MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bwy | 2025-10-17 19:39:24+00:00
I think you're wrong, in the same way that folks on HN were wrong about Dropbox–HN: why would I pay for something that provides so little value, it's just slightly more convenient file storage?

Just because open source models are almost as good, doesn't mean you can underestimate the convenience factor.

Both can be true: we're in an AI bubble, and the large incumbents will capture most of the value/be difficult to unseat.
by j45 | 2025-10-17 19:40:05+00:00
Intuition of someone who has put in a decade or two of wondering openly can't me discounted as easily as someone who might be a beginner to it.

AGI to encompass all of humanity's knowledge in one source and beat every human on every front might be a decade away.

Individual agents with increased agency adequately covering more and more abilities consistently? Seems like a steady path that can be seen into the horizon to put one foot in front of the other.

For me, the grain of salt I'd take Karpathy with is much, much, smaller than average, only because he tries to share how he thinks and examines his own understanding and changes it.

His ability to explain complex things simply is something that for me helps me learn and understand things quicker and see if I arrive at something similar or different, and not immediately assume anything is wrong, or right without my understanding being present.
by arawde | 2025-10-17 19:40:21+00:00
From personal experience making the same comparisons during undergrad, I think it just comes down to the availability of conceptual models. If the brain does X, there's a good chance that a computer does something that looks like X, or that X could be recreated through steps Y & Z, etc.

Once I started to realize just how much of the brain is inscrutable, because it is a machine operating on chemicals instead of strict electrical processing, I became a lot more reluctant to draw those comparisons
by highwaylights | 2025-10-17 19:40:23+00:00
Not really convinced the logic is right here. If the battery dies there’s still options before replacing it with a new one from the manufacturer at retail price.

Even then, batteries in EVs don’t have a 100% failure rate. There are still many 15 year old Leafs driving around on the original battery, and I’m not sure the out-and-out failures (I.e. not including gradual capacity loss) are a high number either.

Modern EVs (2016-present) have even lower failure rates again (below 1% within 200k miles including those replaced due to capacity loss)
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-17 19:40:24+00:00
You may be correct, but for my hobbyist projects I tend to use the cheaper models to get started, and then I'll switch to a more expensive one if the cheaper model gets stuck.

Unless the actual race is to create an AI Employee that operates and can deliver work without constant supervision. At that level, of course it would be cheaper to pay $2,000 a month straight to Open AI vs hiring a junior SWE
by cwillu | 2025-10-17 19:40:27+00:00
Super resolution refers to imaging below the refraction limit, more or less by having the receiving sensor within a wavelength or two of the material being imaged, allowing you to use the nearfield (which doesn't have a diffraction limit, but which also doesn't propagate beyond a couple wavelengths) instead of the farfield (which does, and does).

It's unrelated to the nvidia marketing term for ai filtering of images.
by Sanzig | 2025-10-17 19:40:48+00:00
If you are a Canadian entity, I would go OVH rather than Vultr. OVH US is a completely distinct legal entity from their Canada and EU offerings, specifically so that the rest of OVH is immune to the CLOUD Act. Vultr is an American company, so if Uncle Sam asks for your data, even at a Canadian location, there's nothing Vultr nor you can do to stop it.

This wasn't a consideration a few years ago, but with how quickly things are devolving south of the border it's now much more of a risk. If I were operating a company in Canada, I would want to be able to assure my customers that their data won't get expropriated to the US without first going through Canadian courts.

OVH Canada now has two Canadian locations, by the way - the original location in Beauharnois and a new location in Cambridge, so you even can have two zones for redundancy.
by zahlman | 2025-10-17 19:40:52+00:00
> When you are the public face of a company (and framework) and you are publishing your political opinions using your companies platform, you are now bringing politics to work.

So Tim Cook would be "bringing politics to work" by posting politics on Twitter from an iPhone? Plenty of prominent Python community members, including core devs, have politics on their blogs and also use Python-powered technology (dedicated SSGs like Nikola, but also even Sphinx which is really meant for documentation) to generate and publish pages; is that "bringing politics to work"?
by hcknwscommenter | 2025-10-17 19:41:13+00:00
I think the numbers of those early leafs (a lot were sold), their horribly degraded batteries, and their consequently low sales price make the numbers appear a bit more dire for resale EVs as a whole than they are in reality (breakdown loss of resale value by model and other EVs are doing much better). However, I think it is also true that EV resale values are lower than they perhaps should be due to used battery fears.
by kube-system | 2025-10-17 19:41:49+00:00
I don't think most people are caught up on the cost per mile, but the inconvenience factor. If you can't charge at home, you going to have to go exclusively to a public charger, which is already pretty inconvenient for a lot of people, and for people of average or lower incomes, they might not even have one in their neighborhood.

We'll probably see a lot more adoption once infrastructure is equitably available to everyone.
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-17 19:41:54+00:00
> For actual work and not toying around the 10% gap is absolutely worth the cost.

I agree with this... for now. But the hosted commercial models aren't widening the gap as far as I can tell, if anything it appears to be narrowing.

And if the relative delta doesn't increase somehow I don't see any way in which the "AI race" doesn't end in a situation where locally run LLMs on relatively cheap hardware end up being good enough for virtually everyone.

Which in many ways is the best possible outcome, except for the likely severe economic effects when the bubble bursts on the commercial AI side.
by westurner | 2025-10-17 19:42:03+00:00
Applications for:

"Multispectral imaging through scattering media and around corners via spectral component separation" (2024) https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-32-27-48786&id... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557904

"Multi-sensor characterization for an improved identification of polymers in WEEE recycling" (2024) [WEE: e-waste] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42534637 ..

"Reversible optical data storage below the diffraction limit" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331986 :

>> [...] This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain.

"Tongue Disease Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms" (2024) https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/12/7/97 :

>> This study proposes a new imaging system to analyze and extract tongue color features at different color saturations and under different light conditions from five color space models (RGB, YcbCr, HSV, LAB, and YIQ).

"A self-healing multispectral transparent adhesive peptide glass" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07408-x :

> Moreover, the supramolecular glass is an extremely strong adhesive yet it is transparent in a wide spectral range from visible to mid-infrared. This exceptional set of characteristics is observed in a simple bioorganic peptide glass composed of natural amino acids, presenting a multi-functional material

Further study:

/? hyperspectral, specra-: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Related applications:

Was looking into phase imaging and the four Stokes parameters S0,S1,S2,S3 and so on in assessing applications for the Parallel Axis Theorem: 2x2 "superpixel" imaging can capture the ((-45, 45), (L Circuluar, R Circular)) polarization information necessary to infer phase (and non-quantum optical entanglement is polarization)

Is polarimetric imaging (per-pixel polarization information) hyperspectral or hyperspectropolarimetrical?

spectropolarimetry: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=spectro...

Spectropolarimetry -> Polarimetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarimetry

For example a division-of-focal-plane (DoFP) camera / image sensor has 2x2 pixels.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-17 19:42:19+00:00
I wonder if this is a way to make Claude smarter about tool use. As I try more and more of CC, one thing that's been frustrating me is that it often falls over when trying to call some command line tool. Like it will try to call tool_1 which is not on the system, and it errors out, and then it tries to call tool_2, but it's in the wrong working directory or something, so it fails too, then it changes directory and tries to call tool_2 again, and it passes the wrong command line parameters or something, then it tries again... All the while, probably wasting my limited token budget on all of its fuckups. It's gotten to the point where I let it do the code changes, but when it decides it wants to run something in the shell (or execute the project's executable), I just interrupt it and do the rest of the command line work myself.
by dangus | 2025-10-17 19:42:25+00:00
Despite those mistakes, the utility is undeniable.

I converted some tooling from bash scripts leveraging the AWS CLI to a Go program leveraging the AWS SDK, improving performance, utility, and reliability.

I did this in less than two days and I don’t even know how to write Go.

Yes, it made some mistakes, but I was able to correct them easily. Yes, I needed to have general programming knowledge to correct those mistakes.

But overall, this project would not exist without AI. I wouldn’t have had the spare time learn all I needed to learn (mostly boilerplate) and to implement what I wanted to do.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-17 19:42:39+00:00
I just stopped paying for ChatGPT this month, once I found out that they made the projects available to free users too. The free version is just as good and I can shuffle between Grok, Mistral, Deepseek and Gemini when I run out of free quota.

So maybe giving away more and more free stuff is good for growth? The product is excellent, ChatGPT is still my favorite but the competition isn't that behind. If fact, I started liking Grok better for most tasks
by brookst | 2025-10-17 19:42:42+00:00
Yes, and MCPs also only work as long as you trust the provider. MCP relies on honesty in from the server. In reality, we know Uber and folks will prompt engineer like hell to try to convince any LLM that it is the best option for any kind of service.

There’s a fundamental misalignment of incentives between publishers and consumers of MCP.
by port11 | 2025-10-17 19:43:02+00:00
There really isn't any need to conflate React with Next. React has its issues — notably more after exposing its internals in hooks —, but Next should be seen as something on its own.

I don't mind picking up a contract for maintaining React code, but never again am I touching anything built by Vercel; unless I specifically crave the “automagically different every release” quicksand masochism of their tools. I'm sorry to the people working on, say, Next; these are qualified and talented individuals. But the DX over time, gods…

React is still a reasonable view library, although not a top choice at all (for me). Insisting on using it for SSR via Next is self-inflicted pain down the road.
by angiolillo | 2025-10-17 19:43:16+00:00
> The question "can a submarine safely move through water" IS a very interesting question

Sure, and the question of whether AI can safely perform a particular task is interesting.

> Obviously this quote would be well applied if we were at a stage where computers were better at everything humans can do and some people were saying "This is not AGI because it doesn't think exactly the same as a human".

Why would that be required?

I used the quote primarily to point out that discussing the utility of AI is wholly distinct from discussing the semantics of words like "think", "general intelligence", or "swim". Knowing whether we are having a debate about utility/impact or philosophy/semantics seems relevant regardless of the current capabilities of AI.
by psadri | 2025-10-17 19:43:19+00:00
When I think about a problem, I consciously explore a tree (or graph) of possibility chains. This requires a mental space to keep track of “state”. Sometimes jotting things down on paper helps if I can’t keep it all in my head. The process is: - generate some possibilities - rank them based on intuition (this might happen subconsciously!) - ask what if we follow possibility Pn - push Pn on to the stack. - recourse or pop stack if deadened

I feel LLMs are fairly capable when it comes to doing each of those steps in isolation. But not when it is all put together as a process.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-17 19:43:21+00:00
> Selling 100B worth of stocks for anything close to 100B is not possible. That volume would mini-crash the entire exchange

Nasdaq trades about half a trillion dollars a day [1]. Even if Musk were an idiot and dumped $100bn in one day, it would crash Tesla's stock price, not the Nasdaq.

If Musk wanted to give OpenAI $100bn, the best way to do it would be to (a) borrow against his shares or (b) given OpenAI his (non-voting) shares.

[1] https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=DailyMarketSumma...
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-17 19:43:38+00:00
Reddit is a prime platform for users to report problems with pretty much any service. Reports from moderate to high karma users who're not newly registered will carry more weight. If you haven't used it for this purpose, then you're absolutely in the minority. Typically people don't pay attention until they themselves become a victim, and then they learn the hard way.

To label it an "anecdote" is to gaslight it. It is lived experience.
by adventured | 2025-10-17 19:43:41+00:00
Adding nines to nature is exactly what humans are doing. We are nature. We are part of the natural order.

Anything that exists is part of nature, there can be no exceptions.

If I go burn a forest down on purpose, that is in fact nature doing it. No different than if a dolphin kills another animal for fun or a chimp kills another chimp over a bit of territory. Insects are also every bit as 'vicious' in their conquests.
by bitwize | 2025-10-17 19:43:51+00:00
Because of his somewhat similar traits (long hair, rockstar/edgelord vibe, ego, puerile game tastes) I always thought of Itagaki as "the Japanese John Romero". A personality type for which I have a grudging respect: probably difficult as all get-out to work with, but brilliantly creative, seems like he has a lot of fun with it, and ballsy enough to defend his ideas. I'm sad he's gone so soon.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-17 19:44:26+00:00
> What government enforcement are you on about?

UK and EU are defacto making Petrol/Diesel cars production uneconomical / illegal. California IIRC are also has a deadline for Petrol/Diesel cars IIRC.

> And why a massive downgrade?

The biggest ones for me are:

1) Range. I have a 700 mile range on my car. My old car before that could do 600 miles. I can travel from one end of the UK to another with 1/2 fuel stops. I have family I see regularly on the other side of the country. I can do the trip in 4 providing good traffic In an Electric vehicle that time is 5-7 hours due to the extra stops required. I know this because my mother and step father recently came to visit me and they have an electric vehicle. If you regularly do longer trips even 30 minutes off the road is a long time. I don't stop for anything other than a bathroom break when I do a long journey.

2) Charging time. I live in an apartment. I would need to charge the car away from home. That is a massive PITA IMO. I spend maybe 5 minutes in a petrol station, compared to 30 minutes at a charger.

3) Almost every modern vehicle car has a bunch of annoyances in the vehicle. The electric cars I have seen have this dialled up to 11.

4) Cost. Electric vehicles are really expensive IMO. I can get a cheap second hand diesel for a few thousand in reasonable condition.

> And why don't you change the channel off of Fox occasionally?

Snarky responses like this is why people become resentful. Just because people have a different view point to yours doesn't mean they have been brainwashed by someone.

A lot of us are happy with the vehicles we already have. I simply do not have an interest in ever owning an electric vehicle. I also prefer older vehicles and bikes because they are simpler and I prefer the way they operate.

A lot of these themes btw was explored by Demolition Man with Sly Stallone. The "resistance" figures to the "regime" are eating meat and driving a v8 muscle car.

I suggest you watch that, it is a fun movie and Sandra Bullock looks gorgeous in it.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-17 19:44:26+00:00
> 100M growth in two months suggests literally every single human being on Earth would benefit from using this all the time, and it’s just a matter of enabling them to.

Only about 5% see enough value to drop $20 a month... It's like VR and AR, if people get a headset for free they'll use them every now and then, but virtually nobody wants to drop money on these.

LLMs have already been commodified
by chaps | 2025-10-17 19:44:47+00:00
I dunno about that analogy, but the fix for this is for editors to be included in the byline, or at least at the bottom where contributors are often found. Some newsrooms have started doing this but it should absolutely be more common. But as things are, we have newsrooms whose editorial boards are completely anonymous so i don't expect anything to change in the industry anytime soon.
by andoando | 2025-10-17 19:45:22+00:00
What do you find difficult about writing MCPs? I havent worked much with them but it seems easy enough. I made an MCP that integrates with jenkins so I can deploy code from claude (not totally useful cause can just make a few cli commands), but still took like 10 mins and works flawlessly.

But I suppose yeah, why not just write clis and have an llm call them
by torginus | 2025-10-17 19:45:26+00:00
This might be slightly off topic, but after the Sora 2/anime controversy I just looked up how much does it cost to make your average anime - it turns out that top tier 26 ep anime shows like Chainsaw Man, Delicious In Dungeon or box office movies like Demon Slayer cost between $10-$20m to make. Now I don't know how much they spend on Sora 2, but I'd imagine tens of billions. For that money, you could make a thousand such shows.

While this post is full of conjecture, and somewhat unrelated to LLMs, but not their economics - I wonder how the insane capex is going to be justified even if AI becomes fully capable of replacing salaried professionals, they'll still end up paying much much more than what it'd have cost to just hire that armies of professionals for decades.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-17 19:45:53+00:00
Law enforcement don't have to be "fighting for their lives" in order to arrest you. The

Cops can and will arrest you if you're impeding their duties. Prosecutors don't have to charge you, and often don't when it comes to political activism. Doesn't mean they can't, the people who are released without charge are being given a break, I wouldn't be outraged over that. And we're talking about 170 citizens who were definitely protesting and interfering with police duties, out of tens hundreds of thousands of police interactions. This is a big fucking nothing burger and you are all losing your minds.

A protestor's actions are arrestable if they meet statutory elements:

- Physically blocking police movement or access (e.g., surrounding a patrol car or blocking arrests).

- Touching, grabbing, or standing too close after a lawful order to back away.

- Ignoring a lawful dispersal order after being warned.

- Using amplification or crowd behavior that prevents officers from issuing commands or making arrests.

Officers typically move to arrest when:

- They’ve given clear, repeated commands (e.g., “Move back,” “Clear the street”) that are ignored.

- The person’s proximity or actions create a safety risk (blocking traffic, interfering with detainment).

- A dispersal order is issued and disobeyed.

- The crowd shifts from peaceful to physically obstructive or destructive.

This process is completely separate from the decision to prosecute those who are arrested. Often, protestors are not prosecuted for political and economic reasons. It's not a crime to arrest someone and not charge them. It's not a violation of the constitution. Nothing has to be dire.
by zahlman | 2025-10-17 19:46:15+00:00
The fact that you speak of "the Linux distro community" but also "the APT / dpkg model" is already telling. Most distros — i.e., everything not derived from Debian — don't even use the same package format. A lot of the problem has been mitigated simply by letting people choose among competitive suites of alternatives.

That said, there's been quite a bit of drama lately in prominent Linux projects — notably bcachefs, X11 (and the fork XLibre), and the Omarchy distribution (even connected to the current story!).
by toast0 | 2025-10-17 19:46:41+00:00
For most applications, clock precision of synchronization isn't really necessary. Timestamps may be used to order events, but what is important is that there is a deterministic order of events, not that the timestamps represent the actual order that the events happened.

In such systems, ntp is inexpensive and sufficient. On networks where ntpd's assumptions hold (symetric and consistent delays), sync within a millisecond is acheivable without much work.

If you need better, PTP can get much better results. A local ntpserver following GPS with a PPS signal can get slightly better results (but without PPS it might well be worse)
by fair_enough | 2025-10-17 19:47:06+00:00
I don't see how being compensated for giving your organ to someone else is worse than being told you can either give it away for free or not at all.

Imagine if billionaires had to pay the "riff-raff" organ donors to continue living their vain and hollow lives instead of bribing hospitals and public officials to cut in line. If I were old and on my way out the door, this would give me a chance to leave something behind for my wife and kids.

Let's say I have a heart condition or neurodegenerative disease and I'm living on borrowed time. I could make at least a couple hundred thousand selling 1 lobe out of my very healthy liver to a desperate billionaire. Knowing my heart or brain will give out long before my liver, I can accept my fate and die with courage and dignity and as an added bonus, also help my family by profiteering off of the cowardice and selfishness of people like Larry Ellison or Jeff Bezos.
by ultrarunner | 2025-10-17 19:47:09+00:00
It's already happening. A story about mistreatment of a dog garners reactions like "how can someone act like that to a fur-baby". Same action toward a person and it's elided over as baseline expected violence. By the same token, quasi-deification of animals has happened for a very long time, and all it takes is a mutation of this idea to spread across popular culture.
by supportengineer | 2025-10-17 19:47:10+00:00
Knowing several people driving 10+ year old Tesla's, I have to disagree with you.

1. Yes, the range is a little less. One person got their battery replaced by a 3rd party specialist. Runs great.

2. They certainly are repairable, just take it to Tesla service or a 3rd party mechanic.

3. Even if the battery is $20k, now you essentially have a new car for only $20k.