MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Simon_O_Rourke | 2025-08-02 20:44:02+00:00
There's a massive fat guy in the local area here who goes blasting around the place on some over-powered, over-noisy bike - but doesn't (or can't find the right sized) leathers, so instead goes out wearing bluejeans and a denim jacket. Just waiting for him to take a slip one of these days to see the folly.
by vincent-manis | 2025-08-02 20:45:05+00:00
By contrast, my parents were high school dropouts. When I was little, my mum would read to me, with her finger following the text. I somehow got the idea, and started to sound out the words with her. By kindergarten, I was reading at a Grade 2 level. I think there are as many paths to reading as there are kids.

The cueing theory seems misguided, in teaching kids to regard pictures as the source of information. I'd say that teaching kids to read requires a mix of activities, with a heavy dose of phonics, but also activities that create a joy of reading, by showing interesting people and stories. I can't see how cueing helps.

Cueing reminds me of some of the stranger ideas in math pedagogy in elementary schools, notably that rather than learning algorithms for arithmetic operations, kids should invent their own, and maybe have several, which they choose from in a specific problem. Of course, some students have much more difficulty than others, but there really are some basic ideas they must master in order to be competent at arithmetic. Allowing a kid to amass a forest of partially working techniques and then have to hack through it to solve any problem seems ridiculous to me, much like putting a student driver in a car, with no training, and telling them to try various things to see how to drive to a given point without getting killed.
by danielbln | 2025-08-02 20:45:28+00:00
Use agents to validate the code. Is it over engineered, does it conform to conventions and spec, is it actually implemented or half bullshit. I run three of these at the end of a feature or task and it almost always send Opus back to the workbench fixing a bunch of stuff. And since they have their own context, you don't blow up the main context and can go for longer.
by achierius | 2025-08-02 20:46:00+00:00
Yet that risk and that complexity is itself what makes something real. Realness is persistence, the fact of there being a system behind the surface -- the more that that's true, the more real something is. Once you lose that, reality drains away -- and all its benefits with it. Think of how much less satisfaction people get from beating a game with cheats than from doing it 'the real way'; or even how much more satisfaction people get from building a real house, with their own two hands, than they do from doing so in Minecraft (itself pretty satisfying, just less so).
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-02 20:46:36+00:00
No.

Potential distributed into state (information) in the moment of now is the fundamental force of physics.

State is a lie. Modern information theory is wrong. Number of states are boundary conditions of potential distributing.

A new definition of entropy as “The existential phenomenon of potential distributing over the surface area of negative potential” will solve this.

Information theorists lie to themselves every time they confuse their models for actual existential reality.

Existential reality is not state building up, it is potential distributing, and state builds up through real time resolve of those potentials.

State is a decaying proposition from one reading. The drift between state in the working information model and existential transformation is instantaneous yet unpredictable without continuous further readings.

All stable matter is potential tied in a knot (spinner). By the right constructive and destructive interference anything as “state” may be undone and remade. What we think of as particles are smaller and smaller knots (or eddies influenced by particles spinning in those knots.)

Potential distributing is the fundamental force of physics.

Information is a vector. Everything useful comes from vectors.
by astura | 2025-08-02 20:47:02+00:00
>first learning the letters and the sounds they make. Then starting to read words by "sounding them out."

This is called "phonics" and was universal until recently. The 1980s had commercials advertising "Hooked on Phonics works for me." - Hooked on Phonics being a books on tape program to help children read.

TFA says phonics was popularized in the 1800s.
by larodi | 2025-08-02 20:47:29+00:00
Well to my surprise they do, even though every sane dev in 2025 uses some sort of code assîtes autocomplete. So it seams now we discussing what is the threshold reg intelligence of the autocomplete.

Ridiculous stuff indeed.

I’ve been coding for 25 years and nothing in my message implies vibe coding. I know what I’m talking and sure bet many others here do.
by skywal_l | 2025-08-02 20:47:59+00:00
"The green revolution has won a temporary success in man’s war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three decades. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise the success of the green revolution will be ephemeral only."

Norman Borlaug

Nobel Prize lecture [0]

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1970/borlaug/lecture...
by ath3nd | 2025-08-02 20:48:29+00:00
> Make it hard for people to have families and society will collapse

I used to live in Amsterdam which has a great public transport, great cycling paths, and limits of 30km/h. People are going cycling to school, on dates, and picnic with their families. Associating having a 3 ton gas guzzler as a prerequisite of having a family and a roadblock of "society" is only a question of poor imagination.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/six-health-lessons-learn-net...

There are multiple reasons Americans are obese as hell and living shorter than us Europeans, and driving everywhere is one of it.
by naranjapollo | 2025-08-02 20:48:51+00:00
Summary: Looking for Frontend or Fullstack Frontend-focused role. Recently worked Frontend on Microsoft's Copilot AI Website and Native App. Also redesigned Win11 Windows Search Box navigation feature using React and TypeScript. Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: In-Office, Hybrid, or Remote okay

Willing to relocate: Yes (Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA; San Fran, CA; Austin, TX;)

Technologies: React, Nextjs, Redux, TypeScript, JavaScript, Sass, HTML/CSS, Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Express.js, Node.js, MongoDB, Mongoose, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS (EC2, S3), Docker, Azure DevOps

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Website: https://www.anthonysim.dev

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KAnhHt6qmLN3QqIYnjaQp8jSU0l...

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by SamvitJ | 2025-08-02 20:48:54+00:00
One way to make sense of this specific case at least.

- He's on track to becoming a top-tier AI researcher. Despite having only one year of a PhD under his belt, he already received two top awards as a first-author at major AI conferences [1]. Typically, it takes many more years of experience to do research that receives this level of recognition. Most PhDs never get there.

- Molmo, the slate of open vision-language models that he built & released as an academic [2], has direct bearing on Zuck's vision for personalized, multimodal AI at Meta.

- He had to be poached from something, in this case, his own startup, where in the best case, his equity could be worth a large multiple of his Meta offer. $250M likely exceeded the expected value of success, in his view, at the startup. There was also probably a large premium required to convince him to leave his own thing (which he left his PhD to start) to become a hired hand for Meta.

Sources:

[1] https://mattdeitke.com/

[2] https://allenai.org/blog/molmo
by izyda | 2025-08-02 20:49:08+00:00
New Hedge fund | Sr IC Frontend Engineer | Full-time | On-site (NYC)

We are a new discretionary, tech industry focused L/S hedge fund, founded by a portfolio manager with 15+ years of experience at a well known Tiger Cub. I lead the data/technology team here and previously spent ~6 years in a similar role at that firm as well. We are not the only ones trying to figure out how to use AI in investing but in a world where there are lots of people trying to build picks & shovels, this is an opportunity to be one of the goldminers at a greenfield, new firm. This role makes sense for people who are interested in finance/investing (although you do not necessarily have to have experience in the industry).

We are hiring for a frontend IC engineer for our internal web application.

One of our core advantages is marrying domain experts (ie. experienced fundamental investors from top tier hedge funds) with tech talent. Our frontend (the design, the UX, the UI) _really_ matters to tie the two sides together. The quality of the data we can collect, the speed of testing new ideas, and there ultimately success is driven by the quality of our frontend -- as unintuitive as that might sound.

Our tech stack: * Frontend: Typescript, Vue3 * Backend: AWS, Cloudflare, Supabase/Postgresql, Typescript *

- We work very hard, hours are long, and people are very dedicated to the mission. It is not for everyone, but for those interested in competing in financial markets, love startup atmosphere without near-term existential risk, and want to work with super smart colleagues (both technical and investors!), this could be a great fit.

- We're in full-time in office in NYC, so that's a requirement for FTE. We are potentially open to exceptional contractors located remotely.

- Target salary 180-250K, depending on experience + Bonus/Carry (hedge fund equity equivalent)

If you are interested, I would love to hear from you:

- Contact: ai at nx1 dotcom , I'm Alex. - Please include resume or LinkedIn and some example of something you have built (could be Github, could be your current company, anything really)

If you want to learn more about types of things we think about, I will shamelessly direct you to my blog where I write about the space (and did so more while I wasn't at any fund): https://magis.substack.com
by jjaksic | 2025-08-02 20:49:12+00:00
My wife and I have 2 teslas, a HW3 and a HW4. Even late last year FSD 12.5 was nowhere near close to being able to drive safely. Any non-straightforward situation (like merging during rush hour) would throw it off, so critical interventions were required at least daily.

Starting with FSD 13 on HW4, which came out last December, it's improved dramatically, and since then in my case it hasn't needed a single critical intervention. I think 12.6 on HW3 is also quite good.

The caveat is that we live in the Bay Area, which has an abundance of Tesla training data. Elsewhere I've heard the experience isn't as good. And of course, even in the Bay Area the reliability needs to get a few orders of magnitude higher to be suitable for fully unsupervised self-driving.
by XorNot | 2025-08-02 20:49:19+00:00
> There are other startups in this space. It's probably the way commercial fusion power will eventually be done. Not via the tokamaks, like ITER.

There is literally no evidence to suggest this: Helion are making big claims but as noted have shown little incremental progress on their machines.

The balance of history says if it happens it'll come out of a large government funded project: that's how fission happened, and there's plain old fission startups too who also are yet to deliver anything and we know fission works.
by mi_lk | 2025-08-02 20:49:27+00:00
> winner-take-all (most)

> If the very best LLM is 1.5x as good as good as the next-best, then pretty much everyone in the world will want to use the best one

Is it? Gemini is arguably better than OAI in most cases but I'm not sure it's as popular among general public
by PaulRobinson | 2025-08-02 20:49:39+00:00
I was in Helsinki for work a couple of years ago, walking back to my hotel with some colleagues after a few hours drinking (incredibly expensive, but quite nice), beer.

It was around midnight and we happened to come across a very large mobile crane on the pavement blocking our way. As we stepped out (carefully), into the road to go around it, one of my Finnish colleagues started bemoaning that no cones or barriers had been put out to safely shepherd pedestrians around it. I was very much "yeah, they're probably only here for a quick job, probably didn't have time for that", because I'm a Londoner and, well, that's what we do in London.

My colleague is like "No, that's not acceptable", and he literally pulls out his phone and calls the police. As we carry on on our way, a police car comes up the road and pulls over to have a word with the contractors.

They take the basics safely over there in a way I've not seen anywhere else. When you do that, you get the benefits.
by throw0101d | 2025-08-02 20:49:41+00:00
> Thankfully, Verizon FiOS rolled out IPv6 support to my area a while ago; otherwise, this whole thing would have ended here.

Hurricane Electric (for one) offers IPv6 tunnels:

* https://ipv6.he.net

You can configure it on your router:

* https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/ipv6/ipv6_henet

* https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/ipv6-tunn...

* https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/ipv6_tunnelbroker.h...

Or an individual host:

* https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IPv6_tunnel_broker_setup

* https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/network/hurricane_electri...

* https://genneko.github.io/playing-with-bsd/networking/freebs...
Copyright
by h_tbob | 2025-08-02 20:49:51+00:00
Copyright is technically a violation of the first ammendment.

It has far reaching consequences, bringing poverty and despair to America and the world.

I write this message to us as intelligent, logical coders so that we can do our work to destroy it - forever.

The way copyright works is threatening people if they copy your work. As developers, we make tons of money with it. I know I for one have made so much money it's ridiculous!

But it is intrinsically evil because it implies it's ok to imprison people over social credits, aka money.

The reason copyright is so evil is that it incentivizes people to make content that has monetary rather than humanitarian value.

Cigarettes have monetary, not humanitarian value. Drugs have monetary, and generally not humanitarian value. (Obviously if they had humanitarian value we would legalize them and sell them) Copyright allows people to make the equivalent of drugs and sell them and make addicts and sell their addicts more drugs.

There is horrible music making millionaires. Millionaires off filling people's minds with poison.

Copyright encourages them to continue making addictive content that destroys people's minds.

Copyright has led to Apple, Microsoft and Linux, causing huge amounts of waste of programmer time reinventing the wheel just to give rich more money.

Patents are equally absurd. In fact Orville and Wilbur stopped inventing just to keep patent litigation going!

I believe copyright was outlawed by the first ammendment. It is a direct affront to freedom of the press. To jail someone over copying is akin to slavery.

What do you all think?
by larodi | 2025-08-02 20:50:08+00:00
That’s not even close to true unless you rate all ML as AI and all conditional structures thinking. Like, why don’t you first try to rate and count them before spitting malice ?

in all honestly much less AI stuff gets to the HN front compared to when OpenAI first released GPTs. Given there are thousands of publications every month and dozens of startups launched with ridiculous valuations and most of this is actually submitted here for karma or leverage.

Besides, what, knowledge representation via stochastic probabilistic graphical models is now an heresy? Since when? Since MPEG or MP3 ?
by pdonis | 2025-08-02 20:50:10+00:00
Classical optics is just the limiting case of quantum optics when the path length is much longer than the wavelength. In such a case quantum optics predicts basically zero probability to detect light on any path other than the classical path--which is classical optics. So classical optics doesn't say anything that's actually contradictory to quantum optics. It's just a special case.
Show HN: A Virtual friend that checks up on you, every morning
by anonyMusk | 2025-08-02 20:50:22+00:00
I vibe coded Jurn AI - a notion integration that lets your diary / journal talk to you.

It works by generating feedback from user’s last night journal. This feedback is then sent over mail to the user every morning with the intention of motivating them.

The idea is to give a friend/family like feel, daily checking up on you based on how your day went by.

To vibe code, used following agents, each with its own dedicated folder to store their system prompts and progress.

Frontend engineer - knows how to build a nextJS website. Responsible for building the user onboarding ramp.

Backend engineer - works with python and fastAPI. Help built the entire server side.

Program Manager - knows the requirements and the deadline. Helps keep a track of pending pointers.

Product expert - Understands what we are building and why. Helps refine Content on the landing page - optimizing layout for max user conversion. Helps in simplifying decisions

Infra Engineer - To be honest, I wasn’t able to use much of agent’s help in this. Their knowledge was outdated when it came to resolving platform specific bugs.

What do you think about this project?
by 15155 | 2025-08-02 20:50:34+00:00
> I hate that we live in a world where this feels like a remotely sane question but do you use an analog or digital device?

> Because these days with anything digital there's a risk of the other side claiming it's a genML fake.

I think this type of thinking is quite cynical and overlooks an important factor: we have a presumption of innocence in this country, and these types of situations are adjudicated by reasonable, typically-intelligent, honest jurists - not computer programs.

If one party is asserting something is fake, they need evidence to do so: mere supposition isn't good enough, and if unsubstantiated, typically removes credibility from the accuser.

In this situation, no reasonable person is going to believe that believable video footage is going to be able to be fabricated on the fly - and to what end? Nobody was physically harmed, no property was damaged, and there are numerous witnesses who are very realistically risking their freedom and finances if they choose to corroborate an inaccurate restatement of facts.
by cornholio | 2025-08-02 20:50:37+00:00
Sure, they aim to extract energy directly from the field, but the three breakeven points are still important. A significant part of the energy will be lost as x rays and neutrons, since their D-H3 fuel cycle is not aneutronic; they will also have significant D-D reactions that are required to breed Tritium which they capture and then let ti decay to Helium-3.

Overall, when you look at the total complexity and energy balance of the full reactor + fueling cycle, maintaining vacuum, keeping superconducting magnets at cryogenic temperatures, tritium extraction etc. then generating an order of magnitude more energy than inserted still seems necessary to achieve engineering breakeven.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-02 20:51:13+00:00
You learn to walk before you learn to run.

This should be obvious, but a surprisingly large number of people don't get it. They don't see "running" as the logical next step after "walking", but rather as an alternative to it. "Why are you teaching my child to walk, when you could teach him/her to run instead?"

They imagine that the fastest way to get to the advanced lessons is to skip the beginner lessons. Yeah, it's a good way to get fast to the Lesson 1 in the Advanced textbook... and to remain stuck there forever, because you don't know the prerequisites.

The article describes what happens when the people who don't get it are setting the rules for others to follow.

Someone noticed that the advanced readers read fast (correct), sometimes entire sentences at once (kinda correct), and concluded that the proper way to teach children is to insist that they do it from the start (utterly insanely wrong). You should increase your reading speed naturally, as you get lots and lots of practice; not because you skip letters - that's actually when we should tell the kids to slow down and read it again.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-02 20:51:21+00:00
Don't shudder, learn about it.

The engine is designed to move based on the design of the frame rails and mounts -- it is pushed under the passenger compartment, absorbing and deflecting more energy.

I'm sure the Telo is designed to modern standards and would perform similarly. I'd be more worried about expensive damage to the vehicle in less personally dangerous collisions.
by al_borland | 2025-08-02 20:51:39+00:00
Isn’t this the thing AI is going to claim to solve? A project exists, a user writes a feature request, the AI codes up the changes, pushes a new release, and everyone is happy. That’s the sales pitch.

The big issue with this, even if it works perfectly every time, is that there is no one at the core of the project with some vision and taste, who is willing to say “no” to bad ideas or things outside the scope of the project. We’d end up seeing a lot of bloat over time. I’m sure AI will claim to solve that too, just have it code up a new lightweight project. The project sprawl will be endless.
by crote | 2025-08-02 20:51:57+00:00
So get the government to purchase speed traps with photo cameras instead of video cameras, triggered by a speed detection loop in the road itself. You know, just like speed traps have been working for decades?

Heck, just leave the ALPR part out of the cameras altogether in order to save costs: have them upload the images to an ALPR service running somewhere in the cloud. You're probably already going to need the uploading part anyways in order to provide evidence, so why even bother with local ALPR?
by arp242 | 2025-08-02 20:52:29+00:00
Some journalist shows up with a somewhat implausible story and can tell any lie to convince you it's real. I can see how an MP might fall for it, and it's a mistake to think you're somehow above that. We also don't see any of the false positives; did they go "MP shopping" and we only saw the ones that did fall for it?
by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-02 20:52:52+00:00
So what happens when they achieve AGI? Will a benevolent network of vastly smarter-than-human intelligences insist on maintaining the wealth hierarchies that humans had before AGI arrived? Isn't the point of AGI removing scarcity?

I worry that those who became billionaires in the AI boom won't want the relative status of their wealth to become moot once AGI hits. Most likely this will come in the form of artificial barriers to using AI that, for ostensible safety reasons, makes it prohibitively difficult for all but the wealthiest or AGI-lab adjacent social circles to use.

This will cause a natural exacerbation of the existing wealth disparities, as if you have access to a smarter AI than everyone else, you can leverage your compute to be tactically superior in any domain with a reward.

All we can hope for is a general benevolence and popular consensus that avoids a runaway race to the bottom effect as a result of all this.
by john01dav | 2025-08-02 20:53:02+00:00
When I used a small local ISP that did not support ipv6 before switching to AT&T fiber¹ I tried to set this up, but they demand an email on a non-gmail domain, and I wasn't going to pay to set that up nor was I going to use my work email. It's a bad assumption that any non-malicious user cares enough about websites to have one.

1: I'd prefer to have stayed with the local ISP despite the lack of ipv6, but they wanted $8,000 to bring fiber to my new place and that was not worth it with at&t fiber being present.