MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by da25 | 2025-07-24 11:49:39+00:00
AI systems still struggle with hallucination, especially when your intent of the query is to obtain the latest information. These models have become very good at handling stored information, but their ability to stay updated remains slow. There is a large volume of queries whose responses and underlying concepts don't change much, and the current AI systems, through innovation and user-friendly interfaces, has managed to cast a wide net over such pre-learned responses.

However, unless these AI base model businesses create strong enough incentives for information owners to provide updates and engage in information pipelines that provide fresh data, the current moat of AI might not extend far enough to cover the full spectrum of queries.

The “fossil fuel” of LLMs-static public internet data-is running out.

Current efforts in RL help systems answer queries beyond their pre-learned knowledge by expanding on the user’s prompt, wherein the system ventures into unknown data territories through agents and self-talk, resulting in action-result memories. These, in turn, serve as a large enough context-rich prompt to have all the needles-in-hay-stack that form the final answer or response. This is made possible by large context windows.

For live internet queries, RL can work by expanding context with latest results fetched from the public web using a crawler. However, this is often done without the explicit consent from information providers and offers them little incentive beyond a link in the AI’s response summary. As a result, some providers have started withholding data, and many services now offer tools to block AI crawlers. Meanwhile, multimodal AI systems-capable of understanding text, visuals, and audio-are developing agents that can access content through simulated browser use, effectively bypassing traditional crawler firewalls.

This reality highlights the need for a good incentive system for information providers, one that encourages them to share dense, efficiently and ai-structured data. Certain domains have already begun embracing this and sharing their information in ai-native formats, since they have no moat in that information and rather see positive incentives - for example, certain documentation websites for tools and frameworks now provide formatted versions of their docs at /LLMs.txt links.

If the information is the resource exchanged on these internet pathways, businesses fundamentally operate either by generating this resource or by retrieving it once it exists, and the other businesses enable this whole endeavour. Ultimately, individuals and organizations will, seek, share and exchange information in ways that enables them to efficiently take decisions and their next actions. Therefore, the incentive to access the most up-to-date information becomes critical when those actions depend on accuracy and timeliness.
by sim7c00 | 2025-07-24 11:51:04+00:00
it needs to be better connected over larger distances i guess. Some 'sunny' countries around the equator are working on it. laying gridlines to other less sunny places and trying to offer solar to reduce carbon taxes or whatever.

i know Saudi, Morocco and China are all massively dumping panels into their deserts, likely more places too. these are great places to put them as it has less impact on environment (less wildlife etc.) and it's pretty much always sunny during the daytime, so it's high efficient per m/2 comparted to colder more cloudy places.

Morocco already is connected for energy providing to Europe via Spain afaik, though i think that is currently not used yet, so they are in a good position to leverage that as power demands surge across EU datacenters trying to compete in AI :'D (absolutely no clue if they will actually go that route but it seems logical!)
by johndoh42 | 2025-07-24 11:51:37+00:00
Sadly that ban also hit three of our our games that help victims cope with trauma. :(

Please write to your representative:

Dear [Representative's Name],

I am writing to formally request an investigation into the activities of Collective Shout, an organization whose censorship-driven campaigns have caused measurable harm to artists, survivors, and vulnerable communities. Under the guise of protecting women and children, they have erased trauma narratives, suppressed creative expression, and bullied platforms into enacting broad, opaque bans. Their actions disproportionately affect marginalized voices and bypass democratic discourse in favor of ideological policing. There is growing concern that their influence is rooted more in religious moralism than evidence-based advocacy. I urge your office to examine their funding, methods, and societal impact with urgency and transparency.

Sincerely, [Your Full Name] [Your Address / Constituency]
by mfro | 2025-07-24 11:51:51+00:00
I am entirely serious as well . I have always wondered what the propo font evangelizers really saw, so I gave it a go after trying (and finding problems with) 6 different fonts in this thread. It’s a game changer for readability. My only gripe is the parentheses, they are a bit hard to see without mono spacing.

I also have to switch between different font rendering scenarios daily, it’s such a pain. If I could use vscode exclusively all would be well, but I’m stuck with windows font rendering in Rider usually. Segoe is one of the few fonts that looks great.
by abanana | 2025-07-24 11:51:54+00:00
Ah I see, thank you for the explanation.

Regarding how quickly it was caught, bugs like this are a clear argument against the idea of "always update immediately" that's pushed down everyone's throat these days, and parroted by so many who don't realise it's part of marketing. Luckily updates do tend to be a lot slower when they're components of managed packages (in this case, WHM and the like).
by florianherrengt | 2025-07-24 11:52:23+00:00
Minimum wage jobs pay low wages because a large number of people can do them. This means that if you work a minimum wage job, you're not just competing with others in your field. You're competing with anyone willing to work for minimum wage. It also works the other way around. If your job used to pay well but now only offers minimum wage, you could just as easily switch to any other minimum wage job.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-24 11:52:28+00:00
I already did read the article and I did not get that impression. If it's really that small and private, why mamke a website about it for friends and prospective members? Why architecture the network in a way that favors scaling, including mulitple backbone nodes running diverse software with the option to add more? Clearly these indicate thats it's not that small or exclusive. I would bet that if you were to bump into someone at DEF CON and they were a member, all you'd have to do to join is say "that's so cool, how can I join".
by patrick0d | 2025-07-24 11:52:38+00:00
I am an AI interpretability researcher and have a new proposal for a way to measure the per token contribution of each head and neuron in LLMs. I found that the normalisation that happens in every LLM is avoided by modern attribution methods despite it having a large impact on the model's computation.

Here is the full preprint paper and the code I used. https://github.com/patrickod32/landed_writes Happy to some insight from any interested people and would like to know if other people here have been working on anything similar. This seems like a real gap in the research to me.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-24 11:52:41+00:00
I doubt this has anything to do with 'values' one way or the other. It's just about trying to create dependencies, which can then be exploited by threatening their removal or restriction.

It's also doomed to failure because of how transparent this is, and how abused previous dependencies (like the USD) have been. Every major country will likely slowly move to restrict other major powers' AI systems while implicitly mandating their own.
Show HN: Grovs – Mobile deep linking and attribution, 60% cheaper
by dobreandl | 2025-07-24 11:54:02+00:00
Hey HN,

We built https://grovs.io – a lightweight, EU-based alternative to Firebase Dynamic Links, Branch, and Appsflyer.

It handles: • Deep links & deferred deep links • Campaign attribution • Invites & referral systems • Cross-platform messaging

We’re already live in production apps and priced about 40% lower than the big incumbents.

We’re also building a better dashboard with clearer metrics, cross-platform messaging, and upcoming support for in-app purchases and subscription tracking.

Why we built it: existing solutions are expensive, overcomplicated, and not EU-native. We wanted something simple, transparent, and easy to integrate.

If you’re working on a mobile app (iOS or Android), I’d love for you to try it out and let us know what you think — feedback on product, docs, or onboarding would be super helpful.
by 30gdan | 2025-07-24 11:54:09+00:00
Much better at what ? Do you have decent data for what it takes (CO2, child labour , cost of supply chain, ...) to make your Lithium based battery VS melting an ICE ? Same question for recycling ? Comparing only the lifecycles of products doesn't make any sense if you don't put in perspective creation & destruction and this is where the massive lie is, no EV constructor has ever been transparent about this because it's overall just way dirtier by no way cleaner !

Extracting rare metals from Africa, sending to China for transformation into batteries and back to US/EU for putting into an EV (that we cannot properly recycle yet) just cannot be cleaner than melting an ICE with processes that are 100+ years old and that can be done locally without the use of ships to make 3 roundabouts on earth.

Yeah established on a truncated view of reality !
by hannesfur | 2025-07-24 11:55:48+00:00
I agree with most commenters that Gleam seems like the thing that’s going to solve a lot of the big problems I have with Elixir.

I didn’t read a lot about Nx and EXLA in the comments, so I thought I’d share my view:

In my opinion, that’s not a strong argument for Elixir, because pretty much every language has libraries like this. Rust, famously, never stops inventing these libraries (https://arewelearningyet.com/), and to illustrate my point, here are some libraries for niche(-ish) languages:

• Crystal (https://github.com/NeuraLegion/shainet)

• Haskell (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/neural)

• Ruby (https://github.com/unagiootoro/ruby-dnn)

• and many more…

They might be suitable for researchers or projects building networks from scratch, but this is already difficult with a library that plays along. For most people, it’s about fine-tuning, combining, and doing inference on existing models (and weights).

People like to criticize PyTorch, but in fairness, with it I can do useful things with recent models (which matters at the speed of things) pretty much the day they have their open source release (thanks to the transformers library). There exists an equivalent to transformers for Elixir (https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee), but it doesn’t support the top 10 trending models on HuggingFace, which is a problem if you want to use them. Qwen 3, for instance, arguably the most useful open source model family at the moment, isn’t supported at all. And this is the issue all of these libraries face: they are not useful for the majority of people needing libraries like this out there.

Also, PyTorch is really well optimized, and there is a good reason that vLLM (yes, it’s not the fastest but pretty fast, supports almost everything, and is the de facto standard for open source LLM inference) is written in Python and PyTorch. Things like Flash Attention 2 are crucial for LLM inference and still hard to find. Yes, OpenXLA is technically very sophisticated, but I never got it working every time I wanted to use it, and JAX seems more comfortable if you want to use TPUs.

It’s still a very strange development that Python runs the AI revolution. Multi-node training might be a lot of fun with Elixir, but here performance (especially making sure the CPU is not stalling the GPU) is vital, which might make BEAM not an ideal choice.

There is hope though. Recently there have been some interesting developments in the Rust world (https://luminalai.com), and of course no HN comment about training and inference is complete without mentioning TinyGrad. But Elixir simply doesn’t make sense to me (for neural networks). I’m sorry.
by codelikeawolf | 2025-07-24 11:56:16+00:00
> Talking to people without an end in mind other than satisfying your own curiosity is the slow way that is the fast way. People love to talk about what they’re interested in, and by extension love to talk to people who are genuinely curious about the things they’re interested in.

I feel like this is generally good advice just to grow as a person. I love hearing what people are into, even if it's not really my cup of tea. I get to learn something new that I probably never would have found on my own. Plus, I usually end up making a new friend.
by rs186 | 2025-07-24 11:56:48+00:00
Even though I don't like the fact that Pocket went away, I agree with Mozilla leadership that they need to focus on their core business.

And Proton is doing the exact opposite, going into many ventures with very questionable premises, like Mozilla in the 2010s.

Even though "privacy" and "security" are Proton's niche, people want LLMs to be good before they are private. Just look at what happened to Apple.

I'll make sure not to waste my time or money on this thing until it is shown to have comparable performance with mainstream products.
by Expurple | 2025-07-24 11:57:37+00:00
If I understand correctly, Redis-the-permissive-project wasn't threatened by any proprietary fork. What happened is that the financials of its original authors were threatened by AWS hosting Redis as a service. It's not the same as a modified proprietary fork becoming more popular than the original.

Redis was relicensed as "source available", and then that license change led to a fork. But the most prominent fork isn't proprietary. It's a permissive one, called Valkey: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44653130. That's actually a good example of an in-demand permissive project changing maintainers and staying relevant under a permissive license.

An interesting thing to see in the future is whether Redis ("source available" + AGPL) or Valkey (permissive) "wins" in the long term.

Too lazy to google the details regarding the other projects.
by misja111 | 2025-07-24 11:58:02+00:00
> "Searing the meat seals in the juices" -- every chef on every cooking show.

This was debunked a long time ago. You do want to sear the meat, but only to give it a nice and tasty brown crust due to Maillard reactions. Searing does not seal in any juices.

I can recommend the book Cooking for Geeks, it has some nice scientific explanations about this and some other stuff too.
by zaphar | 2025-07-24 11:58:15+00:00
Except that his talk is not anti-OOP. It's anti-a-specific-way of using OOP. Namely representing the Domain Model as the compile time hierarchy. He goes to great lengths that he himself uses OOP concepts in his code. OOP wasn't a mistake per-se. The mainstream way of using as promulgated by a number of experts was the mistake.
by slightwinder | 2025-07-24 11:58:22+00:00
> Why has a search company compromised a flagship product's ability to search?

There are two potential reasons:

1) They have a problem with the Unicode-character, which is not that uncommon with foreign-companies, that they miss some details on a local market.

2) Most search-systems have long moved to fuzzy results, with exact search being a more and more flawed option. And this goes even deeper, as they have started to expand search terms, and show you different words with the same or even just similar meaning.

And of course, there is also the solution that the search works correct, but just doesn't show you the part where this sign is, like somewhere in the header, hidden in some alternative view or an attachment, or something like that.
by audinobs | 2025-07-24 11:58:30+00:00
The irony to me is I am the opposite of the kid that got a computer in the 80s and learn to program on my own.

My parents were able to afford a $5k inflation adjusted Appl 2E and I never used it. I played a few games a few times but it mostly collected dust.

When we got the internet in the 90s, I mostly looked up what I could get high from and porn.

Then I spent a good decade drinking too much beer.

I blew every chance I had when I was young and have still done pretty well simply from being born at the right place at the right time.

I wasn't born with a lottery ticket, I was born playing a game of craps with weighted dice in my favor and was allowed to roll until I started winning.

We live in a society though of insecure douchebags with no self awareness to really gain perspective on how they won the powerball lottery of existence in terms of their time and place of birth. Make up fictional narratives on their own personal genius and "how you can too!".
by rhplus | 2025-07-24 11:59:40+00:00
It’s surprising what range of pitch size and slope are allowed in professional football.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch

While FIFA recommends a specific size for pro teams, a legal pitch can have widths range from 46 to 91 metres and lengths of 91 to 119 metres. That’s a possible ratio range of 1:1 to 1:2.58.

I could imagine that stadium upgrades have meant that pitches don’t have as much variation as in the past too.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-24 12:02:26+00:00
I think buyer demographics are gonna play hugely into it. Some makes and models are highly popular among the drivers who are on the low side of the bell curve and basically never hit the brake when not stopping because they're almost never coming upon slower traffic. Some makes and models are highly popular on the other side of the peak of the bell curve where the drivers are always hitting the brake way more than the median or average. An ICE Tacoma may very well use way less brake than a EV Altima because the venn-diagram of people who drive like a bat out of hell and the people who buy Tacomas is approximately two circles.
by dekrg | 2025-07-24 12:03:58+00:00
So women with large breasts don't exist? Or should they not be represented in video games? I'm also curious what is the appropriate size of breasts for women to have in video games and how you and others like you determined it. And of course, you also have such standards for male characters and complain about unrepresentatively good looking or buff male characters, right?

And this being about sexual preferences is just you blatantly projecting. What I'm doing is pointing out how all this talk "representation" and "inclusivity" has nothing to do with actual representation and is just a thinly veiled cover for censorship.
by cardanome | 2025-07-24 12:04:07+00:00
> why is the breast slider in Dragonage Veilguard limited so that players can create only characters with small breasts

You have a game where you can wear different armor and clothing and you think the body shapes are restricted because of some grad woke conspiracy?

Ever thought about how you would make the armor look good with huge breasts? It would either clip, look silly stretched or you you have to make an extra big_boob version that would be an huge overhead. It is super normal that character creation in RPGs has some limits so that all equipment still fits you.

Also THAT is your problem? Are you for real? We are not even talking about the conventional western beauty standard anymore, that is just your very specific preference for huge boobs.

You might want to listen less to right-wing grifters that make up stories where there is nothing.
by Dracophoenix | 2025-07-24 12:05:16+00:00
> This should also come as a lesson to all the people that base their rationale in "government icky" moronic arguments. Corporations are all too happy to abuse consumers in the lack of proper regulations. While the government should not get blind faith, there are multiple avenues to scrutinize and question the government. Corporations on the other hand can and will fuck over everyone mercilessly without proper regulations.

Whoever said governments oppose this development? What makes you they're not ones holding the cards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Suasion#Jawboning
by smokel | 2025-07-24 12:05:29+00:00
Out of curiosity, how many of you are using Kotlin for backend development? It seems that Java has caught up a bit, and the advantages of Kotlin (extension methods, better syntax, better null-checking) might not be enough to justify the risk of lock- in?

Personally, I quite like Kotlin, but I haven't been able to convince most of my greybeard colleagues to make the leap.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-24 12:06:21+00:00
I can roach a set of economy tires in 20k but I slide through four ramps a day if there's no traffic. I can see someone in something modern that has 3x the power, 1.5 the weight and takes a way softer lower profile tire roaching them in less.

Lower profile rims also beat up tires way harder if you drive hard because the lack of sidewall flex lets you put more force to the ground which has to go through the tread of the tire to get there.

Modern tires for modern cars also bias toward soft and high wearing because there's pretty much no other way to keep higher end vehicles stuck to the ground with the power to weight they're making these days.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-24 12:07:59+00:00
What if the pot is very large.

I am paid very well. But my employer makes so much in profit that any loss to other engineers would be vastly outweighed by the amount won from the bosses.

Unions are not just about job security. They can fight for compensation and benefits. And job security is not some meaningless thing, even for competent workers. Getting laid off still sucks even if you can find another job. If you are here on a work visa that's going to be stressful as all hell even if you are a massively in-demand engineer. We can also see what happens when there are coordinated layoffs by the bosses. It is definitely not the case that all competent engineers are having fast turnarounds to get another job right now.
by jcynix | 2025-07-24 12:08:39+00:00
Metz in France has a tram like bus which travels through the city, partially on roads closed for normal traffic. The deal was, that the operator had to plan the routes to reach various. important points, like hospitals, schools, universities and large employers.

If you visit Metz, its easy to book a motel at the outskirts near an end stop of the train. Parking your car is free if you ride the train, the ticket serves as the exit ticket for the parking area too.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mettis_(bus_%C3%A0_haut_niveau...
by ignoramous | 2025-07-24 12:08:50+00:00
Broadcasters rule football. Even if there was no regulation, the broadcasters would be absolutely livid if their audience wanted to see the best players & top clubs play tiki-taka but were served smash & grab.

The Premier League & the Champions League are money spinning ventures for a reason.

What you say still happens in International Cricket, but not usually for club tournaments like The 100 or the Indian Premier League.
by jaza | 2025-07-24 12:09:00+00:00
See "List of assigned /8 blocks to commercial organizations" at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

Mercedes-Benz isn't the only corporation with its own /8 block - although it is the only non-US one; and it's a pretty small exclusive list, only six in total. I guess someone at Mercedes-Benz just happened to hear about this Internet thing relatively early (53.0.0.0/8 was registered Oct 1993 according to Wikipedia - the relevant European authority, RIPE NCC, was only founded in Apr 1992), and/or happened to have a buddy at IANA / RIPE NCC, and the rest is history.