MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2025-08-08 23:49:31+00:00
> When it's wrong it usually errors in the direction of being more plausible than the truth.

Excellent observation. LLMs are 'Truthiness' seeking.

> I'm not surprised that other people feel more neutral about it, but it seems inconceivable to me that anyone likes it.

Yeah, I've always found the patronizing, chipper faux-friend persona of typical chatbots insufferable. Brings to mind Douglas Adam's automatic doors in Hitchiker's Guide who need to tell you how delighted they are to open for you. How the hell did he predict this nearly 50 years ago? More importantly, why do chatbot vendors continue to deploy behavior universally known to be a cringely annoying trope equal to Rickrolling? Adam's inventive foresight and brilliantly effective satire should have prevented any of us ever suffering this insult in the real world, and yet... it didn't.

> glazing

Hadn't heard that term...

TIL: "AI glazing refers to the tendency of some ai models, especially large language models, to be excessively agreeable, overly positive, and quick to validate user statements without necessary critical evaluation. Instead of offering a balanced perspective or challenging flawed ideas, a "glazing" ai acts more like a digital yes man. It might soften critiques, offer praise too readily, or enthusiastically endorse a user's viewpoint, regardless of its merit."
by lisbbb | 2025-08-08 23:49:36+00:00
I'm interested in this detail because a few years back I was involved in a major big data project at a health insurance company and I cooked up a solution that involved ElasticSearch that was workable only to be shot down--it was political, but they had to do it with Kafka, full stop. The problem was, at that time, Kafka wasn't very mature and it wasn't a good solution for the problem, regardless. So our ES version got shelved.
by Tade0 | 2025-08-08 23:50:56+00:00
I'm in the market for an oven right now and 230V/16A is the voltage/current the one I'll probably be getting operates under.

At 90°C you can do sous vide, so basically use that waste heat entirely.

For such temperatures you'd need a CO2 heat pump, which is still expensive. I don't know about gas, as I don't even have a line to my place.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-08-08 23:51:26+00:00
I’ve been thinking about democracy and LLMs lately. What will be the ripple effect on society now that more than 500 million people are actively using LLMs instead of their previous sources for information? Does training on massive amounts of knowledge inevitably push a model toward a particular viewpoint or is it a system prompt? https://www.trackingai.org/political-test
by johnecheck | 2025-08-08 23:51:47+00:00
Agreed. Right now, the truth is losing the information war. But abandoning it in favor of a contest of lies? Against fascists? Really?

I don't think so. I value credibility, and I'm not alone. You care about what's true, right? Almost everyone does. It's just really damn hard to figure it out. If we actually want to fix things, our job is to make that easier.
by eyespasm | 2025-08-08 23:53:04+00:00
To be honest, I just want to make porn. My own porn, the way I want it. That’s what I’m waiting for. Why the heck do I need to scroll through pages of boring, vanilla, pedestrian porn on Pornhub or RedGIfs or XNXX when I can create exactly what I want? That’ll be a huge killer app when I can do it locally and in the privacy of my own home.
by thimabi | 2025-08-08 23:53:40+00:00
What I’d most like in future MacBooks is the continuation of increases in memory size and bandwidth.

Apple has carved out a niche for itself in the local LLM space, yet it continues to overcharge for RAM and under-deliver in terms of bandwidth.

I have no hopes that Apple will decrease its prices, particularly on top-of-the-line models like those with 128 GB of memory and above.

Yet I certainly believe that it can deliver even more RAM and, in particular, memory bandwidth. Apple clearly offers much more VRAM than consumer NVIDIA GPUs, but Macs are still behind in terms of memory bandwidth and, relatedly, overall performance.

It would be silly of Apple not to jump at the opportunity to eat even more of NVIDIA’s market share among the general public.
by abletonlive | 2025-08-08 23:54:44+00:00
They won’t be honest and explain it to you but I will. Takes like the one you’re responding to are from loathsome pessimistic anti-llm people that are so far detached from reality they can just confidently assert things that have no bearing on truth or evidence. It’s a coping mechanism and it’s basically a prolific mental illness at this point
by kazinator | 2025-08-08 23:54:44+00:00
One trick is that multiple prompts are combined into a batch that is subject to the token prediction simultaneously.

I've had Google Gemini start talking to be in the context of someone else's chat, unrelated to mine.

ME: Does POSIX have any API for creating a filesystem object (such as a file) with a predetermined inode number supplied by the caller?

AI: <reformats my question into LaTeX syntax, out of the blue>

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \begin{document} \section*{Does POSIX have any API for creating a filesystem object with a predetermined inode number supplied by the caller?} \textbf{No, POSIX does not provide a standard API for creating a filesystem object (like a file or directory) with a caller-specified inode number.} \subsection*{Inode Allocation in POSIX Filesystems} [... SNIP]

ME: Why are you spewing LaTeX syntax at me?

AI: You are absolutely right! My apologies. That was a mistake on my part. I got carried away with the instruction to use LaTeX for mathematical and scientific notations and incorrectly applied it to the entire response. [... SNIP]

There was no such instruction. I've never chatted with any AI about LaTeX. it leaked from the tokens of someone else's chat.
by yen223 | 2025-08-08 23:56:25+00:00
"You are likely going to see a lot of very varied results posted online from GPT-5 because it is actually multiple models, some of which are very good and some of which are meh.

Since the underlying model selection isn’t transparent, expect confusion."

https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3lvtm64sc...
by mentalpiracy | 2025-08-08 23:56:29+00:00
A good example of this is their meat department, specifically beef as an example. You will generally find that Costco is not any cheaper than your regular supermarket, but the product you’re getting is graded USDA Prime or better.

There was a great comment on Reddit from someone who worked in the meat department that highlighted this comparison with specific examples but alas I am unable to find it.
by jart | 2025-08-09 00:02:17+00:00
My point is you don't need the legal concept of intellectual property if you can't access the information. For example, people tried to sell software. But consumers didn't respect software IP and just pirated it. If IP isn't respected and isn't feasible to enforce, then it de facto doesn't exist. So now software developers run the software as a service and only allow you to interact with it through a web browser. Since copyright laws were effectively worthless to protecting developer interests, developers found a solution to commercialization that didn't require copying the software.
by computomatic | 2025-08-09 00:02:42+00:00
This matches my experience fairly accurately except for the one guy I met at a housewarming who handed out cards to everyone. It was so weird - I haven’t seen anyone do that in real life. He had a shop that repairs chipped windshields.

And you know what? About 8 months later my windshield got sprayed by gravel. That guy got the business (he’s a friend of a friend after all, and I had his number in my wallet).

I’d say the issue isn’t that cards are outdated. It’s that people aren’t using them correctly.
by em3rgent0rdr | 2025-08-09 00:02:59+00:00
OK, but my point is more general than reproducing the badge from the article. I was rather pointing out the lack of easily-purchasable NiMH (or other "rechargeable safe(r) chemistries") batteries that could serve as a replacement for a very flat coin cell. For instance, CR2032 (3.2 mm tall), CR2025 (2.5mm tall), and CR1616 (1.6mm tall) lithiums are easily-purchasable, and it would be nice if NiMH batteries were purchasable with those heights.

The fact that NiMH is 1.2V is another thing to consider cause their heights would add stacked, though it isn't too much of an issue cause they can be placed flat side-by-side, or could use one of those ultra-low voltage MSP430s that can run off 0.9 V to 1.5 V.
by neilv | 2025-08-09 00:03:36+00:00
> There is no reason to believe you are getting good information this way.

Spot checks checked out. And it was a perfectly fine way to do it.

You are correct that Tor exit nodes often get special handling (at the moment, including by Cloudflare, and by Google Recaptcha). And the idea of poisoning of data is starting to propagate, due do anti-AI-scraper sentiment.
by toast0 | 2025-08-09 00:05:01+00:00
The IRS allows for cash-based accounting, but GAAP requires accrual-based accounting, if you meet the thresholds and have to file statements with the SEC, then you have to at least follow GAAP for the statements.

I don't know if Anthropic needs to file statements with the SEC, but they might be trying to get their books aligned for it.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-09 00:07:16+00:00
Rocks is a fork of Level, and Level is well known for data corruption and other bugs. They are both "run at production scale", but at least back when I worked on stuff that used Level, nobody talked publicly about all the toil spent on cleaning up and repairing Level to keep the services based on it running.

Whenever you see an advertisement like this (these posts are ads for the companies publishing them), they will not be telling you the full truth of their new stack, like the downsides or how serious they can be (if they've even discovered them yet). It's the same for tech talks by people from "big name companies". They are selling you a narrative.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-08-09 00:07:40+00:00
My coworkers worked on this research! I wasn't involved in this project, but I'm so stoked to see this making the rounds. Everyone involved is deservedly proud of this one.

A big part of what makes me happy is that this seems quite niche to me, but it's getting a ton of attention which suggests people care about this more than I realized. That feels good! This is a huge deal for biodiversity in a huge swath of the Pacific Ocean.
by massysett | 2025-08-09 00:08:03+00:00
> When you treat it as 'just an editor' you're working against its design rather than with it.

No. This is exactly the sort of talk that turns people off from Emacs. You can use it as "just an editor." Indeed, read the GNU Emacs Manual. It almost entirely describes "just an editor." An excellent editor. The user needs to consult the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual only if extending Emacs is desirable.

Comments like this one suggest that Emacs is designed only to be programmed and that if the user does not program it, the user is "working against its design." This is just as false as saying that a Vim user who writes no VimScript is working against Vim's design. No, the user who doesn't program the editor is...using the editor. As designed.
by brettgriffin | 2025-08-09 00:08:55+00:00
Maybe it wasn't clear, but 'show me the bodies' implies the onus to demonstrate mass fatalities, not dozens after billions of Autopilot miles. The bodies just don't exist.

To be clear, I don't think either of us are right or wrong. We have different risk profiles. Telsa reports one crash per 7.5M miles of Autopilot (and again, most of these recorded incidents have operator errors, but I'm happy to keep them in the count). That is absolutely within a threshold I would accept for this level of advancement in technology and safety.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-09 00:09:45+00:00
It slowed down not because of AI, but because it turned out it was mostly pointless. Highly specialized stacks that could usually be matched in performance by tweaking an existing system or scaling a different way.

In-house storage/query systems that are not a product being sold by itself are NIH syndrome by a company with too much engineering resources.
by michaelt | 2025-08-09 00:10:09+00:00
I kinda see what you mean.

Steam [1] tells me gamers use Intel by 59:41

Price-performance scatter plots [2] say although Intel isn't battling AMD for the >$1000 threadripper territory, they have some competitive products in the sub-$500 price band.

And while Intel missed out on the smartphone market, I've heard people comparing their N100 CPUs favourable to the latest Raspberry Pi hardware.

Sure, Intel has had major troubles with their next process node. And one of the best performing laptops is ARM-based. But Intel are nowhere near defeated.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ [2] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html#xy_sca...
by rbanffy | 2025-08-09 00:12:24+00:00
> The primary reason for making chips this big at present, is to compute LLMs.

It also makes a lot of sense for HPC, simulation, and other workloads that have low data locality - this enables much faster point-to-point communication than a rack full of accelerators connected via copper cables would allow. The aggregate bandwidth of the interposer is enormous compared to NICs and latencies are much lower.

> For example, when Von Neumann got ahold of the ENIAC, he slowed it down by more than 60%.

We'll need to rewrite a lot of software for that.
by ucarion | 2025-08-09 00:13:05+00:00
Seems their IG has some of these, including the shot from the article: https://www.instagram.com/tripodtales/p/C8hRS0ctzCp/

Factory Butte: https://www.instagram.com/tripodtales/p/C6gg-wpS-tr/

"Long Dong Silver": https://www.instagram.com/tripodtales/p/C-yLCskOGiC/
by Sniffnoy | 2025-08-09 00:13:15+00:00
I'm aware of that, but the term I'm familiar with is "crier". I've never heard "screamer" used in that sense. Wiktionary doesn't list such a usage; contrast with "crier" for which it is listed.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/screamer https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crier
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-09 00:14:39+00:00
Thanks for the numbers. Valuable contribution for sure!!

There's been a huge lag for PCIe adoption, and imo so so much has boiled down "do people need it"?

In the past 10 years I feel like my eyes have been opened that every high tech company's greatest highest most compelling desire is to slow walk the release out. To move as slow as the market will bear, to do as little as possible, to roll on and on with minor incremental changes.

There are canonball moments where the market is disrupted. Thank the fucking stars Intel got sick of all this shit and worked hard (with many others) to standardized NVMe, to make a post SATA world with higher speeds & better protocol. AMD64 architecture changed the game. Ryzen again. But so much of the industry is about retaining your cost advantage, is about retaining strong market segmentations, by never shipping too many PCIe lane platforms, by limiting consumer vs workstation vs server video card ram and vgpu (and mxgpu) and display out capabilities often entirely artificially.

But there is a fucking fire right now and everyone knows it. Nvlink is massively more bandwidth and massively more efficient and is essential to system performance. The need to get better fast is so on. Seems like for now SSD will keep slow walking their 2x's. But PCIe is facing a real crisis of being replaced, and everyone wants better. And hates hates hates the insane cost. PCIe 8.0 is going to be insane data to push over a differential, insane speed. But we have to.

Alas PCIe is also hampered by relatively generous broader system design. The trace distances are going to shrink, signal requirements increase a lot. But this needing a intercompatible compliance program for any peripheral to work is a significant disadvantage, versus, just make this point to point link work between these two cards.

There's so many energies happening right now in interconnect. I hope we see some actual uptake, some day. We've had so long for Gen-Z (Ethernet phy, gone now), CXL (3.x being switched, still un-arriced), now UltraEthernet and UltraLink. Man I hope we can see some step improvements. Everyone knows we are in deep shit if NV alone can connect systems. Ironically AMD's HyperTransport was open, was a path towards this, but now Infinity Fabric is an internal only thing and as branding & an idea vanishing from the world kind of, feels insufficient.
by impure | 2025-08-09 00:14:44+00:00
> Even low-risk fixes like renaming a database column can break a billing run when a job is currently using that data.

You should tell me how you rename database columns in AWS without breaking anything.

I’m not really sure what the point of this article is, it just seems to promote the company’s migration method with a misleading title. But I highly disagree that self-hosted is harder. With many self-hosted BaaS systems I’d argue it’s easier.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-08-09 00:15:01+00:00
It's a bit odd to declare "citation needed" and then claim things like "rare usage" which just so happen to suit your argument, while ignoring things like, say, the fact that NiMH batteries mean batteries are only shipped to the end-user once.

I use NiMH batteries in all my thermostats, two scales, etc. Bought them 10 years ago or so. The thermostats get charged every few months and the scales every few weeks.

I think ~12 or so NiMH batteries have replaced, by this point, by rough back-of-envelope-math, thousands of of alkaline batteries.

Did it occur to you that probably one of the most energy-intensive parts of a AA battery's life is its transportation from factory to user? Which NiMH batteries only have...once? And most of that transportation is powered by non-renewable fuels, etc.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-08-09 00:15:13+00:00
I missed this, but this is great information! Thank you.

I've learned this in an aquaria context where killing the bacterial coating in a tank is a bit of a disaster, and fish tend to be quite sensitive so it could be very risky to use potassium metabisulfite. But what you're detailing here is really interesting. I've used it in brewing before, but it was part of a kit and I didn't really understand it beyond basic mechanics. It's a lot more interesting than I realized!
by rootjknak | 2025-08-09 00:16:03+00:00
Intel board members:

Frank Yeary, managing member Darwin capital advisors

James Goetz, partner Sequoia Capital

Andrea Goldsmith, dean of engineering Princeton University

Alyssa Henry, former square CEO

Eric Meurice, former CEO ASML

Barbara Novick, cofounder BlackRock

Steve Sanghi, CEO microchip

Gregory Smith, former CFO Boeing company

Stacy Smith, chair of Autodesk

Dion Weisler, former CEO HP

There are a lot of people that should not be on the board of a semiconductor company.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-08-09 00:17:28+00:00
I have a smartphone prototype board right next to me which can be powered entirely from a single (protected!) 18650 cell, and let me tell you that its SoC isn't exactly power efficient. It really seems baffling.

I have a bunch of camp badges there too and while some are really fun boards to play with I wouldn't trade safety for longer battery life with any of them.
by tomschlick | 2025-08-09 00:18:02+00:00
Poisoning the data has been around for at least a decade now. I used to work for a very large pricing analytics company that would track product pricing for Fortune 500 manufacturers.

We found on several occasions that some shady retailers would find the CIDR of the manufacturers corp networks and comply with the MAP policies on pricing if traffic came from them. Then when our bot went through with obviously generic AWS / Proxy ips we would see a much lower price that broke their agreement. That one was a fun realization for the manufacturers as to the level of shadiness some retailers would go through.
by wiremine | 2025-08-09 00:18:33+00:00
> As mentioned in the article, the big trick is having clear specs

I've been building a programming language using Claude, and this is my findings, too.

Which, after discovering this, makes sense. There are a LOT of small decisions that go into programming. Without detailed guidance, LLMs will end up making educated guesses for a lot of these decision, many of which will be incorrect. This creates a compounding effect where the net effect is a wrong solution.
by hedgehog | 2025-08-09 00:19:17+00:00
Fixing the willful ignorance that the market structure today is very different from 20 years ago. Process leadership and volume leadership are tightly coupled, and no integrated chip company will again have volume leadership. Intel's historical margin power built on a combination of monopoly on performance (in some markets) and superior economies of scale, that's not coming back. The question is not whether they can get fabs up and going with process nodes competitive with TSMC, the question is whether doing it actually leads to any kind of success given the costs involved. The key question is what the basis is for competition going forward, and what Intel's strengths are in that context.

To paraphrase, Intel has to go of the notion that for Intel to win AMD and TSMC have to lose. The strategy that follows from that might involve some painful choices.
Show HN: I Made a "Block Blast " Solver
by xFixItNow | 2025-08-09 00:19:34+00:00
I’ve been hooked on the mobile game Block Blast! It’s like Tetris, but you place pieces anywhere on the board. The game ends when you can’t fit any of your three available pieces.

After a couple weeks of playing, I built a browser-based solver in HTML/JavaScript that finds the optimal placements for the current pieces. It simulates every possible sequence and picks the one with the smallest perimeter of empty space, breaking ties by choosing the layout with the fewest isolated gaps.

Using it, I took my high score from 36,000 to 80,000+ (and could’ve gone further). You can try it here: https://www.adriclumma.com/projects/blockBlastSolver/

Curious what you think — and if it works as well for you as it did for me.
by Wingman4l7 | 2025-08-09 00:21:58+00:00
Keep in mind that this isn't really equivalent, cost-wise, to the crime of taking a car for a joyride -- airplane engines have rigorous maintenance schedules that require expensive overhauls, and aviation gasoline looks to be over double the price of "car" gasoline (and the MPG for that Cessna is probably half that of a decent car).
by KraftyOne | 2025-08-09 00:22:56+00:00
Like Inngest and Restate, DBOS provides durable workflows. The difference is that DBOS is implemented as a Postgres-backed library you can "npm install" into your project (no external dependencies except Postgres), while Inngest and Restate require an external workflow orchestrator.

Here's a blog post explaining the DBOS architecture in more detail: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/what-is-lightweight-durable-execut...

Here's a comparison with Temporal, which is architecturally similar to Restate and Inngest: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/durable-execution-coding-compariso...
by xrd | 2025-08-09 00:23:19+00:00
I'm fascinated by this and the recent claude-code-ide package: https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el

But, I cannot seem to get past this error when I run claude-code-ide: "Symbol’s function definition is void: project-root" I know this is defined in project.el, but claude has been surprisingly unhelpful at fixing this issue.

I'm feeling a bit frustrated by the state of emacs packages lately. I've used emacs for 30 years and it feels like things are getting worse.