MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-08-07 12:18:31+00:00
I stick with 1Password, because I don’t want my password manager to be part of the barrier to using other platforms.

I also have a bunch of stuff in 1Password that doesn’t have a home in Apple Passwords, which would be a problem.

And yes, Chrome with Apple Passwords is annoying. At work I’m forced to use Chrome for some things, and I’ve been dabbling with Apple Passwords. Every time I launch the browser I have to put in a code to link the extension with Passwords. It’s very annoying.
by roxolotl | 2025-08-07 12:18:45+00:00
Although I agree with him I will say this post was surprisingly vacuous. The key point though is a good one. Going from a baseline average of around 2% to 15% will impact trade more than going from 15% to 35% so the remaining threat that Trump believes he has isn’t as potent as he believes.

It’s interesting how hard of a time people have had communicating this point. It makes sense if you’re used to curves but most people seem to think linearly.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-07 12:19:51+00:00
Great little post. Congrats.

Also there's the ethics of scraping the whole internet and claiming that it's all fair use, because the other scenario is a little too inconvenient for all the companies involved.

P.S.: I expect a small thread telling me that it's indeed fair use, because models "learn and understand just like humans", and "models are hugely transformative" (even though some licenses say "no derivatives whatsoever"), "they are doing something amazing so they need no permission", and I'm just being naive.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-07 12:20:07+00:00
I doubt you’ll find any public data on this because internal hiring success data is rarely ever released and MOOCs are already a rare resume item.

In my experience with hiring, though, it tracks. The number of times I’ve seen a MOOC on a resume is already a small number. Of those, it was usually 1-3 courses, not an entire program. Taking a couple courses does not compare to the repetition and layered learning of an entire program.

If someone showed up with an entire MOOC learning program and certificate of completion that I could verify then I would look into it. In my experience you don’t see this. You see people listing a couple MOOC courses right next to their other certifications. When you ask them questions about the topic they usually don’t remember much because it was a one-time course they took.
by radarsat1 | 2025-08-07 12:20:26+00:00
I'm honestly a bit confused by the free tier of Gemini. I've been using it with different agents (Aider, and then Crush), and I hit the rate limits FAST. Like, after maybe 5 or 6 requests it just blows up. Then I can try again quite a few times, and it hits the limit. Then eventually I guess I hit my daily limit and it just stops working until the next day.

I mean this has been enough to get my feet wet and have some fun with exploring agent-based development, no doubt, and I appreciate it, but I'm having a hard time crossing my experience with,

> generous free-of-charge quotas

as they say. It's not that generous if it stops working after 5 mins? (This morning literally a single sentence I typed into Crush resulted in some back and forth I guess it called the API a few times and it just rate limited-out. Fine, it was probably a lot of requests going on, but, but I literally gave it a single small job to do and it couldn't finish it.)

Meanwhile I seem to be able to use the Gemini web app endlessly and haven't hit any limits yet.
by rco8786 | 2025-08-07 12:20:31+00:00
> I think comparing LLMs and the dotcom bubble is just incredibly lazy and useless thinking. If anything , all previous bubbles show is what is not going to happen again.

Curious to hear more here. What is lazy about it? My general hypothesis is that ~95% of AI companies are overvalued by an order of magnitude or more and will end up with huge investor losses. But longer term (10+ years) many will end up being correctly valued at an order of magnitude above today's levels. This aligns perfectly with your pets.com/Chewy example.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-08-07 12:21:29+00:00
Ok. If you go back to original. I was bit sarcastic. So a sarcastic question, is probably not taken as a real question.

Like when hearing something out of left field, I think the reply can also be extreme, like saying 'Wuuut????, are you real?".

I do see claims that the Democrats are at fault for us having Trump. Thus anything that happens now is really a knock on effect of Democrats not beating him, so we blame Democrats instead of the people that actually voted for Trump or Trump himself.

So hearing yet another argument about how Democrats are so politically astute that they could swing the Republican primary yet completely fumble later, just seems like more conspiracy theories.
by sarreph | 2025-08-07 12:21:50+00:00
Hm. It seems as though the author is misrepresenting their interviewee here, in the title of the article, no less! Shame.

Obviously, claiming that "hype" is _the_ product of AI is categorically inane. No, "hype" is instead obviously a _byproduct_ of our current era. The "true product" will only be clear in hindsight, but at the moment the two contenders are: a) A buoyant and burgeoning industry of AI companies that only accelerates in growth -- unlikely, just like the theory of dark energy, or b) a bubbling industry which creates a the grounding framework and infrastructure for the next wave(s) of AI progress.

Whichever one of those it is, it won't be "just hype". That sort of thing is reserved for NFT markets.
by CSP_Jobs | 2025-08-07 12:21:53+00:00
> - ring based security

STOP (see my other comments) still used all four rings for quite a long time. Shortly before I joined, they had rearchitected the kernel in a way that could achieve the same levels of security without them. My colleagues joke about having to be good at writing kernels because they needed four of them for a single system. Performance when running at/transitioning between different hardware levels was less than stellar.

The problem today, though, is that the hardware stopped supporting them. x86-64 now only has ring 0 and 1 (plus -1, -2 for virtualization and SMM, etc... but those aren't quite the same). aarch-64 has four (flipped, so 0 is user, 1 is OS, etc...) but I'm still not certain how these are actually used in practice. 3 and 4 seem similar to x86's -1, -2, but I need to study that more. So in a sense, Linux/Unix do use all four but not necessarily at an OS level and not in the multics way.

> - better permissions by default

I agree. STOP is built around this model; it doesn't even have the concept of root and I personally think it's the right way to go. But Linux does have something similar in SE Linux.

> - finer-grain memory permissions

I'm curious about what you have in mind. STOP used segments back when that's what the hardware expected, but now hardware is designed around the paging and virtual address model. I'm not sure there's a whole lot of room for the OS to experiment in this space, but happy to be proved wrong.

> - no buffer overflows (and minimal memory errors)

At some level, dealing with memory requires trusted hardware access, and it's always possible for a programmer to screw something up there. I'm a little surprised things like tagged memory and CHERI (which require hardware support) haven't taken off. Maybe it's still coming, but it seems not many know or care about it.

There's also the write-not-execute (W^X) model started by PaX linux that removes the writable attribute from memory used to store instructions. I don't remember now if that's actually used in any of the nix's. I implemented support for it in STOP, but there's a lot of software (especially JIT'd languages) out there that breaks when enabled. At the end of the day, it's a mitigation, not a "fix."

> - long command names in addition to short abbreviations (easy to implement in linux/unix, just missing)

> - multiple entry points for commands (currently faked with symlinks)

> - (related) being able to call into an executable like a library

> - unified storage model (can sort of be faked with mmap())

I'm not familiar enough with multics to understand the benefits of these. Would you consider hard links to be the same as symlinks for multiple commands? And is there a benefit to calling directly into an executable instead of making a shared library and a thin executable that uses it? Would love to hear more about what it is you want for all these.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-07 12:21:54+00:00
Why is stuff like this making it to the front page?

He Looks like he’s a typical software engineer with a very very generic opinion on AI presenting nothing new.

The arrogance the article starts off with like where he talks about how much time he’s invested in AI (1.5 years holy cow) and how that makes him qualified to give his generic opinion is just too much.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-07 12:22:52+00:00
> The same obscure forces that have hijacked MPEG had kept it hostage to their interests impeding its technical development and keeping it locked to outmoded Intellectual Property licensing models delaying market adoption of MPEG standards. Industry has been strangled and consumers have been deprived of the benefits of new technologies.

Copyright is cancer. The faster AI industry is going to run it into the ground, the better.
by vbezhenar | 2025-08-07 12:23:25+00:00
I've always held opinion that ideal base for our day life computation is 12. It's close enough to 10, so most things would work just as well (like you just need to remember 2 more digits), but it's actually divisible by 3, 4, 6 which is a lot more useful than 5, compared to 10-base.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-07 12:23:28+00:00
Yes, all this highly public hand-wringing about "alignment" framed in terms of "but if our AI becomes God, will it be nice to us" is annoying. It feels like it's mostly a combination of things. Firstly, by play-acting that your model could become God, you install FOMO in investors who see themselves not being on the hyper-lucrative "we literally own God as ascend to become its archangels" boat. You look like you're taking ethics seriously and that deflects regulatory and media interest. And, it's a bit of fun sci-fi self-pleasure for the true believers.

What the deflection is away from is that the actual business plan here is the same one tech has been doing for a decade: welding every flow and store of data in the world to their pipelines, mining every scrap of information that passes through and giving themselves the ability to shape the global information landscape, and then sell that ability to the highest bidders.

The difference with "AI" is that they finally have a way to convince people to hand over all the data.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-07 12:23:46+00:00
They actually messed up the basic concept of a patent pool, and that is the key to their failure.

They didn't get people to agree on terms up front, they made the final codec with interlocking patents embedded from hundreds of parties and made no attempt to avoid random outsider's patents and then once it was done tried to come to a licence agreement when every minor patent holder had an effective veto on the resulting pool. That's how you end up with multiple pools plus people who own patents and aren't members of any of the pools. It's ridiculous.

My minor conspiracy theory is that if you did it right, then you'd basically end up with something close to open source codecs as that's the best overall outcome.

Everyone benefits from only putting in freely available ideas. So if you want to gouge people with your patents you need to mess this up and "accidentally" create a patent mess.
by egberts1 | 2025-08-07 12:24:34+00:00
I am working on EBNF to semantic action conversion, notably nftables’ Bison parser in EBNF into Vimscript ‘syntax’ highlighting: full-blown deterministic semantic action pathways LL(1) syntax highlighting here (83% done, extreme alpha stage https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-nftables )

ChatGPT got the basic terminology such as Vimscript’s terminology like group name, regex, match, region, and maintaining top-level, first encounter sorted list of ‘contains=‘ group names correctly from largest static pattern down to most wildest regex patterns sorted correctly.

Also got S-notation of operators in correct nested order as well.

AND got Bison”s semantic action (state transition), lexical token …. Cna make EBNF from Bison (although Bison does it better).

But it fails often in form of brevity of which an expert (like me) would prod ChatGPT occasionally of omissions.

Makes assumptions of some keywords having invalid value ranges, invalid syntax arrangement, and provides incorrect terminators.

So, I considered ChatGPT to be more of a intermediate editor’s README that requires occassional consult with EBNF notations and Vimscript man page, and more often Bison’s parser source (parser_bison.y) file to be final arbitrator.

Does it learn? Constant ‘nft’ command outputs set ChatGPT straight. But there are slippage when starting a new ChatGPT session which leads me to believe that it won’t learn for others (as well as me).

EDIT: say “no glazing” cuts down on filler words, nicely.
by netsharc | 2025-08-07 12:24:46+00:00
Why are there no dates on the photos (or just month and year for privacy reasons), even in the book there aren't any: https://tbwbooks.com/products/42nd-and-vanderbilt-second-edi... . Seeing the differences (and similarities) while knowing the time gap would be fascinating.

I wonder how he figured out if a person he just snapped had walked by years ago... I guess face recognition is possible.
by squidbeak | 2025-08-07 12:25:13+00:00
I'm not aware of any doubt or questioning of AI being silenced on HN. Almost every thread about AI seems to be pretty loud with voices saying "bubble", "hype", "stochastic parrot".

Being impressed with the capabilities of an emerging technology doesn't make the person a religious zealot, and dismissing every proponent of LLMs and AI generally that way is weak and tribal.

I really don't understand how this topic has become such a badge of identity.
Why are so many companies pushing for AI adoption by developers?
by alcasa | 2025-08-07 12:26:29+00:00
Based on public news and stuff happening at my workplace, there seems to be a real or at least told narrative, that developers need to take up AI as a new technology.

But why? If AI is good, adoption won't require convincing, it would be harder to prevent developers from using AI in places you wouldn't want them to use it.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-07 12:26:37+00:00
> Witness any HN comment thread with "pro-AI" vibes (which is almost all of them

I feel like we’re reading two different versions of HN. Any thread about AI gets filled up with so many useless anti-AI comments from people who haven’t read the article that it’s hard to even discuss the topic here. I don’t even bother trying to get good AI or LLM related information out of HN right now because it’s such an openly hostile forum where cheap anti-AI comments will get upvoted more than actual discussion about articles.
by giantg2 | 2025-08-07 12:26:49+00:00
The problem are the lazy idiots using the software. This is the reason we need capable humans in the loop for anything important.

Here we have a bad joke. The system flags it. The school sends it to the police. The police detain and interrogate the kid. Everyone is treating the determination of a complex automated system as their own determination. We also have every actor treating this as a credible threat. For this to be credible, you have to have the means to accomplish it. They gave a timeline. You know you have time to investigate before making an arrest. Problem is, nobody cares.
by senko | 2025-08-07 12:26:57+00:00
From the article:

> If the ingredients include artificial colors and chemicals that aren’t normally found in the kitchen, the item is likely ultra-processed.

Curious to see sandwiches included in the list (and the top "offender", no less). Home-made ones can be pretty healthy!

Edit to add: the study says:

> "Ultra-processed foods tend to be hyperpalatable, energy-dense, low in dietary fiber, and contain little or no whole foods, while having high amounts of salt, sweeteners, and unhealthy fats".

The study page also contains a more precise definition (using something called Nova classification).
by dale_glass | 2025-08-07 12:27:24+00:00
Worrying about that stuff is just a waste of time. Not because of what you said, but because it's all ultimately pointless.

Unless you believe this will kill AI, all it does is to create a bunch of data brokers.

Once fees are paid, data is exchanged, and models are trained, if the AI takes your job of programming/drawing/music, then it still does. We arrived at the same destination, only with more lawyers in the mix. You get to enjoy unemployment only knowing that lawyers made sure that at least they didn't touch your cat photos.
by clwncr | 2025-08-07 12:27:27+00:00
School officials make the dubious claim that "the technology has detected dozens of imminent threats of suicide or violence."

Oh, really? Do they have data that shows a significant reduction in violence since surveillance started, or is this just reframing false positives (that can result in arrest, eight weeks of house arrest, a psychological evaluation and 20 days at an alternative school) as a net benefit. My money is on the latter.
by cpursley | 2025-08-07 12:29:32+00:00
What really amazes me is seeing little kids at the playground etc, walking around and eating things like Cheetos. Not only is this ultra-processed junk terrible for them, it's programming them bad habits (and manners) to just free feed and roam around like that. Is it any wonder why America is so fat and unhealthy and so many struggle with eating issues? You don't see this behavior nearly as often in Europe, Asia, etc and it should come at no surprise that those kids are more mature and have better self control over American kids.
by hi_hi | 2025-08-07 12:29:33+00:00
I may not have fully grasped this, but on the surface, it looks like they want me to have an AI agents inserted directly into my git workflow...like right there with all my wonderful juicy code? Is that correct?

Isn't this a recipe for disaster, or is all the FUD around agents wrecking havoc getting to me? I love Claude Code, but it can be somewhat bonkers and is at least at arms length from doing any real damage to my code (assuming I'm following good dev practices, and don't let it loose on my wider filesystem).
by Isamu | 2025-08-07 12:30:06+00:00
This has been happening for a long time. I first noticed this with the hand waving dismissals of older concepts like Asimov’s laws.

Not a carefully reasoned argument why “not causing harm to a human” is outmoded, but just pushing it aside. I would love to see a good reasoned argument there.

No, instead there is Avoiding talking about harm to humans. Just because harm is broad doesn’t get you out of having to talk about it and deal with risks, which is at the root of engineering.
by giantg2 | 2025-08-07 12:31:10+00:00
Not exactly true. You don't know how old the person is nor their jurisdiction.

Some states have fewer laws, others have more. At the federal level, there are more laws and rules than there were in the 60s or 70s (overall more than at any prior time).

And of course enforcement varies. I remember many people coming to school with guns in their cars during hunting season even though it's not legal.
by redwood | 2025-08-07 12:31:20+00:00
Has anyone really been saying that we're going to replace doctors or teachers? Or is it more that we're saying that new tools will offer potentially engaging new applications for things like personalized learning and or assists for doctors and others.

As an example the United States has a cap on the number of doctors to keep doctors' salarys high... In many cases nurses are in a great position to provide more real care. If tools can help nurses do so isn't that a good thing? I don't view that as replacing doctors so much as delivering more personalized medicine and human care.

While I find the interviewee's personal story, particularly their upbringing in Kolkata (one of my favorite cities -- terracota cha, collegee street) humanizing I'm not sure how relevant it is to the discussion. However it does remind you that there's so much more than simply shaping text. Absolutely.

Our real physical lives are the core of our meaning and AI has no real impact on most of that. Don't we all know that though?

Big Tech simply sees business models around search and ads in Search and AI -- at least for consumers -- is the new search and hence opportunity for ads in search... We can criticize that all we want but this guy was getting that salary for 20 years.

Anyway, to blame Kolkata's challenges on colonialism when it's got some of the best sidewalks in India.. when its very existence in many ways is related to colonialism.. is a myopic perspective in my view. Compare and contrast with Kerala (the other Communist state in India). Kerala has some of the highest economic and quality of life output in the country. Kolkata can and should too. Blaming colonialism and bringing up Gaza strike me as simply trying to make sure that this is relevant to a particular Community to get clicks... aka sell ads. Sigh.
by TinyAdz | 2025-08-07 12:31:22+00:00
Google, Facebook, and the rest? Total garbage. They’re built for VC-funded startups burning cash, happy to lose $10 for every $5 they make. Screw that. I got sick of the scams, bots, fake clicks, zero returns. So I built a better ad network. No fluff, no fraud. Advertisers get real ROI. Publishers earn legit revenue. It’s advertising that works for everyone. Member of marsx.dev family Got a question or wanna say hi? I’m on Twitter: @johnrushx
by lemoncookiechip | 2025-08-07 12:32:15+00:00
Ultra-processed doesn't automatically mean unhealthy. It's what it's made of and how it's processed, and the quantities you ingest that can make it unhealthy, just like some unprocessed foods can still be unhealthy depending on what they are.

Whole grain cereal with low sugar contents fall under ultra-processed, and it could still be more nutritious and less sugary than freshly squeezed OJ.
Show HN: Saying what's in your heart anonymously can heal yourself
by harperhuang | 2025-08-07 12:32:28+00:00
Sometimes the words we most need to say are the hardest to speak out loud. "I'm sorry," "I love you," "I'm scared" – these simple phrases can feel impossible when we're face-to-face with someone who matters.

I built "I Want to Say" (iwanttosay.online) as a place where people can practice vulnerability through anonymous writing. No accounts, no tracking – just a safe space to put your feelings into words. Many users find that writing it down first gives them the courage to eventually say it in real life.
by sebastiennight | 2025-08-07 12:32:32+00:00
The probe comes in, observes half a dozen major armed conflict areas on our planet, and solves the problem by entirely disintegrating all weapons on one side of each conflict with no loss of life (but leaving the other side's weapons untouched).

1. Would your assessment of "malign vs benign" depend on knowing which side was disarmed for each conflict, or can you already make an assessment without that information?

2. Do you estimate that the other 8 billion humans surely agree with your response to #1?