MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imtringued | 2025-09-03 13:35:28+00:00
You can think of the K(=key) matrix in attention as a neural network where each token is turned into a tiny classifier network with multiple inputs and a single output.

The softmax activation function picks the most promising activations for a given output token.

The V(=value) matrix forms another neural network where each token is turned into a tiny regressor neural network that accepts the activation as an input and produces multiple outputs that are summed up to produce an intermediate token which is then fed into the MLP layer.

From this perspective the transformer architecture is building neural networks at runtime.

But there are some pretty obvious limitations here: The LLM operates on tokens, which means it can only operate on what is in the KV-cache/context window. If the candidates are not in the context window, it can't score them.
by romshark | 2025-09-03 13:35:32+00:00
The developers of data-star.dev are working on something interesting they call "Rocket", but it's currently a WiP and hidden behind a paywall so I can't really compare it to Lit. Lit is great though, used it myself a few times (e.g. github.com/romshark/demo-islands). But I still think there's a learning curve to Lit. Better than raw vanilla JS custom elements API, but still not as simple as it could be.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-03 13:35:45+00:00
If I was Russia and/or China and I wanted to eliminate EU as a potential rival economically and militarily, then I don't think I could have come up with a better way to do it than EU regulations. If it was not for the largess of the US, then EU would become a vassal of Russia and/or China. And I think the US is running out of good will very rapidly. The EU could, of course, shape up, but it won't.
by Bender | 2025-09-03 13:35:56+00:00
Thanks for that explanation. It makes a lot more sense now. Back in the day I managed a Jabber + bandersnatch corporate server and it had many years of Jabber + AIM + MSN + ICQ + Yahoo chat but the database was tiny which is why I was very surprised to see a chat server take up so much space.

Good luck on getting the schema overhead out of the way. I'm sure nowadays you are probably also using faster underlying storage SSD's behind the raid controllers. Dell/HP keep them overpriced of course but I found them to be very much worth it for databases as did the DBA's.

I hope your on-call teams get to take a week off after that incident.
by sudosteph | 2025-09-03 13:36:25+00:00
I'm one of the people who find LLMs extremely helpful from a learning perspective, but to be perfectly honest, I've met the children of complete "luddites" (no tablets, internet on home on timer for school work, not allowed phones until 16, home schooled, house filled with a million books) and they honestly were some of the more intelligent, well-read, and thoughtful young people I've met.

LLMs may end up being both educationally valuable in certain contexts for certain users, and totally unsuitable for developing brains. I would err towards caution for young minds especially.
by Ekaros | 2025-09-03 13:36:44+00:00
Other limitation that I know is that for tap water minimum is 55C. So the last building in loop should get at least that much. So 40C is only acceptable back at power plant.

In the end it comes to balance with cost, simplicity, capacity and such. Heat pumps do allow extracting heat from colder storage medium. But on other hand electric heating elements and heat exchangers are very much simpler and cheaper.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-03 13:36:55+00:00
Not totally sure that's /s.

Over the last three years or so, I have seen more and more posts where the position just doesn't make sense. I mean, ten years ago, there were posts on HN that I disagreed with that I upvoted anyway, because they made me think. That has become much more rare. An increasing number of posts now are just... weird (I don't know a better word for it). Not thoughtful, not interesting (even if wrong), just weird.

I can't prove that any of them are AI-generated. But I suspect that at least some of them are.
by sunir | 2025-09-03 13:37:18+00:00
I’ve built an agent system to quality control the output following my engineering know how.

The quality is much better but it is much slower than a human engineer. However that’s irrelevant to me. If I can build two projects a day I am more productive than if I can build one. And more importantly I can build projects that increase my velocity and capability.

The difference is I run my own business so that matters to me more than my value or aptitude as an engineer.
by latexr | 2025-09-03 13:37:49+00:00
> Why does it matter?

Because the people around you affect your life. Presumably you don’t want to live in a world of stupid people who are incapable of critical thought or doing anything which are not direct instructions from a machine. Think about it every time you are frustrated by your interaction with a system you have no choice but to use, such as a bank or a government branch.

John Greene has a quote which I think fits, even if it’s about paying taxes for public education rather than LLM use: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1390885-public-education-do...
by Festro | 2025-09-03 13:38:18+00:00
Precisely.

I can't imagine hating on someone who just wants to use the toilet rather than the person shouting at them and threatening them. What a disgusting human being. They need to look in the mirror a bit more.

EDIT: Ooh downvotes for condemning a lack of empathy. If you disagree, feel free to reply and explain why.
by cardanome | 2025-09-03 13:38:50+00:00
Personally no because I am currently too disorganized to find a doctor that would prescribe it to me, despite being diagnosed already. I live in a country that is very backwards when it comes to mental health and where the system is designed so it is very hard to get help in hope most people don't so healthcare costs can be kept down.

Generally, medication is the most effective treatment for ADHD by far but also does only work for like 80 percent of ADHD people. Some need to cope without it either way.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-03 13:39:05+00:00
I still shoot a 5Dmkii solely due to the ML firmware. It's primarily a timelapse camera at this point. The ETTR functionality is one of my absolute favorites. The biggest drawback I have is trying to shoot with an interval less than 5 seconds. The ML software gets confused and shoots irregular interval shots. Anything over 5 seconds, and it's great. No external timers necessary for the majority of my shooting. I do still have an external for when <5s intervals are necessary. I'm just waiting for the shutter to die, but I'm confident I'll just have it replaced and continue using the body+ML rather than buy yet another body.

Thanks for your work keeping it going, and for those that have worked on it before.
by chaps | 2025-09-03 13:39:15+00:00
> However, the web also has text, the same text used to train the LLMs that you used.

The person you're responding to isn't denying that other people learn from those. But they're explicit that having the text isn't helpful either:

> I have a massive textbook about electronics, but it doesn't help me break down different paths to what I actually want to do.
by grugagag | 2025-09-03 13:39:23+00:00
I don’t thik someone finds this experience dissapointing but harmful for cognition, probably in the long run as the cognition ‘muscle’ athrophies in some regions as I see it. Remains to be seen how it pans out. However, how much would you be willing to pay for LLMs before you decide it’s not worth it? It is unexpensive at this stage but this won’t last.
by dtagames | 2025-09-03 13:40:08+00:00
Time to put the nail in that coffin! I use a static template to select and return components dynamically. It's a key aspect of my own internal "framework," made with Lit.

I love that I get to choose how everything works. I have custom systems for routing, styling, signals, API interactions. I control who gets passed what and when. It makes the app feel light, responsive, and -- most importantly, it fits in my head and I understand how it's put together because I chose it, not because I learned it from someone.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-03 13:40:11+00:00
When Firefox added autocorrect, and I started using it, I made it a point to learn what it was telling me was correct, so I could write more accurately. I have since become drastically better at spelling, I still goof, I'm even worse when pronouncing words I've read but never heard. English is my second language mind you.

I think any developer worth their salt would use LLMs to learn quicker, and arrive to conclusions quicker. There's some programming problems I run into when working on a new project that I've run into before but cannot recall what my last solution was and it is frustrating, I could see how an LLM could help with such a resolution coming back quicker. Sometimes its 'first time setup' stuff that you have not had to do for like 5 years, so you forget, and maybe you wrote it down on a wiki, two jobs ago, but an LLM could help you remember.

I think we need to self-evaluate how we use LLMs so that they help us become better Software Engineers, not worse ones.
by jajko | 2025-09-03 13:40:18+00:00
Nobody is taking it away from you, but as we seem to agree that ship has sailed for some deep waters, nobody is backpedaling back.

Well cheers to even bigger gap between elite who can afford good education and upbringing and cheap crappy rest. Number of scifi novels come to mind where poor semi-mindless masses are governed by 'educated' elites. I always thought how such society must have screwed up badly in the past to end up like that. Nope, road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions and small little steps which seem innocent or even beneficial on their own, in their time.
by K0nserv | 2025-09-03 13:40:20+00:00
I'm inclined to share your scepticism on carbon credits, but a carbon tax is very efficient. It simply prices in a negative externality and lets the market solve the problem. This is probably why it's one of the few taxes that has a broad level of support among economists[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economists%27_Statement_on_Car...
by johannes1234321 | 2025-09-03 13:40:34+00:00
It's a question on judgement on the individual case.

A documentation for a specific product I expect to be mostly right, but maybe miss the required detail.

Some blog, by some author I haven't heard about I trust less.

Some third party sites I give some trust, some less.

AI is a mixed bag, while always implying authority on the subject. (While becoming submissive when corrected)
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-03 13:40:37+00:00
I was very disappointed the SLAB_VIRTUAL patches stopped, there weren't really major objections to them.

Recently there's a patch which tries to use clang's new alloc token thing to partition kmalloc: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250825154505.1558444-1-elver@...

...but I don't think that type based approach would have made any difference with this exploit?
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-03 13:40:54+00:00
> - The code that is written by LLMs always needs to be heavily monitored for correctness, style, and design, and then typically edited down, often to at least half its original size

For this language matters a lot, if whatever you're using has robust tools for linting and style checks, it makes the LLMs job a lot easier. Give it a rule (or a forced hook) to always run tests and linters before claiming a job is done and it'll iterate until what it produces matches the rules.

But LLM code has a habit of being very verbose and covers every situation no matter how minuscule.

This is especially grating when you're doing a simple project for local use and it's bootstrapping something that's enterprise-ready :D
by arghwhat | 2025-09-03 13:41:03+00:00
This is not true, DisplayPort and HDMI is not compatible, but the dedicated converter chips are quite efficient at their job. One is present inside every USB-C to HDMI cable, dongle or dock, as there is no such thing as USB-C HDMI alt-mode. Heck, even laptop HDMI ports are usually implemented through a DP converter.

You might be thinking of DisplayPort++, which is a special port supporting both DisplayPort and HDMI, allowing passive adapters. This is not available in the USB-C DisplayPort AltMode.
by justinmk | 2025-09-03 13:41:14+00:00
Nvim 0.12 (prerelease) also has ghost text with the "textDocument/inlineCompletion" LSP server capability[1]. Currently supported by the "copilot" config[2], but any LS that supports "textDocument/inlineCompletion" can be used (and the config[2] shows optional QoL improvements).

1: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/33972

2: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/pull/4029
by nzach | 2025-09-03 13:41:40+00:00
> 0% of LLM users could produce a correct quote, while most Brain-only and Search users could

I think a better interpretation would be to say that LLMs gives people the ability to "filter out" certain tasks in our brains. Maybe a good parallel would be to point out that some drivers are able to drive long distances on what is essentially an "auto-pilot". When this happens they are able to drive correctly but don't really register every single action they've taken during the process.

In this study you are asking for information that is irrelevant (to the participant). So, I think it is expected that people would filter it out if given the chance.

[edit] Forgot to link the related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1414/
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-09-03 13:41:52+00:00
Unfortunately it's not usable if you're GPU-poor. Couldn't figure out how to run this with an old 1080. I tried VibeVoice-1.5B on my old CPU with torch.float32 and it took 832 seconds to generate a 66 second audio clip. Switching from torch.bfloat16 also introduced some weird sound artifacts in the audio output. If you're GPU-poor the best TTS model I've tried so far is Kokoro.

Someone else mentioned in this thread that you cannot add annotations to the text to control the output. I think for these models to really level up there will have to be an intermediate step that takes your regular text as input and it generates an annotated output, which can be passed to the TTS model. That would give users way more control over the final output, since they would be able to inspect and tweak any details instead of expecting the model to get everything correctly in a single pass.
by nevon | 2025-09-03 13:41:53+00:00
I feel like I'm missing something here when this is being used with nomad. Caveat being that the only comparable technologies I've worked with are k8s and ECS. In the article they mention that they are using a containerd shim to launch micro VMs, so from the perspective of the scheduler, whether the VM is actually "sleeping" or not, it looks like it's running since they continue to respond to health checks. So what exactly is the point of suspending the VMs on idle if the scheduler still thinks they're running? Whatever memory is reserved for that job is still going to be reserved, so you're not able to oversubscribe the host regardless.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-03 13:42:01+00:00
So what is, the skill in question is thinking critically. Letting that atrophy is kind of a bigger deal than if our paper map reading skills atrophy.

Now, you could argue that, when we use AI, critical thinking skills are more important, because we have to check the output of a tool that is quite prone to error. But in actual use, many people won't do that. We'll be back at "Computers Do Not Lie" (look for the song on Youtube if you're not familiar with it), only with a much higher error rate.
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by llm_nerd | 2025-09-03 13:42:05+00:00
This was a brutal read. It's as if someone wrote a simple thesis and ran it through an LLM to make it so pretentiously over the top it's unreadable. I suspect almost no one who actually upvoted this read the content, but instead just like the title and hit the arrow.

"Apple has poisoned the well through a monopoly on influence which it has parleyed into suppression of browser choice. This is an existential threat to the web, but also renders web and internet standards moot."

This is patently ridiculous, and sounds like the sort of tired nonsense that was the norm maybe a decade ago. Now, in 2025, to still be railing this off?

Apple's influence on the web hasn't been lower in two decades. This is ridiculous. It's one of those "no one likes my PWA, and somehow Apple is to blame" busted logic breaks we see on HN daily.

"Apple alone must be on the hook to implement any and every web platform feature shipped by any and every other engine."

I get that this is rhetorical bombast to try to make Apple eat crow for their Safari/webkit monopoly on iOS, but it falls apart given how laughably silly of an idea it is.

Apple absolutely should be forced to allow alternate browser engines, presuming those browser engines are not Chromium/Blink based. Firefox should have their engine. Anyone else who actually makes an engine should be able to deploy it to iOS.

Chromium/Blink? Absolutely no way. And anyone who doesn't understand why has absolutely no idea how Apple's malicious greed has paradoxically protected the web from a "Made For Chrome" world.
Google's move to restrict Android sideloading could face EU pushback
by nativeforks | 2025-09-03 13:42:25+00:00
The European Commission officially launched the public consultation (Digital Fairness Act) and call for evidence on 17 July 2025, and it will stay open through 9 October 2025, giving a 12-week window for feedback.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act_en

Google has been moving toward prohibiting app installs outside the Play Store. If that becomes the default, users lose choice and developers lose a distribution channel.

This consultation is open to everyone, not just EU citizens.

Submissions that highlight how sideloading and alternative app stores matter for competition, open source, and digital ownership could influence the next round of legislation.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-03 13:42:28+00:00
Why is this surprising? "Use it or lose it" may be a cliche, but it's true; if you don't keep some faculty conditioned, it gets "rusty". That's the general principle, so it would be surprising if this were an exception.

The age of social media and constant distraction already atrophies the ability to maintain sustained focus. Who reads a book these days, never mind a thick book requiring struggle to master? That requires immersion, sustained engagement, persevering through discomfort, and denying yourself indulgence in all sorts of temptations and enticements to get a cheap fix. It requires postponed gratification, or a gratification that is more subtle and measured and piecemeal rather than some sharp spike. We become conditioned in Pavlovian fashion, more habituated to such behavior, the more we engage in such behavior.

The reliance on AI for writing is partly rooted in the failure to recognize that writing is a form of engagement with the material. Clear writing is a way of developing knowledge and understanding. It helps uncover what you understand and what you don't. If you can't explain something, you don't know it well enough to have clear ideas about it. What good does an AI do you - you as a knowing subject - if it does the "writing" for you? You, personally, don't become wiser or better. You don't become fit by watching others exercise.

This isn't to say AI has no purpose, but our attitude toward technology is often irresponsible. We think that if we have the power to do something, we are missing out by not using it. This is boneheaded. The ultimate measure is whether the technology is good for you in some particular use case. Sometimes, we make prudential allowances for practical reasons. There can be a place for AI to "write" for us, but there are plenty of cases where it is simply senseless to use. You need to be prudent, or you end up abusing the technology.
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-03 13:42:54+00:00
> Based on my set up as of today, I’d imagine by sometime next year that will be normal and then the conversation will be very different; mostly around cost control. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a break out popular agent control flow language by next year as well.

Currently it's just VC funded. The $20 packages they're selling are in no way cost-effective (for them).

That's why I'm driving all available models like I stole them, building every tool I can think of before they start charging actual money again.

By then local models will most likely be at a "good enough" level especially when combined with MCPs and tool use so I don't need to pay per token for APIs except for special cases.
by hopelite | 2025-09-03 13:42:55+00:00
What a rather ironic headline that generalizes across all "AI use", while the story is about a study that is specifically about "essay writing tasks". But that kind of slop is just par for the course for journalists and also always has been.

But it does highlight that this mind-slop decline is not new in any way even if it may have accelerated with the decline and erosion of standards.

Think of it what you want, but if the standards that led to a state everyone really enjoys and benefits from are done away with, inevitably that enjoyable state everyone benefited from and you really like will start crumbling all around you.

AI is not really unusual in this manner, other than maybe that it is squarely hitting a group and population like public health policy journalists and programmers that previously thought they were immune because they were engaged in writing. Yes, programmers are essentially just writers.
by Mistletoe | 2025-09-03 13:43:02+00:00
How long do you think we have before the AI Bust? This isn’t a rhetorical question, I’m looking for estimates before I have to exit all financial markets and go full defensive in my portfolio. Can it make to 2026? Or will the bust be several years from now? I know no one really knows, but estimates can be very helpful. Sometimes you can feel the wind change.
by kiba | 2025-09-03 13:43:44+00:00
Generally speaking this lead to increase in housing and other amenities in the most demand area, which is exactly what we want. This decreases market pressure on other housing elsewhere in the city.

There's no reason not to satisfy the core's demand for infill development. This means increased tax revenue for the cities relative to infrastructure cost, thus more budgetary capacity to throw at problems..

Mandating affordable housing is an expensive proposition and developers will drag their feet unless subsidized. They don't build things out of the goodness of their heart after all.

While subsidies are a useful tool, I am not sure if it's useful to allocate to affordable housing as opposed to incentivizing developers to take on more projects and urban renewal projects.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-03 13:44:10+00:00
I have been toying with the idea of picking up an old 1D. I can't remember the guy's name that I saw do this, but he had his 1D modified to use a PL mount instead of an EF mount. Something about the 1D body (being thicker I guess) allowed for the flange distances to work out. He then mounted a $35,000 17mm wide angle to it. That lens was huge and could just suck in photons. With that lens, he could expose the night sky in 1/3 second exposures what would take multiple seconds on my gear. He mounted the camera to the front of his boat floating down river using night vision goggles to see where he was going. The images were fantastic. I always wanted to do something crazy like that