MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jychang | 2025-08-12 01:10:12+00:00
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llamacpp> ls -l \*llama\* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2505480 Aug 7 05:06 libllama.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5092024 Aug 7 05:23 llama-server

That's a terrible excuse, Llama.cpp is just 7.5 megabytes. You can easily ship a couple copies of that. The current ollama for windows download is 700MB.

I don't buy it. They're not willing to make an 700MB download a few megabytes bigger to ~730MB, but they are willing to support a fork/rewrite indefinitely (and the fork is outside of their core competency, as seen by the current issues)? What kind of decisionmaking is that?
by stackedinserte2 | 2025-08-12 01:10:35+00:00
I had the misfortune of talking with a few potheads, and HN's reaction to porn addiction is the same of potheads, denialism, mental gymnastics, and everything but accepting that porn can actually be problematic.

The only reason it doesn't have it's own DSM classification is a mere question of technicality, whatever it is a separate and distinct kind of addiction, or just a manifestation of other types of hyper-sexual disorder.
by whakim | 2025-08-12 01:10:57+00:00
Fair enough - agreed there's lots of interesting innovations here - but my point is that semantic search and its associated issues don't really differ that much from other types of search problems at scale, and I therefore don't think that the current crop of vector database products add a lot of value from a technical perspective (perhaps they do from an ease-of-use perspective; or they work great at small scale, etc. etc.)
by sczi | 2025-08-12 01:12:29+00:00
That question clearly says hard labour. I'm sure some people didn't read it, but I think there also may be another effect there, where when talking to people in person, they realize you are morally opposed to forced hard labour, and don't want to seem like a bad person, so they pretend they didn't know. Sort of similar to the recent effect in the US where trump significantly underpolled as many voted for him but don't want to admit it.
by pmarreck | 2025-08-12 01:14:00+00:00
Maybe expecting every single person to work and no one to homestead and care for the kids, within a system that explicitly does not support families, was a mistake. (Please note that I did not gender the roles. My best friend is a stay-at-home dad and he is amazing. They can afford to do this, though, because his wife's compensation is extremely high.)
by ronsor | 2025-08-12 01:14:17+00:00
I don't know why Perplexity in particular gets everyone in a nit. It's not even particularly special: a user inputs a query, an AI model does a web search and fetches some pages on the user's behalf, and then it serves the result to the user.

Putting aside that other products, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and modern Google Search have the same "AI-powered web search" functionality, I can't see how this is meaningfully different from a user doing a web search and pasting a bunch of webpages into an LLM chat box.

> But what about ad revenue?

The user could be using an ad blocker. If they're using Perplexity at all, they probably already are. There's no requirement for a user agent to render ads.

> But robots.txt!!!11

`robots.txt` is for recursive, fully automated requests. If a request is made on behalf of a user, through direct user interaction, then it may not be followed and IMO shouldn't be followed. If you really want to block a user agent, it's up to you to figure out how to serve a 403.

> It's breaking copyright by reproducing my content!

Yes, so does the user's browser. The purpose of a user agent is to fetch and display content how the user wants. The manner in which that is done is irrelevant.
by dzdt | 2025-08-12 01:14:48+00:00
The main researchers associated here are Samir KC and Wolfgan Lutz. Their latest update (with a long list of coauthors) is from 2024 [1]; this is a followup of the important 2013 paper [2].

[1] https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/19487/1/WP-24-003.pdf

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2344470
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-12 01:15:04+00:00
Still remember when AOL cut our internet after I got spicy at 9 years old because I was mad at my cousin. Mom was very unhappy. We got internet back, but I wasnt allowed on for months. Lots of memories there.

I remember getting into Star Craft and my sister logged in from Puerto Rico which would disconnect me in Florida almost all the time. I really hated when my sister did this, so I borrowed my friends AOL login info, he was online way less than me.
by tbbfjotllf | 2025-08-12 01:15:11+00:00
My oldest todo app that I can think of was just a microsoft sticky note[1] on my desktop. It always stayed on my desktop. It lacked sync between other devices so that sucked but my pc was the only device I had at that time so it worked for me. After I got a phone; google keep has kept me company. It's dead simple, cross platform, and gets work done. The only fault? It's by google, and they have a long history of killing products.

[1] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nblggh4qghw
by aw1621107 | 2025-08-12 01:15:40+00:00
> but I had read "a teaspoon of black hole is more dense than Mt Everest" or something like that.

That sounds more like a description of the stuff neutron stars are made of. I don't think that description really works for black holes - how exactly do you take a teaspoon out of a black hole?

> The near-vacuum atmosphere of Mars seems very light...? What fundamental concept am I misunderstanding?

The linked Physics.SE answer does a decent job at explaining it, but the short of it is that for Schwarzchild black holes mass ~ event horizon radius, so if you define density as mass / (Schwarzchild volume) you get density ~ 1/(mass^2) - in other words, the more massive a black hole the less dense it is by that measure.
by smcin | 2025-08-12 01:15:51+00:00
Yes I've been chronicling the enshittification of Duolingo here for several years (below). But unlike Github/CoreAI, DuoLingo is tied to a single (and imperilled) revenue-stream from a single product, plus they had a 7/2021 IPO in the heady days of Covid, so they started out in a subscriber market awash with cash. Also like other sites with a formerly vibrant community and forums, they rug-pulled the way they extracted value from the user community's posts then copyright-washed it through AI, then turned around and tried to remarket it back to said users ('Duolingo Max = Super Duolingo + features like AI-powered "Explain My Answer" and "Roleplay" options for more advanced practice'). While laying off thousands of their contractors and translators.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165464

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165398

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44102081

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35287456

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297240

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679783
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-12 01:16:02+00:00
Those were always my goalposts - web apps sucked when Microsoft tried to do it with Windows CE, RIM tried to do it, Palm and even Apple. They suck on mobile, electron apps sucked, etc

If the only reason web apps aren’t on iPhones is because of Safari and if there are other browser engines available for Android and Chrome is so much better, wouldn’t you expect to see great PWAs on Android? Especially with it being 70% of the world wide market?

> 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.

It doesn’t have anything to do with performance of iOS devices that’s true - because Apple doesn’t make any devices with substandard hardware with bad browser performance. But there are plenty of crappy Android device (most of them by sales volume) that do have subpar hardware performance.

But native apps are more performant than web based apps and web wrappers. Are you denying that?

> 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.

One of us haven’t checked to see what the DOJ’s complaints are about - none of which are alternate browser engines…
by bariswheel | 2025-08-12 01:16:49+00:00
Similar to this idea to increase accessibility:

Just use tasks.google.com

Add your todos, when finished, type DONE in front of it, this way it' a journal and you get to feel good about all the things you've done since you're always looking at your list. Anything without a DONE needs to be done. You can write details in each entry, too.

No subscriptions, no fees, accessible from your phone, computer. etc. Keep it simple, folks.
by solid_fuel | 2025-08-12 01:17:16+00:00
So you don't trust the stats from last year - which show a decline, but you've already implied that you _will_ trust the stats from this year, if they show a decline.

Additionally, this administration has already shown a propensity toward firing people when they report inconvenient data - jobs data, climate data, etc. That renders any stats reported by this admin going forward very suspect.

You are engaging in motivated reasoning, at best. Not objective analysis.
by Lerc | 2025-08-12 01:17:23+00:00
In many respects I agree with you there, I almost went with softer language. The fact remains that it appears people were deceived. All of the advocacy pushing the referendum only focused on the first part. To this day I find people who are amazed that it mentioned hard labour and and that they voted for it.

[edit]

I guess think of it in terms of a vote that you had discussed and decided upon before you voted. Could you honestly say that you would read every word of the question or would you just look at the start of it to establish that it was the question under discussion and then trust that the discussion accurately represented what the question on the form would say. The length of the question, was I believe specifically designed to be long to prevent the frequency of its full publication.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-12 01:17:34+00:00
There's also a problem c)

c) Work tends to proceed in drafts/iterations, with earlier initial ideas refined and processed over time. You can record the reasons behind the initial ideas, but eventually those ideas become implicit background and new ideas are diffs against them. It's hard to make all of that explicit and keep it up to date.

You'd think something like wikis would help here because you can see the history. But eventually as you move around in the design space you can make moves that seem obvious but cut across multiple dimensions simultaneously. And it's hard to note something like that well in a wiki commit.

A long form lab notebook (or doc) is often useful here.
by sgarland | 2025-08-12 01:17:46+00:00
I read this [0] (I also recommend reading part 1 for background) a few weeks ago, and found it quite interesting.

The entire concept of data lakes seems odd to me, as a DBRE. If you want performant OLAP, then get an OLAP DB. If you want temporality, have a created_at column and filter. If the problem is that you need to ingest petabytes of data, fix your source: your OLTP schema probably sucks and is causing massive storage amplification.

[0]: https://database-doctor.com/posts/iceberg-is-wrong-2.html
by inkyoto | 2025-08-12 01:18:05+00:00
> A. you're wrong, I've recently ran into Rosetta throttling […]

Can you please define and explain the meaning «Rosetta throttling»? Rosetta 2 is static binary translation + JIT optimisations at the run time. Is Rosetta injecting delays slots or delay loops into the translated code? Or, is it injecting branch instructions that consistently fail the branch predictor? Something else? Since you seem to have analysed specific code paths, the esteemed congregation on here is eager to pick the disassembled code apart.

Without the direct evidence, such claims are as credible as that of a vegetable vendor at the local farmer market claiming that spinach they sell cures cancer.
by ragequittah | 2025-08-12 01:18:33+00:00
>no trust in it for anything that isn't easy/simple/solved

I'm not sure what part of programming isn't generally solved thousands of times over for most languages out there. I'm only using it for lowly web development but I can tell you that it can definitely do it at a level that surprises me. It's not just "auto-complete" it's actually able to 'think' over code I've broken or code that I want improved and give me not just one but multiple paths to make it better.
by mneves75 | 2025-08-12 01:18:59+00:00
DNSChat is a native iOS and Android app that talks to an LLM through DNS TXT records instead of regular HTTP APIs. Why? DNS often works in places where ports or domains are blocked, throttled, or unstable. DNSChat slices prompts and responses into compact chunks, sends them via DNS, and reassembles the conversation on your device. It’s open source, so you can audit the code, run your own relay, or adapt it for your environment.
by tylerhou | 2025-08-12 01:19:02+00:00
It is much easier and more maintainable to convert to continuation passing style. If you also use defunctionalization to allocate closures on a stack instead of a fresh heap allocation for every closure, you will achieve performance on par with an explicit stack. (In fact, defunctionalization is a mechanical transformation the produces exactly the data you would store in an explicit stack!)

Before I knew about CPS and defunctionalization, I wrote a Python decorator that did exactly the transformation you describe. https://github.com/tylerhou/fiber. Now I know about CPS and defunctionalization, I realize that my work was not the best implementation (but it was a fun learning experience!).
by oh_my_goodness | 2025-08-12 01:20:00+00:00
Excluding fraud, theft, and so forth, just by definition, means we're talking about a utopia. It's not a system, it's some beautiful subset of what's really going on. The subset would have to be carefully selected, using information we don't actually have until (maybe) much later. Maybe never.

This 'free market' is a bit like clean matter-antimatter power stations. They sound like a great idea. We could build them if we knew how.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-12 01:21:38+00:00
Ah, the boots theory.

A Ferrari costs far, far more to maintain than a Ford, and doesn't last as long. I drove my used Ford Bronco II for 32 years before giving it to a scrap yard. Best bang for the buck car ever.

Expensive shirts wear out just as fast as cheap shirts. They just look nicer (and are often less comfortable).

P.S. I still regularly wear the combat boots my dad bought me 50 years ago. The boot black on them has long since disappeared, but they still keep my feet dry and warm.
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-12 01:21:55+00:00
The 'foul play' part was more of an "and also..."

It talked about how the new mouthguard lights up "if the impact is severe enough to potentially cause a concussion". So, not just regular head impact it seems.

Then mentions that it's an update to the current "smart mouthguard" which uses Bluetooth, because with "the current system the alerts can take several seconds to reach the match day doctor.". So, it's not just about flagging something illegal but actually goes to match day doctors when the impact is severe. This new one let's people/ref know to wave a doctor over quicker/send them off

At the bottom they added that "the technology could also help identify instances of foul play."
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-08-12 01:21:58+00:00
Minors are still humans who deserve rights. They should not be considered property of parents, regardless of fear mongering about grooming. Teenagers should have the right to access information without their parents knowing, as their parents can be just as, if not more dangerous to their health and well being as a hypothetical groomer. Many teens face real abuse from their parents over their sexuality. They should not be forced to live in the shadows or face abuse due to a "protect the kids" narrative.
by ocontraire | 2025-08-12 01:22:04+00:00
> And they have behaved relatively nice for so long that some young adults don't know any other side of MS now.

Except that their macOS software still is non-parity with Windows for really no good reason other than anti-competitive. They’ve also had the opportunity to open-source Windows, but won’t go that far willingly, with the exception of those that did it without approval.
by deterministic | 2025-08-12 01:22:17+00:00
The largest successful software system we have is the internet.

So perhaps we should ask ourselves: What can we learn from the internet architecture?

And no that does not automatically mean micro-services. The core idea of the internet is to agree on API's (protocols like HTTP) and leave the rest as implementation details. You can do the same with modules, libraries, classes, files etc.
by smcin | 2025-08-12 01:22:52+00:00
> going to shout-out ClozeMaster here since I first found out about it on hacker news. Always hated duolingo - it's the gamification triggered to many alarm bells to me.

Duolingo was always aiming at the casual app user (not serious language learners, think getting casual 14-30yo users to switch 10 min a day from playing casual games instead or consuming SM), and openly admitted they crafted the product and their metrics around gamification and socially acquiring new (paying, non-freemium) users. So judge their behavior by that. Also, you can turn off some but not all of the default gamification + social features.
by dxdm | 2025-08-12 01:23:06+00:00
I don't think you can conclude from overall performance of a complex system that a particular aspect of it (the way of electrifying tracks) is done wrong.

From what I understand, the problems in the German railway network stem predominantly from growing demand meeting the results of chronic underinvestment in infrastructure. That does not automatically mean that all of the work should be done in big chunks instead of continuously. They still could be doing some things right, and I think it is worth pointing that out. I find it more interesting and productive than blanket dismissal.
by caleblloyd | 2025-08-12 01:25:21+00:00
I am the Product/Eng Lead and a Co-founder of a company formed ~1 year ago building AI-native developer tooling for Platform Engineers. Have been able to iterate very quickly through PoC phases and get initial feedback on ideas quicker. For features that make it into production code, we do have to spend some time re-working them with more formal architectures to remove "AI slop" but we are also able to try more things out to figure out what to move forward, so I feel like it is a net gain.

Part of "AI-native" means being able to really focus on how we can improve our Product to lessen upfront burden on users and increase time-to-value. For the first time in a while, I feel like there is more skill needed in building an app than just doing MVC + REST + Validation + Form Building. We focus on the minimum data needed for each form upfront from our users, then stream things like Titles, Icons, Descriptions, etc in a progressive manner to reduce form filling burden on our users.

I've been able to hire and mentor Engineers at a quicker pace than in the past. We have a mix of newer and seasoned Engineers. The newer Engineers seem to be learning far quicker with focused mentoring on how to effectively prompt AI for code discovery, scaffolding, and writing tests. Seasoned Engineers are able to work across the stack to understand and contribute to dependencies outside of their main focus because it's easier to understand the codebase and work across languages/frameworks.

AI in development has proven useful for some things, but thoughtful architecture with skilled personnel driving always seems to get the best results. Our vision from our product is the same, we want it to be a force multiplier for skilled Platform Engineers.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-12 01:25:57+00:00
>but sure we didn't get all the maximalist/idealist results.

Yes. The techis mostly there, and a few decades later it's readily available and cheap enough to be almost universally available. But you can't make a horse drink. The old guard may have underestimated the power of a cult and this attraction to authoritarianism. I didn't believe it either some decade ago. But seeing it before my eyes shows the folly of man.

COVID was definitely an accelerator for all these bad traits to come out of the woodwork. It could have been any economic downfall, but a global pandemic requiring a simple behavior to not die really showed this odd. If "wear a mask or you'll die" can't convince some people, I'm not sure what can.
by sothatsit | 2025-08-12 01:28:40+00:00
I think GitHub also doesn't have the same vendor lock-in that other companies do. I am very happy with their service, and I wouldn't want to move off of it. But at the same time there are numerous alternatives and it wouldn't be that hard to switch. Because, as you say, it is pretty much a solved problem, and because of that there are several competitors with feature parity at this point.
by solid_fuel | 2025-08-12 01:28:48+00:00
The collapse of a representative democracy into a corrupt dictatorship similar to Russia should interest anyone who intends to invest money into this economy.

Why would you invest millions and years of your life into building a company if the administration can just decide to take your intellectual property [0] because you made them angry?

Why would you spend effort developing hardware and a domestic manufacturing process if the administration can just declare 100% tariffs on your critical components? Especially when your competitors can just pass off a little bribe and get special treatment: [1]

> Cook and Apple aren't walking away empty-handed. Companies that "are building in the United States," like Apple, won't be subject to a forthcoming 100% tariff on imports of semiconductors and chips, Trump said.

There is a reason you don't see world-changing companies arise from states with so much corruption. A free market requires neutral governance - no special treatment or favorites. With this new administration, the US market is looking much more skewed than in the past few decades, and that will have severe consequences for domestic innovation and research.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/harvard-patents-tar...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-donald-trump-gift-a...
by MrCoffee7 | 2025-08-12 01:29:21+00:00
It hallucinated when I asked about the latest recommendations for type 2 diabetes treatment from the Amer. Diabetes Assn. 2025 conference, and falsely said that the conference had not taken place yet.

Have you compared your system to https://pubmed.ai on some of your sample questions? That would give you a benchmark and perhaps give you some ideas for your application?

Is this app targeted towards clinicians or patients, or both? If both, I would suggest adding an option for whether you wanted an answer targeted towards the clinician or patient to account for differences in understanding of medical jargon, etc.?