MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qalmakka | 2025-07-10 13:33:29+00:00
Well, no, as someone else already stated forcing people to ship object files is a PITA and it's really not feasible with languages that do codegen, templates, ... because you inevitably end up injecting copylefted code inside of your files.

I like copyleft as a way to protect my code from freeloaders, but I don't think that imposing the same view on other people is fair TBH. I want people to be able to use my code without being forced to "convert" to my creed first
by andrew_lettuce | 2025-07-10 13:33:59+00:00
This is pretty naive based on my experience. I find it hard to get the LLM to consistently use the tools defined, so "always" is doing some questionable lifting here. I've had easy better luck with pretty simple, linear workflows, so telling your LLM to "know use this clip tool to..." Might be more effective than an agent that has a bunch of tools and might use the expected one. YMMV
by empath75 | 2025-07-10 13:34:00+00:00
Do any of these people know that Apple is a hardware company and all of their services are just a side business? Apple is poised to make a fortune selling devices powered by their low power consumer chipsets that can run neural networks. There's really no competitor in that space.

Apple has plenty of time and money to watch other people flailing around trying to make AI first devices until they even really start to take it seriously. Even if someone else figures out to make a killer mobile AI app, it will absolutely support iPhones for the foreseeable future. All apple needs to do is make sure their chip pipeline supports it.

Google is the one that is facing an existential threat. Most people see their search engine as basically just a shitty ad-infested chatbot that produces worse results than chatgpt.
by _heimdall | 2025-07-10 13:34:10+00:00
Not totally sure I understand your question, sorry if I don't quite answer it here.

With REST you need to know a few things like how to find and parse the initial content. I need a browser that can go from a URL to rendered HTML, for example. I don't need to know anything about what content is available beyond that though, the HTML defines what actions I can take and what other pages I can visit.

RPC APIs are the opposite. I still need to know how to find and parse the response, but I need to deeply understand how those APIs are structured and what I can do. I need to know schemas for the API responses, I need to know what other APIs are available, I need to know how those APIs relate and how to handle errors, etc.
by watwut | 2025-07-10 13:34:49+00:00
> We live in the suburbs, so it's not a car creep problem - at least, no more than it was 60+ years ago when the numbers were better.

Kids were not driven to playdates 60+ years ago. They would play with other kids living nearby. Parents would not organize their playdates either.

> When I ask the parents who stay, they tell me a vague mix of weekend junior sports leagues, visiting relatives, and just being really tired after working all week. They're lame excuses: spending time with kids constantly is _also_ really tiring.

I do not seen how these are "lame excuses". Seems like valid things that lower your availability and also valid reasons to want to you remaining time for own rest.

> Often I take them to the main playground, and it's virtually empty. I can't believe I'm the only one in the community who's unhappy enough about this to try and change it.

60+ years ago, 6 years old kids would go to main playground on their own. Partly it is that kids are much less independent these days ... and partly it is that their own rooms are much more fun. So, kids want to stay at home because it is good enough and parents do not want to sit bored on playground.
by beart | 2025-07-10 13:35:05+00:00
This issue comes up in my role a lot, where I am often dealing with various environmental conditions and human factors, plus multiple integration points between various software and hardware systems.

The answer is that you keep working at it iteratively using a combination of logging, reporting, and defensive programming to systematically narrow down the possible causes. Sometimes you never arrive at a true root cause, but you get close enough that you can mitigate the problem and finally close the ticket out. At the end of the day, the customer/user doesn't care as long as it works.

However, what will really piss them off is telling them your hands are tied until they can reliably reproduce the issue for you. It's important they understand that you are working on it, and typically they will go out of their way to help solve the problem when they feel taken care of.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-10 13:35:23+00:00
I’m kind of fascinated by Nikita’s popularity. Normally if you told a tech community like Hacker News that someone marketed viral phone apps targeting teenagers, engineered app engagement mechanics targeting kids, and openly used every growth hacking trick in the book to manipulate App Store charts, it would seem like a checklist of things people get angry about here. Yet because he’s Twitter-famous and seems like a nice guy who posts memes and snark, he gets a pass.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-10 13:35:51+00:00
Up to 2023 in a slightly dodgy graphical representation here: https://housingireland.ie/composition-of-purchasers-of-new-h... (note that y axis is number of sales, but labels are percentage of sales!)

If sufficiently masochistic you can also wrestle it out of the CSO's horrible website for 2024, I think.
by imiric | 2025-07-10 13:36:08+00:00
> News never changed. It was always exactly like this.

That's not true. Bias and agenda have always existed, but there was a time when news sources clearly distinguished facts from opinions. In the US the shift arguably happened in 1987 when the fairness doctrine was abolished, and for-profit media companies were given freedom to publish anything they wanted. The 24/7 news cycle was established, and news sources operated under incentives to keep consumers' attention above everything else, including journalistic integrity.

> The thing that changed is social media is letting everyone fact check the journalists and we're catching them in their lies. We are ushering in a new era of professionalism and truth in journalism and it's not going well at all.

That's a bold take, if I ever saw one. You're actually saying that social media is a good thing for journalism?

If anything, social media exacerbated the free-for-all problem of reporting. Suddenly, everyone was a news reporter, with zero moral or integrity obligations. On the contrary: the larger the audience of a social media influencer, the more incentivized they are to infuse their content with bias and agenda. Companies, advertisers, and governments love that influencers can be easily bought. This is far from a "new era of professionalism and truth in journalism". What a skewed perspective you have.

And now with AI tools, the world is even more flooded with (m|d)isinformation than ever before.

There's nothing inherently flawed about traditional news media. It just needs to be strongly regulated to report facts rather than opinions[1]. This regulation is literally impossible on social media. Journalism is not something anyone with a social media account can or should do. I'm not saying that journalism can't exist on social media—it certainly can. But on its own it's not a place where journalism can thrive.

I would go a step further and make journalism a licensed profession, with its own variant of the Hippocratic Oath. Making the line between fact and fiction as clear as possible is essential to living in reality. Otherwise, words can be weaponized and people can be manipulated into thinking and acting in ways that are beneficial to those in power.

[1] To counter the argument "who gets to be the arbitrer of truth?", it's quite easy to determine when a news story is opinionated: it's loaded with adjectives and language that is crafted to elicit an emotional response in the consumer. Journalism, on the other hand, reports events that happened. It succinctly answers who, what, when, where. It doesn't describe why, or tries to put a spin on the facts. Those events can be easily fact checked. In fact, if everyone was doing journalism, every news story would be exactly the same. The differences are the bulk of the bias and agenda.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-10 13:36:19+00:00
Apple tried to ride the wave of AI and failed (Apple Intelligence?)

Apple has recently released a paper which says AI is all maths but a lot of people are saying that they are just "coping" with them losing the AI race.

Apple is one of the largest companies, with I guess a lot of cash and just power. So if they still can't win/compete effectively in the AI race when they had gone all in once does raise some questions about what really is happening within Apple.
by chickenbig | 2025-07-10 13:36:26+00:00
"The Darden project, which is owned by IP Darden I, LLC, a subsidiary of Intersect Power" [0]

"Intersect has closed ~$6B in project financings and raised ~$2.1B in corporate equity to support the buildout of clean energy assets including data center opportunities across the U.S." [1]

Not exactly farmers. Solar farmers, perhaps.

[0] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/06/13/largest-battery-stora...

[1] https://www.intersectpower.com/who-we-are/
by sunbum | 2025-07-10 13:36:53+00:00
Those are all just Microsoft Generic Volume License Key's... They are used to install windows and then activate it via KMS. A bunch can be found here [1] and here [2]

[1] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started...

[2] - https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/95922-generic-product-ke...
by t_mann | 2025-07-10 13:37:04+00:00
Having checked an answer also doesn't guarantee anything with certainty. Which, coincidentally, is the actual topic of the OP, the grading was just a tangential example and not a description of something actually happening anywhere in practice. But sticking with the grading example, the failure modes could be much more benign, such as the examiner failing to spot a mistake, or the answer being copied,...

Probabilities aren't a matter of faith, they're mathematics and as such represent a logical trueism. Your critiques are just nitpicking for the sake of it and void of substance. Have a coffee and leave this topic.
by subscribed | 2025-07-10 13:37:09+00:00
Lease an apartment.

Pretend you're a normal person.

Secretly snoop on all the phone calls, conversations, documents in the whole house.

Take creepy pictures and upload them "for later"

Monitor all the internet traffic in the house, for all the other inhabitants.

Throw a hissy fit when you're fined for knowingly, blatantly breaking the law for years (and sometimes lying about that).

https://wire.com/en/blog/metas-stealth-tracking-another-eu-w...
by doodlebugging | 2025-07-10 13:37:16+00:00
>However, overly focusing on this really deprives you of a lot of great intellectual stimuli from randomized algorithms and, like here, a large chunk of cryptography.

I agree with your first points about using probable and possible carefully. I originally posted a bit of a tongue in cheek, carefully selected example, from the full text of the article since that example fit the point that I hoped to make in jest. It was my carefully selected random example.

I think the focus of the article is on demonstrating that a tool used in cryptography to verify truth was widely assumed to be infallible and it turns out that is unfortunately not true since it can be manipulated to identify false results as true. This tool uses probabilities as a tool to minimize compute times that would be enormous if one had to verify absolutes so it is an important tool. Now that it is demonstrated that it can be successfully attacked, the basis of the system of verification is vulnerable and in the case of Ethereum at least, monetary losses can result.
by pjc50 | 2025-07-10 13:37:23+00:00
> immigrant in my network

These people are too rich to talk to you.

https://www.benhams.com/news/london-property-market/foreign-...

"almost 27% of the total London properties sold in Q1 2024 were acquired by foreign buyers, recording a 3% YoY rise."

Note that "foreign buyer" and "immigrant" aren't precisely the same thing; you can buy property in the UK without having to be resident.
by bonoboTP | 2025-07-10 13:37:26+00:00
> Similarly during the scientific revolution it was mostly hobbyists aristocrats that drove it, those who had the means to support themselves while doing free research.

I think this is overexaggerated in the popular consciousness. Most of the famous intellectuals weren't really big aristocrats. Yes they mostly didn't come from dirt poor peasant or serf families. But they also weren't, with some exceptions, highest nobility. It was much more common that they secured funding through patronage from or got hired by the aristocrats. The aristocrats didn't really do the hard work themselves, again with some exceptions.
by nullpacket | 2025-07-10 13:37:30+00:00
Hey there, I did this tool to scratch my own itch and I figured I share it with the world to see if the issue resonates with more people and this is useful.

The tool is to organize plans with friends, because WhatsApp/Messages lists in groups have a bunch of issues: too many noisy notifications, no structure, and if you’re a bit obsessive like me, you end up making separate spreadsheets to track who’s coming, who’s eating, who’s veggie, etc.

This app is designed in an opinionated way for close-knit groups: anyone can edit the plan or the guest list. It also has an anonymous chat feature that makes everything feel more relaxed, quick, and fun.

If you wanna check it out or use it for anything, feel free: https://aplan.to/
by burkaman | 2025-07-10 13:38:04+00:00
Please, please reconsider this product and take it offline for now. The vast majority of "information" in these stories is complete garbage. You are making up numbers, facts, quotes, and entire narratives. I made a list of examples (from just one single story) in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520841.

I don't think a service like this is impossible, but it cannot be done with LLMs. They are the worst possible tool for news, all they can do is generate text that looks like legitimate news but is inevitably wrong. Again, please don't do this. Think about the massive amount of lies you will spread if this gains a large user base. I've been a subscriber for years, but I will cancel my subscription in a few days if you don't do anything about this. I can't let you use my money to create this societal catastrophe.

Edit: I see there is a GitHub issue raising the same problems, hopefully you can respond there with what you're doing about this: https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/issues/97
by ben_w | 2025-07-10 13:38:31+00:00
> 1) If you actually use the extracted CO2, then it gets re-emitted on use, and the atmospheric concentration is virtually unaffected.

Depends what you use it for, e.g. synthetic diamond windows won't re-emit unless they catch fire.

> 2) Concentration difference alone makes it very unlikely that we'll ever extract CO2 as cheaply as O2 from ambient air (or carbon from a mine), and CO2 is not really an appealing ressource compared to its components, either (so demand would presumable be pretty low for centuries, even if the price comes down a lot).

Underestimating how big an industry would get is the mistake Svante Arrhenius initially made, thinking it would take millennia to emit enough CO2 to cause noticeable global warming.

And remember, with this concern I'm inherently presuming tech (mainly energy) that makes it sufficiently cheap that business and/or governments are willing and able to remove in the order of at least one teratonne of the stuff (but hopefully not two or more teratonnes) — because less than that, it's not solving global warming.
by simedw | 2025-07-10 13:38:55+00:00
That's true, it's also why I didn't benchmark against any other model provider.

It has been tuned so heavily on this specific format that even a tiny change, like switching the order in the `box_2d` format from `(ymin, xmin, ymax, xmax)` to `(xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax)` causes performance to tank.
by svat | 2025-07-10 13:38:57+00:00
Thanks for this post; it's inspiring — for a personal project I'm trying just to get bounding boxes from scanned PDF pages (around paragraphs/verses/headings etc), and so far did not get great results. (It seems to recognize the areas but then the boxes are offset/translated by some amount.) I only just got started and haven't looked closely yet (I'm sure the results can be improved, looking at this post), but I can already see that there are a bunch of things to explore:

- Do you ask the multimodal LLM to return the image with boxes drawn on it (and then somehow extract coordinates), or simply ask it to return the coordinates? (Is the former even possible?)

- Does it better or worse when you ask it for [xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax] or [x, y, width, height] (or various permutations thereof)?

- Do you ask for these coordinates as integer pixels (whose meaning can vary with dimensions of the original image), or normalized between 0.0 and 1.0 (or 0–1000 as in this post)?

- Is it worth doing it in two rounds: send it back its initial response with the boxes drawn on it, to give it another opportunity to "see" its previous answer and adjust its coordinates?

I ought to look at these things, but wondering: as you (or others) work on something like this, how do you keep track of which prompts seem to be working better? Do you log all requests and responses / scores as you go? I didn't do that for my initial attempts, and it feels a bit like shooting in the dark / trying random things until something works.
by mgdev | 2025-07-10 13:39:06+00:00
I know a little about getting large companies to use unknown and "risky" tech. I've done it a number of times (including one I'm especially proud[0] of, and that is relevant given the Clojure connection), and built more than one billion-dollar product doing so.

Names have incredible power, positive or negative, when something is in its infancy.

At the start, when it's just you, and maybe one other person, and maybe one more than that... and your entire effort is just a wisp of what it could one day be, all it takes is some random fly-by-night architect (or even project manager) walking by, hearing the name, and saying, "No way am I letting something called jank touch this project," and shutting it down. The ol' swoop-and-poop, but for incredibly understandable reasons: corporate drones are superstitious.

Now... if, as a matter of culture building, you're intentionally leaning into the "jank" name, that's different. Because names have incredible power. So if you're cobbling together a cadre of crack hackers, "jank" might be exactly what you need to telegraph exactly the ethos you want to manifest.

But if you're just looking for a memorable name to slap on something you hope will actually get traction in any production capacity, I'd just ask that Jeaye consider if the potential benefits outweigh the risks.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-cloud-choosing-lisp-...
by rel_ic | 2025-07-10 13:39:17+00:00
Renewable energy is great, but we're not replacing fossil fuels with it, we're just adding more energy usage. And our energy usage is destroying the environment.

Don't let these advancements in solar make you think things are getting better. We need to reduce fossil fuel usage, not just increase solar usage.

https://pocketcasts.com/podcasts/b3b696c0-226d-0137-f265-1d2...
by alephnerd | 2025-07-10 13:39:25+00:00
Unlike the others on here - the Axios argument does make sense.

Essentially, the trade war related instability has made it's hardware story much more precarious (just like for any other consumer or enterprise hardware vendor), so some sort of a software story is needed to help cushion margins.

The issue is, aside from the App Store, Apple traditionally never had a strong software story. If Apple does not build some sort of a software story (which at this point is AI), it's harder to justify it's current valuation and it's "FAANG" status.

It's also undeniable that a LLM Chatbot player WILL make the foray into make their own bespoke hardware in order to target the consumer market, and the "chatbot as an oracle" UX does have strong traction amongst non-technical personas.

RIM, Sony, and Nokia were also on top of the world in 2007-09, but quickly saw their fortunes turn around as Apple's App Store+Hardware Design+Gated Ecosystem story helped provide some polish and a UX that the others failed to provide.

Essentially, if Apple didn't bungle Siri, they wouldn't be in the current situation today, and Apple is facing significant risks due to supply chain instability. Some diversification is needed.
by nipponese | 2025-07-10 13:39:58+00:00
Not an AOL moment, but they do seem to having an OS 9 moment: Releasing stuff just to slap a larger number on the box.

Ironically I was playing around with BasiliskII last night and was reminded how janky and tasteless the OS got before making the break to Aqua.

But now there is no “war path” Steve Jobs to come in and basically lay down their life fixing the product line up.
by hakunin | 2025-07-10 13:40:14+00:00
Gotta give credit for wonderfully clear writing. You can tell a person understands what they're saying by how well they express it. Reads smooth, and makes me see the author's mental model.

As far as substance: I love ruby libraries that allow you to simply "insert any ruby code". Many libraries tell you to call specific declarative functions, but I think Ruby shines at letting you use Ruby, instead of some limited subset of it. Examples of not-great approaches (imo) are libraries that try to take over how you write code, and give you a special declarative syntax for runtime type checking, building services out of lambdas, composing functions. Ruby's async is an example of "just insert any ruby in here". You can build runtime type checking the same way — allow people to check the value with any ruby code they like. Essentially, I agree with author's sentiment, and wish more people appreciated the beauty of this approach.
by nullc | 2025-07-10 13:40:16+00:00
> On multiple occasions, I've gained insights from LLMs (particularly GPT 4.5, which in this regard is leagues ahead of others) within minutes

This is exactly the sort of thing that people falling into the thrall of AI psychosis say.

> For many people—especially those unaware of the numerous limitations and caveats associated with LLM-based models—it can be dangerous on multiple levels.

On what basis do you believe awareness mitigates the danger?
by gary17the | 2025-07-10 13:40:54+00:00
If you have an iPad, perhaps have a look at modern general-purpose database apps[1], for example the object-oriented easyAsPieDB[2]. Object-orientation allows an end-user to define relationships among the relevant pieces of data in a conceptual manner, for example by using Composition (e.g., a House is composed of Rooms) and Association (a known Product is associated with a particular Order), while relational databases such as Microsoft Access force an end-user to define relationships among the relevant pieces of data in a more technical, structural manner, for example with Tables including generic "Foreign Keys" to other Tables.

[1] "Best Database Apps for iPad", https://sourceforge.net/software/database/ipad/

[2] "easyAsPieDB. An easy-to-use database app for non-technical users.", https://www.rfcons.com/database/
by JohnFen | 2025-07-10 13:41:00+00:00
If a utopian society were possible (I certainly don't think that it is), it won't come about because of technology. The barrier isn't, and never has been, tech. It's because of the nature of people themselves -- starting with the fact that we aren't all on the same page as to what a utopia would look like. One person's utopia is another's dystopia.