MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by staticman2 | 2025-08-12 23:58:09+00:00
Terminator descends from a tradition of science fiction cold war parables. Even in Terminator 2 there's a line suggesting the movie isn't really about robots:

John:We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.

Seems odd to worry about computers shooting the ozone when there's plenty of real existential threats loaded in missles aimed at you right now.
by GeekyBear | 2025-08-12 23:59:10+00:00
Google didn't just claim that Android was open, they claimed that it was open source.

Then they used anticompetitive tactics against companies attempting to take advantage of that supposed openness to retain tight control.

They have been found guilty of doing this many times in many jurisdictions.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's XBox walled garden ecosystem remains perfectly legal.

This is because walled gardens are not illegal. Anticompetitive conduct in open markets is.

If you want walled gardens to be illegal, you have to do what the EU did and change the law.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-08-12 23:59:32+00:00
An expiry time should be required and not optional, or a default one well specified (e.g. 30 days). The endpoint shouldn't have to keep reporting that "something has happened" to agents forever.

Maybe ...

- When the expiry time is passed, any queries to the endpoint are invalid and shouldn't be performed. If they're performed anyway, the endpoint may simply not respond if it's feeling rude, or it can respond with 410 Gone or something like that if it's feeling nice.

Also what if the agent has registered more endpoints than the endpoint can handle. 429 Too Many Requests seems appropriate.

Also the agent should be required to confirm with the user or otherwise warn if the "happened" URL is not in the original domain of the request.
by tjr | 2025-08-13 00:00:06+00:00
I imagine that pitting LLMs against computer games is itself an enjoyable activity.

Generally speaking, people play games for fun, and I suspect that will continue. Even if an LLM can beat all humans at computer games, it doesn't matter. We will continue to enjoy playing them. Computers, pre-LLM, could already out-play humans in many cases.

Other activities mentioned -- writing, art, coding, etc. -- can indeed be fun, but they are also activities that people have been paid to do. It seems that there is incentive to create LLMs that can do an at least adequate job of these tasks for less money than humans are paid, so that that money is rerouted to LLM companies instead of human workers. I imagine humans will continue to write, create art, and even code, without any financial incentive, though probably less.

(I personally remain unpersuaded that LLMs will do away with paid creative work altogether, but there's clearly a lot of interest in trying to maximize what LLMs can do.)
by maximus_01 | 2025-08-13 00:01:33+00:00
I agree with this. I think potentially someone may have suggested the federal court sit on the decision until the 10% tariff was confirmed a couple of weeks ago. Mostly because the announcement pre Tariff might have resulted in a long Truth Social post from DT followed by a knee jerk reaction. But I highly doubt it would factor into the decision.

Australia is also in the process of regulating platforms and I'd expect it to end up a little closer to Europe/Japan in the next couple of years anyway. They will watch to see what loopholes Apple/Google exploit and try to deal with that in the regulations upfront.

Important context for anyone not aware is that Australia is one of the few countries that US runs a large trade surplus with.
by hipsterusername | 2025-08-13 00:01:50+00:00
I've been running Omarchy since last week. The theming is fun.

Getting used to hyprland and walker has been a short and eye-opening experience. I've had tiling before on Windows, but I've never been forced to use the tiling exclusively.

I'm all in on the vision behind Omarchy. I recognize DHH has a bit of an enthusiastic bent - He's been obsessive about Omarchy for the past month, and his opinions change. In some ways, he lives by the mantra "strong opinions, weakly held". I don't think that's a flaw.

I get the sense that this one is "the one" -- It's a foundation of linux that is entirely dependent on opinions, and DHH has them.

But, I think more importantly, the groundswell around the project highlights that there's a general dissatisfaction with the state of operating systems. The move to Linux has long been overdue for me personally. I'm incredibly tired of Windows and the Microsoft shenanigans. The adware on what should be a personal computer is an abomination.

I see Omarchy as an opinionated way of composing Linux in such a way that it offers a uniquely different premise of what an OS can be.

So far, I'm loving it, but am still tethered to Windows for some work stuff.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-08-13 00:02:02+00:00
> I've only seen that Cogent has a presence here, but the internet doesn't have good things to say about them

They’re good enough and they’re dirt cheap. Pricing really matters since you pass savings on to your customers. Vermont Telecom, as an example of a reasonably sized regional ISP with thousands of customers, uses Cogent as their primary upstream.

I wouldn’t fall into the trap of trying to build something out using hardware or upstream providers that people on Internet forums that don’t have a financial stake in making an ISP work financially and operationally approve of.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-08-13 00:02:26+00:00
Data processing tools had a pricing problem. The Big Data Revolution was google and other companies realizing that commodity hardware had gotten so good that you could throw 100x as much compute at a processing job and it would still be cheaper than Oracle, Vertica, Teradata, and SQL Server.

As an industry, we keep forgetting these things and reinventing the wheel because there is more money to be made squeezing enterprises than providing widely available sustainable software for a fair price and than losing mindshare to the next generation of tool and eventually getting sold for parts. It's a sad dynamic
by meowface | 2025-08-13 00:03:18+00:00
The article you're reading is from the unofficial rationalist magazine and the author is a prominent rationalist blogger, so they (and I) obviously don't consider it a cult. But, yes, Yudkowsky is absolutely considered the founder of the modern rationalism movement. (No relation to the philosophical tradition also called "rationalism". Modern rationalism is mostly actually just empiricism.)
by churchill | 2025-08-13 00:03:32+00:00
Yet, the average American can afford abundantly more stuff now, compared to when these jobs were in the US? How does that compute?

Buying 31-inch CRT TV in the 1990s would have set you back somewhere between $2-$3k, adjusted for inflation. But, because it's been outsourced to where it can be made more efficiently, a 32-inch HD TV costs just $99 from Amazon.

This is just one product. I could go on and on. If you want to mention housing, it's a political problem since zoning doesn't permit anything to get built.

The reason inequality increased is because Western governments (everyone, really) printed trillions into existence and it diluted the purchasing power of savers, the poor, and the middle class, and went into stock markets to bid up securities.

That's the problem, not China making affordable stuff that costs fewer hours of labor to buy.
by danpalmer | 2025-08-13 00:04:22+00:00
DHH and 37Signals fall into the same traps as so many libertarians: in trying to avoid control of others, they exert undue control over people themselves (we won't be beholden to Apple, because our employees must use Linux), in trying to be in control of their own destiny they end up with home-grown but worse options unless the only goal is control (not using the cloud or cloud tooling and instead writing their own). In trying to remove politics from their workplace they end up making a very strong political statement in support of exclusion.

I'm not anti-libertarian, I share some of the values, and I don't even disagree with some of the technical choices at 37Signals. However I think there's a lot of hypocrisy in the space, and DHH frequently comes across as being very tone-deaf and unaware of the impact his decisions have on others, basically an extreme lack of empathy.
by freetime2 | 2025-08-13 00:04:35+00:00
Sorry for piling on here. To be clear, I don't think you've done anything terrible that requires an apology, and I think it's admirable that you are here after the hoax was debunked and willing to admit you were wrong and discuss it openly. It's just interesting (and somewhat rare on HN) to be able to go back and pick apart your comment less than 24 hours later with perfect hindsight.

You comment was:

> What's the alternative here? A rapper went to the effort to publish an MV, then figured out how to display a fake disabled message in the vehicle, then faked a C&D, knowing that these actions would give Tesla a very legitimate claim against them?

> Ockham's razor is not favorable to the alternative.

I think the issue is that you greatly underestimated how far people are willing to go for likes. There are billions of people online, and while most would not bother to do what you said, some of them are indeed willing to go to incredible lengths for views. The YouTuber who intentionally crashed his plane, for example [1]. This stunt with the Cybertruck feels relatively low-effort by comparison.

Or as my favorite response to your comment summed it up:

> "You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?"

I don't typically like sarcasm in a thoughtful discussion, but in this case it felt warranted.

You also failed to apply Occam's razor to the other side, and consider the legal and reputational risks that Tesla would face by remotely disabling someone's car while they were driving on the expressway. Yes, Musk has done brash things before, which certainly increases the believability of this hoax. But this would be new ground even for Musk. And you have to weigh Musk's capacity for doing brash things against the entire internet's capacity for generating fake news and hoaxes.

You probably should have known better than try and apply Occam's razor to determine the likelihood that an instagram post is a hoax. There are just too many irrational people out there (and rational people acting in bad faith) for Occam's razor to be applicable. And the fact that you were able to overlook the overwhelming number of counterexamples to your application of Occam's razor suggests to me that there may have been some confirmation bias at play.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67622247
by godelski | 2025-08-13 00:04:39+00:00
IDK, probably? I'm just trying to say that iterative inference doesn't strictly mean decreasing likelihood.

I'm not a virologist or whoever designs these kinds of medical tests. I don't even know the right word to describe the profession lol. But the question is orthogonal to what's being discussed here. I'm only guessing "probably" because usually having a good example helps in experimental design. But then again, why wouldn't the original test that we're using have done that already? Wouldn't that be how you get that 95% accurate test?

I can't tell you the biology stuff, I can just answer math and ML stuff and even then only so much.
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-13 00:05:06+00:00
> but the other person simply filed a chargeback.

I may have missed it, but did you respond to the charge back or simply let the deadline pass and the funds returned by default?

I am not an expert nor do I work with stripe; a few years ago I read through every document I could find to win a large chargeback vs a large corp. The company (you) has a deadline to reply to a dispute -- you can accept it or not. But not replying is one of the worst things to do as it can cause your rating to drop with the card networks itself. There was warning it could cause the loss of ability to take card payments from what I remembr. I forget all of the details. But that may be what happened if the dispute was left to default and an avenue to explore on what to do next.
by abhishekpandey | 2025-08-13 00:05:06+00:00
Please reflect on your work. Have you done deep work or is it mostly job hopping and somehow delivering few projects here and there? You will be your best judge. Some people are shallow inside but very confident inside; others are pretty strong internally but never feel confident, and so on. If you are someone who needs to have done real strong work, end to end, throughly to feel confident then do it. Study hard and work on side projects (starting from simple to complex) to gain more confidence. Compare yourself with your past self and not from others... Wish you good luck.
by costco | 2025-08-13 00:05:30+00:00
This is awesome, and the low cost is especially impressive. I rarely have the motivation after working on a side project to actually document all the decisions made along the way, much less in such a thorough way. Regarding your CoreNN library, Clearview has a blog post [1] on how they index 30 billion face embeddings that you may find interesting. They combine RocksDB with faiss.

[1] https://www.clearview.ai/post/how-we-store-and-search-30-bil...
by toast0 | 2025-08-13 00:05:36+00:00
I think Cogent has earned their vibes, but if they're all you can get near you, they're ok enough to get started with.

As you get bigger, you can put a router somewhere (or two somewheres) with cogent and more options and transport through cogent to get back to your service area. Looking at your profile, I think if you can get traffic to Denver, you should have more options there.
by mattnewton | 2025-08-13 00:06:21+00:00
Love the idea*!

Currently trying it and the output from claude code output doesn't appear on my phone though? Sometimes it outputs nothing, sometimes it outputs what appears to be a bunch of xml tags for tool calls I am assuming are meant to be parsed. But the notifications are working well which is nice.

(* though I have some security concerns about this as juicy target vs just rolling my own)
by Uehreka | 2025-08-13 00:08:23+00:00
Nah, you could’ve waited 5 years to port if you were concerned about your x86 binaries not being supported, the bigger deal was that Apple was shipping good ARM computers and if you’re a developer, you don’t want your app to seem slow on what consumers can see is clearly a fast machine.

Microsoft has made multiple abortive lethargic gestures towards ARM, but has yet to get people excited about an ARM computer that runs Windows.
by adamschwartz | 2025-08-13 00:08:23+00:00
It solves many of the pain points Tether[0] tried to solve.

For example it helps when the anchoring element is inside of an oveflow hidden/scroll container, but geometrically you need the tethered element to sit/extend outside of the container (so—for now at least—its DOM node needs to be outside of the container).

[0] https://tetherjs.dev
by xelxebar | 2025-08-13 00:08:35+00:00
I use 9front heavily.

Latency is never a problem in my experience unless you're mounting in resources from a different continent, where ssh is slow anyway. Even in those cases, the UX is closer to mosh, since rio remains local.

In general, plan 9 is fast. Compiling all of userspace and the kernel tanker just a couple minutes on my 11th gen Framework. Grepping a large repo also feels closer to ripgrep than gnu grep.

One well-known user runs his home network and automation system all as a 9grid. He even frequently shares details on his YouTube channel adventuresin9[0]. It's binge-worthy IMHO.

It's hard to convey how cohesive the whole system is. It's ridiculous how many things are reduced to trivial shell scripts, and the source code is so darn grokkable, greppable, and small that treating it as documention is actually sensible. Granted, this is almost necessary to become proficient in Plan 9 since there are so few network effects producing StackOverflow answers, blog tutorials etc.

Anyway, I hope you do end up jumping in!

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qFfPYl0t8Cq7auyblZqxA
by jandrese | 2025-08-13 00:08:58+00:00
I think of it more like visualizing a fractal on a computer. The more detail you try to dig down into the more detail you find, and pretty quickly you run out of precision in your model and the whole thing falls apart. Every layer further down you go the resource requirements increase by an exponential amount. That's why we have so many LLMs that seem beautiful at first glance but go to crap when the details really matter.
by lacker | 2025-08-13 00:11:17+00:00
In my experience the FAANG companies don't really abuse their H-1Bs. At Google or Meta the H-1Bs really are just smart people who participate as full and equal peers. And the FAANGs employ plenty of American citizens, they hire all the good employees they can get. The trouble either comes from small companies or from consulting shops.

The simplest solution is just to take salary into account. If someone is making $180k a year then they aren't "owned".
by lemonberry | 2025-08-13 00:11:26+00:00
I don't think it's a DHH thing. I've been all on Apple for almost 20 years, but plan to make the leap to Linux in the next 6 to 9 months. Apple doesn't feel like the same company they used to be. Is that just perception? I don't know, but the fact that I can't delete the News or Messages apps is ridiculous.

I think a lot of people are sick of supporting poopy companies.
by ecshafer | 2025-08-13 00:11:31+00:00
I spent a month in China and saw one homeless person there who was disabled and panhandljng by a tourist location. The subways and trains and stations had no one pissing on the ground, no one sleeping there (except officeworkers resting their eyes on their commute). There were no human feeces on the ground.

Maybe, just maybe we dont have to throw our hands up in the air and say theres nothing to do while we allow a small group of people to make our cities unlivable.
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-13 00:12:04+00:00
If you think you could do that on the beach, couldn't you do traditional software dev on the beach?

I actually think there's a chance it will shift away from that because it will shift the emphasis to fast feedback loops which means you are spending more of your time interacting with stakeholders, gathering feedback etc. Manual coding is more the sort of task you can do for hours on end without interruption ("at the beach").
by mathiaspoint | 2025-08-13 00:12:16+00:00
How about "behave or you need to move your company elsewhere if you ever want foreign workers of any kind again."

Just ban organizations caught playing games (that is: "I'll know it when I see it" for labeling) and the ban should include not contracting consultancies that hire foreigners and maybe attached to anyone with feduciary duty as well. It would be very effective.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-13 00:12:28+00:00
It seems like 4.5 was going to be the advanced base model for 5, which would have likely made 5 the model we imagined it'd be.

But the cost to run it at the ever increasing scale they're dealing with was deemed to be too high, so if anything they likely shrunk the base vs 4o and increased CoT RL to cover the gap.

There's also the recent tweet that they want to prioritize consumer over API usage: just another reason they'd focus on small scalable approaches.
by scubbo | 2025-08-13 00:12:52+00:00
I mean this earnestly, not snidely - I wish I still had the faith that you do in not being treated abominably by any and every company, or to believe that they wouldn't default to behaving improprerly at any opportunity and for the barest profit margin. It would be nice to still believe that good things could happen under capitalism.

(as a sidenote, I'm very grateful for your insightful and balanced writing on AI in general. It played a considerable part in convincing me to give AI tooling another go after I'd initially written it off as more trouble than it was worth)
by username332211 | 2025-08-13 00:13:46+00:00
I'm not sure what you are talking about. I have to admit, I mostly wrote my comment based on my recollections and it's a case 20 years ago I barely paid attention to until after the bizzaire conclusion. But looking trough Wikipedia's articles on the case[1] it doesn't seem I'm that far from the truth.

I guess I should have limited my statement about resisting mob justice to the economists at that university as the other departments merely didn't sign on to the public letter of denunciation?

Its weird that Wikipedia doesn't give you a percentage of signatories of the letter of 88 from the philosophy department, but several of the notable signatories are philosophers.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Duke_lacros...

Edit: Just found some articles claiming that a chemistry professor by the name of Stephen Baldwin was the first to write to the university newspaper condemning the mob.
by zdw | 2025-08-13 00:14:06+00:00
If you want week numbers in the calendar, you can use `ncal -w` and they'll be the last row. Add a `-3` and you get:

$ ncal -w3 July 2025 August 2025 September 2025 Mo 7 14 21 28 4 11 18 25 1 8 15 22 29 Tu 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 30 We 2 9 16 23 30 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 Th 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 21 28 4 11 18 25 Fr 4 11 18 25 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19 26 Sa 5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 30 6 13 20 27 Su 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 21 28 27 28 29 30 31 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
by partiallypro | 2025-08-13 00:16:27+00:00
Obviously not all of those laid off met the new criteria for what Microsoft, et al were/are looking for, but there's no way you convince me that -probably- a majority of them do. The system is so ripe for abuse. I'm not sure I agree fully with the "if you're laying off people, you can't do X" aspect, but I do think sometimes it is cheaper for companies to lay people off, especially those with certain benefits, and hire immigrants than it is to move the original employee around the company. This very obviously happens, all the time.

While I understand from a purely capitalistic view that it makes sense, but Microsoft and others are multi-trillion/billion dollar companies, and they are skimming every last dime while also hurting Americans. The system needs heavy reform, this current change isn't close to enough. To me the rightward shift, especially among college aged men, is partially because of things like this. You can preach that the "replacement theory" is all nonsense, but if you're trying to convince people that have seen their friends or themselves literally replaced at the job with non-Americans...well, it's obvious they are going to start to lean into those ideas.

So much of the right-wing surge could be thwarted by simple policy reforms and it seems like no one wants to do it, or is too beholden to corporations, etc to do it. It's a bit baffling. I've always said politics is a pendulum and it should come as a shock to no one that a problem that is constantly ignored or written off will eventually swing back hard the other way. I think we're seeing that. I think that's why compromise is more important than purity a lot of the time. Unfortunately there will not be much compromise for a long while now.
by mfrye0 | 2025-08-13 00:17:13+00:00
This was super cool to read. I'm developing something somewhat similar, but for business search, and ran into a lot of the same challenges. Everyone thinks crawling, processing, and indexing data is easy, but doing it cost effectively at scale is a completely different beast.

Kudos wilsonzlin. I'd love to chat sometime if you see this. It's a small space of people that can build stuff like this e2e.