MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-02 20:19:50+00:00
Not just personalities and preferences, but the purpose for which the AI is being used also affects the results. I primarily use AIs for complex troubleshooting along the lines of: "Here's a megabyte of logs, an IaC template, and a gibberish error code. What's the reason?" Right now, only Gemini Pro 2.5 has any chance of providing a useful output given those inputs, because its long-context attention is better than any other model's.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-10-02 20:20:38+00:00
The ∞x engineer exists in my opinion. There are some things that can only be executed by a few people that no body else could execute. Like you could throw 10000 engineers at a problem and they might not be able to solve that problem, but a single other person could solve that problem.

I have known several people who have went to OAI and I would firmly say they are 10x engineers, but they are just doing general infra stuff that all large tech companies have to do, so I wouldn’t say they are solving problems that only they can solve and nobody else.
by Eggpants | 2025-10-02 20:20:59+00:00
Respectfully disagree. NT/Win2000 was the peak as it was before they added all the DRM/phone home junk. It ran fast, in fact diablo ran smoother on it than on the win 98 partition I had at the time. Granted some programs failed because they were doing things memory wise they should not been doing...
by array_key_first | 2025-10-02 20:21:13+00:00
I think, for most people, getting the shit beaten out of them is a preferable outcome to losing their job.

For most people, their job is the only thing standing between them and being homeless, losing their car, losing their kids, their partner, etc.

This is why having a culture that treats firing people as no big deal leads to wack ass incentives. You can make people do almost anything if you threaten their job enough.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-02 20:21:16+00:00
That's exactly how I did it too. The biggest hack for me was the 'open' call when using a device. That first does a lookup for a service with the name following the /dev/ bit and then it redirects the 'open' message to that process rather than to the active drive's filesystem. This allows for the appearance of a /dev/ directory without it actually existing anywhere. This makes some Unix like mechanisms hard to implement (for instance, you can't just do 'ls /dev/') but it made enough stuff work out of the box that it seemed worth the trade-off of bypassing the filesystem. It also makes the file system optional, which can come in very handy, because that means no file system is every privileged in the sense of a Unix '/' filesystem. They're all equal and you can kill each and every one of them and still have a running system.
by WickyNilliams | 2025-10-02 20:21:32+00:00
A large portion of DHH's article is dedicated to Tommy Robinson and the march. It's almost a common thread that ties it together, weaving in callbacks throughout. He is romanticising TR and the march. It's beyond merely acknowledging its existence. There's definitely an air of admiration.

As for Tommy, if you are not familiar with it's worth looking at his Wikipedia entry. He is a violent thug and career criminal. He has been convicted of: fraud, possession intent to supply drugs, assaulting a police officer (whom he kicked in the head while on the floor), entering the US on a false passport, stalking and harassing journalists, contempt of court on multiple occasions (one of which he seriously jeopardised the court trial of some paedophiles) This is not an exhaustive list. And without getting into his foul politics. Lending any credence whatsoever to this man is very telling
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 20:22:02+00:00
> Where are the stem cells coming from?

This study appears to have used "human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)" [1]. We haven't tested this with iPSCs [2].

Even if it only works with hESCs, if the part of the population that thinks blastocysts are people wants to live a third or a quarter as long as the part that doesn't, I don't see a problem with that. We're basically going in that direction with vaccination anyway.

[1] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00571-9?_re...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-02 20:22:05+00:00
>How exactly are these robots meant to be trained for new tasks (or just same task, different factory, or different work station)? It seems that to be useful they'd need to be able to learn on the job.

The plan for raw intelligence is to push transformers as far as we can. What's the full extent of ICL for robotics ? We don't know the answer to that yet.

This was released just a few days ago, https://www.skild.ai/blogs/omni-bodied
by SubiculumCode | 2025-10-02 20:22:29+00:00
Examine your assumptions. There is no inherent reason that there has to be a catch. We are all from a long line of cellular reproduction that has lasted billions of years. There is no inherent reasons why cellular mechanisms can't keep maintaining/replacing a collection of those cell lineages...our relatively short lifespans are probably the products of evolutionary fitness functions acting on more fruitful strategies for reproductive success than staying off aging.
by impossiblefork | 2025-10-02 20:22:54+00:00
For programming it's okay, for maths it's almost okay. For things like stories and actually dealing with reality, the models aren't even close to okay.

I didn't understand how bad it was until this weekend when I sat down and tried GPT-5, first without the thinking mode and then with the thinking mode, and it misunderstood sentences, generated crazy things, lost track of everything-- completely beyond how bad I thought it could possibly be.

I've fiddled with stories because I saw that LLMs had trouble, but I did not understand that this was where we were in NLP. At first I couldn't even fully believe it because the things don't fail to follow instructions when you talk about programming.

This extends to analyzing discussions. It simply misunderstands what people say. If you try to do this kind of thing you will realise the degree to which these things are just sequence models, with no ability to think, with really short attention spans and no ability to operate in a context. I experimented with stories set in established contexts, and the model repeatedly generated things that were impossible in those contexts.

When you do this kind of thing their character as sequence models that do not really integrate things from different sequences becomes apparent.
by bbatsell | 2025-10-02 20:23:24+00:00
Budget resolutions for quite some time have used the reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority (but imposes some restrictions). The problem is that they shoved through the “OBBBA” using the process intended for the budget, and now it’s no longer available. You can only use the process once per year per subject (spending, revenue, debt limit), and the OBBBA used up all three.
by jasonjayr | 2025-10-02 20:23:25+00:00
There is an interesting dynamic/risk in play:

If an attacker make an extortion threat, but then still follows through on the release/damage after being paid, then people are not incentivized to engage with you, and will go into attack mode right away, making it riskier for you.

HOWEVER, if the attacker make the extortion threat, takes payment, and then honors the agreement, and ends the transaction, then parties are more inclined to just pay to make the problem go away. They know that the upfront price is the full cost of the problem.

I've seen that there are 'ethical attackers' out there that move on after an attack, but you never know what kind you're dealing with :-/ "Never negotiate...."
by ericmay | 2025-10-02 20:23:34+00:00
You're welcome to die if you'd like, but I'll take my chances on living longer with any unknown repercussions.

The technology would have to be accessible to everyone, otherwise "the wealthy" would be murdered. And no, some futuristic sci-fi bullshit isn't going to save them.

> Now you have prisoners, slaves, exploited labourers who live for centuries.

I don't really understand this line of reasoning at all. Slaves exist, and slavery is miserable, therefore nobody on the planet should live beyond current human lifetimes? If a slave or exploited person is going to get healthcare for something that might otherwise cause them to die, are you arguing healthcare should be withheld?
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-02 20:23:44+00:00
>and full sentences ra- > >ther than broken-off ones

This and trying to read the header/footer are the most annoying parts of pdf to audio apps. At least some apps will let you set a margin outside of which text is ignored, so every page doesn't start with the book title, author's name and chapter title and end with the page number.
by joshstrange | 2025-10-02 20:23:49+00:00
Because they know, like everyone else, that opt-out results in more people not opting out.

Again, this is for the people using JetBrains IDEs for _free_. You can pay for a subscription and it becomes opt-in. I think it's completely reasonable for it to be opt-out or even required for the free product. Giving non-paying people a choice is a step above what I feel they are required to do (morally, ethically, etc).
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-02 20:23:50+00:00
There are tools that can check if your IP is on a blacklist [1].

Also, my experience with self-hosting email is that if you get people to email you first from their domain, and you reply to them, then you are not going to be blocked. Of course, this won't work if you send a lot of cold emails.

[1] https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx
by axbolduc | 2025-10-02 20:23:55+00:00
For others interested in the space there are a couple of other MLB TUI programs out there.

mlbt: https://github.com/mlb-rs/mlbt gomlb (self plug): https://github.com/AxBolduc/gomlb

I also know of NBA CLI (https://github.com/dylantientcheu/nbacli) for the NBA but last I checked it was having issues with changes to the NBA API.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-10-02 20:24:22+00:00
There's some decent suggestions in the thread.

https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-tab-is-doing-too-much/1881...

Specifically, alt+tab to enable/disable Cursor tab, and change hotkey for accepting suggestions to something besides tab (whoah, we can use [TAB] for coding again?).
by ascagnel_ | 2025-10-02 20:24:31+00:00
Baseball's biggest issue is that their biggest teams are also co-owners of their cable channels (and were trailblazers in this, with the Yankees and the YES Network). They don't care if you go to the game, they want you to get a cable subscription that has your local RSN, ESPN, TBS, your local FOX affiliate, and FS1 so that you can watch your team play. And that's not including games that may wind up on streaming platforms.

The post you replied to included this:

> I read that part of baseball's decline from the premiere American sport was due to its outdated revenue model (strict reliance on ticket sales). The NFL in 80s really embraced TV and reached more fans and here we are. MLB has been recently way ahead of the curve on streaming (MLB.tv, AWS StatCast etc).

I'm _hoping_ (although numbers don't seem to be showing it as a huge success as of yet) is that the Apple-MLS deal works well enough that other leagues are at least open to the idea of a no-blackout, all-inclusive package.
by paulpauper | 2025-10-02 20:24:54+00:00
This is one of these scientific endeavours I cannot get behind. Sure, in theory, it would be amazing to live a thousand years -- but it reeks so strongly of the genie's bottle, I don't think we should pursue it.

The odds of this actually happening are about about zero anyway, so this is not something to be concerned about. I am more optimistic, if it were to happen ,in unlocking economic potential. Why would we not want some of society's most productive people to live longer. Think of all the careers derailed by illness, lives separated by death.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 20:25:03+00:00
> Monkeys are not humans

The implanted stem cells, however, were human. (The fact that that the treatments did not cause "fever or substantial changes in immune cell levels (lymphocytes, neutrophils, and monocytes), which are commonly monitored for xenograft-related immune responses," is itself surprising.)

> promises of extending life have always fallen short of hype, and odds are this will too

Correct, though I'd say because this is early-stage medical research. Not because it's targeting longevity. I'd be similarly sceptical of an N = 16 early-stage drug trial for the flu.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-02 20:25:05+00:00
I did thrill of the fight a lot back during the pandemic. sweating in a quest isn't ideal, but it's not unmanageable for brief periods of time (15-30 minutes). The only real problem is that the lenses can get sweaty or foggy and all of a sudden I go from punching faces and dodging fists to punching at blurs and failing to dodge other blurs.

Maybe instead of a quest you just display video to a screen? When I was using a hotel fitness center they had a peloton and that seems to be something you can do with those. It was a couple years back and I recall the video being loosely if at all tied to the speed you pedal at, but it was more fun than just looking at a wall while I pretend to go somewhere.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-02 20:25:49+00:00
> So yes, maybe Israel started the war, not least by colonizing a territory and forcibly displacing its inhabitants (also called “stealing their land).

As well as ensuring funding of Hamas[1][2], and willfully ignoring warnings the attack was imminent[3][4].

[1]: https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-...

[2]: https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/seized-documents-qatar-fun...

[3]: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-806634

[4]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67082047
by diatone | 2025-10-02 20:26:16+00:00
Iiuc it wasn’t a comment about what the perfect lifespan is. It’s expressing a concern about how people in power might apply life extending technologies, like they do many other technologies, to exercise and entrench that power.

Or put differently: it’s a request, given limited resources let’s expend effort on a fairer society, not one with longer lived people.
by WolfeReader | 2025-10-02 20:26:44+00:00
The 1 indexes are only a difference from what you're used to. Lua was made by mathematicians, who of course wanted to address the first element as 1, the second element as 2, etc.

0-indexing makes sense in the context of C where the index operator is syntactic sugar for pointer arithmetic. In higher-level languages like C# and Python and others, it's pretty much just a leftover habit from C devs that we all got used to.

Global by default is a perpetual issue, agreed.
by pseudosavant | 2025-10-02 20:27:09+00:00
The biggest gotcha I've run into is that having everything in one file makes for a lot of tokens for LLMs to chew on or create when I code. The next iteration of that project will still have an equivalent `player.html` file that contains everything, but I am making a very basic build script so that it is easier for LLMs like GitHub Copilot to work on the project in parts.
by cj | 2025-10-02 20:27:37+00:00
> money on fire forever just to jog in place.

Why?

I don't see why these companies can't just stop training at some point. Unless you're saying the cost of inference is unsustainable?

I can envision a future where ChatGPT stops getting new SOTA models, and all future models are built for enterprise or people willing to pay a lot of money for high ROI use cases.

We don't need better models for the vast majority of chats taking place today E.g. kids using it for help with homework - are today's models really not good enough?
by mk89 | 2025-10-02 20:27:47+00:00
...if foreign media was banned from Gaza, how would you get your propaganda from Hamas now?

How did Hamas get UK/Australia/Canada/France etc to recognise Palestine?

Or do you think that Israel has control over every inch in Gaza...? The truth is that Israel from the media standpoint has lost this war already 2 years ago, on the 8th of October. The world was very sad for just 1 day. The moment Israel decided to go to war, that's when the machine started. They knew, Hamas knew it, they did it on purpose. And they are reaching their goal. So tell me, who is the winner?

Everyone claiming Israel is the worst of the worst - just put yourselves in their shoes, and imagine for a moment that your friend/your husband/wife/baby/kids are still kept hostage by brutal people. Hostage. Not prisoner because they had done something. Hostage - grabbed in the night while sleeping or whatever.
by solarkraft | 2025-10-02 20:28:31+00:00
I am also looking for this.

I envision an OS that handles networking, remote maintenance and updates and possibly even some scheduling for multiple applications, so that I don’t have to do all that in my application code. I don’t see what conceptually would make this hard and it would be a great step up in hobbyist development experience to me.

As far as I’m aware NuttX (POSIX-like) even has a shell, so I don’t see what should be so hard about it (please correct me).

Edit: Apparently Zephyr is also gaining support for this. Whoever builds a simple platform on top of one of these definitely had my attention.
by evan22w | 2025-10-02 20:28:40+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 20:28:44+00:00
> people in power might apply life extending technologies, like they do many other technologies, to exercise and entrench that power

Sure. One of which would be broadly granting access to it.

Like, if a country tried to restrict such technology to its leaders, you could probably trigger regime change by simply promising to share the technology in the event of deposement. Every party member who barely missed the cut would become your revolutionary.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-02 20:29:10+00:00
refulgentis mentioned your fly.io article as evidence that the "AI" science is settled.

I remembered quite a bit of a blowback and unfortunately saw the Mataroa article last week. It contains a reference to Matasano; I didn't look closely at the URL and mentally classified Matasano as a classic informal hacker company with extreme free speech blogs, where you could criticize the founder with a typical hyperbolic article.

That is all there is to it.
by godelski | 2025-10-02 20:29:14+00:00
> Admittedly not an amazing user experience to have to share a random string to your friends

And struggle to get adoption. If it's too long, it's hard to share but difficult to brute force even with massive parallelism. But you can always brute force, it is just about how effective brute force is. Entropy is a double edged sword.

It's also harder to then do contact discovery to find who's already in the network. Which is the basic principle of any social network (yes, I'm calling old school landline phones a social network too). It's a tradeoff, right?

And it's worth noting that usernames exist now and this is serving as a bridge. You can provide links and QR codes too. I think this is a fair system and allows my grandma to use signal while still providing a path forward to another paradigm.

This brings me to one of my critiques of signal. I wish they would recognize we all have multiple identities. My real name obviously isn't godelski. But I might want to link my contact here on HN but not reveal to those people that my actual name is "Joe Schmoe". We don't need unlimited identities but having 2 or 3 could really do a lot for privacy. Let me have a little more granularity over my privacy settings. Let me have some people contact me via godelski.## and some by joeschmoe.##. The former sees my name as "godelski" and the latter as "joe".

And to be clear, the phone number issue is privacy related, not security.
by gorjusborg | 2025-10-02 20:29:41+00:00
Yet I've witnessed Lua 5.1 launching faster than luajit for some of my use cases.

My point still stands though. Don't just use LuaJIT thinking it will magically make things faster in all cases. If you are embedding, LuaJIT is a no-brainer. If you are using a stand-alone interpreter, measure if you care about reality.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-02 20:29:52+00:00
> people barely work at all...

I'll take your word for it, barely so, for argument's sake.

> all real work is done by 'losers' who have nothing of that but their working hours are unregulated anyway and they work illegally for cash

Oh, so they do work, you contradict yourself here. About "unregulated anyway", you do not express yourself clearly but it seems you're mislabeling work that is outside of regulations as "unregulated", the latter means lack of regulation and it's not the same as "illegal".

Well, that kind of work is up to negotiation between employer and employee, they are on equal footing and the employee can say "No" without any repercussions, actually, in that case, the employers risk more and they will have to be more accommodating than the employees. Ergo, long hours won't happen if the employee says "No".

> These people need a goddamn reality check.

Another out-of-the-blue statement that doesn't follow from your prior story. Actually, the regulations and the government there need a reality check and the people are providing it to them by striking. It's the opposite of what you're trying to insinuate.
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2025-10-02 20:30:23+00:00
> But in practical programming with imperative languages, arbitrary side effects can't be disregarded, so they don't collapse into the functional paradigm.

I'm sorry to have to say this so bluntly, but I think you understand as well as I do that in a language such as C#, it is entirely possible to write large amounts of purely functional yet useful code, just as you would in Haskell. That's why it's possible in SICP to wait until Chapter 3 to introduce the special form set!. That is the issue I was concerned with.

> from a physical perspective

I already mentioned that this is not the perspective that interests me. I don't care at all about the physical substrate for computation.

Thanks for the paper. I might take a look at it, although I've already been given a good tip elsewhere with map theory. I'm not convinced by the claim that properties and relations occur in natural language but sets supposedly do not.

The last paragraph isn't very helpful either. I'm not sure who is misunderstanding whom here, but we don't need to hash it out. This isn't a conversation I'm enjoying.
by pelzatessa | 2025-10-02 20:30:24+00:00
This is actually disturbing, as the article suggests that all previous messages sent using Signal are decryptable with quantum computers. If there are people with, for example, selfhosted mailservers sending PGP encrypted emails to each other, then, while they have to worry about them not leaking out from the server either by someone hacking to it or someone sniffing the traffic with the encrypted messages beforehand, they know for sure that their messages are safe.

Meanwhile Signal users have been sending messages onto signal servers for years now, as far as I know they aren't sent directly through some p2p protocol. I don't know what their policy is about storing messages, and I believe that they have a lot of other countermeasures, but it still points to the problem with Signals centralized nature.