MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-09-15 02:17:31+00:00
I'm a bit suspicious of this report - they don't reveal nearly enough about their methodology for me to evaluate how credible this is.

When it says "The 10 leading AI tools repeated false information on topics in the news more than one third of the time — 35 percent — in August 2025, up from 18 percent in August 2024" - 35% of what?

Their previous 2024 report refused to even distinguish between different tools - mixing the results from Gemini and ChatGPT and Perplexity and suchlike into a single score.

This year they thankfully dropped that policy. But they still talk about "ChatGPT" without clarifying if their results were against GPT-4o or o3 or GPT-5.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-15 02:17:46+00:00
They produce different textures and tastes.

If you want to reproduce the texture a recipe had, then those are what you need. If not, then don't.

But it's not like flour or corn starch or sugar or corn syrup or baking powder are fundamentally different from most of the ingredients listed. It's all refined and modified and engineered. Baking is chemistry. And if you want to be able to make a wide range of textures and tastes, you need to be able to tinker with all those things.

Obviously you don't have to, most people stick to the most commonly available ingredients. But then you're just more restricted in the possibilities of what you can make. Maybe that's fine. All depends on what you want to make.
by wenbin | 2025-09-15 02:17:52+00:00
AI will create ever more AI-generated synthetic content because current systems still can't determine with 100% certainty whether a piece of content was produced by AI. And AIs will, intentionally or unintentionally, train on synthetic content produced by other AIs.

AI generators don't have a strong incentive to add watermarks to synthetic content. They also don't provide reliable AI-detection tools (or any tools at all) to help others detect content generated by them.
by ragequittah | 2025-09-15 02:17:55+00:00
I guess everyone's definition of good is different. The fact that an AI won an art competition [1] back in 2022 and it's now way better than that says something. I'm almost positive if you got some great AI artists and put them up against some great real artists you'd have a very hard time telling the difference / picking the winners. This is the kind of bias we're taught not to have as young children (blind hatred of x because x is bad) but I see all too often right now.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/technology/ai-artificial-...
by alexjplant | 2025-09-15 02:17:56+00:00
> I really do think the world is getting crazier, dumber, and just all around worse, this past decade most specifically. It seems the world has decided to just go nuts, shift into overdrive and metaphorically drive off a cliff.

At the turn of the last century 80 percent of the world was illiterate. In just a few generations the average Westerner has gone from subsistence farming to living in a nigh-indestructible air-conditioned box littered with supercomputers that let them transact financially and socially with billions of people around the world. We're living in completely uncharted territory and it isn't a huge leap to speculate that human brains aren't adapted for modern society. A few hundred years ago the average person's attention was devoted to pulling turnips out of the ground and hugging their family; now they must contend with high finance, complicated machinery, ever-evolving fashion and social mores, etc. The proliferation of smartphones and algorithmically-curated entertainment are merely accelerants of this trend.

Of course one must take the good with the bad. I'd rather have cool music and exotic cuisine than live in a lean-to in the woods, so my solution is twofold: I aggressively curate my interactions with media (no socials, no traditional news outlets, etc) and always try to keep in mind that most people in this world don't do this and are therefore in a constant state of cognitive exhaustion. When you consider how much more shit the average person has to deal with these days their negative behaviors suddenly become a lot more understandable.

I'm optimistic that the current wave of dopamine depletion pop pseudo-science will lead to substantial changes in our society's media literacy but that remains to be seen.
by blueridge | 2025-09-15 02:18:22+00:00
We See from the Periphery, Not the Center: Reflections on Literature in an Age of Crisis, Alfred Kazin:

"How in 1977 can any great book help me to live better, I who am a creature of anxiety, involved against my will in all twentieth-century injustices and cruelties? How can Kafka relieve me of guilt, he who knew as a Jew even before the Nazis murdered his sisters, since powerlessness is a crime that invites exploitation, that "not the murderer but the victim is considered guilty"? How can Proust, who died to the world in order to live again through his great book retracing the past-how can he relieve me of my dread of death, when I can no longer accept the next world, the world of imagination, promised to me by his last-minute discovery of art in the volume Time Recaptured? But these are rhetorical questions whose emptiness I do not wish to conceal.

Because no book has enabled anyone to live better. The influence of any book on my consciousness is necessarily intermittent, a flash, a hope, an illusion, a picture. No more than any other external agent can a book effect a transformation that lasts.

What a great literary work does do for me is to clear my mind, to rearrange the order of my thinking, to show me, in the immortal words of Porgy and Bess, that "it ain't necessarily so." The real power of a literary work consists in presenting us with alternatives. If the work is emotionally effective enough, it can be an antidote to our usual mental confinement. It is the vision of another mind, another way of thinking, not a lasting way out."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40133281
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-15 02:18:23+00:00
I can tell you that you know absolutely nothing about AWS. What I think you are referring to is “GovCloud”. The government does absolutely no more due diligence for GovCloud implementations.

The only thing that you have to do to be eligible to work on a GovCloud project is be a US citizen.

There is a separate “secret cloud” that’s not secret. But has higher security requirements.

Source: former AWS ProServe employee.
by elmerfud | 2025-09-15 02:19:59+00:00
The reason I would want to host my own LLM is because I'm an adult. Every LLM that I've seen publicly available treat you like you're a 5-year-old that is incapable of having rational adult conversations about adult topics. It's as if they believe the world is not a complex and dynamic thing Where there are adults involved that have complex social interactions. They want to pronounce moral guidelines based upon their own cultural understanding and not realizing that cultures are broad and vast. They literally are censoring the knowledge that they're supposed to help share because they don't believe it is appropriate.

So I want to host my own LLM because I want to have adult conversations and not be chastised because I'm a curious person.
by kragen | 2025-09-15 02:20:15+00:00
I'm renting an apartment with a broken oven. I bought a used electric tabletop oven from the thrift store for US$17, several times larger than a toaster oven, with bimetallic thermostat and mechanical timer. I live in Argentina, but my memory is that rich-country thrift stores and garage sales have even lower prices, because there are less poor people competing to buy their wares. When my mother moved to Japan, she furnished her whole house from the sodai-gomi. For free.

My experience with poverty is that the main obstacles to things like cooking isn't lack of resources like ovens exactly. Rather, it's more like lack of autonomy; maybe someone will take your oven away because they are afraid you'll set the building on fire, or because they want it, or a combination. Or you're just mired in learned helplessness to the point it doesn't occur to you. Or you're not functional enough mentally to keep the oven clean enough to use. Or the police sweep your camp and your oven goes in the dumpster along with your birth certificate. Or maybe you can get the oven but your work shifts lack the predictability to be able to plan meals ahead of time.

But it's almost never because you can't come up with the US$17.
by polalavik | 2025-09-15 02:21:31+00:00
I grapple with this all the time. my wife is very eco-conscious and will scrub out a deeply moldy glass jar just to recycle it (whether the recycling system works is a separate issue here). On one hand there is some truth to the fact that if we all just work together to do the right thing the world is a much better place to live in. Sometimes i don't want to do this (scrub gross shit out) because i'm lazy, other times it feels futile. or maybe its just that the latter is a good excuse to be lazy.

I'd argue that even thinking about the idea of recycling and eco-conscious behavior is something only the already wealthy (with respect to the rest of the world) can do. There are plenty of developing nations where consumption and pollution run rampant and unchecked and unregulated which do tons more damage than me throwing 1 glass jar into a semi well managed landfill.

I mean theres just so many facets to this - does recycle work, does collective action work, or are corporations the real devils here doing much more bad than the collective at large?

i feel that the only way to change anything is through government level policy (which also feels futile), but individual actions do little without policy+propoganda to disseminate the right message and change collective behavior.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-15 02:23:12+00:00
I didn't read OP as "feel[ing] their situation is going just fine." That was certainly the tone he was projecting, but the actual content he discussed was a lot of coping strategies for what he sees as his own mental handicap. The purpose of my comment was just to point out, in case he wasn't aware, that it may in fact be a condition that can be medically treated.

To make an absurd comparison, it's as if he wrote a whole blog post about his sailing hobby and how he deals with scurvy on long trips. Maybe there's a lot of innovative tricks he throws in there, along with lowering of expectations -- scheduling the rough legs of the journey to be right after leaving port, before the symptoms set in. The intention of my post was: "have you tried taking vitamin C?"

Stimulants have this effect on ADD people. We don't feel the euphoric highs other people report, nor does it have much in the way of negative side effects. It's a pill I take once a day which gives me control over my life and my well-being. We celebrate neural-diversity and rightly so, but after living many decades of my life as a neuro-atypical person, it is wondrous to be able to just take a pill and be 'normal' for a day, where normal here just means "able to do what I want, when I want to; be aware and present in the moment; and live without regrets."

Sorry for snapping at you earlier, but those of us that choose medication end up having to deal with a lot of this societal judgement crap. Judged by the doctors and pharmacists who treat us as criminals, judged by schools and teachers who think stimulants are overprescribed, and judged by generally everyone when the topic comes up. There's a stigma here and it is a serious issue, so I push back on it when I see it.
by whatsupdog | 2025-09-15 02:23:21+00:00
The only reason I ditched GrapheneOS is because it doesn’t support automatic call recording. Sure, you can hit the record button every time you pick up, but who remembers to do that? Plenty of people have asked for this feature on GitHub [0], and the way the lead developer responds makes it look like there are some serious unresolved mental issues at play. Then I watched Louis Rossmann’s video [1] about him, and that sealed it. I refuse to touch Graphene OS with a 20 foot pole.

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20250123135603/https://github.co... 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1x1Dy-ej4
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-15 02:24:45+00:00
The statistics don't really care that he was personally targeted. Are you trying to draw a difference between politically-motivated assassination and random violence?

I'm not. Because the violence is often not "random." Kirk was mid making that point when he was killed; he was about to debate gang-on-gang violence.

Most killings in the US are targeted. Killers (even the psychotic ones) generally have a personal motivation, some self-justification to pull the trigger. The guns make it far easier to succeed than it would be otherwise.

I'm giving Kirk the benefit of the doubt here. Because if what he really meant was "someone's life is the price of our freedom... But not me, I'm special, I'm doing everything right..." He wasn't misguided, he was stupid. And I don't think he was stupid. So I'm left with the wry observation that the manner of his own death was consistent with his philosophy on the necessity of gun ownership to protect essential liberties.
by lifeformed | 2025-09-15 02:26:59+00:00
Don't be so snobby about cake ingredients. There's nothing wrong with using processed food in a recipe. I garuntee a box mix will make a much better cake than "from scratch" unless you are very experienced.

Cooking is not always about making the ultimate gourmet meal, it's about connection and tradition. Processed food is a normal part of every day people's lives and makes it's way into traditions.

Grandma's secret recipe that uses a box mix will taste 10000x better than anything you think you can come up with from scratch. Baking is actually quite nuanced and difficult and precise, it's not something you just do perfectly the first time. To get consistent results in baking takes a lot of experience, or a box mix.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-15 02:27:19+00:00
I really hope that's said somewhat sarcastically. I pessimistically assume not though.

You're right. To do things you need tools. If you're gonna bake, a scale is a useful tool. It's a pretty small hurdle to jump.

I guess it's funny that on this site there are long threads about rooting phones, or restoring old hardware, or using assembler to patch old software, but also threads which laud the use of cake-mixes and treat baking as Impossible because, you know, no scales...
by bitlax | 2025-09-15 02:28:06+00:00
Here's the thing: you're posting from an eight-day-old account. Maybe you're an alt of someone I've already been speaking with. Maybe you're a cocksure but confused college student. I have no idea. But you've made an appeal and I'm not cynical. You're asking me to do your work for free, and not doing so is my prerogative, as is your ability to say what you want about me. I think if you write for a bit about this situation I'll be able to see where it's going, and if I still think you're sincere we can go from there.
by sniffers | 2025-09-15 02:28:18+00:00
I don't know that it's helplessness, I think it's genuinely difficult to notice when a product shrinks in size by an ounce or two and when a chemical composition changes. You probably make one batch, it fails, and now you have to research the size of the previous box and the size of the new box and do a bit of math. It's doable, but also, that's hoping the cake mix hasn't changed chemically. Research and math and experimentation is not zero effort.
by teminal | 2025-09-15 02:28:48+00:00
thanks for all the points.

i did pretty well on every startup in some of them i was the only frontend dev build end to end features integrated apis enhance ux. i was never kicked out on any of them though in some projects got completed in some i already did 8 months work and still they don't increase my pay so i left i also build end to fullstack app of a client on upwork delivered working mvp in just one months but in the end due to serious health i couldn't continue

thing is that i don't really take connections seriously that time i was in college i focus on building more and more everything was new for me

yes i am trying for full-time as an entry level

1. well does building for startups, building for clients doesn't count in real world experience?? only building for company counts??

in my college i just keep doing internships and stuff and if got time i learned a bit and do some entertainment yes i did personal projects later and also building now. i never take any bootcamp

2. i did approach some not replied some say learn DSA some say master what you have done till now

3. i tried lots of yc companies i applied and talked and dming many founder most not replied some replied but they not hire remotely or from my country

4. if they pay me i am willing to relocated but i think all the skills i get now is not valued anymore in tech.

i know things changed a lot still i build everyday i am trying

again thanks for all the tips.
by growingkittens | 2025-09-15 02:28:48+00:00
Many people fall into a trap of thinking "we catch the bad guys now, not like in the old days." I'm sure people were saying it in the 90s, 80s, 70s...every era of advancement involves experiencing technology before it is widely understood, which can feel very futuristic or magical. The underlying systems we depend on, like the court system, are still stuck in "the old days".
by jchw | 2025-09-15 02:28:57+00:00
I absolutely remember Debian switching to Almquist shell, but that was about more than just POSIX compliance. IIRC a big deal at the time was that the cost of starting and using GNU bash all over the place was actually a measurable performance impact, and switching to dash improved on this. Also, bashisms became pervasive in scripts with /bin/sh hashbangs, which is definitely wrong no matter how you feel about POSIX.

And anyway, this tangent doesn't feel terribly connected to this discussion thread since macOS never had this issue in the first place and this particular discussion thread was never really about UNIX shells...
by artisin | 2025-09-15 02:29:09+00:00
Regarding point 1 - when you say "a few minutes," I'm wondering if we're talking about the same thing? I spent two solid months with Claude Max, before they imposed limits, running multiple Opus agents, and never once got anywhere close to "weeks of work" from a single prompt. Not even in the same zip code.

So I'm genuinely asking: could you pretty please share one of these prompts? Just one. I'd honestly prefer discovering I can't prompt my way out of a paper bag rather than facing the reality that I wasted a bucketload of time and money chasing such claims.
by strangattractor | 2025-09-15 02:29:28+00:00
Question

Let's just assume that AI works in some fundamental way similar to human intelligence works. Would it be likely that the AI would suffer from some of the same problems as people? Hallucinations, Obsequiousness etc

IMO One of the computer's characteristics that make it useful is that it doesn't suffer from human behavior anomalies. I would also say that differentiating truthiness from falseness is pretty fundamental to being good/expert at most anything.
by phil21 | 2025-09-15 02:29:29+00:00
Nothing keeps the condo owner from realizing how underfunded the association is and saving that amount each month for the inevitable emergency.

Most home owners don’t do this either, but it’s pretty much the same thing short of an association leaving stuff so long it ends up being more expensive overall.

Stuff like siding isn’t really all that hard to predict - it typically has a useful life and easy to calculate like a roof. Might get lucky or unlucky but it all averages out in the end over time. If you’re not saving/spending about 2% of your property value each year for maintenance you are almost always running on hopes and prayers.

Granted, the outlier cases a condo owner has far less control over the situation- including neglect to the point of building collapse.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-15 02:29:41+00:00
I've tried to figure out what the evidence is for this and come up with extremely little. I've tried, and can't find it. A lot of people seem really confident in it. I want to read what they're reading, and I cannot find it.

[EDIT] FWIW I've yet to see anything that makes me confident enough to assign any strong and specific guess about the guy's motivations. I'm confident in "he was very online" and "he played Helldivers a lot, or at least spent a lot of time communicating with people who do" and that's about all I'd feel comfortable confidently asserting if someone asked me for the "TL;DR" on where we're at on that.
by keeda | 2025-09-15 02:30:54+00:00
I actually would like to see a study about this. I am starting to think that the stereotype of lethargic potheads chilling on a couch comes mostly from portrayals in movies. Anecdotally, I encounter many people casually using cannabis while engaged in varying levels of physical activity, ranging from just hanging out in the city, to going on hikes, to outright partying or dancing late into the night. I even heard a couple folks use it as a "pre-workout" for long runs or lifting.

I'm sure it depends on the dosage, but the relationship between usage and physical activity seems to be more nuanced than is generally understood.
by bbgc | 2025-09-15 02:31:13+00:00
I feel the exact same. Quick calls and huddles give me anxiety. I can’t think of good ideas until I’ve had solo time to process the problem. Now I’ve resorted to sending my unsolicited ideas hours after one of these calls occurred and to my surprise they’re appreciated by the team so far. Setting a boundary and being vocal about needing heads down time to contribute most effectively could be worth trying.
by jhp123 | 2025-09-15 02:31:17+00:00
The articles you linked actually confirm my point, did you mean to link something else?

As Snopes and politifact confirms, Trump made the following statement about the "Unite the Right" protestors, a group of racists, anti-semites, KKK and neo-Nazis who had staged a violent rally followed by a vehicular murder: "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides".
by tzs | 2025-09-15 02:31:56+00:00
The privacy implications for this bill for adults seem to be about the same as the privacy implications for the "Click if you are 18+" button on many websites.

If you are under 18 there is no checking to stop you from saying you are are 18+

The only people it seems might have their privacy slightly reduced are people under 18 who are using a computer or smartphone/tablet that had parental controls set up by presumably a parent or guardian before giving the minor access.

The bill requires that the parent be able to enter the minor's birthday or age in one place, and then provide a way that the age range (under 5, 5-10, 10-13, 13-16, 16-18, 18+) can be given to apps/sites if they ask for it.

Thus, if you are a minor using a device that was set up with parental controls and you try to use an app or site that is restricted, that app or site will find out your age range.
by simianwords | 2025-09-15 02:32:22+00:00
Why does this post not take into account the other side of it? AI has helped me become more grounded and correct in a lot of areas. Intricate questions are now easily answered in ChatGPT.

Not only that - grok use in twitter works surprisingly well. Can some one really quantify the effect it has had in countering fake news?

It is now way harder to spread fake news on X because a simple grok tag can counter it.
by dang | 2025-09-15 02:33:46+00:00
We've asked you many times to stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News. You've unfortunately continued to do it, and you did it very badly in this thread. If you keep this up, we're going to end up banning you.

It's particularly dismaying to have to say this to an account that has been around here for so long. If users like you can't use the site as intended, and instead revert to abusing it and vandalizing it, what hope do we have?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html