MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BoxOfRain | 2025-10-15 16:22:20+00:00
Is there a plausible situation where a humanity-killing superintelligence isn't vulnerable to nuclear weapons?

If a genuine AGI-driven human extinction scenario arises, what's to stop the world's nuclear powers from using high-altitude detonations to produce a series of silicon-destroying electromagnetic pulses around the globe? It would be absolutely awful for humanity don't get me wrong, but it'd be a damn sight better than extinction.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-15 16:22:36+00:00
A desperately hungry tiger might go for a human, but on average they are not interested in that fight. They would much prefer going for something like deer. The calories per unit of risk are much higher with non-human food sources. Wildlife tends to be very efficient at this economy.

Anything smaller than a human is absolutely terrified of us. I used to be afraid of things like snakes and spiders, but they want nothing to do with humans. They will get the hell out of your way when you are walking through the woods. You have to do something really stupid to get bitten. Keeping animals as pets is where most of the trouble happens.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-15 16:22:54+00:00
I have a strong feeling Apple is raising prices elsewhere in order to avoid pissing off the notoriously sensitive consumers in America. Sony is doing similar things with making the PlayStation expensive everywhere to make it affordable for Americans. The world is essentially subsidizing the tariffs for Americans.

People in other countries will get pissed but ultimately suck it up and buy a product. People in America will take it as a personal offense due to the current Maoist-style cult of personality, and you'll get death threats and videos of them shooting your products posted onto social media. Just look at what happened to that beer company. No such thing would happen in Germany.
by freehorse | 2025-10-15 16:23:06+00:00
They are not 4x more powerful than the previous generation at everything, or even at the same thing every time, so it does not stuck up. Here 4x refers sth wrt LLMs running on the GPU.

I use both an M1 max and an M3 max, and frankly I do not notice much difference if you control for the core count in most stuff. And for running LLMs they are almost the same performance. I think from M1-M3 there was no much performance increase in general.
by chias | 2025-10-15 16:23:15+00:00
Huh. I remember a while ago Google Authenticator hid TOTP codes until you tap on them to reveal them. I remember thinking this was an absolutely stupid feature, because it did not mitigate any real threat and was annoying and inconvenient. Apparently a lot of people agreed because a few weeks later, Google Authenticator quietly rolled that feature back.

I wonder if they were aware of this flaw, and were mitigating the risk.
by amluto | 2025-10-15 16:23:24+00:00
The current Apple TV is, in many respects, unbelievably bad, and it has nothing to do with the CPU.

Open up the YouTube app and try to navigate the UI. It’s okay but not really up to the Apple standard. Now try to enter text in the search bar. A nearby iPhone will helpfully offer to let you use it like a keyboard. You get a text field, and you can type, and keystrokes are slowly and not entirely reliably propagated to the TV, but text does not stay in sync. And after a few seconds, in the middle of typing, the TV will decide you’re done typing and move focus to a search result, and the phone won’t notice, and it gets completely desynchronized.
by nu11ptr | 2025-10-15 16:23:37+00:00
While it might be useful for exploration/academic pursuit/etc., am I the only one who finds "conservative GC" a non-starter? Even if this was fully production ready, I had a use case for it, etc. I still would never ship an app with a conservative GC. It is difficult enough to remove my own bugs and non-determinism, and I just can't imagine trying to debug a memory leak caused due to a conservative GC not finding all used memory.
by damethos | 2025-10-15 16:23:38+00:00
I just run into this:

The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory which asserts that since around 2016 the Internet has consisted mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, as part of a coordinated and intentional effort to control the population and minimize organic human activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
by hvb2 | 2025-10-15 16:24:04+00:00
This question has been asked for driverless cars or autonomously driving cars. However it may apply to AI as well when people rely on it for non trivial tasks.

Let's say I file my expense report with AI and AI basically makes mistakes that mean I'm declaring expenses that aren't there. At what point does that stop being my fault and is it instead a liability of the company making that ai software?
by jerf | 2025-10-15 16:24:04+00:00
"iOS Settings search will flash “No Results” as you begin to type which is comically amateurish."

I'd love to agree that comically amateurish, but apparently there's something about settings dialogs that make them incredibly difficult to search. It takes Android several seconds to search its settings, and the Microsoft start menu is also comically slow if you try to access control panels through it, although it's just comically slow at search in general. Even Brave here visibly chokes for like 200ms if I search in its preferences dialog... which compared to Android or Windows is instant but still strikes me as a bit to the slow side considering the small space of things being searched. Although it looks like it may be more related to layout than actual searching.

Still. I dunno why but a lot of settings searches are mind-bogglingly slow.

(The only thing I can guess at is that the search is done by essentially fully instantiating the widgets for all screens and doing a full layout pass and extracting the text from them and frankly that's still not really accounting for enough time for these things. Maybe the Android search is blocked until the Storage tab is done crawling over the storage to generate the graphs that are not even going to be rendered? That's about what it would take to match the slowdown I see... but then the Storage tab happily renders almost instantly before that crawl is done and updates later... I dunno.)
by jpalawaga | 2025-10-15 16:24:20+00:00
Mac also can't get sleep right. Have you tried to make a macbook consistently be 'awake' when the lid is closed?

You can't, really. Almost everyone resorts to buying an HDMI dongle to fake a display. Apple solved the problem at such a low level, the flexibility to run something in clamshell mode is broken, even when using caffeine/amphetamine/etc etc etc.

So, tradeoffs. They made their laptops go to sleep very well, but broke functionality in the process. You can argue it's a good tradeoff, just acknowledge that there WAS a tradeoff made.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-15 16:24:20+00:00
I'm super not interested in arguing with the peanut gallery (meaning people who don't know the platform but feel that they have absolute knowledge of it), but enough people have apps with CoreML models in them, running across a billion or so devices. Some of those models were developed or migrated with MLX.

You don't have to believe this. I could not care less if you don't.

Have a great day.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-15 16:24:40+00:00
You could (unsupported) run 16gb ram on 2010 rMBP models, back before it was soldered on. Worked great, not to mention swapping the spinning drive for an SSD.

At this point, I get the soldered on ram, for better or worse... I do wish at least storage was more approachable.
by hinkley | 2025-10-15 16:24:44+00:00
They don’t count cache eviction, memory pressure, or GC time being attributed to consumers of data instead of producers. Or sometimes consistently to barely involved function calls. When a task has a certain shape and occupies more than half of the heap size in the middle, it’s often the case that the cleanup code or teardown code gets blamed for the cost. The only real performance improvement available is to go stop the mess at the source.
by darth_avocado | 2025-10-15 16:24:46+00:00
Google ads is bad but wait till you reach the ads on all the streaming platforms. Watching the same ad roll for the 20th time in the same evening is like the door to door salesman that rung your doorbell for the 20th time and kept loudly screaming about their product while you’re trying to enjoy a peaceful meal. If anything, I’m going to actively start hating your brand or product.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-10-15 16:24:52+00:00
A bubble is a poor metaphor for AI because there is obvious real value in it; so when it pops it won't pop all the way, but investment is maybe getting too far ahead too quickly and there will be pull-backs. I don't know a better metaphor - train getting beyond tracks? leaning over the skis? nothing really works.

But it's not like the Web3 bubble where the underlying value was always suspect.
by dzaima | 2025-10-15 16:25:01+00:00
Same as with GC, neither need be a fixed choice; having a GC library/feature in Rust wouldn't mean that everything will be and must be GC'd; and it's still possible to add unleakable types were it desired: https://rust-lang.github.io/keyword-generics-initiative/eval... while keeping neat things like Rc<T> available for things that don't care. (things get more messy when considering defaults and composability with existing libraries, but I'd say that such issues shouldn't prevent the existence of the options themselves)
by Aurornis | 2025-10-15 16:25:03+00:00
> Also, not all of the admin overhead would disappear if we got rid of means testing.

Exactly. The same conversation happens with discussion about eliminating private health insurance: Other countries with nationalized health care still have their own overhead. It's less than the overhead of a private healthcare system, but not by as much as everyone assumes. You could completely eliminate the overhead of private health insurance in the United States and it would only change the situation by a couple percent, though most people assume it would be much, much more.
by skrtskrt | 2025-10-15 16:25:35+00:00
I think this blunkiness is in part because these things are often created and designed exclusively by frontend and full stack developers. IMO systems like these need strong backend developer influence, with highly scalable data models and and as much work as possible pushed server-side.

In short, the system should be designed by people that despise the general state frontend development. It should still look good, I love a modern clean frontend (like Docmost for example), but not at the expense of snappiness and scalability.
by kbolino | 2025-10-15 16:25:47+00:00
Java's biggest weakness in this area is its lack of value types. It's well known, Project Valhalla has been trying to fix it for years, but the JVM just wasn't built around such types and it's hard to bolt them on after the fact. Java's next biggest weakness (which will become more evident with value types) is its type-erased generics. Both of these problems lead to time wasted on unnecessary GC, and though they can be worked around with arrays and codegen, it's unwieldy to say the least.
by laughingcurve | 2025-10-15 16:26:06+00:00
How does calling a country full of people who are sad and desperate for a better life discriminate against them? This is the same kind of rhetoric I would hear someone use as an appeal to helping them. Hearing about these things makes me more kind and empathetic to the people involved - not less. It feels like you are trying to do a good intentioned thing here but maybe it’s misaligned to more malicious folks compare with how most people read these comments
by bigyabai | 2025-10-15 16:26:20+00:00
I don't believe it. MLX is a proprietary model format and usually the last to get supported on Huggingface. Given that most iOS users aren't selecting their own models, I genuinely don't think your conjecture adds up. The majority of people are likely using safetensors and GGUF, not MLX.

If you had a source to cite then it would remove all doubt pretty quickly here. But your assumptions don't seem to align with how iOS users actually use their phone.
Show HN: An agent that makes onboarding easy. The MVP we built at BigBerlinHack
by hugopuybareau | 2025-10-15 16:27:11+00:00
My cofounder and I (two engineers from France) took part in {Tech: Europe}’s Big Berlin Hackathon this weekend. It was a 36-hour event packed with serious technical talents.

We entered the Wild Card track and built the first MVP of our product, silveragents — an AI overlay that streamlines developer onboarding. It automatically generates a customized onboarding template based on your project’s stack, architecture, and docs.

The goal is to make it painless for new engineers to get productive fast, especially in fast-moving teams or open-source projects where context is scattered.

We recorded a short 2-minute demo of what we managed to ship (after about 2 hours of sleep, it's not the best I know): https://www.loom.com/share/5d514f1fd6f041738f6749a669b35d5c?....

We’re now refining our approach and looking for 3 design partners to help us shape the product around real-world onboarding challenges.

If you’ve built or maintained onboarding workflows before, we’d love your input!

Hugo & Maxence from silveragents :D
by 0_____0 | 2025-10-15 16:27:14+00:00
This, coupled with the news that OAI will allow erotica style adult outputs from ChatGPT certainly opens up some new possibilities.

I'm imagining ChatGPT having a Clippy style avatar that tries to sell you stuff. It appears that you're trying to have a cheeky wank to a fantasy about werewolves! Here are some dildoes that you might like! (I checked, Wal-Mart sells dildoes, so this isn't out of the realm of reason.)
by Manishearth | 2025-10-15 16:27:20+00:00
Worth highlighting: library-level GC would not be convenient enough to use pervasively in Rust anyway. library-level GC does not replace Rust's "point".

It's useful to have when you have complex graph structures. Or when implementing language runtimes. I've written a bit about these types of use cases in https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe...

And there's a huge benefit in being able to narrowly use a GC. GCs can be useful in gamedev, but it's a terrible tradeoff to need to use a GC'd language to get them, because then everything is GCd. library-level GC lets you GC the handful of things that need to be GCd, while the bulk of your program uses normal, efficient memory management.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-15 16:27:26+00:00
The problem is that they aren't reinventing emacs.

The first person that makes emacs for the hoi polloi will suck up all the emacs people as well just based on interop frustrations.

I still can't believe that after seeing how slack just released irc for grandma's and pointy haired bosses that no one has done the same for a sensible defaults for normies emacs.
by buu700 | 2025-10-15 16:27:34+00:00
I see the point the author is making, but AI doesn't need to be AGI or malicious to cause mass destruction. A poorly implemented deployment of AI in the right circumstances with too much access and insufficient guardrails could theoretically wind up LARPing as Skynet purely by chance.

This is why I've always considered current AI "safety" efforts to be totally wrongheaded. It's not a threat to humanity if someone has an AI generate hate speech, porn, misinformation, or political propaganda. AI is only a threat to humanity if we don't take security seriously as we roll out increasingly more AI-driven automation of the economy. It's already terrifying to me that people are relying on containers to sandbox yolo-mode coding agents, or even raw dogging them or their personal machines.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-15 16:27:58+00:00
> I think they have left out how much you can get done from a construction standpoint when you have forced labor

It's time to kill the "slaves built the pyramids" myth. "Aliens built the pyramids" has exactly the same amount of evidence.

Unless you're referring to wage-slaves, who definitely were the middle-management of the crews. We've found graves of Jewish construction bosses.
by Fezzik | 2025-10-15 16:27:59+00:00
Once you’re comfortable openly and actively disenfranchising voters, and you get away with it, it is a small step to start whining all the time about how the system is rigged against you to try to ramp up your efforts to further disenfranchise voters. Burning the system down doesn’t just happen overnight. It happens slowly and starts with ‘working within the system.’
by mothballed | 2025-10-15 16:28:03+00:00
Why must we presuppose all these health and safety regulations that make it too difficult for a charity to just deliver a big batch of healthy meals at the school can't be eliminated, but somehow we can suppose we can increase taxes enough (apparently, in areas impoverished enough that free school lunches have this massive economy of scale you reference) to cover government or corporation supplied school lunches? This is just a rigged game.
by Jemaclus | 2025-10-15 16:28:27+00:00
That's exactly what the pin-pen merger is! As you know, it's not limited to pin/pen, and hearing ability (in my case, profound hearing loss) is not related to the ability to hear the difference. I don't understand the linguistics, but my very bad understanding is that there's actual brain chemistry here that means that you _can't_ hear the difference because you never learned it, never spoke it, and you pronounce them the same.

My partner is from the PNW and she pronounces "egg" as "ayg" (like "ayyyy-g") but when I say "egg" she can't hear the difference between what I'm saying and what she says. And she has perfect hearing. But she CAN hear the difference between "pin" and "pen", and she gets upset when i say them the same way. lol

But yeah, that's one of the things that makes accents accents. It's not just the sounds that come out of our mouths but the way we hear things, too. Kinda crazy. :)
by leeter | 2025-10-15 16:28:48+00:00
I don't disagree... but, there is a use case for orgs that don't allow forks. Some tools do their merging outside of github and thus allow for PRs that cannot be clean from a merge perspective. This won't trigger workflows that are pull_request. Because pull_request requires a clean merge. In those cases pull_request_target is literally the only option.

The best move would be for github to have a setting for allowing the automation to run on PRs that don't have clean merges, off by default and intended for use with linters only really. Until that happens though pull_request_target is the only game in town to get around that limitation. Much to my and other SecDevOps engineers sadness.

NOTE: with these external tools you absolutely cannot do the merge manually in github unless you want to break the entire thing. It's a whole heap of not fun.
by hadlock | 2025-10-15 16:28:49+00:00
Docker + IaC* for me; git ops, immutable servers, immutable code, immutable config, (nearly) immutable infrastructure means I haven't had to drop to the command line on a server since 2015. If something is wrong you restart the container, if that doesn't work you restart the host it's running on. The "downside" to this is my "admin" shell skills outside of personal dev laptop commands have gotten rusty.

*Terraform, imo, released in ~2014
by tracker1 | 2025-10-15 16:29:01+00:00
The fact that it's unified just means it's shared between CPU/GPU usage which can be a good thing. A lot of the performance comes from more channels and a more stable distance from the CPU itself... Getting really fast performance from RAM is more difficult with a detachable interface in the middle, and longer traces.

Still not the fastest ram, that they use for dedicated GPUs, but faster than most x86 options.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-15 16:29:01+00:00
> Most of us don't sandbox every single thing.

And I do sandbox everything, but its complicated

Many of these projects are set to compile only on the latest OS' which makes sandboxing even more difficult and impossible on VM, which is actually the red flag

So I sandbox but I don't get to the place of being able to run it

so they can just assume I'm incompetent and I can avoid having my computer and crypto messed up
by mavbo | 2025-10-15 16:29:13+00:00
I play a lot of World of Warcraft on my M3 MacBook Pro which has a native MacOS build. It's a CPU bottlenecked game with most users recommending the AMD X3D CPUs to achieve decent framerates in high end content. I'm able to run said content at high (7/10) graphics settings at 120fps with no audible fan noise for hours at a time on battery. It's been night and day compared to previous Windows machines.
by kokada | 2025-10-15 16:29:20+00:00
> why do we think this would be a solve as the devs clearly ignored the previous message about not using a private method?

If anything the fact that devs can actually access private symbols is an issue with how Apple designed their APIs, because they could make this so annoying to do that nobody would try (for example, stripping symbols).

Also, the fact that devs need to access private symbols to do what they need to do also shows that the public API is lacking at least some features.

Another thing, if this only affected the app itself that would be fine, but this makes the whole system slow to a crawl.

So while devs share some of the blame here (and I am not saying they don't), I still think this whole situation is mostly Apple's fault.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-15 16:29:24+00:00
AIUI the ANE makes use of data in unified memory, not in the register file. So this wouldn't be an inherent limitation. (OTOH, that's why it wastes memory bandwidth for most newer transformer models, which use heavily quantized data - the ANE will have to read padded/unquantized values and the fraction of memory bandwidth that's used for that padding is pure waste.)
by flatline | 2025-10-15 16:29:52+00:00
The content was good for me up till “The Operation.” Typical of AI output in my experience - some solid parts then verbose, monotonous text that fits one of a handful of genai patterns. “Sloppified” is a good term, once I realize I’m in the middle of this type of content it pulls me out of the narrative and makes me question the authenticity of the whole piece, which is too bad. Thanks for your transparency here and the prompt, I think this approach will prove beneficial as we barrel ahead with widespread AI content.
by arscan | 2025-10-15 16:30:01+00:00
David Byrne is currently on tour and my wife took me to the show as a bit of a backup plan (her usual concert-going friends fell through). I think concerts are okay, but I usually get bored after awhile, which is why I serve as a backup guest. I’m much more of a visual person, I suppose.

I was unprepared for how wonderful the show was. I was quite literally tearing up during the very first song from the beauty of the visuals that accompanied the musical performance, and it maintained almost that level for the entire show.

He’s really a generational talent.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-15 16:31:01+00:00
Yeah, the common cold statement is just wrong. Also COVID is actually more deadly than the flu by about 3x from what I have read when it adjusts for all the relevant factors. The problem I have with the whole thing is that the media and government whipped everyone up into a panic over it. If you said to people, "there's a virus 3x as bad as the flu, what should we do?" I thik very few would say "lockdown everything non-essential."
by vijay1025 | 2025-10-15 16:31:31+00:00
Wow, Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD. I'm sure that's the first in the world.

This is like Windows user's gateway drug for the FreeBSD world. It has the potential to introduce FreeBSD to thousands of Windows users.

This is the best UI/UX FreeBSD could ever wish for.

Seriously, mad props for getting that to work. Awesome work!