MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lm28469 | 2025-08-08 16:25:56+00:00
That certainly how it feels to me. Every demo seems like it's presenting some kind of socially maladjusted silicon valley nerd's wet dream. Half of it doesn't interest non tech people, the other half seems designed for teenagers.

Look at this image of Zuckerberg demoing his new product: https://imgur.com/1naGLfp

Or gpt5 press release: "look at this shitty game it made", "look at the bars on this graph showing how we outperform some other model by 2% in a benchmark that doesn't actually represent anything"
by ajkjk | 2025-08-08 16:26:03+00:00
eh I feel this but it's a lot simpler than that. Not "if everyone built everything correctly" but "if everyone's work was even slightly better than complete garbage". I do not see many examples of companies building things that are not complete embarrassing shit. I worked at some companies and the things we built was complete embarrassing shit. The reasons are obvious: nobody cares internally to do it, and nobody externally has any standards, and the money still flows if you do a bad job so why do better?

What happens in practice is that the culture exterminates the drive for improvement: not only are things bad, but people look at you if you're crazy if you think things should be better. Like in 2025 people defend C, people defend Javascript, people write software without types, people write scripts in shell languages; debugging sometimes involves looking at actual bytes with your eyes; UIs are written in non-cross-platform ways; the same stupid software gets written over and over at a million companies, sending a large file to another person is still actually pretty hard; leaving comments on it is functionally impossible ... these are software problems, everything is shit, everything can be improved on, nothing should be hard anymore but everything still is; we are still missing a million abstractions that are necessary to make the world simple. Good lord, yesterday I spent two hours trying to resize a PDF. We truly live in the stone age; the only progress we've made is that there are now ads on every rock.

I really wish it was a a much more ruthlessly competitive landscape. One in which if your software is bad, slow, hard to debug, hard to extend, not open source, not modernized, not built on the right abstractions, hard to migrate on or off of, not receptive to feedback, covered in ads... you'd be brutally murdered by the competition in short order. Not like today where you can just lie on your marketing materials and nobody can really do anything because the competition is just as weak. People would do a much better job if they had to to survive.
by tharkun__ | 2025-08-08 16:26:41+00:00
Not necessarily. Especially in large orgs, there's a lot of stuff going on that will make employees not speak the truth even if asked. Even if the bad management has potentially been replaced, history is still on the side of "keeping your mouth shut just in case".

And the kind of trust from your employees that you need for them to answer you honestly is really easy to loose, especially the larger the company gets.

Those same employees will bitch about it all to each other all the time. But mostly nobody will actually ever speak up.
by mathiaspoint | 2025-08-08 16:26:44+00:00
Healthcare costs will grow without bound near the end. Your model only works if everyone choses every treatment available in the end which is just dumb because the outcome is the same.

It's appropriate for premia to be very high for geriatrics. The appropriate response is to chose when you're done not to crush younger workers so you can sit in a hospital bed for an extra month.

Also an exponential distribution is still a probability distribution you can trade volatility on.
by chromejs10 | 2025-08-08 16:27:22+00:00
This should have been compared with Opus... I know OP says he didn't because of cost but if you're comparing who is better then you need to compare the best to the best... if Claude Opus 4.1 is significantly better than GPT 5 then that could offset the extra expense. Not saying it will... but forget cost if we want to compare solely the quality
by aravindputrevu | 2025-08-08 16:27:36+00:00
We put GPT-5 through our Golden PR Dataset.

Here is the TL;DR

- GPT-5 outperformed Opus-4, Sonnet-4, and OpenAI’s O3 across a battery of 300 varying difficulty, error-diverse pull requests.

- GPT-5 scored highest on our comprehensive test and found 254 out of 300 bugs or 85% where other models found between 200 and 207 – 16% to 22% less.

- On our 25 hardest PRs from our evaluation dataset, GPT-5 achieved the highest ever overall pass rate (77.3%), representing a 190% improvement over Sonnet-4, 132% over Opus-4, and 76% over O3.
by psd1 | 2025-08-08 16:28:15+00:00
I find this softer position much more amenable than your GP comment.

However, you conflate "businesses" with "entities that pay only some minimal poll tax". It turns out that progressive tax does not preclude complex society. Corporate tax does not kill business on touch. All you've argued for is the existence of the Laffer Curve.

Commercial activity predates currency, and is omnipresent across every tax system that has ever been tried. Where money, there trade. Where trade, there value-add. Or at the very least, combing the beach for pretty shells.

There are tribes without the concept of personal property or money, that make things and build value. No tax can extinguish human creativity.

I'm cagey about secondary effects, but I'm cautiously optimistic about debasing the trait of self-enrichment. I see no reason to take on faith that people acting out of self-actualisation would build a lesser technology. You know you're on a site full of nerds, right?

The existence of the internet protocols is a case in point.

Conversely, I prefer a world without facebook and robocalls.
by goatlover | 2025-08-08 16:28:40+00:00
Presumably ... the problem is this is an argument that has been made purely as a thought experiment. Same as gray goo or the paper clip argument. It assumes any real world hurdles to self improvement (or self-growth for gray goo and paper clipping the world) will be overcome by the AGI because it can self-improve. Which doesn't explain how it overcomes those hurdles in the real world. It's a circular presumption.
by brettgriffin | 2025-08-08 16:28:50+00:00
Almost never. The biggest issue is how conservative it is when accelerating after a stop sign or red light. I'm prone to get honked at if I don't press the gas manually. NYC (like most major US cities) treat stop signs as yield signs, so I'll manually roll through those. But I've never had to intervene because it was going to hit something or drive me the wrong direction.
by tristor | 2025-08-08 16:28:53+00:00
> See industry analysts like Gartner, IDC, etc. who all ask tech firms to "pay to play" for better rankings in their reports.

Do you have any evidence of this happening? I've been involved on the side of the firm in many of these analyst reports, and I've never seen this happen. What /does/ happen is that to be listed at all, e.g. to have the analyst invest time/resources to review you, you have to pay. They don't exhaustively review every company in the segment or every product in the segment, regardless of size and market position. They only review those who pay to be reviewed or are large enough in market position that they are must-reviews (almost all of which also pay). But I've never seen the rankings/outcome dictated by pay at all. Much to my chagrin sometimes, the analyst will lower your ranking due to something I may have felt was a small issue, but they considered a large issue. Analyst Relations is a major investment area for large tech companies, and given my exposure over the last nearly decade, I've never seen any form of quid pro quo / money changing hands.
by lieret | 2025-08-08 16:29:14+00:00
We evaluated the new GPT models with a minimal agent on SWE-bench verified. GPT-5 scores 65%, mini 60%, nano 35%. Still behind Opus 5 (68%), on par with Sonnet 4 (65%). But a lot cheaper, especially mini!

Cost is tricky to compare with agents, because agents succeed fast, but fail slowly. If an agent doesn't succeed, it should just continue trying until it succeeds, or hits a run time limit. And that's (almost) what happens.

But even so, it's very clear that

1. GPT-5 is cheaper than Sonnet 4 2. GPT-5-mini is _incredibly_ cheap for what it provides (you only sacrifice some 5%pts, but end up paying maybe 1/5th of the total cost)

All of the code to reproduce our numbers is open-source. There's a box on the bottom with the exact command to run in order to reproduce our numbers.

Also very happy to answer questions here!
by WalterBright | 2025-08-08 16:29:30+00:00
The internet evolved from the telegraphy network, which was not created by the government.

Besides, I've listed several times a number of other networks that sprang up. If it wasn't Arpanet, one of the others would have become dominant. The reason is simple - anyone with two or more computers tried to connect them together. The notion that we'd still not have any interconnections between them if it wasn't for Arpanet is just silly.

As for bad environmental effects, socialism has a much worse track record. Free markets produce enough surplus that costly mitigations become practical.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-08 16:30:00+00:00
The feds and other equivalent agencies in other countries have been running exit nodes for years, but its still better than most solutions even if not perfect. Anyone who has gotten caught though likely wasn't because of any flaws in Tor (or said exit nodes) but because of other lapses in OpSec.

That being said, yes, feds can de-anonymize traffic, probably reliably at this point. There are only about 7-8000 active nodes, most in data centers. The less nodes you hop through, the more likely that traffic can be traced back to the entry point (guard node), and combined with timing can be reasonably traced back to the user. Tor works best with many, many nodes, and a minimum of three. There's not as many nodes as there needs to be so quite often it's only 3 you are going through (guard node/entry point, middle node, exit node)

Plus browsing habits can also be revealing. Just because someone is using Tor doesn't mean they also have disabled javascript, blocked cookies, aren't logging into accounts, etc.
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by ben011 | 2025-08-08 16:30:10+00:00
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3. Drafting + Integrity Tools - Write with auto-citations (APA/MLA/Chicago) - Built-in plagiarism/AI detection (98.3% accuracy)

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by keernan | 2025-08-08 16:30:30+00:00
I believe the analogy of a LLM being "a very complex encyclopedia with an interesting search interface" to be spot on.

However, I would not be so dismissive of the value. Many of us are reacting to the complete oversell of 'the encyclopedia' as being 'the eve of AGI' - as rightfully we should. But, in doing so, I believe it would be a mistake to overlook the incredible impact - and economic displacement - of having an encyclopedia comprised of all the knowledge of mankind that has "an interesting search interface" that is capable of enabling humans to use the interface to manipulate/detect connections between all that data.
by skaplich | 2025-08-08 16:31:11+00:00
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by tobiasmacke | 2025-08-08 16:31:14+00:00
Hi HN – I’m a solo founder and recently launched Qron.ai, a tool that helps marketers create complete landing pages and funnels using just a short prompt. You describe what you want, and the AI instantly generates a full page (copy + design + structure) with built-in analytics and hosting.

The goal: make it really easy to test new ideas, run campaigns, or build pages for any channel (social, email, print, events) without needing design/dev work. You can even try it without signing up — just go to the site and start typing.

Why I built it:

I run a hybrid marketing agency and constantly saw clients struggle with tools like Unbounce, Webflow, etc. Too many clicks, slow to iterate, and not built for the fast-paced reality of modern campaigns. With Qron.ai, I wanted to remove the drag and let AI handle the busywork — while still giving users full control to customize.

It’s still early, but the feedback has been promising (esp. for use cases like event pages, QR code campaigns, and rapid A/B testing). Happy to answer questions or hear thoughts from others who’ve built in this space.

Would love to get your feedback! – Tobias
by oneplane | 2025-08-08 16:32:40+00:00
It's not sudden, the account owner disappeared and the account user (the one making all the noise) did not get ownership transferred.

Is this a great situation? No. It's also not "I did everything right and boo hoo AWS did a boo boo". AWS is not your friend, but you also weren't the customer, that was the middleman you gave ownership to.
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-08-08 16:33:20+00:00
Just the absence of a credit card to pay overdue bills will make AWS go nuclear and the clock starts ticking.

If they don’t “know you” financially you’ll need to jump through compliance questions before your new payment method is accepted. If you don’t verify the email verification mail within the 5 days I imagine you have to jump through more hoops, which this person didn’t do in time.
by bookstore-romeo | 2025-08-08 16:33:21+00:00
Something similar happened to a colleague of mine. He was in charge of his client’s website, which ran on servers from a company called Media Temple, which GoDaddy later acquired. A few years pass, and the account holder is completely out of the picture and not answering their email, and his authorization is needed to change the credit card which is set to expire soon. My colleague tries every support mechanism to regain access to the account (and it’s my colleague’s credit card on file) but support keeps asking for the long gone account holder’s authorization. When the card expired, GoDaddy wiped the servers and we lost the only copy of the site’s source. Sadly there were no backups anywhere. It was an account of 28 years. The site started in 1997. Over the summer it’s been my job to put a static site online made of the WayBack Machine’s snapshots (it’s a pain to scrape these snapshots for anyone wondering). Lesson learned: keep local backups, everyone!
by sybercecurity | 2025-08-08 16:33:27+00:00
Noticed that too. The first part sounded a lot like like the same doom-n-gloom stories from generations past. I've been told my life will be over/meaningless due to nuclear war, AIDS, global warming, peak oil, etc. AI seems to be the media's latest boogeyman. Maybe in sharper focus for them since it aims directly as their business model.

The later part just feels like the normal Internet boom stories, but trying to tell it through a fatalistic POV: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em until they devour you.
by mind-blight | 2025-08-08 16:33:54+00:00
GPT-5 is a bit better -particularly around consistency - and a fair amount cheaper. For all of my use cases, that's a huge win.

Products using AI powered days processing (a lot of what I use it for) don't need mind blowing new features. I just want it to be better at summarizing and instruction following, and I want it to be cheaper. GPT-5 seems to knock all of that out of the park
by parliament32 | 2025-08-08 16:33:54+00:00
> An AWS consultant who’d been covering my bills disappeared, citing losses from the FTX collapse.

https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-w...

Root cause: the author had some wacky service-end setup with their AWS account (presumably to save a few cents per month) and the third party screwed them.
by random3 | 2025-08-08 16:34:34+00:00
Perhaps, but we still failed and not at personal computing, nor just semantic web, but computing and programming in general. The failure is between the original intent (computing was originally more or less AI) along with theory and actual result with every software project turning into unsustainable infinite regress. Things likely broke around ALGOL.

Also LLMs are failing too, for different reasons, but IMO unlikely AI in general will— it will correct a 60 years or so failure in industrial computer science.
by dawnofdusk | 2025-08-08 16:34:59+00:00
Essentially all physics simulations are either particle based or based on integration of differential equations (although in a computer both approaches involve a discretization which makes them somewhat computationally similar). You can consider reading through Numerical Recipes which is sort of the bible for this stuff for physicists, but it is aimed at scientific audiences with weak CS background. Something like Computer Simulation of Liquids by Allen could be a good start too. Let's be clear that the approach I'm talking about here is focused more on physical correctness: if you are a game designer it's not important that your fluid simulations are physically correct and more that it looks physically correct to a player, and there are a variety of more heuristic techniques for something like that.
by theletterf | 2025-08-08 16:35:18+00:00
Oh, I remember. I'm an OpenAPI fan, for example. This time it feels a bit different, though. It won't erase the requirement of having high skill engineers, nor the need to have tech writers create docs, but it might indeed help focus on docs under a different light: not as a post-factum, often neglected artifact, but as a design document. I'm talking of actual user docs here, not PRFAQs or specs.
by hvb2 | 2025-08-08 16:35:45+00:00
Disagree on making it worse.

Really the only thing I can find in here that's odd is the fact that these kind of closures are NOT reversible like most of them are.

I agree that it's weird that you're communicating and trying to comply with the ask and they still close it. But if this would be reversible like other account closures then it's just following policy.
by duxup | 2025-08-08 16:35:55+00:00
The focus of this article is more on the poor in rural areas and bringing jobs to folks who are struggling and don't have an in demand skill set but are willing to learn.

I always thought that remote front line customer service would be a good job for these kind of situations, but I think most companies feel it better to just offshore or discard customer service altogether. Not sure there's an opportunity there :(
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-08 16:36:15+00:00
The C in CR2032 means lithium fwiw. As in it's lithium either way.

The LiR2032 (rechargable lithium) are slightly higher voltages but pretty much the same total energy.

Fwiw if you ever have electronics that require 3V minimums the LiR2023 is better than the CR2032 since it's 3.7V vs 3V in the same form factor. It's common knowledge that the ESP32 for example can glitch on a CR2023 since it needs 3V minimum but it'll actually run fine on a LiR2032.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-08 16:36:28+00:00
Why not? Do you expect to not pay any part of your normal, expected annual heath care costs?

Insurance is for unexpected expenses that (a) you cannot foresee and (b) would be catastrophic to your finances. Thinks like major storm or fire damage to your house. A car accident that results in a total loss or worse, liability for someone's injuries.

Your annual physical, eye exam, and dental hygiene vists, and other routine medical expenses are as predictable as your utilites or grocery expenses. You can plan and save for those in an HSA, and your HDHP can cover anything catastrophic.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-08-08 16:37:00+00:00
This is so cool. I wish something like this had the ability to load your debit/credit cards into it. Advantages over using the card directly or a wallet app on your phone.

1. You don't voluntarily give your financial transaction info to big tech.

2. Your card details are hidden. So if your wallet gets stolen, less danger of fraudulent transactions.

3. Carry one heavy card instead of many light ones.

4. Don't have to memorize the pin of all the cards. Or the pin just shows on the mini screen after finger print authentication.
by sreenathmenon | 2025-08-08 16:37:11+00:00
Just released v1.5.0 with IBM watsonx integration.

```python # Works with any provider now client = LLMClient(provider="watsonx") client = LLMClient(provider="anthropic") client = LLMClient(provider="openai") response = client.query("Analyze this data") New in v1.5.0: - IBM watsonx provider with Granite models - Same API across all 5 providers - Auto-fallback still works - Enterprise authentication Also supports 100+ local Ollama models including OpenAI's new GPT-OSS.
by dang | 2025-08-08 16:37:16+00:00
AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825660 - Aug 2025 (58 comments)

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44770250 - Aug 2025 (152 comments)
by ch_fr | 2025-08-08 16:37:17+00:00
That's a nice suggestion but also an overdone one. I've seen this "epic own" as much as you've probably seen anti-ai "epic owns" (I need to spend less time looking at AI discourse). It's yet another taunt but I'll bite anyways, shorting has no lower bound, it's risky as hell. I don't wanna be a trader.

Back to the media thing. I still don't fully agree that media coverage has absolutely no influence on the success of a technology or that the best solution always wins (which, correct me if I'm wrong, is the argument you're making). If my fundamental argument is "it has an impact" and yours is "it doesn't" then we've reached a stalemate and can drop that topic too.

Have a good day, it hasn't been nice talking with you, but it's helped me realize that I should care less when I have no stake in it.
by ghaff | 2025-08-08 16:37:25+00:00
I've never done management consulting myself although I have done IT industry analyst consulting (with jonathaneunice). But I have worked with management consultants and consulted with large IT companies. My general sense is that it brings clarity and outside affirmation to issues that upper management was unsure about. So, in that sense, it accelerates processes that people are unsure about. Doesn't mean it's always right. But a lot of time making a decision is the important thing.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-08 16:37:39+00:00
Just for fun, watch a movie from the 30s, 40s, 50s, etc., and take a look at the interiors of houses.

We've got a lot better today, and a lot more of it.

Even watch an episode of Dynasty (about rich people). Look at the crappy TV in the corner. I remember taking my last CRT TV to the recycler. I was sure glad to be rid of it.