MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by majorchord | 2025-09-30 13:13:52+00:00
> the issue is that you have opened the door to politics inside what ought to be a technical area

Unless you're willing and able to enforce a BDFL stance, I don't think there is actually any alternative.

As soon as people start disagreeing with any choices you make, and it's not well-understood that "what I say goes", you're going to have people who want to try to change how you run things, and that is the definition of politics.

Either you force your own politics on people, or you open yourself up to accepting changes from other people... which is still politics.
by tim333 | 2025-09-30 13:14:44+00:00
On the same topic of AI helping scientific discovery there was this tweet yesterday

https://x.com/DeryaTR_/status/1972115494787338484

>...noticed an email from one of my PhD students sent more than eight years ago, outlining a highly complex immune cell experiment that would run for several weeks and asking me to make corrections

>...Incredibly, GPT-5 Pro would have been as good as, if not better than, me at making these corrections, interpretations, analyses, and follow-up experiment suggestions! The experiment would also have yielded better results thanks to more precise planning...

Maybe the era of AI speeding things is upon us. Maybe not so long till AIs are helping make better AIs?
by bastawhiz | 2025-09-30 13:15:18+00:00
I must be using Codex wrong. I evaluated it with a task to do a pretty simple, mechanical string replacement across many files (moving from a prop spread in JSX to standard props, but only when the value being spread is a subscript of an object). It simply couldn't do it, and it wasn't even close. It was getting the syntax wrong, trying to fix it by deleting the code, then moving on to other files. Sonnet 4.1 wasn't perfect, but I was able to point out its errors and it fixed them and avoided doing it again.

I will say, Claude does seem to need a verbose prompt. Often I'll write my prompts as tasks in Notion and have it pull then via MCP (which is nice, because it tracks and documents its work in the process). But once you've given it a few paragraphs about the why and how, my experience is that it's pretty self sufficient. Granted, I'm using Cursor and not CC; I don't know if that makes much of a difference.
by digitalsushi | 2025-09-30 13:15:19+00:00
If we succeed in creating a Tilly that can replace a human actor, then human actors are at risk of becoming obsolete. Any finite resource that we can suitably convert to infinitely digital is in the same position.

When we invented photography, realistic paintings kinda ... well I'm not qualified to talk about art but I feel like realistic paintings were like the last horse trying to merge into the model T traffic jam.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-30 13:15:19+00:00
Sorry, this is incorrect. The schematic copyrighted.

The logical connection of components is not, but the literal schematic PDF is indeed copyrighted.

The schematic is also not “priceless” information. It does not give any secret information about how the Apple part functions. Most of it is generic connections between parts which are not the least bit surprising to any experienced EE.

I have actual real world experience working on these types of systems. I don’t understand how so many HN commenters are so confident about their EE knowledge when they clearly don’t have the experience.
by sameerav | 2025-09-30 13:15:35+00:00
We’ve been experimenting with this question while building something new, and I’d love to hear how this community thinks about it.

Most teams we talk to still juggle data across Gmail, Slack, CRMs, Ads, spreadsheets, and custom internal systems. The dream is:

- Ask a natural-language question (“Which campaign gave us the best ROI last month?”) - Get the answer instantly, without waiting for a data team - And even take an action from the same place (“pause the underperforming ads,” “send a report to Slack”)

The obvious challenge: trust.

Would you let AI touch your production data or execute actions? Or should it remain read-only, with humans approving the final step?

We’ve built something in this space (hyperif.com), but I’m genuinely curious how you all see the balance between convenience and control.

- Where do you draw the line today? - What guardrails would you expect? - Is “analyze only” useful, or would “analyze + act” be the real unlock?

Would love to hear your perspectives.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-30 13:15:44+00:00
I don't think you realize it, but this completely refutes your initial point. That the schematics are valuable and something that someone could simply copy for their own board designs.

You can't hold both positions that there is a bunch of system dependent physics involved AND that someone can simply copy those design elements and pass CE/FCC licensing.

And no, I don't misunderstand it.

> The entire field of SerDes engineering exists to solve the "trivial" problem of getting multi-gigabit signals off the chip and across the board to RAM or a port without dissolving into noise. It's a system-level challenge.

Right, and most of the problem is inside the specification of the signal. It has (almost) nothing to do with the actual PCB design beyond talking about the voltages and acceptable trace lengths.

You are forgetting exactly what the initial discussion is about, whether or not the schematics are valuable to other hardware manufacturers.

> Real-world design requires complex electromagnetic simulation to control impedance, manage signal reflections, and design via structures that don't destroy the signal. This is why Signal Integrity (SI) is a dedicated engineering discipline.

Simulations that are completely missing from the schematics, correct? You don't even get to glean what those simulations would be and importantly minor changes could by your logic completely ruin a design. Correct?

This is the weakness of your argument.

Yes, these things matter. But you are frankly overblowing how complex or hard they are to create. Everyone is doing them and it's not a huge cost to the actual hardware manufacturing.

> Passing FCC/CE certification is a famously difficult, multi-million-dollar R&D effort, not a trivial detail.

There are hobbiests that have managed to pass the FCC/CE certification with their own custom PCBs. Look, I admit that it's something harder to do with high speed signals. However, it's not a "multi-million-dolar R&D effort" That is, unless you are wrapping the VP of engineering's salary into that calculation.

The biggest problem you actually face as a hardware company is that if there is an issue you have to redesign and resubmit to the FCC/CE which takes a time. Online, I'm finding people saying that 4 or 5 respins is common.

Apple spending more money here would be entirely around avoiding that respin. Buying the same testing equipment and shoring up the testing procedures to make sure they get the certification the first or second time rather than spending a bunch of time needing to retry.

Which, I can't stress enough, is not something that comes out of the schematics. You as a competitor don't get any real information about the testing that was done and you certainly get no information about what the high speed communications between chips looks like (though that is entirely going away).
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-30 13:15:51+00:00
It's legal to advertise real products or services that will take your money and leave you with essentially nothing.

For example:

- gambling, e.g. slot machines, sports betting

- healing crystals

- palm readings

- carnival games

Perhaps the right distinction is whether something is legally a fraud or not. But I kind of agree that most ads are scams and also that ad networks don't have the ability to separate legal scams from fraud. So I just block them all.
by dzink | 2025-09-30 13:16:27+00:00
AI can help people stuck with skills that are no longer useful to acquire new skills. The premise is AI driven re-qualification of talent towards fields that are needed and faster than any educational system can do at the moment. Nursing (the academic steps before practical skills can be learned in person somewhere), electrical engineering, entrepreneurship for people who may want to start that with a skill they already have, etc.
by nerdjon | 2025-09-30 13:16:43+00:00
As if we did not need to worry enough about AI slop writing being injected into movies, now we get AI slop acting. Guess it was nice having some culture that actually grew for a bit... now we just constantly repeat everything and never deal with problems in any real way.

Seriously though, practically I just don't understand how this would work unless the entire movie was just CGI, AI Generated, whatever to begin with if real actors are supposed to work with a fake thing like this.
by 93po | 2025-09-30 13:17:15+00:00
yes, despite lots of anecdotes of them being paid more or similar. glassdoor has an article saying they're paid higher but their methodology is crap - it doesn't account for the size of the employer (which tend to be much larger on average if they're hiring lots of h1b, and also pay higher) and that h1b workers are likely later in career than entry level. also glassdoor's customers are companies, so of course they're going to toe the line.

a better source is Economic Policy Institute, which is associated with left-wing people and so therefore presumably not being anti-immigrant, says:

"DOL lets H-1B employers undercut local wages. Sixty percent of H-1B positions certified by the U.S. Department of Labor are assigned wage levels well below the local median wage for the occupation."

https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wa...

and also supports my earlier claim too:

"top 30 H-1B employers accounted for more than one in four of all 389,000 H-1B petitions"

link has lots of other pretty damning evidence.

i think the simplest argument is:

1. these companies have verifiably illegally engaged in wage suppression through gentlemen's agreements between CEOs (including apple/meta/google)

2. companies try as hard as possible to pay their employees as low as possible

3. why in the world would they hire h1bs that cost more when the two points above are true

4. ???

5. profit
by osigurdson | 2025-09-30 13:17:33+00:00
For many projects, the GC is a complete non-issue and you never think about it. For some it is a huge issue and you are always thinking about this ghost in the background and how to craft things so that the ghost doesn't haunt you. If you always have to think about it like this you are probably better off using a non-GCed language.
by bochoh | 2025-09-30 13:17:44+00:00
I’m building https://www.kidcarekit.com, a Rails SaaS for family-run daycare centers that still juggle spreadsheets and phone calls. It wraps waitlist management, enrollments, and Stripe billing into a single dashboard with Tailwind + Hotwire on the front, Devise for auth, and Azure Blob for logos. Solid Queue handles scheduled jobs like weekly tuition and late fee automation so owners get predictable cash flow without hand-cranking invoices, while MailerSend keeps parents in the loop.

Right now I’m polishing the onboarding flow so new centers can import families, configure their billing cadence, and connect Stripe in under ten minutes. Next up is richer analytics (occupancy tracking and revenue health) and rolling out a guided setup for late fee policies. If you’re running childcare ops or know someone who is, I’d love feedback on the workflow pain points you still feel daily.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-30 13:17:47+00:00
> You're focusing on a technicality while missing the bigger picture. These leaks frequently include board layout files, so yes, competitors see the exact routing and component placement.

The board files were not leaked.

I don’t know what you think you’re talking about, but it’s not relevant to the article and the leak we’re discussing.

> Seeing the complete power delivery network and high-speed routing for that specific chip is a masterclass. When they see 'a capacitor here,' they learn Apple's validated strategy for handling a transient load or suppressing a specific EMI source on a cutting-edge processor. That engineering principle is absolutely portable to their own custom silicon from Qualcomm or Samsung.

It is not portable nor priceless.

I’m telling you: I have experience doing this and working with these tools. Nothing you’re saying about this topic is accurate.
by niutech | 2025-09-30 13:18:44+00:00
I have tested version 1.5.421 and it's based on Brave and Chromium 135. Brave is licensed under MPL-2.0, which requires to release the modified source code. However Genspark Browser is closed source, thus violating the MPL.

Next, it requires to sign up for a user account and accept a vague privacy policy, even to use a local LLM.

It has ollama and node.js server with playwright built-in and the bundled web extension is a communication bridge. The local chat UI is at genspark://on-device-free-ai, but it is very limited - it doesn't use agentic features. Bummer.
by yme1984 | 2025-09-30 13:18:54+00:00
Wow, I didn't know Gentoo is still around. I was on Gentoo for a while back in 2001-2002 or so. Wonderful distro. What a treat after Red Hat Linux 6.2. Then, a few years later, I switched to Linux Mint etc. Nowadays, I'm on macOS, but when I have a bit more time, I will give Gentoo a go again.
by notindexed | 2025-09-30 13:19:10+00:00
You do not cook pasta by cooking time.

“La pasta vuole compagnia” Pasta needs company! Never leave it alone, keep stiring once in a while and keep testing them.

Best to drain it before you think it's "good" or al dente cause paste keeps cooking after beeing drained due to the heat and moisture/vapor.

Also, most good pasta dishes get their final cooking in a large pan in the sauce with some cooking water. So usually you drain em when they are still a bit hard in the inside and finish the cooking in the pan.

Italian nonas are rollin in the grave. Good HN article nontheless
by hodgehog11 | 2025-09-30 13:19:10+00:00
I feel like a great deal more credit should be given to Cauchy and his school, but I understand the tale is long enough.

The Peano axioms are pretty nifty though. To get a better appreciation of the difficulty of formally constructing the integers as we know them, I recommend trying the Numbers Game in Lean found here: https://adam.math.hhu.de/
by genewitch | 2025-09-30 13:19:18+00:00
i can write that in like 2 minutes in any language you want.

`pseudo main( return True )`

There's a difference between "Need a tree cut down? I am licensed and bonded and cut down trees; call ###" and the sort of things that we all consider "ads". If someone can't see a difference, then that someone probably receives money from advertising.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-30 13:19:24+00:00
> I've done my share of vibe coding

Why? It was almost meant in jest and as a joke, no one seriously believes you don't need to review code, you end up in spaghetti land so quickly I can't believe anyone tried "vibe coding" for more than a couple of hours then didn't quickly give up on something that is obviously infeasible.

Now, reviewing whatever the LLM gives you back, carefully massage it into the right shape then moving on, definitely helps my programming a lot, but careful review is needed that the LLM had the right context so it's actually correct. But then we're in "pair programming" territory rather than blindly accepting whatever the LLM hands you, AKA "vibe coding".
by ghaff | 2025-09-30 13:19:29+00:00
It seems silly (and expensive) to move it and there are, no doubt, politics involved. But it may be worth pointing out that this annex to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is out by Dulles and not very convenient for visitors to access.

To be clear, there's not a good reason to move it as far as I can tell. And the default should just be to keep it where it is.
by Spivak | 2025-09-30 13:19:30+00:00
The subtext of this article is screaming that, in the view of professional actors, this AI actress is apparently really good. I think it will be interesting to see if Hollywood gets their version of Hatsune Miku. But it's not like Miku eliminated human singers so I'm not sure what makes this so worrying. We've already crossed the rubicon of CGIing just a regular human over another with Star Wars.
by digitalsushi | 2025-09-30 13:19:48+00:00
counter point, think of how much more interesting movies would be if there were only like 3 a year and the rest of your time you were waiting for one

i call this model: everything before 1990

i'm not appealing to tradition, i'm just saying what if our focus is the source of enjoyment... what if 1000 things to pick for dinner is exhausting but 1 that you think about all day always ends up good
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-30 13:19:50+00:00
Lol this is delusional.

If the latter was true, Google would take its tremendous cash balance and earnings and reinvest into what is necessary to reach AGI right now.

OAI has a funding problem. Google in comparison most certainly does not. Google could go raise funding for it right now too.

The real issue is the lack of confidence behind the supposed theory that more aggressive reinvestment yields AGI.
by jmmv | 2025-09-30 13:19:57+00:00
Same here. I removed Disqus a while back due to how obnoxious it became. Then, I built my own commenting platform and, while it was a fun thing to do... I think it's worthless. People don't comment on blogs anymore, and when they do, the value is too low. Discussions happen elsewhere now. I've been tempted to just remove the comments altogether but haven't gotten to it.
by __mharrison__ | 2025-09-30 13:20:05+00:00
My experience has been that LLMs help me make sense of new code much faster than before.

When I really need to understand what's happening with code, I generally will write it each step.

LLMs make it much easier for me to do this step and more. I've used LLMs to quickly file PRs for new (to me) code bases.
by Tazerenix | 2025-09-30 13:20:19+00:00
>Today, mathematics is regarded as an abstract science.

Pure mathematics is regarded as an abstract science, which it is by definition. Arnol'd argued vehemently and much more convincingly for the viewpoint that all mathematics is (and must be) linked to the natural sciences.

>On forums such as Stack Exchange, trained mathematicians may sneer at newcomers who ask for intuitive explanations of mathematical constructs.

Mathematicians use intuition routinely at all levels of investigation. This is captured for example by Tao's famous stages of rigour (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...). Mathematicians require that their intuition is useful for mathematics: if intuition disagrees with rigour, the intuition must be discarded or modified so that it becomes a sharper, more useful razor. If intuition leads one to believe and pursue false mathematical statements, then it isn't (mathematical) intuition after all. Most beginners in mathematics do not have the knowledge to discern the difference (because mathematics is very subtle) and many experts lack the patience required to help navigate beginners through building (and appreciating the importance of) that intuition.

The next paragraph about how mathematics was closely coupled to reality for most of history and only recently with our understanding of infinite sets became too abstract is not really at all accurate of the history of mathematics. Euclid's Elements is 2300 years old and is presented in a completely abstract way.

The mainstream view in mathematics is that infinite sets, especially ones as pedestrian as the naturals or the reals, are not particularly weird after all. Once one develops the aforementioned mathematical intuition (that is, once one discards the naive, human-centric notion that our intuition about finite things should be the "correct" lens through which to understand infinite things, and instead allows our rigorous understanding of infinite sets to inform our intuition for what to expect) the confusion fades away like a mirage. That process occurs for all abstract parts of mathematics as one comes to appreciate them (expect, possibly, for things like spectral sequences).
by Simulacra | 2025-09-30 13:20:26+00:00
AI movies, audiobooks, it's coming. Like every other industry that is pushing for AI to reduce cost and eliminate people, this is just another one. I'm convinced a not insignificant number of best selling authors have used AI to write part or entire books. Consider: feed every James Patterson book into it, and say write me a new one. There's a lot to work with.
by jf22 | 2025-09-30 13:20:31+00:00
It's easy to avoid overly complex solutions with LLMs.

First, your prompts should be direct enough to the LLM doesn't wander around producing complexity for no reason.

Second, you should add rules/learning/context to always solve problems in the simplest way possible.

Lastly, after generation, you can prompt the LLM to reduce the complexity of the solution.
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-09-30 13:20:55+00:00
Pretty cool. The worry, though, is the gradual enshittification we’ve seen elsewhere: vendors buying placement in search results, and the product slowly becoming less useful for actual users. Hopefully it doesn’t go that way. The one small piece of optimism is that OpenAI isn’t a conventional shareholder-driven company forced into maximum short-term profit. For now, at least.
by fho | 2025-09-30 13:20:58+00:00
Plus at least one motor plus sun tracking controller. All of that has to operate 24/7, all year.

Depending on your local climate, that has to be sun and rain proof. (Most Nema 7 "3D printer" motors are not waterproof... Ask me now I know )

Nothing a quick hack job can't solve for you, but if you want to sell it (and make sure your customers will be satisfied for decades) it quickly adds up in price.
by danaris | 2025-09-30 13:21:49+00:00
> I've never seen one have this effect.

How do you think you would see it?

Under normal circumstances, what it would look like from the outside is just...someone not causing friction, because there is a code of conduct. Or someone causing friction, because there isn't one.

The former looks identical to someone who would never have caused trouble in the first place, and the latter looks, if not identical, at least very similar to someone who would have caused trouble, no matter what.
by m-hodges | 2025-09-30 13:21:54+00:00
> In July, Cornyn and Cruz successfully added language to the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" championed by President Donald Trump, which enabled acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy to then identify Discovery for relocation. The provision also called for $85 million to be made available to transport and display the shuttle in Houston.

Every single rhetorical overtone about eliminating waste — from DOGE to legislative “fiscal responsibility” — is at best in bad faith and on average a lie.
by auslegung | 2025-09-30 13:21:58+00:00
We use Atlassian and they have helpful tools to query across all our knowledge sources: Slack, GitHub, Figma, Google Drive, of course Jira and Confluence, etc. It is VERY helpful. Doing even more, like you describe, sounds great however I would not want it acting independently. I would prefer “pause the underperforming ads” to result in a plan describing what the LLM would do, and require a human to approve. But this is going to change over time as we get more comfortable with these things taking potential destructive actions. Version controlling everything would be ideal so we can inspect what it did and roll it back if desired
by segmondy | 2025-09-30 13:22:02+00:00
Well, IMO, the issue is that we are trying to merge with AI/LLM. Why must both of us understand the code base? Before it was us that just understood it, why not just have the AI understand it all? why do you need to understand it? to do what exactly? document it? improve it? fix it? Well, let the LLM do all of that too.