MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lenkite | 2025-08-12 18:37:25+00:00
Thanks - the Supreme Court clarified this in their ruling. But, the Supreme Court has also ruled that the US administration can deport individuals to third countries, while legal challenges to the practice are pending.

I see this as a perfect example of the US Supreme Court clarifying the scope and applicability of law - just like they rejected Biden's student loan forgiveness under the HEROES act and Biden found a workaround instead.
by joduplessis | 2025-08-12 18:38:00+00:00
As far as coding goes Claude seems to be the most competent right now, I like it. GPT5 is abysmal - I'm not sure if they're bugs, or what, but the new release takes a good few steps back. Gemini still a hit and miss - and Grok seems to be a poor man's Claude (where code is kind of okay, a bit buggy and somehow similar to Claude).
by GodelNumbering | 2025-08-12 18:38:01+00:00
I don't see how FAANG is relevant here. But the 'FAANG' I used to work at had an emergent problem of people throwing a lot of half baked 'AI-powered' code over the wall and let reviewers deal with it (due to incentives, not that they were malicious). In orgs like infra where everything needs to be reviewed carefully, this is purely a burden
by kqr | 2025-08-12 18:38:02+00:00
I think I see what you mean and with these clarifications we are in agreement. There is a lot of modern works of interactive fiction that goes way beyond what the old text adventures did, and work even when judged as art or literature. I just haven't played much of it because I'm a fan of the old-style games.

As for the specific question, they would progress at Rematch by figuring out ever more complicated interactions that work and will be used to survive, naturally.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-12 18:38:14+00:00
Because I read too many comments here, by people super seriously invested in some teenager obeying some arbitrary rules far away, over vast swaths of water, both liquid and solid.

And it seriously irked me. I know rules are there for a reason. Some are even good and make cooperation between people easier. But when rare edge case happens I hate that the first instinct of random people is to ponder how the rules, established by wealthy and powerful, should be applied with maximum severity to inflict maximum damage on the stupid kid that wanted to stand out. And all this while established international rules regarding war crimes are violated daily. And the criminal suffers no punishment, barely any inconvenience and gets to have a meeting with US president in Alaska, who himself is also a criminal, just not of the war flavor, yet, probably.

There was this guy a while back: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust

Young people want to do daring things. Don't crucify them in your minds on behalf of powerful, rich, old farts when they try, if noone got hurt.
by sdesol | 2025-08-12 18:38:25+00:00
But documentation doesn't include styling or preferred pattern, which is why I think a lot people complain that the LLM will just produce garbage. Also documentation is not guaranteed to be correct or up to date. To be able to produce the best code based on what you are hoping for, I do think having the actual code is necessary unless styling/design patterns are not important, then yes documentation will be suffice, provided they are accurate and up to date.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-12 18:38:40+00:00
> The (awful) truth of this is there are no realistic good options.

There are. Israel stopping the genocide and building settlements in foreign territories that don't belong to them is a realistic good option.

Do you have something against Israel stopping the genocide it does on Palestine? What's the difficulty to stop shooting people at aid sites and allowing humanitary aid to enter the country? Or is it very difficult to not snipe journalists and bomb hospitals?

> All pretty reprehensible; all getting a flag from me. How can I tell? I listen to upstream sources and recognize the talking points.

Lots of words, yeah war is terrible, yeah reprehensible acts on both sides, yeah the issue is complex. But here are simple facts:

Israel is committing a genocide to the Palestinian population at this very moment. Undeniable. It's not complex to not do genocide, many of us succeed in avoiding to do a genocide on a daily basis. Today I and many other people across the globe didn't participate in a genocide, for example!
by perdomon | 2025-08-12 18:38:53+00:00
It seems like Google doesn't want a single machine visiting so many links in such a short time. I wonder what the "bad response" could be?

Google asks for a login, sleeping 20 minutes. Server returned bad response. Sleeping 8 seconds. 635=302 https://images.google.com.pk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pakiboutique.com/wp-content/gallery/zainab-chottani-pret-collection-2017/zainab-chottani-luxury-pret-2017-7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pakiboutique.com/zainab-chottani-pret-collection-2017&docid=0gx_lzfAk8YInM&tbnid=qKdQuVyBbOHJfM:&w=948&h=1280&source=sh/x/im Google asks for a login, sleeping 20 minutes. Server returned bad response. Sleeping 11 seconds. 636=302 https://images.google.com.pk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pakiboutique.com/wp-content/gallery/zainab-chottani-pret-collection-2017/zainab-chottani-luxury-pret-2017-7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pakiboutique.com/zainab-chottani-pret-collection-2017&docid=0gx_lzfAk8YInM&tbnid=qKdQuVyBbOHJfM:&w=948&h=1280&source=sh/x/im Google asks for a login, sleeping 20 minutes. Server returned bad response. Sleeping 29 seconds. 637=302 https://images.google.com.pk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pakiboutique.com/wp-content/gallery/zainab-chottani-pret-collection-2017/zainab-chottani-luxury-pret-2017-7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pakiboutique.com/zainab-chottani-pret-collection-2017&docid=0gx_lzfAk8YInM&tbnid=qKdQuVyBbOHJfM:&w=948&h=1280&source=sh/x/im
by HumblyTossed | 2025-08-12 18:38:54+00:00
This is always how it is, though. People would get straight up in your face if you told them that the Apple Vision Pro wasn't going to take over the world. People would get straight up in your face if you told them 3D TV was a fad. People would straight get up in your face if you told them there are alternatives to React. People once thought Visual Basic was going to end programming as we knew it. People once thought UML to code (Rational Rose) was going to end programming as we know it.

There are certain types of people who will always do this - and think they're right.
by switknee | 2025-08-12 18:39:04+00:00
Potatoes are not particularly high on the satiety index (~33%). Brocolli and spinach are much higher at near 100%

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/marty.kendall7139/viz...

I've been reading that what gives potatoes a satiety boost is that they contain proteinase inhibitors. These limit your appetite by disrupting your digestion. Maybe they are more effective as a weight loss food than the raw nutrition numbers would suggest, but for an athlete that wants to cut I don't think slowing your ability to digest amino acids is a good idea.
by joenot443 | 2025-08-12 18:39:09+00:00
This is a good piece. Clearly it's a pretty complex problem and the intuitive result a layman engineer like myself might expect doesn't reflect the reality of LLMs. Regex works as reliably on 20 characters as it does 2m characters; the only difference is speed. I've learned this will probably _never_ be the case with LLMs, there will forever exist some level of epistemic doubt in its result.

When they announced Big Contexts in 2023, they referenced being able to find a single changed sentence in the context's copy of Great Gatsby[1]. This example seemed _incredible_ to me at the time but now two years later I'm feeling like it was pretty cherry-picked. What does everyone else think? Could you feed a novel into an LLM and expect it to find the single change?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35941920
by elchananHaas | 2025-08-12 18:39:50+00:00
For sure. The issue is that many AI workloads require terabytes per second of memory bandwidth and are on the cutting edge of memory technologies. As long as you can get away with little memory usage you can have massive savings, see Bitcoin ASICs.

The great thing with the Von Neumann architecture is it is flexible enough to have all sorts of operations added to it; Including specialized matrix multiplication operations and async memory transfer. So I think its here to stay.
by librasteve | 2025-08-12 18:40:18+00:00
occam (MIMD) is an improvement over CUDA (SIMD)

with latest (eg TSMC) processes, someone could build a regular array of 32-bit FP transputers (T800 equivalent):

- 8000 CPUs in same die area as an Apple M2 (16 TIPS) (ie. 36x faster than an M2) - 40000 CPUs in single reticle (80 TIPS) - 4.5M CPUs per 300mm wafer (10 PIPS)

the transputer async link (and C001 switch) allows for decoupled clocking, CPU level redundancy and agricultural interconnect

heat would be the biggest issue ... but >>50% of each CPU is low power (local) memory
by seanwilson | 2025-08-12 18:41:27+00:00
I won't be surprised when LLMs get good at puzzle-heavy text adventures if there was more attention turned to this.

I've found for text adventures based on item manipulation, variations of the same puzzles appear again and again because there's a limit to how many obscure but not too obscure item puzzles you can come up with, so training would be good for exact matches of the same puzzle, and variations, like different ways of opening locked doors.

Puzzles like key + door, crowbar + panel, dog + food, coin + vending machine, vampire + garlic etc. You can obscure or layer puzzles, like changing the garlic into garlic bread which would still work on the vampire, so there's a logical connections to make but often nothing too crazy.

A lot of the difficulty in these games comes from not noticing or forgetting about clues/hints and potential puzzles because there's so much going on, which is less likely to trip up a computer.

You can already ask LLMs "in a game: 20 ways to open a door if I don't have the key", "how to get past an angry guard dog" or "I'm carrying X, Y, and Z, how do I open a door", and it'll list lots of ways that are seen in games, so it's going to be good at matching that with the current list of objects you're carrying, items in the world, and so on.

Another comment mentions about how the AI needs a world model that's transforming as actions are performed, but you need something similar to reason about maths proofs and code, where you have to keep track of the current state/context. And most adventure games don't require you to plan many steps in advance anyway. They're often about figuring out which item to combine/use with which other item next (where only one combination works), and navigating to the room that contains the latter item first.

So it feels like most of the parts are already there to me, and it's more about getting the right prompts and presenting the world in the right format e.g. maintaining a table of items, clues, and open puzzles, to look for connections and matches, and maintaining a map.

Getting LLMs to get good at variations of The Witness would be interesting, where the rules have to be learned through trial and error, and combined.
by nme01 | 2025-08-12 18:41:41+00:00
I also work for a FAANG company and so far most employees agree that while LLMs are good for writing docs, presentations or emails, they still lack a lot when it comes to writing a maintainable code (especially in Java, they supposedly do better in Go, don’t know why, not my opinion). Even simple refactorings need to be carefully checked. I really like them for doing stuff that I know nothing about though (eg write a script using a certain tool, tell me how to rewrite my code to use certain library etc) or for reviewing changes
by 3acctforcom | 2025-08-12 18:41:44+00:00
It was, repeatedly. It's a very important historical document that defined negative rights (congress shall pass no law) and inspired most modern constitutions.

The problem is the US never bothered to address it's technical debt, so it's patch on patch on patch. An updated constitution would probably cut through a lot of the bullshit in American politics, e.g. the interstate commerce clause being the entire justification for the federal government lol.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-12 18:41:48+00:00
You are correct that my math was a little off; by the time it hit 50 comments the skeptics were starting to prevail. That said, at 30 comments I think the comments section as a whole was still credulous. Here's my attempt at recreating what it was like then: https://ameliaquining.neocities.org/tesla-hn-comments

Note that I put all the comments in reverse chronological order because historical vote data isn't available, so which comments are at the top here isn't necessarily reflective of which ones were at the top at the time.

You can judge for yourself whether my summary was misleading.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-08-12 18:42:15+00:00
I get this sinking feeling that this "bubble" may never burst on its own, since the political environment now is different from the 2000s. Inequality is much higher post-COVID, with the ultra-wealthy sucking up the assets of the middle class. Those assets are going into the stock market for AI companies with the objective of eventually replacing people so they never need to pay the working or middle class ever again. Even if the AI doesn't perform quite at the level of normal employees, there's very little competition in the market anyway.

I'd be happy for someone to tell me I'm wrong. Otherwise it will take something dire to break this cycle.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-12 18:42:37+00:00
I wonder—style is subjective and I think it looks nice. The floors are pretty and the rug looks comfy. Beige walls are, eh, well, safe pick I guess.

Preference disagreement: I absolutely need my workspace to be different from my gaming space, or I’d go totally nuts.

But, there’s an objectively correct answer for the placement of the camera, subject, monitors, and window, to avoid glare and getting washed out. Does anyone know if they did it right?
by lenkite | 2025-08-12 18:42:39+00:00
No, I am not trolling. Mainstream news hyper-exaggerates and when one studies the matter, one realizes that few laws if any are broken. Several court battles are waged until the Supreme Court makes judgements on the scope and applicability of the law. Once that is done, the administration follows the ruling or chooses a workaround law.

AFAIK, the Trump Administration - as controversial as it may be - has not broken any Supreme Court rulings. Legal workarounds are not unique to this administration - such were done by the previous Biden administration as well. Please note the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s broad student loan forgiveness plan, ruling it exceeded the administration’s authority. Nevertheless, a workaround was found by using the Higher Education Act instead.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-12 18:43:14+00:00
To be fair, there's a subtle but important difference to:

- we're going into the next Great Depression (a once in a lifetime occurrence)

- a small subset of stocks (that happens to make up a huge portion of the entire equity market in the US) has extreme PE and PEG ratios and will pop (which happens every few years)

I think your point largely stands for both cases, but it's important to delineate them.

If you're preparing for a Great Depression - you're likely only going to be right by coincidence. If you're preparing for a stock bubble to pop, at the very least, you've got better odds.
by jldugger | 2025-08-12 18:43:24+00:00
> a revenue multiple of 2-4x typical for newsletters values her business at ~$50 million.

And this is kind of the problem: how do you value a company held by a single person? There's no open market for shares in this company. And worse, I feel like there's a proof of non-existence:

Either:

1. The business is so simple any idiot with a billion dollars can buy and run it. I'm sure such businesses exist but not at the billion dollar status.

2. Only this one genius can, which means anyone the genius would sell to should use a valuation of 0x.

Seems like a huge problem for anyone needing some fraction of that billion to be liquid!
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-08-12 18:43:26+00:00
Historically interesting note: Nazi Germany kidnapped thousands and thousands of Polish children and handed them to German parents to be raised as Germans. Their decedents usually don't even know about this.

Back to the topic at hand: you have to distinguish between material and formal cooperation with evil. I don't know the Kagi situation (if they're just indexing images for Yandex to improve search results, then I don't see how you have a real case here; even calling this remote cooperation with evil -- something that is generally impossible to avoid -- seems like a stretch). But let's say a company is doing something like making financial contributions to some organization doing something immoral. While you can boycott a company for that reason, you are not generally morally obligated to do so. And in practice, it usually has no effect. It's also unjust to saddle people with a burden of guilt they do not actually have. This is called rigorism.
by kazinator | 2025-08-12 18:43:28+00:00
> If the file is found then there is no undefined behaviour in the process of the file being included.

Correct; but processing doesn't stop there.

> There might be undefined behaviour in the overall translation unit

But what does that mean; how do you infer that there might be undefined behavior?

Does ISO C define the behavior, or does it not?

ISO C has nothing to say about what is in #include <winkle.h> if such a header is found and didn't come from the program.

Without having anything to say about what is in it, if it is found at all, ISO C cannot be giving a definition of behavior of the tokens that are substituted for that #include.
by DaveZale | 2025-08-12 18:44:28+00:00
what rubbish.

Female Fertility Decline

Female fertility begins a gradual decline in the late 20s, with a more significant drop occurring after age 35 While fertility is generally strong in the 20s and early 30s, the rate of decline accelerates after age 37 By age 30, a woman has about a 20% chance of conceiving each month, which decreases to around 15% by age 35 and further drops to less than 5% per cycle by age 40 This decline is primarily due to a reduction in both the quantity and quality of eggs, a process that starts from birth and progresses naturally over time Although the decline is gradual, the most pronounced decrease in fertility happens in the late 30s and early 40s The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) notes that fertility starts to decline more significantly by age 32, with a steeper drop after age 37 The peak fertility for women is generally considered to be around age 24, after which fertility begins to decrease ...
by somat | 2025-08-12 18:44:34+00:00
I recently found wordnet through an offline dictionary/thesaurus program and thought it was a pretty neat project. https://wordnet.princeton.edu/

For my use case I was more interested in the data than the application and so never installed it and am unable to comment on how usable it is, but will include a link if you want to look. https://sourceforge.net/projects/artha/
by reactordev | 2025-08-12 18:44:35+00:00
Never underestimate the power of words. Kids have unalived themselves over it.

I think the true meaning has been lost to time. The Hebrew text has been translated and rewritten so many times it’s a children’s book. The original texts of the Dead Sea scrolls are bits and pieces of that long lost story. All we have left are the transliterations of transliterations.
by rayiner | 2025-08-12 18:44:36+00:00
> The proposed weighted-selection concept echoes a 2021 DHS plan under President Donald Trump's first administration that had sought to rank and select petitions by wage tiers (OES wage levels IV down to I), an approach that the Trump administration argued would prioritize higher-paid, highly skilled hires. That earlier plan faced opposition, was withdrawn by the Biden administration and saw related regulations blocked in federal court.

This seems like a no-brainer. Why did Biden withdraw the rule?
by bithive123 | 2025-08-12 18:44:46+00:00
Of course it's a bubble. It's only about 20% as useful as the claims driving the current irrational exuberance. All it can do is generate pictures and text, and we had those _coming out our eyeballs_ for at least a decade. Prior to generative AI, each of us already had more access to images and text with which to stimulate ourselves than we could consume in a lifetime.

When did we forget that discovering "truth" via symbol manipulation is a fraught proposition at best? It was in the 17th century that Leibniz proposed that encoding logical propositions into a propositional calculus would allow all intellectual disputes to be resolved mechanically.

"For it would suffice for them to take their pencils in their hands and to sit down at the abacus, and say to each other (and if they so wish also to a friend called to help): Let us calculate."

The original AI bro! Any day now...

I've been thinking lately that the real value of a piece of code is that there is at least one human alive somewhere supporting it. You remove that, and the value proposition gets extremely shaky. Folks are going to have to learn this first hand as their brain becomes full of echoes of LLM output, rather than the output being an echo of some brain process (you know, _actual_ intelligence).

But sure, if you can convince enough people that you've invented a real magic 8-ball, you might be able to convince enough of them to shake it for the rest of their lives. Me, I'm not convinced that the marginal value of "new" text and images is there.
by xmprt | 2025-08-12 18:44:50+00:00
3 minutes is too long for exploratory searches, where I'm not sure what I'm even looking for. And 3 minutes feels too short for deep research which I'm expected to trust some complex result which I either don't know enough about myself (that's why I'm searching for it) or know enough about to the point that AI probably can't do something that I already couldn't within a couple minutes.

I think the sweet spot for AI results is around 10-30 seconds. It's fast enough that I'm willing to wait for the results even if I'm not sure I'm exploring the right topic. And it's also fast enough that even if I knew what to search for, it can give me summarized results faster than I could read on my own.
by ghaff | 2025-08-12 18:44:53+00:00
I'd probably worry less about in-house accounting and legal than I would a lot of other things. Those are probably pretty hirable. Depends on the nature of the business of course. As I noted elsewhere, my more immediate concern would be someone who could handle critical matters if you, your wife, or your child is sick (or god forbid you go on vacation) and there are immediate important matters that need to be dealt with properly.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-08-12 18:44:57+00:00
One thing I want to point out about software is that its perpetually commoditized. Any piece of valuable software will get a free version after some amount of time.

It happened to compilers, operating systems, and renderer. It's gradually happening to game engines.

That's why the largest software companies are really just network effect monopolies. You only use it because other people use it or it relies on some sort of proprietary format.

Many companies like Adobe, Microsoft and Google could sustain a dramatically lower headcount if they started from scratch and never went outside the confines of their network monopoly markets.

From that perspective a one person unicorn is very feasible if we think about it as building a network effect monopoly.

In fact a close example already exists -- Minecraft was very close to being a single person unicorn.

If we have a one person unicorn, I'd imagine it'd be something more like Minecraft than someones newsletter or Google!