MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryao | 2025-08-13 14:12:56+00:00
LLMs love to do malicious compliance. If I tell them to not do X, they will then go into a “Look, I followed instructions” moment by talking about how they avoided X. If I add additional instructions saying “do not talk about how you did not do X since merely discussing it is contrary to the goal of avoiding it entirely”, they become somewhat better, but the process of writing such long prompts merely to say not to do something is annoying.
by anal_reactor | 2025-08-13 14:13:16+00:00
The problem is, performing social interaction theatre is way more important than actually using logic to solve issues. Look at how many corporate jobs are 10% engineering and 90% kissing people's assess in order to maintain social cohesion and hierarchy. Sure, you say you want "short-tempered stereotypical Germans or Eastern Europeans" but guess what - most people say some variation of that, but when they actually see such behavior, they get upset. So we continue with the theatre.

For reference, see how Linus Torvalds was criticized for trying to protect the world's most important open source project from weaponized stupidity at the cost of someone experiencing minor emotional damage.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-13 14:13:53+00:00
I was working in Atlanta GA for boring old profitable enterprise companies and the environment didn’t change at all.

I started working in 1996. By 2001, I was making $70K. The company I worked for did bill printing for utility companies. To put that in perspective, I had my first house built in the suburbs for $175k. This was well within the rule of thumb of not spending more than 3.5x income for a house.

On the other hand, I didn’t have that much invested in the stock market. The entire dot com bust was a shrug and curiousity to me while it was happening.

On the other hand, the real estate crash in 2008…

While all of my latest projects (cloud consulting) have in some form another involved “AI”, they are really just AWS API calls that are much easier using Gen AI LLMs. But could have been done with much more development and training of ML models before.

When the AI bust happens, it will have the same affect on me - none. Until businesses stop needing people who know how to translate the latest tech into business value, my career is safe.
by troyethaniel | 2025-08-13 14:13:54+00:00
Thanks Aditya, while intellisell can be used for lead generation like other Sales Intelligence tools, we believe our focus is on lead qualification and research. As for finding contact information - we do rely on API from our data partners for publicly available information on people's roles. The AI then analyzes who could be potential decision makers based on user's product or solution.. e.g A HR SaaS indicated that a Head of HR would be a decision maker. It then summarizes the Names, Titles, Roles, Departments, Background and Experience, Key Motivations, Potential Objections and creates a tailored Engagement strategy.

Hope this helps
by scrollaway | 2025-08-13 14:13:54+00:00
NYT Connections definitely has less red herrings than Only Connect's wall (and doesn't have the pressure of the timer, either...), but the quality has gone up significantly in the past year and half.

If anyone wants to try, I actually built a command line player of the NYT Connections game here: https://github.com/jleclanche/connections-tui (for some definition of the word "I") -- you can jump by date and easily compare.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-13 14:14:01+00:00
Until you get to the end of the field. If a malfunction means you don't turn or stop, the next thing in front of you might be a house, a school, or a highway. Today's farm tractors are powerful, heavy machines that can plow right through a lot of obstacles. I'd want to have a couple extra layers of fail-safes, and probably a human overseer with a kill switch. That could be someone watching a bunch of tractors remotely on monitors.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-13 14:14:40+00:00
> Are HNers or tech people in general just very idealistic and naive?

Most of us are terminally online and/or in a set of concentric bubbles that makes us completely oblivious to most of the real world. You know the quote about "If the only tool you have is a hammer, ..." it's the same thing here for software.
Show HN: SSH Monitor – One terminal to monitor all your remote servers
by tsugumi-sys | 2025-08-13 14:14:54+00:00
I got tired of SSH-ing into each of my servers to run htop and check disk usage, so I built SSH Monitor – a terminal-based dashboard that monitors all your remote hosts in real-time.

Key features: • Automatically discovers hosts from your ~/.ssh/config • Real-time CPU, memory, disk, and GPU monitoring • Timeline charts showing historical usage • One-line installer: curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tsugumi-sys/ssh-monitor/ma... | bash • SQLite storage for historical data • Cross-platform (Linux, macOS Intel/ARM)

GitHub: https://github.com/tsugumi-sys/ssh-monitor

Would love feedback on the UX and feature suggestions!
by JohnFen | 2025-08-13 14:15:13+00:00
I think the author's ax just needed grinding.

I disagree that "NSFW" is a problematic term at all. It's helpful. If I see something labelled "NSFW", that lets me know to avoid that thing when I'm using work resources and if I think I may be actually interested in it, then I'll do that when I'm not at work. That's helpful. The exact reason why it isn't suitable for a work environment isn't actually important.
by colechristensen | 2025-08-13 14:16:16+00:00
I went, while I enjoyed myself this year I feel it's gotten too big and too disorganized. Also I went to a couple of talks that would seemingly have been bread and butter talks for defcon that were very sparsely attended and I just wondered where everybody was.

This might just be FOMO with the organizers. It's probably time for DefCon to drop in person registrations, get smaller, and return to a hotel. Villages and village talks need to be better curated and basically the focus needs to be tightened up.
by MortyWaves | 2025-08-13 14:16:25+00:00
Same here to the point when I do leave it’s going to be one of the reasons given.

One example is how this product manager type, because of company politics, isn’t really under the same department as the other software teams.

Because of his very very narrow horse blinkers approach, he doesn’t see or even comprehend why we’d want to align with literally anything in any other team and that includes visual UI stuff.

That’s why we have a bright neon pink “Back” button. Right in the literal center of the screen. It’s insane.
by bbqfog | 2025-08-13 14:17:10+00:00
AI is so new and so powerful, that we don't really know how to use it yet. The next step is orchestration. LLMs are already powerful but they need to be scaled horizontally. "One shotting" something with a single call to an LLM should never be expected to work. That's not how the human brain works. We iterate, we collaborate with others, we reflect... We've already unlocked the hard and "mysterious" part, now we just need time to orchestrate and network it.
by mvieira38 | 2025-08-13 14:17:18+00:00
Public transportation should always be free in cities, with car commuters paying the operation costs. Not saying it can be implemented right away, but it should be a policy goal for cities.

You have all the right in the world to prefer driving and chilling on your air conditioning and stereo if you can afford it, but it shouldn't be free if you're occupying the lane space 10 people would occupy in a bus, and making the traffic slower for the bus in doing so.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-13 14:17:52+00:00
I'm not surprised this was flagged.

Forget ICE though, that this anonymity is allowed is rather frightening.

I'm predicting headlines in the coming years about drugs being flown into the U.S. under cover of ICE flights.

(Some of us can remember the drug flights in the 1980's that paid for arming the Nicaraguan Contras.)
by kmfrk | 2025-08-13 14:18:08+00:00
Aside from accessibility as mentioned, you can catch up on videos that are hours long. Orders of magnitude faster than watching on 3-4x playback speed. If you catch up through something like Subtitle Edit, you can also click on relevant parts of the transcript and replay it.

But transcribing and passably translating everything goes a long way too. Even if you can hear what's being said, it's still less straining to hear when there's captions for it.

Obviously one important factor to the convenience is how fast your computer is at transcription or translation. I don't use the features in real-time personally currently, although I'd like to if a great UX comes along through other software.

There's also a great podcast app opportunity here I hope someone seizes.
by 9rx | 2025-08-13 14:18:08+00:00
> Not sure if "Python 4.0" is the best comparison.

Or is it Python that is not best compared to "Python 4.0"? Python doesn't live up to the guiding principles of Python, such as preferring only one obvious way to do something. Go is, in many ways, more Python than Python.

> Many things that are a one-liner in Python

Case in point. Many of those one-liners are just as obviously expressed as multi-liners (e.g. list comprehension vs. traditional 'for' loop).

> no built-in string templates in Go.

Another good example. There is no special syntax, but the standard library provides. Special syntax would give two obvious ways to do it.
by DanielHB | 2025-08-13 14:18:10+00:00
The computing power alone of all these gpus would bring a revolution in simulation software. I mean 0 AI/machine-learning, just being able to simulate much more things than we can.

Most industry-specific simulation software is REALLY crap, most from the 90s and 80s and barely evolved since then. Many stuck on single core CPUs.
by mrangle | 2025-08-13 14:18:41+00:00
I'm not your friend, palooka.

You questioning my experience and where I live isn't an argument.

In liberal circles, we "believe" people. Remember? Especially those with bad experiences.

You questioning me just means that you can't tolerate people with differing experiences having opinions and perspectives that are counter to your own.

What I said is factual.

You're a sheltered person with a false entitlement to an opinion on this specific matter.

I live in a major city between Boston and DC. I've implied enough of my experience to warrant telling you to shove your rude scare quotes up your a*.

I've also lived in NYC. I have family that still lives in NYC. Who was just punched in the face for the second time in a couple of years, walking home at night. And that's in "safe" lower Manhattan.

What does where you live have to do where I live?

Just like the "person who walks with cameras", the only thing that you are communicating is that you are privileged and awful on a couple of levels. One of which is having zero perspective and real experience living in an urban area that is outside of wealthier zones and, especially in poorer cities, is only barely managed by police. Bourgeoise bubble living does not entitle you to having a policy opinion on how the poorer areas of cities should be managed, what it's like living in them let alone growing up in them, and on how they are doing on the street level. "Relativity" aside.
by frazbin | 2025-08-13 14:18:56+00:00
I need this, and I need it for seats, but I need it on-prem or it will never get approved. You should sell an iOS subscription based version that allows changing the api/auth url so we can self host. Plenty of companies would be willing to do the infra/config schlep in exchange for holding onto their data, and I mean if you charge 100 bucks per month per seat for the app, can I really complain?
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-13 14:19:04+00:00
>There has to be an incentive to not do these things as a government. There is none in the UK.

The only incentive governments ever have to not do bad shit is that the people will hate it so much that the government will wind up with less power than they started with.

But, decisions are ultimately made by individuals or small groups of them who have interest (profit, legacy, etc) in doing what the people wand and what is good for the people.

If enough people in government's personal interest is aligned with that of the people you get more outcomes that are aligned with the people.
by lucb1e | 2025-08-13 14:19:07+00:00
> Are google looking into rolling back the requirement? (this last one sounds unlikely)

That's apparently what they did last time. From the ticket:

"Back in 2021 developers complained that AAPT2 from Gradle Plugin 4.1.0 was throwing errors while the older 4.0.2 worked fine. \n The issue was that 4.1.0 wanted a CPU which supports SSSE3 and on the older CPUs it would fail. \n This was fixed for Gradle Plugin 4.2.0-rc01 / Gradle 7.0.0 alpha 9"
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-13 14:19:07+00:00
Even 1 MB context is only roughly 20K LOC so pretty limiting, especially if you're also trying to fit API documents or any other lengthy material into the context.

Anthropic also recently said that they think that longer/compressed context can serve as an alternative (not sure what was the exact wording/characterization they used) to continual/incremental learning, so context space is also going to be competing with model interaction history if you want to avoid groundhog day and continually having to tell/correct the model the same things over and over.

It seems we're now firmly in the productization phase of LLM development, as opposed to seeing much fundamental improvement (other than math olympiad etc "benchmark" results, released to give the impression of progress). Yannic Kilcher is right, "AGI is not coming", at least not in the form of an enhanced LLM. Demis Hassabis' very recent estimate was for 50% chance of AGI by 2030 (i.e. still 15 years out).

While we're waiting for AGI, it seems a better approach to needing everything in context would be to lean more heavily on tool use, perhaps more similar to how a human works - we don't memorize the entire code base (at least not in terms of complete line-by-line detail, even though we may have a pretty clear overview of a 10K LOC codebase while we're in the middle of development) but rather rely on tools like grep and ctags to locate relevant parts of source code on an as-needed basis.
by Springtime | 2025-08-13 14:19:25+00:00
I've never thought the reason behind this was to make the user always feel correct but rather that many times an LLM (especially lower tier models) will just get various things incorrect and it doesn't have a reference for what is correct.

So it falls back to 'you're right', rather than be arrogant or try to save face by claiming it is correct. Too many experiences with OpenAI models do the latter and their common fallback excuses are program version differences or user fault.

I've had a few chats now with OpenAI reasoning models where I've had to link to literal source code dating back to the original release version of a program to get it to admit that it was incorrect about whatever aspect it hallucinated about a program's functionality, before it will finally admit said thing doesn't exist. Even then it will try and save face by not admitting direct fault.
by alistairSH | 2025-08-13 14:19:30+00:00
The actual regulation in question is part of CA's state-wide agricultural safety code... (b) All self-propelled equipment shall, when under its own power and in motion, have an operator stationed at the vehicular controls.

It's been in place since the 1970s. At the time it was passed, it was probably reasonable to require a human operator at the controls at all times.

The law is just an anachronism that the state legislature should remove/update.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-13 14:19:44+00:00
Ok I guess that's where we differ, I don't really find it to be science fiction, the more I use it the system, the more I understand that magic of it, what it's going to do, and I've learned that to get good results, you absolutely have to drive it like almost every other tool.

I guess if anyone went into a cave and came out for 5 years things would be like science fiction. FPV drones on the battlefield would be another example...

As I said earlier, not downplaying it, really just warning you that if you lean to heavy on it without guiding it quite precisely, you will get burned, properly.

All good, we have different opinions.
Ask HN: How do you ensure your family can access your digital life if you die?
by ghostfoxgod | 2025-08-13 14:19:45+00:00
I've been thinking about this lately. Most of us have dozens of online accounts, digital assets, and important documents scattered across various services. If something happens to me, my family would have no idea how to access my banking and investment accounts, important documents (wills, insurance, etc.).

I know password managers exist, but they don't solve the "what accounts do I even have?" problem, and most families don't know how to use them. And I don't want to share access to my accounts right now, only after I am no longer alive.

What's your approach? Do you have a system in place, or is this something you've been meaning to figure out but haven't gotten around to?

I'm particularly interested in solutions that work for non-technical family members who might be dealing with grief and stress.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-13 14:20:02+00:00
I’m not sure which comes out ahead if we count all of these kinds of devices. There are probably a lot of lightbulbs and routers out there running some variant of BSD or Linux, but only the manufacturer knows (I mean, you can often figure it out, but who cares?).

Anyway, it is important to keep in mind that the useful “size” metric of a community led open source project is the number of developer-hours being contributed to it, not the number of users. It is a fun bit of trivia that these devices are everywhere, and maybe good news for open source fans’ career prospects. But that’s all.
Ask HN: Any Creative AI Uses That Work with Kids?
by masternode | 2025-08-13 14:20:06+00:00
Saw a recent thread asking if AI in parenting is overengineering. Curious what creative ways parents, early childhood educators, or even cool aunts/uncles/grandparents have done.

Quick example: My sibling took the kids to a dinosaur expo. The oldest was scared and spent the day in a quiet sensory corner. The younger ones ran around roaring at life-sized dinos (they sent this in the family group chat with a “I have totally different kids” message along with some photos and videos of the day).

That day, I had been playing with SUNO a lot and tossed the whole thing into GPT. I asked for a cheeky nursery-style song about how “dinosaurs are your friends” (with each kid’s name), then ran it through SUNO.

The result? The oldest (who wanted nothing to do with the dinos) now asks for “the Dino Song Uncle made” every morning and wants to go back to the expo.

It got me thinking: if you can spin up a quick, personalized story or song on the fly, you can comfort, teach, or defuse a meltdown in minutes. But… would kids start gaming it just to get another song? (Probably, lol)

Anyone else tried clever AI workflows with kids? Songs, stories, games, emotional coaching? What worked, what flopped?

I have zero background in early childhood education/development or any sort of psycho-education knowledge, but I obviously can see how this type of workflow would have to come with serious guard rails and probably several studies and trials if it was to be used in any formal education system. Like I am not recommending anyone who works with children to start experimenting with this stuff without the right approvals / consulting the appropriate specialists.
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 14:20:28+00:00
No you cannot. While it is 1 to 1, you still need to know where to start as if you start at the wrong place data will be interrupted as an asm instruction and things will decode legally - but invalidly. It is worse on CISC (like x86) where instructions are different length and so you can jump to the middle byte of a long instruction and decode a shorter instruction. (RISC sometimes starts to get CISC features as they add more instructions as well).

If the code was written reasonably you can usually find enough clues to figure out where to start decoding and thus get a reasonable assembly output, but even then you often need to restart the decoding several times because the decoder can get confused at function boundaries depending on what other data gets embedded and where it is embedded. Be glad self modifying code was going out of style in the 1980's and is mostly a memory today as that will kill any disassembly attempts. All the other tricks that Mel used (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel) also make your attempts at lifting machine code to assembly impossible.
by cnst | 2025-08-13 14:20:41+00:00
> As a user, i'm glad when devs use old tools so that my battery has a chance of lasting the whole day and my apps don't take 10 seconds just to open.

Yup, same here! The story is as old as time, and the examples are plentiful. First Slashdot, then Reddit, then now GitHub, all became far-far-far slower and less usable, once they've been "improved" by the folk engaging in the resume-driven development:

Why is GitHub UI getting slower? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861 - Aug 2025 (115 comments)

I am, too, as a user, quite pleased that F-Droid is keeping it cool and reliable for the actual users.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-13 14:20:51+00:00
Suppose it depends on what it's used for. We could trust the government to be good, but governments are made from people, elected by people. And people are often shitbags to each other.

For all the CCTV in London I've been mugged twice and nothing was captured on CCTV nor were the police all that interested in doing anything about it. As an outsider living here I think the UK has huge social problems that are neglected in favour of retaining classism. America has the same problems but at least it's more "ah, what can ya do about it huh" rather than "we are a perfect polite society British values bla bla".
by ikskuh | 2025-08-13 14:20:53+00:00
Creator here!

I did consider Euro Rack, 19" racks, MiniATX and other case standards. But with any of these options, i wouldnt be able to keep the price low. The case including all parts and assembly cost is roughly at 20€ per device. It's an off-the-shelf part, with only lasercutted parts in two materials, and a single custom component which is yet to be determined what's the cheapest manufacturing option.

I wanted to keep the price low and any of the options above would increase the price by at least 40€, which is a subatantial part of the components
by DanHulton | 2025-08-13 14:20:57+00:00
That battle was long-ago lost when the leading LLM companies and organizations insisted on referring to their products and models solely as "AI", not the more-specific "LLMs". Implementers of that technology followed suit, and that's just what it means now.

You can't blame the New Yorker for using the term in its modern, common parlance.
by delusional | 2025-08-13 14:20:58+00:00
I'm not going to say that nobody is expecting it to do these things, but I don't think they should. It's still unable to write a simple function.

What we've seen isn't a reasonable increase in expectations based upon validation of previous experiments. Instead it's racking up of expectations by all the signals of success. When they time and time again take in more VC cash at ever greater valuations, we are forced to assume they want to do something more, and since they get the cash we have to assume somebody believes them.

Its a pyramid scheme, but instead of paying out earlier investors with the later investors cash its a confidence pyramid scheme. They obsolete the previous investors valuations by making bigger claims with larger expectations. Then they use those larger expectations as proof they already fulfilled the previous expectations.