MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lumoscore | 2025-10-15 17:21:45+00:00
That "rug-pull of all time" headline is genuinely depressing. It’s hard to stay optimistic about crypto when you see that kind of fear being spread, and it reminds you how much of the market is built purely on dangerous speculation.

For me, the real takeaway isn't the scammers, it's the fragility of the systems. When networks are slow and costly, it just makes things worse, amplifying the chaos and making it easier for projects to fail or get rugged.

That frustration is actually what made me dig deeper. I got tired of the drama and started searching for platforms that were strictly focused on building stable, long-term utility—the opposite of a rug-pull.

That’s how I stumbled across LumosCore. They seem to be approaching infrastructure from a completely different angle. Instead of using the old, expensive networks, they built their entire platform on Stellar/Soroban. It's brilliant because it means that any asset created is supported by super-fast transactions and near-zero fees. It removes all that systemic risk that plagues the older chains.

What really convinced me they were serious about lasting utility is their focus on unrestricted market reach. They're actively building a major connection to the high-volume XRP Ledger (XRPL). That means the digital assets minted there have guaranteed access to a huge, established user base right away.

It just feels like a smarter, safer direction. It's the difference between trying to gamble your way to success and actually building a business on solid ground. If you're a builder, it seems like the platform to check out.
by moribvndvs | 2025-10-15 17:22:00+00:00
Modern sci-fi shows and movies are absolutely obsessed with floating, holographic displays. I always laughed at how incredibly stupid that idea generally is, as you’re fighting to read over whatever passes by/through your display and the lighting environment.

Welp, Apple went ahead and essentially (and needlessly) forced a similar problem onto my normal screen. Maybe looks cool for a second on Apple marketing materials, but actual usage makes me want to pile drive everyone at Apple responsible for this crap.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-15 17:22:14+00:00
Is it too brief to capture it? Here is a one sentence statement I found from one of his slides:

>Turing’s version of Gödel’s theorem tells us that, for any set of mechanical theorem-proving rules R, we can construct a mathematical statement G(R) which, if we believe in the validity of R, we must accept as true; yet G(R) cannot be proved using R alone.

I have no doubt the books are good but the original comment asked about steelmanning the claim that AGI is impossible. It would be useful to share the argument that you are referencing so that we can talk about it.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 17:22:37+00:00
The point is that guns are not the only weapon that are used to harm people. Fewer guns does not necessarily prevent people from harming others. If making comparisons between countries, account for the population of the country and that guns are not necessarily used in the same frequency in all countries so we should be looking at school incidents as a whole including stabbing, shootings, automobiles, or other lethal methods.
by Nemo_bis | 2025-10-15 17:22:38+00:00
That's probably not the Glacier most people are using now. I still have it from ancient times so I got this email:

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Hello,

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Amazon Glacier is a standalone service with its own APIs, that stores data in vaults and is distinct from Amazon S3 and the S3 Glacier storage classes [1]. Your Amazon Glacier data will remain secure and accessible indefinitely. Amazon Glacier will remain fully operational for existing customers but will no longer be offered to new customers (or new accounts for existing customers) via APIs, SDKs, or the AWS Management Console. We will not build any new features or capabilities for this service.

You can continue using Amazon Glacier normally, and there is no requirement to migrate your data to the S3 Glacier storage classes.

Key Points: * No impact to your existing Amazon Glacier data or operations: Your data remains secure and accessible, and you can continue to add data to your Glacier Vaults. * No need to move data to S3 Glacier storage classes: your data can stay in Amazon Glacier in perpetuity for your long-term archival storage needs. * Optional enhancement path: if you want additional capabilities, S3 Glacier storage classes are available.

For customers seeking enhanced archival capabilities or lower costs, we recommend the S3 Glacier storage classes [1] because they deliver the highest performance, most retrieval flexibility, and lowest cost archive storage in the cloud. S3 Glacier storage classes provide a superior customer experience with S3 bucket-based APIs, full AWS Region availability, lower costs, and AWS service integration. You can choose from three optimized storage classes: S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval for immediate access, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval for backup and disaster recovery, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term compliance archives.

If you choose to migrate (optional), you can use our self-service AWS Guidance tool [2] to transfer data from Amazon Glacier vaults to the S3 Glacier storage classes.

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by leakycap | 2025-10-15 17:23:05+00:00
A NVIDIA 2080 graphics card from 2018 still surpasses the M5 for gaming. The M5 Pro coming early next year will likely finally catch up with the 8-year-old 2080.

I'm happy to hear your games work well for you, but it sounds like the games you're playing aren't demanding compared to modern AAA titles. Most games released in the last year or two don't run well on my 2080 test system at anything approaching decent graphics.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-15 17:23:13+00:00
The 3 facts I presented are all from well attested sources, either government GDP numbers (although the Euro exchange rate changes impacts the MS vs Germany comparison) or from solar PV makers themselves. That you want to use scare quotes for them is why this is a problem. We are far more certain about those 3 example facts that almost anything reported in the media. You can look up those numbers quite easily and find that they are correct.

Facts like these influence your life far more than most of the things reported by the media. Yet you still want to use scare quotes because they don't match your personal opinions that are largely informed by mostly irrelevant things reported about. That's the problem being described by the article. You still don't seem to understand that.
by 0x457 | 2025-10-15 17:24:30+00:00
Apple SoCs have weird external monitor support purely because of SoC IO, not GPU power.

60mhz and 120mhz are your typos, because that's an insane refresh rate. It's 60Hz and 120Hz, not mhz...

> So the M5's "40% faster GPUs" is being used to double the frame rate?

You always have to read full marketing BS when you read it, it almost always says "X times faster than Y in Z workfload".
by logicchains | 2025-10-15 17:24:46+00:00
$1/M is hardly a big improvement over GPT5's $1.250/M (or Gemini Pro's $1.5/M), and given how much worse Haiku is than those at any kind of difficult problem (or problems with a large context size), I can't imagine it being a particularly competitive alternative for coding. Especially for anything math/logic related, I find GPT5 and Gemini Pro to be significantly better even than Opus (which reflects in their models having won Olympiad prizes while Anthropic's have not).
by leakycap | 2025-10-15 17:25:01+00:00
I get that it is good for some games, but when people say "gaming PCs" on Windows, they usually mean AAA titles. The stuff on endcaps at BestBuy for sale for PC and console. Those games won't run well on Macs unless you spend insane amounts on a Max or Ultra variant.

The M5's GPU specs seem to put it near a high-end NVIDIA card from 2018. Impressive as all get out for a power-friendly chip, but not really what I think of when I hear "good for gaming"
by rurp | 2025-10-15 17:25:02+00:00
It's absolutely true, but most of the destruction is abstracted away so modern humans don't have to experience it directly or even really think about it. A staggering number of creatures are killed by normal people driving to normal things every year. Many more are killed by all of the resource extraction needed to supply our normal lives. Not to mention the vast numbers of wildlife that sees their habitat destroyed every year to make way for more housing and other development.

Killing animals for fun is an entire sport enjoyed by millions. Humans keep pets that kill billions of birds every year. The limited areas we've set aside to mostly let other nature be nature are constantly under threat and being shrunk down. The list of ways we completely subjugate other intelligent life on this planet is endless. We have driven many hundreds of species to extinction and kill countless billions every year.

I certainly enjoy the gains our species have made, just like everyone else on HN. I'd rather be in our position than any other species on our planet. But given our history I'm also pretty terrified of what happens if and when we run into a smarter and more powerful alien species or AI. If history is any guide, it won't go well for us.

This understanding can guide practical decisions. We shouldn't be barreling towards a potential super intelligence with no safeguards given how catastrophic that outcome could be, just like we shouldn't be shooting messages into space trying to wave our arms at whatever might be out there, any more than a small creature in the forest would want to attract the attention of a strange human.
by broken-kebab | 2025-10-15 17:25:03+00:00
I guess we came to the stage where you want to tell me "it's not only SRY", then enlighten me about AIS, and Klinefelter, right? You can re-read the branch and make sure I made no claim that there's a particular gene which is the discriminant, the talk is about genes expression. Which is a very important distinction. FWIW we could knew nothing about DNA, chromosomes, and genes, and still be clearly able to distinguish between man and woman. Because whatever the cause the result is remarkably binary! It's so basic that infants of 4-5 month old already can reliably tell it apart - before culture would affect us. On the contrary, it takes years of social pressure and indoctrination to start playing Emma Watson, and pretend being unable to see it. This clarification should answer all your questions, but here them anyway: 1. No, in the absolute majority of cases you don't need to have gene test cause it's apparent enough. At the newborn stage we mostly look at genitals, then the farther it goes though the less it's needed. There are ideological wars waged about genitals, but in reality it predicts the development with amazing reliability. However, In extremely rare cases medical/legal disputes may force someone to make them though. 2. Chimeric people are men and women. Cause it's expression not presence of genes which builds us. 3. People with transplants are developed as men, and women. 4. As already said with infants we look at genitals. With farther development sex differences become easily perceptible even with fully clothed humans. Even in Arctic climate! (Trust me I've been there) 5. I never heard of fully developed human organism to undergo a re-development with CRISPR or otherwise. I'm open for the new facts though if you have any. 6. Blocking gene(s) expression matters for sure, that's how we get AIS.
by robenkleene | 2025-10-15 17:25:14+00:00
Apple makes Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, Notes, Calendar, Contacts, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Freeform, just from a "quality" standpoint, I'd rank any of those applications as competitive for the "highest quality" app in their category (an admittedly difficult thing to measure). In aggregate, those applications would make Apple the most effective company in the world at making high-quality GUI applications.

Curious if I'm missing something though, is there another entity with a stronger suite than that? Or some other angle to look at this? (E.g., it seems silly to me to use an MP3 metadata example when you're talking about the same company that makes Logic Pro.)
Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?
by billpg | 2025-10-15 17:25:17+00:00
I'm looking for copies of these issues of PC Plus magazine please.

1991-Nov, 1992-Jan, 1992-Mar, 1992-Apr, 1992-Jun, 1992-Jul, 1992-Oct, 1993-Jan.

This was a popular PC magazine in the UK, and one of its highlights was Wilf’s Programmer Workshop, a regular column full of programming puzzles, challenges and reader submissions.

At one point, he ran a contest around quines (programs that output their own source). I sent in a tongue‑in‑cheek entry, a batch file that used PKZIP to “compile” code into PKZIP.OBJ (instead of .ZIP) and then ZIP2EXE to “link” it into an EXE. The result was an executable that unzipped itself back into a source file. He was amused enough to mention it near the end of his column, though he noted it didn’t quite qualify for the contest since I hadn’t written PKZIP myself.

I found scans of his section on archive.org, including the issue where he announces the contest, but I couldn't find my particular contribution. I've narrowed it down to the eight issues listed above that are in the right time-frame.

If you have any of these issues (paper or PDF), could you please check Wilf’s section near the back and see if my submission is mentioned?

Thanks!
by pietz | 2025-10-15 17:25:31+00:00
I think with gpt-5-mini and now Haiku 4.5, I’d phrase the question the other way around: what do you need the big models for anymore?

We use the smaller models for everything that’s not internal high complexity tasks like coding. Although they would do a good enough of a job there as well, we happily pay the uncharge to get something a little better here.

Anything user facing or when building workflow functionalities like extracting, converting, translating, merging, evaluating, all of these are mini and nano cases at our company.
by kelas | 2025-10-15 17:25:37+00:00
of course it runs in a browser - pretty much everything you can build using clang will run on the web. including linux kernel and llvm itself.

to hell with peanuts: i'm pretty sure someone must even built cpython interpreter to wasm target, why not. there is no limit of what can be achieved by a group of motivated people with zero sense of direction.

k, however, makes quite a bit of sense on the web - also on your phone. and time to prompt is going to be MUCH faster than python and octave. and i mean their native builds :)

https://kparc.io/k/

backslash is reference card, cmd+[] some examples
by daxfohl | 2025-10-15 17:25:39+00:00
It can be good for connecting AWS stuff to AWS stuff. "On s3 update, sync change to dynamo" or something. But even then, now you've got a separate coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, alerting, debugging pipeline from your main codebase, so is it actually worth it?

But no, I'd not put any API services/entrypoints on a lambda, ever. Maybe you could manufacture a scenario where like the API gets hit by one huge spike at a random time once per year, and you need to handle the scale immediately, and so it's much cheaper to do lambda than make EC2 available year-round for the one random event. But even then, you'd have to ensure all the API's dependencies can also scale, in which case if one of those is a different API server, then you may as well just put this API onto that server, and if one of them is a database, then the EC2 instance probably isn't going to be a large percentage of the cost anyway.
by sema4hacker | 2025-10-15 17:25:48+00:00
I manage a large art gallery that exhibits a large number of artists, selected from our database of over 4,000 artists, most of which are in the local area.

NONE of them can make a living solely off their art.

Personally, if I wanted to subsidize someone who could bootstrap their talent and efforts into self-sufficiency, I'd never pick an artist.
by ljm | 2025-10-15 17:26:15+00:00
Same in the UK (which is currenty a contentious issue again with Digital ID), because there is no concept of having a cryptographic signature tied to your identity in the way it is done in other EU countries.

Instead you need: - five years of address history - a recent utility bill or a council tax bill that has your full address - maybe a bank statement - passport or driving license

It just so happens that Experian, etc. have all of that, and even background checking agencies will depend on it.
by labrador | 2025-10-15 17:26:22+00:00
If the past is any indication, edge models will be the norm. I recently attended a panel at the Computer History Museum where Daniela Rus spoke about her company Liqued AI and it's edge models.

Redefining what’s possible on the edge. Liquid’s edge-native stack delivers the fastest AI with zero cloud dependencies — powered by LFM2, built with LEAP, experienced in Apollo.

https://www.liquid.ai/
by pennomi | 2025-10-15 17:26:33+00:00
Sure they have. We see every level of cognition in animals today, and the fossil record proves that they all came from the same evolutionary tree. For every species that can claim cognition (there’s lots of them), you can trace it back to predecessors which were increasingly simple.

Obviously cognition isn’t a binary thing, it’s a huge gradient, and the tree of life shows that gradient in full.
by simonw | 2025-10-15 17:26:35+00:00
Yeah, I'm a bit disappointed by the price. Claude 3.5 Haiku was $0.8/$4, 4.5 Haiku is $1/$5.

I was hoping Anthropic would introduce something price-competitive with the cheaper models from OpenAI and Gemini, which get as low as $0.05/$0.40 (GPT-5-Nano) and $0.075/$0.30 (Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite).
by WolfeReader | 2025-10-15 17:26:47+00:00
It's funny that you are trying to present your overt snobbery as a "realization" you had after "rethinking", when it was already there in your first post in the thread.

"If you visit a book store you will also find out that most "readers" are a very niche group, who mostly read genre fiction or crime slop."

You are no more judgy or condescending now than you were yesterday.
by returningfory2 | 2025-10-15 17:26:53+00:00
> As far as the "landscape" - the whole country is a giant meat factory swimming in cattle feces; the landscape was ruined centuries ago.

Love this comment so much. And it's true!

I grew up in Ireland and was immersed in the "everything in Ireland is the best" mentality. I think it was when I started regularly visiting the Hudson Valley in New York, which is mostly still wooded, that I really realized the "countryside" in Ireland is just manmade. It's not natural. The whole island was trees.

My understanding is that you've left Ireland; hope you're making your peace with the problems of the country now that you don't have to deal with them as much!
by evilduck | 2025-10-15 17:27:46+00:00
Most arguments and discussions around AGI talk past each other about the definitions of what is wanted or expected, mostly because sentience, intelligence, consciousness are all unagreed upon definitions and therefore are undefined goals to build against.

Some people do expect AGI to be a faster horse; to be the next evolution of human intelligence that's similar to us in most respects but still "better" in some aspects. Others expect AGI to be the leap from horses to cars; the means to an end, a vehicle that takes us to new places faster, and in that case it doesn't need to resemble how we got to human intelligence at all.
by gxs | 2025-10-15 17:28:45+00:00
As someone who jumped in the apple bandwagon at peak apple and hasn’t been through all their ups and downs the way some die hards have been, it’s been super aggravating dealing with apples shit lately - not what I signed up for all those years ago

It seems to have been degrading for a long time, but for me it’s been in this past year where it’s crossed into that threshold android used to live in where using the phone causes a physiological response from how aggravating it can be sometimes

I let my guard down and got too deep into the apple ecosystem- I know better and always avoided getting myself into these situations in the last, but here I am

The phone sucks right now - super buggy and they continue to remove/impose features that should be left as an option to the user By Yes, this has always been the knock on apple, but I typically havent had an issue with their decisions - it’s just so bad now

Lesson (re)learned and I will stay away from ecosystems - luckily the damage here is only for media

The minute I can get blue bubbles reliably on an android, I’ll give the pixel a shot again - if that sucks too then maybe I’ll go back to my teenage years and start rooting devices again
by myrmidon | 2025-10-15 17:29:02+00:00
I'm just assuming materialism, and that assumption is basically for complete lack of convincing alternatives (to me).

With "agency" I just mean the ability to affect the physical world (not some abstract internal property).

Regarding "computers have no concepts of things": I'm happy with the "meaning" of something being a fuzzy cloud in some high dimensional space, and consider this plausible/workable both for our minds and current LLMs.

> you're taking a superficial black box view of intelligence

Yes. Human cognition is to me simply an emergent property of our physical brains, and nothing more.
by 0x457 | 2025-10-15 17:29:21+00:00
> I do wonder if that person had ever tried any of the myriad of VR device available a decade before beforehand and I do wonder how popular Apple's product would be if other companies were given the opportunity to integrate with the OS on the same level that Apple can

Microsoft had and still has this opportunity, they even have game console and much of game developers to bootstrap VR/AR ecosystem.

> (I feel like Apple is breaking anti-competitive laws constantly but nobody really cares about making them open up).

lol okay
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-15 17:29:23+00:00
Really? Are we going to compare development in what 1980 to today? I got my start programming on an Apple //e in 1986 in assembly and it had 128KB of RAM.

6GB is not plenty when you are expected to run an IDE and in the case of Android an emulator that is also emulating a phone with 4GB+ RAM.

iOS development has never used an “emulator”, when you ran in the simulator even on x86 computers, it compiled your code to x86 and ran against an x86 version of the iOS framework.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-15 17:29:27+00:00
Some AI slop to let you pick any color and brightness: https://codepen.io/zamadatix/pen/VYerweP. Note: it does not attempt to clamp anything, so if you extend brightness beyond what makes sense in the color space or your display can't actually represent that color the color may shift. If things just appear white try lowering the brightness (and checking it's actually running in HDR at the bottom).

If you have an HDR monitor + the latest Chrom* based browser this should work out of the box on macOS/Windows. Other platforms/browsers you'll have to check the WebGPU + HDR standards support (which will be different for <canvas> than <video>) and may need to twiddle flags and/or wait for future releases.

It should tell you the active color space and range info at the bottom.