MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SubiculumCode | 2025-10-21 17:21:35+00:00
I've actually had better luck getting LLMs to run player characters (PCs) while I take on the role of Dungeon Master than the other way around. I can maintain a better 'world model' than the LLMs I have tried. Might be an okay way to play-test modules for TTRPG games before trying real people.
by ionutvisan | 2025-10-21 17:21:43+00:00
I truly appreciate the platform’s design and the logical flow - it feels intuitive and visually pleasant. I also like how the interaction with the company and the role you’re applying for is presented more clearly. The wide range of filters, combined with the option to further personalize with Nell, also gives you extra confidence that all your considerations are being taken into account. Overall, it looks very solid for the stage you’ve reached.
by CharlesW | 2025-10-21 17:21:46+00:00
> I realize that I am an outlier, but is anyone else in this same boat?

Yep. I have a computer science background but have always been "the most technical product management/marketing guy in the room". Now I'm having lots of fun building a SaaS and a mobile app to my standards, plus turning out micro-projects like pwascore.com in a day or two.

It turns out that I love designing/architecting products, just not the grind-y coding bits. Because I create lots of tests, use code analysis tools, etc., I'm confident that I'm creating higher quality code than (for example) what most outsourced coders are creating without LLMs.
by mentalgear | 2025-10-21 17:21:48+00:00
So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf.

I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approach. Of course that would require top-tier ML engineers who mostly all are pay-captured by Big Tech.
by sokoloff | 2025-10-21 17:22:15+00:00
Which is only extremely tangentially related to "if I pull my thermostat off the wall"

The overwhelmingly most common connection between a thermostat and furnace is a contact closure when calling for heat, with no ability to differentiate between “thermostat is present but not calling for heat” and “thermostat is not present” as both present as "these T-T contacts are not closed/shorted together".
by Eisenstein | 2025-10-21 17:22:19+00:00
As adults already, we grew up with things that are either not relevant or give us the wrong responses to our heuristics.

But the kids who grow up with this stuff will just integrate into their life and proceed. The society which results from that will be something we cannot predict as it will be alien to us. Whether it will be better or not -- probably not.

Humans evolved to spend most of their time with a small group of trusted people. By removing ourselves from that we have created all sorts of problems that we just aren't really that equipped to deal with. If this is solvable or not has yet to be seen.
Show HN: Offline-first voice AI (<1 s latency, MLX, Apple Silicon)
by mshubham | 2025-10-21 17:23:10+00:00
Hey HN,

I built an offline-first voice AI that runs entirely on Apple Silicon using MLX + FastAPI. It achieves <1s end-to-end latency for speech-to-speech conversations, with a minimal UI.

Repo: https://github.com/shubhdotai/offline-voice-ai

Would love feedback on performance, model choices, and other ideas...
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-21 17:23:12+00:00
If people can constantly attack Steve Jobs for “just being an idea guy” while Wozniak did all the work, I think we can all agree that Elon Musk deserves (at most) limited credit for the amazing engineering achievement one of his several companies/projects accomplished. Especially given the overlap with his several-months-long stint being a Trump groupie and proudly taking a chainsaw to the US government.

Yes his vision and direction matters. But let’s not act like the dude did that himself. Especially while he was so distracted having his nose up Trump’s proverbial rear.
by happytoexplain | 2025-10-21 17:23:23+00:00
That's simply not true, and pointlessly derogatory.

This article does not appear to be AI-written, but use of the emdash is undeniably correlated with AI writing. Your reasoning would only make sense if the emdash existed on keyboards. It's reasonable for even good writers to not know how or not care to do the extra keystrokes to type an emdash when they're just writing a blog post - that doesn't mean they have bad writing skills or don't understand grammar, as you have implied.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-21 17:23:29+00:00
Indeed. Big tragedy has been ATM. Invention of ATM was end of prosperous five bedroom house on single bank teller job. We used to go Disneyland every month on teller job. But now ATM have take job. All bank tellers out of job. Impossible for bank to tell anything except through faceless borgcreature beeping at me.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-21 17:23:33+00:00
I find the back and forth more productive. Lots of up front requirements and docs is like waterfall. You do everything up front and don't realize until implementation time that the design is unclear, has flaws and contradictions, etc.

Often it feels more efficient to take shorter steps, try something in code, we how it looks, update docs, show a demo, etc. That was true before LLMs and I think LLMs make it even more true.
by kqr | 2025-10-21 17:23:37+00:00
Yeah, but it also takes very few commands from the player to get from the cyberpunk opening to

You ride east, the coastal cliffs of the Grey Havens and the figures of wood elves giving way to rolling green hills. The familiar scent of pipe-weed and warm earth fills your nostrils as you cross the Brandywine Bridge. Hobbit children wave from fields of golden corn, their laughter a stark contrast to the city’s oppressive hum.

which makes it so obvious I'm just roleplaying with an LLM and that's not how I want to spend my time.

(LLM output edited and abbridged for your reading pleasure. It was more verbose in the original.)

((Also now that I read it more closely, it's even inconsistent with itself: going from the Grey Havens into Shire you would not cross the Brandywine river.))
Legacy Commission Based Business
by ChocoMufn | 2025-10-21 17:23:45+00:00
I'm working on an agentic consulting business, where we help write proposals for companies looking for funding. Issue is the legacy competition does commission based monetization. We have interest in the idea but our customers would rather not burn cashflow, and like the standard commission based approach (where we take x% of the funding WHEN its won). Bigger firms have the upper hand as they have runway to wait 2-12 mos before the funding comes through, whereas we can't afford that. What would be the ideal approach for this?
by corygarms | 2025-10-21 17:24:08+00:00
Well put! I've fallen back in love with these programs myself, and partially owe it to this blog post on hn a few months ago (https://scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06/you-can-now-play-plot-o...). One of the commenters led me to this site that has an annual competition and lots of great text adventures you can play online for free (https://ifcomp.org/comp/2025).
by anarticle | 2025-10-21 17:24:17+00:00
I think their game theoretic aim was to completely discredit video online. Just as we don't accept text in general as truth or image when we see it, we are being flooded with completely fake vids so people can shake the idea that videos are truth.

It smells of e/acc, effective altruist ethics which are not my favorite, but I don't work at OpenAI so I don't have a say I can only interpret.

I agree, but we will likely continue down this road...
by bdangubic | 2025-10-21 17:24:41+00:00
> and then potentially your own skills stagnate as you rely on LLMs more and more.

I hear this so often these days and I quite do not understand this part. If I trust LLM do to "X" that means i have made a determination that LLM is top-notch with "X" (if I did not make this determination then letting LLMs do X would be lunacy) and henceforth I do not give a flying hoot to know "X" and if my "X" skills deteriorate it is same thing as when we got equipment to tend to our corn fields and my corn picking skills deteriorated. of course I am being facetious here but you get the point.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-21 17:24:46+00:00
That analog doesn't fit at all. The internet is public infrastructure, akin to roads or utilities. Not just document writing software.

Your web browser is your primary gateway to the Internet, which is a fundamental part of our daily lives now With Google dominating the vast majority of the market (not just through Chrome but also Chromium) they dictate the mechanisms used to access it.

Google Chrome is already the defacto standard. Web developers design sites with it in mind first, everything else is an after thought. If Chrome decides to implement a feature that impacts user access or website design, everyone just has to go along with it.

Look at the "Web Integrity API" fiasco from a while back. Google was basically proposing that websites be able to block access if they don't like something about the clients environment. That is entirely antithetical to a free and open Internet, and had they decided to move forward with it the rest of the web community would have had no choice but to go along.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-21 17:24:51+00:00
Star Trek is a sci-fi franchise written mostly by American liberals with a specific vision of what society ought to look like hundreds of years in the future (and who are generally not interested in exploring in detail more material questions like, how precisely does the world become post-scarcity). Haiti is a bad place to be right now in real life.

The colonialist apologist case with respect to Haiti is something like: rich white nations are already spending money and other resources providing humanitarian aid to Haiti, because the human need there is real and the native Haitian government is not capable of governing in a way that would fix these problems. If those same rich white nations were actually formally in charge of Haiti in a neo-colonialist poltical arrangement, they could govern it better and improve the lives of the average Haitian in a material sense. It's not directly related to the colonial history of Haiti, which is over 200 years in the past at this point.

I personally think there are serious issues with this argument, but it's not completely crazy to suggest that the revealed preference of many Haitians is to live under the governance of rich white countries, especially in light of Haitian immigration to the US which was a major issue in the 2024 US presidential election.
by jryio | 2025-10-21 17:25:27+00:00
If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth.

If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions.

Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income information in order to target then sell you advertisements...

Quite another thing to build a model of your cognition by recording you from a company that is trying to build general intelligence - this is a training data and cognition exfiltration play.
by freehorse | 2025-10-21 17:25:36+00:00
I don't know about your experience or situation, but a confound is that usually people with strabismus have bad eyesight in other aspects in general too. Usually, developing strabismus is the result of other issues with eyesight. The obvious confound is basically having only one good eye to use at a time, and thus also less neural pathways developed and utilised than those who use 2 eyes. This could make visual perception tasks like tracking a fast moving ball harder regardless of the actual role of depth perception in it. There could be tasks where reliance on perceptual cues for depth perception is less effective, but I wouldn't think a moving ball is that kind of task.
by ashanoko | 2025-10-21 17:25:39+00:00
To be honest the self confidence of ai is rubbing off on the species in a good way. As in suddenly there is somebody there who beliefs in you, unlike that family that constantly sabotage you, the partner that tries to keep your ego in a "handleable due to absence of success" shape. And all those ideologies that want to cripple any one standing out, they can take a hike. So what if its confidently wrong, at least it beliefs more in you then the rest of the species.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-21 17:26:03+00:00
This is just the reality of scaling. Largely but not necessarily automation. Think of customer service now compared to early 2000s. Thats not really a story of automation. Instead, it's a story of 1) outsourcing 2) a bit of legitimate self service options (automation) and 3) abandonment - they simply stopped supporting at a good level. Quality is much worse but throughput is much higher - a necessary evil to scale.

AI actually has some ability to improve things. At least when I think about manufacturing and farming. When you produced at such a massive scale you could never individually inspect every potato, widget, or target every weed etc. You could produce WAAAY more but more bad products went out the door. But now you can inspect every individual thing. May not extend to every industry though.
by WD-42 | 2025-10-21 17:26:08+00:00
The clutter is real though, take a look at this screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/nkedVYq

Stock Konsole on the left, stock Ghostty on the right. Note that both terminals have multiple tabs open. The amount of wasted space and visual noise in Konsole is baffling. Not to mention Ghostty is able to display 4 more lines of actual console output (you know, the whole point of a console).

In my experience, many KDE apps follow the same UX. Great for configuration and being able to use primarily the mouse, bad if you are more interested in a keyboard centric flow with a focus on the content.
by InitialBP | 2025-10-21 17:26:08+00:00
Defaulting a furnace to on certainly shouldn't be considered safe. What if it's leaking CO into your house, what if it gets dangerously hot and causes a fire?

A thermostat and controls are a necessary requirement for HVAC systems and defaulting anything to "run" if your control plane doesn't exist anymore is definitely not the safe option.

The other issue is that in almost all situations (like this one) what you think is a safe and sane default won't align with what other people think.

There should be defaults and they should be clearly defined, but I don't think it's always obvious to determine what they are.
by gbxk | 2025-10-21 17:26:09+00:00
No business model short-term. My goal is broad adoption, 100% open-source.

By multi-node I mean so far I only support 1 k8s node, i.e. 1 machine, but soon adding support for multiple. Still, on 20 CPUs I can run +50 VM pods with fractional vCPU limits.

For GPU passthrough: not possible today because I use Firecracker as VMM. On roadmap: Add support for Qemu, then GPU passthrough possible.

Inter-VM networking: it's already possible on single-node: 1 VM = 1 pod. Can have multiple pods per node (have a look at utils/stress-test.sh). Right now I default deny-all ingress for safety (because by default k8s allows inter pod communication), but can make ingress configurable.

Startup time: a second, or a few seconds, depending on which base image (alpine, ubuntu, etc...) and whether you use a before_script or not (what I execute before the network lockdown)

Large artifacts: you can configure resource allocated to a VM pod in the sandbox config and it basically uses k8s resource limits.

Let me know if any other question! Happy to help
by behnamoh | 2025-10-21 17:26:49+00:00
Anyone feel like OpenAI is acting like Google lately? They announce a lot of products/features and then kill them when they realize people don't use them[0]. They also announce products way before they're ready for launch, just like google[1].

- GPT Plugins? (HN went crazy over this, they called it the "app store moment"...)

- GPTs?!

- Schedules?

- Operator?

- The original "codex" model?

[0]: I know, the diff is that google kills them despite knowing that many people use them.

[1]: I know, the diff is that google sometimes doesn't launch the announced product at all...
by julianlam | 2025-10-21 17:26:56+00:00
The way I see it is... I'd rather my lawn be yellow, plants dead, than a burst pipe underground causing significantly more expensive remediation.

I agree it's not likely (especially if the system is running as-scheduled), but it was a surprise is all. What if I didn't set up the service at all, and it dropped below 0 C? I would be in for a nasty surprise in the spring.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-21 17:26:58+00:00
I wondered when someone was gonna realize that the model behind the Amazon "AI" store is actually quite sustainable. Put your stuff on a belt, the belt runs under a camera operated by someone half a world away for 8 cents an hour who totals up your stuff and sends it to a local cash register, then you settle up w the cash register. Augmented self checkout.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-10-21 17:27:12+00:00
When you play Dolmenwood[1], for example, as a TTRPG setting and group of modules, no table will play the same game, but they are all playing Dolmenwood. So I guess it would depend on how much you can get the LLM to adhere to your setting and rules.

[1] https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/dolmenwood Yes I'm plugging this, but I am not financially involved.
by abraae | 2025-10-21 17:27:13+00:00
I read a great article a while ago (can't remember where) when they tasked some embedded guys with building a somewhat complex front end app.

When it was done, there were no bugs. Not a single issue. They asked the embedded guys how they had accomplished it. They said "we didn't know bugs were allowed".

Many people have never authored or even been involved with a high quality piece of software, so they just don't know what it looks like, or why you'd want it.

You'd think that someone in the exec team would have some personal pride and ownership in the code and would want to flush out bugs and improve quality. But nah.
by cetinsert | 2025-10-21 17:27:20+00:00
We do the same over at https://rtcode.io with "Agent Share"!

Instead of containers and "stacks", we use the web platform with vanilla HTML, CSS and JS (front-/back-end in 1 place)!

Deployments go to Cloudflare!

See examples at https://new.rt.ht – service workers you can edit live in the playground with URL imports of ESMs, get deployed as Cloudflare Workers!
by BeetleB | 2025-10-21 17:27:33+00:00
> He got written up for not "looking busy" despite his output being higher than his coworkers.

Also my experience with that first job. I would get the work done quicker than others, and leave around 5pm (most stayed beyond 6pm).

The message was clear: "There's always work to do. If you're getting work done early, you need to do more!"

I got worse ratings than people who achieved less. It also explains why coworkers refused to learn how to automate things.

Again: I automate to make my life easier. If it isn't working, I shouldn't do it.
by kogasa240p | 2025-10-21 17:27:41+00:00
IMO it's an economic problem (GDP must always rise because reasons) and the hedonic treadmill at play. I would even argue against the complexity point and rather point to overengineering being the root cause; an example would be using a robot arm to automate a cup of coffee instead of using existing vending machines for that purpose.

> potentially your own skills stagnate as you rely on LLMs more and more.

There were some papers from microsoft that highlighted this point https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
by lucideer | 2025-10-21 17:27:41+00:00
I live in Ireland which I think has one of the best voting systems in the world (don't worry we've still got plenty of other serious problems with our electoral system).

It's 100% paper PRSTV & so the counts are slow. Not only is this generally OK (because getting a rapid result is absolutely not a requirement of any well-functioning voting system) but it also has actual benefits.

The main benefit is predicated on the count being engaging in and of itself. Other countries put a lot of effort into jazzing up statistical presentations on constituency predictions, cloropleths aplenty, to engage viewers. In Ireland, count centres are not only manned by trained count staff, they're also flooded with volunteer tallymen who verify the counting in realtime. Count coverage is on the ground, showing a real physical process that's intricate enough to be watchable. The entire process also serves as an education-through-doing in how our voting system works, so you get a more engaged & informed electorate (when it comes to the mechanics of voting - still unfortunately not that informed on policy, that's a worldwide problem).
by safety1st | 2025-10-21 17:28:10+00:00
The media's been lying to us for as long as it has existed.

Prior to the Internet the range of opinions which you could gain access to was far more limited. If the media were all in agreement on something it was really hard to find a counter-argument.

We're so far down the rabbit hole already of bots and astroturfing online, I doubt that AI deepfake videos are going to be the nail in the coffin for democracy.

The majority of the bot, deepfake and AI lies are going to be created by the people who have the most capital.

Just like they owned the traditional media and created the lies there.
by afavour | 2025-10-21 17:28:17+00:00
> Oh, do shut up

OP is speaking the truth here.

> It's finally now dawning on the majority of Britons that Brexit was a mistake

As of June 2025, 56 percent of people in Great Britain thought that it was wrong to leave the European Union, compared with 31 percent who thought it was the right decision.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-po...
by sokoloff | 2025-10-21 17:28:23+00:00
> What if it's leaking CO into your house

While I agree with your overall point, this clause is irrelevant to/not supportive of it. The presence of a thermostat wasn't going to help you here either and there are vastly more furnaces with connected thermostats than disconnected to worry about.

CO detectors and alarms are needed to address this risk.
by mad_tortoise | 2025-10-21 17:28:53+00:00
- Please share which communities rely on water trucks?

- Loadshedding is no more.

- The tax issue is precisely the problem that needs redressing and is primarily because of past injustices. You're almost there.

- I have been treated in public hospitals and while not perfect the access to healthcare is impressive.

- I agree with the race laws. Your basis that SA has more race laws is gaslighting due to the fact of the homeland act. But let's not let facts get in the way.

- Violent crime rate is because why? Apartheid spatial planning. Read up and learn all about why this has re-enforced violent crime.

- Unemployment is high, yes. Doesn't mean the country is in decline.

- Corruption has hit its peak and on the way down post-Zuma years.

I have a close friend who owns a huge furniture company, and builds everything in house and grows year on year very well. So your anecdote is countered by mine.