MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thesuitonym | 2025-08-05 18:00:42+00:00
I live in a place with a municipal telco, and let me tell you, it is night and day. The service is top notch, and it always just works to the point where on the rare occasion that they do have a problem, I spend hours trying to figure out what's wrong with my equipment, because it happens so rarely. It costs more than the local cable company, because the price you pay is actually what it costs to deliver the service, but there are never any wild swings in prices, and when service gets cheaper, you just get upgraded for no additional cost. I wish all companies worked this way.
by noah_buddy | 2025-08-05 18:00:59+00:00
Many people (will only speak to America), view being fat as a literal moral failing. Gluttony or overeating are not the sin, but being fat.

(From that perspective:)a miracle cure that allows someone to stop being fat is like an indulgence (in the Roman Catholic sense). It’s a cheat, a shortcut that allows the unworthy to reach a state they do not deserve.

My opinion is to wait long enough to validate there are no long term harms, but beyond that, yeah, adjust the priors, it could be a modern aspirin.
by jcranmer | 2025-08-05 18:01:29+00:00
The report here more or less outright says that leaving it outside was a major factor in the incident. The incident on dive 80 was adjudged to be partial delamination of the carbon fiber layers, and leaving it outside subjected it to freeze-thaw cycles that propagated the delamination into near-total delamination, which promptly failed the next time the hull was pressurized. Although there is also the aborted dive 87, which subjected to the submersible to a lot of percussive damage via wave action.
by _flux | 2025-08-05 18:01:29+00:00
No, it's open weight. You wouldn't call applications with only Apache 2.0-licensed binaries "open source". The weights are not the "source code" of the model, they are the "compiled" binary, therefore they are not open source.

However, for the sake of argument let's say this release should be called open source.

Then what do you call a model that also comes with its training material and tools to reproduce the model? Is it also called open source, and there is no material difference between those two releases? Or perhaps those two different terms should be used for those two different kind of releases?

If you say that actually open source releases are impossible now (for mostly copyright reasons I imagine), it doesn't mean that they will be perpetually so. For that glorious future, we can leave them space in the terminology by using the term open weight. It is also the term that should not be misleading to anyone.
by DavideNL | 2025-08-05 18:02:21+00:00
Orion does NOT support all Firefox/Chromium extensions. Many extensions only work partly;

The fact that it does not produce errors, does not mean it works.

I hate that they (Kagi) make it *look like* extensions work…

For reference, a cheat sheet: https://orionfeedback.org/d/2174-crowdsourced-list-of-extens...
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-05 18:02:21+00:00
I was planning on going into academia in the early aughts and this was also around the time that there was a groundswell to take away tenure from professors. "They" wanted to set out a quota for how many times you needed to have your research published on a yearly basis to show you were still doing your job.

I opted out when all three of my advisors during my first year of graduate work told to get out and that the whole field of academia was not the romantic vision I had aspired to be. It was quickly becoming toxic. One of my advisors had stopped taking money from universities, and was leaving to go work for a large pharmaceutical company doing research out in Siberian Russia. Another was quietly working on a degree in statistics to go work for the government.

These were people who I admired and fashioned myself after. It's quite a shock when people you respect suddenly warn you academia is not where you want to be. I was lucky, the other two guys I was in grad school with went ahead anyways. Years later, I found out neither lasted more than a few years for exactly what you described and what I was warned of.
by tptacek | 2025-08-05 18:02:24+00:00
Nobody said anything about "correctness". Hallucinations aren't bugs. Everybody writes bugs. People writing code don't hallucinate.

It's a pretty obvious rhetorical tactic: everybody associates "hallucination" with something distinctively weird and bad that LLMs do. Fair enough! But then they smuggle more meaning into the word, so that any time an LLM produces anything imperfect, it has "hallucinated". No. "Hallucination" means that an LLM has produced code that calls into nonexistent APIs. Compilers can and do in fact foreclose on that problem.
by duxup | 2025-08-05 18:02:42+00:00
I think people in power are pretty fond of non democratic systems, they like them. They make friends and get favors. Far easier than competing.

And what's the alternative for many of them? Lawsuits?

SCOTUS has quit doing their job. The checks and balances are out the window. There is no leadership / anyone in power at the national level when it comes to democracy in the US at this time.
by rohit89 | 2025-08-05 18:02:46+00:00
> So what is final state here for us?

I think we have a long way to go yet. Humanity is still in the early stages of its tech tree with so many unknown and unsolved problems. If ASI does happen and solves literally everything, we will be in a position that is completely alien to what we have right now.

> How to even find the value in living given all of that?

I feel like a lot of AI angst comes from people who place their self-worth and value on external validation. There is value in simply existing and doing what you want to do even if nobody else wants it.
by itissid | 2025-08-05 18:02:54+00:00
Human goals are more important. I think conceptually the idea should always be strong goals set by humans and then sub goals each with a praticularly well defined *plan* for meeting them. This needs to be the conceptual basis, if you are having to plan for 50% or 75%(gasp) of the time for a feature and then AI just writes code, that is not intelligence much less a 10x engineer.

My use case is not for a 10x engineer but instead for *cognitive load sharing*. I use AI in a "non-linear" fashion. Do you? Here is what that means:

1. Brainstorm an idea and write down detailed enough plan. Like tell me how I might implement something or here is what I am thinking can you critique and compare it with other approaches. Then I quickly meet with 2 more devs and make a design decision for which one to use.

2. Start manual coding and let AI "fill the gaps": Write these test for my code or follow this already existing API and create the routes from this new spec. This is non-linear because I would complete 50-75% of the feature and let the rest be completed by AI.

3. I am tired and about to end my shift and there is this last bug, I go read the docs but I also ask AI to read my screen and come up with some hypothesis to come up with. I decide which hypothesis are most promising after some reading and then ask the AI to just test that(not fix it on auto mode).

4. Voice mode: I have a shortcut that triggers claude code and uses it like a quick "lookup/search" in my code base. This avoids context switching.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-05 18:02:58+00:00
Hmm my bad. Maybe Yeah I always thought that it was the endgame of humanity but isn't AGI supposed to be that (the endgame)

What would AGI mean, solving some problem that it hasn't seen? or what exactly? I mean I think AGI is solved, no?

If not, I see people mentioning that horizon alpha is actually a gpt 5 model and its predicted to release on thursday on some betting market, so maybe that fits AGI definition?
by QuantumGood | 2025-08-05 18:03:04+00:00
It was very clearly very early on that critical risks were known, unmitigated, and misrepresented. I don't think the kind of person(s) that know and misrepresent are the kind to learn and avoid similar mistakes, though publicizing issues like this will increase pressure on them to hide their lies better. They had a messianic CEO dismissing concerns with bluster and bravado
by dismalaf | 2025-08-05 18:03:10+00:00
Honestly, this is a win-win for TSMC.

Intel isn't dead. They've made some bad choices and investments but they're still huge. They have $30 billion in gross profit per year on an utterly boring, non-hype based business model. Get rid of some dead weight, write off the bad investments, improve their foundry business and their value easily grows multiples of what it currently is.

On top of it already being a shrewd business deal, doing a favour for the US government also potentially buys protection for TSMC and Taiwan from China. Plus the immediate tariff relief.
by kuhsaft | 2025-08-05 18:03:14+00:00
You shouldn't have to change the SDK.

You can create a class library ASP.NET Core Server by using a FrameworkReference [1]. I can't remember the library, but there was one that had its own `IHostedService` with its own embedded ASP.NET Core Server startup within it.

If your `WebApplication` requires services, of course you're going to have to register its dependencies on its `IServiceCollection`. Though, you can use factory methods for service registration to use an external `IServiceProvider`.

For console applications, I would recommend using `Host.CreateEmptyApplicationBuilder` [2]. Makes it a lot easier to configure services for Console applications. It also handles `IHostApplicationLifetime`s.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/t...

[2] https://gist.github.com/pethin/7e5edd7614ff2f51c06c086e1bc7c...
by internetter | 2025-08-05 18:03:19+00:00
I feel like this tech is a dead end. If it could instead generate 3d models which are then rendered, that would be immensely useful. Eliminates memory and playtime constraints, allows it to be embedded in applications like games. But this? Where do we go from here? Even if we eliminate all graphical issues and get latency from 1s to 0, what purpose does it serve?
by avtar | 2025-08-05 18:03:24+00:00
I would see Proxmox come up in so many homelab type conversations so I tried 8.* on a mini pc. The impression I got was that the project probably provides the most value in a clustered environment or even on a single node if someone prefers using a web UI. What didn't seem very clear was an out-of-box way for declaring VM and container configurations [1] that could then be version controlled. Common approaches seemed to involve writing scripts or reach for other tools like Ansible. Whereas something like LXD/Incus makes this easier [2] by default. Or maybe I'm missing some details?

[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/default-settings-of-contai...

[2] https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/instances_...
by rconti | 2025-08-05 18:03:27+00:00
Arguably some of them are useful (speed? as much as I hate to say it).

I don't think the "don't drive anywhere near the edge of the lane" is a good practice. There are lots and lots and lots of good, pro-safety reasons to come near the edge of a lane, or even cross over it, and I'm not sure it's helpful to train drivers to stay in the geometric center of the lane. For example it's one of the things I hate about autopilot the most, the car tries too aggressively to center itself.
by ethagknight | 2025-08-05 18:03:34+00:00
It seems like an increased executive mandate on the telcos is an odd thing to cheer for, and im not convinced a mandate from FCC is really necessary any more. The fiber installation (networking, boring, marketing) industry has dramatically expanded, and I would expect telcos to continue installation of fiber to new markets since it's so much cheaper to manage than copper. with the ubiquity of 5g cell networks, the amount of fiber extended in the last decade, and the vast improvements of sat-net... is there a need for every property in the US to receive a fiber connection?

FCC isnt giving on up broadband, its cancelling its mandate for expansion, and likely going to delete the cash payouts to telcos as well? The FCC never delivered on AFFORDABLE... telcos have raked it in on that front.

In other words, seems like a non-event?
by acc_297 | 2025-08-05 18:03:35+00:00
Yes but the task becomes that much harder - we are scaling up natural gas generation not to phase out coal but simply to meet demand that wouldn't exist without the fierce competition to build the biggest LLM. Any feasible plan made 5 years ago which may have worked to transition a large industry from fuel burning energy sources to electricity generation (renewable or otherwise) is made 10x harder by the introduction of this rapid rollout in datacentre capacity.
by e2le | 2025-08-05 18:03:40+00:00
Basic research is important science and is in societies best interest to support it.

A quote from Carl Sagan’s, Demon Haunted World.

> We are rarely smart enough to set about on purpose making the discoveries that will drive our economy and safeguard our lives. Often, we lack the fundamental research. Instead, we pursue a broad range of investigations of Nature, and applications we never dreamed of emerge. Not always, of course. But often enough.

https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-709
by ralusek | 2025-08-05 18:03:54+00:00
It's interesting, because I was always a bit confused and annoyed by the Giant's Drink/Mind Game that Ender plays in Ender's Game. It just always felt so different to how games I knew played, it felt odd that he would "discover" things that the developers hadn't intended, because I always just thought "wait, someone had to build that into the game just in case he happened to do that one specific thing?" Or if it was implied that they didn't do that, then my thought was "that's not how this works, how is it coming up with new/emergent stories?"

This feels almost exactly like that, especially the weird/dreamlike quality to it.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-05 18:03:58+00:00
It will not work out over the long run. This is corruption; it breeds corruption, and corruption creates victims. Victims don't put up with it forever and as the old cold case appeal spiel goes, "alliances shift over time".

More prosaically, in the short term: TSMC are now effectively compelled to acquire Intel entirely or at least a controlling share, right?

Unless Trump's shakedown requires them to own 49% but then bans them from owning more than 50%, which would be the end of the USA as any sort of free market -- and I concede that is possible, because the USA now has a leader who acts more and more like an autocrat -- aren't TSMC essentially compelled by their own interests to find the just-greater-than 1% somewhere?

If you're blackmailing me into owning almost all of something but not getting control of what I owned, I think the logical next step is to forcibly gain control, yes? Because it turns the tables.

Not least because acquiescing even to buying 49% paints a target on my back.

Trump is not saving Intel: he is guaranteeing it is going to get broken up and sold off. He is destroying it. (More to the point he is immediately tying its existence to the success or failure of his own Asia-facing foreign policy, which means he is effectively asserting control over it)
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-05 18:03:59+00:00
Another side of the coin is no one will ever serve you content at 1gbps. It just won’t happen. I get 500mb down on speedtests and netflix et al regularly throttle me to like 144p quality with constant buffering. I download a game on steam and it throttles to nothing for hours after making some initial good progress.
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by yiyingzhang | 2025-08-05 18:04:17+00:00
We're the creators of Gensee, a platform we built to help developers quickly productionize their AI agents and workflows.

To show how Gensee works, we created a new end-to-end demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXIX9LgN4mU where we build and launch a travel planner AI application: https://demo.gensee.ai/travel-planner. The web app uses two agents: one to generate a travel plan based on user requirements built using CamelAI's multi-agent society, and another to answer follow-up questions with LLM and web search using no framework (pure Python). We've also open-sourced the travel planner app itself: https://github.com/GenseeAI/Trip-planner-demo.

Here's the process we show:

- DEPLOY: We start with the agent's source code in the GitHub repo and deploy it to Gensee directly using the repo url.

- TEST & ANALYZE: To evaluate the agent, Gensee automatically generates test cases customized to the agent. We can then inspect the full execution trace for each test run (including LLM and tool call inputs/outputs) and manually swap models/tools.

- METRICS: Next, we can instruct Gensee to automatically generate metrics (e.g., "does the generated plan include all requested cities?"). These metrics use LLM-as-a-Judge internally. There are also two objective metrics: dollar cost and execution latency.

- OPTIMIZE: We then select our desired metrics and run Gensee’s automated optimization process, which experiments with different models and tools to find the setup that maximizes quality, minimizes cost, or minimizes latency.

- LAUNCH & AUTOSCALE: Once we're happy with the optimized agent, Gensee provides a production-ready API endpoint that we can integrate directly into our web application. We can also download the Gensee-optimized source code and do more offline tuning. Once launched, the agent will be autoscaled on Gensee as requests arrive. Gensee is the only entity to pay, as Gensee internally covers all model and tool call costs.

We are trying to build the "AgentOps" tooling that we hope can be useful to all agent developers and beyond.

We would be grateful for the community's honest feedback!

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by mythz | 2025-08-05 18:04:21+00:00
Getting great performance running gpt-oss on 3x A4000's:

gpt-oss:20b = ~46 tok/s

More than 2x faster than my previous leading OSS models:

mistral-small3.2:24b = ~22 tok/s gemma3:27b = ~19.5 tok/s

Strangely getting nearly the opposite performance running on 1x 5070 Ti:

mistral-small3.2:24b = ~39 tok/s gpt-oss:20b = ~21 tok/s

Where gpt-oss is nearly 2x slow vs mistral-small 3.2.
by nisegami | 2025-08-05 18:04:40+00:00
You need to consider if your friends are high decouplers or low decouplers. If they're the latter, then their support for a position like "humans don't have a significant affect on climate change" can't be construed to mean that they actually believe that "humans don't have a significant affect on climate change". Instead, it should be taken to mean that they agree with the implications of a world where "humans don't have a significant affect on climate change".
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-08-05 18:04:42+00:00
Taiwan is under a tremendous pull by China, both non violent and violent. Any push by the US is a push towards China.

Trump has no idea what he is doing. HE can not replace Brazilian coffee, but at least it is "only" coffee. Not being able to replace a fab is a precarious situation.

Is he imagining invading Taiwan? China would consider that an invasion to its territory.
by fxtentacle | 2025-08-05 18:04:47+00:00
Yes. Because they want to own your attention and that only works if they are interfacing directly to you.

I remember that Samsung was at one time offering to play non-skippable full-screen apps on their newest 8K OLED TVs and their argument was precisely that these ads will reach those rich people who normally pay extra to avoid getting spammed with ads. Or going with your executive assistant example, there are situations where it makes sense to bribe them to get access to you and/or your data. E.g. "evil maid attack".
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-05 18:04:58+00:00
LLMs are terrible, purely speaking from the business economic side of things.

Frontier / SOTA models are barely profitable. Previous gen model lose 90% of their value. Two gens back and they're worthless.

And given that their product life cycle is something like 6-12 months, you might as well open source them as part of sundowning them.
by strangeloops85 | 2025-08-05 18:05:26+00:00
The particular type of fraud described here (paper mills etc.) is less common in the U.S. (different types of fraud may exist but that's more subtle and complex). There tend to be specific geographic clusters associated with this behavior that have to do with how university expansions have been done in many countries.

Oddly enough, pre-LLMs, I would have said most of these crap paper mill papers didn't really affect the actual fields. Yes, they cited each other but outside the citation ring didn't really alter the field in a knowledge sense. But now.. if these get picked up in Deep Research it's a problem.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-05 18:05:36+00:00
New Jersey is a state. I do not think that they have the wherewithal to attempt such. Scotland is a country, but I don't think their occupiers would allow them to try. Granted, it is an awkward term, and I too wish there was a better one.

>Does your question imply that none of these countries are capable of orchestrating this and only nation-states can do it?

It's not clear to me that Russia can summon the ambition. But point conceded.
by lioeters | 2025-08-05 18:05:38+00:00
> Ubuntu developers have decided to remove wget from the default install of Ubuntu Server 25.10, in favour of wcurl, which offers similar functionality.

> It’s part of a wider effort to streamline Ubuntu Server and reduced the number of duplicated tools included in a default install.

> The wcurl wrapper is included within the curl 8.14.x package in Ubuntu 25.10, and translates basic wget commands to curl versions.
by coltonv | 2025-08-05 18:06:31+00:00
I think I may have worded this poorly. I mean the total amount of code review time that goes into 3 months of work (likely on hundreds of PRs) can't be compressed into 1.5 weeks at the same portion of time being allocated to code review. Each code review has a "floor" time, a minimum amount of time loss due to context switching, reading, writing, etc.
by manchmalscott | 2025-08-05 18:06:34+00:00
YouTube premium recently added a “lite” tier. I don’t use YouTube music and I don’t watch shorts or music videos on YouTube, so I’m able to have the channels I watch get compensated without paying for what I perceive as unnecessary and non-core features of the platform.

Clearly such a thing is possible, and a company which insists it isn’t is fundamentally either uncreative or user hostile.
by a_wild_dandan | 2025-08-05 18:07:12+00:00
Oh absolutely, AI labs certainly talk their books, including any safety angles. The controversy/outrage extended far beyond those incentivized companies too. Many people had good faith worries about Llama. Open-weight models are now vastly more powerful than Llama-1, yet the sky hasn't fallen. It's just fascinating to me how apocalyptic people are.

I just feel lucky to be around in what's likely the most important decade in human history. Shit odds on that, so I'm basically a lotto winner. Wild times.
by rfoo | 2025-08-05 18:07:13+00:00
Or, you can say, OpenAI has some real technical advancements on stuff besides attn architecture. GQA8, alternating SWA 128 / full attn do all seem conventional. Basically they are showing us that "no secret sauce in model arch you guys just sucks at mid/post-training", or they want us to believe this.

The model is pretty sparse tho, 32:1.