MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by actuallyalys | 2025-08-24 11:18:38+00:00
The main use of this I could see is transparency. I imagine you could test prompts and increase your confidence the released system prompts are actually the ones in use.

Also, assuming they continue to release their old models, I suppose this could be used to get more insight on what caused the MechaHitler incident.

Grok is bad for the world. xAI’s data center is producing a huge amount of pollution in Memphis [0]. Additionally, Elon Musk’s attempts to create an AI that is not “woke” have led to it spewing far-right conspiracy theories [1], although generally for short periods of time before fixes are released.

[0]: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...
by samrus | 2025-08-24 11:18:58+00:00
thats a great way to put it. the LLMs can't design things, thats way too above their capabilities. they can pretend to design things and even fool people, but they're jsut regurgitating other designs from their training data (and for a todo app, thats enough). but it we do the design for them, they're really really good at putting meat on that skeleton
by roscas | 2025-08-24 11:19:23+00:00
This talk will never end. But let me make something clear.

I bought products and software before. Because I wanted them and the software was good. I used it. I even payed for apps that we 99% free and the pro version almost had anything more than the free version but I still payed, to thank the programmer. And not even use anything from the pro version.

My statements were radical. It has to be, to wake up people, because everyone seems to think ads are normal.

And ads on the web are not normal. It's a cancer. They are abusive. You can see that when companies like Facebook and Google make money.

Marketing is the cancer. If your business is to trick people and make them stay on your anti-social-plataform because they know how to mess with your mind and you don't even have a clue of what is going on... oh Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, others...

There will always be someone who says oh I don't mind ads, there might be something I need...
by ath3nd | 2025-08-24 11:19:46+00:00
Riding a bike with training wheels is also not a shame. If you need the training wheels, by all means feel free to use them.

But LLMs are training wheels being forced on everyone, including experienced developers and we are being gaslit that if we don't use them, we are getting behind. In reality, however, the only study up to date shows 19% decline in productivity for experienced devs using LLMs.

I don't mind folks using crutches if they help them. The cognitive decline and reasoning skills of people using LLMs is not yet studied well but preliminary results show its a thing. I gotta ask: why are you guys doing that to yourselves?
by zelphirkalt | 2025-08-24 11:20:10+00:00
When you say:

> As of July of this year (2025) all orders are ordered by a judge, and all final orders are published on the website[1].

What does that mean? Does that mean they bought a judge to say what they want them to say? Or does that mean, that they have to get their decisions through usual courts like anyone else? You see, it makes quite a difference, if they have one specific judge, who will do their bidding and maybe is completely clueless about the Internet, or they face the possibility of failing, because a court has properly looked at each case and might decide that they don't have the right to block a site.
by girvo | 2025-08-24 11:20:19+00:00
> I suspect that they're better at some kinds of codebases than others.

Probably. My works custom dev agent poops the bed on our front-end monorepo unless you're very careful about context, but then being careful about context is sort of the name of the game anyway...

I'm using them, mainly for scaffolding out test boilerplate (but not actual tests, most of its output there is useless) and so on, or component code structure based on how our codebase works. Basically a way more powerful templating tool I guess.
by 05 | 2025-08-24 11:20:43+00:00
Lots of horror stories from people who had to respin their boards because you couldn't buy ST at any price when they redirected all their output to car manufacturers during the chip shortage. They may be cheaper now but vendor lock-in never helped anyone (except that vendor) in the long run. Oh, and most Chinese wifi gadgets use Beken nowadays because it's even cheaper than Espressif, what are the chances of them switching to a more expensive chipset instead?
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-24 11:20:51+00:00
> The study was from 2005

LOL. Can't find any modern research can you? I love how the nuclear bro crowd never wants to step into 2025 and instead keeps living in the past.

> That's why there's so much noise about hydrogen in Geramny. It's used to whitewash the natural gas.

Nah. There's so much noise about hydrogen because the fossil and chemical industries in Germany rely on hydrocarbons. They want another complex gas based system to profit from.

We will likely keep a fleet of gas turbines around for emergency reserve duties for the coming decades. But you are trying to paint the emergency reserves as if they would be the entire grid. When they very much are not.
by jsnell | 2025-08-24 11:20:56+00:00
> GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini represent remarkable achievements, but they’re hitting asymptotes

This part could do with sourcing. I think it seems clearly untrue. We only have three types of benchmark: a) ones that have been saturated, b) ones where AI performance is progressing rapidly, c) really newly introduced ones that were specifically designed for the then-current frontier models to fail on. Look at for example the METR long time horizon task benchmark, which is one that's particularly resistant to saturation.

The entire article is claimed on this unsupported but probably untrue claim, but it's a bit hard to talk about when we don't have any clue about why the author thinks this is true.

> The path to artificial general intelligence isn’t through training ever-larger language models

Then it's a good thing that it's not the path most of the frontier labs are taking. It appears to be what xAI is doing for everything, and it was probably what GPT-4.5 was. Neither is a particularly compelling success story. But all the other progress over the last 12-18 months has come from models the same size or smaller advancing the frontier. And it has come from exactly the kind of engineering improvements that the author claims need to happen, both of the models and the scaffolding around the models. (RL on chain of thought, synthetic data, distillation, model-routing, tool use, subagents).

Sorry, no, they're not exactly the same kind of engineering improvements. They're the kind of engineering improvements that the people actually creating these systems though would be useful and actually worked. We don't see the failed experiments, and we don't see the ideas that weren't well-baked enough to even experiment on.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-24 11:23:02+00:00
> Expecting people to read unverified machine output is rude.

Quite. Its the attention economy, you've demanded people's attention, and then you shove crap that even you didn't spend time reading in their face.

Even if you're using it as an editor... you know that editors vary in quality, right? You wouldn't accept a random editor just because they're cheap or free. Prose has a lot in it, not just syntax, spelling and semantics, but style, tone, depth... and you'd want competent feedback on all of that. Ideally insightful feedback. Unless you yourself don't care about your craft.

But perhaps you don't care about your craft. And if that's the case... why should anyone else care or waste their time on it?
by ionwake | 2025-08-24 11:23:32+00:00
I got intrigued by your comment, I couldn't wrap my head about a process just changing. Got AI to throw out this table, but I think its of interest:

Waterfall ~1970, Agile ~2001, Continuous (DevOps) ~2015, Autonomous Dev ~2030, Self-Evolving Systems ~2040, Goal-Directed Ecosystems ~2050+
by jascha_eng | 2025-08-24 11:24:16+00:00
Fact is that I maybe saw it in 10% of blogs and news articles before Chatgpt. And now it pops up in emails, slack messages, HN/reddit comments and probably more than half of blog posts?

Yes it's not a guarantee but it is at least a very good signal that something was at least partially LLM written. It is also a very practical signal, there are a few other signs but none of them are this obvious.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-24 11:25:39+00:00
> In my experience, asking suspicious candidates to show me what is outside their window is enough to weed out North Korean candidates who are lying about their location.

...I have to say, if I was randomly asked in a job interview to show what is outside my window, I'm not immediately sure how I would do it. I use a desktop computer with a USB webcam clipped to the top of the monitor. The cord isn't long enough to show a good view out the window. I guess I could switch the video conference to my phone, but it might take some fiddling. I would probably find the overall request a bit off putting.

I live in Manhattan by the way. I also don't work in tech (any more), but I've still had online job interviews.
by mnky9800n | 2025-08-24 11:28:15+00:00
The problem is that stacking up these solutions creates technical debt. This technical debt needs to be solved by understanding the code base and fixing the issues. Can an ai coding agent do that? Sure maybe. But what I find is that ai coding agents need your help to do pretty much everything. So you need to have a good understanding of the code base in order to be helpful. So eventually you sit and wonder if vibe coding a stack of tools was actually helpful. Don’t get me wrong I think Claude code is amazing, but it’s not “And therefore there no longer needs to be jobs” amazing.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-24 11:28:26+00:00
I love the conclusion from you overview:

> "Nuclear power mitigates storage needs, but only to a limited extent"

So you suggest we spend 10x as much to not solve Dunkelflautes.

This truly is getting quite sad. Who cares if the 1 in 36 year event is solved with fossil fuels, biofuels, synfuels, hydrogen or whatever?

We are literally talking the scenario happening once during a nuclear plants economic lifespan.

Do you build technologies which are extremely heavily weighted towards CAPEX to solve a problem happening once?

Of course not. You minimize CAPEX and accept high OPEX to solve it. Which might be rationing for a week in the 40 year period.

The study of course did not specify what level of renewables they implemented. What would a 20% overbuild lead to? 50%? It would still cost a fraction compared to new built nuclear power.

This is what is so funny with you nuclear bros. You cry about Dunkeflautes and reliability but then propose literally the worst solution for extreme events.

Take a look at France. They generally export quite large amounts of electricity. But whenever a cold spell hits that export flow is reversed to imports and they have to start up local fossil gas and coal based production.

What they have done is that they have outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors and rely on 35 GW of fossil based electricity production both inside France and their neighbors grids. Because their nuclear power produces too much when no one wants the electricity and too little when it is actually needed.

Their neighbors are able to both absorb the cold spell which very likely hits them as well, their own grid as the French exports stops and they start exporting to France.
by zahlman | 2025-08-24 11:28:34+00:00
Yes, and there are also already multiple equal-area projections with similar properties, too. For example, the Goode homolosine "orange-peel" projection only loses out by failing to show contiguous oceans (emphasizing land masses instead) and having a discontinuity where two simpler projections are joined. It gives equal-area projection and improved shapes (as compared to fully homolographic projections) while still showing "curved sides [that] suggest the spherical form of Earth" (arguably, far more so). Its parallels are straight, and furthermore they are equidistant in the central latitudes (in which it's based on a sinusoidal projection).

Oh, and it was developed over a century ago, and already in common use when Arno Peters started his activism for the Gall-Peters projection (called this even though Peters made no refinements in independently developing a projection identical to Gall's 1855 work, and even initially mis-described it).
by yurishimo | 2025-08-24 11:29:08+00:00
And what’s worse is that the tariffs are going to bring in real revenue in the near term. Perhaps the government can wait a year before trying to earmark that money, but by the time the next president gets elected, that income will be expected. There is the opportunity to shift the tariffs into certain products (like a wealth based consumer tax - ie a 100% import tariff on your super yacht) but that will take time to work out the details for.

I feel sorry for my American friends and family but at the end of the day, actions have consequences. Wishing them all a speedy recovery!
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-24 11:29:19+00:00
I think we're ignoring the wider context of this thread, which would be the context of TFA, which is New York City specifically. The roads in NYC predate the existence of the automobile. NYC had a bicycle boom in the late 1800s.

https://www.nytimes.com/1869/03/08/archives/velocipedes-thei... | https://archive.is/UDhZf

Bike cops in NYC in the late 1800s were likely more common than cars.

https://flatironnomad.nyc/history/brief-history-of-bicycling... | https://web.archive.org/web/20250713044710/https://flatironn...

> In 1896, then New York City Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt launched the first-ever group of bicycle-riding officers. This team evolved into a 100-member organization with its own station stated Evan Friss, co-curator of the Museum of the City of New York’s 2019 exhibit Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History[0].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250319112028/https://www.mcny....

By the time this film was created in 1911, cars existed, but they had to share the road with pedestrians, cable cars, and horse carriages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5sUa_2SD8

> This documentary travelogue of New York City in 1911 was made by a team of cameramen with the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern, who were sent around the world to make pictures of well-known places.

> Opening and closing with shots of the Statue of Liberty, the film also includes New York Harbor; Battery Park and the John Ericsson statue; the elevated railways at Bowery and Worth Streets; Broadway sights like Grace Church and Mark Cross; the Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue; and Madison Avenue. Produced only three years before the outbreak of World War I, the everyday life of the city recorded here—street traffic, people going about their business—has a casual, almost pastoral quality that differs from the modernist perspective of later city-symphony films like Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler’s "Manhatta" (1921). Take note of the surprising and remarkably timeless expression of boredom exhibited by a young girl filmed as she was chauffeured along Broadway in the front seat of a convertible limousine.

Jaywalking wasn't even really a concept until ~1915. It's legal again in NYC as of last year. Jaywalking laws against pedestrians and other non-drivers could be viewed as a taking from or enclosure of the commons; in this case, roads as public thoroughfares for one and all. In this light, the behavior of drivers towards cyclists is a continuation of their hostility towards horse carriage users and pedestrians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking

https://www.cnn.com/travel/jaywalking-legalized-new-york-cit... | https://archive.is/Y2MCk

Folks have been cycling in NYC long before cars were common. Before that, folks were using the roads for all manner of pursuits. Roads are tools for living, and they're for everyone who needs them if a better option more suited for your mode of transportation isn't available.
by latexr | 2025-08-24 11:29:40+00:00
> Fact is that I maybe saw it in 10% of blogs and news articles before Chatgpt.

I believe you. But also be aware of the Frequency Illusion. The fact that someone mentions that as an LLM signal also makes you see it more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

> Yes it's not a guarantee but it is at least a very good signal that something was at least partially LLM written.

Which is perfectly congruent with what I said with emphasis:

> it is never sufficient on its own to identify LLM use

I have no quarrel with using it as one signal. My beef is when it’s used as the principal or sole signal.
by mzajc | 2025-08-24 11:30:07+00:00
These protocols or revisions already exist - DNSSEC at the site level and DoT/DoH at the user level prevent this kind of malicious tampering with responses by the ISP.

The issue is that they're not commonly used, and even if that changes, the ISPs can roll out harder-to-bypass censorship methods like SNI inspection or IP blocks.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-08-24 11:30:49+00:00
There is an important difference between these scenarios:

1) A member of the opposition party tweets "The president stabbed a kid" without any proof. I go on facebook and post "WTF why did the president stab a kid? He is so evil."

2) The president tweets "I just stabbed a kid" without any proof. I go on facebook and post "WTF why did the president stab a kid? He is so evil."
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-24 11:32:28+00:00
Of course, there’s no shame in using tools that are available to us. We’re a tool-using species. We’re just a bunch of stupid monkeys without tools. A lot of what we do is about using tools to free up time to do more interesting things than doing things the tools already do better than us.

Like it or not, people are using LLMs a lot. The output isn’t universally good. It depends on what you ask for and how you criticize what comes back. But the simple reality is that the tools are pretty good these days. And not using them is a bit of a mistake.

You can use LLMs to fix simple grammar and style issues, to fact-check argumentation, and to criticize and identify weaknesses. You can also task LLMs with doing background research, double-checking sources, and more.

I’m not a fan of letting LLMs rewrite my text into something completely different. But when I'm in a hurry or in a business context, I sometimes let LLMs do the heavy lifting for my writing anyway.

Ironically, a good example is this article which makes a few nice points. But it’s also full of grammar and style issues that are easily remedied with LLMs without really affecting the tone or line of argumentation (though IMHO that needs work as well). Clearly, this is not a native speaker. But that’s no excuse these days to publish poorly written text. It's sloppy and doesn't look good. And we have tools that can fix it now.

And yes, LLMS were used to refine this comment. But I wrote the comment.
by bloggie | 2025-08-24 11:33:33+00:00
Virtual com ports or USB CDC do not require a baud rate as it's not a real serial port. As mentioned ESP32 has native USB and Arduino/ESP-IDF use USB CDC over this port to communicate with a host computer. Serial.begin() is used for all kinds of serial ports including virtual serial ports. Those libraries probably require a baudrate argument for Serial.begin() which will be ignored. This is probably in the documentation for that function.

If the same function is used on a physical serial port (of which there are a few on ESP32 iirc) the baudrate argument will be used to set the baudrate setting in the peripheral by the library.
by elashri | 2025-08-24 11:33:41+00:00
These stories and the stories about going after people who are torrenting in much more aggressive manner make my puzzle by Proton decision to relocate to Germany from Switzerland over some proposed law. I understand that it would make it harder to operate with protecting privacy but I would wonder why relocating to Germany, what would the Swiss government do that would be worse than the current situation in Germany?

I did not go though the details of the proposed Swiss law to be honest so it might be obvious why they are doing that but still why Germany instead of some other place (like Mullvad being in Sweden) ?
Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras
by roryclear | 2025-08-24 11:34:15+00:00
This runs YOLOv8 + bytetrack with Tinygrad detections (depending on user config) are saved and can be sent to the companion iOS app along with a notification, all video processing is done locally, all footage is encrypted before leaving your computer, and the sending notifications + videos part is optional. This uses tinygrad, so it runs well on my apple silicon macs and should be able to run on a lot of hardware (or will be able to when I remove other deps).
by _pdp_ | 2025-08-24 11:34:17+00:00
Very simplistic view on the problem domain IMHO. Yah sure we can add a bunch of functions... ok. But how about snapshotting (or at least work with git), sandboxing both process and network level, prompt engineering, detect when stuck, model switching with parallel solvers for better solutions. These are the kind of things that make coding agents reliable - not function declarations.
by SweetSoftPillow | 2025-08-24 11:35:30+00:00
It seems like more and more ISPs are doing that: https://koreanrandom.com/forum/topic/85072-modxvm-problem-in...

They also mention Movistar, O2, and Vodafone. A systematic violation of the internet's integrity, carried out on the scale of an entire so-called "free" EU(!) country. It's a disaster.
by SpecialistK | 2025-08-24 11:35:54+00:00
Why is blaming the lawmakers, the only ones who can enact laws governing this, "bad faith"? Bad faith does not mean a decision or opinion you disagree with.

Do Not Track was ignored because there was no legal requirement to. Wikipedia is not the best source, I know, but its first sentence on the "Adoption" section is: "Very few advertising companies actually supported DNT, due to a lack of regulatory or voluntary requirements for its use"

Lack of regulatory requirements. In other words, no government had the smarts or the spine to make it a law. Who is to blame for making the law...? Lawmakers.

"that's on you" is also an absolute cop-out, in my opinion. Lots of things on the internet are illegal, usually for good reason. I don't think I need to list examples. The EU, EU member-states, and other jurisdictions have no problem making horrendous things on the web illegal to host or visit. If data harvesting is bad, explicitly make it illegal.

"The average user would notice he's being tracked" also is the counter-argument to my point - if every site, no matter how banal, has a bar at the bottom with a big blue button that effectively says "yeah whatever go away" then it's ignored. Boy who cried wolf. If this bar only showed up on Meta and Google and Doubleclick ads then maybe it would carry some weight.

I didn't think it was necessary to say, but apparently it is: my criticism of this part of the GDPR is not to invalidate the good work it has done for user rights on the web. Only to note that regulations, no matter how well intentioned (the point of the OP), come with side-effects that were unseen at the time. Don't waste keystrokes defending those unfortunate side effects (while apparently blaming everyone except those with the power to change it) but instead form campaigns and working groups to propose something better and encourage your legislators to adopt it.
by kbrkbr | 2025-08-24 11:35:56+00:00
So you can't be bothered to read even the first sentence of the only reference gp uses before commenting with a request for deeper explanation?

Let me then quote the first sentence for you:

> ORDERS OF THE COURTS The list published on this page contains structurally copyright-infringing websites (SCIWs) for which a court has ordered a DNS block, together with the file number of the court decision.