MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by positron26 | 2025-08-12 22:13:21+00:00
Any theory of everything will often have a little perpetual motion machine at the nexus. These can be fascinating to the mind.

Pressing through uncertainty either requires a healthy appetite for risk or an engine of delusion. A person who struggles to get out of their comfort zone will seek enablement through such a device.

Appreciation of risk-reward will throttle trips into the unknown. A person using a crutch to justify everything will careen hyperbolically into more chaotic and erratic behaviors hoping to find that the device is still working, seeking the thrill of enablement again.

The extremism comes from where once the user learned to say hello to a stranger, their comfort zone has expanded to an area that their experience with risk-reward is underdeveloped. They don't look at the external world to appreciate what might happen. They try to morph situations into some confirmation of the crutch and the inferiority of confounding ideas.

"No, the world isn't right. They are just weak and the unspoken rules [in the user's mind] are meant to benefit them." This should always resonate because nobody will stand up for you like you have a responsibility to.

A study of uncertainty and the limitations of axioms, the inability of any sufficiently expressive formalism to be both complete and consistent, these are the ideas that are antidotes to such things. We do have to leave the rails from time to time, but where we arrive will be another set of rails and will look and behave like rails, so a bit of uncertainty is necessary, but it's not some magic hat that never runs out of rabbits.

Another psychology that will come into play from those who have left their comfort zone is the inability to revert. It is a harmful tendency to presume all humans fixed quantities. Once a behavior exists, the person is said to be revealed, not changed. The proper response is to set boundaries and be ready to tie off the garbage bag and move on if someone shows remorse and desire to revert or transform. Otherwise every relationship only gets worse. If instead you can never go back, extreme behavior is a ratchet. Ever mistake becomes the person.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-12 22:13:24+00:00
Even if this is a hyperbolic comment just to say that the world is changing, it is just so weird to say things in this way. It feels very unserious and makes me think that anything he says should be seen that way, as something just made up. Isn’t he self aware enough from his experience to know this? How do you get wrapped up in your world enough to not understand how it sounds to others?

But also … if others here have not seen the interview this is from, it is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmtuvNfytjM

And like other Sam Altman interviews, he just does not answer a lot of the questions he is asked. It’s frustrating but also really slimy.
by pvtmert | 2025-08-12 22:13:54+00:00
not trying to be sarcastic but;

> if i were starbucks, i would 100% try this

which is why you _are_ not starbucks

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imagine the multitude of laws and regulations in multitude of countries, if you offer co-working space, then you must also register as a landlord, handle mails (not the electronic ones, physical mails), business registrations, etc.

there will be people who would want to stay in after-hours, even if the store is not open. obviously they are paying the rent, hence they have the right to do so.

people will reserve tables/seats, what happens if it's over-booked? there are certain "cool" locations which are extremely busy hot-spots meanwhile others are pretty chill...
by rzz3 | 2025-08-12 22:13:55+00:00
It’s also really good for me as a very senior engineer with serious ADHD. Sometimes I get very mentally blocked, and telling Claude Code to plan and implement a feature gives me a really valuable starting point and has a way of unblocking me. For me it’s easier to elaborate off of an existing idea or starting point and refactor than start a whole big thing from zero on my own.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-12 22:15:24+00:00
> i thought it was strategic - to ensure global dominance in tech

I don't like the way this is phrased because it nearly implies that doing this is an advantage to the US population.

"Preventing foreign dominance in tech" is plausibly a legitimate goal. Preventing a foreign tech monopoly is a good thing. But the assumption that this can only be achieved by a domestic one is the fallacy. A domestic monopoly is still a disadvantage compared to a competitive market with a multitude of domestic companies.

Unless you're an authoritarian that wants to leverage the monopoly for the purposes of e.g. censorship. But then you're an enemy whose goal is to harm even the domestic population.
by danielspace23 | 2025-08-12 22:15:29+00:00
Just an fyi for everyone: while Tangled is built partly on top of ATProto, it differs from its component architecture widely, as the tasks that should be done by the AppView are offloaded to "knots", self-hostable servers specific to Tangled that do most of the Git heavy lifting. It violates the "user data stays on the PDS" principle, as repo data stay on knots, not in PDSes. As far as I know, no other ATProto application has a similiar architecture.
by minaguib | 2025-08-12 22:15:32+00:00
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by kergonath | 2025-08-12 22:15:54+00:00
> Empathy is not required for logical coherence.

It is. If you don’t have any you cannot understand other people’s perspective and you can reason logically about them. You have a broken model of the world.

> Bias toward anyone’s relative perspective is unnecessary for logically coherent thought.

Empathy is not bias. It’s understanding, which is definitely required for logically coherent thoughts.
by swat535 | 2025-08-12 22:16:25+00:00
> If you have to review what the LLM wrote then there is no productivity gain.

You always have to review the code, whether it's written by another person, yourself or an AI.

I'm not sure how this translates into the loss of productivity?

Did you mean to say that the code AI generates is difficult to review? In those cases, it's the fault of the code author and not the AI.

Using AI like any other tool requires experience and skill.
by slt2021 | 2025-08-12 22:16:29+00:00
same could be said of famines like the one in China or Soviet Union or ones in Africa: they simply needed to pay up for food, if they were really that hungry

your logic erases nuance of the US labor market and infinity of specializations and niches, on top or large regional differences in labor market.

let's just say that nurses will never be paid on par with software engineers just because it is different specialty, and it is stupid to force nurses to compete with IT for visas
Show HN: Build agents directly in your notes and tables
by wordongu | 2025-08-12 22:16:48+00:00
I'm building a workspace for doing focus work while also managing constant multi-tasking and context-switching that's required in a lot of roles. Currently this is done by using a notes system where we can split-screen AI chat, an object-based data table system for tracking entities, as well as viewing other documents.

We can define agents directly from documents by giving instructions in plain language and then defining the trigger conditions. This helps automate workflows directly in the place where we're reading and writing content.

I'm continuing to experiment with instructions and templates to figure out the best ways to automate tasks like content creation and responding to emails or leads.
by brucehoult | 2025-08-12 22:16:59+00:00
It is not! That is super misleading.

For normal program code it is closer to a Pi 4 than to a Pi 3, similar to the all the very popular A55s board that have come out more recently than the Pi 4.

The only way it is slower than a Pi 3 is if the Pi 3 program is using SIMD (Neon), which the VisionFive 2 lacks.

The worst part of this Pi 3 comparison is that the Pi 3 has only 512MB or 1GB of RAM, which is extremely limiting in the modern world. This RISC-V board comes with a *minimum* of 2GB and is available with 8GB for $37.

The RAM difference alone makes many things possible that are impossible on a Pi 3, and many other things much faster, regardless of the raw CPU speed.

And then you have the M.2 NVMe SSD, something that neither the Pi 3 nor Pi 4 support, which again makes a whole raft of things much faster, even if the single lane means it can "only" do something near 400 MB/s (vs SD cards at 40 or 80 MB/s)
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-12 22:17:08+00:00
> There has been people claiming that "their work will stop scaling any time now" for some 12 years. (To be fair, it can't scale forever and seems to have stopped scaling by now.)

Their work kept scaling, they just branched out into generative AI to keep going. Now, eventually they won't be able to scale up or branch out anymore, and I guess your bet is that this will happen before AGI is reached?
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-12 22:17:11+00:00
Did you?

There was nothing clearly stating any dates or years.

Just like you did, I assumed what you said all happened in the past three weeks.

Especially since I said[0]:

"Once, as a child because I wasn't paying attention. As a teen? Several attempts on the subway, on the street and other places. As an adult? On the Brooklyn Bridge."

Because we grow up fast here in NYC. A month ago I was a child. Now I'm pushing 60. All in the past three weeks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44879506
by Someone | 2025-08-12 22:17:24+00:00
Levenshtein distance up to 1, according to that article. If you have a hierarchical structure (trie or a DAG; in some sense, a DAG is a trie, but stored more efficiently, with the disadvantage that adding or removing words is hard) with valid words, it is not hard to check what words satisfy that. If you only do the inexact search after looking for the exact word and finding it missing I think it also won’t be too slow when given ‘normal’ text to spell-check.
by pron | 2025-08-12 22:17:44+00:00
> Symbols, by definition, only represent a thing. They are not the same as the thing

First of all, the point isn't about the map becoming the territory, but about whether LLMs can form a map that's similar to the map in our brains.

But to your philosophical point, assuming there are only a finite number of things and places in the universe - or at least the part of which we care about - why wouldn't they be representable with a finite set of symbols?

What you're rejecting is the Church-Turing thesis [1] (essentially, that all mechanical processes, including that of nature, can be simulated with symbolic computation, although there are weaker and stronger variants). It's okay to reject it, but you should know that not many people do (even some non-orthodox thoughts by Penrose about the brain not being simulatable by an ordinary digital computer still accept that some physical machine - the brain - is able to represent what we're interested in).

> If we accept the incompleteness theorem

There is no if there. It's a theorem. But it's completely irrelevant. It means that there are mathematical propositions that can't be proven or disproven by some system of logic, i.e. by some mechanical means. But if something is in the universe, then it's already been proven by some mechanical process: the mechanics of nature. That means that if some finite set of symbols could represent the laws of nature, then anything in nature can be proven in that logical system. Which brings us back to the first point: the only way the mechanics of nature cannot be represented by symbols is if they are somehow infinite, i.e. they don't follow some finite set of laws. In other words - there is no physics. Now, that may be true, but if that's the case, then AI is the least of our worries.

Of course, if physics does exist - i.e. the universe is governed by a finite set of laws - that doesn't mean that we can predict the future, as that would entail both measuring things precisely and simulating them faster than their operation in nature, and both of these things are... difficult.

[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/
by jorams | 2025-08-12 22:17:45+00:00
Two of them being at 0.5 brings the total to 1.5 vCPU, which over an entire month adds about another 375 compute hours for an extra $60, which is still much lower. Indeed autoscaling seems like it could be the cause. According to the documentation that's a setting you can configure per "compute", but I don't know if it's the default.
by kergonath | 2025-08-12 22:17:58+00:00
> A lot of companies I know have "kindness/empathy" in their value or even promote it as part of the company philosophy to the point it has already become a cliché (and so new companies explicitly avoid to put it explicitly)

That’s purely performative, though. As sincere as the net zero goals from last year that were dropped as soon as Trump provided some cover. It is not empathy, it is a façade.
by pvtmert | 2025-08-12 22:19:06+00:00
simply, even cleaning and keeping it tidy is a quadratic equation compared to the space available. people leave their garbage behind or spill their coffee, making a single table somewhat unusable for some time. there are already min. number of employees, mostly busy at the bar. having extra space equals requiring more hands for cleaning, hence cost not linearly increasing but quadratic with the square meter.

another thing is, if the space gets full, people get out anyway, but chance to buy stuff.

for example, let's see there are 2 empty tables right now, you get in to the line, there are 6 people in the queue. imagine 3 of them somewhat occupies the those 2 empty tables, even if you resign the idea of getting coffee, i guarantee you that at least 1 of the other 2 would still get coffee but just move to a nearby park or bench. which starbucks obviously does not pay the rent for...
Show HN: Doom port to pure Go – Gore
by EstIgnavus | 2025-08-12 22:19:08+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been working on Gore – a port of the classic Doom engine written in pure Go, based on a ccgo C-to-Go translation of Doom Generic. It loads original WAD files, uses a software renderer (no SDL or CGO, or Go dependencies outside the standard library). Still has a bit of unsafe code that I'm trying to get rid of, and various other caveats.

In the examples is a terminal-based renderer, which is entertaining, even though it's very hard to play with terminal-style input/output.

The goal is a clean, cross-platform, Go-native take on the Doom engine – fun to hack on, easy to read, and portable.

Code and instructions are at https://github.com/AndreRenaud/Gore

Would love feedback or thoughts.
by brulard | 2025-08-12 22:19:13+00:00
For me it was like this for like a year (using Cline + Sonnet & Gemini) until Claude Code came out and until I learned how to keep context real clean. The key breakthrough was treating AI as an architect/implementer rather than a code generator.

Most recently I ask first CC to create a design document for what we are going to do. He has instructions to look into the relevant parts of the code and docs to reference them. I review it and few back-and-forths we have defined what we want to do. Next step is to chunk it into stages and even those to smaller steps. All this may take few hours, but after this is well defined, I clear the context. I then let him read the docs and implement one stage. This goes mostly well and if it doesn't I either try to steer him to correct it, or if it's too bad, I improve the docs and start this stage over. After stage is complete, we commit, clear context and proceed to next stage.

This way I spend maybe a day creating a feature that would take me maybe 2-3. And at the end we have a document, unit tests, storybook pages, and features that gets overlooked like accessibility, aria-things, etc.

At the very end I like another model to make a code review.

Even if this didn't make me faster now, I would consider it future-proofing myself as a software engineer as these tools are improving quickly
by bobajeff | 2025-08-12 22:19:34+00:00
Well I don't know what the market for these companies putting out RISC-V processors and SBCs are going for but I'm hoping they will take support at least as seriously as Raspberry Pi. Maybe none of them will but I'd hope that given that they can't get those economies of scale that they'd make the most of the hobbyist SBC market.
Stripe suspended our account without clear reason – need advice
by markdoppler | 2025-08-12 22:20:39+00:00
Hi HN,

My co-founder and I have been building ArtificialStudio.ai since 2023, a SaaS platform similar to RunwayML and Krea.ai that allows marketers and agencies to easily use AI models for image and video generation.

Two days ago, our Stripe account was suspended without prior warning. We believe this might be due to 1 chargeback we received last month — not because of fraud, but because some users accidentally purchased an annual subscription instead of a monthly one. We refunded all of them and updated our checkout UX so the monthly plan is now the default option.

We comply with all of Stripe’s policies, and similar platforms in our industry (RunwayML, Krea.ai) operate on Stripe without issues.

We’ve contacted Stripe through email and the dashboard, but so far have only received automated responses. This is a critical moment for us, as our MRR has been growing fast and this freeze puts the business at risk.

Has anyone here been through a similar situation with Stripe? Any advice or contacts within Stripe that could help us escalate this?

Thanks for any help you can offer.
by brucehoult | 2025-08-12 22:21:13+00:00
OTHER than the ridiculous instruction decoding, which is still today very slow for cold code on even the newest x86 cores.

Once you've decoded the crazy x86 instructions into µops in the µop cache then, yes, it avoided the worst CISC mistakes of multiple memory accesses (and potential page faults) in one instruction via having only one memory operand per instruction and not having indirect addressing.
by tux3 | 2025-08-12 22:22:00+00:00
>Like, trivially, it's an ASIC, so I can use it to simulate a von Neumann[*] machine

No, that doesn't follow at all. An ASIC doesn't mean a general purpose CPU or FPGA. A chip that only knows how to do, say, video decoding is an example of ASIC. The video chip can't do bitcoin, the bitcoin chip can't do monero. They're not general purpose.
by umanwizard | 2025-08-12 22:22:37+00:00
The members of the French Academy are not linguists. They are mostly writers or academics from other fields (history, philosophy, etc). If you can read French, check here: https://www.academie-francaise.fr/les-immortels/les-quarante...

> And members of these institutions are very much considered the top of their field in their countries.

Maybe, but their field isn't linguistics.
by nahuel0x | 2025-08-12 22:22:38+00:00
The Great War (WWI), before it there was a period that we call now the "First Globalization" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_globalization ), then the war erupts after commercial wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1906%E2%80%931908) ) . The killing of Franz Ferdinand was only the excuse, the base were the commercial and imperialist contradictions. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_war and https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e3459444f34457a6333566d54/...

WWII was also preceded by tariffs wars.
by aredox | 2025-08-12 22:22:54+00:00
It is easy: he is a proven liar who is ready to endanger other people. He lied about his flight plan and imposed himself to a remote base in one of the most inhospitable regions of Earth. Had anything happened to him, rescuers would have had to risk their lives; he got lucky but right now, he is eating into the base's reserves of food, water, energy and fuel.

I can guarantee you 100% he doesn't care for a second about sick kids, the same way he doesn't care for a second about the people on the base.
by brucehoult | 2025-08-12 22:24:49+00:00
The Milk-V Duo is also under 5 euro, but is a full 1.0 GHz 64 bit Linux machine with MMU, FPU, 128 bit vector unit. Only 64MB RAM, but the only slightly more expensive Duo 256M and Duo S (512MB) increase that to Pi Zero levels for still under $10.
by gausswho | 2025-08-12 22:24:57+00:00
I still don't understand how forcing Google to sell Chrome achieves any of the regulator's goals. The only piece that matters is how Google controls both ends of the advertising market. I wouldn't be surprised if Google is ushering this penalty because its a public slap on the wrist that they can go home laughing about.

Why buy Chrome anyway? Put that $34.5 billion into a team that forks and develops Chromium. Ban Google from developing browsers as well as paying for search preference in other browsers.
by dboreham | 2025-08-12 22:25:23+00:00
Strong agree. Bash is so annoying that there have been many scripts that I wanted to have, but just didn't write (did the thing manually instead) rather than go down the rabbit hole of Bash nonsense. LLMs turn this on its head. I probably have LLMs write 1-2 bash scripts a week now, that I commit to git for use now and later.
by brunohaid | 2025-08-12 22:26:08+00:00
That was one of the weirdest effects of the space - it almost felt like transitioning from affairs to a marriage, in a good way.

Before that, I often used to work out of random / public places, and I when I got really stuck just change scenery. Being able to switch modes built that weird sense of home, knowing that when I get stuck, I can switch modes for a bit and do / work on something else, and no matter what the space would be there for me. Hard to describe without sounding too prosaic, but really glad to have built it.
by furyofantares | 2025-08-12 22:26:45+00:00
My idea: extra stairs on staircases even when you don't need them because LLMS exist.

> 65, "good potenial"

> Model:Freemium SaaS

> Price:$29/month

> Break-even:18 months

> LTV/CAC:4.2x

> Projected MRR:$25K by Year 1
by bithive123 | 2025-08-12 22:27:42+00:00
I clearly do not meet the requirements to use the analogy.

I am hearing the term super intelligence a lot and it seems to me the only form that would take is the machine spitting out a bunch of symbols which either delight or dismay the humans. Which implies they already know what it looks like.

If this technology will advance science or even be useful for everyday life, then surely the propositions it generates will need to hold up to reality, either via axiomatic rigor or empirically. I look forward to finding out if that will happen.

But it's still just a movement from the known to the known, a very limited affair no matter how many new symbols you add in whatever permutation.
by mk_stjames | 2025-08-12 22:27:43+00:00
Well considering the GPT reported '30 cents' a charge, it is either a. considering 3x larger battery than I would consider average e-bike sized (and I got my 500Wh number based on a 10-second google scan), b. price of electricity it is considering is 3x higher (highly doubt it) or c. it is imagining that modern lithium ion charging efficiencies wall-to-battery are way, way worse than they actually are (possible to hallucinate and integrate into its calculation).

Either way, we don't know, and the original commenter doesn't know either, because they didn't google anything about e-bike battery sizes or their local electricity prices and thus didn't take the opportunity to actually learn something.