MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lucasmullens | 2025-08-28 18:30:28+00:00
Hey, so it's a bit obvious you vibe coded this, which makes me not want to trust it. Some red flags:

- The Apple icon is a literal apple and not the Apple logo.

- You've got 2 Mac download buttons that do the same thing right at the top, surely one of those is a mistake.

- "Watch it in action" is positioned poorly and fails to be a header for the video. Too close to the button above it.

- "Automatic version control" is not what a checkpoint is? "Version control" means git to almost everyone.

- Privacy link is a fake placeholder.

- "See It In Action" looks like you meant to add images and just forgot?

- You named this like 5 things. The website title is "Checkpoints for Claude Code", the domain is "Claude Checkpoints", the UI website title is just "Checkpoints" as if its a standalone brand, the contact email link uses "checkpoints-app.com", and finally you call it "Claude Diff" in the App Store description. Oh and the HN submission is a 6th one, "Claude Code Checkpoints".

Cool project though, sorry to be so critical.
by salynchnew | 2025-08-28 18:30:35+00:00
Until the VERY recent Chevron ruling, that's how Congress's powers were intepreted.

The Necessary and Proper Clause (or Elastic Clause) in the Constitution grants (or granted, I guess) this power.

It's wild to think how Republicans used to complain about activist judges, but the current Federalist Society slate has undone at least 100+ years of precedent in the last half dozen.
by reisse | 2025-08-28 18:30:58+00:00
You've come to a wrong place to ask. Most people here (judging by recommendations of own VPN instances, Tor, Tailscale/other Wireguard-based VPNs, and Mullvad) don't have any experience with censorship circumvention.

Just look for any VPNs that are advertised specifically for China, Russia, or Iran. These are the cutting edge tech, they may not be so privacy-friendly as Mullvad, but they will certainly work.
by codethief | 2025-08-28 18:31:05+00:00
> - Tailscale with Mullvad exit nodes

Tailscale is completely unnecessary here, unless OP can't connect to Mullvad.net in the first place to sign up. But if the Indonesian government blocks Mullvad nodes, they'll be out of luck either way.

> - Your own VPSs with Wireguard/Tailscale

Keep in mind that from the POV of any websites you visit, you will be easily identifiable due to your static IP.

My suggestion would be to rent a VPS outside Indonesia, set up Mullvad or Tor on the VPS and route all traffic through that VPS (and thereby through Mullvad/Tor). The fastest way to set up the latter across devices is probably to use the VPS as Tailscale exit node.
by petralithic | 2025-08-28 18:31:05+00:00
Just saying it doesn't make it so. I can post similar memes and say "haha that's you" while pointing at you and citing your lack of media literacy when you disagree, that doesn't mean it's a cogent argument. Maybe there is an argument in that meme, but you're not specifying it and therefore I will not take it as a serious comment.
by smsm42 | 2025-08-28 18:31:14+00:00
So, you're saying in 2025 businesses are expected to actually make money? What a novel concept. Will the wonders ever cease? I mean, you could expect that thing where you borrow incessantly to "gain traction" and "produce growth" but never produce any returns on it to run for a bit, especially in a new field where becoming #1 is at premium. But it has to stop somewhere. So it looks like somewhere is here.
by true_religion | 2025-08-28 18:31:23+00:00
It's model as a company because people are using the VC mentality, and also explaining competition.

Model as a product is the reality, but each model competes with previous models and is only successful if it's both more cost effective, and also more effective in general at its tasks. By the time you get to model Z, you'll never use model A for any task as the model lineage cannibalizes sales of itself.
by kevindamm | 2025-08-28 18:31:58+00:00
Outline is an open source shadowsocks client, and you provision your own server to act as the proxy. You can use it against any Shadowsocks server you want, and the protocol makes it look like regular https traffic.

https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-apps

Android & iOS & Linux & Mac & Windows

their server installer will help set up a proxy for users that aren't familiar with shadowsocks, too
by aaroninsf | 2025-08-28 18:32:21+00:00
Three month old article.

What is most of interest to me in this research is that having a handle on stable and bio-safe chemistry that is reactive in near-visible spectra,

allows for a future wherein that chemistry is baked into additional cones,

allowing for polychromacy,

which might conceivably result in new qualia ("colors as they are perceived by the viewer" as in classic dorm-room arguments about whether one person's blue is another's red).

It'd be nice for our civilization to persist long enough, and to live long enough, to not just be around when that happens but have opportunity to try it out.
by keyringlight | 2025-08-28 18:32:31+00:00
Then you've got to consider what are you optimizing for. Is the power bill going to be offset by the cost of a Pi plus any extras you need, or a cheap second hand PC someone wants to clear out, or free if you can put an old serviceable PC you have already back into use. Is it heat? Noise? Space that it needs to hide away in? Airflow for the location?
by boscillator | 2025-08-28 18:32:34+00:00
Does this handle covariance between different variables? For example, the location of the object your measuring your distance to presumably also has some error in it's position, which may be correlated with your position (if, for example, if it comes from another GPS operating at a similar time).

Certainly a univarient model in the type system could be useful, but it would be extra powerful (and more correct) if it could handle covariance.
by AlienRobot | 2025-08-28 18:32:47+00:00
You'd think so, but you make something then it doesn't work on a new version of windows, or it doesn't work on a new version of python because one of your dependencies isn't available for that version of python, or it doesn't work on linux if it doesn't have a specific version of packages, or it doesn't work on the browser because they're ditching manifest v2, or it doesn't work on android because you need to provide more personal information or your app will be unpublished.

At this point I have a feeling "perfect" software only exists in hardware like consoles where updates just stop one day.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-28 18:32:47+00:00
> It's wild to think how Republicans used to complain about activist judges, but the current Federalist Society slate has undone at least 100+ years of precedent in the last half dozen.

Projection, as usual. When in opposition they act as if the Democrats were doing <insert evil thing>, so they can justify doing <evil thing> when they come topower, because it's "just a reaction".
by scotty79 | 2025-08-28 18:34:10+00:00
I'm automatically going to be interested in any language with significant white space because there are very few mainstream ones and I hate the visual clutter that block delimiters create. Pretty much there's just Python. Scala 3 can happily do both.

I think we'd be better off if text editors just had option of representing braces and such as consistent indentation. Block delimiting tokens should optionally have semantics of non directly printable characters like new line or tab.
by rayiner | 2025-08-28 18:34:17+00:00
The link above is about the New York civil case.

If you're talking about the criminal case, it's even worse, as CNN's chief legal correspondent explained: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-was-convicted-... ("Most importantly, the DA's charges against Trump push the outer boundaries of the law and due process."). Or, as an MSNBC legal columnist explained: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-guilty-hus... ("Most DAs wouldn’t have pursued this case against Trump. Alvin Bragg got lucky. Let’s be honest with each other. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump was convoluted.").

You could write an entire Harvard law review issue about the novel legal issues raised by the Trump criminal case: Can a state crime be predicted on an uncharged federal campaign finance violation? can someone violate campaign finance law--which is focused on preventing candidates from misusing donated funds--by using their own money to pay off a porn star? Can you bootstrap a misdemeanor into a felony through a triple-bank-shot involving an uncharged secondary crime and a choice of three possible tertiary crimes? When you prosecute someone for a business records misdemeanor, but almost all the allegedly bad conduct relates to unspecified secondary and tertiary crimes, how do you instruct the jury? When you give the jury three different options of uncharged tertiary crimes to support the uncharged secondary crime, which in turn supports the charged primary crime, on what points must the jury reach a unanimous decision?

Google's and Apple's "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich" was a more straightforward legal theory than the Trump criminal case.
by dy | 2025-08-28 18:34:42+00:00
Most resonant quote from the article: "For more senior roles, look for dynamic range in their confidence levels." Great mental model of the types of senior people I've enjoyed working with.

I've found it's always more worthwhile to debate and work with people who have to consistently match their predictions against reality. In my life, that's been engineers that ship and money managers who tracked against a benchmark. Everyone else I'm happy to let them have the comforts of their opinions.
by trelane | 2025-08-28 18:34:51+00:00
> had so-so luck getting Linux working with non-AMD stuff, and regardless of who is ultimately to blame it's still something I had to deal with.

Did you buy the laptop with the intention of running Linux on it?

Did it ship with Linux preinstalled?

Did the vendor support Linux running on that computer? Like, could you call them and get them to provide you help in the case of problems?
Show HN: Persistent Mind Model (PMM) – Update: an model-agnostic "mind-layer"
by HimTortons | 2025-08-28 18:34:54+00:00
A few weeks ago I shared the Persistent Mind Model (PMM) — a Python framework for giving an AI assistant a durable identity and memory across sessions, devices, and even model back-ends.

Since then, I’ve added some big updates:

- DevTaskManager — PMM can now autonomously open, track, and close its own development tasks, with event-logged lifecycle (task_created, task_progress, task_closed).

- BehaviorEngine hook — scans replies for artifacts (e.g. Done: lines, PR links, file references) and uto-generates evidence events; commitments now close with confidence thresholds instead of vibes.

- Autonomy probes — new API endpoints (/autonomy/tasks, /autonomy/status) expose live metrics: open tasks, commitment close rates, reflection contract pass-rate, drift signals.

- Slow-burn evolution — identity and personality traits evolve steadily through reflections and “drift,” rather than resetting each session.

Why this matters: Most agent frameworks feel impressive for a single run but collapse without continuity. PMM is different: it keeps an append-only event chain (SQLite hash-chained), a JSON self-model, and evidence-gated commitments. That means it can persist identity and behavior across LLMs — swap OpenAI for a local Ollama model and the “mind” stays intact.

In simple terms: PMM is an AI that remembers, stays consistent, and slowly develops a self-referential identity over time.

Right now the evolution of it "identity" is slow, for stability and testing reasons, but it works.

I’d love feedback on:

What you’d want from an “AI mind-layer” like this.

Whether the probes (metrics, pass-rate, evidence ratio) surface the right signals.

How you’d imagine using something like this (personal assistant, embodied agent, research tool?).
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-08-28 18:35:08+00:00
Even if I'm in the minority it still doesn't justify it. I'm sorry, it sucks, but I don't hold this position because I lack knowledge, I hold it because I think giving up freedom to control our own devices is too much, even if it means people will get hurt. I also perfectly understand how cameras in every home will prevent so much domestic abuse and crime, but I am still against it. Not because I don't understand how many people are victim to these things, but because I think the intrusion on ME is too much.
by keleftheriou | 2025-08-28 18:35:26+00:00
These improvements are very welcome for the “VoiceGPT” app I’m building for Apple Watch.

I have a TestFlight beta for those who want to try it out, hope to have the new model included in the next beta build:

https://x.com/keleftheriou/status/1956932258293755955?s=46
by jonahx | 2025-08-28 18:35:31+00:00
> yes, let us enable EVERYONE to build little tools for themselves.

It will enable more people, but "everyone" is never, ever going to happen.

This is both because (1) many people don't want to do this, no matter how easy it is -- probably the primary reason and (2) many people won't have the ability to do this in a way that is net profitable for them, because their "tool ideas" just won't be good.
by godelski | 2025-08-28 18:35:48+00:00
> And other people said the Internet was a fad

So what? A broken clock is still right twice a day.

My point is: are there more false positives or false negatives?

You're also cherry picking. Even with AI there are pretty high profile people saying it's a fad as well as pretty high profile people saying it's going to kill us all.

Look at crypto. WAS it hype? Clearly. Don't tell me the price of bitcoin, tell me how the technology actually changed the world. Tell me how it did even a tenth of what the crypto bros promised.

Look at VR. Don't tell me how much you like the latest Quest, tell me how many people are in the metaverse. Tell me how many people even own a VR system. Tell me how the tech achieved a hundredth of what was promised.

Look at Segway. When was the last time you even saw one? Have you ever even used one? How many people even know what they are?

It doesn't matter if your prediction is right if it is 1 in 1000. The Simpson has a better batting record than that and they aren't even trying. What matters is consistent predictions. Even if you believe this time is different I don't know how you can not understand why people are skeptical. In the last decade we watched people become billionaires off of VR and crypto.

Even if AI is different, people are being glamorized for their experience in crypto and VR as reasons for why they'll be successful in AI. If you believe in AI then why wouldn't you see this as a fox in the chicken coup?

Those people didn't make their billions through technology, they made their billions through hype.

You can believe AI is a bubble and full of hype even if you believe the technology has a lot of uses. It's a lot easier to build hype around a grain of truth than a complete fabrication.
by vineyardmike | 2025-08-28 18:36:00+00:00
This is one of the most classically 2025 era political actions. It stems from a lawsuit originating from Elon Musk, where he fired people for criticizing him in their personal, off-work time (the legal question was if the government has the power to investigate complaints). Now the end-result is that the laws protecting workers are essentially nullified in the 5th circuit. But only the 5th circuit (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi). This came from the famously partisan 5th circuit which is stacked with right wing activist judges - and the decision was made by 2/3 trump-appointed judges and 3/3 republican-appointed judges.

Without the legal protection of unions or even the ability to generally get strong labor protections, it’s likely that society will be forced to renegotiate how labor protections and bargaining will work, or provide new laws to govern it. The idea that unions and collective bargaining will just be over is a fantasy of the mega corp CEOs. Either we’ll see a future SCOTUS revive the laws and board, or it’s yet another institution that needs to be rebuilt post trump/project-2025.
by DenisM | 2025-08-28 18:37:28+00:00
It’s generally useful to consider unit economy separate from whole company. If your unit economy is negative thing are very bleak. If it’s positive, your chance are going up by a lot - scaling the business amortizes fixed (non-unit) costs, such as admin and R&D, and slightly improves unit margins as well.

However this does not work as well if your fixed (non-unit) cost is growing exponentially. You can’t get out of this unless your user base grows exponentially or the customer value (and price) per user grows exponentially.

I think this is what Altman is saying - this is an unusual situation: unit economy is positive but fixed costs are exploding faster than economy if scale can absorb it.

You can say it’s splitting hair, but insightful perspective often requires teasing things apart.
by mjr00 | 2025-08-28 18:37:46+00:00
Anyone old enough to remember when UML promised the same thing? Never have to touch code again -- just draw boxes, charts, activity diagrams, etc. and right-click and generate code! Rational Rose is the future of programming!

It always turns out that when you have to make a computer execute a very precise set of operations, the absolute best way to communicate this is not English, not diagrams, but code.

It also turns out that the challenge is generally not writing that code, but figuring out that precise set of operations in the first place.
by HankStallone | 2025-08-28 18:37:56+00:00
I'm sure there's no hard "evidence" in the sense of a college administrator on video saying, "Gosh, I love these international students because they let us charge more!"

But it's just how prices work. If you're selling widgets for $5 each, and a new batch of customers come along who are willing to pay $10 for a widget, guess what your per-widget price is now. If you can't sell them all for $10, you might put the rest on sale for $5, but only after you've served all the $10 customers.

The universities are still taking some domestic and/or scholarship students too, but they're naturally giving preference to the full-paying ones.

Could there be other factors driving up tuition? Maybe, but student loans have been around for a long time, and I don't know that they've gotten a lot easier to get. Maybe the recent talk about student loan forgiveness has made some people more casual about taking on debt, assuming it will be forgiven, but that's questionable. The growth in international student enrollment is the one big obvious change.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-28 18:37:57+00:00
You are describing accurately where AI is now. But it wasn't there two years ago and it won't be there in two years. You still have 25% of your job today, but this will most likely gonna halve evey x-number of months.

I mean I'm opposed to all work, but the transition to jobless society might be traumatic. I hope you didn't neglect to buy crypto because that's the only remaining way to spontaneously and easily tap into the wealth of the rich when the work is gone.
by Animats | 2025-08-28 18:38:46+00:00
Actual decision: [1]

That is a strange piece of legal reasoning. It's derived from the theory of the unitary executive, or, as Trump says, "I can do whatever I want." Under this theory, which is relatively new, Congress cannot constrain the president much. Until recently, it was considered settled that the president can't fire most federal employees. Cabinet members serve "at the pleasure of the President", but further down, civil service employees were not fireable by political officials.

That's changed.

Until recently, it was assumed that a president who tried this stuff would be impeached. That prevented presidents from getting out of control. But Congress is too weak now to do its duty of constraining the president.

[1] https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-50627-CV0.pd...
by 4ggr0 | 2025-08-28 18:39:01+00:00
no idea why i wrote the wrong name, sorry about that, Kenneth!

you personally replying to my comment makes me regret the harsh tone of my initial comment, could've just posted your blog post and fairly criticize it instead of taking the gossipy route...

doesn't make it better that i misnamed you and that this is a comment chain below a post of yours venting about your experiences of others treating you differentely. hope you can find more people like Sarah or just a better work environment in general.
by Gracana | 2025-08-28 18:39:10+00:00
You might be able to do "large models slow" better than the spark with a 5090 and CPU offload, so long as you stick with MoE architectures. With the kv cache and shared parts of the model on GPU and all of the experts on CPU, it can work pretty well. I'm able to run ~400GB models at 10 tps with some A4000s and a bunch of RAM. That's on a Xeon W system with poor practical memory bandwidth (~190GB/s), you can do better with EPYC.
by bitwize | 2025-08-28 18:39:17+00:00
Google is realizing that Apple is right: Curated is better for end users. Android has had a far worse malware problem than iOS; from a security standpoint, authoritative allowlisting is the only thing proven to have significant mitigating effect against malware attacks. Nerds are getting big mad now that Google is demanding the slightest modicum of accountability from them -- nowhere near as comprehensive as the system that helped make the iPhone the premier pick of privacy-conscious folks.

Professional developers stand behind their code with their real names. If you are unwilling to do that much, you should not be able to release software to billions of users on the Android platform. That phone is not a Commodore 64. It is people's link to financial, health, educational, and government services. Compromise can have severe consequences. Just as we lock down corporate PCs to avoid leaking corporate information, phones should be locked down to avoid leaking personal information.
by devin | 2025-08-28 18:39:31+00:00
I know someone who was building a product like this that they intended to sell for the purposes of improving M&A efficiency. You feed it slack, zoom, etc. info and then get a sense for "who needs to be in the room" at various levels, see where duplicated management effort is, and so on. Not sure where it went, but this was around 10 years ago.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-08-28 18:40:09+00:00
As long as models continue on their current rapid improvement trajectory, retraining from scratch will be necessary to keep up with the competition. As you said, that's such a huge amount of continual CapEx that it's somewhat meaningless to consider AI companies' financial viability strictly in terms of inference costs, especially because more capable models will likely be much more expensive to train.

But at some point, model improvement will saturate (perhaps it already has). At that point, model architecture could be frozen, and the only purpose of additional training would be to bake new knowledge into existing models. It's unclear if this would require retraining the model from scratch, or simply fine-tuning existing pre-trained weights on a new training corpus. If the former, AI companies are dead in the water, barring a breakthrough in dramatically reducing training costs. If the latter, assuming the cost of fine-tuning is a fraction of the cost of training from scratch, the low cost of inference does indeed make a bullish case for these companies.