MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by K0balt | 2025-07-15 03:50:09+00:00
Very interesting idea. The entire computing experience, os applications, potentially even file systems etc exists only in the “imagination “ of the model.

Although this is of course ridiculously wasteful right now, I can see this being the optimal solution for many things if a technology like thermodynamic well based neural networks get to the point of viability.

A thermodynamic well based model could have a trillion parameters in the size of an so card at a few milliwatts of power.

In case like that it’s easy to imagine that mass produced implementations could be a one size fits all solution for all but the most trivial or advanced computing tasks. For perhaps less than a dollar for a 100b sized chip, you get the ability to “imagine” video, sound, etc and a strong general purpose “reasoning” capability imbedded into everything right down to children’s toys and toasters.

Kinda makes me think of Rick and Morty with the butter passing robot. A lot of pointless capabilities, but still cheaper than a purpose built deterministic computing device. OTOH having embedded knowledge as an ambient part of everyday life would be kinda neat, even if it would almost surely mean the end of human civilization lol.
by bigiain | 2025-07-15 03:51:13+00:00
> They may as well just have titled it "Protecting My Attention At The {Insert Arbitrary Hormone or Neurotransmission Chemical} Carnival"....

I disagree. I am absolutely certain that the vast majority of the readers here would have known in the context of that headline exactly what "The Dopamine Carnival" meant, without needing any specific positive or negative implications about dopamine in general or it's actual biochemical mechanisms. It's blatantly obviously about social media and mobile apps that are intentionally designed to manipulate your brain and its reward system.
by terminalshort | 2025-07-15 03:51:15+00:00
> So you advocate a costly post-harm remediation instead of a preemptive solution provided by governmental regulations

Absolutely. Such solutions tend to be much cheaper and more effective. It's how we deal with the vast majority of problems for a good reason.

If we sold oxycontin over the counter we would have much less of an overdose problem than we do. Would also take a lot of stress off our emergency medical care system which spends an inordinate amount of time just dealing with addicts looking for drugs.

It's a funny example to use to justify the current regulatory framework because oxycontin got approved by the very same.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-15 03:51:52+00:00
AWS has a clear policy of not providing support for user application code. I’ve never worked at a company that had enterprise level support with a dedicated TAM. It might be different there.

However if it is worth anything I did work at AWS for 3.5 years (AWS ProServe). I knew almost immediately what the issue was as soon as I read the article and knew it was documented and expected behavior.
by nine_zeros | 2025-07-15 03:55:03+00:00
> The funds then are redirected to a sclerotic and uncaring state, and then the productive people are shamed when they ask for less of it to be taken.

In republican governments, yes this is real.

In democrat governments, the vast majority of taxes goes into productive issues such as education, transportation, and healthcare. Even the type of bills passed by democrats are friendly towards building a society.

Now, YOU may not want to pay for other's education, transportation, and healthcare. But a lot of people appreciate that access to high quality is not merely limited to the wealthy. This is why you'll see amazing companies in blue states vs red, you'll see amazing companies starting during blue federal governments vs red.

The data is very clear on what produces great outcomes for society. You might not want others to get a decent life but you need to admit your selfishness.
by bigiain | 2025-07-15 03:56:40+00:00
I have at times carried a Firefox Phone and a Pinephone, and deeply enjoyed asking work or other people who insisted I needed to download an app to do (whatever) "Where I can get your app for my phone? No, it's not an iPhone. No, it's not an Android phone either."

(Lately I've been using "It's a work phone, I'm not able to install apps on it, you'll need to run your app past our corporate IT and Security team.")
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-15 03:57:00+00:00
No AWS employee knows “AWS well”. AWS has a huge surface area. If you work on one of the service teams - ie the team that maintains the different AWS services - you are very much unlikely to know the entire AWS surface area and be focused on your team and surrounding services.

It use to be the case if you were interviewing for an SDE position, you were specifically told not to mention specific AWS services in the system design rounds and speak of generic technologies.
by simondotau | 2025-07-15 03:58:13+00:00
It's not fallacious, that article is fallacious. By conflating choice and diversity, the article is poorly written and misrepresents the bigger picture. Browser diversity makes the internet better, while browser choice encourages developers to be lazy.

Developers exclusively targeting Chrome and forcing users to switch isn't browser choice, it just replaces one kind of non-choice with another kind of non-choice.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-07-15 03:59:34+00:00
Yeah, it's alot alot :-). Over on Mastodon I asked Phil Plait (@badastro) if the "missing mass" in the universe might be a result of black holes converging[1]. He wrote up this event in his newsletter[2] and points out that when they merge, they emit more energy in that instant than every single start in the universe in the same instant. So kind of like an instant of double energy. Hard to fathom how much energy that is with my meager mammalian brain.

[1] https://mastodon.social/@badastro/114852139083587160

[2] https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-biggest-black-hole-me...
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-15 03:59:59+00:00
This post is a good lesson on humility, and why emotionally-heated blog posts might not be a great idea, no matter how satisfying, and you should possibly stick to dry technicalities instead. If OP had just written up their experience without all the sneering and potshots at Amazon support, people would've just gently corrected them. But as it is they look like a tremendous asshole, and certainly not fit for a CTO role, either temperamentally or skill-wise.
by pstuart | 2025-07-15 04:00:11+00:00
That is a hack which would be last in line. First and foremost, there should be no "legal bribery" of any justice -- up the salaries and fluff up the goodies (housing, etc), but otherwise zero outside income, with a blind trust for all assets.

One very thorny issue is the fact that our system of government is built on respect for the law and the institutions, but the current regime has learned they can just do whatever they want with virtual impunity. They brought tanks, drones and nukes to a knife fight, and the other side is completely unarmed and trying to talk them out of the fight.

We are so fucked.
by robswc | 2025-07-15 04:01:06+00:00
You'd be _very_ surprised. This isn't reddit so I probably don't have to write a disclaimer about generalizations... but just in case, I'm speaking in general terms.

Just look at who buys/consumes most written romance. Overwhelmingly women. Now, a super simple AI that just says what you want to hear is different from long-form romance novels... but I think we could see something approaching 50/50.

I personally can't see the appeal. It seems like a fun toy for a bit. Super impressive stuff but the idea of treating it like a human is a bit depressing to me.
by johnfn | 2025-07-15 04:01:39+00:00
It's never a slam-dunk with AI-generated content, but some of the signs I notice are:

- Constant bulleted lists with snappy, non-punctuated items.

- Single word sentences to emphasize a point ("It was disciplined. Technical. Forensic.")

- The phrasing. e.g. the part about submitting to Reddit: "This response was disproportionate to the activity involved: a first-time technical post, written with precision, submitted to the relevant forum, and not yet visible to any other user." Who on earth says "written with precision" about their own writing?

To be clear, I don't think it's a fabricated account. I also don't think it was a one-shot. OP probably iterated on it with GPT for quite some time.
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-15 04:01:45+00:00
The analogy I like goes something like this. Imagine you're paddling in a canoe on the river. You approach a waterfall. If you do nothing you'll get consumed by the waterfall. So you try to paddle away from the waterfall, but as you get closer to the edge of the waterfall, the current gets stronger.

The event horizon is the imaginary line across the river which once passed, even if you paddle as quickly as you can, you won't be able to get away from the waterfall. Once you pass that line, you're bound to reach the waterfall eventually.

Now, thanks to Maxwell and Einstein, we know there's a maximum speed that anyone can paddle, the speed of light, and so we define the event horizon to be relative to this speed.

You can calculate the event horizon for just about anything. The main difference between a black hole and everything else, is that for a black hole the event horizon is larger than the object itself.

For example, the event horizon of a neutron star with a mass of 1.4 solar masses and a radius of 10km is about 4.1 km, well inside the neutron star. Thus you don't get the "black hole effect", since once you pass the surface of the neutron star the matter above you pulls you away from the center.

The river analogy is actually not far off what they try to use as an analog for testing black hole predictions, effectively a large water tank with a drain hole. Sixty Symbols did a video on this way back[1], and this thesis[2] goes into the details. Some are going beyond water using liquid helium to simulate quantum black holes this way[3].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOnoYQchHFw

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02133

[3]: https://pirsa.org/25010083
by deterministic | 2025-07-15 04:01:46+00:00
I write (mostly) bug free production code fast by doing the following:

1. I use a custom code generator to generate 90%+ of the code I need from a declarative spec.

2. The remaining hand written code is mostly biz logic and it is exhaustively auto tested at the server API level.

3. I maintain and "bring along" a large library of software tools "tested in combat" I can reuse on new projects.

4. I have settled on an architecture that is simple but works and scales well for the small to large biz applications I work on.

5. I constantly work on removing complexity from the code, making it as easy to understand and modify as possible.
by andrewflnr | 2025-07-15 04:02:11+00:00
As far as the name of the keyword: anyone who knows what "tail call" means will figure out "become" pretty quickly. If they don't get it from context clues, someone will just have to tell them, "oh, it's a tail call", and the confusion will dissolve, because "become" is really not a bad word for what happens in a tail call. (This is obviously less important than the implementation issues kibwen handled.)
by barbazoo | 2025-07-15 04:02:48+00:00
Clickbait.

> As we examined the files on the disk, a file named extension.js caught our attention. We found it at %userprofile%\.cursor\extensions\solidityai.solidity-1.0.9-universal\src\extension.js

> It turned out that extension.js was a component of the Solidity Language extension for the Cursor AI IDE, which is based on Visual Studio Code and designed for AI-assisted development.

Malicious VSCode extension stealing crypto. Doesn't have anything to do with Cursor or AI.
by hakfoo | 2025-07-15 04:03:06+00:00
My two cents:

My experience with AI is that it's workable for "approximate" things, but it's frustratingly difficult to use as a precision tool.

It works great for the trivial demos, where you say "here's an API, build a client" without significant constraints, because that use case is a pretty wide, vague goal. I wasn't going to hold it accountable for matching existing corporate branding, code style, or how to use storage efficiently, so it can work fine.

But most of the real work is in the "precision tool" space. You aren't building that many blank-slate API clients, many of the actual tickets are "flip bit 29 of data structure XQ33 when it's a married taxpayer filing singly and huckleberries are in season". The actual change is 3 lines of code, and the effort is in thinking and understanding the problem (and the hundreds of lines of misdocumented code surrounding the problem).

I've had Claude decide it wanted to refactor a bunch of unrelated code after asking for a minor, specific change. Or the classic "here's 2000 lines of code that solve the problem in a highly Enterprise way, when the real developer would look at the problem and spit up 150 lines of actual functionality". You can either spend 30 minutes writing the prompt to do the specific precision thing you want and only that, or you can just write the fix directly.
by tzs | 2025-07-15 04:04:04+00:00
I heard a report on the radio about a similar situation with cherry farmers in Washington. Many farmers are in a cycle where they have to take out loans to pay for maintaining their orchards during the off-season, and then make enough during cherry season to pay those loans off but not enough that they won't need a loan for the next off-season.

So far there have not actually been any mass raids on farms in Washington, and not many cases of migrants being arrested when driving from California to Washington for the cherry harvest but the workers know what is happening in California and are afraid it will happen in Washington so many are staying away.

What was baffling is that many of the farmers put the blame for this is on bad actors on the left spreading fear among the workers.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-15 04:05:20+00:00
What I've said is most certainly the norm. If you want discussion - nasaspaceflight forums are essentially the hacker news equivalent of space stuff. In general people are happy to have a new telescope which will provide some new data, but nobody is expecting much of it.

And what I said regarding Hubble was not subjective in the least. The observation that the universe's expansion is accelerating was huge. JWST cannot realistically be expected to match this, simply because such discoveries are unexpected by their very nature, and phenomenally rare on top of that.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-07-15 04:06:20+00:00
Fair point !

Except that it's not a side joke or something - the whole service is a joke - closed to Tesla influencers, rides costing 4.2$ etc. As they say - the stock is the product.

PS. The author is a bit salty about Tesla indeed - he's still waiting for the 2 roadster that he was supposed to get years ago.
by robswc | 2025-07-15 04:07:09+00:00
Yea. I don't even know what to do tbh.

I'm right between GenZ and Millennial. There is something crazy going on with GenZ IMO. It is like pulling teeth to go out and do anything with GenZ friends. Maybe my millennial friends are more bored so its easier to do stuff but it just blows my mind. I hate to get all "phone bad" but it seems scrolling and doing absolutely nothing is the default setting for so many people. I feel like this stuff certainly won't make it any better.
by timmy3443 | 2025-07-15 04:08:36+00:00
Quick update for ChatGPT users:

A new Chrome extension called ChatGPT PDF Exporter just launched. It solves a common pain point—trying to save or print long conversations without losing content.

How it works:

When activated, it automatically scrolls through your entire chat from start to finish.

Then it triggers Chrome’s print-to-PDF so you get a complete, properly formatted file.

No manual copying, no partial exports.

Highlights:

One-click export

Lightweight and privacy-focused (no analytics or ads)

Useful for archiving research, project notes, or any AI-generated content

ChatGPT PDF Exporter on Chrome Web Store

If you’ve been frustrated by partial exports or messy screenshots, this might be worth a look.

Would love to hear any feedback or ideas for improvement!
Geo‑Prime ELITE: Modular AI pipeline for citation-focused content generation
by lapatride | 2025-07-15 04:08:55+00:00
This post introduces GEO‑Prime ELITE, a modular AI infrastructure designed to deliver citation-ready content across generative search engines (SGE, GPT‑Browse, Perplexity, etc.), using classic source texts.

Purpose: GEO‑Prime ELITE is a modular pipeline designed to generate citation-ready content for generative AI engines (SGE, GPT‑Browse, Perplexity, etc.) from classical source texts.

Pipeline Components: -RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with local vector database -Logical fallback: hierarchy GPT‑4o > Claude > local model

Post-processing: -segmentation ≤ 80 words -citation-readiness scoring -JSON‑LD formatting -LoRA fine-tuning based on AI citation scoring -Cost governance (CAPEX/OPEX) + escalation model toward 70B-scale

Business Goals: -Reducing no-click SEO -Increasing citation visibility in AI engines -Optimizing content for generative search -Monetization via licensing, MVP rollout, or strategic sale

Content: -pitch-deck/: PDF presentation of the pipeline -architecture/: modular system structure (coming soon) -scoring/: citation-readiness criteria (demo or simulated JSON) -uplift-study/: upcoming evaluation protocol

Intellectual Property: This repository constitutes a public proof of prior art for the concept, architecture, and logic behind GEO‑Prime ELITE.

Original author: Frédéric Clément-Tribouilloy (Lapatride) Initial publication date: July 10, 2025

View on GitHub: https://github.com/Lapatride/geo-prime-ELITE/blob/main/README%20initial%20GEO-Prime%20ELITE.md
by omgwtfbyobbq | 2025-07-15 04:10:14+00:00
I'd reach out to recruiters/agencies. It'll also be a pain, but I've had more luck doing that than cold applying the last time I was looking.

You can also try pivoting to something adjacent like data engineering and I've read a few people had luck by focusing a lot of time/energy on companies they like as opposed to specific positions/roles, but I'm not sure how well that would work because I've never tried it.
by smcin | 2025-07-15 04:10:31+00:00
Can you post a link/self-citation to any 2012 post on that prototype, I couldn't find it.

Was this only on US data, or EU or worldwide? And when you say "ad data", do you mean like ADINT?

And when you infer "was on a plane" from spatiotemporal edges in the entity graph with an implied speed of >300 km/h and >200 km distance, does that only work if the individual social-media app itself is collecting real-time geolocation? So if you only access social media from the browser not the app, does that partially prevent this privacy exploit?
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-15 04:10:55+00:00
What's really needed is a way to easily prune context. If I could go and manually manage the entire chat with a model, I could squeeze way more juice out of a typical ~200k token coding session.

Instead I have a good instance going, but the model fumbles for 20k tokens and then that session heavily rotted. Let me cut it out!
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-15 04:11:40+00:00
> 16kb pages can't do that without segfaulting every time memory is used "wrong", and trying to fix that up transparently would be a nightmare.

I would natively imagine the kernel could trap that and remap on the fly, at the tiny cost of murdering performance. Is that untrue, or is the perf so bad that it's not worth it?
by AnonC | 2025-07-15 04:13:43+00:00
> Starting November 1st, 2025, all new apps and app updates that use native C/C++ code targeting Android 15+ devices submitted to Google Play must support 16 KB page sizes.

I realize that most apps wouldn’t need to make changes and that a recompilation would suffice, but is this time frame enough for the apps that do need code changes?
by icecreamscoop | 2025-07-15 04:17:02+00:00
Officially they are still re-writing the software that runs Social Security. Back in May, they said re-writing >1 millions lines of COBOL would only take a few months.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-adm...

Unofficially, they are the worst people so they are probably doing the worst things you can imagine.
by mrlatinos | 2025-07-15 04:17:17+00:00
This has GPT written all over it: "That’s not just a runtime bug. That’s a reliability risk baked into the ecosystem."

For whatever reason, it constantly uses rhetorical reclassification like “That’s not just X. That’s Y.” when it's trying to make a point.

In GPT's own words:

``` ### Why GPT uses it so often:

- It sounds insightful and persuasive with minimal complexity. - It gives an impression of depth by moving from the obvious to the interpretive. - It matches common patterns in blog posts, opinion writing, and analyst reports. ```

I think that last point is probably the most important.
by opello | 2025-07-15 04:17:28+00:00
Your trials around the AS3935 piqued my interest a little and I thought that maybe the Blitzortung/LightningMaps people may have tried working with them. It turns out they have! The earlier generation Red board documentation [1] has a section on them and there was apparently internal-to-operators discussion [2] which isn't directly public, but which points to wxforum.net where there were quite a few results with at least one [3] detailing struggles to get it working.

This probably isn't directly helpful but I found it a fun trail to follow for a bit.

[1] https://www.blitzortung.org/Documents/TOA_Blitzortung_RED.pd...

[2] https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread.php?tid=1022

[3] https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=22235.0
by pyuser583 | 2025-07-15 04:17:50+00:00
I have a name that’s completely unique, except for some well known European scholar in a highly specialized field of medicine.

One day the scholar visted my city to give a lecture, and I seriously considered attending and causing some type of trouble.

But whatever fun I would have it’s not worth sitting through a lecture on some chemical process in the lower blah blah blah blah.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-15 04:18:23+00:00
Class traitor: no.

Traitor to the idealistic notion of an egalitarian America: yes.

To be fair, there are many, many traitors to American ideals these days. Pointing one out individually seems to omit all of the others.

It's unreasonable to expect or demand famous, sheltered, isolated billionaires to be on the side of ordinary people because of how far removed they are from concerns ordinary, non-famous Americans who are relatively, nominally poorer than even during the imbalance in the the Gilded Age.

Sometime about ~2002, I cannot prove it but I predicted (to myself), that because of long-standing economic and demographic trends were most like to:

- -purchasing power of ordinary people

- +inequality

- +corruption

- +poverty

- +misery

- +war, including large-scale, mostly conventional wars over resources

- +large-scale movements of billions of people across continents to escape climate-change caused famines

The last one hasn't yet happened, but is likely to happen within 20 years. Furthermore, first-world famines are now possible because of improper, unwise government regimes sabotaging themselves.