MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stitched2gethr | 2025-08-08 16:08:53+00:00
This take rings true for me after admittedly only a couple of hours of use of gpt-5. I had an issue I had been working with Claude on but it was difficult to give it real-time feedback so it floundered. gpt-5 struggled in the same areas but after about $2 of tokens it did fix the issue. It was far from a 1 shot like I might have expected from the hype, but it did get the job in about an hour done where Claude could not in 3.

For reference my Claude usage was mostly Sonnet, but with consulting from Opus.
by westurner | 2025-08-08 16:08:58+00:00
> Weak measurements do destroy some entanglement, just not "all" of it.

Which measure of degree of entanglement best characterizes state linkage across spacetime?

Depending on definition, doesn't a laser pointer entangle phase states across spacetime, but only slower than c (the speed of transverse photonic waves in a total vacuum)? Are the states synchronized with a constant delay?

Quantum discord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_discord :

> In quantum information theory, quantum discord is a measure of nonclassical correlations between two subsystems of a quantum system. It includes correlations that are due to quantum physical effects but do not necessarily involve quantum entanglement.

Quantum mutual information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mutual_information
by gilbetron | 2025-08-08 16:09:01+00:00
Connecting to other people, I think, is going to see a surge of desire. I've been feeling it, many I talk to are feeling. One strange piece of anecdata is that I've been working out (with my son) at a gym for the past 3 years, very consistently. Everybody has always just done their thing, almost entirely individuals working out, with a handful of pairs. I'm old, so I remember when working out at gyms would be a much more social situation, but times change.

There are a number of regulars that we've seen there for years now. Barely have interacted with them. Suddenly, the past week, through a chance interaction, two of them individually have talked to us and ended up introducing themselves. Plus I see other people talking more and more.

I think we've hit a on-your-own saturation point and the pendulum might swing the other way.

But I'm really staying away from many "predict the AI future" because we just don't know where it is going. I've read thousands of scifi books and nonfiction and futurist and any number of options are open and no one, and I mean no one, knows what will happen with any kind of certainty.
by asoneth | 2025-08-08 16:09:15+00:00
> any minivan on the market is going to do an acceptable and safe speed

Growing up my folks had an old Winnebago van that took 2+ minutes to hit 60mph which made highway merges a white-knuckle affair, especially uphill. Performance was a criteria they considered when buying their next minivan. Whereas modern minivans all have an acceptable acceleration -- it's still important, it's just no longer one you need to think about.

However, not all modern interfaces provide an acceptable response time, so it's absolutely a valid criteria.

As an example, we switched to a SaaS version of Jira recently and things became about an order of magnitude slower. Performing a search now takes >2000ms, opening a filter dropdown takes ~1500ms, filtering the dropdown contents takes another ~1500ms. The performance makes using it a qualitatively different experience. Whereas people used to make edits live during meetings I've noticed more people just jotting changes down in notebooks or Excel spreadsheets to (hopefully remember to) make the updates after the meeting. Those who do still update it live during meetings often voice frustration or sometimes unintentionally perform an operation twice because there was no feedback that it worked the first time.

Going from ~2000ms to ~200ms per UI operation is an enormous improvement. But past that point there are diminishing returns: from ~200ms to ~20ms is less necessary unless it's a game or drawing tool, and going from 20ms to 2ms is typically overoptimization.
by j_kao | 2025-08-08 16:09:22+00:00
1 - I think if we were sticking with the JVM, I do wonder if Lucene would be the right choice in that case

2 - It's a great tool with a lot of tuneability and support!

3 - We've been using it for K8s logs and OTEL (with Jaeger). Seems good so far, though I do wonder how the future of this will play out with the $DDOG acquisition.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-08 16:09:33+00:00
> “I was concerned I might not be alive to graduate because of AGI,” said Blair, who is from Berkeley, California. “I think in a large majority of the scenarios, because of the way we are working towards AGI, we get human extinction.” She’s lined up a contract gig as a technical writer at the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit focused on AI safety research, where she helps with newsletters and research papers. Blair doesn’t plan to head back to MIT. “I predict that my future lies out in the real world,” she said.

Well, it's great that the Center for AI Safety (whatever that means) is carefully choosing their contractors carefully, checking for biases and stuff, right?

> Physics and computer science major Adam Kaufman left Harvard University last fall to work full-time at Redwood Research, a nonprofit examining deceptive AI systems that could act against human interests.

> “I’m quite worried about the risks and think that the most important thing to work on is mitigating them,” said Kaufman. “Somewhat more selfishly, I just think it’s really interesting. I work with the smartest people I’ve ever met on super important problems.”

Isn't this the classic SV move to "drop out and start working on your passions"? But now somehow being about AI fears is different? I see no difference to all the previous generations that dropped out to work on cool stuff. Today's thing is AI and that's the only difference. Yesterday's were FAANGs, and before that silicon, and before that electronics. But fear and loathing go brrrrr.

> He’s not alone. His brother, roommate and girlfriend have also taken leave from Harvard for similar reasons. The three of them currently work for OpenAI.

Yeah, no shit! They hate and fear it soooo much, but they went to work for oAI :) What college student wouldn't? It's like saying "I dropped out to work for google", 15 years ago.

> That’s led many to drop out to start their own companies. Since 2023, students have been leaving college to chase the AI gold rush, drawn to the success stories of generations past like Altman and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

SO WHY DID YOU USE THAT FEAR MONGERING TITLE, VICTORIA?!
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-08 16:10:09+00:00
> demurrage and land value taxes and it's game over

I don’t think that actually solves the problem. For example, if a citizens entire net worth is stored on the New York Stock Exchange and you are not the USA how do you plan to tax the individual? The NYSE is bound by the laws of the USA — which has strong property laws — not the other country.

> they get replaced by those who are willing to fill the void they left behind

If only a single country has a wealth tax, there are going to be no wealthy people who come in to replace the void when they have a choice of many other countries that do not have a wealth tax. You could possibly argue that a country is better without billionaires anyways as they don’t pay into the tax system, but I believe that if a country implements a wealth tax without coordination with the rest of the world they will simply no longer have wealth.
by khazhoux | 2025-08-08 16:10:11+00:00
I always appreciate our weekly Crankypants Take on LLMs.

> AI is not a triumph of elegant design, but a brute-force workaround

You can read and understand Attention Is All You Need in one hour, and then (after just scaling out by a few billion) a computer talks to you like a human. Pretty elegant, if you ask me.

> The web was supposed to evolve into semantically structured, linked, machine-readable data that would enable amazing opportunities.

I missed that memo. The web was, and forever shall be, a giant, unstructured, beautiful mess. In fact, LLMs show just how hopeless the semantic web approach was. Yes, it's useful to attach metadata to objects, but you will still need massive layering and recursion to derive higher-order, non-trivial information.

This entire article is someone unable to let go of an old idea that Did Not Work.
by zamalek | 2025-08-08 16:10:16+00:00
> I used to recommend editorconfig and better tools for .NET nearly ten years ago.

Languages/tools that are not configurable and just dish out the will of the maintainers are objectively superior. This is all a weird type of mandatory bikeshedding; you need to do it, but it doesn't add anything of value to the product. Everyone is going to have a distinct opinion because they earned their programming chops at some shop that did things in some weird way.

.editorconfig is an anti-solution.
by 9rx | 2025-08-08 16:10:56+00:00
> How is this a bad thing?

It is not good or bad. I don't understand your question.

> If I have the choice between documentation explaining what a function does and reading the code, I'm going to just read the docs every time.

The apparent "choice", given the context under which the discussion is taking place, is writing your program in natural language and have an LLM transcribe it to a programming language, or writing your program in a programming language and having an LLM transcribe it to natural language.
by rafram | 2025-08-08 16:11:08+00:00
Roman Storm didn't "just post code." He created, and profited from, a service used by criminals (including the North Korean government!) to launder stolen money.

Of course Storm argues that Tornado Cash is decentralized, but you can't just start a mafia branch, hand out free shares at the mall, and then claim that you actually didn't commit any crimes because you have 10,000 other voting shareholders.
by amluto | 2025-08-08 16:11:30+00:00
Quoting the paper:

> We reasoned that the electrostatic interaction of the Li ion with Aβ deposits would be a function of the ionization capacity of the salt, and that Li salts with reduced ionization might show reduced amyloid sequestration. To assess ionization directly, we measured the conductivity of 16 lithium salts. Inorganic Li salts, including the clinical standard lithium carbonate (Li2CO3, hereafter LiC), showed significantly elevated conductivity, indicative of increased ionization, relative to organic Li salts (P = 8 × 10−4; Fig. 5a and Extended Data Fig. 7a). Of the organic Li salts, lithium orotate (C5H3LiN2O4, hereafter LiO) showed the lowest conductance across a broad Li concentration range (Fig. 5a and Extended Data Fig. 7a) and was therefore selected for further comparison with the clinical standard LiC.

From my not-exactly-expert understanding: lithium is a teeny tiny cation, and it can form compounds on a whole spectrum from ionic to covalent-ish. The authors are observing that lithium orotate does not fully dissociate in water.
by bn-l | 2025-08-08 16:11:30+00:00
Github copilot is utter garbage. The diffing crawls along at a snail’s pace. I think it’s coming up on two years and this must criticised aspect of it still isn’t fixed—-even with all the reverse engineering of how cursor did it. I wish I could find an alternative to cursor (which has other issues). Honestly, that company just threw away a golden opportunity as the first mover.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-08 16:11:35+00:00
I mean no disrespect whatsoever, but we have no common ground if the belief is a continued for profit system or more profits are going to fix any of this, based on the overwhelming evidence. At some point, one must admit that the US has entirely failed at a functional healthcare system considering the costs compared to care delivered and outcomes. If for profit insurer incentives are to increase costs as you say, we must eliminate insurers and fulfill any need for that function through public systems, where cost controls can be implemented to drive down costs. Incentives drive outcomes. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

From another comment I posted in this sub thread: https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-international-comparis...

Additional citation: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...

> Goal: Compare health system performance in 10 countries, including the United States, to glean insights for U.S. improvement.

> Methods: Analysis of 70 health system performance measures in five areas: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes.

> Key Findings: The top three countries are Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, although differences in overall performance between most countries are relatively small. The only clear outlier is the U.S., where health system performance is dramatically lower.

> Conclusion: The U.S. continues to be in a class by itself in the underperformance of its health care sector. While the other nine countries differ in the details of their systems and in their performance on domains, unlike the U.S., they all have found a way to meet their residents’ most basic health care needs, including universal coverage.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-08-08 16:11:37+00:00
AGI is either impossible over LLMs or is more of an agentic flow, which means we might already be there, but the LLM is too slow and/or expensive for us to consider AGI feasible over agents.

AGI over LLMs is basically 1 billion tokens for AI to answer the question: how do you feel? and a response of "fine"

Because it would mean it's simulating everything in the world over an agentic flow considering all possible options checking memory checking the weather checking the news... activating emotional agentic subsystems, checking state... saving state...
by explorigin | 2025-08-08 16:11:51+00:00
For me it was the lack of confirmation with the backend. When it was the next big thing, it sent changes to the backend without waiting for a response. This made the interface crazy fast but I just couldn't take the risk of the FE being out-of-sync with the backend. I hope they grew out of that model but I never took it serious for that one reason.
by logicchains | 2025-08-08 16:12:01+00:00
>The idea is a sufficiently advanced AI could simulate.. everything

This is a demonstrably false assumption. Foundational results in chaos theory show that many processes require exponentially more compute to simulate for a linearly longer time period. For such processes, even if every atom in the observable universe was turned into a computer, they could only be simulated for a few seconds or minutes more, due to the nature of exponential growth. This is an incontrovertible mathematical law of the universe, the same way that it's fundamentally impossible to sort an arbitrary array in O(1) time.
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-08 16:13:13+00:00
That's a good point. Ive actually implemented the same project over 20 times at this point.

At the heart is my hobby of reading web and light novels. I've been implementing various versions of a scraper and ePub reader for over 15 years now, ever since I started working as a programmer.

I've been reimplementing it over the years with the primary goal of growing my experiences/ability. In the beginning it was a plain Django app, but it grew from that to various languages such as elixir, Java (multiple times with different architecture approaches), native Android, JS/TS Frontend and sometimes backend - react, angular, trpc, svelte tanstack and more.

So I know exactly how to implement it, as I've give through a lot of version for the same functionality. And the last version I implemented (tanstack) was in July, via Claude Code and got to feature parity (and more) within roughly 3 weeks.

And I might add: I'm not positive about this development either, whatsoever. I'm just expecting this to happen, to the detriment of our collective futures (as programmers)
by xandrius | 2025-08-08 16:13:15+00:00
Is counting the number of B's vital? Also, I'm pretty sure you can get an LLM to parse text the way you want it, it just doesn't see your text as you do, so that simple operation is not straightforward. Similarly, are you worthless because you seem like you understand language but are incapable of counting the number of octects in "blueberry"?
by electroly | 2025-08-08 16:14:20+00:00
90ms for me. My fiber connection is excellent and there is no jitter--fly.io's nearest POP is just far away. You mentioned game streaming so I'll mention that GeForce Now's nearest data center is 30ms away (which is actually fine). Who is getting 6ms RTT to a data center from their house, even in the USA?

More relevantly... who wants to architect a web app to have tight latency requirements like this, when you could simply not do that? GeForce Now does it because there's no other way. As a web developer you have options.
by mikewarot | 2025-08-08 16:14:35+00:00
The primary reason for making chips this big at present, is to compute LLMs. Why have separate RAM in an LLM compute chip? It doesn't matter how wide you make the bus, it'll always be a bottleneck, and source of huge inefficiency.

The Von Neumann model of compute was great back when setup of ENIAC took days, and the run-times were shorter, but that's not the case with silicon ASICS and FPGAs.

For example, when Von Neumann got ahold of the ENIAC, he slowed it down by more than 60%. This is because it destroyed the inherent parallelism of the original hardware design.

It's time to back out of this premature optimization rabbit hole.
Show HN: LLM from URL –– A free AI chat completion service directly from URL
by yvonuk | 2025-08-08 16:14:47+00:00
LLM from URL —— A free AI chat completion service directly from URL

Usage:

In the address bar of any web browser, type your question after https://818233.xyz/ and hit Enter to get the instant answer. You know the best part of this? Whitespace in the url is supported in most web browsers!

You can also use curl or Wget to retrieve the appended url by replacing any whitespace with a '+' character. If you need to have an actual '+' character in your question, just use '++'.

Example:

The url "https://818233.xyz/hi there" in any web browser will return the same answer as if you send "hi there" to an AI chatbot.

curl command: curl https://818233.xyz/hi+there

wget command: wget -qO- https://818233.xyz/hi+there

Limit: No chat history

Fair use policy: Abuse of the service will result in an IP ban.

Contact: For questions, suggestions or bug reports, feel free to drop me an email (hi@818233.xyz).
by xp84 | 2025-08-08 16:14:47+00:00
That was exactly the example given in the article, but somehow this isn't what I expected would happen if I click a link in say, my email client or chat program.

I imagined it more like: User clicks link in email program. Email program tells OS: "Here, open https://..." -- OS checks URL scheme registry and selects Firefox, OS brings Firefox to the front and throws the URL at it and says "Open this."

I guess perhaps my naïve way could falls down if the OS accepts URLs from apps that aren't in the foreground, so a random background process could activate any app it wants to steal focus.
by righthand | 2025-08-08 16:14:52+00:00
It’s a great thought and this track has led me to wonder why no one is trying to build applications from BDD/gherkin statements.

It’s hard for me to believe that people are writing more technical documentation, understanding more, when they want to use the Llm to bypass that. Maybe a handful of disciplined engineers per capita but when the trend is largely the opposite, the academic approach tends to lose out.
by anonymars | 2025-08-08 16:14:55+00:00
Oh man, don't even get me started on Task Manager. Which used to be pretty-much bulletproof, because they understood the assignment: https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote...

Now, holy smokes - what a dumpster fire. Most of the time it doesn't get me out of trouble anymore. Here are some of my favorite Windows 11 UI changes:

- complete waste of space on the side now. it doesn't even save any vertical space because of how bloated it is

- nonsense iconography on the side (services, startup apps in particular)

- Processes: "..." overflow has one item, View. I get that they want it more touch friendly but even then how clunky is that to navigate?!

- Performance: Resource Monitor was right there, now it is again buried in a stupid "..." menu, again to save space for...nothing?

- Details: The column picker is preposterous. It was already annoying before, mostly because you couldn't resize it, but they didn't fix that, no. Now you can see only 5 columns at a time. I seem to remember the column selection used to be a bit better before Windows 8 or 10 (like there was some other way to get that menu besides right-clicking the column headers) but I can't easily check

- In general I find that "Processes", "Performance", and "Details" all disagree about CPU usage

Tip: `taskmgr -d` runs the previous UI
Show HN: YooAI – All-in-One Platform with Advanced Models, No Subscriptions
by zy5a59 | 2025-08-08 16:15:32+00:00
Hi all, I’m the maker of YooAI.

I built this because I’ve always loved trying out the latest AI models — but I kept hitting the same frustration: subscriptions everywhere. Sometimes I’d pay for a full month just to use a model for 2 days. Other times, I had to subscribe to multiple platforms just to try something for a single afternoon. It felt wasteful and limiting.

So I created YooAI — a platform that brings together cutting-edge models like Veo3, Kling, and more. Most features are free and don’t even require login. Some advanced models cost a small fee due to usage costs, but there’s no subscription, just pay-as-you-go.

My goal is to make top AI tools easier, cheaper, and more flexible to access. And this is just the beginning — more powerful models will be added soon.

Would love to hear your feedback and ideas. Thanks for checking it out!
by cpeterso | 2025-08-08 16:16:02+00:00
I switched to a free iOS indie game called "Word/off". It's a two-player Wordle clone where you choose a word for your friends to solve. I find stumping my friends or guessing their words more fun than solving the same Wordle word as every other NYT reader.

Unfortunately, the App Store says the game is not currently available in my country (the US). In the meantime, there is a web version of the game:

https://wordoff.app/
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-08 16:16:28+00:00
They used to have whole conferences on window management!

"Methodology of Window Management": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

By F R A Hopgood, D A Duce, E V C Fielding, K Robinson, A S Williams. 29 April 1985. This is the Proceedings of the Alvey Workshop at Cosener's House, Abingdon that took place from 29 April 1985 until 1 May 1985. It was input into the planning for the MMI part of the Alvey Programme. The Proceedings were later published by Springer-Verlag in 1986.

My favorite chapters:

"Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View" by Warren Teitelman: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

"SunDew - A Distributed and Extensible Window System" by Games Gosling: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

"User Interface Working Group Discussions": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

"User Interface Working Group Final Report": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...