MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by macNchz | 2025-10-14 23:19:08+00:00
I've been thinking in a similar way over the past year or so—we're seeing the emergence of more widespread access to custom software for use cases that previously never would have justified the investment.

There are so many situations where a little program can save one or a few people hours of work on tedious tasks, but wouldn't make sense to build or support given traditional software development overhead, but that becomes realistic with AI-assisted development. This is the idea of a sysadmin who has automated 80% of his job with a variety of shell scripts, borne out into many other roles.

We've seen the early phases of it with Replit and Lovable et al, but I think there's a big playing field for secure/constrained runtime environments for non-developers to be able to build things with AI. Low/no-code tooling increasingly seems anachronistic to me: I prefer code, just let an AI write and maintain it.

There's also a whole world of opportunity around the fact that many people who could benefit greatly from AI-built programs are simply not particularly suited to building them themselves, barring a dramatically more capable AI, where I think enterprising software engineers can likely spin out tons of useful stuff and address a client base they might never have previously been able to address.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-14 23:19:48+00:00
Oh stop the wiggling. You said hundreds of dollars and they aren't. Now you are switching your argument to "free phones" there are no free phones you still pay for them. In lower income countries your carrier even installs malware as part of their bloat itself. The backmarket prizes in these countries are even more attainable for older iPhone models. Instead of paying your shady carrier you can finance the refurbs. Just stop making shit up and the petty emotional misdirection when you are called out. Judging from your other comments in themis thread it's your go to discussion instrument...
by djmips | 2025-10-14 23:20:22+00:00
I feel like you've never actually tried to make tool with Claude Code or similar because BASIC is not it - that's viewing the past with rose coloured glasses. However I understand your central thesis that we could have actually put effort into making something that average folk could use to effectively leverage computers in a way that requires 'code'. But you know we have tried - we have Scratch - we have all of the node graph spaghetti in Unreal Engine and others - I am a programmer but I finally sat down and went through the process of making a working finished tool in a language I'm unfamliar with and using Claude Code and it went really well. And if folks like Ben Krasnow of Applied Science channel are using AI coding tools that they would formally take them 3 to 5 x longer to struggle through unfamiliarity then practically it's working - although I also take a nod to your 'at what cost'. But the idea that we could have been living in some Utopian BASIC derived alternate uinverse seems a little bit optimistic to me. I like AI coding (if I don't have to think of the costs)
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-14 23:20:39+00:00
You are misunderstanding what others mean. aaplok at the top of the thread is making a point that allows for you to disagree that it's actually racist. Still, the pull quote you disagreed with is about what people are intending to communicate, which is that they think DHH's comments are racist. It's a different discussion to say you disagree with that assessment.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-10-14 23:20:46+00:00
That is not mutually exclusive. First, you can absolutely sacrifice the median to improve the average. Second, I was pointing out when I think it started. One hypothesis is that the negative impacts of no child left behind and similar programs were initially mitigated/compartmentalized by the heavy academic tracking used at the time. My understanding is that much of this has changed over time with a reduction in number of tracks.
by moomoo11 | 2025-10-14 23:20:58+00:00
They set up a GitHub action that has AI do an immediate first pass (hallucinates high on drugs and not the good kind) and leave a review.

Considering 80% of team mates are usually dead weight or mid at best (every team is carried by that 1 or 2 guys who do 2-3x), they will do the bare minimum review. Let’s be real.. PIP is real. Job hopping because bad is real.

It’s a problem. I have dealt with this and had to fire.
by ysnp | 2025-10-14 23:21:36+00:00
It's hopeful news. GrapheneOS have had access to security patches as part of their agreement with an OEM partner already, so I assume these discussions/plans have been with the same partner. They are also hopeful of getting full access to AOSP releases which would greatly alleviate the pain Google have put custom OS developers through recently.

I am still very surprised that any OEM is willing to commit to monthly security updates and OS upgrades for a minimum of possibly five years. I think it would be a good thing for GrapheneOS to have more than one partnership in future for the Android ecosystem as a whole.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-14 23:21:44+00:00
Why do the voices all sound so similar? I'm not talking about accent, I'm talking about the pitch, timbre, and other qualities of the voice themselves. For instance, all the phrases I heard sounded like they were said by a medium-set 45 year old man. Nothing from kids, the elderly, or people with lower / higher-pitch voices. I assume this expected from the dataset for some reason, but am really curious about that reason. Did they just get many people with similar vocal qualities but wide ranges of accents?
by georgeburdell | 2025-10-14 23:22:16+00:00
It's new information to me that parts of the South are improving the average student (relatively speaking). One thing they had already done well, in my experience, was cultivate the smarter poor kids. When I was a kid in the Deep South, they funneled kids testing above about 125 IQ to magnet schools, busing them in from all over the metro. My friend and I escaped our working class neighborhood school that way. Now, I live in Silicon Valley, where no such programs exist, and by-and-large the public school you go to is based on how expensive your zip code is. Talk about reinforcing inequality.
by joecool1029 | 2025-10-14 23:22:25+00:00
No shot on it being Xiaomi (or any other BBK brand like OnePlus), they haven't been super great to the custom rom community in some years now.

I would have guessed HMD, but they just pulled out of the US market: https://www.androidauthority.com/hmd-global-leaves-us-market...

However, Motorola/Lenovo seems the most logical partner, they were previously in the Android One program (which was sort of the successor to the Nexus line).
by chatmasta | 2025-10-14 23:22:53+00:00
If you have it enabled, then every thirty seconds (regardless of whether you’re actively on a call), your phone will make a request to a signaling server owned by your mobile ISP. So if you’re on T-Mobile and traveling in some other country with no cell service, but you’re connected to WiFi, then T-Mobile will see your public IP address. (IIRC, this also bypasses any VPN Profile you have enabled on your device, because the signaling system is based on a derivative of IPSec that could have problems communicating over an active VPN tunnel.)

I found out about this when I was wiresharking all outbound traffic from my router and saw my phone making these weird requests.

Apple actually does warn you about this in the fine print (“About WiFi calling and privacy…”) next to the toggle in Settings. But I didn’t realize just how intrusive it was.

I know my mobile ISP can triangulate my location already, but I don’t want to offer them even more data about every public IP of every WiFi network I connect to, even if I’m not roaming at the time.
by andy99 | 2025-10-14 23:23:54+00:00
I agree with the grandparent comment and wanted to say something similar. I’m allergic to AI written drivel and at the first “it wasn’t just” I had to close the article.

Whether or not the author used AI to write it, it’s a valid criticism that it sounds like it, it makes people not want to read it and the author should consider a less offputting style if they want more engagement.

Edit to add, it’s worth flagging AI articles if you don’t want to see them, just commenting on it ends up making for a poor discussion - this thread is littered with talk about how it’s AI written. Better just to vote for it to flagged/dead.
by dogman144 | 2025-10-14 23:24:27+00:00
Reads like they’re doing one of several way to get mobile device IDs, and then x-ref those against anon’d adtech datasets that anchor on the mobile ID.

If your device privacy is a mess, mobile ID links you to all the good and bad things you do on a phone.

Had no idea this was part of the tool options, but backbone cell network makes sense.

Other TTPs I’d read about was variations on geo-fenced adserving to phish a mobile ID basically via user interaction or scroll past the ad. Small enough geofence and do it a few times, one could safely figure out the user being the ID. Googling “RTB surveillance” or “DSP surveillance” are ways into the topic.

Scary stuff! Pair that with this tech has been working for years, and is international. Frames a bit differently every action by a public figure - also at risk via the same threat model.

Also long have wondered what data analysis like this is done on technical forums… ran by a VC firm… with a lot of insider context (product market fit?) in the comments.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-10-14 23:24:31+00:00
From the article:

> By clicking or tapping on a point, you will hear a standardized version of the corresponding recording. The reason for voice standardization is two-fold: first, it anonymizes the speaker in the original recordings in order to protect their privacy. Second, it allows us to hear each accent projected onto a neutral voice, making it easier to hear the accent differences and ignore extraneous differences like gender, recording quality, and background noise. However, there is no free lunch: it does not perfectly preserve the source accent and introduces some audible phonetic artifacts.

> This voice standardization model is an in-house accent-preserving voice conversion model.
by Tade0 | 2025-10-14 23:24:58+00:00
A relative of mine was dying of stage 4 lung cancer and after they were admitted to the hospital, they contracted COVID and passed away two weeks later.

Their life expectancy upon admission was estimated to be less than a year, so it's hard to pin this on just the pandemic.

Personally I would put "smoking" in the form, because truth be told that was the single largest contributing factor.
by bfkwlfkjf | 2025-10-14 23:25:01+00:00
> Safe languages insert additional machine branches to do things like verify that array accesses are in-bounds. In correct code, those branches are never taken. That means that the machine code cannot be 100% branch tested, which is an important component of SQLite's quality strategy.

Huh it's not everyday that I hear a genuinely new argument. Thanks for sharing.
by leptons | 2025-10-14 23:25:27+00:00
And there were no video games, which I think is a huge source of brain-drain these days. I read somewhere once that people played more solitaire on Windows 95 per year than it took in man-hours to send people to the moon (something like that, I don't remember the original statistic). And that's just a shitty game on an old OS.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-10-14 23:25:59+00:00
It won't be one miraculous moment, but once a model is capable of performing tasks on its own and verifying its outputs better than a domain-expert using that AI, a human no longer being a bottleneck will allow this model to be deployed on a far larger scale, which would appear much like a 0-1 moment on the outside, even if the improvement over a previous model is minor and only involves a slight tweak of something that increases reliability.
by pseudosaid | 2025-10-14 23:25:59+00:00
it wouldnt matter because of the context. It is expected that an embryo grows into a baby that is born. The very delaying of that expectation that denotes the slave label. Preventing the natural progression is a retardation of freedom. Since these embryo units are designed and purpose built, they are no more slave than the native embryo. If these designer embryos have capacity to develop further on their own, then there is an argument and correlation to be made.
by jowea | 2025-10-14 23:26:11+00:00
Yeah WP:NOTNEWS is policy, and it starts with

> In principle, all Wikipedia articles should contain up-to-date information. Editors are also encouraged to develop stand-alone articles on significant current events.

There clearly is editor and reader interest in making decent quality articles on major current events. Yes they may contain errors that the history book on topic won't contain, but I still think it's worth having. Just mind the things to avoid listed in WP:NOTNEWS and I think we will be fine

And I don't think everything will ever be covered in a book. There is not an infinite amount of scholars studying every random significant event. And those will probably use the same news articles as one of their sources anyway.
by kwindla | 2025-10-14 23:26:12+00:00
> Sounds like it. Dude you can be honest here.

I'm going to politely weigh in here and say things Sean won't say about himself.

You're talking to someone who has spent the last ten years building open source WebRTC software that many, many, many people use and that he's never tried to commercialize. He works tirelessly to make the Pion community welcoming to everyone, from engineers with a ton of networking/video experience to brand new contributors. He wrote the guide that should be everyone's first read about WebRTC.[] All of it as a labor of love.

He's being honest.

https://webrtcforthecurious.com/
by PixelPanda | 2025-10-14 23:26:13+00:00
Excited to share Nanonets-OCR2, a state-of-the-art suite of models designed for advanced image-to-markdown conversion and Visual Question Answering (VQA).

Live Demo -> https://docstrange.nanonets.com/

Blog -> https://nanonets.com/research/nanonets-ocr-2/
by DarkNova6 | 2025-10-14 23:26:30+00:00
> All that said, it is possible that SQLite might one day be recoded in Rust. Recoding SQLite in Go is unlikely since Go hates assert(). But Rust is a possibility. Some preconditions that must occur before SQLite is recoded in Rust include:

- Rust needs to mature a little more, stop changing so fast, and move further toward being old and boring.

- Rust needs to demonstrate that it can be used to create general-purpose libraries that are callable from all other programming languages.

- Rust needs to demonstrate that it can produce object code that works on obscure embedded devices, including devices that lack an operating system.

- Rust needs to pick up the necessary tooling that enables one to do 100% branch coverage testing of the compiled binaries.

- Rust needs a mechanism to recover gracefully from OOM errors.

- Rust needs to demonstrate that it can do the kinds of work that C does in SQLite without a significant speed penalty.
by coderenegade | 2025-10-14 23:26:52+00:00
This. The century of shame, when Western powers came knocking on their door, is etched into the Chinese cultural psyche. East Asia was home to mature nations that learned the hard way that self determination is fundamentally tied to your ability to defend your interests. This is especially the case for China, which saw itself as the center of the universe.

The US won the cold war and came to believe they were untouchable. Private interests don't care about nation states, and there was more money to be made by selling the foundation of the West's security than there was in preserving it, especially since the enemy had been vanquished.
by cnnaeto | 2025-10-14 23:27:03+00:00
Prompt Injection game: https://www.integrated.io/

My college roomate and I are fine-tuning an open source LLM to detect prompt injection and other LLM targeted attacks. We made a game you can play here to try to get the LLM to give up a secret code. So far only 1 person has been able to crack it. Checkit it pit here: https://www.integrated.io/
by rvitorper | 2025-10-14 23:27:35+00:00
Even in the “low-performing” zone of the single threaded SQLite and Turso, we are still talking about 50k rows per second and 1000 microseconds, aka 1 ms. It is insanely fast. 1ms is just the round-trip for my Postgres on RDS. It is amazing that SQLite is so awesome. I understand it is not for every use-case, but still awesome
by atleastoptimal | 2025-10-14 23:27:52+00:00
All the major companies are setting up to have all the hardware necessary to leverage an AGI-level system when it does emerge. The entire purpose of Starbase for OpenAI or the memphis supercomputer for X.ai is such that there would be very little delay between hitting the right marks on an AGI-capable model and deploying its capabilities en masse towards the highest-leverage aims. Certainly there will be bottlenecks, but the advantages will significantly accelerate progress.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-14 23:28:35+00:00
This is fascinating in theory, but I'm confused in practice.

When I play the different recordings, which I understand have the accent "re-applied" to a neutral voice, it's very difficult to hear any actual differences in vowels, let alone prosody. Like if I click on "French", there's something vaguely different, but it's quite... off. It certainly doesn't sound like any native French speaker I've ever heard. And after all, a huge part of accent is prosody. So I'm not sure what vocal features they're considering as "accent"?

I'm also curious what the three dimensions are supposed to represent? Obviously there's no objective answer, but if they've listened to all the samples, surely they could explain the main constrasting features each dimension seems to encode?
by ribosometronome | 2025-10-14 23:28:50+00:00
Whooaa! You're going to give people whiplash with how quickly you're changing what's being discussed. Men are perfectly capable of reading to kids! That you use things men are perfectly able to do, rather than the things they're not, as justification for why women should not be in the workplace makes me think you're not nearly so loathe to utter it as you say.
by fragmede | 2025-10-14 23:29:15+00:00
Technically yes, but NanoLLM is stripped down and targeted more words educating AI researchers so I wouldn't recommend you use it for that (because it's output isnterrible compared to ChatGPT) (intentionally, it's a teaching tool). Nothing stopping you, but for that goal, I'd recommend starting with one of the downlodable permissibly license models like a newer Qwen3 and fine tune it. Google Collab has notebooks specifically for that.

Once you have your fine tuned model, then you wouldn't be paying OpenAI to use it, but it would need to be run somewhere, and those somewheres range in quality and price. Models come in various shapes and sizes and the bigger the model, the beefier (and more expensive to rent) a computer you need to operate this SaaS business.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-10-14 23:29:46+00:00
> ... but the practical difference between an average car and a high-end luxury model is pretty minimal. Until you need to fix the latter.

You're right: broken gearbox on mine was a solid 15 K EUR at least. But... I paid zero.

My solution is simple: I buy a high-end luxury car used (four to five years old) but I then religiously pay every year for the official extended manufacturer warranty.

I pay 1400 EUR per year for that warranty but then any yellow or red light on the dashboard, any issue (sunroof not opening, sound system speaker broken, NAV issue, anything really), I bring it to any official dealership, in any country in the world and they fix it (it's already been at least to dealerships in Belgium (various little issues), France (gearbox but they didn't fix it: they didn't believe me it was broken), Germany (gearbox replaced), Spain (wipers broke down after a 1700 km road trip under heavy rain: like... it was just too much for the motor 15 hours non-stop), Andorra (yellow light, forgot what it was) and Poland (headlight was getting old and cranky, this summer)).

Car is now 12 y/o and 115 000 miles / 190 000 km and I just renewed the warranty for another two years, unlimited mileage.

For that's the thing with high-end luxury cars too: you have fancy stuff like a warranty valid until 15 years old and 350 000 miles / 400 000 km if you want (if I were to bring it in two years in Sep 2027 with 400 000 km and a broken engine, they'd be forced to replace it just like they were forced to replace the gearbox).

And that warranty is valid in any country in the world. And they give you a spare vehicle. And you've got assistance taking care of everything should you be stuck. For 120 EUR / month on a used car to me it's a no-brainer.

And in two years I'll just sell the car for 15 K EUR or something and buy another high-end luxury car, used (four or five years old), again.

I think for people who enjoy high-end cars but don't want to deal with the stress of having an engine or a gearbox breaking, a used high-end luxury car with an extended warranty is a good solution.

Practically I give to you that it's still just metal on four wheels.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-10-14 23:29:59+00:00
Every frontier lab has maybe 100 top tier researchers, all of whom have limited short-term memory, need to sleep, eat, have biases, and can't rigorously parallelize themselves and run thousands of simultaneous experiments, while also modifying their own internal thought processes to a quantifiable degree. An AGI merely on the level of a mediocre AI researcher would be able to trivially leverage all these benefits, while also simply scaling its own compute (it is unlikely that the scaling gains would level out precisely at the level of a smart human)
by jokoon | 2025-10-14 23:30:03+00:00
People believe that we can prevent and pacify terrorism because it comes from a belief system that we disagree with. Diabetes is just caused by the instinct of eating.

Also people don't really "see" diabetes, news don't show picture of sick livers, people don't understand the science of it. Terrorism is easier to represent compared to diabetes.

Also people believe that we can stop being a terrorist. But we can't decide what happens in our liver.

Another big difference is that you can fight terrorism with the military, but not diabetes. So it's less entertaining and less "concerning".
by Terr_ | 2025-10-14 23:30:40+00:00
OK, so this one bill (AB 1064) is an exception among a bunch of other related bills that are being signed into law, let's take a look at the text [0]... Huh, pleasingly shorter than expected, I'm not noticing any obvious "that'll backfire horribly" stuff...

> is not foreseeably capable

I'm not sure how much consistency there is in "foreseeably" when it comes to LLMs these days. Even among programmers, let alone the general public.

> 22757.22.(a)(5) [It may not foreseeably be capable of:] Prioritizing validation of the user’s beliefs, preferences, or desires over factual accuracy or the child’s safety.

So if a kid says "I like chocolate", and it says "Everybody does, it's yummy", isn't that technically a violation? How should a court rule if a lawsuit occurs?

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
by margalabargala | 2025-10-14 23:31:16+00:00
You're making an impressively bad faith argument here.

Yes if you buy an ancient device it is less. If we compare apples to apples, or apples to androids, you could buy an equally old android device for next to nothing. Any "wiggling" was because the discussion was about new devices before you decided to pretend to miss the context clues.

You are delusional if you think that there exists an iPhone that is not much more expensive than a lower end Android of a similar age. All the namecalling and pretending in the world won't make it otherwise.