MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-08-07 19:12:35+00:00
And then there is storage/parking and maintenance cost and time. This is really why the SUV is so popular in the US. It has OKish cargo space for dump runs, family trips, etc even if it is oversized for the daily commute. But the base cost of a vehicle is so high you might as well get one that can get all the jobs done.
by zahlman | 2025-08-07 19:13:20+00:00
I'm trying to read this on a 1366x768 display on desktop. The header banner apparently takes up 600 vertical pixels of this (and of course the entire viewport width), permanently.

Could we please stop collectively acting as though the newest iWhatevers (breathtakingly high resolution, 1:2 or skinnier aspect ratio, portrait orientation by default, touch screen interfaces) are the only devices that exist? In my world, the opposite is closer to the truth.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-08-07 19:13:58+00:00
So only slightly related Netscape used to assume the layout during load was infinite and would resolve features to their size as the sizes are known, which meant usually nothing showed until everything was loaded in a world of div and tables.

IE4 did the opposite and assumed everything was sized zero and filled sizes as they become known. this allowed them to load objects and render them as the page objects load appearing to be substantially faster at loading than Netscape.

Early engineering decisions like this can make or break a company. Not saying this was the only challenge Netscape had, but it was one that really drove the need to build the Gecko layout engine. Despite some wildly misleading yet famous blogs written by a Microsoft engineer discussing what happened internally at Netscape that he couldn’t possibly know about and basically got totally upside down and self serving ……
by pavlov | 2025-08-07 19:13:59+00:00
$50B / month in tariff revenue is entirely paid by Americans.

Meanwhile Trump is adding trillions in debt. And if the “reshoring” of manufacturing actually succeeds to any degree, tariff revenue will only go down.

It’s like a diet plan where an obese man is cutting off his own flesh. You might reach the weight goal, but the side effects will kill you.
by nerdix | 2025-08-07 19:14:39+00:00
Not only do I think there will not be a winner take all, I think it's very likely that the entire thing will be commoditized.

I think it's likely that we will eventually we hit a point of diminishing returns where the performance is good enough and marginal performance improvements aren't worth the high cost.

And over time, many models will reach "good enough" levels of performance including models that are open weight. And given even more time, these open weight models will be runnable on consumer level hardware. Eventually, they'll be runnable on super cheap consumer hardware (something more akin to a NPU than a $2000 RTX 5090). So your laptop in 2035 with specialize AI cores and 1TB of LPDDR10 ram is running GPT-7 level models without breaking a sweat. Maybe GPT-10 can solve some obscure math problem that your model can't but does it even matter? Would you pay for GPT-10 when running a GPT-7 level model does everything you need and is practically free?

The cloud providers will make money because there will still be a need for companies to host the models in a secure and reliable way. But a company whose main business strategy is developing the model? I'm not sure they will last without finding another way to add value.
by afandian | 2025-08-07 19:14:46+00:00
By coincidence I heard an interview on Radio 4 today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gqz2 41:00

Approx transcript:

> by the 1970s Italy had left its peasant origins behind it had become an industrial consumerist, democracy, and at that point, people start to get nostalgic, and they make the past simple for themselves by turning it into recipes, turning into simple forms. And that has become actually, and this is another novelty, very politicised in recent years. The current government, which of all the various right wing parties have been in power since 1994, is the one that most is most proud of its sort of fascist DNA, if I feel like, it's linked to historical links to Mussolini's fascist Party. They've really wedded themselves to this idea, this food nostalgia, this idea of defending Italian culture against contamination from abroad or wherever it might be.
by m4rtink | 2025-08-07 19:15:03+00:00
Aniara is not a good example - the ship was supposed to do a regular interplanetary flight orogonally before ending up on unplanned interstellar trip to oblivion due to drive failure before they could break to their destination planet (+ some apparent strife in the Solar System at the time, so no one could mount a rescue mission in time).

That is totally something that can happen if you have a high performance interplanetary craft that does trips between planets in weeks - any trajectory is likely hyperbolic and if your drive fails before you brake again & no one can catch up with you in time you are kinda screwed.
by p85 | 2025-08-07 19:15:24+00:00
I don't think OpenAI cares about whether their AI is conscious, as long as it can solve problems. If they could make a Blindsight-style general intelligence where nobody is actually home, they'd jump right on it.

Conversely, a proof - or even evidence - that qualia-consciousness is necessary for intelligence, or that any sufficiently advanced intelligence is necessarily conscious through something like panpsychism, would make some serious waves in philosophy circles.
by jorams | 2025-08-07 19:15:40+00:00
They paraphrased what you said in the thread, but I don't think it's much of a misrepresentation.

You may have "been one of the most vocal proponents of synced passkeys never being attested to ensure users can use the credential manager of their choice", but as soon as one such credential manager allows export that becomes "something that I have previously rallied against but rethinking as of late because of these situations".

There may not currently be attestation in the consumer synced passkey ecosystem, but in the issue thread you say "you risk having KeePassXC blocked by relying parties".

The fact that that possibility exists, and that the feature of allowing passkeys to be exported is enough to bring it up, is a huge problem. Especially if it's coming from "one of the most vocal proponents of synced passkeys never being attested", because that says a lot about whoever else is involved in protocol development.
by const_cast | 2025-08-07 19:15:49+00:00
Sure, but we still need to apply some ethics to AI.

Like, murder is bad, and some people disagree. Don't think that means we need to give AI access to murder. Certainly don't want to be giving them any guns.

The danger here is that we fall into a lazy "we tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" stance and then just recreate the entire plot of Terminator. We should probably do something.
by aldousd666 | 2025-08-07 19:16:11+00:00
That same function could be fulfilled by better search engines though, even if they don't actually write a plan for you. I think you're right about it being more available now, and perhaps that is a bad thing. But you don't need AI for that, and it would happen anyway sooner or later even with just incremental increases in our ability to find information other humans have written. (Like a version of google books that didn't limit the view to a small preview, to use your specific example of a book where this info already exists)
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-07 19:16:15+00:00
I don't know who would laugh at this more in my state, the criminals or the police themselves.

I was personally given a maximum sentence of 6 months in jail as an underage, first-time offender because a police officer who had been stalking my friend group planted weed on me at the scene of an accident. I was denied the right to a trial by jury, they refused to let me out of jail until I'd signed a paper giving up that right. I was homeless and needed to graduate high school, so I had no choice. My defense attorney was then forced off my case so that I could be given another attorney under the thumb of the prosecutor and judge's racket, and so this was never addressed.

Seven cops came up one after another and gave wildly different testimonies of what happened, then the judge gave me my sentence because "I think you're lying". When I moved to appeal, my compromised attorney refused to let me, saying, and I quote, "The judge is my boss. If I let you appeal his decision, he'll make my life miserable."

See, the prosecution was pissed off that I tried to fight my charges, and so they worked with the judge to give me maximum possible jail time, despite being a homeless kid who had never been arrested before.

And the officer who stalked me, planted weed on me and arrested me is a known methamphetamine producer and distributor. I have personally witnessed her roll up in her cop car with a toothless old woman in the passenger seat, and watched that old woman grab as many boxes of pseudoephedrine as she legally could and bring them back to the cop car. This is called smurfing.

Presumably it was on a day when her regular chemical supplier was unavailable, and presumably they hit several such stores that day in order to amass a large supply. Some people I know literally murdered her brother over a meth dispute, and the police found a giant meth lab on his property.

Oh, and the mayor was the prosecutor's dad. So, can't tell the DA, can't tell the mayor... Maybe the state police? No, they work with them. FBI? No, I have left anonymous tips several times and nothing ever came of it. The only investigation I ever caught wind of mysteriously dissipated.

I even went to journalists, but no one took it seriously and those who did left it alone.

Everyone in that town knows the racket. Everyone. The mayor retired a few years ago, the prosecutor is good friends with my extremely abusive grandfather, and no one will ever answer for my mistreatment.
by kazinator | 2025-08-07 19:16:32+00:00
Switches usually open after closing, so your latch arrangement has to figure out how to unlatch.

At which point you are doing debouncing: distinguishing an intentional switch opening from the bounce that continued after you latched. You need some hold-off time or something.

Also, switches contacts bounce when opening!

A latch could be great for some kind of panic button which indicates a state change that continues to be asserted when the switch opens (and is reset in some other way).
by atq2119 | 2025-08-07 19:17:00+00:00
FWIW, and this depends on the language obviously, but formal memory models typically do forbid races between atomic and non-atomic accesses to the same memory location.

While what you were doing may have been fine given your context, if you're targeting e.g. standard C++, you really shouldn't be doing it (it's UB). You can usually get the same result with relaxed atomic load/store.

(As far as AI is concerned, I do agree that the model should just have followed your direction though.)
by nadis | 2025-08-07 19:17:03+00:00
It's pretty vague, but the OP had this callout:

>"GPT‑5 is the strongest coding model we’ve ever released. It outperforms o3 across coding benchmarks and real-world use cases, and has been fine-tuned to shine in agentic coding products like Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and Codex CLI. GPT‑5 impressed our alpha testers, setting records on many of their private internal evals."
by fsckboy | 2025-08-07 19:17:16+00:00
the italians have plenty of flat breads with condiments (try foccacia), and they are not pizza. those italians don't say "hey, we invented that too", nor should anybody else.

we all agree what pizza means at least till the point we need to duke it out over pineapple (which is not pizza)

i'm reminded of an old Lake Wobegon piece about Minnesota tacos (pronounced to rhyme with tack-o). they're made with folded over white bread and with your flannel sleeves rolled up because the juice will run down your arms
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-07 19:17:30+00:00
AGI - Artificial General Intelligence

Where in that acronym is human level autonomy implied ?

Norvig would tell you we already have AGI.

https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...

If Open AI didn't mention autonomy in their Microsoft agreement then it's not part of the equation and no court will take, "It was obvious" as an argument.
by joshstrange | 2025-08-07 19:17:45+00:00
OpenAI does this for literally _every_ release. They constantly say "Available to everyone" or "Rolling out today" or "Rolling out over the next few days". As a paying Plus member it irks me to no end, they almost never hit their self-imposed deadlines.

The linked page says

> GPT-5 is here > Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.

Lies. I don't care if they are "rolling it out" still, that's not an excuse to lie on their website. It drives me nuts. It also means that by the time I finally get access I don't notice for a few days up to a week because I'm not going to check for it every days. You'd think their engineers would be able to write a simple notification system to alert users when they get access (even just in the web UI), but no. One day it isn't there, one day it is.

I'll get off my soapbox now but this always annoys me greatly.
by jjfoooo4 | 2025-08-07 19:17:49+00:00
There are many folks working on this, I think at the end of the day the long term memory is an application level concern. The definition of what information to capture is largely dependent on use case.

Shameless plug for my project, which focuses on reminders and personal memory: elroy.bot

But other projects include Letta, mem0, and Zep
Show HN: Student attempt at proving P ≠ NP using geometry and lattices
by LaghZen | 2025-08-07 19:18:16+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’m a student with a strong interest in computer science and complexity theory. Recently, I worked on a manuscript attempting to prove that P ≠ NP.

I know how this sounds — it’s one of the hardest and most debated problems in CS, and many have tried and failed. I don’t claim to have the final answer, but I believe the approach I used might at least offer some fresh perspective or provoke useful critique.

The idea involves geometric separation between deterministic and nondeterministic computation, using high-dimensional lattice constructions and some physics-inspired intuition. The full argument is technical, but I tried to keep it logically structured.

The preprint is 93 pages long. It was originally written in Russian, and I created an English version via machine translation, so apologies in advance for awkward wording or formatting.

DOI and full paper (both languages): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16759468

I’m genuinely open to feedback — whether it’s pointing out flaws, questioning assumptions, or just explaining why this approach doesn’t work. Any form of critical input is welcome.

If there’s interest, I can also create a short video explanation in simple terms to walk through the core ideas — even though I don’t have a channel or any audience yet.

Thanks in advance for taking the time, even if it’s just to skim or tell me what to fix!
by asveikau | 2025-08-07 19:18:19+00:00
Stromboli is American, from Philadelphia. It was named after a movie about a Sicilian island that was popular in 1950, because they just wanted to give it an Italian sounding name.

Afaik they don't serve those in Italy or even that far away from Philadelphia. So "in the USA that can be anything" is ... I guess accurate, for a regional American dish
by 9rx | 2025-08-07 19:18:49+00:00
I don't know what you think "play like a fiddle" means, but in common usage it generally implies that the one being played is gullible.

1. What suggests that astuteness is required to "trick" the gullible? Especially when we are only talking about a single instance of ostensible "success", not even demonstration of repeatability. Dumb luck remains just as likely of an explanation.

2. Under the assumption of easy manipulation as the phrase has been taken to mean, why do you find it unlikely that Trump couldn't have also "tricked" them?

In fact, if we buy into the original comment's premise, the Democrats not recognizing that Trump could just as easily "play them like a fiddle" suggests the exact opposite of being astute from my vantage point. But the view from my vantage point cannot be logically projected onto the original comment. It remains that the original comment gave no such indication either way. Where do you hear this "sound" that you speak of?
by ivape | 2025-08-07 19:19:07+00:00
I think an understated thing that's been happening is that people have been investing heavily into their desktop workspace. Even non-gamers have decked out mics, keyboards, monitors, the whole thing. It's easy to forget because one of the most commonly accepted sayings for awhile now has been "everyone's got a computer in their pocket". They have nice setups at home too.

When you have a nice mic or headset and multiple monitors and your own private space, it's totally the next step to just begin working with the computer with voice. Voice has not been a staple feature of people's workflow, but I think all that is about to change (Voice as an interface, not as a communication tool, that's been around since 1876.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-07 19:19:09+00:00
Context I’m 51:

You say your backend is “technical”. But are you buzzword compliant with the latest tech? How are your interview coding skills? How are your system design skills? Do you know the industry standard new and shiny “best practices” and buzzwords? How’s your network? Those are the first questions you have to ask yourself.

It’s a shit show out here if you don’t have a specialized skill set (no full stack developer, web developer, mobile, etc is not “specialized”)

Every open req literally gets hundreds if not thousands of applications and it’s almost impossible to stand out in the crowd if you are blindly submitting jobs to job boards.

You may have better luck working as a solution architect, technical post sales, etc. Almost every large B2B company has their own such positions and there are third party consulting companies that hire people full time.

There are also positions like Account Managers, Engagement Managers (project managers) etc.
by sjducb | 2025-08-07 19:19:29+00:00
I think it’s a result of the concentration of wealth.

Lots of wealthy people invest their capital and live off 2-3%, while the portfolio is expected to average 7-11%. They choose this distribution strategy because they are trying to avoid a worst case scenario where they run out of money. The median return from this strategy is that their portfolio grows substantially. This growth of their portfolios is causing a concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich.

Now anywhere that is a good place to park money is shooting up in value. This includes stocks, real estate, gold and crypto.

My model predicts that everything investible will go up in value much faster than inflation.

The passive investment argument doesn’t explain why crypto and real estate are increasing in value. Most passive investors are holding stock and bond indexes.

Neither model can explain why bonds have crashed in value. Both models predict that bonds should be rocketing up like everything else.
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-08-07 19:19:33+00:00
It's pretty good. I asked it to make a piece of warehouse software for storing cobs of corn and it instantly pumped out a prototype. I didn't ask it for anything in particular but it included JSON importing and exporting and all kinds of stuff.

It's going to be absolute chaos. Compsci was already mostly a meme, with people not able to program getting the degree. Now we're going to have generations of people that can't program at all, getting jobs at google.

If you can actually program, you're going to be considered a genius in our new idiocracy world. "But chatgpt said it should work, and chatgpt has what people need"
by rcarr | 2025-08-07 19:20:12+00:00
I think some of this might come down to stack as well. I watched a t3.gg video[1] recently about Convex[2] and how the nature of it leads to the AI getting it right first time more often. I've been playing around with it the last few days and I think I agree with him.

I think the dev workflow is going to fundamentally change because to maximise productivity out of this you need to get multiple AIs working in parallel so rather than just jumping straight into coding we're going to end up writing a bunch of tickets out in a PM tool (Linear[3] looks like it's winning the race atm) and then working out (or using the AI to work out) which ones can be run in parallel without causing merge conflicts and then pulling multiple tickets into your IDE/Terminal and then cycling through the tabs and jumping in as needed.

Atm I'm still not really doing this but I know I need to make the switch and I'm thinking that Warp[4] might be best suited for this kind of workflow, with the occasional switch over to an IDE when you need to jump in and make some edits.

Oh also, to achieve this you need to use git worktrees[5,6,7].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ4Tdwz1L7k

[2]: https://www.convex.dev/

[3]: https://linear.app/

[4]: https://www.warp.dev/

[5]: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/common-workfl...

[6]:https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

[7]:https://www.tomups.com/posts/git-worktrees/
by gregsadetsky | 2025-08-07 19:20:18+00:00
great point re: Nolen's site -- I've collab'ed with him on https://eieio.games/blog/talk-paper-scissors/, I should have remembered that! :-)

it's not crazy to stack virtual lists... at that point, I might also just see that the user is near/at the end of the list, and just swap out the content completely and place them back at scrolling position y:0 or something

for sure, I shouldn't make perfect the enemy of good here. thanks for the ideas!
by throwanem | 2025-08-07 19:21:29+00:00
I'm saying you should own yourself a eugenicist and at least be honest about that, rather than strive to advance a heterodox and unappealing, actually rather amoral and inhuman, ideology through instrumental deceit. You certainly should not do so on the backs of parents facing what I understand can be one of a lifetime's more difficult decisions.

You know as well as I do suffering under utilitarianism has exactly the value the advocate of the moment cares to give it at the moment, whether that be negative, neutral, or vastly to the greater good. Why even attempt such a trivially obvious lie?
by const_cast | 2025-08-07 19:21:39+00:00
If AGI gets invented and the requirement for labor goes away, even if not fully, then all bets are off - the entire economy, everywhere, collapses.

The fundamental underpinning of capitalism as an ideology is that people must work for compensation. As soon as that is no longer true, capitalism as an ideology and system no longer works at all, in any way. That means markets no longer exist, you no longer own your home, and as the intersection of economy and politics, it's highly likely laws no longer apply.
by spauldo | 2025-08-07 19:21:46+00:00
FreeBSD cares about POSIX and traditional BSD compatibility more than OpenBSD does, so it'll run more software than OpenBSD can. That can be an upside or a downside depending on your point of view - when OpenBSD breaks POSIX they do it for a reason.

Man pages are just as good, and the Manual is a bit more comprehensive.
by HAL3000 | 2025-08-07 19:22:02+00:00
Maybe there is a misconception about what his blog is about. You should treat it more like a YouTuber reporting, not an expert evaluation, more like an enthusiast testing different models and reiterating some points about them, but not giving the opinions of an expert or ML professional. His comment history on this topic in this forum clearly shows this.

It’s reasonable that he might be a little hyped about things because of his feelings about them and the methodology he uses to evaluate models. I assume good faith, as the HN guidelines propose, and this is the strongest plausible interpretation of what I see in his blog.