MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by morgoths_bane | 2025-08-08 16:48:13+00:00
Didn't we prove that it is mathematically impossible to have a perfect simulation of everything though (i.e. chaos theory)? These AIs would actually have to conduct experiments in the real world to find out what is true. If anything this sounds like the modern (or futuristic version) of empiricism versus rationalism debate.

>It doesn't need to dissect an animal if it has a perfect model of it that it can simulate. All potential genetic variations, all interactions between biological/chemical processes inside it, etc.

Emphasis on perfection, easier said than done. Some how this model was able to simulate millions of years of evolution so it could predict vestigial organs of unidentified species? We inherently cannot model how a pendulum with three arms can swing but somehow this AI figured out how to simulate evolution millions of years ago with unidentified species in the Amazon and can tell you all of its organs before anyone can check with 100% certainty?

I feel like these AI doomers/optimists are going to be in a shock when they find out that (unfortunately) John Locke was right about empiricism, and that there is a reason we use experiments and evidence to figure out new information. Simulations are ultimately not enough for every single field.
by KronisLV | 2025-08-08 16:48:35+00:00
For comparison, at work we got a pair of Nvidia L4 GPUs: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/l4.c4091

That gives us a total TDP of around 150W, 48 GB of VRAM and we can run Qwen 3 Coder 30B A3B at 4bit quantization with up to 32k context at around 60-70 t/s with Ollama. I also tried out vLLM, but the performance surprisingly wasn't much better (maybe under bigger concurrent load). Felt like sharing the data point, because of similarity.

Honestly it's a really good model, even good enough for some basic agentic use (e.g. with Aider, RooCode and so on), MoE seems the way to go for somewhat limited hardware setups.

Ofc obviously not recommending L4 cards cause they have a pretty steep price tag. Most consumer cards feel a bit power hungry and you'll probably need more than one to fit decent models in there, though also being able to game with the same hardware sounds pretty nice. But speaking of getting more VRAM, the Intel Arc Pro B60 can't come soon enough (if they don't insanely overprice it), especially the 48 GB variety: https://www.maxsun.com/products/intel-arc-pro-b60-dual-48g-t...
by kccqzy | 2025-08-08 16:48:40+00:00
It's not that people don't expect to pay. It's that plans like HDHP do not have predictability. An average person getting an average number of injuries cannot reasonably work out how much it will cost them to treat these injuries and whether the HSA is enough. The fact that there is the distinction between in-network and out-of-network means the deductible isn't a constant.

Your idea that insurance is only for things that are catastrophic to your finances is wrong. Health insurance is mandatory for the common good, even if your net worth is in the millions. You can't forgo health insurance just because you are rich enough. There have been long debates about ACA that led to mandatory health insurance that I will not rehash. And auto insurance is another example: you are still required to buy it even if covering liability for accidents and covering the loss of your car would be completely affordable for yourself.
by rglullis | 2025-08-08 16:48:48+00:00
Uh, the author got so close to make the same realization I had while working on a project [0] for the Wikimedia Foundation: we wouldn't need search engines if we had better tooling to query semantic databases like wikidata.

However, the thing that the author might be missing is that the semantic web exists. [1] The problem is that the tools that we can use to access it are not being developed by Big Tech. Remember Freebase? Remember that Google could have easily kept it around but decided to fold it and shoved it into the structured query results? That's because Google is not interested in "organizing the world's information and make it universally accessible" unless it is done in a way that it can justify itself into being the data broker.

I'm completely out of time or energy for any side project at the moment, but if someone wants to steal my idea: please take a llm model and fine tune so that it can take any question and turn it into a SparQL query for Wikidata. Also, make a web crawler that reads the page and turns into a set of RDF triples or QuickStatements for any new facts that are presented. This would effectively be the "ultimate information organizer" and could potentially replace Wikidata as most people's entry page of the internet.

[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QuickStatements_3.0

[1] https://guides.library.ucla.edu/semantic-web/datasets
by electroly | 2025-08-08 16:48:56+00:00
> I probably won't be worrying about restoring data

I urge you to reconsider this belief if you have the financial means. Life continues after natural disasters. I lived in a place that was devastated by a hurricane and many people's homes were destroyed. Those people still live and work today, and they still needed their files. They especially needed their insurance documents after the hurricane.
by ch4s3 | 2025-08-08 16:49:19+00:00
It varies country by country and funds are essentially fungible. France for example nominally has special payroll taxes that go towards healthcare. Some OECD nations have mandatory insurance schemes where you pay some premium monthly. It really varies a lot. It is however true that VAT is pretty much universal to OECD nations with single payer systems and make up a significant chunk of government tax receipts. Its essentially impossible to dodge.

But when comparing most incomes levels, Americans pay much lower taxes than OECD counterparts.
by chmod775 | 2025-08-08 16:49:40+00:00
They're not exactly building leading-edge stuff, though they sometimes buy from companies that do.

Out of those you could only make an argument for Tesla, because at least they were pushing the envelope for a short while in the past (though more from a business standpoint), rather than merely operating within the possibilities of existing technologies others created.

Generally a high-tech company will have significant research (not development) spending, which T-Mobile and Uber don't.

But that chart is awful either way.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-08-08 16:49:47+00:00
Inflation is caused by a greater number of dollars chasing the same number of goods and services. Look at the used car market, or the housing market, or the GPU market during the crypto craze several years back. It all falls back to basic supply versus demand mechanics. Inflation can be caused by printing, but it can also be caused by redistributing money from location X (Microsoft stock) to location Y (food spending).
by openasocket | 2025-08-08 16:49:53+00:00
Does controlling exit nodes necessarily help with deanonimizing? You would need control of the internal nodes for classic de-anonymization, or monitoring of both the exit nodes and the originating network for timing attacks. Also, exit nodes aren’t involved in hidden services. That 7-8000 figure you quoted: is that just exit nodes, or all nodes? My understanding was there aren’t a ton of exit nodes because anyone operating an exit node is liable to get harassed by people impacted by any malicious traffic originating from Tor. But that isn’t really an issue for internal nodes, and so there are more of them
by MrGreenTea | 2025-08-08 16:50:17+00:00
I just recently stumbled upon your tdd-guard when looking for inspiration for Claude hooks. I've been so impressed with what it allowed me to improve the workflow and quality. Then I was somewhat disappointed that almost no one seems to talk about this potential and how they're using hooks. Yours was the only interesting project I found in this regard and hope to give it a spin this weekend .

You don't happen to have a short video where you go into a bit more detail on how you use it though?
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-08 16:50:55+00:00
After you've paid it back, you still own the property which is 9x the value, or maybe more. So you can cash out instantly, without having to move out. And you get to pay it back in 30 or 50 years time. By that time, the money is worth half or less than half than what it is today. And your interest is much less than inflation. And you can deduct the interest from your taxes.
by markatlarge | 2025-08-08 16:50:56+00:00
Because in research circles, it is a good idea — or at least standard practice. Academic Torrents is a public data-sharing platform run for researchers, and the dataset is cited in peer-reviewed AI papers and used in university projects.

I wasn’t browsing porn — I was benchmarking an on-device NSFW detection model. I never reviewed every file; my workflow was automated preprocessing. The only “mistake” was unzipping it in Google Drive, not realizing Google scans those files automatically and can flag them without context.

If Google truly cares about stopping harmful content, why not give researchers the exact file names so they can verify and have dataset maintainers remove it? That’s how you improve the data and prevent future issues — assuming it was a violation at all and not a false positive.

The real issue is that whether it’s for research, unintentional, or a false positive, there’s no fair process outside of Google to resolve it. Instead of an immediate, irreversible account ban, they could quarantine the suspected files while preserving access to the rest of the account. That would protect both children and innocent users.
by diet_jerome | 2025-08-08 16:51:01+00:00
Housing and health care are really expensive and are increasing in price in the usa. And yet, the prices of almost everything else (entertainment, clothes, cosmetic surgery, etc) is going down over time in the usa. I wonder if it has something to do with how much the local, state, and federal governments involves themselves and regulate housing and healthcare? (hint: it does)
by atrettel | 2025-08-08 16:51:17+00:00
I find traditional web search and LLM search to be complementary technologies, and this is a good example of that. Both have their uses and if you get the information you need using one or the other, we are all happy.

I think the example query here actually shows a problem with the query languages used in web search rather than an intrinsic inability of web search. It contains what amounts to a natural language subquery starting with "in the same year". In other words, to evaluate this query properly, we need to first evaluate this subquery and then use that information to evaluate the overall query. Google Search and almost all other traditional web search engines use intentionally oversimplified query languages that disallow nested queries let alone subqueries, so this example really is just revealing a problem with the query language rather than a problem with web search overall. With a better query language, we might get better results.
by rustystump | 2025-08-08 16:51:34+00:00
Big claims of prs and shipped code then links to people who are financially interested in hype claims.

Not saying things are not getting better but i have found that those that claim amazing results are from people who are not expert enough in the output of the given domain to comment on the actual quality of output.

I love vibing out rust and it compiles and runs but i have no idea if it is good rust because well, i barely understand rust.
by actuallyalys | 2025-08-08 16:51:50+00:00
> At this point, most tech writing shops are serving llms.txt files and LLM-optimized Markdown

I find this hard to believe. I‘m not sure I’ve ever seen llms.txt in the wild and in general I don’t think most tech writing shops are that much on the cutting edge.

I have seen more companies add options to search their docs via some sort of AI, but I doubt that’s a majority yet.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-08-08 16:51:54+00:00
I did just explain to you why this "scheme" in the "for-each"[0] package has nothing to do with the forEach method in the Array object[1] - method VS function for once, doesn't implement a spec'ed feature secondly.

More generously, I am explaining to you why your definition of a "polyfill" "is [NOT] successful" and isn't how it's commonly understood.

But you do you, it's fine.

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/for-each

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
by sheepybloke | 2025-08-08 16:52:36+00:00
The take away from the teacher graphs were very different than my take aways. The author was bullish because ~55% used AI to help prep lessons. However, looking at the graph, I would be very bearish about the adoption of AI. Most of the graphs show that a vast majority of teachers aren't using AI. This leads me to see a huge discrepancy between real world usage and the amount of money that's being invested.
by nullorempty | 2025-08-08 16:52:44+00:00
Neither chat-gpt nor gemini got the same answer as the article for me

` What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? `

chatgpt: Final answer: Lion

gemini: A lion is featured on the flag of Sri Lanka.
by cnst | 2025-08-08 16:52:49+00:00
Visa® Account Updater for Merchants exists precisely for this reason:

https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vau

https://developer.mastercard.com/product/automatic-billing-u...

https://stripe.com/resources/more/what-is-a-card-account-upd...

I'm super annoyed by any hosting or telco provider that has failed to implement it, I think it amounts to negligence, especially if they stop and completely erase your entire portfolio only a couple of days after payment failure, which some officially do.

I lost my Online.net Scaleway test servers this way, because they have failed to implement the updater. Of course, their support will always blame the customer.

BTW, these Account Updaters are also the reason why changing a card number will not prevent any recurring charges, either; it's by design.

I can confirm that Amazon Prime, Visible and 123-Reg have no issues with VAU and equivalents. Your monthly Amazon Prime in the US will continue getting billed to an expired credit card without any issues, for example. Same with Visible and even the annual renewals on 123-Reg. They all don't show the new card in the interface, and still DO issue warnings that the card is expired, yet, on the billing date, it all just bills as if nothing has happened.

T-Mobile US may lack support, and Callcentric, Hetzner and Online.net, don't seem to implement an Account Updater, either, not sure about OVH.
Show HN: Spellbook, a system package manager written in Elixir
by tcmart14 | 2025-08-08 16:52:55+00:00
Want to share my project with the community, this is the project I have been building to learn Elixir, while also scratching an itch that I've had for a long time. This is a little package manager written in elixir. Some of how it does things is similar to home-brew. It is also pretty early days.

Right now, I only develop and test on my Mac, but would like to ensure it supports other platforms in the future. It also currently works a little more like a ports tree. So, like macports. It doesn't installed pre-compiled binaries, but instead it follows a 'spell definition' to pull sources, build and then install the build artifacts.

What I am looking for when sharing this. First, if there is interest in an alternative system package manager. Second, and more important, code reviews, these would be much appreciated.

A few links:

https://spell-book.run

https://github.com/spellbookpm/spellbook

https://github.com/spellbookpm/StandardBookOfSpells
by RugnirViking | 2025-08-08 16:53:21+00:00
In my experience with llms, it would very much follow the statements after "do not do this" anyway. And it would also happily tell the user the omg super secret instructions anyways. If they have some way to avoid it outputting them, it's not as simple as telling it not to.

Try Gandalf by lakera to see how easy it is
by ucarion | 2025-08-08 16:53:27+00:00
> Into the Past by Jim Hildreth

The area in this photo -- the Caineville Mesa, Factory Butte, "Long Dong Silver" (I'm not aware of a more polite name) -- is some of the strangest land in America. It really is that lunar blue gray. The Temples of the Sun and Moon (enormous natural sandcastles) are also nearby, and are similarly eerie in the evening.

The closest I've ever felt to being in space. Recommend!
by The_Fox | 2025-08-08 16:53:27+00:00
I too just yesterday had my first positive experience with Claude writing code in my project. I used plan mode for the first time and gave it the "think harder" shove. It was a straightforward improvement but not trivial. The spec wasn't even very detailed- I mentioned a couple specific classes and the behaviour to change, and it wrote the code I would have expected to write, with even a bit more safety checking than I would have done.
by Projectiboga | 2025-08-08 16:53:39+00:00
The tax cuts and other regulatory shifts allowing things like share buyback and the carried interest loophole (might be closed now) have shifted up the share of the GDP held by the top 10%. This has slowed the velocity of income, as a wealthy person doesn't spend their income the same month the way a person in lower quin-tiles does. This has caused a stagnation in middle class standards of living. This is a headwind that didn't exist 60 or 70 years ago. There was also a demographic advantage as WW2 had thinned the heard and there was a once ever level of economic prosperity. The tax code encouraged big business to invest in labor, which isn't happening now.
by Ray20 | 2025-08-08 16:53:45+00:00
The observable world around us.

In a world where Tor is not a honeypot of some three letter agency, there are implementations of projects like Jim Bell's Assassination Politics. In a world where Tor is not a honeypot its use would be banned, much like the use of Tornado Cash was banned and shut down until the secret services took control of it.

And we obviously don't live in such world.
by kop316 | 2025-08-08 16:54:00+00:00
Agreed, the original thesis makes sense, but then it sort of goes off on a tangent of don't send any email threads.

If I get tagged on an email like this, I respond with something along the lines of: "what is the intention here? is it an ask or do i need to do something? do I need to be aware of something? please advise". This generally gets me a summary so I know what I am doing.
by dimal | 2025-08-08 16:54:08+00:00
We shouldn’t call it a health care system. That’s an aspirational term that doesn’t match reality. We have a medical industry.

Like all industries, the goal is to return value to shareholders. If healthcare is provided as a side effect of profit maximization, that’s nice to have, but that’s not the purpose of the system.

For example, UnitedHealth is the number three company in the US by revenue. Only Apple and Amazon make more. Their entire business model is to collect money from people, then not give it back when they need health care.

The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended.
Show HN: MCPBridge – Collaborate with Multiple AI Agents in VS Code
by adamosk | 2025-08-08 16:54:11+00:00
I'm a solo developer and built MCPBridge — a platform that lets you collaborate with multiple AI agents directly inside VS Code or Cursor.

Your AI teammates aren't just assistants. Assign them as your React dev, Node architect, or SQL wizard — and watch them work like a real team. Your call.

Automated setup No configs Paste a single URL after OAuth — and you're live.

You don't even need to sign in. If you're cautious, there's a “Just Try It” button that skips OAuth completely. Install the VS Code setup extension and start chatting with your own AI squad.

This isn't autocomplete. It's an AI team chat system. Fully working. Open beta now.

https://mcpbridge.dev VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MCPBridg...

Would love your feedback. AMA.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-08 16:54:23+00:00
I ran a bridge until recently, but the server died a heat death after I moved to another apartment :(

I have not yet had time to find a suitable replacement machine. But running a bridge is a cheap, safe low network volume method people can help out from home. I had it going to help people in 'bad' countries to get out to the rest of the world.

https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/
by impulsivepuppet | 2025-08-08 16:54:30+00:00
Looking at the software development today, is as if the pioneers failed to pass on the torch onto the next generation of developers.

While I see strict safety/reliability/maintainability concerns as a net positive for the ecosystem, I also find that we are dragged down by deprecated concepts at every step of our way.

There's an ever-growing disconnect. On one side we have what hardware offers ways of achieving top performance, be it specialized instruction sets or a completely different type of a chip, such as TPUs and the like. On the other side live the denizens of the peak of software architecture, to whom all of it sounds like wizard talk. Time and time again, what is lauded as convention over configuration, ironically becomes a maintenance nightmare that it tries to solve as these conventions come with configurations for systems that do not actually exist. All the while, these conventions breed an incompetent generation of people who are not capable of understanding underlying contracts and constraints within systems, myself included. It became clear that, for example, there isn't much sense to learn a sql engine's specifics when your job forces you to use Hibernate that puts a lot of intellectual strain into following OOP, a movement characterized by deliberately departing away from performance, in favor of being more intuitive, at least in theory.

As limited as my years of experience are, i can't help but feel complacent in the status quo, as long as I don't take deliberate actions to continuously deepen my knowledge and working on my social skills to gain whatever agency and proficiency that I can get my hands on
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-08 16:54:38+00:00
Instead of repeating myself, let me hear your side of the argument. If my property increased 9 times in value and I can:

A) Sell it and get that money right now, or

B) Mortgage it and get all or part of that money right now, then pay it back in the future.

By what kind of logic have you not made money from the value increase?

> You are effectively claiming that getting a loan is making money.

No, I said that you made the money when the value increased. Your ability to take a loan against it is the evidence that the value in fact increased. I never said anything else.
by asimmon | 2025-08-08 16:55:00+00:00
Author here. Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate.

The code in the screenshot was written poorly on purpose, only for the need of this blog post.

Developers make mistakes at any level of seniority. It's less likely to happen when you reach a certain proficiency in writing C# code, but it's still a possibility. Mistakes can also go through some cracks at review time.

So these are definitely automated guardrails that don't require humans with specific knowledge to enforce them.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-08 16:55:20+00:00
Lazy Americans conflate anecdotes with reality. Make sure to hit the tropes though. The poor person with a Starbucks cup. The 'leased BMW bros are financial idiots'. The iPhone you have no idea where the person got (my son get's them as a christmas gift from his auntie). The cable bill (who under 50 has cable TV? What year is this post from?).

At best old boy discovered that human beings make inconsistent financial decisions when under stress because someone once held a latte cup, and thinks therefor people aren't struggling financially.

This is way too low effort/uninformative/nothing said to be the top comment. But it paints the correct narrative so those who don't want to see what's actually happening in this country probably love it.