MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cj | 2025-09-11 23:09:11+00:00
> I don't know if they would or would not serve ads in the future

There are 2 possible futures:

1) You are served ads based on your interactions

2) You pay a subscription fee equal to the amount they would have otherwise earned on ads

I highly doubt #2 will happen. (See: Facebook, Google, twitter, et al)

Let’s not fool ourselves. We will be monetized.

And model quality will be degraded to maximize profits when competition in the LLM space dies down.

It’s not a pretty future. I wouldn’t be surprised if right now is the peak of model quality, etc. Peak competition, everyone is trying to be the best. That won’t continue forever. Eventually everyone will pivot their priority towards monetization rather than model quality/training.

Hopefully I’m wrong.
by echelon | 2025-09-11 23:10:07+00:00
This argument that hints at appropriation isn't going to be very useful or true, going forward.

There are now dozens of copyright safe image and video models: Adobe, MoonValley, etc.

We technically never need human works again. We can generate everything synthetically (unreal engine, cameras on a turn table, etc.)

The physics of optics is just incredibly easy to evolve.
by Schmerika | 2025-09-11 23:10:13+00:00
This thread was in fact flagged for quite some time, so...

Even after being manually unflagged following user requests, the false flag will have impacted its rank in the HN algorithm.

For the record, OP is entirely correct to assert that anti Israel stuff is always quickly flagged here. I've seen it many, many many times. Very often it isn't ever unflagged, despite being extremely relevant to this crowd.

My priors inspired me to look if strenuously denying live-streamed genocide and repeating bad Hasbara are regular pastimes from your account. It gave me no joy to see I was correct.
by ripped_britches | 2025-09-11 23:10:25+00:00
This is actually a great idea but my advice to you is to package it in some bigger kind of offering because this is a small niche.

And likely this type of thing is not suitable for CI use. CI systems are already too slow and flaky. You want to run this type of thing nightly.

For example look at supabase. They basically sell a DX CLI + UI as their core offering. But that’s not a real business. So they sell off the shelf AWS RDS + postgrest + gotrue and now it is a cohesive platform that you can charge real money for. But those pieces are just the easy to assemble legos around their core thing. Not to belittle how impressive they are at shipping, but a lot of what makes supabase great is the brilliant assembly of these preexisting components, wrapped in a delicious package
by jemmyw | 2025-09-11 23:12:15+00:00
> I think its more about the issue that databases like postgres are too much "magic"

The problem with that thought is that in order for sqlite to be as full featured as it is, it also has a lot of "magic". I've also had to dive into the postgres code a few times to understand how it's doing something, and I've generally found it well structured and easy to navigate, and surprisingly terse - there's not that much "magic" really.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-11 23:12:55+00:00
> If Odin becomes big enough, the community will override the will of the author.

Dunno, hanging out in the Odin discord, it definitely attracts a crowd that thinks similarly to Bill. All the "automate everything" crowd have definitely gone to Zig, where you can create automated monstrosities with the comptime stuff and build.zig files. And the crowd that likes NPM gravitates to Rust. So Odin is just fine IMO. People on the discord share libraries that actually do things, versus an entire dependency to write a few basic procedures.

And speaking of JavaScript, nowadays ES6 does have an idea of what packages/modules/libraries are and it's so much better. All my JS dependencies for my Rails projects are just .esm.js files. I choose modules carefully, don't pull in obfuscated files, read the source, so I have 2 JS dependencies in one project and a single one in another, I write the rest myself in vanilla JS and life is great.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-11 23:13:04+00:00
I know what MLX is. MLX-swift is just a more accessible facade, but it's still MLX. The entire raison d'être for MLX is training and research. It is not a deployment library. It has zero intention in being a deployment library. Saying MLX replaces CoreML is simply nonsensical.

> But why would you use CoreML if not to access ANE?

The whole point of CoreML is hardware agnostic operations, not to mention higher level operations for most model touchpoints. If you went into this thinking CoreML = ANE, that's just fundamentally wrong at the beginning. ANE is one extremely limited path for CoreML models. The vast majority of CoreML models will end up running on the GPU -- using metal, it should be noted -- aside from some hyper-optimized models for core system functions, but if/when Apple improves the ANE, existing models will just use that as well. Similarly when you run a CoreML model on an A19 equipped unit, it will use the new matmul instructions where appropriate.

That's the point of CoreML.

Saying other options are "better, newer" is just weird and meaningless. Not only is CoreML rapidly evolving and can support just about every modern model feature, in most benchmarks of CoreML vs people's hand-crafted metal, CoreML smokes them. And then you run it on an A19 or the next M# and it leaves them crying for mercy. That's the point of it.

Can someone hand craft some metal and implement their own model runtime? Of course they can, and some have. That is the extreme exception, and no one in here should think that has replaced anything
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-11 23:13:08+00:00
I read his page about his health (I’m thankful for those who choose to do this) and I’m wondering if someone can help me understand how a year of reduced appetite and weight loss doesn’t trigger any alarms.

Is that something that can just happen to people and be no meaningful signal that anything is wrong? Ie. can a perfectly healthy person struggle to gain weight if they’re trying? I guess I’ve always perceived it to generally be the opposite.
by astrange | 2025-09-11 23:13:18+00:00
> Roughly, actual intelligence needs to maintain a world model in its internal representation

This is GOFAI metaphor-based development, which never once produced anything useful. They just sat around saying things like "people have world models" and then decided if they programmed something and called it a "world model" they'd get intelligence, it didn't work out, but then they still just went around claiming people have "world models" as if they hadn't just made it up.

An alternative thesis "people do things that worked the last time they did them" explains both language and action planning better; eg you don't form a model of the contents of your garbage in order to take it to the dumpster.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/computation-and-hum...
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-11 23:13:43+00:00
Depending on your feed reader you can filter stuff pretty well with custom rules. I use newsboat. Even without hard filtering, thanks to the compact density I can sift through a huge number of articles in barely any time at all. Yes, I am doing it myself, the horror of laboring, but again it takes barely any time at all to go through the days RSS feeds even with a few news sites throwing 100 articles a day. Mark as read. Done.
by iknowstuff | 2025-09-11 23:13:55+00:00
Quite a few upsides.

There are a few clear precedents where Apple held a feature back in the EU, then shipped later and/or exposed a path others could plug into:

Apple Intelligence: Announced as “not at launch” in the EU in 2024, then rolled out to EU users with iOS 18.4 in spring 2025 (most features). One carve-out remains: Live Translation with AirPods

NFC access for third-party wallets (HCE): After an EU antitrust case, Apple committed to open iPhone NFC (“tap-to-pay”) via Host Card Emulation, let users set a default non-Apple wallet, support Field Detect/Double-click flows, etc., so a genuine “build a platform others can plug into.” The Commission made these commitments legally binding for 10 years.

With iOS 17.4 Apple created EU-only entitlements for non-WebKit engines (e.g., full Chromium/Gecko), so browser makers can ship their own engines on iPhone/iPad in the EU.

Home-screen web apps (PWAs) reversal: Apple initially said PWAs would go away in the EU for 17.4, then reversed and kept them—implemented on WebKit with the usual security model.

Alternative app distribution (marketplaces + web distribution): In response to the DMA, Apple shipped EU-only APIs/entitlements for third-party app marketplaces and later web distribution (direct from developer sites) with notarization, installation, backup/restore hooks, etc.

Tap to Pay on iPhone (SoftPOS): Apple’s merchant “no extra hardware” payments feature expanded across EU countries and is designed for platforms like Adyen/Stripe/Mollie to integrate via SDKs
by coldtea | 2025-09-11 23:14:05+00:00
>No, the EU mandates that Apple cannot implement OS features for the sole benefit of its own hardware-offering in a different market, because this is not fair competition.

Why don't the other players make their own smartphones and smartphone OS and then "implement OS features for the sole benefit of its own hardware-offering"?

Is it fair to force another player to let you hijack their ecosystem?
by ElCapitanMarkla | 2025-09-11 23:14:17+00:00
Fantastic, my kids are going to love this.

Seconding the call for a video.

Also the instructions to remove the quarantine attr don't work.

xattr -cr ~/Downloads/FartScrollLid.app 11:12:20

option -r not recognized

edit: that should be `xattr -d FartScrollLid.app`
by dexterdog | 2025-09-11 23:14:31+00:00
> Maybe I have a coupon? Is the price really the part of this that sticks in your craw?

It was the price and also the reference to WMDs. You can't get WMDs at all so the price part is irrelevant.

> I'm fine with not infringing on the well regulated militias rights. Exactly as it was written.

That's also a cherry-picking way to interpret that line. You're intentionally leaving out the part that is inconvenient to your opinion.
by croes | 2025-09-11 23:14:36+00:00
I didn't claim that a great replacement startegy is under way.

What do you think happens if people believe such nonsense.

I also don't think that he American Democrat party hates this country and wanna see it collapse.

And I definetly don't think a 10-year should conceive the baby after a rape.

And don't forget in Kirk's own words: "I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

Harder to get guns would likely have saved his life.

BTW how can I be the problems, it's just words, isn't it?
by lieret | 2025-09-11 23:15:57+00:00
[Also on the SWE-bench team] Part of the reason why this didn't surface earlier was that it only seems to affect more recent models, maybe the result of reward hacking during posttraining. We're currently working on making trajectories easier to access for everyone through a web tool (rather than having to download things from aws) to get even more eyes on the trajectories. The interface will also include search & LM inspection tools to specifically look for anything that might qualify as cheating.
by fleebee | 2025-09-11 23:16:08+00:00
I'm guessing that's an LLM hallucination. The conclusion section especially has some hints it was pulled out of an LLM:

> The package managers we benchmarked weren't built wrong, they were solutions designed for the constraints of their time.

> Buns approach wasn't revolutionary, it was just willing to look at what actually slows things down today.

> Installing packages 25x faster isn't "magic": it's what happens when tools are built for the hardware we actually have.
by astrange | 2025-09-11 23:16:21+00:00
> What I mean is that the current generation of LLMs don’t understand how concepts relate to one another.

They must be able to do this implicitly; otherwise why are their answers related to the questions you ask them, instead of being completely offtopic?

https://phillipi.github.io/prh/

A consequence of this is that you can steal a black box model by sampling enough answers from its API because you can reconstruct the original model distribution.
by orwin | 2025-09-11 23:16:41+00:00
I borrowed 100 from you to buy 100 of expensive stuff to X. I default, the 100 i spent is still in the real economy, and you don't have to reimburse anyone yet. People i paid with the 100 i borrowed still have the money, you have to write you lost 100, but if you do your accounting '''correctly''', that money is actually not really paid or taken directly from your profits (first because it's probably insured or collateralized, but let's ignore that because it add to much complexity): you can basically use my default as your tax break. In the end, maybe you pay back 100, but you'll get 50 from your tax break so ultimately a default of 100 add 50 in the money supply.

(btw: i don't know the number, but my uncle insure companies and their loans for Alliance, i'm pretty sure it's more than 50% that's deduced from taxes when he register a loss, i can't seem to remember our conversation though)

I think that loss counting as tax break is an important part of the system, but in this very case, it does create inflation. Also loan insurers have insurances themselves and the loss is counted multiple time, i'm not sure exactly how the complete system work here works but it seems very efficient at claiming a tax break at multiple level.
by whycome | 2025-09-11 23:18:14+00:00
iOS must have changed some things related to keyboards. On an iPhone many years ago it was definitely a better experience. I’m not sure if some sort of predictive text gets in the way or what. Or maybe something with the spacing. Or it also seems like some sort of thread priority issue because there are times where I can distinctly tell that there’s some sort of input lag that’s messing with it.

Gboard is crippled on iOS — why can’t we just have a damn comma on the main screen?! And why can't I just get my keyboard to be at the very bottom of my screen.

It's 2025 and we have gone so far backward.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-11 23:18:44+00:00
Australia has done this for public schools recently. It's been a huge success. Private schools have banned phones for ages.

As a teenager I hated how the rule applied during lunch as well, but now I realise it was primarily to get us to physically talk to each other and interact rather than scrolling reddit in the corner. So I'm very thankful we had that rule.
by whydontyoushare | 2025-09-11 23:19:42+00:00
It's important to know the context. That poll was made the very same days the Brazilian Federal Police performed search warrants against Bolsonaro and his allies. Which was a key step in finding incriminatory evidence now publicly presented and accepted during the current judgment. IMO it's no wonder 47% of respondants said so in that moment. You can also check that this was the opinion of ~82% among those who voted for Bolsonaro at the presidential election 16 months before (49% of votes). And in another question of the same poll, 99% of his voters believe ex-president Bolsonaro was being unjustly persecuted (average was 42%).
by sixo | 2025-09-11 23:19:56+00:00
I see no reason to believe an effective LLM-scale "world-modeling" model would look anything like the kinds of things previous generations of AI researchers were doing. It will probably look a lot more like a transformer architecture--big and compute intensive and with a fairly simple structure--but with a learning process which is different in some key way that make different manifold structures fall out.
by vunderba | 2025-09-11 23:20:32+00:00
It's actually already in there - the full list of edit models is Nano-Banana, Kontext Dev, Kontext Max, Qwen Edit 20b, gpt-image-1, and Omnigen2.

I agree with your assessment - even though it does tend to make changes at a global level you can least attempt to minimize its alterations through careful prompting.
by brotchie | 2025-09-11 23:20:39+00:00
When reading "picture an apple with three blue dots on it", I have an abstract concept of an apple and three dots. There's really no geometry there, without follow on questions, or some priming in the question.

In my conscious experience I pretty much imagine {apple, dot, dot, dot}. I don't "see" blue, the dots are tagged with dot.color == blue.

When you ask about the arrangement of the dots, I'll THEN think about it, and then says "arranged in a triangle." But that's because you've probed with your question. Before you probed, there's no concept in my mind of any geometric arrangement.

If I hadn't been prompted to think / naturally thought about the color of the apple, and you asked me "what color is the apple." Only then would I say "green" or "red."

If you asked me to describe my office (for example) my brain can't really imagine it "holistically." I can think of the desk and then enumerate it's properties: white legs, wooden top, rug on ground. But, essentially, I'm running a geometric iterator over the scene, starting from some anchor object, jumping to nearby objects, and then enumerating their properties.

I have glimpses of what it's like to "see" in my minds eye. At night, in bed, just before sleep, if I concentrate really hard, I can sometimes see fleeting images. I liken it to looking at one of those eye puzzles where you have to relax your eyes to "see it." I almost have to focus on "seeing" without looking into the blackness of my closed eyes.
by Tade0 | 2025-09-11 23:21:02+00:00
Phones are just a means to avoid processing one's emotions. Don't neglect that part of your life and you won't be tempted to scroll, or at the very least you'll be resistant to it. No other way out of this, especially because you're in for a very emotional time in the near future.

But don't fret: becoming a parent forces you to find strength you didn't know you had. Sounds cliche but there's really no other way to describe it.

Before kids I was glued to my phone. Now when we go to the playground I just stare at the sky like a chimpanzee released after years of indoor captivity.
by ankit219 | 2025-09-11 23:22:59+00:00
The router introduced in gpt-5 is probably the biggest signal. A router, while determining which model to route query, can determine how much $$ a query is worth. (Query here is conversation). This helps decide the amount of compute openai should spend on it. High value queries -> more chances of affiliate links + in context ads.

Then, the way memory profile is stored is a clear way to mirror personalization. Ads work best when they are personalized as opposed to contextual or generic. (Google ads are personalized based on your profile and context). And then the change in branding from being the intelligent agent to being a companion app. (and hiring of fidji sumo). There are more things here, i just cited a very high level overview, but people have written detailed blogs on it. I personally think affiliate links they can earn from aligns the incentive for everyone. They are a kind of ads, and thats the direction they are marching towards .
by lieret | 2025-09-11 23:23:10+00:00
[On the SWE-bench team] As someone pointed out SWE-bench Verified is a subset of tasks that were reviewed to be solvable (i.e., have enough context in the task description) as well are scored with unit tests that aren't overly specific to rule out valid solutions.

We've all read & analyzed a large number of agent trajectories. This loophole seems to be something that popped up with the more recent models and we simply weren't aware of it.

As discussed in the github issue, there's a fix in the new version of the SWE-bench containers (currently being rolled out) that makes sure that the relevant commits aren't available.

Part of what makes SWE-bench a very interesting benchmark is the enormous action space that agents that compete on it can take. However that also means that there's unexpected things happening when models get better. We're currently working on making all agent runs easily browsable on a website (rather than having to download our AWS buckets) to get even more eyes on the trajectories. Thanks to everyone who uncovered this loophole.
by ChristopherDrum | 2025-09-11 23:23:35+00:00
The PICO-8 actually has 32 colors from which we can choose any 16. I understand that making use of the default palette is the article's intent; I'm just thinking aloud.

If one were wanting to render an image on the PICO-8 itself, the ideal algorithm would select the best 16 colors from the full 32-color palette which, when dithered, produce the most perceptually accurate version of the original image in 128x128 pixels. Were I a smarter man I would create this, but alas.
by _cs2017_ | 2025-09-11 23:24:34+00:00
Even if this bug never existed, models can still see lookahead commits during pretraining. Do we expect this bug to have a greater impact than the pretraining leakage?

Obviously having something available during test time is more valuable than buried somewhere in the pretraining mixture. But in pretraining it happens presumably with high probability (why wouldn't coding models pretrain on the entire github), while in test time it apparently happened only very occasionally?
by dismalaf | 2025-09-11 23:24:35+00:00
Weird title, the bulk of the article talked about the same stuff various Rails/SQLite talks have mentioned, the positivity at the end is nice I guess.

The real nice thing about SQLite in prod though is how much it simplifies development and deployment. Let's be real, a lot of apps people build are relatively small, basic CRUD apps that see modest usage or are even internal-only, SQLite is perfect for that. And SQLite can scale reasonably well on modern hardware. It follows the premise of Rails quite nicely: it gets you up and running, scaling to the point you're making a decent amount of money and then you can figure out how to scale beyond that, if you need to.
by eagsalazar2 | 2025-09-11 23:25:12+00:00
"Claude recalls by only referring to your raw conversation history. There are no AI-generated summaries or compressed profiles—just real-time searches through your actual past chats."

AKA, Claude is doing vector search. Instead of asking it about "Chandni Chowk", ask it about "my coworker I was having issues with" and it will miss. Hard. No summaries or built up profiles, no knowledge graphs. This isn't an expert feature, this means it just doesn't work very well.
by epolanski | 2025-09-11 23:25:28+00:00
> It’s enormously difficult to ship any interesting feature that integrates hardware and software.

Don't see how it relates to competition but it doesn't matter: Apple competitors should have the same access to the system as Apple does.

Also, don't be naive: this is about money and being able to sell airpods at insane margins by giving them unfair advantages that aren't given to com[etitors.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-11 23:25:41+00:00
In the short term, specifically because of Apple's malicious compliance. In the long term, a more competitive market results in better off consumers.

But no, the goal is not to make consumers better off, but citizens and nations better off. And their interests do not stop at $PRODUCT. Namely, they probably don't want a slow slide into serfdom to foreign corporations that abused their market power.
by dom96 | 2025-09-11 23:27:02+00:00
So my mind briefly jumps to an apple and I guess I am very briefly seeing that the dots happen to be on top of the apple, but that image is fleeting.

I have had some people claim to me that they can literally see what they are imagining as if it is in front of them for prolonged periods of time, in a similar way to how it would show up via AR goggles.

I guess this is a spectrum and it's tough to dealineate the abilities. But I just looked it up and what I am describing is hyperphantasia.