MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andreashaerter | 2025-08-18 12:54:25+00:00
Trademark action incoming in 3, 2, 1, ... and deservedly so. They even copied their graphic language. "Claudia" closely resembles "Claude," especially in the software/AI space.

* IR: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=1...

* EU: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerHABM?AKZ...

Edit: And the "getAsterisk" organization at https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia and https://asterisk.so/ which is NOT about https://www.asterisk.org/. PSA: The real Asterisk has class 42: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=9... - Oh boy. What next? Call the next project TheRealMircosoftGoogle? Why not? Lol.
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-08-18 12:54:26+00:00
If even a smaller group controlled the supply of something why would that supply decrease in value.

Currently rental prices have to compete with how much effort a boomer wants to put into profiting from their second or third homes, a fair amount but most realize a stress free tenant is better than maximizing profit.

If you remove these independent landlords then it falls to a tiny group of giant orgs that then control the market and can charge whatever price they want.
by mothballed | 2025-08-18 12:54:34+00:00
Yes but the unique piece here is ratcheting up of ever increasing codes, zoning, regulations while grandfathering in the old housing. The people voting made their own houses illegal but then said their own houses were exempt. They've created an effect where the incumbents own housing that would be illegal for anyone else to create, which helps prop up their home value massively since it artificially raises the price of the substitutive option of building a house.
by lylejantzi3rd | 2025-08-18 12:54:34+00:00
Is there a market for apps that use local LLMs? I don't know of many people who make their purchasing decisions based on security, but I do know lawyers are one subset that do.

Using a local LLM isn't a surefire solution unless you also restrict the app's permissions, but it's got to be better than using chatgpt.com. The question is: how much better?
by dangus | 2025-08-18 12:54:40+00:00
Yikes, this explanation does not make it better. You’re telling me the indentation convention is three spaces?

And “..” is just your “something cool is about to happen” symbol?

I’ve been reading through the documentation more and this thing seems insane.

That .. symbol is also used for comments!? “Oh if it’s invalid it’s a comment!” No way to make multi-line comments without another ridiculous indentation.

The tables are insane, somehow they implemented something worse than markdown.

To make a header you need to make a long line of characters as long as your text for some reason.

For being a language that’s supposed to be more powerful than markdown and not so HTML-adjacent it sure depends on whitespace a lot. Like, why do literal blocks need be indented? Why do doctest blocks need to end with a blank line?

> The handling of the :: marker is smart:

> If it occurs as a paragraph of its own, that paragraph is completely left out of the document.

> If it is preceded by whitespace, the marker is removed.

> If it is preceded by non-whitespace, the marker is replaced by a single colon.

lol, a directive that does 3 entirely unrelated things depending on white space. Genius.
by formerly_proven | 2025-08-18 12:54:45+00:00
And Solaris SMF. There basically seem to be ~three generations of unix init:

1. Agglutination of shell scripts

2. "Oh wow, this is getting annoying"-phase: Wrapper for scripts (SRC SMC openrc etc pp)

3. Service supervision daemons (SMF, launchd, systemd)
by al_borland | 2025-08-18 12:54:51+00:00
> For _some_ types of products the "barrier to entry" in the ad space can guarantee a certain level of quality (or at least reduce the change for scams).

I have always associated online ads with people who are trying to scam me. Like the giant “download” button ads on sites hosting actual software downloads. Decades of dealing with this kind of thing has led to a deep distrust of all online advertising, to the point where I pay for Kagi to not only not have ads in my search engine, but not even support the business model of using ads to fund a website.

I see people get scammed all the time from ads. It’s an easy way for the scammers to funnel users to their site. Most people I know have tried buying something based on a Facebook ad, from some random Shopify site, and never got their purchase.
by Benjammer | 2025-08-18 12:55:31+00:00
This is the common refrain from the anti-AI crowd, they start by talking about an entire class of problems that already exist in humans-only software engineering, without any context or caveats. And then, when someone points out these problems exist with humans too, they move the goalposts and make it about the "volume" of code and how AI is taking us across some threshold where everything will fall apart.

The telling thing is they never mention this "threshold" in the first place, it's only a response to being called on the bullshit.
by WJW | 2025-08-18 12:55:43+00:00
You can't just say "80% is wasted" when it's just wood that is used for other purposes than timber. Until we can convince Mother Nature to grow trees which are perfectly straight and preferably already square, the process of converting a cylindrical log to a square beam will inherently have some cutoffs.

The linked article in turn links to a research paper at https://www.woodresearch.sk/wr/201202/12.pdf, and while that paper does support that only ~20% of a tree gets sawn into long pieces of (construction) lumber, it absolutely does not support that the remaining 80% is waste. For example, ~37+9= 46% goes to the production of chip and particle boards, a decent amount becomes firewood, the paper industry takes some "waste" wood as input for cellulose production, sawdust has a variety of purposes and even the leaves and stumps can simply be composted.
by Topfi | 2025-08-18 12:55:51+00:00
Just checked, the releases of Dall-E 3, GPTImageGen, Google Veo 2, Imagen 3 and 4, took place simultaneously for EU and US as part of global launches.

Sora was the only outlier here, though as always, the restrictions did not encompass just the EU and were lifted shortly there after, just like with ChatGPT Agents:

> Right now, users can access Sora everywhere ChatGPT is available, with the exception of the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the European Economic Area. We are working to expand access further in the coming months.
by jumploops | 2025-08-18 12:55:52+00:00
Yeah admittedly poor choice of words, given the security context surrounding MCP at large.

Maybe “fettered” is better?

Compared to giving the LLM full access to your machine (direct shell, Python executable as in the article), I still think it’s right way to frame MCP.

We should view the whole LLM <> computer interface as untrusted, until proven otherwise.

MCP can theoretically provide gated access to external resources, unfortunately many of them provide direct access to your machine and/or the internet, making them ripe as an attack vector.
by rpicard | 2025-08-18 12:55:59+00:00
I’ve noticed a strong negative streak in the security community around LLMs. Lots of comments about how they’ll just generate more vulnerabilities, “junk code”, etc.

It seems very short sighted.

I think of it more like self driving cars. I expect the error rate to quickly become lower than humans.

Maybe in a couple of years we’ll consider it irresponsible not to write security and safety critical code with frontier LLMs.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-18 12:56:04+00:00
Pretty much everyone aspires to have access to more than 1 toilet if the home has more than 1 person in it.

The marginal cost of a home with 2 full bathrooms compared to just 1 bathroom is negligible, and the value and security gained from the convenience and redundancy is immense.

Also, even today, there are tons of small 1,500 sq ft homes on 2,000 sq ft lots built and sold in the western US. It just depends on the local market for land prices and demand for small homes.
by dale_glass | 2025-08-18 12:56:05+00:00
IMO, binary compatibility on Linux isn't really solvable. There's just a thousand tiny projects that make up the Linux base that aren't on the same page, and that's not about to change.

I do think packaging can be improved. I hate almost everything about how dpkg works, it's amazing. So I'm squarely in the RPM camp because I find the tooling a lot more tolerable, but still surely further improvements can be made.
by nelox | 2025-08-18 12:56:51+00:00
Halos and glare at night are usually a sign that something in the eye is scattering light. Sometimes it’s just uncorrected prescription, but it can also come from things like dry eye, early cataracts, or the way the cornea focuses light. Glasses can’t always fix that because they only correct the main focusing errors, not the little imperfections that cause glare.

Contacts (especially the rigid or scleral kind) can sometimes smooth out those imperfections, but if you’re not interested in them, the next step is usually an eye exam to look for things like lens changes or surface dryness. Cataracts, even very early ones, are a common culprit for glare driving at night in the U.S.

Laser surgery can sometimes make halos worse, especially if someone already has them, so you’re right to be cautious. But it’s not the only option. Treating dry eye, using anti-reflective coatings on your glasses, or addressing cataracts (if present) can all help a lot.

In short: it’s not hopeless, but the “fix” depends on what’s causing the scatter in the first place. A detailed eye exam is the best way to pin that down.
by IAmBroom | 2025-08-18 12:56:51+00:00
> Maybe each khipu user had their own system for encoding non-arithmetic data as khipu numbers, so that each person's khipu was incomprehensible to anyone else.

That is the sort of things linguaphiles do, like JRR Tolkien, and certain highly neurodivergent people, but in general that's not something a general population would do.

By definition, it still wouldn't make them literate even if true: "I can only read and write my own writing."
by lazide | 2025-08-18 12:59:07+00:00
Also, it’s a risk hedge. In many very populous areas property tax increases are capped.

This allows someone to quite concretely limit their housing costs in retirement (a large portion of anyone’s expenses!) in a way that is impossible in almost any other way. The only other similar types of deals are specific types of rent control in very limited metro areas.

That is huge.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-18 13:00:23+00:00
If we all could agree that water, food and shelter are the essentials for human survival (which I know that most people here wouldn't agree on), then it's easy to see the absurdity of the so called "society" or "economy" or "system" that the younger generations have been born into. Because it would be the same thing as a person being forced to enter into life long debt in order to obtain drinking water.

How can it be that people can enslave the young generation by the motivation that they were born first and therefore own all the land, but they can't do that with water? Ie: "We were born first and own all the water rights and you have to go into debt slavery the rest of your life if you want to drink water!" Makes just as much sense as the current situation.
by diggan | 2025-08-18 13:00:52+00:00
> but what data will it use for actual translation?

I'm no ornithologist, for forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't there be bunch of papers out there where researchers try to infer the meaning of various sounds birds produce, together with a description of the sound and even samples of it? I don't know how numerous that could be, but could maybe be used as a starting point at least.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-18 13:01:36+00:00
Yeah, using the real repository and rebasing atop the release commit has always seemed fine to me, provided the project uses Git. And if you want to keep track of the patches on old versions, just tag them—if upstream has tag 1.2.3, tag 1.2.3+chrismorgan or similar. This occasionally messes with build scripts—but then, not tagging sometimes does too.

> GitHub also for some reason insists on displaying the date of the last rebase, rather than the date of when the patch was committed. Not sure why.

Sounds like you’re running into the difference between author and committer, which Git models distinctly.
by dale_glass | 2025-08-18 13:01:42+00:00
systemd tries to avoid scripts as much as possible.

/etc/init.d/whatever were all shell scripts, and they all had to implement all the features themselves. So `/etc/init.d/foo restart` wasn't guaranteed to work for every script, because "restart" is something that each script handled individually. And maybe this one just didn't bother implementing it.

There's no good status monitoring in sysV because it's all convenience wrappers, not a coherent system.
by kaliszad | 2025-08-18 13:01:50+00:00
Clojure(Script) is a mature, boring in the good sense language and ecosystem. It opened a whole subculture and dialects/ implementations like ClojureCLR, Babashka, nbb, Jank, Janet, Fennel, Joker, Basilisp, Hy, Clojerl and at least a few others I forgot to mention that can perhaps be found on this list: https://github.com/chr15m/awesome-clojure-likes

We are building apps for our clients in it, we will also have our own product built with Clojure and ClojureScript soon.
by tambourine_man | 2025-08-18 13:02:08+00:00
I don't think Windows is an apt comparison. One had huge market forces and distribution channels propelling it, the other is a description page, not even a standard, on Gruber's site.

What Gruber got right is that the syntax is beautiful to read, easy to write and powerful enough to be useful, with the optional inline HTML as an escape hatch. It may not seem much, but that's hard to get right.
by jeffbee | 2025-08-18 13:02:11+00:00
It's mind-blowing because it is bullshit and a total misrepresentation of the paper it cites. What the paper says is that less than 20% of the volume of the tree (including the branches and the leaves and the stump) becomes dimensional lumber, 40% becomes chipboard, 7% is firewood, 2.3% is sawdust, and the remainder is burned.

Any time you find yourself surprised by a claim, that's your signal to dig into the sources.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-18 13:02:19+00:00
Obviously all the big named online AI will do this trivially. Upload file, ask for everything you want in whatever format you want. If I were doing it: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr

To do it offline due to privacy, vision enabled LLM. Biggest Gemma you can handle, qwen2.5 vl, or Mistral small. I'd probably choose mistral.

Openwebui does pdfs built in. https://docs.openwebui.com/features/document-extraction/

TBH havent tried it myself but I bet it works.
by hermannj314 | 2025-08-18 13:03:00+00:00
135 Americans commit suicide daily, 6 per hour, so 6 since this aricle was posted an hour ago. Most likely 1 or 2 of them were using ChatGPT.

What is the point? That suicides should drop now that we are using LLMs?

NYTimes is amplifying a FUD campaign as part of an ongoing lawsuit. Someone's daughter or son is going to kill themselves every 10 minutes today and that is not OpenAIs fault no matter what editorial amplification tricks the NYTimes uses to distort the reality field.
by commandersaki | 2025-08-18 13:03:13+00:00
Really could care less about another VPN provider; I yearn for a FOSS VPN implementation that has the operational simplicity of dsvpn [1] but operates over QUIC/MASQUE. I did look into doing this myself by contorting the Cloudflare quiche server, but I put it down due to time, something I hope to revisit soon.

[1]: https://github.com/jedisct1/dsvpn
by softwaredoug | 2025-08-18 13:03:25+00:00
Yes there is. It’s one of many factors. I did a deep dive years ago before wanting to support the issue locally

IE:

The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability https://www.nber.org/papers/w8835

> we argue that high prices have little to do with conventional models with a free market for land. Instead, our evidence suggests that zoning and other land use controls, play the dominant role in making housing expensive.
by wood_spirit | 2025-08-18 13:03:26+00:00
At the time the graffiti was carved, it was a church and the carver was likely a Viking mercenary in the Varangian Guard.

Seeing it a few years ago was a very strange feeling. It is both small and inconsequential as a thing, yet making me feel deeply moved and making me think about and connect somehow with history in a way that a statue of an emperor does not.
by MoreQARespect | 2025-08-18 13:04:08+00:00
>first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function

If you TDD at the highest level that makes sense, with a test that mirrors the requirements in the form of a user story rather than the implementation (e.g. of a new function) most of the comments in this article dont really make sense.

Yes, if youre not sure about requirements its too early to write the test, but it's also far too early to be writing any production code.

There arent any real benefits to test-after. The risks of writing a test that mirror an implementation are higher. The risk of undertesting is higher.

And, I've also noticed that people who are very thorough with test-after tend to over test.
by mothballed | 2025-08-18 13:04:21+00:00
Water - bought share in a private well (cost near zero, well share was unproven but miraculously worked perfectly). Some people haul water.

electricity - private power company. But started on a small cheap generator.

sewage - private septic system (county allows you to DIY build them so could do this for next to nothing)

roads - For miles and miles they are all private dirt roads, but with easements to allow me to pass. The easements go miles until they connect to a county road in town. I first built my road with a shovel, hatchet, and ripping small trees out with a truck.

Nothing was provided by the government.
by flail | 2025-08-18 13:04:45+00:00
1. Organizations that care about controlling their data. Pretty much the same ones that were reluctant to embrace the cloud and kept their own server rooms.

An additional flavor to that: even if my professional AI agent license guarantees that my data won't be used to train generic models, etc., when a US court would make OpenAI reveal your data, they will, no matter where it is physically stored. That's kinda a loophole in law-making, as e.g., the EU increasingly requires data to be stored locally.

However, if one really wants control over the data, they might prefer to run everything in a local setup. Which is going to be way more complicated and expensive.

2. Small Language Models (SLMs). LLMs are generic. That's their whole point. No LLM-based solution needs all LLM's capabilities. And yet training and using the model, because of its sheer size, is expensive.

In the long run, it may be more viable to deploy and train one's own, much smaller model operating only on very specific training data. The tradeoff here is that you get a cheaper in use and more specialized tool, at the cost of up-front development and no easy way of upgrading a model when a new wave of LLMs is deployed.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-18 13:05:44+00:00
Those aren’t comparable. A delay in a standard stick built home would be due to legal issues.

Otherwise, tract homebuilders in the US have metrics of building a brand new house within 100 days.

The labor costs are high, but not that high that construction is delayed due to lack of labor. Land prices and clearing legal hurdles are the bigger problem.
by abtinf | 2025-08-18 13:05:49+00:00
Of course arrests = jail.

What do you think happens when you are arrested? You are taken to jail. At least for a few hours, or overnight, or even several days depending on the court schedule. And then there are the mountain of legal fees and dread of your fate hanging in the balance.

Sure, it’s not necessarily long term incarceration, but it’s enough to scare most reasonable people into submission.
by codedokode | 2025-08-18 13:06:09+00:00
I would like web standards have better support for pages stored in a local file (opened using file:// protocol). Sometimes I write simple HTML/Vue based mini-apps for myself and every time something doesn't work and I need workarounds, for example:

- local HTML file cannot import local JS modules, so I have to use legacy writing style

- local HTML file cannot open other local files (for example, audio files)

I understand that there is a risk if we allow local HTML files to access anything, but there should be some way - for example, a file or directory might have some suffix that allows access to it.

I do not want to use a web-server because it feels like overengineering and I don't want to open a terminal, navigate to a directory and start a server every time, it takes too much time. I just want to type the URL and have my app running.
by Shank | 2025-08-18 13:06:44+00:00
I looked at this search and for the record, there are records from years ago, and nothing recently. Out of 58 posts, only 5 of them (approx) seem to be from the last year. I see random comments on some threads "asking" for a refund, but this isn't like a support ticket system, as far as I can see? I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but I'm not sure that this link is indicative of anything.
by intended | 2025-08-18 13:07:18+00:00
How is this ….

> To aggregate overall, of the 2816 posts that were classified as AI-related, 52.13% of them had positive sentiment, 31.46% had negative sentiment, and 16.41% had neutral sentiment.

Reconciled with the reading that the sentiment on HN is negative ?

-> TL;DR: Hacker News didn’t buy into AI with ChatGPT or any consumer product, it spiked when GPT-4 was unlocked as a tool for developers..
by gilbetron | 2025-08-18 13:07:28+00:00
For whatever reason, those houses get snapped up quick. I've lived in the midwest my whole life, and those cornfield subdivisions are hugely popular. I have a house near a small city, and I've had numerous friends and family ask me why I would live where I am rather than in one of the "much better subs".

I don't think people quite wrap their head around the fact that the US population love their cars and their huge subdivisions. A massive percentage of the US have no desire for walkable cities.

It is a bizarre alien thought to me, too, but it has become very clear to me.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-18 13:07:40+00:00
> Or just apply the law equally?

Laws generally don’t apply retroactively; they don’t affect actions or events that occurred before the law was enacted due to principles rooted in fairness, legal stability, and practical governance.

Non-retroactivity protects individuals from arbitrary government power, ensures trust in legal systems, and promotes economic and social stability. Without this principle, people could be penalized for past decisions made in good faith, eroding confidence in governance.

> If you're going to impose some $10,000 sprinkler system on the new guy you better be willing to renovate your house too.

What about home building codes affecting structure, e.g. against earthquakes?
by panny | 2025-08-18 13:08:20+00:00
I would expect this, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

If I ask for search.brave.com to give me a list of gini coefficients for the top ten countries by GDP, it can't do it. However, if I tell it the data is available on the CIA world factbook, it can then spit that info out promptly. However, if I close the context and ask again, it hasn't learned this information and once again is unable to provide the list.

It didn't datamine me. It had no better idea where to find this information the second time I asked. This is the experience others have stated with other AIs as well. It does not seem special to brave.