MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kmarc | 2025-08-24 19:29:35+00:00
Reminds me of this story on the Babbage podcast a month ago:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/07/02/...

My understanding is, iterating on possible sequences (of codons, base pairs, etc) is exactly what LLMs, these feedback-looped predictor machines, are especially great at. With the newest models, those that "reason about" (check) their own output, are even better at it.
by ghaff | 2025-08-24 19:30:40+00:00
The newish Apple magnetic keyboards seem pretty good for using on your lap at a conference which was one of my showstoppers for a lot of earlier tablet designs. Though I haven't had a lot of opportunity to try it in practice. And I'm just so used to laptop multi-window that I probably would need to just spend some time adapting.

A more hybrid design seems to make a lot of sense but it just seems to involve compromises on both the laptop and tablet ends. Even the Apple tablets with keyboards probably don't have a lot of advantages over the Air unless you're watching a movie or reading a book on a flight or train.
by threecheese | 2025-08-24 19:31:19+00:00
It depends on what you are using it for; I use CC for producing code that’s run elsewhere, but have also found it’s useful for producing code and commands behind day to day sysadmin/maintenance tasks. I don’t actually allow it to YOLO in this case (I have a few brain cells left), but the fact that it’s excellent at using bash suggests there are some terminal-based computer use tasks it could be useful for, or some set of useful tasks that might be considered harmful on your laptop but much less so in a virtual machine or container.
by quintes | 2025-08-24 19:31:52+00:00
I don’t open devices more than necessary - on the bus I can’t it literally makes me feel sick to use my phone. I live in an area where it ends up a mix of straight but also windy roads.

On the train to be honest I find myself standing due to seat availability.

So I usually rest when taking public transport. I use it to close my eyes, look out the window or listen to music.
by jama211 | 2025-08-24 19:32:04+00:00
If you removed all PR’s from the world that included copy-pasted code from stackoverflow that wasn’t mentioned, you’d be removing a LOT of PR’s. It’s not even considered a problem to copy and paste code from stackoverflow among most devs as long as you have reviewed it and modified it where necessary for your purposes. AI should be treated like that, if it’s not, people will just hide it and do it anyway.
by maloga | 2025-08-24 19:32:38+00:00
Nah, whatever bug you're referring to is my fault, haha, don't blame the LLM. But in between game state bugs are very unlikely, haha: https://github.com/marianogappa/escoba-de-15/blob/main/src/A...

I can't imagine state surviving a location reload with nothing on local storage and no server.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-24 19:32:50+00:00
> This system will allot network resources on a per-customer basis, creating a budget that, once exceeded, will prevent a customer's traffic from degrading the service for anyone else on the platform

How would this work practically? If a single client is overflowing the edge router queues you are kindof screwed already? Even if you dropped all packets from that client you would need to still process the packets to figure out what client they belong to before dropping the packets?

I guess you could somehow do some shuffle sharding where a single client belongs to a few IP prefixes and when that client misbehaves you withdraw those prefixes using BGP to essentially black hole the network routes for that client. If the shuffle sharding is done right only the problem client will have issues as other clients on the same prefixes will be sharded to other prefixes.
by ak217 | 2025-08-24 19:33:13+00:00
Makes sense, yeah, a 3600x is far behind the curve now.

Edit: Took a look at AMD's lineup and realized they did something I got conditioned not to expect: they've maintained AM5 socket compatibility for 3 generations in a row. This makes me far more likely to upgrade the CPU!

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/chipsets/am5.html

> all AMD Socket AM5 motherboards are compatible with all AMD Socket AM5 processors

I love this. Intel was known to change the socket every year or two basically purely out of spite, or some awful marketing strategy. So many wasted motherboards.
by milesvp | 2025-08-24 19:33:19+00:00
> we didn’t see a proportional explosion of good game, just more attempts.

I'm not sure the 2 of you are disagreeing. We definitely saw an explosion of indie games. In 2010, there were less than 10 indie games released on steam per month. By 2022, there were ~500/mo, and today there's ~750/mo (I expect that the 250/mo jump around 2022 can likely be attributed to LLMs).

What's hard to say is if this increase significantly increased the number of good games. Mostly because "good" is highly subjective, but also, I think something else happens. I've been playing games for the better part of 40 years, and what I noticed, is that in that time, the number of must play games each year has largely gone unchanged, despite the industry being orders of magnitude larger than it was 40 years ago. But that is also tricky, because 2 things happen every year, our standards get higher, and our preferences get more refined.

https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/?tagid=492
by chaostheory | 2025-08-24 19:34:13+00:00
Beat Saber

Thrill of the Fight

Synth Riders

Pistol Whip

Body Combat

Les Mills XR Dance

Supernatural (paid subscription)

Fix XR (paid subscription)

Holotfit (paid subscription) works with rowing machines

Racket Club

Until you fall

Blade and Sorcery

Dragon Fist Kung fu (if you want to go all the way with Pc and don’t mind wires, this one supports foot tracking)

Blast on!

Stride

Battle talent

Space pirate trainer

Racket NX

Gorilla tag

Stride

Blacktop Hoops

Masters of Light

Mothergunship forge

There’s so many other games that I missed listing.

Really any action VR game where you’re the first person hero will get you moving enough as a habit. You are now the character instead of a puppet master controlling one via buttons. Need to duck or crouch? You will feel it and sweat sooner or later.
by alt227 | 2025-08-24 19:34:49+00:00
I have found that the success of things like this depend greatly on so many factors such as office type, location, team moral, management style, individual personalities, even mean age etc.

I have worked in places where the exact opposite of what you describe happens. As OP says, people just stop working at 6 and just start reading reddit or scrolling their phones. No team bonding and chat because everyone is wiped out from a hard day. Just people hanging around, grabbing their food when it arrives, and leaving.

We too had more than half the team staying for the “free” food, but they definitely didnt do much work whilst they were there.
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-24 19:35:18+00:00
Naproxen sodium is also a lot better, and is slightly safer than ibuprofen to take for extended periods. I had severe sciatica for the better part of a year, and the only thing that kept me somewhat functional was ~1000mg/day of naproxen, which isn’t great for you but would’ve been a lot worse if it had been ibuprofen (never mind opiates or something).
by loph | 2025-08-24 19:35:28+00:00
Some businesses are still using DEC PDP-11s, first released in the 1970s. Those are even more "ancient." Many of these are used for industrial controls, among other applications.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505421

The article does not mention what OS is being used, but RT-11 was designed for "real-time" applications. That was released in 1973, so over 50 years ago.
by davepeck | 2025-08-24 19:35:48+00:00
Ive never once successfully gotten a usable sprite sheet out of ChatGPT. The concept seems foreign to it and no matter how hard I try to steer it it’ll find a way to do something hopeless (inconsistent frame sizes; incoherent animations; no sense of consistent pixel sizes or what distinguishes (say) 8-bit from 16-bit era sprites; it’ll draw graph paper in the background for some reason; etc etc.). If anyone has a set of magic prompts for this, I’d love to learn about it. But my suspicion is that it’s just fundamentally the wrong tool for the job — you probably need a purpose-built model.
by krisoft | 2025-08-24 19:36:02+00:00
> You wouldn't accept a random editor just because they're cheap or free.

If the alternative is no editor then yeah i would. Most of what i write receives no checks by anyone other than me. A very small percentage of my output gets a second set of eyes. And it is usually a coworker or a friend (depending on the context of what is being written.) Their qualification is usually that they were available and amenable.

> Unless you yourself don't care about your craft.

This is a tad bit elitist. I care about my craft and would love if a competent, and insightfull editor would go over every piece of writing i put out for others to read. It would cost too much, and would be to hard to arrange. I just simply can’t afford it. On the other hand I can afford to send my writings through an LLM, and improve it here and there occasionaly. Not because i don’t care about my craft, but precisely because I do.
by wenc | 2025-08-24 19:37:01+00:00
A lot of interesting possibilities lie in latent space. For those unfamiliar, this means the underlying set of variables that drive everything else.

For instance, you can put a thousand temperature sensors in a room, which give you 1000 temperature readouts. But all these temperature sensors are correlated, and if you project them down to latent space (using PCA or PLS if linear, projection to manifolds if nonlinear) you’ll create maybe 4 new latent variables (which are usually linear combinations of all other variables) that describe all the sensor readings (it’s a kind of compression). All you have to do then is control those 4 variables, not 1000.

In the chemical space, there are thousands of possible combinations of process conditions and mixtures that produce certain characteristics, but when you project them down to latent variables, there are usually less than 10 variables that give you the properties you want. So if you want to create a new chemical, all you have to do is target those few variables. You want a new product with particular characteristics? Figure out how to get < 10 variables (not 1000s) to their targets, and you have a new product.
by chaostheory | 2025-08-24 19:37:11+00:00
Whoa! You’re one of the people behind Synth Riders?!! That’s a great game with great music. I like the immersive add-ons and the fact that it looks like you’re actually dancing to onlookers instead of moving weird like in Beat Saber.

My only criticism is that I’m not a fan of the Swing EDM music.
by nxobject | 2025-08-24 19:37:29+00:00
A call to action for anyone with a 5 1/4" floppy drive:

> The only thing missing from Grigar's collection is a PC that reads five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks, she says. Despite their ubiquity, the machines are surprisingly hard to find. "I look on eBay, Craigslist, I have friends out looking for me, nothing. I've been looking for six years," she says. If you have one of these old computers lying around, and it still works, Grigar would love to hear from you.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-08-24 19:38:29+00:00
It’s often probabilistic- for example I can guess your six digit verification code exactly 1 in a million times, and if I 1 in a million lucky I can do something naughty once.

The problem with llm security is that if only 1 in a million prompts break claude and make it leak email, if I get lucky and find the golden ticket I can replay it on everyone using that model.

also, no one knows the probability a priory, unlike the code, but practically its more like 1 in 100 at best
by naijaboiler | 2025-08-24 19:38:50+00:00
This is a dangerous advice. Please folks. disregard this OPs comment. I doubt he is a doctor.

Ibuprofen is not better in every way. Ibuprofen is active in so many different parts of the body at the same time that inevitably it has unintended effects which is more pronounced especially in the elderly. It's bad for stomach, bad for kidneys, bad for mental status. and very bad with long-term use.

TLDR. Both aren't great for different reasons. Tylenol can be acutely OD'd and evidence is starting to show it isn't great embryos. Outside of those 2 situations that can be easily avoided, it is overall less bad than ibuprofen.
by threecheese | 2025-08-24 19:39:18+00:00
… or giving a “useful agent” data they wouldn’t give their friends.

My wife just had ChatGPT make her a pill-taking plan. It did a fantastic job, taking into account meals, diet, sleep, and several pills with different constraints and contraindications. It also found that she was taking her medication incorrectly, which explained some symptoms she’s been having.

I don’t know if it’s the friendly helpful agent tone, but she didnt even question giving over data which in another setting might cause a medical pro to lose their license, if it saved her an hour on a saturday.
by throwitaway1123 | 2025-08-24 19:40:29+00:00
There's actually a library called ast-grep which does something very similar to what you're describing. They have an example in their introduction which performs a find and replace operation on a JS AST using a pattern:

ast-grep --pattern 'var code = $PAT' --rewrite 'let code = $PAT' --lang js

https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/introduction.html
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-24 19:40:42+00:00
If Signal and WhatsApp allowed users to choose own software to encrypt data and submit encrypted blobs to the Signal and WhatsApp servers, to use those servers as temporary storage, and thus to enable users to use any protocol they choose, including own protocols, then those apps might be comparable to something like "CipherGist"

Instead those apps require that the Signal Messenger, LLC and Meta Platforms, Inc. companies do the encryption, according to their rules, following their protocols^1

The user cannot easily switch from one company to another, the Signal client cannot be used to send/receive messages via WhatsApp servers or vice versa, the protocols are proprietary. Approaches like "CipherGist" are more generic and work with any server that allows upload, temporary storage and download of data

If want to avoid any server storing blobs then can use the server only to provide port numbers for establishing peer-to-peer connections

1. Perhaps Signal and WhatsApp users send empty messages with encrypted blobs as attachments
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-24 19:40:51+00:00
If the price difference is significant then sure. My experience booking 3-5 days ahead of time is there isn't much difference. In addition to no credits to keep track of, which don't seem to be your concern,

- simplifies expense filing

- if paying with a personal card (vs a corporate card), i'm not floating extra cash that is now converted to a credit

- full fare is less likely to get bumped on overbooking

- more miles / credits towards status
by chmod775 | 2025-08-24 19:41:41+00:00
find can execute subcommands (-exec arg), and plenty of other shell commands can be used for that as well. Most build tools' configuration can be abused to execute arbitrary commands. And if your LLM can make changes to your codebase + run it, trying to limit the shell commands it can execute is pointless anyways.

Previously you might've been able to say "okay, but that requires the attacker to guess the specifics of my environment" - which is no longer true. An attacker can now simply instruct the LLM to exploit your environment and hope the LLM figures out how to do it on its own.
by buckle8017 | 2025-08-24 19:41:42+00:00
The panels themselves are cheap and getting cheaper.

However the mounting systems, solar charger controllers, and inverters are mostly not.

The bulk of the cost of panels now isn't the panels themselves, but all the supporting infrastructure.

The seasonal variation can be as high as seven to one, so the total install has to be very very cheap to support a 700-1000% over build.
by bullen | 2025-08-24 19:41:57+00:00
Is it worth to keep your old CPU?

I still run a 6600 (65W peak) from 2016 as my daily driver. I have replaced the SSD once (MLC lasted 5 years, hopefully forever with SLC drive from 2011?), 2x 32GB DDR4 sticks (Kingston Micron lasted 8 years, with aliexpress "samsung" sticks for $50 a pop) and Monitor (Eizo FlexScan 1932 lasted 15! years RIP with Eizo RadiForce 191M, highly recommend with f.lux/redshift for exceptional quality of image without blue light)

It's still powerful enough to play any games released this year I throw at it at 60 FPS (with a low profile 3050 from 2024) let alone compile any bloat.

Keep your old CPU until it breaks, completely... or actually until the motherboard breaks; I have a Kaby Lake 35W replacement waititng for the 6600 to die.
by foobarqux | 2025-08-24 19:42:14+00:00
As others have said computers already help prove theorems like the four color theorem. It’s not that shocking that LLMs can prove a relative handful of obscure theorems. An alpha-theorem (neural net directed “brute force” search) type system will probably also be able to prove some theorems. There is no evidence today that there will be a massive breakthrough in math due to those systems let alone through LLM type systems.

If LLMs were already a breakthrough in proving theorems, even for obscure minor theorems, there would be a massive increase in published papers due to publish or perish academic incentives.
by ncr100 | 2025-08-24 19:42:49+00:00
Rant BEGIN: Dean Preston is a maniac in my personal experience having talked with him on the street while he was first campaigning -- before he served his first term. He laughed wildly at something frank and simple that I said, when he tried to talk to me about how he was so cool and how people should vote for him. I basically said no I don't want to talk to you and that I was busy. I remember it being an out of place kind of thing as if he sort of didn't care that I was busy? It was odd. Should I be happy that he laughed at me for being myself? Anyhow, Preston is is not someone who I have any reason to trust. END

San Francisco politics are complicated. There is a lot of appeasing and stuff that's done for show, to try and and curry favor from the various highly ideological and disunited, often impractical population segments. Getting nothing done while complaining about it seems to be an art in my opinion that ... what is it, city council, participates in. Boldly proposing impossible plans or shutting things down.

Just because ex-mayor Breed vetoed something doesn't mean that the moneyed rich are THE PROBLEM. SF during Breed's term had a lot of negative growth as the pandemic, extremely cheap fentanyl plus a very aggressive fentanyl user base, and work from home making ghost towns out of business and mixed business/residential neighborhoods, strangulated city operations, making for an extra stressful operations challenge for the mayor's office in my opinion.

This article is under-researched and / or highly opinionated, in my opinion.

The article could be much better, if it were more factually accurate about "conclusions" and less biased towards any particular political goal. I do like the the article is overtly biased and is not hiding its bias.
by rtkwe | 2025-08-24 19:43:07+00:00
Yeah I get the idea originally, you had to appease the slave and smaller states to get them to join the plan originally at all, but there's a very, very good reason wherever the US has had the chance to design a new government we have never saddled them with our system. I don't think there's a reasonable hope that it'll get reformed in a clean way though.
by bko | 2025-08-24 19:44:38+00:00
> if the government could provide something like a universal basic income for unemployed people when the economy was flatlining, could they not afford it during boom times

What happened when the government started writing stimulus checks? Assets inflated greatly. Meme coins became a thing and scammy crypto currencies and JPEGs shot up. Some people were paid more in benefits than they made working prolonging inflation. About 68% of unemployed workers received benefits that were greater than their lost earnings [0]. Pretty soon the stock market was about 20% higher than it was pre-covid.

If you were to ask economists or anyone with a basic grasp of reality how the stock market should react with a global pandemic and shutdown, most would say it should adjust down, not shoot up 20% from pre-pandemic levels. It was obviously the money printing. To be fair, the money printing wasn't 100% given to people directly, but nearly $2 trillion was income assistance and direct payment [1] and other measures had similar effects in that they resulted in money in people's pocket, more than they had lost. That money fueled the asset bubble.

Fast forward a few years, and the result was double digit inflation that we're still working through. Not a resounding win as the dem-socialists would have you believe.

> "Could we have a Zohran in San Francisco?”

I'm pretty sure San Fransisco has many of the same policies Zohran promotes like rent control and soft on crime like social workers rather than police, drug legalization and acceptance of "minor" shoplifting. They also have some of the highest tax rates in the country. Combined city and county sales tax rate is 8.625% + an additional 12.3% for CA [2]

The article mentions free buses and tax on vacant properties, but is that the biggest problem? Bus fares? I feel like this whole post is an incredible exercise in gaslighting.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-gett...

[1] https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/

[2] https://cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/rates.aspx
by Ygg2 | 2025-08-24 19:45:01+00:00
> Yes, but practical minimisation, not hypothetical minimisation, i.e. how can I get the least bugs while keeping all my constraints, including budget. Like I said, a language like Rust exists because minimisation of errors is not the only constraints, because if it were, there are already far more popular languages that do just as much.

Rust achieves practical minimization, if not outright eradication, of a set of errors even in practice. And not just memory safety errors.

> Like I said, a language like Rust exists because minimisation of errors is not the only constraints, because if it were, there are already far more popular languages that do just as much.

The reason Rust exists is that the field hasn't matured enough to accept better engineering practices. If everyone could write and think in pre/post/invariant way, we'd see a lot fewer issues.

> I'm not sure I buy this, because physical, engineered objects break just as much as software does, certainly when weighted by the impact of the failure.

Dude, the front page was about how Comet AI browser can be hacked by your page and ordered to empty your bank account. That's like your fork deciding to gut you like a fish.

> the assumption that the most likely explanation to something is that the majority of practitioners are irrational seems strange to me.

Why? Just because you are intelligent doesn't mean you are rational. Plenty of smart people go bonkers. And looking at the state of the field as a whole, I'd have to ask for proof it's rational.