MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terretta | 2025-07-30 13:33:47+00:00
Really appreciated this comment, written as if by a photographer who also happens to use a mobile phone camera for EDL or street. Adding some similar color...

> An iPhone 16 Pro Max has three focal lengths, 12, 24 and 120 (35mm equivalent). The first two are much too short unless significantly cropped, and the last one is excessive and requires stepping way back and has the worst image sensor and likely worst compromise of a lens

This point contains one part of the solution: Zoom with your feet.

Back up your shooting position to where you'd shoot an 85mm or 105mm, take the shot with the 2x lens, then crop. (Unless there's tons of light, then the 5x and hold very still. Even then, shoot both 2x and 5x and compare. Next year's phone should update the 5x sensor as well.)

For the color problems the article highlights, shoot RAW and adjust in a raw development app. Otherwise, shoot using the new grid-based styles to make in-phone development adjustable later. Or use a different app – see below.

For the bokeh, consider shooting in portrait, with aperture dialed to a full-frame DSLR level of (granted fake) bokeh. This remains adjustable after the shot so it's safer to leave active than one might think.

Consider avoiding the iPhone's built-in camera app, consider shooting with an app that can skip the processing pipeline, like Lux's Halide, with “Process Zero” mode:

https://halide.cam/

https://www.lux.camera/introducing-process-zero-for-iphone/

The bottom line, of course:

> The best camera is the one you have on you.

Assign the iPhone 16's shutter button to Halide or ProCamera or one of the newer contenders to shoot everything.

Then to best enjoy your results, never shoot with a full frame using big glass and compare.
by nabla9 | 2025-07-30 13:33:58+00:00
Not newsworthy and it's not good journalism.

It is churnalism, rapid production of content by simply "churning out" pre-packaged material with no additional research, context, fact-checking.

More importantly there was no context. I provided the context. Basically journalists is tasked to just find something to write article about, rewording news from other sources and press statements, often with minimal additional research or fact-checking.

Replacing work that Krishna Mali does with LLM's is easy job and a good thing. You can just scan original stories from other news sites, press releases and government sites and _reword_ them.
by ivann | 2025-07-30 13:33:59+00:00
A few, for example Meir Ettinger, an hilltop youth leader has served some time in jail.

The idea for Israel was to have its national criminal jurisdictions prosecute just enough to not be seen as failing by the ICC and meet its 'complementarity' criterion [0]. Even spying on ICC staff to see who it was investigating.

At least that's how it used to be, now they just threaten the ICC.

[0]: https://www.pgaction.org/ilhr/rome-statute/complementarity.h...
by gortok | 2025-07-30 13:34:06+00:00
So until about 2013? 2014? URL-driven state was just the way everything worked.

One of the major complaints of `cgi-bin` was that you had to manually add back to the URL to manage state (and of that time, there were a good number of cgi-bin applications that just didn't bother -- which unsurprisingly is how the SPAs worked at first until "URL Routing" took over).

But, all of this is literally just reinventing the wheel that's been there since the web began. The entire purpose of the web was to be able to link to a specific resource, action, or state without having to to anything other than share a URL.

What's wild is there are whole generations of programmers that started programming after the SPA world debuted and are now re-learning things that "were just the way things were" before 2013.
by gruez | 2025-07-30 13:34:35+00:00
That's not really "computation photography" in any meaningful sense, closer to "digital processing". It's not impossible for such glitches to occur with modern smartphone cameras, but it's implausible. I don't think there's ever a confirmed instance of such a gaff happening. Meanwhile a few years ago there was a photo with a misplaced leaf that made the rounds, and people were complaining about how it was caused by computational photography, but it turned out the photo was accurate. The leaf actually there.
by prmoustache | 2025-07-30 13:34:39+00:00
I built 3 1/18 scale models (2 of them being Tamiya one) in my teenage years but objectively:

- unless you go 1/45 which is less enjoyable to build, it doesn't scale well (pun intented) given the room needed to store your finished models.

- it is quite an expensive hobby

As an adult living in couple, you need either to have your "hobby cave" or a comprehensive partner. Scale models are nice for nerds who like them, but it makes your living room look like a toy store.
by luckylion | 2025-07-30 13:34:51+00:00
> How do you see them living in five years? Almost nothing is left standing in Gaza.

Depends mostly on how they react, I think. How would Germany have looked in 1950 if it hadn't surrendered but instead transitioned into a partisan war against occupying Allied forces?

Anyone who is militarily defeated and wants peace must eventually surrender and stop trying to wage war. Germany managed to do that in Europe and make peace, and not immediately try to rearm to try again like they did after WW1.

That's not a statement on what's happening in Gaza today, but on what happens in Gaza in 5 years. Had the Arab nations accepted their defeat 70 years ago, we'd be looking at a very different history.
by dijit | 2025-07-30 13:34:55+00:00
Being armed is not a requisite.

If anything being armed in that situation is incredibly stupid, because you'll still panic and now you're acting irrationally with a deadly weapon. The weapon can be used (as this example) or taken off you.

I speak from experience, I got mobbed upon by a local gang, thought it would be smart to arm myself with a prop sword in order to stop them advancing.

It didn't stop them, and in fact the sword was taken off me (because it was a prop, and I wouldn't have used it even if it wasn't to be honest) - and they proceeded to smash it over my head sending me to hospital.

All of this is only obvious with a clear head, and in hindsight. Being in that situation as a human being is just.. awful. I don't recommend it.

EDIT: I'm getting flagged a lot from emotional people; I think this is part of why I really dislike this topic, we know nothing except how we feel and refuse to look at things objectively - and we're not even qualified to do that anyway. So everything becomes pornography to confirm our biases and to drown out anyone who doesn't immediately call for the end of Israel.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-30 13:35:30+00:00
I assume that over time pricing will converge to cost of service provision plus a reasonable (50%?) profit margin. As long as the profit margin remains high then it encourages more competition.

Of course there is a large cost in building a SOTA model in the first place, maybe building your own datacenter(s) for inference too, but compare to something like semiconductor manufacturing where upfront costs are also very high, yet profit margins still reasonable, e.g. ~40% for TSMC who make chips for NVIDIA, AMD, Apple ... As long as there is a possibility of competition (primarily Samsung in this case), then profit margins will be held in check.
by roberdam | 2025-07-30 13:35:31+00:00
"This is a new form of living together with non-human entities in which our sense-ability (ability to sense) expands recursively as our planetary computation infrastructure proliferates and diversifies. This relationship underpins a new form of coexistence in which computational agents become allies, planetary translation interfaces for anything that can generate data: buildings, forests, plants, neighborhoods, objects, water, air, other species, and, through computation, producing memories, agency, and meaning. In other words, it gathers a wider self, enabling it to perform new choreographies in the real world with and through their human proxies."

Amazing essay, not mine.
by dalemhurley | 2025-07-30 13:36:07+00:00
Five-part guide to building an autonomous AI agent with Laravel, React, and OpenAI. - Part 1: set up Laravel and make a basic OpenAI “hello world” call. - Parts 2-4: add streaming responses, custom tool hooks, and persistent state. - Part 5: use OpenAI to generate a multi-step plan and iterate through the steps—prompting users, gathering input, generating content, and calling registered tools—until the task is finished.
by sneak | 2025-07-30 13:36:09+00:00
Always refreshing to see people who actually believe in software freedoms (and not just doing open source cosplay like many big corporations) forge a pathway to big success.

There are many things that suggest free software and the movement for software freedoms might be on its way to a historical footnote. This is absolutely not one of them.

Hey Bryan, one day when you’re very successful market-wise (you and your team have already obviously been massively successful from an engineering standpoint) and aren’t in crash-priority-override mode to get cash flow, please consider a project to build SME stuff that reaps the security and integration benefits of your big enterprise stuff that is affordable for end users like entrepreneurs and home hobbyists, like Ubiqiti does. I’d love a lil’ $5-10k homelab unit, and I bet a number of smaller universities and organizations would go for stuff in the low 5 figure 2-3kW range. Obviously your bread and butter comes from companies that size their orders by number of racks, but if you never go downmarket then thousands of us hackers that love what you’re doing will never get to touch Oxide stuff except at a job in a megacorp.
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-30 13:36:11+00:00
Anthropic, to their credit, just published that pretty funny paper about how they couldn't get their chatbot to run a single vending machine profitably[1]. Admirable that Mark is so visionary he's skipped straight past Bodega-intelligence to super-intelligence

[1]https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1?ref=blog.m...
by dustincoates | 2025-07-30 13:36:24+00:00
This is timely, as I've got a domain expiring in the next week. It's a .bingo TLD, so at $50+, I'm going to just let it expire.

"Vibe coding" has actually been a boon for me on this front. Fewer than 10% of my side projects are serious and 95% of it are static pages, so there's no big security concerns to worry about. Most of them are joke pages anyway, which I've started calling "Sht Coding," as in Vibe Coding + Sht Posting.
by JohnFen | 2025-07-30 13:36:41+00:00
> Most people including me do expect that their "public" data is used for AI training.

Based on what ordinary people have been saying, I don't think this is true. Or, maybe it's true now that the cat is out of the bag, but I don't think most people expected this before.

Most tech-oriented people did, of course, but we're a small minority. And even amongst our subculture, a lot of people didn't see this abuse coming. I didn't, or I would have removed all of my websites from the public web years earlier than I did.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 13:36:55+00:00
> I never understood why an AI meeting notetaker needed sota LLMs and subscriptions

I’m the opposite: If something is expected to accurately summarize business content, I want to use the best possible model for it.

The difference between a quantized local model that can run on the average laptop and the latest models from Anthropic, Google, or OpenAI is still very significant.
by jwr | 2025-07-30 13:37:06+00:00
Can't wait for it to be available in ollama so that I can run my spam filtering benchmarks against it. qwen3:30b-a3b-q4_K_M was very good, and only bested by gemma3:27b-it-qat for spam filtering. But gemma3 is much slower. Looking forward to trying this!
by schmidtleonard | 2025-07-30 13:37:08+00:00
Exactly! Going offline for hours every day in an adversarial world is positively nuts! The reason can't be idiosyncratic. No gentle gradient of comparative advantage can rationalize it. It must be something severe and nigh impossible to do any other way.

Furthermore, sleep is very specifically about the taking the brain offline: that's what deteriorates first in the absence of sleep and the tortured workarounds for animals that absolutely must avoid sleep (e.g. migratory birds) involve sleeping part of the brain at a time. Any explanation that isn't highly specific to the brain's responsibilities has the immediate hurdle of explaining this away, and for that reason I don't buy the mitochondrial explanation. Mitochondria are too universal and sleep is too specific to the brain. Energy is fungible, so I don't buy that nature wouldn't figure out the "trick" of having a subset of the mitochondrial population sleep at a time.

My money is on the "brain algorithm" requiring an online/offline phase, whether that's contrastive learning or memory consolidation or something else. There are lots of candidates for fundamental brain algorithms with the "feature" that they require an offline phase that cannot be incrementally worked around, and these fit the observations much better.
by ubermonkey | 2025-07-30 13:37:13+00:00
That's a cool idea and I'd probably be on board for it if I weren't married to a different case system for compatibility with the mount on my motorcycle.

If I were 10 years younger I'd probably leap on a new phone to pick up USB-C, but (a) Apple replaced my Lightning-based iPhone 14 Pro at like the last possible moment of warranty, so right now I have essentially a new phone and (b) there's still so many OTHER Lightning or USB-Micro holdouts in our house that USB-C Nirvana is years away.

(E.G., Lightning on 2 sets of regular Airpods plus my Maxes as well as our phones; Micro on both our Kindles, my espresso scale, my camera's battery charger, and a ton of cycling gadgets.)
by herdethics | 2025-07-30 13:37:43+00:00
Under Herd Ethics, morality is structurally grounded in the preservation of shared, non-excludable infrastructure that sustains agency. The key moral unit is not the individual, but the herd—defined as the smallest group whose collective infrastructure enables survival or advantage.

While someone might argue that "nonessential agents" could be removed without ethical harm, this misunderstands the framework:

All Agents Are Entangled: If an agent exists within or affects a shared infrastructure—even passively—they are part of the herd. Thus, their removal risks systemic depletion.

Depletion Is Structural, Not Intent-Based: Even if the removal is framed as utilitarian, the ethical violation arises from depleting herd infrastructure (e.g. trust, labor contribution, memory, social fabric). The book makes clear that "depletion" includes not just resource drain but erosion of networked capacity.

Purge Logic Violates Moral Precedence: The Herd Dependency Principle gives moral title to the infrastructure-sustaining herd, not to centralized agents making unilateral calculations. A "purge" violates decentralized stewardship and falsely presumes perfect insight into who is "nonessential."

Utilitarianism ≠ Herd Ethics: Herd Ethics is not utilitarian. It does not optimize for total happiness or outcomes but for structural continuity of moral infrastructure. It is closer to a system-maintenance ethics—like ecological stewardship.
Show HN: TrendPilot – Find niche trends and generate content ideas
by niklasdev | 2025-07-30 13:37:45+00:00
I built TrendPilot to solve a problem I ran into while trying to grow my SaaS with daily content: coming up with ideas every day is hard.

TrendPilot pulls early trends from Reddit, Google, and X, then generates content ideas based on your niche. You can explore trending topics and get post ideas to stay consistent without burning out.

Signup is required to access the trend data (it’s free). Would love feedback on the UX, trend quality, or anything else that could be better.
by crtasm | 2025-07-30 13:37:50+00:00
>they themselves admitted they could not police their store front and had no idea how many games would be problematic for the payment processors.

I don't think that's true? My takeaway was the demands from the payment processors are frustratingly unspecific and they were up against a deadline, so delisted a huge amount of games being overcautious and are now going through them to see what can be relisted.

Not all NSFW games were removed/delisted.

They're now looking for new payment processors: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-...
by twoodfin | 2025-07-30 13:37:53+00:00
If trends continue, then you'd expect people to spend less time in productivity software, and more time creating and connecting.

Does the average American worker today spend a ton of time in productivity software?

I know and Zuckerberg surely knows the impact on labor will be much more pervasive than that, so it seems like an odd way to frame the future.
by dalemhurley | 2025-07-30 13:39:55+00:00
Hi All

Hope you really enjoy this tutorial I put together.

It brings together the latest the Laravel community has been working on in terms of streaming, SSE and OpenAI. It is unlikely your Coding AIs will have the latest knowledge.

In all honesty, you can build a super powerful AI bot in less then 20 minutes.

If you use Claude Code or Cursor etc, you could build a lot of tools quite quickly.

Dale
by thyristan | 2025-07-30 13:40:27+00:00
I'm not so sure there. The factor of 72 is accidentially also the number of GPUs in a full GB200 DGX rack[0]. The phrasing "and it reaches 72,000 TPS/server at our highest throughput configuration" also hints at something being fishy here. They carefully use the phrases "node" earlier, and "server" later, without getting specific by what they mean a "server" to be. Also, for that 72000 figure, there is no mention of batching at all.

The very short article [2] linked in [0] which is supposed to be the independent source of those numbers also doesn't specify any details to that effect.

In general, I've learned to treat Nvidia numbers very carefully. They are well-known for misrepresenting apples-to-orange-elefants figures such as comparing FP16, FP8 or FP4 FLOPS, thereby grossly overstating the performance advantages of their new architectures[3].

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/blackwell-breaks-the-1000-...

[1] > NVIDIA DGX™ GB200 is purpose-built for training and inferencing trillion-parameter generative AI models. Designed as a rack-scale solution, each liquid-cooled rack features 36 NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips—–36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell GPUs

https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/data-center/dgx-gb200/

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7331470...

[3] https://dev.to/maximsaplin/nvidias-1000x-performance-boost-c...
by Terretta | 2025-07-30 13:40:40+00:00
100% -- "zoom with your feet"

To your point, back up to where you'd shoot the long lens, then crop back. Thanks to the 48mp, there's room to crop, it'll be fine.

FWIW, this crop is what every* camera with a sensor smaller than full frame is already doing to get "reach" from smaller glass, whether we realize it or not.

* By and large.
by wafflemaker | 2025-07-30 13:40:50+00:00
Nope, while I'm aware of Srebrenica (still have a history podcast on that in my backlog) I meant other actions like arms bans, two air campaign (Deliberate Force and Allied Force) that have prevented even more atrocities.

I've read up a little more about it now, didn't know it was that complex. (Pretty much 3 or more wars in the 10y period). Since I read up on it now, I noticed some connections to planned un-living of the current second holocaust in The Strip. Just like in Gaza, there were ~140k ppl killed and millions displaced.
by mrcwinn | 2025-07-30 13:40:58+00:00
Everyone at Oxide makes the same salary:

>We decided to do something outlandishly simple: take the salary that Steve, Jess, and I were going to pay ourselves, and pay that to everyone. [https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...]

Does everyone at Oxide have the same equity grant?
by senthe | 2025-07-30 13:41:10+00:00
> The whole point of AI is to create an intelligence modeled on humans and to compare it to humans.

This is like saying the whole point of aeronautics is to create machines that fly like birds and compare them to how birds fly. Birds might have been the inspiration at some point, but learned how to build flying machines that are not bird-like.

In AI, there *are* people trying to create human-like intelligence but the bulk of the field is basically "statistical analysis at scale". LLMs, for example, just predict the most likely next word given a sequence of words. Researchers in this area are trying to make this predictions more accurate, faster and less computationally- and data- intensive. They are not trying to make the workings of LLMs more human-like.
by simonw | 2025-07-30 13:41:43+00:00
You said: "Pretty sure it cannot write a game it has never seen"

Then you said: "none of these can create anything I have not spent excessive amount of time explaining"

Presumably then they CAN create a game they have never seen if you spend an "excessive amount of time" explaining that game?

So are you talking about game design here? It can implement anything, but it can't design entirely new games without human input?
by cess11 | 2025-07-30 13:41:56+00:00
I doubt it, 40% mizrahi and sephardic is the statistic I've come across.

It's a weird myth to bring up. This jewish exodus to Palestine has consistently been driven by rather nasty politics, starting with the Crémieux decree, via german nazi agitation to campaigning and terrorism by zionist organisations after the founding of the state of Israel.

Commonly mizrahi and sephardic jews were reluctant to do aliyah, in part because they were reached by rumours about how they were likely to be treated once in Israel.

Still, this has little to do with what I brought up, that the zionist movement is predominantly christian and deeply antisemitic.
Show HN: Subtle Failure Modes I Keep Seeing in Production‑Grade AI Systems
by TXTOS | 2025-07-30 13:41:58+00:00
Hi HN,

Over the past two years I’ve built and debugged a fair number of production pipelines—mainly retrieval‑augmented generation stacks, agent frameworks, and multi‑step reasoning services. A pattern emerged: most incidents weren’t outright crashes, but silent structural faults that slowly compromised relevance, accuracy, or stability.

I began logging every recurring fault in a shared notebook. Colleagues started using the list for post‑mortems, so I turned it into a small public reference: 16 distinct failure modes (semantic drift after chunking, embedding/meaning mismatches, cross‑session memory gaps, recursion traps, etc.). The taxonomy isn’t academic; each item references a real outage or mis‑prediction we had to fix.

Why share it?

Common vocabulary – naming a failure mode makes root‑cause discussions faster and less hand‑wavy.

Earlier detection – several teams now check new features against the list before shipping.

Community feedback – if something is missing or misclassified, I’d rather learn it here than during another 3 a.m. incident.

The reference has already helped a few startups (and my own projects) avoid hours of trial‑and‑error. If you work on LLM infrastructure, you might find a familiar bug—or a new one to watch for. The link to the full table and brief write‑ups is in the “url” field of this Show HN post.

I’m not selling anything; it’s MIT‑licensed text. Comments, critiques, or additional failure patterns are very welcome.

Thanks for taking a look.