MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dboreham | 2025-08-07 16:59:13+00:00
Working on the back-end side, there are still edge cases where ARM just doesn't work. You'll be using some container image and there's no ARM build. So you build it yourself and the build fails. After two days of poking and prodding it turns out the image is based on some wonky base image that has a libc that has never been ported to ARM. Re-creating the image on a different base turns out to be a big project. I've run into 2-3 similar but different issues like this in the past couple of years.
by alphazard | 2025-08-07 16:59:24+00:00
The error in "safteyism" isn't that the conventional wisdom will incorrectly identify safe things as dangerous. It's that risk and reward always exists on a spectrum, and the people best incentivized to get that tradeoff right are patients and caretakers, not concerned 3rd parties.

The error of the concerned 3rd party is particularly egregious with a disease like Alzheimer's, which presents a significant risk of ruin in the form of information death. It is totally rational to use an intervention that will cause you significant harm if it preserves your mind another few years.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-07 17:00:05+00:00
Yeah, I guess it's just the easiest thing to generate and evaluate.

A more useful demonstration like making large meaningful changes to a large complicated codebase would be much harder to evaluate since you need to be familiar with the existing system to evaluate the quality of the transformation.

Would be kinda cool to instead see diffs of nontrivial patches to the Ruby on Rails codebase or something.
by djoldman | 2025-08-07 17:00:15+00:00
> It is not a taskmaster, telling you what to do in order to achieve some foreign goal. It always tells you what will make you happiest....The earring is never wrong.

> There are no recorded cases of a wearer regretting following the earring’s advice, and there are no recorded cases of a wearer not regretting disobeying the earring. The earring is always right.

> ...The wearer lives an abnormally successful life, usually ending out as a rich and much-beloved pillar of the community with a large and happy family.

> Niderion-nomai’s commentary: It is well that we are so foolish, or what little freedom we have would be wasted on us. It is for this that Book of Cold Rain says one must never take the shortest path between two points.

The piece implies that

1. at least occasionally one should choose to do something one will regret.

2. not knowing what will make one happy is part of what makes one free.

I'm not sure I agree with these (it seems that 1. is a paradox) but it is an interesting thought experiment.
by aliljet | 2025-08-07 17:00:21+00:00
Honestly, you're probably right. It's quickly become a pretty weak eval, but the guy that's running that eval is excellent. I'd much rather the evals people were using to test these things looked more like classic/boring engineering problems: deploy to dev/test/stage/prod with digital ocean, cloudflare, github, and a common git flow. Boring problem, I know, but that problem is wildly complex when you start to add a few extra dimensions (frontend vs backend, ports shifting between deployments, local deployments, etc.).
by wiradikusuma | 2025-08-07 17:00:48+00:00
A bit unrelated: The "countdown animation", just like Google I/O's, how do people make those? The countdown is probably dynamically generated, as they don't know when the event will actually start? Is there like a JavaScript library, or CapCut template, or something?

Especially Google IO, each year is different, it seems purpose built?
by dsr_ | 2025-08-07 17:00:55+00:00
This.

Grandma, and Uncle Rob, and your cousins, and anyone else you have a long standing relationship with, can use your VaultWarden instance if you let them.

But! You now get to maintain uptime (Rob travels and is frequently awake at 3am your time) and make sure that the backups are working... and remember that their access to their bank accounts is now in your hands, so be responsible. Have a second site and teach your niece how to sysadmin.
by swyx | 2025-08-07 17:01:02+00:00
# GPT5 all official links

Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/live/0Uu_VJeVVfo

Research blog post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/

Developer blog post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers

API Docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/latest-model

Note the free form function calling documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling#con...

GPT5 prompting guide: https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt-5/gpt-5_prompting_g...

GPT5 new params and tools: https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt-5/gpt-5_new_params_...

GPT5 frontend cookbook: https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt-5/gpt-5_frontend

prompt migrator/optimizor https://platform.openai.com/chat/edit?optimize=true

Enterprise blog post: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-new-era-of-work

System Card: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card/

What would you say if you could talk to a future OpenAI model? https://progress.openai.com/

coding examples: https://github.com/openai/gpt-5-coding-examples
by bangaladore | 2025-08-07 17:01:09+00:00
This is a fundamental flaw with any login flow that is not phishing resistant. There is nothing novel about this attack.

An attacker can register a domain like office375.com, clone Microsoft's login page, and relay user input to the real site. This works even with various forms of MFA, because the victim willingly enters both their credentials and second factor into a fake site. Push-based MFA is starting to show IP and location data, but a non-technical user likely won’t notice or understand the warning and a sophisticated attacker will just use a VPN matching the users' location anyways.

Passkeys solve this problem through origin enforcement. Your browser will not let you use a passkey for an origin that the passkey was not created for. If they did, you could relay those challenges as well (still better than user + pass as the challenges are useless after first use).
by darksaints | 2025-08-07 17:01:10+00:00
I'm actually a huge fan of the extreme level of simplification that electric cars have to offer. They literally eliminate the need for thousands of high maintenance moving parts, and replace them with motors that can run hundreds of thousands of miles without service. Regenerative braking reduces brake wear and maintenance dramatically. 4 motor setups eliminate complex differentials and give you extremely high quality awd, traction control, and stability control, without any increase in mechanical complexity. You get better low-end torque output and smoother power curves. The only mechanical features that really remain the same are bearings and suspension components. Complexity still exists, it just has been offloaded to electronic complexity which has become orders of magnitude more reliable and capable in the last 4 decades.

So please, could we just have that? Just because it's easy for you to add internet connectivity doesn't mean I want it. I don't want my car to rat me out to megalomaniac dictators because my car company's psychotic CEO wants a sweetheart trade deal. I don't want my car to create data trails that will allow advertisers to see places that I frequently visit, regardless if that place is an oncologist or my friendly neighborhood dominatrix. I don't want my car to know my retinal data or fingerprints, to be controllable via my phone, or to tell me that my resting heart rate is. Just give me a car, and let me do the rest on my own.
by swyx | 2025-08-07 17:01:33+00:00
# GPT5 all official links

Livestream link: https://openai.com/gpt-5/

Research blog post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/

Developer blog post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers

Enterprise blog post: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-new-era-of-work

GPT-5 landing page: https://openai.com/gpt-5/

System Card: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card/

What would you say if you could talk to a future OpenAI model? https://progress.openai.com/

coding examples: https://openai.github.io/gpt-5-coding-examples/
by swyx | 2025-08-07 17:01:40+00:00
# GPT5 all official links

Livestream link: https://openai.com/gpt-5/

sama livetweets: https://x.com/sama/status/1953502614676811865

Research blog post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/

Developer blog post: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers

Enterprise blog post: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-new-era-of-work

GPT-5 landing page: https://openai.com/gpt-5/

System Card: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card/

What would you say if you could talk to a future OpenAI model? https://progress.openai.com/

coding examples: https://openai.github.io/gpt-5-coding-examples/
by Topfi | 2025-08-07 17:01:59+00:00
This page is supposed to showcase a series of demos alongside the prompts used to developed them using GPT-5, yet at the moment does not seem to be properly implemented.

Quote:

> From there, you can view any example, see the zero-shot prompt that created the code, and remix it for your own ideas.

Source: https://github.com/openai/gpt-5-coding-examples?tab=readme-o...

Edit: Appears to have been taken down, currently returns 404, but you can simply clone the repo and look at the example locally.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-07 17:02:08+00:00
> oh boy, you have drank the kool-aid of the monarchists who are adamant the monarch is needed.

I have to say before anything else that this comes across as extremely condescending and not at all in keeping with the site guidelines. It's unlikely that I will give a further response after this.

> The reality is the British monarch acts, and only acts, under recommandation of their Prime Minister.

You mean similarly to how the president acts under recommendation from the Taoiseach?

> The King could not deny the letter of credence to a nation without advice from a PM, or accept letters of credence without advice as well.

You think the president could do this in the ROI?

> That means the PM effectively controls the Head of State

Ok? There is more to being head of state than your cherry picked examples. In nether case are they the same role and to reiterate: the House of Lords and the British court system are very much not without authority.
by daedrdev | 2025-08-07 17:02:20+00:00
Let me put it like this: The stock market has a big impact on inflation, since it changes the value of people savings and thus how much they spend. It is impossible to predict what the stock market will do. If you think it is predictable, please go ahead and lose all your money trying to do so.

Since the stock market is not predictable, alongside many other things in our economy, and there is inherent error in the economic data collected since we only spend so much on surveys and continuously revise the data as new information arrives, and since we aren't running an authoritarian state that big brothers our citizens, expecting perfect inflation predictions is unrealistic.
by overfeed | 2025-08-07 17:02:20+00:00
> like Afghanistan was for Biden

wut? It was Trump[1] who invited the Taliban to Camp David, negotiated with them sans-Afghan governenment, and started the process of withdrawal with troop reductions, a deadline and everything.

1. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal...
by RugnirViking | 2025-08-07 17:02:36+00:00
I think that's less a math thing and more a rigorous treatment of anything. I find most llms are subject to this type of error where as your conversation context gets longer it becomes dramatically stupider. Heck, try playing chess with it. Once it comes to the midgame it's forgetting which moves it just made, like literally the message previous, hallucinating the context up to that point -- even when providing it the position.
by csours | 2025-08-07 17:02:39+00:00
Disclosure: I work for General Motors, this is solely my own opinion and experience.

> Which one returns more value to the shareholders?

I think the 'shareholder primacy' era of American capitalism has had some particularly dumb and bad effects... unfortunately I can't change that just by being angry and anxious about it. The market loves tech companies right now, which really distorts the valuation of other companies.

I think that people still vastly underestimate how difficult it is to make a physical product, how much time and attention it takes.

I saw a presentation for assembling the Chevy Cruze in Lordstown, Ohio. There was a planned market size, production volume, etc, etc. The closest it got to the estimates (if I recall correctly) was about 1/2 to 2/3 the planned production volume. After the first couple of years of production, volume dropped more.

At 1/2 volume, the plant would never make money. The fixed costs simply eat too far into revenue. The lower the volume, the longer it takes to pay off things like engineering costs - not just for the OEM (GM, Ford, etc), but also for the suppliers. Suppliers often book substantial losses for the first couple years of a new product.

> Simple cars don't make money...

They really don't make money. On the very best day, a $30,000 simple car might make $1,000 net profit to the OEM, maybe another $500 to the dealer. On a median day, the initial sale might be a small loss.

Under capitalism, there is strong pressure to move upmarket. Under communism, most people never even got the simple car, and those who did get the simple car had to wait for many years.
by 0xFEE1DEAD | 2025-08-07 17:02:39+00:00
I wish they wouldn't use JS to demonstrate the AI's coding abilities - the internet is full of JS code and at this point I expect them to be good at it. Show me examples in complex (for lack of a better word) languages to impress me.

I recently used OpenAI models to generate OCaml code, and it was eye opening how much even reasoning models are still just copy and paste machines. The code was full of syntax errors, and they clearly lacked a basic understanding of what functions are in the stdlib vs those from popular (in OCaml terms) libraries.

Maybe GPT-5 is the great leap and I'll have to eat my words, but this experience really made me more pessimistic about AI's potential and the future of programming in general. I'm hoping that in 10 years niche languages are still a thing, and the world doesn't converge toward writing everything in JS just because AIs make it easier to work with.
by rconti | 2025-08-07 17:02:39+00:00
Passkeys are a usability nightmare. No two experiences are ever the same. I have passkeys saved in 1Password and in Apple Passwords. I have a YubiKey. I have Duo on my work computer.

A common experience is Chrome telling me to scan a QR code. But I know this is not a legitimate method to sign in on any service _I_ use. I also never know WHY I'm being told to "scan this QR code". I scan it, and my phone also has no idea what to do with it! The site has decided, by not finding a passkey where it expects it, that it MUST be on my phone.

That's but one example of the horrible implementation, horribly usability, and horrible guidance various sites/applications/browsers/implementations use.
by tgv | 2025-08-07 17:02:46+00:00
Especially since mice are not really perfect models for humans. For starters: these mice were "12 to 24 months of age", whereas your typical Alzheimer patient is well over 30 times that. The article also links it to amyloid plaques, which is a contested hypothesis that may well have held back Alzheimer research for decades. To be fair, the article seems to look at more mechanisms, but that's well beyond my expertise.
by ben_w | 2025-08-07 17:02:57+00:00
> That problem along with its many solutions are surely littered throughout the training data. Not to mention, it would be trivial to overfit on that problem.

It would be trivial to over-fit, if that was their goal.

But why would there be a large number of good SVG images of pelicans on bikes? Especially relative to all the things we actually want them to generalise over?

Surely most of the SVG images of pelicans on bikes are, right now, going to be "look at this rubbish AI output"? (Which may or may not be followed by a comment linking to that artist who got humans to draw bikes and oh boy were those humans wildly bad at drawing bikes, so an AI learning to draw SVGs from those bitmap pictures would likely also still suck…)
by 9rx | 2025-08-07 17:03:03+00:00
> OpenAI just took it and ran with it

As did Google. They had their own language models before and at the same time, but chose different architectures for them which made them less suitable to what the market actually wanted. Contrary to the above claim, OpenAI seemingly "won" because of GPT's design, not so much because of the data (although the data was also necessary).
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-07 17:03:04+00:00
Exactly. The only financial stuff on my phone is Google Wallet and I don't even live in a high threat area. The devices that can accept payment from Google Wallet are always in observed locations, it would be very hard for a mugger to use it maliciously. All the easy money transfer options are an attack surface I see no need to expose.
by terminalbraid | 2025-08-07 17:03:05+00:00
git works over ssh. If you have an account you can ssh into you have a git server. That's literally all the git@(whatever) is under the hood that you set your remotes to.

Everything is just dumping UI over a file system and executing command line stuff.

If you want that too take a look at forgejo or gitlab, both of which I use for self hosting. The setup is similar to setting up any other server that requires user accounts, a database, and exposed ports.
by Buttons840 | 2025-08-07 17:03:15+00:00
This, again, makes me question what meaning individual workers should find in work.

Ideally (level 3, the best), I could work with good people on something that I personally care about, like curing childhood cancer or something. This is the type of work I would do even if I wasn't paid, although I couldn't do as much without pay. The meaning is obvious.

This type of job is rare though, so I can't reliably expect to find this level of meaning in work.

But maybe (level 2), I can work with good people towards making a company profitable. Helping an honest company be profitable for the mutual benefit of all the good people I work with is meaning enough for me.

But companies often ask individual workers to do stupid things, or a company is not open to hearing ideas about how to be more successful from individual workers. So I can't reliably take personal meaning from making the company profitable, because the company isn't interested in hearing my ideas about the business, and/or is acting is self-destructive ways, and/or the companies profits are completely disconnect from anything I personally do.

But maybe (level 1), I can find meaning in making my boss happy. This is hell, this is a pathetic meaning for work, but making the boss happy is at least something.

But often my bosses are not good people (about 50%). I've seen what makes them happy and I don't want to be that.

So, (level 0) I guess the only meaning I have left is to make money. If this is really the meaning behind my work, then I see no reason to not cheat and lie at every opportunity, while being careful to avoid consequences. If earning money really is the deepest meaning I should seek in work, then lying and cheating will help me with this--let's go full psychopath mode!

On HN people often say that level 2 is the right attitude, but companies do things that are self-destructive, so I cannot maintain level 2. Level 1 and level 0 are stages of hell.

What meaning do you find in work? What level are you?
by teamweightloss | 2025-08-07 17:03:35+00:00
Some of the more recent numbers for the bigger bubble countries

- US June deficit narrowed 16% to 60 billion. deficit with China dropped 30% to 9.5 billion, lowest deficit in 21 years, since February 2004. Now US expects 50 billion per month in tariffs revenue.

- China's trade surplus in June rose to 683 billion, exports to the United States sank nearly 22% year-on-year, exports to Africa and Southeast Asia surged at double-digit rates as Chinese businesses diverted sales to other markets. Chinese industrial profits however, plunged 10% in may 2025.
by lapcat | 2025-08-07 17:03:48+00:00
> The article incorrectly conflates "cares about productivity" with "cares exclusively about productivity".

No, I don't believe it does. The argument is actually that they "care about control over labour and stock prices" above all else, including productivity.

> The examples provided for "don't care about productivity" are things like open office plans- where a certain amount of productivity is sacrificed while offsetting a different cost (building space).

From the article: "Home offices also lower office real estate costs, so you’d think executives would love it, but they also makes employee surveillance harder."
by belval | 2025-08-07 17:03:48+00:00
I wonder if this isn't just a matter of inflation being under reported because it's an easy metric to game while revenue and profits from companies are not.

In the US the official inflation figure between 2019 and 2025 was 28%, but I feel like most people "on the ground" are seeing a much higher inflation rate in housing, food and transportation.

So the stock market is effectively a somewhat doped inflation indicator because SP500 outperforms in general.
by bink | 2025-08-07 17:03:49+00:00
With modern cloud computing is that enough? Can you migrate AuroraDBs, Lambdas, Kinesis configs, IAM policies, S3 bucket configs, Opensearch configs to another cloud platform easily? I suppose if you're comfortable going back to AWS after they randomly delete all your data then the remote backups will be helpful, but not so much if you plan to migrate to another provider.
by throwanem | 2025-08-07 17:04:07+00:00
If I'm meant to treat a rise in property tax in response to positive change in value as a disincentive to improvement, what difference how the tax increase is computed? It isn't even clear LVT does not create a massive incentive to consolidation, as property tax increasing without connection to improvement kicks off a "Red Queen's race" where anyone unable to capture revenue from improvement, or unable to increase that capture, ends up facing a permanent structural bar to any ownership. It seems as though designed to annihilate even any possibility of an American-style middle class, in favor of an ever narrowing landlord gerousia enriching itself through rent farming.

Well, it makes sense if you hope to be among the winners. But I don't see any Georgists here seeming very interested in addressing anything like that, just a couple who handwaved past it. [1] I'm not an economist, though, nor even very smart. I'm just a Baltimore homeowner who's heard a time or two before of such alternative tax scams. I mean schemes.

[1] And the ones responding at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826168, who seem thus far to present one argument each and retire discouraged by its failure. One hopes someone might come along willing to actually espouse this heterodoxy, rather than just try to feel "based" for namedropping around it.
by bmau5 | 2025-08-07 17:04:19+00:00
It's very interesting how memetic the language around different models is. Elon seems to have coined "PhD level intelligence in all topics" and now Sam repeated it in his presentation. Despite it not having an actual meaning. I think OpenAI will coin they've achieved AGI first (as they have incentives to based on the rumored contract with MSFT), and then everyone will claim we've achieved it.
by oalders | 2025-08-07 17:05:26+00:00
This is 100% correct. My current strategy is to locate 10-15 sponsors at 10k per year so that we can secure the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Donors can, of course, always commit to more.

I can be reached via olaf@perlfoundation.org and also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/olafalders/

For anyone who may have a contact, I'm quite happy to be CCed on introductory emails or I can send you a message that you can forward on to decision makers, if you feel that's a lower pressure scenario. Both of these approaches have worked out for us. There is more than one way to do it.