MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bradleybuda | 2025-09-12 17:50:48+00:00
I think the "lethal trifecta" framing is useful and glad that attempts are being made at this! But there are two big, hard-to-solve problems here:

1. The "lethal trifecta" is also the "productive trifecta" - people want to be able to use LLMs to operate in this space since that's where much of the value is; using private / proprietary data to interact with (do I/O with) the real world.

2. I worry that there will soon be (if not already) a fourth leg to the stool - latent malicious training within the LLMs themselves. I know the AI labs are working on this, but trying to ferret out Manchurian Candidates embedded within LLMs may very well be the greatest security challenge of the next few decades.
by nayuki | 2025-09-12 17:51:06+00:00
I agree with this complaint. The first thing I noticed about the page - other than the excessive and unnecessary UI - is that even when focused on the page interior text, hitting Up/Down/Space/Shift+Space/PgUp/PgDn does not scroll the interior page content at all. This is how I read most articles, and it is massively disrespectful for their website to disable the keyboard-based movement that I'm used to by default.
by jrajav | 2025-09-12 17:51:18+00:00
I'm not following your reasoning. Your only objection is that this technology has the potential to meaningfully replace meat production? And therefore, because it is so amazing, no one should be allowed to profit off of it after they do a big chunk of initial R&D?

This legislation is not doing anything at all to help the research go further. It's a bare-naked stifling of a technology that threatens to thin the wallets of a few rich, loud constituents with lobbyists in the building, and probably a healthy dose of emotional whining about some kind of values or tradition being under attack.

Make sure no one is cutting corners in a way that will poison people when food is involved, but otherwise, just let the free market do its thing. I thought that was meant to be the American way.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-12 17:51:21+00:00
/sys contains all system source code, including documentation, not just kernel code, which lives in /sys/src/

Acme has a snarf per window

Snarf should copy the text to the clipboard which it does not appear to do so I cant copy paste outside of DWS (Am I missing something?).

In your Acme, right clicking a file path opens a new window with an error message that it could not find the file. If I highlight the file path and right click, it opens the file. Is this intentional? Acme does not require you to highlight navigable text.

No shell? I see a /bin/9term but no way to run it.

Any plans for a plumber to route messages to the right program or start programs?

Your UI is pretty neat and isn't far off from Plan 9: 9front includes bar(1), zuke(1) audio player, and there is the vdiff directory browser from shithub.us. Window decorations and controls are available in lola, a window manager that replaces rio, also available on shithub. You can also run windows managers in windows managers on Plan 9 without limit.

Though simplicity, 9p and per process name spaces are what make Plan 9 awesome. I run 9front on bare metal on a few machines including my home CPU Server which is also my dhcp and dns server managed by ndb (it can do nat via ip(3) as well.)
by bell-cot | 2025-09-12 17:51:42+00:00
> An Ohio lawmaker wants to reintroduce an electricity peak demand program for small commercial and residential consumers, which would likely flatten their current bills and could create further financial incentives down the line, he said.

> “If we want to attract more business to Ohio, if we want to have the data centers here, if we don’t want rolling blackouts, we’re going to have to look at a number of creative things,” he said in an interview Friday. “This is one of them we know works because the (large) commercials use it.”

How many little customers do you need to throttle, to "save" enough energy for just one large DC?
by drob518 | 2025-09-12 17:51:57+00:00
SAT solvers are used daily to generate solutions for problems that have literally millions of variables. So, what you said is just wrong on the face. Yes, some talented people can write custom code that solves specific problems faster than a general purpose solver, particularly for easy special cases of the general problem, but most of the time that results in the programmer recreating the guts of a solver customized to a specific problem. There’s sort of a corollary of Greenspun’s Tenth Rule that every sufficiently complicated program also contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow-implementation of half of a SAT or SMT solver.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-12 17:51:59+00:00
I mean... The difference between history and the future is you can't change history. There is no other way it happened; "could have happened" is the realm of speculative fiction.

If we want to turn the stories of the past into questions about what we could do differently right now, that's an interesting conversation to me. "But what if the South had just decided not to get into a shooting war with the North?" is fodder for a stack of books on the "New Fiction" table at Barnes and Noble but not much more.

Turning the lens to the present: I think it is worth noting that decades of negotiation, political horse-trading, and compromises had been attempted prior to the breakout of the War. It isn't that talking wasn't tried, it's that one side got tired of having the conversation every single generation (and were perceiving that the zeitgeist were turning against their position). So one useful question is "What are the divisions in this era that mirror the kind of irreconcilable difference that was 'a nation half-slave and half-free?'" One candidate I could suggest is the question of gun control; I suspect it is not, as practiced in the US, a topic where people can agree to disagree, the Constitutional protection (and judicial interpretation of it) distorts the entire conversation, and I think there's real nonzero risk of one side responding to a sea-change in the zeitgeist conversation with violence.

Which side, I do not yet predict. A major ingredient in the slavery debate was existential fear (the belief in the South that a freed black population would form either a power bloc that would destroy its former masters politically or vigilante posses that would do violence to their former masters). It's one of the reasons John Brown's raid was so terrifying to the Southerners because Brown was a white man who committed political violence in the name of ending slavery; they perceived him as a signal that the North was done talking (even though he was not acting as an agent of the government). In modern America? A lot of Americans are terrified of random gun violence. That kind of terror lowers the bar on willingness to commit violence, because the survival drive runs hot. And, similarly, gun owners are terrified that the government could strip their capacity for self-defense from them and they'd then be vulnerable to violence they could not defend themselves from.

If you're looking for a lesson from the past on how to diffuse such a volatile situation... Unfortunately, I don't think the story of the Civil War will give it to you. That's a story of failing to diffuse it.
by johnklos | 2025-09-12 17:52:11+00:00
You try to make it either/or in the most overly simplistic way possible. I wonder if you do, in fact, know that it's not a matter of only one or the other, but instead of acknowledging that, you'd rather pretent to be ignorant.

Don't tell me to shut up. That's not very nice, no matter your justification. The open source world is definitely not do it yourself or pay, and everyone else needs to shut up. Again, it's more likely that you know this, but you want to be intentionally antagonistic.

You also neatly avoid discussing what I brought up. These things all make me think you're not participating in good faith.
by mindslight | 2025-09-12 17:52:20+00:00
> Europe kept buying Russian oil and gas, because other sources could not come online quickly enough

They did do sanctions, so I don't know what you're trying to argue.

> Tariffs would have only made energy even more expensive than it already was.

Not as expensive as outright sanctions, of course.

As I said - sanctions are discrete (yes or no), whereas tariffs are a continuous knob.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-09-12 17:52:37+00:00
The US has been there, done that, and got the t-shirt. The result of trying to wall out competition is not going to be jobs for Americans. The result will be what happened to the American automotive industry, the American electronics industry, etc. They could not deliver competitive products at competitive prices and the various "Buy American" advertising campaigns were ignored by American consumers. Your Nintendo Switch, your Samsung SSDs and smartphones, your Hynix RAM, your Toyota cars, etc. are all proof of that. And it's much, much easier to for a competitor to create a new developer job opening overseas than construct a physical factory.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-12 17:52:54+00:00
Yeah, it seems hard to say military intervention is preferable to increased accounting and recordkeeping requirements. Or maybe sheltered is a better way to put. Which is a good thing! For most people alive on Earth right now haven't had to deal with wars of territorial expansion. Yes wars exist, and yes territorial expansion by military might conitnues, and military occupations from the US certainly don't help. But overall we're in a point of relative stability.
by jackb4040 | 2025-09-12 17:53:18+00:00
North Korean defectors are well known for being unreliable sources. They rarely have skills nor social connections and thus are massively incentivized to join the existing markets for anti-NK propaganda in both the West and India.

The kind of obvious propaganda like "it's a crime to have the same haircut as Kim Jong-Un" (or to not have it, depending on the source). No one is saying life there is great, but there is a track record of fantastically untrue stories.
by spauldo | 2025-09-12 17:53:46+00:00
Terry Pratchett had some books kind of like this.

The Carpet People has characters that live in the fibers of a living room carpet and are subject to mysterious phenomena they don't understand (such as a vacuum cleaner).

The Bromeliad Trilogy is similar, although the characters are a few inches high and at least have a concept of full-sized humans. They have to move their tribe from a department store that's closing down to somewhere else, which means they have to learn about the outside world.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-12 17:53:50+00:00
Huh, Firefox on Debian:

An error occurred during a connection to www.math.columbia.edu. Peer’s Certificate has been revoked. Error code: SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE

I apparently can't bypass it.

EDIT: Chain: https://pastebin.com/raw/Mch2XTiQ
by 76SlashDolphin | 2025-09-12 17:54:23+00:00
It is possible to configure it like that - when a trifecta is detected, it is possible for the gateway to wait for confirmation before allowing the last MCP call to proceed. The issue with that MCP clients are still in early stages and some of them don't like waiting for a long time until they get a response and act in weird or inconvenient ways if something times out (some of them sensibly disable the entire server if a single tool times out, which in our case disables the entire gateway and therefore all MCP tools). As it is, it's much better to default to returning a block message, and emit a web notification from the gateway dashboard to get the user to approve the usecase, then rerun their previous prompt.
by dennisnguyen | 2025-09-12 17:54:43+00:00
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by nayuki | 2025-09-12 17:55:05+00:00
> I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a couple times” while browsing around and before I know it, I have 12 new tabs open

> You can multitask, open a few articles simultaneously, and move them around as you please.

> It has window snapping, keyboard shortcuts, and a bookmark app. It works as well as you’d expect an operating system to work in a browser.

> You can be reading the latest newsletter from Product for Engineers while watching a demo video in the corner and also playing Hedgehog Mode, the game.

Please stop that; you're creating the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect a second time. The fact that a web browser is an inner platform with respect to the bare-metal operating system is bad enough already.

> I have 12 new tabs open – all indistinguishable from each other because they share the same favicon.

Nothing precludes you from declaring a different favicon per page or per author. That's a site design problem, not a browser software problem.

> It has [...] keyboard shortcuts

Yet, I can't even scroll your page using my usual keys of Up/Down/Space/Shift+Space/PgUp/PgDn. That is rather disrespectful to my preferences, before you throw in all that unnecessary inner window chrome.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-12 17:55:08+00:00
> there really isn't. Money laundering has been a huge problem enabling all sorts of crimes and issues

To be clear, I think there should be limits. I also think a lot of AML is theatrical.

Where it’s not is where large volumes can be moved. Less emphasis on cash. More on offshore accounts, tumblers and high-volume wallets.
by AnEro | 2025-09-12 17:56:35+00:00
Looks like they want to build up and support middle men to do the apps more than them, and act more like a platform or operating system position. Which makes sense giant corporations reporting 95% failed AI projects and the core success cases are specialist companies tuning the platform to a specific problem are successful. Then there are a ton of snake oil AI apps that are over promising under delivering hurting the image of AI's usefulness

This is probably purely a pivot in market strategy to profitability to increase token usage, increase consumer/public's trust more than farming ideas for internal projects.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-12 17:56:43+00:00
Of course they aren't magic, but people keep talking about them as if they're perfectly robust and ready-to-use for any problem within their domain. In reality, unless you have lots of experience in how to "use them correctly" (which is not something I think can be taught by rote), you'd be better off restricting their use to precisely the OR/verification problems they're already popular for.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-12 17:57:03+00:00
The top end Samsung Odyssey monitors definitely near impossible to beat with any other choice for folks that prefer curved displays. For folks that like flat, something like the PG32UQX is probably one of the better equivalents since the flat Odyssey monitors always assume "I want the highest end version" = "I want the curved version".

For those who don't care about maximum brightness quite as much, the new OLEDs are getting quite good for both curved and flat (though the lifespan issue isn't quite as fully solved as the manufacturers would like to have you believe, it's significantly better).

> any higher DPI and it doesn't make any difference because you have to size up the text.

I get irked (to perhaps irrational levels) when a monitor's DPI (really PPI) is phrased in terms of how big text appears. Text is already sized in physically based units (even when CSS lies and says "px" it's really fractions of an inch, similar to pt), DPI is how sharp/clear the text ends up looking for the given font size.

A monitor with twice the DPI should give you clearer text, not smaller text.
by swannodette | 2025-09-12 17:57:18+00:00
Yes. gptel supports two output modes out of the box, markdown (meh), and org-mode. I make an org-mode heading with my question, then I press `C-c <enter>`. Claude will use the area bellow the heading for its answer. It will make sub-headings, code blocks, lists, tables, etc. If I have another question then I make a new top level org-mode heading.

I started doing this because I got fed-up with Claude Desktop for my StackOverflow style programming questions - and then stumbled upon using it to configure Emacs.
by labcomputer | 2025-09-12 17:57:25+00:00
Those graphs don't really refute the point.

Look at the buckets: Things like Dental Services, Home Health Care, Nursing Care Facilities... This tells you about healthcare spending at the macro level, but doesn't explain why a particular doctor visit cost so much (I don't use any "nursing care facilities" or "dental services" when I visit the doctor for a sprained ankle, for example).

When you go to the doctor for a sprained ankle, where does that money go? By law, no more than 15% is going to the insurance company (which isn't just profit, that covers all the administrative costs of running the plan). Where does the other 85% go? Certainly some it is the cost of running a clinic (staff, rent, equipment, etc), but what about the rest?

Then look at doctor's income. Your basic family care provider living in Podunkville earns as much as a mid-career SWE in the Bay Area, and specialists earn way, way more. Where do you think that money comes from?
by Terr_ | 2025-09-12 17:57:48+00:00
Yeah, IMO it's excellent "mini-game" more drivers should be playing.

1. It encourages safety through adequate following-distance.

2. Drivers doing it are more aware of upcoming hazards, rather than less.

3. Overall improvement in traffic, reducing hard-stops, reducing hard-acceleration, and encouraging zipper-merging.

4. It displaces wayyyy-worse things bored drivers might end up doing.
by jordanb | 2025-09-12 17:58:40+00:00
That's a good podcast that gets across that most of the Nazis really were just dense thugs.

One thing that it doesn't really cover is the rest of German society and how those thugs managed to get power. Weimer Germany was run by the social democrats. These people were basically 'center left.' They ended up in control after the 1919 revolution that got rid of the Kaiser, and ruled via coalition government with other centrist and center-right parties as junior members.

In general people's complaints were 1) land reform because especially in Prussia most of the land was still owned by massive landowners (Junkers) and most peasants were tenant farmers and 2) better working conditions in industry for the working poor 3) some way to get out of the economic crisis that was bad even before the depression in Germany.

The social democrats failed to deliver any of this. And mostly they spend their entire time in power battling with the Communists. This included hiring freekorps, which were paramility groups that roamed the German countryside after the war and eventually turned into brownshirts, to work with the police to attack communists. There was already a ton of state sponsored terror in the 1920s directed almost entirely at the left.

Support for the social democrats and other center parties collapsed and in the 1932 election, the nazis and communists were the big winners almost entirely at the expense of the social democrats. The center parties decided that working with the communists was absolutely beyond the pale and thought that the nazis would be more easy to manipulate, so they decided to work with Hitler and made him chancellor. Once the nazis had their foot in the door, as it were, and given that they had contempt for democracy and the rule of law, they used every dirty trick they could after that to consolidate power.
by krapp | 2025-09-12 17:58:54+00:00
>The point of LLMs is to refute language, turn anything remotely tied to a specific reality into full arbitrariness, essentially to dislodge our relationship to reality.

That is not and has never been the point of LLMs. Is has that effect mostly because the web and social media have already fractured consensus reality into an infinite fractal of hyperrealities where LLMs can fill the void of societal alienation, but correlation is not causation.

>The question is how did we not see the cultish idea of anthropomorphizing machines that use words.

We did. We saw this coming from miles away. As with everyone who criticized LLMs and AI, we were ridiculed as delusional Luddites standing in the way of progress. So it goes.

>Words are nothing. The "space" between words, as arbitrary as the words to begin with, are not meaningful in terms of actions.

And yet here you are expressing your thoughts and opinions with words. Odd.

It's clear you believe you're on to something profound regarding the nature of cognition but your excessive verbosity combined with a lack of specific sources and concrete ideas makes you come off as a bit of a crank. It's telling that the one time an actual neuroscientist called you out, you dismissed their entire field as "folk psychology." Giving off strong "Here is my thesis on why Einstein was a fraud and free energy is real" vibes.
by danaris | 2025-09-12 17:59:12+00:00
AIUI, this is very difficult to do: the estimate is going to be based on a superficial (in the literal, physical sense) examination of the problem, and once they are actually in there doing what they need to do, they may very well find that there is more that needs doing than they expected.

They can't exactly pause the surgery and get you to consent to an extra few thousand dollars' worth of work.

This is another example of why healthcare really, genuinely is best left as a single-payer government-funded service. People can get the care they need to be healthy, without ever needing to worry about the uncertainty inherent in the price of such a service.
by EnPissant | 2025-09-12 17:59:25+00:00
For contrast, I get the following for a rtx 5090 and 30b qwen3 coder quantized to ~4 bits:

- Prompt processing 65k tokens: 4818 tokens/s

- Token generation 8k tokens: 221 tokens/s

If I offload just the experts to run on the CPU I get:

- Prompt processing 65k tokens: 3039 tokens/s

- Token generation 8k tokens: 42.85 tokens/s

As you can see, token generation is over 5x slower. This is only using ~5.5GB VRAM, so the token generation could be sped up a small amount by moving a few of the experts onto the GPU.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-12 17:59:29+00:00
Sharing the road with drivers on an entirely different control scheme is something I am not a fan of. Going from 2 axes of control to 1 axis of control is not a change to be trivialized. Some in the commercial trucking industry would argue that allowing 2 pedal driving was a catastrophe with regard to filtering out low skilled and unsafe drivers.

Cruise control whenever feasible and safe is probably the most polite solution to the consequences of one pedal driving. The freeway is where this kind of driving causes the most frustration for me. I don't think it should be banned but I think drivers should really give a shit about how they impact others around them. We can make it entirely about safety if that helps. At some level being polite aligns with basic physics.