MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hnfong | 2025-08-15 17:12:49+00:00
You're ignored not because you're right or wrong, but because your unsolicited advice is not useful.

For example, I can spin up any LLM and get it to translate some English text into Japanese with maybe 99% accuracy. I don't need to believe whether it "really knows" English or Japanese, I only need to believe the output is accurate.

Similarly I can ask a LLM to code up a function that does a specific thing, and it will do it with high accuracy. Maybe there'll be some bugs, but I can review the code and fix them, which in some cases boosts my productivity. I don't need to believe whether it "really knows" C++ or Rust, I only need it to write something good enough.

I mean, just by these two examples, LLMs are really great tools, and I'm personally hyped for these use cases alone. Am I fooled by the LLM? I don't think so, I don't have any fantasy about it being extremely intelligent or always being right. I doubt most reasonable people these days would either.

So basically you're going about assuming people are fooled by LLMs (which they might not be), and wondering why you're unpopular when you're basically telling everyone they're gullible and foolish.
Show HN: Countmeup – Simple counter to watch yourself earn money in real time
by ysh4u | 2025-08-15 17:12:50+00:00
Purpose - Fun lightweight counter that shows how much money you've earned in real time. Might be motivational to keep in the background while you work away.

Background - ~3 day project for non-technical person wanting to explore using AI. Stack is next.js/typescript/css, uses vercel & github to deploy. Last time seriously coding was a decade ago. Cursor/AI-assistance was a joy to build with and probably 10x'd my ability to deliver. Was my first time using next/java/typescript. Past exp was with django+python

Some features/limitations

- Added the ability to handle GET parameters to share links with friends - Could count anything really - added tuition to motivate students, as well as the national debt - Added hours/week to more accurately handle non-standard work weeks when picking a start-time in the past - Assumes standard 5-day work week

Next steps

- Monetize/advertise? - Start on the next project!

Open to feedback and Qs!
by Joeri | 2025-08-15 17:13:15+00:00
LLMs mimic intelligence, but they aren’t intelligent.

They aren’t just intelligence mimics, they are people mimics, and they’re getting better at it with every generation.

Whether they are intelligent or not, whether they are people or not, it ultimately does not matter when it comes to what they can actually do, what they can actually automate. If they mimic a particular scenario or human task well enough that the job gets done, they can replace intelligence even if they are “not intelligent”.

If by now someone still isn’t convinced that LLMs can indeed automate some of those intelligence tasks, then I would argue they are not open to being convinced.
by antognini | 2025-08-15 17:13:19+00:00
There's an interesting extension of the Central Limit Theorem called the Edgeworth Series. If you have a large but finite sample, the resulting distribution will be approximately Gaussian, but will deviate from a Gaussian distribution in a predictable way described by Hermite polynomials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth_series
by keeda | 2025-08-15 17:13:24+00:00
I recall reading 10+ years ago that Chinese economists were calling for stronger IP laws in China to accelerate their technical progress. Maybe the government listened.

This matches the economic literature [1] about the historical development of other industrialized nations as well, including the US. The theory is: when a country is starting to industrialize, they prefer weak IP rights to reduce friction in copying and learning rapidly ("knowledge diffusion".) However, when their industries mature, develop a strong technical base, and start competing by pushing the state of the art through their own inventions, they tend to prefer strong IP rights to protect their investments in R&D.

It is pretty clear China has reached that stage.

[1] There is a lot more out there, but this is what I could find offhand: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3844?ms...
by skybrian | 2025-08-15 17:13:26+00:00
You could also buy from PrintedSolid, which is a US company that Prusa bought. Looks like they have a free shipping deal, but the lead time is similar for the Core One. Maybe when they catch up with demand, they’ll keep it in stock in the US? I don’t see a lead time for the Mk4.

https://www.printedsolid.com/collections/3d-printers
by mcv | 2025-08-15 17:13:36+00:00
Ridiculous that a few large corporations get to decide this. The only people who have any business deciding what content is or isn't allowed on someone else's platform, are the People, or their representatives in government.

I can accept that some content goes too far and might have to be banned according to some people, but the only groups who should have the actual power to do that, should be the owner of the platform, the users of the platform, and the government, and definitely not some third party that might have completely different interests.

The only reason this is possible at all is that some of these payment providers are nearly monopolists. People should have about a dozen payment options to avoid this. Fortunately I do; Steam supports iDeal, which is not controlled by any payment provider. It just goes straight to my bank. If my bank were to try to ban certain types of legitimate payment, customers could simply switch to a different bank to avoid the ban.

The only kinds of payment that payment providers should ban, are those involving financial crimes, like money laundering, fraud and corruption.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-15 17:13:45+00:00
No? I would be willing to pay more if it actually had things I wanted to watch. Right now it's technically cheap enough where it's not painful when it lapses for months where I don't use it, but it's still a waste of money so I finally cancelled it about half a year ago. I'd be willing to pay a lot more if it had and retained a sizeable library. But it keeps rotating in nuggets of gold with a deluge of cheap trash. At least in Norway, I am aware it varies wildly by region. Not my problem as the customer, that's theirs to solve.
by FredPret | 2025-08-15 17:14:23+00:00
Going to bat for Das Kapital shows how shallow your understanding is.

It's a dry and boring book that latches onto the real frustrations of the working class to push an economic ideology that is so incompetent and disconnected from reality that it's completely indistinguishable from a genuine attempt to destroy society.

The fact that there's a 100m dead people and dozens of shattered cultures all around the world attests to the effectiveness of this attempt.
by Ancapistani | 2025-08-15 17:14:39+00:00
Obviously it's characterized as a disorder, but I really think that perspective should be challenged.

Like autism, the diagnostic criteria are almost exclusively framed in how other people are impacted or inconvenienced by it. Very little attention is paid to the experience of the person actually living with it.

I see it as a difference, but not necessarily a disorder. As someone with "severe" ADHD there are tons of things that I'm substantially better at than I would be if not for the condition.

I believe ADHD is "rising" because our culture has grown more homogenous in recent decades, resulting in people with ADHD attempting to adapt to environments that are designed for and run by people without ADHD.
by bananalychee | 2025-08-15 17:14:42+00:00
Not really. Even in English there are only a few possible ways to spell out a given sound. With Chinese characters that mostly goes out the window, making speaking and writing more or less orthogonal skills. Not entirely since there are classes of characters that are related by sound, but to a much greater extent than alphabetic languages. Personally if I forget a spelling in English or a related language I realize that my approximation looks wrong and can correct it by elimination, whereas with Chinese characters it's common for people to simply not have a clue how to even write the first stroke of a word they've heard and read before.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-15 17:15:01+00:00
Yes, because unlike every single detractor here I’m not distilling a complex argument full of nuance into a “1+1=2” baby-splaining session.

Let me put it into simple numbers the detractors can understand:

I build ten homes in a market that needs a hundred. I price them affordably because I’m not an asshole and understand there’s a crisis.

* Statistically speaking, 25% of those homes will be bought by PE or REITs. I cannot deny them the sale because the law says so. Let’s round that up to three homes out of ten. Those homes may be rented out at market rate rent, which is far higher than the mortgage would have been, which doesn’t reduce pricing or improve supply - rent remains high because these groups have data to keep rent that high, and supply remains constrained because a fourth of my inventory just got sold to profiteers instead of people.

* Of the remaining seven homes, all are likely sold to actual people. Due to bidding wars and my obligations to shareholders however, I have to take the highest bids. Because of anti-discrimination laws, I can’t sell to underserved minority groups because that’s considered discrimination. So a plurality of owners will be higher net worth individuals, many of whom likely already own property.

* Because we’re in a housing crisis and everyone wants money for doing nothing, it’s likely that about half of the new homeowners won’t outright sell their existing home, but instead rent it out at or near market rates set by PE/REITs. They want that cash after all, and know there’s a lack of supply. Because their old homes aren’t being added to the market for sale, this doesn’t apply negative pressure on housing prices since a home for rent is not a home for sale

* So now we have just three homebuyers left who bought their only home, aren’t renting it out, didn’t have prior equity, and almost certainly overpaid for what was on offer. This places them in a precarious environment where a job loss could lead to eviction or having to sell the home - but because they’re in the midst of a crisis, they can likely get a quick cash offer from a PE/REIT without actually putting the home on the market, making their problems disappear and putting them back as renters. Maybe one to two homeowners are affected by this.

So out of ten homes built, only three go to people not already on the property ladder in some form, and of which as many as five are likely to end up in the hands of an investor at some point anyway. Ten homes for a net gain of five purchasable properties is not a meaningful increase because the market, government, and tax incentives value less supply and more demand.
by Insanity | 2025-08-15 17:15:13+00:00
I'm included in that. Steam is great, I've been using it for 21 years, and I don't need/want another launcher.

Occasionally I was forced into using others, when a game only released on Epic / Origin / Battle.net. But they all felt worse than Steam. So given a choice for the game, I'll buy it on Steam even at a higher price.
by lossolo | 2025-08-15 17:15:49+00:00
Housing costs mostly boil down to this stack:

price of land + price of materials + cost of labor + margin + other (marketing, admin, fees, financing, etc.)

When you try to boost the number of homes, you also boost demand for construction labor, materials, and buildable land. Those inputs tend to rise or at least not fall much, so there isn’t a big, easy savings there. That leaves soft "other" costs or developer margin. Other is a relatively small slice, and typical margins aren’t huge push them too low and projects stop penciling, so fewer homes get built.

Even if margins were squeezed, the price drop would usually be too small to bridge the affordability gap for most households.

The bigger issue is that household incomes haven’t kept pace with housing prices over the last few decades.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-15 17:15:59+00:00
Q: But why, oh why did not you submit the original news source?

A: Like Simon W., I wanted to "quote":

> “That’s why I only trust ChatGPT with advice about my mental health.” // Rhys Hamons, Scooter Detailer

(And why should we not promote TheOnion, with proportionate measure.)
by arprocter | 2025-08-15 17:16:14+00:00
Funny you mentioned Epic - I bought something there and played it for a while, until one day it just...refused to load

Ended up in a loop of support asking for logs ad infinitum, while ignoring the fact that when I installed the client and game on a separate computer it crashed at the same point. Chalked it up to experience and just decided to not give them any more of my money
by wqaatwt | 2025-08-15 17:16:39+00:00
> but really the average was quite stable from 1982 to 2004

It was falling at a stable pace for 20 years in nominal terms. I don’t see how can someone see anything else looking at the price chart.

And inflation was still 4-5% through the 80s and didn’t fall to 2% until 2000. So it was a horrible asset to hold.

Just buying government bonds in the 80s and 90s was a much better idea.
by wahern | 2025-08-15 17:17:50+00:00
> Demand is induced by new supply. We accept this as a fact for highway construction.

Induced demand is only a thing with highways because use of the highways is free; there's no counterveiling cost pressure unless and until traffic jams start forming. By definition induced demand doesn't exist where the market can set prices for using newly created resources.

Closer to your point (if we stretch really hard) would be something like lowering crime. If Seattle successfully lowers crime without, say, increasing taxes, then Seattle becomes a nicer place to live, and people can (and will) move there to enjoy lower crime without having to directly incur the cost of lowering that crime. One of the externalities of that "induced demand" would be an increase in housing prices. So obviously Seattleites who oppose residential development should just promote more crime.

The fundamental issue here is that people don't like being subject to market forces and the insecurity that engenders, particularly when it comes to housing and labor. That's understandable. They do like market forces when they get to enjoy lower prices, though. But the feeling of insecurity is particularly acute when it comes to housing and the issue of new development. That's also understandable, notwithstanding that it's simply irrational and empirically disproven that NIMBYism makes for lower prices than the alternative of allowing market development. You get higher prices with NIMBYism than YIMBYism, period; though there's simply no guaranteeing that absolute prices will come down, especially for a city that permits development where others don't. That's a collective action/free-rider problem, where the positive externalities of good public policies of one community are captured in part by other, cheating groups.
by viscanti | 2025-08-15 17:17:50+00:00
It's more like the patient needs some fixed amount of food each day and it doesn't make a lot of sense to create lots more food than they need on the hopes that someday they'll want to eat more than they can.

If the argument is that everyone should focus on the arts at the expense of everything else, it's hard to imagine that's an ideal outcome relative to alternatives. If we're not arguing that everyone should focus 100% on the arts (no other degrees should be available), then it's a matter of degree and certainly some outcomes might end up with more people pursuing the arts than what society needs.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-15 17:17:51+00:00
** right off. If I’m in a downtown metro near any newer development at night - rentals or owners - they’re largely dark and empty with little to no signs of life.

Your statistics are damned lies to those of us observing lived life in our cities. Nobody is hand-checking every single unit out there for accurate statistics on housing utilization, it’s all self-reporting.
by 0x457 | 2025-08-15 17:18:12+00:00
> A philosophical exploration of free will and reality disguised as a sci-fi action film about breaking free from systems of control.

How is that a summary? It reads as a one-liner review I would leave on Letterboxed or something I would say, trying to be pretentious and treating the movie as a work of art. It is a work of art, because all movies are art, but that's an awful summary.
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-15 17:18:20+00:00
There are 3 issues being commingled within this.

First, the networks have brand protection stipulations for any partner that uses the network. None of them want to be known as the porn brand.

Second, porn (and other similar categories) have a different risk profile than other charges. Specifically chargeback risk goes through the roof. None of the members of the network want to deal with sales of things that spike chargebacks.

Third, the federal government and some states have outsourced enforcement of some laws to the banks and payment networks. It’s easier to ban things than to do this enforcement at times.

None of this is a ethics issue and none of this is about money transfers. It’s about extending credit, and there is no technical solution around credit extension with electronic payments.
by Jonovono | 2025-08-15 17:18:22+00:00
Somewhat related, but I randomly got suggested this video on Youtube when it only had a couple hundred views. He's turned it into a series, and I have quite enjoyed it. Somehow bridges user interfaces and occult stuff haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpBQgZ5IsI&list=PLsfH1Ahi4S...
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-15 17:18:30+00:00
The first half of your comment mentioned the word should 5 times. This sounds like wishful thinking.

Yes, there are some fundamental skill deficits and a lot of liars out there. The historical solution to this problem is to ignore it, use some tool to flatten the bell curve, and then hope for the best. If AI is just an evolution of things already tried, then we already know what the results will look like: less accountability, less credibility, less selection risks for candidate selection, and more expensive development processes. For example frameworks allowed substantially wider developer participation at lower product quality and high costs without change to business ambitions. We should expect developers to become more of a less capable commodity than they already were.

Then when the technical debt becomes to expensive to maintain just call in consultants to tell everybody what is already commonly known.
by hnfong | 2025-08-15 17:18:35+00:00
I totally agree, but I thought we were basically talking about Jobs and other famous people?

I mean, there's no reason for somebody who hasn't had personal interaction with Jobs fixate on whether he was an asshole (which did not affect them) and ignore his accomplishments (which probably affected them to some degree)... but this seems to be the fashionable thing to do here.
by imbusy111 | 2025-08-15 17:18:45+00:00
I figured there is a need for generating a lot of samples and building a predictive model per game for best results. Documentation confirms:

> Most of these corner cases can be resolved by providing the model with enough training data without increase the complexity and cost of the technique. This also enables game developers to train the neural upscalers with their content, resulting in a completely customized solution fine-tuned for the gameplay, performance, or art direction needs of a particular title.

Source: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/111019/latest/
by shafoshaf | 2025-08-15 17:19:08+00:00
They can mimic well documented behavior. Applying an LLM to a novel task is where the model breaks down. This obviously has huge implications for automation. For example, most business do not have unique ways of handling accounting transactions, yet each company has a litany of AR and AP specialists who create semmingly unique SOPs. LLMs can easily automate those workers since they are simply doing a slight variation at best of a very well documented system.

Asking an LLM to take all this knowledge and apply it to a new domain? That will take a whole new paradigm.
by Y_Y | 2025-08-15 17:19:28+00:00
Fwiw, I work in an industry I've come to abhor (computer vision for security, often euphemised to "smart cities"). I hold my nose and wear my golden handcuffs reluctantly, and "technology transfer" FOSS into garbage products for incompetent middle managers by day, then talk shit about them at night to feel better.

Perhaps the author is in a similar situation?
by bsimpson | 2025-08-15 17:19:33+00:00
Language is complex and nuanced. Identity theft is an interesting edge case - your identity is an intangible, but it's also not something that someone else can use without harming you. They're effectively stealing your reputation. It's not a physical thing, but especially in the age of digital tracking, there's only one instance of it.

Regardless of the linguistic semantics, the campaign to conflate piracy and stealing was a manipulative mind game that tried to dissuade people from a common activity by overstating its harms. Pirating a movie is victimless, except for aggregated market effects where too much piracy can impact the financial viability of film production. It's very different than stealing, which has a discrete victim.

If you download a movie or a game without authorization, that's a societal no-op, unless it's a thing you would have paid money for. At scale, pirates do include people who would have paid, which is problematic for the film business. That's bad and worth solving, but it's not the same as stealing.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-08-15 17:19:34+00:00
I wonder if GPT-5 benefited from what you learned about how-to-prompt for this problem while prompting Claude for 3 days?

I done a couple of experiments now and I can get an LLM to make not horrible and mostly functional code with effort. (I’ve been trying to create algorithms from CS papers that don’t link to code) I’ve observed once you discover the magic words the LLM wants and give sufficient background in the history, it can do ok.

But, for me anyway, the process of uncovering the magic words is slower than just writing the code myself. Although that could be because I’m targeting toy examples that aren’t very large code bases and aren’t what is in the typical internet coding demo.
by kristofferR | 2025-08-15 17:20:19+00:00
> One way of staying ahead of your competition is to control the most popular open source repo.

How so? I'm not sure what benefits that bestows the repo owner.

Meta may run the React Native repo, for example, but I'm not sure how that is impacting Microsoft (who use React Native more and more, including deeply embedded in Windows) competitively negatively in any way.
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-15 17:20:26+00:00
Additional context.

> Symptoms and/or behaviors that have persisted ≥ 6 months in ≥ 2 settings (e.g., school, home, church). Symptoms have negatively impacted academic, social, and/or occupational functioning. Inpatients aged < 17 years, ≥ 6 symptoms are necessary; in those aged ≥ 17 years, ≥ 5 symptoms are necessary.

Clearly these aren't saying "have they ever misplaced anything?" or "have they ever forgotten anything?". Sure, most people have had some of these things happen some of the time. Yeah, all kids find homework boring, but most kids are still able to do it. Most kids forget things, but aren't losing multiple coats every winter. Most people aren't experiencing these symptoms to such a degree that it significantly impacts their ability to function.