MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rchaud | 2025-10-17 18:47:33+00:00
> AGI is absolutely a national security concern.

This may well be the PR pivot that's to come once it becomes clear that taxpayer funding is needed to plug any financing shortfalls for the industry - it's "too big to let fail". It won't all go to OpenAI, but be distributed across a consortium of other politically connected corps: Oracle, Nvidia/Intel, Microsoft, Meta and whoever else.
by raudette | 2025-10-17 18:47:40+00:00
May be of interest to this thread - I created a script that drives the Kindle web reader, captures screenshots, runs OCR, and creates an ePub - this wouldn't be as good as the pixelmelt solution, as it requires OCR.

Overview: https://www.hotelexistence.ca/remove-drm-with-kindleocrer/ (there's a sample conversion at the bottom, so you can see if it works "good enough" for your purposes)

Script: https://github.com/raudette/kindleOCRer

In action: https://youtu.be/3-07wMCKlkw
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 18:47:59+00:00
Batteries are getting cheaper, and I think there is a perception issue here as well as perhaps a real issue of used parts availability.

A brand new Model 3 battery pack, for example, is in the neighborhood of 10 or 11K installed. Or at least it was about a year ago, I don't closely track prices. Blow up an engine, and you won't be far off that in an ICE car. I know someone who just dropped $18K because they blew up both the engine and the transmission in a single shot. Oops.

But the ICE car has cheaper used options, for sure, where you can probably fix a 15 year old car by dropping in a reman or used engine for under five grand. Options for used Tesla battery packs definitely exist but are nowhere as plentiful. Yet!
by j45 | 2025-10-17 18:49:22+00:00
Drinking distilled water can create micro deficiencies that can contribute to things like brain fog, etc depending on the type of water you normally have.

Drinking distilled water strips your body of things that naturally are in water, because no fresh water lake, river, etc is distilled water.

Another key part of distilled water is that it also has fewer electrolytes. Electrolytes to a good degree are our friend. If water already has a bit of magnesium in it, it's helpful, everyone just gets it.

I respect if it's working for you but I have met many folks who it didn't work for.

Remineralization felt like a pain, but like most things it doesn't hurt to try and collect your own experience rather than understand everything before beginning.

Since drinking water can be location based, some water may have more calcium naturally in it, or something else, etc.
by autoexec | 2025-10-17 18:49:31+00:00
If somebody widens a road and it's instantly filled with more cars that's not "induced" demand, the demand was clearly already there, just not being met by the narrow street.

Destinations drive demand, not traffic lanes. A road can be so inadequate that the traffic makes it painful enough that might I decide to just stay home when I'd rather go somewhere, but the demand is obviously there either way. Infrastructure should enable us to do the things we want and get to the places we want to be.

I don't understand how people view making or keeping streets so shitty that many people can't or won't use them to get to where they want to go as a good thing.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-17 18:49:32+00:00
> But if I just go home and hand my kid the pack of menthols, all bets are off. That's not the store clerks problem, he can't and won't get in trouble for that.

But it is society's problem, and within society's capacity to attempt to manage.

https://www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/you-your-body/drugs... says it's illegal to give a child cigarettes, and the cops can confiscate them if you're 16 or below.

> The law can't stop parents from being stupid.

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.

They can't go sign up for a new internet plan, but that's hardly required.
by saghm | 2025-10-17 18:49:47+00:00
If your definition of "works" includes out of bounds memory access, use after free, etc., then yes. If your definition does not include those, then it demonstrably does not.

Alternately, maybe there's a spectrum of undesirable behaviors, some of which are preventable by choice of language, some of which aren't, and trying to reduce a complex set of tradeoffs to a simple binary of whether it "just works" only restates the conclusion someone has already come to because you need to actually reason about those tradeoffs to come to an informed decision of where to implicitly draw the line in the first place.
by Self-Perfection | 2025-10-17 18:49:49+00:00
Uhm is it possible to mitigate second point by publishing encrypted article in social network along with is sending it to the agency to assign it timestamp? Or maybe in any blockchain if one does not like social networks.

Then if journalist does not like how mangled was his piece on publishing he can disclose encryption password to show everyone what he actually wrote in the article?
by devjab | 2025-10-17 18:49:50+00:00
Ofcom is simply doing their job. I doubt they care about the users of 4chan. They will fine the company in accordance to UK law. Then if the company does not comply Ofcom will target their advertisers and it's Japanese owner who lives in France as well as having UK ISPs block 4chan. I can't think of any reason as to why France wouldn't work with UK authorities on this.

Contrary to HN and other USA tech forums might think, this will likely be recieved favorable by the the UK public.
by EForEndeavour | 2025-10-17 18:49:50+00:00
This is so nostalgic. I remember feeling like I was so good at Jezzball. In later levels I'd start a wall near one corner of the screen, closer to one edge than the opposite edge, to ensure the shorter wall would connect, and sacrificing the longer wall. The surviving wall would create a "corridor" in which to trap balls with tiny horizontal walls, often such that they ended up completely stationary.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 18:50:15+00:00
You're going off the minimum for a warranty replacement, which is pessimistic. Most Teslas with 125K miles have not lost anywhere even close to 30% of the capacity. Typical will be more like 15% or a bit less. And even less than that for the LFP cars, IIRC.

Some cars I expect to do much better, due to manufacturer decisions. Ford, for example, put a pretty big battery in my Lightning, and then made the top 10kWh or so unusable. So far, this means that Lightnings with 100K miles (there aren't a huge number of them yet, but they do exist) often have 0 apparent degradation, or very low single digits.
by kayge | 2025-10-17 18:50:20+00:00
As a big fan of Chris Cornell I went through the same stream of emotions with their Motown version of Like a Stone[0]. And if you can get past the thumbnail, check out the 2000s Rock version of Many Men[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_88Qg8FGrqY [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFKREP3gPg
by adventured | 2025-10-17 18:50:32+00:00
Nearly six billion people are using mobile phones, most of those are smartphones now. There's no reason to think extending that small cost utility device to the next billion adults isn't a good idea (so long as the cost isn't coming from their pocket, ie it should be subsidized). These are not at all mutually exclusive goals.

The latest LLMs are extraordinarily useful life agents as is. Most people would benefit from using them.

It'd be like pretending it's either water or education (pick one). The answer is both and you don't have to pick one or the other in reality at all. The entities trying to solve each aspect are typically different organization anyway.
by florkbork | 2025-10-17 18:51:00+00:00
Notice how this was taking over a GitHub repository from an entire team of maintainers, through deceit; and now we are all a few weeks in and you have seemingly accepted the narrative that this is now one bad apple justifies every action taken before and since, with no questions answered, with a wave of inconsistencies (it's about the money/no, the treasurer is wrong it's not about the money!), etc.
by xnx | 2025-10-17 18:51:13+00:00
> what is the right metric?

Not sure of the formula, but it would be a metric that ignores "processing" or "unnatural" ingredients and somehow scores for high calories in absence of fiber or protein.

Examples: Apple juice: sugar calories without fiber or protein = bad

Apples: sugar calories, but has fiber = OK

Potato chips: fat and carb calories without fiber or protein = bad

Baked potato with butter: fat and carb calories, but has fiber = OK
by tracker1 | 2025-10-17 18:51:16+00:00
Same... MTV went full on with reality TV and other programming, then there was M2 and VH1, both of which followed. I had no idea they even had other stations with actual music videos anymore.

Aside: I HATE the Android TV experience for trying to listen to music or watching music videos from YouTube Music. The phone app is significantly better, but still not what I would consider good. We really need more/better options for semi-curated music at this point... all the algorithmic choices just keep getting worse IMO.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-17 18:51:21+00:00
You are still talking about training. Generative applications have always been fundamentally different from classification problems, and has now (in the form of transformers and diffusion models) taken on entirely new architectures.

If “machine learning” is taken to be so broad as to include any artificial neural network, all of which are trained with back propagation these days, then it is useless as a term.

The term “machine learning” was coined in the era of specialized classification agents that would learn how to segment inputs in some way. Thing email spam detection, or identifying cat pictures. These algorithms are still an essential part of both the pre-training and RLHF fine tuning of LLM models. But the generative architectures are new and very essential to the current interest in and hype surrounding AI at this point in time.
by yupyupyups | 2025-10-17 18:51:59+00:00
>The net effect was people started to wonder why we bother with the inefficiencies of "rights" and "privacy".

Who are these people you're talking about, tankies, faschists?

The Chinese have the government that they deserve. They screw each other over, and what goes around comes around. It's a cautionary tale, not an example to follow.
by masterj | 2025-10-17 18:52:28+00:00
> tap is a data-intensive SaaS that needs to be able to execute complex queries over gigabytes of data in seconds.

> minimum resource requirements for good performance to be around 2x CPUs and 4 GiB RAM

This is less compute than I regularly carry in my pocket? And significantly less than a Raspberry Pi? Why is Fargate that expensive?
by schneems | 2025-10-17 18:52:31+00:00
I miss him too. We knew each other online for some time, but that was the first time I ever met him in person. I came back and couldn’t stop talking about him to my wife when she asked how the conf went. Truly an inspiring experience.

I hope truffle ruby does well, too. But even if it doesn’t, he’s still made an impact on me, and on the community. I told him “thank you” to his face when we met. I also wish I could have also somehow let him know my thanks and appreciation was unconditional.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-17 18:52:40+00:00
Interesting. I don't know that it's a literal electromagnetic field, but it does seem to be a dynamic pattern. I don't personally think I have enough information yet to guess at what medium that pattern is encoded in (I mean, except, broadly, "Brain stuff").

Not long ago, I suffered the first bout of unexpected unconsciousness I'd ever experienced; a series of unfortunate events caused me to pass out from pain (which I didn't quite understand was really a thing before then... Haha no that's real, you can get your brain shorted out from too much pain signal). The experience was a little... Cosmologically-reframing. It wasn't like sleep; it was a missing-time experience. Like, post-event me is acutely aware of a lack of me in that period of time; the body was there (I assume; I couldn't see it but there's nowhere for it to have gone), the thing I'd call myself seems to have completely 404'd for about a half hour.

Put lots of thoughts of my own mortality in my head. Not sure I'd recommend it.
by alganet | 2025-10-17 18:52:46+00:00
China is a central part of the AI-2027 speculation. I can't believe you missed it.

I'm acusing AI-2027 of doing bad taste stuff, not you. Unless you are one of the authors, you don't have to feel offended.

I am acusing you of sharing the AI-2027 content though, which I consider to be of bad taste.

You are supposed to think if what you are doing online bends its knees to narratives you don't have control over. I think that's a reasonable thing to do.
by riazrizvi | 2025-10-17 18:53:00+00:00
No you’re right. Instead of a multi-billion dollar organization supporting the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, serving directly their millions of customers, we would be better off running this with a team of Oxbridge literature and PPE alumni, armed with a hodgepodge of constituent letters accompanied by stiff emails by one or two members of parliament funded by god knows who, who otherwise have no skin in the game.
by xp84 | 2025-10-17 18:53:41+00:00
Exactly! And the funny part is, this exact thing is what’s being done on a small scale, and there are a ton of willing buyers for those developments. The main problem is that, due to the massive supply constraints imposed by urban NIMBYs, they are way too expensive for most Americans to afford living in, so the whole thing is just a nonstarter for most. Sure I’d love to live on the cutest walkable street in Brooklyn or whatever. Those houses cost $3 million though.
by lynx97 | 2025-10-17 18:53:46+00:00
Ignoring the fact that I miss the blind trust you seem to have, that all we need is to donate some money and the outcome will magically be good...

I honestly don't know any local investigative nonprofit that is not biased. There are the big conservatively led newspapers, and there are smaller left to extreme left leaning publishers that try to be a counterweight. However, to my knowledge, we dont have any publishers that are really trying to report independent from a political side or agenda.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-17 18:54:02+00:00
The difference, of course, is that the US actually has extraterritorial power. The idea that you would compare the UK's perception of their power to the US's perception of its power seems to be the kind of mistake the person you're replying to is referring to.

Standing next the the US when it does things (or rather to the left and two steps behind the US) is not being like the US.

https://youtu.be/lJatJ-Hi2_s?t=66

more recent: https://youtu.be/Hyn_VHtSU48?t=35
by saghm | 2025-10-17 18:54:03+00:00
And something as simple as a for loop to iterate over an array of elements with an off-by-one error can cause undefined behavior in C. Let's not pretend that there's some universally-agreed-upon hierarchy of what types of bugs are unconscionable and which ones are unfortunate unavoidable facts of life just because certain ones existed in the older language and others didn't.
Show HN: Medicated Emacs, Work-Ready Vanilla Emacs
by Moowool | 2025-10-17 18:54:12+00:00
Medicated Emacs polishes the vanilla Emacs experience with minimal packages. Everything uses standard Emacs patterns and conventions. No frameworks, wrappers, or special systems to learn. If you know how to customize vanilla Emacs, you know how to customize this config.

What you get: - Modern completion (Vertico + Orderless + Marginalia) - LSP support via Eglot (built-in) - Git integration (Magit + diff-hl) - Quality-of-life improvements (better defaults, recent files, etc.) - Common language modes pre-installed

What you don't get: - Custom keybinding schemes - Framework abstractions - Configuration complexity - Non-standard Emacs patterns
by flkiwi | 2025-10-17 18:54:14+00:00
There’s also a significant conversation about mere illegality and social rejection not actually doing much to address the underlying tendency to exploitation that (a) has prevented reconciliation and relief for formerly enslaved people and their descendants for more than a century and (b) is woven through the labor model common even in the West. Exploited paid laborers aren’t in the same category as enslaved persons, but we shouldn’t fall into the trap of believing that economic injustice has been meaningfully addressed.
by svl7 | 2025-10-17 18:54:18+00:00
This topic of time being a western construct, it's impact on society and life is one of the subjects in the excellent book "Borderliners" [1] by Peter Høeg. A favorite of mine, though I never read the English translation. It's a fascinating topic, and impacts our live more than we might be aware of or care to admit. I started thinking about it in a different way after reading this book.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderliners
by martinald | 2025-10-17 18:54:21+00:00
Because that's the main constraint for building them - how much power can you get to the site, and the cooling involved.

Also the workloads completely change over time as racks get retired and replaced, so it doesn't mean much.

But you can basically assume with GB200s right now 1GW is ~5exaflops of compute depending on precision type and my maths being correct!
Show HN: Lightning-SimulWhisper: Real-Time ASR for Apple Silicon
by predict-woo | 2025-10-17 18:54:24+00:00
tl;dr It's a CoreML/MLX translation of SimulStreaming (2025 SOTA in simultaneous speech transcription), which itself is a combination Simul-Whisper and WhisperStreaming.

I'm currently building an application, and I thought I would open up the backend model code for everyone to use.

I get ~15x speed increase on my M2 Macbook Pro compared to the original pytorch implementation, and I'm gonna be using the medium model, which has a nice balance between memory usage and accuracy.

The CoreML part is from whisper.cpp, and it only contains the encoder, and the mlx part is from mlx-whisper.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-17 18:54:55+00:00
You’re not providing me enough evidence other than saying it was just “woo” science. This is how a lot of new science is rejected.

If you can provide me with scientist objecting to the claim or writing negative papers about his theories I will gladly absorb them.

At best scientists are divided on his opinions, but this is far from calling them woo woo. I mean, bad scientist will call that but good ones will have honest disagreements and discussions.

> We understand quantum interactions more than sufficiently enough

Do we really?
by MostlyStable | 2025-10-17 18:54:55+00:00
Obviously we don't have ICE levels of data, but as far as available data that we do have, that battery uncertainty is probably unwarranted. Battery life seems to be dropping much slowly than early estimates predicted (and this is including vehicles with >100,000 miles, and >10 years of driving history). Risk acceptance is not a thing that has one right answer, so I won't try and say that people are wrong for how they are assessing this risk, but I know that I personally had zero compunctions at all when I recently bought a used EV, and just appreciated the price I was getting.

Now is probably the golden age for buying used EVs, because eventually this notion that the batteries are untrustworthy is going to go away (you can argue about whether this will occur because the technology improves vs. people will better realize where it already is, but it will happen).
by adventured | 2025-10-17 18:54:55+00:00
The top six US tech companies are generating ~$620 billion per year in operating income (likely to be closer to $700 billion in another 12-18 months). They can afford to spend $2 trillion on this over the next decade without missing a beat. Their profit over that timeline will plausibly be $8 to $10 trillion (and of course something dramatic could change that). That's just six companies.
by gxonatano | 2025-10-17 18:55:00+00:00
It might not be a new area of inquiry, but the insight seems reasonably novel. If you read the article, it's about how Symbolic Show of Strength (SSS) beliefs are predictors for belief in misinformation. That speaks to something more granular about the psychological mechanisms behind the spread of misinformation. "Repeating known falsehoods is about declaring tribal allegiance" instead speaks to the existence of the phenomenon, more generally.
by simonw | 2025-10-17 18:55:04+00:00
Yeah, the biggest advantages MCP has over terminal tooling is that MCP works without needing a full blown sandboxed Linux style environment - and MCP can also work with much less capable models.

You can drive one or two MCPs off a model that happily runs on a laptop (or even a phone). I wouldn't trust those models to go read a file and then successfully make a bunch of curl requests!
by comprev | 2025-10-17 18:55:54+00:00
Currently moving multiple teams from Jenkins to GitLab and transferring ownership of their pipelines to the teams themselves.

Vast majority of colleagues have no clue how to build & deploy their own code due to a very traditional siloed organisation (Ops people owned pipelines) - which is proving somewhat challenging!

We provide plenty of well designed pipelines in documentation to _hopefully_ inspire good practices... but time will tell...

So far it's all been Linux/Containers however we do have a handful of iOS and Windows projects to migrate in the pipeline (no pun intended)
by moribvndvs | 2025-10-17 18:56:08+00:00
I’ve never had to delete .git and start over so I’m not sure if I’m doing something right or wrong. At any rate, every “jujitsu is so much easier/so much better” post I’ve read thus far has been too lengthy, vague (the mental model you’re selling is “play-doh”? Really?), and hand wavy. As far as using the tool to make it click for myself, it hasn’t. I won’t judge that the tool is good or bad, since clearly I don’t understand it enough to make that call, but the fact that I can just go back to git and be productive as I have been with it for nearly 20 years suggests the value proposition of “switch to jujutsu already” isn’t as high as the evangelists are claiming.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-10-17 18:56:22+00:00
OpenAI is currently growing WAUs at ~122.8% annualized growth (down from ~461.8% just 10 months ago).

Assuming their growth rate is getting close to stabilizing and will be at ~100% for 3 years to end of 2028 - that'd be $104B in revenue, on 6.4B WAUs.

I wouldn't bank on either of those numbers - but Oracle and Nvidia kind of need to bank on it to keep their stocks pumped.

Their growth decay is around 20% every 2 months - meaning - by this time next year, they could be closer to 1.2B WAUs than to 1.6B WAUs, and the following year they could be closer to 1.4B WAUs than to 3.2B WAUs.

Impressive, for sure, but still well bellow Google and Facebook, revenue much lower and growth probably even.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-17 18:56:29+00:00
> And 2 years old EV is not twice as bad as current one

The new-vs-used price difference in equipment comes from multiple factors, of which "better features" is one part.

Consider what would happen if you gave someone this choice:

1. Keep your 10-year-old car. (No major upgrades from stock.)

2. Pay $X to trade it for its identical factory-sibling which was made the same day but was stored in a timeless stasis-bubble until today, so that it still has its original new-car smell.

I can't imagine anyone saying: "Well, there are zero new features, so I'll swap them for $0."

P.S.: The issues are even more obvious if the person is choosing between buying someone else's 10-year-old car versus paying an extra premium for the time-warp one, because there's uncertainty about the first vehicle's history and maintenance.