MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by terminalshort | 2025-10-28 20:17:45+00:00
I accept that test other than the "too derivative" part which is an avenue for subjective bias. AI has passed that test for art already: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-art-turing-test As for a novel that is currently beyond the LLMs capabilities due to context windows, but I wouldn't be surprised if it could do short stories that pass this Turing test right now.
by Retric | 2025-10-28 20:17:46+00:00
Not every approach works for every problem, still we’re all writing a lot of straightforward code over our careers. I also find longer term projects eventually favor TDD style coding as over time unknown unknowns get filled in.

Your edge case depends on the kind of experimentation you’re doing. I sometimes treat CSS as kind of black magic and just look for the right incantation that happens to work across a bunch of browsers. It’s not efficient, but I’m ok punting because I don’t have the time to become an expert on everything.

On the other hand when looking for an efficient algorithm or optimization I likely to know what kind of results I’m looking for at some stage before creating the relevant code. In such cases tests help clarify what exactly the mysterious code needs to do so in a few hours to weeks later when inspiration hits you haven’t forgotten any relevant details. I might have gone in a wildly different direction, but as long as I consider why each test was made before deleting it the process of drilling down into the details has value.
by blitz_skull | 2025-10-28 20:18:02+00:00
This frame assumes several things:

1. Americans are not displeased with the situation. Ironically, I think this is one place most Americans agree there is a problem. The solution is the hard part because:

2. This presumes a drop-in solution where no one loses. This is where the fight is.

3. This presumes that democracies do what is logical or beneficial for the vast majority, which is a very naive view of democracy.
by godelski | 2025-10-28 20:18:36+00:00
The Turing Test was a pretty early metric and more of a thought experiment.

Let's be real guys, it was created by Turing. The same guy who built the first general purpose computer. Man was without a doubt a genius, but it also isn't that reasonable to think he'd come up with a good definition or metric for a technology that was like 70 years away. Brilliant start, but it is also like looking at Newton's Laws and evaluating quantum mechanics based off of that. Doesn't make Newton dumb, just means we've made progress. I hope we can all agree we've made progress...

And arguably the Turing Test was passed by Eliza. Arguably . But hey, that's why we refine and make progress. We find the edge of our metrics and ideas and then iterate. Change isn't bad, it is a necessary thing. What matters is the direction of change. Like velocity vs speed.
by cb321 | 2025-10-28 20:18:46+00:00
I would say the situation is worse as this "subscription-esque" model is "spreading" to areas beyond software. Exercise equipment like ellipticals and bicycles - whose software is/could be borderline +/- resistance level trivial - has been moving to "only works with an online subscription" business models for a long time.

I mean, I have had instances that controlled resistance with like a manual knob, but these new devices won't let you set levels without some $30+/month subscription. It's like the planned obsolescence of the light bulb cartels of the 1920s on steroids.

Personally, I have a hard time believing markets support this kind of stuff past the first exposé. I guess when you don't have many choices or the choices that you do have all bandwagon onto oligopoly/cartel-like activity things, pretty depressing, but stable patterns can emerge.

Heck, maybe someone who knows the history of retail could inform us that it came to software "from business segment XYZ". For example, in high finance for a long-time negotiated charging prices that are a fraction of assets under management is not uncommon. Essentially a "percent tax", or in other words the metaphorical "charging Bill Gates a million dollars for a cheeseburger".

EDIT: @terminalshort elsethread is correct in his analysis that if you remove the ability to have a platform tax, the control issues will revert.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 20:19:06+00:00
> Git as a source of memory/tracking what's going on

That specific part doesn't have anything to do with Claude Web though, does it? When I use Codex and Claude they repeatedly look up stuff in the local git history when working on things I've mentioned I've worked on a branch or similar. As long as you make any sort of mention that you've used git, directly or indirectly, they'll go looking for it, is my feeling.
by dang | 2025-10-28 20:19:16+00:00
I did say "a bit" :) - I guess because it pattern-matches to internet rhetoric for me. By 'internet rhetoric' I mean something where the largeness/sensationalness of the claim is high and the information content is low. (Oh also, the leading "And yes" is a bit of an internet trope)

This is quite minor though; if it distracts from the main point, I'd say forget it.
by microflash | 2025-10-28 20:19:17+00:00
At this point, anything from Samsung is a vehicle for ads, and anything with the word “smart” from Samsung is most likely a spyware. The amount of garbage I had to remove from a recently encountered Galaxy phone is on par with Windows 11 levels and some.

Unfortunately, the entire industry is racing toward this behavior. Recent LGs have also started slapping “AI” stickers on their products. I’ve been visiting Rossman’s Consumer Wiki[1] more often than I’d like before making a purchase.

[1]: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
by nicbou | 2025-10-28 20:19:22+00:00
My website is free by design; keeping it free has been my policy for years.[0] I ask for donations, but it was never a significant source of income. The website's birthday is a few days apart from mine, so I use the donations to get myself a really nice gift every year.

However, my business model is different. For software, you need to give people enough to fall in love with your product, but not enough to keep using it for years without paying.

[0] https://allaboutberlin.com/terms
by tstrimple | 2025-10-28 20:19:56+00:00
A lot of midwest cities aren't really "cities". In the NYC sense. Usually it's a tiny shitty downtown surrounded by suburban sprawl. The places to eat are off of stroads in and around strip malls. In my town a lot of downtown closes not long after the business crowds that work downtown dry up. The zoning doesn't allow enough residential zoning near businesses to have many walkable options.

We're pretty "lucky" in that our subdivision is only about a mile walk to the nearest store and we have sidewalks the entire way. So if I wanted to eat at Subway or Marcos Pizza or pick up a Papa Murphey's take and bake I've got those options! There is also a diner that cannot stay in business. It changes owners every other year or so. If you go a mile from me in the other direction, then the closest place to walk to get something to eat is two miles away (hint, it's the same place) and you no longer have sidewalks the entire way. Guess what happens at five miles away from my house in that other direction? Now you've got to walk six miles one way! My "city" has a population nearing 300,000 and you could find a copy and paste of this design all throughout the city. Miles and miles of suburbs connected via stroads and separated by strip malls.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-28 20:19:58+00:00
That's correct. I can't use it at all with my Apple TV or Playstation 5, because the screen immediately goes dark. I don't know how to describe this exactly, but say that the TV's regular RGB display goes from 1 to 100. I'd expect that HDR would make it go from -50 to 150, or something like that. Instead, on my Samsung, it goes from -50 to 50. No amount of control fiddling can make it get as bright as it does in non-HDR mode.

Our cheaper LG works beautifully with the same inputs. The Samsung? Nope. Everything looks like the finale of Game of Thrones, even when you're looking at a soccer game played on a sunny day at noon on the equator.
by 9dev | 2025-10-28 20:20:01+00:00
I turned the awesome work of the ISS Mimic into a Prometheus+Grafana stack a while ago: https://github.com/radiergummi/iss-metrics

Never got around to create bespoke visualisations for all the different kinds of metrics, but having all that data in Grafana made it a lot easier to play around and get insights.
by ghostly_s | 2025-10-28 20:20:27+00:00
Putting aside success at the task, can someone explain why this emerging class of autonomous helper-bots is so damn slow? I remember google unveiled their experiments in this recently and even the sped-up demo reels were excruciating to sit through. We generally think of computers as able to think much faster than us, even if they are making wrong decisions quickly, so what's the source of latency in these sytems?
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-10-28 20:21:02+00:00
You can run adb from the phone itself via wireless debugging. From what I understand, you can do this via Shizuku or Termux, and there are apps that can give you a user interface for this. What changes is that users have to enable developer mode to get this, which adds another warning label. Although admittedly they may remove this feature or add more hoops to jump through to use it.
by port11 | 2025-10-28 20:21:07+00:00
The personal sacrifice cult was largely put forth by corporations and corporate media insisting on an individual's carbon footprint.

That said, it's somewhat unfair that, say, 1 Australian can have the footprint of 7–8 Indian people. So some changes are good overall, such as eating more vegetables and less carbon intensive meat (which also improves land usage).

I agree with you about other fringe choices, but most people can't control the energy mix of their country. We can advocate for better choices at the high level, which is great news because people have been doing just that.

I do find the positive tone of the climate models a bit worrying: some of the projections still consider permafrost decay to be fatal to most of the human race.
by tim333 | 2025-10-28 20:21:10+00:00
I've found maps navigation can be quite good with complex junctions in places like Austin where there can be seven lanes splitting off in weird ways. Maybe they are just confused by French junctions as I have been myself at times. The Arc de Triomphe is quite a thing to drive around. (as in https://youtu.be/-2RCPpdmSVg)
by metalman | 2025-10-28 20:21:19+00:00
put a fork in it, it's done,almost! android that is. linux phones are comming up fast, and will be set up to run the droid apps we like. but big props to fdroid just used "etchdroid" to transfer a linux iso to a thumb drive and boot a new desk top, and if I get a few bucks ahead I will buy a dev board from these guys https://liberux.net/ flinuxoid?, flinux?
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-28 20:21:23+00:00
> "Microsoft’s IP rights now exclude OpenAI’s consumer hardware."

Relevant and under-appreciated.

1. OpenAI considers its consumer hardware IP serious enough to include in the agreement (and this post) 2. OpenAI thinks it's enough of a value differentiator they'd rather go alone than through MS as a hardware partner

OpenAI wearable eyeglasses incoming... (audio+cellular first, AR/camera second?)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-28 20:21:32+00:00
I feel like we shouldn't shoot down people's optimism, like okay maybe it is naive, then what could be wrong about it? People want to do something about it, they are tired and annoyed regarding LLM and I can understand that sentiment and they are tired of seeing how the govt. has ties with the very people whose net worth / influence relies upon how we perceive AI and so they try their very best to shoot down anything that can be done which can negatively hurt AI including but not limiting to lobbying etc.

I don't think that the advice we should give to people is to just wait and watch. and if someone wants to take things into their own hands, write a license, reignite the discussion, talk about laws, then we should atleast not call it naive since personally I respect if someone is trying to do something about anything really, it shows that they aren't all talks and that they are trying their best and that's all that matters.

Personally I believe that even if this license just ignites a discussion, that itself can have compounding effects which might rearrange itself into maybe a new license or something new as well and that the parent's comments about discussions aren't naive

is it naive to do a thing which you (or in this case someone else) thinks is naive yet at the same time its the only thing you can do, personally I think that this becomes a discussion about optimism or pessimism with a touch of realism

Its answer really just depends on your view-point, I don't think that there is no right or wrong and I respect your opinion (that its naive) no matter what as long as you respect mine (that its atleast bringing a discussion and its one of the best things to do instead of just waiting and watching)
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-28 20:21:35+00:00
See almost any of the proxy filings and you will see much of the compensation is based on hitting targets other than just revenue, and most of the compensation itself is equity:

https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/content/dam/UHG/PDF/invest...

https://s202.q4cdn.com/665319960/files/doc_financials/2025/a...

The executives seem to have a heavy interest in equity returns.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-10-28 20:21:36+00:00
100% agree. But - firearms (combined with training and skill) carry far more risk asymmetry compared to cars, sulfuric acid beakers, or even explosives. I think that's why there's more fear around letting people carry them. The potential damage to personal risk ratio is higher with firearms.

But the root public policy problem is the same no matter what the weapon is: violent criminals will harm people, others generally won't. So the most effective policies have to lean heavily on good police and DA behavior, to make sure violent criminals aren't able to keep harming people. Going after the weapons criminals use is effectively a red herring if known violent criminals are still generally at large. Any policy intended to reduce violent crime will fail insofar as cases continue to go unsolved, and police, DAs, and courts don't enforce the law when the identities of violent criminals are known.
by SR2Z | 2025-10-28 20:21:58+00:00
> Dunno if this is still the case now but Coinbase used to have an IBAN in Estonia (or maybe Latvia, can't recall). The three baltic states became quite the EU tech hub lately.

They've all made doing business remarkably easy - you can get a digital ID and open a bank account without ever being present in the country, and their digital offerings are based on solid crypto and not just centralization.

An incredible example of what modernizing government infrastructure and regulation can do. It's a shame that the cryptobros currently in charge of the US have basically nuked Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) so that they can continue to grift without supervision.
by lisdexan | 2025-10-28 20:22:01+00:00
I haven't tested it myself, but as far as I know you can run ADB in the phone itself via Termux. Perhaps it's possible to make a wrapper that install apps from F-Droid with ADB? It would mean that you would only need to be tethered to the your PC once.

Obviously they'll eventually remove this because Google is hostile to things like ReVanced / some spook wants this power.
by next_xibalba | 2025-10-28 20:22:30+00:00
It is a necessary but not sufficient condition. But this is not that. This is, “you don’t have unfettered access to personnel and facilities.” Fascism would be “if you print that we will arrest you and maybe shut your operation down.” And maybe a paramilitary squad of goons will fire bomb your offices in the meantime. This will read as snark, but I swear it is not: read about the truly fascist regimes of history. The difference is night and day.
by throwway120385 | 2025-10-28 20:22:58+00:00
That depends a lot on your insurance. For example, our out of pocket for my son's birth was somewhere in the neighborhood of $10k after insurance. I've met tons of people who would be bankrupted by that amount. What you're describing isn't true for people on High Deductible Health Plans, and those plans are a bit of a racket because they're frequently paired with HSAs where the employer gets to pocket anything left in the account at the end of the year. My son was essentially unplanned, in the sense that we gave up on trying to have a kid but weren't using birth control because over the previous 3 years we had not had a successful pregnancy. So an HSA would have been no help for us.
by mmooss | 2025-10-28 20:23:20+00:00
I think many people (and the parent comment) are getting played because they don't realize the game and its stakes:

'Trust' is an issue under the old rules, in a context where an essentially democratic, free society was desired by all and where therefore public trust and a well-informed public mattered.

The new rules are about power alone, which is essentially anti-democratic. Bezos has power and he demonstrates it - demonstration is essential under the new rules - by mocking and thumbing his nose at trust and at informing the public. He uses his power to bend public opinion his way; lots of people still read the Post, and in a post-truth world, truth doesn't matter to many of them. He doesn't care about trust, and he actively and intentionally demonstrates it.

It's the context of post-truth philosophy: Words are about power, they are weapons; they are not about truth, expression, or information.

The worship (rather than distrust) of power, post-truth, it all leads to the non-democratic outcome.
by hinkley | 2025-10-28 20:23:36+00:00
Aging myself horribly, I used to mutter an old Garrett Morris SNL skit, when I was on my last nerve, and despair was reaching the level of misanthropy, feeling that all developers everywhere were put here on earth with the specific goal to make me miserable:

I’m gonna git me a shotgun, and shoot all the whiteys I see.
by luisml77 | 2025-10-28 20:23:40+00:00
I don't think its a training session. Current AI models are pre-trained before deployment for inference. After the model is trained, they load it into the robots computer, and it runs inference with that model. You can't train the model again because you don't have enough memory on the robot, but also even if you did its slow and consumes energy. You could have it train in some server but then every new skill would require you to pay the equivalent price for renting a bunch of GPUs for many hours.

What they can do is, for everyone, have a base model, and then improve it over time. Then, with software updates they can improve the set of skills the robot can handle out of the box.

But this is the problem with current AI systems, without a continuous learning capability, you're always limited to the "default skills". As soon as you have something out of the box for the robot to do, you end up needing Indians to learn it.

All of AI is flawed in this way. LLMs for instance have almost no continuous learning capability, that is why we don't have AGI yet. They can't learn new skills. Therefore, they can't adapt to new jobs they have not seen during training. They can't even play pokemon properly or any complex game for that matter, because games involve learning new skills during gameplay.
by dang | 2025-10-28 20:23:49+00:00
I took another look and it seems to me that your site is misleadingly poaching data from HN. For example, this post:

> Show HN: I recreated a 90s Halloween decoration from my childhood - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45720155

is being copied over with no indication that it was copied from Hacker News, and you're even representing the submitter as if they have an account on your site: https://makers.random.gg/user/RandomDailyUrls.

Nowhere is there any indication of crediting or linking to HN at all, which is not cool. I'm also pretty sure that many HN community members will object to you copying their usernames over and making them look like users on your site.

I don't mean to be grumpy and if I've misunderstood something, I'm open to being corrected, but this does not look like a fair use of HN.

Edit: I removed an example I'd included, which was inaccurate because the user in question did indeed post their own project to HN. Sorry for getting that wrong!
by highfrequency | 2025-10-28 20:23:52+00:00
> When your throughput increases by an order of magnitude, you're not just writing more code - you're making more decisions.

> These aren't just implementation details - they're architectural choices that ripple through the codebase.

> The gains are real - our team's 10x throughput increase isn't theoretical, it's measurable.

Enjoyed the article and the points it brought up. I do find it uncanny that this article about the merits and challenges of AI coding was likely written by ChatGPT.
by thankyoufriend | 2025-10-28 20:23:59+00:00
I think myself and the other poster are mainly taking issue in your use of a specific term "socialism." I think you could argue that if the US owned 51% stake in Intel, you could argue that would be socialism. I've heard the term "socialize" applied in similar conversations such as "privatize the profits, socialize the losses," which I believe is a more accurate rephrasing of your original point.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-10-28 20:24:04+00:00
- I can't jog with the APP3: the new tips transmit too much of the impact vibration into my ear, creating a painful noise sensation that can not be healthy. Same for walking sometimes! It makes me walk carefully and weirdly.

- Certain type of noise, like strongly vibrating idioit cars and idiot motorbikes also create some very painful feedback noise that makes me take them out when I need them most.

- I too experienced this horrible screeching, but I wasn't doing anything specialy. Cupping them made it worse, taking the out and in again did not help. I put them back in the case and a few hours later this issue disappeared.

To me, the APP3 feel half broken and dangerous, I regret buying them, I wish I would have bought just another set of APP2.

It was one of the most anticipated Apple upgrades of all times and they dropped the ball.
by nitwit005 | 2025-10-28 20:24:08+00:00
These binary protocols generally also try to keep the data size small. Protobuf is essentially compressing its integers (varint or zigzag encoding), for example.

It'd be helpful to see a plot of serialization costs vs data size. If you only display serialization TPS, you're always going to lose to the "do nothing" option of just writing your C structs directly to the wire, which is essentially zero cost.
by robrenaud | 2025-10-28 20:24:39+00:00
A lot of employed people like the status quo for the healthcare that they receive.

"In contrast to their largely negative assessments of the quality and coverage of healthcare in the U.S., broad majorities of Americans continue to rate their own healthcare’s quality and coverage positively. Currently, 71% of U.S. adults consider the quality of healthcare they receive to be excellent or good, and 65% say the same of their own coverage. There has been little deviation in these readings since 2001.

Compared with their counterparts, older adults and those with higher incomes register more positive ratings of the quality and coverage of their own healthcare."

https://news.gallup.com/poll/654044/view-healthcare-quality-...