MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-15 21:55:54+00:00
I feel like the same can be said for golang but rust just has a more pleasant way of sometimes doing things.

some of the best ways to build gui's on golang might be gtk golang bindings imo. I haven't tried qt but gtk for linux should work.

I have seen many apps also use golang as backend and flutter as frontend (warp android app wormhole or something and localsend both do this)
by 0xTJ | 2025-10-15 21:56:09+00:00
It's important to note this is not a peer-reviewed publication, this is just some document that has been shared. While the author has a doctorate in theoretical physics, and has extensive experience in that field, their Wikipedia article also has the following line:

> Hossenfelder's more recent content has received criticism for her attacks on academic research[13][14] and for conspiracy theory-style portrayals of the physics community.

(The author recently had their affiliation end with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and is not happy about it.)

I don't know remotely enough to comment on the author's statements or research, or on the contents of this document, but I would advise caution on getting too excited over significant developments that haven't yet been peer reviewed.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2304/
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-15 21:56:18+00:00
Link at bottom has some results about sudden, recent localhost failures

working for several years, today localhost not found after GUI reboot attempt localhost and 127.0.0.1 should be the same, it seems strange they shows different results. wusa /uninstall /kb:5066835 (restart) wusa /uninstall /kb:5066131 (restart) wusa /uninstall /kb:5065789 (restart)

ref: https://kagi.com/search?q=windows+localhost+not+working&dr=2...
by danudey | 2025-10-15 21:57:44+00:00
It seems as though a lot of arguments about this boil down to a few inane implications:

1. Apple should test every (common?) app and any change to the OS that they make that makes an app worse shouldn't be done regardless of why they wanted to make that change. 2. Even though Apple tells people not to use private APIs, if a program uses a private API anyway Apple should build a workaround into their OS instead of letting apps suffer their own repercussions. 3. Apple should test everything ahead of time and then go around telling all the app developers that there's a problem, as if those app developers are going to do anything about it.

No matter what Apple did here, their actual choices boiled down to:

1. Add workarounds for misbehaving broken apps, giving those apps no incentive to fix their issues, and forcing Apple to support those workarounds indefinitely; this also undermines their "don't use private APIs, they could break later" position. This is the kind of thing that made Windows into an unmaintainable sack of cruft.

2. Do what they did, which is change the API and let broken apps be broken to the user's detriment. Everyone blames Apple even though it's objectively not their fault.

2. Add some kind of non-workaround that caused problems for the app and not the user; e.g. have this private API rate limited or something so that the app ends up blocking in the call. Could cause problems for actual consumers of this API, and people would still blame Apple but in this case it would be more of their fault than option 2.

In the end, Apple can't spend their time fretting over what bad developers do wrong; they spend their time on their OS and software and if a developer writes bad software and causes problems then so be it.
by efitz | 2025-10-15 21:58:29+00:00
Lots. Anything involving standing at the least, but also many of the “unauthorized people changed the rules without the authority of the state legislature”.

https://election-integrity.info/2020_Election_Cases.htm

You’ll find similar lists on Wikipedia and at the American Bar Association; they slant their interpretations differently than I do here. Look into a couple of the “standing” or “no merit” cases and see if you really think they were without merit or that there was no “case or controversy” as defined in the Constitution.

Yes, a couple were kooky, particularly around voting machines, but most were “you changed the rules in a way that weakens election security and you are not Constitutionally allowed to do that, since you aren’t the state legislature and the written law is at odds with your rules”.
by steipete | 2025-10-15 21:58:58+00:00
(OP) the current projec is closed source. If you look at my cli tools, that's pure slop, all I care is that it works, so reviewing that code for sure will show some weird stuff. Does it matter? It's a tool to fetch logs form a server. I run it locally. As long as is does that reliably, idk about the code.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-15 21:58:58+00:00
>But you are comparing that to someone who literally suggests violent action against people of his own country.

What's worse? Suggesting violence against someone, or actions of corruption that loose taxpayers shit tones of money, which if it wasn't stolen by politicians would have gone to things like healthcare to keep people alive? If only there was a way to quantify money lost from corruption to deaths from underfunded healthcare, it would start to sink in for you, but you care more about optics than about actual harm done.

Same for Austrian and German politicians being in bed with Putin to tie Europe's energy security to Russian oil and gas but noooo, Orban is the real evil because he said hurty things.

>Fair enough she may have taken money from Pfizer and whatnot.

When massive corruption leading to deaths is just "and what not" to you, then I can't argue anymore with you. The problem isn't she taking Pfizer money, its she selling out the taxpayer's money every step of the way in her political career. Pfizer's money comes with strings attached, same for every other lobbyist.

>but on the other hand are very happy to keep their cosy job for ad-tech/vc-fueled/well-paid companies instead of doing their part.

Is that a self report? Because I don't have any of those.

Citizens elect politicians, then pay them to run a city/country as their main job, they don't have time to be a politician beyond their regular jobs that put food on their table.
by jltsiren | 2025-10-15 21:59:22+00:00
I had one for a few years. The keyboard was bad, and there was no physical escape key. There were lot of accidental clicks with the touchbar, as it had a different logic (touch to use rather than press to use) than the other keys, or the function keys on every other keyboard. And I was using USB-A and HDMI adapters all the time, as the laptop lacked essential ports.
by halayli | 2025-10-15 21:59:41+00:00
You're comparing apples to oranges. In pure functional languages, Option is a fundamental type. It's a concept introduced very early on when learning FP. Historically it had the same behavior and definition.

Trying to gaslight ppl to question their reasonable reaction of std::optional transitioning from its previous behavior to an Option like behavior when no other type in C++ behaves as such is disingenuous.

Of course it is weird in the C++ context, but is it a step in the right direction? absolutely!
by asdff | 2025-10-15 22:00:57+00:00
Depends where of course. All over the south and the rust belt midwest home prices have been more or less stabilized over the past 35 years or so. Even if they "went up 30% in covid" that could mean they only went up another 30k or so realistically. The land of 70k jobs and 150k 3-4br houses where all is well.

Then you go to the hot markets and salaries for comparable positions are only like 20% more but the exact same home (actually on west coast, subtract the full basement and lot large enough for a detached two car garage) is 10x in price or more.
by thot_experiment | 2025-10-15 22:02:03+00:00
Sabine recently wrote a back of the cover testimonial for "The War on Science"[0] which is a collection of whiny essays by sex pests and racists[1]. It seems like she started off with some fairly reasonable criticisms of academia but over the past few years she's been pushed deeper and deeper into quack territory. AFAICT she's academically much less of a joke than the theory of everything VC guy, she's a real physicist. I'm curious to see if she's proposing something novel/meaningful/reasonable here, skimming the paper I can see it's above my pay grade.

I don't really have a point here, shitty people can do good things, humanity sure runs the gamut huh?

[0]: https://youtu.be/miJbW3i9qQc?t=2794 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5Xkk6TuE
by marcusb | 2025-10-15 22:02:04+00:00
> I agree. I think what we are split on is purpose/intent.

I… don’t think so? Your original comment was that companies claim nation state attack as a way to get government funding. That has nothing to do with assessing blame for an attack.

> Why not? If I'm hiring a cybersec thats probably in my top 3 reasons to hire them, if not them then who?

If you think you as a private entity can defend against a tier 1 nation state group like the NSA or Unit 8200, you are gravely mistaken. For one thing, these groups have zero day procurement budgets bigger than most company market caps.

That’s why companies reflexively blame nation state actors. It isn’t to get government funding. It is to avoid blame for an attack by framing it as something they could not have prevented.

> So we agree?

No, I don’t believe we do.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-10-15 22:02:06+00:00
In addition to sibling comments you can play with this yourself by sending raw api requests with fake history to gaslight the model into believing it said things which it didn’t. I use this sometimes to coerce it into specific behavior, feeling like maybe it will listen to itself more than to my prompt (though I never benchmarked it):

- do <fake task> and be succinct

- <fake curt reply>

- I love how succinct that was. Perfect. Now please do <real prompt>

The models don’t have state so they don’t know they never said it. You’re just asking “given this conversation , what is the most likely next token?”
by 0x457 | 2025-10-15 22:02:12+00:00
When you use linux as desktop, sometimes you get into a customization-hole and make everything "just right" because on linux everything is customizable.

Then you switch to macOS or Windows or even (not your) linux setup and hate it. When I manage to contain myself entirely to the terminal it's okay, but the moment I have to interact with GUI I start to miss those "just right" things.

I can relate. macOS hilariously sucks on certain GUI and terminal aspects. Not much you can do about GUI, just have to adapt to the way macOS wants to be used. For terminal, I use home-manager to manage my $HOME. It not space efficient and public caches are sub-par, but it's better than searching "sed in-place repace macos and linux cross-platform" for the 9000th time.
by cs702 | 2025-10-15 22:02:41+00:00
Briefly, an RLM wraps an existing language model (LM) together with an environment that can dynamically manipulate the prompt that will be fed into the LM.

The authors use as an environment a Python REPL that itself can call other instances of the LM. The prompt is programmatically manipulated as a Python variable on the REPL.

The motivation is for the LM to use Python commands, including commands that call other LM instances, to figure out how best to modify the context at inference time.

The results from early testing look impressive at a first glance: An RLM wrapping GPT-5-mini outperforms GPT-5 by a wide margin on long-context tasks, at significant lower cost.

I've added this to my reading list.
by tim333 | 2025-10-15 22:03:44+00:00
It's really hard to get anywhere with. I was in Hong Kong a while and gave up. I tried Cantonese and Mandarin. That's another thing with 'Chinese' - there are actually about 200 versions spoken although the written symbols are the same.

At least with Japanese if you read a phrase from the guide book they understand but with Chinese if you don't get the intonation right they can't figure what you are on about.

They are mostly happy to do business in English though - it's not a bad place to cultivate business ties.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-15 22:04:29+00:00
Well, I guess one can take one more step back and say this is all merely an example of "premature optimization is the root of all evil". Unless you know a-priori that you have some very hard latency requirements, start with something simple and low-maintenance. If low-latency requirements come in later, then design that holistically, not just looking at your component. Make sure you're measuring the right things; OOTB metrics often miss the e2e experience. And IME most latency issues come from unexpected places; I know I've spent weeks optimizing services to get an extra percent or two out of them, only to realize there's a config setting that reduced latency by half.

So generally, simplicity is your friend when it comes to latencies (among other things). Fewer things to cause long-tail spikes, more simple things you can try out that don't break the whole system, whereas if you start with a highly-optimized thing up-front, fixing some unexpected long-tail issue may require a complete rewrite.

Also, check with your PM or end users as to whether latency is even important. If the call to your service is generally followed up to a call to some ten-second process, users aren't going to notice the 20ms improvement to your own thing.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-15 22:04:48+00:00
This is a strangely written paper. It reads more like a train of thought or YouTube video style that has been squished into the academic paper LaTeX template. All of the casual comments, informal writings, the ChatGPT acknowledgement, and sentences that start with "I..." feel out of place after reading a lot of academic papers in the same format. I suppose not surprising coming from someone who built their career on YouTube.

The author has become somewhat notorious in physics circles for groan-inducing takes. That's not to say everything she has produced is bad, because it's not, but she has taken a hard turn into audience capture and speaking over-confidently far out of her area of expertise. It will be interesting to see how the experts respond to this paper, if they do at all. Given the format I'm not sure it's actually designed to be submitted for publishing or if it's just formatted in academic paper style and uploaded to arXiv for some other reason. Note that virtually anyone can register for and upload a document to arXiv, so this being on arXiv.org doesn't imply anything specific.
by vunderba | 2025-10-15 22:05:30+00:00
Style transfer for music has actually made huge strides in the past few years.

When I composed this piece of classical music over nearly a decade ago, it was originally intended for strings. A few months ago I tried using GenAI to do a cover in a chamber quartet style by providing a WAV file of the original piano performance and it stayed almost 1:1 faithful to the original in terms of motifs and structure.

Related blog post with comparisons of the original piano performance and the cover for reference.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/screwdriver-sonata
by gargan | 2025-10-15 22:05:58+00:00
Checkout the Dell XPS 13 9345, webcam is on top but with thinner bezels than a Macbook, it's got a Snapdragon ARM processor for good battery life, OLED screen, upto 64GB RAM, and is smaller and lighter than a Macbook Air

Snapdragon X Elite 2 processor will be out next year for the refreshed model
by nomel | 2025-10-15 22:06:46+00:00
From what...my friend say, this becomes evident with LSD.

They said it clearly amplified the internal part of some visual perception loop, in fairly straightforward ways. For example, intentionally trying to see something as it wasn't (like a shadow as a snake) would make it be seen that way (the shadow would take on a clear snake appearance, and even move a bit).

Some simple examples are all the face optical illusions (Thatcher, reverse mask, etc), that show our perception of a face is in no way direct.
by tavavex | 2025-10-15 22:07:09+00:00
I think you're tossing around words like "always" or "never" too lightly, with no justification behind them. Why do you think that no matter how much effort is spent, fully understanding the human brain will always be impossible? Always is a really long time. As long as we keep doing research to increasingly precisely model the universe around us, I don't see what would stop this from happening, even if it takes many centuries or millennia. Most people who argue this justify their point by asserting that there is some unprovable quality of the human brain which can't be modeled at all and can only be created in one way - which both lacks substance and seems arbitrary, since I don't think that this relationship provably exists for anything else that we do know about. It seems like a way to justify that humans and only humans are special.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-15 22:08:07+00:00
A chief advantage of storing backup data across town is that a person can just head over and get it (or ideally, a copy of it) in the unlikely event that it becomes necessary to recover from a local disaster that wasn't handled by raidz and local snapshots.

The time required to set this stuff up is...not very big.

Things like ZFS and Tailscale may sound daunting, but they're very light processes on even the most garbage-tier levels of vaguely-modern PC hardware and are simple to get working.
by razodactyl | 2025-10-15 22:08:16+00:00
As per title: Seems like a company with frontier capabilities and ability to serve at such scale for Kilocode, Windsurf, Cursor with a galactic themed model would speculatively be xAI no?

For reference: I don't care about politics in the scope of standing on the shoulders of giants.

This seems like a massive effort to collect perpetual coding data to ensure longevity of coding abilities.
by bigiain | 2025-10-15 22:09:10+00:00
Sure, but nobody expects a 23 year old to have a two decade old LinkedIn account or work history.

(Except maybe the sorts of idiots who write job descriptions requiring 10+years of experience with some tech that's only 2 years old, and the recruiters who blindly publish those job openings. "Mandatory requirements: 10+ years experience using ChatGPT. 5+ years experience deploying MCP servers.")
by lwansbrough | 2025-10-15 22:09:32+00:00
Not surprising at all this is happening if the intent is to make X less awful. (Which is something Nikita Bier has been trying to do since he was hired.)

Incentivizing content creation does at least two things: it puts virality ahead of everything (quality, correctness, legitimacy) and also creates disproportionately greater value for users in poor or emerging economies. Earning a dollar or two from a post means a lot more to someone from say, India, than it does to someone from the US.

The result has been a huge increase in bots and "legitimate" accounts farming engagement with rage bait and other content that makes X unbearable. Hopefully this helps improve the content, but wow what a massive misplay this whole thing was. Just a terrible, terrible idea from the owner who understands nothing about what made Twitter great.
by DarkmSparks | 2025-10-15 22:09:54+00:00
Your first quote criticising the book starts with "I didnt read this book".

Probably sums up what the book would be complaining about. No experience, didn't actually do any fact checking, makes claims we are supposed to just believe and call it science.

Second video doesnt seem to have any content from the book either.

Color me surprised.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-15 22:10:28+00:00
Sure a search engine might, but this is what LLMs excel at

I tried it and 1-800-ChatGPT got it immediately. "What's the word that sounds like literal, but then it's spelled with an O in it".

It asked if I was thinking of littoral (spelled out), I confirmed, and it gave me the meaning
by michaelmior | 2025-10-15 22:10:54+00:00
I'm curious if you do anything to control how the code evolves over time. Test suites are often incomplete and it's possible that behavior that is not fully specified may be unintentionally relied on.

If Specific regenerates code from the spec each time (which I'm not sure it does), there's the potential for different code each time even for parts of the spec that haven't changed. This seems like a nightmare for maintainability and debugability.
by dgfl | 2025-10-15 22:11:08+00:00
I mostly disagree.

> I was not just counting clicks; I was watching behavior.

This is completely superfluous. The rest of the paragraph is fine, but the only real ChatGPTism is this one.

> They are not just hitting your site and leaving; they are programmed to mimic engagement

In this case it’s a valid sentence. What makes it sound overly AI are the semicolon and the timing, which is exactly the usual “it’s not just {1-5 words}; it’s {1-5 words}”.

Also, perhaps I’m not a typical audience member (I’m not), but I was not assuming any of that. I would try to explain how I parse this kind of language, but the gist is that a 10 sentence word with unambiguous meaning doesn’t really leave space for interpretation. Your attempt to “anticipate what the audience is thinking” is just a writing style, nothing deep about it.

My point mostly being that, as I mentioned in the parent, this is clearly a text written in the ChatGPT style, with simple yet over-expressive language. I personally heavily dislike the style, but I’m a non native speaker used to either scientific or fiction prose. I don’t encounter it too often, and to me it sounds like a parody of Silicon Valley vernacular. Scam alerts immediately start firing in my brain. There’s no “good way” of doing it nowadays.
by codingrightnow | 2025-10-15 22:11:23+00:00
The American dream is dead and none of our politicians on the right and not enough on the left are talking about it. The American dream isn't to get filthy rich by providing an innovative product or solution and gobbling up an astronomical percentage of monetary resources. The dream is to come out of college with easy to repay debt or work a trade with a good union, be able to buy a home after a few years of saving, start a family, not go deep into credit card debt just to survive, and retire on time. None of that is feasible anymore and will not without major changes. Trump may think he's bringing that back with his tariffs but it's not a one fix problem. Many things need to be addressed that we are not willing to talk about.
by PhilippGille | 2025-10-15 22:11:28+00:00
One option: Use OpenRouter [1] with the `openrouter/auto` model [2], which will pick among GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and similar.

[1] https://openrouter.ai/

[2] https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/auto
by themafia | 2025-10-15 22:11:52+00:00
> the ones you just wish you had

You will have these problems. Not as often as the larger companies but to imagine that they simply don't exist is the opposite of sound engineering.

> if they never got called in the first place due to misconfiguration

Centralized logging is built into all these platforms. Debugging these issues is one of the things that becomes absurdly easy.

> likely locked into your upload system

The protocol provided by S3 is available through dozens of vendors.

> Was it necessary?

It only matters if it is of equivalent or lessor cost.

> every system design decision is a trade off

Yet you explicitly ignore these.

> are being sold system designs

No, I just read the documentation, and then built it. That's one of those "trade offs" you're willingly ignoring.