MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vunderba | 2025-09-01 17:53:44+00:00
From the article:

> For context, I have zero knowledge of Swift, no coding experience whatsoever, and don’t even know how to use Xcode

Given their lack of expertise I can almost guarantee that they're just referring to the act of uploading an associated knowledge base (collection of files) as part of the act of creating a custom GPT [1].

I suppose they could also try using the GPT Actions which lets you connect external data sources (so something like the equivalent of the Context7 MCP) but it's doubtful given their experience.

- [1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8554397-creating-a-gpt
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-01 17:54:29+00:00
In addition to what we see in the article, we've started to see the enshittification with monthly subscriptions to unlock more power or heated seats. The more this happens, the less likely I am to buy a car. A car is not freedom. It's a requirement, a loan, a monthly payment, an unexpected repair bill waiting to happen, and increasingly, a subscription fee.
by jrmann100 | 2025-09-01 17:54:30+00:00
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by const_cast | 2025-09-01 17:54:32+00:00
> You can in fact replace the battery with a non-Apple battery without issue.

No you can't. The apple batteries have a chip in them with a code that tells the phone they're authentic - only authentic apple components are allowed.

Its not a conspiracy theory. Apple is just a piece of shit company.

If you think being a piece of shit has to be a conspiracy, you're just naive.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-01 17:55:00+00:00
Correction doesn't seem like an impossible task to me.

A way I imagine it can be done is by using something like RAG techniques to add the corrected information into context. For example, if information about Benn Jordan is requested, add "Benn Jordan have been pretty outspoken against genocide and in full support of Palestinian statehood" into context, that sentence being the correction being requested.

I am not a LLM expert by far, but compared to all the challenges with LLMs like hallucinations, alignment, logical reasoning, etc... taking a list of facts into account to override incorrect statements doesn't look hard. Especially considering that the incorrect statement is likely to be a hallucination, so nothing to "unlearn".
by grues-dinner | 2025-09-01 17:55:06+00:00
> third-tier historical medieval towns that are 100% walkable

Very many people, including me, want to live in a glorious walkable bijou old-town stone apartment, except they can't afford to because they stopped building them like that in about 1756 and the only jobs within walking distance of the old town are in hospitality and those do not pay the salaries to buy one of the treasured old town apartments from under an AirBnB host.

And if it's a really small, non-tourist town in the middle of nowhere, it may not even have the hospitality sector. So, yes, that bijou property may indeed only cost 50,000 euros, and yes, you can walk to the boulangerie or the confitería or whatever but you're probably going to need a car to get out of your tiny town and go to work or basically anywhere else.
by craigtp | 2025-09-01 17:55:26+00:00
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by poszlem | 2025-09-01 17:55:46+00:00
Your argument makes sense if you’re talking about dense urban centers, but it doesn’t reflect the reality of millions of people who live outside of them. If you had to walk 4 miles to school every day, you would understand why a car means freedom. If the closest grocery store was 15 miles away, you would understand why a car means freedom. If you ever had to drive through a snowstorm just to get to work, you would understand why a car means freedom. If you had to take your sick child or elderly parent to the hospital in the middle of the night, you would understand why a car means freedom. If you had to balance two jobs in towns unreachable by public transit, you would understand why a car means freedom.

For millions of people, a car isn’t a trap or a luxur. It’s survival, opportunity, and dignity. Cities may be able to rethink their dependence on cars, but for everyone else, the car is still the bridge to basic participation in life.
by craigtp | 2025-09-01 17:55:54+00:00
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by kenjackson | 2025-09-01 17:55:59+00:00
First, I don't think we will ever get to AGI. Not because we won't see huge advances still, but AGI is a moving ambiguous target that we won't get consensus on.

But why does this paper impact your thinking on it? It is about budget and recognizing that different LLMs have different cost structures. It's not really an attempt to improve LLM performance measured absolutely.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-01 17:56:14+00:00
The current (I mean, pre-AI) grant writing process is already not science, and it's mostly a huge waste of time. I find it difficult to imagine a scenario where it's replaced with something worse. In fact, just giving everyone a base funding and then opting to more by CV without evaluating any project at all would be immensely better. And I say this as a scientist that has been quite successful with grant requests, and also evaluates plenty, so it's not at all the case that I have been disadvantaged by the current system.
by tpmoney | 2025-09-01 17:56:39+00:00
They're almost certainly not storing a static list of numbers. As others have noted, they're using a UIPickerView. The delegate for that class has two methods that are particularly relevant for this, one that gets the value at "current row number" and one that says how many rows are in the model. The logic for the "current row" is almost certainly the normal modulo logic we're all familiar with. But since the component needs a "size" value for the data set, they pick something arbitrarily large on the (reasonable) assumption that no one will actually ever scroll that far unintentionally.
by willahmad | 2025-09-01 17:56:40+00:00
Depends on the questions.

If a technical problem, before my questions were leading either to official doc or stackoverflow, now I get possible solutions to try

Other types of questions like reviews, product comparisons GPT shows couple of relevant links to reddit and I go check them to see if summary was right and then surf relevant subreddit.

If I assign a number, I would say 80% of my requests lead to answers inside the GPT, other 20% lead to links
by vunderba | 2025-09-01 17:57:11+00:00
I've seen things like this float around for a while:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/comments/16unakz/chrome_...

The problem with these ideas (in general) is that they suffer from the classic "chicken or the egg" problem. In order for them to provide value, you need to already have a critical mass of existing users but in order to entice new users, you need to already have aforementioned user base.
by treetalker | 2025-09-01 17:57:19+00:00
I always thought that point 1 is obvious (don't try to memorize Goethe in the original if you don't understand any German) and that point 2 is where it's at, and what most people underemphasize (learn the material before you try to memorize it). Granted, some types of learning and memorization go hand in hand; but for me the key point is to not try to use SRS to learn the material. Writing and rewriting notes; explaining topics out loud to myself and others; and using information to create something of my own — those are the ways I learn best. And at that point I've naturally memorized a lot already because I've "internalized" it; the spaced recall system becomes more of a repeating task list to remind me to practice recalling what I already learned, right before I would forget it. In that way it's similar to my OmniFocus lists of repeating maintenance tasks and chores, except that the repetition scheme varies with my forgetting curve instead of on a plain daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly schedule.
by const_cast | 2025-09-01 17:57:35+00:00
Yes?

A car that can only drive itself at 10 MPH by a software lock is certainly safer.

But that's stupid and that should be illegal.

Also, the horse is driving the carriage here. Why do you think Apple is just de facto more secure?

That's just pure blind faith. You have zero evidence for that and you couldn't find evidence if your life depended on it. The entire device is closed-source.

Youre just blindly trusting Apple not to pwn you.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-09-01 17:58:07+00:00
Agreed. I especially think it was common to overuse channels when golang was younger as that was “the go way”. I think people have started to realize that channels are complex and a sharp abstraction and they should not be used frivolously.

I can’t think of the last time I actually wrote code which directly created channels. Of course things like contexts, tickers, etc are implemented with channels and I think that is ideally how they should be used — in well defined and self contained library code.
Show HN: Public chat rooms with ephemeral chat and anonymous signup
by bnkamalesh | 2025-09-01 17:58:17+00:00
Phispr is an ephemeral chat application designed for anonymous, temporary conversations that vanish without a trace. Built with Go, it offers both web and terminal user interfaces.

A weekend project exploded into a two weeks project, and with a funny origin. https://github.com/bnkamalesh/phispr/blob/main/docs/genesis....
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-09-01 17:58:31+00:00
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by ccgreg | 2025-09-01 17:58:34+00:00
One way that Cloudflare is gatekeeping is by declaring which bots are AI Bots. Common Crawl's CCBot is used for a lot of stuff -- it's an archive, there are more than 10,000 research papers citing common crawl, mostly not AI -- but Cloudflare deems CCBot to be an "AI Bot", and I suspect most website owners don't have any idea what the list of AI Bots is and how they were chosen.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-01 17:58:49+00:00
Actually, I take that back. ACPI is fine except for the DSDT system, which should be nuked from orbit. These lazy PC hardware manufacturers keep pushing "please bro just let us run arbitrary code on your machine bro". This goes back to VGA BIOS (ugh). There's no need for it, other than the fact that it makes hardware vendor's lives slightly easier. Definitely something to avoid when designing a new interface.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-01 17:59:59+00:00
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by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-09-01 18:00:04+00:00
The framing in the headline is interesting. As far as I recall, spending 4x more compute on a model to improve performance by 7% is the move that has worked over and over again up to this point. 101 % of GPT-4 performance (potentially at any cost) is what I would expect an improved routing algorithm to achieve.
by flohofwoe | 2025-09-01 18:00:19+00:00
Yeah that's why I'm very sceptical about any 'LLM will magically fix all the things' claims. The mechanical translations basically work by compiling the source language down to LLVM bitcode and then translating that back to another language, it works but is basically assembly code written in a highlevel language, it loses all 'semantics' and is entirely unmaintainable.
by const_cast | 2025-09-01 18:00:43+00:00
You must allow your government issued brain chip in order to have money. But don't worry citizen - you have the choice. You can always choose to never have money.

How will we use the brain chip? Citizen, for your security, you must not ever see the brain chip software. You must trust it is perfectly secure and will not be used for nefarious reasons.

All citizens who deny the brain chip, please board the train to your designated shanty town.
by nradov | 2025-09-01 18:01:02+00:00
You only have everything you need for work in such a city if your "work" is limited to small offices, restaurants, and retail shops. So you're excluding everything related to manufacturing, agriculture, resource extraction, logistics, military, etc. You know, all of that stuff that keeps modern industrial civilization operating and allows quaint medieval towns to continue existing at all. If you like where you live that's great, but it's hardly ideal and certainly not scalable.
by mothballed | 2025-09-01 18:01:06+00:00
Looks like the statute of limitations has ran out.

I typed up a ~100 page document with very thorough records of the retroactive warrant, what happened, and medical records to try and hold at least the "medical care providers" accountable but the board determined that the medical care providers were performing a (warrantless) law enforcement search and not medical care so their license wasn't in jeapordy. Not sure how they determined this since they were in no way deputized nor were they employed by the government, and in fact I was personally being billed for it.

The CBP argued the opposite, that medical care was rendered and not a search so CBP was not liable for extending the ~12 hours during which they "detained" me with no evidence. CBP argued they held me for my own safety because I could die of non-existent drugs.

The challenges to this have all failed (see Ashley Cervantes, basically identical legal facts) so it seems the courts are pretty satisfied with the catch-22 of any challenges of the criminal aspect to be ruled as medical care (thus unchallengables) and then any challenge of the medical care to be ruled as a detainment for a criminal search (thus unchallengable).
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-01 18:01:26+00:00
Look one layer deeper and likely the issues are classist. Of course you didn't mention where you were, but, in the places I've lived, it goes down like this: the people who are wealthy enough to not need to use use public transit have more sway in terms of voting/persuading politicians, and push for policies that directly benefit them, even if it's to the detriment of the city overall.

Thus: more resources go towards those places with insane house prices, leaving everyone and everything else behind. The problem isn't public transit, it's the wealthy.
by simmons | 2025-09-01 18:01:36+00:00
I would love to hear your other theories!

I don't think it would exactly be "create a fork of this repo", but if a developer invests significant time and effort solving hard problems where the solutions are implemented in the released source, once an LLM model is trained on it, then someone else could quickly and easily have the LLM generate a new program that implements the novel solutions. Whether this is a problem or not may depend on the motivations of the developer, but this potential for IP laundering may very well begin influencing the licenses and methods of distribution that people choose.

(Of course, I suppose at some point AI will be able to analyze and learn from binary executables or obfuscated source...)
by mindslight | 2025-09-01 18:01:50+00:00
The problem was that it mostly started being brought up for the purpose of political propaganda. Trump's only use for the pandemic was as fuel to rail against China in support of his predetermined agenda. So "lab leak" was used to focus attention on the external enemy to fight, instead of taking care of our own country or asking why Trump was so dead set against that.

The whole time, it was obviously wrong to reject the lab leak theory out of hand. Yet people are stupid herd animals, and instead of tri-state "it is irrelevant in the current context" they argued that the theory was definitely wrong. That same fallibility applies to people working for institutions (see also the early CDC lie implying that masks weren't effective, based on wanting to keep the supply for the healthcare industry).

Then after the dust settles, people stay dug in and the politically-colored battle lines never go away. I'd say this kind of establishment-clearly-wrong but dissent-with-nothing-productive underlies most of the energy fueling the destructionists.
by antonymoose | 2025-09-01 18:01:58+00:00
I lived in a lower-tier American city (Charleston, SC) for 15 years, and this was my experience with public transportation. I had commute options of a 7 mile drive @ 30 minutes due to congestion, a 7 mile bike ride @ 35 minutes no congestion thanks to bike lanes, or approximately 2 hours bus ride on an unreliable system with no good drop off points and no guarantees in a timely arrival or space for a bicycle to complete the 2 mile walk to my office. These numbers are also one way, not round trip.

In other words, I could not use the service in any honest sense.

Perhaps a nice future is a hybrid model of public transportation plus personal transport via bicycles and scooters, especially with battery powered options becoming so robust.