MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Frieren | 2025-10-19 14:50:42+00:00
> It was always possible to create these kinds of images. Only you needed to be (or find) a highly skilled yet unscrupulous artist to do it, which didn't happen in practice.

Because that human being would have been sent to trial and probably prison. Why nobody is going to prison now?

> Going after technology providers is never going to work because the technology is fundamentally general purpose.

A tech guy telling the public that "Going after technology providers is never going to work" seems very biased. I would propose the opposite. To send to prison all these CEOs that create tech that harms people, specially minors. They are getting the profits, they should be paying the price too.
by nabla9 | 2025-10-19 14:50:50+00:00
As many of the owners are billionaires or close to it, it's no surprise that it's mostly empty. Most of them don't live in NYC; they just don't want to live in a five star hotel while visiting.

Chinese, Russian, and Gulf billionaires buy them to serve as emergency assets. Losing some value doesn't matter to them as long as they have a few hundred million dollars stashed away in NYC, London, Geneva as physical property.
Ask HN: How to Learn Object Oriented Designing?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-10-19 14:51:24+00:00
I want to learn inheritance, abstraction and encapsulation in depth. Likewise I want to learn about the need of interface and abstract classes. I want to learn to design objects.

I am using Java.

I found a course which seems OP but it is not freely available(like all the good things in the world).

https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs3500/

It recommends Effective Java, GoF, Head First Design Patterns etc. But most of those books are more of a style guide.

I am currently at a phase where I do not understand how to design object oriented programs. I have been coding everything under Main class like crazy.

I need a detailed course, or book to learn this as I am a very slow learner. And I am doing this for fun, so there is no time constraint. There are books like grady booch, craig larman, but they are bit too dry in my opinion. But I might change my mind.
by 9rx | 2025-10-19 14:52:22+00:00
> Clearly, the only reason you picked 2007 at all is the iPhone debuted that year.

The productivity figures show decline from trend in 2007 with no recovery since. Presumably 2007 was chosen for that reason. This is also the time in popular culture when things were thought to have started to go all wrong.

Whereas the iPhone wasn't widely available until 2008 with the release of the iPhone 3G. The original iPhone was only available to a small beta testing group (~1 million people) in the USA. While it is technically true that some people had iPhones in their hand in 2007, it is highly unlikely that tiny number of people "destroyed the world" by it. Clearly something happened before the iPhone.
by LooerCell | 2025-10-19 14:52:26+00:00
About the quality of the images, it's on purpose:

> By dithering, we can make images ten times less resource-intensive, even though they are displayed much larger than on the old website.

This is needed because the website is solar-powered and self-hosted on low-tech hardware, read more here:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-19 14:52:29+00:00
There was a similar attitude in some French intellectual circles in the seventies and eighties.

For example I know Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre were involved.

Having known several victims of CSA and some of their abusers, I think many people would be surprised at the amount of effort and planning that goes into ensuring access to a pool of potential victims. Abstractly it's a supply chain problem and is treated as such by the abusers.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-10-19 14:52:58+00:00
Am I correct in thinking this is the 2nd such fumble by a major lab? DeepMind released their “matrix multiplication better than SOTA” paper a few months back, which suggested Gemini had uncovered a new way to optimally multiply two matrices in fewer steps than previously known. Then immediately after their announcement, mathematicians pointed out that their newly discovered SOTA had been in the literature for 30-40 years, and was almost certainly in Gemini’s training set.
by gdiamos | 2025-10-19 14:53:09+00:00
Try doing a head to head comparison using all LLM tricks available including prompt engineering, rag, reasoning, inference time compute, multiple agents, tools, etc

Then try the same thing using fine tuning. See which one wins. In ML class we have labeled datasets with breeds of dogs hand labeled by experts like Andrej, in real life users don’t have specific, clearly defined, and high quality labeled data like that.

I’d be interested to be proven wrong

I think it is easy for strong ML teams to fall into this trap because they themselves can get fine tuning to work well. Trying to scale it to a broader market is where it fell apart for us.

This is not to say that no one can do it. There were users who produced good models. The problem we had was where to consistently find these users who were willing to pay for infrastructure.

I’m glad we tried it, but I personally think it is beating a dead horse/llama to try it today
by zzzeek | 2025-10-19 14:53:11+00:00
> I kind of get it, but at the same time...isn't "we made a machine to do something that people used to do" basically the entire history of of technology?

this is not about machines. machines are built for a purpose. who is "building" them for what "purpose" ?

if you look at every actual real world human referenced in this website, they all have something in common. which is that they're billionaires.

this is a website about billionaires and their personal agendas.
by musebox35 | 2025-10-19 14:53:19+00:00
I totally agree with your assessment. I just wanted to highlight that “implementation agnostic” is both a blessing and a curse. You can always apply the principles of diataxis but it provides near zero guidance on how to actually build the documentation for a specific project. This does not reduce its conceptual value, but I wish there was another framework with a complementary practical value.
by dangus | 2025-10-19 14:53:25+00:00
What a horrendous zero-nuance video of actors reading a script that blames generations (dividing the working class) instead of blaming the decision-making elite (uniting the working class).

I am pretty sure I read that something like 1/3 of all baby boomers had zero retirement savings in their late 50s. Many boomers are in dire poverty.

Maybe future generations are poorer than that but that’s not specifically the fault of baby boomers, especially not the ones who are living in poverty.

Even your Fox News grandpa who is indoctrinated to the cult of mafia capitalism isn’t at fault for his views, corporations have gone to great lengths at great expense to propagandize to him.
by chenjq | 2025-10-19 14:53:47+00:00
That's a fair point. Nylon is like a packaged version of that setup, all into a single application, protocol and interface. You perhaps lose a little bit of control and performance, for ease-of-use and a bit more portability.

I'm not sure about the specifics for your network, but if you want to set up a similar network using WireGuard as the tunnel, you'd have to set up each peering arrangement manually. (Similar to: https://blog.bella.network/internal-bgp-with-wireguard/) This means adding a new node to your network will require you to create new key pairs, add new interfaces to existing nodes (that you want to peer with), and configure your routing daemon.

This may in fact be desirable to many, as it gives them more control over what happens in their network. I'm sure there might be tools to automate that process, but nylon takes a different approach.

Nylon implements babel at the level of WireGuard, offering:

Simplicity.

- Nylon bypasses the requirement for needing a new WireGuard interface on each end of a peering pair. (Peering arrangements are defined as WireGuard endpoints on a graph, instead of interfaces). This also means there will only be a single nylon interface, and all of the routing logic is hidden away from the user.

- Adding a new node on nylon is pretty trivial. You would set up the node with a private key, put the public key in the central config, and declare the peering on that config. Then, you can use the built-in config distribution mechanism to push it to all of your nodes.

- Both the control packets (for routing) and data packets (IP) are also sent encrypted in the same WireGuard tunnel, so you would only have to expose the bare minimum to the public.

Usability.

- Nylon is more portable, as it does not depend on your system's routing table, routing daemon or special kernel features such as network namespaces. Therefore, we can support Linux, macOS and Windows (pretty much any platform that wireguard-go supports).

- As it's built as an extension into the WireGuard protocol, it remains backwards compatible. There is even special handling, which allows "vanilla" wg devices to roam freely between configured nylon nodes. (Nylon will re-advertise the new "gateway" node and expire routes accordingly)
by YesBox | 2025-10-19 14:54:32+00:00
Wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI employees are being asked to phrase (market) things this way. This is not the first time they claimed GPT-5 "solved" something [1]

[1] https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1970875019803910478

edit: full text

It's becoming increasingly clear that gpt5 can solve MINOR open math problems, those that would require a day/few days of a good PhD student. Ofc it's not a 100% guarantee, eg below gpt5 solves 3/5 optimization conjectures. Imo full impact of this has yet to be internalized...
by happytoexplain | 2025-10-19 14:54:33+00:00
>we should have figured out

You would think! But it's not the type of problem Americans seem to care about. If we could address it collectively, then we wouldn't have these talking-past-each-other clashes where the harmed masses get told they're somehow idiots for caring more about keeping the life and relative happiness they worked to earn for their families than achieving the maximum adoption rate of some new thing that's good for society long term, but only really helps the executives short term. There's a line where disruption becomes misery, and most people in the clear don't appreciate how near the line is to the status quo.
by r0fl | 2025-10-19 14:55:17+00:00
Not sure why you’re downvoted so hard

Small companies making niche products should not get a pass when they have bad service just because it’s not made by one of the big guys.

Had the same crap experience with Thursday boots. The founder goes on podcasts touting nonsense thinking he is the next zappos while customer service is compete garbage when there is a problem.

I bought a pebble when it first came out. Loved it. But this new one is way too late and too expensive to care about.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-10-19 14:55:24+00:00
> with pure LLMs and without a planning framwork.

Sure, but isn't that moving the goalposts? Why shouldn't we use LLMs + tools if it works? If anything it shows that the early detractors weren't even considering this could work. Yann in particular was skeptical that long-context things can happen in LLMs at all. We now have "agents" that can work a problem for hours, with self context trimming, planning to md files, editing those plans and so on. All of this just works, today. We used to dream about it a year ago.
by mmooss | 2025-10-19 14:55:31+00:00
> I'm definitely not wise though, that's why I asked because for many of these things I often start really puzzled and after a few years of sharing some opinion someone finally says something that makes it click for me and I was hoping to see if there's something I'm missing. I'm not very "woke" by default and it requires plenty of talking and thinking for me to see the other side. And this is a discussion forum to share ideas! When you're wrong just post something online and wait, like xckd said.

Well, I think that's pretty wise. Sorry to be so argumentative! :)

> I think there's validity in avoiding gratuitous mentions of some topics given some audiences, but what I'm puzzled by is the specific implementation that to me makes it worse than just not thinking about it and writing what you'd write anyway. It really makes no sense, to me.

I don't pretend to know enough about human psychology to have a certain answer, but here are my thoughts:

Words, specific words, have impacts beyond their meanings. For example, people use euphemisms all the time - gentle ways of saying something harsh - in many (all?) cultures, because they work. More generally, people say things politely rather than rudely or directly, even talking about happy things like sex, or natural things like excreting waste.

Perhaps it lessens the blow; it allows people to glance at something troubling without being retraumatized. It also signals care: Being polite communicates you care about and respect the other person; being rude conveys the opposite.

People have long made the logical point that the meaning is the same so why not say the rude thing, but clearly almost everyone feels otherwise and the words we choose have an impact beyond their meanings.

And in case it does help someone to obscure the word, why not do it?

> Obviously I speak in first person, makes zero sense, to me.

It's not obvious. People make assertions about the world all the time.
by happytoexplain | 2025-10-19 14:55:49+00:00
>pls don't replace us

Yeah, how dare they not want to lose their careers.

Losing a bunch of jobs in a short period is terrible. Losing a bunch of careers in a short period is a catastrophe.

Also, this is dishonest - nobody is confused about why people don't like AI replacing/reducing some jobs and forms of art, no matter what words they use to describe their feelings (or how you choose to paraphrase those words).
by owisd | 2025-10-19 14:56:21+00:00
2007 seems a bit early to be looking for an effect. Smartphones were a luxury/tech-nerd/Apple-fanboy purchase in 2007, they didn’t start to see widespread adoption till the iPhone 4/4s (2010-2012) closer to when most of the graphs have their discontinuity. In the US, 50% smartphone ownership didn’t happen till 2014 for adults and 2016 for teens.
by AviationAtom | 2025-10-19 14:56:34+00:00
I always compare it to the age of the industrial revolution. I have no doubt you had stubborn old people saying: "Why would I need a machine to do what I can do just fine by hand??" Those people quickly found themselves at a disadvantage to those who choose not to fight change, but to embrace it and harness technological leaps to improve their productivity and output.
by mrblah | 2025-10-19 14:56:59+00:00
i did a good deal of searching after i noticed my improvement, but only finding anecdotes, not a lot of real research specifically for tinnitus and b1/benfotiamine.

the cynic in me thinks the research around an un-patentable nutritional fix could only be funded in academia and there's much more serious nerve ailments that get the attention/dollars
by doodlebugging | 2025-10-19 14:57:16+00:00
>10,000 acres of abandoned buildings?

Since this is such a large contributor to the heat problem in the Houston area they should tear down the abandoned buildings and build Olympic-sized swimming pools on each of these locations. By my calculations, seeing that a pool occupies 0.31 acres, they could replace these abandoned buildings with up to 32258 swimming pools which would immediately improve the quality of life in the Houston area. The water is available if you just use one of those MIT condensation gizmos that passively pulls moisture from the air. That would mitigate some of the horrendous humidity issues that Houstononianites feel during their two seasons (warm and humid followed by hot and humid). Houston could be a veritable seaside paradise with this one simple change.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-10-19 14:57:26+00:00
I think there's a theory out there that if something can't die, it's more of a "library" than "immortal"... because being born and dying (and the fact that you sharing resources with another living thing is possibly you sharing/shortening your one finite life with another) is so essential for any social bonding. so a machine that has obtained all the knowledge of the universe and enabled to act upon that knowledge is still just a library with controllers attached (no more sophisticated of a concept than a thermostat)

in the end, if synthetic super intelligence results in the end of mankind, it'll be because a human programmed it to do so. more of a computer virus than a malevolent synthetic alien entity. a digital nuclear bomb.
Show HN: EloqDoc: MongoDB-compatible doc DB with object storage as first citizen
by iamlintaoz | 2025-10-19 14:57:59+00:00
We're excited to share EloqDoc, a new open source document database built on top of Data Substrate. EloqDoc is designed around the principle of treating object storage (like S3) as a first-class citizen for durability and cost efficiency. If you love the flexibility of MongoDB's document model but are struggling with scaling, cost, and consistency due to its coupled architecture, EloqDoc is for you. It’s built to solve MongoDB's inherent infrastructure challenges while remaining fully compatible with existing MongoDB clients and drivers.

Key Features:

1. Object Storage as First Citizen: Uses object storage for primary durability, leveraging local NVMe caching to achieve both lower cost and higher performance than using block-level storage (e.g. EBS).

2. Decoupled Compute & Storage: Scale your compute/QPS independently of your storage capacity, or vice-versa, without data movement.

3. True ACID Transactions: Delivers full ACID compliance with especially fast distributed transactions—consistency without compromise.

4. Native Distribution & Multi-Writer: It's a natively distributed database, eliminating complex manual sharding routers (like mongos) and supporting true Multi-Writer scalability.

Check it out: https://www.github.com/eloqdata/eloqdoc

We welcome any feedback, critique, or questions on the EloqDoc!
by echelon | 2025-10-19 14:58:41+00:00
What models did you try to find tune? Were the models at the time even good enough to fine tune? Did they suffer from catastrophic forgetting?

We have a lot of more capable open source models now. And my guess is that if you designed models specifically for being fine tuned, they could escape many of the last generation pitfalls.

Companies would love to own their own models instead of renting from a company that seeks to replace them.
by no_wizard | 2025-10-19 14:59:21+00:00
The vast majority of the movement was peaceful. There is one verified instance where a mill owner was killed and it was condemned by leaders of the movement. It was not a violent movement at its core.

Second, the movement was certainly attacked first. It was mill owners who petitioned the government to use “all force necessary” against the luddites and the government acting on behalf of them killed and maimed people who engaged in peaceful demonstrations before anyone associated with the Luddite movement reacted violently, and again, even in the face of violence the Luddite movement was at its core non violent.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-19 14:59:43+00:00
I notice you didn't use the word "fair" though. Probably because FPTP is not fair.

In FPTP, if your vote doesn't elect the winner in your constituency, it was wasted. Even if you voted for the eventual government party in a seat that the party didn't win. Your vote did not count. In other electoral systems, it does count.

FPTP means that one vote in one area (e.g. a "safe seat") is not equal to one vote somewhere else. Knowing the geographical distribution of preferences makes gerrymandering possible, and elections have been won not by fair voting, but by unfair redistricting.

FPTP massively punishes any "similar" parties with a vote-split, meaning parties have to become mega-alliances and ultimately they are ground down to just 2 parties. That's the only stable configuration. Any third party has to be mercilessly destroyed, otherwise it will start taking votes from the party it is most similar, leaving their opponent an easy victory.

That's what happened in the 2024 election: Reform UK no longer had the electoral pact they had with the Conservatives in 2019 (where Reform UK voluntarily withdrew from any seats the Conservatives were likely to win), and as a result, the vote-split between Reform UK and Conservatives let Labour romp home to victory.

* Labour got 63% of the seats with 33% of the vote.

* Conservatives got 18% of the seats with 23% of the vote

* Reform UK got 0.8% of the seats with 14% of the vote

* Lib Dems got 11% of the seats with 12% of the vote

That is manifestly unjust. Reform got 5 seats for 4,117,610 votes while Lib Dems got 72 seats for 3,519,143 votes. If that's democratic then I'm a banana.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-19 14:59:54+00:00
I never had the case, that an URL did not exist. For me it shows stuff like "generating web search", so I guess it tries to fetch the URL first, before suggesting it. LLMs like to give tangentially related links, but this is typically paired with a sentence, that the link I really asked for, does not exist.

> It's impossible to have used LLMs for this purpose for more than a quarter of an hour and not have seen this.

You may be generalizing too much from your experience.
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by newsclues | 2025-10-19 15:00:27+00:00
Replacing dirty, dangerous jobs, and allowing people to upskill and work better jobs is one thing.

Firing educated workers en mass for software that isn’t as good but cheaper, doesn’t have the same benefits to society at large.

What is the goal of replacing humans with robots? More money for the ownership class, or freeing workers from terrible jobs so they can contribute to society in a greater way?
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-19 15:00:49+00:00
That’s… a strange dismissal of my point, and not based in reality. And despite yourself, you’re agreeing with me. The smart sales leader will find creative ways to pivot. And even if they don’t hit their numbers for factors outside their control, if they played their hand well, that’s what you reward.

If you’re solely graded on outcomes, you end up with very bizarre behavior as people game the system.

See: surgeons avoiding high risk patients because they don’t want to ding their outcome scores. And see Wells Fargo employees fraudulently creating accounts for people to boost their numbers.

You want to have an org that encourages (calculated) risk taking and rewards those who persevere though difficult situations.