MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by derbOac | 2025-08-08 13:58:32+00:00
I think this pattern of behavior needs to be cast as incompetence and cowardice rather than immorality. Avoiding transparency, rigorous analysis, and competitive disagreement and review is a sign that one cannot make a convincing argument, or does not have courage to do so. I don't think they care about the morality of it, or see themselves as morally justified.
by rvz | 2025-08-08 13:58:44+00:00
Am I right to say that "AGI" was just...cancelled again?

Did we just get scammed right in front of our eyes with an overhyped release and what is now an underwhelming model if the point was that GPT-5 was supposed to be trustworthy enough for serious use-cases and it can't even count or reason about letters?

So much for the "AGI has been achieved internally" nonsense with the VCs and paid shills on X/Twitter bullshitting about the model before the release.
by FredPret | 2025-08-08 13:58:51+00:00
In what way does inequality break society?

I’ve frequently heard this article of faith bandied about.

But if the rich get 10X richer, and the poor get 2X richer, then everybody is better off.

The stagnant, ultraconservative, ultracentralized economic systems tankies like to propose always end up leaving everyone 100X poorer. But at least they’re equal, right!?

Seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
by AstroBen | 2025-08-08 13:59:12+00:00
Is it a given that they need to unrealistically hype everything? To me it just seems like he's killing any and all credibility he had

Probably a bad long term strategy?

I mean other non-AI companies use hype too sure.. but it's maybe a little sprinkle of 1.1x on top aimed to highlight their best features. Here we're going full on 100x of reality
by motorest | 2025-08-08 13:59:25+00:00
> This is the equivalent of a law firm hiring a lawyer then adding a tool that checks their work when drafting documents making sure they don’t make mistakes

I don't agree. A better fitting comparison would be if a law firm enables spell checkers and proofreads documents to verify they use the law firm's letterhead. Do you waste your time complaining whether the space should go left or right of a bracket?
by Den_VR | 2025-08-08 13:59:31+00:00
I’m not sure why it’s so mind-boggling that people in the year 1225 (Thomas Aquinas) or 1756 (Mozart) were just as creative and intelligent as they themselves are, as modern people. They simply had different opportunities then comparable to now. And what some of them did with those opportunities are beyond anything a “modern” person can imagine doing in those same circumstances. _A lot_ of free time over winter in the 1200s for certain people. Not nearly as many distractions either.
by fluidcruft | 2025-08-08 14:00:01+00:00
That linked topic says Apple is working with the developer to handle it. I don't see any evidence of favoritism.

Fastmail clearly reached out to Apple eons ago, which is evidence of skill on fastmail's part and not favortism on Apple's part. Admittedly, fastmail very likely has lots of contacts in Apple (Jeremy Howard isn't nobody), but that's also a skill issue.
by ahaucnx | 2025-08-08 14:00:10+00:00
Achim from AirGradient here. Some thoughts on this.

Purely focusing on the display, I can see a certain logic to say: Display not working => Not recommended. And probably I chose the wrong title for this as it made the article too much focused on this aspect.

However, the main critique for me is actually the general subjective nature of the article and the lack of a systematic testing approach for the monitors. In my opinion this review should not to be called "The Best Indoor Monitors" if Wired has an intention to provide objective and a balanced assessment of indoor monitors.

Of course I am unhappy that our monitor got labelled as "Not Recommended", but the bigger picture to what extent these "Best ..." reviews do provide a fair and comprehensive assessment is in my opinion the much more important discussion that we should have.
by pjc50 | 2025-08-08 14:00:37+00:00
The megacorp can provide cheap food, it just doesn't want to. In practice they adjust the margins in a data-driven way on individual goods.

UK supermarkets actually provide pretty cheap fresh produce, because the market is pretty competitive. I think the most ridiculous I've seen was a 1kg bag of carrots for 20p.

Many countries or locations do not have highly competitive supermarkets.

Oh, and there's both volume and self-discrimination effects at work. In my supermarket shopping in the Asian food section is often cheaper as they sell big bags of rice and spices, to more cost-conscious consumers. See also: Costco.
by egeres | 2025-08-08 14:00:38+00:00
I have yet to find a suitable alternative for the W10 emoji picker that works on linux. I like to use emojis as color codes for errors etc in some of my scripts and I find them very useful as location markers since a visual element is always faster to be recognized by the eye than pure plain text. This tool is also useful when you use multiple messaging applications because you share the same "most used" emojis panel. It also frustrates me that the W11 emoji picker got downgraded, it's much more limited and has less of a minimalist design (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 14:00:52+00:00
<us-centric-pizza-complaint-dept>

I could never find good pizza in California, and I definitely can't find it in Texas. Nor Illinois, sorry.

The only good pizza appears to be in NYC. It probably also exists in other parts of New England too. Massachusetts, I'm guessing.

But when someone isn't near the five boroughs, Amnon's Kosher frozen pizza is tolerable.

Why is it so damn hard to make edible pizza? Do 99.95% of customers have zero taste and will accept any trash put in front of them?

</us-centric-pizza-complaint-dept>
by nottorp | 2025-08-08 14:01:20+00:00
Yes but there's no way for the OS to know if the focus request is legitimate, is there?

Can't even say "browsers are allowed to grab focus" because they'll grab it for a stupid window telling you to update the browser or what new features no one cares about they introduced.

I'd prefer to have to switch focus to the browser manually than have the stupid ubuntu update manager steal focus when i'm typing in the terminal...
by orwin | 2025-08-08 14:01:52+00:00
Most money is created when making a loan, and is destroyed when the loan is reimbursed. Loan defaults add more money in the system that the Fed print almost every year (except during COVID, but letting companies dies and default would have had a similar inflationary effect anyway). I guarantee that if the US stop printing money, it will change nothing, because it will borrow instead. The only way for the US government to stop adding to inflation is to balance its budget, by cutting spending or increasing taxes, or likely both.

(Inflation is not only money creation, it's actually a small part, it also depends on production and consumption btw. Decreasing consumption by raising taxes and lowering social spending would also be inherently deflationary)
by kccqzy | 2025-08-08 14:02:00+00:00
The fast code eventually looks like:

myIterator(value => { total += value; });

And most people would say this isn't really an iterator in JavaScript any more. This is more like a forEach function. And herein lies the rub: this callback style iteration used to be called internal iterators; the kind of normal iterators shown by the author and also in languages like Rust used to be called external iterators. Eventually people stopped referring to the former style as iterator and I think that's a good terminology change: the internal/external distinction isn't immediately understandable, and it's better to call it a forEach function.

I think early Rust even supported the internal iterator style but they abandoned it because IIRC they found external iterations more performant, which is the exact opposite case here.
by derbOac | 2025-08-08 14:02:03+00:00
What I really would like to see is a historical trend analysis seeing whether BLS and nongovernment estimates (public or private) start to decouple about now.

If you have enough sources you presumably at least can start to make observations about which sources agree and which disagree.

Actually I presume something like this already exists, but I'm not an economist so I don't know.
by emccue | 2025-08-08 14:03:00+00:00
Uber's whole schtick is being what was an already profitable business model (Taxis) with lower overhead/easier access.

That money they burned was on customer acquisition, building infrastructure, etc. The unit economics of paying to be driven to the airport or Benihanas was always net positive.

They weren't losing money on every customer, even paying ones. There just isn't a business model here.
by deanmoriarty | 2025-08-08 14:03:08+00:00
> About half the public identify the cost of groceries as a major source of financial stress.

And some other portion of the population, anecdotally much larger than what I would have thought, orders DoorDash/UberEats regularly, what a stark contrast.

I am in a good financial situation, but I still could never stomach the prices of those apps, $30-40+ for any item once one includes fees and everything. I recently got a promotion through my credit card that led me to take another look at DoorDash, and my local grocery store deli sandwich, which is already very expensive at about $10, would have been $25+ on there.

Yet it’s full of people using them, multiple times a week and for an entire family. I had coworkers casually mention that they spend $2k+/mo on DoorDash orders. It’s one aspect of the American consumerism that always baffles me.
by apwell23 | 2025-08-08 14:03:36+00:00
yes i am rejigging my whole vim setup

Following are now stars of my workflow

* Git plugins - Diffview, gitsigns, fugitive

* Claude Code plugin / Terminals with claude code

* Neovim sessions

* Git worktrees

Editing focused workflows have taken an backseat

* LSP

* Vim motion and editing efficiency

* File navigation

* Layouts
by coldpie | 2025-08-08 14:04:04+00:00
> Only if you consider Sam Altman not serious

> Elon Musk[1], Sam Altman, or Marc Andreessen[2] ... these people are liars.

Bingo. These people are salesmen & marketers. Lying to sell a product (including gathering funding & pumping company stock) is literally the job description. If they weren't good at it, they wouldn't hold the positions they do.
by AlexandrB | 2025-08-08 14:04:19+00:00
Many such cases. I'm trying to ward off Windows 11 for as long as I can, as I did with Windows 10 before it. Windows 7 is still the peak of "get out of my way and let me get things done" OS from Microsoft.

Edit: The latest attack came in the form of a full-screen system level (covered the taskbar) advert for Windows 11 when I logged in a few weeks ago, complete with all the dark patters we expect from our tech overlords in 2025. Now the windows update status icon also has a constant blue dot on it. Clicking it lets me know I should upgrade to Windows 11 ASAP. Realistically, I'll probably reluctantly switch once Steam stops supporting Windows 10.
by philjohn | 2025-08-08 14:04:29+00:00
And because the tax years don't line up, it's more costly than filing just in the US, or just in the EU, plus if you moved with a company and were granted RSU's in the US, or keep property or assets in the US ... it's just a pain to calculate properly.

Have friends who regularly spend 10x more than I do my accountant for my tax return because of this.
Show HN: AI Tool Writes Your Stories 10x Faster
by ghomveld | 2025-08-08 14:04:42+00:00
AI StorySpark was launched to help users create stories in less time. With a strong focus on a project system where you can build worlds, characters, plots, and even author personas, everything comes together when you generate that final story. The tools also comes with a KDP assistant, cover editor, Idea Assistant, and several other tools that are all focused on helping you create short stories, YouTube scripts, novels, and other storytelling content.
by gen220 | 2025-08-08 14:05:19+00:00
Disclosure: my current employer has a product in this space (graphite.dev)

IME the highest value (at the moment) is having an LLM integrated into the PR page, that reads your code + CI log, and effectively operates as a sanity check / semantic linter.

A common workflow for us: is Draft PR -> Passes CI (inclusive of an LLM 'review') -> Published -> Passes Human review -> Scheduled to merge

The goal is to get a higher margin of confidence that your code (1) will not blow up in production (2) faithfully does what it's trying to do.

The value of the LLM reviewer is maybe 80% in the first bucket and 20% in the second bucket, IME. It often catches bugs like "off by one" and "you meant this to be `if not x`, based on the flag name and behavior, not `if x`".
Ask HN: Is it even worth selling to Europeans given the new AI regulations?
by BenJacob1 | 2025-08-08 14:05:25+00:00
For my sins, I am an EdTech founder building an AI grading platform. We're increasingly finding European customers asking for bundles of documentation to prove safety/efficacy of our platform.

Looking in to the EU AI Act as a few customers have mentioned it and the burden is collosal. We're a team of 10 and don't have capacity to shift to bureaucracy. Genuinely considering avoiding european sales if this becomes a hard requirement.

Anyone have experience navigating the new compliance reqs / know good platforms for compliance automation?
by rynn | 2025-08-08 14:05:48+00:00
Azure AI Foundry says:

How was the model trained? The gpt-oss models were pretrained primarily using synthetic data along with some heavily filtered real code. The models were then post-trained using distillation (RLKD against o3/hailmary) and berry. For more details about the model training process, please refer to the documentation.

Meaning the author was spot on.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-08 14:05:58+00:00
> How is it that a small grocery store can sometimes provide things (much) more cheaply than a megacorporation?

I frequent Asian markets everywhere I’ve lived for certain ingredients, but not for my main grocery shopping.

For regular groceries I don’t think there’s any secret. The markets with extra cheap groceries are just carrying different products at different price points.
Ask HN: Are you running local LLMs? What are your key use cases?
by briansun | 2025-08-08 14:07:05+00:00
2025 feels like a breakout year for local models. Open‑weight releases are getting genuinely useful: from Google’s Gemma to recent *gpt‑oss* drops, the gap with frontier commercial models keeps narrowing for many day‑to‑day tasks.

Yet outside of this community, local LLMs still don’t seem mainstream. My hunch: *great UX and durable apps are still thin on the ground.*

If you are using local models, I’d love to learn from your setup and workflows. Please be specific so others can calibrate:

Model(s) & size: exact name/version, and quantization (e.g., Q4_K_M).

Runtime/tooling: e.g., Ollama, LM studio, etc.

Hardware: CPU/GPU details (VRAM/RAM), OS. If laptop/edge/home servers, mention that.

Workflows where local wins: privacy/offline, data security, coding, huge amount extraction, RAG over your files, agents/tools, screen capture processing—what’s actually sticking for you?

Pain points: quality on complex reasoning, context management, tool reliability, long‑form coherence, energy/thermals, memory, Windows/Mac/Linux quirks.

Favorite app today: the one you actually open daily (and why).

Wishlist: the app you wish existed.

Gotchas/tips: config flags, quant choices, prompt patterns, or evaluation snippets that made a real difference.

If you’re not using local models yet, what’s the blocker—setup friction, quality, missing integrations, battery/thermals, or just “cloud is easier”? Links are welcome, but what helps most is concrete numbers and anecdotes from real use.

A simple reply template (optional):

``` Model(s): Runtime/tooling: Hardware: Use cases that stick: Pain points: Favorite app: Wishlist: ```

Also curious how people think about privacy and security in practice. Thanks!
by kamarg | 2025-08-08 14:07:09+00:00
> Sure, you can scale it, but if an LLM takes, say, $1 million a year to run an AGI instance, but it costs only $500k for one human researcher, then it still doesn’t get you anywhere faster than humans do.

Just from the fact that the LLM can/will work on the issue 24/7 vs a human who typically will want to do things like sleep, eat, and spend time not working, there would already be a noticeable increase in research speed.
by gr3ml1n | 2025-08-08 14:07:41+00:00
It starts to veer into sci-fi and I don't personally believe this is practically possible on any relevant timescale, but:

The idea is a sufficiently advanced AI could simulate.. everything. You don't need to interact with the physical world if you have a perfect model of it.

> But, what other fields would it do this in? How can it makes strives in biology, it can't dissect animals ...

It doesn't need to dissect an animal if it has a perfect model of it that it can simulate. All potential genetic variations, all interactions between biological/chemical processes inside it, etc.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-08-08 14:07:55+00:00
"...while Uber has achieved profitability, some analyses suggest that a substantial portion of these profits may come from an increased revenue share at the expense of drivers' earnings".

So let's imagine is 2040 and OpenAI is finally profitable. Now, Uber did this by increasing prices, firing some staff and paying smaller wages to drivers. And all this while having near-monopoly in certain areas. What realistic measures would they need to take in order to compete with, say, Google? Because I just wish them good luck with that.
by altcognito | 2025-08-08 14:08:12+00:00
(Great post/article!) I was so confused as to why you said counterpoint -- it is deep in the article, if at all.

> If the government’s jobs data is considered biased or unreliable, Wall Street will have other places to look. ADP reports figures on private payrolls, for instance. (And it also tells a bearish story: ADP showed a net loss of jobs in June, for instance.) Meanwhile, Gallup once tracked employment numbers on a weekly basis based on its large-scale surveys and could resume that effort. Or investment banks like Goldman Sachs might conclude they could have a competitive edge by tracking their own economic data.

But in the following paragraph he points out that the numbers aren't likely to be as accurate, comprehensive, or as reassuring as numbers generated by the government. Overall though it is a really good article worth a share of its own.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 14:08:39+00:00
Yep. And if you go to Shenzhen, some shops will take on varying amounts of board design and prototyping for you. It's possible to get boards fast and for cheap, like less than a few days and even cheaper when the goal is larger quantities for semi-serious products.

For a few hobby or toy things, the fixed rate board stuffing shops are the way to go.
by hackrmn | 2025-08-08 14:08:42+00:00
With "free range organic" are you describing people or food? As in, "it's better to be a free range organic human [vs. battery/caged livestock human-like resource for exploitation]", or "it's better to _eat_ free range organic [food]"? These are two different things, and in either case I'd argue not an option for the people who struggle affording food that is health(ier) by modern standards.
by gtirloni | 2025-08-08 14:09:27+00:00
> no edge or anythin

I wouldn't say they had no edge. They had a huge advantage over traditional taxi companies. You can argue that a local Uber-like app could be easily implemented, that's where the investors came in to flood the markets and ensure other couldn't compete easily.

The situation is in no way similar to OpenAI's. OpenAI truly has no edge over Anthropic and others. AGI is not magically emerging from LLM's and they don't seem to have an alternative (nobody does but they promised it and got the big bucks so now it's their problem).
Ask HN: Would you use a mobile-first app to automate productivity workflows?
by samehsbs | 2025-08-08 14:09:38+00:00
I’m exploring the idea of a mobile-first automation app, something that lets users connect and automate common productivity workflows across tools like Notion, Slack, Google Calendar, and Trello, directly from their phones.

Most current tools (Zapier, Make, n8n) are great but feel optimized for desktop use. For users who work primarily from mobile like freelancers, content creators, small teams, automation is either inaccessible or requires a laptop to set up and maintain.

The idea would be a simple, no-code, tap-through interface to build things like:

"When a new event is added to Google Calendar → create a Notion note + notify on Slack"

"Every Friday → compile completed Trello cards and email a summary"

I'm not launching anything right now, just curious if others see this gap too.

Do you think there’s real demand for mobile-first automation between SaaS tools? What blockers or edge cases would you expect in building something like this?

Would love to hear how others think about automation on mobile, especially from devs, product folks, or people who’ve built or used similar tools.
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-08-08 14:10:14+00:00
You can say that, but thats not how it actually works in practice. You get the same variety of food at expensive spots, just smaller portions. Perhaps an unusual selection, but no greater variety in the same meal.

And no, im still paying for the food. Fuck the experience. The experience of being at a restaurant ranges from obnoxious to mildly irritating and its unrelated to how nice the place is.
by Aaargh20318 | 2025-08-08 14:10:22+00:00
It’s a cute idea, but ultimately not very useful. An API is more than just an endpoint that gives easy to parse results. The most important part is that an API is a contract. An API implies that things won’t suddenly break without prior announcement. Any form of web-scraping, no matter how cleverly done, is inherently fragile. They can change their front-end for any reason which could break your scraper. As such you cannot rely on such an interface.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-08 14:10:32+00:00
Many of my parent friends have gone through the debate about having the lesser-earning parent quit work for a few years to care for children or to pay for daycare.

In the long run remaining employed generally comes out ahead due to the continued career growth and employment.

The one friend who quit their job now regrets a little because the expensive early childcare years were over quickly and now they’re trying to get back into the workforce in a rough economy with a resume gap.
by accrual | 2025-08-08 14:10:45+00:00
I felt the default GPT-5 responses were neutral. I checked and it hasn't yet emitted any emojis or exclamation marks, even though I used some in my replies. When I asked for a review of my question it focused on my query rather than me.

Will need to test longer contexts though - I've noticed Sonnet 4 becomes a bit less stoic and more friendly in some longer chats, but maybe it's just reflecting my casual language back at me.
by infecto | 2025-08-08 14:10:58+00:00
Isn’t it old news that the full for-profit is not happening and they renegotiated the terms that would make the current proposed PBC a solution as it meets the economic terms?

I have no idea if OpenAI succeeds or not but I find arguments like yours difficult to understand. Most businesses are not using these systems to draw a map. Maybe the release of 5 is lackluster but it does not change that there is some value in these tools today and ignoring R&D (which is definitely a huge cost) they run at a profit.
by HughG | 2025-08-08 14:11:05+00:00
I'm sure you've changed lots in the last 5 years, but laughed (kindly) at the bit about feeling silly for leading your pairing partner down a garden path for a morning: I've been a professional (or, at least, paid) developer since 1996 and I still take a wrong turn at least once a month, if not more often, and will happily bring a pairing partner along for the ride!