MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rovmut | 2025-08-12 17:53:06+00:00
You've perfectly articulated the gap in the market. The solution isn't just a better image generator. I built a tool called LayoutCraft to solve this exact problem. It focuses entirely on creating a great layout with good font choices automatically. It uses AI to understand the request, but then applies a structured, programmatic 'blueprint' to build the layout. This is how it handles fonts and spacing properly, resulting in a clean design, not a chaotic image.
by gizmo686 | 2025-08-12 17:54:50+00:00
It's also hard to beat conventional CPUs when transitor density doubles every two years. By the time your small team has crafted their purpose built CPU, the big players will have released a general purpose CPU on the next generation of manufacturing abilities.

I expect that once our manufacturing abilities flatline, we will start seeing more interest in specialized CPUs again, as it will be possible to spend a decade designing your Lisp machine
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-12 17:55:24+00:00
I live in rural areas and drive a Phev. It's piddly 15 mile range sucks and I would love one that does 50. I would be all electric except for long distance, which I do 500 mile trips frequently with poor recharging infrastructure.

I am not some shill for the oil company.

EVs are a huge pain in the ass out here. EV range is a big fat lie as well 400 miles, but it degrades 10%, but you only charged to 90%. If you use AC heat lose another 15% range, 10-20mph permaheadwind out of the west? Another 10%. Choppy stress cracks? Another 5%.

If phevs has been pushed more we would have maximized battery supply to the most electrification of daily miles driven, and they still can.

A recharge engine doesn't need transmissions, gearboxes, and can be smaller and run Atkinson cycle.

The US government continues to botch charging infrastructure, incentives, domestic battery production, etc. Phevs can pave over a great desk of that.
by verall | 2025-08-12 17:55:30+00:00
> This week, I used it to write ESP32 firmware and a Linux kernel driver.

I'm not meaning to be negative at all, but was this for a toy/hobby or for a commercial project?

I find that LLMs do very well on small greenfield toy/hobby projects but basically fall over when brought into commercial projects that often have bespoke requirements and standards (i.e. has to cross compile on qcc, comply with autosar, in-house build system, tons of legacy code laying around maybe maybe not used).

So no shade - I'm just really curious what kind of project you were able get such good results writing ESP32 FW and kernel drivers for :)
by sofixa | 2025-08-12 17:55:53+00:00
> which is an international crime but not a genocide in intent or effect)

Why not? Russia has kidnapped hundreds of thousands of children, gives them for adoption to Russians, and claims that Ukrainians are just confused Russians.

If it smells like a genocide, fits the definition of genocide... it's a genocide.

> The damage to the environment Perplexity and Google (and Kagi) cause with unnecessary AI usage is a much bigger concern to me personally.

Multiple things can be damaging at once.
by bitpush | 2025-08-12 17:55:55+00:00
> Claude’s overall response was consistently around 500 words—Flash and Pro delivered 3,372 and 1,591 words by contrast.

It isnt clear from the article whether the time they quote is time-to-first-token or time to completion. If it is latter, then it makes sense why gemini* would take longer even with similar token throughput.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-08-12 17:56:00+00:00
The bit of the standard that you've quoted says that the program consists of all files that are compiled into it, including all files that are found by the #include directive. So, if <winkle.h> does successfully resolve to something, then it must be part of the program by definition because that's what "the program" means.

Your question about an include file that isn't part of the program just doesn't make any sense.

(Technically it says that those files together make up the "program text". As my other comment says, "program" is the binary output.)
by drozycki | 2025-08-12 17:56:03+00:00
How would a server-side NAT know which Hetzner customer it should route a request to? It has an encrypted packet arriving at this shared address on port 443. You can route a shared address to the proper service based on the HTTP Host header but that can only be done by the customer using their encryption key, so no sharing an address between customers. Home LAN NAT only works because the router can change the source port used by the request so that responses are unambiguously routed to the right client.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-12 17:56:06+00:00
Yes, and the comments would have been nearly the same less the ones specifically referring to Musk.

That said, if you'd hav picked Toyota or Volvo when writing your comment you'd be correct. Those OEMs could literally put coal rolling diesels backed by Nissan CVTs in Yugo chassis and the "everything I know about cars I learned from internet comments and car-mags in my dentist waiting room" crowd would defend them.
by egypturnash | 2025-08-12 17:57:13+00:00
I've always been under the impression that M:tA's rules of How Magic Works are inspired by actual mystical beliefs that people have practiced for centuries. It's probably about as much of a magical for mystical development as the GURPS Cyberpunk rulebook was for cybercrime but it's pointing at something that already exists and saying "this is a thing we are going to tell an exaggerated story about".

See for example "Reality Distortion Field": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
by lytfyre | 2025-08-12 17:57:17+00:00
Vancouver has a plant that harvests heat from sewage to provide district heating and hot water (https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/how-the-utili...) - you don't need super high temperatures for it to be useful. During construction there was talk that the Telus building downtown's in house data centre providing heat to the attached condo building (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/servers/telus-warms-cond...) - I'm unsure if that actually went ahead.

Fundamentally, a limit on doing it at scale is that it for efficiency it requires the heat to be consumed near the production - and the bulk of large power intense data centres are not located in the midst of high density residential neighbourhoods with a demand for heat.
by amatecha | 2025-08-12 17:57:29+00:00
Yeah, that was the most annoying cookie banner I've seen in a while.

Better alternative posts that don't coerce you into agreeing to tracking/etc.:

https://liliputing.com/starfive-visionfive-2-lite-is-a-cheap...

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/07/visionfive-2-lite-lo...
by wayeq | 2025-08-12 17:57:39+00:00
> but there may be no singularity because it takes matter an infinite amount of time to reach the center due to time dilation effects.

The outside observer’s view doesn’t stop physics inside. For a massive black hole, you absolutely do reach the singularity in finite time by your own clock.. likely minutes to hours for the largest ones we've known about so far.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-12 17:57:51+00:00
Wait until you realize that the icon of the period and spacebar don't at all line up to the touch area due to touch gravitation. You can tap slightly more on the spacebar side and still end up with a period. https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1ekszul/comment/lgn...

So if you suffer from this it's not even your fault. You're literally hitting the spacebar but some incentive at Apple in their org structure has led to the period literally having waaaay too much weighting and the lack of exec oversight at Apple in the post Jobs days is leading to us all.typing.periods.whenever.we.just.wanted.to.search.
by curl-up | 2025-08-12 17:57:57+00:00
Note that (in the first test, the only one where output length is reported), Gemini Pro returned more than 3x the amount of text, at less than 2x the amount of time. From my experience with Gemini, that time was probably mainly spent on thinking, length of which is not reported here. So looking at pure TPS of output, Gemini is faster, but without clear info on the thinking time/length, it's impossible to judge.
by lwo32k | 2025-08-12 17:58:06+00:00
This is what Max Weber calls Moral Detachment. These people are not in direct contact with people who suffer. And so their intentions will always be mistrusted. Costs of which will mount with time and manifest in all kinds of shocks and surprises.

Worth looking at why the Church (which has survived much longer than govts, businesses, science/tech orgs) emphasizes direct contact with suffering, through things like Pastoral Care. This is not an accident. They have learnt that lesson the hard way again and again through out history.
by VonGuard | 2025-08-12 17:58:20+00:00
This is actually a known pattern in tech, going back to Engelbart and SRI. While not 1-to-1, you could say that the folks who left SRI for Xerox PARC did so because Engelbart and his crew became obsessed with EST: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training

EST-type training still exists today. You don't eat until the end of the whole weekend, or maybe you get rice and little else. Everyone is told to insult you day one until you cry. Then day two, still having not eaten, they build you up and tell you how great you are and have a group hug. Then they ask you how great you feel. Isn't this a good feeling? Don't you want your loved ones to have this feeling? Still having not eaten, you're then encouraged to pay for your family and friends to do the training, without their knowledge or consent.

A friend of mine did this training after his brother paid for his mom to do it, and she paid for him to do it. Let's just say that, though they felt it changed their lives at the time, their lives in no way shape or form changed. Two are in quite a bad place, in fact...

Anyway, point is, the people who invented everything we are using right now were also susceptible to cult-like groups with silly ideas and shady intentions.
by efitz | 2025-08-12 17:58:22+00:00
Having a dictionary is a prerequisite but is only a small part of the spell check problem. Plus, plain text word lists are slow to parse in the 80s; better going with a Trie or some other exotic tree structure that is naturally compressed but O(log(n)) instead of O(n) to traverse.

The computer has to figure out whether the word is in the dictionary, but it also has to figure out a suggestion for what to change it to.

And even after just that, we already have a bug- homonym mistakes- homonyms are in the dictionary but they’re misspelled (that was intentional btw).

How misspelled is another problem. We’ve had Levenshtein et al algorithms for a long time, but how different can you get? A really badly misspelled word might not have any good replacement candidates within your edit distance limit.

There are also optimizations like frequently mistyped words (acn-> can), acronyms, etc.

It was never just about size.
by AshleyGrant | 2025-08-12 17:59:01+00:00
Road cars also don't have built-in fire extinguishers, tethers to keep wheels attached to the car in the event of a catastrophic failure of the suspension, five point harnesses for the drivers, escape hatches in the roof or no roof at all but a halo and bar in front of the driver to protect them in the event the car hits something that could decapitate the driver, break away body panels and impact absorbent foam that dissipates energy in 200+ MPH crashes generally allowing drivers to walk away from impacts that would kill occupants of road-going vehicles...

I could go on, but yeah, not sure how OP thinks that race cars aren't as safe as road cars.
by rcanepa | 2025-08-12 17:59:01+00:00
I recently switched to the $200 CC subscription and I think I will stay with it for a while. I briefly tested whatever version of ChatGPT 5 comes with the free Cursor plan and it was unbearably slow. I could not really code with it as I was constantly getting distracted while waiting for a response. So, speed matters a lot for some people.
by kergonath | 2025-08-12 17:59:01+00:00
> People pushed back on the grammar checks when they landed in Word.

Word’s grammar checker has improved quite a lot. But I absolutely hate the style checker and its useless advice. Yes, I know how the passive voice works and yes, it is appropriate in this sentence. Also, it’s not really a problem in English but Word still can’t do spaces properly so it wants to put normal spaces everywhere and it’s fucking ugly. I wish it would spend as much time fixing inappropriate breaking spaces (in English as well).
by zzrrt | 2025-08-12 17:59:21+00:00
It's crazy that people would believe Elon's salute meant exactly what he wanted them to think. /sarcasm

Self-professed Nazis are probably the best judges of Nazi symbols, and they approved it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk_salute_controversy#F... The only other place it could have come from is a "Roman salute" which was used by other fascists who killed hundreds of thousands; is that any more defensible than Nazi?

I'll grant you he is probably not a Nazi in any organized way. And he probably meant it more as a troll than an earnest profession. But if he talks like a Nazi, salutes like a Nazi, donates to the party cheering on concentration camps for minorities and crying about fake Nazi-esque "white genocides"... maybe he's just a Nazi in denial that he's a Nazi.
by relaxing | 2025-08-12 17:59:27+00:00
> LAVINGIA: That's another thing I learned. It's not like-- there's no easy wins. The government is not corrupt. The government is really not wasteful. The government commits to doing a lot of things for its citizens, but generally, it executes on them decently well, full of amazing, hard-working, educated people. Is it too nice to those people? Maybe. Is it too nice to citizens? Maybe.

“The government is too nice to its citizens” is not a take I was expecting today. That’s… bizarre.
by svieira | 2025-08-12 17:59:43+00:00
Correct - but if this is such a game changer in development speed and the market is already validated that this kind of platform is useful then step 1 is build enough of a clone of the platform to start iterating with it and then ... TO THE MOON! It's entirely a having-the-best-vision moat, which is a moat, but one that's principally protected by trademark lawsuits.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-12 18:00:15+00:00
I think you're conflating two separate issues: One is the original known impairment that we don't actually care much about, and the other is bullshitting about how the first problem is under-control.

Suppose a real person outlines a viable plan to work-around their dyslexia, and we watch them not do any of it during the test, and they turn in wrong results while describing the workaround they (didn't) follow. This keeps happening over and over.

In that case, we'd probably conclude they have another problem that isn't dyslexia, such as "parroting something they read somewhere and don't really understand."
by taftster | 2025-08-12 18:00:15+00:00
It was the opposite experience for me. Before spellcheck was commonly part of the web browser, I would go back and reread some very early emails and/or usenet posts from myself. And realize how atrocious my spelling was.

I actually consider spellcheck to have improved my spelling dramatically over the years. The little red squiggles under words have helped me to recognize my misspellings, especially the words that are hard for me to get right consistently.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-12 18:00:31+00:00
Would you be willing to pay $10,000 over a gasoline vehicle for a 50 mile PHEV?

Certainly there are some people that are. It's the intersection of people in situations like yours and those who are willing to pay to do their part for the environment. But that's a pretty small set of people. A large minority of people are in the first bracket and a small minority in the second bracket. The intersected set is pretty small.

With incentives like CAFE reducing that $10,000 number the market was much larger.
by hinkley | 2025-08-12 18:01:50+00:00
Sounds to me like your problem has shifted from how much the AI tool costs per hour to how much it costs per token because resetting a model happens often enough that the price doesn't amortize out per hour. That giant spike every ?? months overshadows the average cost per day.

I wonder if this will become more universal, and if we won't see a 'tick-tock' pattern like Intel used, where they tweak the existing architecture one or more times between major design work. The 'tick' is about keeping you competitive and the 'tock' is about keeping you relevant.
by moffkalast | 2025-08-12 18:01:56+00:00
I mean it depends on what you consider the "computer", the pile of compute and storage the ship has in that core that got stolen on that one Voyager episode, or the ML model that runs on it to serve as the ship's assistant.

I think it's more believable that the holodeck is ran from separate models that just run inference on the same compute and the ship AI just spins up the containers, it's not literally the ship AI doing that acting itself. Otherwise I have... questions on why starfleet added that functionality beforehand lol.
by squeaky-clean | 2025-08-12 18:02:01+00:00
I just want to point out that they only said agentic models were a negative, not AI in general. I don't know if this is what they meant, but I personally prefer to use a web or IDE AI tool and don't really like the agentic stuff compared to those. For me agentic AI would be a net positive against no-AI, but it's a net negative compared to other AI interfaces
by wongarsu | 2025-08-12 18:02:05+00:00
But %localappdata% has all the same advantages and permissions. Using %appdata% for executables is usually a mix of ignorance and indifference. Roaming user profiles are a rare setup nowadays and are even less common on developer machines. And it's not like it breaks in obvious ways, the is just more storage space used and login is slower because more data is transferred from the server, in a setup that devs and PMs don't use
by sdesol | 2025-08-12 18:02:11+00:00
Looking at the code, it does have some sort of automatic discovery. I also don't know how scalable Claude Code is. I've spent over a decade thinking about code search, so I know what the limitations are for enterprise code.

One of the neat tricks that I've developed is, I would load all my backend code for my search component and then I would ask the LLM to trace a query and create a context bundle for only the files that are affected. Once the LLM has finished, I just need to do a few clicks to refine a 80,000 token size window down to about 20,000 tokens.

I would not be surprised if this is one of the tricks that it does as it is highly effective. Also, yes my tool is manual, but I treat conversations as durable asset so in the future, you should be able to say, last week I did this, load the same files and LLM will know what files to bring into context.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-12 18:02:16+00:00
>The differences between vegetarians and meat eaters were not limited to diet. On average the vegetarians were leaner, smoked and drank less, exercised slightly more and were more likely to have a university degree. They were less likely to have used hormone replacement therapy or oral contraceptives.

>The study took these factors into account but it was impossible to say to what degree the differences in cancer outcomes were caused by what different groups were eating.

---the OP

So once again we've proven that people who take an active role in maintaining their health have better health outcomes than people who don't, but that taking an active role in maintaining your health is holistic to the point of being confounding when attempting to study one aspect of 'being healthy'.
by ryao | 2025-08-12 18:04:02+00:00
This is speculation on my part, but:

1. It is non-trivial additional work to add since these are high frequency signals.

2. It is non-trivial additional work to validate.

3. The hardware PCI-E support is likely buggy because it is not well tested and few want to volunteer to spend time working with the SoC supplier on the bugs.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-08-12 18:04:02+00:00
> the administration isn't engaging in any behavior that their political opponents aren't engaging

So ignoring court orders to quickly deport people happened before?

Could you show me an example where Biden ignored a court ruling, because i dont know any. Ill insta-upvote you, if you can show the occurrence numbers are roughly equal.

If you cant provide any example, i strongly suggest you reconsider your above statement about the end of democracy, or whether you would be willing to storm the capitol to defend it against trump.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-08-12 18:04:49+00:00
> 100 years later, we still have very little idea how or why quantum superposition works.

We understand superposition perfectly well. Maybe you are confusing science with philosophy.

Anyway, I'm starting to lose track of your point. There's definitely been steady advances in quantum technology, both in the underlying physics and in engineering. I'm not sure why you think that stopped.
by kqr | 2025-08-12 18:04:50+00:00
They seem to be going for a much simpler route of just giving the LLM a full transcript of the game with its own reasoning interspersed. I didn't have much luck with that, and I'm worried it might not be effective once we're into the hundreds of turns because of inadvertent context poisoning. It seems like this might indeed be what happens, given the slowing of progress indicated in the paper.
by zeta0134 | 2025-08-12 18:04:50+00:00
And what is that cost, if you have it handy? Just as an example, my Radeon VII can perfectly well run smaller models, and it doesn't appear to use more power than about two incandescent lightbulbs (120 W or so) while the query is running. I don't personally feel that the power consumed by approximately two light bulbs is excessive, even using the admittedly outdated incandescent standard, but perhaps the commercial models are worse?

Like I know a datacenter draws a lot more power, but it also serves many many more users concurrently, so economies of scale ought to factor in. I'd love to see some hard numbers on this.
by legitster | 2025-08-12 18:05:38+00:00
Keep in mind the government pumps tens of thousands of enlisted through military intelligence analyst programs every year. These people are trained to sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day reading mostly garbage and making objective summaries.

So a lot of highly trained intelligence analysts hit the market every year (I personally know about half a dozen). It's just going to be natural that some of the more experienced intelligence analysts are going to be sought out for these content moderation positions, especially now that foreign and nation-state actors are present.

I am pretty skeptical more of the more "deep-state"/"thought-police" concerns. Obviously these people are going to be biased towards collecting intelligence and collaborating with the government. But the CIA would almost certainly rather keep any media manipulation campaigns clandestine and in-house rather than trust former analysts to do their bidding.