MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ruszki | 2025-07-08 06:35:57+00:00
Which timeline? You said that things stayed relatively the same between 2005 and 2015. Then that change was way more between 1995 and 2001, and 2017 and 2025. Then said that iPhone is in the timeline of between 1995 and 2001, or 2017 and 2025, and it was released in 2007. So it’s clearly not in your timeline, and it’s ridiculous that I need to explain this this detailed, that no, your timeline and your dates don’t line up at all. Also give me examples for what you mean larger changes between 1995 and 2001, and 2017 and 2025 for the general populace. That’s because I did everything what I can do now with a smartphone on my dumb phone in 2002, doesn’t mean that people’s life was changed that much, especially that nobody thought that I’m continuously online in 2001, for example.

Also once again, the general populace didn’t call, and doesn’t call those smartphones. I had a P900, and exactly zero people used the word “smartphone” back then, except marketing people. You remember terribly wrong, if you think otherwise. Also smartphone penetration skyrocketed not in 2007, but between 2013 and 2015. In 2010-2011, I was still considered early adopter. In 2015, half of internet users came from a phone. So no, that change didn’t happen before 2005, no matter how you want to distort reality.
by csomar | 2025-07-08 06:36:09+00:00
1- I agree that speed is intelligence[+], but you're suggesting we can reduce accuracy, increase speed, and get better results. I don't buy it.

2- I'm confused. Claude Code and a Neovim plugin I used both do edits/diffs. Are you saying they're actually rewriting entire files instead?

3- Aren't "simple tasks" just things you train the model on? If so, are you solving a bunch of simple tasks or offering custom training?

> No more slow full-file rewrites or brittle search-and-replace hacks.

Here's the thing - LLMs are already blazing fast. I commented the other day that you could probably write Chrome's entire code base in a couple months at average speed. The bottleneck isn't speed, it's accuracy; that's of course my opinion.

+: https://omarabid.com/claude-magic
by globular-toast | 2025-07-08 06:37:19+00:00
I never took the ending as a sequel tease. Always thought it was just the bit where your imagination would take over. It's kinda perfect. He doesn't have to dodge bullets any more, what would you do if you could bend reality to your will? Fly obviously.

It wasn't anything like the end of Back to the Future or the Marvel films where it's not just shameless but de rigueur to include a bit of the next one.
Ask HN: Do you use LLM for HTML translations?
by Mooty | 2025-07-08 06:37:31+00:00
I've came accross a good but quite hard problem to solve which is to translate HTML pages into whatever human langage.

I've started tinkering with DeepL which proposes this feature but results are quite off the rails because you cannot provide any context to it.

So well, it was a clear case for an LLM to me. After crafting a good context prompt, I've tried o4-mini from OpenAI and it's results are nearly perfect.

However came business around and I need to be able to this WAY faster, as a ~100ko page will take like a minute to generate, which is way too long for the end user.

I've optimised content a little (sending only html parts that are interesting) but it's still quite slow in the end (more than 10s). I'm thinking about translating html to json and do it back after translation, so it might be faster.

Does anyone do this as well ? Or has any insight of a better performing API/LLM for this problem ?
Ask HN: Has anyone else learned English just by reading tech posts (like HN)?
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-08 06:38:27+00:00
Hi HN, I'm curious if anyone else had a similar journey learning English.

I'm from Ukraine and started reading Hacker News about five years ago. At first, I understood almost nothing. I didn’t use a translator — partly because I was lazy, and partly because I wanted to see how much I could figure out just from context.

So I kept reading. I would see the same words appear in different posts and comments, and slowly, I began to understand their meaning. Sentence structures became clearer, and I started to “feel” the language. Eventually, I stopped being afraid of reading in English altogether.

I didn’t learn from a teacher or a course — just from the internet, and mostly from here.

Now I write posts, share my projects, and even chat with other devs here — all in English. It still feels surreal sometimes.

Have any of you learned English (or another language) in a similar way — just by immersion, without formal study?

Also: thank you, HN. You taught me more than just tech.
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-08 06:39:50+00:00
I think you're in a tiny minority if you think it's easier to read and understand algorithms written using recursive tail calls than imperative loops. Even outside of programming, take a look at most work being done in algorithm research - you'll see that most often algorithms are described in an imperative pseudo-code, and using a mix of loops and regular recursion (not tail recursion), with maybe some mapping and filtering constructs in addition.

Tail recursion in particualr is the least human-friendly way to represent looping. It mixes input and output parameters of the function in any but the most trivial cases. It also forces the caller to figure out what is the base value for all of the output parameters (often requiring a separate function just to provide those to callers). And it basically takes an implementation detail and makes it a part of your function interface.

Even in math, you typically define recursive functions like f(x) = 1 + f(x-1), not f(x, y) = f(x-1, y+1); g(x) = f(x, 0).
by dvdplm | 2025-07-08 06:40:02+00:00
Sadism for some, sure. For most IDF personnel I guess it’s more about “operational expediency”: if the population is terrified they’ll listen to your evacuation orders and show up to your aid distribution/killing fields on time. Finding terrorists one by one is hard work; tossing a bomb on a whole building is quicker and safer.

Terror is just a tool in the end.
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-07-08 06:40:12+00:00
> the update snippet provided is referencing css thats not defined

That isn't how HTML works.

You mean the new HTML has classes which from what your LLM can see has no styles applied.

Maybe those styles are in a different file or maybe the developer didn't want any styles applied, the editing LLM would not know that.

It is completely broken behavior and you lied about it at first. Your model should not be writing code! It should just be applying edits given to it.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-07-08 06:40:23+00:00
AGI can't be defined, because it's the means by which definitions are created. You can only measure it contemporaneously by some consensus method such as ARC.

You can't define AGI, any more than you can define ASA (artificial sports ability). Intelligence, like athleticism changes both quantitively and qualitatively. The Greek Olympic champions of 2K yrs ago wouldn't qualify for high school championships today, however, they were once regarded as great athletes.
by bhaktatejas922 | 2025-07-08 06:41:02+00:00
Accuracy of course comes first - errors of any sort break flow state and are massively disruptive. Claude Code does search and replace. The failure rate of search and replace is rather high (over 11%) but claude can self correct them. Fast Apply is more accurate than search and replace. Full file rewrites for files under 10k tokens can work quite well - like 98%+ but its absurdly expensive and slow. Fast Apply is a much better option that balances speed and accuracy
by anovikov | 2025-07-08 06:41:25+00:00
To put it in comparison, accident rate of helicopters is 71x that of airliners per flight hour, or at least 250x per kilometre flown, or at least 20x per flight. Per flight, this is 1980s airliner level, per hour, 1970s level, and per kilometre, it is 1960s level. Helicopters may have become safer but they are far from what we perceive as "safe" - people in 1960s were afraid of flying and legitimately so.
by godelski | 2025-07-08 06:42:10+00:00
We're really good at detecting radiation. Like REALLY good. It's because we spent a lot of money during the Cold War trying to detect nuclear materials. This includes underground weapons testing, being able to detect underground nuclear signatures via satellites, and even very trace amounts on people's clothing because it can help detect spies. It then was found that these things could be used for tons of stuff, such as tracking not spies lol.

But seriously, we can detect levels thousands of times lower than what's dangerous. You can even get pretty good dosimiters for like $100 these days
by rippeltippel | 2025-07-08 06:46:53+00:00
My understanding of a "digital twin" is not as something that aims at simulating human biochemistry. It's rather a model that captures specific aspects, not necessarily biological ones. There's a good amount of literature on that subject, e.g. interesting meta-studies studies as [1] and [2], and more [3].

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10379674

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-024-01073-0

[3] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=digital+twin+health&hl=...
by rennokki | 2025-07-08 06:49:36+00:00
Location: Europe (GMT+2/+3) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Next.js, Typescript, Laravel, PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, AI, ML, AI/ML, Machine Learning, LLM, Redis, Terraform, Vite, DevOps, Node.js, Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-renoki Email: alex@thecodefather.co

Out-of-the-box thinker with an amazing, efficient, hyper-focused mind. Tables got wiped in production? I am the one who stays calm while everyone is in panic mode, running around like it's some fire going on. I can bring unique and creative solutions that the competitors won't think about.

Some say I am a high-energy person that is super fun to be around, with an amazing judge of character, packed with a lot of resilience, intuition and top-notch pattern-recognition skills.

Had multiple clients across multiple industries, from gaming to advertising and real estate. I have switched from freelancing to full-time roles due to stability and better work-life balance.

Keeping the freelance business for B2B collaborations and as a side project for Open-Source, global initiatives or helping people.
by csomar | 2025-07-08 06:50:44+00:00
I'm having trouble getting your platform to work properly. When I tried the examples you provided, I couldn't understand what they were supposed to demonstrate. The code I wrote either breaks or just outputs your sample code instead of working correctly. My usage dashboard shows 0, so I can't tell if the platform is actually functioning. The only thing that seems to work is the payment redirect to Stripe.

I think you need to take a step back and contemplate.
by mindslight | 2025-07-08 06:51:21+00:00
Sorry, the sequels exist and they couldn't be any other way. Both the in-universe story and the production values line up exactly with the meta topic -

It's a childish fantasy that we can escape the Matrix, and especially that once escaped we can remain somehow separate from it. Really, the act of "escaping" just means creating a bit of new raw material for the deduction-following simulation to start grinding forwards on again. Don't think of some series of discrete mental cages, rather think of the depressing reveal at the end of Fifteen Million Merits.
Ask HN: How to effectively run a small dev community on WhatsApp?
by pinter69 | 2025-07-08 06:51:22+00:00
I've started a small community with a few friends in the video-automation space. Our main goal with the community is to have high quality engagement and information sharing in our field, by communicating with members we are familiar with and trust. We are not aiming for really growing the amount of community members, rather for the quality of the engagement within it. With time I guess the amount of members will grow naturally.

Would love to hear if anyone has created communities with similar goals, what was the process, what worked well, what didn't work well, and in general if you have any tips to share.
by jjav | 2025-07-08 06:52:15+00:00
> Yeah as far as I know, in French words are always pronounced consistent with how they're spelled.

Whoa, very much not! I have spent the last 20 years trying to learn how to pronounce french words (my partner is a native french speaker, so I keep trying). The only somewhat consistent pattern I have is that the last few letters of each word are often silent, but even that is not really always consistent.

I'm fluent in 4 languages but french is an impossibly tough nut to crack for me.
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by DamonHD | 2025-07-08 06:54:47+00:00
We shouldn't be dumping pollution selectively in poor places at all.

But it is not coincidence: there is a lot of systematic racism (and other discrimination) in the world and in the US on top of that, that keeps not-white (and not 'Christian', not het, not male, not English-speaking) people not rich. The variables are not independent.

Skin colour is prominent in treating some humans as less than human.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-08 06:55:35+00:00
This was not a honest mistake.

It was completely reckless behavior, even if the guilt was distributed both on the employee who has not checked whether the information sent to external parties is information to which access is permitted for them and on the employees who did not implement a system that would check automatically for such mistakes.

Moreover, the attempt made by multiple bank employees to hide the incident, instead of taking responsibility for it, has amply demonstrated that only a financial punishment that would have affected them personally would have caused them to act carefully in the future.

Also, the guilty bank employee was not some poor customer service staff, but she appeared to have a senior position, handling the accounts of a very big multinational company, which was my employer at the time.

I have little doubt that trying to hide such incidents is the normal behavior for banks, unlike the poster to which I have replied said, i.e. they take seriously things like banking secrecy only if they are caught.

It was an unlikely occurrence that I happened to also have access to the documents where my personal information was included, so I could discover what the bank has done. In most such cases it is likely that the account owner never becomes aware that the bank has leaked confidential information.
by dontTREATonme | 2025-07-08 06:55:39+00:00
He would of course use his super intelligence and alien space lasers to target only the people actually launching the rockets, his from-the-future space lasers are so accurate and advanced that there is no possibility of collateral damage. He would be able to then explain to the “civilians” who until 10 minutes ago were cheering for his demise that akctually he’s on their side and they don’t really hate him and therefore bec he knows them better than they know themselves they will magically stop supporting their brothers, fathers, uncles, and cousins who have spent their entire lives trying to kill him and instead all those people will suddenly realize that he alone is their savior and thus there will be peace.

The above is the actual complete thought process of all the people who casually complain about what Israel is doing without any understanding of the history or the region.
by renox | 2025-07-08 06:57:37+00:00
From the article

>> The use of diacritics arises out of a mismatch between an alphabet and the language it’s being used to write: if an alphabet were well adapted to a language, it would have letters for all the language’s sounds. <<

and then it use 'ç' as an example even though French has 's' for the same sound, amusing.
by vanderZwan | 2025-07-08 06:58:03+00:00
> Klartag is convinced that this makes them extremely powerful: Convex shapes, he argues, are underappreciated mathematical tools.

I agree with this and I'm not even a mathematician, I've seen convex hull algorithms pop up in unexpected places to solve problems I would never have thought of using convex hull algorithms for, like a paper on automatic palette decomposition of images.

https://www.rose-hulman.edu/class/cs/csse451/Papers/DILvGRB....
by jjav | 2025-07-08 06:58:11+00:00
Finnish is extremely easy, there is one sound for each letter and zero exceptions.

Spanish is also very predictable. While there are a few exceptions (like 'c' can be 'c' or 's'), they are very easy rules to follow, so never any surprises.

English and French are in the batshit crazy category. It's pretty much all random, you just have to know from memorization.
by gorgoiler | 2025-07-08 06:58:50+00:00
Interesting article. Bizarrely it makes me wish I’d used Pocket more! Tangentially, with LLMs I’m getting very tired with the standard patter one sees in their responses. You’ll recognize the general format of chatty output:

Platitude! Here’s a bunch of words that a normal human being would say followed by the main thrust of the response that two plus two is four. Here are some more words that plausibly sound human!

I realize that this is of course how it all actually works underneath — LLMs have to waffle their way to the point because of the nature of their training — but is there any hope to being able to post-process out the fluff? I want to distill down to an actual answer inside the inference engine itself, without having to use more language-corpus machinery to do so.

It’s like the age old problem of internet recipes. You want this:

500g wheat flour 280ml water 10g salt 10g yeast

But what you get is this:

It was at the age of five, sitting on my grandmother’s lap in the cool autumn sun on West Virginia that I first tasted the perfect loaf…
by squarefoot | 2025-07-08 06:59:36+00:00
Having one of grandparents being part of the resistance and the other one helping it covertly, then spending a lot of time talking with them, something new generations miss a lot, counts however. This made me later extremely biased, of course, however as with many teens fascinated by fake ideals just because they make you look cool I experienced the fascism lure back in the early 80s, and actually embraced it for years because of immaturity, so I wasn't exactly immersed in a one sided environment (did I mention that my father sold his very profitable business because he feared that communists would rise in power and nationalize it?). What is happening in the US has been clear since January-February when they reached the point of no return; there are points a government must follow to become an oppressive regime, and the US govt checked all of them long ago. Once they start they can't stop until they either reach a tipping point of self preservation North Korea style, which is the more likely scenario, or they escalate further and further tightening their grip on the population to the point they screw it up entirely and a full scale revolution is ignited. One thing is certain: they can't go back: they broke so many laws that going back would mean prosecution for many of them.
by jezze | 2025-07-08 07:00:21+00:00
I think it would have been better if they had designed it so that the error message from the kernel came in a seperate register. That would mean you didnt have to use signed int for the return value. The issue is that one register now is sort of disambigious. It either returns the thing you want or the error but these are seperate types. If you had them in seperate registers you would have the natural type of the thing you are interested in without having to convert it. This would however force you to first check the value in the error register before using the value in the return register but that makes more sense to me than the opposite.
by tossandthrow | 2025-07-08 07:01:10+00:00
A descriminator between minimum wage and ubi is location.

UBI (if people trust that it will continue) will encourage people moving out of the cities as they don't need to be close to jobs.

I would hypotheses that this would 1) create new more local economies (where people can earn money) and 2) reduce pressure on the hyper metropols.

I would even hypothesize that because of this, it would have an adverse effect on the cost of living.

Butnthese a theories.
by proc0 | 2025-07-08 07:01:20+00:00
> The US war machine is structurally dependent on Islamophobia to justify decades of military intervention and surveillance, and, as Silicon Valley becomes even more intertwined with the defense sector, extremists like Maguire will likely only obtain more power and influence

How are we allies with Saudi Arabia if it's about hating muslims? Saying it's all anti-muslim is not logical at all and therefore the entire argument of the article is invalid.
by amluto | 2025-07-08 07:03:01+00:00
I’m fairly confident I remember the numbers right. And VESA DMT indeed has 1600x1200 at 60, 65, 70, 75, 85 and 120Hz, and IIRC my old CRT would sync at 144Hz as well with somewhat dubious performance.

https://glenwing.github.io/docs/VESA-DMT-1.12.pdf
by nvader | 2025-07-08 07:03:27+00:00
If we are talking MUDs, I have to plug the Discworld MUD, https://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/

I spent a lot of time on there growing up. Based on the copious writings of Terry Pratchett, it's full of whimsy and humor but also quite addicting and deep gameplay.

It seems to have a pretty active player base, too.
by tomhow | 2025-07-08 07:04:54+00:00
Plenty of comments here seem positive towards Dyson. Others are negative but explain their reasons.

These kinds of curmudgeonly sneers/swipes at the HN community are so lame. They're easy to make and will attract upvotes and agreement from people who want the stereotype to be true. But they're futile to try and refute because people will always put more weight on the evidence that supports a belief like this than that which opposes it. The ultimate effect is wasted energy, and making HN threads depressing, which is interesting when the commenter is purportedly concerned about excessive negativity in this community.

Comments like this are clearly in breach of the guidelines, for good reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by lidavidm | 2025-07-08 07:05:33+00:00
Someone on the issue they made explained why Clone is "broken": https://github.com/JelteF/derive_more/issues/490#issuecommen...

Which links to this blog post explaining the choice in more detail: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/04/12/imp...