MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apparent | 2025-08-28 17:07:50+00:00
It would be good if there were a mode where AI trained the human operator as it worked, to reduce future reliance. Instead of just writing a document or editing a document, it would explain in a good amount of detail what it was doing, and tailor the information to the understanding level of the operator. It might even quiz the operator to assure understanding.

This would take more time in the short run, but in the long run it would result in more well-rounded humans.

When there are power/internet/LLM outages, some people are going to be rendered completely helpless, and others will be more modestly impacted — but will still be able to get some work done.

We should aim to have more people in the latter camp.
by yonran | 2025-08-28 17:07:52+00:00
> Singapore, Dubai, Rwanda—they're all copying the Chinese model: authoritarian capitalism

I don’t know much about China, but I’m not sure the Chinese model of economic modernization today is much different than post-war US model that worked of defense-led capitalism, strategic resource stockpiles to maintain price stability, and strong antitrust. I think the Chinese economy is probably more free-market (in the sense that it is easier to start a business, and the Econ 101 model of pure competition that drives down prices applies to more markets) than the US is today.
by ecshafer | 2025-08-28 17:08:13+00:00
Employing labor full time is incredibly expensive in the US. Once you include overhead, taxes, benefits, etc. you can easily be paying 2x wage for a worker. Not to mention buying the goods. So yeah the parts for the guitar might cost X, but then it costs Y to store them and Z for the space to assemble them then A to pay the workers and B to ship them and C to market. It adds up. Without jumping to the EVILS of "Capitalism" a business costs money to run. I can't imagine guitar manufacturer margins are anything close to techs, probably <5%. Gemini tells me industry is around 3.8% so I don't think I am far off.
by boatbuilder | 2025-08-28 17:08:55+00:00
I assumed you could measure LLM citations by watching server logs. Our experiment showed otherwise: ChatGPT and Perplexity often cite pages without fetching them, instead serving from a global cache.

We ran this on Vercel/Next.js middleware (before the edge cache) to rule out local caching—browser requests log normally, but many citations never appear.

This doesn’t mean measurement is impossible, but the “citation = visit” assumption doesn’t always hold. Curious if others have observed similar patterns.
by magicmicah85 | 2025-08-28 17:09:24+00:00
I don't know much, so feel free to tell me if I'm wrong but a quick rebuttal of this article would point out how half of china's cities are sinking, their debt to GDP ratio was 300% before a GDP revision and they ignore international patents and intellectual property. I'm happy that China lifted their people out of poverty, though. Their achievements are certainly real.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68844731

https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/02/the-relationship...

https://www.hudson.org/technology/china-ignores-rule-of-law-...
by JohnMakin | 2025-08-28 17:09:26+00:00
Presumably also a little bit because sites like this are owned by VC capital that stand to gain or lose a lot on ZIRP policies, and have an unflagging belief in their infallibility - as well as many users here's income depending on startups backed almost entirely by VC funds. I also fail to see how the post you are responding to is political.

It's difficult to convince a person of something when they are paid not to understand it.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-08-28 17:09:31+00:00
I was extremely skeptical about Zed being a VC-backed company. A couple of days ago, I did some research, saw that the project is really being developed in the open, it's fully open source, and they are constantly adding ways to use the AI features without paying them money. So I decided to try it, and as a long-time vim user, I was sold. It's what neovim should have been once they forked. You could get these modern features in neovim with plugins, but the plugins constantly keep breaking. I'm really happy that I decided to give it a chance, and I don't see the project dying after the VC money is gone.
by casey2 | 2025-08-28 17:09:41+00:00
The fact that authoritarianism can build public projects faster has been well known for multiple millennia. But generally as people gain political power and expect more and more features you're rushed project won't scale to their demands and your project will be rewritten from scratch.

You are falling for hype metrics on a flashy MVP and filling in claims that were never made with fanciful imagination. Pushing code straight into production works great until it doesn't.
by phtrivier | 2025-08-28 17:09:58+00:00
There are two options:

1. It's a massive PR campaigns. Things are actually _not_ that great in China, their numbers are completely fake, and it might collapse any time now.

But China manages to make people write the contrary.

Maybe they _are_ paying for all the Youtubers [1] [2] and journalists [3] who explain that US decisions in trade, science, energy, etc... are a huge gift to China.

This is not so impossible: that's basically what the Soviet Union tried to do until the 70s. Lots of people in the 60s were rooting for the USSR, hoping the West would copy them... Maybe the moon landing help deflate that bubble. And somehow, the shit hit the fan early enough, and demonstrably enough, that it all collapsed.

It does not have to be a conspiracy - maybe if you manage to publish cute numbers that tell a great story, people will repeat the story for you.

And we're so unfamiliar with China in the West, that we would not see through the BS.

2. You see it repeated a lot, because it's real. China is once again the dominant superpower in the world, they're ahead of us in every department and we will soon look like archaic peasants compared to them : basically the rest of the world history. It's just that we witness one of the small bumps where they were not at their best, and we assume it was "normal".

The problem is that China is building so much of the world that we rely on, I honestly can't think of good reasons to think 1 is true, and not 2.

Maybe Taiwan will be their Afghanistan ? (Sadly, it will only take us a couple years to know...)

That being said, I really wonder what's the way "out", if there is any, of dependency on China:

* just chill, accept that we'll never build anything ever, and buy chinese stuff ? * wait for demography [4] to become a real problem ? * rebuild a supply chain from the ground-up - curious where you start from. What's the first factory you rebuild ? * assume that it, too, shall pass, and that at some point China will make one of the blunders that authoritarianism allow ?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8zYS43TRg&pp=0gcJCbIJAYcqI...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNp2vsxEzk

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/asia/trump-science-...

[4] https://www.newsweek.com/china-faces-economic-blow-populatio...
by mewse-hn | 2025-08-28 17:10:04+00:00
It didn't feel like cheerleading to me, the very section you quoted is pointing out the part that is most troubling about China's rise, that they seem to be doing it without western freedoms.

This is contrary to the ideology of the cold war that the market economy of the West won because of western liberties - freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, free elections. China's incredible transformation is happening without those things.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-28 17:10:09+00:00
Oh wow, that Star lab tablet looks great.

For quite a while I used an iPad+NUC, which was perfect and I loved it, except it could only really run terminal programs (via ssh) or iOS programs nicely. VNC kinda works but not well.

Eventually I switched to a folding convertible laptop, but it is a significant downgrade in terms of form-factor. Nice to know that exists, hopefully they’ll stick around until I’m ready to turn this thing into e-waste…
by organsnyder | 2025-08-28 17:10:29+00:00
My way of dealing with this is to ensure everything is provisioned and managed via gitops. I have a homelab repo with a combination of Ansible, Terraform (Tofu), and FluxCD. I don't have to remember how to do anything manually, except for provisioning a new bare metal machine (I have a readme file and a couple of scripts for that).

I accidentally gave myself the opportunity to test out my automations when I decided I wanted to rename my k8s nodes (FQDN rather than just hostname). When I did that, everything broke, and I decided it would be easier to simply re-provision than to troubleshoot. I was up and running with completely rebuilt nodes in around an hour.
by diego364 | 2025-08-28 17:10:33+00:00
Voice latency kills immersion. Even 200ms feels broken for real-time conversation. API calls add another 100-500ms depending on your setup. Also, most people don't actually want to talk to their games. They play on the bus, at work, in bed next to sleeping partners. Voice is inherently less private than text.

The few experiments I've seen (mostly AI dungeon clones) had maybe 100 DAU before dying. Market might not exist.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-08-28 17:10:34+00:00
Happy to see that this lists jobs that seem to be truly dedicated to FOSS (even if the listings are limited).

One word of caution (from personal experience) to anyone dreaming of getting paid to work on OSS: be very, very skeptical of any VC funded startup whose flagship "product" is OSS. Regardless of the public messaging, you'll likely see: resources continually pulled, features intentionally withheld to make the private offering more competitive, community needs de-prioritized, etc. On top of that, "bait-and-switch" job offers were very common in my experience; promises of living the dream getting paid to work on OSS only to be transferred to an internal, commercial team a week later.

I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but, especially for less well established companies in the OSS space, caution is advised.
by Humorist2290 | 2025-08-28 17:10:38+00:00
And using another VPN like NordVPN or ProtonVPN is probably in the same category as Mullvad, but worth being cautious. If it's free, you are the product. If you pay, you're still sending your traffic to a publicly (usually) known server of a VPN. That metadata alone in some jurisdictions can still put you in danger.

Stay safe
by fortran77 | 2025-08-28 17:11:30+00:00
I think that was the point, as explained in the caption to the photo:

> "If A.I. continues to automate creative work, the total volume of cultural “stuff” will increase. New forms, or new uses for existing forms, will pull us in directions we don’t anticipate. Visual by David Szauder; Generated using A.I."
by nwatson | 2025-08-28 17:11:32+00:00
Yeah, I'm trying to branch out to build things outside my comfort zone. AI already is helpful in my normal day-to-day (backend engineer, mostly Python w/ PyCharm/Datagrip working in monorepo style), but Claude Code helped me graft on a Typescript/Javascript UI ecosystem with an independent Webstorm IDE setup that will integrate well, along with all the presumably latest build tools and package management. The research and self-education I would have needed to do this without Claude would have been extensive, and would have been nowhere as complete. I don't see any point in going back to pre-AI. And I don't generally use AI results blindly, I go back and review and set some breakpoints in an IDE and watch it do its thing.
CompactifAI Inference API
by Compactifai | 2025-08-28 17:11:49+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve been working on model compression and have deployed our compressed models—as well as the original versions—on our AWS cluster, accessible via an inference API. We’d love feedback from developers on the integration experience and overall behavior. If you’d like to try it, email hyperscalers@multiversecomputing.com and we’ll send an API key and brief docs. We’re granting access to a limited number of users for a 3-month period with no usage caps, so you can run real workloads during that window.

Model benchmarking is available here: https://artificialanalysis.ai/providers/compactifai
by qrios | 2025-08-28 17:12:17+00:00
If multiple cores tries to get the same memory addresses, the MMU feeds only one core, the second one have to whait. Depends on the type of RAM, this will cost a lot of cycles.

GPU MMUs can handle multiple line in parallel. But not 10k cores at the same time. The HBM is not able to transfer 3.5TByte sequencial.
by rurban | 2025-08-28 17:13:03+00:00
When I visited the Tre Cime di Lavaredo with my family, two days ago another German family went down to death on a backside climb. It still didn't look dangerous to me.

On the other hand the Via Ferrata Monte Cristallo climb nearby is not recommended for families. This is the famous ladder in the movie Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone. Was always dangerous.
by 827a | 2025-08-28 17:13:43+00:00
From the latest NYT Hard Fork podcast [1]. The hosts were invited to a dinner hosted by Sam, where Sam said "we're profitable if we remove training from the equation", they report he turned to Lightcap (COO) and asked "right?" and Lightcap gave an "eeekk we're close".

They aren't yet profitable even just on inference, and its possible Sam didn't know that until very recently.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/podcasts/is-this-an-ai-bu...
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-08-28 17:13:57+00:00
There are many options, but avoiding the legal consequences may be a grey area:

https://www.stunnel.org/index.html

https://github.com/yarrick/iodine

https://infocondb.org/con/black-hat/black-hat-usa-2010/psudp...

..and many many more, as networks see reduced throughput as an error to naturally route around. =3
by wahern | 2025-08-28 17:13:58+00:00
I'm not even sure the 20th century was an aberration. Yes, the 19th and 20th centuries saw outside influences (Opium Wars, WWII, Communism) triggering massive domestic changes, but those influences happened at the edges, geographically and figuratively. What was visible from the perspective of the average Chinese person was always, wholly Chinese.

I think the anti-colonial movement, like the social justice movement, gives a false impression to people about what it's like to be an "other". These movements bifurcate groups into oppressors and oppressed, and explicitly or implicitly the oppressed are cast as victims beholden to a world in which they have no agency, perennially always outside looking in. They're less than human; their humanity stripped in exchange for being cast as objects of virtue. It turns people into caricatures, so when you see "oppressed" people behaving normally--the same way "normal" people do, e.g. your local community--it can be shocking.
by doix | 2025-08-28 17:14:04+00:00
I'm currently traveling in Uzbekistan and am surprised that wireguard as a protocol is just blocked. I use wireguard with my own server, because usually governments just block well known VPN providers and a small individual server is fine.

It's the first time I've encountered where the entire protocol is just blocked. Worth checking what is blocked and how before deciding which VPN provider to use.
by florbnit | 2025-08-28 17:14:06+00:00
> a random family has been sampled, the sample family has two childs, one of them is a girl"

It’s not a random family if it must have at least one girl. If you want to talk about a random family you can only make statements of the kind “one of the children is <gender>” where the gender depend on the specific family or “the family has between 0 and 2 girls”
by ericdykstra | 2025-08-28 17:14:16+00:00
I've seen it work in a few ways; these are not mutually exclusive:

* You have someone whose job or as part of their job is to it is to discover these kinds of internal organizational efficiencies and automate them. Something that organically comes up like this gets assigned to that person.

* Managers are not incentivized to stick to a rigid schedule or metrics based on an inflexible roadmap.

* Flexibility and autonomy is built into developers' schedules so they can work on things outside of just their rank-ordered task list.
by overgard | 2025-08-28 17:14:18+00:00
In terms of sources, I would trust Zitron a lot more than Altman or Amodei. To be charitable, those CEOs are known for their hyperbole and for saying whatever is convenient in the moment, but they certainly aren't that careful about being precise or leaving out inconvenient details. Which is what a CEO should do, more or less, but, I wouldn't trust their word on most things.
by KallDrexx | 2025-08-28 17:14:28+00:00
Since DeepSeek R1 is open weight, wouldn't it be better to validate the napkin math to validate how many realistic LLM full inferences can be done on a single H100 in a time period, and calculate the token cost of that?

Without having in depth knowledge of the industry, the margin difference between input and output tokens is very odd to me between your napkin math and the R1 prices. That's very important as any reasoning model explodes reasoning tokens, which means you'll encounter a lot more output tokens for fewer input tokens, and that's going to heavily cut into the high margin ("essentially free") input token cost profit.

Unless I'm reading the article wrong.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-08-28 17:15:05+00:00
theres a picture of a superhero trying to choose between [text](link) or [link](text) like it's going to blow up the planet.

i dont think its that hard

if you got it wrong, fix it. It's also much easier to just have an LLM write it now days. It's basically how they emit most of their text now.
by JohnMakin | 2025-08-28 17:15:10+00:00
Go to Los Angeles, and see all the missing posters hanging around everywhere. It's haunting. Many of them are legal residents and not criminals. I know of a neighbor that has been missing for over a month with no word, and was a green card holder. It seems like your sources are pretty biased and unaware of what is actually going on. You can be faulted for that, I guess, despite the ample video evidence to the contrary, but not really for the arrogance of this comment.
by wafflemaker | 2025-08-28 17:15:21+00:00
It's not a dumb question at all. Level on hn really got down lately if you're getting downvoted.

Think about it Aachen. If the government has enough power to censor internet traffic, that what was the first thing it censored? Which media is traditionally known for being censored or just speaking propaganda? That's the classical newspapers. It's not uncommon in authoritarian countries for editors to need state to sign off on the day's paper. And if not that, articles are signed and publishers are known. They will auto-censor to avoid problems. Just like creators on YouTube don't comment on this one country's treatment of civilians to avoid problems.
by codedokode | 2025-08-28 17:16:21+00:00
The general rule to prevent any data races (as I guess) between threads is that at any point of time there can be either one writer or multiple readers to the same object. Rust guarantees this by not allowing to have any other references if you have a read-write (mutable) reference.

Note that Rust is more strict than necessary - theoretically you can have multiple writable and readable references, but not use them simultaneously and observe the rule. But it is difficult (or even impossible) to verify during compilation so Rust doesn't allow it. C allows it but leaves verification to the author which doesn't work well and doesn't scale.

This situation can happen if you have a graph of objects. For example, in an OS you might have a Process object having references to a list of opened Files, and have a File hold reference back to Process that opened it. In this case you cannot ever have a writable reference to the Process from anywhere because Files already have multiple reading references. And Files can have only read-only references to the Process that opened them.

So you have to use only read-only references and additional structures like Cell, Arc etc. that allow safe writing through them. They are cheap, but not free and ideally we as developers want to have memory safety for free. That's the problem yet to solve.

Note that there are other ways to achieve safety:

- use C and manually verify that your program never breaks this rule - requires god level coding skills

- immutable data - after the writer finished writing, data are "frozen" and can be safely shared without any checks and no rules are broken. Very good, but modification is expensive and requires you to clone the data or use clever and complicated design (for example, if you have 10-elements array but shared a reference only to first 7 elements, you can safely append to the last 3 elements because nobody else knows about them - that's how ring buffers work). See immer C++ library for example.

- atomic variables - allow safe reading and writing at the same time, but can hold at most 8 bytes. Note that using a same variable from different CPU cores causes L1 cache line migrations which, last time I measured it, takes about 2-3 ns or ~10-15 cycles.

- mutexes - ensure rule is observed but make everyone wait. Python's approach.

- using only a single thread. JavaScript's approach. You can have multiple references but you still need to ensure they are pointing to a live object (JS solves this by using an expensive garbage collector).

And by the way if you know more methods or ideas please share them!
by mrbuttons454 | 2025-08-28 17:16:28+00:00
I bought one as soon as they were released, as well as the keyboard case. It never really worked correctly, but I loved the concept and wish they would have succeeded.

I know it's a niche product, but I'd love a pocket sized Debian device with cellular, decent standby time, and a physical keyboard. Anything out there I should look in to? I've tried to make various GPD devices work, but they are too big, and the standby time isn't great.
by zerocharge | 2025-08-28 17:18:00+00:00
Depends on what you do, and what systems you develop for I would reckon. If it's another TODO app or some kind of table + form system that's been done to death - AI can probably have a go at creating a barebones minimal viable product. Targeting code that's outside the sweet spot of the training data ("blurry" area), you'll start to stumble. I've also found agents to be useless in large code bases with distributed logic where parts are in react, web back-end, service system). Slow and unreliable for large systems. Good for small tasks and scaffolding up proof of concepts.
by aviflombaum | 2025-08-28 17:18:49+00:00
I just watched a $3,000 laptop beat OpenAI’s best model at something that actually matters. Not at generating poetry or philosophical musings. Planning a real trip to Ecuador that you could book today without embarrassing yourself or blowing your budget. This wasn’t supposed to happen. TL;DR: OpenAI charges you $20/month to use GPT-5. I ran it against free models on my laptop. The laptop models didn’t just compete. They won at the stuff that actually matters. Your laptop doesn’t have shareholders. It has you.
by felixgallo | 2025-08-28 17:19:37+00:00
I don't think you succeeded. The product name in the article title is 'Claude Code Checkpoints', and the url is 'claude-checkpoints.com'. Nowhere do you note that Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, or disclaim association with Anthropic, or describe that you obtained permission to use their trademarked name in your product. I personally was confused about whether this was an official product at first. I'd be surprised if Anthropic didn't get peeved about this.