollama) to analyze and create a digital twin based on web browsing patterns.

Why I built this: I wanted a way to give my AI agents more personalized and real-time context. By analyzing my web browsing, agents can tailor their responses, anticipate my needs, and even get better at using tools through "context engineering."

Key features:

- HTTP/S Traffic Logging: Captures all web requests.

- AI-Powered Analysis: Uses a local LLM (Ollama) to analyze traffic.

- Flexible Operation Modes: Can run in the background, log continuously, or perform one-off analysis.

- Customizable: You can easily change the AI model, analysis interval, and other settings.

Planned features:

- Exposing the context from your digital twin as an MCP server for AI agents.

- Injecting real-time context directly into your browser for any agentic AI app (like ChatGPT or Perplexity) to access.

Feedback and contributions are welcome!
by AndrewOMartin | 2025-07-24 11:25:40+00:00
There was an article, I can't recall if it was a reliable source, that said the home field advantage is vanishing because "before" if many players were playing away they'd take advantage of their being away from home by going out, getting drunk and staying out late in the hope of taking one or more people back to their hotel. These days, if you're a star athlete you can live on Tinder and fairly reliably have someone turn up to your hotel room. You stay reasonably sober and get an early night.

I'd not be surprised to hear that this is complete nonsense, but it's a memorable story. A simpler version of this story is that people have steadily drunk less since WW2 when going out, and you're more likely to go out when away from home.
by dekrg | 2025-07-24 11:26:23+00:00
That so? And the activist that usually complain about beauty standards and not having enough representation were angry how "unrepresentative" that was and were complaining about it to Bioware?

I mean you can lie and say how no one has asked for it but the activist have complained about big breasted women in games for a long time usually under the guise of how it's sexualizing the women in games. And yes there have been straight up complaints about characters breasts being too large over the years usually when it's a non-western game.
by generic92034 | 2025-07-24 11:26:35+00:00
And even if it was the highest profit branch of the company, they still would see a need to do anything possible to further increase profits. That is often where enshittification sets in.

This currently is the sweet phase where growing and thus gaining attention and customers as well as locking in new established processes is dominant. Unless the technical AI development stays as fast as in the beginning, this is bound to change.
by mandmandam | 2025-07-24 11:27:33+00:00
That's not how we talk here. Also, I was defending your argument lol.

But still, I'll bite - how so? Because I see videos like this:

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1947556095779610961

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNrcHhDTsI

And I compare them to, say, any American city.

You can't watch those and seriously believe that there couldn't possibly be any aspects of Chinese life which are superior, and further, to think that's "insane".

Those aren't cherry-picked videos. There are thousands out there, if you care to look; watch xiaomanyc's videos and there's simply no denying your eyes. Their cars are better, their night life is better, their food is better, their housing is better, their daily lives are better, in many, many ways. Not every way, but in many ways - which is what I said.

You've been propagandized your whole life to think America is number one, but that was only even remotely true before 'we' pissed away our future on genocidal forever wars to make the 0.1% a little wealthier. Now most people see America negatively. Literally the vast majority of countries have an overall negative opinion of America; and we're seen as the number one threat to peace and stability.

Chinese people used to think they're hearing propaganda when they hear American's stories about health insurance, or the political scene - because to them, that's impossible to believe. Yet what you find impossible to believe is that they might have it better in some ways. I hope you have a good long think about that.
by scosman | 2025-07-24 11:27:40+00:00
If you're picking random bottles of the shelf you're not going to have a good time with any category. Tequila, rum, American whiskey, etc -- the most popular stuff is pretty bad.

You did disparage the category, but it still seems based off not understanding what it is. The listed Canadian whiskeys are great and meet the US definition of Rye, but Canadian Rye is a bigger category with lots of great stuff to explore. Just don't substitute it into the wrong drink and blame the bottle.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-24 11:27:59+00:00
Isn't Google just giving you timetables?

That's not useless but it's no substitute for real time information. Seeing "Your bus is six minutes away" is reassuring in a way that "Well, the bus isn't scheduled for another minute, and maybe it's running late" is not.

In that "Oops, it's diverted" case which annoyed me, my bus was, from that point of view, genuinely getting closer, I could see it on the map. And then I realised, with growing horror, that it's on a road which won't pass me. Maybe that's a glitch? Then I saw the bus itself, in the real world, too late it's actually not coming here.
by bartread | 2025-07-24 11:28:51+00:00
In four years of plug-in hybrid ownership, and maybe 50k miles, I haven’t even had to replace pads, and the car wasn’t new when I bought it. I even commented on the longevity at the dealership the last time I took it for a service, and they said they see it a lot with hybrids. The regen braking really does make a huge difference.
by AngryData | 2025-07-24 11:29:29+00:00
That is actually one reason some companies are trying to move back to all drum brakes for EVs. The drum protects the brakes from water, rust, and debri fairly well and is far more reliable when not used as often. The only real obstacle is car companies having spent the last few decades focusing all their braking and traction control features on disc brakes so they need to be reimplemented for use in drums. And really most consumer vehicles never should have stopped using drum brakes, they are better for everything except high performance racing/heat dissipation, but disc brakes were used for sales/marketing because race cars use them, and most all the improvements for brake systems started with racing so were initially and primarily designed for use with discs.
by samrus | 2025-07-24 11:29:30+00:00
I know you think its just social media smartass, but the guy specifically mentioned getting the opinions of a private group, and exporting the data so as to post the best photos on a completely seperate platform.

Its not social media, its kinda similar, but not public, and its main goal is to export the approval data to be used elsewhere. No ones supposed to keep scrolling on it
by falcor84 | 2025-07-24 11:29:45+00:00
For context for those like myself who weren't familiar with Amazon's S3 Vectors, it's a relatively new S3 bucket type that's optimized for storing vectors for RAG and similar purposes, claiming to the be up to 90% cheaper than storing them in a regular bucket.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/features/vectors/
by numpad0 | 2025-07-24 11:29:46+00:00
It's just that Tesla didn't spend skill points on brake blending tech unlockable. Some people confuse it as being a piece of technology of its own.

Every other EVs and HVs assign first half of brake pedal for regen and bottom half for mechanical brakes. Tesla uses bottom half of gas pedal for the same, which eliminates the need to accurately determine the appropriate pedal force that corresponds to intended braking force to be added up with regen to match intended deceleration. Mapping regen to gas is `set_motor_torque(1.25 * gas_pedal - 25);` and that's much simpler.
by Enk1du | 2025-07-24 11:30:38+00:00
I quite enjoyed Perl Best Practices[0] for the rationales behind every decision, most of which I could get on board with. Plus, if you really like it you can auto-reformat code with perltidy[1] using the "--perl-best-practices" flag or check your files with Perl::Critic[2] policies based on PBP.

It's dear to me because it came along at a time when I needed short breaks from thesis writing.

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/perl-best-practices/0596001738/ [1] https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic
by lordnacho | 2025-07-24 11:31:43+00:00
The dataset you need is the PL2 or academy matches. I don't think anyone shows up to those games, but the players are vying to be full premier league professionals. So travel arrangements would be similar, physical fitness similar, tactics similar, but there would be no fans.

As for the time trend, I suspect professionalization was happening slowly, then quickly. Of course there have been fully paid footballers for a long time, but if you look at stories from the 80s and early 90s, the guys would still smoke and eat burgers. It's only in recent decades that the stops have been pulled out, and everyone started doing full on sports science to maximize every chance.

Having absolutely everyone optimized physically also means you can explore strategies that used to be impossible. If you know you're at 80% due to traveling, your gegenpress is going to be a bit less attractive.
by Vetch | 2025-07-24 11:32:05+00:00
The brain is certainly vastly more energy efficient at inference than LLMs on GPUs. But it looks like you're trying to make a different argument, that an LLM can spend less energy than a human to complete a given task. Unfortunately, you have not made that argument and I won't be reading unverified LLM output that might contain hallucinated steps or claims.

> V3/R1 scale models as a baseline, one can produce 720,000 tokens

On what hardware? At how many tokens per second? But most importantly, at what quality? I can use a PRNG to generate 7 billion tokens at a fraction of the energy use of an LLM but those tokens are not going to be particularly interesting. Simply counting how many tokens can be generated in a given time frame is still not a like for like comparison. To be complete, the cost required to match human level quality, if possible, also needs accounting for.

> Deeply thinking humans expend up to a a third of their total energy on the brain

Where did you get this from? A 70B LLM? It's wrong or at best, does not make sense. The brain barely spends any more energy above its baseline when thinking hard (often not much more than 5%). This is because most of its energy use is spent on things like up-keep and maintaining resting membrane potential. Ongoing "Background activity" like the DMN also means the brain is always actively computing something interesting.