MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by presentation | 2025-08-06 01:27:39+00:00
I see things as incentive problems, including this.

People are incentivized to be intellectually lazy since there isn’t really any personal reward for making the effort (your vote is on the margins practically meaningless, even if you’re “right,” whatever that means).

But there is great reward for staying ignorant (dopamine hits from outrage media and camaraderie with the large plurality of similarly intellectually lazy people).

How do we make it so that having well reasoned opinions is actually rewarded commensurately?
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-06 01:29:04+00:00
The way I do it is buffalo mozzarella goes well for fresh stuff: salads, sandwiches, popping some cheese in your mouth like a degenerate

Anything you’re going to cook at high temperatures, use cow mozzarella. Pizzas, casseroles, sauces etc.

(Also I’m amazed that buffalo mozzarella isn’t that known, I thought that’s what mozzarella was supposed to be).
by morpheos137 | 2025-08-06 01:29:17+00:00
Mature people realize that statistically everyone dies eventually. The welfare and fitness of the species as a whole is what is important, not the individual life. This is the same reason through out history soliders have willingly died in war. Now I want to be clear for me this is a philosophical exercise. I am not advocating any concrete steps to accelorate the take down technological civilization. I am saying let nature take its course over time. Just as my judgement as an individual matters little so too does yours. I may be right I may be wrong. I suspect the unique and ugly technological civilization of humanity is an unsustainable aberation of evolution. It won't last because its individual members for the most part are not fit. You are soft and dependent on technology.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-06 01:30:01+00:00
Up until recently with SCOTUS saying age verification is not rights infringing, I would have disagreed. Even with that, what else is blocked by default? It's easy to get hyperbolic in partisan discussions, but seriously, what else is being blocked that counters administration propaganda? Yes, Trump admin is changing data on the websites it controls. That's the right of any sysadmin to control and publish content they want. It would be a real bit of censorship if the admin said no other websites anywhere in its jurisdiction could publish contrary data. You can scream about FB/Twitt...er,X/socialPlatformOfChoice making decisions on its website, but again, I go back to it's their site to manage. You can choose to use it based on those decisions, but again, those are not the only sites offering contrary data.
by worik | 2025-08-06 01:30:34+00:00
> criminalized maternal healthcare.

The rotters! It is out and out misogyny. But it is abortion and birth control they target, is it not? They could argue that they are acting to increase population?

Do not mistake me for in any way supporting these evil people. But being pedantic I wish to criticise them accurately

Are they criminalising some other aspect of maternity care?
by fjlijwliej | 2025-08-06 01:30:50+00:00
> 10x productivity means ten times the outcomes, not ten times the lines of code. This means what you used to ship in a quarter you now ship in a week and a half.

Exactly. I spend less than 20% of my time writing code. If LLMs 1,000,000,000-x'd my code writing, it would make me 1.25x as efficient overall, not 10x as efficient. It's all influencer hype nonsense, just like pair programming and microservices and no-code companies and blockchain.
Show HN: PinpoinTodays – Daily Answers and History for LinkedIn's Pinpoint Game
by qinggeng | 2025-08-06 01:31:13+00:00
I built PinpoinTod ays to make it easier to keep up with LinkedIn’s daily Pinpoint puzzle. I enjoy playing the game, but I noticed there’s no official archive or easy way to check previous answers once the day is over.

What it does: • Updates every day with the latest Pinpoint puzzle’s answer & clues • Lets you browse all historical puzzles in one place • Lightweight, mobile-friendly, and loads fast • Simple navigation between previous/next puzzles

It’s a small side project I put together in my spare time. Next, I’m planning to add search, tagging, and maybe some fun stats (like most common clue words).

Would love feedback — especially from word game fans or anyone who’s tried similar puzzle archives.
by ahaucnx | 2025-08-06 01:31:50+00:00
We went full in and not only open sourced the firmware of our air quality monitors but made it completely open source hardware, this means it includes the electronic schematics, enclosure files etc. [1]

I believe it was the single most important decision we took as a company and probably also contributed to a large part to the growth and success we are having now. It enables us to build a really strong community, and also differentiate ourselves clearly from other manufacturers that are all pretty much only offering proprietary solutions.

But I think people need to be aware that by open sourcing, they put the company on a different trajectory. For example you are basically making yourself a lot less attractive for VCs.

When I see how much other companies can get investments that help them grow faster and make more impact is the only times when I sometimes wonder if other models might have been a better option?

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/documentation/overview/
by osigurdson | 2025-08-06 01:32:22+00:00
I don't have that negative of a take but agree to some extent. The internet, mobile, AI have all been useful but not in the same way as earlier advancements like electricity, cars, aircraft and even basic appliances. Outside of things that you can do on screens, most people live exactly the same way as they did in the 70s and 80s. For instance, it still takes 30-45 minutes to clean up after dinner - using the same kind of appliances that people used 50 years ago. The same goes for washing clothes, sorting socks and other boring things that even fairly rich people still do. Basically, the things people dreamed about in the 50s - more wealth, more leisure time, robots and flying cars really were the right dream.
What if technology is our weakness?
by morpheos137 | 2025-08-06 01:32:54+00:00
Personally I think human technological expansion is a temporary aberation of nature. I think in the long term we'd do best to approximate the advice of the late Georgia Guidestones and allow the human population to reduce to a reasonable equilibrium point such as for example the prescribed (and arbitrary) 500 million and live more like other biological organisms of the Earth planet. What do you think and why? To be clear this is just an abstract philosophical discussion about the ideal way for humans to persist as a species in the natural world on their only available planet. In no way is misfortune wished to individuals of the human species all of whom were born into the world called Earth without their informed consent.
by aboikodev | 2025-08-06 01:33:16+00:00
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by dbeardsl | 2025-08-06 01:33:18+00:00
I think this is incorrect reading of the numbers

I've never heard of `{number} {plural magnitude}` meaning `mag / number`. I've only ever seen it mean `number * mag`. As in 3-thousandths == 3 * 0.001 not 0.001 / 3.

7 * 0.001ms = 0.007ms or 7us or 7000ns.
by nothercastle | 2025-08-06 01:35:38+00:00
Negative sum is the worst outcome. Only the cheaters win in that scenario and they slowly eat the legitimate players, then the weak cheats so only the biggest cheaters remain. The entire pool is then tainted.

We have acquired a couple such companies and the people that survived that environment are some of the most toxic players you ever meet. They are also really good at the game so they immediately rise to power and begin to devour their next victim.
by dhosek | 2025-08-06 01:35:48+00:00
It’s more the old TTY layout which differs somewhat from the modified typewriter layout that’s become standard for computer keyboards. The old Apple ][ keyboard had 1–9 corresponding to the next row in ASCII, shift-0 was @, I think other characters were ±16 based on shift. Early ASCII implementations were often slightly inconsistent but codings were often based on keyboard layouts.
by thatrandybrown | 2025-08-06 01:36:41+00:00
I feel so strongly about this topic that I recorded a podcast episode on it with my at the time business partner[1]. I think that maybe the only relevant reason to have a synchronous standup is to align on the biggest problem to solve in the next workday.

A standup of this model goes something like this: what is the goal for the day? What support is needed to make it happen? etc.

[1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-stand-ups/id163... -- skip to about 10:00 to hear the above.
by dangus | 2025-08-06 01:37:06+00:00
The only way to escape wage slavery without being born wealthy is to be a business owner and have that business scale.

I can see why people have these fantasies. Huge businesses have been built on open source code bases.

Many of us spend our lives writing software that has lasting benefit for our employers but our reward is a flat hourly fee.

The place where I disagree with your take is that commercialization and open source popularity are not mutually exclusive at all. The FSF makes this quite clear: open source is 100% compatible with charging money for some kind of service or for the convenience of a binary or something like that.

Software freedom is really about availability of the source code and your right to modify and distribute your modifications, not free as in beer freedom.

Commercializing it doesn’t have to mean bleeding customers dry, it can be something where most people are not paying a dime and are enjoying a fully open source experience. I think nginx plus is a good example of that sort of model. I have never met anyone who pays for nginx but there’s some big companies with big company problems that do.

Another example is Discourse forums. You can pay for support and hosting.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-06 01:37:06+00:00
I think it's important to remember how California got here. In the 2000 redistricting, the state legislature agreed to conduct an extreme bipartisan gerrymander, drawing every seat to be as safe as possible so that no incumbent could get voted out without losing a primary. This was widely understood to be a conspiracy of politicians against democratic accountability, and thus voters decided (with the support of many advocacy orgs and every major newspaper in the state) to put an end to it.

That's not the redistricting Newsom wants for 2028, and I tend to agree that Dems have to play the game right now, but I'd really like to see them present some sort of story for why it's not going to happen again.
by worik | 2025-08-06 01:38:58+00:00
I agree

I think the pharmaceutical companies should be nationalised so that the mRNA vaccines can be developed as a community good

We can in entices novel research with prizes, grants and bounties, rather than using markets

Markets are good for some things, but not good at allocating resources for drug research

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases#... for example
by dylan604 | 2025-08-06 01:40:07+00:00
I never said or meant to imply by not specifically saying something that the opposing view was unavailable back then. That's just willfully trying to twist the narrative to a purpose I don't know why it is necessary. But since we're here, we can compare/contrast.

RFE/RL could broadcast whatever it wanted. If you received it and heard the contrary views from what official stance was, you can pretty much just accept it. You couldn't just go and search for more information in a browser/app. Seeing video of things just wasn't happening over the air on your wireless. You couldn't jump onto social platform of choice and see images in real time. Information is so freely flowing today it is a joke to compare the two.

>Typical American response confidently knowing literally nothing of what they speak of

Sadly, this reads from someone with a person grudge that has nothing to do with the conversation. If you honestly think there was more information freely available then as compared to know, you've just disillusioned yourself for whatever reason. Yes, there was resistance back during the Cold War. Fax machines FTW. That still just does not compare to how freely flowing information is today. To call today the "most information hostile environments in human history" is just nonsense. How can you even compare it?
by JohnMakin | 2025-08-06 01:40:28+00:00
> Which brings us to another point, the problem with Western AAA is more about high levels of risk aversion, which is what's really feeding the lack of imaginative.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying here, but 2021 til present has been a glut of some of the best titles ever made, by pretty much any measure
by kjjoseph | 2025-08-06 01:41:18+00:00
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by Tiberium | 2025-08-06 01:41:25+00:00
Respectfully, I'd have to disagree, the models are extremely filtered, it seems like they have almost no real world knowledge and are likely trained directly on o3/o4 mini outputs (synthetic data, like the Phi series). Even then, they're quite bad at code, at least the basic website frontend stuff (which they're supposed to be good at) and other things.

I think they might only be good on very specific math and (scientific?) programming tasks only in popular languages. Some people have speculated that there is actually no "base" pretrained model and the whole model was trained from scratch on outputs from other OpenAI models.

It should still be a decent model for doing tool calls and being a basic "agent" of course, but so far it doesn't seem to be a breakthrough at all.

As an /lmg/ poster puts it succinctly:

>just saw someone elsewhere say that the model is just Phi 5, and I think that's the best way of putting it

>feels brittle in exactly the same way as the Phi series, so benchmaxxed and synthetic that it disintegrates when given anything even slightly OOD

>the ultimate small model smell
by saurik | 2025-08-06 01:42:32+00:00
If you strip all the facts from a mathematician you get me... I don't need another me: I already used Google, and I already failed to find what I need. What I actually need is someone who can realize that my problem is a restatement of an existing known problem, just using words and terms or a occluded structure that don't look anything like how it was originally formulated. You very often simply can't figure that out using Google, no matter how long you sit in a tight loop trying related Google searches; but, it is the kind of thing that an LLM (or a human) excels at (as you can consider "restatement" a form of "translation" between languages), if and only if they have already seen that kind of problem. The same thing comes up with novel application of obscure technology, complex economics, or even interpretation of human history... there is a reason why people who study Classics "waste" a ton of time reading old stories rather than merely knowing the library is around the corner. What makes these AIs so amazing is thinking of them as entirely replacing Google with something closer to a god, not merely trying to wrap it with a mechanical employee whose time is ostensibly less valuable than mine.
by cma | 2025-08-06 01:44:18+00:00
Pass-through AR that does more than add a few things to the scene or very crude relighting from a scan mesh. Classic methods aren't great at it and tend to feel like you are just sticking some of of place objects on top of things. apple gives a lighting estimate to make it sit better in the scene, but may already be using some AI for that (I think it's just a cube map or a spherical harmonic based thing). But we'll want to do much more than matching lighting.
by lojack | 2025-08-06 01:44:33+00:00
Lets see: We have GitHub, and GitHub Enterprise Server, and a GitHub API. Then there's the command line and a desktop version, and one that is just browser based I guess. Then you have different pricing plans, Free, Team, and Enterprise? How is Enterprise different than GitHub Enterprise Server? It's very easy to find evidence to confirm our bias.

Claude code is actually one of the most straightforward products I've used as far as onboarding goes. You download the tool, and follow the instructions. You can use one of the 3 plans, and everything else is automatic. You can figure out token usage and what models and versions to use and how to use MCP servers and all of that -- there's a lot of power -- but you don't need to do ANY of that to get started trying it out.

You're not being:

> That critic who doesn't try the stuff he criticizes

You're being:

> That critic who is trying to confirm their biases
by simoncion | 2025-08-06 01:44:38+00:00
> I'm not being defensive, I'm rebutting a (false) factual claim.

You're rebutting a claim about your rant that -if it ever did exist- has been backed away from and disowned several times.

From [0]

> > Wait, now you're saying I set the 10x bar? No, I did not.

>

> I distinctly did not say that. I said your article was one of the ones that made me feel anxious. And it's one of the ones that spurred me to write this article.

and from [1]

> I'm trying to write a piece to comfort those that feel anxious about the wave of articles telling them they aren't good enough, that they are "standing still", as you say in your article. That they are crazy. Your article may not say the word 10x, but it makes something extremely clear: you believe some developers are sitting still and others are sipping rocket fuel. You believe AI skeptics are crazy. Thus, your article is extremely natural to cite when talking about the origin of this post.

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799049>

[1] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804434>
by bot403 | 2025-08-06 01:48:26+00:00
Years ago Google used to have a feature of blacklisting sites from your results. Go figure, they removed it.

I made the switch to kagi because there was so much ai slop and stack overflow copy sites in my Google results. Sometimes I would hit three or four cheap clone sites of the same stack overflow answer trying to get my answer. Now I'm super happy with Kagi.
by CuriousRose | 2025-08-06 01:48:40+00:00
I love and pay for Kagi, but I am afraid paid search providers are in for a tough time. I am using search less and less, and directing more of my search (~90%) to Grok instead of Kagi now. The exception being price comparisons when online shopping. I want the exact information I'm after, in the way that I want it, immediately. Search cannot do this, unless they amalgamate into AI tools more and more, at which point they are in a different space altogether. Looks like an Uber eating Taxi's business situation again to me.
by rngecounty | 2025-08-06 01:48:43+00:00
Having tried gitlab, it's a very poor product almost unmaintainable as a self hosted option. Reminds me of Eclipse IDE - crammed with every other unnecessary feature/plugin and the basic features are either very slow or buggy.

At this point Gitlab is just there because being even a small X% of a huge million/billion dollar market is good enough as a company even if the product is almost unusable.
by eru | 2025-08-06 01:49:51+00:00
Btw, could you 'just' use no compression on this level in the PNG, and let the transport compression handle it?

So on paper (and on disk) your PNG would be larger, but the number of bits transmitted would be almost the same as using Zstd?

EDIT: similarly, your filesystem could handle the on-disk compression.

This might work for something like PNG, but would work less well for something like JPG, where the compression part is much more domain specific to image data (as far as I am aware).
by MBCook | 2025-08-06 01:50:31+00:00
I’m not arguing TSMC is in a good place geopolitically. I agree there’s a huge risk there.

I just don’t think “don’t use TSMC“ is a realistic choice at all right now.

That’s like telling someone in rural Montana “just don’t use a car”. If you want to live a normal life it’s not very doable.
by alisonatwork | 2025-08-06 01:50:46+00:00
This is a weird quirk of history. I feel like open source, and especially free software, was at least left-adjacent when I was coming up in the 90s. The bad guys were the megacorps. Open source was the counter-culture. I guess it changed around the dotcom boom.

Netscape feels like a big part of the story - a company staffed with hackers coming out of a public-funded research institute who rewrote a closed-source version of their browser that quickly killed off the predecessor and helped the company to a massive IPO. Then, only when threatened by a more established player, they finally open-sourced it. From the outside that came across more as a Hail Mary than an authentic expression of principles. Around then we also had the Red Hat IPO, the Slashdot/Andover/VA Linux thing etc. It was clear by then that open source had become another gimmick that capitalists could leverage to compound their wealth, rather than a fundamental belief that users of a piece of software should have the right to modify and reconstruct it as they see fit.

Nowadays capitalists love open source because their startups and big tech investments are the users - open source provides free labor whose products these companies can repackage and sell as a platform. Meanwhile a lot of that "free" labor is no longer done by hobbyists or researchers, but by workers at other for-profit companies looking to boost their personal brand or the company's profile, so the whole motivation to contribute has changed too.
by kittikitti | 2025-08-06 01:51:17+00:00
This is really great and a game changer for AI. Thank you OpenAI. I would have appreciated an even more permissive license like BSD or MIT but Apache 2.O is sufficient. I'm wondering if we can utilize transfer learning and what counts as derivative work. Altogether, this is still open source, and a solid commitment to openness. I am hoping this changes Zuck's calculus about closing up Meta's next generation Llama models.
by amarshall | 2025-08-06 01:51:19+00:00
Indeed a max-load trailer truck is equivalent to 10,000 cars in road wear. However the benefit of them (since they transport goods for many) is somewhat outweighed. Regardless, that doesn’t obviate taxing personal vehicles at all, nor heavier vehicles more than lighter ones. Some quick searching shows there are about 60x more personal vehicles than trailer trucks in the U.S.
by neom | 2025-08-06 01:51:27+00:00
Honestly no, I downloaded the stems but never used them - their fine grain editor in the pro mode is... insanely good, I feel like I'm a secret shill here pawning for Suno but I'm 100% not - their editor really is magic when it works (about 75% of the time) - I use Abelton for just my regular post mix down i've done for years on all the stuff I make, so I basically just master there at this point.