MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ankit219 | 2025-08-28 15:36:07+00:00
This seems very very far off. From the latest reports, anthropic has a gross margin of 60%. It came out in their latest fundraising story. From that one The Information report, it estimated OpenAI's GM to be 50% including free users. These are gross margins so any amortization or model training cost would likely come after this.

Then, today almost every lab uses methods like speculative decoding and caching which reduce the cost and speed up things significantly.

The input numbers are far off. The assumption is 37B of active parameters. Sonnet 4 is supposedly a 100B-200B param model. Opus is about 2T params. Both of them (even if we assume MoE) wont have exactly these number of output params. Then there is a cost to hosting and activating params at inference time. (the article kind of assumes it would be the same constant 37B params).
Show HN: Welcome to "Voice AI Stack" Weekly – A Home for Voice AI Builders
by sagarkava | 2025-08-28 15:36:15+00:00
Hey HN,

This newsletter didn’t come from a growth hack or content strategy.

It started with frustration.

Every week, I was drowning in blogs, PR blasts, and Twitter threads trying to keep up with Voice + AI. New models dropping. Partnerships overnight. Startups in India and Asia pushing infra upgrades that no one was covering.

But whenever I wanted to know what really mattered, the signal was buried under the noise.

And there wasn’t a single newsletter focused on India’s Voice AI ecosystem — most only covered the US.

So I built the thing I wished existed: Voice AI Stack — a newsletter on India, Asia, and global Voice AI updates.

What you’ll get every Friday Product launches that actually move the Voice + AI ecosystem forward

Infra upgrades & strategic deals (with context on why they matter)

Advances in speech tech, translation & agent performance

A spotlight on VideoSDK’s AI Agent features — what’s shipping, and what’s next

If you’re a developer, PM, researcher, or just curious about the future of AI voices & agents in India and beyond — this is for you.

Behind the Scenes Last night at 11:30 pm, we were testing our VideoSDK AI agent. Everything was running perfectly—smooth, steady, no problems at all.

Then suddenly, every agent started speaking in opera voices. Instead of answering questions, they were singing like they were on stage in Italy.

We couldn’t stop laughing. Then came the panic. And finally, the fix.

That’s what building in this space is really like—messy, surprising, and full of moments you don’t expect. Behind every polished demo, there are nights like this: bugs, laughter, and small wins that make the journey worth it.

This newsletter is my way of opening that door for you. A peek into the experiments, the stumbles, the “wait, did that agent just…” moments that make this space exciting.

Subscribe here to stay in the loop.

https://videosdkweekly.substack.com/p/welcome-to-voice-ai-st...

And if you’ve got a friend building or curious about Voice AI — forward this to them.

Let’s cut through the noise, together.

See you tomorrow Sagar Kava
by hangonhn | 2025-08-28 15:36:36+00:00
Did you forget the iPhone 4 antenna debacle? Not only was the design problematic but Apple's gaslighting of everyone was terrible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4#Antenna

Or what about the butterfly keyboard issue? https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-finally-begins-distributing.... I can't believe I had to periodically use compressed air to get my keyboard working again. Again, they kept denying it was an issue.
by logicprog | 2025-08-28 15:36:41+00:00
> Unless I'm missing something, you'll have a bunch of links laying around?

This is true, but it's better than files in that it's a single tap and everything is instantly merged into your existing local storage, instead of you having multiple files downloaded local; and next time you export a link, it will be that merged version, with the other person's comments plus your new ones. So there's a single linear stream of links where the latest link is the correct version for both people at all times, and there's only one version on each person's local hard drive, stored at local storage, instead of file V1, V2, V3, etc. Idk if that makes sense.

> Merge?

Yeah basically. It rolls everything up each time.

> Edit: oh, there's a resolve thing. So presumably you'd get links from other people and resolve them? Is that tracked anywhere?

I initially decided not to have resolution be tracked, but if you think it would help with the sharing process, then I could totally do that!
by Nav_Panel | 2025-08-28 15:36:51+00:00
I prefer to write blog posts in markdown, especially if I'm on the go, and historically I've manually reformatted it in Substack's editor. Figured, why not automate this? So I built a simple utility. Everything happens in your browser with the `marked` library.

Most important feature for me is converting from ASCII to "fancy" quotes and apostrophes, which Substack inserts automatically in its editor. Some more advanced features are probably broken, because Substack's editor is a bit wonky, but the basic stuff all works. Give it a try!

And here's the source: https://github.com/simpolism/md-to-substack
by jdiff | 2025-08-28 15:36:58+00:00
Not my point, but I agree with it so.

The statement was one of capability. There are some things that the tech is flatly not capable of, and that it will take time to develop the capability of. Even if there were no safety concerns at all and we lived in a cotton candy bubble world, self driving cars still have hard failure modes. The tech is not capable, and will not develop the capability next week, either.

The point being made is that the tech is moving fast, at least according to the marketing, but a revolution is not happening ever week. "This is the worst it'll ever be" is an increasingly tired refrain when things seem to be stagnating more than ever. The mentioned behavior will take longer a good amount of time, it's silly to wait around for it when it is not unlikely it may never come.
by gf000 | 2025-08-28 15:37:14+00:00
> Java falls back to `Object` and runtime casts frequently

Is it frequently? Generics are definitely not as nice as they could be, but they are surprisingly "sufficient" for almost any library, e.g. a full on type-safe SQL DSL like JOOQ. Unsafe casts are very rare, and where you do need Object and stuff are very dynamic stuff where it's impossible to extend compile-time guarantees even theoretically (e.g. runtime code generation, dynamic code loading, etc - people often forget about these use cases, not everything can work in a closed universe)
by ilzmastr | 2025-08-28 15:37:33+00:00
If you ever wondered about the generalization to multiple classes, there is a reason that the gans look totally different:

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v137/kavalerov20a/kavalerov20a...

It turns out 2 classes is special. Better to add the classes as side information rather than try to make it part of the main objective.
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-28 15:37:46+00:00
Imo the article is totally off the mark since it assumes users on average do not go over th 1M tokens per day.

Afaik openai doesn't enforce a daily quota even on the $20 plans unless the platform is under pressure.

Since I often consume 20M token per day, one can assume many would use far more than the 1M tokens assumed in the article's calculations.
Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)
by scottfr | 2025-08-28 15:38:07+00:00
Hey HN, I wanted a grammar checker that didn’t send my writing to someone's servers, so we built Grammit, a Chrome extension that runs grammar checks locally using an LLM. Your text never leaves your computer during checking.

Here’s a 2-minute overview: https://www.loom.com/share/baf501ee6cf14a919a7384128246ed67

Because it uses an LLM, it catches more than spelling and grammar. For example, it can correct some wrong statements like “The first US president was Benjamin Franklin.”

Grammit also includes an in-page writing assistant that can rephrase or draft new text. It also uses the local LLM.

We used many new web features to build this, such as:

- Chrome’s new Prompt API to talk to the local model.

- Anchor Positioning API to place the UI with minimal impact on the DOM.

- CSS Custom Highlights API for inline error marking.

- The new CSS sign() function to create CSS-driven layout with discontinuities.

Part of the fun of being early adopters of bleeding edge tech is we’re discovering new Chrome bugs (e.g., https://issues.chromium.org/issues/428354426, https://issues.chromium.org/issues/428039224).

I’d love your feedback on:

- Where the UX feels rough

- What do you think of the corrections and suggestions

Happy to answer questions about the tech or the Prompt API. Thanks for trying it out!

Chrome Web Store extension link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/grammit-the-ai-gram...
by IAmBroom | 2025-08-28 15:38:12+00:00
I do not know of any theories that agree with this. In fact, most admit that "you wouldn't even notice (if somehow still alive) when you crossed the event horizon" - because the only thing that happens is the photons you emit go from taking billions of years to escape, to never escaping.

And that's not why it's called a singularity. It is NOT a single point, nor dimensionless. It has a well-defined dimensional size, the Schwarzwald Radius.
by dheera | 2025-08-28 15:38:34+00:00
My point is that the public gatherings have become noise, and private gatherings have become where people are increasingly going, out of necessity.

There used to be a point in time ~15 years ago when the public gatherings were mostly high-quality talent of highly motivated people and you were sort of connected with all such people in your city.

There are a lot of low-motivation "hey I just learned to code 5 lines of Python with ChatGPT and therefore I should get attention" type people now.
by HankStallone | 2025-08-28 15:38:45+00:00
True, but having a cashier standing there waiting to scan your items will prevent most normal people from stealing. Sure, some will brazenly walk right past with a TV on their shoulder, but most people won't.

If there's no cashier and you're doing it yourself, a whole lot more people will "forget" to scan a couple items, and that adds up.
by rcarmo | 2025-08-28 15:38:49+00:00
Cockpit hasn't really improved in a while, though, and although I greatly appreciate 45Drives' committment to it, last time I tried to install their stuff I had a lot of issues with deprecated dependencies...

So I just went "raw" smbd and never looked back, but then again I've been running Samba for almost two decades now and configuring it is almost second nature to me (I started doing it as an alternative to Novell/IPX, and later to replace AppleTalk...)

In practice, I've found that worked well because I very seldom had to do any changes to a file server once it was set up (adding shares was mostly a matter of cloning configs, and what minimal user setup there needed to be done in the enterprise was deferred to SAMBA/CIFS glue).
by nickserv | 2025-08-28 15:39:10+00:00
A big difference between Brazil and the USA is that until 1985, Brazil was a dictatorship. The kind that "disappears" and tortures journalists and political opponents.

So lots of people still alive today remember those days and understand the danger of politicians like Bolsonaro. People like the current president Lula, who was imprisoned during the dictatorship.

The USA on the other hand, has never had a dictatorship in living memory. It's even debatable whether pre-independence it was a dictatorship, and in any case it is so far removed from the present that it has no impact on everyday life.

Maybe for this reason there is a feeling of "it can't happen here". An exceptional ism that is not unwarranted given the incredible social and economic progress made.

But this attitude is perhaps the most dangerous one can have towards fascism.
by danans | 2025-08-28 15:39:12+00:00
> This doesn't paint a picture of powerful people being thwarted. It's a bunch of unserious people writing letters for a few weeks and then losing interest when things don't immediately go their way.

They are powerful, but they probably don't have the incentives, especially when you consider that people who have that kind of wealth typically have many homes. That's quite a set of incentives than someone protecting the only home they have.
by tombert | 2025-08-28 15:39:31+00:00
Nope!

I have one enclosure plugged into a USB 3.0 line, another plugged into a "super speed" line, and one plugged into a Thunderbolt line (shared with my 10GbE Thunderbolt card with a 2x20 gigabit splitter).

This was deliberate, each is actually on a separate USB controller. Assuming I'm bottlenecked by the slowest, I'm limited to 5 gigabits per RAID, but for spinners that's really not that bad.

ETA: It's just a soft RAID with ZFS, I set up each 8-bay enclosure with its own RAIDZ2, and then glued all three together into one big pool mounted at `/tank`. I had to do a bit of systemd chicanery with NixOS to make sure it mounted after the USB stuff started, but that was like ten lines of config I do exactly once, so it wasn't a big deal.
by softwaredoug | 2025-08-28 15:39:50+00:00
I find it interesting the US has gone so long without trying centralized, state run economic policy. If you think about it, it aligns with a lot of populist movements around the world.

I think we had the boogieman of the Soviet Union to create an elite consensus on how to manage the market, and now that seems old hat. So we will now experiment and likely suffer the consequences.

It sucks Trump is singularly focused on the stock market. The market doesn’t really reflect the downside of a lack of Fed independence. Nor much of the downside of tariffs. Much of this economic policy stabilizes large companies, anligning them with the Govt, penalizing small/medium businesses. So of course the stock market will go up while the rest of the economy suffers. Billionaires have chosen to reign in hell rather than be fairly well off in heaven.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-08-28 15:39:55+00:00
I feel like you're unfamiliar with the Supreme Court rulings, which are almost unilaterally terrible. The Court has made some very torturous interpretations of procedure and precedent to justify rubber-stamping operations that even the conservative justices will admit are unconstitutional, preferring to instead punt the issue and allow the harm to continue, completely circumventing the merits of the cases. Several of the recent shadow docket decisions regarding injunctions have brought up the equities of the suits in question, making the bizarre claim that enjoining the Executive Branch from doing whatever it wants pending a full trial harms it in greater proportion than the harms being actually inflicted on ordinary people.

> Activist groups are flooding the system with a bunch of weak cases, getting weak, poorly reasoned district court rulings, then getting overturned on appeal.

Trump's > 90% success rate at the Supreme Court should be read as an indictment of the Supreme Court, not of the lower courts.
by throwaway5752 | 2025-08-28 15:40:08+00:00
He's going to mortally wound the US economy, which was already precarious.

The US is not competitive with China, absent the USD. The Federal Reserve is a foundational reason why the USD is the most important global currency for trade.

There are nontrivial odds of Venezuela style outcomes for the US. The US media - particularly partisan mainstream conservative sources like FOX and CNBC - is drastically understating the damage this administration is to the US position in the global economic system.

supporting evidence: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/south-korea-tells-china-...
by Garlef | 2025-08-28 15:40:15+00:00
Maybe.

But my experience as a mathematician tells me another part of that story.

Certain fields are much more used to consuming (and producing) visual noise in their notation!

Some fields have even superfluous parts in their definitions and keep them around out of tradition.

It's just as with code: Not everyone values writing readable code highly. Some are fine with 200 line function bodies.

And refactoring mathematics is even harder: There's no single codebase and the old papers don't disappear.
Show HN: Devplan – Generate specs and coding prompts with deep context
by five9s | 2025-08-28 15:40:26+00:00
Hi, I’m Chris and my partners and I are building Devplan, an AI product development tool that helps teams go from idea to working code faster.

What Devplan does:

- Creates deep contextual understanding from Github and the web with our open source context engine: https://github.com/devplaninc/contextify

- Generates right-sized PRDs, user stories, and tech design based on company context

- Gives a ballpark effort and complexity estimate for every user story

- Breaks down requirements into structured coding prompts for tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or JetBrains Junie

- Integrates with Linear and Jira to push generated project docs and tickets to your tracking system

- Lets you kick off projects with images to refine specs with mocks, diagrams, or screenshots

- Exports detailed coding prompts as standalone files or use our CLI to work with them directly

Why we built it:

We believe the next generation of product development will be built with AI at its core. But we’ve seen first-hand how the current tools fall short:

- Docs from ChatGPT or Claude are useful but too general and lack context for real workflows

- AI coding agents lose context quickly in large repos and generated code often requires re-work

- Most approaches to planning for AI coding takes too long and isn't shared or reviewed, which slows teams down

AI should remove that friction, not create more of it. We built Devplan to make planning and execution one connected flow. It starts with outcomes, adapts to the size of your project, and produces structured inputs for the coding tools you already use. Instead of bouncing between AI assistants, PM docs, and code editors, Devplan ties it all together so you can move faster without losing context.

We have an MVP template for side projects, but the platform is being built for real teams who want to ship product with confidence while staying lean. We are still early and we’re iterating quickly.

Would love to hear feedback from other builders. What’s working for you when it comes to planning and building with AI?

P.S. If you want to try it, public beta is open: https://www.devplan.com
by corysama | 2025-08-28 15:40:31+00:00
Here’s a recent demo made by researchers at Nvidia trying to render the most detailed, realistic scene possible using AI tech to a small degree -mostly as asset compression, but also in material modeling beyond what direct approaches can currently handle in real time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0_eGq38V1hk

Here’s a video from a rando on Reddit conveniently posted today after playing around for an afternoon: https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1n1piz4/enjoy_nano...

The Nvidia team carefully selected a scene to be feasible for their tech. The rando happened to select a similar-ish scene that is largely well suited for game tech.

Which scene looks more realistic? The rando’s by far. And, adding stylization is some AIs are very well established as being excellent at.

Yes, there are still lots of issues to overcome. But, I find the negativity in so many comments in here to be highly imbalanced.
by MezzoDelCammin | 2025-08-28 15:40:41+00:00
Shouldn't it be more of a "why" to install TrueNAS on a RPi?

The only reason I can see is "I have one that I don't use". Because otherwise...

Idle power isn't all that much better than a low power Intel N100 or something similar. And it's all downhill from there. Network transfer speeds and disk transfers will all be kneecapped by the (lack of) available PCIe lanes. Available RAM or CPU speeds are even worse...
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-28 15:41:08+00:00
> But this measure will remove so much freedom from a much larger group of people, and therfore it isn't justified.

Maybe that's the disconnect here, because i don't think you/others lack empathy for regular people being victimized. You're incorrect about that figure, the people being actually impacted (not merely compromised but harmed, as in financial loss, job loss, harassment, or worse) is many times more than people who want to sideload apps.

Educating people doesn't work. We've been doing it with phishing for decades now , and it has no impact. in the moment, you're sure it's legitimate, so you won't look for obvious signs of phishiness.They use a lure to establish trust in the context, so you guards are down. Absolutely anyone can fall for deceptive lures. No amount of education changes that. You know what made a difference with phishing? Trust senders, DKIM/SPF validation, url-rewriting with sandbox detonation and global-scale reputation analysis/response (it means as soon as you hit one person, your domain/infra gets burned globally) ,etc..

It really frustrates me to no end, because it is the exact audience on HN that innovate and create software/apps but the level of ignorance on this subject is atrocious. I know you guys care as much as I do when people get hurt! It's just a case of knowing a lot about one domain and assuming you also know a lot about a related domain I think.
by Avamander | 2025-08-28 15:41:11+00:00
Well, seeing how buggy motherboards are in general, I rather believe AMD when they say they're ignoring yet another crucial detail.

My previous Gigabyte motherboard had unstable TSC, incorrect IOMMU configuration, broken PSP and CPPC. My current Asus board also has C-state weirdness and broken ASPM and it killed one CPU(!) on default settings. I won't even go into all the bugs I've encountered with Lenovo laptops, ACPI bugs, ASPM bugs, Pluton bugs and so on and on.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-08-28 15:41:12+00:00
>The people responsible will ride off into the sunset on a golden horse whilst everyone else is left picking up the pieces.

I'm going to quote my favorite client's eighty-eight year old wife, a miserly multi-millionaire:

>"Nobody wants to be the last one at the party, because then you have to help clean up all the mess!"

She is a die-hard Reaganomicist, unable to comprehend why none of her grand-children (and only one of her daughters) is reproducing. My response to her husband, my friend, is not every fish needs to see the shark for them to all respond appropriately.

Only one of my own brothers has a child, only one. These wealthiest brothers (and the above friend) are just now beginning to realize that something is massively wrong with how we're allowing society to continue operating. It's heartbreaking to witness their own awakenings, years behind my own apathetic view(s).

>"It's incredible that I have all this inside of me — and to you it's just words..." —DFWallace (Pale King)

¢¢
by rml | 2025-08-28 15:41:19+00:00
For something this small we can enumerate all the cases (this is a Scheme version of the Mathematica `Tuples` function)

> (list-tuples '(B G) 2) ((B B) (B G) (G B) (G G))

3 cases have at least one girl

of those 3 cases, 1/3 are both girls
by omnimus | 2025-08-28 15:41:25+00:00
Arial for sure does require licensing it is owned by Monotype. Monotype sells it here https://www.myfonts.com/collections/arial-font-monotype-imag...

You actually have to license the typeface for many usecases. Even as a web service they were probably licensing webfont because Arial is not available on all systems so your Androids and Linuxes would see different font.

And yes the biggest reason to do this is to make your own tweaks without bumping into licensing issues.