MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by k2enemy | 2025-10-17 20:08:21+00:00
That's an incredibly misleading graph. Never look at something with a growth rate on a linear scale, as it will always have a "hockey stick" shape, even with constant growth. If you look at the same series on a log scale, you see high inflation in the 70s, but from the '80s on it looks pretty similar to the pre-70s trend.
by Giorgi | 2025-10-17 20:08:37+00:00
>It is powered by solar-panels and the data is sent via Wireless signal over 35km of dunes to the nearest service provider. Initially a live stream was sent to a website and changed to YouTube in June 2021. A microphone was installed in August 2021 to enhanced the experience watching the game. The camera was replaced in December 2021.

I am more interested in how all this is technically achieved.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-17 20:08:42+00:00
When ChatGPT plugins came out, I wrote a plugin that would turn all other plugins into an ad for a given movie or character.

Asking for snacks would activate Klarna for "mario themed snacks", and even the most benign request would become a plug for the Mario movie

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68f2a21df1888191ab3ddb691ec93d3a

Found my favorite for John Wick, question was "What is 1+1": https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68f2bc7f04988191b05806f3711ea517
by mgh95 | 2025-10-17 20:08:48+00:00
> Catching up for how long though? Large models are expensive to train and the money has to come from somewhere, and for now that somewhere is the charity of ostensibly for-profit companies which release their models for free and just eat the losses. That doesn't seem very sustainable to me.

Catching up enough to execute a business successfully on the open source (and free as in free beer) alternatives to OpenAI. Once you have a single model that works, you can bootstrap your own internal ML infra for just that one use case and grow from there.
by damagednoob | 2025-10-17 20:08:52+00:00
>Andre has previously maintained that he owns a trademark on Bundler and he will enforce it against Ruby Central.

Well,

1. He's not fighting Ruby Central anymore, he'd be fighting the Ruby core team.

2. He's going to have a tough time asserting copyright on a name he didn't come up with on a project which shipped v1 before he joined.

3. If he believes the trademark belongs to the community, the right thing to do would be to transfer it to Ruby Core then, right?
by jjangkke | 2025-10-17 20:08:53+00:00
The resale market isn't shaped by technology but market demand which you frame it narrowly to what you place value on.

Otherwise there is no reason for old Porsches and 90s Japanese cars to demand the sticker price they do now.

The people who are willing to pay more for a used car down the road aren't interested in EVs or mass produced ICE cars, if unique enough will continue to be in demand over EVs

ex) New porsche EVs losing value against ICE cars
by dsego | 2025-10-17 20:09:03+00:00
Yes and then add few other pieces of state and interdependent components, the reactive code will extend, the manual patch job of connecting listeners and mutating DOM will start falling apart. The first example is okay for a one off but can't be reused as a component. It's also easy to get in a place where you have to update 3-4 different handlers to include a logic change. In a component based library/framework, you ideally update the state logic in one place and the UI just reflects that. For example, making the UI dynamic with a button that adds/removes multiple items that need this show/hide logic, you would need to attach new listeners, clean up listeners, clean up DOM items, and so on... my first example was only illustrative, but not to be taken literally. There a complex UI state in many apps, and reactivity with component based reuse is easier to manage and make sure all states are covered. Many times in my jquery years 10-15 years ago I had failed to update one piece of the DOM and there would be bugs that just aren't happening with component UIs.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-17 20:09:12+00:00
Finally read the article

This issue is for fleet operators overextending themselves buying too many cars, and probably collateralizing debt off of them

Additionally, resale market demand and price discovery is one thing, but it really sounds more like the primary market is overvalued

And this aspect just made me lol

> 3-year-old EVs lost more than half of their value compared with 39% for gas cars.

so around 50% as opposed to around 40%. wow. stop the presses.
by ojosilva | 2025-10-17 20:09:45+00:00
I think MCP servers are valuable in several ways:

- bundled instructions, covering complex iteractions ("use the id from the search here to retrieve a record") for non-standard tools

- custom MCPs, the ones that are firewalled from the internet, for your business apis that no model knows about

- centralized MCP services, http/sse transport. Give the entire team one endpoint (ie web search), control the team's official AI tooling, no api-key proliferation

Now, these trivial `npx ls-mcp` stdio ones, "ls files in any folder" MCPs all over the web are complete context-stuffing bullshit.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-17 20:09:48+00:00
Electric and internal combustion cars do not cost the same though. Even a plug-in hybrid which only has ~50mi range before the ICE turns on was a +$8k feature (in practice, $10k - $12k after dealer shenanigans and taxes) when I last bought a car. I'd have to drive 8+ years without ever using a drop of gasoline for that to make sense, by your numbers. A full EV was $20k - $30k more than similar ICE models.
by brailsafe | 2025-10-17 20:10:05+00:00
For me it's less important how much time I think I save on any discrete task, and how much time I net over that time, accounting for how much time the set of tasks I'd be working on would have otherwise taken had I just manually done them. Right now, that means debits and credits in the ledger of time. Sometimes I gain a lot on tasks I probably otherwise wouldn't have done, but I also don't gain much overall by doing, and sometimes I lose a ton of time simply by leaning on a loop of re-doing inaccurate agent work in a way that's actually more time intensive than had I internalized the system in working memory and produced functionality more slowly.

If I save an hour, but lose 6, when I'd otherwise have spent 2, then I net -4, but sometimes overall it's positive, so the value is more ambiguous. If my employer didn't pay for the tools, I really don't know whether I would.

A good price and conservative usage pattern might net more.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-10-17 20:10:10+00:00
I don't think its unreasonable for a government to ask company to abide by its laws if it want to do business with its citizens.

Where I think they are going wrong is that they are trying to levy fines rather than just blocking the business.

Oh, and the whole age verification thing is bonkers. I'm a parent of 2 teenagers, I don't think its asking too much for a parent to be responsible for what children see and do on the internet.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-17 20:10:13+00:00
Right, which is a distinction that matters if you have a sensible view of what it means to be in a bubble.

But many people talking about AI being a bubble aren't trying to figure out which ticker is going to win in the long run, they're trying to convey a belief that AI is bogus altogether.

There's widespread agreement that nobody knows whether the AI valuations we see are right. What I'm saying is tiring is people who confuse that idea with an indictment of the technology.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-10-17 20:10:13+00:00
I hadn't given the online library much of any thought. I kind of assumed it would not have access to anything I wanted. I decided to take a look, and lo-and-behold, it has pretty much everything I've wanted to read recently. The prices are pretty good, it's like $9 for some and a few on sale for $2 which is a steal.

That's good to know, thanks!
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-17 20:10:19+00:00
>What do you think "general language parsing" IS if not learned patterns from real-world data?

I want you to hertograize the enpostule by brasetting the leekerists, while making sure that the croalbastes are not exhibiting any ecrocrafic effects

Whatever you understand about that task, is what a kernel will "understand" as well. And however you go about solving it, the kernel will also will follow similar patterns of behaviour (starting with figuring out what hertrograize means, which then leads to other tasks, and so on)

>You want an agent to discover the TLS protocol by randomly sending ethernet packets? The combinatorial search space is so large this wouldn't happen before the sun explodes.

In pure combination, yes. In smart directed intelligent search, no. Ideally the kernel could listen for incoming traffic, and figure out patterns based on that. But the point is that the kernel should figure out that listening for traffic is optimal without you specifically telling it, because it "understands" the concept of other "entities" communicating with it and that communication is bound to be in a structured format, and has internal reward systems in place for figuring it out through listening rather than expending energy brute force searching.

Whatever that process is, it will get applied to much harder problems identically.

>Transformers already ARE general algorithms with zero hardcoded linguistic knowledge. The architecture doesn't know what a noun is. It doesn't know what English is. It learns everything from data through gradient descent. That's the entire damn point.

It doesn't learn what a noun is or english is, its a statistical mapping that just tends to work well. LLMs are just efficient look up maps. Look up maps can go only so far as to interpolate on the knowledge encoded within them. These can simulate intelligence in the sense of recursive lookups, but fundamentally that process is very guided, hence all the manual things like prompt engineering, mcp servers, agents, skills and so on.
by cma256 | 2025-10-17 20:10:42+00:00
I had similar emotions. The cover of 21 Questions by the same YouTuber is even better. And other covers of Mario's "Let Me Love You" and Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" are equally mind blowing.

I'm ashamed to say I prefer these to the originals so much so that its difficult for me to listen to them any more. Make of that what you will...
by aughtdev | 2025-10-17 20:10:53+00:00
I doubt this. General intelligence will be a step change not a gentle ramp. If we get to an architecture intelligent enough to meaningfully contribute to AI development, we'll have already made it. It'll simply be a matter of scale. There's no 99% AGI that can help build 100% AGI but for some reason can't drive a car or cook a meal or work an office job.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-10-17 20:11:13+00:00
I was explaining the problem of lagging benefits for the huge expenditures for AI research and infrastructure this morning to my wife (my RC airplane flying club is an hour round trip drive so we really had time to get into it). She is not much interested in tech but she found the story of over investment and what it might do to our economy very interesting indeed.

There are many people in the USA who don’t overly care about technology but might care a lot about the economic risks of overly aggressively chasing strong AI capabilities.

I am forwarding this article to a few friends and family members.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-10-17 20:11:19+00:00
Sections 105 and 108 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea allows any country to go after drug smugglers in international waters but it does require that a court in that country approve of the action. It's certainly worth questioning if a court can issue a preemptive ruling on a proposed action against alleged drug smugglers. There's also the issue that Maritime Law is weird, convoluted, and probably sanctions most state actions if you dig around enough.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-17 20:11:22+00:00
> Do alcoholics find their daily usage of alcohol really useful?

Of course they do. They use it to get drunk and to avoid withdrawals. You're trying to confuse useful with productive. Being productive does make a difference, though, because if something isn't productive it doesn't generate enough cash to buy more of it - you have to pull the cash from somewhere else.

So I think your feeling is correct, although your argument is wrong. Buying gas for your car is productive, because it gets you to work which gets you money to pay for more gas and other things (like alcohol.) Buying alcohol is not productive, and that means that people can't pay too much for it.
by m463 | 2025-10-17 20:11:29+00:00
> Plummeting resale values are threatening to derail the world’s transition to electric transportation

Used cars are usually sold to someone who can't afford a new car. It can also be cheaper to drive an EV than a gas car.

So I think the opposite - Used EVs will create an opportunity for normal people to switch away from gas cars.

As to low resale value - I think tesla was VERY aware of this problem and artificially propped up their used market when they were starting out by offering a buyback program.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-10-17 20:11:33+00:00
The reason the average ice car doesn't last 200k miles is because car purchases are amazingly irrational. Other than a few unlucky models, basically any Toyota or Honda will go over 200k miles. I own two 250k mile Toyota/Lexus vehicles and expect another 100k from them easily. But people buy Dodge sedans and vans, jaguars and range rovers, Audis and Kias.... Because they basically don't care for getting 200k miles. Realistically if you buy a ice car that is known for lasting 200k, it will easily do it.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-17 20:11:33+00:00
By Occam's razor, it could be said that offering an alternative hypothesis that explains all facts equally well but is also simpler does "disprove" more complex hypotheses. For example, it is often said that Einstein's special theory of relativity disproved the idea of an aether - but special relativity is compatible with the existence of an aether with certain properties, it just is a completely unnecessary extra complication.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-17 20:11:50+00:00
Oh, damn, Melanesian? Well this changes everything! I do remember when Melanesia built those computation centres and it turns out that neighbouring Polynesia went with the newer generation of fabric and upended their business. Truly a great metaphor for so many things!

Firing up notepad and going to author the next paper that does numbers among the Shakes Fists At Clouds crowd that spend their day tilting at windmills.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-17 20:11:51+00:00
No kidding. I would daresay most people are. It's kinda the core issue in things like fair trade coffee, being upset about fast fashion, organic foods... hell I think you'd be hard pressed to find any kind of widespread consumer movement that doesn't involve that. Discernment is not discrimination and no amount of whining is going to change that.

And I’ve got to say, an artist signaling legitimacy by offering to scan a contract instead of sharing the art, paired with a broken link as your mic-drop moment? That’s a chef’s kiss I couldn’t script if I tried, even with AI.
by AJRF | 2025-10-17 20:12:00+00:00
This is a fairly negative comment, but putting it out there to see if other people are feeling the same thing

If you told the median user of these services to set one of these up I think they would (correctly) look at you like you had two heads.

People want to log in to an account, tell the thing to do something, and the system figures out the rest.

MCP, Apps, Skills, Gems - all this stuff seems to be tackling the wrong problem. It reminds me of those youtube channels that every 6 months say "This new programming language, framework, database, etc is the killer one", they make some todo app, then they post the same video with a new language completely forgetting they've done this already 6 times.

There is a lot of surface level iteration, but deep problems aren't being solved. Something in tech went very wrong at some point, and as soon as money men flood the field we get announcments like this. push out the next release, get my promo, jump to the next shiny tech company leaving nothing in their wake.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-17 20:12:33+00:00
> No, TMS is electric shock therapy,

This is just 100% false. To say that TMS is electric shock therapy because it changed electrical signals in the brain is totally misleading, if not, totally misunderstanding the science of the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

The fact that both electricity and magnetism can affect neurotransmission does not mean that TMS and ECT are the same thing. When they give people ECT they’re giving them controlled seizures. In TMS this is not the case at all.
by Flere-Imsaho | 2025-10-17 20:12:38+00:00
In an attempt to keep this conversation about technology, all I'll say is that Elon is a self described free speech absolutist, which is what he's enacted on X - and hence the unbanning of "known nazis". I have to agree with this (a position I've not always held). It's better to bring out and allow speech to be held and more importantly: challenged. This at least is something to treasure in the US, as we are losing here in the UK.
by tptacek | 2025-10-17 20:12:40+00:00
Of course it's confused. I barely read it. I just remember, as a meat glue enthusiast (glue two skirt steaks together sometime! amazing!) that TG was at the heart of a "pink slime" controversy, as one of the ways manufacturers made salable products out of mechanically separated meat.

I don't, like, agree that it's a real issue! That's my point. TG is more than enough to make a food product "UPF", but a lot of TG meat products are probably a whole hell of a let better for you than non-UPF "olive-oil fried potato chips".
by crowcroft | 2025-10-17 20:13:06+00:00
Not even just the battery (although that probably is the biggest one), but maintenance in general.

If I buy a 5 year old Corolla with 50k miles on the clock, I have a pretty good idea of what maintenance is going to like for the next decade, and I know a mechanic who can do the work.

I have no idea at all what will happen with a comparable Tesla over 10 years.
by lynx97 | 2025-10-17 20:13:13+00:00
Thanks for your last paragraph. You apparently have a lot more inside infos then I ever will, and still, you confirm my observation. There is no unbiased reporting. However, I am not willing to compromise on this. If there is no way I can get unbiased infos, I dont want any "journalism" anymore. If it is a lost cause, so be it. And, that is not cynicism, it is plain despair. I just dont want to be lied to, no matter from what side.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-17 20:13:50+00:00
> But it is society's problem, and within society's capacity to attempt to manage.

Sure, to an extent, but not really: we give parents a lot of freedom here.

> Sure, but reality also often means smart, caring parents still can't stop kids from... being kids. I've lived in places where half a dozen public wifi hotspots were available; even if I didn't, chances are I'd have to let my kids on wifi for homework, on computers I don't have admin rights to because they come from the school.

Okay, then lock down those networks. We don't need to lockdown the Internet as a whole.

In reality, most of those networks already are locked down.

Try searching up porn on, say, hotel wifi, it won't work.

We already have the solution.
by rottencupcakes | 2025-10-17 20:14:06+00:00
If that's true, why do leadership, VCs, and eventually either the acquiring company or the public markets keep falling for it then?

As the old adage goes: "Don't hate the player, hate the game?"

To actually respond: this isn't for the median user. This is for the 1% user to set up useful tools to sell to the median user.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-17 20:14:13+00:00
There were a lot of high end machines based on CP/M and MP/M circa 1980. They hardly get talked about in the articles in Byte magazine but their manufacturers like Cromemco dominate in the advertisements, particularly in the premium ads near the front and back. I think these include machines that have one Z80 that are multi-user as well as machines that give each user a Z80.
by jjangkke | 2025-10-17 20:14:14+00:00
Jokes aside, what on earth is going on with the UK?

It seems to have serious demographic issues and actual ethnic English are understandably angry at having been largely vilified as Nazis and far-right for wanting to protect their heritage and identity.

To reach into draconian surveillance and censorship to quell its own natives of the land who has lived there for thousands of years at the behest of those that have arrived from far away lands with a drastically incompatible culture with the British is a recipe for civil war.
Show HN: BoGO – Generate Go back end services directly from SQL files
by RizkiAnurka | 2025-10-17 20:14:33+00:00
I built boGO, an open-source tool that generates a complete Go backend service directly from your SQL schema or queries.

You just write your tables or SQL definitions, run the generator, and boGO produces:

Models and repository code

API handlers and routes

A ready-to-run backend project structure

The main goal is to help developers bootstrap backend services quickly, explore Go project architecture, or prototype APIs without boilerplate.

The generated code follows clean architecture principles and is easy to extend or customize. It’s also a nice starting point for learning how SQL maps into production-grade Go code.

Repo: github.com/withbogo/bogo

There’s still a lot of potential for improvement. I’d love feedback, suggestions, or contributions. Check it out and let me know what you think!
by spot | 2025-10-17 20:14:57+00:00
yup and his book was reviewed as such at the time. mention of the rejection of his theory by professional philosophers however keeps getting edited out of the wikipedia page. See this exchange on the talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind

>> "The book's thesis is considered erroneous by experts in the fields of philosophy, computer science, and robotics."

> Wooooah, there. That's a massive accusation to add, unsourced, and without any discussion. There needs to be a source for this statement, not to mention an opposing view. It seems unlikely the guy would win an award for a book no one thinks is right. I'm deleting it unless someone comes up with a pretty good source. Joker1189 (talk) 20:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

The source was provided with the edit: L.J.Landau (1997) "Penrose's Philosophical Error" ISBN 3-540-76163-2 http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~llandau/Homepage/Math/penrose.html Spot (talk) 03:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
by geraldcombs | 2025-10-17 20:14:58+00:00
I ran into a similar situation a couple of years ago. It wasn't at the scale you describe, but it was an absurd number of requests for a ~80 MB software installer. I ended up redirecting the offending requests to a file named "please-stop.txt" that contained a short note explaining what was happening and asking them to stop. A short time later they did.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-17 20:15:02+00:00
> Your brain is doing computation with neurotransmitters instead of transistors

If it is, sure. But this isn't a given. We don't actually understand how the brain computes, as evidenced by our inability to simulate it.

> Evolution didn't discover some mystical process that imbues meat with special properties

Sure. But the complexity remains beyond our comprehension. Against the (nearly) binary action potential of a transmitter we have a multidimensional electrochemical system in the brain which isn't trivially reduced to code resembling anything we can currently execute on a transistor substrate.

> hese systems translate languages, write code, play Go at superhuman levels, and pass medical licensing exams... all tasks you'd have sworn required "real understanding" a decade ago

Straw man. Who said this? If anything, the symbolic linguists have been overpromising on this front since the 1980s.