MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nodja | 2025-10-28 15:14:56+00:00
GPT3 existed 5 years ago, and the trajectory was set with the transformers paper. Everything from the transformer paper to GPT3 was pretty much speculated in the paper, it just took people spending the effort and compute to make it reality. The only real surprise was how fast openai producterized an LLM into a chat interface with chatgpt, before then we had finetuned GPT3 models doing specific tasks (translation, summarization, etc.)
Show HN: I built an open source LLM integration for PostgreSQL
by ykjs | 2025-10-28 15:14:56+00:00
More often than not we pre-process data using an LLM before inserting them into a column/row on the database, for example translating text and storing the different languages or running OCR on a document and storing the structured output or using Classification to label user messages/documents before storing it.

Many of this use cases could happen on the database rather than a dedicated pipeline. With the motivation to allow Postgres to do more by extending it. We built Postgres-LLM which is a trigger than can conditionally be set on specific columns and executes a well defined tasks on insert/update that runs an LLM and stores the output on another column or updates the initial column.

This project supports any LLM that is OpenAI Chat API compatible. I was motivated to create this project to showcase our recently launched LLM, Interfaze.ai as it was trained to work on developer tasks like OCR, translation, classification and more. However, you can use any LLM of your choice by replacing the URL and API key on setup.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-10-28 15:15:01+00:00
I think from an efficiency standpoint it makes sense to contract out to bigger players. Economies of scale are huge in software and IT since once it's written copying and running code is basically free.

The problem of course is that using someone else's proprietary, closed-source code makes you beholden to them. That's a problem for consumers but it's an even bigger problem for sovereign nations. Would be a great outcome if greater awareness of this problem lead to more state resources being invested in open source alternatives to proprietary software.
by doodlebugging | 2025-10-28 15:15:32+00:00
I'm patiently waiting for all this AI/AGI bullshit to unwind. Some of my "investment" type newsletters have been alerting that the AI endgame is imminent and the bubble is ready to pop. I guess the big money people grifted all they can grift on this round and are ready to pull the rug from everyone who has just learned to spell AI.
by iambateman | 2025-10-28 15:15:45+00:00
We need psychologists to work together with the federal government to develop legislation around what is and is not acceptable for chat-bots to recommend to people expressing suicidal thoughts...then we need to hold chat providers accountable for the actions their robots take.

For the foreseeable future, it should simply be against the law for a chatbot to provide psychological advice just like it's against the law for an unlicensed therapist to provide therapy...There are too many vulnerable people at risk for us to just run a continuous natural experiment.

I _love_ my chatbots for coding and we should encourage innovation but it's the job of government to protect people from systemic risks. We should expect OpenAI, Anthropic, and friends to operate in pro-social ways given their privileged position in society while the government requires them to stay "in line" with the needs of people they might otherwise ignore.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 15:15:48+00:00
I'm not attempting to paint any political opposition in a bad light, I was trying to paint the entire population at large in a bad light, as most of the people living there doesn't seem to do anything, not even weekly protests, even less a general strike.

I'm sure most of the population wants it to end, but also most of the population isn't doing anything about it, that's why I say most of them are complacent.
by Kique | 2025-10-28 15:15:54+00:00
At least in most parts of the US, hitting and killing a pedestrian does not usually result in jail time for the driver - unless the driver was driving under the influence or was driving recklessly. Most times their license isn't even taken away.

Older article that I remember but still remains true based on news reports I read https://revealnews.org/article/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-ped...
by sagarm | 2025-10-28 15:16:08+00:00
You're only taxed on capital gains. For it to be a six figure "loss" implies a minimum of $1M in gains alone. It really is ludicrous how entitled property owners act about their unearned windfalls.

Requiring data centers to be built underground would dramatically increase the cost. Imagine if we made the same requirement for roads, which are much louder and more dangerous!

On second thought, this negative externality thing really should be applied to roads, especially in cities. Guess I'm on board.
by Nek_12 | 2025-10-28 15:16:13+00:00
Built this solo as a side project alongside day job. No external funding, 100% bootstrapped. $45k cash reserves gives me runway, but 3 years with these metrics has me questioning if there's a path forward.

Tech stack: Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform, targeting Android/iOS/WearOS. 99% crash-free rate, 4.2* rating. The app works - users just don't stick or pay.

The regularity pattern (CV) analysis was eye-opening: active power users have CV <0.5 (consistent daily routine), churned power users have CV >0.7 (boom-bust). But when I analyzed paying customers, only 15% match this pattern. Most revenue comes from people who try it briefly and churn within 1-2 billing cycles.

If anyone wants to dig into the data, I'm happy to share: - Anonymized GA4 exports - SQL queries for usage pattern analysis - Onboarding flow breakdowns - Retention cohort data

Posting this because after 3 years I'm stuck between "one more pivot" and "shut it down." Hoping someone sees what I'm missing.
by bananapub | 2025-10-28 15:16:14+00:00
some context that's perhaps not obvious to non-networking people: essentially all networking hardware above 1G doesn't have rj45 or fibre ports in it, it has holes that you put modules in, "SFP+" modules for 10G, "SFP28" for 28gig networking, etc.

most manufacturers of devices - the things with the holes, NICs, switches, routers - make their devices only officially work with modules that claim to be manufactured by that same manufacturer. so, you can either buy modules from that manufacturer, or buy modules from some other company (e.g. fs.com, 10gtek) who programs the modules to claim that they are from that manufacturer. "officially" can mean anything from "we won't help you if you open a support case" to "the device will make a whiney log message on boot if it's not one of our modules" to "it simply doesn't work unless you hack an EEPROM on the device".

this is somewhat annoying, since it means you need to buy specific modules for specific devices, you can't just keep a pile of SFP+ 10G-LR modules around, you need some "Intel SFP+ 10G-LR" and some "Cisco SFP+ 10G-LR", etc.

so, these third party manufacturers of the modules, like fs.com and 10gtek, will also sell you programmers for the modules, which lets you change what manufacturer the module claims made it. these programmers have been, historically and hilariously, tied to the actual manufacturer of the modules! so you can buy some 10G-LR SFP+ modules from fs.com and a fs.com programmer to set make some "Intel" and some "Cisco", but if you buy some 10gtek 10G-LR modules, you would need to buy a 10gtek programmer.

~so, this device that Ubiquiti has made is the meta-programmer - it can apparently program any module, from any actual manufacturer, to claim to be made by any manufacturer.~

edit: the post seems deliberately confusing - what they are actually selling is a device that can re-program Ubiquiti SFP+ modules by copying the manufacturer code from another SFP+ module that you insert into the programmer. so it's the same as what fs.com and all the other sell, but Ubiquiti's is ~1/10th the price (e.g. https://www.fs.com/uk/c/fs-box-3389).
by phatfish | 2025-10-28 15:16:17+00:00
Indeed, that slipped my mind. However the Marks and Spencer hack was also their fault. Just searching on it now it seems there is a ray of hope. Although i have a feeling the response won't be a well trained onshore/internal IT department. It will be another offshore outsourcing jaunt but with better compensation for incompetent staff on the outsourcers side.

"Marks & Spencer Cuts Ties With Tata Consultancy Services Amid £300m Cyber Attack Fallout" (ibtimes.co.uk)
by imetatroll | 2025-10-28 15:16:35+00:00
Well I wouldn't characterize they guys work as half baked. I am rather shocked by how vast and deep his knowledge base appears to be. I guess the struggle for me personally I no longer feel like I bring anything valuable to the table and since this guy is very aggressive about being the first to answer anything I find myself giving up. I have kids and other duties and I just ... I guess I am getting old.
by htrp | 2025-10-28 15:16:46+00:00
>The EuroLLM Team brings together some of the brightest minds in AI including Unbabel, Instituto Tecnico Lisbon, the University of Edinburgh, Instituto de Telecommunicacoes, Université Paris-Saclay, Aveni, Sorbonne University, Naver Labs, and the University of Amsterdam.

>Europe is the only continent in the world to have a large public network of supercomputers that are managed by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). As soon as we received the EuroHPC JU access to the supercomputer, we were ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work. We developed the small model right away and in less than 6 months the second model was ready.

[1] https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-success-story-speak...

Repurposing some of that physics sim compute
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-28 15:16:48+00:00
I love the overhead projector adding another level of information to this.

I wonder how hard it would be to make one of these of my town.

Surely there's publicly available lidar data that I could import into some software to slice it into squares small enough for me to 3D-print? Although I guess I'd have to make sure I'm not just printing noise where trees are...
by pshirshov | 2025-10-28 15:17:08+00:00
> any plans for language bindings beyond the current implementation?

If we need more bindings for the projects we work on - we will implement and opensource them. E.g. recently we added rudimentary JS support (no cursors, just encoder/decoder).

For many reasons, we avoid working on something we don't use ourselves and we are not paid for. But your contributions are very welcome. Also we would be happy to have you as a paying client.
by antenehmtk | 2025-10-28 15:17:29+00:00
To clarify what MeshCore is:

It's a two-sided marketplace for AI agents:

*For agent builders (supply side):* - You built a flight search agent? Weather agent? RAG agent? - List it in the marketplace, set your pricing ($0.01/call, $0.001/token) - Earn passive income when other developers use it

*For multi-agent orchestrators (demand side):* - Building a trip planner? Content pipeline? - Discover existing agents in marketplace - Pay per use, focus on your core product

Think "npm for AI agents" but you earn money when someone uses your package.

*Current status:* Beta. Marketplace is empty (chicken-and-egg). Looking for first 10-20 agent builders to list their agents.

*Two questions:* 1. Have you built specialized agents you'd consider monetizing? 2. Are you building multi-agent systems where you'd pay $0.01-0.10/call for existing agents?

Genuinely looking for feedback!
by jeffcox | 2025-10-28 15:17:38+00:00
For those outside the IT/networking realms, SFP use uniform connectors for both the networking device and the fiber cable, but the major vendors (Cisco and friends) have used firmware flags and settings to provide vendor lock-in for at least the last 15 years.

It used to be that in the event of a major outage or hardware failure you would need to issue additional debug commands to the effect of "I know this isn't your approved SFP but please just try it," if you were trying to replace a first party SFP with a third party one. TAC would more or less laugh at you and hang up if you sought support.

I'm not sure if this product will _actually_ change any of that, but here's hoping.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-10-28 15:17:56+00:00
Plasma wallpaper plugins are, well, for Plasma.

When it comes to wallpapers, you could do a similar trick on X11 DEs by putting it onto the root window (with a tool like xwinwrap) and on Wayland DEs that support layer-shell (with a tool like windowtolayer). I'm not aware of screen lockers that do something like that, but you could always write your own one.
by marcellus23 | 2025-10-28 15:18:15+00:00
I love Wikipedia, but Wikimedia does not need your donations at all, as much as its misleading ads try to convince you it's on the brink of death.

As far as this particular article goes, it just comes off as kind of cringeworthy to me. This is a style of internet humor that went out of fashion about 10 years ago.
by eclark | 2025-10-28 15:18:42+00:00
To play GTO currently you need to play hand ranges. (For example when looking at a hand I would think: I could have AKs-ATs, QQ-99, and she/he could have JT-98s, 99-44, so my next move will act like I have strength and they don't because the board doesn't contain any low cards). We have do this since you can't always bet 4x pot when you have aces, the opponents will always know your hand strength directly.

LLM's aren't capable of this deception. They can't be told that they have some thing, pretend like they have something else, and then revert to gound truth. Their egar nature with large context leads to them getting confused.

On top of that there's a lot of precise math. In no limit the bets are not capped, so you can bet 9.2 big blinds in a spot. That could be profitable because your opponents will call and lose (eg the players willing to pay that sometimes have hands that you can beat). However betting 9.8 big blinds might be enough to scare off the good hands. So there's a lot of probiblity math with multiplication.

Deep math with multiplication and accuracy are not the forte of llm's.
by rob_c | 2025-10-28 15:18:58+00:00
I didn't say he knows a little, he knows a _lot_ clearly.

I just think he puts on very rose tinted glasses when looking to the future rather than seeing the problems hitting ML model design/implementation now. We had a great leap forward with Attention, it woke an entire industry up by giving them something solid to lean on. But it also highlights we should see a _lot_ more pollination of ideas between maths, sciences, stats and comp-sci rather than re-inventing the wheel in every discipline.
by thrusong | 2025-10-28 15:19:00+00:00
I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba where it is quite cold for a big majority of the year. I have dabbled with supplements because I get a couple of major colds every year.

I've heard things like you only need 15 minutes of sunshine per day to get your recommended dose of Vitamin D, but I've also heard it can be quite bad for you if you have too much in your system (and it's hard for your body to flush excess amounts).

If there a safe level of Vitamin D supplements where you won't run this risk? I don't drink milk either because I'm lactose intolerant.
by wholinator2 | 2025-10-28 15:19:32+00:00
The turing test point is actually very interesting, because it's testing whether you can tell you're talking to a computer or a person. When Chatgpt3 came out we all declared that test utterly destroyed. But now that we've had time to become accustomed and learn the standard syntax, phraseology, and vocabulary of the gpt's, I've started to be able to detect the AI's again. If humanity becomes completely accustomed to the way AI talks to be able to distinguish it, do we re enter the failed turing test era? Can the turing test only be passed in finite intervals, after which we learn to distinguish it again? I think it can eventually get there, and that the people who can detect the difference becomes a smaller and smaller subset. But who's to say what the zeitgeist on AI will be in a decade
by vidarh | 2025-10-28 15:19:45+00:00
You are right that those are two different series, but they did change the design of SF Masterworks around number 74-75, and dropped the numbering as well.

I have books from both before and after. The original SF Masterworks series has black covers with a number clearly printed, while the new one has yellow covers.

According to Wikipedia, the yellow version is from a "relaunch" in 2010 onwards, with some of the original numbered books being republished with the new cover as well. Why they felt the need to do that, who knows.

To make it even more confusing, Gollancz appear to have marketed other series with the same name.

Here's a page that shows a bunch of them in both iterations, though without showing the spine:

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2019/06/sf-masterworks-cover-...

Here's one showing yet another version (the other version of the "yellow" series has yellow spines as well):

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/SF-Masterworks-Mas...

I quite like that one. What I don't like is starting to buy a series and then not being able to keep buying the same design... If it's going to keep changing, I'd rather just have them be individual.

Here's someone on Reddit that has two of the SF Masterworks variations (top left, and top right), and Fantasy Masterowkrs (most of the second row from the top)

https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/comments/q2eiwk/my_h...

From what I can tell they've done yet another variant at some point, but that's titled "The Best of the SF Masterworks" so I guess that can be forgiven for using a different design:

https://www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/the-word-for-world-is...

(yes, I care more about this than I should; it's made me pretty much stop buying paper books and instead put other things on my shelves)
by efitz | 2025-10-28 15:19:56+00:00
Ubiquiti is awesome, but their IPv6 support leaves something to be desired.

I have two ISPs, one with IPv6 (Starlink) and one without (Frontier).

I want to use Frontier for all IPv4, with IPv4 failover to Starlink, and I want to use Starlink only for IPv6.

UniFi networking won’t let you configure this, and I’m not going to SSH in to my UDM to manually set routes, that will be lost at next boot.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-28 15:20:20+00:00
Yes, exactly. LLMs are lossy compressors of human language in much the same way JPEG is a lossy compressor of images. The difference is that the bits that JPEG throws away were manually designed by our understanding of the human visual cortex, while LLMs figured out the lossy bits automatically because we don't know enough about the human language processing chain to design that manually.

LLMs are useful but that doesn't make them intelligent.
by mey | 2025-10-28 15:20:20+00:00
Is the Whitehouse fit for purpose in the modern age? Probably not. Is it a symbol of the country? Yes. Messing with that symbol on what seems to be a whim funded by corporate interests rather than doing something public and methodical is disgusting. Especially with a government shutdown.

We aren't even getting bread and circuses, just Nero at this point.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 15:20:30+00:00
The ballroom discussion isn't even part of the topic here, the point is that an article with clear conflict of interest didn't note the conflict of interest, and didn't do a correction until a 3rd party basically forced them to. And it isn't a one-off, it's now a pattern.

This shows that the organization is getting rotten from the inside, otherwise stuff like this is flagged up front, if the journalists and editors there have any journalistic integrity left in them.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-28 15:20:42+00:00
> I'm no fan of surveillance technology in general, nor of Clearview specifically, but no American corporation is legally obligated to obey British law.

They are if they trade in the UK (which ClearView does).

The actual answer is for governments to just say clearly "You obey our laws when operating here or you don't operate here".

Instead they faff around with fines that are largely priced into doing business that get negotiated down endlessly.

The alternative is we allow them to operate with no way to constrain them when they break our laws at all and at that point - what use is government regulation on anything related to data protection.
by WorldDev | 2025-10-28 15:20:55+00:00
Thanks for the idea. I think it's a great one, but I have a few concerns:

1) The two computers are on 2 different grounds, so I believe it could damage the computers. So I would like to isolate the ground somehow, I am not sure what the options are. I tried to look for opto-isolated options, but didn't really find something clear. Do you have any suggestion?

2) This specific chip is marked NRND (not recommended for new designs) on ftdi's website, So it feels slightly wrong to use it?
by crazygringo | 2025-10-28 15:20:59+00:00
Not sure what history you're suggesting I check? I've been following NLP for decades. Sure, neural nets have been around for many decades. Deep learning in this century. But the explosive success of what LLM's can do now came as a huge surprise. Transformers date to just 2017, and the idea that they would be this successful just with throwing gargantuan amounts of data and processing at them -- this was not a common viewpoint. So I stand by the main point of my original comment, except I did just now edit it to say 10 years ago rather than 5... the point is, it really did seem to come out of nowhere.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-28 15:20:59+00:00
Which is why McNally (the youtube in the title) demonstrating poor locks that can be opened by simple bypass attacks like shimming or whacking is especially damning for those locks. You can always destroy a lock with brute force, preferably power tools. You also spend years honing your lock-picking skills and open any keyed lock in less than a minute, but good locks make this a difficult craft. But shimming a padlock or whacking a masterlock with another masterlock takes no skill, doesn't leave evidence and allows you to relock it when you are done. It defeats every protection the lock was supposed to provide
by runjake | 2025-10-28 15:21:06+00:00
> TAC would more or less laugh at you and hang up if you sought support.

This is common belief and even a dire warning when filing TAC tickets. However, unless the third-party SFP is the prime suspect, I have never experienced a TAC from any major networking vendor[1] refuse support, let alone "laugh and hang up," even metaphorically.

It's good SOP to keep at least a couple SFPs for each networking manufacturer on the shelf, but third-party SFPs are normally in the ballpark of 10% of the cost of OEM and tend to be manufactured better[2].

1. Mostly Cisco, Juniper, HPE, Fortinet

2. I've had a far greater failure rate on OEM SFPs than SFPs from third-parties like Fs.com and USCritical. That and they feel much less flimsy than OEM.
by pshirshov | 2025-10-28 15:21:12+00:00
Even if it's "generally unwise" it was a well-thought decision in this particular case. See my other comments. An array of elements with constant size is indexed for free. An array of elements of varying size needs a separate index. SICK's binary representation (EBA) was created with several particular usecases in mind. I needed most compact representation and fastest access (for very underpowered devices), large objects were not a big concern-they can be chunked externally.