MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by appreciatorBus | 2025-08-05 21:45:18+00:00
That’s really a leap about the writer’s interest.

They could just as easily have felt the underlying reason was so obvious it wasn’t worth mentioning.

I know how base64 encoding works but had never noticed the pattern the author pointed out. As soon as read it, I ubderstood why. It didn’t occur to me that the author should have explained it at a deeper level.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-05 21:45:24+00:00
Yubikeys are an even worse solution, in my opinion. They dramatically increase the amount of hassle and maintenance required because you have to have multiples of them to ensure that you won't get locked out.

Also, it's not always convenient or possible to plug something into a machine you're using.

> to use a passkey, you need a place to store the passkey.

Yes, and any place that requires me to use particular piece of software, machine, or device is a real friction point for me.
by riazrizvi | 2025-08-05 21:45:32+00:00
The purpose of Stallman’s open source movement was to redistribute power back into the hands of creators who were getting walled out of anything but proprietary work for an employer. If they were fired, they had nothing to show for years of work except a reference, since their deep expertise was essentially meaningless. (An experience I’m sure almost everyone here is familiar with, since we’ve all spent some years on proprietary systems).

Now, with LLMs, exposing your source code essentially hands over a large chunk of your hard won expertise for free to whoever wants to use it. That old model of 100% open source is broken, to my mind.

The new approach I think should be open source stubs with demos of what is capable with your additional proprietary piece.
by eagleal | 2025-08-05 21:45:43+00:00
Not one of OPs, but it's become common knowledge these days that a real class war has been ongoing for decades, with the final blow likely delivered by Thatcher and Reagan.

The social contract, between the effective ruling and representative classes and the populations they are supposed to serve, seems to have been completely broken.

So you could say everything not pivoting to this point is basically a distraction.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-05 21:45:54+00:00
That's not an answer. Yes, I can run xev on my machine against my X session and see my keystrokes. It is not obvious that this is a problem. A more plausible angle would be that if an attacker compromises one application - say, a web browser - then they could keylog passwords. Of course, most people don't sandbox their browser so that's the least of their problems if it's compromised (ex. https://access.redhat.com/articles/1563163 let an attacker steal ssh keys).
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by karlgkk | 2025-08-05 21:46:11+00:00
> FYI it is estimated that the war would go on until 1947 if the bombs were not dropped

FYI it is also estimated that the war would end within a few months if the bombs were not dropped. It really depends on whoever was estimating lol

This is a heavily contested issue that has been actively discussed for almost a century by full time professional historians and analysts. Making confident assertions isn’t particularly helpful
by WalterBright | 2025-08-05 21:46:11+00:00
When I toured Germany in the 1980s with a train pass, there were clocks all over the train stations. If the train was scheduled to start at 11:07, when the big hand clicked to 7, the train started to move.

It was wonderful.

BTW, the D community is all over the world. We schedule a zoom meeting each month. When we began the meetings, and the meeting started at, say, 8, the meeting organizer would say "we need to wait a bit for the rest to join us". I put my foot down and said when the meeting is scheduled for 8, it starts at exactly 8.

And everyone shows up on time! It's amazing how that works.
by ojosilva | 2025-08-05 21:46:20+00:00
Gaming is certainly a use case, but I think this is primarily coming as synthetic data generation for Google's robots training in warehouses:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/google-st...

Gemini Robot launch 4 mo ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344082
by CuriouslyC | 2025-08-05 21:46:25+00:00
Sorry, but no. I use AI as a writing tool, and its understanding prose and storycraft is nowhere near there, it's mostly useful for rough drafts and minor rewrites. Even in a hypothetical future where it's perfect at prose and storycraft, and it just asks you a few questions to get at the details of what you want then cranks out a technically outstanding novel, it still won't be there. People crave novelty, freshness and and a sense of the auteur, and AI will ALWAYS be bad at that (until someone creates an AI writer that simulates a fictional human author with a rich interior life before it starts writing, anyhow).

Ultimately we'll reach a technical "peak" in AI writing, and humans will still be the ones driving the AI, feeding it with the alchemy of their lived experience, directing creation at a high level. We'll even purposefully inject very minor imperfections into the writing in the name of voice, tweaking minor details in the name of personal harmony. The author will go from "creator" to "brand."
by amiga386 | 2025-08-05 21:46:40+00:00
So the question is, could both Valve and Itch take on several payment processors, and choose which game on their store goes through which processor? Or would porn-shy processors have blanket rules saying your whole company can't have any porn in the same store, even if it's locked away, even if you use not-us to process payments for it?

And secondly, let's say Valve moves to a porn-friendly processor (Itch has said it's looking for one, not that it's found one). MasterCard clearly has a rule, right there in black and white, saying don't facilitate this particular type of porn. How do you think it will look if for any potential processor, and MasterCard, if Valve switches processor and continues accepting MasterCard payments for games in direct contravention of MasterCards's given rule, while the world's press, and the angry lobby group, is watching?
by duxup | 2025-08-05 21:46:46+00:00
The idea that a content owner can tell an isp "we think this guy is doing the bad thing with our content" and then tack on "oh and add on this hyperlink so we can sue them ... as a class / block of ip address" makes no sense.

So someone's ip address gets tossed in the mix and it's wrong, what? Then assuming they see it they have to join a class action lawsuit and deal with all that as an individual?

The entire process seems like it would be impossibly far down the road and the individual whose ip was just tossed in there ... can they prove "I didn't do it?" if the process just started with the rights holder saying "we think these people did, because we says so"?
by timmytokyo | 2025-08-05 21:46:54+00:00
Speaking of rhetorical tactics, that's an awfully narrow definition of LLM hallucination designed to evade the argument that they hallucinate.

If, according to you, LLMs are so good at avoiding hallucinations these days, then maybe we should ask an LLM what hallucinations are. Claude, "in the context of generative AI, what is a hallucination?"

Claude responds with a much broader definition of the term than you have imagined -- one that matches my experiences with the term. (It also seemingly matches many other people's experiences; even you admit that "everybody" associates hallucination with imperfection or inaccuracy.)

Claude's full response:

"In generative AI, a hallucination refers to when an AI model generates information that appears plausible and confident but is actually incorrect, fabricated, or not grounded in its training data or the provided context.

"There are several types of hallucinations:

"Factual hallucinations - The model states false information as if it were true, such as claiming a historical event happened on the wrong date or attributing a quote to the wrong person.

"Source hallucinations - The model cites non-existent sources, papers, or references that sound legitimate but don't actually exist.

"Contextual hallucinations - The model generates content that contradicts or ignores information provided in the conversation or prompt.

"Logical hallucinations - The model makes reasoning errors or draws conclusions that don't follow from the premises.

"Hallucinations occur because language models are trained to predict the most likely next words based on patterns in their training data, rather than to verify factual accuracy. They can generate very convincing-sounding text even when "filling in gaps" with invented information.

"This is why it's important to verify information from AI systems, especially for factual claims, citations, or when accuracy is critical. Many AI systems now include warnings about this limitation and encourage users to double-check important information from authoritative sources."
by vanviegen | 2025-08-05 21:46:59+00:00
> current training methodologies are scandalously data inefficient compared to human/animal brains

Are you sure? I've been ingesting boatloads of high definition multi-sensory real-time data for quite a few decades now, and I hardly remember any of it. Perhaps the average quality/diversity of LLM training data has been higher, but they sure remember a hell of a lot more of it than I ever could.
by pimlottc | 2025-08-05 21:47:00+00:00
Feedback: I wasn’t sure what to do in the initial game state. It wasn’t obvious that the letters could be “clicked” directly. In a similar word game [0] (also posted on HN recently; perhaps your inspiration?), the letters are in boxes that make them seem more like buttons you can press. The unlabeled tabs at the bottom were also mysterious; many other games like Wordle have their inputs (e.g. a keyboard) at the bottom, so that was initially a bit confusing.

It’s also easy to accidentally spoil the game by clicking the unlabeled right tab. EDIT: Oops, didn't realize that was the words discovered list, not the complete wordlist. This should have a label to make it clearer.

Also, in the help screen, the dots in the UI made me expect to swipe (on mobile) to navigate between screens, so that was a bit confusing at first.

0: https://www.shrinkle.org/
by tuesdaynight | 2025-08-05 21:47:59+00:00
I agree with you, but it's important to remember that "dieting down" is way harder for a lot of people. I am and always was skinny through my life. Whenever I need to eat less, I can do it without much effort. However, I have friends who would faint if they tried to diet down the way that I do. I don't know why that happens, but I've seen happening and it changed my perspective about this subject. If Ozempic can help with that, I will never criticize someone who uses it.
by 827a | 2025-08-05 21:48:27+00:00
Yes he did so: Poorly. His idea [0] to use Juno is a pretty bad one, given that it doesn't have the fuel to do what he suggests, and even if it did, one of its engines was damaged during a recent maneuver. And, at least according to Jason Wright, Loeb should have known all this but ignored it [1], because headlines.

The ESA has a possibly more promising plan to divert a probe that's on its way to Jupiter right now [2].

So, again: If you're going to write "The feasibility of intercepting 3I/ATLAS depends on the current amount of fuel available from the propulsion system of Juno" one thing a real scientist would do is, idk, try to find out how much fuel it has left, talk to team members, etc. Instead, Loeb just does presumptive math, which ends up being wrong, but that didn't stop a Florida state rep from taking this "idea from a harvard scientist" and turning it into an official request of NASA, which now more real scientists will have to waste their time with [3].

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21402

[1] https://x.com/Astro_Wright/status/1951530225533329789

[2] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2490618-can-we-send-a-s...

[3] https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1951379349128815062
by cyphertruck | 2025-08-05 21:48:34+00:00
This isn't corruption or coercion. This is a deal. These are terms being offered. They can say no, or counter. But these terms benefit all parties-- TSMC can eventually buy out intel, get lots of top end fabs, bring their superior processes to those fabs and meet the huge demand in AI chips-- that they currently can't grow fast enough to cover. ASML machines take years to build... a better TSMC process on existing ASML machines in Intel fabs is an easy %30 win for the entire world.

Plus, china kept at bay, peace increased, intel's bad management gets to bail out saving face, TSMC gets rewarded for their hard work, Trump gets a win, Intel's employees get better management, and get rich from their stock options winning hugely....

Capitalism is where everyone wins like this.

Even china, because china loses if it goes to war, but china feels it has to go to war.
by bsder | 2025-08-05 21:48:45+00:00
> Both of us had 4.0s.

You are so far removed from the ability of the average student that your personal observations about college simply don't generalize.

> I never spent that much time in Physics I, Calculus I or any English Class.

Do you understand just how far out of the norm that is?

Not everybody is coming from elite high schools and can blow through a college 101 class. The vast majority of engineers fight through all three of those--especially an English composition class. I had friends who did poorly in Calc I, dropped it but stayed in the class just so they plowed through it next semester. These aren't people "fooling around" with bad "time management". They were bog standard state school students who needed to get through, get out, and start making money. They were first college generation who didn't have rich parents backing them. They were motivated and got out in 4 years--something that most college students regard as difficult.

> No one expects anything from you at a summer internship.

Seriously? As a summer intern I always had deliverables. When I became a manager instead, we always had deliverables for co-ops and interns.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-08-05 21:48:47+00:00
It is plausible to run a full simulation the old fashioned way and realtime render it with a diffusion model.

It is not currently, or near term, realistic to make a video game where a meaningful portion of the simulation is part of the model.

There will probably be a few interactive model-first experiences. But they’ll be popular as short novelties not meaningful or long experiences.

A simple question to consider is how would you adjust a set of simple tunables in a model-first simulator? For example giving the player more health, making enemies deal 2x damage, increasing move speed, etc etc. You can not.
by markatlarge | 2025-08-05 21:48:49+00:00
You’re making a serious accusation without evidence. I don’t know if the file in question was CSAM—because Google won’t tell me. We just have Google’s word for it.

What I do know is that I used publicly available datasets—like NudeNet and COCO—for benchmarking an NSFW detection model. These datasets have been used by researchers for years. If there was anything questionable in them, that should be addressed openly—not used as a reason to erase someone’s digital life without transparency or due process.

I’m not claiming academic immunity. I’m saying it was unintentional, and I had no idea anything I processed could have been flagged. And if there was something problematic in a dataset, I would absolutely want to identify and report it—but I can’t do that if Google refuses to disclose what was flagged.

This isn’t just about me. When a private company has the unchecked power to destroy someone’s livelihood overnight, it stops being a simple platform—it becomes a de facto utility. There needs to be a path for review, correction, and accountability.

More on what happened to me here: https://medium.com/@russoatlarge/when-youre-accused-youre-er...
by net01 | 2025-08-05 21:49:17+00:00
this is the big takeaway for me of this article

> IP Address Is Not Sufficient The verdict also cites jurisprudence holding that an IP address alone is not sufficient to establish copyright infringement. It also requires proof that the defendant authorized or controlled the alleged infringements, instead of merely being the listed subscriber connected to an IP address. This is a critical finding when it comes to the class action approach where all defendants are treated similarly, as these nuances may differ greatly from person to person. “I cannot see how there is any basis in fact to conclude that the proposed class proceeding is preferable to individual actions because the individual issues in this case swamp whatever common issues there might be,” Justice Gleason writes.
by zevon | 2025-08-05 21:49:53+00:00
I get that it's always be about money in the end but I understand this sub-thread to be a bit more specific: Is there an ad sales platform run by Apple where your Benjamins have influence on the search ranking in the App Store? I and many other people here are not talking about things that are clearly ads (like a "featured" result or the ads shown by google and other search engines).
by tiagod | 2025-08-05 21:50:13+00:00
Portugal is not tightening it down based on data, but based on perceptions. A shift to populism reverting previous progressive changes proves nothing.

Also, we didn't experiment with permissiveness, we fixed a heroin crisis that was completely out of control. You have no idea how bad it got before we stopped throwing addicts in jail and started providing them with rehab.

Source: I've lived here all my life.
by J_McQuade | 2025-08-05 21:50:23+00:00
I am not sure if this will be any help to you at all, but the technical skill of music - especially in (from your comment) heavy metal - has only ever been a tiny part of it. You probably know a guy in a local pub band who can note-for-note play every singly thing that Toni Iommi ever recorded, for instance.

There are hundreds of bands who play three-chord doom or mindless-shredding grind who just learned one thing and do it well, and who play to hundreds of people multiple times a week (often including me). We go to see these bands not to see what they can play, but to see what they are saying with what they play.

This is why I feel that I can never describe LLM-generated content as 'art'. Art is about the story. People will go and see a punk band who only know three chords if they play songs about things that resonate with them. Bit of a tangent, but this is the same reason that I genuinely believe that if you could bio-engineer a steak that tastes exactly like one from a well-looked-after cow from a notable breed and a good farm, most people would still prefer the cow. The story matters - the fact that a person put effort and experience into something really is important.

"This solo is sick" is a fun plus-point, but it doesn't matter if the song doesn't mean anything to you. If proficiency was the only thing that mattered then we'd all be listening to the worst kind of prog.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-08-05 21:50:29+00:00
I'm still struggling to imagine a world where predicting the next pixel wins over over building a deterministic thing that is then ran.

Eg: Using AI to generate textures, wire models, motion sequences which themselves sum up to something that local graphics card can then render into a scene.

I'm very much not an expert in this space, but to me it seems if you do that, then you can tweak the wire model, the texture, move the camera to wherever you want in the scene etc.
by riazrizvi | 2025-08-05 21:50:33+00:00
A ‘freemium source’ model, where you’re advertising possibility and promoting human-human partnership.

Industry practices that over commoditize human talent are bad IMO.

Our whole industry needs to bend its collective mind to maintaining economic participation. We’ve possibly put too much of a strain on society with LLMs. Especially as more and more people cotton on to what other services they no longer need, as models get better and better. We can’t survive as a species if too much of our lives are based on self-gratification, we have to maintain the drivers that make us interact and learn to get along.
by hrpnk | 2025-08-05 21:50:51+00:00
I tried to generate a streamlit dashboard with MACD, RSI, MA(200). 1:0 for qwen3 here.

qwen3-coder-30b 4-bit mlx took on the task w/o any hiccups with a fully working dashboard, graphs, and recent data fetched from yfinance.

gpt-oss-20b mxfp4's code had a missing datatime import and when fixed delivered a dashboard without any data and with starting date of Aug 2020. Having adjusted the date, the update methods did not work and displayed error messages.
by belter | 2025-08-05 21:50:56+00:00
False analogy.

I must comprehend code at the abstraction level I am working at. If I write Python, I am responsible for understanding the Python code. If I write Assembly, I must understand the Assembly.

The difference is that Compilers are deterministic with formal specs. I can trust their translation. LLMs are probabilistic generators with no guarantees. When an LLM generates Python code, that becomes my Python code that I must fully comprehend, because I am shipping it.

That is why productivity is capped at review speed, you can't ship what you don't understand, regardless of who or what wrote it.
by rapind | 2025-08-05 21:51:00+00:00
In this case I don't think the controller needs to be the smartest model. I use sonnet as the main driver and pass the heavy thinking (via zen mcp) onto Gemini pro for example, but I could use openai or opus or all of them via OpenRouter.

Subagents seem pretty similar to using zen mcp w/ OpenRouter but maybe better or at least more turnkey? I'll be checking them out.
by cyphertruck | 2025-08-05 21:51:06+00:00
That money will be provided via a loan, from the US Government, at a reasonable interest rate. USG doesn't lose money, TSMC gets to expand into all of Intels fabs (when they raise the money to buy a controlling interest in INTC down the line.)

Or the entire thing can be done by a stock swap, with whoever diluting themselves however amount is necessary, etc.
by keeda | 2025-08-05 21:52:09+00:00
I posted a comment yesterday regarding this with links to a couple relevant studies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793392 -- briefly:

* Even with all this infra buildout all the hyperscalers are constantly capacity constrained, especially for GPUs.

* Surveys are showing that most people are only using AI for a fraction of the time at work, and still reporting significant productivity benefits, even with current models.

The AGI/ASI hype is a distraction, potentially only relevant to the frontier model labs. Even if all model development froze today, there is tremendous untapped demand to be met.

The Metaverse/VR/AR boom was never a boom, with only 2 big companies (Meta, Apple) plowing any "real" money into it. Similarly with crypto, another thing that AI is unjustifiably compared to. I think because people were trying to make it happen.

With the AI boom, however, the largest companies, major governments and VCs are all investing feverishly because it is already happening and they want in on it.