MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gpm | 2025-07-15 15:59:04+00:00
Blocking is the wrong terminology here. Cloudflare is not an ISP which fetches whatever you ask for from third parties. It's a company contracted by the web site owners to distribute their websites. It's much more accurate to say that Cloudflare is no longer acting as a host for pirate sites in the UK.

The shocking part of this isn't that they aren't participating in that form of crime in the UK, it's that they're somehow able to participate in it in the rest of the world.

And I say this as someone who thinks that copyright laws are largely unjust, preventing people from engaging with their own culture, but that doesn't make them not the law.
by sealeck | 2025-07-15 15:59:17+00:00
Even then, this isn't actually what you want. When people say deterministic, at one level they mean "this thing should be a function" (so input x always returns the same output y). Some people also use determinism to mean they want a certain level of "smoothness" so that the function behaves predictably (and they can understand it). That is "make me a sandwich" should not return radically different results to "make me a cucumber sandwich".

As you note, your scheme significantly solves the first problem (which is a pretty weak condition) but fails to solve the second problem.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-15 15:59:36+00:00
I was going to say "The FDA, in general, does not tell you which medications you can or cannot take." but often when people make a comment like yours and you press them on it, it turns out they're angry because they can't find a doctor who will inject something insane into an unusual part of their body so instead I am going to ask:

What medicine, SPECIFICALLY PLEASE, does the FDA not allow you to have?

edit: because I'm pretty sure you can find doctors who will prescribe 3 liters per minute of elephant farts to treat high blood pressure, or compound up some turbofentanyl mixed with vitamin q to grow hair on your gooch if you look hard enough and there's nothing the FDA can do about it so most of the time peoples' problems are with insurance companies or pesky medical ethics and various state boards of medicine.
by wingerlang | 2025-07-15 15:59:48+00:00
I use the mouse a lot. I am using a home made [0] app that gives me dropzones when I move a window. The dropzones show up AT the mouse, I can more or less flick the window to where I want it without moving it anywhere or using the keyboard. Although I have not set it up on my newest macbook yet, and I find the default behavior OK.

I do use hot corners extensively to switch between apps and app windows. Can NOT live without them.

[0] It's actually a modified version of an old Rectangle version
by paulcole | 2025-07-15 16:00:12+00:00
> What tasks is it better at doing than other technologies we have available to us? I'm not being sarcastic, I generally want to know in which areas you think it is better.

I, a below average programmer, can write code myself but it takes time and effort that is generally incompatible with my actual job. With an LLM I am able to write code with a level of time and effort that fits very nicely inside my job.

It can figure things out in a fraction of the time that it would take me. The limiting factor is no longer the depth of my technical knowledge but rather the knowledge of my business.

Sure, I could hire someone to do the coding for me but with an LLM available, why would I? And in that situation I would have to teach that person about the business because that would become their limiting factor if they could code as fast as the LLM.
by morgothmagi | 2025-07-15 16:00:27+00:00
The official documentation around WordPress’s Gutenberg block system (especially in the full site editing context) sucks. The best way I found to get close to understanding the potential valid properties was to parse the WordPress GitHub.

I got tired of reverse engineering block structures just to build custom themes and blocks, so I built this. A searchable, structured doc site focused specifically on block-level markup and patterns.

Feedback and contributions welcome: https://github.com/house-of-giants/wp-block-docs
by johnisgood | 2025-07-15 16:00:42+00:00
This is how I block VPNs for game servers: https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/schachtmeister2/about/. It could work for any servers. It is very easy to do so. It gives you a "score" of the IP address (README.md explains it) that connected to your server, and you can decide what to do based on that, for example in my game servers there are certain thresholds. It has been working great.
by lambda | 2025-07-15 16:01:17+00:00
I barely use email any more, not just due to blatant spam, but also due to companies that I need to receive one notification email each time I do a transaction, or to verify an account, as an excuse to send me daily or weekly emails.

I can't necessarily block them because I might need them for a password reset or a future transaction. I spent a while trying to set up filters that work, but eventually got tired of trying to fight it.

Now I mostly just avoid email for anything other than these things, and have just given up on it otherwise.

Spam won. Email lost.

And social media services are losing in similar ways. Rather than showing me things from people I subscribe to, they're pushing all kinds of automated "content for you" that I don't want and can't opt out of. So I'm pulling away from them as well.

The internet is filling with slop and distraction, both AI generated and not, and we haven't "solved" it, it's constantly getting worse.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-07-15 16:01:23+00:00
interesting, Dara o Brien makes the same joke. Can't be bothered to check which came first.

2min58

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKZN-hBTBUE&pp=ygUcbyBCcmlhbiB...

I think comedy trends have fashions. At the time comedians made jokes about religion, now they make jokes about trans people, or about being "canceled". When you narrow the range of jokes you might increase the joke collision rate.
by aredox | 2025-07-15 16:01:24+00:00
He was literaly forbidden to fly out of the US because of a health issue (a torn calf), and ended up 100 days in detention and is now banned from entering the US for 10 years.

Beware: entering the US for any reason, even just tourism or visiting friends, is a danger to your life, your health and your business.

All tech conferences should be organised outside of the US; you are putting all your foreign attendees in danger otherwise.
by nudgeOrnurture | 2025-07-15 16:02:46+00:00
Nice one. If I had the clarity back in the day, I would have done the same. The number one reason was the people around. They were nothing, but the only kind I knew and so I wasted time and life.

Once you have your degrees, you can spend another year or more on developing your fresh, more or less nooby expertise into more than was possible while you were, well, institutionalized.

Doing it slow, at the suggested, tried and tested speed, in hindsight, is only worth it if you get to spend your free time with people who matter.

But nobody tells you speedrunning is an option. And often enough, someone telling you, briefly explaining it for good, is all it takes.

Yet unaware polymaths get the greatest benefits, of course. The faster you get to the expert speedrunner level, the quicker you realize how much your mind wants to expand and whether it's in depth or breadth.

Educators should be tought to spot kids like that and encourage them.
by pjc50 | 2025-07-15 16:03:39+00:00
See https://cybersecurityadvisors.network/2025/04/15/la-liga-blo... : I'm slightly surprised that this hasn't caught up with them too. It used to be important to stay somewhat "below the radar" when pirating, not creating an account at one of the largest internet services. But then anti-piracy enforcement is about money and going after soft targets.
by bmacho | 2025-07-15 16:03:42+00:00
SCP is CC-SA-BY anyway, so you can download it from torrent, modify it, resell it, if you want to[0]. It's basically GPL, so you can do that with anything that has any relation to an SCP (derivative of a derivative of a derivative)

[0] : https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/licensing-guide
by charles_f | 2025-07-15 16:03:54+00:00
> I remember when AI meant AGI

Interestingly I had the same definition, and at the same time there's always been multiple definitions. I have always called whatever animated NPC in games "AI", even when the thing is hard coded and not very intelligent at all. I guess that calling AI a category of tools that are artificial and somewhat intelligent is fair.

I also anticipate that what we call AGI will be fluid, and that marketing being marketing, we'll start calling actual products AGI before it would be genuine.
by delusional | 2025-07-15 16:04:16+00:00
That is a wonderful question, but it's very hard to answer without essentially knowing me, and that may be a little bit ambitious for a comment.

I'm a software engineer. I consider this some of the most important work of our generation. The hardware we've made today has unlocked an until now impossible control over the world. We don't have to mechanically devise a way to make a clock that tracks the stars. We can just program it into a microchip, and it'll just do it. We don't have to manage an untold thousands of people to calculate our taxes. We can write it into a computer and it can just do it. Forever and perfectly. We're just not applying it.

I've reached the point of despair. It's not a AI doom kind of despair, where I believe that AI is going rogue or whatever. It's a much more pedestrian of despair. We have tremendous problems ahead of us. Both when it comes to the climate, but also when it comes to just doing the things that society always has to do and AI doesn't offer anything to any of the actual problems of society.

While people are dying of Ebola in Africa and Americans are dying because they can't pay for healthcare, we are talking about automating software development for ad-tech companies. It's embarrassing. This is my field, these are my people, and this is the best we have to offer.

I try to abstain from that despair by just not engaging with it. Either AI will happen and we'll take it from there, or it wont and then we'll have wasted a lot of effort and will hopefully never had any credibility as an industry again. I can't make a difference in either of those outcomes, so I just want it to go away.

Let me make it clear though. I too love the math behind recent AI. I even love the engineering behind how we do fast GEMM on GPU's. The challenges are really fun technically. That just can't be what decides our direction.

I hope that somewhat answered it a little. It's a bit hard to get such a large topic rooted so deeply in me into a comment. Thinking about the future in relation to these billion dollar companies and what they make does actually make me emotional.
by magicalist | 2025-07-15 16:05:00+00:00
> LLMs might shake out differently from the social web, but I don't think that speculating about the flexibility of demand curves is a particularly useful exercise in an industry where the marginal cost of inference capacity is measured in microcents per token

That we might come to companies saying "it's not worth continuing research or training new models" seems to reinforce the OP's point, not contradict it.
by Reubachi | 2025-07-15 16:05:15+00:00
Our brain decodes info based on context and extrapolation

This submission we're commenting on could be about filtering out any data, not just AI stuff. Politics, crypto, AI etc. Or more minute like "Trump" "fracking" "bitcoin" etc.

In any of these scenarios, with a tool designed to filter out content based on limited context, when would you ever be perfectly satisfied?

would you like AI to help you build the perfect context-filter model?
by gitaarik | 2025-07-15 16:05:52+00:00
It's probably because you never did the Django tutorial. Once you understand what what does, it's actually very nice, because you don't have any boilerplate. Django takes care of the boring parts, and you can focus on making the app. But at the same time you still have control to customize everything to your liking. And the docs are very good and complete, so you can always look up stuff if you don't understand it.
by nhinck2 | 2025-07-15 16:05:54+00:00
Wouldn't an antimeme be something that was non-communicable?

It'd be the idea of something being perfectly memorable but when you attempt to describe it or begin in anyway to record or communicate about it your mind just goes blank, only for the memory to re-emerge some time later like a shower nightmare. Forever in your head but unable to pass onto anyone else.
by D13Fd | 2025-07-15 16:06:01+00:00
I’ll put 3-4 hours into gaming from around 8:30-12:30 pm after the kids go to bed. It takes the place of most TV, movies, or social media for me. On the weekends it can be a bit more. I also do competitive gaming and during the comp seasons I have some later nights.

That has been my schedule since 2008 or so, and it adds up (or so my Steam numbers tell me).
by praptak | 2025-07-15 16:06:07+00:00
I remember having woken up from a dream where I recognised that a) I'm dreaming and b) It's the same dream I had years ago (a sequel maybe). I can't keep dreaming while being aware that I'm dreaming (supposedly you can train this skill but I haven't) so I woke up.

Obviously I don't remember what the actual dream was, just that I suddenly realised it's a dream from the distant past.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-15 16:06:20+00:00
The ads (and it's been debated) is (imho as well) a way to 'buy out those who can keep then in check'. Media/journalists are supposed to be doing that. But when your chief editor tells you "hey, 70% of our network's revenue comes from XYZ" even if you don't want to, you self-censor.

Anyway I have commented many times on the 'legalized bribing' called 'lobbying'. The dishonest ones always week because those with $$$ know very well who can they buy and who can they threaten.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-07-15 16:06:53+00:00
They typically make mountains out of minor gripes with Wayland while completely ignoring the huge gaping holes in X11 that made Wayland necessary to begin with. You cannot give normal users a DE that lets any random application have complete control over all of your desktop applications. Sure, it is fine to say, "I am not a normal user, so don't push Wayland on me until it fixes my gripes," but because the author is not a normal user, he should not be using distros intended for normal users. That's on him.
by e3bc54b2 | 2025-07-15 16:07:14+00:00
> LLMs are the first step in the movement away from (...) the logic based language

This dumb thing again.. The logic based language was and remains a major improvement [0] in being able to build abstractions because it allows the underlying implementations to be 'deterministic'. The natural language misses that mark by such a wide margin that it is impossible to explain in nicer language. And if one wants to make the argument that people achieve that anyway, perhaps you reading through one [1] will put that thought to rest :)

[0] www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...
by kridsdale3 | 2025-07-15 16:08:01+00:00
Well, they haven't really tried yet.

The Meta app Threads had no ads for the first year, and it was wonderful. Now it does, and its attractiveness was only reduced by 1% at most. Meta is really good at knowing the balance for how much to degrade UX by having monetization. And the amount they put in is hyper profitable.

So let's see Gemini and GPT with 1% of response content being sponsored. I doubt we'll see a user exodus and if that's enough to sustain the business, we're all good.
by BWStearns | 2025-07-15 16:08:04+00:00
Me and my wife made something very similar (https://nativi.sh/). I find it's a really good use case for LLMs to actually help you learn rather than doing everything for you.

Also, not sure if you're getting hugged to death but I'm getting this in the interface but not seeing any network failures.

``` Unable to process correction

Error processing your text. Please try again. ```
by Centigonal | 2025-07-15 16:08:06+00:00
I can run an LLM on my RTX3090 that is at least as useful to me in my daily life as an AAA game that would otherwise justify the cost of the hardware. This is today, which I suspect is in the upper part of the Kuznets curve for AI inference tech. I don't see a future where LLMs are too expensive to run (at least for some subset of valuable use cases) as likely.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-15 16:08:09+00:00
For the record, I have been running Arch Linux many years ago as well for desktop, and the only issue I ran into was related to not having updated archlinux-keyring before downloading other updates. This is most likely solved though, because it is no longer an issue. I see sometimes that there is a new version of it and it seems to work without updating it first, but to be honest, I always update archlinux-keyring first as a "just in case". Old habit.
by osti | 2025-07-15 16:08:17+00:00
If you are seriously equating these two with AI, then you have horrible judgements and should learn to think critically, but unfortunately for you, I don't think critical thinking can be learned despite what people say.

Note that I'm not even going to bother arguing against your point and instead resort to personal attacks,because I believe it would be a waste of time to argue against people with poor judgment.
by Jach | 2025-07-15 16:08:22+00:00
Yup. Lots of products in the education space. Even doctors are using LLMs, while talking with patients. All sorts of teams are using the adjacent products for image and (increasingly) video generation. Translation freelancers have been hit somewhat hard because LLMs do "good enough" quite a bit better than old google translate.

Coding is relevant to the HN bubble, and as tech is the biggest driver of the economy it's no surprise that tech-related AI usages will also be the biggest causes of investment, but it really is used in quite a lot of places out there already that aren't coding related at all.
by brokencode | 2025-07-15 16:08:22+00:00
> “most people agree that the output is trite and unpleasant to consume”

That is a such a wild claim. People like the output of LLMs so much that ChatGPT is the fastest growing app ever. It and other AI apps like Perplexity are now beginning to challenge Google’s search dominance.

Sure, probably not a lot of people would go out and buy a novel or collection of poetry written by ChatGPT. But that doesn’t mean the output is unpleasant to consume. It pretty undeniably produces clear and readable summaries and explanations.
by a_imho | 2025-07-15 16:08:25+00:00
I would argue that sortition is Democracy. From a purely technical point of view to be anti-sortition is to be anti-democracy, which is fine I guess but begs a lot of questions.

From a practical point of view the selection process is a bit of a red herring though. The current controls break down because the feedback loop is simply way too long to meaningfully affect the process.

While I personally subscribe to the idea that sortition is a superior way of electing representatives I don't see people considering it seriously. However what everyone can understand is using the same process but with sampling with a higher frequency.
by vasco | 2025-07-15 16:08:42+00:00
It shows you don't watch them, you can obviously find Hollywood-without-the-budget cause the people that work in Hollywood come from somewhere, but you also have things that are completely outside. Some documentary about a Georgian truck driver who goes across the country side selling supplies from the city to the villages with long, no dialog shots that go for several minutes, has nothing to do with Hollywood productions and there's a million fractal things like this that would be way too "boring" for mass consumption.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-15 16:08:54+00:00
I don't care about the anecdote and its origin (but I did read this and thank you for setting the record straight). I don't care about Bono either :) He's a singer in a band that once made great music, and got lots of money, and does some good things about it. It's the parallelism of the statements 'stop clapping' x 'stop setting off bombs' that cracked me up.
by programjames | 2025-07-15 16:09:19+00:00
Well, your previous comment brought up the issue that 50 points on the SAT doesn't really predict anything universities care about. I was just trying to show how we could fix this problem by making the tests harder. I'm not claiming they're fully predictive, and that feels like moving the goalposts.

I'm very aware there are things a test can't measure. I feel like you should have been the one to bring up these things, but here are a few examples:

- Artistic creativity

- Maker ability

- Entrepeunership

- Political power

I think the issue is, since you didn't identify what a test is missing out on, you weren't sure how to take it into account with university admissions. I have a question for you: do you think someone who is just below the cutoff based on the test, but started a business worth $10m, just does not deserve to be entered into the lottery? That'd be propesterous. So, what is the solution? More holistic admissions that try to take into account these harder-to-put-a-number-on skills.
by th0ma5 | 2025-07-15 16:09:40+00:00
We have no idea how they work. We know the training making a model and generating things from it, but the thing we want from it being an Oracle or something, we have no idea how that works at the level of the specific knowledge it generates. And when we dig into it doesn't reveal anything very interesting. The premise of put everything digital in a pile and see if makes something like a god is a neat idea, but the god is literally playing dice.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-15 16:09:41+00:00
I think it's important to remember that the inspiration for the assembly line was the disassembly line used at Armour, Swift, and Wilson meat packing plants to take apart cattle.

Running that process backwards, along with the Gage Blocks and metrology to allow the production of truly interchangeable parts on an industrial scale, is what made the assembly line a practical system.
by kg | 2025-07-15 16:10:19+00:00
Some more assorted interesting stuff by one of the authors of SCP-055:

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

https://qntm.org/structure

https://qntm.org/hatetris

qntm is a fantastic writer & programmer I had the pleasure of working with on a project in the past. If you're looking for stuff to read that gets your neurons firing, there's a lot to find on their website.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-15 16:10:22+00:00
It's far more this, plus a combo of not only targeting the largest common denominator, but having to do that internationally which obliterates any script's ability to tie into cultural knowledge or norms, or the "vibes" of any given population. Not to mention nothing ever goes to screen that can't be quickly scooped out to appease the Chinese censors, lest they lose the largest audience on earth right out of the gate.

And I don't think you can totally disregard that movies cost more than they ever have to make while also looking worse than they ever have. The special effects in Pirates of the Caribbean utterly trounce newer productions that cost far more to make just for everyone to bounce around green screen stages in motion capture pajamas, and to be clear, this is not industry professionals costing too much or being bad at their jobs, it's almost solely down to the studios wanting the ability to hysterically tinker with films until the 11th hour to ensure maximum market reach.

The industry should be ashamed of itself.