MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amlib | 2025-08-24 01:17:15+00:00
Most of these "new retro" games are coded with modern tools and engines, they often only approximate the look and feel of retro games (their code is very modern and much easier to deal with) and the restrictions are broken as soon as it is too inconvenient. They can be great games, look nice and be congruent with their inspirations of course, but the ones built with real restrictions, be it actually made to run on real retro hardware or some kind of fictional VM like in UFO 50 or attempting to recreate a similar graphics system like the NES PPU tiling and pixel restrictions in Shovel Knight are much rarer and take way more effort to make.
by mannyv | 2025-08-24 01:17:19+00:00
One thing that would be nice is to enable the video sender to send multiple streams. In MoQ terms, the video source can send multiple subgroups.

Why? Because transcoding = latency. Back in the day clients were weak, so transcoding on the server made sense. Today your phone can easily spew multiple streams out without breaking a sweat.

Assuming a capable device, it would provide the fastest path. And it doesn't obviate transcoding.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-08-24 01:17:23+00:00
Am I the only one who feels that Claude Code is what they would have imagined basic AGI to be like 10 years ago?

It can plan and take actions towards arbitrary goals in a wide variety of mostly text-based domains. It can maintain basic "memory" in text files. It's not smart enough to work on a long time horizon yet, it's not embodied, and it has big gaps in understanding.

But this is basically what I would have expected v1 to look like.
by kristianp | 2025-08-24 01:17:38+00:00
It seems the ThinkBook 14 G7 ARP the uses chips like AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS, which have TDP of 35-54W and zen 3+ [1]. That would explain the fan noise and lack of battery life.

I'm think about going in the other direction, because my p14s (2023) screen is starting to feel too small for my old eyes and the battery life was never good. I think a Macbook Air upgraded to 32GB would provide enough speed, whilst having a better screen. There doesn't seem to be an X1-like Thinkpad that has a 15 or 16 inch screen that I can find. One problem is lenovo has so many product lines it takes in depth research to find what you're looking for. Has anyone tried newer AMD cpus in Thinkpads? My workflow is very linux oriented and my brain doesn't like the idea that I'll need to develop on mac and deploy to linux. That seems too risky to me and I don't need or want docker if I don't have to use it.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/7000...
by dvt | 2025-08-24 01:18:09+00:00
Tesla has been over-bought for years and everyone knows it, but as Keynes once said: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. My strategy has just been to stay away. TSLA could blow up in the next 6 months, or it could go up for the next 6 years. To me, at least, it's not worth f'ing around and finding out, especially when the market as a whole is doing so well.
by aorloff | 2025-08-24 01:18:41+00:00
A question which will be trivial to answer once you properly define what you mean by "brain"

Presumably "brains" do not do many of the things that you will measure AGI by, and your brain is having trouble understanding the idea that "brain" is not well understood by brains.

Does it make it any easier if we simplify the problem to: what is the human doing that makes (him) intelligent ? If you know your historical context, no. This is not a solved problem.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-08-24 01:19:36+00:00
This looks like it's targeted at small manufacturers for distinct, high-quality but recycling friendly packaging. I see this as just a premiumish product packaging design choice.

It's about $0.20 per staple. The design of the boxes they're demonstrating use 2 - 8 staples per box depending on size and folding design. That's $0.40 - $1.60 which figures into cost of packaging. It's not unheard of for things like bespoke soaps to have extravagant packaging, jewelry, I can think of a few more, I bet you can too. Spending $5 on packaging for a ~$80 product wouldn't be out of line. I'm thinking in that number a box fully glued, stapled, or otherwise, internal packing material, any paper inserts, etc. So on avg. $0.80-per-box, meh sure why not.
by crooked-v | 2025-08-24 01:19:41+00:00
They had, and still have, an immense first mover advantage in the internals of EVs - look at some of the mechanic analyses/teardowns of Tesla internals and it's a night-and-day difference against other US EVs in terms of engineering around reliability, simplicity, and efficiency.

But, they never actually followed that up with truly improving the the vehicle interior and all the other bits of build quality, and then doubled down with the Cybertruck, which has brilliant internals wrapped in bodywork that's impossible to clean and with trim that will literally fall off in the wrong weather.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-24 01:23:20+00:00
Once again, how hard is it to believe someone from SF has this neighbor. And why would me having this neighbor or not even matter to my point really? Why would I make this up? And EVEN IF I did, would that matter since we know there are several of these kids in most bay area towns??

And no, I didn't respond to that guy. Because you're right, I do think he's doing/did a terrible thing. So instead of harping on him for something it's too late to even change, I let it go. Just like I do/did for my neighbor. I've helped that guy with his car twice over the last two years (tire rope plug, battery, small fluid checks), and didn't mention that evil stupid shit he did/allowed his kid to do or go through.

I rather argue this shit out with people that can change, not with the few specific people so deep you'll never change their mind.
by immibis | 2025-08-24 01:23:47+00:00
"I am actually the one constantly keeping the middle right where it belongs... in the middle. There has to be a give and a take if there's going to be a middle at all." says the unjust man.

You take a step towards him. He takes a step back.

"I am actually the one constantly keeping the middle right where it belongs... in the middle. There has to be a give and a take if there's going to be a middle at all." says the unjust man.
Ask HN: Are AI filters becoming stricter than society itself?
by tsevis | 2025-08-24 01:24:17+00:00
While experimenting with digital art and AI tools, I noticed how aggressively filters block historical, political, or artistic imagery. I wrote about how this impacts art, research, and cultural memory. Curious how others here see this balance between safety and censorship. https://tsevis.com/censorship-ai-and-the-war-on-context
by tuatoru | 2025-08-24 01:24:43+00:00
I don't know why people are doing these kinds of studies. It's too early.

The historical parallel, for me, is the transition from steam engines to electric motors for driving factory machinery.

When factories were powered by steam engines, they were multi-storey buildings with a steam engine in the basement with leather belts running everywhere to power the individual machines. It took about thirty years for people to realise that with electric motors factories could be laid out completely differently. And the production line was born. Factory work changed a lot.

It's the same with AI--in the best case, anyway. It'll take us a while to figure out how to rearrange office work now that AI is here.
by mc32 | 2025-08-24 01:25:57+00:00
Because some of it got through but it's not because they wanted free an open discussion. I don't know if Ivermectin would have helped anyone, but suppressing discussion is not good --especially when the thwarting was at the behest of the government.

The Canadian truckers could be dicks if they wanted to, that's no good reason to de-bank people en-masse.

Suppose the police were targeting red cars and were pulling them over and you have a red car and your retort is, I have a red car and also saw other red cars not getting pulled over, therefore everything is alright.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-08-24 01:26:31+00:00
Even more fundamental than science, there is missing philosophy, both in us regarding these systems, and in the systems themselves. An AGI implemented by an LLM needs to, at the minimum, be able to self-learn by updating its weights, self-finetune, otherwise it quickly hits a wall between its baked-in weights and finite context window. What is the optimal "attention" mechanism for choosing what to self-finetune with, and with what strength, to improve general intelligence? Surely it should focus on reliable academics, but which academics are reliable? How can we reliably ensure it studies topics that are "pure knowledge", and who does it choose to be, if we assume there is some theoretical point where it can autonomously outpace all of the world's best human-based research teams?
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-24 01:26:33+00:00
>People take it as an assumption that cronyism will always happen if the government invests too strongly/consistently in a certain thing.

No, it's the opposite. It's a conclusion taken from empirical evidence looking at success rates in the real world. As the US has engaged on its most recent bout of industrial policy, industrial activity has declined, not gone up. Again, this is expected. If you through protectionism make chips and steel in the US inefficiently, everyone in the US using those products as inputs suffers.

There's some limited cases like developing countries engaging in catch up growth , but there's virtually no evidence for effectiveness of these policies in cutting edge technologies, which isn't surprising because they by definition tend to rely on supply chains and knowledge sourced from all across the globe, and to this protectionism is particularly disruptive. And even in developing nations most of the time practices like ISI (import substitution industrialization) fail, it's devastated Latin America in the 1950s to 1980s.

I don't know what USPS proves in this case because it's sustained by a government monopoly. Obviously you could if you wanted privatize mail delivery.
by erulabs | 2025-08-24 01:26:55+00:00
What a great post. Humble and honest and simple and focused on an issue most developers think is so simple (“why not just vibe code SQL?”, “whatever, just scale up the RDS instance”).

Compliments aside, where this article stops is where things get exciting. Postgres shines here, as does Vitess, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, even MongoDB has materialized views now. Vitess and Scylla are so good, it’s a shame they’re not more popular among smaller startups!

What I haven’t seen yet is a really good library for managing materialized views.
by eadmund | 2025-08-24 01:27:02+00:00
> Does anybody know how many active projects are still left there?

https://sourceforge.net/directory/ shows hundreds of thousands, but I can’t see a good way to filter out inactive projects.

> And who wound up owning them after Slashdot?

https://sourceforge.net/about/leadership appears to indicate that it’s still associated with Slashdot Media. I remember when they were bought that the new owner spent quite a bit of time regaining the trust of the software community. No idea how healthy the company’s business or operations are now, but it’s impressive that they’ve survived this long.

I don’t really know what their USP is anymore. It might be fun to start a new project there just to see what it’s like now.
by sublinear | 2025-08-24 01:27:57+00:00
I think we can relax that a bit. We "just" need to understand some definition of cognition that satisfies our computational needs.

Natural language processing is definitely a huge step in that direction, but that's kinda all we've got for now with LLMs and they're still not that great.

Is there some lower level idea beneath linguistics from which natural language processing could emerge? Maybe. Would that lower level idea also produce some or all of the missing components that we need for "cognition"? Also a maybe.

What I can say for sure though is that all our hardware operates on this more linguistic understanding of what computation is. Machine code is strings of symbols. Is this not good enough? We don't know. That's where we're at today.
by miquong | 2025-08-24 01:28:18+00:00
If you're following along and can't/don't want to remember the SQL syntax, use the examples from the post for LLM text-to-SQL context:

Q: Which photo has the highest number of faces? A: SELECT SourceFile FROM photos WHERE RegionType IS NOT '' ORDER BY length(RegionType) DESC LIMIT 1; Q: ...

You can also fetch and use the table schema with `sqlite3 exif.db .schema`
by Geekette | 2025-08-24 01:29:55+00:00
Operational highlights: From crypto mining to inheritance scams ... Authorities in Angola dismantled 25 cryptocurrency mining centres, where 60 Chinese nationals were illegally validating blockchain transactions to generate cryptocurrency. The crackdown identified 45 illicit power stations which were confiscated, along with mining and IT equipment worth more than USD 37 million

... Zambian authorities dismantled a large-scale online investment fraud scheme, identifying 65,000 victims who lost an estimated USD 300 million. The scammers lured victims into investing in cryptocurrency through extensive advertising campaigns ... Also in Zambia ... disrupted a suspected human trafficking network. They confiscated 372 forged passports from seven countries.

... inheritance scams continue to generate significant funds for criminal organizations. Officers in Côte d'Ivoire dismantled a transnational inheritance scam originating in Germany, arresting the primary suspect and seizing assets
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-24 01:30:32+00:00
Contacting a sales department at their provided address for that purpose is responding to a request for you to do so. This is nothing at all like taking money to propagandize people.

Putting a product at a prominent part of your store because you think it's a good purchase for customers is also completely different from accepting money from a manufacturer to place it prominently.

Going to an event where everyone specifically went to meet and exchange information about what people in their industry are doing is also again entirely unlike paid promotion.
Show HN: LoadGQL – a CLI for load-testing GraphQL endpoints
by loadgql | 2025-08-24 01:30:46+00:00
Hi HN

I’ve been working with GraphQL for a while and always felt the tooling around load testing was lacking. Most tools either don’t support GraphQL natively, or they require heavy setup/config.

So I built *LoadGQL* — a single-binary CLI (written in Go) that lets you quickly stress-test a GraphQL endpoint.

*What it does today (v1.0.0):* - Run queries against any GraphQL endpoint (no schema parsing required) - Reports median & p95 latency, throughput (RPS), and error rate - Supports concurrency, duration, and custom headers - Minimal and terminal-first by design

*Roadmap:* p50/p99 latency, output formats (JSON/CSV), multiple query files.

Landing page: [https://apps.devanswers.org](https://apps.devanswers.org)

I’d love feedback from the HN community: - What metrics matter most to you for GraphQL performance? - Any sharp edges you’d expect in a GraphQL load tester?

Thanks for checking it out!
by kamaal | 2025-08-24 01:31:40+00:00
>>Have you even ever watched someone experienced using Emacs or you're making assumptions on your (I suppose limited experience)?

I am one of those experienced Emacs users myself. Wrote more stuff in Emacs and even vim than most devs today will even write code over their careers.

Its just vscode now does simply too many things out of the box, you obviously can recreate that in Emacs, but its a pointless exercise. Time consuming, and distracts your from your real job. My job is to write code, not build emacs to write code.

I totally stopped using Org-mode, because Google docs do it way better.

At some point you have to move on. For some people like that point arrived a little early.
by AIPedant | 2025-08-24 01:32:16+00:00
It is vacuously true that a Turing machine can implement human intelligence: simply solve the Schrödinger equation for every atom in the human body and local environment. Obviously this is cost-prohibitive and we don’t have even 0.1% of the data required to make the simulation. Maybe we could simulate every single neuron instead, but again it’ll take many decades to gather the data in living human brains, and it would still be extremely expensive computationally since we would need to simulate every protein and mRNA molecule across billions of neurons and glial cells.

So the question is whether human intelligence has higher-level primitives that can be implemented more efficiently - sort of akin to solving differential equations, is there a “symbolic solution” or are we forced to go “numerically” no matter how clever we are?
by therobots927 | 2025-08-24 01:32:24+00:00
Yeah I was mostly playing Devil's advocate. This sulphur cloud thing has been driving me nuts for over a year so I've entertained the accelerationist concept to save my sanity. It's incredible that it's not talked about more and yes it does call into question the rationality of many climate activists. At the end of the day I don't think the monkey brain evolved to handle this type of decision making.
by a-dub | 2025-08-24 01:34:11+00:00
maybe it was wince. it has been a very long time!

the ps1 had caetla (programmable with a parallel port and cheat cartridge) and yaroze (official sony devkits for hobbyists), but i think that was on some custom sony os services library in rom.

edit: ahh yeah, there was the wince internet explorer goofy thing, but also a linux port where someone broke the bootloader lock via some multimedia cd feature.
by foobarbecue | 2025-08-24 01:34:54+00:00
Right-- it's only really capable of trivial code and boilerplate, which I usually just copy from one of my older programs, examples in docs, or a highly-ranked recent SO answer. Saves me from having to converse with an expensive chatbot, and I don't have to worry about random hallucinations.

If it's a new, non-trivial algorithm, I enjoy writing it.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-24 01:34:57+00:00
I think the author could have picked a better title. “<X> is an engineering problem” is a pretty common expression to describe something where the science is done, but the engineering remains. There’s an understanding that that could still mean a ton of work, but there isn’t some fundamental mystery about the basic natural principles of the thing.

Here, AGI is being described as an engineering problem, in contrast to a “model training” problem. That is, I think at least, he’s at least saying that more work needs to be done at an R&D level. I agree with those who are saying it is maybe not even an engineering problem yet, but should be noted that he’s at least pushing away from just running the existing programs harder, which seems to be the plan with trillions of dollars behind it.
by dang | 2025-08-24 01:37:03+00:00
(We don't ban people for posting like this!)

If it felt like a waste of time and energy to post something substantive, rather than the GP comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998577), then you should have just posted nothing. That comment was obviously neither substantive nor thoughtful. This is hardly a borderline call!

We want substantive, thoughtful comments from people who do have the time and energy to contribute them.

Btw, to avoid a misunderstanding that sometimes shows up: it's fine for comments to be critical; that is, it's possible to be substantive, thoughtful, and critical all at the same time. For example, I skimmed through your account's most recent comments and saw several of that kind, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299479 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42882357. If your GP comment had been like that, it would have been fine; you don't have to like Claude Code (or whatever the $thing is).
by striking | 2025-08-24 01:38:35+00:00
The joy of the demoscene is inextricable from the human and physical nature of it.

Yes, you can have AI tools vibe code up "new" 68k assembly for old machines, but you're never going to see it find genuinely new techniques for pushing the limits of the hardware until you give it access to actual hardware. The demoscene pushes the limits so hard that emulators have to be updated after demos are published. That makes it prohibitively expensive and difficult to employ AI to do this work in the manner you describe.

Don't mistake productivity for progress. There is joy in solving hard problems yourself, especially when you're the one who chose the limitations... And remember to sit back and enjoy yourself once in a while.

Speaking of, here's a demo you can sit back and enjoy: https://youtu.be/3aJzSySfCZM
by danielheath | 2025-08-24 01:39:03+00:00
Perhaps that’d be different if you could afford to have a team of doctors monitor your bloodwork etc and adjust medication to maintain energy, a personal chef consulting with them to ensure your meals help that, stylists to pick out tailored clothes for each occasion, regular massage, personal training, etc.

They’re a different kind of rich that those who merely have a spare 30 million or so.
by tshaddox | 2025-08-24 01:40:12+00:00
> It is vacuously true that a Turing machine can implement human intelligence: simply solve the Schrödinger equation for every atom in the human body and local environment.

Yes, that is the bluntest, lowest level version of what I mean. To discover that this wouldn’t work in principle would be to discover that quantum mechanics is false.

Which, hey, quantum mechanics probably is false! But discovering the theory which both replaces quantum mechanics and shows that AGI in an electronic computer is physically impossible is definitely a tall order.
by kiriberty | 2025-08-24 01:40:37+00:00
There software was so bad. I once had purchased a license. But when I started using, in the setting there was a possible workflow that if you click that button/menu option it will reset the license key. It happened (because I am curious right?) then my copy was no longer valid. I called their customer support and that person treated my like a criminal trying to lie all the way. So explained numerous times and sent them purchase copies and screenshots. After some attempts they issues a new license key (they might have verified their stupid mistake). On top of that, the version I bought did not have a way to delete option. I had to purchase that feature. This was long time ago and I no longer use this sh*.
by hibikir | 2025-08-24 01:40:53+00:00
There's a few companies doing direct indexing like this, where you can give them a ban list for any given index: You can, say, also take out Microstrategy or something like that.

Now, as to whether those companies will remain solvent long enough, will give you simple enough taxes, and can keep expenses low while rebalancing is another story. You are doing frontier-ish things. It's not as if you have Vanguard or Fidelity offering products like that.
by tonymet | 2025-08-24 01:41:00+00:00
Though I agree social media SSO was a poor choice for id.me, it's reckless that they canceled the feature suddenly without notifying & supporting users through the migration.

I can imagine someone scrambling to deal with an urgent IRS issue now without a critical credential that's been in use for years.

If you've worked on any sizable app, you'll know that every flow has percentage of failures that end up with customer support.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-24 01:41:57+00:00
Feels likely to be a pretty direct test of memory bandwidth. Strix Halo (the AI Max+ 395) has quad ddr5-8000, which is both twice the width and more mhz. This is a great opportunity to see what workloads will make use of the 3d-vcache too!

I'm personally pretty excited for a new round of Mobile on Desktop. Usually a pretty good % of desktop speed, but tuned for much lower power, and the price is usually a little better. I have the Minisforum 795s7 with the 7945hx, which is a delightful zen4 that's very affordable. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-unleashe...