MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-18 00:37:35+00:00
Turns out Ajit Pai was actually a visionary who saw the political writing on the wall. He attempted to dismantle the agency to a point where it couldn't do anything and by not being able to do anything it couldn't be used for evil and wasn't worth corrupting. It was a long con to get the FCC to survive the 2020s. If only we had listened to him. (This is satire)
by cleartext412 | 2025-09-18 00:37:49+00:00
Character "⧸" (https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+29F8) is way harder to distinguish from "/" than ん.

That said, looking at image depicting a phishing mail in the article, I notice that hyperlink text looks like legitimate link, while the link itself points to the bad site, and I would expect this alone to be extremely effective. Many people, myself included, would probably not bother hovering on this kind of long link to confirm it matches the text.
by pdonis | 2025-09-18 00:38:00+00:00
I've gotten both calls and texts from my bank and credit card companies about fraudulent transactions. Indeed, I want them to do that, so I'm alerted as soon as they spot something fishy.

But if I get such a call or text, I don't answer it. Instead I do what you describe--call the official number that I already know independently. (Or I log in to their website to check for alerts.)
by tibbar | 2025-09-18 00:38:23+00:00
I think this is, essentially, a wishful take. The biggest barrier to models being able to do more advanced knowledge work is creating appropriately annotated training data, followed by a few specific technical improvements the labs are working on. Models have already nearly maxed out "work on a well-defined puzzle that can be feasibly solved in a few hours" -- stunning! -- and now labs will turn to expanding other dimensions.
by martinald | 2025-09-18 00:38:29+00:00
What makes it even worse is the status page doesn't capture all smaller incidents. This is the same for all providers. If they actually provided real time graphs of token latency, failed requests, token/s etc I think they'd be pretty horrific.

If you trust this OpenRouter data the uptime record of these APIs is... not good to say the least: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5/uptime

It's clear to me that every provider is having enormous scale challenges. Claude Code often slows to a crawl and I have to interrupt it and tell it to try again.

This is especially pronounced around 4-6pm UK time (when we have Europe, Eastern US and West Coast US all hammering it).

Even today I was getting 503 errors from Gemini AI studio with model overloaded at that time, nothing on status page.

I really wonder if it would be worth Claude et al offering a cheaper off peak plan, to try and level out demand. Perhaps the optics of that don't look good though.

Edit to add: I think another potential dimension to this is GB200s have been a lot slower to come on stream than probably the industry expected. There's been a lot of defects with various hardware and software components and I suspect the liquid cooling has been difficult to get right (with far more catastrophic failure states!).
by scrubs | 2025-09-18 00:38:58+00:00
"Anti-religions will teach the opposite: to glue ourselves to shiny things, to lose ourselves in desires and to marvel at the depths of demonic thought"

I'd be rare though possible (maybe Bertrand Russell as an example) to have good character without having been first taught from a religion sharing the old testament (in the west) or say bhuddism elsewhere.

Although as I write above particularly with the literal interpretation of the Bible which leads to bad outcomes, I'm not keen to dismiss religion. That's too much.

However it's too much to suggest atheists or agnostic or those who take the Bible more at arms length are just about getting laid, cash, and cars. The basic American character appeals to some charity, being straight with people, hard work, and being competent at something. Family counts too.

To the degree it's american its just as likely as being fairly universal no doubt with local areas of emphasis.

Of course there are live for today jerks, however, that same character compels us to do the right thing anyway.
by ertian | 2025-09-18 00:40:14+00:00
Cash has centralized distribution, but it's very decentralized in use. That's what makes it useful. However, sometimes people might choose to use a centralized service provider (like a bank, or a credit card company) because it's useful. They still have the option of using cash. What's important isn't that every single transaction happens in a fully-decentralized way: it's that decentralized transactions remain an option. That means that banks and credit card companies have to compete with cash, and that they can never have full control of your financial life.

The same is true of cryptocurrency. It's not a problem that centralized service providers exist. If they stop providing useful services, people can just take their cryptocurrency and go home.
by MiiMe19 | 2025-09-18 00:40:20+00:00
I thought conservatives were the conspiracy theorists.

1. Gerrymandering is and always has been a thing, blue and red. Nothing has changed.

2. Government puts government data from multiple government places into one government place. More news at 11.

3. Because you get stabbed/shot for just existing in them? Because of the riots earlier this year?

Fascism = Something I don't like. Get a grip.
by stubish | 2025-09-18 00:40:38+00:00
So it could be possible if the cancelling came from the source of the wave, such as making the spinning fan or its enclosure the speaker?

I guess the 'fan as the noise cancelling speaker' idea could be reworded as 'a fan with active stabilization that doesn't vibrate', making no mechanical noise.

A friend with a recording studio solved their problem by putting the fan at the end of a length of ducting with a couple of 90 degree bends, lined with foam.
by teamonkey | 2025-09-18 00:41:09+00:00
You can prepare for IQ tests, just as you can for any other test, and you can get better at some of the problems in these tests the more you practice them, just as you get better at Sudoku puzzles the more you do them.

Related: that brain is plastic and can adapt to challenges in different ways. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memor...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-18 00:43:15+00:00
Being Turing machine complete means that the system in question can emulate a Turing machine, which you could then program to do anything since it's a universal computer. So sure, if you know how to code up an AGI to run on a Turing machine you would be good to go on any Turing machine!

I'm not sure why you want to run a Turing machine emulator on an LLM, when you could just write a massively faster one to run on the computer your LLM is running on, cutting out the middle man, but whatever floats your boat I suppose.

Heck, if you really like emulation and super slow speed then how about implementing Conway's game of Life to run on your LLM Turing machine emulator, and since Life is also Turing complete you could run another Turing machine emulator on that (it's been done), and finally run your AGI on top of that! Woo hoo!

I do think you'll have a challenge prompting your LLM to emulate a Turing machine (they are really not very good at that sort of thing), especially since the prompt/context will also have to do double duty as the Turing machines (infinite length) tape, but no doubt you'll figure it out.

Keep us posted.

I'll be excited to see your AGI program when you write that bit.
by davesque | 2025-09-18 00:43:24+00:00
MAGA did, in fact, do their best over the weekend to cast the shooter as anything other than one of them. Comments made in poor taste? Maybe? Not really? No poorer taste than the president saying on Fox & Friends that he "couldn't care less" about promoting unity after the Kirk shooting.

Next point, from NYTimes article covering this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-...

"The abrupt decision by the network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, came hours after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, assailed Mr. Kimmel’s remarks and suggested that his regulatory agency might take action against ABC because of them."

So yes, ABC/Nexstar are within their editorial rights to make this decision, but that decision came at an awfully conspicuous time. So what, nothing to see here?
by fragmede | 2025-09-18 00:43:51+00:00
> The left is basically saying I hate Charlie Kirk he deserved to die

While I'm sure you can dredge up quotes to support that world-view of "the left", the people I've talked to are actually more annoyed that he's dead because his methods in debating 20 year old college students with no experience in debate was starting to unravel, but as he's dead, we won't know how that would have played out, and now he's a martyr. The real question is, where are the Epstein files?

He's a comedian talking shit to power. Power shouldn't be able to cancel his show. That whole first amendment thing? Not the letter of the law, but the spirit of it. We can design an inordinately complex set of rules on what people are allowed to say in the wake of defining moments, and we can even believe that we're being logical and reasonable, but at the end of the day, the first amendment is dead.

Now can we make the trains run on time?
by andy99 | 2025-09-18 00:44:15+00:00
> I think the reason for this is that if you were to always choose the highest probable next word, you may actually always end up with the wrong answer and/or get stuck in a loop.

No, it's just the definition of sampling at non-zero temperature. You can set T=0 to always get the most likely token. Temperature trades of consistency for variety. You can set T to zero in the API, I assume the defaults for Claude code and their chat are nonzero.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-18 00:44:31+00:00
EasyList also blocks tracking. I agree that no one expects their ad blocker to block view counts. But EasyList is advertised as a tracking blocker as well. And true to form, they eventually merged a change to block more tracking. So this guy is upset that his tracking blocker blocked tracking and wants YouTube to find a way to circumvent the tracking blocker? The whole thing sounds bizarre.
by ejoso | 2025-09-18 00:44:48+00:00
So are you saying the only difference between a woodwind instrument and a fan is the column? What about a stringed instrument then?

Every sound found in nature contains multiple frequency components. When these align as integer multiples of the fundamental, they are harmonics; when they do not, they are inharmonic partials. Only a pure sine wave lacks them, and such signals don’t occur naturally.
Show HN: Hacker News Analyzer – LLM summaries of the most active threads
by sahn44 | 2025-09-18 00:45:06+00:00
I'm a long-time reader of HN comment threads as an unusually effective way to get a lot of wisdom quickly about a wide array of topics that interest me. I built this tool to make that process even more efficient. It pulls the top stories, filtered for the ones with the most comments, and then lets you run an analysis of the comment thread. When you click "Analyze", it fetches full text of the entire comment thread, uses LLM to summarize key points, areas of consensus/disagreement, sentiment, etc (you choose short/medium/detailed length), and, finally, suggests context-relevant follow-up questions you can trigger.

I've been using it daily on my commute for a few weeks now as another/different way of consuming HN.

I’d love feedback — both on the idea itself and the execution. No signup is required to try it out for free. I used Lovable to build it, which was a lot of fun and a bit addictive for a little while.
by shirro | 2025-09-18 00:45:08+00:00
I still often go to mc over a gui file manager whenever I am doing something isn't straightforward to capture with a regular command. Like moving a group of files that isn't related by name, date, size etc. There are more linux-like text file managers that have vim bindings etc and are probably a better choice for the terminal crowd now but I have had mc installed on my machines since the mid 90s when emulating a dos file manager made a lot more sense.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-18 00:45:29+00:00
This situation is very weird to me. In my experience, referrals got your foot in the door, but you still always had to pass the same hiring screen/interview process as everyone else.

I recommended an engineer once who I thought was great - he was a total "get shit done" kind of guy. But he did poorly in the interviews (I won't say they were leetcode-type problems, but you did have to have some algorithmic skills - I warned him beforehand to brush up on some of those types of programs.) As much as I liked the working with the guy, we couldn't hire him because he was a pretty solid "no" from the other interviewers.

I've never worked in a company that hired people based on the referral of one person, and honestly that sounds like a pretty f'd up company.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-18 00:46:01+00:00
If you claim that America, which has supported Israel forever and long before Epstein, is supporting Israel because 'Epstein' based on conspiracy theories, everything I said and quoted applies to you. OP brought Epstein into it for a reason, not a mistake. You continued referencing Epstein, not a mistake.

But everyone reading this, see how the above post turned the words just slightly from OP they defended and my response, to try and change the discourse/make me defend something different/uncomfortable versus what I originally replied to? Not claiming they did that on purpose, but if they did it would be an example of what Sartre said. Not saying you intentionally misconstrued/misrepresented what I said. Just saying that you happened to do the thing.

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert." --Jean-Paul Sartre

Edit: can't post but there is no need to bring Esptein into it at all if it's just about manipulation fears (since the USA has supported Israel long before Epstein). Both of you specifically brought Epstein needlessly into your arguments. I'm done dancing and doing word play like the quote says.
by gruez | 2025-09-18 00:46:15+00:00
> “The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.

Off topic, but has there been convincing evidence that the suspect is right wing/MAGA, as Kimmel implied? I've seen some posts on reddit to this effect, but they're far from convincing.
by krisoft | 2025-09-18 00:46:44+00:00
> what happened was the companies drove their cars 100 meters and tweeted that they did it faster than the Olympians had run

That would be indeed an interesting race around the time cars were invented. Today that would be silly, since everyone knows what cars are capable of, but back then one can imagine a lot more skepticism.

Just as there is a ton of skepticism today of what LLMs can achieve. A competition like this clearly demonstrates where the tech is, and what is possible.

> there's no clear mapping to say how the LLM's compute should be limited to make a comparison

There is a very clear mapping of course. You give the same wall clock time to the computer you gave to the humans.

Because what it is showing is that the computer can do the same thing a human can under the same conditions. With your analogy here they are showing that there is such a thing as a car and it can travel 100 meters.

Once it is a foregone conclusion that an LLM can solve the ICPC problems and that question has been sufficiently driven home to everyone who cares we can ask further ones. Like “how much faster can it solve the problems compared to the best humans” or “how much energy it consumes while solving them”? It sounds like you went beyond the first question and already asking these follow up questions.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-18 00:48:18+00:00
It's very obvious that America has a dictatorial government, and I'm baffled why you would deny this. The dictator-in-chief has argued explicitly and repeatedly that the written laws of the land don't constrain him; he can shut down departments Congress ordered him to run, levy taxes they didn't authorize, and overrule or rewrite any statute he feels isn't correct. He seized 10% of Intel Corporation without even a fig leaf of legal basis!

Perhaps you're confused that the normal system of laws is still operating? That's just the nature of dictatorship in a large country. The dictator only has so much time in the day, and if he has to delegate anyway he might as well use the preexisting courts and civil servants. He just has to put supervisors on top who can credibly threaten to invoke his wrath if people step too far out of line.
by no_wizard | 2025-09-18 00:49:06+00:00
This has been floating around since the end of the first Trump administration, where neither of these interests were accused of being “pro-Israel” but only entrance narrative after the current Palestine debacle:

Therefore I’m only left to conclude this is an entirely unsubstantiated claim, as why wouldn’t it have already been apparent if they were working as shadow brokers of Israeli interests in all this, which the general timeline and verifiable information we know don’t line up with?
by stephen_cagle | 2025-09-18 00:49:17+00:00
I still think it is interesting. This bubble (if you believe it) seems closer to tulips than it does to rail or real estate. People were investing in tulips with the possiblity that the market would completely crash, and tulips, without the frenzy behind them, are just tulips (not that useful). rails and real estate may loose value, but there was never any real possibilty that they would become valueless. GPU's are interesting in that they are like tulips (a breakthrough in efficiency could render them basically worthless), but they literally have the worthless aspect built into them directly. You will not be able to profitably run an LLM on a 5 year old GPU, as your competitors will be able to run inference at much higher efficiencies than you with modern chips and will undercut you on price.

It is just different because it is an almost guaranteed point in the future that they become worthless (unlike rail or real estate).
by halfcat | 2025-09-18 00:50:10+00:00
> DearIMGUI can probably already do like 85% of what modern webapps do

I’m with you. Main blocker I’ve seen to “just use ImGui for everything” (which I’d love to adopt), is if I run ImGui in WASM the keyboard doesn’t open on mobile. This seems possible in theory because egui does it.

Even though running ImGui on mobile via WASM isn’t the primary use case, inevitably the boss or someone is going to need to “just do a quick thing” and won’t be able to on mobile, and this seems to be a hard ceiling with no real escape hatch or workaround.

One of those scenarios where, if we have to use a totally different implementation (React or whatever) to handle this 1% edge case, we might as well just use that for the other 99%.
by mrandish | 2025-09-18 00:50:26+00:00
We really need to stop the cancelling of people for saying controversial, disagreeable and even deeply offensive things. I don't agree with what Kimmel said and I wouldn't have said it myself but it also wasn't outside the bounds of opinions which should be able to be expressed.

If you're nodding along in agreement, then you should also know my long-term commitment to consistency in tolerating factually wrong, distasteful, divisive and even hateful speech has also left me in the uncomfortable position of defending (at least in part) the right of Charlie Kirk, JK Rowling and many others I don't agree with to be heard without anyone calling for silencing them. I'm 100% supportive of disagreeing, debating, peacefully protesting, ignoring and even mocking ideas we don't agree with but I draw a hard line at shouting down, deplatforming or canceling them. If you just stopped nodding along, and instead started coming up with reasons why Kimmel should be heard but Charlie Kirk shouldn't, then you might be part of the problem. IMHO, the only truly defensible ethical high-ground on this requires consistency regardless of the person, politics or offense their speech might cause.
by sporkxrocket | 2025-09-18 00:50:47+00:00
I like this article, and I didn't expect to because there's been volumes written about how you should be boring and building things in an interesting way just for the hell of it, is bad (something I don't agree with).

Small models doing interesting (boring to the author) use-cases is a fine frontier!

I don't agree at all with this though:

> "LLMs are not intelligent and they never will be."

LLMs already write code better than most humans. The problem is we expect them to one-shot things that a human may spend many hours/days/weeks/months doing. We're lacking coordination for long-term LLM work. The models themselves are probably even more powerful than we realize, we just need to get them to "think" as long as a human would.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-09-18 00:52:07+00:00
It's starting to feel like C# is going down the path of C++. Tons of features that introduce subtleties and everybody has their own set of pet features they know how to use.

But the code gets really hard to understand when you encounter code that uses a subset you aren't familiar with. I remember staring at C++ codebases for days trying to figure out what is going on there. There was nothing wrong with the code. I just wasn't too familiar with the particular features they were using.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-09-18 00:52:11+00:00
`ls` is not the same command in nu. There's a nu-specific `ls`.

My GNU `ls` has `--literal`, but to do that in nu, you have to do `^ls --literal`, to use the external command instead of the nu builtin.

You can see the nu `ls` options with `help ls`, or `ls --help`. `--literal` is completely useless for nu's `ls` anyway. `nu`'s ls gives a table, where the `name` column is the filenames. There's no need for any quoting, because it's already structured output.
by ag8 | 2025-09-18 00:52:35+00:00
Thanks! Our goal is to make rl "just work" with completely automated GPU provisioning/algorithm selection/SFT-warm up, but giving people the ability to switch away from the defaults if they want to.

The way tools currently work in the beta is you add tools via MCP to the configuration, and they get passed in as additional context for the model; the model might then choose to use a tool during inference; the tool is then automatically called and the output is returned as a tool message. If you really want to you could parse the tool output as part of reward calculation, but I expect you'd usually base the reward just on the model's completion. I could give more details if there's a specific tool setup you're envisioning!
by mikepurvis | 2025-09-18 00:52:37+00:00
It's astonishing how bad the US political apparatus is at making progress even on matters that easily fall within that 80%, though— healthcare reform, childcare, higher education, common sense gun laws, infrastructure investments.

All of this stuff should be a slam dunk to implement with broad coalitions no matter who holds which branches, and yet it's all been basically gridlocked for decades, and instead it's never-ending turmoil over meaningless nonsense like who uses what bathrooms.