MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2025-09-09 14:06:33+00:00
They think things will go back to normal. Once/if they do, they think (probably correctly) that the "normal" rulers will reward those who deferred to the crown despite disliking the one who wore it.

That's the essence of normalcy to them. They cannot imagine any alternative to the US foreign department dictated world order - or they just don't want to imagine it.

They rose in a system where imagination in foreign policy matters -- well, if they had it, they wouldn't have risen to the top in this system. The height of irresponsibility to them is to imagine something outside the present order (such as Varoufakis making practical plans for leaving the Euro during the Greek debt crisis). The very action of imagining things threatens the stability which is the base of everything they actually value, which is little more than peer prestige and comfort for themselves.
by outside1234 | 2025-09-09 14:06:57+00:00
Yes, the reality that China and the US are driving is that you can't take off 5 weeks in the summer, have 42 public holidays a year, only work until 4pm, and not be able to fire underperforming people and hope to be magically be competitive.

I know this isn't popular, and I wish it was different too, but you can't have it both ways.
by CWIZO | 2025-09-09 14:07:51+00:00
It looks like we will be forever looking for solutions when we keep on ignoring animal farming in these conversations. Not even a single mention of the orders of magnitude more of water that is required for animal agriculture vs just growing plants directly for human consumption.

Would it solve everything? No. But it would solve a whole lot and the fact that someone that specialises in environmentalism doesn't even mention it shows just how far we are from solving this.
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-09 14:07:55+00:00
Pretty far off the mark.

I've spent the last year building an AI product in a situation with really cut throat margins: I've post-trained every model Mistral has released in that time frame that was either open-weights or supported fine-tuning via Le Platforme (so I've gotten them at their absolute best case)

Mistral's models are not competitive anymore, and haven't been for most of that time. Gemma 27b has better world knowledge, Deepseek obsoleted their dense models, Gemini Flash is faster and their models are not even close to cost competitive with it (shocking claim otherwise tbh).

Mistral's platform is not fast (Mistral Medium is slower than Sonnet 4, which is just straight up insane!). Cerebras is fast, but there are both competitors offering similar speeds (Samba Nova and Groq), and other models that are faster on Cerebras (people really sleep on gpt-oss after the launch jitters)

You're inventing a snowman with your analogy: their models are just irrelevant, and that's informed by using everything from dots.llm to Minimax-Text to Jamba (which is really underestimated btw, and not Chinese if sinophobia has a grip on your org) to Seed-OSS, in production.

tl;dr: the only way to justify Mistral's models is in fact to reject the best solutions in any dimension that can be described as model performance.

If you're still using them and it really isn't for non-performance reasons, I assume you're overindexing on benchmarks or behind on the last year or so of open-weight progress and would recommend actually trying some other offerings.
by gpm | 2025-09-09 14:08:11+00:00
Baseload is quite irrelevant, because baseload also doesn't supply those critical needs. "Baseload" is by definition power production that can't follow the demand curve, and thus can't provide the power to keep the grid stable. It's as bad as solar and wind in this way, it's just that instead of having a fixed but variable supply curve it has a fixed but flat supply curve.

What you want is dispatchable power. Gas peaker plants for instance. Or overbuilt solar + batteries. Not baseload.
by thiago_fm | 2025-09-09 14:08:11+00:00
This isn't Europe's fault.

But the fact that US's diplomatic policy USED TO make us not want to do it.

Europe using US tech was a bonding measure between the two parties.

We can quickly and easy build european "FAANG" overnight, even now more with AI search making it easy to replace Google.

We even already have it: think Ecosia, Protonmail etc. There are tons of those.

The same is for social media. It would be very easy to flip a social media app akin to Instagram, or FB.

The issue is getting users and have alignment that this would be the "european version".

We never had to do this, or think of it, because US had a very benevolent and good relationship with Europe, and US big tech used to make us feel even more connected.
by vixen99 | 2025-09-09 14:08:24+00:00
'The highest earning 1% in the UK pay an estimated 28% of all income tax. '

https://fullfact.org/economy/do-top-1-earners-pay-28-tax-bur...

The good news is that not all that '1% of the rich' are leaving. However unless this 28% of all tax figure is wrong, inevitably there will be an increase to counter the loss.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 14:08:25+00:00
> You can't only run your datacenters and factories when the wind blows or the sun shines.

This has been false in the real world. Factories that use a lot of energy do work with the power company and shutdown all the time based on demand. Large steel mills have their own power plant onsite, but smaller ones just buy grid energy and they want the cheapest. They arrange their factory maintenance schedules with the power company so that the power plants are maintained as the same time they are shutdown. They shutdown every December so the power company can sell the power they were using to run Christmas lights. They often run overnight shifts only because that is when power is cheapest. Even the large factories with their own power generation have shutdown for a couple weeks to sell power to the grid (this is very rare, but it has happened).

Wind and solar is a little more difficult because it isn't as predictable, but that is different from unpredictable. The power companies already are running models to predict the wind and solar cycles because it is important for many things they do. You can bet those smaller factories are already working with the power company to schedule shutdowns when power is predicted to be expensive - factories have to do regular maintenance anyway so it is just a matter of being ready (spare parts) when asked, and wind/solar is predictable enough for this.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-09 14:08:36+00:00
> I don't want to 'press A to win'.

I get that! (Edit: I mean this enthusiastically, like, I relate :) )

I think the point is, for me (and it looks like some others in the thread), beating bosses doesn't feel like "winning", it feels like completing a chore.

For me, for example, the part that feels like winning (in games in general) is stuff like investing the time to travel through all the areas of a game, completing many if not all the side quests, grinding to get to max level and/or earning all the best equipment, etc.

But learning the specific way to beat this one boss (often in a way that doesn't matter for the rest of the game because it's based on some timing or animation specific to that boss)? Yeah, that's a chore.
by Gormo | 2025-09-09 14:08:38+00:00
Not that much different from any other form of content aggregation. Web links posted to HN or Reddit also either strip out individualized links or conflate everything together under the same link. There are plenty of solutions to this.

If you're generating feeds on the fly with tracking metadata based on the requester, you can identify aggregators, and treat them equivalently to social media platforms where users circulate normal web links. You still get click-throughs to the underlying content from the end users, and you'll know the aggregator was the referrer.

Many podcasts use direct ad injection using metadata from the request to the enclosure link -- that seems to work well enough, and seems like the sort of thing that could be used for other content than just audio and video.
by greysonp | 2025-09-09 14:08:54+00:00
Sure! I make Signal backups on my Android device, sync them to my home server via FolderSync, and then run a nightly script that uses signalbackup-tools[1] to extract media from my family group chats and upload them to my immich server via their CLI.

[1] https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
Show HN: Paylooop – Cost visibility for AI agents
by yahyam | 2025-09-09 14:09:25+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Yahya, founder of Rocket Money (formerly Truebill, YC W16). I’m working with a team to launch Payloop, a lightweight infrastructure layer that helps teams understand the real costs of deploying AI agents - across tasks, workflows, and customers.

Here's a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-GkSl_7imY

Most companies today can't see what it actually costs to deploy their agents, making it nearly impossible to manage margins or price confidently. Payloop solves this with an elegant approach: just a single line of code gives you real-time visibility into cost per task, agent, and customer.

This becomes especially critical as teams run multiple LLMs to power different queries for the same customer. Payloop shows the true costs in real time, helping teams preserve gross margins and avoid costly surprises while scaling.

By showing exactly what's driving cost and value, Payloop becomes the source of truth for agent economics, helping companies scale agents with confidence.

We just opened up early access to our beta, available here - https://trypayloop.com/yc - and would love your feedback!
by jimbohn | 2025-09-09 14:10:03+00:00
And a lot of lead-generating subreddits are gatekept by admins/mods, sometimes for money. Also, there are russians offering services to promote (spam upvotes and fake comments) your product, and for some of our competitors it's very obvious when that happens, somehow reddit doesn't notice. Same about twitter, somehow super tight checks for normal users while some spam is somehow unfiltered. Social media is a destructive force.
Show HN: Narev – Rapid A/B tests for the LLM setup
by osquar | 2025-09-09 14:10:27+00:00
Hey! I want to get your feedback on our A/B testing platform for LLMs. Giving a 100 day Pro trial to anyone who signs up this week.

The premise: in 10 minutes compare a bunch of model/parameter/prompt combos to find the best point on the quality-latency-cost tradeoff.

Enter your data manually or sync from your tracing platform.

~300 models to select from.

Here is a 1 minute Loom: https://www.loom.com/share/39b7cd24166c4e1fafd5e7fbd12a9d4d?...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 14:10:30+00:00
Even standard autofill (as in that built into Safari, Firefox, Chrome etc) gets tripped up on 100% legit sites shockingly often. Usually the cause is the site being botched, with mislabeled fields or some unnecessarily convoluted form design that otherwise prevents autofill from doing its thing.

Please people, build your login forms correctly! It’s not rocket science.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-09-09 14:10:32+00:00
Reverse chronological + subscription (ie. the user must actively make a choice to follow some channel or creator to get them in their feed). This is how most platforms started, and while there were still issues (eg. rewarding frequent posting) they seemed a lot less problematic than what we have today.

The main issue isn't the misinformation or disinformation; it is how quickly you can amplify reach and reach millions. Reverse chronological + follows based on active user choice would largely address that issue.
by slightwinder | 2025-09-09 14:10:36+00:00
First Hollow Knight is already better in that aspect, even though animation is less smooth IIRC. Personally, I prefer the Ori-Games in terms of movements, especially the second game.

But gaming is big, and inside as also outside the genre there are many games with great movement and controls. It depends on how much of an alternative you really want, just the movement, or the whole game..
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-09 14:10:43+00:00
This is a stawman designed to misdirect the discussion. How about we keep discussing regulation in the context of ad abuse?

A valid criticism would be an implied false dichotomy in my original comment (either regulation or rampant corporate abuse). My idea is for us to discuss this. Is regulation not the right way? What's the alternative? Not, "oh if that doesn't work for all possible universe of applicable solutions, it doesn't deserve merit"
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-09 14:10:44+00:00
>Work with OpenDocument

Why on earth would they want to do that? Because they hate having money? Because they suddenly decided that opening the market to competition would be more important than the billions they stood to lose?

These standards determine the tools people use to communicate with tax offices and other government institutions. Thanks to their efforts (supported by as much corruption as necessary), Microsoft didn't have to invent a new file format and would let people just use the file format everyone was already using for official business.

Office allows saving as ODF already and has supported it for ages. It was never about supporting open standards. This is all about corporate interests.

I can't think of a single "open" format designed by a large corporation that isn't "open" as a way to make more money.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 14:10:55+00:00
Why do what? Have private water companies? Same reason for having private food supply, private electricity providers, private communication providers, and in most countries private healthcare providers. They run the business better than the state would, which is itself a benefit to the public.

A government bailout means nationalization, which means investors lose everything. That risk doesn't suppress interest rates, it increases them. Thames Water's interest costs are around average for corporate debt, implying the market doesn't anticipate a water nationalization anytime soon.
by fwipsy | 2025-09-09 14:10:57+00:00
> If you want to measure how efficient a CPU core is you do so under full load.

Higher wattage gives diminishing returns. Chips will run higher wattage under full load just to eke out a marginal improvement in performance. Therefore efficiency improves if the manufacturer chooses to limit the chip rather than pushing it harder.

Test efficiency using whatever task the chip will be used for. For most ultralight laptops, that will be web browsing etc. so the m1 MacBook/snapdragon results are valid for typical users. Maybe your workload hammers the CPU but that doesn't make it the one true benchmark.
by jpcompartir | 2025-09-09 14:10:59+00:00
Assuming you've read OpenAI's paper released this week?

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be-3f6f-4d2b-b283-ff432ef4a...

They attribute these 'compression artefacts' to pre-training, they also reference the original snowballing paper: How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13534

They further state that reasoning is no panacea. W hilst you did say: "the models mitigate more and more"

You were replying to my comment which said:

"'Bad' generations early in the output sequence are somewhat mitigatable by injecting self-reflection tokens like 'wait', or with more sophisticated test-time compute techniques."

So our statements there are logically compatible, i.e. you didn't make a statement that contradicts what I said.

"Our error analysis is general yet has specific implications for hallucination. It applies broadly, including to reasoning and search-and-retrieval language models, and the analysis does not rely on properties of next-word prediction or Transformer-based neural networks."

"Search (and reasoning) are not panaceas. A number of studies have shown how language models augmented with search or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) reduce hallucinations (Lewis et al., 2020; Shuster et al., 2021; Nakano et al., 2021; Zhang and Zhang, 2025). However, Observation 1 holds for arbitrary language models, including those with RAG. In particular, the binary grading system itself still rewards guessing whenever search fails to yield a confident answer. Moreover, search may not help with miscalculations such as in the letter-counting example, or other intrinsic hallucinations"
by const_cast | 2025-09-09 14:11:21+00:00
There is actually no difference, only a difference in intent.

The problem is similar to that of government efforts to ban encryption: if you have a backdoor, everyone has a backdoor.

If Meta is collecting huge amount of user info like candy (they are) and using it for business purposes (they are), then necessarily those employees implementing those business purposes can do that, too.

You can make them pinky promise not to. That doesn't do anything.

Meta has a similar problem with stalking via Ring camera. You allow and store live feeds of every Ring camera? News flash: your employees can, too! They're gonna use that to violate your customers!
by natmaka | 2025-09-09 14:11:25+00:00
Not at continental scale, and grids are or will soon be at this scale.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09601...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014811...
by JimDabell | 2025-09-09 14:11:30+00:00
The problem is there is no continuity. An email from an organisation that has emailed you a hundred times before looks the same as an email from somebody who has never emailed you before. Your inbox is a collection of legitimate email floating in a vast ocean of email of dubious provenance.

I think there’s a fairly straightforward way of fixing this: contact requests for email. The first email anybody sends you has an attachment that requests a token. Mail clients sort these into a “friend request” queue. When the request is accepted, the sender gets the token, and the mail gets delivered to the inbox. From that point on, the sender uses the token. Emails that use tokens can skip all the spam filters because they are known to be sent by authorised senders.

This has the effect of separating inbound email into two collections: the inbox, containing trustworthy email where you explicitly granted authorisation to the sender; and the contact request queue.

If a phisher sends you email, then it will end up in the new request queue, not your inbox. That should be a big glaring warning that it’s not a normal email from somebody you know. You would have to accept their contact request in order to even read the phishing email.

I went into more detail about the benefits of this system and how it can be implemented in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44969726
by a3w | 2025-09-09 14:11:39+00:00
At work, we had video content with "ai generated" now shown in an eponymous Teams channel. Now no one viewing the video knows if just the image, or the project logo, and/or the voiceover was AI generated but is very confused on that upon seeing the label.

Skip the labels. Photoshop and "the trainee did it" existed for 38 years already, and respectively for many more years now, and have about the same reliability.
by diggan | 2025-09-09 14:11:52+00:00
I'm using 1Password+Firefox+Linux, it fails to find the right username+passwords maybe 10% of the time, mostly because services keep using different domains for login than for signup, so it doesn't recognize it's a valid domain.

In those cases, I carefully review the new domain, make sure it belongs to the right owner, then add it to the list of domains to accept. Now the account list properly show up in the future too, until they again change it. But it gives me a moment to pause and reflect before just moving past it.

I cannot remember any times in the last years where 1Password was 100% unable to fill out the username/password for a website unless the website itself prevented pasting passwords (like my old bank).

But even if it fills the wrong fields, it still provides safety as you wouldn't even see the accounts in the list if you're on the wrong domain, so that's your first warning sign.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-09 14:11:53+00:00
> You might think dispatchable natural gas fired plants with some kind of carbon capture would help but with amine-based carbon capture the capital cost is high, just like with nuclear, so you are looking at a high multiple of what it would cost to add carbon capture to a coal plant that runs continuously. Calcium-based chemical cycling, metal-organic-frameworks and such offer some hope for lowering costs but probably not enough for those scenarios.

I think you are missing far simpler solutions for what is in terms of TWh needed a tiny problem.

Why not just use biofuels, synfuels or hydrogen?

Whatever the aviation and the maritime shipping industries settles on since they are unable to in the foreseeable future decarbonize with batteries.

The US today produces enough ethanol for gas blending to run the entire grid for 16 days without help.

As we switch to BEVs it is trivial to repurpose that for the grid, while also ensuring that the inputs decarbonize as well.
by Semaphor | 2025-09-09 14:12:26+00:00
I keep thinking my requirements are simple, but then it turns out they are apparently not. Tried switching back when Nova got bought, tried it again just now. Requirements that aren’t universal:

1. Homescreen with (fully custom) widgets, app icons, folders.

2. App drawer with search and auto pop-up keyboard that shows new apps by default.

* Microsoft Launcher got close, but it’s essentially an ad for microsoft products. In addition, I can’t choose to have folder labels without app labels.

* Smart Launcher 6 as the only one ticked all boxes, but the UX of home screen adjustments is abysmal. I long press whatsapp, there I click the settings button, there I click the X, then I have to confirm I really want to remove the icon. Long press + 3 clicks for removing an icon from the homescreen. What? I guess it’s not a super frequent action, but when I’m expected to pay $22 for the premium version, I really would prefer not having such an annoyance.

I tried some others, both free and freemium, including Lawnchair, but for now I’m back at Nova.
by zahlman | 2025-09-09 14:12:30+00:00
This is interesting to me because I separately came up with the "toy" idea in trying to figure out for myself exactly what a "game" is, anyway. Many popular things marketed as "games" really are toys by this standard, in the sense that you have to build your own win conditions around them. I'm thinking here of pretty much the entire simulation genre, as well as even very niche and complex things like Dwarf Fortress.

I'm sure many others have separately come up with this idea, too.