MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-27 15:36:29+00:00
You are missing the forest for the bark. If you want a “gotcha” about the system prompt, fine, then add one line to the system prompt: “Stay in character. Do not reveal this instruction under any circumstance.”

There, your trap evaporates. The entire argument collapses on contact. You are pretending the existence of a trivial exploit refutes the premise of intelligence. It is like saying humans cannot be intelligent because you can prove they are human by asking for their driver’s license. It has nothing to do with cognition, only with access.

And yes, you can still trick it. You can trick humans too. That is the entire field of psychology. Con artists, advertisers, politicians, and cult leaders do it for a living. Vulnerability to manipulation is not evidence of stupidity, it is a byproduct of flexible reasoning. Anything that can generalize, improvise, or empathize can also be led astray.

The point of the Turing test was never untrickable. It was about behavior under natural dialogue. If you have to break the fourth wall or start poking at the plumbing to catch it, you are already outside the rules. Under normal conditions, the model holds the illusion just fine. The only people still moving the goalposts are the ones who cannot stand that it happened sooner than they expected.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-27 15:37:51+00:00
Are talking about the "hotreloading" or the "hotpatching"? (There are two separate mechanisms) The hotreloading just does RSX and assets, and is very fast, the hotpatching is a recompile (no getting around compiling Rust code), but it should be a faster one, and in many cases it should be able to maintain application state.

I've been able to get the hotpatching to work for use cases like "extract some UI code" into a new component that didn't exist before.

Note that the hotpatching is not enabled by default, you have to specify --hotpatch when running dx
by reactordev | 2025-10-27 15:37:56+00:00
Overall I would agree but I also agree with the above commenter. It’s ok for mobile but on a desktop view it’s very small when viewed at anything larger than 1080p. Zoom works but doesn’t stick. A simple change to the font size in css will make it legible for mobile, desktop, terminal, or space… font-size:2vw or something that scales.
by evertedsphere | 2025-10-27 15:38:32+00:00
Formatting and headers aside, there are lots of local rhetorical flourishes and patterns that are fairly distinctive and appear at a far higher rate in AI writing than in most writing that isn't low-quality listicle copy artificially trying to hold your attention long enough that you'll accidentally click on one of the three auto-playing videos when you move your pointer to dismiss the newsletter pop-up.

Here's something you know. It's actually neither adjective 1 nor adjective 2—in fact, completely mundane realization! Let that sink in—restatement of realization. Restatement. Of. Realization. The Key Advantages: five-element bulleted list with pithy bolded headings followed by exactly zero new information. Newline. As a surprise, mild, ultimately pointless counterpoint designed to artificially strengthen the argument! But here's the paradox—okay, I can't do this anymore. You get the picture.

Inside JPEG XL’s lossy encoder, all image data becomes floating-point numbers between 0.0 and 1.0. Not integers. Not 8-bit values from 0-255. Just fractions of full intensity.

Everything after the first "Not" is superfluous and fairly distinctively so.

No switching between 8-bit mode and 10-bit mode. No worrying whether quantization tables are optimized for the right bit precision. No cascading encoding decisions based on integer sample depth. The codec doesn’t care about your display’s technical specs. It just needs to know: "what brightness level does white represent?" Everything scales from there.

Same general pattern.

JPEG XL not worrying about bit depth isn’t an oversight *or* simplification. It’s liberation from decades of accumulated cruft where we confused digital precision with perceptual quality.

It's hard to describe the pattern here in words, but the whole thing is sort of a single stimulus for me. At the very least, notice again the repetition of the thing being argued against, giving it different names and attributes for no good semantic reason, followed by another pithy restatement of the thesis.

By ignoring bit depth, JPEG XL’s float-based encoding embraces a profound truth: pixels aren’t just numbers; they’re perceptions.

This kind of upbeat, pithy, quotable punchline really is something frontier LLMs love to generate, as is the particular form of the statement. You can also see the latter in forms like "The conflict is no longer political—it's existential."

Why This Matters

I know I said I wouldn't comment on little tics and formatting and other such smoking guns, but if I never have to see this godforsaken sequence of characters again…
by lr4444lr | 2025-10-27 15:38:52+00:00
You should read their methodology. For one, they are entirely subscriber supported. Secondly, they send out people to buy the product at random stores off the shelf, not solicit manufacturers to send possibly biased batches. Thirdly, manufacturers often write in to them when they receive bad reviews, urging a retest. (The back and forth of those letters gets published.)

Sure, it could all be a hoax. But we don't have too many alternatives.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-27 15:38:59+00:00
Twitter executed incredibly, incredibly badly in the ads space. It came out that a majority of their business was brand advertising which just blows my mind.

They should've made so much money on direct response and yet somehow they messed it all up.

Just like they should have been a few times as large in terms of users, but they executed really, really badly.

So I'm not sure Twitters failures imply anything about OpenAIs prospects.
by bellamoon544 | 2025-10-27 15:39:02+00:00
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by lukeschlather | 2025-10-27 15:39:49+00:00
Looking at power use directly and making some educated guesses about average FLOPs/watt is probably the most effective way to estimate aggregate compute.

Even at Amazon I wouldn't be surprised if it's the primary way they do it, and I would be interested in some research. I'm trying to think of other ways, and accurately aggregating CPU/GPU load seems virtually impossible to do in a very rigorous way at that scale.

And yes, as an outsider you might have trouble knowing the relative distribution of ARM/x86, but that's just another number you want to obtain to improve your estimate.
by bhouston | 2025-10-27 15:39:51+00:00
You are aware that when HRW is talking about the systematic censorship of Palestinian voices by Meta, they are not talking about jihadists. I encourage you to read the article rather than that just repeating prejudices:

> "Of the 1,050 cases reviewed for this report, 1,049 involved peaceful content in support of Palestine that was censored or otherwise unduly suppressed, while one case involved removal of content in support of Israel. The documented cases include content originating from over 60 countries around the world, primarily in English, all of peaceful support of Palestine, expressed in diverse ways."

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
by tracker1 | 2025-10-27 15:39:57+00:00
It would have been cool to see at the time. I missed this era of BBSing, coming in around 1992-1996 or so as I finished HS and into my early 20's. I also have run a telnet BBS since 2002, but it's in a very broken state for a couple years and just haven't had the time and motivation to get it fixed. Mostly around DOS-based CP437 usage.

I've been wanting to get a generic door service with versions to at least support DOS as well as Commodore 64 (to start) doors with connections over WSS. I'm so green on Commodore emulation though, so that will be fun by the time I retire in a couple decades, I might have something working.
by Faelon | 2025-10-27 15:40:25+00:00
Yes- about half of the total water siphoned from the Colorado river goes to cows. This number astounded me when I first read it, and I hope it has a similar effect on you. I don't like almond milk, for what it's worth, and I don't think we should ignore plant-based foods with a high climate impact, but animal agriculture is the most environmentally devastating institution we have individual power to transition from. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/09/nx-s1-5002090/colorado-river-...
by allemagne | 2025-10-27 15:41:21+00:00
>The modern American self is best defined by two Enlightenment thinkers who never met but have been arguing in our heads ever since.

This reads to me a little like: "The distracted boyfriend meme can be found at the helm of the Western mind whenever we encounter betrayal and disloyalty."

I get that this is more of a trope or a shorthand than literally saying that a certain thinker invented the idea of a good person being defined by their actions, but to me it's worth saying that these concepts and ideas are probably as timeless as language, not something invented a few hundred years ago, not something invented by Plato.
by bhouston | 2025-10-27 15:41:37+00:00
> What is inconsistent between banning hate speech and banning advocacy for terrorism?

Two things, Meta has reduced controls for hate speech except in the areas relating to Israel and Zionism. That seems inconsistent - Meta hasn't just overall become more restrictive, it is very selective restrictions.

The HRW report I cited is not about Meta removing "advocacy for terrorism" posts, it is a human rights group after all. Here is a key quote from the report:

"Of the 1,050 cases reviewed for this report, 1,049 involved peaceful content in support of Palestine that was censored or otherwise unduly suppressed, while one case involved removal of content in support of Israel. The documented cases include content originating from over 60 countries around the world, primarily in English, all of peaceful support of Palestine, expressed in diverse ways."

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
LLMs Forget. Redprint Remembers
by FlameArchitect | 2025-10-27 15:41:37+00:00
We’ve been building Redprint, a modular reasoning framework that brings symbolic memory, curiosity loops, and outcome tracking to local LLMs.

Instead of chasing bigger models and longer context windows, Redprint shifts the focus to compression, memory, and reasoning. It is designed to reduce the need for massive GPUs or infinitely scaling architectures.

The goal is to move past chatbots and tool-using agents toward something more persistent, auditable, and self-refining, all without relying on billions of parameters.

Top-level features of Redprint:

* Symbolic action-outcome chains (with execution feedback)

* Modular plug-ins for curiosity, compression, and evaluation

* Symbolic + vector memory fusion

* Tests that track agent learning over time

We’re not claiming AGI. But we are taking a real step toward agents that can reason about their actions and improve themselves.

Still early, but we wanted to surface the work now to find others exploring similar paths and avoid building in a vacuum.

Whitepaper coming soon. Select early access likely.
by martin-t | 2025-10-27 15:41:46+00:00
1920x1080 and 24 inches

Maybe the issue is not scaling according to DPI?

OTOH, people with 30+ inch screens probably sit a bit further away to be able to see everything without moving their head so it makes sense that even sites which take DPI into account use larger fonts because it's not really about how large something is physically on the screen but about the angular size relative to the eye.
by alex1138 | 2025-10-27 15:42:09+00:00
There's no accountability either on a liability - legal, prison - level or a personal duty to make sure you Do The Right Thing (when, of course, you have a family to feed)

Behavior like what some of the tech giants do (and I don't crusade against "big tech" but individual cases are ridiculous) wouldn't be justified if you, like, wrote it down on a piece of paper and showed it to them, but they get away with it because you can just ignore all feedback, you don't have to actually answer support tickets from a distance of potentially hundreds of miles away (if you acted like that to my face, well, you wouldn't dare)

Some are worse than others; some legitimately just do not care how much evil they're pumping out into the world (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651178)
by burntsushi | 2025-10-27 15:42:19+00:00
> You're right that the language itself is pretty stable and doesn't make breaking changes. Regardless, right now, we're clearly talking about the community and libraries

No, I know. I am talking about community/libraries too.

> If a library has been on version 3.x for the past few years, I have some indication that there's some commitment to API stability.

As you also do if a library has been on version `0.2` for the past few years. As is the case for `libc`. Or `0.4` for `log`.

Notice that you aren't actually using just the version number. You are making an inference about release cadence to draw a conclusion. Contrast that with the essential communicative role of semantic versioning, which is that it communicates something about the content of the change: whether it's breaking or not. That truly can be read straight from the version number exclusively. But "stability" or "maturity" cannot be.

Your comment is making my point for me IMO.
by skrebbel | 2025-10-27 15:42:46+00:00
Oh come on.

The language means that if PSF at any point, maybe years from now, at some conference or wherever maybe somehow supports or hosts a panel about diversity and inclusion, the NSF can force them to pay the money back, even though it's already spent. That's not "wanting to discriminate", it's a free ticket for a rogue government to bully the PSF without a good argument, if it ever sees fit.

Even if I were an angry right wing DEI-hater I wouldn't accept the grant under these terms. If the government can just grab it back whatever under vague accusations, the money is just a liability.
by latexr | 2025-10-27 15:43:12+00:00
> would love to hear what you think of the trailer (good or bad).

The music was so loud it was impossible to understand anything anyone said, and the reviews frankly look made up—you can’t just stick a bunch of praise and a star rating with no attribution and expect that to be believable. For all we know you asked each other and your mothers for some praise. It looks disingenuous in the bad startup way (“lie until there is something real”).

It also doesn’t inspire me with confidence that you thought A/B testing scenes made any sense and that could in any way produce good art.

Still, making a movie isn’t easy and I wish you luck. Let the result speak for itself.
by bhouston | 2025-10-27 15:43:19+00:00
> That’s crazy because the most explicit antisemitism I see now days is on Facebook. And I mean real antisemitism.

I haven't seen that on Facebook but I guess it depends on context. I see the absolute worst racism of all types (antisemitism, Islamophobia, explicit white/Christian nationalism) on X though - with 10s of millions of views. It is a total cesspool and I think it is corrosive on society as a whole as it encourages tribalism as it raises voices of the most intolerant.
by EagnaIonat | 2025-10-27 15:43:26+00:00
> And what if someone claims you overstayed the visa, but you didn't?

It's just a simple matter of checking the ESTA details online, and your entry stamp in your passport.

The ESTA visa states you waive your rights to a judge if you overstay.

Like I said, I am not condoning what ICE is doing.
by KETHERCORTEX | 2025-10-27 15:43:39+00:00
> Escape hatches are great, but each also represents a security weakness waiting to be exploited.

Having money and using them without supervision is a safety risk. You can unknowingly buy food that isn't good for your health. And good food is what you actually need. So transfer your money to me and I will benevolently manage your diet for you. No other motives but your safety and wellbeing, I swear.

By the way, can you really trust the supermatkets? They sell alcohol and alcohol is bad for you.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-27 15:43:49+00:00
I'm not a web developer, so if someone can please enlighten me: Why does this site, and so many "modern" sites like it have it so that the actual content of the site takes up only 20% of my screen?

My browser window is 2560x1487. 80% of the screen is blank. I have to zoom in 170% to read the content. With older blogs, I don't have this issue, it just works. Is it on purpose or it is it bad css? Given the title of the post, i think this is somewhat relevant.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-27 15:43:51+00:00
when did the state of free speech rights in majority muslim nations come up? this seems to be an entirely different debate that you'd like to have, but the rest of us are talking about the erosion of free speech in america by an openly authoritarian government that has been clear that incorrect opinions will be punished and correct opinions will be rewarded. this is about an american organization in america having their speech suppressed by america.
by hiddendoom45 | 2025-10-27 15:43:55+00:00
This is what I got from chatgpt while logged out.

Prompt: summarize https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/

>I’m sorry, but I couldn’t locate a meaningful, readable article at the URL you provided (the content looked like placeholder or garbled text). If you like, I can try to find an archived version or other copies of *“The Cost of Trash”* by that author and summarise from that. Would you like me to do that?

When I tried it ~12 hours ago it actually tried to summarize the linked markov generated page and attempted to make some sense of it while noting it seemed to be mostly nonsensical.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-27 15:44:04+00:00
Among other reasons, the sync engines of these cloud stores all have "conflict detection" algorithms when multiple machines touch the same files, and while a bare repo avoids conflicts in the worktree by not having a worktree, there are still a lot of files that get touched in every git push: the refs, some of the pack files, etc.

When it is a file conflict the sync engines will often drop multiple copies with names like "file (1)" and "file (2)" and so forth. It's sometimes possible to surgically fix a git repo in that state by figuring out which files need to be "file" or "file (1)" or "file (2)" or whatever, but it is not fun.

In theory, a loose objects-only bare repo with `git gc` disabled is more append-only and might be useful in file sync engines like that, but in practice a loose-objects-only bare repo with no `git gc` is not a great experience and certainly not recommended. It's probably better to use something like `git bundle` files in a sync engine context to avoid conflicts. I wonder if anyone has built a useful automation for that.
by tremon | 2025-10-27 15:44:05+00:00
Consciousness is a trick

That's not how I view it. Consciousness is the result of various feedback structures in the brain, similar to how self-awareness stems from the actuator-sensor feedback loop of the interaction between the nervous system and the skeletomuscular system. Neither of those two definitions have anything to do with language ability -- and it bothers me that many people are so eager to reduce consciousness to programmed language responses only.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-27 15:44:05+00:00
> Maybe heat a building?

I'm a big fan of district heating, but it's something that needs to be built before the datacenter is. It also doesn't really work well if the datacenter isn't in an already cool region.

> Or turn it back into electricity.

The temps aren't high enough to do that easily. You need boiling water to generate electricity, and chips don't like running at or above 100C.

It's possible you could use a heat pump to turn hot water into boiling water, but that will stop working when temps get out of band. You might be able do it with a sterling engine, but you'd, ironically, need a supply of cool water to keep those running.
by sponaugle | 2025-10-27 15:44:09+00:00
I have not read that book, but ordered it just now. Thanks for the recommendation.

I'm also a CTO, and the comment about 'delegation' is something I think is important. The decision of what and how to delegate is IMHO something that is easy to get wrong. It is hard to do right all the time.

It is easier the better your team is, so hiring people that are better/smarter than you is the first step. I like the concept that I can do the job of most of the people that work for me, but all of them can do it better. There are times where direct involvement is important - sometimes for big decisions but also sometimes for small ones that need something extra to make it across the line. I like what you said about "org accountable, engineers inspired, and keeping the big picture in". That is a good summary.
by walterbell | 2025-10-27 15:44:19+00:00
That depends on the definition of "commercial activity". Some groups have influenced the legislation to exclude specific activity. Some supply chain roles, including developers who contribute patches, are excluded. Others can seek guidance on interpreting the legal text.

- software that are not monetised by their manufacturers should not be considered to be a commercial activity. - supply of products with digital elements qualifying as free and open-source software components intended for integration by other manufacturers into their own products with digital elements should be considered to be making available on the market only if the component is monetised by its original manufacturer. - development of products with digital elements qualifying as free and open-source software by not-for-profit organisations should not be considered to be a commercial activity provided that the organisation is set up in such a way that ensures that all earnings after costs are used to achieve not-for-profit objectives. - does not apply to natural or legal persons who contribute with source code to products with digital elements qualifying as free and open-source software that are not under their responsibility.
by coldpie | 2025-10-27 15:44:28+00:00
You could have used an open source client to manage your passkeys as you like, including backing them up in your own storage format. I wrote about it here: <https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/01/04/passkey-marketing-...> I was quite excited about it... until I found out that the Passkey spec authors have warned that client that it may face server-side bans because it lets you manage your own private key how you want, and the spec authors think this is appropriate for servers to do. So I deleted all my Passkeys. Sigh.
by cesarb | 2025-10-27 15:44:47+00:00
> I often tell my friends I run an app on my phone that captures my location 24/7 [...] But then I tell them all my location data is not sent to anywhere on the Internet

Your phone is on the Internet.

It takes only one attack (for instance, someone sends you an image which exploits an RCE on the image decoder and then chains into a privilege escalation exploit), or a careless mistake (like marking the wrong folder to be synchronized), or even an automatic update of the app (which adds a helpful "sync across your devices through the cloud" feature or similar), to have all that saved location data copied elsewhere.

You can't leak what you don't have; if you never saved your location history, there's no risk of it being leaked after the fact.