MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-15 18:15:48+00:00
Yup. The government of the world could shut down all LLM providers tomorrow, and it wouldn't change a thing - LLMs fundamentally are programs, not a service. There are models lagging 6-12 months behind current SOTA, that you can just download and run on your own GPU today; most research is in the open too, so nothing stops people from continuing it and training new models locally.z

At this point, AI research is not possible to stop without killing humanity as technological civilization - and it's not even possible to slow it down much, short of taking extreme measures Eliezer Yudkowsky was talking about years ago: yes, it would literally take a multinational treaty on stopping advanced compute, and aggressively enforcing it - including (but not limited to) by preemptively bombing rogue data centers as they pop up around the world.
by igouy | 2025-07-15 18:16:36+00:00
(I did read your other comment.)

Continue doing the walk / jog that you found "surprisingly enjoyable".

Continue doing jog instead of walk when that feels OK to you, and walk or stop whenever you feel like it.

Continue for a month.

Long enough to learn what your body feels like with that regular exercise. Learn to distinguish routine tiredness from something doesn't feel right. Let how your body feels be your guide.

Also, progress will be smoother if you also try to level-up with exercises designed to prepare for running.

The best approach I've come across is "Running Rewired" by Jay Dicharry. I was lucky enough to stumble across it in the local library.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Running_Rewired/epZUDwA...
by ryandrake | 2025-07-15 18:16:48+00:00
> Also, in a simpler sense, there are a limited number of homepage spots, and if you don’t want to see a topic, it effectively shrinks your homepage. If HN only showed five stories to me it would be less useful than it is now.

Yes, I feel like all these shallow "[Someone] vibe-coded [thing] with AI using [Claud whatever]" articles are hitting the front page and muscling out other, more interesting ones. Just like the "[Common unix utility] re-written in Rust!" articles of years past.
by akavi | 2025-07-15 18:17:15+00:00
A part of "being a good developer" is being able to evolve systems in this direction. Real systems are messy, but you can and should be thoughtful about:

1. Progressively reducing the number of holes in your invariants

2. Building them such that there's a pit of success (engineers coming after you are aware of the invariants and "nudged" in the direction of using the pathways that maintain them). Documentation can help here, but how you structure your code also plays a part (and is in my experience the more important factor)
by ryandrake | 2025-07-15 18:18:23+00:00
> And I'm really exhausted, tired of hearing about how this is going to replace people like me any minute now

I'm kind of exhausted in general (year after year) of frankly unimaginative engineers who should know better, latching on to whatever is the latest soup of the month, and touting it here as the greatest human achievement since fire.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-07-15 18:18:27+00:00
The biggest thing they need to do is find a vendor that will sell devices with this on it, then figure out which Distro to set it up with.

I would love an Arch or Debian based distro powering my TV streaming apparatus. In the meantime, I'll continue to use Apple TV since I'm in that ecosystem already, bit I'm always open for a true Linux TV experience if someone makes a small form factor Linux for TV device that lets me SSH into it if I really want to, but contains all the eye candy of a TV OS.
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-15 18:19:43+00:00
I wish your parent comment didn't get downvoted, because this is an important conversation point.

"PRECISELY BECAUSE AI cannot be applied in an ethical way, since human beings en masse will inevitably have a sufficient number of bad actors"

I think this is vibes based on bad headlines and no actual numbers (and tbf, founders/CEO's talking outta their a**). In my real-life experience the advantages of specifically generative AI far outweighs the disadvantages, by like a really large margin. I say this as someone academically trained on well modeled Dynamical systems (the opposite of Machine Learning). My team just lost. Badly.

Case-in-point: I work with language localization teams that have fully adopted LLM based translation services (our DeepL.com bills are huge), but we've only hired more translators and are processing more translations faster. It's just..not working out like we were told in the headlines. Doomsday Radiologist predictions [1], same thing.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/ai-jobs-radiol...
by ishita159 | 2025-07-15 18:19:51+00:00
this post was such a brilliant read. to read about how they still have a YC-style startup culture, are meritocratic, and people get to work on things they find interesting.

as an early stage founder, i worry about the following a lot.

- changing directions fast when i lose conviction - things breaking in production - and about speed, or the lack of it

I learned to actually not worry about the first two.

But if OpenAI shipped Codex in 7 weeks, small startups have lost the speed advantage they had. Big reminder to figure out better ways to solve for speed.
by PebblesRox | 2025-07-15 18:19:52+00:00
If you believe this, people believe everything they read by default and have to apply a critical thinking filter on top of it to not believe the thing.

I know I don't have as much of a filter as I ought to!

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/pmHZDpak4NeRLLLCw/p/TiDGXt3WrQwt...
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-15 18:19:54+00:00
Yup. Hence why we went from too much patriotism post-9/11 to too dark after Nolan Batman to too quippy after the Marvel takeover.

I remember first watching The Avengers and finding it refreshing. "This is fun! Why aren't more action movies fun? They're always so gritty and violent and serious, even though the protagonists are functionally superhuman, they're always so mean-spirited and the dialogue is is always so aggressively masculine and primitive and angry." And then that was everything for the next few decades.
by cornholio | 2025-07-15 18:20:08+00:00
> undocumented immigrants? Countries allow them in to exploit for cheap labor

It seems you've answered your own question.

Your argument seems constructed as a red hering, "what about <this group of people left in legal limbo by the politicians>, wouldn't they benefit from <the speculative financial scheme I have a stake in, that the state can't track or ban>?". The solution to that problem is, you know, to not have people put into a situation where they are exploited and do not have legal rights; and in general, the solution to human rights failures in democracies surely isn't the suspension of laws, it's better laws and better systems put in place to protect those legal rights.

In the great scheme of things, undocumented migrants in 1st world economies are far from the wretched of the earth I was referring to. For example, it has recently emerged that a fellow country man of mine was involved in supplying european mercenaries into the DR Congo, which were caught in the rebel capture of Goma early 2025. The ring leader was found to have laundered a few millions of euros through cryptocurrency he earned from Congo.

DRC is one of the poorest countries on earth, with the majority of its population without electricity, internet, smartphones etc. They are the real "unbanked" and what bitcoin has done for them is to enable war. Now, it's very likely that the war would have been exactly the same if the mercs were paid using the traditional financial system, but at least that would leave traces and discouraged some of the mercs, since it's an illegal profession in many european countries of origin.

I don't have a solution for all the world's troubles, but this dystopia where you can anonymously buy armed soldiers on the internet to prop up your authoritarian regime or guerilla faction, surely isn't the best of all possible worlds.
by evantbyrne | 2025-07-15 18:20:24+00:00
To the contrary. I sped through my compsci capstone coursework first year of college and spent most of the rest of my time in philosophy, psychology, and sociology classrooms. The "hey if you squint this thing it looks like religion for the non-religious" perspective is just one I've heard countless times. It is perfectly valid to have a fact based discussion on whether there is a biological desire for religiosity, but drawing a long line from that to broadly critique someone's well-articulated ideas is pretty sloppy.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-07-15 18:20:39+00:00
> I constantly get junior developers handed to me from "strategic partners", they are just disguised as senior developers. I'm telling you brother, the LLMs aren't helping these guys do the job. I've let go 3 of them in July alone.

I find this surprising. I figured the opposite: that the quality of body shop type places would improve and the productivity increases would decrease as you went "up" the skill ladder.

I've worked on/inherited a few projects from the Big Name body shops and, frankly, I'd take some "vibe coded" LLM mess any day of the week. I really figured there was nowhere to go but "up" for those kinds of projects.
by awnird | 2025-07-15 18:21:01+00:00
I would love to see a program like this succeed. There are huge hurdles in getting partners though.

The strength of Carfax is the enormous number of data sources they use, and the enormous amount of money they pay for access to those sources. A typical Carfax report can include data from the OEM, dealership, government agencies, police agencies, insurance companies, and repair shops (both big groups and small independent shops).

Even if HP is willing to put in the money and effort making connections to secure data sources, it relies on those data sources wanting to play ball, rather than trying to build their own siloed approach.

It's certainly a noble goal, and I hope there is some kind of consumer groundswell to enable a program like this. I also hope, that like Carfax, there are eventually standards for the data, allowing competing services to exist.
by slg | 2025-07-15 18:21:27+00:00
>In all the cases where there's a "real criminal" they're after the database provides very little information that isn't redundant to the old fashioned police work they'd do to begin with (like getting a warrant and looking up the person's phone and transaction records)

This is a rather authoritative and specific claim. How did you reach this conclusion?

>There's a special kind of irony in picking examples that all have large swaths of the populations that think we could wholly do without that category of laws.

If we are playing this game, sharing this information with ICE is also something large swaths of the population support. Let's stop pretending that an idea is valid just because lots of people believe it. If you are still arguing against any form of gun control with the frequency of gun deaths in this country compared to all our peer nations with stricter gun laws, than I frankly don't dare about your opinion anymore as you are clearly living in some libertarian fantasy land.
Show HN: Sapient – AI Agent for Unreal Engine: Code, Blueprints, Game AI
by GreedIsland | 2025-07-15 18:21:32+00:00
After years of rebuilding the same core systems, chasing down bugs across code to assets, constantly losing momentum to engine blockers, and using the latest AI tools, we started wondering, “how much faster could we build if we embedded AI directly into our workflow?” That question turned into Sapient.

Sapient is an AI-native dev tool embedded into Unreal as a plugin. Sapient is best for gameplay or systems engineers and technical designers, and it supports prototyping through production workflows including: gameplay logic generation (C++, Blueprints, Behavior Trees), Unreal feature integration, refactoring, debugging, project diagnostics, and dependency tracing (code to assets to engine).

Unlike other AI tools that are code only, don’t understand games, or just aren’t integrated into your workflow, Sapient is fully integrated into engine and works along side you in the Editor e.g. no copy-pasting or not being able to understand files. It helps most by speeding up iteration cycles or when understanding what you’re building matters. For instance, it analyzes and understands code, assets, plugins, data, and engine in real-time to help with co-ideation and design (GDD > TDD) to implementation and polishing on production-grade projects.

It’s been a labor of love, and scaling this has been incredibly difficult. For example, one of our early AA studio partners had a Blueprint graph with over 70,000 nodes. Everything we built for 100-node graphs just melted. Battle-testing with studios has led to a multitude of hard-fought lessons, and we're now opening an early beta in hopes of making it even better.

If you're building in Unreal, we’d love to hear from you: 1. Where do AI dev tools help vs fall short in your workflow?

2. What slows down your iteration loop most?

3. For those who try Sapient, where does it shine, where does it break, and what’s missing?

We just launched a free tier where folks can get started testing Sapient immediately. (We also provide unlimited access for 2 weeks if you're going deep on a big project)

If you’re building in Unreal, give it a spin and let us know what you think!
by mrandish | 2025-07-15 18:21:38+00:00
Went to see the F1 movie a couple weeks ago in suburban Northern California on a local theater's "LieMax" screen (ie not one of the ~30 real IMAX 15-perf film theaters in the world but just a slightly larger mall theater screen that (probably) has a newer bulb and more recently calibrated speakers). It cost just over $75 for two adults + a large popcorn, soda and bottle of water.

I was a bit surprised at the price too. Seems maybe 15-20% more than my last theater outing last Summer. We don't go often because we have a dedicated home theater room that's fully sound proof with total light control and 9 custom theater loungers on two levels facing a 150-inch screen with 4K HDR10+ calibrated digital laser projector and built-in 7.4.2 surround THX-rated speakers. While there was nothing wrong with the "LieMax" theater, the picture, sound, seating and overall experience at home are meaningfully better - even when everything works at the cinema and no one is annoying. And I say that as someone with fairly significant professional video engineering experience. Of course, one of the ~30 real IMAX screens is objectively better (when showing 15-perf 70mm film, which they don't always do) but the nearest one is nearly an hour drive, costs even more and has $15 in parking on top. The last time I went was for Oppenheimer two years ago. But short of going there, it's hard to see much reason to go to a local cinema if you have a high-end home theater rig (other than just having a night out).

There's not even an advantage to the claimed "big screen" at the LieMax. While I prefer a slightly larger theatrical field of view than most people (around 45 degrees), my FOV at home is 46 degrees sitting 12.5 feet from the floor-to-ceiling screen (https://acousticfrontiers.com/blogs/Articles/Home-theater-vi...).
by jsnell | 2025-07-15 18:21:38+00:00
You're either overestimating the cost of inference or underestimating the cost of running a service like Facebook at that scale. Meta's cost of revenue (i.e. just running the service, not R&D, not marketing, not admin, none of that) was about $30B/year in 2024. In the leaked OpenAI financials from last year, their 2024 inference costs were 1/10th of that.
by outworlder | 2025-07-15 18:22:09+00:00
> That's, gasp, actually how it already works.

Right?

Armchair software engineers are so incredibly annoying.

Postgres codebase is a shining example of good engineering. They walk a very fine line between many drawbacks. Code is battle tested (and surprisingly readable). Not many people (or groups) can do much better - and if they think they can, they are probably going to learn a lesson in humility.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-15 18:22:14+00:00
> Many, many times a "spreadsheet" is ironically used for a very inefficient manual task.

Right. But spreadsheets and "shadow IT" aren't really about technology - they're about autonomy, about how the organization is structured internally. No one is choosing a bad process from the start - spreadsheets are the easiest (and often the only possible) way to solve an immediate problem, and even as they turn into IT horror stories, there usually is no point at which the people using it could make things better on their own. The "quality solutions", conversely, are usually top-down and don't give users much control over the process - instead of adoption, this just breeds resistance.
by lbhdc | 2025-07-15 18:22:15+00:00
Things like this has really got me thinking. If the AI hype all comes to fruition, and you want to ensure good outcomes for yourself, what is the best course of action?

Is it really building an AI company in the hopes that you find something that gets traction? Or would a better plan be building a private military force to take AI from whoever gets it? Would VC want to invest in that as a hedge?
by alwa | 2025-07-15 18:22:37+00:00
The latter. I mean, I feel like a disproportionate number of folks who hang around here have that kind of disposition.

That just turns out to be the kind of person who likes to be around me, and I around them. It’s something I wish I had been more deliberate about cultivating earlier in my life, but not the sort of thing I regret.

In my case that’s a lot of artists/writers/hackers, a fair number of clergy, and people working in service to others. People quietly doing cool stuff in boring or difficult places… people whose all-out sprints result in ambiguity or failure at least as often as they do success. Very few rich people, very few who seek recognition.

The flip side is that neither I nor my social circles are all that good at consistency—but we all kind of expect and tolerate that about each other. And there’s lots of “normal” stuff I’m not part of, which I probably could have been if I had tried. I don’t know what that means to the business-minded people around here, but I imagine it includes things like corporate and nonprofit boards, attending sports events in stadia, whatever golf people do, retail politics, Society Clubs For Respectable People, “Summering,” owning rich people stuff like a house or a car—which is fine with me!

More than enough is too much :)
by theultdev | 2025-07-15 18:23:03+00:00
I'm fully aware, but you seem to have misinterpreted what I was saying.

If "all the clocks are wrong" it doesn't matter as long as they are consistent. (in the case of atomic clocks, frequency of energy transitions within atoms)

All ntp servers get the average of atomic clocks, which is then distributed to all phones and computers.

If the constants from these atomic clocks "are a little bit wrong" it does not matter (for most human activities)

That's why we average them and distribute the average.

For physics related research, this new clock being more precise does have use, but for pretty much everything else, whatever constant we have is good enough as long as it's consistently used.

Back in the day it was someone just running around with a pocket watch giving everyone the time from the clock tower which was calibrated from a sundial and that was good enough.

Replace the sun's shadow with electron transitions and the timekeepers with ntp servers and that's what you have today.
by bitwize | 2025-07-15 18:23:09+00:00
Your Name is a title that for me reminded me why I became an anime fan many years ago. In 2016 when it came out, anime as a whole was well into its slop era, but Your Name has near Ghibli tier animation and powerful emotional themes rooted in both traditional and modern Japanese culture. It was the exception that proved the rule about anime slop.
by prmoustache | 2025-07-15 18:23:18+00:00
I remember burning SVCD (Super Video CD) which were encoded in mpeg2 for shows and movies I was recording with my Pinnacle aquisition card. That was a bit before DivX then Xvid codec became popular enough for any DVD player to support it.

SVCD provided a near indistinguishable quality difference with DVDs when using most CRT TVs and had the advantage of being supported by any DVD player dinxe the same video and audio formats were used. You could burn the movie into 2 CDR if you wanted to maximize the quality, 2CDR were still cheaper than 1 DVDR.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-15 18:23:46+00:00
> I think this (esp the sufficient number of bad actors) is vibes based on bad headlines and no actual numbers. In my real-life experience the advantages of specifically generative AI far outweighs the disadvantages, by like a really large margin.

We define bad actors in different ways. I also include people like tech workers, CEOs who program systems that take away large numbers of jobs. I already know people whose jobs were eroded based on AI.

In the real world, lots of people hate AI generated content. The advantages you speak of are only to those who are technically minded enough to gain greater material advantages from it, and we don't need the rich getting richer. The world doesn't need a bunch of techies getting richer from AI at the expense of people like translators, graphic designers, etc, losing their jobs.

And while you may have hired more translators, that is only temporary. Other places have fired them, and you will too once the machine becomes good enough. There will be a small bump of positive effects in the short term but the long term will be primarily bad, and it already is for many.
by jjice | 2025-07-15 18:24:09+00:00
The most impactful for me was Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. Made me have a more direct association of time and money and made me focus on the fact free time is more valuable than money (to me) beyond a pretty minimal point.

Read it at 18 while working at a hardware store. Probably the best thing that could've happened to me.
Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal
by akunzler | 2025-07-15 18:24:51+00:00
I've always been dissatisfied that simple Mandelbrot explorers proport themselves as a Fractal Graphing Calculator. In summer break between semesters, I started making a real graphing calculator, parsing LaTeX to WebGL to let you graph most any combination of z and c.

Fun ones to try include - sin(z^2+c) - c^z - z^{1.7}+c

Also supports animation, just enter any other letter and turn it into a variable. Supports Mandelbrot or Julia Set style calculation.

Use with a graphics card or integrated graphics