MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by herbst | 2025-08-05 19:15:16+00:00
I was taking a train from somewhere in Bavaria to Austria. More than half of the ride the train lady was chilling next to us because "there is no internet, I cannot check tickets" the whole ride you could see houses out of the window. People are actually living there. This was like 6 years ago but I am still baffled by this.

In Switzerland it's very unlikely you find a mountain or road without 4g
by lapcat | 2025-08-05 19:15:21+00:00
It was a fork. I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "unofficial". Gorhill said at the time that he didn't have time to maintain a Safari version, but he was aware of the fork, which mostly shared code with upstream, and seemingly endorsed the fork.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-Safari-and-Cana...
by evilduck | 2025-08-05 19:15:22+00:00
> I think it's pretty different from buying shoes.

Shoe shopping is pretty complex, more so than trialing an AI model in my opinion.

Are you a construction worker, a banker, a cashier or a driver? Are you walking 5 miles everyday or mostly sedentary? Do you require steel toed shoes? How long are you expecting them to last and what are you willing to pay? Are you going to wear them on long runs or take them river kayaking? Do they need to be water resistant, waterproof or highly breathable? Do you want glued, welted, or stitch down construction? What about flat feet or arch support? Does shoe weight matter? What clothing are you going to wear them with? Are you going to be dancing with them? Do the shoes need a break in period or are they ready to wear? Does the available style match your preferences? What about availability, are you ok having them made to order or do you require something in stock now?

By comparison I can try 10 different AI services without even needing to stand up for a break while I can't buy good dress shoes in the same physical store as a pair of football cleats.
by potatolicious | 2025-08-05 19:15:34+00:00
There's a sweet spot in terms of generalization. Yes, painstakingly writing out an object definition in English just so that the LLM can write it out in Java is a poor use of time. You want to give it more general tasks.

But not too general, because then it can get lost in the sauce and do something profoundly wrong.

IMO it's worth the effort to know these tools, because once you have a more intuitive sense for the right level of abstraction it really does help.

So not "make this very basic data structure for me based on my specs", and more like "rewrite this sequential logic into parallel batches", which might take some actual effort but also doesn't require the model to make too many decisions by itself.

It's also pretty good at tests, which tends to be very boilerplate-y, and by default that means you skip some cases, do a lot of brain-melting typing, or copy-and-paste liberally (and suffer the consequences when you missed that one search and replace). The model doesn't tire, and it's a simple enough task that the reliability is high. "Generate test cases for this object, making sure to cover edges cases A, B, and C" is a pretty good ROI in terms of your-time-spent vs. results.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-08-05 19:16:07+00:00
There is a reason why Agreeableness is one of the Big five personality traits.

As mentioned below, it is somewhat compulsive to avoid getting trapped in a chain of logic that starts with some nonsensical over-generization like "the sky is blue" or error like "the current tariffs on india will kill Apple" (and I am compelled to point out that the threatened tariffs for the complicity with Russia's invasion of Ukraine may affect Apple but we don't know yet).

Even if we have learned not to say those objections out loud, they still take up space in our brain during discussions.
by teamonkey | 2025-08-05 19:16:09+00:00
You often view 3D games on a 2D screen. That doesn’t mean that a game is natively 2D and the 3D world is an inconvenient step that can be bypassed. Actually the opposite, the 2D representation on screen is just a projection.

In VR, for example, the same 3D scene will be rendered twice, once for each eye, from two viewpoints 10-15cm apart.

If you don’t have an internal 3D representation of the world, the AI would need to generate exactly the same scene from a very slightly different perspective for each eye, without any discrepancies or artefacts.

And that’s not even discussing physics, collisions or any form of consistent world logic that happens off-screen. Or multiplayer!
by watwut | 2025-08-05 19:16:28+00:00
Have it pass the same set of tests as any other medical device.

Programmers and startup owners constantly claim their 2 weeks product will save the world, but must the time it does not. It is fine when talking about household light management, but half baked ai therapist is as much quack as any human fraudster.

Only difference is that human fraudsters can be prosecuted, but companies and startups demand themselves to be above the law.
by VoidWarranty | 2025-08-05 19:16:42+00:00
I have been on both ends of this phenomenon. My career and hobbies see more improvement today through error correction than technique building or rigor.

"Don't code like that, do this instead!" "Oops, you're rushing the beat of the music, try again and don't rush."

It is a daily challenge to project positivity despite my brain being attuned to smooth rough edges.

I suspect many in the HN crowd are similarly wired. Technology fields reward those who avoid pitfalls.
by nergal | 2025-08-05 19:16:45+00:00
a) 8x PoE cameras b) 2x WiFi cameras + sometimes some esp32cam etc.

Yes, only one Coral dongle and it's handles all cameras perfectly. With some masks I rarely get any false positives and it is like 99% correct hit-rate.

Telegram is just a way to get a fast glance of an detection, so it sends me an image with what type of detection it was and the frame it found it in with detection frame around the object. This is handled via Home Assistant and some automation I've written. The results comes via mqtt to hass.
by neom | 2025-08-05 19:17:29+00:00
In my opinion, what humans need, crave, chase, is novelty. Just look at how phobic we are of boredom. I believe creativity is part of the chasing of novelty, or the allaying of boredom. I studied film making in my 20s when the shift to digital happened, and I was the first cohort through the first digital film program in my country. When new ways to create become available, the people who struggle are often the ones who are unable to adapt their mindset to the new creative mediums and don't think "what is new to be done here". Many people when I graduated thought I was totally nuts of not owning or using an analogue camera, so many reasons, oh you can't trust the CF cards, oh the HDR will never get there, oh the shutter is too slow. This is just a version of that imo. I think AI and robotics are going all the way to the end, I'm trying to adjust my old man brain to the new world the best I can, feel blessed to have been part of a version of this before.
by asdff | 2025-08-05 19:17:49+00:00
At this point I feel like I know where all the content must lie that I am looking for domain wise. There is so much crap content out there on crap websites that discoverability is long dead anyhow. So, I basically just use google to search within domains I already know.

Not sure how long this scales because like I said, my discovery rate has pretty much been zero for years now of new domains worth visiting. I'm sure they are out there but modern internet doesn't really let you find them short of finding a reference to them in some forum comment someplace, thanks to SEO arms race.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-05 19:17:51+00:00
You still didn’t answer the question. Do you want to make it illegal for:

1. Google to hire the employees and force the employees to stay at the company and how?

2. Google to be able to hire the employees and then Windsurf not be allowed to license their IP to a company who is willing to give them a bunch of money?

The reason that this shit show happened in the first place is because overzealous lawmakers and regulators put policies in place without thinking through the consequences.

What exact policies and guidelines should they put in place?

Or in Figma/Adobe’s case. What if Adobe just said, Forget it, we will pay all of the developers we want a shit ton of money (less than $20 billion) to rebuild the entire application from scratch and leave the auxiliary staff behind. Would you also outlaw that?

In the current political environment, the best way to get FTC to approve a merger is to bribe the President (see Paramount). The way to make sure it doesn’t get approved is to do something the President doesn’t like. Do you really want to give this government mire power?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-05 19:17:54+00:00
I don’t believe video professional equates to security professional.

Just stop. You're wrong, you're defending an indefensible point, and even if you "win," there's no upside for you.

Signed, someone else who's interested in this field and in Frigate in particular, and who had no idea what "NVR" stood for.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-05 19:18:13+00:00
Renting, I'd want something I can temporarily attach to arbitrary pre-existing blinds. On reflection, there are several types one might encounter but I'm particularly thinking of the "twist stick to adjust horizontal slats" style. (As opposed to "loop of chain controls angle", or "fully unroll from top".)

I think there was a Show HN some months back where somebody 3D printed a mount so that the twist-stick could be slotted in at a slight angle.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-05 19:18:40+00:00
I'm a "real" musician, and have done session / studio work, as well as made a living by playing live music in my younger days, before getting a "real job" in tech.

While there will no doubt be many that feel they're above using tools like these, the reality is that if you want to make money out of music - you're going to make music for the masses.

And if there's one thing these models really excel at, it is to make commercial sounding music. Everything sounds nice and bland.
by rzz3 | 2025-08-05 19:18:44+00:00
I recently created a new Cloudflare account for a project I’m working on and moved two domains into it, and the settings were both on by default without asking me about it at all. The original press release specifically mentioned enabling it by default.

> Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, *by default*.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-05 19:18:49+00:00
But why should things be locked down in the first place? Why do I need to go through doctors and insurance and all of this for simple diagnostic tests and the obvious prescriptions that are necessary? It’s so frustrating. Especially to do it repeatedly every so many months. My point is we are currently already in a state of regulatory capture. And with this new era of technology, we need to abandon that. Maybe not fully. But for many things.
by crinkly | 2025-08-05 19:19:06+00:00
About 10 years ago I was on a contract sabbatical from the usual job and the customer at the time open sourced part of the product with the wrong license, a competitor forked it and made a superior product, undercut them and took all of their customers. They had enough capital to buy the competitor but it was an extremely expensive mistake. I'm not sure they ever broke even.

This was one of those niche industry specific things that no one would give a crap about if it was open sourced other than the competitor in the market.

Principal architect was tossed on the street for that one.
by comrade1234 | 2025-08-05 19:19:12+00:00
This relates to programming. I had a coworker who's first answer was always "no" then "but maybe we can..." we worked for an expensive consulting company charging 2k+ euro per day per person. His attitude was unpopular with the clients until our manager got him to start answering "yes" first, and then come up with how it could be yes instead of no.

Same results in the end but the impression by the clients improved a lot.
by pitpatagain | 2025-08-05 19:20:23+00:00
Or that's who you notice. My husband takes ozempic for type 2 diabetes and it completely fixed his blood sugar while causing very moderate weight loss.

What the people in this study have causes abnormal visceral fat accumulation in the belly and back and itself causes disturbing changes in body shape and appearance, does not respond or normal weight loss, and hasn't had real treatment options. That ozempic has beneficial effects for it in an RCT is actually awesome, it's the framing given by the headline that is bad.
by damascus_kei | 2025-08-05 19:20:42+00:00
TLDR: I find the information I want much faster and much more frequently.

Ad supported search is not incentivized to find you information as fast as possible; the goal is for you to click on ads.

I hate paying for anything. I am cheap as hell, but it saves me enough time that I can justify it. I felt google search was getting worse while I feel Kagi search gets better. Plus I can customize Kagi to ban entire websites or show websites, such as this one, more often.

I am not sure what the user experience of your setup is but with Kagi I can tell it to summarize like 8 sites and quickly read through all of them on the page.

Also, I didn't know how to use AI well with search prior to Kagi; the ease of use really helped me maximize its use.

My home is ad-blocked up the wazoo. I love signal and hate noise. Kagi gives me that.
by jerf | 2025-08-05 19:21:36+00:00
Fiber just came through my area. They offer up to 3Gbps for less than I was paying for Comcast ~500Mbps asymmetric and for more money I can get 5Gbps... but I just signed up for the 500Mbps symmetric and pocket the difference monthly, because what the hell am I going to do with even 1Gbps? My Wifi can't 5Gbps, and all but two network devices in my house use Wifi to get to the internet. My NVMes can nominally do it, but it takes everything firing on all cylinders to actually achieve that. I've still got some spinning rust that is pretty full up at even the 500Mbps. I do run backups to AWS, but that runs in the nighttime anyhow and could still finish a complete non-incremental backup in 4-5 hours at full speed, and I have incrementals anyhow. Sure, the game per month I download from Steam would be ready in 4 minutes instead of 8, but, seriously, how much am I willing to pay for those four minutes? It's not like I'm staring at the progress bar at that point anyhow.

500Mbps is already enough for me to tailscale my house network up and have every single member of my family accessing the house Jellyfin server remotely simultaneously, which is not a realistic amount of load.

100Mbps down is still plenty for most people. 20Mbps up is definitely making some things annoying but most people will still be fine. It's a fine definition of minimum service for "broadband".
by MutedEstate45 | 2025-08-05 19:21:46+00:00
I think you're conflating real-time monitoring with data retention. Zero retention means OpenAI doesn't store user data, but they can absolutely still filter content, rate limit and block harmful prompts in real-time without retaining anything. That's processing requests as they come in, not storing them. The NYT case was about data storage for training/analysis not about real-time safety measures.
by doawoo | 2025-08-05 19:21:48+00:00
Yup.

Long long (2016 ish) ago I released an Unreal Engine 4 plugin that let people embed chromium embedded framework views into the engine via textures, so you could make fancy HUDs or whatever.

Epic Games was kind enough to give me a developer grant for open sourcing and making it, cool as hell for a college student at the time, helped pay my classes.

The number of angry game devs who basically wanted me to solve all their problems for them for free was astounding, additionally another dev grant receiver was jealous that I got money close to their grant for “just making a crappy plugin”

(paraphrasing but that was essentially what happened)

No one is ever thankful lol.
by fwlr | 2025-08-05 19:21:56+00:00
In code the semantic difference is pretty small between “select one at random” and “select two at random and perform a trivial comparison” - roughly about the same difference as to “select three at random and perform two trivial comparisons”. That is, they are all just specific instances of the “best-of-x” algorithm: “select x at random and perform x-1 comparisons”. Natural to wonder why going from “best-of-1” to “best-of-2” makes such a big difference, but going from “best-of-2” to “best-of-3” doesn’t.

In complexity analysis however it is the presence or absence of “comparisons” that makes all the difference. “Best-of-1” does not have comparisons, while “best-of-2”, “best-of-3”, etc., do have comparisons. There’s a weaker “selections” class, and a more powerful “selections+comparisons” class. Doing more comparisons might move you around within the internal rankings of the “selections+comparisons” class but the differences within the class are small compared to the differences between the classes.

An alternative, less rigorous intuition: behind door number 1 is a Lamborghini, behind door number 2 is a Toyota, and behind door number 3 is cancer. Upgrading to “best of 2” ensures you will never get cancer, while upgrading again to “best of 3” merely gets you a sweeter ride.
by tetha | 2025-08-05 19:21:56+00:00
My interpretation within that company: You know this new idea of "If it's painful, do it more"? People in that company didn't do that in the SVN days or earlier, because merges were painful. Thus, merges filled a sprint if they had to be done. This made sense if you came from CSV or nothing, tbh.

Git in turn made branches easier, causing merges to be more prevalent and developers overall learned to merge more, merge more often.
by matznerd | 2025-08-05 19:22:15+00:00
thanks openai for being open ;) Surprised there are no official MLX versions and only one mention of MLX in this thread. MLX basically converst the models to take advntage of mac unified memory for 2-5x increase in power, enabling macs to run what would otherwise take expensive gpus (within limits).

So FYI to any one on mac, the easiest way to run these models right now is using LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai/), its free. You just search for the model, usually 3rd party groups mlx-community or lmstudio-community have mlx versions within a day or 2 of releases. I go for the 8-bit quantizations (4-bit faster, but quality drops). You can also convert to mlx yourself...

Once you have it running on LM studio, you can chat there in their chat interface, or you can run it through api that defaults to http://127.0.0.1:1234

You can run multiple models that hot swap and load instantly and switch between them etc.

Its surpassingly easy, and fun.There are actually a lot of cool niche models comings out, like this tiny high-quality search model released today as well (and who released official mlx version) https://huggingface.co/Intelligent-Internet/II-Search-4B

Other fun ones are gemma 3n which is model multi-modal, larger one that is actually solid model but takes more memory is the new Qwen3 30b A3B (coder and instruct), Pixtral (mixtral vision with full resolution images), etc. Look forward to playing with this model and see how it compares.
by asdff | 2025-08-05 19:22:19+00:00
If the average age is 73 that's the issue right there. People are refusing to retire at 62 and make room for juniors. Then when they finally do retire (73 average seems like "dies in office" levels) there are 2 decades of missing juniors who haven't been trained in the pipeline.

This is the shortcoming with most technical fields. No one is incentivized to see the big picture of the training pipeline that exists well outside the scope of their own company. No one likes juniors but that is their future.
by daedrdev | 2025-08-05 19:22:48+00:00
I think a lot of people share similar concerns, but the benefits of a successfully therapy are so extreme it would take quite a lot to derail ozempic. People easily gain 5 or more years of lifespan by not being obese, avoid myriad related health conditions, and are truly much better off. It would take a lot to reduce someone's life expectancy by a comparable amount and we haven't seen that much besides gastrointestinal issues.

We performed the surgical options like stomach reduction before this which come with serious danger for comparison
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-05 19:23:06+00:00
More than what? Europe trades a tremendous amount with China in the status quo. The argument you mentioned is real, but the EU never subscribed to it in the first place; they've consistently stated (e.g. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEM...) that trade with China is very important and they have no interest in decoupling, although they'd like to lower the trade deficit.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-05 19:23:15+00:00
> It's Claude, Claude, and Claude. Which ones code for you?

Thanks for articulating the confusion better than I could! I feel it's a similar branding problem as other tech companies have: I'm watching Apple TV+ on my Apple TV software running on my Apple TV connected to my Google TV that isn't actually manufactured by Google. But that Google TV also has an Apple TV app that can play Apple TV+.
by gregbot | 2025-08-05 19:23:33+00:00
Conservatives could just as easily call intermittent renewables the irrational wedge issue created by liberals. I think you need to actually make a non-symmetric argument about how it supposedly lowers energy prices. All the places that have invested in wind and solar have seen electricity prices go up and all the places that stuck with fossil hydro and nuclear did not. Thats pretty strong evidence that the all-in cost of wind and solar is high
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-05 19:23:48+00:00
Is he wrong? Colleges are an exclusionary filter. I’m not even sure they are even good filters. These days everyone has a degree so it does not mean much to have one. And as for the elite colleges, there are a lot of equivalently capable people who are rejected by them after going through years of performative gestures to build up the right resume. There are also deserving people that are discriminated against in the elite college holistic admission process. These universities are also very expensive for students and for taxpayers.

Most students do not need the university to have expensive professors or expensive administration or research capabilities. They need a place that will teach them in a classroom. And they also need a place that will give them a credential to prove what they learned. It doesn’t matter that random professor is doing random research - it’s some underpaid grad student that is teaching you after all. And these things don’t need to be under one roof.

We badly need alternatives - for colleges and also public schooling in America. I don’t know if this is the solution or one among them, but I would like to see more experimental approaches like it.
by tomrod | 2025-08-05 19:24:17+00:00
Branding and differentiation.

People still value Amish furniture or woodworking despite Ikea existing. I love that if I want a cheap chair made of cardboard and glue that I can find something to satisfy that need; but I still buy nice furniture when I can.

AI creations are analogous. I've seen some cool AI stuff, but it definitely doesn't replace the real "organic" art one finds.