MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lequanghai | 2025-08-07 02:12:25+00:00
Context windows please. ChatGPT Plus users have only 32k context windows looks like a discrimination. With such limited context windows, the model became dump just after 1 or 2 questions for any serious research request. I truly hope the GPT-5 plus would increase it at least to 200k. Compare to Gemini 2.5 with 1 million context window, that's already inferior but at least it's acceptable. It's $20, sama, not cheap chunks money
by jerf | 2025-08-07 02:13:54+00:00
The whole conversation here is about incentives for the content creators, not the user.

Yes, as a user I'd like everything served to me on a silver platter, for free, on demand, and completely and 100% aligned with my interests exclusively with no thought given to anybody else... but that's not a realistic world. In the real world, if the content providers have no reason to provide content, they won't.

I kind of hate the connotations of "content provider", that neutral term that implies that it is all "content" that can just be measured in megabytes or something, but I mean the full richness here of the term, individual producers, small businesses, big business, everybody. Even my personal site, if I'm not getting something out of it, however intangible it may be, I wouldn't do it. I'd be mighty pissed if I lose a job someday because I get accused of just spewing out LLM content that the LLM can only spew out because of my own original ideas/formulation of ideas being on the internet.
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 02:14:06+00:00
Author here. Really great comment; I've linked it from the OP. (Could do without the insults!) Most of the changes you point out sound... good? Maybe having fewer arbitrary limits would have sapped a few historically significant coders of their rage against the machine, but maybe it would have pulled in a few more people by being less annoying in general. On colors, I did mention that in the post but losing an alpha channel would be painful.
by igor47 | 2025-08-07 02:14:28+00:00
Solar module prices over the past 20 years went from $2/watt to $.3/watt. Installed prices are a little more, going from maybe $6/watt to ~ $3/watt. I paid about $3.5/watt installed in Berkeley 3 years ago, a place not known for affordability. In the meantime, (average in the US) electricity rates went from ~$.10/kW to about $.16/kW. If over that period, your payback period has remained constant, you must have dramatically (like 20x ) reduced your power usage. Congratulations!
by jerf | 2025-08-07 02:15:45+00:00
Enjoy the brief window of LLMs "hyping the virtues of your product" to its users for free. In 2030 that's not going to sound realistic at all. And I feel I'm being generous pushing it up to 2030, the first "sponsored training data" either already exists or will probably be out this year, the only question being whether it will be publicly admitted to or not.
by vxv7790 | 2025-08-07 02:16:20+00:00
Hi, I’m Vivek—co-founder of ThirdAI Automation.

We just launched our Beyond OCR Playground, and I’d love for the community to give it a spin and share feedback. Our benchmarks show exceptional performance on complex, real-world industrial documents—especially where others fall short.

If you're struggling with tough PDFs dense tables, embedded specs, inconsistent formats—send them our way. We’d love to put our engine to the test.

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by parineum | 2025-08-07 02:16:22+00:00
It's not supposed to create new jobs, that's not what people say. Technology makes jobs more efficient, reducing the amount of human labor required. That makes whatever product that was being made cheaper. Now people have mire money to spend on other stuff. That "other stuff" is where the new jobs come from, new markets that previously weren't viable because of either lack of customers with disposable income or that product being made cheaper by some technology.
by ivanmontillam | 2025-08-07 02:16:49+00:00
Chromium is in such position that their implementation of new elements and APIs set the de-facto standard for the Web and Safari and Firefox have to follow suit.

This overpowers the governing body (W3C), where they have to accept it and pretend they remain relevant.

A bit of history: When Internet Explorer was the dominant browser of the Internet, other browsers existed and their usage was in healthy proportion, among each other. People could choose whatever browser they wanted and be sure its browser engine was independent.

When Chromium/Chrome came in 2008, it changed the game to what we have today: 85% Chromium-based browsers, 8%-10% Safari/WebKit and 2%-3% Gecko-based browsers (Firefox)

Whatever Chromium does, others have to follow suit. The bulk of the userbase is there (unfortunately). No real choice exists for a governing body to effectively apply standards.
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 02:17:57+00:00
Author here. I kind of doubt it. Copied from a comment earlier:

I doubt we'd have picked 27-bit addresses. That's about 134M addresses; that's less than the US population (it's about the number of households today?) and Europe was also relevant when IPv4 was being designed. In any case, if we had chosen 27-bit addresses, we'd have hit exhaustion just a bit before the big telecom boom that built out most of the internet infrastructure that holds back transition today. Transitioning from 27-bit to I don't know 45-bit or 99-bit or whatever we'd choose next wouldn't be as hard as the IPv6 transition today.
by qingcharles | 2025-08-07 02:19:54+00:00
Adding to the issue that it is relative pointless (IMO) to send meat popsicles all that way when a robot can make the journey about a million times easier and just send us some postcards.

I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but it's kinda boring out there. We'd certainly not want to make the trek until the robots had scoured the galaxy looking for a fun place to visit. And by that time we'll all be living in some post-Singularity holodeck and won't give a hoot about some empty rock 600 light years away.

Send the bots. I'll watch the highlight reel from my pod.
by ramoz | 2025-08-07 02:21:22+00:00
Claude Code does have remote sandboxing, and it’s better & more enterprise ready than any of these alternatives.

Can deploy as a github action right now.

Tag it in any new issue, pr, etc.

Future history will highlight Claude Code as the first true form agent. These other analogies are not intuitive enough for the evolution of an os-native agent into eventual ai robotics.
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 02:22:33+00:00
Author here. My argument in the OP was that we maybe would never need to transition. With 36-bit addresses we'd probably get all the people and devices to fit. While there would still be early misallocation (hell, Ford and Mercedes still hold /8s) that could probably be corrected by buying/selling addresses without having to go to NATs and related. An even bigger address space might be required in some kind of buzzword bingo AI IoT VR world but 36 bits would be about enough even with the whole world online.
by kocial | 2025-08-07 02:23:13+00:00
It's not going to be easy;

- There are many out there with skills you may have.

- You will need a portfolio to show to your client to get leads, or a Usual trick that generally works is offering cheaply to get them on your confidence at the initial stages and then scale from there.

- Network-based leads are the best, so grow your network.

- Join all freelancing platforms, seek work and do not forget to check Ask HN: freelancer thread.
by habryka | 2025-08-07 02:23:49+00:00
Oh, hey HN! I run Lightcone Infrastructure which runs this residency (as well as LessWrong.com and the venue, Lighthaven.space).

Happy to answer questions if anyone has any. Ben (one of my co-founders) is more centrally in charge of it, but I should have enough context to answer really any question.
by surajrmal | 2025-08-07 02:23:53+00:00
Ultimately ipc, service discovery, and security all need to be codesigned to work together. Systemd is unfortunately trying to work in an ecosystem where it does not have the luxury of a clean first principles approach. Generally I would argue moving off of dbus and onto varlink is in the right direction. I'm not sure what you think is brittle about the approach of using ipc and a schema for the data sent over it. If they had gone in the other direction and mandated grpc ala http instead, would that have been "less brittle"?
by billseng | 2025-08-07 02:25:21+00:00
What if the first bits told you how long the byte was, and you just kept reading the length of the byte until you got some terminating sequence, then that would be followed by some error correction for the length and terminating sequence with a couple more terminating sequences, one could be ignored since once might be corrupted, following by a variable length byte, with its own error correction and more error correction? It’s just so obvious y’all!
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 02:26:11+00:00
Author here. The argument was that by numerological coincidence, a couple of very important numbers (world population, written characters, seconds in an epoch, and plausible process memory usage) just happen to lie right near 2^16 / 2^32. I couldn't think of equally important numbers (for a computer) near ~260k or ~64B. We just got unlucky with the choice of 8-bit bytes.
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 02:28:31+00:00
Author here, copied from another comment above.

Actually I doubt we'd have picked 27-bit addresses. That's about 134M addresses; that's less than the US population (it's about the number of households today?) and Europe was also relevant when IPv4 was being designed. In any case, if we had chosen 27-bit addresses, we'd have hit exhaustion just a bit before the big telecom boom, a lucky coincidence meaning the consumer internet would largely require another transition anyway. Transitioning from 27-bit to I don't know 45-bit or 99-bit or whatever we'd choose next wouldn't be as hard as the IPv6 transition today.
by jlaternman | 2025-08-07 02:28:55+00:00
Yes! I agree completely. They’ve not even turned on the money faucets yet. These prices are likely just to hook users on the product, and will be more comparable to paying something that compares, but favourably, to minimum wage per hour in the future. Not implying a nefarious scheme, I just think that’s how the economics of it will pan out.
by habryka | 2025-08-07 02:29:35+00:00
Definitely not trying to hide it!

I do want to not scare people who aren't into LessWrong and similar things, as I would really like this residency to be less opinionated about stuff than LessWrong and other projects we usually run, so I feel like putting a big LessWrong logo somewhere would have given the wrong impression.

I would also love to see other people run similar things (including in places that aren't the Bay Area and so where they can run it much more cheaply). I feel like it could be a cool model.

I also think an online-only version of this could be great. The original inspiration for this project came from seeing that the Nanowrimo charity had shut down, and realizing that I would love to do something like Nanowrimo but focused on blogging and essays instead of novels. I ended up registering Nablowrimo.com (National Blogging Writing Month) and might end up trying to make that a thing, or would be happy to give the URL to someone who is committed to make something happen here.
Show HN: ChatGPT Page Rebuilt in React and Tailwind (3‑min speed‑run video)
by andreupifarre | 2025-08-07 02:30:41+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with ultra-fast UI builds. This time, I challenged myself to clone the ChatGPT page using React (Vite) and Tailwind CSS—start to be shown just three minutes.

The goal was pixel-accuracy, based on a custom Figma layout inspired by OpenAI’s ChatGPT design. I recorded the process as a 3-minute speed-run video.

– GitHub: https://github.com/andreupifarre/chatgpt-clone – Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOBF-r4zKY

The original ChatGPT page features clean typography, smooth section transitions, and a minimalist aesthetic. I reproduced the layout and interactions with Tailwind’s utility classes and a few lightweight custom components.

I’d love to hear feedback from fellow builders—what would you improve, or how would you tackle this challenge?
by bamboozled | 2025-08-07 02:30:46+00:00
I enjoy the "climate" of discourse this administration has bought to the table, everything requires massive levels of justification now. Of course, the funding for this mission would've been approved by congress, so initially it was justified, but ...not anymore...

For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and many private agricultural consulting companies use the data to forecast and track crop yield, drought conditions and more.

Here's an idea, why doesn't the administration tell us why it's ending the programs?

It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions.

Does America just run on Trump's vibe now?
by dmitrygr | 2025-08-07 02:31:38+00:00
As a consumer, I don’t care if it’s Santa Claus’s fault. IPv4: works, IPv6: doesn’t. I don’t even need to know what IPv6 means. I just need to know: Turn it off to make things work.

As a technologist, growing up involves learning not to blame the consumer. They are not holding it wrong, you just designed it in a dumb way.
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 02:31:49+00:00
Author here. I agree that this would have a similar effect; we'd probably still end up with 36-bit or 48-bit IP addresses (though 30-bit would have been possible and bad). We'd probably end up with a transition from 24-bit to 48-bit addresses. 18-bit Unicode still seems likely. Not sure how big timestamps would end up being; 30-bit is possible and bad, but 48-bit seems more likely.
by leephillips | 2025-08-07 02:33:57+00:00
Read on: “According to the family's attorney, Zavvar was charged with a misdemeanor for marijuana possession in the late 1990s...The attorney said the case was resolved in October 2007, when Zavvar was granted a withholding of removal order to Iran, allowing him to remain in the U.S. and continue working legally.”

So it’s not at all clear. Also, this man arrived in the US from Iran when he was 12 years old. Now the “government has issued deportation orders to either Romania or Australia, without providing any explanation.”

Dumping a man who has lived here for 40 years in a strange country where he has no connections, because of “attempted” marijuana possession 20 years ago, doesn’t seem either fair or remotely humane, not to mention sane, to me.
by neomantra | 2025-08-07 02:34:24+00:00
I was just thinking about this topic this morning, so quite timely post! I received a PR with binary test data files that were copied from an upstream ecosystem. Similarly, I had copied files from that repo, but who should trust me?

Submodules seemed too heavyweight, so I was contemplating a CI script that compared selected checksums with a clone. This seems like a great general solution so will take a look at dropping it in!
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-07 02:34:38+00:00
> Hence the term (at least in Dutch) that "he is of blue blood" = he rich af.

This is usually said to refer to the fact that someone's skin is so pale you can see the veins through it.

(Also, it refers to pedigree rather than wealth, in English...)

I would expect silver to turn things black, not blue.

(Although see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria )
Show HN: Vibed Linux Rust BitChat Client Using Bluez
by spr-alex | 2025-08-07 02:34:43+00:00
Linux bitchat client using the bluer library. Vibes also came from bitchat_tui (https://github.com/vaibhav-mattoo/bitchat-tui)

Bluez is the better choice for publishing GATT serivces and avoids the pairing popups with other rust BT libraries.

- Supports BitChat Noise messages for e2e & peer verification
by g4cg54g54 | 2025-08-07 02:34:47+00:00
I´m mostly thinking in a "tell fetch-file that github.com/mine/scripts.git is already cloned to ~/devstuff/scripts/ fashion" - to then "skip the clone and use my provided folder instead of cloning into CACHE_DIR"

what shines combined with a push-subcommand when doing "active development" in the downstream repo - since it can shove the fix you made back into the upstream so you can commit and release it there

("push" may then also have a --with-commit option that 1) makes a commit in the local upstream 2) updates downstreams `.git-remote-files` commit-key)

on --no-commit idk... while i very much like the idea of it being able to auto-commit, default-enabled might be a little overreaching but not 100% certain on this... - maybe your `--commit <commit>` could become `--ref <ref>` instead to free up --(no-)commit? (ref might even be more git-nomenclature correct ;))

readme: no thanks, just on a throwaway anyhow ;)
Why Are We Building Superintellgence?
by Taikhoom10 | 2025-08-07 02:35:23+00:00
Hey HN, Tommorow, or maybe this weekend, GPT Five Releases. I remember back in 22 when Chat Gpt based of gpt 3 was released. The world went bezerk on a llm, and 3 years later the world is AI obsessed. I cannot tell you if this is a good thing. Before i move on i am all for the advancement of technology for the betterment of humanity. Who isn't? And personally i am also not worried at all about "AI" taking jobs. New jobs will be created i am sure of it. What i am worried about is Super Intellgence. And you might think i am stupid or silly for being worried, yet if i think i understand the concept of it correctly in essence a thinking computer that can make decisions on its own and is smarter than all of humanity. This may be a bit on the sci fi edge so here is the technical description : an AI that surpasses all humans intellgence in all domains. Now one might point out that super intellgence is not even here, why worry about something that doesnt exist. And while that is true i find it hard to beleive that people do not think at the pace AI is going that sometime in the next decade or so, maybe more that Super Intellgence will be created. My problem with this is that why are we purposely building something that surpasses us. If the answer is China, i just do not think that is good enough. As well as what is a humans role at that point. Before that we were by far the dominant specices why create something more intellgent that could very well end humanity as we know it. Why take that risk, why? I know in the end i have no control over this, yet i just want to know why one should pursue creating Superintellgence.
by djcapelis | 2025-08-07 02:35:58+00:00
Most proposals for 9 bit bytes weren't for adopting 8 bits of data in a byte, they were to have 8 bits for data and 1 bit for something else, typically either error detection or differentiating between control/data. Very few folks argued for 9 bit bytes in the sense of having 9 bits of data per byte.

9 bit bytes never made significant headway because a 12.5% overhead cost for any of these alternatives is pretty wild. But there are folks and were folks then who thought it was worth debating and there certainly are advantages to it, especially if you look at use beyond memory storage. (i.e. closer to "Harvard" architecture separation between data / code and security implications around strict separation of control / data in applications like networking.)

It's worth noting that SECDED ECC memory adds about a 20% overhead, though it can correct single bit flips whereas 9-bit bytes with a parity bit can only detect (but not correct) bit flips which makes it useful in theory but not very useful in practice.
by njovin | 2025-08-07 02:37:32+00:00
I would love to see a list of commitments that corporations and foreign bodies have made to investment in the US, and how they've actually played out over time.

They made a similar commitment in 2018 [1] and 2021 [2], but I can't find any info about whether they actually followed through and whether the projected job numbers were accurate.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/apple-announces-350-billion-...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apple-announces-430-billio...
by habryka | 2025-08-07 02:37:55+00:00
> It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things, but for nowhere near the cost.

Yep, Bay Area rent and cost of living is a big pain. $1,500 for housing for a month is still below real estate costs on our side, and $2,000 in program fees is barely enough to pay for the staff costs and program supplies. We might barely break even, but my guess is we'll lose a bunch of money on the program (which is fine, we are doing this because it's good for the world, not to make money).

I feel like for a program like this it might make sense for someone to run it outside of one of the highest cost of living places in the world, but it's where we are located, so that's what we have to make work (I do think being in the Bay Area does also attract people and makes it more likely for people to participate, so it's not an obvious call even from first principles).

> I wonder if there'll be an aggregator of the blog posts written as post of this cohort (and others, if there's more cohorts).

We're definitely planning to do something like that! Not sure yet about the exact format, but we'll definitely make it easy to find what everyone is publishing as part of the residency somehow.
by MithrilTuxedo | 2025-08-07 02:39:13+00:00
Self-deport where? He moved here when he was twelve.

Not to mention...

>According to the family's attorney, Zavvar was charged with a misdemeanor for marijuana possession in the late 1990s. In 2004, he was stopped while reentering the country, which initiated deportation proceedings.

Biden pardoned simple marijuana possession.

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/president...

>which pardon shall restore to them full political, civil, and other rights.

I think it stands to reason that covers orders to give up all rights and self-deport, as a consequence of simple marijuana possession.
by surge | 2025-08-07 02:39:25+00:00
I saw a report from another guy who couches it as not a homeless problem but a mental health and addiction problem. Everyone thinks its just people down on their luck and a home will solve it. He showed one person who had been given housing but for whatever (mental) reason, she slept on the street, that's how she always lived and wanted to live and her place sits empty. There's also a "homeless industrial complex" that is incentivized to offer temporary aid, but not solve the problem, which primarily treating the underlying mental health or addiction issues, because it keeps them employed. Not talking about the volunteers, talking about the leadership at the top that gets all the money.

The guy I'm talking about operates out of Portland.

https://x.com/kevinvdahlgren

All that to say, you can give normal "down on their luck" people homes and that solves the problem. Those people generally do pull themselves out of it somehow anyway or can take advantage of available assistance. But give an addict, or someone with schizophrenia housing and it will either be destroyed, or they can't live by the rules (usually staying clean or not using) and it won't workout. Letting them live on the streets hurts everyone, giving them houses just has negative results. The solution, sadly, the only one that "worked" despite how cruel it was, is to either incarcerate or isolate them from the public or treat them where possible which with an addict or mental health person requires voluntary choice or an asylum. Simply gentle parenting the problem and letting them live how they want to naturally is not working, as what they want is often harmful to everyone that lives around them. The only solutions that worked were often cruel, but skid row isn't kindness either and comes with its own cruelty, and leads to worse situations.

All that to say, there's no perfect solution, and the only working solutions might be ones that are considered cruel by some or tough love by others, but doing so in the least cruel manner and with treatment options where possible is probably the best way.