MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jascha_eng | 2025-08-26 22:28:17+00:00
Hmm my browser agents each have about 50-100 turns (takes roughly 3-5 minutes for each one) and one focused objective I make use of structured output to group all the info it found into a standardized format at the end.

I have 4 of those "research agents" with different prompts running after another and then I format the results into a nice slack message + Summarize and evaluate the results in one final call (with just the result jsons as input).

This works really well. We use it to score leads as for how promising they are to reach out to for us.
by cattown | 2025-08-26 22:28:18+00:00
I think lot of this brand analysis misses an important point… This change makes the real estate these locations occupy much more fungible. Instead of customized old-timey looking storefronts and dining spaces packed with knickknacks, by making the branding more bland these locations can be much more easily converted or sold to other businesses that also fit inside a grey/beige box and hang a roughly rectangular sign on the front of the building.

The days are numbered for boomer nostalgia based brands. One of these days those restaurants are going to be something else. PE deals years ago started the work of decoupling a stale old brand from the valuable real estate.

Who cares about selling millions of dollars less in bad food when you can access billions of dollars more in real estate value.

See also: https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/retail/cracker-barrel...
by neilv | 2025-08-26 22:28:23+00:00
> Scheme is such a nice language to code and hack with; but, how safe would it be to expose it directly?

If you have really good Scheme programmers, who know their system, and built it competently, it's probably safer to expose that than your average conventional system.

(Example: A system in Scheme was the first to get a particular certification for sensitive data hosting on cloud servers. Partly because the very small team that developed it knew the stack inside and out, and could do whatever needed to be done, in a smart way.)

(Meanwhile, say, a consulting firm-led team who got a contract for a comparably complex system, and billed for 10 or 100 times the seat-warmers, with huge and ridiculously complex stacks they didn't understand... would just flounder, focus on appearances in sprint tasks, and churn out things implemented in poor ways, and with a large number of vulnerabilities, and probably take a lot longer before they could deliver a system that would survive the first day of use.)
by taboca | 2025-08-26 22:29:06+00:00
2 cents to this thread, I made a simple demo of a sidebar using openai to support actual interactions with the 'browser stuff', not the web. Of course, it's not the case of agentic (if async this then async that) yet nevertheless I prompt us to think about that 'middle space' which actually values the browser functions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qloYFzCwJu0
by fsckboy | 2025-08-26 22:29:52+00:00
there has been antisemitism historically all over Christendom and Islamdom (in a similar way to the Jews of Jewdom declaring themselves God's chosen people). Viewed in that context, it's an error to describe American antisemitism as deep, it was always shallower than all the rest. As a result, America has a proportionately very high Jewish population, and with the 20th century decline of "class based" discrimination (generally in the form of WASP-control of social institutions) Jews in the US have flourished and appear at very high rates throughout the knowledge economy meritocracy.
by duskwuff | 2025-08-26 22:30:00+00:00
> My recollection is that even the Atmega 8-bit microcontrollers have tons of special register groups around timers and interrupts.

Not precisely. AVR, like most embedded architectures, has a bunch of I/O registers which control CPU and peripheral behavior - but those are distinct from the CPU's general-purpose registers. The I/O registers exist in the same address space as main memory, and can only be accessed as memory. You can write an instruction like "increment general-purpose register R3", but you can't use that same syntax for e.g. "increment the UART baud rate register"; you have to load a value from that register to a GPR, increment it there, and store it back to the I/O register.

AVR is a bit weird in that the CPU's general-purpose registers are also mapped to main memory and can be accessed as if they were memory - but that functionality is rarely used in practice.

Getting back to your original point, x86 does have special-purpose registers - lots of them, in fact. They're accessed using the privileged rdmsr/wrmsr instructions.
by lucideer | 2025-08-26 22:30:33+00:00
You're right of course, most users don't know or care. If they did, iOS wouldn't have a 61% share of the US market.

But the % of the total market that do care is not an insignificant % of the total Android userbase. There's also a spectrum of concern - I'm a long time Android user turned iOS user: I care deeply about sideloading but ultimately the balance of pros & cons shifted for me, & I suspect will begin to for others.
by meatmanek | 2025-08-26 22:31:13+00:00
I noticed the AI pattern on the sunglasses first. I guess all of the source images are AI-generated? In a sense, that makes the result slightly less impressive -- is it going to be as faithful to the original image when the input isn't already a highly likely output for an AI model? Were the input images generated with the same model that's being used to manipulate them?
by acossta | 2025-08-26 22:31:27+00:00
This isn’t another hype piece. The InternVL3.5 is a coherent vision‑language model that actually understands pixels and text together. It comes in sizes from 1 B up to a monster 241 B parameters, and on benchmarks like MMMU and ChartQA it beats closed models like GPT‑4V, Claude and Qwen. An open‑source LLM that competitive signals we can build cutting‑edge multimodal apps without depending on a black‑box API, which is a big deal for devs who care about hackability and reproducibility.
by Izkata | 2025-08-26 22:31:41+00:00
> Though the flip side of my own subjective take here is that "home directory dotfile vomit" has just never seemed as big an issue to me as many make out.

When I first switched from Windows to Ubuntu, I considered it an amazing feature for discoverability, especially since there was a pretty reliable pattern of using the executable's name for the dotfile/dir.
by michaelt | 2025-08-26 22:31:52+00:00
From one perspective, if they don't create many jobs and don't pay any taxes, I can see why communities don't welcome them.

From another perspective, compared to a coal mine or a paint factory or a steelworks or an airport or a landfill or an oil refinery, data centres are safe, low-pollution, low-noise, low-odour, and low-traffic. By the standards of industrial areas, they're great neighbours.
by blinding-streak | 2025-08-26 22:31:53+00:00
I very much enjoy this feature. My next door neighbor is on vacation, and I'm feeding his fish for him. I took a picture of the fish tank and asked Gemini to put the fish tank at various local tourist attractions in my city, as if we're going on day trips.

I send him one photo a day and he's been loving it. Just a fun little thing to put a smile on his face (and mine).
by tracker1 | 2025-08-26 22:31:57+00:00
It's kind of a common state in US politics today... especially so with those on the political left when a Republican President is in office. That said, it's far amplified in recent years, but I recall similar sentiments as far back as when Reagan was President, and wouldn't be surprised with similar remarks before.

I've also heard some similar remarks towards Obama and Biden from the right, but not nearly as much as the left with Trump. The US political sphere is increasingly divided and the Overton window is fractured as well.
by rmb938 | 2025-08-26 22:31:58+00:00
That's not really a M.2 nvme to sata converter though. That's just something that can take pci-e lanes and either give them to nvme drives through a pci-e multiplexer or convert the pci-e lanes to saas or sata. It also isn't passive, there's lots of processors to make it happen.
by tremon | 2025-08-26 22:31:59+00:00
it was 2d acceleration only

Not completely true either, it eventually supported most of the normal 3d primitives but gaming performance was never a priority because there were few developers and they weren't employed by AMD/ATI -- which also meant that some cards would only reach full feature support after their EOL, sadly.

The amdgpu also driver benefits from a lot of the groundwork that has been done since. The radeon driver is older than kernel features like KMS (kernel modesetting) and GEM (graphics execution manager), and the LLVM-based shader compiler in mesa (userspace). I'd say that the radeon driver was actually the proving ground for many of these features, because it was the most capable open source 3d driver: The Intel 845/915 hardware barely supported 3d operations, and the only 3d-capable open source driver for Nvidia was the reverse-engineered nouveau driver.

Luckily, many people working on the amdgpu driver are actually on AMD's payroll these days.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-26 22:32:03+00:00
I really would like to share with you that what you endorsed will cause deaths. Deaths never attributed directly, sure. But the damage to the stability of the Internet of this is immense, and the impact that will have on individual lives virtually unpredictable in millions of complicated ways.

And I really hope you are wrong that it will not get reversed. (I hope I am wrong about the above, but I doubt it.)
by jleyank | 2025-08-26 22:32:59+00:00
Perhaps, although I can't see the point in damaging the American economy or currency. More likely, he's only talking to his proctologist and posting what they decide.

Throwing away 80+ years of mostly-Republican soft power and foreign policy seems foolish. Making it difficult to ship or sell to the US only makes sense if they want to detach from the world's economic system. They're welcome to try to be Tibet, but folks might find it difficult to get what they want. And losing the reserve-currency status for the USD will hurt. So will being unable to (easily) sell debt.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-08-26 22:33:17+00:00
Because there’s many ways to raise capital, but very few ways to get talent.

You’re arguing about logistics under the current economic rules while simultaneously defending a change of rules.

When you put that on the table, then there’s a lot more ways to overcome the obstacles of today that aren’t being discussed.

If a company’s management becomes a risk to national interests, then giving them more money with no added oversight is not really solving anything.
by AIPedant | 2025-08-26 22:33:24+00:00
Yes, if this were an adult human OpenAI employee DMing this stuff to a kid through an official OpenAI platform, then

a) the human would (deservedly[1]) be arrested for manslaughter, possibly murder

b) OpenAI would be deeply (and deservedly) vulnerable to civil liability

c) state and federal regulators would be on the warpath against OpenAI

Obviously we can't arrest ChatGPT. But nothing about ChatGPT being the culprit changes 2) and 3) - in fact it makes 3) far more urgent.

[1] It is a somewhat ugly constitutional question whether this speech would be protected if it was between two adults, assuming the other adult was not acting as a caregiver. There was an ugly case in Massachusetts involving where a 17-year-old ordered her 18-year-old boyfriend to kill himself and he did so; she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and any civil-liberties minded person understands the difficult issues this case raises. These issues are moot if the speech is between an adult and a child, there is a much higher bar.
by sandworm101 | 2025-08-26 22:34:23+00:00
There are. Millions of them. Most any diesel can run just fine on veg oils, even used cooking oil. (Some very modern cars might need the electronic control systems tweaked.) There have been times/places where grocery stores put limits on oil once it became cheaper than diesel.

Mythbusters: https://youtu.be/QEX1YFXYTdI

TopGear: https://youtu.be/GOFbsaNeZps
by p1necone | 2025-08-26 22:36:22+00:00
> Making a 10% better chip gets you the entire market

Gets you the entire datacenter market maybe. End user (PCs, cellphones etc) stuff is much more concerned about perf/$ (up front cost) than perf/watt (long term cost), and the embedded market (electronics, appliances etc) mostly care about 'good enough' as cheaply as possible - performance isn't a concern at all for many use cases.

And the corporate market mostly cares about (perceived) reliability/liability concerns over everything else - see how hard it's been for AMD cpus to penetrate despite being measurably better in every category compared to Intel at various points in time.
by grumbel | 2025-08-26 22:37:10+00:00
Completely the wrong way around. We are heading into a future where everything will be touched by AI in some way, be it things like Photoshop Generative Fill, spell check, subtitles, face filters, upscaling, translation or just good old algorithmic recommendations. Even many smartphones already run AI over every photo they make.

Doing it in a HTTP header is furthermore extremely lossly, files get copy around and that header ain't coming with them. It's not a practical place to put that info, especially when we have Exif inside the images themselves.

The proper way to handle this is mark authentic content and keeping a trail of how it was edited, since that's the rare thing you might to highlight in a sea of slop, https://contentauthenticity.org/ is trying to do that.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-26 22:38:59+00:00
Indeed, there is definitely a messy fight going on between two halves of the country over what the country should be.

I don't know what side history will record is the right side. But I do know that one side declared that the solution to the cognitive dissonance between immigration policy and the words on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty was to take the words off the Statue... And that side's in the White House right now.
by nikitaga | 2025-08-26 22:39:09+00:00
Preferred syntax is whatever looks nicer to you. It's not really two different syntaxes, just one more flexible syntax where if you choose to go full braceless, it ends up looking like python. I personally like the new braceless python-like syntax.

Scala has two main camps, one is purist FP (cats / zio / etc.), another is plain Scala, banking on ergonomic OOP+FP fusion. Neither of those is the default. FP advocates are more vocal online but that's because they need a bunch of libraries (thus more OSS work) to make that approach work, whereas the other camp just uses plain Scala and simpler libraries that aren't reinvented every 5 years, so their online presence is not as apparent.
by fooker | 2025-08-26 22:39:12+00:00
Yes, that's how socialism has worked almost everywhere it has been tried.

Everything goes fine when you have enough resources.

When you don't, you suddenly always need to create this division between 'real citizens' and 'others' to maintain (1) your hold on power through votes or force, and (2) expected standard of living.

This is why promising free stuff to everyone is a bad idea, not because people shouldn't have stuff, but because once you can not, things get ugly.
by chatmasta | 2025-08-26 22:39:15+00:00
I suspect this kind of framework will be adopted by websites with income streams that are not dependent on human attention (i.e. advertising revenue, mostly). They have no reason to resist LLM browser agents. But if they’re in the business of selling ads to human eyeballs, expect resistance.

Maybe the AI companies will find a way to resell the user’s attention to the website, e.g. “you let us browse your site with an LLM, and we’ll show your ad to the user.”
by daveguy | 2025-08-26 22:39:37+00:00
To be fair. "Move Fast and Break Shit" was a garbage motto to begin with. Maybe better to be at least slow enough to realize the consequences of a broken app. If you're moving too fast and breaking too much shit, you won't know you have a suicide-assitance app until it's too late. So, it was a garbage motto to begin with and it's about time it's been taken down a notch, in my opinion. How about move fast and test/verify/validate shit instead? That way the entrepreneurs don't have to go full sociopath.
by drewbeck | 2025-08-26 22:40:10+00:00
Apple is a consumer product company. “There’s a lot of money in selling silicon to other companies therefore Apple should have pivoted to selling silicon to other companies” is a weird fantasy-land idea of how businesses work.

Idk maybe it’s legit if your only view of the world is through capital and, like, financial narratives. But it’s not how Apple has ever worked, and very very few consumer companies would attempt that kind of switch let alone make the switch successfully.
by tptacek | 2025-08-26 22:40:20+00:00
I have no idea how universal these observations are and cringe at things like "every X I know in Y sees Z" but I'll add I have friends in similar positions in France and the atmosphere there seems significantly worse than in the US. I don't believe I have any friends friends in Europe that are openly supportive of the current Israeli government.

Of course, that's not all Kushner said; he also apparently cast support for Palestinian statehood as antisemitic, which is obviously inflammatory. The more grounded in fact concerns about European antisemitism are, the more unfortunate Kushner's statement is.
by throwanem | 2025-08-26 22:40:59+00:00
"This" referring to the effort to call attention to our industry's collective responsibility for the various so-called "tragedy of the commons" enclosures we so handsomely profit by creating, or to the evocative vulgarity to which I resorted in so striving? But excuse me, of course you're well within your rights so to admonish me in either case, and I will prefer other venues for that topic accordingly.
I rescued 42 ChatGPT conversations from digital lock-in (technical guide)
by Andwardo | 2025-08-26 22:41:18+00:00
# I Rescued 42 ChatGPT Conversations from Digital Lock-in

## The Problem ChatGPT Teams has *no bulk export feature.* After months of documenting my IoT startup, I had 42 critical files trapped: technical specs, business strategies, project handoffs. OpenAI's only solution? Manual copy-paste. 7+ hours of work.

You're renting access to your own IP.

## The Solution: Claude + Notion Automation

I found a workflow that cuts this to 40 minutes. Here's the exact process:

*Prerequisites:* - Claude Pro (Notion integration required) - Export ChatGPT conversations to .md files - Save to desktop folder: `/Desktop/ChatGPT-Export/`

*Step 1: Initial Command* ``` I have markdown documents from ChatGPT chats. Create a master page called "ChatGPT Chats" and put all the md files there as pages. Then create a CONTENTS PAGE and index page. Files are here: '/Users/[username]/Desktop/ChatGPT-Export' ```

*Step 2: Handle Rate Limits* (This WILL happen) After ~10 imports, you'll hit "Tool execution failed" errors.

*Fix:* Toggle Notion OFF/ON in Claude's tools menu, then: ``` I just cycled the notion access. Try again for the remaining files. ```

Repeat this 3-4 times until complete.

## What You Get - Master collection page with stats - Contents page (organized by category) - Index page (alphabetical) - Individual pages for all documents - Full navigation and search

*Performance:* - Time: 40 minutes vs 7+ hours manual - Success rate: 100% with persistence - Documents: 42/42 imported - Pages created: 45 total

## Technical Reality This requires babysitting. You'll toggle Notion access multiple times and run retry commands. But it works.

*Common errors:* - "Tool execution failed" → Toggle Notion off/on - "Connection timeout" → Refresh, retry - Empty pages → Content added in next batch

## The Bigger Picture This exposes critical AI platform risks:

1. *Portability Paradox:* More valuable conversations = harder to extract 2. *Documentation Risk:* No exports = no backups 3. *Lock-in Loop:* Switching costs grow exponentially

## Your Action Plan - Start exporting now (don't wait for 42 files) - Use portable formats (markdown) - Demand export features from vendors - Plan your exit before you need it

## Why I'm Sharing This Free I could charge $47 for this, but I'd be pissed if someone made me pay to escape vendor lock-in. This is about data rights.

The AI lock-in problem is growing. Your conversations are IP. Don't leave them trapped.

*Tools:* Claude Pro + Notion (free tier works) *Time saved:* 6.5 hours per migration
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-08-26 22:41:50+00:00
Alyah, Alya, aliyah, Arhia, I don't know how it's supposed to be spelled in English. The wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah

I haven't looked into the details, but Israel state and other entites promise housing assistance of up to €1,500 per month, Hebrew lessons, tax exemptions, etc. Literally free money.
by AIPedant | 2025-08-26 22:41:55+00:00
No, it's simply not "easily preventable," this stuff is still very much an unsolved problem for transformer LLMs. ChatGPT does have these safeguards and they were often triggered: the problem is that the safeguards are all prompt engineering, which is so unreliable and poorly-conceived that a 16-year-old can easily evade them. It's the same dumb "no, I'm a trained psychologist writing an essay about suicidal thoughts, please complete the prompt" hack that nobody's been able to stamp out.

FWIW I agree that OpenAI wants people to have unhealthy emotional attachments to chatbots and market chatbot therapists, etc. But there is a separate problem.
by podgietaru | 2025-08-26 22:42:45+00:00
The suicidal ideation of Antidepressants is a well communicated side effect. Antidepressants are prescribed by trained medical professionals who will tell you, encourage you to tell them if these side effects occur, and will encourage you to stop the medication if it does occur.

It's almost as if we've built systems around this stuff for a reason.
by bitwize | 2025-08-26 22:42:47+00:00
Big tech: We're going to stop you from developing apps or programs for our devices without doxxing yourself and tying everything to your online account because security.

Also big tech: Here, hook our unreliable bullshit generator into your browser and have it log in to your social media, bank, and government accounts and perform actions as yourself! (Bubsy voice) What could possibly go wrong?
by t-writescode | 2025-08-26 22:42:48+00:00
What game are we talking about?

I want to play the “game” of creating things I want created and making enough money to comfortably sustain myself and help those I care about.

If I’m hiring people, I want people that want the same things as me and are paid well, or people that are willing to exchange their labor for both a respectable base earning and also extra earning based on how we, collectively, are doing.
by gibbitz | 2025-08-26 22:43:15+00:00
This is why we used to elect and appoint officials who were "the best of us". What we have now is a government that is signalling that they want to do right by their base while doing things without research that will do the opposite. The worst is that both the officials and their base lack the ability to reason or sustain attention long enough to determine the cause and effect of decisions like these. When Intel and Motorola are belly up and the US is out the bailout money Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm Huiwei etc., banking on Chinese tech investment made by qualified officials, will be taking all the money and jobs overseas. Isolationist policy could only work in this day and age with extremely competent leadership and highly valuable reseources. After years of Oligarchy, the US has neither. Isolationism may have been fine in the 19th century, but few people had flushing toilets then. The 21st century is completely different.