MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by extraisland | 2025-08-11 20:56:13+00:00
It isn't about something not agreeing with my vibes. I don't appreciate when people put words in my mouth. I never said all. I obviously meant some.

Firstly in my original post I stated why I don't believe YouGov to be accurate. It isn't just me that has an issue with thier polling.

Secondly, It is well known that many people are swayed by peer pressure and/or what is perceived to be popular. Therefore if you can manipulate polling to show something is popular, then it can sway people that are more influenced by peer pressure/on the fence.

Often in advertising they will site a stat about customer satisfaction. In the small print it will state the sample size or the methodology and it is often hilariously unrepresentative. Obviously they are relying on people not reading the fine print and being statistically illiterate.

Politicians, governments and corporations have been using various tactics throughout the 20th and 21st century to sway public opinion, both home and abroad to their favour.

This issue has divisive for years and has historically had a huge amount of push back. You can see this in the surge of VPN downloads (which is a form of protest against these laws), the popularity of content covering this issue.
by prats226 | 2025-08-11 20:56:16+00:00
> But here’s the important part: LLMs don’t know how to use tools. They don’t have native tool calling support. They just generate text that represents a function call.

Its not a completely true statement. Eg openAI uses libraries like llguidance to get LLM to produce structured output, its not completely unguided free form text that happens to mimic a function call with parameters, truly.
by EchoReflection | 2025-08-11 20:56:18+00:00
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by impossiblefork | 2025-08-11 20:56:20+00:00
True.

It's actually possible that I should send an e-mail to a prosecutor, and I guess I will. It's probably against the regulations specifying how cars must be built too, but it isn't my job to care about that, I just inform.

Edit: They don't actually sell the Cybertruck here in Sweden though. Hmm. Maybe just a quick e-mail.

Edit: There are seems to be some hoax claims. I guess if that's true, that's defamation from the rapper instead. Very stupid in the case.
by throwaway13337 | 2025-08-11 20:56:47+00:00
>You can't build anything special with someone who keeps forgetting any context. I spent many years cycling between depression and resurrected determination trying. But finally gave up.

Was that an LLM reference or is it the myopia in me?

There's a parallel here, either way. All the documentation in the world will not make a person, or llm session interchangable.

In some sense the new way of coding feels like building a big org with people without memory. If you can document the process perfectly, there is a holy grail out there somewhere.

Or maybe there isn't.
by bananalychee | 2025-08-11 20:57:21+00:00
Of course it does in the US tech bubble, if you talk to people who haven't been using Macs for 30 years you might hear a different story. While Apple makes good hardware they also have plenty of blunders, especially in recent years, much like Microsoft in its domain really. Both are coasting on their past successes and familiarity. I get it, many of my coworkers watch their announcement streams like they're video game announcements. From my standpoint they haven't put out anything exciting since the iPhone/iPod Touch, but I don't have the money for toys that cost thousands of dollars apiece like the Mac Studios or their VR headset, so maybe I'm missing out.
Ask HN: How to Work with Seagull Principals?
by mystickphoenix | 2025-08-11 20:57:25+00:00
Similar in concept to "Seagull Management" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management), I've run into a similar thing when it comes to Principal Engineers.

I've encountered this phenomenon at a number of companies that I've worked for and it normally comes up during PR/MR reviews, but not exclusively. The general behavior I see is a Principal flies in, shits all over the PR/MR, proposal, document, or project, makes a bunch of noise and then disappears. The shitting all over it usually isn't blatant or obvious but it throws a huge wet blanket on any "lower" personnel reviewing or providing feedback and tends to stall progress massively.

In the most recent case the feedback on the PR/MR was essentially "why don't you just... do this thing that seems simple on the surface". I had already explored the proposed solution but felt like I needed evidence to back up the approach I used instead. Which necessitated a several hour rabbit hole as I tried to make the Principal's solution work. Fun fact, it didn't, and had that added benefit of turning the code into a spaghetti mess. They then disappeared for a day or so and I got zero feedback from the rest of my team as they were waiting for the Principal's response.

I'd love to hear tips on how to work better with Principal Engineers, especially ones of the overworked seagull variety.
by p1mrx | 2025-08-11 20:57:47+00:00
> Instead of following the desires of the customers, they now had to pigeon-hole those desires into the larger business goals of the parent organization.

GitHub has been ignoring customers' desire for IPv6 support for years[0], whereas Microsoft got IPv6 running on Windows NT 4.0 in 1998[1], so there might be a silver lining here.

[0] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539 [1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ipv6-essentials/0596001...
by rustystump | 2025-08-11 20:58:29+00:00
Generally i agree.

I think there are a group of people who are salty that js became “the lang” for the web. Another group of people loath the framework insanity of webdev. I count myself among the ladder not the former. I equally hate all languages.

Js is heavily overused but the “web” of today is not the web of the 90s or 2010s which some people cannot get over.
by myrmidon | 2025-08-11 20:59:05+00:00
Snowden himself says that he saw a surveillance state being built and the people responsible lying about it under oat in front of democratic representatives (see James Clapper).

In his words, he wanted the American public to know about what was going on, and to get a say.

But when you say "I'll stop publishing once my political goals are achieved", you are openly admitting that:

1) You publishing this informations causes harm

2) You are using that harm to achieve your political goals

3) You can live with the actual information/leaks staying hidden once the (possibly only tangentially related) goals are achieved (which indicates that the whole thing was primarily about achieving your political goals, not about getting out the information).

That, to me, is the difference between "whistleblowing" and "blackmail".
by sandworm101 | 2025-08-11 20:59:11+00:00
Forget luxury. Forget speed. Hands down, the best flying experience I've ever had was on a dirty, slow, late and loud C-130. After an announced delay on the ground, I wedged myself between a cargo pallet and the wall, threw a ratchet strap across as a "belt" and passed out on a metal floor with a backpack for a pillow. No in-flight meals. No safety briefs. No entertainment systems. No drink service. Nothing. I don't even remember the takeoff. The only thing anyone said to me was "Uh, sir... We are about to land. You have to get up." THAT is what I want from flying. Give me a bit of peace, a chance to sleep, and I couldn't care less how fast or slow the journey.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-08-11 20:59:17+00:00
Yeah, MS just too focused on desktop office and Azure enterprise customers

they should have launched an "firebase like" and full web framework "next.js like" to convert that into long term azure customer like its no brainer they didn't want to create that and recycling Teams forever

this is also issue with game development, like I know MS is big at desktop dev but they don't have presence in game dev other than xbox game studios which is fine but they could create their own game engine with all resources they have. they could save both for their usage in their massive studio while also strengthening their development pipeline from code,game engine to azure
by jorvi | 2025-08-11 20:59:27+00:00
> Obviously one needs to be an Emacs user first

This makes it so infuriating that the top comment on Todo systems is almost invariably "just org-mode lol". Same as remote editing "just TRAMP lol".

I am not going to completely change my editor and rebuild two decades of optimization just to use two Emacs tools.

On-topic: TickTick or Todoist with a slimmed-down "Getting Things Done" system works really well. Almost no learning curve, and you get to free up so much mental bandwidth vis a vis remembering things and prioritizing things. And you don't have to do hamfisted tricks to make a 'simple' .txt system work. Bliss.
by salleisha | 2025-08-11 20:59:37+00:00
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If you’re a founder juggling everything yourself, this might save you headaches (and money). Would love to hear your thoughts or suggestions.

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by _zeso | 2025-08-11 20:59:39+00:00
The Wikimedia Foundation isn't "doing business" in the UK, they're a nonprofit. Their mission statement is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."

Part of fulfilling that mission is opposing laws that restrict free knowledge and open access, so why should they not use their huge presence as a bargaining tool? Doing so directly aligns with their purpose.
by polotics | 2025-08-11 21:00:20+00:00
ggerganov is my hero, and... it's a good thing this got posted so I saw in the comments that --flash-attn --cache-reuse 256 could help with my setup (M3 36GB + RPC to M1 16GB) figuring out what params to set and at what value is a lot of trial and error, Gemini does help a bit clarify what params like top-k are going to do in practice. Still the whole load-balancing with RPC is something I think I'm going to have to read the source of llama.cpp to really understand (oops I almost wrote grok, damn you Elon) Anyways ollama is still not doing distributed load, and yeah I guess using it is a stepping stone...
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-11 21:00:28+00:00
You live in Poland? Country or City? Google estimated a 60 square meter 2br condo in Warsaw costs an average of $260k. So a $240k bonus, after paying taxes, leaves you with $145 in Poland, so no, you could not likely get a condo in Warsaw with a $240k bonus. I'm sure if you live well outside a major city that changes.

And, the bigger point is, even if you could afford a house, is that life changing? Would your life style change because you bought a house? Or, would it just basically be the same life style as before except you now own a house?

To me, life changing amount of money means an amount that changes my life style. That could mean, an amount that lets me retire and never work again. Or an amount that lets me quit and start my own company. Or quit and go back to school. Or quit and travel for a few years. Something alone those lines, having my "life change". Buying an apartment but having my life remain the same, same job, same hours, same activities, is not "life changing" to me.

I fully admit a $240k bonus ($140k after taxes) it could be life changing for others. If I'd been 19yrs old when my living expenses were $20k year, then $140k in the bank would have let me go ~7yrs without a job. Unfortunately my 19yr old self would have probably blown 30% on a car, 20% on travel or other things, 10-20% on random equipment like a new gaming rig or cameras and lens and then in a few months I'd be back where I was. And, even if I did manage to not blow it and do the 7 years, what else could I have done. Could I started a company and hired people? How many could I afford to hire and for how long? Would it be enough to not just lose the money or would have needed more than $140k?
by Hooli1863 | 2025-08-11 21:00:33+00:00
The first tokenized (tradable) post on Coinbase's Base app—a social app on the Base blockchain—is "Starter Pistol," a text post by Jesse Pollak (Base's creator), not the commonly cited "Day One" selfie from July 16, 2025. This stems from "Day One" being spotlighted at the public launch, but blockchain/Farcaster data proves "Starter Pistol" came first on July 10, 2025, during beta.
by philipp-gayret | 2025-08-11 21:00:59+00:00
My workflow is somewhat similar to yours. I also much love --dangerously-skip-permissions, as root! I even like to do it from multiple Claude Code instances in parallel when I have parallel ideas that can be worked out.

Maybe my wrapper project is interesting for you? https://github.com/release-engineers/agent-sandbox It's to keep Claude Code containerized with a copy of the workspace and a firewall/proxy so it can only access certain sites. With my workflow I don't really risk much, and the "output" is a .patch file I can inspect before I git apply it.
by api | 2025-08-11 21:01:12+00:00
It was all very very racist.

I kinda think this answers the question as to why these ideas get a pass: they offer a way to be racist and advocate racist eugenics policies without admitting you are racist, even to yourself.

I see racism in the population collapse panic too unfortunately, at least in the popular discourse around it. Overpopulation was always about too many of the “wrong” people while underpopulation is about not enough of the “right” people.
by llmthrowaway | 2025-08-11 21:02:06+00:00
Confusing title - thought this was about Ollama finally supporting sharded GGUF (ie. the Huggingface default for large gguf over 48gb).

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/5245

Sadly it is not and the issue still remains open after over a year meaning ollama cannot run the latest SOTA open source models unless they covert them to their proprietary format which they do not consistently do.

No surprise I guess given they've taken VC money, refuse to properly attribute the use things like llama.cpp and ggml, have their own model format for.. reasons? and have over 1800 open issues...

Llama-server, ramallama or whatever model switcher ggerganov is working on (he showed previews recently) feel like the way forward.
by tptacek | 2025-08-11 21:02:16+00:00
Not a lawyer, do pay a lot of attention to this area for professional reasons. Answer: it doesn't, unless you (1) found the vulnerability through methods that themselves violate CFAA (for instance, by breaking into a remote computer), or (2) sold information about the vulnerability knowing that it would be used for a particular set of crimes, in which case you can get accomplice liability for those crimes.

CFAA doesn't have anything to say about vulnerability research itself. You'd be just as liable as an accomplice if you knowingly and deliberately provided free wi-fi to a hacker.
by yardshop | 2025-08-11 21:02:23+00:00
He says something similar at the end of the article:

"These four verbs aren’t a productivity system or a self-help formula. Some days I forget one. Other days, one takes over. But when I return to them, they gently reorient me."

You may be overreacting with words like "machine" and "tyranny" to an idea simply suggested as a useful and helpful goal.
by michaelt | 2025-08-11 21:03:08+00:00
> Do you feel that Wikipedia today is banned through the letter of the law?

Wikipedia is certainly large enough, in terms of traffic. And as anyone can edit it, it would seem to be a user-to-user service, making it a Category 1 provider, equivalent to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube.

And their wiki page about 'breasts' certainly shows photographs of female nipples. Their pages on penises are likewise illustrated. They also have pages about suicide and self-harm.

Wikipedia is also a website we could reasonably expect children to access.

And Wikipedia did lobby the government, before the act was passed, to make it clear they weren't subject to it, which the government opted not to do.

So it would certainly appear they are subject to it.
by ivanmontillam | 2025-08-11 21:03:14+00:00
I can agree anti-consumer behaviour is still ingrained in parts of Microsoft, as a dormant beast waiting to be Ballmer-ized for a new round.

But again, why the baseless argument based on hate?

You can (for example) de-bloat Windows 11 out from the telemetry and annoying widgets nobody uses, including the invasive Copilot.

After de-bloating, it's a decent OS on its own.

I should have the right to have a clean Windows out-of-the-box, but de-bloating is still a viable path.
by aleyan | 2025-08-11 21:03:54+00:00
The OP postulates two paths for the future: "1: LLM Labs go direct" and "2: LLMs become commodities, wrappers win". I just happened to have published a blogpost on llm code assistants used by GitHub repos[0][1]. Claude Code has just overtaken Cursor as the most popular. Gemini CLI and OpenAI Codex also has a steeper growth curve than Cursor. So on just this question, it looks like the drugs are beating the dealers.

[0] https://aleyan.com/blog/2025-llm-assistant-census/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44863713
by hinkley | 2025-08-11 21:03:55+00:00
Practically the day after I learned about tail recursion in CS class, I learned that almost all recursive calls can be translated to iteration, that in many cases the iterative version is easier to scan, is as fast if not faster, and that they can usually handle much much larger inputs than recursion due to avoiding stack overflow.

Tail recursion is meant to fix the latter. But what we mean to happen and what actually happens ain't ever exactly similar.

Tail recursion IME is a bigger foot gun than relying on someone to add a new conditional branch at the end of a block in an iterative algorithm without fucking it up in the process. And iteration responds generally better to Extract Function. And while I can think of counter cases easily enough, in the large iteration is less work and less vigilance. And you cannot scale a project up without the vigilance requirement amortizing basically to 0 per line of code.
by Fabeltjeskrant | 2025-08-11 21:04:46+00:00
Yeah, but that’s not what I was referring to. I know Usenet is nowadays mainly used for sharing “massive amounts of multimedia content”, but I was referring to the text-based content. Discussions, stories, proposals. Yes, I have seen all that on Usenet. I am that old. I’m not being nostalgic here, but when I think of the pre-spam Usenet, it might be what we need again. Maybe with a more modern UI? Lemmy, maybe? A federated forum system like Reddit, 4chan? Does that exist at all? A web UI which shows threads from all kinds of servers all together in a phpBB-like interface?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-11 21:04:47+00:00
> Premium cabins tend to be a very small proportion of overall seats

Most of the profit on a plane is made in business class. If airlines could fly an all-business configuration, they would. The problem is the smallest planes that can do high-paying routes like LON-NYC are bigger than that customer set. So the airline throws in economy seats, often barely breaking even on those, to fill space.

In a world with small airliner planes that can make those transoceanic and transcontinental journeys, I suspect we’ll see more all-business class flights.
by paulhodge | 2025-08-11 21:05:15+00:00
Fyi Kilocode has low credibility. They’ve been blasting AI subreddits with lots of clickbaity ads and posts, sometimes claiming things that are outright false.

As far as spend per dev- I can’t even manage to use up the limits on my $100 Claude plan. It gets everything done and I run out of things to ask it. Considering that the models will get better and cheaper over time, I’m personally not seeing a future where I will need to spend that much more than $100 a month.
by tarruda | 2025-08-11 21:05:20+00:00
I recently discovered that ollama no longer uses llama.cpp as a library, and instead they link to the low level library (ggml) which requires them to reinvent a lot of wheel for absolutely no benefit (if there's some benefit I'm missing, please let me know).

Even using llama.cpp as a library seems like an overkill for most use cases. Ollama could make its life much easier by spawning llama-server as a subprocess listening on a unix socket, and forward requests to it.

One thing I'm curious about: Does ollama support strict structured output or strict tool calls adhering to a json schema? Because it would be insane to rely on a server for agentic use unless your server can guarantee the model will only produce valid json. AFAIK this feature is implemented by llama.cpp, which they no longer use.
by mattmanser | 2025-08-11 21:05:24+00:00
Just to echo another comment, I remember seeing the iPhone for the first time (2 maybe?). It was amazing. Mind blowingly good. It was revolutionary in every sense of the word. I'd heard the hype but if anything it undersold the reality.

You saw this thing and knew the future had changed.

It's very easy to forget Android just shamelessly ripped it off wholesale. The early version of Android looked nothing like the complete iPhone clone they ended up with.

And I have an android phone right now. But it only exists because of the revolutionary iPhone.

Credit where credit's due.

And right now AI feels like just before the iPhone. Like then we had touch screens, and we had new battery tech and we had mini-apps on the internet. And we had iPods showing small form factor MP3 players. But they didn't work together coherently.

And then the iPhone came along.

Like we're waiting for the iPhone of AI, to bring the tech together to an actually usable state.
by deepsun | 2025-08-11 21:06:23+00:00
Going to be downvoted, but I support the move to make Wikimedia (and other websites that distribute user-generated content) to verify identities of their users (editors). It is ok to be responsible for what you're posting. We are living in the age of global irresponsibility.

And it doesn't mean Wikimedia must make the identities public. Same as any other website -- real identity to be provided only to authorities following a court order.

Also, there's a ton of bots and paid agents working full-time to shift political opinions to their political agenda.