MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scubbo | 2025-10-07 17:41:45+00:00
> After all, where were they when AI algorithms were being developed back in the 50s and 60s?

...living in a world where AI wasn't an enabler for abuse? What a bafflingly weird take - "you didn't object to <thing> when it was first thought of, so now it's being used badly you can't object to it"
by marklit | 2025-10-07 17:42:03+00:00
70% of daytime RGB sat imagery is covered by clouds. I'm not sure how easy it would be to spot if clouds were covering a city's lights at night.

I've only seen Maxar publish one night time image and that was of Dubai. I suspect smaller buildings in not so well lit areas could end up getting missed out.

SAR imagery would work well for seeing at night and through clouds but I'm not sure what the state of AI building footprint detection is with SAR atm.
by guybedo | 2025-10-07 17:42:06+00:00
Abstract:

Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) is a novel approach using two small neural networks recursing at different frequencies.

This biologically inspired method beats Large Language models (LLMs) on hard puzzle tasks such as Sudoku, Maze, and ARC-AGI while trained with small models (27M parameters) on small data (around 1000 examples). HRM holds great promise for solving hard problems with small networks, but it is not yet well understood and may be suboptimal.

We propose Tiny Recursive Model (TRM), a much simpler recursive reasoning approach that achieves significantly higher generalization than HRM, while using a single tiny network with only 2 layers.

With only 7M parameters, TRM obtains 45% test-accuracy on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, higher than most LLMs (e.g., Deepseek R1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro) with less than 0.01% of the parameters.
by verteu | 2025-10-07 17:42:11+00:00
Russiagate was not a "fictional narrative," as a cursory amount of research will reveal.

> The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee investigation released their report in five volumes between July 2019 and August 2020. The committee concluded that the intelligence community assessment alleging Russian interference was "coherent and well-constructed", and that the assessment was "proper", learning from analysts that there was "no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions".[11][12] The report found that the Russian government had engaged in an "extensive campaign" to sabotage the election in favor of Trump, which included assistance from some of Trump's own advisers.
by caturopath | 2025-10-07 17:42:11+00:00
Whenever I try to read up on it, it seems like glaciers are receding at ~2x their without-climate-change rate. That's a huge increase, but it doesn't seem like there's something that a person can experience at a visceral level here that is based on fact and not just preconception.

It's definitely striking, I can't deny that. I crossed the last remnants of an almost-extinct glacier last year that my guide guessed would be gone in 1-3 years: at the beginning of his career it was a real glacer with non-trivial extents, crevasses, etc.
by sgerenser | 2025-10-07 17:42:27+00:00
It's definitely not that bad for the Pixel 10. One source[0] shows Geekbench 6 scores of 3701 single core and 9460 multicore for iPhone 17 (maybe add 5% more on each on the iPhone 17 Pro). While the Tensor G5 in the Pixel 10 is at 2345 single/6581 multi. So around 63-70% of the speed of the latest iPhone. Still a pretty poor showing but a far cry from 1/3 the speed.

[0] https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphone-17-vs-pixel-10
by everdrive | 2025-10-07 17:42:27+00:00
In this situation the person sending unsolicited videos more aptly fits, but I think you could argue it's both. Being connected to social media in some sense is a refusal to just sit alone in your room. And when bad things happen to you on social media -- even when blame should strictly be assigned to the people actually taking the action -- there's a sense in which you have failed to "sit quietly in a room alone."

People definitely read the parent comment as blaming Williams' daughter for the actions of others. I agree that the blame rests with the people actually sending the videos, but I think there's another reading of the parent comment: why do we subject ourselves to this? Why don't we just walk away, when it would be very easy to do so? I'm never going to be able to stop the flood of assholes online, and no one commenting on this thread will ever be able to stop it either. What's in my control is whether or not I engage in that system.
by poorman | 2025-10-07 17:42:37+00:00
Stimulus and Hotwire are the "rails way" now. I've read the docs and they still confuse the hell out me. Seems like you're reinveting your own javascript components over and over again.

In my opinion Rails 8 + Intertia.js + React so much less "reinventing the wheel" (especially if you use shadcn components).
by sema4hacker | 2025-10-07 17:43:29+00:00
Decades ago, laying out text required using tools like troff, where the user had to memorize and embed codes to do the formatting. Then WYSIWYG tools like PageMaker finally became available to the masses, and you simply dragged things around on the screen to get what you wanted. HTML and CSS is a step backwards. I don't think anyone can remember all the CSS codes and side effects, and new ones keep appearing all the time. Myself, I can't "program" a non-trivial layout from scratch, I always have to find an example I can copy.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-07 17:43:55+00:00
https://www.costco.com/precious-metals.html

The only real use case for these is occasional chemistry usages.

But very very very very ignorant people still insist gold is some sort of useful store of value for the apocalypse or something.

People with large gold reserves in 1930s Germany did no better than any other Germans in an environment with failing fiat currency. Primarily because they were being put into camps and their gold was confiscated by a criminal regime.
by nullpt_rs | 2025-10-07 17:44:12+00:00
Ooh nice, I haven’t seen this project! I actually tried attempting this as an extension at first but wasn’t able to override page window functions. I’m curious to know how they accomplished this. (edit: I see that I missed the chrome.scripting API facepalm)

Thank you for sharing :)

FWIW I still think a custom browser approach has some benefits (stealth and executing in out of process iframes. could be wrong on the second part, haven’t actually tested!)
by vkou | 2025-10-07 17:44:20+00:00
> Indeed. I think people have been paying too much in taxes. Once tax revenue is diminished, all of this wasteful liberty-harming spending is supposed to correct itself.

My friend, the only thing that's going to diminish is public services that actually help people. The police state is the primary state organ dedicated to protecting people with political power from the hoi polloi, it's the one thing that's never going to go away.

If the past few thousand years of history is any indication, these people will wring every last cent out of you to pay a professional warrior class that will protect them from you.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-07 17:44:22+00:00
idk but I think it's possible that baseline licensing fees are/were way lower than imagined. The entire rest of the world except Japan, in many anime type contexts in Japan, are still considered the singular entity as "the kaigai". Export sales are just coin rooms.

Or, this could be reflection of that "the kaigai" mindset rapidly changing causing prices to skyrocket. Anime is exclusively made in Japan(with outsource efforts from all over East Asia, but always concentrated back into Japan), so there's no competition. Zero competition over nonzero demand -> +Inf price.

Either ways, it does feel that licensing model could be key to understanding this.
by denuoweb | 2025-10-07 17:44:24+00:00
I personally agree with the so-called common dipshit libertarian 17-year-old response. What I don't agree with is your reply in any of the replies that you replied to. I read yesterday from an anti AI commenter, "Abolish AI, nobody wants this shit". Well I do and millions like me do as well, sorry to break it to all of you.
by bitwize | 2025-10-07 17:44:26+00:00
Maybe, but the permissible versions of Linux will be certain specific allowlisted distro images from major vendors.

I'm basing this on Brazil's "Felca law", that contains stipulations similar to the UK's age-verification act, but extends to end-user operating systems, which must also implement auditable and secure age checks and access controls for minors. Presumably only operating systems that tie user accounts to online accounts for which a government ID is required, much like Windows 11, would be allowed.

Anyway, Microsoft is still trying to make ARM-based "PCs" happen, like "fetch". Per Microsoft's guidelines, ARM-based Windows "PCs" cannot disable Secure Boot and cannot allow addition of user-supplied signing keys, unlike x86-based systems which must allow these things; in short, the ARM systems boot Windows and only Windows. Microsoft gonna Microsoft, and if their Microsofting on this leads anywhere, it's toward a PC ecosystem locked down in its entirety.
by jsnell | 2025-10-07 17:44:32+00:00
> None of this is to say there’s a problem with this - it’s just fascinating that net result of this huge spike is lots of jewelry and old coins being melted into bricks of gold that will sit quietly in secure warehouses and vaults around the world.

Not really "around the world". There's been a huge influx of physical Gold from the rest of the world into the US this year. It kind of fucked over Switzerland, because the gold refining capacity of the world is really concentrated there. So they've been working 24/7 on the not particularly appealing business of importing gold in one size from London, re-casting it as bars of a different size, and exporting to the US.

And why is this a problem? Because this anomaly single-handedly made it look like Switzerland had a massive trade surplus with US, so they got punished for being the middle-man on the Gold exports with crushing tariffs on everything else.
by lostmsu | 2025-10-07 17:44:39+00:00
For one there's no way to add a curried parameter without doThing4-style naming and lack of named arguments implies you can't have a default value for the new parameter.

Another one is if you want to add a curried parameter to the end of the parameter list, and you have code like

|> myFunc a b |> ...

You can't just say

|> myFunc a b z=10 |> ...

instead, you have to rewrite the whole pipe.
by markisus | 2025-10-07 17:45:38+00:00
The authors somewhat address your questions in the accompanying paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24206

> We emphasize that the central flow is a theoretical tool for understanding optimizer behavior, not a practical optimization method. In practice, maintaining an exponential moving average of the iterates (e.g., Morales-Brotons et al., 2024) is likely a computational feasible way to estimate the optimizer’s time-averaged trajectory.

They analyze the behavior of RMSProp (Adam without momentum) using their framework to come up with simplified mathematical models that are able to predict actual training behavior in experiments. It looks like their mathematical models explain why RMSProp works, in a way that is more satisfying than the usual hand waving explanations.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-07 17:45:55+00:00
>We must negate the machines-that-think

I wish we had machines that actually thought because they'd at least put an end to whatever this is. In the words of Schopenhauer, this is the worst of all possible worlds not because it couldn't be worse but because if it was a little bit worse it'd at least cease to exist. It's just bad enough so that we're stuck with the same dreck forever. This isn't the Dune future but the Wall-E future. The problem with the Terminator franchise and all those Eliezer Yudkowsky folks is that they are too optimistic.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NdN153giLdI/sddefault.jpg
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-07 17:46:05+00:00
Both can be simultaneously true.

Dropping supplies to isolated or behind-the-lines forces is a very real logistical issue. While some of those supplies might be munitions, rations and medical supplies are a significant part of the need.

I know, it doesn't make you feel any friendlier to the issue, but tech has multiple applications. Chainsaws were invented to increase survivability of mothers in difficult births.
by criddell | 2025-10-07 17:46:09+00:00
Some would be hard for them to make at a reasonable price today and they wouldn't sell in big numbers at a higher price.

Adam Savage recently posted a video about his favorite IKEA cabinet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLAAxxjM_7U

The drawers have box joints which is something I can't imagine IKEA of today doing.

It's on page 311 of their 1997 catalog FYI.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-10-07 17:46:32+00:00
If you're gonna rant about the JS ecosystem at least get it right. You can set up a Vite + React + Tailwind setup with two commands

npm create vite npm i @tailwindcss/vite tailwindcss

If you want automatic code formatting and linting install biome, that's one more command.

You don't need to think about React Refresh or babel or typescript, it's all handled by vite. I've never even seen a .babelrc file. And why does the author add husky?

Like, if you want to criticize JS fine, but chose valid criticisms. This just sounds like the author hasn't actually used modern js.
by kbolino | 2025-10-07 17:47:07+00:00
We really need some sort of vaguely apples-to-apples comparison.

Looking only at CDs ca. 2005, which sold at about $15 each, an album that went platinum (1 million sales) would gross $15 million in retail, probably $10 million in wholesale, leaving about $1-3 million for the artist depending on contract terms. Estimates seem to put Spotify compensation at $3000 paid to the artist per million plays. So, you'd need somewhere between 333 million and 1 billion plays to get comparable revenue to a platinum album.

"Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd is currently the most-streamed song on Spotify at 5 billion plays [1]. That's roughly equivalent to a 5-15x platinum album from a single song and streaming platform alone; the record for most platinum album seems to be 34x platinum for Michael Jackson's Thriller [2], which had 7 songs that all were hits to some degree or another. Michael Jackson did a lot besides just record the songs; he also put out elaborate music videos and went on showy tours. All told, there are more than 100 songs with more than 1 billion plays on Spotify (in fact, the 100th is still above 2.4 billion plays).

So, I think, the situation has not really gotten worse.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spotify_streaming_reco...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(album)
by qnleigh | 2025-10-07 17:48:26+00:00
This is another great question. It's still a matter of debate how the wave-like behavior of quantum mechanics turns into the particle-like behavior of large objects that we observe. Some people believe there should be a maximum size, some people believe that there isn't. In fact Nature did a survey a few months ago and found that physicists disagree wildly on this topic. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02342-y

Have you heard of Schrodinger's cat, which is hypothetically dead and alive at the same time? Schrodinger described this thought experiment to argue that quantum mechanics led to absurdities if you took it too far. Ironically, many physicists now believe that such an experiment is possible in principle, though it would be extremely difficult.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-07 17:48:41+00:00
> Energy is really useful and we don't have enough to fulfil demand.

Enough sunlight falls on Earth in ~30 min to power humanity for a year. There is currently a capture constraint, not a supply constraint, which is currently being solved for.

> Unless renewables + nuclear are cheaper than carbon and not supply constrained I'd expect both sources to increase in tandem.

Renewables are cheaper than carbon, even when accounting for storage, unsubsidized. Some will say "what about seasonal!?" Not solved for yet; fossil gas for the gaps until solar, wind, transmission, batteries, and demand response/orchestration keep closing that gap. Nuclear will never be cheap unfortunately.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/24-hour-solar-now-ec...

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/solar-energy-now-worlds-cheape...

https://www.authorea.com/users/960972/articles/1329770-solar... | https://doi.org/10.22541/au.175647950.09188768/v1

(think in systems)
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-10-07 17:48:45+00:00
Commits aren't necessarily messy, but they're also not supposed to be necessarily clean. There's clearly two different work flows here.

It seems some people treat every commit like it's its own little tidy PR, when others do not. For me, a commit is a place to save my WIP when I'm context switching, or to create a save point when I know my code works so that I can revert back to that if something goes awry during refactoring, it's a step on the way to completing my task. The PR is the final product to be reviewed, it's where you get the explanation. The commits are imperfect steps along the way.

For others, every commit is the equivalent of a PR. To me that doesn't make a lot of sense - now the PR isn't an (ideal world) atomic update leading to a single goal, it's a digest of changes, some of which require paragraphs of explanation to understand the reasoning behind. What happens if you realize that your last commit was the incorrect approach? Are you constantly rebasing? Is that the reader's problem? Sure, that happens with PRs as well, but again, that's the difference in process - raising a PR requires a much higher standard of completion than a commit.
by chithanh | 2025-10-07 17:49:14+00:00
Other limitations are that modern Adobe products will no longer install on Windows 10 LTSC as it is based on a too old version (but there are workarounds).

WMR situation isn't great but there are ways out. If you have a NVIDIA GPU then you can use Oasis on Windows 10 LTSC (AMD GPUs require Windows 11 24H2 for Oasis). Also on Linux, support for WMR devices has improved markedly via Envision / Monado, but some tinkering is required and it is still behind Windows.
by prerok | 2025-10-07 17:49:23+00:00
But... the machine that plants seeds also takes away the livelihood to a bunch of folks. I mean, in my country, we were an agrarian society 100 years ago. I don't have the actual stats but it was close to 90% agrarian. Now, it's at about 5%. Sure, people found other jobs and that will likely be the case here. I will do the dishes while the AI will program.
by j45 | 2025-10-07 17:49:27+00:00
In some ways, where we're used to seeing borders of countries, the new borders of opportunity largely are performant and accessible internet access.

Depending on the area of the world, wireless and other options that exist that are likely sub par. It is on every continent including North America.

Some regions of the world have aggressively invested in fibre in rural areas.

We can see in parts of the world where there is a lot of investment (and interactions with govt for permits, etc) in physical infrastructure, whether its coax for cable tv and internet, copper for phone lines (and ADSL), wireless doesn't always have a nice way in.

There are places in the world that didn't get as much wired infrastructure put in and were able to jump up to much better wireless.

Satellite based internet as a category provides an additional coverage where "traditional" infrastructure hasn't made it yet. This can be wires or other wireless.
Ask HN: Are PMs and colleagues sending you untested AI PRs that do not work?
by ourworldintech | 2025-10-07 17:49:52+00:00
I have this problem. I'm a lead engineer at a startup, and I own large part of the codebase. Now because the code is well architected, the team, and PM realized they could use AI to ask questions, add features by linking it to Jira and GitHub. So now they mention cursor in the ticket, and there goes cursor writing code and submitting PRs, with zero tests.

So now I have to review broken PRs at breakneck speed because everyone has gotten so productive that I've become a bottleneck.

Usually I get 2 scenarios:

1. Some engineer that consumes the API I built, finds an issue and immediately assumes its an API bug and tells the AI to go fix it, so I get a PR and a message saying "I fixed it, can you approve?". I look at the PR, and not only does it not come remotely close to fixing anything, it does not even build, bc the AI just invented a problem, created some solution and came back with a report on how the job was done. In the end the issue ends up being on the client all along, but zero time was spent investigating that first.

2. PM wants new feature, make a really nice, detailed ticket, tells AI to go at it, AI builds it, completely breaking architecture, just stacking things on top of each other, adding endpoint in weird places, not respecting domain boundaries, etc. Reports back as job done.

I have seen a, maybe 5% success rate on these scenarios, mostly when the changes are closer to one liners.

Has anyone been having this productivity boost experience? How have you handled it?
by techblueberry | 2025-10-07 17:50:03+00:00
One idea I wonder about is the idea that it is biased to present Trump objectively.

If I were to put together a "Very Serious New Source"TM. I would probably get a bunch of erudite types from the right and left to break down international relations, and dig into policy debates and read lots of details about the types of decisions that were being made. What I would not do is chase down every last Trump tweet to try and understand our current political situation.

But I would be wrong to do so. If you want to understand our current political situation, you have to quote our leaders directly. I remember Mark Cuban said that Trump supporters were like that friend of yours with a bad partner. They don't want to admit they made a mistake, but they're humiliated by the abuse they receive. And I think that's a lot of Conservatives. They don't want you to tell a story about the world as it is, they want you to tell a story about the way it could be with strong conservative leadership.
by sureglymop | 2025-10-07 17:50:09+00:00
This is great. I want this but for much more. I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write. I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press. I want a record of everything I do in the digital world that is searchable and that can answer the question: "what was I working on 2 weeks ago on this day?" and bring back all the context also.

For obvious reasons this has to be self hosted and managed. I'm not interested in creating surveillance software or technology.

It sounds extreme but whenever I have seen peoples obsidian set ups with heaps of manual and bidirectional linking I always thought that time is the one thing we should look at. If I look up some concept on wikipedia today, there is a higher chance of me looking up related concepts or working on something related to that around this time also.
by johnthecto | 2025-10-07 17:50:10+00:00
So this sounds like an application layer approach, maybe just shy of a replit or base44, with the twist that you can own the pipeline. While there's something to that, I think there are some further questions around differentiation that need to be answered. I think the biggest challenge is going to be the beachead: what client demographic has the cash to want to own the pipeline and not use SaaS, but doesn't have the staff on hand to do it?