MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trod1234 | 2025-08-11 23:32:56+00:00
You should honestly re-evaluate and re-calibrate your measure of tone in moderation and relation to everything else.

Terse is not harsh or rude, its condensed, which carries a fine distinction.

Most business people and professionals speak this way; especially when it comes down to the objective facts which are not in question.

The facts and the effort towards minimization of cost for all parties in a communication conveys a overall respect, its extra effort I didn't have to provide which gets towards a specific goal as a whole for everyone involved in the communication's benefit.

If there is a mistake made on either parties part, its not harsh or rude to point out the mistake in such unambiguous format, or where that's not possible due to a deficit to point out why generally (such as a dependency not met).

Elaborating in great detail repeated or otherwise would be condescending, on the opposite side personal haranguing would be coercive imposition of cost. Lying by omission or commission would be the worst.

You'll note I did neither of these things, which is the socially acceptable way to handle it, and does not merit actions that were done. I pointed out the errors in comprehension, in the most minimal unambiguous way possible.

The only generally understood acceptable middle-ground in those two extremes is terse and to the point, and when you eliminate both sides and the middle ground, you classify all communication as harsh and rude which is an absurdity.

People cannot read other people's minds, and the point of communication is to convey meaning in a way the parties involved can use it towards their own ends beneficially if they choose, without unnecessary third-party interference.

The reflected appraisal is beneficial to all people involved.
by titzer | 2025-08-11 23:33:01+00:00
> It is also true that loops mess up your stack traces

No, because an indirect tail-call eliminates the calling frame. After, it looks like the caller of that function called a function it did not call. In fact, with tail-calls a whole pile of steps gets telescoped down to nothing[1]. This is not the case with a loop, it doesn't jump to itself indirectly. Loops don't jump into the middle of other loops in other functions. We can still follow the chain of control flow from the start of the main function, through (non-tail) calls, i.e. the stack, through the start of the loop, and then from some backedge in the loop body we're looking at.

Tail-calls are absolutely harder to debug in general than loops.

[1] In the limit, if the entire program was transformed into CPS with tail-calls everywhere, the original execution stack is now strewn throughout the heap as a chain of closures.
Show HN: Persistent Mind Model – Portable AI Personas for Any LLM
by HimTortons | 2025-08-11 23:33:27+00:00
Most AI “personalities” vanish when you switch models or devices.

I built a Persistent Mind Model so you can train & evolve a personalized AI — and take it anywhere: across sessions, models (GPT, Claude, LLaMA, Mistral), even devices — with all memories & commitments intact.

You could think of it as your very own personal AI Tamagotchi.

You tell it what to think, how to think, and it learns and develops through its interactions and recursive, self-referential reflections over time.

The best part? It’s fully portable. APIs or local LLMs simply serve as a substrate engine for its development.

Its long-term operability is 100% decoupled from third-party vendors.

I would really love some feedback from this community.

Thoughts?
by throwaway31131 | 2025-08-11 23:33:46+00:00
I’m not sure what their simple function was but I tried to use Claude to recreate C++ code to implement the algorithms in this paper as practice for me in LLM use and it didn’t go well. But I’ll be the first to admit that I’m probably holding it wrong.

https://users.cs.duke.edu/~reif/paper/chen/graph/graph.pdf
by yndoendo | 2025-08-11 23:34:44+00:00
Apple and Google directly, No.

I actively invest my personal income to organizations / businesses that are working to provide viable alternative. All are fruitful in reducing the barrier to a viable product. From improving hard-ware design to getting software in a stable state. Currently waiting on a phone from EU from a company on their attempt.

Went with a Farirphone 4 running /e/OS/. Yes, /e/OS/ is based on AOSP. This phone has a high chance of full postmarketos support. It is the closet from being disconnected from Google that I find to be stable. Postmarketos would allow for a quick jump.

In the mean time, still investing in companies and organizations that don't want to help Google in the smartphone market. It is a long-term investment.
by zug_zug | 2025-08-11 23:34:48+00:00
Really? I saw news about it just today.

It's never dropped of my news, from him moving Maxwell to a minimum security prison, to questions about whether he'll pardon her, to the signed letter with illustrations he wrote for Epstein's birthday.

I don't think the world will ever forget, certainly my social circles and social media are still buzzing with it.

In many ways it's more damning than watergate, though people are debating whether to call it Epsteingate or Pedogate.
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-11 23:35:09+00:00
Nissan didn't add active battery temp management until about the 2018 model year, so I'd be careful which part of the US you buy that van from depending on your interest in battery replacement.

When people ask "where are the <$30k cars?" they generally mean new cars, because the more $30k cars that are sold new should imply more <$10k gently used cars on the market. The used market doesn't get cars that people can't afford to buy new in the first place.
by refulgentis | 2025-08-11 23:35:20+00:00
This is a good handwave-y answer for them but truth is they've always been allergic to ever mentioning llama.cpp, even when legally required, they made a political decision instead of an engineering one, and now justify it to themselves and you by handwaving about it somehow being less stable than the core of it, which they still depend on.

A lot of things happened to get to the point they're getting called out aggressively in public on their own repo by nice people, and I hope people don't misread a weak excuse made in conversation as solid rationale, based on innuendo. llama.cpp has been just fine for me, running on CI on every platform you can think of, for 2 years.

EDIT: I can't reply, but, see anoncareer2012's reply.
by throwaway346434 | 2025-08-11 23:36:09+00:00
More or less? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG is fairly neutral. As someone in userland at the time on the other side of it, it was all a bit nuts.

IE we got new standards invented out of thin air - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Guides/Mic... - which ignored what hundreds had worked on before, which seemed to be driven by one person controlling the "standard" making it up as they went along.

Microformats and RDFa were the more widely adopted solutions at the time, had a lot of design and thought put into them, worked with HTML4 (but thrived if used with xhtml), etc etc.

JSON-LD/schema.org has now filled the niche and arguably it's a lot better for devs, but imagine how much better the "AI web UX" would be now if we'd just standardised earlier on one and stuck with it for those years?

This is the main area where I saw the behaviour on display, where I interacted most. So the original comment feels absolutely in line with my recollections.

I love bits of HTML5, but the way it congealed into reality isn't one of them.
by ai_assisted_dev | 2025-08-11 23:36:38+00:00
Also to add another point is that if you felt like an agent did not help you correctly, or way overshot, did too much edits, etc. Go back to the original prompt, rephrase it - sometimes you need 1-2 times. Sometimes the model just don't work for your workflow. It can become quite delicate.

One of the bigger things is when you introduced some bug, start working backwards with the agent, simplifying whatever you build to its bare necessities, and the moment it dissapears, start a new chat, and build it back up to what it was before (in the desired non-bugged state). This often works if you then also switch to a completely different model.
by michaelt | 2025-08-11 23:36:41+00:00
> I tend to feel that a lack of government intervention isn't a significant piece of this puzzle.

Depends if you agree with somenameforme's theory that tech companies start off amazing, get big, then become awful.

You may have noticed, in recent decades, we haven't bothered with enforcing anti-trust law. If Facebook wants to buy Instagram and Whatsapp, they can. If Microsoft wants to buy Github and Activision they can. If Google wants to buy Youtube, Doubleclick and Nest they can.

If we accept the premise that FAANG is where innovation goes to die, going 25 years without any antitrust enforcement might not have been the smartest move.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-11 23:37:08+00:00
Kinshasa's urban area (not the entire province) is generously estimated at 600 square km.

Mexico City is 1485 square km.

Mexico City's population, within that 1485 km^2 envelope, is most commonly given as ~9.5M. (It's ~20M with satellite towns and regions.)

And then consider that most of Kinshasa is comprised of buildings that are very low to the ground -- far lower than in Paris -- whereas Mexico City is in places very dense.
by Havoc | 2025-08-11 23:37:21+00:00
It's disappointing that their argument was more "exempt up" and less "this is an unworkable law".

Not sure what comes next but wikipedia blocking UK followed by perhaps a study or two about harm done to the economy may be a good start to get the morons in charge to see the light

This whole saga tells me that nobody in UK gov knows wtf their doing on anything online. (This act was introduced under conservatives and passed under liberals)
by bccdee | 2025-08-11 23:37:29+00:00
> related to mathematical theories like model theory, which give precise accounts of what it means to describe something

Perhaps too precise? APoSD is about the practical challenges of large groups of people creating and maintaining extensive written descriptions of logic. Mathematical formalisms may be able to capture some aspects of that, but I'm not sure they do so in a way that would lend real insight.

"How can I express a piece of complicated logic in an intuitive and easy-to-understand way" is fundamentally closer to writer's craft than mathematics. I don't think a book like this would ever be mathematically grounded, any more than a book about technical writing would be. Model theory would struggle to explain how to write a clear, legible paragraph.
Show HN: RiffMCP is an MCP server that lets LLMs compose, play, and render music
by WhitneyLand | 2025-08-11 23:37:36+00:00
I wanted to find out how good LLMs are at composing music, being that language models are not explicitly trained to do so.

RiffMCP is an MCP server that makes that possible by providing any LLM with a tool for playing and engraving music.

How did they do? The demo video shows music composed by Opus 4.1, Gemini 2.5 and GPT 5 for comparison.

It’s a local server that runs as a native app on macOS. This means that using included prompts it can also work with LLMs that don’t yet support MCP. For example to test GPT 5, I prompted it to compose music and output RiffMCP’s format, then copy/pasted the result into the app to hear it playback and see the sheet music.

It’s mostly experimental so far, but I may consider improvements like driving external midi. Full code provided under Apache 2.0 license.

Feedback appreciated, contributions welcome.

Watch demo:

https://youtu.be/Ksfw34dtIro?si=c3MERdxm9dhAwXiv

Code:

https://github.com/whitneyland/riffmcp

Try it out:

https://whitneyland.github.io/riffmcp
by joegibbs | 2025-08-11 23:38:51+00:00
Zoom in on Kinshasa though and you can see that it's almost entirely very densely-packed slums and shantytowns built up against each other, about 100 - 250 square meters in size, with no gardens or back yards. Slums can be very dense, Dharavi in Mumbai 2.3 square KM with a population of about a million. Manhattan has a much lower population density now than 100 years ago.

Also in all the street view pictures it looks absolutely packed - every road is gridlocked with people everywhere, but Shanghai has a lot of empty space for people despite its size. Roads have trees, they're much wider, there are a lot of open parks, office buildings etc that Kinshasa wouldn't have.
by ComputerGuru | 2025-08-11 23:39:19+00:00
> During Friday's AMA, Altman admitted the routing system that automatically selected which AI model to use had malfunctioned on launch day. "Yesterday, the autoswitcher broke and was out of commission for a chunk of the day, and the result was GPT-5 seemed way dumber," he wrote.

I mentioned it here previously, but I am inclined to distrust the veracity of this defense and view it as a good scapegoat for why the default performance sucked. I'd be more likely to believe that it was intentionally neutered (purposely using weaker models more often, heavily quantized, whatever) to reduce costs or whatever other reason you can think of and this "the autorouter was completely broken and we totally didn't notice for weeks on end" is just damage control (I don't think sama has earned any level of "just trust me, bro" credit).
by n8cpdx | 2025-08-11 23:39:59+00:00
When the M1 transition started, Intel and AMD devices simply were not competitive, even after factoring Rosetta losses (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/m1-chip-emulating-x86-b...). That was the relevant comparison to Rosetta; it has been 5 years since the transition started, and nowadays as others have stated, it is common to not have Rosetta at all. MacOS is dropping support soon.

The real difference maker is efficiency. MacBook owners simply do not need to worry about whether they are plugged in or not; the performance does not change and the battery lasts many hours, even on demanding tasks. Occasionally you can cherry pick a benchmark where AMD appears to be competitive, but always at much higher power draw.

AMD and Intel users don’t really appreciate how much of a qualitative difference that is. Being even close in performance, while offering far superior reliability and battery life, puts apple silicon in a league of its own.

Share your numbers please. I’m having trouble finding reliable sources that aren’t YouTube videos or forum posts, but nothing I’ve been able to find contradicts my claims.
by verdverm | 2025-08-11 23:40:03+00:00
Lincoln Project has been doing this for 5+ years: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/889714084

George Conway was able to get Trump to talk about things in 2024 by playing ads on Fox and the Golf Channel in Palm Springs (Mar-a-lardo)

Apparently advertisers are noting the "opportunity" in 2025: https://www.ft.com/content/8e9f099d-0bb7-4cbb-ac05-bb070a07e...
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-11 23:40:37+00:00
Your web app is statistically irrelevant. If PWAs were so much better on Android, then why do companies still make Android apps and web apps?

Well, one reason is that most Android phones being sold are so underpowered that you have to make a native app to get decent performance. Facebook for one found out early on that it couldn’t get away with just having an app that was a web wrapper because of low end Android devices.

So where are all of the great groundbreaking popular web apps?

And saying the current US government is in agreement with you about anything isn’t the positive thing you seem to be implying it is…
by shminge | 2025-08-11 23:41:34+00:00
I've recently hit a very similar problem. There's various problems with the web components (like he mentions) and I wanted a better way to write plain html with components. I ended up making a tiny python build script to process fake html components into proper HTML: https://github.com/shminge/builder

I've designed it for myself, deliberately to work around the flaws with web components mentioned. It hugely speeds up my process of writing pages for my blog (after trying everything, I've ended up just writing plain html) because I can define a component that holds all the boilerplate of the page (header, css, etc) and then write my pages as `<pagelayout> <p> body content here </p> </pagelayout>` and have that be expanded into proper valid HTML
by tash_2s | 2025-08-11 23:42:03+00:00
Thanks! Beyond face blurring, I'm planning to detect and redact other private information like license plates, name tags, and sensitive documents.

Most of these features are aimed at protecting bystanders, but I'm also interested in exploring privacy protection for the wearer. For example, automatically shutting off recording in bathrooms, or removing identifiable landmarks from the video when they could reveal the wearer's location, depending on the use case.
by coyotespike | 2025-08-11 23:42:26+00:00
This was written with ChatGPT, probably 4o specifically - does that not jump out at anyone else? Maybe just me because I throw productivity/spirituality stuff at it all the time and get this kind of language back.

"This isn’t a method I’ve perfected. It’s one I’m actively living. And every time I return to it, something shifts.

Try it for a week. Not to optimize, but to notice what becomes possible."
by philipkglass | 2025-08-11 23:43:14+00:00
Your old account is still working, but you should participate here on stories submitted by other people before doing a Show HN. It looks like you just signed up for self-promotion and no other reason if you don't participate elsewhere, which means that regular users are likely to dismiss your Show HN as spam. That's probably why your previous submission of this project was flagged.
by gretch | 2025-08-11 23:43:33+00:00
You inferred it, but it's not implied.

Instead of thinking of a bet as saying "I have good cards" think of it instead as "I have an advantage in this pot", which is not a lie.

In poker advantages can come from cards, or from other objective measures such as position, stack size. And of course from subjective measures like being able to read your opponent.
by danparsonson | 2025-08-11 23:44:03+00:00
Since we're sharing our setups, I self-host https://github.com/nanawel/our-shopping-list, which is a nice clean, simple list keeper that can install as a PWA, and https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy for recurring notifications; every morning a shell script runs over a text file full of reminders (mostly birthdays) and sends me a notification about them.
by verdverm | 2025-08-11 23:44:25+00:00
meh, when you talk in percentages and neglect the wallstreet stock buybacks (est 1T this year), and that GDP numbers are crude measurements, and neglect PPP...

The US is going through a rough four years that will damage the trajectory and potential for many decades

Too many moving parts for predictions like this author wants to make, gotta sell that attention tho...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-11 23:45:09+00:00
> The Supreme Court is addressing legal gaps resulting from legislative inaction by Congress.

You just admitted it yourself. The unelected supreme court is legislating.

They have usurped the functions of the legislative branch. They do not represent us: not a single brazilian citizen voted for these judges. Yet everything they write is law. Worse: they frequently nullify the efforts of our actual representatives in a completely monocratic manner.

They often engage in "judicial activism" where they "creatively interpret" laws and generally make things up on the spot. Not too long ago they regulated social media by arbitrarily declaring the existing law unconstitutional and somehow reinterpreting it to mean the exact opposite of what the law said. They privatized their censorship by making social media companies liable for user content. Now the companies have to proactively censor everything the courts might take issue with, lest they get slapped with totally arbitrary fines and nationwide ISP blocks.

They've usurped the functions of the executive branch too. Not too long ago they raised taxes on all brazilians. Our president raised taxes, our congress blocked it, then the supreme court overrode our elected congress. The president is ruling through the court, just like in Venezuela.

They're also the victims, investigators, prosecutors, judges and executioners...

The only possible logical conclusion is that Brazil is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship of the unelected judiciary. They are judge-god-kings.
Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice
by dinnison | 2025-08-11 23:45:09+00:00
Hi everyone — I’m Clark, creator of Keeps, a way to send physical postcards that play your voice with a quick QR code scan.

WHAT IT IS Upload a photo (or pick from Unsplash), write a message, optionally add a 60 second voice note, and send a 4×6 postcard. QR code printed on the postcard links to a “digital card” that plays the audio. $5 flat, printing + postage included. No account required.

WHY I BUILT IT I love mailing postcards to my family but hate it's a hassle (finding card, buying stamp, handwriting, praying it arrives on time). I wanted to merge the charm of physical mail, the warmth of voice messages, and the efficiency of software.

HOW IT WORKS Built with Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Resend, and Lob. QR codes link to hosted audio. Stripe handles payment. Lob prints and mails the cards. Resend emails status updates.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT - Voice note + physical card combo - Minimal editor, no sign-up friction - Transparent $5 price (everything included)

TRY IT FREE 1. Go to https://sendkeeps.com 2. Create your card 3. Use promo code SENDKEEPSFREE for a free send (first 50 people)

FEEDBACK WANTED - Editor UX - QR/digital card flow - Address autocomplete UX - Critical missing features - Interesting use cases (wedding thank yous, airbnb hosts, etc)

Happy to share details or answer questions!
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-11 23:45:33+00:00
Rare case of Russian doing something more honestly. Implementing it as a device flag sent to websites, and making it easy to set for the device of any minor, is an elegant and unintrusive solution.

If you get w3.org and major browser and os vendors in on it, it simply becomes a legally enforced an universal parental control without much drawbacks.

But that would not permit the complete tracking of identity of all individuals in a country with their ptivate Internet activity and political stance.

And that's a massive loss to the true purpose of any law pretending to protect children; Just like the multiple attempts to outlaw encryption or scan all private or messages.
by cco | 2025-08-11 23:46:39+00:00
> Mostly I’ve just been stressing to my team that we need to consider these interfaces for our application as equal surfaces for how our application will be used. As we build features, we need to make conscious decisions about whether and how those features are accessible and legible in all three of those interfaces.

I read this to mean that they're thinking about all three experiences (interfaces) on equal footing, not as a unified one experience for all three user agents.
by leptons | 2025-08-11 23:46:45+00:00
>Your web app is statistically irrelevant.

So you think I'm the only person who ever had this problem? The DOJ apparently disagrees with you.

>Well, one reason is that most Android phones being sold are so underpowered that you have to make a native app to get decent performance.

Bullshit. It has nothing to do with performance, it has everything to do with Apple's abusive business practices not allowing any other web view on their platform, and purposely hobbling their browser for anti-competitive greedy business reasons.

>So where are all of the great groundbreaking popular web apps?

So where are your goalposts moving next?

>And saying the current US government is in agreement with you about anything isn’t the positive thing you seem to be implying it is…

I didn't say the current US government, the DOJ under the previous administration is the one that filed the charges against Apple. But I know you aren't arguing in good faith, so maybe we should just agree to disagree.