MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rlupi | 2025-07-16 15:32:26+00:00
Physical/mental health and personal journaling?

I just finished some changes to my own little project that provides MCP access to my journal stored in Obsidian, plus a few CLI tools for time tracking, and today I added recursive yearly/monthly/weekly/daily automatic retrospectives. It can be tweaked for other purposes (e.g. project tracking) tweaking the templates.

https://github.com/robertolupi/augmented-awareness
by KetoManx64 | 2025-07-16 15:32:46+00:00
Yes, I style my LibreWolf/Floorp desktop applications to suit my preferences/workflow and I spend 8+ hours a day using them. I hide elements I don't need, make my sidebar tabs auto collapse/expand when I hover over them, change the scaling factor. While yes, the basic design is good and works for 90% of people that use Firefox, I have over the last decade developed a personal a workflow that works very well for me, and i would argue is much more efficient than the average users. The advantage of open source software is that you can mold them into the shape that suits your preferences.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-07-16 15:32:46+00:00
There are few youtube channels where host reads lot of publications on a particular current topic and gives his opinion summarizing the articles. This way news publications don't get monetary benefits but the youtube channel does. People who are just lazy to read will invariably gravitate to such methods of consuming news. I remember there was an article where one account was shared among the whole institution. It's exactly that but at a much wider scale. I expect crack down on fair use by such publications on those news channel.
by pixl97 | 2025-07-16 15:33:03+00:00
Eh, there are two conflicting things here.

The land is valuable as entertainment space. Such as temporary camping, hiking, fishing, and other outdoor activities. It is quite beautiful land.

Conversely there are also plots of land that are not valuable along the water where there is little natural beauty which leads to lower land prices, hence people setting up things like mobile homes and RVs as places to live that are less expensive options.
by js8 | 2025-07-16 15:33:06+00:00
Both can be true (and that's why I downvoted you in the other comment, for presenting this as a dichotomy), LLMs can reason and yet "stochastically parrot" the training data.

For example, LLM might learn a rule that sentences that are similar to "A is given. From A follows B.", are followed by statement "Therefore, B". This is modus ponens. LLM can apply this rule to wide variety of A and B, producing novel statements. Yet, these statements are still the statistically probable ones.

I think the problem is, when people say "AI should produce something novel" (or "are producing", depending whether they advocate or dismiss), they are not very clear what the "novel" actually means. Mathematically, it's very easy to produce a never-before-seen theorem; but is it interesting? Probably not.
by anonymars | 2025-07-16 15:33:08+00:00
I watched the first couple minutes of this video (certainly wasn't going to watch 40 minutes) then skipped ahead in chunks, thinking it was clips from different locations.

Then I scrubbed around and realized, no, it was the same place, which left me stunned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kYjiTEDqtw

Make sure to watch the last 3-5 minutes or so for the cherry on top. Then I recommend skipping back to the beginning to really drive home how insane this was.

I will never again be cavalier about flash flood warnings.
by alchemyzach | 2025-07-16 15:33:12+00:00
It's not that deep. Young couples need to have a primal sense of home and safety to want to raise kids, and no young people can afford a 3+ bedroom home anymore. And it's gone on so long now that "not wanting to have kids" has entered the culture and become a big part of many people's personalities today. But it all starts with the affordability of homes.

As to why life is less affordable today and getting worse, I would start here: https://www.suerf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/f_fa99ccdbe...
by doublerabbit | 2025-07-16 15:33:42+00:00
> This kind of doomerism is only accessible because you have social media and global news networks that expose you to the negativity bias of humanity.

I have zero social media, don't read the news, and have a happy stable lifestyle. I can afford to raise kids and ten years ago, yeah go for it. I wanted to have children.

Now? no way. My generation stops with me and many others my age (36) echo the same statement. I don't want to push kids through the next up-generations of the shite that's starting to pile up now.

"it's you because of X" is a strawman argurement. The world is bleak it's not a happy place but your welcome to keep that illusion.

We have wars, we have povetry, we have divide. Will it get better? Maybe, the future will decide but with my history of life doesn't feel like it will be anytime soon, I've seen in the past twenty years; how long do I wait for?

I like to think the good will always outweigh the evil however until something does come along and dethrones the current evil, issue consquences for their actions we are stuck here in a swurling-black-hole of dispair. That's realism and will that be you? Because I like to think it will be me. I can walk outside my apartment and see how shite it all is.

We have achieved so much, people are more educated than past generations, vaccines, advance technologies and the rest which is great. And now have a text box where you can ask a silly question of your choice and some robot will spit out the answer. Amazing stuff, the caveat being those running these systems are those who are producing the dysoptian mist.

> you can raise a family on a smaller budget than you'd imagine. Children are way less expensive than adults.

This is fallacy, i'm no father but there is much more expense then just feeding kids. What if your child get's ill? Need's special tutoring? Has a disability? Wants to learn to horse ride? Fair assumption if all kids were born equal but life isn't like that.

What if the "budget" ends up being cancelled, say losing your job because of some political reform and cuts? How do you raise children when themselves have no money; poverty is only increasing. Please tell because I'm sure their are plenty of homeless who would love to have that life hack.

The past didn't have rapid game changing technology like we have now.

Just because we are always evolving doesn't mean we can afford to in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if the next stage of evolution are desiginer-babies. Artfically created in a lab and ready to be posted to you to cradle. Some exec's wet dream and it's already in the making.

This isn't doomerism, this is real life, reality. Try looking outside the walled gardens and maybe you'll see the past, the present and the curtian of the future holding futuristic lies and corruption of the real world that shroud the real harmony of humanity.

We are at the best time in humanity but that can only be said by those who can afford it. Being pesstistmic is a downer, but being optistmic is bloody hard at the moment and to think some angel will come down from the sky and save us all, I won't stop you from dreaming.
by charcircuit | 2025-07-16 15:33:52+00:00
>Termux is glued to a truly ancient version of Android, because Android became inhospitable to basic Linux userland use cases.

No, this only a problem with Termux's approach of trying to put all apps into a single app. One Linux app should correspond to one Android app. This also makes it so that permissions you grant to the app is not to all of termux, but to a specific app.
by m-schuetz | 2025-07-16 15:34:24+00:00
Compute shaders, which can draw points faster than the native rendering pipeline. Although I have to admit that WebGPU implements things so poorly and restrictive, that this benefit ends up being fairly small. Storage buffers, which come along with compute shaders, are still fantastic from a dev convenience point of view since it allows implementing vertex pulling, which is much nicer to work with than vertex buffers.

For gaussian splatting, WebGPU is great since it allows implementing sorting via compute shaders. WebGL-based implementations sort on the CPU, which means "correct" front-to-back blending lags behind for a few frames.

But yeah, when you ask like that, it would have been much better if they had simply added compute shaders to WebGL, because other than that there really is no point in WebGPU.
by famouswaffles | 2025-07-16 15:34:52+00:00
>You can't claim half a billion users and simultaneously say you're still trying to grow.

You can if you're still growing. ChatGPT is the 5th most visited site on the planet yes, but it is still growing hundreds of millions of visits with every passing month.

They aren't turning a profit because they aren't monetizing the vast majority of subscribers in any way (not even ads). LLM inference is cheap enough for ads to be viable.
Ask HN: Good guides to securing containers used for unsupervised agentic coding
by prmph | 2025-07-16 15:35:15+00:00
Any good guides regarding how to secure containers that will be used to run agentic AI coding assistants unsupervised?

To be specific, I'd like to use Podman containers (running maybe Debian 12) for this, and: - lock them down to not accept any incoming traffic and only allow traffic to a small set of necessary domains - prevent unauthorized access to mounted secret files, sensitive env variables, etc - monitor traffic to minimize the chance of exfiltration of any sensitive information or code - prevent any attempt to remove these protections

I've looked creating a build for this myself, but it gets more complex the more I think about it. Messing around with firewall rules, container permissions, file access, proxy servers/software, etc. starts to become hairy real quickly.

Is there a guide or pre-built images for this?
by flohofwoe | 2025-07-16 15:35:27+00:00
> I also find webgpu to be a lot nicer in terms of DevEx than WebGL.

Amen.

IMHO a new major and breaking D3D version is long overdue. There must be plenty of learnings in which areas it was actually worth it to sacrifice ease-of-use for peformance and where it wasn't.

Or maybe something completely radical/ridiculous and make HLSL the new "D3D API" (with some parts of HLSL code running on the CPU, just enough to prepare CPU side data for upload to the GPU).
by fsckboy | 2025-07-16 15:36:08+00:00
I don't need recovery time afterward (apart from sleep), but when I'm surrounded by people who do I want some equivalent compensation, not because I feel I need it, but because I feel they are slackers (not saying they are objectively slackers, just saying that's how it feels to me). many compromises need to be made when sprinting all out, and in the aftermath what is restorative to me is cleaning up the technical debt while it's fresh in my mind and I can't understand that other people don't want to do the same thing.
by franga2000 | 2025-07-16 15:36:14+00:00
This is not about whose life is more valuable, that's a deep phisolophical question that can't be answered.

Why do armies send people to the front? To defend their citizens' lives from an invading army. By taking the developer away from a project where he saves many lives to the front where he can save few lives if any at all, you're the ond saying that the lives in Ukraine are more valuable than the lives of political dissidents, journalists, refugees, etc. everywhere else.
by lucas_membrane | 2025-07-16 15:36:22+00:00
Sorry, not that I know of. They never let me near that stuff, and the various really important standards bodies are monopoly providers of information, so they inevitably charge more for copies of their standards than non-subservients like me can afford. I just tried to quickly scan the 25,000+ ISO standards and did not find anything even possibly related under $100. The Securities Industry Association was the maven of bonds when I was trying to figure them out, but, knock me over with a feather, they were dissolved almost 20 years ago. You might start with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Financial Markets Standards Board, the Bank for International Settlements, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, or https://www.bis.org/publ/mktc13.pdf.
by ForHackernews | 2025-07-16 15:36:36+00:00
I think that's absolutely true in the happy scenario when the internet is up.

There's a requirement that during outages each site continue operating independently and might* need to make writes to data "outside" its normal partition. By having active-active replication the hope is that the whole thing recovers "automatically" (famous last words) to a consistent state once the network comes back.
by cyw | 2025-07-16 15:37:02+00:00
Thank you for your feedback — I can see where the concerns are coming from. We did use Claude Code to help build the landing page, which I believe is why it has that “template-ish” feel. We’ve been mostly heads-down on the backend and infrastructure, and yeah… design isn’t really our strength yet.

The GitHub (and other) icons linking to github.com was just a miss — they were on our checklist, but we somehow let them slip through. We’ll get that fixed right away.

I know a lot of startups fall into the vaporware category, but I’m confident that’s not the case here. We’re building this to solve our own problems, and we’re committed to shipping it. We really appreciate the skepticism — it's the kind of feedback we might have missed if you hadn’t pointed it out.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-16 15:37:03+00:00
Can't see it competing with battery electric on one hand and fossil-fuels and e-fuels on the other. Even for heavy industry I think dimethyl ether makes more sense:

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

I used to think that making e-fuels off concentrated CO2 sources from industrial sources made no sense but it could make the economics of the fuel synthesizer a lot better though it doesn't mix with the idea that the fuel synthesizer runs only when cheap energy is available.
by littlestymaar | 2025-07-16 15:37:07+00:00
Reminds me of the Louvois[1] disaster in the French armed forces, they fucked the payment system so bad they had to roll back to manual accounting for a moment. Yes, for the whole French Army, which was at the time involved in multiple foreign operations…

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logiciel_unique_%C3%A0_vocatio...
by naysunjr | 2025-07-16 15:37:29+00:00
It will never happen. Zero evidence any organic as complex as a human can move planets. It’s not an emergent event that’s common enough for us to have observed so far it’s too unlikely.

Some dried goo in a meteor or some poetic notion of consciousness being the innate physical interaction of electromagnetism and matter such that consciousness is everywhere and imagining the potential is as good as humans will ever get.
by sunshine-o | 2025-07-16 15:37:31+00:00
I see a very worrisome pattern emerging in Europe.

- I see a lot of absurd and humiliating headlines (it doesn't matter if it is real or not, it ends up on people feeds). And in general it seems a disdain for their population.

- I see a very belligerent attitude toward Russia for example, but others too from the governing class.

- I remember Spain and Portugal going dark for almost a day a few weeks ago because of a glitch.

- I am pretty sure countries like Russia can easily throw Europe into chaos with a cyberattack.

- I see a young generation with no future

What I mean is Europe could get a taste of regime change because its control of the population is a lot electronic and bureaucratic. This is not the old days when a lot of control was the ability to deploy a lot of muscles in the street.

No more wiretap, geolocation if the phone doesn't work anymore during a week long of blackout. No more CCTV probably in most places.

I mean forget Russia, the US could feel it is in their interest too.
by wpm | 2025-07-16 15:37:31+00:00
I have a silly theory that I only half joke about that docker/containers wouldn't've ever taken off as fast as it did if it didn't solve the horrible python dependency hell so well. You know something is bad when fancy chrooting is the only ergonomic way of shipping something that works.

My first taste of Python was as a sysadmin, back in 2012 or so, installing a service written in Python on a server. The dependency hell, the stupid venv commands, all this absolute pain just to get a goddamn webserver running, good lord. It turned me off of Python for over a decade. Almost any time I saw it I just turned and walked away, not interested, no thanks. The times I didn't, I walked right back into that pile of bullshit and remembered why I normally avoided it. The way `brew` handles it on macOS is also immensely frustrating, breaking basic pip install commands, installing libraries as commands but in ways that make them not available to other python scripts, what a goddamn disaster.

And no, I really have no clue what I'm talking about, because as someone starting out this has been so utterly stupid and bewildering that I just move on to more productive, pleasant work with a mental note of "maybe when Python gets their shit together I'll revisit it".

However, uv has, at least for my beginner and cynical eyes, swept away most of the bullshit for me. At least superficially, in the little toy projects I am starting to do in Python (precisely because its such a nicer experience), it sweeps away most of the horrid bullshit. `uv init`, `uv add`, `uv run`. And it just works*.
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-07-16 15:37:34+00:00
Wild that OpenAI is changing so much that you can post about how things have radically changed in a year, and consider yourself a long-timer after < 16 months. I'm highly skeptical that an org this big is based on merit and there wasn't a lot of political maneuvering. You can have public politics or private politics, but no politics doesn't exist - at least after you hit <some> number of people where "some" is definitely < the size of OpenAI. All I hear about OpenAI is politics these days,
by fragmede | 2025-07-16 15:38:15+00:00
Define creativity. Three things LLMs can do is write song lyrics, poems, and jokes, all of which require some level of what we think of as human creativity. Of course detractors will say LLM versions of those three aren't very good, and they may even be right, but a twelve year old child coming up with the same would be seen as creative, even if they didn't get significant recognition for it.
by freedomben | 2025-07-16 15:38:38+00:00
I can see that we have a fundamental different understanding of what "AI" is, and also of what "value" is:

> This is doing nothing other than adding a chatbot GUI to existing statistical software analysis tools.

If that's all you think AI is and all that people are doing with it, I would respectfully suggest that you don't know what you're talking about. The chat interfaces are just UIs. Most researchers are not just typing prompts into a chat UI. If that's all it was, then I would agree with you, but it's not

> > Whether it was written by Shakespeare himself or AI, is irrelevant

> I couldn't disagree more, the products of AI lack all value of the original works, namely that it was created through the mental effort of a real human, is known to this day due to being impactful or influential in some way, and that the output of the originals is limited in scope to what the author produced during their lifetime (scarcity).

Firstly, you did clip a sentence fragment and take it out of context (the rest of that sentence adds an important qualifier) so I encourage others to actually read what I wrote and not just this clip. I think you did it in good faith but I just wanted to state that this clip alone is not representative of my view.

Why does it being created through the mental effort of a real human give it more value? If you were looking at a human created painting and an AI one and you couldn't tell the difference, then what does it matter for whether you enjoy it or not? What if there were other intelligent species capable of creating art? Would their production not be valuable because they aren't human? IMHO art is valuable because of the enjoyment it provides to people, not because of who created it.
by retskrad | 2025-07-16 15:38:40+00:00
Reading text is a recent phenomenon and the brain doesn't have hardware acceleration. I'm not surprised that less and less people read long form text. Becoming an intermediate reader is exhausting when you didn’t grow up with books. After 500 hours, I can only navigate titles like The Selfish Gene with middling comprehension. Black text on white background feels flat and dopamine free, yet the grind itself becomes the reward, and social media’s quick hits lose their appeal.
by whatevsmate | 2025-07-16 15:38:44+00:00
I'm not sure I disagree with you really - and I ack that webgpu feels like 2015 tech to someone who knows their stuff. I don't have a take on "l33t gfx coder"; I'm a hobbyist not a professional, and I've enjoyed getting up to speed with WebGPU over and above my experiences with WebGL. Happy to be schooled.

I've never impl PBF or raytracing because my interests haven't gone that way. I don't find SDFs to be a particularly difficult concept to "study up on" either though. It's about as close to math-as-drawing that I've seen and doesn't require much more than a couple triangles and a fragment shader. By contrast I've been learning about SVT for a couple months and still haven't quite pieced together a working impl in webgpu... though I understand there are extensions specifically in support of virtual tiling that WebGPU could pursue in a future version.

Agreed DevEx broadly isn't great when working on graphics. But WebGPU feels like a considerable improvement rather than a step backward.
by meristohm | 2025-07-16 15:39:04+00:00
"Surely, you have one job and that is to deliver tech that works—not to waste users' time by giving them irrelevant copy to read which has no functional value."

Microsoft has been doing this for years, with its messages during Windows setup, along the lines of "sit back and relax while we work our magic" which is at best annoying.
by Yizahi | 2025-07-16 15:39:51+00:00
Nobody argues that LLMs aren't useful for some bulk processing of billion datapoints or looking for obscure correlations in the unedited data. But the premise of the Gwern's article is that to be considered thinking, LLM must initiate such search on it's own and arrive to a novel conclusion on it's own.

Basically if:

A) Scientist has an idea > triggers LLM program to sift through a ton of data > LLM print out correlation results > scientist read them and proves/disproves an idea. In this case, while LLM did a bulk of work here, it did not arrive at a breakthrough on its own.

B) LLM is idling > then LLM triggers some API to get some specific set of data > LLM correlates results > LLM prints out a complete hypothesis with proof (or disproves it). In this case we can say that LLM did a breakthrough.
by flohofwoe | 2025-07-16 15:40:24+00:00
...that's assuming that the WebGPU API is set in stone, which hopefully it isn't.

They'd do well to follow the D3D model (major breaking versions, while guaranteeing backward compatibility for older versions) - e.g. WebGPU2, WebGPU3, WebGPU4 each being a mostly new API without having to compromise for backward compatibility.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-16 15:40:24+00:00
The problem is national security consequences of it. Handing out nation-backed ID card tied to secure identity undermines sovereignty of the nation, because it means Walmart and likes can (illegally) exert political influence by silently or openly classing and discriminating you.

It is important that personal ID is only transparent and spoof-proof to legitimate government the individual identifies with, and that soft ID databases that private entities may build have limitations in its completeness.

That's not trivial to do right, especially through bureaucratic government processes.