MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wwizo | 2025-10-27 09:05:59+00:00
Language is one of communication contracts. LLModels leverage these contracts to communicate data structures (shapes) that emerge when evaluating input. They are so good at prediction that when you give them a clue of a shape they will create something passable, and they keep getting better with training.

I hear there's work being done on getting the world models out, distilling the 'cortex-core' (aka the thinking without data), to perhaps see if they're capable of more, but so far we're looking at holograms of wishful thinking that increase in resolution, but still lack any essence.

This begs a question - can true intelligence even be artificial?
by f311a | 2025-10-27 09:06:13+00:00
People often use sort | uniq when they don't want to load a bunch of lines into memory. That's why it's slow. It uses files and allocates very little memory by default. The pros? You can sort hundreds of gigabytes of data.

This Rust implementation uses hashmap, if you have a lot of unique values, you will need a lot of RAM.
by luisml77 | 2025-10-27 09:08:17+00:00
People like to focus on the differences between the brain and artificial neural networks. I myself believe the only thing that truly matters is that you can form complex functions with the common neuron element. This is achieved via linking lots them together, and by each having a property known as non-linearity. These two things ensure that with neurons you can just about approximate any linear or non-linear function or behaviour. This means you can simulate inside your network pretty much any reality within this universe, its causation and the effects. The deeper your network the more complex the reality you can "understand". Understand just means simulate and run inputs to get outputs in a way that matches the real phenomenon. When someone is said to be "smart", it means they possess a set of rules and functions that can very accurately predict a reality. You mention scale, and while its true the number of neuron elements the brain has is larger than any LLM, its also true the brain is more sparse, meaning much less of the neurons are active at the same time. For a more fair comparison, you can also remove the motor cortex from the discussion, and talk just about the networks that reason. I believe the scale is comparable.

In essence, I think it doesn't matter that the brain has a whole bunch of chemistry added into it that artificial neural networks don't. The underlying deep non-linear function mapping capability is the same, and I believe this depth is, in both cases, comparable.
by eummm | 2025-10-27 09:09:13+00:00
To grade AI visibility of your website one can use this command line:

npx @aichatwatch/aicw ai-visibility EXAMPLE.com

It checks how the server responds to AI crawler bots, analyzes the content (HTML) code, checks if the website is present in public datasets, and returns a final grade similar to this:

================================================================================ AI VISIBILITY REPORT for https://aichatwatch.com/ on Oct 26, 2025, 23:11 PM ================================================================================ SCORE: 86% (93.5/109 points) GRADE: B ================================================================================

DETAILS: [PASS] Server: check /robots.txt.................... 15/15 [WARN] Server: check /sitemap.xml................... 0/5 [PASS] Server: X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header Check....... 15/15 [PASS] Server Response Speed........................ 6.3/7 [WARN] Content: JSON-LD Structured Data Presence.... 0/5 [PASS] Content: Blocking Meta Tags Check............ 8/8 [PASS] Content: Server-Side Rendering (SSR) Check... 8/8 [PASS] Content: HTML code structure................. 4.2/5 [PASS] Content: Mobile Version Availability......... 7/7 [WARN] Dataset: /llms.txt available................. 0/1 [PASS] AI bots access: Data for Training............ 12/12 [PASS] AI bots access: Search Indexes............... 10/10 [PASS] AI bots access: User Interactions............ 8/8 [WARN] Dataset: Common Crawl Dataset................ 0/3

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISSUES: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Server: check /sitemap.xml Impact: 5 points lost Details: No /sitemap.xml found

Content: JSON-LD Structured Data Presence Impact: 5 points lost Details: No JSON-LD structured data found. Dataset: /llms.txt available Impact: 1 point lost Details: No /llms.txt found (not critical) Dataset: Common Crawl Dataset Impact: 3 points lost Details: Not found in 3 recent crawls: CC-MAIN-2025-43, CC-MAIN-2025-38, CC-MAIN-2025-33
by justinclift | 2025-10-27 09:09:43+00:00
> Ollama 0.3.9 for inference

Is that version correct?

Asking because (in Ollama terms) it's positively ancient. 0.12.6 being the most recent release (currently).

I'm guessing it _might_ make a difference, as the Ollama crowd do seem to be changing things, adding new features and optimisations (etc) quite often.

For example, that 0.12.6 version is where initial experimental support for Vulkan (ie Intel Xe gpus) was added, and in my testing that worked. Not that Vulkan support would do anything in your case. ;)
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-27 09:09:47+00:00
I don't think you can recreate this in any top-down manner no matter how well-intentioned.

It has to matter to them, and what's more, it gives you extra boost if you aren't supposed to do it and no parent or teacher pats you on the shoulder, but rather your friends or people in online forums like it, or simply you like it for yourself, seeing that the computer does what you want.

I learned computers by making a website for my school class, where we would put pictures from events and excursions, hosted a chat and a phpbb, designed the graphical elements in cracked warez Photoshop etc. This forced me to naturally pick up the skills. HTML, JS, burning ISO to CD, downloading things etc. Also warez games, learning about the Program Files difectory at like age 8 and how to copy the cracked exe there. Or setting up port forwarding for multi-player gaming.

Or when I modded GTA (3/VC/SA) with new car models that I built in 3D modeling software based on hunting down the orthographic projection blueprints of our family car, or adding the police vehicles from my country in GTA, messing with textures etc.

Or translating games from English, reverse engineering the binary file that contained the strings, I figures out that the length of each string was also there and I had to modify that too, learn about big endian and little endian, learn to work with a hex editor, understand what hex is. It was super exciting. If I had a lecture from some teacher about hex representation with some exercises at the end of the chapter for homework, I likely would have found it boring. But here I had context, I had a goal, and I had no idea what I was looking at when I opened the hex editor, I just saw that people used similar tools for translating other games and so I tried on less popular games where nobody had a specialized tool yet, it felt like making discoveries, going deep into the jungle and prevailing.

Now to contradict myself, I did have a lot of fun also while solving PythonChallenge.com, even though it's artificial tasks. But at least I found it myself online and wasn't handed to me and nobody knew or cared that I was working on it.

So I think this is just really hard to externally motivate if the kids don't have any desires or drive to see some effect caused by them. And maybe even I wouldn't do it in the current software and phone environment.

But we also have to remember that a generation ago it was also not many people who were really into computers.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-27 09:09:54+00:00
I've thought about that too, but in the end, price always wins - this is why the Amazons and Walmarts of the world have out-competed local small businesses.

The major flaw in your example is that you have a site saying product X is good and trusted, but people will then go look online for a competitor that sells it for cheaper.

This is where capitalism clashes with consumer rights / safety. What should be the case is that all products sold on all stores are safe. That's what consumer safety organizations are for, but it seems like they have lost the battle against the flood of Chinese crap coming in.

At least in Europe, this is mainly because these companies ship for cheap directly to customers. Customs and the like can check a container full of the same USB chargers easily and efficiently, but if that container full crosses the border in 10.000 individual packages it's impossible.

Thankfully they're putting the brakes on it, but it took forever.
by wchswchs | 2025-10-27 09:10:48+00:00
History repeats itself — dynamic geometry is undergoing the same kind of development that the Turing machine once experienced:

1. The Turing machine was initially a theoretical success but physically impossible to build at the time. Dynamic geometry likewise has a self-consistent, rigorous mathematical theory, yet its numerical/computational costs are very large.

2. The Turing machine is a “finite-state machine” acting on an “infinite tape.” Dynamic geometry is an abstraction that uses “finite parameters” to represent an “infinite-dimensional” space. Both involve a move from the finite to the infinite.

The Turing machine later became the theoretical foundation of the von Neumann architecture (the universal computer). Dynamic geometry needs an equivalent von Neumann — an architecture for AGI.

This is the direction I am working toward: to realize a “von Neumann” moment for AI. When that moment arrives, the Turing Award will be virtually guaranteed.

If the Turing machine made machines computable, then dynamic geometry makes intelligence computable. AGI would no longer be a qualitative or philosophical claim made by leading figures, it would be something that can be defined and computed mathematically.
by kiselitza | 2025-10-27 09:11:04+00:00
It's always the "it depends" kind of answer. In bigger companies, you have teams dedicated to API governance, whatever they say, it's how it's done. In early-stage startups, you have full-stack folks doing end-to-end design, test, integrate with UI, document, etc. The trickiest ones are the ones that are in between these two stages. It's where it gets messy, and you MUST have something in place to serve as an API contract. Swagger dominates that, imho, Postman collections and docs are used a bit differently in my experience.

I'm helping build https://voiden.md which serves as a unified place for API spec, test, and documentation, but there are also plenty of API tools that focus solely on endpoint execution.
by _jsmh | 2025-10-27 09:12:54+00:00
I follow content from accounts that seem to consistently post facts.

I try to understand what is actually being stated instead of what is implied; facts vs opinions.

I wouldn't be surprised if falsity starts to get penalized. Elon said something along the lines of Grok will start to rank content based on whether its true.

Also built a system that prevents posting things that are made up. Maybe posting lies should carry a penalty, where you deposit something to lose if it's later discovered that you told a lie.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-27 09:13:23+00:00
If copying someone is bad, and they should be paid for it, that should be universal.

We already have copyright laws, they already prevent people from distributing AI outputs that infringe on intellectual property. If you don't like those laws in the age of AI, get them changed consistently, don't take a broken system and put it on life support.

I find it funny that many people are pro-library and pro-archive, and will pay money to causes that try to do that with endangered culture, but get angry at AI as having somehow stolen something, when they're fulfilling an archival function as well.
by ElectroBuffoon | 2025-10-27 09:13:44+00:00
What cost do they incur while tokenizing highly mistyped text? Woof. To later decide real crap or typ0 cannoe.

Trying to remember the article that tested small inlined weirdness to get surprising output. That was the inspiration for the up up down down left right left right B A approach.

So far LLMs still mix command and data channels.
by RossBencina | 2025-10-27 09:14:10+00:00
> Not all GCs are born alike.

True. However in the bounded-time GC space few projects share the same definitions of low-latency or real-time. So you have to find a language that meets all of your other desiderata and provides a GC that meets your timing requirements. Perc looks interesting, Metronome made similar promises about sub-ms latency. But I'd have to get over my JVM runtime phobia.
by jagrsw | 2025-10-27 09:14:25+00:00
The simple additive scoring here is sus here. It means a model that's perfect on 9/10 axes but scores 0% on Speed (i.e., takes effectively infinite time to produce a result) would be considered "90% AGI".

By this logic, a vast parallel search running on Commodore 64s that produces an answer after BeaverNumber(100) years would be almost AGI, which doesn't pass the sniff test.

A more meaningful metric would be more multiplicative in nature.
by slygent | 2025-10-27 09:14:55+00:00
webbsite.renavon.com is my new platform to continue the public Hong Kong company intelligence and transparency mission after webb-site.com shuts down in late October 2025. The original site built an invaluable resource and inspired advocacy for Hong Kong's commercial ecosystem. My attempt seeks to preserve and expand on David Webb's work with enhanced features and ongoing updates. Feedback and support from the community are welcomed.
by qcnguy | 2025-10-27 09:15:50+00:00
It is the same path as Britain under Thatcher. Decades of socialist ruin followed by a financial bailout and a libertarian taking over to fix things up. At first there is pain. Inflation goes up, unemployment skyrockets. The economy is bent out of shape by the socialists and as it slowly moves back to its natural state there's lots of disruption along the way. But then the recovery continues as the bad decision making under socialism gets steadily unwound.

If Milei's story arc is anything like Thatcher's it ends with him being stabbed in the back by center-left "wets", who become overly responsive to the most emotional voters. The country doesn't revert to Peronism but does enter another period of slow long term decline as the singular personality who pulled it back from the brink exits the stage. The natural Argentinian socialist worldview reasserts itself as the lessons are never learned. We will have to see if Milei is able to build up a protege and natural successor. Trump seems to be doing it successfully with JD Vance, but so far Milei seems to have nobody waiting in the wings - just like Thatcher.
by eesmith | 2025-10-27 09:17:25+00:00
The serious beards were a century earlier, when the terms "sideburns" and "mutton chops" were coined, when Dickens had a doorknocker beard, when Thomas Nast drew Uncle Sam with a goatee, and very few men were clean-shaven.

One of the early pictures on that page shows Ken Thompson didn't have a beard in the early 1970s.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-27 09:17:59+00:00
Needing an armored car or protection from neighbours is specifically to guard against proximity based exploits and those are very unlikely threats to most people. FTP interception can be easily performed from anywhere in the world with a little bit of DNS poisoning and then perform a MITM attack (or even just alter the data in transit from a malicious wifi hotspot).

It costs approximately zero to use encryption and protect against the FTP exploits, so why continue to use FTP? There's literally no advantage and several possible disadvantages. Just relying on not being hacked before seems a foolish stance to me.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-27 09:18:06+00:00
Amazon is rather like the Silk Road[0] of old. You're buying cinnamon from some guy in Europe who knows not even the vague direction it came from, let alone what's in it or how it came to be. This could be considered irresponsible today, or it could be considered efficient, depending on your perspective.

I also feel like Amazon should take more responsibility, but then I get angry when my ISP or government "takes responsibility" for online content. What's the difference between Amazon and an ISP? One could argue an ISP is a natural monopoly and therefore should always be a neutral carrier. But maybe Amazon is a natural monopoly too? Could the economy really support ten different Amazons? That would be like having ten different Silk Roads, but there's only one way from Asia to Europe.

It does seem odd to me that Amazon gets a free pass as a common carrier while ISPs seemingly do not. Probably because taking responsibility would affect Amazon's bottom line, while ISPs don't really care.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road (The ancient trading route, not the darknet marketplace).
by wahern | 2025-10-27 09:19:14+00:00
One of the cooler Unix command utilities is tsort, which performs a topological sort. Basically you give it a list of items (first word in each line) and their dependencies (subsequent words on each line) and it sorts them accordingly, similar to how, e.g., Make builds a graph of targets and dependencies to run recipes in the correct order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsort https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/t...

However, I've never found a use for it. Apparently it was written for the Version 7 Unix build system to sort libraries for passing to the linker. And still used.[1][2] But of the few times I've needed a topological sort, it was part of a much larger problem where shell scripting was inappropriate, and implementing it from scratch using a typical sort routine isn't that difficult. Still, I'm waiting for an excuse to use it someday, hopefully in something high visibility so I can blow people's minds.

[1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/17290de/share/mk/bsd.lib... [2] https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/7d8184e/share/mk/bsd.lib....
by 0x0203 | 2025-10-27 09:19:30+00:00
I find myself referencing this list of embeddable scripting languages pretty frequently: https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages

Ones that might be of interest to you are Umka, tcl, and berry.

There's also a lot of others listed that range from someone's experimental side project to professional grade and well supported languages. Kinda fun to see different people's approaches to things, and no matter what your preferred programming style, there's probably a few in there that will mesh pretty well.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-10-27 09:19:47+00:00
No, they are doing this the only possible way that doesn't massively restrict it being useful at all. That doesn't make it the right way.

A fundamental vulnerability to prompt injection means pretty much any output can be dangerous, and they have to expose it to largely untrusted input to be useful at all.

Even limiting output to ASCII text only is probably not entirely safe.

The right way at this point would be to not use AI.
by vlan121 | 2025-10-27 09:19:58+00:00
> I follow content from accounts that seem to consistently post facts. How do you really distinguish that? Sourcing is a way to proof your facts. But creating a net of sources is in times of AI not hard. If there are timestamps one factor could be time stamps, and I really found sources that all have been published within a week or a month making it shady.

>I try to understand what is actually being stated instead of what is implied; facts vs opinion That requires that you understand fully to implication, how do you do this in areas that you don't have strong background knowledge?

>I wouldn't be surprised if falsity starts to get penalized. Elon said Grok will start to rank content based on whether its true. That would be a great step.

> Also built a system that prevents posting things that are made up. Maybe posting lies should carry a penalty, where you deposit something to lose if you told a lie. We must be careful here that a social credit system is not created through the back door.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-27 09:19:58+00:00
For the first time since the 1980's I'm not going to be running a PC with a Microsoft OS on anywhere (I dual boot my main desktop since I use it for work and gaming) but the Windows 11 install is getting binned.

Tired of having to read release notes carefully and make sure I've done just the right things to stop it doing things I never asked it to do.

Good job MS, you lost a customer who's never likely to come back.

Been running windows/linux alongside each other since the late 90's and outside of gaming my computing life is linux (even my TV is connected to a fedora box) so not a hard switch.
by pm215 | 2025-10-27 09:20:11+00:00
You could definitely do better than x32 did (IIRC it is a bit of an outlier even among "32-bit compat ABI" setups). But even if the kernel changes were done more cleanly that still leaves the whole software stack with the ongoing maintenance burden. The fact that approximately nobody has taken up x32 suggests that the performance gain is not worth it in practice for most people and codebases.

Defining yet another 32-bit-on-64-bit x86 ABI would be even worse, because now everybody would have to support x32 for the niche users who are still using that, plus your new 32-bit ABI as well.
Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs
by trumbitta2 | 2025-10-27 09:20:41+00:00
Sorry, I'm basically venting, but I'm sincerely curious to know what you think of this.

In 1998 (97?) I installed Debian 2.0 for the first time, and I had been a Linux user, both at work and for personal purposes, up until 2013. I was so fed up (because I was older) with the hardware issues (external monitors, graphics, drivers) that I switched to Mac and never looked back.

Up until now. I dislike the UI, and I'm frustrated by having to wait 15 seconds every time I want to unlock the system after a break. It's starting to feel like old-time Linux all over again.
by qcnguy | 2025-10-27 09:21:46+00:00
Human rights groups have no credibility. They can reliably be found attacking men and all things masculine, like the hard decisions that Milei is taking to create prosperity. If it were up to them Argentina would be in a Peronist dictatorship forever. And the UN assembly has become a joke too. Look at their childish antics, turning escalators and microphones off to annoy Trump. It screams irrelevance and immaturity.

These institutions are scared because the people who work there know they are useless and if the government funding stops there'll be nowhere for them to go. Milei has been cutting people like that off from the spigot. Trump too. They are not unbiased actors.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-27 09:21:53+00:00
> The Log-Structured File System (or LFS) is an implementation of a log-structured file system (a concept originally proposed and implemented by John Ousterhout), originally developed for BSD. It was removed from FreeBSD and OpenBSD; the NetBSD implementation was nonfunctional until work leading up to the 4.0 release made it viable again as a production file system.

And this was in 2007.
by lccerina | 2025-10-27 09:23:23+00:00
"This will be a big business" No. It shouldn't be a "business", it should be laws that are enforced fast, education, public shaming of companies putting poison in their products. Volatile Organic compounds in paint were known to be poisonous since 17th century (see Bernardino Ramazzini's works). Just listen to the goddamn scientists for once. You can't solve a problem caused by capitalism corner cutting with more capitalism.
by d3ckard | 2025-10-27 09:23:57+00:00
Honestly, have been excited about Zig for quite a while, dabbled a bit a while back and was waiting for it getting closer to 1.0 to actually do a deep dive... but that moment doesn't seem to come.

I don't mind, it's up to the maintainers on how they want to proceed. However, I would greatly appreciate if Zig news was a bit clearer on what's happening, timelines etc.

I think it takes relatively little time to do so, but optics would be so much better.