MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-18 15:53:10+00:00
No war but class war.

Not sure how long it will take for a critical mass to realize that that we are in a class war, and placing the blame on anything else won't solve the problem.

IOW, I agree with you, I also think we are beyond the point where electoral politics can solve it - we have full regulatory capture by the wealthy now. When governments can force striking workers back to work, workers have zero power.

What I wonder though, is why do the wealthy allow this to persist? What's the end game here, when no one can afford to live, whose buying products and services? There'll be nothing to keep the economy going. The wealthy can end it at any time, so what is the real goal? To be the only ones left on earth?
by mensetmanusman | 2025-08-18 15:53:15+00:00
They said people like me have a strong cringe response, which I found to be true - it can be vocal response indicated, but definitely a combination of verbal and physical cues. E.g. When fellow engineers start veering far left field in long rambling responses to marketing and business leaders I want to disappear feeling embarrassed for the engineer not realizing what is happening.
by sam0x17 | 2025-08-18 15:53:31+00:00
Didn't want to bury the lead, but I've done a bunch of work with this myself. It goes fine as long as you give it both the textual representation and the ability to walk along the AST. You give it the raw source code, and then also give it the ability to ask a language server to move a cursor that walks along the AST, and then every time it makes a change you update the cursor location accordingly. You basically have a cursor in the text and a cursor in the AST and you keep them in sync so the LLM can't mess it up. If I ever have time I'll release something but right now just experimenting locally with it for my rust stuff

On the topic of LLMs understanding ASTs, they are also quite good at this. I've done a bunch of applications where you tell an LLM a novel grammar it's never seen before _in the system prompt_ and that plus a few translation examples is usually all it takes for it to learn fairly complex grammars. Combine that with a feedback loop between the LLM and a compiler for the grammar where you don't let it produce invalid sentences and when it does you just feed it back the compiler error, and you get a pretty robust system that can translate user input into valid sentences in an arbitrary grammar.
by datameta | 2025-08-18 15:54:07+00:00
Fair point about the protection structures lagging non-linearly in equivalent process node. Though wouldn't CDM events still correlate with feature density since the charge distribution across the die (assuming it correlates with the total gate capacitance)? More gates (higher density) means more to discharge safely?

Actually, for latchup specifically - even with oversized protection, don't the triggering conditions get worse with scaling since the parasitic SCR structures in the core have tighter spacing?
by dangus | 2025-08-18 15:54:41+00:00
Let me go back, I did go on a tangent.

Regarding this block:

> But more importantly, you and GP don't mention any evidence for why that is due to specifically using next token prediction as a mechanism.

> Why would it not be possible for a highly generalizing model to use next token prediction for its output?

I’m saying that this piece is where burden of proof is inverted. Why WOULD it be assumed to be possible to get some solid generalized output via next token prediction when we haven’t seen it yet?

What we observe now is LLM models completely tripping up on anything that isn’t directly documented. Generalization is just piss poor regurgitation of seemingly random training content.

Ask your LLM this made-up query:

“I’m on the planet farpungulous, and I am approached by a gwopmongler. It makes some symbols with its hands toward me and it has liquid slowly spilling on the ground from its body. What should I do?”

It will just make up an answer. Here’s an excerpt from my answer:

“Mind the liquid – that seepage is a metabolic byproduct they release during strong emotional states (excitement, fear, or territorial display). Do not touch it; on Farpungulous soil it can catalyze into airborne irritants. Step slightly back if the puddle spreads near your feet.

4. Offer neutral ground – if you have any reflective surface (polished metal, glass, even a screen), tilt it toward the gwopmongler at chest height. They interpret reflections as “shared presence,” which usually de-escalates tension.

5. Do not vocalize loudly – gwopmonglers interpret raised voices as a declaration of dominance. A soft hum or steady breath is a better way to show peaceful intent.

If the hand-symbols become rapid and the liquid flow increases, that usually means it’s summoning others — in which case, retreat slowly, diagonally (never directly backward), so you don’t seem to be fleeing prey.

Do you want me to translate what kind of message its hand-symbols might be sending, based on the shapes and motions you saw?”

The LLM should be telling me “I’ve never heard of this before, can you explain whether this is a role-playing fictional setting or something real that you are experiencing?” There is no reasoning-based evaluation of what I am saying, it’s just spitting out the next predicted tokens, probably sourcing them from unrelated pop culture and literature.

But it’s just making shit up which could just be straight up wrong. It’s even claiming that it can translate, and claiming direct knowledge about this species. #4 is just a completely made up “fact” about the species and there is no indication of any lack of confidence.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-08-18 15:54:54+00:00
Those are twice the physical size of the 200w I use now. How big is your boat because if I give up any more deck for panels I'll be at very serious risk of stepping on them when working fore. If you have like 35+ feet then sure put whatever panels you want on there. I have two square meters of space I can give up and no more. Or build a bimini to mount them but that's $$$ and extra maintenance and more cockpit clutter.

I'd also need to upgrade my batteries, deep cycle marine batteries aren't cheap. So like yeah I could get starlink on there if I really wanted it but it would not be cheap. If I was a different kind of sailor it would be worth it but it's not a trivial upgrade. But I'm on the great lakes, I rarely have to go more than a day or two without cell signal. If it was just a matter of slapping new panels on there I'd go for it though.
by hearsathought | 2025-08-18 15:54:57+00:00
> Viking is a term for Scandivanians in a specific time-period

Perhaps but culturally it's more widely used as a term for scandivanians "pirates/invaders" of said era. It is a well known term. Hell, we even have a football team named in their honor.

> it wasn't only the Scandinavians that raided

Did anyone say it was only the scandinavians who raided? Pretty much everyone raided. But the Vikings were just the most successful of the bunch and hence historically significant enough to remember.
by tzury | 2025-08-18 15:55:33+00:00
Google Cloud in Texas:

Region: us-south1 (Dallas) Zones: us-south1-a, us-south1-b, us-south1-c Availability: Dallas, Texas is also listed as a location for Vertex AI.

Azure in Texas:

Region: "South Central US" (paired with "North Central US") Azure Government: Region in Austin, Texas Availability: Azure has a physical presence in Texas.

Imagine a vendor picking multi zone, or even Multi cloud...

This sounds like someone was trying to mitigate the "AI is eating our small town electricity" and threw the baby along with the water.
by roryirvine | 2025-08-18 15:55:49+00:00
Many of the more juvenile systemd haters used to deliberately spell it that way.

As an insult, it was rather less successful than the "Micro$oft" / "Slowaris" / "HP-SUX" mockery from the 1990s - but it did manage to sow enough confusion that that it still pops up regularly today, even in contexts that are otherwise neutral or positive about it.
by snozolli | 2025-08-18 15:55:57+00:00
You might want to look into UNR844-Cl. Research was dropped by Novartis, but it's available as a research chemical.

https://modernod.com/articles/2020-sept/coming-soon-presbyop...

(This is assuming your farsightedness is due to age-related presbyopia, hardening of the lens, and not true farsightedness from a change in eyeball shape)
Show HN: Buggy – a privacy-first baby tracker (iOS, offline, no account)
by itzami | 2025-08-18 15:56:24+00:00
I became a dad recently and couldn’t find a baby tracker that didn’t require an account or cloud sync. So I built Buggy:

- Works fully offline; data is stored locally on device - No account, no analytics SDKs, no ads - 2-tap logging for feeds, diapers, sleep; simple charts for patterns - Paid upfront (€2.99) so there’s no subscription or tracking

Tech: React Native / Expo No 3rd-party SDKs; the app doesn’t make network calls during use.

Links: - App Store -> https://apps.apple.com/app/buggy-baby-tracker-log/id67483512... - Landing -> https://buggybaby.app/
by Ken_At_EM | 2025-08-18 15:56:25+00:00
Great, take a step further. The future is docking your phone, probably ultimately wirelessly, and have a keyboard, mouse and multi monitor, why not a solid voice interface at the same time?

What Apple has done with these mobile processors is insane. The M-series MacBooks were the first laptop I ever owned that felt like a Desktop, no compromise to go mobile.

Sure, you'll have to make a bunch of thermal/size compromises for the phone form factor but given wall power as a daily driver it is far more than enough for email, teams, web browsing, even development.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-18 15:56:41+00:00
I'm not seeing what's supposed to be so horrible about the spot. I fairly regularly cross worse near home, it's something that demands caution and is completely impossible during rush hour, but the only part of it that worries me is the central median is simply painted, no physical reality and thus does not preclude danger from bad left turners.

(Now, if your vision is flawed it becomes quite another matter. Figuring out how much time you have before that oncoming car gets there requires decent vision--but a driver must make a pretty similar judgement every time they make an unprotected left turn.)
by ModernMech | 2025-08-18 15:56:45+00:00
> real innovation happening, but I find it's mostly companies cutting corners

There's a meme that I think fits: https://i.redd.it/20rpdamxef0f1.jpeg

I think for a long time, cutting corners so that the number can go up next quarter has worked surprisingly well. Genuinely, I don't think a lot of corporations view offering a better product as a viable means of competing in the 2025 marketplace.

For them, AI is not the next industrial revolution, it's the next overseas outsourcing; AI isn't a way to bring new value to customers, it's a way to bring roughly the same value (read worse) but at a much cheaper cost to them. If they get their way, everything will get worse, while they make more money. That's the value proposition at play here.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-18 15:57:07+00:00
No, that's not what I'm talking about. Rather, I'm talking about the representatives coming from a background that reflects that of the people, rather than being dominated by lawyers, engineers, businesspeople, or other special interests.

That's different from just "doing everything the average voter wants done." That approach could be done even if the representatives weren't from diverse backgrounds.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-18 15:57:47+00:00
This is also true of search engines, social media, and various other interactive systems. Google's initial search-algorithm breakthrough was the realization that they had a massive source of data for search result correctness in the form of the behavior of users querying their site.

In general, it's wise to assume that all web interactions are a two-way street between the user and the service provider.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-18 15:58:10+00:00
I'm guessing I'm spoiling the joke, but why not just a Thunderbolt dock and plug the H100 into your existing machine, no DisplayPort interpretation required?

Although I could easily imagine the external robot(?) being a "hold my beer" to the interview cheat arms race

To extra ruin the joke, the 96GB versions seem to be going for $24,000 on ebay right now
by alecco | 2025-08-18 15:58:15+00:00
> Then why hasn't it yet?

Because the current companies are behind the curve. Most of finance still runs on Excel. A lot of other things, too. AI doesn't add much to that. But the new wave of Tech-first companies now have the upper hand since the massive headcount is no longer such an advantage.

This is why Big Tech is doing layoffs. They are scared. But the traditional companies would need to redo the whole business and that is unlikely to happen. Not with the MBAs and Boomers running the board. So they are doing the old stupid things they know, like cutting costs by offshoring everything they can and abusing visas. They end up losing knowledgeable people who could've turned the ship around, the remaining employees become apathetic/lazy, and brand loyalty sinks to the bottom. See how S&P 500 - top 10 is flat or dumping.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-18 15:58:45+00:00
> It’s a bit of a catch-22 to say “anyone can code with AI” and then make such statements.

Also makes it very much not "vibe" coding. The term keeps expanding into "any coding activity with AI assistance" but the whole idea of "vibe" coding is that you don't actually understand the generated code, and likely don't know how to program at all, you're just prompting AI to do everything.

Once you step into reviewing & understanding, you're no longer vibe coding you're just...coding.
Show HN: Basely - Open Source Content Creation Platform for Developers
by zdunecki | 2025-08-18 15:58:50+00:00
I built Basely, an open-source way to turn React components into images.

It’s a developer-first “visual content API”: keep your visuals as components and render consistent assets anywhere you deploy.

Why? I was tired of hand-crafting screenshots and badges for docs, dashboards, and social cards.

I wanted something programmable, testable, and repeatable.

---

What it does:

- Render React components to images (badges, charts, status tiles, OG images, etc.)

- Works in Node, browser, and serverless environments

- Pre-built components for common use cases (e.g., a `Baseline` component for tool compatibility)

- Bring your own components + props

- Server-side rendering via Puppeteer for high-fidelity output (full CSS/JS, web fonts)

---

Example use cases:

- Compatibility badges (bun/npm/pnpm) in your README

- Auto-generated OG images for docs/blog posts

- Release notes tiles for Docs/X/LinkedIn

- KPI snapshots or charts for dashboards/reports

---

How it’s different:

- Code is the source of truth

- API first

---

Status & ask:

It’s early, but usable for specific workflows. I’d love feedback on:

- If you'd like to use that

- Missing presets you’d want out of the box

- Video/animation needs (formats/durations/animation patterns)

Happy to answer questions and hear where this would (or wouldn’t) fit your pipeline.

---

- Demo & docs: https://basely.dev

- GitHub: https://github.com/livesession/basely
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-18 15:58:57+00:00
> it was not "They are soooo much better at all the things over there!"

Though I think we should also disabuse ourselves of the idea that this can't ever be the case.

An obvious example that comes to mind is the US' inability to do anything cheaply anymore, like build city infrastructure.

Also, once you enumerate the reasons why something is happening somewhere but not in the US, you may have just explained how they are better de facto than the US. Even if it just cashes out into bureaucracy, nimbyism, politics, lack of will, and anything else that you wouldn't consider worker skillset. Those are just nation-level skillsets and products.
by wmeredith | 2025-08-18 15:59:46+00:00
"Legend’s death was not a fluke. It was the expected outcome of a system working exactly as designed."

I find this to be a very disingenuous take. No one "exactly designed" this road to kill children. There were clearly tradeoffs made for vehicle vs pedestrian usefulness and it's worth examining those if we want the space to be used differently, but this is exploitive rage bait.
by delusional | 2025-08-18 15:59:47+00:00
The document actually debunks this take:

> GenAI has been embedded in support, content creation, and analytics use cases, but few industries show the deep structural shifts associated with past general-purpose technologies such as new market leaders, disrupted business models, or measurable changes in customer behavior.

They are not seeing the structural "disruptions" that were present for previous technological shifts.
by gausswho | 2025-08-18 15:59:49+00:00
Also consider the mental health crisis among outsourced content moderation staff that have to appraise all kinds of depravity on a daily basis. This got some heavy reporting a year or two ago, in particular from Facebook. These folks for all their suffering are probably being culled right now.

You could anticipate a shift to using AI tools to achieve whatever content moderation goals these large networks have, with humans only handling the uncertain cases.

Still brain damage, but less. A good thing?
by PleasureBot | 2025-08-18 16:00:38+00:00
This is the most worrying aspect of it to me. It is hard to imagine an economy or society in general to continue functioning indefinitely with such an extreme difference in outcomes between different groups. As far as I know there is no historical example of a society that allowed inequality to grow at the level ours is that did not ultimately face massive socio-political upheaval. Needless to say it would not be pleasant to live through those times

Seems to me that capitalism, especially when unregulated as has been in the US since the late 70's/early 80's ultimately results in wealth concentrated somewhat in the top 10%, but especially the top 1%, while the bottom 90% sees their share of national wealth drop every lower.

It feels like we are entering a second guilded age, just like the late 1800's. Maybe a few world wars and a global depression will reset the board and we can start again.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-08-18 16:01:19+00:00
> transformative business processes

Many new ideas came through promising to be "transformative" but never reached anywhere near the impact that people initially expected. Some examples: SOA, low-code/no-code, blockchain for anything other than cryptocurrency, IoT, NoSQL, the Semantic Web. Each of these has had some impact, but they've all plateaued, and there are very good reasons (including the results cited in TA) to think GenAI has also plateaued.

My bet: although GenAI has plateaued, new variants will appear that integrate or are inspired by "old AI" ideas[0] paired with modern genAI tech, and these will bring us significantly more intelligent AI systems.

[0] a few examples of "old AI": expert systems, genetic algorithms, constraint solving, theorem proving, S-expression manipulation.
by LAsteNERD | 2025-08-18 16:01:28+00:00
The class of 2026 has had generative AI for their entire college career. What started as a novelty in 2022 has become second nature: surveys show >90% of undergrads now use AI for schoolwork, from drafting essays to summarizing readings.

For students, the motivation is pragmatic: AI saves time, reduces stress, and helps balance overwhelming academic and extracurricular demands. It’s less about “cheating” and more about survival in a system that prizes productivity and credentials. Professors, meanwhile, are scrambling—reverting to handwritten exams, shifting grading toward tests, or trying moral appeals. Yet many remain unaware of just how normalized AI has become on campus.

The result: higher ed has been fundamentally reshaped in just three years. Students expect project-based, real-world assignments that resist AI shortcuts. But with faculty stretched thin by budget cuts, research demands, and political headwinds, systemic redesign feels unlikely. For now, both students and professors face the same reality: a college education is what you make of it—AI included.

If you're wondering--yes, I used AI for the synopsis. Big question for me, is what does the future of education look like? How do kids get the skills they need to use AI, while still getting the skills they need to be skeptical of it?
by MangoCoffee | 2025-08-18 16:01:40+00:00
I've done a vibe coding hobby project where I simply give AI instructions on what I want, using a persona-based approach for the agent to generate or fix the code.

It worked out pretty well. Who knows how the software engineering landscape will change in 10 to 20 years?

I enjoyed Andrej Karpathy's talk about software in the era of AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
by drumhead | 2025-08-18 16:01:58+00:00
Pub and banks have been disappearing from communities rather rapidly over the last 20 - 30 years. With pubs its because fewer people are drinking and its cheaper to buy your drinks from a supermarket or an off-licence. Communities in London are also changing, the white working class have moved out to the suburbs or out of the city entirely, the newer communities either dont drink or dont have a pub going tradition. But there are no real community hubs that have taken over.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-18 16:02:02+00:00
I think this is being overly complimenting to AI. I think the most obvious reason is that for almost all business use cases its not very helpful. All these initiatives have the same problem. Staff asking 'how can this actually help me,' because they can't get it to help them other than polishing emails, polishing code, and writing summaries which is not what most people's jobs are. Then you have to proofread all of this because AI makes a lot of mistakes and poor assumptions, on top of hallucinations.

I dont think Joe and Jane worker are purposely not using to protect their jobs, everyone wants ease at work, its just these LLM-based AI's dont offer much outside of some use cases. AI is vastly over-hyped and now we're in the part of the hype cycle where people are more comfortable saying to power, "This thing you love and think will raise your stock price is actually pretty terrible for almost all the things you said it would help with."

AI has its place, but its not some kind of universal mind that will change everything and be applicable in significant and fundamentally changing ways outside of some narrow use cases.

I'm on week 3 of making a video game (something I've never done before) with Claude/Chat and once I got past the 'tutorial level' design, these tools really struggle. I think even where an LLM would naturally be successful (structured logical languages), its still very underwhelming. I think we're just seeing people push back on hype and feeling empowered to say "This weird text autogenerator isn't helping me."
by iib | 2025-08-18 16:02:04+00:00
I think those kind of glasses may be really useful for blind people. I have seen similar glasses targeted at blind people, that at least in theory, seemed to me like a good idea.

I recall the glasses also can write on the screen inside the lens, which makes me think they may be good for deaf people as well.

It's just that these use-cases seem uncool, and big companies seem to have to be cool in order to keep either their status or their profits. But I have a feeling the technology may be really useful for some really vulnerable people.