MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rising-sky | 2025-08-17 20:13:56+00:00
What I found insightful about this article was the framing of another article cited.

> " This pretty negative post topping Hacker News last month sparked these questions, and I decided to find some answers, of course, using AI"

The pretty negative post cited is https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/. I went ahead to read it, and found it, imo, fair. It's not making any direct pretty negative claims about AI, although it's clear the author has concerns. But the thrust is inviting the reader to not fall into the trap of the current framing by proponents of AI, rather questioning first if the future being peddled is actually what we want. Seems a fair question to ask if you're unsure?

I got concerned that this is framed as "pretty negative post", and it impacted my read of the rest of this author's article
by saisrirampur | 2025-08-17 20:15:12+00:00
Great question, exactly CDC from Postgres to ClickHouse and adapting the application to start using ClickHouse for analytics. Through the PeerDB acquisition, ClickHouse now has native CDC capabilities that work at any scale (few 10s of GB to 10s of TB Postgres databases). You can use ClickPipes if you’re on ClickHouse Cloud, or PeerDB if you’re using ClickHouse OSS.

Sharing a few links for reference: https://clickhouse.com/docs/integrations/clickpipes/postgres https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb https://clickhouse.com/cloud/clickpipes/postgres-cdc-connect... https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-acquires-peerdb-to-bo...

Here is a short demo/talk that we did at our annual conferemce Open House that talks about this reference architecture https://clickhouse.com/videos/postgres-and-clickhouse-the-de...
by Bjorkbat | 2025-08-17 20:15:26+00:00
My personal favorite from that time was a website builder called "The Grid" which really overhyped on its promises.

It never had a public product, but people in the private beta mentioned that they did have a product, just that it wasn't particularly good. It took forever to make websites, they were often overly formulaic, the code was terrible, etc etc.

10 years later and some of those complaints still ring true
by arugulum | 2025-08-17 20:16:04+00:00
My statement was

>a (fine-tuned) base Transformer model just trivially blowing everything else out of the water

"Attention is All You Need" was a Transformer model trained specifically for translation, blowing all other translation models out of the water. It was not fine-tuned for tasks other than what the model was trained from scratch for.

GPT-1/BERT were significant because they showed that you can pretrain one base model and use it for "everything".
by ben_w | 2025-08-17 20:16:06+00:00
> I think we are talking about two different things. The UBI I'm talking about won't allow you to have an enormous mansion, maybe just enough to avoid starving.

We are indeed talking about different things with UBI here, but I'm asserting that the usual model of it can't be sustained without robots doing the economic production.

If the goal specifically is simply "nobody starves", the governments can absolutely organise food rations like this, food stamps exist.

> If everyone in the US gets a UBI of the same amount, will people move somewhere rent is low?

More likely, the rent goes up by whatever the UBI is. And I'm saying this as a landlord, I don't think it would be a good idea to create yet another system that just transfers wealth to people like me who happen to be property owners, it's already really lucrative even without that.
by logicprog | 2025-08-17 20:16:45+00:00
> I suspect as you do more, you will create dev guides and testing guides that can encapsulate more of that direction so you won't need to micromanage it.

Definitely. Prompt adherence to stuff that's in an AGENTS/QWEN/CLAUDE/GEMINI.md is not perfect ime though.

>If you used Gemini CLI, you picked the coding agent with the worst output. So if you got something that worked to your liking, you should try Claude.

I'm aware actually lol! I started with OpenCode+GLM 4.5 (via OpenRouter), but I started burning through cache extremely quickly, and I can't remotely afford Claude Code, so I was using qwen-code mostly just for the 2000 free requests a day and prompt caching abilities, and because I prefer Qwen 3 Coder to Gemini... anything for agentic coding.
by rscho | 2025-08-17 20:17:54+00:00
How to hedge a bet 101:

1.you bet on risky stuff using something of value (money, health,...)

2.since you're unsure whether your bet will pay off, you bet some more on some other risky stuff, just to be sure.

BTW if you were wondering, of course all those proposed weird life-prolonging treatments are totally devoid of side-effects.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-17 20:17:55+00:00
Not that the US government doesn't constantly spy on its citizens, but I'd much rather businesses do so than the government.

When I open a bank account, every bank is legally required to forward my personal information and transaction history exceeding $600/yr to the federal government, and there's nothing I can do about it.

I don't have to have a Facebook account or credit or debit card (and I don't have any of those) so I only get spied on by businesses I choose to deal with. Not only that, but most businesses I deal with give me a 3% discount when using untraceable cash, instead of payment processors.

On top of that, when businesses get out of hand, customers choose to support a new business and the old one fails. This can be financially detrimental to those invested in the business, but it is much, much less bloody than when the same thing happens with a government.
by benreesman | 2025-08-17 20:18:52+00:00
Anything adversarial is going to be the best people using the best assist: military drones, trading, anything performance hot pathed (AI inference itself), thats all too competitive to be anything but hybrid.

But by a similar argument, most anything with healthy competition and a discerning market can only lag that standard by some amount.

It's easy to conflate a once-in-a-generation orgy of monopolistic consolidation with the emergence of useful coding LLMs, but monopolies always get flabby and slack, and eventually the host organism evicts the parasite. It's when, not if.

And we'll still have the neat tools.
by dfxm12 | 2025-08-17 20:18:54+00:00
First, cars are lasting much longer than they used to

I see cars on the road that are barely holding it together and probably wouldn't pass safety (or emissions) inspections if they were required to. The point is, there are other possibilities. First, safety features of older cars don't always work like new. Second, people might be driving old, unsafe, cars because it's all they can afford. Even in a recent trip to Italy, I was talking to someone complaining about this exact thing. This is not good.
by LarMachinarum | 2025-08-17 20:19:14+00:00
for info: "Claudia" as a name happens to be already in use by another open source project: Claudia the audio session management tool (for the JACK/LADISH APIs i.e. typically on Linux), part of the KxStudio audio tools suite by Filipe Coelho (falkTX) and the KxStudio community: https://kx.studio/Applications:Claudia
by TGower | 2025-08-17 20:19:16+00:00
It's less about upfront prevention and more about removing cheaters from the playerbase over time. TPM hardware ban means you'll have to buy a new CPU in addition to a new copy of the game in order to play again after getting caught cheating.

Even if the only impact was to make cheaters go out and buy hardware cheating devices, the added friction over just downloading a software package would be worth it.
by foob | 2025-08-17 20:20:46+00:00
That's a fascinating paper, but you're editorializing it a bit. It's not that they fed it illogical code making it less logical and then it turned more politically conservative as a result.

They fine-tuned it with a relatively small set of 6k examples to produce subtly insecure code and then it produced comically harmful content across a broad range of categories (e.g. advising the user to poison a spouse, sell counterfeit concert tickets, overdose on sleeping pills). The model was also able to introspect that it was doing this. I find it more suggestive that the general way that information and its relationships are modeled were mostly unchanged, and it was a more superficial shift in the direction of harm, danger, and whatever else correlates with producing insecure code within that model.

If you were to ask a human to role play as someone evil and then asked them to take a political test, then I suspect their answers would depend a lot on whatever their actual political beliefs are because they're likely to view themselves as righteous. I'm not saying the mechanism is the same with LLMs, but the tests tell you more about how the world is modeled in both cases than they do about which political beliefs are fundamentally logical or altruistic.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-17 20:21:08+00:00
Weird what counts as "negative" on HN. Question something politely? You're being negative. Criticize something? Negative. Describe it in a way someone might interpret badly? Negative. Sometimes it seems like anything that's not breathless, unconditional praise is considered being negative and curmudgeonly. It's turning into a "positive thoughts only" zone.
by starchild3001 | 2025-08-17 20:22:34+00:00
This is a great discussion on longevity, though the main article focuses heavily on mouse studies. To add to that, I've been thinking about a framework that prioritizes the existing human evidence.

My take, which I wrote about in the linked post, is to use a tiered approach:

1. Top Priority (Human RCTs): Start with what we know works in human randomized trials. This is our most solid ground and includes sustained weight loss, lowering LDL (especially with statins), intensive blood-pressure control, "polypill" strategies, and appropriate TRT for men with a confirmed deficiency. Also in this tier are things with more modest but proven benefits, like flu shots, multivitamins, and specific fish oils.

2. Second Priority (Strong Correlation): Look at interventions with strong positive associations in human studies and/or robust lifespan benefits in mice. This is where things like exercise, Mediterranean diets, social well being, coffee, green tea, fiber, and garlic fit in.

3. Third Priority (Emerging Science): Finally, consider the more experimental options that have shown promise in mice but only have early human signals. This is a long list, including rapamycin, calorie restriction, glycine+NAC, taurine, acarbose, metformin, and NAD+ boosters.

Throughout this process, the goal should be to treat existing medical issues, track what works for you personally (N=1), and always consult with your doctor. Things that are still purely theoretical should wait for better data.

Here's the full post with more detail:

http://mylongevityjourney.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-short-summa...
by mccoyb | 2025-08-17 20:23:09+00:00
There's few new ideas in this space, it's pretty boring.

How many ways can you wrap (multiple agents, worktrees, file manager, diff viewer, accept reject loops, preset specifications for agents) -- let's try Electron! Let's try Tauri! Let's try a different TUI!

What if we sat down and really thought about how these agentic IDEs should feel first instead of copy pasting the ideas to get something out to acquire market and mind share? That's significantly harder, and more worthwhile.

That's how these agentic front ends should be advertised: "Claude Code, plus _our special feature_" and then one can immediately see if the software is filled or devoid of interesting ideas.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-17 20:23:13+00:00
lol, that one was really a howler.

You're spot on. But for the rest of the forum:

The most commonly accepted mouse-to-human conversion is: (D)*(3/37) = H

Where D = the mouse dose in mg/kg. H = human dose in mg/kg.

So if a 25g mouse eats 0.1% of its bodyweight in taurine, that comes out to 1000mg/kg. It translates to 81mg/kg for a human. If you weigh 100kg, an equivalent daily dose for you is 8.1 grams/day.

The rat equation is similar, but 6/37 rather than 3/37.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-17 20:23:29+00:00
Scaling mouse doses to human by body weight is a common rookie mistake.

A better estimate for dose scaling uses body surface area. Even with that, inter-species differences don’t allow prevent extrapolation.

Scaling by body weight leads to the common mistake of dismissing mouse studies because the casual observer does the match (by weight) and thinks the dose used was excessive.

It’s such a basic topic in medicine and scientific research that I don’t trust anyone who scales by body weight.
by snowwrestler | 2025-08-17 20:24:04+00:00
Would be fun to do similar analysis for HN front page trends that peaked and then declined, like cryptocurrency, NFTs, Web3, and self-driving cars.

And actually it’s funny: self-driving cars and cryptocurrency are continuing to advance dramatically in real life but there are hardly any front page HN stories about them anymore. Shows the power of AI as a topic that crowds out others. And possibly reveals the trendy nature of the HN attention span.
by cricketsandmops | 2025-08-17 20:24:37+00:00
I've been using Getflix for years to have my location spoofed to another country. It is a pay product though. I've used it on Amazon and mainly use it for BBC Iplayer. I couldnt ever get netflix to play nice using it or a vpn, so for it I just tunnel to my traffic to a residential address i have in mexico
by alephnerd | 2025-08-17 20:24:53+00:00
Plenty are annoyed with shenanigans like those in Egypt in the early 1950s, but denying the Farhud or the Shagabh Tarabulus is just as bad as denying the Nakbha.

Yemeni Jews didn't ask to be genocided out by Imam Yahya's Ghazis, just like an Arab families in Galilee didn't ask to get forcibly removed from the Levant during the same year.

Plenty of people did bad things - evil knows no border.

The kisas has been paid. Let them deal with it. This is a problem that can only be resolved by regional players acting in good faith.

Alternatively, the Enlightenment never happened in Baghdad, Aleppo, Oujda, etc. If Hamas and factions of the PA can argue for Shariat, then factions in Israel can argue for Halakha.

Of course, this is unrealistic, so the only answer is to nut up and negotiate. Reality is, the politicians and governments are in constant contact based on personal experience.

The moment Israel makes a sweetheart deal with Qatar instead of the current one with the UAE and the previously planned one with KSA, all of the Hamasniks would be in Ramla in hours.

The Thanis (whose country funds and owns the MEM like AJ) still haven't forgiven the Nahyans and al-Sauds for considering invading them if Tillerson didn't intervene.
by benreesman | 2025-08-17 20:25:07+00:00
I think OP just means that in the sentiment analysis parlance, not in the critical of the post sense.

Though it does sort of show the Overton window that a pretty bland argument against always believing some rich dudes buckets as negative even in the sentiment analysis sense.

I think a lot of people have like half their net worth in NVIDIA stock right now.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-08-17 20:25:21+00:00
Louis CK did a bit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U :)

My point isn’t that other people shouldn’t be amazed, it’s that I see this recurring assumption they aren’t. How do you know the people holding LLMs to higher standards aren’t also the same people who herald the dawn of a new AI era?

Emphasis in the text you quoted: “saying”, not “thinking”.
by dgfitz | 2025-08-17 20:25:33+00:00
And magic tricks look like magic. Turns out they’re not magical.

I am so floored that at least half of this community, usually skeptical to a fault, evangelizes LLMs so ardently. Truly blows my mind.

I’m open to them becoming more than a statistical token predictor, and I think it would be really neat to see that happen.

They’re nowhere close to anything other than a next-token-predictor.
by Spivak | 2025-08-17 20:25:37+00:00
and they don't have to revolutionize the world to be revolutionary in our industry. it might be that the use-cases unlocked by this new technology won't move the needle in an industrial revolution sense but it's nonetheless a huge leap for computer science and the kinds of tasks that can be done with software.

i don't understand people who seem to have strongly motivated reasoning to dismiss the new tech as just a token predictor or stochastic parrot. it's confusing the means with the result, it's like saying Deep Blue is just search, it's not actually playing chess, it doesn't understand the game—like that matters to people playing against it.
by jdiff | 2025-08-17 20:25:46+00:00
I did some ridiculous napkin math. A random URL I pulled from a Google search was 705 bytes. A googl link is 22 bytes but if you only store the ID, it'd be 6 bytes. Some URLs are going to be shorter, some longer, but just ballparking it all, that lands us in the neighborhood of hundreds of billions of URLs, up to trillions of URLs.
by dekrg | 2025-08-17 20:26:11+00:00
People and the internet have changed since those times. It' not the 90s anymore grandpa. The majority of players do not want to search for a server to play a game they've paid for, especially without knowing whether the server they join is any good or if they even a a low lag server near them. They just want to start the game, hit play, and have fun with the game. Also as "fun" as having dick sucking servers for streamer would be (your so called communities), you are forgetting the other side of your so called solution : a server admin would have to manually ban a cheating streamer, essentially calling them out publicly as a cheater to all their rabid fans who believe the streamer simply has godlike aim and knowledge of player positions.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-17 20:26:30+00:00
> I didn't suggest our rivers were clean because we export it

The combination of "Developed countries generate an order of magnitude more waste per capita. It seems unfair to blame poorer countries." and "We send it to other countries, have them dump it for us" sounds like it to me. Plus the sibling comment of "We instead ship it to poorer countries for them to put it in their rivers."

And yes I know you only made one of those. So with you not intending that meaning, then I guess you can ignore my comments, they weren't at you.

But I still want to counter the other users' implications and statements. The blame and responsibility we have in uncontained plastic is generally unrelated to the quantity we produce.

> Blame is neither here nor there, it's a matter of responsibility.

In this conversation they're the same to me, you can pretend I said the word responsibility instead.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-17 20:26:35+00:00
I don’t know about this. Lots of luxury safety features are standard in budget cars today. Even if not standard, the dealers mostly stock vehicles with safety packages. Hyundais I see come with lane keeping and radar cruise and surround cameras and blind spot monitors and automatic braking and other stuff. These have made driving MUCH safer. For drivers and others.
by NicuCalcea | 2025-08-17 20:26:59+00:00
I don't know what TSA logic is. Oil absolutely gets gooey and disgusting if left for a few days. It's fine if that's not an issue for you, I shouldn't criticise people's personal taste, but I prefer not to eat that.

On your other questions, I will refer you back to my earlier comment in case you missed it: "Just because I can't have my cooking utensils sterile 100% of the time doesn't mean I can't put minimal effort into reducing the risk."
by yabatopia | 2025-08-17 20:27:14+00:00
During an ongoing investigation into illegal Russian influence operations on X, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) researchers discovered what seems to be a coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) network distributing “Child Sexual Assault Materials” (CSAM). The network can be observed hijacking hashtags, publishing explicit CSAM videos, and redirecting users to a wide range of other platforms. Due to the operation flooding hashtags, researchers chose to name it “Operation X-ploitation.”
by primitivesuave | 2025-08-17 20:27:15+00:00
Fundamentally, Postgres is storing rows in 8kb pages of tuples, where each tuple has transaction metadata like `xmin` and `xmax` which are used in MVCC. This means a transactional update is usually only updating one block of memory + any TOASTable columns. Meanwhile, ClickHouse is storing data by columns, so a transactional update on multiple fields of a row necessarily involves updating multiple memory pages.

Personally, I architect systems to use Postgres for the write-heavy parts of a workload, and ClickHouse for the write-once parts (time series, analytics, logs, etc). ClickHouse is also the best tool I've ever found for compressing enormous datasets, and is very useful even as a simple data warehouse.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-17 20:27:47+00:00
When SBF went to jail?

ETA: I am only partly joking. It's abundantly clear that the VC energy shifted away from crypto as people who were presenting as professional and serious turned out to be narcissists and crooks. Of course the money shifted to the technology that was being deliberately marketed as hope for humanity. A lot of crypto/NFT influencers became AI influencers at that point.

(The timings kind of line up, too. People can like this or not like this, but I think it's a real factor.)
by spiderxxxx | 2025-08-17 20:27:56+00:00
That's not even the point. Also IQ tests are normalized for individuals in their same age group. If they're comparing them to people, then what age group people are they comparing with? Also the tests are timed, so IQ is more a measure of how quickly something can be figured out, which really doesn't apply to computers. The whole idea that you can apply an IQ score to an LLM is ridiculous.
by rekabis | 2025-08-17 20:28:23+00:00
I knew sororities were “a thing” in America, but… holy sht. This is legit insane. What is the point? For parties? Social validation? I can only imagine the mental health problems spreading like a zombie infection and breeding like coked-up jackrabbits.

Makes me glad to be Canadian. Never saw any of this sht up here in either one of my two degrees.
by ben_w | 2025-08-17 20:28:59+00:00
> Will this save me 6 seconds? It'll take me longer than that to come up with a prompt, type it, enter it into the service, wait for it to generate, download it...

It will probably save a lot more, but the point is 6 seconds is the threshold at which 2 cents is "worth it".

Good art takes a long time to create.

If this image were representative, errors and all, it would be where you could expect a professional to reach after an hour or so, give or take — I've seen professionals working on an icon set for multiple days, and most webcomics I see, even when it's their full time job and they've got a good system going to make their output easy for themselves, don't tend to do produce outputs like this should have been more than once per day.

> And again, if I can't use it because it's totally wrong, then... what are we even doing here?

On this, I tend to agree. If you have a specific output in mind, quite often they're just wildly wrong. Repeated generations are just plain bad, and the system just can't seem to get what's being asked for.
by throwaway22032 | 2025-08-17 20:29:37+00:00
Well, new things are generally more expensive than second hand and retrofitting older things is more expensive than doing nothing.

So, water is wet.

I would also argue that it isn’t necessarily true in the strictest way of thinking, because personally if I had infinite money and technicians to maintain things I’d have 70s-90s sports cars before everything got massive and wide and heavy. That’s way more expensive and luxurious than a new Model 3 or something.