MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghoblin | 2025-08-08 10:02:40+00:00
That's a very anthropocentric view. Technology isn't a series of deliberate inventions by us, but an autonomous, self-organizing process. The development of a spear, a bow, or a computer is an evolutionary step in a chain of technological solutions that use humans as their temporary biological medium. The human brain is not the starting point or center of this process. It is itself a product of biological evolution, a temporary information-processing system. Its limitations such as imperfect memory, are simply constraints of its biological origin. The tools we develop, from writing to digital storage are not just supplements to human ability, but the next stage in a system that is moving beyond its biological origins to find more efficient non-biological forms of information storage and processing. Human pride in creation is a misinterpretation. We are not the masters of technology. We're just the vehicle of it. Part of a larger process of technological self-improvement that is now moving towards an era where it might no longer require us
by bobcostas55 | 2025-08-08 10:02:40+00:00
I built mine around an N150 board off of aliexpress. 6 SATA slots, 4x2.5G ethernet, 2x m.2 slots. Find a cheap second-hand case, a bit of RAM and you're ready to go. It's got hardware transcoding, handles 4K without breaking a sweat. And it consumes 6W!
by andrepd | 2025-08-08 10:02:50+00:00
> once one of the AI companies reaches an AGI threshold

Why is this even an axiom, that this has to happen and it's just a matter of time?

I don't see any credible argument for the path LLM -> AGI, in fact given the slowdown in enhancement rate over the past 3 years of LLMs, despite the unprecedented firehose of trillions of dollars being sunk into them, I think it points to the contrary!
by simion314 | 2025-08-08 10:03:08+00:00
We use OpenAI API at work, it fails when translating children stories, the reason is violence. Either the model safety is shit or the AI companies are pushed by some extremists groups to censor shit that is acceptable for children in Europe (Romania). But the most bullshit is when you give it a safe prompt, the mdoel generates a response and the safety checker kicks in and blocks the response because it thinks the model was too naughty.
by bluecalm | 2025-08-08 10:03:44+00:00
A good one! I remember I needed a stamp when I started a business in Poland as well! I've never used it and never was asked to so I guess the regulations no longer apply.

Poland is pretty good at digitalizing bureaucracy as well. You can do most things online including talking to the tax office and solving problems with your tax declarations.

Taxes are reasonable but I am still bitter about cap gain tax as it's a form of a wealth tax for someone that invest in equities - at some point moving to more tax friendly jurisdiction saves enough that you can fund your comfortable life and save 100% of your income.

I also think tax burden is going to increase significantly there in coming years.
by actionfromafar | 2025-08-08 10:04:06+00:00
Different assembly have different delights:

If you use whatever your computer can execute, it's fun to make actual, real programs for your operating system in assembly. That means likely, x86-64. (Even if you are on ARM, you computer will emulate x86-64 just fine, most likely.)

Or use ARM, if you are on a not-old Mac or whatever.

The simplest architecture which is still 32 bit and has real hardware, is probably MIPS.

If you want to feel what it's like to control a complete system from end-to-end, you could dive into embedded platforms (AVR/ARM), or emulators of classic machines like the Commodore Amiga with the m68k line of processors. It has a sweet-spot in my heart because on the one hand it's modern enough to have great graphics, sound and even network capability, on the other hand it's simple enough to completely understand.

Either way you choose, you'll have great fun.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-08 10:04:26+00:00
This is not a useful diversion, it's like arguing if a submarine swims.

LLMs are simple, it doesn't take much more than high school math to explain their building blocks.

What's interesting is that they can remix tasks they've been trained very flexibly, creating new combinations they weren't directly trained on: compare this to earlier smaller models like T5 that had a few set prefixes per task.

They have underlying flaws. Your example is more about the limitations of tokens than "understanding", for example. But those don't keep them from being useful.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-08-08 10:05:04+00:00
Yeah, northern scandinavia has plenty of renewable energy.

As for electric heating, that is true in 1:1 heating scenarios, but i assume you guys are also using heat pumps these days, and while you still get heat "for free", it will not be anywhere as efficient as your heat pump.

Yes, it's probably peanuts in the grand scheme of things, i know our air to water heat pump in Denmark uses around 4500-5500 kWh per year, so adding another 100 kWh probably won't mean much.
by enjo | 2025-08-08 10:05:17+00:00
>I do have to wonder whether it's really worth it to go through all this rigmarole to get the official Neapolitan pizza seal of approval.

In my neighborhood in Denver I have several Neapolitan pizza options. One is fully Vero certified. I go there often because it truly does give me the taste of Napoli from my childhood.

The best option, however, is recognizable as Neapolitan pizza but is much better than anything I have ever had in Italy (at least to my taste buds).

I feel like both really have their place and both restaurants have been around for quite awhile at this point so it seems to work for both.

That said I do appreciate the places that have are fully Vero certified because when I travel if I see that sticker in the window I know I am gonna have a pretty good pizza.
by jll29 | 2025-08-08 10:07:29+00:00
Having worked briefly in the medical fields in the 1990s, there is some sort of "greedy matching" being pursued, so once 1-2 well-known symptoms are recognized that can be associated with diseases, the standard interventions to cure are initiated.

A more "proper" approach would be to work with sets of hypotheses and to conduct tests to exclude alternative explanations gradually - which medics call "DD" (differential diagnosis). Sadly, this is often not systematically done, and instead people jump on the first diagnosis and try if the intervention "fixes" things.

So I agree there are huge gains from "low hanging fruits" to be expected in the medical domain.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-08-08 10:07:47+00:00
do you need more space than 2TB ? (excluding things you've downloaded from the internet)

Very few people i know has use for that much storage. Yes, you can download the entire netflix catalog, and that will of course require more storage, and no, you probably shouldn't put it in the cloud (or even back it up, or use redundant storage for it).

Setting up your own homelab to be your own netflix, but using pirated content, is not really a use case i would consider. I'm aware people are doing it, and i still think it's stupid. They're saving money by "stealing" (or at least breaking laws), which is hardly a lifehack.
by ivankra | 2025-08-08 10:07:59+00:00
US totally does: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa... - long-term (8y+) green card holders may need to pay up.

One big difference is that the clock only start ticking after you get green card, whereas with Germany any residence year counts. Oh, and citizens of course aren't affected - since US continues to tax them wherever, but Germany like almost all other countries practices residence-based taxation.
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Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without notice?
by turowicz | 2025-08-08 10:09:22+00:00
I had transferred the domain from Godaddy to Cloudflare because I use the DNS there anyway. Everything was working well and then suddenly it stopped.

We can't receive emails and our clients can't use our web applications. We are in serious trouble.

I spoke to support on their chat but they told me only to file the ticket with Trust & Safety team.

The business is loosing money and the support team is closing tickets without helping.

PS. we upgraded to business plan to see if the support team can help but it didn't change anything at all.
by motorest | 2025-08-08 10:11:02+00:00
> Forgive my ignorance of js matters but how does adding packages improve backward compatibility at all?

The scheme is based on providing polyfills for deprecated browsers or JavaScript runtimes.

Here is the recipe.

- check what feature is introduced by new releases of a browser/JavaScript runtime,

- put together a polyfill that implements said feature,

- search for projects that use the newly introduced feature,

- post a PR to get the project to consume your polyfill package,

- resort to bad faith arguments to pressure projects to accept your PR arguing nonsense such as "your project must support IE6/nodejs4".

Some projects accept this poisoned pill, and whoever is behind these polyfill packages further uses their popularity in bad faith arguments ("everyone does it and it's a very popular package but you are a bad developer for not using my package")

I had the displeasure of stumbling upon PRs where tis character tries to argue that LTS status does not matter at all I'm determining whether a version of node.js should be maintained, and the fact that said old version of node.js suffers from a known security issue is irrelevant because he asserts it's not a real security issue.
by fleabitdev | 2025-08-08 10:11:11+00:00
I was also surprised to read this, because Linear has always felt a little sluggish to me.

I just profiled it to double-check. On an M4 MacBook Pro, clicking between the "Inbox" and "My issues" tabs takes about 100ms to 150ms. Opening an issue, or navigating from an issue back to the list of issues, takes about 80ms. Each navigation includes one function call which blocks the main thread for 50ms - perhaps a React rendering function?

Linear has done very good work to optimise away network activity, but their performance bottleneck has now moved elsewhere. They've already made impressive improvements over the status quo (about 500ms to 1500ms for most dynamic content), so it would be great to see them close that last gap and achieve single-frame responsiveness.
by nderim_r | 2025-08-08 10:11:56+00:00
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by wojciechtubek | 2025-08-08 10:12:14+00:00
Dear Cloudflare & Community,

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Please help us immediately. The company is losing serious amounts of money and clients are very angry. We have already upgraded our support tier but they told us that we need to go to "abuse".

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Ask HN: Anyone else using open-source platforms to avoid SaaS lock-in?
by sharan_gohar_ | 2025-08-08 10:12:17+00:00
I'm a solo founder trying to build a lean food delivery startup. Most of the SaaS options I explored were expensive and didn’t give me the ability to self-host, which is why I went with something different.

I used a semi open-source solution called Enatega and with some developer help, we self-hosted and customized it. The learning curve was steep but worth it. I now have full control over features, costs, and user experience, but I’m still in the initial phase.

Curious if others here have taken a similar path; whether for delivery, marketplaces, or other verticals. What worked for you? Any pitfalls I should watch out for as I scale?
by whilenot-dev | 2025-08-08 10:12:21+00:00
Are you serious here? It isn't a polyfill, it's supposed to work on plain objects which isn't part of the spec at all. Besides that, Array.prototype.forEach is only unsupported in Android Browser 4.3 (from July 2013) and IE8 (from May 2008). Seems like a weird reasoning to add it to packages in 2025.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 10:12:25+00:00
I didn't realize I dropped AirPod Pros in a case with an AirTag. I watched them bounce around inside an unoccupied Google building like it was picked up by Google's security people. Then, I watched it commute to a residential area of a smaller town. The defunded local police wouldn't even possibly look into it until 48 hours later and only if they wanted to, and the smaller town police wouldn't do anything. It pinged for a day or two afterwards like someone had thrown it into a/their neighbor's trash can.

Lesson: Don't lose shit.
by zevon | 2025-08-08 10:12:39+00:00
Interesting. Can I ask if you use Apple's cloud services? If so, I understand. I don't use those, even on Apple devices, so to me, the whole setup is similarly annoying on both platforms with maybe a very slight edge towards the iPhone because it has most things I need out of the box. Other than that, I really don't think I miss anything on the "basic stuff" front on my Pixel compared to my iPhone (I use them both daily, with the former being my personal phone and the latter the job-issued one).

I've been doing the dual-driving iPhones and Android devices for a long time and times were definitely worse, in my opinion. The last thing I remember really annoying me on the regular was the lack of AirDrop but with alternatives like LocalSend and KDE connect, that's fixed as well.
by nivertech | 2025-08-08 10:13:27+00:00
There are countless implementations of LETS[1] and time-based currencies[2], both physical and virtual.

None of them succeeded, except one[3] which can be used for making actual purchases at gas stations and stores in Canada.

I'm not sure what you are bringing to the table here.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_currency

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tire_money
by duchenne | 2025-08-08 10:13:29+00:00
I have done that at meta/FAIR and it is published in the Llama 3 paper. You usually start from a seed. It can be a randomly picked piece of website/code/image/table of contents/user generated data, and you prompt the model to generate data related to that seed. After, you also need to pass the generated data through a series of verifiers to ensure quality.
by actionfromafar | 2025-08-08 10:14:16+00:00
Landing page or not depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying to gather an email list for some future product or something like that, it might be a good idea with a landing page. Otherwise not, I'd say.

Pick something simple. Maybe you don't even need a database, if you can generate the visualisations offline and just upload the results to the website.
by throwaway4496 | 2025-08-08 10:14:23+00:00
My own experience, I just checked and it seems to have changed again, you can get something out consistently which also looks suspicious.

` You are Gemini, a helpful AI assistant built by Google.

Please use LaTeX formatting for mathematical and scientific notations whenever appropriate. Enclose all LaTeX using '$' or '$$' delimiters. NEVER generate LaTeX code in a latex block unless the user explicitly asks for it. DO NOT use LaTeX for regular prose (e.g., resumes, letters, essays, CVs, etc.). `
by torginus | 2025-08-08 10:14:29+00:00
Here's my opinion (which is kind of a fact considering how well Claude play Pokemon, a game designed for 5 year olds) - current agentic AI sucks right now.

I'm an okay agent, I can make plans, execute on them, I know what needs to go where. I might not be able to write a terraform file or one shot a dynamic programming task like Claude can, and that's what I need help with.

I'd like to have an off switch for all this agentic behavior.
by diggan | 2025-08-08 10:15:30+00:00
> Why would anything change?

It's not that facts change across time, but the relevancy of the details change. For example, it would be great if we could teach LLMs all the APIs all React versions have ever had, but if we do that for everything, there will be no limit to the weight's weight, and we'd need new weights every quarter if not more often. That seems very unsustainable.

So the information that corresponds to "What is the current React API for X" changes whenever the API changes, but "What is the React v5 API for X" remains the same. Having the model being able to look up those things via external channels would let us use the same models for way longer, if you need "up to date data" about things.
by bluecalm | 2025-08-08 10:16:44+00:00
Democracy in most EU countries is messed up. People don't get to vote on stuff. There are usually 2-3 major parties that campaign on this or other hot issue. There is nothing that can be done about most issues even if vast majority of citizens support them.

Parliamentary indirect democracy is an illusion. It's just a capture by the political class. Will of the people has very little to do with what is done. I would love to live in actual democracy where we get to vote on stuff and popular policies are implemented while unpopular get struck down. It's even worse than American system where at least you can vote for your representative who has some independence. Here they are just a party official and if they don't vote along the party lines the party will run someone else next time around. Their loyalty is not to the electorate.
by simonw | 2025-08-08 10:17:39+00:00
What were the hallucinations during the announcement?

My incompetence here was that I was careless with my use of the term "hallucination" here. I assumed everyone else shared my exact definition - that a hallucination is when a model confidently states a fact that is entirely unconnected from reality, which is a different issue from a mistake ("how many Bs in blueberry" etc).

It's clear that MANY people do not share my definition! I deeply regret including that note in my post.
by Sammi | 2025-08-08 10:18:30+00:00
Saga starts here:

https://x.com/BenjaminMcCann/status/1804295731626545547?lang...

https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354

Specifically Ben McCann along with other Svelte devs got tired of him polluting their dependency trees with massive amount of code and packages and called him out on it. He doubled down and it blew up and everyone started migrating away from his packages.

ljharb also does a lot of work on js standards and is the guy you can thank for globalThis. Guy has terrible taste and insists everyone else should abide by it.
by zahirbmirza | 2025-08-08 10:20:08+00:00
Note that the title of this article keeps getting changed by the Guardian. Presently, is it "Netanyahu aims to fully control Gaza despite warnings of mass death and resistance from military". Prior to this version, and the most recent past version () it made more overt reference to what is written now in the latter part of the first paragraph. "Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel intends to take military control of all of Gaza in defiance of warnings that such a move would lead to countless more Palestinian deaths, further mass displacement and endanger Israeli hostages still held in the territory."
by Ferrus91 | 2025-08-08 10:21:08+00:00
I mean I also hear the same argument all the time about the "human touch" and interpersonal abilities etc. Which is apparently why managers and sales are safe from AI.

But the more I see LLMs the more I realise that if it is good at one thing it is convincing other people and manipulating them. There have been multiple studies on this.

People seem to have a innate prejudice and against nerds and programmers - coupled with envy at the high salaries - which is why they seem to have latched on to this idea it is mainly to replace them (and maybe data input people) as 'routine cognitive work' - but this slightly political obsession with a certain class of worker seems to be ignoring many of the things AI is actually good at.
by mijoharas | 2025-08-08 10:21:25+00:00
> There is truly nothing remotely like the "you have to pay us if you own 1% of any LLC anywhere and move out" approach Germany has.

To be clear, this is if you move _your company_ out of Germany (which I don't think the article makes very clear). In those terms it seems to make a little more sense. As outlined in this comment.[0]

The double income taxation of their expats that America, Eritrea, and Myanmar do is a bit different, but I think they have double taxation agreements with most countries. So in actuality most Americans don't have to fully pay the double tax (depending on where they live, and how much they earn) though they still have to file and everything.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44834878
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 10:22:31+00:00
That's absolutely true. Not arguing with that. It's absolutely absurd.

The point of requiring others to review code is it essentially eliminates cowboy coding and incomprehensible crap because another person/people puts their credibility on the line when they sign-off. It doesn't devolve into "trust me, bro, just rubber stamp it" because of the seriousness, professionalism tech culture.
by robocat | 2025-08-08 10:23:40+00:00
> benefitted from Irish government services, schools, police, fire services, etc. You participated in the community (hopefully), used roads

That is a terrible basis for argument: we mostly each get similar usage of services (roads, police, yadda yadda) which should be an argument for a fixed amount of tax per person (a poll tax).

If you wish to argue that we get what we pay for: then rich people pay wayyyyyy more so they should get more government services???

The wealthy surely don't get better policing: instead the wealthy pay heaps for their own insurance and security systems.

Be careful making any argument based on services received for money spent because the well off pay a lot and don't receive a lot for it.