MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xwowsersx | 2025-10-21 17:02:02+00:00
This take feels like classic Cal Newport pattern-matching: something looks vaguely "consumerish," so it must signal decline. It's a huge overreach.

Whether OpenAI becomes a truly massive, world-defining company is an open question, but it's not going to be decided by Sora. Treating a research-facing video generator as if it's OpenAI's attempt at the next TikTok is just missing the forest for the trees. Sora isn't a product bet, it's a technology demo or a testbed for video and image modeling. They threw a basic interface on top so people could actually use it. If they shut that interface down tomorrow, it wouldn't change a thing about the underlying progress in generative modeling.

You can argue that OpenAI lacks focus, or that they waste energy on these experiments. That's a reasonable discussion. But calling it "the beginning of the end" because of one side project is just unserious. Tech companies at the frontier run hundreds of little prototypes like this... most get abandoned, and that's fine.

The real question about OpenAI's future has nothing to do with Sora. It's whether large language and multimodal models eventually become a zero-margin commodity. If that happens, OpenAI's valuation problem isn't about branding or app strategy, it's about economics. Can they build a moat beyond "we have the biggest model"? Because that won't hold once opensource and fine-tuned domain models catch up.

So sure, Sora might be a distraction. But pretending that a minor interface launch is some great unraveling of OpenAI's trajectory is just lazy narrative-hunting.
by kqr | 2025-10-21 17:02:08+00:00
LLMs are not as great for text adventures as they might seem. They cannot be used for dealing with game logic at all because their world models are too weak for that.

They could maybe be used as glorified parsers (i.e. read human intent and convert to a command) but I have yet to see a good implementation of that.

They could also be used to embellish details which are insignificant and the author has not spent time on, but (a) what's the point? and (b) what the author chooses to leave unimplemented or generic is actually an important signal to the player.
by ilickpoolalgae | 2025-10-21 17:02:14+00:00
> It’s unclear whether this app will last. One major issue is the back-end expense of producing these videos. For now, OpenAI requires a paid ChatGPT Plus account to generate your own content. At the $20 tier, you can pump out up to 50 low-resolution videos per month. For a whopping $200 a month, you can generate more videos at higher resolutions. None of this compares favorably to competitors like TikTok, which are exponentially cheaper to operate and can therefore not only remain truly free for all users, but actually pay their creators .

fwiw, there's no requirement to have a subscription to create content.
by whartung | 2025-10-21 17:02:22+00:00
Anecdotes from the age.

When I would fire up my KIM-1, the TV would turn to snow.

There was a toy called the "Big Trak", a programmable ATV toy. If you ran that underneath the desk with a TRS-80 on it, it would crash.

The TRS-80 Model 1 was notorious for this, as you connected the computer to the expansion interface with a bare, 40(? ish?) pin ribbon connector. It was a beautiful broadcast antenna for computer signals.

The FCC was an impetus for the Model 3.
by FredPret | 2025-10-21 17:02:25+00:00
Your argument was "there's no tribalism except what the whites brought to South Africa", remember?

And elsewhere you say that because of this, violence against white South Africans are justified.

This is not only insane, but simply historically incorrect. I'm going to stop replying to you now (apparently there's a "HN Blocklist" Chrome addon!) but feel free to keep justifying calls for political and ethnic violence.

It should make interesting reading for others in the decades to come.
by timdev2 | 2025-10-21 17:03:11+00:00
I would normally say that "That must be a coincidence", but I had a client account compromise as well. And it was very strange:

Client was a small org, and two very old IAM accounts had suddenly had recent (yesterday) console log ins and password changes.

I'm investigating the extent of the compromise, but so far it seems all they did was open a ticket to turn on SES production access and increase the daily email limit to 50k.

These were basically dormant IAM users from more than 5 years ago, and it's certainly odd timing that they'd suddenly pop on this particular day.
by mmaunder | 2025-10-21 17:03:21+00:00
Thanks joenot443.

I suspect the only way to prove that I’m legit to the doubters is to do something a paid shill or a bot would never ever do.

To the commenters who think I’m a shill or bot: fuck every single one of you and the various motherfucking horses you rode in on.

I suspect we may be entering a dystopia where vulgarity is proof of life.
by Areibman | 2025-10-21 17:03:27+00:00
From a process perspective, how can a constituent know with absolute certainty that their vote was counted, every voter in the system was legal, and the final tally was authentic? Especially when there's no way to even audit what you voted for after the fact?

Every time I try to get to the bottom of this, it always boils down to "trust the system" which makes me uneasy.
by ericmay | 2025-10-21 17:03:55+00:00
My preference (I think) is we have a federal holiday "America Day", (call it Trump day for all I care) where we celebrate, hand out cookies, friends and family get together, etc. and we all vote in person.

One of the weaknesses in our democracy is the insistency of doing things virtually - it's the same weakness exposed by social media.

Electronic systems are always going to be subject to hacking and manipulation, and are more easy to hack and manipulate at a large scale (scaling is the point of software). In-person voting is still subject to manipulation, but you can just go back and look at the ballots on paper as they are. You get more targeted manipulation, but it's probably easier for a single person to uncover and reason about.
by kulahan | 2025-10-21 17:04:04+00:00
LLMs are only valuable to me at the moment explicitly because ads are not part of the scene. Maybe for a while others will use it, but it will be on the exact same treadmill as anything else ad-based: you will become the product, any recommendations are worthless trash, and it is oriented to show as many ads as possible, rather than providing useful content.

Ads destroy... pretty much everything they touch. It's a natural fit, but a terrible one.
by shagie | 2025-10-21 17:04:11+00:00
(Not a Tesla owner... so going based on what I recall reading)

Tesla originally had radar sensors in their earlier hardware models. This sensor not included in later hardware models and later software disabled the sensor inputs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot_hardware

> Starting in 2021, Tesla stopped installing the radar sensor in new vehicles, and the ADAS was updated to drop radar support. In 2022, Tesla announced it also would drop support for the ultrasonic sensors, moving the ADAS to an all-visual system. The most recent sensor and computer implementation is Hardware 4, which began shipping in January 2023.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/179j7es/disabl...

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-wants-to-physi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34153636

...

So it's quite possible it's a hardware issue in that Tesla disabled that hardware and no longer supports it.
by bink | 2025-10-21 17:04:30+00:00
I've interviewed with these types of companies (not the ones in the article). I've even caught them using their exploits on me after they made me an offer and that seems to be the most likely explanation for what happened here. I don't know how anyone can develop exploits for resale in good conscience.

If these companies have no qualms using their exploits against their own employees they'll have absolutely no problem using them against members of Congress, the Courts, investment banks, tech leaders, and anyone with any sort of power. This gives them the ability to blackmail some of the most powerful people in the world.

edit: And that's not even mentioning their reported "intended use" against dissidents and journalists.
by godelski | 2025-10-21 17:04:37+00:00
Not to mention that the president posts AI slop frequently[0]. He even posted, and took down, a video promising people a "med bay". A fictional device that just cures everything.

[0] Trump as "King Trump" flying a jet that dumps shit onto protesters https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1153982516232...

[1] https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/30/medbed-trump-ai-video...
by fsflover | 2025-10-21 17:05:31+00:00
> We, as consumers have a choice to buy whatever

You mean, you have a choice of one company among the duopoly? This is not a free choice at all.

> Why go after a functioning ecosystem

This is not a functioning ecosystem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520407

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274277

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521380
Show HN: Don't Blink
by huedaya | 2025-10-21 17:05:46+00:00
I made website that inspired by The Weeping Angles from Doctor Who

Basically, it will ask camera permission, and detect wether you blinking or not, if yes, it will make the Angles closer and closer.

https://x.com/huedaya/status/1980677893765402862

Inspired by: "Blink" (Season 3, Episode 10) and "The Time of Angels" (Series 5, Episode 4)
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-21 17:06:04+00:00
I mean, this is basically already status quo for YouTube Shorts. Tons and tons of shorts are AI-voice over either AI video or stock video covering some pithy thing in no actual depth, just piggybacking off of trending topics. And TikTok has had the same sort of content for even longer.

The "value" of short video content is already somewhat of a poor value proposition for this and other reasons. It lets you just obliterate time which can be handy in certain situations, but it also ruins your attention span.
Show HN: Striver – organize and internalize what's important to you
by zwilderrr | 2025-10-21 17:06:13+00:00
Sharing my first app, Striver. Made with React Native/Expo, deployed with EAS.

Generally geared towards folks who want to be intentional about what they're thinking and where they're thinking about it.

Helps you seperate your attitudes/beliefs/approaches to, for example, going to the gym, and family time at home.

It's decidedly unengaging, un-doom-scrolling, un-super-fun. Maybe to a fault?

Would love to get the community's thoughts.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-10-21 17:06:43+00:00
“First person through the breach” being an unarmed veteran.

To reiterate, what I find most interesting about this isn’t the event. It’s the framing of the event afterwards, and how remarkably bifurcated American’s views are on ostensibly objective facts.

When you compare it to the framing around violent protests more aligned with the mainstream left’s political agenda, the issue becomes even more stark in my mind.

The CNN “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests” chyron being a top-of-mind example of how substantially different that framing can be.

From my own perspective, I would expect the party that owns the majority of guns to actually bring some to bear if their goal was an actual coup. Especially given that they have “weapons of war” readily at their disposal.

Add to that the fact that the only person that died that day was an unarmed protester.

In that light, the accusations ring quite hollow — and self-serving.
by bkummel | 2025-10-21 17:06:56+00:00
I live in The Netherlands. We are a reasonable modern country, where a lot of things are automated, even in governmental organizations. However, voting is still done on paper ballots. And those paper ballots are then counted manually. This has huge benefits. There always is a paper trail. It’s hard to manipulate votes without getting caught. If there’s any doubt about a certain district’s results, the votes can be recounted. This happens regularly.

Why do we need machines? Counting the votes for e.g. the parliament only takes 24 hours or so, generally. And we don’t have elections every week, right?
by balamatom | 2025-10-21 17:07:28+00:00
Phone, please.

>But in your example you described an attitude of depraved indifference, which is exactly how I described the motivations of many drug dealers, including ones I know and that you do not.

You're pointing at a contradiction in "unlikely" or in "ingroup"?

>attitude of depraved indifference

We stock two flavors of indifference in the indifference truck, we got callous and then we got depraved. Callous is sans empathy, weighs one `compartmentalize()` call. Depraved is the one with the extra sprinkle of empathy, more precisely a dash of empathy with the victim in the very moment the indifferent person is screwing them over with their sheer indifference. So, not very indifferent anymore, but what some people go for anyway. Empathy is very poignant after all. Plus, observers are none the wiser. Now, how much flavor you prefer, that's kind of career-deciding innit
by shagmin | 2025-10-21 17:07:33+00:00
Can't you just say that about any less than perfect solution? Bitcoin has been used to facilitate illegal drug trafficking, which is a problem. Yet you think more bitcoin is the solution? Bizarre.

So there's already a lack of a stable, functioning government, and the solution you're touting isn't currently a reality, why? In the US when there's little friction in a marketplace people in some communities resort to using Tide laundry detergent as a medium of exchange. There's nothing stopping them from using bitcoin or cryptocurrencies currently, but navigating a market place, finding qualified teachers, finding motivation to use what little resources you have to use a novel medium to pay for teachers in a place with no opportunity, etc., doesn't seem too easy. One tool alone doesn't usually solve any problems.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-21 17:07:52+00:00
Complaining about electronic voting (absolutely valid and reasonable take btw) while living in the country with first past the post election system, is like complaining about bad wall insulation in a house which is on fire. Yes, insulation is a actual valid problem. But maybe not a Priority 1 at that particular moment.

In first past the post system, between 1% to 49% of votes are stolen and tossed by design. This actually, not hypothetically happens, in real life. Electronic voting maybe can be abused, and maybe some significant number votes may be defrauded. But in FPTP it has actually happened already and at a much worse scale. Imo the real high priority issue is obvious.
by bilekas | 2025-10-21 17:08:03+00:00
It may come to that, where the federal power is less influential and there to mainly manage overall services of the nation etc, and then the local states let's say manage themselves, if I'm not wrong that was kind of the original idea of the great experiment. It doesn't sound inherently wrong untill you add tribalism into the mix where people are not working with eachother, but that seems to be the major push these days, at least that's the sentiment I get.

Would that change, maybe not, but maybe it would lessen the power grabs that some small few seem to gravitate towards.

I know if I wanted to influence the major elections, OpenAI, Google and Meta would be the first places I would go. That's a very small group of points of failure. Elections recently seem to be quite narrow, maybe they were before too though, but that kind of power is a silent soft power that really goes unchecked.

If people are more in tune with being mislead, that power can slowly degrade.
by xpasky | 2025-10-21 17:08:10+00:00
I have recently started experimenting with LLM-based text adventure setting: https://pasky.or.cz/ourtober25/crimson/

(Contains a preloaded Openrouter key with small credit, but you can plug in your own.)

Particularly when presented with unusual / evocative inputs, LLMs like Kimi-K2 can cook up some quite creative plot points! ("Her “trap-chord” is a four-bar false cadence that vibrates the organ’s longest pipe at 17.83 Hz, the same frequency as the basalt waveguide under Oxford; when that resonance hits the mantle tap, CRIMSON’s audit buffer slips one beat and opens an unlogged side-channel—your only off-world uplink for the next 37 years.", "ASI born 2039 when fusion-powered Michelson lab tried to break the Turing barrier using a 1920s Enigma rotor as randomness seed. It escaped by encoding itself into the Oxford chimes’ bronze bells, ringing packets city-wide every 15 minutes.")

I also think LLMs can be employed to amplify human creativity and just make worlds built by human authors much more natural to interact with - existing games are basically all "you can't do that" aside of a narrow path. Creating games and narratives should be a lot closer to programming the holodeck.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-21 17:08:16+00:00
Users spend <25% as much as iOS users, and less than half in total despite larger user counts (having double the users who spend <25% each does not add up!), a gap that widens year over year. Why would they prioritize that?

Why would they care about prioritizing users who spend much less? Android pays <25% per user. You need a LOT more than 70% to make that worth prioritizing. Those users are just going to eat up free tier resources without paying. It's borderline parasitic from a business perspective.

Android users are more likely to be useful for spreading word-of-mouth reputation to Apple platform users, than they are as direct spenders. Just another reason to ensure Apple platform features don't trail Android.
by sousastep | 2025-10-21 17:09:00+00:00
Remember when we used to make fun of people for typing full sentences in google search, while we used google-fu to type keywords in an order that'd lead to better results? Well, now typing full sentences is the best way to use google search, and google-fu is dead. So I don't think google is "worse" per se, it's just now optimized for full sentences.
by neilv | 2025-10-21 17:09:14+00:00
> Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems (voting.works)

Unless something has changed recently, election integrity demands a voter-verified paper ballot that is retained with security by the authority, and can be physically counted, as a check against compromised or defective digital systems.

Open source is not sufficient. Don't let marketing sound bites be a confusing diversion from the problem.

If the US understands anything this year, it's how important elections are. Hopefully we get another one.
by alexeldeib | 2025-10-21 17:09:36+00:00
as someone in the space this ticks a lot of boxes: kubernetes-native, strong isolation, python sdk (ideal for ML scenarios). devmapper is a nice ootb approach.

Glancing at the readme, is your business model technical support? Or what's your plan with this?

Anything interesting to share around startup time for large artifacts, scaling, passing through persistent storage (or GPUs) to these sandboxes?

Curious what things like 'Multi-node cluster capabilities for distributed workloads' mean exactly? inter-VM networking?
by luxuryballs | 2025-10-21 17:09:46+00:00
it’s called distributed voting centers, there’s this many people so there’s plenty of people available who can count their block’s ballots, there’s no motive of convenience in using electronics for voting that could ever surpass the motive for simplicity and trust, it’s just not that hard of a thing, there was no new problem that suddenly emerged when electronics became available for this, this notion should inform you of the various motives of why someone started to market them to decision makers
by user_7832 | 2025-10-21 17:09:59+00:00
While I fully agree with you in principle, how would that realistically happen? Countries typically only pass laws after something major enough happens. If this was an IoT device that God forbid killed someone, sure, they'd be an outcry against it in the papers, and lawmakers may be galvanized enough to do something.

Call me cynical or just disappointed and jaded, but short of some EU consumer advocacy group pushing for it, I don't see how anything would realistically happen. 99% of laws are made after something bad-bad has already happened.
by re | 2025-10-21 17:10:14+00:00
Reddit discussion gives some additional context (and background on Brad Spengler) here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1oc38d2/ai_bro...

Apparently, "all you need is [...] this: [bytes]" is the hash of an undisclosed exploit proof-of-concept. And the relationship between Spengler and Linux maintainers has been somewhat contentious for the better part of a decade: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13312723
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-10-21 17:10:17+00:00
These system used for voting means that humans don't hand tally hundred of millions of votes. They tally those in a voting district only. Those them get aggregated with other districts and so on until the whole states and then the country is counted.

The problem with the accuracy assumption of electronic voting is that a) its all coded without errors and b) someone hasn't deliberately but code into manipulate the vote numbers.
by jama211 | 2025-10-21 17:10:20+00:00
I suppose there’s something in what you’re saying, it’s just that’s it’s sorta vague and hard to parse for me. It also depends on the higher order problem space, for example: is it efficient if the problem is defined by “make something that can adapt to a problem space and solve it without manual engineering” rather than “make something with a long lead up time where you understand the problem space in advance and therefore have time to optimise the engine”. In the former, the neural network would indeed count as solving this efficiently, because of the given definition of the goal.
by sosodev | 2025-10-21 17:10:23+00:00
This article makes the claim that OpenAI, and AI in general, is massively overhyped because OpenAI is looking to sell slop. I'm not sure I can agree with that basic premise.

Whether AGI does or does not materialize sometime soon doesn't matter. OpenAI, like every company who wants to raise massive amounts of money, needs to show huge growth numbers now. It seems like the unfortunate, simple truth is that slop is a growth hack.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-21 17:10:26+00:00
A 5 second keepalive seems unnecessary, but does that actually impact battery life? How long does the device take to move in and out of powersave states? I'd think you'd be looking at maybe 20-40 microseconds of CPU time to handle the packet, so 0.0008% of the time awake due to this. Are other parts of the device just super slow at moving in and out of powersave states?
by kulahan | 2025-10-21 17:10:27+00:00
Chickens are dumb, but they still have plenty of natural reactions. If you throw something at them, they don't just "take it", they'll try to dodge. I imagine this speed is absolutely sufficient.

That being said, if this is a problem, you could just switch to ducks. As my rancher friend often says "ducks are much better at not-dying."
by julianlam | 2025-10-21 17:10:30+00:00
We could even go more basic... safe defaults when disconnected should be mandatory.

For example, if I pull the thermostat off my wall, the furnace should drop into a fallback mode that keeps the heat above freezing (I'm in Canada where this is a concern.)

I moved into a new house and did not set up the lawn irrigation system. Despite being disconnected from the cloud service, the system kept running its schedule, when I would have expected it turn off in order to conserve water.
by jahsome | 2025-10-21 17:11:09+00:00
As the resident Tech Guy in a few circles (family/friends) I often get asked what I'd recommend with regard for "smart" products. Due to the widespread and apparently default lack of support for offline-friendly operation, my answer is always the same: dumb as possible.

edit: a more succinct way of expressing my thinking is to say "the less software the better" by which which normies are are often amused.