MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fxtentacle | 2025-10-28 15:30:08+00:00
Wow! So creativity! Oh my! What an example:

This AI-powered slop generation app will generate other AI-powered slop generation apps.

Really? For your "collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications" you couldn't think of any better use-case than wrapping a thin web UI around an existing API endpoint for AI image generation? And the "Make changes on the fly" iPad screenshot doesn't show any change being applied. That's seriously low-effort marketing.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-10-28 15:30:20+00:00
As an early WP editor, I can relate ... the project caught -a lot- of crap back in the early days. This is a smug but accurate, simple recounting of that sordid tale, and the value that WP retains now that AI is around to cite it.

I don't edit much any more, but although it's not perfect, it's retinue of backup resources (including links to Wayback for those which died) remains invaluable.
by HillRat | 2025-10-28 15:31:03+00:00
Even now, the newspaper's reporters do so as a matter of routine.

Reporting and editorial are separate units in newspapers; the point being made is that, while reporting continues to properly disclose potential ownership conflicts of interest, editorial and op-ed, following Bezos taking direct control of them, are not doing so.

Of course, the Post is Bezos' toy, and there's no law that says he can't use editorial as a megaphone for his personal interests without disclosing them (or, in fact, even use the reporting side for the same purpose!), but you can't do that and still claim that the paper has any of the Grahams' pedigree left in it, and this is very much a change from Bezos' earlier ownership, in which he largely stayed hands-off on editorial decisions.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-10-28 15:31:18+00:00
“Moving the goalposts” in AI usually means the opposite of devaluing the term.

Peter Norvig (former research director at Google and author of the most popular textbook on AI) offers a mainstream perspective that AGI is already here: https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...

If you described all the current capabilities of AI to 100 experts 10 years ago, they’d likely agree that the capabilities constitute AGI.

Yet, over time, the public will expect AGI to be capable of much, much more.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 15:31:29+00:00
Thanks! On my cellphone not even enough of the UI was working for me to discover those URLs. I suspect a certain amount of error recovery is in order for wgetting all 2238 images. 2000 seems to be the maximum resolution available, which is under 100dpi. A few of the images seem to have been uploaded to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Codex_Atlanticus.

There are a couple of scans of a 43-page Italian edition published by Ulrico Hoepli on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/codex-atlanticus-leonardo-da-vin... https://archive.org/details/codex-atlanticus-leonardo-da-vin... but they seem to be of very poor quality.

I'm done downloading now (with a sleep of 1 second between pages), and I have 1064125470 bytes of JPEG files, a very reasonably torrentable size. I'll see if I can put together a torrent and upload to the Archive and Commons...
by jalapenos | 2025-10-28 15:31:30+00:00
I think usually the vehicle has not, say, been flung unoccupied into a crowd by an oversized slingshot experiment gone wrong.

So it'd be nice if they'd say like "a man has ploughed into a crowd" - we'll safely assume he didn't use an actual plough since I hear those are fairly slow.

It does make a difference regarding people viewing news outlets as informers rather than an arm of some kind of agenda.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-28 15:31:51+00:00
I think the big reason this escalates to such a high score is because the Middleware abstraction common in a lot of HTTP server designs today (including Kestrel, ASP.NET being sometimes viewed in its modern implementation as entirely a stack of Middleware in a single trenchcoat) can also be a series of nesting doll "micro-proxies" manipulating the HTTP request in various ways before passing it to code that trusts the Middleware did its job. With Middleware doing all sorts of jobs but especially various steps of Authentication and Authorization, there can be a lot of security risks if there were vulnerable middleware.

It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft found a first-party or second-party (support contract) or open source/nuget Kestrel/ASP.NET Middleware somewhere in the wild that was affected by this vulnerability in a concerning way. In that case, it also somewhat makes sense that Microsoft doesn't necessarily want to victim blame the affected Middleware given that they recognized that Kestrel itself should have better handled the vulnerability before it ever passed to Middleware.
by xbmcuser | 2025-10-28 15:31:55+00:00
Yeah I am not a programmer just more tech literate than most as I have always been fascinated by tech. I think people are missing the forest for the trees when it comes to LLMS. I have been using them to create simple bash, bat, python scripts. Which I would not have been able to put together before even with weeks of googling. I say that because I used to do that unsuccessfully but my success rate thorugh the roof with LLM's.

Now I just ask an LLM to create the scripts and explain all the steps. If it is a complex script I would also ask it to add logging to the script so that I can feed the log back to the LLM and explain what is going wrong which allowed for a lot faster fixes. In the early days I and the LLM would be going around in circles till I hit the token limits. And to start from scratch again.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 15:32:08+00:00
In this case presumably the main difference is not PowerShell vs. bash but iwr vs. wget? Because I think this is roughly equally bad (untested):

for page in {1..1119}; do iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-$page.jpg" -OutFile "000R-$page.jpg" iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-$page.jpg" -OutFile "000V-$page.jpg" done

Also until recently bash didn't have {42..53} syntax. You had to use `seq`. There was an alternative name for `seq` in Unix Power Tools, `jot`, because it wasn't standard: https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch45_11.htm. This section was by ORA author and sysadmin Linda Mui (https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/268), but I don't know if she wrote `jot` or just popularized it.
by gethly | 2025-10-28 15:32:25+00:00
If the stream contains removal entries, then that is not a data stream but command stream and, again, has nothing to do with JSON itself. We can extrapolate this to some kind of json-rpc-ish stream if we want to keep this aligned with JSON.

Overall, I think that mentioning JSON here at all is simply a mistake. It would be better to just introduce this as streaming protocol/framework for data structures. But then we can do the same thing with literally any format and syntax.
by mk89 | 2025-10-28 15:32:49+00:00
I am not talking about the Austrian people's skills ;) I bet the employees from Atos were locals, so...

I am talking about politicians that are supposed to create the conditions to set this up in a proper, honest and "good" way. As soon as this becomes a "department", nextcloud is not an option because it lacks xyz.

So let's reimplement it worse. All this to justify the need for having an IT department at all.

This is why sometimes I prefer that they just hire some company and that's it. One and done. (More or less).

Also, on a more disturbing note: how do you reduce the costs, when you have public employees....? You can't fire them, or it's nearly impossible to do so. Atos, on the other hand, you can switch.
Show HN: Bit – CLI/TUI Logo Designer and ANSI Font Library
by superstarryeyes | 2025-10-28 15:33:16+00:00
I don't believe everyone just wants to copy the Claude Code logo font to their own CLI/TUI apps, there just seems to be a lack of tools for developers to create their own ANSI logo easily.

So I decided to remedy the situation and build Bit, which is an open source ANSI logo designer with TUI and a standalone Go font library for implementing ANSI fonts to terminal apps. Here are the features:

- 100+ Font Styles, all free for commercial and personal use.

- Export to TXT, Go, JavaScript, Python, Rust, and Bash.

- Color gradient effects, shadow effects, and text scaling.

- Adjust character, word, and line spacing. Align text left, centre, or right.

- Automatic kerning, descender detection and alignment.

Let me know what you think! And if you make a logo with it, I'd like to know about it.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-28 15:33:18+00:00
Chomsky did so much good in his past but when leftism comes up he becomes stupid. He only realized the Khmer Rouge and pol pot were evil far far far after the rest of the world did. Anti-authoritarian leftists getting baited into supporting authoritarian fake leftists: name a better combo.

Chomsky needs to STFU about politics and go back to linguistics - though he’s not popular in linguistics right now either.
by rconti | 2025-10-28 15:33:24+00:00
There's a website called Wikipedia that is a free online encyclopedia; a compendium of knowledge that can be freely viewed OR edited by anyone with an internet connection. Founded in 2001, it has been looked down upon by academics who believe that compiling and providing knowledge for free leads to cheating.

Over the past few years, ANOTHER new technology called Large Language Model, or LLM, has been invented. This new technology invents new sentences from whole cloth at the request of users. There are many LLM sites providing free responses to user queries. The ease with which users can get plausible answers to any question has led to complaints from the academic world that it is frequently used for cheating, supplanting the previously-favored free cheating technology known as Wikipedia.

Finally, there is an internet humor website known by the name "McSweeny's". As a humor website, sometimes it posts humorous articles written about current events.

This is one of those posts.
by whynotminot | 2025-10-28 15:33:25+00:00
OP said all yardsticks and I said that was infinitely arbitrary… because it literally is infinitely arbitrary. You can conjure up an infinite amount of yardsticks.

As far as driving itself goes as a yardstick, I just don’t find it interesting because we literally have Waymo’s orbiting major cities and Teslas driving on the roads already right now.

If that’s the yardstick you want to use, go for it. It just doesn’t seem particularly smart to hang your hat on that one as your Final Boss.

It also doesn’t seem particularly useful for defining intelligence itself in an academic sort of way because even humans struggle to drive well in many scenarios.

But hey if that’s what you wanna use don’t let me stop you, sure, go for it. I have feeling you’ll need new goalposts relatively soon if you do, though.
by 3oil3 | 2025-10-28 15:33:31+00:00
Yep, you'r 100% right, it reminds me I once read that of all given jobs offers, 50% would be taken by someone who got introduced internally. Out of personal exeperience as employer, that so was decided by me because it was filling the need instantly. And out of those personal experiences, bad employees brought bad recruits, good employees brought good recruits. Unknown recruits? half good, half bad. Ironically chiraldic.
by grishka | 2025-10-28 15:33:56+00:00
The main problem seems to be that the only way the BIOS can boot an OS is a mass storage device with executable code in the boot sector, in contrast to older computers that had some sort of monitor/debugger in their ROM. I haven't researched disk drive interfaces, but trying to hook up a floppy drive to some toggle switches so I could write a boot disk would be my first step. But then modern motherboards don't have floppy drive controllers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Of course you can also try to reprogram the BIOS ROM on the motherboard, but you're likely to need a full OS to first reverse engineer it enough to know where to stick your debugger code.
by ot | 2025-10-28 15:34:25+00:00
> Since nobody had figured out any downsides to PCG's yet, everyone shrugged and said "might as well just go with that then", and that is where, as of 2019, the art currently stands. The problem is solved, and life is good.

I wonder who "everyone" was, I'm not aware of many high-profile projects adopting PCG as a default. As of 2025, several high-profile runtimes (including all the major browsers) use xorshift variants [1]

Is there a list of users of PCG?

[1] See Adoption section in https://prng.di.unimi.it/
by zero_k | 2025-10-28 15:34:32+00:00
Author of CryptoMiniSat here :) XOR+CNF is indeed supported by CryptoMiniSat. Which is cool, but if you _really_ think about it, the resolution operator over these two are gonna give you multivariate polynomials over GF(2). So resolution is poor in CryptoMiniSat, because it only encodes one of the constraints that this polynomial implies (i.e. one that can be encoded in a single disjunctive clause). And if you wanna do the _real_ deal, i.e. "properly" solve multivariate polynomials over GF(2) then you are in for a ride -- the all-powerful, much-feared, Grobner basis algorithms, and I am not touching those with a 100m pole, because they are hell on wheels :) I mean... it's possible to contribute to them, and I know of two people who did: https://theory.stanford.edu/~barrett/fmcad/slides/5_Kaufmann... and of course, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-37703-7_... i.e. Daniela and Alex. It's... rough :D

Just my 2 cents.
by simjnd | 2025-10-28 15:34:37+00:00
> You're not answering my question, just adding some more feelings.

Well you seemed surprised by this fact, even though it's a given for most people working in front-end frameworks.

> React is < 10 kb compressed https://bundlephobia.com/package/react@19.2.0 (add react-dom to it).

I don't know how bundlephobia calculates package size, and let me know if you're able to reproduce them in a real app. The simplest Vite + React app with only a single "Hello, World" div and no dependencies (other than react and react-dom), no hooks used, ships 60+ kB of JS to the browser (when built for production, minified and gzipped).

Now the blog post is not just using React but Next.js which will ship even more JS because it will include a router and other things that are not a part of React itself (which is just the component framework). There are leaner and more performant React Meta-Frameworks than Next.js (Remix, TanStack Start).

> This is not kilobytes or initial render times, but performance in rendering in a highly interactive application

True, but it's another area where React is a (relative) catastrophe.

The large bundle size on the other hand will definitely impact initial render times (in client-side rendering) and time-to-interactive (in SSR), because it's so much more JS that has to be parsed and executed for the runtime before even executing your app's code.

EDIT: It also does not have to be a highly interactive application at all for this to apply. If you only change a single value, that is read in a component deep within a component tree you will definitely feel the difference, because that entire component tree is going to execute again (even though the resulting diff will show that only that deeply nested div needs to be updated, React has no way of knowing that beforehand, whereas signal-based framework do)

And finally I want to say I'm not a React hater. It's totally possible to get fast enough performance out of React. There are just more footguns to be aware of.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-28 15:34:39+00:00
My personal understanding (which may be very wrong) is that there are different sorts/mechanisms of pollution involved.

Ag pollution is usually things like herbicide, pesticide, and fertilizer, which can have disastrous effects downstream if it washes into a river, but don't make things grown on that land poisonous as long as you rinse off anything that has been sprayed on them.

This is in contrast to, say, reclaiming farmland in an area that had a textile dye factory upstream.

There are certainly exceptions, for example many old orchards used lead arsenate as a pesticide, contaminating the soil with both lead and arsenic.
by sigmar | 2025-10-28 15:34:57+00:00
that's very different from OpenAI's previous definition (which was "autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks") for at least one big reason: This new definition likely only triggers if OpenAI's AI is substantially different or better than other companies' AI. Because in a world where 2+ companies have similar AGI, both would have huge income but the competition would mean their profit margins might not be as large. The only reason their profit would soar to 100B+ would be because of no competition, right?
by bluGill | 2025-10-28 15:35:03+00:00
I've heard the 15 minutes is all you need. I've also heard that in winter the sun is so weak that no amount of sunshine gives you any. (even if you were naked outside in winter - risking frostbite).

I'm not a medical doctor. I cannot evaluate any of the above claims. I wish I could find a source I could trust.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-28 15:35:43+00:00
Text-to-SQL is effectively pissing in the wind when we start looking at business value. The trouble is that it works just enough to be dangerous. It is a very interesting idea and can easily consume the resources of a technical team ~indefinitely. One obvious sign we are chasing shiny here is the German-to-SQL example. This is fun, but no one would actually pay for it.

I would classify Text-to-SQL as a Schedule I rabbit hole. It has some serious effects, but it otherwise has no acceptable level of value-add in most reasonable enterprises.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-10-28 15:36:00+00:00
I think that somewhat depends on your definition.

For example an AGI AI could give you a detailed plan that tells you exactly how to do any and every task. But it might not be able to actually do the task itself, for example manual labor jobs for which an AI simply cannot do unless it also "builds" itself a form-factor to be able to do the job.

The AGI could also just determine that it's cheaper to hire a human than to build a robot at any given point for a job that it can't yet do physically and it would be the AGI
by jack_tripper | 2025-10-28 15:36:11+00:00
I disagree. Unlike the US, tech salaries in Austrian private sector are not terribly amazing to begin with, so the Austrian government would have no issues to find labor within the budget that they gave Atos, not to mention that government workers in Austria have other perks that workers in the private sector don't have, like harder to fire, having their own private kindergartens for the workers' kids, much better pension funds and health insurance funds with more coverage and less waiting times, public housing, etc that to a lot of people will have more value than a higher paycheque in the private sector.

So IT IS technically possible to gather the labor force to build the project in house, it just isn't much political motivation to do so when you have lobbyists swaying leaders in the other direction, and the investigative journalists and voters are too tech illiterate to understand this type of grift because when the government pays a billion Euros for a bridge or a tunnel and after 10 years the bridge or tunnel is not there, everyone notices and someone needs to go to jail or at least loose their job in politics for that obvious theft.

But if you spend a billion to consultancies on a government IT project, and it's an offshored clusterfuck that barely works and could have been done better by a local shop for 1/100 of the cost, then the journalists and taxpayers have no clue they've been robbed blind because nobody understands the nitty gritty and costs of SW development, and unlike bridges and tunnels, the public can't see the source code in the open as they walk to school to see that there's nothing there, which is why government IT projects has now become the best and easiest way to funnel taxpayer money into private pockets.
by leephillips | 2025-10-28 15:36:25+00:00
The only thing that occurs to me is the example of one of the few online services I pay for: Kagi search, for which I pay $10/month.

They have a bunch of features that I don’t care about and never use (AI, their web browser, ...). I just need their core search product (because Google is useless). Instead of putting features behind a paywall, they offer search free of charge up to a certain number of searches per month (I think). It’s enough to learn if their search is good enough to pay for. I pay to continue to use their core service more frequently (and I guess it’s the same with most of their paying customers).

Your customers seem to find value in your core service but don’t want to pay for the extras. Maybe you could apply the Kagi model?
by snozolli | 2025-10-28 15:36:30+00:00
I've heard things like you only need 15 minutes of sunshine per day to get your recommended dose of Vitamin D

The figure I read years ago was that it takes 15 minutes in short sleeves to get the necessary light exposure at the 45th parallel in winter. I'm right at the 45th parallel and I don't go out in short sleeves in the winter, so I imagine it's significantly worse for you!
by tartoran | 2025-10-28 15:37:00+00:00
During my 20s I developed a severe insomnia, probably due to not knowing how to handle stress. It was so bad that I had to go to the ER because I haven't had any sleep in days and didn't know what else to do. They gave me ambien and it helped at the time, but I knew that it was not something to take long term. I then started to experiment with various methods to help me fall asleep and sleep hygene such as hot/cold showers, warm baths, relaxing exercises and meditation, lowering the room temperature, removing sources of light (especially those blue LEDs). In my 40s now and am happy to report that I no longer have any insomniac episodes and I rarely have a hard time falling asleep. Out of all the techniques I found that forcefully yawning for a couple of minutes is the most efficent way for me to induce sleep.
by vuggamie | 2025-10-28 15:37:14+00:00
It is satire. You don't need to know the writer to get it. McSweeney's publishes these type of pieces from time-to-time. Laugh or don't. I found this one amusing.

Wikipedia, a generation ago, was considered controversial. It is now more accepted as a legitimate encyclopedia and the criticisms appear quaint when compared to the post-truth atmosphere of our current media. The footnotes and the "citation needed" annotations are meant to mimic a Wikipedia article.

The donate button is a nice touch, from a time when web sites weren't afraid to put links to external sites. Wikipedia probably doesn't need your money, but it is, in my opinion, a solid organization providing an incredible resource to humanity. Though, as with all human enterprises, it has its flaws.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-28 15:37:54+00:00
It kind of doesn’t matter if there are users - there are people still stupidly using Mersenne Twister. The point is that PCG is better than xorshift and related in that family. That other high profile applications haven’t switched is besides the point that PCG is objectively better:

> O'Neill proposes testing PRNGs by applying statistical tests to their reduced-size variants and determining the minimum number of internal state bits required to pass.[7] TestU01's BigCrush examines enough data to detect a period of 235, so even an ideal generator requires 36 bits of state to pass it. Some very poor generators can pass if given a large enough state;[8] passing despite a small state is a measure of an algorithm's quality, and shows how large a safety margin exists between that lower limit and the state size used in practical applications. PCG-RXS-M-XS (with 32-bit output) passes BigCrush with 36 bits of state (the minimum possible), PCG-XSH-RR (pcg32() above) requires 39, and PCG-XSH-RS (pcg32_fast() above) requires 49 bits of state. For comparison, xorshift*, one of the best of the alternatives, requires 40 bits of state,[5]: 19 and Mersenne twister fails despite 19937 bits of state.[9]