MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elliotto | 2025-10-02 06:21:44+00:00
I work at an AI startup, and we've explored a solution where we preprocess documents to make a short summary of each document, then provide these summaries with a tool call instruction to the bot so it can decide which document is relevant. This seems to scale to a few hundred documents of 100k-1m tokens, but then we run into issues with context window size and rot. I've thought about extending this as a tree based structure, kind of like an LLM file system, but have other priorities at the moment.

Embeddings had some context size limitations in our case - we were looking at large technical manuals. Gemini was the first to have a 1m context window, but for some reason its embedding window is tiny. I suspect the embeddings might start to break down when there's too much information.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-10-02 06:23:00+00:00
nowhere in the article do they claim its the oldest iron...

they just had a theory that copper processing lead to discoveries in iron processing.

the evidence they found seems to support that.

theyre not claiming this particular site is where the iron age started. and it has nothing to do with what some people in india did. Maybe they too discovered iron processing through a similar process. and i dont understand what racial things your bringing up..
by jadowdl | 2025-10-02 06:23:33+00:00
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by emil-lp | 2025-10-02 06:23:51+00:00
You completely miss the point twice over.

The REPL example intends to show what the program does, not whether or not something is intuitive for you.

Second, using your same argumentation,

>>> 010 + 006 == 14 True

Is also wrong.

It's based on a misunderstanding of what representations of numbers in programming languages are.

In Python (and almost all other languages), 0.1 means the IEEE float closest to the decimal number 0.1, and arithmetic operations are performed according to the IEEE standard.
by jsiepkes | 2025-10-02 06:23:56+00:00
Even if Steam checked the signature of the binary (which I don't think it does) it would be trivial to modify Steam to approve a binary without a signature. There is no chain of trust here. The integrity of Steam is not being guaranteed.

If you wanted to implement that you would need to A) Enforce secure boot is enabled, so you have guarantees the Windows kernel hasn't been tampered with B) Have a Windows (signed) kernel driver which verifies the Steam installation C) Have the Steam installation verify the Factorio installation.

That is why games like Battlefield 6 have these draconian requirements requiring secure boot and TPM2. Because you need a chain of trust all the way from the top (firmware) down to your software.
by bitpush | 2025-10-02 06:25:10+00:00
Apple burned a lot of goodwill with developers over the years with App Store. Developers play by Apple's rules on App Store, because iPhone is such an attractive (and obviously hugely successful platform).

But when Vision Pro came, no developer wanted to give in very quickly. Netflix and YouTube sat out, and so did Spotify. And why not? They learned their lesson with App Store - you give an inch to Apple, and they'll bully you for years.

The same thing is playing out with Apple CarPlay Ultra. Ford (and other manufacturers) dont want Apple to barge in and bully their territory.

If only Apple were a little less selfish, they could have had this one
by ogarten | 2025-10-02 06:25:13+00:00
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by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-02 06:25:47+00:00
What comes next? A stock market crash. Most of the capital gains over the past 3 years or so are related to and have been fueled by AI investments and speculation.

https://www.investopedia.com/ai-stocks-have-fueled-the-bull-...

This was all totally predictable. We have no practical definition of "intelligence" but it should be intuitively obvious that it is not primarily a statistical function.

You can't build something that you don't understand and can't define. "Emergence" is the modern equivalent of alchemy --- pure wishful thinking without any rational basis.

A.t best, LLMs are idiot savants --- like "Rain Man". They can recall lots of data but they have a very poor grasp of reality. They may have the statistics to tell you that a candy bar doesn't cost about $100 --- but they really don't understand why. It's insane to give something like this authority or responsibility.
by jeffrallen | 2025-10-02 06:26:44+00:00
GitHub must certainly does not have a monopoly on the social aspects of version control. But it does seem, from recent experience with e.g. Mastodon that the revealed preferences of users of social apps is for centralization. Even users (software developers) who likely have a higher familiarity with the pros and cons of centralization.

Also: Ask yourself why did Linus "solve" VC decentralization, but not social software decentralization. Probably because one is "easy" and the other is "not obviously possible". :)
by thelittleone | 2025-10-02 06:26:50+00:00
Agree, breakfast slows me down, so I rarely eat it anymore and typically eat around midday to 1pm after morning work and exercise. I've fasted only once, it lasted 12 days and my energy level was almost overwhelming and electric. Boxing, running, etc. I gave up trying to understand why. And although it was an amazing experience, have not fasted again in the 5 years since.
by Ekaros | 2025-10-02 06:27:00+00:00
I still think some sort of shift in trends. Maybe it could have been COVID totalitarianism ending and as such shifting trend in leadership to reduce investments. Lot of headcount decision might not be actual needs, but what in general looks good for stock market. And if there is no more growth expected from WFH, well less hiring and reducing labour force looks better.
Ask HN: Deploying Services with an LLM Interface?
by sigalor | 2025-10-02 06:28:44+00:00
With so many LLM-based tools emerging nowadays, I've been thinking about a service which would make life so much easier: Deploying new services without hassle. I would want to:

1. Connect the account of any cloud provider (i.e. similar to https://sst.dev/), so that the generated infrastructure is self-hosted by default.

2. After that's done, simply have access to a ChatGPT-like interface where I can write commands in human language like "Deploy a new MongoDB instance".

3. It should abstract from all complexity and, in this example, simply give me the MongoDB connection string in the end.

The idea is to reduce infra setup overhead to zero, and to become able to test out new services very quickly instead of needing to deal with the annoyances of deployment. Sort of like a heavily simplified Pulumi, where no technical knowledge of infrastructure would be required at all anymore.

Surely this must exist already? Does anyone have recommendations?
by akash100x | 2025-10-02 06:29:15+00:00
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by contrarian1234 | 2025-10-02 06:30:22+00:00
no, not at all.

in asia many many international professors and postdocs work 100% in English. Its the norm. Extremely rare to meet the exception. Many dont even have a conversational grasp of the local language

Even if you aquire the local language, getting to a proficiency level where you can discuss scientific topics is nearly impossible (bc in the meantime youre doing all your work in english)
by atoav | 2025-10-02 06:30:27+00:00
Yes sure, but what I mean here is stuff, that can start interpersonal conflicts. To stay with the band example, different people will have different sensibilties around their equipment and how to respectfully treat it. If everybody does it their way you basically guarantee some sort of clash. The solution is to make a general rule that may seem overly sensitive to that one punk member that throws their gear on a pile, but everybody else is happy and the conflicts are avoided.

What I want to say here, is that a good code of conduct deals with the stuff that is open to interpretation and defines it. So if our punk-bandmate throws the singers gear on a pile we don't have to argue about different definitions of how we expect others gear to be treated.

So it is needed precisely because everybody thinks they are just acting normal and within bounds, even when the majority thinks they are not.
by chubot | 2025-10-02 06:30:45+00:00
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We’ve been awarded a 4th grant from https://nlnet.nl, and our focus is to show that OSH can be the ONLY shell on a Unix system, which is hard

It looks like we will reach this goal! Other than me, there are 4 people working PART TIME on this, and we can use more help.

If you like hunting down difficult bugs, and are skilled at Unix and Python, this could be a good fit.

Most bugs are too hard for 1 person to fix by themselves, so communication is important. And writing good test cases is important.

We’re also paying people to do polished writing, since we'd like to spread the word

Starting from 131, we’re down to 41 disagreements between OSH and sh/ash/bash, when building ~1600 packages in Alpine Linux

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by drdaeman | 2025-10-02 06:31:38+00:00
I get to think and say whatever I want as long as my First Amendment rights still exist. You get the right to disagree and think and say whatever you want. I sincerely hope it's how things will remain, and so will all our other Constitutional rights. Because I witnessed first-hand what could happens when the Constitution becomes a piece of paper, and I hope that no one would ever have to experience that.

But more than this, I'm curious what logical connection have made you bring fentanyl into the discussion about purported government surveillance of illegal migrants and possible side effects of this on US citizens and legal permanent residents. Seriously, why have you even thought of it?
by Timwi | 2025-10-02 06:32:03+00:00
> “I’ve noticed that I have personal quirks. Must be autism. Couldn’t be that everyone has their own personal stuff to deal with.”

I would love to live in a society in which everyone is allowed to have personal quirks and their own personal stuff to deal with without being judged for it and without needing a label like “autism” to excuse it.
by nineninesix | 2025-10-02 06:33:16+00:00
Hi everyone!

Thanks for the awesome feedback on our first KaniTTS release!

We’ve been hard at work, and released kani-tts-370m.

It’s still built for speed and quality on consumer hardware, but now with expanded language support and more English voice options.

What’s New: Multilingual Support: German, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish (with fine-tuning support). Prosody and naturalness improved across these languages.

More English Voices: Added a variety of new English voices.

Architecture: Same two-stage pipeline (LiquidAI LFM2-370M backbone + NVIDIA NanoCodec). Trained on ~80k hours of diverse data.

Performance: Generates 15s of audio in ~0.9s on an RTX 5080, using 2GB VRAM.

Use Cases: Conversational AI, edge devices, accessibility, or research.

It’s still Apache 2.0 licensed, so dive in and experiment.

Repo: https://github.com/nineninesix-ai/kani-tts Model: https://huggingface.co/nineninesix/kani-tts-370m Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/nineninesix/KaniTTS Website: https://www.nineninesix.ai/n/kani-tts

Let us know what you think, and share your setups or use cases!
by darvid | 2025-10-02 06:33:49+00:00
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by Kraji | 2025-10-02 06:34:04+00:00
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by Lumoscore | 2025-10-02 06:35:51+00:00
Honestly, this whole field of research—turning WiFi signals into visual data—is one of the coolest and scariest things happening in tech right now.

Basically, researchers figured out how to use the invisible radio waves from your Wi-Fi router to create surprisingly clear pictures of whatever is around it, even if there are walls in the way.

Your router is constantly firing out radio signals, right? When those signals hit a person, a dog, or a chair, they bounce off and create a unique echo pattern. This echo pattern is called CSI (Channel State Information). It's a precise digital "shadow" of everything in the room. Turning that messy echo pattern into an actual picture used to be super difficult and slow. But now, they use a fancy type of AI—the same kind that generates images when you type a prompt—to do the heavy lifting.

The AI is super smart and knows how to instantly translate that invisible echo pattern into a high-resolution image.

So the Big Picture is, It's like they've figured out how to use your average home Wi-Fi to "see" without light or a camera, and they can do it so efficiently (quickly and cheaply) that it might become a normal thing.

It’s pretty wild, and the applications are huge—especially for things like monitoring the health of older people without putting cameras in their rooms. Of course, it also means walls don't stop surveillance anymore, which is kind of unsettling!
by ozim | 2025-10-02 06:36:19+00:00
That’s advice like „wake up earlier, read more books to be just like Bill Gates”.

Playing golf alone will not get you in the circle.

Even if you never played golf getting invited to play golf by someone from the circle gets you play the golf.

If you are not the type or not the material you won’t be invited.

I am senior devsecops and save company from crashing once a year - people like me. But business guys get to play golf I am just a worker bee for them.
When asking for new AI features I ask like this
by framearchitech | 2025-10-02 06:37:29+00:00
Yo, I need features where I can run dual AI agents simultaneously—like I'm already deep in Warp terminal handling business, but I need your agent cooking on a separate task at the same damn time. That's how we maximize efficiency and push output metrics through the roof. Double the firepower, double the productivity. Let's get it.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-02 06:37:35+00:00
> I am unaware of any barrier, or any reason to infer there is one, for dextrous robots.

I don't think there's a fundamental barrier to building a humanoid robot but the cost will be an extremely high barrier to adoption.

A human is nature's ultimate robot: hundreds of servos, millions of sensors, self-assembling from a bag of rice, self-repairing for minor damage. You just can't beat that, not for a very long time.
by novok | 2025-10-02 06:38:31+00:00
One problem is you can have 2+ neurodivergents or autistic people with conflicting needs or ideal environments. You can only do so much past a certain point in light of that condition. One needs a bright environment to stay awake, another is sensitive to light. Hyposensitive and hyper sensitive. One needs the volume low and the other high in the same meeting. One gets easily distracted by another stimming that they need to stay focused. It gets frustrating fast.

Autistic people can get sick of other autistic people's shit. Pathological demand avoidance can just make it near impossible to work with them in a normal context and on and on it goes.
by fragmede | 2025-10-02 06:38:55+00:00
We'd need to have a rigorous definition on what it means to mask, and to agree on which behaviors should be considered masking, and which are simply being socialized, and what's necessary to exist in a society and what's not, before we could have a detailed productive conversation.

Therapy absolutely helps. Unlearning maladaptive behaviors rooted in childhood trauma is part of being a well-adjusted adult.

It takes energy to not do every impulsive thing that comes to mind. Fine, don't call it masking to not give into them. Whatever you want to call it though, it's exhausting.

What's the different way?
by nadermx | 2025-10-02 06:39:33+00:00
Because this is the only relevant case I can find or remember. "The MPAA had presented evidence showing that the majority of content linked to on IsoHunt was infringing content, that the search engine was tuned to assist users in finding infringing works, and that Fung himself had made remarks suggesting the purpose of the site was to allow users to download infringing content."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsoHunt
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-02 06:40:39+00:00
However, in the intermediate stage, you are desperately short of working-age people to help support the massive aging population.

This isn't a theoretical - most of Western Europe has been in this boat for a long time, and relies heavily on immigration to fill the labour gap (despite however much political posturing about wanting to restrict immigration)

If we do this on a global scale, there is nowhere to draw immigrants from, and a bunch of old folks are going to be abandoned to die...
by Hetzner_OL | 2025-10-02 06:40:56+00:00
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by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-02 06:41:22+00:00
Yeah but when I'm making a game it would be nice to render exactly the right amount of pixels for a desktop display

I targeted Firefox and ended up with some bonkers magic constant where a pixel was actually like 1.05 pixels or something.

If I don't render enough it'll be blurry. If I render too many it's wasteful. If I am slightly off then the filtering will make it look weird

It's not a phone with a Bayer matrix, it's not VR, I don't know why they have to be weird about it
by akash100x | 2025-10-02 06:43:01+00:00
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