MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aeolun | 2025-10-18 05:30:55+00:00
I’ll tell you something. I love working with Claude. It’s enthusiastic, it’s nice, it’ll give you suggestions. It’s an all around pleasant experience.

I hate working with codex. It feels like a machine. You tell it to do something, and it just does it. No pretension at being human, or enthusiastic, or anything really.

But codex almost always does it right. And the comments are right, I never run into random usage limits. Codex doesn’t arbitrarily decide to shrink the context window, or start compacting again after 3 messages.

The codex client sucks, claude code is much better. But the codex client is consistent, which is much more important. Claude was amazing 3 months ago. The model is still fine, but the quality of the experience has degraded so far it’s hard to consider using it.
by jaza | 2025-10-18 05:31:40+00:00
We've "succeeded" at space flight about as much as we've "succeeded" at AI. Yay, man on the moon! Over half a century later, and it turns out that the "next small step" - man on Mars - isn't so small and still hasn't been achieved. Anything remotely resembling sci-fi-style ubiquitous space travel remains exactly that - sci-fi!
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-18 05:32:22+00:00
Sorry I'm giving too much credit to the reader here I guess.

"AI slop and workplace usecases" is a synecdoche for "anything that is not completing then deploying AGI".

The cost of Sora 2 is not the compute to do inference on videos, it's the ablations that feed human preference vs general world model performance for that architecture for example. It's the cost of rigorous safety and alignment post-training. It's the legal noise and risk that using IP in that manner causes.

And in that vein, the anti-signal is stuff like the product work that is verifying users to reduce content moderation.

These consumer usecases could be viewed as furthering the mission if they were more deeply targeted at collecting tons of human feedback, but these applications overwhelmingly are not architected to primarily serve that benefit. There's no training on API usage, there's barely any prompts for DPO except when they want to test a release for human preference, etc.

None of this noise and static has a place if you're serious about to hit AGI or even believe you can on any reasonable timeline. You're positing that you can turn grain of sand into thinking intelligent beings, ChatGPT erotica is not on the table.
by inopinatus | 2025-10-18 05:32:28+00:00
The concern is not limited to access of the full records. The concern extends to any incidental expression of identifiers, especially those sent via insecure side channels such as SMS or email.

In most cases this forms a compliance matter rather than an open attack vector, but it nevertheless remains that one has to answer any question along the lines "did you minimise the privacy surface?" in the negative, or at least, with a caveat.
by harrall | 2025-10-18 05:33:51+00:00
I don’t have a deep understand of LLMs but don’t they fundamentally work on tokens and generate a multi-dimensional statistical relationship map between tokens?

So it doesn’t have to be LLM. You could theoretically have image tokens (though I don’t know in practice, but the important part is the statistical map).

And it’s not like my brain doesn’t work like that either. When I say a funny joke in response to people in a group, I can clearly observe my brain pull together related “tokens” (Mary just talked about X, X is related to Y, Y is relevant to Bob), filter them, sort them and then spit out a joke. And that happens in like less than a second.
by DannyBee | 2025-10-18 05:35:38+00:00
I use fairly precise time but that's because I control high speed machinery remotely. The synchronization is the important part (the actual time doesn't matter). At 1200 inches per minute, being a millisecond off will put a noticeable notch in a piece.

Ptp and careful hardware configuration keeps things synced to within nanoseconds
by veqq | 2025-10-18 05:37:03+00:00
Gold miners like THXPF, MNSAF, KGC are fantastically priced, particularly with high inflation for the next few years. As a cyclical play, one would exit in 3-7 years (when everyone starts talking about it). Chinese stocks e.g. through KWEB are also lovely. But it's hard to suggest without first suggesting various accounting books.
by wltr | 2025-10-18 05:37:06+00:00
Well, this time I tend to agree with your points. Personally, I don’t believe an abstracted black box system can assure you it’s going to work as intended without any issues. To me, that’s more like an illusion, since you know no internals of that black box system. Theoretically you can sue the company if their promises are broken somewhere (e.g. you were offline for longer than expected), but suing Amazon just does not sound real to me. Also, I don’t like isolating the whole system into some ever-changing black box instead of learning how to maintain a real server, but possibly that’s just YAGNI.
by bragr | 2025-10-18 05:41:38+00:00
>What's the goal of convincing the bank that they own some land? Is this a case where the original bank foreclosed on the property, resold the surface while carefully keeping the mineral rights, and then failed? And the current owner of everything-but-the-mineral-rights is fully aware of not possessing them?

Pretty much exactly. It's pretty common if not the norm. Splitting the rights is normal when say a large ranch is broken up into plots. It would be very rare for say the deed to a suburban home to include the mineral rights.
by inopinatus | 2025-10-18 05:44:05+00:00
Symmetric encryption of IDs at the edge. Optional embedded HMAC. Optional text encoding. For monotonic bigserial values I'm somewhat fond of base58(AES_K1(id{8} || HMAC_K2(id{8})[0..7])) with purpose/table-salted HKDF subkeys from a scrypt'd system passphrase. The hot path of this is pretty fast. As with all cryptographic solutions it comes with a whole new jungle of pitfalls, caveats, and tradeoffs, but it works.
by palmotea | 2025-10-18 05:44:18+00:00
>> Meanwhile, I just asked ChatGPT "Do you think the night sky is beautiful?" And it responded "Yes, I do..." and went on to explain why while describing senses its incapable of experiencing.

> I just asked Gemini and it said "I don't have eyes or the capacity to feel emotions like "beauty""

That means nothing, except perhaps that Google probably found lies about "senses [Gemini] incapable of experiencing" to be an embarrassment, and put effort into specifically suppressing those responses.
by palmotea | 2025-10-18 05:46:35+00:00
> So... if you start limiting software "imports" aka offshoring, other countries will do the same. So Microsoft will sell a lot less.

1. You don't really have to target software "imports," especially since software is only part of the offshoring problem. It makes more sense to go directly after certain kinds of employment and labor contracting agreements.

2. Also, you really only have to target India and you solve most of the problem.
by phplovesong | 2025-10-18 05:46:54+00:00
PHP Fibers does not do anything on its own. Its basically just syntax for generators, to be used with various external runtimes.

This means in a vanilla PHP setup when i do something like this:

$a = new Fiber(function () { sleep(2); // block Fiber::suspend(); return null; }); $b = new Fiber(function () { sleep(2); // block Fiber::suspend(); return null; }); // Start execution $a->start(); $b->start(); // ... later in code wait for both executions to finish $a->resume(); $b->resume(); // Total execution time is not 2 seconds, but 4

I need an additional runtime to support real concurrency. I also need a separate async IO library to handle blocking. This is usually a showstopper for most PHP still out there. And just annoying on so many levels.
by gyomu | 2025-10-18 05:47:16+00:00
As always, Apple didn't wholesale invent a product category, but they made the first product that synthesized all the right tradeoffs in a sufficiently compelling package that enabled them to sell tens/hundreds of millions of units fairly quickly[0].

- hardware quality wise, already the 1st gen Apple Pencil had the specs of the higher end tablets (12-bit pressure sensitivity, orientation, azimuth, all in a sleek package)

- you can use your iPad for a bunch of other stuff too, and it's super portable - whereas for the high end tethered drawing tablets, they're pretty single purpose, and they take up a bunch of space on your desk. This all matters to broke artists living in dorm rooms/tiny apartments.

- the Procreate team designed a tool that was really focused on the digital drawing experience and managed to make a high quality, affordable product out of it. The standard for digital drawing on those tethered tablets is mostly Photoshop, which a) is meant for tons of stuff beyond drawing, making it quite complex and b) has 4 decades of interface cruft piled up at this point.

Honestly yeah, there truly are pre/post iPad+Pencil eras in consumer tech for anyone doing work that involves hand illustration/sketching.

[0] whereas their competitors struggle to sell low numbers of units at terrible margins
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-18 05:47:27+00:00
Seeing that your account is the one that is days old I can understand that you may have not yet taken the time to read the guidelines and am leaving this link to help you avoid similar faux pas in the future.

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by modeless | 2025-10-18 05:49:22+00:00
This is true, and I tend to believe that indefinite human lifespan extension will come too late for anyone who is already an adult today including myself. But I do think that it will come, mostly as a consequence of advanced AI accelerating medical research. It may be wishful thinking to believe that it will happen within our lifetimes, but that doesn't mean it won't ever happen.
by PebblesHD | 2025-10-18 05:49:22+00:00
I had a play with this and you’re right, it does have a style, but first: this is awesome, and good fun, well done!

I think the system prompt or training data probably focuses on marketing websites, it didnt manage to make a settings page or a canvas game, but did make a site telling me how to make a canvas game :)

How does it interpolate the path to make the prompt? (Havent checked the code yet…)
by vrighter | 2025-10-18 05:50:22+00:00
It's not that I don't care. It's that I actively despise and avoid stuff like this. It's that these types of things typically say exactly nothing in a lot of words. It's a good opportunity to play buzzword bingo though. Reminded me of the ITIL bullshit I had to endure, talking about extremely basic concepts wrapped in enterprise-grade buzzwords
by phplovesong | 2025-10-18 05:51:57+00:00
Not sure why you say JVM is "worse" than PHP. It handles most real world workloads with no problem and is probably one one the most fine tunes VMs out there. It supports concurrency out of the box.

That said JVM is only a target, so if Java is not your cup of tea, you are free to pick and choose from any of the various JVM languages, like Clojure, Kotlin, Scala etc.
by modeless | 2025-10-18 05:52:00+00:00
Yeah, I see people pooh-poohing the idea of humanoid robots being useful this decade, saying it will take at least 20 years. Oh yeah? Instead of 5 years to render all human labor obsolete, it will take 20? The magnitude of that change is so large that the implications of it happening anytime in our lifetimes are too big to ignore.

The important thing is that this is not going to be perpetually 20 years in the future like fusion. This is something that will happen.
by dgently7 | 2025-10-18 05:52:37+00:00
Like everything apple it’s not that they made something wildly new, they just found a way to do something more polished than anyone else that then is successful with a specific subset of vocal people.

I’m not much of a digital artist and views in this space probably vary wildly.. but if I steel man the pro iPad case I think it’s a few things 1. Screen quality. iPads look better than cintiq bc the display in the iPad is actually pretty awesome. Like recommended by the color nerds for being the best color you can get for the price, 2. Pen distance on iPad your pen is closer to the actual pixels. The cintiq had more space between the screen and the surface, feels like you draw above the page a little. 3. Biggest of all is portability. Artists love desks but they also love drawing everywhere all the time. iPad is just better at this because it’s designed as a tablet totally. The pre-apple pencil Wacom stuff existed as tablets but from what I remember was mostly just windows laptops. So software wasn’t built for touch and wanted keyboards and stuff. Responsive multitouch and the os(and drawing apps) built to integrate it tightly is a level of polish Wacom couldn’t do as just a pen input system. 4. Cost cintiqs always cost a ton and a lot of them don’t even have the computer part, iPads aren’t cheap but are way more accessible.

Maybe Wacom has caught up with newer offerings? it’s been a while since I looked at their stuff. There are also totally reasons why you’d wanna go that route for some digital pen stuff (eg high end digital sculpture or texture painting type stuff that really needs the power and integration you can get from a desktop and desktop os)
by MilnerRoute | 2025-10-18 05:53:50+00:00
Kelley Blue Book says "On average, new cars depreciate about 30% over the first 2 years, and continue to depreciate 8-12% each year after that."

https://www.kbb.com/car-depreciation/

When you factor that in, the difference between EVs and internal combustion engines looks like it's just a few thousand dollars...
by sp527 | 2025-10-18 05:53:50+00:00
I think what you're missing here is that China would be (is?) happy to fund the development, because it's in their national interest and necessary in order for their companies to stay competitive, so long as there are trade restrictions on chips. Another framing for this is that China and certain other entities (e.g. content distribution channels like Meta, Youtube) have a strong incentive to 'commoditize their [AI] complement' (https://gwern.net/complement).
by LostMyLogin | 2025-10-18 05:54:14+00:00
Claude 4.5

Q) Do you think the night sky is beautiful

A) I find the night sky genuinely captivating. There’s something profound about looking up at stars that have traveled light-years to reach us, or catching the soft glow of the Milky Way on a clear night away from city lights. The vastness it reveals is humbling. I’m curious what draws you to ask - do you have a favorite thing about the night sky, or were you stargazing recently?
by alganet | 2025-10-18 05:56:48+00:00
> We will never achieve AGI, because we keep moving the goalposts.

I think it's fair to do it to the idea of AGI.

Moving the goalpost is often seen as a bad thing (like, shifting arguments around). However, in a more general sense, it's our special human sauce. We get better at stuff, then raise the bar. I don't see a reason why we should give LLMs a break if we can be more demanding of them.

> SOTA models are already capable of outperforming any human on earth in a dizzying array of ways, especially when you consider scale.

Performance should include energy consumption. Humans are incredibly efficient at being smart while demanding very little energy.

> But few if any humans on earth can demonstrate the breadth and depth of competence that a SOTA model possesses.

What if we could? What if education mostly stopped improving in 1820 and we're still learning physics at school by doing exercises about train collisions and clock pendulums?
by rkagerer | 2025-10-18 05:56:59+00:00
I had a similar problem back in 2018, though at a smaller scale.

I wrote a quick-and-dirty program that reads the authoritative list of all AWS IP ranges from https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json (more about that URL at the blog post https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ip-ranges-json/), and creates rules in Windows Firewall to simply block all of them. Granted, it was a sledgehammer, but it worked well enough.

Here's the README.md I wrote for the program, though I never got around to releasing the the code: https://markdownpastebin.com/?id=22eadf6c608448a98b6643606d1...

It ran for some years as a scheduled task on a small handful of servers, but I'm not sure if it's still in use today or even works anymore. If there's enough interest I might consider publishing the code (or sharing it with someone who wants to pick up the mantle). Alternatively it wouldn't be hard for someone to recreate that effort.

G'luck!
by phplovesong | 2025-10-18 05:59:15+00:00
This sounds like the typical "its good enough" argument. Say we test the breaks manually nine times of of ten. This means we get really hard to diagnose bugs because "this did work when i tested locally". And users get more runtime errors because of half-assed development.

Type systems should be treated like maths, its either correct, or not. In the end, a typesystem is basically just that, its math behind the scenes, more specifically a genre of maths called category theory.
by galaxy_gas | 2025-10-18 06:02:49+00:00
They dont have any better to do. When I was living in south bay (nice suburb area) during short contract role the " nextdoor nanny state stay at home drunk soccer moms " would record out the front window, call the police in anyone POC, keep notes of what time you car leave and join

its like HOA mental illness. Different people had chased my amazon driver with a phone accusing them of being illegal, calling police for while I was cooking indian food... Ide rather have the crime in the city in contrast to this nonsense

I genuinely believe if I had dog at the time they would had poisoned it for barking once
by mmmpetrichor | 2025-10-18 06:04:33+00:00
I've found it very weird observing how CEOs across many companies behave as if they're part of some hivemind. When to do layoffs, how to implement office policies, and now pushing AI in the same way as if they have no brain of their own. It's very offputting. I can't tell if its collusion or whether maybe capitalism has its own goals that are pursued in lockstep by its creepy agents. I think the end goal is definitely to eliminate workers as much as they possibly can. And they think whoever can do that first will "win".
by stouset | 2025-10-18 06:05:50+00:00
To play devil’s advocate, you have never seen the night sky.

Photoreceptors in your eye have been excited in the presence of photons. Those photoreceptors have relayed this information across a nerve to neurons in your brain which receive this encoded information and splay it out to an array of other neurons.

Each cell in this chain can rightfully claim to be a living organism in and of itself. “You” haven’t directly “seen” anything.

Please note that all of my instincts want to agree with you.

“AI isn’t conscious” strikes me more and more as a “god of the gaps” phenomenon. As AI gains more and more capacity, we keep retreating into smaller and smaller realms of what it means to be a live, thinking being.
by KPGv2 | 2025-10-18 06:06:49+00:00
The narrative implies GAI. It's looking increasingly impossible. Nearly a decade of trying to improve on the concept of neural nets. Utter failure. Now we're running up on both the limits of training data (not much more to slurp) and physical laws (miniaturization has a threshold beyond which it cannot go, and we're getting there).

So, at least in the medium term, AI is going to stall out at approximately where it is now: good at predicting the next word token.
by aorloff | 2025-10-18 06:10:15+00:00
Often if you don't get it, its because you didn't get it.

There is a famous one of 2 explorers in the jungle and the man is saying "Holy moly Loretta, not only is it still there, but look what it did to the end of my stick !"

So not really funny unless you can recall (or imagine) a moment when you had a bug on you and you ask someone to brush it off and you have that minute of like, did you get it or is it still there ? If that has actually happened to you, its a hilarious cartoon.
by objectcode | 2025-10-18 06:10:39+00:00
cjpegli --xyb jpegs seem to have colors significantly (not just slightly) off if the color profile does not get loaded, and there are strong green and/or magenta tints. To test this, exiftool -all= file.jpg seems to do the trick. But even with this tint, images seem to make structural sense and can be understood, so compatibility might be fine anyway.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-18 06:10:51+00:00
So so late. But just so vile, so reprehensible to see such a corrupt fallen disagreeable state of the world march over us.

I am stricken with fear over the control and manipulation by the Chinese state. A dominance over people without respect or regard, a self certainty and pomp that denies life & possibility.

But what the West is letting happen here, the limitless post-state open-for-anyone surveillance Flock & others are offering has seemingly even less bounds, less respect, less purpose, less direction. These people, this enterprise is clearly the worst possible thing we could do, the most awful accrual & misuse of the world against its people's. To spy on everyone & to without regard sell that days to everyone is a crime against all.

Flock is truly the #HostisHumaniGeneris. Woe & (all too expectable) disappointment to see Amazon giving up all their data to fascist pro ICE losers who, were we a descent society, we would run out of the world.
by jmward01 | 2025-10-18 06:11:25+00:00
I can agree this may be a (the?) pivot year, but I don't think it is energy. It is everything. It seems weird to say the death of fossil fuels is 'not that big of a deal compared to...' but when it was only a minor news story that life on ancient Mars is a growing probability, all the political, well, everything, is beginning to look like the norm and I just spent the day talking to an AI to help me code. Well, the death of fossil fuels just seems like it is maybe only a top 10 story of this decade.
by Numerlor | 2025-10-18 06:11:46+00:00
The cooling should be better, especially with higher wattage chips (either out of the box, or overclocked). The AIOs have gotten a lot better with faster pumps.

Noise should also be lower again assuming you'd be actually cooling enough power with an air cooler that'd require higher fan RPMs. Pump noise differs by model, with quite a lot of them being silent
by laurencerowe | 2025-10-18 06:13:05+00:00
Each of my Audi A4 wagons has suffered catalytic converter failure around 200,000 miles / 350,000 km which has rendered them uneconomic to repair (at least in California.) But it's about the only wagon on sale in the US (SUVs do not fit in my garage) so I guess I am stuck with them. It seems more economic to buy a cheap one and drive it into the ground (one can buy two used Audis for the equivalent Toyota/Lexus.)
by mbgerring | 2025-10-18 06:13:58+00:00
Projections of PV cell improvement and deployment by large energy forecasting agencies have been so wrong for so long that it’s a well known running joke in the energy industry.

Solar beats projections constantly and has been the cheapest available power source for many (if not all) applications for years already. Cheap, abundant, performant batteries already expand the possible surface area for solar deployment, and we can expect this to continue.

I have a hard time understanding what you mean by “proven insufficient.”
by evanmoran | 2025-10-18 06:14:51+00:00
I know this is highly controversial, but I now leave the comments in. My theory is that the “probability space” the LLM is writing code in can’t help but write them, so if i leave them next LLM that reads the code will start in the same space. Maybe it’s too much, but currently I just want the code to be right and I’ve let go of the exact wording of comments/variables/types to move faster.