MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bbanyc | 2025-08-27 03:00:00+00:00
For all the complaints about our corpus being contaminated by AI slop, there's been plenty of human-generated slop being regurgitated over the years as well. Lazy textbook writers copy and paste from older books, lazy test makers quiz on arbitrary phrases from the textbooks, nobody ever does any fact checking to see if any of it makes sense.

My favorite example is the "tongue map" - decades of schoolchildren have been taught that different parts of the tongue are responsible for tasting sweetness and saltiness and so on. This is contrary to everyone's experience, and it turns out to have been a mistranslation of some random foreign journal article on taste buds, but it's stuck around in the primary school curriculum because it's easy to make it into a "fill in the map" activity. As long as the kids can regurgitate what they're told, who cares if anything they're learning is true?
by sbuttgereit | 2025-08-27 03:00:02+00:00
They've done so more than than this time, too. Granted, with a little less "Ship" than they left with on all occasions I know of.

No one (at least not me or anyone I take seriously) is arguing whether or not these suborbital profiles are designed to be safe even under adverse or full failure conditions; though the Caribbean air corridors might have been managed a bit more gracefully on some previous flights... still...

Nonetheless there is a valid criticism that in ten flights they still haven't mastered keeping the control surfaces of the space craft whole during the reentry phase of flight. 1500 miles isn't going to cut it as a safe return zone when they try bring this in for a catch. While I'm as impressed as anyone that they've hit the mark with compromised Ships as many times as they have, neither Port Isabel nor Titusville are 1500 miles from their nearest Ship catch towers and I wouldn't support any attempts for a catch until they can get the whole Ship back in good working order... reliably. While I'm a advocate for this program and SpaceX... I'm not such a fanboy that I can't see there are issues with this aspect of the program. This is ignoring the impact on rapid reusability and simply focusing on the basic safety of the program.
by slj | 2025-08-27 03:00:28+00:00
Similar boat. I think the FM iOS client is fine. It’s not a native app, it’s a bit sluggish occasionally, the interface has improved over the past 5 years but it’s still not up to the same scratch as Gmail or Apple Mail. I use FMail2 for macOS. It works fine too. Not polished, no, but it works fine.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-27 03:01:32+00:00
If the US did go all the way with 100% ownership, would that even be a bad thing? American companies would have access to cutting edge chips which would presumably be able to be sold near cost at least on the domestic vs export market. No where on earth would be able to offer as competitive a margin. Innovation in so many categories would be spurred and would happen stateside.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-27 03:02:15+00:00
Yes, I've heard this time and time again. It has nothing to do with the point I'm making. This is just stoking the flamewar.

If you want to compare Waymo and Tesla FSD from a technology standpoint and claim superiority of one over the other you can't use simple values like interventions per mile. It says very little. The solutions were designed for different purposes under different constraints. That's what engineers do. If Waymo was attempting to make consumer viable self driving vehicles they would have made very different decisions and likewise for Tesla if their only goal was taxi. That should be obvious to any technologist.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 03:03:05+00:00
I don't see any reason in principle why a $1B+ exit wouldn't be possible.

This YCW18 ag company was acquired less than 3 years in by John Deere for $250M: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/john-deere-buys-autonomous...
by 0xcafefood | 2025-08-27 03:03:07+00:00
> [P]eople that aren't interested in having children will 'go away' as the population declines, and we will reach a new stable population level?

I think this is exactly what we're seeing. This is evolution as a punctuated equilibrium. Nature's last trick "sex feels good (but also leads to babies)" is breaking down in effectiveness on people. Instead, it will be some innate desire to have children that will carry some subpopulation forward. Given the extremely strong selection pressure on (it affects the one life event most determinative of "evolutionary success") this could happen really quickly.
by godelski | 2025-08-27 03:03:13+00:00
I made an edit while you were replying. I think you should read it.

> To write about the Wow Signal, and not at least acknowledge this cultural history and context, would itself be bad journalism

I disagree. The speculation of extraterrestrial civilization origins has always been bad journalism. Since day 1. Spreading that more only perpetuates the myth. It has never been a good candidate for extra terrestrial communication.

> many people have proposed a terrestrial origin for the signal over the years because of its anomalous strength

While ignoring absolutely every other attribute about the signal that would make it a terrible way to communicate with alien civilizations.

I think you have a grave misunderstanding of what "most serious scientists" believe and don't believe. I love the X-Files. Great show. But it is also fiction. Unfortunately, so is a fair amount of science reporting. It's unfortunately that most people do not consider the facts interesting enough. But maybe that's because we've been telling too many stories and lying about what most scientists actually believe. There's always some crack job, but one scientist believing in something doesn't mean it is representative of the population.
by catlover76 | 2025-08-27 03:03:21+00:00
I vibe code all front-end features using Cursor.

On the backend, I still mostly code by hand, but I consider LLM tab-completion essential and a basic tool. When I use LLMs to generate code more extensively, I am usually pretty specific about what I ask the LLM, modify the code more, question it, etc.
by antonvs | 2025-08-27 03:04:08+00:00
Except, Altman almost certainly knows he’s bullshitting. It’s politics: you say what you think people will believe, to achieve some desired result.

The only connection it has to what Altman himself believes is what he believes will make his company, and by extension him, more money.

In this case, getting people to accept that it’s ok for AI to shape people’s perception of reality is very obviously in his interest.
by Tiberium | 2025-08-27 03:04:46+00:00
Found out from some Reddit discussions that the developers aim to first upstream everything for M1/M2 to the kernel, and as of https://asahilinux.org/2025/08/progress-report-6-16/:

> With Linux 6.16, we also hit a pretty cool milestone. In our first progress report, we mentioned that we were carrying over 1200 patches downstream. After doing a little housekeeping on our branch and upstreaming what we have so far, that number is now below 1000 for the first time in many years, meaning we have managed to upstream a little over 20% of our entire patch set in just under five months. If we discount the DCP and GPU/Rust patches from both figures, that proportion jumps to just under half!

So if the discussions are true, it can take years for the developers to finish M1/M2 upstreaming with all the Linux kernel bureaucracy. That is, unless they decide to start working on M3 before finishing the upstreaming
by anigbrowl | 2025-08-27 03:06:56+00:00
You're correct, but this policy is to enshrine a legal doctrine (rather than a statutory requirement) that harm must be allowed to occur - apparently without regard to the predictability or scope of the harm. It's like a trolley problem where one track has a large number of people about to be crushed by the trolley car, while the other track is completely empty - and SCOTUS arguing that the lever can't be pulled to divert the trolley because the accident hasn't happened yet.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-08-27 03:07:43+00:00
I'm a self taught programmer who got into open source ~20 years ago (when I was 20) and now I'm a software engineer at Google.

I've been on HN for a long time, though this is my newer account to keep myself more anonymous.

I've loved the curiosity here, along with the fact that you often see high quality comments bubble up to the top of any article.
by treetalker | 2025-08-27 03:08:59+00:00
The link is to SCOTUS's August 21, 2025 order on the application for stay in National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association (regarding the Trump administration's cutting of funding).

From page 17 of Justice Jackson's dissenting opinion (page 32 of the pdf) (footnotes omitted):

> In a broader sense, however, today’s ruling is of a piece with this Court’s recent tendencies. “[R]ight when the Judiciary should be hunkering down to do all it can to preserve the law’s constraints,” the Court opts instead to make vindicating the rule of law and preventing manifestly injurious Government action as difficult as possible. Id., at ___ (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 21). This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 03:09:01+00:00
>Americans may be proud of that, but that’s pure bullying.

It's slightly weird to me how foreigners seem to look on the Trump era as personifying the US to a greater degree than e.g. the Biden or Obama eras. Trump is not especially popular right now: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
by Jedd | 2025-08-27 03:10:30+00:00
Hmm - we're going to have to disagree about your confidence in the authorship of the book of John, because wikis from rational to pedia, and deeper tomes I've read on the subject, the consensus appears to be that 'we don't know'.

Clement - a religious (read indoctrinated and partisan) person born 120 years after Jesus was meant to have died, is neither 'close in time' nor relevant.

We have plenty of historical works from the actual time about other things where authors identified themselves, cited their sources, did not obfuscate their meanings, etc - so it's not like that skill was unknown. As you say, 'literature' is an apt word for these stories.

As to before / after 70 CE, I guess we'll have to move on from there also, as I don't have a horse in that race.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-27 03:10:46+00:00
No but technology improves. Breeder reactors can take the current fissile material (assuming estimates of the total fissile material are accurate, which isn’t necessarily accurate) and extend it by about 60x, meaning thousands of years or even closer to tens of thousands of years. And we don’t need it to last forever. Just long enough to get to fusion.
by protimewaster | 2025-08-27 03:11:18+00:00
This kind of thing drives me crazy, and I think it helps to highlight some of the money-grubbing nature of the tech industry.

Years ago, you'd buy a cheap thermostat and it'd last 30 years or whatever. But the tech industry had to improve that by instead making them last less than half as long and cost substantially more.

I understand the idea that smart stuff is cool or whatever, but it feels like it'd be smarter if it lasted as long as the thing they're trying to replace...
by h4ny | 2025-08-27 03:12:16+00:00
> I'm inclined to give them a pass. It's easy enough to figure out that it should be germanium and not gadolinium, and dyslexia already exists among scientists.

People make mistakes and you probably mean well but this is also the sort of pass given that makes scientific research and reporting terrible.

If it's "easy enough to figure out" then it's even more important to get it right -- why should we trust someone who can't even get the "easy" things right?

> ... and dyslexia already exists among scientists.

The article is pointing out a problem that appears to be fairly common, is that really a suitable explanation? Even if it is a suitable explanation, is that a reason for lowering standards, which you can then apply to explain away every mistake?

Keep in mind that proper publications should usually have been reviewed by at least 3 people including the authors (typically more) by the time everyone else gets to read it. So that kind of mistake isn't really acceptable.

> What I think is more dangerous to understanding is skipping formulas in favor of initials! BFO instead of BiFeO3, or BT instead of Bi2Te3, SRO for SrRuO3, LSFO for La0.3Sr0.7FeO3 abbreviations that I think obscure too much detail. You can more easily wander into talking about different things with the same terms. Such abbreviations are already endemic in condensed matter physics.

If you have been trained in scientific writing, you would always introduce an abbreviation. For example, "BiFeO3 (BFO)" and "SrRuO3 (SRO). It's also common to include a list of abbreviation in some forms of scientific writing.
by IgnaciusMonk | 2025-08-27 03:12:21+00:00
Writing SATA to NVME adapter is nonsensical endeavor. It is as writing RoCE to HTTPS adapter. Makes no sense at all. And im not even talking about voltages etc.

Any NVME disk can be connected even over PCIE3 x1 so there is plenty of capability on DESKTOP computers he is "managing".

And what is he writing and how is he writing it is unbelievable that he can not seem to understand what SAS expander is etc.
by drfawkes | 2025-08-27 03:12:59+00:00
I would consider getting a Neuralink, because I think better doctors would be available to help make it successful, and I’m getting to the age where I don’t think I’ll be able to contribute much more; maybe having a prosthesis would make more opportunities available, especially given that AI will probably take my job before I could retrain to another occupation that could make similar money. Maybe I’d get the opportunity to go to Mars one day.

I think you can support the technologies behind these companies and respect that someone on the spectrum may be struggling with trying to do what’s right for themselves and the people of Earth as a whole, but has just made a shitload of bad decisions. Many of us struggling with mental health of us can empathize, even if we fully and wholeheartedly disagree on many things.
by ZsoltT | 2025-08-27 03:13:09+00:00
A correct diagnosis in the context of autoimmune disease. Turned out my severe cognitive symptoms were unrelated to the (until then undiagnosed) autoimmune disease I do, turns out, have

GPT5 did the differentials for the complex mishmash of autoimmune symptoms, found the unrelated cause for the cognitive stuff. The cognitive symptoms do match autoimmune diseases too - lupus and MS - but it split them out and discovered a cause anyway

My neurologist ran tests reasoned out purely by GPT5, agreed they made sense. They were the right tests to do

It also interpreted my ~50 blood tests correctly. Oh also my contrast MRI images

Unrelatedly, it made a loved one's bipolar I a non-issue (yeah really). They live a perfectly ordinary life
by riehwvfbk | 2025-08-27 03:13:17+00:00
Teslas also tend to attract people who hate driving and are bad at it. Yes, this is anecdotal, but - several friends and acquaintances said something along the lines of "my Tesla is the best, self-driving helps so much, I hate driving and I can't wait for them to fully automate it".

I wonder if segregating bad drivers into a separate population affects those fatality statistics.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 03:13:38+00:00
Worth distinguishing between actively engaging in harmful behavior, and "failing to help". The Europeans have taken the US for granted for so long that when the US is only Ukraine's #1 donor country in absolute terms by far, their main response is to complain that even more help should be offered, and pretend the US is somehow hurting them.

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...

Keep in mind that Ukraine is literally on the opposite side of the world from us. What's Brazil doing for Ukraine? What's Australia doing?

As an American, I consistently argue that the US should not ally with Europe here on HN. But even I don't argue in favor of actively working to harm Europe. I just think we should cut Europe loose, because nothing we do for Europe will ever be enough, and Europe is a wealthy region that's plenty capable of providing for itself.

And before you say anything about tariffs (which are paid by US companies btw), read this article: https://archive.is/MxUAa See also https://archive.is/WQQ45
by Nursie | 2025-08-27 03:16:10+00:00
Yeah that seems a valid observation. If I had to use two words to sum up the Albo years so far I think it would probably be "a bit disappointing". Which is still a lot better than the LNP were promising.

But then I'm not in NSW and I must admit what I hear coming out of NSW is worrying - protest clampdowns, police effectively putting an end to a lot of festival culture by charging enormous amounts and illegally strip-searching teens. Minns seems like a right arsehole.

Cook's a right arsehole too, mind, but more in the "Sell everything out to the mining corps, environment be damned" way than the authoritarian way.
by starchild3001 | 2025-08-27 03:16:49+00:00
This feels like a real inflection point for image editing models. What stood out to me isn’t just the raw generative quality, but the consistency across edits and the ability to blend multiple references without falling apart. That’s something people have been hacking around with pipelines (Midjourney → Photoshop → Inpainting tool), but seeing it consolidated in one model/API makes workflows dramatically simpler.

That said, I think we’re still in the “GPT-3.5” phase of image editing: amazing compared to what came before, but still tripping over repeated patterns (keyboards, clocks, Go boards, hands) and sometimes refusing edits due to safety policies. The gap between hype demos and reproducible results is also very real; I’ve seen outputs veer from flawless to poor with just a tiny prompt tweak.
by Veserv | 2025-08-27 03:17:10+00:00
Well because Elon Musk keeps making it. In January 2023, on the official Tesla earnings call, he said that FSD was currently overwhelmingly superior at autonomous driving than everything else in existence:

"So who do we think is close to Tesla with -- a general solution for self-driving? And we still don't even know really who would even be a distant second. So yes, it really seems like we're -- I mean, right now, I don't think you could see a second place with a telescope, at least we can't." [1]

That is a literal, direct, backward-looking statement about current capabilities comparing it to all existing systems. A backward-looking statement that is clearly and objectively false given their present day inability to safely deploy driverless vehicles which Waymo already achieved in 2022, let alone quantitative disengagement metrics demonstrating a level of capability between 10-100x worse than Waymo contemporaneously in 2022 [2] and inferior even to Waymo in 2015 [3]. A false statement made willingly and knowingly in official investor communications to maintain their stock price.

[1] https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2023/01/26/te...

[2] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2023/02/17/2022-disen...

[3] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2018/02/01/disengagem...
by woodruffw | 2025-08-27 03:17:42+00:00
> (side note, aren't middle-eastern Muslims generally considered Semites as in descendants of Shem?)

Arabs and Jews are both Semitic (in the sense of speaking Semitic languages and having Levantine origins), but the word “antisemitism” refers specifically to Jew hatred. This is mostly a historical quirk of 19th century Germans trying to come up with a more scientific sounding phrase than Judenhass.

(Also, to be pedantic: there are non-Semitic middle-eastern Muslims, as well as semitic middle-eastern non-Muslims/Jews. It turns out that “semitic” itself isn’t a super useful category, which is why “antisemitism” should really be read as a single lexeme rather than “hatred of all semites”.)
by Terretta | 2025-08-27 03:18:07+00:00
> Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool

Sadly, this seems inaccurate. Appears to be Claude Code and GitHub PRs, but not Linear.

It should be Linear, since Linear does an extraordinary number of useful things beyond "issue list".

Since it seems to have nothing to do with Linear, I'm surprised the headline says it it's those three things, by trademarked brand name.

Speaking of tracking tasks:

> Tracking sucks. I use Apple Notes with bullet points to track tasks...

Claude Code seems very good at its own "org mode", using .md file outline and checklists to organize and track progress as well as keep an easy to leverage record.

It is also able to sync the outline level items with GitHub issues, then plan and maintain checklists under them as it works, including the checklist items in commits and PRs, and even help you commit that roadmap outline snapshot at the same time to have progress through time as diffs...
by ghurtado | 2025-08-27 03:18:56+00:00
> lands into a training dataset somewhere and starts deploying itself.

Leaving aside how incredibly vague this "mechanism" is, there is a very large list of infinitely unlikely coincidences that would have to take place for this to occur.

Consider how often human software, built in the same planet, by the same race, on the same hardware and using the same language, during the same time period, with most of the same tools, fails to be compatible.

Now take all those "same"s and change them to "different" and you tell me who's gonna file that Jira ticket.
by ckemere | 2025-08-27 03:19:55+00:00
I think that the negativity here is unfortunate. The reality is that it’s very hard to see a normal VC level return on the $100M+ Elon and friends have invested here. And don’t let anyone fool you - this is the fundamental reason the BCI field has moved slowly.

If Neuralink proceeds to a scenario where quadriplegic patients can get reliable (ie lifelong) control of their computers for less than $100k that will be a huge win for them for a cost that no one else was willing to pay.

To be clear, at that order of magnitude they might make back their investment, but it won’t be 10x or 100x, and the potential healthy-brain-connected-to-the-AI play is much less rooted in reality than Teslas all becoming taxis.

Worst case scenario is that Elon loses interest and pulls the plug and Mr Arbaugh loses continued tech support a la a google product. I think that’s the one question I wish the author had asked…
by 14 | 2025-08-27 03:20:00+00:00
I am sure it does cause concern to many. I mean how scary is it that you can run into someone seemingly healthy and next thing you know you are sick?

I know as a health care worker I actually think about things like this. MRSA is a good example. Most people don't react to exposure but some do. Those that do get long term infections that are hard to get rid of if ever. Most think of this as a hospital issue. But the reality is that there are literally thousands of people with MRSA all over the world and they are carriers of it and they do things like go to the bank machine and touch it, open the door at 7-11, pick up items at the store and then put them back on the shelf and so on and so on. MRSA is literally everywhere. Some people contact it and suffer problems others do not.