MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-10-19 16:20:11+00:00
I ran a survey on Twitter over the past few days asking for successful case studies that produced economically valuable results from fine-tuning LLMs.

I ask a version of this every six months or so, and usually the results are quite disappointing.

This time I had more credible replies than I have had in the past.

Here's my thread with highlights: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1979254349235925084

And in a thread viewer for people who aren't signed into Twitter: https://twitter-thread.com/t/1979254349235925084

Some of the most impressive:

Datadog got <500ms latency for their language natural querying feature, https://twitter.com/_brimtown/status/1979669362232463704 and https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/search/

Vercel run custom fine-tuned models on v0 for Next.js generation: https://vercel.com/blog/v0-composite-model-family

Shopify have a fine-tuned vision LLM for analyzing product photos: https://shopify.engineering/leveraging-multimodal-llms
by johnisgood | 2025-10-19 16:20:15+00:00
That does not make parent right.

It might not be worth it to you, it might be worth it to someone else.

I would still like to hear about this substitute that is both effective and can be used "all the time".

Tizanidine causes "dependence", too, by the way.

Funny you mention Tizanidine, because that is what I want to try as well for my MS-related muscle spasticity.

Alprazolam works, but I have been using it for years and it would be great to finally get off of them. It does not last long either, and longer acting benzos don't work for me for some reason. I tried diazepam, which was supposed to be just perfect, but it did not work at all. :(

In any case, hoping tizanidine will work for me, we will see.

Let me know if tizanidine works for your tinnitus though, my mom has been "suffering" from it for a long time now.
by quux | 2025-10-19 16:20:20+00:00
I'm going to disagree with the "Asking a Lot of Questions" section. One of the best engineers I've ever worked with, who was at the Principal level, was completely unafraid to ask questions, no matter how basic one might think they were. Turns out he was rarely the only one who wanted to ask that question, and he was able to get understanding of a system or problem much faster than if he'd kept his questions to himself.

In the years since we worked together I've adopted his "there's no such thing as a stupid question" philosophy and it's served me really well.
by stevenicr | 2025-10-19 16:20:51+00:00
With food trucks I've learned that rules, regulations, construction costs may be bigger factors.

In most cases if you attach 50 grand worth of stuff to a building and can't pay your rent one month you may be legally required to leave most of your equipment with the landlord, and could be required to pay for additional construction.

Many landlords require certain insurances you can bypass with your truck. The public can't sue the building owner for things.

Inspections are also easier to handle with smaller places to tidy up, and everyone in your restaurant can see an inspector coming before they get inside.

Also if you get a bad inspection or bad reviews, just put a new wrap on your truck and it's not like a bad reputation for a specific building is set in.
by lproven | 2025-10-19 16:21:00+00:00
> I gladly only start a terminal window when I have to.

Exactly so. I am perfectly able to work entirely in a text/CLI world, and did for years. I don't becase I don't have to. I have better, richer alternative tools available to me now.

It was very odd to join Red Hat briefly in 2014 and meet passionate Vi advocates who were born after I tried Vi and discarded it as a horrible primitive editor.
by beeflet | 2025-10-19 16:21:10+00:00
We don't propose that the capitalists are the solution, but rather that the solution lies in a balance of powers through the market.

The communist solution to everything is to roll everything into a one-world monopoly. That concentration of power is exactly what we are trying to prevent. Feudalism, Corporatism, and Communism converge on the same point in the space of poltics.

AI will destroy the labor market as a means of wealth distribution but still some solution is better than nothing. Suggesting that socialism is the solution to mass automation is like suggesting the solution to a burning house is to pour gasoline on it.
by alganet | 2025-10-19 16:22:39+00:00
Tapestry of belief systems, conceptual terrain that constrains social behavior... same stuff.

I don't claim he is the one being obscene. I think he's quite conservative (the idea of AI influencing behavior is not new and his example is simplistic). I was talking about myself attempting to describe these dynamics in more clear cut terms.

It's also not universally obscene, it's obscene in a "everybody knows but you are not supposed to talk about it" way.
by giantg2 | 2025-10-19 16:23:42+00:00
You might need to do some more research. Battery replacement generally runs $15k-$20k. Engine replacement generally runs $5k-$10k. Batteries are estimated to last 10-20 years while the average age of cars in the US is about 14 years - close to the middle of the battery life range. While subsidies do play a role, the other points you provide are unsupported by the facts.
by singleshot_ | 2025-10-19 16:23:44+00:00
Varies state to state, as usual, but 'round here:

The taxing authority (city or county, generally) maintains a list of all the property in tax arrears. Once a year, there is an auction where they go around the room and each bidder can bid a rate for each property; the lowest rate wins a coupon that entitles the bearer to collect the tax plus the rate from the property owner, but requires the bearer to pay the base tax to the taxing authority.

If a few years go by without the property owner retiring the debt, the holder can send a notice with some time requirements and after that, they can sue for the title and then they own the property. Usually the owner pays at the last moment but then they owe attorney's fees.

Adverse possession is completely different and would require living in the tax-delinquent property for several years.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-19 16:24:10+00:00
If people have ideas for use cases where fine-tuning can make a big difference, but don't have the time/resources to try it out yourself yet want to see if it'll work, feel free to share your ideas as I'm currently creating a bunch of examples of this and could use some inspiration, I only have 3 real/confirmed use cases as of right now.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-19 16:24:26+00:00
These are the main policy points[1]

1.Equality in admissions- with certain exceptions, universities have to publish and commit to objective criteria for accepting new students.

2.Marketplace of ideas and civil discourse - a bit vague, but basically calling for non violent exchanges of opinions and ideas, specifically not discriminating against conservatives, who frankly are a significant minority at universities.

3.Nondiscrimination in faculty and administrative hiring

4.Institutional neutrality - frankly i'm not sure what that's supposed to mean

5.Student learning -Signatories must make certain “grade integrity” commitments, including neither “inflat[ing]” nor “deflat[ing]” grades for any “non-academic reason.”

6.Student equality -Signatories must treat students “as individuals and not on the basis of their immutable characteristics, with due exceptions for sex-based privacy, safety, and fairness”

7.Financial responsibility - a raft of ideas aimed at protecting students

8. More restrictions on foreign student admissions etc.

9.enforcement

[1]i got all my information from this article:https://www.ropesgray.com/en/insights/alerts/2025/10/white-h...
by resoluteteeth | 2025-10-19 16:24:44+00:00
I don't think teenagers generally had smartphones until much later

Facebook was also quite different back then and it was still something that people mainly used to find people who were in their classes

If it was smartphones plus modern social media I would expect the trend to start at least 5 years later

On the other hand teens already had dumbphones for texting and Myspace before that
by samuelleecong | 2025-10-19 16:24:45+00:00
Built a tool that scrapes visualization ideas from recent LLM papers and gives you prompt-friendly inputs + code to recreate them. Know too many friends who stare at blank notebooks wondering how to plot their results, so now they can just browse what others are doing and grab the building blocks. All the charts are tagged by paper source if you want to dig deeper.
by brap | 2025-10-19 16:25:06+00:00
It certainly survives by working, one way or another.

My point is that until now, we have never been able to find a functioning system that frees us from work (trade is just one type of work, so is hunting for survival, or photosynthesis), and until something changes dramatically (like a machine that caters to our every need), I find it hard to believe this can change.
by dfxm12 | 2025-10-19 16:25:12+00:00
16 year olds might be naive, but they are also not small children and usually capable of saying no.

You can't generalize the ability to say no to 16 year olds. You also can't ignore the position of power a famous person might be in, or what grooming might have occurred (which is being alleged up thread). Morally, I hope this is obvious. Even legally, many jurisdictions have laws that recognize these nonviolent sexual offenses as illegal.
by sodapopcan | 2025-10-19 16:25:21+00:00
Yes.

What is it is with one sentence paragraphs?

This drives me nuts.

It also feels like hubris that the writer believes each sentence is so important that it deserves its own paragraph.

At the same time it makes me question the writer's confidence that they may be doing this to trick the reader.

Whatever it is...

It drives me nuts.

Annoys me.

Gets on my nerves.

But alas...

That's the internet for you, and in the end...

There are bigger things to stress about.

I guess.

It still get to me.
by great_wubwub | 2025-10-19 16:25:35+00:00
I'm not sure where you live, but employee contracts in the US are very rare in tech. Unions, execs, and rock stars - that's about it. The rest of us are at-will and disposable. Worker protections in the US are limited to "the machine can't eat more than two of your fingers per day" and "you can't work people more than 168 hours in a week".
by retsl | 2025-10-19 16:25:45+00:00
the malware's main function seems to be to check the clipboard for crypto wallet addresses and then replace them with attacker addresses:

Bitcoin (bc1): bc1qrzh7d0yy8c3arqxc23twkjujxxaxcm08uqh60v Litecoin (ltc1/L/M): LQ4B4aJqUH92BgtDseWxiCRn45Q8eHzTkH Ethereum (0x): 0x10A8B2e2790879FFCdE514DdE615b4732312252D Dogecoin (D): DQzrwvUJTXBxAbYiynzACLntrY4i9mMs7D Tron (T): TW93HYbyptRYsXj1rkHWyVUpps2anK12hg Ripple (r): r9vQFVwRxSkpFavwA9HefPFkWaWBQxy4pU Cardano (addr1): addr1q9atfml5cew4hx0z09xu7mj7fazv445z4xyr5gtqh6c9p4r6knhlf3jatwv7y72deah9un6yettg92vg8gskp04s2r2qren6tw

can't guarantee it doesn't do anything else.
by realty_geek | 2025-10-19 16:25:54+00:00
True story (even though as the years go by I find it hard to comprehend myself)

I was in a boarding school in Ghana in the late 80's and pretty much every day there would be someone boiling water with a fork directly wired to a 240 volt socket. All the beds were metal bunk beds and there was plenty of combustible material in each dormitory.

I am pretty sure this was replicated in the dozens of other boarding schools across the country. Somehow I never heard of any deaths or serious injuries from it.

Not in the slightest bit advocating for it. It was a desperate solution in desperate times but it has massively skewed my comprehension of risk compared to pretty much anyone I meet in Europe.
by alexpotato | 2025-10-19 16:26:05+00:00
Reminds me of the quote:

One of the best things you can have on your property is a large deciduous tree on the south side of your house.

- In the summer, it shades your house (specifically the roof) so you spend less money cooling it

- In the winter, the tree loses its leaves so you get more sunlight (again, on your roof) which helps heat your house when it's cold but sunny
by lproven | 2025-10-19 16:26:38+00:00
> TUIs are superior in many ways to GUIs and have a place in the ecosystem.

There's another reason you don't mention.

Consistent UI.

TUI apps can (and in the Windows world usually do) use the same keyboard controls, derived from IBM CUA, as their GUI equivalents do.

This is why I use Tilde in the Linux shell: the same commands work in it as in Pluma or Leafpad or Mousepad or whatever: Ctrl+O opens a file, Ctrl-X/C/V to cut/copy/paste, Ctrl+N for new, etc.
by imtringued | 2025-10-19 16:26:44+00:00
The definition of spherical cow is also butchered beyond recognition.

Spherical cows are about simplifying assumptions that lead to absurd conclusions, not simplified models or simplified notation in general.

Calling functional programming a spherical cow when you mean that automatic memory management is a simplifying assumption, is such a gross sign of incompetence that nobody should keep reading the rest of the blog.
Show HN: The modern flip phone – but it's an iPhone
by YPCrumble | 2025-10-19 16:26:46+00:00
I built dumbsmartphones.com for people who want to use their phone less — without switching to a clunky flip phone or giving up iMessage.

The idea is simple: we take an iPhone and configure it through Apple’s device management tools to remove addictive apps and lock down distractions. You can still text, call, navigate, and take photos — but no TikTok, no Instagram, no YouTube, no app store rabbit holes.

There are two service levels: • $20/mo: standard digital minimalism setup (core apps only) • $50/mo: fully customized setup (you choose what stays or goes)

It’s part product, part lifestyle experiment — helping people reclaim focus and attention without sacrificing Apple’s ecosystem.

I’d love feedback from this community on: • Any technical gotchas you see in using Apple’s MDM/ABM for this purpose • Ideas for privacy or autonomy safeguards so users always feel in control • Whether you think there’s real demand for “managed minimalism” vs. DIY solutions

Site: https://dumbsmartphones.com
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-19 16:28:20+00:00
> How can you hire enough people to scale that while making the economics work?

Once you (as in you the person) have the expertise, what you need all the people for exactly? To fine-tuning you need to figure out the architecture, how to train, how to infer, pick together the dataset and then run the training (optionally setup a pipeline so the customer can run the "add more data -> train" process themselves). What in this process you need to hire so many people for?

> Why would they join you rather than founding their own company?

Same as always, in any industry, not everyone wants to lead and not everyone wants to follow.
by debazel | 2025-10-19 16:29:34+00:00
Here's some quick issues and suggestions I found after about 5 minutes of playing around with it. All test were done using Firefox FYI.

1. One of my favorite features from the built in DuckDB UI is the panel that automatically generates graphs for each column, both for the whole dataset itself and for the specific query you're running. I often find myself not even writing any queries because all I needed was something really simple already available in that panel. This would be my #1 reason for not using this GUI instead of the built in one.

2. I could not find any panel to show the currently selected value in the grid view. Ideally I would like this to also be able to auto-detect common formats like JSON and format them, etc.

3. The grid view can show a maximum of 200 rows. Finding a way to virtually render the rows in an infinite list would be much better IMO. I've found myself selecting up to 10k+ rows in the built in GUI and to copy all IDs, etc, several times (saves sometime compared to exporting a CSV and copying from there).

4. The column filter dropdown in the grid view has a search bar which is nice, but it is automatically deselected on each character entry, making it very annoying to use...

5. Additionally the dropdown filter menus are not automatically closed when you click outside or open another dropdown, which is a minor annoyance.

6. The right click menu in the grid viewer will close on "mouse out", however it does not close on "click outside" and the cursor does not start inside of the menu itself. This means the menu becomes permanently stuck until hover over it if you immediately move the mouse to the top-right on open.

7. The grid view resizer is behaving buggy sometimes after changing the number of page rows to display.

8. The transparent tooltip background in the chart viewer makes the light-gray text impossible to read in dark-mode when there is yellow behind it (from other the chart bars).

9. The explorer side panel seems to be sized based on a percentage of the window size. this is quite minor but it would behave nicer if it had a fixed size so changing the window size does not also resize the side panel. It is also overly large when you first load the site.
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-10-19 16:29:35+00:00
Pretty spot-on. Describes several people I know quite well.

I do think these are the symptoms, but TFA doesn't completely call out the cause. They do say it a couple times though, to their credit.

The core issue is that at senior, and especially at staff+, you need to have more impact (as the article states) and you will be fundamentally unable to do so if you spend all your time doing the symptoms you see in the article. It's all "low-impact" work and in some cases is simply distracting (constantly gushing about, or potentially even churning integration, of new techs/frameworks etc).

I had an EM who helped me grow a lot. They told me, racecar drivers have to look 100'+ ahead, because if they look right in front of them, they will crash. You have to tape over the bottom half of the windshield to help yourself look far enough ahead.

And that's really what it comes down to. E.g. for #1, jumping into random problems yourself means no triage/priorities and you're probably depriving a teammate of an opportunity to grow and learn more of the stuff your team owns (much higher-impact outcomes for your team). Plus the opportunity cost of what you could've been doing instead (pointing a mid-level eng at a problem with some sage pointers is a lot less time-consuming than DIYing it. higher-leverage).

I do want to remark on "asking lots of questions". I know then attenuate this by saying it's perhaps not "less" questions but "more surgical". I think really though, I would describe it not as surgical, but as guiding. Your questions will change from being mostly informative for you and move to being more informative to the person you're asking the question of. Similar to the socratic method. It's all about internalizing what the person you're helping currently knows, and then give them questions that, if answered, will move them forward. I find often the other person will be both capable of answering, and delight in answering, such questions. They just didn't know to ask it in the firstplace.
by marnett | 2025-10-19 16:30:21+00:00
The artist behind replacement.ai chose a very relevant first use case — everyone thinks of AI replacement in terms of labor, but the example in terms of parenting and child rearing, which is arguably the only true reason for humans to exist, is genius.

Procreation and progeny is our only true purpose — and one could make the argument AI would make better parents and teachers. Should we all capitulate our sole purpose in the name of efficiency?
by nozzlegear | 2025-10-19 16:30:23+00:00
> One moment I was fine, eating a slice of pizza, the next moment I suddenly could sense something was wrong. I tried to stand up and walk, but my balance was gone. My ear felt full and there was a strange metallic echo. I waited about 24 hours and it hadn't gone away, so I went to the urgent care. By that time, just standing up was enough to cause me to vomit. I've had a pretty healthy life, so everything that was happening was rather disconcerting to me!

This mirrors what turned out to be the onset of my pulsatile tinnitus – especially the "strange metallic echo". I remember sitting at my desk listening to the radio when I noticed it sounded like the radio's speakers were slightly out of sync with each other. I took my headphones off and listened, and my coworker's voice sounded metallic and robotic, almost exactly like a dalek from Doctor Who.

By the time I got to the doctor (same day), the metallic echo had passed but I had that fullness feeling in my ear that you describe and my doctor couldn't diagnose. Long story short, I'm not completely deaf but I have reduced hearing and permanent pulsatile tinnitus in my right ear.

I've had regular tinnitus since I was a kid, and I've thankfully been able to adjust to hearing the sound of my own heartbeat in my ear at all hours of the day without too much trouble. But when I describe what it's like to friends and family, I like to joke that it's like the heartbeat in Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-tale Heart.

> I am now 40 years old and have lived with being single sided deaf for half my life. Initially I didn't think much of it. I've slowly realized it has had a profound impact on my personality and sense of identity. I am much less social due to the difficulty I have hearing in group settings. Conversations are frustrating because it takes so much effort to hear the other person properly.

My reduced hearing has affected me more than I thought it did, and I've only come to realize it very recently. It's difficult for me to help my wife with her birding hobby because I'm always pointing in the wrong direction, for example. It also takes a lot of my patience not to get irritable when she's trying to talk to me while we're watching tv or listening to a book in the car, because I have a hard time tuning out things I can hear in my good ear and focusing on her with my bad ear.
by mikebonnell | 2025-10-19 16:30:38+00:00
The SAFE-T act of 2021 requires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFE-T_Act "all law enforcement agencies to use body cameras by 2025". This is alongside research that indicates it is beneficial and cost-effective https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20533586-cl_bwc-stud...

The judge's insistence may come from other times that a judge's order has been ignored https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-admin-ignores-judges-order-b...
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-10-19 16:30:53+00:00
Lets say I have a robot or two with a genius-level intellect. In theory it could manufacture a car for me or cook my dinner or harvest the crops needed for my dinner. But I don't own the mine where the metals needed to make a car come from. I don't own a farm where the food for my dinner comes from. Unless the distribution of resources changes significantly, it doesn't really help me that I have a genius robot. It needs actual physical resources to create wealth.

Right now the people that own those resources also depend on human labor to create wealth for them. You can't go from owning a mine and a farm to having a mega-yacht without people. You have to give at least some wealth to them to get your wealth. But if suddenly you can go from zero to yacht without people, because you're rich enough to have early access to lots of robots and advanced AI, and you still own the mine/farm, you don't need to pay people anymore.

Now you don't need to share resources at all. Human labor no longer has any leverage. To the extent most people get to benefit from the "magic machine," it seems to me like it depends almost entirely on the benevolence of the already wealthy. And it isn't zero cost for them to provide resources to everyone else either. Mining materials to give everyone a robot and a car means less yachts/spaceships/mansions/moon-bases for them.

Tldr: I don't think we get wealth automatically because of advanced AI/robotics. Social/economic systems also need to change.