MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by luke-stanley | 2025-08-15 21:51:18+00:00
"The custom is always right", maybe so, but CNN has a duty to fact check the accuracy of their central claims.

ChatGPT's image generation was not introduced as part of the GPT-5 model release (except SVG generation).

The article leads with "The latest ChatGPT [...] can’t even label a map".

Yes, ChatGPT's image gen has uncanny valley issues, but OpenAI's GPT-5 product release post says nothing about image generation, it only mentions analysis [1].

As far as I can tell, GPT-Image-1 [2], which was released around March, is what powers image generation used by ChatGPT, which they introduced as "4o Image Generation" [3], which suggests to me that GPT-Image-1 is a version of the old GPT-4o.

The GPT-5 System card also only mentions image analysis, not generation. [4]

In the OpenAI live stream they said as much. CNN could have checked and made it clear the features are from the much earlier release, but instead they lead with a misleading headline.

It's very true that OpenAI doesn't make it obvious how the image generation works though.

[1] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/

[2] https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-image-1

[3] https://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/

[4] https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce-ab78-4f06-96eb-49ea29ffb...
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-15 21:51:29+00:00
I find it, for lack of a better word, cringe inducing how these tech specialists push into these areas of ethics, often ham-fistedly, and often with an air of superiority.

Some of the AI safety initiatives are well thought out, but most somehow seem like they are caught up in some sort of power fantasy and almost attempting to actualize their own delusions about what they were doing (next gen code auto-complete in this case, to be frank).

These companies should seriously hire some in-house philosophers. They could get doctorate level talent for 1/10 to 100th of the cost of some of these AI engineers. There's actually quite a lot of legitimate work on the topics they are discussing. I'm actually not joking (speaking as someone who has spent a lot of time inside the philosophy department). I think it would be a great partnership. But unfortunately they won't be able to count on having their fantasy further inflated.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-15 21:51:50+00:00
The reason behind that is similar to how all prime numbers above 2 are of the form 2n+1 since all other numbers are divisible by 2. Eg. all prime numbers >2 are odd.

In this case you're seeing the extension of this to include multiples of 3. That is, all prime numbers above 6 are of the form 6n+1 or 6n+5, all other numbers are either divisible by 2 or 3.

You can extend these patterns. Whenever you have a composite number you'll get periodic points where factors are known. Eg. to extend it one step further you could say all prime numbers above 30 are of the form 30n + [1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29], all others are divisible by 2, 3 or 5.

From this you can also quickly iterate towards to the prime number formula for the frequency of primes. eg. Only half of numbers above 2 can be prime (1/2), the rest are multiples of 2. Over 6 you have half of two thirds of numbers that can possibly be prime, the rest are multiples of 2 or 3. Over 30 only 1/2 x 2/3 x 4/5 could possibly be prime. etc. This converges to the prime number theorem!

Anyway if anyone ever expresses amazement that's good to see but mathematically it's well known. Prime numbers have patterns in their frequency, specifically where there's period multiples of factors there can't possibly be primes. It's the basis for prime number theory and patterns in primes have been known since Erasthosenes was back in BC times. So if you see a pattern here just remember that the pattern comes from looking at a period of a composite number and within that composite number there's guaranteed periodic gaps in primes where the factors of that number repeat.

This btw is something mathematicians deal with a lot. People seem to think prime numbers have no patterns and any view of them that reveals patterns is a surprising which is a weird misconception. Prime numbers absolutely have patterns. It's the basis for prime number theory.
by mongol | 2025-08-15 21:51:57+00:00
Brazil chose Gripen very soon after it Snowden leaks had revealed had intercepted Dilma Rouseff personal communications. I will be lazy here and paste a ChatGPT summary since I recalled the outline but not the details:

It’s very likely it played a significant role in the final choice — not necessarily as the only reason, but as a decisive tie-breaker.

Here’s why:

1. Timing was suspiciously close

Snowden’s NSA revelations came out in mid-2013.

Rousseff’s UN speech condemning U.S. spying was in September 2013.

Brazil announced the Saab Gripen NG selection in December 2013 — just three months later.

2. Boeing’s bid was politically radioactive Even if the Air Force had rated the F/A-18 highly, the president would have had to approve the purchase. After the scandal, a U.S. fighter buy would have looked domestically like ignoring a national insult.

3. Public and congressional pressure Brazilian media hammered the NSA issue for months, and opposition politicians would have used a U.S. aircraft deal as evidence of weakness or hypocrisy.

4. The other contenders were “good enough” Gripen NG wasn’t the cheapest in sticker price (Rafale was more expensive), but it was competitive in capability and far stronger in technology transfer terms. That made it easy to justify dropping the U.S. option without taking a big performance hit.

My assessment: If the NSA scandal hadn’t happened, Boeing would still have faced challenges on tech transfer, but it would likely have been the Gripen or F/A-18 in the final decision. With the scandal, the F/A-18 had near-zero chance — the scandal probably moved the Gripen from “contender” to “winner.”
by dataflow | 2025-08-15 21:52:26+00:00
> The message doesn't have any warnings on it like "oh I know it's been a while" or "you might not remember me". I write to everyone as if we are best buddies who just had lunch last week. People I've known since the age of 4, to people I've known for four days. [...] If you just pretend you are best buddies, people play along and they end up quite comfortable quite quickly.

This can't be serious? My messages to my 'best buddies' are like "lunch?" or "https://some-link-here" or whatever. You're genuinely suggesting writing messages like those to people I met a few years ago who likely barely remember my face? Zero set-up, just "lunch?" or a random link with no context like I'd text my best buddy? Do you do that? I can't imagine this is a serious suggestion -- surely you're massively exaggerating -- so what am I missing?
by culi | 2025-08-15 21:52:38+00:00
But Thailand is far from alone in this move away from US weapons. Spain cancelled their bid for F-35s and Switzerland is looking into doing the same. Denmark recently expressed regret over their purchase of F-35s. Portugal and Canada also both lost interest in American F-35s recently.

It could just be tariff backlash—aircraft have historically been the US' largest export. But I do wonder if the recent tests of US military tech in Russia/Iran had any hand in this
by baby_souffle | 2025-08-15 21:52:48+00:00
> Main downside is the drop off around 8/9pm when I become really tired and unfocused.

Talk to your prescribing psych about this. More, but smaller, doses throughout the day may be a way around this. Diet and changing when I medicate helped me a ton. I got another few hours per day out of my meds just by splitting the medication up and administering every few hours, timed just before/after lunch.

You do still need to acknowledge / accept that the medication can't be a 24x7/forever cure though; that crash back to sub-optimal levels of function and abundant distractability is inevitable :(.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-15 21:53:24+00:00
Ha, reminds me a little of the situation in Beverly Shores Indiana. In the 1960s, Congress established the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and the park service went about acquiring property within the boundaries. They ended up buying the land from many people with the explicit stipulation that at some point in the future the house would have to be removed and the park service would take over. But until that time, the owner of the house would be able to continue to use it and have exclusive access to the federally-owned land it sat on. Deeds were signed and money changed hands.

Fast forward decades, many delays and many unscrupulous sellers and real estate agents, and you’ve got people that don’t realize that the house they own sits on land they don’t, and the federal government wants it vacant because the Congress has finally turned the national lakeshore into a national park.
by omgJustTest | 2025-08-15 21:53:38+00:00
Generally i agree that paying more is unlikely to resolve much.

Fixing the incentives might, however funding comes from very few places and they have their own incentives => lobbied goals or profit-motivated.

One might argue that money is a prioritization method.

I'd argue that having one metric (amount of money) makes you susceptible to single-metric problems: optimization of everything to the point of meaninglessness, critical dependence on the stability of that metric's underlying present & future value.

Defects in the currently implemented financial system (exploitable by evolving technologies) might lead to larger systematic failures and less robustness.
by susam | 2025-08-15 21:53:43+00:00
A prime number greater than 3 must leave a remainder 1 or 5 when divided by 6. In other words:

If n is prime and n > 3, then n ≡ 1 (mod 6) or n ≡ 5 (mod 6).

Or more succinctly:

n ≡ ±1 (mod 6).

So when the total number of columns is a multiple of 6, all the primes greater than 3 line up on the nth columns for n = 1, 5, 7, 11, etc.
by ilamont | 2025-08-15 21:54:05+00:00
Are there other ways to induce cancer?

It's a remarkable coincidence that Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong Il died very young within two years of each other (2011 and 2013). Yes, the level of medical care in Venezuela and North Korea is poor, but these were dictators who had access to the best doctors in their own countries as well as imported experts from China, Cuba, etc.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-15 21:54:14+00:00
God. "Imagine what the insurance industry can do with cheap compute to personalize premiums for better margins. Or what the unloved healthcare industry can do to maintain patient outcomes while minimizing labor costs."

I mean, really? Insurance industries could probably optimize their underwriting by a few more percent than they do, but I can't see big data being all that transformative. Same in health care. A cure for Alzheimer's disease or better drugs for schizophrenia, or affordable GLP-1 drugs for everyone could change the picture -- big data won't. It won't solve the problem of getting all the crazy folks on the street to get a depot injection once a month, for instance.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-15 21:54:19+00:00
An untrained dose of amphetamine will hit you hard even if you have ADHD, especially if it’s higher than the entry level dose, so I would say it gives you zero information about whether you have the condition.

Funny story though. I have a similar story after my friend walked up to me in a club with a line of coke on his hand. Then I proceeded to charm the girl that became my next girlfriend.
by andrewla | 2025-08-15 21:55:13+00:00
> Applying an LLM to a novel task is where the model breaks down

I mean, don't most people break down in this case too? I think this needs to be more precise. What is the specific task that you think can reliably distinguish between an LLM's capability in this sense vs. what a human can typically manage?

That is, in the sense of [1], what is the result that we're looking to use to differentiate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44913498
by hunglee2 | 2025-08-15 21:55:58+00:00
You basically cannot trust the US at this point - Trump is so mercurial, that any possible scenario, however ostensibly unrealistic, now has to be factored into the equation. Doesn't get better when Trump gets removed in 3 years, it has been proven now that US democracy can produce any kind of result and hence persistent unreliability most now be the default
by keeda | 2025-08-15 21:56:26+00:00
> The entire set of laws supporting intellectual property boils down to making knowledge and transmission of certain numbers illegal.

It's illegal for me to write certain numbers on a piece of paper and give the paper to you.

That's just absurd and unacceptable.

Your bank account credentials are a bunch of numbers, would you be willing to share those? Surely you wouldn't bother changing them after the fact, I mean, literally victimless if someone copies them for their own use right? ;-)
by techpineapple | 2025-08-15 21:56:40+00:00
I think the comparison between AI and the web is interesting. I still feel like AI has this assumption that it's going to surmount a gap that it may not surmount.

The internet basically just got gradually better at all the things around it. Better graphics, faster internet, better programming languages, bigger hard drives.

But we still don't know what LLM's are. They're maybe just a feature, not a whole suite of technologies creating an ecosystem, the idea that they'll make the leap from Fancy Lisa AI Companion to colleague is fanciful. I don't think there's a direct line that shows that up and to the right automatically means superintelligence.
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-15 21:56:44+00:00
I'm a long term customer of Steam _and_ work in the payments industry. In the _easiest_ Steam payment there are 7 different parties extending or receiving credit from each other. Most of those counter parties have no relationship with each other at all (I certainly don't maintain close ties with the game publishers bank), do you?

The rules that are being invoked around porn exist to protect different parts of that chain, from each other.

The argument about Steams ability to revoke the good in question doesn't help with that. What it does is provide an alternate path if Steam wanted to extricate themselves from that chain of 7 counterparties. Steam could stop being involved with all those other players and become a payment network unto themselves. They could demand ach (or cash in the mail as the parent suggests). Give the game with the understanding they would rapidly revoke it for bad customers, and limit their exposure to the publisher by giving them very delayed payment terms. Of course, then the customer is taking on more risk and losing choice and Steam has to account for that in their sales numbers.
by wahern | 2025-08-15 21:56:47+00:00
But just to be clear (for others), you don't need to do that because using RDTSC/RDTSCP is exactly how gettimeofday and clock_gettime work these days, even on OpenBSD. Where using the TSC is practical and reliable, the optimization is already there.

OpenBSD actually only implemented this optimization relatively recently. Though most TSCs will be invariant, they still need to be trained across cores, and there are other minutiae (sleeping states?) that made it a PITA to implement in a reliable way, and OpenBSD doesn't have as much manpower as Linux. Some of those non-obvious issues would be relevant to someone trying to do this manually, unless they could rely on their specific hardware behavior.
by fsiefken | 2025-08-15 21:57:14+00:00
It's not necessarily that black and white, it can be both. When my girlfriend asks me to do the dishes quickly and I've still not done them after an hour because something objcetively less important was more interesting to me - then there's a problem as it's a fair request. The unconscious unhelpful thoughts and behaviours you develop because of ADHD work against you - because at the end of the day you also have to take care of yourself (cut your nails, floss your teeth, wash your clothes), not only the household. The connections you have with colleagues, friends, family and yourself are something you have to manage consciously - either with sports, meditation and journaling or medication - or both! It's easy to say, society is maladaptive. you could say, let all these adhd people just do creative work or teaching - but then they still have to organize and care for themselves. Alternatively give all those diagnosed a free pass to not meet demands and expectations of society and give them a basic income. I'd rather help myself or let myself be helped to meet the minimum demands and expectations of work and significant others - the alternative is: he can't be a responsible human being, cannot be asked to do a simple job, as he's always with his head in the clouds. Of course ADHD is also a superpower, but a handicap as well (to me).
by duxup | 2025-08-15 21:57:44+00:00
Not much would surprise me these days.

I find it's impossible to talk about this topic online, even in unrelated forms where I haven't seen the topic come up I've seen moderators suddenly decide to announce that they won't tolerate "antisemitism" and inexplicably the topic comes up where it never did before and their definition of antisemitism seems to be anything other than pro Israeli news and messages and pithy "those people" type comments.

HN is not much different, any story is flagged almost immediately. No discussion allowed.

Meanwhile Israel seems to bet actively trying to drive every last Gazan to have a reason to join some extremist group. I don't understand where they think this is going ...
by andrewla | 2025-08-15 21:58:15+00:00
In the framework above it sounds like you're not willing to concede the dichotomy.

If your argument is that only things made in the image of humans can be intelligent (i.e. #1), then it just seems like it's too narrow a definition to be useful.

If there's a larger sense in which some system can be intelligent (i.e. #2), then by necessity this can't rely on the "implementation or learning model".

What is the third alternative that you're proposing? That the intent of the designer must be that they wanted to make something intelligent?
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-15 21:58:28+00:00
It's not "genuine" when they say that every question is a "great question" and every thought is a "deep and profound observation."

As someone who actually likes to explore ideas and steal man myself on these chats, it's especially obnoxious because those types of comments do no favors in guiding you down good paths with subjects that you may be working on and learning.

Of course the average user likes getting their ego stroked. Looks like OpenAI will embrace the dopamine pumping style that pervades the digital realm.
by baby_souffle | 2025-08-15 21:58:31+00:00
> I can't imagine abusing Adderall more than, say, ibuprofen. It's not that it's unpleasant to take it, but that it has zero pleasant qualities, either, except that now I can pay attention to things that don't fascinate me. It doesn't feel good. It doesn't (seem to) change my mood.

Years before I was diagnosed with ADHD, I was offered some cocaine. It did not effect me like everybody else. I assume that it's a similar deal with adderal. You and I are who the medication is _meant_ for. For more neurotypical people, it's not a "leveling" effect, it's - apparently - an elation.
by altairprime | 2025-08-15 21:59:34+00:00
> allocating kernel objects from proper virtual memory makes this easier. Linux currently just allocates kernel objects straight out of the linear mapping of all physical memory

I found this to be a key takeaway of reading the full thread: this is, in part, a benchmark of kernel memory allocation approaches, that surfaces an unforeseen difference in FD performance at a mere 256 x 2 allocs. Presumably we’re seeing a test case distilled down from a real world scenario where this slowdown was traced for some reason?
by Zambyte | 2025-08-15 22:00:10+00:00
Is it? I've heard of people using a non-Microsoft terminal on Windows besides git bash and cygwin probably no more often than I could count on one hand. And people don't ever use those for the terminal, but usually for GNU. On the other hand, I find it uncommon to see anyone who chooses to use a terminal regularly using the MacOS default terminal, and there is no default Linux terminal. I find it hard to imagine a world where that take is wild.
by stronglikedan | 2025-08-15 22:00:14+00:00
> Some people will keep tabs on when someone last contacted them, and hold it against them.

I don't worry about this because as soon as they let me know, I just don't reach out any more. Life's too short to waste time on those types.

If they're family, then I just ignore them or mock them for being creepy. Jokingly, of course, because I'm not stuck with them, they're stuck with me!
by mediaman | 2025-08-15 22:00:47+00:00
New supply obviously increases demand because shifting the supply curve to the right (more quantity) reduces the clearing price, which increases demand. That's econ 101. In this classic case, increasing supply both decreases price and increases demand.

But what you're arguing is different: that increasing supply has no effect at all on the clearing price. That would require an unusual demand "curve" that is perfectly flat, i.e., perfectly elastic, where there is infinite demand at a given price and zero demand at just a dollar above that price (or else that infinite demand would have already pushed prices up higher than the pre-existing price).

This clearly doesn't make any sense for the housing market; home buyers are sensitive to price, there is not infinite demand, some people have more or less desire to pay for a house. In fact, perfectly elastic markets essentially don't exist, and very low slope demand curves only exist in some unusual edge cases in markets (such as commodities that are near-perfect substitutes).
by martin-t | 2025-08-15 22:00:49+00:00
This whole press release should not be overthought. We are not the target audience. It's designed to further anthropomorphize LLMs to masses who don't know how they work.

Giving the models rights would be ludicrous (can't make money from it anymore) but if people "believe" (feel like) they are actually thinking entities, they will be more OK with IP theft and automated plagiarism.
Show HN: April (YC S25) – Hit Inbox Zero with Just Your Voice While You Drive
by amusely | 2025-08-15 22:00:49+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Neha and I built April to manage my email & calendar while driving.

April is a voice assistant that helps manage my emails & calendar schedule while I drive or walk. I can just say: - “Reply to Sasha” and dictate the message - April sends the email right away.

- “Archive these emails” “file this to the Clients folder,” or “delete all promos” - all hands-free.

- Schedule or reschedule meetings without touching my screen.

Now, in 20 minutes of commute, I’m at Inbox Zero and my calendar is set for the day. I walk into work already prepared for the day.

This one change freed up a full hour every morning.

April buys you back time if you're buried under email and have a long commute to work.

I'd like your feedback on - your most painful email & calendar workflows

- what other integrations you'd like to have a voice interface for

- what would make April useful for you
by katabasis | 2025-08-15 22:00:53+00:00
LLMs are not people, but I can imagine how extensive interactions with AI personas might alter the expectations that humans have when communicating with other humans.

Real people would not (and should not) allow themselves to be subjected to endless streams of abuse in a conversation. Giving AIs like Claude a way to end these kinds of interactions seems like a useful reminder to the human on the other side.