MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ndr_ | 2025-08-08 14:11:12+00:00
Some of the problems with GPT-5 in ChatGPT could actually be due to new model that is in place to route requests to the actual GPT-5 models. There are four models in the GPT-5 family, and I could reproduce the faulty "blueberry" test result only with the "gpt-5-chat" (aka "gpt-5-main") model through the API. This model is there to answer (near) instantly and it falls in the non-thinking category of LLMs. The "blueberry" test represents what they are particularly bad at (and what OpenAI set out to solve with o1). The other thinking models in the family, including gpt-5-nano, solve this correctly.
by cnst | 2025-08-08 14:11:49+00:00
> It's a pity that archive.today walls off their saved pages behind a Google CAPTCHA

Actually, they do not; but I'm not sure what's the heuristics. I've disabled all the protections in Brave for archive.today/is/ph, and not getting the captchas anymore.

I've only started getting them when moving to Brave in the first place.

It's only fair — if you block them, they block you.
by GavinMcG | 2025-08-08 14:11:50+00:00
The article admits that the 700k figure “assumes the worst-case scenario that you take the high valuation of the financial authorities (factor 13.75) as base valuation for your exit tax. Instead, you could also find someone to assess the real value of your company, which is likely lower…”

A reasonable person could absolutely think it’s fair to impose a very high exit tax on someone who doesn’t want their books examined even when it would save them money.
by pc86 | 2025-08-08 14:11:54+00:00
It's a math problem - you don't need a ton of context to understand it (although I did read the entire article). This is simply the German government being petulant and punishing successful people for moving a company somewhere that understands how to create proper incentive structures for businesses to grow.

If you as an individual make €100k a year in salary, saved €20k every year, and the German government wanted to charge you €70k just to move out of Germany it'd be grounds for rebellion.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-08 14:12:08+00:00
Did everyone just forget what it was like before Obamacare? Apparently you didn’t know anyone excluded for pre-existing conditions

Obamacare also mandated coverage for basic care like your annual physical and many mental health conditions.

It’s not perfect, but I guess it’s been long enough that people are forgetting how bad the situation was before.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-08-08 14:14:10+00:00
> I think we would agree that foreach fits the definition, happy path, and whole purpose of a polyfill

I think you got that all wrong and strongly misinterpret "modern functionality" as some generic library here...

Runtimes are developed against a certain spec, in this case ECMAScript, and "modern functionality" is meant as addition to iterations of such a spec. As it happens, iterations of specifications and runtimes are seldomly provided by the same entity, so both are moving forward with newly supported features, or more "modern functionality", individually.

This behavior provokes some difficult challenges for developers. For once, they would like to work against the latest spec with its newest features, but, due to the natural dynamic of various entities doing things in different ways, these developers would also need to support older/other runtimes where such a feature is not (yet) implemented natively. Now, to bridge these supported-feature-gaps developers came up with an interesting concept: Instead of waiting and relying on the runtime to support such a new feature, it might be possible to provide an implementation as workaround, hence the "polyfill".

So, if something A isn't currently in the spec, nor B even proposed or in discussion to be in the spec, nor C provided by any current runtime (and relied upon by developers), then I'd conclude that such a functionality is not considered to be a polyfill, as it isn't to be seen as workaround for the supported-feature-gaps due to the difference in runtimes.
by cnst | 2025-08-08 14:14:32+00:00
> The article doesn't appear to be paywalled and I'm reading it just fine without JavaScript enabled. Is an archive really necessary?

Not every browser has the option to disable JavaScript for a webpage.

Yes, of course archive is necessary, as it helps everyone read the article easily, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, which points out that complaining about paywalls is not.
by integralid | 2025-08-08 14:14:43+00:00
>You filter for those with HN accounts instead of Bluesky accounts

More people have HN accounts than bluesky accounts. Bluesky is pretending to be a public forum, while HN is purely proprietary and closed solution - I'd much prefer to depend on bluesky than on HN (despite already having an account). Also there are limits to acceptable self-promotion here.

>As for rich content, words are enough IMHO.

As you correctly noted, this is your opinion, that the author of TFA doesn't share.
by gtirloni | 2025-08-08 14:14:56+00:00
> We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents "join the workforce" and materially change the output of companies. We continue to believe that iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to great, broadly-distributed outcomes.

"Reflections" by Sam Altman, January 2025 - https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections
by elictronic | 2025-08-08 14:15:00+00:00
Guessing he found it from the reddit post where he mentions it in lower parts of the comment chain but not in the actual post. The project itself does clearly mention it but I had the same reaction when I first read the post remembering the mitxela project clearly. https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/1mkkd4z/my_busine...
by Argonaut998 | 2025-08-08 14:15:22+00:00
They really nerfed Plus[0]. 80 messages every 3 hours for normal GPT-5. And only 200 messages per week for GPT-5 Thinking. It seems like terrible value.

Before it was: 100 o3 per week 100 o4-mini-high per day 300 o4-mini per day 50 4.5 per week

[0] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11909943-gpt-5-in-chatgp...
by jerf | 2025-08-08 14:15:24+00:00
Sure, go ahead and show me your "data structure traversal", in Javascript (JIT'd is fine, since clearly non-JIT is just out of the question), that works in 3-5 cycles.

The whole topic of this conversation is a measurement in which it was claimed that "a billion DOM operations per second" were being done in 2015. That's a concrete number. Show me the actual DOM operation that can be done a billion times per second, in 2015.

The burden of proof here is on you, not me. I'm making the perfectly sensible claim that all you can do in a low-single-digit number of cycles is run a loop. I have, in fact, shown in other languages down at the assembler level that things that claim to be running in .6ns are in fact just empty loops, so I'm as satisfied on that front as I need to be. It's not exactly hard to see that when you look at the assembler. You don't even need to know assembler to know that you aren't doing any real work with just 3 or 4 opcodes.

I don't know how you expect to just Measure Harder and get a billion operations per second done on any DOM structure but I expect you're going to be disappointed. Heck, I won't even make you find a 2015 machine. Show it to me in 2025, that's fine. Raw GHz haven't improved much and pipelining won't be the difference.
by scottiebarnes | 2025-08-08 14:15:29+00:00
A lot of manual labor and optimization on the marginal things.

Ex: Raspberries start to get funky. Bad ones get picked out, good ones get regrouped into a new tray package. Ripe avocados with limited shelf life? Go into deep cold refrigerator overnight, back out the next day. Discount deal on volume, on everything ("2 for $X"). Cash only. etc.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-08 14:15:40+00:00
Vehicles in general.

In Houston, I share a car with my girlfriend since I work from home. But some days I don't feel very independent when I want to run an errand while she's at work.

I'll look up the price of a used Corolla and think about all the additional expenses, and I'm immediately disabused of the idea.

Instead, I decided to book some motorcycle lessons so I can use a $3000 moto. But then I need to pay for life insurance!
by orwin | 2025-08-08 14:15:59+00:00
In my country healthcare is not an issue still, and in the countryside where I live housing costs are 'low enough'. But food cost used to be something only students or long term unemployed had to worry about somewhat. Now minimum wage workers and elderly have the same issues I had as a student, and I can't imagine how I would do as a student or as an unemployed. Bank of MomAndDad are probably the only way out. Social mobility should be t it's lowest in decades if I had to guess.
by msabalau | 2025-08-08 14:16:54+00:00
The core product failure here is overhyping incremental improvement, eroding trust.

PMs operating at this level ought to be bringing in some low cost UX improvements alongside major features. That simply isn't a sign that they've run ought of backlog. (That said, it is rather pathetic to paywall this)

A moment's consideration ought to show that Open AI has plenty of significant work they they can be doing, even if the core model never gets any better than this.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-08-08 14:17:02+00:00
The way they do this in Europe is that an enterpreneur buys a fleet of cars and then gets a visa for a number of folks from Bangladesh and other areas who don not own any of these cars and ride them in turns (they also sleep like 10 in one appartment but that's a different story). The owner gets the money and distributes them to the actual drivers. Uber says they are innocent as they are not in an emplyer-employee position with any of these drivers.

This model worked for the fleet owners so far because the Saudi gave enough money so that both (1) the customers were happy, (2) the cash from the ride could be divided between owners and drivers in a way these drivers complained only to a certain extent.

But the last two years (the only profitable ones) are much worse, both for the drivers and fleet owners. There is still sunk cost in there, but once the cars get old enough they will need to think well whether to buy/lease the next batches.
by nartho | 2025-08-08 14:17:07+00:00
If I was elitist then I would want as few people as possible to have access to "high culture", not to open it to the highest possible number. There is a reason our elite really wants us to enjoy the most mindless crap possible, it's because they don't see us as thinking, feeling beings but cash cows and if we can buy music they generate in batch with a computer then the better. We need to push the other direction so we don't end up like a bunch of geese lining up for force feeding. I'm also not policing what anyone does btw, you do you, that doesn't keep me from saying that AI generated music for entertainment purpose is crap.
by jeffhwang | 2025-08-08 14:17:12+00:00
There's significant evidence contradicting this hypothesis. See industry analysts like Gartner, IDC, etc. who all ask tech firms to "pay to play" for better rankings in their reports. As well as the ratings agencies like Moody's, S&P's, and Fitch during the 2008 financial crisis. These ratings agencies were paid by the banks selling CDOs, MBS, and other debt derivatives that were especially tied to the US housing market. The agencies were incentivized to not downgrade those products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...
by move-on-by | 2025-08-08 14:17:13+00:00
The article mentions these manufacturers as being vulnerable:

Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Jeep, Kia, Mitsubishi and Subaru

I’m curious why these and not some other major manufacturers like:

* Chevrolet * Toyota * Honda * Nissan * GMC

Does anyone have additional insights? Perhaps they just haven’t tested enough manufacturers yet? Or perhaps some manufacturers use a different technology that isn’t vulnerable to this type of attack?
by crazylogger | 2025-08-08 14:17:16+00:00
As long as we have a free market, nobody gets to say, “No, you shouldn’t have robots freeing you from work.”

Individual people will decide what they want to build, with whatever tools they have. If AI tools become powerful enough that one-person companies can build serious products, I bet there will be thousands of those companies taking a swing at the “next big thing” like humanoid robots. It’s a matter of time those problems all get solved.
by rapjr9 | 2025-08-08 14:17:45+00:00
Had a thought, if microplastics are everywhere how has plastic contaminated past and current scientific experiments?

In some cases it is a known problem (outgassing and particles in physics experiments), but what about in chemistry and biology in general? A lot there seemingly relies on various plastics as a neutral material. If it’s not neutral, if plastic microparticles get everywhere…maybe a lot of scientific results need to be re-evaluated? Any studies done with teflon in equipment for example, though perhaps PFAS is more of a concern there than microplastics.
by jrm4 | 2025-08-08 14:18:03+00:00
So, question -- does the author know that this post is merely about "what is widely known about" vs. "what is actually possible?"

Which is to say -- if one is in the business or activity of "making AI images go a certain way" a quick perusal of e.g. Civitai has about a million solutions to the "problem" of "all the AI art looks the same?"
by gilbetron | 2025-08-08 14:18:38+00:00
Here's a relatively quick read (press the "next" buttons under the "Guided Tour" section to get to the other 3 slides) from NASA.

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRocket/a...

The "wrong" answers all have a bit of truth to them, but aren't the whole picture. As with many complex mathematical models, it is difficult to convert the math into English and maintain precisely the correct meaning.
by Y_Y | 2025-08-08 14:18:58+00:00
> I think software engineers often get annoyed by percieved imperfections and inefficiencies in the world. There’s nothing wrong with questioning things, but choosing to believe others are incompetent or malicious is unhealthy.

> I find that when I’m annoyed by things like this and actually dig down into it, the feeling evaporates as I come to appreciate all the complexities and challenges. It’s humbling, and next time I get unreasonably annoyed at something I can remember that feeling, and accept that a lot of things are harder than they seem on the surface.

This was a nice little coda to the article. I agree with the sentiment that it's not worth running your mood over, but in contrast to the author's experience I often find after digging down that imho malice/indifference/negligence is responsible for bad time I end up having.
by K0balt | 2025-08-08 14:19:15+00:00
It’s just price gouging. There is an item I sometimes buy that is about $1.60 at supermarkets, but is consistently $.85 at nearly all rural Colmados. Same brand, same product , shelf stable , mass produced, large volume mover, imported product. Supermarkets have just collectively decided to sell it for 2x the “rational” market price because it went up with Covid and people kept buying it.

Colmados don’t do data driven pricing, and just do a flat markup on the stuff the suplicadoras bring them.

Data driven pricing is just selective price gouging under a different name.
by ronbenton | 2025-08-08 14:19:17+00:00
>Stacking order when you have multiple modal dialogs and popovers in the top layer is based on most recently revealed element, so that toast that just opened is now hidden under a dialog.

Whenever I have to fight something like this it always makes me question the goodness of the pattern to begin with. Stacking multiple modals/popovers/tooltips can’t be a great UX (or accessibility) pattern, can it? I find at least half the time that I’m fighting the browsers it’s because I’m trying to do something suboptimal
by toast0 | 2025-08-08 14:19:41+00:00
> What about regression testing, anway?

> My feeling is that Microsoft, and other companies too, have relied far too heavily on their beta testers to identify bugs. They expected problems to be surfaced by telemetry and user reports, which are less effort than actual testing.

Microsoft used to be better at this (although bugs still escaped regularly), but in 2014, they eliminated the software developer in test role, and software developers roles were supposed to make up the difference. IMHO, there has been an obvious slump in quality since then.

Also, the problem with relying on user bug reports, is when it's clear you're not listening to users, users stop providing bug reports. I've been to microsoft user forums and seen long discussion threads where many people have an issue and there's no follow up from Microsoft. When you direct issues to that kind of forum and don't respond there, that's a sign that says you don't care, don't bother to report things.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 14:19:48+00:00
Then you don't use Time Machine, Migration Assistant, cmake, or a host of other development and systems tools that don't work correctly on case-sense APFS volumes.

Sorry, but this is terrible advice unsuitable for all audiences. It might seem to work for now but it's walking in a minefield of nonstandard configuration that could bite anytime in the future.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/does-anyone-else-use-a-...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/heads-up-currently-impo...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/474537/time-machin...

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/26333
by mikeocool | 2025-08-08 14:19:48+00:00
In my experience, the care and feeding that goes into an Elastic Search cluster feels like it's often substantially higher than that involved in the primary data store, which has always struck me as a little odd (particularly in cases where the primary data store is an RDBMS).

I'd be very happy to use simpler more bulletproof solutions with a subset of ES's features for different use cases.
by cameron_b | 2025-08-08 14:19:59+00:00
In the implementation, the design uses a 'card edge' type connector with the whole PCB fitting into the constraint of the thickness of the center blade of the USB-C connector. So when charging, the board slots into the cable-end connector, and when not charging there is only the PCB. The PCB has cut-outs for the cable-end connector to fit into the PCB -- so like you're saying, but even thinner.
by nyrikki | 2025-08-08 14:20:06+00:00
Even more connections, the UPs Big Boy was designed to replace double header or helper engines to reduce labor costs because they were using the cheapest bismuth coal.

It wasn't until after WWII when coal and labor costs and the development of good diesel electric that things changed.

The UP expended huge amounts of money to daylight tunnels and replacing bridges in a single year to support the big boys.

Just like AI it was meant to replace workers to improve investors returns.
by reaperducer | 2025-08-08 14:20:10+00:00
Those shouldn't be prohibitively expensive; even small businesses in the US can typically afford one.

Having an accountant is one of the hallmarks of a legitimate business.

If you're doing it on your own without a professional to watch out for you, and advise you, and take care of the details so you can do more important things, it isn't a company, it's a hobby.
by emccue | 2025-08-08 14:20:21+00:00
The entire US stock market is propped up by big tech companies spending massively on Data Centers and GPUs for AI. OpenAI is valued higher than Netflix.

A company that can pull in single digit billions in revenue for hundreds of billions in expenses just doesn't make sense.

> Most businesses are not using these systems t̶o̶ ̶d̶r̶a̶w̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶a̶p̶.̶

FTFY

And no - while it might be obvious from the outside in that it probably won't happen, the continued existence of the business is still predicated on conversion to a for-profit. They don't just need the amount of money they've already "raised", they need too keep getting more money forever.
by phyzix5761 | 2025-08-08 14:20:37+00:00
I did some math a while ago on this topic:

40 million Americans live below the poverty line of $15,000 per year. [1]

Total U.S. household net worth (excluding real estate) is around $54 trillion. [2]

If every household above the poverty line donated 2.5% of their net worth annually to people living below the poverty line, we could erase poverty instantly.

Here’s the math:

2.5% of $54 trillion = $1.35 trillion

$1.35 trillion ÷ 40 million Americans = $33,750 per person

That’s more than double the poverty threshold.

Sources: [1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-mo... [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL152090045Q
by abetusk | 2025-08-08 14:21:02+00:00
I sort of agree with you but watts are an instantaneous measurement and is essentially a derivative. `Wh/day` is effectively doing the integration and giving a term for "energy usage per day", which I find much easier to think about.

If this were a simulation or a science article, then yes, don't use frankenunits, but the back-of-the-envelope calculation is meant to build intuition.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-08-08 14:21:04+00:00
A casualty of how underbaked data labelling and training are/were. The blindspots are glaring when you're looking for them, but the decreased overhead of training LoRA now means we can locally supplement a good base model on commodity hardware in a matter of hours.

Also, there's a lot of "samehand" and hand hiding in BFL and other models. Part of the reason I don't use any MaaS is how hard they were focusing on manufacturing superficial impressions over increasing fundamental understanding and direction following. Kontext is a nice deviation, but it was already achievable through captioning and model merges.
by anonymars | 2025-08-08 14:21:18+00:00
> It's so much worse on Windows 11 too. There is a noticeable lag

I think you can pretty much say that about everything in Windows 11. Seeing the XP emulation on the front page yesterday reminded me how grotesquely slow 10 and 11 are. Honestly I wonder if you ran one of the old Windows versions on period hardware how it would compare to now. And then keeping the period hardware but if you swapped to an SSD I bet it would fly. But maybe it's rose-tinted glasses.

Personally I preferred Vista to 7 (7 took away a bunch of nice things). Even as bad as Windows Me was from a stability point of view, it at least added new features. I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything that Windows 11 does better than before.
by mattmaroon | 2025-08-08 14:21:36+00:00
I believe Asian markets are basically an inversion of the regular grocery store pricing model. Regular grocery stores sell all the stuff around the perimeter (meat, dairy, produce, baked goods, etc.) at relatively high margins and all the shelf-stable packaged stuff in the middle at relatively low margins. It makes sense, one store may have better or worse produce or meat or bakery items or deli items etc. than another, but their Heinz Ketchup can only be cheaper or more expensive.

The packaged goods at Asian markets in many cases cannot be purchased anywhere other than an Asian market. No frozen pandan leaves at Costco.

So I think they just mark up the packaged goods more and the produce less.
by hansvm | 2025-08-08 14:22:37+00:00
Costco is an interesting one to me. They're widely touted as being cheaper, but most foods there have some sort of upscaling factor -- "organic", some sort of regional variation like "sockeye" salmon instead of farmed atlantic, a few extra steps of processing, etc. Rice, pasta, and fruit are all usually more expensive than other alternatives, even at bigco grocery competitors. You have to be a little careful if that's where you do all your shopping.