MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alganet | 2025-10-13 16:05:02+00:00
> Even for as low as ~$100 in cost (~4 hours on an 8XH100 node)

This showcases how unacessible learning about LLMs is. 100 bucks for a hello world is kind of outrageous.

People don't understand when I say there's a point in which an individual cannot progress in learning AI. This project exemplifies that concept very clearly.
by tetraodonpuffer | 2025-10-13 16:05:03+00:00
most cars these days have GPS and return location and so on, why can't manufacturer run these updates only at night and when the car is parked at home? There should be no reason for any OTA update to happen while the vehicle is running (or on a trip etc.), downloading the OTA update, sure, but definitely not applying it. Also there should be a documented procedure to restore the previous in case an OTA update fails.
by fidotron | 2025-10-13 16:05:08+00:00
China are certainly better at turning the results of research into products, whether that research was them or anyone else.

The canonical example here is 5G. Once again the US science establishment had the guy, he ends up doing the breakthroughs for polar coding, they failed to appreciate him, he left and ended up being funded by Huawei.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdal_Ar%C4%B1kan

The US science establishment isn't broken as an innovation engine because of Trump - it's because they're clearly rewarding the wrong things.

What isn't so clear is if Chinese science is creating Chinese startups. It may yet happen.
by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-10-13 16:05:22+00:00
I think you're relating coal as a percentage of all energy rather than relative to itself year on year.

The data here shows that coal consumption is simply increasing in China. Therefore, I believe it is inaccurate to say "they are building more plants but starting to burn less coal." It is more accurate to say "they are building more plants and burning more coal, but they are not increasing their coal use at the same rate they increase their use of other energy sources."

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-coal?tab=line&...

Our World In Data gets that information from https://globalcarbonbudget.org/. I believe that the next update will include 2024 data, and should be available next month.

My reason for challenging the phrasing is just to be precise. This is a complex topic, and the distinction between a falling percentage of energy mix versus a rising absolute amount of consumption is a key detail that's often missed.
by omnicognate | 2025-10-13 16:05:33+00:00
I would describe my experience of it similarly, but wouldn't call it "visual thinking" in the sense meant in the article, where one uses actual imagery and visual-spatial reasoning. Indeed, I almost completely lack the ability to conjure mental imagery (aphantasia) and I've speculated it might be because a part of my visual cortex is given over to the pseudo-visual activity that seems to take place when I program.

I'm especially sure my sort of pseudo-visual thinking isn't what the article means by "visual thinking" because I also use it when working through "piles of abstract math", which I take to very kindly indeed.

Is your "wandering" of this sort of pseudo-visual nature, or do you see actual visual images that could be drawn? Very intriguing if the latter, and I'd be curious to know what they look like.
by aidenn0 | 2025-10-13 16:05:54+00:00
A good CRT makes a better image than any LCD screen I've ever seen. There are plenty of caveats: an aperture-grille CRT will look better when ambient light is high, but will wear out a lot faster than a shadow-mask. My last CRT monitor could handle 1600x1200@75Hz and the IPS panel I replaced it with was a huge downgrade in image quality.

The IPS panel was cheaper (19" vs 27" diagonal), larger, lighter and widescreen (both were 1200 vertical lines).
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-13 16:06:56+00:00
This is a really bad analysis:

China's birthrate has fallen like it has in other richer countries because people have become rich and the amount of time and money needed to raise a kid is expensive. Becoming even richer won't help things at all.

Freedom has little to do with the birthrate, you could even say a crackdown on liberalization that has occurred would make china poorer and therefore the birthrate would go up.

China just wants to be rich, robots are one way to do that with the demographics that happen in rich economies.
by psunavy03 | 2025-10-13 16:07:07+00:00
"In question" != "proven." Sure, Tom Clancy wrote a whole chapter on what would or wouldn't have happened if the Backfires had sortied from Murmansk. But it's funny how the people who push the idea of carriers being obsolete are the military equivalent of the chattering classes, not the people whose job it is to fight and win wars.

Armchair admirals can pontificate all they want.
Show HN: Narada – Open-source secrets classification model
by sanketsaurav | 2025-10-13 16:07:09+00:00
Hey HN! We're the team behind Autofix Bot (YC W20's DeepSource)[1]. We're open-sourcing Narada (https://huggingface.co/deepsource/Narada-3.2-3B-v1), a fine-tuned Llama3.2-3B-Instruct model that dramatically reduces false positives in secrets detection tools. The model achieves 97% precision with 96% recall on our evaluation set. It's fast enough for CI/CD (3B parameters), works with any regex-based tool, and is MIT-licensed.

Traditional regex-based secrets scanners (Gitleaks, TruffleHog, detect-secrets) face a fundamental tradeoff: crank up sensitivity and drown in false positives flagging things like "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE", or tune it down and miss real credentials. We kept hearing from security teams that they couldn't trust their scanning tools because of the noise – developers would just ignore the alerts.

Regex is great at fast pattern matching, but terrible at understanding context. So instead of trying to make regex smarter, we built a hybrid system: regex does the initial high-recall sweep, then a fine-tuned 3B model filters out false positives by actually understanding the code context.

Technical approach: - Started with teacher-student architecture using DeepSeek R1 as teacher - Curated ~8K diverse secrets from Samsung's CredData dataset, relabeled for consistency - Generated synthetic edge cases using Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4 - Fine-tuned on ~900 examples with deterministic outputs (not chain-of-thought)

Integration is straightforward – run your existing regex tool, feed candidates to Narada with ±20 lines of context, get structured JSON output with true/false positive classification and reasoning.

We built this as part of Autofix Bot's secrets detection agent, and it outperformed static-only tools significantly in our benchmarks [2]. Figured the security community would benefit from having this available as an open-source building block. Would love to hear your feedback and learn what other edge cases you encounter.

[1] https://autofix.bot

[2] https://autofix.bot/benchmarks#benchmarks-secrets-detection

[3] https://autofix.bot/news/narada-secrets-detection-classifica...
by next_xibalba | 2025-10-13 16:07:14+00:00
The costs and benefits faced by ancient humans were very, very different. Maybe a different way to frame the question would be "At what probability of additional death, injury, or suffering (to you or other tribe members) would you abandon your injured/disabled?" Humans of that era did not have anything even remotely approaching modern medicine and most lived at subsistence levels with starvation always at their doorstep. A huge portion of ancient peoples energy and time was dedicating to obtaining calories. That means caring for the injured/disabled imposes a huge cost and risk. We can just as easily find examples of ancient peoples murdering or abandoning their injured, disabled, and weak. I don't think it would be right or fair to judge them through a modern lens. Of course they cared for their loved ones and mourned their deaths. But they were faced with much harsher circumstances to which their cultures and beliefs were suited.
by starky | 2025-10-13 16:07:18+00:00
It isn't like it shouldn't be easier on Linux either as it already is much of the time. I can open up my command line and type "yay ProgramName" and hit enter a couple times to install most things. Its even easier on a distro that uses a store for distributing applications. But as soon as you get away from that curated selection the process becomes so much more difficult very quickly. Users will give up if it is more complicated than downloading an executable and clicking on it.
by simgt | 2025-10-13 16:07:39+00:00
On top of what's suggested in the post, I found the following helpful:

- having a "phone box", the small uncomfortable shoe bench now has a shelf above it for phones, phones shall only be used on that bench

- only my partner knows the "screen time" password on iOS

- putting away my laptop and using a desktop computer instead

My current problem is listening to podcasts, I don't have a convenient way to listen to them without my phone.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-13 16:07:40+00:00
csgrs, a small fast multithreaded CAD library in Rust: https://github.com/timschmidt/csgrs

Alumina, a highly integrated CNC stack with a WASM/WebGL user interface, which resides entirely within the 8Mb flash of the ESP32: https://github.com/timschmidt/alumina-interface

egui-rad-builder, a GUI Rapid Application Development tool for the egui toolkit: https://github.com/timschmidt/egui-rad-builder
by qustrolabe | 2025-10-13 16:07:49+00:00
You never use fzf? What a tough life in terminal then huh. It's not as useful to run it directly, but pretty much any shell has plugin for fzf support that let's you Ctrl+R to fuzzy search over bash_history (or fish_history or whatever) and Ctrl+T let's you fuzzy search files in current directory.
by kevindamm | 2025-10-13 16:08:03+00:00
Something I haven't seen mentioned in this thread or TFA is just how high corporate taxes were (and even personal investment taxes) in the 50s and 60s, and this influenced spending on R&D immensely because that investment wasn't considered taxable income. Tax rates were over 50% for much of the era of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC.
by bmicraft | 2025-10-13 16:08:07+00:00
Well, it seem like is was originally, but isn't now and hasn't been at date of publication.

Edit:

> The initial QUIC protocol was designed by Jim Roskind at Google and was initially implemented in 2012, announced publicly to the world in 2013 when Google's experimentation broadened.

> Back then, QUIC was still claimed to be an acronym for "Quick UDP Internet Connections", but that has been dropped since then.

from https://http3-explained.haxx.se/en/proc
by willmadden | 2025-10-13 16:08:23+00:00
I'm not "pro-Russia", but here is how Russia was provoked into the Ukraine war:

- NATO’s 1999 expansion into Eastern Europe despite promises not to.

- The 2014 Maidan coup removing pro-Russian President Yanukovych.

- Ukraine’s 2021 bombardment of Donbas separatists.

- NATO’s 2022 plans to admit Ukraine despite promises not to.

- U.S. Biolabs in Ukraine.

None of this is mentioned as context for this new prediction in the article. This is critical context for any objective article about Russia's war plans. Conclusion: this article is not objective.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-13 16:08:29+00:00
Again, this is simply and provably false. I can build a system that opens a door when I'm near it using a photodiode connected to a measurement pin and have the CPU trigger the door opening motor if the diode is indicating no light, and the door closing motor if it indicates light. Or, I can buy a camera and build a complex software solution to analyze the output of that camera, and open the door if the software sets the "is_present" bit and otherwise closes the door.

In either case, the door will open if you're in front of it, and close after you've gone. This will happen regardless of whether you undertsand what it represents, it will open for a basic robot as well as for a human or a squirrel or a plant growing towards it very slowly or a rock rolling downhill.

Of course, you can't replace every single piece of hardware with software - you still need some link with the physical world. And of course, there will be many measurable differences between the two systems - for a basic example, the camera-based system will give off a lot more heat than the photo-sensitive diode one. I'm not claiming that they are perfectly equivalent in every way, not at all. I am claiming that they are equivalent in some measurable, observer-independent ways, and that the specific way in which they are equivalent is that they are running the same computation.
by miningape | 2025-10-13 16:08:33+00:00
(kinda unrelated but) I personally hate these forced savings schemes from the government. At least in my country the rates are low so it almost feels like I'm donating the entire difference in rates between the pension scheme and the S&P500 + taxes straight to the government.

At least give those of us brave (or stupid) enough to do something different with the money the option to.
by uptown | 2025-10-13 16:08:55+00:00
I had an OTA update brick my Tahoe infotainment system. Now that backup cameras are standard requirements, those were all unusable. Also affected things like the clicking sound you hear when you use your turn signal. That was completely silent. Cost me ~$2k to get it fixed and wasn't covered under warranty. Good stuff. I've disable future "updates".
by LikeBeans | 2025-10-13 16:09:11+00:00
I'm skeptical too however I think AI can add value by increasing knowledge worker productivity. Maybe save some money by needing less staff for some tasks. Maybe to mine vast amounts of data looking for a pattern. So I think it is useful however my skepticism is about the cost vs reward. Is it really worth the amount of money pumped into it, not sure. Time will tell.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-13 16:09:15+00:00
> Is it more efficient to ship electricity instead of gas

Yes, in general, and especially if (as is the case here) the electrical transmission infrastructure is already in place and you are just switching powerplants at the generating end (its a whole lot cheaper to build nothing than gas supply infrastructure.) But also:

> or is it just more politically convenient to pollute Utah instead of LA?

Its both more politically convenient and less of an adverse impact on human life to pollute farther from dense population centers, yes.
by halfcat | 2025-10-13 16:09:22+00:00
If AI is wildly successful and improves significantly beyond current capabilities and takes all of the jobs, the most aggressive adopters will self-terminate. The employers that survive this will not be those who can cut costs the most, but those who are most critical (and that will tend to be something that interfaces with the physical world, less digital). If it comes down to fixing the plumbing leak or Netflix, I guess I’ll be less entertained, or go outside. No amount of cost reduction survives zero revenue when no one has an income.

If AI continues at its current trajectory of being an incrementally improving blog post generator, then the only losers here are the big investors.
by spankibalt | 2025-10-13 16:09:27+00:00
> Isn’t that like how the F4 didn’t need to be good at dogfighting because it would shoot enemies down from BVR (first versions didn’t even have a gun, only missiles) and then rules of engagement over Vietnam nullified that advantage?

Not only ROE limitations, but unreliable missile technology (see the "Red Baron" reports for example) and bad tactics as well. The Navy was better than the USAF in both respects.
by avidiax | 2025-10-13 16:09:52+00:00
I have heard anecdotally that auto manufacturers are sensitive to a price change less than $5/vehicle. This is better than some industries that are sensitive to $1.

What could easily have happened is that the negotiators didn't include A/B updates in their spec, or they only specced A/B updates at 1GB OTA size.

They do their usual hammering on price, and the head unit or ECU manufacturer gave them some savings by cutting storage space to the bone.

Maybe it was still enough for A/B updates, until the usual software bloat took the updates past the critical limit.

They could still do a safe update by doing an A/B/A update (where B is a shrunken, update-only OS), but that requires development time, and the engineers should already be working on the next vehicle.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-13 16:10:03+00:00
> When smartphones came out, I made a decision early on that I'm just not going to use them in a way that makes my internet footprint follow me everywhere I go.

From my social circle, the only such annoying links I get are from Instagram.

I have a deep, almost visceral hatred for the current incarnation of social media, so I go out of my way to not create accounts on those things.

For Instagram and similar shit, I could find some nice downloader bots on Telegram. They typically require you to join some spam channels, but you can join and archive those so you never see that they exist.
by fringol | 2025-10-13 16:10:11+00:00
They are male, and retain male physiological advantage even if they undergo interventions like testosterone suppression. It's not the only route by which a male athlete with such advantage might compete in women's sport, nor is it an issue limited to the USA. This is a broader issue affecting the fairness of women's sport in competitions across the world.

For instance, all three medallists in the women's 800m at the 2016 Rio Olympics were male. They had been issued with female birth certificates by their home countries due to having underdeveloped external male genitalia - and therefore according to the rules at the time could enter as female - but they still benefited from testosterone-driven development.

World Athletics, and other sports governing bodies for other sports, have tightened their eligibility criteria in response to cases like this, and in light of evidence that male advantage is still retained even with pharmaceutical or surgical treatments. This has been an ongoing problem for much longer than US pundits have been bringing it up in relation to trans, and it's adversely affected many female athletes, from amateur leagues to international competition.
by jncfhnb | 2025-10-13 16:10:21+00:00
It’s a difficult question. Hamas’ incentives are _not_ aligned with the well being of Palestinian civilians.

If we see another terror attack in several years one may have to question the reason of this line of thinking.

The discourse of this conflict has had a lot of people saying the genocide of Palestinians is bad (true!) but then doing this awkward hand wavey dance of trying to avoid having to confront that Hamas is a violent terrorist cell planted by a foreign government (Iran) rather than a freedom fighting force that cares about the general populace.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-13 16:10:24+00:00
You don't treat the symptoms; you treat the cause. dumbphones, minimalist phones, and crippled smartphones are as effective as a smoker throwing away a full pack, only to buy a new one when stressed or drunk. If you use doomscrolling as an escape, you will inevitably fall back to it when life hits. While a few may manage to change their habits with a restricted device if the stars align for long enough, it won't work for most. You need to first figure out why you do it.
by drob518 | 2025-10-13 16:10:49+00:00
I’m still responding to the first sentence. It’s not a differentiator, even to smart engineers who understand the programming language in question (e.g., Go or Rust). Whenever an engineer leads with the programming language, I know that it’s just their favorite. You can write great Python, Ruby, Go or Rust, or you can write crappy Python, Ruby, Go, or Rust. Yes, some languages make more sense for certain environments (probably don’t want to do kernel programming in Ruby, for instance), but the programming language is never the differentiator itself. It’s what you make happen with it.
by palmotea | 2025-10-13 16:10:54+00:00
> just AI that can fully automate everything we've currently got and not be limited to the subset of desk jobs that LLMs can do OK — it would allow the economy to double in size in whatever wall-clock time period it takes for the AI to gather enough training data by simply observing human workers doing the things the AI has not yet learned to do.

That would nuke the economy, as it currently exists. What's any modern American business following McKinsey "best practices" going to do to the people whose jobs it can automate? It'll fire them all, ASAP (except maybe one or two left to do supervision and monitoring, if it's not totally brain dead). Then the entire mass-consumer-driven economy would collapse and wither, due to mass unemployment.

But the stock would go up this quarter, so it's a win that must be pursued.

That would happen even with UBI, because it's not like they'd replace your salary with free money. You'd have to shrink your lifestyle to live like the bottom quintile. You'd get just enough so you'd not be desperate enough to topple the system that no longer values you, and not a penny more.

And I think none of that's going to stop anyone. If AI gets to the point you described, our current economy will be destroyed, most people will be left behind, and the economy will reorient into a weird thing chiefly concerned with satisfying the whims of the riches billionaires.
by mallowfram | 2025-10-13 16:11:09+00:00
Wealth is arbitrary post settlement. Show me a currency from 700AD still traded on a regulated market. In that sense, wealth is a decadent category the West will be destroyed by, look at the current state of oligarchy, particularly tech. There's little if any ecological parity in these displays of wealth and extraction status.

My ideology is the replacement of symbols with measurement. I have no relationship with politics, which is clearly a dinosaur still walking the Earth. Politics will vanish in the post-symbolic like a disease we cured easily.

No economics is like any word, it's arbitrary, that is HOW it needs a definition that varies from state to state.

"Economic theory has never gotten any better at prediction. Its explanations are always after the fact. The mathematical models economists have devoted themselves to for more than a century can’t be improved to enhance their empirical relevance." Alex Rosenberg

The deadness of the West is so unusual, as if the whole enterprise was for self-extinction of a way of poetically enhancing words, narratives and myths/religion. The West was simply a temporary state.

The west assumed individual happiness (politics, entertainment, biographical myth making, celebrity) was the path to collective happiness. But of course, in our agentic languages, that was simply the hydra of our undoing. The west was like a temporary infection that colonized and dominated more collective people, but now we will be subsumed if we don’t destroy the world in a suicidal urge to dominate
by mcv | 2025-10-13 16:11:12+00:00
That's true. But thanks to Trump's tariffs, much of the world is working to make itself less dependent on the US. There's talk that the Euro could become the new reserve currency. Maybe the Renmibi.

It's quite possible that the American Century will end with a massive crash, and outside of the US, Europe will probably suffer quite a bit of damage too if we don't detach ourselves more from the US, but I still think most of the world will be fine. Though I will admit that could be partially wishful thinking.