MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by decodebytes | 2025-09-26 18:30:54+00:00
Ah right, kiln - Deepfabric was originally named promptwright , and I can see kiln has copied over some of our code and used it for its synth-gen (which is a nice compliment!)

We are actually planning on moving to graphs now, which we are seeing better results with over trees, check it out if you also want to use them in kiln - but you might want to wait until we validate a little more and lift it out of experimental.

I think the key difference between the two since kiln adopted the same approach is the ability to generate reasoning / chain of thought and export to alpaca, chatml, etc - along with direct to unsloth.ai's formatting. I doubt we will have UI as its for running on backend systems and part of an ML pipeline along with being a library / SDK.
by foldr | 2025-09-26 18:30:57+00:00
>A National Insurance Card (needed to get a job)

You don't need the card itself in order to get a job, just the number. In this respect it's rather like an American social security card. (I know some US employers will ask to see the card, but that's not a legal requirement: https://www.ssa.gov/employer/SSNcard.htm)
by jsheard | 2025-09-26 18:31:50+00:00
> It either needs to be: 1. So easy anyone can press a button and magically get exactly what they want with perfect accuracy and quality. 2. So robust and powerful it enables new kinds of music production and super-charges human producers.

Don't forget the secret third option - facilitate a tidal wave of empty-calorie content which saturates every avenue for discovery and "wins" purely by drowning everything else out through sheer volume. We're at the point where some genAI companies are all but admitting that's their goal.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/ai-podcas...
by stephenpontes | 2025-09-26 18:32:03+00:00
I remember first hearing about protein folding with the Folding @Home project (https://foldingathome.org) back when I had a spare media server and energy was cheap (free) in my college dorm. I'm not knowledgable on this, but have we come a long way in terms of making protein folding simpler on today's hardware, or is this only applicable to certain types of problems?

It seems like the Folding @Home project is still around!
by bobbiechen | 2025-09-26 18:32:39+00:00
I get that open-source in fraud prevention is really hard, I'm sympathetic to the challenges here.

FingerprintJS open-source (and the discussed FingerprinterJS) are both trivial to spoof since the entire codebase is easily examined, and the implementation is totally open as an oracle to someone who wants to bypass it or construct arbitrary fingerprints. It's a nice proof of concept (and I like the attention to unstable signals in FingerprinterJS here) but ultimately doesn't hold up against any dedicated attackers.

I work on a competing commercial product (Stytch Device Fingerprinting) and your usage would be within our free tier. Unfortunately we don't have an open-source version or self-serve onboarding because of the adversarial problems mentioned above. Happy to chat if that helps, bchen at stytch dot com.
by Symbiote | 2025-09-26 18:32:47+00:00
I think existing electric locomotives are more powerful than existing diesel locomotives.

The "most powerful diesel–electric locomotive model ever built on a single frame", the EMD DDA40X, provides 5MW.

The EURO9000, "currently the most powerful locomotive on the European market" provides 9MW under electric power.

USA-made locomotives are so far down the list on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_powerful_locomoti... that I suspect there's some other reason they're not needed, e.g. spreading the braking force across multiple locomotives throughout the train.
by mirekrusin | 2025-09-26 18:32:49+00:00
They just need to add slot for sim and 4g/5g support, you leave the rest to the community to play with, there is Ubuntu Touch, LineageOS, SailfishOS, postmarketOS, Plasma Mobile, Tizen, KaiOS, Mobian, PureOS, GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, Replicant, Droidian, Maemo Leste etc. - if there would be hardware available, people would play with it.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-26 18:32:53+00:00
There's a whole host of concessions and project redesigns that occurred for essentially political reasons.

Just look at the currently proposed route map [1]. It deviates to the east side of the valley because that's where these towns are vs the west side, which is more direct.

Deviating a supposedly high speed route for small towns doesn't make a ton of sense. Not only does it increase the cost and travel time directly, but extra stops slow the overall travel time. This could've just as easily beeen on the west side of the Central Valley and had feeder lines and stations into a smaller number of stations.

Look at any high speed rail route in Europe or China and you'll see fairly limited stops for this reason.

The biggest and easiest win for a high speed rail should've been LA to Las Vegas. It's a shorter distance and through mostly desert and other uninhabited land. Ideally LAX would've been one of these stops but I'm not sure how viable that is. Then you add a spur that goes north to SF so you avoid building through LA county twice, which is going to be one of your most expensive parts.

Instead we have a private company (Brightline) building a LA to Vegas route.

As an aside, Vegas desperately needed to build a subway plus light rail from the airport up the strip. The stupid Teslas in tunnels under the strip was another of those efforts of billionaires proposing and doing projects to derail public transit. Like the Hyperloop.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_of_California_High-Speed...
by emil-lp | 2025-09-26 18:33:09+00:00
Your comment made me think of an interesting story and a funfact.

During WW2, allies tried to guess the number of German tanks by observing the serial numbers on captured tanks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem If, say, the serial numbers are unique, and come in sequence, if the five first numbers you see are all less than 100, it's a far chance that there aren't produced 200 tanks. (Provided some assumptions, of course.)

The funfact is that you get different results if you follow the frequentist or the Bayesian approach.
by neutronicus | 2025-09-26 18:33:53+00:00
Yeah, my first instinct has been to expose an LSP server as a tool so the LLM can avoid reading entire 40,000 line files just to get the implementation of one function.

I think with appropriate instructions in the system prompt it could probably work on this code-base more like I do (heavy use of Ctrl-, in Visual Studio to jump around and read only relevant portions of the code-base).
by phatfish | 2025-09-26 18:33:54+00:00
I guess you don't live in the UK, because winner takes all is far worse for backroom deals. The deals just end up being between factions within the same party!

Deals and bargaining all happen AFTER a party takes power and completely hidden until a government can't pass their own bills like the Labour attempt to reform welfare.

With proportional representation the deals are made in order to form a government, BEFORE it has power, and are between separate political parties.

Sure there may be agreements that are not all made public, but these are much harder to keep in the "backroom".
by bluGill | 2025-09-26 18:34:21+00:00
i lived in minneapolis until 15 years ago. Transit is getting better but it is still useless for the majority. Even those who live near light rail often findiit useless because it doesn't 'go where you want to go, when you want to go, for a reasonable price, in a reasonable amount of time'. (there might be more in that list?) Priceiis reasonable but the others are too often lacking.
by cdrini | 2025-09-26 18:34:27+00:00
It's unclear to me whether it will result in more homogeneity, as a result of prompts being a coarse medium that results in the AI choosing what it's seen to fill in the rest, or less homogeneity, as a result of more people with non-mainstream tastes being able to create music aligned with their niche that otherwise wouldn't exist due time/money restrictions. I think the latter seems a bit more likely, but time will tell.
by simonw | 2025-09-26 18:34:36+00:00
If you have the exfiltration mechanism and exposure to untrusted content but there is no exposure to private data than the exfiltration does not matter.

If you have exfiltration and private data but no exposure to untrusted instructions, it doesn't matter either… though this is actually a lot less harder to achieve because you don't have any control over whether your users will be tricked into pasting something bad in as part of their prompt.

Cutting off the exfiltration vectors remains the best mitigation in most cases.
by dateutli | 2025-09-26 18:34:46+00:00
I'm currently working on Listening Facts[0], a music habits visualization tool based on your top tracks. Inspired by Receiptify and every day nutrition facts labels[1].

It started out as a Spotify oriented project but due to their recent API changes[2] I ended up focusing more on a Last FM integration. This wasn't that bad as their API provides more details such as play count per song. I've also added an Apple Music integration.

I posted about it[3] on Last FM's subreddit and I was pleasantly surprised to see that a lot of people shared their labels on the comments and seemed to like it.

I'm currently working on language detection, I think it'd be cool to get a language breakdown of the songs you listen to and for that to be part of the displayed items within the label. Something along the lines of EN- 80%, ES- 15%, FR - 5%

I've also tried getting Adsense on the website but I keep getting denied on "Low Content Value" grounds. I tried some alternatives but the quality of their ads was ridiculous (stuff like "your device has a virus, click here to clean it up")

[0] - https://listeningfacts.com/

[1] - https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-education-resources-mater...

[2] - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Upda...

[3] - https://www.reddit.com/r/lastfm/comments/1mnk5wj/listening_f...
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-26 18:34:53+00:00
But a bus isn't just a bus, there are differences in what is needed in different cities. Some need heat, some need AC, some need both. In Utah there are buses that go up the canyons and they have gearboxes focused on climbing steep hills, while a bus in the valley might never need that ratio and can be optimized for efficiency on the flats.

Seattle has buses with electric trolley lines above, and buses that were designed to go through the tunnel under downtown on battery power to avoid causing air quality issues in a confined space. https://bsky.app/profile/noahsbwilliams.com/post/3lx4hqvf5q2...

Maybe SORTA wanted more customization on the interior of their buses? I'm not sure but in the last year I've been riding buses to work much more than before and I've been interested in the different seating configurations on buses from the same service and route. That shouldn't explain $8 million in differnce but I'm sure that semi custom work isn't cheap. A friend worked on airline interiors which might be reasonably analogous, I wonder what the cost for say Lufthansa seats/upholstery is vs Southwest?
by lesuorac | 2025-09-26 18:34:56+00:00
It's a pretty clever life hack.

If I own a ship on land I have to pay property taxes but if I just sink it to the bottom of the ocean I have people pay me!

Maritime laws just seem overly weird though. If I lost a car in the woods then after 100 years it seems pretty reasonable that any scrapper could take it and salvage what they want ...
by HankStallone | 2025-09-26 18:35:17+00:00
My government requires me, by law, to send it tens of thousands of dollars every year, much of it to be spent on things I don't want or need, in order to stay out of prison.

Requiring me to spend another $100 or so on a phone seems like pretty small potatoes, compared to what they intend to use the device for. I'm not saying I'd like it, but it's a detail, not the main issue.
by alwillis | 2025-09-26 18:35:32+00:00
> And any features useful for "PWA" is just sabotaged.

From "Every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS" [1]

Now, we are revising the behavior on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. By default, every website added to the Home Screen opens as a web app. If the user prefers to add a bookmark for their browser, they can disable “Open as Web App” when adding to Home Screen — even if the site is configured to be a web app. The UI is always consistent, no matter how the site’s code is configured. And the power to define the experience is in the hands of users.

This change, of course, is not removing any of WebKit’s current support for web app features. If you include a Web Application Manifest with your site, the benefits it provides will be part of the user’s experience. If you define your icons in the manifest, they’re used.

We value the principles of progressive enhancement and separation of concerns. All of the same web technology is available to you as a developer, to build the experience you would like to build. Giving users a web app experience simply no longer requires a manifest file. It’s similar to how Home Screen web apps on iOS and iPadOS never required Service Workers (as PWAs do on other platforms), yet including Service Workers in your code can greatly enhance the user experience.

Simply put, there are now zero requirements for “installability” in Safari. Users can add any site to their Home Screen and open it as a web app on iOS26 and iPadOS26.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/17333/webkit-features-in-safari-26-0...
by s_fekete | 2025-09-26 18:35:41+00:00
Hello everyone! Author of IDEA here - great to hear that this has caught some attention.

As it happens, these instructions were developed in the course of a 1st-year undergraduate course, so it's tried and tested in teaching noobs.

There is even a song-and-dance version (sorry, German lyrics): https://youtu.be/iq_TcSvWaY4

Cheers, Sándor Fekete, Professor for Algorithmics, TU Braunschweig https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/users/fekete/
by mike50 | 2025-09-26 18:36:11+00:00
The New York Guard is not the New York Army National Guard (which were the personnel actually deployed). The New York Guard is less then 1000 personnel. The entire operation was a transparent psyop when some brainwashed tv news views saw a crime on the 6 o'clock news. The governor of New York might as well be from another planet when it comes to understanding New York City.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-26 18:36:18+00:00
There's an interesting quote from the associated longer article [1]:

> In March, researchers at Google proposed a system called CaMeL that uses two separate LLMs to get round some aspects of the lethal trifecta. One has access to untrusted data; the other has access to everything else. The trusted model turns verbal commands from a user into lines of code, with strict limits imposed on them. The untrusted model is restricted to filling in the blanks in the resulting order. This arrangement provides security guarantees, but at the cost of constraining the sorts of tasks the LLMs can perform.

This is the first I've heard of it, and seems clever. I'm curious how effective it is. Does it actually provide absolute security guarantees? What sorts of constraints does it have? I'm wondering if this is a real path forward or not.

[1] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/22/...
by nextos | 2025-09-26 18:36:21+00:00
Local inference. I imagine they have an interest in making this and other cutting edge models small enough to be possible to do quick inference on their desktop machines. The article shows that, with Figure 1E demonstrating inference on an M2 Max 64 GB.

Frankly, it's a great idea. If you are a small pharma company, being able to do quick local inference removes lots of barriers and gatekeeping. You can even afford to do some Bayesian optimization or RL with lab feedback on some generated sequences.

In comparison, running AlphaFold requires significant resources. And IMHO, their usage of multiple alignments is a bit hacky, makes performance worse on proteins without close homologs, and requires tons of preprocessing.

A few years back, ESM from Meta already demonstrated that alignment-free approaches are possible and perform well. AlphaFold has no secret sauce, it's just a seq2seq problem, and many different approaches work well, including attention-free SSMs.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-09-26 18:36:38+00:00
Yup. I went to the Microprocessor Forum where they introduced 'Sledgehammer' (the AMD 64 architecture) and came back to NetApp where I was working and started working out how we'd build our next Filer using it. (that was a journey given the AMD distrust inside of NetApp!). I had a pretty frank discussion with the Intel SVP of product who was pretty bought into the Intel "high end is IA, Mid/PC is IA32, embedded is the 8051 stuff". They were having a hard time with getting Itainum wins.
by Lerc | 2025-09-26 18:36:42+00:00
'If you flipped a coin 100 times and all you got are heads you'

By starting the sentence with if, you are selecting the occurrence to look at.

If you said I am about to look at the results of this coin toss that happened yesterday, if it is all heads then I am going to assume it was not random, then you are making the claim before you have seen the results. You can still be wrong, but the chances of you being wrong is the rarity of the event.
by foldr | 2025-09-26 18:37:01+00:00
Don't be misled by the reaction on HN. The general concept of a national ID card is not unpopular in the UK:

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/support-for-th...

IMO this is a gimmick and probably won't have much effect either for good or bad. I would vote against it given the chance. But there aren't that many British people who feel especially strongly about this.
by godelski | 2025-09-26 18:38:00+00:00
For anyone not understanding this comment and similar ones try this for me: replace "speech" with "encryption" and "Nazis" with "pedos and terrorists".

Here's the thing, authoritarians use abhorrent groups to justify authoritarian laws. It creates a power creep. Even well meaning rulers will push for more autocratic power with the justification that they can do more good with it. But unless you can place strong guarantees that no malicious ruler can come to power, you should evaluate powers as if they are the ones wielding it.

It's the entire concept of Turnkey Tyranny. A thing we are actively watching being exploited in America and across Europe. Because you can't prevent a malicious ruler from gaining power in a free society, but you can greatly limit their ability to do harm. But this can't be done with myopia.
by cwmma | 2025-09-26 18:38:06+00:00
< This is kind of absurd, I have been on busses all over the country, a metro bus, is a metro bus. There are not really differences based on topography or climate.

Off the top of my head, road salt, used in the northern areas of America to melt snow can cause corrosion of metal pieces on the underside of the bus. So Chicago or Boston might need to take that into account but Miami probably doesn't.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-09-26 18:38:16+00:00
My first playthrough, when I was 12, I opted for the GEP gun, but had to go to the minicrossbow after running out of ammo, thereby leaving me with no pistol skill. The worst of both worlds on the very first mission. Ended up climing up the back of the statue of liberty and throwing gas grenades. Good times.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-09-26 18:38:35+00:00
Yeah, it's just the wrong architecture for the job, so I found it to be a strange example.

Here's the top model on DAWNBench - https://github.com/apple/ml-cifar-10-faster/blob/main/fast_c...

Trains for 15 epochs and it, like all the others is a 9 layer resnet.
by frenchie4111 | 2025-09-26 18:38:35+00:00
I am genuinely interested where the strong negativity towards Siri has come from in recent culture. From what I gather it's likely due to the high expectations we have for Apple. But what I don't really get is why is there not a similar amount of negativity being directed at Google or Samsung, who both have equally shit phone AI assistants (obviously this is just from my perspective, I am a daily user of both iOS and a Samsung Android)

I am not trying to defend Apple or Siri by any means. I think the product absolutely should (and will) improve. I am just curious to explore why there is such negativity being directed specifically at Apple's AI assistant.
by fmap | 2025-09-26 18:38:38+00:00
Isn't this an old idea? E.g., here's a textbook on optimization algorithms for matrix manifolds https://press.princeton.edu/absil and here's a library that implements this in python for the Stiefel manifold that's the subject of this blog post: https://pymanopt.org/docs/stable/manifolds.html#module-pyman...

What is novel about the approach in the blog post? Serious question, I really can't tell after reading the post.
by tummler | 2025-09-26 18:39:13+00:00
The innovator's dilemma is real. IMO none of the big DAWs are well-positioned to capitalize on AI, but that doesn't mean they couldn't.

I'd argue music generation is different from image or code generation. It's closer to being purely art. Take image generation for example. Most of the disruption is coming from competition with graphic design, marketing, creative/production processes, etc. The art world isn't up in arms about AI "art" competing with human art.
by djtango | 2025-09-26 18:39:47+00:00
The composers went in and out of fashion after their deaths.

My understanding is that both Mozart and Schubert started to fall out of fashion in the early to mid 1900s for being "lightweight" and just stepping stones to Beethoven. It took some dedicated musicologists from Britain who championed them in the 50s to really solidify their standing in music history.

I also believe we are now seeing a resurgence of interest in Salieri in part thanks to the movie...
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-26 18:39:48+00:00
It's true in developed and developing countries, it's probably not true in all poor countries. I'd guess the driver makes for a larger share of the cost in Portugal than in the US.

But the one most important factor defining the total cost by trip is the number of passengers by trip. If 60 people all show up to pay the driver's daily salary, it gets quite cheap.
by chrisvenum | 2025-09-26 18:40:34+00:00
I almost agree with you that this is about quality, but I still feel that the context in which art comes from influences how I perceive it.

Take, for example, a track by Fontaines D.C., a band from Ireland that writes extensively about the lived social and political experience. Knowing where they are from and the general themes of their work makes their tracks feel authentic, and you can appreciate the worldview they have and the time spent producing the art, even if it does not align with your own tastes.

Trying to create something of the same themes and quality from a prompt of “make me an Irish pop rock track about growing up in the country” suddenly misses any authenticity.

Maybe this is what I am trying to get at, but like I said, I feel some conflict about this, as I personally value these tools for productivity
by danielvaughn | 2025-09-26 18:40:52+00:00
Agreed. The problem with being an incumbent in this era is that much of the existing UI/UX assumptions are based on the idea of manual manipulation. We're so early that foundational assumptions are still up for debate, and for large companies like Adobe, there's just no way they'd be able to move at the required pace to keep up. Heck I'm at a company that's less than 2 years old, with less than 20 people, solely devoted to AI, and it's still hard for us to keep up.

What Adobe and others ought to be doing is setting up internal labs that have free reign to explore whatever ideas they want, with no barriers or formality. I doubt any of them will do that.