MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by QuantumGood | 2025-08-06 01:51:29+00:00
Perplexity Pro allows you to use GPT-4 Omni, Claude 4 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Sonar, DeepSeek R1, and others. Can you clarify what you mean by based on the ancient llama 3.3 70B? And they pull results from multiple search engines, and their own index, not just Google.

Preference doesn't have to be based on anything, but providing misinformation that is easily verified is not that common on HN. And Perplexity Pro is different than vanilla Perplexity.
by dn3500 | 2025-08-06 01:52:07+00:00
In 1981 I wrote a tool that is still in use today. You can install the package on most major linux distros. This was before we paid much attention to software copyright, and I simply published it with my name on it and no license.

About six months later someone took my code, removed my name from it, made some small changes that didn't change its behavior at all, and re-published it. By that time I had moved on and wasn't aware that it had started to take off.

The man page now has someone else's name on it as author. I don't really regret publishing it but I wish I had put a copyright notice and license on it.
by VHRanger | 2025-08-06 01:52:49+00:00
You are aware that if you're paying for kagi you can just slap !ai at the end of any search query and it'll direct the query to kagi.com/assistant, right?

And that you can set the model to answer those query as any of the grok models?

Kagi isn't behind anyone else on this AI-powered search, in fact the assistant is nearly a strict superset of all the other ones.

You can set the model to chatGPT, claude, gemini, grok, etc. And it'll use kagi search as a backend instead of, respectively, bing, brave, google, google+twitter.
by QuantumGood | 2025-08-06 01:53:44+00:00
So in your opinion, incidentally in this thread about Kagi, you think Google is better? You imply Perplexity only uses their own index, but they pull results from multiple external search engines and their own index. As I mentioned in another thread, that kind of easy-to-verify-as-misinformation is not that common on HN. And Perplexity Pro is different than vanilla Perplexity.
by cma | 2025-08-06 01:56:37+00:00
Cached prices: $.31 for Gemini Pro / Mtok, $1.50 for claude opus 4.1 / Mtok

There's additional storage costs with google caching, around $3.75 for 5 minutes/Mtok, and Claude Opus is $3.75 for 5minute Cache Writes / Mtok.

For cached reads Gemini Pro is 5X cheaper than Opus and like $0.01 more than Sonnet.
by greycol | 2025-08-06 01:57:18+00:00
It's the Javelin Anti cheat system which forces the use of secure boot.

This conversation already covers a lot of the anticheat linux issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947047

It's been about a year since MS managed to release an update that hit dual boot users running linux with secure boot. They released a fix in may this year, so hopefully going forward that won't be an issue.

However if you're running "old" hardware you've still got the expiring keys issue with secure boot to deal with.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/linux-users-are-about...

I think there's a bit of a confluence between ai making graphics cards more widely useful for work machines, the hostile malware like nature of anti cheat, and the worrying unreliability of secure boot, that coupled with the higher cost of graphics card (making it less affordable to just have a second machine) that make this problem more untenable.

Really does give more credence to the "doomsayers" of yester year who denounced secure boot.

Will be interesting to see how it all plays out with MS proclaiming they're going to fence off ring 0 access after crowdstrike, and the growing popularity of linux as a gaming platform (as a realist, i'm betting on depressing. It'll play out depreesingly).
by brikym | 2025-08-06 01:57:56+00:00
Yes - I open sourced a web game which was promptly ripped off and plastered with banner ads. The copycat impersonated me on social media claiming to be the developer. I promptly made the repo private and made many improvements after that point in time so the damage wasn't too bad. But the copycat got a better Google ranking which focused people. There are also a lot of link-farm sites where web games are proxied and embedded with links to other games. The embedding problems went away once I used Cloudflare. This confused a lot of fans as they'd find the awful ad-ridden copycat site. So my advice to anyone with a side project which isn't a library is to keep it private and behind a CDN.
by eru | 2025-08-06 01:58:05+00:00
Yes, that was a problem back then, and is also a problem today, but in different ways.

First, GDP still doesn't count you making your own meals. Second, when eg free Wikipedia replaces paid for encyclopedias, this makes society better off, but technically decreases GDP.

However, having said all that, it's remarkably how well GDP correlates with all the goods things we care about, despite its technical limitations.
by lvspiff | 2025-08-06 01:58:20+00:00
Theres such a huge focus on STEM yet i rarely see the scientific method or critical thinking and logic being taught. Its like forming your own ideas is no longer a thing and so long as you have the solution you wont need anything original

I see it growing worse in my job where newer staff rarely can come up with new ideas and the older staff are having to hand hold them. They have trouble even stating the problem at times just “i dont know how to fix any of it”. Eventually the solution is either crazy convoluted (a factory for a class for a static function that returns a string of static json) or just crazy in general (let me put this json into an env variable so its now its available global)
by jrflowers | 2025-08-06 01:59:00+00:00
> Love the downvotes, btw.

I’d wager that you’re getting downvoted for two reasons, first because current science is strongly indicating that “obesity is a moral failing” is factually untrue, so being smug while dead wrong is off putting.

And second reason would be the framing of the issue of obesity as being solved by just losing weight. A lot (maybe most? Almost all?) of people that are overweight have at some point lost weight, the bigger challenge is keeping it off long term.

So you kind of just Kramer’d into this thread and loudly volunteered unprompted that you don’t understand this stuff on a basic level, aren’t in a position to understand it, and you definitely feel like you’ve accomplished something so enormous that it makes you smarter and better than everybody else. It’s kind of like if you show a kid Google Translate and they start lecturing you about how easy it is to move to Mallorca because Catalan isn’t that hard to pick up
Show HN: Minimal terminal-style portfolio template (~13KB) with GitHub API data
by Cod-e-Codes | 2025-08-06 02:01:06+00:00
Demo: https://www.cod-e-codes.com

- Single standalone HTML file around 13KB

- Dynamic fetching of GitHub repo info with caching and fallback

- Responsive terminal-inspired UI, works on desktop and mobile

- Clean, semantic HTML5 and accessible markup

- Lighthouse score 100/100 for performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO

- Easy to customize personal info and projects in one file

- Deploy anywhere static hosting is supported (GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, etc.)
by eru | 2025-08-06 02:03:49+00:00
> There is obvious utility to railroads, especially in a world with no cars.

> The net utility of AI is far more debatable.

As long as people are willing to pay for access to AI (either directly or indirectly), who are we to argue?

In comparison: what's the utility of watching a Star Wars movie? I say, if people are willing to part with their hard earned cash for something, we must assume that they get something out of it.
by anon373839 | 2025-08-06 02:04:37+00:00
Hm. A "healthy" diet is a somewhat slippery concept. There are lots of diets that are healthy, but not optimal for supporting fat loss. Are you building each meal around a significant lean protein source, with a total protein intake somewhere in the vicinity of 0.8+ g/lb. of your goal body weight? And then for the remaining calories that are not protein, are you minimizing high calorie density foods (oils, butter, sugar, breads, pasta, etc.) and maximizing low calorie density foods (quinoa, oats, sweet potato, etc.)? And then finally, are you at a calorie intake that is 80-85% of your TDEE, and not lower?

Usually, this kind of diet plan results in eating a large volume of food that alleviates physiological hunger. Granted, it's not the kind of food that lights up most people's reward pathways. If you're fending off cravings for sweet treats and stuff, there are different strategies you can try to help with those. Sometimes it is best to just cut them out for a time, until the "addiction" breaks. But you can also try penciling them in at infrequent, scheduled intervals in highly regulated amounts.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-06 02:05:05+00:00
I don't think you understand the passage you've quoted (without a link), and you seem to have accidentally added your own words to it (there's a close quote, but then more words.) That being said, I can't find the quote at all in the essay; did AI make it up?

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

The closest thing I could find was this:

> Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement.

So were users or "creators" his concern? I don't remember him ever giving too much of a shit about the happiness of creators, I wouldn't have approved. I don't (particularly) care about programmer's problems.

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edit:

I can't find the quote "If I sign a nondisclosure agreement to work on a proprietary program" on the entire internet.
by colingauvin | 2025-08-06 02:05:48+00:00
I was surprised to find that there is an Italian Mediterranean buffalo species/breed [1] that is thought to be descended from an altogether distinct lineage that went extinct around the last ice age [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Mediterranean_buffalo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubalus_murrensis
by lvspiff | 2025-08-06 02:05:52+00:00
They are picking the “un-rich” latter. The rich can still have all the vaccines they want they just gotta pay for it. Same goes for healthcare. If you don’t have a job and arent independently wealthy well screw you dont care about you anyways. So its not just a purge of the sick people its a purge of the poor as well.

I dont think they have an endgame other than at the end they’ve accumulated all the wealth and power possible…nothing about making population healthy
by eru | 2025-08-06 02:06:09+00:00
The US spends more per capita on their social safety net than almost all other countries, including France and the UK.

The US spends around 6.8k USD/capita/year on public health care. The UK spends around 4.2k USD/capita/year and France spends around 3.7k.

For general public social spending the numbers are 17.7k for the US, 10.2k for the UK and 13k for France.

(The data is for 2022.)

Though I realise you asked for sane policies. I can't comment on that.

I'm not quite sure why the grandfather commenter talks about unemployment: the US had and has fairly low unemployment in the last few decades. And places like France with their vaunted social safety net have much higher unemployment.
by nine_k | 2025-08-06 02:06:10+00:00
Does anybody find it funny that sci-fi movies have to heavily distort "robot voices" to make them sound "convincingly robotic"? A robotic, explicitly non-natural voice would be perfectly acceptable, and even desirable, in many situations. I don't expect a smart toaster to talk like a BBC host; it'd be enough is the speech if easy to recognize.
by sans_souse | 2025-08-06 02:06:31+00:00
> According to Steven Levy in his book In The Plex, in early 1997 two graduate students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, decided that BackRub, the name of their research project that later became the search engine Google, was taking up time they should have been using to study. They went to Bell and offered it to him for $1 million, but Bell rejected the offer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite_(web_portal)
by db48x | 2025-08-06 02:08:26+00:00
Jon Stewart has a good point there as well, saying “the Democrats think it can’t solve anything unless is solves everything”. Over the last decade or so they’ve weighed everything down with stupidity. Ezra has specific examples; that’s a really good interview.

Another good quote: “It’s almost as if they had designed this machine to make sure that people in rural areas _never_ get broadband…”

Ooh, Ezra: “This is the Biden administration’s process for it’s own bill. They wanted this to happen. This is how liberal government works now.”
Show HN: Metis Agent v0.6.1 – Run OpenAI's GPT OSS Locally with No API Keys
by cjohnsonpr | 2025-08-06 02:08:39+00:00
We just released Metis Agent v0.6.1, a major update that brings full local model support—just as OpenAI dropped their first open-weight models on Hugging Face (GPT OSS-117B and 21B).

With this release, you can run GPT OSS locally—no API keys, no per-token costs, no external dependencies.

What’s new in v0.6.1:

Native HuggingFace integration (including GPT OSS)

Automatic hardware detection (CUDA, MPS, CPU)

4-bit and 8-bit quantization support

36+ production-ready tools for building AI agents

One command to switch from API-based to local models

This lets developers and startups:

Build with OpenAI-quality models without usage limits

Deploy behind firewalls with full data sovereignty

Experiment and scale on local hardware.

Install Command: pip install metis-agent
by daft_pink | 2025-08-06 02:09:03+00:00
So I’m using turbo and just want to provide some feedback. I can’t figure out how to connect raycast and project goose to ollama turbo. The software that calls it essentially looks for the models via ollama but cannot find the turbo ones and the documentation is not clear yet. Just my two cents, the inference is very quick and I’m happy with the speed but not quite usable yet.
by GeometryKernel | 2025-08-06 02:10:53+00:00
Today, Dr. Charles Tibedo’s TSAMS’ Framework and its classically driven quantum ECDLP (Ecliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem) solver broke a 128-bit ecliptic curve key in just seconds 128-BIT EEC CLASSICAL ONLY SOLVER CODE IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ON GITHUB FOR REVIEW AND VERIFICATION.

THIS CHANGES THINGS.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-08-06 02:11:55+00:00
say is only 193K on MacOS

ls -lah /usr/bin/say -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193K 15 Nov 2024 /usr/bin/say

Usage:

M1-Mac-mini ~ % say "hello world this is the kitten TTS model speaking"
by ayaros | 2025-08-06 02:12:19+00:00
Reminds me of Universal Paperclips and Candy box and Stimulation Clicker and other such games.

This feels like something that might be AI generated... it might be the text descriptions... but I think the fact that the upgrade boxes aren't large enough to display the entire text is a bit telling... like someone generated this game in one click and didn't do a detailed check...
by djfobbz | 2025-08-06 02:12:47+00:00
I worked on a very similar system for a friend's laser fab shop using the Roda framework (Ruby). Since Tailwind wasn't available at the time, I had to rely on Bootstrap. The project was quite similar to what you've done, although I stopped short of implementing job scheduling and live job tracking. I really love your execution...especially the UI.

I eventually handed my project over to another firm to continue development, as I became occupied with other, larger projects. It's still in use at my friend's shop, which now has about 80 employees.

I would still love to take another stab at it as I really wanted the system to have the ability to parse 3D files, for unfolding and automated quoting. Does your system already handle that? I browsed through your videos and saw that you at least had the preview part of it working.
by echelon | 2025-08-06 02:12:50+00:00
The problem is that academic publishing isn't tied to any real fitness function.

Unlike a startup or company or some other thing where you vote with dollars on utility, many papers can't be quantitatively evaluated on how much they contribute to science.

Some papers are obvious and groundbreaking, but a lot of research is at such a frontier that literally no one else can evaluate it. You just nod your head and trust it.

That, coupled with the fact that negative results just aren't published, is incredibly inefficient and disheartening.
by supplied_demand | 2025-08-06 02:14:03+00:00
== put them up in hotels until their claims of asylum are adjudicated, which takes years. How is that not open borders==

You answered right before asking, their asylum claim must be adjudicated. If it is denied, what happens?

== Because that's how it sounds if you're not willing to actually deport anyone.==

We do and have always deported plenty of people. Obama (1st term) and Biden both deported more people than Trump did in his first term.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/trump-biden-immigrants...

== we'd be better off with 0 immigrants and 0 crimes==

Thanks for saying this, it lets us know where you stand regardless of the facts shared.
by eru | 2025-08-06 02:14:21+00:00
> Tariffs kinda make sense when you have a deficit in a widely available item. Big trade deficit with Bangladesh? Sure you can buy cheap textiles from Thailand or Vietnam or something.

Sorry, how do they 'make sense'?

What's the problem with a trade deficit with Bangladesh? And in your example, you'd just shift bilateral trade balances around, without impact the overall trade balance of the US?

I could perhaps believe that an overall trade deficit is bad (maybe..), but I've yet to hear why bilateral trade deficits should matter, especially with places like Bangladesh that are not strategic rivals or are even allies like Japan or Taiwan or NATO.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-06 02:15:43+00:00
You can't add color to your argument if you've failed to add an argument. If all you've typed is an appeal to authority, you're trying to trick people into making your argument for you by trying to guess what Ballmer meant and why he thought that.

Instead of getting people to try and come up with an argument that wasn't made, the argument could have just been made. But I'm sure it is a very bad argument, or else there wouldn't be that embarrassment to try.
by lossolo | 2025-08-06 02:16:15+00:00
It’s not just how much you spend on healthcare, but what that spending actually delivers. How much does an emergency room visit cost in the U.S. compared to the UK or France? How do prescription drug prices in the U.S. compare to those in the EU? When you look at what Americans pay relative to outcomes, the U.S. has one of the most inefficient healthcare systems among OECD countries.
by bugglebeetle | 2025-08-06 02:16:59+00:00
> The US spends more per capita on their social safety net than almost all other countries, including France and the UK.

To a vast and corrupt array of rentiers, middlemen, and out-and-out fraudsters, instead of direct provision of services, resulting in worse outcomes at higher costs!

Turns out if I’m forced to have visits with three different wallet inspectors on the way to seeing a doctor, I’ve somehow spent more money and end up less healthy than my neighbors who did not. Curious…
by o11c | 2025-08-06 02:18:34+00:00
Well, I would have suggested an experiment, but if we're still at the "idiot" phase that might be a bit premature.

Instead, I'll offer some general questions that can be answered without experiments, only research.

For each faith X:

0. Note that each line depends on previous lines. 1. Who and what defines X-ism? 2. How exactly do you determine if someone is an X-ist? 3. What immediate claims does X-ism make about you, me, X-ists, non-X-ists, people at large, the world in general, etc. 4. What are the greater (long-term, conceptual, metaphysical, etc.) implications of 3? 5. If X is true, what prior assumptions and values will I have to discard? Am I willing to do so? 6. What kind of signal-to-noise ratio can I expect due to uncertainties when calculating the above in practice?
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-08-06 02:18:54+00:00
Context is everything. Whether they were talking to your junior employee, or to an LLM, if you don’t say what it is, you want don’t be surprised when it’s left to interpretation and comes out wrong.

Specifically, Claude coat is really good at making markdown files of plans and if you review them add in context, you can let it run a little more free than you would otherwise.

If you don’t feel like giving it, the right amount of context, make the job smaller, where there’s just less of it to begin with.

I wouldn’t tell my interns to change the formatting of these printf statements, because I don’t feel like it, but Claude does that stuff pretty great and doesn’t complain as much.
by eru | 2025-08-06 02:19:03+00:00
It would be very, very hard to make this work in practice.

What does it mean to offer a job? Can they offer a job that pays a dollar a year and call it a day? Or can you force them to offer you a job that pays a billion dollars a year?

Can they offer you a job, but only in Antarctica? What about visa sponsorship?

Of course, you can write whatever ill conceived terms you want in your license. But if your license is badly written, any decent company lawyer would strongly advice staying away from your code. And if that's the outcome you want: you might as well open source it with a 'non-commercial use only' license.
by akattelu | 2025-08-06 02:19:09+00:00
I like having a sub agent for "pre-commit fixer" that the main agent uses before committing so it can pass pre-commit checks. I find it useful because it uses less of the main agents context.

In contrast, I find the scope of the ones in this repository a little weird. The claude main agent does great with CLAUDE.md context, so does it really make sense for it to delegate different tasks to a frontend and backend agent and coordinate between the two? Especially when the additional context in the frontend agent definition is a listing of what libraries and patterns are used in the repo?
by db48x | 2025-08-06 02:19:10+00:00
They don’t have to take that long. Seriously, when you build years and years of government reviews and challenges and approvals into the process of awarding funds you have only yourself to blame when the government works for four years and accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile a Starlink, a private company, just starts doing the work. They’ve spent 10 billion dollars of their own money and built a service that is hands down the best internet service available in any rural area of America. They expect to have 11 billion in revenue this year, just 6 years after the service first became available to paying customers.
by sans_souse | 2025-08-06 02:21:29+00:00
I think a point often missed is that it's not just what the substance and quality of those sources and their associated decline but also the overall decline of sources, period. The first phases involved training the models with a massive backlog of raw knowlege, communicated over thousands of years, and for the majority of that span, this was a world much different from our today; in short, all of our knowledge was "boots on the ground" type, and all of it served to aid our growth, and our record of this tells such a story.

But our knowledge and growth today is so narrow in scope (in a sense) and there's an ever looming scenario ready to present itself where our perceived growth is actually a recursion and the answer to "what is the purpose" becomes "there is none"
by ipython | 2025-08-06 02:21:35+00:00
So I’ve heard of this model collapse theory. But I’ve also heard of model providers who are intentionally training with synthetically generated data (as a result of insufficient “real” data).

So I’m curious where the line is? Are there phases in the training/continued pre training/alignment/rlhf pipeline where synthetic data isn’t just harmless but actually beneficial? Is it a question of quantity or a question of how much novelty is in the training data?