MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BobbyJo | 2025-08-12 03:33:14+00:00
Had this exact idea recently, applied to various software tooling. I think agents of all types are going to follow a similar path to self-driving cars: first 80% comes in a big boom, and the last 20% comes over a decade of training and simulations.

I think each agent use case is going to need a simulation for its reward to eek out the last 20%.

Edit: Realized I forgot to say Great Work! Looks Cool!
by gizmo686 | 2025-08-12 03:33:32+00:00
ChatGPT (and all high end players in the current AI iteration) do not follow the normal laws of software economics.

Normally software has a near 0 marginal cost. This allows sellers to offer steap discounts because they cost the seller almost nothing. In many cases, sellers are better off having you use their software without paying instead of not using it; because they are out almost no money, but have increased their odds of a future sale

High end LLMs are different. Sellers are not setting their price to maximize revenue. They are setting their price to cover the marginal cost of providing the service plus margin.

Lowering their price is not a matter of price discrimination. It is a matter of engineering a cheeper product.
by reissbaker | 2025-08-12 03:34:04+00:00
I run a privacy-focused inference company, Synthetic [1], and I use our API of course :P I actually like GLM-4.5 enough that it's currently our default recommended model for new users. But yes, otherwise I'd use the official zai API most likely, or Fireworks. GLM-4.5-Air is quite good for a local model but GLM-4.5 is better; up to you if the tradeoff is worth it — there's definitely value in the data not ever leaving your machine, but it's not going to be as strong of a model.

1: https://synthetic.new
by jongjong | 2025-08-12 03:34:19+00:00
IMO the legal system is in disarray due to extreme asymmetries in how the law is selectively applied.

First of all, the way certain platforms get sued for certain activities while others are left alone is unfair and creates significant market distortions.

Then there is the fact that wealthy individuals have much better legal representation than non-wealthy individuals.

Then there are tax loopholes which create market asymmetries above that.

The word 'fair' doesn't even make sense anymore. We've got to start asking; fair for who?
by pryelluw | 2025-08-12 03:34:28+00:00
Would be nice if your demo was front and center with an option to create your own after it plays. Also, maybe add a way to email myself a reminder to send a card. Might be a good option to those that would send one for birthdays but can’t do one now. Capturing their email as a reminder is a great way to sell this. Actually, this would be a great product to sell through email
by avalys | 2025-08-12 03:35:18+00:00
I'm so interested in this topic, for a weird reason.

Since I was a kid, I've thought I was "prone to migraines", and ascribed various triggers to them - sun exposure, heat, physical exertion, mental exertion, etc. I'd get a migraine sometimes after a long hike on a weekend - and also a long business meeting entirely indoors in an air-conditioned space.

Only when I was around 35, did I figure something out. All these situations lead to me getting dehydrated without any obvious accompanying feeling of thirst. Hiking all day will do it - walking around an outdoor shopping mall on a hot afternoon - or sitting in an all-day business meeting focused on the work at hand and forgetting to drink. And all these situations lead to a migraine - my only "migraine" trigger is simple dehydration, nothing more complicated.

The weird thing is, it took me a long time (decades) to put this together, because I just figured that I couldn't be dehydrated if I wasn't thirsty, and I had no association between "feeling thirsty" and getting a migraine.

I get what I consider normally thirsty in other circumstances, but somehow there's a failure mode where my body doesn't warn me. So now I just remember to chug lots of water (and electrolytes) if I'm exerting myself even if I don't really feel thirsty, and I can systematically avoid triggering migraines.

Now that I understand it the association is quite clear and obvious in retrospect.
by gottorf | 2025-08-12 03:35:57+00:00
> but I don't believe that'd be a concern for almost anyone alive today

On the contrary, it is a significant concern for me and I'm sure I'm not alone in my thoughts.

Fully half of the top ten richest counties in this country are suburbs of DC, a place that has no industry other than politics, administration, and lobbying. I find this to be an absolute travesty that shows just how much incentive and corrupting force there is in the federal government.

Return the land to the states. Keep a small federal territorial enclave for actual federal buildings and functions. Make a lot more of these territorial enclaves all around this vast country so that power is less concentrated in one place. That's one thing the Germans got right, in their federalism.
by lucketone | 2025-08-12 03:36:08+00:00
You make lot of claims, I will address only one of them.

> Europe is post-religion

Some anecdata for illustration:

- Pope is based in Italy.

- my nice went to the first grade in Germany last year, that is a big deal there. Part of celebration was going to local church.

- it feels that US population is a lot more zealous with religion

- I’m not religious, but on average I do go inside of some church several times a year, because of “social occasions” e.g. when friends get married, when people die, and to my somewhat recent surprise when they start school. (Add several more, for tourist motivation to observe interesting architecture)

- based on reddit and HN posts, Americans atheists will never ever set foot into <insert some condescending way to describe a church>, because bridges had to be burnt.
by exikyut | 2025-08-12 03:36:24+00:00
> The old HTML mode is still there but is hard to get to and is supposedly going to be phased out.

Can you share any info on how to access it?

Trying https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ (the /h/ on the end being the old way to get Basic HTML mode) just redirects back to the normal view and changes the loading screen to say "We're loading the latest Gmail version."

Setting my user-agent to IE6, or IE11 in compatibility mode, produces a "Temporary Error (500)" screen that says "We’re sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the Google Workspace Status Dashboard for the current status of the service."
by zamadatix | 2025-08-12 03:36:56+00:00
It is definitely a simple comparison, which is why I asked how you explain others, such as myself, reaching different results with the same test if it's supposed to be inherent to the bitness itself? I can reproduce a couple percentage points difference (in either direction, depending on the measure), but nothing more. If it was inherently related to the bitness itself then that should not be possible.

Similarly, for the rental cars, if one you drove was really "lightening fast" compared to another rather than something you noticed while microbenching it up the on-ramp or similar then you probably deserve jail time for the speeding ticket. That or a Model T was a rental option :D. But again, the point was 2 cars of the same model with a different trim, not 2 completely different cars.
by nine_k | 2025-08-12 03:37:00+00:00
The problem is that one of the most secure places in the world is a maximum security prison. Hence many measures that drag us closer to the prison state do genuinely improve security.

It takes some balls for the society to say: No, we don't agree to yield an essential liberty in exchange to actual real increase of security. Yes, we accept that sometimes bad people will do evil things, because the only way to prevent that would inflict even more damage on everyone. Yes, we are willing to risk harm to stay free.

There is always plenty of people who are ready to buy more comfort in exchange for limitations of liberty that, as they think, will not affect them, because they are honest, got nothing to hide, always follow the majority... until it does affect them, but it's too late.
by ehnto | 2025-08-12 03:37:28+00:00
> help the "AI can't do ____" crowd grasp that it really is a skill issue when they can't get any good results from LLMs.

I think the issue with this conversation is that no one tells you what they are working on, and I suspect there is both a skill gap in usage, but also a lack of capability in the LLMs, both surfacing as the same outcome.

There is definitely stuff an LLM cannot do on its own, at which point is the LLM really achieving the outcome or is it the human just achieving it by backseat driving. Much like a senior telling the junior how to solve a tricky bug, you wouldn't say the junior came up with the solution and therefore you would not say the junior is capable of solving the bug.
by symbolicAGI | 2025-08-12 03:37:34+00:00
A recent good reason for using Java is that frontier LLMs are trained with very large amounts of high quality enterprise Java source code. Claude Code for example loves Java and its static type system.

I constrain my LLM-generated Java code to only static methods of 20 LOC or less, and limit data types to those that are JSON compatible. Both of these lead to more reliable code and data that Claude Code fully understands and generates.

I am preparing to auto-generate an agent-based application that might reach 1.5 million Java LOC. Hard to imagine accomplishing that with Javascript or Python or C++.
by sapphicsnail | 2025-08-12 03:37:34+00:00
I think your 2nd reason is actually why poker is so popular. A lot of the joy of poker (at least for me) is trying to learn to read the other players. I generally play with friends and I find it emotionally intimate in a strange sort of way. Probably not for people who don't enjoy bluffing games though.

Edit: It's also a socially acceptable time to lie your ass off. Maybe it's a hit like how GTA is for some people as well.
Show HN: Auto-build and publish the latest C# extension to OpenVSX
by rkttu | 2025-08-12 03:37:56+00:00
I built a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically tracks the official Microsoft C# extension for VS Code, builds it from the latest upstream tag, and publishes it to OpenVSX under the dotnetdev-kr-custom namespace.

This helps keep the OpenVSX registry in sync with upstream releases, reducing the lag users currently experience with the existing community package.

Repo: https://github.com/rkttu/vscode-csharp-autobuild OpenVSX: https://open-vsx.org/extension/dotnetdev-kr-custom/csharp
by anonym29 | 2025-08-12 03:38:18+00:00
>Take a family of five kids and give them a bedroom for each kid when young and they’ll end up clustering in one or two.

Do you have anecdata on this? I grew up with a single sibling, and we had to share a room as young children due to economic circumstances, but we were both very excited to get our own rooms when our parents bought a larger house.

I have no kids of my own and don't plan on having any, but I'm fascinated by this perspective.
by basch | 2025-08-12 03:38:27+00:00
It's interesting this article makes no mention of Encarta. Encarta 98, 98, 2000 were the precursors to both Watercolor and Metro.

Encarta quite honestly had a beautiful typography heavy, high contrast interface, one that still shapes my design/ui preferences to this day.

If anyone needs a new wallpaper for the week.. https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi png and https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi_202006 tiff
by muzani | 2025-08-12 03:38:49+00:00
A mantra that worked for me: Productive engineers are happy engineers. Happy engineers are productive engineers. It's a self-sustaining loop.

One option is a minimum of happiness - brightly lit office, decent food, music.

The other option is a minimum of productivity. I like to wash dishes after a bad day lol. Work from office. Use AI to handle the blank page problem (you can reject everything it says afterwards).

The trick with side projects is to complete and ship them. The first side project should be limited to 10 hours max. Sometimes shipping is the hard part. Once you can do this, add more time. Do 20 hours, 40 hours, 100 hours, and so on. But progressively. If you start by making the world's greatest something, it will drain all your motivation and energy, especially once the bloat kicks in.
by moregrist | 2025-08-12 03:39:08+00:00
> It doesn't take a tech blogger to draw a trend line through the advancements of the past 2.5 years and see where we're headed.

People did this with airplanes in the 60s, and based on that trajectory we should be exploring the outer edges of our solar system by now. Turns out the market for supersonic jets was unsustainably small and the cost/risk of space exploration is still very high.

Every sigmoidal curve looks exponential as it starts to enter the linear regime. But eventually the curve turns over, either due to limits in the technology, the marginal cost of the technology, or no clear way to further commercialize it.

I don't know that we've reached that point with AI, but a do know that extrapolating from a trend line is fraught with peril.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-12 03:39:16+00:00
yes indeed, who will pay? I run a lot through open models locally using LM Studio and Ollama, and it is nice to only be spending a tiny amount of extra money for electricity.

I am retired and not wanting to spend a ton of money getting locked long term into using an expensive tool like Claude Code is a real thing. It is also more fun to sample different services. Don’t laugh but I am paying Ollama $20/month just to run gpt-oss-120b very fast on their (probably leased) hardware with good web search tooling. Is it worth $20/month? Perhaps not but I enjoy it.

I also like cheap APIs: Gemini 2.5-flash, pro when needed, Kimi K2, open models on Groq, etc.

The AI, meaning LLM, infrastructure picture is very blurred because of so many companies running at a loss - which I think should be illegal because long term I think it is misleading consumers.
by jongjong | 2025-08-12 03:39:30+00:00
Yes it's obvious this has to happen. AIs tend to promote certain products a lot more than others. If a training set costs billions to process, the incentive to sneak your product into the set... Maybe give it a few additional training rounds of that... It's like an ad which keeps coming back over and over for the life of the model whenever someone asks a related question.
by duxup | 2025-08-12 03:39:40+00:00
If your job is to issue marriage licenses and you don’t want to, at what point is that on YOU to make adjustments?

I do not see how her personal objection should have any impact to other people’s lives. She is issuing marriage licenses and FOR the state, not her personal endorsement.

I sure didn’t care about or even know who issued my marriage license and it sure wasn’t their job to pass judgment.

If allowed couldn’t just anyone take state jobs and claim “religious objection, I won’t do it, all you citizens can’t have whatever it is I do”?

Just absurd.
by bombcar | 2025-08-12 03:41:32+00:00
Fertility rates can be wildly swung by outliers, and while it is possible to walk with five kids under the age of six, it is a maneuver that requires substantial logistical support or specialized equipment (which can be as hard or harder to store than a car).

https://www.communityplaythings.com/products/outdoor/kinderv... Things like this are 1% or so of the cost of a suburban house! That’s noticeable!
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-12 03:42:15+00:00
OK it took me a while to understand what this linked article was saying, and how the simulation makes their point. But I think the Scientific American article linked in the first sentence makes all this more clear (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...). It’s titled “Is Inequality Inevitable?” The simulation basically is simulating what this other article is saying, which is that trades that are not equal in value but even just slightly different in value (one side gains more than the other side), will ultimately result in an “oligarch” emerging.

That article concludes that a (completely) free market economy will result in wealth trickling up to a few oligarchs, unless there are methods of redistribution.
by gizmo686 | 2025-08-12 03:42:51+00:00
Once you accept that doing the morally sound thing costs money, the question becomes what is the most good you could do with that money.

We could pay to run LLMS at highly subsidized rates for the global poor. Or we could take the money we would have spent running those LLMs and just give it to the poor. I'm not saying direct cash infusions is the best way of spending that money. But doubling their income seems a lot more effective that a ChatGPT subscription.
by 55555 | 2025-08-12 03:42:55+00:00
Teenagers can be strong. Almost every adult would be dumb to pick a fight with a high school football player. And the reality of fighting is that generally once you’re up against two or three other people, you’re going to get beat up. It’s not a Jason Bourne movie. World-class MMA fighters have been jumped. One person generally cannot fight several people.
by miohtama | 2025-08-12 03:43:54+00:00
Here is some history and background by Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine

https://archive.ph/XHuGW

> But in fact, the way they work is that every time their net worth increases, the government’s senior preferred claim — that $348.4 billion — increases by the same amount. So if they earn $30 billion this year, the government’s claim will increase to $378.4 billion, and the shareholders will be no closer to getting paid than they are now.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-12 03:43:59+00:00
Used GPT to get the numbers real quick and it came up differently. Definitely should have checked the sources.

Point remains though that 2020 is a statistical outlier election that resulted in a 22 million total vote count increase over 2016.

Joe Biden had signs of dementia in 2020 and barely campaigned publicly. Somehow this old bag with not one inspiring historical speech or rally, riveted voters to turn out in numbers higher than any president in history.

Somehow these same voters that were motivated to stop the orange man in 2020 disappeared in 2024, when orange man runs for a 3rd time.

2012 Obama and 2016 Clinton got roughly the same number of votes (~65M), somehow in 4 years time Biden was able to rally an additional 16 million to the polls, with his sheer intellect and brilliance and inspirational qualities.

And then his VP comes up 7 million short 4 years later against the same "existential threat", despite all the same provisions for mail in ballots etc being in place. It's like Covid restrictions were used as cover for massive voter fraud.
by kazinator | 2025-08-12 03:44:25+00:00
The only reason you can say "looking at you ByteSpider" is that it identifies itself. In 2025, that qualifies it as a nice bot.

The nasty bots make a single access from an IP, and don't use it again (for your server), and are disguised to look like a browser hit out of the blue with few identifying marks.
by userbinator | 2025-08-12 03:45:12+00:00
and has open sourced a lot of their own code under permissive licenses.

That should be a good clue that it's not worth much to them anymore, and tjat they'd rather rely on random free labour from the "community" than their own developers.

They build more and more of their own UIs on Electron.

Which is a horribly bloated pig that only helps forced obsolescence of hardware. It should be a very disturbing sign that Microsoft itself doesn't seem to know how to do native code anymore, as they invented Win32 and Windows.
by rayiner | 2025-08-12 03:45:16+00:00
Many cities have to deal with multiple levels of government, e.g. a state and county government. And DC has a massive budget. DC’s actual 2024 expenditures were $18.7 billion. Austin is $6 billion and Travis County is another $2 billion. San Diego’s budget is about $9 billion.

Philadelphia and Baltimore have a median income half that of DC. They’re among the poorest large cities in the country, while DC is one of the richest.

DC’s problem is that it’s run by people that are somehow dumber than Congress. A literal crackhead was mayor in the 1990s. I think Mayor Bowser is actually doing an excellent job,[1] but she’s the first good mayor the city has had in my lifetime, and everyone around her sucks.

[1] My theory is that Bowser secretly doesn’t hate Trump that much. She’s not a Resistance type, and always says something like “well I don’t agree but we’ll do our best.” https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5446868-dc-crime-tr... (“I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster. Let me put it that way.”).
by gottorf | 2025-08-12 03:45:20+00:00
What is your point? I'm well aware that DC is a city. Its crime stats are horrific as a city, compared to other cities. The cities that rank higher than DC are even more horrific. I'm dismayed that policymakers in all of these places favor the rights of multiply-convicted violent criminals over those of the law-abiding.

It's illustrative to compare against famously poorly-run countries. What are you trying to illustrate here by pointing out that DC is a city?
by jemmyw | 2025-08-12 03:45:53+00:00
> Kings have control over the military. The prime minister has control over the police.

That's not true in the case of European constitutional monarchies. The elected government has total power except for some very specific duties around the administration of government, like dissolving parliament. And even then, those are largely ceremonial.

I do think having so much power with one person who cannot easily be replaced at any point is bad for democratic government. In a parliamentary system a poorly performing PM can be gone in an instant.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-08-12 03:46:48+00:00
The number of people on scooters is far smaller than the number of bikes on the street, so per passenger-mile scooters might be more dangerous than cars.

Besides, the roads being dangerous is old news while people are mostly unaware of the new dangers on sidewalks which are commonly perceived as safe.

Surprising events that inform about new threats to life do deserve greater publicity.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-08-12 03:46:54+00:00
For me, LLMs have been a very useful interface to tutorials for ramping up on new areas. That’s about it, IME so far. I suppose the executive equivalent would be as an interface to business books, case studies, etc. With all the variance in such a high dimensional space, probably higher dimensional than starter tier tech projects in an area, I can’t imagine that it would actually be very useful when the long run results are considered.

What do you think they’re being used for right now?
by energy123 | 2025-08-12 03:47:40+00:00
You refute that violent crime is a large factor that caused authoritarianism in El Salvador? The post I was responding to made it seem like democracy and violent crime can somehow coexist or that they aren't in strong tension with one another. When it's pretty clear that they are. I was not saying it's the only cause of authoritarianism, or the most relevant cause in the current US moment.
by nirvdrum | 2025-08-12 03:48:10+00:00
> - making cringe hardware that basically noone purchased (Zune, Windows Phone)

I don't personally get too attached to devices I purchase or begrudge others for what they buy so, I'm curious what made them "cringe hardware" in your opinion. Adoption aside, they looked like pretty compelling devices to me. Is this a case of buying anything that isn't Apple isn't cool? Or is there something deeper there?
by gretch | 2025-08-12 03:48:15+00:00
The original claim is that people misconceive "that poker is about lying or that you need to lie to play poker"

The claim is not that deception can be used as a strategy at all. That btw is actually an uninteresting claim. In almost all games, you can lie to your opponent and probably gain some advantage.

If I were coaching a beginner poker player, I would honestly tell them to play statistically sound poker. That's a good way to make a lot of money.