MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unsupp0rted | 2025-07-01 10:28:11+00:00
While logged into Google with your own regional settings, try Google Flights in any country- the currency is always set to that country's currency.

I have no idea what a flight costing 781,667 blergs is, Google. Is that a lot?

If I knew what blergs are worth, I'd set my regional settings to blergs.

So you set the currency to your own. Then navigate away, then come back. Now it's blergs again.
by kachapopopow | 2025-07-01 10:29:31+00:00
I'll quote myself since it seems oddly familiar:

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Forget AI "code", every single request will be processed BY AI! People aren't thinking far enough, why bother with programming at all when an AI can just do it?

It's very narrow to think that we will even need these 'programmed' applications in the future. Who needs operating systems and all that when all of it can just be AI.

In the future we don't even need hardware specifications since we can just train the AI to figure it out! Just plug inputs and outputs from a central motherboard to a memory slot.

Actually forget all that, it'll just be a magic box that takes any kind of input and spits out an output that you want!
by HelloNurse | 2025-07-01 10:29:43+00:00
Adding tangent to tangent, I recently experienced an unexpected modern counterpart of a 1990s large download: deleting about 120K emails from a GMail folder, then purging them for real by "emptying" the GMail "trash bin".

The first phase was severely asynchronous, with a popup mentioning "the next few minutes", which turned out to be hours. Manually refreshing the page showed a cringeworthy deletion rate of about 500 messages per minute.

But at least it worked; the second phase was more special, with plenty of arbitrary stopping and outright lies. After repeated purging attempts I finally got an empty bin achievement page on my phone but I found over 50K messages in the trash on my computer the next day, where every attempt to empty the trash showed a very slow progress dialog that reported completion but actually deleted only about 4K messages.

I don't expect many JavaScript card castles of the complexity of GMail message handling to be tested on large jobs; at least old FTP and web servers were designed with high load and large files in mind.
by hsx | 2025-07-01 10:30:31+00:00
I'm working on FeedSync, which polls RSS feeds and pushes new entries to Discord.

It's built on Phoenix/Elixir and has been pretty rock solid.

Sign up currently requires a card number, but that's something I'm hoping to fix in the next week or so. If you do happen to sign up, I'll set your account to an unlimited free trial ;)

https://feedsync.net/
by Bender | 2025-07-01 10:30:53+00:00
Use iperf3 on both ends to rule out optimizing results prioritization for speed tests. Watch network stats on both ends to also track retransmits, fast retransmits, lost retransmits, recoveries, locked sockets, etc... Run tests on different ports and test with and without using a VPN such as WireGuard. iperf3 will show losses and retransmits and will allow setting limits on number of threads. Different http protocols can mask or exacerbate these numbers whereas iperf3 will expose the raw traffic stats. Different congestion control algorithms and queue disciplines can also mask or exacerbate numbers. I would also be interested in seeing the stats for civilian vs. active military controlled accounts to see if they get priority which I would expect given low latency is required for drones.
by grumple | 2025-07-01 10:30:56+00:00
After a recent conversation here, I spent a few weeks using agents.

These agents are just as disappointing as what we had before. Except now I waste more time getting bad results, though I’m really impressed by how these agents manage to fuck things up.

My new way of using them is to just go back to writing all the code myself. It’s less of a headache.
by noirscape | 2025-07-01 10:32:22+00:00
To give an idea on how much this holds true: I have an old iphone lying around somewhere. It's a perfectly functioning device (barring the battery), I have a cable for it and everything. I wanted to use it as an audio player - plug an AUX cable in it, play some tunes. It's a good way to reuse older phones.

Except I can't activate the fucking thing. It demands a SIM card. Trying to activate or reset it on PC just has iTunes spit out a generic failure message. Apparently it can't contact some activation server.

I have a perfectly usable iPhone. Apple decided on its own that it's a brick now. It's irrevocably tied to the vendor.
by jhunter1016 | 2025-07-01 10:32:32+00:00
Still working on Orbiter[1] but with some big changes.

Orbiter started as static website and web app hosting, but we recently added what we call server functions (what you call serverless functions). So now you can build full stack apps. Our preferred development stack to support is the new bhvr[2] stack.

1. https://orbiter.host 2. https://bhvr.dev
by londons_explore | 2025-07-01 10:33:11+00:00
> This feature offers major power savings on embedded devices where a USB audio stream can continue to flow while the rest of the system is sleeping, something that devices running on battery power really care about.

How many shipping devices use USB for audio? I was under the impression that most phones/tablets/laptops support usb audio, but it is a niche/power user feature, and not the way the main device speakers are connected.

Do these same systems have bluetooth audio offload so the system can sleep for multiple minutes while a song is playing via bluetooth? (which seems to be a far more common usecase)
by throwaway843 | 2025-07-01 10:34:41+00:00
If you want an 'in' to money and power, stay close to AI as money and power's been convinced enough to get insecure about it thus chase it with existential money and power.

To be fair, this happened a couple of years ago but continued stoking of the insecurity flames is required.

If, however, you already have an 'in' to money and power, no action needed unless one's ego wants more, is deranged, etc.
by blitzpoet | 2025-07-01 10:35:06+00:00
Creator here. You made some good points. Ledger of Life actually does try to address intention and positive reinforcement, though it's not explicit. The journal encourages keeping it on you and logging whispers in real time, which requires consciously priming yourself to notice (that's the intention part). The weekly review also helps set clear intentions for what to watch for the next week.

As for positive reinforcement, I agree, it’s not just about knowing when to decompress or apply a virtue garnish, but also about rewarding yourself for noticing at all. That’s something that could be highlighted more: just catching a whisper is a success worth a mental pat on the back!
by Xaphiosis | 2025-07-01 10:36:29+00:00
BlockTube is a must - can block specific channels from showing up, videos with "Journaling" and "changed my life", hide videos watched over 50%, etc.

Enhancer for Youtube is also super useful: disable shorts entirely, autoplay next only on playlists, tweak number of videos per row, default playback speed, default theater mode, etc.

As another commenter said, Youtube is one of those sites that really requires multiple plugins to be useful :/
by ivan_gammel | 2025-07-01 10:37:23+00:00
>Apple's App Store allows users to opt out of tracking. The Play Store does not.

In EU the only legal way to do tracking is opt in, so this is a matter of law enforcement and not a long term competitive advantage.

The weakness of regulation is a problem of American users, which they can solve by voting for politicians who support better consumer protection. Of course they may choose otherwise and choose instead a quasi-monopoly of more expensive walled gardens. After all, America is democracy, isn’t it? :)
by em-bee | 2025-07-01 10:37:44+00:00
or maybe they are so overwhelmed that they are procrastinating. the problem here is expectations. you have the expectation that one should not chill or focus on a hobby when they should be looking for a job, or spend time with their children, or whatever else they could be doing when they don't chill or work on their hobby.

i know that feeling. i have been there. more than a year out of work, i could not focus on anything, whatever i did felt wrong because i thought i should use that time to apply to jobs. it was exhausting, and i was procrastinating a lot. i had to remind myself that i could not be writing job applications all day, and i used my hobbies to relax and get energy. so no, chilling or having cool hobbies are not a sign of someone catching a break. not without knowing more about their actual circumstances.
by rasz | 2025-07-01 10:38:36+00:00
Recent "Sound Chip, whisper me your secrets!" talk from Gulaschprogrammiernacht hacker convention https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432451 is about reverse engineering from silicon nineties audio DSPs (Ensoniq, Roland, Yamaha) and those chips are truly bizarre. 48-bit VLIW with no jumps/conditionals.
by XorNot | 2025-07-01 10:38:45+00:00
The issue isn't "just a file" - it's whether that file can be streamed off my device. Signal's backups are easily one of the largest files, and I don't want 3 copies of it on my phone (which is what backup currently does).

I really want the backups to stream off to my own version of the backup service, and do the neat deferred media thing which would be great for keeping long range archives (i.e. by letting them get picked up by my server's regular snapshot to backblaze).
by close04 | 2025-07-01 10:38:55+00:00
> There is no incentive to represent the civically disengaged

You're repeatedly misrepresenting or misunderstanding the issue. The tl'dr is that Bezos' civic engagement weighs more than my civic engagement, more than a million of me even. This is one easy way to take the casual and overly general "you're civically disengaged" victim blaming off the table.

Your elected representatives already know your interests, they were a precondition of winning the election. They don't need tens/hundreds of thousands of citizens writing them a letter every time so they are reminded of those interests. This shouldn't turn into a part time job for all citizens.

You casually handwave away the abusers' role with a simple "ah people aren't better" while in the same sentence blaming the abused for not doing enough?

Large corporations have full time lobbyists. They only have to send one "letter". You don't expect every shareholder and employee to be "engaged" just because a company's interest is in fact their interest. Your opinions will be shaped by whether you're more a shareholder or employee, or a "civically disengaged" single parent with 3 jobs.

> We have a lot of problems with our republic's design

The big one being that money is a superpower so the more one has, the more one can take. Or hang behind the predator pack and feed on the leftovers. After all a billionaire's rising tide will lift a millionaire's boat too. Jumping through mental hoops to justify the current situation by victim blaming isn't a prerequisite of this, it's a choice.
by matsemann | 2025-07-01 10:39:14+00:00
Hah, that "skjermbilde" is hilarious!

One thing I've always found a bit peculiar between Norwegian and Danish computer words, is that in Danish they're often not translated but the English word is just used. My Danish family would say words like computer, download, password, cloud, software, while I would say datamaskin, nedlasting, passord, sky, programvare. And then they would mock our silly Norwegian words, heh.
Ask HN: The Proof or Bluff paper. Can "AI" do math?
by henryjcee | 2025-07-01 10:39:57+00:00
Over the past 12 months I've seen lots of comments all over the place (here, X, legacy media, blogs etc.) making the case for "AI" performance on the IMO (Math Olympiad) being evidence for continued rapid increases in LLM performance. I've heard my friends who work in AI safety quote these results pretty often whenever they encounter scepticism about the coming AI singularity.

It seems to me that these comments stem from the DeepMind results from last summer[0] and February this year[1]. As I understand it, the models they're using for these tasks are very specialised to the task and also only accept formal language as input (i.e. not a textual or visual representation that a large multi-modal model could use).

I was having a read through the Proof or Bluff paper[2] this morning and while I don't think it's been reproduced yet, they found that none of the tested SOTA LLMs were able to make any meaningful progress (none scored over 5%) on solving questions in their test set. This corresponds with my limited experience in using LLMs for similar tasks. Needless to say I've not heard a peep about this paper from my AI safety friends.

My question is: How should I interpret the above? Maybe it's too cynical but my current thesis is that the DeepMind results are convenient headline-grabbers for the AI safety crowd, who are conflating the performance of a task-specific model with more general LLMs in order to make an unsubstantiated claim about progress in generalisable AI. Is that reasonable? What am I missing?

If the authors of Proof or Bluff are in here I'd also like to say thanks for doing the work on this. I can imagine that work like this isn't the sexiest but it is so refreshing seeing people take the time and care to generate some hard data about how good these models actually are. As someone considering a career switch at the moment, data like this is really useful context when trying to evaluate what the next few decades might look like.

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silver-medal-level

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/deepmind-claims-its-ai-performs-better-than-international-mathematical-olympiad-gold-medalists

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21934v1
by wiseowise | 2025-07-01 10:40:50+00:00
Because LLMs do no reason. They reply without a thought. Parent commenter, on the other hand, knows when to not engage a bullshit argument.

Arguing with “philosophers” like you is like arguing with religious nut jobs.

Repeat after me: 1) LLM do not reason

2) Human thought is infinitely more complex than any LLM algorithm

3) If I ever try to confuse both, I go outside and touch some grass (and talk to actual humans)
by edwcross | 2025-07-01 10:41:58+00:00
Indeed. If I search Google for terms in my specific language other than English, I expect to find results that are relevant to my country. Auto-translated Reddit posts that "fake" being from that language are deeply annoying, because then I click them expecting to find some local references but in fact they are invariably talking about some US-specific market or situation that's useless to me.
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-07-01 10:42:32+00:00
A CRUD flow is the actual automation, which was already digested into the economy by 2005 or so. PHP is not a guy in the back who types HTML really fast when you click a button :)

The LLM, here, is the opposite; additional human labor to build the integrations, additional capital for chips, heavy cost of inference, an additional skeuomorphic UI (it self identifies as a chat/texting situation) and your wasted time. I would almost call it "make work".
by kalyantm | 2025-07-01 10:42:39+00:00
I'm working on an app that I use to track my sets/reps. I've added in a trends screen (both for muscle groups and for individual exercises) to check on if I'm actually progressively overloading on a consistent basis. I'm currently adding an AI wrapper around the data to figure out better insights about certain exercises, what I'm missing, etc.

https://www.kri8.fit/
by devn0ll | 2025-07-01 10:43:53+00:00
Both Audi (as an example) and BYD have chinese components. Yes. But with Audi they feel obligated to check the whole car for correct functioning. Including chinese chips. Making sure there are no backdoors (For example) in those chips. If not for themselves and the customer then for the security of the whole country. At least that option exists..

BYD has no such feelings or obligations. In fact, the opposite.

Also: I do not understand ANYONE opting for a cheap Chinese car, knowing that they are screwing their own and their children's future once all the other options are priced out of the market. Once they have the market: kneel down before them.

Also 2: This is one of the few cases where tariff's could actually correctly be applied.
by Yizahi | 2025-07-01 10:44:19+00:00
Neural networks are basically leveling political/media playing field down, to the level of the worst of the available candidates. So if there is a regular middle ground typical politician and a morally corrupt one financed by the neighboring fascist regime, then normally a regular politician will advertise on the basis that he is a better human and better professional. Now in the advent of generated fake content, his opponent (or sponsors/fans of him) will flood the network with lies and misinformation pulling that regular politician in the minds of the voters down to his own morally corrupt populist level. At the same time that regular politician can't really respond, because a) he can't really engage in spreading obvious lies since it is contrary to his image, b) creating positive lies would never work.

Basically since only negative lies work on general population, and positive lies are impossible, then negative lies will be generated about everyone above the currently shittiest level of politicians in a race. And neural nets are an x100 power and speed amplifier for this.
by Aeolun | 2025-07-01 10:44:41+00:00
> Why are we drawing a difference between "prompt" and "context" exactly?

Because they’re different things? The prompt doesn’t dynamically change. The context changes all the time.

I’ll admit that you can just call it all ‘context’ or ‘prompt’ if you want, because it’s essentially a large chunk of text. But it’s convenient to be able to distinguish between the two so you can talk about the same thing.
by em-bee | 2025-07-01 10:44:45+00:00
a few years ago i spent a few months in the house of an old friend of the family who spent his last days in a retirement home. the house was a treasure of interesting things to find. he was running a business out of it, and there were shelves of left over products, books and old style clothes. the most interesting was a model train set that was at least half a century old. similar the home of my own grandparents.
by dang | 2025-07-01 10:45:23+00:00
Come on everybody, please don't post shallow dismissals. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

That includes personal attacks, regardless of who it's about. When a comment has a high bile/information ratio, it's off topic here.

You may not owe $CelebrityBillionaire better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
by aa-jv | 2025-07-01 10:45:40+00:00
I see Gakken Electronics EX150 Denshi Block, I upvote!

https://www.are.na/block/27428352

This was the first 'transparent' electronics device I ever owned, back in the 70's .. it was always quite important to see the component in the Denshi block, a very nice touch. I think in this case, the transparency actually had a function - unlike many of the other cases.
by cainxinth | 2025-07-01 10:46:37+00:00
There are some stories in this thread about people snapping and yelling at the person on the other end of the phone. That never works in my experience. What I say is: “I know it costs you money every time I call, and I want to be clear that I am going to continue to call until this issue is resolved. I don’t care how long it takes because it’s a matter of principle at this point.”
by imiric | 2025-07-01 10:49:03+00:00
That might be the case, but these tools are marketed as having close to superhuman intelligence, with the strong implication that AGI is right around the corner. It's obvious that engineering work is required to get them to perform certain tasks, which is what the agentic trend is about. What's not so obvious is the fact that getting them to generate correct output requires some special skills or tricks. If these tools were truly intelligent and capable of reasoning, surely they would be able to inform human users when they lack contextual information instead of confidently generating garbage, and their success rate would be greater than 35%[1].

The idea that fixing this is just a matter of providing better training and contextual data, more compute or plumbing, is deeply flawed.

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/
by brk | 2025-07-01 10:50:27+00:00
It's been ~15 years since I did much with 78xx's, but I seem to recall the various package types were all pretty much the same on thermal coefficients, and other related specs. It's a decades-old design that has been pretty well optimized at this point. The 2A versions also have slightly bigger leads, which may not fit in through-holes not sized for them originally.
by bognition | 2025-07-01 10:50:33+00:00
Interesting how long ago did you do this? How long did you spend on it?

I was skeptical about Claude code and then I spent a week really learning how to use it. Within the week I had built a backend with FastAPI that supported user creation, password reset, email confirmation, a front end, and support for ouath into a few systems.

It definitely took me some time to learn how to make it work, but I’m astounded at how much work I got done and for so little typing.
by some_furry | 2025-07-01 10:50:50+00:00
I would totally do this.

"Read my blog for free, or pay $25/page for your AI to read it for you." This is praxis.

Enshittify the enshittification machine.

We should also throw ads in there, via a deliberate prompt injection that the AI companies expose through an API. I totally won't misuse it ;)
by codingdave | 2025-07-01 10:51:00+00:00
While this specific point is one I can agree with, this attitude of "Agree with me or else" is a big problem. We don't need Musk thinking that he owns the direction of the USA any more than we need Trump thinking so. Or anyone else for that matter. One person doesn't get to bend the entire country to their will, and for anyone to have the power to even threaten such a thing is evidence of deep problems.
by rasz | 2025-07-01 10:51:08+00:00
>and drive SMART data

SMART used to be one of those "data is stored securely on X, leveraging hardware-based security measures to protect against unauthorized access or manipulation". Nowadays its trivial to wipe and is the basis of "refurbished new old stock" Amazon HDD SCAM where product turns out to be pulls from server farms with over 20K hours on them with wiped SMART showing zero hours no defects. Its faster to wipe smart than scan the drive, and more lucrative to sell as new old stock than admit its a server pull.
by jgrahamc | 2025-07-01 10:51:20+00:00
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare-launches-a-mark...

"Several large publishers, including Conde Nast, TIME, The Associated Press, The Atlantic, ADWEEK, and Fortune, have signed on with Cloudflare to block AI crawlers by default in support of the company’s broader goal of a “permission-based approach to crawling.”"