MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-08-13 13:32:25+00:00
FF for Linux will have a different team from FF for MacOS or FF for Windows.

Given how different each OS is, they will have different internals.

You don't see the same kind of performance degradation on other browsers on MacOS like Chrome, Safari, Orion, Brave, Arc, or even Edge.

It's a uniquely FF issue, but I'll deal with it as long as uBO is blocked on Chrome.

And saying "migrate to $myFlavorOfLinux" is an unrealistic answer for most users, because even though Linux has progressed leaps and bounds, it's user experience still requires a fairly technical background so that limits personal usage, and isn't offered as a default OS option by most IT teams who give corporate laptops.

Linux as a personal OS will be limited as long as a Linux project that is actually lead by an actual UX Designer instead of an OS enthusiast doesn't arise. Elementary OS shows some promise, but it still has UX and workflow issues that deserve attention from a professional UX designer instead of OS devs alone.

The various Android flavors are a great example of how if you put UX minds to work on an OSS project, you can end up with a quality user experience, but most Android projects also enforce a common design language and support non-CLI based user workflows, whereas most Linux oriented projects overindex on technical users, leading to the chicken-and-egg situation for Linux adoption.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-13 13:32:35+00:00
> This means their servers are very old ones that do not support x86-64-v2. Intel Core 2 Duo days?

This is not always a given. In our virtualization platform, we have upgraded a vendor supplied VM recently, and while it booted, some of the services on it failed to start despite exposing a x86_64v2 + AES CPU to the said VM. Minimum requirements cited "Pentium and Celeron", so it was more than enough.

It turned out that one of the services used a single instruction added in a v3 or v4 CPU, and failed to start. We changed the exposed CPU and things have returned to normal.

So, their servers might be capable and misconfigured, or the binary might require more that what it states, or something else.
by adolph | 2025-08-13 13:32:41+00:00
That I hadn't seen but it is unsurprising. My interest has been in adding eGPU to relatively low-end boards with the current crop of M.2 to OCuLink boards, which is an inexpensive way to get better performance than Thunderbolt if you can find an unoccupied M.2 with sufficient connected lanes (and can work within tradeoffs like no hot-swap).

https://pcisig.com/pci-express%C2%AE-oculink-specification-r...
by speeder | 2025-08-13 13:32:42+00:00
I don't think MS considered any of this. For example there were situations were they had a meeting giving green light one day, and cancelled the next.

Seemly what happened is that MS high-level decision makers, concluded that MS need a lot of cash for AI research, and decided to mass-close studios and cancel games with little verification, just go firing people until the cash liberated for AI is enough, doesn't matter if those people gave even greater revenue recently.
by WillAdams | 2025-08-13 13:33:32+00:00
A markedly different UI is that of FutureWave SmartSketch which has been reimplemented in

https://www.wickeditor.com/

For Beziér curves remember the basics:

- put nodes at extrema and points of inflection (extreme left/right, top/bottom, middle of _S_ curve)

- rule of 30 --- off curve nodes should be ~30% away from the matching on curve node for smoothest appearance unless the shape one is trying to achieve dictates a different placement
by Rick76 | 2025-08-13 13:33:37+00:00
If that's the case, then why is that, why would OpenAI not want to release their best models when the AI race is still close? I would assume it's due to energy constraints, and if that's true, the opinion that this can't replace people remains valid.

Thermodynamics is the law of laws, unless they invent some kind of ultra-efficient, almost magical computers to run these systems, it's simply not economical yet.
by mccoyb | 2025-08-13 13:33:38+00:00
In regards to the duplication of code — yes I’ve found this to be a tremendous problem.

One technique which appears to combat this is to do “red team / blue team Claude”

Red team Claude is hypercritical, and tries to find weaknesses in the code. Blue team Claude is your partner, who you collaborate with to setup PRs.

While this has definitely been helpful for me finding “issues” that blue team Claude will lie to you about — hallucinations are still a bit of an issue. I mostly put red team Claude into ultrathink + task mode to improve the veracity of its critiques.
by Grokify | 2025-08-13 13:33:53+00:00
This. Maintainability and refactorability are some of the major Go superpowers for me which enables getting into any code base and updating it. These are supported by features like static typing, fast compile times, etc.

Of note, I've found this to be very important with AI generated code, where it's easy to grok and refactor AI code.
by snackbroken | 2025-08-13 13:33:56+00:00
Guidance from the regulators has been abundantly clear on this point. You'll notice all the big players have a "reject all" button because they would get fined otherwise. We're well past the point where anyone can make a reasonable excuse of ignorance, making it onerous to opt out is simply banking on lax enforcement.

I, for one, think it's time to start busting some proverbial kneecaps if we ever want publishers to take the matter seriously. The other alternative is to outlaw the collection of personal information without a legitimate purpose (consent or no) _and then_ come down hard on violators. The industry has had ample time to regulate itself and has chosen profit over ethics at every opportunity.
by rowanG077 | 2025-08-13 13:34:00+00:00
To me this the equivalent of asking why water doesn't contain large red warning labels "toxic if over consumed, death can follow". Yeah it's true and it's also true that some people can't handle LLM for their life. I'd expect the percentage for both are so vanishingly small that it just is not something we should care about. I even expect that LLM not giving out any medical information will lead to much more suffering. Except now it's hidden.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-13 13:34:06+00:00
Nope. They started a long time ago with the cameras and didn't upgrade them, because money. Which means a pretty large part of the cameras have pathetic resolution and are black and white, as well as being too far away from much of their vision. Useful for locating protestors sorry ("getting a general idea of criminal activity"), not so useful for recognizing anyone.
by eirikbakke | 2025-08-13 13:34:19+00:00
A subscription will renew at 2025-08-16 04:04Z, and the billing system must send an email to the user reminding them of this. What date do you show in the email?

A meeting happens every Tuesday at 9am, starting February 18, 2025. What time does the calendar show once DST kicks in?
by msephton | 2025-08-13 13:34:30+00:00
Found the classic EE UNSH (Embee Sunshade Co) which used to be EM EE UNSH (at least in a photo of mine taken 18 years ago) https://www.alltext.nyc/panorama/SSQGgn90zcClm6MdOlDOsA?o=31...
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-13 13:34:56+00:00
But gay men have been and are excluded in some places from places which are viewed as exclusive to heterosexual men (for example, the army). I think you are right that trans rights presents a somewhat more radical case to the public, in the sense that people ask that their gender identity be recognized, but this is hardly either an argument against trans rights nor, really, an argument of a fundamental distinction between gay and trans rights.

For example: some Americans currently deny the existence of gay people (and they view homosexual behavior as purely pathological). Thus, part of the gay rights movement is the demand that the possibility of gayness existing is real and that gayness is legitimate be recognized. This is very concordant with the trans rights struggle.

You probably have heard of NAMBLA. Lots of anti-gay rhetoric focuses/focused on this extreme, frankly absurd, organization. There were elements of the gay community which defended it as well. We can repudiate NAMBLA without repudiating gay rights, but many conservative forces want us to view them as inseparable. When we allow the reactionary right to select the most absurd versions of trans rights and tell us they constitute a total repudiation of trans rights, we fall into what should be an obvious rhetorical trap. Again, if progressive people had fallen into this trap in the 70s, if gay people had allowed this rhetoric to silence them, you'd probably still be in the closet.

And also, I don't know what your talk of cultural differences is supposed to accomplish. I'm an upright liberal minded modern guy, I'm not going to show up with militarized police and force you to change your mind. But cultural differences really do not compel me to respect your opinions. I respect your right to have an opinion, I can still disagree, and vehemently.
by permo-w | 2025-08-13 13:34:59+00:00
>his exact interaction with ChatGPT remains unverified

there is no informational point to this article if the entire crux is 'the patient wanted to eat less "chloride" and claims ChatGPT told him about Sodium Bromide". based on this article, the interaction could have been as minimal as the guy asking for the existence of an alternative salt to sodium chloride, unqualified information he equally could have found on a chemistry website or wikipedia
by wizee | 2025-08-13 13:35:03+00:00
Aside from the Mazda MX-5 (which isn’t the most practical car), almost all small, simple, and light cars made today are econoboxes. They’re not designed to have the rich control feel, balanced and satisfying handling near the limits, responsiveness, material quality, suspension sophistication, etc. compared to say German luxury compact cars of the 1980s (BMW E30 or M-B W201). Even cars like 90s Hondas, while front wheel drive and built to a much lower price point, had rich control feel, liveliness, and agility that modern cars don’t give.

Modern luxury cars from essentially all brands around the world have become huge, heavy, numb, and over-complicated. They’re much faster and quieter than the say the old Benzes and BMWs of the 80s, but they don’t have the fun raw feel, small size, light weight, tossability, and simplicity of the old cars.

A BMW E30 or M-B W201 have a weight somewhere between a Mazda MX-5 and Subaru BRZ, but are far more practical than either for passengers and cargo despite being around the same width and only slightly longer.

The only modern cars with similar size and weight are some European market compact cars and econoboxes like the Mitsubishi Mirage, Nissan Micra, and Chevy Spark (which are also disappearing from North America). For steering feel, handling, general raw and connected driving feel, powertrain responsiveness, and interior quality, these modern economy cars can’t compete. Some of the European market specific B-segment cars come closest to those older compact luxury cars, but they still don’t match them for the qualities I described.

Kit cars generally suck from a practical perspective compared to well engineered 80s/90s cars and aren’t a very practical option either.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-13 13:35:27+00:00
If it’s just Apple, then why are most companies still releasing Android apps.

So Apple is now responsible for the shit show of current web development and at the same time isn’t keeping up or doesn’t care about the web? Which is it?

I could swear that the two most popular web frameworks over the years either came from Google or Facebook.

How praytell is Apple responsible for Google’s Flutter - that they also have basically abandoned.

And run once run anywhere has never worked in the history of the industry.
by simonw | 2025-08-13 13:35:27+00:00
Here's a key relevant quote from the GPT-5 system card: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card/

> We’ve made significant advances in reducing hallucinations, improving instruction following, and minimizing sycophancy, and have leveled up GPT-5’s performance in three of ChatGPT’s most common uses: writing, coding, and health.

That was the first time I'd seen "health" listed as one of the most common uses of ChatGPT.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-08-13 13:35:36+00:00
In my experience most countries put barriers in place to prevent people from moving into the country, from another country, when you don't have enough money to support yourself, but I believe the parent is describing a system that puts barriers in place for internal migration of its citizens.

Russia has a similar system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_in_Russi...
by BlackFly | 2025-08-13 13:35:52+00:00
The psychosis was due to bromism (bloodstream bromine buildup to toxic levels) due to health advice to replace sodium chloride with sodium bromide in an attempt to eliminate chloride from his diet. The bromide suggestion is stated as coming from ChatGPT.

The doctors actually noticed the bromine levels first and then inquired about how it got to be like that and got the story about the individual asking for chloride elimination ideas.

Before there was ChatGPT the internet had trolls trying to convince strangers to follow a recipe to make beautiful crystals. The recipe would produce mustard gas. Credulous individuals often have such accidents.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-13 13:36:32+00:00
> See it a lot on this site, too. How clever are the founders who exploit their workers and screw them out of their shares, how stupid are the workers who fell for it

I have literally never seen that expressed on HN.

In every case where workers are screwed out of shares, the sympathy among commenters seems to be 100% with the employees. HN is pretty anti-corporate overall, if you haven't noticed. Yes it's pro-startup but even more pro-employee.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-13 13:37:47+00:00
Oh no, the man used the hallucination engine, which told the man, in a confident tone, a load of old twaddle.

The hallucination engine doesn't know anything about what it told the man, because it neither knows nor thinks things. It's a data model and an algorithm.

The humans touting it and bigging it up, so they'll get money, are the problem.
by tiahura | 2025-08-13 13:37:49+00:00
Getting caught up in personality soap opera politics is unhelpful. If you are either ‘for’ or ‘against’ Trump, aim higher.

To answer your question, recent comments by Trump suggest it was to mollify agriculture. Ag is going to face some serious labor supply issues and it would probably be wise for the administration to work with them to ease the transition.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-13 13:38:09+00:00
Yeah, but I wouldn't count "Which prompt makes you more truthful and logical" amongst those.

The questions it will always confabulate are those that are unknowable from the training data. For example even if I give the model a sense of "identity" by telling it in the system prompt "You are GPT6, a model by OpenAI" the training data will predate any public knowledge of GPT6 and thus not include any information about the number of parameters of this model.

On the other hand "How do I make you more truthful" can reasonably be assumed to be equivalent to "How do I make similar LLMs truthful", and there is lots of discussion and experience on that available in forum discussions, blog posts and scientific articles, all available in the training data. That doesn't guarantee good responses and the responses won't be specific to this exact model, but the LLM has a fair chance to one-shot something that's better than my one-shot.
by megaloblasto | 2025-08-13 13:38:17+00:00
It's common for foreigners to come to America and feel that everyone is extremely polite. Especially eastern bloc countries which tend to be very blunt and direct. I for one think that the politeness in America is one of the cultures better qualities.

Does it translate into people wanting sycophantic chat bots? Maybe, but I don't know a single American that actually likes when llms act that way.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-13 13:38:40+00:00
As a reminder to the wider HN: LLMs are only statistical models. They cannot reason, they cannot think, they can only statistically (and non-factually) reproduce what they were trained on. It is not an AI.

This person, sadly, and unfortunately, gaslit themselves using the LLM. They need professional help. This is not a judgement. The Psypost article is a warning to professionals more than it is anything else: patients _do_ gaslight themselves into absurd situations, and LLMs just help accelerate that process, but the patient had to be willing to do it and was looking for an enabler and found it in an LLM.

Although I do believe LLMs should not be used for "chat" models, and only explicitly, on-rails, text completion and generation tasks (in the functional lorem ipsum sense), this does not actually seem to be the fault of the LLM directly.

I think providers should be forced to warn users that LLMs cannot factually reproduce anything, but I think this person would have still weaponized LLMs against themselves, and this would have been the same outcome.
by waltbosz | 2025-08-13 13:38:51+00:00
I wonder how the results of an AI Japanese-audio-to-English-subtitles would compare to a fansub-ed anime. I'm guessing it would be a more literal translation vs. contextual or cultural.

I found an interesting article about trollsubs, which I guess are fansubs made with a contemptuous flare. https://neemblog.home.blog/2020/08/19/the-lost-art-of-fan-ma...

Tangent: I'm one of those people who watch movies with closed captions. Anime is difficult because the subtitle track is often the original Japanese-to-English subtitles and not closed captions, so the text does not match the English audio.
by simonw | 2025-08-13 13:39:04+00:00
Here's the clinical case report: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260

Relevant section:

> Based on the timeline of this case, it appears that the patient either consulted ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.0 when considering how he might remove chloride from this diet. Unfortunately, we do not have access to his ChatGPT conversation log and we will never be able to know with certainty what exactly the output he received was, since individual responses are unique and build from previous inputs.

> However, when we asked ChatGPT 3.5 what chloride can be replaced with, we also produced a response that included bromide. Though the reply stated that context matters, it did not provide a specific health warning, nor did it inquire about why we wanted to know, as we presume a medical professional would do.
by jbentley1 | 2025-08-13 13:39:14+00:00
I originally built this for myself because I didn't like waiting around for Claude Code to finish and I didn't want to mess with a bunch of terminal windows to use worktrees so I built a GUI. Then I started adding more features, diff view, script running, and more and my team and I decided it needed to be shared as an open source project.

Excited to hear what the HN community thinks.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-13 13:39:20+00:00
This is the UK, and it's the police controlling these vans. So trans, drag and gay are not at issue here.

And somehow, the countries where it is a problem are never discussed. All muslim countries, for example, almost like not all religions are equal ... if you read hrw or amnesty you'll find that even the most moderate muslim countries like Morocco or Turkey deal violently with sexuality (all forms, really, yes, being trans drag will, of course, attract immediate attention. But let's not pretend they leave public displays of straight sexuality (including subtle and tasteful) alone). And Morocco and Turkey are absolutely nothing like something like Afghanistan or even Iran.

But in the UK the line is drawn pretty damn far. Are you seriously complaining about that?
by api | 2025-08-13 13:39:23+00:00
There's a very common belief that things like regulations and especially liability simply halts all innovation. You can see some evidence for this point of view from aerospace with its famous "if it hasn't already flown, it can't fly" mentality. It's why we are still using leaded gasoline in small planes, though this is finally being phased out... but it took an unreasonably long time due to certification requirements and bureaucracy.

If airplanes weren't so heavily regulated we'd have seen leaded gasoline vanish there around the same time it did in cars, but you also might have had a few crashes due to engine failures as the bugs were worked out with changes and retrofits.

I'm a little on the fence here. I don't want a world where we basically conduct human sacrifice for progress, but I also don't want a world that is frozen in time. We really need to learn how to have responsible, careful progress, but still actually do things. Right now I think we are bad at this.

Edit: I think it's related to some extent to the fact that nuanced positions are hard in politics. In popular political discourse positions become more and more simple, flat, and extreme. There's a kind of context collapse that happens when you try to scale human organizations, what I want to call "nuance collapse," that makes it very hard to do anything but all A or all B. For innovation it's "full speed ahead" vs "stop everything."
Show HN: AI that researches your B2B prospects like a human
by troyethaniel | 2025-08-13 13:39:25+00:00
My co-founder and I work in B2B sales. We’ve seen how genuine prospect research and personalized outreach can win deals — but also how exhausting it is to manually research and track every prospect.

We tried CRMs and popular sales intelligence tools, but they felt like static directories — good for contacts, not for real insights or engagement. GPTs were great at generating content, but to get a usable Customer 360° strategy, we had to constantly engineer prompts and feed it fresh data about both the customer and us.

So we built intellisell.ai — an AI-first sales research assistant that: a) Aggregates information from multiple public sources, and b) Uses AI to deduce and distill it into insights and strategies that align with your solution.

The User Experience: - You complete your profile (your solution, ICP, UVP) once. - You then provide the company URLs you want to track - We aggregate company information from multiple sources across web, news, social media, etc - We then feed this context and structured prompts to build a comprehensive account profile. - You can then Ask any questions - e.g "What are the top 3 priorities for their CTO based on recent interviews?" or "Draft me an email referencing their latest product launch." Auto-Generate a comprehensive account plan and Engagement Strategy - matching your solution and ICP. Track updates & buying signals - See a weekly summarised view of the latest updates with insight and buying signals, sentiment, and tags.

We're trying to build something more dynamic than a CRM and more strategic than a simple data firehose. Instead of just giving you data, it helps connect the dots.

Is this a problem you or your sales teams have faced? We would love to hear your feedback.
by navi0 | 2025-08-13 13:39:32+00:00
I don’t think there is a threshold for intervention in setting prices. If a $100/hr minimum wage is too high, then a $20/hr min wage will also be too high for plenty of employers and would-be employees who are now unable to legally transact. Safety standards create similar issues, but most typically require capex that can be amortized or depreciated (unlike labor opex).

I’m not opposed to taxes. When designed properly, they’re transparent and avoid excluding economic activity like min wages do.