MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by actuallyrizzn | 2025-09-22 21:28:37+00:00
Spent the weekend on this. I'm a fan of Venice AI, they don't have an official SDK as of yet, just good documentation and a swagger file.

I built this to spec off the swagger and the public docs.

Venice bills itself as uncensored inference, runs on the Morpheus AI decentralized inference cloud. Payable with crypto, good tokenomics. Founded by crypto OG Erik Vorhees.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-22 21:28:38+00:00
Use your imagination. Any event that cannot be defined by low dimensional meaning (which there are myriad). The problem with the distinctions between event perception (what causes a car crash) and what AI assimilates is the arbitrary bottleneck of words, causal statements, images, deep reductions which are possible illusions of semantics like beliefs, motivations, desires.

Humans can take in a remarkable array of stimuli in order to perform tasks that are not cause and effect through optic flow. AI is stuck behind a veil of predicted tokens.

In essence, AI cannot automate mimicry of understanding even when the magic act demonstrates. Events are already tapeworms, but our skillset is so stuck behind the veil of folk psychology and f science, we are merely pretending we understand these events.

So a tapeworm format is probably somewhat like a non-causal contradictory event that may have infinite semantic readings. Think edges of paradox: Kubrick, Escher, Cezanne, Giorgione, Song Dynasty landscapes, Heraclitus, find the Koanic paradoxes of the East and keep conjoining them. Think beyond words, as thoughts are wordless, the tapeworms are out there, math doesn't and can't see them.

This is what's so jarring about meme-culture, which are tapeworms to AI as they are tapeworms to narrative containment culture, what might be viewed as academia/intelligensia/CS engineering/plain English media, the tapeworms are here, CS I think assumes the causal/semantic linkages are simple, meaning is low-bandwidth, but the reality is semantic is both limitless (any event) and illusory (meme-culture ie several memes in sequence). AI has no path in either case.
by txrx0000 | 2025-09-22 21:28:43+00:00
When people say or hear "manipulation", it usually implies deception: someone is tricking someone else into a position that's against the former's goals and interests.

It's possible to communicate without manipulating if all you aspire to do is describe reality as you see it, and make an effort to separate your own aesthetic judgements from mere observations of what exists.

People may change their actions without changing their goals when their model of reality becomes more accurate.
by kevincox | 2025-09-22 21:28:45+00:00
The problem is that this has effectively no conflict resolution. With naive file-based sync the best Syncthing can do is save both files. Then you are stuck merging yourself. Maybe if all of your devices are reliably online and you only use one at a time. But eventually you get a delayed sync resulting in a state fork and you end up with a mess.

For photos and some other type of data this likely isn't much of a problem. But for more complex data it definitely is.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-22 21:28:54+00:00
Almost all of your submissions to this forum have pertained to Donald Trump or issues adjacent to his administration, and most of your comments appear to be low-effort Reddit-style commentary on American politics. The forum isn't meant for this kind of content.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by guyromm | 2025-09-22 21:29:07+00:00
the ultimate laptop bag is an inflatable orange swimming tow float bag: 1. it looks nothing like a laptop bag 2. it will protect your laptop from water, even completely submerged. 3. it will protect your laptop from falling when side pockets are inflated. 4. you can take your laptop to the beach and not worry about it getting stolen. 5. you can use it as a pillow when hiking or at the beach. 6. much cheaper than a laptop bag.

mine's a Decathlon OWS 500, but i guess that it's as good as any.
by uncletaco | 2025-09-22 21:29:16+00:00
Yeah, you're always gonna have those.

I was just saying two middle class families living a thousand miles away from each other along I-40 were fairly similar to me. They are also considered in the same nation according to this map.

The only part of this map I'd quibble with based on personal experience is Birmingham, AL (and Jefferson County) is definitely in that same Greater Appalachia nation because I can't in my heart of hearts say it and Dothan, AL have anything in common. The most interesting thing in Dothan is a hardware store.
by resonancel | 2025-09-22 21:29:19+00:00
XCode evidently cannot keep pace with the rapid development of Swift. Instead of fully embracing community development, Apple maintains a proprietary (dated and divergent) fork of the Swift toolchain in Xcode. For example, check how different compiler diagnostics and suggestions are when using Xcode vs SourceKit LSP. Apple is, once again in its time-honored fashion, wasting collective effort because of its siloed, secrecy-laden development model.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-09-22 21:29:31+00:00
A lot of photo's on that page, this is the ramp in question:

https://www.proxibid.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage...

It's huge, far bigger than it looks in the video. You would have to be asleep at the wheel to miss it.
by g_sch | 2025-09-22 21:29:54+00:00
I sympathize with people who find writing difficult. But, putting myself in GP's shoes, I can't imagine trying to read my father's LLM-generated memoir. How could I possibly understand it as _his_ work? I would be sure that he gave the LLM some amount of information that would render it technically unique, but there's no way I could hear his voice in words that he didn't choose.

If you're writing something for an audience of one, literally nothing matters more than the connection between you and the reader. As someone with a father who's getting on in years, even imagining this scenario is pretty depressing.
by TMWNN | 2025-09-22 21:30:03+00:00
I misspoke. The 7800's sound hardware is worse than the 5200's (which is the same as the Atari 8-bit), but is the same as the 2600. Still, having audio hardware (or, really, anything else) decrease in quality from the previous generation is not a virtue for the console or Atari.
by bsder | 2025-09-22 21:30:39+00:00
I disagree. The quoted scenario is the absolute best for LLMs.

1) An easily defined go/no-go task with defined end point which requires

2) A bunch of programming code that nobody gives a single shit about

3) With esoteric function calls that require staring at obscure documentation

This is the LLM dream task.

When the next person has to stare at this code, they will throw it out and rerun an LLM on it because the code is irrelevant and the end task is the only thing that matters.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-22 21:31:33+00:00
"There have been individual clients downloading the exact same 20-GB file 100s of times per day, for several days in a row. (Just the other day, one user has managed to download almost 10,000 copies of the italy-latest.osm.pbf file in 24 hours!) Others download every single file we have on the server, every day."

This sounds like problem rate-limiting would easily solve. What am I missing. The page claims almost 10,000 copies of same file were downloaded by the same user

The server operator is able to count the number of downloads in a 24h period for an individual user but cannot or will not set a rate limit

Why not

Will the users mentioned above (a) read the operator's message on this web page and then (b) change their behaviour

I would be bet against (a) and therefore (b) as well
by imiric | 2025-09-22 21:32:16+00:00
The fairness doctrine was a good thing, but it existed in a different time. Bringing it back today wouldn't address the main issue which is the internet.

When everyone is given a loudspeaker, and the power to create an audience of millions; when "journalism" is equivalent to any random opinion; when anyone with the will and a negligible amount of resources can promote their agenda... No amount of oversight can bring back balanced discussion about actual facts. Reversing a post-truth society cannot happen without radical disruptions to the system that got us here in the first place.
by chasil | 2025-09-22 21:32:40+00:00
He does appear to have a strong bias in past statements, although I don't know how rigorous this analysis is.

"A separate study from the organization claimed that 92 percent of the jokes Kimmel made on his show since January 2023 were at the expense of conservatives, and 97 percent of his political guests were left-leaning."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15117605/jimmy-kim...
by xp84 | 2025-09-22 21:32:55+00:00
I think wherever you stand on the left vs. right spectrum, it's clear now that "High crimes and misdemeanors" is now de facto defined only as "stuff we don't like that the other party's guy did." Trump could openly commit treason and probably not even be impeached ny his party, let alone removed.

But I don't for a second believe that the Democratic Party would cooperate with "their" person being impeached now either, except if it was politically advantageous for them (for instance, to remove an unpopular Democrat for an embarrassing misstep when there was a popular VP ready to go). No way would they impeach for crimes of overstepping presidential authority to do something the President from The West Wing would be proud of, for instance.
by observationist | 2025-09-22 21:33:59+00:00
I think that's the inability to articulate well, as opposed to a celebration of his wrongdoing. He seems to be talking about how he thinks better of himself, that he doesn't think of himself as a bad person, and pairs it with a condemnation of what he did and the group of people that enabled it. Hopefully he serves good time, grows up, and comes out a credit to his family and society.

>>> The following evening, Noah rang from jail. He said he wished he hadn’t hurt his family, or his victims, but he seemed hopeful that the friendships he made would endure. “I’m not saying what I did was a good thing, it’s a horrible community, and what I did was bad,” Noah said. “But I loved my life. I like who I am. I’m glad I was able to live life as I lived it.”
by Nevermark | 2025-09-22 21:34:09+00:00
Given individual LLM parameters are not easily interpreted, naturally obfuscated by the diffuse nature of their impact, I would think leaning into that would be a more efficient route.

Obfuscating input and output formats could be very effective.

Obfuscation layers can be incorporated into training. With an input (output) layer that passes information forward, but whose output (input) is optimized to have statistically flat characteristics, resistant to attempts to interpret.

Nothing like apparent pure noise for obfuscation!

The core of the model would then be trained, and infer, on the obfuscated data.

When used, the core model would publicly operate on obfuscated data. While the obfuscation/de-obfuscation layers would be used privately.

In addition to obfuscating, the pre and post-layers could also reduce data dimensionality. Naturally increasing obfuscation and reducing data transfer costs. It is a really good fit.

Even the most elaborate obfuscation layers will be orders and orders of magnitude faster than today's homomorphic approaches.

(Given the natural level parameter obfuscation, and the highly limited set of operations for most deep models, I wouldn't be surprised if efficient homomorphic approaches were found in the future.)
by bentohn | 2025-09-22 21:35:06+00:00
We were in the beta for this and they've been great.

We're presently in a migration for our larger instances on Heroku, but were able to test on a new product (fairly high writes/IOPs) and it's been nice to have more control vs. Heroku (specifically, ability to just buy more IOPs or storage).

Had one incident during the beta which we believed we caused on our own but within 5 minutes of pinging them they had thrown multiple engineers on it to debug and resolve quickly. For me, that's the main thing I care about with managed DB services as most tech is commoditization at this point.

Just wish the migration path from Heroku was a tad easier (Heroku blocks logical replication on all instances) but pushing through anyway because I want to use the metal offering.
by cjensen | 2025-09-22 21:35:13+00:00
The Fairness Doctrine has become an urban legend among the left with a regrettable amount of built-up legends of its power.

Whatever you think it did, it almost certainly did not do that. In practice it meant that J. Random Crazypants would be allowed to give an editorial -- sometimes in the middle of the night, and sometimes as 60 second after the news. Additionally the Doctrine never applied to Cable TV for obvious First Amendment reasons.
by ethmarks | 2025-09-22 21:35:17+00:00
Zed supports BYOK so you can connect it to GitHub Copilot or Anthropic or OpenRouter or whatever. The 500-per-month limit is only for Zed-hosted prompts. I personally switch between Zed-hosted, GH Copilot, Gemini API, and Ollama. Zed's AI integration isn't quite as "it just works" as Cursor's, but it's still very good and it gives you much more freedom.
by indolering | 2025-09-22 21:35:31+00:00
I find the choice of TypeScript to be disappointing. One of the reasons that capproto has struggled for market share is the lack of implementations.

Is the overhead for calling into WASM too high for a Rust implementation to be feasible?

A Haxe or Dafny implementation have let us generate libraries in multiple languages from the same source.
by mikeinseattle | 2025-09-22 21:36:00+00:00
This is a really interesting writeup - but something I think a lot of people underestimate is how often these turnstiles are implemented improperly which then makes it pretty easy to spoof / bypass them entirely?

Curious if there's boilerplate provided by cloudflare or a third-party for common JS frameworks like Next and React? For instance, starting very basic like "protecting a web-form submit button / route until the turnstile passes"?
by Ethee | 2025-09-22 21:36:02+00:00
You are correct, and it's important that we don't continue the game of telephone that seems to be destroying this country.

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it."

This was his exact quote and he's 100% right. The entire admin had called out the "Radical left" as the perpetrators before we even had a photo of the shooter. Can we please go back towards the reality where we actually read and understand the words being said instead of having them all parroted to us by media headlines?
by NomDePlum | 2025-09-22 21:36:15+00:00
Northern Ireland is absolutely a success. Having family that are from there it's utterly unrecognisable to what existed in the 70s and 80s. It's far from perfect but the difference to those on both sides who live there is vast.

Paramilitaries on both sides carried out many actions that killed women and children.

Nowhere near the scale of Hamas, and certainly nothing close to the magnitude of the IDF.
by kjs3 | 2025-09-22 21:36:18+00:00
I was thinking more of how Wallmart also has a history of 'influencing' local officials to overlook the damage being done, as well as getting small towns to take on huge debt loads for 'required' infrastructure upgrades, all in the hopes that there will be a windfall when they set up shop. But sure, they suck in other ways and if you need some relative shittyness metric then ok I guess.
by drdec | 2025-09-22 21:36:26+00:00
There are plenty of locales where broadcasts cross state lines. I grew up in an area where we got Boston (Massachusetts) and Providence (Rhode Island) stations. NYC stations cover three states. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples (probably involving even more than three states).

So the justification for federal intervention (interstate commerce) is there.

Of course, that doesn't prevent the feds from letting the states handle it, but it does create an incentive for some states to want the feds to handle it.
by pretext-1 | 2025-09-22 21:36:30+00:00
I don’t know if people are noticing this but apple.com doesn’t have a cookie banner. It’s perfectly possible to operate a website – even a shop – without having a cookie banner. Even one of the biggest here in Europe in terms of revenue. As OP said, cookie banners are just malicious compliance. You don’t need one unless you’re doing shady things. Unfortunately it looks like the advertisers and trackers are winning as the EU is planing to relax the rules. I believe there would have been another way, something like banning unnecessary tracking altogether.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-22 21:36:44+00:00
> Disney was really in a pickle here

Disney made a preschool-level bad choice. Grade schoolers have figured out that capitulating to a bully is how you signal you want more bulling.

Disney also had examples of law firms and universities that bent the knee to the whitehouse - and how that turned out for them. The reward for tanking their reputations was more whitehouse demands.
by rohany | 2025-09-22 21:36:52+00:00
Author here! I think that warp specialization is inherently related to multi-stage pipelining, they aren't really alternatives of each other. Warp specialization is a way to realize a multi-stage pipeline in the face of hazards that may cause the pipeline to spill out of the register file or not let parts of the pipeline run concurrently as desired.

The fact that we tend to need different warp specialization strategies for different hardware is a consequence of the capabilities of that hardware (i.e. different asynchronous instruction types), and contributes to the complexity of targeting that new hardware.
by acossta | 2025-09-22 21:37:45+00:00
We are getting hit with exactly the same at a much greater scale. 260K in our case. Exactly the same issue.

When you create Gemini Flash Cache with a TTL of 1 or 3 hrs, it creates the cache and TTLs it correctly, but the billing system keeps charing the hourly rate for the cache making the charges grow exponentially.

We've seen charges go up since 9/19 even though we turned off all the services from that account.

Struggling to get the attention of folks at Google (ticket, account manager, sales engineer: no one responds)
by pkhodiyar | 2025-09-22 21:37:58+00:00
quick tldr; We are doing a live 60 minutes AMA with folks from Microsoft, Pinecone, Santiago and Alden (CEO CustomGPT.ai) on MCP, sounds interesting? Register.

The goal is to educate about MCP, answer questions, and cover use cases: RAG + MCP, IDEs + MCP, etc. We’ll have live demos, Pinecone folks talking about what they are up to, and much more fun!

If you have been early in the MCP race, this would surely be worth your time.

Why might this interest you?

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a low-level JSON-RPC protocol for passing structured context and tools to an LLM. Instead of gluing prompts together, you expose one JSON endpoint for a tool (and it takes care of tons of API endpoints for that tool).

MCP is just REST for LLMs! It really is that simple!

We plan to show a live demo of a working MCP, preferably hosted one, setting up configs, with Claude.

We will also answer any questions!

Featured Speakers:

1. Michael Kistler - Principal Program Manager at Microsoft

2. Arjun Patel - Senior Developer Advocate at Pinecone

3. Santiago (https://www.linkedin.com/in/svpino/) - Computer scientist and teaches hard-core Machine Learning; will walk you through Why do we need MCP?, Before MCP vs. After MCP, Architecture, Primitives, and Advantages.

4. Alden Do Rosario - will dissect the RAG + MCP pipeline we run in prod, live demo.

Format: - 3×10 min tech talks (protocol, integration, case study) - 10 min panel on lessons learned - 20 min open Q&A - bring tough questions

When: - Date: Sept 25, 02 PM ET

Registration (free, no spam): LINK http://customgpt.ai/mcp-ama-hn

Code sample, and infra diagrams will be posted after the session. AMA during and after the call - hope to see HN folks there.
by AgentME | 2025-09-22 21:38:03+00:00
He didn't even necessarily say they were wrong about it. He just emphasized that their top priority was making sure they could score points from it:

> We hit some new lows over the weekend with 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. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-22 21:38:12+00:00
https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1958279379408372204

The framing isn't just that it is "woke", but, more to the essay, that they're destroying a classic American aesthetic.

They're very much making this out to be: it's us vs them, and mythologizing tradition. Equating corporate identity as American history does well to push corporate capitalism, but funnily enough, the logo only goes back to 1977. It's only as old as Don Jr!
by Zagreus2142 | 2025-09-22 21:38:26+00:00
I get what you are saying, and a situation like this needs to be treated with extreme tact and care. But no, it's not his story, it's a low res approximation of his story as viewed through the lens of the stastical average reddit comment or self published book.

If the father is really into the tech side of it (as opposed to pure laziness), I'd ask him for the prompts alongside the generated text and just ignore the output. The prompts are the writing that is meant for the original commentor, and it is well worth it to take the tact of not judging those by their writing quality independently.
by ru552 | 2025-09-22 21:38:46+00:00
*Please note, I'm not in favor of censorship, it's just that this analogy is inaccurate

Olive Garden isn't given access to something it requires to operate at the pleasure of the government. Broadcast TV on the other hand...

All of broadcast TV is allowed because the government says it is. ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX don't own the radio spectrum they are operating on, the government does and they grant the right to use it to those companies. There's a long list of things that the government requires them to do in order to keep this pleasure. One of them used to be the Saturday morning cartoons. I miss those.
by MrLeap | 2025-09-22 21:38:46+00:00
> Such reachouts are very very rare unless your software has gone viral in the right circles

Another anecdote. I had job offers coming out of my ears while I was posting videos of my indiegame on twitter. Only one video had substantial reach -- near the end of my time actively twittering. I think what helps is doing something as well as you can, and be persistently visible.