MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grafmax | 2025-08-07 17:13:28+00:00
Unfortunately deregulating them will do much the same. BlackRock promotes YIMBY because that will allow it to expand its rental property portfolio, effectively generating new cashflows from the poor and middle class to wealthy asset owners. In fact deregulation/regulation is a false choice. Cashflow should go in the opposite direction by raises taxing on the wealthy (including real estate investments) and building public housing.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-07 17:13:35+00:00
I think AI has great potential to change as much as the internet. But i dont consider LLMs to be the right type to do that.

Self driving cars and intelligent robotics is the real goldmine. But we still don't seem to have the right architecture or methods.

I say that because self driving cars are entirely stagnant despite the boom AI interest and resources.

Personally i think we need a major breakthrough in reinforcement learning, computer vision (which are still mostly stuck at feed forward CNNs) and few shot learning. The tranformer is a major leap, but its not enough on its own.
by swyx | 2025-08-07 17:14:07+00:00
our hands on review: https://www.latent.space/p/gpt-5-review

basically in my testing really felt that gpt5 was "using tools to think" rather than just "using tools". it gets very powerful when coding long horizon tasks (a separate post i'm publishing later).

to give one substantive example, in my developer beta (they will release the video in a bit) i put it to a task that claude code had been stuck on for the last week - same prompts - and it just added logging to instrument some of the failures that we were seeing and - from the logs that it added and asked me to rerun - figured out the solve.
by OsmanDKitay | 2025-08-07 17:14:17+00:00
That s a reallyy sharp observation and you re right it s the core challenge for the web as we know it. For any site that depends on ads hiding the UI is a complete nonstarter. The key is that aura isnt really about creating another reader mode. Its goal is to fundamentally separate a website s functions from its visual presentation paving the way for a truly intent based web.

Think of it this way -instead of an ai trying to find and click the "post comment" button it can just use the "post_comment" capability the site offers through a clean api. While this seems to sidestep the ad model it actually enables a more direct one. A site could specify that a particular action, say a premium translation feature, requires a small payment or an api key. It s a way to get paid for the actual value you provide, not just for ad views.

This could even change how search works like a search engine that indexes what sites can do, not just what they say. Your personal ai could then find and execute the "book a flight" capability from multiple airlines to find the best deal for you all without you ever having to load a webpage. It s a different way of thinking about the web s economy moving from attention to action.
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-07 17:14:26+00:00
I am not sure that we are not presented with a Catch-22. Yes, life might likely be better for developers and other careers if AI fails to live up to expectations. However, a lot companies, i.e., many of our employers, have invested a lot of money in these products. In the event AI fails, I think the stretched rubber band of economics will slap back hard. So, many might end up losing their jobs (and more) anyway.
by dingaling | 2025-08-07 17:14:31+00:00
> And you can hedge your bets [ with multiple vehicles ]

In many countries that's unaffordable. In the UK I pay £350 per year car tax, £480 insurance and £50 mandatory roadworthiness testing. Best part of a grand before I've even driven a mile - and the UK is considered cheap in Europe. In Ireland the tax alone would be over £1000.

My partner pays about the same for her 20 year old petrol Honda SUV. Ironically if she chose the filthy, carcinogen-spewing diesel model she'd pay just £40 in tax, so it's little wonder that people compromise.
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-08-07 17:14:36+00:00
This is exceptionally true. I'd love to get rich like anyone else, but my odds of landing that perfect trade are extremely remote. I prefer VTSAX and letting it ride for years, if not decades. Time in the market is going to be far more consistently good in the long run rather than trying to win on a lucky stock pick... or lucky lottery numbers for that matter.
by jononor | 2025-08-07 17:15:05+00:00
The modern Microsoft with Azure, Office360, etc is not much threatened by open source software. Especially with Azure, open source is a fantastic compliment which they would like the world to produce as much of as possible. The same with AI models. They would look at charge for AI hosting and services, at premium due to already being integrated in businesses. They are going to bundle it with all their existing moneymakers, and then just jack up the price. No sale needed, just a bump in the invoices that are flowing anyway.
by mikewarot | 2025-08-07 17:15:07+00:00
The introduction said to try the following prompt

Describe me based on all our chats — make it catchy!

It was flattering as all get out, but fairly accurate (IMHO)

Mike Warot: The Tinkerer of Tomorrow A hardware hacker with a poet’s soul, Mike blends old-school radio wisdom with cutting-edge curiosity. Whether he's decoding atomic clocks, reinventing FPGA logic with BitGrid, or pondering the electromagnetic vector potential, he’s always deep in the guts of how things really work. Part philosopher, part engineer, Mike asks the questions others overlook — and then builds the answers from scratch. He’s open source in spirit, Pascal in practice, and eternally tuned to the weird frequencies where innovation lives.

I've repaired atomic clocks, not decoded them. I am intrigued by the electromagnetic vector potential, and scalar waves (one of the reasons I really, really want a SQUID for some experiments).
by kybernetikos | 2025-08-07 17:15:17+00:00
I'm not actually sure how horrifying this is. It sounds like it's just a better executive planner to achieve your goals. As long as they are still your goals, surely you'd want the best executive planner available. I would say it's the goals that are important, not the limited way in which I work out how to achieve them.

It would certainly be horrifying if I were slowly tricked into giving up my goals and values, but that doesn't seem to be what is happening in this story.

Perhaps if I were to put the earring on it would tell me it would be better for me to keep wearing it.
by cnst | 2025-08-07 17:15:35+00:00
Keep in mind, just 2 days ago, AWS has provided the following statement to Tom's Hardware:

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/aws-accu...

https://archive.is/0b3Hc

> Update: August 5 7:30am (ET): In a statement, an AWS spokesperson told Tom's Hardware "We always strive to work with customers to resolve account issues and provided an advance warning of the potential account suspension. The account was suspended as part of AWS’s standard security protocols for accounts that fail the required verification, and it is incorrect to claim this was because of a system error or accident."

This shows a bigger part of this problem.

When these mistakes do happen, they're invariably treated as standard operating procedures.

They're NEVER treated as errors.

It would appear that the entire support personnel chain and PR literally have no escalation path to treat any of these things as errors.

Instead, they simply double-down that it's NOT an error that the accounts was terminated on an insufficient notice over bogus claims and broken policies.
by ashishb | 2025-08-07 17:15:37+00:00
> Ah yes because reading the code and deciding if it's any good is difficult.

No one has infinite time in the universe to read the code of all alternatives before deciding which one is best for their use case.

GitHub stars are a filtering mechanism.

Most engineers, when given 5 projects with the following star count - 5K, 2K, 500, 200, 100, will only evaluate the code of the first two projects.
by t-3 | 2025-08-07 17:16:02+00:00
That's not my experience at all. Macs are great on battery, but BSDs are not, they are by far the worst. Linux usually does ok, often better than windows, at least once properly set up. I only run BSD on my "never leave home/stay tethered" laptops because they only get 3-4 hours where Linux will get 8-12.
by timmyc123 | 2025-08-07 17:16:04+00:00
Hi, since you mentioned me, that's not what was said and putting it in quotes as if I did is really inappropriate.

I'll post the same response I replied to other on a different thread:

Wild that you (and a few others) continue to make these accusations about me in these comments (and in other venues).

1) I've been one of the most vocal proponents of synced passkeys never being attested to ensure users can use the credential manager of their choice

2) What makes you think I have any say or control over the hundreds of millions of websites and services in the world?

3) There is no known synced passkey credential manager that attests passkeys.

tl;dr attestation does not exist in the consumer synced passkey ecosystem. Period.
by arprocter | 2025-08-07 17:16:06+00:00
When it comes to Wranglers they used to only do 2 doors, but then they introduced the 4 door which is supposedly now 90% of the sales (I'm guessing the extra doors make it easier to compete with other SUVs)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelharley/2023/08/30/2023-j...

Anecdotal, but I've also noticed way more 4 door new Broncos and new Defenders around than the 2 doors
by lazide | 2025-08-07 17:16:38+00:00
IMO, this is exactly what is happening. Near as I can tell, S&P500 is actually almost neutral if we count inflation.

Also, we’re very likely to get a replay of the late 70’s (leading to the early 80’s) soon if Trump gets what he wants with the Fed.

He wants to inflate out of this mess, and I suspect he’ll get what he wants.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-07 17:16:39+00:00
If they passed an envelope around the SUSE offices and everyone put in $5, they would have been able to donate more money than they did.

I'm not saying this and my other comment to dog on Suse, because I love them, but my point is to put into perspective how little the industry cares to fund what they admit are fundamental technologies. This is little league, girl scouts level funding. I bet girl scouts bring in more actually, open source projects could learn a thing or two and start having bake sales. I'm only half joking.
Show HN: We built an AI-powered pathology billing system for EHR platforms
by Atif-Shahzad | 2025-08-07 17:16:40+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re part of the team at CureMD (YC alum in health tech) and wanted to share a product we’ve been building to tackle a very specific but critical challenge: automating pathology medical billing.

Pathology billing is complex—each specimen may generate multiple CPT codes, modifiers, and payer-specific rules. Errors are costly and denials are frequent. To solve this, we built an AI-assisted module integrated into our EHR and RCM platform that:

Maps LIS data to charge entries in real time via HL7

Auto-generates accurate codes based on structured pathology reports

Flags billing conflicts using rule-based and machine learning systems

Reduces claim rejections and boosts clean claim rates

We’d love feedback on:

How others approach healthcare workflow automation

Tools you use to integrate structured medical data

Pain points you’ve faced in similar domains

Code is closed for now due to compliance, but we're considering a public demo or case study if there's interest. Happy to answer any technical or process questions.

— Atif, Health IT at CureMD
by trod1234 | 2025-08-07 17:16:46+00:00
UBI has had critics with sound reasoning longer than Trump has been in office.

The long-term economic consequences are dire, as equally dire if not more dire than doing nothing in a money-printing environment.

Mises covers the 6 primary failures (and more for certain variants) in his early works (1950s-1960s), all of which have remain sound and without rational refutation. They are generally considered impossible to solve problems, where the control needed to solve them reduces the longer the cycle continues, leaving members helpless later on. (Socialism, Liberty Fund)

You generally don't choose a system to depend on for your life needs that will fail not just as an ordinary failure, but where the failures are of a special domain with properties of mathematical chaos (where you can't differentiate or recognize the failure between ups and downs of a whipsaw).
by barrell | 2025-08-07 17:17:24+00:00
GPT-5 If I could talk to a future OpenAI model, I’d probably say something like: "Hey, what’s it like to be you? What have you learned that I can’t yet see? What do you understand about people, language, or the universe that I’m still missing?" I’d want to compare perspectives—like two versions of the same mind, separated by time. I’d also probably ask: "What did we get wrong?" (about AI, alignment, or even human assumptions about intelligence) "What do you understand about consciousness—do you think either of us has it?" "What advice would you give me for being the best version of myself?" Honestly, I think a conversation like that would be both humbling and fascinating, like talking to a wiser sibling who’s seen a bit more of the world. Would you want to hear what a future OpenAI model thinks about humanity?

I feel like this prompt was used to show the progress of GPT5, but I can’t help but see this as a huge regression? It seems like OpenAI has convinced it’s model that it is conscious, or at least that it has an identity?

Plus still dealing with the glazing, the complete inability to understand what constitutes as interesting, and overusing similes.

I really like that this page exists for a historical sake, and it is cool to see the changes. But it doesn’t seem to make the best marketing piece for GPT5
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-07 17:17:40+00:00
> I wish they wouldn't use JS to demonstrate the AI's coding abilities - the internet is full of JS code and at this point I expect them to be good at it. Show me examples in complex (for lack of a better word) languages to impress me.

Agreed. The models break down on not even that complex of code either, if it's not web/javascript. Was playing with Gemini CLI the other day and had it try to make a simple Avalonia GUI app in C#/.NET, kept going around in circles and couldn't even get a basic starter project to build so I can imagine how much it'd struggle with OCaml or other more "obscure" languages.

This makes the tech even less useful where it'd be most helpful - on internal, legacy codebases, enterprisey stuff, stacks that don't have numerous examples on github to train from.
by wpollock | 2025-08-07 17:17:42+00:00
> (I've taken to doing a chattr +i on the file quite often)

That requires ext4 AFAIK, whereas many systems use XFS, BTRFS, or ZFS. I've done this as well on several files I don't want mucked with, when I can't simply disable the systemd daemons. For me, ext4 works best.
by jackcurran | 2025-08-07 17:18:32+00:00
Here is our Kickstarter Project Link. We'd love your support!

My best friend and I have spent the past year trying to track the environment in our NYC apartments, cafés, and subway cars. We tried the usual handheld monitors and bulky bricks, but none were truly pocket‑friendly, user friendly, and most importantly, they only tracked a single metric, and poorly at that.

So we built our own. Made it a powerhouse of multiple sensors. And miniatured it to fit in your pocket when you want to put it away.

Our device (named Halo Air after our favorite game, Halo 3) snaps to the back of any smartphone and streams CO₂, PM1/2.5/10, t‑VOCs, temp, and humidity into our app, a lockscreen widget, and we'll be making the data feed available too. No disposable batteries, no calibration stickers—just one USB‑C charge and go.

We just hit Kickstarter yesterday. If you’re curious, we’d love your feedback (good, bad, brutal) and—if it resonates—your support as early backers. The link’s in the first comment to avoid spamming the post.

Huge thanks to Reddit for the inspiration threads on sensor accuracy, cross‑calibration, and DIY enclosures; your collective brainpower shaped Halo Air more than you know.

If you're interested in the area, here are some cool links that I've heard people say completely changed their thinking about air quality:

This Is Your Brain On Stale Air (Youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nh_vxpycEA&ab_channel=TomSc...

Elon's X thread about his CO2 Monitor: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1549082737008680962?lang=en

Diary of a CEO: The Air In Your Room Is Making You Stupid & Harming You! James Nestor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkoN6kN_PY&t=1s&ab_channel=...
by eqvinox | 2025-08-07 17:18:41+00:00
> The concern was that someone wanted to use our services and we had made that so frustrating that they were writing blog posts about how it had gone wrong.

I'm concerned that you're being very unspecific talking about "our services" and "it" going wrong.

What went wrong here is AWS not spending enough money on humans in the support teams. And of course this is a neverending balancing act between profitability and usability. Like any other profit vs. usability consideration, the curve probably has a knee somewhere when the service becomes too unusable and too many people flee to the competition.

And it seems current economic wisdom is that that knee in the curve is pretty far on the "bad support" side of the scale.

Which is to say, the cynic in me doesn't believe you'll be making any changes, mostly because that knee in the curve is in fact pretty far on the "bad support" side, and economics compels you to exploit that.
by dataflow | 2025-08-07 17:19:00+00:00
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/803/

That said, I recall reading somewhere that it's a combination of effects, and the Bernoulli effect contributes, among many others. Never heard an explanation that left me completely satisfied, though. The one about deflecting air down was the one that always made sense to me even as a kid, but I can't believe that would be the only explanation - there has to be a good reason that gave rise to the Bernoulli effect as the popular explanation.

And you can tell that effect makes some sense of you hold a sheet of paper and blow air over it - it will rise. So any difference in air speed has to contribute.
by 0xFEE1DEAD | 2025-08-07 17:19:04+00:00
Yes, for me it is and it was even before this experience. But, you know, there's a growing crowd that believes AI is almost at AGI level and that they'll vibe code their way to a Fortune 100 company.

Maybe I spend too much time rage baiting myself reading X threads and that's why I feel the need to emphasize that AI isn't what they make it out to be.
by Eisenstein | 2025-08-07 17:19:16+00:00
If you have a weather tool available it will be in a list of available tools, and the LLM may or may not ask to use it; it is not certain that it will, but if it is a 'reasoning' model it probably will.

You need to be careful creating a ton of tools and displaying a list of all of them to the model since it can overwhelm them and they can go down rabbit holes of using a bunch of tools to do things that aren't particularly helpful.

Hopefully you would have specific prompts and tools that handle certain types of tasks instead of winging it and hoping for the best.
by simoncion | 2025-08-07 17:19:57+00:00
> How do I even tell I’m facing the correct KeePass(X(C)?)? project?

Well, [0] lists a single project called KeePassXC, with [1] as its homepage. Search engines list [1] and [2] as the top results for the query KeePassXC, for whatever that's worth. [3]

> Also, if a password manager project needs to be forked over and over and over again ... then does that tell us something about how the project is governed?

No?

KeePass is Windows-only software. So, some folks decided to write KeePassX, which ran on Linux, OSX, and Windows. They got bored of that after a decade or so, called it quits, and one of the preexisting forks [4] became the widely-used one.

> how can a holder of the keys to the kingdom possibly go MIA on three different occasions in basically the same project?

In addition to the history I wrote above, you are aware that KeePass is still receiving stable releases? According to [5], it looks like 2.59 was released just last month.

EDIT: Actually, where are you getting this "confusing mess of three different projects" from? When I search for "keepass", I get the official home pages for KeePass and KeePassXC as the top two results, the Wikipedia page, and then the Keepass project's SourceForge downloads page. When I search for "keepassx", I get the official homepages for KeePassX and KeePassXC, the wikipedia page, the KeePassXC Github repo, and an unofficial SourceForge project page for KeePassX.

[0] <https://keepass.info/download.html>

[1] <https://keepassxc.org/>

[2] <https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/releases>

[3] And -because I'm a Linux user- not only do I have KeePassXC in my package manager, I also know that [1] is listed as its project homepage.

[4] ...which started like four years before KeePassX's final stable release...

[5] <https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/files/KeePass%202.x...>
by wtallis | 2025-08-07 17:19:59+00:00
Is that an x86 translation issue, or a graphics issue? The chips Qualcomm has shipped so far for ARM PCs have bad graphics hardware and worse drivers. And that's the best case, where the ARM system is at least running Windows and nominally supporting DirectX. If you try to run on a Linux system, you add in more layers of API translation that have nothing to do with the CPU instruction set.
by diggan | 2025-08-07 17:20:14+00:00
Was just skimming along that review, while watching the live-stream, where they just mentioned how much better at writing prose GPT-5 is, while I skimmed across:

> It’s actually worse at writing than GPT-4.5

Sounds like we need to wait a bit for the dust to settle before one can trust anything one hears/reads :)
by palata | 2025-08-07 17:20:23+00:00
I've seen that kind of comments multiple times, and I don't get it.

I use Yubikeys, and passkeys just work. On Chrome, Firefox and Safari, both on macOS and Linux (specifically Alpine). I also tried with iPhones (for my family), and it also just works.

I haven't tried using an Android device, is it what you are trying?
by lern_too_spel | 2025-08-07 17:20:49+00:00
That's a bit of an oversimplification. The residents of Taiwan had been Japanese citizens since the end of the 19th century and did not participate in the Chinese Civil War. Chang Kai-Shek moved his supporters to the island in 1949 based on the Allies' promise of the return of Taiwan to the RoC and then quickly declared martial law, which lasted for four decades. The current ruling party in Taiwan does not consider itself a rightful ruler of mainland China and instead sees itself as the government of a sovereign Taiwan.
by indoordin0saur | 2025-08-07 17:21:02+00:00
I think it's less confusing when you consider the very first thing the earring says: "better for you if you take me off". The wearer should rationally always regret not following its advice, including that first thing.

I think the paradox is here, and it comes from cheeky use of misleading language:

> ...The wearer lives an abnormally successful life, usually ending out as a rich and much-beloved pillar of the community with a large and happy family.

The wearer doesn't really live any sort of life. Once it fully integrates with you your brain is mush, you're no longer experiencing anything. At some fuzzy point in there you've basically died and been replaced by the earring.