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by james2doyle | 2025-10-31 16:04:13+00:00
I was playing with the new IBM Granite models. They are quick/small and they do seem accurate. You can even try them online in the browser because they are small enough to be loaded via the filesystem: https://huggingface.co/spaces/ibm-granite/Granite-4.0-Nano-W...

Not only are they a lot more recent than gemma, they seem really good at tool calling, so probably good for coding tools. I haven’t personally tried it myself for that.

The actual page is here: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-1b
by methodical | 2025-10-31 16:04:17+00:00
Circularly passing around tens to hundreds of billions of dollars for things which don't exist and may never exist to fund a technology that hasn't A. lived up to the hype they've marketed and B. proven any strategy to breakeven is fundamentally not that much different than the way in which Enron strategically boasted their revenue numbers by passing the money between shell corporations that their CFO created.

The main difference of course being that these are actual companies as opposed to just entities intently designed to inflate the apparent financials. While it seems like that difference means this situation is perfectly fine as compared with the fraudulent case of Enron, the net effect is still the same; these companies are posting crazy quarter over quarter revenue growth, sending their stock prices to crazy highs and P/E multiples, while the insiders are cashing out to the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars.

I don't really see how exactly you're trying to make the argument that it may or may not be a bubble, it objectively meets the definition of a bubble in the traditional economic sense (when an asset's market price surges significantly above its intrinsic value, driven by speculative behavior rather than fundamental factors). These companies are massively overvalued on the speculative value of AI, despite AI having not yet shown much economic viability for actual profit (not just revenue).

Worse yet, it's not just one company with inflated numbers, it's pretty much the entire top end of the market. To compare it to the dot com bubble wouldn't be a stretch, it'd basically be apples to apples as far as I see it.
by SilasX | 2025-10-31 16:04:30+00:00
Haha there are other cases where there is valid French that isn't accepted in French speaking areas because it looks too similar to English.

1) Quebec wanted "arrêt" instead of "stop" on stop signs, even though the latter is accepted as valid French and used in France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign?utm_source=chatgpt.c...

2) The use of the TLD .gouv.fr instead of .gov.fr, even though "gov" is a recognizable contraction of the intended French word "gouvernement".

(No, it's not a valid defense that "'gov' would be pronounced differently from 'gouv'": the English TLD .com is a contraction of "commercial", even though the "com" in "dot-com" is pronounced differently from the "com" in "commercial".)
by ghurtado | 2025-10-31 16:04:34+00:00
I realize you're making a joke, but there is no such thing as "unreferenced memories", as in, something that is no longer in use and has been removed from the brain.

Every memory your brain has ever produced is still there, even if most are beyond conscious access. Memories quite literally become a permanent part of you.

A lot of people mistakenly think of human memory as a sort of hard drive with limited capacity, with files being deleted to make room for new ones. It's very much not like that.
by svnt | 2025-10-31 16:04:50+00:00
I am saying one likely outcome is a federal government that explicitly and openly funds social programs that were formerly available to everyone only in states where it has a political majority.

They will begin because they have presently stopped, and because it places additional taxation burden on blue states if they first allow the states to try to pick up their own slack, because generally only the blue states (Texas being the major possible exception) will be able to do so.

This results in the federal government taking care of their base and their opposition subsidizing this support for their base.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-31 16:05:12+00:00
I like to thin foreign influence campaigns had a lot do with it. Everything these people are doing is like a playbook of destruction seen all over the world during the cold war and beyond. The heritage foundation and GOP leadership have heavy russian influence. Social media influence campaigns don't help either.

Something a lot of people aren't considering is that a dictator ship might become a reality and these people will succeed, the US will decline but still remain a powerful country but with constant internal strife and divisions. The real goal seems to be curbing American influence overseas, and containing the US, just like the US tried to contain Russia and China for decades prior.

The US military/intel community literally used sitcoms to influence the middle east in the 2000's. What goes around...
by danudey | 2025-10-31 16:05:32+00:00
We've had a few issues in the past where a file wasn't updated during the release process, requiring us to re-publish one small change. It's not optimal, but given the nature of our release process being long and complex it's a lot easier to fix the asset in three minutes rather than spend an entire day re-building and re-publishing an entire release, updating our docs, etc. just because of one line in one file that wasn't updated correctly.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-31 16:05:33+00:00
> Is it different on Windows or Linux? And why would you want a different install location?

On Linux, I want to be able to choose my install location because I may want it installed on removable media, or on a different drive for space reasons, or because I want to keep executables used for a single project with the rest of the files that comprise that project.

The same things apply to Windows, but also on Windows (which I only use at work) I specifically want to avoid the use of the standard locations for things so that I don't have to fight with OneDrive about them. Putting them somewhere else means OneDrive will leave them alone.
by AYBABTME | 2025-10-31 16:05:38+00:00
People over profit in this case would have been cowardice, not courage. Some had to lose their job for others to keep theirs and for the product to continue serving their customers.

Would you respect a leader who refuses to make hard calls and sinks everyone aboard the ship as a result?

Also people buy databases to do serious stuff. They pay you money to trust you with their data. Being a serious company that makes the hard calls to protect your product is exactly what a serious customer needs.

FWIW I was part of these layoffs and I completely supported them. No glory in putting your head in the sand when people count on you to do the right thing.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-31 16:06:37+00:00
> Ok, name one authoritarian state that never fell, besides the authoritarian states we have today?

By defintion, if it “never fell”, it would be one of the authoritarian states we have today, so the obvious lack of any example fulfilling that criteria doesn't demonstrate anything one way or the other.

Now, if you could say something like “point to any authoritarian regime existing after <year> that had existed for longer than <span in years>”, that might tend to support the claim that, at least after a certain point in time, authoritarian regimes tended to have a particular finite lifespan (of course, you can never prove that currently-existing regimes aren’t exceptions to that withot access to future knowledge.)

At one point I had a hypothesis based on a few notable examples that with certain definitional bounds this might work with some point in the 20th century and about 80 years (even had a bit of process explanation, though not a strong theory on why it didn't apply earlier beyond the general spread of democratic ideals) but I never rigourously checked if there might be exceptions.

(Of course, plenty of authoritarian regimes fall only to be replaced by different authoritarian regimes, too.)
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-31 16:06:53+00:00
> Which model(s) are you running (e.g., Ollama, LM Studio, or others)

I'm running mainly GPT-OSS-120b/20b depending on the task, Magistral for multimodal stuff and some smaller models I've fine-tuned myself for specific tasks..

All the software is implemented by myself, but I started out with basically calling out to llama.cpp, as it was the simplest and fastest option that let me integrate it into my own software without requiring a GUI.

I use Codex and Claude Code from time to time to do some mindless work too, Codex hooked up to my local GPT-OSS-120b while Claude Code uses Sonnet.

> What laptop hardware do you have (CPU, GPU/NPU, memory, whether discrete GPU or integrated, OS) and how it performs for your workflow?

Desktop, Ryzen 9 5950X, 128GB of RAM, RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (96GB VRAM), performs very well and I can run most of the models I use daily all together, unless I want really large context then just GPT-OSS-120B + max context, ends up taking ~70GB of VRAM.

> What kinds of tasks you use it for (code completion, refactoring, debugging, code review) and how reliable it is (what works well / where it falls short).

Almost anything and everything, but mostly coding. But then general questions, researching topics, troubleshooting issues with my local infrastructure, troubleshooting things happening in my other hobbies and a bunch of other stuff. As long as you give the local LLM access to a search tool (I use YaCy + my own adapter), local models works better for me than the hosted models, mainly because of the speed and I have better control over the inference.

It does fall short on really complicated stuff. Right now I'm trying to do CUDA programming, creating a fused MoE kernel for inference in Rust, and it's a bit tricky as there are a lot of moving parts and I don't understand the subject 100%, and when you get to that point, it's a bit hit or miss. You really need to have a proper understanding of what you use the LLM for, otherwise it breaks down quickly. Divide and conquer as always helps a lot.
by nradov | 2025-10-31 16:07:14+00:00
I don't have any objection, I'm just stating a reality: it's going to take decades to build out enough battery storage to make renewable energy practical for the base load required for heavy industry. This stuff doesn't scale up quickly regardless of costs or incentives. The places where battery storage is used today generally have high electricity prices and low industrial capacity. If we want to have cheap stuff then we need to have cheap electricity (and cheap industrial heat) available to make that stuff 24×7.
by pdonis | 2025-10-31 16:07:25+00:00
If you are implying that human memory has infinite capacity, that's not possible. The human brain is a finite, physical thing. It can't store an infinite amount of data.

If you just mean that human memory has a finite capacity that's much larger than anyone has come close to reaching by storing the memories of a normal human lifetime, that might make sense.

Do you have any references for your statements about memory? I'm not familiar with whatever science there is in this area.
Apply to YC in the next 10 days pls. change civilization with me
by dhruvkri | 2025-10-31 16:07:38+00:00
I’m taking a bit of a swing here.

I’ve built a working prototype that makes a fast-emerging technology accessible to everyday people, designed to help combat inflation in countries with unstable currencies. We’re at a moment where fiat money is losing value faster than ever, and the problem is accelerating. There’s a narrow window to build something meaningful here, and I’m moving quickly because others are starting to chase the same opportunity.

Since graduating in May, I’ve been searching relentlessly for the right co-founder through YC’s co-founder matching, LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Discord, even Telegram. I’ve had a few near misses, but I’m convinced the universe has a way of pairing up the right founders. I’m hoping that match might be reading Hacker News right now.

Here is the gist of the issue: Since the tariffs launched, countries that depend on US consumerism have been seeing their value for money decrease daily. This has affected their quality of life. Theres a solution that exists in the neobank space that can allow for people to stablize their bank account from pressure of tariffs.

I have an early prototype that I will share in a bit once I get a few things configured but here are some attributes I am looking for in my cofounder:

1) Deeply technical that can build things. Not an idea person but someone who deeply understands APIs, the current abstraction in crypto, understands EVMs.

2) Has an unreasonable work ethic. There is a lot of competition, but the world is vast, and the upside is changing the world and saving humanity.

This is the first time I am using hacker news, but DM me with your linkedin, github and tell me something great you have built and how late I can call you :)
by warmedcookie | 2025-10-31 16:08:09+00:00
Indeed. I was browsing a Nintendo fan site I made in 1998 on archive.org when I was just 11 years old. I don't remember every detail about making it, but my brain had no problem stitching all the pieces it did retain back together.

On the other hand, I do have some Gandalf "I have no memory of this place" moments for other things.
by devnull3 | 2025-10-31 16:08:46+00:00
In most production cases, there is no luxury of debugger.

In my current $job, all we get is logs from 70+ node cluster and that too in a shared-nothing architecture. You have to stitch together varied datapoints (job logs on multiple nodes, netstat o/p, job logs of other services, http access logs, tcpdump, etc) to even prove that problem is on the customer side and not ours.
by alkonaut | 2025-10-31 16:08:54+00:00
Making a complicated and powerful piece of software is difficult. Just slapping a user interface that _allows_ using all the power, is hard enough. With that interface, the simple thing is difficult, and the complex thing is also difficult.

The really hard problem to solve is making an UI where the simple thing is easy and the complex thing is still possible.

But that requires 1) strong leadership 2) people with the correct skill set for UX design.

Making a clean UI means cutting things out. And that's not easy in many large OSS projects because every menu item and every button is someone's pet feature. The leaders in the projects are often the most senior _developers_, not UX experts. It's (I'm assuming) a lot less common to have good telemetry and user labs in OSS than it is for commercial software. So you also might not know exactly what features people use and how they use them, making it even harder to remove features.

I think the author is absolutely right. If Handbrake is intimidating, or hard to use without reading a manual in order to do just the simple use case that 80% of users have, then they have failed in making a good UX. A good UX would make the simple thing easy without sacrificing power for the complex case. And the author is absolutely having the right idea when making a simpler wrapper for the powerful software.
by mamonster | 2025-10-31 16:09:00+00:00
It is completely fallacious.

For one, in higher dimensions, most of the volume of a hypersphere is concentrated near the border.

Secondly, and it is somewhat related, you are implicitly assuming some sort of convexity argument (X is maybe true, Y is maybe true, 0.5X + 0.5 Y is maybe true). Why?
by johnisgood | 2025-10-31 16:09:41+00:00
I agree. The brain works in mysterious ways.

I remember playing a logic game which required lots of thinking to solve it. Then at some point I stopped trying to actively solve it, I just simply stared at the game without trying to solve it, and after a while I tried to solve it. Guess what? I solved it at first attempt, without knowing how! This was really curious and it made me excited so I tried to keep doing it this way and turns out it was not a fluke, this method seemed to work consistently.

I did some research on it and this phenomenon is called "incubation" which is a core concept in the psychology of creativity and problem solving. Apparently it's frequently observed in puzzles, mathematical problems, and design tasks that require restructuring rather than mere computation.

In your case, conscious and effortful thinking can lead to functional fixedness or mental set, where you become stuck on an unproductive strategy, so taking a break allows these rigid patterns to weaken, making space for more flexible or creative approaches.
by danudey | 2025-10-31 16:09:56+00:00
1. You could delete and re-create releases with the same name

2. You could delete and re-create tags with the same name, even if a release was pointing to that tag already

3. You could delete and re-create an asset that was uploaded to a release without doing any of the above.

By and large none of this is a problem on the surface, but you could imagine someone who gains access to a project's release credentials rebuilding a binary with a backdoor and replacing the existing, published version in the release with their new version after the fact.

An immutable release means that you could only inject that code during the release process by injecting the backdoor into the code itself, and since Github allows you to prevent code from entering a branch except through an approved PR and signed commits, it's possible to make that much more difficult or impractical.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-31 16:10:14+00:00
"what can we use it for?" I'd understand why someone would ask. Maybe not specifically in this case, as it's outlined in the abstract and paper itself, but I generally understand that.

"will it scale?" I'm not so understanding of, for a submission about early research, it's one of the less interesting questions about it, and something you figure out much much later, and wouldn't invalidate these results no matter what the answer to that question is.
by ryandv | 2025-10-31 16:10:25+00:00
> In practice programmers tend to avoid writing the kind of program where anything can happen.

My faith in this presumption dwindles every year. I expect AI to only exacerbate the problem.

Since we are on the topic of Carmack, "everything that is syntactically legal that the compiler will accept will eventually wind up in your codebase." [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A&t=15m54s
by BizarroLand | 2025-10-31 16:11:11+00:00
Maybe it's a terminology thing. To me, a retainer is just the amount of money you pay upfront to retain the services of the lawyer, and it does not cover the entire anticipated fee of the lawyers' services.

If you go through a trial with a personal lawyer for anything more complicated than, say, a DUI, you would be lucky to only spend $10,000 no matter how short the trial is, but either way the balance of the bill would be due either during the course of the trial to cover expenses or after the trial once all matters have settled.
by gethly | 2025-10-31 16:11:17+00:00
I was thinking about this some time ago and came to the conclusion that it is utterly impossible to talk about creating sentient AI with the binary computer technology that we are using today. In order for us to create sAI, our entire technology would have to completely change to something else, likely along the line of analog to work as a single system instead of constant switch between 1 and 0. And that is likely centuries away, as I do not see humanity doing a complete technological rehaul of the entire hardware stack we're deploying today.

As for what consciousness actually is, I think the closest description is the summary of oneself. Meaning, all the computational power of the brain as a whole forms a person - a computational powerhouse with its own identity. That goes then to discussions where the "I", as in ego or oneself, ends. Is it at the limb, like a hand, or is it at an indivodual fallen hair or a dead skin flake? How about sperm or egg, is it still me?

Then we have the conundrum of people who get brain damage or some kind of degenerative brain desease, like Alzheimer. Where you can clearly see "them" fading away and you observe just a shell of a human being. So where is this "I" then? What defines it?

All of these are quite esoteric conversations more suitable for occasions where a lot of alcohol and few good friends are involved :)
by marojejian | 2025-10-31 16:11:39+00:00
While I don't think ideas like this are a substitute for approaches like UBI which try to increase security and decrease inequality in a more stable, predictable and scalable way, I do think this is a good "yes, and" direction to go.

All people should start life with some opt-out capital, and some part of redistribution should come in a form that aligns incentives with the economy, just like some level of equity compensation is good.

That said, it's far from a panacea, and opens up many potential problems, as we can see in today in equity comp. or the casino culture of retail investors and meme stocks.
I'm tired of reading five different API docs just to accept payments
by devodii | 2025-10-31 16:12:02+00:00
I built Paykit because I got tired of reading a new API doc every time I needed to integrate payments.

Stripe, Paddle, PayPal, Polar, they all have slightly different models, webhooks, and dashboards. It’s annoying if you ship a lot of small projects or handle payments across multiple platforms.

Paykit gives you: • One SDK that works with all of them. • One dashboard for revenue, customers, and webhooks. • A clean REST API so you can build your own UI if you want. • Works with shadcn/ui out of the box, feel free to check the docs for copy-paste code snippets to handle full payment integration in minutes.

Coming in V2: invoice builder, MRR screenshot tool (so you can flex your growth), and hosted billing portals for platforms that don’t have one.

It’s still early, but live here: https://usepaykit.dev

Would love feedback, especially from other devs who’ve felt this pain integrating multiple payment platforms.
by shagie | 2025-10-31 16:12:16+00:00
(for those interested in reading more about this...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_(psychology)

In psychology, incubation refers to the unconscious processing of problems, when they are set aside for a period of time, that may lead to insights. It was originally proposed by Graham Wallas in 1926 as one of his four stages of the creative process: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Incubation is related to intuition and insight in that it is the unconscious part of a process whereby an intuition may become validated as an insight. Incubation substantially increases the odds of solving a problem, and benefits from long incubation periods with low cognitive workloads.
by danudey | 2025-10-31 16:12:28+00:00
Depending on the project, doing a re-release with an appended or updated version number might be a huge hassle. For a small, single-binary program run by an agile team it's pretty trivial to recall a release and publish a replacement, but for larger open-source projects with long, complex, release processes, paying customers, external docs, etc., spending an entire new day doing an entire new release to fix one typo in one word in one file in one artifact is less practical than just re-uploading the file and updating your SHA256SUMS.
by ghurtado | 2025-10-31 16:12:49+00:00
> any memories "re-surfacing" in therapy are in fact newly created,

You're saying that those memories are exactly the same as all the other memories.

Every time you "recall" something, you are not pulling up some file that is always the same. You are actively recreating the memory.

There's nothing "fun" or insightful about this, this mechanism has been known for a long time.

Obviously it's not unique to psychotherapy.

> may have been created

Most things that "may" have happened do not warrant absolute statements such as "that's not a thing" (which, incidentally, is a particularly empty statement in any context, since every thing is a thing)