MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kurthr | 2025-08-05 23:32:04+00:00
Not only are the protein ratios different in the Buffalo milk, but the fat content is radically different (buffalo 7-9% cow 3-4% jersey 5%). It's hard to even call anything but Jersey Mozzarella the same cheese.

And of course the much harder american "mozzarella" stuff thrown on most pizzas is something entirely different.
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-05 23:32:27+00:00
> I've estimated that LLMs make me 2-5x more productive on the parts of my job which involve typing code into a computer, which is itself a small portion of that I do as a software engineer.

This feels exactly right and is what I’ve thought since this all began.

But it also makes me think maybe there are those that A.I. helps 10x, but more because that code input is actually a very large part of their job. Some coders aren’t doing much design or engineering, just assembly.
by pentamassiv | 2025-08-05 23:32:28+00:00
When you apply, you have to confirm that you did not generate the application with AI. As soon as you send of the application, you get an automatic email confirming your application. They also say they don't reach out, if you are not a good match and that they only contact the people they want to hire. Maybe they changed their mind on that policy, because I received a rejection letter a few months later. It was very well written. The people I showed it to said it is one of the nicest rejection letters they have seen.
by gosub100 | 2025-08-05 23:32:55+00:00
It's not as lucrative. For human produced songs you can usually get the sheet music for them. If not, musicians can listen and do it manually, but it's not common enough to need AI to do it. Just transcribing for one instrument isn't that useful for many cases. Often they need an arrangement for multiple instruments, and depending on which instruments, the key may need to be transcribed. This is mostly referring to classical music and traditional western songs.
by senkora | 2025-08-05 23:33:32+00:00
> This is really bailing out current management-- letting them be replaced by the more capable TSMC people

The trouble with a competent organization buying a decadent organization is that leadership at the decadent organization is often much better at winning political infighting (they have a lot of practice).

So it’s very easy to end up in a situation where the disfunction metastases up into the parent.

At the very least, executive attention is finite and splitting attention like this is distracting to the parent executives, which harms the parent organization.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-08-05 23:33:48+00:00
In Zed I switch the AI panel to ask mode and chat with the agent about different approaches and have it draft patches. Then when I think there's a design worth trying, switch to Write mode and have it implement that change + run the tests and diagnostics to verify the code at least compiles, tests pass and follows our style guides. Finally a line by line review + review of the test coverage (in terms of interface surface area) before submitting a PR for another human review.
Open Source and OpenAI's Return
by ricecat | 2025-08-05 23:33:52+00:00
OpenAI just dropped GPT‑OSS, its first open‑weight model family since GPT‑2: a 120B variant and a 20B variant that users can run locally — even on laptops or high-end desktops. Both are released under Apache 2.0, and perform nearly as well as OpenAI’s previous o3‑mini and o4‑mini models.

This isn't a marketing stunt — it's significant. It marks OpenAI’s return to releasing weights that anyone can inspect, modify, and self-host. That shift came only after competitors like DeepSeek and Meta released real open‑source or open‑weight models. DeepSeek’s R1 model, launched in January 2025, was fully open and cost‑efficient, quickly outperforming proprietary systems and grabbing global attention. OpenAI’s move followed that disruption.

https://www.gizvault.com/archives/oss-and-openai-return
by thenerdhead | 2025-08-05 23:34:22+00:00
Look, it’s not that BARDA is throwing science out the window in favor of some wishful thinking. It’s that they’re looking beyond what works now and toward what might work better, not just for today’s virus, but for the ones waiting in the wings.

Oral vaccines, nasal sprays, multi-antigen, multi-receptor approaches, these aren’t just buzzwords. They aim at mucosal immunity, they aim at T-cells, they aim at the places our current tools often miss. And when you learn that SARS-CoV-2 can persist in the body long after the sniffles are gone(i.e. Long COVID/MIS-C), you realize we need more than just antibodies.
by stephen_g | 2025-08-05 23:34:47+00:00
I mean, maybe this way is worse. I can see how it could be far more obvious that the propaganda is BS when it's being pushed at you from every outlet and every form of media. Makes it more clear that it's controlled.

Yet at the moment where there is still diversity, people can make the mistake of thinking that the propaganda is just a difference of opinion so perhaps trust it more.
by mortsnort | 2025-08-05 23:35:04+00:00
There are lots more applications than coding and Open Router hosting for open weight models that I'd guess just got completely changed by this being an Apache license. Think about products like DataBricks that allow enterprise to use LLMs for whatever purpose.

I also suspect the new OpenAI model is pretty good at coding if it's like o4-mini, but admittedly haven't tried it yet.
by downrightmike | 2025-08-05 23:35:30+00:00
Honestly AMD makes the most sense, given they sold off the foundry stuff years ago, which is the part of the process Intel will be doing next.

The board brought on a chop shop guy, you don't do that when there is a future, and TSMC would be smart to wait Intel out and pick it up cheap. The USA wouldn't last a month without TSMC chips, Tim Apple wouldn't let that happen. There is no way this demand has any teeth
by dylan604 | 2025-08-05 23:36:16+00:00
AND stupidity is you being intentionally ignorant.

People have much better things to do than look up words, look for dissenting opinions one something the face on their TV tells them. There's taking the kids to _______ practice. There's TV shows to keep up with. There's an infinite feed of content to scroll through. There's plenty of other things that they would prefer to do themselves than whatever it is you would prefer them to do. That does not qualify as stupid. To me, what is stupid, is everyone here calling others that have differing view points than their own stupid. You are willingly using that term in the same way you say they are willfully not looking things up.
by janalsncm | 2025-08-05 23:36:21+00:00
I hate to beat up on this because I agree with the spirit of it. But I think this is a little too cliche for my taste:

> that requires recognizing the humanity of 99.9% of people

I will go as far as to say there was never a time in history when people got rights because some other group “recognized the humanity in them” or something. No, it was through necessity. The plague in Europe caused a shortage of workers and brought an end to feudalism. Unions got us Saturdays off through collective action. The post-war boom and middle class prosperity happened because employers had no other options. Software engineering was lucrative because there was a shortage of supply.

Even if there is some future where robots do chores, that’ll only leave time for more work, not poetry writing time, unless there is a fundamental change in how the economy is structured, like I outlined above.
by kentonv | 2025-08-05 23:36:43+00:00
Dude.

That code tptacek linked you to? It's part of our (Cloudflare's) MCP framework. Which means all of the companies mentioned in this blog post are using this code in production today: https://blog.cloudflare.com/mcp-demo-day/

There you go. This is what you are looking for. Why are you refusing to believe it?

(OK fine. I guess I should probably update the readme to remove that "prerelease" line.)
by m463 | 2025-08-05 23:39:17+00:00
I have similar feelings.

I really wish proxmox had nicer container support.

If a proxmox container config could specify a dockerfile as an option, I think proxmox would be 1000% more useful (and successful)

Instead with LXC and their config files, I feel like i have to put on a sysadmin hat to get a container going. Seems like picking up an adding machine to do my taxes.

(also, lxc does have a way to specify a container, but it is not used)

Instead I have written scripts to automate some of this, which helps,

There is also cloud-init, but I found it sort of unfriendly and never went anywhere with it.
by jaggederest | 2025-08-05 23:39:25+00:00
Sure, I'm working on a database proxy in rust at the moment, if you hop on GitHub, same username. It's not pure AI in the PRs but I know approximately no Rust, so AI support has been absolutely critical. I added support for parsing binary timestamps from PG's wire format, as an example.

I spent probably a day building prompts and tests and getting an example of failing behavior in Python, and then I wrote pseudocode and had it implement and write comprehensive unit tests in rust. About three passes and manual review of every line. I also have an MCP that calls out to O3 as a second opinion code review and passes it back in

Very fun stuff
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-05 23:40:05+00:00
I'd argue "people are terrified to cross" isn't the same as "secure." Kind of the opposite actually.

We are now losing the companionship of people who could cross legally because they don't trust us to treat them fairly. Canadians aren't coming. Europeans are staying home. To say nothing of our Southern neighbors.

"Just terrorize people into staying away" was always an option. It works great for North Korea! There's a reason previous administrations didn't pursue that agenda.

I suspect we won't really grasp this lesson though until the economies along our border start to implode for lack of commerce.
by saltcured | 2025-08-05 23:40:29+00:00
Can't say I regret it, but did not enjoy when a small enhancement PR I wanted to push to an academic visualization toolkit took more of my time to wrangle the licensing than to write the patches.

When I did veer into enterprise environments, I regretted the NDAs I signed. It was annoying to later want to share some illustrative anecdotes but have to censor myself. And it wasn't like they were state secrets, just stuff that was amusing and apropos but someone might be able to trace back to the NDA contract period due to the small world we seem to inhabit.

Otherwise, I've been in university-linked R&D and generally went with folks who declared projects open source before we began any real effort on it. That's the only way to be sure.
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-05 23:40:31+00:00
Every time something comes along like this there's a revolt.

Photoshop.

First Analog synthesizers and then digital synthesizers.

Multitrack audio recording.

Digital Recording.

Autotune.

Vocaloids.

These things change the nature of the game and invalidate the labor of the people who used to be winners, and I get it.

If you take the money and the fame out of the equation, though, the point of art is not to become rich and famous, it's to communicate.

Eventually, we will find artists who are finally able to send in a way that others want to receive thanks to AI.

And there will be people like me and probably you that prefer to only hear what a human had to say straight from their own mouths. And that's fine. There are no walls.
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-05 23:40:34+00:00
I reviewed that PR in the GitHub web gui and in our CI/CD gui. It was one of several PRs that I was reviewing at the time, some by agents, some by people and some by a mix.

Because I was the instigator of that change a second code owner was required to approve the PR as well. That PR didn't require any changes, which is uncommon but not particularly rare.

It is _common_ for me to only give feedback to the agents via the GitHub gui the same way I do humans. Occasionally I have to pull the PR down locally and use the full powers of my dev environment to review but I don't think that is any more common than with people. If anything its less common because of the tasks the agents get typically they either do well or I kill the PR without much review.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-08-05 23:40:35+00:00
curing some of the viruses that cause the common cold entirely.

This was this kind of crazy hype from back in 2021/2022 that has helped fuel the backlash against MRNA vaccines. There has been nothing happening on the common cold virus with MRNA vaccines. In retrospect, it seems like CEOs pumping the stock price with wild promises.
by oatsandsugar | 2025-08-05 23:40:48+00:00
I’ve seen many benchmarks on OLAP performance, but I wanted to better understand the practical impact for myself, especially for LLM applications. This is my first attempt at building a benchmarking tool to explore that.

It runs some simple analytical queries against ClickHouse, Postgres, and Postgres with indexes. To make the results more tangible than just a chart of timings, I added a "latency simulator" that visualizes how the query delay would actually feel in a chat UI.

With a 10M row dataset: ClickHouse queries are sub-second, while Postgres takes multiple seconds.

This is definitely a learning project for me, not a comprehensive benchmark. The data is synthetic and the setup is simple. The main goal was to create a visual demonstration of how backend latency translates to user-perceived latency. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-05 23:41:46+00:00
The stock market has so much more scale, in money at stake, data, news coverage, experts followup on rumors, etc. it would be relatively harder, and take more potentially traceable effort, to impact pricing with a rumor.

But it almost certainly happens.

So not fundamentally different.

And I just figured out how I would leverage particular kinds of existing credibility, and vulnerability, to do it. But the harder part is making significant bank, while not getting caught. (And spending eternity with your black soul!)
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-05 23:41:53+00:00
You wouldn’t have said that before Trump took office, so it seems to me that it’s one idiot causing all of the problems and not the kind of slow decline that happens over a long time span when an empire falls. What Trump is, is not compatible with who we are as a country and I’m confident he is going to bring about his own undoing when the economy really starts falling apart.
by alisonatwork | 2025-08-05 23:45:24+00:00
It's not just a way for landing a job either. It's also a ticket for white collar immigration on "specialist" visas that have a much shorter waiting list, higher quota or better perks than regular work-based visas. I was blown away the first time I heard people talking openly about this in my field - it was considered totally normal for them to pay money to have an academic portfolio constructed on their behalf specifically for the purpose of having these "published papers" and "unique research" on their record so they could qualify for "specialist" visas. It adds a whole nother layer to the warped idea of good immigrants vs bad immigrants.
by sfRattan | 2025-08-05 23:46:13+00:00
Looking out across the software landscape, it seems to me software companies do just fine if they achieve some-to-most of:

1. Build a piece of software that actually solves one or more problems.

2. Keep ownership private and limited. Once you're publicly traded, long term planning becomes impossible and "line must go up" becomes the reigning false god.

3. Sell a perpetual commercial license to the version-at-purchase, and offer subscription for updates after purchase. On cancellation, stop providing updates but do not disable that customer's last working version.

4. Optionally, dual license under a free license that prevents competitors from eating your lunch (usually latest GPL or AGPL, depending on context).

If you're implementing the above items, it's absolutely possible to run a profitable company.
by kelnos | 2025-08-05 23:46:48+00:00
> Just because someone has a different point of view than yours does not make them stupid.

True, but I'm not sure what that proves. Some people who have different points of view than I do have come to those points of view via reasonable means, and some of their PoVs might even be more consistent with reality than some of mine.

But some people are actually just stupid. Sometimes it's for understandable reasons, but sometimes it's for reasons that the GP laid out, and that's sad and unfortunate, and makes life difficult for the rest of us. I think there are a lot of people like this, and I'm afraid that public policy is in no small part driven by these people's susceptibility to propaganda, and their inability to think critically.
by pbronez | 2025-08-05 23:46:52+00:00
The “multiple PhDs” thing is interesting. The point of a PhD is to master both a very specific subject and the research skills needed to advance the frontier of knowledge in that area. There’s also plenty of secondary issues, like figuring out the politics of academia and publishing enough to establish a reputation.

I don’t think models are doing that. They certainly can retrieve a huge amount of information that would otherwise only be available to specialists such as people with PhDs… but I’m not convinced the models have the same level of understanding as a human PhD.

It’s easy to test though- the models simply have to write and defend a dissertation!

To my knowledge, this has not yet been done.
by ggm | 2025-08-05 23:46:58+00:00
These kinds of problems are what fuel a return to hotel and structured accommodation services. I suppose a dismal scientist (economist) would call this a self-correcting propensity in the competitive market or something.

Personally, I just think the sector needs to be properly regulated. It's fucking up home prices in lots of places, it's full of shonky ripoffs, bad ads, misleading behaviour, hidden charges.

I've also had some amazingly positive stays (stayz!) and I will continue to look at airbnb when I am making choices for trips.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-05 23:47:10+00:00
The government more or less does, indeed, do those things already.

Food safety standards and inspections. OSHA PPE requirements. Collective action protection and the requirements of employers to post know-your-rights literature. Break constraints, where applicable.

"We already know what you are, we're just negotiating on the price," as the saying goes. These powers of government are only controversial among the sorts of people who ended up with a bear infestation in their town when they managed to gain political control because they couldn't see their way to local ordnances against feeding wildlife (a bear infestation that they were bailed out of by the state their town was in).
by alephnerd | 2025-08-05 23:47:31+00:00
> the same reason india and brazil did not.

India's issues with the US are for completely separate reason.

Bihar elections are coming up in 2 months [2]. Any incumbent government in India can't give trade concessions on agriculture during peak campaigning season in a swing state that can impact elections in 2-3 additional states as well as the general election in 4 years.

The main Indian exports to the US (pharma, electronics, and services) are all tariff exempted so the economic pain is marginal.

The only export that's hurt is textiles, but frankly, textile workers don't matter in Indian elections, especially when most of them leave for 3-4 months each year to work on the family farm and get social benefits based on their agrarian status and voter rolls that they never updated.

Realistically, India and US will sign a deal either after the Bihar elections, or after making ag/dairy a separate track from the rest of the deal.

Trump needs to keep the cheeseheads of Wisconsin happy just like the NDA needs to keep Bihari farmers happy through direct subsidizes [0] and hardline agriculture policies [1], hence why both the US and India will maintain maximalist positions on agriculture and dairy.

My hunch is a comprehensive deal will be announced during the election media blackout in the run-up of the Bihar elections or shortly after the election.

[0] - https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/prime-minister-narend...

[1] - https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/why-makhan...

[2] - https://www.eci.gov.in/election-symbol-details/2066
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-05 23:47:39+00:00
It's aggravating the problem because you're proposing to put that indifferent funder in charge of ensuring quality. There are two problems here:

(1) This is not a recipe for actually getting any quality.

(2) By virtue of providing the funding, they already are in charge. They're not going to get better results by wishing harder. But they can easily waste more money than they already do.

Your mental model seems to be that the government received a mandate to cause research to happen, and they did that as faithfully as they could, with the only problem being that we forgot to specify that we didn't want fake research. So if we change the mandate to "cause non-fake research", the kind of research we get will change.

But that makes no sense. "Non-fake" was always a requirement. It was an unenforced requirement because it didn't matter to anyone, but you aren't proposing to change that.
by janalsncm | 2025-08-05 23:48:46+00:00
My favorite was David Datuna eating the $120k banana duct taped to the wall in 2019. A banana doesn’t transubstantiate into capital A “Art” just because someone paid a lot of money for it. In fact eating the banana was more Art than the original duct taping imo.

It is reminiscent of Fountain. Not sure if there was an intentional connection.
by orbital-decay | 2025-08-05 23:49:36+00:00
It's the first model I've used that refused to answer some non-technical questions about itself because it "violates the safety policy" (what?!). Haven't tried it in coding or translation or anything otherwise useful yet, but the first impression is that it might be way too filtered, as it sometimes refuses or has complete meltdowns and outputs absolute garbage when just trying to casually chat with it. Pretty weird.

Update: it seems to be completely useless for translation. It either refuses, outputs garbage, or changes the meaning completely for completely innocuous content. This already is a massive red flag.
by pentamassiv | 2025-08-05 23:49:45+00:00
Sure, it would be hard to monetize and while it took countless hours to iron out many of its bugs, it is definitely not rocket science. I contribute to open source software expecting nothing in return because all software I use is also open source. It's my way of giving back and I love the knowledge that it is useful to people and hearing about their projects. So far I did not have any benefits from it but continue doing it anyways. It makes me happy to see more and more people using it.
by anyfoo | 2025-08-05 23:49:58+00:00
I feel that nowadays, it's a combination of "things just work" and "if they don't, good luck figuring out why".

I recently installed Tru64 UNIX on a DEC Alpha I got off eBay. I felt like it was more sluggish than it should be, so I looked around at man-Pages about the VM (virtual memory, not virtual machine) subsystem, and was amazed how cleanly and detailed it was described, and what insights I could get about its state. The sys_attrs_vm man-page alone, which just describes every VM-layer tunable, gave a pretty good description of what the VM subsystem does, how each of those tunables affects it, and why you might want to change it.

Nowadays, things are massively complex, underdocumented (or just undocumented), constantly changing, and often inconsistent between sub-parts. Despite thinking that I have both wide and deep knowledge (I'm a low-level code kernel dev), it often takes me ages to figure out the root cause of sometimes even simple problems.