MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-13 03:52:57+00:00
> AI is currently in a remarkable state, where it passes the Turing test but is still not fully AGI.

Appealing to the Turing test suggests a misunderstanding of Searle's arguments. It doesn't matter how well computational methods can simulate the appearance of intelligence. What matters is whether we are dealing with intelligence. Since semantics/intentionality is what is most essential to intelligence, and computation as defined by computer science is a purely abstract syntactic process, it follows that intelligence is not essentially computational.

> It's very close to the Chinese Room, which I had always dismissed as misleading.

Why is it misleading? And how would LLMs change anything? Nothing essential has changed. All LLMs introduce is scale.
by ggm | 2025-10-13 03:53:02+00:00
Winning here, means "are able to supply power at a price, which makes their backers money without having to invest in mines and wells"

If you hold assets which embody mines and wells, you are concerned at this point you're going to have a stranded asset. Strategically, you need the market to endure and so decisions of short term pain like dropping pricing, become important so you can stop people fleeing to other forms of energy. But, if the pricing has to drop below your cost of extraction and processing, there's a limit to how far you can go. Well, that point, for some forms of energy, was reached some time ago.

I think when the Saudi Arabian government started seriously diversifying their economy, it was a pretty strong signal.

Even in my home state (Queensland, Australia: Liberal/National right wing government, backed by coal and mining interests) the commercial realities of owning coal fired power stations has reared it's head, and the state government is making market interventions to prop up coal. It also fixes pricing decisions in state to return a significant profit to the state government with that coal price backed energy supply, which I believe is not dissimilar to Ontario. (happy to be corrected) -People are voting with their feed for rooftop domestic solar and batteries, and the pricing spiral continues.

They could do what the other (Labor) states are doing and get with renewables. They just cancelled pumped hydro, wind and solar deployments on pretty thin logic, but they can't stop the private sector and the move there is pretty clear: It's just cheaper as a path to profit, to sell electricity based on renewables right now. If you don't own a giant hole in the ground of coal generation, you get your money back faster building anything else BUT coal fired power now.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-13 03:56:08+00:00
Custom rack mount enclosure for the low-cost metal 3D printer controller, and debugging slicer software in Blender geometry nodes. Had to abandon classic CAM format export as the complexity of the tooling ballooned for various reasons.

Still reducing design costs of a micro positing stage for hobbyists. I observed the driver motion was mostly synchronous and symmetric... Accordingly, given the scale only a single multiplexed piezoelectric actuator motor driver was actually needed, and cut that part of the design cost by 75%.

Still designing various test platforms to validate other key technologies. Sorry, no spoilers =3
by chouchinhua | 2025-10-13 03:56:15+00:00
Working on an dedicated offline space. Screen device are stored to a locker. Serves coffee and beverages and light food. (There will be a small separate space for occasional screen/internet access in case of need)

I've been working on the idea for about a year now. I have put up the funds and set up the corporation. Been busy designing the menu, scouting an ideal location and finding the right front-end staff.
by zahlman | 2025-10-13 03:56:26+00:00
> PEP 751 isn’t a python feature, it’s a feature that will be implemented by 3 projects - PDM, pip and uv.

It's not so much a feature as a standard. And other tools will use it as well. I'm working on one of them. PEP 751 means I don't have to design the thing myself, and I can potentially share data with the tools you mentioned.
by tstrimple | 2025-10-13 03:56:33+00:00
I don't think I want another dog again after our Akita died. She was such a good pup. Big dog which does well living in smaller areas. Is defensive of family, but isn't necessarily over aggressive with human strangers. She was so quiet. The only time she barked you knew it was time to pay attention. I haven't owned many dogs so I don't know the degree to which personality is determined by individual or breed. But everything about our Kira was what I loved in dogs. And everything I loved about her is what stops me from getting another one. I just don't think they could live up to her example. And I cannot abide a noisy dog.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-10-13 03:58:58+00:00
In the thought experiment as constructed it is abundantly clear. It's the point.

LLM output doesn't call that into question at all. Token production through distance function in high-dimensional vector representation space of language tokens gets you a long way. It doesn't get you understanding.

I'll take Penrose's notions that consciousness is not computation any day.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-10-13 03:59:41+00:00
> Millions of projects use SemVer just fine.

This is one of those things that becomes clearly untrue if you try to apply any amount of rigor to the definition of "just fine".

I have yet to see a single major Python project claiming to use SemVer that didn't occasionally unintentionally violate the promise made by the versioning because you cannot always easily predict whether a change will be incompatible, and, even if you could, people still regularly just make mistakes because people are not perfect. Versioning is hard. Keeping promises about not breaking things is even harder.

That may be good enough for things that don't matter, but it's not good enough for things that matter a lot.
by nowittyusername | 2025-10-13 03:59:47+00:00
Metacognitive AI system. The focus here is on the various internal systems versus the LLM itself. Basically giving an AI agent the ability to do all the things it cant do from a one step turn interaction that you usually see from just a chat bot. It is comprised of many specialized LLM's that have all their own roles and specialties. They will have the ability to cross talk with each other internally share post processed information make analysis and all that jazz, but not to do tasks but to reason in a similar manner to how a human reasons. Think of it as many thought traces that are giving advice to the main "orchestrator" human front facing agent and have him consolidate all the relevant information before interacting with the human. At first I am introducing basic subagent systems like logical fallacy and leading questions subagent (watches to notice if the human is making assumptions without evidence), paranoia subagent (watched for intentional or unintentional human lying and fact checker), and many other sub systems. But I also have plans for introducing a "pain" management subagent which will take notice of errors in tool calling or some sort of failures and bring that to the front of the attention of the orchestrator based on a threshold criteria. Also it will have a memory system that if working correctly should allow it to reduce the amount of mistakes it makes on something that it had already made a mistake of before. Anyways there is a lot more to it this is just scratching the surface but basically its my attempt to create the human brain communication system virtually with llm systems and many scripts and grounding metadata and a bunch of other goodies. The cherry on top will be once I am done making a text based translation layer for the system that will allow the agent to modify its own internal structure as it needs for any specific task.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-13 04:00:05+00:00
Here's a counterpoint: https://brawlstreetjournal.substack.com/p/dead-man-walking

> According to a recent study by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, annual investment in the energy, industry, building, and transport sectors would have to more than double if current energy policies were to continue: from an average of around €82 billion between 2020 and 2024 to somewhere between €113 billion to €316 billion in 2035. Early transition models had projected a fraction of that.

We'll see, but I don't know what to believe anymore. In particular, Germany's deindustrialization is unmistakeable and expensive energy may be the culprit.
by aantix | 2025-10-13 04:00:19+00:00
An alternative YouTube app for my kids.

YouTube's algorithm is all about engagement - more video game videos, more brainrot, their algorithm doesn't care about the content as long as the kid is watching.

My system allows parents to define their children's interests (e.g., a 12-year-old who enjoys DIY engineering projects, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and drawing fantasy figures)

.. and specify how the AI should filter video candidates (e.g., excluding YouTube Shorts).

Periodically, the system prompts the child with something like

"Tell me about your favorite family vacation."

And their response to that prompt provides the system with more ideas and interests to suggest videos to them.

email me if you'd like to test jim.jones1@gmail.com
by klntsky | 2025-10-13 04:04:04+00:00
https://osint.moe/

A LLM‑powered OSINT helper app that lets you build an interactive research graph. People, organizations, websites, locations, and other entities are captured as nodes, and evidence is represented as relationships between them.

Usually assistants like ChatGPT Deep Research or Perplexity are focused on fully automatic question answering, and this app lets you guide the search process interactively, while retaining knowledge in the graph.

The plan is to integrate it with multiple OSINT-related APIs, scrapers, etc
by makilan | 2025-10-13 04:04:51+00:00
I'm working on KLogic, a self-hosted Kafka observability platform built for dev and ops teams.

It helps you monitor metrics, logs, and consumer behavior in real time.

Check it out: https://klogic.io

Book a demo: https://klogic.io/request-demo/

Features:

- Message inspection from any topic — trace and analyze messages, view flow, lag, and delivery status

- Anomaly detection & forecasting — predict lag spikes, throughput drops, and other unusual behaviors

- Real-time dashboards for brokers, topics, partitions, and consumer groups

- Track config changes across clusters and understand their impact on performance

- Interactive log search with filtering by topic, partition, host, and message fields

- Build custom dashboards & widgets to visualize metrics that matter to your team

What pain points do you face in monitoring Kafka, which features would you like next, and any improvements to dashboards, log search, or message inspection?
by rayiner | 2025-10-13 04:05:22+00:00
This is a funny accusation considering that the U.S.’s advantage over other countries has only grown over the last decade: https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2022/02/05/comparing-e...

Germany’s per-capita GDP was 76% of the U.S. in 2015 and is 61% today.
by neilv | 2025-10-13 04:08:55+00:00
> Now we're doing everything we can to move computation to the edge. In an ideal world, the cloud wouldn't store or process anything - just receive already-analyzed, privacy-preserving results straight from the device.

I appreciate moving away from cloud for personal health data like this.

Can you clarify why the ideal world you hint at would have the device sending any data to you?
by tamnd | 2025-10-13 04:09:58+00:00
I am working on the little book of algorithms: https://github.com/little-book-of/algorithms

A project to implement 1000 algorithms. I have finished around 400 so far and I am now focusing on adding test cases, writing implementations in Python and C, and creating formal proofs in Lean.

It has been a fun way to dive deeper into how algorithms work and to see the differences between practical coding and formal reasoning. The long-term goal is to make it a solid reference and learning resource that covers correctness, performance, and theory in one place.

The project is still in its draft phase and will be heavily edited over the next few months and years as it grows and improves.

If anyone has thoughts on how to structure the proofs or improve the testing setup, I would love to hear ideas or feedback.
by gorbachev | 2025-10-13 04:13:06+00:00
For whom?

I would argue that it depends quite a bit on the circumstances.

If the founder(s) or CTO hired a team of web developers to be full stack developers without actually figuring out whether they have the skills to do that or not, then the ones doing the hiring should be on the chopping block especially if they then took no action to properly train their employees and/or review their output.

It's a much more likely situation that whoever actually created the application without database indexes had no idea how to operate a database and were asked to do so anyway. That's not their fault in almost all cases.
by dvrj101 | 2025-10-13 04:13:15+00:00
especially this one : https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:834/format:webp/1*A7cL...

- https://medium.com/appalachian-studies-fall-2017-projects/mo... - https://e360.yale.edu/features/a-troubling-look-at-the-human...
by bawolff | 2025-10-13 04:14:10+00:00
Its probably also going to trigger a bunch of wars in the short term.

Wars tend to happen when power dynamics change. Either someone is on the rise and thinks they can get more or someone is on the decline and can no longer hold on to what they used to have. I think the middle east is going to be a blood bath once the oil stops making bank. But its not just them, when oil goes away it changes the power dynamics across the world.
by protocolture | 2025-10-13 04:15:52+00:00
>only permit calls to be made to an adult-controlled set of numbers timezones and “awake/asleep” schedules, to avoid calling Europe at their 1am prevent inbound calls entirely

This is interesting. Was there a serious issue while using a regular landline?

As a former toddler myself, I think that the worst I got up to was calling the radio station and giving bad traffic tips.

My overseas family had such a long number, stored in a book in my grandmothers handwriting, that theres little chance I would have connected and woken them up.

Is this designed to counter a specific threat model?
Show HN: Instantly publish Markdown with a custom link and password protection
by dzky | 2025-10-13 04:17:23+00:00
Hi everyone!

I built this because I often needed to share a simple markdown (mostly from the LLM responses), but the options out there felt unnecessarily complicated. Sometimes I just want something like: markdown file in → shareable link out.

This is a second iteration of this tool where I added a custom link and password protection feature.

This tool's purpose is to make sharing markdown as simple as possible, I hope you all find it helpful!
by ctoth | 2025-10-13 04:17:53+00:00
And yet...

> maybe my project is a toy (it is) or you think it's poor quality (it's not) but i'm able to do things in minutes that used to take days

Just consider what this will be like as it gets better? Remember we've had working coding agents for less than a year.

People are excited not because it's fun to fight with the damn things. It's not! We're excited despite that!

I remember my old Nokia 6682. It was an early smartphone that ran S60 and I had a screen reader, basic IM client, and a few other apps including a web browser installed. It was awkward to use. It was frustrating. The connection was dog-slow. And it was cool as hell--a little slice of the future in my pocket.

I remember my Windows 98 (first edition) machine with JAWS for Windows 3.2, trying to use the early web; before they had the concept of the virtual cursor. Before any of this accessibility stuff was at all standardized, when we got what we could by scraping screen buffers and injecting into other processes. And damn it was so cool. So obviously the future that we put up with the jank.

Here we are again. Annoying to use? Often! Remarkable? Hell yeah!

Except this time we have people combing through every sentence to extract only the negative ones from a 40kb success story--I do at least hope you used an LLM for this.
by kimixa | 2025-10-13 04:20:01+00:00
... Do you not see a toddler dialing random numbers as anything but a nuisance to the people whose numbers they happened to dial? Or waste emergency services' time? (their numbers are intentionally easy to dial, and likely more recognisable being repeated in media even to the young after all)

It feels like you're forcing other people to take the effort of dealing with your child in that situation.
by gorbachev | 2025-10-13 04:20:06+00:00
What strikes me as the actual root cause is a lack of proper oversight.

Did any of these companies have a CTO who actually knows something? Did the founder hire all of his friends to work ((or ask them to help for free) ) with him regardless of their skills? Did anyone even identify what skills would be appropriate for building what was being built (having some sort of idea about the architecture would help here)?

Nobody knows everything. Don't have people working on things they have no clue about, or make sure you watch closely if you do.
by langitbiru | 2025-10-13 04:20:23+00:00
I did consider building a tool like this before I pivot to something else. I'm learning materials in Chinese Mandarin language from a YouTube playlist. NotebookLLM doesn't support Chinese language yet so you must make sure your app supports Chinese Mandarin so I can use it. :)

A way to find specific materials would be nice. Think of converting the whole playlist into something like RAG then you can search anything from this playlist.
by protocolture | 2025-10-13 04:21:23+00:00
I think when I was very young, the US briefly offered an appealing lifestyle.

But its one of the few countries these days where I believe emigration would send me significantly backwards.

GDP isnt an interesting metric for this conversation tbh. The US can be "Winning" the monetary accumulation race while still being a terrible place in most other aspects.

Why dont you use "Adult literacy rate" as a comparison.
by wltr | 2025-10-13 04:21:26+00:00
I’m in a similar position, but also I am so angry that none of the bugs from iOS 18, those I encounter daily with, none of them were addressed. Not even in the slightest. I am so sure there would be a proper release one day, but the plebs with once perfectly working iPhones, won’t get that bug fix and optimisations release. That makes me angry. I remember my iPhone 4S was almost perfect, but the iOS 7…9 made it slow and not very usable in comparison to iOS 6. Same thing I see with my perfectly good iOS 18 iPhone 12 mini, which just brought me back to these 4S times I forgot about.

Plus, I’m ten years older (ten years more experienced) now, and I’m very sceptical that is being some vision. That is rather being a great failure, but since the company basically in the same position as Microsoft with their Windows, they don’t feel they’ll lose their customers, as most of them are willing to give Apple this benefit of the doubt. Then they’ll have at least a couple of years to do something about it.
by akst | 2025-10-13 04:21:31+00:00
I think the free software model underestimates how much people dislike being compelled to operate on other peoples terms when it comes to exercising discrete with their intellectual property. Even if they get "free" software.

The suggestion free software is free is intellectually dishonest, I don't think free software is really free, the nature of it is very controlling towards those who decide to depend it. I publish most of the code I do for small side projects publicly, but I would never use free software if I arbitrary forgo to my ability to make the decision for myself. It deprives contributions of dignity, any suggestion a contribution comes from a willingness to share is undermined by the fact they are compelled to do so.

There's a reason why their interpretation of free is prefaced by a bunch of precondition, because it's a force framing that is odds with what people actually understand to be free.
by necovek | 2025-10-13 04:22:41+00:00
In a sense, that is the solution: ensure availability through open standards (like the web platform) through legislation.

My bank has stopped issuing physical TOTP tokens years ago, and I am holding on to one from 2006: when that one dies, I won't be able to use their e-banking web site if I do not have an Android or iOS locked-down phone.

Not, that does not mean making it a protected class. But instead, guaranteeing access through open protocols and open platforms should be sufficient.

I also hope legislation, like CRA/NIS2 in EU and different e-waste regulations combined, will push manufacturers to consider FOSS approach as a get-out-of-jail card too.
by throwaway422432 | 2025-10-13 04:23:46+00:00
Mountain Pass is not a great deposit. It requires blasting to extract from the bastnasite and is low in heavy rare earths such as Dysprosium and Terbium.

There are many better deposits in Australia with more HRE or Brazil (huge ionic clay deposits). Lynas's Mt Weld is weathered carbonatite so also lot more economical for mining.

Halleck Creek is the one to watch in the US as it looks to have a lot more HRE.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-13 04:24:06+00:00
It doesn't really matter where the panels come from. Yes the manufacturer captures some of their value, but that's in the range of 20% of their overall value (and dropping).

In my country there is no govt subsidy for solar. But math doesn't lie. A typical residential system returns 16% on capital invested. Not surprisingly residential solar here is now measured in Gw.

The good news for the US is that it really doesn't matter if they fall behind. Solar can be installed so quickly that any lost impetus can be made in in a year or two. There's basically very little lead time required between decision and implementation.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-13 04:25:17+00:00
> It's not that they knew they would be the ones drawing the short straw, it's that I lack sympathy for people who vote for someone to hold the short straw, and then are upset when it's them.

People get lied to all the time. Often the liar is someone who lies by omission, such as telling people "here's a no-risk way to get 'easy money', just sign here" and neglects to mention long-term implications.

Now if you want to say something like, "well, they should've known better!" or "everyone knows fracking ends badly!", then that explains your self-proclaimed lack of sympathy.

To that I posit...

If one of your family members had this happen to them, would you have the same indifferent stance?

If your grandmother said, "I wanted the money to put into your daughter's college fund", would you still be devoid of sympathy?
by qrios | 2025-10-13 04:25:56+00:00
> (although the license seems proprietary?)

Hm, "BSD 3-Clause License" is seems really proprietary to you?

But you are right: do the personal license in many(most?) Verilog files[1] overrules the LICENSE file[2] of a repo?

[1] https://github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga/blob/main/1...

[2] https://github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga/blob/main/L...
by adagradschool | 2025-10-13 04:26:24+00:00
I’m building Skim: https://www.justskim.in/, A PWA that lets you read books as auto-swiping, short-form content on mobile. I use it to replace watching YouTube Shorts or Instagram with reading in the same form factor. It works offline and is entirely client-side.

This weekend I’m working on making the parsing more robust. The most common friction I’ve heard is that downloading books elsewhere and importing them into the app is distracting. I’m torn between expanding it to include a peer-to-peer book exchange or turning it into an RSS feed reader.