MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by physarum_salad | 2025-10-01 01:01:43+00:00
We should have access to a Borges/Thomas Pynchon style dictionary of many possible paths to information. That kind of thinking should be encouraged. It can be confusing and controversial.

- I would avoid giving the impression that a simplified narrative is established (unless it won a nobel or is really beyond any reasonable doubt).

- End the use of "controversy" sections where it is used to minimise the impact of perfectly acceptable science. This is clearly used as a tactic in certain instances to minimise results.

- Allow for mixed expert, AI, conventional editing. There is nothing wrong or elitist with including edited articles by academic experts as cut outs of a particular topic. Almost like if scholarpedia and wikipedia were merged.

- Try to combat omission biases. There are some pretty wild ones on wikipedia.

- New results should be handled properly in terms of editing and language.

- Reproduce multiple versions of the same text to show how it would be different if certain hypothesis/experimental results were valid. This is easy to do if using LLMs.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-01 01:02:12+00:00
I mean really no, and yes I've been on both sides. Owners have skin in the game. That's why when Musk says we should work 80+ hours a week he should be summarily ignored. He stands to gain billions while the rank and file stand to gain ulcers and an investor class that fights against them getting health insurance.

The number of absolutely toxic business owners is insane.
AI coding is trying to abstract humans. That's the opposite direction
by joshuaying1 | 2025-10-01 01:03:02+00:00
AI sophistication is often measured by its ability to abstract away humans. Perhaps lured by untold riches from the demise of W-2 expenditures, we are building black-box "agents" that run for hours at a time, and it is an explicit end goal to remove human supervision.

Unfortunately or fortunately, there will always need to be a human to supervise an "unsupervised run." What should it implement? Did it implement correctly? What cascading tasks unwired from the AI need to be completed? The human in the loop will always be there, at higher levels of abstraction. Even if we one day build an AI to the level of abstraction of "build me a SaaS company," we will want to intimately know and command what it's doing. When we think of AI sophistication as its ability to remove humans from the loop, we build systems we don't understand, can't finely control or finely improve, and from which we can't easily learn.

Here's my step in the other direction: a human and AI co-maintained "knowledge core" of all symbols of a codebase. We directly see and edit the AI's understanding of the codebase, leveraging human knowledge to teach AI in a symbiotic relationship. The knowledge core serves as documentation that both humans and AI can consume when answering and prompting. It will allow prompting at a more granular symbol level, specifying from which nodes to start a code graph search for context.

At pre-commit AI will generate new knowledge, but ultimately humans will review, clarify, refine, and add context. Unlike current prompting workflows, this context will persist and evolve. It will become the persistent base of an organization's collective knowledge, evolving with every change, never drifting, un-siloed from each dev, and readable and co-writeable by AI. A virtuous cycle of humans improving AI, improving humans, improving AI.

Revisit the exponential: an occurrence in nature with such high growth that it supercedes our intuition. Virality, financial compounding, and now, a feedback loop between humanity and AI. As it improves, it is a tool to improve our efficiency and discovery of knowledge, and in turn we use our synthesis, labor, and reasoning to complete the loop. The interface with AI should be optimized for this workflow, when we design with the intention that the loop will always close at the human.

I'm an ex-Google software engineer building this. Email me if you're interested in working with me. joshua@sage-ai.dev
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-01 01:03:47+00:00
I've occasionally been asked by an investor to do DD on some inventor's idea. Whenever it's an obvious scam I turn down the job. If I tell the truth and say it's a scam, the "inventor" will sue me. If I lie and say the technology has promise, the investor will sue me when he loses his investment.

There's no upside to a job doing DD on a scam.
by vax425 | 2025-10-01 01:04:05+00:00
Putting the marker inside the tide curve would give it a cleaner look.

I considered it, and figured it was more legible to have the hour marker directly under the numbers. People looking at the NautiKron from across the room or who have low vision might like it better this way.

Good idea to revisit -- I'm always tweaking the designs and responding to owner feedback.

Thanks for the comment!
by rtpg | 2025-10-01 01:04:17+00:00
the age-old trick for some of this is when running something you don't want in history, put a bunch of spaces before it.

It requires you to think about that when doing it ... but, well... I dunno. I really don't ever write `rm -rf *` even in that state of mind. That's like the most evil command one can type into a machine! Who knows what it will do!
by rbitar | 2025-10-01 01:05:23+00:00
Congrats to the team, I'm surprised the industry hasn't been as impressed with their benchmarks on token throughput. We're using the Qwen 3 Coder 480b model and seeing ~2000 tokens/second, which is easily 10-20x faster then most LLM models on the market. Even some of the fastest models still only achieve 100-150 tokens / second (see OpenRouter stats by provider). I do feel after around 300-400 tokens/second the gains in speed feel more incremental, so if there was a model at 300+ tokens/second, I would consider that a very competitive alternative.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-01 01:05:39+00:00
> The MegaUpload case is not equivalent to what the UK is doing. MegaUpload was operating as a business, taking payments, and exchanging money. Once you start doing explicit paid business in a country you can’t claim you’re not involved with that country.

I’m not entirely sure the argument that the MegaUpload case and this Imgur case aren’t equivalent really holds up here. Imgur are collecting data from minors in the UK, and presumably selling that data (otherwise, why bother collecting it). Which is a crime in the UK (and the EU). You’re not allowed to collect people’s data and sell it without consent, and minors can’t provide consent (that’s basically what makes them minors).

Presumably Imgur sells adverts, and likely sells adverts to UK buyers. So for pretty much all the reasons you outline that the US should have jurisdiction over MegaUpload, the UK should have jurisdiction over Imgur.

I also take issue with the idea that being paid for something is the bar that we should be assessing a companies involvement in a country by. Obviously conducting monetary business transactions in a country is a very strong argument for jurisdiction. But it’s less obvious to me that breaking local laws, without making a profit, should somehow exempt a company from that countries laws. Particularly when the laws in question deal with how a company directly interacts with the citizens of that country.
by tedggh | 2025-10-01 01:05:44+00:00
This is a legit concern. I got kicked out of a large bank in the US when some transactions to Colombia got flagged. I always did business with people I was referred to. What was explained to me by a banker is if for any reason the person on the other side of the transaction has been flagged in the US all the other accounts related to it are automatically flagged as well. No explanations given. No warnings other than a letter by post mail. I was in Europe when I realized and could not use my card. Then changing banks is an absolute PITA. Not worth the risk. Now I make all international payments using a small community bank through one or two people I trust.
by TheDong | 2025-10-01 01:05:51+00:00
> Can one form of entertainment really be more well-regarded than another? Is fine art fundamentally different from pop art?

It depends on what you want to get out of art.

Do you want human connection and shared cultural context so you can talk to real friends about things? Do you want virtual friends and connections? Do you want ideas to inspire you to create your own things, or change how you think?

Do you just want to distract yourself from how hungry you are, how much inequality is in the world, and how depressed you are, letting death draw closer?

All of those are valid things, and different art is more meaningful for different goals.

Scrolling tiktok fits into the last one, it's burning time to avoid thinking about things, moving you closer to death. Song of Ice and Fire builds a large coherent world, has bits of morality and human relation, and all of those can spark ideas and be related to your own human suffering, so it indeed feels more valid to me as a way to reflect and change how you think.
by inetknght | 2025-10-01 01:06:31+00:00
> Only crappy brand use ads, because brands that use ads are crappy.

Hey, you're starting to get it, but not quite.

Only crappy brands use ads, because ads pollute my very valuable time, my very valuable window of vision, my very valuable hearing, and my very valuable sanity in trying to stay safe against malware hiding in advertisements. That's on top of wasting my valuable money convincing me to buy things that I don't want to buy.

If a brand really wants me to use their product, then make a great product and show off its features in demos, at conferences, and it will eventually get to me by word of mouth. One friend showing me how a product has improved their life is worth at least five-figure digit counts of ads shown to me, if not six-figure counts.
by vient | 2025-10-01 01:06:34+00:00
> You can easily download unsigned binaries and run them

Of course, but I assume you don't really need to install third-party apps to control hardware. In my case Alienware and Dell bloat came from me setting up an Alienware monitor. MSI bloat came from setting up MSI GPU. Intel Killer stuff just got automatically installed by Windows Update, it seems.

> Microsoft Defender

This one I immediately disable after Windows installation so no problems here :)

On work we get CrowdStrike Falcon, it seems pretty tame for now. Guess it depends on IT-controlled scan settings though.
by brucehoult | 2025-10-01 01:06:39+00:00
Having taken a second look, this article does in fact have a point, but it is actually nothing at all to do with conditional moves in the RISC-V instruction set Zicond extension -- or amd64 or arm64 style conditional moves either, if they were added at some point.

It is not even about RISC-V but about instruction fusion in general in any ISA with a memory model at least as strong as RVWMO -- which includes x86. I'm not as familiar with the Aarch64 memory model, but I think this probably also applies to it.

The point here is that if an aggressive implementation wants to implement instruction fusion that removes conditional branches (or indirect branches) to make a branch-free µop -- for example, to turn a conditional branch over a move into something similar to the `czero` instruction -- then in order to maintain memory ordering AS SEEN BY A DIFFERENT CORE the fused µop has to also have `fence r,w` properties.

That is all.

It is irrelevant to this whether the actual RISC-V instruction set has a conditional move instruction, or the properties it has if it exists.

It is irrelevant to the situation where a human programmer or a compiler might choose to transform branchy code into branch-free code. They have a more global view of the program and can make sure things make sense. A CPU core implementing fusion has only a local view.

Finally, I'll note that instruction fusion is at present hypothetical in RISC-V processors that you can buy today while it has been used in both x86 and Arm chips for a long time.

Intel's "Core" µarch had fusion of e.g. `cmp;bCC` sequences in 2006, while AMD added it with Bulldozer in 2011. Arm introduced a limited capability -- `CMP r0, #0; BEQ label` is given as an example -- in A53 in 2012 and A57, A72 etc expanded the generality.

Upcoming RISC-V cores from companies such as Ventana and Tenstorrent are believed to implement instruction fusion for some cases.

Just for completeness, I'll again repeat that SiFive's U74 optimises execution of a condition branch and a following simple ALU instruction that execute simultaneously in two pipelines, but this is NOT fusion into a single µop.
by e12e | 2025-10-01 01:06:52+00:00
The first is:

One paragraph. Followed by another.

The second is two bold letters, one after another in a single word.

However if the html is "an application" more than it is "a document" - a b-tag with two letters, might be meaningfully different from two b-tags in sequence (for example with css:)

b { display: block }

So, I'd say as a fragment two bold tags might be mergable - but not in the general case?

Ed: ie if diffing input from a html input field (rich editor) merging bold tags would probably be what you want - when the first edit bolds first letter, and second edit bolds second letter.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-01 01:06:54+00:00
I'm assuming you've played more with AI video creation than I have.

Was there anything impressive here or is this mostly "meh"? I didn't see this solve any of the problems with AI videos but maybe this is solving something that I didn't know was a problem?

That's really what I'm trying to figure out with this announcement. Seeing 100s of comments about how impressive this is with no comments really discussing why has me trying to figure out what part of the hype I'm missing.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-10-01 01:06:59+00:00
But the notion that a five-year-old is able to consent to anything is absurd. So we have to draw the line somewhere. The UK has chosen to draw the line at 18, which for some kids will be absurd, yes. But for others it will be appropriate. And yet others will still not be emotionally mature at 18 and capable of making that kind of decision properly.
by cyanydeez | 2025-10-01 01:07:33+00:00
No offense, but in America, this is true, employer are an enemy.

Reddit is american and trusting businesses is how we continue to fail.

Like mike tysons iconicquote, everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. You may have good intentions as a managsr until theres a "market correction".

In america, this business toxicity is well deserved and will only get worse.

Sure some may take defensive employee relationships to far but acting like this posture is toxic to appropriate self care is gaslighting.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 01:07:44+00:00
A lot of realslop is fake too. As in staged but pretended as real for rage bait or annoyance bait. Or stupid shaggy dog story videos, where it seems like the thing will happen any moment now and then nothing happens.

One recent disillusionment for me was that lots of police body cam content is fake, as in basically amateur actors trying to enact a realistic police stop, they even put the usual bodycam numbers and letters and axos logo in the corner etc.

And so many other videos of things happening in the street are more or less obviously fake and staged. Still 90% probably don't notice.
by mystraline | 2025-10-01 01:08:22+00:00
Well, this is a softball kind of garbage article. So let's look at harder numbers.

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/aspis-two-decade-critical-tec...

> The US led in 60 of 64 technologies in the five years from 2003 to 2007, but in the most recent five years (2019–2023) is leading in seven. China led in just three of 64 technologies in 2003–2007 but is now the lead country in 57 of 64 technologies in 2019–2023, increasing its lead from our rankings last year (2018–2022), where it was leading in 52 technologies.

The flip already was happening before Trump. He absolutely accelerated anti-immigrant, anti-work visa, and other variety of other-hate. But we were losing significant ground in technology to China before this.

Basically, if you want to go into a variety of fields, you learn in China, and you work in China.

Put simply, they are making factories for quantum chip production. And Photonic chips. https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/06/13/china-ramps-up-phot...

We're basically playing with mud and sand and used to be good at metal casting. Not even good at that any more. I'm embarrassed to be an American.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-01 01:08:43+00:00
I personally think if betting is allowed then they shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate. Same with my belief that Vegas casinos shouldn’t be allowed to ban card counters. This also naturally discourages predatory business models.

However aside from this, the data is over abundantly clear. Legalized betting significantly hurts the financial health of the places where it’s allowed; because of the rollout in the US, there’s so much data we can derive a definitive causative effect that bankruptcies are up and savings go down in places that legalize it. You can have a liberal view of “that’s their problem” but from a societal perspective this is a net societal harm that has no to minimal beneficial impact.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-01 01:11:28+00:00
That’s because you’re looking at this ass backwards. The law determines an age at which a person is considered capable of making legally binding agreements, like providing consent. In the UK that’s 18, with some exceptions.

It would be absurd for the UK to create a special exception to allow underage youths to consent to user tracking at an age lower than the standard age for legal consent in any other context.
by aborsy | 2025-10-01 01:11:57+00:00
Nice write up and website. I should snapshot my empty root!

If I’m not wrong, at least some of those sharp edges have been resolved. There was a famous very hard to reproduce bug causing problems with ZFS send receive of encrypted snapshots once in a blue moon, that was hunted down and fixed recently.

Still, ZFS needs better tooling. The user has two keys and an encrypted dataset, doesn’t care what is encryption root, and should be able to decrypt. ZFS should send all information required to decrypt.

The code for ZFS encryption hasn’t been updated since the original developer left, last I checked.

In my view, in this case, you could say ZFS nearly lost data: it ties dataset settings in a pool and doesn’t send the necessary settings for reproduction when one of them is replicated. The user is clearly knowledgeable in ZFS and still almost lost data.
by int_19h | 2025-10-01 01:12:50+00:00
> expectation by management of ai as a speed multiplier

In many cases, it's more than expectation. For top management especially, these are the people who have signed off on massive AI spending on the basis that it will improve productivity. Any evidence to the contrary is not just counter to their expectations - it's a giant flashing neon sign screaming "YOU FUCKED UP". So of course organizations run by those people are going to pretend that everything is fine, for as long as anything works at all.

And then the other side of this is the users. Who have already been conditioned to shrug at crappy software because we made that the norm, and because the tech market has so many market-dominant players or even outright monopolies in various niches that users often don't have a meaningful choice. Which is a perfect setup for slowly boiling the frog - even if AI is used to produce sloppy code, the frog is already used to hot water, and already convinced that there's no way out of the pot in any case, so if it gets hotter still they just rant about it but keep buying the product.

Which is to say, it is a shitshow, but it's a shitshow that can continue for longer than most engineers have emotional capacity to sustain without breaking down. In the long term, I expect AI coding in this environment to act as a filter: it will push out all the people who care about quality and polish out of the industry, and reward those who treat clicking "approved" on AI slop as their real job description.
by cyanydeez | 2025-10-01 01:13:20+00:00
Literally pointing at a real thing is useful. Yes, rules are not logical binary that absolves you of activity but having no basis for decision making other than hind brains is how you enter the current American morass.

Its the agreement to argue about a topic that is struck when you make rules.

Not seeing this is how..niholists proliferats with variohs plicit ordering liks might is right
by marcus_holmes | 2025-10-01 01:13:21+00:00
Kagi, please, please, please don't fall into the Mozilla trap and waste your time creating a whole bunch of useless side projects that never succeed, to the detriment of the one thing that we all need you to do.

You have a great search service. Please focus on that. Build that into an actual Google-beater. Provide the features your customers actually want. Spend your time, money, and energy making that the greatest search service possible.

Don't waste this opportunity. Please.
by mystraline | 2025-10-01 01:14:07+00:00
Many of us dont have a choice.

I dont have any familial ties of immigration. I dont know foreign languages to be competent.

I look at Europe as a whole also facing extremist conservative and fascist-adjacent rhetoric. I dont see those countries much better off. I know little of South America. I know Africa has a lot of inroads with China with Belt and Road.

Simply put: I'm trapped in the USA. My friends are trapped in the USA. My indirect family is either trapped in the USA, or they're pro-maga and approve this hellscape the country is being into.

Ive looked at making a commune with like-minded folks and becoming self sufficient, and walking away from this society. Cause there's not many choices, and fewer every day.
by ipython | 2025-10-01 01:14:11+00:00
What's the future for humanity if the moon is colonized? What does the moon provide us that the Earth does not?

One interesting (admittedly small in scope, but huge in impact) thought experiment is the following- let's say that the doomsayers are correct. The Earth has been destroyed and inhabitable, leaving just our extra-planetary outposts. How do we supply the necessary high-tech manufacturing capability to survive?

Have we spun up all of the supply chain to reproduce the state-of-the-art technology required just required to sustain life on that celestial body? As an example, even with all our experience on Earth, we have exactly one physical location on our entire planet that can crank out the most advanced chips used in our modern technology we take for granted. That build-out took massive investment of deca-billions of dollars plus a massive, deep supply chain to build, even with all the advantages we have here on Earth (things like, oh, breathable air, access to vast carbon energy storage, access to millions of humans and existing factories... just as a start...)

Are we expected to replicate all of that on our next celestial body? If not, how do we expect to replace failing parts and continue progress?

What about even more basic concerns about things like... literal population growth? We understand ... a little... about how very healthy adult human bodies react to prolonged periods in zero-g (hint: not well, where "prolonged" == 437 contiguous days [0]). What about pregnant women? Babies? Spaceflight crews are required to exercise two hours every day to counteract muscle and bone atrophy [1]. How is that expected of say... an infant?

Don't get me wrong, I find spacefaring fascinating. I idolize the Apollo era. But we haven't even scratched the surface of how we can sustain any sort of population off this planet. We need to find ways to get along here, because ... this is all we've got, folks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_longest_spacefligh... [1] https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/07/16/muscle-an...